Posts posted by TwiceHorn
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7 hours ago, Gatorubet said:
The Supreme Court ruling about sending troops to Chicago gave me more relief than I’m willing to admit. If he had the green light to send federal troops to any Democratic city he deemed a threat, that would certainly encourage the coup attempt. Naturally, three justices were all for it. But still, very significant in avoiding what might’ve been.
There is one real scary aspect of that.
The stay decision depended on an interpretation of the phrase "unable to enforce federal law using regular forces" or something very similar, with regular forces being the key phrase.
The parties assumed regular forces meant civil authorities like cops and ICE.
The amicus law professor brought up that historically, that meant the regular military.
So the upshot is that POTUS can only mobilize/deploy the Guard when the regular military is insufficient. And that means there must be some exception to the Posse Comitatus Act that would allow domestic deployment of the military before the Guard can come in. Trumpco argued Insurrection Act, SCOTUS said nuh uh, tentatively.
So that decision may actually encourage Trump to attempt to use the regular military domestically. I don't know that they really have the stomach for that, but we'll see.
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That looks like it might be a brown recluse bite. They can get pretty gnarly left untreated.
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2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
We really need to appreciate the fact that there is a war within TPUSA and the far right of the GOP in general, over whether to hate the Jews/Israel or support them. And the people who hate the Jews really hate the Jews, and Tucker is happy to give them a platform, and Shapiro is happy to go after them.
This is a gift that will keep on giving throughout next year (along with Epstein) as both sides ramp up their attacks.
The Jews have been strange bedfellows for MAGA all along The most basic tenets of MAGA would seem to lead them to being called Christ-killing kikes on the reg. But then, so have the mackerel snappers, the beaners, the curryheads and chinks.
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4 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:
How do you have even less regard for the law than I do?
I've spent about half my career as a litigator and the most inevitable and unavoidable thing is delay.
Sometimes, you get excited about a case and forget that it's gonna be 3-4-5 years until it's resolved.
I fucked up and let myself get optimistic about the Trump prosecutions, because I thought they were righteous and Jack Smith did a great job.
But apart from the "ah, well, nevertheless" component, the delay was going to sink those cases if he was elected in November 2024. They were going to end up exactly where they got -- dismissed. And even apart from Trumpkins' ability to rationalize any convictions along the way, the dismissals were going to swallow it all whole.
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1 minute ago, Captainant said:
Fuck Merrick Garland that fascist enabling bag of dicks. He's the like the Greg Davis of AG's, only lateral plays that go nowhere
Truth is, though, if DOJ had acted on January 22, 2021, Trump wouldn't have been convicted or finally (appeal exhaustion) before November 4, 2024.
And, even if by some miracle he had at least been convicted at trial, it wouldn't have made a single, solitary shit.
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8 hours ago, TexArcher said:
Not really, because literally every Democrat has always said something like, "Sure, if Bill's in there, then lock his ass up, too."
It's only a problem for the right, who demanded that the files be released, but who also hitched their political careers to a guy who is in there, a lot. And it's problem for everyone who fell for his con, voted for him, and believed in him, in spite of an astonishing amount of red flags. You are all WAY more attached to Trump than anyone is to Bill Clinton.
Helpful hint: you are going to have to turn on this guy. The longer you wait, the worse it is for you. Admit you were wrong, cut him loose, and call for him to be hanged from a tree. Come back to sanity.
Guess he's never seen this, either. Or forgot.
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4 hours ago, Orange-4-Life said:Democrats’ push for Epstein files boomeranged with Clinton featured prominently throughout
Helluva news site you got there.
I guess since you don't exit your echo chamber:
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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:
What if I told you that there are FBI agents/DOJ officials who dislike Trump and this bullshit and deliberately made sure, at least as much as they could, that we could find Trump in the files, and get at that redacted text as much as possible, while pretending to redact that information to please their bosses?Or we can believe that dozens or hundreds of agents who work with PDF files every fucking day just absolutely whiffed something this simple in a case this high-profile?
Probably some truth to this. The one thing normal FBI agents are better at than your average cops, it's preparing evidence/a case for trial.
Even the feebs, if not the DOJ lawyers, should know how to produce flattened or image pdfs with proper redactions. They may well have sandbagged.
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54 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:Both the NYT and NBC reported within the hour that SCOTUS said “no” to turnip on the issue of National Guard troops in Illinois. No idea about the particulars, and of course this but a data point amidst fluidity,
Shadow docket decision on application to stay the trial court's injunction. Unsigned opinion for the Court, Kavanaugh concurring in judgment.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a443_ba7d.pdf
Alito and Thomas, of course, dissenting.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a443_ba7d.pdf#page=8
Gorsuch dissenting on separate grounds.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a443_ba7d.pdf#page=24
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56 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:
Didn't they do the same thing in the dotard's first term?
It's a common lawdog rookie mistake when producing documents.
Also don't send a redline version of a word doc to opposing counsel unless you intend to (the redlines really never go away unless you strip metadata).
Once you've seen the mistake made, it sticks with you.
Unless you're a bunch of fucktards hired by Trump.
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The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
in Cloak Room
Just floors me how anyone can take that bitch seriously.