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lemonlime

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  1. I wonder what the rate is on long covid. It's not just deaths. Hell, I was vaccinated and boosted, and got Covid a couple months ago, and still have bizarre symptoms.
  2. The GQP is in too deep. If they admit now that he's a traitor, they're conceding they stood by and ignored all sorts of treasonous crap, including 1/6 and siding with Putin at Helsinki. They will double down, because they can't admit they either enabled or were conned during trump's treason over the last 6 years.
  3. I thought she tried to kill herself and aimed for the building. But maybe I just made that assumption after watching the video of her speeding down the street at a suicidal rate of speed.
  4. Maggie's just parroting what people in trump world have told her---people with room temperature IQs and an understanding of government and law that makes School House Rock look like a hefty legal tome. She's been tweeting a bunch of nonsense, with no pushback as to accuracy, quoting trumpers.
  5. No idea if she has insurance, and she may not if she's renting. But I doubt Heche's insurer would cover this. Insurance almost always excludes intentional acts. Heche may have enough money to cover it, but it could be a long time until she has access to it. Heche certainly isn't able to write any checks right now, so probably waiting for a lawsuit or for Heche to die and her Estate to pay out.
  6. Yeah, but you may be able to get your boat. Which is more important than the death of our country.
  7. Why do you think the Oakley wearing, roided up, trumpy local cops are going to arrest any of these white nationalist fucksticks who they agree with?
  8. Add in all of law enforcement (except maybe the FBI) and most of the military, excepting senior officers, and it's really no stretch at all. Edit to add, and also a majority of state legislatures and local governments.
  9. They will double down on supporting trump. To do otherwise they’d have to admit that the were conned for years by a vile and obvious grifter.
  10. New Paltz, NY. About an hour from NYC. Blue, hippie, college town in the Shawagunk range with beautiful hiking and a rail trail for biking that runs through the town and into the mountains. Very near other hiking (Catskills, Harriman, Adirondacks) and bike paths and skiing. No real elevation, despite being in some smaller mountains. Four seasons, but even the winters aren't too extreme, though there's some snow/cold.
  11. I highly doubt they executed a search warrant on an ex-president over some missing papers. He also reportedly returned the boxes. I strongly suspect he either didn’t return everything or made illegal copies of top secret materials. And that the search warrant is with respect to something he did with the documents after he stole them and not do much the theft itself.
  12. Oh, to be clear I still think nothing will happen, other than maybe hastening the next civil war. TFG committed treason on live tv on more than one occasion with no consequences. He could shoot an army of nuns walking down Fifth Avenue draped in the American flag and nothing would happen to him. But if he was selling documents that would explain the timing of the search warrant many months after finding out he stole documents from the National Archives.
  13. Maybe that too. But I'm sticking with "sold." Everything he does is for money. He took those documents for one of two reasons: to cover up his crimes, in which case they wound up in his shitter, or to make money from them.
  14. If I had to place a bet on what happened, it would be that trump recently sold classified info that was part of what he stole in 2021.
  15. While I'm firmly on the ledge, I can't imagine the FBI, with a trump appointed director, and a federal judge, signed off on something this politically sensitive unless they knew they had the goods. I'm not saying this goes anywhere. I firmly expect the GQP to "win" back the House and stop funding the DOJ or something like that. But I bet the search turned up evidence of crimes.
  16. Damn. She was such a huge part of my childhood. And I was lucky enough to see her in concert a few years ago. She still sounded the same as in the 80s.
  17. If you want a nice cliff notes on who's racist on this board, check out the first few pages of this thread.
  18. Why are you stunned? These are the same people who think we should buy Greenland, you should drink Clorox to prevent Covid, and windmills cause cancer. And now they're making medical decisions for the rest of us.
  19. Another saving grace on this is that CT is a great state for plaintiffs in general. Punitives may be capped, but I'm not sure there's a better state in the country to bring a suit, at least for compensatory damages. Jury verdicts and settlements there tend to be very high.
  20. Why would the J6 Commission not learn of the phone copy? I'm not suggesting he should have destroyed the phone copy. Or kept it secret. Or left any of it to Raynal or Jones. Just that perhaps it shouldn't have been revealed as a gotcha moment in the middle of trial. I think he got caught up in the publicity, and maybe could have done a better job. But coulda woulda shoulda. I'm more disturbed by all the people fine with throwing out privilege because Jones is a bad guy. It's like the people who argue we should have punitive bail amounts because someone out on bail ran people over with a car. Making policy decisions based on how the worst of the worst act is not helpful to anyone. And no I don't think those 2 hold outs would have changed. I do question what quantum of damages the other 10 would have assessed had there been different trial tactics. And I'm not sure what direction that goes in, but I'm floored by the same people yelling about what a travesty the low jury verdict was praising the plaintiff counsel a few posts later for questionable tactics.
  21. Plaintiff's asked for $150M, and got $4.1M. I'm not sure why the dichotomy is between "getting the gimp" or being a "good collegial gentleman" or the assumption that "getting the gimp" helped Bankston's clients. They right now got their clients a small fraction of the damages they asked for, in what should have been a slam dunk case, in which the defendant had already been found liable. And they may have provided Jones grounds for appeal to get rid of even that $4.1M verdict. But, they got a lot of tweets about the "Perry Mason Moment" and 5 minutes of fame for the attorney. And, to be clear, had Bankston gone to the court with the phone first, the text messages he cross examined Jones about would have still been available for cross examination. It was discoverable information that should have been disclosed months earlier. Hell, he might even have obtained more cross examination material because he likely wouldn't have even had to have waited 10 days to look at the contents of the phone, leaving himself 2 days to review a shit ton of information. He would have only lost his dramatic moment ripped from an LA Law script.
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