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lemonlime

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  1. LA has issues with overtime in general. Hell, a traffic officer made $234,000 in 2019. Seems odd to focus on life guards, as opposed to all the cops earning overtime. https://ktla.com/news/local-news/l-a-firefighters-police-officers-and-other-city-employees-received-nearly-500-million-in-overtime-pay-in-2019/
  2. It shouldn't. To quote Brisket from the DT thread, if you suffocate a dying hospice patient with a pillow, you're still going to be charged with murder. To the extent it should have any bearing on the case, I think it should be to show that Chauvin had intent to kill him. If Floyd was really in that level of distress, then putting his knee on his neck for nine minutes is even more obviously intended to kill. But, well cops. And a criminal justice system designed so that they avoid accountability.
  3. Fair enough. it just seems so prejudicial. And the probative value should really be limited to something beneficial for the prosecution---if true Chauvin should have been putting Floyd in an ambulance, not choking him, and his intent to kill Floyd is even more obvious. But maybe I'm hung up on the fact that a theory that something else killed him than the knee on his neck for ten minutes is patently absurd.
  4. I don't understand why this is even admissible, never mind the focus. Even assuming it's true, it doesn't matter what preexisting conditions the victim had if you put your knee on his neck for 10 minutes, whether it's drug abuse, stroke, etc. Doesn't that make it worse? He's not well because he's overdosing, and instead of calling for an ambulance, Chauvin put his knee on his neck for 10 minutes.
  5. So a sitting Senator, who is supposed to work for his neighbors, is more concerned with gunning them down in an emergency than with helping them out. And the GQP thinks this is normal.
  6. For fuck's sake, even on the West Wing, the president had a seating chart.
  7. It must be so mortifying for you to support a guy whose approval never got above 50% even during the honeymoon period, making him far less popular than a man you believe belongs in the memory unit of a nursing home.
  8. Yeah. But has he tried to sell malaria drugs or bleach injections as Covid cures yet?
  9. What makes you think the government isn't running things now? They currently pay for about half of healthcare costs in the U.S. And we have to deal with state and federal government bureaucracy and that's in addition to the bureaucracy from all the insurers.
  10. You're the one who painted yourself as a victim because you, checks notes, are a white man in the U.S. who owns weapons.
  11. LO fucking L.
  12. Certainly a good example of what snowflakes white men are.
  13. Her. And bingo. There are some regulations. But they obviously aren't keeping this shit from happening on a regular basis. And there's a huge segment of the country and a huge amount of money invested in stopping any regulations that might actually help fix things. Not 100% fix. But actually target the problem.
  14. We also regulate both driving and food production/safety. We don't just say food is a public good, so fuck the FDA, fuck labeling, and we don't need food safety inspectors.
  15. You should hope dumbasses shouldn't demonize all brown people and spout off about "religion of peace." And that Fox News, who decided to ignore the story before finding out the shooter was Muslim, doesn't now decide to demagogue over this. Of course, we already know those hopes will never be realized.
  16. Maybe? Probably? I'm also wondering about vaccines. I saw a bunch of MAGAts walking around my neck of the woods with signs saying "Vaccines are made with aborted fetal cells." Edit to add: Also the Bill Gates chip, Q crap.
  17. Do we know if they were vaccinating people at the King Soopers?
  18. The grift and the gullibility are real. Getting people who make under $80k per year to spend $400 a night to stay in a tacky, fake gold leaf tower that's in disrepair.
  19. This is the most ridiculous thing ever, and I really don't want to wade in. But, sigh, Biden had a broken foot and boot on his leg until recently. Not exactly shocking it might give out when walking up stairs.
  20. Why do you think there's only one "motivating factor" or that to the extent there was "sex addiction" that at all negates the racism? Regardless of whether this guy was an incel, sexually frustrated, etc., he chose to target Asian women for his killing spree. And evangelical shitheadery may have also contributed, both to his fucked up views of women and also fucked up views on race.
  21. I love how the right wing takes everything awful trump says completely out of context, ignoring all the other shit he's done. It's like saying someone didn't try to rob a bank just because he asked for ten thousand dollars because there's nothing illegal about asking for money, while ignoring the gun he had aimed at the teller.
  22. Per White House spokesman under trump and public financial disclosures, it's true. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-piled-up-credit-card-debt-by-purchasing-nationals-tickets-white-house-says/2018/07/11/8e3ad7d6-8460-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html
  23. I give it 1/3. At best. He's obese, doesn't exercise, enjoys a diet of Big Macs, and hasn't been able to string a coherent sentence together in years. He probably abuses uppers and lives off rage and grievance. He'll be dead by 2022.
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