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wildcat09

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  1. It's partly because he bought off Cy Vance. Before Vance he was probably buying off his predecessors, or threatening them via his mob ties.
  2. Rimbo is about to get into an argument with 10 posters about how actually unsolved murders aren't crimes at all or something.
  3. Is it really your argument that Trump has never committed any crimes except those that he's now being charged for (and I presume you believe his actions in Georgia for which charges seem imminent were crimes)? I would probably laugh myself to death if he fled to Russia.
  4. Yeah, his antivax pivot was pretty much exactly when all of Silicon Valley (along with their IDW-type fellow travelers) suddenly began enthusiastically supporting him. The rest of the piece about why he sucks is true enough, but it's completely wrong on its argument that Silicon Valley folks are more respectable Republicans who thought DeSantis would be a "normal" version of Trump. Yes, they thought he'd be more effective than Trump in some respects, but they absolutely didn't think he'd be some normal everyman.
  5. Not having been indicted for the many many crimes he's committed is actually how he's gotten away with them.
  6. You say that like it means they're exemplary characters.
  7. This is absurd. Silicon Valley execs are all themselves a bunch of barely disguised alt-right cranks and they fucking love RFK Jr.
  8. Best part of the entire brawl is the black guy jumping off the boat before it docked and swimming across to get involved. Then he gets up on the dock and has the presence of mind to take his shoes off.
  9. He’s actually been getting away with crimes his entire life.
  10. I think it's incredibly obvious that she's giving Trump special treatment, at the very least. Her blatantly overreaching to interrupt the investigation was absurd and I do not believe for one second it can be chalked up to mere incompetence. Now that the trial has landed in her lap I'm pretty sure she's trying to fuck up enough to have the case reassigned. Whether she's completely in the bag or Trump or just kind of in the bag for him and also horribly incompetent, I doubt she thinks she can actually handle this trial. What matters most to her is still appearing loyal to the lunatics who she thinks will have a say in whether or not she eventually gets elevated to an appellate seat. The safest way to do that is to punt the case in a way that makes it look like you were deeply suspicious of the case against him.
  11. I don't know that I buy the most damning speculation (that Cannon was intended from the beginning to be a strategic Trump asset), but she is very obviously in the bag for Trump. In her very short time on the bench dealing with criminal defendants not named Trump, she's already clearly violated a defendant's constitutional rights. And Federalist Society hacks aren't known for their deference to the rights of criminal defendants. I like Twice but he's got a definite blind spot regarding Cannon. Maybe because she looks somewhat like Kimberly Guilfoyle, maybe because he's an older lawyer who doesn't want to believe the law is Calvinball, maybe both.
  12. Ok, I know I just cautioned against certainty, but it is an absolute certainty that the Department of Justice is not going to enter into a plea deal with Trump in which Trump promises to drop out of politics. Christie is talking out of his ass.
  13. Rimbo is like a rabid dog with a bone sometimes. He's alright, but the certainty about any American presidential election is misguided. Trump could get convicted of every charge plus the Georgia shit and be sitting in prison and he'd still win the GOP nomination and still pull 40+% of the vote in 2024 because that's how shit works in America these days.
  14. I dunno. Yeah, the typical lawyer response should be "lemme go point-by-point why all your claims are legally bullshit." But when dealing with Elon/his counsel? I think it might be more effective to simply respond with a "we thought you would like to know that someone is signing your name to stupid letters" response.
  15. Looking at baseball reference today, Julks had 307 plate appearances coming into today while Chas had 266. Dusty should be arrested for this.
  16. If it’s Ginni I may never post again (because I will die laughing).
  17. Shit, should've made some parlay bets.
  18. Well that's why you deal Meyers, so he doesn't have an alternative.
  19. Yeah, I'm not clicking on a link from something called Liberation Times.
  20. This is like saying "modern Republicans aren't conservative" or "most American Christians aren't really Christian." That shit doesn't really make sense to me and I think just obscures the truth. What's probably an overwhelming majority of Americans who've self-identified as libertarian in the past 20 years (I would guess more than 70%) are now bootlicking Trump fans if not actual die hard blood-and-soil fascists. That's no accident.
  21. That's not really true. There's a lot of historical debate that I'm not particularly well versed in over whether the emperor actually made an offer to conditionally surrender in January of 1945, and there were certainly elements of Japanese command that wanted to fight to the last man, but there were others who were absolutely looking for a diplomatic end to the war. I'm not particularly interested in the details of this historical argument because even the strongest "they would've surrendered" arguments rest on fairly loose evidentiary foundations, but "the Japanese people were unthinking fanatics who were totally committed to their emperor as a god and would've fought to the last child" is definitely one of those simplistic, comforting lies American people have told themselves over the decades. It's hard to find much sympathy for the Japanese people though, given all the horrors they were more than happy to inflict on China and Korea.
  22. Tuberville was with Trump on January 5, 2021, helping him plan the insurrection. Trump called him the next day to try to get him to stall the electoral vote count when Trump saw his fans storming the capitol. He's a moron, yes, but he's not some innocent dumbass who hasn't ever been involved in Trump's crimes before. It doesn't take a genius to think "hey, we didn't have military support last time, but if we don't allow Biden to appoint new officers maybe we can appoint some who are loyal to us." It's not fucking 8d chess, hell it's not even chess. The dumbest people in the history of the world are capable of having that idea, because everyone knows that it helps to have the military's support if you're going to attempt a coup.
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