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On 7/6/2023 at 9:33 AM, hayden_horn said:

wait, i mean, this is photoshopped, right?

Very obviously photoshopped. But still funny.

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Trump's 747 is gassing up for Italy as I type this post: https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/europe/italy-groping-court-ruling-scli-intl/index.html

(My apologies for not posting as "plain text" but the option is falling away before I can click It.)

 

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A court ruling that found a school janitor not guilty of groping a student because the act only lasted less than 10 seconds has sparked outrage in Italy.

In their decision, the judges of the fifth criminal section of the Court of Rome said they acquitted the accused, a 66-year-old man according to Italian state broadcaster RAI, of sexual assault because the whole thing lasted “about five to ten seconds.”

In her testimony, the then 17-year-old girl, according to RAI, said the act happened in April 2022 as she was climbing the staircase at school with a friend.

 

She testified that she pulled up her trousers and felt a hand tucked inside them, under her briefs, touching her buttocks, according to the judgment, issued July 6.

“Love, you know I was joking,” the janitor said, according to the teenager’s testimony mentioned in the judgment.

During the trial, the janitor admitted that he had touched the student but that he had done it “as a joke.”

The judges accepted the defense’s argument that the act was meant to be a “clumsy joke” without “libidinous intent” towards the girl.

The decision caused outrage among students and sparked a viral trend on social media.

A local union representing high school students, ‘Rete degli Studenti Medi del Lazio,’ said on Facebook that “this is not a joke, there is nothing funny about it.”

“It is unacceptable that we cannot feel protected at school. Once again, the patriarchal system has won, with the tacit support of institutions and politics. This model does not represent us, we will always be on the other side of the fence, for a safe society based on respect,” they said Tuesday.

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Meanwhile, Italians have taken to Instagram and TikTok to post videos of themselves touching a sensitive part of their body for 10 seconds, marked by a timer, in an attempt to show that it actually is a fairly long period which can make people uncomfortable and change a person’s life. Accompanying the media are the hashtags #10secondi and #palpatabreve (brief groping).

Among those to take to social media were “The White Lotus” actor Paolo Camilli, who posted a video with the caption “shouldn’t the state protect us?” on his Instagram account.

 

 

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On 7/13/2023 at 1:17 PM, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

y'all, i think i've figured it out. this is the greatest 'The Aristocrats!' joke ever and Andy Kaufman is going to burst out of Trump's torso and go "tada!" any second now. Guys?...

This seems as plausible as anything else.

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18 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

To be fair, Rudy also eats spaghetti, cereal and milk, ice cream, pudding, and salads using the same method.

Oh, he’s handy

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

To be fair, Rudy also eats spaghetti, cereal and milk, ice cream, pudding, and salads using the same method.

Is that wrong? 

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Ok, I know Trump is an asshole and a narcissist and has greatly helped accelerate the downfall of the country, but...at least he plays fast.

Call it even?

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There’s a C02 pipeline?  Is that a name or is it really a carbon dioxide pipeline?  
 

Googling, apparently they want to move the gas via pipeline for some reason. 
 

wonder if that woman knows this about Iowa’s precious farmland:

 

In Iowa there are 41,410 miles of hazardous liquid and natural gas pipelines in Iowa. There are 51 pipeline operators in Iowa. (2010 Iowa Pipeline Association)

 

https://iowadot.gov/about/pipelines#:~:text=Iowa's pipeline system provides the,oil and highly volatile liquids.

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1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

In Iowa there are 41,410 miles of hazardous liquid and natural gas pipelines in Iowa. There are 51 pipeline operators in Iowa. (2010 Iowa Pipeline Association)

In Iowa?

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Oh and some basic reading tells me that this is byproduct gas from turning corn into ethanol, that they want to trap and bury instead of releasing into the atmosphere.  In theory making ethanol production more carbon neutral and therefore more palatable to some groups that might otherwise fight it- and THERFORE making corn a better energy source and more valuable and usable in the future. Which the corn farmers of Iowa are probably all for. 

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1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

There’s a C02 pipeline?  Is that a name or is it really a carbon dioxide pipeline?  
 

Googling, apparently they want to move the gas via pipeline for some reason. 
 

wonder if that woman knows this about Iowa’s precious farmland:

 

In Iowa there are 41,410 miles of hazardous liquid and natural gas pipelines in Iowa. There are 51 pipeline operators in Iowa. (2010 Iowa Pipeline Association)

 

https://iowadot.gov/about/pipelines#:~:text=Iowa's pipeline system provides the,oil and highly volatile liquids.

Not clicking the link, but one of them has to be called Grazeprom

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Trump Seeks Court Order to Quash Investigation in Georgia https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/us/trump-georgia-election-investigation.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

In his latest legal maneuver, Donald J. Trump sought a court order on Friday that would throw out the work of an Atlanta special grand jury and disqualify Fani T. Willis, the prosecutor leading an investigation into election interference in Georgia.

A decision on indictments looms in the investigation, which has been in progress for more than two years. Ms. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, has signaled that the decision will come in the first half of August; she recently asked judges in a downtown Atlanta courthouse not to schedule trials for part of that time as she prepares to bring charges.

Mr. Trump’s lawyers made their request in a filing to Georgia’s Supreme Court. They want the court to throw out the evidence gathered by the special grand jury.

Though the Georgia Supreme Court is predominantly Republican, the Trump legal team acknowledged in its filing that its latest stratagem was a long shot, conceding that it had identified “no case in 40 years” where the court had intervened in the way it seeks. “Then again, never has there been a case like this one,” it added.

The investigation has examined whether the former president and his allies illegally interfered in the 2020 election in Georgia, where Mr. Trump lost narrowly to President Biden. The special grand jury heard evidence for roughly seven months and recommended indictments of more than a dozen people; its forewoman strongly hinted in an interview with The New York Times in February that Mr. Trump was among them. To bring any charges, Ms. Willis must now seek indictments from a regular grand jury.

The Trump team’s filing raises a number of legal concerns, both about Georgia law relating to special grand juries and about how a special grand jury was used in this inquiry.

Mr. Trump’s local legal team includes the lawyers Drew Findling, Marissa Goldberg and Jennifer Little. Their filing takes for granted that their client will be charged, saying that Ms. Willis “now seeks an indictment, the basis for which would be evidence unlawfully obtained during the special purpose grand jury’s proceedings.”

The district attorney’s office had no immediate comment on the latest filing.

Intervening in a potential criminal case before an indictment is even filed is complicated. Mr. Trump’s lawyers have already sought to scuttle the investigation with a motion, filed in March, to quash much of the collected evidence and take Ms. Willis off the investigation. To their frustration, the Superior Court judge handling the case, Robert C.I. McBurney, has yet to rule on the motion.

“Stranded between the Supervising Judge’s protected passivity and the District Attorney’s looming indictment, Petitioner has no meaningful option other than to seek this Court’s intervention,” the lawyers wrote in their filing on Friday to the State Supreme Court.

“Nothing about these processes have been normal or reasonable,” they wrote, adding that “the all-but-unavoidable conclusion is that the anomalies” are “because Petitioner is President Donald J. Trump.”

 

Please tell me this is futile.  Also, they always file on a Friday.  

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1 hour ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Trump Seeks Court Order to Quash Investigation in Georgia https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/us/trump-georgia-election-investigation.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

In his latest legal maneuver, Donald J. Trump sought a court order on Friday that would throw out the work of an Atlanta special grand jury and disqualify Fani T. Willis, the prosecutor leading an investigation into election interference in Georgia.

A decision on indictments looms in the investigation, which has been in progress for more than two years. Ms. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, has signaled that the decision will come in the first half of August; she recently asked judges in a downtown Atlanta courthouse not to schedule trials for part of that time as she prepares to bring charges.

Mr. Trump’s lawyers made their request in a filing to Georgia’s Supreme Court. They want the court to throw out the evidence gathered by the special grand jury.

Though the Georgia Supreme Court is predominantly Republican, the Trump legal team acknowledged in its filing that its latest stratagem was a long shot, conceding that it had identified “no case in 40 years” where the court had intervened in the way it seeks. “Then again, never has there been a case like this one,” it added.

The investigation has examined whether the former president and his allies illegally interfered in the 2020 election in Georgia, where Mr. Trump lost narrowly to President Biden. The special grand jury heard evidence for roughly seven months and recommended indictments of more than a dozen people; its forewoman strongly hinted in an interview with The New York Times in February that Mr. Trump was among them. To bring any charges, Ms. Willis must now seek indictments from a regular grand jury.

The Trump team’s filing raises a number of legal concerns, both about Georgia law relating to special grand juries and about how a special grand jury was used in this inquiry.

Mr. Trump’s local legal team includes the lawyers Drew Findling, Marissa Goldberg and Jennifer Little. Their filing takes for granted that their client will be charged, saying that Ms. Willis “now seeks an indictment, the basis for which would be evidence unlawfully obtained during the special purpose grand jury’s proceedings.”

The district attorney’s office had no immediate comment on the latest filing.

Intervening in a potential criminal case before an indictment is even filed is complicated. Mr. Trump’s lawyers have already sought to scuttle the investigation with a motion, filed in March, to quash much of the collected evidence and take Ms. Willis off the investigation. To their frustration, the Superior Court judge handling the case, Robert C.I. McBurney, has yet to rule on the motion.

“Stranded between the Supervising Judge’s protected passivity and the District Attorney’s looming indictment, Petitioner has no meaningful option other than to seek this Court’s intervention,” the lawyers wrote in their filing on Friday to the State Supreme Court.

“Nothing about these processes have been normal or reasonable,” they wrote, adding that “the all-but-unavoidable conclusion is that the anomalies” are “because Petitioner is President Donald J. Trump.”

 

Please tell me this is futile.  Also, they always file on a Friday.  

Because that is what innocent people do.  This is all so dumb.

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16 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

In Iowa?

Yes, in Iowa.  How many times do they have to say it?

30 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Trump Seeks Court Order to Quash Investigation in Georgia https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/us/trump-georgia-election-investigation.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

In his latest legal maneuver, Donald J. Trump sought a court order on Friday that would throw out the work of an Atlanta special grand jury and disqualify Fani T. Willis, the prosecutor leading an investigation into election interference in Georgia.

A decision on indictments looms in the investigation, which has been in progress for more than two years. Ms. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, has signaled that the decision will come in the first half of August; she recently asked judges in a downtown Atlanta courthouse not to schedule trials for part of that time as she prepares to bring charges.

Mr. Trump’s lawyers made their request in a filing to Georgia’s Supreme Court. They want the court to throw out the evidence gathered by the special grand jury.

Though the Georgia Supreme Court is predominantly Republican, the Trump legal team acknowledged in its filing that its latest stratagem was a long shot, conceding that it had identified “no case in 40 years” where the court had intervened in the way it seeks. “Then again, never has there been a case like this one,” it added.

The investigation has examined whether the former president and his allies illegally interfered in the 2020 election in Georgia, where Mr. Trump lost narrowly to President Biden. The special grand jury heard evidence for roughly seven months and recommended indictments of more than a dozen people; its forewoman strongly hinted in an interview with The New York Times in February that Mr. Trump was among them. To bring any charges, Ms. Willis must now seek indictments from a regular grand jury.

The Trump team’s filing raises a number of legal concerns, both about Georgia law relating to special grand juries and about how a special grand jury was used in this inquiry.

Mr. Trump’s local legal team includes the lawyers Drew Findling, Marissa Goldberg and Jennifer Little. Their filing takes for granted that their client will be charged, saying that Ms. Willis “now seeks an indictment, the basis for which would be evidence unlawfully obtained during the special purpose grand jury’s proceedings.”

The district attorney’s office had no immediate comment on the latest filing.

Intervening in a potential criminal case before an indictment is even filed is complicated. Mr. Trump’s lawyers have already sought to scuttle the investigation with a motion, filed in March, to quash much of the collected evidence and take Ms. Willis off the investigation. To their frustration, the Superior Court judge handling the case, Robert C.I. McBurney, has yet to rule on the motion.

“Stranded between the Supervising Judge’s protected passivity and the District Attorney’s looming indictment, Petitioner has no meaningful option other than to seek this Court’s intervention,” the lawyers wrote in their filing on Friday to the State Supreme Court.

“Nothing about these processes have been normal or reasonable,” they wrote, adding that “the all-but-unavoidable conclusion is that the anomalies” are “because Petitioner is President Donald J. Trump.”

 

Please tell me this is futile.  Also, they always file on a Friday.  

One of the pundits (probably on MSNBC) I follow said that motion has a 0% chance.

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There's zero reasonable doubt at this point about this man's guilt in all of this shit. The only doubt is whether the republican led Georgia justice system will very publicly break precedent and go full on corrupt for him. Same with Florida. It's just going to take time to see what they do and like all things relating to lawyers and law it'll be frustrating and full of bullshit. 

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