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The full-on nutters at the WSJ editorial board, the weirdest and most extreme editorial board of a major US newspaper for many decades, are concerned:

They're able to go judge shopping and the one they went for in N Texas is as partisan as you can find. Meritless lawsuit that should be laughed out of court, but based on the judge, ya never know. Here's a couple photos for amusement purposes only.

Going with the "every accusation is an admission theory" about why Trump's not on the campaign trail, think about how focused he has been on Biden's mental health. Even after Biden dropped out of the race, Trump has been rambling in front of crowds and on social media about how old he is and how Biden's brain is supposedly mush. The fact is Trump's brain is mush. He can see the shitty crowds he's been drawing. he's acutely aware of it. He knows he sounds incoherent; but he can't do anything about it. He and his handlers know putting him in a half empty arena or field in front of a small crowd isn't going to do the campaign any good.

To aid us in answering this q, we must ask ourselves, If the RNC field offices were paying rent in a building Trump owns would he: a. close them b. have them torched and then try to collect the insurance c. quintuple the rent d. allow them to continue under the same terms Because the correct answer is (c) we can conclude he saw no way to grift off of that money the way he could do so if that money were in the RNC treasury, controlled by his family. Because we also understand Trump's an arrogant prick who desperately wants to become president, grift and stay out of prison, I conclude he closed those offices out of pure arrogance AND an overwhelming desire to grift whatever piddly funds he can get his grubby little hands on. He is who he's always been.

I'm not here to sidetrack the thread. I posted to clear up some misinformation in this actual thread. And I was very nice about it. Among the nicest posts ever, of all time! I'll bet 99 percent, maybe even 100 percent of everyone here understands that. I'm the nicest of all posters. Literally. I've never fucked up a post in my life. And my children know that. They're just kids but they know how to post and how to be kind. We learned many, many, many lessons together watching the brilliant Hannibal Lecter. What a brilliant man! And the movie about him was absolutely fantastic. Did you know they wanted me to play the role of Dr. Lecter in the movie? But I said no, because I have too much respect for the man and they made him seem much worse than he was in REAL LIFE! However I must point out you have at least 3 posts on this page alone about Epstein so for you to "thread police" me seems a bit much. Thank you.

FWIW the author of the WP article, Glenn Kessler, is in so far over his head as a journalist and he's a complete asshole, to boot. Prior to documents being released by a Court last month, named witnesses had the opportunity to object if they didn't want their names released. Bill Clinton, for example, is named in the report and therefore we can surmise that he didn't object to his name being released. We can further surmise he didn't object to his name being released because he had nothing to hide. On the other hand, the documents list a "John Doe 174" (out of 200 "John Does"), whose descriptions and actions seem to match up perfectly with Trump, and whose name does not appear in the report otherwise. There are 7 mentions of John Doe 174 in the report, according to Business Insider. However details related to the activities of John Doe 174 and Epstein remains redacted. It's reasonable to surmise Trump aka John Doe 174 objected to the release of his name in connection with the Epstein documents. https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-doe-jeffrey-epstein-documents-unsealed-2024-1?op=1 Then there's the problematic issue of Trump making Alex Acosta, the US District Attorney who gave Epstein his first, extremely generous plea deal while under pressure from Epstein's wealthy and powerful friends, and even allowed Epstein to serve his prison time in the offices of his attorney, into a member of his very first Cabinet (Secretary of HHS) when Trump became president.

Basically he's saying, "Being angry makes me happy." It's the story of the Fox News Generation along with a bunch of red-pilled, yellow-bellied, sanctimonious cunts out of Silicon Valley.

JD Vance has been following Kamala Harris around like a stalker, thinking he'd upstage her. He was in Philly today. Here's how his day went, pieced together from a few different sources. https://whyy.org/articles/philadelphia-jd-vance-election-harris/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0dziHRDLG0s_Mat1MLmKk2NqPZNpNt_g3Zm7Dqq3ox7-7q3R2BAoyQFDs_aem_Sg3DiD3CEGGu5dWgX6C4Vw I could've used a marking pen, but notice, the capacity of the bar at the arena would've held all 200 attendees. Another bad day for JD Vance.

Mrs. Walz was so freakin' excited there. I went back and watched the full end of the speech, and the happiness she exuded for Tim was incredibly genuine. She seems awesome too.

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Agree. Walz creates so many opportunities.

It's YA -- though well-written enough that you're not put-off by it (at least I wasn't) but the wife and I enjoyed "A Good Girl's Guide to Murder." For her project to gain entry to Cambridge, a cute, nerdy small-town British teen tries to solve a murder that happened in her village 5 years previous. Not great but solid. 6 eps.

Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice published a study last week: https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/annexation-taiwan-defeat-which-us-and-its-allies-could-not-retreat links to a pdf version of the research

That's awesome. Reminds me about a study published out of Rice U the other day about China and Taiwan that was sobering af. I'll have a look at the China thread to see if it was posted there.

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He's not out of central casting but he's a home run hire.

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BREAKING: EVEN THE FASCISTS AGREE, TIM WALZ WILL BE THE NEXT VICE PRESIDENT!

Even if. Tim could fix it. Crazy radical.