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  1. 6 minutes ago, The Dog said:

     

    I expected this as well. It’s a trademark of rightist politics in general to pounce on the vaguest appearance of oppositional impropriety, run with it and scream about it until the end of fucking time. Clockwork.

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  2. 18 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    Oh I think the vast majority of the true Dotardians most definitely don't see through it. 

    His voters? No, they don't. His supporters in DC? Yeah they see it and they support it. They're not interested in governing; they're interested in ruling. 

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  3. 2 minutes ago, Mdhorn said:

    Which goes back to why he really does believe it's rigged--because he rigged the system and still lost.  Remember when he said that if Hillary won, she rigged the system?  

    If you really think about it, what he actually said is even more narcissistic. What he said was “I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election...if I win."

  4. 16 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well, it will be the Fulton County District Attorney, which is, despite the name, an arm of the state government, not Fulton County. And the case will be styled State of Georgia v. Donald J. Trump et al. 

    It's essentially the same thing as the criminal case he's dealing with in Florida. Yeah the description of the  court says "Southern District of Florida," but it's still a federal case.

    16 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    The key word in the title is District not County. District Attorneys represent the state in districts that often but not always correspond to counties.  This is the difference between district amd county attorneys.

    Yep. Pure local misdemeanor crap is tried, at least in Georgia, by the Solicitor General. County Attorneys really only exist for civil matters concerning the government. In fact, the Camden County Attorney's website specifically says "The county attorney manages all county leases and county litigation issues, but does not handle any criminal matters."

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  5. 3 minutes ago, The Dog said:

    Reuters dude fucked up:

    Keep in mind that it is not the State of Georgia that is going to indict him but rather Fulton County. 

    The State is going to indict him in Fulton County.

    https://pacga.org/about-pacga/

    "The District Attorney is the chief prosecuting officer for the State of Georgia within each of the State’s 50 judicial circuits. Judicial circuits consist of one to eight counties and are generally named for a geographical feature within the Circuit."

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  6. 8 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    I’m not seeing this anywhere. Plus Didn’t other news outlets confirm some witnesses will testify tomorrow? Other than Trump complaining of course. 
     

    Im guessing Wednesday or Thursday might be more realistic 

    This is probably what the Reuters thing is:

    https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-state-georgia-appears-set-file-charges-against-donald-trump-court-document-2023-08-14/

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  7. 18 minutes ago, The Dog said:

     

    "There's a totally perfect african american in my ass right now. The very best african american. But I have to say, the food has gone to hell. When I was president, a Prisoner would get the very best food Anywhere. Totally "the" best. They thought Bobby Flay was working in There. They would tell Me that. But now thanks to the Biden Crime Family and the do-Nothing socialist Pinko communist "anarchist" fascist Leftist democrats, it doesn't "even" compare to a breakfast buffet from some fleabag Hotel in a Shithole country."

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  8. 47 minutes ago, The Dog said:

    (SIAP wanted to be sure the free NYT link was provided)

    I mean sure but you have to understand that most of the dialogue concerning his eligibility is limited to things that range from “unavoidable” to “realistic.”

    That’s why you never see anyone mention the fact that, for example, the GQP is a private party that is well within their right to preemptively disqualify him from running as a Republican. That’s not gonna happen, but it theoretically could.

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  9. 2 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

    wait, the Unselects?

    edit: ohhh, that's what he calls the jan 6 select subcommittee. the unselects.

    jesus fucking christos

    You have to think like aggy in order to understand what he’s saying. It’s essentially a foreign language

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  10. 2 hours ago, Rimbo said:
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    “Our Founders lay this case out,” says Eastman. “There’s actually a provision in the Declaration of Independence that a people will suffer abuses while they remain sufferable, tolerable while they remain tolerable. At some point abuses become so intolerable that it becomes not only their right but their duty to alter or abolish the existing government.”

    As the article already points out, I love how this degenerate says "provision in the Declaration of Independence" as if it were a legal instrument.

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  11. 1 hour ago, Rimbo said:

    Legal Eagle dives in:

     

    Beat me to it. 

    I was very happy to see that he pointed out paragraph 83 (7:30 mark), which to me puts to rest any and all debate about "what did he really know?" He fucking knew that he lost and he admitted it...just not in public. Of course he further demolishes that nonsense beginning around 15:30 with the "state of mind" stuff. I also liked the bit at the end re: Elias. That's a perfect illustration of how absurd the MAGA argument is.

    Trump's case here is like an onion that's rotting from the inside: keep peeling them damned layers and it just keeps looking worse.

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  12. 1 hour ago, Foosters said:

    By his own admission, every single person Donald Trump hired to work in his administration has turned out to be a crook, a liar, and a bad guy. Sure can pick em 

    I mean you really only fit one other description if you’ve worked for Trump and aren’t any of those things: fired.

  13. 2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    One hundred percent.  The crimes alleged occurred in DC.

    Even if there was a change of venue to Maryland or Virgitina, the DC Circuit retains appellate jurisdiction.

    And with that said, I wouldn’t advise Trump on filing for COV. He’s not going to get more friendly juries in either of those states. Of course he probably has it in his tiny little mind that he can shift the venues of all his cases to Aileen Cannon.

  14. 1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Neat.  None of this is any reason to not push every single sane person we know to the polls in 2024.

    Which is exactly what I do and what I encourage everyone else to do, but that’s independent of two things:

    1. My whole point was that I expect that to happen (high turnout against Trump) and have no reason not to expect it.

    2. For Trump to use his expectation of the exact opposite of that as any part of his criminal defense strategy is absolutely crazy.

    1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

      I will not be satisfied until he and others like him are dead and buried.  Literally.

    Well hopefully they won’t be buried. Hopefully we will be able to cremate them and urinate upon the ashes a la Shooter McGavin.

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  15. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    Everyone read this.  Then read it again.  This is it.  The bolded is our "4th and 5, with the national championship on the line" moment.  It all comes down to that.

    Trump is the 2024 GQP nominee.  That's happening, there's no room for debate, nothing will stop it.  He could be charged, tried, and convicted of the most horrific crimes imaginable, as he gleefully admits "fuck yeah I raped and murdered a baby!", and he still waltzes to the nomination.

    Trump's entire defense strategy is this: win the White House.  All of his convictions would at most be up on appeal, so he won't be in a prison anywhere.  Pardon himself (or at the very least, argue that no criminal proceeding against him can advance while he is POTUS -- impeachment is the only remedy, and we know the GQP senators will never vote to convict).  Pardon everyone else implicated.  THEN, do exactly what he accuses the DOJ of doing: he'll absolutely weaponize it, and use it to go after every political enemy, real or imagined.

    Trump's defense plan is to win the White House.

    The Republic's plan for survival is to never let him back into the White House.

    4th and 5 coming up.....it's up to all of us to play the role of VY.

    Trump isn’t winning in 2024, so that’s not a viable defense plan.

    I know it’s posh and trendy in these parts to consider people like Nate Silver to be some sort of EC wunderkinds and national polls in August the year before the election to be any sort of relevant, but the reality is that Trump didn’t even win in 2016. The D’s lost that one by nominating the one candidate that Trump conceivably could have beaten.

    Trump started losing independent voters in the 2018 mid-terms and they’ve yet to go back. He’s the President-reject as of 2020, a status that was confirmed last year in the mid-terms. 

    Add to that, within the very narrow framework of mainstream political discourse, Biden has a solid record to run on in the 6 battleground states. Contrast that to Trump, who himself is a victim of the same axiom he created shortly after taking the oath: republicans cannot win contested primaries without Trump’s endorsement, and they can’t win general elections with it. I once again have to pose this question because I’ve yet to see a sensible answer to it:

    Of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, exactly which ones is Trump flipping back to himself next year? 

    His criminal defense can go in multiple directions. He can plead straight not guilty and argue the elements, he can cut a plea, or he can try to delay these trials until after the election. Option 3 is the craziest one because it’s the most likely to fail; even more likely than option 1. His only sensible move in terms of criminal defense strategy is option 2. But he’s not going to do that. Why? Because it’s not about keeping him away from legal accountability. It’s about the grift, and option 2 represents the quickest ending to the grift.

    Think about it:

    Option 1: he gets to keep hee-hawing about how innocent he is and grifts people out of their money to contribute to his defense right til the very end of all trials.

    Option 2: Trials are over and he loses respect from a chunk of his base; at least the smarter half who recognize that he’s admitting to criminal culpability, one of such cases establishing that he knew all along that he lost in 2020 and those poor suckers got duped.

    Option 3: See option 1.

    Thats why plea bargaining never enters the discussion. No grift, no consideration.

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  16. 41 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    The mouth breathers will admit that they haven’t read the indictment but that their sources tell them that it is an indictment against free speech. And if you tell them otherwise, they will not accept your facts.

    The exact verbiage of such an exchange reads as follows:

    ”I believe what I believe because that’s what I believe. I believe that, and I’m not gonna believe what you believe because it’s not what I believe.”

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