wildcat09

C'mon man. SCOTUS will do whatever 5 justices want to do.

No we want to keep trolling him about sucking dick for money to tailor his football jerseys.

While we're at it, c'mon out of hiding TTom, you crazy motherfucker. Where's my reckoning? You've been promising it for damned near a goddamned decade. I'm gonna see if I can drink more scotch tonight than I did on election night 2016.

This rang a bell: Bring it on you degenerate freak.

Then shoot his plane out of the sky.

I would just like to say... lol.

I actually take it as a pretty good sign that they pretty quickly requested to re-hear Pecker's testimony and the jury instructions. I think if there was a Trumper on the jury who's determined to hang it no matter what, it would've taken more time before they wanted to go back to the evidence and instructions. That indicates there's something specific a holdout may want clarified, meaning they're trying to take the process seriously.

I'd say the release of the official opinion made it pretty clear Alito was the leaker, given that he was the author and there were no substantive changes to the version of the opinion that had leaked.

Subpoena him. Investigate his finances. Make his life a fucking nightmare.

Same here, down to getting sick after vacation. I was a zombie yesterday after not getting any sleep the night before and just totally forgot about the runoff.

"my history is unassailable" is one of the funniest things I think I've ever seen written on the internet. It's on par with "I am aware of all internet traditions."

Lobo gonna Lobo.

That's like the tenth fucking article written about that annoying couple.

They get to slaughter Palestinians. That's its own reward to fascists.

During the earlier proceedings in which she wrongfully intervened she was pretty clearly entertaining ex parte communications from Trump and his supporters who were clearly influencing her in Fox News appearances. I don't know if that's still happening, but I assume if it's not Fox any more it's something similar.

That Florida case is never going to go to trial unless they get the 11th circuit to take the case away from her, and it sure as hell looks like they don’t want to try to do that (presumably because they’re worried the attempt will fail).

No. I'm fairly sure every lawyer that posts here but TwiceHorn thinks Cannon is pretty openly in the tank for Trump. He seems to have mostly quit giving her the benefit of the doubt, but is still rationalizing his error with this "we can't REALLY know what she's thinking" stuff. Which, c'mon man.

He got Cannon right and you didn't. What does that tell you about the value of your knowledge?

Maybe, maybe not. But the American people would know that Trump had been convicted of stealing top secret information. There are very real and continued harms being done every day to the average American's perception of our justice system by all this bullshit and just dismissing those concerns as uninformed doesn't help your case. None of the way Trump's crimes have been investigated and prosecuted have actually gone by the book. They've been delayed by the vain political concerns of chickenshits who thought maybe if they just ignored it he'd go away, and by numerous and easily foreseeable corrupt actions of conservative public officials. People are right to be pissed and as a functioning member of that system you should be pissed at the people who are destroying it, not those who are noticing the destruction. This is like the people who argued there was no point in Woodward quickly reporting that Trump knew in February 2020 that covid was airborne and would be catastrophic. I dunno man, I think millions of voters would've liked to have known that before the election. How the fuck am I consistently less cynical than most about the American public?

It is indeed not as simple as "good" and "bad" people. But I do think there's reason to argue that anyone who supports Trump at this point can't be "good," regardless of the best elements of their character. The difference between your "good" friends and co-workers who will nevertheless vote for Trump and truly good people is that the "good" people you're thinking about at a very fundamental level don't regard people who aren't like them as fully human. It may not even be an entirely conscious belief system, but they don't regard a black woman or an hispanic man or a white atheist as deserving of the same fundamental rights and dignities as they are (and usually they don't think white women are either). Even when it's not just blatant racism, there's some evolutionary tribal component to this. We all prioritize families and friends over strangers. Some of us are conscious of that bias and view it as a failing and try to push back against it (and often fail). Others embrace it as, in their view, a fundamental part of human nature (and tend to view this as ordained by God). As I and many other posters have noted here countless times the past few years, the nazis themselves weren't all comic book villains, most were normal, decent-seeming people who loved their families, helped out friends, etc. That's the lesson we should've learned from WW2. Instead we mythologized them as some sort of unique, ultimate evil that the world would never see again. But they weren't, they were just regular people who tended to lean reactionary in their politics and personality, who had they been born in another time and place could've been Rockefeller Republicans. Many/most Trump voters today (at least the ones who aren't consciously proudly racist) are similar, though they have less excuse. Fascism was new to the world in the 1930s and nobody understood the horrible harm it would inflict on the world. We know better now, but it seems a lot of "good" people don't care.

I wish I could honestly say I'm surprised that there's still anyone thinking in 2024 the sane GOP will take back over, but a refusal by most normal people to face reality no matter how hard it slaps them in the face is how the fascists always take power.

Citing Richard Hanania in support of your argument should get you drawn and quartered or slowly dissolved in a vat of acid.

I feel like Kaitlin Collins is a pretty good barometer for figuring out who is most likely to give out their social security number to the more sophisticated scammers.

Where the fuck do you think I pulled his complaint that you can't say the Jews killed Jesus anymore?

99 justices. Any fewer is cowardice.