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immamac
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Fuck everyone in the senate. Trash american government for trash americans.  If you are a longhorn and support this, you need to find another site. I'm done fucking around with this absolute garb

tx 3 putt
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he needs to be punished, not rewarded 

JohnnyRage
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I’m 44 years old and have never been a member of a political party nor do I have a desire. But listening to this, God damnit, If I have to pick a fucking side and wear a badge upon my sleeve, I choose

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2 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

This reminds me of the time I had to give an oral book report in front of my entire English class, but I didn't read the book...So I got high at lunch and skimmed the comic book version. 

One of my favorites was in 6th grade when I was supposed to give an oral report about the Houston Astros in front of the class and I coolly explained (with the most professorial delivery that I could muster) that they got the name in 1918 as a shortening of the word "astroturf" -- to highlight the new kind of artificial grass installed at the stadium.

The teacher, evidently a baseball fan, was not amused and called me out instantly. I checked my watch and noticed I was two minutes in to a ten minute report. I have no memory of the next eight minutes whatsoever.

This guy is on my level of bullshitter.

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8 minutes ago, TXSG8R said:

Can this motherfucker not work PowerPoint to give everyone else a visual aid? Why is he reading from a tourist kiosk pamphlet?

I loved that he was reading things that had already been presented on screen and he was choosing to omit critical words we all saw an hour ago. 

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The Industrial Revolution to me is just like a story I know called "The Puppy Who Lost His Way." The world was changing, and the puppy was getting... bigger.
So, you see, the puppy was like industry. In that, they were both lost in the woods. And nobody, especially the little boy - "society" - knew where to find 'em. Except that the puppy was a dog. But the industry, my friends, that was a revolution.
Still more convincing and lawyerly than this shit.
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Whenever he does the head/water thing, all I can think of is Ted Stryker.  "And my time as Trump's attorney, more than anything...led to my drinking problem."  

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Donald Trump has done nothing but prove everyone right who said he was corrupt, incompetent, and unfit for office since the day he was elected. The fact that the rest of us knew it all along is not a defense against him inciting a violent insurrection against democracy itself. That was what we’ve been warning against all along.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-lawyer-suit-fraud/2021/02/09/50f0769e-6ae3-11eb-ba56-d7e2c8defa31_story.html

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One of Trump’s impeachment lawyers sued him last year — and accused him of making claims about fraud with ‘no evidence’

A mobile billboard truck displays an image of former President Donald Trump near the Capitol ahead of the start of his second impeachment trial Tuesday.
A mobile billboard truck displays an image of former President Donald Trump near the Capitol ahead of the start of his second impeachment trial Tuesday. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)
Feb. 9, 2021 at 2:23 p.m. CST

Last year, Philadelphia lawyer Michael T. van der Veen filed a lawsuit against then-President Donald Trump accusing him of making “repeated claims” that mail voting is ripe with fraud “despite having no evidence in support of these claims.”

 

This week, van der Veen is adopting a different posture as part of the team of attorneys defending Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election result in his Senate impeachment trial.

How a longtime personal-injury lawyer found himself at the center of that trial, which opened Tuesday, may say more about his client than his own legal career. Trump struggled to find lawyers to take on his case, parting ways with several who were unwilling to claim that the 2020 election was stolen, as the president is said to have wanted them to do.

 

Van der Veen’s route to Trump’s legal team began when the firm he founded — van der Veen, O’Neill, Hartshorn and Levin — hired Bruce L. Castor Jr. in December. Castor, a former prosecutor from suburban Philadelphia, in turn was recommended to Trump aides and hired last month.

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Now, van der Veen’s name and signature appear in Trump’s impeachment filings alongside Castor’s, as well as those of David Schoen, an Atlanta-based lawyer Trump brought on last week. In a 78-page defense brief filed Monday, the lawyers argued that Trump was entitled to express his belief that “voting irregularities” he attributed to illegal changes to election laws had tainted the election.

Van der Veen did not respond to repeated requests for comment made through his law firm.

It has been just a few months since his name was on a very different legal document — a lawsuit against Trump, the U.S. Postal Service and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy filed in federal court in August on behalf of Melvin Johnakin, an independent candidate who last year unsuccessfully sought to challenge Rep. Dwight Evans (D-Pa.). Johnakin claimed in the suit that operational changes at the federal agency would make it harder for voters to cast ballots during the coronavirus pandemic, part of a wave of litigation against the Postal Service last year.

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On his website, van der Veen touted the action thusly: “To exercise the fundamental right to vote, many voters have and will utilize all available means to vote by mail rather than in person at a polling place. Advanced planning and proactive measures will be necessary to ensure that voters have sufficient access to vote by mail to preserve and protect the essential right to vote and prevent large-scale disenfranchisement.”

The suit described DeJoy as a “Republican Party and Trump campaign megadonor” and accused the Postal Service of “reducing staff hours, prohibiting overtime, removing hundreds of high-volume mail-processing machines from facilities across the country and removing mail boxes in urban areas with high concentrations of minority, low income and Democratic voters.”

Those operational changes “led to delays in the delivery of mail,” the suit said — and came at a time when Trump was making “repeated claims” without evidence that voting by mail is “ripe with fraud.”

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The suit was settled in late November, part of a broader effort in 19 states and the District to block the Postal Service from making changes that could delay the mail.

Trump and his legal team at the time were attacking accommodations that state officials had made to help voters cast ballots amid the health crisis, falsely asserting that those changes led to widespread fraud.

On Nov. 25, the day the suit was dismissed, Trump spoke by telephone to a panel of Pennsylvania state senators who had assembled to examine allegations of fraud. He said he had “won by a lot” — and lamented that “all we need is to have some judge listen to it properly without having a political opinion or having another kind of a problem.”

 

There is no prohibition against a lawyer representing a former adversary in a new matter when the previous client has no interest, said Stephen Gillers, a law professor at New York University, who noted that the practice is common.

In Philadelphia, van der Veen is best-known for his law firm’s ubiquitous ads on local news radio station KYW-AM, which are reminiscent of East Coast electronics chain Crazy Eddie’s high-octane TV pitches from the 1980s.

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“Whether you’re walking down Chestnut or Market, Frankurt or Aramingo, be careful and watch your step,” the announcer nearly shouts in one of van der Veen’s radio spots. “But if the walkway isn’t clear, and you fall and get hurt due to snow and ice, call 215-546-1000 for van der Veen, O’Neill Hartshorn and Levin — trial lawyers excelling in the area of the law most critical to your family.”

 

“The ‘V,’ ” the announcer concludes, ‘is for ‘Victory.’ ”

The law firm’s website offers personal-injury representation as well as “relentless, savvy defense” work for those accused of corporate embezzlement, Internet-based offenses or violent crime. And it claims massive results, including a $31.5 million judgment for a man paralyzed in a motorcycle accident and a $10 million settlement for a 9-year-old boy struck by a tractor-trailer.

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Van der Veen is active in local and state trial lawyers’ associations; last year, he donated $5,000 to the state group’s political action committee, according to Pennsylvania campaign finance reports.

During the first two years of Trump’s presidency, van der Veen donated to prominent Pennsylvania Democrats, including Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr., one of the former president’s most vocal critics in the chamber. A spokesman for Casey’s office declined to comment on van der Veen’s representation of Trump.

 

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.), who has received several political donations from van der Veen in recent years, said in an interview that she wondered whether Trump realizes he hired someone who recently went up against him in court.

“Given the former president’s enemies list, he would likely not be happy to learn he’d been sued by his current lawyer, since he generally demands total loyalty,” said Scanlon, who is also a lawyer. “It does seem a little out of character for the former president to embrace someone who so recently sued him.”

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A spokesman for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Van der Veen drew local media attention in 2018 for the elaborate renovation of his small firm’s offices in Philadelphia’s Center City neighborhood. The 25-employee firm occupies a 19th-century row house featuring a Delftware fireplace and ornate mantel carvings of Zeus and Apollo. The customized furniture he bought from Maine-based Thos. Moser was built from cherrywood harvested from family farms in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Plateau — “so there’s no clear-cutting involved,” according to a write-up in Philadelphia Business Journal.

 

For some in Pennsylvania, van der Veen’s representation of Trump is a natural fit, given his career path as a personal-injury lawyer who broadcasts ads on local talk radio and touts glowing magazine cover stories on his law firm’s website.

“It probably speaks more to the gadfly culture of Philadelphia trial attorneys than anything else,” said one Democratic strategist from Pennsylvania who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly. “It’s a showman’s culture.”

 

 

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Just now, WhatTheBuck said:

Donald Trump has done nothing but prove everyone right who said he was corrupt, incompetent, and unfit for office since the day he was elected. The fact that the rest of us knew it all along is not a defense against him inciting a violent insurrection against democracy itself. That was what we’ve been warning against all along.

Remember when the daily Texan brigade kept telling us we were overreacting by saying Trump wanted to be an authoritarian. I member 

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Just now, Red Five said:

I wonder if they're ever going to get around to actually defending his actions. 

ITS ALL COMING IN THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS. YOU'LL SEE. THEY'LL SHRED THE WELL PREPARED CASE THE VERY SMART, WELL SPOKEN, ENGAGING GUYS OVER THERE PUT TOGETHER

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Obviously I’m not Jewish, why isn’t he wearing it? And do you only cover when drinking or eating? 

I’m not sure why he’s not wearing it. My best guess is that trump didn’t want his white supremacist base to see his lawyers wearing a yarmulke.

Orthodox men typically wear it at all times except sleeping or bathing. But it has to worn on certain occasions, such as when praying or eating.
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Just now, lemonlime said:


I’m not sure why he’s not wearing it. My best guess is that trump didn’t want his white supremacist base to see his lawyers wearing a yarmulke.

Orthodox men typically wear it at all times except sleeping or bathing. But it has to worn on certain occasions, such as when praying or eating.

what about when shitting from the mouth?

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