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On Devin Nunes, the dingleberry on the asshole that is Donald Trump

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I bet you could get a good look at Devin Nunes' mom by sticking your head up his cow's ass, but it'd have to be his mom's bull.  

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There are few things as embarrassing to a lawyer than getting poured out by Rule 12(b)(6).

Eh, if you do enough plaintiff work, it will happen. Fortunately, I've gotten it reversed the few times it's happened. 

But, that particular ruling shows it wasn't a close call at all.

 

 

 

 

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The speed of the news dumps has reached an alarming pace. What the hell Russian hackery is going on while we're looking at all the shiny objects? The power grid? What?

 

 

In addition and it isn't related to Devin Nunes per se, I did see that Goldman Sachs is quietly making some moves prior to some lawsuit. They're to be granted a waiver allowing them to remain as a "qualified professional asset manager" before the sentencing of GS Malaysia (the foreign bribery case where they're expected to pay 2.9 billion) if I understood it correctly. I pulled the info from File411 and she points out that this is rather like giving the fox the keys to the chicken coop once again.

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Yes, but it was a Participation Medal of Freedom award.  

I'm gonna laugh when in 5 years nobody remembers either of these guys and we're watching a new Dr. Anthony Fauci high school or hospital get its ribbon cut every other week in this country.  

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Yes, but it was a Participation Medal of Freedom award.  

I'm gonna laugh when in 5 years nobody remembers either of these guys and we're watching a new Dr. Anthony Fauci high school or hospital get its ribbon cut every other week in this country.  

We can only hope.

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12 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

That conspiracy theory has already been debunked. Well, for rational people. Hell, fuckface from Kentucky accused Faucci of the same shit in person last week. 

You're gonna need to be more specific. 

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A federal magistrate judge in Iowa on Thursday ordered the employees at a dairy farm owned by the father and brother of Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Cal.) to produce documentation concerning their immigration status in the family’s protracted defamation lawsuit filed against Esquire magazine and journalist Ryan Lizza. The court also singled out attorney Steven Biss—known for representing the Republican lawmaker in a series of failed defamation suits against news organizations—for his “puzzling and troubling” explanation about a deposition of a dairy farm employee.

The lawsuit centers on the 2018 article entitled “Devin Nunes’s Family Farm Is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret,” which alleged that the Nunes family’s dairy farm—NuStar Farms, LLC—knowingly employed undocumented workers.

The eight-page order from U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Roberts of the Northern District of Iowa came in response to a motion filed by attorneys representing Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. (Hearst owns and publishes Esquire) concerning their first attempt to depose one of the dairy farm employees, who is referred to as F.S.D. in court documents.

Esquire’s filing complained that during the deposition of F.S.D., Biss “asserted argumentative objections that were disruptive and intended to intimidate or coach the witness” when counsel tried to question F.S.D. about legal documents that bore his signature. Biss denied the accusation, saying he only “intended to call out the Defendants’ overt harassment of the NuStar employee.” But Judge Roberts called Biss’s explanation “puzzling and troubling.”

“Mr. Biss made a lengthy speaking objection claiming this was harassment,” Roberts wrote. “Here, where the identity and immigration status of the employees is a central issue, it is not harassing or irrelevant to ask questions about such documents. In the context of this case, it is not conducive to obtaining truthful answers from an employee such as F.S.D. to have his employer’s lawyer making lengthy, animated objections to those questions.”

Judge Roberts further stated that “the most puzzling and troubling aspect” of Biss’s “behavior” concerned his decision to seek a sidebar with F.S.D.’s attorney to determine “whether the witness wanted to take the Fifth Amendment.”

The sidebar, which the judge noted lasted approximately two hours, occurred immediately after F.S.D.’s attorney Justin Allen said that he’d advised F.S.D. to invoke the Fifth Amendment regarding questions about the legal documents that bore his signature. When the attorneys returned to the deposition room, F.S.D.’s attorney informed Esquire’s counsel that he was no longer representing F.S.D. and Biss said the deposition was over pending rescheduling.

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“Normally, one would expect the lawyer for a deponent to be in the best position to ascertain whether the deponent desires to assert a privilege,” Judge Roberts wrote. “Mr. Biss makes bald assurances that the employees want to answer all questions and not assert their Fifth Amendment rights. Nevertheless, Mr. Biss’s behavior—coupled with the facts that (a) the privilege was raised, (b) the privilege was perhaps withdrawn after a lengthy sidebar, and (c) Mr. Allen was fired—gives me little confidence that F.S.D. could make a knowing waiver of his Fifth Amendment rights under these circumstances.”

Roberts ordered Biss and all the NuStar attorneys to read a court case to provide “instruction on appropriate behavior” regarding attorneys pressuring witnesses not to assert their rights, though the judge was clear that he made no finding on whether such pressure did occur.

Additionally, Roberts ordered Biss and all other NuStar attorneys to “inform the [NuStar] employees of their obligation to search for the requested [citizenship] documents and bring the documents to the deposition, if they still possess them,” adding that the employees “may be asked about their efforts to comply at the deposition.”

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Remember that time the GOP was all about tort reform until they devoted complete idolatry to a con man who used civil litigation to avoid invoices and his end of basic exchanges of services?  And now there's another litigious Republican who files a lawsuit every time someone hurts his feelings?

 

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/devin-nunes-ceo-trumps-social-221650007.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

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(Reuters) - U.S. Representative Devin Nunes will become the chief executive officer of former U.S. President Donald Trump's new social media venture Trump Media & Technology Group in January, the company said on Monday.

this fucking timeline

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the guy that still gets his illegal intel drops from the enemy via postal mail is now gonna be the savvy tech guru that saves Trump's social media platform?  Got it!

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37 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/devin-nunes-ceo-trumps-social-221650007.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

this fucking timeline

You want to talk about timelines?

As we've talked about before, plenty of companies/people could have come up with a simple social media platform that was easy for Trump to post on, and they would all use a 3rd-party email/mailing list service (which they do for their fundraising emails already) and had it up and running within a month or two, with a fully-populated merchandise shop (all of it print-on-demand so that they don't even have to store physical stock).  There are plenty of platforms to choose from, whether it was a simple platform that just had Trump's daily rants (which the Trump Media Empire already tried), all the way up to something similar to twitter, with two-way engagement with his fanbase.

Plenty of us here on Surly have the resources to spin up a website in a few minutes with an off-the-shelf platform that would get somebody like him about 75% (or more) towards what he seems to want to do.  A simple CMS/website with a merchandise shop with a payment platform, and a form to pull in email addresses, tied to MailChimp, etc. It's barely a few hours work.

Here we are, coming up on 10 or 11 months since he's been banned from twitter and FB (and everybody knew he'd be banned from twitter the moment he was out of the WH), and his people can't pull it off, and he's still stuck with his old website.

I would love to know what is going on there, because while on the surface, it's easy to say that he's just surrounded by dumbasses or he's too cheap to do this right, there are plenty of options for him that would cost him very little (for the amount of money that will be generated) and that could be spun up in a few hours by just one IT person. Hell, there's plenty of MAGA types that can do this and would be happy to do this, and may even do some of it for free just for the advertising.

These folks love their grifting, which really makes me wonder why they keep botching their social media/website project.

Hell, they are already a part of the way there:

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news

But then you hit up their merchandise section, and it's run by WinRed and not the Trump campaign.

It's not hard to run a merchandise section on a website, but they apparently can't do it.

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