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C. Everett Koop
Aug 18, 2008

Xiahou Dun posted:

It’s entirely possible that the Special Counsel’s office actually does know exactly which tweets Trump sent. It’s not like Trump is good at infosec. He does the mob boss poo poo and doesn’t say poo poo, but he’s not exactly tech-savvy. They subpeonaed the hell out out of twitter and we live in a panopticon dystopia of technology, it’s not hard to tell what device did a thing and correlate that with whether or not the President had it.

Apparently the only two people who had access to Trump's Twitter account was him and Scavino. So if you can determine which ones came from Scavino, by process of elimination...

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Riptor
Apr 13, 2003

here's to feelin' good all the time

Scags McDouglas posted:

Naw it was def out a car window into a field. Someone even found it in time for it to be reattached and he did some porn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRyiq_r2G_E

Riptor fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Jan 8, 2024

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Scags McDouglas posted:

Naw it was def out a car window into a field. Someone even found it in time for it to be reattached and he did some porn.

Unless I missed a joke in which case, whoooosh

https://theworld.org/stories/2013-04-29/woman-convicted-cutting-husbands-penis-and-throwing-it-garbage-disposal

E: Oh lol that's someone else. Apologies, looks like I fell into severed dick error

Caros
May 14, 2008

Xiahou Dun posted:

It’s entirely possible that the Special Counsel’s office actually does know exactly which tweets Trump sent. It’s not like Trump is good at infosec. He does the mob boss poo poo and doesn’t say poo poo, but he’s not exactly tech-savvy. They subpeonaed the hell out out of twitter and we live in a panopticon dystopia of technology, it’s not hard to tell what device did a thing and correlate that with whether or not the President had it.

I'd be shocked if they couldn't pinpoint who tweeted what.

Apparently there were only two people with access to Trump's Twitter, Scavino and Trump. If it came from Trump's phone, it'd be him. Anywhere else, probably not him.

Given that they have so much inside knowledge, they can probably also pick out tweets they know trump sent, and check them against the phone to be sure.

Plus Scavino talked to the special council, which means he probably flipped to save his skin.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
The only possible snag there may be that current Twitter management might not want to hand the info over, but defying a subpoena may be a bridge too far even for Musk

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

haveblue posted:

The only possible snag there may be that current Twitter management might not want to hand the info over, but defying a subpoena may be a bridge too far even for Musk

I mean musk has been re-tweeting pro-insurrection stuff of late and seems to be hopped up on one thing or another all the time now, so who god drat knows what he'd do.

Although pretty sure some fed office or other would of gotten all that off Twitter ages ago. Definitely before musk took over.

Nervous
Jan 25, 2005

Why, hello, my little slice of pecan pie.

haveblue posted:

The only possible snag there may be that current Twitter management might not want to hand the info over, but defying a subpoena may be a bridge too far even for Musk

Musk better be careful or he might end up with a new OSHA rule that all safety warnings/markings in manufacturing facilities have to be yellow.

Xiahou Dun
Jul 16, 2009

We shall dive down through black abysses... and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory forever.



Why are you all speculating. That happened. Musk caved and threw a hissy fit about it, but he wasn’t able to stop it or speak out about it. This was an old news story, that’s why I mentioned it in my first post.

Random article from August, just because it was the first hit on my search : https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4145619-special-counsel-won-secret-search-warrant-for-trumps-twitter-account/amp/

Asproigerosis
Mar 13, 2013

insufferable
gently caress, BEATIN.

haveblue posted:

The only possible snag there may be that current Twitter management might not want to hand the info over, but defying a subpoena may be a bridge too far even for Musk

Musk directed X, the everything app, to stonewall and obstruct subpoenas regarding trump information and threatened to tell trump about it so he could destroy evidence.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4145619-special-counsel-won-secret-search-warrant-for-trumps-twitter-account/

The Islamic Shock
Apr 8, 2021
"The mob is violent and trying to murder your VP"
"Why the gently caress should I care"
"It's starting to look like this will negatively affect you personally"

And that's when the ball got rolling.

Edit at above: no no you need to say it with bad dry humor like beaten like a homeless guy sneezing in the direction of cops

The Islamic Shock fucked around with this message at 07:26 on Jan 8, 2024

Kavros
May 18, 2011

sleep sleep sleep
fly fly post post
sleep sleep sleep

sebmojo posted:

https://theworld.org/stories/2013-04-29/woman-convicted-cutting-husbands-penis-and-throwing-it-garbage-disposal

E: Oh lol that's someone else. Apologies, looks like I fell into severed dick error

Agents are GO!
Dec 29, 2004

smackfu posted:

Also the photo in that last tweet doesn’t look real.

Ceci n'est pas une Trump

Kavros
May 18, 2011

sleep sleep sleep
fly fly post post
sleep sleep sleep
Real trump is starting to feel like he must actually be a sloppy AI generation of trump instead, similar to how the actual Mark Hamill in the star wars holiday special looks more fake than his recent cgi recreations

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Even if they can't tell who did which tweets from the data itself, it's not like "Actually Scavino was the one encouraging the rioters via tweet!" would hold up to one second of scrutiny given all the like. Video of Trump doing that. And the testimony of everyone apparently backing up that Scavino was desperately trying to get Trump to say something to make the insurrectionists back down. In short it'd take a better lawyer than Trump's got to pin any of this on a scapegoat.

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001
I mean if Giuliani still isn't disbarred by then, they could always see if he was up for putting forward the "Trump had a secret evil identical twin who did all the bad things" gambit!

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

dr_rat posted:

I mean if Giuliani still isn't disbarred by then, they could always see if he was up for putting forward the "Trump had a secret evil identical twin who did all the bad things" gambit!

He could also try arguing that none of those things happened and it was all just a dream

Kavros
May 18, 2011

sleep sleep sleep
fly fly post post
sleep sleep sleep
Or he could turn up dead before spring and leave everyone to bet on toxicology test outcomes

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001
Would trump dying stop all his law suits? I thought he still had a few lined up that were business/personal(being sued and what not) related that might continue as they would just go against his estate?

Edit: I assume modern courts still follow the Pope Formose tradition when it comes to posthumous trials?

dr_rat fucked around with this message at 12:33 on Jan 8, 2024

Meatball
Mar 2, 2003

That's a Spicy Meatball

Pillbug

Xiahou Dun posted:

It’s entirely possible that the Special Counsel’s office actually does know exactly which tweets Trump sent. It’s not like Trump is good at infosec. He does the mob boss poo poo and doesn’t say poo poo, but he’s not exactly tech-savvy. They subpeonaed the hell out out of twitter and we live in a panopticon dystopia of technology, it’s not hard to tell what device did a thing and correlate that with whether or not the President had it.

It's why I'm super excited to see what evidence he has during the trials. If the panoptiocon is looking at you, it see everything. I imagine he's got some crazy poo poo; they're not coming after a former president for bullshit.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Comstar posted:

Husband of deceased Jan. 6 Darwin Award Winner files wrongful death suit against government

Now, here's why it's all Trump's Legal Troubles:

(quoting from the Fark thread, as I was not aware of the following fact):

Well done Agent Clinton.

yeah having seen the video of it watching that HBO documentry. "best case" is she was loving moron rear end in a top hat who bought into a conmans bullshit mixed with main character syndrom and didnt get that a federal cop pointing a loving gun at you means you should probably back away. instead she decided to be the main character and she got a free traiquatomy from officer rocket raccoon. like ACAB and poo poo but "good shoots" do exist and this was one.

Asproigerosis
Mar 13, 2013

insufferable
Throughout his entire presidency it was extremely obvious when it was him tweeting or someone else. The change in diction and verbiage is jarring. I certainly hope at least one of these prosecutors has the slam dunk evidence because I'm so loving tired of this shithead clown. If they meuller this poo poo again....

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

Dapper_Swindler posted:

yeah having seen the video of it watching that HBO documentry. "best case" is she was loving moron rear end in a top hat who bought into a conmans bullshit mixed with main character syndrom and didnt get that a federal cop pointing a loving gun at you means you should probably back away. instead she decided to be the main character and she got a free traiquatomy from officer rocket raccoon. like ACAB and poo poo but "good shoots" do exist and this was one.
My favorite detail from the videos of the shooting is how the crowd instantly quiets down once Babbit gets shot. The vibe changes instantly to holy poo poo, they can do that?, which tells you that they really did think 1) they could yell and LARP their way into overthrowing the government and nothing bad would happen to them, and 2) that the cops were essentially on their side and would nod and wink and let them through. Wrong on both counts, chuckleheads.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Not that she was likely to survive given everything else but didn't they do basically everything you shouldn't do, causing her to bleed out faster? I've not actually seen the footage but I seem to recall someone commenting that they kept trying to stand her upright rather than lay her still and cover the wound.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

Tesseraction posted:

Not that she was likely to survive given everything else but didn't they do basically everything you shouldn't do, causing her to bleed out faster? I've not actually seen the footage but I seem to recall someone commenting that they kept trying to stand her upright rather than lay her still and cover the wound.
They yelled "MEDIC! MEDIC!" a whole bunch of times, that was really helpful.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Why didn't the medic activate his über? We're never going to capture the control point at this rate!

Murgos
Oct 21, 2010

FMguru posted:

My favorite detail from the videos of the shooting is how the crowd instantly quiets down once Babbit gets shot. The vibe changes instantly to holy poo poo, they can do that?, which tells you that they really did think 1) they could yell and LARP their way into overthrowing the government and nothing bad would happen to them, and 2) that the cops were essentially on their side and would nod and wink and let them through. Wrong on both counts, chuckleheads.

The only surprising thing to me about the whole Babbit shooting is that she was the only one.

Cops start blasting the when a black man turns to take care of his babby but 300 cops taking bear spray to the face are so disciplined that 6 of them are practically beaten to death and no one even pulls out the piece?

Caros
May 14, 2008

Today is apparently the last day to file pre-trial motions in Georgia, so Trump's team predictably drowned the court in them.

All the usual hits such as 'I am God emperor with super immunity' but my favorite of the bunch is the double jeopardy claim.

https://twitter.com/AnthonyMKreis/status/1744383914318151981?t=FOIXKq3U8O-nr-TSyQ4OKQ&s=19

Essentially 'I can't be convicted because I was already acquitted in the Senate, therefore double jeopardy.

So what does the Constitution say?

https://twitter.com/AnthonyMKreis/status/1744384834594541773?t=T1dEN7ApGmBYla4cJU1Pkw&s=19

Literally that you can still be charged criminally even if convicted by the Senate.

So his needle thin argument is 'I was acquitted by the Senate which means I am immune from. Further Prosecution even though I could have been prosecuted if I were convicted.

That is, of course, not how it works. Not how any of it works.

Xiahou Dun
Jul 16, 2009

We shall dive down through black abysses... and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory forever.



Caros posted:

Today is apparently the last day to file pre-trial motions in Georgia, so Trump's team predictably drowned the court in them.

All the usual hits such as 'I am God emperor with super immunity' but my favorite of the bunch is the double jeopardy claim.

https://twitter.com/AnthonyMKreis/status/1744383914318151981?t=FOIXKq3U8O-nr-TSyQ4OKQ&s=19

Essentially 'I can't be convicted because I was already acquitted in the Senate, therefore double jeopardy.

So what does the Constitution say?

https://twitter.com/AnthonyMKreis/status/1744384834594541773?t=T1dEN7ApGmBYla4cJU1Pkw&s=19

Literally that you can still be charged criminally even if convicted by the Senate.

So his needle thin argument is 'I was acquitted by the Senate which means I am immune from. Further Prosecution even though I could have been prosecuted if I were convicted.

That is, of course, not how it works. Not how any of it works.

This is just a copy+paste of his argument federally, but it makes even less sense because this is a state law.

By which I mean : lol, lmao, rofl.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

FMguru posted:

My favorite detail from the videos of the shooting is how the crowd instantly quiets down once Babbit gets shot. The vibe changes instantly to holy poo poo, they can do that?, which tells you that they really did think 1) they could yell and LARP their way into overthrowing the government and nothing bad would happen to them, and 2) that the cops were essentially on their side and would nod and wink and let them through. Wrong on both counts, chuckleheads.

like watching. they were basicaly smashing the windows in and the cops in front of the door move off to the side, probably because they can clearly here the cops on the other side say "dont cross this line" and then you see her call of duty jump throught the window and them come out a second later because the got blow backward. you can see a bunch of the chuds start backing off really loving quickly then.

Tesseraction posted:

Why didn't the medic activate his über? We're never going to capture the control point at this rate!

she needed trauma team platenum delux super for that level of evac.

Pappyland
Jun 17, 2004

There's no limit to your imagination!
College Slice
Dreading the high probability of a SCOTUS decision summarized as: ‘Trump has criminal immunity in this particular case because it was within the parameters of his office’ - vaporizing a good chunk of the case(s) against him.

Pappyland fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Jan 8, 2024

Fuschia tude
Dec 26, 2004

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2019

Asproigerosis posted:

Throughout his entire presidency it was extremely obvious when it was him tweeting or someone else. The change in diction and verbiage is jarring. I certainly hope at least one of these prosecutors has the slam dunk evidence because I'm so loving tired of this shithead clown. If they meuller this poo poo again....

Mueller's finding was "Yes, here's 10 different ways Trump obstructed justice, preventing us from even determining whether he was personally involved in the underlying crime(s), plus a few more for good measure. Now it's up to Congress to impeach. I cannot personally say the president should be prosecuted because the law and the order creating my position legally bars me from doing so." The problem was Barr's press release about its findings that literally edited them to imply he reached the opposite conclusions of what he actually did, and Congress's reaction to it, not what Mueller said.

Donkringel
Apr 22, 2008

Dapper_Swindler posted:

like watching. they were basicaly smashing the windows in and the cops in front of the door move off to the side, probably because they can clearly here the cops on the other side say "dont cross this line" and then you see her call of duty jump throught the window and them come out a second later because the got blow backward. you can see a bunch of the chuds start backing off really loving quickly then.

Why did the cops move off to the side? I thought they were rioters until I noticed the patches.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Donkringel posted:

Why did the cops move off to the side? I thought they were rioters until I noticed the patches.

there are 3 ccops are blocking the glass doors with the baricades there, i am guessing they got told "we have guys with guns out on the other side, if poo poo gets rough, we dont want you to get shot" they move slightly to the side, the chuds use that oppetunity to go full splicer on all of the pains of glass, the knock the furthest right one out and ashlie goes through, gets wasted. drops back. those cops imdeietly begin to try to save her while the wojack chuds scream MEDIC.

Ynglaur
Oct 9, 2013

The Malta Conference, anyone?

Donkringel posted:

Why did the cops move off to the side? I thought they were rioters until I noticed the patches.

Because they feared for their lives?

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Ynglaur posted:

Because they feared for their lives?

yeah. like i think there is alot of stupid/bad/questionable poo poo the cops did that day and the obvious cavet "if this had been BLM or anyone else the cops would have oppened fire with poo poo and probably bullets way way earlier". the babbit case plus the cops actions there arnt the problem.

Caros
May 14, 2008

Fuschia tude posted:

Mueller's finding was "Yes, here's 10 different ways Trump obstructed justice, preventing us from even determining whether he was personally involved in the underlying crime(s), plus a few more for good measure. Now it's up to Congress to impeach. I cannot personally say the president should be prosecuted because the law and the order creating my position legally bars me from doing so." The problem was Barr's press release about its findings that literally edited them to imply he reached the opposite conclusions of what he actually did, and Congress's reaction to it, not what Mueller said.

Honestly Mueller could have had trump on tape handing Putin us government secrets and it wouldn't move the needle in Congress.

The worst part of Jan 6 for my mental health was watching it fade. You had this tiny window where all but the craziest agreed that poo poo was hosed. Mitch came out and called it an insurrection (even if he didn't have the balls to impeach because he was worried about the mob). That even if you couldn't blame trump, basically anyone who was anyone agrees that the attack itself was unacceptable.

And then day by day it walked back, to the point where a huge chunk of the Republican party has just accepted that no, it was okay to do that.

For a while I thought 'well if he loses in 2024 at least that will break the back of it, but I'm not sure. Will they roll out his bloated corpse in 2032 for a cadaver election?

InsertPotPun
Apr 16, 2018

Pissy Bitch stan

Donkringel posted:

Why did the cops move off to the side? I thought they were rioters until I noticed the patches.
the cops did everything in their power to end the riot as peacefully as possible because they were white fascists, up to an including showing them where to go and taking selfies with them. the police were so polite in fact that "they were polite to us!!" is an exonerating statement lots of them make.

reminds me of all the blood they had to clean off the floor when people in wheelchairs showed up to protest and they were tackled and bodily carried off, helpless and screaming.

Murgos
Oct 21, 2010

Caros posted:

Honestly Mueller could have had trump on tape handing Putin us government secrets and it wouldn't move the needle in Congress.

The worst part of Jan 6 for my mental health was watching it fade. You had this tiny window where all but the craziest agreed that poo poo was hosed. Mitch came out and called it an insurrection (even if he didn't have the balls to impeach because he was worried about the mob). That even if you couldn't blame trump, basically anyone who was anyone agrees that the attack itself was unacceptable.

And then day by day it walked back, to the point where a huge chunk of the Republican party has just accepted that no, it was okay to do that.

For a while I thought 'well if he loses in 2024 at least that will break the back of it, but I'm not sure. Will they roll out his bloated corpse in 2032 for a cadaver election?

Someone knows what was said to people like Mitch to get them to back down from coming down hard on Trump. Blackmail? Threats? Promises of financial reward? All three plus "if you let them make Trump a traitor then no one votes republican again".

edit: I saw a Trump commercial blasting Nikki Haley today and he's basically pulling out the fascism full send. "Hordes invading from the south! Muslims attacking! Be AFRAID! I am the hero you need." and ends with a picture with his arm pointing at the sky, a dumb look on his face and his belly dunloped over his belt because that stance is so awkward.

Murgos fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Jan 8, 2024

Paracaidas
Sep 24, 2016
Consistently Tedious!

Caros posted:

Literally that you can still be charged criminally even if convicted by the Senate.

So his needle thin argument is 'I was acquitted by the Senate which means I am immune from. Further Prosecution even though I could have been prosecuted if I were convicted.

That is, of course, not how it works. Not how any of it works.
Just to clarify: his argument (as I understand it) is that impeachment followed by conviction in the senate is a prerequisite for any criminal charges and, as a part of the process that could lead to criminal charges, has jeopardy attached.

So, in Trump's argued concept of the law:
  • Impeached and convicted by Senate: Can be tried criminally
  • Impeached and not convicted by the Senate: Cannot be tried criminally
  • neither Impeached nor convicted by the Senate: cannot be tried criminally, but not because of Double Jeopardy

It is, as noted, nonsense. It also flies in the face of his arguments during impeachment, which were "acquit because if this is true then it's a criminal matter for the courts"

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Ravenfood
Nov 4, 2011

Murgos posted:

The only surprising thing to me about the whole Babbit shooting is that she was the only one.

Cops start blasting the when a black man turns to take care of his babby but 300 cops taking bear spray to the face are so disciplined that 6 of them are practically beaten to death and no one even pulls out the piece?
Yes, it is amazing what the police can restrain themselves from doing when they think the human-shaped object in front of them is a person.

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