InsertPotPun posted:

at 19 seconds when he says "thank you" his right eye crosses while his left eye stays still. i've watched it a dozen times and it's loving spooky poo poo. if this was a movie there'd be a music sting

Alan Smithee posted:

what the gently caress man we're not even close to a ruling and you're locking it

Escape From Noise posted:

Raw water is A Thing. The guy behind Juicero is part of the movement.

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Bank: Michigan GOP defaulted on $500K loan, hasn’t made payment in months

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"It's an illusion that (the debt) is a function of the Karamo administration,” her executive director, Jim Copas, told Bridge Michigan on Wednesday. "The Karamo administration has never taken one penny or created one-cent worth of debt with Comerica.”

The Michigan GOP could pay off the debt "tomorrow if we chose to,” Copas said. But the bank has not provided the administration requested details about the loan, and “we’re not convinced it’s legitimate,” he said.

Lifespan posted:

Donald Trump reelected as president of the United States after he incited an insurrection after his first term as president of the United States is less weird than this comment.

nine-gear crow posted:

Just an absolute perfect pair of perfect imbeciles. It's a shame that, you know, they had to try and manage an extremely deadly pandemic and then one of them literally tried to have the other assassinated by an angry mob.

PainterofCrap posted:

They also work to make abortion part of their ‘sacrament’ so that it’s protected from chud laws barring it.

red19fire posted:

12 Angry Inches.

CharlestheHammer posted:

America is weird in that you can’t but your way to the presidency without the backing of one of the two party apparatus. A weird system but hey when our next fash president comes up it will be through good old party politics and not money so there is that

PKMN Trainer Red posted:

Naw I ran it past him he's cool

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'Lied under oath in my courtroom': Judge Engoron email suggests massive penalty for Trump

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Tennessee Man Plotted to Bring Guns and Explosives to the Border, FBI Says

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He showed undercover employees his “war room,” which included a large amount of ammo, a bulletproof vest, and numerous firearms including multiple AR-15s and a Creedmoor rifle, which is popular among snipers. He’d said he was in possession of tannerite, which he said could be “easily converted into claymore mines” according to court documents, and said he knew someone in Tennessee who could make IEDs. He also said he’d planted butane tanks around his property, which he could blow up if law enforcement ever arrived.

Faye has been charged with possession of an unregistered silencer, which was affixed to the 6.5 Creedmoor rifle. The government is seeking Faye’s detention pending the outcome of the trial.

Pirate Radar posted:

The first two seasons have some good parts but the show really struggles to be good when Disney wants it to have an overarching plot and tie in to their six other shows. The best episodes of mandalorian are self-contained plots where he just goes to a planet and finds out the people there have a problem that he can help them with.

Stoatbringer posted:

Speaking of asses, how does the Mandalorian poop in his new tiny space ship?

InsertPotPun posted:

they're making the opposite of "liberal smug face". it's supposed to be the honest face of an honest man honestly listening and honest observing. he's not a liberal elite looking down his nose,, quite the opposite of those libs who draw conclusioins and change facts to fit their narrative, no he's listening and coming to conclusions based on honest, brave common sense. it's the face of the average american. the common clay of the new world. you know. morons.

PKMN Trainer Red posted:

Anders posted:

As a non-American I feel I understand the US political system better than the majority of Americans

Catastrophe posted:

Donald Trump Is the Leeroy Jenkins of the Republican Party

https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-politics/donald-trump-is-the-leeroy-jenkins-of-the-republican-party/

Harry_Potato posted:

In other news 2 out of ten dentists say that meth is actually good for the teeth.

MethMouth:

funeral home DJ posted:

I pray for high-quality microphones in the area to pick up the death shart that is ripped out as his heart finally gives and it becomes the last recording of the dumbest American fascist.

Raku posted:

She's grifting and getting ready to write her memoirs/I told you so book and then be the guest republican on CNN/MSNBC.

Hollismason posted:

He seriously sent a 2 thousand page brief

MrQwerty posted:

so is "TRUMP" officially running against "OBAMNA" now

Stoatbringer posted:

Anyway, here’s Wonderwallmonger.

Toxic Mental posted:

Okay yall need to shut the gently caress up and move on to a new topic cause this sucks

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Doctors report a man from Germany has been vaccinated 217 against the COVID virus with no negative medical symptoms.

A German man who received 217 vaccine doses against the virus that causes COVID-19 in the last 29 months has reportedly shown no side effects, researchers said.

The 62-year-old from Magdeburg, Germany showed no sign of being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 as well.

Researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg said the man received the high number of vaccinations "deliberately and for private reasons".

They had contacted the man after hearing about him from a newspaper and asked if they could undertake tests to examine his body's response to the multiple COVID-19 jabs.

They published their findings in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal this week.

"Our test case was vaccinated with a total of eight different vaccines, including different available mRNA vaccines," Dr Kilian Schober, from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, said in a statement.

“The observation that no noticeable side effects were triggered in spite of this extraordinary hypervaccination indicates that the drugs have a good degree of tolerability," he added.
No signs of compromised immune system

The team found that the man had higher levels of immune cells and antibodies against coronavirus than people in their control group who had received three vaccine doses.

Otherwise, the "hypervaccination" did not lead to the man having a compromised immune system or adverse effects.

A public prosecutor had verified 130 of the vaccinations over nine months as part of an alleged fraud case, but no criminal charges were brought against the man, researchers said.

Another 108 vaccinations were individually recorded with some overlap with those reported by the prosecutor.

The researchers warned that the study only looked at a single case and that they could not generalise conclusions for the public.

"Current research indicates that a three-dose vaccination, coupled with regular top-up vaccines for vulnerable groups, remains the favoured approach. There is no indication that more vaccines are required," said Schober.

"Importantly, we do not endorse hypervaccination as a strategy to enhance adaptive immunity," the authors added in conclusion.

an AOL chatroom posted:

Cut to Alex Jones saying "So now they're saying you need to get the poison shot 217 times for it to be effective without side effects"

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Rudy Giuliani could be forced to sue longtime ally Donald Trump by a group of creditors that the cash-strapped former New York City mayor owes tens of millions of dollars.

The Committee of Unsecured Creditors, which represents individuals and entities to whom Mr Giuliani owes money, are “discussing” making Mr Giuliani file a lawsuit against Trump to get their money, a source close to the matter told The Independent.

The group has had ongoing discussions since early February, the source says, about possible litigation against Mr Trump in an effort to collect $2m in Mr Giuliani’s unpaid legal fees. The disgraced lawyer claims he is owed that amount for his spurious effort to overturn 2020 election results.

Legally, the committee can use the bankruptcy court to compel Mr Guiliani to sue the former president.

That could happen despite Mr Giuliani saying during his recent bankruptcy hearing that he was adamant he was owed by either the Trump campaign or the Republican National Committee – not Mr Trump himself.

“Mayor Giuliani will not be suing President Trump,” Ted Goodman, Mr Giuliani’s political advisor, told The Independent in response to learning that the committee is discussing the potential lawsuit. A Trump spokesperson has not yet replied to a request for comment.

Mr Giuliani’s apparent reluctance to sue his former client would not come as a surprise. The two New Yorkers have had a decades-long bond that culminated in Mr Giuliani advising Mr Trump on his 2016 and 2020 campaign — but $2m worth of unpaid wages could test an already strained partnership.

That $2m figure appears to stem from a verbal agreement between the two men for Mr Guiliani to receive a $20,000 daily rate for legal fees. The $20,000 arrangement was first reported by The New York Times in 2021.

Two other individuals told The Independent that they heard the $20,000 a day arrangement firsthand or had knowledge of the verbal agreement between Mr Trump and Mr Guiliani.

Now, Mr Guiliani’s creditors are exploring multiple avenues to obtain what they are owed, including forcing him to possibly sue the Trump campaign, and/or the Republican National Committee, according to the source close to the matter.

The committee will be seeking evidence of the legal fees agreement between Mr Trump and Mr Giuliani to support pursuing litigation, says the source.

Mr Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2023 after a colossal defamation verdict that ordered the man formerly known as “America’s Mayor” to pay more than $148m to a pair of election workers he falsely accused of manipulating votes in Georgia.

He also faces lawsuits and collections from more than a dozen other parties, including the IRS and city agencies, Dominion Voting Systems, Hunter Biden, and Noelle Dunphy, a former employee who accused him of sexual assault.

Shortly before his bankruptcy hearing last month, Mr Giuliani listed his assets and debts in a court filing and included a “possible claim for unpaid legal fees against Donald J Trump” for an undetermined amount.

During the hearing, Mr Giuliani was asked about this claim. He estimated he was owed $2m for his work. He claimed that he was paid for some legal expenses but “never got a salary.”

“Once I took over, it was my understanding that I would be paid by the campaign for my legal work and my expenses would be paid,” he told the hearing. “When we submitted the invoice for payment, they just paid the expenses. Not all, but most of the expenses. They never paid the [legal fees].”

Mr Giuliani became Mr Trump’s personal lawyer in April 2018. In November 2020, the former New York City mayor then made a nationwide effort to try to overturn Mr Trump’s 2020 election loss.

An email from Giuliani associate Maria Ryan obtained by The New York Times in 2021 was reportedly sent to Trump campaign officials and suggested that Mr Giuliani was going to be paid $20,000 a day for his work.

The email reportedly claims that Mr Giuliani began working on election litigation on 4 November 2020 – one day after Election Day.

Former associate Lev Parnas told The Independent that Mr Giuliani told him in “several conversations” that he and Mr Trump struck up a $20,000-per-day verbal agreement.

Mr Parnas also said that Ms Dunphy, who sits on the creditors committee, was present for a conversation in which Mr Giuliani put Mr Trump on speakerphone as he discussed the $20,000 daily rate. Her lawyers have not responded to The Independent’s request for comment.

In a separate conversation, Mr Parnas remembered Mr Giuliani telling him that the former mayor was “expecting” $2m from then-President Trump.

The $2m figure correlates with the $20,000 day rate over the three-month span between the November 2020 election and February 2021, when Trump adviser Jason Miller said Mr Giuliani is “not currently representing President Trump in any legal matters.”

When pressed during the bankruptcy hearing about whether a written agreement existed for fee payment between the former president and his former lawyer, Mr Giuliani called it a “word-of-mouth situation.”

​​As further evidence, Mr Giuliani referred to two lawyers in his bankruptcy hearing who he said knew about the agreement and also did not receive payments. They did not reply to a request for comment.

Mr Guiliani previously made attempts to recover his wages. His former lawyer, Robert Costello, reached out to at least six attorneys close to the former president regarding the collection of money allegedly owed to Mr Giuliani, the Times reported in 2023.

Mr Costello deferred The Independent’s request to comment to Mr Giuliani’s spokesperson.

Ohio-based bankruptcy attorney Adrienne Hines, who is not associated with the case, explained the process that the creditors committee is undergoing.

After Mr Giuliani identifies his assets — and the people and entities who potentially owe him money — it then becomes the “job” of the committee to “investigate what assets are available, what their values are, who else has claims and where they can get the money from,” according to Ms Hines.

If they believe the claims are “viable” – like the one listed regarding Mr Trump – the committee essentially can “step into the shoes” of the debtor, and can file a lawsuit, try to negotiate a settlement, or pressure him to sue, Ms Hines told The Independent.

Pursuing litigation against Mr Trump would hinge on whether the committee can show that an agreement existed, like a contract, Ms Hines explained.

In this case, that legal fees arrangement allegedly relied on a verbal agreement.

However, the expenses that Mr Giuliani confirmed he had received, which may be proved through checks, wire transfers, or bank statements, could also support that an agreement between the two men had been in place. That could be key to determining which entity owes him.

If the committee forces Mr Giuliani to sue the former president, this could put the former mayor in a bind with his former client. Mr Trump hosted a $100,000-a-plate fundraiser in September 2023 at his Bedminster golf club to help Mr Giuliani pay his legal bills; the event reportedly raised less than $1m across 13 donors.

Attorneys for creditors listed in court documents have deferred comment to lawyers representing the committee, which did not respond to requests from The Independent.

Without legal action, creditors are scrambling to get back what they are owed, with Mr Giuliani reporting assets worth more than $10m — including two properties each valued in the millions, a Mercedes-Benz, and a signed Joe diMaggio shirt — that he could try to sell.

Another lawsuit against the former president would add to mounting legal expenses as Mr Trump seeks the Republican nomination for president. His campaign was forced to spend millions of dollars within the last year on his civil and criminal legal battles, and he faces devastating multimillion dollar judgments for defamation and fraud in New York.

The financial consequences of 2020 election lies has surged past $1bn, with Mr Giuliani’s defamation verdict and related lawsuits, as well as a Fox News settlement with a voting machines company that averted a high profile defamation trial, among other parallel lawsuits.