B-Rock452 posted:

Lol kind of unrelated but after the last presidential election I kept drunkenly calling up the trump fraud hotline to report that I saw Gritty running down broad street with a box of ballets and after a bunch of calls some worker burst into tears and just yelled "I'm trying to save America" into the phone

Escape From Noise posted:

We keep losing our majority bit by bit and this is somehow causing a negative impact on our speaker's ability to control outcomes?

SRQ posted:

but 1998 edgy is still topical and cutting comedy right

Toxic Mental posted:

Mod challenge time

Person who guesses closest without going over Trump's fine for his NYC civil trial with the RACIST IG Letitia James gets a gift cert.

People who is closest while going over gets a special one-of-a-kind handmade 6er image courtesy of me.

kazil posted:

kazil posted:

https://twitter.com/BidensWins/status/1745167345331372370

https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/trump-cannot-legally-qualify-for-nevadas-2024-primary-ballot

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Waffle House posted:

Yeah, that's been the thing, there's no real point in Dooming; everything in the whole complex system has been punched around so much that it's in a state of irresistible-force flux.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

loving big brained MAGA

redshirt posted:

How the heck did DeSantis get elected Governor of Florida? I know Florida is Chud Central, but he seems to not have an instinctual political bone in his body. Did he face no competition in Florida? Was his opponent (Republican) that bad?

Beating the Dems, sure, but how did he get nominated?

Jimlit posted:

Honestly though gently caress joe biden. The way he handled Palestine / Isreal definitely cost him my vote and a number of other straight ticket democrats in my circle. You can ignore it or call out CSPAM all you want but the hemorrhaging is real.

Dementropy posted:

https://twitter.com/NotHoodlum/status/1747675622564937940

https://www.newsweek.com/kentucky-bill-sex-first-cousins-not-incest-nick-wilson-1861398

kazil posted:

lawyer bad

John Wick of Dogs posted:

I guess it's relevant to the amount of damages one should receive. If there were a lot of death threats you should get more damages

John Wick of Dogs posted:

This is stuff she deleted before there was ever even a trial

kdrudy posted:

With a hog like that? No way.

rotinaj posted:

Meh, I used to like RC Cola before it got all trendy

Now I only drink vintage cans of OK Cola

Tijuana-A-Go-Go posted:

Is this the one where Habba befriended the victim and convinced her to take a really lovely deal?

kazil posted:

BigBallChunkyTime posted:

I acknowledge this is a stupid question an idiot would ask, but please be gentle.

Why would Johnson get removed over this? Yes, I'm sure he wants it to pass, but wouldn't enough Republicans also vote for it to render the HFC's tantrum irrelevant?

kazil posted:

Oof, this vote is splitting Republican votes hard. Johnson might actually not be safe

Dementropy posted:

I know the Trump brigade has been glomming onto this, but I need some help from the legal folks in this thread.

1. How was this leaked in the first place if it's been under seal?
2. How does this have any bearing on Trump's innocence or guilt?
3. (And this is not a question) - I really hate the recently passed legislation to challenge and remove prosecutors in GA.
4. If she or he is removed, does their discovery evidence still remain for the second string to build upon?

https://twitter.com/AnnaBower/status/1748120424993407019

Blurred posted:

You're not going to get absolved of a crime just because your prosecutor potentially committed a crime as well. If the prosecutor is unfit to take the case to trial, then it just gets handed over to another prosecutor. For this gambit to work, they'd have to demonstrate that they're only being charged with a crime because the DA's office is corrupt, but I think the evidence against them is rather more robust than that. You can get the prosecutor thrown off the case, you might even be able to get the current case dismissed, but I don't think that would be enough to prevent the case from being litigated at all by a different prosecutor.

And I'm not sure there's anything illegal that's taken place here anyway, even assuming the allegations are accurate. It's bullshit that this kind of nepotism can go on, and it should rightly lead us to the conclusion that the world is run by self-serving assholes on behalf of self-serving assholes, but I don't think there are any laws about having a relationship with someone you work with, or giving a plum job to someone you're in a relationship with (even if there should be) so I'm not sure why this should have any legal bearing on this case. I think propriety demands they step down if the allegations are true, but I don't think there's any world in which it means that the case might get thrown out.

quote:

Officers and employees shall avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest. An appearance of a conflict of interest exists when a reasonable person would conclude from the surrounding circumstances that the ability of the officer or employee to protect the public interest or impartially perform a public duty is compromised by financial or personal interests in the matter or transaction. The appearance of a conflict of interest can exist even in the absence of an actual conflict of interest, which exists whenever the officer or employee knows or should know that he or she has an interest that may be affected by his or her official acts or actions.

No officer or employee shall by his or her conduct give reasonable basis for the impression that any person can improperly influence him or her, or unduly enjoy his or her favor, in the performance of any official acts or actions.

Coolguye posted:

that is not the best case scenario at all, and it is not at all a foregone conclusion that the case is hosed or delayed.

even in the case that the allegations prove completely true and willis is dirty (wouldn't surprise me), there's a critical unanswered question there: the gently caress does this have to do with the case at hand?

habba has broken every rule known to lawyerkind and is still up there arguing unrelated cases like nothing's happened while the wheels of justice move slowly. why is it such a foregone conclusion that everything willis has touched is DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED because she's loving a co-worker? what does it have to do with trump, directly? what does it have to do with the charges? the reasoning for removing someone from a case has to go to the case itself or it's just an internal disciplinary problem. if i've missed something that's fine, tell me that and i will apologize, but i will absolutely call out dumb doomerbrains for assuming that justice is swift and sure when it favors trump, but slow and ponderous when it works against him. that's loving ridiculous.

kw0134 posted:

The basic problem with "what if" on the bombings of Nagasaki/Hiroshima is that the alternative was either massive American casualties on the proposed invasion of Honshu, or massive Japanese casualties (we're talking millions) with a tightened blockade and bombing of food transports that would have ensured famine. There's no universe that sees both a political ending of the war that would have been acceptable to the Allies at the time, to the Japanese high command, nor would the continuance of a conventional war suddenly stop resulting in more civilian deaths. This also completely downplays that Japanese forces in occupied lands weren't exactly holding Sunday picnics with the locals, and prolonging the war also prolongs their suffering as well. Real world politics isn't always Manichean black and white to every choice, people think every decision is some Bioware dialog option or something.

Logic Probed posted:

I don't remember if it was Venezuela or not, but I do remember some SA country making a super-prison for the mass amount of gang members in the country and basically placing them there, forcibly if needed. From the footage, it would be a GOPers wet dream with the amount of human rights abuses the guys suffer in there, clearly taking inspiration from places such as Guantanamo Bay. Of course, the citizens were all for it, because these were excessively violent criminals that effectively ran the country until then.

Somehow, I doubt that country would want to create a diplomatic incident by dumping said prisoners into another country, especially one with the means and motive to pull some retaliation down the line!

Froghammer posted:

We have the largest military on the planet, an unfathomable amount of soft power, and routinely sell Israel guns. There are a million things he could be doing.

feelix posted:

Yes

jokes posted:

If I were Biden I would simply diplomacy and solve the porblem: no death and everyone gets along

kazil posted:

Data Graham posted:

Yeah this is why I was calling out the "six million" claim yesterday. Like I mean come on, you're talking a Los Angeles size city moving into the US over the past three years? This doesn't even pass the sniff test and nobody's pushing back on it. I'd thought the immigration numbers were on the order of like 40K/year

BigglesSWE posted:

https://twitter.com/drvolts/status/1750198948948795402?s=46&t=G1x8XWIwrNxUQoXItlkh2w

Failed Imagineer posted:

Way to announce that you'd be a piece of poo poo if you weren't too poor, I guess

Escape From Noise posted:

Yeah, but you'd be sharing that plane with Ron Desantis.

TVs Ian posted:

Wow, that note on the chart. Basically, 2021 is the highest ever because they’re including additional things that didn’t used to be part of the total.

CommieGIR posted:

Again, its important to keep in context - while a large portion may be seeking citizenship, another large portion just makes up seasonal workers who used to come up on migrant visas.

kazil posted:

kazil posted:

NoiseAnnoys posted:

depends, german-style european-ness sucks.

CommieGIR posted:

A lot of those are used by the Department of Defense for things.

kazil posted:

https://ak2.rmbl.ws/s8/2/D/b/P/w/DbPwp.caa.mp4?b=1&u=ummtf

A minute long rant about the E Jean Carroll trial. Closing arguments are today, and deliberation. There's a good chance it wraps up today. I hope they clear his rear end out.

Nocheez posted:

I don't think I've ever seen a defense attorney get so much leverage and continue to push the boundaries. The prosecution really doesn't want to lose any appeals that will surely follow this.

Taeke posted:

lmao my first thread title

Three Olives posted:

Can they not just award a billion dollars? Like, if the courts decide that that is too much, it doesn't mean the judgement is thrown out or there is a new trial, it just means the judge uses their own discretion to reduce the award, right?

Why not just say a billion and let the judge figure out what the absolute maximum they can take from him is?

jokes posted:

didnt they make a video with the rick and morty characters of some dude talking poo poo to a judge and getting like 20 years for contempt?