syntaxfunction posted:

I mean, you just google the name in the comic and it tells you the author is a they/them, vegan, feminist, conservative, Catholic pro-lifer.

So basically it's the brony comic again. Kind of boring tbh.

Burning_Monk posted:

It has worked out great for the donors. Literally could not have been better. They have their cake and get to bitch that democrats poisoned it on the news every night.

Coolguye posted:

A thousand goons reflexively post yes without thinking about what that means or considering the ramifications of their post









The ten goons that do also post yes

kazil posted:

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1745824700117176633

Grey Cat posted:

When do we get the fine?

ElectricSheep posted:

listen, don't threaten ME with a good time

kazil posted:

SLICK GOKU BABY posted:

Probably doesn't work if the judge actively doesn't want you to attend the trial in the first place...

kazil posted:

Ok, but does that delay the E Jean Carrol trial now?

Grey Cat posted:

Yeah cancer is complicated, but I've also been seeing a lot of really promising stuff like that for targeting specific types of cancer. There will never be a one shot fits all for cancer, but I think we're in the near future of having very promising treatments for most common types.

TheOneAndOnlyT posted:

The entirety of the Atlantic's reporting both during and after Trump's presidency has been "YOU SHOULD BE MORE AFRAID OF TRUMP AND WHAT HE'S DOING. NO, MORE AFRAID THAN THAT. YOU AREN'T AFRAID ENOUGH!"

The point of the article isn't to encourage people to try to understand Trump and his plucky li'l supporters, it's to get people to stop seeing Trump as an "abstraction" and understand that they should BE MORE AFRAID that he might be reelected. Which might be a reasonable ask in a vacuum, but given the Atlantic's last few years, it's pretty nakedly an attempt to pump up the fear-o-meter so people will buy and read more Atlantic articles about how MORE AFRAID they should be of Trump. This is absolutely an example of the media profiting off the appearance of a close election.

TheOneAndOnlyT posted:

It is in fact possible for different outlets to take different strategies to sell clicks, yes. But both of these strategies require the appearance of a close election.

TheOneAndOnlyT posted:

The post I originally responded to was talking about how the media is very interested in the election appearing close, and someone was trying to use the Atlantic article as a counterexample. I was just explaining why the Atlantic wanted the election to look close too.

The Atlantic is very much not sleepwalking into a Trump victory, but they're definitely the exception rather than the rule.

Three Olives posted:

But just imagine believing yourself to be a competent businessman and just like "Yep, this idiot." Surely Wachtell has at least one very damaged attractive women working for it that wasn't worried about passing the bar exam.

BigBallChunkyTime posted:

And the judge allows it

Coolguye posted:

i forget what page it was people were talking about payments, but to answer that:

in general it's pretty difficult to compel payments from bank accounts, but it does happen. mostly the plaintiff needs to show that the person they're trying to get money from has a known habit of aggressively refusing to pay their bills, which, uh, isn't hard to do in trump's case when he's stiffed many entire CITIES. and at that point you get orders to loot standing money out of their bank accounts (which all have to KYC you so your banks definitely know who you are and can absolutely be compelled to turn over account information to the government), and/or garnish your earnings.

all of that takes a lot of time though so what's most likely to happen is that trump will die in the next 2-ish years and Carrol will have a claim against his estate.

dr_rat posted:

Isn't tree law meant to be one of the most punitive in the US? I remember every time Tree law comes up posters always mention that.

Trump really should commit more tree crimes.

Ouhei posted:

I mean I assume this is all just to put on a show to make MAGA more enraged about how unfair the deep state is being to Trump so they get him re-elected. Realistically that's the only way he escapes being totally hosed by years end.

Ouhei posted:

He doesn't care to actually win, the point is to play victim and hope to try and delay anything as long as possible so he can then try the "well I can't pay/do this, I'm president" defense. There is no chance to win nearly any of these cases (especially the civil ones), so the only play is to play victim for the MAGA crowd.

pixaal posted:

No he hasn't his lawyer has

Hollismason posted:

How much was the first settlement in cash?

Steadiman posted:

I honestly can't follow this at all, it feels like three different conversations mashed up together

Three Olives posted:

Yes, this has been brought up, but I believe others have also brought up that Trump himself has specifically and vigorously argued that he is in fact protected from certain legal actions in his position as an officer conducting official duties, the official duties being calling E. Jean Carroll a lying whore because the fact that he raped her made him look bad. And he raping her is now legally an established legal fact.

edit: Also, SCOTUS saying he is in fact an officer is a really convenient precedent that they are fully allowed to established that says Presidents can do really awful stuff, like how they love qualified immunity so much, but they can't just like assassinate a political rival. It's the kind of fun squishy line that they get to decide over and over again depending on what Harlan Crow brings up on his yacht in Monaco after flying them there on a private plane for an all-expense vacation that they lie about taking.

bird food bathtub posted:

I don't buy for a nanosecond that he did it for moral reasons but I will absolutely nod along to the idea that it was self preservation. If you don't want to be sanctioned, thrown to the wolves to pay for it on your own and then disbarred without being paid for the job as your reward you don't work for Trump.

ishikabibble posted:

Furries already have, that suit is banned from pretty much every convention lmao

winterwerefox posted:

https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/11/nazi-furries-deradicalization-efforts.html

the article posted:

She said, “They’re people without a lot of power in their own lives, so the fandom is a place where you can exert that power. Or at least, you can also find more friendships and connections with other people.” Some Nazi furries, especially those in the higher ranks, really believe they are on a path to a white ethnostate. Others are merely grifting. But a lot of them find themselves trapped.

MrQwerty posted:

It's illegal for him to run as an independent in 47 states at this point