Judge Cannon Seems Receptive to Trump's Arguments in Fake Classified Documents Prosecution; Trump Posts $175 Million Bond in Fake NY Fraud Prosecution

Via Jazz Shaw, Judge Cannon seems open to Trump's arguments in the (Florida) documents trial.

US judge receptive to Trump documents claims in warning sign for prosecutors
By Andrew Goudsward

WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - A federal judge overseeing the criminal case that accuses Donald Trump of mishandling classified documents has signaled an openness to the former U.S. president's defense claims, in a sign that prosecutors might face a difficult road ahead.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, has asked Trump and prosecutors to propose jury instructions based on two legal scenarios that favor a claim from Trump that national security lawyers said have little relevance to the charges.
Trump and Special Counsel Jack Smith, who brought the case, face a Tuesday deadline to respond to the judge's order.
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At issue in Cannon's recent order is Trump's claim that he treated the documents as personal under a 1978 law that allows former presidents to keep records that have no connection to their official responsibilities.
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She later ordered dueling sets of proposed jury instructions, assuming either that the government would have to prove the records belong to the government, or that neither the judge nor the jury could question Trump's stance that they are personal.
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Mark Zaid, a defense lawyer who has worked on cases involving classified information, said he is unaware of an instance when a document produced by a federal agency was declared a personal record by a president.
Allowing a jury to consider those claims would "give Trump a fighting chance in a jury trial that would never likely exist in another case," Zaid said.

Mark Zaid is a lefty who sides with the left in every case so of course he's the media's go-to guy for commentary.

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Cannon ruled in Trump's favor in a legal challenge to the investigation filed before charges were brought, which was later reversed by a federal appeals court.

She has signaled support for some of Trump's other arguments, including his request for more records from the Biden administration to attempt to build a case that the investigation was politically motivated.

In a setback for Trump's defense, Cannon last month rejected an attempt to invalidate the central charge against him -- willfully retaining classified information. Cannon said Trump's lawyers could raise the issue later, noting it raised arguments "warranting serious consideration."

Matt Margolis at PJMedia thinks Jack Smith's case is "falling apart."

Jack Smith has transferred the evidence, such as it is, from his rogue grand jury investigation in DC to the Florida court.

But Judge Cannon may not be as receptive to tactics such as compelling a lawyer to violate lawyer-client confidentiality as the Banana Republic DC court was.

"Special Counsel Jack Smith could be blocked from using evidence against Donald Trump contained in grand jury investigation files, which were transferred to the former president's Florida classified documents case this week, a former prosecutor has suggested," reports Newsweek. "In 2023, a grand jury in Washington, D.C., heard evidence from witnesses--including Trump's attorney, Evan Corcoran--while considering whether charges should be brought against the former president and others for hoarding classified documents. However, Trump and his co-accused were later indicted in Florida and, under federal rules, the grand jury files were transferred on Monday to Trump-appointed judge, Aileen Cannon's court."
According to former prosecutor Bill Shipley, the transfer of the case from D.C. to Florida gives Judge Cannon control over what evidence can be included--especially testimony that may have violated attorney-client privilege.

@shipwreckedcrew
Yes but....
As I said at the time, because the case wasn't going to be prosecuted in DC, the rulings made as part of the grand jury investigation are not binding on Cannon.
She can exclude Corcoran as a witness by upholding the claim of privilege.
She can preclude SCO Smith from using any evidence she deems was obtained in an improper manner.
That's the risk that Smith ran by conducting the case in the fashion he did.

Finally, Trump has posted the $175 million bond in Tish James' rogue prosecution.

The case now goes through the appeals process -- and some court along the line is going to kill this travesty dead.

Eric Trump
@EricTrump
Bond filed. We look forward to vindicating our rights on appeal.

Even more finally: The Bee.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:25 PM

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1 Finally!

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 02, 2024 12:25 PM (t/2Uw)

2 First?

Posted by: Clay at April 02, 2024 12:25 PM (L3Xg8)

3 Does the judge have security?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2024 12:25 PM (uvymP)

4 Hi Ace.
Still having trouble sleeping?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 02, 2024 12:26 PM (t/2Uw)

5 Thank goodness you are okay Ace!
The horde was starting to get concerned about your welfare.

Oh, and Good Morning!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 02, 2024 12:26 PM (fB38l)

6 And another NY Federal judge accused the FDNY of being racist for booing .

God forgive me I hate these people so much.

Posted by: polynikes at April 02, 2024 12:27 PM (AIm4E)

7 Mslsd/cnn/nbc won't be havin' none of this.

Posted by: BignJames at April 02, 2024 12:27 PM (AwYPR)

8 th!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 02, 2024 12:28 PM (Wnv9h)

9 If the Judge excludes the DC grand jury evidence from the trial it and gives the jury instructions that they can consider the documents as personal under the Presidential Records Act, is all over, the case literally falls apart.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 02, 2024 12:28 PM (QNSds)

10 If vindicated, Trump should sue for interest on his bond.

Only fair since he was going to be charged interest for every day late.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 02, 2024 12:28 PM (Q4IgG)

11 Mark Zaid is a lefty who sides with the left in every case so of course he's the media's go-to guy for commentary.

He was also just on 60 Minutes claiming that "Havana Syndrome" is not psychosomatic at all (as the US government determined), but is rather the fault of the Russian government's evil mind rays.

He "represents" a bunch of the "victims", of course, so he wants a big payday from the US government.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 02, 2024 12:28 PM (YAtuc)

12 PDT will be vindicated on the fraud verdict, most likely. But, the damage to NY real estate will linger.

Not everyone has the time and money to defend against such persecution.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2024 12:28 PM (tT6L1)

13
Slay the Sleigh Kweens, Mr. President!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2024 12:28 PM (xG4kz)

14 see update!

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2024 12:28 PM (KRtlO)

15 Depends on how much dirt the deepstate has on Judge Cannon...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2024 12:29 PM (ynpvh)

16 > Hi Ace.
Still having trouble sleeping?

thanks for asking. I did have trouble last night but I've been sleeping better most nights.

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2024 12:29 PM (KRtlO)

17 see update!
Posted by: ace at April 02, 2024 12:28 PM

Love it!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 02, 2024 12:29 PM (Wnv9h)

18 I think the Bee is taking cruel cues from you, ace.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2024 12:29 PM (tT6L1)

19 That's the risk that Smith ran by conducting the case in the fashion he did.

DOJ is every bit as sloppy as you'd expect from a bunch of woke Millennials. The case they filed against Apple has dozens of errors in basic facts that could've been corrected by looking at Wikipedia, and I'm told the legal parts are just as "novel" as the stuff being pulled against Trump.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2024 12:30 PM (2ocoG)

20 Finally, Trump has posted the $175 million bond in Tish James' rogue prosecution.

The case now goes through the appeals process -- and some court along the line is going to kill this travesty dead.
______
Some of us never learn. Face it, no one gets a verdict he hasn't paid for, and they've got the money. And if that doesn't work, well, they can be reminded that they have a nice fambily, and it would be a shame if something were to happen to them.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2024 12:30 PM (1bNHn)

21 I have very little faith that our legal system is anything but a farce now.

If the ruling class is against you, they'll find the way to turn the law against you. If they're for you, it doesn't matter what the law says.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2024 12:30 PM (JMAcK)

22
see update!
Posted by: ace

LOL

Another deadly skewering by the Babylon Bee!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2024 12:30 PM (xG4kz)

23 All three of the major Presidential candidates since 2016 had retained secret government documents when they left office.

Guess who's the only one being charged.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 02, 2024 12:31 PM (YAtuc)

24 If the ruling class is against you, they'll find the way to turn the law against you. If they're for you, it doesn't matter what the law says.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2024 12:30 PM (JMAcK)
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DA's have long used the process as the punishment. People who are not guilty of the crime charged plead out all the time because they cannot afford the cost of a defense.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2024 12:32 PM (tT6L1)

25 So the Presidential Records Act actually does mean what it says.

How about that?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2024 12:32 PM (LkLld)

26 The Bee brings it.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 02, 2024 12:32 PM (fB38l)

27 Mark Zaid, a defense lawyer who has worked on cases involving classified information, said he is unaware of an instance when a document produced by a federal agency was declared a personal record by a president.

Is he aware of an instance when it wasn't? Has anyone, ever, gone through the documents retained by any former President not named Trump?

Or, for that matter, Vice Presidents, Secretaries of Various Agencies, Senators, Generals, etc.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2024 12:32 PM (uvymP)

28 He was also just on 60 Minutes claiming that "Havana Syndrome" is not psychosomatic at all (as the US government determined), but is rather the fault of the Russian government's evil mind rays.

He "represents" a bunch of the "victims", of course, so he wants a big payday from the US government.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 02, 2024 12:28 PM (YAtuc)

If the Russians had mind rays, wouldn't they use them on people who had minds?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2024 12:32 PM (tkR6S)

29 As enormously important as the next election is, the current state of the judiciary, and the willingness of citizens from particular venues to simply ignore the law, is the larger long-term threat. If we don't get a handle on it, we really are looking at a national breakup. We simply can't have two mutually exclusive systems of justice, with verdicts determined by where you live.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 12:32 PM (CsUN+)

30
Where can Teh Horde buy a judge cannon? Personally, I'd prefer a judge trebuchet, but you take what you can get.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 02, 2024 12:32 PM (n+4am)

31 26 The Bee brings it.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 02, 2024 12:32 PM (fB38l)

The Bee do be ...

Posted by: zombie Miss Barbara at April 02, 2024 12:33 PM (TTAGa)

32 “Tish James.” It’s like we’re all BFFs. Awwwww

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 02, 2024 12:33 PM (as3uC)

33 Is 4-D chess where you can go back in time to make different moves?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 02, 2024 12:33 PM (63Dwl)

34 The important thing is that all this interferes with the government's right to a speedy trial!

Posted by: Left-Wing Law Professors! at April 02, 2024 12:33 PM (YAtuc)

35 If the Russians had mind rays, wouldn't they use them on people who had minds?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2024 12:32 PM (tkR6S)

good point

Posted by: BignJames at April 02, 2024 12:34 PM (AwYPR)

36 This "judge" needs to go all Roland Freisler and harangue the left wing nut jobs who are bringing this case, tell them to pull up their pants and dismiss this nonsense with prejudice and tell them to get the hell out of her courtroom.

Then get out the meat hooks...

You wanna get nuts, let's get nuts.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 02, 2024 12:34 PM (9KyZG)

37 That they are proceeding with Trump's documents case while refusing to bring any charges against Biden is so obviously an illegal selective political prosecution that it would be a casus belli for a civil war imo if he is convicted.

And I don't like Trump.

Posted by: polynikes at April 02, 2024 12:34 PM (AIm4E)

38
The case now goes through the appeals process -- and some court along the line is going to kill this travesty dead.

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I'm unfamiliar with the law: would Trump be able to counter sue to get all his expenses repaid?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 02, 2024 12:34 PM (fB38l)

39 If the Russians had mind rays, wouldn't they use them on people who had minds?

It has been noted that a mind ray that makes US diplomats stupid is redundant.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 02, 2024 12:34 PM (YAtuc)

40 LOL... Gotta love the Bee

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2024 12:35 PM (Akjoo)

41 “Tish James.” It’s like we’re all BFFs. Awwwww
Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 02, 2024 12:33 PM (as3uC)

It's "L'Teesha".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2024 12:35 PM (tkR6S)

42 Jack Smith is an illegally appointed Special Counsel.
Has Trump objected to Smith?
Judge Cannon is not stupid and ignorant of the fact. Why is this case being heard?

Posted by: torabora at April 02, 2024 12:35 PM (2sDku)

43 >>Mark Zaid, a defense lawyer who has worked on cases involving classified information, said he is unaware of an instance when a document produced by a federal agency was declared a personal record by a president.

Mark Zaid, who was also Eric Ciamarella's lawyer during the Ukraine phone call hoax.

It's almost like their is a connection to all this lawfare.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2024 12:35 PM (LkLld)

44 Again, the best analysis of this doc case bullsh*t is by Robert Barnes...

https://tinyurl.com/msvt5a89

Smash cut, they're his documents, he can take his documents and he can do whatever he wants with his documents.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 02, 2024 12:35 PM (XV/Pl)

45 If we don't get a handle on it, we really are looking at a national breakup. We simply can't have two mutually exclusive systems of justice, with verdicts determined by where you live.

Posted by: Archimedes

This.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 02, 2024 12:36 PM (t/2Uw)

46 It's almost like their is a connection to all this lawfare.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2024 12:35 PM (LkLld)

wheels within wheels man

Posted by: The Dude at April 02, 2024 12:36 PM (TTAGa)

47 28 He was also just on 60 Minutes claiming that "Havana Syndrome" is not psychosomatic at all (as the US government determined), but is rather the fault of the Russian government's evil mind rays.

Is there nothing the Russians can't do ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2024 12:36 PM (Akjoo)

48 PDT will be vindicated on the fraud verdict, most likely. But, the damage to NY real estate will linger.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2024 12:28 PM (tT6L1)

As it should. Until the people of NY punish their elected officials for these actions, an unlikely outcome, they need to suffer the consequences of their decisions.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2024 12:37 PM (uvymP)

49 The Russians know their mind rays don't make American diplomats stupider. The rays inflict permanent pain. They're a weapon of war.
No matter what you think of Ukraine, there isn't much daylight between the Soviets and 💩 Tin's Russia.

Posted by: torabora at April 02, 2024 12:38 PM (2sDku)

50 Ohhh goody, $175 Million to split among friends
Signed
NY Consortium

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2024 12:38 PM (oinX8)

51 43 >>Mark Zaid, a defense lawyer who has worked on cases involving classified information, said he is unaware of an instance when a document produced by a federal agency was declared a personal record by a president.

Okay... Now lets do VP Biden...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2024 12:38 PM (Akjoo)

52 >>That they are proceeding with Trump's documents case while refusing to bring any charges against Biden is so obviously an illegal selective political prosecution that it would be a casus belli for a civil war imo if he is convicted.

It's wrong to keep equating what Trump did with what Biden did. I've been saying all along that what Trump did was perfectly legal because he was covered by the Presidential Records Act while Biden never was.

Trump had every right to take the documents he did because as POTUS he was the ultimate declassification authority. When he took them they weren't classified. Biden never had declassification before becoming president. Equating Trump and Biden actually hurts Trump and elevates Biden.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2024 12:38 PM (LkLld)

53 That they are proceeding with Trump's documents case while refusing to bring any charges against Biden is so obviously an illegal selective political prosecution that it would be a casus belli for a civil war imo if he is convicted.

And I don't like Trump.

Posted by: polynikes

John Edwards was right all along. There are two Americas.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 02, 2024 12:38 PM (lTGtQ)

54 Just like RUSSIA (as I handily pointed out in early 2017) all they care about is having the means to harass and control Trump while dictating Narrative and giving the 24/7 news channels something to talk about.

This squeezes any room out for Trump who is a master of media to generate his own narrative (which is in fact *our* narrative) such as what a pile of shit joke we are living in.

So whatever you may believe, how the case actually goes doesn't really matter to the higher ups. They were content with Russia ending on a doddering fool stinking up embarassing joke testimony for three days. Because for two years before that they were all MUELLER IS COMING and IT'S MUELLER TIME.

It's all Narrative Control. 91 FELONIES!!

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2024 12:38 PM (7RYS8)

55 It's almost like their is a connection to all this lawfare.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2024 12:35 PM (LkLld)

ees like Matryoshka doll no

Posted by: Boris and Natasha at April 02, 2024 12:38 PM (TTAGa)

56 A banana republic, if you can keep it.

Posted by: And it'll get worse, just wait at April 02, 2024 12:40 PM (pFhjh)

57 It's "L'Teesha That’s me a few emails SQUIRREL

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 02, 2024 12:40 PM (as3uC)

58 That's the risk that Smith ran by conducting the case in the fashion he did.

DOJ is every bit as sloppy as you'd expect from a bunch of woke Millennials. The case they filed against Apple has dozens of errors in basic facts that could've been corrected by looking at Wikipedia, and I'm told the legal parts are just as "novel" as the stuff being pulled against Trump.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2024

***
We are lucky that our opponents are so rarely super-geniuses.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 02, 2024 12:40 PM (J2vNu)

59 One day, these Hunter Biden masterworks will definitely fetch a high price on their own value, as expensive curios for wealthy history buffs who want relics from a dead empire.

Some future Clive Underwood Cuthbertson-Klein IV will show it off in his parlor. "It's a Hunter Biden original, Maeve!" "Ooooh, scandalous! You're such a a rogue, Clive, hahaha."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2024 12:40 PM (0FoWg)

60 Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2024 12:38 PM (LkLld)

It's not wrong to make the comparison of selective prosecution at all . And that you don't see that is part of the problem in convincing the LIV.

Posted by: polynikes at April 02, 2024 12:41 PM (AIm4E)

61 @50

>>Ohhh goody, $175 Million to split among friends
Signed NY Consortium

Well, yeah, there is no aggrieved party so LeTit Hames's office get that money to dole out how she sees fit.

This was always an Op to expropriate Trumps wealth and property under the color of law.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 02, 2024 12:41 PM (XV/Pl)

62 "Not Evidence": Federal Judge Denies Hunter Biden Motions To Dismiss Tax Charges In Stinging Rebuke

Hunter Biden has been arguing that he is the victim of selective prosecution despite a documented history of receiving special treatment as the son of the President. However, he has proven a key witness against himself in swatting down defenses raised by his counsel and publishing self-incriminating facts in his book.

Posted by: Harry Reid at April 02, 2024 12:41 PM (RHGPo)

63 There isn't two Americas. There is one America and we ain't in it.

*Zombie George Carlin

Posted by: Just Lily at April 02, 2024 12:42 PM (I8uyj)

64 Some of us never learn. Face it, no one gets a verdict he hasn't paid for, and they've got the money. And if that doesn't work, well, they can be reminded that they have a nice fambily, and it would be a shame if something were to happen to them.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2024 12:30 PM (1bNHn)

1. Eventually the case will move outside NY which will change the calculus.
2. The appeals will not be exhausted prior to the election. Once the election is over there will be no reason to go to such extra-legal means to stop Trump.
3. Short of Musk, there basically aren't any really rich guys who would even consider crossing the deep state and everyone else can be compromised... one way or the other.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2024 12:42 PM (uvymP)

65 John Edwards was right all along. There are two Americas.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 02, 2024 12:38 PM
(lTGtQ)

If states can secede...can states kick other states out of the union?...say NY, Ca., Ill?

Posted by: BignJames at April 02, 2024 12:42 PM (AwYPR)

66 Finally, Trump has posted the $175 million bond in Tish James' rogue prosecution.

The case now goes through the appeals process -- and some court along the line is going to kill this travesty dead.

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Trump will then get his $175 million back with interest equal to inflation plus the return on the S&P 500, amirite?

/BTW, Trump RNC launches website: bidenbloodbath.com

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 02, 2024 12:42 PM (4XzUP)

67 If we don't get a handle on it, we really are looking at a national breakup. We simply can't have two mutually exclusive systems of justice, with verdicts determined by where you live.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 12:32 PM (CsUN+)

We've already had the breakup. But only one side seems to know it.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2024 12:42 PM (7RYS8)

68 If we don't get a handle on it, we really are looking at a national breakup. We simply can't have two mutually exclusive systems of justice, with verdicts determined by where you live.

Posted by: Archimedes

This.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 02, 2024
*****
I don't understand why the left wants a system of justice based solely on negative outcomes against their political foes.
Where prosecution trumps persuasion at the polls.

Politics morphs over the decades and they're going to be in the minority someday. Do they want the system they are building to work against themselves?

They must be suicidal.

Posted by: torabora at April 02, 2024 12:43 PM (2sDku)

69 I am now writing short novels.

Look, a Bird

by H. Biden

The man saw a bird.
"Look," the man said, "a bird."

I got a $760k advance on that one from Ching Tsoa Jiap for that on.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at April 02, 2024 12:43 PM (LaNzR)

70 We are lucky that our opponents are so rarely super-geniuses.

Speaking of which:
PolitiFact Ridiculously Calls Babylon Bee Satire Piece About Transportation Secretary Buttigieg 'False'

Here's the BB piece:
Buttigieg Praises Cargo Ship For Helping Dismantle Racism In American Roads https://buff.ly/43CXyF8

https://tinyurl.com/3b3px6zz

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 12:43 PM (CsUN+)

71 >>It's not wrong to make the comparison of selective prosecution at all . And that you don't see that is part of the problem in convincing the LIV.

The problem is that Trump never committed a crime. Biden did. There was never any basis to prosecute Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2024 12:43 PM (LkLld)

72 The Russians know their mind rays don't make American diplomats stupider. The rays inflict permanent pain. They're a weapon of war.

The US government determined that "Havana Syndrome" was merely mass hysteria, of which there are many, many, historical examples.

People on 60 Minutes also claimed that the Russian mind rays also affected computers, and that these "directed energy weapons" are so light and portable that they could successfully be used by Russian spies against American diplomatic targets in Washington and other NATO capitals without anyone noticing the spies doing this.

Uh, huh.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 02, 2024 12:43 PM (YAtuc)

73 61 color of law

That’s “law of color,” H8r!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 02, 2024 12:43 PM (9yWhg)

74 Nothing in Lefty circles on these decisions yet, but this one is starting to get some traction:

NPR: federal judge says migrants can sue the company that flew them to Martha's Vineyard. migrants flown from Texas to Martha's Vineyard in 2022 can proceed with a lawsuit against the Florida company that took them there. The judge also dismissed claims against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other officials named in the suit.

It's a Boston law firm (Lawyers for Civil Rights - LCR) that has launched a number of similar lawsuits. They don't charge the plaintiffs. DeSantis was a target of the lawsuit - but his part was dismissed.

They may also be eligible for legal residence (Green Cards). Regulations allow for such if the undocumented person is a victim of a crime. The crime was kidnapping. This was reported on D.U. by someone after the news stories of their arrival on Martha's Vineyard.

Good! Hit 'em where they understand the repercussions; The Wallet. Even if the plane and bus companies win the case, they lose a lot of $money$ defending them selfs. Hopefully they will think twice before engaging in this tomfoolery!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 02, 2024 12:44 PM (JCZqz)

75 @68

>>They must be suicidal.

Or they believe they are approaching total control and power.

The coming Presidential election may really be the last election in any traditional sense of the word.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 02, 2024 12:44 PM (XV/Pl)

76 I don't understand why the left wants a system of justice based solely on negative outcomes against their political foes.
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Because they believe they have seized (and pounced) enough reins of power to safely make it reality. Are they wrong?

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2024 12:44 PM (7RYS8)

77 I don't understand why the left wants a system of justice based solely on negative outcomes against their political foes.
Where prosecution trumps persuasion at the polls.

Politics morphs over the decades and they're going to be in the minority someday. Do they want the system they are building to work against themselves?

They must be suicidal.

1) They assume they will never lose power, because they'll make sure they don't.
2) They're really stupid.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 12:45 PM (CsUN+)

78 New hash check.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2024 12:45 PM (nR2nR)

79 Funny, it's always the Russians... Never China or Iran or North Korea, but the Russians... And Trump... The Russians and Trump

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2024 12:45 PM (Akjoo)

80 Just like RUSSIA (as I handily pointed out in early 2017) all they care about is having the means to harass and control Trump while dictating Narrative and giving the 24/7 news channels something to talk about.

Posted by: ...

They can't stop talking about Trump, but they can restrict it to talking about Trump the criminal who has so many indictments that he must be guilty of something.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 02, 2024 12:45 PM (lTGtQ)

81 Whoa. 75-76-77 Horde Mind

Or just the truth.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2024 12:46 PM (7RYS8)

82 C'mon man! The left isn't corrupt. They haven't yet hired Hunter Biden to work on one of the networks' news shows.

(How long before that happens?)

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2024 12:46 PM (1bNHn)

83 @76

>>Are they wrong?

We are going to find out pretty quick the extent and contours of their power.

I would stock up on ammo.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 02, 2024 12:46 PM (XV/Pl)

84 Politics morphs over the decades and they're going to be in the minority someday.

They don't intend to be "in the minority" ever again - they intend to hold on to power, whatever it takes to do that.

They will do a coup to keep Trump out of office if necessary, but they think that they can steal (er - "fortify") the election before they have to do that.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 02, 2024 12:46 PM (YAtuc)

85 The left will burn the country to the ground before they relinquish power.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2024 12:47 PM (tT6L1)

86 >>Funny, it's always the Russians... Never China or Iran or North Korea, but the Russians... And Trump... The Russians and Trump

And Ukraine.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2024 12:47 PM (LkLld)

87 Where is the douchebag troll from the last thread? We need to be reminded that Trump Is Bad.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2024 12:47 PM (1bNHn)

88 When the truth about the Democrat/Uniparty connection to Russia comes out, I swear it's gonna be a fucking doozy.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2024 12:47 PM (7RYS8)

89 85 The left will burn the country to the ground before they relinquish power.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2024 12:47 PM (tT6L1)

I don't doubt they will try

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2024 12:48 PM (Akjoo)

90 $176 million for illegals and democrat politicians…. But mostly democrat politicians.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at April 02, 2024 12:48 PM (17s+e)

91 Where is the douchebag troll from the last thread? We need to be reminded that Trump Is Bad.

I didn't remember him as a troll. His stuff today seemed uncharacteristic.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 12:48 PM (CsUN+)

92 there isn't much daylight between the Soviets and 💩 Tin's Russia.

And you base this statement on what?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2024 12:48 PM (nR2nR)

93 91 Where is the douchebag troll from the last thread? We need to be reminded that Trump Is Bad.

I didn't remember him as a troll. His stuff today seemed uncharacteristic.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 12:48 PM (CsUN+)

What did I miss ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2024 12:49 PM (Akjoo)

94 There is one flaw that always keeps the left from total control. They ALWAYS overreach, and always believe they are closer to their Imagine Land than they are.

Were that not so, we'd have been wiped out ages ago.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2024 12:49 PM (1bNHn)

95 What did I miss ?

Diesel Jones, Biologist, was slagging on Trump for no apparent reason.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 12:49 PM (CsUN+)

96 Where is the douchebag troll from the last thread? We need to be reminded that Trump Is Bad.
Posted by: Eeyore

Bin Diesel?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 02, 2024 12:49 PM (fB38l)

97 F*ck Jack Smith and Tisha James among others.
Find something better to do.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2024 12:49 PM (v0R5T)

98 95 What did I miss ?

Diesel Jones, Biologist, was slagging on Trump for no apparent reason.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 12:49 PM (CsUN+)

I don't know this one... Must not be here often..

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2024 12:50 PM (Akjoo)

99 92 there isn't much daylight between the Soviets and 💩 Tin's Russia.

And you base this statement on what?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2024 12:48 PM (nR2nR)

*comes back to the HQ*

They said it again!! Oo! Oo! Ooooooo!!!

*runs away again*

Posted by: The Girl Who Can't Stand to Hear the Word 'Tin' at April 02, 2024 12:50 PM (T+Iwg)

100 91 Where is the douchebag troll from the last thread? We need to be reminded that Trump Is Bad.

I didn't remember him as a troll. His stuff today seemed uncharacteristic.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 12:48 PM (CsUN+)
______
Honestly, I don't remember him at all, until this morning. I'm just here right now waiting for a handyman.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2024 12:50 PM (1bNHn)

101 I seem to remember that Canadian diplomats in Havana complained about "Havana syndrome", too. But really, if you were a socialist True Believer, and got sent to a diplomatic post in Havana, wouldn't cognitive dissonance eventually break you mind?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2024 12:50 PM (tkR6S)

102 Government intrusion is every day life has gotten so blatant that even the normies are starting to notice. Natural gas ban in Berkeley overturned. It was the first in the country. Will Washington State get away with it? Will EV mandates ever actually take effect? Since Biden's infrastructure bill which was supposed to build EV charging stations took effect, a grand total of 7 have been built.
The cost of all this lawfare is incalcuable combined with the cost of the illegal invasion has become impossible to ignore.
Michelle Obama polling no better than Biden versus Trump. This says to me that it is Dem policies, not personality, that is driving the middle towards the right.
Maybe we have reached a tipping point.
(I wonder how many times I've posted that last line)

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 02, 2024 12:51 PM (t/2Uw)

103 9 If the Judge excludes the DC grand jury evidence from the trial it and gives the jury instructions that they can consider the documents as personal under the Presidential Records Act, is all over, the case literally falls apart.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 02, 2024 12:28 PM (QNSds)

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It's not like Trump hired Two College Hunks to pack up and move from the WH. It was a complete government operation. Trump has every right to assume the government will identify and segregate paperwork that they deem government property.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 02, 2024 12:52 PM (2fIO4)

104 there isn't much daylight between the Soviets and 💩 Tin's Russia.

Or Ivan the Terrible's Russia, or Peter the Great's Russia, or Catherine the Great's Russia...

They always have been ruled by autocrats, and probably always will be.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 02, 2024 12:52 PM (9yWhg)

105 am now writing short novels.

Look, a Bird

by H. Biden

The man saw a bird.
"Look," the man said, "a bird."

I got a $760k advance on that one from Ching Tsoa Jiap for that on.
Posted by: Hunter Biden
......

You're hallucinating again Hunter. Birds are not real.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2024 12:52 PM (v0R5T)

106 If the judge married Henry Luce of Time Magazine fame, she would be Aileen Luce-Cannon.

Posted by: Sam Brinton at April 02, 2024 12:52 PM (w9Wax)

107 The Critical Drinker posts a good bye video.

https://tinyurl.com/52878nfk

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 02, 2024 12:52 PM (FVME7)

108 Sock off.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 02, 2024 12:52 PM (T+Iwg)

109 Diesel Jones, Biologist, was slagging on Trump for no apparent reason.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 12:49 PM (CsUN+)

I don't know this one... Must not be here often..
Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2024 12:50 PM (Akjoo)

Diesel Jones has been a Moron for a long time. He was having a bad day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2024 12:52 PM (tkR6S)

110 Maybe we have reached a tipping point.
(I wonder how many times I've posted that last line)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 02, 2024 12:51 PM (t/2Uw)

Pendulums do swing back and forth.

Posted by: Montec at April 02, 2024 12:52 PM (4+s9S)

111 Abe Lincoln: [cross-examining Cass] J. Palmer Cass.
John Palmer Cass: Yes, sir.
Abe Lincoln: What's the "J" stand for?
John Palmer Cass: John.
Abe Lincoln: Anyone ever call you Jack?
John Palmer Cass: Yeah, but...
Abe Lincoln: Why "J. Palmer Cass?" Why not "John P. Cass?"
John Palmer Cass: Well, I...
Abe Lincoln: Does "J. Palmer Cass" have something to hide?
John Palmer Cass: No.
Abe Lincoln: Then what do you part your name in the middle for?
John Palmer Cass: I got a right to call myself anything I want as long as it's my own name!
Abe Lincoln: Well then if it's all the same to you, I'll call you Jack-cass.
[Roar of laughter from spectators]

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

Posted by: Harry Reid at April 02, 2024 12:52 PM (RHGPo)

112 Dyan Cannon had some nice hooters.

Posted by: Is it a boob thread yet? at April 02, 2024 12:53 PM (dg+HA)

113 The SoKs are making some progress on fusion.

‘Artificial sun’ sets record for time at 100 million degrees in latest advance for nuclear fusion

https://tinyurl.com/3sfb742k

Yeah, yeah, the energy of the future and always will be....

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 12:53 PM (CsUN+)

114 If the Russians had mind rays, wouldn't they use them on people who had minds?

The Force has a strong influence on the weak minded.

Posted by: Obi Wan Kenobi at April 02, 2024 12:53 PM (yOPBE)

115 I don't know this one... Must not be here often..
Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2024 12:50 PM (Akjoo)

Diesel Jones has been a Moron for a long time. He was having a bad day.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2024 12:52 PM (tkR6S)

Then I guess I'm not here often

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2024 12:53 PM (Akjoo)

116 God bless JK Rowling.

When Scotland came out with a new hate crime law, she dared officials to arrest her by posting a multi tweet takedown of several high profile trannies. Scotland officials declared the posts, "not criminal." Many people seem to be of the belief this is because she is very wealthy and high profile.

http://tiny.cc/et8mxz

Well, JK has an answer to that. She pledges to copy the post of any woman officials charge under this new law, lending her profile and wealth to their cause.

http://tiny.cc/it8mxz

Posted by: bonhomme at April 02, 2024 12:53 PM (Odg76)

117 Biden set to sell up to 50 F-15 fighter jets to Israel for $18 billion in biggest arms sale to Tel Aviv since start of war against Hamas

- Sale would also include munitions and training
- Move expected to spark heated debate in Congress
- F-15s may not arrive in Israel for several years

Posted by: SMOD at April 02, 2024 12:53 PM (RHGPo)

118 Dyan Cannon had some nice hooters.
Posted by: Is it a boob thread yet?

Oh yeah!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 02, 2024 12:54 PM (9yWhg)

119 I see that my alma mater just won the women's NCAA swimming championship. I wonder how many have penises.

The coeds didn't have them in my day. At least, I checked a few, and wanted to inspect more. I confess that such virtue as I maintained in the 1970s was entirely because of incompetence on my part. I wanted to be worse.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2024 12:54 PM (1bNHn)

120 When Obama first took office he famously sent Hillary, his SOS, to make nice with Russia and talking about a new era of detente. Got off to a bit of a rocky start with the idiotically misspelled Reset button but they kept at it.

When it looked like Ukraine was going to side with Russia in a trade deal over the west, western countries and intel agencies ran a coup in 2014 and replaced the Ukrainian government with one more friendly to the west. The CIA has been helping run the country ever since. And Putin is well aware of all of it.

So along comes Trump and he wanted no part of the uniparty, decades long game of regime change. He was more interested in MAGA. So they tarred him up with a Russia hoax to cover their tracks based largely on crap they dug up in Ukraine and here we are.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2024 12:54 PM (LkLld)

121 95 What did I miss ?

-
Please. "What did I Ms. ?"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 02, 2024 12:55 PM (FVME7)

122 117 Biden set to sell up to 50 F-15 fighter jets to Israel for $18 billion in biggest arms sale to Tel Aviv since start of war against Hamas

So taking up with Hamas sympathizers must not be reaping the expected votes..

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2024 12:55 PM (Akjoo)

123 Afternoon ace. Read a couple of articles indicating that Smith is trying to figure out ways to get Cannon removed from the case. These people want everything stacked in their favor

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 02, 2024 12:55 PM (Fol4f)

124 Pendulums do swing back and forth.

So do En-gah-lend.

Posted by: Zombie Roger Miller at April 02, 2024 12:55 PM (/y8xj)

125 Michelle Obama polling no better than Biden versus Trump. This says to me that it is Dem policies, not personality, that is driving the middle towards the right.
Maybe we have reached a tipping point.
(I wonder how many times I've posted that last line)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 02, 2024 12:51 PM (t/2Uw)

You may not like to hear this, but it's Trump. He is still our voice and without his existence we would be looking at a lambasting of another "compassionate conservative" like Nikki Haley who will promise to only let in 10,000 "migrants" a day while "securing the border" and "fixing social security".

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2024 12:55 PM (7RYS8)

126 If we don't get a handle on it, we really are looking at a national breakup. We simply can't have two mutually exclusive systems of justice, with verdicts determined by where you live.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 12:32 PM (CsUN+)

A jury of your peers? I see 3 of the four 4 criminal trials playing out like this -

A. Response to a voir dire question by everyone selected for the juries in Trump criminal trials in NYC, DC, and Atlanta: "No, I've never heard or read anything about this case before today. I am not biased."

B. All the same jurors in the Jury Rooms after getting the cases from the judges: "I've been itching to be able to convict Trump for years! Every night I listen to Rachel Maddow describe how guilty he is! We don't need to deliberate, let's vote guilty now and stall in here playing cards for a while to make it look good to the judge."

Posted by: Gref at April 02, 2024 12:56 PM (5fDan)

127 It’s possible that you could soon be flying into, out of or through Donald J. Trump International Airport. H.R.7845 — “To designate the Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia as the ‘Donald J. Trump International Airport'” — was introduced in the Republican-controlled House on Friday. The bill was immediately referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, which is chaired by Missouri Republican Rep. Sam Graves.

Posted by: SMOD at April 02, 2024 12:56 PM (RHGPo)

128 Michelle Obama polling no better than Biden versus Trump. This says to me that it is Dem policies, not personality, that is driving the middle towards the right.
Maybe we have reached a tipping point.
(I wonder how many times I've posted that last line)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 02, 2024 12:51 PM (t/2Uw)

You may not like to hear this, but it's Trump.

There's no reason not to embrace the healing power of "and".

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 12:56 PM (CsUN+)

129 Or they believe they are approaching total control and power.

Remember when they thought that starting in 2010 or so and didn't wake up until Trump had won? Good times.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2024 12:57 PM (2ocoG)

130 Jury nullification. Do it.

Posted by: Montec at April 02, 2024 12:57 PM (4+s9S)

131 119 I see that my alma mater just won the women's NCAA swimming championship.

Smash the matriarchy!

Posted by: Feminazis everywhere at April 02, 2024 12:57 PM (dg+HA)

132 Biden set to sell up to 50 F-15 fighter jets to Israel for $18 billion in biggest arms sale to Tel Aviv since start of war against Hamas

We still have F-15s?

Posted by: Oddbob at April 02, 2024 12:57 PM (/y8xj)

133 Then I guess I'm not here often
Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2024 12:53 PM (Akjoo)

He's never been a prolific poster, but he's been here with the Diesel Jones nic for a few years.

And unlike a troll, he engaged fairly cordially with those who disagreed with him, and then withdrew.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2024 12:58 PM (tkR6S)

134 "Trump has every right to assume the government will identify and segregate paperwork that they deem government property."

My understanding is that Trump could take anything and declassify it for his own use. Perhaps the government could request some documents be retained, but Trump was The Executive will all authority.

What was the FBI really searching for? Evidence of their own crimes perhaps, or maybe they just wanted to Get Trump on anything, or embarrass him with anything they could find.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2024 12:58 PM (Cus5s)

135 There are a few prominent leftards that aren't simultaneously idiots or scumbags and Rowling appears to be one of them.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2024 12:58 PM (7RYS8)

136 They always have been ruled by autocrats, and probably always will be.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 02, 2024 12:52 PM (9yWhg)

Compare and contrast with THE Ukraine - who outlawed opposition parties, or Poland - who started arresting opposition leaders, or Germany - which is considering outlawing opposition parties, etc.

It's fashionable to dump on Russia because they were the bad guys in our youth, the media tells us that they're still the bad guys - at least since they banned Russian orphans from being adopted by western homosexuals, and the people seem more serious about their religion than most westerners find comfortable.

The best way to deal with Russia is to not go out of our way to antagonize them. Who gives a shit if their leader is an autocrat?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2024 12:58 PM (nR2nR)

137 So IAD becomes DJT?

Posted by: FAA Bureaucracy at April 02, 2024 12:58 PM (dg+HA)

138 Dyan Cannon had some nice hooters.
Posted by: Is it a boob thread yet?

***
Cary Grant's last wife, and the only one he had a child with: Jennifer Grant is also an actress. She looks very much like her mom in the face.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 02, 2024 12:59 PM (J2vNu)

139 How much is PDT our voice? The man had the chutzpah to defy the ruling class and give a Medal of Freedom to one of the men most hated by the GOPe: The late Rush Limbaugh.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2024 12:59 PM (tT6L1)

140 127 It’s possible that you could soon be flying into, out of or through Donald J. Trump International Airport.

—

That’s Reagan National right? Nah I prefer it stay that way.

And unless the goo gets 75 seats in the senate that is never happening anyway.

Posted by: Montec at April 02, 2024 12:59 PM (4+s9S)

141 Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2024 12:58 PM (Cus5s)

They knew the Biden Classified Doc debacle was going to break. They knew Trump or people loyal to Trump knew about it and were going to deploy it for the election.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2024 12:59 PM (7RYS8)

142 I find the 'Paint on Canvas' particularly intriguing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 02, 2024 12:59 PM (XeU6L)

143 We still have F-15s?
Posted by: Oddbob

Slightly used, like-new condition with few minor imperfections.

Posted by: Amazon Returns at April 02, 2024 12:59 PM (w9Wax)

144 Meanwhile, hot Columbian pop singer Shakira has attracted the ire of the left for mentioning that her sons found the Barbie movie emasculating. Which was the stated intent of the movie from everything I've heard.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2024 01:00 PM (2ocoG)

145 107 The Critical Drinker posts a good bye video.

https://tinyurl.com/52878nfk
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 02, 2024 12:52 PM (FVME7)
______
April Fool.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2024 01:00 PM (1bNHn)

146 I've never seen the Diesel Jones nic.
When I saw the post this popped into my head:
Drivin that train
High on cocaine.
Diesel Jones you better watch your speed.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 02, 2024 01:00 PM (t/2Uw)

147 Biden Assures Iran It "Had No Involvement" In Embassy Strike As IDF Claims Only A 'Military Building' Hit

Carried out by F-35 fighter jets which fired 6 missiles at the consular building.

... sure seems like Joe Biden doesn't do shit .. so who does ?

Posted by: SMOD at April 02, 2024 01:00 PM (RHGPo)

148 The best way to deal with Russia is to not go out of our way to antagonize them. Who gives a shit if their leader is an autocrat?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2024 12:58 PM (nR2nR)
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Gosh, that seems like a big part of PDT's foreign policy. Almost like PDT knew something about dealing with people.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2024 01:01 PM (tT6L1)

149 I see the Market isn't happy. They say it's because the economy is so good they might not lower interest rates... They actually said that

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2024 01:01 PM (Akjoo)

150 The best way to deal with Russia is to not go out of our way to antagonize them. Who gives a shit if their leader is an autocrat?

Right. All other things being equal, they're a non-entity in global politics. The global Left seems bound and determined to make them a thing though.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2024 01:01 PM (2ocoG)

151 Trying to change the name of Dulles, not Reagan.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 02, 2024 01:02 PM (t/2Uw)

152 RIP Count Floyd.

Posted by: davidt at April 02, 2024 01:02 PM (SYTee)

153
He's never been a prolific poster, but he's been here with the Diesel Jones nic for a few years.

And unlike a troll, he engaged fairly cordially with those who disagreed with him, and then withdrew.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2024 12:58 PM

I didn't engage with him as I also remember the nic. Some people are having (understandably) a tough time right now and this year is going to require finishing the last bites of the shit sandwich we got served.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 02, 2024 01:02 PM (RKVpM)

154 The best way to deal with Russia is to not go out of our way to antagonize them. Who gives a shit if their leader is an autocrat?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I agree completely.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 02, 2024 01:02 PM (9yWhg)

155 —

That’s Reagan National right? Nah I prefer it stay that way.

And unless the goo gets 75 seats in the senate that is never happening anyway.
Posted by: Montec at April 02, 2024 12:59 PM (4+s9S)

Dulles, not Reagan. A horrible, horrible place.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 02, 2024 01:02 PM (T+Iwg)

156 Mslsd/cnn/nbc won't be havin' none of this.
Posted by: BignJames at April 02, 2024 12:27 PM (AwYPR)

Prepare for more video of more talking heads throwing more papers in the air in frustration.

Are you not entertained?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 02, 2024 01:02 PM (FCbAQ)

157 Google Settles 'Incognito' Suit, Commits To Wiping User

Tech giant Google has agreed to settle with plaintiffs who alleged that the company invaded users’ privacy by tracking online activities even when they were using Chrome browser’s private incognito mode.

Posted by: SMOD at April 02, 2024 01:02 PM (RHGPo)

158 >>Funny, it's always the Russians... Never China or Iran or North Korea, but the Russians... And Trump... The Russians and Trump

And Ukraine.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2024 12:47 PM (LkLld)

Well, Russians have replaced "Leningrad" with "St.Petersburg" and "Stalingrad" with "Volgograd" since the Second Revolution. Not to mention that the ruthless autocrat Vladimir Putin countenanced the reburial of the Romanovs with a state funeral. That puts a burr under the saddle of the United Marxist Front. And the US Left seems to think that after nearly fifty years of the Cold War, typecasting the Russians as "evil" would be easy-peasy with the conservatives (not withstanding the Walter Duranty wing of the Dem Party's loyalty to the Marxist Brand during that time). The American People are getting antsy about the war klaxons sounding from Kalomara, especially after the Kabul Debacle. I think it's too late for Michelle.

Posted by: mrp at April 02, 2024 01:02 PM (rj6Yv)

159 144 Meanwhile, hot Columbian pop singer Shakira has attracted the ire of the left for mentioning that her sons found the Barbie movie emasculating. Which was the stated intent of the movie from everything I've heard.
_______
That is not a truth universally acknowledged. There is a sizeable minority on the right that thinks it an unintentional attack on feminism. Off hand, I know that both Michael Knowles and Carl Benjamin (Sargon) are in that camp.

I saw it, and think they have a point.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2024 01:03 PM (1bNHn)

160 > Yeah, yeah, the energy of the future and always will be....

They managed to keep burning plasma contained for 48 seconds. That's incredible! Will they ever manage to make this a viable source of energy production, who knows? Until then, they basically held onto a bolt of lightning for 0.8 minutes, an amazing achievement.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 02, 2024 01:03 PM (Odg76)

161 112 Dyan Cannon had some nice hooters.
Posted by: Is it a boob thread yet?

https://tinyurl.com/yh3df7a4

While this waif may not be the most chesticly endowed, she rocks a pantsuit a million times better than Hillary!, the nearest pantsuit competition.

Posted by: Poe Dameron stalling General Hux with Yo Mama jokes was part of an elaborate... at April 02, 2024 01:03 PM (JCZqz)

162 154 The best way to deal with Russia is to not go out of our way to antagonize them

The best way to win is to not play the game at all

Posted by: Josua at April 02, 2024 01:03 PM (Akjoo)

163 134 "Trump has every right to assume the government will identify and segregate paperwork that they deem government property."

My understanding is that Trump could take anything and declassify it for his own use. Perhaps the government could request some documents be retained, but Trump was The Executive will all authority.

What was the FBI really searching for? Evidence of their own crimes perhaps, or maybe they just wanted to Get Trump on anything, or embarrass him with anything they could find.
Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2024 12:58 PM (Cus5s)

---------------

Agree. But ISTM that it is the burden of the government to make sure. Ultimately they let Trump have the documents and they are the ones that shipped them to Mar A Lago. Hell they probably boxed them up as well.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 02, 2024 01:03 PM (2fIO4)

164 104 there isn't much daylight between the Soviets and 💩 Tin's Russia.

Or Ivan the Terrible's Russia, or Peter the Great's Russia, or Catherine the Great's Russia...

They always have been ruled by autocrats, and probably always will be.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
_________

For some reason, this reminds me of CS Lewis quote on being ruled by robber barons being preferable than being ruled by do‐good busybodies.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2024 01:03 PM (+sqaV)

165 RIP Count Floyd.
Posted by: davidt

Amen !

Posted by: JT at April 02, 2024 01:03 PM (T4tVD)

166 Now where did they put that binder?

>>Washington (CNN) — A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, raising alarms among intelligence officials that some of the most closely guarded national security secrets from the US and its allies could be exposed, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

>>The binder contained raw intelligence the US and its NATO allies collected on Russians and Russian agents, including sources and methods that informed the US government’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Trump win the 2016 election, sources tell CNN.

https://tinyurl.com/bdf4pmkr

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2024 01:04 PM (LkLld)

167 157 Google Settles 'Incognito' Suit, Commits To Wiping User

Tech giant Google has agreed to settle with plaintiffs who alleged that the company invaded users’ privacy by tracking online activities even when they were using Chrome browser’s private incognito mode.
Posted by: SMOD at April 02, 2024 01:02 PM (RHGPo)
______
So, Goolag has to come by every time the plaintiffs take a dump?

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2024 01:04 PM (1bNHn)

168 That is not a truth universally acknowledged. There is a sizeable minority on the right that thinks it an unintentional attack on feminism. Off hand, I know that both Michael Knowles and Carl Benjamin (Sargon) are in that camp.

I saw it, and think they have a point.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2024 01:03 PM (1bNHn)
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It's also quite possible the movie was meant to emasculate, but, leftists, being stupid, didn't realize they were also sending a different message.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2024 01:04 PM (tT6L1)

169 There's no reason not to embrace the healing power of "and".
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 12:56 PM (CsUN+)

Once he goes - unless someone with his various skills truly takes his mantle - you will see how fast they regain 100% narrative control and we become invisible again.

That's the only way you will see what I'm talking about so there's no real point in us arguing.

My contention is "we" aren't persuading the average person. We don't have the means to get to them. Trump burst on the scene and reframed all the big emotional debates in our favor after we spent decades in darkness being led by traitors and skunks who hated us.

He is the shift and some of us recognized it very early on and took nothing but abuse for pointing it out. Hillary was going to romp anyone else. She was the most qualified, most amazing, most inevitable female ever until Trump reminded the world she was both a criminal and "Nasty Woman".

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2024 01:05 PM (7RYS8)

170 That DU DeSantis stuff is the payoff to him for running for Prez. DeSantis is damaged goods and by the time '28 rolls around, most of what he did will have been undone.

Posted by: Jamaica at April 02, 2024 01:05 PM (IG7T0)

171 New Research Finds that Congress Has Gone 'Full Moron' Due to Global Warming

Posted by: SMOD at April 02, 2024 01:05 PM (RHGPo)

172 Shakira is of course correct.
I saw there movie and it was retarded. But it was also a shitty movie. Boring as fuck, poorly acted. With the exception of Ryan Gosling. He was funny.

Posted by: Montec at April 02, 2024 01:05 PM (4+s9S)

173 , including sources and methods that informed the US government’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Trump win the 2016 election, sources tell CNN.

Sure

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2024 01:05 PM (Akjoo)

174
https://tinyurl.com/yh3df7a4

Not very titillating.

Posted by: Beavis at April 02, 2024 01:05 PM (dg+HA)

175 If they hadn't stolen his second term in 2020, after properly withdrawing from Afghanistan -- Donald J. Trump International Airport would have been a great name for Bagram Air Base.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 02, 2024 01:06 PM (tJd93)

176 Biden set to sell up to 50 F-15 fighter jets to Israel for $18 billion in biggest arms sale to Tel Aviv since start of war against Hamas

This is not a new Order. This has been in the works for a long time

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 02, 2024 01:06 PM (pVWRI)

177 Dulles, not Reagan. A horrible, horrible place.

If there was ever a place ripe for a truck bombing, it's the front of Dulles on Friday before a holiday like Thanksgiving. People are absolutely packed in front of an enormous glass wall, with a road 20' outside.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 01:06 PM (CsUN+)

178 there isn't much daylight between the Soviets and 💩 Tin's Russia.

Or Ivan the Terrible's Russia, or Peter the Great's Russia, or Catherine the Great's Russia...

They always have been ruled by autocrats, and probably always will be.

Yeah, the Russians are so used to being ruled by autocrats that when they aren't (briefly in the 90s) they get antsy.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2024 01:06 PM (2ocoG)

179 My son saw the Barbie movie and thought that Ken was the actual hero.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 02, 2024 01:06 PM (9yWhg)

180 UK could force oil, gas platform companies to convert rigs to green energy or face shut down: reports
North Sea Transition Authority targets 2030 deadline to design platforms for green energy solution

Posted by: SMOD at April 02, 2024 01:06 PM (RHGPo)

181 With the exception of Ryan Gosling. He was funny.
Posted by: Montec at April 02, 2024 01:05 PM (4+s9S)

WAs he in the title role? As Klaus Barbie?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2024 01:06 PM (tkR6S)

182 @134

>>My understanding is that Trump could take anything and declassify it for his own use. Perhaps the government could request some documents be retained, but Trump was The Executive will all authority.

This may blow peoples minds, but all documents created by the executive branch are created for the benefit of The President, and are consequently, all "his/her" documents.

Consequently, he can take all of the documents he deems to be his.

Contrary to popular belief, there is no Tardis like backroom that contains a filing cabinets of all of the executive branch's documents, documents are electronically stored, sequenced and marked the appropriate classification and copy number.

Anytime a document is printed, they know how many copies are out in the wild and who has them and it's largely a misnomer to say that Trump retained documents, he retained copies of documents mostly.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 02, 2024 01:07 PM (XV/Pl)

183 I wouldn't be surprised if some of the money he raised running for Prez went straight to Democrats, maybe even the lawyers suing the bus company.

Posted by: Jamaica at April 02, 2024 01:07 PM (IG7T0)

184 RIP Count Floyd.
Posted by: davidt

Amen !
Posted by: JT at April 02, 2024 01:03 PM (T4tVD)

SCTV >>>> SNL

Posted by: mrp at April 02, 2024 01:07 PM (rj6Yv)

185 Tech giant Google has agreed to settle with plaintiffs who alleged that the company invaded users’ privacy by tracking online activities even when they were using Chrome browser’s private incognito mode.
Posted by: SMOD

Lawsuit: Facebook gave Netflix all your private messages and Netflix gave Facebook your watch history 👀

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 02, 2024 01:07 PM (FVME7)

186 The Bee LOL

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at April 02, 2024 01:07 PM (Yg/ZT)

187 For some reason, this reminds me of CS Lewis quote on being ruled by robber barons being preferable than being ruled by do‐good busybodies.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2024 01:03 PM (+sqaV)

Yer the people ruling us are for sure robber barons disguised as busybodies. And I don't think they have much desire to rein in their cupidity. Can't even take a break on Easter.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2024 01:07 PM (7RYS8)

188 Yeah, the Russians are so used to being ruled by autocrats that when they aren't (briefly in the 90s) they get antsy.
Posted by: Ian S.

Correct.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 02, 2024 01:07 PM (9yWhg)

189 Posted by: Jamaica at April 02, 2024 01:05 PM (IG7T0)

Haters got to hate.

Posted by: polynikes at April 02, 2024 01:08 PM (AIm4E)

190 It would be easier to critique DeSantis if he had no accomplishments as Governor, as it would be easier to critique Trump if he had no accomplishments as President. I consider all of the critiquing as being rather contrarian, or maybe nitpickery…

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2024 01:08 PM (PCK5/)

191
That's the only way you will see what I'm talking about so there's no real point in us arguing.

Okay, then I guess I won't.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 01:09 PM (CsUN+)

192
Is somebody 'nic-jacking' regulars today?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 02, 2024 01:09 PM (RKVpM)

193 Yeah, the Russians are so used to being ruled by autocrats that when they aren't (briefly in the 90s) they get antsy.
Posted by: Ian S.

Plus, they were embarrassed by that drunken clown Yeltsin.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 02, 2024 01:10 PM (9yWhg)

194 >including sources and methods that informed the US government’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Trump win the 2016 election, sources tell CNN.

>>Sure

I have no doubt that the information shows how they came up with that conclusion despite the fact we now know Putin favored Hillary and I am equally sure they really don't want anyone to know how they came up with that assessment.

Nor do any of the NATO allies who are named.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2024 01:10 PM (LkLld)

195 Okay, then I guess I won't.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 01:09 PM (CsUN+)

That's good. I prefer being friends.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2024 01:11 PM (7RYS8)

196 So what you are saying is that there is no evidence for fraud, because no evidence was collected.

NEW: Mark Wingate, a Fulton County Elections Board member, testifies that he voted against certifying the 2020 election because the county did not verify the signatures on 147,000 mail-in ballots.

"I asked what did we do for signature verification? And the comment I got back frankly floored me, 'We didn't do any.'"

Additionally, the county could not provide any chain of custody documentation or surveillance footage for mail-in ballots or ballot drop boxes.

"I and other board members had requested that we obtain the chain of custody documentation from the department and none of that was ever delivered."

"There was never any surveillance tape, an inch of footage delivered to the board."

He also says there were problems with the voter registration rolls that stil

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 02, 2024 01:11 PM (jtTfW)

197 171 New Research Finds that Congress Has Gone 'Full Moron' Due to Global Warming
Posted by: SMOD

Whoa there! The Horde has legal rights to the term "Moron", used with a capital "M". Congress people are definitely small "m" "morons".

Posted by: AoS Unofficial Legal Advisor at April 02, 2024 01:12 PM (JCZqz)

198 172 Shakira is of course correct.
I saw there movie and it was retarded. But it was also a shitty movie. Boring as fuck, poorly acted. With the exception of Ryan Gosling. He was funny.
Posted by: Montec at April 02, 2024 01:05 PM (4+s9S)

See also Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy in 30 rock and Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson in Parks and Rec.

It seems relatively common that a character that the left wants to write as a punching bag/scapegoat ends up becoming the most popular one in a piece of media completely unintentionally.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 02, 2024 01:12 PM (fKIdX)

199 Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2024 01:08 PM (PCK5/)

It's not the accomplishments that sway me but rather the major fuck ups which have more consequences. Not having any major FUs is an accomplishment to me.

Posted by: polynikes at April 02, 2024 01:12 PM (AIm4E)

200 RIP Count Floyd.
Posted by: davidt

Amen !
Posted by: JT at April 02, 2024 01:03 PM (T4tVD)

SCTV >>>> SNL
Posted by: mrp at April 02, 2024 01:07 PM (rj6Yv)
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Aw, Joe Flaherty. He cracked us up with his improv as bandleader "Sal" during the fliming of "1941."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 02, 2024 01:12 PM (DeFcY)

201 A judge is "receptive" to legal arguments?

OH NOESS!

Posted by: blaster at April 02, 2024 01:13 PM (ASVTS)

202 If Trump has possession of docs that prove the US IC performed a coup against him, they wouldn't say he has the opposite, would they?

/s

Posted by: davidt at April 02, 2024 01:13 PM (SYTee)

203 149 I see the Market isn't happy. They say it's because the economy is so good they might not lower interest rates... They actually said that
Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2024 01:01 PM (Akjoo)

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Back in my early days I followed the market pretty religiously. After a while I determined there was so much BS about what caused what that it is basically a scam.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 02, 2024 01:13 PM (2fIO4)

204 What are the odds that Brandon decides to sell F4Us? He designed them, after all, and Beau flew them.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2024 01:13 PM (1bNHn)

205 "There was never any surveillance tape, an inch of footage delivered to the board."

He also says there were problems with the voter registration rolls that stil
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 02, 2024 01:11 PM (jtTfW)
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According to '2,000 mules" mail in ballot drop boxes were supposed to be monitored 24/7 by video cameras. I seem to recall their investigation showed not only was it not done, a significant portion of the cameras that were in place didn't function.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2024 01:14 PM (tT6L1)

206 @196

>>He also says there were problems with the voter registration rolls that stil

As I've noted, Pennsylvania maintains as part of it's registered voter totals, over 700k "inactive" voters.

What's an inactive voter?

Beats the sh*t out of me but I can guarantee you, a universe of names and addresses that big can be leveraged for nefarious ends.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 02, 2024 01:14 PM (XV/Pl)

207 It seems relatively common that a character that the left wants to write as a punching bag/scapegoat ends up becoming the most popular one in a piece of media completely unintentionally.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously

Archie Bunker has entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 02, 2024 01:14 PM (9yWhg)

208 Two things I really like: Nuvole Bianchi by Ludovico Einaudi played by Gamazda in a short leather skirt.

https://tinyurl.com/yeyjznzj

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 01:15 PM (CsUN+)

209 Alex Keaton

Posted by: polynikes at April 02, 2024 01:15 PM (AIm4E)

210
No, apparently not. Must be the lousy weather, supposed to last till Thursday.

Hint:
Take hash then add site:acecomments.mu.nu to find if regular

Example: "(LkLld) site:acecomments.mu.nu"

Should reveal comments from the diminutive and very wet state of RI.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 02, 2024 01:16 PM (RKVpM)

211 Lawsuit: Facebook gave Netflix all your private messages and Netflix gave Facebook your watch history 👀
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 02, 2024 01:07 PM (FVME7)

Outcome: you get free Google searches and a .99 cent discount on one month of an annual Netflix subscription (new subscribers only).

Attorneys on both sides, however, will party like Jordan Belfort on a boat.

Posted by: blaster at April 02, 2024 01:16 PM (ASVTS)

212 The 8th Amendment is an obsolete amendment, as is the 19th.

Posted by: Burgess Meredith's Betamax Cassette Player at April 02, 2024 01:16 PM (Zz86T)

213 @196

>>He also says there were problems with the voter registration rolls that stil

As I've noted, Pennsylvania maintains as part of it's registered voter totals, over 700k "inactive" voters.

What's an inactive voter?

Beats the sh*t out of me but I can guarantee you, a universe of names and addresses that big can be leveraged for nefarious ends.

Inactive = Dead ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 02, 2024 01:16 PM (NtVYv)

214 @209

>>Alex Keaton

That's Alex P. Keaton to you buddy.

--
Michael J. Fox

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 02, 2024 01:16 PM (XV/Pl)

215
Biden set to sell up to 50 F-15 fighter jets to Israel for $18 billion in biggest arms sale to Tel Aviv since start of war against Hamas

We still have F-15s?
Posted by: Oddbob

Maybe Biden is thinking of sending F-150 pickup trucks.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 02, 2024 01:17 PM (63Dwl)

216 “Well-trained … ninjas” from Chile are burglarizing wealthy Democrats in the Detroit, Michigan, suburbs after using the Visa Waiver Program to get into the United States, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard says.

“The Chilean gangs have been hitting us very hard. Cash, jewelry, very high-end purses, that’s the target,” Bouchard said:

They’re super well-trained when they get here, highly organized, they look like ninjas.

Posted by: SMOD at April 02, 2024 01:17 PM (RHGPo)

217 @213

>>Inactive = Dead ?

If they are dead, then why are they part of the overall voter registration database?

Do they expect them to rise from the dead?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 02, 2024 01:17 PM (XV/Pl)

218 He's never been a prolific poster, but he's been here with the Diesel Jones nic for a few years.

And unlike a troll, he engaged fairly cordially with those who disagreed with him, and then withdrew.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

There are probably 100's nics that posted for years and then left. Niedermeyer's dead horse, ThunderB, Little Miss Spell Check, Rush Babe, and on and on.
imo, the rush to call everyone with a not familiar nic a troll = it's quiet in here, too quiet.

Posted by: old chick at April 02, 2024 01:17 PM (sOete)

219 >>If Trump has possession of docs that prove the US IC performed a coup against him, they wouldn't say he has the opposite, would they?

Regardless of what they say about Trump they know he would never do anything to hurt this country. It's a convenient lie they tell their smooth brained supporters to keep them jacked up with Trump hate.

So what documents could he have taken that would have made them do something as stupendously stupid as raiding his home to look for them despite the fact he had a right to have them as we are now seeing with Judge Cannon?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2024 01:17 PM (LkLld)

220 Joe Flaherty's "Guy Cabellero", the SCTV "owner", was my favorite character. The interplay between him and John Candy's character "Johnny LaRue" was ... superb.

Posted by: mrp at April 02, 2024 01:18 PM (rj6Yv)

221 143 We still have F-15s?
Posted by: Oddbob

How old are the B 52s we still operate? I assume every single part on those planes has been replaced several times over but they seem better than a new Boeing.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 02, 2024 01:19 PM (z+89e)

222 *Gamazda in a short leather skirt.*

She's great. Is she Russian?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 02, 2024 01:20 PM (dg+HA)

223 212 The 8th Amendment is an obsolete amendment, as is the 19th.
Posted by: Burgess Meredith's Betamax Cassette Player at April 02, 2024 01:16 PM (Zz86T)
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I wish we could get rid of the 19th.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2024 01:20 PM (1bNHn)

224 Stanford Mathematics Education Professor Who Got Algebra Banned in SF Now Accused of ‘Reckless Disregard for Accuracy’

Jo Boaler is facing allegations of “reckless disregard for accuracy” in her work. An official academic complaint has been filed with Stanford University’s provost and dean of research.

On the question of timed tests causing “math anxiety,” Boaler has asserted that “researchers now know that students experience stress on timed tests that they do not experience even when working on the same math questions in untimed conditions.” As evidence, she cites a study by psychologist Randall Engle. However, Engle’s paper in question deals with “working memory” rather than student anxiety, and Engle himself called the assessment a “huge misrepresentation” of his work.

Posted by: SMOD at April 02, 2024 01:20 PM (RHGPo)

225 Maybe Biden is thinking of sending F-150 pickup trucks.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 02, 2024 01:17 PM (63Dwl)

Or 50 bottles of Tamiya XF-15 paint.

Posted by: spindrift at April 02, 2024 01:20 PM (OguvZ)

226 See also Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy in 30 rock and Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson in Parks and Rec.

It seems relatively common that a character that the left wants to write as a punching bag/scapegoat ends up becoming the most popular one in a piece of media completely unintentionally.

Baldwin on 30 Rock made the entire show. He was fantastic in that role.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2024 01:20 PM (2ocoG)

227 How old are the B 52s we still operate? I assume every single part on those planes has been replaced several times over but they seem better than a new Boeing.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 02, 2024 01:19 PM (z+89e)
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The Dreamliner is more of a Nightmare, from what I read the other day.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 02, 2024 01:20 PM (DeFcY)

228 DeSantis is damaged goods and by the time '28 rolls around, most of what he did will have been undone.
Posted by: Jamaica at April 02, 2024 01:05 PM (IG7T0)

Most of what he did, I believe, was done by the legislature - a point frequently lost in our desire to give all the credit/blame to the head guy (this isn't just a DeSantis thing) - which might make the changes more durable.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2024 01:21 PM (nR2nR)

229 The Romanian gangs are also doing mass credit card debit card theft. They get caught, put on house arrest and then cut off their ankle gps and move on.

Posted by: polynikes at April 02, 2024 01:21 PM (AIm4E)

230 There are probably 100's nics that posted for years and then left. Niedermeyer's dead horse, ThunderB, Little Miss Spell Check, Rush Babe, and on and on.
imo, the rush to call everyone with a not familiar nic a troll = it's quiet in here, too quiet.

I was gonna say I see NDH all the time, but that's on Twitter, not here.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2024 01:21 PM (2ocoG)

231 Inactive voter status in PA:

You can end up with a non-active status if you have not voted in five years or it appears you have not voted in five years, and the county does not receive a response from you to a notice about your voter registration

Posted by: blaster at April 02, 2024 01:21 PM (ASVTS)

232 THE WHITENESS OF WOKENESS: “Most people advocating for radical social change on behalf of people of color are not themselves people of color.”

Posted by: SMOD at April 02, 2024 01:21 PM (RHGPo)

233 THE WHITENESS OF WOKENESS: “Most people advocating for radical social change on behalf of people of color are not themselves people of color.”
Posted by: SMOD at April 02, 2024 01:21 PM (RHGPo)
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Whiter than a polar bear eating a mayonnaise and Wonder Bread sandwich at high noon in a blizzard.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 02, 2024 01:23 PM (DeFcY)

234 Inactive = Dead ?
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 02, 2024 01:16 PM (NtVYv

That voter isn't dead. He's resting.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2024 01:24 PM (7RYS8)

235 THE WHITENESS OF WOKENESS: “Most people advocating for radical social change on behalf of people of color are not themselves people of color.”
Posted by: SMOD at April 02, 2024 01:21 PM (RHGPo)

Well, duh! people of color are too stupid to advocate on their own behalf. Plus we can grift lots of dollars by doing their advocating for them.

Posted by: The Woke at April 02, 2024 01:24 PM (tkR6S)

236 Whiter than a polar bear eating a mayonnaise and Wonder Bread sandwich at high noon in a blizzard.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 02, 2024 01:23 PM (DeFcY)
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Add in "albino" between "a" and "polar bear" and add the phrase to the AoS style guide.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2024 01:24 PM (tT6L1)

237 Inactive = Dead ?
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 02, 2024 01:16 PM (NtVYv

That voter isn't dead. He's resting.
Posted by: ... at April 02, 2024 01:24 PM (7RYS

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'E's pinin' for the fjords!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 02, 2024 01:24 PM (DeFcY)

238 We still have F-15s?
Posted by: Oddbob

Maybe Biden is thinking of sending F-150 pickup trucks.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
......

he will probably send the electric ones Ford can't sell.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2024 01:25 PM (v0R5T)

239 I was gonna say I see NDH all the time, but that's on Twitter, not here.
Posted by: Ian S.

Some of the older timers are NT, but, Ace has/was/is/whatever been, too.
That shouldn't make old timers trolls.

Posted by: old chick at April 02, 2024 01:25 PM (sOete)

240 , including sources and methods that informed the US government’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Trump win the 2016 election, sources tell CNN.
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Bongino today saying that the NYT yesterday has telegraphed the Deep State's next PsyOp on behalf of justifying Biden's "reelection" and censoring Trump & the rest of us: CHINA, RUSSIA, CHINA, RUSSIA, CHINA, RUSSIA!!!!?

[NYT headline:] "China, Russia and Trump"

"For now, though, at least parts of the Chinese government appear to have picked a side in the 2024 election."

RIIIIIIIGHT ... Beijing Biden's ChiComm paymasters REALLY want F. Joe Mugabe gone and Trump back in the White House -- pull the other one -- AND because Hispanics are blacks are fleeing the Dems:

[Axios headline:] "Trump allies pre-screen loyalists for unprecedented power grab"

"Former President Trump's allies are pre-screening the ideologies of thousands of potential foot soldiers, as part of an unprecedented operation to centralize and expand his power at every level of the U.S. government if he wins in 2024, officials involved in the effort tell Axios."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 02, 2024 01:25 PM (tJd93)

241 Is somebody 'nic-jacking' regulars today?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 02, 2024 01:09 PM (RKVpM)

Not so I've noticed. Why do you ask?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2024 01:26 PM (nR2nR)

242 *Gamazda in a short leather skirt.*

She's great. Is she Russian?

Yes, but IIRC, she now lives in Spain. She was classically trained in (again, IIRC) Moscow, but began playing at 3.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 01:26 PM (CsUN+)

243 One day, these Hunter Biden masterworks will definitely fetch a high price on their own value, as expensive curios for wealthy history buffs who want relics from a dead empire.

Some future Clive Underwood Cuthbertson-Klein IV will show it off in his parlor. "It's a Hunter Biden original, Maeve!" "Ooooh, scandalous! You're such a a rogue, Clive, hahaha."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2024 12:40 PM (0FoWg)
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Or maybe in the next civilization's "museum of horror and stupidity" erected as a stern lesson about this world.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 02, 2024 01:26 PM (HnUIn)

244 he will probably send the electric ones Ford can't sell.
Posted by: wth at April 02, 2024 01:25 PM (v0R5T)

Electric F150's would make good "technicals" for Gaza. On a good day, they could make it from one end of Gaza to the other.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2024 01:27 PM (tkR6S)

245 Hello everybody! I plan on writing in Nikki Haley for President in November. Who's with me?!!!

Posted by: Hillary Newnic at April 02, 2024 01:27 PM (qUkBO)

246 Florida Chick, if you are still lurking I wish I had spoken up when you were called out by Ace, imo, it was not appropriate.
Please comment again.

Posted by: old chick at April 02, 2024 01:27 PM (sOete)

247
Glad I don't live in 'Tornado Alley' this spring. It's been quiet the past couple of years but is starting to get active as more battery powered cars attract electrons from the sky and activate lightning and powerful twisters.

/ settled science

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 02, 2024 01:27 PM (RKVpM)

248 ... "Former President Trump's allies are pre-screening the ideologies of thousands of potential foot soldiers, as part of an unprecedented operation to centralize and expand his power at every level of the U.S. government if he wins in 2024, officials involved in the effort tell Axios."
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 02, 2024 01:25 PM (tJd93)
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You mean that a nominee is vetting personnel for the various offices he needs to fill if he wins?

UNPRECEDENTED!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 02, 2024 01:27 PM (HnUIn)

249 The USAF has a new F-15 class - The F-15EX "Eagle II" had a 2021 roll out and will be a two-seater. It will also come with the Advanced Display Core Processor II, the most advance mission computer ever installed in a fighter.

Posted by: mrp at April 02, 2024 01:28 PM (rj6Yv)

250 @231

>>Inactive voter status in PA:

Well then, that list needs to be segregated from the overall voter registration totals and anyone on that list that hasn't voted in four years gets expunged.

Because, as I said, that's a gigantic universe of fortification.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 02, 2024 01:29 PM (XV/Pl)

251 I'm not convinced everyone posting here is using their real name.

Posted by: Nickole Hayleighdorf at April 02, 2024 01:29 PM (dg+HA)

252 The USAF has a new F-15 class - The F-15EX "Eagle II" had a 2021 roll out and will be a two-seater. It will also come with the Advanced Display Core Processor II, the most advance mission computer ever installed in a fighter.
Posted by: mrp at April 02, 2024 01:28 PM (rj6Yv)
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Just make sure the GIB isn't playing Galaga when he shouldn't.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 02, 2024 01:29 PM (DeFcY)

253 ... "Former President Trump's allies are pre-screening the ideologies of thousands of potential foot soldiers, as part of an unprecedented operation to centralize and expand his power at every level of the U.S. government if he wins in 2024, officials involved in the effort tell Axios."
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 02, 2024 01:25 PM (tJd93)
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Every president should fire absolutely everybody in his power to remove, then replace the fired people - or not - with his own people.

But if you *can* be removed by the president, you *should* be removed by the new president.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 02, 2024 01:29 PM (HnUIn)

254 The USAF has a new F-15 class - The F-15EX "Eagle II" had a 2021 roll out and will be a two-seater. It will also come with the Advanced Display Core Processor II, the most advance mission computer ever installed in a fighter.
Posted by: mrp at April 02, 2024 01:28 PM (rj6Yv)

Can it park itself?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2024 01:29 PM (tkR6S)

255 Electric F150's would make good "technicals" for Gaza. On a good day, they could make it from one end of Gaza to the other.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

And when 'lit up' they'd *really* light up.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 02, 2024 01:29 PM (fB38l)

256 251 I'm not convinced everyone posting here is using their real name.
Posted by: Nickole Hayleighdorf at April 02, 2024 01:29 PM (dg+HA)

This is my real (online) name!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at April 02, 2024 01:29 PM (9mfKN)

257
See also Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy in 30 rock and Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson in Parks and Rec.

It seems relatively common that a character that the left wants to write as a punching bag/scapegoat ends up becoming the most popular one in a piece of media completely unintentionally.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 02, 2024

I think Norman Lear created Archie bunker for the same reason and everyone loved Archie.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 02, 2024 01:30 PM (ZGsxM)

258 We still have F-15s?
Posted by: Oddbob

How old are the B 52s we still operate? I assume every single part on those planes has been replaced several times over but they seem better than a new Boeing.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 02, 2024 01:19 PM (z+89e)

The F-15EX is expected to replace the F-15C/D in performing homeland and air defense missions and also serve as an affordable platform for employing large stand-off weapons to augment the frontline F-22 and F-35. The first aircraft was delivered in 2021 and operational service is expected in July 2024.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 02, 2024 01:30 PM (pVWRI)

259 This blonde in a gray dress wonders what a cannon judge does for a living:
http://tiny.cc/qw8mxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 02, 2024 01:30 PM (HnUIn)

260 I'm not convinced everyone posting here is using their real name.

I'm not afraid. I'm using my real name on this post.

Posted by: Archimedes Vissarionovich Goldstein at April 02, 2024 01:31 PM (CsUN+)

261 Stifle, Edith!

Posted by: 704 Hauser Street at April 02, 2024 01:31 PM (dg+HA)

262 The two things jack has not leaked:
1) the actual type and nature of the classified docs
2) the witnesses

Judge Cannon has seen both.

My reading of the two versions of the jury charge seem to be her saying, "the government says this doodle on a napkin is classified. A) should it be classified personal? Or B) if classified, did the government give all possible fair notice it was classified?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 02, 2024 01:31 PM (D/DaT)

263 Hillary Clinton on voters complaining about picking between Trump/Biden

Get over yourselves, those are the two choices … And, you know, it’s one of, like, one is old & effective & compassionate, has a heart & really cares about people, & one is old & has been charged with 91 felonies.

I don’t understand why this is a hard choice, really.

Posted by: SMOD at April 02, 2024 01:31 PM (RHGPo)

264 According to '2,000 mules" mail in ballot drop boxes were supposed to be monitored 24/7 by video cameras. I seem to recall their investigation showed not only was it not done, a significant portion of the cameras that were in place didn't function.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2024 01:14 PM (tT6L1)

We hired a company that supplied cameras to certain NY jails.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2024 01:31 PM (nR2nR)

265 Hello everybody! I plan on writing in Nikki Haley for President in November. Who's with me?!!!
Posted by: Hillary Newnic at April 02, 2024 01:27 PM (qUkBO)
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You'll have to text me first.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2024 01:32 PM (v0R5T)

266 Hillary Clinton on voters complaining about picking between Trump/Biden

Get over yourselves, those are the two choices … And, you know, it’s one of, like, one is old & effective & compassionate, has a heart & really cares about people, & one is old & has been charged with 91 felonies.

I don’t understand why this is a hard choice, really.
Posted by: SMOD at April 02, 2024 01:31 PM (RHGPo)
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LOL.

Get fucked, Hillary.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 02, 2024 01:32 PM (HnUIn)

267 I read the judge's name as "Dyan Cannon" and because I'm a giver, here you go:

https://tinyurl.com/Dyan-C-Smokin

Posted by: Sharkman at April 02, 2024 01:32 PM (NKiY1)

268 I'm not afraid. I'm using my real name on this post.
Posted by: Archimedes Vissarionovich Goldstein at April 02, 2024 01:31 PM (CsUN+)
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I am.

Posted by: Isembard Perinacious Freely at April 02, 2024 01:32 PM (DeFcY)

269 I don't really throw the term around as I enjoy engaging anyone and everyone but active posters can still troll and can still become a troll.

Chemjeff and BTH and AmishDude were all well established posters that became... unmoored.

Some of the pile ons are there to narrow the road a little, for better or worse.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2024 01:32 PM (7RYS8)

270 New one, Biden vs. Easter

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2024 01:33 PM (CsUN+)

271 THE WHITENESS OF WOKENESS: “Most people advocating for radical social change on behalf of people of color are not themselves people of color.”
Posted by: SMOD at April 02, 2024 01:21 PM (RHGPo)

Well, duh! people of color are too stupid to advocate on their own behalf. Plus we can grift lots of dollars by doing their advocating for them.
Posted by: The Woke at April 02, 2024 01:24 PM (tkR6S)

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"And THEY PROMISE to eat us last!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 02, 2024 01:33 PM (gSOJh)

272 Nood.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 02, 2024 01:33 PM (R4t5M)

273 Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), 82, intends to remain in the U.S. Senate to oppose conservatives who support a truce between Russia and Ukraine, he said Monday.

Posted by: SMOD at April 02, 2024 01:33 PM (RHGPo)

274 And when 'lit up' they'd *really* light up.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 02, 2024 01:29 PM (fB38l)
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You know, has anyone ever stopped to think electric cars would make a great car bomb?

Get one in the right space and have them detonate. Probably won't explode but they certainly will wreak havoc until the fire is put out.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2024 01:33 PM (tT6L1)

275 >>Bongino today saying that the NYT yesterday has telegraphed the Deep State's next PsyOp on behalf of justifying Biden's "reelection" and censoring Trump & the rest of us: CHINA, RUSSIA, CHINA, RUSSIA, CHINA, RUSSIA!!!!?

That's what they are afraid of, people finally understanding that not only is there a deep state they are the ones who have been creating 99% of all of this election interference.

It's long been speculated that the binder of information that Trump had at the White House and was working to declassify was what the FBI was searching for at Mar A Lago. That CNN article that came out last December really reinforced that belief and the article spells out why.

The CIA doesn't just lose a highly classified file of documents that details what they and others were doing about the Russia hoax and it sure as hell doesn't remain hidden on it's own. Someone has it. My money would be on Orange Man Bad.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2024 01:33 PM (LkLld)

276 This blonde in a gray dress wonders what a cannon judge does for a living:
http://tiny.cc/qw8mxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Digme digging her sexy self.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2024 01:33 PM (v0R5T)

277 @262

>> if classified, did the government give all possible fair notice it was classified?"

Again, the term classification is meaningless when talking about the POTUS, it's why the Presidential Records Act contains no criminal penalties.

YOU CAN'T CHARGE THE PRESIDENT FOR KEEPING HIS OWN DAMN DOCUMENTS!!!!

Which is why they tried to Judo it into a process violation crime or espionage crime.

Which most certainly means there is still an active counter-intelligence investigation/program being run against Trump.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 02, 2024 01:34 PM (XV/Pl)

278 Third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign announced Monday that it met the signature requirement to qualify for the ballot in a fifth state, North Carolina.

Posted by: SMOD at April 02, 2024 01:35 PM (RHGPo)

279 Actually, the words "cannon judge" have never crossed my mind.

Posted by: blonde in a gray dress at April 02, 2024 01:35 PM (dg+HA)

280 “Christine Blasey Ford is no hero, if justice is the measure,” Parker headlined her piece at the very news organization that originally published Ford’s sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

“Christine Blasey Ford is promoting her new memoir to acclaim from certain quarters, including a glowing review by the New York Times. Meanwhile, the man she accused of being a witness to her alleged sexual assault by now-Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh more than 40 years ago can’t get his own book reviewed or even mentioned by mainstream newspapers,” wrote Parker.

Posted by: SMOD at April 02, 2024 01:36 PM (RHGPo)

281 Alex Keaton
Posted by: polynikes at April 02, 2024 01:15 PM (AIm4E)

Alex P. Keaton.
Nice to meet you.
*Sticks out shaky hand, I mean, hand to shake*

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 02, 2024 01:36 PM (FCbAQ)

282 Former President Trump's allies are pre-screening the ideologies of thousands of potential foot soldiers

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 02, 2024 01:25 PM (tJd93

Another felony!

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2024 01:42 PM (7RYS8)

283 282 Former President Trump's allies are pre-screening the ideologies of thousands of potential foot soldiers

"He grabbed the steering wheel and raped me while screaming pussy! Swearsies! Believe all wymyns! I've always been a Republican but jeez!"

Posted by: Auspex at April 02, 2024 01:52 PM (j4U/Z)

284 "Mark Zaid, a defense lawyer who has worked on cases involving classified information, said he is unaware of an instance when a document produced by a federal agency was declared a personal record by a president."

Ahhh, the Biden strategy: a bald-faced lie.

Clinton's sock drawer. I guess you could claim that the tapes weren't classified, but who knows. We still don t know what was on them. It could well contain targeting discussions. The court held that the content was irrelevant.

Posted by: buddhaha at April 02, 2024 02:01 PM (vt7A9)

285 The best way to deal with Russia is to not go out of our way to antagonize them. Who gives a shit if their leader is an autocrat?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2024 12:58 PM (nR2nR)
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I don't care. I'd be happy if they didn't poison dissident figures in western countries, but I'm not losing any sleep over it. I guess I'd be happy if we cared about Putin's coup in Ukraine as much as we care about ours. I wish we had gotten out of NATO once the Soviets fell. I wish Russia would quit gobbling up territory it used to have as the Soviet Union, and that we would quit making excuses for Putin by saying he's worried about NATO.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 02, 2024 02:09 PM (GZYu7)

286 This whole trial against Trump and the Fine are in total violation of the 8th Amendment

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 02, 2024 04:38 PM (wGqjj)

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