NY Court of Appeals Tosses Harvey Weinstein's 2020 Rape Conviction

There's a rule that you can't put on evidence of prior "bad acts" to prove that a defendant committed the specific bad acts he's being tried for in the present case.

It's not that such evidence is completely irrelevant; it's that it's unduly prejudicial to the defendant. Such evidence tends to poison the jury against the defendant well out of proportion to the actual light it sheds on the current crime being judged at trial.

But that's what the state of New York did to get their conviction. They had some weak evidence of rape in cases where the statute of limitations hadn't run out yet, so they put on evidence from other women claiming they'd been raped (in cases where the statute of limitations had run out).

I'm not even sure how this was allowed in the first place. I assume (I haven't read much about the case) that they used the special and often-abused exemption to the "no prior bad acts" rule, the "signature" exception. Prosecutors will sometimes claim that a method of committing a crime is so specific to one individual that it constitutes a "signature" in the modus operandi, and can then put on witnesses who testify about the same M.O. being used in crimes against them.

It's often a weak and bullshitty exception: "The bank robbers wore ski masks and gloves, that's a signature." Okay it doesn't usually get that transparent, but you can see the way this rule can abused, and where a judge will allow "signature" evidence in a case The Regime is desperate to win.

Another exception, which seems to be the one used in this case, is to claim you're not putting on these witnesses to prove his prior bad acts, but to shed light on his state-of-mind he had when committing the acts he's on trial for.

The prosecution put on three witnesses to accuse Weinstein of prior rape, and claimed they weren't presenting this evidence just to show he's generally a rapist, but to prove that his state in mind in the current case was one of intent to commit a sexual assault. That is, it wasn't just a mistake where he misread the woman's level of interest in him.

But I mean, come on: You can't tell the jury "don't consider this testimony as evidence that he committed the current crime, just consider it as far as his state-of-mind." That's telling people to put the information in a special vault in their brain that they cannot access except to answer one particular question. No one's brain works like that, not even the brain of Noted "Compartmentalizer" Bill Clinton.

The toxic Regime will let every criminal out of jail to pacify one constituency. Then, when another constituency must be appeased, they'll change the rules and start presenting/allowing evidence that is plainly out-of-bounds just to convict one guy. The Regime is controlled by people who are all suffering from untreated moral breakdowns, permanently on tilt, and eager to suspend the law or change the law to to satisfy whatever moral panic they're currently in. (Trump can tell you all about that.)

Any trial that makes the news is now a political trial.

Weinstein is still in jail over a 2023 conviction for a rape in California.

But this one is overturned, and he'll be retried, this time without the supplementation of "prior bad acts" witnesses.

Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction has been overturned by the New York Court of Appeals.
On Thursday, the court found in a 4-3 ruling that the judge in Weinstein's trial -- a landmark moment in the #MeToo movement that the 2017 allegations against him started -- had shown prejudice by allowing women to testify about allegations that were not part of the case. The court has now ordered a new trial.
Weinstein, the Oscar-winning producer of "Shakespeare in Love" and "Good Will Hunting," is serving a 23-year sentence at the Mohawk Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in Rome, N.Y. He will remain imprisoned as he was also convicted of rape in Los Angeles in 2022 and sentenced to an additional 16 years in prison. However, Weinstein was acquitted in the Los Angeles trial on charges involving a woman who testified in his New York case.

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"We reaffirm that no person accused of illegality may be judged on proof of uncharged crimes that serve only to establish the accused's propensity for criminal behavior," wrote Judge Jenny Rivera in the court's majority opinion. "It is an abuse of judicial discretion to permit untested allegations of nothing more than bad behavior that destroys a defendant's character but sheds no light on their credibility as related to the criminal charges lodged against them."

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Judge Madeline Singas wrote in the court's dissenting opinion, "With today's decision, this Court continues to thwart the steady gains survivors of sexual violence have fought for in our criminal justice system. Forgotten are the women who bear the psychological trauma of sexual violence and the scars of testifying again, and again. This erosion of precedent, born from a refusal to accept that crimes of sexual violence are far more nuanced and complex than other crimes, comes at the expense and safety of women."

This is always the pitch: We have to break the rules to convict this defendant for political reasons.

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At oral argument in February, Aidala maintained that Justice James Burke had stacked the deck against Weinstein by allowing three women -- Dawn Dunning, Tarale Wulff and Lauren Young -- to testify against him.
Each of the women told the jury that Weinstein had sexually assaulted them after they showed up for what they thought would be a business meeting. The so-called "Molineux" witnesses were called to show that Weinstein's assaults had a common pattern, and that he was not confused about whether or not the victims consented.
Weinstein's defense argued that the effect of the testimony, however, was to attack his character without shedding any light on the allegations for which he was actually charged.
"This is major prejudice," Aidala argued in February. "It's saying, 'He's a bad guy. He's a bad guy. He's a bad guy.'"
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The issue of "prior bad acts" testimony was also raised in Bill Cosby's successful appeal of his sexual assault conviction in Pennsylvania. In that case, five women were allowed to testify to buttress the one allegation that was charged. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned that conviction on different grounds, finding that prosecutors had reneged on a promise not to prosecute Cosby.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:10 PM

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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

2 So, it was a rushed prosecution with tenuous ties to actual law, pursued for political purposes?

That's not the NY court system that I know and love!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:11 PM (GBKbO)

3 But this one is overturned, and he'll be retried, this time without the supplementation of "prior bad acts" witnesses.

Will he?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:12 PM (IUd0M)

4 Harvey Weinstein didn't kill himself...

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 25, 2024 02:13 PM (esflq)

5 It's only a signature if he directly requests a ficus.

Or "signs" a slogan rather than a general sprinkling.

Posted by: DaveA at April 25, 2024 02:13 PM (PMJuY)

6 Narrator in 2026: He was, in fact, never retried.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 25, 2024 02:14 PM (CwhoI)

7 It appears New York prosecutors love to play fast and loose with the law.

*cough*

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:15 PM (JeYYB)

8 I wonder if he's being sued in civil. It makes sense if they rushed the criminal trials to get his civil defense strategy exposed.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 02:15 PM (IG4Id)

9 He's an awful person, who has LONG been known to be an awful person...

But you don't get to ignore the law just because he's awful.

The ruling is correct- the prosecution was given way too much leeway.

I'm absolutely shocked to see that there is a semblance of the rule of law hanging on. (If you have a ton of money to spend on appeals.)

Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 25, 2024 02:15 PM (N1tpc)

10 Move ovah, Ninth Ciuhkit!

Posted by: New Yawk Coawts at April 25, 2024 02:15 PM (gKWVE)

11 RIP the rule of law in New York state. It's like they use the criminal justice system to get whomever they don't like at the moment.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:15 PM (YqDXo)

12 Just in case you had doubts about there being two sets of laws....

Hopefully this means we'll get hot chicks in movies showing their tits again.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 02:16 PM (xcxpd)

13 He really is one ugly looking human being. I'd have to say he would never get a female to have sex with him willingly.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 02:16 PM (F6UFz)

14 9 He's an awful person, who has LONG been known to be an awful person...

But you don't get to ignore the law just because he's awful.

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There are so many similarities.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (JeYYB)

15 Overturning the conviction is correct, even though the guy is a scumbag.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (ufFY8)

16 Why didn't the prosecution get their pee-pees knocked down when they brought up prior bad acts?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (YqDXo)

17 Heh. NY prosecutor Bragg is using the same strategy during the Trump trial and dragging in peripheral mudslinging that has nothing to do with the conduct on trial.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (/AKWf)

18 so, Trump can't be prosecuted for saying he grabbed them by the pussy

where's my fucking pearls ??

Posted by: yikes at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (us2H3)

19 So basically what you're saying is, the justice system in New York is run by monkeys and imbeciles.

That's the message I'm getting.

Weinstein's a pig, and deserves whatever hell he gets, in this life and the next, but prosecutors are the worst people on the planet. Worse than rapists.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (dGCAG)

20 "I'm not even sure how this was allowed in the first place.

Forget it Jake, it's New York.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (33Ta2)

21 Something something "Thomas More" something something "The Devil"...

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (pgwxJ)

22 Did the alleged rape occur in Manhattan?

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (rj6Yv)

23 He really is one ugly looking human being. I'd have to say he would never get a female to have sex with him willingly.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 02:16 PM (F6UFz)
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Female of what species? He might stand a chance with a female warthog.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (YqDXo)

24 17 Heh. NY prosecutor Bragg is using the same strategy during the Trump trial and dragging in peripheral mudslinging that has nothing to do with the conduct on trial.
Posted by: whig

Unsure Trump's lawyers necessarily want to bring in "The Ficus Defense"

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (gKWVE)

25 My diseased and misshaped pneis is so happy

Posted by: Harvy Pervy Weinerstein at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (NtVYv)

26 Did the alleged rape occur in Manhattan?

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (rj6Yv)
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It was SRO in the Bergdorf changing rooms.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (YqDXo)

27 24 17 Heh. NY prosecutor Bragg is using the same strategy during the Trump trial and dragging in peripheral mudslinging that has nothing to do with the conduct on trial.
Posted by: whig

Unsure Trump's lawyers necessarily want to bring in "The Ficus Defense"
Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (gKWVE)

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If you can't ficus, then you must acquit us.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:19 PM (GBKbO)

28 17 Heh. NY prosecutor Bragg is using the same strategy during the Trump trial and dragging in peripheral mudslinging that has nothing to do with the conduct on trial.
Posted by: whig

I thought the same thing

Posted by: Harvy Pervy Weinerstein at April 25, 2024 02:19 PM (NtVYv)

29 I'm not even sure how this was allowed in the first place.

Harvey Weinstein was the ORANGEMANBAD of #metoo. He was loved, respected, powerful within the system and then... something changed and he was public enemy #1.

Is there anything you wouldn't do to stop ~~Hitler~~ Weinstein?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:19 PM (IUd0M)

30 It is the right call. No chance he has a second trial though.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at April 25, 2024 02:19 PM (7PziG)

31 Morning.

Holy shit, are we going to have to defend Harvey fucking Weinstein now?

What a world.

Can the ficus testify?

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 02:19 PM (oNOxo)

32 29 I'm not even sure how this was allowed in the first place.

Harvey Weinstein was the ORANGEMANBAD of #metoo. He was loved, respected, powerful within the system and then... something changed and he was public enemy #1.

Is there anything you wouldn't do to stop Hitler Weinstein?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:19 PM (IUd0M)

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He was taking jobs that should have gone to an oppressed minority like Ivy league educated, wealthy white women.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:19 PM (GBKbO)

33 It was SRO in the Bergdorf changing rooms.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (YqDXo)

Thanks. So, it's Alvin Bragg's call, eh? LOL

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 02:20 PM (rj6Yv)

34 But this one is overturned, and he'll be retried, this time without the supplementation of "prior bad acts" witnesses.
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E. Jean Carroll is warming in the bullpen. Once she gets out of the mental institution.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:20 PM (YqDXo)

35 31 Morning.

Holy shit, are we going to have to defend Harvey fucking Weinstein now?

What a world.

Can the ficus testify?
Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 02:19 PM (oNOxo)

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I see it as opportunity to point and laugh at the NY court system.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

36 16 Why didn't the prosecution get their pee-pees knocked down when they brought up prior bad acts?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Character evidence alleging past bad acts gets problematic when it involves uncharged crimes. Had Weinstein been tried and convicted of those past crimes, it would have been allowable because it would demonstrate a pattern of ability to commit those crimes in the past. Essentially what NY prosecutors did was use uncharged past bad acts to argue that that this evidence applied to the particular case at hand.

Goes back for a retrial is what will happen.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:20 PM (/AKWf)

37 The issue of "prior bad acts" testimony was also raised in Bill Cosby's successful appeal of his sexual assault conviction in Pennsylvania. In that case, five women were allowed to testify to buttress the one allegation that was charged. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned that conviction on different grounds, finding that prosecutors had reneged on a promise not to prosecute Cosby.
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:10 PM

Ah, I see the press is dutifully hiding information.

The prosecutors SPECIFICALLY promised not to prosecute Cosby so that he could not invoke the 5th amendment in a civil trial.

Then, USING THE EVIDENCE FROM THE CIVIL TRIAL, the prosecutors charged him with crimes.

They should be in jail for deprivation of rights under the color of law.

But there are no consequences for the ruling class. They get a "scolding" and then go on to do the same thing again.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 25, 2024 02:20 PM (N1tpc)

38 Not to defend Harvey Weinstein, who is by all reports an enormous bag of douche, but any accusation that he has not been convicted of, by definition, he is innocent of in our system. At least, under the system we used to have.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 25, 2024 02:20 PM (esflq)

39 UGGGGG... off you vile sock.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 02:21 PM (N1tpc)

40
Why bother having another trial? It sounds like he's in jail for the rest of his life. Anyway, the NY judicial system needs to spend every dollar on prosecuting that serial jay-walker and sexual deviant Donald Trump.

Did you know he said the word, 'pussy'?

Posted by: Karen CheChe at April 25, 2024 02:21 PM (RKVpM)

41 "Yeah, but where does my ficus go to get its reputation back?"

#MeToo

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 02:21 PM (yZP7y)

42 How did Weinstein ever get to his position? He's got enough ugly to open a branch face. He'd be better off shaving his ass and walking on his hands.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (YqDXo)

43 This gives Harvey another out, by saying the jury pool of almost the whole USA is now tainted because of this unjust trial.

He owns enough Democrats that im actually shocked this went this far.

Posted by: Rbastid at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (hwnBu)

44 "Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!"

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (pgwxJ)

45 but any accusation that he has not been convicted of, by definition, he is innocent of in our system. At least, under the system we used to have.
Posted by: Hawkpilot

That Western standard of law went out the door with employment discrimination law.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (IG4Id)

46 43 This gives Harvey another out, by saying the jury pool of almost the whole USA is now tainted because of this unjust trial.

He owns enough Democrats that im actually shocked this went this far.
Posted by: Rbastid at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (hwnBu)

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I don't think it's going to get him out of the California penal system, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (GBKbO)

47 Did you know he said the word, 'pussy'?

Posted by: Karen CheChe at April 25, 2024 02:21 PM (RKVpM)
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And he tore the tag off a mattress. This cannot stand!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (YqDXo)

48 Holy shit, are we going to have to defend Harvey fucking Weinstein now?

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Unfortunately we are. The courts are simply another shit show.

I had a friend say, "I know at least one juror will not convict Trump." My response, "that didn't work out during the MOST bogus rape/defamation trial." Not one person had enough critical thinking skill to know that woman was a nut case.

The more I hear about her the more I get enraged.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (JeYYB)

49 Bailiff, whack him on the pee pee.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (2UnvF)

50 He really is one ugly looking human being. I'd have to say he would never get a female to have sex with him willingly.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 02:16 PM (F6UFz)

He's got a ton of money. He could get hundreds of women to have sex with him willingly.

But he wouldn't get the thrill of using his power on them, nor these specific women to sleep with him.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 02:23 PM (N1tpc)

51 >> crimes of sexual violence are far more nuanced and complex than other crimes, comes at the expense and safety of women."

Nuanced and complexed is shorthand for Banana In The Tail Pipe.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 02:23 PM (JIdXK)

52 Can the ficus testify?

Kamala Ficus Harris

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 25, 2024 02:23 PM (ufFY8)

53 But that's what the state of New York did...

Pretty much sums it up right there.
We're New York so everyone else can piss off!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 02:23 PM (W/lyH)

54 Overturning the conviction is correct, even though the guy is a scumbag.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (ufFY

Same point I made about OJ a couple weeks ago, even though a lot of people don't want to hear it.

They botched his case, and the cops planted evidence. Which is why he was acquitted, not because the jurors were sticking it to the "white man."

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 02:23 PM (dGCAG)

55 Weinstein is a scumbag but the Court of Appeals was correct. All of the judges were appointed by either Cuomo or Hochul. It was a surprise that the appellate division, which is the first level of appeal in NYS let it stand. The trial judge screwed this up , just like the Judge in Trump's case are screwing up. They are trying to cater to the mob, which should be ignored by a judge

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 02:23 PM (aX7Uj)

56 I'm going to have to testify at the retrial, aren't I?

Posted by: Ficus at April 25, 2024 02:24 PM (8b2OY)

57 ‘He isn’t getting out of jail because there is still the 16 year for the LA conviction.

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 02:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

58 Come on Eileen !

Posted by: Harvy Pervy Weinerstein at April 25, 2024 02:24 PM (NtVYv)

59 The trial judge allowed it because they knew the conviction would be tossed. It was specifically challenged by the defense and the judge ruled against them.

Fast forward to now. The New York judiciary is allowing Trump to be prosecuted based on an act for which the statute of limitations has expired. They've further allowed other charges to be falsely compounded and brought based on that unlawful charge.

New York courts routinely do things like this on a regular basis. To the point they've even ignored SCOTUS in cases like Bruen.

Meanwhile criminals and illegal immigrants roam free.

People are leaving New York for many reasons. But one of those is increasingly a justice system that has been weaponized against the average person or business who doesn't agree with them.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 25, 2024 02:24 PM (33Ta2)

60 57 as Ace noted had I read instead of skimmed.

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 02:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

61 He'd be better off shaving his ass and walking on his hands.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (YqDXo)

Lord help me but I have days like this.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 02:24 PM (oNOxo)

62 Frankendick comes out on top

Posted by: nckate at April 25, 2024 02:24 PM (4bYb7)

63 Ersatz AnarchoTyranist: Listen we just have to bend the rules to get pigs like Harvey Weinstein and wreckers like Trump and also grannies parading and alternate electors and...

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 02:25 PM (JIdXK)

64 Character evidence alleging past bad acts gets problematic when it involves uncharged crimes. Had Weinstein been tried and convicted of those past crimes, it would have been allowable because it would demonstrate a pattern of ability to commit those crimes in the past. Essentially what NY prosecutors did was use uncharged past bad acts to argue that that this evidence applied to the particular case at hand.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:20 PM (/AKWf)
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Is this another "Judge Engoron presents?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:25 PM (YqDXo)

65 They botched his case, and the cops planted evidence. Which is why he was acquitted, not because the jurors were sticking it to the "white man."
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 02:23 PM (dGCAG)

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I don't disagree with you but at least one OJ juror actually said that for them it was sticking it to the white man.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:25 PM (JeYYB)

66 Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 25, 2024 02:15 PM (N1tpc)

Not gonna lie, I'm impressed by your analysis. Who did you copy it from?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:26 PM (IUd0M)

67 But that's what the state of New York did to get their conviction. They had some weak evidence of rape in cases where the statute of limitations hadn't run out yet, so they put on evidence from other women claiming they'd been raped (in cases where the statute of limitations had run out).

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President Donald J. Trump hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 02:26 PM (yZP7y)

68 And this is how Democrats treat a Democrat when he's no longer useful.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:26 PM (RQM8P)

69 Unsure Trump's lawyers necessarily want to bring in "The Ficus Defense"
Posted by: gKWVE
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It is more to the point that the appellate court has handed the Trump team a cudgel to apply to the judge in the case. Bragg just introduced the Natl Inquirer editor to testify about how stories are squelched and this is the key to the argument that the payments to Stormy and McDougal as well as to the doorman to squash a stupid story about Trump impregnating a maid at the Trump hotel constitute a pattern of misbehavior.

Since all of that, like whether Weinstein actually had relationships with the accuser, were uncharged activity (in Trump's case because there is literally no law that prohibit disclosure agreements and payment to prevent disclosure), the past bad acts to show they are a bad person is not allowed due to the Weinstein appellate ruling.

Make the leap even larger that appellate courts can uphold any guilty verdict based on Orangeman Bad tactics.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:26 PM (/AKWf)

70 I see it as opportunity to point and laugh at the NY court system.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju wi

cue Nelson Muntz

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:26 PM (CIS44)

71 It was just serving "Believe All (People Who Say That They Are) Women"

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 02:26 PM (OaZlZ)

72 Weinstein is a pig, but 99% of this was just casting couch type arrangements and the women were pissed he didn’t make them a star as promised.

Posted by: Benchmark at April 25, 2024 02:26 PM (Jt4ck)

73 @59

>>Fast forward to now. The New York judiciary is allowing Trump to be prosecuted based on an act for which the statute of limitations has expired.

It's actually worse than that, the base charge of falsifying records happened in 2017 after the election, so they are in essence charging Trump with pre-crime.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 02:27 PM (JIdXK)

74 He really is one ugly looking human being. I'd have to say he would never get a female to have sex with him willingly.
Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 02:16 PM (F6UFz)

He is, or was, really, really, really rich AND could get you a major boost in showbiz.

He was swimming in pussy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:27 PM (IUd0M)

75 Kinda' makes me question the fairness of our justice system.

Nah... it's nowhere near political enough yet, is it? Plenty of room to the left

<------ over there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 02:27 PM (Q4IgG)

76 NY Court is run by Charlie Foxtrot.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 02:27 PM (OaZlZ)

77 Not gonna lie, I'm impressed by your analysis. Who did you copy it from?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:26 PM (IUd0M)

That guy who forgets to remove his sock.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2024 02:27 PM (ufFY8)

78 Ace noted had I read instead of skimmed.
Posted by: Piper a

Piper ace knows we dont read the content

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:27 PM (CIS44)

79 I don't think people are defending Weinstein per se. They are more so pointing out the courts in New York are the most corrupt in our nation and therefore at some point subject to reversal.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 25, 2024 02:27 PM (33Ta2)

80 Ol' Harve was a well-known POS when Meryl Streep led Hollywood in a standing ovation for him.

I cry no tears at this.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 25, 2024 02:28 PM (KbCG3)

81 NY prosecutor Bragg is using the same strategy during the Trump trial and dragging in peripheral mudslinging that has nothing to do with the conduct on trial.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (/AKWf)

Took Weinstein 4 years to get his conviction overturned.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:28 PM (IUd0M)

82 I doubt there was any rapes. The women were willing to have sex with Weinstein to further their careers.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 25, 2024 02:28 PM (Dz6Vv)

83 They botched his case, and the cops planted evidence. Which is why he was acquitted, not because the jurors were sticking it to the "white man."

"Something something Healing power of 'And'..."

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 25, 2024 02:28 PM (esflq)

84 Weinstein is a pig, but 99% of this was just casting couch type arrangements and the women were pissed he didn’t make them a star as promised.
Posted by: Benchmark

I literally just said this to my buddy in class.

also it was a chance for woman to open up spots in hollywood and move up the ladder.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:29 PM (CIS44)

85 Oprah sure liked herself some Weinstein.

She liked a lot of sickos.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:29 PM (JeYYB)

86 I'm getting the impression that legal proceedings in New York are pretty like the trial scene in Idiocracy.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:29 PM (YqDXo)

87 When is that poor fern going to get justice?!

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 02:29 PM (OaZlZ)

88 He really is one ugly looking human being. I'd have to say he would never get a female to have sex with him willingly.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024

Weinstein's ex-wife Georgina Chapman is gorgeous. It's amazing what type of woman an ugly man can get if he's loaded and connected. She runs a fashion line now and maybe needed his $$ and connections to get that off the ground.

Posted by: Cheri at April 25, 2024 02:29 PM (oiNtH)

89 They botched his case, and the cops planted evidence. Which is why he was acquitted, not because the jurors were sticking it to the "white man."
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 02:23 PM (dGCAG)

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I don't disagree with you but at least one OJ juror actually said that for them it was sticking it to the white man.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:25 PM (JeYYB)

I only ever heard one juror talk about the case, at length, and the impression I had was she would have voted guilty if it wasn't for all the obvious holes they were able to poke at the work of the cops and the techs.

So in a sense, "sticking it to the white man" could be construed as saying "no" when the system tries to railroad defendants. Which it does. A lot. And not just to ex-NFL running backs.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 02:29 PM (dGCAG)

90 Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:26 PM (/AKWf)

The smart (if lazy and cowardly) thing for the judge to do, might well be to declare "mistrial":
markicohenattorneynyc.com/what- is-a-mistrial-and-what-are-some-of-the-common- grounds-for-a-mistrial/
... and let some other judge pick up Bragg's rancid turd of a case.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2024 02:30 PM (gKWVE)

91 It's actually worse than that, the base charge of falsifying records happened in 2017 after the election, so they are in essence charging Trump with pre-crime.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at

it's actually worse than that, the crime they boot strapped it to to make it a felony to extend the staute of limitations is a state law about running for state office.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:30 PM (CIS44)

92 Ol' Harve was a well-known POS when Meryl Streep led Hollywood in a standing ovation for him.
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Meryl Streep was grateful for the action.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:30 PM (YqDXo)

93 88 He really is one ugly looking human being. I'd have to say he would never get a female to have sex with him willingly.

maybe he had a really great personality?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 02:30 PM (s3qiR)

94 Ficus was great on the Quark show.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 25, 2024 02:30 PM (oOdkd)

95 The casting couch is still in use because the casting couch still works. If you decide your dignity and self respect are worth less than a chance at playing dress-up and make-believe for a (good) living, well...?!?

(Assuming any of them got to that level or stage with any dignity or self-respect left.)

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at April 25, 2024 02:31 PM (pgwxJ)

96 They botched his case, and the cops planted evidence. Which is why he was acquitted, not because the jurors were sticking it to the "white man."
Posted by: BurtTC
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I watched every minute of the trial. The cops and the DAs were a disgrace. Lying, contradicting, fabricating bastards. If they had done their job by the book they would have won the case.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 02:31 PM (lCWOD)

97 On OJ, Lefties weren't happy that a rich famous person had got away with murder just because he was black. What they were actually happy about was that he'd killed a pretty rich blonde woman and got away with it, thereby "pwning the whites".

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:31 PM (RQM8P)

98 Harvey Weinstein was the ORANGEMANBAD of #metoo. He was loved, respected, powerful within the system and then... something changed and he was public enemy #1.

Is there anything you wouldn't do to stop Hitler Weinstein?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:19 PM (IUd0M)

They had to make him duh Devil, because the Women involved will NEVER admit to any culpability via their behavior.

None of this was a secret. Hollywood KNEW what he was doing, and 'some' would pay that price, for a foot in the door.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2024 02:31 PM (xaFKb)

99 It seems that the NY state justice system is not as robust as the tv shows would have us believe.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 02:32 PM (PHukT)

100 it's actually worse than that, the crime they boot strapped it to to make it a felony to extend the staute of limitations is a state law about running for state office.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:30 PM (CIS44)

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Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:32 PM (JeYYB)

101 They botched his case, and the cops planted evidence. Which is why he was acquitted, not because the jurors were sticking it to the "white man."
Posted by: BurtTC
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Except if you see some of the jurors in that case interviewed, they say themselves, in so many words, that they were sticking it to the white man.

Not sure how this is difficult.

Posted by: ballistic at April 25, 2024 02:32 PM (oqH4h)

102 I wasn't Johnny Cochran what won the case, it was Alan Dershowitz and Barry Schect.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (lCWOD)

103 President Donald J. Trump hardest hit ...
Posted by: ShainS
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Vice versa, Trump's prosecutors are the hardest hit. It undermines their pattern of behavior and character assassination disguised as evidence.

They are relying on 2015-2016 testimony which is past the statute of limitations for the misdemeanors of false business reporting based on payments to Stormy, McDougal, etc. This is being used to argue a pattern of Trump misbehavior led to the conduct of Trump misleading the population so that they would have voted for Killary in 2016. To that level, they are trying to apply a NYS statute that deals with state elections to make the misreporting of financials from Trump Inc (categorizing campaign expenditures as legal ones) which is the whole 34 count bullshit where each check payment to Cohen is alleged to have benefited Trump illegally in the 2016 election.

FEC and the Feds already investigated and declined to charge--even the tainted SDNY Trump haters did so. So can Bragg change a state statute to apply to federal elections (which actually creates a federal appellate question to the whole deal) and now has this appellate court ruling undermining his case.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (/AKWf)

104 Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?
Posted by: Seems Legit at

other than ORANGEMANBAD TDS?

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (CIS44)

105 Harvey Weinstein's 1969 school photo shows a young, good looking guy.

As has been said in at least one movie about a 30yo woman, half way between ripe and rotten.

He didn't always look like a monster, most don't.
If his looks and not his actions convicted him heaven help the ugly.

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (F3Dlr)

106 Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:32 PM (JeYYB)

Being Trump

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (Akjoo)

107 100 Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:32 PM (JeYYB)

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Being an enemy of the American IC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (GBKbO)

108 You can point at New York and laugh all you want. They may be the worst, but Democrats are corrupting and subverting the courts wherever they can get their jurists on the bench. It has become essential to foisting their agenda on the people. I just listened to possibly the dumbest jurist ever appointed to SCOTUS by Democrats, Jackson, have her ass intellectually handed to her again today. They don't care. They're not embarrassed. They have an agenda and that's all that matters. Not law. Not constitution. Not tradition. Not right or wrong. Justice for Democrats isn't blind. It is fully focused on using its vision to attack its detractors.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (33Ta2)

109 The prohibition of "Prior Bad Acts" evidence is ironic. Often the best evidence that the defendant is guilty of the currently alleged conduct is that he has a history of such conduct. Yet the jury is generally not allowed to hear about it. It's one of the many paradoxes of jurisprudence.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

110 Except if you see some of the jurors in that case interviewed, they say themselves, in so many words, that they were sticking it to the white man.

Not sure how this is difficult.
Posted by: ballistic at A

A Juror said (paraphrasing) this verdict was in response to Rodney King

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (CIS44)

111 "Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?"

Heh. Alvin Bragg can't even do that.

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at April 25, 2024 02:34 PM (pgwxJ)

112 104 Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?
Posted by: Seems Legit at

The news tells me it was hush money payments to porn stars.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 02:34 PM (PHukT)

113 But there are no consequences for the ruling class. They get a "scolding" and then go on to do the same thing again.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 25, 2024 02:20 PM (N1tpc)

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* The Clintons, The DogEater & His Wingman, James Comey, John Brennan, Robert Mueller, Andrew Weissmann, and a whole of serial traitors too long to list have entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 02:34 PM (yZP7y)

114 ------

Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?
Posted by: Seems Legit
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He ruins their grafty punchbowl.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 02:34 PM (lCWOD)

115 95 The casting couch is still in use because the casting couch still works. If you decide your dignity and self respect are worth less than a chance at playing dress-up and make-believe for a (good) living, well...?!?

(Assuming any of them got to that level or stage with any dignity or self-respect left.)

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at April 25, 2024 02:31 PM (pgwxJ)

++++

Sex becomes a mechanical business deal and both parties know what they are. Can't be good for one's morale, on either side.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 02:34 PM (F6UFz)

116 If OJ wasn't a "makeup verdict" why was the Left so fucking elated about it?

And don't tell me they weren't. I was in a room full of hundreds of them and they cheered like they'd won the super bowl. Disclgraceful commie shitstains.

I thought I was on another planet. But only because back then I was too young and dumb to understand what the Left was.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:34 PM (RQM8P)

117 The news tells me it was hush money payments to porn stars.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

not a crime

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:35 PM (CIS44)

118 A Juror said (paraphrasing) this verdict was in response to Rodney King
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (CIS44)

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This is the juror I heard.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:35 PM (JeYYB)

119 Did the alleged rape occur in Manhattan?
Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (rj6Yv)

Bergdorf Goodman. That's where they be rapin' errybody!

Posted by: Hide your kids, hide your wife! at April 25, 2024 02:35 PM (Wc83a)

120 not a crime
Posted by: BruceWayne

Are you telling me the news is wrong, sir? I shannot believe it!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 02:35 PM (PHukT)

121 The issue of "prior bad acts" testimony was also raised in Bill Cosby's successful appeal of his sexual assault conviction in Pennsylvania.

.. that's not really how Cosby "got off".
It seemed that a previous DA had made an offer to Cosby to testify in a civil suit, which in turn the DZ would not prosecute Cosby criminally. Cosby did testify.
The next DA just ignored the "deal" and prosecuted Cosby anyway. Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled the "deal" was still in force, so there was no conviction.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 02:36 PM (RHGPo)

122 Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:32 PM (JeYYB)

Being Trump
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (Akjoo)
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Being the main source of TDS to so many coastal elites.

They hate that.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 02:36 PM (OaZlZ)

123 They are more so pointing out the courts in New York are the most corrupt in our nation...
Posted by: Vengeance at April 25, 2024 02:27 PM (33Ta2)

Hey, hey, hey! What are we, chopped liver?

-- DC courts

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:36 PM (IUd0M)

124 Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:32 PM (JeYYB)

He once drank straight from an orange juice bottle then put it back in the fridge.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:36 PM (RQM8P)

125 They had to make him duh Devil, because the Women involved will NEVER admit to any culpability via their behavior.

None of this was a secret. Hollywood KNEW what he was doing, and 'some' would pay that price, for a foot in the door.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Harvey being Harvey, I do suspect he sexually assaulted some of them because he got used to getting what he wanted. Just because some floozy actresses climbed into bed with him willingly does not mean all of them did so.

His pursuit of one actress in France for the Cannes Festival (Mira Sorvino maybe) was particularly appalling and he blackballed her in the industry when she would not give into the bastard.

That is both a civil and criminal matter.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:36 PM (/AKWf)

126 117 The news tells me it was hush money payments to porn stars.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

not a crime
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:35 PM (CIS44)

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Right.

I seriously don't know what he's on trial for. Something about hush money, but didn't what's her name write a letter stating their affair never happened? I don't get it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:36 PM (JeYYB)

127 118 A Juror said (paraphrasing) this verdict was in response to Rodney King
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (CIS44)

I thought reginald denny paid the price for that sin?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 02:37 PM (PHukT)

128 If OJ wasn't a "makeup verdict" why was the Left so fucking elated about it?

And don't tell me they weren't. I was in a room full of hundreds of them and they cheered like they'd won the super bowl. Disclgraceful commie shitstains.

I thought I was on another planet. But only because back then I was too young and dumb to understand what the Left was.
Posted by: ... at

I was in class at a school that was about 50/50 white/black we watched the verdict come in. half the class jumped up and cheered, half groaned and rolled their eyes. I'll allow you to draw your own conclusions as to who did what.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:37 PM (CIS44)

129 The news tells me it was hush money payments to porn stars.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

not a crime
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:35 PM (CIS44)

In Soviet Amerika, crime commits you.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:37 PM (RQM8P)

130 Weinstein's ex-wife Georgina Chapman is gorgeous. It's amazing what type of woman an ugly man can get if he's loaded and connected. She runs a fashion line now and maybe needed his $$ and connections to get that off the ground.
Posted by: Cheri at April

Marchesa was part of the whole kerfuffle. Everyone was wearing it on the red carpet, because Weinstein told them they had to do so. It tanked with Weinstein. She divorced him and friend to come back. They still exist, but you don’t see it worn like you used to.

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 02:37 PM (ZdaMQ)

131 Oprah sure liked herself some Weinstein.

She liked a lot of sickos.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:29 PM (JeYYB)

And now she's a billionaire.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:37 PM (IUd0M)

132 "Sex becomes a mechanical business deal and both parties know what they are. Can't be good for one's morale, on either side."

Acknowledged. I personally can't view sex through that lens. Too much of a romantic.

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at April 25, 2024 02:38 PM (pgwxJ)

133 Right, he is a scumbag but he did not get a fair trial. You know who else got the most unfair trial I have ever witnessed and is not even being given an appeal? A certain coo in Minnesota

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 02:38 PM (FQmDC)

134 Okay - Trump was convicted of defamation on FAR less evidence that presented in the Harvey Weinstein trial.

Not only that, but he was convicted of "defamation" by saying he didn't sexually assault E. Jean Carroll. yes, by defending himself against the allegations he "defamed" her. Then he was told to pay, what $5 million, in damages.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 25, 2024 02:38 PM (nLFEI)

135 I thought I was on another planet. But only because back then I was too young and dumb to understand what the Left was.
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:34 PM (RQM8P)

I was in the Navy in San Diego at the time. They put us on alert, and restricted us to base the day of the verdict.

We were on call for Riot Duty.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2024 02:38 PM (xaFKb)

136 Right, he is a scumbag but he did not get a fair trial. You know who else got the most unfair trial I have ever witnessed and is not even being given an appeal? A certain coo in Minnesota
Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 02:38 PM (FQmDC)

Yeah, you can still get a semblance of justice... if you have enough money for bunches of appeals.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 02:39 PM (N1tpc)

137 And now she's a billionaire.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:37 PM (IUd0M)

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D'OH!

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:39 PM (JeYYB)

138 This is the juror I heard.
Posted by: Seems Legit
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The KeyStone kops made it easy for them to say that.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 02:39 PM (lCWOD)

139 I was in class at a school that was about 50/50 white/black we watched the verdict come in. half the class jumped up and cheered, half groaned and rolled their eyes. I'll allow you to draw your own conclusions as to who did what.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:37 PM (CIS44)

Heard that from others but my room was full of rich white privileged leftist shitstains on the ass of humanity.

Was your room fully leftarded or just.... half of them

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:39 PM (RQM8P)

140 124

He once drank straight from an orange juice bottle then put it back in the fridge.
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:36

It was milk. But not just any milk. Chocolate milk. And we all know why!

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 02:40 PM (ZdaMQ)

141 Then he was told to pay, what $5 million, in damages.
Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 25, 2024 02:38 PM (nLFEI)

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I thought it was something insane like 250,000,000.

I don't know shit.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:40 PM (JeYYB)

142 The news tells me it was hush money payments to porn stars.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
________________

A patent lawyer where I used to work was fired for incompetence (God knows, justifiably), but she was connected, and the company paid her hush money just because they didn't want the bad publicity.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:40 PM (YqDXo)

143 Weinstein wasn't guilty of anything more than the typical casting-couch sleazy business that happens in producers and directors' rooms every day across the country. The NYC trial was indeed a railroading to appease MeToo, and the appeals court rightfully threw it out.

Harv is a fucking pig, but that's not illegal. And there was no shortage of THOTs eager to fuck him for career advancement.

The California case wasn't much better. His THOT accuser accused him of raping her when she inexplicably went to his hotel room for an "interview" (or some similar obviously red-flag situation). Then -- as she admitted -- she began a consensual relationship with him. Yes, that was her testimony: she started dating her rapist. Then, she claims, he raped her again!

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

144 @103

>>They are relying on 2015-2016 testimony which is past the statute of limitations for the misdemeanors of false business reporting based on payments to Stormy, McDougal,

The documents in question are not forward facing documents that would be proffered in an audit or any sort of financial accounting or filing, they were essentially inter-business diaries.

The only reason anyone knows about them is because of Michael Cohen.

So ipso facto these entries could not have been made to cover for a crime BECAUESE NO ONE WOULD HAVE SEEN THE F***KING ENTRIES!!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 02:41 PM (JIdXK)

145 The prohibition of "Prior Bad Acts" evidence is ironic. Often the best evidence that the defendant is guilty of the currently alleged conduct is that he has a history of such conduct. Yet the jury is generally not allowed to hear about it. It's one of the many paradoxes of jurisprudence.
Posted by: Elric Blade
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Criminal has a higher standard on character evidence that does civil.

Actually has a logical basis to it if you view each trial as only pertaining to the facts of the case at hand rather than whether the person is a 'bad' un that needs to be locked up whether or not they did the crime at hand.

Nothing pisses an old lag off more than being accused and convicted of a crime they did not commit. Many of them will more or less admit sotte voce that they got what was coming in just convictions but they cannot stand being convicted for things they did not do.

For a long time, that is how sloppy cops solved crimes--they go to the persons likely to have committed the crimes on past behavior and if necessary build a case to frame them because the cops reason even if they did not do it, they should be locked up to prevent the inevitable future crimes from the perp

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:41 PM (/AKWf)

146 124 Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:32 PM (JeYYB)
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Two. Scoops.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 02:41 PM (OaZlZ)

147 This is always the pitch: We have to break the rules to convict this defendant for political reasons.
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Facts vs. feelz

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 02:41 PM (Be/+i)

148 Right, he is a scumbag but he did not get a fair trial. You know who else got the most unfair trial I have ever witnessed and is not even being given an appeal? A certain cop in Minnesota
Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 02:38 PM (FQmDC)
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This.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:41 PM (YqDXo)

149 Bank of America, Chase, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo, Citi Bank and Truist, Charles Schwab, HSBC, MUFG, PayPal, Santander, Standard Chartered and Western Union have all been asked to turn over documents and communications with FinCEN and the FBI

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 02:42 PM (RHGPo)

150 I told him, more than once. If you want your freedom you dispatch the witnesses and plaintiffs. But, he had to do it the hard way.

Say, is that a Boy's School over there? Be back later.

Posted by: Kevin Spacey at April 25, 2024 02:42 PM (dIske)

151 lol, my husband was compared to a young James Dean when I married him.
I hope I'm not judged for marrying him by his looks now.

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 02:42 PM (F3Dlr)

152 Right.

I seriously don't know what he's on trial for. Something about hush money, but didn't what's her name write a letter stating their affair never happened? I don't get it.
Posted by: Seems Legit at

In essence, his lawyer recorded the payment in a ledger 'incorrectly' (this is debatable), all the counts stem from everytime this ledger was altered or amended or emailed etc. this happened in 2017 the statute of limitations ran out in 2019. so they strapped it to another crime to claim it was in furtherance to up it to a felony. that crime was FINALLY outed this week. a state law about running for state office (bragg was trying to claim it is a campaign finance violation)

he duped the voters cause they should have know, it was fraud (is braggs underlying claim) BUT the election was in 2016 this happened in 2017, the bootstrapped crime is a state election thing he was running for federal office. The FEC looked at it and said nope nothing illegal here. IF he had used campaign funds that would have been illegal.

That's the best I can sum it up. It's all beyond bullshit.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:42 PM (CIS44)

153 The documents in question are not forward facing documents that would be proffered in an audit or any sort of financial accounting or filing, they were essentially inter-business diaries.

The only reason anyone knows about them is because of Michael Cohen.

So ipso facto these entries could not have been made to cover for a crime BECAUESE NO ONE WOULD HAVE SEEN THE F***KING ENTRIES!!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender

Yes, it is only a DIE prosecutor, Bragg that is willing to do so for fame and fortune. Cyrus Vance Jr retired instead of doing so.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:43 PM (/AKWf)

154 That's the best I can sum it up. It's all beyond bullshit.
Posted by: BruceWayne
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Did a good job, better than I did about summing it up.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:43 PM (/AKWf)

155 Heard that from others but my room was full of rich white privileged leftist shitstains on the ass of humanity.

Was your room fully leftarded or just.... half of them
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024

hs so prly most not even politically aware.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:43 PM (CIS44)

156 I thought it was something insane like 250,000,000.

I don't know shit.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:40 PM (JeYYB)

Different case... one is for defending himself against a false rape charge.

Other is a made up charge for fraud that never existed and had no victim.

Not to be confused with the other 7 or so court cases going on right now....

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2024 02:44 PM (xaFKb)

157 Hey!!!!

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:01 PM (RQM8P)

Hey, yourself. Hope all is well.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 25, 2024 02:44 PM (i24o9)

158 Yeah, I'm a little emaciated these days

Posted by: James Dean at April 25, 2024 02:44 PM (gKWVE)

159 119 Did the alleged rape occur in Manhattan?
Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (rj6Yv)

Bergdorf Goodman. That's where they be rapin' errybody!
Posted by: Hide your kids, hide your wife! at April 25, 2024 02:35 PM (Wc83a)
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It was the exact plot of a Law & Order episode. The alleged rape in the episode was so similar -- practically identical -- to Crazy Carrol's bullshit story that there's no way it's a coincidence.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 02:44 PM (iFTx/)

160 12 Just in case you had doubts about there being two sets of laws....

Hopefully this means we'll get hot chicks in movies showing their tits again.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 02:16 PM (xcxpd)

My eyes are up here...

Posted by: Sydney Sweeny at April 25, 2024 02:44 PM (53oGX)

161 In essence, his lawyer recorded the payment in a ledger 'incorrectly' (this is debatable), all the counts stem from everytime this ledger was altered or amended or emailed etc. this happened in 2017 the statute of limitations ran out in 2019. so they strapped it to another crime to claim it was in furtherance to up it to a felony. that crime was FINALLY outed this week. a state law about running for state office (bragg was trying to claim it is a campaign finance violation)

he duped the voters cause they should have know, it was fraud (is braggs underlying claim) BUT the election was in 2016 this happened in 2017, the bootstrapped crime is a state election thing he was running for federal office. The FEC looked at it and said nope nothing illegal here. IF he had used campaign funds that would have been illegal.

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I had to read it twice. I don't think I'm confused I think I'm confounded.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (JeYYB)

162 149 Bank of America, Chase, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo, Citi Bank and Truist, Charles Schwab, HSBC, MUFG, PayPal, Santander, Standard Chartered and Western Union have all been asked to turn over documents and communications with FinCEN and the FBI
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 02:42 PM (RHGPo)

Surprised TD Bank isn't on the list.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (N39Ws)

163 Weinstein wasn't guilty of anything more than the typical casting-couch sleazy business that happens in producers and directors' rooms every day across the country

Elric Blade
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LMAO he was accused of punching a woman in the face and spitting on her while raping her in his hotel room. Let's please relax.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (RQM8P)

164 Weinstein had a long time consensual relationship with an Italian actress IIRC. She decided years after it was over that it really wasn’t consensual and he had raped her.

This is the quandary that juries are put in when deciding whether rape occurred between people who know each other and it’s a he said she said scenario.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (MNhXM)

165 A Juror said (paraphrasing) this verdict was in response to Rodney King
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (CIS44)

I wonder if that juror has even gone back and advocated for imprisoning all the members of the major media outlets for lying about Rodney King.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:46 PM (IUd0M)

166 How many successful actresses got their start due to servicing old Harv? Not like he is the only one either.

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 02:47 PM (FQmDC)

167 Yeah, I'm a little emaciated these days
Posted by: James Dean

News Alert - if you are 30yo most people think of you as half way between ripe and rotten.

This crap of looks makes you subject to ridicule/guilt will come back to haunt most, unless they die young and leave a good looking corpse.

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 02:47 PM (F3Dlr)

168 Weinstein is a disgusting POS, but they mis-handled his first trial

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 02:47 PM (Akjoo)

169 Hey, yourself. Hope all is well.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 25, 2024 02:44 PM (i24o9)

We're muttering through.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:47 PM (RQM8P)

170 LMAO he was accused of punching a woman in the face and spitting on her while raping her in his hotel room. Let's please relax.
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (RQM8P)

Accused years later. The Duke LaCrosse team was accused of violent gang rape too.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 02:47 PM (MNhXM)

171 This is the quandary that juries are put in when deciding whether rape occurred between people who know each other and it’s a he said she said scenario.
Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (MNhXM)

Dat thit is thupid

Posted by: Mike Tythn at April 25, 2024 02:48 PM (NtVYv)

172 It was the exact plot of a Law & Order episode. The alleged rape in the episode was so similar -- practically identical -- to Crazy Carrol's bullshit story that there's no way it's a coincidence.
Posted by: Elric Blade a

except she didnt want to press charges cause she didnt want to be racist and that young man must have been a victim too

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:48 PM (CIS44)

173 I thought reginald denny paid the price for that sin?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 02:37 PM (PHukT)

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"He was like one one-billionth of the problem, h8r! Reparations be costly, yo ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 02:48 PM (yZP7y)

174 Ficus Fucker beat the rap.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 02:48 PM (R4t5M)

175 148 Right, he is a scumbag but he did not get a fair trial. You know who else got the most unfair trial I have ever witnessed and is not even being given an appeal? A certain cop in Minnesota
Posted by: steevy
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You should have been here during the trial. Many were ready to hang him for raping poor little innocent girls.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 02:48 PM (lCWOD)

176 124 Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:32 PM (JeYYB)

Beating Hillary.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:49 PM (RQM8P)

177 163 Weinstein wasn't guilty of anything more than the typical casting-couch sleazy business that happens in producers and directors' rooms every day across the country

Elric Blade
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LMAO he was accused of punching a woman in the face and spitting on her while raping her in his hotel room. Let's please relax.
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (RQM8P)
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Link? He was not convicted of any of such conduct and I don't think it was even presented at a trial. I'm sure a lot of women accused him of a lot of things once he became a target and money was being paid.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 02:49 PM (iFTx/)

178 Harvey being Harvey, I do suspect he sexually assaulted some of them because he got used to getting what he wanted. Just because some floozy actresses climbed into bed with him willingly does not mean all of them did so.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:36 PM (/AKWf)

Maybe. But you cannot convict someone over something you suspect.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:49 PM (IUd0M)

179 Flounder!

How are the little flounders? Is baseball season in full swing?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 02:49 PM (9w3M/)

180 OT, but worth a view.

How many WWII vets are alive today (by country)

https://tinyurl.com/yt4w6z6f

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 02:49 PM (CsUN+)

181 I wonder if that juror has even gone back and advocated for imprisoning all the members of the major media outlets for lying about Rodney King.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at

you know the answer to that.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:50 PM (CIS44)

182 There's a rule that you can't put on evidence of prior "bad acts" to prove that a defendant committed the specific bad acts he's being tried for in the present case.
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Eh, that rule applies whenever we feel like it. Feel free to do this to Trump.

Posted by: NY Court of Appeals at April 25, 2024 02:50 PM (4hHmM)

183
LMAO he was accused of punching a woman in the face and spitting on her while raping her in his hotel room. Let's please relax.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (RQM8P)

++++

Did she make a police report on the spot or did this come out decades later. I don't disbelieve it, he probably exploded due to his inner rage of being so ugly.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 02:50 PM (F6UFz)

184 Flounder- I hope you are feeling better.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 02:50 PM (R4t5M)

185 This is the quandary that juries are put in when deciding whether rape occurred between people who know each other and it’s a he said she said scenario.
Posted by: polynikes
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That is why he said she said still go to trial. Rape of spouse used to be absolutely barred from criminal action by states. The idea at the time was that consent was rendered when the marriage occurred and the the court should not be involved in domestic spats.

Even until recently legally speaking, spouses had an absolute bar on being able to testify against their spouse. This made criminal charges of domestic abuse particularly difficult as you had to have third party witnesses willing to testify instead of teh direct victim.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:50 PM (/AKWf)

186 180 OT, but worth a view.

How many WWII vets are alive today (by country)

https://tinyurl.com/yt4w6z6f
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 02:49 PM (CsUN+)

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Gulp.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:51 PM (JeYYB)

187 But hold Trump.on minor charges long after the fact

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 02:51 PM (mb6GH)

188 My gulp was my inarticulate way of saying, that was an great picture.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:51 PM (JeYYB)

189 Weinstein is a repulsive piece of shit. But. He's representative of Hollywood. They can keep him. And they can make excuses for him. And they can forgive him and celebrate him and give him another award.

Good for them.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 02:51 PM (9w3M/)

190 LMAO he was accused of punching a woman in the face and spitting on her while raping her in his hotel room. Let's please relax.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (RQM8P)
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Yeah, but there might have been a safeword she wasn't saying.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 02:52 PM (OaZlZ)

191 I copied the wrong frame.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 02:52 PM (lCWOD)

192 LMAO he was accused of punching a woman in the face and spitting on her while raping her in his hotel room. Let's please relax.

Posted by: ... at

So was Trevor Bauer and the woman is a lying sack of shit now indicted for fraud

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:52 PM (CIS44)

193 If Weinstein looked like Paul Newman or Brad Pitt or Zac Efron the sentiment might be much different.

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 02:52 PM (F3Dlr)

194 How are the little flounders? Is baseball season in full swing?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 02:49 PM (9w3M/)

Hell yeah.

L2 got two hits, 1 double, 1 single with error, 2 RBI, and lots of heads up play as pitcher and catcher. First win, 7-6 in 6. Out defense was on fire, with a deep CF catch by a weaker kid who I practiced a bit more with on catching just before game.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 25, 2024 02:53 PM (i24o9)

195 Accused years later. The Duke LaCrosse team was accused of violent gang rape too.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 02:47 PM (MNhXM)

They all knew what he was. I certainly don't "believe all women" but it was more credible than that bs.

My point is I'm not comfortable with the assumption that Weinstein was just a boys will be boys sexist pig trading favors, nor defending a POS bigtime Democrat obvious scumbag like that just to pwn libs.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:53 PM (RQM8P)

196 So was Trevor Bauer and the woman is a lying sack of shit now indicted for fraud

Well I have no doubt he choked her....when she said 'choke me daddy" as they were banging

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 02:53 PM (FQmDC)

197 Interesting to think many a young lass got their careers off the ground by blowing Weinstein. Wasn't Jennifer Laurence a fan of his? Just thinking out loud.

And others had to blow him and got nothing.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:54 PM (JeYYB)

198 193 If Weinstein looked like Paul Newman or Brad Pitt or Zac Efron the sentiment might be much different.
Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 02:52 PM (F3Dlr)

Tom Brady still the best skit SNL ever did and ever will do.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 02:54 PM (MNhXM)

199 170 LMAO he was accused of punching a woman in the face and spitting on her while raping her in his hotel room. Let's please relax.
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (RQM8P)

_________________________

Was that wrong? Because, I gotta tell ya, no one said anything to me.

Posted by: CosssssSTANZA at April 25, 2024 02:54 PM (dIske)

200 If Weinstein looked like Paul Newman or Brad Pitt or Zac Efron the sentiment might be much different.
Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 02:52 PM (F3Dlr)

Or Kevin Spacey?

Sometimes a vicious disgusting criminal pig is just a vicious disgusting criminal pig.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:55 PM (RQM8P)

201 Maybe. But you cannot convict someone over something you suspect.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Nope. did not say that. What I said, is that some commenters are going toward the position if the lady shows up at Harvey's hotel room it is to be considered consent for what Harvey does to them or to the poor ficus tree in front of them.

That is an injustice just as arguing that whores cannot be raped.

FWIW, I can go into song and verse about FRE 404 if you like and its corollaries that apply to witnesses.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:55 PM (/AKWf)

202 Interesting to think many a young lass got their careers off the ground by blowing Weinstein. Wasn't Jennifer Laurence a fan of his? Just thinking out loud.

And others had to blow him and got nothing.

Posted by: Seems Legit

She still is, she was supporting him throughout the trials and such. She was also just photographed wearing a mask so........

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:55 PM (CIS44)

203 We all have our kinks but it was consensual
Vince McMahon

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 02:55 PM (FQmDC)

204 Facts vs. feelz
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 02:41 PM (Be/+i)

But in this case, the feelz ARE the facts!!

Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2024 02:55 PM (gtY/l)

205 Flounder- I hope you are feeling better.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 02:50 PM (R4t5M)

Thanks for asking. I went off one of the meds, metoprolol (without Dr. instruction), got my energy back, and nearly back to pre-weight.

Feeling good and looking the part. I hope all is well with you.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 25, 2024 02:55 PM (i24o9)

206 104 Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?
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Sure.
In 2016, Stormy Daniels let it be known that she was going to allege her and Trump had an affair.
Micheal Cohen, Trump's lawyer at the time, got wind of it and made her a deal: Cash to keep quite.
National Enquirer got wind of that deal with Stormy.
Cohen then paid them to spike it.
Cohen billed Trump for "legal services."
Trump, Inc entered the payment in the business ledger as same, "legal services."
At some point, certainly after Trump, Inc paid, but definitely not before, Trump may have been told, "those payments were to Stormy and the Enquirer."

This was felony fraud on the poor people of New York state _who _voted_FOR_Trump_ as those ledger entries were 1) indirect campaign expenditures that 2) should have been reported on FEC reports (an illegal campaign expenditure) that 3) deceived those Trump voters into voting for him had they but known he paid Stormy and the Enquirer.

These alleged false entries are a misdemeanor punishable only by a fine. And the statute of limitations has passed.
Unless they are done to further a second crime. Which has a longer limitations.
Except ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 02:56 PM (yikga)

207 202 She still is, she was supporting him throughout the trials and such. She was also just photographed wearing a mask so........
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:55 PM (CIS44)

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Weinstein got her her Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook. She went nuclear during the Fappening against people who viewed her pictures, calling it sexual assault, and never said a word against Weinstein. When Weinstein blew up, she quietly announced a break from acting for a year when she was going to get in touch with her inner activist.

Yeah, she did things with Weinstein.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:56 PM (GBKbO)

208 197 Interesting to think many a young lass got their careers off the ground by blowing Weinstein. Wasn't Jennifer Laurence a fan of his? Just thinking out loud.

And others had to blow him and got nothing.

Posted by: Seems Legit
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And those that declined to have anything to do with Harvey's sexual activities were blackballed from the industry like Mira Sorvino.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:56 PM (/AKWf)

209 I wonder if that juror has even gone back and advocated for imprisoning all the members of the major media outlets for lying about Rodney King.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:46 PM (IUd0M)

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There should be monuments in every blue shithole to Rodney King and St. George Floyd french-kissing a oa Brezhnev and Honecker in that famous Berlin Wall graffiti art.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 02:57 PM (f1PpG)

210 197 Interesting to think many a young lass got their careers off the ground by blowing Weinstein. Wasn't Jennifer Laurence a fan of his? Just thinking out loud.

And others had to blow him and got nothing.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:54 PM (JeYYB)

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You have to wonder about Anne Hathaway. I know at least one actress got blacklisted for turning him away. What's his name's daughter.... ah, Mira Sorvino.

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2024 02:57 PM (dIske)

211 Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:55 PM (/AKWf)

No that’s your incorrect opinion of what posters are saying.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 02:57 PM (MNhXM)

212 Can a ficus give consent ?

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 25, 2024 02:57 PM (+x87d)

213 My point is I'm not comfortable with the assumption that Weinstein was just a boys will be boys sexist pig trading favors, nor defending a POS bigtime Democrat obvious scumbag like that just to pwn libs.
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:53 PM (RQM8P)

Yeah, my only position is that his trial was not impartial by the rules that our ruling class have set.

He might very well be guilty of everything he's accused of- he is a pretty awful person and I'm pretty sure he's guilty of a lot.

However, in a just country, you still have to prove it under the rule of law and the prosecutors/judges bent the law because getting him was more important.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 02:58 PM (N1tpc)

214 Yeah, she did things with Weinstein.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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And apparently Meryl Streep along with a few other female Oscar winners.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:58 PM (/AKWf)

215 208 197 Interesting to think many a young lass got their careers off the ground by blowing Weinstein. Wasn't Jennifer Laurence a fan of his? Just thinking out loud.

And others had to blow him and got nothing.

Posted by: Seems Legit
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And those that declined to have anything to do with Harvey's sexual activities were blackballed from the industry like Mira Sorvino.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:56 PM (/AKWf)

The pictures of Emma Watson out and about with Harvey Weinstein were classic.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 25, 2024 02:58 PM (N39Ws)

216 I can go into song and verse about FRE 404 if you like and its corollaries that apply to witnesses.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:55 PM (/AKWf)

Please, no.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 25, 2024 02:58 PM (i24o9)

217 No consent needed from plants or animals
Cenk Uyghur

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 02:58 PM (FQmDC)

218 Sigh. Doing some training and the manual says to "click the ENTER key."

Not press. Not "strike" (old school now, my preference). No, I should "click" the key.

Copy-editing doesn't happen anymore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 02:58 PM (HnUIn)

219 Reporter- "What's it like seeing so many Republicans and Trump supporters in Manhattan? Does that surprise you?" Construction Worker, ""No- not at all- it's turning now" Reporter- "What's your message to Joe Biden?" Construction Worker- "F*&^% You!!"+

https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/1783517791317864653

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 02:59 PM (lCWOD)

220 Oh, come now. Let's not bicker and argue about 'oo raped 'oo...

Posted by: Monty Python at April 25, 2024 02:59 PM (jAber)

221 Yeah, she did things with Weinstein.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:56 PM (GBKbO)
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To quote a favorite Python sketch: What kind of things?

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 02:59 PM (OaZlZ)

222 This busty brunette in a dress never tried to break into acting, so she's never met Harvey Weinstein:
http://tiny.cc/4pxuxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 02:59 PM (HnUIn)

223 The Ficus was an FBI plant.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2024 02:59 PM (lf83v)

224 If Weinstein looked like Paul Newman or Brad Pitt or Zac Efron the sentiment might be much different.
Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 02:52 PM (F3Dlr)
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True, but good-looking guys were also accused of similar conduct. James Franco had a bunch of accusers. Even Zac Efron himself was accused of abusive conduct, although I don't think it was sexual.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 02:59 PM (iFTx/)

225 219 Reporter- "What's it like seeing so many Republicans and Trump supporters in Manhattan? Does that surprise you?" Construction Worker, ""No- not at all- it's turning now" Reporter- "What's your message to Joe Biden?" Construction Worker- "F*&^% You!!"+

https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/1783517791317864653
Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 02:59 PM (lCWOD)

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"But when we get news reports of trucks full of ballots showing up to counting stations, we'll just yell at the TV and then complain that it wouldn't have happened with a better candidate."
-Same Construction Worker

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:59 PM (GBKbO)

226 No that’s your incorrect opinion of what posters are saying.
Posted by: polynikes
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Opinions vary so you cannot have an incorrect opinion by definition if you want to be pedantic.

That is for the lefties.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 03:00 PM (/AKWf)

227 218 Sigh. Doing some training and the manual says to "click the ENTER key."

Not press. Not "strike" (old school now, my preference). No, I should "click" the key.

Copy-editing doesn't happen anymore.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 02:58 PM (HnUIn)

Or "Mash" the button. Popular down south.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 25, 2024 03:00 PM (N39Ws)

228 Did she make a police report on the spot or did this come out decades later. I don't disbelieve it, he probably exploded due to his inner rage of being so ugly.
Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 02:50 PM (F6UFz)

I did say "accused". My point is jumping up to say he's no different than all those casting couch producers is rather a stretch. Even on the surface.

I'm not gonna white knight for a very obvious POS like him.

Pretty obvious he would eat you or me for dinner, literally, and don't forget the Left idolized and promoted the skunk while knowing everything he was, then dropped him when it got too convenient. He'd still be their scumbag hero had they not needed the whole Force is Female mindfuck bullshit in 2016.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 03:00 PM (RQM8P)

229 On the same day that Susan Sarandon called the Hamas rapes on October 7th a “myth?”

lol. Who says God doesn’t have a sense of humor?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 03:00 PM (Hkcdp)

230 Sometimes a vicious disgusting criminal pig is just a vicious disgusting criminal pig.
Posted by: ...

Agreed, as long as he/she is convicted of being a vicious disgusting pig and NOT on physical appearance or social shunning when convenient after a supportive group movement that absolves the victim's of prior active participation.

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 03:00 PM (F3Dlr)

231 I not saying anything alleged didn't happen. I'm of the opinion that he's scum and he did the things these women claim. My question is how'd he overpower them? He continuously looks weazy, a few minutes from a major cardiac emergency. Where they afraid of others too and if so why aren't the gang of people betting this slimeball also getting tossed in jail?

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 03:01 PM (Y6IkP)

232 Opinions vary so you cannot have an incorrect opinion by definition if you want to be pedantic.

That is for the lefties.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 03:00 PM (/AKWf)

It’s my opinion you are incorrect so I said so.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 03:02 PM (MNhXM)

233 It’s my opinion you are incorrect so I said so.
Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 03:02 PM (MNhXM)

It's ok. You're entitled to your wrong opinion.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 03:02 PM (N1tpc)

234 NASA administrator has ‘no idea’ why China is going to far side of moon that is ‘always in dark’

“What do you think the Chinese are trying to get at, at the back side of the moon?” Rep. David Trone (D-MD) asked NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at a congressional hearing last week. “They are going to have a lander on the far side of the moon, which is the side which is always in dark. Uh, we’re not planning to go there,” he said.

.. say what ?

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:03 PM (RHGPo)

235 You have to wonder about Anne Hathaway.
Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2024 02:57 PM (dIske)

Wonder what? She has been a reasonably successful actress. She became over-the-top screechy about gay marriage, and anti-Catholic, when her brother came out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 03:03 PM (IUd0M)

236 Continued

Bragg has nowhere alleged or stated what the second crime is.
And NY law specifically excludes federal campaigns and federal campaign law violations as the "second crime."

But the judge is going to allow the jury to infer the commission of a second crime ... because the first crime-- the ledger entry-- was a crime and the only reason Trump committed that crime was to obviously commit a second crime.

It's absolutely insane that anyone thinks this has any legal merit.

It's 100% a political prosecution that proudly, defiantly stomps on all law, rules, regulations and norms.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 03:03 PM (yikga)

237 My question is how'd he overpower them? He continuously looks weazy

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 03:01 PM (Y6IkP

The hotel room accuser I alluded to was 98 pounds.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 03:03 PM (RQM8P)

238 And those that declined to have anything to do with Harvey's sexual activities were blackballed from the industry like Mira Sorvino.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:56 PM (/AKWf)

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I want to make it clear, I support Sorvino. She said no and props to her.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 03:03 PM (JeYYB)

239 Somehow I think the fat fuck could take her.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 03:03 PM (RQM8P)

240 On the same day that Susan Sarandon called the Hamas rapes on October 7th a “myth?”
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If only tits were brains. Wouldn't that be something?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 03:03 PM (YqDXo)

241 OK I spell like crap but it was "abetting" and autocucumber screwed me. It is always dumbing down my spelling changing real words to other smaller words.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 03:04 PM (Y6IkP)

242
Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?
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For beating Hillary

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 03:04 PM (63Dwl)

243 Pretty sure “click” is the preferred verb on the MS manual of style, but then you just say “Click Enter” (no t Enter button), Joe Mannix…

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 03:04 PM (Hkcdp)

244 I not saying anything alleged didn't happen. I'm of the opinion that he's scum and he did the things these women claim. My question is how'd he overpower them? He continuously looks weazy, a few minutes from a major cardiac emergency. Where they afraid of others too and if so why aren't the gang of people betting this slimeball also getting tossed in jail?
Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 03:01 PM (Y6IkP)
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Nobody likes to talk about how Hollywood works. Every person you see on screen - there are probably exceptions, but damn few of them - is a whore. Now did they go into the effort with their eyes open and the full knowledge that success would depend on being a whore? I don't know. Probably not all of them, surely some of them.

When push came to shove and it was time to get bedded by Weinstein or one of his countless analogues, they decided to lay back and think of England.

This is extremely sleazy. It might even be criminal - it is coercion at worst and quid pro quo at best. But it probably isn't assault or forcible rape.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (HnUIn)

245 Well she was reasonably hot in the 80s but still stark raving crazy

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (PXvVL)

246 I think I gotta take a break from politics.

Back to gambling, drugs and hookers for me.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (RQM8P)

247 3) deceived those Trump voters into voting for him had they but known he paid Stormy and the Enquirer.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 02:56 PM (yikga)

Better? Under that standard ANY Politician who lied to get elected, should be prosecuted for fraud?

Biden? Hillary and Russian Collusion? need I go on...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (xaFKb)

248 Hollywood is a special place. It's a place for disillusion and illusion.
It unlike those places in Mexico in that it doesn't have a wall around it. Sometimes, although rarely, and innocent stray meanders in.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (lCWOD)

249 Beware the slippery slope! If we start overturning convictions just for the prosecution being, umm, 'creative', where will it all end?

Posted by: FBI at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (710OU)

250 Pretty sure “click” is the preferred verb on the MS manual of style, but then you just say “Click Enter” (no t Enter button), Joe Mannix…
Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 03:04 PM (Hkcdp)
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Microsoft is wrong. Keyboard keys are not "clicked." You "press" them or "strike" them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (HnUIn)

251 247 Biden? Hillary and Russian Collusion? need I go on...
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (xaFKb)

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Russian collusion is true! Eric Trump had a 15 minute meeting with a Russian! And the Alfa Bank ping!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:06 PM (GBKbO)

252 Judge Madeline Singas should be removed as a judge.
1. She gives emotional reasons why the guy should remain convicted, not judge material.
2. Sh makes the case of: to get some 'justice' for women, we have this defendant, Let's find him guilty for the sake of putting the blame on someone for all past inequities.

Posted by: Ciampino - Somebody served at April 25, 2024 03:06 PM (qfLjt)

253 Southwest Airlines to fire 2,000 employees and close operations at Bellingham International Airport, Cozumel International Airport, Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, and Syracuse Hancock International Airport

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:06 PM (RHGPo)

254 234 NASA administrator has ‘no idea’ why China is going to far side of moon that is ‘always in dark’

“What do you think the Chinese are trying to get at, at the back side of the moon?” Rep. David Trone (D-MD) asked NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at a congressional hearing last week. “They are going to have a lander on the far side of the moon, which is the side which is always in dark. Uh, we’re not planning to go there,” he said.

.. say what ?
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:03 PM (RHGPo)

Quick, somebody find Sheila Jackson Lee for her expert opinion!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (PiwSw)

255
NASA administrator has ‘no idea’ why China is going to far side of moon that is ‘always in dark’

To develop photograhic film.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (63Dwl)

256 Southwest Airlines to fire 2,000 employees and close operations at Bellingham International Airport, Cozumel International Airport, Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, and Syracuse Hancock International Airport
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:06 PM (RHGPo)

George Bush is a surprise

Posted by: Mike Tythn at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (NtVYv)

257 Odd, AOS has in the last few days dropped from first to come up on Google search(typing exact blog name in) to 20+ down in results. Wiki page on AOS is now top.

Posted by: KarlHungus at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (MhCcX)

258 To develop photograhic film.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (63Dwl)
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It's expensive to do for a single roll, but if you're doing it in bulk, it probably makes sense.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (HnUIn)

259 You have to go to the dark side of the moon to get at the long-ago deposited Transformers tech, duh!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (Hkcdp)

260 If a prostitute has sex with an ugly man, it's not his fault if she thinks the pay was too low.

And that's all #metoo was:
Whores who wanted to renegotiate how much the john paid.

You don't get your chastity back because you later feel dirty for what you did.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (yikga)

261 “What do you think the Chinese are trying to get at, at the back side of the moon?” Rep. David Trone (D-MD) asked NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at a congressional hearing last week. “They are going to have a lander on the far side of the moon, which is the side which is always in dark. Uh, we’re not planning to go there,” he said.

.. say what ?
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:03 PM (RHGPo)

Well... Duh... that's where the Space Nazi base led by the Sarah Palin look alike is!

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (xaFKb)

262 258 To develop photograhic film.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (63Dwl)
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It's expensive to do for a single roll, but if you're doing it in bulk, it probably makes sense.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (HnUIn)

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How will they power their red lights if they can't get solar?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (GBKbO)

263 How will they power their red lights if they can't get solar?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (GBKbO)
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Surplus EV batteries?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (HnUIn)

264 NASA administrator has ‘no idea’ why China is going to far side of moon that is ‘always in dark’

They heard there's a killer Laser Floyd show playing there.

Posted by: spindrift at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (OguvZ)

265 George Bush is a surprise
Posted by: Mike Tythn at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (NtVYv)

Not a big air travel guy but I thought Southwest was only at Hobby anyway.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 03:09 PM (MNhXM)

266 Ol' Harve was a well-known POS when Meryl Streep led Hollywood in a standing ovation for him.

In hindsight it should’ve been obvious when she suddenly was the lead in Oscar bait well after you’d have been expected her to be doing guest roles on NCIS or Law and Order.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 25, 2024 03:09 PM (8n+VG)

267 257 Odd, AOS has in the last few days dropped from first to come up on Google search(typing exact blog name in) to 20+ down in results. Wiki page on AOS is now top.
Posted by: KarlHungus at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (MhCcX)

Check bounced?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2024 03:09 PM (xaFKb)

268 Weinstein's a disgusting pig-man, for sure... But at the end of the day, this was a stable of whores claiming their pimp raped them. Tough case to make under any evidentiary rules.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 03:09 PM (0FoWg)

269 263 How will they power their red lights if they can't get solar?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (GBKbO)
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Surplus EV batteries?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (HnUIn)

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Disposing of them is gonna be hard. Just throwing them onto the moon's surface would be pollution.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:09 PM (GBKbO)

270 NASA administrator has ‘no idea’ why China is going to far side of moon that is ‘always in dark’

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And people wonder why there are NASA/Moon landing conspiracies.

Hey, remember when NASA's main push was something about Muslims and their contribution to something.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 03:09 PM (JeYYB)

271 Supreme Court justices in Trump case lean toward some level of immunity

Lets face it, Congress has a Speech and Debate Clause to protect them, but if the POTUS doesn't have some level of immunity, then how do judges/prosecutors get any immunity ?

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:10 PM (RHGPo)

272 Agreed, Joe Mannix, but if they set the industry standard then proper grammar loses.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 03:10 PM (Hkcdp)

273 Odd, AOS has in the last few days dropped from first to come up on Google search(typing exact blog name in) to 20+ down in results. Wiki page on AOS is now top.

Pixy had a relevant link this morning. Google put the head of ad sales in charge of search in 2019 and it’s been all downhill.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 25, 2024 03:10 PM (8n+VG)

274 Southwest Airlines to fire 2,000 employees and close operations at Bellingham International Airport, Cozumel International Airport, Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, and Syracuse Hancock International Airport
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:06 PM (RHGPo)

Another Pete Buttgig and the Biden economy success story.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (dGCAG)

275 270 Hey, remember when NASA's main push was something about Muslims and their contribution to something.

.. the latest crew for a Mars mission (simulation) contains no white guys

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (RHGPo)

276 but if they set the industry standard then proper grammar loses.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 03:10 PM (Hkcdp)
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It's still proper grammar, I suppose. I just hate it LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (HnUIn)

277 231 I not saying anything alleged didn't happen. I'm of the opinion that he's scum and he did the things these women claim. My question is how'd he overpower them? He continuously looks weazy, a few minutes from a major cardiac emergency. Where they afraid of others too and if so why aren't the gang of people betting this slimeball also getting tossed in jail?
Posted by: banana Dream
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Female versus male strength, even of an old out of shape pervert like Weinstein is an issue. Plus there is the whole power thing that often happens.

You see similar issues with other powerful men and their sexual activities like Matt Lauer and his notorious button locking the office. Going down depravity road does not sate the hunger but increases it to reach the next level.

For a lot of people, power over others is their aphrodisiac. Read an interview once where a senator was asked why he continued as a senator when he could make millions outside of Congress--the senator gave a demonstration of how he got to make his staff hop on his orders and then leaned back and told the reporter that is why he continued in office.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (/AKWf)

278 Syracuse Hancock International Airport
_______

How is Syracuse an international airport?

They have ZERO international destinations.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (lf83v)

279 Nobody likes to talk about how Hollywood works. Every person you see on screen - there are probably exceptions, but damn few of them - is a whore. Now did they go into the effort with their eyes open and the full knowledge that success would depend on being a whore? I don't know. Probably not all of them, surely some of them.

When push came to shove and it was time to get bedded by Weinstein or one of his countless analogues, they decided to lay back and think of England.

This is extremely sleazy. It might even be criminal - it is coercion at worst and quid pro quo at best. But it probably isn't assault or forcible rape.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (HnUIn)
_________

That is how many industries work. Not just Hollywood. Wherever there is money and power and men in positions to wield it, you will find women willing -- eager, even -- to assume their own position for it. Finance, management, education, marketing, etc -- and above all, politics. From yacht girls to starlets to ambitious secretaries to college professor "assistants," sex is still a very big medium of exchange.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (iFTx/)

280 Southwest Airlines to fire 2,000 employees and close operations at Bellingham International Airport, Cozumel International Airport, Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, and Syracuse Hancock International Airport
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:06 PM (RHGPo)

Another Pete Buttgig and the Biden economy success story.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (dGCAG)

It's a first step towards Biden's zero emissions transportation sector.

Posted by: spindrift at April 25, 2024 03:12 PM (OguvZ)

281 Pixy had a relevant link this morning. Google put the head of ad sales in charge of search in 2019 and it’s been all downhill.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Yes and before that that particular guy ran Yahoo search into the ground until the tech was sold off for a pittance to Microsoft.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 03:12 PM (/AKWf)

282 Lets face it, Congress has a Speech and Debate Clause to protect them, but if the POTUS doesn't have some level of immunity, then how do judges/prosecutors get any immunity ?
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:10 PM (RHGPo)

That's what happens when you put lawyers in charge of the law.

Everyone other than lawyers get the shaft.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:12 PM (dGCAG)

283 Southwest Airlines to fire 2,000 employees and close operations at...

Not enough people responding to their email barrage of $49 flights (to places you would never go).

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2024 03:13 PM (WWBBV)

284
George Bush is a surprise
Posted by: Mike Tythn

Won't get fooled again.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 03:13 PM (63Dwl)

285 Rochester, NY has a nice airport. I was surprised.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 03:13 PM (R4t5M)

286 NASA administrator has ‘no idea’ why China is going to far side of moon that is ‘always in dark’
__________

This is the same guy who noted that the Sun is too hot for us to fly there, so we should fly there at night.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2024 03:13 PM (lf83v)

287 The same people who were cheering people getting fired for not taking the shot, not wearing masks want us to feel bad that actors and actresses had to suck some D to keep their jobs ... or they might get fired.

I have no sympathy for them

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 03:13 PM (yikga)

288 NASA administrator has ‘no idea’ why China is going to far side of moon that is ‘always in dark’

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"Cuz dat's where the Black Martians are who planted da American Flag, h8r!"

-- Mad Maxine Waters

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 03:13 PM (EDbIo)

289 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

Pikesville principal Eric Eiswert was caught on tape going on a racist rant.

People called for his life to be destroyed.

Turns out, the entire recording was fake and generated (using AI) by Dazhon Darien, the school's former athletic director.

https://tinyurl.com/3zy4vh2h

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 03:13 PM (NpAcC)

290 Oh, forgot about the space Nazi settlement! And a T-Rex ,too, right?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 03:14 PM (Hkcdp)

291 That is how many industries work. Not just Hollywood. Wherever there is money and power and men in positions to wield it, you will find women willing -- eager, even -- to assume their own position for it. Finance, management, education, marketing, etc -- and above all, politics. From yacht girls to starlets to ambitious secretaries to college professor "assistants," sex is still a very big medium of exchange.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (iFTx/)
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Once you have lots of money, I imagine it becomes even more desirable. Getting more money is pointless. Getting to fuck a startlet - or worse, getting to fuck a sex slave - is probably a much bigger thrill.

The small-time landlord having trouble making ends meet probably won't accept a hummer from the cute 20-something in lieu of the rent. The big-time landlord with plenty of margin might.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:14 PM (HnUIn)

292 279 Nobody likes to talk about how Hollywood works. Every person you see on screen - there are probably exceptions, but damn few of them - is a whore. Now did they go into the effort with their eyes open and the full knowledge that success would depend on being a whore? I don't know. Probably not all of them, surely some of them.

When push came to shove and it was time to get bedded by Weinstein or one of his countless analogues, they decided to lay back and think of England.

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LOL

I think all celebrities are whores. This aligns with my beliefs therefore it is true.

No, really, I think all celebrities are whores.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 03:14 PM (JeYYB)

293 How is Syracuse an international airport?

They have ZERO international destinations.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (lf83v)
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Weekly flight to Toronto

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 03:14 PM (RIvkX)

294 You don't get your chastity back because you later feel dirty for what you did.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Right to the point. A welcome masthead to remind the masses.

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 03:15 PM (F3Dlr)

295 262
How will they power their red lights if they can't get solar?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (GBKbO)
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A very long extension cord to the lightside?

Posted by: Ciampino - did someone remember an adaptor for 3-pin plugs? at April 25, 2024 03:15 PM (qfLjt)

296 Everyone other than lawyers get the shaft.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:12 PM (dGCAG)
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I'm generous that way.

Posted by: Harvey Weinscum at April 25, 2024 03:15 PM (OaZlZ)

297 How is Syracuse an international airport?

They have ZERO international destinations.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (lf83v)
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When I used to fly through Syracuse many moons ago, there were short-hop flights to Canada and longer-hop flights to the Caribbean (Jamaica, I think, but it's been a long time).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:15 PM (HnUIn)

298 278 Syracuse Hancock International Airport
_______

How is Syracuse an international airport?

They have ZERO international destinations.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (lf83v)

Perhaps it should be renamed Syracuse Hancock International Transport.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 25, 2024 03:15 PM (AwbAS)

299 Is it 5:30 yet? I want a drink.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 03:15 PM (lCWOD)

300 Nood

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 03:15 PM (2UnvF)

301
Ol' Harve was a well-known POS when Meryl Streep led Hollywood in a standing ovation for him.

He'll always be the King of Coffee.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 03:16 PM (63Dwl)

302 NASA administrator has ‘no idea’ why China is going to far side of moon that is ‘always in dark’

It's so they don't have to squint, Party of Science guy.

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2024 03:16 PM (WWBBV)

303 It's a first step towards Biden's zero emissions transportation sector.
Posted by: spindrift at April 25, 2024 03:12 PM (OguvZ)

It'll be like during Covid, when all the fish returned to the water, and sheep were running through the streets.

This time, the birds and bats will return to the skies. What a world that would be.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:18 PM (dGCAG)

304 279 Nobody likes to talk about how Hollywood works. Every person you see on screen - there are probably exceptions, but damn few of them - is a whore. Now did they go into the effort with their eyes open and the full knowledge that success would depend on being a whore? I don't know. Probably not all of them, surely some of them.

When push came to shove and it was time to get bedded by Weinstein or one of his countless analogues, they decided to lay back and think of England.

This is extremely sleazy. It might even be criminal - it is coercion at worst and quid pro quo at best. But it probably isn't assault or forcible rape.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (HnUIn)
_________

++++

The ironic thing is that Hollywood has been making pictures about this very subject since they began. Many movies of the 30's depict a young good-looking starlet being propositioned by a wealthy old geezer and what actions were taken, either to succumb to the good life at a high price, or go with her morals and upbringing. A lot of them with this theme.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 03:18 PM (F6UFz)

305 -------

LOL

I think all celebrities are whores. This aligns with my beliefs therefore it is true.

No, really, I think all celebrities are whores.
Posted by: Seems Legit
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They are broke in before they finish their first year of extracurricular drama classes.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 03:19 PM (lCWOD)

306 I remember they tried to prosecute Don Jr for accepting an Outlook meeting. Then there's Hunter...

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 03:19 PM (RQM8P)

307 Hollywood has been all about sexual coercion probably since its inception. Judy Garland was a later example, notoriously so. And by that time Hollywood was 40 years old, at least.
Today a lot of pressure is being shown from homosexuals in high power. They only want to hire other homosexuals. And they want you to prove it, on themselves.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 25, 2024 03:19 PM (MeG8a)

308 94 Ficus was great on the Quark show.

God, that's obscure.
You, me and my dad must have been the only ones to watch that show.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2024 03:20 PM (roH4R)

309 After Mira Sorvino turned down Harvey I think her dad Paul Sorvino threatened Ol' Harv.

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at April 25, 2024 03:22 PM (iNp3L)

310 80 Ol' Harve was a well-known POS when Meryl Streep led Hollywood in a standing ovation for him.

I cry no tears at this.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 25, 2024 02:28 PM (KbCG3)

Let's not forget about Robert DeNiro. Many of Weinsteins assignations started with a meal at Tribeca Grill, followed by a trip up to the Miramax HQ. Both were located in a building that DeNiro owned - and still owns. He was an owner of Tribeca Grill as well. He knew, and was OK with the whole thing.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 25, 2024 03:22 PM (AwbAS)

311 I did too.

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 25, 2024 03:23 PM (PXvVL)

312 After Mira Sorvino turned down Harvey I think her dad Paul Sorvino threatened Ol' Harv.
Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at April 25, 2024 03:22 PM (iNp3L)

I imagine Paul had some connects of his own...

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 03:25 PM (CIS44)

313 I think all celebrities are whores.
Posted by: Seems Legit

I think many ordinary people are, too, they just hide behind nicer labels.

Many do this, in exchange for that.
Submit if their want is meet.
Value prizes in exchange for their attention.
Need validation even if it's from strangers.

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 03:28 PM (F3Dlr)

314 283 Southwest Airlines to fire 2,000 employees and close operations at...

Not enough people responding to their email barrage of $49 flights (to places you would never go).
Posted by: t-bird

In their case, it was escalating labor costs, duplication of service (they already have Hobby as their hub and just dropped service to Bush International in Houston) AND the delay in getting their 737/737 Maxx planes from Boeing due to safety concerns. SW flies an all Boeing fleet and the whole crisis in Boeing mfg is gonna hit them hard.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 03:30 PM (/AKWf)

315 307 Hollywood has been all about sexual coercion probably since its inception. Judy Garland was a later example, notoriously so. And by that time Hollywood was 40 years old, at least.
Today a lot of pressure is being shown from homosexuals in high power. They only want to hire other homosexuals. And they want you to prove it, on themselves.
Posted by: gourmand du jour
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David Geffen has entered the room.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 03:31 PM (/AKWf)

316 David Geffen has entered the room.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 03:31 PM (/AKWf)

It's he the one Cories hinted at that drugged and raped them

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 25, 2024 04:07 PM (dKiJG)

317 You're now free to drive about the country.

Posted by: Announcer Voice at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (jAber)

318 The whole New York Court System needs to be cleaned out Disinfected and Fumigated from the Rats Cock-Roaches and Louse that live there

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 25, 2024 05:32 PM (wGqjj)

319 A Shame I will admit now. Back in '96, I was in The Corps, yes I was a Marine at one time, I don't know if I mentioned it. There was this girl, who was WAY into me. It was 100% consentual and undstood, I didn't have sex with her, but I kissed her. I KISSED her, and she was receptive. She asked me, her name was Amy, one of the few people in The Corps that I only knew by their first name, Amy started to melt into my arms, "is this common for you?" CLEARLY asking if she was special . . . She wasn't and I'm honest, "yes." she then got upset and I tried to assuage her, but it failed, then she asked "What about if I was jen." I said, "You aren't Jen but I would like that tool." She had coyote ugly from KISSING me.

She told me to leave her alone and never touch her, and I understood it, she was a one man girl, and she wanted me to be that one man at the time we kissed, JUST KISSED, until she realized I wasn't a one woman guy, at least not for her.

A couple weeks later, because I was a very outgoing guy at the time, and hosted a bit of a party, she realized I was the one hosting, and said, "If you touch me all these guys will fuck you up." I said, "No they won't, but if

Posted by: Wickedpinto at April 25, 2024 09:48 PM (XKj0h)

320 you are that worried about me, here." I gave her one of my knives, I used to carry 2 knives on me at all times. . .I was raised in south chicago, you kinda have to get used to it.

I knelt down, and said, "I did not assault you, but if that's how you feel, I will take the punishment. Cut me, Kill me, I feel ashamed though I don't think I did anything wrong." she but stroked me, and remained friends.

Unfortunately I never got to sleep with her or jen.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at April 25, 2024 09:50 PM (XKj0h)

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