Powerline: Republican AGs Need to Start Arresting and Jailing Democrat Officials, Including Those from Out of State

And prosecute Mark Cuban while you're at it.

Is it just like me or does he have a face that says "uncharged sexual assaults"?

A grotesquely biased jury of Trump-haters, led by a judge who put service to his party above his judicial responsibilities, has returned guilty verdicts against Donald Trump on all 34 counts with which he was--absurdly--charged.
What this shows is that the most important variable in any case is who decides it. Here, the Democrats knew that they could impanel a rabidly anti-Trump jury in Manhattan, so they did so. It is very much like the lawsuit that Michael Mann brought against Mark Steyn and others, of which I observed some of the latter stages. The defendants were properly happy about how the trial had gone, but the facts didn't matter. The Democrats had chosen the right venue, Washington, D.C., and a biased jury found for Mann. Same thing here.
What to do now? First, it is now absolutely essential that Trump be elected president. The Democrats cannot be allowed to get away with this effort to turn America into a banana republic.
Second, the Democrats understand nothing except the raw exercise of power. Therefore, Republican attorneys general and district attorneys should bring criminal charges against Democratic officeholders wherever possible. No Democratic officeholder should be allowed to retire, in any jurisdiction with Republican law enforcement, without facing criminal charges. There can't be a single Democratic official in America against whom a criminal case can't be brought that is better than this case against Trump. It should be open season on Democrats in the criminal courts.
Third, the criminal prosecutions should begin with Joe Biden. Unlike Trump, Biden is actually a criminal. He is already known to be guilty under the federal bribery statute. If Trump wins in November, his Department of Justice should immediately indict Biden, and Biden should be hounded until the day he dies or goes to prison, whichever happens first.

That's a good start. He notes that some, like Biden, will have to be prosecuted on "their home turf," in a blue city like DC.

But why? Republicans need to get serious about passing a law guaranteeing both defendants and prosecutors the right to seek removal to a neutral jurisdiction in politically-charged cases. We cannot continue being hounded in blue city courts while serial Democratic lawbreakers are not even charged because Democratic juries would view them as "a well-meaning old man with memory issues."

He does suggest that Red States begin scanning their laws to see if any bribery cases against Joe or Hunter Biden (or Jim Biden, or the nieces and granddaughters) can be prosecuted in red state courts.

Sean Davis agrees -- and wants the GOP to stop scheming to give tax breaks to the corporations who have gladly enlisted in the Democrats' war on normal citizens:

Sean Davis
@seanmdav
If you're a Republican running for office, you can just go ahead and throw away all of your elegant little policy proposals for this or that corporate exclusion or tax subsidy. Give me a list of which Democrat officials you're going to put in prison, or get lost.
There's only one way to deal with nuclear war, which is what Democrats have unleashed, and that is mutually assured destruction. Democrats declared war on our entire system of justice and the rule of law, and our only options are victory or defeat. I intend to win. Do you?

Enough of the compromised fake Republicans at National Review and Commentary. Man up or get out.

One of my former law partners, a world class trial lawyer, when faced with an adversary who wanted to engage in unprofessional "hardball" litigation tactics would say, "I can play the game; just tell me the rules." The Democrats have made the rules, and their opponents will have little choice but to play the game.
This is not a game that can or will be played by one side only. The rules are now set. When Republicans have the chance, they will play the game. Many, perhaps most, will think that a response is mandatory and that "taking the high road" is no longer an option. Instead, it would be regarded by the "progressive" left -- that is to say those now in charge of the Democratic party -- as weakness if they roll over and fail to respond. This is an existential threat to the stability of our political system and nation. That risk makes this the most dangerous day in the history of the Country, at least in our lifetimes.
Henceforth, weaponization of the justice system against a political opponent will be the norm. Political grudges will be resolved by political opponents in cherry-picked courtrooms where conviction is most likely. All this confirms that when controlled by scoundrels, our judicial system is becoming more like what we expect in places like China, Cuba or Venezuela, where political opponents are routinely imprisoned or worse.

Meanwhile, polling doesn't look good for Biden.

Political Polls
@Politics_Polls
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Swing State Poll:
NEVADA
Trump 49% (+9)
Biden 40%
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PENNSYLVANIA
Trump 48% (+3)
Biden 45%
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MICHIGAN
Trump 47% (+2)
Biden 45%
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NORTH CAROLINA
Trump 48% (+7)
Biden 41%
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WISCONSIN
Biden 45%
Trump 45%
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GEORGIA
Trump 47% (+3)
Biden 44%
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ARIZONA
Trump 45% (+1)
Biden 44%
BSG/GS Strategy Group, 3,969 LV, 5/6-13

Biden is ahead in New York.. by single digits.

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2024 New York GE:
Biden 48% (+7)
Trump 41%
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Biden 44% (+6)
Trump 38%
Kennedy 6%
West 2%
Stein 1%

We'll see if that changes. There's a poll that says that if Trump is convicted, Trump will lose a critical amount of support. Biden won't gain any support, but Trump will fall below Biden:

That's been a worry that some of us have had for a long time. We'll see if people really change their votes based on this evil political prosecution.

CNN Goes Apoplectic Over Joe Biden's Massive Drop in Support Among Black Voters: These numbers, to be honest, could be deadly to Joe Biden's campaign. It's a huge alarm. It's spiraling. It's ambulance. It's police sirens. It's any alarm you can think of. That should be what's… pic.twitter.com/YNHdqWWjYs
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) May 29, 2024

Nick Arama writes more on CNN's poll:

Enten then discussed what that might mean for the election. He said that if that shift held to the election, comparing it to 2020, Trump would win 291 electoral votes to Biden's 247. He said the reason why is that would shift Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Georgia to Trump.
This might explain, in part, why Trump has been leading in those battleground states.
"That alone would do it, " Enten explained, saying that's why black voters are so pivotal to Joe Biden's chances.
Boris Sanchez said "alarms" must be "going off on the Democratic side," as Enten flashed his fingers to signify the alarms.
"It's a huge alarm. It's spiraling. It's ambulance. It's police sirens. It's any alarm you can think of," Enten replied.

“READ THE POLLS, JACK!” pic.twitter.com/e0G3SfuNlU
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 29, 2024

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 31, 2024 12:01 PM (8RNuU)

2 it's all grey again

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 31, 2024 12:02 PM (UCRjB)

3 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2024 12:02 PM (T4tVD)

4 Yeah.

The problem is that most of the crimes that Democrats do in office, the graft stuff, is stuff the Republicans do.

It's not a hypocrisy argument, it's a mutually assured destruction argument.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at May 31, 2024 12:03 PM (GBKbO)

5 Sounds like a good plan to me
Fight fire with fire

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2024 12:03 PM (DIdfG)

6 I'm back after two weeks of self-imposed vacation isolation and . . . the world is still steaming dogshit. [Sigh]

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 31, 2024 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

7 I have no faith in any Republican to do jack. Buy ammo.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2024 12:04 PM (aFNOf)

8 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)

9 Is it just like me or does he have a face that says "uncharged sexual assaults"?
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Maybe we could just try him on something and have the jury decide if they think he's hiding some crime--doesn't have to be the same crime.

Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 12:05 PM (krQz2)

10 Tanks in the streets by the end of the year.

Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at May 31, 2024 12:05 PM (bnQ7K)

11
Republican AGs Need to Start Arresting and Jailing Democrat Officials, Including Those from Out of State

It's not who we are.

Posted by: The League of Gentlemanly Losers at May 31, 2024 12:06 PM (63Dwl)

12 It pisses me off that the Mavericks are in the NBA Finals.

Mark Cuban still owns part of that team and I wish nothing but failure for him.

And yes. I fully expect there to be tapes of him in P Diddy's library somewhere.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:06 PM (Zz0t1)

13 Shut the government down.

You have the power. Throw a monkey wrench in every legislative and state department at every level.

That they won't would speak volumes if we didn't already live through 2016-2018 when they went after Trump, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:06 PM (LijfE)

14 Tanks in the streets by the end of the year.
Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at May 31, 2024 12:05 PM (bnQ7K)

Russian tanks surrounding DC?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 31, 2024 12:06 PM (0eaVi)

15 I'm still saying that going Full Retard was a bad move by the Democrats. For the truly uninformed it would have been much easier for the idiots to swallow something like 15 counts guilty out of 34 (rather than 34 out of 34). Even idiots watch Law and Order and understand the odds of something like that.

The Dems are going to have to change the narrative and move away from this issue. Red Flag event coming up soon.

Posted by: Orson at May 31, 2024 12:06 PM (dIske)

16 I'm back after two weeks of self-imposed vacation isolation and . . . the world is still steaming dogshit. [Sigh]
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 31, 2024 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

I thought it wuz the Chinee POOP Balloons !

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2024 12:06 PM (T4tVD)

17 Start with the guys in Congress with their secret hush money slush fund?

Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:07 PM (Zzbjj)

18 Come on. We all know these pussy GOPs aren't going to do shit.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 31, 2024 12:07 PM (xPl2J)

19 Daily Mail poll taken after the trial.

>>Donald Trump gets a SIX-POINT bump in approval after being found guilty on 34 counts according to snap Daily Mail poll: 'I think it was a waste of taxpayer money'

https://tinyurl.com/jnk6sajr

Posted by: JackStraw at May 31, 2024 12:07 PM (LkLld)

20 I'll show you the man, you imagine the crimes.

Posted by: Judge Lord Merc-sham at May 31, 2024 12:07 PM (krQz2)

21 Republicans everywhere should stop doing business with New York.

Posted by: Dr Spank at May 31, 2024 12:08 PM (RXB8K)

22 "There's a poll that says that if Trump is convicted, Trump will lose a critical amount of support."

I'm calling complete and utter unadulterated cask-strength BULLSHIT on this wishcasting, push-poll dogshit. Show me the Trump voter -- or even Trump-curious voter -- who thinks less of Trump because he was "convicted" of "crimes" that not even the prosecutor or judge can explain.

If anything, this will make Trump even stronger. Like Obi-Wan. I understand that Trump just had a monster campaign donation flourish in the wake of this ridiculous verdict. That suggests that I'm correct in my thinking.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 31, 2024 12:08 PM (iFTx/)

23 Come on. We all know these pussy GOPs aren't going to do shit.
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 31, 2024 12:07 PM (xPl2J)
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That's not a RINO, that's your standard-issue Republican.

Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 12:08 PM (krQz2)

24 I agree with lawfare going after the Dems in Red venues but not at this instance. We are capitalizing on being the victim of the Left’s tyrannical lawfare. I think it’s a strategy that has to be monitored to see when it is no longer beneficial / net plus before we release the Kraken.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 12:09 PM (SHMXB)

25 We'll see if that changes. There's a poll that says that if Trump is convicted, Trump will lose a critical amount of support. Biden won't gain any support, but Trump will fall below Biden:

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I trust, like, no polling, but this does just feel like push polling.

I dunno, maybe it's true.

But media companies aren't paying polling firms to report on the mood of the people. Haven't for a while. Maybe never.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at May 31, 2024 12:09 PM (GBKbO)

26 Meanwhile, polling doesn't look good for Biden...We'll see if that changes. There's a poll that says that if Trump is convicted, Trump will lose a critical amount of support. Biden won't gain any support, but Trump will fall below Biden...

As with most Trump issues, there will be a blip for a week or so. The bigger question is, a month from now, will it still be an issue? For every other incident (some, in my opinion, worse), the answer has been "no". I don't think it will be different this time.

And if appeals are accelerated enough that these convictions are overturned before the election, I think we'll see a significant, and lasting, boost to Trump’s polls.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 31, 2024 12:09 PM (JCZqz)

27 >>Donald Trump gets a SIX-POINT bump in approval after being found guilty on 34 counts according to snap Daily Mail poll: 'I think it was a waste of taxpayer money'

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Spoiler alert: It's really, really bad when normal people accept that the law is meaningless at best and mostly punitive.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:09 PM (LijfE)

28 Why aren't they polling how many voters Biden will lose if he railroads his opponent into jail?

"Would you still support Joe Biden if his allies throw his opponent in prison?"

Don't you think that would be the "polling" we would be looking at this morning if it was Trump doing this to Hillary? Of course it would.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 12:09 PM (G8NR0)

29 Shut the government down.

..

You have a Freedom Caucus Speaker who won't trim 1% from the federal budget.

Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at May 31, 2024 12:09 PM (bnQ7K)

30 "The Democrats have made the rules, and their opponents will have little choice but to play the game."

Precisely. The Left (the By Any Means Necessary folx) have captured all our institutions, particularly the justice system, and 90% of the lawyers and judges who work in it. We're not a Silent Majority; we're the SiIent Minority.

I don't care which lying assholes we end up electing now; they can't fix it.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 12:09 PM (MvF+J)

31 Those are North Korean shit balloons!

Posted by: Kim Chee at May 31, 2024 12:09 PM (V5BDR)

32 26 As with most Trump issues, there will be a blip for a week or so. The bigger question is, a month from now, will it still be an issue? For every other incident (some, in my opinion, worse), the answer has been "no". I don't think it will be different this time.

And if appeals are accelerated enough that these convictions are overturned before the election, I think we'll see a significant, and lasting, boost to Trump’s polls.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 31, 2024 12:09 PM (JCZqz)

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I suspect that it'll work so poorly that only Trump will talk about it by the end of June.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at May 31, 2024 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

33 I'm calling complete and utter unadulterated cask-strength BULLSHIT on this wishcasting, push-poll dogshit. Show me the Trump voter -- or even Trump-curious voter -- who thinks less of Trump because he was "convicted" of "crimes" that not even the prosecutor or judge can explain.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 31, 2024 12:08 PM (iFTx/)
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I saw one guy tweet that in no primary or election has he voted for Trump, but he would crawl over glass to do that now.

Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 12:10 PM (krQz2)

34 And if appeals are accelerated enough that these convictions are overturned before the election, I think we'll see a significant, and lasting, boost to Trump’s polls.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 31, 2024 12:09 PM (JCZqz)

In NY State? Rofl

Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:10 PM (Zzbjj)

35 Seems like only a few short years ago that #MeToo was a thing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:10 PM (LijfE)

36 Was there ever a poll that said 92% of Dems would vote for Biden if he ran again?

The man lies when he speaks, after all.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

37 I find it "amusing" that these pollsters think Biden actually won Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Arizona in 2020. They are blind and delusional.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 31, 2024 12:11 PM (XMwZJ)

38 Like many things in the real world, this isn't going to go the way the Democrats wished.

Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 12:11 PM (krQz2)

39 >> This is not a game that can or will be played by one side only.

Oh, yes it can. Put another way, both parties are on the same side. Not yours, not mine.

Posted by: another guy at May 31, 2024 12:11 PM (rjJqk)

40 33 I saw one guy tweet that in no primary or election has he voted for Trump, but he would crawl over glass to do that now.
Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 12:10 PM (krQz2)

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That was Conn Carroll, an editor at the Washington Examiner.

Not exactly just a nobody.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at May 31, 2024 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

41 Stop with the polls. Everything is rigged now. It's all spin.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 12:11 PM (MvF+J)

42 Suggested addition to the AoSHQ List of Accepted Oxmorons:

"Law-abiding Democrat"

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 31, 2024 12:11 PM (PiwSw)

43 I suspect that it'll work so poorly that only Trump will talk about it by the end of June.

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It will be hilarious when Trump is the only one putting his mugshot in ads and fundraising off of the felonies.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:11 PM (LijfE)

44 We need more than just prosecution of Democrat officials. We need a promise of a pardon for anyone who kills or hurts a Democrat threatening him.

Posted by: Ken at May 31, 2024 12:11 PM (yyM4H)

45 A crime committed in a RED jurisdiction is a crime committed in a RED jurisdiction. All those FED agents that are involved in such travesties need to be arrested without bond (since they are a major flight risk) and tried in those states. At the same time, arrest any member of the admin you can tie to any crime against the State. Immigration is always a good start. Even in states like TX, there are plenty of venues with rabidly blue voters and politicians, so avoid those. Venue shopping is the only way.
We need to stop coming to a gun fight unarmed; we need to come with bigger guns. They wanted this, they got it, they get to live by the rules they have imposed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:11 PM (ynpvh)

46 37. What're they going to do, announce fraud? They are Pencian in their deceptions.

Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:12 PM (Zzbjj)

47 I suspect that it'll work so poorly that only Trump will talk about it by the end of June.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at May 31, 2024 12:10 PM (GBKbO)
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And then they'll go "WHY IS HE STILL TALKING ABOUT THIS??!!"

Because they have "moved on".

Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 12:12 PM (krQz2)

48 Second, the Democrats understand nothing except the raw exercise of power. Therefore, Republican attorneys general and district attorneys should bring criminal charges against Democratic officeholders wherever possible. No Democratic officeholder should be allowed to retire, in any jurisdiction with Republican law enforcement, without facing criminal charges.
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LOL. K.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2024 12:12 PM (d04cU)

49 Mark Cuban is the dumbest billionaire in history. But also the luckiest.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 12:12 PM (SHMXB)

50 44 We need more than just prosecution of Democrat officials. We need a promise of a pardon for anyone who kills or hurts a Democrat threatening him.

Posted by: Ken at May 31, 2024 12:11 PM (yyM4H)

Indeed. RED lives matter!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:12 PM (ynpvh)

51 18 Come on. We all know these pussy GOPs aren't going to do shit.
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 31, 2024 12:07 PM (xPl2J)

Right. Because consequences are a thing now. They are going to butch up and make sure the New Rules apply to their side too.

Bongino is saying that the Left realizes they have gone too far now.

I remember when they realized they had gone too far raiding Mar A Lago and were walking it all back....

Posted by: blaster at May 31, 2024 12:13 PM (xhfG9)

52 38 Like many things in the real world, this isn't going to go the way the Democrats wished.
Posted by: Axeman at May 31, 2024 12:11 PM (krQz2)

It has so far. Largely because the GOP is made of crisis actors, like that slut Graham.

Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:13 PM (Zzbjj)

53 So how many state legislatures do you suppose are rushing through laws preventing people convicted of a felony from appearing on the ballot?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 31, 2024 12:13 PM (F4bAW)

54 Anyone who worked in the Clinton, Obama and/or Biden Administrations should be afraid to travel through any State with a Republican AG.

Holder and Obama are prime targets for this, imo.

Posted by: garrett at May 31, 2024 12:13 PM (5HZK4)

55 I find it "amusing" that these pollsters think Biden actually won Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Arizona in 2020. They are blind and delusional.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

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He did. Pelosi openly and plainly made a statement in anger at a debate a few weeks ago and gave the game away.

The problem is that Trump (and we) contested the cheat. That was their complaint. It wasn't that it happened or that we noticed it. It was that someone stood up, pointed it out, and rejected it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:13 PM (LijfE)

56 How about Kris Kobach in Kansas? You didn't have any problem in your role as SoS in fucking people over because their names overlapped on registration rolls. What are you gonna do about it KK? You were on Trump's short list for a cabinet role.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 31, 2024 12:14 PM (YIxO9)

57 55 He did. Pelosi openly and plainly made a statement in anger at a debate a few weeks ago and gave the game away.

The problem is that Trump (and we) contested the cheat. That was their complaint. It wasn't that it happened or that we noticed it. It was that someone stood up, pointed it out, and rejected it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:13 PM (LijfE)

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We're supposed to be like Nixon in 1960 and just let JFK get away with it for the good of the nation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at May 31, 2024 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

58 54. Time to drop statutes of limitations for democrats, too

Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:14 PM (Zzbjj)

59 How sad that Trump is only up one in AZ.
Hope Trump supporters were underrepresented.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at May 31, 2024 12:14 PM (14DrZ)

60 I wonder what type of porno Mike Johnson and his drug addled son were watching when the verdict was read?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2024 12:14 PM (aFNOf)

61 LOOK AT THE POLLS!

I’m not sure why. I don’t trust any of them. Especially those that have Trump ahead OR behind.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at May 31, 2024 12:14 PM (iSfV4)

62 "Read My Lisp"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2024 12:15 PM (J2vNu)

63 He does suggest that Red States begin scanning their laws to see if any bribery cases against Joe or Hunter Biden (or Jim Biden, or the nieces and granddaughters) can be prosecuted in red state courts.

Sean Davis agrees...
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I like these "suggestions," too, and they aren't new.

What I don't understand - and don't buy - is that they appear to have some kind of positive *expectations* in this regard.

The GOP will not do this. Not yesterday, not today, not ever. The junior partners of an enterprise do not go after the senior partners. In a crime family it sometimes happens if the junior partner thinks he can get the big prize, but he usually can't and it's rare. The GOP knows better and, importantly, is *happy* with its secondary position.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2024 12:15 PM (d04cU)

64 The tanks in the street by the end of the year will be to stop Trump from being elected after the election.

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2024 12:15 PM (DIdfG)

65 Sean Davis agrees -- and wants the GOP to stop scheming to give tax breaks to the corporations who have gladly enlisted in the Democrats' war on normal citizens:

Indeed. Florida has show how to start with their treatment of Disney. Involvement of woke corporations into local and state elections need to be scrutinized with a fine-tooth comb. Look for ANY violations of election law and hit them with punitive fines, all State level, so no crying to Uncle Biden's Fed court.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:15 PM (ynpvh)

66 57. Many GOP believed this, too (see Bill Barr who looked the other way)

Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:15 PM (Zzbjj)

67 EVERY Democrat Senator in a red state needs to be on trial tomorrow.

Put them in jail. Let's arrest them for their obvious child-diddling. 40 years in PMITA Prison.

This doesn't stop if the left doesn't face consequences. Start hurting them OVER and OVER and OVER until they cry for mercy. Then grind them into the floor again.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 31, 2024 12:15 PM (JMAcK)

68 G Gordon Liddy talked about the consequences when only one side plays by the rules. It was his justification for what he did and I think correctly so. He just didn’t see the betrayal coming from an alleged ally.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 12:16 PM (SHMXB)

69 >> The junior partners of an enterprise do not go after the senior partners.

It’s amazing how few people comprehend this, especially now.

Posted by: another guy at May 31, 2024 12:16 PM (rjJqk)

70 He does suggest that Red States begin scanning their laws to see if any bribery cases against Joe or Hunter Biden (or Jim Biden, or the nieces and granddaughters) can be prosecuted in red state courts.

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The funny part would be when the Bidens get the same coincidence in pro-Biden judges.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:16 PM (LijfE)

71 53 So how many state legislatures do you suppose are rushing through laws preventing people convicted of a felony from appearing on the ballot?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 31, 2024 12:13 PM (F4bAW)

Which will end up in lawsuits like the last time (e.g., what States can and can't do regarding federal elections). I believe quite a few jurisdictions have rules regarding felons. The irony is that quite a few blue states have, over the years in order to boost Dem voters, allow felons to vote. The irony, it burns.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:16 PM (ynpvh)

72 This doesn't stop if the left doesn't face consequences. Start hurting them OVER and OVER and OVER until they cry for mercy. Then grind them into the floor again.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 31, 2024 12:15 PM (JMAcK)

But they could NEVER do that to their "friends across the aisle."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:16 PM (Zz0t1)

73 If you're a Republican running for office ... I intend to win. Do you?
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Most of them do intend to win, and most of them will not be disappointed. They don't care. They want their positions and their place in the wider Party pecking order. Same side, same ambition.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2024 12:16 PM (d04cU)

74 I'm not expecting it, but it would entertain me if we started seeing stories about red AGs bringing charges against, like Democrat Senators or prominent members of the state legislature for corruption charges or something.

No big push, just a trickle of little stories that the larger news companies ignore, that steadily grows as more AGs see the small amount of pushback received.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at May 31, 2024 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

75 Now we just have to depress Dems into not showing up without antagonizing them.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 31, 2024 12:17 PM (910Mn)

76 So how many state legislatures do you suppose are rushing through laws preventing people convicted of a felony from appearing on the ballot?
That is, literally, not possible. Qualification for federal office are set by the constitution, and a state cannot override that. This was settled when states tried to enforce term limits for congresscritters and senators, and were immediately shot down by SCOTUS.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 31, 2024 12:17 PM (XMwZJ)

77 Posted by: Elric Blade at May 31, 2024 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

As one of the most intelligent people I know told me about toxic family members... you can ignore them completely, excise them, live your life and be happy for years... and if you ever begin to miss the bullshit, you can go back and they will still be there, exactly the same as when you left."

The same goes for the "news". Think about how it never actually changes.

If you tuned in 6 years ago today you would have stories about them railroading Trump, a few massive things they lied about that are coming out, a few massive things they are currently lying about that haven't come out, a bunch of gay fag shit, climate change horrors that don't exist, Democrats consorting with enemies and terrorists, and feckless scum Republicans.

That's the news every day. All that changes is the details.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 12:17 PM (G8NR0)

78 like that slut Graham.
Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:13 PM (Zzbjj)

Slut grahams make the best s'mwhores.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2024 12:17 PM (BpZ5k)

79 Arresting them back is the only way to avoid having to do something more drastic.

The left won't stop. They have to BE stopped.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at May 31, 2024 12:17 PM (/nCD+)

80 54 A mid level Obama critter has a flat tire in Toad Suck AR and finds out how much power the Mayor's Court and the Sheriff have.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 31, 2024 12:17 PM (V5eKu)

81 Biden could be imprisoned and executed for his treason at the border, but THAT will NEVER happen.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

82 He will be sentenced to 90 days in solitary. Takes him out of the campaign for 3 months, and sentence complete before he can appeal.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 31, 2024 12:17 PM (P9xGM)

83 wonder what type of porno Mike Johnson and his drug addled son were watching when the verdict was read?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2024 12:14 PM
*****
This is about me, isn't it.

Posted by: Sloppy Daniels at May 31, 2024 12:17 PM (I0kUP)

84 76 So how many state legislatures do you suppose are rushing through laws preventing people convicted of a felony from appearing on the ballot?
That is, literally, not possible. Qualification for federal office are set by the constitution, and a state cannot override that. This was settled when states tried to enforce term limits for congresscritters and senators, and were immediately shot down by SCOTUS.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 31, 2024 12:17 PM (XMwZJ)

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This will not stop them from trying, though.

Gotta waste the Trump campaign's money on more lawfare somehow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at May 31, 2024 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

85 I appreciate the sentiment but disagree. GOP politicians would be wise to opt out of this corrupt version of the criminal system altogether. Dont respond. Dont show up. Dont acknowledge. There is no salvation within the criminal system for non-communists.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at May 31, 2024 12:18 PM (/cY/6)

86 Slut grahams make the best s'mwhores.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2024 12:17 PM (BpZ5k)

ISWYDT.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

87 If the FEDs try to get involved in these cases, arrest them for interference.
Yes, this is certainly a path to Civil War, but we're already fighing a warm Civil War that hasn't turned hot...yet. Calvinball folks! Everybody can play Calvinball now! Yah!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:18 PM (ynpvh)

88 This doesn't stop if the left doesn't face consequences. Start hurting them OVER and OVER and OVER until they cry for mercy. Then grind them into the floor again.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 31, 2024 12:15 PM (JMAcK)

Tit for tat.

Because we need tats for our tits!

Honestly, that's the only way we are getting tit for tat. Replying in kind is not who we are, sir.

I wonder if people will be thinking "I bet those Lefties realize they've gone too far now!" as they are herded into the boxcars.

Posted by: blaster at May 31, 2024 12:18 PM (xhfG9)

89 "Bongino is saying that the Left realizes they have gone too far now."

Watching him now. He says the Left is stupid too, which is horseshit. Keep underestimating them, Dan.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 12:19 PM (MvF+J)

90 85 I appreciate the sentiment but disagree. GOP politicians would be wise to opt out of this corrupt version of the criminal system altogether. Dont respond. Dont show up. Dont acknowledge. There is no salvation within the criminal system for non-communists.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at May 31, 2024 12:18 PM (/cY/6)

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I think you misunderstand.

It's not really about creating new crimes. It's about the fact that the entire political system is deeply corrupt and rife with lawbreaking, making it a target rich environment for actual prosecution of actual laws.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at May 31, 2024 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

91 86 Slut grahams make the best s'mwhores.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2024 12:17 PM (BpZ5k)

ISWYDT.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

I thought they were more into sloppy Joes and manwiches

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:19 PM (ynpvh)

92 Mmmmmmm........tits.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:19 PM (Zz0t1)

93 18
‘ pussy GOPs ’

Who will rid me of these useless, pussy GOPs?!

Posted by: Henry II watching from the Beyond at May 31, 2024 12:19 PM (jbnUc)

94 I've been calling for this since they charged Trump good to see others repeating the call.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2024 12:19 PM (ibTVg)

95 like that slut Graham.
Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:13 PM (Zzbjj)

Slut grahams make the best s'mwhores.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2024 12
****
This is about me, isn't it.

Posted by: Sloppy Daniels at May 31, 2024 12:19 PM (I0kUP)

96 Bongino is saying that the Left realizes they have gone too far now.
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Dude...........

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 12:19 PM (G8NR0)

97 This is not a game that can or will be played by one side only. The rules are now set. When Republicans have the chance, they will play the game.

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The neat part about this is we're able to see it right now, and it's silent. No one is doing a thing. It's like repealing Obamacare. Or obstructing Trump until they could give the House to the Democrats in 2018.

It's all talk. Which is why Trump is wildly popular among people, and hated by the ones who talk.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:19 PM (LijfE)

98 I think an easy good start is for some Repub DA to charge Fauci with murder. Granted, he was never in an elected position but without a doubt his actions directly led to thousands of Americans dying, a lot of them in bright red districts.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 31, 2024 12:19 PM (2fIO4)

99 "Slut grahams make the best s'mwhores."

You fantastic fish, you.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 31, 2024 12:20 PM (910Mn)

100 The polls showing Trump losing support if “convicted” where phrase in a very general, obtuse way. That’s a lot different than the injustice that’s played out here, and is now being understood by most people with a few synapses firing. In fact, people are now seeing this through a personal lens, that is, if they can do this to Trump, they can do this to me- and I can’t afford to fight it. That lucidity is not going to be good for Democrats up and down the ticket.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 31, 2024 12:20 PM (YmKky)

101 The GOP would never do anything like any of this. Ridiculous.

But if they did? Watch every "red state" judge in this country get Hawaiian so fast your head spins. They'll be wearing leis and chomping on Spam while they toss those cases.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 31, 2024 12:20 PM (0FoWg)

102 Mark Cuban? How about little Billy Gates?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2024 12:20 PM (llON8)

103 One of my former law partners, a world class trial lawyer, when faced with an adversary who wanted to engage in unprofessional "hardball" litigation tactics would say, "I can play the game; just tell me the rules." The Democrats have made the rules, and their opponents will have little choice but to play the game.
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Their opponents by and large do not have *access* to the game. That's how single-party tyrannies work. The rare outsider who gains access to the game gets treated exactly how the last outsider who gained access to the game is being treated.

There is no opposition party within the game, so none of this is going to happen. What will happen - eventually - is that the game will change entirely, and very very quickly. That's called "collapse" or "war" or "breakup" or various other things.

A game being played only by one team will factionalize, but still won't permit the formation of any new teams. That keeps up until they literally cannot prevent that formation any more, at which point things blows up in spectacular fashion.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2024 12:20 PM (d04cU)

104 All well and good. I'm entirely in favor of going for the jugular.

But we also need to know who the traitors are. I noted that Ed Morrissey was one of the first.

I was disappointed, but not surprised at Larry Hogan. Screw him. We'll take the Senate without MD.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 31, 2024 12:20 PM (1bNHn)

105 67 EVERY Democrat Senator in a red state needs to be on trial tomorrow.

Put them in jail. Let's arrest them for their obvious child-diddling. 40 years in PMITA Prison.

This doesn't stop if the left doesn't face consequences. Start hurting them OVER and OVER and OVER until they cry for mercy. Then grind them into the floor again.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 31, 2024 12:15 PM (JMAcK)

How much has Congress paid to cover up misdeeds by its members? Seems like campaign contributions to me. Felonious ones.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

106 Enough of the compromised fake Republicans at National Review and Commentary. Man up or get out.
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And Baseball Cuck who announced after the "verdict" that he will still be voting for Biden by proxy. [h/t EMT]

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 31, 2024 12:20 PM (ZdexC)

107 "Bongino is saying that the Left realizes they have gone too far now."

Is Joe Biden facing charges in ten different states for process crimes? He's facing...no charges? And in fact Congress continues to give him a blank check to spend money?

What exactly do you think the left has learned?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2024 12:20 PM (ibTVg)

108 90. Respectfully, you misunderstand. The communists will always find a juror to blackmail and compromise. There is no salvation down this road.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at May 31, 2024 12:20 PM (/cY/6)

109 >>A mid level Obama critter has a flat tire in Toad Suck AR and finds out how much power the Mayor's Court and the Sheriff have.

Holder has a connecting flight in TX and he should be arrested for the death of Brian Terry.

Same for Obama.

This can get real fun, real fast.

Posted by: garrett at May 31, 2024 12:21 PM (5HZK4)

110 If anything, this will make Trump even stronger. Like Obi-Wan. I understand that Trump just had a monster campaign donation flourish in the wake of this ridiculous verdict. That suggests that I'm correct in my thinking.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 31, 2024 12:08 PM (iFTx/)

What should alarm Biden is that his "voters" are mostly going to be fake ballots, while Trump's voters are increasingly enraged and regard local Democrats as their personal enemies.

Posted by: Agent of a dead Empire at May 31, 2024 12:21 PM (AKKkq)

111
Trump ran in '16 on "Lock her up". Then let her off the hook.

He better actually do it this time. There is no room for error anymore. No room for sympathy.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 31, 2024 12:21 PM (+oR7L)

112 That's been a worry that some of us have had for a long time. We'll see if people really change their votes based on this evil political prosecution.
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I dunno if we will see. Nothing can be trusted, including polling and elections themselves.

I have no idea what the "mood of the nation" is or anything else. I know my own mood and opinions. It's essentially impossible for me to know anyone else's.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2024 12:21 PM (d04cU)

113 The left won't stop. They have to BE stopped.

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Ah yes, communists.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:21 PM (LijfE)

114 Punish the democrat party so hard they never think of doing this destruction to the country again. It is the last peaceful option.

But 50%+ of "republican lawmakers think playing by donkey rules is worse than having just the donkeys playing by their rules.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 31, 2024 12:22 PM (17s+e)

115 Respectfully, you misunderstand. The communists will always find a juror to blackmail and compromise. There is no salvation down this road.

Find a crime. Charge them. Let them bribe a juror.

Charge them again with another incident the second they leave the court room.

Repeat however long it takes.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2024 12:22 PM (ibTVg)

116 The guys in Idiocracy were stupid, but they still got you arrested and put on trial. Granted, not quite as stupid and corrupt as that NY judge, prosecutor, and jury, but still...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 31, 2024 12:22 PM (XMwZJ)

117 108 90. Respectfully, you misunderstand. The communists will always find a juror to blackmail and compromise. There is no salvation down this road.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at May 31, 2024 12:20 PM (/cY/6)

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This is the battleground now.

To deny it is to deny the reality, to cede the ground to the enemy. Much like every hill has not been the hill to die on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at May 31, 2024 12:22 PM (GBKbO)

118 It’s hardly important, but does anyone think Dickless Cheney AKA Nimrata Haley is now rubbing her paws together, fantasizing about how she can still get the nom? She might be that delusional.

Posted by: another guy at May 31, 2024 12:22 PM (rjJqk)

119 Bongino is saying that the Left realizes they have gone too far now."

Watching him now. He says the Left is stupid too, which is horseshit. Keep underestimating them, Dan.
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 12:19 PM (MvF+J)

They are stupid but they overcome that by being overly bold.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 12:22 PM (SHMXB)

120 The last time Senator Menendez was indicted for bribery charges, Lindsey Graham testified as a character witness FOR him.

These people don't want to win.

Anyone remember Lindsey 2.0 after the Kavanaugh stuff? Anyone seen him lately?

NOONE faced a consequence for what they did to Kavanaugh.

Posted by: blaster at May 31, 2024 12:22 PM (xhfG9)

121 Afternoon Ace. Too expect Republicans to fight back this way would go up against the "that's not who we are crowd". Though it is funny to think of some pudgy bloated Republican DA being dragged in front of the cameras screaming "I don't want to prosecute my Democrat friends"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 31, 2024 12:22 PM (OcudU)

122 "Bongino is saying that the Left realizes they have gone too far now."

Sure, Dan.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 31, 2024 12:22 PM (910Mn)

123 If you're changing to no vote based on this verdict, I have my doubts that you really were going to vote for Trump.

OTOH, I can see a number of fence sitters with friends on the left saying this to shut the conversation down only to pull the Trump lever behind the curtain.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 31, 2024 12:22 PM (FxH7T)

124 By the way, little noticed is the fact this ruling places additional liabilities on public corporations operating in NY. They will now have to file in their 10k with respect to the risks these various judgements have created for them. Trump wasn’t the only corporation using these accounting methods and categorization.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 31, 2024 12:22 PM (YmKky)

125 But we also need to know who the traitors are. I noted that Ed Morrissey was one of the first.
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https://youtu.be/vx47jR3gE1w?si=9wEfnF7tBTtzRLCb

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 31, 2024 12:22 PM (0FoWg)

126 "So how many state legislatures do you suppose are rushing through laws preventing people convicted of a felony from appearing on the ballot?"

Doesn't matter. In a case concerning a state putting term limitations on their congress critters, SCOTUS said that a term limit was an additional qualification to run for office and only the ones in the Constitution count.

Here, the additional qualification would be to have never been convicted of a felony. Only the enumerated qualifications for President count.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at May 31, 2024 12:23 PM (zSyrn)

127 Manchin resigns from the democrat party over the verdict.
Hey Joe, GFY.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2024 12:23 PM (aFNOf)

128 Mark Cuban? How about little Billy Gates?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2024 12:20 PM

Mark Cuban is a greedy, corrupt asshole.

Bill Gates has committed MULTIPLE crimes against humanity and should be launched into the stratosphere and detonated to spread his bits around the globe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:23 PM (Zz0t1)

129 I'm back after two weeks of self-imposed vacation isolation and . . . the world is still steaming dogshit. [Sigh]
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 31, 2024

Welcome back! Let me be first to say we need more lawyers like you and Whig plus anyone else here who is a real one, just like Joe is a real cop. Because the 2 lawyers that served on that jury ought to be relegated to lead copy machine duster at their firm at best.

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 12:23 PM (pRpzT)

130 For the lawyers here, is there any chance the appeal can get fast tracked to SCOTUS? I understand that they usually want the appeal to take its normal course, but this isn't a normal case. Can 12 idiots and 1 retard judge really determine the fate of the nation?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 31, 2024 12:24 PM (2UnvF)

131 117. Deny it by ignoring it and calling it out as corrupt and therefore illegitimate? That is the only prosperous path forward. Playing in their playground is a fools errand.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at May 31, 2024 12:24 PM (/cY/6)

132 Hypothetically in a war if you are never willing to go beyond what the other guy is doing, but rather just trying to eventually match his constant escalations, then you should just wave the white flag and save everybody time.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 12:24 PM (G8NR0)

133 It’s hardly important, but does anyone think Dickless Cheney AKA Nimrata Haley is now rubbing her paws together, fantasizing about how she can still get the nom? She might be that delusional.
Posted by: another guy at May 31, 2024 12:22 PM (rjJqk)
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LOL. There's a vision.

The GOP is between a rock and a hard place. They can dump Trump and replace him with some team player and demonstrate itself to be exactly what it is and lose lots of future support from rubes who give them money, or it can continue to back Trump (half-heartedly, but still) and lose stature within the Party Complex and cut off future opportunities.

They went down with dogs and I hope they enjoy their fleas.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2024 12:24 PM (d04cU)

134 The rules are now set. When Republicans have the chance, they will play the game.

Right. Real Soon Now.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 31, 2024 12:24 PM (WFDEV)

135 >> Watch every "red state" judge in this country get Hawaiian so fast your head spins.

It might even cause some of them to “transition,” and discover new pronouns.

Posted by: another guy at May 31, 2024 12:24 PM (rjJqk)

136 Start with the guys in Congress with their secret hush money slush fund?
Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:07 PM (Zzbjj)

I want to know how many ny reps and senators the NYC AG has prosecuted under this, since the hush money fund was OBVIOUSLY used to keep the information from hurting their election chances, that's unlawfully interfering in the election per the PDJT judgement....

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 31, 2024 12:24 PM (UCRjB)

137 131 117. Deny it by ignoring it and calling it out as corrupt and therefore illegitimate? That is the only prosperous path forward. Playing in their playground is a fools errand.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at May 31, 2024 12:24 PM (/cY/6)

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And yet, that's been the path the GOP has taken for decades, and here we are.

There's no saving the Union anymore. We're just fighting over scraps.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at May 31, 2024 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

138 Bongino is saying that the Left realizes they have gone too far now."
..

LOL

Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at May 31, 2024 12:25 PM (bnQ7K)

139 "is there any chance the appeal can get fast tracked to SCOTUS?"

No standing.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 12:25 PM (MvF+J)

140 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 31, 2024 12:22 PM (0FoWg)
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LOL. I was expecting this one:
https://youtu.be/74BzSTQCl_c

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2024 12:25 PM (d04cU)

141 NOONE faced a consequence for what they did to Kavanaugh.
Posted by: blaster at May 31, 2024 12:22 PM (xhfG9)

Or for the fake dossier or hiding the Hunter info. It's because GOP is on the take, too.

Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:25 PM (Zzbjj)

142 Just wait until Merchan orders Trump cuffed and transported to Rikers on 7/11.

You know he's going to do it.

The Republican National Convention will be conducted with Trump behind bars.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 31, 2024 12:25 PM (uxCna)

143 Bongino is saying that the Left realizes they have gone too far now.

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"Going too far" is literally how Overton windows - a, if not THE, favorite tool of the left - work.

I thought these people got paid to think and write about this stuff.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:25 PM (LijfE)

144 Still waiting for Mitch McConnell to come out and say how dangerous the Trump Kangaroo Court is for our democracy. Perhaps that’s a little more important than Ukraine, gimp.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 31, 2024 12:25 PM (YmKky)

145 wonder what type of porno Mike Johnson and his drug addled son were watching when the verdict was read?

They tried to watch a porno, but it kept getting interrupted by Ace watching an Israeli tank stuck in mud.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 31, 2024 12:25 PM (4XgaH)

146 133 The GOP is between a rock and a hard place. They can dump Trump and replace him with some team player and demonstrate itself to be exactly what it is and lose lots of future support from rubes who give them money, or it can continue to back Trump (half-heartedly, but still) and lose stature within the Party Complex and cut off future opportunities.

They went down with dogs and I hope they enjoy their fleas.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2024 12:24 PM (d04cU)

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I think the GOP would have split after 2016 without Trump.

Imagine a 2016 where Jeb loses gracefully to Hillary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at May 31, 2024 12:25 PM (GBKbO)

147 >>> 119 Bongino is saying that the Left realizes they have gone too far now."

Watching him now. He says the Left is stupid too, which is horseshit. Keep underestimating them, Dan.
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 12:19 PM (MvF+J)

They are stupid but they overcome that by ~~being overly bold~~ not having the slightest trace of a conscience.
Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 12:22 PM (SHMXB)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2024 12:26 PM (llON8)

148 So many cultists blind to the possibility of Occam's Razor: that Trump is uniquely criminal and always has been.
Posted by: BearCocaine

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I'm open to it. But shouldn't there be a crime?

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:26 PM (LijfE)

149 137. So why participate in this portion of the system? Call it out. Ignore it. Ridicule it.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at May 31, 2024 12:26 PM (/cY/6)

150 I'd love to see Merchan end up in a Red State and be arrested for some minor violation that is ginned up to a major felony. As an out-of-stater, he'd be a major flight risk, so no bail. A jury of MAGA folks.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:26 PM (ynpvh)

151 150 137. So why participate in this portion of the system? Call it out. Ignore it. Ridicule it.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at May 31, 2024 12:26 PM (/cY/6)

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Because to ignore it is to not fight it which is to allow the other side to gain more ground, to take more victims, and to collect more power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at May 31, 2024 12:26 PM (GBKbO)

152 "I thought these people got paid to think and write about this stuff."

DB gets paid to talk and sell supplements, and he's making bank. He'll be OK.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 12:27 PM (MvF+J)

153 The rules are now set. When Republicans have the chance, they will play the game.
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Right. Real Soon Now.
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SEND IN THE CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS!

Posted by: Ribbed at May 31, 2024 12:27 PM (910Mn)

154 Has Meatball issued a statement?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2024 12:27 PM (aFNOf)

155 12 It pisses me off that the Mavericks are in the NBA Finals.

Mark Cuban still owns part of that team and I wish nothing but failure for him.

And yes. I fully expect there to be tapes of him in P Diddy's library somewhere.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:06 PM (Zz0t1)

Mavs had a massive scandal. Cuban somehow skated.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 31, 2024 12:27 PM (KbCG3)

156 151 I'd love to see Merchan end up in a Red State and be arrested for some minor violation that is ginned up to a major felony. As an out-of-stater, he'd be a major flight risk, so no bail. A jury of MAGA folks.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:26 PM (ynpvh)

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Mitch is going to host him a fundraiser in Frankfurt for Merchen's re-election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at May 31, 2024 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

157 143. Of course. That's why he should not show up. Make NY chase him in red states.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at May 31, 2024 12:27 PM (/cY/6)

158 Watching him now. He says the Left is stupid too, which is horseshit. Keep underestimating them, Dan.
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 12:19 PM (MvF+J)

A majority of the leftist voters are stupid, but their leadership is not. They're evil to the core and willing to sacrifice ANYTHING for power.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

159 148 >>> 119 Bongino is saying that the Left realizes they have gone too far now."

Watching him now. He says the Left is stupid too, which is horseshit. Keep underestimating them, Dan.
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 12:19 PM (MvF+J)

They are stupid but they overcome that by ~~being overly bold~~ not having the slightest trace of a conscience.
Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 12:22 PM (SHMXB)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2024 12:26 PM (llON

No surprise; psychopaths don't.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:27 PM (ynpvh)

160 The rules are now set. When Republicans have the chance, they will play the game.
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Nothing will happen.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 12:28 PM (G8NR0)

161 73 Most of them do intend to win, and most of them will not be disappointed. They don't care. They want their positions and their place in the wider Party pecking order. Same side, same ambition.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2024 12:16 PM (d04cU)

I do wonder, though, what makes someone want to be part of the Junior side. Humiliation Fetish?

Posted by: XTC at May 31, 2024 12:28 PM (UnA8+)

162 Bill Gates has committed MULTIPLE crimes against humanity and should be launched into the stratosphere and detonated to spread his bits around the globe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:23 PM (Zz0t1)

Too many "leaders" and neps on the payroll.

Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:28 PM (Zzbjj)

163 The Left believes crazy shit, but they aren't stupid.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 12:28 PM (MvF+J)

164 159 Watching him now. He says the Left is stupid too, which is horseshit. Keep underestimating them, Dan.
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 12:19 PM (MvF+J)

A majority of the leftist voters are stupid, but their leadership is not. They're evil to the core and willing to sacrifice ANYTHING for power.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

In zombie movies, the zombies are usually pretty stupid, but their numbers make them a serious threat. Now imagine zombies CONTROLLED by someone who isn't stupid...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:28 PM (ynpvh)

165 162 I do wonder, though, what makes someone want to be part of the Junior side. Humiliation Fetish?
Posted by: XTC at May 31, 2024 12:28 PM (UnA8+)

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Stepping stone to the Senior side.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at May 31, 2024 12:28 PM (GBKbO)

166 Mavs had a massive scandal. Cuban somehow skated.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 31, 2024 12:27 PM (KbCG3)

So, you're telling me that he may've been FORCED to sell controlling interest in the team, ala Dan Snider?

I noticed that he's not been on the sidelines pissing and complaining to the refs during the current playoff run......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

167 OTOH, John Hinderaker of PowerLine, who has long been an exponent of squishy Republicanism, has been completely radicalized by this farce:

https://tinyurl.com/bd37yypd

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 31, 2024 12:29 PM (uxCna)

168 Still available.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at May 31, 2024 12:29 PM (aFNOf)

169 BearCocaine

Oh look, Blago's following the blog around again.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2024 12:29 PM (llON8)

170 Hush money = blackmail payment.

They’ve turned the crime upside down.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 12:29 PM (SHMXB)

171 149
I'm open to it. But shouldn't there be a crime?
Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May

I suwannie, Robbie. You are such a stickler for details.

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 12:29 PM (pRpzT)

172 I saw one guy tweet that in no primary or election has he voted for Trump, but he would crawl over glass to do that now.
Posted by: Axeman
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That was Conn Carroll, an editor at the Washington Examiner.
Not exactly just a nobody.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Information Only:
Mollie @MZHemingway May 30
Washington Examiner says you're required to respect verdicts in show trials: "Period. End of story." This may be the worst and most poorly argued piece of punditry I've read in years. Calls for him to withdraw BECAUSE of the show trial verdict.

Trump’s continued candidacy would insult the country - Washington Examiner
Nobody can serve the country adequately as president from a prison cell in New York. Trump should and must withdraw from the campaign.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 31, 2024 12:29 PM (ZdexC)

173 What pissed me off was some republican talking heads last night saying they didn't blame the jury with the messed up directions they were given. Fuck that.. They spent weeks listening to the worst crap and lies and even proof from some prosecution witnesses that Trump was not guilty of the weird ass charges they were hinting at.. And yes it was hinted but never really spelled out. It's still not clear. Anyway the jury is guilty.. End of rant

Posted by: The media at May 31, 2024 12:30 PM (Akjoo)

174 It'd be a real shame if Soros ended up bound and gagged in any of the countries that want to give him the death penalty...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:30 PM (ynpvh)

175 >>>Still waiting for Mitch McConnell to come out and say how dangerous the Trump Kangaroo Court is for our democracy.

Susan Collins actually released a fairly strong statement against the verdict. A lot better than McConnell and others.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 31, 2024 12:30 PM (xPl2J)

176 There was a recent Appeals Court ruling in 3 or 5 Circuit that there was not reason to move J6 trials out of DC over bias

Three judge panel (one Obama, on Trump and another)

Posted by: SMOD at May 31, 2024 12:30 PM (RHGPo)

177 Still available.
Posted by: Nikki Haley at May 31, 2024 12:29 PM (aFNOf)

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Oh f*ck off

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 12:30 PM (DRSnL)

178 >>So many cultists blind to the possibility of Occam's Razor: that Trump is uniquely criminal and always has been.

Occam's Razor would have an issue with 7 years of persecution netting precisely zero actual crimes.

Posted by: garrett at May 31, 2024 12:30 PM (5HZK4)

179 There's no saving the Union anymore. We're just fighting over scraps.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at May 31, 2024 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

We've all seen what happened over the last eight years.

Enough ConInc twaddle about what the GOP needs to do.

They don't want to do anything.

If they did, they still couldn't.

There are no solutions available within the political system. That time is over. It's been over since 2016. If you've seen the witch hunts and phony impeachments and election rigging and staged riots and the suspension of civil liberties and this bill of attainder against the opposition leader, and you still say those are possible, you're either full of shit, the biggest retard in the world, or both.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 31, 2024 12:31 PM (0FoWg)

180 OMG is Monicatec back AGAIN?

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 12:31 PM (G8NR0)

181 >>> 165
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In zombie movies, the zombies are usually pretty stupid, but their numbers make them a serious threat. Now imagine zombies CONTROLLED by someone who isn't stupid...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:28 PM (ynpvh)

*tee hee*

Posted by: Stan at May 31, 2024 12:31 PM (llON8)

182 166 Stepping stone to the Senior side.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at May 31, 2024 12:28 PM (GBKbO)

Never really happens anymore.

Any GOPe who tries to convert to an official Democrat (see : Arlen Specter) gets jettisoned by Leftist Activists.

Posted by: XTC at May 31, 2024 12:31 PM (UnA8+)

183 149

I-not even "bearly" but much more so prefer Eric Clapton's "Cocaine"

https://tinyurl.com/46rp4bsm

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2024 12:31 PM (XkYcA)

184 Oh f*ck off
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 12:30 PM (DRSnL)

That's hot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:31 PM (Zz0t1)

185 I do wonder, though, what makes someone want to be part of the Junior side. Humiliation Fetish?
Posted by: XTC at May 31, 2024 12:28 PM (UnA8+)
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Easy money. Plenty of "heel" roles in professional wrestling.

They're all on the same team. The "heel" gets paid just the same and none of the invective hurled at the "heel" by the "hero" is meant. It's just a role and they all get paid for playing it.

It's a pretty nice life for lots of people. Go to the office, pretend to work, be the designated "bad guy" during business hours, then go home to your nice house and your wife and go to junior's private school little league games on the weekends.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2024 12:31 PM (d04cU)

186 So many cultists blind to the possibility of Occam's Razor: that Trump is uniquely criminal and always has been.

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Occam's Razor would have an issue with 7 years of persecution netting precisely zero actual crimes.

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Yep.

it's amazing to realize Trump is very likely the cleanest president the nation has ever had.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:31 PM (LijfE)

187 177. But yes. This is a legitimate system to participate in!

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at May 31, 2024 12:31 PM (/cY/6)

188 Trump’s continued candidacy would insult the country - Washington Examiner
Nobody can serve the country adequately as president from a prison cell in New York. Trump should and must withdraw from the campaign.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 31, 2024 12:29 PM (ZdexC)

Washington Examiner and other rags are an insult to the country. Why should businesses get free money from Uncle Sugar like they do? Go the way of the horse and buggy, assholes. Learn to ~~code~~ be literal prostitutes, earning your keep the hard way, a quarter at a time.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:31 PM (ynpvh)

189 174 What pissed me off was some republican talking heads last night saying they didn't blame the jury with the messed up directions they were given. Fuck that.. They spent weeks listening to the worst crap and lies and even proof from some prosecution witnesses that Trump was not guilty of the weird ass charges they were hinting at.. And yes it was hinted but never really spelled out. It's still not clear. Anyway the jury is guilty.. End of rant

Posted by: The media at May 31, 2024 12:30 PM (Akjoo)

This is just like how all mistakes in the media happen to go in one direction.

A jury given bullshit, confusing directions could've just as easily acquitted.

They didn't. Fuck them, their families, their friends, their future family and friends, and everything they come into contact with.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 31, 2024 12:31 PM (KbCG3)

190 Trump’s continued candidacy would insult the country - Washington Examiner
Nobody can serve the country adequately as president from a prison cell in New York. Trump should and must withdraw from the campaign.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 31, 2024 12:29 PM (ZdexC)

Seriously ? F' off.. yeah, I'm in that kind of mood

Posted by: The media at May 31, 2024 12:32 PM (Akjoo)

191 Posted by: BearCocaine
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Now I understand why all those chicks chose the bear. They had information I didn't.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2024 12:32 PM (d04cU)

192

I feel the GOP is setting everything up for a massive loss.

I can feel it coming.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at May 31, 2024 12:32 PM (et1vG)

193 Punish the democrat party so hard they never think of doing this destruction to the country again. It is the last peaceful option.

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Posted by: Shit Sherman Said at May 31, 2024 12:32 PM (hCzfy)

194 I wonder if people will be thinking "I bet those Lefties realize they've gone too far now!" as they are herded into the boxcars.

Posted by: blaster at May 31, 2024 12:18 PM (xhfG9)

European Jews were exterminated in accordance with the rule of law.

Normalcy bias is a real thing. It's almost impossible to convince someone they've reached a wrong conclusion.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at May 31, 2024 12:32 PM (/nCD+)

195 >>A majority of the leftist voters are stupid, but their leadership is not. They're evil to the core and willing to sacrifice ANYTHING for power.

Kill ALL Utilitarians.

It's the only way.

Posted by: garrett at May 31, 2024 12:32 PM (5HZK4)

196 All of the articles about polls and voting and fundraising miss what probably will happen: the GOPe will refuse to nominate Trump; he won’t be on the ballot. Bolton already is making this noise; Romney assuredly will join him by end of day. States will pass legislation prohibiting felons from being write-ins, and as RFK is learning, getting on state ballots is difficult - and many (all?) deadlines have passed….

Remember that parties are private corporations (SCOTUS) and can nominate whomever their leaders desire. Primaries are fun but have zero legal authority.

Posted by: Alexander Scipio at May 31, 2024 12:32 PM (NX5U7)

197 I do wonder, though, what makes someone want to be part of the Junior side. Humiliation Fetish?
Posted by: XTC at May 31, 2024 12:28 PM (UnA8

Money and boys.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 31, 2024 12:32 PM (0FoWg)

198 Soros bound to Fauci and both tossed into a teeming pile of hungry sand fleas.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 12:33 PM (awxTv)

199 The Left Today: The System is great!

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 12:33 PM (G8NR0)

200 I cannot take another thread today of "it's all over." "The Union is dead" . "No point in voting". I'm darn well going to run for office and I am going to vote

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2024 12:33 PM (XkYcA)

201 Rubio, who looks like Fredo Corleone, says we can solve this by working with democrats.

Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:33 PM (Zzbjj)

202 Hinderaker suggests: "If Joe Biden is re-elected following this outrage, he will be an illegitimate president. What does that mean? It means, I think, that no one should be obliged to follow his executive orders."

I know for damn sure that's what they'll do to DJT if he gets into office. Don't expect the same tactic to be effectively used against any Democrat officeholder.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 12:33 PM (MvF+J)

203 A jury given bullshit, confusing directions could've just as easily acquitted.

They didn't. Fuck them, their families, their friends, their future family and friends, and everything they come into contact with.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 31, 2024 12:31 PM (KbCG3)

It’s my feeling that the two jurors who were attorneys got the jury to render this verdict.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 12:33 PM (SHMXB)

204 What is "uniquely criminal" supposed to mean?

Maybe it makes sense when you have a gas pump shoved up your ass.

Posted by: spindrift at May 31, 2024 12:34 PM (OguvZ)

205 I'm back after two weeks of self-imposed vacation isolation and . . . the world is still steaming dogshit. [Sigh]
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 31, 2024

Welcome back! Let me be first to say we need more lawyers like you and Whig plus anyone else here who is a real one, just like Joe is a real cop. Because the 2 lawyers that served on that jury ought to be relegated to lead copy machine duster at their firm at best.
Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 12:23 PM (pRpzT)
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Thanks! I wasn't paying attention to the trial, but if indeed there were two lawyers on the jury that in itself is a big red flag. It's rare to see one lawyer on a criminal jury (civil juries are different), let alone two.

Usually, both the defendant and prosecutor don't want lawyers on criminal juries. Lawyers have insider legal knowledge and laypersons generally follow their lead in jury deliberations. That's usually a risk that neither side wants to take.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 31, 2024 12:34 PM (iFTx/)

206 be literal prostitutes, earning your keep the hard way, a quarter at a time.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:31 PM (ynpvh)

Was out cruising with a bud in my much earlier years when we drove up on a hooker.

Asked her how much for a BJ and she said 'fiddy.' I started digging in my pocket and asked my bud "I got one.....can I borrow a quarter?"

She got PISSED.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)

207 BearFag is right!

Trump said 'pussy'!!!!!!

Posted by: This... is XiNN at May 31, 2024 12:34 PM (llON8)

208 190 174 What pissed me off was some republican talking heads last night saying they didn't blame the jury with the messed up directions they were given. Fuck that.. They spent weeks listening to the worst crap and lies and even proof from some prosecution witnesses that Trump was not guilty of the weird ass charges they were hinting at.. And yes it was hinted but never really spelled out. It's still not clear. Anyway the jury is guilty.. End of rant

Posted by: The media at May 31, 2024 12:30 PM (Akjoo)

This is just like how all mistakes in the media happen to go in one direction.

A jury given bullshit, confusing directions could've just as easily acquitted.

They didn't. Fuck them, their families, their friends, their future family and friends, and everything they come into contact with.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 31, 2024 12:31 PM (KbCG3)

lawfare against them has to be fair...it's what they've done, and fair is in the name, right? I mean fare, but same difference.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:34 PM (ynpvh)

209 This is not a game that can or will be played by one side only. The rules are now set. When Republicans have the chance, they will play the game.

No they won't.

There is only one party and we aren't in it.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 31, 2024 12:34 PM (aD39U)

210 25 We'll see if that changes. There's a poll that says that if Trump is convicted, Trump will lose a critical amount of support. Biden won't gain any support, but Trump will fall below Biden:

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I trust, like, no polling, but this does just feel like push polling.

I dunno, maybe it's true.

But media companies aren't paying polling firms to report on the mood of the people. Haven't for a while. Maybe never.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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One can use even biased information to still get some idea of reality. Basically you have to use probabilistic thinking rather than determinative.

This was actually commonly taught in grad school back in the heyday of the Soviet bloc to analyze what was going on there.

Posted by: whig at May 31, 2024 12:34 PM (PkS4e)

211 @51

>>Bongino is saying that the Left realizes they have gone too far now.

Well, in a couple of weeks, we're about to watch a President being handcuffed and marched out of court, so we got that spectacle ahead.

Or alternatively...

Deep State: We Ain't In No Ways Tired of Going Too Far.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2024 12:34 PM (XV/Pl)

212 186 It's a pretty nice life for lots of people. Go to the office, pretend to work, be the designated "bad guy" during business hours, then go home to your nice house and your wife and go to junior's private school little league games on the weekends.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2024 12:31 PM (d04cU)

I might agree with this if you didn't have the media still spurring on activists to try to kill them (eg : Serial Rapist Brett Kavanagh and the Troon that tried to kill him).

Posted by: XTC at May 31, 2024 12:34 PM (UnA8+)

213 next up: red states try to remove the convicted felon from the ballot

Posted by: anachronda at May 31, 2024 12:34 PM (v3pYe)

214 202 I cannot take another thread today of "it's all over." "The Union is dead" . "No point in voting". I'm darn well going to run for office and I am going to vote
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2024 12:33 PM (XkYcA)

I'm definitely voting and I'm in CA. I wish I was in your State fen so I could vote for you

Posted by: The media at May 31, 2024 12:34 PM (Akjoo)

215 Seriously ? F' off.. yeah, I'm in that kind of mood

Posted by: The media at May 31, 2024 12:32 PM (Akjoo)

And you're also failing to take of your socks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)

216 205 A jury given bullshit, confusing directions could've just as easily acquitted.

They didn't. Fuck them, their families, their friends, their future family and friends, and everything they come into contact with.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 31, 2024 12:31 PM (KbCG3)

It’s my feeling that the two jurors who were attorneys got the jury to render this verdict.
Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 12:33 PM (SHMXB)
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I tend to agree. See my comment above.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 31, 2024 12:35 PM (iFTx/)

217 Bolton? They guy enjoying orgies at the NY Plato Club? That squeaky clean guy?

Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:35 PM (Zzbjj)

218 But we also need to know who the traitors are. I noted that Ed Morrissey was one of the first.

I was disappointed, but not surprised at Larry Hogan. Screw him. We'll take the Senate without MD.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 31, 2024 12:20 PM (1bNHn)

Ed Morrissey has been nothing but open about his hatred for Trump. I don't believe he's confirmed/denied, but before AP got fired and they closed the comments, most people assumed he had voted for Biden.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at May 31, 2024 12:35 PM (/nCD+)

219 BearCocaine is as brain-dead as Cocaine bear.
We live in a Beria world, and the dems are Beria girls.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:35 PM (ynpvh)

220 "Is it just like me or does he have a face that says "uncharged sexual assaults"?"

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If that's your standard, then I think you have to start with Jack Smith.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2024 12:35 PM (dGCAG)

221 218 Seriously ? F' off.. yeah, I'm in that kind of mood

Posted by: The media at May 31, 2024 12:32 PM (Akjoo)

And you're also failing to take of your socks.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)

right

Posted by: It's me donna at May 31, 2024 12:35 PM (Akjoo)

222 Part of this is we need to take down the infrastructure of the "War on Drugs" and "War on Terror" which has weaponized our legal system into a bunch of insanely vague laws with draconian penalties that give unscrupulous/hack prosecutors essentially unlimited power to destroy anyone's life.

All our criminal laws should be sunsetted and replaced by laws defining crimes that could be depicted by a crayon on a single sheet of paper: murder, actual theft, etc.

Posted by: Zek at May 31, 2024 12:35 PM (5FPX4)

223 >>There has been.

Name it.

Identify the actual crime and cite the Statute.

You can't. Because there isn't one.
Only one-off prosecutions based on tortured readings of Law.

Posted by: garrett at May 31, 2024 12:36 PM (5HZK4)

224 193

I feel the GOP is setting everything up for a massive loss.

I can feel it coming.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at May 31, 2024 12:32 PM (et1vG)

There's gonna be a LOT of Failure Theater over the next few months.

Posted by: XTC at May 31, 2024 12:36 PM (UnA8+)

225 But shouldn't there be a crime?

There has been. Rather than listen to Bongino et al tell you there isn't, go read the documents. That's another part: realize how much of the MAGA Cinematic Universe has been actively lying to you.
Posted by: BearCocaine

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Weird how you couldn't just name it.

Eh, probably a coincidence.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:36 PM (LijfE)

226 213 @51

>>Bongino is saying that the Left realizes they have gone too far now.

Well, in a couple of weeks, we're about to watch a President being handcuffed and marched out of court, so we got that spectacle ahead.

Or alternatively...

Deep State: We Ain't In No Ways Tired of Going Too Far.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2024 12:34 PM (XV/Pl)

It isn't rape-rape.

Posted by: Whoopi! at May 31, 2024 12:36 PM (ynpvh)

227 This bikini blonde on a boat thinks that expectations of "lawfare" from the GOP are laughable:
http://tiny.cc/1jebyz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2024 12:36 PM (d04cU)

228 right

Posted by: It's me donna at May 31, 2024 12:35 PM (Akjoo)

*grins*

*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:36 PM (Zz0t1)

229 Donald Trump is the most investigated man on the planet. Years of investigations with unlimited resources and they still had to make shit up to charge him with. He may be the cleanest politician in the history of the world.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 31, 2024 12:36 PM (2UnvF)

230 Bottom up, top down.

The government stirs the masses into revolt
"The people" beg the government to stop the uprising
Government responds withCommunism.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 31, 2024 12:36 PM (P9xGM)

231 Bolton? They guy enjoying orgies at the NY Plato Club? That squeaky clean guy?
Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:35 PM (Zzbjj)

Spends a lot of time in Qatar too.

But nobody ever heard of anything shady happening in that lovely place.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2024 12:36 PM (dGCAG)

232 The two attorneys were planted there to perform a pincer movement on any potential stragglers.

But what if there were no stragglers..... 🤔

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 12:36 PM (G8NR0)

233 Oh come on. No one had to “persuade” a jury of Manhattanites to convict Trump. They stayed the extra day for the free meals.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at May 31, 2024 12:36 PM (/cY/6)

234 Its like a giant spy operation from Europe.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at May 31, 2024 12:36 PM (J8LnB)

235 This is an opportunity for blood thirsty Republican AGs.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 31, 2024 12:36 PM (rJ48h)

236 Kremlin: Trump verdict shows his rivals are using all means to get rid of him

Former US President Donald Trump's unprecedented trial for falsifying business records shows the White House is "eliminating" its political rivals, the Kremlin said Friday. "The fact that a de-facto elimination of political rivals by all possible legal and illegal means is going on there is obvious," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters..

.. gee, Democrats give Putin the moral underpinnings to eliminate his rivals at will

Posted by: SMOD at May 31, 2024 12:37 PM (RHGPo)

237 http://tiny.cc/1jebyz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2024 12:36 PM (d04cU)

Everybody needs a peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:37 PM (Zz0t1)

238 213 @51

>>Bongino is saying that the Left realizes they have gone too far now.

Well, in a couple of weeks, we're about to watch a President being handcuffed and marched out of court, so we got that spectacle ahead.

Or alternatively...

Deep State: We Ain't In No Ways Tired of Going Too Far.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2024 12:34 PM (XV/Pl)

Bongino is a fucking idiot. The left is actively trying to feast on children but nailing Trump on BS is the moment that caused them all to question their strategy?

Fuck outta here with that.

(Not you, Bender)

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 31, 2024 12:37 PM (KbCG3)

239 I'm darn well going to run for office and I am going to vote
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2024 12:33 PM (XkYcA)
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You're free to pursue your hobbies. Anna Puma does those model fighter airplanes, and seems to enjoy that a lot.

But they still don't actually fly.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 31, 2024 12:37 PM (0FoWg)

240 220 Bolton? They guy enjoying orgies at the NY Plato Club? That squeaky clean guy?

Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:35 PM (Zzbjj)

Did he use a Bolt-on?

Posted by: Whoopi! at May 31, 2024 12:37 PM (ynpvh)

241 I feel the GOP is setting everything up for a massive loss.

I can feel it coming.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA

If they don't lose massively they will have violated their graft clause.

Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:37 PM (Zzbjj)

242 *grins*

*hugs*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:36 PM (Zz0t1)

Thanks... I'm so angry today.. yesterday I was sad.. Today I'm angry

Posted by: It's me donna at May 31, 2024 12:37 PM (Akjoo)

243 221 Ed Morrissey has been nothing but open about his hatred for Trump. I don't believe he's confirmed/denied, but before AP got fired and they closed the comments, most people assumed he had voted for Biden.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at May 31, 2024 12:35 PM (/nCD+)

I never thought there'd be a day where Steven Morrissey isn't the worst Morrissey.

Posted by: XTC at May 31, 2024 12:37 PM (UnA8+)

244 Come on everyone. Listen to New Name Guy!!!

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 12:37 PM (G8NR0)

245 "There's a poll that says that if Trump is convicted, Trump will lose a critical amount of support"

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It said convicted and imprisoned.

If you don't think the judge is going to sentence Trump to prison, you need to wake up.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 31, 2024 12:37 PM (i7Q7S)

246 Cleanest president in the history of the United States, and the left accidentally proved it by constant federal, state, and alphabet investigations for nearly the last decade.

And nothing came of any of them. To the point that crimes had to be made up.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:37 PM (LijfE)

247 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 31, 2024 12:37 PM (0FoWg

Well put.

Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:38 PM (Zzbjj)

248 226 Name it.

Identify the actual crime and cite the Statute.

You can't. Because there isn't one.
Only one-off prosecutions based on tortured readings of Law.

Posted by: garrett at May 31, 2024 12:36 PM (5HZK4)

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In a place where the DA is letting felons go free without any trial.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at May 31, 2024 12:38 PM (GBKbO)

249 I might agree with this if you didn't have the media still spurring on activists to try to kill them (eg : Serial Rapist Brett Kavanagh and the Troon that tried to kill him).
Posted by: XTC at May 31, 2024 12:34 PM (UnA8+)
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It's not real.

The bigger players get to deal with that, and most of them pursue their roles because the juice is worth the squeeze. For most of them, though, even this mostly-artificial risk is essentially zero.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2024 12:38 PM (d04cU)

250 The two attorneys were planted there to perform a pincer movement on any potential stragglers.

But what if there were no stragglers.....

Posted by: ...

Then you're out by the weekend with 34 counts.

Posted by: Shit Sherman Said at May 31, 2024 12:38 PM (hCzfy)

251 216 next up: red states try to remove the convicted felon from the ballot
Posted by: anachronda

Already speaking to the ballot printing company to save our democracy.

Posted by: Mike DeWine at May 31, 2024 12:38 PM (aFNOf)

252 Has any of the jurors rushed to sell their story yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2024 12:38 PM (awxTv)

253 Thanks! I wasn't paying attention to the trial, but if indeed there were two lawyers on the jury that in itself is a big red flag. It's rare to see one lawyer on a criminal jury (civil juries are different), let alone two.

Usually, both the defendant and prosecutor don't want lawyers on criminal juries. Lawyers have insider legal knowledge and laypersons generally follow their lead in jury deliberations. That's usually a risk that neither side wants to take.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May

Which is what I believed, too but there were 2 of them. Heck, I wasn’t chosen 3 times because I had advocated at a number of Arbitrations, was on the Company side in mediation and negotiated a boatload of CBAs, but am not a lawyer. I was the only non-lawyer on my team, but you don’t catch being a lawyer like you catch cooties!

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 12:38 PM (pRpzT)

254 226 >>There has been.

Name it.

Identify the actual crime and cite the Statute.

You can't. Because there isn't one.
Only one-off prosecutions based on tortured readings of Law.

Posted by: garrett at May 31, 2024 12:36 PM (5HZK4)

Tortured, mutilated, raped, and made to confess to crimes.

Posted by: Whoopi! at May 31, 2024 12:38 PM (ynpvh)

255 241 Bongino is a fucking idiot. The left is actively trying to feast on children but nailing Trump on BS is the moment that caused them all to question their strategy?

Fuck outta here with that.

(Not you, Bender)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 31, 2024 12:37 PM (KbCG3)

Idiot?

No. Controlled Opposition. His job is to talk everyone down into inaction.

Posted by: XTC at May 31, 2024 12:38 PM (UnA8+)

256 Where are the calls for a General Strike?

Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at May 31, 2024 12:38 PM (bnQ7K)

257 This Bear guy gets it! I'm voting for 200 additional percent inflation on food!

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:38 PM (LijfE)

258 And nothing came of any of them. To the point that crimes had to be made up.
Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:37 PM (LijfE)

DAs in NY had many years to make a name by destroying him, but couldn't.

Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:38 PM (Zzbjj)

259 And you're also failing to take of your socks.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)

=====

Pot, meet kettle...

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 12:39 PM (DRSnL)

260 BearCocaine is as brain-dead as Cocaine bear.
We live in a Beria world, and the dems are Beria girls.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:35 PM (ynpvh)

He's another one of our "regular" trolls.

Changed his nic so he could be that much more of an asshole, but for me personally, I always thought he was an asshole.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2024 12:39 PM (dGCAG)

261 Everything is going to the left's plan. You all think their plan is to have an election in Nov and just cheat their way to victory. Lol. That is child's play.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 31, 2024 12:39 PM (P9xGM)

262 The "let's convict trump of a felony" gambit hasn't ever been intended to influence voters. Those in control of the Democrats are way too smart not too realize that this won't dissuade any trump voters and would likely only increase his support.

No, this lawfare was intended for the squishes in the republican party, those in charge of nominating a candidate for president. When merchan sentences Trump to a maximum (5 year?) prison sentence only days before the republican convention begins, the game truly begins and I expect the Democrats to win as always.

The republicans will do the dirty work for their Democrat puppeteers and throw Trump off the ballot and nominate Nikki Haley.

Posted by: smeltwwrapper at May 31, 2024 12:39 PM (mxEar)

263 >>> 260 This Bear guy gets it! I'm voting for 200 additional percent inflation on food!
Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:38 PM (LijfE)

200? Piker.

Posted by: Zimbabwe at May 31, 2024 12:39 PM (llON8)

264 Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 31, 2024 12:37 PM (KbCG3)

There is a list of prominent Democrats who have said as much and I assume many more that think it. It’s not the useful idiots which still think they haven’t gone far enough.

Posted by: polynikes at May 31, 2024 12:39 PM (SHMXB)

265 off bloated sack-o-shit sock

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:39 PM (ynpvh)

266 Purge Night can't come soon enough.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 31, 2024 12:40 PM (xcxpd)

267 real problem is that the dems are just much better at being vicious and dirty. i would have a hard time believing a republican judge would tell a jury to just pick a crime and convict on that

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 31, 2024 12:40 PM (B1FKF)

268 216 next up: red states try to remove the convicted felon from the ballot

after that: vp harris refuses to accept electoral votes for a convicted felon

Posted by: anachronda at May 31, 2024 12:40 PM (v3pYe)

269 "Their opponents by and large do not have *access* to the game. That's how single-party tyrannies work"
@103

=================

Correct.

If you think there is a judge in Nebraska or Kansas who would act the same way this clown did, you're kidding yourself.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 31, 2024 12:40 PM (i7Q7S)

270 It’s not just elected officials, although that’s a good start. No federal agent, informant, or bureaucrat should feel comfortable operating in a “red” jurisdiction.

Posted by: Johnny Anditmightbeasin at May 31, 2024 12:40 PM (kB4cQ)

271 241 Bongino is a fucking idiot.

I haven't listened to that CIA plant since he took over for Rush.

Posted by: Mike DeWine at May 31, 2024 12:40 PM (aFNOf)

272 I'm waiting to hear one of the jurors admit that they were threatened with prosecution for violating their juror oath if they "wilfully failed to follow the Court's instructions" i.e. wanted voted for nullification despite the railroad-verdict jury instructions.

Posted by: Zek at May 31, 2024 12:40 PM (5FPX4)

273 Thanks... I'm so angry today.. yesterday I was sad.. Today I'm angry
Posted by: It's me donna at May 31, 2024 12:37 PM (Akjoo)

I want to say don't let the bastards get you down.

Trump continues to fight. We've seen prominent Republicans compeletely fold under the pressure of a warm feather boa.

So if he's gonna fight even with his own freedom and likely life on the line, we stand behind him and do our job, which is to be happy and go piss off a leftist.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 12:40 PM (G8NR0)

274 211 This is not a game that can or will be played by one side only. The rules are now set. When Republicans have the chance, they will play the game.

No they won't.

There is only one party and we aren't in it.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
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Personally I see that Trump is becoming his own political party to oppose the Uniparty. The GOP and many of their officeholders are actually hated by their own voters. My best guess is that the GOP is teetering on the edge of death by suicide as a national party much like the US Whig party did.

In the US Whig party case, it was the question of slavery expansion that did them in.

The Dem party, though, is like cockroaches--natural survivors but even there when the gimmedats run out shortly via inflation (implicit default) or outright default (where taxes must meet spending).

Posted by: whig at May 31, 2024 12:40 PM (PkS4e)

275 off blind cocksucker sock

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2024 12:40 PM (aFNOf)

276 Posted by: The media at May 31, 2024 12:34 PM (Akjoo)

Thanks; I appreciate that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2024 12:41 PM (XkYcA)

277 Kremlin: Trump verdict shows his rivals are using all means to get rid of him

Remember we need to hate Vlad for imprisoning his opponents, controlling the media, and looting the country's treasury.

Unlike, uh, here?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2024 12:41 PM (ibTVg)

278 This Bear guy gets it! I'm voting for 200 additional percent inflation on food!

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist

Hot damn!

Posted by: Mcdonalds at May 31, 2024 12:41 PM (hCzfy)

279 Three solid PowerLine articles demonstrating how this travesty has radicalized the moderate lawyer wing of the GOP.

Posted by: Candidus at May 31, 2024 12:41 PM (OiKvY)

280 222 BearCocaine is as brain-dead as Cocaine bear.
We live in a Beria world, and the dems are Beria girls.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:35 PM (ynpvh)

———

He still believes the Trump/Russia collusion hoax.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 31, 2024 12:41 PM (2fIO4)

281 The time to go nuclear was when they started this whole thing. Doing it now is good but it's probably too late.

Posted by: james at May 31, 2024 12:41 PM (AFz9H)

282 261. Yep. Prepare for the endless night of communist rule. Garland rises.

Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:41 PM (Zzbjj)

283 I too would like to live in an alternate universe where the Republicans weren't gigantic useless corrupt pussies. There are a million ways they could fight back by turning this evil System against itself, but they're more interested in profiting from the status quo and grifting off CoNsErVaTiVe retards.

Posted by: BunnyFooFoo at May 31, 2024 12:41 PM (0Uf+z)

284 263 >>> 260 This Bear guy gets it! I'm voting for 200 additional percent inflation on food!
Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:38 PM (LijfE)

200? Piker.

Posted by: Zimbabwe at May 31, 2024 12:39 PM (llON

You had be with "I'm voting for 200"...I assume more ballots per zombie dem voter.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:41 PM (ynpvh)

285 "I'm voting for 200 additional percent inflation on food!"

You're going to get that, no matter who you vote for.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 12:42 PM (MvF+J)

286 Judge now will cut off a finger and give it to his master.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at May 31, 2024 12:42 PM (J8LnB)

287 " The reason I stopped you is none of your fucking business. License and registration, please. So you're Judge Merchan. First of all I want to see your immigration papers, because a bunch of your types have been running through this area. You mean you don't carry them? Tough shit. Now, about that license plate light, we'll get to that after we dispense with the serious stuff. Judge, if in fact you are a Judge, there have been reports of somebody matching your description offering sweets to young boys around the playgrounds in the area, and until we clear this up you'll have to come with me".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 31, 2024 12:42 PM (V5eKu)

288 126 "So how many state legislatures do you suppose are rushing through laws preventing people convicted of a felony from appearing on the ballot?"

Doesn't matter. In a case concerning a state putting term limitations on their congress critters, SCOTUS said that a term limit was an additional qualification to run for office and only the ones in the Constitution count.

Here, the additional qualification would be to have never been convicted of a felony. Only the enumerated qualifications for President count.
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at May 31, 2024 12:23 PM (zSyrn)

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There is a difference, though (at least, so they'd argue). Congress folk aren't elected nationally, whereas Presidents are. So state laws don't add an additional requirement, since other states are not bound by it. If Trump didn't appear on the CA ballot, would it really make a difference? And states apparently do have some leeway in who is allowed on the ballot (the Ohio case, for example, but also any laws requiring a certain level of demonstrated support to be on the ballot).

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 31, 2024 12:42 PM (F4bAW)

289 Hinderaker >> If Joe Biden is re-elected following this outrage, he will be an illegitimate president. What does that mean? It means, I think, that no one should be obliged to follow his executive orders. All such orders will be illegitimate and should be disregarded, as appropriate. Likewise, residents of the sane states, and their public officials, should be free to disregard rules and orders that come out of the Biden administration’s agencies…
——

How does this guy have an audience? Has he ever even met a Republican office holder or appointee? Has he ever disregarded federal laws at will? Isn’t he a lawyer? How would he plead in court were he on trial for breaking “rules and orders” of the federal government? “I don’t recognize this government’s legitimacy?” Can you imagine a judge’s response? And remember, no Red state possesses exclusively Red judges and law enforcement.

Look, there’s no reform possible in this system. Pretending we can willy-nilly disregard the power of the feds is just that, pretense. As Joe Mannix said above, this can only end with a collapse or breakup.

Posted by: another guy at May 31, 2024 12:42 PM (rjJqk)

290 "Prepare for the endless night of communist rule. Garland rises..."

Imagine a mewling quim stomping on a human face forever.

Posted by: George Orwell's Ghost at May 31, 2024 12:43 PM (5FPX4)

291 No juror will admit to being threatened, they know it would be fatal.

Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:43 PM (Zzbjj)

292 Then you're out by the weekend with 34 counts.
Posted by: Shit Sherman Said at May 31, 2024 12:38 PM (hCzfy)

There it is.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 12:43 PM (G8NR0)

293 "Bongino is saying that the Left realizes they have gone too far now."

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HAHAHA!!!!

What a bozo. I watched the CBS broadcast for 5 minutes before the verdict. Norah O'Donnell was practically having an orgasm because it was SUPER IMPORTANT to conceal this affair to Trump and it helped him win.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 31, 2024 12:43 PM (i7Q7S)

294 Personally I see that Trump is becoming his own political party to oppose the Uniparty. The GOP and many of their officeholders are actually hated by their own voters. My best guess is that the GOP is teetering on the edge of death by suicide as a national party much like the US Whig party did. ...
Posted by: whig at May 31, 2024 12:40 PM (PkS4e)
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If not him, then someone else will. The Party will attempt to stop that, and might be successful in doing so and thus remain in unquestioned control until it all falls apart, but time will tell. I suspect the Replacement Party will be blocked and suppressed by the Party because the Party is big enough and powerful enough to do it, but I can't foresee all outcomes.

But that hypothetical new party, successful or not, is not the GOP.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2024 12:44 PM (d04cU)

295 267 real problem is that the dems are just much better at being vicious and dirty. i would have a hard time believing a republican judge would tell a jury to just pick a crime and convict on that

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 31, 2024 12:40 PM (B1FKF)

They still operate according to Marquess of Queensberry rules. Problem is, the other guys believe in All Means Necessary...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:44 PM (ynpvh)

296 215 Amazing that you think that, perhaps, but I haven't seen your full rankings or justification.
Posted by: BearCocaine

It doesn’t work that way, love. Please tell us why you see it differently. Facts and cites required. Feelings and suppositions matter not here.

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 12:44 PM (BgmlQ)

297 >>> 293
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HAHAHA!!!!

What a bozo. I watched the CBS broadcast for 5 minutes before the verdict. Norah O'Donnell was practically having an orgasm because it was SUPER IMPORTANT to conceal this affair to Trump and it helped him win.
Posted by: Jay in PA at May 31, 2024 12:43 PM (i7Q7S)

Because not one single voter had ever heard of DJT having any affair ever before.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2024 12:45 PM (llON8)

298 I'm waiting to hear one of the jurors admit that they were threatened with prosecution for violating their juror oath if they "wilfully failed to follow the Court's instructions" i.e. wanted voted for nullification despite the railroad-verdict jury instructions.
Posted by: Zek at May 31, 2024 12:40 PM (5FPX4)

I really don't understand why people cooperate with courts.

I mean, I do, but I'd like to see more people take flying leaps at the judicial system that is completely corrupt.

My personal pet peeve, lawyers getting in front of witnesses, and browbeating them to answer the questions the way they ask it. Next time a lawyer says "just answer the question," I'd like to see a witness come back with "why don't you go f**k yourself," and when the judge says "you better answer the question," the witness says "I did already."

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2024 12:45 PM (dGCAG)

299 No juror will admit to being threatened, they know it would be fatal.
Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:43 PM (Zzbjj)

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I personally doubt that any of them had to be threatened.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 12:45 PM (DRSnL)

300 293 "Bongino is saying that the Left realizes they have gone too far now."

==============
HAHAHA!!!!

What a bozo. I watched the CBS broadcast for 5 minutes before the verdict. Norah O'Donnell was practically having an orgasm because it was SUPER IMPORTANT to conceal this affair to Trump and it helped him win.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 31, 2024 12:43 PM (i7Q7S)

Bragg ran on a get Trump platform. They were giving Fani awards while she was talking about misusing $50K in campaign funds. The FDNY said it would hunt down the firemen that booed Letitia James.

Yeah, I'm sure the left has really learned their lesson here.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 31, 2024 12:46 PM (KbCG3)

301 The gutless old pussy party will never do any of this. "That's not who we are!" Plus 90% of elected "republicans" are actually thrilled by this result. Trump was always an unwanted interloper into their club.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at May 31, 2024 12:46 PM (PWI4f)

302 Powerline: Republican AGs Need to Start Arresting and Jailing Democrat Officials, Including Those from Out of State

--

May I suggest the arrest and filing of criminal charges against all key players from the Biden administration (as well as that of these Catholic charity orgs) that are actively facilitating the breaking of American immigration law. They are transporting within the country millions of law-breaking illegal aliens. Isn't that called aiding an abetting? Go after them all.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 31, 2024 12:46 PM (mupln)

303
I personally doubt that any of them had to be threatened.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 12:45 PM (DRSnL)

I agree... They were chosen for the Jury to convict Trump...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 31, 2024 12:46 PM (Akjoo)

304 298. Amen.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at May 31, 2024 12:46 PM (/cY/6)

305 I love how Joe leads in New Yawk.

The Parasite State.

A tick should be their State mascot.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 31, 2024 12:46 PM (XZfJe)

306 >>> 299 No juror will admit to being threatened, they know it would be fatal.
Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:43 PM (Zzbjj)

=====

I personally doubt that any of them had to be threatened.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 12:45 PM (DRSnL)

That bitch #9 was asking for WAY too big of a payoff and almost screwed it up for the rest of us.

Posted by: Juror #8 at May 31, 2024 12:46 PM (llON8)

307 A whole lot of wish-casting in that article. Nothing will happen, the system is far too entrenched and corrupted.
They're going to steal another election, that's why they aren't very concerned about the miniscule crowds Biden is drawing. They just refer to their rigged polls.
And nobody is gonna do a thing about it. Maybe some gun-stroking and bitter, dark mumbling, but that's that. Men with full bellies don't start revolutions.

Posted by: Tom at May 31, 2024 12:47 PM (aq4c3)

308 To the GOP - You're supposed to act like a gentleman and fight like a retard, not fight like a gentleman and act like a retard.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 12:47 PM (G8NR0)

309 Warned you.
archive.org/details/reflectionsofrus00pobeuoft/ page/58/mode/2up

Posted by: Constantine Pobyedonostseff at May 31, 2024 12:47 PM (gKWVE)

310 As a layman, I have no f'n idea whether DJT is, in fact, guilty of anything. All I know is, for every lawyer who claims 'X,' I can find another lawyer who says 'NOT X.' It's all spin, horseshit, and chaos.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 12:47 PM (MvF+J)

311 The problem with Sean Davis' suggestion is the courts won't entertain said prosecutions. No reasonable prosecutor, lack of standing, etc.

Posted by: Pink Floyd(Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at May 31, 2024 12:47 PM (l7Kbv)

312 =====

Pot, meet kettle...

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 12:39 PM (DRSnL)

What kind of person am I if I allow others to suffer the same fate?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:47 PM (Zz0t1)

313 Lots of things the Pubs could do and should have already done. That's not who they are though.

Posted by: fd at May 31, 2024 12:47 PM (vFG9F)

314 This bikini blonde on a boat thinks that expectations of "lawfare" from the GOP are laughable:
http://tiny.cc/1jebyz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

The peace symbol???? Really?????

She might as well have a "Coexist" bumper sticker on her ass.

Stupid AWFL. 0/10. WNB.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2024 12:48 PM (v6JzV)

315 I really don't understand why people cooperate with courts.

I mean, I do, but I'd like to see more people take flying leaps at the judicial system that is completely corrupt

Hello Juror Smith. Thanks for coming to talk with me. I've been very concerned that I will have to replace you based on what the other jurors have told me. You understand not following my instructions is a crime yes? Let me read you the statute and the penalties associated.

Any questions?

I would hate if things came to that. So I'll send you back to deliberate now that everything should be clear and hopefully you and the rest can come back to me soon with a verdict.

Posted by: Judge Merchan to a resistant juror at May 31, 2024 12:48 PM (ibTVg)

316 289 Hinderaker >> If Joe Biden is re-elected following this outrage, he will be an illegitimate president.
...

Posted by: another guy at May 31, 2024 12:42 PM (rjJqk)

Dude, he's been Illegitimate for a very long time, and as (P)resident since he too his oaf of office.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:49 PM (ynpvh)

317 The peace symbol???? Really?????

She might as well have a "Coexist" bumper sticker on her ass.

Stupid AWFL. 0/10. WNB.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2024 12:48 PM (v6JzV)
++++
WHAT?!?!?!

I thought it was the Mercedes logo!

Posted by: The Girl at May 31, 2024 12:49 PM (d04cU)

318 As a layman, I have no f'n idea whether DJT is, in fact, guilty of anything.

-

When you have the FBI, the CIA, the entirety of the federal government, the military, and individual cities and states investigating you for almost a decade, something should come up.

There's no one here that could withstand it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:49 PM (LijfE)

319 To the GOP - You're supposed to act like a gentleman and fight like a retard, not fight like a gentleman and act like a retard.
Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 12:47 PM (G8NR0)

There are a few who do the former.

Like Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2024 12:49 PM (dGCAG)

320 Jim Jordan: Trump’s ‘Kangaroo Court’ Verdict Is ‘Travesty of Justice’

LOL Thanks for informing us Jim.

*Makes jerking motion towards DC

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2024 12:49 PM (aFNOf)

321 311 The problem with Sean Davis' suggestion is the courts won't entertain said prosecutions. No reasonable prosecutor, lack of standing, etc.
Posted by: Pink Floyd(Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at May 31, 2024 12:47 PM (l7Kbv)

Red State AG convenes a grand Jury to indict ... It's pretty easy.. They say you can indict a ham sandwich so...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 31, 2024 12:49 PM (Akjoo)

322 Jim Jordan: Trump’s ‘Kangaroo Court’ Verdict Is ‘Travesty of Justice’

LOL Thanks for informing us Jim.

*Makes jerking motion towards DC
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2024 12:49 PM (aFNOf)

What was his sleeve status at the time?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:50 PM (Zz0t1)

323 Navarro is in prison now, Bannon's turn is coming up, Giuliani is ? facing some trial(s?) I think. Plus all (or most of) the J6 paraders are still being tracked down and raided/prosecuted.

There must be some limit placed on the lawfare, but so far there seem to be no holds barred.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 31, 2024 12:50 PM (Cus5s)

324 301: They'd been lying for years about the border, energy independence, the middle east. The problems were unsolved for decades, then Trump solves them. He had to go. But going back to bold lies has not been easy for them, and nobody believes they will make any effort. We now know it's kabuki.

Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 12:50 PM (Zzbjj)

325 293 "Bongino is saying that the Left realizes they have gone too far now."

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HAHAHA!!!!

What a bozo. I watched the CBS broadcast for 5 minutes before the verdict. Norah O'Donnell was practically having an orgasm because it was SUPER IMPORTANT to conceal this affair to Trump and it helped him win.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 31, 2024 12:43 PM (i7Q7S)

Indeed. Election interference and corruption.

Posted by: 51 Who Said Biden Laptop was Russing Disinfo at May 31, 2024 12:50 PM (ynpvh)

326 Andrew Breitbart said it: "Fvck You. War"

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 31, 2024 12:50 PM (lZVy/)

327 We'll get Obamacare repealed before we get this.

Posted by: Oschisms at May 31, 2024 12:50 PM (JQiMb)

328 I feel sort of bad for cocaine bare guy. He never got the chance to say what Trump's crime was.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:51 PM (LijfE)

329 WHAT?!?!?!

I thought it was the Mercedes logo!
Posted by: The Girl at May 31, 2024 12:49 PM (d04cU)
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Well, take them off, immediately!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 31, 2024 12:51 PM (mUnoX)

330 326 Andrew Breitbart said it: "Fvck You. War"
Posted by: Joe Mama at May 31, 2024 12:50 PM (lZVy/)

Bill Ayers said : "How about you eat some of this poisoned food, Andrew?"

Posted by: XTC at May 31, 2024 12:51 PM (UnA8+)

331 Is it just like me or does he have a face that says "uncharged sexual assaults"?

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Likely with minor males.

Posted by: ShainS -- 'Guilty Until Proven Guilty' Future 'Convicted Felon' at May 31, 2024 12:52 PM (bu09+)

332 >>> ...If any bribery cases against Joe or Hunter Biden (or Jim Biden, or the nieces and granddaughters) can be prosecuted in red state courts.

What is written law is irrelevant - arrest and imprisonment first, guilty verdict next, maybe later come the charges...
Nothing matters if you have a judge any judge who will put up with the shit... and a bull bailiff.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2024 12:52 PM (Norbf)

333 What was his sleeve status at the time?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Seriously rolled up. Watch out.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2024 12:52 PM (aFNOf)

334 Posted by: Judge Merchan to a resistant juror at May 31, 2024 12:48 PM (ibTVg)

This is why judges have far too much power and should be largely stripped of immunity. In some other, more rational world, anyway.

Posted by: another guy at May 31, 2024 12:52 PM (rjJqk)

335 323. Its ok though. The Columbian immigrant in the black robe has decreed that one nominee for POTUS is a poopyhead. So the rest just take their medicine.

Our side will find a way to settle the score within this system….any day….

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at May 31, 2024 12:52 PM (7PziG)

336 Men with full bellies don't start revolutions.
Posted by: Tom at May 31, 2024 12:47 PM (aq4c3)

You got that right. Our bellies are always full. Rod Stewart style.

Posted by: GOP at May 31, 2024 12:53 PM (0FoWg)

337 They'd been lying for years about the border, energy independence, the middle east. The problems were unsolved for decades, then Trump solves them.

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Yep. And in four years, with his own party working against him and the government thwarting him at every opportunity, he accomplished what (R)s and (D)s had been promising working people for 40 years. And he did it almost entirely by himself.

Imagine if the politicians love America and Americans, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:53 PM (LijfE)

338 Did BlagoBear get banned?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:53 PM (Zz0t1)

339 we all assume he'll appeal but doesn't there have to be some basis?

They will appeal the statute of limitations, and also possibly the jury instructions. The goal isn't to win, but delay, delay. He's old, he doesn't need to delay the sentence too long if there is jail time.

(1) Proceedings unfair, (2) Proceedings very unfair, (3) Judge corrupt, (4) Judge's daughter corrupt, (5) Joe Biden (6) Joe Biden, (7) Joe Biden, ( Joe Biden, ad nauseam

The claims of error at the trial have to be supported with precedent and good-faith argument, but if you dig around you can usually find a case or two that might sort of support your position, even if it's shaky.

this post nails it. Trump's lawyers are just barely competent enough to dig up something to showhorn in to a brief. The experts think Merchan's rulings are well within the heavy dark lines of the law.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 31, 2024 12:53 PM (JCZqz)

340 "Andrew Breitbart said it: "Fvck You. War""

How ironic that he was one of the first casualties.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 12:53 PM (MvF+J)

341 314 This bikini blonde on a boat thinks that expectations of "lawfare" from the GOP are laughable:
http://tiny.cc/1jebyz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

The peace symbol???? Really?????

She might as well have a "Coexist" bumper sticker on her ass.

Stupid AWFL. 0/10. WNB.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2024 12:48 PM (v6JzV)

Oh, the muzzies will have a piece of every place she has the peace sign and more if she were to ever walk into one of their enclaves.

Posted by: 51 Who Said Biden Laptop was Russing Disinfo at May 31, 2024 12:53 PM (ynpvh)

342 >>> 328 I feel sort of bad for cocaine bare guy. He never got the chance to say what Trump's crime was.
Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:51 PM (LijfE)

We TOLD you, he said PUSSY!!!

Posted by: This... is XiNN at May 31, 2024 12:54 PM (llON8)

343 328 I feel sort of bad for cocaine bare guy. He never got the chance to say what Trump's crime was.
Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May

Was he sent by trebuchet back to DU? I thought he was furiously googling for actual crimes PDJT committed to show us! I am such a Polly Anna.

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 12:54 PM (BgmlQ)

344 Yep. And in four years, with his own party working against him and the government thwarting him at every opportunity, he accomplished what (R)s and (D)s had been promising working people for 40 years. And he did it almost entirely by himself.

Imagine if the politicians love America and Americans, too.
Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:53 PM (LijfE)

He had bad hires and basically lucked into everything.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 12:54 PM (G8NR0)

345

"Henceforth, weaponization of the justice system against a political opponent will be the norm. "

Yeah, from one side only.

The other side still has too much to lose to get involved. They like being losers and it pays well.

A fucking freakshow.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at May 31, 2024 12:54 PM (et1vG)

346 Newt suggested to Calamity that Trump should be concerned about his well being insinuating they might take him out permanently.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2024 12:54 PM (aFNOf)

347 Newt suggested to Calamity that Trump should be concerned about his well being insinuating they might take him out permanently.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2024 12:54 PM (aFNOf)

Well thank you Captain Obvious.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:55 PM (Zz0t1)

348 this post nails it. Trump's lawyers are just barely competent enough to dig up something to showhorn in to a brief. The experts think Merchan's rulings are well within the heavy dark lines of the law.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 31, 2024 12:53 PM (JCZqz)

The system is inherently biased against minorities.

Also, all hail the system!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 31, 2024 12:55 PM (KbCG3)

349 315 I really don't understand why people cooperate with courts.

I mean, I do, but I'd like to see more people take flying leaps at the judicial system that is completely corrupt

Hello Juror Smith. Thanks for coming to talk with me. I've been very concerned that I will have to replace you based on what the other jurors have told me. You understand not following my instructions is a crime yes? Let me read you the statute and the penalties associated.

Any questions?

I would hate if things came to that. So I'll send you back to deliberate now that everything should be clear and hopefully you and the rest can come back to me soon with a verdict.

Posted by: Judge Merchan to a resistant juror at May 31, 2024 12:48 PM (ibTVg)

Oh, and as a juror, you'll be gagged from telling anybody what transpired. And if you talk about it after the trial, hey, you know, there are defamation statues...besides, the press won't listen.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:55 PM (ynpvh)

350 He had bad hires and basically lucked into everything.
Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 12:54 PM (G8NR0)
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That's even more damning for the GOP. The "blind squirrel" did better they did, in that case.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2024 12:55 PM (d04cU)

351 The experts think Merchan's rulings are well within the heavy dark lines of the law.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions

Ummm…which experts would these be?

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 12:55 PM (BgmlQ)

352 One of my former law partners, a world class trial lawyer, when faced with an adversary who wanted to engage in unprofessional "hardball" litigation tactics would say, "I can play the game; just tell me the rules." The Democrats have made the rules, and their opponents will have little choice but to play the game.

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Like the bending spoon in The Matrix: "There are no rules."

In a nuclear war, it's kill first or be killed. "They drew First Blood!"

Posted by: ShainS -- 'Guilty Until Proven Guilty' Future 'Convicted Felon' at May 31, 2024 12:55 PM (bu09+)

353 It’s not enough just to have Trump in the White House.

We need to have big majorities in the House and Senate and right now, polling for Senate Seats does not look good for Republicans in swing states.

We might pick up Maryland (GOPe), WV looks look and maybe Montana and Ohio.

But I want 60 so we can push through election integrity bills with some teeth and close immigration down for 2 decades.

I hope the voters voting for Trump see that this has to be a complete stomping of Democrats .

Posted by: Czech Chick at May 31, 2024 12:55 PM (fpVC1)

354 GOPe thinks if they let the Dems get rid of Trump it'll be business back to usual. There are probably actual deals made.

GOPe is going to be shocked when the Dems take all the business.

Posted by: davidt at May 31, 2024 12:56 PM (SYTee)

355 He had bad hires and basically lucked into everything.

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I always wondered what that 2016-2020 economy and world peace would've looked like if he were an intelligent man.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:56 PM (LijfE)

356
May I suggest the arrest and filing of criminal charges against all key players from the Biden administration (as well as that of these Catholic charity orgs) that are actively facilitating the breaking of American immigration law. They are transporting within the country millions of law-breaking illegal aliens. Isn't that called aiding an abetting? Go after them all.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 31, 2024 12:46 PM

It's not just Catholic organizations. HIAS is a big player in the game, too. For what possible reason beyond money is beyond me because they're bringing middle east types up from the Darien Gap.

I intentionally did not spell out the name of the organization but a quick search and a few minutes at their Wiki page will reveal some disturbing numbers about 'newcomers' they've 'assisted' in recent years. They're a really big player in the game.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 31, 2024 12:56 PM (RKVpM)

357 343 Was he sent by trebuchet back to DU? I thought he was furiously googling for actual crimes PDJT committed to show us! I am such a Polly Anna.

poly anna > bi anna > mono anna

Posted by: anachronda at May 31, 2024 12:56 PM (v3pYe)

358

"Bongino is saying that the Left realizes they have gone too far now. "

No they are happy to push the envelope every time.

It's the program. It's how Commies work.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at May 31, 2024 12:56 PM (et1vG)

359 DeSantis should arrest Jack Smith and his minions at the courthouse in Florida where he's ginning up the phony documents case.

Posted by: Frank Rizzo at May 31, 2024 12:56 PM (QLspT)

360 That's even more damning for the GOP. The "blind squirrel" did better they did, in that case.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2024 12:55 PM (d04cU)

It would be. Imagine if they cared! 😂

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 12:56 PM (G8NR0)

361 Well thank you Captain Obvious.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:55 PM (Zz0t1)
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I'm standing right here, you know.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 31, 2024 12:56 PM (mUnoX)

362 323 Navarro is in prison now, Bannon's turn is coming up, Giuliani is ? facing some trial(s?) I think. Plus all (or most of) the J6 paraders are still being tracked down and raided/prosecuted.

There must be some limit placed on the lawfare, but so far there seem to be no holds barred.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 31, 2024 12:50 PM (Cus5s)

And don't forget they lawfared Giuliani into backruptcy. Same with at least one of the Trump 2020 lawyers.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:57 PM (ynpvh)

363 >>> 351 The experts think Merchan's rulings are well within the heavy dark lines of the law.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions

Ummm…which experts would these be?
Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 12:55 PM (BgmlQ)

The *correct* ones, duh.

We also told you to get vaxxed and boosted, and to eat lots of Healthy Whole Grains, and that you should prefer a live son to a dead daughter, and...

Posted by: EXPERTS! at May 31, 2024 12:57 PM (llON8)

364 I just do not understand any Biden support. 81 miilion votes though. I'm embarressed. Is this how people in shit hole countries feel?

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at May 31, 2024 12:57 PM (Z8Yh2)

365 ------------
I'm standing right here, you know.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 31, 2024 12:56 PM (mUnoX)

Shit......my bad.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:57 PM (Zz0t1)

366 243 221 Ed Morrissey has been nothing but open about his hatred for Trump. I don't believe he's confirmed/denied, but before AP got fired and they closed the comments, most people assumed he had voted for Biden.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider
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Pretty much true of most of Conservative Media including the Fox types. Reason is that they despise GOP base voters as ignorant, racist, low class, etc. as much as Dems do.

The national GOP is essentially a party without reason to exist in office. True in a lot of states as well and you get the problem of RINO governors and Senators in truly red states. The reason is that Dems join with scumbag leftist GOP voters to put a RINO over the top whether in a statewide primary or general election.

See the same thing in Euroland---true conservatives are backstabbed by the Sunaks, the Merkels, etc. in their own party.

Posted by: whig at May 31, 2024 12:57 PM (PkS4e)

367 I always wondered what that 2016-2020 economy and world peace would've looked like if he were an intelligent man.
Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:56 PM (LijfE)

If Trump had even minor backing, or honestly just not constant opposition, he would have transformed the entire world.

Which is why they are doing anything and everything to run out the clock on him.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 12:58 PM (G8NR0)

368 We need to do an attack in the manner of the Doolittle Raid.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at May 31, 2024 12:58 PM (J8LnB)

369 Red State AG convenes a grand Jury to indict ... It's pretty easy.. They say you can indict a ham sandwich so...
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Then get a Moslem jury.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 31, 2024 12:58 PM (ZdexC)

370 But I want 60 so we can push through election integrity bills with some teeth and close immigration down for 2 decades.

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You misspelled "2 centuries."

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- 'Guilty Until Proven Guilty' Future 'Convicted Felon' at May 31, 2024 12:58 PM (bu09+)

371 It would be. Imagine if they cared! 😂
Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 12:56 PM (G8NR0)
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LOL. Yup.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2024 12:58 PM (d04cU)

372 zzzzZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz

Posted by: The GOPe at May 31, 2024 12:59 PM (vtRd1)

373 342 >>> 328 I feel sort of bad for cocaine bare guy. He never got the chance to say what Trump's crime was.
Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 12:51 PM (LijfE)

We TOLD you, he said PUSSY!!!

Posted by: This... is XiNN at May 31, 2024 12:54 PM (llON

And he paid for it and he paid to cover it up! Campaign violations! (even if the FEC said it wasn't). See? States CAN overrule the Feds...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 12:59 PM (ynpvh)

374 "We need to do an attack in the manner of the Doolittle Raid."

Will China let our bombers land there, like last time?

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at May 31, 2024 12:59 PM (MvF+J)

375

I dare you to step over this line!

https://youtu.be/4cf4O-hUg78

Posted by: The League of Gentlemanly Losers at May 31, 2024 12:59 PM (63Dwl)

376 >>> 364 I just do not understand any Biden support. 81 miilion votes though. I'm embarressed. Is this how people in shit hole countries feel?
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at May 31, 2024 12:57 PM (Z8Yh2)

81 million ballots, some of which probably were valid based on our Intrepid Liaison's findings

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2024 12:59 PM (llON8)

377 This isn't going to stop until it becomes painful to the left.

Posted by: Weasel at May 31, 2024 01:00 PM (JwHpX)

378 Yay! Sexual Harassment training!

I've always wondered how to do that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)

379 Shit......my bad.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 12:57 PM (Zz0t1)
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*shrug* We're all a little het up.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 31, 2024 01:00 PM (mUnoX)

380
We need to do an attack in the manner of the Doolittle Raid.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at May 31, 2024 12:58 PM

While it shocked the hell out of the Japanese it was pretty tough on the attackers. Might think of a different analogy.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 31, 2024 01:00 PM (RKVpM)

381 Yay! Sexual Harassment training!

I've always wondered how to do that.
Posted by: Sponge

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Be unattractive.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a razist at May 31, 2024 01:00 PM (LijfE)

382 351 The experts think Merchan's rulings are well within the heavy dark lines of the law.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions

Ummm…which experts would these be?

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 12:55 PM (BgmlQ)

Emanations from the penumbra.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 01:00 PM (ynpvh)

383 378 Yay! Sexual Harassment training!

I've always wondered how to do that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at

Why don't I ever get harassed?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 31, 2024 01:01 PM (dIrwU)

384 We need to do an attack in the manner of the Doolittle Raid.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at May 31, 2024 12:58 PM (J8LnB)
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No, more like the firebombing of Kobe.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 31, 2024 01:01 PM (mUnoX)

385 384 We need to do an attack in the manner of the Doolittle Raid.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at May 31, 2024 12:58 PM (J8LnB)
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No, more like the firebombing of Kobe.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 31, 2024 01:01 PM (mUnoX)

So THAT'S how they make the beef.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 01:02 PM (ynpvh)

386 Why don't I ever get harassed?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 31, 2024 01:01 PM (dIrwU)

What have you got on?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2024 01:02 PM (vtRd1)

387 "Why don't I ever get harassed?
Posted by: nurse ratched"

Probably the sidearm.

Posted by: fd at May 31, 2024 01:02 PM (vFG9F)

388 Why don't I ever get harassed?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 31, 2024 01:01 PM (dIrwU)

I harass you sexually every October.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2024 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)

389
Why don't I ever get harassed?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 31, 2024 01:01 PM

Maybe your concealed carry is not so concealed?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 31, 2024 01:02 PM (RKVpM)

390 "Emanations from the penumbra."

Don't forget the infering.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at May 31, 2024 01:02 PM (Z8Yh2)

391 Why don't I ever get harassed?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 31, 2024 01:01 PM (dIrwU)

BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM

Posted by: davidt at May 31, 2024 01:02 PM (SYTee)

392 The experts think Merchan's rulings are well within the heavy dark lines of the law.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions

Ummm…which experts would these be?
Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 12:55 PM (BgmlQ)

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Michael Avenatti/Michael Cohen 2028!

Posted by: ShainS -- 'Guilty Until Proven Guilty' Future 'Convicted Felon' at May 31, 2024 01:03 PM (bu09+)

393 376 >>> 364 I just do not understand any Biden support. 81 miilion votes though. I'm embarressed. Is this how people in shit hole countries feel?
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at May 31, 2024 12:57 PM (Z8Yh2)

81 million ballots, some of which probably were valid based on our Intrepid Liaison's findings

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2024 12:59 PM (llON

Yet still had to be run through the vote counting machines many times to get the numbers right.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 01:03 PM (ynpvh)

394 Why don't I ever get harassed?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 31, 2024 01:01 PM (dIrwU)
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Because potential harassers don't want to get shot?

Posted by: Weasel at May 31, 2024 01:04 PM (JwHpX)

395 CNN Senior Legal Analyst Describes How The Trump Conviction Was A Political Hit Job

http://tiny.cc/nlebyz

Posted by: bonhomme at May 31, 2024 01:04 PM (Odg76)

396 353 It’s not enough just to have Trump in the White House.

We need to have big majorities in the House and Senate and right now, polling for Senate Seats does not look good for Republicans in swing states.

We might pick up Maryland (GOPe), WV looks look and maybe Montana and Ohio.

But I want 60 so we can push through election integrity bills with some teeth and close immigration down for 2 decades.

I hope the voters voting for Trump see that this has to be a complete stomping of Democrats .
Posted by: Czech Chick
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The Uniparty GOP leadership and many of the members in the House and Senate races hate their own base voters and they sure as hell are not appealing to independents.

For example,
What is so hard about not sending billions to Ukraine. The GOP voters don't want it and the Dems voters, by and large, could not care less. Independents hate the idea.

Closing the border, stopping trannies, voter id requirements, religious freedom, etc. all have the support of large majorities of the voters. What does the GOP do in office? They surrender to the left even in many red states becuz the corporate CEO's don't like it.

Posted by: whig at May 31, 2024 01:04 PM (PkS4e)

397 Michael Avenatti/Michael Cohen 2028!
Posted by: ShainS -- 'Guilty Until Proven Guilty' Future 'Convicted Felon' at May 31, 2024 01:03 PM (bu09+)

Michael Avenatti said this was a sham. Which is just another beacon shining down on the absurdity of this whole debacle.

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 01:04 PM (d2kuJ)

398 Has January 6 hurt Trump in the polls? Obviously not. Voters are worried about boys in their daughter’s restrooms. They’re worried about millions of migrants swarming into the country. They’re worried about feeding their families less due to rising food costs.
If the Trump campaign was smart, they’d point out Democrats hypocrisy when it comes to upholding the law.

Posted by: Mike at May 31, 2024 01:05 PM (JpSGB)

399 397 Michael Avenatti/Michael Cohen 2028!
Posted by: ShainS -- 'Guilty Until Proven Guilty' Future 'Convicted Felon' at May 31, 2024 01:03 PM (bu09+)

Michael Avenatti said this was a sham. Which is just another beacon shining down on the absurdity of this whole debacle.
Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 01:04 PM (d2kuJ)

======

Avenatti is in prison for a shakedown operation against Nike.

But his efforts with Stormy Daniels were 100% genuine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin at May 31, 2024 01:05 PM (GBKbO)

400 Maybe your concealed carry is not so concealed?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 31, 2024 01:02 PM (RKVpM)

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"Is that a Glock in your purse, or are you just happy to be pointing it at directly at my crotch?"

Posted by: ShainS -- 'Guilty Until Proven Guilty' Future 'Convicted Felon' at May 31, 2024 01:05 PM (bu09+)

401 Set up by a corrupt senile fool
Judged by a suspected child molester
Trial by a jury of their queers
Convicted of being a ham sandwich
Imprisoned 4 days before convention
What a country!!!

Posted by: wth at May 31, 2024 01:06 PM (v0R5T)

402 Good morning Dumb Ass Ace, you and your co-bloggers are full of shit. You want Republican AGs to get into the muck and fight the corrupt Democrats?

Why the fuck should they?

I wouldn’t if I was them. Why?

Because shitheads like you and your sissy prissy co-bloggers (especially your butt buddy, CBD) will turn on them and swoon over your next fuck buddy like the pathetic Meatball you and CBD fellated for over a year.

You and your fellow geezers are irrelevant. Couch potatoes and gamers jerking off in their mommies basement have more backbone than you elderly snobs.

Choke on a bag of dicks with your buddy Ace.

Posted by: Not Fat Dumb Ron at May 31, 2024 01:06 PM (nI4xo)

403 - Not Found

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 31, 2024 01:07 PM (RKVpM)

404 In Soviet Amerika, crime commit you.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2024 01:07 PM (G8NR0)

405 Michael Avenatti said this was a sham. Which is just another beacon shining down on the absurdity of this whole debacle.

Posted by: Piper at May 31, 2024 01:04 PM (d2kuJ)

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Heh. I didn't know that. When you've lost Michael Avenatti ...

Posted by: ShainS -- 'Guilty Until Proven Guilty' Future 'Convicted Felon' at May 31, 2024 01:07 PM (bu09+)

406 Well, if I were George W Bush, I'd be quaking in my boots right now. Trump supposedly paid a hooker under false pretenses. Bush spend trillions and got thousands killed under false pretenses.

Hell, they may exhume Reagan to try his corpse for Iran Contra.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 31, 2024 01:07 PM (YIxO9)

407 403 - Not Found
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 31, 2024 01:07 PM (RKVpM)

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Ooooh...SO close.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 01:08 PM (DRSnL)

408 MTG showing off her bleach blonde bad-built butch body in a bikini at the Daily Mail.

Posted by: fd at May 31, 2024 01:08 PM (vFG9F)

409 Jeez, this fucker never stops.

Posted by: The Troll's Jerk Sock at May 31, 2024 01:08 PM (SYTee)

410
Close but I think 402 gets deleted.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 31, 2024 01:08 PM (RKVpM)

411 403 - Not Found

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 31, 2024 01:07 PM (RKVpM)

Comrade, that comment was Forbidden...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 01:08 PM (ynpvh)

412 403 - Not Found

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 31, 2024 01:07 PM (RKVpM)

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"403, 404, whatever it takes ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- 'Guilty Until Proven Guilty' Future 'Convicted Felon' at May 31, 2024 01:08 PM (bu09+)

413 The Uniparty GOP leadership and many of the members in the House and Senate races hate their own base voters and they sure as hell are not appealing to independents.
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Kind of like the European model - a coalition of left of left of center parties occasionally swap ruling power with a coalition of slightly right of left of center parties. Meanwhile the bureaucracy hums on behind the scenes treating the population like serfs.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 31, 2024 01:09 PM (xnBkj)

414 Hmmm. Did the IQ of the entire room just plummet?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 31, 2024 01:09 PM (yPvOj)

415 >>> 409 Jeez, this fucker never stops.
Posted by: The Troll's Jerk Sock at May 31, 2024 01:08 PM (SYTee)

Hey man we need to get paid too!

Posted by: Internet Trolls Local #101 at May 31, 2024 01:09 PM (llON8)

416 Is it almost Killdozer Day again? Man, that just sneaks up on you. Still time to get burgers, buns, plate steel, and redi-mix.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at May 31, 2024 01:09 PM (VGRuw)

417 During the "trial" some of the 'experts" on CNN?MSNBC were saying this trial is over because the defense got the witnesses to show they were lying . Yesterday? Trump's lawyers were terrible and the prosecution brilliant

Posted by: It's me donna at May 31, 2024 01:09 PM (Akjoo)

418 There are a few who do the former.

Like Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Posted by: BurtTC
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She is despised by quite a few nics here becuz not our sort of person. I am Lincoln's mind about Grant--can't be spared--she fights.

Posted by: whig at May 31, 2024 01:09 PM (PkS4e)

419 Get ready to be disappointed. Same GOP that sat on its hands when the last election was stolen isn't going to do anything about lawfare.

Posted by: Most of the GOP establishment is happy with the verdict at May 31, 2024 01:09 PM (6A9NB)

420 There's a poll that says that if Trump is convicted, Trump will lose a critical amount of support. Biden won't gain any support, but Trump will fall below Biden:

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the dems have seen THAT poll, obviously

Posted by: runner at May 31, 2024 01:10 PM (9pFgx)

421 MTG:

https://is.gd/3dAGKj

Posted by: fd at May 31, 2024 01:10 PM (vFG9F)

422 > MTG showing off her bleach blonde bad-built butch body in a bikini at the Daily Mail.

That comment obviously got under MTG's skin. She's been posting workout videos and now this.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 31, 2024 01:10 PM (Odg76)

423 She wears it better than I would.

Posted by: fd at May 31, 2024 01:10 PM (vFG9F)

424 MTG:

https://is.gd/3dAGKj
Posted by: fd at May 31, 2024 01:10 PM (vFG9F)

No bulge. Loser.

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at May 31, 2024 01:11 PM (Zz0t1)

425 King Joe the Delusional

Posted by: BignJames at May 31, 2024 01:11 PM (AwYPR)

426 423 She wears it better than I would.

Posted by: fd at May 31, 2024 01:10 PM (vFG9F)

Indeed. I wouldn't be caught dead wearing that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2024 01:12 PM (ynpvh)

427 I was not first, but there is a NOOD

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2024 01:13 PM (DRSnL)

428 Kind of like the European model - a coalition of left of left of center parties occasionally swap ruling power with a coalition of slightly right of left of center parties. Meanwhile the bureaucracy hums on behind the scenes treating the population like serfs.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Yes and much for the same reason--politicians are bought and sold by rich assholes and other countries. Note the spasms of hatred toward Georgia (former Soviet Republic) for daring to require registration as a foreign agent when funding political activities and lobbying in Georgia.

With rare exceptions, the existence of wealthy magnates make governance by the people into a mockery. Want a true republic? Has to be homogeneous including wealth and for that reason usually has to be quite small.

Posted by: whig at May 31, 2024 01:13 PM (PkS4e)

429 Noot

Posted by: fd at May 31, 2024 01:13 PM (vFG9F)

430 Doesn't matter. In a case concerning a state putting term limitations on their congress critters, SCOTUS said that a term limit was an additional qualification to run for office and only the ones in the Constitution count.

Here, the additional qualification would be to have never been convicted of a felony. Only the enumerated qualifications for President count.
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at May 31, 2024 12:23 PM (zSyrn)

And the Founders left a felony qualification out deliberately, since they were well aware that vindictive agents and courts would convict a political opponent at the drop of a hat.

Posted by: mrp at May 31, 2024 01:13 PM (rj6Yv)

431 It's not just Catholic organizations. HIAS is a big player in the game, too.
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Judeo-Christian in name only?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 31, 2024 01:14 PM (xnBkj)

432 419 Get ready to be disappointed. Same GOP that sat on its hands when the last election was stolen isn't going to do anything about lawfare.
Posted by: Most of the GOP establishment is happy with the verdict at May 31, 2024 01:09 PM (6A9NB)

Jordan posted his "strongly worded letter" on X. Business as usual.

Posted by: GOP sux at May 31, 2024 01:16 PM (Zzbjj)

433 Sean Davis ... Give me a list of which Democrat officials you're going to put in prison, or get lost.

It moved.

It'll move a lot more if this starts happening.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 31, 2024 01:18 PM (RGGBp)

434 unexpected nood

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435 Heh.

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436 Posted by: Not Fat Dumb Ron at May 31, 2024 01:06 PM (nI4xo)

Try cutting down on caffeine.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2024 01:33 PM (XkYcA)

437 "He said that if that shift held to the election, comparing it to 2020, Trump would win 291 electoral votes to Biden's 247. He said the reason why is that would shift Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Georgia to Trump."

Yeah, well, Trump won those states in 2020 right up until the 4AM, fake ballot drop.

Posted by: Tar Bae at May 31, 2024 02:18 PM (uR4Tu)

438 Arrest Warrent's for Soros, Gates, Schwabe Bragg and Smith

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