TxRover Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 Interesting questions on Meadows and the extent of his “immunity” deal. Is it a “total immunity” deal, or a “partial immunity” deal…the situation is being held very closely, ABC’s reporting isn’t verified yet, and even that doesn’t use the phrase total immunity. Interesting to see what happens. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 (edited) Meadows knows everything, he was in on the call to the Georgia election guy Raffensperger with Trump demanding he flips Biden votes to his side or he'd stick the Feds on him, and was sitting with Trump in the Whitehouse on Jan 6th watching the action on TV for 3 hours before Trump did anything to stop it.. Supposedly he's been blabbing to Jack Smith for months. Edited October 25, 2023 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 Looks like Trump has breached his gag order in NY trial again. It will be interesting to see how the judge will deal with it this time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 11 hours ago, ForzaViola said: Imagine being Trump's lawyer and having to prep him for cross-examination. Any lawyer who has sense would tell him not to take the stand. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 10 hours ago, carpetmonster said: They'd have been OK as long as they were born before 1975 - https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/President_Cookie There is a possibility the Cookie Monster might have been a better option than the last two US presidents. And the last 3 UK Prime Ministers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 8 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said: There is a possibility the Cookie Monster might have been a better option than the last two US presidents. And the last 3 UK Prime Ministers Truss should've hired him as a spad so he'd have eaten the lettuce and she'd have outlasted it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 On 21/10/2023 at 22:58, TxRover said: Dear, dear, it must then be shocking to you that the Trump wing is now in a fight to even keep a minor ally in the Speaker of the House role, eh? Trump, as a force in the Republican Party, is waning, and your stubborn unwillingness to consider that possibility is enough of a sign that you might need someone to dab the corners of your mouth. The “shutdown” of Congress has already backfired on the Trump faction because all their “trumps” have been eliminated from contention. The institutional wing/Bush wing of the Republican Party is now in the ascendancy in the House, which is potentially bad for Democrats in the 2024 election if Trump is removed from the scene due to legal issues. Yep, a crushing victory for moderate Republicanism over Trump's faction in the end. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/who-is-mike-johnson-house-speaker-election-denier-climate-anti-abortion 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, Granny Danger said: Looks like Trump has breached his gag order in NY trial again. It will be interesting to see how the judge will deal with it this time. $10,000, and called Trump not a credible witness. 14 minutes ago, virginton said: Yep, a crushing victory for moderate Republicanism over Trump's faction in the end. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/who-is-mike-johnson-house-speaker-election-denier-climate-anti-abortion So, you consider a low key, low seniority Speaker being named a victory over the institutional Republicans? Let’s get a few fact straight here…1) Roughly 70% of the Republican House voted against certifying at least one of the States electors in 2020. So the fact that Johnson did so is hardly a crushing win for the Freedumb Caucus….2) Depending upon the group tracking it, the Freedumb Caucus has 45 or 46 members (and their deputy leader is Jordan, who crashed and burned). That comprises about 21% of the House Republican membership and they still failed to get one of their members elected….3) Johnson has remained low-key and not pissed off anyone, and has also worked with Democrats over the past two Congresses, which is how he got elected for, effectively, three months. This was a clear defeat for the Trump side in that the non-collaborative options put forward were all defeated. It was effectively inevitable that the nominee wouled be pro-Trump, based upon the numbers in the House. So, you spin away however Vlad wants you to. Edited October 25, 2023 by TxRover 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 9 hours ago, Granny Danger said: There are dozens of stories online about how difficult it was to brief him when he was President. The attention span of a five year old with the analytic capacity to match. I liked how they started including the phrase "President Trump" in briefings every three sentences because, if they didn't, he'd get bored and wouldn't read the rest of it. So you'd get something like... Before: "tensions between India and Pakistan have been exacerbated in recent years. India claims to have evidence that several terrorist attacks were funded by the government of Pakistan. As both countries are nuclear powers, this situation could result in disaster should diplomacy break down". After: "tensions between India and Pakistan have been exacerbated in recent years. India claims to have evidence that several terrorist attacks were funded by the government of Pakistan. As both countries are nuclear powers, much like President Trump's United States, this situation could result in disaster should diplomacy break down". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 32 minutes ago, TxRover said: $10,000, and called Trump not a credible witness. So, you consider a low key, low seniority Speaker being named a victory over the institutional Republicans? How did the Institutional Republicans get on in successfully naming a Speaker to represent him? Your stupidity in doing victory laps at denying one of the literally scores of batshit mental authoritarians swarming over your democracy is like Albion Rovers celebrating stopping a few shots in a 7-0 pumping. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 40 minutes ago, virginton said: How did the Institutional Republicans get on in successfully naming a Speaker to represent him? Your stupidity in doing victory laps at denying one of the literally scores of batshit mental authoritarians swarming over your democracy is like Albion Rovers celebrating stopping a few shots in a 7-0 pumping. Let’s see…so you create a “thing” that I never claimed or said to attack me, and then claim a victory by referencing your own creation?! Just turn off the computer and have another glass, m8. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmarv Posted October 26, 2023 Share Posted October 26, 2023 Yet the majority of American voters still believe that Republicans are better at handling the economy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 On 25/10/2023 at 23:25, TxRover said: Let’s see…so you create a “thing” that I never claimed or said to attack me, and then claim a victory by referencing your own creation?! Just turn off the computer and have another glass, m8. "Is virginton an arsehole or not?" subforum for this pish 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairn in Exile Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 2 hours ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: "Is virginton an arsehole or not?" Poll. FTFY. I vote yes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trogdor Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 9 hours ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: "Is virginton an arsehole or not?" subforum for this pish "Should virginton and TxRover get a room?" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted October 28, 2023 Share Posted October 28, 2023 22 hours ago, Trogdor said: "Should virginton and TxRover get a room?" I vote no. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 I am not overly familiar with the US state or federal court systems, however I cannot imagine any other defendant making derogatory comments about judges or prosecutors and not getting sanctioned. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmarv Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Donnie Boy’s spent years slagging Biden for making speeches and occasionally getting the location wrong. Donnie Boy yesterday 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 1 hour ago, Granny Danger said: I am not overly familiar with the US state or federal court systems, however I cannot imagine any other defendant making derogatory comments about judges or prosecutors and not getting sanctioned. There’s a few things at play here: 1) Pulpit: Trump has a megaphone that’s near unrivaled, and thus anything he says is rebroadcast all over. 2) Threat: Trump’s fans have acted in the past, and this therefore increases the risk going forward. That gets the system’s attention. 3) Doxxing: The rise of this practice, combined with the threat of his followers acting, is near unprecedented. 4) The 24 Hour News Cycle and the Internet/Social Media: OJ Simpson was a mundane murder case made bigger by fame and TV. This whole fiasco is this generations version on the OJ Trial. Also, the new online media model NEEDS content all the time. 5) Racism: Trump dog whistles racism from sunrise to sunset. He’s mad Jack Smith is so whitebread, as he has to resort to calling him crazy instead of his usual tactics. 6) Low knowledge population: An increasing percentage of the U.S. population gets its news from a politically stratified source, and the overall quality of U.S. education has fallen, so civic knowledge and engagement is so low that some people believe nearly anything. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmarv Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Granny Danger said: I am not overly familiar with the US state or federal court systems, however I cannot imagine any other defendant making derogatory comments about judges or prosecutors and not getting sanctioned. Its a cult. The cult members are nutters. The judges and prosecutors in Trump’s many cases are targets for these nutters. They have to be very careful. There’s also the real possibility that Trump is actively trying to get a night in the jail. Sell more t-shirts to the crackpots. Edited October 30, 2023 by bigmarv 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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