TxRover Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 (edited) 4 hours ago, GordonS said: A Republican judge appointed by Donald Trump gets to rule on a prosecution against Donald Trump and dismisses the case because the prosecutor was appointed by the Attorney General, who was appointed by Joe Biden. Do you think she even sees the irony? In any case, Democrats deserve a big slice of the blame for this too. They support politically-appointed judges, an idea so stupid you won't find it anywhere else in the developed world and that's one of the biggest sins in ECHR. Governments can't so much look at the judiciary in Europe if they don't want to lose in Strasbourg, as Poland has found. Idiot centrists assumed that hey, we're all Americans, we'll all play fair, Republican judges would never be partisan. Now the Supreme Court has abandoned all pretence of even being a court, it's just a legislature with no elections than has an inbuilt two to one majority for a political ideology that doesn't represent the country. Democrats should have fixed these problems when they had the chance. It's too late now. I don't see why. When it reaches the Supreme Court, Trump wins. Wrong. The current Court has already upheld Special Counsels. As a bonus, Hunter’s charges….and the Biden investigation… The biggest problem with reporting in the PA shooting, all the commentary is by political commentators looking for a political angle, when all the interviews so far provide no political motivation. The motive may simply be non-political…paging Jodie Foster. Edited July 16 by TxRover 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 23 hours ago, welshbairn said: a can of pop Mods!!!! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 55 minutes ago, TxRover said: Wrong. The current Court has already upheld Special Counsels. As a bonus, Hunter’s charges….and the Biden investigation… The biggest problem with reporting in the PA shooting, all the commentary is by political commentators looking for a political angle, when all the interviews so far provide no political motivation. The motive may simply be non-political…paging Jodie Foster. If they want to find a way to distinguish the previous cases, they will. They've become much bolder and less concerned with precedent lately. Totally agree on the shooting, all the talk about political violence pisses me off when an awful lot of Presidential assassination attempts are by crazy people for wild reasons. There's a guy serving 20 years for trying to kill Trump with a fork lift truck. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 (edited) I see Musk is donating Trump $45 million per month up till the election. With Peter Thiel paying for the VP, I guess we can forget about these cuddly liberal nerds fiddling about in their parents garages and becoming immensely rich but doing it all for the best reasons, the image the Silicon Valley mob tried to project for decades. Now it's all about zero regulation, negligible taxes and pitching for eternal life with neural transfers and the like, mad fuckers. Edited July 16 by welshbairn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MazzyStar Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 36 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Now it's all about zero regulation, negligible taxes and pitching for eternal life with neural transfers and the like, mad fuckers. Did you really expect anything different, welshbairn? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 2 minutes ago, MazzyStar said: Did you really expect anything different, welshbairn? I didn't expect them to drop all pretences and become Marvel villains openly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MazzyStar Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 1 minute ago, welshbairn said: I didn't expect them to drop all pretences and become Marvel villains openly. Ruling class doing ruling class things. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 (edited) https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9YXXGDurmW/ Edited July 17 by Theroadlesstravelled 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 5 hours ago, welshbairn said: I see Musk is donating Trump $45 million per month up till the election. With Peter Thiel paying for the VP, I guess we can forget about these cuddly liberal nerds fiddling about in their parents garages and becoming immensely rich but doing it all for the best reasons, the image the Silicon Valley mob tried to project for decades. Now it's all about zero regulation, negligible taxes and pitching for eternal life with neural transfers and the like, mad fuckers. Zuckerberg was a pioneer of weird tech billionaires. Now they're all at it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 On 16/07/2024 at 11:59, GordonS said: If they want to find a way to distinguish the previous cases, they will. They've become much bolder and less concerned with precedent lately. The problem is Cannon dismissed the charges on the basis of arguments already quashed by previous Supreme Court decision over the past 150+ years. Cannon's incompetence basically has doomed any appeal...but she has managed to delay the trial. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 19 hours ago, Theroadlesstravelled said: Zuckerberg was a pioneer of weird tech billionaires. Now they're all at it. All tech billionaires are weird, from Zukerberg to Gates, from Musk to Div. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 3 hours ago, TxRover said: The problem is Cannon dismissed the charges on the basis of arguments already quashed by previous Supreme Court decision over the past 150+ years. Cannon's incompetence basically has doomed any appeal...but she has managed to delay the trial. Sure, but the Supreme Court has been routinely overturning or distinguishing (not the same thing) its own precedents lately, on a wide range of cases. There is always a way to distinguish a precedent if you really want to, because no two sets of facts are identical. Hopefully they won't go that far but they could. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 1 hour ago, GordonS said: Sure, but the Supreme Court has been routinely overturning or distinguishing (not the same thing) its own precedents lately, on a wide range of cases. There is always a way to distinguish a precedent if you really want to, because no two sets of facts are identical. Hopefully they won't go that far but they could. Clarance Thomas has indicated he’s willing to cross that bridge…but no other Justice joined in his concurring opinion that suggested it. That’s pretty clear, as you can join a concurring opinion in part if you wish to. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted July 18 Share Posted July 18 18 hours ago, scottsdad said: All tech billionaires are weird, from Zukerberg to Gates, from Musk to Div. @Div Shirley? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BFTD Posted July 19 Share Posted July 19 6 minutes ago, Freedom Farter said: That's probably not a gaffe. The American Right have been banging on about Hitler being a leftist for years, and "communism" was their word for "anything we don't like" for decades before they switched to "socialism", "Marxism", and "woke" after their Red paranoia became a global joke. She may very well genuinely think that Hitler, who had actual communists persecuted and murdered for their ideology, was unleashing communism upon the world. Plus, it's now very inconvenient to say that America helped to defeat fascism, considering they're now undeniably the party of fascism. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eez-eh Posted July 19 Share Posted July 19 17 minutes ago, BFTD said: That's probably not a gaffe. The American Right have been banging on about Hitler being a leftist for years, and "communism" was their word for "anything we don't like" for decades before they switched to "socialism", "Marxism", and "woke" after their Red paranoia became a global joke. She may very well genuinely think that Hitler, who had actual communists persecuted and murdered for their ideology, was unleashing communism upon the world. Plus, it's now very inconvenient to say that America helped to defeat fascism, considering they're now undeniably the party of fascism. Very common for right wing losers to take the “socialist” part of National Socialist literally. All in bad faith of course. By the same logic, North Korea must be a democratic haven because they have Democratic in their Sunday name. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eez-eh Posted July 19 Share Posted July 19 Another Republican being completely unhinged. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted July 19 Share Posted July 19 3 minutes ago, eez-eh said: Very common for right wing losers to take the “socialist” part of National Socialist literally. All in bad faith of course. By the same logic, North Korea must be a democratic haven because they have Democratic in their Sunday name. I'm sure there was a Yes Minister joke where Hacker asks Humphrey what kind of government a country has, the response to which was "their full title is the People's Democratic Republic of <x>", to which Hacker says, "ah, so it's a dictatorship" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted July 19 Share Posted July 19 35 minutes ago, BFTD said: She may very well genuinely think that Hitler, who had actual communists persecuted and murdered for their ideology, was unleashing communism upon the world. Plus, it's now very inconvenient to say that America helped to defeat fascism, considering they're now undeniably the party of fascism. I would love to put her in the same room as that Reform candidate who said we should have remained neutral in the Second World War. They would probably agree on most other things but the War itself would be an interesting conversation. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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