Chairslinger

Unfortunately with this court I totally expect them to block the ruling now just so they can rule in their favor later. Why let the Sacklers off the hook when you can let them off the hook AND set the precedent that no megacorps ever have to face true consequences ever again?

Looks like a reliable leak as it is based on Reuters catching a blip on the docket(likely a clerical error) where the charges appeared and then were quickly taken down.

Not sure about recently, but a classic from 2016..... Two Corinthians instead of 2nd Corinthians. Like he thought it was Corinthians 2: Electric Boogaloo

And then Jesus waterboarded the Romans for fucking with him.

Or in other words, I like Gods that don't get crucified. Who could ever have foreseen that this would be the result of making Donald Trump the leader of your party. Honestly, it's been an incongruity between the party and religion for a while now, but neither group has a problem with hypocrisy so it has mostly worked. It was Trump's "Why bother hiding it" mindset for all the GOP's worst impulses that made it so that his followers find little reason to hide it anymore.

He did eventually sign it, though. He is far more in control of the party now and has little to lose so I have no doubt he won't cave this time. If anything he could probably campaign on it and rile up his crowds by saying the establishment is trying to control him and free speech blah blah or whatever. Same with debates. He eventually did most of them in 2016. But I see little reason he should bother with any of the primary debates. Might feel compelled to do the general debates though. It gives him one of the few opportunities to at least try to make a case for why he should be elected over a guy that beat him by 8 million votes last time....

Did they finish the upcoming season of King of the Hill before he died? It's hard to imagine the show without Dale

He looks like one of the pigs from the end of Animal Farm that learned to stand on it's hind legs.

Imagine looking in the mirror, seeing that, and thinking, "Yeah, master race baby!"

I feel like it's a pretty damning indication of how bad they are losing the abortion argument that they thought, "Give up what little political power you as a citizen still have to the politicians that already have a super majority in the state government" was the soft under belly of the debate.

Some where right now Trump feels a disturbance in the force that his thread has been hijacked to talk about women's soccer.....

I used to despise musical episodes with a passion but Buffy's pretty much single handedly changed my mind. The show runners of SNW did say that they were measuring themselves against Once More With Feeling(it's pretty much the gold standard of the genre), but I wonder if the mention of bunnies and Uhura saying "I've got a theory" were intentional nods. I liked the episode. I thought La'an's performance was the standout of the episode. Some of the others had a bit too much auto tuning.

A lot of that sounds like quote mining. The comment Truman made is clearly aspirational rather than some kind of confirmation that he knew what Japan would or would not do. Short of direct contact with Japanese leadership how the hell would Truman truly know what would force the Japanese to surrender?

Trump may have technically violated the Constitution, but that's not against the law argues his lawyer.... Boy, Trump is just breaking out all the Arrested Development memes lately, ain't he?

You can tell that Trump is terrified of Smith. Because his world is purely a transactional one, he doesn't really understand these Justice Department guys who actually believe in things like rule of law. But he knows a bulldog when he sees one.

I think I have the perfect campaign slogan for next year. Joe can have this one for free...... "Joe Biden is running for president. Donald Trump is running from prison."

Says the man who looks like someone made a Jack O' Lantern out of a tomato and gave it the ability to talk....

Looks like she made a Faustian bargain with whatever demon made Kellyanne Conway a household name for a couple years.

He is so bad at this. Sounds like something Henry Bowers would say to Ben to bully him.....

This thread is like the opposite of the old SCOTUS thread where there would be a sinking dread every time it would get bumped during Trump's term. With this thread when I saw a shit ton of activity in just an hour or two it was like Christmas morning... It is interesting to see all this happening. For the longest time I was confident that charges should be brought because it was the right thing to do and maybe it could contribute to his political defeat. But also confident that Trump would never actually see the inside of a jail cell. But man, with all these charges AND Georgia's still to drop....there are literally dozens of pending charges against him any one of which could potentially put a 76 year old man in prison for the rest of his life. It hits you that this is not a hypothetical scenario anymore. Very strong chance that in 2 or 3 years time Donald Trump will either be serving his second term in the White House or serving the rest of his life in a prison cell.....

After seeing how well McCarthy reacts to being made a bitch by Trump I am surprised he didn't come out of that confrontation with Swalwell by endorsing him for President.

Yeah, I heard they had another meeting where there legal efforts to dissuade Smith from indicting Trump was basically....

It's hard to tell if it's just camera movement, but at the 10 second mark in that original video I am pretty sure McConnell was wobbling and would have fallen over if he wasn't holding on to the podium for dear life. The podium itself even appears to wobble.

Skynet raised with bedtime stories about the time that the morally righteous thing to do was to hit the ol reset button and kill all but 8 people. What could go wrong?

I don't know that Cannon can really shield Trump considering the other pending indictments and other extenuating circumstances but if just assume for a second that every decision she is making is purely political what do we think she is, or should be, aiming for? Would this be a timeline with the goal that Trump takes the primary unimpeded(which all indications are he will do baring something huge) but giving the GOP an escape hatch to simply defeat him at the convention if the trials go extremely badly and they are looking at a 2024 candidate who will literally be in a jail cell for campaign season and election day?