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Chairslinger

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  1. 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.

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  2. 4 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

    He did the same thing in 2016 when asked at the first debate.

     

     

    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....

  3. 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.

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  4. Trump may have technically violated the Constitution, but that's not against the law argues his lawyer....

     

     

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    “A technical violation of the Constitution is not a violation of criminal law," Lauro contended, calling it "just plain wrong" to suggest that Trump had pressed Pence to break the law.

     

     

    Boy, Trump is just breaking out all the Arrested Development memes lately, ain't he? :lol:

     

     

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  5. 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...

     

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    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.....

     

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  6. 1 hour ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:
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    The latest in the special counsel investigation into Donald Trump and the efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

     

     

     

     

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

     

     

     

     

     

  7. 1 hour ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

    If Trump has his trial May 20th, lets say it takes 6 weeks, that brings the end of the trial just 2 weeks before the RNC which is July 15-18 2024. The election is 3.5 months after that on Nov 5th.

     

    lol

     

    1 hour ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

     

    Currently, the trial is set for two weeks though naturally that will probably be extended.

     

     

    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?

  8. I guess it was a different thread where it was discussed that Trump countersued Caroll claiming that the failure to find him guilty at trial about the rape claim proved she was actually liable for claiming it in the first place.

     

    Time to check in on how that is going for him....

     

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    A lengthy memorandum, which took into account the two separate lawsuits Carroll had filed against the ex-president, acknowledged that the "only point on which Ms. Carroll did not prevail was whether she had proved that Mr. Trump had 'raped' her within the narrow, technical meaning of a particular section of the New York Penal Law."

     

    "The jury's unanimous verdict in Carroll II was almost entirely in favor of Ms. Carroll," the opinion continued, adding, "The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was 'raped' within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump 'raped' her as many people commonly understand the word 'rape.' Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that."

     

     

     

    Sooooo.....not great for him.....

     

     

    On a side note, I had one of those sobering "this is our life now" moments we sometimes have since 2016 while deciding where to post this.

     

    Since this topic has mostly been dormant for a few months I used the search function to go through the CEB to determine what thread this would be best to post in. I tried a couple obvious words to find a relevant thread like Caroll or Trump but got too many miscellaneous results. Then I realized the best keyword to use when wanting to discuss our ex-president was simply "rape".

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  9. 2 hours ago, silentbob said:
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    Israeli authorities have failed to retrieve artifacts Donald Trump took to Mar-a-Lago after they were lent to the U.S., Haaretz reports.

     

     

     

    I swear Trump grows necks like a tree grows rings.

     

    He looks like the cheap rubber prosthetic villain in a low budget 90's sci-fi movie whose allegory is about sloth and gluttony. He's at the stage right before he explodes in a shower of gristle and viscera after learning nothing.

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