You kids get music links today! The opening selection is a shout-out to OBE for taking me to school yesterday.
TRUMP VERDICT PLACEHOLDER: Trump found guilty on all 34 counts in NY v Trump.
MENSTRUAL HYGIENE DAY WAS YESTERDAY: I can’t believe my colleague SugarFree missed linking to this yesterday, but here you go.
HUMAN TRIALS OF TOOTH-REGROWING DRUG TO BEGIN IN SEPTEMBER: Hooray! But the quickest it can get to market is 2030.
THE PROCESS IS THE PUNISHMENT, WEEKLY REMINDER: SCOTUS unanimously slapped down the NY state government for financially deplatforming the NRA. But nobody will go to jail for this, nobody will lose their job, and NY and other states will continue to violate the rights of people they don’t like in a never-ending game of Whac-A-Mole.
FEDS CATCH FRAUDSTER WHO TOOK $5.9 BILLION IN COVID AID: Everything about this is infuriating starting with the aid itself and the lockdowns they used to justify the aid. And it looks like they recovered a whopping $34 million of that. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. “The IRS said in March it had investigated tax and money laundering cases related to Covid-19 fraud potentially worth about $9 billion, with more than half that amount coming from cases opened in the last year.”
SACRED LANDS GRIFT, POLYNESIAN EDITION: The US Air Force wants to expand an observatory complex on a mountain top in Hawaii. In no surprise to anyone, some Hawaiians with native ancestry are trying to stop the project, some even going so far as to want the existing complex removed altogether.
WE CAN’T FIX THE PROBLEM, BUT WE’RE GOING TO LAUNCH ANYWAY: “It’s so complicated. There’s so many things going on. We really just needed to work through it as a team,” Ken Bowersox, associate administrator for NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate and a former astronaut, told reporters in a teleconference Friday (May 24). Seriously, NASA? Seriously? That sounds like something you’d hear in one of Dr. Marvin Monroe’s group therapy sessions. I wish them well with this, I really do.
MOONSTONE SLEET TIED TO FAKEPENNY: There is a North Korean hacker group which is known to security researches as Moonstone Sleet, and they are suspected to be the ones behind the FakePenny ransomware attacks. The names sound like something out of a William Gibson story. Also, calling them a hacker group is somewhat disingenuous. These aren’t a bunch of scruffy hero coders sharing a loft somewhere; computers and internet access are rare and tightly controlled in Norkland, so this is definitely a government operation.
I can’t remember how I came across this perky little tune, but thanks if it was one of you.
I’m pretty sure I linked it in one of my early AM posts. *shrug*
Thanks, Sean. I tried searching the comments for the video url, but the only hit I got was from Mojeaux a few years back.
🙂
It’s kind of a blur at this point. I’m hoping I don’t duplicate too many of the songs I put up. I figure at some point, someone will catch me doing it.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/30/critics-blast-trump-trial-jury-rules-that-they-dont-have-to-agree-on-crime/
Uhhh. Sounds like something from the Bee.
It’s the “Hey, he’s guilty of something” standard of jurisprudence the US is moving to.
You are charged with being guilty. How do you plead?
Blackstone replaced by Beria.
Ironically (or not), that’s the Thin Blue Line Back The Blue crowd’s default when people get shot by cops.
OT: when Bill Walton decided to go to law school after retiring (the first time):
https://the-cauldron.com/the-intramural-basketball-game-that-saved-bill-walton-s-career-b14d9a67c6a2
That is cool.
Robert Smith (Vikings RB who does not sing “Piggy in the Mirror”) went to med school.
IMO, that’s gonna be a pretty big deal.
Without controlling which bones it grows though could have issues.
I don’t want my wisdom teeth growing back.
My only regret… is that I have… Boneitis.
Pic of patient with a bad reaction to the treatment:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e8/16/6e/e8166e032ec73b6ee3d24e8b5e13af5f.jpg
I can’t wait for that to malfunction and produce mutants made entirely of teeth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqvkSfV3JYc
*clicks*
Not disappointed.
Fraudsters used the botnet to submit tens of thousands of fake applications for federal relief during the coronavirus pandemic, leading to losses of about $5.9 billion, according to statements from the Departments of Justice and Treasury.
$5.9 billion? That’s not even a rounding error for Federal spending. I wonder who the fraudsters pissed off to get on the Fed’s radar.
Pissed off or failed to pay off?
I imagine the CCP called and said – do you know how these assholes have reamed you?
Typical CNN. My read is he ran the botnet and essentially leased time on it.
Multiple “customers” used it for all kinds of things including COVID fraud based activities.
HUMAN TRIALS OF TOOTH-REGROWING DRUG TO BEGIN IN SEPTEMBER
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Can it make them grow in in rows?
Just, LOL @ NASA. I mean, JFC.
That is an insanely perky tune. Gracias.
Gotta guard my dinner from a feisty Chihuahua
https://ibb.co/JvfTw1n
I’m cooking up chicken stock that I’ll then use to make a gumbo like stew.
I made chicken stock two nights ago.
I fed the carcass to my chickens afterwards. The picked it clean.
Once I get pigs, I’ll be able to dispose any bodies…
Ghastly
Elon Musk has sought to accumulate political capital commensurate with his extravagant wealth. In the past year, Musk has publicly opined on global conflicts, met with numerous world leaders and US senators to discuss artificial intelligence and his space and satellite technologies. And he has courted senior Chinese officials on their home turf.
Now he is reportedly exploring what could be his next political project: Becoming an adviser to Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
How dare he act like Bill Gates?
Seriously, NASA?
Apparently, failure has become an option.
That’s going to leave a mark.
Not like the next thing that they launch that ends up cratering.
And remember, you heard it before Iowahawk says it.
Musk has made supporting right-wing causes — and extremism, in some situations — increasingly central to his identity. He has vocally opposed Covid-19 lockdowns and embraced anti-vaccine ideology. He has elevated conservative speech on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter that he purchased in 2022. And he has pushed racist conspiracy theories about immigration.
Musk has also obsessed over the “woke mind virus,” a term used by some conservatives to describe progressive causes. And he has explicitly called for Republican victories at the ballot box, warning of the country’s impending “doom” if a “red wave” does not materialize in November.
Unmutual!
Not of the Body!
Boy, all of that stuff sounds pretty extreme. We need to elect a Dem president pronto so we can all get back to normal life.
Jonathan Turley inside court: Jury appears ‘not in striking distance of a verdict’
It is important not to overplay the fact that the jury is electing not to stay until 6. The judge had left it up to them. If they wanted to go longer, it would not bode well for Trump. It clearly shows that they are not in striking distance of a verdict, though that can mean many things including a reflection of the large number of counts.
As someone who believed that Friday was the most likely day for a verdict this week, this is not surprising and could still end in either a hung jury or conviction in my view. It could even go over to next week. I enjoy tea leaf readings as much as the next analyst but you need some tea in the cup.
Keep in mind that the jury was clearly not in agreement on the standards to be applied on such issues as inferences and may have differed on what they heard from Pecker and Cohen. After the read back on the instructions and transcript, they had to restart their deliberations with whatever clarity that court session provided to them.
— Jonathan Turley, constitutional law attorney and FNC contributor
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/may-30-trump-trial-jury-deliberations-day-2
The jury has reached a verdict in former President Trump’s criminal hush money trial.
https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1796281416377876719
That’s probably not good for Trump
The clerk entered the courtroom a minute ago. I’m hooked.
The jurors are in the room.
Well, he’s guilty. Not surprised. I am going about my day, stuff to do. He will appeal.
That will help keep this from more coverage.
Of course if Israel does that, that’s a red line.
I have a group of friends who are fervently cheering for the jailing of their political opponent.
“…in despotism, when the people have become so corrupt to be incapable of any other…”
Just in case no one checked in on the Bee.
https://babylonbee.com/news/12-jurors-unanimously-vote-to-ensure-trump-reelection
Kangaroos Ask People To Stop Unfairly Comparing Them To U.S. Justice System
I had a tub of mouse poison bait blocks on the porch. Something, probably squirrels, has been trying to get into the bucket for weeks. They finally did, and appear to have had a feast. Gluttony kills.
Oh shit… That was poison???!?!?!
I Keeeed with you!
Musk’s changes to X have helped “the growing normalization of hate and lies which can only be damaging to democracies that are based on compromise, tolerance, science, and truth,” said Imran Ahmed, CEO of the online watchdog Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).
To be sure, we’re in favor of free speech, but only if we agree with it.
Imran Ahmed?
That asshole?
You can be sure they do no such thing.
The Biden campaign on Thursday lashed out at the idea of Musk and Trump working together.
“Despite what Donald Trump thinks, America is not for sale to billionaires, oil and gas executives, or even Elon Musk,” Biden-Harris 2024 spokesperson James Singer said in a statement. “Trump is selling out America to pay his legal bills and put himself in power, while all billionaires like Elon see is a sucker: They know if they cut him campaign checks, he’ll cut their taxes while he cuts Social Security and other benefits for the middle class.”
It’s 1875 all over again.
I didn’t think Gavin was really hiding… and isn’t that a little low for the money he siphoned off into the general fund?
Nailbiter
A jury has reached a verdict Thursday in the criminal hush money trial of former President Donald Trump in New York.
The 12-member jury sent out a note to the trial judge at 4:20 p.m. ET.
“We the jury have a verdict. We would like an extra 30 minutes to fill out the forms if that’d be possible,” the note said, according to Judge Juan Merchan, who read it out loud in the courtroom.
Jurors deliberated less than 10 hours over two days before sending out the note. Before the announcement, Trump, his lawyers, prosecutors and reporters expected the jury to be dismissed for the day at 4:30 p.m.
Trump was sitting in the courtroom with his arms crossed and a resigned look on his face minutes after the announcement was made.
Will trump call his tailor and get fitted for a jumpsuit?
The joy on my train right now…
In a just world, the verdict would be: “Not guilty because you never specified a crime and tried to pin it all with a witness that admitted to grand larceny in front of us” — but my gut says that’s not the way the kangaroo is jumping. Interesting times, indeed…
John Carpenter was right about NYC all along.
Guilty
Of what… who knows?
They are actually not saying what the underlying crime is.
Don’t get caught up in details.
Well, it was a decent run, America
Funny that this comes down during the Links titled “Return to Normalcy”. Sigh.
Technically, it’s the Return to Normacly.
I knew I could count on Ted’S.
It was okay. Some bumps in the road. The last couple of decades were a fast decline.
John Glubb called it all with scary accuracy.
Gradually, then suddenly
Do we get the cool Banana Republic hats though?
What a fucking farce. Even if Trump wins the blatant bullshit the Biden administration and the Deep State has done and gotten away with ensures the demise of this late stage Republic even faster.
And Biden approved of Ukraine using military hardware for strikes in Russia…anybody want to guess what comes next there?
…what comes next there?
I’m a little more concerned with what might come next here.
Prices for vintage Duran Duran Panama hats are skyrocketing, undoubtedly
https://images.app.goo.gl/DkYDFYeXVkUN4dqw5
I love how when speaking wokester human beings- individuals are referred to as ‘bodies’ or ‘menstruators’. Their garbling of logic is one hell of a tell. Menstrator is not even a word. Dehumanize at all costs with a heapin’ helpin’ of cognitive dissonance.
https://www.shethepeople.tv/home-top-video/menstruators-a-gender-neutral-inclusive-term-for-all-our-period-conversations/
“Menstruators: A gender neutral & inclusive term for all our period conversations”
Gender neutral. From Shethepeople. It’s inclusive.
Period conversations. I have had them many times. They were all the same.
Me: “I am sorry you have to go through that. It must be a terrible inconvenience.”
Her: “Yeah, it is. I hate it.”
Campaign in handcuffs and orange jumpsuit,..and win big. Then revenge is best served cold.
And of course point to precedent when you create the star chamber.
I always loved “chestfeeders”.
Makes me think of the Alien dinner scene.
for all our period conversations
Real, and imaginary!
I’ve never understood the “black and brown bodies” formulation. Maybe they are trying to imply that whites don’t see them as human, only as bodies, but it seems that they are only dehumanizing themselves.
It seems, yes. They are Borg. They dehumanize everyone.
Easier to make that omelet if you are just cracking eggs…just round bodies instead of murdering someone’s sister.
Guilty
…of being Donald Trump.
Yep.
Now, we see what happens with the inevitable appeal.
This means I’m voting for Trump. I don’t know when I’ll get another chance to vote for a convicted criminal for President again.
No shit, you’ve always voted for someone you thought might be a criminal, now you can be sure!
Guilty on all counts
Dude got forked.
DNA from fork in Florida restaurant led to bust in NYC case where man killed uncle: sources
spiders on drugs – I laughed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc
Also, Spiders On Drugs is a good band name.
I had a good band name today, I referred to Burning Man as being full of Dogmatic Degenerates.
I assume my brother is ecstatic.
Tooth regrowing? First I have heard of this. If it works well that is a huge development.
What about the teeth…down there? *points at no no zone
No Gelgamek women.
My same standard rant for the last 20 yrs: No one wants you to be helpless for your own good. Gun-grabbers have plans for you and when you find out what those plans are you wont like them very much.
Zoom later, y’all?
Sure, but first I have to find some banana trees to plant.
Maybe.
I may have to put out for the boyfriend to get him to fall asleep early.
The things I do for U-ppl….
Trump should do a Gandalf/Kenobi thing now and bleach his hair white and start wearing a robe and carrying a staff.
I wonder if the judge will bar Trump from any use of social media and the internet as part of the sentence.
That would be the cherry on top of the democracy sundae.
Okay, I just updated the post to reflect the verdicts. This will be the last post update for today. The big question is will he remain free pending appeal?
With this judge? I’m betting “immediate incarceration with only monitored/allowed communications allowed out”.
I’m sure PPP will read his well-prepared victory speech now that they intimidated the jury and all. The Correct Decision Was Reached, America…. we’ve preserved Democracy by locking up our opponents!
America made the wrong choice in 2016 so choices are no longer allowed.
For Democracy.
Least surprising and most concerning: Trump guilty verdict. What a fucking banana republic farce.
This is Biden’s out for the debate. They’re going to throw around “convicted felon” and he’ll refuse to share the stage with a criminal.
As far as the debate goes Biden’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. I doubt it’ll make much difference either way.
Of course he’ll never roll up the welcome mat on his criminal son. With those two trials running, in sequence this summer – Biden is going to have it as rough as Trump.
The big question is will he remain free pending appeal?
I’m sure they’ll set a reasonable bail. Ten $billion ought to be fair.
What is “Normacly” anyway?
Now you mean?
Normal is using the legal system to try and guarantee political victory and to silence dissent.
Yep, the new but not really new normal. At least they used to try to hide it.
Yo, Slappy McFacepalm. My boy R.J. was the only person to call me out on my (deliberate) misspelling of “normalcy.”
I do it because I care. And because snark is a precious natural resource which has been in short supply lately.
Historically… this is definitely the case.
Did they not read Hat & Hair yesterday?
The life of a Glibs linkster is a harsh one, as you well know.
You think you’re playing to the pit with kitchen prose and gutter rhyme, and you end up getting reax from the box seats where the quality sit.
Trump verdict: Was hoping for a hung jury but this is about what I expected. Woe to anyone who has the eye of this shithole legal system turned on them. If he can be railroaded like this just think of what they can do to you.
I hope that a lot of Americans are thinking about that
The state has been able to steal your property without proving you committed a crime. Now they can steal you.
CNBC:
em>His sentencing was quickly scheduled for July 11 at 10 a.m. ET. That is four days before the beginning of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where Trump is set to be formally confirmed as the GOP’s presidential nominee.
Trump, who remains free without bail, faces a maximum possible sentence of four years in prison for each count.
They didn’t clap him in irons on the spot and haul him off to Riker’s?
No, because that would cost the NY Department of Corrections big bucks, and create tensions between DOC personnel and US Secret Service. Imprisoning Trump, particularly at this point, is a sticky trap, and one which they are smart enough to recognize.
Now they have the jury’s guilty verdict which they can crow about for months, and be extra indignant that he’s walking free because of white supremecist rethuglikkkan tricknology.
Interesting theory. I shall accept it as a bet, and say they ARE stupid enough to put him in jail. Loser must purchase a non-extravagant dinner for the winner.
You’re right, they’ll decide it’s too much hassle to jail him, so we’ll just skip to the guillotine.
Bet accepted, RJ.
I was going to not bother voting this year but will now be voting Trump.
My vote will be cancelled out by a dead “voter” on the East side of the state but so be it.
“Jurors, I want to thank you very much for your service,” Merchan said after the verdict was read. “That’s a long time to be away from your job, your families, your other responsibilities.”
“I want you to know that I really admire your dedication, your hard work,” the judge said.
There will be a statue of them on the Mall, some day.
Will the books be out on Amazon tomorrow, do you think?
I don’t have happy thoughts.
I’m going to be in DC and NYC next week. Could be exciting.
Not as exciting as acquittal would’ve been.
Avoid Times Square.
3 suspects in custody after reported machete attack injures 1 at Times Square McDonald’s
Always a good plan.
I miss the desnudas from a more innocent age.
Godspeed and good luck.
Just…be safe. I, for one, am as happy as I’ve ever been not to be in DC anymore
Same here re: NYC.
It’s unbelievable how quickly it’s sunk. My last time in Midtown (in September, saying goodbye for the last time) I could not believe what a shithole it’s become.
Are all of the MAGA white supremacists currently out burning city centers to the ground? I’ve been assured they are the source of most political violence.
That’s what the left want. They want another J6 incident where they can lock up even more dangerous insurrectionists trying to subvert democracy.
That’s the other shoe to drop soon – SCotUS killing all of the Sarbanes-Oxley convictions. We won’t be talking about right-wing, white supremacist violence anymore.
They love to call themselves progressives, a name that would have gotten your ass kicked in the streets once upon a time.
Can someone explain the difference between Fascism and Progressivism to me? Their policies and the practical outcomes of their policies appear the same. I must be missing something.
Fascists don’t have GOOD INTENTIONS!!!! /prog-splaination
Progressives are always “progressing” towards something so it never ends. The facists tend to be traditionalists at least and can be satiated at some point but not the progressives.
Fascism is/was a revolutionary ideology meaning that they sought to upend existing systems just as much as the Marxists do.
My riding mower just stopped half way through the lawn. Looking up some models of my mower you can check the drive belt by removing the battery. Guess I’ll give that a shot.
Gotta get that lawn short enough to figure out how to layout the banana plantation.
Historically, another “villain” was found guilty and punished on this date. Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake. She’s now a revered heroine. How will history view OMB?
Like the Grant presidency.
Was that date in the Julian or Gregorian calendar?
Calendars are a tool of white privilege, do it matters not.
I shall accept it as a bet, and say they ARE stupid enough to put him in jail.
The screeching from the shit flinging howler monkeys will be deafening if he isn’t at least put under house arrest and effectively muzzled.
EQUAL UNDER THE LAW!!!
They’ll try to jail/imprison him, I have no doubt. I’d like to see him brought out in an orange jumpsuit and shackles to take his oath of office, it’d be badass.
Judge will rule immediate jail in solitary and no SS. The better to Epstein him./ kidding… kinda ..
On the one hand, the U.S. is dead. On the other hand, I have grilled chicken
https://ibb.co/bBj1SsJ
Eat the chicken, ignore the chickenshits.
Agreed. I made some street tacos. They are delicious. Being sad over the predetermined outcome of a sham trial solves nothing.
So RJ is having a taco party?
Yum, I say.
Leftover Indian food is so flipping delicious.
So the US is officially a Banana Republic. What next?
Still shocked it was Donakd Trump of all people who exposed that.
“What next?”
Replace the stars on the flag with tiny bananas and maybe change our name to North Honduras.
In the meantime you can spark a regional freakout by hanging your American flag upside down.
Greater Guatemala?
I was going to go out and do some errands. Now i don’t feel like it. Maybe I’ll have a turkey sammich.
Because the ham sandwich was indicted.
*polite applause*
Well done!
We can now convict a ham sandwich. Progress!
3 Year Letterman bringin the heat
https://twitter.com/3YearLetterman/status/1796296108605325483
Love that guy.
Do we even export bananas?
That said I find this unsurprising. The left/deep state/neocons are commufascist totalitarians and will behave as such. Interesting times.
Do we even export bananas?
No, because East Atlanta and Alabama don’t have their shit together.
That’s a good one.
We are in the “Empire Strikes Back” phase. So we are going to have to do the “New Hope” phase again, more and harder.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/biden-campaign-releases-disgusting-statement-full-lies-smears/
“The Biden campaign released a statement labeling Donald Trump a “dictator” and lecturing that “no one is above the law.”
Joe Biden’s team also begged for donations.”
Commie rat fuckers. One and all.
Galactic levels of projection. God help us.
Everything in that statement is inverted/projection and/or a lie.
They couldn’t wake up Joe to read the pre-packaged statement?
In the meantime you can spark a regional freakout by hanging your American flag upside down.
If I had a flag, I’m not sure I could resist the temptation. I doubt anybody in my neighborhood would take offense.
I may have to find one. I’m sure I have one around here somewhere…
I was expecting (hoping for) a hung jury, but apparently the judge’s instructions rendered anything but a guilty verdict pretty much out of the question. When the news reports said they wanted to hear the instructions again, I figured it was a bad sign.
How so? The judge didn’t tell jurors they had to find him guilty even if a juror had reasonable doubt Trump committed a crime. Let’s not excuse the jurors and put all the blame on the judge.
“The Biden campaign released a statement labeling Donald Trump a “dictator” and lecturing that “no one is above the law.”
Ready and waiting to drop.
The fix has been in since the start. They sat two lawyers on the jury, didn’t they?
Yes, the fix was in. Dershowitz has been covering it and discussing how crazy the judge is, and how nothing he did was a crime to begin with.
The dictator is the one who throws his opponent in jail over *hyuk hyuk* Trumped up charges. Biden is such a Goddamn piece of shit, I swear.
The sentence for multiple felonies will be interesting.
What will be even more interesting is if Trump wins the election while sentenced to, at a minimum, some kind of house arrest in NY. How the fuck will that work?
I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to vote at all, but if it helps set up that dumpster fire of a train wreck of a farce, I just might.
Of course, I’m sure there’s more lawfare/legal shenanigans in the making to tee off the felony conviction. Any attempt to say a felon can’t be President is unconstitutional, of course, and should (should) get struck down. I imagine some states will try to say a convicted felon can’t appear on the ballot, or somesuch.
So, campaign slogan ideas?
I got “Vote for the Felon, Not for the Moron”, but it doesn’t really scan as well as I’d like.
Prison president not poopy president!
American Felon or Joe the Watermelon?
Orange is the new Black.
Winner.
Vote for the known criminal, not the suspected one!
Worked for Johnny Cash
Our country sure did a speedrun on that Roman Republic simulator, didn’t it?
When shit falls, let’s try to keep our dark ages a little shorter this time around.
These dark ages are going to be rough, the Vandals and the Huns didn’t have nukes.
Well with us and now Denmark saying bomb Russia.
We should be all great
https://www.amazon.com/Pack-Potassium-Iodide-Tablets-130/dp/B09WKSTY82/
You want to see the Vandals vs. the Huns? Tune in tonight for “1990: Bronx Warriors.”
So, campaign slogan ideas?
Something to do with going with a “government certified’ felon so you know what you’re getting?
Worked for Johnny Cash
If I was Trump, I would just fly to Florida. “Come and get me!”
Oh jeezus. What if it turns into a Shah of Iran-style situation? Like, De Santis will shelter DJT like the U.S. sheltered the Shah.
I believe the owner of Newsmax said that very thing.
There is a point where one should not participate in one’s own execution. And if you have money, you have protection.
This all – sort of – points to a Civil War-type event but I’ve been very wrong on these things before. Buy history often swings on unexpected events leading to cascading chain.
*but
At least you’re dressed for it.
“Australian State Creates Parliamentary Position For ‘Men’s Behaviour Change’”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/australian-state-creates-parliamentary-position-for-mens-behaviour-change
They have millions of clamydia infected koalas roaming the streets and they concentrate on this?
I’m just surprised they chose a man for the position. Admittedly, he looks pretty unacquainted with testosterone, but still.
Wow. The whole anglosphere has descended into madness. That is one big ol’ steamin’ pile of runny gibberish.
Something else: “to end the tragedy of deaths of Victorian women at the hands of men”
There is something they aren’t saying here. Let me take a wild guess…
Indigenous Australians whose culture has one of the worst history of treatment of women is where the problem is but the proggies cant say that, so like here they are going to project it onto whitey, destroy their own culture and leave the problem worse than it was before. I really am just spitballin’ here, I dont know enough about the goings on down there to say.
Welcome to ‘Who’s Justice System is it Anyway?’, where the crimes are made up and the law doesn’t matter!
Nuance
False reports about the jury instructions in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial have been spreading across right-wing media, leading to threats against the judge overseeing the case.
Several conservative news personalities, including some affiliated with Fox News, falsely claimed that Judge Juan Merchan, as one Fox News anchor put it in a viral post on X, “told the jury that they do not need unanimity to convict” Trump.
That’s not true. Merchan instructed the jury on Wednesday that they “must conclude unanimously that a defendant conspired to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means,” adding that they “need not be unanimous as to what those unlawful means were.”
That means that jurors have to agree unanimously that Trump committed a crime by engaging in a criminal conspiracy to falsify records with the intent to commit one or more other crimes in order to convict him. But jurors can choose from three options about what those other crimes were: violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act; the falsification of other business records; or the violation of tax laws. Those “unlawful means” aren’t charges themselves and would not result in separate convictions, so jurors do not have to unanimously agree on them.
The jury instruction was complex and nuanced and some right-wing accounts ran with false reports.
What the fucking fuck?
Was Trump on trial for election interference? I thought he was charged with misclassifying business expenses.
Yeah, they don’t have to agree on the thing that elevates the charge to a felony, just that there was a thing. How is that NOT what right wing media was saying?
It’s like the Colorado case. A state court determined he committed a federal crime.
He was on trial for being Trump.
OK I need to stay off the Tweeters for a minute. The sass is starting in earnest.
Yeah, avoid that. Maybe we should Zoom tonight.
I suggested as much upthread. I’ll be on sometime after 8pm ET. Maybe I’ll have a rare skool nite beer.
Oh, are folk still on zoom? I may be able to in the near future.
Head over to Truth Social
I had to make that decision today when I was called a racist for the 5th time today because I disagree with shoehorning inconsistent Negro League stats in with MLB stats, while naming a guy who had over 2000 fewer ABs than Ty Cobb had HITS now holding the all-time leader in batting average and slugging. Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb are no longer the kings, according to MLB, but Josh Gibson, a guy who played less than 4 full seasons in the MLB, and who played barnstorm games against Illinois corn farmers for most of his career.
Yesterday he wouldn’t even be close to the minimum number of PAs to qualify for any lifetime records. Today he’s the best hitter ever.
What a fucking farce.
My take on the Trump verdict: We’re probably closer to civil war than we have been since 1865. I don’t like to shamelessly self-promote but I’m just going to power through it: I’ll be writing a piece at RedState tomorrow on this.
Will read. Thanks on both fronts.