VakAttack

Keckeisen! Finally broke thru!

Truax the king of doing just enough.

Spin harder for them, please, they could be down bad this year.

I hope some of y'all spin for other people in your life the way you spin for Elon.

Ahhh. Well, if Twitter tells the guy who has "freed by Elon Musk in 2022" in his bio, that should put the matter to rest.

From your last bit of "context": I see the dog whistles are a-blowin'. Yeah...Jewish people need to build good relations with the "right" ethnicities. You know...the "good ones." You can try to spin this all you want. It's like the argument about how a law can't be racist because it doesn't use racist words. Or saying "with all due respect" before saying something wildly disrespectful.

Again, it's not the same thing. Lee gets tired and is less effective. Musukaev consistently completely fell apart into near comatose exhaustion.

Musukaev is literally falling over, heaving breaths, and taking a full 30 seconds to get back to the middle. It's not the same thing as Lee being tired.

Lee's late match struggles are nowhere near what Musukaev was doing. Musukaev looked like a cartoon character. It's not the same thing.

Ridiculous comparison.

Where does he say "some"? Because then you're just adding your own context. Unless the "some" you're referring to is where he said "Western Jews" and I guess there we're saying he didn't mean all the Jews in the world, just all the Jews the westernized world, which....cool? And that's if we (generously) completely divorce it from the context of replying to a post about Hitler.

Surely the crusaders for Israel from the Republican party will be along shortly to chastise their highest profile "convert."

That's not a complete enough resume to take over a #1 spot when a guy like Vito is at the top. Vito has wins over Fix, RBY, and multiple other AAs.

Crookham doesn't have the resume to be #1.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/james-comer-like-joe-biden-also-paid-his-brother-dollar200k Hilarious as always.

Again, denial of reality. In the past two months alone he's gone on and on about how he is leading Obama in the polls, Biden was going to plunge us into World War 2, didn't know what city he was in, and confused Jeb Bush with George W. Bush. This just from a 3 minute Google search. Neither of these guys is dementia ridden, they're just old. Too old to be in charge of the country, but here we are.

Just complete denial of reality with posts like this. Or a refusal to listen to anything Trump is saying these days.

Despite being the esteemed journalist responsible for founding "Loomered", nah, probably not. They probably won't even consider it unless Trump's attorneys file something preserving the issue for an appeal. Then they would have to establish if this is actually his wife (a Google search is inconclusive on this). Even then, you then have to tie her political opinions on a criminal issue to somehow causing her husband to be biased in a civil trial, and show evidence of where that bias occurred. Coming from the party of Clarence and Ginny Thomas, though, this is rich.

The bit lives!

It's not even that they don't like him, but it's clear that (fairly) the age is a huge problem. For whatever reason, the Rs don't feel the same way about similarly aged Trump, but c'est la vie.

That is just incorrect. Again, appellate courts are typically reviewing the judge's legal rulings anyway, not the factual findings of a judge/jury, so they're already reviewing the decision of one person. It makes it no more likely for a successful appeal.

There is no particular reason that a bench trial would make it more likely to be overturned on an appeal. There are two different roles in trial, there's the finder of of law/referee (which the judge typically occupies) and the finder of fact (most commonly the jury). People have a right to waive a jury and instead as the judge to be both the finder of law and fact. In Florida, at least, both parties have to agree to that. I don't know for certain that this is required in NY, but it's incontrovertible that Trump's legal team asked for the bench trial and that AG James et al. had no problem with that. Appellate courts typically defer to the lower level courts on findings of fact, since the appellate courts aren't "in the room" so to speak, they typically will focus their rulings on legal rulings by the lower court. They CAN go into the findings of fact, but it takes something like "no reasonable jury/finder of fact could have found this to be true" type stuff.

Retained the Kentucky governorship, retained the Virginia state house, and also got abortion rights into the Ohio Constitution despite sneaky politicking there. Not necessarily indicative of anything for 2024 with the federal elections, tough Senate slate and obviously we can see what a mess the presidential race is shaping up to be. Good day for the blues, though.

Yes, in a trial, you don't get to give speeches, you respond to questions. Trump tried to do his Trump shtick and that's not going to fly in a court room. As to "the judge passing judgment before the trial" that's now what happened. The trial is essentially in two parts, guilt phase and penalty phase. Trump and his attorneys elected to do a bench trial (that is, no jury), so the judge ruled after the guilt phase was over. Now we're in the penalty portion.

So this got in front of a judge, evidence was presented, and rulings were made in favor of the challenging party. Why oh why wasn't Trump and his attorneys allowed to go in front of judgesohwait they went in front of many of them and got laughed out of court because they had no evidence, and the lawyers themselves mainly refused to make the argument because of said lack of evidence and, you know, not wanting to get disbarred.