President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Please. Ask Ashli Babbit how that worked out.

‘We Need to Start Killing’: Trump’s Far-Right Supporters Are Threatening Civil War

 

"We'll put a boot in your ass; it's the American way," they said, a few years before going all in on Trump-style isolationism.

 

Heard another explanation, and it makes sense to me. This thing has entered a new phase: trial. It's reasonable to seek people with experience in the specific area of the law and/or experience in that jurisdiction.

 

You can look for the trial date to be set after the 2024 election, but truthfully I don't know if it is realistic to think it could happen before then. There *will* be appeals and various delaying tactics, and even if they are cut to the bone it is likely that the trial wouldn't happen before then anyway.

 

Possible, but his lawyers were on TV last night defending him and gone 12 hours later. Very odd.

 

GOP Congressman Slammed For Alarming Tweet Appearing to Call For ‘Insurrection’ In Wake of Trump Indictment

It's not a secret plot - its an open call for rebellion. At least the Confederates had the decency to resign from Congress first.

 

We're also talking about lawyers with bitter experience of what it is like having Trump for a client. If they looked at the facts and the charges and said to themselves "I'm getting away from this shit show before I get blamed for his conviction and before I have to get another attorney to defend me in court for nonsense my client my client might get me sucked into", that's reasonable... even if they had to know all that when they first took him on as a client.

 

The top response absolutely cracked me up.

 

“But Biden tripped on a cord and AOC has the audacity to be a woman who has different ideas than mine who does not want to sleep with me.”

 

I’m a Knicks fan too (more rabid in those days as time and a decade-plus of losing cooled down my fandom). I had just started my relationship with the future Mrs. S. She’s not a sports fan, but as we first got together, she pretended to like sports to get to know me better (“How about that J.R. Ewing scoring all those baskets?!”)

She was on her first visit to my house, and I was sick in bed with a fever. I woke up to watch the game, and was getting pissed off about O.J. as I wanted to get back to the game. She found it fascinating, and was looking at me in a strange way when I said I hoped O.J. would hurry up and off himself so that we could get back to the game.

Somehow, she married me anyways.

 

For all the talk about how the DoJ dragged it's feet, it is less than a year since the first meeting of the 1/6 Committee. At the time, no one expected those hearings to amount to very much of substance. Instead, they forced many witnesses into statements on the record, found and got statements from people on the scene who were willing to talk, and gathered many pieces of evidence that made Jack Smith's path easier. That began last July. Smith was appointed as Special Prosecutor seven months ago.

This prosecution followed the standard path taken in a mob style RICO case, starting at the bottom and squeezing participants and witnesses for facts (whether they were willing to talk or completely uncooperative) and then leveraging that info to apply pressure to levels of people that got closer and closer to the top until they were squeezing Trump's inner circle like a nearly empty tube of toothpaste. They built this case brick by brick, by the numbers.

Lord knows I had my doubts too, but here we are. We'll see where it goes, but Trump isn't going to be able to do his standard "delay, delay, delay until they can't afford the lawyer fees and we can settle without accepting guilt" routine. Federal prosecution is an entirely different animal.

 

no one has to be reminded to never forget the oj chase