The FBI raided Mar-a-Lago today.



Oh yeah.... that's good stuff.

Whooo-aaahhhhh!

Heather Cox Richardson wrote:On this day in 1974, President Richard Nixon announced that he would resign the office of the presidency the next day at noon. He did not admit wrongdoing in the Watergate scandal, although the House Judiciary Committee had voted to impeach him, the full House was sure to follow, and Republican senators warned him the Senate would vote to convict.

He never did admit wrongdoing, and he was never held accountable. Instead, the next president, Gerald R. Ford, pardoned him. And here we are, 48 years later, with a president and his followers outraged that he, like everyone else, must abide by the law.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.c ... ust-8-2022

I will continue to assume that not a goddamn thing will happen to these people.

GuyLaCroix wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:49 am I will continue to assume that not a goddamn thing will happen to these people.

Always a safe way to think. But it doesn't stop my delicious schadenfreude at all of the outrage from the crazies

susanvp wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 12:36 am

Heather Cox Richardson wrote:On this day in 1974, President Richard Nixon announced that he would resign the office of the presidency the next day at noon. He did not admit wrongdoing in the Watergate scandal, although the House Judiciary Committee had voted to impeach him, the full House was sure to follow, and Republican senators warned him the Senate would vote to convict.

He never did admit wrongdoing, and he was never held accountable. Instead, the next president, Gerald R. Ford, pardoned him. And here we are, 48 years later, with a president and his followers outraged that he, like everyone else, must abide by the law.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.c ... ust-8-2022

I subscribe to her 'Letters From An American', and read them every morning. Even though she leans left, I find her writings to be a breath of fresh air in this noxious political culture.

zircona1 wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 10:20 am Even though she leans left,

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Curry Pervert wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 4:35 pm

zircona1 wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 10:20 am Even though she leans left,

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Hey, I don't think so!

I can't believe there is a district in this country that re-elected Marjorie Taylor fucking Green.

biscuitdough wrote: Sat Aug 06, 2022 12:04 am

rsmurphy wrote: Fri Aug 05, 2022 12:13 pm Does anybody think that Alex Jones' texts will have any bearing on the procedures? And not to digress, but perhaps someone more learned than I can succinctly explain that whole development to me. It appears like a big fuck-up on Alex Jones' lawyers part. How can that not be used as a reason to declare incompetence resulting in a mistrial. I know I'm missing something basic, but can't figure out what it is.

I think whenever you see an obviously guilty rich person have incompetent counsel, it’s something they’ve organized because they want a mistrial. Then later, retrials will take forever and possibly be mistrials as well because so much of the first was in the public eye.

I think in a few years Jones will pay a million or so, and double it in income that year doing podcasts and selling shitty vitamins.

Since it was a civil trial, and it was in Texas, there are some limits to what he can now do. He can appeal, which I think he has already, but it goes through a different pipeline than a criminal trials appellate pipeline.

From what lawyer friends here in Texas have told me, he’s kind of in a pickle regarding perjury, improper counsel, getting judgments reduced, etc. And while you’re probably right that the defense was ham fisting an obvious attempt to muck up the trial with questionable decisions, the information from the texts will be in play regardless. That fuck up is still inexplicable, at least among the people I know who would know.

He’s also got 2 other civil trials upcoming - this one was only the first.