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National/Breaking News / Re: Outrage erupts when authorities toss 2 farmers in prison on 30-day sentences
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Trump Legal Investigations / Re: Live Thread: Trump's hush money trial begins in NYC
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Prosecutors defend spanking question: 'Establish credibility'
Manhattan prosecutor Joshua Steinglass said that prosecutors had to ask porn star Stormy Daniels about spanking Donald Trump because it helped "establish credibility."
"We had to ask her about the spanking to establish credibility," Steinglass said.
Daniels testified that she spanked Trump with a magazine donning his own face in a hotel room in Lake Tahoe before she allegedly spelt with the former president.
Prosecutors defend spanking question: 'Establish credibility'
Manhattan prosecutor Joshua Steinglass said that prosecutors had to ask porn star Stormy Daniels about spanking Donald Trump because it helped "establish credibility."
"We had to ask her about the spanking to establish credibility," Steinglass said.
Daniels testified that she spanked Trump with a magazine donning his own face in a hotel room in Lake Tahoe before she allegedly spelt with the former president.
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Trump Legal Investigations / Re: Live Thread: Trump's hush money trial begins in NYC
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 08:45:07 pm »Quote
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Trump lawyers ask for mistrial, claim Stormy Daniels' testimony about spanking ex-prez was irrelevant
By Ben Kochman
Trump attorney Todd Blanche has asked again for a mistrial, claiming that Stormy Daniels' testimony veered into gratuitous detail about her alleged sex romp with the ex-president.
Daniels testified Tuesday that she spanked Trump with a magazine bearing his face on the cover during their tryst inside his Lake Takoe hotel suite.
"It almost defies belief that we are here about a records case, and the government is...asking a series of questions about rolling up a magazine and spanking him," Blanche said.
Judge Merchan did not issue an immediate ruling.
Blanche asked for a mistrial for similar reasons on Tuesday, but was denied, with Merchan saying that issues with Daniels' testimony could be worked out during cross-examination.
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Stormy's testimony about Trump not using a condom 'dog whistle for rape': Blanche
By Kyle Schnitzer
Trump attorney Todd Blanche said that Stormy Daniels' testimony about Donald Trump not using a condom during their alleged sexcapade was "dangerous" evidence" that suggested rape.
“It’s a dog whistle for rape,' Blanche said in the courtroom.
Blanche claims that Trump's team didn't know the extent to what prosecutors were going to ask Daniels, who testified in detail about her alleged affair with Trump at a Lake Tahoe golf course.
"This is not a case about sex," he said.
He also said that the jury is now "hearing about an imbalance of power between a man and a woman."
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National/Breaking News / Re: Outrage erupts when authorities toss 2 farmers in prison on 30-day sentences
« Last post by banddag on Today at 08:43:12 pm »@banddag
So basically, you are invalidating your own argument about youth and sparse population. Nice.
That's really beautiful and all. But what does that have to do with Covid considering that there isn't a vaccine for Covid. And this also invalidates your argument since Africa has a lower vaccination rate than Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Australia.
Masks don't stop people from getting Covid. But it is noted that you again invalidate your 'younger/less dense' argument you offered for Africa by adding mask wearing to the equation.
Well gee, I work with Japanese people every day. And they shake hands just like everyone else. I have even seen them hug from time to time. But your broad stereotypical characterization is duly noted.
Mass texts don't prevent people from getting Covid. But it is noteworthy to point out the unsaid converse to your statement - that Africans don't text. Do you think they know what a computer is?
So did China, the US, UK, Germany, Italy, Singapore, New Zealand, etc. So what happened to your 'younger population and less density' spiel?
A million? Seriously? Yet you only came up with six. All six of which invalidate your original claim. But then that's typically what happens when the goal posts are moved.
(See: Logical Fallacies)
And if you had actually read the link you posted, you would have learned that Japan got a slow start with their spike jabs which essentially contradicts your "vaccine" claim. But more importantly, Japan never locked down. Never. Which again you would have known if you had first read the article you linked. But here you are again making the same mistake and showing everyone here what a fool you are.
Oh, and speaking of Africa:
1. Not once did I say Japan did not have an old population. They have one of the oldest populations on the planet. The fact is you do not die of covid because of old age but the comorbidities most old people have at older age. Diabetes HBP, COPD,
2. NO vaccine for covid? Really?
3. Yes Africa had very low vaccine rates and low covid deaths but it was due to 60%+ of their population below age 25, thin as a rail and no comorbidities as a general rule. Very young people have very low covid deaths but you know that
4. Maybe the Japanese you work with are shaking your hand because they know it is your custom. I have never bowed to anyone in the US but if I went to Japan I probably would bow.
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Editorial/Opinion/Blogs / Blinken provides case study in how not to do diplomacy By Michael Rubin
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 08:42:24 pm »Blinken provides case study in how not to do diplomacy
By
Michael Rubin
May 9, 2024 2:24 pm
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After he took office, President Joe Biden declared, “Diplomacy is back.” Top aides Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan repeated the mantra. Their implication? The Trump era’s unilateralism and tweet-from-the-hip chaos were over.
A statesman embracing diplomacy, however, is akin to a surgeon wielding a scalpel: The tool depends upon the skill of its operator. While the Biden administration embraced the traditional trappings of diplomacy, its members approached the strategy with all the skill of a narcoleptic, epileptic monkey high on crack.
Put aside Sullivan’s curtailment of maximum pressure on Iran as its foreign reserves circled the drain, Blinken’s lifting of sanctions on Yemen’s Houthi militia, or the Biden team’s waiver of sanctions on Nord Stream 2 in advance of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. To understand just how weak American diplomacy appears both to adversaries and allies, consider Azerbaijan.
In December 2020, just a month after President Ilham Aliyev completed the first phase of Azerbaijan’s conquest of Nagorno-Karabakh, Andrew Schofer, the lead U.S. diplomat on the crisis, traveled to Yerevan and Baku. Aliyev humiliated Schofer on live television, bragging about how Azerbaijan’s military prowess achieved what American diplomacy did not and then asking, “Why are you here?”
That episode should have colored Blinken’s approach to Azerbaijan when he entered office, but, alas, a willingness to tolerate Aliyev’s disdain for America came to define the Biden era.
The list of humiliation is long. When in June 2023 Azerbaijani snipers fired on a U.S. Agency for International Development project in Yeraskh, killing an Indian worker, Blinken and USAID Administrator Samantha Power went silent.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2998013/blinken-case-study-how-not-to-do-diplomacy/
By
Michael Rubin
May 9, 2024 2:24 pm
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After he took office, President Joe Biden declared, “Diplomacy is back.” Top aides Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan repeated the mantra. Their implication? The Trump era’s unilateralism and tweet-from-the-hip chaos were over.
A statesman embracing diplomacy, however, is akin to a surgeon wielding a scalpel: The tool depends upon the skill of its operator. While the Biden administration embraced the traditional trappings of diplomacy, its members approached the strategy with all the skill of a narcoleptic, epileptic monkey high on crack.
Put aside Sullivan’s curtailment of maximum pressure on Iran as its foreign reserves circled the drain, Blinken’s lifting of sanctions on Yemen’s Houthi militia, or the Biden team’s waiver of sanctions on Nord Stream 2 in advance of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. To understand just how weak American diplomacy appears both to adversaries and allies, consider Azerbaijan.
In December 2020, just a month after President Ilham Aliyev completed the first phase of Azerbaijan’s conquest of Nagorno-Karabakh, Andrew Schofer, the lead U.S. diplomat on the crisis, traveled to Yerevan and Baku. Aliyev humiliated Schofer on live television, bragging about how Azerbaijan’s military prowess achieved what American diplomacy did not and then asking, “Why are you here?”
That episode should have colored Blinken’s approach to Azerbaijan when he entered office, but, alas, a willingness to tolerate Aliyev’s disdain for America came to define the Biden era.
The list of humiliation is long. When in June 2023 Azerbaijani snipers fired on a U.S. Agency for International Development project in Yeraskh, killing an Indian worker, Blinken and USAID Administrator Samantha Power went silent.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2998013/blinken-case-study-how-not-to-do-diplomacy/
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Politics/Government / It’s official: GOP speakership depends on Democrats By Byron York
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 08:40:26 pm »It’s official: GOP speakership depends on Democrats
By
Byron York
May 9, 2024 3:58 pm
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IT’S OFFICIAL: GOP SPEAKERSHIP DEPENDS ON DEMOCRATS. Late Wednesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) surprised her colleagues by going forward with a threat to file a motion to vacate — that is, a measure to remove Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as speaker of the House. Johnson and Greene had negotiated for a couple of days, and it appeared that Greene might hold off, at least for a while. And then, on Wednesday, she pulled the trigger.
Removing Johnson would, of course, set off chaos in the House to rival or perhaps exceed the mess made last October when a few rebellious Republicans successfully plotted to remove then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Back then, there was no Plan B, and there is no Plan B today.
As it turned out, Greene failed, winning only 43 votes to the 359 who voted to keep Johnson in place. The vote was widely interpreted as a smackdown to Greene and her style of politics. That’s one way to look at it. But the more important lesson of the vote was just how much the crippled Republican House majority, a majority crippled by its own divisions, now depends on Democrats to govern the House.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/2998476/its-official-gop-speakership-depends-on-democrats/
By
Byron York
May 9, 2024 3:58 pm
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IT’S OFFICIAL: GOP SPEAKERSHIP DEPENDS ON DEMOCRATS. Late Wednesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) surprised her colleagues by going forward with a threat to file a motion to vacate — that is, a measure to remove Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as speaker of the House. Johnson and Greene had negotiated for a couple of days, and it appeared that Greene might hold off, at least for a while. And then, on Wednesday, she pulled the trigger.
Removing Johnson would, of course, set off chaos in the House to rival or perhaps exceed the mess made last October when a few rebellious Republicans successfully plotted to remove then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Back then, there was no Plan B, and there is no Plan B today.
As it turned out, Greene failed, winning only 43 votes to the 359 who voted to keep Johnson in place. The vote was widely interpreted as a smackdown to Greene and her style of politics. That’s one way to look at it. But the more important lesson of the vote was just how much the crippled Republican House majority, a majority crippled by its own divisions, now depends on Democrats to govern the House.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/2998476/its-official-gop-speakership-depends-on-democrats/
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Politics/Government / Re: Political Graphics 2024
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Elections 2024 / Re: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Full-Term Abortion Should Be Left Up to the Mother
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 08:38:32 pm »Looks like that worm had a few extra bites...
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Elections 2024 / Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Full-Term Abortion Should Be Left Up to the Mother
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 08:37:51 pm »Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Full-Term Abortion Should Be Left Up to the Mother
Hannah Knudsen 9 May 2024
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. believes abortion — even the murder of a full-term baby — should be a decision made by the mother.
The presidential hopeful does not believe anyone should be able to step in and stop the murder of a full-term baby, making the remark during an interview with podcaster Sage Steele.
Kennedy said he believes that the government should not be involved in determining if and when a woman can have an abortion.
“We should leave it to the woman. We shouldn’t have government involved,” he said.
“Even if it’s full-term?” she asked.
“Even if it’s full-term,” Kennedy confirmed.
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1788576683429356015
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/09/robert-f-kennedy-jr-full-term-abortion-should-be-left-up-to-mother/
Hannah Knudsen 9 May 2024
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. believes abortion — even the murder of a full-term baby — should be a decision made by the mother.
The presidential hopeful does not believe anyone should be able to step in and stop the murder of a full-term baby, making the remark during an interview with podcaster Sage Steele.
Kennedy said he believes that the government should not be involved in determining if and when a woman can have an abortion.
“We should leave it to the woman. We shouldn’t have government involved,” he said.
“Even if it’s full-term?” she asked.
“Even if it’s full-term,” Kennedy confirmed.
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1788576683429356015
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/09/robert-f-kennedy-jr-full-term-abortion-should-be-left-up-to-mother/
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Editorial/Opinion/Blogs / Re: Liz Cheney Bought the Ticket, Now She's Whining About Taking the Ride
« Last post by corbe on Today at 08:36:42 pm » Some would argue that this song launched the Beatles back in Hamburg in '61.
Dizzy Miss Lizzy (Remastered 2009) · The Beatles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psJ1cHm_su4
Dizzy Miss Lizzy (Remastered 2009) · The Beatles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psJ1cHm_su4
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