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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1471814
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1471814
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Ask me a hard one next time, David.
NO.
Judge Cannon has all messages from the prosecution forwarded to write-only memory, in a FINO1 queued file.
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1 FINO := First In, Never Out.
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A.K.A. /dev/null
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Oh what a beautiful Malinois. What’s his/her name?
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Huh? That’s not a waivable conflict.
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Thanks! His name was Cipher.
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Jack Smith is playing to the right audience…the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals who will have enough evidence to smack her down again.
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Like that would bother him. Donald Trump is responsible for an Auschwitz size pile of Americans.
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'We … Made Mistakes’
So much for the GWOT.
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Ours was Diva. She’s waiting at the Rainbow Bridge, too.
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Oh, geez. (facepalm) This is sure to get the MAGAts’ panties all in a twist.
“Murrica is never wrong…it can only be wronged!”
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Donald Trump Shares Link Revealing Letitia James’ Address While Raging Against Her (yahoo.com)
Former President Donald Trump on Monday shared a link listing the home address of New York Attorney General Letitia James while accusing her of committing a “miscarriage of justice.”
Trump’s smearing of James, the prosecutor behind his ongoing financial fraud trial, is nothing new. But his Truth Social link to a Substack post by far-right journalist Laura Loomer reportedly might raise a few issues.
In an attempted gotcha piece on James’ purchase of a home in Brooklyn, New York, Loomer posted documents that list the property’s address, information that would normally be redacted to protect the subject. In June, James said she had received death threats as she pursued the case
gainst Trump, currently the Republican presidential front-runner for 2024.
The Daily Beast suggested that by sharing Loomer’s piece, the quadruply indicted former president might be violating a gag order in the New York case ― not to be confused with the gag order he got slapped with for his federal election-conspiracy trial.
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“Mistakes” is working some hard labor in that sentence. Dark Brandon better pay it extra this week.
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“Gym” Jordan’s Speakership Chances Dropping
Republican knives are out for extremist right-wing sexual predator protector Rep. Jim “Gym” Jordan (Insurrection - OH) in his fading quest to become Speaker. Yesterday, a second ballot gave Gym even less votes that he received on Monday, causing the House to recess to regroup. Republican House members say he prospects for a third ballot are looking grim for the insurrectionist follower of the Malignant Loser. From Axios:
"‘The expectation is … that there will be some others that will move away from the Jordan candidacy,’ Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) said. ‘The chatter I’m hearing is about the need to move on.’
Womack said he expects three to five more Republicans to defect from Jordan — and possibly more . He cited a ‘collective opinion’ that while Jordan is ‘perfectly suited’ for his panel chairmanship, he ‘does not possess the skillsets needed to be an effective speaker.’
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said he ‘absolutely expects’ at least three to five more defections, telling Axios: ‘We know the names.’
‘If we move to a third round, we already know the opposition is on track to grow,’ Rep. John Rutherford (R-Fla.) said in a statement. ’ It’s time for Rep. Jordan to understand this race is over.’ " (our emphasis)
Gym’s bullying tactics in the past few days to gain more votes backfired, and showed what a thuggish job he would do as Speaker. One good thing has come out of his candidacy: renewed focus on Gym’s role at Ohio State in protecting a sexual predator doctor who abused dozens of student athletes, many of whom were on the wrestling team that Gym coached.
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So after all the drama yesterday it turns out the Gaza hospital wasn’t bombed, the parking lot was, and 500 people didn’t die. Oh and the rocket wasn’t from Israel, it was from a failed rocket that Palestinian terrorists shot at Israel. Absolutely insane. pic.twitter.com/Eet1eExuGx
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 18, 2023
This image by XRVision shows the hospital still standing – with solar panels still intact following the missile strike.
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I first read that as “quadruped indicted ex-president.”
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Biden clearly doesn’t possess the Blame Deflector Gene (on chromosome 15, IIRC) that all Republicans carry in their DNA.
Otherwise, he would have used the GWB-patented syntax, “Mistakes were made.”
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Footballs players’ first time at an baseball game was gold. I could feel my love for the game glow warmer watching them experience it for the first time. Seeing this was such a great way to start the day.
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