If you have any women at your parties you’ll have to invite Mother too.
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I doubt if his thinking went beyond the “cheese eating surrender monkey” stuff from the glorious W years.
Remember Freedom Fries?
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Old joke:
How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris?
Nobody knows, it’s never happened.
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I stand by this one. Maybe geographyjones thinks it all ends with Putin surrendering, he and Zelensky shaking hands, and then opening a chain of Starbucks together. That would be the positive & optimistic, let’s run with that 
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Putin will eventually topple the current Ukrainian government and install a puppet regime. Then the war moves to a long term, simmering guerilla phase, with the vanquished army, militias and private citizens engaging in sabotage, political assassinations and killings of Russian soldiers where opportunities arise. We’ll see Putin, government officials and local commanders extremely pissed off as their efforts to stabilize the nation are thwarted. There will be very swift show trials and executions of anyone involved in all these activities, with cruelties visited upon all those that know the perpetrators also. Thousands will end up jailed long term. Many will be disappeared. It’ll be ugly, bloody, and last for years.
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I don’t know how this ends and I don’t bloviate bogus factless opinions. No one knows how this ends and speculation is pointless.
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Well it can’t be any older than 1914.
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Wait. they changed from frog eating?
Those French!
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First, to the extent attorney-client privilege applies in the context of a Congressional subpoena, “[a] party asserting [privilege] has the burden of establishing the relationship and the privileged nature of the communication.” United States v. Ruehle, 583 F.3d 600, 607 (9th Cir. 2009) (internal quotation omitted). Plaintiff here fails to carry his burden of establishing the existence of a legitimate attorney-client relationship with former President Donald Trump during the period at issue.
And even if Plaintiff could make such a showing, many of the communications during this period included individuals outside of any attorney-client or confidential relationship—and Plaintiff has not demonstrated the necessary common interest arrangement with these third parties to preserve the privilege.
And even if Plaintiff could establish an attorneyclient relationship and some broad common interest agreement, Plaintiff chose to distribute these communications over an unprotected university server even after he was expressly admonished by the University President and reminded that he was not free to use University email and computers in support of a political candidate.
Finally, Plaintiff admitted that President Trump authorized him to discuss their communications in public, apparently in an effort to establish some form of defense for President Trump’s conduct. Any privilege over these subjects was, therefore, waived.
And even if this doesn’t float your boat, Eastman is currently being probed by the California Bar over his 2020 election role.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/01/california-john-eastman-2020-election-trump-00012889
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Off topic but of interest to persons interested in seeing reform in Illinois politics, and to those nostalgic for public discussion of what “quid pro quo” means, former IL House Speaker Mike Madigan (D) was indicted Tuesday on 22 counts of bribery, extortion and other misconduct, much arising from a bribery scandal involving Commonwealth Edison. The indictment was announced yesterday afternoon,
This is a little like the prosecution in NY. A link to the indictment is here:
Ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan indicted on racketeering charges - Chicago Tribune
One anticipates some attempts to slime Gov. Pritzker for having a meeting etc., as Governors sometimes do,
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Slaps, isn’t that what you meant?
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And more of them are copping pleas. Joshua James is first out of the blocks to rat on his comrades.
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Hadn’t thought of that, but you’re likely correct. Still, the committee gave the judge multiple routes to tossing the privilege claims, and the judge can detail which routes he chose to follow while giving the presidential crime the 10 foot pole treatment.
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So trump could shoot someone on 5th Ave and because of his status as an ex-POTUS he can never be charged?
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Well, geography is clearly a subject DeathSentence failed in school.
Or, as appears to be the case in many MAGAts, memorized a lot of stuff for tests and quizzes without understanding the implications and connections of the stuff memorized.
Or, just assumes (presumably correctly) that his followers are too stupid to know the difference.
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Better one:
Why are the streets of Paris lined with trees?
Because Germans like marching in the shade.
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Good point.
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You failed to note my posit included the caveat “It’s a rubicon we won’t cross until one commits murder or treason I think.”
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Only the ones lacking US citizenship, such as Mariia Butina (where are they now). But it’s more accurate to regard TFG as a Russian asset, not agent. If he’s been trained they should shoot the trainer.
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I’m losing hope that Merrick Garland is going to do something about Trump’s inner circle of criminals. We have a serious ‘to-do list’ if we want Democracy to survive in this country and the Prosecution of Trump is at the top of that list.
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Did John Eastman ever get paid by trump? Or was his flattery pro bono?
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