Who would be surprised to learn that he amazingly “chose” to take the walk in a tee-shirt and shorts … and “insisted” on walking a full 5 miles?
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But Black people recognize this modern day spectacle of demeaning and dehumanizing treatment: Willis’ personal life scrutinized, her sex life exposed to public ridicule, her ways of handling money and relationships treated not a difference of culture or social class but as unethical and disqualifying.
Thank you so much for this, David. It’s all been extremely gross. This is all bullshit.
Don’t get me wrong, they made a terribly stupid decision to have gotten involved while prosecuting Trump. Of all the defendants in all the cases they’ll ever prosecute in their careers, this is the one where they needed to be the most flawless. They needed to have avoided even the hint of impropriety because these racist assholes will try to use anything they can to trash them and deep-six their case. They didn’t do that. They screwed up.
That said, if the case proceeds as scheduled, this isn’t going to hurt either of them or their case with an ATL jury. She’ll probably even get reelected. The notion that she hired her boyfriend, or a mere friend at the time, with the intent of scamming the taxpayers out of money by having him take her on lavish trips strains credulity and is a charge you’d never hear levied against a man, certainly not a white man. We’re to believe that this talented public servant who could be making several hundred thousand dollars more (than her current $200,000 yearly salary) in private practice set out on this seduction scheme to divert thousands of public dollars to her own pockets. As if she can’t afford to take herself to Belieze or such far-flung, exotic locales as {checks notes} CA wine country. Such accusations might as well include images of a scantily clad Willis depicted as Sapphire or Jezebel because they’re deeply rooted in misogynoir. For example, none of us would be a damn bit surprised if Trump is screwing around with Alina Habba, but I have yet to see anyone suggest that he’s doing so to divert money from the RNC or his campaign into his own pockets. That actually wouldn’t be all that farfetched!
To me, this is simple. They made a boneheaded mistake by getting involved while working on the same extraordinarily high-profile case, the same “trial of the century” (that’s never happened before lol). It was a really bad decision almost entirely because of the optics and how they’d be used to try to undermine the case. She’s the child of a Black Panther and she should have known that they would paint the relationship as two horny Black people who couldn’t control their animalistic need for sex and that she’d wind up being characterized as a gold-digging whore. That’s what they always call us. In reality, it sounds like a relationship was sparked between two kind of nerdy, attractive, single (one of whom was very newly single) lawyers working on a super high-profile case in which they were facing a mountain of threats while going up against one of the most powerful people on the planet. Then the relationship fell apart when she realized he was a bit of a hotep and that they had very different ideals about gender roles. Where’s the cheap, tawdry, bodice-ripping relationship? No attempt was made to hide the relationship or sneak around. They went out to dinner in public in Atlanta! He purchased tickets on credit cards he knew would be under the purview of his divorce proceedings. He paid for stuff, she paid for stuff. If you remove Trump from the equation, this sounds like dating in the 2020s. What’s remarkable is how incredibly benign and unremarkable it all is. As much as folks have tried to center a year-and-a-half romantic relationship around sex and turn it into some kind of seedy, dirty lusty fuckfest, it just isn’t that. It sounds like the latest Jennifer Aniston romcom, and I hate romcoms. Again, the decision to start a dating relationship was a terrible one, but some folks really need to examine why you felt the need to turn a fairly boring courtship into the latest Jenna Jameson porno flick. This ain’t that.
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Joyce Vance says the Willis case is a nothing burger 
Glenn Kirshner also says this case will be forgotten tomorrow.
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In -5 degree weather with a wind chill of -20.
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Navalny was a courageous man, unlike most of the R’s in this country, who have been sucking up to a traitor.
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Kirchner is exhonerating Fani Willis.
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Sounds like Mississippi or Louisiana.
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It was the seething, barely controlled anger of a Black woman put in a position none of her white male counterparts have had to endure, at the hands of a criminal defendant no less. White prosecutors have used the power of the law to torment Black people for centuries, but a Black woman becomes prosecutor and finds herself tormented by white criminal defendants.
Just wanted to make sure this was seen by some of the posters here. Their comments about this were disappointing and surprising, to say the least.
Fani, you go, girl.
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Willis doesn’t have tRump’s pedigree? A pedigree that includes sleazy developer from Queens and game show host. Willis is the District Attorney in one of country’s largest counties.
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But if you’re a Supreme Court Justice that doesn’t even grab your attention.
She may have acted recklessly but it seems like she is getting hit a lot harder than white men in similar situations. Professors screw their grad students and get away with it. Congress Critters screw their staff, lobbyists and anyone else they want to with few batting an eye.
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Amen.
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While Tucker Carlson, Mike Johnson, and Donald Trump were kissing Putin’s ass. There are no words anymore…
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Don’t forget his draft dodging whorehouse running grandpa!
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I’d like to refer the GQP to the African-American folktale of Br’er Rabbit and the Tarbaby.
Hint to GQP: Ya’ll are Br’er Rabbit in this tale, the bullshit persecution of Hunter Biden is the tarbaby, and they ain’t neither Br’er Fox nor briar patch in sight. Keep on fightin’, though.
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I was in Siberia once in December. The temperature was an unusually warm -25 F.
One of the translators remarked “spring has sprung!”
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Mr. Kurtz, you’ve led the chorus of fanidoom for some time, calling Ms.Willis a “failure.” Pretty much since the beginning of this kerfluffle among misdemeanors your voice carried judgemental phrase and framing of topic that Ms. Willis’ wilts under Mike Roman and his trash-bag of a sleaze lawyer motion to knock off the District Attorney as trial is set to begin. Ballsy move by Roman’s attorney. Trouble is this paste-up job against Ms. Willis started on threads like this, I’ve noticed. I wonder if TPM could count up their reader’s yay/nay responses as to whether theirs an over/under
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Trump is a pig and not even a county fair blue ribbon winning one. 
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All true, but Willis also fucked up to a staggering degree. That she showed such poor judgement just makes me shudder. So, yeah, Watters is a fuckwit, but let’s stop circling n the wagons to protect truly fucking bonehead behavior.
Regarding the NY criminal trial: as the DA has been saying forever, this is not a “hush money” trial, it’s a falsification of records trial. It seems that all the media, including now TPM, has fallen for Trump’s misleading spin of using the “hush money” description. The “hush money” was not the crime; it is only relevant as a motive for the crime.
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Hey GOP that shit don’t flush in Virginia anymore
After VA GOP Viciously Attacks First Black Speaker, Don Scott, VA Senate President Pro Tem Louise Lucas Vows to “hold [Glenn Youngkin] accountable for trash like this” | Blue Virginia
Even forced Gov, Sweater to apologize for his racist party
It’s a good day in virginia
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