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Avatar: Here's to the late, great Steve Dillon. Best. Punisher. Artist. EVER!
Not sure how anybody could reasonably argue that it didn’t establish patterns of behaviour. And…of course..the women who came forward were there to be cross examined by the defence team.
I think it’s incredibly hard to argue that the trial judge made a clear error in law, or there was any reasonable reason to believe there had been a miscarriage of justice. I think UK appeal courts would almost certainly have backed the original judge. Though maybe I’m being optimistic there.
Biden did an interview with Howard Stern. The NYT can continue coping.
Stern interviewing Biden is apparently quite the softball interview. That's not terribly surprising.
https://twitter.com/KBAndersen/statu...81822633382369
(But it's important to note that Stern isn't a journalist. He's an entertainer first and foremost.)Listened to
@JoeBiden’s conversation with @HowardStern. *Total* softball interview, mostly about his personal life—but lovely, sweet, human, and Biden was terrific, consistently clear, detailed, charming, moving. Which was the point. SO much better than his opponent could do. 1/2
And 15 minutes on election, Trump, etc.
Biden: Gotta be careful what I say about the Supreme Court.
Stern: Why!? They’re nuts!
And Stern on debating Trump: “Just stand there & say over & over, ‘Can you find me 11,000 votes?’ You don’t get to run if you fixed an election!” 2/2
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"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
“It’s your party and you can cry if you want to.” - Captain Europe
Court packing goes against decades of established democratic norms and is typically a move made by authoritarians.
When both parties abandon established norms things usually don’t end well.
The Democrats are trying to preserve the democratic framework while the Republicans are trying to weaken it to get their agendas pushed forward for their big donors. Trump just wants to tear it down.
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"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
“It’s your party and you can cry if you want to.” - Captain Europe
Do we currently have a situation where none of our regulatory agencies haven’t or will never mistakenly prosecute someone for violations? No, we do not. Nevertheless we still employ these agencies because the situation warrants it. Remember in a previous comment when you alluded I was “Making the perfect the enemy of the good”?
Bad actors will find ways to abuse any situation. They currently abuse the trust of their constituents by lying to them which corrodes the entire public’s trust in our government and democracy in the long term.
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"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
“It’s your party and you can cry if you want to.” - Captain Europe
Wow, that Noem creature is a monster, why is she not in prison? And why did she think revealing that would make people do anything other than want to toss her into a prison cell forever? She sounds like a psychopath, a real monster who is a danger to absolutely everyone. Perhaps they should look into unsolved serial killings in her area; she sounds like a prime candidate for that sort of thing.
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Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book
But in 2024 Kristi Noem, a strong contender to be named running mate to Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has managed to go one further – by admitting killing a dog of her own.She includes her story about the ill-fated Cricket, she says, to illustrate her willingness, in politics as well as in South Dakota life, to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly” if it simply needs to be done.
By taking Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs, Noem says, she hoped to calm the young dog down and begin to teach her how to behave. Unfortunately, Cricket ruined the hunt, going “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life”.
Noem describes calling Cricket, then using an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control. Nothing worked. Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another”.
Cricket the untrainable dog, Noem writes, behaved like “a trained assassin”.
When Noem finally grabbed Cricket, she says, the dog “whipped around to bite me”. Then, as the chickens’ owner wept, Noem repeatedly apologised, wrote the shocked family a check “for the price they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime”.
Through it all, Noem says, Cricket was “the picture of pure joy”.
“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.
“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”Her family, she writes, also owned a male goat that was “nasty and mean”, because it had not been castrated. Furthermore, the goat smelled “disgusting, musky, rancid” and “loved to chase” Noem’s children, knocking them down and ruining their clothes.
Noem decided to kill the unnamed goat the same way she had just killed Cricket the dog. But though she “dragged him to a gravel pit”, the goat jumped as she shot and therefore survived the wound. Noem says she went back to her truck, retrieved another shell, then “hurried back to the gravel pit and put him down”.
At that point, Noem writes, she realised a construction crew had watched her kill both animals. The startled workers swiftly got back to work, she writes, only for a school bus to arrive and drop off Noem’s children.
“Kennedy looked around confused,” Noem writes of her daughter, who asked: “Hey, where’s Cricket?”
Original join date: 11/23/2004
Eclectic Connoisseur of all things written, drawn, or imaginatively created.
Is this about her comments about killing a dog that wouldn't behave? That was gross.
I've heard two theories on why she said something so stupid. The first is that she does not want to be Trump's running mate and is trying to Producers her way out of contention. The second is that she's trying to appeal to Trump by presenting herself as tough, especially against dogs, which is fine because Trump doesn't like dogs.
In the earlier conversation, the context was the extent to which Nazis were stopped with the fall of Hitler's Germany.
The process of going further to eliminate Nazis would likely have led to diminishing returns, as well as the potential that it wouldn't be as effective as what the civilized world ended up doing. We also can look at 80 years of history to see what happened.
Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are constitutionally protected, so there is a difference between regulations that affect this and regulations that don't affect an enumerated right. A difference with second amendment issues is that questions on whether to restrict speech are often time-sensitive.
Bad actors likely taking advantage of anything at hand isn't an excuse to give them more a new tool to abuse.
In addition, it's not just about bad actors. People will legitimately believe they're obviously right and that no reasonable person can disagree with them on all sorts of topics. And some of these people would be the types who would fill this new agency. Sometimes they'll be wrong, and their ability to do so should be reduced.
One mechanism would be that if there's doubt, the decision should be in favor of free speech. Another mechanism is some kind of penalty if the government and its agents abuse any power.
The legal case wasn't about patterns of behavior, but whether Harvey Weinstein was guilty of a specific crime.
This is probably an example of America taking the rights of the defendant very seriously.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets