Boddhisatva

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Stop trying to sanewash his lunacy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

This is a very good point. That line of my post above was a visceral reaction to the whole both-sides are the same argument he's using, but as you say, whatever it takes to get people to feel okay about vote=ing for Harris is worth it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

You are absolutely correct here.

[–] [email protected] 232 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (29 children)

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

Spoken like a true republican.

Democratic administrations are better with the economy than republican administrations in virtually every case for the last 75 years. Plus, don't forget that Clinton not only balanced the budget during his term, he left office with a projected budget surplus that Gee Dubya threw away with his tax cuts for the rich and unfunded wars.

As for crime, crime rates have been steadily dropping for decades and continued to drop under the Biden administration. In fact, violent crime rates are near a 50-year low!

[–] [email protected] 113 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Good. I hope that sends a message to the rest of the MAGA terrorists out there, but I doubt it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

I was thinking of the main cast, really, but I honestly thought Gene Hackman was gone. Happy to be wrong about that.

Sadly, most of the players of the bit parts are gone too, including Danny Goldman, who played the medical student with a line. The little girl is still alive as if the shoe-shine boy and the other credited medical student. I guess I shouldn't be surprised considering the movie is now 50 years old. Damn, I'm old. :(

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I think that she was the last surviving actor from Young Frankenstein. Everyone else in that movie is gone now except the director. Mel Brooks is still kicking around at 98 years old.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago

Exactly.

"In four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote." - Trump

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

You're not too far wrong saying that they forgot their diapers](https://nypost.com/2024/10/27/us-news/trump-nyc-rally-crowd-pissed-about-lack-of-toilets/).

“We’re peeing in bags and little cups, and we had to put up a little portable privacy shower so people didn’t have to look at each other when they did that,” said Dorothea Ohlandt, 59, who got in line for the Madison Square Garden rally at 10 a.m. Friday after driving all the way from North Carolina.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This shows that. If it were an official act, he would not feel the need to hide it.

[–] [email protected] 219 points 1 week ago (15 children)

That seems like a big deal. Proof that he knew this call was something he had to hide.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He just scratched his balls, didn't he?

 

No video released yet but the right wing blog-sphere is already claiming it's AI. Put on your seat-belts and keep your hands inside the car at all times.

 

Forgot to include the [OC] in the title.

 

Alternative headline: Trump finally tells the truth about something.

 

Republicans, in one of the more moronic takes of the election season, say that if Biden is too old to run for office, then he's too old to hold the office and should resign.

 

Fulton County prosecutors filed an emergency request for a protective order in the Georgia election subversion case on Tuesday after recorded statements made by multiple defendants as part of their plea deals were made public.

On Monday, ABC News and The Washington Post published footage of the proffer sessions, which showed the four defendants who pleaded guilty being questioned by prosecutors about their involvement in various efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

Prosecutors said the footage was turned over to the remaining defendants as part of discovery, urging the court to impose restrictions on how the defendants can disclose the materials.

“The release of these confidential video recordings is clearly intended to intimidate witnesses in this case, subjecting them to harassment and threats prior to trial, constitutes indirect communication about the facts of this case with codefendants and witnesses, and obstructs the administration of justice, in violation of the conditions of release imposed on each defendant,” prosecutors wrote in their motion.

To prevent further disclosure, prosecutors said they will not provide videos of any proffer sessions to defendants moving forward.

“Instead, defendants must come to the District Attorney’s Office to view confidential video recordings of proffers. They may take notes, but they will be prohibited from creating any recordings or reproductions,” prosecutors wrote in the filing.

 

Last weekend, an auction held at his Florida home saw the item, described as "a one of a kind Trump Glock from the 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump," go up for bidding during a charity event. Pictures circulating on social media show the gun being presented at the auction, with news website Meidas Touch saying that bidding for the item began at $10,000.

However, the transaction could land the former U.S. president in considerable trouble, given that federal law prohibits those under indictment from transacting firearms. Trump is embroiled in active legal proceedings, having testified at a civil trial over the New York investigation into financial fraud at the Trump Organization. The former president has denied all wrongdoing and repeatedly said that the ongoing federal and civil cases against him are part of a political witch hunt.

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