It has been eight years. Mar-a-lago is in Palm Beach, not West Palm Beach. They are two very different places. It isn't a golf resort (you didn't say it this time, but you've said it before), and "discount rack Xanadu" is only partially correct. The original house is pretty amazing. It is Hermès, "we don't do sales" Xanadu. The stuff that Trump has built (e.g., the gaudiest, tackiest ballroom in history) is his Walmart Baroque esthetic at its best (worst).
The Aileen Cannon is really stupid and bad at job trope is fucking bullshit. Her job is to ensure this trial doesn't happen and she is a fucking genius at that. She has walked the tight rope that is stupid bullshit but not so stupid for Smith to request she be replaced. So yeah she is an idiot, but an idiot savant.
She is not a genius. She is being led by the nose by other people behind the scenes who are orchestrating every single play.
She is useful because she doesn't care that people know she is a hack who is in miles over her head, and is bought and paid for. But she is NOT a smart person. If you look up "useful idiot" in next year's M-W dictionary ... the hed pic will appear.
See, if judges can't even figure out what LEGAL things mean - how are they going to figure out science-y things like climate science, aviation mechanics, pharmacology, microeconomics, etc. now that SCOTUS killed Chevron? But I think, like Bruen, they're going to end up walking Lopes back.
"Unless you are someone who simply sells yourself cheap to the lowest bidder for the sheer joy of it, which is also a possibility we are entertaining. "
I have a fantasy like that, but fortunately Trump is nowhere near it.
I am also not *a judge* who is *presiding over a case involving Trump*.
Any time I hear the phrase “punchable face”, Eileen Cannon’s vacuous mug has been jumping to mind.
I wish she’d just toss the case so that Smith could refile. So far, this numpty has wasted almost 24 months of taxpayer money on mini trials because she’s either corrupt or stupid or both.
She is auditioning for a cushy job on the 11th circuit as an appellate judge. If Trump wins, she’s on the express elevator to the next level. If Trump loses, well, she still has this job for life and it’s obvious that you can make that pretty cushy too.
"The august members of Trump's legal team who received their law degrees from the University of" checks notes "a box of crackerjacks wouldn't waste the courts time with frivolous motions, this motion questioning black letter law requires a hearing!"
Can we please replace that picture with car crashes or tornado wreckage? There are plenty of SUBSTANTIAL things wrong with "Judge" Qanon, but I cannot stand that fucking smirk.
“But there is a difference between a resource-wasting and delay-producing “mini-trial,” on the one hand, and an evidentiary hearing geared to adjudicating the contested factual and legal issues on a given pre-trial motion to suppress, on the other.”
Ever notice how every one of these sounds like it was written by a PR person for the Federalist Society and not Cannon herself?
Before you are allowed to eat an octopus, you should have to beat it in some kind of IQ test. Can you figure out how to get the shrimp out of that jar? No? No octopus for you!
I got out of the hostel kitchen as one of the guests whipped out a large frozen octopus and threw it in a pan with some water. I don't want any part of that. I feel like people who eat octopus will end up on a list somewhere very deep in the ocean.
Many years ago, my boyfriend and I were dozing on a nearly deserted beach on a Greek Island. A man in a frog suit walked out of the water with an octopus in his hand and proceeded to beat it to death on a nearby rock. Haven’t even looked at octopus on a menu since without getting queasy.
I read a book called Other Minds about octopus intelligence. Haven't eaten octopus since. Only ate it once before that thankfully. They are fascinating and highly intelligent creatures - much too intelligent for their paltry life span.
It has been eight years. Mar-a-lago is in Palm Beach, not West Palm Beach. They are two very different places. It isn't a golf resort (you didn't say it this time, but you've said it before), and "discount rack Xanadu" is only partially correct. The original house is pretty amazing. It is Hermès, "we don't do sales" Xanadu. The stuff that Trump has built (e.g., the gaudiest, tackiest ballroom in history) is his Walmart Baroque esthetic at its best (worst).
The Aileen Cannon is really stupid and bad at job trope is fucking bullshit. Her job is to ensure this trial doesn't happen and she is a fucking genius at that. She has walked the tight rope that is stupid bullshit but not so stupid for Smith to request she be replaced. So yeah she is an idiot, but an idiot savant.
She is not a genius. She is being led by the nose by other people behind the scenes who are orchestrating every single play.
She is useful because she doesn't care that people know she is a hack who is in miles over her head, and is bought and paid for. But she is NOT a smart person. If you look up "useful idiot" in next year's M-W dictionary ... the hed pic will appear.
See, if judges can't even figure out what LEGAL things mean - how are they going to figure out science-y things like climate science, aviation mechanics, pharmacology, microeconomics, etc. now that SCOTUS killed Chevron? But I think, like Bruen, they're going to end up walking Lopes back.
"Unless you are someone who simply sells yourself cheap to the lowest bidder for the sheer joy of it, which is also a possibility we are entertaining. "
I have a fantasy like that, but fortunately Trump is nowhere near it.
I am also not *a judge* who is *presiding over a case involving Trump*.
Any time I hear the phrase “punchable face”, Eileen Cannon’s vacuous mug has been jumping to mind.
I wish she’d just toss the case so that Smith could refile. So far, this numpty has wasted almost 24 months of taxpayer money on mini trials because she’s either corrupt or stupid or both.
She is auditioning for a cushy job on the 11th circuit as an appellate judge. If Trump wins, she’s on the express elevator to the next level. If Trump loses, well, she still has this job for life and it’s obvious that you can make that pretty cushy too.
She’s angling for SCOTUS. 11th Circuit for a few months to a year just to check the box, and then SCOTUS.
Just goes to show, Crackerjacks should never have been allowed to distribute law degrees as prizes.
"The august members of Trump's legal team who received their law degrees from the University of" checks notes "a box of crackerjacks wouldn't waste the courts time with frivolous motions, this motion questioning black letter law requires a hearing!"
To this judge and SCOTUS "black letter law" means it's in pencil.
Can we please replace that picture with car crashes or tornado wreckage? There are plenty of SUBSTANTIAL things wrong with "Judge" Qanon, but I cannot stand that fucking smirk.
She looks like my high school graduation picture, minus the smirk. Every time I see it, it makes me hate myself more than I already do.
Something classy, like the pic accompanying Ken Layne's 2008 "California Would Like Some Bailout Billions, Too," perhaps?
https://www.wonkette.com/p/california-would-like-some-bailout-billions-too
There’s the other picture of her wearing glasses in full on Karen mode during a zoom call or something.
I do not think being a judge is as difficult as judges would like you to think...
Well, probably being a GOOD judge is as difficult.
That lede foto is becoming the standard 'cat pix please' image.
Cannon. Bannon. Q Anon. Wake up Sheeple!!!
Words to live by.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ0eXVi3Kb8
“But there is a difference between a resource-wasting and delay-producing “mini-trial,” on the one hand, and an evidentiary hearing geared to adjudicating the contested factual and legal issues on a given pre-trial motion to suppress, on the other.”
Ever notice how every one of these sounds like it was written by a PR person for the Federalist Society and not Cannon herself?
Before you are allowed to eat an octopus, you should have to beat it in some kind of IQ test. Can you figure out how to get the shrimp out of that jar? No? No octopus for you!
If you lose, does the octopus eat you?
It gets to mind-meld with you.
Only if its name is Grigori.
If you can get the shrimp out of the jar, why not just eat the shrimp?
Or order a burger with my phone?
That's what the octopus wants you to think.
I got out of the hostel kitchen as one of the guests whipped out a large frozen octopus and threw it in a pan with some water. I don't want any part of that. I feel like people who eat octopus will end up on a list somewhere very deep in the ocean.
Many years ago, my boyfriend and I were dozing on a nearly deserted beach on a Greek Island. A man in a frog suit walked out of the water with an octopus in his hand and proceeded to beat it to death on a nearby rock. Haven’t even looked at octopus on a menu since without getting queasy.
I read a book called Other Minds about octopus intelligence. Haven't eaten octopus since. Only ate it once before that thankfully. They are fascinating and highly intelligent creatures - much too intelligent for their paltry life span.
And probably much too intelligent to deserve being beaten to death by a man in a frog suit.
That's just what an octopus would say...
Oh there's a list.
I hope you're having a great time!