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I followed a link in another article here, and read every noncomment, and am quite disappointed in the lack of Big Daddy Pollit references. Odor of mendacity indeed.

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Next up, Fani Willis hires a Cane Corso / pitbull mix in an Armani suit and Gucci loafers, then tells him Trump is made out of medium-rare Kobe steak and MilkBones, and I'm going to pop some bottles about it

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The only relevant evidence from this whole thing was provided by Fani Willis' daddy.

My own research into physics has led me to conclude that "Thermonuclear Dad Energy" (TDE) has a lot to do with how everything works. I have a hypothesis about this. But until this farce got under way I had little rock solid evidence to back up my hypothesis.

That all changed when Fani's daddy got on the stand. Did you see how he just HULKED OUT right there in front of our very eyes? He literally GREW BIGGER and SMASHED the puny humans messing with his little girl!

The Union of Big Brain Physicists contacted me the next day and said my TDE hypothesis had been upgraded to 'Second Tier Theory' overnight!

Thermonuclear Dad Energy! FTW!

yrs,

Dr. Bruce Banner

Professor of Physics

Marvel University

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This was a missed opportunity for Dinesh D'Souza. He should have gotten his crack team from "2000 Mules" on this. I'm sure they could have made that cell phone data into something that proves Trump's innocence.

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Donald Trump incited an insurrection. His selfish incompetence arguably got hundreds of thousands of Americans killed by Covid. He continues to lie that the 2020 election was "stolen" from him--now, very likely, as a predicate for making a similar claim should he lose again this November. This is the low thrum of terrorism at work on a nation's subconsciousness.

Fani Willis is Black. Fani Willis is a Black woman with the gall to charge Donald Trump with crimes. Fani Willis is a Black woman who admits she had sex. THAT verges on disqualifying. THAT gives off "the odor of mendacity."

Not actual mendacity. A Black woman with the gall to charge Donald Trump admits she had sex, which gives off "the odor"--that "not so fresh" odor women have gotten accused of and manipulated with since menstrual huts in Leviticus. (Or Deuteronomy. One of those.)

Law is a profession built from language. McAfee should never have allowed this through revision. Nothing in his ruling disturbed me more.

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Yes. 'odor' gave the misogynoir show away. Right there.

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Oh well, at least everything done to date has not been thrown out, and Ms. Willis can go after the lot of them.

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Net effect: a lawyer that PAB said was not qualified to prosecute him has resigned.

Not much of a win.

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I’m very late to this thread… when does PAB’s trial in this case start?

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Well, Jack Smith she weren’t. She did speak publicly about the case, and she went full-tilt boogey Karen on the witness stand. If she’s s as smart as they say, she’ll recuse and stay out of court.

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Please identity what evidence the prosecution will introduce during the trial has been tainted by her having the secks with that guy?

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She can't--Willis can't personally "recuse" without her entire office, which brought the case, also withdrawing.

And Jack Smith had the great good fortune to get born white and male. He hasn't been confronted by Mike Roman's propaganda machine in like fashion, for the simple reason that this stuff works *because* it targets minority women.

Stop with the "Karen," please. It's the wrong stereotype to invoke in Willis's case because she was not reacting from a place of lifelong and unquestioned privilege. The opposite of that, in fact. You can criticize her choices; I certainly have. But don't smear her with the white-privilege brush while you're at it.

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I still don't care for judge McAfee. This could've been solved in one afternoon at a bench hearing.

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Isn't *that* the truth.

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Case closed, and no jury will ever hear about Nathan Wade or DA Willis's private life.

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Someone should let the judge and everyone else know that Trump isn't appealing the ruling to allow her to stay on and that the case is closed, but if the jurors are sequestered without phones, TVs, smart watches, computers, iPads, TVs and so on, and if none of them have any contact with their families, friends or anyone else with an internet connection, or just other people, you could be right about them never hearing about what's going on in the trial they're on.

The date of your post makes it even weirder. Am I completely missing your point? Would hardly be the first time...

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Ta, Marcie. Drumpf is a cornered rat (I know, cornered rat libelz); therefore dangerous. I still have a faint hope that justice will be served. The only way that's going to happen is for Democrats and D-leaning independents to turn out to vote in overwhelming numbers.

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OK Fani, you're still on the case. Do us all a favor and next time you have a high end case against a fascist former President seeking re-election, don't hire the guy who's Peener Doodle you used to hop up and down on to be your assistant, K?

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Pence refuses to endorse the man who incited a mob which tried to hang him. But he only does it after Trump clinches the nomination.

Such courage.

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Guess he is a teeny bit less despicable than Mitch.

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Definitely more pathetic and self loathing.

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This farce got what Trump really wanted, which is more delays. His goal as always is to push all the trials back to the first of Never.

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All the time I tried to get away

I tried some dirty ways

To drop the charges you tried to pin on me

The love you shared got me nowhere

And I lost my fight

So I toss and turn and can't sleep at night

Once I was laughing at you

Now I got a record cause of you

This tainted love you taken

I could give you all a ratfucker could give

Take my tears and that's not all

Ended your tainted love

Tainted love

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