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It's gonna get worse. Polls indicate that a redline for a lot of voters is whether Trump is actually convicted. This case is going to remove that redline as voters see how Trump is being treated so differently. Even a conviction in his classified document case won't cost him the votes it would have. He'll be convicted, of course, because it's Trump. But it won't cost him the votes, and the appeals will take it well beyond Election Day. Add that to the characterization of Biden as an elderly man with a poor memory and this has been a bad day for Team Joe.

So maybe she should sue her concert promoters who publicize where she'll be, months in advance. Or the Swifties wearing those T-shirts that have her concert schedule silk screened onto them. Privacy, indeed. The guy is just collating and reposting publicly available information. He's neither the source of the information, nor a stalker acting on that information. That sounds suspiciously like free speech.

They needed to be careful what they wished for. Isn't that the basis of prosecuting Trump in Georgia? Not hard to imagine a DA or AG in a Red jurisdiction empaneling a Grand Jury to prosecute anyone who "interferes" like that... Tit for Tat. Or, What goes around, comes around.

Have at it. We on the other side believe it's your right to vote for your choice of candidate regardless of how much we disagree with him. Sadly, I suspect the Dem party Elite won't let you. They'll probably be parachuting their preferred candidate in at the convention.

It would be interesting to see a Venn diagram of Swifties and the Greenies that would stalk her on account of her CO2 footprint. Lots of overlap, I'd bet. I hope the guy has the financial resources to fend off the lawsuit and counter sue her for malicious tort. But I doubt it.

Kind of working through the guy's logic, I can't think of any safer place he thought he could be than the downstream side of airport security, if a gang was trying to shoot him. Maybe not 100% safe, but a lot safer than laid out on the tarmac, had he been successful at opening the door. Or anywhere in public outside of airport security... It would be quite the "Told you so" moment if he gets shot by a Vietnamese gang on his way out of Thailand.

I get the sense that some of the claims Putin's making about the events leading up to 2014 and 2022 (including "denazification") are significant and controversial and are going to be fact checked to death by all sides.

I'm about 1:40:00 into it and so far, it's a snoozer for me. A lot of historical background, going back a loooong way. Quite a bit later on, into the recent events that led to 2014 and 2022, but I'm going to have to rely on others with more background to fact check his claims. I suspect the debates will go on for years. I just hope the killing and the spending don't. Edit: BTW, a lot of insights into the changes in global trade and the effect on the USD & Euro, BRICS, and Euro economies brought on by the sanctions.

That's actually the forecast of the right wing coconut telegraph and has been for many months. They'll parachute in their preferred candidate. Of course, that means giving the finger to all the Dem primary voters and having their candidate mandated by the Party Elite.

In case anyone actually wants to see the interview: https://tuckercarlson.com/the-vladimir-putin-interview/

From the DOJ report: "Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen." “We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Hur’s report reads. “Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him-by then a former president well into his eighties-of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.” https://www.justice.gov/storage/report-from-special-counsel-robert-k-hur-february-2024.pdf Edit: I'm trying to figure out whether to characterize that as getting spanked, or getting thrown under the bus...

So basically, though he deliberately retained classified documents he wasn't allowed to have, they won't press charges. But go ahead and vote for him.

The only thing that would have been more priceless is if it claimed "Hillary told Rachel Maddow"...

How would you buy an onward ticket if you needed one to get on your airplane? Or book a hotel room if you changed plans enroute? I've even had to change my dining plans because the food joint didn't take cash and I can't (or won't) pay by QR code.

I could see that if it was developers or real estate brokers hiring the influencers. In fact, I'm sure that goes on. But I can't see a gub'ment program to encourage capital flight like that. Too much diplomatic risk.

Poor timing. I'm sitting in China right now freezing my butt off. Any video from Thailand looks like heaven right now. By May, the weather here will be nice. Videos from Thailand will look like, "meh, we have that here". On a more serious note, other than tourism and fruit, I don't know what products Thailand exports that would be of interest to a typical Chinese influencer's audience.

I wonder if the price went up over the past 12 years since the thread started?

+1 I sure hope they breath and blood tested him. I've heard of people on Ambien doing weird things on a flight, but I can't imagine taking a sleeping pill for a one hour flight. Maybe the wacky 'backy?

You mean like your "Trump will be the end of democracy" theory? Pot Kettle Black

Pot Kettle Black. It's hard for me to work up any sympathy for a woman that referred to millions of American voters as "deplorables". But I despised Hillary long before that. As happy as I was that Obama got elected, I was even happier that Hillary wasn't his VP. Because I wanted him to survive his term. To be clear, I wasn't happy at all that Obama got re-elected after breaking most of his campaign promises lies.

Don't forget credit card debt and delinquencies, which are growing like the dickens under Bidenomics. During the third quarter, credit card balances hit a fresh high of $1.08 trillion, rising $48 billion from the prior quarter and leaping by a record $154 billion from the year before, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s latest Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit released Tuesday. The year-over-year increase is the largest since the New York Fed started tracking that data in 1999. Household debt increased 1.3% to $17.29 trillion in the third quarter. However, a growing number of households are having difficulty wrangling that debt, which is increasingly more costly amid an environment of painfully persistent inflation and high interest rates. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/07/economy/household-debt-credit-card-delinquencies-q3/index.html

Don't watch the Carlson encounter with Brett Weinstein about the Darien gap. You may lose some sleep. It's way out there...

Don't take it from me.... How about a legal expert: “Indeed, that was the opinion of the Department of Justice for two long decades. They argued in the famous Bill Clinton case that a former president can keep whatever he wants including classified documents – a federal judge agreed. Suddenly, Trump comes along and the DOJ throws that policy out the window. They indict Trump on top of it they charge him with obstruction for doing exactly what Bill Clinton did. Clinton resisted,” Jarrett stated. https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/07/gregg-jarrett-explain-biden-mishandling-document-case-doesnt-have-defense-sean-hannity/ Rules for thee, but not for me.

It's more insidious than that. The bill would have codified 5000 illegals a day being allowed in. Dems were planning to declare a victory, slow the numbers down until election day, then ramp up the numbers again the day after. And had the bill passed, the law would have been on their side to ramp the numbers up. As it is, Biden's in violation of the law, and the next president can put a stop to it. Just like Biden could today. It's going exactly as they planned it. He put the perfect dupe in to fix it, if he didn't want it fixed.

We just fund them... We don't tell them who to attack. They have a pretty good idea on their own. Spending more of those Bidenbucks...