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  1. As I said there is also an emergency cord (or maybe buttons now) on the train. And what about that situation required immediately putting him in a chokehold and holding it for 15 minutes. 15 minutes!
  2. Kinda easy to do it before. No indication that it was an emergency. Also pulling the emergency cord on the train
  3. The US has had other hybrid town hall events which had both questions posed by reporters and by members of the audience. If this fit the classical definition of a town hall event then members of the audience wouldn't be vetted on the basis of their political leanings.
  4. This was a civil case. A private lawsuit.
  5. So you think the CNN reporter violated the terms of the agreement with the Trump team? Can you share with us what those terms were?
  6. And what would those grounds be if not their political and social views? An explicit promise to find for or against the defendant no matter what evidence or arguments are brought to the case? Good luck with that.
  7. I forgot to check how my voice-to-text funcion interpreted voir-dire. I am so irate about it's misinterpretation that, as far as I'm concerned, this means "war, dear".
  8. The appeal based on the alleged prejudice of a juror is an obvious non-starter, since both sides during war dear get to eliminate potential jurors. As for alleging prejudice on the part of the judge, you might try changing your information diet.
  9. The format is whatever was agreed upon by the Trump team & CNN. But given the softball nature of the questions posed by this audience of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, it's not surprising that you would attempt to invoke some convenient definition of what rules this interview was supposed to follow.
  10. So what you cite as the apparent contradictions in the jury's decision probably won't play a role in an appeals court judge's decisions.
  11. As has been pointed out already, appeals courts rarely overturn verdicts on the basis of the jurors' verdict.
  12. One of the things that puzzled me throughout the topics about the trial, was how some members were insisting that the case against Trump wasn't going well. Most of the commentators I read, left, right and center, were claiming it was going very badly for Trump. Anyway, here's a link to an article that explains not only why it went badly for Trump, but why future trials will do so as well. Trump’s Biggest Blunder in the E. Jean Carroll Trial Will Probably Doom Him in Court Again and Again The former president shot himself in the foot. He’s got more rounds in the chamber. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/trump-verdict-carroll-trial-takeaways-georgia-doj-ny.html
  13. So we agree. There are recent reports of Ukrainian advances and encirclement but none claiming the same for Russian forces.
  14. Bidien had been a remarkably effective President. He helped get passed major legislative initiatives with a bare majority in the Senate and a narrow one in the House.
  15. If this is true, then Putin has decided that it's worth weakening the Russian position in Ukraine in order to deal with Prigozhin.
  16. 7 out of 10 think the 1998 Agreement remains good for Northern Ireland https://www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/featured-research/7outof10thinkthe1998AgreementremainsgoodforNorthernIrelandthougha.html As for drug gangs, it seems the loyalist ones are fighting each other. Police search property as part of probe into feuding loyalist drugs gangs https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/police-search-property-as-part-of-probe-into-feuding-drugs-gangs-1456970.html
  17. Care to share links to a few of those reports?
  18. Funny how lots of Brexiters had an opposite reaction to the comments of another President.
  19. Strange. I did a search for reports of encirclement activity subsequent to that Russian retreat. The only report about encirclement that I could find was this: Prigozhin warns of risk of encirclement of Wagnerites in Bakhmut https://finance.yahoo.com/news/prigozhin-warns-risk-encirclement-wagnerites-152732892.html
  20. True. But there was no good reason for Biden to speak the quiet part out loud. Still, without seeing the context of the comment in this speech, it's hard to know if you meant it seriously or not.
  21. Gee, any other ex-Presidents you can think of who display rude and childish comments and do so far more frequently.
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