Which is a fancy term for the judge's office.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 22:08 (eight months ago) link
the judges office is a camera? taking a picture of society... much to think about
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 22:11 (eight months ago) link
The judge's eye is an all-seeing camera.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 22:12 (eight months ago) link
fucking christ how deep does this go
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 22:13 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiUiKjH2IWE
― Blecch on Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 22:16 (eight months ago) link
http://www.vandergraafgenerator.co.uk/incamera.jpg
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 22:40 (eight months ago) link
In ancient Mexico, judges met in an Aztec Camera
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 22:52 (eight months ago) link
The losing side had offer themselves up for human sacrifice after paying the winner's attorney fees.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 22:58 (eight months ago) link
(at the risk of coming off like a dick)"camera" just means "room" - the original "camera obscura" was a dark room with a pinhole which allowed the image of a scene to be thrown on a canvas hung on the opposite wall upside down, so the proportions and perspective could be traced directly; then they used a lens to improve the pinhole image, then some clever chemist figured how to use a photosensitive plate instead of a canvas, and then they became portable cameras.(oh no the risk was too great)
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 23:02 (eight months ago) link
whatever professor
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 23:04 (eight months ago) link
there used to be a coo camera obscura out by the beach in San Francisco, no idea if it's still there
“A Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable REPORT on the Presidential Election Fraud which took place in Georgia is almost complete & will be presented by me at a major News Conference at 11:00 A.M. on Monday of next week in Bedminster, New Jersey,” he said.
“Based on the results of this CONCLUSIVE Report, all charges should be dropped against me & others — There will be a complete EXONERATION! They never went after those that Rigged the Election,” Trump continued. “They only went after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!”
is that final word some kind of dog whistle?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 23:06 (eight months ago) link
when is the fucking gag order already FFS
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 23:11 (eight months ago) link
It sounds like some old Roy Cohn advice: "double-down, dig your heels in, and just keep repeating the talking points over and over" and I don't think that's gonna fly here
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 23:19 (eight months ago) link
And when all else fails, just make shit up.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 23:21 (eight months ago) link
Shit the Bedminster
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 23:22 (eight months ago) link
I don't think that's gonna fly here
He's in so deep that there's no other path he can pursue except to continue to feed his base the same brazen lies. He'll keep it up even after he's convicted and hope that the sheer weight of numbers in his cult somehow shields him from any consequences. He'd MUCH rather start a violent civil war than admit he did anything wrong.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 23:35 (eight months ago) link
I suppose we got the government we deserved.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 23:36 (eight months ago) link
w/r/t that, I'm definitely in the "the mask finally came off" camp, this is America's id unleashed at last
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 23:37 (eight months ago) link
and it has been the reality for lots of ppl for a long time
Yeah sleeve, when I think of American history I see plenty of id.
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 00:06 (eight months ago) link
"when is the fucking gag order already FFS"
he's not going to abide by any gag order
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 00:07 (eight months ago) link
We're finally getting the kraken!
Why do I think that this irrefutable and exonerating report will consist of nothing but that US map that shows how much more red than blue there is, plus maybe another aerial shot of his "record-setting" inaugural crowd?
― henry s, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 00:14 (eight months ago) link
Don't discount the Sharpie.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 00:17 (eight months ago) link
there's a very cool one in Havana, everyone should go check that one out
― serving bundt (sic), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 00:52 (eight months ago) link
massive lol, thanks YMP
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 01:27 (eight months ago) link
I live to serve.
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 01:31 (eight months ago) link
Trump looks like he’s giving Laura Loomer a side quest to rescue his frog son from the pond. pic.twitter.com/AidC5NItC7— Jesse Brenneman (@Jesse_Brenneman) August 15, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 02:03 (eight months ago) link
Literal LOL
Trump is really letting himself go. Yes, Don, go ahead and eat that third Quarter Pounder.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 02:05 (eight months ago) link
my god his hands
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 02:05 (eight months ago) link
When he sits around the jailHe sits Around the jail!
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 02:21 (eight months ago) link
for the record it's an AI/Photoshop expansion of the upper left quadrant image, you can see the glitch-out a little to the right of the scoreboard
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 02:30 (eight months ago) link
Yeah apparently so. Even the original photo is pretty lol tho.
The “full” photo is fake. Possibly an AI expansion of the smaller true photo. Note the weird sharp point at the right of Trump’s waist. pic.twitter.com/G8N4M6bTTv— Jeffrey Pinyan is reading AND writing (@JeffPinyan) August 16, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 02:54 (eight months ago) link
Fine. The original photo is 1% less hideous.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 03:16 (eight months ago) link
so here was my dumb evening with loony Trumpers.
my bestie asked if I wanted to go to this local wine bar for a Jackbox night/karaoke, I said sure, sounds fun. we get there and there's like...nobody there other than the employees and one other customer. there's no karaoke, only Jackbox, but at the front, after we ordered our drinks, we noticed like....FIVE bottles of Trump wine sitting at the front, positioned like bowling pins as a centerpiece. Fuck. We had zero idea of any of that fuckery before we went.
we'd driven like 30+ minutes to get there at that point and were kinda doing the 'sunken cost' thing at that point, since we'd traveled so far and already paid for our drinks. we hoped maybe other customers who weren't looney would show.
Nope. It was us three customers and the staff only. So we're playing Jackbox and these are the least imaginative, unfunny people on the planet, every Quiplash response is some dumb sex reference that was awkwardly shoehorned in. half the time these boomers couldn't figure out technology, loudly narrating their technical issues as if there was some mustachioed, polo-shirt wearing IT guy in the room listening to them. None of them understood how any of the games worked, mostly because they talked loudly through the instructions (the one other customer sounded and acted like Victoria Jackson and spoke at a volume 30 times as loud as everyone else).
But fortunately we had avoided politics, other than one dumb "Bidenomics" reference by one of the slightly-less stupid ones in the room. but then one of the games gets temporarily delayed as one of the employees had to take care of something and my friend had to use the bathroom, so they all start chatting, and then the wheels come off. the faux-Victoria Jackson starts talking about how she still drinks Budweiser, that she didn't care about the controversy no matter how much she 'disagreed' with them, and then she and the owner of the bar start recounting times they threatened to have customers thrown in jail for minor, petty theft, and the owner talked about how she started physically wailing on the customer (a thing that I'm sure totally happened as she described it).
my friend was still in the bathroom, and then the owner starts trying to talk to me and I know it won't be good, and she starts asking me if I'd heard of some former director of ICE or whatever, and I'm like obviously looking around uncomfortably for my friend, and she starts saying how he's this guy that fights human trafficking (oh dear god, probably an Operation Underground Railroad guy) and how they had recently attempted to host him at the wine bar for a speaking engagement, and how they had all of these adoring fans of Mr Human Traffic Warrior show up, and that he had a heart attack shortly after getting out of his limousine, ruining the engagement.
so basically this is MAGA Wine, and I msged my friend COME BACK PLEASE, THESE PEOPLE ARE INSANE! we both decided we'd wrap it up fairly quickly after that and then peaced to get dinner somewhere less crazy and never go back.
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 03:45 (eight months ago) link
the person they hosted was Thomas Homan and it HAPPENED LAST NIGHT
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 04:00 (eight months ago) link
So you’re saying they helped give this guy a heart attack.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 04:54 (eight months ago) link
Giuliani is really sharting it. I saw a legal expert saying he's in the deepest shit and his nervous protestations that RICO isn't meant for cases like this is way off the mark, cos Fani Willis has successfully used it precisely in cases like this. lol I guess he might have discovered this himself by now.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 05:03 (eight months ago) link
i couldnt decide if the tone police would cheer or dud willis’s tone at her indictment presentation (and haven’t looked to see) but i’ll clap and i loved the now i’m going to get some sleep finale. coulda mike-dropped and peaced after that
― juan epshteyn-- r.i.c.o., but suave tambien (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 06:01 (eight months ago) link
The discussion about Trump’s “fleets” is amazing. In sum:Judge: WTF are fleets?Twitter lawyer: No idea (!) just heard about them todaySpecial counsel: WTF are fleets?! But also, you better give us all of Donald Trump’s fleets.https://t.co/vdhI6YrskP pic.twitter.com/8oXs1wVPBw— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 16, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 15:23 (eight months ago) link
https://bluesrockreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/controversialgretavanfleet.jpg
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 15:42 (eight months ago) link
quick q that may have a complicated a:
why don't other states prosecute trump for doing what he did in georgia? for example, pennsylvania? does it come down
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/16/trump-georgia-phone-call/
https://i.imgur.com/T4Q9Chv.png
Within days of losing the vote in Pennsylvania, Trump and his allies allegedly began pressing officials there to change that outcome by backing a slate of pro-Trump electors. The indictment points to seven calls Trump’s team made to state GOP lawmakers in late November to discuss the effort.Rudy Giuliani, then Trump’s personal lawyer, aggressively pursued state Rep. Bryan Cutler (R), then the speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, leaving him four voice mails in four days, according to the indictment. Sometimes Giuliani was joined by Jenna Ellis, another member of Trump’s legal team. Giuliani and Ellis also called Jake Corman, then the Republican president pro tempore of the state Senate. Trump called Corman separately, according to the indictment.
Rudy Giuliani, then Trump’s personal lawyer, aggressively pursued state Rep. Bryan Cutler (R), then the speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, leaving him four voice mails in four days, according to the indictment. Sometimes Giuliani was joined by Jenna Ellis, another member of Trump’s legal team. Giuliani and Ellis also called Jake Corman, then the Republican president pro tempore of the state Senate. Trump called Corman separately, according to the indictment.
https://i.imgur.com/HQET58H.png
From Nov. 22, 2020, to Jan. 4, 2021, Trump and two allies each called the Arizona House speaker.GiulianiTrump, Giuliani and John Eastmanpressured Rusty Bowers to supporttheir elector scheme in Arizona.TrumpBowers3 callsEastmanArizona was the site of some of the earliest and largest “stop the steal” protests in the days after the election. It was also where, according to the indictment, then-state House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R) rebuffed attempts by Trump and his team to reverse Biden’s win in the state.In a call with Bowers, Trump and Giuliani raised false claims about voter fraud in the state, the indictment says, and asked if he would support their effort to appoint alternate electors from Arizona. In a second call about a month later, Trump again allegedly brought up the elector scheme. Bowers pushed back, according to the indictment, telling Trump, “I voted for you. I worked for you. I campaigned for you. I just won’t do anything illegal for you.”Still, Trump’s team continued to hound him. Days before the Capitol riot, lawyer John Eastman, an architect of the brazen legal strategy to keep Trump in office, called Bowers about appointing alternate electors, according to the indictment. Bowers again refused, saying it would violate his oath of office.
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Arizona was the site of some of the earliest and largest “stop the steal” protests in the days after the election. It was also where, according to the indictment, then-state House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R) rebuffed attempts by Trump and his team to reverse Biden’s win in the state.
In a call with Bowers, Trump and Giuliani raised false claims about voter fraud in the state, the indictment says, and asked if he would support their effort to appoint alternate electors from Arizona. In a second call about a month later, Trump again allegedly brought up the elector scheme. Bowers pushed back, according to the indictment, telling Trump, “I voted for you. I worked for you. I campaigned for you. I just won’t do anything illegal for you.”
Still, Trump’s team continued to hound him. Days before the Capitol riot, lawyer John Eastman, an architect of the brazen legal strategy to keep Trump in office, called Bowers about appointing alternate electors, according to the indictment. Bowers again refused, saying it would violate his oath of office.
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 16:07 (eight months ago) link
i guess since some of the calls referenced in the GA indictment were made to PA lawmakers, it's sort of covered already? it's just odd to me that he was very clearly interfering with the PA election and no one there seems to have done anything about it
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 16:09 (eight months ago) link
Trump's fleets:
https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/57077b4e-d47c-4c4d-a834-cb827911a12a_1.666df0b310969192dd414c4e489736ed.jpeg?odnWidth=612&odnHeight=612&odnBg=ffffff
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 16:10 (eight months ago) link
The recorded phone call in GA is about as "I am liveblogging my crimes" as it gets, so I think that's why.
Like few other calls where he gave a specific number of votes to "find"
Georgia gov also can't pardon which helps
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 16:12 (eight months ago) link
Since when was it illegal to just ask questions? 100% not guilty.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 16:15 (eight months ago) link
I am genuinely so excited to see this exoneration report. It's gonna make Ben Carson's version of the US map look like a work of deep competence and sophistication.
― Prop Dramedy (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 16:18 (eight months ago) link
It will probably be paywalled
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 16:20 (eight months ago) link
You gotta respect Team Trump for keeping this thing under wraps for so many years, just to make sure every last detail is right, before releasing it to the public.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 16:21 (eight months ago) link
It would be a good trick for Trump to read us a bit of the report each day for years, and we have to wait to put him in jail until he's done.
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 16:22 (eight months ago) link