@coolboymew they don't care about precedent because they don't care about law and order. it's a tribal issue, and they will do whatever they want as long as friendly staff are in key positions.
"He has interesting grounds for an appeal - the jurors were kept anonymous even from the attorneys, which is extremely abnormal. Not only does the New York Bar have rules saying attorneys may research jurors' social media accounts, but there have been convictions overturned because of things jurors posted about on social media. Keeping them anonymous deprives the attorneys of the opportunity to do that research."
@icedquinn@coolboymew It will just swing back to the other side, whatever weapons they give themselves the other side will then have access to as well, it will be an escalation into bad things
@Jazzy_Butts@coolboymew not really. this still assumes law and order is functioning. they can, will, and do just handwave why "it's ok when WE do it" because its purely a tribalistic process.
same reason the president can wax poetic about gun grabs while ordering the FBI to cover up his son's illegal weapons felonies
@icedquinn@coolboymew They should just leave Trump alone, he's a rich human being, he's made mistakes, but to treat him like he's the important issue here while ignoring the handling of the Epstein shit is, if not telling (something can't be telling if there's nothing to tellz, but it doesn't look good the medias relative silence on all that, almost like the people who own those medias might have been visiting Epstein island or doing Epstein-ish things themselves)...just it looks bad. It looks silly. It looks stupid, and obvious, but they don't carez, they have the bludgeon of social media to cancel anyone they want, and don't think Elon or Android Jared are at odds with these people, they're all in the same fucking club, literally, it's theater, they all work together.
@Jazzy_Butts@coolboymew one continuing problem is the assumption that people are fighting rational opponents who disagree. this is not the case.
they are fighting cia spooks, tribalists, minions of sociopathic billionaires, it's all mission driven. "ethics" and "precedent" are things that burden the conscious of rational agents. that is not what they are. they are given missions to take people out, and find the way to do it, which is how you get absolutely stupid legal theories like "someone being in the white house means we can't find them for the purposes of statutes of limitations."
@icedquinn@coolboymew@Moon They're boasting just hours ago now about how he was "found liable" in a "sex abuse" case, 2mil he has to pay the victim, they were very particular about their wording on air, "sex abuse" not "sex assault", they stumbled and corrected a few times, probably don't want to get sued.
@Moon@Jazzy_Butts@icedquinn I usually only get this kind of news from stupidpol, as usually these kind of stupid news are 100% entirely bullshit politics that's just gonna fuck over everyone
@coolboymew Im asking for evidence of the claim. Citing reddit isnt evidence. Can you show me that the trial jury has been kept secret from trumps lawyers with anything other than reddit said so?
@coolboymew@icedquinn I think that's the point. Average lib will just be happy he was arrested and getting him on something stupid will rile up his base while not convincing centrists to vote for him. GOP strategists just want Trump to go away and this guarantees him the nomination in 2024 over DeSantis, who the GOP wanted to win.