johnzo

I am not an attorney, but my understanding is that pardons have risks for Trump. A pardoned person loses their fifth amendment protection against self-incrimination, because they are not in legal jeopardy from the thing they've been pardoned from. What this means is that Congress could subpoena a pardoned Roger Stone to talk about his dealings with Wikileaks. Stone has no executive priviilege or attorney/client privilege to resist that subpoena, no fifth amendment protection. And if he lies to Congress again, he's back in the pokey again. I suspect the pardons of Trump's inner circle of henchmen will come at the moment when Trump feels the least legal jeopardy from those guys, like if he's re-elected.

I liked Elizabeth Warren before but now I am a big fan. the little thing that Bloomberg does with his mouth around 1:12 is hilarious, after Warren asks "Some is how many?" ******* great moment. Alas I suspect that America is not super into electing a woman who doesn't hesitate to hector a powerful man. Women get penalized for being aggro like this.

your trump tweet voice is spookily proficient and convincing.

note that Blagojevich is a Democrat, so we must speak favorably of him on MBB or else we are giant hypocrites who have lost the moral standing to ever call politicians out for bad / criminal behavior. that's how this works, right? just need to know what I have to post in order to remain shielded from charges of lefty hypocracy.

I think if you try to sell a U.S. Senate seat, you should rot in jail for a good long stretch.

zooming out to examine the long view.... https://entertainment.theonion.com/western-culture-ends-1841577190 I have donated all my Van Halen records to the Mesa Pálida Deep Repository of White Culture. perhaps the hyperroaches who unearth them will also be hot for teacher.

Real nice to be talking about signing a FA receiver who's at his peak instead of one who is past it. Nichols is looking at a thinner receiving corps in Toronto than he had even at the worst in Winnipeg -- of their 2020 starters Edwards and Smith are unsigned and Green, Walker and Ralph are gone, with just Daniels and injury-prone Brescascin incoming. Maybe Green returns after XFL?

Mike "Stop and Frisk" Bloomberg is an anti-Trump in that he actually repels a huge part of the Democratic base. Dunno if he'll attract enough moderates to compensate. Interesting that three of the Dem frontrunners either aren't really Dems like Sanders and Bloomberg or are small time non-national level Dems like Mayor Pete. Klobuchar is really the only traditional presidental candidate left. Dems are rejecting their own, so far. Really not a great look for the party. For me, the question boils down to "what do the Midwestern Trump states think about democratic socialism?"

Nice! always great to hear from a bingo voter. Did Soros send you the coronavirus vaccine yet? Just got mine.

If you start with the the ones who lied on their voter registration paperwork, sure. A couple have already outed themselves on mbb, so you've got a running start there

Details on illegal votes please.

That feeling when your hand picked DOJ stooge can't even gin up a credible prosecution of your political enemies

There are zombie Democrats too, and they vote just like the living ones!

Why is he not conservative? Dude's main gig is as an attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom, an outfit that sues colleges where Christians are being persecuted and he's massively involved in a number of anti abortion causes ... obvs a flaming leftie. Is he another secret illegal Clinton voter?

Conservative American attorney David French breaks down the jury selection process here: https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/is-there-a-stone-jury-scandal-not

One of the few upsides of the Trump admin is watching the world's worst people be abused by the world's worst boss. Like that creepy wormtongue Sessions ... all he wanted to do was greenlight a bunch of police abuse and suppress a bunch of the electorate but surprise! he names one independent prosecutor and suddenly Trump's ass is his 24/7 softserve machine.

Everyone on MBB voted for Clinton in the 2016 election. I made sure of that. Which reminds me, if you haven't received your payola cheque yet, you can email cancelwhitey@soros.com and Shoniqa will get you straightened out.

BREAKING: MILLIONS OF DEMOCRATS LIVE IN UNITED STATES, PARTICIPATING FREELY IN ELECTIONS DESPITE OBVIOUS BIAS. Click on it a bunch. If Trump wants to advertise in Canada, might as well redirect some of the marks' money to Rich.

oh yeah, one more thing about jury bias -- dude was convicted by unanimous vote of all the jurors, as the English common law demands. Which tells me that the jury was entirely composed of: a) Soros clones grown in a secret Venezuelan lab b) robolesbian deep state gun confiscators c) members of the UN Permanent Committee On Baby Tissue Resale d) those Portland pastors who provided sanctuary to Mexican Gender-Quaida e) refugee lizards from Alpha Centauri f) Socks Clinton

Still waiting on your explanation of the million illegal votes, btw.

Challenging jurors for bias is the responsibility of the defence counsel. If Stone doesn't have adequate representation, that's his problem. Dude is rich and can afford whatever attorneys he wants. He apparently picked poorly. It's just like a right winger to want the state to insulate people from the impact of their choices.

Zontar, please bring data to this discussion. What's the normal sentence that someone convicted of multiple counts of perjury and witness tampering gets? Was this sentence out of line with the customary sentence? The proposed sentence was in line with the DoJ's sentencing guidelines for the crimes involved. If the guidelines are unjust, why didn't Barr adjust the guidelines rather than making a specific intervention on Stone's behalf immediately after his boss tweeted his displeasure? It sure looks like someone is worried about Stone spilling what he knows. I know several American prosecutors and it's not surprising to me at all they would go apeshit on charges that interfere with the smooth workings of the legal system. Nothing pisses off a prosecutor more than someone who lies on the stand or tampers with witnesses, because those things can **** up a prosecutors case and they take that more personally than they'd take a random robbery or murder. Prosecutors also love putting people in jail; it's just novel in this case because the perp is an affluent and famous old white dude with suction at the presidential level -- that doesn't happen a ton in the states.

one of the thinking errors you see nowadays is the idea that if you're criticizing Trump and the GOP then of course you must be a rabidly pro-democrat stooge, because those are the two teams and you have to be a fan of one, right? And it's the way that stupid people argue. "You hate Trump so naturally you must be down with all the sex crime and shitty legislation that Bill Clinton did, right?" Just for the record: "Bill Clinton should go to jail if he raped children on the Air Pedo" and "Trump is a criminal who is a danger to the USA and indeed the world and he needs to not be President ASAP" are not contradictory viewpoints. One can hold them both at once.

...that a Democratic president is elected.