"They will very likely end up sharing a cell with Derek Chauvin."

How do you figure? It's clear they're not going to face federal charges, and they'll probably be preemptively pardoned at the federal level. In the current environment, many states probably won't extradite to MN for partisan reasons, because they know no one will force them to (they might even get retalliation from the federal govt if they do.)

I don't even want to know what type of queer fantasies you're having.

"What line do you enter on your tax forms to show what the tariffs are costing you, or trump destroying the value of the dollar?"

Don't try to confuse people with facts.

18 state legislatures are under full Democratic control (both chambers and the governorship), while 28 are under full Republican control, and 4 have split control.

So I doubt they're actually mad about it.

"TV EXECS don't care if something is "preachy", just the bottom line."

The difference with the BBC is that it's publicly funded. Also, there's a lot of stuff produced just to maintain "connections" and sometimes even money laundering in the entertainment industry.

'"Why'd they make him black if it doesn't change anything? That's just tokenism." I'm a leftist and I would say that.'

You're part of a minority on the left when it comes to that then. I've seen many argue "I don't care if it's clunky. Representation is more important, and if you complain that it's clunky then you're against representation."

AOC is salivating,

"socialist smocialist........

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E1G1 apparently thinks committing murder is no different than having your name mentioned in a document or trolling people with lies.

Even one murder or rape is unacceptable. Do you realize how ------- inane it is to sit around and count the number of times an allegation has been referenced?

OCD 123.
OCD 123.
OCD 123.

I wonder how it compares to the number of times MacGruber appears in the files.

People have been complaining about this since the BBC started doing it about ten years ago, as result of a new policy. They apparently didn't even care that stuff like this helped people like Trump get elected twice. It was only after they got sued and had to pony up for legal fees that they even bothered to look into it.

Remember when I used to take the piss out of you guys for obsessing over the number of lies Trump has told? You're doing it again. This is how he pwns you, and you keep falling for it again and again, just like Charlie Brown.

"A couple of Mexicans killed Alex Pretti?"

You think anyone with an Hispanic surname is Mexican?

Are you sure you aren't MAGA?

Ochoa is a Border Patrol agent who joined CBP in 2018. Gutierrez joined in 2014 and works for CBP's Office of Field Operations. He is assigned to a special response team, which conducts high-risk operations like those of police SWAT units. Records show both men are from South Texas.

Suppose it wasn't Don Lemon but just some random amateur with a podcast or social media account. Would the same rules apply?

"The only thing Don Lemon is guilty of is being used by the Trump Administration to distract from the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti."

He couldn't have made it easier for them if he intentionally tried.

Technically, anyone who writes in a diary is a journalist. For exanple, Ashley Biden.

" You need to actually "journal" the event and the present your story to the public somehow."

Does social media count?

Come to think of it, he does look a bit like a werewolf ...

The first time I heard about Thylacines was from a werewolf horror movie from the 80's called The Howling III.

The part about it being race based as some groups on the right believe is definitely a conspiracy theory, and comments by radical leftists help to fuel those conspiracy theories (see Cea Weaver, amongst other Mamdani appointees).

Corporations have long been happy to replace native workers with cheaper foreign and immigrant labor, and now they'd like to replace all of the above with AI. So in that sense, Replacement Theory is real.

"Of course I hope for replacement theory, I hope we can sweep this country of fascists and racists with immigrants."

Funny how she says that as if immigrants are any less likely to be fascists or racists. Lest we forget, Adolph Hitler was an immigrant ...

"Notice that Lemon says he is "gonna follow them". IOW, he wasn't part of the operation and/or participating in it, but was following the operation and reporting on it. He wasn't chanting with the protesters the way did Horn:"

Trump made a lot of CYA statements on Jan6-21, too, and also technically didn't join in with the protest. He also made a number of slipups, just like when Lemon said "after 'we' do this operation..." The people making excuses for Lemon's behavior are starting to come across as just as nonsensical as those make excuses for Trump's.

^^ for *no* discernably good reason

"Because once you actively committing a crime your status as a journalist disappears."

The question isn't whether it disappears, but whether it was relevant in the first place. Whether one is a journalist or a religious practitioner or a speaker, it's been established that individuals' rights reach a limit when they begin infringing upon other's constitutional rights.

Whether or not Lemon actually crossed that line, it certainly looks like he at least came very close to it for discernably good reason. Like I said, he might have been set up. Either way, he's unwittingly given Trumpers a lot of ammunition to distract and push the envelope even further with their police state tactics.

"If we decide anyone with a camera is a journalist and anyone filming in the Capitol on 1/6 was a journalist, that also means anyone recording ICE anywhere in the country today is a journalist. Alex Pretti was a journalist."

Sure, why not?

Lemon did something stupid that he deserves to be prosecuted for.
The Trump admin is maliciously prosecuting people to intimidate the press.

Both of these statements can be true, and both can be rightly condemned.