You have to be MAGA levels of stupid to not yet see how Trump has screwed this nation.

Farmers voted against their own self interests when they supported Trump. But they are almost all from Red States where blind obedience to the GOP is expected of them. Only now are they beginning to fully realize just completely they have screwed themselves.

She should have stuck around. Trump's Supreme Court would have reinstated her.

The standard of living in the US is plunging. (Thank Trump). Of course the risks of more rightwing violence is increasing. The cowardice of the GOP to stand up to Trump is destroying America.

The only thing Trump's election in 2024 proves is that there are more stupid selfish Americans than intelligent socially minded ones.

Amateur hour. More like amateur Administration.

Socialism would be far preferable to our current system for the vast majority of Americans.

How Rittenhouse ever became a right wing hero in the first place speaks volumes about how ------ up MAGA really is. Hitler Youth Lite.

---- off Ironnaut. Your posts are like a scabies infestation.

I think the perception that the entire event was a staged performance is going to expand greatly in coming years. It was a like a made for tv event designed to glorify Trump in the eyes of maggots. They had t-shirts ready to go the next day, - as if they were preparing for the event.

The movie franchise "Purge" could make a bucket of movie if they released a horror/comedy named "MAGA Day". Apparently, as of yesterday only 33% of the population would not go to see it.

Maggots are stupid. They will never stop supporting Trump. Their stupidity is DNA based.

When I was in the Peace Corps in South America I attended many weddings where the bride was 15 or 16 and the groom was between the ages of 18 and 23. It was a cultural norm throughout the countryside. And no, I do not think of those grooms as pedophiles.

I thought that video was the funniest thing I saw all day. LOL. Awwwwwwkward.

I don't think I would ever advise any enlisted man to disobey orders short of the extremist orders imaginable, such as firing on civilians.

To be accurate, Trump ALWAYS tacos out when it comes his approval ratings and the stock market.

I do not particularly care if the Dems are more energized at this moment. My interest level will change dramatically as we get closer to the mid-term elections.

I hope he gets hounded out of BU by the student body. What an -------.

I know Portland fairly well. Homelessness can be a problem in certain parts of the city. But Antifa, and riots and social unrest simply are not a real concern of anyone who lives and works there.

Good. Let Red North Carolina experience the violation of ICE raids.

Prince Andrew. Not Prince Phillip. Big difference.

There is a difference both in the law and human neurology between lust for a five year old and lust for a sexually developed 15 year old.

Legally, the punishment for molestation of a five year old is life in prison. Molestation of a 15 year old (in California at least) usually results in a sentence of between 1 year and 8 years in prison.

Neurologically, although it may disgust people to acknowledge this fact, psychiatrists confirm that regular, healthy male heterosexual adults INVOLUNTARILY may be aroused by a well developed girl of 15. But no regular healthy male heterosexual is aroused by a five year old girl. Our bodies respond physically to the visual stimuli presented regardless of whether society says it is right or wrong morally. Hopefully this is common sense to most of you.

I can imagine some people who don't like you very much.
That's a tough situation to be in.

#195 | Posted by eberly

In my opinion, when it comes to things that really matter, it is far better to be honest (no matter the consequences) than popular. It is one of the reasons I have become a huge fan of Liz Cheney over the past five years.

"When it requires coincidence after coincidence after coincidence to refute an allegation, then the allegation is almost always accurate"
Has that led your pedophile clients to be convicted?
#190 | Posted by eberly

Not just child molest cases, but most crimes in general. A jury will go with you only so far, Once a lawyer starts arguing a chain of multiple coincidences the jury starts shutting down. I have seen it so often.

Honestly, when it does come specifically to child molest cases, the best way to win is to dig up enough dirt about the surrounding circumstances of the case to cause the prosecutor to lose faith in the certainty of the validity of a prosecution. No prosecutor wants to live with the weight of potentially sending a man to prison for the rest of his life if he/she has a lingering doubt about whether the crime really happened. Such as, a divorce scenario where it starts to seem very possible that the the wife is pressuring the child to make allegations against the father to gain the upper hand in the divorce proceedings. Or when the child turns out to have significant pre-existing mental health problems. Or, my favorite, when as a result of great investigation by my investigator we are able to bring in the girl's school principal to testify that he only really knows about 4% of the students at the school - the best 2% and the worst 2%, and then acknowledges that the alleged victim of the contested child molest case is well known to him because has had to both speak to her and discipline her on multiple occasions for lying and making false complaints about classmates she does not like.

Much (most?) of Latino rejection of Kamala Harris can be attributed to misogyny. Never underestimate the power (both on a conscious and a subconscious level) of macho imagery among Latino culture. It is almost as intense as extreme Islamic misogyny.