GET OUT: US politics November 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg8-3wbCFi4

who can explain it
who can tell you why

xp if we know what state Hearne is in I could look him up in the state bar, there's no national bar directory

here ya go

https://truenorthlawgroup.com/meet-our-team/

lol

. Thor has been named a Super Lawyer in both Washington DC and in Missouri by the peer-rating system and Thor has been given the highest AV rating by Martindale-Hubbell.

From an apartment to Australia to this.

"GET A SUPER LAWYER! I WANT A THOR!"

I'm also a super lawyer fwiw. It's maybe a notch above being in who's who. TBF, the guy has a legit bio.

Based on Wayback Machine it doesn't look like "True North Law Group" is a brand new venture.

sorry I mean it's a brand new thing for him

firm is not new

"time for the urn"

celebrities should be more like michael shannon or just be quiet pic.twitter.com/6h546bjb0k

— jenny (@clarkjoes) November 9, 2020

In a shock to no one, Mark Esper fired

THat's funny I thought Thor was a doctor and it was Daredevil that was the super lawyer?

Ben Carson has the vid

Cue more Downfall memes.

Trump has fired the Secretary of Defense.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 9, 2020

sometimes it is really hard to learn a new filing system though, normally just a sign of someone practicing in a new state tbh. hardly the worst thing one can do.

or what man alive said. just lawyer things.

seriously harbl you are one of the best posters on US politics

hope Biden ppl don’t start making overtures to folks who were willing to work for this flaming dung heap in the first place.

but hey they prob will

xp to harbl - that's THREE IN THREE DAYS! I can't do the math to figure out what that would that would be over the course of a year, but surely at least a hundred!

Ben Carson has the vid

― (•̪●) (carne asada)

How great is it that the Trump era will give way, possibly, to an imminent vaccine, a stable and soaring stock market, and a whole bunch of vacancies. Who needs a transition team?

I've never had The Moldy Peaches stuck in my head for as long as I have since Trump was infected

Firing of Esper appears to have been to replace him with someone who thinks it's ok to use the military to quell protests, which is admittedly a little disconcerting.

p much all i could find on the replacement is that he was previously controversial for that point when named to his current position.

Delicious stuff -- "The long love affair between Fox News and Trump may be over. Here’s how it ended last week."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/the-long-love-affair-between-fox-news-and-trump-may-be-over-heres-how-it-ended-last-week/2020/11/09/f4dddb5e-2095-11eb-90dd-abd0f7086a91_story.html

Trudeau throwing shade:

https://globalnews.ca/news/7451264/us-election-trudeau-biden/

Obrador is a total wuss tho.

There's going to be at least one governor who publicly states he will refuse to follow Biden Admin's orders as they don't recognize him as legit President, isn't there

Maybe not, Jindal is gone.

Biden's Attorney General is going to be a crucial position.

sometimes it is really hard to learn a new filing system though, normally just a sign of someone practicing in a new state tbh. hardly the worst thing one can do.

― superdeep borehole (harbl), Monday, November 9, 2020 6:15 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i dunno, I mean for sure, but for the amount the R.'s complain about voting irregularities and stuff, which signals cheating, etc. you would think they could look up how to file an appeal. dude has been member of the MI bar since 87. but if their filings are this incompetent, it makes them look way worse

Attorney General Barack Obama

Hope not

i got a bunch of deficient filing notices when we switched to e-filing and i'm still embarrassed

He’d bail out his buddies at Uber that’s for sure

also i thought he was a missouri attorney, my mistake

I think the non-lawyers among us are probably just picking at crumbs, wanting to find evidence that Trump's lawyers are dumb and will fail.

Perhaps the deficit filings isn't it, though

Joe Biden fucking sucks

Biden has hired "Jessica Hertz, former associate general counsel at Facebook, and Cynthia Hogan, former Apple vice-president for government affairs, to his transition team. Eric Schmidt... is being talked about to lead a new technology industry task force" https://t.co/ozNwYfXMfE

— Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (@rasmus_kleis) November 9, 2020

Thanks to TS Eta, I had my first conversation with a dumb MAGA-ite this morning. My upstairs neighbor, the alcoholic and emphysemic with the Trump flag still flapping, said hello this morning. We bantered in Spanish about our experiences with last night's incredible rain.

"My wife almost told me to take down the flag because she was afraid it would fly away," he said. "But I'm keeping it up as long as I can."

"Uh huh."

"Not until we settle this fraud."

"Did you vote?"

"Stood in line for an hour two weeks ago." He beamed like a guy who found a fresh pack of Schlitz next to his toilet.

"If fraud happened, why wouldn't we discount the House and Senate races? They're on the same ballot, you might remember."

He gave me the abject, stupefied look of a guy who wants to think of a comeback but can't. I said good morning and walked away.

Yup, can’t wait to see what the acting Secretary is willing to do for his boss that Esper wasn’t.

(Goes to bathroom to look for Schlitz)

He’d bail out his buddies at Uber that’s for sure

― The Bosom Manor Michaelmas Special (silby), Monday, November 9, 2020 10:38 AM (nine minutes ago)

Why rely on Obama when Kamala's brother-in-law (Uber CLO) and his daughter/KH's niece (Chief of Strategy & Leadership) are deep in Uber's executive pool?

Why look at past record and behavior when we can just lob unfounded accusations of favoritism?

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-09-12/kamala-harris-uber-family-campaign-drivers-labor

Eric Schmidt can run the task force from his Mediterranean villa/tax haven

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/11/9/21547055/eric-schmidt-google-citizen-cyprus-european-union

Ah, we can go back to being appalled by Dem corporate servility. Music to my ears.

Trump's lawyer is clearly not a dummy, he has a strong background. My guess is they slapped it together very quickly on low sleep, and it was almost certainly a lower level associate, paralegal or assistant who actually handled the filing. It's not great of them to have that many deficiencies but it can happen in a stressed/time pressure moment. Having handled a lot of filings, I don't wish the experience on anyone. It's my #1 least favorite part of practice and I usually panic for about 6 hours after I file that something was done wrong.

I don't wish the experience on anyone

surely we can make an exception

"If fraud happened, why wouldn't we discount the House and Senate races? They're on the same ballot, you might remember."

To mAke tHe fRaUd sEeM mOrE leGit, duh.

does kind of amaze me they're convinced fraud happened in 2016, 2020, and years before, and all these Pubs are willing to do is occasionally yell about it in public and go back to gardening

I once (harmlessly) filed a confidential document on a public docket -- had it been more obviously and meaningfully confidential I probably wouldn't have made the mistake, but it was still a big mistake and led to one of the literal worst weeks of my entire life. Meanwhile, we had a case where a lawyer (on the other side) forgetting to file something under seal basically opened them up to getting sued for hundreds of millions of dollars.