Garu G
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 19:59 (two weeks ago) link
apparently they're going to have 6 alternates which seems optimistic
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:02 (two weeks ago) link
Standard, though. Foreperson is an Irish guy and I would love the idea of someone from one of Trump's 'nice' countries for immigrants fucking him over.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:02 (two weeks ago) link
Further re challenges etc from the NYT:
As they work to select the 12 people who will make up the jury panel, each side gets 10 peremptory challenges, which enable them to exclude prospective jurors without providing reasons. So far, Trump's lawyers have used 6 of their challenges and the prosecutors have used 4.
My understanding being that if/when they run out they actually have to provide reasons going forward which the judge can accept or deny, as has happened a couple of times already. So it's not like Blanche can automatically ask for everyone to get canned.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:10 (two weeks ago) link
There should be a rich vein of social media posts dissing Trump that Blanche can mine for grounds for dismissal without using his peremptory challenges.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:14 (two weeks ago) link
he should be on trial for negligent genocide
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:16 (two weeks ago) link
1.7 million dead in USA. gotta get down to it!
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:18 (two weeks ago) link
what if you knew her and found her dead on the ground?
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/trump-obama-coronavirus-pandemic-response
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:19 (two weeks ago) link
> Foreperson is an Irish guy
RFK Jr?
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:20 (two weeks ago) link
Mick Mulvaney
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:28 (two weeks ago) link
Conan O'Brien
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:30 (two weeks ago) link
BONO
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:33 (two weeks ago) link
Shame-us Finnigan
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:47 (two weeks ago) link
i'll bet its that damn robert e. lee. "never fight uphill, me boys!"
― scott seward, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:47 (two weeks ago) link
i think i will probably be watching this forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq4xSuiueUc
― scott seward, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:50 (two weeks ago) link
did he think Robert E Lee was a leprechaun
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:52 (two weeks ago) link
"Wow, that was a big mistake."
--Robert E. lee
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:53 (two weeks ago) link
that crowd is missing the strategically placed black person, they're dropping the ball
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:55 (two weeks ago) link
the fact that he was 2 hours from gettysburg will define his legacy...
― scott seward, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:56 (two weeks ago) link
Love the Ethan Suplee-lookin' MF in a baseball cap to Trump's right taking a biiiiiiig yawn at the start
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:03 (two weeks ago) link
too intelligent. dismissed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsz8wF-FAIY
― scott seward, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:53 (two weeks ago) link
i mean i could only hope someone that smart was on my jury. for my sham porn star hush money campaign malfeasance trial. she would see through the government's lies!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:56 (two weeks ago) link
That was how I got out of jury duty the last time I was called, a couple of years ago. I explained to the judge that I was a freelance journalist who had to be able to pursue individual stories on my own time so I couldn't "take off work" and they let me go. Good thing, too; it was some kind of child sexual abuse trial that was projected to take six to eight weeks, as I recall, and even if I'd been collecting a regular paycheck I wouldn't want to spend two months hearing about that.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 22:01 (two weeks ago) link
tell em yr a law buff and fuck facts you wanna make sure fellow jurors understand the law as you do they love that.
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 01:00 (two weeks ago) link
here's what's on his mind today
https://i.imgur.com/laiYaVp.png
(the Oscars were over a month ago)
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:41 (two weeks ago) link
That reads like an excerpt from Thomas Bernhard.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:42 (two weeks ago) link
hey cut him a break, he finally got around to watching the second half of the show he had on the ol' DVR
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:43 (two weeks ago) link
hes never more cogent than when critiquing tv
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:43 (two weeks ago) link
I was watching the On Cinema Oscar Special like a normal person but uh didn't Al Pacino announce Best Picture?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:43 (two weeks ago) link
the once vaunted Academy Awards
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:44 (two weeks ago) link
lol I never heard a single word about Kimmell flubbing an award announcement. Does the Oscar host actually give out the Best Picture award?
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:50 (two weeks ago) link
ha he did just make it up didnt he
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:51 (two weeks ago) link
Or is Trump mistaking Jimmy for Al Pacino?
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:52 (two weeks ago) link
“Picture of the Year”
― President of the Canadian Council of Bassoonists (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:53 (two weeks ago) link
there you go
Pacino, who won an Academy Award for best actor in “Scent of a Woman,” did not list any of this year's 10 nominees for best picture. Instead, he simply opened the envelope and said: “And my eyes see 'Oppenheimer.
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:53 (two weeks ago) link
I do like the idea of him not being able to tell the difference between Kimmel and Pacino though.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:57 (two weeks ago) link
DON'T READ HIS TRUTH, JIMMY ME BOY, PLEASE DON'T DO THIS.
― henry s, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:57 (two weeks ago) link
I set Trump's Gettysburg speech to music:
https://www.udio.com/songs/krQ3YrdYhXngU34199PipT
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:59 (two weeks ago) link
just realized truths are what post are called on truth social
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:59 (two weeks ago) link
Also, Oscar presenters haven't said "And the winner is..." since the 1980s. It's now "And the Oscar goes to..."
― jaymc, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 15:00 (two weeks ago) link
pacino getting up there and just doing whatever is too funny
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 15:02 (two weeks ago) link
Tbf to Al P, he says he wasn't supposed to read the 10 nominees. But "my eyes see Oppenheimer" is a funny way to announce the winner.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 15:02 (two weeks ago) link
its so disrespectful
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 15:04 (two weeks ago) link
My eyes adored Oppenheimer.
― henry s, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 15:04 (two weeks ago) link
my grandma is suffering from dementia pretty bad where she can't remember the names of my kids or what she was in the hospital for yesterday, but her memory of events up to about 2009 or so is actually pretty good. feels like Trump has a similar thing going on
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 15:04 (two weeks ago) link
yeah pretty common to not be able to put new stuff in
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 15:06 (two weeks ago) link
My mom is in a dementia wing along with a bunch of other folks who essentially can't carry on any sort of conversation but damn if they still don't nail all the old-time movie trivia questions when they play "Jeopardy" in the day room.
― henry s, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 15:07 (two weeks ago) link
I mean does he ever actually refer to any of the specific things that happened while he was in office? every time he talks about his term or the people he worked with he just makes everything up
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 15:09 (two weeks ago) link
future ILX dementia ward
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 15:09 (two weeks ago) link
jimmy kimmel has been relentless! its kinda crazy. he devotes almost 3/4 of his monologues to trump. his gettysburg one was good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOaRZx-o2fc
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 15:37 (two weeks ago) link