Best posts made by hubrys

@raphjd Your statement displays that you've never participated in a seizure of evidence under warrant or subpoena.

For example, a warrant will tell law enforcement to seize specific documents, but it will also include language that tells LE to seize any documents within the same container or containers stored similar to those containing named documents. This catch-all language is almost always included in warrants, and excess property is routinely seized. This is why the owner is given a receipt for all of the property seized, which Trump did, in fact, receive.

Were you under the impression that the FBI were going to pop a squat in the middle of the room and go thru each box of voluminous materials before removing them from the premises? Not even back at headquarters are the agents going thru the boxes. That's a task that some poor document review attorney had to do.

I'm sure you thought this was something, but you've got nothing here.

@raphjd I hate to break it to you anti-woke zealots, but Disney's already reimagined Robin Hood as a red-furred fox.

@raphjd Do you come here just to spout random nonsense because Tucker Carlson can't hear you talking to him thru the television?

@raphjd said in Trump sued for "staggering fraud" against lenders/banks:

all she could come up with was a stupid civil lawsuit.

She doesn't have the power as NY's Attorney General to bring a criminal prosecution of Trump; she can only bring a civil suit. Do you not understand what a state's Attorney General is?

She's transmitted her investigation to the Federal US Attorneys for the Southern District of New York for them to see if they want to bring a federal criminal action against Trump. We will see what the US Attorneys decide to do.

https://www.wearecentralpa.com/news/regional-news/armed-pa-man-in-wig-trying-to-restore-trump-as-president-arrested-at-dairy-queen/?10974

Armed man in wig and yellow vest seizes a Dairy Queen with his handguns in his campaign to restore Donald Trump as the President King of the United States, promising to kill all Democrats. This is the stage that we're at now, apparently, in America.

@raphjd To each of your points:

(1) The warrant was only necessary because Trump ignored and/or failed to comply with the subpoena.

(2) Whether all of the documents were declassified while Trump was still President is yet to be determined. Trump doesn't retain the power to classify or declassify documents after he's left office, and it isn't something he can just say, "If I brought it home, then ipso facto I declassified it." He will have to have done the official act.

(3) As far as I am aware, the only "documents" being returned are the three passports that were seized amongst the other documents.

And the thing which must be stated is that the potential crimes which may or may not be brought against Trump don't require the documents to have been classified. The fact that he has documents in his possession that belong to the People (i.e., the National Archives), then he's still committed a felony. A felony, by the way, that he strengthen while in office during his "Lock Her Up" frenzy.

@raphjd Trump hasn't won the lawsuit yet. Two questions were presented to the appeals court: (1) Was Trump a federal employee at the time he made the alleged defamatory statements; and (2) Did he make the alleged defamatory statements within the scope of his employment (i.e., was he speaking as the President or as Donald Trump).

The 2d Circuit Court of Appeals only answered the first question, finding that the president is a federal employee (this was no surprise as it had already been established). But it didn't render a decision on the second question. It certified that question to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals for determination if Trump was speaking as President or as Donald Trump.

If he was speaking as President, then it's likely that the court will grant the DOJ's request to substitute the Federal Government as party instead of Trump. The defamation will likely then be dismissed pursuant to a Rule 12(b)(6) motion for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.

However, it's my understanding that E Jean Carroll is still going to bring her civil rape case against Trump. This was just a defamation case alleging that him calling her a liar defamed her. No court yet has tried the issue of whether he did or did not rape her in the mid-90's.

@raphjd No, there's just no point is arguing with you specifically. I mean, I could waste my time writing out a whole explanation of how Trump's DOJ (especially AG Barr) contorted itself into pretzels in a partisan attempt to protect Trump. But you would never acknowledge the point, and if forced to, would just shift the goalposts and start ranting about something else.

So, no, we liberals do not "have nothing." You, specifically, are just not worth the effort to refute. You're only good for mocking, since you're a hysterical partisan hack, blind to all your own hypocrisy.

@raphjd Is the Right seriously crying crocodile tears over the government meddling in what a trained, licensed professional can and cannot say on the job? This from the people responsible for "Don't Say Gay" gagging teachers' speech. laws gagging doctors from discussing or recommending abortion services, defunding libraries because librarians won't remove books that the Right disagrees with, etc.

Cry, cry those crocodile tears, snowflakes!

@raphjd You can keep dreaming. The fact that Durham has stated that he's waiting until after the mid-term elections to give his report signals clearly that he doesn't have anything to announce that will damage the Democrats. If he did, then they'd be using it during these close-call mid-terms. Instead, he'll quietly submit his report having found nothing but his unproven accusations and having suffered two defeats in court.

Acquittal of Russia Analyst Deals Final Blow to Trump-Era Prosecutor - NYT

@raphjd You have so many liberal strawmen living rent free in your head that I'm surprised you don't have hay coming out of your ears.

How did you know that all of us Liberals had gotten together and voted Lars McMurtry as our singular voice? I thought we had locked the door!

A nobody said something that nobody cares about or agrees with. Keep trying though.

@raphjd Conservatives only care about fraud and tax evasion investigations when it's against Donald Trump. Thousands of people are investigated for fraud and tax evasion every year. That just shows the kind of people they are. Conservatives care more about this human circus peanut than they do about fraud and tax evasion investigations, but liberals are the evil ones.

@Drwas Clearly this is a lie because, as we know from the blowhard of this Forum, it is only crazy liberals who attack people because of partisan politics.

@raphjd said in Liberals silent on "popular vote" - I wonder why:

Your fellow liberals say we need to go by the popular vote for who runs the country. One would assume that would include Congress.

I'm confused why you think the nationwide count matters in a mid-term election with no nationwide elections. The demographic of people going out to vote in the mid-terms is related to local circumstances.

For example, there were 20 states with Republican incumbent senators running for re-election against Democratic challengers. There were only 14 Democrat states. There were also 5 states with Republican incumbents who had retired, meaning a stronger push to get Republicans in those areas to come out and hold that seat.

Also, there's no guarantee that the election jurisdictions were spread evenly into districts with equal party affiliation. In other words, if just a few of the jurisdictions were heavy Republican districts, then the massive number of Republicans coming out for that district skews the numbers. Yes, there are more registered Democrats in America than registered Republicans, but that doesn't mean that average in applicable evenly across the election jurisdictions.

All of the above was a long-winded way of saying that your argument was based on fallacious reasoning and you're an idiot.

@Rotron said in Spore/Spores is now a pronoun:

Well he got banned fast at 39 posts!

Yeah, @raphjd tends to ban people when he can't defend himself against them in arguments. But such is the world when you give the wrong sorts even the littlest bit of power.

raphjd, why don't you go back to posting photoshopped pictures and then refusing to admit they're fake even when presented with the original, unedited photo.

@raphjd I don't know anything about the threats part of the story, but calling him a "Huffpost Contributor" in an attempt to malign The Huffington Post is a stretch.

HuffPost used to have a "Contributor Platform" where anyone and everyone could post unpaid articles to their system. They weren't moderated or vetted by HuffPost beyond taking down posts after reader complaints. All of his articles are from that platform. He is not, nor was ever, an employee of HuffPost.

You might as well say "Frequent Reddit Poster..."

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@MrMazda My point is that @raphjd is an old snowflake getting triggered by something trivial.

@MrMazda Nah, I've read enough posts from him to know when he's triggered, especially when he's choosing to use the snowflake trigger word "woke," my sweetie.