Clearly it was 100% politically motivated. I mean, they did procure a guilty plea from the Trump Org's Chief Financial Officer for tax fraud and secured his testimony admitting the Org provided untaxed benefits. And I mean, they did procure a guilty verdict from a NY jury convicting the Trump Organization of years of tax fraud...
But you know, it clearly was politically motivated and there were no possible legitimate motivations for the investigation.
@raphjd said in Disney is smarter than Ron DeSantis:
No corporation deserves the power that Disney had.
The Reedy Creek District was created by elected officials and done in the sunlight. Disney generated $125 million in revenue for the local government each year.
If DeSantis had dissolved the district as he originally threatened, then he would have saddled the two counties around the district with $1.7 Billion of debt, since in exchange for its freedom, Disney had been providing all public services for the entire district as if it were the government.
Disney is central Florida's biggest taxpayer, and the deal the State had with it was a good deal. DeSantis was just a pissed off snowflake who wanted to cancel the big bad Mouse that dared to disagree with him.
@raphjd said in Disney is smarter than Ron DeSantis:
unless they disagree with you, then they should be canceled.
Oh, the irony of this statement.
Disney disagreed with DeSantis "Don't Say Gay" law; therefore, he tried to cancel Disney by revoking its special district status. Disney disagreed with his anti-woke administration, and he tried to cancel Disney.
But you keep pretending that only liberals have a Cancel Culture.
While Ron DeSantis was busy doing TV interviews, beating his chest and pretending to be a macho Conservative male, Disney was busy doing actual things. Specifically, Disney negotiated contracts with the then-existing Reedy Creak district board which, for all intents and purposes, ceded to Disney near-absolute control of its property in Florida. These contracts are perpetual, or at least will be in effect for the entire life (plus 21 years) of any existing descendants of King George III of England. Seeing as how one of those descendants was just born in 2021, it will be a long time before these contracts come up for renewal.
The panel installed by DeSantis have no power at all. They cannot do anything. The panel is as limp, flaccid, and ineffectual as DeSantis dick.
@raphjd said in SCOTUS makes extremely rare 9-0 decision (education case):
Overall they make a lot of them, but this is due mainly to technical issues (ie is a specific type of defense allowed) that have to do with a trial, which they send back down to the trial courts.
When they make a final decision (ie Roe v Wade), they make very few of them.
This is how you tell me you're not a lawyer without telling me you're not a lawyer.
The SCOTUS is an appellate court (since it rarely uses it original jurisdiction powers); therefore, it doesn't generally render "final decisions" in the way I suspect you're thinking.
For example, the SCOTUS didn't render the final judgment and orders in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org. After the SCOTUS made its determination that the lower court's ruling was incorrectly decided, it remanded (i.e., transferred) the case back to the Fifth Circuit for that court to further review the case and render the final judgment.
Again, 9-0 decisions are not extremely rare. They aren't extremely rare because most of the cases heard by the SCOTUS are mundane, boring cases where the Court is merely resolving conflicting judgments between and amongst the lower district courts on mundane, boring elements of the law.
9-0 SCOTUS decisions are not "extremely rare." In fact, most years 9-0 decisions represent the majority (or largest plurality) of cases. Most SCOTUS cases are about mundane elements of the law, about which the justices are often in agreement.
5-4 decisions are almost always the rarest decisions, but they often get the most media coverage because of the subject matter of those decisions.
Regardless of the facts involved in the case, the legal argument in the case sparking this post was rather esoteric and boring to non-attorneys. It dealt with the legal doctrine of "exhaustion of administrative remedies. Plaintiffs generally must exhaust all administrative (i.e., executive branch) avenues for resolution of their dispute before being able to avail themselves of the judicial branch. It's a separation of powers concept, but also, and more importantly, a judicial economy issue (i.e., shoving as many litigants as possible off to administrative law judges makes more room on judicial branch judges' dockets for other litigants).
Here, the plaintiff brought suit under both the IDEA and ADA acts with a list of requested remedies to redress his harm; amongst those requested remedies was compensation and lost income. If all of the requested remedies were recoverable under the IDEA act, then the plaintiff would have had to exhaust all administrative methods of resolving his claim before bringing suit in federal court; however, since compensation and lost income are not remedies available under the IDEA act (but possibly recoverable under the ADA), the plaintiff was not required to exhaust all administrative avenues before filing suit.
Again, most SCOTUS decisions are as boring as you probably found reading the above synopsis.
The modern Democratic Party is not the same party as the pre-1970's Democratic Party due to shifting demographics. For a better explanation, see:
History Channel Article Explaining How the Parties Changed over Time
‘Bulls**t’: Senate Republicans Rip Fox News' Tucker Carlson For Whitewashing Jan. 6 Riot
No one's buying Tucker Carlson's attempt to whitewash the Jan. 6th attack. Personally, I refuse to be gaslighted. I was watching the news and twitter feeds in real time on that day, and Tucker Carlson's selective editing won't make me forget my own memories.
@raphjd said in Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests that if Democrats move to a red state, they shouldn't be allowed to vote for five years:
It figures you would downplay what liberals say, no matter how vulgar and hate-filled.
I don't agree with what Behar said either. You realize liberals aren't monolithic, right?
Again, Behar's just a talk show host. MTG is an elected official and right there alongside the GOP leadership. Is Disenfranchisement part of the official GOP platform now?
@blablarg18 said in Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests that if Democrats move to a red state, they shouldn't be allowed to vote for five years:
You also caught Joy Behar saying, the other day, that the Trump voters of East Palestine, OH deserves their toxic disaster w/ future cancers. Right?
You do understand the difference between the speakers, right? Joy Behar is just a TV talk show host.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is an elected Congresswoman entrusted with representing the values and interests of approx. 800,000 people in Georgia's 14th District. And she's literally advocating for disenfranchisement...not to mention an unconstitutional violations of the right to Interstate Travel, a right our government has recognized even before the Constitution itself (i.e. in the Articles of Confederation).
Can one of those libertarian nuts please PLEASE please give Marjorie Taylor Greene one of their little pocket Constitutions and make her read it?
@raphjd I have it on both Xbox Series X and Playstation 5, but I haven't gotten to play it much on either of them. I think I've only gotten so far as visiting Hogsmeade on the Xbox version.
It has been fun so far, but I just don't have as much time as I'd like to game at the moment.
Technically, the allegation of rape against Kavanaugh has not been recanted. This particular nut just tried to take credit for an anonymous letter of someone else; the original anonymous accuser is still out there.
NYTimes: Fox Stars Privately Expressed Disbelief About Election Fraud Claims. ‘Crazy Stuff.’
From the article:
"Newly disclosed messages and testimony from some of the biggest stars and most senior executives at Fox News revealed that they privately expressed disbelief about President Donald J. Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, even though the network continued to promote many of those lies on the air."
Everything Everywhere All that Once is a fantastic movie. And it has a LGBT element to the story as well.
Is anyone else anticipating this game? I just want to be able to walk around freely inside Hogwarts and its grounds in this open world RPG.
@raphjd said in George Santos claimed he produced Spiderman Musical:
Also, how would you be able to stalk me on the internet, as you threatened previously, if you can't connect the dots?
When have I ever threatened to stalk you on the Internet? One, I don't believe in doxxing. And two, I don't care enough about you to think about you, good or ill, when I'm not literally staring at this website.
@raphjd and @blablarg18, you claim not to be defenders of Santos, yet here you are defending him. Methinks the lady doth protest too much. No one made you participate in this thread. YOU chose to come here and post defenses and deflections from Santos. You can't choose to do that and then pretend to be ambivalent on Santos.
@raphjd said in George Santos claimed he produced Spiderman Musical:
Why are you so fixated on Santos, while ignoring the massive list of lies Biden tells?
Here's why your Whataboutism doesn't work against me: I'm not a fan of Joe Biden. I'm not a fan of Hillary Clinton. I'm even not a fan of AOC.
All of the litany of people you keep throwing in my face....I'm not a fan of. Your argument fails. This discussion isn't about all liars; this post is about George Santos.
And none of you conservatives can bring yourself to admit how awful he is.
Oh, the Whataboutism is strong with the conservative idiots in this post.
Why can't you just admit that Santos is an embarrassment to your party? Doing so doesn't mean other people haven't ALSO lied. But you can't even bring yourself to admit Santos is a comical-level liar.
Which just goes to show, you guys will support anyone so long as the correct letter is after his name (R).
