Posts made by hubrys

@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 said in DOJ Sued for Refusing to Explain Why It Won’t Protect Conservative Supreme Court Justices’ Homes From Protests:

Imagine if the DOJ under Trump was this partisan. Liberals would never shut up about it.

If I didn't know that you're just a colossal idiot, then I would have said the above was expert trolling.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-life-herschel-walker-paid-for-girlfriends-abortion-georgia-senate

As the Bible says, "Do as I say, not as I do!" Herschel Walker, running for Senator in Georgia, believes that there should be no exceptions to the ban on abortions, not even rape or incest... Except when it's his girlfriend that's pregnant! In that case, he's perfectly willing to fund her getting her inside's scraped like a fisherman's knuckles.

What an absolute hypocrite! This man is such a moron. It will be a sad day for Georgia, and the country, if he wins this election.

@tnar said in "LatinX" and the 5 year u-turn:

well, this was fun for a while, but now you just sound like the ranting media idiots, so I guess this interesting discussion is done.

Unfortunately, raphjd is not here to debate anyone. Since Tucker Carlson and his A/M radio can't hear him shouting in agreement, he comes here to shout screeds at anyone who dares to participate in this Forum.

@raphjd said in Trump Wins Ruling in Rape Accuser Carroll’s Defamation Lawsuit:

Rape cases, as far as I know, have a time limit.

I believe the State of New York no longer has a statute of limitations for first-degree rape (though I didn't go onto LexisNexis to confirm). And she will be able to bring the civil rape case because New York adopted an extension of the civil statute of limitations for rape as well.

@raphjd said in Newly Released Clip Shows Massive Trump Flag Used as ‘Battering Ram’ to Attack Police on Jan. 6:

Do you have any proof that Trump told them to do it?
If not, then what are you trying to say?

These questions are why the January 6th Commission exists. You cannot demand evidence, as a means to defend Trump, and then also be against forming a commission to gather said evidence.

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

BTW, do you not realize that when you take out a loan, BOTH SIDES, do a valuation on the property that secures the loan?

So you think laws which prohibit lying to banks and lenders don't come into play if the bank or lender catches you lying to them? It's only a crime if you don't get caught?

@raphjd Just looks to me like the Secret Service or his handlers are signaling to him that they're ready to escort him away from the event. He's clearly communicating with someone off camera.

But keep trying. At least he's not as bad as Reagan, whose handlers would turn the lights off in a room to signal him to stop talking like he was a damn parakeet being put under a blanket.

@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.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/nyregion/trump-fraud-lawsuit-ny.html

Trump reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in benefit by overvaluing his assets by billions of dollars. It will be interesting to see if the US Attorneys investigate for violations of Federal law based on the evidence transmitted to them by the NY AG's office.

@raphjd said in Senate to hold off on marriage vote until after mid-term election:

For 52 years, Dems have claimed they support us, but they keep stabbing us in the back.

And the GOP stabs us in the chest, yet you love them for some reason.

@raphjd Again, I don't understand why, after you can list out all of those facts of Republicans voting for the laws, that you still act like they're the (and I'm quoting my original comment here) "sole fault of the Democrats."

You'd think, if you didn't have a diseased brain, that you'd hate the GOP just as much as the Democrats for such laws.

@raphjd said in Senate to hold off on marriage vote until after mid-term election:

Except for during Clinton when they passed the most homophobic laws the US ever had

Only a diseased brain like yours would think something like the Defense of Marriage Act, authored by GOP Senator Bob Barr and proposed to the House by GOP Rep. Don Nickles, and voted for by every single GOP member of both Houses of Congress (except openly gay GOP Rep. Steve Gunderson) is the sole fault of the Democrats.

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

@raphjd

LINK: Explanation by non-profit, non-partisan science advocacy group that explains why the study you linked to is actually bullshit.

Nope, the science doesn't back you up.

@blablarg18 As I said above, the recording of the phone calls doesn't answer the question whether the calls were genuine swatting calls or staged. It could have been a crazy person on the line, or it could have been a person pretending to be a crazy person on the line. As I've said before, I'm going to wait until the investigation is over and we know who was the actual caller before I trust anything related to MTG.

As for her being suicidal, um, there's very little risk of police accidentally shooting MTG. Affluent white women don't fear police shooting them by mistake. Anyway, didn't the security footage that was released show that her people met the cops at the entrance of the property? I don't think there was any room for a mistake to have occurred. She knew the cops were responding before they got there because they likely called the residence while officers were in route, especially on the second swatting.

MTG chose to be a hack and a troll and pulled shenanigans in the past. Along with that comes a distrust from the public when shit happens to her.

@blablarg18 As far as I've seen, the only thing released recently was MTG's security footage of the police arriving. However, I don't think we "deniers" were denying that the police were called or came to her house. We were questioning whether or not it was actually one of her political opponents doing the calling. Even a recording released from the police wouldn't answer that question. If she was responsible for swatting herself, I'm sure she'd have the caller say something similar to what was said.

I'll reserve my judgment one way or the other until the investigation, if any, is concluded to discover the actual culprit.

I'll wait until the dust settles before I believe this isn't just her own doing to gain publicity for her anti-trans bill. It is very strange that a "swatting" perpetrator would so willing give the police so much detail about why they were doing it. That's suspicious, is all I'm saying.