Posts made by hubrys

@raphjd said in Douglass Mackey case: USA criminalizes memes. Literally.:

Why was a Trump supporter prosecuted, but a Trump hater was not?

I imagine they didn't prosecute the liberal comedian because she wasn't part of multiple online propaganda groups full of witnesses willing to come forward and testify that she did not, in fact, intend the meme as only a joke, but, in fact, did intend to affect the election and deprive some voters of their franchise. You know, evidence like they had against Mackey.

@blablarg18 said in Sandra Day O'Connor dead at 93:

Again, only one who tried to make Sandra's passing political is u, when u posted it there.

I assumed because she was the decisive vote on cases such as Planned Parenthood v. Casey (upholding Roe v. Wade), Grutter v. Bollinger (allowing colleges to use affirmative action in admissions), or and several cases upholding separation of church and state; that one or more of you numbskulls would turn the post into a political discussion.

I forgot that you're an idiot and probably had no idea what her jurisprudential oeuvre included.

As far as I can tell, the arguments being made by Mackey's attorneys on appeal are related to venue (i.e. was the Eastern District the correct court within which to prosecute Mackey) and certain Brady violations (i.e., alleging that the government did not properly or timely turn over potentially exculpatory evidence to the Defense).

I suspect that the reason he's being granted bond pending appeal is because the court believes they could possibly be successful on the Brady violations, which might have resulted in a conviction for a period of time shorter than the sum of time already spent incarcerated and the length of the appeals process. I mean, even as convicted, he was only giving 7 months. Maybe the appeals court believes he would have only gotten a couple of months had the evidence been properly handed over to the Defense.

Bond pending appeal here doesn't necessarily mean the appeals court believes he didn't commit conspiracy with the Internet posts.

@blablarg18 said in George Santos likely getting the boot...:

Santos' key legal infraction was, I believe, a paperwork thing worth like $500.

Santos lied on the FEC paperwork to make it seem like he had raised over $250,000 from third parties in a single quarter so that he could fraudulent get money from the national GOP party.

He also lied and said that he donated $500,000 personally to his campaign so that he could use donations to his campaign to reimburse himself for that personal loan.

He also stole several of his campaign contributors' identities in order to make multiple unauthorized charges to their credit cards/bank accounts, some of which went to his campaign, but many went directly to himself.

He also set up front companies to launder donations into his personal bank account. Basically, those companies solicited political donations to themselves, and then the companies paid out those funds directly to Santos.

@blablarg18 said in USSA watch: for J6, “All of the videotapes of all depositions are gone":

Transcripts don't mean shit if you can't prove they're correct as well as complete.

Because video is un-editable. Gotcha.

@raphjd said in Sandra Day O'Connor dead at 93:

I respect @hubrys for putting it in Politics & Debate because it could turn into a political discussion.

That was my thought process.

@blablarg18 said in George Santos likely getting the boot...:

Gays Against Groomers doesn't draw any connection between gay & pedophile.

LINK: Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on the Supreme Court, Is Dead at 93

I wasn't a fan of a lot of her jurisprudence, but still, RIP.

Bibi's main political message has been "I'm the only one who can keep you safe," so a dangerous Hamas is good for business to him and his party. It looks like Israelis are getting tired of Israel's far-right nonsense.

LINK: Idit Silman, a Likud Party minister, being heckled out of a hospital where she was trying to get a PR photo-op.

It will be ironic if he's attacked by some white supremacist homophobes while in jail. Who would ever believe him now?

Which witness information do you need? You can go read the thousands of pages of transcripts. Here, go help your friends in the GOP since they don't seem to be very good doing searches for information. That "news" article you linked is fucking retarded.

LINK: SELECT COMMITTEE WITNESS MATERIALS

@blablarg18 I'm against both pedophiles and homophobes, which is why I DON'T support groups like Gays Against Groomers. It's nothing more than a Ron DeSantis fan club run by self-hating lesbian Jaimee Michell. She's a far-right political troll.

And he's out...

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/12/01/nyregion/george-santos-expulsion-vote

LINK: Book-banner claims a book with a kiss in it turned her into a porn addict at school board meeting

Young woman testifies to school board that reading a Scholastic book featuring a kiss led her to seek out other books that brought her pleasure, ultimately leading to her doing Internet searches and becoming addicted to porn. As a result, she wants schools to stop holding Scholastic Book Fairs and providing Scholastic books.

The problem? She actually works for a Scholastic competitor who wants schools to host their book fairs instead. Basically, a conservative bookseller is cashing in on you book banning idiots.

Having met both of them, they really did seem like genuinely nice people even if you disagreed with some of their politics.

I believe they were both admitted to hospice care earlier this year in their home, with Jimmy Carter still helping as much as he could with Rosalynn's dementia. Now that she's dead, I expect to read that Jimmy has past any day now. Usually when one elderly spouse goes, the other one goes shortly afterward.

LINK: Weeks Before Election as Speaker, Johnson Lamented ‘Dark and Depraved’ Cultur

Mike Johnson’s comments on a prayer call in October, during which he talked about church attendance and L.G.B.T.Q. youth, offered an up-to-date distillation of his views.

LINK: Santos Faces New Expulsion Push Led by His Own Party After Damning Report

Looks like the liar is gonna get shown the door. Let's not forget the folks on here, like @raphjd who consistently defended him months back.

@blablarg18 said in USSA watch: Hamas supporters storm DNC headquarters - yes DNC:

Normal adults are not bitter when they can't talk to children about sex.

The problem is that the folks you guys support equate talking about homosexuality with talking about sex. For conservatives, being gay is ONLY about shoving dicks up asses. Most conservatives refuse to recognize that two men can love each other.

Telling children about non-heteronormative families is no different and can be done in the same manner as telling them about heteronormative families. When a teacher tells a student that Jack has a mommy and a daddy, she doesn't have to explain that daddy shoves his dick up mommy's pussy hole. Likewise, a teacher can explain that Jill has two mommies or two daddies, without telling the kids that one mommy shoves her fist up the other mommy's vag.

The way Florida and other states with "Don't Say Gay" bills would have it, it would not be allowed for the existence of LGBT persons to be acknowledged by the State until a child is an adult. Putting gay people in the same category as cigarettes or alcohol.

I refuse to accept that my existence is a secret that must be kept. The fact that you hate yourself so much that you go along with such efforts is truly sad to me.

@lololulu19 said in Hundreds of porn copyright infringement cases have been filed, how many went to trial?:

Lars Ulrich of DC/AC

Lars Ulrich of Metallica suing college kids for using Napster is the reason I have never since the 90's listened to a single Metallica song, and will never do so if I can help it.

@raphjd said in USSA watch: Hamas supporters storm DNC headquarters - yes DNC:

Liberals are so dumb they prop up those that would kill them.

Particularly funny coming from a queer who supports "Don't Say Gay" laws, politicians who are against Gay Marriage, and endorses groups like "Gays Against Groomers" even though it was formed by non-gay political operatives and continues to spread the idea that gays have a natural proclivity toward pedophilia.