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Prosecutor won’t oppose Trump sentencing delay in hush money case after high court immunity ruling
  • Because the prosecution used some tweets from when he was in office to highlight intent, or something like that. The supreme court ruling makes them arguably "official presidential activity" and thus can't be used as evidence. So, any verdict stemming from the use of such evidence is invalid.

    I'm in favor of Biden testing the scope of this newly invented supreme court ruling with a few targeted drone strikes, perhaps, but maybe I'm just a bit pissed.

  • "independent journalism"
  • If Biden drops out of the race, the candidate would be Harris. He'd resign, endorse Harris, and it'd get confirmed at the convention. The only "fresh new, younger face" would be the VP pick.

    I'm not saying that's a problem, but the idea that that an open floor battle at the convention would be a good idea is nuts, and just discarding the sitting VP like that would probably shatter the democratic coalition.

  • Move over, Ford and Chevy: Kei trucks are pulling up as customers opt for smaller, cheaper vehicles
  • Smart cars had to pass US crash test standards and have the appropriate safety equipment. The kei trucks that you can currently import and use are 25+ years old and wouldn't have even passed US standards back then. Your legs are the crumple zone in these things.

    I assume that new ones would have a chance, but it'd be expensive for a manufacturer to modify and certify for the US market. Small cars haven't sold well here, and the profit margins are slim.

    Maybe with the recent size and price increases in autos here, well see some movement. I'd love a modern Honda kei to go with my element.

  • Trump supporters try to doxx jurors and post violent threats after his conviction
  • They're not silly at all, they're thugs. They want to influence the next one by showing the cost of going against them.

    Now, we're lucky that they're mostly grifting, incompetent, blustery cowards, so the risk isn't what it could be.

  • Demonstrators vow to disrupt DNC protest in Chicago with or without a permit
  • Are they going to disrupt the GOP convention since their policy position appears to be "kill them all"? Well, all of the ones overseas... the domestic ones can be sent to concentration camps.

    Seems like that'd be a better target.

  • Morehouse Students Turn Their Backs, Walk Out of Graduation as Joe Biden Gives Speech
  • Gosh, you mean that he's playing by the rules that the republicans have put in place and not unilaterally disarming? How scandalous.

    They should flush the entire "money is speech" concept, but until we can replace most of the SC with people who don't suck, we work with what we got.

    Oddly, sort of related to some of these same complainers sitting out 2016. Weird how elections can have consequences.

  • State Farm discontinuing 72,000 home policies in California in latest blow to state insurance market
  • Not (re)building in areas prone to wildfires, mudslides, floods, and the like would be a good start. Otherwise, someone has to pay to rebuild when the ever more frequent disaster hits. State farm and other insurers suck in many ways, but this isn't unreasonable on their part.

  • Donald Trump stung as new poll shows how unpopular he is
  • It's probably more due to increased asymmetric partisan polarization than anything. The same issue shows in polling on the economy. When Trump was in, republicans reported that the economy was great. As soon as Biden took office, the economy was doing horribly.

  • Why Is Mike Johnson Flying a Christian Nationalist Flag Outside His Office?
  • Unfortunately, republicans will quite likely take the senate in the next cycle. With Manchin retiring, WV is essentially a republican lock. More broadly, Democrats are defending 20 seats to 11 for republicans, and the lowest hanging fruit for democratic pickups would be Rick Scott (FL) or Ted Cruz (TX), and as much as they both suck, that's still going to be tough.

    So, just to retain their slim margin, they'd have to defend all of their other seats and knock off one of those two.

  • For a Republican Party struggling with abortion messaging, Haley now appears to have the answer
  • If she only had a record to check... oh, wait, she does:

    Haley has consistently supported bills that give rights to an unborn baby and restrict abortion, except when the mother's life is at risk. In 2006, as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, Haley voted for the Penalties for Harming an Unborn Child/Fetus law, which asserted that an act of violence against a fetus is akin to a criminal act against the mother. She has also re-signed a new state law that bans abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy.[38]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Nikki_Haley

    Haley is opposed to Jail or Death Penalty for women who have abortions.[41][42][43]

    Is that the moderate republican position?