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Well to be fair, there’s also Bob Menendez. The FBI should be focused on political corruption and drop all this stuff about traditional Catholics, soccer moms upset at the school board and sending 5 undercover agents to infiltrate three hillbillies to entrap them in a conspiracy.

Breast reduction surgery? Why would she want to conceal that? Oh nevermind it’s not my business, but I wouldn’t care either way because it’s not my business. I know a woman who had reduction surgery because for some it can be a lot of weight to carry around all the time, and it causes back pain. It’s a real thing.

Whomever stole and leaked her medical files though should have been dealt with.

We need more of this. The leftists agitators are way more organized. They literally have campus grievance groups that meet every week and recruit the disgruntled. They can surely protest; but when they camp out and interfere in others’ right to peace or to attend classes they cross the line. And they are exposed - these are not “pro-Palestinian” protesters that’s just their cover story. They are mostly a collection of anti-Israel, anti-America, anti-Semite, pro-Marxist wannabe “revolutionaries” with $100,000 a year educations who want to “fix” alleged, ancient, selective injustices with real future injustices. They are insane people. They are not well informed.

Maybe the only way to really address them is visceral. They can’t be debated with at this time especially while they are in their element. But counter protest in a big way. Raise the old glory. Sing the national anthem. Chant USA! Just let them know they are outnumbered.

What’s her health secret? Did Ted Danson give it to her?

No we’re cool. I took no offense.

If a dozen White people commit the same alleged crime, are investigated but the AG decided to no file; then a 13th guy who is Black does substantially the same thing and has the book thrown at him, he can make an argument of selective prosecution. What is so different about the facts of the 13th case that warrants prosecution when the previous 12 were not? On the surface it’s just that because he’s Black. The prosecution will have to respond showing it’s not based on the accused himself but on a material difference in the facts of the case. Similar arguments for vindictive prosecution - there have always been disputes about documents when a high officer leaves. The agencies typically go back and forth discussing the nature and content of the document and resolve the issues between the parties. Sometimes it takes a long time. IIRC Obama still has some disputes with the national archives that are unresolved but they keep discussing it. They don’t call in the FBI because they don’t like the answers they got.

It’s a safety mechanism in our justice system to prevent the government from doing what it has been doing - flexing its powers against one man on every possible allegation because of who he is rather than what he did and how it compares to the way they usually handles very similar circumstances with others. What we are witnessing is what Stalin’s thug said “show me the man and I’ll find you the crime” because if they fine tooth comb over anyone’s life the government can contort the interpretation of various laws and statutes to charge him with whatever they want. This is what banana republics and authoritarian regimes do.

George Washington warned us about party politics.

Sorry not Pecker, Davidson.

Was the statement made under penalty of perjury? Anyway what does Pecker know. He said she said he wasn’t likely in the alleged bedroom, if the alleged bedroom ever existed.

You could be right, or it could just be all these prosecutors grandstanding and hoping to be the one to take him down. Maybe there’s a bounty the first one to get him gets a fat private sector job somewhere in Silicon Valley or the next Solyndra. It’s so obviously coordinated by the White House and Dem operatives throwing everything they can concoct at him. But they can’t really control the timing as we have seen. Jack smith is ticked at the delays. Fani Willis shot herself in the foot with her affair and the “cash” reimbursements.

100s convert to Islam in prison, too. Coincidence?

Chinatown and Little Tokyo have become hollowed out shells of their former glory. At least during daytime. Many of the once great places didn’t survive the Pandemic. We used to go before dodger games years ago as they are also close by the stadium But alas, our spot is gone. Used to be packed.

I agree Olevrra street is underwhelming.

Korea town is booming, it’s maybe 2 or so miles east and a few blocks north of the Peterson Museum. One place Chosun Galbee on Olympic 1 street west of Western is popular with the local Koreans, but it’s pricy. Delicious though. There are plenty of smaller places and all you can eats in the area. It’s fairly safe there.

Canters deli on Fairfax is a few blocks north and to the west of the museum. Fairfax north of Beverly. Food is very consistent if you like deli food. Big menu anyway if you don’t and they have a full bar. Otherwise people like Langers deli but their poltics are, well it’s LA. They close at night and are just west of downtown so maybe not convenient.

As for attractions, well heck I wish I could remember more than a few. I moved out of that area and live outside the city and rarely return these days. There is the LA Country museum a few blocks east of the Petersen. And the La Brea tar pits are right there too. Worth a pop in since it’s just blocks from the Petersen. Maybe I’ll think of a few more.

Thanks

Not just looking under every rock, but inventing crap out of thin air like paying foreign spies to make up lies allegedly obtained from other foreign spies; leaking lies to a compliant media happy to repeat them; attempts to entrap him, his family and his staff; filed perjured FISA warrants, wrapping people up in process crimes such as they did to General Flynn; claiming that him asking a foreign government about corruption and blackmail that Biden openly admitted to is not part of his job as POTUS; cutting video clips out of context to intentionally misrepresent his statements; exploiting and extending the pandemic to damage his term; encouraging race riots… they did everything possible’. They even had agents waiting at the airport to nab that Papadopolous fellow - they had someone give him $10,000 in cash in Europe and had hoped to catch him at the airport with undeclared suspicious cash but he was clever enough to know it was suspicious and didn’t bring the money in, so they had no case. The bills may have even been counterfeit to entrap him on that charge too. But they were fully expecting to nab him and slander him for taking a cash bribe and/or circulating counterfeit bills.

The list of machinations and manipulations against him and his family is endless and will never be fully knowable. It’s dangerous to let our Republic be run by such people.

And this is what we get for it - unmitigated illegal immigration of military aged men, three new foreign theaters of war, ballooning debt, $100s of billions in new handouts, onerous new regulations and mandates all designed to further entrench and enrich the entrenched and enriched interests of a very select few.

Yeah I can be long winded. I’m tired of being snarky. And my thoughts aren’t as concise I wish them to be.

No, not stupid. As Responsibility2nd said he was being facetious. Mocking the court “I’d love to testify but the judge will fine me or lock me up for speaking about the witnesses”. Or course, on the stand, the gag order does not apply. But the judge could be a jerk and sustain every objection to his testimony as irrelevant and try to prevent him from speaking his mind.

I don’t even know exactly how this is falsifying business records. They put it as an expense, as attorney fees. But even if it was “hush money” it is still an expense. I’m not sure how you put “hush money” on the profit and loss statement. Say he paid it off to settle a dispute, or to protect his business from slander or something like that. It’s still an expense. Maybe advertising expense. Or misc expense. Doesn’t really matter, it’s an expense.

Even if they claim it was done for campaign reasons, it’s still an expense. I know they tied this to a federal campaign violation; which every other prosecutor looked at and said it’s not a crime or not a crime worth pursuing. Gary Hart did the same thing.

So you have maybe one minor campaign finance thing - maybe - because this is not the first time a politician bought silence. And it’s arguably not a campaign thing as the witnesses said this happens all the time with non politicians. And it all went between the corporate lawyer and the extortionist’s lawyer not even the campaign. And it’s arguably a payment to protect his name or his family from the nuisance and embarrassment unrelated to the campaign.

Now, supposedly it was an asset purchase and not an expense. I read that it was structured such that he bought the story rights, which means she can’t talk about it. Didn’t she even have to give the money back? I seem to recall something about that. Any way Say technically it’s an asset not an expense. Maybe that exposes him to a tax audit thing ( or since it’s trump, a criminal tax fraud case lol). The witness today said something to the effect that the story had ongoing value. So if this is this case then yes it is a false business record. It was an asset purchase investment, not an expense. But the statutes of limitations is expired on that claim in New York unless it is also tied to the other allegation. So if it was an asset purchase and the story had value - then in no way is it a campaign violation and there is no “second misdemeanor” that makes the first one a felony. He bought the story rights and can choose to produce a book or movie or do nothing at all with it. Many stories get bought but never turned into films or published books. So if it’s an asset purchase then there is no campaign issue, and thus no crime to piggy back onto, and the case should be dismissed because the statutes of limitations have run out.

This entire case is ridiculous. I know Trump can’t say too much - not because of the gag order as much as he has to reserve all his possible defenses. But he’s right the case is a sham political persecution run from the White House. The White House and the DNC have been after him for 9 years with every batcrap crazy theory they can muster.

Ouch. That seems to be a common story with EVs. They have all kinds of sensors and cameras and wires. It’s not like A regular car where you just put a new bumper on. Some of these new ones have unibody designs, so you can’t even replace a quarter panel and with all the sensors and wires you can’t just bang dents out either. I don’t know the specifics on that car or that accident but I have heard stories of Teslas just getting totaled by the insurance company. Cheaper to replace than repair.

Another function of the cost may also be lack of parts. Tesla parts are all Tesla parts. Maybe true of Rivian. They don’t have aftermarket supplies or parts made by 3rd party vendors so you gotta buy them directly. And, as the story said, only 3 certified techs who, while certified, may not actually have a lot of real world experience. It’s a new car company with not a lot of cars on the road so even if certified they maybe never did the job before. So there is no competitive pricing and the work may take longer.

Ok so he said what most people already know and believe. He didn’t go far enough though. These occupationists were behaving like segregationists of the 1950s and 60s. Asking for proof of loyalty to the cause, blocking Jewish students specifically, setting up checkpoints and blocking the view inside their camps with barricades and planks and umbrellas. If anything went wrong inside, the people are trapped, at risk, maybe harmed or even technically kidnapped. Yes they should not disturb the campus environment, vandalize etc… but they were doing worse things than that and setting up for potentially worse. During occupy Wall Street there were a number of reported sexual assaults etc. There was a fire risk, there was risk of assaults, there was risk of stampedes and more.

No that’s a different EV company. Rivian makes standard size EVs and pickups on the same frame. Last year sold about 50,000 Vehicles. They have a lot of cash but are burning through it - 50,000 is not enough and they have a lot of start up costs. If they had Tesla technology they might sell better but I don’t see a merger in their future - maybe, maybe some licensing for full self drive technology.

They are not cheap trucks either. Quite pricey in fact.

That’s a lot of beer. They could create a rager endowment fund. Put it into money markets earning 5% that’s $20,000 a year in gains - it could fund many parties over the next many years without tapping into the principle. Heck, they could buy their own bar!