Yeah, I heard Abrams say that exact line at some convention while promoting the first Star Trek, and my first thought was,’Then why in fuck’s name are you writing and directing a movie based on something you don’t like?’

You speak the truth. Everything Lucas had to say about The Force Awakens was accurate, and I’ve been wondering how long it will take people to come to the realization that it really wasn’t anything special. It is basically Star Trek all over again. The last couple of TNG movies were pretty weak, and everyone got…

When Lucas was throwing shade at The Force Awakens he wasn’t really incorrect or even mean. He just said it’s not where he would have gone with it and he sure the fans will like what they get, and they deserve every bit of it.

“we base those electoral college votes on states, rather than on population”

Is the prize a perpetual system of men raping women and getting away with it because society broadly either supports the victims or makes excuses for the perp without any mind for the evidence?

You almost made America great again.

From Diana’s reporting it sounds like Doe was disputing whether she sent those texts to Rose because she was supposedly passed out. She stated that she didn’t text that way, and the defense used previous texts with similar language to refute that. So I they may be using that example to tarnish her character with the…

the burden of proof is on the plaintiff in civil cases. They confused plaintiff with prosecution, but it is also a big part of American civil cases.

Putting the burden of proof on the prosecution instead of the defendant Is a big part of American law.

How else would you try a case where the facts are in dispute and either one party or both parties are lying?

You don’t see how someone who is (what seems to be very likely in this case) falsely accusing someone of sexual assault for financial gain may negatively impact actual sexual assault victims?

Ulterior from ... what exactly? You do understand that this is a civil case, right? Money was always going to be the only thing that she could get out of it, she can’t request that he be deported or put in the stocks or something.

I would go so far as to say it looks quite bad.

Werly does a lot of work on it: https://twitter.com/WerlySportsLaw

This doesn’t look good for her, right?

+1. She’s also doing a fantastic job presenting information about the case in an impartial and factual manner, which I know many would find difficult to do.

Ya, fuck that whole innocent until proven guilty thing, ammirite?

Diana thank you for keeping this story front & center, it is not really being reported on that heavily.

The Concourse is now Gawker 2.0 — didn’t you get the memo?

You missed the second-biggest tail risk: Democrat wins the White House.