Nope. Back in the beginning of the GOP primaries, when folks were still thinking of him as a joke candidate. That would probably have put the nail in his coffin. By the time he had the nomination it was too late. The GOP base doesn’t care what you do or how unqualified you are as long as you have an R next to your…

And the occasional gallows humor that only uses the extreme violence of Nazism as a backdrop (trigger warning violence)

His attorneys should be disciplined by the bar for filing that suit. It’s literally a question asking what she felt, her responding that she thought in her head ‘oh yes he did oh yes he did”. Legally speaking, THAT is not even a statement about what happened all those years ago. That is ONLY a statement about what…

It’s not a “cross complaint”. The State filed a criminal indictment against him. He filed a civil complaint against Jabbari. The State isn’t in the civil case, and Jabbari isn’t in the criminal case.

No attempted murder? He literally aimed for (and hit) the kid’s head and fired at least one additional shot (striking the kid’s arm). This is the first story I’ve read where it was clarified he wasn’t even knocking on the door. He just rang the doorbell. That’s it. With knocking on the door, that could mean anything…

They reported on that alleged multiple accusers bit in their very first report on Majors. It was based on hearsay. Nothing more has been reported anywhere further supporting that hearsay story. You want them to keep repeating the hearsay? There is not a single statement from any woman anywhere claiming they were a…

TheRoot’s original article about this incident basically sided with the police in tone, though it did provide the statements from Majors’ lawyer. At that time, I noted that if what Majors’ lawyer was saying was true (even then - maybe 24 to 48 hours after the arrest - she was already stating forcefully that she had…

“However, as Insider reports, per Majors’ lawyer and another law enforcement source, the district attorney’s office decided to deactivate the credit card without explanation or commentary.” It was the police department “i-card” requiring that Jabbari be taken into custody, which was deactivated by the prosecutors at…

That does not appear to be the situation here. It’s more that they only get one bite at the apple. A critical tactical error closes the door. OJ is the perfect example. If they never tried to make him put on those gloves, he would almost certainly have been convicted. This is not quite that situation, but as their 2nd…

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It may certainly be proven false. However, the original story itself is literally the same thing. “Police say that...” is the way these stories read. We tend to assume they’re true, and they’re definitely not always true. The “police say...” version of the Uvalde shooting is a good example. Major’s attorney…

That Variety article is from about a month and a half ago. One of its basis for questioning the text message evidence that Majors wasn’t guilty was questioning how she came to be unconscious and that sounded like a stereotypical abused woman situation. However, this article refers to videos showing both no injury…

Well, if what his defense attorney was saying from the day after the incident was true, there was a claim that a lot of objective evidence was there proving he was innocent and indicating that the alleged victim was denying it happened. Some responded that if that response from the alleged victim was true it might be…

Well, if that description of the police trying to lead the alleged victim in her allegations is true, it reminds me of a Katt Williams bit, in which he describes police questioning a woman, who describes hitting her guy and knocking him out and their response was “yes, but as he collapsed unconscious, did one of his…

If it’s anything like USA’s civil forfeiture, if he’s been earning money off of these illegal actions, they would treat all of the profits as the fruit of that criminal enterprise and subject to summary seizure by the Government.

I figure the biggest problem with the Bechdel Test is that most stories are going to be set in a world something like our own, male dominated world. If it’s a period piece, it will be even worse. Even if it’s sci fi set in the future, it’s a future imagined by someone influenced by our current, male dominated world.…

Every State that has enacted an abortion ban has either banned all abortions after a certain date, which included aborting ectopic pregnancies (unless the woman is on the verge of death, which can mean she will lose her uterus even if they save her life), or else the law had to include (or they had to enact an…

Meek Mill’s weird response (as I interpret it) appears to be that it shouldn’t be addressed via public shaming on social media but rather it should be dealt with by Suki “slap[ping]” Osiris, or in a “street” way, or having Suki’s brother “rumble” with him, but it’s none of his business. A slap or getting beat by her…

I think the article’s author is creating part of the confusion here by linking the tweet directly to J.K. Rowling. The tweet says: “On our updated Transgender Topical Guide: trans-exclusionary radical feminist. We recommend avoiding the vague and politicized term to describe cisgender women or others who object to the…

“Disturbingly though, that agreement had another clause: She consented to forgo any possible legal claims against those at the helm of Being Mortal—which, of course, included Disney and Searchlight.” That’s standard practice. The settlement would involve a broadly worded general release to make sure that payment was…