(🔐) In a secretly recorded call between Lin Wood and Patrick Byrne, the men—one an ex-Rittenhouse lawyer—claim Rittenhouse is being puppeted by far-right entities.
(PS) The picture attached to the PROOF article above—which offers a lengthy analysis of the secretly recorded Byrne-Wood call—shows Joe Oltmann on the left and Byrne on the right, because a big part of the article is about Joe Oltmann. This (below) is L. Lin Wood, lest we forget:
(PS2) The upshot is that there’s *nothing* organic about anything Rittenhouse does now. He’s a young man who is getting rich and famous by going wherever a series of handlers and puppeteers tell him to go. That isn’t a conspiracy theory; it’s literally *how MAGA celebrity works*.
(PS3) The second Rittenhouse sues Whoopi Goldberg, her lawyers will have a *field day* deposing him to find out the shadowy entities who now bankroll him and direct his actions. Any lawsuit he files has *nothing* to do with *him*—and everything to do with an ongoing insurrection.
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Hey, anyone have any possible theories as to why racist Trump voters would be willing to believe Bill Cosby is a serial rapist but not Trump, when the two have faced a nearly identical number of allegations to that effect? Any idea of what would motivate racist Trump voters here?
I keep banging my head against a wall on this, as voters who support the convicted felon Trump are super anti-crime and super respect women, so they wouldn't ignore dozens of violent crime allegations just because of race or political preferences.
So what's really going on here?
It's so important that journalists not call Trump voters disgusting loser racists who hate women until every other possibility explaining them ignoring 34 felony convictions and 67 sex-crime allegations has been explored, so help me out—can we run through them with Cosby in mind?
Nearly all net-positive interstate migration in the US is to the worst states in the country, make it make sense
What we *should* be doing is acknowledging that nearly every red state is a failed state and unpacking why that is and emulating what the blue/purple states are doing
And before anyone references cost of living, look, I get it—I too have lived through some extremely economically precarious years—but that doesn't change the fact that if you're moving to a wildly affordable state the chances that it is *also* a wildly shitty state are very high.
My state is one of the best in every metric, so desirable that Granite Staters regrettably try to convince folks not to move here, including by lying about the state (particularly Manchester). And yes, it's expensive. It *also* has too few people for the number of jobs available.
He has no plans to leave office or allow free elections. Nor are his plans hidden—they're all unfolding in plain sight.
The Insurrection never ended and the Christofascists won't stop until our democracy is gone.
Choose who you'll be in this moment.
If I had told you a year ago that Marjorie Taylor Greene wouldn't be radical enough for MAGA, nor Lauren Boebert, nor Thomas Massie, nor John Cornyn, nor the senator-doctor who made Kennedy Jr. DHHS chief... if I told you he would be openly stealing our money to fund terrorism...
If I told you he'd be on his fourth war. If I told you he'd be deporting citizens, even killing us in the streets. If I told you he'd demolish the White House. If I told you he'd declare himself the arbiter of when America goes to war. If I told you he'd be an open war profiteer.
The BARE MINIMUM you do to a criminal defense lawyer who signs a non-prosecution agreement with HIS OWN CLIENT is disbar him.
But that is insufficient for Todd Blanche, who took an OFFICIAL ACTION as acting AG as part of a BRIBE to hold his job permanently.
He must be indicted.
It gets worse. This breaking news confirms Blanche knew Trump had no case against the IRS when he gave his client $1.8B in taxpayer cash and promised never to prosecute him. Blanche will now become permanent AG. This is a criminal bribe—a TEXTBOOK example. thedailybeast.com/trumps-18b-slu…
To put a finer point on this: the Attorney General of the United States is a felon. Not a minor thug, but a felon who committed one of the most serious offenses identified in the text of our Constitution...in broad daylight.
This wasn't bad judgment; it's worthy of imprisonment.
Dusty turds like this get follows off the ignorance of their readers. Bush v. Gore *infamously* seized both federal *and* state issues from the Florida Supreme Court—in the former case instituting a one-off 14th Am. reading it immediately abandoned—and I bet this troll knows it.
By a 5-4 vote, conservatives stole the 2000 election by ending counting—a decision properly for the Florida Supreme Court on the basis of a state "safe harbor" provision. A study later showed Gore would've won had counting gone on.
SCOTUS knew it. I know it. This troll knows it.
So what we have here is bad lawyers lying to nonlawyers about a bad decision bad judges made 25+ years ago. And everyone pretends they read a ruling they didn't because clicks are all that matters—rule of law is gone, just like this dry turd and his friends planned it. Sickening.
I want to mention a couple of items that lay outside this already sprawling report.
First, that this war about to become illegal under U.S. law—and long illegal under international law—is in the midst of causing a global economic collapse, energy crisis, food crisis, and more.
The UAE is leaving OPEC. Saudi Arabia is leaving LIV. Israel is annexing almost 10% of Lebanon. Gas prices are out of control, so much so that Trump stans on cable news are simply making up numbers all of us know are false. The jet fuel crisis will shortly become a travel crisis.