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DnD Central / Re: What's Your Favorite U.S. Supreme Court decision?
Last post by ersi -
And I'll just leave you with this:  Among other frivolous appeals and motions, Trump attempted specifically to get the word "rape" ruled out. He said that the word would be a defamation of him. But instead it was ruled that when he objects to the word "rape" it is him defaming E. Jean Carroll.

You said that the appeal would be easy. To the contrary. Trump was judicially shut up and must pay up. He also tried the presidential immunity trick already in that trial to no avail.

You are favouring a rapist for your next president.[1]

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But, since you're such a legal scholar, why did Temporary Judge Merchan allow the prosecution to call Stormy Daniels as a witness?
My legal expertise of American law vastly surpasses yours, so watch and learn. I will speak to you when you deserve. Right now you are in deep deficit of merit.
1 Not to mention serial adulterer, convicted felon, business fraudster, insurrectionist, nepotist dictator wannabe, peddler of state secrets and election thief.↵
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DnD Central / Re: What's Your Favorite U.S. Supreme Court decision?
Last post by OakdaleFTL -
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That the E. Jean Carroll rape trial will be appealed successfully. Nope. Instead Trump got double-trialled for this due to repeated defamation, and another one is in the air. He is the rapist.
l'll just leave you with this: AP reported on the trial at the time and said "The verdict was split: Jurors rejected Carroll’s claim that she was raped, finding Trump responsible for a lesser degree of sexual abuse."  This was during the #MeToo movement.
Of course, you''d already joined the sufferers of Trump Derangement Syndrome. :)

But, since you're such a legal scholar, why did Temporary Judge Merchan allow the prosecution to call Stormy Daniels as a witness?
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DnD Central / Re: What's Your Favorite U.S. Supreme Court decision?
Last post by ersi -
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BTW: The SCOTUS Presidential Immunity case does not implicate the so-called Hush-Money case in Manhattan. Merchan has to go through the motions of "judging"...
The latter is one of your classic half-sentences, worth pointing out this time.

Merchan has to go through the motions of judging — judging what? Judging whether the immunity applies or not! This renders your first statement false. SCOTUS immunity ruling has direct implications on all Trump's cases, making the legal process over former presidents impossible, because judges have to do the extra work of adjudicating "absolute immunity" over every little piece of evidence, and this includes the hush money case, because the defence has already presented motions to that effect, e.g. that Trump's tweets in the hush money case are immune.

You are wrong as always. You should seriously ask why everybody half a globe away knows the American so-called system better than you do. Anyway, since this is so, you are the absolute doofus.

As a reminder, some of the more obvious things you have been wrong about earlier:
- That the E. Jean Carroll rape trial will be appealed successfully. Nope. Instead Trump got double-trialled for this due to repeated defamation, and another one is in the air. He is the rapist.
- That Durham Report will impeach Biden. Nope.
- That Biden is impeachable for bribery. Nope.
- That Biden did something corrupt in Ukraine. Nope.

Not to mention the far more obvious crimes of Trump, too obvious for you to comprehend.

You are always wrong about everything. Whenever you say somebody else is wrong, you are projecting. Go learn the difference between capital and Capitol, then maybe you can move on to harder things such as the fact that what the constitution allows is legal and what it prohibits is illegal, not the other way round as you have it right now.
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Hobbies & Entertainment / Re: Travelling and such
Last post by ersi -
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A decade ago I was chastised in France for buying a return ticket for that specific day and not stamping it at the return station. I still can't make heads or tails of it. Are they afraid you'll take the same trip two or three times in a day?
A quirk that I ran into when buying train tickets online in the Riviera: At first the form asks for the passenger's age range, then age in years, and a page further (before paying) the full name and birth date. It complains when there is a mismatch between the age in years and the birth date. And there is no way to backtrack. You'll have to start all over.

Probably some anti-terrorist preventive measure. Idk.

But the ticket checkers (or rabbit catchers, as we call them here) were okay as far as I personally was concerned. Every time I saw them, they had already caught someone else and they spent the entire trip on dealing with them and did not care about any other passengers. I did not have to prove my right to ride a single time.
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Hobbies & Entertainment / Re: Travelling and such
Last post by Frenzie -
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So ticket-selling machines are also a no-go in the first blush, not to mention that in a busy international airport, such as CDG, the machines have so long queues of people around them that there is extra staff managing the queues.
That's strange. The entire point of machines is supposed to be that you can dump 20 in busy spots without having to train or pay 20 people.

A decade ago I was chastised in France for buying a return ticket for that specific day and not stamping it at the return station. I still can't make heads or tails of it. Are they afraid you'll take the same trip two or three times in a day?
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Hobbies & Entertainment / Re: Travelling and such
Last post by ersi -
Once upon a time I ended up in Helsinki during some popular unrest. This partly ruined a trip that was meant to be relaxing.

Pretty much the same with Paris right now. There are nice calming parks in Paris, but the biggest ones of these, such as Tuileries and Jardin des Champs-Elysées and whatever grass it is next to the Eiffel tower, are under construction now, so calming is ruled out. The reconstructions to build various spots and venues for 2024 Paris Olympics disturb the traffic, including walking.

More damagingly I found that obtaining public transport tickets is too hard in Paris. The online app (which only works if you got internet, which is prohibitive in and of itself) only works by registering and pre-paying with NFC capability in your phone, and probably also pre-requires a plastic public-transport card (unless I did something wrong, but I tried some two dozen times, and I really should not have to try so many times). Paris public transport does not have a way to pay by flipping a bank card upon entry.

There are several kinds of ticket-selling machines, so the problem is that you need to:
1. Know that there are several kinds
2. Find the right one

So ticket-selling machines are also a no-go in the first blush, not to mention that in a busy international airport, such as CDG, the machines have so long queues of people around them that there is extra staff managing the queues.

Then there are ticket-selling points where you can buy the tickets from people over a counter. On CDG, those are impossibly overcrowded with hours-long queues again, so no-go. So if you land on CDG, you actually cannot get to town by public transport these days. But once in the city, it is possible to get around by metro, trains, and buses. There's tram too, but weirdly on routes that did not benefit me.

Another place I went in France this vacation was Antibes. Because it was too expensive to stay in Monaco. But Metropole shopping centre in Monaco is fancy. There was a nice cigar shop there. Cool that I managed to get back with still some money left on my bank account.

The main idea of this vacation was to get to try the TGV train from Paris towards French Riviera. Researching the train situation before the trip I found that a full next day of trains can be sold out. But then in Paris I found that a whole week of trains was sold out, including the first class. Another no-go.
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DnD Central / Re: What's Your Favorite U.S. Supreme Court decision?
Last post by OakdaleFTL -
As always, ersi: Hand waving, and vehemence from you! Shall we wait and see what happens? (Or will you vilify the U.S. justice system and democracy for not agreeing with the High Holy ersi, judge of all that is — what? Your preconceptions?!)

BTW: The SCOTUS Presidential Immunity case does not implicate the so-called Hush-Money case in Manhattan. Merchan has to go through the motions of "judging"...[1] But even I can see at a glance that if there's any new evidence or admissibility of evidence problems, the lower court has the responsibility to make such determinations; not an appeals court and not SCOTUS.
Well, he wanted this case! And his daughter has likely made enough money off of it! He'll likely retire from his temporary gig before the election. :)
1 Pretend to "judg-y" stuff! :) ↵
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DnD Central / Re: What's Your Favorite U.S. Supreme Court decision?
Last post by ersi -
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I didn't claim that the recent SCOTUS case on Presidential Immunity had any application to the so-called "Hush Money" case.
But SCOTUS apparently does. Can you defend them or can we agree that SCOTUS is indefensible? The problem is that SCOTUS is indefensible on more points than just this one.

And it's a bigger problem that you are consistent on only one point: Trump is holy!

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(A press release of Cohen's plea deal is here. Parse it as you will: Trump was not charged. I wonder why? :) )
You already forgot that Trump is a convicted felon in connection with those very events?! Facts are clearly not your thing, never were.

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So: If someone claims I benefited from someone else's criminal actions, I'm guilty too? (Interesting theory — of justice.)
Where does this idiotic baby-babble come from? Do you need to be reminded multiple times over a single post what case we are talking about here?

Of course you're guilty, when the "someone" is your goon whose job it is to cover up your crimes, misdemeanors and self-inflicted reputational damage by whatever means, criminal or other, because that's what he is getting paid for from you. It's how mafia dons go down.

I see you wrote some more meanwhile. But you did not say anything that changes anything, so nevermind. Except:

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Unfortunately, the President has the authority to declassify documents!
So you're in the declassify-by-thinking-about-it camp :lol: Thanks for confirming that you're totally in the imaginary alternative facts universe.