e e cummings and bell hooks better watch their backs.
I read the quotes from the defence objections to Mrs Piper, former criminal lawyer.
She said “This is their defence?”
“Apparently so, “ i replied.
“Oh my God” she said.
A reasonable response.
All caps, upper and lower case letters, clearly written with a different pen but not red ink?
WTF is this a SovCit ‘That’s not MY name that’s my strawman’s name. BOB SHIT4BRAINS is my Corporate Fiction! I’m Bob of the Family Shit4Brains!’ defense?
To think, after decades, we finally have something that makes the Twinkie Defense look like sound legal strategy.
On second thought, the Twinkie Defense kinda worked.
I demand comic sans.
There are no other names on the ‘list,’ because it is not a list.
Everybody who has been on this board for a good long while knows a list needs at least three items.
I don’t think you actually understand what the Twinkie Defense actually was about.
Minor, but still warrants mentioning: although most folks (at least I hope) would get from context, yada yada, that that quote wasn’t from me, it’d still be cool if the quote attribition was correct.
Party on.
Reminds me of the Michigan AG race some years back. The Republican candidate was named “Cox”. The Democrat was named “Peters”. Cox won but Peters is now one of our US Senators.
Sword fight!
“42% of internet quotes are misattributed”, Abraham Lincoln.
“As everyone knows, 67.3% of all statistics are made up.” - Gandhi
A sentencing update:
I am glad his daughter is blaming Trump
“My father’s name wasn’t on all the flags that were there that day, that everyone was carrying that day. He is not the leader,” Peyton said through tears, at times pausing with her hand on her heart.
Reffitt was adamant in earlier hearings about being the first January 6 defendant to take his case to trial. But on Monday, in plea for leniency in advance of his sentencing, he said that he was a “f**ing idiot" who was parroting "founding fathers and stupid sht like that” around January 6, and that he doubled down on that rhetoric to “garner money” for his family during the course of his legal battle.
He tried to play the Trump game of “Grift the Rubes”, but lost.
It’s much harder to play the game when you’re one of the pieces.
“I’M GOING TO TAKE MY JANUARY 6TH DEFENSE TO THE PEOPLE!”
The People:
From @Elendil_s_Heir 's CNN article:
The hefty sentence, paired with the fact that every January 6 defendant to face a jury has been convicted
They’re not getting much traction with that “just a patriot who’s trying to save the Republic” stuff
Well, the judge imposes a sentence, not The People, but I take your point. And she is a Trump appointee, FWIW.
Well, the orange one was not able to totally corrupt every appointment. A few bad apples who do their job according to an upright moral code sometimes slip in. That and they are largely immune to retaliation.