That’s not medieval, that’s classical!
Edit: I should have know a brave soul would have swept in with an act of pedantry before I arrived.
If he doesn’t get immunity in these civil cases, which he won’t, he doesn’t get it in federal cases either, is my understanding.
The phones of a 100+ Capitol police and their families will be ringing off the hook soon.
I hope so. Get in while he still has some assets to seize.
But it’s such a cool idea (metaphorically)! Anyway, thank you for the info.
Ugh. I started to read The Library at Mount Char, but after the brass bull scene I couldn’t go on.
Shouldn’t it be a brass elephant anyway?
Well, if we’re talking about Trump, which one’s tackier? Go with that.
In that case, it’d be a gigantic pair of brass truck nuts.
In the modern era, where fines are just paid for by a GoFundMe or whatever other 3rd party methodology, some form of punishment that actually affected the individual would probably be worth switching to.
Punishments in the realm of imprisonment, losing certain voting rights, access rights, positional rights, etc. would probably be more useful to rein in malicious behavior.
I think it still does though.
If a politician I supported asked for money on GoFundMe due to “political persecution” or whatever, and then a few months later asked for a donation to a campaign, I’d probably be both less willing and less able to donate. It’s not a bottomless well they can tap whenever and however they want to.
Not saying that I’m not in favor of other forms of punishment but fines aren’t toothless.
I’ve never seen good analysis that followed from, “Based on what I would do, this is what would happen in the real world.”
Ancient bronze statues were fabricated from lost wax castings and mostly hollow, so it’s entirely possible that the execution in the public square utilized a GENERAL-purpose metal statuary…
? …which had a door built into it to facilitate putting prisoners inside? Nah, that sounds pretty special-purpose to me.
Mind you, in no way am I claiming that such a device couldn’t have existed; it’s just that there seems to be no reliable evidence that one ever did exist. People of all eras like making up urban legends about stuff that in principle could perfectly well have happened.
Let me make it easier. This is what everyone will do.
I mean, it’s not like suddenly every politician can just get any money they want anytime. It’s GoFundMe, not a genie.
To date, that’s not my experience of life.
Pillow man on a losing streak. Challenges someone to prove his “evidence” that China turned the election to Biden is wrong and he’ll pay $5million. Someone does …and Mike goes all Mangoman, not paying, so sue me, so you won, we’ll appeal, delay, etc…
Legal experts say Trump sycophant Loose Cannon is inching ever closer to being thrown off the case:
Eh. A site like Raw Story writing that “legal experts say…!” is the left-wing equivalent to Trump telling stories about strong men with tears in their eyes.
I’ll believe it when it happens. Until then it’s just wishful noise.
I’ll believe it when it happens, too. I’m not a follower of “Raw Story”, it’s just something that Microsoft forces with the Edge browser that I haven’t bothered to modify because sometimes the stories are interesting.
Anyway, Cannon now seems to be trying to redeem herself: