Put a cork in that talk until Jan 21. Don’t tempt all the demons of hell and Florida like that.
As the esteemed @squeegee said. Whatever adverse stuff occurs that could really change history, it’ll all happen on the 20th and not before.
The rest of the future is “unsettled” as Discobot might say. But not immediately so from the 21st forward. That, like COVID, will be a marathon of ignorance and stupidity slowly spreading to foul everything it touches. Much like a major tank breach at a sewage farm. And similarly pleasant to clean up.
Oh, I know this country is fucked. Just let me have this.
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When investigators are asking a judge for a search warrant, does the (putative) target of the (putative) warrant get to have an advocate present?
OTOH, I saw an article somewhere (maybe it was on AlterNet?) saying that people who watch such things are saying there’s been a significant (something like 70%?) reduction in misinformation and dysinformation on Twitter and other social media just in the few days since Trump was kicked off.
(Cite to follow, if I find it again.)
Here it is, from WaPo!
No, generally not. But if a judge issued a warrant in the circumstances I described, Trump would certainly get lawyers working on it after the fact. And those lawyers would make the point I did when they argued the warrant had been illegal and anything found as a result could not be entered as evidence in any trial.
Well, at least we’d get our shit back.
I’ve been losing my shit ever since Tan the Conman got nominated the first time. I doubt I’ll ever get it back.
I wanted to ask about that.
If there’s a search warrant (however illigal) and a search (however illegal) and they find a trove of looted national treasures, do the Government get those treasures back, however inadmissible they may be in any theft trial?
Look, we’re talking about a notionally wealthy white dude not one of the common rabble.
I suspect this is a reference to Louis XVI, who after his overthrow was referred to as “Citizen Capet”. Of course, our would-be tinpot dictator was removed through ballots, not bullets.
As someone or other said, the Weimar Republic went easy on Hitler after the Beer Hall Putsch. Ten years later, he was Chancellor of Germany and then really bad things started to happen.
I am confidant in predicting Trump will not follow Hitler’s example … and write a book.
I’m more worried that the GOP will run Junior or, worse, Ivanka. She’s pretty enough for a whole host of testosterone-poisoned white supremacists to slaver1 after her, especially if she continues Daddy’s rhetoric.
1That’s “slaver” as in droolface.
Yes, because the government is the legal owner of all of those national treasures. For legal purposes, they would be treated as if they had been found on the street with no identifiable person having possession of them. They would be returned to their legal owner.
Donald Trump couldn’t claim them based on the fact that they had been found in his possession because he would not be able to show he had legal ownership of them.
I don’t think it will happen. Trump’s crowd is hardcore sexist. They might slaver over Ivanka but they wouldn’t vote for her.
Only for the Jews. And the Slavs. And gypsies. And gays. And Communists, or anyone accused of being a Communist.
Deutsche Patrioten brauchen sich um nichts zu kümmern.
Stranger
And orphans and socialists or people of color or the disabled and handicapped…equal opportunity genocide.
Things didn’t work out so well for the Nazis in the end either.
That’s something the current crowd should remember.
Man, how I wish there was a clip from Little Big Man, where Custer tells Jack Crabb, ‘Poison. From the goonads.’