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Subject: Re: Kamala Outright Lies About Women's Basketball Brackets
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2024 14:56:13 -0400
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On 6/1/2024 1:39 PM, trotsky wrote:
> On 6/1/24 11:26 AM, moviePig wrote:
>> On 6/1/2024 4:43 AM, trotsky wrote:
>>> On 5/31/24 5:34 AM, FPP wrote:
>>>> On 5/31/24 4:16 AM, trotsky wrote:
>>>>> On 5/30/24 9:53 AM, FPP wrote:
>>>>>> On 5/30/24 4:31 AM, trotsky wrote:
>>>>>>> On 5/29/24 3:19 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>>> Kamala Harris claimed that women's basketball wasn't even 
>>>>>>>> allowed to have
>>>>>>>> playoff brackets until 2022, when in reality, women's basketball 
>>>>>>>> has been
>>>>>>>> using them since 1982, 42 years.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Kamala herself tweeted out exchanges with her husband in 2021 
>>>>>>>> where they
>>>>>>>> talked about who they were choosing in their brackets.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://youtu.be/yYjH5g9ogXE?t=409
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Between Biden's almost weekly made-up stories about his past and 
>>>>>>>> Kamala
>>>>>>>> gaslighting us about women's basketball, what the hell is going 
>>>>>>>> on in the
>>>>>>>> White House?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What the hell is going on with Trump's impending conviction?  Oh, 
>>>>>>> and besides Trump who do you think makes the GOP look worse, 
>>>>>>> Santos or McCarthy?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Harris owned up to the mistake, and explained it... but you won't 
>>>>>> hear that in Thanny's False Equivalency Gazette.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not a fan of hers but she is upstanding in that way.  The GOP 
>>>>> isn't upstanding in any way.  My biggest regret is that Trump 
>>>>> likely won't be sentenced to jail time.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Don't be too sure.  He's shown no remorse, and he did violate gag 
>>>> orders 10 or 11 times.  Those are big mitigating circumstances.
>>>>
>>>> I could see him serving weekends as a punishment.  And even 
>>>> community service, which would absolutely humiliate him to death.
>>>>
>>>> Fact is, he's going to get some form of punishment.
>>>
>>>
>>> Judge Merchan is very cool.  It's hard to read how he'll react on 
>>> this one.  Your points are well taken though, he should be sentence 
>>> accordingly for those reasons.  I'm thinking he'll get sentenced to 
>>> home confinement with an ankle bracelet.
>>
>> The choice of punishment could reasonably consider a convict's 
>> likelihood to re-offend.  Since Trump's conviction was ultimately 
>> about election interference, the judge might notice that Trump 
>> currently stands accused of at least two other instances of exactly that.
> 
> Is that your supposition or have you heard that somewhere else?

It's my fanciful (but at least superficially logical) irony.