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Subject: Re: Kamala Outright Lies About Women's Basketball Brackets
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On 6/3/2024 3:58 AM, trotsky wrote:
> On 6/2/24 7:41 PM, FPP wrote:
>> On 6/2/24 11:53 AM, trotsky wrote:
>>> On 6/2/24 8:25 AM, FPP wrote:
>>>> On 6/1/24 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 all part of the calculation.  Trump is pushing his luck, and if 
>>>> he gets time, it'll all be because he's been asking for it.
>>>>
>>>> I could see him doing weekends in jail.  That wouldn't hurt his 
>>>> campaigning, and would teach him to shut his yap.
>>>
>>>
>>> To be fair anybody else in the world who acted as flagrantly as Trump 
>>> would be hung out to dry--why should the fat orange weasel get any 
>>> preferential treatment?
>>>
>>
>> Because what the justice system gets away with in low profile cases 
>> they can't get away with here.
>>
>> They're bending over backwards to avoid even the appearance of not 
>> giving him every break possible.
>>
>> Sure, it's stupid... because they're going to do it anyway.
> 
> 
> That's why I think home confinement with a really large ankle bracelet 
> might be the choice
I wonder if they make bejewelled 24K ankle bracelets...