You are a cartoon.

And not an amusing one.

you end up with gamemcgameface winning game of the year

Don't forget -- there's an equally good chance of "Hitler did nothing wrong" winning.

I'm willing to wait to see how this plays out before I pass any judgement.

I'm seeing that there are several options here:

• he resigned his current congressional seat, but he's still the congressman-elect for the next seat, so he could very well just go back to congress.

• Rubio's senate seat needs to be filled; DeSantis could grow a spine and appoint Gaetz there.

• Kash Patel and Gen. Flynn still have not received appointments; either one of them could go to either the FBI director or AG spots and either one would be just as good as Gaetz.

Hey, I have an idea! Let's make a new Star Trek where an alternate universe version of the second most important character, Spock, who is known for never being emotional -- now hear me out -- gets emotional all the time! It'll be great! Subverted expectations!

I only know about "wilding" because that's what the Central Park 5 were doing at the time they raped and nearly killed that woman.

I know I only learned how to read because I saw myself represented by Luke when he blew up the Death Star.

If you phrase the facts wrong, you're asking for a genocidal race war

Also, there is no way to phrase the facts in a correct way, and we will continually redefine words that could have been used to describe the situation as "hateful" and ban you for hate speech.

That's a well-spoken idiot. Apparently he went to a "words are magic spells" school instead of a "words convey meaning" school.

Israel being one of the only "decent" country in a region of shitholes (because we ship them shit tons of money) isn't really much of an endorsement.

And I'm sure it produces plenty of products but I certainly couldn't name any of them, but a significant percentage of my favorite things in life came from Japan.

They had the narrator thing specifically down in their first game, Bastion, and its what made that otherwise forgettable action game great.

Bastion was the rare example where the story and the voice work actually made the game interesting enough to keep playing. The rest was a kind of forgettable roll-shoot-roll-shoot gameplay loop. I actually met the voice actor and one of the character artists at PAX back in like 2009 and told them as much.

Sadly, they're probably ultra-woke now if they're still in the game industry.

And Rudy Giuliani.

he probably did it at the behest of the State Department to signal some kind of American alliance to Israel. Not because he's serving Israel.

But ... if anything, that's worse.

Japan is great. They manufacture and invent and perfect all sorts of shit that benefits the world. They have a huge cultural impact on everybody through video games and anime.

Israel is a fucking parasite that produces nothing for us or anyone else.

If anything, we should be a far more loyal ally to Japan than Israel.

Eh, that seems to be the go-to these days. Woman makes crazy rape accusation, man denies it, woman sues for defamation for calling her a liar. They've done it to Cosby and a couple other people already.

Entire books could be written about each one of the cases. I've followed them mostly through Robert Gouviea and Viva Frei except where the actual video feeds were available in Georgia.

Better than anything on TV, but less believable somehow.

Yeah, there's simply too much detail to add. The entire case revolved around a known convicted liar and something that, almost certainly wasn't even a crime.

Also, of all the lawfare cases against Trump, this is probably the least insane one. Unless you count the crazy E. Jean Carroll rape accusation, which is just run of the mill crazy woman accuses someone of rape-which-a-woman-would-never-falsely-do-totally-pinky-swear-for-realsies.

There is no TL;DR. He wasn't charged with paying "hush money" -- he was charged for making normal payments to a lawyer in a manner that was, if you make a lot of assumptions, illegal.

Donald Trump's lawyer (Michael Cohen) used his own money to pay off Stormy Daniels to sign an NDA that states she wouldn't publicize allegations that Trump had slept with her.

(aside: There is very good reason to believe that any claims that Trump had slept with her were false, and this was just a shake-down to try to score some quick cash. Apparently it's a very common extortion con that places like TMZ pay for exclusive rights to stories, then offer the subject of the story the chance to pay them off to not run it. So sign an exclusivity deal with Accuser for $10k and then give Accused a chance to squash it for $100k)

But anyway, after that, Donald Trump continued to pay Cohen his retainer fees and his accountants recorded them as "legal expenses". The courts decided that these retainer fees were actually a repayment to Cohen for the Daniels pay-off fees.

Because these retainer fees were monthly payments, they were written down in the company ledgers every time they were paid out.

The prosecution (Alvin Bragg) alleged that these expenses should have been counted as some sort of campaign-related payments, because they were made to try to get himself elected, and because they were mischaracterized, it was a campaign finance violation.

The court case and the 34 counts essentially amounted to, "Trump wrote a check, then he wrote it down in a ledger, then he gave the check to Cohen." And he did that 11 times because the payments were over 11 months. I forget exactly what the 34th count was.

Normally these would all be misdemeanors unless there was a predicate felony that the documentation errors were used to cover up.

The prosecution did not charge Trump with a predicate crime. They just asserted that he had committed a crime that he had never been convicted of.

The judge (Merchan) disallowed any defenses witnesses, including (IIRC) a former director of the FEC that stated that Trump had committed no campaign finance violations. He also allowed Stormy Daniels to basically get up on the stand and testify to all sorts of other things and denied all of Trump's lawyers objections for relevance and only finally stepped in to stop the testimony when she basically accused Trump of raping her. The star witness was Michael Cohen, a man who has been convicted of perjury multiple times and whose story has changed repeatedly.

After the show trial, the judge instructed the (biased, New York) jury to basically decide for themselves if Trump was guilty of any number of felonies (that he had not been charged with) and if so, they were allowed to find him guilty of all of the other felonies that Bragg had brought against him.

Also, the judge's daughter is a well-connected Democrat fundraiser who raised millions of dollars for the party.

Also, Bragg had initially declined to bring any charges because he thought it was a very weak case.

Also, Bragg changed his mind and decided to prosecute after the #3 man from Merrick Garland's US Department of Justice decided to make the inexplicable career move of taking a massive demotion to go work as like a clerk or some bullshit for Bragg's office. Roughly the equivalent of going from a COO position at Walmart to being a store assistant manager.

Also, Michael Cohen's personal lawyer was not allowed to testify that Cohen had told him, explicitly, that Trump had committed no crimes after Cohen had waived attorney client privilege.

Also, amazingly, Merchan is some sort of provisional judge and not actually a "full" judge in New York, but somehow, against all odds, he was chosen for this and multiple other Trump-related cases.

Anyway, I'm sure I've gotten a few details wrong and I know I've left out many. It was a clear show trial from start to finish.

Amazing how opportunists change their tune.

Amusingly, South Korea is rampant with cosmetic surgery specifically to make them all look like a very well-defined ideal. Both men and women.

You understate the situation.

It's a panel of Democrats openly, explicitly, with zero ambiguity, saying, "the law gets broken all the time, so we're not going to follow the law."

"Only like 1 or 2 of the ingredients in the American version are endocrine-disrupting inflammatory poisons."

The poison is designed to be addictive and destroy our bodies' natural ability to feel satiation.

At least teenage boys "pretend" to care about women's issues.

The vast majority of women of any age deny that men (or boys) have any issues at all.

It's no different than any of their other "principles" -- we have to exclude people we don't like to be inclusive, and we have to have conformity to have diversity, and we have to treat everybody differently to have eq(ual)ity.

You are unhinged on this topic, and demonstrated that you're incapable of disagreement without name calling. Half of the posts in this thread are yours. That's TheImpossble1 levels of insane.

I don't know or care much about Sandy Hook, but simply looking at your weirdly emotional responses makes me inclined to assume that there's at least some truth in the "conspiracy theories," though I still don't care much about it.

So good job on that; you've done the opposite of what you set out to do by acting like a lunatic.

That's why I declare enums without a valid 0 value. There is basically no cost to doing so.

That's actually a good idea. I'm going to adopt that for non-flags enumerations.