Someone please ask the rock-ribbed, law-and-order, God-fearing evangelical Conservatives of America if they stand four square with (checks notes) the mobster-affiliated head of the Hell’s Angels and a convicted tax cheat in their moral support of the ex-President on trial for fraudulently hiding hush money payments to the adult film actress he bedded in a hotel when his third wife was caring for their newborn 3000 miles away
So it sure feels like we’re going g to have a verdict next week in #Individual1’s criminal trial.
The prosecution has shown ample evidence that there was a payoff to Daniels, by Cohen, from his personal funds, which were reimbursed through sham invoices for non-existent legal services.
The intent of the payoff was to kill the story in the closing days of the election. After he won he even tried to avoid reimbursing Cohen, and iced him out.
Do not ask a language model questions involving reasoning, factuality, or moral judgment. Language is a vehicle for those, but it is not the SOURCE of them. And there is an enormous amount of language in the public sphere that’s devoid of them—and that trained the models.
Thank you, @cabel, for the hundreds of new followers. Just a heads-up to all the new people. You’re not going to get much Tech True Crime on my feed. I post a lot of retrocomputing stuff, but you’re also going to get leftist politics, ridiculing cryptocurrency and generative AI, San Francisco Giants baseball, and atrocious puns. Also geezer reminiscing about Good Music. Be warned,
Conservative Texas school board member actually reads curriculum and realizes that kindness, selflessness, and fairness are actually the Christian values she should be supporting.
Then she runs up against the hardliners who want to resegregate, privatize, and monetize K-12 education.
“The LAPD is not expected to like the existence of “Fuck the LAPD” merchandise. But their sole remedy is to not do things that result in people wanting to buy and wear “Fuck the LAPD” merchandise. I understand that would be a difficult task. But I promise you that it would still be easier than trying to get a court to rule that “Fuck the LAPD” shirts violate the LAPDF’s intellectual property rights”
Well, by and by, way after many years have gone
And all the war freaks die off, leavin’ us alone
We’ll raise our children in the peaceful way we can
It’s up to you and me, brother, to try and try again
So hear us now
We ain’t wastin’ time no more
‘Cause time rolls by
Like hurricanes runnin’ after the subway train
— “Our junior programmers don’t know how to escape and normalize metacharacters in database queries of our GIS”
— “I’ve got it: why don’t we just change all the street signs?”
I am just not sure how the defense is going to explain away this document.
• Brand new account used for a single purpose, stated to be “real estate”
• Deposit of $131K from Cohen’s HELOC
• Next day wire to Cliffords’ attorney
• Handwritten notes of how much to reimburse, and to “gross up” because it’s being reported as income not reimbursment
This all comports with a week of testimony and shows what the structured payments from TTO were for: to repay the loan Cohen took out to pay Clifford.
AITA? I (F19) just had a baby who died at two months. My BF (M23) says he loves me but is spending time with his wife and HER new baby. I’m living with my stepsister because my dad kicked me out when BF backed out of a deal to pay off Dad’s debts because BF’s rich parents cut him off because of his liberal politics. I suspect BF is sleeping with my stepsister, too, as is his friend George who’s a major druggie. And BF wants me to sleep with his friend Tom! PS I wrote a book called “Frankenstein”
