Trump’s lawyers also showed a slide claiming the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas is 64 stories. But an architectural drawing shows it likely has fewer levels because the floor numbers jump from eight to 16.

We can do that? Okay. My house is actually five stories. I've labeled the ground floor 1 and the upper story 5.

For tax purposes, though, the ground floor is -1 and the upper floor is 0 so it's a zero story house.

They claim to be pro-life, but they're really just anti-women and pro-forced-birth.

About 500 people were in attendance for around 2 hours. Trump reportedly pays $9 an hour for people to attend his rallies, that means he (or, more accurately, his campaign) could pay $9,000 to fill that room and make it look like UAW members support Trump. Very low price for a campaign to cover.

If he's dragged off to jail, can it be videoed? Even if it's just overnight, I'd be willing to pay for that video.

On a completely unrelated note, can you break a computer by replaying a video too many times?

By the way, I'm a liberal Jew. Most of what Trump mentioned as "things he did to help Jews" were for Israel. Jews =/= Israel no matter how often the Republicans say "vote for us because we support Israel."

Trump could do amazing things for Israel, but that doesn't matter to me - especially when he cozies up to and encourages Nazis.

"Look, Russia will stop fighting if Ukraine just gives up the two 'contested' provinces."

"Okay, Ukraine gave them up, but Russia now says it only wants these three more."

"Look, Russia is being very reasonable. They will stop all the fighting and even allow Ukraine to join NATO if they just get these five provinces."

"Ukraine is just a tiny country now. They might as well submit to Russian rule."

"Russia just wants this one tiny province in Poland. Is that really worth starting WW3 over?!!!"

I'm sure Trump's spokesman will walk back the Nazi talk.... :

Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said of anyone who compares Trump to Hitler or Mussolini that, "their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House"

So they're just doubling down on the Nazi then.

As a reminder, the majority of the Confederate statues weren't erected right after the Civil War. In fact, Robert E. Lee was against statues commemorating the Confederacy. He wanted it to be consigned to history.

The bulk of these statues were erected during the Him Crow era as a means of intimidating the black population. They were a way of saying "don't you DARE use those new freedoms like the right to vote or else you'll get THIS!"

Oh, and given how the parties flipped, these statues were likely erected by Democrats. So Greene is defending statues that Democrats put up.

The only reason why all of these statues shouldn't be torn down into pieces and melted is that a few should be sent to museums to be exhibits about the Jim Crow era. That's the only appropriate place for them.

Reminder that, in Ohio, Republicans pushed a bill that would have required doctors to reimplant ectopic pregnancies in the uterus. A medical technique that doesn't exist. So doctors who didn't do this non-existent technique would be "guilty of murder" and doctors who tried it and failed (because it's not a thing we can do) would also be guilty. And either way, the woman would likely die.

“All he had to do was walk away,” Kolvet said of Boyles

He tried walking away. He walked away and these guys kept following him and taunting him/defaming him. A person can only be reasonably expected to tolerate that for so long.

This was clearly harassment with the intent to goad the professor into an action that Turning Point could spin in their favor. Either a frustrated "leave me alone" or some act of violence. After that, they'd use editing to remove their harassment so that it seemed like he got flustered and/or resorted to violence after the first innocent question.

My favorite moment was when Robert Menendez was charged with fraud. First, the Republicans tried to make it into a gotcha moment. "See? The Democrats will try to protect this criminal!" Except the Democrats either called for him to resign or refused to comment. Very few stood by him against the charges.

And then the Republicans realized that "Menendez should resign due to fraud charges" would apply to Santos as well. Suddenly, the Republicans were all for Menendez staying in Congress until he had his day in court.

So you had Republicans saying "this Democrat should remain in office" and (many) Democrats saying "he should resign ASAP."

All too often, the police act like wannabe Rambos - charging in with guns drawn, willing to shoot or kill any suspects in their way. The ONE time that this might have been welcomed and they decided to sit on the side and do nothing. Okay, maybe not nothing. They harassed parents who were screaming about their kids being killed.

I want third parties, but before that happens we need Ranked Choice Voting or Approval Voting. Otherwise, voting third party is essentially just taking votes from the major party most closely aligned with that third party.

Why didn't Greene walk out there to ask those people to leave? After all, if they were just patriotic Republican tourists, then they would have listened to her, right?

Oh, what's that? They were violent insurrectionists and she was hiding from them too? But she somehow thinks that the Democrats should have yelled "Democratic Avengers Assemble" and charged out there? (And now I'm picturing Bernie wielding Thor's hammer.)

In the DC case Trump's lawyers are arguing that he can't be criminally charged unless he's impeached and removed first.

In the Georgia case, Trump's lawyers are claiming that he can't be charged because he was already impeached for that action and that's double jeopardy.

Ignore for the second that the Georgia crime is not what he was impeached for. Trump's lawyers are arguing that you can't charge a President unless you impeach him, but also impeaching him means that you can't charge the President.

The biggest thing that I can see that needs to be done would be shutting down "news" organizations like FOX News, OAN, and Newsmax. Also, breaking up online movements like Q where blatant misinformation is spread as if it's proven truth.

Now, HOW you do that without massive first amendment violations, I don't know. You would also need to be careful how it's structured because that could easily be used to shut down anyone left of center should a Republicans take the presidency/control Congress.

“The doctor’s judgment of non-viable was likely correct, but sometimes you hear that physicians give a horrible report and then it turns out expectedly better, so there’s always that risk,” Olsen said. “The doctor needs to do all he can to preserve the life of both of them.”

So this politician is second guessing the doctor because "it might have turned out that the doctor was wrong." In other words, doctors' expertise and judgement means nothing if someone with no medical training at all is able to say "but maybe everything will be fine."

As horrible as it is, I don't blame the doctors and hospitals for being scared to perform abortions under these laws. They're tailored to give the appearance of having "life of the mother" exceptions while allowing every case to be second guessed by anyone with zero medical expertise. And if a judge sides with the zero medical expertise individual, then the hospital/doctor could be on the hook for huge fines or even prison time.

All while women suffer and die because life saving treatment is being denied thanks to "we need to think of the fetus' potential life more than the woman's life."

That's okay. They can still sing "Born in the USA" because that song is super-patriotic and not critical of America at all.

Oh, wait....

For all the "Hunter Biden" cries, the right sure doesn't care that Ivanka got a lot of money from China (copyright deals that were held up until her father became President) or that Jared got billions from the Saudis for a job he had never done.

When Trump children use their father's position to make money, the right says they are just being "smart business folks." If Hunter Biden so much as sells a glass of lemonade, the Republicans want a Congressional investigation to see if Joe was involved in any way.

And this woman also WANTS to have the baby. She and her husband were trying to get pregnant. Unfortunately, the fetus has abnormalities that mean it won't survive. Without an abortion, she will need to wait until she hits term, have a C Section, and then have a dead baby.

Oh, and thanks to her medical history, she'll likely be unable to have another pregnancy after that C-section. So it's either give birth to a dead baby now and have no more or have an abortion now and (after she recovers) try to have another baby. Only one of these options might result in a baby that's alive and it's the option that includes abortion.

But Paxton will scream about how he's "protecting the unborn baby" without caring that the fetus has a nearly zero chance of survival and without caring that the woman faces potential severe (possibly life threatening) medical complications if she's forced to continue the pregnancy. He'll force women to carry pregnancies to term even if it kills them!

"We're going to refuse to work with Democrats or give them anything they'd like. We're going to cut a deal with them and then toss it aside at the first opportunity to appease our most radical members. We're going to open an impeachment inquiry into the Democratic President with zero evidence based on the fact that our most radical members want him impeached as revenge for Trump being impeached. McCarthy will go on TV and blame the Democrats for the continuing resolution almost failing when all but 1 Democrats voted for it and 90 Republicans voted against it. Now, why won't the Democrats work with us to keep McCarthy in power?!!!"

Exactly. The path forward is clear. Work with moderate Democrats to craft a bipartisan spending bill that most Democrats and Republicans can agree upon. Well either side get everything it wants? No, but that's how compromise works.

Of course the Freedom Caucus will be angry, but let's face it - they're always angry. (Hulk Smash makes for a good movie, but not for good politics.) If McCarthy works with Democrats and the saner Republicans, though, the power of the Freedom Caucus will be blunted. They can file to remove McCarthy all they like, but part of the deal with the Democrats could be that they'll vote to keep McCarthy.

Instead, McCarthy will complain while hoping that the Freedom Caucus members suddenly become reasonable.

They pretend to support hypothetical exceptions to abortion bans, which for the most part do not apply in actual reality.

I'm glad they pointed this out. Many Republican abortion bans will say they don't apply if the women's life is at risk, but they word it so vaguely, raise the penalties so high, and put the doctor's freedom in the hands of a jury to determine if the woman was "dying enough." The result is that women aren't given life saving abortions until they are actively dying.

Even if the fetus has such severe abnormalities that there's zero chance of a "baby" at the end of the pregnancy, the woman will be told that she needs to risk her life and carry it to term because "pro life."

"She was never my lawyer, but also attorney client privilege means she can't testify against me!"

There's no evidence that it happened due to racism... As long as you ignore every single fact about what happened there and the mountains of evidence showing that it was based on racism.

"I'd totally murder people, but that evil federal government would lock me up for murder? Can you believe the audacity?!!! I really want to murder these people, but they won't let me. Total government overreach! Whatever happened to states' rights?"

$175,000 for 50 years? He's 71 now so he went into prison at 21. That means he spent virtually his entire life in prison. He could have done so many things, but instead he needed to sit in a prison cell. All because he was wrongly convicted.

And because I'm a math geek and need to figure this stuff out, $175,000 over 50 years is $3,500 a year. If we calculate what he would have earned at the federal minimum wage over that time frame (ignoring bank account interest or inflation just to keep things simple), we'd get over $500,000.

They're giving him a third of what he should have earned at bare minimum. (And that ignores all the other horrible things involved with being wrongfully imprisoned for 50 years.)

I'm not a lawyer, but even I know that in court (or hearings like this one) you never ask a person a question if you don't know what they are going to say.

So either the Republicans missed Legal Questioning 101 (and have never watched a Legal Eagle video) or their "evidence" is so flimsy that "there isn't enough to impeach" was their best opening.

Seriously? So if two women or two men walk down the street holding hands and then kiss each other, they could be arrested for "lewd conduct" while a heterosexual couple doing the same exact thing is left alone? This city ordinance sounds like it's just waiting for a legal challenge.

Now, now, now. Trump is way more than a 30 year career criminal!

There was fear on the left and hope on the right that DeSantis would be "smart Trump." Just as evil as Trump is, but with more brains to be able to pull stuff off and less likely to be distracted by petty rivalries.

Since then, DeSantis has shown that he's not as smart as people thought he was, definitely can't sway crowds like Trump can, and is absolutely willing to pursue petty rivalries even when they don't benefit him.

My guess (also not a lawyer) is to render the verdict as appeal proof as possible. If he wasn't allowed to speak, he would have claimed that his rights were violated and if he had been allowed to give the closing remarks himself, he would have been found totally Innocent.

Engoron let him talk relatively briefly, cut him off when it was clear he wasn't staying on topic, and closed off this appeal argument.

They see colleges as "liberal wokeness indoctrination centers" because their kids go to college and return more liberal. In a way, they're right, but it's not because colleges are actively indoctrinating students.

When you grow up in a town, you're likely to be surrounded by people like you. They all look like you and think like you. People who look and think different are "strange others" and stereotypes about these people abound.

Then, you go to college. Suddenly, you're surrounded by people who look different and think differently. That stereotype you have about Group A? Well, you've now met 5 people who are in Group A and none of them fit the stereotype. Your biases get shattered and you start to see people as actual people instead of "strange others."

Then you go back home. Nobody back home has met all the people you met. They still use the old stereotypes that you've discarded. To them, you've changed. They're right, but it's because your experiences have shaped how you see the world not because someone strapped you to a chair and forced "wokeness" into you.

So her "logic" (and I'm stretching that word to the breaking point) is that God said he wouldn't destroy the world again with a global flood. Let's say we accept that as fact: God will not destroy the world via a global flood.

The problem is that God isn't destroying the world, man is. And man isn't destroying the world via a giant flood. He's destroying it by changing the global climate to the point that he can't keep up. (To be technical, man is destroying his ability to survive in the world, not the world itself. The Earth would be here even if we decided to burn more fossil fuels.)

So even if we accept Genesis 8 as a valid "argument" (more word stretching), it doesn't apply. Now, if scientists start saying that a deity plans on instituting a global flood via 40 days and nights of rain, then I'll accept Genesis 8 as a counter-argument.

Wait, he's standing next to a divorcee? Does he know how dangerous that is? Johnson has said that divorce is one of the reasons why we have mass shootings! For his own safety, he needs to keep Boebert at least 10 feet away at all times!!!

It's against federal law to purchase a handgun if you're under federal indictment. If he really bought the handgun, he'd have needed to have filled out a form. On that form, he'd be asked if he's currently under federal indictment. If he answered yes, he wouldn't be allowed to complete the sale. If Trump answered no, he broke federal law by lying on a government form to buy a gun. This is the exact crime Hunter Biden is being charged with.

I've always wondered how people thought the "good guy with a gun" would work in a chaotic real world situation. Suppose you're armed and there's a mass shooting event. You pull out your gun and keep a look out for the shooter as you hear gunfire getting closer. Then you spot a guy holding a gun. You quickly take aim and fire...

... And hit another "good guy with a gun" who was trying to take out the mass shooter the same as you.

Oh, but then you get shot by a third "good guy with a gun" who thought YOU were the mass shooter.

Arming everyone and telling them to be "good guys with guns" just seems, at best, like it would lead to MORE injuries and deaths.

Sure thing. Here's my proposal. Five or six Republicans vote for Hakeem Jeffries. See? Very helpful!

From the description of the incident, it definitely sounded like he feared for his life. A 6 foot something guy keeps advancing on him, asking why he's thinking of the guy's penis. He tells the guy to leave him alone multiple times, but the guy keeps advancing. He retreats multiple times, but the guy keeps at it. He even tries knocking the phone out of the guy's hand, but the guy keeps at it.

It definitely sounds like the guy was afraid of where this was going and tried all of the non-lethal options (retreat, tell the person to stop) before resorting to pulling out his gun. The YouTube "pranker" has nobody to blame but himself. He should have stopped when asked instead of repeatedly pressing the defendant for a YouTube "prank" video.

(I use "prank" in quotes because I don't consider this type of thing a real prank. It's just a guy acting like an idiot and calling it "a prank." A real prank should leave all involved laughing when it's revealed, not leave one person fearing for their life.)

I think Tuberville is trying to keep all these positions open so Trump can appoint loyalists to them should he take office in January 2025. This way, Trump can better guarantee that the military will do what he wants it to do instead of having pesky "morals" ingrained by people who know what they are doing.