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The reason for that was (to quote Gertrude Stein talking about Oakland) "There is no there there." The prosecutors at the DOJ felt it was a very weak case, and that they wouldn't get a conviction if they went to trial - to do so would be legal malpractice and jeopardise their law license.

https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1993011834459471881 BREAKING: A judge has dismissed the criminal case against James Comey without prejudice. Rules Lindsey Halligan has been invalidly appointed. Judge Currie: "All actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment, including securing and signing Mr. Comey's indictment, were unlawful exercises of executive power and are hereby set aside." "The Attorney General's attempts to ratify Ms. Halligan's actions were ineffective and are hereby set aside."

Google Fun Fact: The first US state to require driver's licenses was New York, and a woman, Anne French, was the first to get one in 1900.

He's started 30+ threads which have to do with trans or are trans related, but now claims There is no such thing as Trans.

Could this guy be any more condescending?

So...BOF SIDEZ is the point of this thread. Okie Dokie Pokie.

After last night's impressive win, I think he deserves his own thread as I am sure he will be making a lot of news duing the next four years. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/new-york-city-election-results-9.6966833 New York City's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, calls out Trump in victory speech Voter turnout was highest the city has seen in decades The Associated Press · Posted: Nov 04, 2025 6:42 PM PST | Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York on Tuesday, capping a stunning ascent for the 34-year-old democratic socialist, who promised to transform city government to restore power to the working class and fight back against a hostile Trump administration. In a victory for the Democratic party’s progressive wing, Mamdani defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa. Mamdani must now navigate the unending demands of America’s biggest city and deliver on ambitious — skeptics say unrealistic — campaign promises. With his commanding win, the democratic socialist will etch his place in history as the city’s first Muslim mayor, the first of South Asian heritage and the first born in Africa. He will also become New York’s youngest mayor in more than a century when he takes office on Jan. 1. “The conventional wisdom would tell you that I am far from the perfect candidate. I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this,” Mamdani declared to a roaring crowd at his victory party. He cast his win as a boon for blue-collar workers struggling to get by. “New York, tonight you have delivered a mandate for change,” he said, vowing to ”wake up each morning with a singular purpose: To make this city better for you than it was the day before.” He also addressed U.S. President Donald Trump head on. “New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, led by an immigrant,” he said, adding that, “If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him.” Trump appeared to acknowledge Mamdani’s challenges, posting ”…AND SO IT BEGINS!” on his Truth Social site. A commanding win More than 2 million New Yorkers cast ballots in the contest, the largest turnout in a mayoral race in more than 50 years, according to the city’s Board of Elections. With roughly 90 per cent of the votes counted, Mamdani held an approximately 9 percentage point lead over Cuomo. [...]

Please. No, fresh ground pepper is superior to pepper that was pre-ground weeks or several months ago as it has a sharper taste and those with a distinguishing palate should be able to taste the difference. It is worth paying the extra for a pepper grinder IMO.

Who cares outside of Max?

They never have seemed to be able to grasp the distinction between a drag queen and a transgender person.

It is related to the subject matter of the thread, about the country the twitterer hails from, so it is not irrelevant as I mentioned that some of those that I follow are from other countries (as I imagine the origin of many of the bots are too).

One would guess that he is big fan of the Leviticus prohibition of male same-sex acts in the Old Testment, but probably disregards the other prohibitions found there, such as eating pork and shellfish or wearing clothing made from two different kinds of material.

Well, I didn't know that many of the MAGA related accounts were foreigners but I knew they were probably bots from the scant number of accounts they were following and who was following them. I follow many foreign accounts (Canada, the UK, Sweden and Europe) because we share similar interests in music, however, coincidentally, they almost all have a dislike of Trump and are dismayed/appalled at the authoritarian direction he is attempting to take this country.

Does anyone here seriously believe that he has actually read the Quran outside of some anti-Muslim translation and interpretation?

Well your exact words were: I am among the "libs" here (there aren't that many of us) and offen accused of getting folks banned. I believe he probably got suspended, although there is no way for me to know for sure. Hell Toupee bumped like 10 old threads of mine yesterday morning, so I wasn't directly involved but something triggered him to single me out (I think he may have been trying to make some point about TDS and went a little overboard). So if he was suspended, I was an indirect cause and was not directly involved.

I thought it was rather tasteless, but then I have never found most Republican humor to be particularly funny.

Almost sounds like a a threat, don't it? Is he hinting that he may try to have her taken off the air? https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3776965676753-enemy-of-the-people-trump-rages-at-rachel-maddow-in-middle-of-the-night-attack?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=i2 'Enemy of the people!' Trump rages at Rachel Maddow in middle of the night attack Hours after Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account to celebrate the confirmation of embattled Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to be the next secretary of defense despite allegations of sexual assault and public drunkenness, he returned to attack MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. The popular Maddow, a frequent critic of the president dating back to his first term that ended in 2020, recently returned to full-time nightly duty on the network to the delight of her fans. [...] Based on Trump's late-night post, he's not happy that she will be back to plague him five nights a week. On Truth Social he launched an attack aimed at Maddow, her network, and CNN. "Wow! Rachel Maddow has horrible ratings. She’ll be off the air very soon. MSNBC IS CLOSE TO DEATH. CNN HAS REACHED THE BOTTOM. This is a good thing," he wrote before adding, " They are the Enemy of the people!"

We have had such a long hiatus from political violence? The shootings of Minnesota State legislators that resulted in two deaths and two seriously wounded was in June of this year. https://en.wikpedia.org/wiki/2025_shootings_of_Minnesota_legislators

What planet is one living on if they consider Trump a centrist?

I think he has been given a time out but I wasn't directly responsible. After logging on early yesterday morning and making a few posts I noticed that the 10 most recent threads at the top of first page were all older threads of mine that Hell Toupee had bumped for some unknown reason (threads that were up to 2 years old that no one had posted in for months). The threads were all Trump related and his bumping post just said one word "Trump!" I was trying to figure out what this was about and what my response should be (like a disclaimer thread saying "I am not bumping these!") when all the threads suddenly disappeared from the page. I am guessing a mod deleted all his bumping posts or maybe HT had second thoughts and did it himself, although he hasn't posted since the threads were taken down so I am guessing a suspension.