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Jack Smith's filed notice to appeal Judge Cannon throwing the case out: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/17/trump-classified-documents-dismissal-appeal

At this point I would not be surprised if it was an alt-right idiot who thought he was going to turn up and provide extra security or something.

A fair point. I still believe that he is likely to be the tip of the iceberg as far as Republican dissatisfaction with their candidate goes.

Personally, if I was running the Republican party, I would be very concerned that the party's choices have resulted in registered republicans taking up arms against their own candidate. That would make me a think a significant number of Republicans would not be happy voting for Trump.

I can't believe it was staged simply because it would have been so easy for something to go wrong and for Trump to actually be taken out. That would have been counter-productive.

It's good. It's like someone is actually trying to do something instead of sitting around saying "well, the Supreme Court is against us and several of its members are blatantly corrupt. There's nothing to be done." It tells people that something can be done, if the Democrats are given enough power.

Is it too early to start making "But he's old" memes along the lines of the "But her email" memes from 2016?

To summarize some of what's on his Wikipedia page, he was in the top 100 stars according to Gallup polls in 1941/1942, but post WWII didn't quite have the same star power and started doing westerns (I vaguely recall they were what he was mainly known for when he ran for president). Given...

https://www.newsweek.com/ted-cruz-polls-texas-senate-allred-narrow-lead-1921176 Do it, Texas!

I think the written confirmation that Epstein and Trump were great buddies and phoned each other a lot is new?

I'm just going to leave this here, because by no means is it a given that Trump is going to win.

I feel like that is not going to succeed purely on the fact that it was something he did before he became president and therefore it could not be an official act he did while president. But what do I know? I'm not a supreme court justice paid off by the rich.

I've saved it from hosting oblivion:

Similar things have been said in NZ. One politician actually said "nobody wants house prices to fall." Investments usually come with risk, but because the people who are in charge of things tend to be property investors and want to eliminate the risk, the people who actually just want a house to...

I guess at least it's nice they got one debate in before one of the candidates goes to prison and has to attend future debates via Zoom. Also nice to see there are still parts of the US media with some perspective...

No, I can see them in the thread because my browser has them cached, but if I try to open the images in a new tab, I get "This content is no longer available." They don't show up at all on my phone. It's the hosting they're on.

So if Trump gets sent to prison, is that already covered or will they have to add a new rule that Trump's accomodations must be referred to as his "temporary high-security holiday home"?

Amazing how the publicity for Boris Johnson's memoirs makes him look like a lurking serial killer.

The abuse occurred in the 80s, so the statute of limitations has expired.