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From what little I have seen, right wing outlets were interpreting the video as proof the officer was hit by the car because of the way the phone gets jostled at the end. You also can't see in this video exactly when he draws his gun, or how the shooter is positioned. It's damning when combined with the other videos, but on its own it's a lot less clear.

And they also see it as proof that these were "agitators" obstructing "law enforcement" based on the confrontational tone with the woman outside the vehicle. They want to frame the issue as law enforcement vs criminals, rioters and radical domestic terrorists. They want to blame the victim and undercut the narrative that this was an innocent bystander.

Obviously a sane person would recognize that it doesn't matter if the victim was politically active or even obstructing police, it's still murder. But these aren't moral, rational people and they aren't trying to persuade an audience with legal arguments, just feeding the US vs them mentality.

Trump isn't personally running the entire federal government and showing up to court to file his own motions and answer questions from judges. Trump and his inner circle may act like they're above the law, but the people who have to carry out their instructions aren't immune to consequences.

This is especially true in court. Lawyers aren't eager to throw their careers away by lying to judges, filing false statements, or openly defying court orders. That's why the administration has lost so many lawyers and says things in court that are wildly different than what they say everywhere else.

Suing this administration has been a much more effective strategy than most people seem to realize. It's often a long, drawn out process that wastes time and money, and they drag things out as much as possible. And yes the Supreme Court has been blatantly corrupt in the ways they've bailed out the Trump administration. But still, they only take on a small fraction of the total number of cases (and even then, they mostly help them stall cases with temporary orders rather than deciding actual cases).

When the Supreme Court doesn't intervene, the Trump administration loses or backs down the vast majority of the time.

The 25th amendment is invoked by the cabinet and the vice president. Those are the people supporting this shit, they aren't going to get rid of him. He's doing what they want and giving them cover.

I would say that the only thing that could convince them to remove him is if he became such a liability that they felt the need to get rid of him out of self-preservation. But honestly, I don't think they have the necessary level of awareness. If anything, I suspect most of them would be more likely to double down on being cartoonishly evil and try to do whatever it takes to cling to power.

Does this mean humans are the same species as vulcans, klingons, romulans, betazoids, trill, ocampa, and ktarians?

She also tried to claim that someone inserted the puppy murdering bit in her book to make her look bad, even though she was familiar enough with the story to answer questions about it before it got backlash. In other words, she's a psychopath who never seems to get better at lying despite the constant practice.

She's the kind of liar that would shit herself and immediately claim someone else did it.

There is no statute of limitations on murder.

The feds will protect him, but that's only guaranteed for as long as the current regime is in power. Even if the next administration (or the one after that, or the one after that, etc) isn't inclined to make a federal case out of it, they could easily decide to just not obstruct justice and cooperate, handing everything over to the state.

She was clearly performing a Y turn to steer around him. You can see him pull his gun out as she's switching from reverse to drive, and he fires the first shot while she's barely moving. She continues to accelerate after getting shot and yet he doesn't get hit, but he does continue firing.

Her intent was obviously to escape, not to inflict harm. His intent was obviously to inflict harm, not to escape.

Real people don't have scripts to read from.

But seriously, listen to the way people talk. It's chaotic, messy, often unclear and very inefficient. Conversations meander wildly, with dangling threads that are never concluded and often times with people talking past each other as much as to each other. If you wrote dialogue that way it would just be harder for audiences to follow and waste precious screentime.

Realistic sounding dialogue is about writing what a real person would say if they stopped to think for a minute between each statement.

In some states you have to be registered as a member of a party to vote in their primaries. In states with open primaries you can vote in primaries without registering as a party member, but they still typically have party affiliation as an option on the form.

And the microorganisms. He's gonna need an eternity if he has to go through one by one.

Z'ha'dum

Starbug from Red Dwarf is top left. The Milano from Guardians of the Galaxy is beneath that. Slave 1 (Boba Fett's ship) is the top right. Not sure about the bottom right, my best guess is Samus Aran's gunship from Metroid.

And let's not forget the student loans that are being forced onto worse repayment plans, and brutal collections for anyone who can't keep up. Because the only thing the department of education does that they actually support is keep people weighed down by crippling debts.

Honestly, if I was some admiral trying to protect a bunch of R&D projects in development from Trump, I'd probably wrap as many of them as I could into a pitch for a big battleship with his name on it then spend the entire budget on the technologies that are supposedly going into the ship. Put basically no effort into the ship itself, just show him concept art and maybe send him a model or something to make him think progress is being made.

And that's how the party ends up on the run for counterfeiting.

He's almost too charismatic. You can't help but be like "yeah, he's right, maybe Christmas is a humbug..."

Does he live in the mall then?

Even his handpicked board didn't all go along with it. One of them is suing over this, and said their mic was muted so that there couldn't be any objections.

The only thing that should be named after Trump is a maximum security prison that houses every scumbag in this administration along with their accomplices.

Our rule was always that if you bought 50 of something like food or ammo, you don't have to track how many you've used, we'll just assume you're well stocked and resupplying offscreen. The limit only comes back if the party is overtly cut off from resupply, like if they are shipwrecked on an uninhabited island.

This means you can easily have a limitless supply of normal arrows but still have to track your silver arrows, smoke bomb arrows, etc. Or you can invest the money to just have a limitless supply of whatever specialty item you think is worth the cost.