Convicted felon Donald J. Trump thread XXX: President Elect

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https://twitter.com/politico/status/1790844613764268084?t=kG212D4DENwRpd95hhhD1A&s=19

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That might be a genius move. When you accept a pardon aren’t you automatically admitting guilt? And can someone guilty of insurrection be president?

Lol

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A very wise thing once said to me was said to me by Don Knuth. Yes, that Don Knuth. He was actually relaying a quote from another person I don’t remember, but it was during a talk he was giving about his project in retirement where he decided to do the best he could to musical-literally translate the book of Revelation in the Bible into organ music. He’s since finished it, and it’s called Fantasia Apocalyptica. If you’re into avant garde, not-traditionally-structured music, there should be performances of it on YouTube now if you’re curious how it might sound if a brilliant computer scientist decided to compose avant garde organ music. But what he relayed as part of the talk about his at-the-time-ongoing-efforts writing it was, “let the constraint be the inspiration.”

Obviously, he had the freedom to compose any music he wanted. He could write the next club banger. He could write a computer algorithm to compose music on the fly. Maybe he could write the next Messiah-esque religious oratorio. But having the freedom to do anything is, in its way, a paralyzing trap to do nothing. It’s easy to be frozen by the impossibility of choosing exactly one of infinite possibilities. Instead, by being constrained in one’s choices, even self-willfully so, it is, in its own way, liberating and inspiring, as instead of choosing one thing to do from the infinite, you’ve flipped the problem around to now try to puzzle out how to fit everything you know into a perhaps uncomfortable problem that has not been solved. It doesn’t really matter if the constraint is the grandiose idea that we have to get a few people from the earth to the moon and back alive, or asking people to think of what an ancient statue now devoid of all limbs and head but consisting only of a partially posed torso is doing, or if it’s a bizarre writing prompt, it’s easier to come up with ideas when given a constraint than when given infinite freedom. And sometimes, as in the case of the Apollo missions, the gnudi on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, or Fantasia Apocolyptica, people will make really impressive things out of odd constraints.

To tie this idea back to your video, I’ve been hearing some hot takes about how commencement speeches should just be trashed, especially since some have been canceled in the wake of the current Palestine protests. I disagree. Sure, many if not most may suck, but at the very least, they function as an interesting constraint – the requirement of giving a talk to an audience that is full of both optimism and cynicism as they themselves transition from a world of very particular constraints to a new world of new freedoms but also radically different constraints that is expecting to hear something that is both novel to the tens of thousands of commencement speeches given year in and year out but also cliche in that it is appropriate for almost any such occasion – such that wordsmiths given that constraint do come up with really good things from time to time.

I hadn’t heard this one before, and it was good, and it fit the constraint of applying to my throw-away post surprisingly well. Thanks for sharing.

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I hear sweepstakes winner Andy Biggs is there too. It’s the Met Gala but for sycophantic assholes

https://twitter.com/eorden/status/1791096705145774479?t=vfayfM-5HfbjT4NT9dv6fw&s=19

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Goddammit Merrick Garland sucks.

Edit: Also - WARP SPEED

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This will get him a very stern talking to

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1791097552206471558?s=46&t=XGja5BtSraUljl_WWUrIUg

Garland did exactly what he was suppose to do. It’s design. Not incompetence.

I thought they were supposed to be painting him as a liar

https://twitter.com/eorden/status/1791110300336349517?t=h3lLYlKDnamwxorSM5BqPQ&s=19

yeah the NY case is obviously the weakest and really plays into his “they’re just making up cases for election interference purposes”

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https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1791142037577670710

Her friends ditched her

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1791141525092815265

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From Politico

[Blanche is arguing 1:36 wasn’t enough time to accomplish all the hush money business what with the other stuff going on.]

Cohen replied calmly that he “always ran everything by the boss immediately, and in this case it could have been just saying, ‘Everything’s been taken care of, it’s going to be resolved.’”

At that, Blanche lost his cool. “That. Was. A. Lie,” he said, his voice now rising to a shriek. “You can admit it."

“No, sir, I can’t,” Cohen said, repeating that in addition to the conversation with Schiller about the calls, “I believe that I also spoke to Mr. Trump and told him everything regarding Stormy Daniels was being worked on and it’s going to be resolved.”

“We are not asking for your belief,” Blanche said angrily. “This jury doesn’t want to hear what you think happened.”

Seems like an irregular performance by Blanche. But also no objections and the judge doesn’t step in. I guess it doesn’t work like on TV.

Trump lunch break rant coming soon.

I have my first trial in a decade coming up in 6 weeks. My goal will be to not regularly step into punches like Blanche. So few civil trials happen these days that even a clown like Blanche who just knows the trial and evidence rules (unlike Haba) is considered a legitimate trial lawyer.

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That’s one advantage public defenders and prosecutors have over most other attorneys. They actually go to trial regularly.

Yeah, I’m freaking out a bit but have experienced co-counsel. We’re up against a “top” IP firm, but most top IP firms are shit at trials and I know trademark law (at least in relation to this case) as well as they do.

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Why would an IP firm be shit at trials? Because they’re so good at settling?