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Posted in: Judge delays Trump’s hush-money criminal trial 30 days See in context

All these delays are going to cost Trump, or rather his election campaign PAC, millions more on legal fees. Trump is lucky that his donors are happy to contribute to his personal legal fees, because we are finding out that he is very cash poor and can't even pay his bond.

And Trump needs to get about $450bn for his next very quickly which won't be easy for him.

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Posted in: Judge delays Trump’s hush-money criminal trial 30 days See in context

“We want delays,” Trump told reporters as he headed into a Feb. 15 hearing in New York. “Obviously I’m running for election. How can you run for election if you’re sitting in a courthouse in Manhattan all day long?”

If he's worried about the election and sure of his innocence, surely he'd want the trials sooner so that they don't interfere with the election.

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Posted in: 'Manhunt,' about hunt for John Wilkes Booth, may make you wish you paid attention in history class See in context

I guess of that happened today, Booth would end up being pardoned and might even run for office himself.

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Posted in: Prosecutors say they're open to delaying Trump's March 25 hush-money trial for a month See in context

Let's enjoy an April trial then. It'll be over before the end of May. Given that his lawyer who worked in concert with trump did prison time for this, it'll be fascinating to see Trump's defence.

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Posted in: Russians head to polls in election set to extend Putin's rule See in context

'Country with sham democracy re-elects dictator shock'

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Posted in: Biden's fraying coalition and Trump's struggle with moderates See in context

I think Biden will win it. Both candidates to get fewer votes than in 2020, and Trump to flip a state or two, but not enough to win the electoral college.

Trump to annoint one of his children as candidate for 2028.

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Posted in: Young Republican senator's rebuttal to Biden draws bipartisan gibes See in context

I don't know much about Katie Britt, but she seems to represent the modern Republican MAGA cult.

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Posted in: Haley suspends her campaign, leaving Trump as last major Republican candidate See in context

He interesting thing was her losses and two wins showed not how popular DJT is but how unpopular.

In every case she significantly out-performed pollsters' expectations and Trump underperformed. Republican's under-performing in elections has been a consistent theme ever since Trump's win 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 - all pretty disastrous for the Republic, even if they did narrowly take Congress. In every case, opinion polls placed Trump and the GOP has performing much better than they did.

The 2024 election is in the balance, but polls that say Trump is well in front shouldn't be believed.

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Posted in: Police in Belgium arrest 4 people suspected of planning attack against Brussels concert hall See in context

Radical Islam is a curse.

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Posted in: U.S. Supreme Court rules Trump can stay on Colorado primary ballot See in context

While Trump is an insurrectionist, I haven't seen the judgment, but it what unanimous, so included the Democrat leaning judges too.

But I really don't think anyone seriously believed that Trump isn't going to be standing on November as the republican nominee.

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Posted in: Man, 4 young children found dead in car in Nagano Prefecture See in context

I can't imagine what the mother must be going through.

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Posted in: Super Tuesday's dominance highlights how presidential selection process can exclude many U.S. voters See in context

This is a travesty and another reason why the huge popularity of independents like Bernie Sanders is not reflected at the polls.

I can't see why someone who is not registered with a party should have a say in who that party puts forward as their candidate.

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Posted in: Haley soldiers on despite growing inevitability of Trump See in context

Even 40% of Republicans don't want Trump.

Most will hold their noses and vote for Trump, but some will cross the line and vote Biden just to keep Trump out.

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Posted in: Half of Japanese firms see another Trump presidency as risk, poll shows See in context

Half of Japanese firms see another Trump presidency as risk

And the other half see it as a complete disaster

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Posted in: FBI informant got false dirt on Bidens from Russia intel: prosecutors See in context

Don’t see anywhere he said it was “false”. Just said who he got it from, which would be fine if it was “trump dirt”

The entire Republican case is built around this nonsense.

Trump doesn't conceal his dirt - he tries to overthrow elections based on entirely false claims of election interferance. Trump is fake - everything, especially the words that come out of his mouth.

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Posted in: Trump breaks silence on Navalny; casts no blame on Putin See in context

Trump is pointing out that he considers himself to be America's Navalny.

Yet Trump is the one who tries to overthrow democracy and rule as a dictator. Like Putin.

Your post is so far off the mark it's funny.

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Posted in: AI plays cupid as Japanese authorities try to boost marriage rate See in context

This isn't AI. It's just a basic matching programme - dating agencies have been using them for years.

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Posted in: At least 340 people detained in Russia at events in memory of Navalny, rights group says See in context

OVD-Info, which reports on freedom of assembly in Russia, said the largest numbers of arrests on Saturday occurred in St Petersburg and Moscow, where Navalny's movement had traditionally been strong, with 74 and 49 detained, respectively.

This is what a dictatorship anyways results in. Don't admire dictatorships or those that admire dictators.

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Posted in: 88-year-old woman arrested for dangerous driving after hitting 3 children See in context

Very sad. I know the city quite well.

There's no way an 88 year old should be driving a car. Even if they are fine one day, the next could be the point at which they are no longer fine. That means they either have to judge this for themselves or wait until they have an accident.

I would say 80 as the maximum age, but so is my father-in-law and he is as sharp as a knife and somehow as agile as a monkey. But one day he won't be.

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Posted in: Judge orders Trump and his companies to pay $355 million in New York civil fraud case See in context

He’ll put down $350 and then appeal the rest, no biggie.

He's got to put down $430m for the two cases. And then he can appeal them. That's more free cash than Trump has, so he needs to go and raise some money.

Or rather the Trump Organisation does, as he can't be part of it for the time being. I imagine Ivanka will run it. The $83m he has to raise personally.

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Posted in: Judge orders Trump and his companies to pay $355 million in New York civil fraud case See in context

Lol, love this guy, he just marches on, speaking right now, he’s going to appeal, blowing this off saying back to the campaign trail.

Let him appeal and sink more of his election campaign money. Either way, he's got to find the money first, even to appeal.

NYC like California are on its last leg,

Last legs? These two states have to subsidise the red states.

not all that surprised by these Democrats and Soros backed individual,

The Demonrats and the Hungarian Jew you mean.

personally, I think Trump should leave the city, he can make even more money in other states,

They'll be celebrating.

let NY fall in despair and decay, everyone is leaving, crime, lack of police officers, illegals pushing people and businesses out, food and living costs through the roof, why?

Only in your brain and in the fantasies spun on Fox News.

Why live and suffer in despair and filth, just leave.

A good reason not to move to one of those low income trees states which are dependent upon the blue states for handouts. Filth, despair and religious fanaticism are never far away.

Other than that, love how this guy is stoic and marches on.

'stoic:

a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining.'

Given how regularly Trump throws tantrums, that's the last word I'd use to describe him. I'm not sure he marches in any direction, either figuratively or literally.

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Posted in: Judge orders Trump and his companies to pay $355 million in New York civil fraud case See in context

The trial judge didn't understand the basic fundamentals of valuation.

He does. That's the problem for Donald Trump.

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Posted in: Judge orders Trump and his companies to pay $355 million in New York civil fraud case See in context

Given this was at the low end of expectations, Trump can take some comfort. Although he won't see it that way.

But together with the $83m he has to pay, it will be more than the free cash he has to hand, so that means either borrowing more or selling something.

And it may mean Trump is no longer a billionaire, which will hurt.

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Posted in: Trump judge sets March 25 date for historic criminal trial See in context

Michael Cohen, his ex lawyer, went to prison for facilitating this. There's no doubt Trump was guilty of the same crime. He made the payment happen.

It's a clear open and shut case. Trump is going down.

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Posted in: Trump judge sets March 25 date for historic criminal trial See in context

There are very powerful people who do not want Trump to win the 2024 election.

Otherwise known as the electorate

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Posted in: Japan slips into recession, becoming 4th-largest economy, behind U.S., China and Germany See in context

If Japan Inc were in fact a company rather than a journalistic device, you would be seriously questioning it's business model and whether it required serious restructuring.

It's 'business model ' emerged as a rapidly growing educated workforce - it was the first to market with that model. It transitioned from low wage to high wage skilled economy easily, and again there was limited competition.

But now it gives itself outflanked on nearly all sides. It was caught napping by big Innovations where it should have been a leader (the smart phone) and has lost ground to China and Korea who were able to offer similar products more cheaply.

It needs to consider how it will face the future, but demographics means that it will have to kick harder just to keep its head above water. The current model means that it is being displaced and becoming irrelevant to the wider world apart from as a bucket list tourist destination.

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Posted in: Japan slips into recession, becoming 4th-largest economy, behind U.S., China and Germany See in context

Ha, just came back from an ecumenical conference in Paris, and the amount of well-heeled Japanese tourists I saw there spending large amounts of money like it was still 1989 was incredible. There are still many Japanese who are doing very well, thank you.

And yes, they were JAPANESE tourists.

This is a rather inane comment. Of course there are well-heeled Japanese out there - there always have been and there always will be. It says nothing about the wider picture.

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Posted in: On Valentine's Day, LGBTQ+ activists in Japan call for right for same-sex couples to marry See in context

We’ve already lost our rainbow to the LGBTQ+.

You can still use the rainbow whenever you want. And they can use it too.

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Posted in: On Valentine's Day, LGBTQ+ activists in Japan call for right for same-sex couples to marry See in context

The law is fair and clear.

The law is clear. It isn't fair.

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Posted in: Yakuza member selling soda arrested for extorting money from ninja spreading flyers in Asakusa See in context

he’s also known as Katayama, a high-ranking member of the Yaneya yakuza family which is affiliated with the Sumiyoshi-kai.

Nothing screams "high ranking Yakuza" like selling bottles of drink on the street.

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