Lets see if we can keep this thread a little more civil.

I found this interview very interesting.  A lot of soft balls thrown at Trump, he explained his back pedalling on his more extreme issues as a lot of his claims as opening bids for negotiation purposes.  Which .. whatever .. I still think that those are insincere claims he used to get elected.

He does now come across way more presidential then he did prior to the election.  A lot of his noise, yelling, and rhetoric has been scaled back.

Do respect this one though:

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Lesley Stahl: Are you gonna take the salary, the president’s salary?

Donald Trump: Well, I’ve never commented on this, but the answer is no. I think I have to by law take $1, so I’ll take $1 a year. But it’s a -- I don’t even know what it is.

Donald Trump: Do you know what the salary is?

Lesley Stahl: $400,000 you’re giving up.

Donald Trump: No, I’m not gonna take the salary. I’m not taking it.

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-donald-trump-family-melania-ivanka-lesley-stahl/

Delaware Judge Delays Start Of Dominion’s Defamation Trial Against Fox News

NEW YORK (AP) — The Delaware judge overseeing a voting machine company’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News announced late Sunday that he was delaying the start of the trial until Tuesday. He did not cite a reason.

The trial, which has drawn international interest, had been scheduled to start Monday morning with jury selection and opening statements.

According to the Wall Street Journal, people familiar with the situation said Sunday that the conservative network had made a late push to settle the dispute out of court.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-dominion-trial-delayed_n_643c96aae4b0ac40918bdbd9

Sweet 16 birthday party in Alabama, that's a mass shooting, oh almost forgot thoughts and prayers

The Republicans will now be wearing a new uniform when holding committee hearings and generally doing nothing for the American people

 

 

 

19 hours ago, Tracker said:

Delaware Judge Delays Start Of Dominion’s Defamation Trial Against Fox News

NEW YORK (AP) — The Delaware judge overseeing a voting machine company’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News announced late Sunday that he was delaying the start of the trial until Tuesday. He did not cite a reason.

The trial, which has drawn international interest, had been scheduled to start Monday morning with jury selection and opening statements.

According to the Wall Street Journal, people familiar with the situation said Sunday that the conservative network had made a late push to settle the dispute out of court.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-dominion-trial-delayed_n_643c96aae4b0ac40918bdbd9

Apparently Faux News requested a recess while they try to reach an out court settlement with Dominion. This would seem to be admission of culpability and a desire to reach a settlement for substantially less than 1.6 Billion and not have to live with a ruling that would damage whatever credibility they still have. The word of Faux employees under oath would reduce them to farce status.

1 minute ago, Tracker said:

Apparently Faux News requested a recess while they try to reach an out court settlement with Dominion. This would seem to be admission of culpability and a desire to reach a settlement for substantially less than 1.6 Billion and not have to live with a ruling that would damage whatever credibility they still have. The word of Faux employees under oath would reduce them to farce status.

It wouldn't matter to their viewers. As long as they continue to promote hate and anger, they'll have an audience. 

1 minute ago, Tracker said:

Apparently Faux News requested a recess while they try to reach an out court settlement with Dominion. This would seem to be admission of culpability and a desire to reach a settlement for substantially less than 1.6 Billion and not have to live with a ruling that would damage whatever credibility they still have. The word of Faux employees under oath would reduce them to farce status.

it will be interesting to see what happens here, as typically when these kinds of high-level suits are settled, all parties will be NDA'd and no admission of fault will be given.  But in this case, Dominion is insisting on on-air retractions and admission of fault...

13 minutes ago, bustamente said:

The Republicans will now be wearing a new uniform when holding committee hearings and generally doing nothing for the American people

 

 

 

look at the bright side!  they can replace all of those expensive congressional buildings with a compact car...

Just now, JCon said:

It wouldn't matter to their viewers. As long as they continue to promote hate and anger, they'll have an audience. 

A court award anywhere close to the 1.6 billion would cripple Faux and there is another suit pending for multiple millions as well. A win for Dominion would set the precedent and pretty much guarantee a liability victory for the second plaintiffs.

1 hour ago, bustamente said:

The Republicans will now be wearing a new uniform when holding committee hearings and generally doing nothing for the American people

 

 

 

Huh, this would explain the entrance music to the inauguration of the 118th congress:

 

 

Apparently when you are a SCOTUS justice you are accountable to no one, and what a collection they have on that court. 

Stop the Steal organizer in trouble because he was soliciting **** pics from teenage boys.

5 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

Stop the Steal organizer in trouble because he was soliciting **** pics from teenage boys.

"research"

 

I do not want to go anywhere in the United States.

 

"A woman in Hebron, Washington County ended up in the wrong driveway while searching for a friend’s house, and was shot to death, investigators said.

HEBRON, N.Y. -- A woman looking for a friend's house in upstate New York was shot to death after the car she was riding in mistakenly went to the wrong address and was met with gunfire in the driveway, authorities said Monday.

Kaylin Gillis, 20, was traveling through the rural town of Hebron with three other people Saturday night when the group made a wrong turn onto the property. 

They were trying to turn the car around when the homeowner, Kevin Monahan, 65, came out onto his porch and fired two shots, according to Washington County Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy.

One round hit Gillis."

1 hour ago, Mark F said:

I do not want to go anywhere in the United States.

 

"A woman in Hebron, Washington County ended up in the wrong driveway while searching for a friend’s house, and was shot to death, investigators said.

HEBRON, N.Y. -- A woman looking for a friend's house in upstate New York was shot to death after the car she was riding in mistakenly went to the wrong address and was met with gunfire in the driveway, authorities said Monday.

Kaylin Gillis, 20, was traveling through the rural town of Hebron with three other people Saturday night when the group made a wrong turn onto the property. 

They were trying to turn the car around when the homeowner, Kevin Monahan, 65, came out onto his porch and fired two shots, according to Washington County Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy.

One round hit Gillis."

Par for the course down there:

The errand that nearly cost Ralph Yarl his life was of the sort that falls to older brothers everywhere.

 

Ralph, a Black 16-year-old in Kansas City, Mo., had been sent to pick up his younger twin brothers at a friend’s house on Thursday evening, his family said. But he mixed up the address, finding himself in front of a house on Northeast 115 Street, instead of Northeast 115th Terrace.

 

The white man who answered the door there shot him in the head and again in the arm after he fell, according to prosecutors. Somehow, Ralph made his way, bleeding, to another nearby house. There, he was told to lie on the ground while someone called for help, his family said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/us/ralph-yarl-kansas-city-shooting.html

 

18 hours ago, Mark F said:

I do not want to go anywhere in the United States.

 

"A woman in Hebron, Washington County ended up in the wrong driveway while searching for a friend’s house, and was shot to death, investigators said.

HEBRON, N.Y. -- A woman looking for a friend's house in upstate New York was shot to death after the car she was riding in mistakenly went to the wrong address and was met with gunfire in the driveway, authorities said Monday.

Kaylin Gillis, 20, was traveling through the rural town of Hebron with three other people Saturday night when the group made a wrong turn onto the property.  They were trying to turn the car around when the homeowner, Kevin Monahan, 65, came out onto his porch and fired two shots, according to Washington County Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy.

One round hit Gillis."

Agreed, and here is more proof:

Oklahoma paper releases audio of county leaders discussing plans to kill a reporter, lynch Black people

In Oklahoma, Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt is calling for the "immediate resignation" of four McCurtain County officials in response to a damning report by the McCurtain Gazette-News — which alleges that it has obtained an audio recording in which the officials, during a March 6 meeting, can be heard making racist remarks and calling for violence against Gazzette-News reporter Chris Willingham.

The officials Stitt mentioned by name are McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy, District 2 Commissioner Mark Jennings, Investigator Alicia Manning, and Jail Administrator Larry Hendrix.
In a statement on Sunday, April 16, Stitt said, "I am both appalled and disheartened to hear of the horrid comments made by officials in McCurtain County. There is simply no place for such hateful rhetoric in the state of Oklahoma, especially by those that serve to represent the community through their respective office. I will not stand idly by while this takes place."

According to the Gazzette-News, copies of the recording have been given to the FBI and the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office.

The Oklahoman's Josh Dulaney, in an article published on April 16, reports, "A portion of the audio recordings were released online over the weekend."

During the March 6 conversation, according to Dulaney, Manning is heard "saying she needed to take some packages to a shipping center near the newspaper’s office."

"(Manning) expressed concern about what could happen if Willingham walked out of the newspaper’s office, according to the (Gazzette-News)…. Willingham, that day, had filed a defamation lawsuit against the (McCurtain County) Sheriff’s Office, Manning and the Board of County Commissioners."

During the conversation, according to Dulaney, Manning allegedly told the other officials, "I ain’t worried about what he’s gonna do to me. I’m worried about what I might do to him. My papaw would have whipped his a**, would have wiped him and used him for toilet paper."

Jennings allegedly said, in response, "I know where two big, deep holes are here if you ever need them." And Clardy allegedly said, "I've got an excavator."

During the conversation, Jennings allegedly condoned lynching Blacks, saying, "Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with damned rope. But you can’t do that anymore. They've got more rights than we’ve got."

 

But, they're not fascists. Just normal people who want to kill journalists for um.. reporting news. Not just kill them but also discuss how to kill them and how to dispose of them.

 

3 minutes ago, JCon said:

But, they're not fascists. Just normal people who want to kill journalists for um.. reporting news. Not just kill them but also discuss how to kill them and how to dispose of them.

 

Yea but everyone's bad that just minimized the severity of this.

 

 

Sounds like Fox and Dominion have settled

4 minutes ago, bustamente said:

Sounds like Fox and Dominion have settled

Really a shame. But, Dominion is company and they're only interested in money, so it makes sense. Would be nice to expose those frauds, though. 

4 minutes ago, bustamente said:

Sounds like Fox and Dominion have settled

Looks like it... that's really disappointing

I wonder if anything in the settlement will force Fox to say on air that their personalities lied on air, somehow I doubt it.

Faux News in its entirety is a scourge on civilization.

2 minutes ago, bustamente said:

I wonder if anything in the settlement will force Fox to say on air that their personalities lied on air, somehow I doubt it.

Probably fabricated vindication, if anything.

5 minutes ago, bustamente said:

I wonder if anything in the settlement will force Fox to say on air that their personalities lied on air, somehow I doubt it.

I'm sure there will be some public disclosure. Can't imagine Dominion worrying about their image and only taking money. 

Maybe Tucker will have to tell everyone of his fans, on air, what he actually thinks of them? 

Just under my guess of 800m.

Fox still has to deal with Smartmatic

Dominion settles for less than half of what they were going for, still a lot of money and I doubt that Fox will on air say they lied and I bet the dominion doesn't care

10 minutes ago, bustamente said:

Fox still has to deal with Smartmatic

Dominion settles for less than half of what they were going for, still a lot of money and I doubt that Fox will on air say they lied and I bet the dominion doesn't care

I thought 780+mil was more than half considering that Dominion wanted 1.3B