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I completely buy the prosecution's factual case.

But the prosecution has done almost nothing to convince me that what Trump did constitutes a crime beyond a reasonable doubt as to the interpretation of the statutes and campaign finance regulations.

I understand that this is really not supposed to be something a lay jury is asked to decide.  But if I'm a juror and the law is as unclear as it seems to be in the case, and I've been given almost no information as to how this vagueness should be resolved, I'd have to feel it was my responsibility to acquit.

This is why I wish the prosecution had a least brought up adultery as a possible underlying crime to elevated the falsification of records to a felony.  Under this theory of the case, I think Trump is 100% guilty with no ambiguity in the law, and I would absolutely convict him.  But unfortunately the prosecution presented no evidence that Trump committed adultery in New York.

Anyone who spends a little time with semi-normal people already knew this. MSNBC is a bubble, but Joe likes to think Americans spend their mornings watching Morning Joe.

I think I know better than you as i'm in Europe and more familiar with European politics than you are. All you say is just "you're false, end of story", lol.

Democrats would be centrist. There are factions that would be left-wing but they're a minority within the Democratic Party. It's not like the squad, Bernie Sanders or even Elizabeth Warren dominate the DEM party. Biden's brand is basically christian democratic, which generally is even considered center-right in most nations in Western Europe.

No, you're just one European person with a particular political viewpoint. I posted an ANALYSIS that measured how left and right the Democratic and Republican parties would in be in peer countries.

That analysis directly contradicts your nonsense claim.

Walmart had pretty good earnings , maybe a shift of middle income consumers to trashier Walmart ?

Walmart said as much on its earnings call that more high earners were shopping at its stores mainly through its Walmart+ delivery.

we don't do plus, but we do pick up at store and have them shop for us and put it in the back of the car.  Like every other normal person, I like Wal Mart's prices, but gawd damn I hate going into their stores.  Wal Mart customers are the worst people on Earth (ya know, poor Americans).

Maybe it's because this is an upscale area, but our local Walmart is clean, spacious, and the customers (and staff) seem to be ordinary suburbanites for the most part.

the closest one to me is maybe a decade old and it's been a sh**t hole the entire time.  It was gross on the inside with months of opening.  If I have to go inside, I'll go to a different Wal Mart, the ones south and west are like you describe (but nowhere near as nice as the Targets in the same directions).  A mile west of the "bad" one is the nicest public school in the area (where I live), a mile east is Warren Buffet's house.  But there is little pocket of poors in between and they all shop at Wal Mart.

Superbowl doesn't count.

Well well well…

Gender gap is also 13 points. Is that typical?

That’s honestly not bad at all!

Liberal parties in Europe aren't left of center in Western Europe.

That's Lib Dem, LREM, etc. I don't consider that left-of-center really. That's center.

Agree with Republican being further right than most traditional conservative parties though.

You may dislike me for saying this but I stand by this. I don't think i'm saying anything controversial here.

What you're saying is false. That's it. The analysis that measured it proves you wrong.

Democrats would be left of center of Western Europe. END OF STORY.

I think I know better than you as i'm in Europe and more familiar with European politics than you are. All you say is just "you're false, end of story", lol.

Democrats would be centrist. There are factions that would be left-wing but they're a minority within the Democratic Party. It's not like the squad, Bernie Sanders or even Elizabeth Warren dominate the DEM party. Biden's brand is basically christian democratic, which generally is even considered center-right in most nations in Western Europe, though i wouldn't go as far for Biden specifically. Center fits it properly.

I don't think he is.

Perhaps for the USA he is, but that tells you a lot about the USA.

No, it tells a lot about the mindset of you and others who still believe in the "American liberals would be right-wing in Europe" falsehood.

That BS was already debunked: "The Republican Party leans much farther right than most traditional conservative parties in Western Europe and Canada...The Democratic Party, in contrast, is positioned closer to mainstream liberal parties."

SOURCE: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/26/opinion/sunday/republican-platform-far-right.html

Liberal parties in Europe aren't center of left in Western Europe.

That's Lib Dem, LREM, etc. I don't consider that left-of-center really. That's center.

Agree with Republican being further right than most traditional conservative parties though.

Don’t want to diverge from the thread topic too much, but I think the answer to this question depends on the issue. On some issues, Democrats may be “further right” just because of the baseline of where we currently are - for instance our healthcare system is nowhere near as robust as many Wueopean countries so Democrats goal here right now is to largely just get to where these other European countries currently are.

On a lot of social issues (I.e. gay marriage) the US has been ahead or in line of its Western European counterparts.

Most christian democratic and mainstream liberal parties in Western Europe also accept gay marriage as consensus and are pro-LGBTQ. There are exceptions, esp. in Eastern Europe which is generally more social conservative.

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For Belgium, i'd say the closest equivalent is a mixture of CD&V and Open VLD which are both center-right parties here. Vooruit, PVDA and Groen are all much to the left. N-VA is right-wing. VB far right. Republican voters would only fit within those latter two parties.

Perhaps an even more telling- even saddening - demonstration of how popular butker's views are. His T-shirt is now the highest selling one in the NFL store.

I think part of that is that sports in general is turning into a clique for reactionary bearded men. Even real sports like football seem to be turning into MMA or NASCAR in terms of the type of fandom it attracts.

It doesn't help that football is horribly boring to watch now because of the penalties and commercial breaks. You'd have to be pretty weird to enjoy watching two hours of commercial breaks and another hour of watching people stand around waiting for the official review of every other play.


I also forgot to mention it's extremely expensive. You'd have to be a total asshole to waste money going to a game in person at this point, and you have to have cable or premium streaming services to watch everything. It's a mess.

This is false lol . The NFL just recorded its 2nd highest average ratings ever last season so it’s just as popular as it ever was . The fact is conservatives, liberals have both attacked the nfl constantly but in reality it has done nothing to dent the NFL’s popularity .

Also it’s false to say you need cable to watch the NFL as at least 90% of NFL games are broadcast on CBS NBC or Fox all of which you only need an antenna to watch .

https://fortune.com/2024/01/10/nfl-ratings-tv-second-highest-ever-football/

The ratings may not be declining, but the types of people watching it have definitely changed. Fewer and fewer young people care about sports and, regardless of what the ratings say, a lot of people who used to watch football regularly have given up on it. Not for political reasons, but because the experience is terrible. Nonstop commercials, nonstop penalties, nonstop official reviews, and it is less accessible than it used to be. "You only need an antenna to watch." Lol.

The Superbowl had the highest viewership of anything since the Moon Landing, you don’t get those numbers without universal appeal.

Superbowl doesn't count.

“Jewish voters are going to flock to the GOP!”