This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...

[mangocrazy]

@ZRX61 mate, Biden lost. You really need to get over it.

[ZRX61]

@ZRX61 mate, Biden lost. You really need to get over it.

You do realize what this thread is about... right? Perhaps stop reading it if it upsets you so much.

[mangocrazy]

@ZRX61 mate, Biden lost. You really need to get over it.

You do realize what this thread is about... right? Perhaps stop reading it if it upsets you so much.

That was actually meant as a joke, but never mind. The only thing I'm currently upset about is my van blowing its head gasket.

[ZRX61]

Well that's a pisser, literally.

In other news, they just delayed the sentencing on the 34 felonies until he's out of office, so at least 4 years. That means he won't be a convicted felon until then.. & then I guess President Vance will pardon him...
Assuming the case isn't dismissed by then, which is looking likely... given that he was only prosecuted to prevent him becoming President again. and a 4 year delay is a Due Process violation.

[Mr Moofo]

Well that's a pisser, literally.

In other news, they just delayed the sentencing on the 34 felonies until he's out of office, so at least 4 years. That means he won't be a convicted felon until then.. & then I guess President Vance will pardon him...
Assuming the case isn't dismissed by then, which is looking likely... given that he was only prosecuted to prevent him becoming President again. and a 4 year delay is a Due Process violation.

Will all those tactics work for the common man?

[ZRX61]

Will all those tactics work for the common man?

No one else has ever been charged with these *crimes*.. so common man wouldn't have needed any tactics. They were specific to Trump to prevent him running for POTUS.

[DefTrap]

The correct way to clear your name would be a retrial.

Delaying judgement until it expires or being pardoned are just ways of avoiding the law. Only someone guilty would do that. I think we all know what's happening here.

[Saga Lout]

Will all those tactics work for the common man?

No one else has ever been charged with these *crimes*.. so common man wouldn't have needed any tactics. They were specific to Trump to prevent him running for POTUS.

If the phrase "Trumped up charges" didn't already exist it would need to be invented just for this case.

[ZRX61]

The correct way to clear your name would be a retrial.

Delaying judgement until it expires or being pardoned are just ways of avoiding the law. Only someone guilty would do that. I think we all know what's happening here.

You have it completely ass backwards. Trump didn't ask for the delay, the prosecution did. & he can't appeal the conviction or ask for a new trial until he's been sentenced..

And the delay of four years is illegal under NY State law which states that a perp must be sentenced within 12 months of a guilty verdict.

so no, you don't know "what's happening here"

[DefTrap]

so no, you don't know "what's happening here"

Well it's more about why it's happening really.
It's certainly not normal is it?

[ZRX61]

Well it's more about why it's happening really.
It's certainly not normal is it?

Nope, that's why his lawyers are asking the judge just to bin the entire thing. The prosecution said the Stormie pay off (which wasn't illegal anyway) was to affect the election, but it happened after he'd already won the election. Bit difficult to pay a bribe after the alleged cause.
And then there's the part where he was charged with felonies, where everyone else who did the same thing was charged with misdemeanors. Trump winning this election has pulled the rug from under the prosecution & the judge

[Horse]

I seem to recall reading that ancient tin mines might be worth re-opening, and that Cornwall is sitting on a tidy amount of lithium and other rare-earth metals. Industry might just make a comeback in sleepy, arty Cornwall...

South Crofty is being dewatered as we speak (it will take about 2 years). Several lithium projects are running, one is fairly significant scale. Other minerals (copper, tungsten, uranium, silver, gold)) have been mined economically in the past, and may be again.
We were also the birthplace of mechanical engineering, with most early steam engines being designed and built in Cornwall. That will not return, but other industries may. We are not all arty types, Trevithick and Davy were Cornish.

@Cousin Jack
Do you want the good news, or the other sort?

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-enormous- ... ements.amp

Coal ash—the chalky remnants of coal that has been burned for fuel—has been piling up across the United States for decades. But new research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that the national coal ash supply contains enough rare earth elements to significantly bolster the national supply without any new mining.
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The new research found that there could be as much as 11 million tons of rare earth elements in accessible coal ash in the United States, which is nearly 8 times the amount that the U.S. currently has in domestic reserves, according to the researchers.