Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Nate The Lawyer"
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As an Australian with no skin in the game, I think the issue here is ignorance about the words being used and not the intent of the words.
I humbly suggest that the INTENT is to have an uplifting song that recognises "black history" and makes people who need it, feel more equal. Consider it an affirmation. Such an INTENT can be unifying.
The execution, however, was to call such an affirmation a "black nation anthem" and, in so doing, undermined itself. Anyone who understands what the words "national anthem" mean knows that's a nonsensical description. In an environment of high sensitivity, using such an erroneous descriptor is divisive.
It gives the impression to those who understand the words being used that a cohort wish to separate themselves along racial lines and form their own nation through secession. Whilst I'm sure a small minority of such people do exist, I don't believe that was the actual intent here. I again humbly suggest the intent was to describe a song to unify and uplift a racial group. I suspect that is what Charlemagne is attempting to communicate, yet lacks sufficient vocabulary to articulate it. Charlemagne appears to be making the argument that this is a song that acknowledges the complexities of the past elevated on a national stage (ie. It's sung at important domestic national events) makes him feel like his grievances with the past are taken seriously and presents an opportunity to heal. That I would suggest is where he comes to "if you don't like the song you must still want slavery". The latter, of course, is its own logical fallacy. However, it makes much more sense as I've contextualised it.
I suspect when those who gave it such a nickname say "national," they mean the "black" collective as a racial group affected in a historical context but don't have words to express that. Potentially, I could be wrong and it's simply a cynical attempt to use a word to elevate the song in importance. I don't believe the latter however.I feel all parties should be met with good faith until they demonstrate otherwise.
I strongly believe this is a misunderstanding based on the erroneous use of a word. The result of poorly educated individuals being elevated into positions they have no business being in on merits, and not understanding the significance or meaning of the words used.
I think the problem arises because words have defined meanings not just whatever you feel and not everyone seems to understand that anymore. We see it regularly in online conversation where people use words inappropriately to form seemingly nonsensical sentences then brush the onus of interpretation off to the reader with "you know what I mean". This is what happens when the education system is not adequately designed and supported. It's what happens when the average IQ of a nation is allowed to drop from the global average of 100 down to now 97.3. It's what happens when the correct use of words as unifying labels for communication is not taken seriously or taken for granted.
Replacing the word "national" with "american" seems as though it more or less would scuttle the controversy and allow for healing to take place. Calling it such would no less mean it could be sung at domestic national events. Yet such a change would acknowledge the importance of the national anthem as the singular unifying song of the nation.
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Still no one is talking about the key election driver, the economy.
If immigration were high, but prices were low and people could still afford amazing lifestyles no one would care about immigration.
If crime was high, but prices were so low that replacing things stolen was trivial, no one would care.
The problem they actually care about and actually are identifying is the hit their hip pockets have undergone since covid. Harris was involved in making prices go up and had no well communicated plan to bring them back down.
Trump promised to bring prices back down. And he promised to get thjngs under control that push prices up. It's really that simple.
The driver was the economy.
10:35 "The main role of government is to protect its citizens"
What a disgusting thing to say. The role of government is not and never has been to maternalise the populus. The role of government is to administer public funds in such a way as to support and enable capitalism to take place such that the economy grows. That's it.
We don't have laws to protect individuals, we have laws to protect the economy and to create the kinds of conditions where productivity goes up. Schools exist to train employees. Hospitals exist to get people back to peak productivity as quickly as possible. The concept of retirement was invented to get the old, slower workers out of the workplaces in order to increase productivity with a younger, faster workforce.
That's how capitalism works. It's an economy that centres society around privately owned economic output. It's also why it succeeds over communism which centres society around government control of economic output. Capitalism and communism are mostly the same system, only in communism it takes the fate of the individual out of their own hands and places it into the hands of the anointed, which tanks productivity.
Prop 6 wasn't about slavery. It was about forced labour in prison. Very different. That's why it failed because people understood it and want prisoners to do forced labour. You know, justice.
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I disagree that Ashley is a quality attorney. I find her naive and unprofessional. But I think that's important.
It's precisely that lack of professionalism that I would humbly suggest is the root of her finding out this information from Bradley. To understand what happened we need to remember some important points to contextualise. Please remember, Bradley wasn't just Wade's attorney. He testified that he and Wade had been friends since middle school, that's his childhood friend. The law offices were 3 childhood best friends working together.
It wasn't just some professionals who met as lawyers and came together to form a law office for mutual benefit. They were best friends. We're talking people who went to each others weddings, had dinners together as couples, hung out at eat others houses, saw their kids grow up. They have history and over that many years Bradley is going to become just as loyal to Joycelyn as to Wade himself. Think about your best friend and his wife you like, would you be upset if your friend stiffed her?
Bradley tried to claim privilege but the judge said no it's not. Because he got the information through friendship and not as an attorney. We need to really understand Bradley and Wade are trying very hard to blur the lines of their friendship into a professional attorney client relationship. But they were just being friends.
He was Wade's attorney only really in name. Because remember Wade is himself an attorney, I guarantee Wade wrote many of the filings in the divorce himself and just had Bradley file. They're friends, he's just helping his friend.
We also need to put in context that this is happening right after the allegation against Bradley and the dissolving of the partnership. Their friendship was also falling apart at that time, they weren't on good terms. So Bradley is mad over how one friend is treating another in a divorce, and he's mad his friend isn't backing him up in an allegation he claims is false.
Willis didn't just call Bradley like some clandestine entity and say "they're investigating us" then hang up. She clearly brought up the allegations against him, that they may be revealed during the open access or that they had already been revealed by the open access. That's why he's calling Ashley to see if he needs representation.
Ok, so we have him worried for his own freedom and reputation, mad at his childhood friend for not having his back in an allegation he denies and upset with the same friend at how he behaved in his divorce and wronged Joycelyn his other friend.
It's in that context, with all of those emotions going on inside Bradley that you then get 4 lawyers in a conference room chatting while they wait for pleadings. 4 lawyers who are professional acquaintances, work friends really and one of which was a long term actual friend of Bradley whom had socialised with him outside of their professional relationship. The presence of that friend in particular in the room is immediately going to change Bradley's mindset. He isn't a lawyer sitting with opposing counsel. He's sitting in a room with his friend and 2 other work friends. He feels more relaxed and open.
Then you have Ashley, this school girl-esque, naive and talkative person you just know is a gossip queen. So she starts yabbering away and its in that context that Bradley starts spilling the beans. I don't think he meant to on the record, I think he just viewed it as gossip between friends with the aforementioned factors in his mind.
He has also testified in subsequent interactions he did not wish to be relied upon as a source or testify, and Ashley has confirmed that, as have the text exchange in record. I suspect he got caught up in a conversation, said some things with anger in his heart that he later regretted saying, then either had a sunk cost fallacy or felt compelled to keep giving information.
We see evidence of this in how strongly he fought not to testify and how evasive he has been on the stand.
I do not believe for a moment that Ashley Merchant created a honeypot for Bradley and used herself as bait. You might make an argument that the naivety and lack of professionalism is all an act and she uses it to throw people off guard and extract information. But a honeypot? I see no evidence of that. What I see evidence of is someone who should only be a junior lawyer being thrust into a case out of her depth and getting lucky on some information due to coincidence and circumstance.
P.S. Bradley testified it was $20K and it went to the employee making the allegation. He also testified that it was brokered by Wade.
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