Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "LegalEagle" channel.

  1. Arguably, we're already there at the Federal level, we get to choose from a small list of candidates that are approved of by the elites and nobody else wins with enough frequency to matter. The state and local level isn't as bad, but we're far further along the way than many realize.
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  2.  @youtubian2500  It's going to be screwed up. Neither Harris nor Trump should win, but that's the choice that most people are making. I had 8 other options on my ballot of people to vote for, but it'll be Trump or Harris, most likely Harris that carries the state despite having done absolutely nothing to earn the votes.
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  3. He remembered that it's easier to rebrand a swamp to a "water hazard" and make money collecting the balls that fall in.
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  4. It's never a good idea to anger the judge. Yes, they do have a duty to be as impartial as possible in how they run the trial, but the angrier they get, the harder it is for them to take a charitable view to miststeps. This is what the judge was referencing in terms of credibility as a judge that trusts that they're being given honest answers has the lattitude to relay more on that with less evidence than one that has reason to believe that there's a bunch of lies and BS incoming from just one side. It's a bit like that case where the only evidence was a written document produced at the last minute that was allegedly decades old. It was printed with settings that are normal now, but were impossible at the time and it went from a trial where there basically was no evidence either way beyond the parties to the contract to one of them very clearly being a liar on that detail.
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  5. Oh, so the Canadian technique then.
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  6.  @Foot751  You mean other than all the perjury during his confirmation and subsequently acting just as corruptly as the rest of them in those rulings?
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  7. You misspelled "black."
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  8.  @ZakTheFallen  No, but if they don't have any infrastructure here, it makes their services a lot slower and potentially harder to monetize as payments can effectively be blocked at the border.
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  9. There's no assumption needed now. They caught a guy that presented the same fake ID that he used at the hostel, he had a manifesto on him and from what I understand he still had what appears to be the murder weapon. And, he matches the images that were captured at the hostel. It remains to be seen as it probably is technically possible for him to not be the right man, but there is an extremely high probability that they got the right guy.
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  10. He said he's taking full responsibility, what more can he do? /sarc
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  11. I'm always curious about how they're going to justify coming to exactly the wrong conclusion if it's the one they need to make in order to keep their gravy train running.
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  12.  @alexmeza6565  You can't consent to things if you're under duress. It remains to be seen the degree to which that applies here, but given the level of alleged violence here, duress may well be the appropriate descriptor. Not to mention, that I doubt any of them knew these freak offs would be so involved that a thousand bottles of baby oil and IV fluids would be needed.
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  13. To this day, the standards are higher for military bases and motorcycles. You need not just the regular license, but also additional training.
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  14. There definitely should be liability for when algorithms do more than simply give the user what they're looking for. Especially if the operator is promoting and demoting content for profit. I'm not sure that this here is the appropriate way of going about it or the appropriate justification.
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  15. I doubt that they'll allow a camera in the court, if they do, there's probably going to be 50 years worth of samples for rap songs.
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  16.  @senhowler  He wasn't the director and producer can mean a lot of different things. But, even if he was the one that hired her as the armorer, that isn't sufficient to make him guilty of manslaughter.
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  17.  @UndarZ  VP Harris even engaged in something like that when she was AG.
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  18.  @Jplays23  Probably, there's a lot of judges between state, local and federal courts, just having more YT channels covering this stuff is going to rake up the muck. There's a reason why most judicial proceedings are done with the public being allowed to witness the proceedings. It's mostly things that are purely administrative and things of a sensitive nature that are done in private. Most of the time, the public has the right to attend the trial to make it less likely that this kind of conduct will occur.
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  19. I think it's worth recognizing that the legal barrier in a civil trial is lower than in a criminal one. Since he hasn't won a civil suit, it's hard to say that he's clean enough to win a wrongful death suit which would be more similar to the defamation cases that he's threatening to pursue. A lawyer for the defendants might well be able to prove to the preponderance of evidence standard that Rittenhouse did murder those people, even if it's not possible to do so beyond a reasonable doubt. A different judge might not have excluded the evidence surrounding those supremacist links, giving the facts a very different look. Personally, I think he's a horrible person and ultimately people are dead because he chose to take the law into his own hands. The verdict was probably legally correct, but he's pretty much a worm for the way he's handling all of this. Little if any indication that he legitimately feels bad for having killed them. Just lapping up his 15 minutes of fame.
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  20. Rank-choice voting doesn't really solve anything. It allows people to vote for whomever they want, but that doesn't mean that things would change in any appreciable way, you'd still have only 2 parties and if it changes which 2 parties it is, things have already gone way off the rails.
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  21. It's not really a surprise, given that those sorts seem to think that the other side is just as bad. And that is true to an extent,t he difference is the proportion of the left that's that bad compared with the proportion of the right that is.
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  22. Honestly,this whole thing seemed awfully fishy from the start as if mere ownership of some land is the standard, then it pretty much makes the whole title pointless as a good chunk of the population would qualify. It reminds me a bit of the Arthur C. Clarke book 3001 where he refers to one of the characters as being one of the few that had managed to avoid becoming a Lord. Which would definitely happen if you were able to get the title so easily.Such a small plot of land is just a pain to be able to even track. You get the land and if you're off by even a little bit, you're now on somebody else's land. And that doesn't even consider the reality that such a small plot of land isn't something that can be registered officially anyways.
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  23. Barring some really unexpected development, this was a lynching or extrajudicial killing.
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  24. Arguably, it's even worse for the prosecution as the pistol may well have been damaged to the point where the trigger didn't need to be pulled. But, we'll never know that because they damaged it to the extent that it couldn't be tested.
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  25. And yet, the DNC chose to stick us with a terrible candidate that hasn't won a single primary.
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  26. Definitely not, there certainly haven't been any rightwingers insisting that Alec was guilty and would be convicted.
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  27. That sort of thing has been going on for decades, at a minimum, and as bad as it's been with BS things like messing around with discharge classifications for things as minor as being a little bit overweight despite personnel doing what's asked of them to be in compliance, and the VA that's only been fully funded in recent memory by changing the definition of full funding, it's probably going to get ugly.
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  28.  @wouldiwasshookspeared4087  I hear a lot of folks saying that, but it's not true. But, even if you do accept it to be true, then why on Earth is a ship large enough to cause a collapse like this being allowed to go through with no escorts? And if tugs genuinely aren't enough, then why is it allowed to sail past that bridge at all? A large enough block of concrete would have done the job of directing the ship around the support. There are a lot of folks carrying water for the various authorities here over very preventable deaths.
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  29. Unfortunately, due to the way that laws are written and interpreted, it's virtually impossible to ever get a clear answer. Which is why lawyers say that it depends so often as it does. It's a bit of a scam that it's effectively impossible to ever know your legal rights without being an attorney and even then, it often has to go to court in order to get a final ruling. In order to know whether something is legal or not, you'd have to not just look up the law, but also the precedences that apply to it and the direction in which the courts are moving in that region. Fortunately, in most common situations things are pretty well established, but when they aren't, that's not likely to get you off.
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  30. I wouldn't personally consider screaming or not to be a particularly compelling piece of evidence as to whether or not it was consensual. When something like that happens there's all sorts of ways in which people react, freezing is not something I would consider surprising.
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  31.  @midbamarail  When they say "free healthcare" they usually mean free at point of delivery. In much of the developed world you pay nothing other than whatever portion of your taxes go to pay for medical care.
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  32. Do we know that? It was implied by that evidence being discovered that it may have been her stuff, but I don't know that that has been proven and from what I understand, the police weren't at all interested in the source of the ammo.
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  33.  @thatonedog819  The problem there is that the underlings have varying degrees to which they could do anything and I'm guessing a bunch of the folks that were involved had already flipped in exchange for testifying or weren't close enough to do anything anyways.
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  34.  @jasonmaclean719  You're entitled to that opinion. There's a bunch of other stupid positions that people are free to have. He committed felonies, and was convicted. He shouldn't have even been allowed to run this time due to the actions he took on January 6th until whatever legal proceedings related to that could be properly handled.
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  35.  @Nielak-dg8nj  Certainly, the same thing happened with OJ where he won the criminal case, but lost the civil case. The standards for a civil case are much lower and so sometimes you'll find those cases before and sometimes after, but since the standards are easier to meet it can be somewhat problematic.
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  36. IANAL, but, it's questionable whether the potential fraud and violation of court rules would be sufficient to set aside this settlement as the attorneys presumably could have pulled up that settlement, identified defects and chosen to fight it.
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  37. Even in the US, it usually does, what's changed is statistical modelling software has vastly improved, there's been increasing polarization between the states and a bunch of bad court rulings that led to a flood of money going into the races.
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  38. Having 2 choices served us well for centuries, it's mostly the result of a series of bad SCOTUS rulings that led to a bunch of money flowing into politics, population shifting around to have more of a split between the political views of the states and the Democrats moving further to the right in their pursuit of bipartisanship and stealing votes from the other party rather than getting registered non-voters to show up to vote that caused this. The easiest fix would be to take away the small state bonus that results from each state getting an additional vote for each senator they have. That would have resulted in Gore winning in 2020 without even removing the electoral college.
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  39. It's worth noting that in some places, there are restrictions on how much money they're allowed to raise like that in comparison to their entire budget just to try and discourage cities from using the tickets as a major revenue source to replace taxes.
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  40. Wow, you must mean business, I didn't even see the usual reminder that we can get legal services or referrals from you.
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  41.  @jameskellinger8314  A lynching is any time "justice" is served outside of court by somebody serving as judge, jury and executioner. The fact that this was a cop doesn't really change that fact at all.
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  42.  @0xCAFEF00D  IIRC it was involuntary manslaughter and they weren't able to prove how the bullets actually made their way onset and into the weapon. The maximum sentence for involuntary manslaughter is only 18 months.
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  43.  @thomasbecker9676  She got the maximum sentence for what she was charged with. If you or I did what she was convicted of, we would also likely get 18 months.
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  44.  @killroy713  That's all well and good for you to say, but it's not the job of the actor to know how to do that, acting involves a lot of other stuff and you would not want one of those method actors playing psychopaths to check such things.
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  45. To be fair, a lot of the Boomers were probably donating prior to the take over of leadership and simply never realized how bad it's gotten or assume that other gun rights outfits are as bad. That being said, my dad owns a half dozen firearms and would never give them money because of their extremist ideology, even though he supports hunting rights, right to have firearms and gun safety classes. He just doesn't buy into this notion that we need to have assault rifles for hunting gophers as he served in Vietnam and is well aware of just how comicaly overpowered those weapons are. Even with the limits that are currently in place, they're still ridiculously overpowered for civilian use.
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  46.  @MrMagyar5  You'd be hard-pressed to find anybody that would trade the UK's NHS care for what the US has. Years ago I had a room mate whose elderly father had died prematurely due to an NHS screw up, and he still wouldn't have exchanged the NHS for what the US has.
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  47. He could have started up the steps and turned back, or gone up really close and whispered something to him. Both would likely have resulted in Smith being the bigger man. But, as it is, Rock is the bigger man.
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  48.  @MelissaSteeber  Yes, JN isn't legal so much as an inevitable byproduct of the secrecy in the deliberation room. It's ethically questionable, but the jury gets to weigh the evidence and there isn't anything to really stop the jury from putting a thumb on the scales as long as they're all on board with doing so. I don't personally support it because the trials most likely to get the JN treatment are also the ones that are the best chance of changing the laws on appeal. It also distorts the way that cases are tried as the defense can simply go after the jury's emotions and try to convince them that the charges are unjust, leading to a long string of prosecutions over something that could have been ended via an appellate court.
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  49. I don't think so, the absolute most they could have based that on was him pointing a firearm that was supposedly cleared to wave around in an unsafe directly. I don't know that the jury would have gone for that. This wasn't somebody waving a random pistol around and accidentally shooting somebody. This was somebody using a weapon in the way that it was intended to be used and a previous armorer he's worked with came to his defense in terms of him being careful with the weapons on his set.
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  50.  @MagiRemmie  I think the point there is that that is a constitutional thing. If it's usual and cruel by society's standards it would get addressed pretty quickly. If it's unusual and cruel, then it may just be a string of one-off torturing that might never be addressed. There isn't much point in constitutional rights that apply to things that aren't controversial, it's for things like deplorable people saying deplorable things.
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