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What I don't get in all this is why Trump let Cohen leverage his home equity to pay the NDA. Couldn't he just pay it himself? Is this the heart of the case? This deception? To what end?

Lol I know, that did go through my mind as I wrote my last comment.

They're (almost) all cowards. PP is almost as big a panderer as Trudeau, putting on costumes to beg for ethnic votes left and right. Say what you will about Mad Max, I'm pretty sure he's not a foreign agent.

Quiet professional vs lifelong attack dog... I wouldn't weigh that too heavily.

But hey, conservatives will save us soon, right?

As if this came out of nowhere. You know damn well that people are outraged because it is believable. If that story had come out 15 years ago, we'd laugh it off. But it is precisely because we know many institutions and organizations are in fact using and propagating such phrases that our...

Phobia implies a degree of irrationality... There is nothing irrational about an aversion to a religion which has been incessantly trying to invade and subjugate Europe for over a thousand years.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-police-officer-attacked-by-knifeman-during-protest-has-died-2024-06-02/ FTFM Also, this alternate angle shows two officers running away from the fight: I don't think it's reasonable at all to describe this intervention as anywhere close to "very...

Same rules apply. I don't think it's pertinent to start speculating about the victims' politics - in the headline - when you're talking about a terrorist attack opposed to the victim. Now if the perpetrator is the leftist or rightist, then yes it becomes relevant.

Generally, an honest headline takes into account how it will be read. "Far-" is pejorative, whether the suffix is "right" or "left". "Man" implies neutrality. This is wrong and cowardly when you're talking about a stabbing maniac. With both in the same sentence, many readers will associate the...

No... It sounds like I'm not naive, but instead choose to analyze our contemporary reality beyond the surface/technical level. I have a lot of respect for you and your expertise Brihard, but sometimes your unwillingness to dig deeper is bewildering. Headlines are generally engineered by...

You think most people read all the articles they see, or just what they have time for; the headlines? Journalists know this and convey their intended message accordingly, under the cover of the plausible deniability you've been baited into. This is but one example. To pretend it is an...

Following up on my earlier point about ideological blinders... The European mental poison that leads to an incorrect operational picture: This is how European media qualifies an Islamic terrorist attack. This is how their institutions interpret facts on the ground and in turn, how they brief...

I think it's a bit too facile to say "hindsight 2020" and abandon all esprit critique. On the contrary, one can learn from others' mistakes. What that officer did almost got him killed. You won't see me doing that (focus all attention on one party). I had the same reaction earlier today when...

My experience as a military officer and just a situationally aware man says fights usually involve two parties and when you don't know what's going on, your priority is to worry about assessing, disarming and separating, not arresting. This officer assumed the blue shirt guy was the only threat...

Germans are asleep at the wheel. And they still arrested blue shirt guy after shooting the terrorist, mind you.

Tanks and jets that will rust out soon enough anyway. Might as well ensure the best are in tip top shape and sent to battle while they're still useful.

Yeah, I realized that after writing it. Will have to wait for an appellate court's decision... Such a decision would probably go over precisely what many are wondering about since no one is really arguing the facts here, it's all a question of law.

Mine was a subtle commentary on the imperfectness of our judicial system. The mere fact that there is a system doesn't mean it produces the right answers every time it is prodded.

Given that the convict is the preferred candidate for the upcoming presidential election, it seems we may be in such circumstances (depending on how the case(s) end up impacting the campaign). Just as Bush and Gore were, 24 years ago.