If the police can't be sued for their actions, nor should they be able to sue anyone else. Qualified immunity, baby.
That makes a very large amount of instinctive sense.
1: someone was saying on Twitter that by suing they've lost their protection under qualified immunity and can be countersued, but I don't know if that's true.
Here is one of the videos. I like the concept but the tune is just not catchy enough to keep me watching for 6 minutes.
This is hilarious, but I'm worried about him. I don't think there's any reason to think Adams County judges are any better than the Adams County police.
This is hilarious, but I'm worried about him. I don't think there's any reason to think Adams County judges are any better than the Adams County police.
If they had trouble getting dates because of the video, they could add loss of consortium to the suit.
It took a while to hit me, but now I remember why Adams County, Ohio seemed familiar to me. It was one of the sites for a research study that I worked for on my first job.
8: Trump got over 80% of the vote there in 2020.
It's not like it was a great place in 1996 when they voted better.
I'm assuming. I never got closer than Portsmouth.
4. It's not objectively a good song, but it sounds exactly like "Because I Got High" so of course I love it. M and I joked that we should just keep it replaying on Youtube, but on mute, so that Afroman can get paid. The Adams County sheriff's department has a real Streisand Effect problem.
4. It's not objectively a good song
It isn't, but it does give me a good sense of what happened (which was covered in the OP, but the video adds more context)
"Lemon Pound Cake" is directly "Under the Boardwalk", so I presume the cops will sue the Drifters next.
14. It's like how they say you need to be on the right drugs to fully appreciate certain genres of music - MDMA for house, or heroin for Charlie Parker (I'm told). It would take such a massive amount of weed to make this into a patter song.
That's fine. I don't actually know what a patter song is.
Patter song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcS3NOQnsQM
The link in 19 is to a live version of Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" which I hadn't seen before looking it up now, and which is fantastic (including the little coda at the end).
Willfully breaking the 40-rule: Trump indicted!
They did a good fakeout, saying they wouldn't do anything for at least a month.
I demand 16 more comments about the topic first.
Afroman should release a song about how Trump's been indicted but the cops who raided his house haven't been.
The real treasure is the prostitutes you've paid along the way.
Paid mostly to watch shark week with you rather than having sex, if I recall correctly.
I bet Afroman has friends who will watch Shark Week with him for free.
On googling, I learned that "patter" comes from people thinking other people were saying the Our Father too fast and in Latin.
I bet the NY district attorney didn't break Trump's door or gate.
As a former Queens resident I can't stop laughing at this https://twitter.com/queenseagle/status/1641566805515808771?s=46&t=nbIfRG4OrIZbaPkDOwkgxQ
Ben Roethlisberger is both from rural Ohio (though not near Adams County) and involved (peripherally) in the events that got Trump indicted.
And spokesperson says Trump will surrender next week.
Trump yesterday:
I HAVE GAINED SUCH RESPECT FOR THIS GRAND JURY, &
PERHAPS EVEN THE GRAND JURY SYSTEM AS A WHOLE. THE EVIDENCE IS SO OVERWHELMING IN MY FAVOR, & SO RIDICULOUSLY BAD FOR THE HIGHLY PARTISAN & HATEFUL DISTRICT ATTORNEY, THAT THE GRAND JURY IS SAYING, HOLD ON, WE ARE NOT A RUBBER STAMP, WHICH MOST GRAND JURIES ARE BRANDED AS BEING, WE ARE NOT GOING TO VOTE AGAINST A PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE OR AGAINST LARGE NUMBERS OF LEGAL SCHOLARS ALL SAYING THERE IS NO CASE HERE. DROP THIS SICK WITCH HUNT,
New York in spring time is supposed to be nice.
Trump's fundamentally our fault, so it's only fair we should put him in jail first.
DeSantis taking the opportunity to cover himself in shit by saying will not honor an extradition request.
T wiil almost certainly turn himself in so just incendiary twaddle. But also the good old Soros crap.
Also, Gwyneth Paltrow won her case. It's a great day for the law.
Mark Ridley Thomas might be going to jail. It's been a tough day for crooked American politicians! I have mixed feelings about this one though.
38: But also the good old Soros crap.
As I said to a friend on FB, Ron isn't going to be the guy others swear their Führereid to if he can't bring himself to say "Jews."
I'm hoping that somehow the pee tape comes out because of this trial.
Coverage of this is predictably making me want to throw up. Words spoken or written to things known ratio approaching some critical limit.
Most refreshing thing is the TV in this hotel lobby is tuned to an episode of Star Trek TNG rather than a news channel.
And New York State doesn't let cameras in courtrooms! We'll just get sketches of what happens on Tuesday.
What judge would take such a stupid lawsuit?