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If I were Linus I’d stay as far the fuck away from any investigation as possible if for no other reason than having anything to do with it would sow doubt in any conclusion favorable to LTT.

No one should trust the conclusions of an investigation paid for by the accused any more than you should trust an inspector that was hired by the real estate agent selling you a house and for the exact same reasons.

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According to who?

Tbh I don’t trust anyone that reacted the way Linus did in response to GN’s investigation or that only changes things once they get called out on it publically.

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I feel like the fact they paid the same party that investigated them is an obvious enough conflict of interest to dismiss this out of hand. Whether the report is actually trustworthy or not, there is an incentive to come to a conclusion that aligns with whomever paid them and that alone should make people question the conclusions being made.

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I think Ill pass on reading that article if theyre going to sell my data to this many “partners”

Nintendo is a company that only wants make new stuff

They’ve been digging mario out of the dumpster for the last 40 years wtf are you dementia-ing on about?

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Saying both parties are the same is an early sign of dementia.

No the SCOTUS IS predictable and in a bad way.

Has anyone in a position of authority ever faced consequences for this? Because in Cannon’s case, you’d have to prove that she didn’t have a legitimate reason to do what she did and that it rose to the level of an ethics violation deserving of punishment. Which we can infer given the obvious conflict of interest but if that was enough to punish her it would have probably happened by now. And the standard for evidence required to punish a judge like that is reasonably high.

Civil trial consequences are always only monetary - you can’t go to prison for a civil case. That’s part of why civil cases get away with having a much lower standard of evidence

Which is exactly why I mentioned it. He has never faced consequences from criminal charges, only civil court.

You’ll notice he started hawking Bibles almost immediately afterward, likely because he needs more liquid funding in the short term.

He would have done that regardless of whether he “needed” funds or not. Like most obscenely rich people, there is no such thing as “enough” wealth.

I believe he’s been fined for it several times now, but the fine is set by law and is an amount that’s a pittance to Trump.

Which doesn’t really contradict my point that he effectively hasn’t faced any real consequences.

you’ve still got to figure out how to work his Secret Service detail into the picture.

He’s a criminal. He shouldn’t be afforded the same security detail as his predecessors that weren’t. We don’t “have to” do anything. It was just decided as a society that this man, and others like him, should be given privileges that others don’t have.

And also the protests from his cult if/when that happens.

This should never ever ever factor into what his punishment is. A functioning society needs a justice system that doesn’t cave to mobs.

Everything about this is abhorrant.

Id love to be wrong here but Trump has been impeached twice (which did jack shit because the republicans in the senate would have had to help convict him) and the only real consequences for what hes done were in civil trials and even that was monetary. They didnt even make him pay the bail bond he was initially “required” to pay. He’s been threatened with consequences for contempt of court over a dozen times now.

Unfortunately the best predictor of the future is the past and the past hasnt laid a hand on him.

Just because something is supposed to happen does not mean that it will. By all rights Trump should have been kicked out of office and be sitting in jail right now but he isnt. Just like Nixon and a whole cadre of others that slithered away without facing any real consequences.