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The online right wing is erupting over a contention that the jury doesn't have to be unanimous to find Trump guilty, following a misleading tweet from Fox's John Roberts to that effect.  He later corrected it to confirm that they do have to be unanimous that Trump committed the crime of falsifying business records, but they don't have to be unanimous about which underlying crime it was in support of (which is what elevates it to a felony).  But it's too late, the damage is done.

The wording of that tweet & duration of time in between corrections…

https://twitter.com/johnrobertsfox/status/1795830647719932058https://twitter.com/johnrobertsfox/status/1795835934694650283https://twitter.com/johnrobertsfox/status/1795848224470700242

No doubt he knew what he was doing!

Not the worst choice, but kind of sad a country known for its respect for civil liberties will appoint a former spook who used the classic "nothing to fear, nothing to hide" arguments in the past if you ask me. Maybe D66 can actually go back to being a relevant voice on such matters if this government becomes one of the most authoritarian in terms of state reach in Dutch history. One can hope.

wilders should be pm

The second Trump wins the election (if he wins, which looks increasingly likely) Netanyahu will withdraw all troops from Gaza.

Or Hamas will release all the hostages, knowing Netanyahu will be truly unleashed once Trump takes office. That's basically what happened in 1980 with the hostages in Iran.

What hostages?

There will all be dead by then if they are not already.

Then nothing will be able to save Hamas, as there is only one way to end this war and Hamas will have rendered themselves unable to comply.

[This is wishcasting.]

Key point - it will come down the corroborating evidence, which there is quite a bit of

This is very good for Trump.
Key parts of Cohen's testimony are not corroborated by any other evidence.
The most important part is Cohen's testimony that Trump told him to fix it and knew about it all the time.

On the contrary, there was a boatload of corroborating evidence.  This is wishcasting.

Ever post Ljube has made in this thread is wishcasting tbf

The second Trump wins the election (if he wins, which looks increasingly likely) Netanyahu will withdraw all troops from Gaza.

Or Hamas will release all the hostages, knowing Netanyahu will be truly unleashed once Trump takes office. That's basically what happened in 1980 with the hostages in Iran.

The unfortunate difference here is that Hamas is actively trying to get Israel to hurt Gaza as much as possible to get international intervention, while Iran was not nearly as self-destructive.

The second Trump wins the election (if he wins, which looks increasingly likely) Netanyahu will withdraw all troops from Gaza.

Or Hamas will release all the hostages, knowing Netanyahu will be truly unleashed once Trump takes office. That's basically what happened in 1980 with the hostages in Iran.

What hostages?

There will all be dead by then if they are not already.

Key point - it will come down the corroborating evidence, which there is quite a bit of

This is very good for Trump.
Key parts of Cohen's testimony are not corroborated by any other evidence.
The most important part is Cohen's testimony that Trump told him to fix it and knew about it all the time.

On the contrary, there was a boatload of corroborating evidence.  This is wishcasting.

What is the corroborating evidence that Trump knew about the meeting between Cohen and Weisselberg?

They need corroborating evidence tending to connect the defendant to the charged crime, not of each & every individual aspect of an accomplice's testimony.

The second Trump wins the election (if he wins, which looks increasingly likely) Netanyahu will withdraw all troops from Gaza. Biden only gave him 99% of what he wanted, and that's not enough for the most pampered, entitled country on the planet.

The fact that supposed moderates like Gantz still haven't pulled their war cabinet support to stop this madness reflects awfully on their character too. This is a very sick society.

Leftists are completely delusional about what Palestinian culture is. They think this is some indigenous, peaceful tribe like Mayan civilization in 3000 BC (of course they are wrong about this too) when you listen to some of their language. Unfortunately, reality on the ground suggests if given the capacity they would kill every Jewish person they could.

I'm sure bombing refugee camps will totally change their culture.

Both Gantz and Galland gave a three week deadline that hasn’t passed yet

Not holding my breath.

What is your solution to the conflict then? Eliminate Israel's Jewish majority?

Yeah.

End of minority rule (apartheid).

The online right wing is erupting over a contention that the jury doesn't have to be unanimous to find Trump guilty, following a misleading tweet from Fox's John Roberts to that effect.  He later corrected it to confirm that they do have to be unanimous that Trump committed the crime of falsifying business records, but they don't have to be unanimous about which underlying crime it was in support of (which is what elevates it to a felony).  But it's too late, the damage is done.

Obama is X’er

Gen X doesn't start until 1964 by all qualified definition. He is either a late stage Boomer, or if you agree with the idea of Generation Jones (1954-1964), a Joneser

It's a little known fact that people are actually born continously, so the idea of discrete "generations" is a bit hooky.

Obama occupies a unique generational setting among U.S. presidents in that all the other ones, in the past three decades, have been born in a 4-year period corresponding to the very beginning of the "baby boom" era.  Clinton, Dubya, Trump and Biden (along with nominees Gore, Kerry, Romney and Hillary) share the generational experience of '50s childhood with Vietnam-era coming of age.  It suggests there's something still relevant or long-lived about this era for our contemporary politics.

Obama was 8 when we landed on the Moon, 13 when Nixon resigned, and 14 when Vietnam fell. Old enough to remember seeing all three events live on TV. Whereas someone born in 1964 or after would be unlikely to remember either, especially the moon landing. He might not have been draft age, but the Vietnam War existing would still be within his generational memory. That he was cognizant enough to have even a dim memory of all three transformative events in our society says he is in the same long generation as the Boomers, to me, just of a lesser tier.

Being six (and living in Indonesia!) during the Summer of Love is a very different generational experience than being college-aged/mid-20s at the same time.  That Clinton, Dubya, Trump and Biden all share the later experience is significant.