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The DUmpster / Re: I'm in a state of shock
« Last post by SVPete on Today at 07:54:14 PM »Maybe someone saw the latest polls?
Maybe he filled up with gasoline?
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Maybe he filled up with gasoline?
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The DUmpster / Re: I'm in a state of shock
« Last post by ADsOutburst on Today at 07:02:53 PM »Quote
I'm in a state of shock
Maybe someone saw the latest polls?
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General Discussion / Re: Mangione's Lawyers to Fans: You Know He's Bat-Guano Crazy, Right?
« Last post by DefiantSix on Today at 06:19:05 PM »I have mixed feelings. It may be hard to mount an insanity defense, but he's a hardcore leftist, so...
...so Mangione very definitely qualifies as N U T S
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General Discussion / Re: Mangione's Lawyers to Fans: You Know He's Bat-Guano Crazy, Right?
« Last post by ADsOutburst on Today at 06:05:57 PM »I have mixed feelings. It may be hard to mount an insanity defense, but he's a hardcore leftist, so...
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 6/17
« Last post by SVPete on Today at 04:09:54 PM »Oregon suddenly backs down on $90k fine on Christian therapist for not blessing gay relationship
https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/oregon-suddenly-backs-down-90k-fine-christian-therapist-not-blessing-gay
Reason 983 for Proggie-Faithful to hate the Alliance Defending Freedom. The ADF represents people who should not be represented and wins cases that should not be won (from a Prog POV).
https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/oregon-suddenly-backs-down-90k-fine-christian-therapist-not-blessing-gay
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Attorney General Dan Rayfield notified the Oregon Court of Appeals, ..., that the Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists withdrew the "final order assessing costs" against Frank Canepa May 12 and then the "notice of proposed disciplinary action" June 5.
The board's attached order says it moved to reconsider the fine in light of the Supreme Court's March ruling in favor of Colorado therapist Kaley Chiles, threatened by the Centennial State for refusing to affirm gender confusion in minor clients, and then took back the disciplinary notice "without prejudice."
Canepa's lawyers at the Alliance Defending Freedom announced the withdrawal Wednesday but not how it would respond, given that the board's withdrawal without prejudice means it could open a new proceeding against Canepa.
Reason 983 for Proggie-Faithful to hate the Alliance Defending Freedom. The ADF represents people who should not be represented and wins cases that should not be won (from a Prog POV).
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General Discussion / Mangione's Lawyers to Fans: You Know He's Bat-Guano Crazy, Right?
« Last post by SVPete on Today at 03:53:10 PM »Mangione's Lawyers to Fans: You Know He's Bat-Guano Crazy, Right?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/06/17/mangiones-lawyers-to-fans-you-know-hes-bat-guano-crazy-right-n3816054
IMO, if the prosecution is able to show planning - e.g. seeking out the target, selecting a weapon and location - and/or efforts to evade identification and/or capture, those should overcome an insanity defense. What Mangione's lawyer seems to be suggesting, though, sounds more akin to Twinkie Defense 2.0.
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/06/17/mangiones-lawyers-to-fans-you-know-hes-bat-guano-crazy-right-n3816054
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Luigi Mangione's attorneys want to make it official, however, and his legion of adoring fans may end up devastated by the latest defense strategy. If it sticks, that is:QuoteLuigi Mangione will assert a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a judge said Wednesday....
Judge Gregory Carro said Mangione’s lawyers have informed him they will attempt to show that he was suffering from “extreme emotional disturbance at the time of the occurrence.”
By asserting a psychiatric defense, Mangione would effectively be admitting that he killed Thompson but did so because of mitigating circumstances.
If a jury finds that Mangione was emotionally disturbed at the time of the killing, it could convict him of manslaughter instead of murder, meaning he’d be sentenced to less time in prison.
The Mangionistas may want jury nullification, but Mangione's attorneys don't appear confident in his ability to sell a shot in the back as some form of cosmic justice. Not only will this defense require Mangione to admit to a crime, but it also means that the defense has to release all records of Mangione's mental health assessments and treatments to prosecutors. That will likely be true in the federal trial that Mangione faces as well:
IMO, if the prosecution is able to show planning - e.g. seeking out the target, selecting a weapon and location - and/or efforts to evade identification and/or capture, those should overcome an insanity defense. What Mangione's lawyer seems to be suggesting, though, sounds more akin to Twinkie Defense 2.0.
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The DUmpster / Re: I'm in a state of shock
« Last post by 67 Rover on Today at 01:08:59 PM »Even folks on death row do not live as long as terminally ill patient Steve Dawes. 
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The DUmpster / Re: I'm in a state of shock
« Last post by DefiantSix on Today at 01:07:14 PM »QuoteI'm in a state of shockWhy? Did your wife's vibrator short out again?
She's gonna beat him worse than Sparkly ever did StinkyTheClown when she finds out he's been pegging himself with it behind her back.
I guess it's a good thing ol' Steve is on death's door and won't be among the living much longer...
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The DUmpster / Re: I'm in a state of shock
« Last post by CollectivismMustDie on Today at 12:20:00 PM »What? Did someone confiscate your mini-tacos?
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The DUmpster / Re: Le Miserable ☹️ Trump at the G7
« Last post by CollectivismMustDie on Today at 12:18:42 PM »Quote
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". . .then you suck the juice out,
then you throw the skin away. . ."
This sounds like instruction on how to eat certain stews...