OK, the “World’s Best Defendant” cup finished me, lmao.
Just a note, my ex-husband is a criminal defense attorney who worked for the Public Defenders in Philadelphia for many years. Literally every criminal attorney (including ex-prosecutors, once they no longer have skin in the game) will tell you that when judges appear to play favorites during a trial, they almost uniformly favor the prosecution. So the fact the judge in the Rittenhouse case is behaving as If he were lead counsel for the defense speaks absolute volumes.
There's a lot of anti-"city" (the city of course being Chicago) in what I call Upstate Downstate, and they moved to Kane, DuPage and Will Counties for a reason.
Even reflects itself in football. In Chicago's north and northwest suburbs there are probably more white Packer fans than there are in the state of Wisconsin itself.
Grew up 20 miles from Antioch, where Rittenhouse is from, can confirm. My dad worked as a police dispatcher for a time, more than once he got calls that "Those N---- are fishing off the bridge again!". His reply: "Is it your bridge?"
What I heard of yesterday's judicial abomination is not terribly unlike a few racially charged trials I happened to cover: it was a better explication of the attitudes and world view of the white racists running and prosecuting it than the actual alleged crime.
Y'all notice the NRA tapes from their emergency meeting after the Sandy Hook killing? Their decision to feed the beast, the "hillbillies and nut cases", and double down to encourage the equation if manhood and gun ownership to scared power challenged dudes is what we are seeing play out with Rittenhouse and the Arbery trials, as well as the Insurrection prosecutions...
100% this. And the equation of guns to fragile *white* manhood (I know that’s what you meant). We all know how Rittenhouse, Arbery, and the insurrectionists would be playing out if the races were reversed.
Sooo… this is yesterday’s verbatim transcript with just the slightest of editing, right?
Meanwhile, unlike all the young punks, this dotard remembers that George Zimmerman got off scot free. Of course, to protect the sensitivities of the true snowflakes, it was spun as Florida, what can you expect. But, the problem isn’t in any way limited to the Floridian pathology.
Then again, holding conservatives accountable is, eh, kind of verboten.
A "justice" system that can imprison more people than China, a country with more than three times our population, is suddenly all thumbs when it comes to prosecuting certain people (cops who kill, government officials who plan and carry out an attempted coup, the participants in that coup, white vigilantes who drive up to Wisconsin like it's deer season, etc.) How strange.
I always figured Zimmerman's judge daddy had something to do with the apparent initial reticence to hold him to account. Bastards are infamous for going easy on each other while holding everyone else strictly accountable.
What I don't see anyone frankly addressing is that the right wing in this country is running the standard Latin American playbook for authoritarian rule. And when Trump, or whoever is installed as El Presidente de por vida in January 2025, takes over, there'll be a million Kyle Rittenhouses waiting in the streets for any commie pinko liberals who try to protest. And they'll gun us down while the cops watch over and protect them.
I find all the back and forth about whether its fascism or authoritarianism or totalitarianism to be a bunch of silly semantics of the type that liberal intellectuals like to obsess about. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
After the jury came in today, Judge Schroeder asked for a round of applause for our brave veterans, leading the courtroom in clapping. Later, he's going to ask for a moment of silence for the death of election integrity. If this trial lasts long enough, he'll be making his entrance from a cloud of dry ice smoke, like Trump did for his 2016 nomination.
We don't even need to imagine how if Rittenhouse was a BLM protestor, Schroeder would be channeling Roland Freisler.
Oh, I got another thing to say. All the stories where someone is going like "Why is Garland and DOJ sitting on its ass?"
The DOJ, the FBI, CIA and every other alphabet law enforcement agency is run by and for the benefit of Republicans. The overwhelming numbers of individuals staffing those agencies are
A) Republican
B) Trump voters.
So when you wonder why they're all dragging their goddamn feet... don't.
Republican yes, Trump voters maybe, but I think we also have to factor in a legal system that has grown fat n' lazy on railroading defendants whose only legal representation is a public defender with a hundred other clients. Faced with anyone who has sufficient legal representation (meaning enough money to appeal, and appeal again, and appeal again, all the way up the the Supremes) it quickly folds and cuts some wrist-slap deal or just gives up the fight entirely.
This stuff drives me nuts - we got a legal ruling yesterday that Trump's claims of executive privilege are bullshit, which any 1L could have told you. Those documents are now in the custody of the National Archives, they could hand the docs over RIGHT FUCKING NOW because that ruling IS THE LAW, right now. Nobody's obligated to wait and see if some future court might have a different opinion. But no, instead let's wait til he's exhausted all of his appeals because what's the big hurry? FUCK.
My wife and I went to college with the prosecutor in the Rittenhouse case. He was a good guy, and I can’t imagine what he’s going through in this kangaroo court.
You've got "Prospector" instead of "Prosecutor" in the next-to-last stage direction, but don't change it. He might as well be--panning for precious little nuggets of justice gold through all the slurry of the proceedings.
Dylan Roof demands a retrial with a change of venue.
This is fucked up beyond words.
Maybe Rittenhouse is one of those "Super predators " we used to hear about.
OK, the “World’s Best Defendant” cup finished me, lmao.
Just a note, my ex-husband is a criminal defense attorney who worked for the Public Defenders in Philadelphia for many years. Literally every criminal attorney (including ex-prosecutors, once they no longer have skin in the game) will tell you that when judges appear to play favorites during a trial, they almost uniformly favor the prosecution. So the fact the judge in the Rittenhouse case is behaving as If he were lead counsel for the defense speaks absolute volumes.
Seems like the party of personal responsibility would toss Mom in jail for raising such a defective little monster.
He’s just trying to prove even a person from Illinois can get a rigged trial in Kenosha.
even a "scared" white person from Illinois
There's a lot of anti-"city" (the city of course being Chicago) in what I call Upstate Downstate, and they moved to Kane, DuPage and Will Counties for a reason.
Even reflects itself in football. In Chicago's north and northwest suburbs there are probably more white Packer fans than there are in the state of Wisconsin itself.
Grew up 20 miles from Antioch, where Rittenhouse is from, can confirm. My dad worked as a police dispatcher for a time, more than once he got calls that "Those N---- are fishing off the bridge again!". His reply: "Is it your bridge?"
Not only putting the victims on trial, he's already convicted them.
Agreed on "World's Best Defendant"!
The defense attorney's use of "Logarithm" for "Algorithm" just about killed me. His 11th grade Algebra teacher must be so proud.
!!!!
"I don't understand it either, Judge."
“Stand up, Scout, your daddy is passing.”
“But that man shot three people! Isn’t that bad?”
“No, child, those people were antifa rioters.”
“So I’m supposed to think my daddy is a good man for getting a murderer acquitted?”
“That’s no murderer, child, that’s a hero.”
“This is all fucked up. As soon as I’m old enough to drive, I’m out of this racist backwater.”
What I heard of yesterday's judicial abomination is not terribly unlike a few racially charged trials I happened to cover: it was a better explication of the attitudes and world view of the white racists running and prosecuting it than the actual alleged crime.
Y'all notice the NRA tapes from their emergency meeting after the Sandy Hook killing? Their decision to feed the beast, the "hillbillies and nut cases", and double down to encourage the equation if manhood and gun ownership to scared power challenged dudes is what we are seeing play out with Rittenhouse and the Arbery trials, as well as the Insurrection prosecutions...
100% this. And the equation of guns to fragile *white* manhood (I know that’s what you meant). We all know how Rittenhouse, Arbery, and the insurrectionists would be playing out if the races were reversed.
Forget it, Jake. It's Kenosha.
Sooo… this is yesterday’s verbatim transcript with just the slightest of editing, right?
Meanwhile, unlike all the young punks, this dotard remembers that George Zimmerman got off scot free. Of course, to protect the sensitivities of the true snowflakes, it was spun as Florida, what can you expect. But, the problem isn’t in any way limited to the Floridian pathology.
Then again, holding conservatives accountable is, eh, kind of verboten.
A "justice" system that can imprison more people than China, a country with more than three times our population, is suddenly all thumbs when it comes to prosecuting certain people (cops who kill, government officials who plan and carry out an attempted coup, the participants in that coup, white vigilantes who drive up to Wisconsin like it's deer season, etc.) How strange.
Wisconsin, the state of Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer and Scott Walker, yields nothing to Florida in terms of its pathology.
Not to mention Wyoming, Idaho… so many hotspots of the pathological…
But WE EAT PEOPLE.
I always figured Zimmerman's judge daddy had something to do with the apparent initial reticence to hold him to account. Bastards are infamous for going easy on each other while holding everyone else strictly accountable.
"So the Defense would like to cite the case of 'White equals Right...'"
barely satire in our fucked up America
What I don't see anyone frankly addressing is that the right wing in this country is running the standard Latin American playbook for authoritarian rule. And when Trump, or whoever is installed as El Presidente de por vida in January 2025, takes over, there'll be a million Kyle Rittenhouses waiting in the streets for any commie pinko liberals who try to protest. And they'll gun us down while the cops watch over and protect them.
I've seen this before in newsreels.
Here’s how they all roll:
https://lucid.substack.com/p/is-fascism-back-is-trump-a-fascist
I find all the back and forth about whether its fascism or authoritarianism or totalitarianism to be a bunch of silly semantics of the type that liberal intellectuals like to obsess about. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
After the jury came in today, Judge Schroeder asked for a round of applause for our brave veterans, leading the courtroom in clapping. Later, he's going to ask for a moment of silence for the death of election integrity. If this trial lasts long enough, he'll be making his entrance from a cloud of dry ice smoke, like Trump did for his 2016 nomination.
We don't even need to imagine how if Rittenhouse was a BLM protestor, Schroeder would be channeling Roland Freisler.
"I have here a flag carried at the peaceful protest on January 6th, let us all now rise and face the flag and say the Pledge of Allegiance."
Oh, I got another thing to say. All the stories where someone is going like "Why is Garland and DOJ sitting on its ass?"
The DOJ, the FBI, CIA and every other alphabet law enforcement agency is run by and for the benefit of Republicans. The overwhelming numbers of individuals staffing those agencies are
A) Republican
B) Trump voters.
So when you wonder why they're all dragging their goddamn feet... don't.
Republican yes, Trump voters maybe, but I think we also have to factor in a legal system that has grown fat n' lazy on railroading defendants whose only legal representation is a public defender with a hundred other clients. Faced with anyone who has sufficient legal representation (meaning enough money to appeal, and appeal again, and appeal again, all the way up the the Supremes) it quickly folds and cuts some wrist-slap deal or just gives up the fight entirely.
Right. America - where if you got the cash you get the justice.
This stuff drives me nuts - we got a legal ruling yesterday that Trump's claims of executive privilege are bullshit, which any 1L could have told you. Those documents are now in the custody of the National Archives, they could hand the docs over RIGHT FUCKING NOW because that ruling IS THE LAW, right now. Nobody's obligated to wait and see if some future court might have a different opinion. But no, instead let's wait til he's exhausted all of his appeals because what's the big hurry? FUCK.
My wife and I went to college with the prosecutor in the Rittenhouse case. He was a good guy, and I can’t imagine what he’s going through in this kangaroo court.
White Man's Tears, Contd.
You've got "Prospector" instead of "Prosecutor" in the next-to-last stage direction, but don't change it. He might as well be--panning for precious little nuggets of justice gold through all the slurry of the proceedings.
I support this.
Now Ellis, you know I can't do that
This is Harry Shearer-level satire. Would love to hear it performed.
Thank you!