Jussie Smollett's trial
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@george-k said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
Forgive me, but I’d rather not shut up about Jussie right now. Instead, I think we should thank him. Because by telling and retelling his lies in court, by perjuring himself before the jury and the judge, he’s actually done America a great service.
He exposes he fetid alchemy between the dying corporate legacy media and elite Democrats who used his mewing to stoke racial division for votes. These are the high priests of the new religion, and it sanctifies victimization for profit and power.
They falsely seized on Kyle Rittenhouse as a racist (he wasn’t) and Nicholas Sandman as a racist (he wasn’t) and many others. Without stoking racial strife, how would they motivate their voters?
Are there horrible people among us who are homophobes and racists? Yes, of course. Should they be punished if they violate another’s rights? Yes, of course.
Should the politicians and media that stoked this have known better than to buy his story and regurgitate it, screaming on media platform after media platform with their hair on fire? A reasonable person might think so.
But they didn’t care if they regurgitated a lie. They wanted to use Smollett. They didn’t care if he was lying. They weren’t worried about the damage it could cause, whether his fantastic story may have sparked racial violence in Chicago and elsewhere across the country.
They had their politics to worry about. They wanted outrage. They wanted votes. So, they used him. And he used them.
And now that Smollett has been exposed as a liar by a jury in Chicago, they’d much rather we move on, before we can explore this destructive alchemy of the media/political elite and the damage it has done.
Yep, another person who gets it.
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@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
feminized men
I'm pretty sure the guy on the left is a Soviet soldier
You may be pretty sure, but I am certain he is.
“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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@renauda said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
feminized men
I'm pretty sure the guy on the left is a Soviet soldier
You may pretty sure, but I am certain he is.
You’d think the people putting together these memes would at least learn a little history before they went off on their predictable pontifications about ‘ young people today…’
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@renauda said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
feminized men
I'm pretty sure the guy on the left is a Soviet soldier
You may pretty sure, but I am certain he is.
You’d think the people putting together these memes would at least learn a little history before they went off on their predictable pontifications about ‘ young people today…’
Some folks share memes as pithy, semi-humorous commentary. Some folks, because that's the best they can do.
Please love yourself.
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@aqua-letifer said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@renauda said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
feminized men
I'm pretty sure the guy on the left is a Soviet soldier
You may pretty sure, but I am certain he is.
You’d think the people putting together these memes would at least learn a little history before they went off on their predictable pontifications about ‘ young people today…’
Some folks share memes as pithy, semi-humorous commentary. Some folks, because that's the best they can do.
The other great irony is that the people generating the memes had zero involvement with WW2, but frequently had plenty of involvement in raising the generation of people that they're now complaining so much about.
Also, the same people have been known to say that wearing a mask is fascism. Yeah, it's almost exactly like being sent to a death camp. Except without the camp. Or the death.
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Seen on Twitter: "When conservatives are wrong, that's the story. When liberals are wrong, how conservatives react is the story.
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City of Chicago: Pay up!
The investigation into Jussie Smollett's reported hate crime in 2019 cost the city of Chicago a pretty penny.
At the time, the actor reported to police that he was attacked by two men because of his identity as a gay Black man. On Thursday, he was found guilty of lying to police and staging the attack as a hoax.
After the "Empire" alum reported the attack, Chicago police launched an investigation into the incident that ultimately cost $130,000.
The massive price tag came from a thorough, 3,000-hour investigation that, in part, saw authorities comb through hundreds of hours of surveillance footage, none of which captured an attack on the actor.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday called the attack on “Empire” star Jussie Smollett “horrible,” condemning the assault by individuals who the actor alleged referenced the president’s campaign slogan as they attacked him.
“It doesn’t get worse, as far as I’m concerned,” Trump said of the attack during an Oval Office exchange with the White House press pool on Thursday.
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@kluurs said in Jussie Smollett's trial:
President Donald Trump on Thursday called the attack on “Empire” star Jussie Smollett “horrible,” condemning the assault by individuals who the actor alleged referenced the president’s campaign slogan as they attacked him.
“It doesn’t get worse, as far as I’m concerned,” Trump said of the attack during an Oval Office exchange with the White House press pool on Thursday.
Yeah, but everybody knows Trump didn't really mean it, so he's in the clear for being gullible
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FFS
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/3/16/22981990/jussie-smollett-jail-release-appeal-fake-hate-crime
Jussie Smollett will be released from jail while he appeals his conviction for faking a 2019 hate crime, an appeals court ordered Wednesday.
The action by a three-judge panel of the First District Court of Appeals comes just six days after the actor was sentenced to five months behind bars. Smollett’s attorneys filed their appeal the same day.
The court found that “the defendant has been convicted of non-violent offenses and that this court will be unable to dispose of the instant appeal before the defendant would have served his entire sentence of incarceration,” the order drafted by appellate justices Thomas E. Hoffman and Joy Cunningham states. “It is hereby ordered that the motion of the defendant, Jussie Smollett, to stay his sentence of incarceration and to grant him a bond pending the disposition of his appeal or until further order of this court is granted.”
Appellate Justice Maureen Connors dissented, stating only, “I dissent and would deny this motion.”
The actor previously spent a few hours in jail following his arraignment in 2019.
The actor will not have to post cash bond to secure his release.
In a text message Wednesday, Smollett’s attorney, Nenye Uche said he expected the actor to be released and planned a press conference for outside the jail at 7:30 p.m.
The Cook County Sheriff’s Office had not yet received an order from the court, and had not begun processing Smollett’s release, spokesman Matt Walberg said.
The actor has been held in “protective custody,” away from other inmates since he was taken to the jail following his sentencing hearing, where the actor loudly proclaimed his innocence and that he was not suicidal.
Smollett’s lawyers had challenged his conviction on five counts of disorderly conduct in post-trial motions and in a brief notice of appeal, offering up a grocery lists of issues with the actor’s case. Judge James Linn last week ordered Smollett to begin a 30-month period of probation with five months in jail, and to pay $120,000 in restitution to the city of Chicago.
Smollett was likely to have served only half the 150-day sentence, as the jail term is eligible for “day-for-day” credit for good behavior.
Among the issues raised by Smollett’s lawyers were arguments that the charges brought against Smollett by Special Prosecutor Dan Webb were double jeopardy, since Smollett had struck an unorthodox deal with State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office to drop the charges in exchange for the actor forfeiting the $10,000 bond he posted after his 2019 arrest and performing community service, and complaints about the jury selection process and jury instructions.
