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Cake day: February 26th, 2024

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  • Nope, it was reasonably randomly assigned. It’s just that the odds weren’t great.

    So he rolled the dice on Florida, calculating his one in 26 odds of drawing the dreaded Judge Cannon were pretty good. The problem is, as they said in “The Music Man,” he didn’t know the territory. The odds were really as short as three to one against drawing Cannon.

    The catch is that the Southern District of Florida is administratively divided into five divisions: Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Key West and Fort Pierce. This is supposed to be for the convenience of the parties and their lawyers, and has no other legal significance.

    Cannon is the only judge sitting in Fort Pierce, which is in St. Lucie County, 68 miles north of Palm Beach and 128 miles north of Miami. But, for the purpose of assigning judges, Fort Pierce is treated as part of the neighboring Palm Beach Division. There are three federal district judges in Palm Beach, one of whom is a senior judge. What Smith did not know, or failed sufficiently to appreciate, is that the pool of judges administratively eligible to try the case was not 26 but four. (If you remove from consideration the senior judge, the eligible pool narrows to three.) The grand jury that returned the Trump indictment sat in Miami because the courthouse facilities were more accommodating than those in Palm Beach, but an administrative order deemed the investigation a Palm Beach inquiry.

    https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4052380-how-trump-ended-up-with-judge-cannon/


  • As others have alluded to, your question requires a distinction: are you talking about wanting to date or wanting to fuck?

    Romantic attraction is based on the full package. Yes, their appearance matters, but so does their personality, their hobbies and interests, their emotional maturity, their ability to hold a conversation, their experiences and worldview, etc.

    Sexiness is just about physical appearance. How their body looks, facial structure, the way they do their hair, their posture and confidence, their clothes, etc.

    I’m a dude, just north of 40. I think peak physical attraction is a woman who’s 18-25, brunette, slim and toned, small to medium breasts, I’m not much of an ass man, etc.

    But, I’m a middle aged dude. Would I want to date most women that age? Hellllllll no. My gf is 5 years younger than me and even that small of a gap has shown some differences in things like pop culture references and lived experiences. I can’t imagine easily connecting with someone that young.







  • From what I understand, they were only able to do this because the funds were still sitting in an intermediary account and had not been moved into an actual NYC account. If the funds had been moved, they would have had to ask for the funds back from NYC instead of just taking them.

    I can’t remember if my source was an article or a podcast, but I know it was a few days to a week after the incident happened because all of the initial reporting was framed exactly like this.






  • Back during trump 1.0, I had an idea for a website where I would take news articles and swap Democrat and Republican words and phrases, like Trump <> Clinton or Obama, Obamacare <> ACA, etc. It was going to be called “45° Angle” (since he was the 45th president) and the tagline was going to be “The Right Perspective” or something like that. My thought was for it to be akin to the Colbert Report, something that passed at first glance but would pretty quickly be recognized for what it was with a bit of critical thinking, all for the purpose of being able to share articles with MAGAts and get them to agree before pulling the rug.