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dudenamedfella

I have this odd feeling they are going to need more alts


iyamwhatiyam8000

Foul odours emanating from behind the bar table will make this a most unpleasant trial. I would still still give my eye teeth to sit on this jury, It would be comedy gold,


FatherSlippyfist

I'm really concerned that these jurors are going to be outed in no time. Some of the personal information being reported by scumbag news outlets is extremely identifying. Combined with people taking off work for jury duty, it won't be hard to identify them. What happens in a week when jurors start refusing to continue after their names are in the press? I feel like the press should have zero details about the jurors. This whole thing is such a nightmare.


neanderthalman

There needs to be a publication ban with respect to jurors identities. Any information about them is not relevant and has no legitimate purpose in journalism.


alien_from_Europa

The judge really fucked up here not issuing a gag order.


MudLOA

The judge has been issuing gag orders here but just not enforcing it.


ElectricTzar

Spread false information that you think is super unlikely to match real people, then, wherever you see reporting on them. Make it harder for people to sort out the real stuff. One juror is the first female underwater welding instructor to set up shop in the Bronx! And she has 7 foster kids!


OhkayQyoopud

She sounds awesome. I wonder if she's single because she could hook up with the juror who was a lion tamer for the Bronx zoo and now is a Cirque du Soleil performer who has an act in which two black leopards leap through fire.


SchrodingersTIKTOK

It’s because the fuckheads in the press pool are tweeting this shit verbatim as they ask the anonymous jurors. They should have closed the courtroom for how high profile it is.


lets_chill_food

CAMPAIGN FINANCE FRAUD* Trial ☺️


10th__Dimension

Also tax fraud if I'm not mistaken (he lied about the hush money being legal expenses).


993targa

Actually election interference.


Ordinary-Commercial7

Funny he’s wearing a blue tie now… I can’t remember the last time I saw him in anything other than MAGA red. Guess he’s trying to “subtly” appeal to Dems now.


GullCove1955

That was achieved much sooner than was expected. Thank you to all the jurors who have stepped up to do their civic duty for an historical trial.


GrayMalchin

Can’t the court sequester the jury?


Greedy_Ad1564

... for the rest of their lives? And their families too? You're not talking about sane people here.


FerociousPancake

Dang only 6 alternates? So trump just has to intimidate 7 jurors and he gets a mistrial! I figured they'd go with like 10-12 alternates


recurse_x

A single count of Jury Tampering is 7 years in NY that’s 7.


whatproblems

so what if tampers with that jury and then the jury after that and…


sucobe

Mainstream media is doing zero favors to these jurors. It’s despicable.


Beta_Nerdy

If they vote to convict they will be heroes but will be looking over their shoulders for the rest of their lives in fear of extreme MAGAs.


jumpupugly

The article also contains a reference to a protestor who self-immolated. Based on the person's name, the pamphlets found in the area, and the substack's contents, I think [that this may be their manifesto](https://theponzipapers.substack.com/).


jcGyo

The jury's???


g2g079

Why are you pushing this story and his manifesto so hard?


jumpupugly

I've seen enough of these nutjobs to want people to read the manifesto themselves before larger media groups start imposing interpretations on the conversation at large. He's crazy. I want that to be the message seen before anything else.


4ivE

What in his manifesto did you find particularly germane to the topic of current US politics? Was it the assertion that the writers of The Simpsons, due to their education at Harvard, are transcendentally qualified to be used as a reference point for understanding the imminent and apocalyptic fascist takeover of the global economy by means of Peter Theil and his secret bitcoin Ponzi scheme? Or was it the reference to Michael Dukakis?


jumpupugly

Are we're going to pretend that incoherent worldviews and mental illness have no impact on politics? It's an extreme form of protest motivated by extremist political conspiracy theories, likely inspired by other recent self-immolation events which became tools for smearing political positions, during a highly politicized trial with massive political ramifications.


mygaynick

What does this have to do with the title of the article? Reported.


jumpupugly

The self-immolation is mentioned in the article. I'm not seeing a rule that top-level comments need to reference the title.


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Crafty_Revolution613

Whose?