@Serraph105: Even if he loses, Trump will declare himself the winner, just like he did last election.

The only thing that might stop him is if he is tried, convicted, and imprisoned for his previous attempt at stealing the election (well, that or Trump's rumoured dementia getting too deleterious to hide). But he has stacked the courts in his favour, and when one of the Supreme Court judge's wife is a co-conspirator in that crime, there's zero chance of any timely or impartial justice there.

So yeah, fingers crossed the US criminal justice system doesn't totally fail here...but perhaps Trump and his party are simply too corrupt to be meaningfully affected by the law.

[edit] I agree with the ruling about the ballots though. If SCOTUS said states can just remove people from the ballot, then you can guarantee red states would weaponise that within minutes.

It does lead to weird oddities where people who should be disqualified can still run for office, but hey, your whole system is borked.

I considered it, but I only just finished Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth a few days ago (brilliant game, that), and now I'm finishing up Persona 3 Reload before Unicorn Overlord comes out.

FF7R2 is a pretty low priority in comparison, especially at that price. I'll play it one day.

@pc_rocks: Nintendo has the money to hire excellent lawyers. I suspect Nintendo would have won if Yuzu had fought it.

I bet Yuzu's lawyers took one look at their internal emails, saw heaps of team messages like "lol let's update this to run pirated copies of Zelda better **** Nintendo yarrr", and told Yuzu that they'd lose.

@JimB: "Trump has never been charged or convicted of insurrection."

Agreed. Nobody is going after Trump for vague insurrection charges.

Instead, Trump has been charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy against rights, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. These charges are all linked to Trump's attempt to rig the 2020 election. The Jan 6 attack on the Capitol isn't the main focus of the indictment.

It's been months since I've read the indictment. You should read it yourself, since I'm surprised how little you know about Trump's criminal charges.

Anyway, from memory, the indictment goes into great detail about how Trump deliberately and repeatedly spread lies about election fraud in situations where they can prove Trump knew no fraud took place (and if I remember correctly, their active attempts to remove valid votes in situations where they knew those votes were valid).

Trump's lies were intended to support the conspiracy plot, where Trump and his allies set up a series of fake electors and planned to interrupt the certification process. The idea was that Pence (or preferably their backup guy when Pence started to flake) would have to accept their fake votes and declare Trump the winner - and they got really close to achieving that on Jan 6.

That part isn't speculation or fantasy. The indictment lays out an iron-clad and comprehensive case, supported by shitloads of direct evidence. Plus some of Trump's key co-conspirators have flipped to protect themselves, which should royally screw any chance Trump has of defending himself.

Point is, it reads like a very strong case, and Trump's lawyers have shown every sign of incompetence over the past year, so I'd call it pretty likely that Trump will be found guilty - which is absolutely why Trump keeps delaying the court proceedings rather than fighting the charges.

It's also why you're totally in the dark about the charges. The right-wing media wants to pretend the case is about something completely different, because they know the actual indictment looks *terrible* for Trump.

I finally finished this one, after about 80 hours in total (I didn't 100% everythjng).

Wow. Absolutely brilliant game, and an easy 9/10. I mean...okay, Bryce and the Palekana plotline was awful and completely pointless, but the rest of it was outstanding.

I've lifted my media blackout and I'm shocked to see people disliked the ending. In my mind, LAD and Infinite Wealth have the two best endings of any JRPG I can think of.

Anyway, fantastic game. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes JRPGs or games with stories.

It's fun how you can charge a guy for attempting to rig the 2020 election - and heaps of people involved in that plan confessed to it being real, and the evidence is overwhelming - but you have to wait until after the 2024 election for him to face justice.

It's a ridiculous scenario. It would be like charging a guy for stealing top secret information, and then while you wait for the trial to happen, you elect him as president and hand him the keys to more top secret information.

Or maybe it's like finding someone guilty for business fraud, and then putting him in charge of your entire economy.

It's hard to find the right anology here, tbh. There's so many to choose from.

*edit* In all seriousness though, whether you think Trump is innocent or guilty, you have to admit that he's abusing the legal system and that the Supreme Court is complicit in that.

It's absolutely fair to put him on trial for the fake elector scheme and his attempts to hide top secret documents from the Feds. Whether you think he's innocent or not, given the weight of evidence against him, his defence has to be tested in a court of law. That's just common sense.

The fact that he is refusing to do this makes him look guilty. He offers delay tactics and nonsense arguments, and he'll say one thing to the media and the complete opposite when under oath.

You can't respect the law and support Trump at this point, given how the man himself has zero respect for the law.

@dracula_16: Before Bioshock released, I remember joking that they would just recycle the plot twist of System Shock 2.

Turns out I was mostly correct, which was disappointing.

Oh, I missed that the Supreme Court delayed the Jan 6 trial, so that there's no chance it is finalised before the election.

I guess they knew that he had zero chance of winning that case.

Corruption is a bitch.

Trump's devastating legal news today: It looks like his star witness may have been lying about DA Fani Willis' relationship with her special prosecutor:

https://www.salon.com/2024/02/28/i-have-no-answer-experts-say-trumpworlds-star-witness-sank-their-case-against-fani-willis/

“I do not have knowledge of it starting or when it started,” Terrence Bradley said of Willis' relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade during a Tuesday hearing. “I never witnessed anything. So, you know, it was speculation.” Bradley, a former law partner of Wade, also said he could not recall when he learned about the relationship, confounding claims made by the defense team which said the relationship started after Willis selected Wade to lead the case.

@sargentd: You're going off-topic, mate.

This thread is about Biden's worst offence in office - he's alleged to have eaten an ice cream.

If you don't understand why that's the most important issue in the lead up to the 2024 election, then you haven't been paying enough attention to your regular news sources.