The Political Thread

[Comrade Khan]

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/08/assad-syria-russia-moscow

Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has fled to Moscow and has been granted political asylum along with his family, a Kremlin official told the Russian media.

Get fucked lol

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Somehow John Lennon continues to have evergreen messaging.

 

[Chris]

Lara Trump says she's stepping down as Republican National Committee co-chair

President-elect Donald Trump's daughter-in-law is widely viewed as a candidate to fill Marco Rubio's Senate seat.

www.nbcnews.com

Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump, announced Sunday night that she will step down as a co-chair of the Republican National Committee amid mounting speculation that she could be picked to fill a coming Senate vacancy.

Trump, who became co-chair of the RNC in March with her father-in-law's backing, said Sunday on X that she intends to step down at the RNC's next meeting after she completed her three goals for the organization.

"At the RNC, we had three distinct goals: 1) surpass all fundraising records 2) build the largest army of lawyers and poll watchers to ensure election integrity and, 3) turn out millions of Americans and low prepencity voters during early voting. We accomplished all three," she wrote in the post.

The RNC did not immediately respond to a request for comment late Sunday.

 

[Chris]

Daniel Penny found not guilty in NYC subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely

Daniel Penny has been found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway car in 2023.

www.cbsnews.com

Daniel Penny has been found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway car in 2023.

Penny, a 26-year-old Marine veteran, pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.

The judge dismissed the manslaughter charge Friday after jurors said they could not come to a unanimous decision. The jury could only consider the negligent homicide charge if Penny was cleared of manslaughter.

 

[Chris]

Rupert Murdoch Fails in Bid to Change Family Trust

A Nevada commissioner ruled resoundingly against Mr. Murdoch, who was trying to give full control of his empire to his son Lachlan and lock in Fox News’s right-wing editorial slant.

www.nytimes.com

A Nevada commissioner ruled resoundingly against Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to change his family’s trust to consolidate his eldest son Lachlan’s control of his media empire and lock in Fox News’s right-wing editorial slant, according to a sealed court document obtained by The New York Times.

The commissioner, Edmund J. Gorman Jr., concluded in a decision filed on Saturday that the father and son, who is the head of Fox News and News Corp., had acted in “bad faith” in their effort to amend the irrevocable trust, which divides control of the company equally among Mr. Murdoch’s four oldest children — Lachlan, James, Elisabeth and Prudence — after his death.

The ruling was at times scathing. At one point in his 96-page opinion, Mr. Gorman characterizes the plan to change the trust as a “carefully crafted charade” to “permanently cement Lachlan Murdoch’s executive roles” inside the empire “regardless of the impacts such control would have over the companies or the beneficiaries” of the family trust.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Get fucked Rupert you old skin-bag of scum.

 

[Wang Chung]

Daniel Penny found not guilty in NYC subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely

Daniel Penny has been found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway car in 2023.

www.cbsnews.com

Daniel Penny has been found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway car in 2023.

Penny, a 26-year-old Marine veteran, pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.

The judge dismissed the manslaughter charge Friday after jurors said they could not come to a unanimous decision. The jury could only consider the negligent homicide charge if Penny was cleared of manslaughter.

Should be not guilty of both.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Should be not guilty of both.

Why?

I just read a bit and he came from behind someone being belligerent on a train and choked him to death. Victim was unarmed. How is that not murder.

 

[Chris]

Why?

I just read a bit and he came from behind someone being belligerent on a train and choked him to death. Victim was unarmed. How is that not murder.

The woke say it's murder so to make sure people don't think you support wokeness, you have to support this guy

 

[Chris]

The story reminds me a lot of one of my high school kid's dad who would always say he wished someone would try and break into his house bc he's never got to try out his guns.

You can go as excessive as you want if the context is deemed accepted "self defense" to start with, what happens after doesn't really matter.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Yeah this isn't a case where this guy was defending someone else and the belligerent was armed with a knife or a gun, this was just some angry dude. Like, knock him the fuck out if you want, don't fuckin' choke a dude to death.

 

[Chris]

Fwiw I think both this and the CEO guy are murders I think we should kill each other less regardless of the victim's lifestyle in my cases

 

[Comrade Khan]

The woke say it's murder so to make sure people don't think you support wokeness, you have to support this guy

There's words here but I'm not sure it's a sentence I understand ngl

 

[Comrade Khan]

Black homeless man deserved to die ig

 

[Chris]

There's words here but I'm not sure it's a sentence I understand ngl

The reason it's not murder to some is bc it's woke to think it is. Him being not guilty owns the libs.