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I feel like there's a lot going on in this trial, and looking at the Twitter response to it, and I have deep thoughts about all of it, where I feel like for one thing, you know, like kind of like the judge is being a shithead, right?
The judge is absolutely biased in favor of Rittenhouse and it's just like, you know, but also.
He's really old.
He's like 85 years old.
And there's this clip where it's like, you know, well, I don't know how you can say that this interpolated AI software is going to work and how realistic this is because I get texts and I want to save them because my funny friends send me texts and I need to Save those because I don't want to look at the old text when I get a new text.
So I like save them and email them to myself so I can look at them later.
But then when I get them back, I look at that and look at how long that is.
And I look at that and like it's there's no like I can't read that anymore because it's all pixelated.
It doesn't say pixelated, but it's all grainy.
And I don't know why.
And so and so your So you're wanting to show this footage zoomed in.
Like, I don't know why I should take that as valid.
And if you can't get me an expert in the next 20 minutes that will validate that to me, then you don't get to actually zoom in to where people can actually look at this footage appropriately.
Yeah, that's literally what happened.
I am not exaggerating.
His eccentricities seem to be real, but they also seem to be kind of convenient for the defense because it amounts to all that weirdness.
What it amounts to is, yeah, prosecutors, you have the burden of proving that what this video shot on this phone shows is actually real and not some sort of, you know, spontaneously created CGI fake.
And you need to do that with an expert and you need to find him while we break for lunch.
That seems to be... You have 20 minutes to find me an expert who will testify to this.
And it's like, you can't, you can't produce that.
And they, they did bring in an expert, but the expert is like, well, yeah, I don't know exactly how this particular algorithm works because that's not my Like, if they'd known about it a week ago, they could have brought, like, no doubt they could have found an expert to testify to this.
But, you know, it's just, you know, it's bullshit.
But the thing that I, the thing that I want to land on here, and this is something that, like, we, you know, I always want to land on whenever we talk about the U.S.
court system.
It's like, this is not unusual.
No, no.
If anything, what we're seeing is, you know, The bright light is being shined into the thing that's happening every day already.
And if anything, this is the softened version, because this judge knows he's on camera.
And, you know, regardless of whether he gets to go on Golden Eagle dot Facebook, you know, and gets to be, you know, Fox News contributor down the line or whatever, you know, he now has to actually like be seen by the light of day, whereas these judges routinely spend 20 years without any kind of real oversight.
And this is par for the fucking course.
This is what the justice system just is in the United States.
And it's horrifying.
It's just horrifying.
Yeah.
Except that a hell of a lot of the time it's not going to be a manifestly biased right-wing judge leaning heavily towards, you know, helping out a white defendant who went with a AR-15 to
You know, to defend a car dealership against Black Lives Matter and ended up leaving two dead bodies, you know, it's going to be it's going to be a judge leaning more towards the prosecution with, you know, somebody who's who's more likely an African American, you know.
With a much less serious crime that's being tried.
Right.
Which, if anything, is even worse is kind of where I land.
I mean, I don't I don't want to, you know, I don't I don't want to, you know, kind of overstate this.
I'm not defending Kyle Rittenhouse, but like based on and we can we can talk about this.
I feel like this this might be something worth worth elucidating.
But, you know, by the way, the laws are written, you know, the way the laws are written is, you know, if if you feel In your heart.
And if you can kind of demonstrate that you weren't in danger or felt in danger at the time that you shot someone, the laws in the United States and most states are like really lenient on that.
You know, like that's, that's actually how the laws are written.
And any kind of larger context is kind of, you know, kind of left by the wayside.
Like that's how the laws are.
That's how the laws work.
Right.
But like, And there's a great It Could Happen Here daily episode talking about this.
And so I'm going to crib from that a little bit.
But like, call written houses are not charged federally, typically.
So the thing of, you know, call written house cross state lines.
Okay.
A, there's been a lot of kind of liberal, you know, like, Cross state lines, this wasn't his community, etc, etc.
It's like, yeah, it's a 20 minute drive.
It's a 30 minute drive.
His dad lived in Kenosha.
It's not that far, ultimately.
And that sort of liberal over-concentration on that point has given an opening to various people that want to tactically miss the point, like Glenn Greenwald, who did a tweet earlier where he was saying, Oh, I didn't realize it was such a big deal to cross state lines.
Oh, and you kind of think, yeah, I get, you know, A, yeah, okay, I get what you're coming from.
You're kind of right, but also B, you slimy fucker, you know?
Well, and here's where you land on this is that Glenn Greenwald is actually an attorney.
Glenn Greenwald has a law degree and understands what crossing state lines really means, which is, he knows what it means.
If you cross state lines and in the US legal, and like, I'm not a lawyer.
Don't, don't, I'm not pretending to be a lawyer.
Let's put it that way.
But any crime in which an element is across the state line, which means anything done on the internet or anything done over a phone line or anything that like you talk to someone who's in another state, like the federal, the feds will take jurisdiction on that.
If there is a, you know, and they will absolutely lay on charges.
They will, and they will lay on a huge host of, you know, federal charges, and then they will stack them up in like consecutive sentences, in which case, even if you get convicted on like three of 17, you're going to serve decades in prison, which just forces you to take a plea so that you serve 10 years instead of 40, right?
Yeah.
Absolutely routine.
Something like 97 percent of like defendants of felony defendants never see the inside of a courtroom in the United States.
Yeah.
Yeah.
When I say that the U.S.
prison system is basically the Soviet gulag, this is what I mean by this.
Right.
You know, it's it's it's the gulag, but with more steps, if you understand, you know, kind of what I'm getting at there.
And better PR.
And better PR.
Exactly.
Exactly.
You know, But Cal Rittenhouse didn't have to go through that.
The feds didn't go after him at all.
And there's probably a case for they could now, or if he gets acquitted, they could go after him.
And there was some question of maybe Trump would have pardoned him if they had pushed him or whatever.
I don't know what the details are.
But routinely, an African-American Black Lives Matter supporter Who shot somebody, or even just a regular drug dealer who did the same kind of behavior.
Sorry, I'm not trying to say like black drug dealer or whatever, but you know what I'm trying to say.
A person who, an African American person who committed a completely routine crime, who crossed a state line, picked up a gun at his buddy's house, picked up some cocaine and shot somebody, you know, who was attacking him on the way out, would go through this entire process.
