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As promised, TWO SERIOUS TROUBLES AT THE SAME TIME -- this second episode of the day addresses the Georgia RICO indictment. Why is it weird? Why is Georgia's RICO weird? What's going to happen? Josh, Ken, and guest Georgia attorney Andrew Fleischman explore it.

https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/unfortunately-this-episode-is-rico#details

He gets a New York charge, he gets a Florida charge
He gets a DC charge, he gets a Georgia charge
He enters the pleas that remind him of the good times
He enters the pleas that remind him of the better times

On Serious Trouble, we’ve got Judge Chutkan and restrictions on Trump’s use of discovery, Twitter sanctioned for resisting a subpoena for Trump’s data, SBF jailed, Rudy Giuliani spelling and thinking badly, and rich little shits misbehaving. BUT we’re recording another episode today about Georgia!

https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/this-episode-is-not-rico#comments

Good news: Infamous quack Sherri Tenpenny, who was spreading disinformation about #autism and #vaccines for years before she started lying about #COVID19 and cell phone towers, has finally had her medical license suspended. https://www.cleveland.com/open/2023/08/this-doctor-said-vaccines-magnetize-people-ohio-suspended-her-medical-license.html

Every time I read an FBI affidavit I want to travel to Quantico, find the agent who teaches affidavit writing and style, get to know them, develop a relationship of friendship and trust, take them on a drunk weekend, share my own mental health journey, and talk them into getting the help they need.

This week on Serious Trouble: protective orders, gag orders, intemperate judicial orders, and other Trump indictment developments; Ken is agitated over bad reporting on criminal issues as usual; Josh is super excited about a Harvard research misconduct defamation case.

https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/penal-colada#comments

Okay. The folding chair meme is amusing. But society has rules. You can’t just go around beating racist bullies with chairs, firmly grasping two different points of the chair and rotating at the waist during the follow-through

Long before they became recently known for sucking Toys R Us dry, KKR drained what was then RJR Nabisco. Now @pluralistic explains how those vampire barbarians are at the publisher's gate:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/08/vampire-capitalism/#kkr

Just recorded a super-long Serious Trouble episode covering Trump in DC, Trump in Florida, and many of my grievances about Trumpist propaganda and Resistance griftism.

Also, Josh talking about Harvard social science data misinterpretation is clearly in his happy place.

The National Review Doubles Down On Its Lies About The Fraud Charge Against Trump

https://popehat.substack.com/p/the-national-review-is-still-lying

The Washington Post’s Trump-probable-sentence column was awful.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/beware-the-flood-of-trump-sentencing

2. Today I drove Missy by herself on a historic Doctor's buggy, restored to fully usable.
I needed to return a library book no later than tomorrow, so this was a real errand.
Last week I was running a load of recycle.
I sit out here, five miles from town, and I think, ten mile round trip on gasoline - high mileage vehicle and driving style, but still gasoline - or ten mile round trip in a donkey cart?

Jump around. Jump up, jump up, and get down #caturday

Looking at the six co-conspirators, only one — Kenneth Chesebro - went to Harvard or Yale Law. This is disappointing. In this great nation’s history and culture, Harvard and Yale have played prominent and indispensable roles in destroying the Republic. Letting me down here.

Yes, two went to Georgetown Law. Nice work Georgetown. Way to get on the board! It’s a good start but see if you can start a few wars or overthrow something and get back to us.

My post about the latest Trump indictment and about how people -- specifically the National Review -- are lying to you about it.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/people-are-lying-to-you-about-the?sd=pf