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[Public Enemy]

Just gotta run white men. The country loves em. Can't get enough of em. They can do whatever they please.

Politician pleads guilty in sexual assault case after being elected to Hancock County Council

HANCOCK COUNTY, Ind. — A current central Indiana county commissioner has pleaded guilty in a Nevada sexual assault case, days after being elected to his local County Council. John D. Jessup – a cur…

fox59.com

And look at the wrap-up where he's trying to resign

Republican who won county seat pleads guilty to sexual assault of daughter

John Jessup to resign as commissioner in Hancock, Indiana, and faces prison after guilty plea over incident in Las Vegas

www.theguardian.com

Records show Jessup, 49, pleaded guilty in Nevada court on 13 November to attempted sexual assault, which is a kind of felony that can carry multiple years in prison, according to state law.

Indiana prohibits convicted felons from serving in state or local elected offices, though a decisive majority of its voters on 5 November helped vault Donald Trump to a second US presidency just months after a New York jury convicted him on felony charges of criminally falsifying business records.

Therefore, Jessup must resign – unlike Trump, who has also faced multimillion-dollar civil penalties for a rape allegation that a judge determined to be substantially true.

Jessup on Monday told the Guardian that he must fill out certain paperwork before he can step down. The county council chair had mailed him those papers, but they had not immediately arrived, said Jessup, who is awaiting a sentencing hearing tentatively scheduled for April.

According to what Jessup told the Daily Reporter, he was prepared for prosecutors to argue that he deserves between eight and 20 years in prison. Jessup reportedly said his attorneys were going to seek a sentence of probation.

“It’s been my greatest honor serving the people of Hancock county and I’m deeply, deeply ashamed and profoundly sorry for the shame that I brought to the county,” Jessup told the Daily Reporter.

An affidavit obtained and reported on by the outlet said Jessup’s criminal charges came after he flew to Las Vegas with a woman in January.

The affidavit did not identify the woman. But in an article on Tuesday, the Daily Reporter wrote that Jessup was charged with assaulting his youngest daughter, Rachel, on a trip to Las Vegas intended to celebrate her 21st birthday.

“I never dreamed it would have ended up the way it did,” Rachel Jessup reportedly told the outlet.

Multiple witnesses allegedly told authorities that John Jessup got Rachel intoxicated. Allegedly, as Jessup repeatedly said the slogan “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”, she became so intoxicated she needed a wheelchair to get back to her hotel room.

There, she said she recalled showering while clothed – and her next recollection was waking up naked as Jessup sexually assaulted her, authorities wrote in the affidavit cited by the Daily Reporter.

 

[nonnative]

the problem with the "it's all inflation" argument is the dems have lost votes with working class and minority voters in every election since 2016.

so while inflation can explain this election what explains all the others?

That would be a useful question.

If I was talking about any other election.

Please go back and read the first sentence of my post and think about that for a second. Even an ounce of self reflection can go a long way sometimes.

 

[p0tat0 5alad]

Don’t bother fam

 

[elpablo21]

Yesterday sucked because I had to be in an MRI machine for like an hour and a half and I swear @WASHED KING or elpablo21 paid off the tech to mess with me, because I asked to listen to hip hop, and the playlist consisted of like Shaboozey's entire catalog, Ice Spice, and GloRilla.

I am not even lying when I tell you they played "Not Like US" like 5 times.

I was strapped to the table pleading for a break at min 75 like....

But reading the recent posts in here have made me feel better...

Loving the energy in here brahs, we gotta get it out before we refocus

Hope your results come back clean fam. In the meantime we'll all be waiting for your return in good health


but until then

 

[Wargames]

All these Trump picks just emphasizes that America has a White Mediocrity problem. To many White Mediocre people want positions of power they are not qualified for. The chant “you will not replace us” is as much about their race as their inability to compete with competent people of any color.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

That would be a useful question.

If I was talking about any other election.

Please go back and read the first sentence of my post and think about that for a second. Even an ounce of self reflection can go a long way sometimes.

I read the first sentence, that's what i'm addressing.

the reason dems , and people are pushing different theories, is because this election is a continuation of broader trends from past elections.


everyone understand that it was inflation, and everyone knows she was in a bad spot I don't think anyone is "missing this"

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Kamala won the debates, ran a moderate campaign. The only thing she could've done to gain votes with those other demographics was to change her ethnicity and gender.

It is what it is.

Im skeptical.

I think if Gavin Newsome ran he would have gotten crushed way worse than Kamala.

 

[rolaholic]

 

[Belgium]

I think it's widely assumed the "hacker" is a Congressional staffer. Only a matter of time before it all leaks.

You missed something in the NYT article. It couldn't have come from Congress because they don't have access to the specific documents.

The material reportedlty came from a defamation lawsuit by a Gaetz associate against one of the women and Joel Greenberg. That's not something Congress would have had access to. Either those lawyers have atrocious IT security or a rogue lawyer with access to the files did it and masked it as a hacking attempt.

Take a look at this part in particular: "A computer file shared in a secure link among lawyers whose clients have given damaging testimony related to Matt Gaetz.
I find it very unlikely a hacker did this rather than someone who had access to the files in the first place. First of all a hacker would have to know the existence of this file and its storage to even attempt trying to gain access. If it was discovered as part of a broad attacker attack, why only steal this particular file? Why not take everything?

The easiest way for a hacker to obtain access would simply be to SIM-swap someone with access but there's no mention of that. And if you're SIM-swapping, best believe EVERYTHING is getting downloaded. SIM-swapping is incredibly easy and there are zero safeguards against it. If the perpetrator can dig up enough of your personal information, you're cooked.
As part of my social media business, I've known and had personal interactions with many people involved in cybercrime, including ones serving lengthy prison sentences. To me this just looks like a very poor attempt at making it appear as if someone hacked the file. What it actually looks like is someone with access to the secure link shared it or did the dirty work themselves and staged a hacker accessing it.

 

[IATT]