I think I'd actually respect this sort of thing more if it was a straightforward class teaching you how to dance sexy for a partner, with the aim of getting some hot sex in your near future. Disguising it as a workout when, as Jessica notes, you don't break into an unladylike sweat, is what really offends me. My whole life, working out has been one of the areas where I feel like I can zone out and not be constantly micromanaging my status as a sex object for others to look at. I don't think I'm alone in this---a lot of women report exercise as appealing because it's meditative, or alone time, or time to focus on yourself as a person and your body's ability to do other things besides attract attention and arouse. These "stripping is a workout!" classes seem like an assault on that.
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Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake Thursday called on the Republican candidates challenging Donald Trump for the presidential nomination to suspend their campaigns and back the former president despite his federal indictment.
Lake in a bonkers appearance by phone on “The Gorka Reality Check” with host Sebastian Gorka called President Joe Biden a “vulture” and suggested he should be arrested over unfounded bribery allegations – not the former president who according to multiple reports is facing charges over the handling of classified documents in possible violation of the Espionage Act.
Lake’s suggestion came in response to an assertion from Gorka that the federal indictment “will make (Trump) more powerful and more popular, will create even more fundraising for the president.”
“They've actually they've actually made him the nominee tonight, haven't they on the left?” Gorka asked Lake.
“I feel like he was a nominee before, but I agree with you, and I really hope that the others who are running, which is silly anyways, we know President Trump won, he won with more votes than any in the history of this country in 2020, and these other people running against him need to speak out step forward and say we support President Trump, that this is outrageous what our corrupt government is doing to him, and we're going to suspend our candidacies and we're going to stand behind President Trump because we stand for America.
“We cannot have an America if our government just gone this rogue and this corrupt. So I hope these other guys and women running will have a night where they think about what's happening and realize that we need to rally around the one man who's standing up in the gap for the people of this great nation.”
She didn’t get much pushback from the host.
“Yeah, that's an amazing, amazing suggestion,” Gorka said.
“The honorable thing to do now, in protest of this political persecution is for the other 10 nominees to say no, we withdraw, and President Trump is the man who deserves our support.”
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One of the first challenges former President Donald Trump will face now that he has been indicted for the mishandling of classified information in the special counsel investigation of Mar-a-Lago is that he needs to assemble a legal team — and the trial will be taking place in South Florida, rather than Washington, D.C., where people were expecting the case to be filed.
And that could be a problem, argued legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid on CNN Thursday, because there simply won't be a lot of lawyers willing and able to work for him.
"One of the things that struck out to me today as we pointed out what Trump is doing at Bedminster is one of the aides that was at the center of this, Walt Nauta, was with him in Bedminster," said anchor Kaitlan Collins. "What is Tuesday going to look like? It raises a question about what the legal team will look like on Tuesday, who goes in with him."
"That's a great question," said Reid. "Off the top of my head, I believe only one of his attorneys is barred in Florida. Depending on which legal team is taking this week, one or two people barred in Florida. But they will likely be looking, and I know some folks who have even volunteered to potentially be on the case down there, thinking it would be interesting. Hey, it could even be an adventure to join this case. I said, you have no idea. They will absolutely likely need to bring in additional counsel in Florida, people with expertise in this matter who are barred down there, who know the judges. So it will be interesting to see."
"As we know, he has had a little bit of difficulty retaining lawyers," Reid continued. "There are a lot of law firms who won't take him on. They're worried their bills won't get paid. But there are some interesting constitutional questions here. But he will absolutely have to recruit likely one or two more lawyers, because I don't think he has the right team to bring this in Florida."
Conservative attorney George Conway interjected to concur.
"Not only he has had difficulty — not only has he had difficulty obtaining and retaining lawyers, the lawyers that he has are mostly witnesses against him," said Conway. "So they can't. They can't. There is a lawyer advocacy rule that you cannot be an advocate and a witness in the same trial. So these guys are conflicted out."
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A North Carolina political activist filed a defamation lawsuit against U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Silt in federal court Thursday.
Plaintiffs David Wheeler, who last year publicized information about Boebert in an effort to derail her reelection bid, and the super PAC American Muckrakers claim that Boebert defamed Wheeler by falsely accusing him of defaming her.
Boebert and “John Does,” to be named later, are identified as defendants.
The complaint, filed against the Republican in U.S. District Court of Colorado, alleges that Boebert made “maliciously false statements” about Wheeler and American Muckrakers, of which he is president, on multiple occasions last summer, particularly during broadcasts of TV and radio host Sean Hannity’s shows.
Wheeler in March told Newsline he was considering whether to identify Boebert-aligned media entities, such as Fox News and Hannity, as defendants. Hannity is discussed extensively in Wheeler’s complaint and is alleged to have provided a platform for and amplified false assertions made by Boebert.
Fox personality Tomi Lahren is also singled out in the complaint as having provided a platform for Boebert to allegedly defame Wheeler.
Newsline requested a comment from Boebert’s office but had not received a reply at the time of publication.
Wheeler previously brought a similar lawsuit against Boebert in a North Carolina state court last year, but the judge dismissed the case, saying that the proper venue for it was in Colorado.
American Muckrakers last year exposed unflattering information about former Republican U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina and is credited with helping to turn voters against the representative, who lost his primary bid.
The group then targeted Boebert. Wheeler and Muckrakers, citing sources close to Boebert, published information about Boebert that appeared to run counter to her political stance against abortion, among other allegations. The most notable release of information came in a June 14 press release that attracted national media attention.
The group’s claims about Boebert in some cases lacked corroborating evidence or were shown to be false. But Wheeler stands by his main allegations against Boebert, and the lawsuit notably asserts that “Boebert was aware that she had” worked as a paid escort, had two abortions, and used illegal drugs, even as she accused Wheeler and Muckrakers of publishing “false statements knowing they were completely fabricated,” characterized the statements as “defamation,” and said she was “moving forward with a lawsuit.”
Boebert never followed through with her threat to sue Wheeler and Muckrakers.
A key difference between the Colorado and North Carolina lawsuits is that the case filed Thursday invokes Colorado’s anti-SLAPP law. Enacted in 2019, the statute, concerning strategic lawsuits against public participation, protects Coloradans who exercise free speech rights from meritless lawsuits. Wheeler claims Boebert’s threats of litigation are subject to sanction under Colorado’s anti-SLAPP law, and he wants the suit to help develop case law around the statute.
“This case is filed in part to extend existing precedent establishing the meaning of Colorado’s law so that it provides the protection intended by our legislators in enacting the statute for the protection of citizens’ rights as plaintiffs as well as defendants,” the suit says.
Wheeler and his attorney, Dan Ernst, who is based in Denver and specializes in defamation, have communicated through letters and email with legal counsel and other representatives for Fox News and Hannity, according to copies of the communication obtained by Newsline from a source familiar with the matter.
According to the communication, Wheeler and Ernst indicated that their dispute with Fox News could be resolved if the company retracted allegedly defamatory statements about Wheeler and allowed him to appear on Hannity’s show “to correct the record,” as Ernst put it in a letter to Steven P. Mandell, outside counsel to Fox and Hannity. Mandell in a March 19 letter to Wheeler flatly rejected the proposal and wrote that “there is no merit to any of your claims.”
Wheeler in a March 20 email addressed to Fox’s top brass, including founder Rupert Murdoch and Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch, as well as Hannity, Wheeler repeated the proposal in colorful terms: “What do you say about a good ol’ western shoot-out between Boebert and me on Sean’s show as a friendly way to resolve this and avoid f***ing lawyers, and courts?”
Mandell again rebuffed Wheeler’s request to appear on Hannity’s show in an April 5 letter to Ernst.
Wheeler’s lawsuit comes less than two months after Fox agreed to pay Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million in a defamation case. He is asking the court to award him an unspecified amount in damages.
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