Jim Thompson, Author at Jester Politics

Another Pete Hegseth Hit Piece in The Atlantic by Another Bush Era Neocon

When academic bean-counters direct war-fighting, a nation ends up in a quagmire, eventual humiliation and finally defeat. Such was Vietnam. Aka: McNamara’s War. When John Kennedy nominated Robert McNamara for Secretary of Defense, McNamara was running Ford Motor Company. His experience in military matters, and as a soldier was “bean-counting during WWII. He spent the war […]

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CNN Slapped With a Massive Defamation Loss at Trial

Jim Thompson

Media often lean recklessly over the edges of defamation and then retreat when someone with sense says “what are you doing!?”. Reporters and producers might be saved by a smart editor who looks at a sketchy story and advises to pull the plug. Sometimes voices of reason are ignored. Defamation has different standards of

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Pete Hegseth Carpet-Bombed Democrats Senators With a Masterclass in Discipline.

Jim Thompson

1 Trying cases was a mixture of fun and terror. Fun – when I was examining witnesses and terror when clients or my own witnesses would forget everything I told them. Occasionally witnesses would act like they were channeling Jack Nicholson’s character in a Few Good Men. Arrogant, condescending and rude with bursts of stupidity.

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Cockroach Law

Jim Thompson

IF you want to sound “smart”, quote Shakespeare. “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”. That sentence from Henry might be the most quoted line from any Shakespearean play. An accurate sentiment to be sure but not a terribly practical thing to wish for. The line is uttered by a thick-headed murderous

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A Penny For Your Thoughts

Jim Thompson

1 I sat with a prosecutor and asked her to consider something. The facts of the case were known. A couple of guys had come to blows. A thousand times every day, men put hands on each other but the police aren’t called. However, in my client’s case the cops were called. It wasn’t justice

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Tarred and Feathered

Jim Thompson

In the 1952 Novel “The Natural” a woman shoots 19-year-old baseball sensation Roy Hobbs. Hobbs had been lured to the hotel room of a female fanatic. She asks Hobbs if he is the greatest baseball player ever. He answers “yes”. She shoots Hobbs in the stomach. Why she shoots him is left to the reader

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Pete Hegseth is being ‘Kavenaughed’

Jim Thompson

Pete Hegseth is being “Kavenaughed”. That isn’t surprising. In fact, had he not been smeared and maligned relentlessly I would have suspected a Mancherian Canidate was nominated. No – the fact that the smears started within minutes of his nomination was an indication that Hegseth is the disrupter America needs to lead the Department of

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The Power Behind the Throne

Jim Thompson

Jill Biden has always been an ambitious woman. She ignored the obvious fact that Joe was in failing mental health when in 2019, the prospect of Joe running against Trump presented itself. In 2019 Joe Biden was a shadow of his former self – and that former self wasn’t too bright to begin with. She

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Frozen Joe: A Dark Comedy

Jim Thompson

Over the past week, Joe Biden has wondered away from world leaders to talk to a parachutist who wasn’t paying attention to him and likely doesn’t speak “gibberish” and then being guided back to the flock by Italy’s leader, and then Joey Mumbles was grabbed by the hand by the Barack The Puppet Master, and

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Race Hustler ‘Smolletts’ For Votes, Get Busted By Texas Rangers

Jim Thompson

Jussie Smollett’s last name is now a verb. “Smolletting” connotes a race hoaxer. The invention of false racism didn’t start with Jussie Smollette. Getting sympathy from fake racism has been around for decades. The progenitor isn’t Smollett, he is just the most “famous” race-hoaxer. Even after he was found guilty he has never given up

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