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Didn’t she have a gaming laptop computer at the beginning of the trial in court? Game on!
Lmao you’re right she had a RoG laptop at the start of it
And it wasn’t even hers. The gaming laptop belonged to the court and was used for the live transcript feed.
I have a hard time believing that to be honest
I don't, wasting taxpayer money is something we do a lot at all levels of government.
That only happens in the wet dreams that conservatives have. You then wake up, satisfied that your view of reality is the only one.
Nah, that's exactly the kind of thing that happens when they send an intern out to buy equipment.
I'm surprised how noteworthy people find this
Because it's funny either way.
Is she a legitimate attorney who is also a gamer and uses the same laptop for work so she can squeeze in some Rocket League during court recesses?
Or is she technologically incompetent, and bought an expensive laptop she didn't realize was the wrong tool for the job? She's proven she's incompetent as a lawyer, being unsavvy with tech is just icing on that cake.
Or maybe it's her nephew's gaming rig, and she's borrowing it for her big court case.
A gaming laptop is very capable for her work. It just doesn’t look professional for said work.
“360-noscopes” trough the courtroom.
I truly hope the announcer for Unreal Tournament would narrate that.
"POOR LEGAL ARGUMENT", "DENIED", "CONTEMPT OF COURT". I get shivers thinking of that.
its like Joe Pesci's suit in my cousin vinny. like she had some misadventures in a net cafe.
I can imagine a panicked conversation at the nearest Walmart, "I was the only one without a laptop, and I need one, and it just needs to be able to handle whatever."
Is it still funny if it turns out to be the court’s laptop used for the live transcription feed? Because that’s what she claimed on Xitter.
Yeah, it's still a little funny, but at the expense of the court.
Given the rest of the horseshit she's slung since she got hired away from working parking ticket cases, I'm inclined not to believe this.
But yes, that would also be quite funny.
I'm sure she just asked IT for the most powerful laptop she could get, and IT just shrugged and got out the corporate card. Or she games in her time off. Who knows, who cares.
It just doesn't look professional. You don't need a big GPU and RGB lights to open a web browser and PDF files.
Well it was not a good look.
Why though?
I am sure a proper gaming laptop can do anything a lawyer needs it to do.
Overspecced and overpriced for its job?
Probably, but whatever? Noone would have batted an eye if she turned up with an equally expensive Apple product.
Edit: And I am not arguing that she is an idiot or that I have tremendous Schadenfreude towards both her and Trump.
I just don't get why a gaming laptop is a bad thing to use.
RGB lights and tacticool styling are distracting and unprofessional in court, maybe.
There's nothing wrong with the laptop itself. But it doesn't really belong in that context.
Male lawyers still wear carefully tailored business suits even when the rest of the business world has gone more casual. Female lawyers likewise tend to wear a higher level of business attire than typical in other office environments.
Language is also more formal; I had jury duty once, and the defense lawyer mentioned his client by first name. The judge reminded him that they address people formally by last name in court. (That guy came off like a relatively new lawyer working his way up in the public defender system; Trump would probably be better off hiring him than anybody he's actually getting, but that guy is also probably smart enough not to.)
How lawyers present themselves in court and in front of clients is very important. A gaming laptop with unicorn puke RGB is not a good look.
I dunno.. RGB and underglow lights cycling between orange and blue looks pretty amazing.