Oh, I think Ty's a great guy, but let's be honest, between Nick giving his views on how every charge could be easily won (although yes, he did acknowledge his own bias and flaws) and the memetic hype Ty garnered (which to his credit, neither Ty nor Nick helped promote aside from giving a platform), expectations were huge for this. And I don't know if it's just me, but when something you have huge expectations for lets you down like that you're way more critical than you would be if it your expectations were less. To use a football analogy, Ty's team was overconfident and had an utterly unorganised gameplan and ended up thoroughly smashed in the game against a weak team which should've clinched them the playoff spot, and even with the referee's bad calls that let the other team score a bit more still would've lost. Now they have to play against a much better team to get that playoff spot, and that ref will still be there.
Billy Mitchell is a wannabe wrestling villain, I'd love to see Nick cover that case instead of going into every aspect of this Vic case. The Twin Galaxies shit is some hilarious boomer autism.
There's no excuse for Ty getting an extra few weeks to submit the response to the TCPA and turning out such an utter mess that he's only one step above J. Sean's idiocy (which Judge Chupp similarly thinks is exceptional). He clearly didn't manage his firm's associates enough to produce a coherent document. And let's recall, BHBH is not frequently doing defamation or TI cases and the main cheerleader Nick isn't even a Texas lawyer leaving his credentials not too different than your average Threadnought Twitter lawyer. Even if I'd never compare him to someone as shit/trollish as Douchette, other Threadnought lawyers can raise good points as Nick himself said. I don't think Ty's a lolcow but I sure think the meming of Ty as a wargamer putting his elite skills to his legal practice or comparing him to Patton or Sun Tzu if they were lawyers looks hilarious now. But maybe this is a good thing since after all if you want to draw a military analogy--Italy, Japan, and Nazi Germany did well in their initial campaigns but were ground down in the long run.
An Lee Hsu is interesting and I can't wait to see what he'll do for this case (his sudden appearance before the hero's defeat is seriously anime-esque). But here we once again see the expectations (check pre-hearing posts) where Judge Chupp supposedly hates Casey Erick and J. Sean for their shenanigans. There's no posts on Chupp's own history, like where he started as a personal injury attorney (aka ambulance chaser) and thanks to the Texas Republican Party under Rick Perry was appointed to a judgeship (which he has been re-elected unopposed to). Or how even now, the majority of cases Judge Chupp has are personal injury cases and how a government ranking of judges in his position puts him solidly average in terms of quality with his worst trait being "follows the law".
If Ty ran up against some other judge who wasn't in the same circumstances as Judge Chupp, his disorganized effort may have won. But that sloppy filing killed things since Chupp just wanted to get through things. Ty did a nice job earlier in this case with his concise filings compared to Casey or J. Sean's bullshit (although John Volney or Sam "Legal Batman" Johnson weren't as bad), but in the key moment he let his firm drop the ball and this killed him in the most critical moment. Even if the affidavits were so late, there was no excuse not to have dealt with everything else which needed to be dealt with in that filing in an organized and reasonable manner. Especially not in such a prominent case where BHBH's name is being spread all over the internet and even in the traditional media.
I just hope this post and my other posts on Ty look stupid in a few months when this defeat is solidly reversed and Vic is cruising to a win against these assholes.
