Elections; 2024
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Poor Joe*. What a terrible day in the Legacy Media for Biden* and Democrats.
Ezra Kline: Seven Theories for Why Biden Is Losing (and What He Should Do About It)
https://dnyuz.com/2024/05/19/seven-theories-for-why-biden-is-losing-an
d-what-he-should-do-about-it/
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It’s not Joe Biden’s poll numbers that worry me, exactly. It’s the denial of what’s behind them.
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What I fear Biden’s allies will do is deny the polls until Democrats wake up, as they have before, to the shocking news that Trump has won. That would be a sin against the cause they claim as sacred. The first step toward winning is changing course when you’re losing.
The Hill: Alarmed Democrats flee Biden’s ailing brand in battleground states
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4671279-alarmed-democrats-flee-b
idens-ailing-brand-in-battleground-states/
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Vulnerable Senate Democrats are distancing themselves from President Biden’s ailing brand after polls show him trailing former President Trump in several battleground states.
Democrats in tough races are breaking with Biden over border security, liquified natural gas exports, the Israel-Hamas war, and tariffs on Chinese goods.
They’re staying competitive in the polls despite Biden’s low approval ratings and lagging position relative to Trump, but they are worried the president’s political brand will start weighing them down as Election Day nears.
USA Today: How can Biden save America from Trump's return to the White House? Drop out of the race.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2024/05/20/biden-trump-polls-20
24-election/73702186007/
Archived Link: https://archive.ph/LtZKa
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Joe Biden can go down in history as the person who beat Donald Trump twice – the second time by stepping aside.
Everybody hates Joe Biden*.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Trump says he will break the simplest rule in the Constitution and also says he won't break it. Nobody knows which Trump is real. He wants to keep you uncertain. Elect him and find out in 2028 if Trump will run again.
Former President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that he could be considered a three-term president if he clinches a win next November.
Presidents are restricted to just two terms of office under the 22nd Amendment.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4673353-trump-suggests-he-could-
be-a-three-term-president-if-he-wins-election/Quote:https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-x
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You should probably read the entire article before you post it, dummy.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Trump is saying that he won the election in 2016 and won in 2020, and that he will win in 2024, but if he wins in 2024 he will win again in 2028. He is being tricky in the minds of Trumptards and himself but in reality he is a stupid asshole who won't admit he lost in 2020 and won't limit himself to two terms in office.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Biden RIPS Trump for SCAMMING Wisconsin
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Trump has repeatedly promised to sic the Justice Department on his political adversaries, vowing to appoint “a real special prosecutor to go after” President Joe Biden, “the entire Biden crime family, and all others involved with the destruction of our elections, borders and our country itself.” He has repeatedly praised the extrajudicial killing of looters and drug dealers, and implored police officers to brutalize criminal suspects.
Trump has repeatedly assured those who commit violence on his behalf — like the January 6 rioters who tried to forestall the peaceful transfer of power in 2021 — that he will immunize them from legal accountability through presidential pardons.
Trump adopted a gangster’s mentality toward crime: the criminality of any given action is determined by its compatibility with his interests, not the law.
https://www.vox.com/politics/2024/5/17/24159084/daniel-perry-pardon-gr
eg-abbott-samuel-alito-flag
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Quote:Trump is saying that he won the election in 2016 and won in 2020, and that he will win in 2024, but if he wins in 2024 he will win again in 2028. He is being tricky in the minds of Trumptards and himself but in reality he is a stupid asshole who won't admit he lost in 2020 and won't limit himself to two terms in office.
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Trump says he will break the simplest rule in the Constitution and also says he won't break it. Nobody knows which Trump is real. He wants to keep you uncertain. Elect him and find out in 2028 if Trump will run again.
Former President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that he could be considered a three-term president if he clinches a win next November.
Presidents are restricted to just two terms of office under the 22nd Amendment.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4673353-trump-suggests-he-could-
be-a-three-term-president-if-he-wins-election/Quote:https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-x
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You should probably read the entire article before you post it, dummy.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Nope. That's not at all what he said.
I'm at a disadvantage with you here because I don't know how to talk to retarded children.
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Poor Joe*. What a terrible day in the Legacy Media for Biden* and Democrats.
Ezra Kline: Seven Theories for Why Biden Is Losing (and What He Should Do About It)
https://dnyuz.com/2024/05/19/seven-theories-for-why-biden-is-losing-an
d-what-he-should-do-about-it/
Quote:
It’s not Joe Biden’s poll numbers that worry me, exactly. It’s the denial of what’s behind them.
...
What I fear Biden’s allies will do is deny the polls until Democrats wake up, as they have before, to the shocking news that Trump has won. That would be a sin against the cause they claim as sacred. The first step toward winning is changing course when you’re losing.
The Hill: Alarmed Democrats flee Biden’s ailing brand in battleground states
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4671279-alarmed-democrats-flee-b
idens-ailing-brand-in-battleground-states/
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Vulnerable Senate Democrats are distancing themselves from President Biden’s ailing brand after polls show him trailing former President Trump in several battleground states.
Democrats in tough races are breaking with Biden over border security, liquified natural gas exports, the Israel-Hamas war, and tariffs on Chinese goods.
They’re staying competitive in the polls despite Biden’s low approval ratings and lagging position relative to Trump, but they are worried the president’s political brand will start weighing them down as Election Day nears.
USA Today: How can Biden save America from Trump's return to the White House? Drop out of the race.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2024/05/20/biden-trump-polls-20
24-election/73702186007/
Archived Link: https://archive.ph/LtZKa
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Joe Biden can go down in history as the person who beat Donald Trump twice – the second time by stepping aside.
Everybody hates Joe Biden*.
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Let's be clear. I am posting this post about Trump to remind everyone that he is Jacks hero. Which tells us all we need to know about Jack. One word fits him like a glove, says it all; trash, just like his hero.
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FED-UP ABC Host BRINGS THE HAMMER DOWN on Trump with ONE SIMPLE STATEMENT
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Originally posted by THG:
Let's be clear. I am posting this post about Trump to remind everyone that he is Jacks hero. Which tells us all we need to know about Jack. One word fits him like a glove, says it all; trash, just like his hero.
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FED-UP ABC Host BRINGS THE HAMMER DOWN on Trump with ONE SIMPLE STATEMENT
OH NOEZ!!!! LOOK OUT!!!! LITTLE GEORGE HAS THOR'S MIGHTY HAMMER!!!!!
Do you think Trump gives one little shit what George Stephanopoulos thinks about anything?
MSNBC is going to rot your brain, son.
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Quote:Trump's Truth Social reported financial results today for the first quarter of the year. Total revenue clocked in at $770,000 (yes, thousand).
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
OH NOEZ!!!! LOOK OUT!!!! LITTLE GEORGE HAS THOR'S MIGHTY HAMMER!!!!!
Do you think Trump gives one little shit what George Stephanopoulos thinks about anything?
MSNBC is going to rot your brain, son.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
TMTG (the official name of Trump's company) also announced operating losses of $12.1 million, up from $9.2 million losses last quarter.
Naturally the company said it was focused on long-term development, not pesky quarterly results because—well, what choice do they have? Their quarterly results are terrible.
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/trump-truth-social-media-q1-2024
-revenue-net-loss-1236010937/
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/05/20/2885140/0/en/TMT
G-Reports-First-Quarter-2024-Results.html
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/DJT:NASDAQ?authuser=0
For a businessman, Trump is terrible at business.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump's Truth Social reported financial results today for the first quarter of the year. Total revenue clocked in at $770,000 (yes, thousand).
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
OH NOEZ!!!! LOOK OUT!!!! LITTLE GEORGE HAS THOR'S MIGHTY HAMMER!!!!!
Do you think Trump gives one little shit what George Stephanopoulos thinks about anything?
MSNBC is going to rot your brain, son.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
TMTG (the official name of Trump's company) also announced operating losses of $12.1 million, up from $9.2 million losses last quarter.
Naturally the company said it was focused on long-term development, not pesky quarterly results because—well, what choice do they have? Their quarterly results are terrible.
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/trump-truth-social-media-q1-2024
-revenue-net-loss-1236010937/
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/05/20/2885140/0/en/TMT
G-Reports-First-Quarter-2024-Results.html
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/DJT:NASDAQ?authuser=0
For a businessman, Trump is terrible at business.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Once again you quote me and your reply has nothing at all to do with what you quoted. At this point I'm just going to attribute it to your undiagnosed autism.
As for your reply that had nothing to do with my quote, I've been shitting on DJT stock since April 6th on these boards and you know it because you were there for the beginning of the conversation but ducked out.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65711&mid=11906
68#1190668
Go. Fuck. Yourself.
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Quote:6ix, why do you think the world passed you by if you are as smart as you think?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Once again you quote me and your reply has nothing at all to do with what you quoted. At this point I'm just going to attribute it to your undiagnosed autism.
What Does the Dow Hitting 40,000 Tell Us? (That Trump is a Retard, as are his Trumptards)
By Paul Krugman | May 20, 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/opinion/trump-biden-stock-market-do
w-jones.html
Last week, for the first time in history, the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 40,000.
Unlike many right-wing commentators, I don’t consider the stock market the best indicator of the economy’s health, or even a good indicator. But it is an indicator. And given the state of American politics, with hyperpartisanship and conspiracy theorizing running rampant, I’d argue that this market milestone deserves more attention than it has been getting.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but do you have any doubt that Republicans, across the board, would be trumpeting the Dow’s record high from every rooftop if Donald Trump were still in the White House?
The background here is the gap between what we know about the actual state of our economy and the way Trump and his allies describe it.
By the numbers, the economy looks very good. Unemployment has now been below 4 percent for 27 months, a record last achieved in the late 1960s, ending in February 1970. Inflation is way down from its peak in 2022, although by most measures it’s still somewhat above the Federal Reserve’s target of 2 percent. U.S. economic growth over the past four years has been much faster than in comparable major wealthy nations.
Yet Trump says that the economy is “collapsing into a cesspool of ruin.” How can such claims be reconciled with the good economic data?
Well, the numbers I just cited come from official agencies — the Bureau of Labor Statistics (which produces labor market data) and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (which estimates gross domestic product). And if you were a hard-core MAGA partisan inclined to conspiracy theories — but I repeat myself — you might tell yourself that the good economic numbers are fake, concocted by a corrupt deep state to help President Biden win the election.
Although I don’t have a way to quantify this, my sense is that conspiracy theories about the economic data have been proliferating as the news gets better. For example, have you heard the one about how the B.L.S. is hiding inflation by removing coffee from the Consumer Price Index? (It isn’t.)
But how do we know that the B.L.S. isn’t cooking the books in Biden’s favor? The best answer, probably, is to learn something about both the bureau’s methods and its institutional culture; corrupting the data would be very hard. (Although autocrats in other countries have done such things, and there’s no guarantee that it wouldn’t happen if Trump, well known for his mendacity, regains power.)
Another answer is to look at independent, private business data, like surveys of purchasing managers, which tell the same story about declining inflation as the official statistics.
But if all that seems too academic and out of touch, there’s the raw fact of record stock prices. As I said, the stock market isn’t a very good indicator of how well the economy is doing. Nonetheless, it’s hard to reconcile Dow 40,000 with Trump’s claim that the economy is a cesspool.
In particular, even though trying to explain stock fluctuations is, in general, a waste of time, the recent run-up in stocks probably reflects economic reports suggesting that the uptick in measured inflation earlier this year was just a bump on the way to a soft landing.
Record highs for both the Dow and broader measures like the S & P 500 are also noteworthy given that back in 2020, during Biden and Trump’s second debate, Trump — who really does like to measure economic success by the stock market — said “the stock market will crash” if Biden won. Now, everyone makes bad pr
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, why do you think the world passed you by if you are as smart as you think?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Once again you quote me and your reply has nothing at all to do with what you quoted. At this point I'm just going to attribute it to your undiagnosed autism.
What Does the Dow Hitting 40,000 Tell Us? (That Trump is a Retard, as are his Trumptards)
You follow those questions up with an article by idiot Paul Krugman who hasn't had a correct prediction about the economy in over a decade?
OK buddy.
At least you didn't steal it and pass it off as your own this time. Good boy.
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Trump should say, under oath, that he never had sex with Stormy Daniels. His claim that this is a witch hunt is believable if he did swear to No Sex With Stormy. Unfortunately:
Trump won't testify in his New York hush money trial
May 21, 2024, 11:27 AM ET
"Although Trump vowed to testify in this trial, he did not end up taking the stand."
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/21/1252665767/trumps-trials-hush-money
6ixStringJack, Trump passed up the opportunity to believable claim his trial is a witch hunt and he is innocent. He has made many unbelievable claims to the media since the media can't punish him for being a lying sack of shit. In contrast to the media's weakness, a judge is strong enough to brutally punish him which is why Trump did not dare testify that he never had sex with Stormy. Was Trump fearful of being gang raped in prison for perjury? He'll never admit it!
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Trump, however, has once again claimed that stocks will crash if he doesn’t win. He has also done something that I think has no precedent: trying to take credit for a rising stock market even though he’s out of office, claiming stock market gains mean investors are betting on his future victory.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, why do you think the world passed you by if you are as smart as you think?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Once again you quote me and your reply has nothing at all to do with what you quoted. At this point I'm just going to attribute it to your undiagnosed autism.
What Does the Dow Hitting 40,000 Tell Us? (That Trump is a Retard, as are his Trumptards)
You follow those questions up with an article by idiot Paul Krugman who hasn't had a correct prediction about the economy in over a decade?
OK buddy.
At least you didn't steal it and pass it off as your own this time. Good boy.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
That claim is, for lack of a better word, pathetic. And one of the things that still mystifies me about Trump’s political appeal is why more Americans don’t see this kind of whining and boasting as ridiculous.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Ed Kilgore: Trump vs. Biden Polls: Joe May Need a Rust Belt Sweep
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-vs-biden-polls-joe-may-need
-a-rust-belt-sweep/ar-BB1mJLhL
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All in all, the path to a second Biden term is dangerously narrow.
You think that's bad, Eddie boy, you probably don't want to take a look at polling in Washington state. You certainly don't want to look at any polling that just came out of New Hampshire.
Tick Tock
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You think that's bad, Eddie boy, you probably don't want to take a look at polling in Washington state. You certainly don't want to look at any polling that just came out of New Hampshire.
Tick Tock
SPOILER ALERT:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/new-
hampshire/
That's right...
Trump and Joe* are tied in New Hampshire according to the Praecones Analytica that just dropped late yesterday. Actually, if you click on the poll itself and pull it up, Trump is up by 0.1 points in New Hampshire as of yesterday.
As for Washington...
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/washington/
Sure... The "Northwest Progressive Institute" just put out a poll last week showing Biden up 16 points on Trump, but a poll by The Independent Center back in mid-April had Trump up 1 point head to head and 5 points on Joe* in a 5-way race.
I think 2024 is going to go down as the election with the most swing states ever.
They should start reporting on that now, or you knuclkleheads are all going to be blindsided when Trump ends up winning states you weren't even aware he was competitive in because that was never reported.
Yanno... states that by all rights nobody but a Democrat should ever win because of the historical data, yet here we are. Everybody is getting fed up with Democrat's and Joe Biden*'s lies and terrible job performance.
As a side note, you gotta love RFK's polling. It seems that every poll he runs he wins. All that extra Nicole Shanahan Billionaire money being put to good work paying their staffers overtime to find all the right people to tell them what they want to hear.
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No one really thinks Trump & Biden are the same, do they?
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Originally posted by THG:
No one really thinks Trump & Biden are the same, do they?
No. Trump is coherent, intelligent and was a great President.
Joe Biden* is none of those things.
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Quote:This seems to be a widely held opinion by Trumptards. But Trumptards don't care about falsehoods.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No. Trump is coherent, intelligent and was a great President.
Joe Biden* is none of those things.
Parroting Trump, GOP Rep. Donalds Baselessly Accuses Biden of Using ‘Injections’ to ‘Look Coherent’
May 19, 2024
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/byron-donalds-joe-
biden-injections-look-coherent-1235023712/
Rep. Byron Donalds, without evidence, accused President Joe Biden of being “jacked up” and using “injections” in order to appear “coherent.”
There is no evidence that Biden uses or has used drugs. The Republican congressman lobbed the baseless speculation Sunday during an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo.
GOP Rep. Greg Murphy made the same assertion Thursday on Fox Business, claiming he has “evidence” (that he did not produce) to show Biden was “jacked up on something” while delivering the State of the Union address.
“I was in the State of the Union address, and Joe Biden must have been jacked up on something that day. I absolutely believe that from a medical viewpoint and actually have a little bit of good knowledge that happened,” Murphy, a surgeon, said.
“He can’t stand, and he can’t stand under the lights for that long, and I don’t think he can keep a concept in his brain that long,” Murphy added.
Murphy alleged, “I believe they gave him something to sustain the lights and sustain the vigor that he had. That was not Joe Biden. I was in there. He screamed for two hours.” (Biden was passionate that night, but no one has shown proof of any substance use.)
Despite Bartiromo asking for more details, Murphy refused to go further publicly but offered to show her his alleged proof “offline.”
“Maybe we can talk offline, and I’ll show you something that proves that,” Murphy said.
“You’ll show me what?” Bartiromo inquired.
“I think I can have some evidence that shows that he was given something before,” he said, suddenly backing down a bit on his claim that he has the evidence in hand.
Trump said — without evidence — in a radio interview following the state of the union that Biden was “all jacked up” and “higher than a kite.” Trump then said he would insist that Biden be “drug tested” ahead of presidential debates in the fall. In a speech in Minnesota on Saturday, Trump speculated that Biden will be “so jacked up for those debates, you watch!” (Trump in that speech also falsely claimed he won the state in 2016 and 2020. He did not.)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Still more classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago
May 21, 2024
As you all know, Donald Trump took reams of classified documents with him when he left the White House and then repeatedly refused to turn them over when asked. Eventually the FBI searched his home and carted away boxes of stuff.
But guess what? Even after that, Trump still managed to hold on to several classified documents. This was disclosed last year in a ruling by judge Beryl Howell, but was kept under seal until today: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/21/trump-classified-documents-be
droom-00159182
Throughout the opinion, Howell — who was chief judge of the Washington, D.C. federal district court at the time — described with varying degrees of incredulity how four documents with classification markings could have been discovered in Trump’s private quarters.... “Notably, no excuse is provided as to how the former president could miss the classified-marked documents found in his own bedroom at Mar-a-Lago.”
But if you think that's bad, hold on to your hat:
In a footnote, Howell also noted that another Trump adviser connected to his Save America PAC had acknowledged scanning the contents of the box that contained the classified materials in 2021 and storing them on a personal laptop provided by the PAC.
What. The. Fuck? Trump not only kept classified documents, but turned them over to some PAC flunky to scan into her personal laptop?
This case gets more bizarre every time we hear something about it. And yet somehow Trump's pal, judge Aileen Cannon, keeps finding reasons to pretend that it's tortuously complex and requires endless months of preparation. The reality is that I'm not sure I've ever seen a more open-and-shut case in my life. As near as I can tell, it could be tried tomorrow and be finished by Memorial Day without missing anything important.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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blah, blah, blah...
Time is running out for you dildos.
Pretty soon you're going to have to admit that you actually have to win an election because you don't get to put your opponent in prison in America.
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Trump scams the people who trust him
It's how he got rich, and he's not going to stop
By Matthew Yglesias | May 22, 2024
https://www.slowboring.com/p/trump-scams-the-people-who-trust
One of the dualities of Donald Trump is that while his opponents think he’s an authoritarian goon who doesn’t respect the rules, many of his fans also think that he’s an authoritarian goon who doesn’t respect the rules — but in a good way.
On the right, there is a widely held and poorly evidenced belief that Mitt Romney lost because he was too much of a nice guy and that part of what’s good about Trump is that he’s willing to fight dirty. You might not think it’s a good idea to cheat on your pregnant wife with a porn star. But conditional on having done so, playing fast and loose with campaign finance law in order to keep it covered up and win the election is better than behaving ethically and losing — because winning elections is really important. I think all partisans can sympathize, to an extent, with this logic. Nobody wants to root for the Washington Generals, and it’s easy to notice the ways in which the out-group behaves ruthlessly and ignore evidence of ruthlessness on the part of your in-group.
But Trump takes this further than a standard politician, because a huge factor in Trump-era politics is a sense among those on the right that they are besieged, socially and culturally.
Diffuse forces in academia, in the media, in public health, in libraries, in museums, and almost everywhere else are conspiring to advance a liberal agenda, and you need someone who won’t just win an election and pass some laws, but someone who will root the conspiracy out at the source, crushing the left. In that context, the liberal fear of Trump as an aspirational dictator is part of what rightists like and admire about him. They’re not exactly saying he’ll be a good type of dictator. But they are saying they need a fighter, a tough guy, a guy who can battle a rigged system and win — and it’s good that liberals fear him.
Because of this dynamic, I think it’s important to make the point that Trump is a scumbag in ways that don’t just read as affluent privileged liberals cowering in fear. I am afraid that Trump will slash Medicaid, yank FDA approval of mifepristone, reduce regulatory protections for people with pre-existing health conditions, raise the relative price of goods versus services in a way that hurts the middle class and the poor, and otherwise implement bad public policy. But this stuff won’t hurt me personally, and I also have to admit that a GOP nominee who scans as more competent and normal — Doug Burgum, say — would probably be more effective at implementing public policy ideas that I regard as normatively bad.
What makes Trump uniquely dangerous is his disregard for the rule of law. But while it’s certainly possible that Trump will leverage that disregard to advance conservative policy aims, what he has actually consistently done throughout his career is seek personal financial benefit, specifically at the expense of his fans and admirers.
To that end, my personal skeleton key for understanding Trump has always been a scandal that doesn’t get a lot of play because it was basically legal: his brief tenure as the CEO of a publicly traded company.
Meet Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts
For the vast majority of Trump’s career as a businessman, he has been the steward of a network of privately owned companies that are referred to collectively as the Trump Organization.
But in 1995, he launched a publicly traded company, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts (later known as Trump Entertainment Resorts), that ordinary people could and did buy shares of on the stock market. There are, of course, plenty of publicly traded hotel and resort companies these days. You can buy Hilton or Marriott or MGM shares. But these are fairly boring companies that you expect people to invest in based on boring considerations of price-to-earnings ratios and other financial metrics. Christopher Nassetta, the CEO of
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Trump tried to move classified docs away from security cameras
In case you haven't gotten enough of Trump and his inexplicable desire to hold on to classified documents, today brings yet more news:
Buried in the supporting documentation for one of the motions was a document that contained a new public revelation: Once Trump realized that security cameras at Mar-a-Lago could capture his employees moving classified government information that officials were attempting to retrieve, he allegedly ensured that they would avoid the cameras when moving boxes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/05/21/trump-flor
ida-classified-documents-motions/
Jesus. What is the deal with Trump and classified documents? Why was he so hellbent on keeping them? The answer, as with all things Trump, is most likely "because his brain is broken," but I can't stop wondering if there's anything more to it.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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James Comey: Trump is coming for the DOJ and FBI
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Let’s Catch Up on How All of Trump’s Vice Presidential Candidates Are Humiliating Themselves
From shooting a dog, to supporting a married man’s right to make secret payments to pornographic actresses, to shooting a goat, there’s a lot going on out there.
By Ben Mathis-Lilley | May 23, 2024, 5:45 AM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/trump-vice-president-runni
ng-mate-elise-stefanik-tim-scott.html
Donald Trump needs to pick a vice presidential candidate soon. The Republican National Convention in Milwaukee is in mid-July, and Trump’s relationship with Mike Pence, who served as his running mate the last time he ran for office, became strained when Pence refused to help carry out a coup on Trump’s behalf and came somewhat close to getting murdered by a mob as a result.
Which is to say, the job is open because the previous employee who held it was nearly killed by the person doing the hiring.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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A huge factor in Trump-era politics is a sense among those on the right that they are besieged, socially and culturally. Diffuse forces almost everywhere are conspiring to advance a liberal agenda, and they need someone who won’t just win an election and pass some laws, but someone who will root the conspiracy out at the source, crushing the left. In that context, the liberal fear of Trump as an aspirational dictator is part of what rightists like and admire about him. They’re not exactly saying he’ll be a good type of dictator. But they are saying they need a fighter, a tough guy, a guy who can battle a rigged system and win — and it’s good that liberals fear him.
https://www.slowboring.com/p/trump-scams-the-people-who-trust
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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"I'm a Marine. I know what tough is. And a guy like Donald Trump who attacks women and brags about it? That's not tough. I'm with Joe Biden because he'll give my daughters their freedom back."
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"I'm a Marine. I know what tough is. And a guy like Donald Trump who attacks women and brags about it? That's not tough. I'm with Joe Biden because he'll give my daughters their freedom back."
Joe Biden loves kids. Particularly girls your daughter's age. He was always fucking his own daughter in the shower.
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AP: Biden releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from Northeast reserve in bid to lower prices at pump
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-releasing-1-million-barrels-164017347
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Patrick De Haan, an analyst for GasBuddy, said sale of the Northeast reserve would have little impact on gasoline prices nationally, although there “may be a slight downward pressure on prices” in the Northeast. The million-barrel reserve only amounts to about 2.7 hours of total U.S. gasoline consumption, he said.
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Quote:6ixStringJack, you are a very special person. So honest. So truthful. So trustworthy. So Trumpish:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Joe Biden loves kids. Particularly girls your daughter's age. He was always fucking his own daughter in the shower.
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Trump’s Money Problems Are Becoming a Crisis for the Entire Country
By David A. Graham | May 23. 2024
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-money-problems-are-bec
oming-a-crisis-for-the-entire-country/ar-BB1mVfFD
Donald Trump is facing some of the most serious threats to his financial empire in his long and tumultuous career. That’s his problem.
But the methods he’s using to get out of those troubles make him beholden to wealthy people with interests of their own—which, if reelected president, he would be in a position to advance. And that could be everyone’s problem.
Trump’s money woes begin with his urgent need for huge amounts of liquid cash—both to cover his never-ending legal fees and judgments, and to fund his campaign. A jury awarded the writer E. Jean Carroll more than $83 million in a defamation case in January. (Trump has posted a $92 million bond while he appeals the verdict.) In February, a judge in New York fined him nearly half a billion dollars in a civil fraud case involving property valuations. He owes legal fees for many other cases he’s involved in. Making matters worse, various aspects of his business suffered during his presidency because of negative publicity, and those troubles are compounded by the current weakness of the commercial real-estate market.
To make up for these challenges, Trump has turned to a few sources. He obtained a highly unusual bond from a California businessman for the civil fraud case, having persuaded an appellate court to reduce the amount to $175 million. He has been using political donations to pay his hefty legal bills, and his campaign’s effective merger with the Republican National Committee creates a new stream of cash for those. He has also brazenly pleaded for cash from large donors, reportedly telling a gathering of oil executives that he would pursue favorable policies if they raised $1 billion for his campaign and he won in November. Finally, the Trump Media and Technology Group went public this spring, providing Trump with a potentially enormous windfall, at least on paper. (“It’s one of the most obvious worthless stocks I have ever seen,’’ Alan Jagolinzer, an accounting professor at the University of Cambridge, in England, told The New York Times.) Each of these revenue streams gives leverage—financial, and perhaps psychological—over Trump to rich people whose fortunes could be affected by actions of the federal government.
“He made very clear throughout his presidency, and in the plan since then, that he is very open to people currying favor with him by financing him in a variety of ways,” Noah Bookbinder, the president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, told me. Previously, someone looking for favor could donate to his campaign, schedule an event at a Trump golf course, or spend big at his hotel in Washington. Now the hotel is gone, but other possibilities have arisen.
“Donald Trump’s finances and the ways of potentially influencing him have gotten more complicated than what we were talking about in 2016, and even 2020,” Bookbinder said. “It’s a whole new world of ways to potentially funnel money to Donald Trump.”
Trump’s ongoing trial in Manhattan, on charges that he falsified business records to cover up a hush-money payment, showcases a small-scale example of how this works. David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, testified that after he agreed to pay $150,000 to purchase and sit on the story of a woman who said she had sex with Trump, he was invited to a Trump Tower meeting with officials including FBI Director James Comey and future Cabinet-level officials, and was later feted
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Uh oh... Gas prices just skyrocketed again today.
Fuck Joe Biden*
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Quote:Trump is not fine. He is crazy:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Trump’s Assassination Fantasy Has a Darker Purpose
When Donald Trump insinuated this week that Biden and the FBI were out to kill him, he showed how central violence has become to his conception of political leadership.
Trump declared Tuesday on Truth Social, his social-media platform, that he “was shown reports Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, in their illegal and UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL FORCE).”
Trump has a way of projecting his own vices onto others. His lawyer recently argued before the Supreme Court that ordering the military to assassinate a political rival “could well be an official act.” There is probably some limiting principle to this particular argument, but the fact that the issue is even under discussion is not a good sign for our democracy. Perhaps he believes that Biden was out to shoot him because he thinks that’s an order that presidents can freely give.
The FBI had carefully arranged to enter Trump’s property when he would be out of state—an odd way of carrying out an assassination. Still, the idea that Trump had been at physical risk rocketed across Truth Social. The X account of the House Judiciary Committee Republicans reposted—with the addition of siren emojis—a thread insinuating that FBI agents were acting like the “Gestapo” and had “risked the lives of Donald Trump, his family, his staff, and MAL guests.” Trump’s campaign upped the hysteria with a fundraising email declaring that “BIDEN’S DOJ WAS AUTHORIZED TO SHOOT ME!” and that “Joe Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger.” By evening, the longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon was asserting that “this was an attempted assassination attempt on Donald John Trump or people associated with him.”
Trump and his fans have gone from simply damning the “deep state,” the loose term for anyone in national security or law enforcement who hinders his autocratic aims, to portraying federal agents as assassins.
Trump has become more and more apocalyptic in his language. This week, he sent another dangerous signal to his supporters: FBI agents are an armed enemy, ready to assassinate the former president. Unless, of course, Trump and his mob get to them first.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-assassination-fantasy-
has-a-darker-purpose/ar-BB1mWytl
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Uh oh... Gas prices just skyrocketed again today.
Fuck Joe Biden*
Tick Tock
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Triggered.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=65116
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump is not fine. He is crazy:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Trump’s Assassination Fantasy Has a Darker Purpose
When Donald Trump insinuated this week that Biden and the FBI were out to kill him, he showed how central violence has become to his conception of political leadership.
Trump declared Tuesday on Truth Social, his social-media platform, that he “was shown reports Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, in their illegal and UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL FORCE).”
Trump has a way of projecting his own vices onto others. His lawyer recently argued before the Supreme Court that ordering the military to assassinate a political rival “could well be an official act.” There is probably some limiting principle to this particular argument, but the fact that the issue is even under discussion is not a good sign for our democracy. Perhaps he believes that Biden was out to shoot him because he thinks that’s an order that presidents can freely give.
The FBI had carefully arranged to enter Trump’s property when he would be out of state—an odd way of carrying out an assassination. Still, the idea that Trump had been at physical risk rocketed across Truth Social. The X account of the House Judiciary Committee Republicans reposted—with the addition of siren emojis—a thread insinuating that FBI agents were acting like the “Gestapo” and had “risked the lives of Donald Trump, his family, his staff, and MAL guests.” Trump’s campaign upped the hysteria with a fundraising email declaring that “BIDEN’S DOJ WAS AUTHORIZED TO SHOOT ME!” and that “Joe Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger.” By evening, the longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon was asserting that “this was an attempted assassination attempt on Donald John Trump or people associated with him.”
Trump and his fans have gone from simply damning the “deep state,” the loose term for anyone in national security or law enforcement who hinders his autocratic aims, to portraying federal agents as assassins.
Trump has become more and more apocalyptic in his language. This week, he sent another dangerous signal to his supporters: FBI agents are an armed enemy, ready to assassinate the former president. Unless, of course, Trump and his mob get to them first.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-assassination-fantasy-
has-a-darker-purpose/ar-BB1mWytl
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
This was a good one from August 23rd of last year.
Assassination threat from Second against Donald Trump.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65372&p=13#1179
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https://archive.ph/wip/HS4tH
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Originally posted by Second:
It is perfectly Constitutional to disqualify Trump with no definition of what "disqualify" means. Not allow his name on the ballot? That could be "disqualify". Not count votes for Trump if he is on the ballot? That could be "disqualify". Kill him after the election? Tough for Trumptards to lose der Führer Trump, but that could be called "disqualify" ex post facto. Are you concerned, 6ixStringJack, over the possibility of your God being martyred? Then call the Secret Service, you unemployed, mentally disabled and worthless white trash drunkard and drug addict, the very epitome of a solid Trump voter. I can confidently make that statement because I know a thousand East Texas Trump voters.
Gee. I wonder why people who are voting for Trump might be a little concerned about his well being now that it's clear he won't be going to prison and there's actually going to be a Democratic election in America in 2024.
But I'm the crazy one of the two of us.
Sure thing, buddy.
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Quote:Inside the “America First” Movement’s War Over Democracy
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Gee. I wonder why people who are voting for Trump might be a little concerned about his well being now that it's clear he won't be going to prison and there's actually going to be a Democratic election in America in 2024.
But I'm the crazy one of the two of us.
Sure thing, buddy.
By Andy Kroll | May 22, 2024, 05:09pm
https://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-republicans-maga-meltdown-
democracy-elections
The most important fault line in the party now is democracy itself. Today’s Republican insurgents believe democracy has been stolen, and they don’t trust the ability of democratic processes to restore it.
This phenomenon is evident across the country, in Georgia and Nevada, in Arizona, Idaho and Florida. But it’s perhaps the starkest in Michigan.
I traveled back to Michigan earlier this year to understand how this all happened. I sought out the activists waging this struggle, a group of people who don’t trust institutions or individuals except Trump and one another — and sometimes not even that. Could they triumph over the elites? I found a glimpse of a future post-Trump Republican Party and, all around me, danger for our system of government and the state of the country.
“We can’t keep going through election after election like this where a large plurality of the country just does not accept the outcome of the majority and refuses to abide by it,” said Jeff Timmer, a former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party. “That’s when the system falls apart.”
A Call From God
I drove west toward Lake Michigan to meet Ken Beyer for lunch. Barrel-chested and with a neatly trimmed goatee, Beyer is in his late 50s but looks younger. He’s disarmingly earnest, the kind of guy who’d offer to help you fix a flat tire in a snowstorm. In less than two years, Beyer had risen from a political nobody to a district chair in the state GOP and a leader of the “America First” movement in Michigan. Like many of his “America First” allies, he questions whether democracy still exists in this country. “I don’t know if any election is fair anymore,” he said.
Over chicken tenders and iced tea, Beyer, a church-going Christian, told me about a series of what he saw as divine revelations that had delivered him to this point. The pandemic and 2020 election had shaken him. He no longer recognized his own country. He feared that the moment had come, he said, “where freedom and the American dream end.”
His next revelation happened on Jan. 6, 2021. Because he was convinced that Democrats stole the White House from Trump, he had gone to Washington to make his voice heard and show support for the president. Standing on the steps of the Capitol, he encountered a reporter with the conservative outlet Newsmax who needed help carrying gear. Beyer grabbed a tripod and backpack and filled in as a makeshift field producer for one of the biggest events of the 21st century. “What God wanted me to do,” he later said, “was help capture the history of what’s happening and get the truth out of what really was going on there.”
Back in Michigan, Beyer enlisted the help of a young videographer who had produced content for Beyer’s plumbing business, and together they churned out videos about COVID-19 (overblown), election fraud (rampant) and the “truth” of Jan. 6 (“a big prayer meeting”). He read about disturbing allegations about voting-machine software changing votes. He listened to poll workers allege that mysterious suitcases of mail-in ballots had arrived overnight at the state’s largest ballot-processing site in downtown Detroit (a claim that was later debunked). The more he heard, the more he came to believe that his home state had been central to the Democrats’ plan to steal the 2020 election.
In his free time, Beyer urged Republican lawmakers to investigate the allegations of fraud made by Trump and his allies. Most Republicans brushed him off. A few, like Peter Meijer
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Trump’s latest lie showcases MAGA persecution complex at its finest
Getting Americans to believe he’s been mistreated is key to Trump’s political survival.
In campaign seasons past, presidential candidates generally used the long Memorial Day weekend to roll out an avalanche of patriotic messaging about their vision for America’s future. Not so for Republican presidential contender Donald Trump, who chose instead to spend the days leading up to the holiday accusing President Joe Biden of scheming to assassinate him.
Trump being Trump, this whole scandal isn’t without its irony. After all, it was Trump’s legal team that earlier this month claimed before the Supreme Court that presidents could legally assassinate their political rivals. And it was Trump — not Biden — who last November pledged to “root out” political opponents he described as “vermin.”
Trump’s outrageous ‘license to kill’: President may ‘legally’ murder American rivals
Trump's next stop will be at the Supreme Court to argument for Presidential immunity from prosecution
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump Pressures Republicans to Pass a Law to Keep Him Out of Jail Forever
The former president is convinced state prosecutors will target him again after a second term, and wants the GOP to solve that problem for him
May 24, 2024
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-republic
ans-pass-law-jail-1235027139/
Trump’s push for new legislation is just his latest idea for shielding himself from criminal accountability. As Rolling Stone previously reported, Trump and his allies also plan to have the Justice Department‘s Office of Legal Counsel issue a memo advising that the DOJ should prohibit the prosecution of presidents even after they leave office.
Such a memo would codify Trump’s arguments in federal court, and now at the Supreme Court, that presidents have expansive presidential immunity, even after they leave office, and that impeachment is the only avenue available for holding a president accountable for crimes committed while in office.
His attorneys tried to use the pending Supreme Court case weighing those arguments as an excuse to delay the New York City hush money case, on the grounds that some of the evidence included in the trial dated to his time in office.
Judge Juan Merchan dismissed the attempt.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump Pressures Republicans to Pass a Law to Keep Him Out of Jail Forever
The former president is convinced state prosecutors will target him again after a second term, and wants the GOP to solve that problem for him
May 24, 2024
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-republic
ans-pass-law-jail-1235027139/
Trump’s push for new legislation is just his latest idea for shielding himself from criminal accountability. As Rolling Stone previously reported, Trump and his allies also plan to have the Justice Department‘s Office of Legal Counsel issue a memo advising that the DOJ should prohibit the prosecution of presidents even after they leave office.
Such a memo would codify Trump’s arguments in federal court, and now at the Supreme Court, that presidents have expansive presidential immunity, even after they leave office, and that impeachment is the only avenue available for holding a president accountable for crimes committed while in office.
His attorneys tried to use the pending Supreme Court case weighing those arguments as an excuse to delay the New York City hush money case, on the grounds that some of the evidence included in the trial dated to his time in office.
Judge Juan Merchan dismissed the attempt.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
People who support Trump willingly support a racist and the worst of the worst kind of person. That makes them the same. That's a fact.
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You're such an easily manipulated brainlet, Ted.
Stop outsourcing your thinking to the worst kind of people.
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Quote:The Democrats get the cause and effect backward, thinking that if Trump would stop acting crazy, and if he would instead throw a light switch back to normal behavior, America could go back to normal. But Trump is the effect, not the cause of all this craziness.
Originally posted by THG:
People who support Trump willingly support a racist and the worst of the worst kind of person. That makes them the same. That's a fact.
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I hang around Trump voters for thousands of hours per year and Trump knows perfectly what his voters want. They want a guy who breaks all the rules to serve their mentally unstable and highly emotional needs. His voters are causing all the trouble and that is why things won't go back to normal or even reasonable:
Quote:https://www.slowboring.com/p/trump-scams-the-people-who-trust
A huge factor in Trump-era politics is a sense among those on the right that they are besieged, socially and culturally. Diffuse forces almost everywhere are conspiring to advance a liberal agenda, and they need someone who won’t just win an election and pass some laws, but someone who will root the conspiracy out at the source, crushing the left. In that context, the liberal fear of Trump as an aspirational dictator is part of what rightists like and admire about him. They’re not exactly saying he’ll be a good type of dictator. But they are saying they need a fighter, a tough guy, a guy who can battle a rigged system and win — and it’s good that liberals fear him.
Trump voters are like dogs that are not housebroken. What do you do with these animals other than put them outside so that they do not ruin the furniture and defecate on the floor as Trump voters did during the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol? Do you talk your dogs into better behavior? That is not how it is done on the TV show "Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan". Talk doesn't turn bad-behaving dogs into good dogs and talking won't work with Trump voters or 6ixStringJack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Whisperer_with_Cesar_Millan
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Special counsel seeks court order limiting Trump’s false claims about FBI
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4685434-jack-smith-seeks-
gag-order-in-classified-docs-case-after-trump-locked-loaded-claim/
Special counsel Jack Smith filed court papers Friday asking a judge to order Donald Trump not to make any further incendiary claims suggesting that FBI agents were “complicit in a plot to assassinate him.”
In the filing to U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon, Smith argues Trump’s statements earlier this week exposed FBI agents involved in the case “to the risk of threats, violence, and harassment.”
Quote:https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.u
The Government moves to modify defendant Donald J. Trump’s conditions of release, to make clear that he may not make statements that pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case. The Government’s request is necessary because of several intentionally false and inflammatory statements recently made by Trump that distort the circumstances under which the Federal Bureau of Investigation planned and executed the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. Those statements create a grossly misleading impression about the intentions and conduct of federal law enforcement agents—falsely suggesting that they were complicit in a plot to assassinate him—and expose those agents, some of whom will be witnesses at trial, to the risk of threats, violence, and harassment. The Court has an “independent obligation to protect the integrity of this judicial proceeding,” ECF No. 101, and should take steps immediately to halt this dangerous campaign to smear law enforcement.
scourts.flsd.648653.581.0.pdf
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Trump can say whatever the fuck he wants to about the FBI.
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Quote:Congratulations! You have precisely stated what Trumptards admire about him. He says whatever he wants. But what you didn't state is that Trump is not a responsible adult male. The DOJ did state it:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Special counsel seeks court order limiting Trump’s false claims about FBI
Trump can say whatever the fuck he wants to about the FBI.
Quote:https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.u
Trump, however, has distorted the standard inclusion of the policy limiting the use of deadly force by mischaracterizing it as a claim that the FBI “WAS AUTHORIZED TO SHOOT ME,” was “just itching to do the unthinkable,” and was “locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger.” Exhibit 1. These deceptive and inflammatory claims expose the law enforcement professionals who are involved in this case to unjustified and unacceptable risks: they invite the sort of threats and harassment that have occurred when other participants in legal proceedings against Trump have been targeted by his invective. Those risks have the potential to undermine the integrity of the proceedings as well as jeopardize the safety of law enforcement. The Court has previously underscored its “independent obligation to protect the integrity of this judicial proceeding,” ECF No. 101. And the Court has the power and responsibility to “impose additional or different conditions of release,” 18 U.S.C. § 3142(c)(l)(B)(xiv), that are “reasonably necessary to ... assure the safety of any other person and the community.” 18 U.S.C. § 3142(c)(3). A condition of release that prohibits the defendant from making statements posing a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case is warranted and necessary here. Such a prohibition will also minimize further prejudice caused by the defendant directing false and inflammatory messages regarding the facts of this case to potential jurors who may be summoned by the Court for jury service in this matter.
scourts.flsd.648653.581.0.pdf
6ix, it is unsurprising that you don't notice that Trump is irresponsible. Trumptards are not responsible for what they do. It is a legal principle for them.
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Special counsel seeks court order limiting Trump’s false claims about FBI
Trump can say whatever the fuck he wants to about the FBI.
He's got a constitutional right to say fuck the FBI.
Fuck the FBI.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Gee. I wonder why people who are voting for Trump might be a little concerned about his well being now that it's clear he won't be going to prison and there's actually going to be a Democratic election in America in 2024.
But I'm the crazy one of the two of us.
Sure thing, buddy.
By Andy Kroll | May 22, 2024, 05:09pm
https://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-republicans-maga-meltdown-
democracy-elections
The most important fault line in the party now is democracy itself. Today’s Republican insurgents believe democracy has been stolen, and they don’t trust the ability of democratic processes to restore it.
Uh huh...
May 31, 2017: Bernie Sanders says Democrats lost but Trump didn't win
September 29, 2019: Hillary Clinton: "Trump knows he's an illegitimate president"
February 12, 2021: Trump lawyer plays video montage of Democrats doubting election results at impeachment trial
How come everything you accuse everybody else of doing is constantly proven to be what you and the people you vote for are actually the ones doing?
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Quote:Trump is not responsible for his actions. Neither are you. Trump lacks conscientiousness.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
He's got a constitutional right to say fuck the FBI.
Fuck the FBI.
Conscientiousness is a fundamental personality trait—one of the Big Five—that reflects the tendency to be responsible, organized, hard-working, goal-directed, and to adhere to norms and rules. Like the other core personality factors, it has multiple facets; conscientiousness comprises self-control, industriousness, responsibility, and reliability.
A conscientious person is good at self-regulation and impulse control. This trait influences whether you will set and keep long-range goals, deliberate over choices, behave cautiously or impulsively, and take obligations to others seriously. (The other Big Five personality traits are extraversion, agreeableness, openness, and neuroticism.) Conscientiousness is generally a key ingredient for success—in love as well as work. It's also a major predictor of health, well-being, and longevity.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/conscientiousness
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You Have To Be A Very Special Person Rationally To Buy Trump's Stock
May 25, 2024
The emperor has no clothes — or, in this case, followers.
It seems Trump’s Truth Social has fewer than 80,000 daily users — down each of the last two months. DJT reported a loss last quarter of more than $328 million on revenues of $771,000.
This, after more than 2 years’ operation!
Yet at Friday’s close, DJT sported an $8 billion market cap, or roughly $100,000 for each of its current active daily users.
What makes those users so valuable?
They pay nothing!
Advertisers do know that, as Trump fans, they’ll buy anything. And that’s something.
(Well, right? Trump Bibles? Bobbleheads? Bonds? Big lies?)
But even then, $771,000 in revenue works out to just $10 each per quarter, $40 a year.
So if the company were so well managed by CEO Devon Nunez that it had zero expenses going forward — which, having lost $328 million in a single quarter seems unlikely — is there any way each $40-a-year user can be worth $100,000?
To someone like Putin, who desperately wants to see Trump win in order to conquer Ukraine and its neighbors, it may be worth pumping a few billion into the stock.
(I’m not saying he has, though he could certainly afford to.)
But that’s the only even remotely rational reason to buy it.
https://andrewtobias.com/you-have-to-be-a-very-special-person-rational
ly-to-buy-this-stock/
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Donald Trump Movie ‘The Apprentice’ Shocks Cannes, Receives Nearly Eight-Minute Standing Ovation
"There is no nice metaphorical way to deal with the rising wave of fascism," director Ali Abbasi said when asked why he wanted to make the film about the former president's rise to power in 1980s America. "I think it's time to make movies relevant. It's time to make movies political again."
By Patrick Brzeski, Scott Roxborough | May 20, 2024 11:53am
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/donald-trump-movie
-the-apprentice-cannes-standing-ovation-1235904113/
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The Apprentice
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-apprentice/
Summary -- The Apprentice charts a young Donald Trump’s ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.
The performances are stellar, the pacing both restrained and engaging, the realization of Cohn and Trump’s world is top notch, and the dynamic between the two is as captivating as any. For those able to take the film on its own terms, to be in equal parts fascinated and repelled by the behaviors of those captured therein, The Apprentice stands as a masterclass in observing this compelling, consequential mentor/protégé relationship—one that continues to shape global headlines.
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The Apprentice
https://www.timeout.com/movies/the-apprentice-review-2024
If there’s one thing this entertainingly salacious tragicomedy about the rise of Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan) teaches us, it’s that Trump was going to find a way to sue it. And so it’s proved, with the ex-President’s campaign team taking exception to a scene that depicts him raping his then-wife Ivana (a long-rumoured but unproven incident).
Filmmaker Ali Abbasi, of course, will have seen this coming. After all, ‘always file a lawsuit’ is the key lesson Trump learnt from his attack dog of a mentor, Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong), and The Apprentice charts that master-pupil dynamic in forensic detail – complete with bribery, blackmail and mobster connections.
The result is either an inspiring Secret of My Success tale of bromance, entrepreneurship and reinvention or a gruesome origin story for a capitalist goblin who sheds his few human qualities in pursuit of the mighty dollar, depending on who’s watching. A cinematic Rorschach test, it’s more likely to reaffirm your views on the man than challenge them.
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Impressive. We've turned the Five Minute Hate into an 8 minute affair among the fart-smelling elite.
Good for you Trump.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump is not responsible for his actions. Neither are you. Trump lacks conscientiousness.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
He's got a constitutional right to say fuck the FBI.
Fuck the FBI.
Conscientiousness is a fundamental personality trait—one of the Big Five—that reflects the tendency to be responsible, organized, hard-working, goal-directed, and to adhere to norms and rules. Like the other core personality factors, it has multiple facets; conscientiousness comprises self-control, industriousness, responsibility, and reliability.
A conscientious person is good at self-regulation and impulse control. This trait influences whether you will set and keep long-range goals, deliberate over choices, behave cautiously or impulsively, and take obligations to others seriously. (The other Big Five personality traits are extraversion, agreeableness, openness, and neuroticism.) Conscientiousness is generally a key ingredient for success—in love as well as work. It's also a major predictor of health, well-being, and longevity.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/conscientiousness
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Let's revisit your Conscientiousness on November 6th, shall we?
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Quote:Have you heard of Robert Durst? He is a contemporary of Trump, but he died in prison. Durst was in courtrooms frequently, same as Trump, and he avoided prison for decades until a TV show investigated him, forcing/embarrassing prosecutors to finally do their jobs, rather than give up quickly after each time Durst committed a new crime.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Donald Trump Movie ‘The Apprentice’ Shocks Cannes, Receives Nearly Eight-Minute Standing Ovation
Impressive. We've turned the Five Minute Hate into an 8 minute affair among the fart-smelling elite.
Good for you Trump.
The Durst TV series, The Jinx Part Two, would have been far stronger if it had taken up the theme of communal complicity earlier on, been less monolithic in its focus on Robert Durst and more thoughtful about a society that creates and enables many more like him. (He is, after all, not the only son of a New York real estate mogul to evade prosecution for major crimes.)
https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/jinx-new-episodes-hbo-special-robert
-durst.html
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Trump isn't going to prison and he's going to be your next President.
For your own very fragile mental state, you really need to start coming to terms with that now instead of being blindsided by it in November.
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Quote:My consolation prize when Trump wins is money. Trump will see that I get a multi-million-dollar tax cut. My preferred outcome is Trump goes to jail and the rich finally start paying their fair share, which they have not done since Ronald Reagan lowered the long-term capital gains tax.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Trump isn't going to prison and he's going to be your next President.
For your own very fragile mental state, you really need to start coming to terms with that now instead of being blindsided by it in November.
Reagan's 1981 cut in the top regular tax rate on unearned income reduced the maximum capital gains rate to only 20% — its lowest level since the Hoover administration (1929 –1933). The tax rate is 0% for inherited stocks. Zero tax. You read that right but it is the wrongest thing in the tax code and very much a Republican feature that Trump would protect with the power of the Presidency.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Trump isn't going to prison and he's going to be your next President.
For your own very fragile mental state, you really need to start coming to terms with that now instead of being blindsided by it in November.
Yeah. We know. We've heard that lie out of you before.
But what about poor Ted though? He doesn't get the consolation money prize that your fake internet persona will be eligible for.
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Quote:6ixStringJack, typical male Trumptards accuse everybody of being liars. It seems to me to be their basic character trait, one that makes life so hard for Trumptards and hard for them to be convinced Trump did what he is accused of.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. We know. We've heard that lie out of you before.
But what about poor Ted though? He doesn't get the consolation money prize that your fake internet persona will be eligible for.
10 smoking guns in the Trump hush-money trial — and why jurors don't have to believe Cohen or Stormy to convict
By Laura Italiano | May 27, 2024, 5:13 AM CDT
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-hush-money-trial-jurors-smoking-
gun-cohen-stormy-daniels-2024-5
Jurors don't need to believe the witnesses to convict Trump.
Here are 10 stand-alone pieces of evidence that practically speak for themselves.
The evidence is on display at https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-hush-money-trial-jurors-smoking-
gun-cohen-stormy-daniels-2024-5
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Blackstone’s Chief, a G.O.P. Megadonor, Says He Will Again Back Trump
Stephen A. Schwarzman, the billionaire co-founder and chief executive of the investment group, had previously called for a “new generation of leaders.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/us/politics/blackstone-stephen-schw
arzman-trump.html
Schwarzman names immigration as one of the key reasons he supports Trump — yet Trump is now the cause of the crisis, because Trump torpedoed the bi-partisan bill both the Senate and House were ready to pass and Biden, to sign, that would have provided the resources and policy changes needed to solve the crisis.
Could Steve really believe the Big Lie that Trump won in 2020? Could he consider corporate taxation a more important issue than climate or reproductive rights or competence or honesty or Trump’s authoritarianism and eagerness to curry Putin’s favor?
The NYTimes article was brought to my attention by a college friend of long standing.
He writes:
There is absolutely no surprise here. I’ve known Schwarzman since he was fifteen years old. Trump and Schwarzman are the quintessential, unapologetic transactionalists. Whatever pads the bottom line. Whatever most expediently preserves power and wealth. However best to grease the respective palm. For both men, no moral compass or ethical convictions impact the calculus, despite lip service to both. The difference is that Schwarzman knows better. He knows who Trump is. He knows exactly what is going on. He is fully aware of the danger Trump poses to the republic, but this awareness is subordinate to his undeviating pursuit of his own interests and the rapacious accumulation of personal wealth. The fact that Schwarzman’s intelligence compared to Trump’s is like the sun to a candle flame starkly demonstrates the boundlessness and ruthlessness of his cynicism. He will die a very, very rich man, far richer than Trump could ever imagine on even the best of his self-deluded days. But the country’s best interests and the preservation of its democratic institutions will be damaged in Schwarzman’s wake. No matter; he will die with the ever-present self-satisfied smirk on his face.
I hesitated to share that, but too much is at stake not to offer his point of view.
https://andrewtobias.com/caught-between-two-friends/
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Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden both shared messages on social media this week to honor Memorial Day and those who died while serving in the United States armed forces. Guess who wrote which one:
1) "Happy Memorial Day to All, including the Human Scum that is working so hard to destroy our Once Great Country, & to the Radical Left, Trump Hating Federal Judge in New York that presided over, get this, TWO separate trials, that awarded a woman, who I never met before (a quick handshake at a celebrity event, 25 years ago, doesn't count!), 91 MILLION DOLLARS for 'DEFAMATION,'"
2) "Since America's founding, our service members have laid down their lives for an idea unlike any other: the idea of the United States. Today, as generations of heroes lie in eternal peace, we live by the light of liberty they kept burning. May God bless them, always."
Isn’t it hard to tell which message was Trump’s and which was Biden’s since both are equally eloquent?
Find out who wrote what at https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-joe-biden-memorial-day-messages-
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Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden both shared messages on social media this week to honor Memorial Day and those who died while serving in the United States armed forces. Guess who wrote which one:
1) "Happy Memorial Day to All, including the Human Scum that is working so hard to destroy our Once Great Country, & to the Radical Left, Trump Hating Federal Judge in New York that presided over, get this, TWO separate trials, that awarded a woman, who I never met before (a quick handshake at a celebrity event, 25 years ago, doesn't count!), 91 MILLION DOLLARS for 'DEFAMATION,'"
2) "Since America's founding, our service members have laid down their lives for an idea unlike any other: the idea of the United States. Today, as generations of heroes lie in eternal peace, we live by the light of liberty they kept burning. May God bless them, always."
Isn’t it hard to tell which message was Trump’s and which was Biden’s since both are equally eloquent?
Find out who wrote what at https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-joe-biden-memorial-day-messages-
1904984
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People will judge Joe Biden* and democrats on their actions and not their flowery words come November 5th.
Tick Tock
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Quote:I have not yet met the Trumptard who consistently displays good judgment, which is why tragedy follows them around. Here is a reminder that Trump is a climate change denier who recursively denies he is denying.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
People will judge Joe Biden* and democrats on their actions and not their flowery words come November 5th.
Tick Tock
The Stench of Climate Change Denial
By Paul Krugman | May 27, 2024, 7:00 p.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/opinion/climate-change.html
This may sound a bit weird, but when I think about my adolescent years, I sometimes associate them with the faint smell of sewage.
You see, when I was in high school, my family lived on the South Shore of Long Island, where few homes had sewer connections. Most had septic tanks, and there always seemed to be an overflowing tank somewhere upwind.
Most of Nassau County eventually got sewers. But many American homes, especially in the Southeast, aren’t connected to sewer lines, and more and more septic tanks are overflowing, on a scale vastly greater than what I remember from my vaguely smelly hometown — which is both disgusting and a threat to public health.
The cause? Climate change. Along the Gulf and South Atlantic coasts, The Washington Post reported last week, “sea levels have risen at least six inches since 2010.” This may not sound like much, but it leads to rising groundwater and elevated risks of overflowing tanks.
The emerging sewage crisis is only one of many disasters we can expect as the planet continues to warm, and nowhere near the top of the list. But it seems to me to offer an especially graphic illustration of two points. First, the damage from climate change is likely to be more severe than even pessimists have tended to believe. Second, mitigation and adjustment — which are going to be necessary, because we’d still be headed for major effects of climate change even if we took immediate action to greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions — will probably be far more difficult, as a political matter, than it should be.
On the first point: Estimating the costs of climate change and, relatedly, the costs polluters impose every time they emit another ton of carbon dioxide requires fusing results from two disciplines. On one side, we need physical scientists to figure out how much greenhouse gas emissions will warm the planet, how this will change weather patterns and so on. On the other, we need economists to estimate how these physical changes will affect productivity, health care costs and more.
Actually, there’s a third dimension: social and geopolitical risk. How, for example, will we deal with millions or tens of millions of climate refugees? But I don’t think anyone knows how to quantify those risks.
Anyway, the physical side of this endeavor looks very solid. There has, of course, been a decades-long campaign aiming to discredit climate research and, in some instances, defame individual climate scientists. But if you step back from the smears, you realize that climatology has been one of history’s great analytical triumphs. Climate scientists correctly predicted, decades in advance, an unprecedented rise in global temperatures. They even appear to have gotten the magnitude more or less right.
The economic side of the effort looks flakier. That’s not because economists haven’t tried. Indeed, in 2018, William Nordhaus received a Nobel largely for his work on “integrated assessment models” that try to put the climate science and the economic analysis together.
Yet with all due respect — Nordhaus happens to have been my first mentor in economics! — I’ve long been worried that these models understate the economic costs of climate change, because so many things you weren’t thinking of can go wrong. The prospect of part of America awash in sewage certainly wasn’t on my list.
There has been a trend in recent studies to mark up estimates of the damage from climate change. The uncertainty remains huge, but it’s a good guess that things will be even
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Authoritarianism Expert Explains Why Libertarian Boos Will Be 'Lethal Blow' For Trump
It's all about the ego, said New York University history Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
By Lee Moran | May 27, 2024, 05:59 AM EDT
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ruth-ben-ghiat-donald-trump-libertarian
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Authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present.”
Earlier this year, Ben-Ghiat said that “autocrats are fragile and insecure creatures” who use ritual humiliation to stay ahead of their rivals.
The professor has previously warned that Trump will never leave office should he win back the White House in November’s election, and has described the GOP as “an autocratic party operating in a democracy.”
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If Trump Is Convicted, It’s Democrats’ Job to Make Sure America Cares
Say it again and again: “Convicted Felon Donald Trump”
By Michael Tomasky | May 28, 2024
https://newrepublic.com/article/181976/trump-convicted-democrats-job-m
ake-sure-america-cares
Here we are. Verdict week. Or are we? That’s the big question. The betting seems to be that if we’re going to get a conviction, it’s going to happen fast. The jury shouldn’t have to deliberate more than a couple days, maybe even more than a few hours, to find Donald Trump guilty in the Stormy Daniels hush-money case. Los Angeles Times legal affairs columnist Harry Litman is putting his shilling on a guilty verdict on Friday afternoon.
Better still, of course, would be Wednesday morning. Or Tuesday evening! That would be the optimal political outcome—a unanimous guilty verdict in about three or so hours. It would send a great message to the country that, while Trump may have successfully stalled the other three cases, the law finally caught up with him and the outcome was unequivocal.
But the longer the deliberations go, the more we ought to worry. If we head into next week without a verdict, it may mean that there are one or two holdouts on the jury, and it’s 11-1 or 10-2 for conviction, but those one or two just won’t budge. Or, they could just acquit. Juries do unpredictable things. O.J. Simpson was acquitted in four hours. I don’t even want to think about that outcome for Trump, and you don’t need me to tell you how depressing it would be.
Let’s cross that bridge if and when we have to. For now, let’s focus on the consequences of a guilty verdict.
More at https://newrepublic.com/article/181976/trump-convicted-democrats-job-m
ake-sure-america-cares
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The Senate has subpoenaed Leonard Leo over his lavish gifts to Republican Supreme Court justices. So far, he hasn’t complied since the gifts are bribes. If he testifies to the Senate, rather than take the 5th amendment, the next step is the DOJ indicting Leo and the Republican Justices for bribery. That will make the Trumptards go berserk!
By Charles Tiefer | May 28, 2024, 11:30 AM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/leonard-leo-ignoring-senat
e-subpoena.html
Leonard Leo, the architect of the conservative Supreme Court and principal puppeteer of right-wing legal affairs, is currently about a month and a half into defying an April 11 Senate subpoena. The Senate Judiciary Committee seeks his testimony under oath about gifts, including luxury trips, he has helped to arrange for multiple Supreme Court justices and their families. But Leo’s flouting of the Senate subpoena, underscoring his decades of contempt for legal ethics and democratic oversight, reflects his determination to execute his corrupting agenda without accountability.
Leo is an astoundingly powerful political figure who controls billions of dollars and an array of political front groups. Most importantly, he is the co-chairman of the board of the Federalist Society, the highly influential right-wing legal network. In the Trump administration, Leo played a primary role in picking justices for the Supreme Court—Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett—as well as almost every other federal judge appointed to lower benches. As ProPublica reported, “Once Trump took office, he gave control over judicial picks to Leo, White House legal counsel Donald McGahn,” and their allies. It’s no mistake that of the Trump appointees to the circuit courts and the Supreme Court, “86 percent were former or current Federalist Society members.”
The Senate has subpoenaed Leo to learn the facts about the lavish travel, lodging, and transportation gifts he arranged for Supreme Court justices, most notably Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni, and Samuel Alito. In 2008, for example, Leo organized a trip to Alaska that included a private jet flight for Alito, paid for by Paul Singer, a hedge fund billionaire and Leo donor with interests before the court.
Leo’s brazen defense explaining why he is not complying with the subpoena is that it is “lawless.” In a bit of flagrant projection, he said the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation of judicial corruption was nothing but “the left’s dark money effort to silence and cancel political opposition.”
A duly authorized Senate subpoena is not “lawless.” Nor is the Senate committee a “dark money effort.” On the contrary, it is Leo who operates a dark money empire whose influence-peddling with the highest court in the land the committee rightly wants to discover. It’s not the first time he’s projected so strongly: Ironically, Leo named one of his dark money groups for shielding the identities of wealthy donors who seek to undemocratically pack the courts and influence judges the Rule of Law Trust.
Leo fears congressional oversight because his methods of elite influence depend on secrecy and obfuscation that are antithetical to a functioning democracy. In particular, Leo seeks to obscure his gifts to Ginni Thomas, which raise crucial issues about the proper boundary between the judicial branch and partisan politics. Thomas’ activism exploits her personal ties to inject her extremist politics into the judiciary, and Leo has played an instrumental political and financial role in enabling her agenda. Thomas launched her lobbying firm, Liberty Consulting, in 2010. Her firm’s website promoted her work by quoting a client affirming that she is able to “give access to any door in Washington” — which occurs in part thanks to the right-wing network including Leo and his money.
Much more at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/leonard-leo-ignoring-senat
e-subpoena.html
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Are we living in the worst decade ever?
The vast majority of people think current times are just about the worst on nearly every metric. That's crazy beyond belief, but it fits with the endless claims from left and right about "losing our country," democracy in free-fall, racism worse than ever, trans people making a mockery of traditional morality; the economy being in recession; genocide in Gaza; Fox News/mainstream media ruining journalism; rap music turning teens into hoodlums; social media turning us lonely and atomized; etc.
In other words, people always think they have it the worst. Why are people moderately historically literate when asked about the best decades, but completely out to lunch when asked about the worst?
More about a survey asking people about the best decade at https://jabberwocking.com/we-are-living-in-the-worst-decade-ever/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Republicans don’t care about the deficit, part one million
From the Wall Street Journal today:
Republicans’ $4 Trillion Question: Should They Pay for Extending Trump Tax Cuts?
Republicans want to extend the Trump-era tax cuts that lapse after 2025. A big point of debate now: Should they cover any or all of the $4 trillion cost—and how?
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/republicans-4-trillion-question-sh
ould-they-pay-for-extending-trump-tax-cuts-ebbe67f3?st=jb9naqt7nurgfn2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Spare me. Republican concern over the federal debt is no more real than it's ever been—which is to say, nonexistent. If they control Congress and the presidency, they'll extend the tax cuts and do nothing to offset them, end of story.
I get that the Journal has to pretend that this is some kind of live issue, but surely they know better? Republicans have been passing unpaid-for tax cuts since Reagan took office, and the only offsets they've ever been interested in are spending cuts on the poor. That's it. There's nothing more.
Glad I could shed a little light on this.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Are we living in the worst decade ever?
The vast majority of people think current times are just about the worst on nearly every metric. That's crazy beyond belief, but it fits with the endless claims from left and right about "losing our country," democracy in free-fall, racism worse than ever, trans people making a mockery of traditional morality; the economy being in recession; genocide in Gaza; Fox News/mainstream media ruining journalism; rap music turning teens into hoodlums; social media turning us lonely and atomized; etc.
In other words, people always think they have it the worst. Why are people moderately historically literate when asked about the best decades, but completely out to lunch when asked about the worst?
More about a survey asking people about the best decade at https://jabberwocking.com/we-are-living-in-the-worst-decade-ever/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Get fucked, Kevin.
We know you were screaming like a little bitch for 4 years about the end of America while Trump was President. You still haven't stopped.
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Appealing to those who despise electric cars, Donald Trump Says He'll Stop All Electric Car Sales
"You won't be able to sell those cars," he said.
https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-says-stop-electric-car-sales-18515035
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Quote:Everyone I know is doing fine in this economy, except for complete dumb-asses. By some kind of coincidence, Trumptards seem to be not doing so well. Could it possibly be because they are stupid? Fifty percent have to be dumber than average. It is mathematics. They won't agree about their intelligence, but then again, they are dumb-asses who refuse to recognize what is wrong with themselves, like alcoholics ignoring their failing health. I'm pretty sure Trump can't fix that.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Get fucked, Kevin.
We know you were screaming like a little bitch for 4 years about the end of America while Trump was President. You still haven't stopped.
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These Insiders Know What Awaits Trump Lawyer Todd Blanche If He Loses
The one man perhaps even more anxious for a verdict in the Trump hush-money trial than Donald Trump himself is Todd Blanche.
Trump has already reportedly expressed his frustration with Blanche, his latest defense attorney, and if he loses, Trump’s modus operandi is to go on the offensive. That’s because there are two types of people in Donald Trump’s personal orbit: those who have been publicly trashed by the former president, and those who will be.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/these-insiders-know-what-await
s-trump-lawyer-todd-blanche-if-he-loses/ar-BB1nf8FS?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=14e6405f9e1d4687b1eb2396665f50fe&ei=17
Yup, why they knowingly sign up to support Trump knowing it won't end well is too funny. They're morons who just can't help themselves.
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Appealing to those who despise electric cars, Donald Trump Says He'll Stop All Electric Car Sales
"You won't be able to sell those cars," he said.
https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-says-stop-electric-car-sales-18515035
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Trump doesn't have to stop EVs. Everybody who bought one is already stuck with them and nobody else is interested.
Despite their best efforts, they're already not able to sell those cars.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Everyone I know is doing fine in this economy, except for complete dumb-asses. By some kind of coincidence, Trumptards seem to be not doing so well. Could it possibly be because they are stupid? Fifty percent have to be dumber than average. It is mathematics. They won't agree about their intelligence, but then again, they are dumb-asses who refuse to recognize what is wrong with themselves, like alcoholics ignoring their failing health. I'm pretty sure Trump can't fix that.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Get fucked, Kevin.
We know you were screaming like a little bitch for 4 years about the end of America while Trump was President. You still haven't stopped.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I'm doing just fine buddy. I don't have a rent or a mortgage, and my house paid for itself years ago. In today's economy, I make at least $2,000 per month tax free by just not having to pay a rent or mortgage.
No car payment either.
Haven't had any debt since August of 2005.
I don't know who you're talking about here. Maybe your own problems, perhaps?
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These Insiders Know What Awaits Trump Lawyer Todd Blanche If He Loses
The one man perhaps even more anxious for a verdict in the Trump hush-money trial than Donald Trump himself is Todd Blanche.
Trump has already reportedly expressed his frustration with Blanche, his latest defense attorney, and if he loses, Trump’s modus operandi is to go on the offensive. That’s because there are two types of people in Donald Trump’s personal orbit: those who have been publicly trashed by the former president, and those who will be.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/these-insiders-know-what-await
s-trump-lawyer-todd-blanche-if-he-loses/ar-BB1nf8FS?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=14e6405f9e1d4687b1eb2396665f50fe&ei=17
Yup, why they knowingly sign up to support Trump knowing it won't end well is too funny. They're morons who just can't help themselves.
T
Are you finally going to shut the fuck up and move on after this one doesn't go your way just like none of the other ones did, Ted?
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‘A dying empire led by bad people’: Poll finds young voters despairing over US politics
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/28/2024/a-dying-empire-led-by-bad-p
eople-poll-finds-young-voters-despairing-over-us-politics
They're not wrong.
Bad news for Joe Biden* and the Democrats though since they're the ones running the shit show right now.
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Quote:6ix, you expressed extreme dissatisfaction with how things are. You want the structure of America burned down to satisfy your psychology. (That is the plot of your favorite movie, Joker.) I, in extreme contrast, am pleased, satisfied with America as it is but I want the purpose of America to follow the storytelling guidelines in the Bible and Hollywood where fire falls from the heavens so that the evil die screaming. I want the villains to be slaughtered by the hero, like in the movies. That is the best storytelling when violating rules are followed by death. I must say that Trumptards worship freedom and can't even recognize rules limiting their freedom such as paying all their taxes. That is a rule Trump breaks every year. For another example, here is a rule that Rush Limbaugh broke, claiming it wasn't a rule: Don't Smoke. I had to wait decades for Rush, the flaming Nazi gasbag, to die from lung cancer but it was satisfying when Trump gave nearly dead Rush a medal for being the biggest Trumptard on radio. Biggest Evil rewarding biggest Trumptard, followed by deserved Death. Nice way to end a story. We aren't at the end of this movie about America. Good has had reversals of fortune. Evil will have more triumphs before the end because otherwise the movie is too short. But when the movie credits finally roll, Trump and his Trumptards will die screaming in agony, just like in the Bible or the movies. So satisfying a sound.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Everyone I know is doing fine in this economy, except for complete dumb-asses. By some kind of coincidence, Trumptards seem to be not doing so well. Could it possibly be because they are stupid? Fifty percent have to be dumber than average. It is mathematics. They won't agree about their intelligence, but then again, they are dumb-asses who refuse to recognize what is wrong with themselves, like alcoholics ignoring their failing health. I'm pretty sure Trump can't fix that.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Get fucked, Kevin.
We know you were screaming like a little bitch for 4 years about the end of America while Trump was President. You still haven't stopped.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I'm doing just fine buddy. I don't have a rent or a mortgage, and my house paid for itself years ago. In today's economy, I make at least $2,000 per month tax free by just not having to pay a rent or mortgage.
No car payment either.
Haven't had any debt since August of 2005.
I don't know who you're talking about here. Maybe your own problems, perhaps?
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He will also be your next President.
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Trump’s Dangerous Quid Pro Quo Offer to Voters
His big promise to libertarians is his latest use of a dangerous campaign tactic.
(Trump voters don't see Trump as evil personified because they don't think rules, particularly rules Trump breaks, apply to themselves. Their personal Freedom overrules the Rules)
By Austin Sarat | May 29, 2024, 3:12 PM
The president’s ability to grant pardons and commute sentences is a dramatic but generally quiet power. Presidential grants of clemency generally go through a complex bureaucratic process. They are not usually announced in advance, let alone deployed as part of a campaign to win votes.
But, as with many other things, Donald Trump is changing all that. He has made promising pardons an important part of his 2024 campaign.
This is a bad development in our scheme of constitutional government, a tactic that taints one of the most awesome of presidential prerogatives. Trump is turning clemency from a solemn responsibility to just another tool in his transactional political repertoire.
On Saturday, in an appearance at the Libertarian Party Convention, Trump gave us another example of the lengths to which he will go just to win a few votes. There he offered a clemency quid pro quo.
“If you vote for me,” he promised, “on Day 1, I will commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht to a sentence of time served. He’s already served 11 years. We’re going to get him home.”
Trump knew exactly what he was doing when he made that promise, since many in his audience were waving “Free Ross” signs. And, as Politico reports, “Ulbricht’s case was one of the top issues that libertarians asked Trump to address before the convention—and it won Trump his biggest applause of the night.”
More about who Ross Ulbricht is at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/trump-campaign-libertarian
-vote-ulbricht-pardon-silk-road.html
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Alito says the Supreme Court’s fake ethics code allows him to be unethical
The Supreme Court's new ethics code is worse than nothing — Alito just proved it.
By Ian Millhiser | May 29, 2024, 3:00 PM CDT
In a development that should surprise absolutely no one, Justice Samuel Alito announced in a brief letter on Wednesday that he will not recuse himself from two cases involving the January 6 insurrection and former President Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election.
More about how unethical a smug Republican Supreme Court Justice can be at https://www.vox.com/scotus/352380/supreme-court-alito-ethics-recusal-i
nsurrection-flags
It is not possible to make a Trumptard behave well. They aren't capable of doing the right thing if they have to sacrifice a bit of their personal freedom.
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By Nick Mordowanec | May 29, 2024 at 6:09 PM EDT
Donald Trump's attorney Todd Blanche had to wake up the former president in the courtroom on Wednesday.
Multiple courtroom reporters have said Trump has fallen asleep many times during the criminal trial. Trump denies he was ever asleep.
Trump has denied having any encounter with any women, so you know he is telling the truth about not sleeping in court. (If he wasn't a worthless asshole, he'd stop lying and start paying his income taxes, for one example.)
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-blanche-hush-money-trial-1905991
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By Nick Mordowanec | May 29, 2024 at 6:09 PM EDT
Donald Trump's attorney Todd Blanche had to wake up the former president in the courtroom on Wednesday.
Multiple courtroom reporters have said Trump has fallen asleep many times during the criminal trial. Trump denies he was ever asleep.
It's because he doesn't care. A man who's worried about being convicted isn't falling asleep in court.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you expressed extreme dissatisfaction with how things are.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Everyone I know is doing fine in this economy, except for complete dumb-asses. By some kind of coincidence, Trumptards seem to be not doing so well. Could it possibly be because they are stupid? Fifty percent have to be dumber than average. It is mathematics. They won't agree about their intelligence, but then again, they are dumb-asses who refuse to recognize what is wrong with themselves, like alcoholics ignoring their failing health. I'm pretty sure Trump can't fix that.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Get fucked, Kevin.
We know you were screaming like a little bitch for 4 years about the end of America while Trump was President. You still haven't stopped.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I'm doing just fine buddy. I don't have a rent or a mortgage, and my house paid for itself years ago. In today's economy, I make at least $2,000 per month tax free by just not having to pay a rent or mortgage.
No car payment either.
Haven't had any debt since August of 2005.
I don't know who you're talking about here. Maybe your own problems, perhaps?
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
That's because Joe Biden* and the Democrats are destroying America.
In the meantime, my cash situation is just fine.
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Quote:6ixStringJack, that is a lie. You will receive many more warnings to stop and back away from Trump. If you don't listen to those warnings, much like the warnings to stop your smoking and drinking, horrible things will happen to you. It is your responsibility to stop your habit of repeating Trump's lies, 6ixStringJack.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's because Joe Biden* and the Democrats are destroying America.
In the meantime, my cash situation is just fine.
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Editor’s Weekly Column: Ken Burns’ Memorable Commencement Speech
https://www.fcnp.com/2024/05/29/editors-weekly-column-ken-burns-memora
ble-commencement-speech/
2024-05-30, 6:03 AM
Hearing of the loud booing and catcalls being thrust at Trump as he spoke to the Libertarian convention in Washington D.C. last weekend, I looked to tune in hoping to enjoy the experience. It wasn’t fun. Yes, there were many who were yelling out against him as he spoke, but make no mistake, there were others who cheered him.
What came across most clearly was just how completely vile this man Trump is. Under the pressure of a yelling and screaming crowd, Trump’s reptilian demeanor came to the forefront. His entire speech, which was actually quite long and read verbatim off of a teleprompter, was delivered with a gravelly, hostile tone, almost as if a menacing hiss lay behind every word. There were plenty of gratuitous name-calling and egregious lies saturating the remarks, but it was the tone, the angry, raspy hating tone that defined it. No one could cheer such remarks who was not him or herself sharing their nasty, seething temper inside their own heads, or otherwise was too fearful of them to oppose them.
The experience made the news of Nicky Haley’s endorsement of Trump seem so especially and brazenly foul. How could this seemingly civil person throw in her lot with such a foul forked-tongue demon? It is breathtaking to contemplate.
But lest we totally despair, on the other side last weekend was also the occasion for the remarks at the Brandeis University’s commencement by filmmaker historian Ken Burns. He told the graduates the following:
“Listen, I am in the business of history. It is not always a happy subject on college campuses these days, particularly when forces seem determined to eliminate or water down difficult parts of our past,” he said.
“For nearly 50 years now, I have diligently practiced and rigorously tried to maintain a conscious neutrality in my work, avoiding advocacy if I could, trying to speak to all of my fellow citizens,” he continued. “Over those many decades I’ve come to understand a significant fact, that we are not condemned to repeat, as the saying goes, what we don’t remember. That is a beautiful, even poetic phrase, but not true. Nor are there cycles of history as the academic community periodically promotes.
“…If I have learned anything over those years, it’s that there’s only us. There is no them. And whenever someone suggests to you, whomever it may be in your life, that there’s a them, run away. ‘Othering’ is the simplistic binary way to make and identify enemies, but it is also the surest way to your own self imprisonment, which brings me to a moment I’ve dreaded and forces me to suspend my longstanding attempt at neutrality.
“There is no real choice this November. There is only the perpetuation, however flawed and feeble you might perceive it, of our fragile 249-year-old experiment, or the entropy that will engulf and destroy us if we take the other route, when, as Mercy Otis Warren would say, ‘The checks of conscience are thrown aside and a deformed picture of the soul is revealed.’ The presumptive Republican nominee is the opioid of all opioids, an easy cure for what some believe is the solution to our myriad pains and problems… when in fact with him, you end up re-enslaved with an even bigger problem, a worse affliction and addiction, ‘a
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The former president's latest courthouse complaint has a huge problem.
By Ed Mazza | May 30, 2024, 03:38 AM EDT
Donald Trump on Wednesday complained that “key witnesses” were never called to testify at his criminal trial in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
But his critics were quick to point out one key detail: His own attorneys could have called those “witnesses,” but didn’t.
The former president claimed there were “five or six” people who could have backed his version of events.
“Why didn’t they call those witnesses?” Trump asked. “They didn’t call them because they would’ve been on our side. And it’s a shame.”
Critics of the former president pointed out that his team could have called any witnesses they wanted and that Trump had insisted he would “absolutely” testify himself, but ultimately didn’t.
This is ridiculous. Trump could’ve called the witnesses he’s now complaining were not called by the prosecutors. He’s counting on his audience to be ignorant about basic courtroom procedures.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-witnesses-complaint_n_6658
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ixStringJack, that is a lie. You will receive many more warnings to stop and back away from Trump. If you don't listen to those warnings, much like the warnings to stop your smoking and drinking, horrible things will happen to you. It is your responsibility to stop your habit of repeating Trump's lies, 6ixStringJack.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's because Joe Biden* and the Democrats are destroying America.
In the meantime, my cash situation is just fine.
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Sounds like somebody is afraid they're going to lose.
Maybe you'd better clue Ted into what the actual situation is. I have a bad feeling he's going to take the news in November a lot worse than you do.
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Hearing of the loud booing and catcalls being thrust at Trump as he spoke to the Libertarian convention in Washington D.C. last weekend, I looked to tune in hoping to enjoy the experience. It wasn’t fun. Yes, there were many who were yelling out against him as he spoke, but make no mistake, there were others who cheered him.
Speaking of lies, this is a lie by omission.
Both Trump and RFK were booed at the beginning of the Libertarian convention, yes, but once Trump was speaking they must have liked what they heard because they were all cheering. You didn't hear any more boos.
Your Legacy Media Masters have failed you, and this coverage by them about this event is just another in a very, very long string of lies they've told which is the reason why there is lower trust in journalism in America than ever before.
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Politico: Biden’s Black voter troubles are setting off alarm bells
The message out of battleground states and focus groups is that the president’s problems are real — and he is running out of time to fix them.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/30/biden-black-voters-00160520
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Black men are like everybody. You got to earn the vote. Like any group, this is not a monolith.
So you know what you don't do?
You don't go in front of a black audience and say dumb shit like this...
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/05/29/biden_what_would_tr
ump_have_done_if_black_americans_stormed_the_capitol_on_january_6.html
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Let me ask you, what do you think he would have done on January 6th if Black Americans had stormed it?
There you go again, treating black people like pets... again.
You were warned about this.
Watch what happens next.
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Quote:I get all my information about Trump directly from Trumptards. Nobody should vote for Trump because of the numerous character/behavioral/mental/health defects constantly on display by his followers. Also, Trump is a convicted felon - sufficient reason not to vote for him.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Your Legacy Media Masters have failed you, and this coverage by them about this event is just another in a very, very long string of lies they've told which is the reason why there is lower trust in journalism in America than ever before.
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Trump has been convicted of 34 felonies. Guilty on all counts. Can you see me laughing? Can you say, bye bye election.
He is the presumptive nominee of the Republican party. Key word is presumptive. He can still be replaced. Let's be real. Trump is a convicted felon. The DA won't say if he is going to ask for jail time, those in the know say he will. Mostly due to Trumps behavior, also because Michael Cohen got three years for this.
Time to restart the clock; tick tock
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Quote:There are at least 74,223,234 who will vote for a felon. Trump said it best: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" Trump remarked at a campaign stop at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. "It's, like, incredible."
Originally posted by THG:
Trump has been convicted of 34 felonies. Guilty on all counts. Can you see me laughing? Can you say, bye bye election.
He is the presumptive nominee of the Republican party. Key word is presumptive. He can still be replaced. Let's be real. Trump is a convicted felon. The DA won't say if he is going to ask for jail time, those in the know say he will. Mostly due to Trumps behavior, also because Michael Cohen got three years for this.
Time to restart the clock; tick tock
T
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/23/464129029/donald-tr
ump-i-could-shoot-somebody-and-i-wouldnt-lose-any-voters
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election,_2020
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Here is a politician who would proudly and patriotically vote for a convicted felon.
Justification? Variations on: Trump didn't do it / It's not a crime / Democrats are the real criminals.
Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson
My statement on President Trump trial verdict:
Today is a shameful day in American history. Democrats cheered as they convicted the leader of the opposing party on ridiculous charges, predicated on the testimony of a disbarred, convicted felon. This was a purely political exercise, not a legal one.
The weaponization of our justice system has been a hallmark of the Biden Administration, and the decision today is further evidence that Democrats will stop at nothing to silence dissent and crush their political opponents.
The American people see this as lawfare, and they know it is wrong—and dangerous. President Trump will rightfully appeal this absurd verdict—and he WILL WIN!
4:10 PM · May 30, 2024
https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1796288179944685719
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There’s a very real possibility that if Trump wins in November it’ll be the last real national election America holds for a very long time. And while there’s room for disagreement here, if you consider that statement to be outrageous hyperbole, you haven’t been paying attention to Republicans.
Yes, we can and should examine the candidates’ policy platforms and potential effects, just as if this were a normal presidential election. But this isn’t a normal election; democracy itself is on the ballot. And it would be incredibly unwise not to take that into account.
Start here: Trump refused to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election, making evidence-free claims of fraud in his effort to overturn it. In the past couple of years, various polls have shown that somewhere around two-thirds of the Republican Party has co-signed his election denialism. And several leading party members have refused to say that they’ll accept the election results this year. Why imagine that they’ll become any more respectful toward future elections?
You might say that American institutions would constrain the ability of Trump and whoever follows him to impose permanent one-party rule, which they did — barely — after the 2020 election. But institutions ultimately consist of people, and at this point many Republicans, up to and including Supreme Court justices, are showing about as much strength in supporting democracy and the rule of law as a wet paper towel.
So a Trump victory might well bring down the curtain on politics as we know it — he has already floated the idea of a third term, something that’s barred, of course, by the 22nd Amendment. But in any case, among his followers, at least, he has mainstreamed the idea that any presidential election won by Democrats is illegitimate.
Almost a third of Americans still believe the 2020 election result was fraudulent
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/almost-third-a
mericans-still-believe-2020-election-result-was-fraudule-rcna90145
Percentage of Republicans who think Biden’s 2020 win was illegitimate ticks back up near 70%
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/03/politics/cnn-poll-republicans-think-202
0-election-illegitimate/index.html
Will You Accept the Election Results? Republicans Dodge the Question.
Leading Republicans have refused to say flatly that they will accept the outcome of the presidential election if Donald Trump loses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/us/politics/republicans-election-de
nial.html
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I get all my information about Trump directly from Trumptards. Nobody should vote for Trump because of the numerous character/behavioral/mental/health defects constantly on display by his followers. Also, Trump is a convicted felon - sufficient reason not to vote for him.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Your Legacy Media Masters have failed you, and this coverage by them about this event is just another in a very, very long string of lies they've told which is the reason why there is lower trust in journalism in America than ever before.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Oh good. You actually went through with it.
Watch what happens now.
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Trump will be fine.
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Quote:What is "it"? Will Trump refuse to be punished? Will Trumptards kill the judge who decides Trump's punishment? Will the six Republicans on the Supreme Court declare that an ex-president can't be punished? Is that "it"?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh good. You actually went through with it.
Watch what happens now.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Good job of proving my point that there are at least 74,223,234 who will vote for a felon. Trump said it best: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" Trump remarked at a campaign stop at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. "It's, like, incredible."
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/23/464129029/donald-tr
ump-i-could-shoot-somebody-and-i-wouldnt-lose-any-voters
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election,_2020
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Good job of proving my point that there are at least 74,223,234 who will vote for a felon. Trump said it best: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" Trump remarked at a campaign stop at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. "It's, like, incredible."
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/23/464129029/donald-tr
ump-i-could-shoot-somebody-and-i-wouldnt-lose-any-voters
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election,_2020
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Enjoy being able to call Trump a felon while you can. You two goofballs couldn't even explain what type of felony he got with this meaningless case.
It will be successfully appealed, likely after he's voted in as President, but maybe before. At that point the felony charge will be illegitimate and he won't even need to have it expunged.
I completely forgot to mention it to either my aunt or my friend while talking to them on the phone it means so little. RCP is barely even mentioning that it happened. And a hell of a lot more than 74 Million people are voting for Trump this time around, regardless.
Can't wait for Debate Night on June 27th.
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Former President Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts Thursday of falsifying business records alleging he was involved in a scheme that sought to cover up extramarital affairs in advance of the 2016 presidential election.
Hey Jack, can you say I was right? Probably not but I can. I was right again Jack. So much winning!!!
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Quote:Once again, you proved my point by not understanding what Trump did wrong.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Good job of proving my point that there are at least 74,223,234 who will vote for a felon. Trump said it best: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" Trump remarked at a campaign stop at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. "It's, like, incredible."
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/23/464129029/donald-tr
ump-i-could-shoot-somebody-and-i-wouldnt-lose-any-voters
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election,_2020
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Enjoy being able to call Trump a felon while you can. You two goofballs couldn't even explain what type of felony he got with this meaningless case.
Trump would not have been in court if he had written one check out of his personal bank account rather than dozens of checks out of the corporate account, but Trump being a cheat, had to cheat on his corporate taxes.
On top of that, it was an illegal campaign contribution for his corporation to do that, besides cheating on NY corporate taxes.
Stupidly, after being caught, Trump lied about not having sex with that woman, lied about why the checks were written, lied about everything, which irritated the hell out of the jury because Trump's constant lying was wasting weeks and weeks of the jurors' time as the prosecutors meticulously proved Trump lied about all facts in this case. (Trump's clever retort? "Believe me! I'm telling the truth. You're the liar!")
To prove beyond a doubt that Trump was lying, Trump and his lawyers kept on lying during the trial, excluding his lying before the trial, which was a further waste of time for everybody involved. If Trump had testified, as he promised, there would be a new trial for Trump's perjury if he repeated under oath the same lies he was speaking to reporters when he wasn't in the courtroom.
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Why the ludicrous Republican response to Trump’s conviction matters
Republicans are busy attacking the legitimacy of the American legal and political system. We've seen where that leads.
by Zack Beauchamp | May 30, 2024, 7:35 PM CDT
https://www.vox.com/politics/352814/trump-conviction-republican-respon
se
What Trump and other elected Republicans are doing is not merely claiming that the jury was wrong, or that the prosecution’s arguments were bad. They argued that the conviction was illegitimate: the product of a Biden administration conspiracy to send its political opponents to prison, akin to a Soviet show trial.
In his statement, Sen. J.D. Vance made it clear that this amounts to a conspiracy theory: “Dems invented a felony to ‘get Trump,’ with the help of a Soros funded prosecutor and a Biden donor Judge, who rigged the entire case to get this outcome.” But there’s no evidence the judge “rigged” the case, and Vance doesn’t try providing any fake "evidence".
But the evidence isn’t the point. The conspiratorial vibe is — ensuring that, in whatever way possible, Republican voters get the message that anything bad that ever happens to Donald Trump is the fault of the Democrat-controlled system.
It’s a level of paranoia that makes Richard Nixon look grounded, yet there’s every reason to believe that it’s widely shared in the GOP base. An NPR poll released this morning, asking Americans if the Trump trial would affect their vote, found that 90 percent of Republicans either would be unaffected or more likely to vote for Trump after a guilty verdict.
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Texas Republicans want rural voters to count more than city slickers
GOP platform changes election rules, promotes Bible study, and promotes Confederate traitors.
By Chris Tomlinson | May 31, 2024
Texas Republicans have a clever idea to guarantee they remain in power, even if their candidates can’t win the popular vote in statewide elections.
Delegates to the state party convention have ratified a new platform that would change how statewide officials, from governor to land commissioner, are chosen. To take office, a candidate would have to win the popular vote in a majority of Texas’s 254 counties.
The proposal, akin to the federal Electoral College, would give voters in Loving County, population 64, as much power as those in Harris County, where 4.7 million people live. King County, with 265 people, would wield a vote equivalent to Bexar, with 2 million.
Does this sound like a political party that has confidence in its electoral future?
Texas Republicans see plenty of precedent for their anti-democratic proposal. Why not elect statewide officials based on the number of counties they win?
Many readers will scoff at the idea that such a radical change has a chance of becoming law, and I hope they are correct. But as a longtime observer of Texas politics, I remember when a near-complete abortion ban and the permit-less carrying of pistols in public spaces seemed absurd.
Outrageous ideas can become law, especially in places where a single party controls all the levers of power for decades. The Republican Party of Texas’s 50-page platform supplies plenty of fodder for dystopian fiction writers looking for inspiration.
More at https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article
/texas-republican-platform-elections-19484820.php
Read the details of the Republican scheme to never lose a statewide election in Texas:
“Temporary Platform and Resolutions as Amended and Adopted by the 2024 State Convention of the Republican Party of Texas”
https://convention.texasgop.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-TEMPOR
ARY-Platform-FINAL.pdf
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Former President Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts Thursday of falsifying business records alleging he was involved in a scheme that sought to cover up extramarital affairs in advance of the 2016 presidential election.
Hey Jack, can you say I was right? Probably not but I can. I was right again Jack. So much winning!!!
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You've won nothing.
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