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A story of two governors dealing with the immediate aftermath of deaths and destruction from massive storms hitting their states:
L - Andy Beshear in Kentucky
R - Sarah Huckabee Sanders at the NASCAR race in NC. pic.twitter.com/ax29JrRqNL— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 27, 2024
Bringing it up.
Baby owls waking from the day. And they are hungry.
Mama has taken up outside the box.
Reupping from downthread:
re: #182 Joe Bacon ✅
Trump Just Sold His $10M Jet to One of His Megadonors
He’s running out of money to pay his lawyers. Good.
re: #6 darthstar
Now what is El Stinkadora gonna sell next?
Sadly not “Trump Force One”, but here’s hoping that’s on the chopping block soon enough..
Trump sells $10 million jet to MAGA megadonor amid steep legal fees: report https://t.co/BXYS2x9ikR
— #TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper) May 28, 2024
judging from his frantic posts, trump seems to be feeling pretty desperate tonight
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-28T01:04:37.000Z
in case it wasn’t obvious i am perfectly ok with that— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-28T01:10:26.000Z
I can hardly wait for the day when i turn on the internet firehose and donald trump is nowhere to be found
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-28T01:18:05.000Z
re: #10 Charles Johnson
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You and me both, Charles.
And I’m sure I’m not alone in that sentiment….
Pineapple on a Burger without Teriyaki Sauce????
Friday after religious services, we had dinner with a group of friends from our temple. One who was an attorney was confident that it would be a hung jury for the NY trial because there would be at least a couple devout MAGAts. My sister is terrified because of her certainty that if Trump escapes conviction, he will win election on the strength of his argument that he was being persecuted and it was all a sham. The underlying problems are the corrupt judges and systems that are keeping the more serious trials at bay never to see the light of day.
An image of the whole gas station in Valley View the other day. Come to find out no one died there:
My wife did see a story in another area about another community that was hit. A man went out after the tornado passed, looking to see if people needed help. He found two children dead near a truck. He put a blanket over them and stayed until the sun came up to keep predators away.
Fuck that. Fire his ass as well as his supervisor. https://t.co/ix7IS6i3j0
— John Oberlin (@OMGno2trump) May 27, 2024
re: #12 Jay C
You and me both, Charles.
And I’m sure I’m not alone in that sentiment….
He definitely needs to go completely off the rails or off to jail AFTER the GOP convention.
The resulting shyte will probably end their party.
Many people… as in who? You are likely confusing “empathetic” with “sympathetic”, but given how xitty xitter is these days maybe you yourself are empathetic to Nazis.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) May 28, 2024
re: #18 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Xitter is beyond trashy now:
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The stream of departures seems to be corked. I don’t really know why, but am starting to think it is because people are too nice to tell other people what to do, and change is hard.
99 actual, 109 feel like today downtown.
Summer 2024, the Prelude Begins!!!
re: #22 austin_blue
And here in Los Angeles the low was 54 and high was 74.
I still haven’t plugged my air conditioner in and the heater just came on because I set my room temp at 75!
The high temperature today in metro Detroit was 68°, It is 61° now. I don’t even want to look at what it was today in Miami.
re: #26 Vicious Babushka
Currently 84, realfeel (with humidity) of 91.
re: #26 Vicious Babushka
Back when we lived in Miami, I recall it was more comfortable than Houston despite similar humidity because of the ocean breeze.
Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social
I swear that this piece of stupidity is really currently posted on Former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social account.
Since the birth of trials in America, the prosecution has ALWAYS had the last word.
The man is an ignoramus. That is a fact, not an opinion.
re: #26 Vicious Babushka
The high temperature today in metro Detroit was 68°, It is 61° now. I don’t even want to look at what it was today in Miami.
Will there be wardrobe metamorphoses?
re: #23 sizzzzlerz
Here’s wishing for a brain aneurysm.
Only if every other Trump supporter suffers the same fate… If Biden has to face a Republican opponent in their 50’s or 60’s, his age will definitely come into play.
re: #8 (((Archangel1)))
Sadly not “Trump Force One”, but here’s hoping that’s on the chopping block soon enough..
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Trump Force One should be up on blocks behind a trailer near the sewage treatment plant.
This is not some existing film that Stuart simply posted. He emphasizes later that he stitiched it together from snippets of wartime color footage he has collected over the years.
This is rare colour film of London’s devastation during the Blitz in WW2. Huge areas of the city were destroyed during the 8-month bombardment, when more than 28,000 high explosive bombs hit the Capital. Over a million houses & apartments were damaged or destroyed and one-in-six… pic.twitter.com/NCmIX9rtwg
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) May 27, 2024
re: #39 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Plus Optional Removable Cloth American Flag Replacement
A Chicago man convicted of murder based in part on testimony from a legally blind eyewitness is suing the city and the police department
He was freed 12 years into a 76 year sentence after showed that the eyewitness had lied about his eyesight issues
— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) 2024-05-28T02:13:06.788Z
re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Biden says all the right things, is not booed lustily by roomful of Libertarians, so will get 2% of the media attention given the evil clown.
re: #43 jaunte
Biden says all the right things, is not booed lustily by roomful of Libertarians, so will get 2% of the media attention given the evil clown.
Don’t read the comments under that YouTube video.
re: #46 Belafon
A couple of days ago a friend out in California who’s in the process of selling off most of his cycling stuff on Ebay told me a story about a local hoarder who had passed away; his family was having to liquidate his collection. The man and his wife had invested in a storage business. When renters defaulted he would collect the “good stuff” from their units and move it into his. When he died the family found out he had 13 units filled with random items.
Thomas Zimmer’s blog Democracy Americana, part II of a series on the very left having a fascism problem.
The Anti-Liberal Left Has a Fascism Problem, May 24, 2024
A week after January 6, Samuel Moyn, one of the country’s most prominent leftwing public intellectuals, posted something interesting on ex-Twitter, explaining why he objected to applying the fascism concept and terminology to Trumpism: “FWIW, my reluctance was and is rooted less in the analytical propriety of the term as in my sense of the likely political consequences of certain framings.”
This remark hints at what is really fueling the stubborn refusal by a specific camp of leftwing intellectual Skeptics to engage seriously with the fascism argument and the radicalizing tendencies on the Right. Their overriding concern is not to get the diagnosis right. They are engaged in a political struggle against what they believe is the real enemy: The (neo-) liberal elites, which they define in very broad and unspecific terms to include basically the entire mainstream of American politics from Center-Left to Center-Right, and particularly the Democratic establishment.
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re: #50 wrenchwench
“I’m alright
Nobody worry ‘bout me
Why you got to gimme a fight?
Can’t you just let it be?”
Fwiw, I finally spotted one of Elon’s wank panzer trucks in the wild today. Ugly brute, worse in person than in its pictures, and that’s saying a lot.
re: #56 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
I agree that the cybertruck is uglier in real life than in pictures. I can’t even imagine shelling out the big bucks for such a Putzpanzer.
BlueSky may now becoming the home of scammers everywhere. For some reason that mystifies me, this evening a Grace B. Alexandra who appears to be a Bitcoin promoter started following me. Do not know who she is and why she thought I’d be interested.
re: #59 Hecuba’s daughter
BlueSky may now becoming the home of scammers everywhere. For some reason that mystifies me, this evening a Grace B. Alexandra who appears to be a Bitcoin promoter started following me. Do not know who she is and why she thought I’d be interested.
Like any site, it requires a lot of people to ous’t the scammers. They will go everywhere.
We get Bitcoin scammer adverts in the county newspaper.
re: #41 jaunte
Plus Optional Removable Cloth American Flag Replacement
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They’d have to make the Trump doll posable at the knees. And introduce a Putin doll.
re: #14 Hecuba’s daughter
Friday after religious services, we had dinner with a group of friends from our temple. One who was an attorney was confident that it would be a hung jury for the NY trial because there would be at least a couple devout MAGAts. My sister is terrified because of her certainty that if Trump escapes conviction, he will win election on the strength of his argument that he was being persecuted and it was all a sham. The underlying problems are the corrupt judges and systems that are keeping the more serious trials at bay never to see the light of day.
Trump has not fared well with Manhattan juries. Dog willing, he will finally be held to account for some of his crimes within a week or so.
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Why are some speakers good with bass and others aren’t?
Mostly, it’s design, then materials. This is why most speaker systems have multiple drivers of multiple sizes. In cases of live sound or theater, multiple sizes of cabinets.
Whenever I see ‘broke physics’ I sense it’s marketing. You don’t break physics, you re-write them with better physics. I have seen better speakers over the years and they do get better bass with smaller form factors but that’s not breaking physics: it’s understanding them better then improving design. I would say they are becoming more ‘size efficient’ but Hoffman’s Iron Law hasn’t been broken.
re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We can count on Republicans saying they see nothing wrong with China absorbing Taiwan.
Overheard:
Bad Company cover band: Worst Company
Discuss
It sure seems as though Israel is trying to make as many enemies as they can.
Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry (The Guardian, May 28, 2024)
The former head of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, allegedly threatened a chief prosecutor of the international criminal court in a series of secret meetings in which he tried to pressure her into abandoning a war crimes investigation, the Guardian can reveal.
Yossi Cohen’s covert contacts with the ICC’s then prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, took place in the years leading up to her decision to open a formal investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in occupied Palestinian territories.
That investigation, launched in 2021, culminated last week when Bensouda’s successor, Karim Khan, announced that he was seeking an arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, over the country’s conduct in its war in Gaza.
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Ugh. Microflaccid is saying it wants to update my Intel chip set.
re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s the same old story: someone get’s lucky with a world event or a market crisis, and all of a sudden they are an expert on anything and write books that get fluffed as “by the guy who ______ “.
Anyway, there is a constant sabre-rattling over China, among the US political talking heads.
I have no doubt that the CCP would love to get Taiwan under its wing. That would solidify the legitimacy of the CCP in the eyes of Chinese nationalists as the rightful leaders of China.
But any military move by the PRC is going to be so problematic that I see the PRC only doing it as a last resort.
Military opportunism is not one of the hallmarks of the CCP, traditionally. In the past 80 years, for all their talk, the CCP has not initiated military adventures.
And today the PRC is highly dependent upon imports of raw goods from around the world, just to exist.
So I wonder about all this war-talk coming out of US talking-heads.
Maddow Blog at MSNBC
Trump pretends he wasn’t booed relentlessly at Libertarian event (May 27, 2024)
“Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, spoke at the Libertarian Party’s convention. The booing left no doubt: It was a striking failure.”
In the abstract, it was difficult to see how the plan was supposed to work. Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee of one political party, apparently thought it’d be a good idea to appear at the national nominating convention of a different political party, seeking its support for his 2024 candidacy.
It seemed like the sort of strategy that wouldn’t work. After having seen the reception the Republican received at the Libertarian Party’s event, the results were even worse than expected. NBC News reported:
Insults were hurled at former President Donald Trump when he took to the stage Saturday night to address the Libertarian National Convention. The crowd’s hostility to the former president was especially pronounced when Trump directly solicited their votes. Each time Trump asked attendees at the Washington Hilton for their votes or the party’s nomination, he was met with loud boos.
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re: #73 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s the same old story: someone get’s lucky with a world event or a market crisis, and all of a sudden they are an expert on anything and write books that get fluffed as “by the guy who ______ “.
Anyway, there is a constant sabre-rattling over China, among the US political talking heads.
I have no doubt that the CCP would love to get Taiwan under its wing. That would solidify the legitimacy of the CCP in the eyes of Chinese nationalists as the rightful leaders of China.
But any military move by the PRC is going to be so problematic that I see the PRC only doing it as a last resort.
Military opportunism is not one of the hallmarks of the CCP, traditionally. In the past 80 years, for all their talk, the CCP has not initiated military adventures.
And today the PRC is highly dependent upon imports of raw goods from around the world, just to exist.
So I wonder about all this war-talk coming out of US talking-heads.
Well, there’s the military adventurism over claiming other nation’s territorial waters and the reefs and islands therein, and building airfields on them.
There’s also the Korean War, but that was a very long time ago.
As for the talking heads, it is something other than the relentless cowbell of “Trump.”
re: #73 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s the same old story: someone get’s lucky with a world event or a market crisis, and all of a sudden they are an expert on anything and write books that get fluffed as “by the guy who ______ “.
Anyway, there is a constant sabre-rattling over China, among the US political talking heads.
I have no doubt that the CCP would love to get Taiwan under its wing. That would solidify the legitimacy of the CCP in the eyes of Chinese nationalists as the rightful leaders of China.
But any military move by the PRC is going to be so problematic that I see the PRC only doing it as a last resort.
Military opportunism is not one of the hallmarks of the CCP, traditionally. In the past 80 years, for all their talk, the CCP has not initiated military adventures.
And today the PRC is highly dependent upon imports of raw goods from around the world, just to exist.
So I wonder about all this war-talk coming out of US talking-heads.
It smells like the same people who talked up how the Russians would walk into Kyiv in 3 days.
re: #42 Belafon
A Chicago man convicted of murder based in part on testimony from a legally blind eyewitness is suing the city and the police department
He was freed 12 years into a 76 year sentence after showed that the eyewitness had lied about his eyesight issues
Echoes or Reuben “Hurricane” Carter
re: #76 William Lewis
It smells like the same people who talked up how the Russians would walk into Kyiv in 3 days.
I truly assumed they would at first. (And so did Putin)
re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Thomas Zimmer’s blog Democracy Americana, part II of a series on the very left having a fascism problem.
The Anti-Liberal Left Has a Fascism Problem, May 24, 2024
They have done a good job of framing opposition to White Supremacy and Fascism as intolerance of an accepted set of political views.
re: #43 jaunte
Biden says all the right things, is not booed lustily by roomful of Libertarians, so will get 2% of the media attention given the evil clown.
Unless he stumbles, makes a gaffe or needs both hands to drink his water…then we will hear every detail of it
There was a discussion here last week in which the question was raised “Are Mormons Christians?”
I took the side “yes” which got some pushback.
Since then, I’ve been digging around on that (I’m open to new information).
So it turns out Brian Dalton (Mr. Deity, ex-Mormon and former employee of Dennis Prager) tackled that topic a few weeks ago. Though he’s an atheist now, he was a devout Mormon. He describes what sets apart Mormonism from Christianity. (6:42)
re: #64 No Malarkey!
Trump has not fared well with Manhattan juries. Dog willing, he will finally be held to account for some of his crimes within a week or so.
even for that, I cannot expect any sentence more severe than house arrest.
re: #68 Joe Bacon ✅
We can count on Republicans saying they see nothing wrong with China absorbing Taiwan.
one thing that distresses me is that China can afford to lose millions in the attempt and even if they fail, they will have crippled Taiwan’s economy while easing their own demographic imbalance by getting rid of some of their suplus of marriage-age males.
re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
even for that, I cannot expect any sentence more severe than house arrest.
It would be tough for him to campaign before his adulating crowds from his house.
I’m fine with house arrest. Why should the Secret Service have to go to jail with him?
Restrict him to one of his golf motels (and don’t let him play golf).
The European Union really needs a way to sanction a rogue nation, or be able to isolate it from the bloc. (Politico, May 27, 2024)
EU ministers fume as ‘outrageous’ Hungary yet again blocks military aid for Ukraine
“A large number of EU resolutions on Ukraine are being blocked by Hungary, said Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis.”
BRUSSELS — Hungary is digging in and refusing to wave through billions in military aid for Ukraine, prompting growing dismay among other EU countries.
“I have to calm myself [when] I talk about this issue, because it’s getting really ridiculous now,” a senior EU diplomat said of the standoff with Hungary, speaking before Monday’s meeting of EU foreign ministers. “What’s happening is outrageous.”
Diplomats had hoped to have a new €6.6 billion package ready ahead of this week’s meetings of foreign and defense ministers in Brussels. The deal included €860 million for arms procurement, reported by POLITICO last week.
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Time to bail. My computer needs to talk to the mothership and I need to hit the rack.
Catch y’all later.
re: #70 BigPapa
Overheard:
Bad Company cover band: Worst CompanyDiscuss
I’d think Worse Company. THEIR cover band would be Worst Company.
Baby steps.
Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry https://t.co/TcPF14tSHF
— The Guardian (@guardian) May 28, 2024
re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The European Union really needs a way to sanction a rogue nation, or be able to isolate it from the bloc. (Politico, May 27, 2024)
EU ministers fume as ‘outrageous’ Hungary yet again blocks military aid for Ukraine
“A large number of EU resolutions on Ukraine are being blocked by Hungary, said Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis.”
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Hungary receives someting like €14billion per year in aid from the EU, which Orban uses to prop up his political base.
re: #87 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’d think Worse Company. THEIR cover band would be Worst Company.
Baby steps.
Deplorable Presence
re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg
Yet, I bet Sarah will have no problems being reelected.
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, there’s the military adventurism over claiming other nation’s territorial waters and the reefs and islands therein, and building airfields on them.
You mean like Hawaii?
re: #65 BigPapa
Mostly, it’s design, then materials. This is why most speaker systems have multiple drivers of multiple sizes. In cases of live sound or theater, multiple sizes of cabinets.
Whenever I see ‘broke physics’ I sense it’s marketing. You don’t break physics, you re-write them with better physics. I have seen better speakers over the years and they do get better bass with smaller form factors but that’s not breaking physics: it’s understanding them better then improving design. I would say they are becoming more ‘size efficient’ but Hoffman’s Iron Law hasn’t been broken.
My Mazda 3 does cool stuff where the sub woofer is in the spare tire well in the trunk and the bass speakers are actually inside the engine compartment because the engineers figured out that slight extra amount of room increased sound quality. There are 12 speakers in the vehicle and they’re glorious!
re: #93 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And today it’s a par for the course.
Same.
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re: #70 BigPapa
Overheard:
Bad Company cover band: Worst CompanyDiscuss
I would have said “X, formerly known as Twitter”, but that might get confused with X
re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
even for that, I cannot expect any sentence more severe than house arrest.
We’ll see. Trump will stand convicted of up to 34 felonies, he has not demonstrated an ounce of remorse, and he hasn’t exactly endeared himself to Judge Merchan. That ought to warrant at least a year in prison, IMHO, but I know nothing about NY sentencing guidelines, if they have any.
Looks like the rotation, according to the radar, is over Mesquite heading southeast. Unless it changes direction, it will miss my house. The wind just went from nothing to strongely moving.
Looking out the windows and we’ve got rain and strong winds, but the wind is blowing strongly towards the west, which would be towords the radar hook.
Seriously strong winds in the opposite direction of the direction of the storm.
I wish I could get a good picture of this. The winds are intense.
What the world doesn’t need. From CNN Morning 5 Things.
$24 billion That’s the valuation of Elon Musk’s AI firm after the startup received an additional $6 billion from Silicon Valley investors and a Saudi prince. The funding sets the project up as a potential rival to OpenAI, the company behind the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT.
re: #88 Teukka
I can’t stand Netanyahu so if he’s prosecuted, I wouldn’t care. However, I must ask why the ICC never prosecuted Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud for murdering Khashoggi? Or Putin for war crimes in Ukraine?
Not trying to be a bothsidist but the ICC should be prosecuting a lot more people than Netanyahu.
re: #108 Belafon
Sky’s a bit green. Wind is nuts.
Green is not a good color when a tornado is possible. Green and orange…(shudder)
Do you have somewhere safe to go??
re: #110 Patricia Kayden
I can’t stand Netanyahu so if he’s prosecuted, I wouldn’t care. However, I must ask why the ICC never prosecuted Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud for murdering Khashoggi? Or Putin for war crimes in Ukraine?
Not trying to be a bothsidist but the ICC should be prosecuting a lot more people than Netanyahu.
It’s so unfortunate that bibi fucked this all up. No one remembers what happened that created this horrible response.
re: #111 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Green is not a good color when a tornado is possible. Green and orange…(shudder)
Do you have somewhere safe to go??
We have an interior room. This is the radar now:
We are where the 77 is, so the hook is passed, but winds are easily over 50mph.
Rain has gotten in the window screens now so it’s harder to see outside.
re: #100 No Malarkey!
We’ll see. Trump will stand convicted of up to 34 felonies, he has not demonstrated an ounce of remorse, and he hasn’t exactly endeared himself to Judge Merchan. That ought to warrant at least a year in prison, IMHO, but I know nothing about NY sentencing guidelines, if they have any.
If Trump had treated the case with the seriousness that criminal cases deserve, especially when you’re a rich and/or high profile defendant, then he might have skated with just probation and perhaps a fine. Certainly if he’d had his lawyers talk with Bragg back when the indictment was still fresh, he could probably have worked a plea deal and this whole case would be ancient history in terms of his campaign.
But instead, he’s bitched, moaned, and screamed every step of the way and that’s going to count against him. It’s virtually impossible for Blanche to stand before the jury today and convincingly tell a jury that he’s just a decent guy who panicked and did some legally questionable things. It’s only the decorum of a courtroom and the danger of the judge bringing his gavel down on your head that is going to stop that jury from rolling with laughter. His only real hope at this point is there is a pro-Trump juror in hiding somewhere among the 12.
re: #85 Dangerman
i am sort of hoping this is still a lot of early in the season venting of frustration, disagreement, anger etc.
when the time for action (voting) comes around the choice is stark.
while the lesser of two evils may still be an evil in some people’s minds, that doesnt mean you then support the greater evil of the two.
if you dont support biden in the voting booth, if you vote for anyone else (or dont vote for prez) you are not ‘sending a message’. you are actively supporting your own self-described greater evil
today’s electoral-vote.com
Nate Cohn Finally Adds the Asterisk
The election projections (including ours) will not begin to attain any semblance of accuracy until September or so, once people begin to figure out answers to these questions: (1) Am I actually going to vote? and (2) If so, which candidate am I actually going to vote for? Right now, there is so much uncertainty on those points that the presidential polling numbers have to be analyzed with care to extract any true meaning.
re: #112 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
It’s so unfortunate that bibi fucked this all up. No one remembers what happened that created this horrible response.
It’s the Levant, the locals have been dealing with Crusaders and other invaders for over two thousand years.
There’s a shingle in my back yard, so today will be partially spent assessing damage.
re: #116 Targetpractice
If Trump had treated the case with the seriousness that criminal cases deserve, especially when you’re a rich and/or high profile defendant, then he might have skated with just probation and perhaps a fine. Certainly if he’d had his lawyers talk with Bragg back when the indictment was still fresh, he could probably have worked a plea deal and this whole case would be ancient history in terms of his campaign.
But instead, he’s bitched, moaned, and screamed every step of the way and that’s going to count against him. It’s virtually impossible for Blanche to stand before the jury today and convincingly tell a jury that he’s just a decent guy who panicked and did some legally questionable things. It’s only the decorum of a courtroom and the danger of the judge bringing his gavel down on your head that is going to stop that jury from rolling with laughter. His only real hope at this point is there is a pro-Trump juror in hiding somewhere among the 12.
it’s not just ‘a lone holdout / hung jury’ yes or no
there are 34 individual counts to deal with
re: #117 Dangerman
today’s electoral-vote.com
Nate Cohn Finally Adds the Asterisk
The most common criticism I’m seeing with regards to polling at this time is that polling companies are being forced to work with much smaller data sets that they’re used to, trying to guesstimate who’s actually going to show up in November with hundreds of respondents when in the past they were working with thousands. Which is notable when they’re leaning more heavily than usual on “registered voters” vs “likely voters.”
And it’s not something limited to the US, because I’ve seen commentators remarking on the same phenomenon with UK voting polls, particularly with regard to the local elections at the beginning of the month where there were a few surprises including at least two mayoral elections. The long and short of it is the face of polling is changing rapidly yet the industries reliant upon polls don’t seem capable of adapting.
re: #73 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Military opportunism is not one of the hallmarks of the CCP, traditionally. In the past 80 years, for all their talk, the CCP has not initiated military adventures.
They invaded Vietnam in (IIRC) 1979.
It didn’t end well for them.
re: #112 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
It’s so unfortunate that bibi fucked this all up. No one remembers what happened that created this horrible response.
There is such a thing as “shared culpability”. It is a nuanced concept and nuance is pretty much dead in the current public discourse on the Middle East.
re: #119 Belafon
There’s a shingle in my back yard, so today will be partially spent assessing damage.
I had a bad case of the shingles on my back a while ago…
re: #120 Dangerman
it’s not just ‘a lone holdout / hung jury’ yes or no
there are 34 individual counts to deal with
Yeah, I don’t believe that the judge is going to accept a hung jury, particularly if he learns that it’s a “lone holdout” who’s either refusing to budge or actively trying to swing the rest of the jury. With as much caution as he’s exercised so far, the last thing I think he’ll allow is one asshole to force a mistrial.
re: #125 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I had a bad case of the shingles on my back a while ago…
re: #119 Belafon
There’s a shingle in my back yard, so today will be partially spent assessing damage.
Update, it’s not a shingle, just something that had the right color.
re: #122 Belafon
Lost a big tree limb out front, and some others are broken buck stuck in the tree.
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So easily in the 60 to 70 mph wind range.
Good luck with the clean up, my back’s still sore from our storm a couple of days back.
re: #73 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s the same old story: someone get’s lucky with a world event or a market crisis, and all of a sudden they are an expert on anything and write books that get fluffed as “by the guy who ______ “.
Anyway, there is a constant sabre-rattling over China, among the US political talking heads.
I have no doubt that the CCP would love to get Taiwan under its wing. That would solidify the legitimacy of the CCP in the eyes of Chinese nationalists as the rightful leaders of China.
But any military move by the PRC is going to be so problematic that I see the PRC only doing it as a last resort.
Military opportunism is not one of the hallmarks of the CCP, traditionally. In the past 80 years, for all their talk, the CCP has not initiated military adventures.
And today the PRC is highly dependent upon imports of raw goods from around the world, just to exist.
So I wonder about all this war-talk coming out of US talking-heads.
Have to stir the pot over some foreign enemy out to take out allies and/or start conquering the world. Russia is militarily considered a paper tiger right now due to losses in the on-going Ukraine war.* By default the next one to talk about is China.**
* - Plus for various fascist adjacent, religious, and racial reasons it appears a chunk of people *like* autocratic Russia.
** - A traditional “other” to fear monger about for centuries.
re: #124 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is such a thing as “shared culpability”. It is a nuanced concept and nuance is pretty much dead in the current public discourse
on the Middle East.
Listening to the ham radio, and in Poetry, Tx, a small place southeast of us, the operator there was reporting a 4 inch per hour rainfall rate at one point.
re: #128 Belafon
Update, it’s not a shingle, just something that had the right color.
was there shit on it? could’ve been someone’s breakfast
re: #131 Belafon
Over 600k without power in the DFW area.
We got a brief outage (under 2 minutes) around 6AM along North Dallas Tollway north of 635. Got woke up by the tornado warning sirens as apparently the rotation tracked over our apartment complex. TONS of rainfall, and high winds for about an hour straight. We’re in a brief respite right now, but next line will be here probably in about 15 minutes. Already hearing the thunder.
Where abortion is on the fall ballot, and where they are still trying to make it so from NPR
www.npr.org/2024/05/23/n...— Randall Gross (@randallgross.bsky.social) 2024-05-28T12:14:44.024Z
re: #136 Randall Gross
“We cannot allow voters to decide an issue that God has already resolved!”
re: #138 Patricia Kayden
Yes a girl can dream and I am dreaming right along with you.
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area on this bright and sunny day. However, attention must be paid to 100 Center St and the courtroom of Judge Merchan, who is presiding over the criminal trial of Donald Trump. The case goes to the jury today, and closing arguments and jury instructions will precede the deliberations.
A verdict can come as early as this week, which means we can learn whether the presumptive GOP nominee is a convicted felon (who would otherwise be unable to land a government job involving security clearance anywhere in the nation). Think on that.
The GOP thinks that Trump should be nominee, despite being indicted on over 90 charges, and likely to be found guilty on 30+ in NYS alone. They have no plan to deal with this, instead thinking that Biden’s the one who will somehow be replaced at some point by desperate Democrats.
It’s all projection all the time from GOPers, and the media insistent on a horse race between the media manipulating Trump who never met a soundbite he couldn’t mangle and still get positive coverage, and the decent and good (but old) Biden.
The media will still manage to fuck all of this up, spinning the outcome to somehow benefit Trump.
See also: NYTpitchbot: Trump convicted on all charges, here’s why that’s bad news for Biden.
re: #139 PhillyPretzel ✅
Yes a girl can dream and I am dreaming right along with you.
It will be more like Biden visiting him under house arrest at Mar-a-Lago.
Or him standing at the podium hiding his ankle bracelet.
re: #140 lawhawk
See also: NYTpitchbot: Trump convicted on all charges, here’s why that’s bad news for Biden.
He and his followers will see that conviction as a badge of honor and a sign of martyrdom.
re: #100 No Malarkey!
We’ll see. Trump will stand convicted of up to 34 felonies, he has not demonstrated an ounce of remorse, and he hasn’t exactly endeared himself to Judge Merchan. That ought to warrant at least a year in prison, IMHO, but I know nothing about NY sentencing guidelines, if they have any.
less than a year is Riker’s, more than a year is one of the upstate prison-prisons.
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) is insisting in a new ad that Republicans can’t take his vote for granted in the Senate, Punchbowl News reports.“Hogan’s campaign rolled out its second TV ad of the general election on Tuesday. The goal: Convince Maryland voters that the well-regarded two-term governor will be an independent-minded senator.”
Said Hogan: “If they want my vote, they will have to do what is right for Maryland — not one political party.”
Who you gonna believe?
The Republican who promises not to act like a Republican?
or
The Democrat who promises not to act like a Republican?
re: #118 Nojay UK
It’s the Levant, the locals have been dealing with Crusaders and other invaders for over two thousand years.
Longer than that.
Good time to repost a music video on the topic.
re: #147 sagehen
Longer than that.
Good time to repost a music video on the topic.
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Hell, the Levant has been a scene of horrific conflict since the late Bronze Age.
re: #147 sagehen
Longer than that.
Good time to repost a music video on the topic.
another reason (or rather set of seasons) why nuance simply gets trampled into the dust during any discussion of the Middle East
re: #148 Dr Lizardo
Hell, the Levant* has been a scene of horrific conflict since the late Bronze Age.
Don’t condemn him. He’s Only the Piano Player
re: #150 Dangerman
Don’t condemn him. He’s Only the Piano Player
Don’t forget Levant Helm of The Band
re: #142 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He and his followers will see that conviction as a badge of honor and a sign of martyrdom.
Let’s try that on for size.
re: #152 Decatur Deb
Let’s try that on for size.
I cannot but agree, it is the weight of the sentence that will factor in on how well he wears it.
re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Don’t forget Levant Helm of The Band
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Out loud
“WHY IS THE TOTALLY CORRUPT DEFENDANT ALLOWED TO USE TWITTER TO INFLUENCE THE JURY AND PUBLIC OPINION?!?!?!”
re: #157 Dangerman
“WHY IS THE TOTALLY CORRUPT DEFENDANT ALLOWED TO USE TWITTER TO INFLUENCE THE JURY AND PUBLIC OPINION?!?!?!”
“WHY DON’T I GET SPECIAL TREATMENT THAT NO OTHER DEFENDANT EVER GETS?”
re: #158 Dangerman
“WHY DON’T I GET SPECIAL TREATMENT THAT NO OTHER DEFENDANT EVER GETS?”
Happy closing arguments day. I saw that he complained about order of operations last night. Well, if he wants to make an impression on the jury he should give his own closing arguments.
Trump giving his own closing arguments would run the gamut from Crooked Hillary to CHAYNAH.
In all fairness, Tiffany’s probably only there to enjoy watching him suffer…
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re: #161 darthstar
In all fairness, Tiffany’s probably only there to enjoy watching him suffer…
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Meanwhile, the woman he supposedly did all this to protect remains totally absent.
re: #160 darthstar
Trump giving his own closing arguments would run the gamut from Crooked Hillary to CHAYNAH.
If Trump gave his own closing arguments, the jury would likely request he be sentenced to life without parole in Sing Sing.
re: #163 Targetpractice
Meanwhile, the woman he supposedly did all this to protect remains totally absent.
She’s probably enjoying a spa day - mud bath, massage, etc.
Trump will not give his own closing statement. He will make all kinds of nonsensical claims that are unsupported by facts, but wholly consumed and believed by the MAGA base, Fox, and right wing agitprop recyclers who spew and amplify this crap endlessly.
Oh, and the media will also put out these statements, without discussing the veracity of his claims, thereby lending credence to his BS.
Instead of saying that there’s no evidence supporting anything Trump says, they’ll leave his statements stand for themselves. It’s journalistic malpractice.
Your daily reminder that when you’re dealing with Trump, no amount of ass-kissing is ever enough:
Trump throws House Freedom Caucus chair under the bus and backs his primary challenger
Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), the chairman of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, got tossed under the bus by former President Donald Trump on Tuesday.
In a Truth Social post, Trump attacked good as “BAD FOR VIRGINIA, AND BAD FOR THE USA” as he delivered an endorsement of Good’s primary opponent, John McGuire.
“He turned his back on our incredible movement, and was constantly attacking and fighting me until recently, when he gave a warm and ‘loving’ Endorsement,” Trump wrote of Good. “But really, it was too late. The damage had been done!”
Trump’s attack on Good comes despite the fact that the Virginia congressman is one of the most conservative members of Congress and despite the fact that Good traveled to Manhattan recently to show support for Trump at his hush-money trial.
re: #166 lawhawk
Trump will not give his own closing statement. He will make all kinds of nonsensical claims that are unsupported by facts, but wholly consumed and believed by the MAGA base, Fox, and right wing agitprop recyclers who spew and amplify this crap endlessly.
Oh, and the media will also put out these statements, without discussing the veracity of his claims, thereby lending credence to his BS.
Instead of saying that there’s no evidence supporting anything Trump says, they’ll leave his statements stand for themselves. It’s journalistic malpractice.
Its up to the people to “decide” what’s true or not
re: #93 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And today it’s a par for the course.
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Likewise. Beats yesterday.
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Defense closing statement underway, and as expected, Blanche claims prosecutors didn’t make their case, claiming that it all starts and stops with Michael Cohen, whose testimony was insufficient.
Prosecutors get the last word, and will show jurors how all the evidence against Trump is overwhelming and pieces everything together to show how Trump was involved in the criminal conduct.
re: #170 lawhawk
Put another way, this is standard defense team claptrap when the evidence is overwhelmingly against their client.
Attack witnesses as insufficient, ignore all the documents submitted as evidence, and portray prosecutors as misguided and incompetent.
re: #126 Targetpractice
Yeah, I don’t believe that the judge is going to accept a hung jury, particularly if he learns that it’s a “lone holdout” who’s either refusing to budge or actively trying to swing the rest of the jury. With as much caution as he’s exercised so far, the last thing I think he’ll allow is one asshole to force a mistrial.
How do you stop it? What recourse does he have? I didn’t think there was one or any.
re: #171 lawhawk
I know there’s some conventional wisdom doggerel among us non-lawyers that says if a jury comes back with a verdict really quick, it’s either great news or devastating news for the defendant.
I’ll be curious to see how long the jury deliberates on this one.
re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Don’t forget Levant Helm of The Band
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Great vid. Much as I’m in the “The Internet is end of humanity” lately, digging up these old performances is awesome. I watched the full Who gig at Charlton in 1974 the other day, and it really is something to actually see bands like these in their prime.
Quick Sullivan question, since he’s slightly before my time: were all of the music acts playing live on his show? Looks and sounds like the Band is there. I know about the Doors incident, but I wasn’t sure if bands were just singing live.
Sucks to be you legal news:
SCOTUS rejects Avenatti appeal in Nike fraud case.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti’s appeal over his criminal convictions for attempting to extort sportswear company Nike.
The court left in place Avenatti’s extortion and fraud convictions.
In the brief court order, the court noted that conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh did not participate in the decision.
There was no explanation, but one possible reason is that Avenatti was also involved in Kavanaugh’s contentious confirmation hearing, representing one of several women who made claims of sexual misconduct dating back decades against the nominee. Kavanaugh denied all the allegations.
Avenatti was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for the Nike extortion plot. He apologized at sentencing, saying he was “deeply humbled.”
re: #173 Dave In Austin
It’s all about the bass…. the bass… it’s all about the bass.
re: #174 Dr Lizardo
I know there’s some conventional wisdom doggerel among us non-lawyers that says if a jury comes back with a verdict really quick, it’s either great news or devastating news for the defendant.
I’ll be curious to see how long the jury deliberates on this one.
Even among lawyers, there’s a belief that a quick verdict spells bad news for the defendant, but it really depends on the complexity of the case and the charges involved.
re: #116 Targetpractice
If Trump had treated the case with the seriousness that criminal cases deserve, especially when you’re a rich and/or high profile defendant, then he might have skated with just probation and perhaps a fine. Certainly if he’d had his lawyers talk with Bragg back when the indictment was still fresh, he could probably have worked a plea deal and this whole case would be ancient history in terms of his campaign.
But instead, he’s bitched, moaned, and screamed every step of the way and that’s going to count against him. It’s virtually impossible for Blanche to stand before the jury today and convincingly tell a jury that he’s just a decent guy who panicked and did some legally questionable things. It’s only the decorum of a courtroom and the danger of the judge bringing his gavel down on your head that is going to stop that jury from rolling with laughter. His only real hope at this point is there is a pro-Trump juror in hiding somewhere among the 12.
Assuming he’s actually convinced of any charges (still a long shot, IMO), I thought I had read somewhere that Merchan may just give him probation as he’s a (eye-roll) first time offender. Supposedly the sentencing guidelines call for this?
Again, I think he’s gonna skate on everything. Between a hidden MAGAt on the jury, and the jury thinking “I may get murdered by his followers if I convict”, I’m not holding my breath here.
re: #178 lawhawk
Even among lawyers, there’s a belief that a quick verdict spells bad news for the defendant, but it really depends on the complexity of the case and the charges involved.
A quick verdict means it was plainly and obviously unanimous, one way or the other. At that point, whether it’s good or bad news for the defendant really comes down to how good or bad the prosecution’s case looks. In this case, where the prosecution has built a pretty decent case, and particularly where the defense basically made the prosecution’s case for them by opening the door to some pretty damning evidence, I would guess that a quick verdict would be bad news for the fat orange man.
re: #171 lawhawk
Put another way, this is standard defense team claptrap when the evidence is overwhelmingly against their client.
Attack witnesses as insufficient, ignore all the documents submitted as evidence, and portray prosecutors as misguided and incompetent.
Attack a single witness and make them the entire focus of the prosecution’s case, even if the prosecution has presented a conga line of witnesses who each are saying the same thing or in the same general ballpark. Present that witness as “unreliable,” convince the jury that any lies they’ve been caught in in the past are enough to forever destroy their credibility, and tell the jury that if that single witness cannot be trusted the whole of the prosecution’s case is suspect. The fact that the defense totally failed to shake Cohen from his testimony or prove that he was lying about anything is to be ignored, you must agree with Blanche that his yelling “liar!” to the media’s collective orgasmic joy makes the defense’s case.
re: #179 Mattand
Assuming he’s actually convinced of any charges (still a long shot, IMO), I thought I had read somewhere that Merchan may just give him probation as he’s a (eye-roll) first time offender. Supposedly the sentencing guidelines call for this?
Again, I think he’s gonna skate on everything. Between a hidden MAGAt on the jury, and the jury thinking “I may get murdered by his followers if I convict”, I’m not holding my breath here.
I wanna point out that we’ve heard such predictions three times so far this year, and each time he’s not only been convicted but then swiftly kneed in the jimmies with eye-watering judgments against him. I’m not ready to declare defeat just yet.
re: #182 Targetpractice
I wanna point out that we’ve heard such predictions three times so far this year, and each time he’s not only been convicted but then swiftly kneed in the jimmies with eye-watering judgments against him. I’m not ready to declare defeat just yet.
This is the first time he is up before a jury on felony charges, so this is a somewhat different game.
re: #142 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He and his followers will see that conviction as a badge of honor and a sign of martyrdom.
Who gives a fuck what the deplorables think? The 28% of trump cultists can STFD and STFU.
re: #179 Mattand
Not sure Merchan will give a probation claim, not when he repeatedly violated gag order, was totally disrespectful to the rule of law, shows no remorse and is completely unrepentant. I think he gets at least a year in jail, with all of the charges served concurrently.
I think the book gets thrown his way. Preferably the entire McKinney’s NY law books - particularly so Trump’s lawyers can learn what the fuck NY law is and how they have no grounds to successfully appeal any of this.
re: #185 lawhawk
I’m going to split the difference. Assuming he is found guilty, which I believe is more likely than not, I’d say he gets 4-6 months in prison. I don’t know what the New York state sentencing guidelines look like for the crimes in question, but I just don’t see the judge throwing the book at a high-profile rich white man who is a first-time offender. However, on the other hand, I also don’t think Judge Merchan is going to pull any punches. He’s been incredibly patient with the gag order violations, but it’s clear his patience is at an end.
re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is the first time he is up before a jury on felony charges, so this is a somewhat different game.
Fair point, but I can’t agree with predictions that the jury’s going to wimp out because they fear for their lives or that a “lone holdout” is going to fuck this entire thing. As cynical as I am by nature, I don’t feel that this is a lost cause and we should just assume Trump will walk free and clear because it always seems that he does so. If we’re that past the point of no return, then why the fuck are we even holding out hope that he can be defeated at the ballot box?
re: #144 sagehen
less than a year is Riker’s, more than a year is one of the upstate prison-prisons.
Trump, who handily deserves prison time, will never see the inside of rikers or any prison. As much as he deserves it, I doubt it will ever happen.
re: #163 Targetpractice
Meanwhile, the woman he supposedly did all this to protect remains totally absent.
I’m going to be surprised if she’s not there. I’d think that would be in breach of her contract for services.
re: #113 Belafon
We have an interior room. This is the radar now:
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We are where the 77 is, so the hook is passed, but winds are easily over 50mph.
I’m curious as to what radar app you were using.
re: #167 Targetpractice
Your daily reminder that when you’re dealing with Trump, no amount of ass-kissing is ever enough:
Trump throws House Freedom Caucus chair under the bus and backs his primary challenger
What did he do to piss trump off?
re: #173 Dave In Austin
My Bass lessons are come along nicely.
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Well done!! That is a fine looking fish!
re: #185 lawhawk
Not sure Merchan will give a probation claim, not when he repeatedly violated gag order, was totally disrespectful to the rule of law, shows no remorse and is completely unrepentant. I think he gets at least a year in jail, with all of the charges served concurrently.
I think the book gets thrown his way. Preferably the entire McKinney’s NY law books - particularly so Trump’s lawyers can learn what the fuck NY law is and how they have no grounds to successfully appeal any of this.
From your keyboard… Let us 🙏
This story details how Trump uses the endless fundraising for legal funds to destroy women who worked for him and endured harassment. On the one hand, it’s awful what these women are going through. On the other hand, what did they expect and why did they sign up to help this disgusting creature?
First things first: The jury’s gotta convict him. There’s a lot of things to come after, but we have to start with that.
re: #189 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m going to be surprised if she’s not there. I’d think that would be in breach of her contract for services.
She likely has it written that she will only attend events related to his official duties.
re: #186 Nerdy Fish
I’m going to split the difference. Assuming he is found guilty, which I believe is more likely than not, I’d say he gets 4-6 months in prison. I don’t know what the New York state sentencing guidelines look like for the crimes in question, but I just don’t see the judge throwing the book at a high-profile rich white man who is a first-time offender. However, on the other hand, I also don’t think Judge Merchan is going to pull any punches. He’s been incredibly patient with the gag order violations, but it’s clear his patience is at an end.
Not a first time offender
This was not an oopsie.
and I think everyone knows that. Not his first or only crime.
First time convicted guilty.
And not “a” crime. 34. Organized and planned with others. bordering on a conspiracy.
That’s before you consider his behavior.
And hopefully strip out the special treatment factor as if rich or white (or ex prez) entitles him to anything. Makes it worse imo. Cause billionaire and a measly $130k
Ffs treat him as one under the law like any other schlub.
re: #110 Patricia Kayden
I can’t stand Netanyahu so if he’s prosecuted, I wouldn’t care. However, I must ask why the ICC never prosecuted Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud for murdering Khashoggi? Or Putin for war crimes in Ukraine?
Not trying to be a bothsidist but the ICC should be prosecuting a lot more people than Netanyahu.
They have already issued a warrant for Putin. The ICC will likely never prosecute Netanyahu either. Israel, Russia and Saudi Arabia are not signatories to the ICC, and even if they travel to a country that is a signatory to the ICC I have a hard time imagining too many countries that would want to involve themselves in that can of worms.
re: #197 jaunte
She likely has it written that she will only attend events related to his official duties.
This is a trial that is based on him cheating on her while she was pregnant, I cannot imagine that she is going to want to be associated with that.
re: #189 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m going to be surprised if she’s not there. I’d think that would be in breach of her contract for services.
She’s waiting for the sentencing. //
re: #201 Dangerman
She’s waiting for the sentencing. //
He will insist that she wear a matching ankle bracelet
re: #195 Unabogie
This story details how Trump uses the endless fundraising for legal funds to destroy women who worked for him and endured harassment. On the one hand, it’s awful what these women are going through. On the other hand, what did they expect and why did they sign up to help this disgusting creature?
Leopard won’t eat *my* face
re: #200 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is a trial that is based on him cheating on her while she was pregnant, I cannot imagine that she is going to want to be associated with that.
Allegedly cheating on Trump. /
It’s clear Melania thinks he cheated on her with Daniels (and likely not for the first time either).
re: #197 jaunte
She likely has it written that she will only attend events related to his official duties.
Then Mr. Art of the Deal fucked that contract up bigly.
re: #195 Unabogie
This story details how Trump uses the endless fundraising for legal funds to destroy women who worked for him and endured harassment. On the one hand, it’s awful what these women are going through. On the other hand, what did they expect and why did they sign up to help this disgusting creature?
Let me count the ways….
1) After all, it was her fault.
2) Likely it will be just as bad anywhere else.
3) Have to feed the kids and keep a roof over their heads.
4) How does she justify leaving on the resume? (See #1)
Feel free to add to the list.
re: #208 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
He makes no distinctions between official duties and personal actions, like he makes no distinctions between national secrets and information he can use for his own profit.
Looks like Blanche is trying to make up for his terrible handling of the Cohen cross-exam by wildly holding up documents he couldn’t bring up then and screaming “THIS IS THE PROOF HE’S A LIAR!!!”
re: #204 jaunte
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This should have been easy then. If trump Inc was paying Cohen for legal services, any number of people at trump Inc should have been able to produce dox. Invoices, progress billings, description of work and hours etc
Oh wait it was on an oral retainer agreement only between tfg and cohen? And Cohen submitted no invoices? And the cfo, acts payable and everyone just went along? And Tfg just signed checks with no backup? Because you behave that way and cover your tracks when everything is totally on the up and up. Yeah ok.
re: #187 Targetpractice
Fair point, but I can’t agree with predictions that the jury’s going to wimp out because they fear for their lives or that a “lone holdout” is going to fuck this entire thing. As cynical as I am by nature, I don’t feel that this is a lost cause and we should just assume Trump will walk free and clear because it always seems that he does so. If we’re that past the point of no return, then why the fuck are we even holding out hope that he can be defeated at the ballot box?
Well, I’m gonna do what I can, but as I’ve stated before: I am surrounded by a lot of Both Siders who normally lean Dem but are in full “Yeah, Trump’s not great, but my groceries are through the roof” mode. I know other people are dealing with this (and much worse), but I have complacent white folks on all sides who aren’t paying attention to the genuine danger Trump is, and dismiss well-reasoned concerns out of hand as me being a worry-wart or just stupid.
So my faith in voters and jurors doing the right thing is pretty much at an all time low.
I also wanna point out that the one time I stated Trump has a real shot at winning in 2016, I got down dinged here into oblivion.
He absolutely should be brought to trial; I’m not saying he shouldn’t. It at least draws a line in a stand that states laws do matter. The problem is that it’s just that: a line in the sand that can easily be wiped out or stepped over without proper backup.
re: #206 lawhawk
Allegedly cheating on Trump. /
It’s clear Melania thinks he cheated on her with Daniels (and likely not for the first time either).
Celebrity wives are generally expected to tolerate such a thing until it blows up in public (see: Jerry Hall after Mich Jagger knocked up a Brazilian fashion model)
repeatedly insisting that trump never interacted with daniels seems like a bad argument to me, but what do I know
— Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) 2024-05-28T14:43:46.498Z
Even in the end, Blanche’s balls keep getting squeezed tighter in the vice every time he mentions Daniels because Donny wants people to forget that he basically raped her.
One point I’ve not heard any in media make, even the Big Brain legal eagles for MSNBC: Cohen did lie, yes. But the distinction is that he did when he worked for Chump. He lied to protect Chump and himself. And he paid a price for it. Since then, when has he lied?
When all this handwringing about him being a risky witness because he lied, this is all I think about. If lying is so bad, then what about Chump?
re: #213 Mattand
…: I am surrounded by a lot of Both Siders who normally lean Dem but are in full “Yeah, Trump’s not great, but my groceries are through the roof” mode. …
and even at the exclusion of every other real existential issue were facing, can’t explain specifically how voting in tfg *will* reduce their grocery costs and when.
re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Celebrity wives are generally expected to tolerate such a thing until it blows up in public (see: Jerry Hall after Mich Jagger knocked up a Brazilian fashion model)
yet they remained close enough over the years (probably a co-parenting thing) that he let her use his security team to help with her Murdoch divorce.
re: #215 Targetpractice
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Even in the end, Blanche’s balls keep getting squeezed tighter in the vice every time he mentions Daniels because Donny wants people to forget that he basically raped her.
Always get NDAs from people you never met. Good sound business practice.
re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Celebrity wives are generally expected to tolerate such a thing until it blows up in public (see: Jerry Hall after Mich Jagger knocked up a Brazilian fashion model)
Who then hooked up with Rupert fucking Murdoch.
re: #216 BigPapa
One point I’ve not heard any in media make, even the Big Brain legal eagles for MSNBC: Cohen did lie, yes. But the distinction is that he did when he worked for Chump. He lied to protect Chump and himself. And he paid a price for it. Since then, when has he lied?
When all this handwringing about him being a risky witness because he lied, this is all I think about. If lying is so bad, then what about Chump?
Cohen’s statements under oath in this case are corroborated by the paper evidence, including signatures and signoffs by Trump and Weisselberg. Cohen is a criminal and a perjurer (as Cohen himself admits). He also admits lying for Trump repeatedly to cover for Trump’s crime spree. Expect prosecutors to clean that up on their closing.
The slide header now reads—AMI: Standard Operating Procedure.
It's not uncommon for campaigns to work with the media, it's a regular practice, and it's not surprising, says Blanche. You want to amplify the good things about the candidate, & expose the bad things about opponents.
Paying off the media to bury negative stories is now a “regular practice.”
re: #215 Targetpractice
I thought the trial was not so much about the encounter or the NDA and the subsequent payment but rather about how the payment was reported and booked (as a campaign expense)
re: #217 Dangerman
and even at the exclusion of every other real existential issue were facing, can’t explain specifically how voting in tfg *will* reduce their grocery costs and when.
Well, after he puts a 10% tariff on imported goods and gets rid all the migrant farm workers and construction workers of course prices will drop.
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re: #221 lawhawk
Cohen’s statements under oath in this case are corroborated by the paper evidence, including signatures and signoffs by Trump and Weisselberg. Cohen is a criminal and a perjurer (as Cohen himself admits). He also admits lying for Trump repeatedly to cover for Trump’s crime spree. Expect prosecutors to clean that up on their closing.
Like they say, witnesses in mob cases tend to be criminals.
re: #220 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Who then hooked up with Rupert fucking Murdoch.
Yes, but openly. I think their tacit agreement was “do what you want on the road but don’t drag it back home” which is impossible to do when Jagger’s bastard child is making headlines.
re: #224 A Cranky One
Well, after he puts a 10% tariff on imported goods and gets rid all the migrant farm workers and construction workers of course prices will drop.
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So will wages when Christopher Rufo shuts down public schools, repeal child labor laws and force kids into the workplace to take over the jobs that “illegal aliens” were doing.
re: #217 Dangerman
and even at the exclusion of every other real existential issue were facing, can’t explain specifically how voting in tfg *will* reduce their grocery costs and when.
MAGA logic: gas and groceries were cheaper when he was President, so re-electing him will bring them back down!!!
re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I thought the trial was not so much about the encounter or the NDA and the subsequent payment but rather about how the payment was reported asnd booked (as a campaign expense)
Blanche basically making the “process crime” argument we’ve heard so many times when it involves Trump or one of his goons, the idea that it’s only a “real” crime if it’s big and flashy, while purposefully misfiling paperwork or not filing paperwork at all to keep things hidden is somehow not a “real” crime.
re: #93 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #224 A Cranky One
Well, after he puts a 10% tariff on imported goods and gets rid all the migrant farm workers and construction workers of course prices will drop.
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Exactly
If you’re a one issue voter,
And you decided your one issue is “groceries”
Then how does this work?
They can’t explain it cause there is no explanation.
Then it becomes “I just have a feeling about the guy”
re: #229 Targetpractice
Blanche basically making the “process crime” argument we’ve heard so many times when it involves Trump or one of his goons, the idea that it’s only a “real” crime if it’s big and flashy, while purposefully misfiling paperwork or not filing paperwork at all to keep things hidden is somehow not a “real” crime.
“It was a little gun”
re: #221 lawhawk
Cohen’s statements under oath in this case are corroborated by the paper evidence, including signatures and signoffs by Trump and Weisselberg. Cohen is a criminal and a perjurer (as Cohen himself admits). He also admits lying for Trump repeatedly to cover for Trump’s crime spree. Expect prosecutors to clean that up on their closing.
They should really hammer on when he lied and the motivations for those lies, and now there is lots of evidence to back up what he’s saying. IANAL, but this seems to be a critical distinction I’ve not heard any analysts make.
This year we did our own taxes. The IRS somehow figured out that we owed a penalty for putting too much into our Roth IRA. They sent two notices in each of our names for $450. We thought that was a duplicate so we paid one of them. They sent us a notice of intent to put a lien on our house if we didn’t pay. That’s 3 months from the time we were asked to pay.
So fuck these fuckers who say that it’s fine if Trump falsifies his business records and commits fraud. Normal people are subject to the law. We face real consequences if we don’t follow it.
@Nonilex@masto.ai
#Blanche argues #MichaelCohen’s testimony about an all-important meeting w/ #Trump in Jan 2017, in which the president-elect signed off on the repayment scheme, is not “corroborated by anything, there’s not a shred of evidence.” And it’s true that no one other than Cohen has directly testified about that conversation.
But it’s not true that there is not a “shred of evidence” — in fact, there is lots & lots of circumstantial + documentary evidence about what happened.
…….
Evidence including notes made by #AllenWeisselberg about how #MichaelCohen would be repaid for the #HushMoney, & an email that the defense just highlighted in its own closing referring back to the agreement.#Blanche depicts #Trump as too distracted to focus on the matters of the checks & the payments. Cutting against a long-acknowledged #Trump trait: his proclivity for attention to minutiae in times of stress.
Blanche is deep into the weeds, basically stuck arguing that certain words either weren’t said or had different meanings than what the prosecution has presented in their case, thus there’s no way his client could have been up to no good.
Somebody throw the man a life preserver, because he is fucking drowning.
re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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re: #238 Targetpractice
Blanche is deep into the weeds, basically stuck arguing that certain words either weren’t said or had different meanings than what the prosecution has presented in their case, thus there’s no way his client could have been up to no good.
Somebody throw the man a life preserver, because he is fucking drowning.
thoughts and prayers
(throws brick)
re: #216 BigPapa
One point I’ve not heard any in media make, even the Big Brain legal eagles for MSNBC: Cohen did lie, yes. But the distinction is that he did when he worked for Chump. He lied to protect Chump and himself. And he paid a price for it. Since then, when has he lied?
To be fair he admitted under oath to lying to a judge, and arguably lied about a phone call to this very jury. If you are being charitable you can say he didn’t lie but was just mistaken. IMO Cohen will lie any time he thinks it will benefit Cohen. Any testimony that isn’t directly backed by documentation should be suspect.
Blanche's idea here is that this first catch and kill scheme was nothing of the sort—Pecker caught it, fully intending to publish it if it was true, but only "killed" it because it wasn't.
"That. Is. Not. A. Catch. And. Kill. It's just not," Blanche says.
Basically the defense’s theory is that Trump is in the habit of paying to bury stories that were never going to be aired in the first place.
Delicious!…as Caesar Romero’s Joker would say!!!!
Robert DeNiro, Jan. 6 officers show up for Biden campaign at Trump trial courthouse
Actor Robert DeNiro and two Jan. 6 police officers showed up on Tuesday on behalf of the Biden campaign outside the courthouse where former President Trump’s hush money trial is taking place.
In its most direct attempt to wade into Trump’s legal troubles, President Biden’s campaign held a surprise press conference in lower Manhattan in which the actor and officers Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone spoke of the dangers of a second Trump presidency.
When asked why they were holding a political event outside a criminal trial - in particular after Trump has complained that the Biden administration was responsible for his indictment despite it being a state case - Biden’s communication director Michael Tyler said “you all are here,” referring to the trials’ massive media presence
An unsurprising throughline through almost every segment of Blanche's closing: Cohen the liar.
Let's talk about another lie, Blanche says, remember when he said he had lunch with Pecker in Sept 2016 Ladies and gentlemen, that lunch did not happen.
This is all Blanche has: This one witness is a “liar,” thus the prosecution’s entire case has fallen apart.
IOW, the prediction most everybody made when it was revealed that Cohen would be a witness has come true.
Just saw this little tidbit on the Texas GOP’s sprint to fascism.
Texas GOP Amendment Would Stop Democrats Winning Any State Election
The Republican Party of Texas has voted on a policy proposal that would require any candidate for statewide office to win in a majority of the state’s 254 counties to secure election, effectively preventing Democrats from winning statewide positions based on the current distribution of their support.
Democratic voters in Texas are heavily disproportionately concentrated in a handful of major cities which only constitute a small number of counties, while Republicans dominate most of the more sparsely populated rural counties.
On Saturday, Texas Republicans voted on a range of policy proposals at the party’s biannual conference which took place from May 23-25 in San Antonio. Once these votes have been counted, the official Texas state Republican policy platform is expected to be revealed later this week.
Looks like Talking Points Memo’s website is either down or under attack.
Gee, I wonder why?
re: #217 Dangerman
and even at the exclusion of every other real existential issue were facing, can’t explain specifically how voting in tfg *will* reduce their grocery costs and when.
I think with some of them, it’s almost a mantra they repeat to assure themselves that they’re still truly “independent” voters. Literally they have to go “Well, Trump openly threatening dictatorship is exactly the same as Biden not magically rolling prices back to 1982 levels” in order to make themselves think they’re seriously judging the issues.
Some of them are genuinely thinking that Trump somehow gives enough of a shit about someone other than himself that he’ll get right on making inflation go away in Jan 2025.
And yes, I had to stop threes times from laughing at that last sentence as I was writing it.
As I said before, I know one person in 2016 wanted either Trump or Bernie for president.
NJ is fucking weird when it comes to how voters think.
A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Doctor walk into a bar and everyone lines up to take a swing. That’s it, that’s the punch line.
re: #248 Orange Impostor
Democratic voters in Texas are heavily disproportionately concentrated in a handful of major cities which only constitute a small number of counties, while Republicans dominate most of the more sparsely populated rural counties.>
This is pretty much the case nationwide, why not apply it to Texas?
re: #110 Patricia Kayden
I can’t stand Netanyahu so if he’s prosecuted, I wouldn’t care. However, I must ask why the ICC never prosecuted Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud for murdering Khashoggi? Or Putin for war crimes in Ukraine?
Not trying to be a bothsidist but the ICC should be prosecuting a lot more people than Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova
The UN did call the Saudi trial an opaque miscarriage of justice but the special investigator that was sent to work with Turkey could not get any cooperation from the Saudi government, while and their investigation issued a report in 2019 that found MBS culpable. Turkey’s been the one country that’s asserted an entitlement to try the suspects, which has been stymied by a refusal by the KSA to cooperate.
The pretext under which countries that already collaborate with the KSA continue to do so is that there is no definitive proof that MBS personally ordered the killing, although many have sanctioned other individuals in the Saudi government. The CIA claimed to have definitive evidence it was dismissed by President Trump and
The Biden Administration issued an opinion 2022 that MBS has immunity from prosecution in the US.
re: #249 Joe Bacon ✅
Looks like Talking Points Memo’s website is either down or under attack.
Gee, I wonder why?
I just refreshed a few times. No issues here.
re: #81 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There was a discussion here last week in which the question was raised “Are Mormons Christians?”
I took the side “yes” which got some pushback.
Since then, I’ve been digging around on that (I’m open to new information).
So it turns out Brian Dalton (Mr. Deity, ex-Mormon and former employee of Dennis Prager) tackled that topic a few weeks ago. Though he’s an atheist now, he was a devout Mormon. He describes what sets apart Mormonism from Christianity. (6:42)
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Very interesting. I remember some of this from decades ago — but it does seem pretty conclusive. Many Christians claim that JW or Catholics or Unitarians are not Christians — but those other religions do have a similar interpretation of G-d (well, maybe not all Unitarians).
Idk how Trump's jury squares the circle that Blanche is presenting in his closing argument when he's saying none of this is criminal yet Cohen went to jail and Pecker was granted immunity.
— LucieCatnip (@luciecatnip.bsky.social) 2024-05-28T15:16:20.038Z
Oh this is getting good!
Tempers flare as Robert DeNiro clashes with Trump supporter outside hush money trial
Actor Robert DeNiro got into a verbal argument with a Donald Trump supporter on a New York City street outside the former president’s trial.
As Trump sat in a nearby Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday, DeNiro held a press conference outside the courthouse on behalf of the Biden-Harris campaign. He was accompanied by former Capitol Police officers Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone, who fought with rioters on Jan. 6, 2021.
“On January 6th, while Republican lawmakers despicably tried to keep the loser Trump, the loser Trump, in the White House, and Trump-inspired insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, brave men and women from law enforcement put their lives on the line to defend this country,” DeNiro said. “These guys are the true heroes. They stood and put their lives on the line for these low lives, for Trump.”
“They lied under oath,” a Trump supporter heckled.
“Who lied under oath?” DeNiro asked. “What are you telling me?”
“Those two traitors behind you,” the Trump supporter insisted.
“You got to, I don’t know, I don’t even know how to deal with you, my friend,” DeNiro replied. “I don’t even know how to deal with you. They stood there. They didn’t have to.”
“They stood there and fought for us, for you. For you,” he added.
“They weren’t fighting for me,” the Trump supporter insisted.
“No, they fought for you, buddy,” DeNiro shot back. “You’re able to stand right here now. They are the true heroes.”
re: #257 Hecuba’s daughter
Very interesting. I remember some of this from decades ago — but it does seem pretty conclusive. Many Christians claim that JW or Catholics or Unitarians are not Christians — but those other religions do have a similar interpretation of G-d (well, maybe not all Unitarians).
Guess what: our (current) society and legislation sees and treats religion as a matter of personal conscience, let people argue all they want about groups and affiliations between them, but it is not legally relevant.
Trump's defense closing argument in a nutshell. Just ignore what Cohen and the others have said there was no fraud and if I did it, its not really a crime. Todd Blanche is making the Simpsons lawyers look competent FFS.
re: #262 Targetpractice
Ignore the factual, documented evidence. They had an oral agreement. So when the prosecution spends the afternoon showing just now the laws were broken remember that you “can’t convict President Trump”…
re: #93 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And today it’s a par for the course.
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Katie Phang
@KatiePhang
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ICYMI: Judge Cannon has DENIED, without prejudice, Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Motion to Modify Trump’s bond conditions because…Smith didn’t “meaningfully confer” with Trump’s counsel before filing the motion.
re: #263 darthstar
Ignore the factual, documented evidence. They had an oral agreement…..
right, innocent people always create an incriminating paper trail instead of a protective one.
re: #266 lawhawk
So he has to confer with them then refile?
re: #266 lawhawk
As expected the Federalist Society Flunky tosses another lifeline to The Pantshitter.
re: #268 darthstar
So he has to confer with them then refile?
Loose Cannon is saying that since he did not beg on his knees to get them to control their client.
re: #270 Targetpractice
Loose Cannon is saying that since he did not beg on his knees to get them to control their client.
He just needs to get them to commit in writing to not wanting to control their client, then she can either grant the motion or face the 11th circuit.
re: #144 sagehen
less than a year is Riker’s, more than a year is one of the upstate prison-prisons.
Trump being sent “up the river” makes such a better headline.
Jay Kuo:
Judge Aileen Cannon has so far managed to delay the trial and avoid committing reversible error. That may end soon.
“…Jack Smith’s move here was noteworthy. Trump is now on notice that the government is seeking to limit his false claims about the FBI and make it part of his release terms. That could put some pressure on him to end his dangerous nonsense about FBI assassination attempts. And Judge Cannon is also on notice that she eventually has to do something regarding this motion, or she could face a writ of mandamus.
A strike against her by the 11th Circuit could lead to a motion to reassign the case on bias grounds. It may not, and probably will not, happen in this particular instance. But Smith is looking to stack up some wins that together make a strong case to the appellate courts for removing her later. Judge Cannon seems keenly aware of this possibility, which may explain why she has not made any rulings that could lead to immediate appellate review.”
statuskuo.substack.com
Even Cohen believed the Daniels story threat was an extortion tactic, Blanche says, and it was another opportunity for Cohen to "take advantage"—he made a decision to pay Daniels the money and didn't tell Trump about it—he just wanted to take credit for it at a later date.
Now we get the mafia lawyer “He did it to impress his boss!” argument.
BTW, I’m also getting a 503 notice (on all devices) for TPM, so yeah, must be having some sort of site issue.
re: #274 jaunte
One Trump supporter attempting to assassinate one of his claimed ‘enemies’ as ‘retribution’ would probably force Cannon to move the needle back to center rather quickly.
Her unwillingness to protect witnesses and investigators from such activity could lead to her being sanctioned not just by the upper court, but by the bar I would think.
re: #276 Jay C
BTW, I’m also getting a 503 notice (on all devices) for TPM, so yeah, must be having some sort of site issue.
Still working for me.
NEW: Todd Blanche just painted David Pecker as a truth teller in marked contrast to his portrayal of Michael Cohen. If I am prosecutor Josh Steinglass, I just did a happy dance.
— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) May 28, 2024
re: #97 Belafon
Tornado warning here in Rockwall.
My brother is without power, with tree limbs and garbage strewn everywhere. His town Garland has its own electric company which thinks it might take a day to restore power to the whole community. He always keeps spare batteries around for his phone.
re: #275 Targetpractice
[Embedded content]…Blanche says…-he made a decision to pay Daniels the money and didn’t tell Trump about it—he just wanted to take credit for it at a later date.
Now we get the mafia lawyer “He did it to impress his boss!” argument.
then why did TFG pay back cohen $450k and not $130k?
re: #280 jaunte
This fucken guy. Fundraising email.
Rabble-rousing email
FFS, I really cannot see how we are going to get through this election without a spate of politically motivated acts of violence.
re: #266 lawhawk
ICYMI: Judge Cannon has DENIED, without prejudice, Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Motion to Modify Trump’s bond conditions because…Smith didn’t “meaningfully confer” with Trump’s counsel before filing the motion.
“you should have left me out of it and talked directly to the people who are threatening the FBI”
re: #286 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Rabble-rousing email
FFS, I really cannot see how we are going to get through this election without a spate of politically motivated acts of violence.
A TV commercial that warns, “If you commit an act of violence against an official, you will go to prison.” should be aired before and after every Trump speech.
re: #286 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Rabble-rousing email
FFS, I really cannot see how we are going to get through this election without a spate of politically motivated acts of violence.
You’ve said that repeatedly, over and over, again and again. Maybe give it a rest for a day or two?
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, there’s the military adventurism over claiming other nation’s territorial waters and the reefs and islands therein, and building airfields on them.
There’s also the Korean War, but that was a very long time ago.
As for the talking heads, it is something other than the relentless cowbell of “Trump.”
I’m late to this discussion - I remember one of my Viet Nam vet friends laughing when China invaded Viet Nam in 1979. He said the army of Viet Nam will kick China’s ass out of Viet Nam and Cambodia.
Historians considering the short border war of 1979 between China and Vietnam have long concluded that the Chinese invasion into the north of Vietnam - an attempt to exert some control over Vietnamese expansion in Indochina — was a military failure. Vastly superior Chinese forces were met with determined resistance by a regular Vietnamese force capable of successful guerrilla tactics. The analysis continues that after heavy losses Chinese forces sulkily withdrew back across the border, never to trouble the peace again.
Tyler McBrien
At the end of the day, what really happened is someone offered more money to Daniels, says Blanche,someone offered to pay her legal fees—then she wrote a book, she has a podcast and a documentary. This was about extortion, and it ended very well for Daniels, financially speaking.
So now he’s moved to slagging Daniels. Everybody involved in this whole is a liar except his client…which is not going to work well when the prosecution starts pulling up all the examples of Blanche’s client acknowledging he paid the “extortion” money.
re: #257 Hecuba’s daughter
Very interesting. I remember some of this from decades ago — but it does seem pretty conclusive. Many Christians claim that JW or Catholics or Unitarians are not Christians — but those other religions do have a similar interpretation of G-d (well, maybe not all Unitarians).
My mother went to UU services but was pretty much a secular humanist.
Tyler McBrien:
Now to the AH tape: this was an extremely emotional time for Trump, Blanche says. Nobody wants their family exposed to that type of story—doesn't matter if you're a presidential candidate, Apprentice host, or regular person—and Hicks testified to that.
Yes, folks, Todd Blanche is appealing to the jury to feel bad for his client.
Robert De Niro: Donald Trump doesn’t belong in my city. We New Yorkers used to tolerate him when he was just another grubby real estate hustler masquerading as a big shot. A two-bit playboy lying his way into the tabloids. He’s a clown. But this person can’t run the country. That… pic.twitter.com/5LYzPnjVlL
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) May 28, 2024
re: #296 Dangerman
It is good to see President Biden enlisting actors to get ahead in the polls.
re: #266 lawhawk
Katie’s Sidebar:
Special Counsel Jack Smith is not in a position to appeal this Order.
IMO: Judge Cannon could have just ordered a quick briefing schedule and dealt with the “lack of meaningful conferral” issue at the hearing. But this move by her just underscores how much… https://t.co/WMWJWhN8BV— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) May 28, 2024
re: #297 Shropshire Slasher
It is good to see President Biden enlisting actors to get ahead in the polls.
i’d bet he had nothing to do with this.
he’s busy running the country
After mastering the metric system, we’ll have more work to do.
I don’t have the link either.
re: #148 Dr Lizardo
Hell, the Levant has been a scene of horrific conflict since the late Bronze Age.
” What has become of the green pleasant fields of Jerusalem.”
The Kinks
re: #291 BeenHereAwhile
I’m late to this discussion - I remember one of my Viet Nam vet friends laughing when China invaded Viet Nam in 1979. He said the army of Viet Nam will kick China’s ass out of Viet Nam and Cambodia.
China forgot or ignored that ancient military lesson most recently painfully experienced by the US that one should never get involved in a land war in southeast Asia.
re: #302 sizzzzlerz
A land war in Asia, aka the history of China.
re: #299 Dangerman
i’d bet he had nothing to do with this.
he’s busy running the country
They were there as official campaign surrogates. So insomuch as he is in charge of the campaign he had something to do with it.
re: #296 Dangerman
He probably has more credibility than Roseanne Barr.
re: #306 jaunte
Barr has no credibility at all.
re: #308 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I am not touching that one.
re: #284 darthstar
Still can’t access with either Firefox or Safari…
re: #310 Joe Bacon ✅
Still can’t access with either Firefox or Safari…
The defense still seems to be hammering the Cohen is a liar thing.
re: #310 Joe Bacon ✅
Still can’t access with either Firefox or Safari…
TPM?
Yes, I just checked and am still getting a 503 across all devices and browsers
re: #295 Targetpractice
“Nobody wants their family exposed to that kind of story.”
Then maybe don’t have affairs with porn stars and then try to buy them off?
re: #311 danarchy
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todd blanche seems to think michael cohen is the one being tried and not donald trump lmao
re: #313 Eclectic Cyborg
“Not a law-bound puppet, not a law-bound puppet, you’re the law-bound puppet.”
— Wilhoit Trump
re: #289 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
You’ve said that repeatedly, over and over, again and again. Maybe give it a rest for a day or two?
I will when I can go a day or to without hearing about how DJT is riling up the masses to commit stochastic terrorism
re: #304 danarchy
They were there as official campaign surrogates. So insomuch as he is in charge of the campaign he had something to do with it.
I know that
He’ll see it for the first time on the evening news
re: #300 wrenchwench
A little fun from the FT. Apparently they don’t care for American paper sizes in comparison to ISO 216 and I appreciate the poetry with which they express this.
These are the people who still insist on serving their beer in pints…
re: #318 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
These are the people who still insist on serving their beer in pints…
Beer is important. The “miles” thing, not so much.
re: #188 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Trump, who handily deserves prison time, will never see the inside of rikers or any prison. As much as he deserves it, I doubt it will ever happen.
The only case where he might actually have had to serve time is one which will never be brought —- the secret documents case, especially if it can be proved that he provided information to enemies.
re: #313 Eclectic Cyborg
“Nobody wants their family exposed to that kind of story.”
Then maybe don’t have affairs with porn stars and then try to buy them off?
Or say stupid shit to an access hollywood reporter who is recording you
Blanche thanks the jury for listening for so long, and flatters them about paying such close attention: This is not a referendum of how you feel about Trump, who you voted for in 2016 or who you plan to vote for in 2024. The verdict has to do with the evidence you heard here.
If you do that, if you focus on the evidence you heard in this courtroom, this is a very quick, and easy, not guilty verdict, Blanche says, thanking the jury.
That's it for the defense.
He takes his seat next to Trump, and Merchan delivers his typical pre-lunch instructions.
Blanche: “IGNORE ALL THE EVIDENCE, COHEN IS A LIAR!”
Also Blanche: “BASE YOUR VOTE ON THE EVIDENCE!!”
re: #198 Dangerman
Not a first time offender
This was not an oopsie.
and I think everyone knows that. Not his first or only crime.
First time convicted guilty.
And not “a” crime. 34. Organized and planned with others. bordering on a conspiracy.That’s before you consider his behavior.
And hopefully strip out the special treatment factor as if rich or white (or ex prez) entitles him to anything. Makes it worse imo. Cause billionaire and a measly $130k
Ffs treat him as one under the law like any other schlub.
He’s been convicted of a host of non-violent offenses — including defrauding charities. This is not the crime that will put him in jail — but house arrest would be great. And house arrest for a very extended period of time. How would you serve as president if you can’t leave your house for a couple years? And you cannot pardon yourself(state offense)?
This joke killed during dinner at the golf club.
re: #200 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is a trial that is based on him cheating on her while she was pregnant, I cannot imagine that she is going to want to be associated with that.
Wasn’t it after she gave birth — not while she was pregnant?
re: #319 Nojay UK
Beer is important. The “miles” thing, not so much.
That was a big Brexit thing: “now we are no longer slaves to the Metric system!”
re: #323 Hecuba’s daughter
He’s been convicted of a host of non-violent offenses — including defrauding charities. This is no the crime that will put him in jail — but house arrest would be great. And house arrest for a very extended period of time. How would you serve as president if you can’t leave your house for a couple years? And you cannot pardon yourself(state offense)?
you’re right.
I was speaking strictly to ” first offense” wrt criminal/felony.
I’ve read that NYS would likely suspend the sentence or something.
Lets hope its not necessary
re: #324 Targetpractice
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Apparently Blanche has never met his own client.
re: #325 Hecuba’s daughter
Wasn’t it after she gave birth — not while she was pregnant?
could well be, same difference.
re: #213 Mattand
Well, I’m gonna do what I can, but as I’ve stated before: I am surrounded by a lot of Both Siders who normally lean Dem but are in full “Yeah, Trump’s not great, but my groceries are through the roof” mode. I know other people are dealing with this (and much worse), but I have complacent white folks on all sides who aren’t paying attention to the genuine danger Trump is, and dismiss well-reasoned concerns out of hand as me being a worry-wart or just stupid.
So my faith in voters and jurors doing the right thing is pretty much at an all time low.
I also wanna point out that the one time I stated Trump has a real shot at winning in 2016, I got down dinged here into oblivion.
He absolutely should be brought to trial; I’m not saying he shouldn’t. It at least draws a line in a stand that states laws do matter. The problem is that it’s just that: a line in the sand that can easily be wiped out or stepped over without proper backup.
It is the MSM that deserves total and complete condemnation, that is responsible for average citizens being led astray. MSM had no trouble with daily “her emails” stories — but in treating Trump the same way? Not in their interest.
re: #328 BeachDem
Todd Blanche says of Michael Cohen: “He’s literally like an MVP of liars. He lies constantly.”
Apparently Blanche has never met his own client.
Or looked in a mirror
Explanation below:
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re: #322 Targetpractice
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Blanche: “IGNORE ALL THE EVIDENCE, COHEN IS A LIAR!”
Also Blanche: “BASE YOUR VOTE ON THE EVIDENCE!!”
IOW - typical defense attorney closing statement when the facts and evidence are overwhelming and the witnesses are assholes/liars/criminals themselves.
re: #332 dat_said
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re: #250 Mattand
I think with some of them, it’s almost a mantra they repeat to assure themselves that they’re still truly “independent” voters. Literally they have to go “Well, Trump openly threatening dictatorship is exactly the same as Biden not magically rolling prices back to 1982 levels” in order to make themselves think they’re seriously judging the issues.
Some of them are genuinely thinking that Trump somehow gives enough of a shit about someone other than himself that he’ll get right on making inflation go away in Jan 2025.
……
Voters not understanding that 0 inflation does not mean that prices are dropping but only that they are no longer rising.
re: #334 Randall Gross
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re: #248 Orange Impostor
Just saw this little tidbit on the Texas GOP’s sprint to fascism.
Texas GOP Amendment Would Stop Democrats Winning Any State Election
Most outrageous proposal I have ever seen a state make to interfere with the will of the people in the 21st century. But Jim Crow states are familiar with ways to stop progress and prevent democracy.
re: #337 Hecuba’s daughter
Most outrageous proposal I have ever seen a state make to interfere with the will of the people in the 21st century. But Jim Crow states are familiar with ways to stop progress and prevent democracy.
“We’re a republic, not a democracy!”
They have made it clear that the people should not be left to decide things that God has already resolved, like abortion, health care or whether Texas should remain a Red State.
New York Supreme Court Justice Merchan was furious that defense lawyer Todd Blanche suggested to the jury that Trump could go to jail if convicted.
The judge said he would give a curative instruction to the jury after the break.
This will go down in judicial history as the “Merchan Blanche-slap”.
re: #342 jaunte
Way to go Justice Merchan
re: #345 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Arlington National Cemetery turns away “Ashlii Babbitt Memorial Stone” truck.
re: #335 Hecuba’s daughter
Voters not understanding that 0 inflation does not mean that prices are dropping but only that they are no longer rising.
Also not understanding that:
- the prez doesn’t singlehandedly and miraculously control inflation
- his tariffs won’t help
- Nor will lower interest rates
- Or a “tax cut”
re: #346 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Arlington National Cemetery turns away “Ashlii Babbitt Memorial Stone” truck.
These people will not give up on canonizing their martyr.
re: #347 Dangerman
Also not understanding that:
- the prez doesn’t singlehandedly and miraculously control inflation
- his tariffs won’t help
- Nor will lower interest rates
- Or a “tax cut”
“DJT will implement price controls on poultry and open up unlimited drilling and everything will be hunky-dory!”
re: #333 lawhawk
IOW - typical defense attorney closing statement when the facts and evidence are overwhelming and the witnesses are assholes/liars/criminals themselves.
When the facts are on your side, pound the evidence. When the facts are against you, pound the table.
re: #110 Patricia Kayden
I can’t stand Netanyahu so if he’s prosecuted, I wouldn’t care. However, I must ask why the ICC never prosecuted Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud for murdering Khashoggi? Or Putin for war crimes in Ukraine?
Not trying to be a bothsidist but the ICC should be prosecuting a lot more people than Netanyahu.
Killing Khashoggi is murder, not a war crime. On top of that, it only has jurisdiction over member states, and neither Saudi Arabia nor Turkey are members.
A law firm did send a petition to the ICC in 2019.
Arrest warrants have been issued for Putin in 2023. Now all you gotta do is enforce them.
re: #312 Jay C
TPM?
Yes, I just checked and am still getting a 503 across all devices and browsers
I can’t get to it on chrome, edge or Firefox on my laptop and I get a 503 error on safari on my phone.
re: #310 Joe Bacon ✅
Still can’t access with either Firefox or Safari…
Cannot get in either, using Chrome.
re: #316 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I will when I can go a day or to without hearing about how DJT is riling up the masses to commit stochastic terrorism
Maybe use your inner voice for a day or two.
re: #311 danarchy
As with anything and anyone associated with Trump, it’s Liars all the way down. Convincing a jury that Cohen is a liar is like convincing them water is wet. The problem is not is he a liar, but which Trump/MAGA cretin is the bigger liar.
re: #352 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Killing Khashoggi is murder, not a war crime. On top of that, it only has jurisdiction over member states, and neither Saudi Arabia nor Turkey are members.
A law firm did send a petition to the ICC in 2019.
Arrest warrants have been issued for Putin in 2023. Now all you gotta do is enforce them.
Since 2023 Putin has only stepped outside of Russia to locations that won’t obey extradition orders (China, North Korea). He doesn’t dare step foot in a EU nation, or any country in the western hemisphere.
re: #334 Randall Gross
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re: #346 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Arlington National Cemetery turns away “Ashlii Babbitt Memorial Stone” truck.
They should have picked up a sledgehammer and smacked that stone to pieces.
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re: #302 sizzzzlerz
China forgot or ignored that ancient military lesson most recently painfully experienced by the US that one should never get involved in a land war in southeast Asia.
My friend based his opinion on the military capability of Viet Nam honed from 35+ years of conventional and insurgent warfare against so-called “superior forces”.
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re: #362 Semper Fi
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re: #328 BeachDem
Todd Blanche says of Michael Cohen: “He’s literally like an MVP of liars. He lies constantly.”
Apparently Blanche has never met his own client.
Blanche is not under oath.
re: #346 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Arlington National Cemetery turns away “Ashlii Babbitt Memorial Stone” truck.
Good! Infuriating bullshit!
re: #367 BeenHereAwhile
Blanche is not under oath.
But didn’t he still have rules he has to operate under?
re: #367 BeenHereAwhile
Blanche is not under oath.
He is required to tell the truth; so deliberately lying would indeed get him in real trouble. But he is definitely not required to tell the whole truth nor is he barred from speculating.
Robert De Niro is a bad ass. 🔥 pic.twitter.com/KZMz3DeZlr
— ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ ℙ𝕙𝕠𝕥𝕠𝕘𝕣𝕒𝕡𝕙𝕪 (@LePapillonBlu2) May 28, 2024
“Listen you fuckers, you screwheads! Here is a man who would not take it anymore!”
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