It may be as much about his unpopular support for leftist policies and 2022 election failures as the age thing. He's a part of the Uni-Party leadership.
— Michael (Classical Liberal) (@Classic_Lib_M) August 7, 2023
As an aside: Even on Jack Smith’s own terms—even assuming the applicability of the cited statutes to a political dispute—the indictment falls woefully short. Showing that others repeatedly told Trump he was wrong is not sufficient to prove he sought to defraud the United States…
“I may not like Trump, but I love our Constitution, so I feel compelled to speak out.
The latest indictment, which I encourage everyone to read, attempts to criminalize Trump’s routine misstatements of fact and law in connection with the 2020 election.
But this is precisely the sort of wrong that must be addressed politically under our Constitution, not criminally.
Our system can’t survive if political disputes are removed to the criminal realm. There’s no limiting principle to such an approach.
Remind me again which former presidents have been indicted for going to war without congressional approval, spying on Americans in violation of the Fourth Amendment, abusing emergency declarations to bypass checks and balances, or ignoring legal advisers to pursue a clearly unlawful policy.
We don’t criminalize these actions, egregious as they are, because they are matters of political contention. We’re allowed to disagree about the workings of our constitutional system without fear of criminal reprisal.
Politicians are constantly misguided and just plain mistaken about a lot of things—often remarkably so. It endangers all Americans to begin treating politicians’ false beliefs regarding political or constitutional matters, even when they’re obviously wrong, as criminal offenses.
We impeach people for violating the public trust—for political misconduct or serious incompetence. We reject them. We vote them out. We never again elect them.
Get Trump is the game, the rules change as the corrupt judges make them up to suit their prejudice.
UPDATE: Chutkan denied Trump’s request for a few extra days to respond to (another) Jack Smith ambush protective order filed Friday night as both sides were conferring.
Trump must file response by tomorrow at 5. Pretty sure this is highly unusual… https://t.co/VsACP7nXmL
As I've noted over and over. Local rules allow 14 days for counsel to file a response to a motion. Chutkan cut that down to 2 days, including one business day.
Trump's lawyers asked for a 3-day extension. She said no. This is not standard practice by DOJ or Chutkan. https://t.co/70hWSZx31H
.@RobertKennedyJr Denounces Russiagate as Political Propaganda Against Trump
"We saw the FBI legitimizing Russia gate, the propaganda against Trump. And I'm not a fan of Trump's, but I don't think that the FBI should be deployed against any presidential candidate, whether I… pic.twitter.com/BkQhBt0BS5
This is Viktor Shokin. He is the Ukrainian prosecutor that Biden accused of being corrupt and had removed.
In this video he responds to accusations that his investigation into Burisma was dormant or that he was corrupt. He tells the truth about why he was removed as prosecutor.… pic.twitter.com/4kmXexBsmL
A proper media not in the business of humiliating itself on an hourly basis as the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party and Biden regime would be howling from the rooftops that Jack Smith wants to keep evidence away from the public/media in BOTH cases against Trump.
The CARES Act gave them $30 billion. The covid supplemental gave them another $81 billion. The American Rescue Plan Act gave them another $170 billion.
I’m familiar with the First Amendment etc. It’s one of the reasons I thought this particular indictment was a bit of a stretch. It’s the Georgia case I think is the strongest. To prove Trump knew the election was legit prior to his Jan 6th speech will be difficult. He received conflicting views from advisers. I do think Bill Barr knows something the rest of us don’t.
However, his postings on social media since the indictments are not necessarily covered by the first amendment. As part of his bail conditions (he is out on bail, remember), he was told he could not discuss any of the indictment or discovery except with his lawyers, witnesses, etc. Obviously posting about it on social media is no-go. His first post was a bit ambiguous but his post about Mike Pence quotes the indictment and now he’s criticising the judge.
Bail conditions to not talk about your case are pretty standard and any good defence lawyer will tell his client to keep his mouth closed. Eventually Trump is going to say something about the case that will need clarification or context and the last thing the defence wants is to put him on the stand. A protective order will do Trump a favour. Reading the request for a protective order, it explicitly states Trump and his lawyers will have full access. I fail to see what Stone has to do with this.
For those who think the judge was too hasty by giving only three days; others see it as a compromise. They view his statements as a violation of the bail conditions and believe bail should be revoked immediately. Trump, then, would’ve been in jail over the weekend.
For those who claim, this is “third world” politics. Turn the argument around; any response to third world behaviour will look third world. Perhaps Trump should not have behaved in a Third World manner.
If something goes wrong, those in authority will almost fail to take responsibility and point fingers. The DC police complaining his hands were tied and there were too many undercover FBI agents is pointing fingers and abdicating responsibility. About six months prior to the Jan 6 riots, the DC chief was fully prepared for the BLM march. He could’ve acted the same on Jan 6. He allowed his bias toward right wing demonstrators cloud his judgement
My position on Abbot is fairly simple. He exceeded his authority and created a dangerous situation killing two people. At the very least, it’s involuntary manslaughter. It’s also immoral and anti-life. This is the same governor who overrode municipality rules governing water breaks for outdoor workers when the heat exceeds a certain temperature. Its anti-life
At the Rio Grande – Texas Rangers have been told to push people back to the barb wire and to refuse to give water to those who do make it to land. Again anti-life. These are either migrants or refugees, if it’s the latter international law applies and they need to take care of them until a hearing is given.
Can a country enforce its border – yes but that would be the national gov’t. They could put up barb wire – I would call it immoral and anti-life but not manslaughter. The federal government has the authority – elections have consequences. Interestingly border apprehensions and expulsions are highest going back as far as 1990 (these 2022 stats). Biden has been soundly criticised for this by the left.
Is refugee processing and care inadequate in the US (and Canada)? Definitely but that’s 50 years of neo-liberal economics resulting in below standard infrastructure.
AJ – local rules allow up to 14 days – it doesn’t say it has to be 14 days. It could take zero days. The defence has publicly admitted their tactic is to delay and delay some more. That’s fine as a tactic but publicly admitting it is their tactic, they now risk any request for more time to be seen as non-legitimate and a delay tactic. I haven’t been impressed with Trump’s legal team – this isn’t their only mistake. Publicly stating that it was common knowledge that it was a fair election just eliminates a pillar of their argument.
And remember – the judge could have ruled that Trump’s social media posts violated bail conditions and revoked bail.
The Marta “controversy” is a bit over the top. The film was crowd funded. However, the producers shot themselves in the foot by calling it a nothing burger. It may be but publicly you have to be clear about the seriousness of child abduction etc. In addition, the producers were not forthcoming about the donation. They did not say what Marta’s actual contribution was. They stated the average contribution was $501 (mean or median??) but when asked for Marta’s donation numbers, they wouldn’t say.
I would think stick wielding Sikhs have integrated well into American culture. Depending on the state, I would think this would be acceptable. They would be charged in Canada and then given a suspended sentence – ie 2 years probation and if you behave no criminal record. The tackling and holding of the robber would be acceptable – any more than two or three wacks would be deemed excessive.
As for police; they rarely prevent crime and rarely follow up on crime. (in my city they are pretty much useless) Defund the police movements do not lead to an increase in crime or murder — usually its a number of demographic and social-economic factors.
Congressional moves to impose an ethical standard on the Supreme Court would be applied to all nine judges yet conservatives act as if it would apply to only Thomas. Are they admitting something we all know – Thomas has the most suspect ethics? Most of the articles I’ve read have taken pains to not only include Thomas but Roberts, Alito, Sotomayor and other judges.
McConnell, Grassley, Fienstein, etc al all need to spend more time with their grandchildren. Its time for Boomers (and pre-Boomers) to pass the torch to the millennials . As a member of Gen-X I’m fine with watching and being left alone.
The scene in Kyiv is not unusual – the closer you get to a war zone, the more young people will party. London in WWII was a party, Paris after liberation was even crazier. The pic shows a lot of young men with military haircuts – partying while on leave, what do expect soldiers to do.
War in developed countries can have some weird scenes. A friend once hitchhiked through Bosnia on a Serbian tank, made it to Zagreb and went straight to a dance club. He started Dubrovnik. It was going from Europe to Europe with some weird twilight zone episode in the middle.
As a school teacher, I can tell you where the money went. It went to the Department of Education and various school boards. The money did not trickle down. Trickle down economics never works.
I don’t have cable so I haven’t watched the FIFA Womens world cup but the results are interesting. The days of only North Americans and Scandinavia taking the women’s game seriously are over. The rest of the world is catching up – the NCAA and Nordic equity/fitness no longer gives these countries an advantage. The question is will they be able to adapt to the new reality.
Trump was busy on his “Truth Social” site over the weekend.
What’s fascinating is that he’s possibly leading the way to his own political demise.
He’s becoming quite transparent with his “own words,” a window if you will.
Character, self-control and temperament matter.
Mark 7: (It is) “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.”
Readers have added context, with one pointing out that Kyiv is 310 miles from the front line, and another saying: “Footage of people trying to live a normal life is frequently used by pro-Russian publishers to discourage western aid.”
OPINION
INSIDE VIEW
Can the Climate Heal Itself?
Dissenters from the catastrophe consensus on warming are worth listening to.
~ Stop with all the existential-crisis talk. President Biden said, “Climate change is literally an existential threat to our nation and to the world.”
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also talks about the “existential threat” of climate change. National security adviser Jake Sullivan identifies an “accelerating climate crisis” as one reason for a “new consensus” for government picking winners and losers in the economy. Be wary of those touting consensus.
But what if the entire premise is wrong? What if the Earth is self-healing? Before you hurl the “climate denier” invective at me, let’s think this through. Earth has been around for 4.5 billion years—living organisms for 3.7 billion. Surely, an enlightened engineer might think, the planet’s creator built in a mechanism to regulate heat, or we wouldn’t still be here to worry about it.
The theory of climate change is that excess carbon dioxide and methane trap the sun’s radiation in the atmosphere, and these man-made greenhouse gases reflect more of that heat back to Earth, warming the planet. Pretty simple. Eventually, we reach a tipping point when positive feedback loops form—less ice to reflect sunlight, warm oceans that can no longer absorb carbon dioxide—and then we fry, existentially. So lose those gas stoves and carbon-spewing Suburbans.
But nothing is simple. What about negative feedback loops? Examples: human sweat and its cooling condensation or our irises dilating or constricting based on the amount of light coming in. Clouds, which can block the sun or trap its radiation, are rarely mentioned in climate talk.
Why? Because clouds are notoriously difficult to model in climate simulations. Steven Koonin, a New York University professor and author of “Unsettled,” tells me that today’s computing power can typically model the Earth’s atmosphere in grids 60 miles on a side. Pretty coarse. So, Mr. Koonin says, “the properties of clouds in climate models are often adjusted or ‘tuned’ to match observations.” …
… Earth has warmed, but I’m convinced negative feedback loops will save us. Dismissing the Iris Effect or detuning it isn’t science. Sadly, climate science has morphed into climate rhetoric. And note, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen explained in April that green spending “is, at its core, about turning the climate crisis into an economic opportunity.” Hmmm. “Catastrophic,” “existential” and “crisis” are cloudy thinking. … ~
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Wandering Views 
It’s way past time for this, when his term is up.
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Even some NTers are catching on….
“I may not like Trump, but I love our Constitution, so I feel compelled to speak out.
The latest indictment, which I encourage everyone to read, attempts to criminalize Trump’s routine misstatements of fact and law in connection with the 2020 election.
But this is precisely the sort of wrong that must be addressed politically under our Constitution, not criminally.
Our system can’t survive if political disputes are removed to the criminal realm. There’s no limiting principle to such an approach.
Remind me again which former presidents have been indicted for going to war without congressional approval, spying on Americans in violation of the Fourth Amendment, abusing emergency declarations to bypass checks and balances, or ignoring legal advisers to pursue a clearly unlawful policy.
We don’t criminalize these actions, egregious as they are, because they are matters of political contention. We’re allowed to disagree about the workings of our constitutional system without fear of criminal reprisal.
Politicians are constantly misguided and just plain mistaken about a lot of things—often remarkably so. It endangers all Americans to begin treating politicians’ false beliefs regarding political or constitutional matters, even when they’re obviously wrong, as criminal offenses.
We impeach people for violating the public trust—for political misconduct or serious incompetence. We reject them. We vote them out. We never again elect them.
We don’t imprison them.”
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Hello…..?
Media?
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Huh. That’s weird.
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Get Trump is the game, the rules change as the corrupt judges make them up to suit their prejudice.
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But our media is corrupt and biased, so…..
Evidence, what evidence?
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Evidence?
What evidence? the media asks….
The ads write themselves….
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No senile old dude, they don’t.
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From yesterday and today;
I’m familiar with the First Amendment etc. It’s one of the reasons I thought this particular indictment was a bit of a stretch. It’s the Georgia case I think is the strongest. To prove Trump knew the election was legit prior to his Jan 6th speech will be difficult. He received conflicting views from advisers. I do think Bill Barr knows something the rest of us don’t.
However, his postings on social media since the indictments are not necessarily covered by the first amendment. As part of his bail conditions (he is out on bail, remember), he was told he could not discuss any of the indictment or discovery except with his lawyers, witnesses, etc. Obviously posting about it on social media is no-go. His first post was a bit ambiguous but his post about Mike Pence quotes the indictment and now he’s criticising the judge.
Bail conditions to not talk about your case are pretty standard and any good defence lawyer will tell his client to keep his mouth closed. Eventually Trump is going to say something about the case that will need clarification or context and the last thing the defence wants is to put him on the stand. A protective order will do Trump a favour. Reading the request for a protective order, it explicitly states Trump and his lawyers will have full access. I fail to see what Stone has to do with this.
For those who think the judge was too hasty by giving only three days; others see it as a compromise. They view his statements as a violation of the bail conditions and believe bail should be revoked immediately. Trump, then, would’ve been in jail over the weekend.
For those who claim, this is “third world” politics. Turn the argument around; any response to third world behaviour will look third world. Perhaps Trump should not have behaved in a Third World manner.
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Sounds about right…..
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If something goes wrong, those in authority will almost fail to take responsibility and point fingers. The DC police complaining his hands were tied and there were too many undercover FBI agents is pointing fingers and abdicating responsibility. About six months prior to the Jan 6 riots, the DC chief was fully prepared for the BLM march. He could’ve acted the same on Jan 6. He allowed his bias toward right wing demonstrators cloud his judgement
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Compromise to a leftist.
The law says 14 days, I’ll give you 3, only one of which is a work day.
See, I compromised.
Do you hear yourself?
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oops “almost always”
My position on Abbot is fairly simple. He exceeded his authority and created a dangerous situation killing two people. At the very least, it’s involuntary manslaughter. It’s also immoral and anti-life. This is the same governor who overrode municipality rules governing water breaks for outdoor workers when the heat exceeds a certain temperature. Its anti-life
At the Rio Grande – Texas Rangers have been told to push people back to the barb wire and to refuse to give water to those who do make it to land. Again anti-life. These are either migrants or refugees, if it’s the latter international law applies and they need to take care of them until a hearing is given.
Can a country enforce its border – yes but that would be the national gov’t. They could put up barb wire – I would call it immoral and anti-life but not manslaughter. The federal government has the authority – elections have consequences. Interestingly border apprehensions and expulsions are highest going back as far as 1990 (these 2022 stats). Biden has been soundly criticised for this by the left.
Is refugee processing and care inadequate in the US (and Canada)? Definitely but that’s 50 years of neo-liberal economics resulting in below standard infrastructure.
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AJ – local rules allow up to 14 days – it doesn’t say it has to be 14 days. It could take zero days. The defence has publicly admitted their tactic is to delay and delay some more. That’s fine as a tactic but publicly admitting it is their tactic, they now risk any request for more time to be seen as non-legitimate and a delay tactic. I haven’t been impressed with Trump’s legal team – this isn’t their only mistake. Publicly stating that it was common knowledge that it was a fair election just eliminates a pillar of their argument.
And remember – the judge could have ruled that Trump’s social media posts violated bail conditions and revoked bail.
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The Marta “controversy” is a bit over the top. The film was crowd funded. However, the producers shot themselves in the foot by calling it a nothing burger. It may be but publicly you have to be clear about the seriousness of child abduction etc. In addition, the producers were not forthcoming about the donation. They did not say what Marta’s actual contribution was. They stated the average contribution was $501 (mean or median??) but when asked for Marta’s donation numbers, they wouldn’t say.
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I would think stick wielding Sikhs have integrated well into American culture. Depending on the state, I would think this would be acceptable. They would be charged in Canada and then given a suspended sentence – ie 2 years probation and if you behave no criminal record. The tackling and holding of the robber would be acceptable – any more than two or three wacks would be deemed excessive.
As for police; they rarely prevent crime and rarely follow up on crime. (in my city they are pretty much useless) Defund the police movements do not lead to an increase in crime or murder — usually its a number of demographic and social-economic factors.
Congressional moves to impose an ethical standard on the Supreme Court would be applied to all nine judges yet conservatives act as if it would apply to only Thomas. Are they admitting something we all know – Thomas has the most suspect ethics? Most of the articles I’ve read have taken pains to not only include Thomas but Roberts, Alito, Sotomayor and other judges.
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McConnell, Grassley, Fienstein, etc al all need to spend more time with their grandchildren. Its time for Boomers (and pre-Boomers) to pass the torch to the millennials . As a member of Gen-X I’m fine with watching and being left alone.
The scene in Kyiv is not unusual – the closer you get to a war zone, the more young people will party. London in WWII was a party, Paris after liberation was even crazier. The pic shows a lot of young men with military haircuts – partying while on leave, what do expect soldiers to do.
War in developed countries can have some weird scenes. A friend once hitchhiked through Bosnia on a Serbian tank, made it to Zagreb and went straight to a dance club. He started Dubrovnik. It was going from Europe to Europe with some weird twilight zone episode in the middle.
As a school teacher, I can tell you where the money went. It went to the Department of Education and various school boards. The money did not trickle down. Trickle down economics never works.
I don’t have cable so I haven’t watched the FIFA Womens world cup but the results are interesting. The days of only North Americans and Scandinavia taking the women’s game seriously are over. The rest of the world is catching up – the NCAA and Nordic equity/fitness no longer gives these countries an advantage. The question is will they be able to adapt to the new reality.
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Trump was busy on his “Truth Social” site over the weekend.
What’s fascinating is that he’s possibly leading the way to his own political demise.
He’s becoming quite transparent with his “own words,” a window if you will.
Character, self-control and temperament matter.
Mark 7: (It is) “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.”
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“He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, And he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.” Proverbs 16:32.
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Re: the 10:20 post showing the pool party.
Readers have added context, with one pointing out that Kyiv is 310 miles from the front line, and another saying: “Footage of people trying to live a normal life is frequently used by pro-Russian publishers to discourage western aid.”
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Oops. That was a beach club, not merely a pool party.
It is an example of our resilience that people try to live as normally as possible even in difficult times and circumstances.
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Interesting perspective:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-the-climate-heal-itself-cumulus-cirrus-clouds-negative-feedback-un-30bbbef0?st=jwhwnrele4jikey&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
________________
OPINION
INSIDE VIEW
Can the Climate Heal Itself?
Dissenters from the catastrophe consensus on warming are worth listening to.
~ Stop with all the existential-crisis talk. President Biden said, “Climate change is literally an existential threat to our nation and to the world.”
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also talks about the “existential threat” of climate change. National security adviser Jake Sullivan identifies an “accelerating climate crisis” as one reason for a “new consensus” for government picking winners and losers in the economy. Be wary of those touting consensus.
But what if the entire premise is wrong? What if the Earth is self-healing? Before you hurl the “climate denier” invective at me, let’s think this through. Earth has been around for 4.5 billion years—living organisms for 3.7 billion. Surely, an enlightened engineer might think, the planet’s creator built in a mechanism to regulate heat, or we wouldn’t still be here to worry about it.
The theory of climate change is that excess carbon dioxide and methane trap the sun’s radiation in the atmosphere, and these man-made greenhouse gases reflect more of that heat back to Earth, warming the planet. Pretty simple. Eventually, we reach a tipping point when positive feedback loops form—less ice to reflect sunlight, warm oceans that can no longer absorb carbon dioxide—and then we fry, existentially. So lose those gas stoves and carbon-spewing Suburbans.
But nothing is simple. What about negative feedback loops? Examples: human sweat and its cooling condensation or our irises dilating or constricting based on the amount of light coming in. Clouds, which can block the sun or trap its radiation, are rarely mentioned in climate talk.
Why? Because clouds are notoriously difficult to model in climate simulations. Steven Koonin, a New York University professor and author of “Unsettled,” tells me that today’s computing power can typically model the Earth’s atmosphere in grids 60 miles on a side. Pretty coarse. So, Mr. Koonin says, “the properties of clouds in climate models are often adjusted or ‘tuned’ to match observations.” …
… Earth has warmed, but I’m convinced negative feedback loops will save us. Dismissing the Iris Effect or detuning it isn’t science. Sadly, climate science has morphed into climate rhetoric. And note, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen explained in April that green spending “is, at its core, about turning the climate crisis into an economic opportunity.” Hmmm. “Catastrophic,” “existential” and “crisis” are cloudy thinking. … ~
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Sure Kizzie,
Russian disinfo, like Hunter’s laptop. 🙄
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