6/28/2024 - If think Jonathan Martin had a great line here when he said: "Joe Biden might not be able to recover. But Trump could still lose it." Democrats, especially the Biden Campaign, need to always remember exactly who they're running against and the actual threat that Donald Trump and MAGA represents and the threat that they are to the country.
The Biden Campaign, assuming that President Biden doesn't step aside, has to go on the offense, after they hopefully successful pivot from the President's bad debate by simply owning his bad performance last night, is simply pound Donald Trump, like you need a knockout to win the fight, or at least the last 3-5 rounds of the fight.
And while they are doing that, they'll be able to do that with a lot of negative commercials about Donald Trump, not just from the debate but going forward and perhaps even with what DJT's eventual vice presidential selection has said and written about him in the past.
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| Source:The Bulwark talking about Joe Biden's post-debate options. |
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6/27/2024 - I saw I Want To Live with Hollywood Goddess Susan Hayward, playing Barbara Graham, who definitely was a compulsive liar and career criminal.This was part of TCM's month long series about true crime films, with this film being one of them. And their Film Noir expert Eddie Muller hosted this series and had true crime journalist Paula Zahn as one of his guest on this series to talk about this movie.
To give you an example of how weak the case against Barbara Graham was: imagine if Donald J. Trump was only convicted based on the testimony of Michael Cohen. For me, Donald Trump is a career criminal an conman, who until recently, was never caught committing any felonies. But Cohen alone, especially with his track record as a liar himself, wouldn't have been enough to get a credible conviction of Trump.
Barbara Graham was basically convicted on the testimony of one of her co-defendants, William Upshaw, who was also a convicted felon. And that's the point that Paula Zahn was making here. And not just the weak case against Graham for 1st degree murder, but they gave her the death penalty based on a weak case.
California for the last 30 years, maybe longer, has gotten the reputation has being a very hippie, left-wing state. A place where all the social radicals and left-wing political radicals can feel at home and as part of the mainstream. The official nickname of California is the People's Republic of California.
But in the 1950s, California, except of perhaps San Francisco and the broader San Francisco area, fit in very well with 1950s\, Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best, Phyllis Schlafly's and Pat Buchanan's culturally collectivist America, where every "real American" was supposed to be the same and believe in the same things. Not that difficult to get 1st degree murder convictions back then.
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| Source:Classic Couple look at the Barbara Graham story that was featured on Turner Classic Movies last year. |
6/26/2024 - Just on a personal note first: if you are going to read back what someone else said live on air, as if you are speaking for the person, you might want to actually sound like the person that you are trying to impersonate.
Even though Donald Trump represents a lot of Americans who have claimed to have seen flying mushrooms and spaceships from other planets, who claimed to have lost their fast food jobs to illegal immigrants, Donald J. Trump is actually from Queens, New York and has lived in Manhattan for most of his life. He's not some redneck from rural Georgia, or wherever Farron Cousins is from.
As far as Donald J. Trump claiming to have been tortured at the Atlanta Fulton County Jail: if you've never been in jail before, you might feel like that's torture. I remember when he was indicted last summer in Atlanta and had to report to that jail to be officially arrested and arraigned, the former Mayor of Atlanta Keisha Lance Bottoms, was on MSNBC talking about the smell of that place. And saying that it smells like stale food, dirty laundry, body odor, etc. Maybe there's an ounce of truth in what DJT is saying here. But an ounce is about all the credit that I'm willing to give him at this point.
DJT was at this jail for 30 minutes maybe. All they did was arrest him an arraign him. It's not like he was even given a jailhouse baloney sandwich and cup of coffee to wash down the sandwich, let alone a cell. He wasn't interrogated by the Atlanta detectives or anything like that. He wasn't even given a tour of the facility. He was just there to get his photo taken and be fingerprinted.
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| Source:Farron Balanced talking about Defendant' Don's time in the Fulton County, Georgia Jail. | You can see the rest of this post on Blogger and WordPress. |
6/25/2024 - You know it's a slow news day when I'm blogging about anything to do with true crime, including organized crime. Not that I don't enjoy blogging about these issues, because I'm fascinated by them as a true crime enthusiast, but it's a small part of this blog. That's all.
If you are familiar with Martin Scorsese's Casino from 1995, you know about the Frank Lefty Rosenthal story fairly well. This is about the Chicago gambling/organized crime faction of the modern Las Vegas that you see today, perhaps minus the organized crime.
In the 1970s you had a group of Chicago Italian mobsters, as well as gamblers of multiple ethnic backgrounds, deciding to go to Las Vegas, after essentially being kicked out of other major cities like Chicago, Miami, etc, because these gamblers were either mobsters themselves, like Anthony Spilotro, as well as professional gamblers like Frank Rosenthal, who had organized crime connections.
And whatever you think of organized gambling and organized crime in general, the fact is Las Vegas is not the entertainment mecca that it is today, has been since the 1970s, at least, without the Ben Siegels's, Jimmy Hoffa's, Frank Rosenthal's, as well as all the other legitimate businesspeople and entertainers that it's had over the years.
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| Source:The Bulwark talking about the Frank Lefty Rosenthal Story. Actor Robert De Niro played him in Martin Scorsese's Casino, from 1995. |
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6/24/2024 - I guess I have just a couple points here about this interview and then I'll get into the upcoming debate between Convicted Felon Don and President Joe Biden.
I guess my point about this exchange (I guess) between CNN anchor Kasie Hunt and MAGA spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, is really 1 of my criticisms about CNN. I mean bringing everyone over from the MAGA movement to talk about anything serious and give to give serious political thoughts and facts about anything, is like trying to start your car after the engine has already been removed. And then sitting there half an hour later, not even bothering to open the hood yet, perhaps just trying to kick your tires, freaking out about why the car won't start. Maybe you break your foot from kicking your tires, before you bother to look under your hood. Perhaps CNN simply has too much air time and doesn't know what to do with it.
And again my 2nd point here is about Kasie Hunt. I guess you could give her credit for the way she handled Karoline Leavitt. Who was simply just there to attack the CNN anchors, or at least Jake Tapper, who'll be one of the moderators at the debate. And try to plant an excuse for why Donald Trump will lose Thursday night, if he loses at all, that it will be CNN that was there to help Joe Biden.
But it's safe to assume that Kasie Hunt is not just the anchor of her program. That he also has also has a lot of say in who exactly goes on her show to talk to her, like a managing editor. And she had on Karoline Leavitt on her program. And you see the early moments of this segment and it's clear why she wanted Leavitt on there and what she was expecting could happen instead.
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| Source:Meidas Touch talking about the lack of exchange between CNN anchor Kasie Hunt & MAGA spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt. |
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6/21/2024 - As a lot of the opposition to MAGA has pointed out going back to 2017, including a lot of people on the center-right in America, like this blog, but The Bulwark, and a lot of of center-right commentators, Donald Trump's MAGA movement is a political cult.
MAGA is not a political faction, or a religious movement, or even a theocratic political movement, this is a political cult. They get up everyday (when when they're hungover, which I'm sure is not a rare occurrence) dreaming up new lies, new trash, that they can dump on their own movement and he country, just to advance their cult. And sell it like they're testifying under oath, or to Jesus Christ himself.
And MAGA sends out the Lauren Boebert's of the world to talk about and promote genuine, Christian values, that they don't believe in.
Lauren Boebert's son is about to become a convicted felon because apparently he broke the 8th Commandment by becoming a thief. I guess his parents didn't teach them that Commandment.
Their cult leader breaks most of the 10 Commandments everyday.
Steve Bannon is headed to prison in 3 weeks because he's in contempt of Congress, because he refused to even sit down with the House January 6 Committee in 2022.
And these are the folks that they have going out there on TV and on their podcasts preaching about the need for morality in America. It's like hearing a pro-life speech from a serial murderer who is about to be executed: "I found Jesus on Death Row"
And not to take another shot at Louisiana, but they put themselves in the national MAGA spotlight with this. I mean a state that ranks 47th in education, feels the need to post the 10 Commandments in all of their schools. I mean a lot of their own students probably can't even read the 10 Commandments. So what could they possibly learn from them?
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| Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about MAGA and the 10 Commandments. They really should actually learn about the TTC (as Donald J. Trump calls them) before they preach about them. Just to make sure (if for no other reason) that they actually believe what they're saying. Because 1 of the 10 Commandants is:"Thou shall not bear false witness against your neighbor" |
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6/20/2024 - Before I get into sounding like I'm simply bashing Carl Higbie and basically accusing him of speaking out of his ass, (to be frank) I want to get into where I actually agree with him. Which should be shocking enough for you. I mean, let's face it Carl Higbie is a Newsmax host. I agree with them on anything, about as often as Seattle runs out of coffee and water, or Hollywood runs out of celebrities and scandals, Millennials take a break from social media and staring at their phones. Almost never.
He's right about the (let's call them) woke-left. But I think most of that has to do with American culture, especially pop culture more than anything else. I'm about 10 years older than him and I'm having a hard time finding a lot of the programming and movies that I grew up with, simply because you have far-left, radical feminists, who simply think shows like the Dukes of Hazzard is either racist or sexist, if not both and the same thing with The Fall Guy, which just recently made it back into reruns on the Heroes & Icons network.
Even though the Dukes of Hazzard and The Fall Guy are two shows that are actually very popular with the American people as a whole. But you have beautiful, sexy women, wearing very tight outfits on every episode of these shows. And even though America as a whole loves these shows, the militant feminists of today have enough clout to keep them off the air. At least until recently.
As far as the woke-left in the military: Joe Biden is President of the United States. He's more hawkish than Donald J. Trump could ever possibly dream of being. Donald got out of military service because of bone spurs. Joe Biden either as a U.S. Senator, Vice President of the United States, or now as President Biden, has a personal relationship with both military and foreign service, going back 50 plus years, when he was originally elected to Congress. While Donald Trump feels the need to be loved and share love stories with our foreign dictators.
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| Source:C-SPAN covering author Carl Higbie's book event in New York City. |
6/19/2024 - It must be a slow news day if both Michael Popok and I are talking about what's basically a political tabloid story. I mean if Donald J. Trump wasn't an ex-POTUS, whose now running to get his old job back, that he was fired from 3 1/2 years ago and is only running for President to stay out of prison and they were just Manhattan, or Miami professional celebrities/reality TV stars and Donald wasn't a part-tine politician as well, this would just be a Manhattan, or Miami tabloid story.
As we keep saying here at The New Democrat, we've never met Melania Trump, don't even have plans on ever meeting her, don't want to meet her at this point. And it's not like we don't like her. I think she's just too aloof of a person for anyone to really like or dislike her, especially when they don't even know her.
So what we say here at The New Democrat is not out of anger or dislike for her. Actually, we call her Melani Baby at The New Democrat, because she has this Jaclyn Smith (for you Charlie's Angels fans) quality about her, where it never matters how old she is, she always has this adorable disposition about her and just seems as sweet candy with every facial expression that she makes. Even if she's a total witch (to be kind) in private.
But as we all know, the marriage (if you want to call it that) is 100% transactional. Donald has made Melania a very wealthy woman and has given her financial security of the rest of her life. He's also given her a son that she seems to actually love and want the best for.
Melania has given Donald a gorgeous wife that he needed to not just become a politician, but President of the United States as well.
And the fact that Melania is almost never seen with her husband in public, perhaps even in private anymore, just might be because she doesn't like him, knows exactly who Donald is, doesn't want to be First Lady again, and is only staying in this relationship as long as it personally and financially benefits her and their son Barron.
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| Source:Meidas Touch talking about Donald & Melania's transactional relationship. It must be a slow news day. |
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6/18/2024 - I think the most intelligent thing that Jesse Dollemore said (and perhaps the only intelligent thing that Dollemore said here) was that no group of Americans and I would add no group of Americans of any race or ethnicity, is monolithic.
Obviously not all European-Americans are Republicans. The current President of the United States is an Irish-Catholic. Not all African-Americans are Democrats. Senator Tim Scott before he decided that he wanted Donald Trump to select him for Vice President, was basically a pragmatic, center-right, African-American Republican, from South Carolina.
I think one's politics regardless of race or ethnicity, has a lot do with where they come from and how they were raised, as well as their own personal experiences.
If you come from a rural background and money was very tight for you when you were growing up, perhaps just barely got out of high school, maybe managed to get come vocational training, or perhaps where in a military for a short stint looking for a better life, but managed to get yourself a good blur-collar job when you finished school, you are probably going to be on the cultural-right in America. And you are probably not a big fan of immigration and multiculturalism either.
But if you come from an urban or suburban background and come from a good middle class family, you grew up with both parents, both parents have a good education, and you get a good education for yourself, doesn't mean you'll be a Democrat, necessarily, because someone of that background could be a center-right Republican, whose a Republican for economic reasons, but you are not a cultural warrior.
Or, someone with a metropolitan background growing up, could be a JFK, perhaps a Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, even a Joe Biden Democrat, whose a Democrat, but not a left-wing Democrat. But a Democrat who believes in liberal democracy, as well as opportunity and responsibility for all.
Again, African-Americans aren't monolithic. Things like economic opportunity, education, including school choice, safe streets, accountability, are just as popular with metropolitan African-Americans, as they are with European-Americans. If it wasn't for MAGA and the far-right in general in America, you would have a Republican Party not just competing for African-American voters, but Democrats would be forced to either change their politics, or get more European-Americans to vote for them.
Also, I guess this is the 2nd good point that Jesse Dollemore made. I think you have to distinguish with African-Americans who like Republican economic policies, versus the African-American wannabe political reality TV stars, who are simply trying to get rich off of MAGA and make a name for themselves. The Candace Owens, the Byron Donalds and others. Minus MAGA, Byron Donalds is probably just a back-benching U.S. Representative right now, that no one has heard of outside of his district.
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| Source:Jesse Dollemore talking to Garrison Hayes about African-American voters. |
6/17/2024 - All these scams that are going on under Donald J. Trump just tells me that Donald Trump knows who he is and is perfectly comfortable with that. The problem for him is that he doesn't want anyone else to know that he's a professional con artist. At least not anyone he thinks that he needs to vote for him. At least not while America is still a liberal democracy and before he can take over and ruin that and just centralize all power, at least governmental power, under his control.
I say all this because, 1, I believe it. 2, it's true. But 3, he pulls these scams that someone in high school who simply doesn't believe the rules apply to him, tries to pull:
Like bringing empty pizza boxes to Manhattan fire fighters, when he was on criminal trial in Manhattan last month. And telling everyone he bought them pizza.
Or this small church in Detroit, where he tells everyone that he's at an African-American church, but the fact is it could've been a small, rural, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant church, in Mississippi or West Virginia. Maybe 100 people there, maybe 10 people there are African-American.
DJT just needs some major media player to take his spin for like a few hours and get it out there, before the facts actually get out on the story. And I think that's one of Ben Meiselas's points here.
But the fact that Donald Trump personally feels the needs to pull these scams, is a sign of weakness, not strength. I think he's getting polling information from his own campaign telling him that his numbers are down with union workers of all backgrounds. And his numbers aren't in the toilet with African-Americans. But they've already been flushed. And perhaps you can take the rest of that reference yourself from there. Otherwise, why pull these scams if he's not only winning right now, but has a solid lead over Joe Biden as well?
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| Source:Meidas Touch talking about conaholic Donald J. Trump. |
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6/14/2024 - We covered this yesterday. But one good point that House Minority Leader Jeffries made here was that Congressional Republicans (House & Senate) are now going to have to run with Donald Trump for reelection, with reproductive rights, and American democracy literally on the ballot. And he's saying that the Democratic Party believes in those American values and the MAGA Party doesn't it.
If the 2024 presidential election is about whether American voters like President Joe Biden and the job that he's doing, regardless of who his opponent is and what the next Congress could look like, if his opponent wins, President Biden probably loses.
But if this is about Donald Trump and MAGA and what they would do, if they're ever back in power, (God help us, is that ever happens again) then Democrats will probably not just win, but you'll see a reelected President Biden and a Democratic Congress next year. If Democrats, including left-wing Democrats, simply get out and vote and vote foe Democrats in the general elections.
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| Source:C-SPAN covering House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (Democrat, New York) weekly press briefing. |
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6'13/2024 - I just have to start off by saying: the balls of some people. I mean here's the guy who led the 2021 insurrection on Congress and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell who was leading the Senate Republicans back in 2021 as well, welcomes him back to the U.S. Capitol to talk his conference 42 months later. Not so much on Mitch McConnell, but Donald J. Trump literally visiting the scene of his crimes at a place he hasn't been to in perhaps 4 years, when he was still President of the United States.
As far as Donald Trump saying that there's "tremendous unity in the Republican Party right now", he says he never jokes, but a lot of what he says sounds like it could be a comedic monologue from a straight-faced comedian.
I think what that really is, is DJT saying that there's tremendous unity in his MAGA movement behind him right now. Because according to DJT and his MAGA members, if you are not MAGA, you are not a real Republican.
But you can also see why Donald Trump never became an investigative reporter. Because to say that MAGA support him tremendously, is like saying it's going to get dark at night tonight. Not what you would call breaking news. Not even CNN would consider that to be breaking news.
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| Source:C-SPAN covering 34 time convicted felon Donald J. Trump's meeting with Senate Republicans. I wonder if they searched him to make sure he wasn't packing. |
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6/12/2024 - Just on a personal note about this blog first.
The New Democrat has a history going back to 2014 when the modern political correctness movement broke, defending the First Amendment rights of comedians and other commentators, regardless of their politics, to say whatever what they want. Short of inciting violence, committing fraud, false advertising, ordering hits on their comedic and political rivals, etc. And then we leave it up to the marketplace, the people to be able to weigh in on what's funny, what's appropriate, and what's not, etc.
We do this because we're liberal democrats in the ideological sense. Meaning we're people who believe in liberal democracy, who promote it as much as possible and take on the opponents of liberal democracy, both from the far-left, as well as the far-right, who have real issues with individual rights, perhaps especially free speech.
Now having said all of that, I don't know Julia L. Dreyfus or Jerry Seinfeld personally. Like a lot of bloggers, I have to talk about them from a distance. But from following their careers as a fan, who watched Seinfeld every week when it was on NBC in the 1990s and years after that when it was on syndication, you can tell that these people have different career interests and motives.
Jerry Seinfeld has always been the comedian's comedian. And what I mean by that is he's always believed that has every comedian should and does have the right to joke about anything that they want. Especially since as he's said, jokes are just jokes. They're not real. And of course people can be offended by that, but the counterpunch that they have there is that they have a First Amendment right to express how they feel about the comedian that they believe uses hateful humor.
Julia L. Dreyfus, is simply an entertainer. She's someone whose going to follow the trends, especially the political trends. And since she's in Hollywood, it's cool right now to sound like you are on the Left who fights for the underdogs and willing to protect them from everything and everyone, including from themselves. Even if in private life, you don't believe in any of that leftist propaganda, especially as it relates to free speech.
You can see what happens to a lot of entertainers just since Donald Trump has come on the political scene just 9 years ago. I mean forget about sounding like you are on the far-right and you are a MAGA member. If you sound like you are even center-right, someone like a Jerry Seinfeld, that can cost you gigs and shows. But of course people like actor Dean Cain whose been in missing in action (so to speak in Hollywood) since 2016 or so. And of course Jon Vaught who is a full-long, Donald Trump MAGA man.
Again, I don't know Jerry Seinfeld or Julia Dreyfus personally. But this sounds more like a disagreement as it relates to style and image, as it does to what's appropriate and what's appropriate when it comes to comedy.
I think Seinfeld is about comedy and being a comedian and fighting for his right and the rights of other comedians to continue to do their jobs and not get cancelled, simply because a lot of young, overeducated, over-caffeinated, urban, coffee house hipsters, are offended by the comedians humor. Whereas Louis Dreyfus is about protecting her image with left-wing, urban hipsters in America.
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| Source:Nicki Swift talking about Julia L. Dreyfus & Jerry Seinfeld. |
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6/11/2024 - I disagree with Ben Meiselas and agree with FOX News political analyst Mark Penn here:
“I’d say he accepted it. He accepted it in the lion’s den. If I were Donald Trump, I would have done some better negotiating here, but I don’t think he can back out now without really looking cowardly,” Penn replied."
Donald Trump and company wouldn't be able to escape that. The question for days and perhaps weeks after that the mainstream media would be asking, perhaps even The Wall Street Journal: "Who or what is Donald Trump afraid of?" With the speculation being that he's afraid of Joe Biden and looking weak in a debate against Joe Biden, the President of the United States.
I get the fact that back in April when Donald Trump accepted President Biden's offer to debate him in June, that was before then Defendant Don became 34 time Convicted Felon Don. And the felony convictions have put Donald Trump so much on defense that you even now have Republicans worrying about Mr. Trump's chances in November.
But the fact is DJT and company already agreed to this debate. And backing out now when the news about him is already pretty bad, where he's had probably he 2 worst weeks of his political career back-to-back, would just make his campaign and life even worst than it's now.
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| Source:Meidas Touch talking about 34 time convicted felon Donald J. Trump and some supposed plan to keep him from debating President Joseph R. Biden. |
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6/10/2024 - I guess I have a few reactions to Jesse Dollemore's video here.
My first one is a negative reaction towards him. I think it's pointless to to try to give the other side and explain how wrong Donald Trump is about something and give what you think the correct position should be is for a few reasons:
1. Most of the words that come out of Donald Trump's unscripted political rallies, are complete garbage. (To be nice about it) He's not a professional politician, he doesn't think about the issues he speaks about, he hasn't done the research, and talked to people who understand these issues. Unlike a professional, well-tailored politician, who has thought about these issues, who has done their homework, who has talked to the experts, as well as their voters, about these issues before.
2. DJT's base of voters, the people who of course are going to vote for him, who've been with since 2015, take everything he says as the word of their God, who is Donald John Trump. (Who the hell is Jesus Christ, when you have Donald Trump)? They're not interested in facts, figures, evidence, especially when Donald Trump is speaking. Only what he says and what they're feeling in the current moment.
3. And if you are an undecided right now, whether you are an Independent, or a center-right Republican, who doesn't want to vote for Donald Trump, perhaps you voted for him in 2016, but voted for Joe Biden in 2020, but you are not sure you are going to vote for President Biden again: do you really think these voters believe that immigrants, even illegal immigrants are the reason why we have poverty in America, or jobs go oversees, or why not every American finishes high school or can go to college? How stupid or crazy would you have to believe to believe any of that nonsense? Or that every 1 of the 15 million jobs that have been created since Joe Biden became President, have gone to illegal immigrants. Oh, right you would have to be a MAGA voter to take any of that trash (again, to be kind) seriously.
And again, Donald Trump only cares about himself. I think even his MAGA voters actually believe that, at least when they're being honest with themselves. But he fights for the things that they believe in. Or that's what they think. Which is why they support him like he's the leader of their cult.
The question here is, will Donald Trump now admitting live that he doesn't care about his voters, how that will affect the undecideds. Do they really want the next President of the United States whose only running for President, to stay out of jail. Or, do they want someone who actually loves his country, loves the people here, and will fight for them every chance that they get.
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| Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about Donald Trump's hot Las Vegas rally. |
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6/07/2024 - Just like my colleague Fred Schneider won't pretend that he knows Melania Trump at all, let alone well, neither will I. She could've spoken to Donald this morning for all I know. (But if they did, it was probably through their I-phones, even from the same apartment)
But if you are familiar with Donald Trump's hush money case in Manhattan, you know about circumstantial evidence. And if they're not talking at all right now, that would fit into everything else that's been going on with them the last 2 months or so:
Like the fact that she hasn't even made a reality TV show me appearance, her own damn husband's criminal trial, where jail is a possibility for him, now that'e he's been convicted of not just 1, but 34 felonies.
As well as all the embarrassing information that came out in their transactional marriage. He's not only cheated on her, but did with a porn actress, when she was pregnant with his son Barron.
The fact that he not only paid Stephanie Clifford (also known as Stormy Daniels) off, but did it right before the 2016 election.
And it was her idea to play the Access Hollywood tape as "locker room talk".
But not communicating with Donald, this could be Melania's way of getting back at him.
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| Source:Nicki Swift talking about Donald J. Trump's lack of communications with his gorgeous, baby-face wife, Melania. |
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6/06/2024 - I guess I have a few reactions here.
If Ben Meiselas wants to work for the Biden Campaign, or the Biden White House, I'm sure they would look at his application. But I don't think you should called yourself independent journalist, when you are replaying one presidential candidate, if not at his worst, simply having a really bad night, in Donald Trump. But then show the other presidential candidate if not at his best, certainly having a great day, in President Joe Biden. What you are really doing there is filming your own campaign commercial in favor of one candidate, at the expense of the other. Instead of acting as an independent journalist.
My second reaction here is you really see the other side of Sean Hannity and I don't mean that as a complement. The Sean Hannity that he wants his viewers to see, is the common man on TV, fighting for Joe and Jane Average. Just an all-American guy, fighting for ordinary Americans. Or, that's who he wants his viewers to think he is. Putting aside the facts that he lives and works in New York City and is worth 300 million dollars. (According to Celebrity Net Worth)
And while Sean Hannity is playing the populist, blue collar, warrior for traditional American values, he does this as a partisan warrior who wants to stamp out the Democratic Party and anyone on the left who and right, (for that matter) that supports Democrats and center-right Republicans.
But, in this interview with Donald Trump, the man who Sean Hannity would probably to pay to kiss his ass on national TV (even in public and in reality) who of course he wants to be back in The White House and get MAGA back into power, you see a more genuine and honest side of Sean Hannity.
Despite what Hannity's critics might say, Sean Hannity is not a dumb man. He knows his cult leader Donald Trump is going through a horrible time right now, that he brought on himself and he doesn't look good. He looks like an old, tired man, who needs to comb his hair, perhaps is even losing hair, who struggles to complete thoughts and struggles to focus.
Which is why you see Hannity here almost trying to boost DJT up and tell him essentially: "I need you to focus right now" on national TV. And give him softball questions like: "You don't really want to be a dictator, even for a day, do ya?" With DJT not even able to answer that with a clear answer.
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| Source:Meidas Touch talking about Convicted Felon Don's interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. |
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6/05/2024 - At risk of being called a racist by any far-leftist who happens to see this: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sounding all ghetto and hip hop on the U.S. House floor. Hakeem Jeffries and I are from the same generation. He's about 5-6 years older than me and I was in high school when that song came out in 1992 and I was even moderate hip hop fan at that point. (Don't judge a man by his German name and background) So I'm pretty familiar with this Ice Cube song and what it's about.
I guess they didn't teach history where Bryon Donalds went to high school in New York City in the 1990s. If he really thinks African-Americans were better off under Jim Grow, he should get into that MAGA political time machine that wants to take the country back to the 1950s and 40s when it comes to race, ethnicity, culture, lifestyle, women's place in the world. But go back to the 1920s instead and try to introduce himself to Jim Crow as a young, African-American man, perhaps the son, or grandson of African slaves and see if he can even survive that experience.
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| Source:CSPAN U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (Democrat, New York) giving a short but very powerful speech in response to U.S. Representative Byron Donalds (Republican, New York) |
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6/04/2024 - The New Democrat has been arguing this for at least a year now, if not all the way back to when Donald Trump became President of the United States. This MAGA movement (as they call themselves) that we call Mass Army of Gigantic Assholes, is America's version of these Islamist's movements in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sudan, etc. They're not real political movements in the sense that they have deep, political principles, baed on evidence, facts, and law, or anything to do with the U.S. Constitution.
MAGA is simply about preserving Donald J. Trump's freedom and ability to keep this nationalistic, corporatist, political movement alive.
But to go to Representative Swalwell's point about states rights: You can't credibly say you believe in states rights, when you want the Federal Government to interfere in how local jurisdictions enforce their own laws.
It would be like a person saying that their next door neighbor has the right to do anything that they want to with their own property, just as long as he or she doesn't have to see it, or as long as they like it: "You can play whatever music you want over there. Just as long as I like it."
And House Judiciary Republicans can strike down Representative Swalwell's words all they want. But the text and video of this speech will always be around.
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| Source:CSPAN showing U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell's (Democrat, California) House Judiciary Committee "You might be in a cult" speech. |
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6/03/2024 - On a less serious note first: imagine Donald J. Trump having to always have to speak on truth serum, but he wouldn't know that he's on truth serum. Or, he's always hooked to a lie detector machine and the buzzer goes off every time he lies about anything. Just think how differently he would sound every time he spoked about anything.
I mean DJT has the world's greatest memory. Or, at least that's what he says, (I have my doubts) he must knows he called for not just Hillary Clinton to be locked up and went along with the chant: "Lock her up!" when his supporters were yelling that at his rallies in 2016 and when he was President of the United States.
I mean if DJT tried that with ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, if he went on the Sunday morning shows and told them that he never said: "Lock her up" or lock him up about anyone, he knows they would've played the video of him doing exactly what he says he never has on national TV.
Again, as this blog has said before MAGA just stands for Mass Army of Gigantic Assholes. We're talking about the most gullible, crazy, and perhaps dumbest people you could ever imagine, at least inside of a political movement. And now Convicted Felon Don knows this and is exploiting his cult followers once again.
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| Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about Donald J. Trump's weekend lieathon. I wonder how much he charged people to be able to hear that, or intend it. And how much of that money he pocketed, or put into his legal defense fund. By the way, I think I invented the word lieathon. |
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5/31/2024 - I think Katy Tur gives and excellent description and story about how she saw Donald Trump today. And it reminds me of let's say a top rank boxer, the world heavyweight champion, who was not just the heavyweight champion, but maybe had the championship for 5 years, is undefeated, never even been knocked down. But then there's that one title defense where he doesn't meet his match, but where he's overmatched and just gets knocked down, flattened, beaten up. And his whole career and life is never the same after that.
We'll know in about a week what the American voters, especially Independents and center-right Republicans, who really don't want to vote Donald Trump again, but might do it anyway, but we'll see how these voters think of Donald Trump now being a 34 time convicted felon and how they feel about him next Friday.
But this reminds me of (for you pro boxing fans) of Mike Tyson, who Donald Trump knows somewhat, who he hosted at his casino in Atlantic City back in the 1980s for several of his fights, this reminds me of Tyson losing to James Buster Douglas in 1990.
Douglas destroys Tyson and knocks him out in February, 1990. Mike Tyson a year later is charged with raping a woman at an Indiana fashion show and convicted of rape in 1992. He goes from being Iron Mike Tyson and World Heavyweight Champion, to basically just another heavyweight contender, from the time he loses his championship in 1990, to being convicted of rape in 1992, to serving 3 years in prison after that. His whole life really falls apart after losing to Buster Douglas in 1990. And never gets back to anywhere near where he was in the late 1980s, when he was on top of the boxing world and looking unbeatable.
In a span of 9 years from 2015 to today, Donald J. Trump has gone from being the self-proclaimed King of Reality TV, (if not the actual King of Reality TV) to the King of Political Reality TV, to President of the United States, as well as King of Political Reality TV, to the first incumbent President to lose reelection since George H.W. Bush in 1992 and the only second incumbent President since Jimmy Carter in 1980, to lose reelection, to a 4-time indicted criminal defendant, to now a 34-time convicted felon, in his home city, home bureau, hone state, in Manhattan, New York. And DJT is still the Republican nominee for President of the United States.
We'll see if DJT just completely loses it and becomes like a Mike Tyson of American politics and American voters completely reject him overwhelmingly. Or, will he get it together be the Donald J. Trump that everyone hates or loves and becomes the favorite to win the 2024 presidential election. And we'll have a much better idea a week from now how running as a 34-time convicted felon, affects is presidential campaign.
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| Source:MSNBC anchor Katy Tur talking about Convicted Felon Donald J. Trump at Trump Tower, in Manhattan, New York. |
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5/30/2024 - First of all and at risk of creating some new cure for insomnia or something, I feel the need to state the obvious here. Because apparently that obvious missed Jesse Dollemore as it relates to this story.
We don't know if this producer is actually correct with this claim here. Like with every other American, you shouldn't just automatically take the word of someone, especially someone who signed a non-disclosure agreement, who says X, Y, or Z, once used a horrible, racist word, when talking about other human beings.
If this tape is out there and it actually exists, or it ever existed in the first place, and Donald Trump is on it using the n-word, it will get out. But until then it's Donald J. Trump's word (which is worth about as much as bikinis in Antarctica) versus someone who also hasn't established any credibility with the public, at least on this story, either.
I have no doubt that Donald J. Trump is the swine of swines, who should be running for President of Swineland, or some place, instead of President of the United States. I have no doubt how he feels about African-Americans, and other racial minorities, who at best he just tries to use to obtain more power for himself.
But if you are a responsible journalist or commentator, you just don't automatically take the word of one person, to use against someone you obviously oppose. Which is what Jesse Dollemore is doing to hurt Donald Trump. You have to have solid evidence to back up the claims that the person is using against someone else, first. And then you can go from there.
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| Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about the claims that a former Apprentice producer has made about Donald J. Trump. |
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5/29/2024 - I'm paraphrasing Barbara McQuade here. But she said the strongest evidence against Donald J. Trump, has to do with the checks for the payoffs to Stephanie Clifford (also known as Stormy Daniels) and Karen McDougal. She was talking about he faces 34 felony counts. But he only has to be convicted of 1 of them to be convicted of a felony.
Former New York City Judge George Grasso was on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 last night and he was basically saying this, as well as the Allen Weisselberg memo, is the "smoking gun" evidence against Donald Trump in this case...
And apparently the jury is already asking questions like: "Do we have to vote to convict on every count to convict the defendant on any of the counts?" And the answer to that is no, as Judge Juan Merchan has already ruled.
So I think you can see why the legal analysts in this case (who aren't MAGA lawyers and other partisan Republicans lawyers) believe that there's a strong chance that Donald J. Trump will be convicted of at least 1 felony in this case. They have 34 counts against him. They only need conviction on one count to make him a convicted felon.
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| Source:MSNBC talking about Defendant Don. |
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5/28/2024 - No offense to Ben Meiselas and I completely agree with him here, but Yahoo News has the best story here.
Not that I would suggest to the Manhattan DA that they rest their case on what Donald Trump’s defense lawyer Todd Blanche (who proves every single day how inexperienced a defense lawyer that he is) said in his closing argument, because he almost made the prosecution’s case for them, but when the defense is making your case for you, you can almost sit back and relax. Perhaps open up some Cognac and a cigar. (If you drink alcohol and smoke)
So what the defense is basically saying here is: “If my client were to commit the crimes that he’s being charged with, (including 2 felonies) he wouldn’t have been so stupid in how he would’ve gone about committing them.”
If you remember O.J. Simpson’s book from 2004 where he’s still officially claiming that he was innocent of the two murders that he got off on 10 years earlier, but he writes a book with the title: “If I Did It” And he argued in that book if he were going to murder Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman, this is how he would’ve murdered those two people. It’s the old admitting guilt without pleading guilty defense. So if you are on that jury, how do you not think to yourself: “Even the defense thinks their client is guilty.”
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| Source:Meidas Touch talking about Donald Trump's lack of a defense at his criminal trial. |
5/24/2024 - I'm not a lawyer, so bare with me. (If you must) But Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Brooklyn defense attorney Arthur Aidala were on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 about a month ago talking about this exact same issue. And even Aidala admitted that Friedman Agnifilo was very informative and helpful in explaining the Manhattan DA's theory for this case. That they're arguing that the Trump Campaign back in October, 2016, were committing misdemeanors (in this case filing false business records) to commit a felony. (This case election fraud)
So if two NYPD detectives were in a suspect's apartment with a search warrant looking for illegal narcotics and they go in there and the suspect is assaulting someone. Even though they didn't go into the apartment looking for evidence about a criminal assault, they can still not just complete their legal search, but they can arrest the suspect for assault as well. That's a similar example. Police evidence see another crime happening, while they're looking for evidence to another crime.
What the Manhattan DA is arguing to this jury is that Donald J. Trump filed false business records, to cover up his illegal campaign contributions to his own 2016 presidential campaign.
DJT paid off Stephanie Clifford (also known as Stormy Daniels) and Karen McDougal, to keep them quiet about the alleged affairs that they had with them, so they wouldn't make their stories public before the 2016 election. And he filed those payments as legal expenses to his then lawyer Michael Cohen. So yes he's guilty of filing false business records, which is a misdemeanor in New York. But it's also a felony because the 150,000 dollar campaign contributions to his own campaign is illegal on two counts: the contributions were too high under New York law and he failed to report them.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Manhattan Criminal Judge Juan Merchan & Defendant Don. |
5/23/2024 - I'm going to paraphrase 1 key point that Tim Miller makes here:
"Nikki Haley's voters aren't Nikki Haley voters. They were Republicans who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 who were looking for a Republican to vote for other than Donald Trump. They were anti-Trump voters who saw Nikki Haley as the vessel to voting against Donald Trump in the Republican primaries...
Pretty much everything has been said here. But imagine back in 2008 had the Democratic Party not just have nominated Barack Obama, who certainly ran as a mainstream Democrat in the general election and they nominated Dennis Kucinich in the primaries instead of then Senator Obama and Hillary Clinton.
And Kucinich was talking about:
nationalizing banking and energy, to go along with health care, as well gutting the Defense Department by 80%
pulling out of NATO
cutting off of Israel and endorsing Hamas
and threatening to shut down Fox News and other right-wing media outlets, if he became President.
But then Senator Clinton endorses Dennis Kucinich anyway. Even though in the primaries she said something like: "America can't afford to have an unhinged Communist as President of the United States." or words to that effect. That's how I see Nikki Haley.
Look, I voted for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary in Maryland in 2008. But I see Nikki as the Hillary Clinton of the Republican Party. Someone whose very calculating, who takes hours, if not days, weeks even, who knows, maybe months, to make any basic decision. If she thinks her decision could effect the rest of her political and governmental career one way or another.
As Tim Miller said, Nikki Haley thinks she has a career post-Donald Trump, perhaps even in a 2nd Trump Administration (if God forbid our long national nightmare turns into a Trumpian State instead) and she's thinking by endorsing anyone other than Donald Trump, or not endorsing anyone for President in 2024, her carer in politics and government is over.
But as Tim Miller also said, unless Trump nominates her for Vice President and they win, her career is probably over anyway. And this will be really bad for her legacy, especially if Trump loses in 2024 anyway.
But Haley is endorsing Trump in May, because I guess she still wants to be in the running for Vice President. But if it's still a 50-50 election in September or October, her endorsement would mean more at that point. Which goes again to her political calculator that says she's not expecting him to win. Her endorsement won't even be remembered 4-5 months from now, and she thinks she still has a career in the Republican Party post-Donald Trump.
But as all the Republicans on this post have already said, Nikki Haley voters, are just people who voted against Donald Trump. And I would add they are not members of her political fan club. Unlike Trump, she doesn't have her own political cult.
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| Source:The Bulwark talking about Nikki Haley's calculating (my words) endorsement of Donald J. Trump. Who right now is Defendant Don and perhaps by next week will be Convicted Felon Don. But that's her choice for President of the United States anyway. Interesting notion of the rule of law. |
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5/22/2024 - Just to give you a little background about Tim Parlatore first and sort of add on to what Michael Popok already said about him: Parlatore is still loyal to Donald J. Trump. But not to the point that he's willing to risk his own credibility as a lawyer, at least not with the mainstream media, or his legal license. Which is why CNN, perhaps MSNBC, and perhaps the network news divisions are willing to talk to him because he tells them what he thinks.
I agree with Michael Popok that having these MAGA, Donald J. Trump wannabes and Congressional MAGA cultists from both the House and Senate up there to essentially say: "We got you, man! We're down for you 100%!" probably doesn't look good to this jury. I mean this is a Manhattan jury, Donald J. Trump might actually have to pay someone (even if he couldn't afford it) to support him in Manhattan.
And again, this is a Manhattan jury, this idea that they're just hearing about their fellow Manhattanite Donald J. Trump, or even his MAGA movement, or the Republican Party for that matter, for the very first time, makes as much sense as someone saying that if you jump in the lake, there's a chance you might not get wet. So in a heavily, wealthy, highly educated, Democratic jurisdiction like Manhattan, it's safe to assume that they know who these MAGA people are and what they're about.
But as someone whose not a real lawyer, I think there's a bigger problem for Donald J. Trump relating to this jury. While MAGA has his back, his family apparently doesn't. I mean if your own wife and kids don't even support you, how can you expect 12 complete strangers to believe that you are innocent. Yes, they've made a few outside guest appearances for their father and father-in-law.
But if I was married, (God forbid) and my wife or father was on trial for their personal freedom and I believed she or he were innocent, I would be in court everyday for them. That's not what you are seeing from the Trump Family for their father, husband, and father-in-law.
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| Source:Meidas Touch ex-Defendant Don criminal lawyer Tim Parlatore, talking about his former client. |
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5/21/2024 - Just to start this off on a lighter note: listening to MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace (who used to be a Republican operate before Donald J. Trump kicked the real Republicans out of the party) read. back Robert Costello's emails, that Manhattan ADA Susan Offinger read back and introduced to the jury, which basically just contradicts everything that he told this jury, but only with his own words, was like listening to a great sitcom comedian or standup comedian. She's a great comedic deliverer. She just pounded way at Costello's own words, his own emails, with a great sarcastic, comedic, tone. But only because Robert Costello shot off what's left of his feet from Monday, with his own emails.
Now having said all of that, now that I guess Jonathan Turley said that Robert Costello would be a "kill shot for this trial", he was actually right (for a change) about that. But not in the way that I think he meant to be. He was the defense's only witness, really the only new evidence that they introduced in this case. But it was as if they were throwing in the towel, or decided to throw in the case. Because Costello's own words, his own emails, just corroborated a lot of what Michael Cohen has already told this jury.
I think I know what FOX News and the rest of MAGA cult will be saying now after Robert Costello testified today. They're probably going to say that he was some Democratic plant by the Joe Biden Administration, to sabotage Donald Trump's case. If he's convicted of the felonies, or perhaps even before that, you'll see some MAGA cultists on probably Twitter, perhaps Reddit, saying that Robert Costello was a Joe Biden plant during this trial. Or perhaps someone from FOX News.
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| Source:MSNBC talking about Bad Job Bob Costello and Defendant Don, with their legal analyst Andrew Weissmann. |
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5/20/2024 - I think Michael Poppok did an excellent job of explaining the importance of this new photo evidence. But I just want to give you my own summary as well (as a non-lawyer) of why it's so important.
For anyone who has a memory that's more than 4 days olds, (hopefully that's not a select few) lets go back to last Thursday and to Todd Blanche's cross-examination of Michael Cohen.
Remember, if you will, Todd Blanche was trying to get Michael Cohen to admit under oath that he lied about talking to Donald Trump October 24th, 2016 at all. And what he was really calling Keith Schiller about was to try to deal with some 14 year old online heckler that apparently Cohen was dealing with. And Blanche flat out said he never talked to Donald Trump that day and that Trump was no where near Keith Schiller, when this phone call happened. Well guess what, this is why corroborating evidence is so critical, especially when you have difficult witnesses that you have to have to back up your case, testifying for you.
Todd Blanche said on Thursday there was no evidence that Michael Cohen talked to Donald Trump on that October day. But on Monday, after he gave the Manhattan DA a solid 3 days and some change to further corroborate Michael Cohen, they found both a video and a photo of Donald Trump standing next to Keith Schiller, with Schiller on the phone, at around the time that Cohen said that he was calling Schiller, to talk to Mr. Trump about the hush money payoffs.
So, you know, it''s no longer about Michael Cohen's credibility here. It's now also about the defense attorney's own credibility here. Because Mr. Blanche has already said there was no evidence that Cohen and Trump talked when Cohen said they did. But now there's not just new evidence, but corroborating evidence, to back up Michael Cohen's whole damn story about this case, to this jury.
You don't have to take Mr. Cohen's word alone to convict Donald Trump. You can trust all the previous witnesses, as well as your own eyes, ears, and old fashion commonsense. As well as all the corroborating testimony and evidence that backs up Michael Cohen's testimony to this jury.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Defendant Don's defense attorney Todd Blanche & guess who. |
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5/17/2024 - I'm just going to give you some of my personal throughs about Representative Marjorie T. Greene, first. And then maybe that will give you an idea about why she acts the way that she does. Just for anyone who doesn't have the time to keep up with her outrageous, immature, irresponsible, behavior, because perhaps you have lives or something.
At risk of getting personal and perhaps getting called a sexist by some militant feminist: I disagree with the critics about her physical appearance. I think she's absolutely adorable in a physical sense and has the voice to match that. The problem that she has, (along with perhaps being an escaped mental patient) is that her physical adorableness, her little girly demeanor, matches her personality and brain as well.
I don't think Marjorie T. Greene is even qualified to be a receptionist at sone small town or county's sherif's department, let alone qualified to be a sitting U.S. Representative, especially from a big state like Georgia, with big House districts. Or even qualified to serve in the George State Legislature.
But we still live in a liberal democracy (at least until Donald Trump takes over again) and if MTG's constituents want someone whose not even qualified to serve in a high school Senate, want them representing them in the U.S. House of Representatives, that's their call. At least until she's breaks Federal or Georgia state law. Or the House decides that they've finally had enough of her and overwhelmingly kicks her out.
To give you a little comparison that might help you understand why Marjorie T. Greene acts the way that she does and I think classic Hollywood fans might be interested in this:
if you are familiar with the former actress/comedian/singer Jayne Mansfield from the 1950s, at least in Hollywood, that's kind of what Marjorie Greene is like. Jayne Mansfield had a terrific career in comedy and music going for her in the 1950s. She had a couple big films like Rockwell Hunter with Tony Randall and The Girl Can't Help it with Tom Ewell. And she was just as adorable as Marjorie, but a lot prettier and taller then Marjorie.
The problem that Jayne had was that she wanted to stop doing comedy and music and just do drama full-time. She thought she was a great dramatic actress and didn't want to be a comedian anymore. The other problem for Jayne, other than be an oversized and overaged little girl, was that Hollywood didn't want her to do anything but comedy and music. And comedy were the only roles that they were giving her.
And by 1960, Jayne Mansfield's acting career in Hollywood dried up because she no longer wanted to do comedy. She made a brief Hollywood comeback in the mid 1960s, but doing comedy. And when her Hollywood career dried up, she basically became a professional publicity stuntwoman, just to stay in the Hollywood and tabloid news.
So this is how Jayne Mansfield connects with Majorie T. Greene:
no one wants to work with Marjorie in the House. Except for perhaps a handful of her fellow MAGA members like the Matt Gaetz's who has his own issues there and perhaps a few others. So instead of passing or writing legislation or doing Congressional oversight, and actually representing her constituents, she does these political publicity stunts, just to stay in the Washington news.
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| Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about Crazy Marge (as Tim Miller from The Bulwark calls Marjorie T. Greene) |
5/16/2024 - I'm thinking that maybe CNN anchor Anderson Cooper should have interviewed attorney Robert Ray today, because they seem to have the same observations here. That it's somehow a big deal that Donald Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche got Michael Cohen to admit under oath, to a Manhattan jury (by the way) that Michael Cohen lied before. As if this Manhattan jury has been asleep the last 5-10 years while this hush money scheme was going on and Michael Cohen was convicted about lying about his role in it.
Look, we know what the Trump defense is going to be here. I think it's obvious that they're no longer playing for an acquittal because they're not doing a damn thing, at least yet, to try to contradict that prosecution's case. They're essentially just stipulating, without admitting the prosecution's case. But they seem to think that they can find one juror who won't believe Michael Cohen and get a hung jury out of that. And perhaps ruin the prosecution's chances of a retrial by trying to destroy Michael Cohen on the witness stand.
But if you are the prosecution you just say that almost everything that Michael Cohen has said under oath to this jury, has already been corroborated by other witnesses who used to work for the defendant. And the defense hasn't even tried to dispute any of that. And they have nothing to show that Mr. Cohen is lying them right now. Plus, all the paperwork and why the hush money scheme was covered up in the first place, which was to prevent the American voters from finding out about it, before the 2016 election.
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| Source:MSNBC- left to right:Witness Mike & Defendant Don. |
5/15/2024 - To say that Donald J. Trump is even a political hypocrite, let alone a hypocrite, would be like saying that the famous 19th Century bank robber Billy The Kid, likes money. I mean it's just Captain Obvious being his best on his best day.
I only mention this because Donald Trump has a bad habit and even intentional (I would argue) of projecting his own weaknesses on his opponents:
He calls Joe Biden both Sleepy Joe and Crooked Joe, while he's falling asleep at his own criminal trial, where incarceration will be an option, if he's convicted.
Low Energy Jeb Bush from 2015. Again, that man struggles to stay awake at his own criminal trial. Plus, the reports of then President Trump showing up to work at the Oval Office at around 11AM or noon leaving work on the same day, at around 4-5PM.
DJT projecting his own weaknesses like Lyin Ted Cruz, even though DJT struggles to get through a sentence, not even a paragraph without lying, this worked for him in 2015-16. It didn't work for him as President. The Republican Party loses the House in 2018 and then he loses reelection 2 years later and is impeached twice in that same time period.
But Donald Trump is like a very simple football team, that lacks talent and has a very limited playbook and therefor is stuck with the few plays on offense that works for them the best, because they've worked before. But also because that's all he has.
I think Donald J. Trump privately knows that all he has going for himself is his own self-promotion, his own political grifting of some of the most gullible people every born on Planet Earth, and his full on verbal combat of people simply because he sees them as threats to him and people who oppose him. Not because they might actually be bad people or not.
And again this tiny political playbook worked for DJT in 2015-16. But it hasn't worked since. If anything it's just made his life a living hell and has made him a very lonely man, because people around him who you would think would be loyal to him, like his own, damn, family, essentially sees him as a loser. But we'll see if it works in November.
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| Source:The Bulwark talking about Sleepy Don & Michael Cohen in court. |
5/14/2024 - I think the best way to look at Donald Trump's family, his kids, his children-in-laws, his own, damn, wife, Melania, and their lack of support for their father, father-in-law, and even husband, is to look at the Trump Family in of itself.
I'm not an expert on the Trump Family. Also in the news: I'm not an astronaut, who moonlights as a brain surgeon on the weekends. But only when I'm on vacation as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. In other words: I'm not George Santos. And what I mean by this is that I don't have any personal, insider, knowledge, about the Trump Family. I like most Americans whose interested in American politics and current affairs, have to rely on the actual insiders to sort of make my own conclusions about these stories.
And I'm telling you this also because looking at this family from the outside, they're not a family in the traditional, biological, and marital sense. They're a national, real-life, American, realty TV show, that's business and financially driven. The old cliche: "What have you done for me lately" is pretty much what this family lives by, regardless of the person's biological or marital relationship with them. I think that's obvious from what we've seen and heard about them the last 9 years now.
I think the simplest answer to why Donald Trump's own kids, his son-in-law, his daughter-in-law, soon to be daughter-in-law, (unless Junior Mint ends up in jail, rehab, or broke himself) his own damn wife, have not shown up to support a man they claim to publicly love, is because they know the case against them, perhaps believe it, and don't feel like they can afford to be seen supporting a big loser in public. Because that would be bad for their brand. Which is really, along with their money, the only thing that the Trump's actually care about. At least in private.
As far as Senate MAGA, (as I call Senate MAGA Republicans) other than Crazy Marg, also known as Moscow Marg, (who some people call Marjorie Taylor Greene) these senators are the only Republican members of Congress to show any official support for their Dear Leader Defendant Don, at the Manhattan courthouse. I guess Speaker Mike Johnson made a half-ass (to be be frank) appearance for Defendant Don today. But he didn't actually go into the courtroom itself.
If all of us are the people we associate with, Donald J. Trump is getting exactly who he deserves and is exactly who he deserves to be. Which is a man whose surrounded by professional boot-lickers, who are simply trying to get something from him and raise their profiles.
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| Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about Senate MAGA's loyalty for their Dear Leader Donald J. Trump. |
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5/13/2024 - If you are following the recent media reports about Michael Cohen’s relationship between Donald J. Trump and his Trump Organization, you would thunk it was a good episode of Married With Children. (For anyone who sees this whose old enough to remember the 1980s and 90s) Where it looks like the two adults in the family just flat-out hate each other. I don’t doubt they hate each now. But if you look and listen to Michael Cohen’s testimony today, he was as loyal to Mr. Trump (or The Boss) before he went to prison for him in 2019.
Cohen doesn’t come off as a scorned witness, who was screwed over by the defendant and now see this as his opportunity to screw over the man he went to prison for. He was simply there to tell the jury what his role was when he worked for Donald J. Trump at Trump Organization.
Cohen was Mr’s Trump’s fixer, his hatchet man who made problems for Mr. Trump go away. That’s what his role was in October, 2016 when the Stormy affair (pun intended) involving Stephanie Clifford (also known as Stormy Daniels) broke.
Cohen’s job in coordination with David Pecker, was to make that story go way. And according to Michael Cohen’s under The Boss’s orders. To paraphrase Hope Hicks: Michael Cohen wasn’t a freelancer for Donald Trump. He took orders from The Boss. And the Stormy affair is just one example of that. And apparently this job made Cohen feel very powerful for 10 years.
As far as Donald J. Trump’s family not being in Manhattan to support their father: actually, not even his son-in-law, not even his daughter-in-law, (who I guess is to busy bankrupting the Republican National Committee, to be in town to support her father-in-law) not even his future daughter-in-law, Kimberly Guilfoyle, hell, not even his own damn wife Melania, (who took a verbal beating from Michael Cohen today) or his two adult sons and his two daughters were in court today to show their personal support for their father, father-in-law, future father-in-law, and husband. What a family. Or should I say: what a business empire? All he has now are his MAGA men and sometimes MAGA women.
As far as Donald J. Trump falling asleep in court: you know, it wasn’t The New Democrat who nicknamed him “Sleepy Don”. There were stories when he was President of the United States where he would show up to work at The White House at around 11AM or noon, and leave around 4 or 5PM. And if I’m a juror, and I’m giving up 4 weeks of my life to sit and judge this man at his criminal trial, I would think he could decent enough to do the same for him. Sleepy Don can’t look good in front of the jury.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Defendant Don & his lawyer Susan Necheles. |
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5/10/2024 - I'm not going to say I don't mean to compare Donald J. Trump with let's say your average Italian mobster in New York, whose finally facing accountability. First of all: Donald Trump is not Italian. 2nd of all, there's no evidence he's ever ordered the hit on anyone: "Yo, Vinnie, I need you to go take care of the guy with the thing at the place." There's no evidence of that, yet. But after he's convicted, maybe that will be next. (I'm half-joking about that) And if I said: "I don't mean to compare Donald J. Trump with an Italian mobster" I would be lying, because that's basically what I'm doing here.
Imagine Italian Don John Gotti back in 1990-91, when the FBI and the Southern District of New York, as well as the NYPD, finally had the goods on him. And then imagine Gotti with Twitter. Or at least imagine the FBI or NYPD had John Gotti 100% bugged, regardless of wherever he went and whoever he ever talked too. That's what listening to Donald J. Trump is like now.
Defendant Don privately knows he's in a helluva lot of trouble. His own damn people are giving the Manhattan DA the goods on him. His own damn former lawyer Michael Cohen, might be the last link that gets convicted, will be testifying against him next week. And there isn't a damn thing that he can do about that. And if that's not enough, if he's convicted, especially with his behavior at this trial, Rikers Island could be where he ends up after conviction. I would probably be freaking out about this as well.
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| Source:Meidas Touch with a look at Defendant Don's Black Friday. |
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5/09/2024 - I was hoping to see perhaps the documents showing that Donald J. Trump signed off, approved, and was aware of why the payments to Stephanie Clifford (also known as Stormy Daniels) and Karen McDougal were made and why they were made. But I haven't seen that yet.
As Fred already mentioned, the Manhattan District Attorney already has the motive for why these payments were being made. Donald Trump wasn't being extorted. I'm willing to bet Stephanie Clifford didn't want him to be President of the United States even in 2016. But that's not the point. The fact is she has factual evidence against him that she could use against him, if he didn't pay her off. We know that now her testimony, as well as his own people testifying that as well, plus the checks that mer made to her and Michael Cohen.
But what the Manhattan DA needs now to win their case and convict Donald Trump of 2 felonies here in New York, are the documents, as well as at least one credible witness that tells us that he not only signed off on the payments, agreed to them, personally paid them, and did these things to protect his 2016 presidential campaign. And I think we're still at 1st or 2nd in goal at the 3 or 5 yard line (to use a football analogy) of getting the ball into the end zone and convicting this man of election fraud.
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| Source:Meidas Touch talking about Defendant Don's Manhattan trial. |
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5/08/2024 - There are 3 things that I want to get into here.
About, damn, time, The White House led by President Joe Biden, just took straight on antisemitism in America. They didn't blame it on the far-right or the far-left. But they also didn't have to. They also didn't play what about:
"Oh, yeah, what about the discrimination against Arabs and Muslims?" Which is what you generally get from White Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. But she used to work for the left-wing political action group MoveOn. So what do you expect?
As far as the Stephanie Clifford's (also known as Stormy Daniels) testimony yesterday as far as how it effects the presidential election:
I think most Americans think at least when they're being honest, (even if it's just with themselves) who are pretty familiar with Donald J. Trump, think the man is a slime-ball. But MAGA doesn't care, because maybe they're slime-balls as well and maybe he's just a slime-ball with people they don't like. (According to them)
But, you still have maybe 1-5 Republicans who don't want to vote for Donald Trump again. And who don't want to vote Joe Biden either. We're seeing that again with the Indiana primary last night where 1-5 Republicans voted for Nikki Haley, whose not even running for President anymore. But maybe they're thinking now, Donald Trump is simply too bad of a man, who doesn't care about anyone other than himself, and they simply don't want him back in The White House again.
As far as Robert F. Kennedy JR: The New Democrat has been pretty clear about him from the beginning. He's a better looking, more intelligent, perhaps healthier, younger (even though he's 70 years old) Donald Trump. But now we know he also has brain damage, which explains his braindead presidential campaign. (Pun intended) And maybe he's looking for a way to get out of this election, because he's now seeing polling that his campaign is hurting Donald Trump. Which he doesn't want and is looking for a way to get out of this, before he hurts Trump even more.
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| Source:The Bulwark with Tim Miller & Adam Kinzinger talking about RFK JR's brain damage. |
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5/07/2024 - I don't want to sound like CNN legal analyst Ellie Honig here, (and I promise this will be last the time I paraphrase him on this post) but when you are looking at cases like this, it helps to look at it from the perspective of a juror on the case. Whether you think Donald J. Trump is greater than Jesus Christ, or worst than Satan, (and you know where The New Democrat is on that question) if you are going to vote to convict or acquit, you want to make sure you have enough evidence to do either first. And you are not there simply to trash Donald Trump and ruin his life, or to save him.
I only mention that, to try to knock you out into a coma. I'm trying to see how many insomniacs I can put to asleep. Even just for a day. Actually, I have a legitimate reason for that as well. We're now starting to see the heart of the Manhattan District Attorney's case:
Manhattan has established that Donald Trump not only knew about Stephanie Clifford (also known as Stormy Daniels) not only knew her not just in 2016 (that Trump Tower meeting a good clue there) but they now established that he met her back in 2006 at the Lake Tahoe golf show that she was talking about.
Manhattan has established that the Trump Campaign was freaking out about the public, perhaps especially Republican suburban and urban women and Independents, about these affairs coming out before the 2016 presidential election. Not what Mr. Trump's wife and son Barron would think about these stories.
Manhattan has established that Karen McDougal and Stephanie Clifford were paid off to keep silent about these stories, at least until after the 2016 election. And they're damn close to proving beyond a reasonable doubt, that he knew not only that these payments were made, but why they were made.
If you are familiar with the phrase details matter: well, you should be because they do. You don't just have Stephanie Clifford on the witness stand that she had an affair with Mr. Trump, or that she banged him (to be frank) but you have her up there talking about exactly how they met and what they did that night according to her.
Stephanie Clifford gave the jury deep details about how Mr. Trump and one of his assistants got her up to his suite and that he wanted (my words) like the 16 year old guy whose never got any before, trying to impress the hot girl in school, by trying to look like Hugh Hefner with his white robe. With her basically telling him that he looked ridiculous and asking him to put a shirt on. As well as her asking him:
"Aren't you worried about your wife finding out about us having sex?"And according to Clifford, Trump saying that they sleep in separate bedrooms". I guess suggesting that Melania wouldn't care.
Again, we're not lawyers here. But if the Manhattan District Attorney not only prove that Donald Trump not only knew about the payments, knew why they were being made, and signed off on them, (and hopefully they can do that before Michael Cohen takes the stand) and that he wasn't being extorted by Karen McDougal and Stephanie Clifford, they're going to get their felony convictions. And they're having an excellent week so far in achieving all of that.
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| Source:Meidas Touch looking at the Stormy day (pun intended) for Donald J. Trump. |
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5/06/2024 - I'm not much of a baker, or even cook, for that matter, but if I was trying to put together the perfect omelette (let's say) and I already had the eggs, (well, hopefully) and I have the cheese, I have the tomatoes, the onions, etc. But there's that one thing left that make this omelette perfect, that I don't have yet, I think we now have one of the two final ingredients in this case.
Think about it, Donald Trump's New York hush money case is like that perfect omelette in waiting:
Manhattan has the man who worked with the catch and kill scheme, David Pecker.
They have the bank records that prove that these payments were made.
They have the lawyer for Stephanie Clifford, (also known as Stormy Daniels) Keith Davidson, who negotiated these hush money payments for his clients.
They now know thanks to Hope Hicks that it was the 2016 presidential election that the Trump Campaign was focused on when they learned that the two affairs with these women were about to get out. Not what Donald Trump's wife Melania or his Barron thought about it.
Now they have the records and the testimony from the Trump Organization's comptroller, Jeffrey McConney, that these payments were not just made, but that Donald Trump new about them.
I'm with Fred, I want these affairs with Stephanie Clifford and Karen McDougal to be factually established. But maybe in this "perfect omelette" you want both bacon and perhaps chili as well. And if I'm the Manhattan District Attorney, I want both the bacon and chili, not to make my omelette perfect. (One or the other would be fine though) But to make the criminal case against Donald J. Trump perfect.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Manhattan Criminal Judge Juan Merchan & Defendant Don. |
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5/03/2024 - Again we're not lawyers here and I don't want to call this: "Game, set, match" (or whatever the legal term is for game over) but the Manhattan prosecutors have already established that the payments to Stephanie Clifford (also known as Stormy Daniels) and Karen McDougal not only happened, by why they happened, that Donald Trump paid them and why he paid them.
DJT didn't want these stories breaking that he had adulterous affairs while his wife Melania was pregnant with his son Barron back in 2006, coming out right before the 2016 presidential election. And Hope Hicks testified today that Michael Cohen not only gave the the women the money but Donald Trump knew about the payments and he did that for him. And we also know that Donald Trump paid Cohen back for those payments.
Now I think the prosecution has to also establish the affairs, so the defense can't argue that Defendant Don (as The New Democrat as politely as we can all Donald Trump) that he was being extorted by these two women and their lawyer Keith Davidson. And I don't see how you do that with out Stephanie Clifford and Karen McDougal, since these affairs happened, (and I believe they did) they were obviously there and you would think they would be able to collaborate them.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Donald Trump's longtime communications assistant Hope Hicks & Defendant Don himself. |
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5/02/2024 - Just one point about the "Sleepy Don" story first: I would love to know who these people who are being polled by all of these national, mainstream media organizations, (perhaps including CBS News) who say that Donald J. Trump is better suited mentally and has better mental fitness and mental health than Joseph R. Biden.
Are these companies just polling senior centers or something? Perhaps just people who take 6 hour naps everyday and sleep 10 hours a night every night. Maybe they're polling people who are napping at home, when Donald Trump is napping in court. So obviously they're not aware of it. And maybe the only news they get is from television and the nightly newscasts anyway. And that's not to mention all of Defendant Don's comedic (if not crazy) social media posts.
We already now know that the payoffs not just happened from Donald J. Trump to Stephanie Clifford (perhaps better known as Stormy Daniels) and Karen McDougal, but that Donald Trump knew about them, and they were done to prevent the women from coming out with their stories right before the 2016 elections. And it's not just David Pecker who exposed that evidence, (pun intended) but Keith Davidson this week, as well as Hope Hicks being a key witness to this illegal scheme. Now it's just a matter of proving that DJT had these affairs in the 1st place with Clifford and McDougal.
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| Source:Meidas Touch talking about Sleepy Defendant Don. |
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5/01/2024 - The only thing that I would amend about the Jeffries statement here is that this is not the "Republicans Gone Wild". Yes, they're all registered Republicans. But you could register at a lovers nest under an assume name and then later claim that you were never actually registered at that hotel, because you didn't use your real name. Possible titles for this political reality TV show are:
Not even sure if this real life, political reality TV show, where Marjorie Taylor Greene who at the very least is the Washington producer, director, and star of, is: "MAGA Gone Wild"
It just might be more like: "MAGA Militants Gone Wild" where some of them are actually armed.
Or: "Escaped Mental Patients Invade Washington To Take a Bite Out of Sanity." As if there are not enough crazy people already in Washington.
As far as Representative Greene's point about Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Jeffries setting up a "uni-party": A uni-party to do what:
Prevent the government from shutting down?
Prevent the government from defaulting?
Helping our allies fend off fascist dictators from stealing their land and ethnic-cleansing them?
Does Representative Greene really want the whole country to see how stupid and crazy her own colleagues, even in the House Republican Conference, think of her? It's not just the House Democrats and the mainstream media who view her as a crazy idiot, who should be sent back to her room to get the help that she needs.
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| Source:CSPAN- U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (Democrat, New York) |
4/30/2024 - So according to the Meidas Touch, (at least) Hope Hicks not only knew about the adulterous affairs that Donald Trump had with both Stephanie Clifford (perhaps better known as Stormy Daniels) and Karen McDougal. And perhaps was in on setting up the payoffs to both women to keep them both quiet before the 2016 presidential election.
If that's true, they now have two credible witnesses before they get to McDougal and Clifford, that these affairs not just happened, the women were not just paid off, but paid off to keep them quiet before the 2016 presidential election. And if that's the case, they now have him on two felonies. And you just need the paperwork, the bank records, the phone calls, texts, emails, etc, to prove this story.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Defendant Don & one of his longtime assistants Hope Hicks. |
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4/29/2024 - Peter Wehner makes at least two excellent points here about Donald Trump. The 1st one about former Attorney General Bill Barr, who went on CNN last Friday night to talk to Kaitlan Collins about why he can't vote for Joe Biden. I think she did an excellent job in getting him to say exactly why he won't vote for Joe Biden for any reasons. He didn't hold back on that.
I'm sure there are Democrats like this as well. Just look at the so-called Squad and the so-called Congressional Progressive Caucus in the House, who probably for no reasons whatsoever could vote for a Republican. Even a Republican running against a Democrat whose literally dead. But there are a wing of true Conservative Republicans, who can't vote for Democrats, simply because they can't live with themselves helping to create a unified Democratic government (White House & Congress) because they believe that would be bad for the country. That is a type of Republican that I think Bill Barr is.
As far as Donald Trump and how he became President of the United States: I believe I agree with Peter Wehner there as well.
The thing that I would add is that Donald Trump has wanted to be President of the United States, at least since the late 1980s. The only question is how would he run. He never wanted to run just to run and take a shot at it. He would only run to win the election and find the best path to the presidency that he could possibly find.
With Barack Obama winning the presidency, that the far-right, birther, Tea Party opposition to President Obama, Trump saw those folks as his path to the presidency. Go all in with the most crazy, most irresponsible, most violent, hateful people that he could find on the far-right in America and become their cult leader. Nail those folks down, while going after blue-collar voters in both major parties, as well as the Independents, never moderate at all, and then squeak out a small victory with only 45% of the vote, against Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Donald Trump doesn't give a damn about anyone other than Donald Trump. Especially the hardcore base in his movement, that he views, at least in private, the same way as his most hardcore opponents do, which are out-of-control, uneducated, assholes (to be frank) and losers, who perhaps should all be committed. But, without these people, he's nothing in the Republican Party and American politics in general. And like with any successful conman, he's going to do whatever he can to keep these people on his side, as long as he can.
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| Source:The Bulwark with Tim Miller & Peter Wehner, talking about some guy named Donald J. Trump. |
4/26/2024 - In case I haven't been clear about what I know and what I think about Alina Habba in the past: this is what I wrote about her back in November, before she became a MAGA media celebrity...
In case anyone thinks that I'm obsessed with Alina Habba or I have a crush on her: I haven't written anything about her in about a month on The New Democrat. And that was about her leaving the country. But unfortunately only for a short vacation.
No offense to Ben Meiselas, (who I think has been spot on about Alina Habba the last 6 months or so) Newsweek has a better story about her.
When the evidence and facts are on your side, you argue the facts and evidence in this case. But when they're not, as Carl Sandberg brilliantly said: “If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell”
With David Pecker's testimony, plus all the text messages, the emails, the conversations that they have on tape, the Manhattan District Attorney has already proven that Donald Trump not only knew about the payoff and the coverup, but he was in on it. So Trump and company have already lost that round.
So what Alina Habba and company want to do now, is have the jury and public believe and see everything that has nothing to do with the facts and evidence of the case:
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| Source:Meidas Touch with a look at MAGA lawyer Alina Habba. |
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4/25/2024 - As someone who is looking at this case as a non-lawyer, I think the Manhattan District Attorney has a very specific mission to accomplish here. Not just get a conviction of Donald J. Trump, but convict him of a felony, multiple felonies.
Even if the Manhattan DA wins on all 34 misdemeanors, Defendant Don wins, at least politically. But, if they prove that he committed real felonies under New York law by:
They show that he had an affair with Stormy Daniels and perhaps Karen McDougal as well, but that he not just tried to cover up those affairs with hush money.
And not just try to prevent his wife Melania and his son Barron from finding out about these affairs, but to prevent the voters, especially Independents, as well as Republican college educated, urban and suburban women from finding out about these affairs, before they voted in 2016
As well as covered up these affairs and did that with illegal political contributions to his his own 2016 presidential campaign, that he didn't even report, which is another crime in New York
They can convict Defendant Don of election interference as well, which is a felony in New York.
And this David Pecker-Michael Cohen link with the hush money payments is a direct way to move the ball down that road.
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| Source:MSNBC with a look at Defendant Don in court. |
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4/24/2024 - I just have a couple observations here first and then I'll get into what I really want to talk about here.
Tim Miller and Olivia Nuzzi were talking about how cold it is in Judge Juan Merchan's courtroom and how Donald Trump has been uncomfortable with that. Defendant Don's lawyer Todd Blanche (according to Olivia Nuzzi) asked the Judge could they just turn the temperature up 1 degree. And Judge Merchan said this is a very old building and if they just raised the temperature 1 degree, it would be like 20 degrees warmer and they would all be roasting in the courtroom.
Imagine if it was too hot in the courtroom:
The Judge shows up to court wearing a tank top and shades.
Maybe the male male lawyers are shirtless all together.
The female lawyers are all there in bathing suits.
Maybe DJT is sitting in his own outdoor, I mean courtroom kiddy pool trying to stay cool.
Instead of the lawyers arguing with each other about the facts and evidence of the case, they're arguing over water:
"Judge, they''re hogging all the water over there. You should hold them in contempt. We're roasting and dying of first over here." Of course the Judge doesn't care, because he has his own pitcher of ice tea and perhaps margarita. I think it might make a good skit for Saturday Night Live, especially if it were real.
And then Defendant Don's lawyer Todd Blanche (who unless he was kidnapped and forced at gunpoint to represent Donald Trump: I don't feel sorry for him at all) in his own damn opening statement, I guess not turning over a smoking gun and flat out saying that his client had an affair with Stormy Daniels, but instead saying that: "Nondisclosure agreements are not illegal." coming pretty close to acknowledging that the affair happened. I mean it's like the defense attorney saying: "My client is not guilty of anything here. But even if he did it, it's not illegal."
But Senator Mitt Romney who ever since he stopped running for President after he lost in 2012, has been living with a strong case of candor and honesty had the best line about Donald Trump and his porn chicks:
“I think everybody has made their own assessment of President Trump’s character,” he told CNN’s Manu Raju outside the Capitol. “And so far as I know, you don’t pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you..
As far as Donald Trump in the courtroom; before some MAGA maniac who finally broke out of the state hospital to defend his cult hero Donald Trump, accuses me of calling Mr. Trump a mobster and I'm not saying that DJT has ever ordered the murders of anyone, but only because I don't know that he has, but I think the mobster reference is app here.
Think about it, Donald Trump has been in complete control of his own life, at least since his father Fred died in 1999. But now he's like a mobster whose essentially at the complete mercy of the Judge in this case and is now getting ordered around in an old, freezing courtroom. And forced to sit in place for several hours at a time and be quiet like a 7 year old boy in a classroom. Maybe falling asleep in court helps this man get though these long days for him.
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| Source:The Bulwark with Tim Miller & Olivia Nuzzi. |
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4/23/2024 - I think Michael Popok laid this out very well. The thing that I would add to this is to remind people exactly why Donald J. Trump is being prosecuted here.
Donald Trump is not being prosecuted for adultery in Manhattan. I mean think about it, this is Manhattan, if anything adultery is encouraged here. If you are not rich and divorce by the time you are 40, if you are a man who doesn't have kids with multiple women, by the time you are 40, you are considered to be some outsider, who should go move to Cleveland or some place. You are not considered a real Manhattanite, certainly not a real New Yorker.
Donald Trump is not being prosecuted for paying off a porn chick, who he was having an affair with, when his wife Melania was pregnant with his son Barron. Hell, Defendant Don is not even being charged with cheating on his wife, while she was pregnant with their son. Again, this is Manhattan, they're not looking for saints and for people who are playing to make it to Heaven. I'm having a little fun with this, but you get the idea.
What Donald J. Trump is being prosecuted here for, is for falsifying his business records and his campaign contributions that he made to himself, that he didn't report during the 2016 election campaign season. Specifically the payment that he made to Stormy Daniels on behalf of his campaign.
As well as the catch and kill scheme, this "checkbook journalism" (as David Pecker called it) that Pecker and Trump were involved with together, to get DJT into The White House. And Pecker has all the goods on Defendant Don. I guess you could say that David is exposing Defendant Don with his Pecker and screwing him over "bigly". But only to stay out of prison himself.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right- David (don't call me Richard) Pecker & Defendant Don. |
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4/22/2024 - Not that Chinese, Greek, Arabic, Russian, (whatever foreign language you want to name) are my first languages, (generally just English is hard enough for me) I'm going to translate here.
To put this in plain English: Don Hankey and company (and that name is hard to say with a straight face because it sounds like the name of a West Hollywood pimp or pornographer) is on the hook for Donald Trump's bond.
Knight Speciality Insurance put up the 175 million for Donald J. Trump. And if he doesn't pay that, assuming he loses his appeal here in the New York fraud case, KSI is on the hook and out 175 million. And then probably would have to sue a Bankrupt Don, whose now just out 500 million dollars, but at severe risks of losing his business properties, if he hasn't lost those properties already.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: New York State Judge Arthur Engoron & Defendant Don. |
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4/19/2024 - Just a few side points first and then I'll get into what the House Minority Leader is saying here.
Hakeem Jeffries has an excellent, pretty quick, sense of humor. At least political wit. And if you follow him on social media, you really see that everyday. He called House Republicans "Moscow Marjorie Taylor Greene", Matt Gaetz, and Paul Gosar "quite a group" and did that with a smirk on his face. Meaning, that wasn't a complement. “Quite a group” is a step down from “distinguished gentleman” or “distinguished gentlelady”. But 2, he was also holding back. But 2, he was holding back.
Imagine visiting a mental hospital, or a criminal forensic hospital, where the criminally insane inmates are sent. And you are in the day room (hopefully with excellent security) and there are like 3 out of like 20 mental patients there that really stand out from all the rest. And you are thinking something to the effect: "They're a different level of crazy."
Representatives Matt Gaetz and Paul Gosar, just might completely stupid and simply not qualified and too irresponsible to be serving in government at all, let alone the U.S. House of Representatives. But Moscow Marg (referring to Marjorie Taylor Greene) I think is that different level of crazy. Or, she could just be a complete idiot. I'll let you make that call on that one.
As far as Leader Jeffries statement on Speaker Mike Johnson and what looks like a motion to vacate the Speaker after the national security bill passes on Saturday: Congressional politics is a poker game. I would be surprised if Leader Jeffries would publicly announce: "That if Speaker Johnson brings the Ukraine aid bill to the floor and it passes, I'll deliver the votes to save his job for him." That would be like a QB on a football team announcing to the defense what play they'll be running before they run it. But that's what he's saying here, if you read between the political lines here. Pass the Ukraine aid bill and all the other must-passed bills, no more chaos in the House this year and Mike Johnson can remain Speaker.
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| Source:CSPAN showing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (Democrat, New York" weekly press conference. Leader Jeffries is perhaps the only responsible, adult, leader, in the House right now. (I mean party leader) And perhaps Speaker Mike Johnson is jealous of that. Or he just wants to save his job and he wants the Minority Leader to save it for him. |
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4/18/2024 - If you were looking at this from a completely objective and nonpartisan perspective and you were looking at Speaker Mike Johnson (Republican, Louisiana) literally fighting for his political survival and was dong all of that by actually trying to do his freakin job, which is to govern and get must-passed legislation passed and you were looking at what is the role of the House Democrats (led by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries) was here, I think the answer is obvious.
As Fred Schneider already got to this earlier today and I'm just going to make the case for why House Democrats should back the Speaker, just as long as the Speaker actually governs and works with them. And as Joe Perticone already mentioned on The Bulwark today, there's a lot of stuff that Congress has get done, even before the elections in November. And you simply can't do that without a Speaker of the House, even if the Senate is passing all their must-passed legislation.
So if you just a regular House Democrat, or a committee ranking member, or some other senior member on Appropriations, or Foreign Affairs, Armed Services, etc, or the House Minority Leader, you have a real question here to ask yourself and to decide on it fairly quickly:
vote for the Ukraine aid bill this Saturday. But once Moscow Marg (also known as Marjorie Taylor Greene) files her motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson perhaps as early as Monday, do you vote for that and send the House back into chaos and allow for some politically escape mental patient or secret operative for the Russian Federation, (or both) to be Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and therefor be 3rd inline to the Presidency, or do you go with the devil that you know and say:
"You know what, we don't like Mike Johnson either. But at least he's not trying to shut down the government, or allow for one of our allies to be taken over by Russia, simply because they like Vladimir Putin."
There's going to be elections in November and you have to think with all of this House MAGA chaos, the fact that Donald Trump will be a convicted felon, as well as the Republican nominee for President and with House Republicans having no room to operate by themselves, the 20-30 House Republican seats in districts that Joe Biden won in 2020, that will be up for election, that House Democrats are probably a solid favorite to win back the House anyway right now.
I think the choice here is obvious. House Democrats would take no political heat, other than perhaps from the so-called "Squad" that represents the militant far-left of the Democratic Party. And they would be seen as responsible adults who know how to govern to everyone else.
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| Source:The Bulwark talking about the MAGA House. That's right: MAGA is in the House and almost no one is happy about that. Except for perhaps 100-431 members, who are all MAGA. |
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4/17/2024 - I have no doubt that if MAGA World had it's way and even if Donald Trump's porn chick hush money trial had to go on anyway, that they would simply just get the trial the hell out of Manhattan and at the very least take it up to Binghamton (if they couldn't afford the bus fair to West Virginia) and hold the trial there. Because anyone who has a college degree, whose not part of the MAGA Cult, whose even aware that there are more cable talk networks than Fox News Channel, let alone watch MSNBC or CNN, who also believes in the rule of law, is simply not qualified to sit and judge their cult leader Donald J. Trump.
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| Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about one of Fox News's DJT "boot lickers" Jesse Watters. |
4/16/2024 - I guess what New York Times conservative columnist Ross Douthat's point here about let's say the populist-right (if not far-right) of the Republican Party is, if Liberals (I guess he means real Liberals and not the so-called Squad) are in favor of... then the MAGA wing of the Republican Party is against it.
So to sum this up: if the Joe Biden wing of the Democratic Party, which was once the Henry Jackson/John F. Kennedy wing of the Democratic Party, is against Russia and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, (which is now a democratic republic, unlike Russia) then MAGA is pro-Vladimir Putin and the Russian Nationalists.
If Joe Biden and the rest of the Liberal Democrats are in favor of the rule of law, then MAGA is opposed to it.
If Joe Biden and the Liberal Democrats support limited government, checks and balances, American democracy, free trade, then MAGA is against all these American liberal values, that so-called Conservative Republicans once supported, then MAGA is against it.
Imagine a political candidate announcing on the campaign trail that they're against everything that their opponent is in favor of, without even knowing what their opponent supports or opposes and what the consequences of those positions are: "I'm against it because he's in favor of it and I want to beat him." That's what Ross Douthat is basically saying here.
What Ross Douthat is basically saying here is that MAGA wants to beat the Liberal Democrats so badly and take a stand against New Haven, Manhattan, the Hampton Islands, etc, all those great liberal democratic places in America, where freedom and wealth run rampant, even if their opposition hurts America. And wile they're doing that, they're raising their campaign money in New Haven, Manhattan, the Hamptons, because there's only so much campaign money to go around in West Virginia, Kentucky, Southern Ohio, and all of these MAGA enclaves.
When Olivia Nuzzi from New York Magazine, when Tim Miller from The Bulwark, and other center-right, Never-Trump Republicans call MAGA members political nihilists, they know what they're talking about. Because it's not about political values and what they would do if they were ever in power. But instead simply about beating the Liberals, getting into power and keeping that power indefinitely.
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| Source:The Bulwark discussing whether the Republican Party could've stopped Donald J. Trump. |
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4/15/2024 - I think we now know what's going to happen if Donald Trump consistently violates Judge Juan Merchan's gag order. DJT will be sent to jail, if he doesn't behave himself and act like an adult about this case, in and outside of the courtroom. Because if Judge Merchan doesn't enforce his own orders and rules here, he's going to look like a complete weakling and look like that weakling in front of a live, national audience.
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| Source:NBC News showing Defendant Don in the courtroom. |
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4/12/2024 - The Meidas Touch video was filmed yesterday. It's obviously Friday right now (for anyone who doesn't have a calendar on them) and Donald J. Trump hasn't even filed an appeal to the New York State Court of Appeals or U.S. Supreme Court about his so-called presidential immunity claim. And again, I'm not a lawyer, but it really looks like Donald Trump is going to trial in 3 days starting with jury selection, which will probably take all of next week and perhaps the following week as well.
I'm going to respond to Karen Friedman Agnifilo's argument about this case being the most serious of the 4 criminal cases against DJT and then I'm going to give you my theory about what his defense might be.
She makes a good point. Without the hush money payment and attempt to cover that payment off to prevent Independent voters and urban and suburban Republican voters who may have voted for him in 2016, but not in 2020 (and I doubt they'll vote for him in 2024 as well, I think we're already seeing evidence of that with Nikki Haley's voters. But that's a different discussion) but without the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, I think that affair gets out. And you could argue that would've cost Donald Trump the 2016 election, because those female voters that would've voted for him, at the very least wouldn't vote for anyone that year. Or perhaps write someone in instead.
The Stormy Daniels affair getting out right before the 2016 election, alone could've save the United States of America, from Donald Trump, quite frankly. And these last 8 years would be a lot different and you wouldn't see all of these trials against them, with one of the reasons being that all of these lawyers and prosecutors are simply trying to defend America, against Donald Trump and keep him out of The White House all together.
Now here's my theory for DJT's possible strategy to get past the Manhattan trial:
He pleads guilty, even to the felonies, in exchange for probation and perhaps a large fine. And he does that before all the evidence about the affair that he had, his attempt to cover it up, and interfere with the 2016 election, simply to save his political and legal tail. (To put it mildly)
If he puts admission of guilt on the table, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan, would have to at least consider that offer. I would take it, but only if Donald Trump allocutes to all the felonies that he's being charged with. At least the business fraud and the campaign finance violations and explains under oath why he committed these crimes. But that's just my theory and again, I'm not a lawyer.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Manhattan, New York criminal Judge Juan Merchan & Defendant Don. |
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4/11/2024 - I don't know for a fact if Marjorie T. Greene is a political conwoman, or she's so stupid and crazy that she consistently walks into doors because she forgets to open the door and so crazy that she not only believes that Donald J. Trump not only won the 2020 presidential election, but Vladimir Putin is a great and honest man.
But there's plenty of evidence to suggest that Kari Lake is the political version of a uses car saleswoman. Who can convince people that a 1978 Ford Pinto, is not only worth 20,000 dollars, but it's a better car than a brand new Cadillac. And she's simply a political player who saw Donald Trump get elected to The White House in 2016 and created this MAGA movement and she believes that she can politically piggyback on that and get herself into statewide political office in Arizona.
Kari has already flipped on 1864 abortion law where she's politically smart enough to know that she's not running for the U.S. Senate in West Virginia, but Arizona. Which is now not just a political swing state, but it leans Democrat, at least when it's a Democrat versus a MAGA member. And, that this law is very unpopular in Arizona. But add to that, she can't win statewide in Arizona, with just Arizona rednecks (to put it bluntly) and she needs urban and suburban voters in Arizona, where most of the 7 million Arizonans live. And she can't run a West Virginia statewide style of political campaign in Arizona and expect to win this election.
As far as abortion and the Republican Party: to sort of pick up on Olivia Nuzzi's line about it being the dog that caught the car for them politically, I would put it that it's more like suicidal person on the highway, begging people to run them over and even holding sign up saying: "Please hit me." The more that Republicans run on it in swing states and swing districts, the more they're going to lose. And even Kari Lake whose a two-time statewide loser in Arizona (and has even admitted that she's lied about her election claims) knows all of this.
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| Source:The Bulwark talking about Arizona career political candidate Kari Lake. She's a career political candidate, because she's never gotten elected to anything. Which never stops her from running for office. |
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4/10/2024 - Just in the off chance that Jesse Dollemore is giving Representative Marjorie T. Greene too much credit (if you think being a complete idiot is like a reward or something) for being the complete idiot that she could very well be, I have an alternative theory here. I mean, I've never seen a head examination of her, or see her score on an IQ test. But that might just be one endless nightmare too many for me. Blogging about MAGA on almost a daily basis, is all the nightmares that I can handle right now.
But what I would like to do here is present an alternative theory for why MTG sounds as crazy and stupid as she does, at least, in public. Who knows, in private perhaps she speaks 5 different languages, (and I'm not talking about 5 different versions of Redneck) while she's working on cures for both cancer and AIDS. Maybe George Santos is her partner in that. Or, she could be someone who consistently trips over her own two feet because the accidentally ties her shoes together and misspells her own name on her paperwork, etc.
But before I give you my alternative theory for my Moscow Marg (as former Republican Ken Buck calls her) talks and acts they way that she does, I'll tell you what I mean when I'm talking about complete idiot and nut, at least in the political sense.
When I'm talking about a political idiot, I'm talking about someone who sounds like they've never even took an English, let alone a social studies class, when they were growing up. I mean they act and sound like they dropped out of 1st grade or something, to go join the circus. And I'm not talking about a political circus. Or, when God was passing out brains, (or whoever passes out brains) Marjorie overslept that day and accidentally went to the place where Satan was working instead and didn't get one of the free brains that God was giving out that day.
And when I'm talking about a nut, at least in the political sense, I'm talking about someone who not only sounds like they escaped from an insane asylum, but they did that to run for office, get elected, so they wouldn't have to do real work for a living.
And Moscow Marg could very well be a complete idiot or nut, or both. Or, she's one of those political characters that Saturday Night Live or The Onion created, perhaps a real-life contestant on SNL's Celebrity Jeopardy, but in real-life.
Or, MTG is smart enough to know that America, or at least rural Georgia which is where most of her House district is, even though it's just west of Atlanta, but it goes up about 100 miles or so, near Athens, is full of escaped mental patients and 1st grade dropouts. And these folks are the perfect pickings (to use a Southern phrase) for a political conwoman like Marjorie Taylor Greene. And she simply uses them to gain power and stay in power.
This is my theory about Arizona MAGA career political candidate (whose never gotten elected to anything) Kari Lake, because even Kari is now intelligent enough to see that her MAGA style of politics, doesn't work in statewide Arizona and she's already moderating there.
Moscow Marg could be the Georgia version of the political conwoman as well. Ot, she could be escaped mental patient, who dropped out of the 1st grade. Perhaps kicked out because she's so damn crazy. But I think the 1st theory that I laid out is correct here.
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| Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about U.S. Representative Marjorie T. Greene (MAGA, Georgia) |
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4/09/2024 - I posted the CNN link as well because the Seth Meyers interview with Stephanie Ruhl is from last week. Donald J. Trump's Truth Social stock is now a net loss.
Just to give you some personal observations about Stephanie Ruhl first:
If you are familiar with liberal feminist author Camille Paglia, that's who Stephanie Ruhl reminds me of. Not so much in what they say and what they believe. But as far as how they talk. It's not like they sound like they drink nothing coffee all day. It's as if they manage to drink coffee in their sleep. Maybe they have a coffee tube stuck in their mouths as they're trying to sleep. (Assuming they ever sleep at all) Perhaps they don't drink coffee all day. Maybe they drink nothing but coffee and Jolt Cola (for anyone whose old enough to remember the 1980s) all day. They talk like they have 30 seconds to catch their flight. But they can't leave until they give a 20 minute speech or something.
My two favorite cable news hosts right now, are Stephanie Ruhle and CNN anchor Erin Burnett. But only because they're both professional reporters, not political activists. And they both know more about the American economy and business sector, at least combined, then Donald J. Trump knows how to lose money and get other people to pay his bills for them. Neither one of them are on the air with a political agenda and trying to promote these people, as they're trying to take down these other people.
But it's not just the professional backgrounds of Erin Burnett and Stephanie Ruhle that remind me of each other. To go back to my point about Camille Paglia: it's rare that I can see news anchors looking like they can fly out of their anchor chairs, with no wings. They both bring so much energy, you almost need an extra pair of ears to be able to keep up with what they're saying. And at risk of being called a sexist by militant feminists: they're both absolutely adorable and beautiful. Both 48 and yet they can still pass as little girls.
As far as Donald Trump's Truth Social: hard to say anything that's related to Donald Trump, that's called Truth Social. It's like hearing a known loan shark saying: "I have a great deal for you. I'll pay off your debts, but you'll be paying me for it for the rest of your life."
But as far as his stock, the man hasn't invested any of his own money into this company and yet he believes he's entitled to 100% of what will soon be a worthless stock. And then hightail that money out the company, (like a group of escaped convicts breaking out of prison) leaving everyone else whose still in the company, to get buried in debt, when the company crashes.
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| Source:Late Night With Seth Meyers talking to NBC News business reporter Stephanie Ruhle. |
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4/08/2024 - Just to go on the record: I have no problem with people making as much money as they humanly possible can, in our American capitalist, liberal democratic system. Just as long as they're paying their taxes that pays for the government services that they rely on that allowed for them to be wealthy in the first place and for other Americans to do do well in this country.
As far as Donald Trump's donors: I think donors is the key word here. I have my own theory about this. Unless we start seeing Donald Trump's presidential campaign start spending some of the money that they're raised recently, on I don't know, something other than his own personal cost of living expenses and not just his legal expenses, but the bills that he racks up to finance his own personal lifestyle, his presidential campaign is still going to be broke and so will the Republican National Committee.
As far as I'm concern, all the money that the DJT Campaign has raised recently, is about his legal expenses. He's literally going on trial next week in Manhattan where he'll be tried for 20 different felonies, (if not more there) where he'll probably be overwhelmingly convicted. Apparently his bond in New York State has bounced and he might've violated New York State law there and could see his bond revoked in a couple weeks. And then his personal property could be put on the chopping block again.
As far as why these wealthy donors are donating to the DJT Campaign: to be a billionaire, you almost have to be a narcissist. And if you are a billionaire narcissist, who cares about nothing else, you're thinking Donald Trump is better for your personal balance sheet, than Joe Biden.
And if Dictator Don becomes too authoritarian for you personally, or the economy crashes on him and the rest of the country, you can always afford to leave the country. So what they're doing now, is simply trying to keep Donald Trump above water, so he can stay out of jail and avoid bankruptcy. Because privately they know that DJT is a bankrupt criminal. But they believe he's better for their personal balance sheets, than Joe Biden.
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| Source:The Bulwark's Tim Miller & Bill Kristol. |
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4/05/2024 - To once again sort of date myself: as a young man, 18-19 in actually back in the mid-1990s, (no, Millennials. Dinosaurs didn't roam in the Earth at any point in the 20th Century) when I was following the O.J. Simpson case, just as an observer, (I wasn't a witness, cop, lawyer, or anything) the entire news media, including the network news divisions, covered that entire story, almost gavel to gavel. Freakin PBS, ABC News Nightline, had pieces about that story, really everyday. Even though it was the biggest tabloid story, perhaps of the 20th Century.
When O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the 2 murders that he obviously committed in September, 1995, the whole news world almost came to a stop. It was like: "What do we talk about and cover now?" Because they had been on vacation from the rest of the world for the past 15 months or so.
That is how I feel about Donald J. Trump. Yes, he's good for this blog and my writing. But what the hell do I do if he loses in November (and I hope to hell that I loses everyday) and not just goes to trial in Washington, Atlanta, and Miami, after he's already tried and convicted in New York? He'll be out of the news completely, perhaps by the summer of 2025, if he doesn't win the election this November. I say all of this half-jokingly, but I think you get the point.
As far as this latest bond attempt: Don Hankey's insurance company is going to have to come up with the money and literally prove that they have it and write that check, or Donald Trump will be financially screwed by perhaps as early as May. Unless he has 175 million dollars of cash, of his own, that he's keeping secret right now.
Maybe DJT is storing that 175 million in that Los Angeles financial storage facility that was robbed last Sunday. And he was the only one who didn't lose his money there. (Ha, ha) But that's my prediction. Either the Hankey company provides the cash and turns it over to New York State, or Donald Trump will be forced to do that himself.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: California insurance billionaire Don Hankey & Defendant Don. |
4/04/2024 - So to put this in plain English, or perhaps in dirty English: New York Attorney General Letitia James is challenging Donald J. Trump's bond here. And if NYAG wins that, this bond will get rejected by the New York County courts and he'll perhaps get another extension to post another bond, or perhaps they would rule that he's already had plenty of time to post a legitimate bond and give Defendant Trump a choice: post the cash himself, or start selling some of his assets.
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| Source:MSNBC talking about Defendant Donald J. Trump. |
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4/03/2024 - Just to correct the record, a little bit: The 118th Congress is not a failure. Just the Republican, really MAGA controlled House of Representatives that is a failure. While the Senate (which is actually the upper chamber of Congress) has been confirming Federal judges and executive nominees, even passed appropriations bills with Senate Republican support, led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, avoided government shutdowns and defaults, etc.
I don't mean to sound overly technical and prickish, (actually, I'm lying about that) but I learned back in elementary school back in the 1980s, (to sort of date myself) that the United States of America has a bicameral Congress, with a House of Representatives and a Senate. This is not freakin Britain, where the House of Commons is considered the entire U.K. Parliament. We have a bicameral Congress and an executive branch that's separate from the legislature.
So when I hear a sitting U.S. Representative like Josh Moskowitz, or any other Democrat, especially left-wing Democrats, who talk about the House of Representatives, as if it's the entire Congress and the Senate is a separate institution, I get a little annoyed as someone who writes about Congress because it's part of my job.
Now why is the MAGA House of Representatives (which is not the entire Congress) a cluster flop? (To clean this up)
I'll give you a hypothetical: imaging having Communists running private banks and other private, for-profit corporations and a few months later these banks and other businesses go bankrupt.
Imagine putting sharks in-charged of a giant goldfish tank and a few days later all the goldfish are gone.
Imagine an airline hiring nothing but blind people, alcoholics and other drug addicts to fly their planes. And within days, all of their planes have crashed, with passengers aboard on every flight.
My point is,MAGA is not a governing coalition. They're a political cult of political suicide pilots and bombers. They're not in Washington to govern. They're there to defeat as many establishment Republicans (meaning the real Republicans) as they can and to kiss Donald Trump's feet (to keep it clean) as much as possible and to see that he gets back in The White House.
And I'm not saying what's going on in the Senate under Democratic control, should earn Senate Democrats and Republicans rewards for good government:
I mean you don't reward cab drivers for arriving at the right place to pick up or drop off their passengers.
To use a sports analogy: you don't give the kicker extra credit for converting the extra point.
You know what I mean? The Senate is simply doing their jobs right now to keep their institution running, to say at least the upper chamber of Congress is earning their money, and keep the government moving. But compared with the MAGA House, they look like the Harlem Globetrotters vs the Washington Generals. (To use another sports analogy) They look liker a team of geniuses, a team of road scholars, verses an all star team of asylum patients.
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| Source:The Bulwark talking about the MAGA House of Representatives. |
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4/02/2024 - Jesse Watters: "Trump's bond is so strong with his voters, that they'll buy anything that he tries to sell."
I've never been in a lawyer in my life, let alone a prosecuting attorney, but hearing what Fox News host Jesse Watters said about Donald Trump's voters, must be like hearing the defendant take the stand and saying something like: "She had to be taken out. Otherwise she would've destroyed my life and career." It's not what you would call a smoking gun, (you don't have to be a lawyer to know that) but it's in the ballpark.
Donald Trump could sell the Communist Manifesto and argue that the Communist vision of government is what America needs. That business venture would also go bankrupt, not because it's a Communist Manifesto so much, (even though communism is still very unpopular in America) but because this is one of DJT's business ventures. And the public knows this man would literally try to sell anything to make money. But at least his base would buy the DJT Communist Manifestos.
I, mean Donald Trump would've tried to sell tickets to his parents funerals 30 plus years ago and if he was the same DJT that was running for President in the 1980s and 90s, as he is today, MAGA would buy those tickets. But Jesse Watters wouldn't, because privately he's a genius compared to the profiteering propagandist that he plays (plays being the key word) on the Fox News Channel every night, for Donald J. Trump. But he would tell his viewers that he bought 100 tickets or whatever to the Trump funerals. I think Donald Trump is a ratings and business venture for him. Whether he actually believes anything that he says about the man, is a better question.
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| Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about one of Fox News's DJT propagandists Jesse Watters. |
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3/29/2024 - What Farron Cousins didn't mention and that might just because he's not a member of the Congressional Junkies Club of America, (don't look that up. No such club actually exists. At least that I'm aware of and I should know.) like me and isn't as familiar with the Congressional rules in the House and Senate as we are. And as I mentioned last week right here, Representative Marjorie T. Greene's motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson, is not a privileged motion. Which means House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, doesn't have to bring it to the floor and schedule a vote on it.
Marjorie T. Greene could very well be an escaped mental patient from Mississippi or some place and then moved to rural Georgia, changed her name and physical appearance, to serve in the House of Representatives. (Which is why her mental institution can't find her) Or, she should be an Oscar winning actress for playing the dumbest idiots and craziest maniacs in world history. And she's actually a lot saner and smarter in private, then she seems to want her constituents and public to believe.
When it comes to her privileged motion (privileged motion being the key words here) to vacate Speaker Johnson, I'm thinking she's just a great comedic actress (who really should be in Hollywood) playing a complete idiot and maniac on TV. Because if she had the votes to vacate the Speaker of the House, she would have already filed that privileged motion by now.
MTG is not in the House of Representatives to govern. (Also in the news: fire can burn human flesh) And to govern, you have to make deals all the time with the other party. At least to do the necessary things, like keeping the government open and avoiding debt defaults.
MTG is there to eliminate what's left of the establishment wing of the Republican Party, (meaning the real Conservative Republicans) who right now are like Evangelical preachers at a porn convention. But who aren't having as nearly as much fun as the preachers at the porn convention.
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| Source:Farron Balanced with a look at political escaped mental patient. I mean U.S. Representative Marjorie T. Greene (MAGA, Georgia) |
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3/28/2024 - I guess I have a few reactions to this latest Alina Habba political tabloid, but completely accurate story. I guess tabloid is not the correct word here. Perhaps political reality TV story?
Alina Habba is not my lawyer. She's not getting any of my money. Or government money from taxpayers. So why should I give a damn if there are roughly 70 million (give or take) escaped mental patients, or members of the National Association For The Advancement of Idiocy (not a real organization. Don't bother trying to look it up.) who are crazy or dumb enough, to bankroll losers like Donald Trump, Alina Habba, and many others? We are talking about people who couldn't pay their own damn bills, if they didn't have nuts or idiots, or nutty idiots out there, that they could scam.
The answer to my own question, is because I'm a good, moral, person (it's true. I'm not kissing my own feet here) who cares about innocent people. And who wants to try to persuade people before they dump all their money, including their life savings, along with their mortgage payments, car payments, etc, into the lake, that there's a better investment for their money and better way to spend their own valuable time, then to throw their money away at professional losers and scammers like Donald Trump, Alina Habba and many others.
Alina Habba has already lost 550 million dollars of Donald Trump's money, that he doesn't even have. How much money is MAGA going to spend rewarding her for all her total, preventable losses? If losing pays in America, then Alina Habba is now one of the wealthiest losers in America.
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| Source:Meidas Touch talking about Trump University graduate & MAGA lawyer Alina Habba. |
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3/27/2024 - According to Fox News host Jesse Watters, Truth Social is so "awesome" (or whatever pop culture adjective that you want to use) that he can't use it. He can say he has a Truth Social account, but it's like the 1965 Ferrari (or whatever the car and year that he has) it's too good and valuable to ever take out for a drive. Which makes as much sense as trying to walk from New York to San Francisco, barefoot, on glass.
I've been flirting with the idea of getting a Truth Social account myself, just to see what it's like and what people do on it. Not to ever actually post anything on it. So maybe I would be like Jesse Walters that way.
But creating a Truth Social account for myself, would be sort of like voluntarily committing myself to a mental institution, especially a secure forensic hospital, where they send violent criminals, who are technically not guilty for reason of insanity. And I would go in there as an undercover or something, just to see what the experience would be like. But I've never been stupid or crazy enough, or had enough guts to ever go through with that.
This blog refers to MAGA as the Mass Army of Gigantic Assholes. But that's only because that's exactly who they are. According to these folks, America hasn't been great since women have been allowed to vote, let alone minorities having the right to vote and the rest of their constitutional rights being enforce under law as well.
This is exactly what Truth Social is. Its' where the Mass Army of Gigantic Assholes (also known as MAGA) get together online, to talk about how America has been going to hell, at least since the 1960s, but really the last 100 years. And how their cult leader Donald J. Trump can make America Anglo Saxon and Protestant again. I guess other Northern Europeans would be allowed in that small club as well. Truth Social is really just an online secure forensic hospital, for the social media insane.
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| Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about the lack of members of Truth Social. |
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3/26/2024 - Donald Trump testifying for himself, especially in a criminal trial, is like a goldfish going for a swim in a shark tank. Or, a turtle, challenging a horse to a footrace. A mouse trying to run circles around a kitty cat. Peewee Herman challenging Mike Tyson to a boxing match. None of these things could ever end well. At least for the people making the challenges here.
As I said yesterday, putting Donald J. Trump under oath and in the witness box, to testify for himself, you might as well put a serial liar (which is what Donald J. Trump is) on truth serum, without him knowing about it and put that person in the witness box, under oath:
"Of course I did it! Of course I'm guilty! I deserve every punishment under law!"
With Mr. Trump sort of coming back to Planet Earth (but just for a visit) and realize what he just did and that he just convicted himself. But we'll see. He testified for himself in the New York fraud trail. So he's done stranger things to himself.
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| Source:Meidas Touch legal analyst Michael Popok talking about Defendant Don. |
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3/25/2024 - Asking Donald Trump to keep a secret, is like asking a goldfish to go without water, or asking a dolphin (not the Miami Dolphins) to run the New York Marathon. He's not what you would call a poker player. At least not a successful poker player. He just laid out his entire defense for his upcoming Manhattan trial. And that's assuming Judge Juan Merchan will allow a defense that actually has nothing to do with the case at hand.
Do I doubt whether or not District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his prosecution team wants Donald Trump to be President of the United States or not? Of course they don't want him to be President again. But they're acting completely within the law here.
Manhattan DA has solid evidence that Donald J. Trump violated New York campaign finance laws back in 2016, when he failed to report the hush money payment that he made to Stormy Daniels, to prevent her from disclosing the adulterous affair that she had with him, while he was not only married to Melania back in 2006, but she was carrying his baby, who turned out to be his son Barron.
Had the Manhattan hush money story broke in October 2016 when the hush money payment was made, it's very likely that would've hurt Donald Trump with Independents. Which is why he paid her off. The hush money payment is not illegal. The failure to disclose it, which was a campaign contribution to his political campaign, is illegal. At least in New York City.
The Manhattan District Attorney is just enforcing the laws of New York, in Manhattan. And it just so happens that Donald Trump is still a resident of Manhattan. And he was a full-time resident back in 2016. he's also still running for President, and the Manhattan District Attorney doesn't like him, and they're legally doing what they can to prevent him from ever becoming President of the United States again.
And anyone who still believes in American liberal democracy and the rule of law in this country, (and hopefully that's a solid majority) should be thanking the Manhattan District Attorney for what they[re doing here.
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| Source:CSPAN covering Defendant Don's statement after Judge Juan Merchan set his trial date for April 15th. |
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3/22/2024 - Just for the record: Me giving Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (whose one of the leaders of the Escaped Mental Patients Caucus) in the House, is like the police detective, who credits the arsonist (or in this case political arsonist) credit for trying to put out the fire that the arsonist just started. It just doesn't feel right.
But having said that: I'm going to sort of give Representative credit for one thing. I think she might be politically smart enough to know that if she actually filed a privileged motion here in the House and she lost, because maybe 200 House Democrats, or even just 100 House Democrats, along with most of the House Republicans, including a lot, if not most of the MAGA members (who are fellow members of the Escaped Mental Patients Caucus) she would look very weak and perhaps even dumber and crazier than she actually is.
As the ABC News Congressional reporter said in the video: when you file a privileged motion to vacate the Speaker of the House, the House has to vote on that motion within two days, regardless of who files the motion and whether they're a majority or minority member of the House.
The Greene motion is not a privileged motion. So, she might just be putting Speaker Mike Johnson "on notice here", or she might done her own whip count and can count high enough to see that most of the House Republicans would vote against it and a lot of House Democrats as well. And she doesn't want to look even dumber and crazier than she already does. But that's just my theory.
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| Source:ABC News looking at U.S. Representative Marjorie T. Greene's (MAGA, Georgia) motion to put Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (MAGA, Louisiana) "on notice". |
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3/21/2024 - I'm glad Ben Meiselas is talking about this today, because this is the next potential scam that Donald Trump and company are going to pull, if they can't get a billionaire to bail him out by Monday and he decides not to file for bankruptcy, to cover his 500 million dollar bond in New York State.
If the only choice that DJT INC. has is either bankruptcy, or getting a foreign bailout, they might take the 500 million from Russia or Saudi Arabia and one of those countries will own Donald J. Trump for the rest of his life and perhaps the U.S. Government for as long as he's President, if Trump wins the election in November.
And if New York State Attorney General Letitia James can't get a record of that payment to Trump legally, then it would be up to some excellent investigative journalists or private investigators, to get that paperwork and release it to the public, before the November election.
Because American voters, I would say especially Independents because Democrats and Never-Trump Republicans have already made up their minds whether Donald Trump has been bought by foreign powers already. But this is something that Independents need to know, because they'll probably decide who the next President of the United States will be.
And as far as Ben Meiselas's 2nd point about he would love for America to return to a day when we get back to a place where we are just debating policy again and not whether one of the two major party leaders in the country is an authoritarian and crook, I completely agree with him.
But as long as the Republican Party is just the RPINO (Republican Party in Name Only) and is really just the MAGA Party, those debates won't be possible. We have to defeat MAGA first. The real Conservatives and the real Republicans need to come back and reclaim the Republican Party.
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| Source:Meidas Touch talking about Trump University graduate & Connecticut strip mall (no offense to Connecticut strip malls) lawyer Alina Habba. (Ha, ha) |
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3/20/2024 - I think Fred covered this yesterday. I guess the thing that I would add is when pride, self-respect, personal responsibility, accountability, the rule of law, are just partisan talking points that the modern Republican Party (not the Grand Ole Party) just throws around to hit the other side with. Which really gives them permission (outside of the real world) to stick their heads in the toilet and see how far they can get, before they run out of air, or get their heads stuck down there and can't get out.
I mean just think of the homeless person whose desperate for food, clothing, water, a place to stay, etc, those folks can't afford to be embarrassed. If they let their pride get in the way, they go hungry, they freeze to death, they walk around the streets completely naked. Think of these MAGA media tools for Donald Trump, the exact same way. Except most of these folks are multi-millionaires. Actually, in Kevin O'Leary's case, he's a real-life billionaire. He doesn't play one on TV like Donald J. Trump.
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| Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about right-wing beggars for Donald J. Trump. |
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3/19/2024 - To try to give you some idea (as small as it might be) about how politically, historically, and constitutionally ignorant Donald J. Trump is when it comes to the United State of America and our form of government: he simply ran for President of the wrong country back in 2016.
Donald Trump had only been President for less than a month when he said that NBC News should get their Federal Communications License repealed, simply because they were producing stories about him that were negative.
That same month of March in 2017, his first Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was one of the first Congressional Republicans to endorse Mr. Trump for President in 2016 and the first U.S. Senator as well, recuses himself from the Department of Justice Russian interference investigation of the 2016 presidential election. Why? Because then Senator Sessions was a member for the Trump Campaign and working to see that Mr. trump gets elected President of the United States.
So then President Trump then responds by saying that his Attorney General shouldn't have recused himself, because the Attorney General is supposed to be his own lawyer, that DOJ is like his personal law firm and that he can order DOJ to do whatever he wants to do.
Donald Trump sees himself as a dictator. He's not, yet. But that's the kind of power that he believes that he has. He thinks he has the same power in America, as any third world or somewhat developed world dictator, like the King of Saudi Arabia, or the Vladimir Putin has in Russia, the President of Turkey, etc. And when someone stands up to him and says no to him, or tries to hold them accountable simply for doing their jobs, which hurt him and make him look bad, he treats them like traitors to Donald J. Trump, who should be locked up.
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| Source:The Bulwark talking about what Donald J. Trump would like to do to former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney (Republican, Wyoming) who was Vice Chairman of the House January 6. Committee. |
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3/18/2024 - Oh, how I miss the days of those great political debates in Washington about how best to cut the Federal deficit, save Social Security and Medicare, tax reform, immigration policy, Welfare To Work, etc. You know, those old school policy debates that could put the average insomniac to sleep for weeks. Hell, those debates could put an insomniacs convention to sleep. And they only meet to have people to talk to, when everyone else is asleep. But those old debates, could keep the average current affairs junky such as myself, a week for years straight.
But, no, the Republican Party, is now the Republican Party In Name Only. A party that once talked about:
The need for law and order the rule of law,
The need for fiscal responsibility,
Talked about defeating authoritarianism
Talked about defending the U.S. Constitution.
But the so-called Republican Party today, nominates for the 3rd straight presidential election, a man:
Who incites violence, almost every time he gives a political speech
Claims to be above the law
Claims presidential immunity from all criminal prosecution, while claiming that the current President of the United States deserves to be locked up
Who self-proclaims to be the King of Debt, (one of the few things that he's ever been right about)
Who takes the word of dictators, over our own national and intelligence communities
And literally claims the presidential oath of office, doesn't apply to him.
If you are a longtime, loyal, Conservative Republican, well, you must be feeling pretty lonely today. Perhaps you are sending out all points bulletins for all the other Conservative Republicans, simply because you can't find them and almost never hear them anymore.
But if you are still a longtime, loyal, Conservative Republican, someone who considers Calvin Coolidge, Robert Taft, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan to be political heroes for you, you must be thinking that you've been politically kidnapped or something and sent to a place where Republicans and Conservatives, no longer exist.
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| Source:Meidas Touch legal affairs analyst Karen F. Agnifilo talking about Defendant Don. |
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3/15/2024 - Without the Fan Willis story that seems to be getting the covered the the rest of the world (except for The New Democrat) today, this really is a slow news Friday. So if some of this information sounds repetitive, that is why.
I think the basic point here is that Donald Trump won't be able to get a 500 some odd bond from a New York bank. Or any wealthy billionaire in New York. Unless he puts up a helluva lot of collateral to cover that bond. And that means Trump Tower would just be a start of that collateral. Why? Because Donald Trump doesn't have the money, even if include his business assets, to go along with his financial net worth.
And, because DJT is going to lose his appeal next year. The case against him is overwhelming. He might be able to get the penalty reduced. But a year from now, he's going to be out of at least 500-600 million dollars that he doesn't have and that includes the E. Jean Carroll case that he's going to lose on appeal as well, for the same reasons as the New York State fraud judgement against him.
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| Source:Farron Cousins with a look at Donald J. Trump's lack of financial assets. |
3/14/2024 - I'm not going to say I feel sorry for Newsmax/MAGA host Greg Kelly. Actually, Newsmax and MAGA are one-in-the-same. I don't feel sorry for Greg Kelly, because unless he was kidnapped and forced to do this interview with Donald Trump, (perhaps by some deep state Democrats and Republicans, who are simply out to make Donald Trump look bad. According to MAGA) he didn't have to do this interview.
But I guess my impressions of the Kelly-Trump interview are:
For one, I'm glad it was Greg Kelly and not me. Because watching this interview, it looks like a horrible comedy act. Except that it's so funny because of how bad it is. Like the guy with a million corny jokes, but you are always laughing at them because of how bad they are: "What kind of tree barks? Dogwood!!!"
But the Greg Kelly-Donald Trump interview looks like a bad comedy act because Greg Kelly, like any responsible MAGA journalist or political operative (if there are such things) he was simply trying to make Donald J. Trump look like a man and a human being.
And how does Mr. Trump respond to that favor and gesture by Mr. Kelly? He goes into some high on acid (pun intended) conspiracy theory about acid being responsible for Donald Trump illegally grabbing the classified documents that he stole, when he was leaving The White House in 2021 and taking them down to Mar-A-Lago. With Greg Kelly I guess sitting there, perhaps trying not to laugh at the former President's face, as he was speaking to him.
This whole attempt at an interview, just goes to show you that even MAGA is worried about Donald Trump. Probably not him personally, because he's simply just the leader of their political cult. But politically, even they believe that Mr. Trump is in a helluva lot of trouble, not just legally with all the evidence that's coming out against him right now, but more in the spring and summer, as well as criminal as multiple criminal, felony convictions in New York. And as Jesse Dollemore said so himself: MAGA is trying to make this man seem likable to more voters.
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| Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about MAGA King Donald Trump. |
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3/13/2024 - As far as the Robert Hur report: I think it's interesting that House Republicans wait until after President Biden delivers his knockout State of the Union (at least according to the polls) before they decide to bring him to the House to testify. To me, that's like calling your best play of the game and trying to run that play, after you just lost the Super Bowl. (To use a football analogy) I don't see the political reasoning there. I'm not sure even Superman (not that I believe in Superman) could see the political reasoning here. And he's supposed to have supervision. The fact that neither House Democrats or House Republicans were happy with Mr. Hur's testimony, tells me that his performance (which is probably what it was) was a wash and not memorable.
As far as the Republican National Committee "bloodbath": I never watched Donald Trump's Apprentice show, for the simple reason like a lot of other Americans, I simply had better and more important things to do with my time 20 years ago. But I imagine what happened at the RNC in Washington yesterday, was an Apprentice episode, where Donald Trump comes in at the end and tells everybody or somebody, that: "you're fired!"
The Bulwark already covered this. But I would just add that the Republican National Committee, at one point really was the Grand Ole Party. It was the brain center of what was once the greatest center-right party, at least, in the whole world. It was a place where The Bulwark's Tim Miller used to work. And now it's just one of Donald Trump's private enterprises (which means it's doomed to go bankrupt) and now just in the business to finance Donald Trump's lifestyle and legal bills.
And while the RNC is not just DJT's personal and legal slush fund, Republicans across the country who are in tough races in the House, Senate, but governor's races as well, are in real jeopardy of losing, simply because they'll be denied the financial resources that would normally come from the RNC, to help finance their political campaigns.
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| Source:The Bulwark talking about a whole bunch of political stuff. (To keep it clean) |
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3/12/2024 - Not sure when Michael Popok recorded this video. But if he shot it today, he's the behind the ball on this. Because before Donald Trump can lose a trial, just like before anyone else can lose a trial, you have to get to trial first. Just before you have a glass of water, there has to be water in your glass first. Otherwise you are just trying to drink from an empty glass, perhaps hoping for a last drop or something. And as I wrote yesterday about this case...
So yeah, (to sort of sound like a valley girl) if Donald Trump even gets to trial, of course he'll lose. This trial would be in Manhattan, New York, which along with Washington (a town I'm very familiar with) is the national capital of wealthy, well-educated, Liberal Democrats. (Liberal Democrats meaning people who believe in liberal democracy)
Along with all the evidence:
Like freakin Donald Trump's own words,
The phone calls he had with his personal lawyer at the time, Michael Cohen
All the paperwork, like his own bank accounts
The woman he had the affair with back in 2006, Stormy Daniels. And perhaps also Karen McDougal, another woman had an affair with at about the same time.
As far as Alina Habba: (I have to take a moment to stop laughing) if you follow The New Democrat, you know exactly how we feel about her. But if you are a very wealthy man, or in Donald Trump's case you think, or want to be a very wealthy man, but you are somewhat financially suicidal and perhaps have considered taking a suitcase with a lot of your money and driving it to the middle of a bridge and dumping your money in the water, I have a better suggestion for you. Hire Alina Habba as your lawyer.
Maybe Alina won't bankrupt you overnight. Perhaps not even Alina Habba is that incompetent, but over the next few years, you'll not only have to pay her, but she'll lose every case for that you are involved in. I mean if you ever get picked up for speeding and decide to take your case to court, don't pick her as your lawyer. Because you'll end up doing a year in county jail for speeding. Instead of paying just a 100 dollar fine, had you just represented yourself...
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Manhattan, New York Judge Juan Merchan & Defendant Don. |
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3/11/2024 - Imagine a kid whose always making the most simplistic mistakes in life. Like forgetting their homework, not doing their homework, not doing their chores at home, not waking up on time. But the one thing this kid can always remember do correctly, is have the worst excuse possible for why they can get the basic things in their childhood right:
"The dog ate my homework. I was too busy playing video games to do my chores. The dog stole my alarm clock, which is why I'm always oversleeping, etc."
I don't take lightly calling a 77 year old man, 3 months away from his 78th birthday, a child. Especially as someone who has parents who are even older than Donald Trump. As well as someone who had all 4 grandparents growing up. But that's exactly what Donald Trump is. He's mentally a juvenile outlaw, who believes the rules of society don't apply to him, to the point that he'l come up with the lamest excuses possible, just to buy time for himself, so he doesn't have to deal with the consequences of his own screw ups.
The Manhattan, New York case against Donald Trump, is the best case in the sense, if you are someone who believes in law and order in America, as well as opposing Donald Trump, because it's the easiest. This is a municipal case, meaning there's no Federal jurisdiction here (unless the Supreme Court claims absolute power) and what he's being charged with in Manhattan, happened 3 months before he ever became any sort of Federal official whatsoever, let alone President of the United States. As well as all the evidence in this case that again happened before he was even elected President in 2016.
So hopefully Judge Juan Merchan will take this appeal quickly and rule against it quickly, as well as denying any stay that the Trump team will probably ask for, why they try to appeal it. And the Supreme Court will stay the hell out of a municipal case.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Manhattan, New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg & Defendant Don. |
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3/08/2024 - So what Farron Cousins is talking about here, is that a lawyer can’t knowingly put on a witness, whose going to give either false statements, or just flat out lie. Meaning, you have to at the very least know what your witness is going to say, at the very least is going to be honest. The old phrase courtroom: “To the best of my knowledge” come into play here. Any competent, responsible, experienced, credible lawyer, that Cliff Robert should be at this point, whose been practicing law for like 30 years, already knows that. Alina Habba, who of course is a different story.
The Habba/Robert response to them using perjurers as witnesses, has always been: “Oh yeah! Well, what about the prosecution using Michael Cohen as a witness?” Which of course is always a very adult response. Nothing more mature then someone starting a sentence with “oh yeah”, or, “what about the other guy?”. Well, mature, responsible, and professional, for a member of a high school freshman debating team.
But Alina Habba and Cliff Robert miss the point, as usual. Sort of like the gunslinger who fires the gun at himself, instead of the target. The fact is Michael Cohen was just used by the New York Attorney General, to back up other witnesses’s testimony, as well as documents. Not to offer new information.
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| Source:Farron Balanced with a look at Donald J. Trump's Manhattan, New York civil attorney & perhaps Trump University graduate, Alina Habba. |
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3/07/2024 - I really don't want to make this post about race and ethnicity. I'll let the far-left and the MAGA people take care of that. But I just want to give you something to think about here before I get off race and ethnicity in this post.
In this year's North Carolina governor's race, they'll have a Jewish Democrat, running against an antisemite, homophobic and anti-women, Republican. (Actually, Republican In Name Only) Just think about that for a minute. With all the closeted antisemites coming out of the closet on the far-left in and out of the Democratic Party, because the Israeli-Hamas war, the Democratic Party in North Carolina, has nominated the Attorney General Josh Stein, whose Jewish and proud of his heritage, to run against one of the sons of the African-American civil rights movement, who without that movement, might not even be eligible to vote, let alone run for office in North Carolina, simply because of his race.
Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson is about as bigoted a man as MAGA could possibly dream of:
He thinks women shouldn't have the right to vote and should just be servants to men.
That gays should be locked up and homosexuality should be outlawed.
That the Holocaust in Europe, never happened.
North Carolina was going to be close anyway just because of how big and urban it is now. Charlotte with over 750,000 people is one of the biggest and most ethnically and racially diverse cities in the country and it's also a major metro area. And then you have the Raleigh-Durham-Winston Salem region as well, plus Greensboro and a lot of racially and ethnically diverse college towns. North Carolina demographically is very similar to let's say Virginia and Georgia now.
And when you have a large Democratic turnout and Democratic candidates statewide, who aren't Holocaust deniers, (let's say) who aren't anti-law enforcement, anti-military, ant-business, anti-wealth, etc, this state might even lean Democrat, under those conditions. But instead mainstream Democrats, who get out the minority vote, but who don't represent those left-wing weaknesses, Democrats can definitely win statewide, even in North Carolina today.
So you have all these demographics going against the North Carolina Republican Party. So what do they do? Do they nominate normal, center-right, Republicans, who actually do represent what's left of the Grand Ole Party, who can compete for urban, suburban, female and minority voters? Of course not. Don't be silly. What they do instead, is take a political shotgun, aim it at their feet, and fire until they either run out of bullets or toes. That's what they're getting in 2024 with Donald Trump and Mark Robinson at the top their ticket.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Defendant Don & Antisemite Mark, both running statewide in North Carolina, as Republicans in Name Only. |
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3/06/2024 - What MAGA, perhaps especially Representative Marjorie T. Greene, whose perhaps the most mentally ill of all the MAGA members, at least in the U.S. House, perhaps will never understand, is that just because your followers think you speak the word of GOD, (meaning Donald J. Trump) and you always speak the truth, that doesn't mean people who follow you, (meaning they just keep up with you to see what you are up too and what you are saying) won't see what you are saying. And that your words won't come back to bite you.
I guess my point here is, you can delete all your crazy Facebook posts and your tweets. But when you speak in public, it's not just the politically escaped mental patents (also known as MAGA) or CPAC, (which stands for Crazy People At a Convention) who are going to see what you say and will be interested in it. It's also the outside the world. It's the people who are not currently confined to a mental institution, or should be. It's the media professionals whose jobs are to report the news and what our supposed public servants (which Marjorie T. Greene is technically one of) are up to and what they have to say about the news.
Just because MAGA thinks it's cool to believe that the Jews are trying to destroy America and force America to live under climate change lockdowns, along with controlling most of the money in America, doesn't mean anyone with a brain, who also happens to be sane and sober, (which hopefully that's not a select group of Americans) will believe what MAGA believes is cool, will be cool with the outside world as well.
When MAGA is just talking amongst themselves, in private rooms, where no outside media is allowed, (like their group therapy sessions) they can be as crazy and stupid, as their God/cult leader Donald J. Trump will allow them to be. But when they're in the outside world, (even if it's just for a visit) their insanity and stupidity can always come back to be used against them.
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| Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about what U.S. Representative Marjorie T. Greene (MAGA, Georgia) thinks about the British press. |
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3/05/2024 - Again, I'm not a lawyer. And if that sounds redundant, it means you are reading and following this blog. But even after Michael Popok explains this and I'm sure just from what I've been seeing on social media, MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner seems to agree with Poppok here, I still don't see how the fact that Allen Weisselberg, whose now an official serial liar and perjurer, helps the Manhattan District Attorney here.
Now it's one thing, similar to Michael Cohen, if Mr. Weisselberg is just there to confirm documents and the testimony from actual, credible, witnesses, about the Trump Organization. Which is similar to how Donald Trump's own children were used to testify against their father back in October or November. But, if he's there to not only deliver, or confirm, information about Donald Trump and the Trump Organization that only he could know as it's former chief financial officer, you could see (unless you are blind) why if anything DJT's attorney's would want Weisselberg taking the stand.
Just to give a possible cross-examination, perhaps even Saturday Night Live inspired cross-examination of Allen Weisselberg, by the Trump's attorney's, assuming the judge allows these questions to be asked:
"Mr. Weisselberg isn't it true that you are not even a liar, not even a serial liar, but a convicted serial liar?"
What's Weisselberg, going to say here: "I was convicted or perjury."? That will make him look really good in front of the jurors. Unless they're all blind and death. But the defense only needs 1 juror to vote their way.
I guess Mr. Weisselberg could say: "Look, at least I don't as much as your client. I'm an honest, decent, law biding, taxpaying, American patriot, compared with your client." Again, I don't know how this helps the prosecution here. And I know he's already in jail and any decent, competent, human being, especially when they're in their mid or late 70s, doesn't want to die in jail. Especially at some hellhole like Rikers Island.
But Allen Weisselberg has already lied twice under oath, knowing what the consequences were going to be and how old and unhealthy he is. Who's to say that simply doesn't give a damn anymore at this point in his long life?
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| Source:Meidas Touch thinks Defendant Don is worried about Allen Weisselberg. And not worried in the sense of will Allen Weisselberg survive Rikers Island and be poisoned there or something. But something else. |
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3/04/2024 - The Video Detective gives you a solid look at who the main players in this film are. And the IMDB description gives you a solid look at what this film is about. Basically, wealthy, at least in early 1970s times, as well as today, millionaire doctors, even in today's money, who are apparently more happy at work, than at home with their bored, unhappy wives.
The highlights of this film:
The Richard Crenna character has a mistress, who just happens to be his head nurse.
And if that's not enough, this film takes a sharp turn, when one of the doctors in the film (played by John Colicos) murders his tramp wife (played by Dyan Cannon) after he catches her having sex at their home, with one of the pre-med students at the hospital.
And if that's not enough, he not only has blackmail material on all the other doctors, that he threatens to use against him, if they don't bail him out (so to speak) which he resorts to, after his his failed crime in the heat of passion defense fails.
But, there's a young boy at the hospital, who just happens to be the son of Doctor Peter Brennan's (played by Richard Crenna) mistress, who has to have a lifesaving surgery, that can only be performed by Doctor Mort Dellman. (Played by John Colicos) But, Doctor Dellman only agrees to perform this surgery, if the doctors help him escape after the surgery, instead of going back to jail.
And if that's not enough, there's a rumor about whether Doctor Brennan, is the father of his mistress's son, the boy who needs this surgery to keep living.
So, if you are someone like me and you love great soap operas and you also love classic films, I think this is a great film. Think of a great episode, or a great series of episodes of General Hospital. But instead of that show really being about Port Charles, (which it really is) this movie is about the hospital and the people who work there. It's a great story, with a great cast, and it's also pretty funny as well.
This is from a follow up piece from an earlier 2013 piece about this film, from The Daily Times.
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| Source:Video Detective- one of the sex scenes from Doctors Wives. |
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3/01/2024 - To just talk about my own personal feelings about the Columbo TV/movie series and then I'll get into Lee Grant and her appearance on this episode as well.
If you are a Gen-Xer or older (and I'm a Gen-Xer) you remember hearing about Star Trek conventions from the 1980s and perhaps even earlier. For anyone whose not familiar with Star Trek conventions, I don't feel sorry for you for that. but to give you an idea about them:
Star Trek not when it originally aired in the late 1960s and early 70s on NBC, was not a popular TV series. I think it had 4 seasons and probably only did well enough to last that long. But go up to the late 1970s, by then it was very popular in syndication to the point that the Star Trek creators started a movie series about the TV series, with I believe 4 or 5 Star Trek films. By the late 80s,
Star Trek became so popular and the merchandise became so popular that a lot of fan groups and organizations were put together for the Star Trek the TV series and movie series. It gets to the point that these folks look like they were part of a national cult or something and became very easy to make fun of in pop culture.
To make a long point shorter, I'm not a Columbo version of a Trekkie. I think it's one of the best, as well as funnest TV detective series ever. Peter Columbo for me at least, is one of the best TV comedians ever. But, there's only about 10 episodes from the entire series, including the original on NBC and the movie version from ABC in the 1990s, that I really love and can see over and over again, to the point that I now have 10-15 Columbo episodes on DVD and watch them whenever I have the time and want to watch them.
If I had to put a list of top 5 episodes all time in the entire Columbo series from both NBC and ABC, I think Ransom For a Deadman is not just top 5, but top 1. It's between this episode and Murder By Book with Jack Cassidy, also from 1971, and Exercise in Fatality with Robert Conrad from 1974.
Lee Grant explains herself very well about what made her character so great and interesting to play and she plays Leslie Williams so perfectly. She plays a woman who almost seems like she doesn't care if she gets caught or not. Too much confidence and as Lieutenant Columbo (played by Peter Falk) says so himself, she has no conscience. It's almost as if she hated her husband and her stepdaughter that he gave her, to the point that she made it easier for Columbo to catch her.
But despite playing such a cold and evil woman, Lee Grant is not just Lee Grant, but she'll always be Lee Grant. The only two people that Leslie could never get past, were Columbo and her stepdaughter Margaret. (Played by Pattye Mattlick) But, she had the rest of the Los Angeles Police Department and all her associates and colleagues fooled, because again she's Lee Grant.
I think the best, or at least most interesting TV killers, are the killers who lack conscience, but who are also highly intelligent, but just from the outside you think: "Come, on, she can't kill anybody." And that's what you get from Leslie. To the outside observer, she's just too cute and sweet physically, to even swat at a fly that flies in her face, let alone not just murder someone, or her own husband, that she supposedly is in love with.
But this all gets back to Lee Grant being Lee Grant. She's so good of an actress, that she can fool anybody. And because she looks so cute and sweet from the outside, she can fool anyone into thinking that no way she could murder someone.
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| Source:The TV Time Machine talking to Hollywood Goddess Lee Grant about her appearance on Columbo. |
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2/29/2024 - I mostly agree with what Karen Friedman Agnifilso is saying here. But before I get into that, I just want to say something on behalf of The New Democrat.
Myself and my colleague Fred Schneider both predicted on The New Democrat this year, that the Supreme Court wouldn't just deny Donald Trump's bogus (to be kind) presidential immunity claim but that the Supreme Court wouldn't even take that case. We would've talked about this yesterday, or one of us would have, but the story didn't break to after 5PM. And we wanted to get more information on this story before we tried to put something on this blog.
Now again, I'm not a lawyer and if you are getting tired of hearing us say this, then we're getting through. I don't see how the Washington trial gets started and finished before election day. But, I still think that by August, or perhaps September, we could at least see the discovery portion of this trial of this case take place and we can see a lot of what Special Counsel Jack Smith and company have on Donald Trump in this case. Which is something that voters would be able to consider in deciding who to vote for during the election. And perhaps even the trial started. But the 2nd part is a bigger long shot.
So this is where I completely agree with Karen Agnifilo: Manhattan is now front and center. District Attorney Alvin Bragg has 34 felony counts against Donald J. Trump. Yes, this is the smallest and least important case against Donald Trump. But imagine a career mobster who has 4 separate felony cases against him, with a tone of solid evidence against him. And the crime that's the least important against him, is an arson charge, where he's charged with blowing up the offices of one his competitors, or something. But he's also being charged with murder 1, murder 2, rape, and being the lead conspirator of a bank robbery. That's the world that Donald J. Trump now lives in.
If Donald Trump is just convicted of one the charges that Alvin Bragg has against him, he's a convicted felon. Unless he wins that case on appeal, which might not be until a year later from after he's convicted. But, any felon convictions after the 1st one, makes Donald Trump a serial felon, who thinks that he's above the law, whose also running for President of the United States. I don't see how that helps him, plus with all the evidence against him, not just in Manhattan, but in Washington as well, during the election.
You don't see a lot of Independents rallying for career criminals to be President of the United States. Show me the people who are saying: "You know what, we need more criminals in our government, just to shake things up." Because most Americans tend to not just believe in the rule of law, but the rule of law for everybody. And that includes not just the current President of the United States, but former President's as well.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Manhattan, NY District Attorney Alvin Bragg & Defendant Don. |
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2/28/2024 - To sum this up really quickly: Donald Trump is not only not a billionaire, but he's a fraud. We've known (well, at least anyone whose not confined to the national mental institution known as MAGA) for at least 10 years that Donald Trump is a fraud:
Donald Trump's own personal creation, his own personal piggy bank, also known as Trump University, was sued out of business right before he ran for President the 1st time back in 2015 (before this seemingly, never-ending, long national nightmare, known as Trumpism, invaded America)
and of course his own presidency and all the ridiculous, out in far-right field promises that he made to everyone, that he thought might vote for him, like the border wall, and claiming that Mexico would pay for it
the self-proclaimed King of Debt, claiming that he would pay off the national debt, before his presidency was over, etc.
But, thanks to New York Attorney General Letitia James, now America (except for the national mental institution, as well as idiots convention, known as MAGA) knows that Donald Trump is not only not a billionaire, but perhaps the world's biggest fraud as well.
America simply can't risk anyone like Donald Trump, ever getting to The White House even on a tour, let alone becoming President of the United States again. It's the obligation of every true American patriot, who loves America, who loves American liberal democracy, to do everything that they can within the law, as well as being true to themselves and true to the country, to make sure that Donald Trump and his MAGA cult, never get any real power in America again.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: New York State Judge Arthur Engoron & Defendant Don. |
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2/27/2024 - I only mention a few paragraphs from my two previous posts about Kenneth Chesebro from 2023, because I know there are insomniacs who read The New Democrat and I want to help them get some sleep. No, seriously, I'm a recovering insomniac myself and I'm up late on a regular basis talking about The New Democrat with my fellow readers of this blog, so we can get some sleep. Actually, there's another reason why I mentioned a few paragraphs from my previous posts about Ken Chesebro.
I'm going to give you a hypothetical. Imagine being caught shoplifting at a department store and instead of security there turning you into the police, they let you go, as long as you promise to never steal from that store again and put the stuff back that you tried to steal. So now you have a stay out of jail free card. So what do you do with that?
Well, if you are Mr. Chesebro or perhaps some kleptomaniac, you rip up your stay out of jail free card and go to the next store next door, perhaps thinking the security there is not as good and you can get way with it. But guess what, they have security as well to and catch you as you are walking out the door because the security alarm goes off. Or they're simply not blind and just happened to notice one of the things that you were trying to steal, falling out of your jacket. And grab you right away.
That's who Ken Chesebro is right now. The political kleptomaniac, who was caught redhanded trying to steal a presidential election. Who was not just given a stay out of jail card, by the Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney, but a chance to keep his law license as well. And what does he do with that stay out jail free card? And what does he do with that stay out jail free card? I’ll give a big clue. He doesn’t say something like: “Geez, that was too close. If it wasn’t for those kind security officers, I might be eating a week’s old baloney sandwich, in a jail cell, for dinner tonight. I’ve learned my lesson about stealing.” Instead, He rips that up and gets caught lying under oath about his past Twitter account, trying to hide his MAGA tweets about trying to overthrow the 2020 presidential election, in favor of then President Donald J. Trump.
So now it's not just Mr. Chesebro's law license that is at risk, but his personal freedom as well. Imagine the balls of this guy (to be frank) that he thinks he could openly perjure himself, thinking that the prosecutors and the police detectives on this case, would never bother to to track what he said under oath. Or that journalists who've been following this case on day one, like from CNN and other news organizations would just automatically take your word and never track what you said either.
Ken Chesbro must have thought he was main speaker at an idiots conventions, thinking they would believe he was Jesus Christ, if he told this audience that. Which is not that different from how the rest of MAGA thinks of Donald Trump.
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| Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about MAGA lawyer Kenneth Chesebro. |
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2/26/2024 - No offense to Ben Meiselas's statement here, but I think NY Attorney General Letitia James statement here is the key. I don't believe she would make a statement like that, if she were expecting Donald Trump to be able to come up with the cash, or has the cash, to even come up with the bond that he has to have first, to even be eligible for 450 plus and growing, million dollar judgement against him in New York State.
The reason why I say this, is because the NY Attorney General probably not only has Mr. Trump's business records and his Trump Organization's business records, but she probably also has his personal financial records as well. She knows how much money this man is worth. And I''m not just talking about how much he's personally worth. Not his properties, but how much money Donald J. Trump has in his personal bank accounts.
So it would be very foolish on Attorney General James part, to say that she's ready to start seizing Trump properties, to pay off the judgement against him, if she believed that he could personally financially do this. She's too good of a lawyer for that to make such a foolish statement like that. Mr. Trump, hasn't even posted a bond in the E. Jean Carrol case, which is 83 million. That's a lot money as well, but it's not even a 5th of what he owes New York State.
So the bottomline here, is Donald Trump has 25 days to come with 450 million, perhaps 500 million by then, or he goes bankrupt, just as he's trying to run for President again, just as he's facing two felony convictions, in separate jurisdictions, by the end of this summer.
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| Source:Meidas Touch with a look at Defendant Don's lack of cash. |
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2/23/2024 - As far as Rob Finnerty's key question of Alina Habba here: she basically dodged it, after he rephrased it. She sort of acted like she didn't understand it and then just went into: "The media only reports about our losses (meaning her losses) and not about her wins." The obvious being there: what wins?
And before that, Alina basically putting the blame for all these cases and her horrible losses trying to defend Donald Trump, on the fact that she believes the media thinks that Donald Trump is unbeatable in the 2024 presidential election.
So again, to go to my original point about Alina Habba that I made back in November, she's not a real trial lawyer. At best, she's a legal spokesperson, or partisan political lawyer, who argues her cases through friendly media like Newsmax, not on court where all these cases are actually tried and decided. (She would've learned that in law school) It's as if she went to journalism school, or majored in political science, thinking that's where you become a lawyer.
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| Source:Farron Balanced with a look at Donald Trump's Manhattan, New York civil attorney Alina Habba. |
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2/22/2024 - With all due respect to Michael Popok here and perhaps he did this video before Judge Arthur Engoron's ruling denying Donald Trump's lawyer Cliff Robert motion to delay the penalties against his client: it's the ABC News story that counts here.
The Trump lawyers are simply trying to buy time here. Popok is right about that. But any competent, responsible, professional judge in the country, whose not just on the bench because they want to play golf in the afternoon, poker at the country club, get loaded at the local bar, check out the shows at the strip club, (you know, whatever their afternoon hobbies are) who also isn't blind and illiterate, is going to see exactly what Cliff Robert and company are trying to do here.
Donald Trump doesn't have the money to even cover the premium for his appeal. The so-called billionaire, has at last count, under 500 thousand-dollars in his Go Fund Me account and they only have 25 days to come up with the rest of the 500 or so million dollars. And the Judge Engoron has already denied Cliff Robert's motion here.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: New York Attorney General Letitia James & Defendant Don. |
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2/21/2024 - At risk of getting really personal and even sounding insulting: doesn't Representative Jim Jordan look and sound like the guy who was forced to do other guys homework in high school? As well as give them his lunch money? And yet, he's Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, one of the most powerful members of the entire U.S. Congress. Along with the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Finance Committee, Appropriations Committees, Oversight Committees, and that's before you even get into the party leaderships in the House and Senate.
Jim Jordan doesn't even have a law degree, but that's the state of the MAGA movement in the Republican Party. They're basically relying on very inexperienced and unaccomplished people, do to their political dirty work, which is to try to hurt as many Democrats as they possibly can. Speaker Mike Johnson, was basically a House backbencher, before he became Speaker of the House. And his lack of experience and accomplishments in the House, really shows in his speakership right now.
Having said all that; the fact that House Republicans main witness against Hunter Biden (who just happens to be President Joe Biden's son) is currently under investigation for committing perjury by the U.S. Justice Department, as well as other felonies and that House Judiciary Republicans are relying on Russian Nationalist propagandists, who obviously hate Joe Biden for multiple reasons and want him to lose in November (one way or another) and that's all they have against Hunter and company, just shows you how unqualified that these MAGA members are.
I mean Chairman Jordan can say that the indictment of their key informant Alexander Smirnov: "Doesn't change the fundamental facts." all he wants. But I guess when you are not even a professional investigator, let alone a lawyer and your whole career in Congress up to this point, has been trying to dig up dirt on Democrats that you don't like and leading government shutdowns, you wouldn't just say that, but you might actually might be dumb enough to believe that as well.
Jim Jordan, Mike Johnson, and company, are qualified to be leading MAGA super pacs and MAGA political action committees and doing their own MAGA radios shows and podcasts. But that alone, doesn't make you qualified to lead Congressional investigations and serve in government more broadly.
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| Source:CSPAN- U.S. Representative Jim Jordan (Republican, Ohio) Chairman of the Judiciary Committee (118th Congress) |
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2/20/2024 - Alina Habba talking to Fox News anchor Martha McCallum yesterday:
"Look, it's no coincidence they know by looking at his (meaning Donald Trump's) statement of financial conditions that this guy (meaning Donald Trump) is worth a lot of money, billions and billions and billions of dollars. And that even doesn't include his brand, Martha. But what they're trying to do with this case and my case (both cases where Alina Habba lost a lot of Donald Trump's money) is put him out of business. It's not going to work, number 1...
Look and at risk of giving Alina Habba lesson on financial disclosure: if Donald J. Trump was a billionaire, we would already know that. This is an old story, but back in 2014, Donald Trump tried to buy he Buffalo Bills of the NFL. They obviously asked for his financial records to make it clear or not, that Mr. Trump could afford to buy the Bills. He didn't show him his records. But what instead he did was give them an article from Forbes Magazine that claimed he was a billionaire. He's also said in the past that his name alone, makes him worth a billion dollars.
In the MAGA world, it's not about facts and evidence. It's about political marketing. It's about what they can sell their followers about themselves and their opponents and the mainstream media (whether it's true or not) and if they need to try to prove their claims later on, they'll claim fake news, or act as if they never claimed they said and did what they did, or simply move on to their next story.
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| Source:Meidas Touch looking at Defendant Don's lawyer & perhaps Trump University graduate Alina Habba. |
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2/19/2024 - Jesse Dollemore said: "You know how many times that you've heard that Donald Trump is a poor man's idea of a rich guy is and a dumb guy's idea of what a smart guy is and someone who lacks any leadership ability, their idea of what a good leader is: it's pretty app, I think... Donald Trump might be a dumb cult member's idea of what a good cult leader is."
I disagree with Jesse Dollemore a little bit here. I see him as the political version and non-murderous version of Charles Manson and his Manson Crime Family. I only know about Charlie Manson and his crime cult, because I'm a true crime junky, who rather be writing a lot more about true crime, if I only had the time. And The Don of Manhattan wasn't dominating all the news. Or at least certainly a lot of it. I guess Vladimir Putin gives The Don breaks, now and then and gives The Don a break from licking his new sneakers, that The Don might have given Vlad for free. And might be because that's all these shoes are worth anyway. And Vladimir Putin is a horrible man, but he's not stupid.
I see Donald Trump, again, as the non-murderous, political version of Charlie Manson. And I see the average MAGA (which again, again stands for Mass Army of Gigantic Assholes) member, as Lynette Squeaky Fromme.
For anyone whose just waking up about Squeaky Fromme: she was the most devoted, at least female soldier of Charlie Manson back in the late 1960s and all the way up to the mid 1970s or so, after she tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975. I mean, this woman was a jar full of nuts, or nuthouse full of nuts, all into one person. There was literally nothing that Squeaky wouldn't do for Charlie Manson.
Now, I'm not saying that all of Donald Trump's Mass Army of Gigantic Assholes (also known as MAGA), are nuts. But, when you treat any human being like God, even though he's just as human as you are and in many cases more human, with all his garbage, all his scams, his lies, his incitement of violence, you become a cult follower.
Anyone who buys Donald Trump's shoes to either help him pay off his debts, or just to try to put money in bank account, after he goes bankrupt, because of all his debt, you become a sucker, stooge, mug, rube, (which is fitting for a lot of his southern and rural followers) or gull. You know, whatever the term you prefer for someone who is easily screwed over and played.
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| Source:Jess Dollemore talking about Conman Don. |
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2/16/2024 - During this entire case, Donald Trump's Manhattan civil attorney Alina Habba (who you should know well on The New Democrat) and her team, argued that there were no victims in this case. As well as calling it a witch hunt. But as Judge Arthur Engoron ruled today:
"There is overwhelming evidence from both interested and non-interested witnesses, corroborated by documentary evidence, that the buck for being truthful in the supporting data valuations stopped with the Trump Organization, not the accountants," he wrote.
The judge also cited the lack of remorse by Trump and his executives after the fraud was discovered as showing the need for a monitor.
"Their complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological. They are accused only of inflating asset values to make more money. The documents prove this over and over again. This is a venial sin, not a mortal sin. Defendants did not commit murder or arson. They did not rob a bank at gunpoint. Donald Trump is not Bernard Madoff. Yet, defendants are incapable of admitting the error of their ways," Engoron wrote.
"Defendants’ refusal to admit error — indeed, to continue it, according to the Independent Monitor — constrains this Court to conclude that they will engage in it going forward unless judicially restrained," he added."
Judge Engoron makes the whole point for the prosecution here. Donald Trump benefited from cheaper loans to do business in New York City, by inflating the assets of his Trump Organization, as well as his own personal properties. And as a result, got cheaper loans to do business in this city, that businesspeople and companies in NYC, simply weren't able to obtain, because they played by the rules.
And the Judge is essentially ordering Donald Trump to pay back all the money that he would've had to pay in the first place, had he simply obeyed the laws of New York City and New York State.
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| Source:NBC News- Defendant Don & perhaps soon to be Bankrupt Don, all in the same person. |
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2/15/2024 - Fani Willis: "I did listen to the arguments this morning. It's ridiculous that you (referring to Donald Trump lawyer Ashleigh Merchant) lied on Monday and here we still are."
So District Attorney Fani Willis is calling bullshit (to be frank) on Ashleigh Merchant. The Trump lawyers in this case are simply trying to get Fani Willis and her assigned prosecutor Nathan Wade for the Fulton County election interference case, removed from this case, because they supposedly had an affair with each other last year, while working with each other. And I think they might be able to prove that the affair happened and Nathan Wade committed adultery.
But, the Trump lawyers seem to want people to think that tax dollars were given to Mr. Wade, simply because he was having an affair with the District Attorney, with nothing to back that up. This should be able to give you an idea of how desperate that Trump's Atlanta lawyers are right now. They want to get prosecutors removed from their case, for adultery.
I understand this is Georgia and everything and Georgia at least at one point was at the center of the Bible Belt. But adultery is not even illegal in Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, let alone Georgia. And this is also not MAGA Georgia. Atlanta is one of the biggest cities in the country. Fulton County is one of the biggest counties in America. And because of that, Georgia is one of the biggest states in America. Adultery is simply not illegal or disqualifying, by itself.
So Donald Trump's lawyers can try to hide, delay, literally just make up lies, (if their law license's don't mean anything to them) but adultery is still not illegal. And that's all they seem to have here.
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| Source:CSPAN- Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis. |
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2/14/2024 - One of the best quotes about the so-called MAGA movement (which actually stands fro Mass Army of Gigantic Assholes, according to The New Democrat) is from Meidas Touch legal analyst Ben Meiselas. He says MAGA actually stands for Make Attorneys Get Attorneys. That's what Meiselas and Michael Popok are talking about here.
One of Donald Trump's ex-lawyers Michael Cohen, did time in prison a few years ago for his role in the Manhattan, Stormy Daniels-Donald Trump legal case.
Joe Tocopina left Donald Trump as his lawyer, because as he said: "You like to argue cases based on the facts and evidence. But that's not always the case when you are representing Donald Trump."
And now, Alina Habba who is still officially Donald Trump's Manhattan civil attorney, even though she fired her a couple weeks ago, because she lost the E. Jean Carroll case, is now in trouble for putting a perjurer on the witness stand, Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weiselberg. And not even bothering to do her homework (because homework wasn't required at Trump University) to figure out if her own, damn ,witness, was telling the truth. Or at least being honest, before she put Mr. Weisselberg on the witness stand.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: New York State Judge Arthur Engoron & perhaps Trump University law graduate Alina Habba. |
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2/13/2024 - I'm just going to talk about Donald Trump's lawyers argument to the Supreme Court as far as why he should be granted immunity now, their current argument:
Now, they're not saying that Donald Trump should be immune from prosecution because he was once President of the United States. (Even they still probably believe that, at least publicly) They're now arguing that he should be immune from prosecution, because he's running for President of the United States.
So left's think about the precedent that would set, if successful, of the current Trump argument on immunity:
Future, Federal, criminal defendants (which is what Donald Trump is right now in two different cases) could just file to run for President the second after they're indicted and say: "I don't have time to deal with this criminal prosecution right now. I'm running for President of the United States. Plus, this criminal prosecution is hurting me in the polls. Voters are going to think I'm a criminal or something. You have to dismiss this case, Supreme Court."
Trump's lawyers current argument, is not that different from the argument that they made to Federal Appeal Court back in January, where John Sauer argued that for a former President to be criminally prosecuted for actions that he committed while as President, he would first have to be impeached and convicted by Congress, first. Impeached by the House and then convicted in the Senate.
If that were true, future President's could order their political opponents to be jailed or assassinated, kidnapped, etc, and then resign the presidency 5 minutes later to avoid being impeached and convicted by Congress and being criminally prosecuted as a former President.
The problem that Donald Trump's team has here, (and I'm not a lawyer) is that they're no longer even trying to make a constitutional argument for why their client should be completely immune from criminal prosecution. They're all political now. And I think they picked the wrong U.S. Justice to try to bail them out politically in Chief Justice John Roberts. But we will see.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts & Defendant Don. |
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2/12/2024 - Just to take Donald Trump's Truth Social post first: Taylor Swift, Donald Trump called. He wants his money back that he says you owe him for your career. He needs that money to pay his legal bills and have money to spend, after he's bankrupt in New York.
As far as MAGA freaking out over Taylor Swift: I get why they're doing that, which I'll explain later. But think about it, she everything that MAGA says they're in favor of and support:
Taylor Swift represents everything that MAGA (which again actually stands for Mass Army of Gigantic Assholes) claims to be in favor. She represents everything that they are and the so-called real Americans, racially, ethnically, religiously, culturally, and regionally:
Taylor Swift is an Anglo-Saxon European-American.
Taylor Swift is Protestant.
She's from small town Pennsylvania and grew up in small town Tennessee. Taylor Swift is even a country singer.
Her parents are college educated and white-collar and earn a good living. But from the part of America, the so-called real America, that MAGA (which again is actually Mass Army of Gigantic Assholes) claims to be in favor of and who claim that's the America that we're losing and those are the Americans who will take back America.
Now to get to why MAGA actually hates Taylor Swift, even though again, she represents everything that they claim to be in favor of, the so-called forgotten Americans, the so-called silent majority, (to quote Richard Nixon) she's not one of them politically.
Taylor represents the New America, which is a diverse America, an America that celebrates diversity at all levels and all kinds. An America that loves individual freedom, both economic and personal, that loves individualism and creativity. And, she also doesn't love their cult leader Donald Trump. But more to the point: they're freaking out about Taylor Swift with all her popularity, endorsing President Joe Biden, which they believe would cost their cult leader the presidency, again.
And the best thing that Jesse Dollemore said here is: don't be loyal to people who don't owe you anything. That says it perfectly.
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| Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about Donald J. Trump's obsession with Taylor Swift. Perhaps I don't have to introduce Taylor Swift to anyone. I like to think my audience is not primarily comatose patients. |
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2/09/2024 - Would it surprise me if Donald Trump's lawyer Alina Habba put a perjurer on the witness stand, whether it is Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg or anyone else? Of course not. The only question is did she knowingly do that, or did she not even bother to do her homework when it came to her own damn witness's testimony.
Alina Habba has already lost motions because she didn't bother to read cases that she was referencing to help her client Donald Trump. As well as lose appeals because she didn't even meet the deadline as far as when her appeal was supposed to be filed.
When it comes to Alina Habba, we're not talking about William Kunstler or even Alan Dershowitz, when it comes to professional, high-caliber, high-end, trial lawyers in America. Not even Perry Mason, who of course is perhaps the most famous fictional trial lawyer in American history. Alina Habba like I mentioned a few weeks ago...
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| Source:Meidas Touch with a look at New York State Judge Arthur Engoron & perhaps Trump University law graduate Alina Habba. |
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2/08/2024 - Have the you ever noticed that people who not just claim to have the highest, moral standards and values, but believe it's their God given duty to lecture the rest of the country, about the need for high, moral, standards and values, are really just closeted assholes and dicks, as well as prudes, who are stuck in an 1880s (not 1950s time warp, mentally and culturally). (And in some cases open about being assholes and dicks) People who have way too much free time on their hands and feel the need to spread their own, made up, personal, gospel, on how to be an asshole and dick in America.
That's how I feel about Reverend Jerry Falwell and the rest of the so-called Christian Right in America (as they were called back in the 1990s) even though there'e really not much that's very Christian about them.
I'm sure there are plenty of good, moral, even honest preachers in America, even fundamentalist preachers in America. But when you make it your life's mission, to wipe out an entire sexuality, that only represents maybe 10% of the country, that has no effect on the rest of the country, (except for hardcore, fundamentalist, zealot, assholes and dicks) it's time for you to look in the mirror and look at yourself.
When there's so much real immorality going on not just in America, but around the world dealing with burglary, rape, murder, bigotry, unjustifiable violence, I think it might be time for people (meaning these hardcore, fundamentalist, prudes, who call themselves preachers) to look in mirror and and give themselves a self-examination to see if everything is right about themselves, when it comes to their own personal morality and values.
Before people make bold claims that people are going to Hell (a place where these so-called preachers help create) simply because they are attracted to people of the same gender, or have more in common with the other gender when it comes to their personality and way of the life, then their own gender, these so-called preachers should look at themselves first to see if everything with them, is right with God.
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| Source:Mark Russell giving Reverend Jerry Falwell a lesson on Teletubbies. Well, when you are short on material, why not Teletubbies & Jerry Falwell. |
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2/07/2024 - To talk about what Jesse Dollemore is saying here: what Stephen Miller is basically saying here as well as his fellow MAGA (which actually stands for Mass Army of Gigantic Assholes) army members of convicted criminals and escaped mental patients, (perhaps illegal aliens from other planets) is that Donald Trump has presidential immunity from criminal prosecution. And not just from crimes committed while as President, but if you look at his latest brief in the classified documents case, they're now arguing that Donald Trump has former presidential immunity from criminal prosecution, for crimes committed since he left the office.
MAGA is actually arguing that Donald Trump has lifetime immunity from all criminal prosecutions, but Joe Biden, even though he's the current President and if were to lose in November, (and if that happens, God, if you exist, please save America) would be the former President a year from now, does not.
So according to the Mass Army of Gigantic Assholes (also known as MAGA) Donald Trump can't be arrested and tried for anything that he has ever done while as President, or since he was kicked out of office by the American voters since he's left the presidency. But that Joe Biden could even be arrested tomorrow for jaywalking, even as President of the United States. And they base that argument on (if you want to call it on an argument) ... If you ever have an answer for that, please let me know.
If Donald Trump and his MAGA cult were ever honest, really, about anything relating to their cult devotion to Donald Trump, they would just throw out all this garbage (to keep it clean) and just come out and say that Donald Trump can't be tried and arrested for anything, simply because he's Donald Trump. And anyone whose not a Trump supporter, could be tried and arrested for not just jaywalking, but running a stop sign on their bicycle. But if Donald Trump and his MAGA cult were honest, there would be peace in Israel and Palestine right now and poverty and cancer would both disappear tomorrow.
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| Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about MAGA propagandist Stephen Miller. |
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2/06/2024 - I really don't have anything to add to what Fred Schneider already wrote on The New Democrat today. I think he nailed it. (I'm admitting bias here) But I agree with Ben Meiselas that the appeals court was going for a knockout blow. They put everything on the line as far as what Donald Trump, or any other former President, or current President, does not enjoy every other rights and responsibilities that every other American citizen already has. And they wanted their decision to be clear, be well-argued, that no President is above the law in the United States of America, so the Supreme Court wouldn't need to take up this case.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: U.S. Federal Judge Florence Y. Pan & Defendant Don. |
2/05/2024 - In this case this isn't obvious enough: (and if it isn't, your brain called and wants you back) Michael Popok is the lawyer here and I'm not. But my theory here is that while we're waiting for the Washington case to start with the 2020 presidential election interference, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case will start and move during the spring. And maybe Donald Trump is convicted New York campaign fraud, just before the Washington case starts. But that's my guess based on what we're seeing going on in the news right now.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Manhattan, New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg & Defendant Don. |
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2/02/2024 - I want to push back a little bit on Jesse Dollemore here. He Said:
"There are few Hollywood types that have joined the Donald Trump bandwagon. Very few successful actors and celebrities have done so. Partly, generally, artistic types, musicians, and everyone else, are wildly and generally empathetic, loving people, decent people, who care, who understand the stakes here. It's not because of some vast conspiracy that Conservatives would like you to believe. People are people, who care about other people, have an eye for the human experience...
The truth, is entertainers are entertainers. And actors are no different. The reason why there aren't more pro-MAGA people in Hollywood and the broader entertainment industry, because their career, the brand (so to speak) is what they care about the most here. (I'm just being real here)
Actors coming out in favor of a man and movement, when your fans see the average MAGA member as an escaped mental patient, whose been on run from the FBI for the last 20 years, and whose now in the top FBI most wanted, can seriously hurt your career. Also in the news: burning your hands with fire and smoking 5 packs of cigarettes a day and drinking nothing but alcohol during the day, is also not good for you.
We saw this with Anthony Sabato back in 2016 when he backed Donald Trump. When was the last hit, Tony Sabato has ever been in? Maybe The Big Hit from 1998, almost 20 years pre-Donald Trump and MAGA. But you get the point.
Dean Cain backed Donald Trump back in 2016. The man is in his late 50s now, young enough to be Jon Voight's and James Woods (who I'll get to later) son. What's the last, major, TV production, or film, has Dean Cain has been part of?
There are exceptions to every rule in America and I'm sure there are professional entertainers, including actors, who have the human values that Jesse Dollemore, was talking about. But let's keep it real here. If you come out in favor of Donald Trump, when more than half of the country probably hates the man, good luck getting real acting work in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, etc. You might as well become a card-caring members of the Ku Klux Klan. Tell the world about "the need for Nazism in America" and then wake up the next morning in a rubber room as a result. I mean you'll end up, if you are lucky, with your series of Hallmark films. Or ,working for right-wing, independent filmmakers, who produce films about when America was really a great country, etc.
I'm not a mindreader, (also in the news: I'm not an astronaut, who moonlights as a brain surgeon, even in outer space) so maybe Jon Voight really does believe that Don Trump is the Son of God. And maybe he also believes in Santa Claus and the New York Yankees will relocate to Alabama. Who knows what's really in the mind of actors anyway? But the man is an actor and a great one at that. He'a also 85 years old and could be losing his mind. So just to automatically take him seriously on anything, that doesn't involve his own personal carer and life, I'm not sure there's enough salt on the planet (a grain wouldn't do) for me to do that, because I believe in facts and evidence.
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| Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about MAGA's cult leader Donald Trump. |
2/01/2024 - Alina Habba: "What I heard in there, and the behavior that I saw in there, which was reported widely today (I'm sure by Breitbart, Newsmax, and other MAGA outlets) gave us the most perfect record on appeal, even if I needed it, which I don't. We were stripped of every defense, every single defense before we walked in there. And I'm proud to stand with President Trump because he stood up, he showed up, and took the stand. And you know what, I'll continue to do so with him."
Seriously, this is the main civil trial lawyer (until she was just fired) for a former President of the United States and self-proclaimed billionaire. Try getting your mind wrapped around that amazing fact.
When I wrote my first post about Alina Habba back in November, I knew something wasn't right about her, at least as the lead, civil trial lawyer, for a former President of the United States and self-proclaimed billionaire.
I mean why would someone who has a lien on her home, because of her back taxes, whose in danger of losing her home, has serious financial issues, even in the same building or room, as a former President of the United States.
And whatever you think of Donald Trump, (and you know where The New Democrat stands on him) he is a former President. You would think someone with his status in life and even wealth and even if he's not a billionaire and worth somewhere in the lower 100s of millions, (which is my best guess) you would think someone like that would have access to the best attorney's that America has to offer, because of his professional, as well as financial status.
But no. Not with Donald Trump. Instead the best available lawyers for him, are people who sound like they tried out for reality TV shows, to become the next great lawyer in America, instead of going to law school. Or went to automotive school, to become a lawyer. Not someone who even sounds like she's ever even spent a day in law school.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Trump University President Defendant Don & perhaps Trump U. law graduate Alina Habba. |
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1/31/2024 - Jesse Dollemore: "MAGA is an uneducated mob of idiots."
Well, when their cult leader hires a media relations lawyer, to defend him in court, as his main trial attorney, someone who has a lien against her home right now, because she can't even afford her taxes, or her husband can't and then of course the performance (and that's exactly what Alina Habba has done for Donald Trump trying to defend her client) it's hard to disagree with Jesse Dollemore's quote here.
And then of course Donald Trump's base, which is primarily made up of lower-middle-income, to middle-income, small town, blue-collar, working class, Anglo-Saxon-Protestant, middle aged and older voters and yet they give away their hard-earned money, to a man who claims to be a billionaire, to pay his own legal bills. Because he personally refuses to pay his own lawyers. It's hard to find any intelligence with this line of thinking. on MAGA's part. I don't think Superman with his supervision, could see any intelligence there. (Not that Superman is a real person)
On Donald Trump's part, the man looks like a world class conman, who simply makes his living by taking other people's money. That's how, along with the money his father left him, that's how this man has ever made a penny for himself in his entire life, by taking other people's money, in exchange for junk, (to be kind) or nothing at all.
As far as Alina Habba: imagine being a football coach, with 10 straight losing seasons, with the exact same franchise. That's where she is right now. She should've been fired month's ago and sent back to her Long Island or Connecticut strip mall, (to paraphrase Bruce Bartlett) law firm, (or wherever the hell Donald Trump found her) waiting for the next sucker (perhaps a MAGA member) to get struck by a bus, that she could finally cash in on. I mean Donald Trump is in the battle for his financial, as well as personal freedom and needs competent lawyers, that he will pay, to defend him.
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| Source:Jesse Dollemore with a look at Donald Trump's legal issues. |
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1/30/2024 - I swear, when I wrote my first post about Alina Habba back in November, I had no idea who the hell she was, before I did some research on her. But even from what I had on her at that point, I thought she was simply unqualified to to defend someone like Donald Trump. Or especially any former President of the United States, who for some reason found themselves in civil or legal jeopardy. And I stand behind everything that I've written about her the last two months.
Here's another good quote that is very relevant to the Alina Habba/Trump University school of lawyering...
That's what Alina Habba is doing here. I'm not a psychologist, (in case that's not obvious enough) but if I had to bet (but not my last dollar) I'm guessing that Alina Habba knows that she lost the E. Jean Carroll case, bigly. (To quote Donald J. Trump)
I mean an 83 million-dollar judgment against your own client, when the original penalty was 5 million, I mean if she was the head coach of the greatest NFL team ever, they would struggle just to win one game the whole season with her as the head coach. Because she doesn't do her homework and would never have her team prepared to play, even the worst teams in the NFL.
Give Alina Habba the fastest car in the world and she would lose to the driver of the 1984 Ford Escort, because she would start off the race in reverse. And it might be 10 miles later before she would figure out she's going the wrong way.
If Alina Habba was the pilot of a 747 plane going from Detroit to New York, the plane would end up in Seattle 1st. And when they get to Seattle, she would wonder why she's not in Houston instead of New York.
I mean to call Alina Habba a moron as a lawyer, is almost an insult morons. At least your average moron knows that they're not intelligent. With Alina Habba, she goes with the old spaghetti defense, hoping that if she throws enough spaghetti at the wall, that one piece of that spaghetti will stick and that would be her defense for her client. But now I guess she's run out of spaghetti to throw at the wall and she now has to clean up her own mess. Because she's already backtracking on this latest spaghetti at the wall defense and has retracted her latest letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan.
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| Source:Meidas Touch left to right (in case this isn't obvious enough) U.S. Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan & Trump University graduate Alina Habba. Well, she acts like she went to Trump U. |
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1/29/2024 - You can see why New York Attorney General Letitia James wants such a huge penalty against Donald Trump. (Other than the fact that she hates him politically) NYAG is asking for 200 million-dollar judgement against Donald Trump.
But, if this new reporting is true and Barbara Jones is right, she alone found 50 million-dollars of taxable income in the Trump Organization, they apparently tried to hide, to avoid paying taxes on. This coming after the Judge Arthur Engoron has already found Donald Trump guilty of business fraud in New York City.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- Barbara Jones vs Defendant Don. |
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1/26/2024 - Just off the top of the bat: that 83 million sounds like a gigantic figure, especially based on the numbers that I've heard this week, which were more like 5-15 million that was being predicted as far as how much Donald Trump would be forced to pay to E. Jean Caroll. So now the only question here, is would this ruling even survive Judge Lewis Kaplan, or will Judge Kaplan knock that figure down. Or, would this jury ruling survive the appeal that of course Donald Trump's lawyers will make for him.
1/25/2024 - You have to understand that Donald Trump now lives on another planet. And I'm not talking about Planet Mars vs Earth, but he now lives in a new universe in the sense as far as how he's able to conduct himself and what responsibilities and rights that he has an American citizen, which are the same rights and responsibilities that every other American citizen has in America.
But mentally, Donald Trump doesn't even live on Planet Earth, let alone the United States, or even North America. He's lives on Planet Trump mentally, which is his own mental reality show, in a place where Donald Trump is king and isn't responsible for the action of everyone, especially himself and where he isn't accountable to anyone else, except for perhaps himself. But that's not the world that he lives on. He lives and operates in the same country as everyone else. And Judge Lewis Kaplan is making that perfectly clear.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: U.S. Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan & Defendant Don. |
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1/24/2023 - Just to give you my political analysis as far as what happens if Donald Trump goes to trial in Washington: (which is the only case that has a shot of being tried and getting a decision on before the 2024 elections)
The election would be over at that point. There are polls including from CNN and other places, where 1/4, perhaps even as many as 1/3 Republicans, would not vote for Donald Trump if he's a convicted of a felony, before the 2024 election. Trump can't afford to even lose 10% of the Republican Party, especially if there's a large Democratic turnout and President Biden wins Independents overwhelmingly again.
There were polls in even Iowa and New Hampshire that showed a large percentage of Republicans wouldn't vote for Donald Trump, if he's a convicted felon before the 2024 election. You could argue that the Donald Trump doesn't need a conviction even, before he loses the election, because of all the evidence against him relating to the January 6 insurrection, as well as his own people from his own administration, testifying against him, perhaps in the late spring or summer this year.
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| Source:Alan Dershowitz talking about Donald Trump's legal cases. |
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1/23/2024 - What Michael Popok laid out are basically the two legal wings of the modern Republican Party. One of those wings could also be called the Grand Ole Party. And these are Conservative Republicans, Conservative lawyers, who believe in conserving the American republic, our form of government, the Constitution, our individual rights, democracy, and rule of law.
There might be some exceptions here, but the people who are left to represent Donald Trump in all his legal struggles, are the MAGA Party, are MAGA lawyers. They go by the policy that just because you should lose on the facts and evidence, doesn't mean you'll lose or should even lose. Because they could try to delay and obstruct, with all sorts of worthless motions and appeals, in attempt to delay the prosecutors from even putting on their case against their client.
Put the entire modern Republican Party together and it's not what was called the Grand Ole Party, because MAGA which has no interest in conserving anything that relates to our Constitution, our form of government, the rule of law, our democracy, etc, is so dominant in today's Republican Party today. But the modern Republican Party still has GOP Republicans in it, that are led by the Conservative Republican lawyers that have already been mentioned here, as well as George Conway and other Conservatives.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- two of the former President's men who testified against Defendant Don. |
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1/22/2024 - Joe Tacopina: "As a lawyer you obviously would like it to be about the facts and the law. But that's not always an option."
If you are familiar with both Ben Meiselas's, as well as The New Democrat's commentary, about Alina Habba and her strategy and approach to even try to defend a man like Donald Trump, that Joe Tacopina quote goes to that perfectly.
Trump's hardcore MAGA lawyers are not there to get Donald Trump acquitted or even off. They are there to at best try to win the case in the media and perhaps win the case on appeal. Or get some ruling from the Supreme Court essentially saying that Donald Trump for some reasons (probably made up) that Donald Trump is immune from whatever he's being accused of.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Donald Trump's ex-lawyer Joe Tacopina & defendant Don. |
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1/19/2024 - Michael Popok: "The only reason why she (meaning Fani Willis) is being attacked is because of the color of her skin and they want to try to get her off the case. They've (meaning MAGA) has tried every which way, every which way, except Sunday to get Fani Willis off this case."
I hate to break it to the Michael Popok's of the world, but Donald Trump's lawyers are not Ku Klux Klan militants. They're defense lawyers. And this idea that they would simply go after prosecutors because of their race and gender, makes as much sense as buying snowmobiles to use in Miami, Florida, in July. They know the case against their client Donald Trump and they know whose prosecuting this case. So of course they're going to try to do anything in their means, to get Fulton County's best prosecutors, off this case, to make it easier for them to win this case.
I mean you could at least argue that Michael Popok is being the racist here. He's arguing that the only reason why Donald Trump's lawyer are trying to get Fani Willis and her team off this case, is simply because of their race and nothing to do with the quality of their case and how good they are as prosecutors.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis & her top prosecutor on the Donald Trump case, Nathan Wade. |
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1/18/2024 - Alina Habba went on to say: "Look, that's the honest truth. And I'm sure there will be some Washington Post article or The Daily Beast, my favorite. But listen, you have to be honest. It doesn't hurt to be good looking in this world, the PR world or on TV. When you are good looking, that's great, but it can also mean that you are stupid, or President Trump just hired me because I'm good looking. And that's not true."
I'll give you an idea what it's like to write about Alina Habba. Imagine being a boxer and you are always fighting someone who doesn't even bother to try to defend themself. Or, you are playing a football every week, that can't even catch punts and kickoffs right and are always fumbling them. The QB is always dropping the snap, the RB always fumbles the handoff, the offensive lineman never lines up correctly and always forgets the snap count, the defenders tackle each other, instead of the offensive players, etc.
I mean, if there was professional expansion team of lawyers, Alina Habba would be the first and last pick on the team, as well as every other pick in between. Because this expansion team would want to be as bad and unprofessional as possible. That's Alina Habba as a defense lawyer.
And if Alina Habba was just some Jane Doe, or Jane Jones defense lawyer, whose just out of law school, working in Wheeling, West Virginia or some place, trying to defend suspected jaywalkers or something, her unprofessionalism would never make the news. Perhaps a small paragraph in the local newspaper or something. But she's supposed to be working for a former President of the United States, whose on trial in multiple cases. Which is why her unprofessionalism is in the news almost everyday, because she doesn't seem to be able to get though a day, without shooting one of her toes off, or punching herself in the face.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- I keep thinking that Alina Habba must have gotten her law degree from Trump University. |
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1/17/2024 - I really don't have anything to add to what's already said here, except for what's been Donald Trump's basic defense against E. Jeanne Carroll, which I'll get to later. So I'm just going to have a little fun with Alina Habba's own reality TV show: "Alina Habba: Welcome To The Legal World"
Imagine you are watching some soap opera in the afternoon. Perhaps you are too sick to work that day and perhaps you are just vegging out on the couch or something, perhaps trying to watch the TV shows you simply don't watch on a regular basis, or don't have time to watch.
So after flipping around for a while, you find a soap opera and in that episode, the star of that show is on trial for their life. And Alina Habba is playing the defense lawyer and because it's a soap opera, you see all of her courtroom antics and the judge whose trying to look like a professional lawyer (even on a soap opera) simply not having it and putting Alina in her place every time she pulls some courtroom stunt.
Or imagine one of those trash/made up TV episodes (also known as reality TV) and this time one of the stars of the show is on trial for their life and the judge whose perhaps looking for fame themselves (perhaps a Lance Ito admirer) for some freakin reason, decides not to just allow cameras in their courtroom, but this so-called reality TV show to not just film in the courtroom, but to film their show in the courtroom. And Alina again playing the defense lawyer, because she not just has a guilty client, but she's simply not a qualified, credible, defense trial lawyer, is playing the same games, even with the judge calling her out every time and putting her back in her place.
That's the kind of lawyer Alina Habba is. If she didn't have a legal license, she would be one of the best soap and so-called reality TV stars of the last 25 years. She has no business defending someone who actually needs quality, legal, counsel, right now, for the simple reasons that Donald Trump is literally fighting for his freedom and financial security right now and is obviously guilty of what he's being charged with in every case that he's facing.
And to get to Donald Trump's so-called legal defense in the E. Jeanne Carroll case: by saying he couldn't have sexually assaulted her because she's not his type, he's essentially admitting guilt here. But imagine if Jeanne Carroll was his type and how even more guilty he would look today.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: U.S. Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan & perhaps Trump University graduate Alina Habba. |
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1/16/2024 - Just to push back a little bit on what Michael Popok said about this motion against her by Donald Trump's lawyer in Atlanta:
Popok said: "Well, it's the taking down of strong Black women season, apparently. And the latest victim is Fani Willis, Fulton County District Attorney...
Apparently it hasn't occurred to Michael Popok that maybe Donald Trump's lawyers, don't want District Attorney Willis and her team supervising this case, because she and they are damn good lawyers. Think about it, Donald Trump and his co-defendants are under a racketeering indictment. She's made her career putting away gangsters in Fulton County. That's how Donald Trump operates as a Manhattan, white-collar gangster. And because he lost the 2020 presidential election, he took that way of doing business down to Atlanta and got caught.
The other ironic thing that I see here is that Donald Trump whose basically a career playboy, as well as white-collar conman and gangster, is also a playboy. The man has cheated on all his wives with multiple women.
Fani Willis is not even married and the Trump lawyers are saying that she should recuse herself, simply for having an affair and implying that her supposed boyfriend, is only on the case, so she can bankroll him during this case. With of course no evidence whatsoever to back that up. But in MAGA World, evidence is like water in the desert. When you see it, you better grab it while you can, because you might be hundreds of miles way from your next opportunity.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Fulton County, Georgia Judge Scott McAfee & Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis. |
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1/15/2024 - As much as Donald Trump's opponents (and that means Republicans, Democrats, and Independents) like to argue that Donald Trump is an idiot, he actually isn't. I think the way to look at Donald Trump (at risk of sounding very insulting) is to look at him like a street mobster, but with a college degree and a white-collar background. Not saying the man should be a brain surgeon, an astronaut, American history professor, etc. But if you think you are being overtaxed, or perhaps shouldn't have to pay taxes at all, Donald Trump would probably be a good guy to go to for that.
And I only mention this because I for the life of me (and of course we could all speculate here) I have no idea what Donald Trump personally sees in Alina Habba as a lawyer. And I guess I go back to my November article about her and the differences between a sitting President of the United States and a disgraced former President of the United States, when it comes to legal counsel. The current president's have access to the best lawyers in the entire country, if not world. But former president's who are simply trying to stay out of prison, have access to what's left.
What's left in the legal profession for disgraced, former president's, are the lawyers who are simply struggling with their own careers, who need a wealthy client to jumpstart their careers. It's obvious what Alina Habba sees in Donald Trump. I mean he's her ticket to becoming a wealthy, big time lawyer, at least when it comes to her clients. If you can forget about all the amateur screw ups that she's made trying to defend him and her horrible court losses. But the question is what does he see in her simply as a lawyer.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Donald Trump propagandist & perhaps Trump University graduate Alina Habba and her defendant Don. |
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1/12/2024 - Not just myself, but The New Democrat in general has stayed away from the 14th Amendment argument against Donald Trump, for the simple reason that you could make a good argument either way. I think it's obvious that Donald Trump is guilty of insurrection from 2021. All the video evidence, his own statements and actions relating to even what he was doing in the last 2 weeks of his presidency has made that clear. As well as all the testimony from his own people against him.
But, Donald Trump has yet to be convicted even by Congress for his role in the January 6, 2021 insurrection against the U.S. Government. He was just impeached by Congress in the House, but then acquitted by the Senate. And has yet to go on trial even for his role in the insurrection.
I'm not saying this a flip of the coin, 50-50 case here, but if the choice is between prosecuting and convicting Donald Trump in court and then having him in jail for perhaps the entire 2nd half of the 2024 presidential campaign and just kicking him off the ballots in two states, (Colorado and Maine) I'm going with legal and democratic process here, as an at best independent Democrat, but more like a small d democrat, who believes in liberal democracy, including the rule of law in America.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts & Defendant Don. |
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1/11/2024 - If you were any prosecutor in America and Donald Trump was one of your defendants and somehow it was Christmas everyday, (or whatever holiday that you celebrate) and you could have anything in the world that you want, you would ask for Donald Trump to try to speak for himself as long as he wants, under oath.
For anyone whose younger than a gen-xer in America; there was a very popular, late night, comedic talk show, on NBC back in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, that was hosted by Johnny Carson, The King of Late Night TV. Back in 1982, (when I was 5 years old. I saw the thing on YouTube) there was a skit on Johnny Carson's show, where he's playing a career, crooked, politician, who voluntarily has a press conference under a lie detector machine. And every time that this politician spoke about anything, he even lied about being happy to be there, the buzzard went off and he got caught.
I mean Donald Trump is the American politician under a human lie detector machine, every time he speaks about anything, at anytime. The man even lies about his height and weight. He's 6'2, not 6'3, still a tall man. He's probably around 250 pounds now and that's from his original physical when he was at The White House, instead of 215 pounds today. He claims to be a billionaire, but he can't prove it.
I mean a man who can't even tell the truth about his own financial assets and business, or even height and weight, can't be trusted to defend America and lead our great country at any point in our history.
1/10/2024 - So Donald Trump I guess wants to give at least part of his closing arguments himself (there's so many ways to make fun of that as well, but too little time) but Judge Engeron said that Mr. Trump can't because he didn't agree to the conditions that the Judge laid out for those closing arguments.
I still stand by what I said about Alina Habba back in November. Alina Habba is someone whose simply trying to make a name for herself as a lawyer, or MAGA political activist, before becoming a real lawyer. And I'm sure she passed the bar and has a legal license, (perhaps from Trump University) but that's not the same as being a lawyer.
A real, competent, responsible, honest, sane, and sober lawyer, (and hopefully that's some small club of lawyers that has their get togethers in public bathrooms) doesn't spend most of their time on TV, making garbage arguments that no one believes. (That no serious lawyer would make in court (because they don't want to lose their law license)
What serious lawyers do instead is put together a competent, case, in favor of their client, based on hard evidence, that at least suggests, if not proves that their client is innocent of what they're being charged of. And if they can't do that, perhaps they seek a deal with the prosecutors, or try to win their case on appeal
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| Source:Meidas Touch- perhaps Alina Habba should be seeking a refund from Donald Trump, for her time as a law student at Trump University. (Assuming that's where she graduated) |
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1/09/2024 - Michael Popok: "The Judge's aren't buying the impeachment argument (Donald Trump's double jeopardy claim) and are troubled whether they even have jurisdiction as far as if they can't even rule on this yet. I'll just wrap it up this way, Ben. They are going to as we think, they are going to rule against Donald Trump. I think it will be 3-0. I don't think it will go back to Judge Chutkan for anything. And I think the loser will have to take an emergency writ up to the Supreme Court."
Ben Meiselas thinks that the Washington appeals court will rule against Donald Trump on jurisdiction grounds. Meaning that the appeals court doesn't think they should be ruling on this case, until Donald Trump is convicted.
Ben Meiselas then goes on to talk about President Richard Nixon in 1974, who resigned the presidency before he could get impeached and convicted by Congress. Well, that goes to one of Donald Trump's arguments having to do with double jeopardy, since the former President was impeached, but then acquitted by Congress back in 2021.
But then Meiselas also mentions that President Gerald Ford pardoned President Nixon after Nixon was already out of office, in September of 1974. But if any President has presidential immunity from prosecution while as President, why wold any President ever have to be pardoned for anything at all?
I think this is very simple. Donald Trump and his lawyers don't have any constitutional or legal case, for why their client should be immune for anything while as President, or as a former President. They might as well just argue that Donald Trump is immune from civil litigation or prosecution, simply because he's Donald Trump. Because that's the quality (if you want to call it that) of their arguments right now.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: U.S. Judge Florence Pan & Defendant Don. |
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1/08/2024 - And to talk about what Alina Habba said: if you are familiar with any good Italian Mafia film or documentary, that gets into not just the arrests at all the end that brings the criminal organization down, but then gets into the criminal trials of these mobsters, you know what these defense lawyers try to do and when they're know that their clients are guilty and that they simply can't get their clients off in a legal way. And I thinking of the HBO film about New York Italian Godfather John Gotti, simply called Gotti from 1996, or any good documentary about John Gotti's and his career as an Italian mobster in New York, during the 1970s and 1980s.
So what Alina Habba is essentially doing here, is to not just pressure, but try to make it clear to U.S. Justice Kavanaugh that it's in his best interest to "rule the right way", which is in favor of her client Donald Trump. Otherwise his life could get pretty difficult for him. Which is what Italian mobsters and other mobsters and their lawyers, as well as other ethnic criminal organizations do in America, when their boss is in serious trouble and obviously guilty and looking at a long stint in prison.
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| Source:Medias Touch- left to right: U.S. Justice Brett Kavanaugh & Defendant Don. |
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1/05/2024 - In case anyone is waiting for my latest episode of "Alina Habba: I Want To Be a TV Lawyer", even I can get tired for writing about Alina Habba's irresponsibility, incompetence and unprofessionalism. And perhaps even Ben Meiselas can get tired of talking about her. But you would have to ask him, especially since I've never even met the man. So today, we go back to Washington and talk about his lawyer/MAGA cult followers there.
Look, I believe that Donald Trump's team are simply out of legal plays here. They know they lost and what I think they're doing here is simply trying to convince their boss Donald J. Trump, that they're still with him and he's still their man. And they still want to profit off his back.
They filed their presidential immunity claim more than a month ago and haven't even tried to defend, or backup that position for how former, or current President's have presidential immunity from criminal prosecution. They're prepared to lose, but they don't want to lose their paychecks.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Defendant Don & one of his Washington lawyers John Lauro. |
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1/04/2023 - Again I'm not a lawyer, but there is where Donald Trump's lawyer Alina Habba might be in further trouble with the American Bar Association: "Attorney-client privilege protects confidential communications between a lawyer and their client that relate to the client's seeking of legal advice or services. This protection extends to any information exchanged during these privileged communications, encompassing not only verbal discussions but also written correspondence, emails, text messages, and other forms of communication."
Donald Trump's lawyer Christina Bobb: "The presidential immunity, I think they should rule in favor of Donald Trump. Presidential immunity has been in play for the vast majority of our history. Well established that the acts that were alleged in this indictment were in the furtherance of his office in accordance with his office. He's immune from prosecution. Clearly as President of the United States, he believes that there was fraud in the presidential election and he has a constitutional obligation to secure the election and to figure out what was going on. So this is a very clear case that he should be cleared because of presidential immunity."
Again, notice how Christina Bobb doesn't even try to back up her claim that Donald Trump either has presidential immunity from either criminal prosecution, or has any authority whatsoever to try to interfere as President of the United States, with a state's presidential election. But if she was a good, intelligent, responsible, moral, lawyer, she wouldn't be working for Donald Trump. Also notice how she sounds like she's trying to think about what she says, before she says it. Which means she's either just flat lying, or hasn't put any thought whatsoever in her statement, before she went on national TV. But I'm not a psychologist either.
I guess the old saying that criminals always need the best attorneys. Well, I don't know who actually said that, but if someone did say that, that is completely true in Donald Trump's case. The problem that he has is that the good, honest, successful lawyers, don't want anything to do for him. Other than perhaps getting the money that he owes from, from the time that they did work for him.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- Donald Trump propagandist & perhaps Trump University graduate, Alina Habba. |
1/03/2024 - Donald Trump's lawyer Christina Bobb essentially trying to argue that democracy matters more than the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law. But perhaps only as it relates to Donald J. Trump, who just happens to her client:
"The President is elected by the nation. It should be the entire nation that gets to decide who they want for President, whether they're guilty of insurrection or not. It's up to the people."
Maybe I'm just old now because I'm in my late 40s (which I guess would be old, at least according to Millennials) but I actually do remember a time when all Republicans, not just Conservative Republicans, but even far-right Republicans, not just believed in the rule of law, but argued that America was a constitutional republic, not a democracy.
Donald Trump's Manhattan, New York lawyer Alina Habba:
"Some of us understand what the Constitution says, the amendments, due process, that are still enabled by the Constitution, that we have to abide by. And I think the Supreme Court will do the right thing here, they'll give is some clarity on this. But I can tell you that these people are so crazy: the Jack Smith's the AG's, they've become so deranged, so obsess with taking down Trump, that the law doesn't make sense to them because they don't care about it.
People like me, we take it one step at a time, we look at case law, things that are precedent for this country, we look at the Constitution. And we'll raise all those things at the Supreme Court because we have too..." Alina Habba goes on to talk about these prosecutors saying that they're not making a good name for themselves. Well, she would know if you look at how she embarrasses herself every time she goes on national TV, to try to speak for her client.
To go back to back to what Christina Bobb said: They're no longer even trying to argue whether or not their client Donald J Trump is actually innocent at this point. That train left the station back in August when Special Counsel Jack Smith laid out his indictment. What they're doing now, is simply trying to get their client off with all these bogus (to be really kind) arguments that their client is immune from prosecution and lawsuits, simply because he's Donald J. Trump. Because I think they even know that there's no such thing as presidential immunity from prosecution and civil liability, simply because you are the President, or we're the President of the United States. I don't think you need a degree from Trump University to understand that.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- Donald Trump propagandist & perhaps Trump University graduate, Alina Habba. |
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1/02/2024 - So to try to sum this all up as a non-lawyer: The Washington appeals court will take this argument next week, first and then Donald Trump's lawyers could lose that, before they are heard on whether their client Donald J. Trump, has presidential immunity or not.
If DJT and company lose the American Oversight amicus brief, they won't even get to make their presidential immunity appeal, until if and when their client is convicted. And this case will go back to Judge Tanya Chutkan and her trial will be back on course.
12/29/2023 - I promise this is my last post about Donald Trump's New York County propagandist Alina Habba. But only because this is my last post of 2023 for The New Democrat. Warning! You could hear a lot more from me about her in 2024.
Nothing has changed here, other than the fact I guess, if Alina Habba got paid to make a fool of herself on national TV, Oprah Winfrey could go to Alina for loans. My mean Alina Habba would be the richest woman and perhaps person in the entire world, (not just MAGA World, which isn't much bigger than Pluto, in American terms) if her simple job in life was to make a fool for herself, not just on national TV, but in civil court as well.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- Donald Trump propagandist & perhaps Trump University graduate, Alina Habba. |
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12/28/2023 - So what Ben Meiselas is arguing here, is that Donald Trump's lawyers in Miami, Florida are arguing, is that Donald Trump should have special access to the classified information and evidence against him and not just have to be in court to be able to see it and have a personal copy of this information.
But, the whole point of the Classified Information Procedures Act, is to prevent defendants like Donald Trump, or anyone else whose facing these charges like this against them, to have this information and then be able to use that information against the prosecutors as blackmail: "You drop the charges against me and I won't release or sell this information to the public...
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: U.S. Federal Judge Aileen Cannon & Defendant Don. |
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12/27/2023 - Just in any case anyone who follows The New Democrat has Alzheimer's and can't remember what they had for lunch today: we're not lawyers. But Ben Meiselas just gave the perfect analysis for why the Supreme Court not taking Donald Trump's immunity claim and going past the appeals court in Washington and instead letting the appeals court go first.
Ben Meiselas: "Jack Smith in his brief to the Supreme Court, admitted that he was asking for extraordinary relief in going to the Supreme Court first.
The reason why there was no dissent at the Supreme Court, was because the appeals court is moving so fast and had expedited this case and that this wouldn't delay Jack Smith's case that much at all. Maybe a few weeks or months, but this trial will happen and be concluded before the 2024 presidential election."
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| Source:Meidas Touch- U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts & Defendant Don. |
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12/26/2023 - Just for the record: The New Democrat doesn't rely on the Medias Touch, whether you are talking about Michael Popok here, or Ben Mesielas, for their political commentary. (Left-wing propaganda might be more accurate) For the same reason why we don't rely on MSNBC's left-wing commentators for their political commentary, (or left-wing propaganda) because we're not leftists. We rely on Medias for their legal commentary because they're good lawyers and legal analysts.
As far as Michael Popok saying "the Supreme Court finally face to face with Donald Trump... , that will be about presidential immunity and whether the President of the United States is above the law either as President, or after he leaves The White House, for criminal charges against him, when he was President. And you know where I as a blogger and where The New Democrats stands on presidential immunity when it comes to criminal liability. Of course no American is above the law, including the current President and former President's.
The current Supreme Court, is not a MAGA court, (to correct what Michael Popok said) with Clarence Thomas and perhaps Samuel Alito being exceptions to that. They proved that during the 2020 presidential election and they also showed that in Donald Trump's tax returns case. Assuming the Supreme Court goes by the law and the Constitution once again, they'll rule against Donald Trump again as it relates to presidential immunity and they'll do that fairly soon in 2024.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts & Defendant Don. |
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12/22/2023 - From Donald Trump's lawyer: "In 234 years of American history, no President has ever faced criminal prosecution for his criminal acts until 19 days ago,"
Just to correct the record: Donald J. Trump is not being prosecuted for his official acts as President. He's being prosecuted for criminal acts as President.
Yes, this is a win for Donald Trump and his legal team. There's no way to spin that other than to say that win could be very temporarily.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, the same court that handled Mark Meadows claim to move his Atlanta case to Federal court, that rejected that appeal, the decision that was written by Judge William Pryor just this week, is also handling President Trump's claim of presidential immunity. They're going to take this on January, 8. So the Trump mean might only get a couple weeks delay here, before they have to decide whether or not then go to the Supreme Court, if they lose at the appeals court.
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| Source:CBS News with Defendant Don (as The New Democrat calls Donald J. Trump) |
12/21/2023 - I agree with Michael Popok, that there are at least 5-9 U.S. Supreme Court Justices who think we as a country need to know whether or not Donald J. Trump is an insurrectionist, before the 2024 presidential election and that alone is why they'll take Special Counsel Jack Smith's direct appeal on the presidential immunity question or not.
Of course Donald Trump and his legal team will hate that, because they'll probably lose that decision and then would ultimately be convicted simply because of the evidence against DJT and the fact this trial will be in Washington, but only because that's where these crimes were convicted.
I think DJT will lose at the Supreme Court, again because of the evidence against him, the fact that he's running for President again in 2024. But I don't see 5 votes up there to give not just this former President, but future former President's, or President Joe Biden for the remainder of his presidency, or future current President's, presidential immunity, when it comes to criminal prosecution.
What we know about at least 7, if not 8 of the current U.S. Supreme Court Justices, including the 3 that then President Donald Trump appointed, is that they're not there to save Donald Trump's neck. (To put it mildly) They are there to interpret the law and rule of the constitutionality of current laws.
We know that the current SCOTUS is not there to save DJT's neck, because of all the rulings against then President Trump back in 2020, when he was trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election and just automatically get himself declared the winner of that election, regardless of the final vote tallies in the Electoral College.
I'm thinking even Justice Sam Alito will rule against DJT because all the power it would give future Democratic President's and not just DJT. And perhaps just Clarence Thomas rules in favor of DJT, or doesn't make any ruling at all, because he doesn't want to lose 8-1 on a case this important.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: U.S. Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith & U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts. |
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12/20/2023 - OK, to try to explain Alina Habba and what she's up too or why she does and says the things that she does, especially on national TV, where she'll never be able to run away from her garbage statements, or in court, where again everything piece of trash that she tried to present in court on behalf of her client Donald J. Trump, I can only come up with a few possibilities for why she does this and puts herself through, as someone whose never even met her.
I guess one possibility is that she's a total moron. But then how the hell she get out of high school, let alone through college and then law school, and then pass the bar exam. So I don't think just labeling her as a total moron makes much sense here.
I guess another possibility is that Alina Habba is a pathological liar who simply can't help herself and perhaps she's corrupt as well, which would along with her being a compulsive liar, would explain all of her garbage statements as a freakin lawyer, whose supposed to be a member of the American Bar Association. Along with being a pathological liar, she also just happens to be President of the Compulsive Liars of America, (not saying such organization exists) which seems to be a position unlike being a civil defense attorney, that she would be well-qualified for.
Another possibility and I think one that has real possibility, just based on her statements and behavior, she got her law degree from Trump University, which would explain horrible statements and positions as a lawyer. For any of you that is not familiar with Trump University...
I think crook and pathological liar, are the best possibilities for why Alina Habba does the things that she does and says the things that she does. But you are welcome to weigh in on this as well and tell me what you think about this and her.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- Donald J. Trump's New York County propagandist, Alina Habba. |
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12/19/2023 - It’s one thing to either go o national TV as a lawyer, speaking for your client and either lying, or simply not knowing what you are talking about. It’s another thing to do that in court. But in Alina Habba’s case (who really needs to be back in law school as a student, if any law school would accept her) she has the unique talent to quite frankly bullshit both national TV audiences, as well as U.S. Federal courts and act as if she’s in moot court back in law school and was too busy partying or drinking the night before, to prepare for her case and to do her homework.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: U.S. Federal Judge William Pryor & Defendant Don. |
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12/18/2023 - Imagine Donald Trump is innocent of the all the Federal and state charges that are against him, (and why you are at that, also imagine Planet Mars attacking Planet Venus in real life and it's being shown on Planet Earth via pay-per-view) it would be in Donald J. Trump's best interest to move to a speedy trial and get this mess behind him. Innocent people, who can defend their innocence, tend to want to move quickly, especially if for whatever reasons the prosecution doesn't believe that they're innocent.
But what the Trump team is doing here is trying to not get their client acquitted, but prevent him from even having to stand trial under some bogus (to be kind) argument that President's are literally above the law, or at least Donald Trump is. And therefor can't be held accountable for anything that they do, at least while they're President. And that they're also above the law that they can't be prosecuted for anything that they did while they were President, even after they left The White House.
I'm willing to bet (perhaps not much) that Donald Trump's lawyers are smart enough to know that they're going to lose at the Supreme Court, even if Justice Clarence Thomas and perhaps Justice Samuel Alito want to rule in their favor. Just because of how awful a precedent this would create and that it would give future President's, even a left-wing President, who becomes President of the United States, similar to how Donald Trump became President and now that far-left President has the same presidential immunity, that Donald Trump did, thanks to a Republican leaning Supreme Court.
But what Donald Trump's lawyers are doing here, might just to either set up an appeal after they lose in Washington and their client is found guilty, or be able to file another motion for dismissal arguing that the U.S. Department of Justice is not committing election interference by prosecuting their client, who just happens to be the Republican nominee for President, so close the the 2024 presidential election. Forgetting the obvious fact that they've gone out-of-their-way to delay this trial for as long as possible, when it could've been over by the late spring of 2024, instead of the late summer, had they not attempted to delay the trial for as long as possible and they simply just got their client acquitted based on the evidence that they brought to the trial and their cross-examinations of DOJ's witnesses.
Donald Trump, just like every other American citizen, just like every former President, just like the current President, Joe Biden is obviously not above the law. Vanity Fair has the Jaworski V Nixon case from 1974, that's on this post. But there's another one as well which is Fitzgerald V Nixon from 1982:
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| Source:Vanity Fair- Donald J. Trump at a very familiar place for him, a courthouse. |
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12/15/2023 - So what what Ben Meiselas is talking about here (and I will get to the point faster) is that Donald Trump's New York County lawyer, Alina Habba, is arguing to the appeals court, that her client Donald Trump has absolute immunity, period. And she referenced Nxon V Fitzgerald, a case that that US Air Force officer Arthur Ernest Fitzgerald made against President Richard Nixon in the early 1970s.
So to put this in American English: President's (current & former) can't be held personally libel for official acts that they commit while President of the United States. Running for President and campaigning for President, challenging or illegally challenging, like with election interference, aren't official acts as President. So Alina Habba (winner of Amateur Night at the American Bar Association for he 2nd day in a row) was referencing a case to help her client, that she apparently didn't even bother to read.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Donald Trump's New York County lawyer & Defendant Don. |
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12/14/2023 - So to put all of this in English: (or perhaps broken American English) Donald Trump lost his civil immunity case in the E. Jeanne Carrol case, because his own damn lawyer Alina Habba, didn't file her motion in time to win that appeal and give her client civil immunity here.
My post about DJT's lawyer Alina Habba from back in November still stands here. She's not up to the task, doesn't have the experience, the knowledge, the professionalism, to defend a client at the level of Donald Trump, when you are talking about a former President of the United States and now serial criminal defendant.
DJT needs much better legal representation. But Alina Habba might be the best of what's left to even consider representing a man who not only commits felonies on a regular basis, but who leaves incriminating evidence against him all over the place, either thinking he'll never get caught, or convicted, or he's simply above the law and has some constitutional right that no other American citizen has.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Donald Trump's self-screwer Alina Habba & Defendant Don. |
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12/13/2023 - Kenneth Chesebro is a co-defendant in the Fulton County, Georgia, election overturning case, that's being prosecuted by District Attorney Fani Willis. But he's a cooperating co-defendant, which means he pleaded guilty to a felon here in Georgia, in exchange for a lighter sentence, that probably keeps him out of prison.
But to stay out of prison, Ken Chesebro has to spill the beans, (to use an old cliche) he has to let the dogs out (to use a more modern phrase) and tell Fulton County DA everything that he knows about his involvement, in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election and just automatically declare Donald J. Trump as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
I think we already knew that even Donald Trump knew that he lost the 2020 presidential election. People who worked directly for him in his White House, including his communications director Alyssa Farrah Griffin, as well Cassidy Hutchinson, who worked for his Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, as well as Mark Meadows, and Vice President Mike Pence, have already said that President Trump knew that he lost the 2020 presidential election, before the January 6, 2021 insurrection.
But what we have now with the Ken Chesebro tapes, is Chesebro and other lawyers telling Donald Trump that he lost the 2020 presidential election, before January 6, 2021. And Chesebro essentially saying that their might be one more legal play that they can try before Congress certifies the 2020 presidential election, but if that doesn't work, then they are now out of legal plays in this case to overturn the 2020 presidential election and declare Donald Trump the winner. With then President Trump probably using that to say: "If these legal moves don't work, we are (meaning MAGA) are going to have to take action and physically overturn the election ourselves and physically take over the U.S. Capitol."
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| Source:Medias Touch- left to right: Defendant Don Trump & Co-Defendant Ken Chesebro. |
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12/12/2023 - I would ask the simple question of what Donald Trump was thinking on January 6, 2021. But then I would have to assume that he was thinking about anything, other than being desperate to stay in power so much, regardless of what the American voters had just said about him being their President. And this was the last thing that he could think of, to do, to try to save his presidency, which was to inspire am insurrection on the U.S. Capitol and that joint session of Congress, to certify the 2020 presidential election and declare Joe Biden as President and Kamala Harris as Vice President.
The reason why I mention this, is because a more experienced, more competent, more moral, person, who served in government, especially the U.S. Government, before becoming President, would've come to the conclusion, even if they were considering an insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, that no way this would work.
At risking of being very offensive here: Donald Trump seemed to believe that the way for him to save his presidency, was essentially inspire a group of wannabe militia members, people with at best very limited law enforcement or military backgrounds, who were probably kicked out law enforcement, for incompetence, who have very little respect for the rule of law, and march down to the U.S. Capitol, to take over the joint session of Congress and just automatically declare Donald J. Trump as President again. And then somehow be able to occupy the Capitol, until their reinforcements came. And no one could get caught and get into trouble for this Super Bowl level of stupidity and irresponsibility.
And because of all this lack of planning by Trump Inc., they left evidence all over the place, like they were staking their claim and purposely letting the world know that they were there that day and this is what they did. Sort of like a family of hungry raccoons, who go through people's trash and gardens, garages, looking for food for themselves. That's why Donald Trump and his team are in so much trouble today, with the law, because they acted like a team of amateur, juvenile, convenient store, shoplifters, who left evidence all over the place, including as they were headed out the door.
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| Source:Meidas Touch talking about U.S. DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith & Defendant Don Trump |
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12/11/2023 - For the 100th time or whatever, we're not lawyers at The New Democrat. We follow the news and report what know and tell our followers what we think about what we know.
Donald Trump is an American citizen like everyone else. His lawyers aren't going to find anything in the U.S. Constitution that either puts former President's above the law, or even Donald John Trump over or under any other American citizen.
It's true that no sitting President can be tried while in office, (according to the U.S. Department of Justice) but sitting President and former President are two different statuses.
I think this is a brilliant move by Special Counsel Jack Smith because he knows how good of a case that he has against Donald J. Trump and he knows that Mr. Trump and his lawyers are simply trying to push this case beyond 2024 Election Day. And I expect, again as a non-lawyer, that the U.S. Supreme Court, perhaps even at least 2 of former President Trump's own handpicked appointments, will see that Mr. Trump is simply trying to delay the Washington trial, because he doesn't want to be convicted and remanded, especially before Election Day 2024.
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| Source:Medias Touch- left to right: U.S. DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith & Defendant Don Trump. |
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12/08/2023 - This might sound like a crazy example: (hey it's Friday the 8th, why not) but imagine going into your office one day with a machine gun, (don't ask me how you got the gun into office) and you fire the gun all over the place and even hit a few people, leaving perhaps 50 witnesses who saw what you did, as well as the cameras that are in the building, as well as the office. And all these people are either your coworkers, or supervisors, perhaps subordinates, who know you fairly well and saw exactly what you did. So now you are on trial for manslaughter and perhaps attempted murder.
So now you are on trial and you have all these witnesses testifying against you, because you were too braindead and narcissistic to try to take a plea deal, or plead guilty in hopes you don't go way for prison for the rest of your life, because you think the jury is going to fall in love with you, maybe the Governor is your brother-in-law and you are thinking he'll automatically pardon you because you are family.
This is essentially the situation that Donald Trump is in, in Atlanta, Georgia. The only people that are going to testify against him in Atlanta, are his own, handpicked, appointments, to his presidential campaign, presidential administration, or his own personal lawyers.
Remember back in 2017 when then President Donald Trump said: "I only hire the best people to work for me." Even if that were true, (and the Star Trek Enterprise is a real spaceship) even if he only hires the best people, according to him, the people he personally hired, are now going to help Fulton County, District Attorney Fani Willis, put him in prison for the rest of his life, if she only gets the chance.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Fulton County, Georgia District Fani (don't call me Raven Symone) Willis and Defendant Don Trump. |
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12/07/2023 - I would add serial reality TV sand tabloid star, as well as wannabe American dictator, to Donald J. Trump's Wikipedia resume. But his official resume that I posted from Wikipedia, is completely accurate.
I'm just posting this profile information about these three key players in the Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia trial, against former President Donald J. Trump, to give you a good idea of what DJT is going up against.
Mike Pence, was then Republican nominee Trump's handpicked choice for Vice President, back in 2016. Fani Willis is a career lawyer, whose made her career putting away violent thugs and other criminals, like gangsters. Donald J. Trump, once again is a serial reality TV and tabloid star, and wannabe American dictator, who believes that the rule of law doesn't apply to him.
Now seriously, if you are an intelligent, sane, sober, and responsible individual, who would you rather believe: the two career public servants, or the serial reality TV and tabloid star/wannabe American dictator? The answer should be obvious.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to tight: Donald J. Trump's 1st or 2nd worst nightmare, Fulton County, Georgia Fani Willis & Defendant Don Trump. |
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12/06/2023 - What Karen Agnifilo and Danya Perry are talking about is Jack Smith's motion to present evidence of Donald Trump's prior bad acts, to the Washington Jan 6. 2021 insurrection case against former President Donald Trump. Crimes that the former President has been indicted for, while he was still in office, for the last 2 weeks of his presidency, back in January, 2021.
And as the ladies had already explained, prosecutors can only do this, if the prior bad acts, represents a pattern that the defendant has committed, to commit the current crimes that he's being charged with.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: U.S. DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith & Defendant Don Trump. |
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12/05/2023 - Before you look at Liz Cheney's opposition to Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, you have to look at where she's from politically, her family, especially her father Dick Cheney represents and what that wing of the party represents, first.
Even after Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, you still had old school, center-right Republicans in Congress (House & Senate) who still believed in the rule of law and that America was more important than anything, including their own political careers. A lot of those folks are now out of Congress like former Representative Adam Kinzinger and former Representative Liz Cheney who lost her primary, but Senator Mitt Romney is still there.
Liz Cheney and her father represent the old school wing of the Republican Party, the party when it was the Grand Ole Party. They come from neoconservative wing of that party that emerged in the 1960s and 70s, but these are old school Republicans that believe in the rule of law, checks and balances, American democracy, and I could go on.
Donald Trump represents what's called the "Make America Great Again Movement". Which really means make America Anglo-Saxon and Northern European again, as well as male dominant...
And being the wannabe, right-wing authoritarian that Donald Trump wants to be, he obviously doesn't believe in American democracy and accountability, at least as it applies to him. So it's obvious why someone like a Liz Cheney would be in complete opposition to him.
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| Source:NPR News anchor Leila Fadel interviewing former U.S. Representative & now author Liz Cheney (Republican, Wyoming) |
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12/04/2023 - If this New York State courtroom that's run by Judge Arthur Engeron, was one of Donald Trump's so-called reality TV shows, Mr. Trump would have freedom to say whatever the hell he wanted too. Not just about the Judge, but the Judge's law clerk as well. Mr. Trump could call the Judge a whore and his wife a whore, his clerk a crazy bitch and threaten to kick their asses when after the court session is over, etc, while court is in session. Wouldn't even have to wait for a press conference after court.
But Donald Trump no longer lives in reality TV world. At least physically, whether that's ever occurred to him mentally or not, only DJT could know that. And in the United States of America, more pacifically in Manhattan, New York, in New York State Court, in the real world, every individual right that we have in America, including the First Amendment, (my personal favorite individual right) is not absolute.
Imagine if free speech was unlimited in America:
How would people who hire killers to murder their spouse or someone else, be charged for conspiracy to commit murder? The defendant could just say: "I didn't personally murder my spouse. I just hired someone to do that for me. I have a First Amendment right to say whatever I want."
Perjurers could never be charged for perjury because perjurers would have a 1st Amendment right to lie under oath.
Inciting violence would then become legal in America because now we have a constitutional right to incite violence. Someone could give a speech and say: "You should go beat the hell out of Joe Wilson (or whoever the person is) because that would make me happy." And then someone would get go beat the hell out of Joe Wilson and say that Tom Davis (or whoever the person is) said that would make them happy. And then Tom Davis could just say: "Well, I didn't beat the hell out of Joe Wilson. I just said someone should go do that."
Forget about truth in advertising with an unlimited First Amendment in America because now con people fraudsters, crooks, would no longer be required to have to back up what they claim their products can do. A car dealer could then claim that their cars are the most reliable and durable around. Even though they break down 5 minutes after their customers pull their new car out of the lot. The car dealership could just say: "We didn't force these people to buy our cars or even take us seriously."
If Donald Trump’s lawyers were honest, (and if rats flew over the moon) they would simply just argue: “Donald Trump has the constitutional right to say and do whatever he wants to do.” That would still be a garbage defense, but at least it would be honest.
As Michael Popok, who is a New York lawyer, said in his video, once you enter the courtroom as a defendant, your free speech rights become limited to the case and the evidence in that case. (Close paraphrase) You don't have the right to attack the Judge and the Judge's staff.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- in case it's not obvious enough (perhaps you just happen to be drunk, insane, or blind) left to right: NY State Judge Arthur Engeron & the one and thank God only, Donald J. Trump. |
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12/01/2023 - Michael Cohen Said: "For the first time in his life, Donald Trump is learning about accountability and what it's like to be held accountable under law." (That's a close paraphrase)
As my colleague Fred Schneider wrote on The New Democrat back in September:
"I said back in 2017 (and I just wish I had written this down and made it public) that Donald Trump picked the wrong country to run for President and be its head of state. Why? Because our governmental system that's built around checks and balances, accountability, the rule of law, is not suited for someone of Donald Trump's mindset and personality. He believes he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants to, that rules and laws that apply to everyone else, don't apply to him."
I post the links about embezzlement and money laundering for excellent reasons. I think it's fairly obvious now that Donald Trump personally, (perhaps not his company) is strapped for cash. Even when you move money from a company that you personally own, like Trump Organization, (in Donald Trump's case) into your own personal account, it's still embezzlement. When you illegally try to hide money and in Donald Trump's case, to avoid paying taxes on it, that's money laundering. And as Mr. Cohen already said, Donald Trump was caught redhanded in both cases.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- yes, I can believe that Michael Cohen used to work for Donald J. Trump. But then he goes to prison for him, because he tried to cover up one of DJT's crimes. Sometimes prison rehabilitation actually works. |
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11/30/2023 - I posted the quote and link from the CRS because in Representative George Santos's statement, he said this process is illegal and only the voters get to decide who represents them in Congress. (That's a very close paraphrase) But the fact is, any competent, honest, and responsible, U.S. Representative, would know that George Santos is wrong here.
If the House didn't do an ethics investigation and give a final report on Representative George Santos, then maybe Santos would have an argument here. But everything that he did to further his personal life, including paying his own personal rent, while running for the House last year, where he used his campaign funds to pay for all of his personal expenses, is in the House Ethics Committee final report. A committee that's led and chaired by a Republican.
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| Source:C-SPAN covering soon to be ex-U.S. Representative George Santos (Republican, New York) |
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11/29/2023 - I'm just going to respond to a few key points that Ben Meiselas and Chris Christie made about Donald Trump and I'll leave it at that.
1. I know Donald Trump must believe that everyone else in the country lives in Fantasy Land and he's the only one who lives in the real world and therefor Americans aren't even capable of believing what they see and hear in front of their own eyes and ears. But the man was inaugurated as President of the United States back in January, 2017 and took the oath to preserve and defend the Constitution. If he doesn't believe the oath that he took, then he was lying under oath.
2. After Donald Trump is convicted perhaps by April or May of 2024 in Federal Court in Washington, Judge Tanya Chutkan will remand Donald Trump to the custody of the U.S. Marshals. I haven't heard that before. I guess I assumed that Mr. Trump would then be allowed to continue to be free on bail, as long as he meets his conditions of bail, while waiting sentencing. But that would make sense that he would at least be remanded to house arrest and not be allowed to leave his home, even, without permission, because now he's not just a convicted felon, but an official threat to American democracy because of his role in the January 6, 2021 attempted insurrection.
3. Assuming Donald Trump is convicted next spring, but let's also assume that he's remanded into Federal custody, he can not only not vote for himself next year as a convicted felon, but he wouldn't even be eligible to campaign for himself for President. If he doesn't have the Republican nomination for President wrapped up by the time he's convicted, that would be huge problem for him in seeking that nomination.
11/28/2023 - As my colleague Fred Schneider mentioned on The New Democrat back on October:
"4-5 years ago, longtime Republican strategist and now political filmmaker Mark McKinnon, who served for both President George W. Bush and then Senator John McCain, was on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon. And they were talking about the current investigations into Donald Trump dealing with the 2016 presidential campaign and potential investigations that could be facing then President Trump, once he's no longer President, whether he's not reelected in 2020, or leaves office after his 2nd term would've been over in 2025.
Mark McKinnon told Don Lemon that the biggest personal mistake that Donald Trump ever made in his life, was getting elected President of the United States. The 2nd biggest mistake that he made, according to Mark McKinnon, was running for President of the United States. Why? Because now that Mr. Trump is in the public eye full-time, all these new investigations not just about his presidency, his business career, or personal life, but how his business and personal affairs affect his presidency, will be under public scrutiny."
Michael Popok didn't quote Fred as well, but he's talking about the same thing. Now that Donald Trump's career and personal life is out in the open, all of America gets to see how much of a career conman and crook that The Donald really is and how much legal jeopardy that he's in, simply for literally going public with his career and personal life.
As Mr. Popok mentioned, it's not just the State of New York, or the U.S. Department of Justice, or Fulton County, Georgia, where Donald Trump is in current legal jeopardy, but the other states where he and his wannabe Keystone Cops crew tried to interfere in their 2020 presidential elections, simply to declare Donald Trump the winner, instead of Joe Biden, who democratically and legally won the 2020 presidential election, not Donald Trump.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Fulton County, Georgia Judge Scott McAfee, Ken Chesebro & the one and thank God only, Donald J. Trump. |
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11/27/2023 - To be completely accurate and honest here: I don't agree with 1 part of the title from my own post here. Representative James Comer (Republican, Kentucky) is not a GOP leader.
What James Comer and the rest of the MAGA wing of today's Republican Party (which doesn't even believe in Republicanism, as a party) represents the confederate wing of the 19th Century Democratic Party, as well as the early and middle 20th Century Democratic Party. But they're now Republicans. And if you are familiar with your American political history, you already know the story there.
As far as what House Republicans are doing here, they privately know that Donald Trump is very unpopular. That perhaps as many 3-5 American voters don't want him to be President of the United States again. But he's still very popular in their party and the likely Republican nominee for President again. So what they're trying to do here, is the get the focus off of Donald Trump and back on President Joe Biden, whose also pretty unpopular today.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- U.S. Representative James Comer (Republican, Kentucky) |
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11/22/2023 - Last time I checked, Robert F. Kennedy JR. is running for President, not the Mayor of San Francisco, or to be a member of the SF Board of Supervisors. But he's talking about the cost of housing and the rising cost of housing in San Francisco, one of the biggest cities in America, (as far as population) and one of the wealthiest, as far as per-capita-income, but also one of the best educated in America.
Housing really is a local and state issue. The Federal Government can do things to address rising prices in general, like with inflation and interest rates, empowering more people to be able to further and continue their education, so they can get better jobs and earn more money, which would help them afford better housing. But for the most part, housing really is a local and perhaps state issue.
Uncle Sam can't just come in to any city, let alone San Francisco and say: "This is how much housing you are allowed to build and this is how much you can charge for it." That is an issue for local government's, not the President of the United States.
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| Source:Forbes Magazine- Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy JR. Except for the striking resemblance, it's hard to believe that this is Robert F. Kennedy's on. But that's a different story. |
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11/21/2023 - If you followed Donald Trump's presidency, I have some therapy that I could recommend that could help you get through that experience. Actually, that's just a joke, since no such therapy has been invented yet. But if you survived the experience of the Donald Trump presidency and so far his post-presidency, you are getting an excellent legal education of the differences between being President and Ex-President, when it comes to your own lawyers.
When you are the President of the United States, regardless of the POTUS, you have access to be the best of legal profession in this country. Any lawyer just about would be honored to either work in your White House, or work as your personal attorney to address any personal legal issues that you might have when you are President. At least access to the best lawyers in your own party.
But when you leave The White House, especially in disgrace, when you've just lost reelection and only managed 46% of the popular vote and 232 out of 574 electoral votes, in a two-way race, you've been impeached twice in just 4 years, you have all the legal issues that are now in front of you because of your illegal conduct as President of the United States, you are very unpopular, at least outside of your own party, you have mounting financial debt in front of you because of all the money that you lost when you were President, you have access to whatever is left.
Alina Habba is not really a trial lawyer. She can barely afford to do whatever she does as a lawyer right now. She's more of a public relations lawyer, if anything at all, who makes her living trying her client's cases on TV and on social media. But she's officially Donald Trump's civil lawyer right now because she's about the best of what's left to try to defend him, because of his own financial situation and all the evidence that's against him right now, in multiple cases.
Perhaps one of the reasons right now that Alina Habba owes millions of dollars, is because her own client is not paying her. But she's trying to work for him anyway, perhaps banking on the fact that defending a former President of the United States, would lead to clients who can and would pay her very well for her legal advice and actions in the future. But that career strategy is obviously not working out for her right now.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- Yes, this is Donald J. Trump's civil lawyer Alina Habba. |
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11/20/2023 - I'm paraphrasing here, but RFK JR. said: "If you only listened to MSNBC, CNN, and The New York Times, if you only got your news from those news sources and not from Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, etc, I would have low approval rating of myself."
This RFK JR. partial quote goes to my two points, about his campaign for President.
1. Robert F. Kennedy JR. is a bigger threat to Donald Trump, then Joe Biden.
2. Robert F. Kennedy's main goal here is to see that Joe Biden isn't reelected President. I think that's why he originally ran for President as a Democrat (even though ideologically neither a Democrat or Republican) was to somehow, try to defeat Joe Biden. But when you run as a MAGA conspiracy theorist, most if not all of your interviews are done with MAGA news sources, Democratic voters can see that you really aren't one of them and will just ignore you.
Just watching that 5 minute clip of RFK JR., suggests to me that he has no business talking about how old either Joe Biden or Donald Trump are, but he has no business even visiting The White House, let alone running for it, or getting elected.
RFK JR. struggles just to put words together, let alone sentences. Or to stay on one topic after making one point. He sounds like he's been speaking on the Senate floor for a weeks' straight, delivering a real filibuster, without even taking a water break. Perhaps he graduated from the Donald Trump School of Public Speaking (not saying one exists) and perhaps is running for President to get his damn money back.
Whatever the case, Bob Kennedy is not even close to being a serious politician. Which is a damn shame, because 5-10 years ago, he was one of the sharpest environmental lawyers around.
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| Source:Forbes Magazine- for people who are just waking up from a coma: left to right: President Joe Biden, professional conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy JR, and the one and only (thank God only) Donald J. Trump. |
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11/17/2023 - If only Phyllis Schlafy was alive and well to hear Nancy Pearcey talk about her book: "The Toxic War On Masculinity" she would probably walk up to author Pearcey and give her the hug of her lifetime and author to buy 100,000 copies of her book.
Having said all of that, I think Nancy Pearcey has one good point. If militant feminists had their way, there wouldn't be any more straight, masculine men. The ideal man of the militant feminist, (if there is such a thing) is essentially a queen. A man who only seems like a man as far as physical appearance, meaning their body, not so much how they dress.
But, if the Nancy Pearcey's/Phyllis Schlafly's of the world had their way, America would probably lose the last 60 plus years of its history. Time would just stop and it would be 1954 or 55 everyday in America, every year.
If Nancy Pearcey and Phyllis Schlafly had their way:
women would just be servants of men
gays would be locked in the closet, (but only after the mental institutions, jails, and prisons, are all filled up)
every American would be forced to go to an Anglo-Saxon-Protestant church, every Sunday, by law
the only music that would be available to listen to in America, would either be easy listening, country, or classic
we would have 1000 different Hallmark Channels.
America would be the West's version of Saudi Arabia or Iran. But again, only if the Nancy Pearcey's and Phyllis Schlafly's had their way.
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| Source:C-SPAN- Nancy Pearcey talking about her book. |
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11/16/2023 - Just on a personal note first and at risk of being called a sexist and perhaps racist by a bus load of far-leftists: I'm finally glad I have a good image on The New Democrat of Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis. I mean what a pussy cat. She's classic example of how looks, especially baby face looks and little girly voices, can be deceiving. She's one of the toughest prosecutors in the country and perhaps one of the best and smartest as well.
As far as Donald Trump co-defendant Harrison Floyd: not claiming I'm the first person to give him the Dirty Harry nickname, but he's classic mob thug, that the boss (in case Donald Trump) uses to do his dirty work so the boss can stay out of trouble.
At least Dirty Harry in the movies (played by Clint Eastwood) got that nickname, for being a hard-ass cop, who took the toughest cases as a San Francisco police inspector. But in Dirty Harry Floyd's case, he's just a wannabe mob thug whose going to pay a helluva price in Dixie Georgia, for being a dirtbag. Or in his case, a Dirty Harry Bag.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Raven Symone, I mean Fulton Country, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, Dirty Harry Floyd, and Biggest Loser Donald Trump. |
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11/15/2023 - Both Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok could explain this better to you since they're both lawyers: under the 6th Amendment, we all have a right to a trial in America. Anyone whose inducted for anything, regardless of the evidence against them, has a constitutional right to be tried in a public court. Instead of just pleading guilty, or immediately being sent to prison upon being indicted.
There is a big but here: we don't have a constitutional right to try our cases in public. We don't have a constitutional right to leak to the media protected and classified evidence against or for us. Whatever evidence that the prosecution has against us, or could be used to help us, if we're a defendant in a felony case, has to be presented in court and then approved by the judge, whether or not it's allowed to be presented in the case at all.
If Donald Trump and his lawyers, as well as his co-defendants lawyers don't want to be convicted of a felony and end up in prison themselves, along with their clients, and worry about having to share a cell with a serial murder, or being poisoned in the chow hall, when they're trying to eat their meals, (if you want to call prison food meals) or getting stabbed in the chow hall, they need to play by the rules of the court. Anytime they believe that the judge is being unfair to them and their clients and rules against them unfairly, they can always appeal the judge's decisions against them.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Fulton County, Georgia Judge Scott McAfee & Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis. |
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11/14/2023 - I've blogged about this before on The New Democrat:
"Another interesting point being what Robert Reich said that it doesn't natter how much you borrow, just as long as that government borrowing is used for promote economic growth. And he said those government investments being things like infrastructure, job training, education, all things that I support, but I would disagree that you should borrow the money to pay for those investments.
The other interesting point being that there's no set number as far as how large the national debt and deficit needs to be, even as a percentage of the economy. But with Maya MacGuineas with the great counterpoint being that we don't want to find out what that number is before out economy crashes because the American dollar is not worth anything and no one, including the U.S. Government can pay any of their bills.
My point for the Robert Reich's of the world: if deficits and debt doesn't matter (which is not what Reich said) then you don't need taxes. for anything that government actually does. Reich said in this interview that there is actually a limit to how much the U.S. Government can borrow before it's too much. But then he said that now is the time for more government borrowing, because the interest rates are now, which just begs a certain question and answer.
Why are our interest rates so low? Because the Federal Reserve up until last year, kept them low. But then they started raising them last year to deal with high inflation and high borrowing, to deal with the rising national debt and deficit Part of President Biden's and the last Congress's social welfare package from last summer, was to deal with the national debt and deficit, the so-called Deficit Reduction Act.
Anyone who pays taxes and pays their own bills in general, knows that inflation, as well as the debt and deficit, have been major issues in the American economy the last two years. And the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 deals with inflation, as well as the national debt and deficit.
Again, if deficit and debt doesn't matter, then government, including the U.S. Government doesn't need taxes for anything, because it now has unlimited borrowing authority. And no serious economist actually believes that even the Uncle Sam's government, has unlimited borrowing authority."
Stephanie Kelton makes one good point here. I don't completely agree with it, but she's right about inflation where she says and I'm paraphrasing:
"It's inflation that matters, not deficits. When inflation becomes a problem, (like right now) that's when you know your deficit is too high."
Well, guess what, when you run trillion-dollar deficits every year (and we've been doing that since 2020) inflation will be a problem.
Inflation is what the Federal Reserve worries about the most. Raising interest rates, which can also be a big problem for middle class consumers, is the Fed's way of telling Congress and The White House, that your deficits are too high and you need to get them down for the sake of the economy. The Fed fights inflation by raising interest rates.
Higher interest rates, makes it harder for not just government's to borrow money, but everyday Americans as well. This is money that could be sued to buy an apartment, a house, start a new business, expand a current business, buy a new car, save money for college, etc, all very important features in the American economy.
When interest rates are high, the average American, (which is most of the country) can't afford to borrow money for things that they need to do to live well. When inflation is too high, the basic necessities in life become too expensive for most Americans.
Deficits don't matter? Try convincing average Americans who work very hard everyday just to pay their bills, that their government's deficit doesn't matter and that inflation an high interest rates are just a myth.
11/13/2023 - Well, just for the record: Donald Trump JR. is 6'1 and is 46 years old. Eric Trump is 6'4, maybe 6'5 and 39 years old. I can understand why Alina Habba might be confused these two men for boys, because of the fact they have a habit of going on live TV, looking like they're just getting back from a 4 week bender (especially Junior Mint) and come off as college frat boys, on live, national TV and have a tendency to freak out like little boys on live TV, when they don't get their own way. But these two guys are actually still fairly, young men. Men being the key word here.
To sort of paraphrase Ben Mesielas: when the facts are on your side, you argue the facts. When they're not and you are still trying to win the argument anyway, like a compulsive liar, or professional con person, (like Donald J. Trump, to use as an example) you attack the opposition whose making the case against you.
As Ben Meiselas pointed out, Alina Habba has had multiple opportunities to cross-examine every witness that the New York Attorney General has presented and question all the evidence that NYAG as presented in court and do that in court, but has purposely chosen not too. Why? Because most if not all of the witnesses that have testified against her client, Donald Trump. Like his two adult sons and daughter, who should be pro-Trump witnesses, for the simple reason that all these folks used to work for the man.
Again, when the facts are on your side, you argue the facts. When they're not and you are still trying to win the argument anyway, like a compulsive liar, or professional con person, (like Donald J. Trump, to use as an example) you attack the opposition whose making the case against you. Alina Habba has no actual case for her own client. At least nothing that she's actually presented yet.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- with a look at Donald Trump's lawyers & two adult sons. |
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11/10/2023 - I don't want to make light of Judge Aileen Cannon or the case that she's presiding over, because we're talking about what could possibly be a treason case against The Donald J. Trump. But of the 3 felony cases against Donald Trump, this is 3 most important.
We know that Judge Cannon is friendly towards Donald Trump. We know of all the 3 judicial districts that Trump is being tried in, Miami, Florida and Dade County, is the most friendly to him, of that 3. The other two cases against him, are in Washington and Atlanta, which are both, big cities, in big metro areas, that are overwhelmingly Democratic and anti-Donald Trump.
So unless Judge Cannon holds to her May 2024 deadline for her trial to begin, even with all the discovery, motions, and appeals that will be brought in her trial, the Washington case and the Atlanta case, might already be underway. And her case might have to be the 3rd one anyway, because of all the classified material and security clearances that will have to be made in her trial.
And Donald Trump could already be headed for conviction both in Washington and Atlanta, by the time Judge Cannon's Miami case is underway. Or perhaps because she gets removed from her case because of how friendly she is to Donald Trump and his lawyer and how bias she is towards Jack Smith's Special Counsel lawyers in this case.
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| Source:Medias Touch- left to right: Donald J. Trump appointed U.S. Federal Judge Aileen Cannon & The Real Donald J. Trump. |
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11/09/2023 - So to put this in more street or in hipper terms: NYAG has the goods on Ivanka Trump. At least in the sense they know about her involvement in the Trump Organization, especially during the mid 2010s and they know what she knows about her role in the Trump Hotel in Washington. She was only on the stand to confirm what she knows for the court record and get all of this information in the court record.
Imagine if this was a well-known murder case and everyone even on the jury, knows that the defendant is guilty, or at least committed the killing or killings, but the prosecution presents the video tape of the defendant doing the killings and present all the DNA evidence, fingerprints, that the defendant left at the crime scene, no alibi, reason, motive, opportunity, ability, anyway, has all the witnesses testifying, etc.
All the prosecutors are doing in the Trump fraud case is entering into the record for the judge, what they already know for the judge. You know, just in the off chance that one of the jurors just happened to be out of the country and doesn't have any access to any technology what soever, don't even subscribe to a newspaper or magazine, lives and works alone, no friends, or family, etc. Perhaps this one juror is an urban Amish person or something.
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| Source:Medias Touch- from this photo, Donald is not happy with his daughter Ivanka. |
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11/08/2023 - As Fred Schneider wrote on The New Democrat earlier today:
"To sum this up and career prosecutor Nick Ackerman already talked about this during the CNN video: NYAG already knows what Ivanka Trump knows about the Trump Organization’s financing of their Washington hotel back in 2015-16, that she apparently made 4 million dollars from and they have the paperwork and documents to prove that.
This is just a matter if Ivanka will acknowledge that under oath, or play braindead, maybe she forgot to bring her memory to the courtroom, etc. But NYAG will have the paperwork with her signature on it, making it clear that she signed off on that paperwork, since she was in charge of that project. And it’s just a question whether or not she honestly acknowledge that under oath, which her brothers already did for their role in Trump Org’s financing, or risk perjuring herself under oath."
The New York Attorney General Letitia and her prosecutors, already know what Ivanka Trump knows about her role in her father's family was, especially in the mid-2010s, when she was in charge of their Washington hotel project. And if her lawyers were doing their job, (which is an open question) they prepared her for that before she entered the New York County State courtroom today.
NYAG knows about the Deutsche Bank loans that Donald Trump and his kids, including Ivanka, were trying to get for this hotel project. So playing braindead and acting like she has the world's worst memory, especially under oath, would be a braindead play on her part. Especially when NYAG has her paperwork and what signed during that period for this project.
And apparently so far, at least from the reporting, she's not playing braindead, or playing an Alzheimer's patient under oath. She's simply acknowledging the paperwork that NYAG has put in front of her, all the documents that she personally signed off. Which as Ben Meiselas said in his video, is devastating for her father and his Trump Organization.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- Donald J. Trump's 1st daughter Ivanka Trump. |
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11/07/2023 - I'll cover Gaza, Hamas, and Donald Trump's New York State fraud trial, in this post, which is what Alan Dershowitz talked about.
As I said a couple weeks ago on The New Democrat Alan Dershowitz sounds like:
"One of those Hippie lawyers from the 1960s and 70s (and he was born in the late 1930s) who made his career defending left-wing militants, who seem like the coolest people in the world, other than being political terrorists who are prone to violence and go by the notion of, "by any means necessary) to accomplish their political objectives. I'm thinking that Alan Dershowitz is a big fan or admirer of the famous left-wing defense attorney William Kuntsler."
And Mr. Dershowitz even compared Donald Trump's New York State fraud trial, to the Chicago 7 trial in 1968, with all of these militant, left-wing, radicals, who were charged and prosecuted for trying to incite a riot in Chicago, to protest the Vietnam War, during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Mr. Dershowitz doesn't criticize the fraud case against Donald Trump, probably because he probably knows that DJT is guilty, at least according to the evidence, the documents, and testimony against him. So he instead goes after the prosecutor, who are led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, for being a partisan Democrat. Ignoring all the documents, the bank records, and testimony, that AG James has against Donald Trump.
As far as Gaza, Hamas, and Hamas's left-wing supporters in Europe and here in America: don't take any leftist seriously, when they say they're pro-women, pro-minority, pro-gay, pro anyone who has a history of being discriminated against in America, simply because of their DNA, gender, etc, when they support organizations like Hamas, who have a long record of being against everything that these left-wingers claim to support. I completely agree with Alan Dershowitz on this point.
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| Source:Alan Dershowitz talking about Gaza and Donald Trump's New York State fraud trial. |
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11/06/2023 - All this is funny, I guess. Sad and embarrassing I guess would be better words, especially considering that Donald J. Trump was once President of the United States and now because of his own fault, he’s now in a situation where he’s not just embarrassing himself in public, but doing it in front of a New York State judge.
What I’m really interested in here, is that Donald J. Trump admitted to not just signing the false documents that both his sons admitted to last week, but he admitted to fraud over and over, I’m sure hours of worth, under oath. Why? Because he’s under oath.
If DJT loses this case, he’s bankrupt. But if he commits perjury under oath, he’ll not just be prosecuted, but convicted of that as well, which could mean 3-5 years in prison.
So now DJT is in a situation, where his lawyers can’t do a damn thing for him to protect him, either because they’re incompetent (regardless of what Newsmax might say) and don’t know what to do, or because Donald J. Trump was essentially walking out of a vault, with millions of dollars in cash, and caught on the spot trying to leave the bank, by the security guard at the bank. (Apparently DJT knows how to rob a vault, but doesn’t know how to escape the bank undetected) And now has to just live with the consequences of being caught committing bank fraud and losing his case.
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| Source:Meidas Touch- apparently Judge Arthur Engeron getting a laugh at Donald J. Trump. |
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11/03/2023 - So to sum up the Trump Family's day in court: the NYAG prosecutors, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, asked both Don Jr. and Eric about these financial documents and reports that NYAG as against Donald Trump, with Don and Eric saying that they have no acknowledge of these documents. With the prosecutors coming back and showing them the documents that they personally assigned.
So Don JR and Eric who just happened to be President's of the Trump Organization, at least while their father Donald SR. was President of the United States from 2017-21, were either caught lying, or caught with a bad case of Alzheimer's that's so bad, that they probably both need head examinations right now. Considering who Don and Eric's father is and their past records, if I was a betting man, (which I'm not) I'm willing to bet that both Don and Eric are liars.
What the Trump Family still hasn't learned, is that court rooms are not a reality TV shows, they're not Newsmax TV, they're not Twitter or YouTube. This is real life and every time you speak out and do something during a trial and in court, it can come back to hurt you, because you are held accountable for everything that you do and say in court, regardless of the jurisdiction.
The Trump Family's Newsmax-MAGA audience that they're always playing too, is not the audience that's going to decide their father's case. But Judge Arthur Engeron, who apparently has a strict no bullshit rule (to be frank) and obviously isn't a fan of what's called reality TV today.
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| Source:Meidas Touch talking about the Trump kids day in court. |
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11/02/2023 - Adam Kinzinger, is no moderate or RINO. He was basically the John McCain of the U.S. House of Representatives. And I'm not just talking about a Republican whose willing to take on his own party, including the leadership, which is what then Senator John McCain did both with then President George W. Bush in the mid 2000s when it came to deficit spending and civil liberties, but then his own leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell over ObamaCare and other issues.
Adam Kinzinger is one of the original supporters of the 2003 Iraq War, served in that war, he's a real deficit hawk, and supporter of property rights. We're not talking about some wisihy-washy moderate Republican, who served in a district, that had a lot of Democrats in it it. Adam Kinzinger is a true Center-Right, Conservative Republican, who fits in very well in the old Barry Goldwater/Ronald Reagan Republican Party. A political party that's all but gone now in today's Donald Trump's MAGA party.
So when the Adam Kingziner's of the world, the S.E. Cupp's of the world, and other old school Conservative Republicans, not just say that there's something wrong with the modern Republican Party, but they can't be Republicans anymore, because that party no longer represents their conservative values, you need to take those folks seriously and listen to them.
But if you are part of the Donald Trump cult and see him as nothing more or less than God, or just you are just a political careerist, whose simply looking to hold on to your current job, or obtain more power in the current Republican Party and will do anything that you can to achieve those goals, including sacrificing your own credibility, integrity, and character, then it's only your career and power that you care about and you'll do anything to protect that for yourself.
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| Source:Amanpour & Company talking to former U.S. Representative Adam Kinzinger (Republican, Illinois) |
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11/01/2023 - It's rare that you see snowstorms in Miami, Florida, hurricanes in Las Vegas, Nevada, sunny days in Seattle, Washington. But it's also rare that you see me agree with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose been the Senate Republican Leader since 2007, after Democrats won Congress back in 2006 and the highest ranking Republican, not just in Congress, but in the entire U.S. Government, twice in the last 16 years. So it's not like Leader McConnell and I haven't had any opportunities to even agree on what the whether is like outside, let alone what's going on in Washington.
But to make a long story shorter: I completely agree with Leader McConnell on the need for a broader foreign aid package. And I believe Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is on board here as well. So their foreign aid package that would include Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan, and our southern border, will pass overwhelmingly in the Senate, whether the Republican House manages to pass anything, let alone their own bill, is another story.
It will be an uphill battle for House Republicans to pass their own bill (to say the least) since House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, will probably lock in all his members against an Israel only aid bill, that might also include funding for the southern border. And new Speaker Mike Johnson could lose 10, perhaps 20 House Republicans, who are up for reelection next year in Democratic leaning districts.
If Democrats, not just in the Senate, but President Biden, House Democrats, as well as Senate Republicans, agree to an Israel only aid bill and perhaps aid to the southern border, the House won't come back with an Ukraine and Taiwan aid bills. Those bills would be dead because you have a Pro-Putin wing in the House Republican Conference, that's also pro-Netanyahu, and probably wouldn't mind seeing the so-called People's Republic of China, unilaterally invade and occupy Taiwan.
But the Senate passes their broader package and it passes overwhelmingly, it would pass the House as well, if brought to the floor, with most Democrats voting for it, as well as a lot of Republicans. Which might be why new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson doesn't want a broader package, because he has a Putin wing in his own conference and that bill would pass easily.
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| Source:C-SPAN- U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Republican, Kentucky) |
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10/31/2023 - Whenever I hear a story about Senate Republican Mitch McConnell, especially as it relates to the U.S. Federal judicial system, I'm even more convinced that I would never want the left-wing in America (in and out of the Democratic Party) to ever be in charged of a local car wash, let alone in charge of any government in this country, especially the Federal Government. Because for the simple fact that they don't believe in governing. As much as they talk about the need for government and how much they believe in and support government and democracy, they don't actually believe in governing and they don't know how to govern.
I'm one of the first people to tell you that I don't like Mitch McConnell, simply because of his pure and open political hypocrisy. He simply believes that Democrats, especially in Congress, should be held to higher standards than Republicans in Congress. When he's the Senate Minority Leader, he uses every rule and tool that he has to try to stop Democrats from passing their agenda. But then when he's Majority Leader, he changes the rules to to help himself and the Republican Party.
Leader McConnell was against the Senate filibuster on nominations, before he was in favor of it and then he becomes Majority Leader and has a Republican President, now he's against the filibuster on nominations.
In 2016, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announces that the 2016 presidential election should decide who'll fill Justice Antonin Scalia's seat, not President Barack Obama, who still had about a year left on his term. Then in 2020, when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg dies, he goes out-of-his-way to make sure that President Donald Trump gets to fill her seat with a Republican, before that election is decided and there's a new Congress.
But to go back to my original point about left-wing Democrats not believing in governing and perhaps not even government at all: if they had bothered to turn out and vote in 2014, Senate Democrats at the very least could've minimized their losses, perhaps not keep control of the Senate, but they wouldn't have lost 9 seats.
And if the far-left had bothered to turn out and vote Democratic in 2016, worst case scenario, Hillary Clinton gets elected President in 2016, no President Donald Trump, and at the very least, Democrats win back the Senate that year. And now a President Hillary Clinton probably gets 3 Supreme Court nominations through a Democratic Senate, just in her first term alone.
As bad as Mitch McConnell might be from a personal standpoint, when it comes to character and honesty as a political leader, especially as one of the most successful Congressional leaders in American history, he's still just on person. The Democratic Party was always big enough to stop and defeat him, if they had just bothered to turn out and vote for the Democrats.
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| Source:PBS- then U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Republican, Kentucky) |
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10/30/2023 - Why is Donald J. Trump under a Federal gag order? Because he publicly attacks Federal workers in the judicial system, like judges, clerks, prosecutors, knowing that his base will use that as justification to physically and verbally intimidate these judicial workers.
If this was about gagging someone simply for speaking out against the case against them and saying that they have no case, the prosecutor is going beyond their limits to prosecute them, then this gag order doesn't happen, because that would be a clear violation of the First Amendment.
But no American has the constitutional right to defame, to threaten, or incite violence, against another American. Judge Tanya Chutkan knows that and is enforcing this order, to protect her staff, as well as the prosecutors in this case.
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| Source:Michael Popok talking about U.S. Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan's gag order against Donald J. Trump. |
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10/27/2023 - I agree with most if not everything that Attorney General William Barr said here. If there's anything that Donald Trump has ever been good at in his life, it's entertaining people, along with being the New York, or certainly Manhattan conman of all-time.
Donald Trump is a very funny man and a lot of that is intentional. Don't believe the noise that Donald Trump doesn't have a sense of humor. That's obviously not true. If he didn't go into the real estate business, I think he would've been great as either a physical or standup comedian, especially on shows like Saturday Night Live.
And because of Mr. Trump's ability to entertain people, (and without that, he never gets close to The White House) he was able to fool and the blue-collar, populist-right of the Republican Party, that's been in the Republican Party since the late 1960s, thanks to politicians like Richard Nixon, he can make believe that he's fighting for these folks who believe that America has been going downhill since the 1960s, thanks to integration, immigration, the freedom for non-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant, blue-collar men, to make it on their own in America. These folks believe that they're losing their America, that they want it back, and that Donald Trump is the man to bring it back for them.
But the fact is, the only thing, along with power, that Donald Trump has ever cared about, is himself. He's just a conman who uses people to get what he wants.
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| Source:C-SPAN- former U.S. Attorney General William Barr at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. |
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10/26/2023 - I don't mean this as insulting or as complementary, but Alan Dershowitz is now sounding like one of those Hippie lawyers from the 1960s and 70s (and he was born in the late 1930s) who made his career defending left-wing militants, who seem like the coolest people in the world, other than being political terrorists who are prone to violence and go by the notion of, "by any means necessary) to accomplish their political objectives. I'm thinking that Alan Dershowitz is a big fan or admirer of the famous left-wing defense attorney William Kuntsler.
Alan Dershowitz going through the whole process of how prosecutors make their cases against lead defendants, but going after the smaller fish in the pond. Convincing the associates of the top defendant, the leader of the criminal conspiracy (in this case Donald J. Trump) to tell them what they know about their role and their boss's role in the criminal conspiracy and they'll get a lesser penalty and perhaps avoid prison all together, if they give them truthful testimony and tell them what they know about the conspiracy and lead defendant.
Dershowitz is implying that the prosecutors in Atlanta and Washington, are essentially buying testimony from the co-defendants and basically telling them to lie about Donald J. Trump. He's basically accusing the Washington and Atlanta prosecutors, of corruption against Donald J. Trump, without even bothering to try to offer any evidence in support of that. in order to put Mr. Trump in prison. That's what he's telling his viewers here and if his viewers tend to be Trump supporters, of course they're believe Mr. Dershowitz.
The problem is, the facts and evidence are out now and are less you are prone to conspiracy theories, (perhaps you drink too much and are a drug addict) it's really hard to honestly ignore all the fact and evidence against Donald Trump, including from his own former lawyers and employees at The White House. If Alan Dershowitz really wants to be Donald Trump's defense lawyer, (and he can afford to work for free) he knows who to call to make that happen for himself.
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| Source:Alan Dershowitz talking about the case against Donald J. Trump. |
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10/25/2023 - I will get into new Speaker Mike Johnson's speech here, but I first want to get into why he might be the current Speaker of the House. Which is no offense to the new Speaker, (and I wish him the best for the sake of America) is a lot more important and interesting here.
The final vote to make Mike Johnson the Speaker, was 220 Republicans and 0 Democrats for Mike Johnson and 209 Democrats and 0 Republicans for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. 6 representatives didn't vote at all, which might be another story, but Speaker Johnson needed almost his entire conference to vote in favor of him, for him to become Speaker Johnson. Assuming not one House Democrat voted for him for Speaker and voted for Hakeem Jeffries instead.
In case you are just waking up from a coma, (no offense to comatose patients) or have been vacationing in Afghanistan for the last month, (no offense to Afghanistan) the House Republican Conference is literally divided between what's left of the center-right of the Republican Party, (the real Conservative Republicans, not RINOS) and the House MAGA Caucus, who are literally dedicated to protecting the political career and freedom of Donald Trump, as well as their own, regardless of what the facts and evidence that Donald Trump is currently facing and will face in the future.
Representative Mike Johnson comes from the MAGA wing of the Republican Party, at least since 2021 when he not only fought in the House to overturn the 2020 presidential election and declare Donald Trump the winner and then served as one of Donald Trump's lawyers when he was impeached for the 2nd time in 2021.
And then you have what's left of the establishment wing of the Republican Party, the real Conservatives in the party, who believe in old fashion American values like facts, evidence, character, morality, honesty, justice, accountability. And they apply those conservative values to everyone, not just Democrats.
So you have these two competing factions in the House Republican Conference right now and they all voted for Mike Johnson to be Speaker of the House. Which tells me that Mr. Johnson had to do something to keep the entire MAGA Caucus behind him, without losing establishment caucus (let's call them) in order to become Speaker of the House. Because you have 20-30 House Republicans who are up for reelection next year, who are in Democratic leaning districts, with President Joe Biden up for reelection in those districts as well. So I want to know what the new Speaker did to get both factions of the House Republican Conference behind him, so he could become Speaker of the House.
As far as the speech: good speech. The new Speaker showing some good political humor and suggesting that he's willing to work with Democrats for the good of the country. But words are just things that you say. They mean nothing if you don't back them up with actions. So we'll see what the Speakership of Mike Johnson is like and will be like, over the next few months.
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| Source:Forbes Magazine- U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (Republican, Louisiana) the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, in the 118th Congress. |
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10/24/2023 - So if you are the Biden Administration and the House Democrats led by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, or Senate Democrats led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, you would probably live fairly comfortably with a Speaker Tom Emmer. He seems to be a pragmatist, honest, (at least for members of Congress) and someone who can play and work with people who tend to disagree with him. Unlike former Speaker Kevin McCarthy who would claim to be both Superman, Batman, and the King of the United Kingdom, in order to be Speaker of the House and get Donald Trump to say that he's a good man.
All the qualities (if you want to call them that) I just laid out for the House Majority Whip, are reasons why House MAGA won't like him and perhaps would need the same deal that they got with Kevin McCarthy, like the motion to vacate the Speakership, that any representative could file, to vacate the current Speaker.
If you remember my post on The New Democrat yesterday:
"To sort of try to sum up and put a little light, on a very serious subject and try to explain Senator Romney's point this way and I agree with everything that he said here: We're now seeing professional reality TV's or pro wrestling's impact, on American politics and government.
Political reality TV is not just in Congress, but if you look at the presidential campaign season, or politicians and wannabe politicians at the state level, we're seeing the same thing there as well.
We now have an era of American politicians, who think that the way you be famous and cool in politics, (as if being politically cool is even important) is by being crazy and nasty in public and on social media, especially towards the other party, or to mainstream members of your own party. I think that's Senator Romney's point about Representative Jordan. I just phrased it differently."
That's what House MAGA (that I call the far-right of the Republican Party) wants in a Speaker of the House. They don't want a Speaker of the House. They want politician who gets thrown out of bars and nightclubs for fighting for what MAGA believes and kissing Donald Trump's feet (to put it mildly) for pleasure.
So the question is whether the political reality TV wing (or insane asylum) of the House Republican Conference, will back someone like Tom Emmer, who knows how to count votes, even in presidential elections and has a habit of acknowledging reality, if not the obvious, or will they vote for another MAGA Republican, just to prevent Tom Emmer from the House Speakership.
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| Source:Forbes Magazine- House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (Republican, Minnesota) |
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10/23/2023 - Just in case you thought that The New Democrat was just criticizing the Far-Left in America, or at least supporters of the Far-Left in America, (whether they're actually far-leftists themselves, or just "bullshitters", is an open question) here you have Senator Mitt Romney, going after one of his Republican colleagues in Congress, Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio.
It's not often that you hear a member of one chamber of Congress, go after a member of Congress from the other chamber of Congress, especially a member that's from his or her own party. Exceptions to every rule: you will hear non-leadership members, go after leader of the other party, from the other chamber. But it's rare that you'll hear a senator or representative, whose not his their party's leadership, openly criticize a member from their own party, whose also not in their party's leadership, from the other chamber.
To sort of try to sum up and put a little light, on a very serious subject and try to explain Senator Romney's point this way and I agree with everything that he said here: We're now seeing professional reality TV's or pro wrestling's impact, on American politics and government.
Political reality TV is not just in Congress, but if you look at the presidential campaign season, or politicians and wannabe politicians at the state level, we're seeing the same thing there as well.
We now have an era of American politicians, who think that the way you be famous and cool in politics, (as if being politically cool is even important) is by being crazy and nasty in public and on social media, especially towards the other party, or to mainstream members of your own party. I think that's Senator Romney's point about Representative Jordan. I just phrased it differently.
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| Source:C-SPAN- U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (Republican, Utah) criticizing members of the lower chamber of Congress. |
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10/20/2023 - Just to lay my my own full-disclosure here on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries: he was mine and The New Democrat's original choice to be House Minority Leader in this Congress, after House Democrats lost their majority in 2022. So we're big fans of him and think he's an excellent choice to lead the House Democrats not just while they're still in the minority, but back into the majority as soon as January, 2025.
The key point that I take away from Minority Leader Jeffries press conference here, is him saying that there are House MAGA Republicans, that would only vote for Jim Jordan as Speaker of the House. House Republicans just voted 112-86 to remove Representative Jordan as a Speaker candidate. So if that's the case and I have no reason to doubt the Minority Leader, House Republicans are very short in electing their own Speaker, at least on their own.
If Hakeem Jeffries is right here, that gives him room to negotiate with the center-right, establishment wing of the House Republican Conference, that's essentially being led by Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry, to elect a new bipartisan Speaker, where all the establishment Republicans would vote for McHenry or some other center-right Republican, with Democratic votes led by Hakeem Jeffries.
But if a deal like this would go through and could even be reached between the Minority Leader and establishment Republicans, Jeffries would have to first be able to sell that deal to his caucus. And that means getting something substantial in return.
A bipartisan deal between Hakeem Jeffries and establishment House Republicans that could be things like:
no more emergency crisis governing in the House
returning the House to regular order with committee hearings, markups, votes
allowing all House members to be able to read every bill before voting on it
being able to offer and have their amendments voted on in committee and on the House floor
the minority being able to offer their own substitutes to bills that House Republicans are trying to pass by themselves. etc.
If House Republicans are still short on electing their own Speaker next week, this would open up the door for a bipartisan deal to elect a consensus Speaker and reopen the House of Representatives.
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| Source:Forbes Magazine- left to right: failed House Speaker candidate Jim Jordan (Republican, Ohio) & House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (Democrat, New York) |
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10/19/2023 - Just a little refresher course on former Donald J. Trump attorney Sidney Powell:
she was the Trump lawyer behind the 2020 Georgia presidential election interference scheme and trying to get Georgia officials there to throw out Democratic votes and get that election overturned. And now she's pleading guilty to misdemeanors that she committed (unless she's pleading guilty to things that she believes she's innocent of) in exchange for her cooperation against Donald Trump, Rudolph Giuliani, and Mark Meadows.
Sidney Powell knows exactly what this whole crew (if you want to call Trump Campaign version of the Keystone Cops a crew. They're really just a bunch of amateur burglars, who got caught shoplifting at a convenient store because they dropped what they were tying to steal on the floor, as well as their drivers licenses) was up to and how they would try to get the 2020 Georgia presidential election results thrown out and just automatically declare President Donald J. Trump the winner, even though he lost by 12,000 votes.
If you are Mark Meadows and you know you were in contact about this whole marihuana or red bull high scheme, that was cooked up to just automatically declare Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 Georgia election, with Sidney Powell, you can't be sleeping very well right now. Even though you are not in jail, yet.
Mark Meadows needs to be thinking about his own future as a man who turns 65 next year. And needs to be thinking about what Powell knows about him and his role in this whole un-democratic attempt to throw out the 2020 presidential election and just automatically declare President Donald Trump the winner of it.
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| Source:Forbes Magazine- Chris Christie with a blunt take on Donald J. Trump & Sidney Powell. |
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10/13/2023 - Representative Earl Blumenauer was talking to Congressional reporters on Capitol Hill about what the final appropriations bills and perhaps even a budget for 2024 would look like when everything is done and this latest version of the MAGA reality TV show MAGA Goes To Washington is over and House Republicans finally nominate a Speaker.
But and even though Representative Blumenauer wasn’t talking about the latest MAGA crisis and the vacant House Speaker’s office, his quote: “It’s not our fault Republicans can’t even agree with Themselves.” could be applied to that story as well.
House Democrats are not responsible for the fact that House Republicans who are supposed to be in charge of the House of Representatives and supposed to govern the House of Representatives, since they want back the majority in the House last year, can’t run the lower chamber of Congress. (And thank God it’s just the lower chamber of Congress and they don’t have more power at the Federal level)
Some Congressional reporters are suggesting or at least asking House Democrats led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, to vote for whoever House Republicans finally nominate for Speaker, so the House can finally have a Speaker. But the fact is House Republicans can’t even nominate their own Speaker’s candidate. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise dropped out of the Speaker’s race and the only Republican candidate left, is House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, who only has 99 out of 222 House Republicans behind him.
Even though House Democrats are in the minority in the House, they’re actually in a very strong position there. They now only have 212 seats out of 435, which is a very strong position for a minority party, but they’re united behind their Leader Hakeem Jeffries and they’re united against House MAGA on everything. Which means that if House Republicans want the cooperation of House Democrats to nominate a Speaker, they need to work with House Democrats and give them something substantial for that cooperation first.
All of these things are things that Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries needs to be thinking about and what that bipartisan agreement on electing a new Speaker would look like and I’m sure he’s already doing that.
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| Source:Twitter- U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer (Democrat, Oregon) |
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10/12/2023 - Just on a personal note first: If you are familiar with both Representative Michael McCaul and former Representative Adam Kinzinger and now CNN political commentator Adam Kinzinger, they might remind you of each other as far as how they talk, their voices, and ideologically they're very similar center-right, Conservative Republicans as well.
As far as what Representative McCaul said here, he's completely right. To use a sports analogy: imagine a football team without a QB, you wouldn't have an offense or a leader. The Speaker of the House is the leader of the entire House of Representatives. When that office is vacant, the whole place basically shuts down as far as offering bills and amendments, passing any legislation, conducting oversight, etc.
Thanks to the Far-Right of the House Republican Conference, House Republicans look like Karaoke Night at Bob's Diner or some place. They look like a bunch of amateurs who don't know what the hell they are doing. But at least they all have the same person to thank for that, Matt Gaetz.
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| Source:C-SPAN- U.S. Representative Michael McCaul (Republican, Texas) Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. |
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10/06/2023 - Why is it every time that Alan Dershowitz speaks about anything now, I get the urge to ask him: “But seriously Mr. Dershowitz, now tell me what you really think about that.” I mean just 8-10 years ago he was considered one of the most respected law professors and defense attorneys in the entire country. A man who could even help get O.J. Simpson off for a double murder that he obviously committed. Now he just sounds like the defense spokesman for Donald Trump. If he wants to work for Mr. Trump, I’m sure he knows who to call and has that number.
I’m going to take up two points that Alan Dershowitz made here.
The first one being that if Donald Trump could get his case appealed in a Federal court, he could get the New York State fraud conviction against him overturned. As David Clay Johnston said, which is linked to a video on The New Democrat:
“This is a civil case that Trump could only appeal on matters of law. They will appeal and will be ignored on anything that has to do with the law. States get to decide who gets to run a business under state law, not the Federal Government.”
So to sum up: this is not a Federal issue. I’m old enough to remember when Republicans believed in localism and federalism, which is another way of saying local control and states rights. Mr. Trump is being sued as private citizen Donald Trump, by the State of New York. Not as the President of the United States, which thank God he’s no longer President.
The 2nd issue that Mr. Dershowitz brought up here (and I was trying not to laugh when I heard him say that) was there are no victims in this New York fraud case against Donald Trump. Last time I checked, people work at, run, and own private banks in America. (As Socialists may hate hearing that and disagree with it) Banks in New York have been getting screwed by Donald Trump for years. And Donald Trump is being prosecuted for violating New York financial laws. If ordinary Joe’s and Mary’s can be prosecuted for financial fraud, so can a self-proclaimed billionaire like Donald Trump.
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| Source:Forbes Magazine talking to Alan Dershowitz about Donald J. Trump. |
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10/05/2023 - So to understand Mark Russell’s video and my post for that matter, you need to take a mental trip back to the 1986 and hopefully you don’t anything that’s currently illegal to help you take that trip.
Go back to the mid 1980s and to 1986: the Cold War was starting to wind down, thanks to agreements that President Ronald Reagan got with the Soviet Union, as well as the fact that the Russian Communist State was already starting to collapse because of the failures of their Communist economy and Communist government all together.
But as the Cold War was coming to an end, other threats, including threats from non-state-actors like in the Middle East and places like Libya were starting emerge. Iraq and the Islamic Republic of Iran were already in that picture as countries that would do business with private terrorist organizations, at least Iran was.
What political satirist Mark Russell is talking about here, is a local Washington bar, where Washington national security and intelligence folks would gather and throw a few back and socialize.
Hey, if I was a national security or intelligence official, I would probably throw a few back myself. But hopefully not to the point that I would take the Stars Wars films seriously and think we could bomb Russia from outer space. Or go up 15 years later and see weapons of mass distraction, I mean destruction, that we’re no longer there.
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| Source:PBS political satirist Mark Russell. |
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10/04/2023 - Again to try to translate Congressional speak into basic American English: what Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is saying here, is that the Speaker of the House shouldn’t be able to lose their job, because just more than a handful of members of the majority conference (what Republicans call majority caucus) decide they know longer want the current Speaker because of this decision or that one. And then they just move with this motion to vacate on the House floor and get little more than a handful of votes from their own conference, along with 212 House Democrats, to vote to vacate the current Speaker.
I think House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries lost an opportunity before Tuesday, to offer to Speaker McCarthy the ability to save his job, in exchange for House Democrats getting a return to regular order in the House and no longer govern out of crisis. But instead go back to the committee process, where all legislation is marked up, gets amended, gets passed out of committee before it makes it to the floor and then where both minority members and majority members of the House, could offer and have their relevant amendments voted on the floor up or down.
Here’s another opportunity for Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries: center-right House Republicans would need a lot of House Democratic votes to amend the motion to vacate and require a majority of the majority, before the motion is even voted on. Jeffries could get House Republicans those votes, in exchange for returning the House of Representatives back to regular order.
10/02/2023 - In case there are any intoxicated jurors left in the jury room who are still out on this and who also happen to be escaped mental patients, that no one else is even aware of: I’m not only a ,mindreader, but I don’t pretend to be one either. So now that little secret is out of the bag, I’ll try to interpret what Representative Matt Gaetz (Republican, Florida) was trying to say here, from Congressional speak, to just good, old-fashion, American English.
I’m thinking that based on this speech, that Representative Gaetz doesn’t think there are enough votes for his motion to vacate Speaker Kevin McCarthy and have him replaced by someone else. Just by the fact that he’s now talking about this supposed side deal that Speaker McCarthy has with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, where they would fund both Ukraine and the Southern American border and perhaps Leader Jeffries would give the Speaker the Democrat votes that he Speaker needs to keep his job and perhaps House Democrats would get something else when it comes to how the House is managed and so-forth.
Also, you hear Representative Gaetz (and I’m paraphrasing here) say that if the whole House knew, or at least the House Republican Conference knew what the Speaker and House Democrats are up too, when it comes to this supposed side deal that they have, then there would be enough votes to vacate the Speaker of the House. But again, I’m not a mindreader, not even a Congressional mindreader and I don’t pretend to be one. (For the two people left in the world, who also happen to be sane and sober, who have any doubts about that)
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| Source:C-SPAN- U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz (MAGA, Florida) |
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9/27/2023 - Last week, former U.S. Representative Charlie Dent (Republican, Pennsylvania) who left the House in 2018. because he was worried about the Democratic wave that was about to happen and did happen in 2018, said on CNN that he expects the Senate to pass a bipartisan government funding, with an overwhelming vote in the Senate and then they would go home. Meaning it’s then up to the House to try to pass anything, including taking up the Senate bill, just to keep the government open. I think we’re starting to see that in the Senate now, led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
So after the Senate passes it’s bill perhaps tomorrow, the ball then would be moved to Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy’s court, where he would then have a choice: take the Senate’s bill and come back in November and continue negotiations on Ukraine, disaster relief, and additional border security, but risk losing his speakership, if House MAGA really goes through on their motion to vacate him.
But, if the Speaker just takes the bill and it passes overwhelmingly in the Senate, with perhaps just House MAGA and a handful of left-wing Democrats voting against it, then perhaps House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries would move for his members to bail out the Speaker on a motion to vacate, if Speaker McCarthy takes the Senate’s bipartisan bill and brings it up for a vote in the House.
Or, the alternative could be, that Senate passes it’s bill with 80-90 votes, the House does nothing, let alone passes anything, the government shutdowns, House MAGA and perhaps Speaker McCarthy gets blamed for that and now their rail-thin majority in the House, is in serious jeopardy about a year from now.
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| Source:Politico- left to right: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (Democrat, New York) & Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Republican, Kentucky) |
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9/26/2023 - Donald Trump forgot (or left out intentionally) that he wants a government shutdown, to stop the Department of Justice from investigating and prosecuting him. Actually, he sort of got to that in code when he said on his so-called Truth Social platform: “stop the Weaponization of ‘Justice,’
If there is government shutdown this weekend, Special Counsel Jack Smith might not be furloughed and told not to come into work and go home, not get paid, etc, but a lot of his staff that he has to have to do his job, would be ordered not to show up for work because the funds to pay them and pay for their operations, aren’t yet approved by the U.S. Government.
The problem that Mr. Trump has, is that Speaker Kevin McCarthy has a bigger problem. If there is a government shutdown, House Republicans would get blamed for that and he knows that. And would probably not just put his speakership at risk, but his tiny 5 seat House majority at risk as well. And all indicators so far are that the Speaker wants a deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and President Biden.
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| Source:NBC News- left to right: Speaker of The House Kevin McCarthy and former President Donald J. Trump (for anyone whose new to America who sees this) |
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9/25/2023 - I hate to admit that Representative Matt Gaetz is right about anything, just because he’s such a wildcard and the political version of the Kamikazi pilot, who doesn’t seem to mind diving, as long as he takes others with him on the way down. If he told me it gets hot and sunny in Florida and even rains everyday in other parts of the state, I would double check that before I took his word on that. But he is right about one critical point here, which is how Congress (House and Senate) funds the U.S, Government.
But I think the response to Representative Gaetz’s here, could be a one word question, why:
Why does Congress wait until the end the year to do its appropriations bills?
Why does Congress never pass a budget at all anymore, let alone pass a budget on time?
Why does Congress fund the U.S. Government, with just one Godzilla sized omnibus bill, that’s supposed to fund the entire U.S. Government, that only a handful of Congressional staffers bothered to read, (because they’re insomniacs with nothing better to do) as well as the Washington lobbyists who got to read the bill, but only because they wrote the bill.
The answers to these questions are fairly simple and can also be answered with a one word answer: MAGA.
The reason why Congress hasn’t passed its own appropriations bills, is because the Republican House hasn’t pass one bill yet. Why? Because House Republicans only have 222-435 seats and don’t want to work with House Democrats on anything, including funding the U.S. Government.
The reason why Speaker Kevin McCarthy has such a small majority, is because again, MAGA. There are roughly 100 members of the House MAGA Caucus. But 20-30 more MAGA members who ran for the House last year, but who lost to mainstream Democrats. If House Republicans had another 20-30 seats, made up of normal, center-right Republicans, (the traditional GOP Republicans) they probably already have their appropriations bills done.
And if the government hasn’t been funded yet, with not even a budget passed out of Congress by now, they could then blame the Senate for not doing their part to pass the appropriations bills.
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| Source:Forbes Magazine- Washington reporters trying to talk to U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz (Republican, Florida) |
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9/20/2023 - Going into this game, you might think that a team that was 4-8 going into this game, like the Pittsburgh Steelers, that finished 6-10 in 1986, playing a Chicago Bears team that was 10-2 going into this game, that finished at 14-2, that was the defending Super Bowl champions in 1986, you might think this game was a mismatch. But this is why sports is played on the field and not on paper and in the books.
This was an inter-conference game. Meaning that the Steelers and Bears only played each other at that point, at most, 1-3 years, at least in the regular season.
A cold weather game, between 2 cold weather teams.
Both teams being run and defensive oriented, that threw off of play action.
The Steelers being coached by Chuck Noll, who might be one of the 5 best NFL head coaches ever.
I don’t want to give the score away, assuming you haven’t seen this game yet, or have looked it up yourself. But this is a game where if the Steelers could avoid making key mistakes, especially in their own territory, their defense plays a great game, they run the ball enough to keep the Bears from attacking their QB every single play, this is a game where the Steelers could stay in the game the whole way and even have a chance to win it. Which is exactly what they did.
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| Source:Bear Downs- Chicago Bears kicker Kevin Butler. |
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9/19/2023 - I don’t want to sound like I’m the president of the Chuck Schumer or Senate Democrats Fan Club, because I’m definitely not. I have a lot of issues with them, especially as it relates to fiscal responsibility and the Senate rules, like dealing with holds and unanimous consent, as I mentioned last week. But they’re 100% right here.
It’s one thing if the MAGA Republicans, or just the Republican Party in general, not just still had The White House, but a real majority in the House and a real majority in the Senate, instead of a bare majority in the House and bare minority in the Senate, as well as a Democratic President.
If Republicans were in complete control right now, instead of just having a bare majority in the House and nothing else in the Federal Government, they could pass anything that they want to right, assuming they held their votes together in Congress.
But right now, we have a Democratic White House and a divided Congress. And that means both parties have to work together for any bill pass to pass out of Congress and get to The White House, for the President to sign.
There’s nothing conservative about an across the board cut to all government spending, except for of course the military. Fiscal conservatism is about restraining government spending and keeping deficits down, at least when you can’t balance the budget. It’s not about cutting everything in the government, except the military, which just happens to also be the most expensive department in the entire U.S. Government.
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| Source:Forbes Magazine- U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and some of his Senate Democratic colleagues. |
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9/18/2023 - According to Oxford evil is: “a manifestation of profound immorality and wickedness, especially in people’s actions.”
If this wasn’t a slow news day, I doubt I’m writing about anything having to do with Representative Ralph Norman (Republican, South Carolina) especially about a speech that he gave on the House floor 5 days ago. Not that he’s not important or anything, but I’m simply not very familiar with the man.
Representative Norman talked about what’s going on the country today (as he sees it) and described it as evil. Representative Norman mentioned:
take home pay not going up
illegal immigration
the Americans being freed in Iran, in exchange for 4 billion dollars
the national debt
what he called as lawlessness and not giving any real examples of that.
And then Representative Norman gets into if the government is not funded the way he wants it too, it should be shut down. I guess there goes any case that Speaker McCarthy might have to try to blame The White House and Senate Democrats for any potential government shutdown that might happen next month.
Ralph Norman has been in the House of Representatives since 2017. That means he was a member of Congress for most of Donald Trump’s presidency, after winning a special election to the House in June, 2017. But he waits until Joe Biden to become President of the United States, until he starts complaining about the national debt. Unless he’s given speeches about the dangers of a rising national debt while Donald Trump was President, that I’m simply not aware of.
MAGA Republicans talking about the need for fiscal responsibility, is like hearing serial murderers talk about the need for a death penalty, but not for themselves. Ot alcoholics talking about the need for sobriety, but just not for themselves, because they’re currently drunk and don’t know any better.
The national debt went up 11 trillion dollars during the Trump presidency, in just 4 years. George W. Bush needed 8 years for the debt to go up 7 trillion and Barack Obama needed 8 years for the debt to go up 9 trillion. I would love to know who MAGA Republicans actually believe they’re fooling. Wait, I got it: they’re voters. Of course!
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| Source:Forbes Magazine- U.S. Representative Ralph Norman (Republican, South Carolina) |
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9/15/2023 - To personally answer Alan Dershowitz’s question: of course not. It’s a ridiculous question and I’ll explain why.
Keep in mind, none of us at The New Democrat are lawyers. And we don’t pretend to be lawyers, or know as much or more about these issues, as Alan Dershowitz and other accomplished American lawyers. We go off the evidence that we see and what we see in the news.
The reason why President Biden shouldn’t pardon Donald Trump, is I believe very obvious. For the rule of law to mean anything in America, rules and laws have to apply to everyone equally. Not arguing that our justice system is perfect or that it even has to be. Nothing that’s run by humans can be perfect anyway, for obvious reasons.
For the rule of law to mean anything in America, no one can be above the law. And the justice system has to do its best to make sure that everyone whose committed crimes in America, is held accountable for those crimes. That doesn’t mean prison time for everyone, but everyone who commits crimes in America, has to be justifiably held accountable in this country. Otherwise, our beautiful system of checks and balances and the rule of law, gets thrown out in the trash.
Alan Dershowitz argued in this video and referenced President Gerald Ford’s 1974 pardon of Richard Nixon, as a reason for Joe Biden to pardon Donald Trump. And he even said it unified the country and it could unify the country again if the President pardons Mr. Trump. (I’m trying not to laugh as I paraphrase what Alan Dershowitz said here)
First of all, the Nixon case is very different. President Nixon didn’t represent any real threat to our democracy or our system of checks and balances. He resigned the presidency, his political career was over at that point. He even took some responsibility for what he did during Watergate and got emotional about it years after he resigned the presidency.
As far as unifying the country: didn’t happen in 1974, 75, 76, etc. The decision to pardon Richard Nixon was very unpopular in 1974 and 75. And President Ford is almost elected President anyway in 1976. If the decision to pardon Richard Nixon had unified the country, President Ford gets reelected fairly easily, because again, the country is united behind Gerald Ford as President and as Alan Dershowitz said himself in this video, Jimmy Carter was a fairly weak national candidate in 1976, who if it wasn’t for Watergate, probably doesn’t even run for President at all, at least in 1976.
And as far as a potential Biden pardon of Trump today unifying the country: Mr. Dershowitz might want to consider a career in comedy. He’s too smart to actually believe that. Not just the Democratic Party would freak out about that, but now the Biden presidency is essentially over, because he’s lost most of his party on this and now has to worry about not even getting nominated for reelection. And you would probably see 10-20% of the Republican Party, the no so-called never-trumper wing of the party, that’s looking for any Republican whose not Donald Trump, or like Donald Trump, an ally of Donald Trump, a wannabe Donald Trump, to win the Republican nomination for President, oppose President Biden over his Trump pardon. Not going to happen, if anything it would just unite the country against Joe Biden. Not bring the country together.
9/14/2023 - What Senator Tommy Tuberville is really doing here is making the case for Congressional reform, especially in the Senate.
The idea that one senator can hold up executive appointments (in this case the military) because he disapproves with the Department of Defense on abortion and can hold the lives of these appointments and their families, as well as their pay and jobs, their futures, etc, is why the Senate needs to reform it’s rules. This is completely irresponsible on Senator Tuberville’s part to the point that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Senate Republicans like Lindsey Graham, disagree with Senator Tuberville on this.
Elections have consequences. You don’t believe that, you obviously weren’t alive when Donald Trump was President. Or perhaps you were in a long, national coma, (while most of the rest of country were living a nightmare) or perhaps vacationing on Planet Mars. (At least mentally)
If you don’t like the appointments of President Biden, make the case against them and try to convince at least 50 of your colleagues that you are right about those appointments and vote no. But just one U.S. Senator, whose not even in leadership, not even at the committee level, can decide for the rest of the Senate who can be appointed and who can even be voted on, simply because he doesn’t like a policy of the Defense Department, is an abuse of power, and completely un-democratic.
As far as reforming the Senate: I don’t expect Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to be able to do this in this Congress. Especially with a 1 seat majority and with Senator’s Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema in the way, but they need to reform the hold process here and maybe Leader Schumer could work out an agreement that the next Republican Majority Leader could take advantage of as well:
If one senator whose not even in leadership, or a senator whose in leadership, decides to put any hold on an executive or judicial nominee, then the Majority Leader could move to overturn that hold with a simple majority both in committee and on the Senate floor. That would be my proposal here, but I don’t expect that to happen in this Congress.
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| Source:Forbes Magazine- U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (Republican, Mississippi) |
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9/12/2023 - As my colleague Fred Schneider wrote on The New Democrat earlier today:
“Another thing to think about as far as motivations here: Speaker McCarthy is a handful of Republican votes away from losing his job. The Far-Right of the party in the House has a leash on him that’s so tight, that they could probably strangle Godzilla with it.
The Speaker knows that he has to work with not just The White House and Senate Democrats, but House Democrats, to keep the government from shutting down this fall and House Republicans getting blamed for that. And he knows that the Far-Right MAGA Caucus in the House, doesn’t want the Speaker to work with Democrats on anything.”
And if you don’t believe any of that, you didn’t watch the video of Representative Matt Gaetz, which was his speech on the House floor, that was also earlier today.
What Representative Gaetz and his far-right MAGA Caucus are essentially saying, (if not definitely saying) is that either Speaker McCarthy does exactly what they want him to do, which was laid out in the January agreement that he made with the House MAGA Caucus, members of that caucus will call for votes to remove Kevin McCarthy has Speaker of the House.
Any of those resolutions could pass, since House Republicans only have 222-435 votes, one of the smallest majorities in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and the rest of the House Democrats, have no obligation to save Kevin McCarthy’s job. Plus, out of those 222 House Republican members, 100 of them (give or take) are MAGA Republicans.
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| Source:Forbes Magazine- left to right: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (Republican, California) and Representative Matt Gaetz (Republican, Florida) |
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9/11/2023 - If there is anything that’s good about the 1973 San Diego Chargers, it’s that they drafted future Hall of Fame QB Dan Fouts and their 1973 nightmare season, led to the Chargers hiring Tommy Prothro in 1974, who really is responsible for rebuilding the Chargers from the draft.
It’s not Don Coryell who rebuilt the Chargers and turned them into consistent winners and even a Super Bowl contender in the late 1970s and early 1980s. That credit should go to Tommy Prothro. Even though Prothro didn’t have a single winning season in his 4 plus years in San Diego, he rebuilt their defense with draft choices like Woodrow Lowe, Don Goode, Gary Johnson, Louis Kelcher, and Fred Dean. He also drafted WR John Jefferson, who was one of QB Dan Fouts favorite targets in San Diego in the late 1970s.
To give you an idea about bad the 1973 Chargers were: they were 25th in points scored and 26th in points given up. Which should give you a good idea that they were blown out a lot in 1973. Most teams that finished at 2-11, tend to get blown out a lot. They were 19th in total offense, in a 26 team league and 22nd in defense.
The Chargers had a 40 year old QB in Johnny Unitas and a 22 year old QB in Dan Fouts. So their choice at QB, was either a broken down, over the hill 40 year old QB, or a kid who just finished college, no experience in the NFL and now you want him to lead your NFL team. But when you hit bottom, you can’t get any worst and things did get gradually better for the Chargers after 1973.
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| Source:Beau Boone- Johnny Unitas unfortunately deserves to be the cover photo of the 1973 San Diego Chargers. |
9/08/2023 - I think the best way to describe this game from 1986, is to imagine being on a very long road, perhaps to nowhere, (at least for the car thats going south) and you see two cars pass each other going in the opposition directions. That’s the story of the 1986 Denver Broncos and 1986 Pittsburgh Steelers.
The 86 Broncos were on the rise under head coach Dan Reeves, QB John Elway, and a very good, but underrated Bronco defense. They had already been a consistent winner and AFC Playoff team the previous 10 years, but were now on the verge of being a Super Bowl team and winning 3-4 AFC Championships over the next 4 seasons and playing for 4 out of the next 6 AFC Championships during that same period.
1986 Steelers, just weren’t very good at all. They still had a very good defense, at least as far as personal. And if you look at what they had on offense, with their skilled positions at least, a pretty good team on offense, when you looks at their running backs and receivers. But a football offense without a quarterback that they can get them ball and who beats you bye himself, is like a car without tires or an engine.
Opposing teams knew that if you take away the Steelers running game, you are going to beat the Steelers, because between QB’s Mark Malone and Bubby Brister, they didn’t have much of a passing game, and their defense wasn’t good enough to beat you by themselves.
The main difference between the 1970s Steelers that won 4 Super Bowls in 6 years and the 1980s Steelers, that struggled just to have winning seasons and make the AFC Playoffs, is the QB position. When they lost Terry Bradshaw after the 1982 season, they never successfully replaced him and that showed up in a major way in 1986.
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| Source:Classic Sports- with this 1986 ABC-MNF game. |
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9/07/2023 - As my colleague Fred Schneider pointed out on The New Democrat:
“Vice President Pence is not a Ronald Reagan Republican either. Ronald Reagan was always part of the Calvin Coolidge, Robert Taft, Barry Goldwater, Everett Dirksen, classical conservative wing of the Republican Party. The wing of the Republican Party who believes it’s the job of government to conserve American’s individual rights and freedom, to defend the country, keep taxes, spending, regulations, deficits down.
The Reagan Conservative wing is not:
“This is what it means to be a real American. And anyone who disagrees with us, is Un-American or immoral. And it’s the job of government to enforce our religious values on everyone else.”
If you think about it, Mike Pence when he was in the U.S. House in the 2000s and as Governor of Indiana before he became Vice President in 2017, that’s the kind of Republican Pence was. He probably had a 90% approval rating with the right-wing religious populists of the Republican Party, before he turned against Donald Trump in late 2020 and early 2021.”
I think Mike Pence is a good, decent, honest, (at least for a career politician) man who loves his country, wants the best for it, who cares about other people, including people outside of his circles. But he’s also a politician, whose running for President of the United States.
Vice President Pence also knows that the right-wing populist movement that he’s speaking out against now, was his movement before he became Vice President in 2017.
Mr. Pence also knows that for him to have a September blizzard’s chance in Los Angeles of winning the 2024 Republican nomination for President, he has to separate himself enough from this movement, (a movement that Donald has had lockdown with him since 2015) and bring Republicans who are outside of this movement, with him, while still maintaining the religious and cultural values of this movement, that he would need for him, if again, there was a snow blizzard is Los Angeles, California, in September and Vice President Pence somehow won the 2024 Republican nomination for President.
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| Source:C-SPAN- Vice President Mike Pence (Republican, Indiana) and 2024 Republican presidential candidate. |
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9/06/2023 - As I explained on The New Democrat back in July: it’s easy to understand why Senator Rand Paul is against American aid to Ukraine. He’s a Republican Senator from Kentucky, which is one of the biggest places in the entire MAGA movement, at least on a per-capita basis. MAGA loves two people: Donald J. Trump and Vladimir Putin. Perhaps not Vladimir, but they sure as hell respect and the admire that strongman, because they love and admire strongmen.
As far as Senator Lindsey Graham: it depends on which Lindsey Graham you are talking about. He’s the Mitt Romney from back in 2011-12, of the 2020s. It depends on what the polls are telling him and what his political situation in South Carolina is telling him, if you want to know what’s his latest political position on the latest issue is.
But the Neoconservative Lindsey of course wants America to aid Ukraine and any other American ally, when they’re facing genocide and eliminate from this planet, especially from a murderous dictator, like Vladimir Putin. Because that’s what Neoconservatives believe in, which is the defense of liberal democracy and the rule of law around the world.
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| Source:Forbes Magazine- left to right: U.S. Senator's Rand Paul (Republican, Kentucky) & Lindsey Graham (Republican, South Carolina) |
9/05/2023 - I guess it’s always helpful to try to find out why serial murderers (what I call so-called serial killers) murder not just one person, not just multiple people, but why they murder anyone at all and why they enjoy murdering people. And I’m not talking about mob hitmen, but people who murder for the simple pleasure of murdering people, which is what a serial murderer is.
But if you are going to try to find out what makes a serial murderer a serial murderer, you better find out correctly and get it right, so you don’t mislabel and mis-profile people. I think the only possible thing that we know about Theodore Robert Bundy (better known as Ted Bundy) that might explain why he was a serial murderer of women, is the way his parents raised him.
Ted Bundy never knew his biological father. There are rumors that the man who should be his maternal grandfather, was actually his biological father. His mother sort of treated him like a girl and had him dress up like a girl. That might explain the strange relationships that he had with women (not just the women that he murdered and raped) but it doesn’t explain why he enjoyed murdering them.
I’m not a professional criminal profiler or a law enforcement officer, I’m not a psychologist or a psychiatrist, but the best guess that I have for by Ted Bundy was both a serial murderer and serial rapist, is the same thing that makes an alcoholic an alcoholic or any other addiction that you want to talk about.
There’s something in the addict’s system that makes them enjoy something so much, that isn’ good for them, or other people (like getting raped and murdered) and they feel that they need that so much and can’t live with that, so they’re only happy when they’re drinking too much alcohol, eating too much, smoking too much, taking illegal narcotics, or violently raping and murdering other people.
This is what I get from reading a lot and watching a lot of documentaries the last 25 years, about perhaps the most successful and most interesting, as well as most intelligent serial murderer, that America at least, has ever seen. I think a. better profile about Ted Bundy and something that should be looked into, is why he was addicted to rape and murder. Because we know why he raped and murdered, he was addicted to those two evil acts.
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| Source:Vanity Fair with a 1989 profile of convicted murderer Ted Bundy. |
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8/28/2023 - On this panel, on this Boston public TV show called The Reporters, they’re basically discussing when a President of the United States should be impeached and for what for. Should there have to be evidence that the President (in that case Richard Nixon) committed a felony or multiple felonies, while in office. Or should there be a lower standard for when and why a President should be impeached, like failing to adequately supervise his own appointments and the people that he’s supposed to supervise while they’re in office.
As far as Alan Dershowitz in general: I don’t think the Alan Dershowitz in 1973, even recognizes the Alan Dershowitz of 20 years later, 30 years later, 40 years later, or even today. Which is probably a good thing that he never became a politician. He defended O.J. Simpson when Simpson was on trial for a double murder in 1995. And he defended Donald J. Trump when former President Trump was on trial in the Senate, for being impeached for the second time, for his role in the 2021 insurrection in Washington.
I believe the only thing that’s consistent about Alan Dershowitz, is that he’s a criminal defense lawyer. And when you are a criminal defense lawyer, it’s not always facts and evidence that matter. Which is something else that he has in common with Donald Trump and the broader MAGA movement. What really matters when you are a criminal defense lawyer, is what’s the best thing that you can do for your client at the time, regardless of the facts and evidence that’s against you and your client.
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| Source:WGBH News- criminal defense attorney Alan Dershowitz in 1973. |
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8/22/2023 - Is the United States headed to a civil war? Interesting question, but there is no easy answer to that. Are we going to have a civil war even within the next 10 years or so? I would still say of course not and I’ll explain that later.
I’ll just explain why I don’t think America is actually in danger or having a civil war in the near future.
I think you should look at the possible factions in America that could start that war, if they were actually serious about that.
You could look at the so-called Far-Left in America (Socialists and Communists) people who are always claiming that America is racist, sexist, homophobic, materialistic, overprivileged, etc. They always are the first to say what a hellhole (or use stronger language than that) America is and are saying how much America sucks and that we should be like Europe, not just ethnically and racially (as we are now) but politically as well. And are the first people to say that they will leave America, if so and so is elected, but then actually never leave the country.
I think the main problem with assuming that the Far-Left would start a civil war against the U.S. Government, is that they don’t believe their own bullshit. (To be frank) I’m sure there are some real Socialists and Communists in America who at the very least, tend to believe what they say.
But far-leftists in America by in-large are just political hipsters who think it’s cool to put down America down from a left-wing perspective. But as they’re doing that, they’re drinking their capitalist coffee house coffee, capitalist alcohol, looking at their capitalist smartphone and laptop, hanging out in the most yuppie and overprivileged parts of America, with the most yuppie and overprivileged Americans that you could dream of, enjoying American liberal democracy and capitalism as much as everyone else. So don’t expect the Far-Left to start an American civil war.
People, especially in the so-called mainstream media, always look at the Far-Right, people who are called Christian Nationalists. But the fact is there’s nothing very religious, or even Christian about thee folks by-en-large, at least not in the classical and traditional sense. Just saying Jesus Christ is your lord and savior, doesn’t make you Christian or religious. You actually have to believe in and practice the values of Jesus and Christianity, to be a real Christian.
The other thing with the Far-Right (and there are exceptions to every rule) is that they tend to be the biggest loser of the losers in this country. People who are very educated, tend to have at least done some time in prison and are at least somewhat familiar with the criminal and justice system, who in a lot of cases were kicked out of mainstream society because mental issues, or for being prone to violence and end up in some militia/cult, because these are the only groups that would accept them and welcome them in their community.
The folks on the Far-Right, simply don’t have the resources, including money, but training, education, and experience, to take on the most powerful uncle in the world, meaning Uncle Sam. Every time they do, they end up doing long stretches in prison. Just look at 2021 insurrection, or Tim McVeigh from 25 years earlier, and there are a lot more examples like that.
Every free society has fringes in it that would like to see their country be a lot freer and perhaps even take over the government, if they could do that. But one of the things that makes America exceptional, is we love freedom so much and have created government that’s simply in the business to defend our freedom, as well as rule of law, and limited government, and our other great liberal democratic values, that most American cherish, but perhaps take for granted too much.
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| Source:TED- democracy expert Barbara F. Walter. |
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8/21/2023 - After President Gerald Ford lost the 1976 election for President to Jimmy Carter, he later said that he regretted not keeping Vice President Rockefeller on his ticket with him. But President Ford thought he needed a more populist, more of an outsider to the Republican Leadership in Washington and someone who had better relations with the populist base of the Republican Party. which is why he replaced Rockefeller, with Senator Bob Dole. Senator Dole just happened to be Chairman of the Republican National Committee in the early 1970s, but that’s a different story.
I think Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller, represented the two dominant and competing factions of the Republican Party, before the populist Christian-Right base took over the party in the early 1990s. Ford was a Conservative Republican from Michigan. Rockefeller was a Progressive Republican from New York. So one of the reasons, to go along with Ford having a lot of respect for Rockefeller, that Ford nominated him for Vice President, was perhaps to unite the Republican Party behind him, when he ran for President in his own right in 1976.
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| Source:Associated Press- President Gerald R. Ford (Republican, Michigan) nominating Governor Nelson Rockefeller (Republican, New York) for Vice President, in 1974. |
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8/17/2023 - This was one of several, great, Blazers-Celtics games that they played against each other in the mid and late 1980s. Not sure a lot of people who aren’t NBA history junkies (such as myself) are aware of this, but those Blazers teams in the 1980s, were really good, especially on offense. They had so many people who could score a lot of points and who played very well together.
The Blazers back then weren’t just Kiki Vandeweigh, Clyde Drexler, Sam Bowie when he was healthy. But Calvin Natt, Terry Porter, Jerome Kersey, Steve Johnson, Mychal Thompson, before he was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in 1987. And they had several great games against the Celtics in 1985, 86, 87, and 88. Lost all of them, but they were really good team back then, even before Rick Adelman became their head coach. But were a few steps behind the Celtics, Lakers, 76ers with Moses and Dr. J. and the other great NBA clubs from that era.
As far as Larry Bird’s buzzer beater: think about Jerry West and Rick Barry, when you are thinking about how good and talented Larry Bird was. But add about 6 inches and 50-60 pounds of muscle and you get Larry Bird. He was a man who could defend and rebound like a power forward, or perhaps even center, but could shoot, pass, and handle the ball like a great point guard.
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| Source:SportsChannel- Boston or New England. |
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8/16/2023 - The 1985 Denver Broncos were 11-5, but missed the AFC Playoffs. Back then, 5-14 teams in each conference made the NFL Playoffs, unlike 6 that started in 1990. So you could argue that the 1985 Broncos are one of the best NFL teams ever, at least in the Super Bowl era, that didn’t even make the playoffs.
The 1985 Los Angeles Raiders, we’re looking to get back to the Super Bowl. The 1983 Raiders are one of the best NFL teams ever (at least as far as I’m concern) but 1984 was very disappointing because they just got back to the AFC Wildcard that season and lost that game.
So this is a great matchup of two very good teams on both sides of the ball, that have a lot of very good players at every position, who simply hate and yet respected each other. Which is what made these Raider-Bronco games so good in the 1970s and 80s.
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| Source:NBC Sports with this 1985 Raider-Bronco game. |
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8/15/2023 - If you want to know why the so-called Republican Party, is not even a Republican Party today, let alone a conservative party, just listen to former U.S. Federal Judge Michael Luttig and listen to any so-called Republican who even struggles to criticize Donald Trump about anything, let alone to so-called Republicans who act like they’re blind, death, and braindead, every time they hear or see Donald Trump to or say anything that’s corrupt and authoritarian.
When I think of Conservative:
“Averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values.
In a political context) favoring free enterprise, private ownership, and socially traditional ideas.”
These definitions courtesy of Dictionary.com.
When I think of a Republican, I think of someone who believes:
“Though conceptually separate from democracy, republicanism included the key principles of rule by consent of the governed and sovereignty of the people. In effect, republicanism held that kings and aristocracies were not the real rulers, but rather the whole people were.”
What you hear Michael Luttig doing here, is defending key Republican values, like the rule of law, tradition, checks and balances, personal responsibility, and American democracy.
What you get from Donald Trump and his supporters, as well as Republicans who know better and who don’t technically like or respect the man and even see him as a threat to the American Republic, but who don’t have the political balls (to be frank) to admit it publicly, is that it’s not illegal or corrupt when Donald Trump does it. Or they act blind, death, or braindead, when Donald Trump does it.
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| Source:PBS NewsHour talking to former U.S. Federal Judge Michael Luttig. |
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8/14/2023 - With all due respect to the 1985 New England Patriots, who did have an excellent team both on defense and offense, as far as personal and what they accomplished: if Los Angeles Raiders QB Jim Plunkett was healthy and played this game, (which is part of the broader point of this post) the Raiders not just win this game, but probably dominate the Patriots as well.
With a healthy Jim Plunkett playing this game, instead of career, part-time, starter, Marc Wilson playing instead, the Raiders because of their great defense, would know that they just have to play their game, which is to dominate the Patriots offense. But they wouldn't have to try to win the game themselves, because they know the Raiders offense would have what they needed to move the ball and score points, which was their vertical passing game with QB Jim Plunkett and their receivers and their power running game with Marcus Allen and their big, strong, offensive line.
The 1984 AFC Wildcard lost to the Seattle Seahawks and this 1985 AFC Divisional lost to the Patriots, I believe sums up the Los Angeles Raiders of the 1980s. The team that should've taken over the NFL, or at least the AFC in the 1980s, after the Pittsburgh Steelers fell back to the middle of the pack, basically became a team that after they win their only Super Bowl in Los Angeles in 1983, that a good season for them was winning their division and making it to the AFC Playoffs. Or just making the playoffs for them was a good season for in the mid 1980s.
But under Tom Flores in the 1980s, especially after the Raiders moved from Oakland to Los Angeles at the end of the 1981 season, they led the NFL in talent and great personal pretty much every year. You look at what they had on defense, I would take their personal, especially their secondary, over the Chicago Bears of that era.
Offensively, the Raiders as far as personal, were better than the Miami Dolphins and perhaps even the San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins, and Dallas Cowboys, perhaps just as talented as the Cincinnati Bengals of the 1980s. But the old cliche: talent doesn't win games. Players and coaches do. That probably should've been written for the Los Angeles Raiders under Tom Flores and Al Davis.
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| Source:John Morgani- Los Angeles Raiders LB Matt Millen, showing a fan at the game, how much they appreciate the Raiders fans. |
8/11/2023 - This is about my case for Cincinnati Bengals QB Ken Anderson to finally be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And I’ll make it very simple for you.
If there is room for Dan Fouts and Bob Griese to be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, then there is room for Ken Anderson as well, whose at least, at least as deserving as both Fouts and Griese to be in the Hall of Fame.
Dan Fouts has a career losing record as an NFL QB, He didn’t become the San Diego Chargers full-time starting QB until 1978, his 6th season in the league, I’m not a big stats guy when it comes to sports, but he only three 12 more TD’s than INT’s during his 15 year career. But he’s in the Hall of Fame because he was a very accurate QB and three for a lot of passing yards.
Miami Dolphins QB Bob Griese is in the Hall of Fame because he not just won 2 Super Bowls but won them back-to-back. But if he had 2 Super Bowl losses and didn’t win a single Super Bowl and the rest of his career was still the same, he’s probably not in the Hall of Fame today. He was a system QB, who needed a great offensive line and running game, which he had for most of his career with the Dolphins, in order to be successful at all. He played in a ball-control, power-run offense, where he only had to throw the ball about 15 times a game, for the Dolphins to win.
I’m not arguing that Dan Fouts and Bob Griese are not Hall of Famers or that they should be removed from the Hall of Fame. I’m just arguing that Ken Anderson just as a QB, was at least as good as both of those players.
Ken Anderson was generally, if not always the best player on every team that he played for with the Bengals, at least on offense and his numbers, victories, including playoff victories, playing for a franchise that didn’t win consistently for most of his career. And yet still won a lot of games and put up excellent numbers for the Bengals in the 1970s and 80s, when Dan Fouts was still on the Chargers bench. And Bob Griese was handing the ball off for the Dolphins and watching his defense dominate the other teams.
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| Source:Beau Boone- welcome to Super Bowl 16 between the Cincinnati Bengals & San Francisco 49ers. Two of the most unlikely NFL teams to make it to the Super Bowl, going into the 1981 season. |
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8/10/2023 - Just to give you a little background on Marjorie Taylor Greene, before I actually give her credit, for something positive: (and then spend weeks getting professional help for doing that)
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is a self-described Christian Nationalist. What does that mean? She approaches her politics with a fundamentalist-Protestant, nationalistic point of view, that has nothing to do with the U.S. Constitution or even Republicanism. She has more in common ideologically with Vladimir Putin and the Russian Nationalists, then she could ever possibly have in common with the Barry Goldwater's, Ronald Reagan's, and the other great Conservative Republicans in America.
Having said all of that, she makes a good point about NATO and Europe. I think her motives are bad and probably couldn't give a damn, even if she tried, if America did pull out of NATO and Russia took over not just Ukraine, but the rest of Slavia and Europe at some point.
But the fact is, Europe doesn't spend enough money on its own defense, America is buried in debt, and Europe is dependent on American taxpayers for its national defense and probably economic security as well. Instead of being the great independent states that Europe should be, with all the great, developed, democratic societies that they have.
I think the solution here is real simple: convince the European Union on the importance of having free, independent, secure and free states, that aren't reliant on the generosity of taxpayers from other countries, to pay for their own national security. Not to unilaterally gut an important program that vital for the security of Ukraine and the rest of Europe.
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| Source:Forbes Magazine- left to right: U.S. Representative Marjorie T. Greene (Christian Nationalists, Georgia) & U.S. Representative Gerold Connolly (Democrat, Virginia) on the House floor, together. |
7/28/2023 - As someone whose never even met James Bond (perhaps because he's a man that does not exist) let alone tried to murder the man, just from watching these other Bond films, including Goldfinger, I think coming at the man with an axe, when he's in his hotel room, making out with his latest girl for the night, is not the best way to go about it. James Bond is a man who takes is gun wherever he goes. Wouldn't surprise me if he showers with his gun in his holster, even when he's sharing the shower with his latest girl.
As far as, "positively shocking" if someone can be a human encyclopedia when it comes to cliches, you can be a human encyclopedia when it comes to puns. And both James Bond (played by Sean Connery) and Harry Calahan (played by Clint Eastwood) were exactly that. They both had perfect comedic timing to the point that they could make you laugh, even with a cheesy line, while kicking someone's ass or killing them.
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| Source:Movie Clips- perhaps the best way to murder James Bond is to poison your own lips & tongue. |
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7/27/2023 - Going into this game, this looked like a great game, especially for ABC Sports prime time Monday Night Baseball, with Don Drysdale and Tim McCarver with the call of the game. Both teams having great lineups, the game at Baltimore Memorial Stadium, early July, when it's hot and humid as hell in Baltimore and in the rest of the State of Maryland, and the Orioles had Scott McGregor pitching for them.
But after 1983, the Orioles starting pitching started falling and they became most a power-hitting team, that hit a lot of home runs and scored a lot of runs, especially at home. They added outfielder Fred Lynn, who they got from the Anaheim Angels (as I call them) and added outfielder Lee Lacy, Mike Young, to go along with Eddie Murray and Cal Ripken, to of the best all around players in all of MLB at this point.
But as good as the Orioles offense was in the mid 1980s, their starting pitching was perhaps just as bad, with just Mike Boddicker being the only consistent started that they had.
Orioles ace Jim Palmer retires after the 1984 season, Scott McGregor and Mike Flannagan's arms were failing them. And when you pitch at Baltimore Memorial Stadium and those other American League ballparks that have short porches and hot and humid summers, you can't afford to throw hanger after hanger and expect to succeed, especially when you are also walking a lot of hitters as well. Orioles pitcher Dennis Martinez was up and down. When he was up, he was an all star and perhaps Cy Young contender. When he was off, he would struggle to get out of the 3rd inning.
Like I said, this looked like a great matchup going in. But when Scott McGregor was off and he was pitching against a good team, like the defending World Series champion Detroit Tigers, the were Orioles generally got blown out or won it in a slugfest.
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| Source:ABC Sports- Orioles outfielder Lee Lacy. |
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7/26/2023 - As someone who grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, just 40 miles south of Baltimore, I had an opportunity to see a lot of Oriole games growing up and I'm old enough to remember at least hearing about the Colts in the early 1980s, when I was just starting to get into sports as a young kid.
Bethesda is literally next door to Washington, but Washington didn't have an MLB franchise for most of the 1970s and the 1980s, so the Oriole which were just about a 50-60 minute drive (depending on traffic) were the local baseball team for most Marylanders. So I got to see a lot of Orioles games growing up in the 1980s and early 90s as a kid and got to go to several Orioles games, when they were still in North Baltimore at Memorial Stadium.
When I think of Baltimore Memorial, I just think of a great old ballpark, that was a lot of fun to be at. Perhaps not so much fun to get to, at least coming from Washington, because you have to get to the city first, which might not be so bad, but then you have to get to the stadium as well, which could be another 40-60 minutes, because the stadium is in the north of the city, it's a big city, and you have to deal with the traffic.
Baltimore Memorial was just a big, fun, old ballpark to be at:
Beautiful sight lines as far as what surrounded the ballpark, with no upper deck porch, so you always had a great view of the sky
The grass field and hill, the trees, the old houses beyond the outfield wall of the ballpark,
The food was always good
The seats were close to the action, as well as on the the ground level, unlike at the cookie-cutter stadiums
The fans were great and were always loud
The place looked beautiful during the day and night
Short porches but with high walls and no foul territory down the lines, which made it a great ballpark for extra base hits and for players with good speed, but it also had deep gaps and a deep center field, so pitchers could be successful there
The garden in the left field foul territory
Maryland crab cake sandwiches from the Chesapeake Bay and perhaps Maryland Cream of Crab Soup as well.
Yes, Baltimore Memorial Stadium was officially a multi-purpose stadium because different sports franchises from different sports, also played there. The Orioles shared Baltimore Memorial with the Colts for 30 seasons from 1954-83, there was an NASL soccer franchise there briefly in the 1960s, with the Bays.
But similar to Cleveland Municipal, Milwaukee County, Shea Stadium in Queens, New York, Atlanta Fulton Stadium, Candlestick Park, the Oakland Coliseum, Anaheim Stadium, Jack Murphy Stadium, Baltimore Memorial was always a baseball first stadium, that could accompany other sports, but perhaps not very well, because it was a natural baseball park.
So in this sense, at least, Baltimore was better off the the Colts leaving in 1984 because it gave them the opportunity to make Baltimore Memorial look as beautiful as possible for baseball and get the city's act together as far as building a football stadium, that was just for football, which is one reason they were able to get the Ravens from Cleveland, in 1996.
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| Source:Forgotten Places with a look at Baltimore Memorial Stadium. |
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7/25/2023 - I think you already have a pretty good idea who Christine Jorgensen is, (unless you skipped over the 1st five paragraphs) so I'm going to get into Joe Pyne (figuratively) and talk about his show a little bit and then talk about this interview a little bit as well.
If you are from my generation (Generation X) or are older, you probably have at least some idea who Morten Downey Jr. was and the tabloid, attack, talk shows, that followed in the 1990s, that also lead to partisan, political attack, TV shows on cable in the 2000s. The format of these shows was basically to either bring on someone that the host really loves, respects, and admirers and then watch the host spend 10-20 minutes kissing the guest's ass (perhaps literally) on national TV.
Or, bring on a guest that the host has no respect for, completely disagree with that person and then spend the next 10-20 minutes trying to beat the hell out of that person (perhaps not literally) on national TV. And if the guest has any self-respect whatsoever, well, then they probably don't go on that show at all, but if they have a little self-respect for themselves, they'll stand up for themselves and make the host look like the asshole that they are, on national TV and that makes for entertaining TV.
Joe Pyne in the 1950s and 60s, with his syndicated radio and TV shows, was basically the forerunner for Morton Downey JR, in the 1980s and Bill O'Reilly in the 1990s and 2000s. They both admired and looked up to Joe Pyne and used him as inspiration for their own careers.
As far as this interview, this was very different from a normal Joe Pyne interview, but this is only about a 3 minute clip, so maybe it got worst. And what Pyne really just does here is let Christine Jorgensen just talk about her own personal experience as a transgender woman, something that in the 1960s, as was as common hurricanes in Wisconsin, in January, or the Detroit Lions playing in the Super Bowl, politicians telling the whole truth on national TV. So what she's doing here, took a lot of courage, especially to talk to someone like Joe Pyne, about her own transgenderism.
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| Source:Richard Remembers Joe Pyne- Hollywood actress Christine Jorgensen in 1967. |
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7/24/2023 - If you are familiar with these action/comedy films and action/comedy TV shows, the bad guy or girl, is never really dead. (Exceptions to every rule) And no, I'm not talking about in real-life. They are just dead until they make some miracle reappearance later on, that's explained in their next appearance.
Mr. Goldfinger (played by Gert Frobe) should've been dead at the Battle of Fort Knox (ha, ha) between his men and the U.S, Army at that base. Goldfinger is not your average criminal. (Also in the news: the Rolls Rolls Royce is not your average car) So of course Goldfinger can't be dead, until the last scene of the film, unless they just want to show Bond and his Pussy in a love scene making out. But this is James Bond, so they can't end a great film with something predictable. There has to be some final battle where just the good people survive.
Another thing about this scene, is how adorable Honor Blackman was. As soon as Goldfinger pulls the genius play of firing a gun in a small airplane, (which is as intelligent stepping in front of a moving bus with your eyes closed) they go to Pussy, Galore (played by Honor Blackman) who really was a damn good pilot in this film (as she said) trying to prevent the plane from crashing. And the first thing I thought of, was Fly Baby, Fly. Which is exactly what she was.
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| Source:Movie Clips- left to right: James Bond (played by Sean Connery) & Pussy Galore (played by Honor Blackman). Perhaps your eyesight is keen enough to tell who is who on your own. |
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7/21/2023 - It's very easy to say that this is just more MAGA bullshit (to be frank) when you are looking at these partisan House Republican hearings and say that because they're bullshit, you can simply just ignore any of the charges that they throw out, all the garbage that they try to throw at people hoping that something sticks and not all of their garbage gets thrown out.
But what the Trump years have taught us (now going back to 2015) is that when you simply just ignore all the bullshit attacks that MAGA throws at people, you end up giving them a bigger platform than they would otherwise have, because there's no one there saying how ridiculous this and as a result more people end up taking the garbage seriously and not throwing it out.
I didn't watch this House hearing yesterday simply because I had better things to do, (like watch a high school play on public access TV and a 24 hour PBS fundraising drive) so I didn't see any response to from Delegate Stacy Plaskett to Representative Kat Cammack's Jeffrey Epstein charge against her. And I couldn't find any response from Delegate Plaskett to Representative Cammack online either.
So who knows, maybe this is the one time during these hearing that Representative Cammack is right about anything, (other than showing up to the right room for these hearings) or Delegate Plaskett took these charges for the bullshit that they are and chose to ignore them.
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| Source:Forbes Magazine- left to right: U.S. Delegate Stacey Plaskett & U.S. Representative Kat Cammack. |
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7/20/2023 - First of all, at risk of stating the obvious: the U.S. Government can’t legally and probably not constitutionally, prevent private media companies from reporting on things and issues that are not classified. Hopefully Representative Jim Jordan (Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee) already knows that. But he doesn’t always come off as a sharp knife in the drawer, except perhaps when he’s stabbing someone in the back with a knife.
Jen Paski or any other Biden White House official can talk all they want about preventing this media company or that media company from reporting on anything. But legally and constitutionally they can’t.
All the evidence you need to know this (assuming you are not familiar with the 1st Amendment) is to go back to March, 2017 when NBC News had a negative report about Donald Trump’s White House and President Trump threatened to pull NBC News’s license for their airways. But no one at the Department of Justice or Department of Homeland Security, or the Federal Communications Commission, even took then President Trump seriously on that. And Representative Jordan said nothing about President Trump’s empty threat against a private news company back then.
As far as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifying in front of the House Judiciary Committee; I know he’s a Democrat and he’s officially running against Joe Biden in the Democratic primaries for President, but seriously, was this the best Democrat that Chairman Jordan could get? I guess Marianne Williamson (the hippie spiritualist from California) and Professor Cornel West from Princeton, weren’t available. But listening to Bob Kennedy trying to even put two words together, sounds like he lost his voice giving an all-week Senate filibuster. Not an impressive performance.
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| Source:Forbes Magazine- U.S. Representative Jim Jordan (Republican, Ohio) Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and former White House press secretary Jen Psaki. Hopefully you don't need help telling which one is which. If you do, please seek help and get a brain and eye examination as soon as possible. |
7/19/2023 - As far as Bill Clinton's 1993, inaugural, I think there are great reasons why William Jefferson Clinton gets compared with John Fitzgerald Kennedy: tall, handsome, youthful looking, very funny, optimistic, etc, but there's an even better reason than that.
If you watch and listen to President Clinton's speech here, he's not promising the world to everyone and telling them that it's not going to cost anyone anything, expect for perhaps maybe the wealthy. He talks about the challenges that the country is facing and then talks about how the country can address them and how we'll be better off in the long run together. Instead of we can solve all our problems right now with this program, that program, and another program, and it's not going to cost anyone anything, expect for perhaps the wealthy.
Another reason why WJC gets compared with each other has to do with rhetoric.
In JFK's 1961 inaugural, he says: "Ask not what you can do for your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
In 1993, WJC says: "There's nothing wrong with America, that can't be fixed with what's right with America." And then he gets into things like if you commit yourself to public service and the country, you can go to college for free. He was talking about empowering Americans, especially young Americans, who are struggling and need a break to get started in America and make it in America on their own.
As far as Bill Clinton's early struggles early on and not just his first two years, but first month, if you think about it: imagine waking up and finding yourself on another planet for the first time in your life and having know idea even where you are, expect that you know that you are in charge of this huge organization known as the executive branch of the United States Government. That's what the Clinton Administration looked like in early 1993.
The Clinton White House looked like Amateur Days At The White House, seeming to have no idea where they were and what they were supposed to be doing. And it cost them, as well as the Democratic Party in those first two years, especially 1993. 1994, expect for the Congressional elections where the Democratic Party lost both the House and Senate, was much better for them politically and operationally, with real accomplishments under their belt, including 2 popular Supreme Court justices at that point.
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| Source:The McLaughlin Group- yes, that John McLaughlin. |
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7/18/2023 - As I talked about yesterday on The New Democrat about Goldfinger (played by Gurt Frobe) sending James Bond (played by Sean Connery) the message this is what happens when you try to screw with him, well in this scene, Goldfinger is sending Bond a different message.
In this scene, Goldfinger is telling Bond, this is what happens when you've already screwed with him, you get fried like an egg, in the desert, on a sunny day, by a laser. With Captain Smartass (or whatever James Bond ran in the Secret Intelligence Service is) literally having to talk his way out of this, or he'll be fried like an egg, by a laser.
A couple other things that stand out in this scene:
Gurt Frobe's thick German accent. Of course most, if not all Germans speak English, even in Germany, at least as a 2nd language and most if not all of them speak it very well, same thing in Scandinavia and Holland. But Gurt's accent is very distinguish with the way he says: "No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die" and when he tells Bond, as Bond is literally trying to talk his way out of death: "You know nothing, Mr. Bond" that really gets my attention as well, because of how well-delivered those lines are with his German accent.
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| Source:Movie Clips- Gurt Frobe as Mr. Goldfinger. |
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7/17/2023 - Goldfinger (played by Gert Frobe) is essentially telling James Bond (played. by Sean Connery) that Bond doesn't want to screw with him, or this is what will happen to him. Goldfinger's henchman (played by Harold Sakata) will crush Bond.
You don't become the top field agent at the Secret Intelligence Service (which is the British version of the CIA) by being intimidated by the yes-men (which is being nice) of the international terrorists and criminals that you are going after.
Oddjob (played by Harold Sakata) was Goldfinger's musclebound dog, who if Goldfinger asked him to swim from London, from Washington, Oddjob would probably say something like: "I could use a long swim" and wouldn't think twice about how impossible that is and then would try to complete that swim from London to Washington. Oddjob was in Bond's way as far as putting Goldfinger out-of-business, but he wasn't going to stop him.
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| Source:Movie Clips- Goldfinger’s (played by Gert Frobe) henchman (played by Harold Sakata) |
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7/14/2023 - Representative Adam Schiff makes a couple good points about the U.S. Supreme Court:
The only position in the U.S. Government that’s not accountable to anyone, is the U.S. Justice, including the U.S. Chief Justice, as well as every other Federal judge in this country. They’re appointed for life, which means they can’t be fired and only can be impeached and convicted in Congress. Which almost never happens and only happens when one judge is so unpopular in both parties and obviously completely corrupt.
The other good point that Representative Schiff makes, has to do with U.S. Justice corruption issues. They need an enforceable code of ethics. Not just because of Justice Clarence Thomas, but for the entire court.
My answer about packing the U.S. Supreme Court: elections have consequences. Hypocrisy in Congress is about as common as heat and humidity, as well as traffic jams in Washington, especially in the summer. Had left-wing Democrats bothered to vote in 2014 and 16, Democrats hold the Senate and Mitch McConnell never becomes Senate Majority Leader, a position that he had from 2015-21, when the Republicans got 3 Supreme Court justices.
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| Source:Forbes Magazine- left to right: U.S. Representative Adam Schiff (Democrat, California) & U.S. Representative Jim Jordan (Republican, Ohio) Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. |
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7/13/2023 - Just to give you a little background on this relationship (if you want to call it that) between Senator John McCain and Senator Rand Paul: (Republican, Kentucky) they seriously dislike and disrespect each other. Oh, you want more. Well, I’ll give it to you anyway.
Senator John McCain comes from a longline of center-right, Neoconservatives in the Republican Party, going back to the 1960s, if not further, people who at one point in some cases, were Liberal Democrats. (Meaning people who believe in liberal democracy) Even though the so-called mainstream media like to call these Republicans moderates today, McCain has never been a moderate.
John McCain has always been a Neoconservative, especially on foreign policy and national security, but on economic policy as well. Teddy Roosevelt is one of the most famous Progressive Republicans ever, was one of McCain’s political heroes. And Neoconservatives, look like Progressive Republicans, at least today.
Rand Paul, at least when he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010, was a Conservative Libertarian, who is fairly dovish and isolationist on foreign policy and national security, like most Libertarians. And since his failed presidential run of 2016, it occurred to him that he represents Kentucky, which is like the capital of Redneckistan in the MAGA movement in the country and now sounds and acts like MAGA Nationalist Republican. And those folks are to the opposite of the Neoconservative center-right in the Republican Party and are competing factions.
So of course Senator McCain was in favor of letting Montenegro join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 2017, because they were under attack by Russia and Vladimir Putin wants them to be part of his new Slavic empire that he has dreamed up for himself.
And of course Senator Paul is against this, because he doesn’t believe America should be in the business of defending the freedom and democracy of other countries. And since Vladimir Putin is a hero of MAGA, he doesn’t believe (at least publicly) that America should be in the business to confront Vladimir Putin, because that could hurt him politically at home in Kentucky.
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| Source:C-SPAN- U.S. Senator John McCain (Republican, Arizona) |
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7/12/2023 - If you want to know what kind of politician that Thomas Dewey was ideologically, I’ll tell you anyway. Think about people who are tough on serious crimes and criminals, people who represent real threats to any free society, like America, who are tough on communism and other authoritarian ideologies, who believe in free enterprise, opportunity and responsibility for all, as well as freedom for all, that liberal democracy is the best form of government, civil and equal rights and justice for all, fiscal responsibility, the best government is the government that’s closest to home, that’s Tom Dewey.
Tom Dewey was a Northeastern Republican from the 1930s and 40s and into the 1950s and that was the Republican Party pre-Christian-Right of the late 1960s and into the 1970s. Back then, the Republican Party was a party of basically two center-right factions: a Progressive faction form the Northeast and to a certain extent of the West Coast and a Classical Conservative faction from the Midwest and the Mountain West. They became a national party when the Christian-Right and other parts of the Far-Right came into the party in the late 1960s and into the 1970s.
In the mid-20th Century, the Republican Party was the party of the Tom Dewey’s, Dwight Eisenhower’s, Nelson Rockefeller’s, Bill Scranton’s, George Romney’s, and yes Richard Nixon’s, who ideologically, was a Cold War, center-right Progressive Republican.
The Republican Party also had a center-right Conservative faction in this same timer period, led by people like Robert Taft and Barry Goldwater.
The Republican Party was a real center-right party, perhaps not just of America, but perhaps the rest of the western world as well, when Far-Right people like the John Birch Society and others, were treated like escaped political mental patients, not like main street populist Republicans, the way they’re treated today. And Tom Dewey was their leader in 1944 and 48, while he was also the Governor of New York.
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| Source:C-SPAN- presidential historian Richard N. Smith. |
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7/11/2023 - Howard Zinn said himself early in this lecture that America is not exceptional and implying that American exceptionalism is a myth. Well, if that’s true, then America is not exceptionally good or bad, at least compared with any other country in the world.
The definition of exceptionalism is, something that’s exceptional, unusual, extraordinary. Those words are somewhat indifferent because they don’t mean good or bad, they are just exceptional, unusual, or extraordinary. Someone or something, be exceptionally or unusually or extraordinary good or bad. You can have an exceptionally, or unusually, or extraordinary bad car (or whatever the thing or person) or an exceptionally, or unusually, or extraordinary good car.
The Far-Left, at least in America, (and Howard Zinn would be part of that faction) like to argue all the time that America is the real empire, Americans are the real terrorists, even during the Cold War, you had far-leftists in America arguing that America was the real evil empire, not Russia. But if you listen to Professor Zinn, America is not exceptionally good or bad, we’re just like every other country.
I’m not some hardcore American patriot, or some Nationalist, who really just loves his corner of the store, neck of the woods, his own people or tribe, etc, who claims to be an American patriot. But I do love America and think that America is not just a great country, but yes, the greatest country in the world. But for very good reasons.
There’s no country, that has produced more wealth and freedom, more individual rights and individualism, for more people, for more ethnic groups, for more races, for more men and women, for more religions, than America.
Why do you think we have 10-15 illegal immigrants in America? The answer is very simple, because we have so many different people from different parts of the world, trying to come to America and in many cases don’t want to or can’t afford to await their turn to come to America and therefor immigrate to America illegally.And not just from the third world, but from Canada, Britain, Europe, Japan,, Korea, Middle East, etc.
You don’t even see American far-leftists, trying to escape what they say us the evil empire and the real terrorist state in the world, (America, of course) and trying to get to Canada, Britain, Holland, or Scandinavia, even though all those countries speak English, at least as a 2nd language. And for very good reasons, because at least privately, they love America and don’t even believe their own (to be frank) bullshit, but also because American far-leftists might be too crazy even for these social democracies. And that might even include the great Professor Howard Zinn. But what people say and believe publicly, doesn’t always match up with what they say and believe privately.
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| Source:MIT Video Productions- Professor Howard Zinn in 2005. |
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7/10/2023 - The only thing that I don’t like about Shirley Eaton, is that she didn’t have a bigger and longer career. If Shirley and Honor Blackman, were the two main female characters, the two female leads in this film, no one would complain, certainly no one in Britain. She was the perfect James Bond girl, because she was beautiful, adorable, sexy, and yet sharp and witty, just like with Honor Blackman.
I think this is the typical James Bond scene. Bond (played by Sean Connery) and Goldfinger (played by Gert Frobe) trying to get the upper hand on each other and yet seeming to enjoy what they’re doing and know that they’re not just trying to destroy the other, but could be destroyed by the other as well. It’s sort of the typical James Bond action/comedy scene and on reason why Goldfinger is the perfect Bond film, because of how entertaining and well-done it was.
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| Source:Movie Clips- Sean Connery & Shirley Eaton. Perhaps you are smart enough to tell for yourself who is who. |
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7/07/2023 - CRFB already lays out what reconciliation in Congress is. It allows for the Senate to act like the House, just as long as the bill that they are discussing, is related to the Federal budget and relates to government spending.
And it put limits on how much the U.S. Government can borrow and it means that the Senate, can pass a reconciliation bill with just 51 votes, including the Vice President, but the minority party, as well as majority party members in the Senate, can offer and get up or down votes on their amendments to the reconciliation bills, just as long as their amendments are relevant to the reconciliation bill.
What I really want to get into here is why we have reconciliation in Congress, (House and Senate) why it’s necessary, and how it can be improved.
As a Liberal, (or Classical Liberal, if you prefer) I believe in checks and balances and minority rights. But there’s such a thing as too good of a good thing and too much of a bad thing. When you allow the Senate Minority Leader, to essentially block everything that’s brought to the floor, especially when the Minority Leader has a large minority, like now with 49 seats in the U.S. Senate, under Mitch McConnell, you make the Minority Leader essentially as powerful as the Majority Leader, which means the elections from the last term, don’t matter.
So there needs to be a responsible way for the Majority Leader and his caucus to act, regardless of which party is in power in the Senate, as well as the House, which party is in The White House, especially when the Senate Minority Leader and his caucus, doesn’t want to work with the majority party on anything, because they’re only concern about the next elections and getting back into the majority.
If you call yourself a fiscal Conservative, or someone like myself who is a Liberal, who believes in fiscal responsibility, you should like Congressional reconciliation, when it’s used in a responsible way. Not used to add a lot of pork to the Federal budget, that’s all borrowed and where perhaps only the member of Congress who offered the pork, in the House or Senate, knows what’s in their pork. Or in a way that meets and a lot of partisan and ideological demands and adds a lot of new social or military spending, or tax cuts that benefit very few people, that isn’t paid for, or couldn’t even be paid for, because of how expensive it is.
So, reconciliation yes, but it has to be done in a smart way.
So imagine if I’m in charge of Congress (as big of a nightmare as that might be for anyone) and I get to write the rules for how both the House of Representatives and Senate should act, this is how I would reform reconciliation in Congress:
All reconciliation in bills in Congress have to start in the House first.
Be passed out by the committee of jurisdiction, as well as the House Budget Committee as well.
Every reconciliation bill would have to be paid for,
And the minority party, led by the House Minority Leader, similar to what’s already going on in the Senate, would have the ability to offer and get up and down votes on all relevant amendments that they may have to the reconciliation bill and they would get 20 hours in the House as well, just like in the Senate.
Once the reconciliation bill is passed by the House, then it goes to the Senate, where their committee of jurisdiction, as well as their Budget Committee, would get the chance to amend and debate the bill as well.
Once the two committees in the Senate passes the reconciliation bill, it then goes to the floor, where the Senate as a whole would take it up.
And the Senate minority party, led by the Minority Leader, could offer relevant amendments to the bill, that would have to be paid for, just like in the House and they would get 20 hours as well to offer amendments.
And once all amendments and time for debate have been offered and voted on, all time for debate is over, the Majority Leader could move for final passage of the bill. Just as long as the reconciliation bill is fully paid for and doesn’t even add a penny to the deficit.
Again, if you oppose Congressional gridlock, but also believe in fiscal responsibility, this would be a good way to get Congress moving (which party is in power or if there is a divided Congress) but also a good way to get national debt and deficit under control, because this would essentially make PAYGO (or pay as you go) the law of the land in the U.S. Government and there would be no more borrowing, except when we are in recession, or you could get a 3/5 vote both in the House and Senate, to lift this PAYGO rule.
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| Source:CRFB- welcome to the U.S. Congress. Feel free to leave or escape, anytime you want. |
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Maya MacGuineas (whose a real life fiscal Conservative, which is rare in Washington and perhaps in America as well) and left-wing economist Robert Reich (who I describe as a Democratic Socialist) agreeing that when the national debt and budget deficit, grows faster than the economy, (meaning economic growth) that is bad for the economy and the country as a whole.
Another interesting point being what Robert Reich said that it doesn’t natter how much you borrow, just as long as that government borrowing is used for promote economic growth. And he said those government investments being things like infrastructure, job training, education, all things that I support, but I would disagree that you should borrow the money to pay for those investments.
The other interesting point being that there’s no set number as far as how large the national debt and deficit needs to be, even as a percentage of the economy. But with Maya MacGuineas with the great counterpoint being that we don’t want to find out what that number is before out economy crashes because the American dollar is not worth anything and no one, including the U.S. Government can pay any of their bills.
My point for the Robert Reich’s of the world: if deficits and debt doesn’t matter (which is not what Reich said) then you don’t need taxes. for anything that government actually does. Reich said in this interview that there is actually a limit to how much the U.S. Government can borrow before it’s too much. But then he said that now is the time for more government borrowing, because the interest rates are now, which just begs a certain question and answer.
Why are our interest rates so low? Because the Federal Reserve up until last year, kept them low. But then they started raising them last year to deal with high inflation and high borrowing, to deal with the rising national debt and deficit Part of President Biden’s and the last Congress’s social welfare package from last summer, was to deal with the national debt and deficit, the so-called Deficit Reduction Act.
Anyone who pays taxes and pays their own bills in general, knows that inflation, as well as the debt and deficit, have been major issues in the American economy the last two years. And the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 deals with inflation, as well as the national debt and deficit.
Again, if deficit and debt doesn’t matter, then government, including the U.S. Government doesn’t need taxes for anything, because it now has unlimited borrowing authority. And no serious economist actually believes that even the Uncle Sam’s government, has unlimited borrowing authority.
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| Source:Firing Line With Margaret Hoover- left to right: Margaret Hoover, Maya MacGuineas, and Robert Reich. |
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7/05/2023 - This is sort of a follow up piece that I wrote on at The Daily Times about this appearance that comedians Norm MacDonald and Courtney Thorne Smith had on Late Night With Conan O’Brien. But I’m giving you additional images and another look at the video.
Courtney T. Smith was obviously one of the big stars from FOX’s hit prime-time soap opera Melrose Place, from the 1990s. She at this point was on all 6 seasons and was looking to move on from that role, as she told Conan in this interview and was looking to get into movies.
I guess Chairman of The Board, was the only film that Courtney T. could get at that point and took it like a fish that had been out of the water for 3 weeks and jumped back in the lake. (Was Melrose Place really bad enough to give up for Chairman of the Board?)
Well, you know what they say about hindsight. But Norm MacDonald with perhaps better foresight than Courtney, knew that this at least sounded like a pretty bad film, to the point that it even had the wrong title and called it Chairman of The Bored, during this interview.
This was a pretty bad interview before Norm jumped in, because Courtney and Conan were stuck trying to talk about this film and her time on Melrose and why she was leaving. But then Norm jumps in and saves the interview (as they say) that you can see for yourself right here.
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| Source:Vanity Fair- Late Night With Norm MacDonald & Courtney T. Smith. |
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7/21/2021 - On the surface, you might think that Pussy Galore (played by Honor Blackman) is simply too damn cute to be hooked up with terrorists and criminals and to be flying them around, as well as their hostages. But Honor Blackman was a terrific actress and made it work because perhaps people thought she was too damn cute to be a bad girl. Too cute to scare a mouse and therefor could fool a lot of people. Perhaps even master spy and ass-kicker James Bond.
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2/19/2019 - To be completely honest with you for a minute, ( and after that anything can happen ) I only watch American Pickers because of Danielle Colby Cushman. I'm a big fan of history and I'm very interested in it and read a lot about it and watch a lot of docs about it, I'm just not a collector when it comes to history other than DVD's and books.
2/08/2019 - As someone who is Agnostic and proud of it who believes in reason, science, facts, and only has faith in people, things, institutions that I trust based on the evidence that I've seen from being around them and talking to them, I can actually see why people would be attracted in religion. As someone who believes in the First Amendment which includes the Freedom of Religion in America, ( sorry Hippies, I'm not spiritualist and I'm not a Communist either ) I can see why people would want religion, be involved in America, and even need it. I guess the difference between an Agnostic and an Atheist, especially a fundamentalist Atheist ( and yes, there is such a thing ) like a Communist to use as an example.
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