– Transit tunnel is back at capacity. Very good.
– Now is the time to buy a bike
– Good news!!! The police can be dicks to people drawing in chalk again. Take that, chalk artists.
– I really liked this article about asylum seekers in our backyard.
– Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Does anybody here feel sorry for the dumbfuck Nazi coward for having a truly awful, no good, horrible day yesterday?
I thought so. Me neither.
The country with the best foreign policy is Switzerland – they mind their business, hold the money and watch the rest of us fight.
Other DA shoe has dropped today in Fulton County with DA Fanni Willis’ motion to quash the seventeen fishing expedition subpoenas that Ashleigh Merchant published last week.
So far Merchant has made zero showing of any cause for any of these subpoenas nor produced any evidence or affidavit from any witness supporting the claims made in her motion to disqaulify the DA.
Generally there is a very high bar that must be met whenever any party to a case seeks to compel testimony from the attorneys representing the other side. Courts in Georgia in particular have held consistently that the moving party bears an “exceptional burden” to demonstrate to the court that the anticipated testimony is “required” for the defense and that no other witness or document could provide it. Merchant in representing defendant Roman has made no such demonstration and appears utterly incapable of doing so.
Merchant was previously issued an order to show cause for why the scheduled hearing should not be canceled. And she responded with a letter to the court that lacked any showing of cause or merit and merely reitterated the previous unsupported allegations while requesting that the court continue with the scheduled hearing. Now I expect she will be the recipient of yet another order to show cause for why these subpoenas should not be quashed. If, as I expect, she responds similarly with yet another letter begging the court’s forebearance then I also expect the hearing to be canceled.
It really looks as if this entire episode was a disgraceful political charade and a fraud upon the court from the very beginning.
Kicking people when they’re down is a Republican thing, but maybe Democrats should behave like Republicans more often.
I can make Doctor Dumbfuck screech, and I don’t even need to push his belly button. All I have to do is suggest liberals buy guns.
I trust liberals with guns way more than I trust conservatives with guns. Liberals don’t go around making threats or plotting civil war. This doesn’t bother Doctor Dumbfuck, but the idea we might defend ourselves really ticks him off.
Tough berries. That’s his problem. Conservatives are armed and talking up mass murder, so liberals need to arm to protect themselves.
Smartmatic is suing OAN for defamation. From discovery, Smartmatic has learned OAN received an email on Jan. 5, 2021 from a hacking sharing Smartmatic employee passwords, and OAN’s president “responded to the tipster’s offer with thanks and a request for any other information they had,” according to new court filings.
https://www.rawstory.com/oan-lawsuit-smartmatic/
Seems to me soliciting cybertheft might be, uh, against the law.
Kari Lake says if you want “the truth,” you’ve gotta get it from Putin. Because, like, our government is unreliable.
https://www.rawstory.com/kari-lake-putin/
Meanwhile, Charlie Kirk and MTG have concluded the Mayorkis impeachment failed either because the GOP congressmen who voted against it were “bribed” or American intelligence agencies have compromising photos of them.
Out in the weeds there are voters who believe this shit.
Publishers are doing a brisk business selling books that help people keep warm.
https://www.rawstory.com/book-burning-2667189517/
Socialism for the win!
Judge Engoron has sent a nice mash note to Alina Habba and Chris Kise just as he’s about to render final judgment in the NY civil fraud trial:
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=ZeQ1AzCCMgDOTOISSQllcA==&system=prod
Having just found out that Trump CFO Weisselberg who provided extensive defense testimony during the recently concluded is now in negotiations for a criminal perjury plea the judge is seeking to discover the extent of the perjury being admitted and how it should impact his final judgment. In the email he raises the possibility of reaching a finding of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus which would then allow the judge to strike and disregard all of Weiselberg’s testimony and rule as if everything he said under oath in court is a lie.
Which, of course, it is.
The effect of this could be quite dire for both the outcome of the judge’s final ruling of penalty as well as to Trump The Rapist’s opportunities for appeal.
@9 Trump’s witness lied? You don’t say! But Weisselberg, loyal capo that he is, will take one for the “family” and do time. Maybe even teach his fellow inmates how to cook a real dish of spaghetti Italian style.
Demorat-Pfizer Party Of Vax Mandates & Chickenhawk Warmongers News –
There He Goes Again, Bidenclown Approaches With Candy But Pickup Line Fails Miserably At Campaign Event;
Bidenclown: Hello little girl, would you like some candy?
Little Girl #1: Sure.
Bidenclown: It’s kinda stuffy in here, would you like to take a shower?
Little Girl #1: Yeeuuk! No!!!!
Bidenclown:: How about you sweetie, first we have some candy and then we take a shower?
Little Girl #2: Blaaachh! Get Lost!!!!
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https://hugh.cdn.rumble.cloud/video/s8/2/1/v/g/I/1vgIp.caa.mp4?u=5o49d&b=0
@9 Judge Engoron asked the attorneys to respond. Trump attorney Clifford Roberts has responded. His response is the New York Times article “does not provide any principled basis for the Court to reopen the record or question the veracity of Mr. Weisselberg’s testimony in this case,” and “the Court’s request for comment on this speculative media account is unprecedented, inappropriate and troubling.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-weisselberg-2667194556/
And, Your Honor, we’ll shoot your dog!
Ignore that our witness lied, or the puppy gets it between the eyes!
Demorat-Pfizer Party Of Vax Mandates & Chickenhawk Warmongers News –
Black Support For Bidenclown Grows, Higher Intelligence And More Wars Cited As Major Advantages Over Trump.
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https://hugh.cdn.rumble.cloud/video/s8/2/Y/k/W/N/YkWNp.caa.mp4?u=5o49d&b=0
In today’s edition of “Why Women Live Longer Than Men” …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSw3wU4jNzM
8)Tgeir Air Force used to work Bankers Hours. For awhile they were angry at us because our pilots had navigational.errors, and bombed Zurich, Schaffenhausen, and Basle.
Trump’s 2024 campaign has hired the guy who dreamed up the “Swift Boat” smear against Kerry in 2004. He’s a slimebucket, but he knows “what moves voters” and is “one of the most effective campaign operatives I have ever known,” a former Democratic operative says.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/02/chris-lacivita-ran-one-of-american-politics-most-notorious-smear-campaigns-now-hes-working-for-trump/
In case you needed ANOTHER reason to hate and vote against republicans
Republicans in Missouri have drafted an amendment to ban women for life from accessing Medicaid if that woman has ever had an abortion
https://www.reddit.com/r/VoteDEM/comments/1algg56/republicans_in_missouri_have_drafted_an_amendment/
Glad to see you back, Redformed.
Looks like you may have missed the demise of the dumbfuck Nazi coward. The good people here likely…
FINISHED HIM!!
Heterosexual people are more violent and filled with more hate and bigotry. New findings show. But HA’s Maoists are sensitive to the data so we can’t show the examples.
Free G-Man!
Feel sorry?! I have thoughts and prayers that he has many more bad days ahead
A few years ago, I told you people the Democrats would win if they ran Biden in 2020. I was correct.
In 2024, if the Democrats run Biden, they will lose, and Donald Trump will return to the White House.
They probably are less Heterosexual Neanderthals there too. Maybe you could learn something instead of being part of the problem that you speak out against.
https://www.equaldex.com/region/switzerland
If it meant being more gay to be like Switzerland, would you want yo be more like Switzerland.
Just think of Uganda and Jamaica, man. Don’t be a grooming heterosexual!
@8. You beat me to it.
Socialism…..Gay! No heterosexual Neanderthals! Hetero Neanderthals are a downfall to civilization…the Neanderthal type.
The election was stolen. Biden didn’t win
Queen YLB hates Asians because Asian women aren’t helpless the way Queen YLB is helpless.
Asian women will outcompete Queen YLB’s fucked kids forever. You don’t grow up in a Queen YLB household and learn to fend for yourself. You learn to demand that others do everything for you, and pay you for sitting on your ass.
Not if people like you don’t vote for Trump.
Stop voting for Republicans.
They oppose democracy.
They say so.
Any loyal, patriotic American would refuse to vote for any Republican ever again.
Stop trying to justify treason by blaming someone else. Treason and betrayal of democracy are choices that people either make or don’t make. Only you are responsible for your choices.
Really evergreen quote from Engoron’s email reply to Trump The Rapist’s lawyers:
“You and your co-counsel have been questioning my impartiality since the early days of this case, presumably because I sometimes rule against your clients. That whole approach is getting old.”
Judges and lawyers are really normally not accustomed to the kind of bullshit that Trump The Rapist lawyers commonly employ in place of evidence or legal citation. But I do think these early civil cases are a great opportunity for judges to see what to expect and thus prepare themselves. In particular I’m guessing that Judge McAfee in Fulton County is going to school on this bullshit right now and probably preparing to dismiss the motion to disqualify.
Judges and courts bear no obligation to the rights of defendants to put up with their bullshit. Plenty of assholes have sat through their own trials in shackles and wearing a gag. It may never get to that point with Trump The Rapist (although I think it got awfully close with Judge Kaplan). But it will absolutely play into how they rule on the balls and strikes. And of course in the case of Judge Engoron, because Trump The Rapist was too cheap to hire and pay competent counsel, it will likely play a role in the damages award that he calculates if/when he concludes that the defendant is contemptuous of the court and the defendants that he has harmed.
In a little noticed news item today, while SCOTUS signals reluctance to disqualify an insurrectionist, and the insurrectionist daily spits venom at courts and judges (including SCOTUS) while demanding executive privilege for his serial felonies,
“The White House counsel has concluded its review of a special counsel report on President Biden’s handling of classified documents from his time as vice president and will not assert privilege over any parts of the final result.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4456111-biden-privilege-special-counsel-report-classified-documents/
Democrats and Republicans are not the same, no matter what that idiot PI says. Democratic and Republican voters aren’t the same, either. Republican voters like PI and Doctor Dumbfuck are dumber than fuck.
Schumer just passed the $95 billion aid package with border security stripped out.
Now it heads over to the House where ultra MAGA House Republicans will be faced with a real dilemma.
They can ass fuck Israel at the behest of Putin and kill the package, and thus face the wrath of GOD in their campaigns.
Or they can pass what five weeks ago they said they would not pass under any circumstances.
I predict MAGA Mike will have a hard time bottling this bill up. I doubt he has the leadership or the discipline to keep his own members in line when they are facing this kind of pressure. Their own “clean” bill is dirty and dead after a dozen leading Senate Republicans broke ranks to support passage of the combined package. Those Senate Republicans need to campaign on that vote. They aren’t going to go back on it now.
Five weeks ago all this was “unpossible” according to Republicans. And as they saw it Biden was “inescapably trapped”.
Yet somehow in just a few weeks the tables are substantially turned and the guy who is “too old and feeble” somehow walked the greatest and most agile minds of the GOP right into the jaws of their own trap.
My stocks are having a good day: Disney is up 12.2% and Hershey is up 6.1%. Lucky Doctor Dumbfuck is having a GREAT day: Tesla is up 0.9%. But I’d still rather be me than him.
Democrats are upset that without Thomas’ recusal, the thumping of the CO high court will be 9-0 instead of 8-0.
Biden disclosed classified material to his POS son and POS brother, who used it to enrich The Biden Crime Family, including The Big Guy.
Special counsel says there is evidence Biden ‘willfully retained and disclosed classified materials’ but will not be charged
Too old to remember is too old to govern. My POS corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president is as bad as Trump.
@23. Really? Post the link.
My corrupt president sold out his country to enrich his family before becoming president. Who knows what else The Biden Crime Family has done, before and after inauguration.
Democrats are upset that without Thomas’ recusal, the thumping of the CO high court will be 9-0 instead of 8-0.
And DeSantis and his 6″ lifts, sore feet and aching back will be the dumbfuck Nazi coward’s president for two terms beginning in January 2029.
At least, that’s what the dumbfuck Nazi coward tells us. But as others here say, dumbfucks gotta dumbfuck.
KBJ:
…has run circles around the greatest minds of “conservatism” for more than 36 months.
What else can a Trump voter say without lapsing uncontrollably into twitchy fits of PENIS PICS, JEW SPACE LASERS, and DERP STATE STOLEN ELECTION.
Maybe enough time has passed that he can recycle TAN SUIT.
37,
I think he also promised you guys that Caribou Barbie would be two-term President Naughty Teacher starting in 2013.
That worked out okay. It wasn’t humiliating. Please clap. /s
At least the history is capable of supporting this interpretation, which I should add is not one of the claims being argued by Fuckface VonClownstick’s attorneys.
It’s lucky for Associate Justice Gimme-Gimme that he’s always got some wiser mind whose skirt he can hide behind when a situation demands something like judicial reasoning and temprament.
@35 – We will see how it plays out in November.
@31 Congress will pass Ukraine and Israel aid with the GOP’s border provisions stripped out, then Biden will sign it, and grin at his latest legislative defeat. That’s showin’ him, MAGA Mike!!!
@31 “the guy who is “too old and feeble” somehow walked the greatest and most agile minds of the GOP right into the jaws of their own trap”
Actually, I think Republicans can honestly claim credit for this legislative coup, and Biden just got lucky.
@33 We’re not upset. Why should we be? If Trump stays on the Colorado ballot, we didn’t lose anything we really ever had. We’ll still get Colorado’s electoral votes. And we’ll still get to run in November against a violent insurrectionist who’s becoming more physically decrepit and mentally unraveled every day.
@34 “Too old to remember is too old to govern.”
This from someone who thinks a criminal is fit to govern …
But yes, most of the country would like to see both of these candidates replaced by their respective parties. It’s too bad parties, not the people, choose the candidates, yes?
@36 Your corrupt president turned the presidency into a profit center.
@38 Self-preservation. The Trumpers know where she lives.
@42 Assuming the armed MAGA mob allows the election to be held.
Hair toss, check my nails, baby how you doing
@34 Special counsel Robert Hur is a Republican operative who was nominated for U.S. attorney by Trump, so his report says what you’d expect it to say. What this Republican prosecutor did not do is refer Biden’s conduct to a grand jury.
Republicans make themselves laughingstocks by describing Biden as “unfit.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4457185-gop-leaders-suggest-biden-unfit-after-disturbing-special-counsel-description/
@18 Sure smells like an ex post facto law. Also a due process and equal protection violation, because it deprives targeted individuals of an entitlement because they engaged in conduct that was legal when they engaged in it. Also probably a pretty strong racial taint to this, too, because Missouri’s poor (as elsewhere) tend to be black. But more than anything else, it’s Republicans being shitheads. Oh, and remember when promised they wouldn’t be after women for having abortions? They were lying.
Breaking News — Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) will not run for reelection.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4456523-mcmorris-rodgers-announces-retirement-from-house/
Followup on @51: Biden’s legal team says Hur’s report violated “well-established Department [of Justice] norms” by including “extraneous, unfounded and irrelevant critical commentary.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4456762-biden-legal-team-blasts-special-counsels-inappropriate-report-trashing-president/
In other words, they’re calling it unprofessional and partisan.
He could not.
To even empanel a GJ there must be evidence of a crime. He investigated boxes of old guy office memorabilia stacked in a suburban Delaware garage at the end of a 45 year career at the highest levels of government.
And then he wrote a report.
Only a desperately humiliated Trump voter sees any secret moon lasers or invisible pizza dungeons in those boxes.
54,
Another one bites the dust..
The trick will be for Washington Democrats to get out in front of the district by consolidating early around a single, highly qualified Democrat. And then to let the MAGA freak show take care of the rest. Maybe Joe Kent can relocate.
Asian women aren’t helpless
Spoken like the typical frat boy hangry for “20 minutes of action”..
And passing on “words of wisdom” to its thugs in making grandkids..
https://youtu.be/GeRGTXZIJTI?si=tXIyG59iXFJUZB0_
yawwwn…
I would like to personally thank “Dementia Joe” Biden for resurrecting me from the dead and placing me back in the German Chancellery.
@57 That district is hopelessly red. It’s not possible to elect a Democrat in Eastern Washington to any office higher than town council.
@59 For a guy with Biden’s mental deficiencies, he’s amazingly adept at manhandling Houthis, House Republicans, and other terrorists.
What is a (false) claim that Biden doesn’t remember what year his son Beau died doing in a classified docs investigation report?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-special-counsel-son-death_n_65c579c9e4b0fb721d60692f
Well, it’s what a partisan hack would do.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-hur-special-counsel-biden_n_65c55290e4b069b665debcd3
“A Utah official is facing calls to resign after she falsely insinuated that a 16-year-old basketball player was transgender, leading to online harassment of the teen and police protection.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teen-girl-faces-harassment-after-utah-official-falsely-suggests-shes-transgender_n_65c54638e4b0fb721d605004
Roger Rabbit Comment: I won’t be real surprised if the story is updated to read, “A Utah official is facing a lawsuit after she falsely insinuated that a 16-year-old basketball player was transgender, leading to online harassment of the teen and police protection.”
@63 continued
“Cline removed the Facebook post and released a statement Wednesday apologizing to the girl and her family, while still defending her actions and placing blame on the transgender community.
“’For those who are still claiming the student is a boy, please know that several people I know and trust have reached out to me who personally know this girl and have vouched that she is in fact a biological girl and always has been since birth,’ Cline wrote.
“’She does have a larger build, like her parents. We live in strange times when it is normal to pause and wonder if people are what they say they are because of the push to normalize transgenderism in our society.’
“Cline added that her post incorrectly assuming the girl’s gender was ‘a sad consequence of the trans movement being foisted upon us, which puts us all in a difficult spot. Nobody wants to question if a kid is the gender they say they are.’”
She ASS U MED the girl was trans, then blames herself being an ass on the trans community?
The trans community, and not their own prejudices, makes bigots like her question kids’ genders?
How about this: Grow up, take responsibility, and own your mistake instead of trying to foist blame for leaping before looking on people who had nothing to do with this.
Even the GOP governor and lieutenant governor think she’s an “embarrassment.”
Speaking of jackasses who ASS U ME things, and Elijah posted about this a couple days ago, here’s what the Manhattan D.A. said about the conservative talk show host, vigilante leader, and political candidate who saw someone a street corner “and, based on their ethnicity, automatically identif[ied] them as a migrant or asylum seeker”: “That is not what we can do.”
I’m not sure that implies charges will be forthcoming, but a Brooklyn city councilman was more direct: “Hate crime.”
Mayor Adams said, “The wheels of justice must move at an appropriate pace. We don’t have the luxury to do what we saw Curtis Sliwa did,” which I interpret to mean that as much as many New Yorkers would like to beat the shit out of Sliwa, this is a matter for the courts.
https://nordot.app/1128491097672712962?c=592622757532812385
Best summary of the day’s oral arguments at the
Trump lovefestaugust proceedings in the highchaircourt:“Justice Jackson … was the only one on the court delving into the scope and substance of the historical events that animated the Fourteenth Amendment. This is, on a court who seem to think that history and tradition is important, … is a put down … when her colleagues … are selective and itinerant [and] outcome-driven. She might have been on board for the outcome but she was going to do the work.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-case-jackson-throwing-shade/
The article used the word “lazy” to describe her colleagues.
Dark Brandon strikes.
Fox News’ resident White House Putz Doocy went after the ‘memory issue’ in today’s report.
“My memory is so bad I let YOU speak.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OYN7r9PvD0c
60)Got lucky with Spokane Mayor, then again, Lisa Brown had name recognition.
60,
Washingtonians all said that about Clark County, and even the East side of Lake Washington for decades.
Pelosi pulled funding from Gluesenkamp Perez because Washington Democrats advised her not to invest in a lost cause.
Y’all have to change how you understand these contests. There are a ton of your voters in that district just begging for a little love. Quality candidates like Goldmark and Brown prove it.
Trump on the ballot presents an unprecedented opportunity to generate turnout among forgotten progressive voters in these districts. They hate him just as much as you do. But the difference is that living where they do they are being reminded of it every single day.
We all know Texas is tough on abortion. Except for white male attorneys who try to abort their estranged wives by drugging their drinks.
The crime: “Herring’s wife … told the court that the couple’s now 1-year-old daughter − their third child − has developmental delays, needs to go to therapy eight times a week and was born 10 weeks premature. … Mason Herring was allegedly involved romantically with a co-worker and wasn’t happy his wife was pregnant ….”
The sentence: 180 days in jail.
Comment: He must have political connections.
https://www.aol.com/texas-attorney-sentenced-6-months-033034867.html
More details here:
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/court/2024/02/08/476976/houston-attorney-accused-of-slipping-abortion-drugs-into-pregnant-wifes-drinks-pleads-guilty-sentenced-to-jail/
And here:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13062615/cheating-husband-jailed-wife-abortion-drugs-pregnant.html
Of course MAGA Mike is blaming the failed impeachment vote on the Democrat “who was not expected to be in the building.” Because Republicans never accept responsibility for anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SBvpGA3svQ
Sheesh. These people are really something. And the only reason three GOP congressmen don’t have a defamation cause of action against Charlie Kirk is because they’re public figures, but they should go for it anyway, because actual malice is presumed with an asshole like him.
How nasty are Christian Nationalists? This nasty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SXutKz5dyc
I’m sitting here thinking about how Doctor Dumbfuck keeps attacking college education. His comments are so stupid I often wonder if he’s a real doctor or ever spent a day in a college classroom, but that’s for another time. I just want to make a simple point here. Let’s try to go over what students actually learn in college. Some of the subjects studied may include:
Freshman English
College-level math
Biology
Geography
Geology
Economics
History
Sociology
Psychology
Anthropology
Culture
Languages
Imagine people who don’t know shit about any of this. You get dumbfucks. You get Trump voters. You get Bob.
If airlines have a problem with drunk passengers, maybe they should stop serving them drinks in airport lounges before they board.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/08/delta-to-open-new-tier-of-premium-airport-lounges-this-year.html
Hawaii rules “Spirit of Aloha” supersedes 2nd Amendment
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/hawaii-ruling-cites-wire-rebuking-us-supreme-court-107077452
HONOLULU — A ruling by Hawaii’s high court saying that a man can be prosecuted for carrying a gun in public without a permit cites crime-drama TV series “The Wire” and invokes the “spirit of Aloha” in an apparent rebuke of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that expanded gun rights nationwide.
First Texas ignores the Supreme Court so they can keep murdering border crossers, now Hawaii ignores the Supreme Court so they can enforce sensible gun regulations.
Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett make the court and it’s rulings illegitimate.
This is what happens when the Supreme Court becomes unworthy of respect or obedience.
@ 75
…now Hawaii ignores the Supreme Court so they can enforce sensible gun regulations.
Hawaii’s Supreme Court ignored the US Constitution in order to disempower its citizens.
Let the first tourist die at the hands of newly emboldened criminals.
@ 73
Some of the subjects studied may include:
Freshman English
College-level math
Biology
Geography
Geology
Economics
History
Sociology
Psychology
Anthropology
Culture
Languages
Notice Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit excluded all of the BS that ends with the word “Studies”.
His list is what college was when college was worthwhile. What college was when SATs were needed to get in.
@ 62
What is a (false) claim that Biden doesn’t remember what year his son Beau died doing in a classified docs investigation report?
Biden was interviewed. There is a transcript. There very likely is a recording.
Now, since you brought up false claims, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit:
Fact check: Biden makes three false claims about his handling of classified information
Daniel Dale
By Daniel Dale, CNN
Posted today.
I like the United States of America.
I think it works pretty well up to now.
But I guess I just really don’t want it to become a place where a convicted criminal rapist is in charge spending almost all of his time throwing hamburgers at the wall paper, fighting off criminal charges, and screaming at four star generals trying to get them to shoot his political opponents in the legs.
@77 Doctor Dumbfuck wants you to believe Hawaii is disarming the police. Citizen vigilantes have never kept criminals in check. They just add to crime; see, e.g., armed road ragers.
The fewer guns in the hands of hot-tempered, untrained civilians, the safer we’ll all be.
@78 It may be that colleges today are glorified high schools, and Freshman English is glorified remedial English. It may be your degrees, if you have any, are glorified GED certificates. You’re younger than me, so you may have an inferior education to mine. You’re unquestionably dumber than every creature in the woods.
@79 “Fact check: Biden makes three false claims about his handling of classified information.”
Is one of those claims an inaccurate statement about when his son died? Or is this just a classic Doctor Dumbfuck bait-and-switch to draw attention away from the fact Hur’s report contains irrelevant personal references whose only raison d’etre is to turn the report into a political hit job?
Which, by the way, isn’t my characterization; that’s what legal experts are calling it.
https://www.rawstory.com/burn-book-from-mean-girls-legal-and-political-experts-respond-to-hurs-hit-on-biden/
@80 Thanks for giving me hope that if Trump gets back in, he’ll be too preoccupied to spend time being a president, and nothing actually bad will happen.
Robert Kennedy Jr. wants to sell himself to secret, anonymous, possibly foreign billionaires for hundreds of millions of dollars, and in doing so he is violating federal campaign spending disclosure laws that all campaign must comply with.
And he’s doing this without the faintest hope of winning even a single elector.
We should not allow corrupt, greedy, despots to steal our elections from us and trade them away to billionaires just so they can lounge in luxury, fly in chartered jets, eat caviar and snort cocaine with hookers on some billionaire’s expense sheet.
Kennedy is a corrupt disgrace.
The courts must intervene to either force him to stop spending hundreds of millions of dollars from secret billionaires, or to force him to disclose who those billionaires are and to abide by donor limts like every other campaign.
@60
It wasn’t luck it is changing demographics. The migration of Washinton residents from “The Coast” who’ve moved to Spokane for the cheap housing and causing economic distress among younger long-time residents is well written about. These are Democratic voters. More arrrived when WFH became a reality for many and settled in Spokane/Boise etc. Close enough to get to HQ when they need to but much cheaper. Spokane has become classic deep blue city in a red county.
So how do Democrats win…turnout. How do they do it.
“I’ve lived here all my life and I understand how housing prices have gotten out of control. Now imagine you have to care for a baby on top of that. That’s expensive. My opponent is a rubber stamp for laws that will force you to have a baby even if that baby is the result of rape. And lets say you have the baby. Republican policies already enacted in other states are stripping school lunches from kids. My opponent will vote with The rest of the republicans to gut any food aid your family relies on. Have we had enough of forced birth Republicans in Spokane?”
In criminal prosecutions it is absolutely necesarry to be precise and confine the allegations to only the things that are supported in evidence and that can be proven to the relevant standard.
Retention of records is a very normal part of the departure of any outgoing administration. Congress by law authorizes and funds the creation of presidential libraries. There are 15 such libraries in the system overseen by NARA. In addition there are other libraries funded by private foundations outside of the publicly funded system and these also include at least one Vice Presidential library. President Obama has opted to build his presidential library with private donated funds while giving NARA oversight of the records therein.
And the practice of collecting professional papers and important records chronicling the life and history of prominent politicians is not confined to just presidents and vice presidents. Universities, and other public institutions play host to libraries that act as repositories for the records of other important public servants including members of Congress, military leaders, ambassadors, and cabinet secretaries just to name a few. What documents, records, and other items may be retained upon departing from government service is now overseen by no fewer than a dozen federal laws dating back to the 1950s.
Upon departing from office as Vice President in 2017 for the last time, the facts as clearly declared in Robert Hur’s report establish that only a single file folder containing any information related to national defense information was in former Vice President Biden’s posession. This single file folder was one of two folders included in a single box, among dozens of boxes packed by staff, overseen by NARA, and recorded as such, that investigating FBI agents initially flagged as potentially holding national defense information. Hur admits very clearly in his report that so far as he could determine former Vice President Biden was unaware of the contents of that folder at any time prior to its discovery by FBI agents after then President Biden invited the FBI to search his home. Hur continues that in his opinion it would not be possible to convice either a grand jury or a trial jury that Biden had any foreknowledge of the contents of that folder or had ever even looked at it prior to the consensual FBI search of his home.
Perhaps to a raving, delusional, humiliated, groveling fucktard these facts appear to implicate President Biden for some criminal wrongdoing. But to any competent criminal lawyer, INCLUDING TO ROBERT HUR these facts as reported by the Special Prosecutor do not support any conclusion of criminal wrongdoing.
Were any other former federal public servant, who having been cleared to make and view classified records, and who upon leaving office took advantage of the opportunity to retain records, to invite the FBI to search through all of their personal and professional records chronicling a public service spanning decades, it is very likely that some records would be potentially classified. It’s in the nature of these things. Fundamentally.
But it is not illegal per se to retain records so long as the processes dictated in law are followed (and in Biden’s case they were). Nor is it a crime per se if any of those records later turn out to have been either misclassified or mistankently retained, so long as the person retaining them was unaware, made no effort to obstruct discovery, and made no effort to make improper use of those records.
Thanks to his incredibly unwise lawsuit, the public record establishes very clearly that Trump intentionally bypassed the legal process for document review, intentially removed and retained documents he knew to be unavailable for removal and retention, lied repeatedly about the existence of these documents and his knowledge thereof, took specific steps to conceal or obscure from discovery the existence of these documents, coerced others to cooperate in those efforts to obstruct, attempted to destroy some of the records, and attempted to make use of others.
Those are all very serious potential crimes. And that’s why it was relatively easy for a Special Prosecutor to obtain multiple felony indictments from two different grand juries in two different jurisidictions for those alleged crimes.
Huh, Two of the UNWRA employees that Israel has claimed participated in the October 7th attacks were deceased at the time.
That leads to the possibility that the entire scandal is bullshit.
Now why would Israel be interested in having the world cut funding to the UN Organization that provides relief to Palestinian refugees displaced by conflict?