nostr:npub1ysn55dtftqdnjpg8m30hnczucdf83c2w2hvtq30zzkx6zv9anrlq9vvp9m I couldn't agree more.
nostr:npub1t5npgsmwz6pxaj5jlrmc7nlkp9j5ng6x05twd2dtf6z2mkqy46qsw0j3wv I would think there are tax implications. My understanding is also that he reported none of them.
nostr:npub19wlua8uuwu6q3f6g9tusdagghm58xzyfgykspw3e7jvprqhrfq7smjdan4 Yes. I love how she pointed out to him he's hoist on his own petard. He wants the trial delayed. But if he runs his mouth, she'll see it's speeded up, since she has an obligation to keep witnesses and jurors from being influenced by his inflammatory rhetoric.
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I wish I were the judge just so I could do this:
Me: Counselor, what’s today’s date?
#Trump lawyer: August 11, 2023.
Me: Whew! I thought maybe we entered a time warp. Because you keep saying “President Trump.” Mr. Trump is not the president, right?
TL: well, um, right.
Me: Joe Biden is the president. Agreed?
TL: um, yes, Joe Biden is the president.
Me: Excellent! Then to avoid any more confusion, please refer to the defendant as Mr Trump or the former president. Are we clear?
nostr:npub1lz8wl9xcpetf9rrlhldvk7udt7wn8hadnxfw372k2ejt69ncpl2qv4p893 Perfect! I love it.
nostr:npub1sd0ak3kwxkjlchs293xufsrhjw3qf9janv00hj2npr2uf2sukedsn59kdj You're absolutely right. Their problems are entirely of their own devising.
nostr:npub1jejhe4n4d87j6hjhrzyfdgy9vgm83h0wrsvsp72lrhykq57z87vq3myu8u I definitely hear you. We are still avoiding gatherings including neighborhood ones, and I think we're looked askance at for that reason. But with both of us 70+ and with my being diabetic, I just don't intend to take a chance. We did some grocery shopping yesterday, and I was pleased to see more people wearing masks.
nostr:npub1ycc9dq6zz22v2maq3azxjqx27zgthdx9d9y0zd8g7s0ghdnq228s7ywjwh Definitely a brotherhood and sisterhood in which people share characteristics.
As a student once said to me in one of the historically Black universities in which I spent most of my academic teaching career, that blindfold that Madame Justice wears comes off pretty quickly when you wave some money under her nose.
#ClarenceThomas #SupremeCourt #corruption #ethics
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"It seems like there is no end to the corruption that investigative journalists are finding at the Supreme Court, and we just learned a lot more about everyone's favorite right-wing Supreme Court justice stewing in millions of dollars of gifts and perks from secretive right-wing billionaires."
~ Matt Robison
#ClarenceThomas #SupremeCourt #corruption #ethics
"The judge repeatedly emphasized that she would not take into account Trump’s presidential campaign, telling Trump’s lead lawyer John Lauro that the former president’s free speech rights were not absolute and that they came second to the fact that he is now a criminal defendant."
#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #BigCrime #insurrection
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"Researchers who track how the far right in in the US mobilizes, self-promotes and recruits are reporting that women are playing a growing role in the movement."
~ MacKenzie Ryan
#women #rightwing
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/12/conservative-women-tradwife-republican
Not to be forgotten: though the exact percentages have been disputed, as Amanda Becker writes, from 47-52% of white women voted for Trump in 2016 — in either case, more than voted for Hillary — and in 2020, the female electorate was largely unchanged when it came to choosing Biden or Trump.
Black and Hispanic women are, of course, a very different story.
#women #rightwing #Trump #Republicans
https://19thnews.org/2020/11/white-women-had-doubts-they-voted-for-trump-anyway/
"Researchers who track how the far right in in the US mobilizes, self-promotes and recruits are reporting that women are playing a growing role in the movement."
~ MacKenzie Ryan
#women #rightwing
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/12/conservative-women-tradwife-republican
Craig Robertson taunted the FBI by speaking online of the FBI's "violent eradication." He posted a violent fantasy of shooting Merrick Garland dead center in his forehead and of shooting Gavin Newsom and Letitia James.
Yet the Mormon-owned Deseret News has published statements from Robertson's Mormon family claiming he was a good family man exercising free speech. Robertson was a Mormon and financial clerk of his ward.
Good man? Free speech?
#CraigRobertson #FBI #violence
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Craig Robertson posted online that the "time is right for a presidential assassination or two. First Joe then Kamala!!!"
He posted a photo of a nickel he had shot, stating "Well, I did it to Jefferson right on the temple. Bet I can do it to old Joey and save the world!" He posted, "I want to stand over Bragg and put a nice hole in his forehead with my 9mm and watch him twitch as a drop of blood oozes from the hole as his life ebbs away to hell!"
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Well, well: guess who tipped off the FBI that Craig Robertson in Utah was making violent threats against Alvin Bragg, President Biden, V-P Kamala Harris, Merrick Garland and others?
It all began with Trump's Truth Social notifying the FBI in March about the threats against Bragg. Then the Secret Service alerted the FBI to the threats.
As Kate Riga notes, right wingers want to make Robertson a martyr.
#CraigRobertson #FBI #violence
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fbi-utah-biden-truth-social
And it's of course tragic to see a man shot. But this was a man who answered the FBI's knock on his door pointing a gun at agents, refusing to drop it, with a long history of lurid violent death fantasies targeting key public figures online. This was a man who posted a photo of an assault rifle with the caption, "My democrat eradicator." Robertson owned a virtual arsenal of assault rifles and guns.
#CraigRobertson #FBI #violence
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Well, well: guess who tipped off the FBI that Craig Robertson in Utah was making violent threats against Alvin Bragg, President Biden, V-P Kamala Harris, Merrick Garland and others?
It all began with Trump's Truth Social notifying the FBI in March about the threats against Bragg. Then the Secret Service alerted the FBI to the threats.
As Kate Riga notes, right wingers want to make Robertson a martyr.
#CraigRobertson #FBI #violence
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fbi-utah-biden-truth-social
Laura Field asks what the hell has happened to the Claremont Institute, that right-wing think tank that used to pretend it was defending civility, civilization, against barbarians, emulating prudent and civil George Washingon.
As Daniel W. Drezner says, is is now “the poster child for the devolution of conservative thought.”
~ Katherine Stewart
#ClaremontInstitute #Republicans #Eastman #Trump #democracy
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https://newrepublic.com/article/174656/claremont-institute-think-tank-trump
Katherine Stewart's answer to the question of what happened to Claremont Institute — "The saga of the Claremont Institute in the Trump years is readily told as one of moral collapse." All that pretend civility of its origins flew out the window the moment their man Trump "descended that golden escalator with a mouthful of hateful rhetoric." What we are seeing now is the ugly face unmasked, the face that was always there.
#ClaremontInstitute #Republicans #Eastman #Trump #democracy
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