Corruption at every turn, here in America, and in Russia. Dems and Biden-Harris must call out the R’s for continuously putting our country at risk. The R’s have absolutely no policies other than to disrupt fundings for Israel and Ukraine and to give their undying support for a wannabe dictator, Donald J Trump. According to Rachel Maddow,…
Corruption at every turn, here in America, and in Russia. Dems and Biden-Harris must call out the R’s for continuously putting our country at risk. The R’s have absolutely no policies other than to disrupt fundings for Israel and Ukraine and to give their undying support for a wannabe dictator, Donald J Trump. According to Rachel Maddow, on her show tonight, Congress has passed a total of 22 bills for the entire year. It goes to show that the R’s cannot form a thought or run a country.
Jack Smith, today, filed a petition to bypass the appellate court and go straight to SCOTUS for a ruling about Trump and his definition “immunity”. Smith is tired of the many delays Trump’s legal team has been using to bide for more time. I want to experience elation if SC rules against The Don.
Remember Jack Teixeira, the 21 year old Discord leaker of Pentagon secrets? WaPo reported how those papers got leaked, to whom, and how our government officials ignored what he was doing. I am gifting the article here: https://wapo.st/3teYBxm
Zelenskyy is in the US and will speak to the Senate tomorrow. It is essential that he gets the funding needed because, like Heather pointed out, if not, then Putin wins. If that ends up being the case, every single Democrat who we have elected, should be accusing the R’s of being Russia operatives. They must say it loud, clearly, and repetitively!
I ALMOST totally agree with you J L, except for one thing: Jack Smith, for some reason unfathomable to me, is opposing the law suits to have the D.C. trial of Trump for insurrection televised. If it is not televised, Faux and other right-wing media will spin the results. if it is televised they cannot do that. I think this would be the most highly viewed court case ever, far beyond the O. J. Simpson trial.
(Former Federal prosecutor, Glenn Kirschner, has pointed to 18 U.S.C. § 3771. Crime victims' rights:
(a) RIGHTS OF CRIME VICTIMS.--A crime victim has the following rights:
...
(3) The right not to be excluded from any such public court proceeding, unless the court, after receiving clear and convincing evidence, determines that testimony by the victim would be materially altered if the victim heard other testimony at that proceeding.
...
Glenn Kirschner notes that when the crime is an attempt to overthrow an election, the victims are ALL the voters whose votes the alleged criminal attempted to render void. This argument would seem to make the case for allowing the broadcast of the trial a very strong one.)
If the Colorado case to keep Trump off the ballot (using the 14th Amendment, Section 3 prohibition of insurrectionists who formerly swore an oath to support the Constitution from running for any office) fails in the Supreme Court, and Trump becomes the Republican candidate for President, our last chance to avoid a fascist regime is educating the American electorate. Televising Trump's trial for insurrection would seem like our best remaining hope.
100% agree on live televising of the Trump trial. It not only should be done, it MUST be done. This is too important for Americans to watch to withhold live and gavel to gavel coverage.
The judge can and will control any "circus" that results.
While I'd like to see the trial I don't know about her "control". It seems to this observer that she has already had plenty of reasons to lock him up before trial and still hasn't. With the clickbait media clamoring for another Trumpism no matter how smelly it is, Jack Smith has a point. Do we need to suffer through every lie this piece of garbage will spew into the legal system?
I think we do need the trial, for the reason you cite: every lie he tells will be destroyed immediately on live TV by Jack Smith, making TFG look like the criminal he is. It's the best way to deflate him: letting him puncture his own balloon in a setting not under his control.
Methinks the judge is smart to not jail him, because it makes him a martyr to the jury pool. He will cross the line at some point with a pointed threat at a court worker, and then she can lock him up as a clear and present danger rather than on his "free speech." She and Smith are playing this well, I believe.
Any human can miscalculate, but I think Garland picked a winner with Mr. Smith. He radiates professionalism (like water in a desiccated desert) and I have always had mixed feelings about TV and trials. I think the case can be made both ways but expect theatrics from the Orange Orifice. Is that better televised, or sketched? Transcribed in the news, or recorded? An interesting exploration of the appeal of Santos ( https://theconversation.com/santos-now-booted-from-the-house-got-elected-as-a-master-of-duplicity-heres-how-it-worked-218742 ) notes:
"Empirical research has long revealed that voters are overwhelmingly influenced by politicians’ nonverbal communication."
This worked almost literally like a charm for selling the inane illogic of Ronald Reagan. the point at which relative reason in modern national politics started really heading off the rails. And the press must be "pressed" to focus on the facts, Mam, not what outrageous ploy Trump tries next; the chess moves or the food fight.
Judge Tanya Chutkan has shown a masterful ability to keep any potential Trump grandstanding under control, so there will not be a circus atmosphere. She will not permit that to happen.
Publishing the entire result at the conclusion will not saturate the public with the reality of the substance of the trial. How many would take the time to go through that record? By contrast, the daily, highly entertaining spectacle would have high saturation. We need it to reach all of the reachable. Our democracy at that point might depend on it.
The thought of Judge Chutkan keeping Trump's grandstanding under control brought another thought to mind: If the trial is televised, viewers will witness Trump in a passive, essentially helpless situation. The reality of seeing that on a daily basis would undermine his carefully cultivated self-image as being in-command and powerful. Could that break the spell over his cult followers? Maybe it would.
A problem is that many of us saw the Jan 6 insurrection in real time, saw the impeachment hearings, watched the Jan 6 Committee. We know what we saw and heard. But who saw those or ignored them or didn’t give a rip and support the MAGA candidates anyway 🤔? No change except maybe more bombast.Boggles the mind and pains the soul. The short clips from the trial will be spun any way the media wants them to be, and those who might profit from seeing their guy squirm won’t be watching. Sorry to be cynical, but the recent past pretty much confirms this.
Core MAGA are "hypnotized" by cult dynamics, but we need to rally all the support we can get. Many people tell me that they deliberately ignore politics to stay sane; understandable, but democracy can't survive on that. We are in the midst of a clear and present danger. Mitch McConnell et al seemed to glory in not even needing to try to go though the motions of a due process in the Trump Impeachment voting. A crap precedent for sure, but I think the Jan 6th Committee hit the MAGA's where it hurt. I saw it as a turning point in our passivity in the face of corruption. It bothered the "GOP" enough that they cast out two of their own, and Liz Cheney has not stayed quiet about it.
Rachel noted of the 22 bills passed 1 was for a Commemormive Coin, 2 to rename medical buildings, 3 for Budget CR's & a bust of Alfred E. Newmam with the motto "What Me Worry".
JACK Smith's Perition was GRANTED. SCOTUS ordered Trump's Reply due by 12/20/23. Spring Trial is on Track. : )
Repetition works for big lies; but it's also part of learning. I believe social movements gain by keeping the uncomfortable in our face; until it registers.
Call outs, call outs, call outs. I wouldn't even call them "Russian operatives". For one thing, Russian operatives seem more canny than that; but they are certainly playing the fools in Putin's games; and they are a frickin' threat to US and world security. Why oh, why oh, why would we take the side of Putin? It's self destructive!
"Today, 75 years later, Hitler is regarded as one of history's great villains. So it's easy to forget how slowly and reluctantly the worlds most powerful democracies mobilized to stop him. France and Britain did declare war on Germany two days after the invasion of Poland, but it would take them another eight months before they engaged in full-scale war with the Nazis. The United States wouldn't join the war against Hitler until December 1941, a full two years after the war began.
Why did Adolf Hitler invade Poland?
Hitler salutes as he oversees troops during the Nazi occupation of Poland. The troops march in formation toward a wooden bridge, constructed by the Nazis across the San River, near Jarolaw, Poland. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
The short answer is that Adolf Hitler was a ruthless dictator with dreams of conquering all of Europe. Annexing Poland was a step in that larger plan. The Polish military wasn't powerful enough to resist him, and Hitler calculated — correctly, as it turns out — that Europe's other powers wouldn't intervene in time.
The invasion of Poland occurred almost exactly 25 years after the start of World War I in August 1914. That war ended in Germany's defeat, and in 1919 the victorious allies carved up territory that had been part of Germany, Austria-Hungary (Germany's defeated ally), and Russia (which had fallen to the Bolsheviks) into an array of new countries.
After World War I, the allies took territory away from Germany
This map shows how World War I reshaped Europe. The red lines show the new borders drawn by the victorious Allies at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. (Fluteflute) Fluteflute
One of these new countries was Poland, which before 1919 had last existed as an independent nation in 1795. Another was Czechoslovakia — its awkward name reflects the Allies' decision to combine areas dominated by two different ethnic groups, Czechs and Slovaks, into a single nation.
Hitler was contemptuous of these new nations, which he regarded as artificial creations of the Allies. There were significant German populations in both countries, and Hitler used trumped-up concern for their welfare as a pretext to demand territorial concessions."
There was a huge number of anti-Semitic supporters of Hitler in this country. They were loud and proud, held public meetings. Charles Lindbergh was one of them.
It is creepy, especially given the experience of the horrors of WWII how much of a wink and nod extreme right gets in the US, such as Ammon Bundy (though he seen more resistance recently).
Can we publicize that Putin is KGB trained, an inheritor of Stalin, gulags, and kills as easily as he brushes away a crumb? I hope we don’t have Murza and Navalny to mourn as martyrs at Christmas, though both are in mortal danger.
Thank you for the link on how Teixeira obtained the very highest access to the most secret information the US has. And then posted it to multiple places on Discord where it has been disseminated world wide.
I wonder if our military is now recruiting far right young people as part of its recruiting efforts?
Scary, isn’t it? How did this very disruptive kid with a past like his, end up with being able to access government secrets? A few heads have already rolled and I imagine more will also.
Unconstitutional spending is a violation of their oath to protect defend the constitution and every legislator who votes for it needs to pay the bill instead of expecting the people they represent to be responsible.
I'm thinking Joe needs a communications professional for messaging and how to maximize the "Bully Pulpit" that is part and parcel of the Presidency. Likely (just speculating ) that such a thing as bully anything runs contrary to Joe's nature. I can imagine that growing up with a speech impediment made him a frequent target of bullying, and thereby "imprinted him." In contrast, "OiD" was / is a bully by nature, so used and abused the bully pulpit effectively to his (it's) ends. That must change !!! *Calling Dr. DPR ! Get on the 'bat phone' to Joe, Doc ! Lol....
Corruption at every turn, here in America, and in Russia. Dems and Biden-Harris must call out the R’s for continuously putting our country at risk. The R’s have absolutely no policies other than to disrupt fundings for Israel and Ukraine and to give their undying support for a wannabe dictator, Donald J Trump. According to Rachel Maddow, on her show tonight, Congress has passed a total of 22 bills for the entire year. It goes to show that the R’s cannot form a thought or run a country.
Jack Smith, today, filed a petition to bypass the appellate court and go straight to SCOTUS for a ruling about Trump and his definition “immunity”. Smith is tired of the many delays Trump’s legal team has been using to bide for more time. I want to experience elation if SC rules against The Don.
Remember Jack Teixeira, the 21 year old Discord leaker of Pentagon secrets? WaPo reported how those papers got leaked, to whom, and how our government officials ignored what he was doing. I am gifting the article here: https://wapo.st/3teYBxm
Zelenskyy is in the US and will speak to the Senate tomorrow. It is essential that he gets the funding needed because, like Heather pointed out, if not, then Putin wins. If that ends up being the case, every single Democrat who we have elected, should be accusing the R’s of being Russia operatives. They must say it loud, clearly, and repetitively!
Joyce goes deep on the Jack Smith filing. It might help me sleep tonight.
Jack Smith seems so...... sane.
I ALMOST totally agree with you J L, except for one thing: Jack Smith, for some reason unfathomable to me, is opposing the law suits to have the D.C. trial of Trump for insurrection televised. If it is not televised, Faux and other right-wing media will spin the results. if it is televised they cannot do that. I think this would be the most highly viewed court case ever, far beyond the O. J. Simpson trial.
(Former Federal prosecutor, Glenn Kirschner, has pointed to 18 U.S.C. § 3771. Crime victims' rights:
(a) RIGHTS OF CRIME VICTIMS.--A crime victim has the following rights:
...
(3) The right not to be excluded from any such public court proceeding, unless the court, after receiving clear and convincing evidence, determines that testimony by the victim would be materially altered if the victim heard other testimony at that proceeding.
...
Glenn Kirschner notes that when the crime is an attempt to overthrow an election, the victims are ALL the voters whose votes the alleged criminal attempted to render void. This argument would seem to make the case for allowing the broadcast of the trial a very strong one.)
If the Colorado case to keep Trump off the ballot (using the 14th Amendment, Section 3 prohibition of insurrectionists who formerly swore an oath to support the Constitution from running for any office) fails in the Supreme Court, and Trump becomes the Republican candidate for President, our last chance to avoid a fascist regime is educating the American electorate. Televising Trump's trial for insurrection would seem like our best remaining hope.
100% agree on live televising of the Trump trial. It not only should be done, it MUST be done. This is too important for Americans to watch to withhold live and gavel to gavel coverage.
The judge can and will control any "circus" that results.
While I'd like to see the trial I don't know about her "control". It seems to this observer that she has already had plenty of reasons to lock him up before trial and still hasn't. With the clickbait media clamoring for another Trumpism no matter how smelly it is, Jack Smith has a point. Do we need to suffer through every lie this piece of garbage will spew into the legal system?
I think we do need the trial, for the reason you cite: every lie he tells will be destroyed immediately on live TV by Jack Smith, making TFG look like the criminal he is. It's the best way to deflate him: letting him puncture his own balloon in a setting not under his control.
Methinks the judge is smart to not jail him, because it makes him a martyr to the jury pool. He will cross the line at some point with a pointed threat at a court worker, and then she can lock him up as a clear and present danger rather than on his "free speech." She and Smith are playing this well, I believe.
I trust Jack Smith. I am sure he has a very good reason for banning tv cameras.
Any human can miscalculate, but I think Garland picked a winner with Mr. Smith. He radiates professionalism (like water in a desiccated desert) and I have always had mixed feelings about TV and trials. I think the case can be made both ways but expect theatrics from the Orange Orifice. Is that better televised, or sketched? Transcribed in the news, or recorded? An interesting exploration of the appeal of Santos ( https://theconversation.com/santos-now-booted-from-the-house-got-elected-as-a-master-of-duplicity-heres-how-it-worked-218742 ) notes:
"Empirical research has long revealed that voters are overwhelmingly influenced by politicians’ nonverbal communication."
This worked almost literally like a charm for selling the inane illogic of Ronald Reagan. the point at which relative reason in modern national politics started really heading off the rails. And the press must be "pressed" to focus on the facts, Mam, not what outrageous ploy Trump tries next; the chess moves or the food fight.
Judge Tanya Chutkan has shown a masterful ability to keep any potential Trump grandstanding under control, so there will not be a circus atmosphere. She will not permit that to happen.
Publishing the entire result at the conclusion will not saturate the public with the reality of the substance of the trial. How many would take the time to go through that record? By contrast, the daily, highly entertaining spectacle would have high saturation. We need it to reach all of the reachable. Our democracy at that point might depend on it.
The thought of Judge Chutkan keeping Trump's grandstanding under control brought another thought to mind: If the trial is televised, viewers will witness Trump in a passive, essentially helpless situation. The reality of seeing that on a daily basis would undermine his carefully cultivated self-image as being in-command and powerful. Could that break the spell over his cult followers? Maybe it would.
Also, media companies are looking at innovative ways to allow the public to be informed.
Live text? My Google Pixel 6 cell-phone/computer does that easily.
A problem is that many of us saw the Jan 6 insurrection in real time, saw the impeachment hearings, watched the Jan 6 Committee. We know what we saw and heard. But who saw those or ignored them or didn’t give a rip and support the MAGA candidates anyway 🤔? No change except maybe more bombast.Boggles the mind and pains the soul. The short clips from the trial will be spun any way the media wants them to be, and those who might profit from seeing their guy squirm won’t be watching. Sorry to be cynical, but the recent past pretty much confirms this.
Core MAGA are "hypnotized" by cult dynamics, but we need to rally all the support we can get. Many people tell me that they deliberately ignore politics to stay sane; understandable, but democracy can't survive on that. We are in the midst of a clear and present danger. Mitch McConnell et al seemed to glory in not even needing to try to go though the motions of a due process in the Trump Impeachment voting. A crap precedent for sure, but I think the Jan 6th Committee hit the MAGA's where it hurt. I saw it as a turning point in our passivity in the face of corruption. It bothered the "GOP" enough that they cast out two of their own, and Liz Cheney has not stayed quiet about it.
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth has, is, and will be Trump Truth.
Trump Truth is an oxymoron. It's also double-plus ungood.
Trump Truth, which his followers believe in, despite the Real Truth. They will never cave in.
Trump's Truth has always been " truth as I see it."
What a distorted view. Unvelievable!!
Rachel noted of the 22 bills passed 1 was for a Commemormive Coin, 2 to rename medical buildings, 3 for Budget CR's & a bust of Alfred E. Newmam with the motto "What Me Worry".
JACK Smith's Perition was GRANTED. SCOTUS ordered Trump's Reply due by 12/20/23. Spring Trial is on Track. : )
So idiotic, these bills that have no teeth!
MEDIA must say it loudly, clearly, repetitively & NOW!
Repetition works for big lies; but it's also part of learning. I believe social movements gain by keeping the uncomfortable in our face; until it registers.
Call outs, call outs, call outs. I wouldn't even call them "Russian operatives". For one thing, Russian operatives seem more canny than that; but they are certainly playing the fools in Putin's games; and they are a frickin' threat to US and world security. Why oh, why oh, why would we take the side of Putin? It's self destructive!
It is self destructive to support Donald Trump
That's what his cult members have- "self destruction" and they don't even know it.
What has "Reaganomics" done for and what has it done to, the bulk of the "GOP" supporters?
Do they not consider that Putin would like to rule far than Ukraine? That his dream is to rule America.
Certainly more of Europe for starters. People there are terrified.
Deja vu?
"Today, 75 years later, Hitler is regarded as one of history's great villains. So it's easy to forget how slowly and reluctantly the worlds most powerful democracies mobilized to stop him. France and Britain did declare war on Germany two days after the invasion of Poland, but it would take them another eight months before they engaged in full-scale war with the Nazis. The United States wouldn't join the war against Hitler until December 1941, a full two years after the war began.
Why did Adolf Hitler invade Poland?
Hitler salutes as he oversees troops during the Nazi occupation of Poland. The troops march in formation toward a wooden bridge, constructed by the Nazis across the San River, near Jarolaw, Poland. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
The short answer is that Adolf Hitler was a ruthless dictator with dreams of conquering all of Europe. Annexing Poland was a step in that larger plan. The Polish military wasn't powerful enough to resist him, and Hitler calculated — correctly, as it turns out — that Europe's other powers wouldn't intervene in time.
The invasion of Poland occurred almost exactly 25 years after the start of World War I in August 1914. That war ended in Germany's defeat, and in 1919 the victorious allies carved up territory that had been part of Germany, Austria-Hungary (Germany's defeated ally), and Russia (which had fallen to the Bolsheviks) into an array of new countries.
After World War I, the allies took territory away from Germany
This map shows how World War I reshaped Europe. The red lines show the new borders drawn by the victorious Allies at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. (Fluteflute) Fluteflute
One of these new countries was Poland, which before 1919 had last existed as an independent nation in 1795. Another was Czechoslovakia — its awkward name reflects the Allies' decision to combine areas dominated by two different ethnic groups, Czechs and Slovaks, into a single nation.
Hitler was contemptuous of these new nations, which he regarded as artificial creations of the Allies. There were significant German populations in both countries, and Hitler used trumped-up concern for their welfare as a pretext to demand territorial concessions."
https://www.vox.com/2014/9/1/6084029/hitlers-invasion-of-poland-explained
There was a huge number of anti-Semitic supporters of Hitler in this country. They were loud and proud, held public meetings. Charles Lindbergh was one of them.
It is creepy, especially given the experience of the horrors of WWII how much of a wink and nod extreme right gets in the US, such as Ammon Bundy (though he seen more resistance recently).
Can we publicize that Putin is KGB trained, an inheritor of Stalin, gulags, and kills as easily as he brushes away a crumb? I hope we don’t have Murza and Navalny to mourn as martyrs at Christmas, though both are in mortal danger.
Trump is a wannabee dictator; Putin is one.
Marlene,
Thank you for the link on how Teixeira obtained the very highest access to the most secret information the US has. And then posted it to multiple places on Discord where it has been disseminated world wide.
I wonder if our military is now recruiting far right young people as part of its recruiting efforts?
Like the Nazi's did prior to WW II.
It can happen here.
Scary, isn’t it? How did this very disruptive kid with a past like his, end up with being able to access government secrets? A few heads have already rolled and I imagine more will also.
Unconstitutional spending is a violation of their oath to protect defend the constitution and every legislator who votes for it needs to pay the bill instead of expecting the people they represent to be responsible.
These ‘legislators’ need to be voted OUT of office next year. I hope they have opponents for reelection who are effective in their voters.
Marlene -- Right on!
I'm thinking Joe needs a communications professional for messaging and how to maximize the "Bully Pulpit" that is part and parcel of the Presidency. Likely (just speculating ) that such a thing as bully anything runs contrary to Joe's nature. I can imagine that growing up with a speech impediment made him a frequent target of bullying, and thereby "imprinted him." In contrast, "OiD" was / is a bully by nature, so used and abused the bully pulpit effectively to his (it's) ends. That must change !!! *Calling Dr. DPR ! Get on the 'bat phone' to Joe, Doc ! Lol....