The Democrats are trying desperately to pressure the Supreme Court to rule their way over the J6 and Presidential Immunity cases. Their method is to exert pressure directly on Alito and Thomas in the hopes that this will convince Roberts to do everything he can to ensure the Court decides in favor of the Dems. I doubt it will work – Roberts is a noodle but it seems that Barrett keeps him on an even keel. The bottom line for both cases is that the punishments inflicted for J6 amount to cruel and unusual while the President must have broad immunity for actions in office even if those actions are considered wrong, even illegal. It would be one thing if the President connived as embezzlement or some such crime…but if the President does something wrong in a political matter then the only solution must be via the political process (impeachment or voting the President out of office; also, of course, the Congress can deny funds until the President bends to Congressional will).
They’re also back on the “expand the Court” kick as additional pressure: rule the “wrong” way and next time we have a trifecta, the Court goes to 15 members. This is something that Congress and the President can do at any time – there’s no Constitutional number of Supreme Court Justices. We just settled at 9 early on and it has been kept out of habit. Personally, I’ve been in favor of expanding the Court for some time – like 25-30 years. The size of the country requires far more federal district courts and that implies a larger Supreme Court to ride herd on them. I figure 11 or 13 is the best number – and the next time the GOP has a trifecta, we should do it. Both for practical reasons noted but also to short circuit any Democrat attempt at a later time – if it was just done, expanding it some more would be seen as nakedly political and Democrats would pay a price at the polls for it.
The Democrats are also inciting violence – I’m not 100% sure it is intentional but the bottom line is that when you call Trump and his supporters an existential threat to all that is good and true, some people will take that literally and act upon it. They are priming their street muscle to act out – and that muscle will act out at some point in some way. We could be heading for a “Bleeding Kansas” if the far Left kooks decide that to “fight the Nazis” means doing things like blowing up churches and assassinating GOP office holders.
Trump’s trial has pretty much dropped off the map – because the Democrats are finding that it is massively backfiring. Trump did a rally in the Bronx. There is much dispute over crowd size (as usual) but the fact of the matter is that it was a fairly large crowd and given the Bronx, it was very much filled with black and brown people…including some rather prominent, political figures not normally associated with the GOP. Will Trump win the Bronx? Not a chance in heck. He’s going to get blown out there – but Trump lost it in 2020 by 67 points. My bet: he will do remarkably better this time. This still can mean, by the way, a 40 point loss. But I see what Trump is up to here – he’s got the inside track to 270. That may change, but at the moment if the election were held today, he’d probably win 312 Electoral Votes. What Trump probably wants in addition to the EC is the popular vote – it is both personal redemption and for raw, political power. Coming back into office more popular than Democrats and with a popular vote mandate means that for at least a year, presuming GOP control of at least one House (almost assured), Trump can get what he wants. Really remake Government – the people will have spoken; it will be what they wanted. So, campaign a bit in the Bronx. Why not? After all, Democrat lawfare has got you stuck in New York, anyway, might was well make the best of it.
Here in Nevada we’ll get to vote on a requirement for voter ID – this is good because if passed (can’t imagine it failing), it will dismantle the last of the Reid Machine…that curious device which always seems to get just enough votes out of Clark County to give Democrats State-wide wins. It is so weird; always in heavily union areas there’s some late arriving votes. I’m sure its a coincidence. Anyways, we’ll be able to vote on if we want people to actually prove they can vote.
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A couple of thoughts. Polls mean very little until after Labor Day as only about 30% of the voters are really engaged until then.
Since both side’s are sure the other side’s candidate is suffering from Dementia, perhaps the best solution is to have a team of medical professionals examine both. Who knows, maybe both are there. At least voters would have the information they need to make a proper decision and each party would have a chance to bring in a replacement if needed. Don’t see it happening especially with Trump. He would never submit to a test by independent experts.
I also don’t expect Trump to debate, for the same reason he didn’t testify in court. He can’t. I expect he will back out claiming that the situation is “unfair”.
As for the Supreme Court, the decisions it is coming down with right now are going to be driving Democrats to the polls.
“As for the Supreme Court, the decisions it is coming down with right now are going to be driving Democrats to the polls.”
What a concise, if inadvertent, admission that most Democrats object to the concept of this nation being governed by its laws and its Constitution.
As so many of us have been pointing out, if we wait long enough the true colors of the Left will be revealed, and it’s interesting that it has taken Trump, and his existential threat to the ongoing dominance of the Left, to accelerate this process as fear and desperation have been driving the Left to blurt out and/or act out its true identity.
So we now have absolute proof that the Left is all about race—-it has been using black people, herding them like the livestock they are to the Left into rejecting the teachings of the man who was so revered for so long, who represented the path to dignity and respect and full participation in the American Dream, and snapping back to the sheer primitive tribalism of judging everyone based on the evidence of which tribe they represent. We now see the inherent and historical anti-Semitism of the Left on full display as Leftist enablers and supporters demand the extinction of Jews, openly going back to the Left’s glory days of the Third Reich. The Left is no longer trying to hide its nihilism as it celebrates its love of death, from advocating for women killing their own children to state-sponsored euthanasia of state-determined “undesirables” and its gleeful support of the rape and murder ethos of its new hero, Hamas.
And we have three and a half years of living in a nation in which laws are not made by Congress but merely in the Oval Office as our Supreme Leader issues edicts, such as demanding that people inject themselves with an experimental drug, uninformed of its potential dangers, or lose their freedom to work or travel freely or even retain their military positions. We now see examples of the New American Stasi at work, as government agencies are weaponized to bring the full force and might of the government to bear on designated opponents of the State. We now know that this element of American government has been using government agencies to spy on citizens, in hopes of finding something to use to threaten, harass and intimidate them if not to actually imprison them. Like Islamist terrorists, they are telling us what they really represent, and we have to start believing them.
Even the little voices squeaking at us in places like this are telling us what the Left really is—-in this case, admitting that American Democrats do not approve of our system demanding that we govern according to our Constitution.
And the notion that Trump will not debate is laughable. When has Trump ever backed down from a fight??? Never. Trump has been waiting for this debate for 4 years, and he will destroy Biden … with common sense. Of which, Biden has none
Casper is just obediently parroting what he has been told by his masters, in their frantic effort to introduce as many competing narratives as possible to clutter up the landscape. We need to pay attention to casper, though, because as he absorbs the nonsense he is fed he is eager to come explain it all to us, which is really just providing a road map to their feeble strategies as they try so desperately to salvage the tattered, stinking, remains of the dumpster fire that is the Joe Biden *presidency.
“And the notion that Trump will not debate is laughable. When has Trump ever backed down from a fight???”
You mean like how he skipped the last debate with Biden four years ago after losing the first two? Or maybe how he skipped all the Republican debates this year. And don’t forget how he promised to testify at the trial before backing down.
Anyone who thinks Trump “lost” the debates with Biden is smoking the top shelf stuff usually saved for VIPs like Hunter. Or is poor naive delusional casper, so happily slurping at the trough filled by his masters.
While other Republican hopefuls wasted their time on the phony “debate” concept, bickering and quibbling and elbowing each other in efforts to out-insult the others (with the exception of always-dignified Ron DeSantis, who read the Trump bandwagon tea leaves and realized he had to get onto the national stage even if it meant hitching a ride in the clown car) Trump was out there stealing the thunder from the “debates” and getting his message out there without the artificial time constraints and efforts of a “moderator” to steer the discourse. Leave it to the flying monkeys to redefine this as some kind of failure on Trump’s part. He out-strategized the rest of the field and left them in his dust.
As for “promising” to testify, naturally he expected to testify. Who wouldn’t? But that would depend on whether or not this testimony would add to the case. As it turned out, there was no real case, not even an actual crime identified, and the entire prosecution beclowned itself so thoroughly that there was no need to add to it. Simply walking away and letting the debacle speak for itself was masterful.
Trump’s poll numbers went down after each debate with Biden, which is why he skipped the last one and why he will find an excuse to bow out this time as well.
His decision to not testify was a good one. He knows he can’t take the stand without lying and making a fool of himself.
cappy, you’re going to wear out that crystal ball you’re using to determine the “real” thoughts of Donald Trump. That is, unless you’ve decided to just go with the voices in your head.
This is kind of how your kind “thinks”:
Trump: I did not have sex with that woman and have so testified under oath
Left: LIAR!
Daniels: I did not have sex with Donald Trump and have so testified under oath
Left: LIAR!
Trump: I agreed to pay her to stop telling people I had sex with her when I didn’t because it wasn’t the kind of thing I wanted my wife and family to hear
Left: LIAR! WE KNOW THE REAL REASON! AND IT WAS TO INFLUENCE AN ELECTION THAT WAS ALREADY OVER, YOU DEVIOUS MONSTER!
And so on.
In a recent legal matter I learned that my lawyer (at the time: no longer) had recorded some information that was contrary to what I had told him and what had been provided to him. I did not know this until it came out in a tangential and unrelated matter. I lost a lot of money one time because I failed to thoroughly read a tax return before signing it, unaware that the accountant had falsely entered my occupation as “executive” instead of “retired”. I reviewed all the numbers and so on, but I missed that one check mark in a multi-page tax return and it cost me. And I am just an individual with few and minor exposures to such things. If I were the CEO of multi-billion-dollar companies depending on the competence of a cadre of “experts” in fields such as law and accounting, I can guarantee that I might not catch a detail buried in a huge mass of details, identifying one of hundreds if not thousands of entered expenses in myriad categories. Even at my lowly level, relatively speaking, of law and business and finance, I have to depend on the competence of the experts I hire.
Of course, a middle school teacher who is now retired has no such background or experience who has probably only filed a short form 1040 can easily buy into the narrative that everyone and and does micromanage every aspect and detail of every element in his life and business, especially if this is the narrative fed to him by those he has accepted as the arbiters of what he is told to believe.
Trump’s poll numbers went down after each debate with Biden
We already know you depend on others to tell you what to think–you don’t need to keep reminding us.
He knows he can’t take the stand without lying and making a fool of himself.
No, he has seen for himself a corrupt judge who allows and even encourages testimony wholly irrelevant to the “trial” at hand, purely in the pursuit of embarrassing Trump and providing fodder for the media vultures and their few but ardent fanbois, and realizes that once on the stand he would be assaulted with a barrage of “have you quit beating your wife” type of questions about anything and everything, related to the current matters or not. No intelligent person is going to subject himself to that kind of abuse of power.
And, just a civics reminder—-no defendant is not required to prove his innocence. He walks into that courtroom presumed to be innocent, and he remains innocent until the prosecution has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that he is not. Sheesh—you would think that a “teacher” would know this.
I know, it’s hard to believe, but casper really does serve a purpose in the greater scheme of things, at least here on this blog. He is the blog’s version of the canary in the coal mine, informing us of the nature of what he and others of his brain-dead ilk are being fed by their masters so we don’t have to wade through their mental sewage ourselves.
In this one vapid little post, he informs us that his masters are frantically trying to shift the narrative about Joe Biden’s senility, giving up on defending his alleged mental acuity and instead trying a lateral move to, essentially, say “So what if our guy now has advanced dementia—so does yours!” It’s an interesting, if desperate, effort, but they really don’t have many options.
They’ve tried just incessantly repeating the ridiculous claim that Joe Biden is mentally competent, but they have to let him out every now and then and every time they do he proves this to be an unsupportable allegation. They’ve tried to “explain” his incoherence with the silly claim that it’s just a lifelong “stutter”. (Casper has obediently brought both of these arguments to the blog.) So now they are reduced to basically admitting that their guy IS senile but claiming that Trump is, too——an effort to recast the election not as an essential choice between two forms of government but just a coin toss to decide which geriatric example of dementia should get more votes.
AND….he exposes their strategy, which is to claim that if Trump would not agree to some kind of mental evaluation that would somehow be a tacit admission that he, too, is gaga and that he, too, has to be led around by the hand and have someone around to change his poopy-pants for him.
The American Left reminds me in some ways of the old Jon Lovitz “liar” character on SNL—not just the pathological lying part, which is obvious, but the skittering from one story to another in a desperate attempt to make the narrative seem credible. And good old, dependable, meat puppet Casper is always there to tell us the next silly strategy.
I have always advocated that. I welcome the comments from Casper, fielding and forty. You need to know who your enemy is, and they tell us every time they drop in.
fielding and forty only post here to clog up discourse. They are careful to avoid actually advocating for any coherent political agenda, so they provide no insight into the Left other than its appeal to certain pathologies. Casper at least loves to digest the pap he is fed and then come here to explain it to us. His clueless and naive sincerity, misplaced as it is, sets him apart from the tittering snark of the others.
You need to know who your enemy is
If you don’t know by now, you just haven’t been paying attention.
Maxwell Smart.
”would you believe …”
NO! I don’t believe much of anything I read, see or hear anymore.
What casper says is pure nonsense, but its value, such as it is, is in its revelation of the strategies of the American Left (shown by the narratives they feed to their followers) such as the effort to portray the way Biden’s brain simply cannot function, leading to his mangling of words, as a mere “lifelong stutter”, and lately that they have basically conceded his dementia and are shifting to the tactic of “they’re BOTH senile” and the effort to portray a hypothetical refusal by Trump to be “tested” as a tacit admission that he, too, suffers from dementia.
I think the tacit acknowledgement of Biden’s dementia is important, as it might signal a last-ditch effort by the party to replace him.
amazona,
I don’t think Biden is senile. I Think he is old. I do believe that Trump is suffering from dementia and the evidence keeps building. Yesterday there was a video of him saluting while Amazing Grace was playing. His Memorial Day message was along whine about him and nothing about those who we should be honoring today. He is losing it and it’s easier to see every day.
You can keep parroting your designated party narrative all you want (obviously taken from a “source” like this one: https://countylocalnews.com/2024/05/27/confused-donald-trump-salutes-amazing-grace-confused-donald-trump-salutes-for-amazing-grace/) but all you do is reveal even more of your sad combination of irrational Trump hatred and dependence on spite-and-malice propaganda. You don’t sound any more sane than the commenters who asserted on the MSN site that, for instance, “Trump saluted Amazing Grace”. No, you ignorant dummies, Trump saluted the memory of our fallen heroes, while Amazing Grace was being played.
See what I mean? He showed respect for our fallen military, during the playing of a powerful song often played as a part of solemn ceremonies honoring the dead, and this triggered shrill squealing claiming that, for example, “He can’t even tell the difference between a hymn and the national anthem” and then claiming, wrongly, that “if you didn’t serve you don’t ever salute.”
Well, the official Uniform Code of Military Justice website doesn’t agree, explaining that a salute can merely mean remembering the sacrifices of the military.”
As for “waving at a nonexistent crowd”, he was waving at thousands of people sitting in the lower level of the part of the stands shown in the photo. Naturally the squealers could not be bothered to see how many other such stands surround the race track, or how many people actually attended the race. No, the haters can’t be bothered with facts.
You would think that people trying to compare Trump unfavorably to Biden would avoid areas of such obvious contrasts, given the thousands of photos and videos of Trump speaking to (and yes, waving to) huge crowds of people who went out of their way to travel, sometimes hundreds of miles, just to be present at one of his rallies, while Biden has to speak to a dozen or so at a time, even when they are relatively captive audiences such as employees of a company where he is speaking.
As for Biden not being senile and just being “old”, Trump is approximately his age, and he can get out of a car unaided and stride across a parking lot or lawn or onto a stage. He doesn’t need people to hover over him and guide him, he doesn’t need anyone to hold his hand to get him off a stage or onto the right sidewalk, he doesn’t wander around cluelessly, and his mind is not occupied with strange fantasies about his past, his son, his college years or any of the other stories Biden wanders into before having his mic shut off and being hustled off a stage.
I spend six months a year, more or less, in Florida, where there are a LOT of people Biden’s age, who are vibrant and active and competent. I also remember visiting my mother-in-law in an assisted care home and seeing a lot of people exactly like Biden—doddering, confused, with that same staggering gait and blank expression, and they all had special care because they could no longer function.
casper, you see exactly what you want to see, guided by those you have chosen to influence you. But as I have said for years, if you can’t pull your head out of your nether regions your view will never change.
Someone else who’s not “just old” but is clearly suffering from advanced mental decline is Robert DeNiro, who (falsely) claims Trump talked about “drinking bleach” and is just like Hitler and Mussolini. (You might think someone would avoid the Hitler/Mussolini snarls, now that his own political model is imitating Nazis by advocating for the elimination of Jews and engaging in fascist governance including collusion between government and industry. Maybe the inability to recognize this is just another symptom of dementia, along with delusions and paranoia.)
“casper, you see exactly what you want to see, guided by those you have chosen to influence you.”
I could say the same about you, although it is amusing watching you twist yourself in knots trying to justify some of the things does. I do suspect that on a certain level you know what kind of a person Trump is.
That said, this week will be interesting. I would guess there is about a fifty percent chance Trump is convicted this week and less than a 1% chance he is acquitted, with a 49% chance of some kind of hung jury. There is a 100% chance that regardless of outcome he will whine about how terrible and unfairly he has been treated.
What about Trump have I “justified”? Something real I have twisted myself into knots to excuse, not something I have merely explained as different from your wild-eyed accusations.
A good example is your snarl that recognizing miscarriages of justice and abuse of power is really “whining”. He is on trial for an unidentified crime—-how is that “fair”?
It’s interesting watching your carefully tended disguise of thoughtful moderate flake away to show the true Stalinist underneath, as you become so defensive of show trials and the concept of “show me the man and I’ll show you a crime”. I’ve always seen this side of you, though you have tried to hide it when challenged.
Originally, Bragg vaguely referenced four crimes and there have been months of confusion was to what he was specifically alleging as his criminal theories. Even legal analysts on CNN and MSNBC have continued to question the specific allegations against Trump as we head into closing arguments.
As it stands, there are three crimes that have been referenced by prosecutors: state and federal election violations and taxation violations.
Well, this court is not qualified to prosecute federal crimes. State election violations, if they occurred at all, are beyond the statute of limitations. “Taxation violations” is vague and nebulous and I don’t remember testimony about this approach.
Instead, there were many references to “election interference” without actually charging Trump with any such thing. Though I would not be surprised to hear the argument that payments made weeks after the election was over were really INTENDED to influence how people were going to vote.
The argument, such as it was, seemed to be: Trump committed a crime by paying a sex worker to stop telling people he’d had sex with her. (This is not a crime) Then Trump committed a crime by making the payment contingent on signing a Non Disclosure Agreement. (This is not a crime.) Therefore, the only illegality would have been, could have been, if this alleged effort to shape public opinion of Trump as a candidate actually qualified as criminal election interference. This wackadoo effort falls apart in two big ways. The most obvious is that the payment/NDA were made weeks after the election was over, and then of course there is the Stalinist Thought Crime aspect, that of claiming that a thought or motive can be determined at a great distance and in and of itself is a criminal act.
“what kind of a person Trump is” As someone who makes POLITICAL decisions based on POLITICAL analysis of POLITICAL governance and the likelihood of someone to govern in the way I find to be the best blueprint for governing the nation, I (unlike you) don’t obsess about personalities. But you just stay down in the gossip gutter, fretting about personality and identity and all that superficial stuff that people like you have to focus on because it appeals to you on such a visceral level.
OTOH, imagine the furor if Trump had paid a late night visit to someone just identified as a witness in his case.
Are we really expected to believe that Biden’s visit to Hallie Biden mere days after court filings indicated she is a witness for the prosecution in his son’s federal gun trial means nothing? Are we really supposed to believe whatever excuse the White House will make for the visit when the press pool was specifically excluded from the little get-together? What exactly was Joe Biden trying to hide? What message did Hallie Biden receive, either directly or indirectly, from his visit?
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Hunter Biden’s trial is expected to begin in early June. If Joe Biden wasn’t dabbling in a little witness tampering, what exactly are we expected to believe about his little visit to one of the prosecution’s key witnesses?
“What about Trump have I “justified”? Something real I have twisted myself into knots to excuse, not something I have merely explained as different from your wild-eyed accusations.”
You come up with excuses for everything he is accused of. Over two dozen women have accused him of sexual assault, but according to you, it is the women who are in the wrong. The guy has been a part of over four thousand lawsuits (many of which he has lost) and you are sure that it’s everyone else’s fault. I could go on.
“A good example is your snarl that recognizing miscarriages of justice and abuse of power is really “whining”. He is on trial for an unidentified crime—-how is that “fair”?”
Snarl? Really? The guy complains constantly about just everything any time someone opposes him. I’m not just talking about the New York case. It’s everything. It’s exhausting.
Oh, casper, you poor little sap. You’re so deep into your delusions that you’re reduced to out-and-out lying to try to shore them up.
Over two dozen women have accused him of sexual assault Really? Who? “over two dozen” means more than 24.
…according to you, it is the women who are in the wrong. Name one single such claim, other than the department store rape claim—Jean something, sorry, but I can’t remember her name. To say I found someone “in the wrong” implies that old horrible claim that when a woman is raped, it was her own fault, that “she asked for it”. (Kind of like Clinton’s supporters said of Paula Jones, “what do you expect when you drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park?”) I have never said or implied any such thing.
What I did say was that this Jean person was simply lying. And I had plenty to back that up. I pointed out that as a woman who has shopped in department stores, including high-end stores, I can guarantee that the clerks who work there know exactly who has walked through those departments and where they are, at all times. I doubt that you have experienced the eagle eyes of such clerks—I have. Ask any woman how long she has been in a changing room before a clerk has popped her head in to “check on everything”. The more “high end” the store, the more surveillance occurs. And these are not ROOMS—-they are small cubicles with doors, if they even have doors and not curtains, that don’t usually go all the way to the floor or ceiling. As a woman who has spent many hours in changing rooms, I know that in those rooms I have been able to hear the sound of zippers being zipped, of clothes being pulled over heads, etc. from adjoining cubicles. So the claim that a woman was followed through a woman’s department, in a high-end store, into a dressing “room” where she was raped by a very large man, with no one being aware of this, simply does not pass the smell test. “Raped” so quietly that no one heard a thing, and evidently so quickly that no clerk checked to see if she “needed anything”. Big man, tiny space, nothing even resembling sound-proofing, semi-public and in a setting usually under close attention from sales staff. No noise, no sign of trauma or force, and of course no contemporaneous discussion of this momentous event with a friend or relative or reporter.
Speaking of the “very large man” comment—when Donald Trump allegedly found this not particularly attractive strange woman so alluring that even from a distance he found himself so irresistibly drawn to her that he had to have her, then and now, to the point of risking arrest and scandal to follow her into the distinctly less-than-private changing area of a department store, you forget that at that time Donald Trump was probably the most recognizable man in New York City. He and Ivana were in the papers several times a week, photographed at various social functions, and of course he was famous due to his business dealings as well.
So I did not say this woman was “in the wrong”—-I said she invented a story so bizarre it simply could not be believed. As a matter of fact, she evidently didn’t believe it herself: At least she couldn’t remember the details and facts from one accounting to another. She couldn’t remember when it happened, not even able to pin it down to a year.
So no, I was not defending Donald Trump nearly as much as I was pointing out the absurdity of the claim.
As for the lawsuits, I guess I can’t be surprised that you are simultaneously so gullible and clueless that you think being accused of something is proof of guilt. Go ahead and wallow in your TDS and pretend that rich and powerful men are never targeted for extortion or frivolous lawsuits—naturally, being a middle-aged “teacher” in a small-city middle school in Wyoming prepares you to understand the vulnerability of the rich and famous to various grifts and scams, including lawsuits.
You’ve got some pretty big numbers there—-not specific, of course, just big. “over two dozen” and “over four thousand” and “many”. You’re not only not embarrassed by your eagerness to believe all this, you actually try to claim that not believing it is some kind of moral or intellectual failure.
You are tolerated here as long as you are just some fuzzy-minded but sincere schlub who has drunk the kool-aid and can’t see past the narrative that has meant so much to him for so long. And as long as you skirt reality, just parroting silly Morning Joe type nonsense, you offer a great chance to rebut it and present real facts. But getting into fielding and forty territory of just inventing crap to explain your pathology puts you into their category.
You’ve laid out your territory—you hate Trump and believe every bad thing you have ever heard about him. Move on, or move out.
I’m not just talking about the New York case
No, you’re not talking about the New York case at all. Because you can’t, because there is no way to justify it or defend it, unless you admit to approving of using the might and power of the State to try to crush political opposition.
Name the crime that is the basis of “the New York case”. Go ahead. No one else has been able to, and the prosecution hasn’t even tried. Naturally bullies prefer their victims to shut up and sit down and it irks your kind to have Trump refuse to do that. Naturally, when you are on the side of tyranny and abuse of power you don’t want anyone to call attention to it.
Amazona;
“Oh, casper, you poor little sap. You’re so deep into your delusions that you’re reduced to out-and-out lying to try to shore them up.”
It’s pretty obvious that Trump supporters live in a different reality than the rest of us. I believe based on the evidence that I’ve seen over the years, that Trump is a Malignant Narcissist who has a long record of criminal activity and is suffering from dementia. I also believe based on the evidence, that climate change is real and we are experiencing the effects of it. I also believe that Covid is real. It wasn’t a plot. It has killed millions of people and that the vaccines, although far from perfect, have been responsible for saving millions of lives. There is a chance that my beliefs are the results of delusions or that the hundreds of studies I’ve read are mostly wrong. It will become fairly obvious in the next few years who is right and who is wrong.
Unless they are turned over on appeal there is no reason to argue the E. Jean Carroll cases at this point. He already lost. Twice. Of course that won’t stop you from repeating the RW talking points over and over again. Pretty sure that you will do the same regardless of who accuses him of a crime.
As for the over 4,000 lawsuits, you might want to check into some of them. There is a reason Trump University and his charity no longer exist. And while he’s won some of them, he has also lost a number of others. Hard to believe that an honest business man would be involved in so many lawsuits.
Thank you for laying out your delusions. While there are no surprises there, it is worth noting how you manage to distort what other people have said to cram them into your shopping cart of beliefs. For example, no one has ever said Covid was not real. It very obviously WAS real and no one—-NO ONE—-has denied its existence. But the facts surrounding its development in a lab, using gain of function research funded by American dollars via Tony Fauci, are obviously too complicated for you to follow, so you have to invent a straw man argument that is simple enough for you to grasp, and then argue against it.
If you have read “hundreds of studies” proving that the “vaccine” saved even one life, it has not hit the mainstream news. What HAS hit even mainstream news is information about the damages caused by this experimental drug—damages including death and/or permanent harm—as well as admissions even from the CDC that the more jabs one has taken the more likely that person is to catch Covid. Some people who got the clot shot did not get Covid again. There is no proof of a connection between the two. And many hundreds of thousands did get Covid again–as well as heart attacks, neurological disorders and accelerated cancers, among the long list of damages.
As for “plot”—that relates to the need of the Left to find or create a vehicle for changing the way we can vote and enabling a scope and level of election fraud never before seen in any but a third world country. From mass mailings of ballots in numbers much larger than the total of registered voters to unconstitutional last-minute changes to election laws in some states to simply ignoring basic election laws such as examining signatures and demanding that ballots be received within a certain time period, the panic generated about Covid formed the foundation for the myriad excuses for violating former election laws.
And you seem quite comfortable with the specter of an American president acting as a dictator, ruling from the Oval Office, funding private industry with billions of taxpayer dollars while having the American government provide legal protections to those companies so they could not be held accountable for the damages caused by their drugs, simultaneously issuing edicts literally FORCING people to take these experimental drugs or lose their jobs or their military positions or their ability to travel freely. The interaction of private industry and government is literally a definition of fascism and you supported it and still want to return that dictator to the same office.
I note that you can’t argue the facts of the Carroll case, just parrot the fact that a jury found Trump guilty of some minor groping but not rape, in a verdict that had legal minds puzzled as to how even this watered-down pandering to the TDS crowd could have happened. It is highly unusual for a prosecution to be unable to state when an alleged crime occurred or explain how it could have happened under the circumstances I explained or pursue the case long after the statute of limitations had expired, and still get anyone to go along with it—–unless we factor in the same level of TDS you exhibit.
I am disinterested in old Trump lawsuits. All I care about is that when he was president he surprised me, a former anti-Trump advocate, by the way he approached the responsibilities and duties of the presidency. All I care about is how much better off the nation was when he was president. What matters to me is his recognition of the dangers of a nation governed by unelected political appointees, through edicts and regulations which have the power of law, imposed by agencies and not by our legislative body. But then I approach all this from a POLITICAL perspective, not the gossipy TMZ mentality you exhibit as you blather on about what you think happened in his past. Look how far back you have to go, and how much you have to rely on tabloid-level gossip. But then, that is the level of “politics” you inhabit—not the analytical examination of the most effective way to govern the nation, but simple-minded personality and Identity Politics.
As for “Trump dementia” it is shameful to see how you casually toss that word around. It is a very real and tragic condition, with specific characteristics. It is not a personality quirk, but a disintegration of the brain, leading to various easily identifiable behaviors, most of which are exhibited by Joe Biden every time we see him allowed out in public and none of which are exhibited by Donald Trump. This is a serious condition, not just some currently faddish pejorative people like you use so casually. It is marked by physical symptoms, such as rigid and sometimes staggering gait, loss of balance and blank facial expressions, and it includes sudden outbursts, loss of memory, integrating old memories and fantasies into current reality and the inability to process information. Donald Trump exhibits none of these, while Joe Biden is a textbook example of rapidly increasing dementia.
Joe Biden’s America is so bad that Dennis Quaid might have to vote for Donald Trump. The Hollywood actor made his 2024 intentions known while being interviewed by Piers Morgan. Quaid is set to appear in a biopic about Ronald Reagan later this summer. Two things pushed the actor into the Trump camp.
He was horrified by the weaponization of our justice system against the former president, which leeched into his second reason, which centered on constitutional grounds. Quaid added that Trump must be one of the most investigated people in the world, and nothing substantive has ever been unearthed by some of the most rabid anti-Trump lawyers and activists. He admitted that he wasn’t planning on supporting the former president’s candidacy, but recent events have persuaded him to do otherwise
But to the caspers of the world, all that matters is that he was investigated.
“Thank you for laying out your delusions.”
You are welcome. You have done a great job over the last few years laying out your delusions, so I thought it was time to lay out my thoughts.
“As for “Trump dementia” it is shameful to see how you casually toss that word around. It is a very real and tragic condition, with specific characteristics.”
“It is marked by physical symptoms, such as rigid and sometimes staggering gait, loss of balance and blank facial expressions, and it includes sudden outbursts, loss of memory, integrating old memories and fantasies into current reality and the inability to process information.”
You are correct in that it isn’t something that should be casually toss out there. The Media has done a great job of normalizing Trump over the years. He says so many crazy things that it’s harder to determine it he is losing it or not. it’s becoming pretty obvious at this point. He has sudden outbursts continuously. His Truth Social postings are all over the place and he brings up odd things in his speeches (Al Capone, Hannibal Lector, calling Nancy Pelosi Nikki Haley). Of course RW media is doing a great job of protecting him when he is doing things like saluting during “Amazing Grace” or stating that he can’t testify because is a gag order. His vocabulary has also diminished compared to where it was even four years ago. He is mispronouncing fairly easy words. During his speeches he is glitching out more all the time. It’s easy to notice if you are actually watching him. As I suggested, both he and Biden should be evaluated by an independent team of mental healthcare professionals.
So don’t vote for him. Just stop the foolishness of trying to portray Biden as anything but a serial liar who is obviously senile.
As for your snippy little whine that I have been “laying out delusions” this is a pathetic effort to get me to engage in more useless discourse with you.
He says so many crazy things that it’s harder to determine it he is losing it or not. it’s becoming pretty obvious at this point. He has sudden outbursts continuously. His Truth Social postings are all over the place and he brings up odd things in his speeches (Al Capone, Hannibal Lector, calling Nancy Pelosi Nikki Haley). Of course RW media is doing a great job of protecting him when he is doing things like saluting during “Amazing Grace” or stating that he can’t testify because is a gag order. His vocabulary has also diminished compared to where it was even four years ago. He is mispronouncing fairly easy words. During his speeches he is glitching out more all the time. It’s easy to notice if you are actually watching him. As I suggested, both he and Biden should be evaluated by an independent team of mental healthcare professionals.
…..and he is still so obviously a vastly better choice than Biden. That has to sting.
The notion that Merchan’s jury instructions could somehow fail to specifically instruct jurors about the second substantive “in furtherance of” crime—and its underlying statute, including the requisite mens rea/intent, etc.—is absolutely batshit insane.
Ordinarily, falsifying business records is a misdemeanor under New York penal law. The statute that enhances the offense into a felony requires proof of fraudulent intent to conceal “another crime.” …[The indictment] put the defense on no notice of what “other crime” Trump was alleged to have concealed..Bragg knew it would be controversial to proclaim in clear terms the power and intention to enforce federal law — against a defendant whom the federal agencies with authority to prosecute investigated and as to whom they decided, for sound legal reasons, not to bring charges. The failure to provide a defendant with notice of the charges in the indictment violates the federal Constitution — and it strongly suggests that the grand jury did not find probable cause of the other crimes that Bragg now alleges (there is no “other crime” pled in the indictment).
On this point, Merchan has aided and abetted Bragg, to the point that it was not until summation, after six weeks of trial, that state prosecutors were finally clear and full-throated in urging that Trump should be convicted for violating federal law. That would be astounding in any case but is mind-boggling in the first-ever criminal prosecution of a former American president (who, not coincidentally, is the Republican presidential nominee and thus Bragg’s partisan political adversary). Without being limited to the charges in the indictment, as prosecutors are supposed to be, they presented the case to the jury as if the charge were conspiracy to influence the 2016 election by burying politically damaging information. To say that this conspiracy appears nowhere in the indictment does not explain the half of it. It is not a crime to conspire to influence an election unless one does so by unlawful means (that’s the afore-described New York misdemeanor), and there is nothing unlawful per se about burying politically damaging information.
none of the underlying problems with the case against Trump have changed. There’s still no crime that the prosecution has defined, there’s still no magic math that lets two misdemeanors add up to a felony, and there’s still no getting around Merchan allowing the prosecution to do almost anything while shackling Trump’s defense.
Joe Biden: “We’ll never forget, lying around, wjxjuddbehisjcbdhsjs, him lying around actually.” While you obediently parrot the claim that Trump’s vocabulary is shrinking, you must be thrilled to see Joe’s expanding. Why, he comes up with new “words” every day!
“he brings up odd things in his speeches”—such as, for example, cannibals and being vice president during the pandemic, and visiting Mandela in jail, and the many times and places his son has died, and the millions of miles he has traveled by rail while engaging in long conversations with a man who had died years earlier, and driving an 18-wheeler, and being arrested in a civil rights protest, and attending a synagogue in Pittsburgh, and his various careers or almost-careers as a football star, etc? Those kinds of “odd things”?
While President Joe Biden is known for his blunders and colorful turns of phrase, his staffers increasingly are correcting his words after the fact via strikethroughs in the White House transcript.
The written record of a May 19 campaign speech in Detroit includes no less than nine corrections, a few of which created mini-news cycles of their own in real time.
One was when Biden recalled being vice president during the pandemic, saying “Barack,” meaning former President Barack Obama, told him to go to Detroit and “help fix it.” But Biden was running for president during the pandemic, and Obama had been out of office for three years.
BIDEN: “When I was vice president, things were kinda bad during the pandemic…”
(Biden was not vice president during the pandemic)
Former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker told Newsmax on Saturday that he “fully expects” and “certainly hopes that [former President] Donald Trump is acquitted of all these charges.”
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Whitaker said he didn’t think Trump needed to testify at the trial because this case has not been proven.”
The “case” has not just not been proven, it hasn’t even been identified. The prosecution rested without ever identifying a crime, though it has asserted that expenses filed in 2017 somehow were intended (using some psychic means of determining what a person was thinking and then falling back on the beloved Thought Crimes tactic of the Left) to “influence” an election that took place in early November of 2016.
You better pray people don’t get engaged – Biden is doing fine among people who always vote; still a little lower than he needs to be sure of getting to 270, but certainly close enough. What they’re finding is that Biden is getting clobbered among occasional voters. People who only tend to show to register their disapproval. The higher the turnout, the better for Trump. Democrats have bet the farm on a low-turnout election driven by people who hate Trump…what is shaping up is a high turnout election driven by people who hate Biden.
I don’t think you realize just how unpopular Democrats are getting – they’re getting into the position of the GOP after the 2008 crash; just not liked and everyone is tired of them. And what was their brilliant plan for Memorial Day Weekend? They’re almost uniformly remembering St George Floyd of Fentanyl! A drug addict who died of an OD and from White House on down, Democrats are memorializing him like he mattered. He was a f***ing prop – an excuse to get Antifa/BLM rioting.
Your side is cooked, Casper.
a high turnout election driven by people who hate Biden
This is likely to turn out to be an election determined less by which PERSON is hated most, but by which OUTCOMES are hated most. Only the most determinedly blind and obtuse can pretend that the outcome of Trump’s presidency was worse than the outcome of Biden’s term in office. During Trump’s presidency all the Left had to whine about was him, personally, while the economy improved and things in general were working much better. We had energy independence, lower taxes and the only melodrama was whatever was introduced by the professional hysterics and grievance collectors of the Left. Almost four years later, everything is much worse. Everything. There is not a single metric in which we can say there has been an improvement, domestically or internationally.
Could be – but I loved this:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/republicans-are-winning-voter-registration-battle-battleground-states
Compare the speech Trump gave in the Bronx, to the speech Biden gave to Morehouse, and ask yourself, who gave the more positive, forward thinking, unifying, American speech? There is simply no comparison. Biden’s speech was nothing but fear, hate, and division, whereas Trump’s speech was uplifting. I loved it when Trump said, “black families, brown families, white families, or whatever in the hell color you are …” LOL, all of us are tired of Democrats obsession with skin color. The entire Democrat agenda is based on fear and division to the point I am embarrassed for them. Also, that speech Biden gave to Morehouse is the exact same speech every Democrat has given over the last 50 years. They simply rinse and repeat the racism card, but thankfully, millions of black and Hispanics are tired of their empty rhetoric and empty promises. Are black Americans better off today than they were in the 1980’s?? HELL NO. Black families are worse off today, than they were 40 years ago, and they are figuring that out.
What so many people don’t understand, is that this election is not about R vs D. Those antiquated paradigms are laughable. MAGA is a new coalition of Reagan Democrats and common sense Republicans, and we are the vast majority, make no mistake about that. Americans have figured out that career politicians don’t have our back, and have sold us out. Their days are soon to be over.
What so many people don’t understand is that this election—like all the others—-is about what kind of government we want. It’s about the choice between a government BY the people and FOR the people, by a government OF the people. It’s about understanding the brilliance of our Constitution—-essentially the most libertarian outline of governance ever created—-and its demand that laws be created through debate and consensus of ELECTED representatives we have chosen, not a cabal of elites who impose their edicts on us from a massively powerful Central Authority, and furthermore that those laws be applied equally to all vs the current system of wildly different applications of law depending on political calculations.
It is not about the people who stand as the symbols of each political model, though the Left depends on making it about the people because any accurate explanation of their model will get them very little support. It is not even about the ISSUES though the Left depends on trying to make it about what we want instead of the best way to get it.
It is a choice between a federal government restricted in its size, scope and power with most authority left to the states or to the people, versus a federal government with unlimited powers vested in a massively powerful Central Authority, with little authority left to the people as it is vested in a small and elite component of our society. Even MAGA, when we examine it, is not about ISSUES—the “Again” element of that phrase refers to returning to the days when the nation was Great because it followed its own Constitution. We have to be careful to avoid letting this whole “MAGA” thing become just another form of Identity Politics.
The replacement theory, as articulated by Chuck U Schumer. But that’s a conspiracy theory right?
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1794238958030983405?s=61
Now that we know the Ashly Biden story is true, I have to say that as a father, I can proudly say that I have never bathed or showered with my daughter or son, and would never even think about it. Giving them a bath or shower is one thing, getting in with them is gross and should never happen. These attempts to excuse Joe Biden’s actions are absurd.
“Here in Nevada we’ll get to vote on a requirement for voter ID “….which is a good start, but you also have to get rid of Motor Voter and the practice of offering voter registration to ANYONE getting a drivers’ license, even if the license is clearly a temporary license expiring when a visitor or work visa expires.
If that doesn’t happen—-and it’s so beloved by the Left that getting rid of it will be nearly impossible, as it’s a federal law (who cares about the 10th Amendment, anyway?) then the state can vote to have all drivers’ licenses marked as temporary and not as an indication of citizenship, or in some way to prevent them from being used to vote.
The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), also known as the Motor Voter Act, is a United States federal law signed into law by President Bill Clinton on May 20, 1993, that came into effect on January 1, 1995. The law was enacted under the Elections Clause of the United States Constitution and advances voting rights in the United States by requiring state governments to offer simplified voter registration processes for any eligible person who applies for or renews a driver’s license or applies for public assistance, and requiring the United States Postal Service to mail election materials of a state as if the state is a nonprofit. The law requires states to register applicants that use a federal voter registration form, and prohibits states from removing registered voters from the voter rolls unless certain criteria are met.
If the federal government can force states to enact these laws regarding voting, why can’t it also enact laws standardizing federal elections as far as standards for ballots, citizenship, ID necessary, time allowed for voting, mail-in ballot rules, etc?
BTW, when I have asked DMV officials why they have offered voter registration to people they know are not citizens, after just going through the process of examining passports and work visas to determine the length of time a license will be valid, I have always been told they are required to by law. Yet the law says they have to …offer simplified voter registration processes for any ELIGIBLE person who applies for or renews a driver’s license. Therefore, it is obviously within the authority of the state legislature to expand on this requirement and pass a law stating that DMV officials can only offer voter registration to ELIGIBLE applicants.
Oh, yes; need lots of reforms to secure the vote. ID is just a first step – a stop-gap which can at least make it harder to cheat.
But as for the latest bits of Democrat motor-votor type laws, they passed one in Pennsylvania and it has fostered a surge of GOP voter registrations. The kicker: huge GOP increases in registrations among 18-29 year olds. The kids seem a little tired of pronouns and would like a job and a chance to afford a house, thanks very much.
Donald Trump has never left an audience silent and bewildered because they couldn’t decipher some nonsensical gibberish, much less had to then ask them to clap for him.
Trump’s speeches are often interrupted by spontaneous outbursts of applause and are always met with wildly enthusiastic applause when he is finished.
Report: DEI Has Turned Top-Ranked UCLA Medical into a Laughing Stock
Nearly 25% of medical students set to graduate in 2025 failed three or more of their standardized exams. Many of them must retake classes.
Well…. Everyone knows medicine is racist. What was God thinking? Imagine having to know how the body actually functions. Anyone else looking forward to surgery with a DEI graduate? Let’s hope they aren’t employed in nuclear facilities too. No wonder why there’s a significant drop in companies hiring college graduates.
https://headlineusa.com/dei-turn-ucla-medical-laughing-stock/?utm_source=HUSA_EMAIL_NSP0730&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HUSAemail
If the same thing is happening in law schools, and there’s no reason to believe it isn’t, it could make for some entertaining malpractice suits down the road as incompetent lawyers sue incompetent doctors.
I think we’re watching DEI play out right now in the airline industry. Led by Secretary Booty juice.
I’ve noticed that now, when I see something attributed to “Harvard”, I just pass it by, as that no longer indicates value
This will indeed go down in history as the time when a bunch of globalist elites decided to try to combine two failed ideologies into one colossal failure.
I think this should be a bumper sticker and on billboards along routes into blue cities.
In memory of those who sacrificed so much when their country demanded it of them. In hopes that their courage, determination and sacrificed will be forever remembered, and that those virtues will continue to flourish within our great nation.
Happy Memorial Day!
News Anchor Laughs at Buttigieg’s Explanation for Biden’s EV Shortfall
Remember way back in the 80’s & 90’s when military contractors were over charging for toilet seats and hammers? I guess the left needs to scam more money out of taxpayers.
“The Federal Highway Administration says that only seven or eight charging stations have been produced for the $7.5 billion investment the taxpayers made back in 2021,” Brennan stated on the Sunday edition of Face the Nation, before asking, “Why isn’t that happening more quickly?”
https://headlineusa.com/news-anchor-laughs-at-buttigiegs-explanation-for-bidens-ev-shortfall/?utm_source=HW_EMAIL_NSP1400&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HWemail
Republican AGs Sue to Block Five Blue States’ Energy Litigation
…against all enemies both foreign and domestic. The left is hell bent on destroying our nation, employing a multifaceted attack on the very things that make her great. The on-going lie about climate change is not only meant to steal billions, but also to create strict control. They will not quit until they’ve completed their conquest for tyranny. If there’s any doubt why they are pushing so hard to confiscate guns, one only has to step back an look at the policies they espouse.
They argue these five Democratic-led state governments have “brought unprecedented litigation against the nation’s most vital energy companies for alleged ‘climate crisis,’ and they demand billions of dollars in damages.
https://headlineusa.com/republican-attorneys-general-sue-to-block-five-blue-states-energy-litigation/?utm_source=HW_EMAIL_NSP1400&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HWemail