Aside from the jokes, one of the things I like about X is its ability to bring random stuff together. First off: how about a picture?
Look closely at it. There is a rather glaring issue and, once you see it, you’ll know the veracity of the text.
What you will notice after a little bit of study is that there are no keyholes on the cuffs. Just a little lever which allows anyone, including the cuffed person, to open them. Not very useful, huh? I mean, not even for dragging away poor, little Native kids.
This is because these aren’t the handcuffs used to drag Native Kids away to school – they are antique toy cuffs. Used by kids back the day to play Cops and Robbers. But even if that aspect of it had been blurred out, another moment of thought would have revealed the lie: suppose you did want to drag poor, little Native kids off to school…why in heck would you cuff them? What is the fear? A six year old grabbing your gun? The whole concept is drivel.
But as was pointed out on X when this picture floated by, a whole rigamarole went into it – including having a Native medicine man exorcise (as it were) the cuffs to remove evil spirits…you know, all the evil of kids being cuffed and dragged away to school…which did not, in the event, happen. But think about that: senior people of Native tribes in modern times fell for the con. Why is that? Because there’s a big problem with Native history: nobody Native wrote it down until decades after the Native way of life ended. Essentially, what we know of, say, the ways of the Plains Indians is whatever some white guy wrote down as he interacted with them for good or ill.
It may or may not be totally accurate, but it is all there is: for the Natives, themselves, it was whatever great-grandpa told them long after the fact. Was it true? Maybe. Who knows? One thing we do know about peoples who don’t have writing is that the oral tradition is altered from time to time by the elders. You know: some dispute in the village and so they go ask the oldest people what was done in the past and the geezers get together and work up a story that solves the problem and solemnly announce this was the way it was done in olden times. Who could dispute it? All the oldsters agree and there’s no document to contradict them. This is the basis for most Native claims about how their old ways were – whatever someone said and there’s no way to check.
I’d have to look it up to be sure but I believe it was an ancient, Sumerian saying which went like this:
“What is the tongue?”
“That which whips the air.”
“What is writing?”
“The guardian of history.”
Which is true – as everyone with any sense knows, the only sure things we know about past events are things which were written down at the time, or shortly thereafter. Even then, of course, we’re at the mercy of the author; if the author missed a detail or misrepresented the facts, we’re rather doomed unless there is something else out there in the record to set it straight. But in all of the 100,000 years (or so) of human history, the only events we know about are those which are written down. I know that some may want to object that pre-writing we do know of some things that went on – yes; like when we find the dwelling of cavemen we can tell a lot about them…that they were humans, what sorts of animals they hunted, plants they ate and so forth…but we can’t tell anything about what their lives were like other than some very basic things. We know that by the time we were writing we already had domestic animals, beer and slaves: all of these things had to be developed over time but we have no idea how because they were all created pre-writing and the first writers took them as a given. Even the art left on cave walls is a mystery to us – gorgeous, vivid pictures obviously of great importance to those people…but we haven’t the foggiest notion as to why they left the drawings. We can guess all the live, long day but as the people who drew didn’t leave us a decipherable script, we’ll never know the story. In fact, whole populations of humans might have risen and fallen over the tens of thousands of years and we don’t know even one thing about them – not even that they existed – because they left nothing on stone for us to find. So, pretty important, that whole writing thing.
But what if someone writes a lie? You know: like calling a child’s toy an implement of White Supremacist Settler-Colonialist torture of Natives who never robbed, murdered or raped until Evil White Men (who weren’t gay) arrived. What do we do with that?
Because that was the other thing that came across the X time line at roughly the same moment: a question. “Just how much of our history is simply made up?”
The answer, of course, is “a heck of a lot more than before”. As I noted before, a book of history isn’t necessarily definitive. A contemporary document isn’t certain to be accurate. This is why the really good historians of the past have carefully sifted the data and were unafraid to acknowledge that different conclusions can be drawn. But even with the best of intentions and copious documentation, it still will never be perfect. It can’t be; humans can’t produce perfection. But allowing for the normal run of human error and bias, what we have today is an avalanche of flat out lies masquerading as history. Mostly, of course, lies designed to undermine the West in general and the USA in particular. Like that absurd 1619 Project which asserted that the original colonists came here simply so they could set up a racist, slave holding society. That has now entered the national mind: millions accept it as a proven fact when not a single historical document or event supports it.
But it isn’t just Progressive garbage like that. We also have other sorts of fake history being made up to suit Narratives. All of it does hook itself on some fact, never complete and always out of context. Like Candace Owens breathlessly relating to the world a little while back that we had been lied to: you see, after WWII, millions of Germans had been expelled from central and eastern Europe accompanied with great brutality! Now we know – and it was those damned Jews who orchestrated this and then suppressed it so we wouldn’t find out what rat bastards they are! Sure…except everyone who has more than cursory knowledge of WWII already knew that and it was done very deliberately by the Allied Powers. Sure, they put in the agreement that it was supposed to be done humanely but nobody gave a damn about that in 1945 because of what the Germans had just put the world through. But to someone as ignorant as Owens – and with our population increasingly uneducated – it seemed like something big and it caused a stir…and it goes on still with many people believing the false Narrative built up around it and using it as justification for not believing other things.
But even beyond wicked people pushing false Narratives, I think we also have a problem in the lack of thought of the modern world. People don’t think. They just accept. This is why in all the years since 1945 there has been no real assessment made of WWII; how it was conducted, why it was fought, how did the aftermath work out? We just accept that there’s a certain story line and never question it: to nutshell it, because the Allies were mean at Versailles Hitler was able to gain office and then Appeasers let him get powerful until the Great and Powerful Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt mobilized the world to defeat the monster after which, via the UN, we created a Rules-Based International Order which has kept the peace. There is a certain amount of truth to all of this – but not all truth. We really haven’t considered the whole matter and so we have not identified the true problem and thus our best course forward.
I’ve discussed some of these issues before: for instance, that far from being too mean to the Germans in 1919, the Allies were far too nice. Germany attacked France, Belgium and Luxembourg with absolutely no justification at all, forcing untold death and destruction on all three nations. Germany owed France for one million deaths which simply would not have happened if Germany hadn’t invaded. Think about that – the potential lost, alone, is incalculable. Who knows how many first rate doctors, scientists and artists perished in the mud of the trenches. How many French children were never born because their fathers mouldered into the ground around Verdun? How could Germany possibly repay that? What possible price extracted would be “too much”? A much harsher, truly punitive peace in 1919 and there simply would not have been a WWII because the Germans would never have been able to mount an attack.
But leave that aside, the primary cause of the First World War was unprovoked attack – and the fundamental reason for the Allies to fight – especially for Britain and the United States – was to enforce the principle that you can’t shoot your way into power and wealth. That no matter how much you disliked the state of the world, resort to arms to alter the position was forbidden. It was the primary cause and reason for World War Two as well. These days, in hindsight, it was all about stopping Nazis from being Nazis. And that, indeed, was a worthy object – but until we got into Germany in 1945 we really didn’t know the magnitude of the Nazi disease. Rumors were rife from 1942 on about the horrors the Nazis were perpetrating but they were just that – rumors. Not much solid, verified fact. It was when the Russians got into Auschwitz and we got into Buchenwald that the full truth came out and turned a just war into a holy crusade. But even with that horror, the real reason for fighting was the same as at the start, and the start of WWI: you can’t shoot your way into power. If the Nazis never harmed a Jew, they still would have been in the wrong because they attacked.
But nowhere in the writings about the war nor about how things were set up afterwards was this principle – the whole point of the fight – made central. Sure, the UN charter forbids aggression, but that was a dead letter the moment it was adopted. Almost immediately after the guns of WWII fell silent, people all around the world were resorting to arms to try to force a settlement in their favor – to grab things they could not win by peaceful means. It was as if the war had been fought for nothing except to create well paid sinecures for diplomats at the UN. Again and again since 1945 the nations of the world have used every means imaginable to justify or explain away someone’s aggression. Sure, the UN managed to plug the gap in Korea, but that is the exception which proves the rule…and even in that, the aggressors (North Korea and China) weren’t punished for their crimes. They remained in place after the war. They are still in place more than seven decades later…and because they were unpunished, they remain a standing threat to the peace of the world. Why shouldn’t they? Their own history books tell how they provoked a war costing millions of lives and nobody ever did a thing about it.
And this all stems, once again, from our fundamental failure to think about what happened and how it applies to current events. We’re stumbling around a world on fire today in 2024 because for nearly 80 years we’ve never really analyzed from a historic perspective the Second World War. We’ve talked endlessly but in circles about it. Never once breaking free from a pre-set Narrative designed, first and foremost, to excuse the Western Ruling Class institutions which failed to prevent it and then let it drag out years longer than it needed and then horribly screwed up the outcome. And now we’ve got people “discovering” that maybe the Nazis weren’t the bad guys – maybe it was the USA. And the Jews. Didn’t you hear what those mean, old Allies did to the Krauts of Silesia after the war?
This is why we have people in the USA blocking traffic for Hamas. These kids almost certainly couldn’t point Palestine out on a map if given three tries. They know nothing of the history of the area. They haven’t been taught to think – they just receive the word and act upon it. Not remotely a class of people who can be considered citizens in any real sense of the word. They were told the Israelis were bad and resistance to bad is always justified. Presto: we’ve got American college girls wearing the flag of people who would rape them to death in a minute when given the chance. Nothing thought out. Had it been thought out – and taught in schools – then everyone would be, “Hamas attacked unprovoked; regardless of their complaints about Israel – some of which may be fully justified – our principle is that you can’t start shooting about it: they are therefor in the wrong and must be stopped”. The fact that they raped and murdered just adds to the justification for wiping them out. Instead, pretty much the entire Western Ruling Class is trying to save Hamas – to keep alive an organization which attacks unprovoked, commits unspeakable brutalities and is pledged to the massacre of every Jew in Israel. Just amazing. But it is what comes from not thinking.
So, Mark, what is our way out? The only way out: punishing liars. I’ve mentioned this before as well. I can’t emphasize enough how utterly impossible it is to have a functioning, rational society if we allow liars to get away with it. We’ve allowed people to lie to us for so long on so many issues that I think most are infected with the disease of lies. Heck, even I am – though to a far less degree than most, or even than I was ten years ago. But the lies are so pervasive that even the strongest mind is influenced by them. The only way to stop it is via force – and the longer we wait, the more brutal the force we’ll have to apply.
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Speaking of false history, this video is making the rounds. A former Lefty friend (and Trump hater) sent it to me on my phone this morning. Very slickly done, may even be some truth to it. My guess is that the facts are manipulated and heavily cherry-picked. If it’s mostly true, it begs the question, did Trump’s lawyers lose on purpose? I mean, $300 million raised in the first 3 days after the verdict. On what planet is that considered a “loss”? If Trump wins in November, both sides are going to look back at this verdict as the thing that put him back in the White House. The only thing that could add to that would be if this idiot judge were to sentence Trump to significant jail time.
Nice link Spook. The video does a great job of summarizing the facts of the case. It there is anything false about it please feel free to link to sources disproving it.
I figured you’d probably have an orgasm over it. I don’t really care whether it’s true or not, and I’ve certainly got better things to do with my time than fact-check it. The whole thing backfired on Democrats in spectacular fashion.
American Jurisprudence is largely based on precedent. Casper, please cite the precedent used to convict Trump, and please provide your sources. Thank you in advance.
Cluster, as much as I despise the Left, you have to admit they are highly skilled at spinning things in their favor. I wish Republicans were better at it.
Here you go cluster.
https://time.com/6985532/trump-conviction-myths-debunked-essay/
That’s because they are liars and have no principles. Democrats have simply become things to be removed, like lint or a bottle cap.
Casper has no clue what precedent means.
you will have trouble citing precedent because almost everything they did in that farce of a trial was in the literal sense of the word unprecedented. Literally without any previous legal precedent
Literally without any previous legal precedent
Or foundation. The two laws allegedly broken and supposedly the predicate crimes don’t even reference actual crimes. The FECA reference was to an allegation investigated by the FECA and found to be without merit and dismissed, and the New York law cited just makes it a misdemeanor to promote or interfere with the election an official if done illegally
Very early you get the flavor of it – they call Trump’s affair with Daniels “alleged”. Lawyers are very careful in keeping themselves out of liability. Supposedly that affair is proven, right?
Wrong: all we have is Daniels uncorroborated testimony on it – and nobody with any sense at all is going to call it proven in print or on video for fear of liability because if it didn’t happen (or you can’t prove it happened) it can amount to slander. That right there is the tip off that all they’re going to do is craft a Narrative and then they go on to do just that, very slickly as you point out.
But if you actually listen carefully to what they say – the facts they present – what you get is a picture of Daniels trying to shakedown Trump prior to the election and him trying to not pay her off – indicating that they didn’t have an affair. The video claims that after the “grab ’em” video leaked Trump then ordered the payoff of Daniels as part of damage control (without any explanation as to why an old story of an affair would be particularly devastating) but there is still no evidence that Trump, himself, ordered anything done vis a vis Daniels being paid off.
At the end of the day, what we really have is a disappointed office-seeker (Cohen, who is also a convicted liar) and a porn star (you know: a prostitute) claiming that Trump did things when there is no direct evidence that Trump did anything. The Manhattan DA then hung this on a claim that Trump had violated campaign finance laws at the Federal level (even though relevant federal authorities looking at the same data concluded there was no crime) and the bookkeeping entries were done to hide this violation of Federal law.
It can’t be emphasized enough just how absurd this whole thing is. Stalin would be embarrassed at this show trial. There was nothing there. No crime happened. Whatever did happen, there is no direct evidence that Trump did it and our only witnesses are, to say the least, not reliable. But it worked with a Manhattan jury! They got their “Guilty” and creamed their pants…and then saw Trump raise 54 million dollars in 6 hours.
I got bored with the efforts to turn a boring kinda-story into melodrama about halfway through, and by then they still had not identified a crime other than the way payments were recorded. As far as I can tell, after seeing all the passionate overheated “debunking” stories, etc., the only crime I could find was that of showing payments as being for legal expenses when some of them were reimbursements for out of pocket expenses by Cohen. That is, technically, a “crime” though a minor one based mostly on the fact that it puts too many dollars into tax deduction categories than is strictly legal. The “predicate” crime that allowed Bragg to elevate the minor tax issue exists only in the fever swamp minds of terminally TDS fanatics because it depends solely on the decisions by those people that somehow they could determine what, exactly, Trump was thinking—and furthermore, that thinking it was illegal. Even MSNBC had to waffle on this, able to admit that the story was that Trump was convicted on May 30 on all 34 felony counts against him, relating to charges of falsifying business records over $130,000 payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. “Relating to charges of…”. That’s as close as MSNBC was willing to get to the bogus story told by the prosecution.
Few things are more Stalinist than show trials for Thought Crimes.
In fact I’ll make it easy for you.
“The Manhattan DA’s office has filed charges for falsification of business records 9,794 times since 2015. “
How many of those cases involved a former POTUS with one alleged false entry dating back 8 years which is also an expired misdemeanor? Because that is what is called a precedent.
I am though a little pleased to see that you are supporter of prosecuting former Presidents, so Joe Biden will definitely face charges of felony cocaine possession, tax evasion, and human trafficking. Slightly larger offenses than a bookkeeping error. Will you support the prosecution of Joe Biden too? And I am thinking we will hold the court proceedings in Florida with Matt Gaetz as lead prosecutor. Sound good?
Let the games begin.
Not only did none of these cases involve, as you point out, even one alleged false entry dating back 8 years which is also an expired misdemeanor, none involved basing the elevated charges on the claim that the alleged predicate crime is not actually a crime at all. At least I never found a law stating that an effort to protect or enhance the public’s opinion of a candidate is illegal.
The filing referenced by the *trial apologist supported its claims with two laws regarding election law—neither of which was relevant to this case. The New York law, Election Law § 17-152, addresses only promoting or preventing the election of any person, neither of which is related in any way to the charges against Trump—-and BTW the penalty for being found guilty of doing so is a MISDEMEANOR.
Yes, the predicate “crime” used to elevate the misdemeanor crime of falsifying records to a felony is, in fact, just another misdemeanor. AND it was never charged, or adjudicated, relating to Trump, just asserted to be his secret unspoken motivation. AND it covered areas of behavior never claimed to have been related in any way to Trump’s actions, real or projected. AND it was asserted not on the basis of actual evidence or proof, just on the voices in the heads of the TDS prosecutors who decided they had the ability to accurately know what Trump was thinking and then prosecute him for it.
I did random searches of these filings and not one of them depended on an allegation of a motive that existed only in the minds of the charging officials. Every one of them that I found was based on actual crimes, crimes that were committed and charged and adjudicated. I am sure casper would never go the trouble to actually look up things and examine them and analyze them for relevance to the case at hand—that’s just not casperish.
But I’ll try. Here is a challenge for casper—or, for that matter, any of his delusional Fellow Travelers—–Find and cite any election law, federal or in New York, making it a crime for a candidate to try to protect his reputation and/or present the best possible image to the electorate.
“I am though a little pleased to see that you are supporter of prosecuting former Presidents”
Actually, what I’m a supporter of is prosecuting anyone who has committed a crime, regardless of position. Produce as much evidence against Biden as Trump and I’m good with it.
Proving to me once again, you have no clue what America is all about. Do you comrade?
Casper, you can’t possibly be serious. I mean heck, the investigation of Biden said ‘he’s guilty but too senile to stand trial’
But never, not even once, has someone been charged with falsifying records to hide something that the accused has never been indicted for. That’s the thing, Casper – they’re saying that Trump was trying to hide something that the Feds say never happened. That is the absurdity; you can’t do that. That is, a State or local prosecutor can’t charge that a crime was committed to hide a crime that didn’t happen. If the records were falsified to hide a crime, Trump would have been prosecuted in federal court. Indeed, Biden’s DOJ would have gleefully charged Trump in federal court over it if there was something to charge him on.
There wasn’t.
There was no crime.
You can’t hide what didn’t happen.
Mark, watch the video Spook provided. It covers all your arguments.
Yes there was a crime and Trump was convicted of it. That’s why he is now a convicted felon.
I did watch it.
It is slick, lying propaganda.
I’ll give you a challenge, Casper – do not watch or read any of your news/opinion sources for 30 days. Complete cut off of the Propaganda Machine.
Then, after you’ve finished the 30th day, watch the video again.
To someone who doesn’t consume propaganda on a regular basis the video is laughable – it is so obviously a false Narrative.
Keep in mind that I’m not asking you to watch/read Right news/opinion – I’m asking you to watch none of it. Take a break. Unplug for 30 days.
A whole, new world will open up for you.
You simply do not realize how your mind has been controlled by the Establishment.
But once it stops, you see it easily.
I love it how Casper just defers to others comments and/or videos … I don’t think Casper could ever articulate what the manufactured crime is. And the “falsification of business records” was not a prosecutable crime according federal prosecutors who passed on the prosecution. And if it’s election interference, then I’m guessing Casper is an avid reader of the National Enquirer. Wouldn’t that be interesting?
“It is slick, lying propaganda.”
Which parts? The testimony by Trump’s friends, or the documents from Trump’s company? Or is there something else?
Casper, the story they tell is that Trump – THAT NO GOOD ROTTEN MAN!!!! – paid off a porn star because if he didn’t he’d have lost in 2016. Then, being the WORST ORANGE BAD MAN EVER he falsified his business records, entering the expenses as “legal” rather than “payoff to pornstar”.
None of this seems out there to you because your mind is under Ruling Class control – you consume their propaganda day in and day out and so this seems reasonable…just as to many a Soviet citizen in 1937 it seemed reasonable that there were “wreckers” and “kulaks” who were causing the Soviet economy to be in bad shape. It is only reasonable as long as you listen.
Turn it off. Just 30 days. The time you save you can spend doing something else.
Then, watch it again.
I guarantee you that you’ll see the flaws.
Who testified about hearing Trump explain a scheme to finance his campaign (with his own money BTW) but hide the donation in a false filing of legal expenses?
Who testified that Trump was not concerned about upsetting his family with the allegations of the trampy sex worker?
Who testified that Trump knew the reporting was bogus but insisted that it be filed that way?
“I love it how Casper just defers to others comments and/or videos “
Why reinvent the wheel? They do a pretty good job and they link to the appropriate documents making the case.
Tell you what Mark. You try turning FOX off for thirty days. It’s ben done before.
https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/04/07/when-fox-news-viewers-flip-to-cnn-their-opinions-shift-too-study-finds/
After nearly four weeks of watching CNN in September 2020, the Fox News regulars remained firmly conservative. Still, the study found, they were more supportive of voting by mail, less likely to believe that Democratic candidate Joe Biden wanted to eliminate all police funding, and had less positive evaluations of then-President Donald Trump and other Republican politicians.
The effect, however, was short-lived. Two months after the study period ended, most of the participants had abandoned CNN, and the changes in their opinions had faded away Even a Berkeley source had to admit this.
These impressions “faded away” because they were fantasies, delusions, and what’s more important they depend on an inherent attraction to the emotional stimulation provided by nonstop personal attacks on others. Some people are addicted to this, and remain committed to its sources, while others find it boring and offensive and soon tire of it and return to thought instead of feeling.
More and more we see the sorting process of who is in which camp depending more on pathology than anything else—-there are truth seekers indifferent to emotional appeals, and there are those who get visceral (almost erotic) reactions to hate-based appeals.
I haven’t watched television news in many years. Can’t recall exactly when I stopped – but you might recall my old “What Media Bias?” posts over the years; it was some time after the last of those went up. That was in 2017. But even before that, I was shutting it out. It is all just Regime Propaganda – even Fox; which is why they canned Carlson.
Here’s how it works – and works to distort your mind.
A couple days ago an MSM story came out of Europe: “Police officer stabbed at Far Right rally dies”
Now, after you read that, what did you think? You naturally thought that some Far Right guy stabbed a cop, who then died.
Here’s what really happened:
A protest against open immigration was taking place – not a “far right” rally; just people who are dismayed at the number of unvetted foreigners being let in. During this protest, a “migrant” suddenly started stabbing one of the participants, who then fought to defend himself. When the police arrived, they tackled the man who was being stabbed! And they were so busy sitting on this “far right” guy that the “migrant” stabbed one of the cops, who later died.
People like you see that headline. You shake your head. Maybe you click the link, maybe you don’t. Doesn’t matter: the intended effect happened. The reader has received another dose of conditioning to make sure they support the Ruling Class against the people. You take another sip of your coffee and scroll on, confident that you are on “the right side of history”. You’re so immersed in it that you just don’t see it. And you don’t want to see it. You’re afraid you’ve been wrong.
Well, buckle up: you have been. So have I. All of us, to one degree or another, have been suckered.
But if you volunteer to remain a sucker, that’s on you.
…if you volunteer to remain a sucker, that’s on you.
casper has not just volunteered to remain a sucker, he has dedicated himself to it, to the extent of exerting a lot of energy to defending this position.
If he had even an iota of commitment to the concept of following the law as it is written and applying it equally to all, irrespective of political belief or race, creed or color, he would have the emotional and intellectual freedom to objectively analyze the many ethical and legal defects of the Trump *trial even while having a very negative opinion of Trump.
Exactly. I know many people who dislike Trump on personal or policy matters – but see right through the scam of the trial. You can’t do that – not in a system of government based upon consent. The “crime” was not prosecuted – thus it either never happened or there was insufficient evidence to get a jury – even in Manhattan – to say beyond a reasonable doubt that it happened. You can’t take that as your starting point and then hang State charges on it – charges that were inflated to Class E felony status just so they could get “felon” attached to Trump’s name.
Think about what you’d really have to prove here:
1. Indisputable that Trump ordered the payment to Daniels.
2. Indisputable that Trump ordered falsification of the business records to hide the payment to Daniels.
3. Indisputable that Trump did this in order to illegally influence the voters.
None of that was proved at trial.
Don’t forget that the alleged predicate “crime”—identified in the filing linked in the “rebuttal” article—does not exist. The cited law does not address an effort to hide negative information to affect public perception of a candidate. It’s a fake. It depends on people seeing the law being cited and thinking “Oh, so there IS a law against that” and not looking up the law to see what it actually says.
That whole filing is bogus. It makes unfounded claims and it refers to two laws without admitting that the FECA had already investigated the claims and found them without merit, declining to prosecute, and the New York law says nothing about it being illegal to try to influence public opinion of a candidate.
Defendant intended to commit or conceal
election law crimes.
a. Defendant falsified business records
to conceal violations of the
Federal Election Campaign Act
and Election Law § 17-152. 23
Filings are assumed to be under oath, so I think whoever filed this could be prosecuted for perjury—elevated to a higher felony by its intent to influence the 2024 election.
The Trump *trial raises questions across political boundaries:
If the Constitution does not give me protection, what does?
If the law as it is written doesn’t protect me, what does?
If government agencies can go after citizens for their political beliefs or affiliations, is it safe to express disagreement with government policies or actions?
If a famous and wealthy citizen can be prosecuted by ignoring laws and distorting others, what chances do ordinary people have if the government wants to silence them or punish them?
How can we have faith in the integrity of our elections when one powerful political party can try to influence voters by using the power of the State to smear the name of its opponent and interfere with his ability to campaign freely?
This *trial is creating seismic tremors throughout the entire country, stalwart Leftist supporters excluded, who celebrate the expansion of power through brute force. This is not about Donald Trump—it is about the very core of American governance and the prospective loss of freedoms and protections we have taken for granted.
I think it is going to come down to the Big Question:
Is the country we are seeing now the country we want to live in?
According to casper, it was up to Trump to prove his innocence. Look at all the times he has bleated that Trump had the chance to testify but didn’t.
Of course, according to casper being “out on bail” is the same thing as being proved guilty, in spite of the Constitutional guarantee of innocent until PROVEN guilty. But then we all know how little casper respects the Constitution
The reason the Left has felt forced to denigrate and demonize Fox News is because of their own dependence on the kinds of distortions of information you illustrate. Fox NEWS made the commitment to simply provide the news, relating events and not tainting the coverage with efforts to create certain reactions or conclusions, and this approach to the news is a serious threat to the Left. Thus we have seen the multi-pronged and unceasing attacks on Fox, much of it dependent on conflating the opinion shows, which are openly identified as entertainment and being based on the personal OPINIONS of the hosts, with the separate and objective NEWS side of Fox.
But in a society where far too many adults show the results of what passed for “education” when they were younger, exposed to “teaching” such as that provided by casper when he told his students that the Constitution was flawed, that it was not definitive but was a “living document” which could and should be flexible and malleable depending on the conditions of the time, that to believe it should be followed as written would mean wanting to return to slavery and denying women the vote, and other such Leftist nonsense. The desire and ability to objectively analyze input is not inherent, but must be developed and encouraged, but this is anathema to the Left and its need for an unthinking and uncritical populace that has never developed this skill or desire.
casper presents a consistent example of someone who has reached an advanced age without either the ability to objectively examine and analyze information or even the recognition of the need to try. Fortunately a lot of Americans who once fit that description are finding within themselves an inborn, if suppressed, need for truth and they are starting to see through the veils of deception and propaganda that define the Left’s messaging. And some if not most of this messaging is very skillful, a talent developed over decades of depending on effective manipulation of perceptions to keep their sheeple in their pens.
I acknowledge that not many have the time to spend untangling the lies and half-truths and misleading statements of the Left. Today I am stuck at the computer dealing with phone calls and so on, so today I have that luxury, such as it is. So today I could examine the pseudo-scholarly “rebuttal” of the complaints about the Trump *trial and untangle some of the purposely convoluted arguments. The thing is, with practice at seeing the signs of obfuscation it gets easier to spot it, and recognize out the signs. When you see purposely vague comments such as “might have” you can count on finding an effort to convey the perception that what you have been told is what really happened, and not just a vague reference to an ill-defined theory of what could possibly, in some circumstances, with some person, COULD happen. You learn to quickly recognize the sly insertions of words designed not to convey information but to steer perceptions and beliefs, words such as “unfounded” or “baseless” as we see creeping even into election coverage that doesn’t intend to deceive but has just absorbed the zeitgeist resulting from constant repetition of themes, even false themes.
Yep – Fox is Regime Propaganda that allows some measure of dissent from the Narrative. It was better before the younger Murdochs – all Progressives – took charge. It never really challenged the Narrative. It was like those old Soviet publications that would skirt just to the edge of the Party Line but never entirely over it. But because they allowed a voice like Carlson on air, it was attacked as nothing but a pack of lies…as if the entire MSM wasn’t a pack of liars.
When Fox started, the news division did just report what happened, without editorializing. It has become more susceptible to folding opinion into its reporting but it still does a better job of providing unfiltered information than any other major source. In its search for revenue from a larger audience it started to devolve into more of an Establishment perspective, but has found that there is no way to appease the mob, no matter how hard you grovel for their approval
“Right” and “Far Right” no longer exist, in the arena of Leftist propaganda, as descriptions of actual POLITICAL philosophy, but are now used to describe cultural identities without regard for the actual politics that may or may not be involved.
Actually, in New York you can do that very thing. According to its law, the predicate crime does not have to be identified, or have been committed.
The thing is, it DOES have to actually exist. And there is no crime, federal or state, against a candidate wanting to/trying to protect his reputation, and/or present the best possible image to the electorate.
The only law I have seen cited is Election Law Section 17-152
Conspiracy to promote or prevent election
Any two or more persons who conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means and which conspiracy is acted upon by one or more of the parties thereto, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
And no one tried to claim that Trump’s true, secret, inner mental calculations when he wrote checks for legal services to pay invoices for legal services were to promote or prevent the election of any person. Of course, I suppose that a highly motivated prosecutor with practice in redefining terms and laws COULD claim that by wanting to hide nefarious and false information about him as a candidate Trump was trying to “promote” his election.
I wonder what Democrats think of Hillary Clintons payments to a law firm for the Steel Dossier during the 2016 campaign which she noted as a “legal expense” … was that a falsification? Casper is the expert on this so I will defer to him on this.
There is a reason why Trump, despite mountains of evidence, did not legally pursue Hillary Clinton. I wonder if Casper can tell us why.
I would guess that there wasn’t enough evidence to convict Clinton. He certainly wanted to go after her.
Is that your guess sweetheart? You have no clue why America is considered the best country in the world, and with people like you around, we are quickly losing that status.
Actually Cluster, It’s people like me that make our country great.
Now you’re just trying to see how outrageous you can be.
Though I guess that it is possible for someone with a documented history of delusional beliefs MIGHT truly feel that a preference for a governmental system antithetical to that upon which our nation was built, and upon which our biggest successes have been achieved, can still think he and his kind “make our country great”.
We have seen you celebrate and defend the disintegration of a once-great and respected judicial system into third-world, almost Stalinist, degeneracy so I guess it makes a kind of distorted sense that you might attribute this to an effort to “make our country great”—though lately that would depend on how you see our country. If it is as the USSA—the United Soviet States of America—-than you might have a point.
Wrong again dipshit. As a teacher you churned out a generation or two of poorly educated kids, and now you’re advocating political prosecutions, which is exactly what third world countries do. And I am convinced you’re simply too stupid and propagandized to even understand this. Hell, you even have a completely distorted understanding of the Constitution.
People like you need to be removed.
Even FBI lapdog Comey agreed there was enough evidence to convict Clinton, bailing from a recommendation to prosecute based on the absurd claim that although she did break all those laws she didn’t do it with the specific intent of breaking all those laws or doing harm.
After all, a former First Lady and then Senator who had been the target of innumerable FOIA demands had no INTENT to illegally avoid those demands by setting up an illegal secret server to keep government documents, many highly classified and relating to State Department discussions and decisions, including communications with the president, hidden from Freedom of Information Act law requiring disclosure of government documents. After all, a former First Lady and then Senator who had signed many security clearance documents relating to the legal prohibition on revealing classified information would not realize that an unsecured server might violate (18 U.S.C. Section 793) which prohibits anyone entrusted with such information from allowing the removal, loss, theft, or destruction of the information through gross negligence.
But casper has staked out his territory, and it is unfailing, unquestioning, unassailable dedication to the Democrat political party and all who represent it.
And the Democrat Party has staked out its own territory—-blatant racism, sexualization of young children, porn available even in elementary schools, genocide in supporting the elimination of Jews, support of terrorism and even of specifics such as rape as a tool of war, rejection of several elements of our Bill of Rights ( specifically the 1st, 4th, 6th, 8th and 10th Amendments) and multiple violations of federal laws regarding illegal immigration, use of federal agencies to spy on American citizens, use of federal power to prosecute, intimidate or harass political opposition, use of federal and state powers to rig presidential elections, etc. Basically, the Democrat Party has come out, especially in the last four years since the assumption of power by Joe Biden, as basically being against the principles of America as laid out in our founding and governing documents and about 200 years of history.
And so, by extension, has casper.
are you really that dishonest Casper?
casper also loved the J6 hearings
casper has been obsessed with this blog for about three decades now, slithering back no matter how many times he has been blocked, no matter how many times his inane Leftist blather has simply been removed. And he’s always been an ardent cheerleader for anything and anyone the Left has supported.
so, Casper, you think Soviet style show trials are ‘great’?
We are now in the most dangerous time in American history, far worse than the revolution or the civil war. At least during those times we had people with conviction, clarity, and strength to stave off the advancing threats. I’m not sure enough Americans have that strength and clarity yet. As evidenced by Casper
Let the lawfare begin … hey this is what Democrats want!!
https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-and-james-biden-referred-by-congress-for-criminal-prosecution-over-provably-false-statements
And now that we know former presidents can be prosecuted for things they did while in office, Uncle Joe must be sweating a little. Well, not Joe himself—he has no idea what is going on—but everyone around him can see the writing on the wall and realize that the New Rules can and will be used against them.
I’d like to see Bragg face charges of the misdemeanor crime of malicious or frivolous prosecution elevated to a felony charge because it was done to further the crime of influencing an election. Ditto for everyone who filed false reports to try to hide the laptop information to influence the election in 2016. Hmmm—-who might that be? Twitter, Facebook, 51 signers of a false document, etc. Now we know we can go after Hillary, regardless of any of those silly old “statute of limitations” laws that might be giving her a false sense of security. And her campaign finance issues were, after all, easily elevated to felonies as they were clearly committed in furtherance of election interference. Actually, it looks like all of those who filed false reports to the FISA court can be dragged in, with those false reports elevated to felonies due to their goal of election interference.
I like how at the trial the laptop was entered in as evidence – the item which the entire Establishment condemned as Russian disinformation is now evidence at trial. Which means it is Hunter’s – and everything on it is his.
Apparently Hunter’s attorneys are arguing that he’s the victim of a gigantic federal conspiracy to get him…which is the sort of thing a druggie says. It is always someone else’s fault.
They can’t keep up with their lies, but it doesn’t matter to them because they know their base can’t either—-and doesn’t even care.
I had no idea that posting that youtube video this morning would create such a lively conversation. Sorry I was gone all day and missed it. The fact remains, the trial verdict is going to turn out to be the single largest in-kind campaign donation in the history of American politics, and likely the first EVER by an opposing campaign.. I’m not sure who originally said it, but one of my favorite quotes is “when your adversary is engaged in self-immolation, the best strategy is to hid the fire extinguishers and get the hell out of the way.” We’ve seen the backlash from the verdict; can you imagine the backlash if Judge Merchan sentences Trump to 4 years on each of the 34 counts (the maximum sentence), even if ordered to serve concurrently? We’re already seeing people who hate or at least dislike Trump announce they’re donating significant sums to his campaign. Bragg and his cronies really did poke the wrong bear.
Who would have thought being a felon was such a good thing. Perhaps Trump should push for the other trials to start sooner so he can add some more felonies.
I don’t think felonies has anything to do with it. Biden is guilty of a multitude of felonies, he just hasn’t been indicted or prosecuted for them yet. What’s driving the current narrative is the fact that the American people by and large believe in fair play, and a great many people see the unprecedented lengths to which the Left is resorting to brand Trump as a felon as inherently unfair. I understand why you don’t see it that way, but you are in the minority – fortunately.
This is just passes for wit in Doofusville, as illustrated by its mayor and namesake. I’m sure you have noticed that he ducks any questions unless he has a cheat sheet—something someone has said that he can regurgitate and then smirk that he just isn’t reinventing the wheel.
There are two significant elements to this fairness issue. One, of course, is the growing awareness of the unfairness of the whole charade, as more information comes out about the shenanigans necessary for Bragg to even start the ball rolling—this is just not the way most Americans want to view their judicial system. The other is the growing awareness that if it can happen to a prominent and wealthy man it can happen to any of us.
As Americans we grow up secure in our belief that our system is full of checks and balances and protections for us, so we never have to live in fear of a dark shadow of Government looming over us to exert its powers. This *trial has shattered that belief. We saw it start to erode with with the J6 hearings and subsequent trials of people accused of participating in the riot, and then we saw it writ large as we saw people denied speedy trials, subject to cruel and inhumane treatment not even doled out on career violent criminals and then given outrageously long and harsh prison sentences for relatively minor offenses—and we saw people engaging in far worse and more dangerous and damaging actions not even being arrested, or if they were then given token bail and set free.
We thought “well, I guess if I don’t play a role in a riot they won’t be able to do this to me” but this treatment also had the effect of sending the message that engaging in any large protest the government doesn’t like COULD put us in the same kind of predicament, so the intimidation factor was still there. Fear OF our government started to develop, with reason. Then when Trump was given 30 days to come up with half a billion dollars in cash we looked at the 8th Amendment, which we thought was a protection from unreasonable bail, and realized that it no longer held sway in many courtrooms and that this could very easily filter down to district courts where we COULD be assessed unreasonable bail for non violent charges. This was especially scary to those who realized that this treatment was for business practices that were, and are, common and accepted and had never before been treated as crimes, when even the entities listed as “victims” swore they had not only been defrauded but had made significant profits on the transactions.
We watched Trump held to a completely different standard when it came to handling of classified documents. We saw Hillary Clinton essentially cleared of culpability even though she had set up an illegal private email server to thwart federal laws regarding transparency of government communications, specifically to avoid FOIA demands to turn over documents and communications, and we learned that the President of the United States knew this and even communicated through this illegal server, using an alias, linking the White House and the State Department in an illegal scheme to hide their actions from the public. We were not surprised to learn that hackers from several countries had availed themselves of this easy access to what should have been highly classified and sensitive documents and discussions of national security. So when Donald Trump became the target of coordinated attacks based on complaints about documents in his possession, or alleged to be in his possession, in a secure locked room approved by the archivist, in a building with high security and guarded by Secret Service agents, we smelled some big old federal rats. The federal rats showed up at this secure building, armed and ready to rumble, in a dramatic raid on the home of a former president, and then we learned that the documents in question had been either (1) packed and shipped under the auspices of the Biden administration after Trump left the White House, and/or (2) taken on the raid to be staged for photographs. All this while boxes of classified documents, some of which had been illegally smuggled out of SCIFs by Senator or Vice President Biden, or simply taken from other sources in different administrations, had been left in unsealed boxes in an unlocked garage of a house where his drug addict son was living or in offices suspected of being controlled by the Communist Chinese government—with no repercussions, no charges filed, simply ignored.
The concerns were growing along with the proofs of an uneven if not wholly corrupt judicial system and a federal government becoming increasingly abusive and tyrannical. So this latest antic, the *trial that gave the Left its trophy label, is possibly the tipping point for millions of people. The moral, ethical and legal defects of this *trial have been discussed at length, here and in other places, by us and by people with legal credentials who speak with authority.
The Left has been sanitizing formerly toxic words like “socialist” for a long time now, but it’s interesting to see that they have just inadvertently sanitized the word “felon” when they so desperately need it to be ominous. They have turned it into a joke, while adding to the body of concern that they represent tyranny and oppression and the use of government power to control, intimidate and punish anyone who comes up on their radar.
So now more and more people are realizing that if the Constitution, and its guaranteed protections, can be disregarded at will, the average citizen can no longer feel safe from his government. And in the meantime, those on the Left are busy widening the gulf between them and decency, as people are now coming down for or against Hamas and its brutality and genocidal agenda and now choosing sides about this *trial—is it OK to violate the Constitution and manipulate the law if you feel that the target of these machinations “deserves it” or do we have to restrained by our laws and follow them?
The Morning Briefing: The Dem ‘Convicted Felon’ Eunuch Chorus Isn’t Gaining an Audience
Ever since former President Donald Trump was handed a kajillion bogus felony convictions for the equivalent of a handful of parking tickets, his haters have been squawking “Convicted felon!” like short bus parrots. The insane repetition of the phrase is obviously intended to cause damage to Trump’s reputation and election chances.
“Biden is guilty of a multitude of felonies, he just hasn’t been indicted or prosecuted for them yet”
Then he isn’t guilty. Trump was investigated, the evidence presented to a Grand Jury which indicted him, and convicted by a jury of his peers. Trump is a convicted felon. Biden is not. The video you linked too went through the entire processing laid it out pretty well. As for being in the minority, I think you have it backwards. Most Americans agree with the verdict.
The Grand Jury did not indict him for the crime that was presented after both sides rested and the judge was issuing his lengthy instructions. You so desperately need to believe that your side is not bone-deep corrupt and escalating its contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law that all you can do is parrot your simple minded talking points while steadfastly ignoring the very real observations of abuse of power presented here and in other places.
Just like the divide between those who support the atrocities of Hamas and the elimination of Jews and those who find it heinous and inexcusable, those who deny the moral and ethical and legal defects of this sham *trial because it lets them celebrate what they see as the downfall of a person are on one side of a widening chasm and the bridge across it is one-way—-from denial of the corruption to decrying it.
But you keep squawking away, obedient little parrot that you are. No one cares.
Well, folks, there is more bad news on the horizon. The radical Left (an increasingly redundant term) has had so much success in its brainwashing of the highly susceptible that it is doubling down on its insanity.
The latest is an essay on how health and fitness are related to fascism. (Stop giggling—you are supposed to take this seriously!) Yep, according to the Guardian, there is a “WELLNESS TO FASCISM PIPELINE.”
Some quotes from The Guardian, emphasizing that by “Guardian” they mean “gatekeepers of the loony bin”:
And so on. There is the temptation to keep reading, to see how far they will take this before breaking down and saying “Gotcha!” and admitting it’s all just a big goon. But, sadly, it isn’t. It implies the inverse logic inherent in accepting that the more fit you are, the more of a jerk you are, which would be that the more you are defined as a fat slob the more superior you are. This is clearly aimed at the multi-chinned pudges (take a bow, casper, at least as far as you can bend over) in an effort to make lethargy and bad eating habits virtuous. And, of course, it is designed to generate even more resentment, conflict and division.
So the Left is no longer satisfied with divisions based on “Political rape is good” vs “no rape is good”; “genocide is OK if they deserve it” vs “genocide is never OK”; “The Constitution is a mild suggestion with no authority” vs “The Constitution is the law of the land and to remain America we must follow it” and so on. Now they are reduced to explaining why sloth and obesity are evidence of occupying the Higher Moral Ground and healthy fit people are just inferior and should be scorned. Well, they need something to replace the newly rejected “anti-semitism is bad” and “judge people by their character not the color of their skin” so they obviously looked at their support and realized that praising poor health and bad hygiene would play to their base. (They must have been looking at the same “protest” photos we have.)
According to the Leftist Bible, the Guardian, we are on our way to a new mantra: “I’d rather be a fat lazy slob than a fascist”. (This would be on a bumper sticker of a Prius heading to a riot advocating for elimination of Jews, the agenda of the most fascist people in history, the Nazis.)
an unwitting slide into fascism, hastened by a treadmill I thought it was satire, but it isn’t.
Yesterday, Hunter Biden’s current wife, ex wife, ex girlfriend, and former babysitter sat and watched the prosecution detail his drug use and sexual debauchery through video and audio recordings. Normal defendants would be ashamed, and normal relatives would be disgusted.
The Biden’s are not a normal American family
The more we learn, the more garbage they become.
And all of this was known, all along. You can’t tell me that the MSMers didn’t know that a senior Senator’s son kept this on the downlow. Since at least 2000, what Hunter is has been known…and not a whisper about it in the MSM.
When Trump is President again he will release the Epstein files or will he?
https://x.com/i/status/1798393295254831522
IMO, if Trump gets in everything from 20 or more years in the past should be immediately declassified. Selective declassification of things 10 or more years ago.
Declassify everything about persons who are dead no matter how recently.
We have to get away from government secrecy – it is our government; we need to know what it is doing.
Hate to suggest that you let a little truth intrude on your fantasies, but Trump makes a point about the inherent wrongness in simply releasing unvetted, unproven, allegations and file entries. As someone who has experienced watching media outlets recklessly repeating anything they are told, he is merely observing the dangers of repeating this kind of thing.
When Trump is President again he will release the Epstein files or will he?
Going to look for your name?