Just a quick hit showing up here because I’m out until late Friday.
Missouri’s AG has been suing Planned Parenthood over the allegation that they’ve helped traffic minors out of State for abortions – if so, obviously to dispose of evidence of crimes. PP is a vile organization from top to bottom and it is things like this which will destroy it – and the good news here is that the judge denied PP’s motion to have the case dismissed. The chances that an organization dedicated to killing is clean are very small.
This is the model. All Red State AG’s should be suing these Leftist groups – they are the backbone. They are how money and influence get peddled. It is groups like PP – hundreds of them, all around the country – that have made sure that even in the Reddest States, Liberalism rules the roost. But only because nobody in the Red States has gone after them. The old, let’s-be-nice GOP never wanted to get down in the mud and fight these people. Now we’re getting some who do – and we can start to step-by-step dismantle the money if the Left.
Democrats and the MSM (BIRM) are pushing “the videos are fakes” regarding the live videos of Biden malfunctioning in public. The word went out and everyone ran with it. I guess we’ll see if MSM lies really carry water these days. I doubt it, though. Even more ridiculous in this is Democrat/MSM attempts to paint Trump as the mentally impaired candidate. Forget that you just watched him do a 90 minute live rally – we have sources telling us he’s gaga behind closed doors. I don’t think it’ll work.
The Buffalo Bills will be sponsoring a gay flag football league. Just go ahead and get all the jokes out of your system.
Done?
Good.
Now, isn’t that discrimination? I mean, if the league only allows gay players, doesn’t this discriminate against straight people?
There were rumors that Noam Chomsky had become a good commie but then this was later denied so, pro tempore, he remains a bad commie. But we know how this turns out in the end.
Someone in Democrat-land decided that it was a good idea to make a thing about the 12th anniversary of Obama’s unconstitutional DACA order. They were all over social media with it – asking us, in effect, to be proud of them for breaking the law and allowing a flood of illegals into the country. With, of course, the usual drivel about these people being hard working, law abiding people. Except for that whole breaking the law to get in here thing…fortunately, the comments on these Democrat posts were filled with links to articles about recent murders done by illegals. I think the people are kinda fed up with the illegal immigration thing. For goodness sake, if you really are a refugee you just have to present yourself at the border and meet some very minimal requirements to get in…the flood of millions is just contempt for America.
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We can count on Dennis Prager to do the research and lay out the facts. This should be read and archived.
Germans — Even During the Hitler Era — Were a Better People Than the Palestinians
BTW, someone who posted this got fired. Evidently it is “hate speech”.
But then so are signs that say “No U-turn”. Why gay men want to identify with these signs is really TMI.
think the people are kinda fed up with the illegal immigration thing.
A recent poll showed that 62% support mass deportation. In a country as divided as we are, 62% is a clear plurality and proof that Americans are finally fed up with our Ruling Class. Biden even said the quiet part out loud yesterday re: immigration, saying that corporations depend on uneducated cheap labor, and thats what this is all about. Corporate colonialism.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/poll-shows-a-shocking-62-of-voters-on-both-sides-favor-mass-deportation-of-illegal-immigrants/ss-BB1o5KGw
The numbers drop off a little among Hispanics when it comes to approving of holding facilities for illegals, but that is understandable. The term does kind of sound like a concentration camp kind of thing, and it might even bring AOC down her in her white getup to bow down in anguish in front of an empty parking lot to convey the inhumanity.
Personally, I would start with wholly voluntary departures, appealing to those who are disenchanted with the reality of being here, and not have holding facilities at all. I would set up review stations in several cities where people could come in to register and be entered into the system and then arrange for buses to pick people up and take them directly to airports for chartered flights to cities closest to their home towns. This would only address a fraction of those who have to be deported, but it would be so civilized and respectful it would defuse a lot of the Leftist hysteria about the brutality of mass deportation.
After this, I would take over some of those hotels provided to illegals and use them as temporary detention centers for those who have to be approached and told to report but who are not repeat offenders or criminals. Again, not concentration camp stuff. As a hotel is filled up and the occupants registered, transportation is arranged and they are moved out to get ready for the next batch.
I would offer a form of amnesty for all who volunteer to return—that is, no fine, no penalty (after all, our own *president basically invited them to come here, and most of them have uprooted their whole lives back home to do so) and maybe the promise that after five years or so they can APPLY to come back. No guarantees. But no one who has to be apprehended will ever be allowed to return, not even on a visitor visa. They will all have provided DNA and retinal scans and fingerprints so we will be able to screen them when we finally secure the border.
After this rather gentle and generous approach to deportation we could start rounding up those who did not volunteer, and for those there would be penalties and no ability to ever return, with stronger penalties for those who are repeat offenders. This is the stage where it would be necessary to have secure holding facilities, because these people would be the more difficult and often the criminals.
I think it would be important to be able to provide an actual plan for mass deportation, and one that is mild-mannered and respectful of the dignity of those who came here because they sincerely thought they would be welcomed. This is a burden we as a nation have to acknowledge and respect—-our “leaders’ encouraged these people to spend their life savings and endure a long and often dangerous journey, and the least we can do is be nice to them as we send them back home. We should only need to be tough and aggressive toward those who came here to game the system, become predators and criminals or enable terrorism and who defy the effort to deport them.
Politically this would be a good approach, because it would simultaneously show the Right as being calm, rational, fair and simply applying the law, while giving us the opportunity to constantly remind the country that this entire difficult, panful and expensive operation is only necessary because the Left does not feel constrained by the law, or by our Constitution, but believes that once power is consolidated in the hands of a few elites they can make or ignore laws as they choose, and that when this happens innocent people pay the price.
So after five days of driving around a couple of Red Midwestern states, I saw my first Trump sign. I honestly surprised I haven’t seen more. I haven’t seen a single Tump bumper sticker, nor have I come across anyone wearing a MAGA hat. Too be fair I haven’t seen any Biden signs or bumperstickers either. I did see one Black Lives Matter sign.
Granted, it’s early, but I really thought I would be seeing more.
Meanwhile, several polls have dropped showing a Biden mini surge. I’m guessing the whole convicted felon thing is starting to settle in.
I still think there is a good chance that Trump will drop out of the debate. He is already making excuses as to why he will lose and the way he is glitching at rallies makes me think he will pull out before ;the whole country is watching.
You really need to review Spook’s advice about what to do when you are in a hole—stop digging. You keep repeating that nonsense about Trump “glitching” as if constant repetition will make it true. Hint: It won’t. It is a favorite mantra of the Maddow/Scarborough mentality and you sure seem to love it, but it just ain’t so. Trump speaks spontaneously for 90 minutes at a time, with no notes, no teleprompter, no idiot cards telling him when to pause, etc. and if he hesitates for a moment, to acknowledge applause or when there is an interruption or just to catch his breath you people pounce on this and call it a “glitch”.
Trump is capable of standing during the debate, but Biden’s weakness had to be accommodated so the rules changed to let him sit. I doubt that the TV coverage will show him being guided to his chair, or helped into it, or led off stage during the breaks, but you can bet it will happen. It happens every other time and place he is in public. Trump strides across a stage and seldom stops moving as he speaks for an hour and a half, while Biden walks like the Little Old Man from the Tim Conway show and has to have his entourage walk inches behind him with arms outstretched in case he falls, or veers off on another walkabout. Again. Trump sits for unscripted interviews, fielding every question, while we have photos of Biden’s cheat sheets including photos of “journalists” he is supposed to call on, in which order, with the scripted questions he will be “asked” and his “answers”—and then he also reads his stage directions, like “pause”. Trump goes from a rally to an interview to a meet-and-greet in a crowd on the street to a press conference, and Biden “calls a lid” on everything after a scripted 15-minute appearance. Trump speaks off the cuff to hundreds of people who gather to hear him, or thousands who travel to attend his rallies, while Biden mutters incoherently to tiny captive audiences of employees at a business where he is speaking, or a handful of campaign workers, about the various times and places Beau died and when he drove an 18-wheeler and his long conferences with train conductor who had died years earlier or the possibility that his uncle was eaten by cannibals and his different versions of the football career he just missed having. When Trump leaned on a faulty podium and it shifted, he kept his balance and made a joke about it, while Biden allegedly tripped over a sandbag that was behind him.
You just keep tittering about this alleged “Biden MINI surge”. At least the spin doctors are honest enough to admit that they can’t spin anything bigger than “mini”.
What’s settling in is a surge in Trump support, like the hats I just saw advertised saying “I’m voting for the felon”. It’s now a race between a convicted felon and an unconvicted felon, with the crimes on one side being minor bookkeeping errors honest prosecutors refused to charge and on the other being the selling of access to the United States government and accepting bribes, and using threats to withhold promised US aid to a foreign nation to prevent an investigation of his son and his role in shifting billions in US aid back to the Biden family.
We don’t even know exactly which of the smorgasbord of possible crimes different jurors found Trump guilty, but of all the charges against him the only even vaguely serious crime is the one that is the most vague in and of itself, the equivalent of examining the entrails of chickens to determine guilt. Without the crystal ball reading of Trump’s inner thoughts and motives the entire thing was so minor a real attorney general had decided it wasn’t worth prosecuting for what he actually did do, and that was before the statute of limitations ran out. What was left to try to build this into a felony was speculation about why he did what he did. When a charge boils down to “If he didn’t have this motive then there was no crime but I’m prosecuting for what I think he was thinking” the whole thing is a farce. When the former head of the Federal Election Commission is not allowed to testify about federal election law, the whole thing is a farce.
But it was a farce with an appeal to a certain level of gullibility and lack of intelligence, which is why we only hear it being touted by a limited number of Usual Suspects—the Useful Idiots of the Left. Most on the Left have stopped with the “felon” thing because it is backfiring on them big time but some of you are convinced everyone is as foolish and gullible as you are. The idea was just to get the “felon” label, even knowing it will all be overturned on appeal, because the Left was so convinced this word would mean people would turn against Trump. But the label is now a badge of honor, given to someone who has survived a State-run Star Chamber *trial that would make Stalin proud and in the process shown the level of corruption and venality that mark this Biden regime.
Now you poor saps just don’t know whether to shit or go blind—you so desperately want to put Trump in jail, or even fake symbolic jail like house arrest, but you know this will make the election rigging charge even more blatantly obvious, and make him a real political prisoner of a tyrannical regime. But if you don’t do anything it will be a tacit admission that he never did do anything very wrong anyway and the *trial was just for show.
Amazona,
You didn’t know that Trump uses a teleprompter? He even complains when it isn’t working. When it Isn’t working he starts going off on tangents (sometimes when it is working), about sharks, fictional serial killers, and having as affair with Nancy Pelosi in another life. Weird.
As for the Trump hats and merchandise, if he is selling it, It’s not really showing up yet. At least not in the Red states I’m traveling through.
As for wanting Trump in jail, I really don’t care if he gets probation, jail time or whatever. He is a convicted felon awaiting trials in three other jurisdictions, which isn’t a great look with the voters.
The next few months should be interesting. Can’t wait to see you try to translate his many future rants into something seminormal. At the same time, he is going to continue to lose support as more and more voters start really paying attention to the race.
OF COURSE he uses a teleprompter sometimes. Clearly your masters have not shown you the many videos of him speaking spontaneously with the large crowds that gather around him or his clearly spontaneous speeches. To use a teleprompter you have to stand in front of it to read it. Most can barely be read, if at all, if seen from an angle. Trump strides back and forth across stages in his rallies. He doesn’t stand in front of a teleprompter. Now your story is that his comments (that you clearly do not understand as humor: Dems are notoriously humor-deficient) are due to malfunctioning teleprompters? That shark comment really stuck in your craw, didn’t it? At least you keep mentioning it. And if you don’t think he was making a joke about ever having an affair with Pelosi in any life, ever, you really are a sad and sour little man.
Do try to get over that truly serious and rather creepy obsession with the man. Naturally someone with your shallow and superficial perception of politics (and the Constitution) is going to be very deeply impressed with how something LOOKS. Fortunately millions of us are smarter than you. Many millions. Probably many many millions.
What about the race is going to shift it away from Trump? The horrible economy? Having legitimate and legal debt for school loans dumped on people who never agreed to pay it? The 7.5 billion dollar EV charging program that so far has built only 7 recharging stations and has targeted some areas for stations where there isn’t even any electricity? The billion-dollar floating pier designed to help feed Gaza terrorist supporters which has broken up and had to be towed away, after never providing aid to the “refugees” it was supposed to help but giving lots of goodies to Hamas?
The millions and millions of illegal aliens who have flooded into the country due to Biden’s border policies, many of whom are now attacking and even killing Americans? When 62% of Americans are in favor of mass deportations, it’s a good guess that number will climb now that Joe is trying to get illegals eligible to vote, and granting more amnesty—though he can’t legally do that by Executive Orders. Since you are so impressed with how things LOOK you might wonder how it looks to have a *president who thinks he can simply override legislated laws by issuing royal edicts and who brags about ignoring Supreme Court decisions. Inflation and the economy are two of Biden’s Kryptonites, and they won’t go away. Even Dems have to acknowledge that things were better under Trump, and many are talking about their decisions to vote for him this time. He might not have a majority of black voters, but his share has gone up dramatically, and even more with Hispanics, and too many of them have seen loved ones and even themselves railroaded by corrupt law enforcement and judges to get the vapors over a “felon” whose crime was one of accounting entries and a fantasy about ulterior motives. Though it is clearly too complex for YOU to understand, most people have figured out that it’s pretty hard to influence an election by filing a report weeks after the election is over, and every time one of you flying monkeys howls “CONVICTED FELON !!!” more people pay attention to the blatant corruption of the charge and the *trial.
Maybe you think the needle will be moved in Biden’s direction if he howls enough about “democracy” to get voter support for the closest we have ever come to a dictatorship as Biden simply issues edicts without legislation and brags about defying the Supreme Court.
A huge plurality of polled Americans think Biden is too old and mentally damaged to be president, and you think they are going to change their minds the more they see him appear to mess his pants in public, or wander off until some minder catches him and brings him back, or has trouble figuring out how to get in a car? The fact is, the more people see of Biden the less they want him as president, and the more they see of Trump the more they see a strong, vibrant, energetic man who has stood up to the best the corrupt State has had to throw at him and spit in its eye.
You love to bleat that Trump is a “convicted felon”. Please describe his felony to us.
It is not a felony to misstate payments to an attorney as payment for legal fees even if the money was reimbursement for something other than straightforward legal work. When this does happen, it is a misdemeanor. When Trump was accused of this the AG of NY looked into it and decided it was too weak and insignificant an accusation to prosecute, and then it passed beyond the statutes of limitations.
It is not a felony or even a misdemeanor to pay someone to stop saying things about you. It is also not illegal to make this payment conditional on signing a non-disclosure agreement.
So what is the felony?
“Trump strides back and forth across stages in his rallies. He doesn’t stand in front of a teleprompter. “
Maybe four years ago. Lately he stays at the podium and does everything from the teleprompter.
“Now your story is that his comments (that you clearly do not understand as humor:”
Of course. Anytime he glitches he actually trying to be funny. Got it. I’m sure that will continue to be your narrative as he continues to go off the rails.
“What about the race is going to shift it away from Trump?”
It’s already shifting, at least according to the polls. The economy is actually doing pretty good. At least, I’m seeing a lot of people on vacation or going out to restaurants. Job numbers are up. Inflation has slowed down. Crime has gone down. And no, things weren’t better under Trump. Four years ago we were at record unemployment and thousands of Americans were dying each day. Gas prices were low because no one was going anywhere.
And yes Biden is old. But so is Trump and Trump’s mental decline seems to be getting worse. Guess voters will have to decide which old guy to pick. I’m guessing it won’t be the convicted criminal.
“You love to bleat that Trump is a “convicted felon”. Please describe his felony to us.”
I’ve done so in the past. I’ve even provided links. I guess that while I don’t understand Trump’s sense of humor, you don’t understand the law.
“Lately he stays at the podium” —-except when he doesn’t. You either watch all the Trump rallies or you just parrot what your masters tell you, but if you actually watched them you would know better. Not that facts have ever mattered to you.
So you feel qualified to evaluate the entire economy based on the fact that some people eat in restaurants where you are eating. This actually sounds consistent with Leftist “science”. I wonder if perhaps business is up a tick in those restaurants because of all the other restaurants that have gone under in this “improving” economy.
“Job numbers are up”. When you start at the bottom, everything is “up” and most of these jobs are merely examples of finally managing to gain a little ground after being shut down by the Biden regime. Nearly all are just jobs recovered after the dictatorial edicts of the Biden regime.
“Four years ago we were at record unemployment” You lie. Under Trump, the unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century. The country achieved 40 months in a row with more job openings than job-hirings, more Americans reported being employed than ever before –- nearly 160 million—and jobless claims hit a nearly 50-year low. The number of people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on record. Not only that, the unemployment rates for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and those without a high school diploma all reached record lows, and unemployment for women hit its lowest rate in nearly 70 years.
“Thousands of Americans were dying each day” as they always have and always will.
“Gas prices were low because no one was going anywhere”—a statement so monumentally stupid it may even displace your other monumentally stupid comments over the decades. If you’re going to flail around desperately seeking to explain the lower gas prices under Trump in a way that does not give his economy credit, at least make a token effort to sound less totally moronic.
You manage to ignore facts of the Trump administration: America gained 7 million NEW jobs, and incomes rose in every single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly 3 decades, with middle-class family income increasing nearly $6,000 – more than five times the gains during the entire previous administration. Natural gas production reached a record-high of 34.9 quads in 2019, following record high production in 2018 and in 2017 and the United States became a net natural gas exporter for three consecutive years. (That is, a lot of people were driving —–to work, and to spend the additional money in their pockets thanks to the Trump tax cuts and booming economy.)
But the real issue right now, for me, as I already knew your attacks on the Trump years would be pure crap, mere recitations of what your masters have fed you, is the fact that you tried to weasel out of the direct question I asked you. I asked you to describe Trump’s felony to us and, totally predictably, you can’t. You say you have “done so in the past”. Great. Then you should be able to do so again. You say “I’ve even provided links.” I know what your masters have said. I want YOU to describe this great and awful felony that is supposed to change the arc of the entire presidential election.
We know that incorrect entering of a payment to a lawyer, mislabeling it as legal service expense when it is really for something else, is a minor offense, a misdemeanor, punished with a small fine. And we know that a prior, more ethical, attorney general investigated this and found it too inconsequential to prosecute. And we know that it happened so long ago that the statute of limitations on it had expired meaning it could no longer be prosecuted.
We know that it is not illegal to pay “hush money” to anyone in return for a promise to stop making unflattering statements.
The *trial established that Trump had (1) probably committed the misdemeanor described, far enough in the past for it to no longer be chargeable as the statute of limitations on this had expired, and (2) paid the quite legal “hush money”. So what, exactly, was he found guilty OF? Describe the actual FELONY for which he has been smeared by the Complicit Agenda Media and obedient lapdogs of the American Left. No links. Use your big boy words.
Naturally, being a pissy creature prone to snark and snideness, you had to snarl that I “don’t understand the law”. Your problem here is that I DO understand the law.
So tell us, Mr. Teacher-man, what exactly was the felony for which Trump was found guilty? tick tock tick tock…………
Current labor participation rates are not yet back to 2019 levels. This is the real measurement
https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-labor-force-participation-rate.htm
Cluster, So you are saying that Trump really, really tanked the economy. Good thing Biden has been able to bring it back as far as he has. So the question is Why would we want to bring back the guy that tanked the economy in the first place?
You don’t even try to make sense any more.
“tanked the economy”. Well, I suppose in the Inside-Out-Upside-Down world of the rabid Left, it’s possible to believe even the most outrageous nonsense.
Under TrumpAmerica gained 7 million NEW jobs, and incomes rose in every single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly 3 decades, with middle-class family income increasing nearly $6,000 – more than five times the gains during the entire previous administration. Natural gas production reached a record-high of 34.9 quads in 2019, following record high production in 2018 and in 2017 and the United States became a net natural gas exporter for three consecutive years.
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On December 10, 2021, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for November 2021. The CPI measures the average change over time in the prices paid by consumers for goods and services. The overall index went up by 6.8 percent from a year ago, and this level of inflation was last seen in 1982. However, the increases in price were uneven across items in the CPI basket. For example, the price of food rose by 6.1 percent compared to a year ago, while the average energy price jumped by 33.3 percent. There was also a noticeable difference between commodities and services. While the one-year price increases for shelter and other services (excluding energy services and shelter) were 3.8 percent and 2.9 percent respectively, the price increase for commodities (excluding food and energy commodities) was 9.4 percent.
Joe Biden was inaugurated on January 20, 2021. By the end of November, 2021,we were starting to see Bidenflation ramping up as “The overall index went up by 6.8 percent from a year ago, and this level of inflation was last seen in 1982″.
On the other hand, only a truly ignorant moron or a stone cold liar (not, as we see with casper, that the two are mutually exclusive) could say that middle-class incomes going up by nearly $6000 and gas under $2.00 a gallon indicate a “tanked” economy, much less claim (with a presumably straight face) that Biden policies have improved the economy.
This does not even address the cost to the nation of trillions of dollars in new and unnecessary debt in the last three and a half years.
Cluster showed a chart showing how bad the economy tanked under Trump. Keep up.
You are very very stupid, but now also very very toxic
Cluster, did you really show a chart showing how bad the economy tanked under Trump? Because all I found was a link to a chart on the civilian labor force participation rate for many years, showing a relatively level but slightly climbing rate starting when Trump took office at the beginning of 2017, explaining why under Trump, the unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century. The country achieved 40 months in a row with more job openings than job-hirings, until the inevitable plunge when people were confined to their homes (anyone up to explaining this to casper?) in 2020. It has slowly starting to recover after the Covid Panic started to recede and people were allowed to go back to work again. It only shows the participation rate, which is still down because under Biden people were paid not to work, and a lot of people have chosen to stay out of the workforce.
Do you think this poor silly sap thought this chart actually showed the economy “tanking under Trump”? I guess, given the level of his ignorance and inability to process even basic information, this is possible. Actually, given his mental decline from an already low level it’s probably likely.
BTW, in June 2020, four years ago, Unemployment was at 11%. A record high for that month over the last 80 years.
You are a liar. That is, someone who purposely states misleading or incomplete information with the goal of advancing a false narrative.
Do you remember what was happening by the middle of 2020? You ought to, given your Covid hysteria and slavering support for the vaccines. You really are a disgusting creature.
https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-unemployment-rate.htm
You do realize that your chart supports the information I provided about a 3.5% unemployment rate under Trump, don’t you? Keep up.
All you can see is that spike reflecting the sharp decrease in employment when the government TOLD PEOPLE NOT TO GO TO WORk AND CLOSED THEIR BUSINESSES, following a long period of record unemployment. I know, that is a connection obviously far too subtle and nuanced for your tiny little brain to understand, but I’ll bet if you ponder on it long enough it might start to sink in.
But casper, back to my unanswered question: What, exactly, was the felony for which Trump was convicted? I’ll even walk you through this. Only some serious crimes rise to the level of being considered felonies, and they are clearly defined. Which of these crimes was the crime for which Trump was convicted?
If you are having trouble understanding the question, I will explain it again in even more detail . WHAT WAS THE FELONY?
“All you can see is that spike reflecting the sharp decrease in employment when the government TOLD PEOPLE NOT TO GO TO WORk AND CLOSED THEIR BUSINESSES, following a long period of record unemployment.”
You mean the government headed by Trump? Having an incompetent president during a pandemic made things that much worse.
“WHAT WAS THE FELONY?”
I’ve provided links explaining it in the past. I’m guessing your understanding of the law hasn’t improved since then. Feel free to look them up yourself.
Biden continued the lockdown, long after experts told him it was counterproductive, and on top of that he presided over one of the most corrupt and tyrannical episodes in American history, where he employed his executive orders to force people to inject an experimental drug, whether they wanted to or not, as a condition for keeping their jobs or their military positions or ability to travel relatively freely, while at the same time retaining the experimental drug classification to provide legal cover for the drug companies to which he was funneling billions of dollars of taxpayer money. Having an incompetent president during a pandemic made things that much worse. That’s what we kept telling you about Biden, and having a venal and corrupt president at the same time was even worse, but you still give him tongue baths and defend everything he does.
Yes, in retrospect Trump was wrong to listen to Fauci. But Biden continued to let Fauci run things long after it was clear he was a fraud. A president has to listen to his scientific advisors if he is not an expert in their fields, so early consulting with Fauci and taking his advice was prudent. It was the continuation of letting Fauci drive the bus even after facts started to surface, and in particular forcing people to take an experimental drug even after vaxx injuries started to be documented, that is unforgivable, but all that mattered to Biden was his corrupt relationship with the drug companies and the rush he got from being a dictator, issuing royal decrees from the Oval Office.
Trump, by the way, provided excellent advice to the citizens about drugs known to address many of the symptoms of Covid, and you howling monkeys of the Left were so determined that he get no credit for helping the country that you mounted a massive PR campaign to discredit these safe and effective drugs, going so far as to have them actually banned while issuing shrill and false warnings about them. We will never know how many tens or hundreds of thousands of people died because of the determination of people just like you to make sure he never got credit for saving lives. Doctors who used these drugs were arrested and lost their medical licenses, but they saved lives. The Left did not care. The Left was on a power trip, flexing its muscles and bringing the nation to heel—under the Biden administration. Some day that whole story will come out, and it will rival Stalin’s starvation of Ukraine as an example of the cost to the nation when a despot is determined to gain and hold onto power at any cost.
“WHAT WAS THE FELONY?” Yes, you have provided the same links your masters gave you. But you are not capable of explaining the nature of the felony on your own. You have parroted the official narrative, but you have never been able to articulate what you believe the actual crime was, or the actual verdict related to that crime. All you do is try to weasel out of giving an answer, because you don’t have one. All you have is a simpering little snarky effort to try to dodge the question by trying to insult me, which of course is silly. I don’t need to look it up. I know exactly what the alleged felony was, and how it was concocted. You don’t. I also know the law. You don’t. And you are not man enough to admit that, so all you can do is try to bluff your way out of answering. You tell me to “look it up”. Why don’t you? I asked a simple question, and although you do love to parrot that mantra of “convicted felon” you have basically admitted you don’t even know what that means. Which is the same thing as admitting you aren’t even honest enough to care.
This little exercise has proved what we have known all along—that you are ignorant of the facts but don’t care because facts don’t matter to you. You are so weak and spineless that the only thing that matters to you is massaging your irrational hatred of a man, even when that means lying about him, twisting reality to try to force it into your sad and ugly little version of it, and trying to act tough by hurling inane and stupid pseudo-insults which, by the way, you know are lies because you know I have explained every aspect of the law regarding this *trial. You managed, briefly, to weasel your way into this blog by posturing as a sincere if misguided observer of the political world, and this one little exercise has shown you to be a total fraud with no sincere interest in anything but your emotional onanism regarding your petty irrational hatred. You couldn’t maintain the illusion, faint as it was, for very long. And the illusion is all that allowed you to take up as much space on this blog as you have.
This is an ethical doctor’s take on abortion:
One of the important points he makes:
For most of his adult life, Casper has been engaged in child abuse and subverting the United States of America, so any of his comments need to be taken in that context. In fact, Teachers and Teacher Unions have the been the most destructive and subversive institution in the country:
By any objective measure, our school performance is fair or poor for most children. Math scores hit a 20-year low. ACT scores dropped to a 30-year low last year. In dozens of schools throughout the country, not one child is reading or practicing math at grade-level proficiency. Not one!
This is straight up child abuse, and Casper was a leader. There is no difference in what the Chinese hope to do to this country, and what Democrat teachers have done to this country. Additionally, after years of American child abuse, Casper is now engaged in immigrant child abuse. Everyday, children are trafficked, abused, and raped at the border and that is exactly what Casper voted for. Biden promised to open the border and enrich the cartels, and Casper clapped along gleefully.
We need to gut the teacher unions, like a fish and carve out the subversives. Today, our school aged children are taught that gender is fluid, that America is racist, and climate change is what they should be focused on, instead of teaching them science, math, and reading at grade levels. There is no other description for that, other than child abuse.
https://hotair.com/stephen-moore/2024/06/20/some-40-years-later-a-nation-still-at-risk-n3790492
Wow, I had no idea I had such power. Perhaps I should h=ask for more pay.
Only an impotent failure could seek out a job that let him cheat children of a good education. Power? Only in the fever swamp of your sad pathetic little mind.
Re: Louisiana’s new law, isn’t it funny how Democrats are terrified of State citizens actually voting for what they want, instead of following Federal guidelines, and they are equally terrified of any instruction of morality entering childrens lives. In fact, Democrats have gone so far has to terminate parental rights in some instances, and this is another form of child abuse that Casper and Democrats are engaged in. Don’t ever associate with, or be friends with a Democrat. They need to be isolated.
The Left howls the mantra CHOICE !! as if it sums up a noble dedication to liberty and self-determination, yet its policies are anti-choice and completely about consolidation of power in the hands of elites who then control everyone and everything.
This is why they fight state sovereignty—it puts choice way too close to the people, instead of keeping control at the top where it belongs, in an infinitely expandable federal government unhindered by the Bill of Rights, particularly the 10th Amendment.
It is also why they constantly bleat about DEMOCRACY !! because democracy is mob rule, and they have learned how easy it is to get a vote total past that crucial 51% to turn control over to them. Their disdain for law actually debated and legislated by elected representatives could not be more blatant, as their Oval Office resident blithely ignores legislated law and the Constitution as he signs one royal decree after another—-while the movement’s propagandists insist that it is really Donald Trump who would act like a dictator if elected.
I’m pretty sure that the humor-deficient trolls over on the Left have claimed that Trump talks about aliens, and he does, but jokingly. Normal people get it. (emphasis mine)
I have reminded several people on X that it wasn’t that long ago that Trump was the toast of the town and a Democrat darling. He use to socialize with the Clinton’s, was a heavy contributor to Democrat causes, and was a fan of Obama’s, calling him a “champion” at one point. So what changed?? Trump hasn’t changed. He’s is the same person today as he was 40 years ago (go back and watch the Oprah episodes). The Democrat party has changed … and dramatically. The Democrat party has abandoned this country and the American people and sold out to Soros and the WEF’s plan to globalize the world. They are actively engaged in human trafficking, sexual trafficking, and subverting the United States of America. That’s who Democrats are now.
Long before Reagan said I said that I didn’t leave the Democrat Party, it left me. Now we are seeing people leaving it in droves. Don’t hate Jews? Then you can’t be a Democrat. Think abortion up to the due date is abhorrent? Then you can’t be a Democrat. Think rioters should be prosecuted? Then you can’t be a Democrat. Think we should govern according to the Constitution? Then you can’t be a Democrat. Think the law and judicial system must be applied equally? Then you can’t be a Democrat. Think people should be judged on their character and not the color of their skin? Then you can’t be a Democrat. Think there are only two genders, determined by chromosomes? Then you can’t be a Democrat. Think we should be vigilant in protecting election integrity and be willing to investigate every accusation of election fraud? Then you can’t be a Democrat. Think we are a sovereign nation with the right to establish and protect our borders? Then you can’t be a Democrat. Think people who violate our laws and come here illegally should be deported? Then you can’t be a Democrat. Think patriotism and love of country are not only legitimate but desirable? Then you can’t be a Democrat. Think journalism should be the objective reporting of events and not propaganda designed to advance some agendas and discourage others? Then you can’t be a Democrat. Think a nuclear family with a father and a mother is the ideal, even if not possible for everyone? Then you can’t be a Democrat. Think faith is an important part of our heritage and our culture and makes us a stronger and better nation? Then you can’t be a Democrat. Think the role of the Supreme Court is to determine the actual intent of the Constitution and apply it to laws and court rulings? Then you can’t be a Democrat. Think the role of the federal government is merely to provide an identity for the country so it can engage in international diplomacy and national defense, and to provide an umbrella of protections for citizens, but not to try to solve every problem people might have? Then you can’t be a Democrat. Think parents should have rights regarding how their children are educated? Then you can’t be a Democrat. Think childhood should be protected and children should be allowed to be children, without early sexualization or predation? Then you can’t be a Democrat.
Casper is a complete piece of shit but also a very typical Democrat. We have always known Democrats are not bright people, but now they are just becoming assholes. It was a very simple graph to read; labor participation increased each year until the spring of 2020, when globalists weaponized a flu virus to shut down the economy and remove Trump from office. ALL intelligent people know this. And yet, Democrats can’t even get the labor participation rate to the same levels as 2019, and probably never will now considering the mass lay offs and store closures.
Furthermore, Casper gives as much effort answering questions here as he did instructing his students. When pressed on “what is the felony”, his answer is “I provided the links” LOL, Casper has no clue what the felony is. In fact, every issue and comment Casper brings here, are the exact same issues and talking points MSNBC has recently been broadcasting, right down to his comments that “Trump will not debate”, “Trump is mentally declining”, etc. Just watch MSNBC one day each week, and you’ll know what Casper has to say.
I kept leading casper to the point where I knew he would bail out, and sure enough, he did. I personally think it was because he simply did not know the answer, because I don’t think he is smart enough to see the inevitable path an answer would open up.
The “felony” was the misdemeanor of false reporting, which only became a felony if it could be argued that it was committed in the furtherance of committing another crime, which in this case was the allegation of “election interference”. That means, ipso facto, that if there was no “election interference” that would cut the legs out from under the claim that the false reporting was a felony. So. if the *trial wanted to be considered legitimate, it would have to focus on election interference—that is, what IS “election interference” and how was it intended in this case? But this *trial spent no time on this. As a matter of fact, it didn’t even mention it as a factor until the last day, in jury instructions. And even then the jury was not given the law that supposedly makes it a crime to hide negative information about a candidate.
A legitimate trial would have started with election interference—-defining it and then proving that it was intended or accomplished. Only then could the false reporting be brought in as a separate felony charge, because then the false reporting could be shown to be committed in furtherance of the alleged crime of trying to “influence” the election, which is not a crime without proof it has escalated to actual interference. And they couldn’t do this, for two very important reasons—-one is that the entire claim rested on the ability to read the mind of someone to ascertain his true thoughts and motives for an action that had other and more reasonable explanations, and the other is that the false filings themselves (remember, the actual felonies charged) did not take place until after the election was over.
Going back to the alleged motive—the most obvious motive for paying a sex worker to stop telling the media she had had sexual relations with a man is to keep his wife and children from hearing it. But the prosecution, using its crystal ball, determined that the REAL motive was to “influence the election” by hiding a character flaw from the voting public. Here the prosecution not only put all its eggs in the basket of the ability to function as psychics, somehow being able to discern the “real” motives of a man, they determined that successfully hiding a fling with a sex worker would materially affect an election to the point of actually becoming election interference. This would have been tricky ground, as it is common for candidates to try to hide negative information about themselves specifically because of fear this would affect the opinions of voters, particularly given the revelation of a massive conspiracy among many media outlets and federal agencies to hide serious and possible criminal activity by Joe Biden from the public specifically to influence voters. So this was hinted at during the *trial but never actually stated, much less explained.
PBS reported on the opening of the *trial”
Donald Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public, a prosecutor told jurors Monday at the start of the former president’s historic hush money trial.
“This was a planned, long-running conspiracy to influence the 2016 election, to help Donald Trump get elected through illegal expenditures to silence people who had something bad to say about his behavior,” prosecutor Matthew Colangelo said. “It was election fraud, pure and simple.”
Here is the claim that it is “illegal” to try to “influence” an election by “by preventing damaging stories about (ones’) personal life from becoming public” yet there is no such law. The prosecution had to then lie again and claim that the payment to Daniels was an “illegal expenditure” although it was not, and then tying the legal effort to hide reports of bad behavior with the legal payment to Daniels and coming up with a third lie, which is that this all amounted to “fraud”. In other words, the entire *trial began by lying to the jury. Not just spinning the facts to create a desired impression, but actually LYING about the facts.
There were three legitimate possible claims of violation of laws in what Trump did. The first is the simple one of misstating the true nature of a payment. One might have been the tax implications of entering a payment as a tax deduction expense if it was not. And one might have been failing to report a campaign contribution, if the payment to cover up negative information could have been considered as such. Two are minor misdemeanors and when considered important enough to pursue are always resolved with fines for the violations. The tax issue is not within the purview of the state courts.
An MSNBC “analyst” explained:
But hush money payments alone aren’t illegal. And falsifying business records is only a misdemeanor. Here, the charges go further; Trump is charged with falsifying business records to conceal an agreement with others to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election. Trump’s alleged criminal intent to influence the outcome of the election would make the hush money payments illegal campaign contributions and elevate the misdemeanor to a felony — 34 felonies, to be exact.
This takes us back to the question of what, exactly, is the law against trying to “influence the outcome” of an election? And this has been evaded by everyone involved. First, what in a campaign is NOT an effort to “influence the outcome of an election”? And if there are legal boundaries for what is legal and what is not in this effort, what are they? Where are they laid out? Cite the law. What kind of action taken to sanitize a reputation during an election campaign would constitute “criminal intent” or a crime?
A serious and legitimate proceeding would, obviously, first try to establish what is and what is not illegal when it comes to “influencing” elections. What could be a better source for this information than the Federal Election Commission? Yet the former chair of the FEC was not allowed to testify if his testimony was going to be that hiding negative information is not a crime.
And this is why the Left refuses to answer specific questions about the nature of the alleged felony. Some refuse because they are just too bone-deep stupid to understand anything beyond the talking points their masters have given them, but some refuse because they know that getting specific will illustrate the fatal flaws of this whole sham proceeding.
But…getting back to the actual “felonies” involved: They are not “influencing an election” They can’t be, because there is no law against trying to “influence an election” merely by concealing or refusing to reveal negative information about oneself. They are, when you get down to the actual “crime”, the filing of the false reports. Put another way, Trump could have paid off Daniels to hide the claim he had engaged in sex with her, specifically to “influence the election” by sanitizing this aspect of his reputation, and nothing about it would have been illegal if he had merely reported the payments as hush money. He might have faced an inquiry about whether or not these payments constituted unreported campaign contributions, but aside from that there would have been no possible accusation of any criminal activity. Or, as MSNBC called it, “criminal intent”.
So the entire case, such as it was, rested on three points. One was the way the payments were described, one was the crystal ball conclusion that the court knew the true thoughts of Trump when the payments were classified as legal expenses, and one —-the most important, and the most overlooked—-is the false claim that to try to hide negative information about oneself in a political campaign is a crime. Because, in spite of the MSNBC analyst’s claim, the only thing that elevated the misdemeanor of inaccurate reporting was the assertion that this was done in connection with and furtherance of ANOTHER CRIME. And the other “crime” was never identified by its legal designation, or adjudicated. It was merely created, dressed up, and at the last minute, in directions to the jury, presented as a fact—and the entire case rested on it being an actual crime, enabled by the false reporting. Which is, remember, going back through this tangle of accusations, what Trump was accused of. The real felony was the filing, which only arose to felony status because of the alleged other “crime” of trying to “influence an election”—-a “crime” which does not exist in law. (MSNBC claimed “Trump’s alleged criminal intent to influence the outcome of the election would make the hush money payments illegal campaign contributions and elevate the misdemeanor to a felony”. Yet illegal campaign contributions were never alleged. Even the Complicit Agenda Media couldn’t keep it straight.)
And the filing of the reports took place after the election was over. There were so many false trails set, so many head-fakes, so many purposely confusing detours offered, it has been almost impossible to sort through them and discard the red herrings. (“A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question.”) The entire *trial was full of extraneous detail and salacious testimony and implications but the only charge was that the incorrect filings of the payments were felonies. The alleged element that would have made them felonies was never mentioned or explained and only introduced in the last-minute instructions, which were only verbal and not written, as is the usual procedure, and the jury was never told that merely trying to “influence” an election is not a crime although they were told it is, and therefore a legitimate foundation for elevating the false filings to felony status. But the payments were not felonies, nor is an effort to “influence” an election by hiding negative information.
Trump was convicted of “34 felony counts of falsifying business records”. But falsifying business records is not a felony. They became a felony when the jury was convinced that the reason they were falsified was to enable another, more serious, crime. An intent implied and accused but never proved and resting upon something that is not illegal. If it is illegal to try to influence an election by concealing or refusing to reveal negative personal information I challenge anyone to cite that law. I couldn’t find one and the court didn’t provide one.
The indictment was the repetition, 34 times, of the claim that Trump with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise..
“defraud”? Justia.com defines “defraud”: Committing acts of deception or dishonesty to unfairly gain something of value from someone else. legal.com says: Defraud involves deliberate actions or schemes designed to deceive another person or entity to obtain money, property, or other benefits.
So who was Trump trying to “defraud” by the way his payments for invoices for legal services were entered as payments for legal services?
“intent to commit another crime ” What crime? Cite the “crime” he had the “intent to commit”.
conceal the commission thereof How? I can see how the labeling of the payments might be construed as an effort to hide their real intent, but in that case make this the reason for the trial.
In other words, the indictment was purposely vague and hinted at the commission of a crime other than the false bookkeeping entries. The *trial filled in some of the gaps, but not many, and only through claims of mystical knowledge of innermost motivations and the elevation of a common element of campaigning to an actual “crime”—though never specified, defined or supported by citation of its legal code.
To be charged as a felony, prosecutors must also show that the offender intended to “commit another crime” or “aid or conceal” another crime when falsifying records.
In Trump’s case, prosecutors said that other crime was a violation of a New York election law that makes it illegal for “any two or more persons” to “conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means,” as Justice Juan Merchan explained in his instructions to the jury.
What exactly those “unlawful means” were in this case was up to the jury to decide. Prosecutors put forth three areas that they could consider: a violation of federal campaign finance laws, falsification of other business records or a violation of tax laws.
Jurors did not need to agree on what the underlying “unlawful means” were. But they did have to unanimously conclude that Trump caused the business records to be falsified, and that he “did so with intent to defraud that included an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.”
To untangle this: The charge is that the falsification of the reports was done to promote the election of Donald Trump by violating some other crime, such as maybe campaign finance laws (a misdemeanor, never brought up or accused) OR violating tax laws (a federal issue, never brought up) OR falsifying some other, unidentified and possibly nonexistent records (another misdemeanor never suggested much less accused). But he was not on trial for any of these possible auxiliary charges, which were brought in when the jury got its instructions. They hadn’t even been mentioned. They were just tossed out as possible crimes he might have intended to commit but never played a role in the *trial.
In other words, they were asked to rule on one charge by finding him guilty of “intending” to maybe commit some other crime that had never been part of the trial and therefore never been exposed to a defense or brought up as being related to his actual, official, charge. And they got to choose which of these uncharged crimes they would use as the basis of a verdict on something else entirely.
When Joe Biden lied about his sons laptop in a Presidential debate, and then had 51 former intel officials lie for him, as well as the complicit media, be construed as “unlawfully trying to influence the election”? Asking for a friend.
Also, is it weird that an 8 year old expired misdemeanor became 34 felonies months before the election? Or is that just me?
That is the question I had, and the one that would have inevitably come up if they had openly claimed that it is a crime to hide or fail to reveal information that might influence the decisions of voters. That is why they had to be so coy about it, never mentioning it, and even resorting to only giving jury instructions verbally instead of in writing, which is usually how it’s done. They had to skim over the surface, making vague inferences without getting too specific and setting the whole thing up to be as vague as possible. They had to vaguely refer to “crimes” and even then the crimes they allowed the jury to choose among are all misdemeanors and Trump had never been accused of any of them, much less given a chance to defend himself.
As for casper, I just ran across a phrase in a John Sandford book that, with only minimal altering, is a great description of the slimy little slug: If casper was a lightbulb it would be about 20 watts
I looked for a law against trying to influence an election and couldn’t find one. When I went through the statements made by the prosecution I found out-and-out lies, lies that I hope will eventually be prosecuted. Not just presenting the case as forcefully as possible, but lying to the jury.
I never understood that U Turn sign thing. It’s hard keeping up with the mental damage of the left, it’s just one absurd thing after another
Let’s just say that a lot of gay guys seemed to, uh, identify with the graphic and then took offense at being told that it was a condition not welcome on that street. That’s the only reason I could think of.
As I said, TMI
Here is the thing. There are areas that I have some expertise, but I’ve never claimed to e an expert on the law, although I do have as many law degrees as all the major participants on this blog put together (0). I know you guys like to push your Turley talking points and the other “legal arguments” being pushed by the RW media, but the fact remains that Trump is a Convicted felon. That is a fact. Repeating the same RW talking points over and over again doesn’t change that. That said I’m sure you will continue your collective caterwauling if for no reason than to make you feel better.
“In fact, every issue and comment Casper brings here, are the exact same issues and talking points MSNBC has recently been broadcasting, right down to his comments that “Trump will not debate”, “Trump is mentally declining”, etc. Just watch MSNBC one day each week, and you’ll know what Casper has to say.”
I don’t watch MSNBC. I do watch Trump’s speeches. The fact that other are also seeing the mental decline that I see would suggest that More and more of us are seeing the same thing.
Well, forgive us, Casper, is we find the assertion that you independently arrived at the same conclusion as a DNC press release to be incredible. But, we’re not going to resolve your viewing habits unless you take up the challenge I gave you a little while ago: consume absolutely no MSM content – video or print – for 30 days. If you do that, then you’ll be coming here and saying, “wow, Mark: you’re right. I’m still a liberal, but my goodness was I being fed a line of sh*t”.
Well, there’s “liberal” and then there’s “Liberal”. I long ago stopped buying into the claim that capital-L liberal has any relationship whatsoever to true classic liberalism. We are not talking about liberals, we are talking about Liberals/Progressives.
There was a point where the radical left realized that some of its terminology alarmed Americans who believe in constitutional rule of law. If we go back and we look at the Democrat Party of JFK we see that the term “socialist” was a serious pejorative and rejected by Democrats, and the Left needed a new word—a soft, gentle, friendly word with all sorts of really good connotations. And they latched onto the word “liberal”. Who wouldn’t want to be thought of as “liberal”? But people started to catch on to the fact that it wasn’t being “liberal”, it was being “A Liberal”, which was a very different thing entirely, and then the Left needed a new word. That’s when they hijacked the word “progressive”—because, like “liberal”, It has such great connotations.
So in political terms “Liberal” came to describe the wholly illiberal political structure of the Left and was eventually replaced by the word Progressive, which was actually the REgressive political structure of the Left.
I don’t believe casper has ever truly been liberal but has been “A Liberal”, obedient and uncritical of the movement with which he has aligned himself. As we have seen when we have tried to pin him down to anything even resembling an intelligent analytical examination of his political affiliation he ducks and dodges, deflects, and in general tries to avoid any kind of a comprehensive response. When challenged he claims to believe in the Constitution yet he lies about what it says and means, and supports a movement which is antithetical to the Constitution.
He will never be able to wean himself off the emotional gratification he gets from having his chosen perspective constantly validated by fellow travelers in that movement. His is not a thoughtful political philosophy based on objective analysis of the best blueprint for governing the country, but an emotional dependence on a narrative based not on a positive and coherent concept of governance, but instead on constant reinforcement of sour negative hostility toward targets selected for him by the people he has chosen to control his thoughts. It’s a cheap and tawdry imitation of moral and intellectual superiority but adequate for superficial people.
If I were to ask casper why he believes we are best governed by a system based on consolidation of power in the hands of a few and top-down government with very authority left to the states or to the people he would deny that this is his political belief system. Yet his entire political identity consists of (1) mindlessly attacking the political system in opposition to this and all who represent it, and (2) mindlessly supporting and defending those who enact it and voting to keep them in power.
I have asked him to answer two basic questions regarding the Trump *trial and I predict that he will refuse to do so.
casper, you aren’t good for much, but you sure have a lot of experience in deflecting demands that you put up or shut up, usually by falling back on simpering attacks and Leftist talking points. “caterwauling”! Meeeow! A new word in your “pissy word of the day” calendar?
You keep squealing that Trump is a “convicted felon” yet you can’t, or won’t, define the actual “felony” except to copy and paste some Leftist Agenda Media links and maybe copy and paste the words of the verdict. But when it comes to actual THINKING you bail out. Inability? Lack of practice?
So here is a challenge for you, casper. Read the following and then discuss it. You’ve already ignored it, to fall back on your tired old talking points, so here it is again. (Trigger warning: This requires reading, processing of what was read, and thought processes to reply. Take your time.)
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The indictment was the repetition, 34 times, of the claim that Trump “with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise.”.
“defraud”? Justia.com defines “defraud”: Committing acts of deception or dishonesty to unfairly gain something of value from someone else. legal.com says: Defraud involves deliberate actions or schemes designed to deceive another person or entity to obtain money, property, or other benefits.
So who was Trump trying to “defraud” by the way his payments for invoices for legal services were entered as payments for legal services? An argument could have been made that these entries were an effort to defraud the IRS by showing payments as tax deductible expenses when they were not, but this is not an argument ever made. So where was the “fraud”?
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There. Relatively short words in straightforward terms, none of which were written by Jonathan Turley. Where was the “fraud”?
Then there is the question of what is meant by “another crime”. What “other crime”? Britannica defines a “crime”: …the intentional commission of an act usually deemed socially harmful or dangerous and specifically defined, prohibited, and punishable under criminal law.
Now: As an academic, you probably know how to do online searches. So find us a law against “trying to influence the outcome of an election”. NOT “election interference”. That really IS a crime, codified and identified, but it was never accused, never claimed to be the “crime” that elevated outdated misdemeanors to felony status. (If it had been, the court would have had to allow expert testimony from people like the former chairman of the FEC, and this is the last thing they wanted to expose the jury to.) No, we need to know if there really IS a law against “trying to influence the outcome of an election”—and if you find one, what are the criteria for this?
There. Two straightforward questions, neither of which I have seen addressed, neither of which were dictated by Jonathan Turley, neither of which requires a law degree or pretense of having one. They just depend on common sense. I’m kind of a bug when it comes to proper use of the English language, and I’m fairly familiar with the Constitution and its guarantee of basic rights such as due process, and I understand the basic concept that courts are not supposed to engage in bait and switch where someone is found guilty of a crime that was never a part of the alleged purpose of a trial, so when I read the actual documents forming the foundation for the *trial I have a lot of questions.
Generally, the government must enact a criminal law specifying a crime and its elements before it can punish an individual for criminal behavior.
In a legitimate proceeding the first step would be to charge Trump with the crime of attempting to influence the outcome of an election, if in fact that is a crime, and only then, after a guilty verdict, build the misdemeanor falsification of records on top of that identified and adjudicated crime to bring them up to the level of felonies.
In our legal system, you’re not supposed to be able to build an entire case on the claim that someone committed a crime if he has never been charged with the crime and given due process to defend himself against it, and then found guilty of it. It’s even worse when that “crime” doesn’t even exist as a crime but is just a vague complaint about something somebody doesn’t like.
There is a New York law saying it is illegal to promote or prevent the election of anyone by “unlawful means”. That is, by doing something that violates a law. That is what “unlawful” means.
What exactly those “unlawful means” were in this case was up to the jury to decide which is odd, but then the prosecutors limited their choices to three options. They put forth three areas that the jurors could consider: a violation of federal campaign finance laws, falsification of other business records or a violation of tax laws.
Put another way: Did Trump try to promote his election through the unlawful violation of tax laws? This was never suggested and there was no evidence that there was a concern about the tax implications of the way the expenses were entered. Did Trump try to promote his election through unlawful campaign contributions? That would be, I imagine, the argument that paying hush money to affect the public perception of him as a candidate was the same thing as making a donation to his campaign. However, the payments were made to Cohen out of Trump’s personal funds and a candidate can donate his own money to his own campaign so this was not only never a part of the *trial it would not have been “unlawful” anyway (in spite of the prosecution’s effort to make that appear illegal). That leaves, according to the prosecutors, only one possible unlawful act related to the promotion of Trump as a candidate, and that is a hypothetical act he was never accused of doing, which had never been brought up or exposed to examination and testimony—-“falsification of other business records“. Which “other business records”? Did this happen? When? Where is the testimony? Where is the evidence? How were they falsified? If these “other business records” even exist, and were falsified, why were they not part of the *trial? Or is this just something Trump MIGHT do?
Yes, the jury was told it could find Trump guilty of a possible misdemeanor which he might possibly someday commit, or maybe already committed, which had never been identified or charged, with absolutely no evidence or testimony or any information about when or where these “other business records” might have been “falsified” or even if they exist. AND that if they did exist, and if he did falsify those records, this would be done or would have been an “unlawful” effort to somehow alter the perceptions of voters. That is, to “promote” his election. So if this unlawful prospective falsification were to occur, or even if had occurred but never been charged or adjudicated and therefore remained unproven, the possibility of its existence and occurrence was adequate to use as the basis for elevating other, outdated, misdemeanors to felony status. At least in Demland, where rules are mere suggestions and laws can be twisted at will and prosecutors can simply lie about the law to get the results they want.
Only one thing happened which might, possibly, be construed as an effort to shape opinion and perception of Trump as a candidate—that is, to “promote” his election—-and that is the act of paying Daniels to stop telling people something that could reflect badly on him. And that is not “unlawful”. Even MSNBC agreed that paying hush money is not “unlawful”.
What is so funny is the total lack of comprehension that the man the Left is now accusing of mental decline is still outperforming their own incipient cadaver on all fronts. He can walk, he can talk, he can go up and down stairs, he can find his way on and off stages, he only shakes hands with and has conversations with people who are alive, he can and does put in 10-hour days on a regular basis, he doesn’t crap his pants, he doesn’t get lost crossing his own lawn, he knows the names of world leaders, and in general is a Not-Joe. It’s just funny to see the Left having to abandon its futile efforts to claim Joe does not have dementia and shift, quite abruptly, to the strategy of “so what if our guy is a mess, so is yours”.
However, I do agree that there is a contingent of fellow travelers of casper’s who DO see what he sees—or at least let their masters tell them the real meaning of what they see.
the fact remains that Trump is a Convicted felon yet casper still can’t tell us the nature of the “felony”. He can copy and paste links to the official Leftist narrative, and he might be able to copy and paste the way the verdict is quoted in Agenda Media articles, but he is incapable of actually defining the “crime” itself.
Like so many who rely on the certificates on their walls as “proof” of accomplishment or intelligence, he tries to fall back on the tired old whine of sneering at lack of accreditation. It’s as if a law degree is necessary to understand the basics of law. And he claims that examining the facts of the Trump *trial is merely parroting Turley. Both are typical evasions by people who look for excuses for bailing out of discourse rather than engaging in it.
I have examined the indictments, and I have examined the outcome of the trial. Myself. I did this. And yes, I do understand what I have found. Casper could, if he had a scintilla of intellectual curiosity or ability, take any of my statements and rebut them. But he can’t/won’t.
As long as DEI hiring practices are in place, and as long as Sec. Booty Juice is in charge, I would advise not flying anywhere.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13553621/Oklahoma-Southwest-Boeing-737-500-ft-neighborhood.html
Communism simplified.
The need to satisfy the ego of these people is astounding and accounts for much of the mayhem that the left creates.
https://headlineusa.com/democrat-judge-arrested-for-attacking-police-officer-at-ga-nightclub/?utm_source=HUSA_EMAIL_NSP0730&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HUSAemail
The importance of this cannot be exaggerated. The implications are staggering.
Its a coming together of a few strands, IMO.
First off is the “free market” types who use the rhetoric of Adam Smith to justify ruthless exploitation of imported labor. These are the people we see saying, “well, just wait until you see the price of tomatoes or new house once you deport them all”. As if something being cheap trumps all other considerations. But, also, this: we’ve imported 15 million or so since 2021 and this on top of the many millions who were already here: anyone seen a drop in the price of tomatoes or new homes? If, supposedly, we can’t function with out cheap labor then why aren’t the prices of things heavily using cheap labor coming down? They say they can’t get Americans out in the fields to pick the tomatoes and they say they can’t get Americans to show for drywall jobs. But might this just be a disguise for someone using cheap labor to increase profits? I think it is: I think that they can get Americans if they pay American wages and the consumer price wouldn’t be significantly different…they’ve just been exploiting illegals to increase profit margins.
Second is the Hate America left; they despise this country and everything it stands for. To them, a flood of illegals is simple justice. And rely on it: they don’t care how many Americans are raped and murdered along the way. In fact, the more of us raped and murdered, the better. The Left does not care about human life – they only care about themselves (while using the language of the brotherhood of man); some poor sucker’s 12 year old daughter being raped and murdered by illegals means absolutely nothing to them…and if its a white kid, that is justice for all the horrible things white people have done.
Then there is the traffickers, themselves. There’s huge money to be made – and not just by the Narcos adding humans to the cocaine trade. NGOs – including some explicitly Catholic and other Christian – make bank off of grants from Uncle Sam to transport the illegals and settle them in the USA. Literal billions every year are provided to fund the transportation of human beings to America. And this is both government and private money. It is all very hideous and I’m less and less inclined to believe in the naivete of the NGOs…transporting 10 people: ok, you’re just trying to be nice. 100 people? Seems extreme but I’ll still play the sucker and think you’re trying to help. Millions of people? You’re knowingly working for the traffickers.
Some great observation and analysis, Mark, but you skip over the most obvious—that changing the demographic makeup of a mostly conservative nation to Leftist domination is nothing more or less than a callous effort to gain and retain power.
It may use the elements you describe, but for its own purposes. So they will happily support any and all of those elements, but always for the core goal of achieving as much power as possible, by any means possible.
Yep – and the real driver right now is the “hate America” people. And don’t get me wrong: these people hate the illegals, too. Don’t want to live around them (just want them as servants who need to ride the bus to work), don’t want to socialize with them…like to keep their gated, secure little lives. These illegals are being brought in primarily on the conviction that they will vote Left (a probably correct assumption at least in a substantial majority for the first and second generations) and they will destroy middle class AmeriKKKa.
These illegals are being brought in primarily on the conviction that they will vote Left which supports the contention by the State Department official that the goal is to alter the demographics of this country to make it more Leftist.
Well well well. This is the Keyan who is responsible for what we are currently going through in this country
https://x.com/magamichelles69/status/1804504111813120272?s=46
If his mother was really 18 when he was born (though early reports said she was only 17) then Obama would have been a natural-born citizen, being born to an American citizen. Natural born citizenship is based on heredity, not on the place of birth.
I always figured that he knew that, and his team knew that, and everybody knew that he had really been born in Kenya. But they saw the opportunity to create a whole hysterical narrative they could identify as “birtherism” to divide the country and create all sorts of conflict. It was a brilliant strategy, and the term “birther” is still a pejorative used today anytime anyone brings up questions of citizenship.
I expect the Left to take on its own birther characteristics if for some reason Trump chooses one of the people who is not a natural born citizen to be his vice presidential candidate. That would be Marco Rubio, Nikki Haley or Vivek Ramaswamy. Choosing any of these people would give the Left the opportunity to create a huge constitutional crisis and distraction from the election and don’t think for a minute they would not take advantage of it.
He could avoid that by just picking DeSantis. Originally I would have said “or Kristi Noam,” but she sort of shot herself in the dog. I haven’t heard much lately about Tulsi Gabbard as a VP pick. I know she was a Liberal Democrat and originally a Bernie acolyte, but I’ve seen her interviewed numerous times, and she just doesn’t come across that way. For one thing, it’s clear that she loves this country, which disqualifies her as a Progressive. As far as setting up for future elections, DeSantis is my overwhelming favorite. Trump said a while back that his number one criteria is that the person he picks could easily step into the Presidency, and DeSantis fills that bill better than anyone else at this point.
I’m in complete agreement about DeSantis. He is not only the most qualified to step into the presidency, he is the most qualified to act as a deputy for Trump in dealing with the horrible problems that Trump is going to be facing in his limited time as president.
As I have said, my ideal vision of trump as president would be for him to act in much the same capacity that Eisenhower acted in World War Two with different generals given different theaters of action. In this fantasy DeSantis would be assigned to deal with the Bureaucratic State. He’s got the unique skill set of extensive legal knowledge and competence, legislative experience, and success in dealing with a massive and powerful bureaucracy that no one ever believed could be brought to heel. Another general should be Ted Cruz, dealing with the Department of Justice and possibly with the Intelligence Community as well. These are areas where DeSantis’s deftness and low-keyed approach would be less effective, calling for a more openly aggressive profile. Put Lee Zeldin at the head of State or Defense and the country could finally start to recover from the Biden Experiment.
The most important thing of all is that he picks, not just competent people, but people who are not going to stab him in the back.