I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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Nothing much changing as of late. Of course, lots of re-run news save for the multiple/mass shootings taking place with the one in FLA. announced just this morning. JMO, but it sure seems like someone is going to have to step up to do what can be done -- whatever that would be. Obviously there is not a deterrent factor strong enough to be of reasonable influence. It may come to having to find ways to remove/ban certain kinds of weapons or ammunitions ( from whatever day forward ) to start the process of being able to institute some control. This just keeps getting worse and like the orange thing the Reps. will just use it as another ax to grind to accuse the Democrats of trying to take things away from them or mis-interpret the amendments.
I've also read that there is a definite 99 percent chance for a Trump indictment. I think it comes down more to having it strong enough for a good 99 percent chance of expected outcome which would be jail.
I do think the Democrats have been a bit on the wimpy side about how we do things. I understand it would be great to say we went by the book or gave every chance so as not to upset the ( Manchin's ) or anyone who lives heavily in the bi-partisan lane. The Reps. are out for our destruction and have proven that over and over. Why else would they cling to their wanton and evil orange one. This didn't just happen with Trump and frankly he was allowed to carry on not because he was any good, but because he changed the banner for the Reps. party like no one else could. Everyone so busy looking at the orange one that no one got held accountable and things got changed for Reps. and they didn't have to do much at all -- just keep holding that bulbous orange idiot up and un-accountable. So here we are with all sorts of states changing the voting laws and not a thing happening as yet to nullify any of them. I hope that changes in our favor soon because it is no wrong and exactly what the Reps. need to do if they are going to defeat us.
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Just who do the Reps. hold out as a hero, these days.
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I'm Jewish, and no expert on the NT, but even I know that Jesus was of Middle Eastern ancestry. Paintings & stained-glass images of him as fair-skinned with long flowing straight hair, and of Mary as a blue-eyed redhead, show a Eurocentric racial-cultural bias going as far back as the 15th century.
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A Trump indictment would likely not result in a trial culminating in conviction and imprisonment, because DeathSantis would never allow his extradition to NY. (However, if there were a new US Atty appointed--per recommendation by AG Garland--for districts in FL where Trump properties are located and fraud likely committed, extradition would be unnecessary for Federal charges). The 6th Amendment would likely prohibit criminal trials in absentia--though a criminal defendant may not be compelled to take the stand, it is not clear if the opportunity by the defense counsel alone is sufficient to satisfy the Constitutional right to "confront one's accusers" via cross-examination. It isn't clear whether this needs to occur in the physical presence of a defendant.
"Diversity jurisdiction" might pertain in a civil case where defendant(s) and plaintiff(s) reside in different states. That means that even state-statuory causes of action might be tried in Federal court, in a district where any of the parties live--or in the case of a corporate defendant, there is a "nexus" such as "doing business." Extradition would be unnecessary in a civil case, as the 6th Amendment right-to-confront applies only to criminal prosecutions. And the burden of proof in a civil case is far less: "preponderance of the evidence," aka "more likely than not" (and literally, as little as 50.0000000001% probability). And every element of the cause of action (unlike in a criminal case) need only be proven by that lower standard. "Reasonable doubt" is irrelevant.
BUT pretrial "civil forfeiture" has not been declared unconstitutional. The thought of the NYS & Fed. gov'ts' potentially attaching (and possibly selling off) Trump properties likely has 45 (and his faimily) ordering a few dozen pair of brown underpants.
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I'm not too concerned about DeSantis. I can't recall the scholars, but there were at least two if not more who said DeSantis could not stop an extradition, but could make it take time. Still, in my mind time is of the essence to a degree. For people to stop holding Trump up, he has to have something happen that firmly establishes he is definitely no longer in control of his personal future -- so having another go at the presidency in any way ( never mind winning or losing ) just could not happen. That will insure people can drop off, knowing a lot won't, w/o having to put up with being degraded by the orange one.
The orange one is not happy. As Barbara Res said the other night on the Alex Witt show, and I'm only paraphrasing in a big way, Trump thought the events now taking place were not going to happen. From the first of his escalator and on forward, he thought he had things in place that would keep him safe. Very much so after becoming the so-called president. He or his minions got lots of judgeships going, SC judges, and loads of Supremacists in and out of government. For all that seem to be in his court, so very many have already ducked out. They can't afford any longer to be hangers on. He has few places ( most social media kyboshed ) to connect and to direct although he manages a bit of it. Still he is facing as Sandy said the large possibility of seeing a lot of his property go to the government and along the way he is having to spend tons of income on lawyers for all the suits that are coming against him. No presidential buffer now for anything. So that is a great source of anger ( money is his judgement standard and it is pouring into the coffers of his legal help ) and he never expected to have to deal with these things. I presume he fully expected to be re-elected and then quickly turn us into a full dictatorship -- and that would have guaranteed that he didn't have to face any of what I hope eats him to pieces now. Long does not the orange non-king live free.
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Something for deep thought on their side, not ours.
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Colossal failure: Trump's new blog has less traffic than Petfinder
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Lord help us if he tries podcasting next. His vocal contortions as well has his writing are wearing very thin.
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Totally living the last entries.
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And I'd like to add that the former guy has assaulted the English language to such a degree that I believe a lot of money changed hands during the course of his “academic “ years and it wasn't just for tuition. Yup, the biggliest cheating and bribing money could buy (ever in the huuuge world)!
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When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present--love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure--the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth. -Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Last night, the remaining chamber of the TX legislature failed to pass the latest voter-suppression bill before the midnight deadline ending the current legislative session. So it's dead in the water for now, nothing for Abbott to sign. Speaking of the Governorship, Beto O'Rourke is weighing a run for it. Maybe he can succeed where Wendy Davis couldn't. Would be sweet to flip a bunch of legislative seats too.
And Bibi may be on his way out (of the Israeli PM's residence) and perhaps en route to the hoosegow. His former acolyte Naftali Bennett--while right-wing--is on the verge of forming a coalition gov't with a centrist leader (and perhaps even some Labor MKs). Otherwise, Israel faces a fifth election in two years (I was there the week before the second one in 2019). Bennett is not the rabid nationalist Bibi is, and may be persuaded to stop building settlements in E. Jerusalem (though he's still pro-annexation when it comes to elsewhere in the W. Bank).
There does need to be a two-state solution, though each side stubbornly believes there must be either one Israel or an Arab "Palestine" that includes all of the current Israel. The thing that my fellow progressives fail to admit is that there never was a nation called "Palestine" per se: "Palestine" was the de facto name for the Holy Land region in which Arabs (Muslim & Christian), Druze, Mizrahi and eventually Diaspora Ashkenazi Jews lived; the Arab lands bordering pre-partition Israel in 1947 were part of Egypt (for Gaza), Jordan, Lebanon & Syria. But none of those countries provided any aid to the Muslim & Christian Arabs & Druze living there--much less offered to give them those lands to form a "nation of Palestine." Yes, Britain did evict many Arabs living on the land that was part of what became Israel--but Jews had also already been living there (Diaspora Ashkenazim mostly settling in what had been wilderness) for >150 years, and many native Sephardim & Mizrahim far longer than that, having managed to escape annihilation by first the Romans, then the Byzantines, Crusaders, and Ottomans. For a very long time, even many of the earliest Muslim gov'ts. allowed Jews to coexist, even flourish.
But this eviction of Arabs from their current homes & lands must stop. NOW. If there needs to be room to accommodate Jerusalem's burgeoning "Haredi" population (huge welfare-dependent/tax-evading/military-service-refusing families), then build up, not out. (Or try--unsuccessfully--to convince them that "be fruitful & multiply" no longer can in good conscience be taken literally if they are to also obey the equally Talmudical imperative of tikkun olam: "repair the world").
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DH and I have been watching the series Q: Into the Storm.
Q: Into the Storm, an HBO documentary
It's fascinating and terrifying all rolled into one. One of the biggest ironies is that a "leader" who claims democrats and liberals are literal pedophiles and baby killers got his start on an image site that predominantly offered pornography (including child) and graphically bloody memes. Who's sexualizing children and violence?
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ChiSandy et al: I totally forgot about his thread. I love it!! Jesus in our Bible (I don't know how we had one. We weren't practicing) looked like an Irishman or Viking. He had reddish wavy long hair and a red beard. As for Trump: It is such a relief not to hear that "voice" very much anymore. As things unfold in the various States I am more and more grateful to be an over-taxed, nanny-state Canadian.
Gotta pop in more often.
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Can't say I'm sorry Abbott didn't get to sign. I would love to see Beto O'Rourke run and be elected. I really had high hopes that Beto would do in Cruz and I still hope he ends up out but only a fiasco like 1/6 seems able to be big enough and it is not at all a sure thing. Miriandra, it often seems to me that the Reps. look in the mirror and then accuse Dems. of what they see there. Even more so since we are mainly fairly opposite ( and most surely the last yrs. ) of who they are. They take their worst attributes and foist them on us.
Elderberry, I hope you will come more often. We treasure our Canadian friends and like to keep in touch.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse;
however if I treat you as though you are what you are
capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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This is such a despicable, deporable. Too many people called out H. Clinton for her 'deplorable' remark. It wasn't a basket either -- much , much bigger.
Probably is too bad he isn't re-instated in the military just so he could be court-marshalled.
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IllinoisLady:. Do we have corrupt politicians? Yes. But they pale in comparison to south of the Border. I believe we have had only one political assassination, that of D'Arcy McGee, back in 1868 and he was just an MP not the Prime Minister. We had the Air Bus scandal under PM Brian Mulroney. Among the players was a man who stabbed himself in the back 17 times before setting the house on fire. Yeah. That sounds plausible. Around the same time a small plane crashed with a suitcase packed with money. It was all related to the scandal and the journalist who wrote about it was never sued. Otherwise, our stuff is pretty peely-wally.
Flynn . Holy shit! How did that man rise so high in the ranks? What happened to "an Officer and a gentleman"? Does he really want to get the military to stage a coup? A firing squad would be a good ending for a failed, corrupt and treasonous man.
Can Biden get Manchin to vote to end the 60 vote filibuster?. Can't they just go back to reading telephone books (do they still even exist?) and talking, talking, talking for hours to delay the votes? It is still a filibuster. The tyranny of the minority.
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Manchin doesn't want to end the filibuster, precisely because he relishes the power it currently gives him. He also represents a deep-red state, dependent on the rapidly obsolescing coal-mining industry, that twice overwhelmingly voted for Trump. Were he to endorse alternative energy and the standard Democratic party line (such as it is) beyond certifiying the 2020 election, having twice voted to convict Trump, and (reluctantly) for the ACA, he'd lose his seat to an ultra-right-wing Republican like his fellow Sen. Moore-Capito. He is also against raising the minimum wage and any part of the infrastructure bill that includes stuff other than roads & bridges (even funds to replace lead pipes). But for his few party-line votes, he might as well be a Republican. But in WV, another Republican would be infinitely worse.
IMHO, the only reason to keep the filibuster is as a protection for when---not "if" but almost certainly when--we lose the Senate again--Moscow Mitch tries to kill Obamacare and lower fat-cats' taxes again. It was only the filibuster that enabled McCain's thumbs-down that kept the ACA alive in 2017. But it does need to be converted to its original form of speak-till-you-drop (or the increasingly unlikely 60 votes to invoke cloture).
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With you on it Sandy. Machin walks a fine line so he can keep hopefully being re-elected and as maddening as he is I totally agree that actually having a 'real' Reps. in his place would be horrid. I'm also horrified that Q-'anon keeps working so hard to wrest our current democratic government from us. In the meantime the orange thing is saying he will be 're-instated' by August, compliments I'm sure of the Q-anon'ers. How could we get to this ? Well, hopefully there are some good things going on, on our side that haven't totally surfaced yet ( hope-hope ).
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Another person said and I heartily agree : there goes a privileged a-hole wanna-be tough guy wussy -- and many are Reps. too.
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