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It's that appeal to fear: "If they're coming for ME now, they'll be coming for YOU next." No one stops to think that nobody will be coming for "YOU" at all if you're not involved in massive crimes like election fraud, corruption, sexual assault, etc. It seems that fear short-circuits the brain's ability to process logic. News sites like WaPo regularly post all of the lies and inaccuracies that tRump says, as if that's going to change anyone's mind. As if anyone voting for tRump even reads anything by the WaPo because they believe that are funded by Biden. Biden is behind the 8-ball on understanding tRump's appeal, and just being logical and boring isn't going to get it done. tRump supporters don't believe our election system has integrity, but just getting up and saying that's not true will not convince anyone. Running for POTUS must be purely an ego thing for tRump. Many people believe he is running to stay out of jail...well, I don't think he will ever see the inside of a jail cell even if he's NOT the POTUS, especially with this trial. It's clear there are two tiers of justice in the US, one for us and one for rich people.

Unfortunately it seems like his supporters don't care, just like supporters of Mussolini didn't mind it when he had the manager of a train station shot..."well, he made the trains run on time." Remember Marge Schott? She praised Hitler saying he "did a lot of good but went too far." We also have a lot of migrants here from countries that don't support democracy in the first place, so they don't see the big deal in electing an authoritarian.

Agreed, but he will keep bloviating about it in public, because to a narcissist there is no such thing as bad publicity...just publicity! Sorry, that made me think of this from Scarface:

Funny how everyone who ever worked for Trump or works for him now turns into a petulant child, like Giuliani, Navarro, Bannon, etc.

Creative license.

Is he? I know there were rumors he was moving to the UK, but there's been no confirmation. The UK press will be all over this creep if he tries to buy into a soccer club...if he thought the US press was unfair to him he ain't seen nuthin' yet!

He'd be very popular there, especially with all the convicts who were in the Mafia. Does a Whitey Bulger ending for Giuliani seem more likely now...I think so.

He probably only allows Russians to come home, since he can keep sending ethnic minorities from Siberia and central Asia into the meat grinder.

While there's no 'smoking gun' proof, there's more than enough circumstantial evidence to convict Trump...just like in mafia boss cases when a former wise guy turns into a stool pigeon...if they needed written receipts and other hard proof of a mafia conspiracy (something mafia bosses, like Trump, avoid for obvious reasons), rather than a pile of circumstantial evidence, then no mafia boss would have ever been convicted of a crime EVER.

She's spot on. Putin used NATO's expansion (which stopped in 2004) as an excuse for his actions saying that Russian 'culture' is being threatened back in 2022. Since then, he's pivoted to saying he wants to reestablish the Russian Empire, basically, and that all countries that used to be a part of the USSR must be part of it. The fact that NONE of these countries wants to willingly be a part of that either escapes Putin completely or doesn't matter. I'm betting on he doesn't care, since Russian leaders don't care much about their own population's happiness in the first place, why would they care whether Ukraine/Baltics/etc. citizens want to be closer to the West that to Russia? I fear that Putin's view of Russian culture being 'threatened' means they can't expand their borders without consequences. And looking at Russia's demographics, they are dying off...he's living in a pipe dream if he thinks Russian women are going to go back to having 5 to 9 kids...less cannon fodder for the Red Army...who by the way are currently sending troops from minority cultures in Siberia to die in Ukraine...NOT Moscow-born Russians. Talk about unintended consequences...Sweden and Finland have joined NATO, and Gazprom just suffered its first multi-billion loss due to sanctions. But I guess he will keep doubling down on stupid.

Blanche is trying to save his job by morphing into a Rottweiler. It remains to be seen whether that approach helped or hurt Cohen with the jury...at least Cohen remained composed throughout.

That's all the defense team can do, attack Cohen's credibility. Because they have nothing otherwise. Cohen can be a total scumbag, AND be telling the truth...both things can be true, something Trump Chumps have a hard time understanding. Cohen's testimony has mostly confirmed what previous witnesses said, too. It's going to be hard for the defense team to keep claiming that Cohen made everything up. I think tRump paying attention was an attempt to intimidate Cohen, nothing more. I also feel that if a verdict is reached quickly, then tRump is cooked. If they deliberate for days, then that means there's some Trump Chumps on the jury.

Agreed, but it will just feed into their current narrative that "If they're coming for ME, then they're going to come for YOU!" B.S. It continues to enrage me that people don't see through this. No one is going to come for YOU if you're not engaging in all these illegal activities tRump is charged with.

Yeah I kinda figured that, but I also felt some of them just got too scared over all the death threats, which in my opinion seems to come with the job these days. It's really the MAGA nut jobs that are in control, not Trump...there was even a report where Trump supposedly said he was scared of his MAGA followers.

Too little, too late. The former Republican party has become the Trumpublican party. Maybe they would have had a chance if they hadn't all RESIGNED from office.

https://www.outkick.com/sports/give-espn-crediting-for-quickly-ending-disastrous-rgiii-monday-night-football-ends-experiment-bobby-burack "Monday Night Countdown" was the weakest of the many NFL pregame shows last season. And RGIIII was the main reason why. During the season, we labeled the addition of RGIII to "MNF" ESPN's "worst decision since handing Bomani Jones a television show," which ended in abrupt cancelation. An NFL pregame is not "First Take." Viewers don't turn on "Countdown" for hot takes and clownish behavior. "Countdown" leads into ESPN's most expensive property, "Monday Night Football," for which Disney pays $2.7 billion annually. Griffin represented both ESPN and the NFL as an analyst for the program. And he made a fool of himself. And, in return, a fool of ESPN and the NFL. RGIIII consistently undermined ESPN's coverage by defending Lamar Jackson, whom he refers to as his "little brother," against strawmen. Notably, Griffin shouted that he "wants to see people finally put respect on Lamar’s name" on-set ahead of the Ravens-Texans playoff game. Even Van Pelt turned to him, perplexed. "Who is disrespecting him?" asked Van Pelt. "He’s about to win MVP." Griffin didn't answer the question. He made similar comments all season long. No other player has their own personal advocate/fanboy on a highly-watched NFL pregame show – so why should Lamar Jackson? Ultimately, RGIII could not separate his personal feelings from his role as an analyst. Early in the season, he called for the 49ers to put head coach Kyle Shanahan, one of the best coaches in the NFL, on the "hot seat." A week later, Griffin admitted his issues with Shanahan are "personal" and that he blames the coach for his lack of success as a Redskin. Can you imagine if Tom Brady gets in the booth for Fox next season and starts bashing Bill Belichick over their fractured relationship? That would be highly unprofessional and Fox would not stand for it. Griffin also acted like a dolt off-air, on social media. He made unsupported accusations about the Bears of sabotaging Justin Fields, then used his widely discredited reporting to call for players to boycott the Bears in protest.

Boeing only has itself to blame, by putting profits over quality. That may be OK if you're producing calculators, but not OK when you're making planes carrying hundreds of paying customers. I honestly hope someone goes to jail for this. Leaving information about the MCAS out of the flight manual just to avoid FAA scrutiny (and cost more $$$) was a criminal conspiracy. It seems that "too big to fail" is used as an excuse by many companies to engage in illegal behavior.

YUGE.

Boeing Crash Families Told They're Crime Victims in New DOJ Letter https://www.newsweek.com/boeing-crash-families-crime-victims-doj-letter-1901060 A letter sent to families of those who died following two Boeing airliner crashes says they are victims of fraud. The letter, which appears to originate from the U.S. Department of Justice reveals that Boeing faces possible criminal prosecution over two fatal crashes involving its aircraft. The letter states that a federal criminal case is pending against Boeing, as the DOJ says that Boeing breached its obligations from a Deferred Prosecution Agreement. A DPA is an agreement between a prosecutor and a corporation under criminal investigation, which allows the corporation to avoid prosecution by meeting certain specified conditions, such as reforming the company. The DOJ said in the letter that Boeing breached its DPA obligations by "failing to design, implement and enforce a compliance and ethics program to prevent and detect violations of the U.S. fraud laws throughout its operations."

Is there anything in the law (not that Trump cares) that says he even HAS TO select a VP? He's a micromanager and probably thinks he can do it all himself. Matter of fact, why not just get rid of the hierarchy and leave him in charge? The GOP won't stop him.

Trump wants someone he can control completely. What's to keep him from nominating one of his own children? It's not like he needs the GOP's approval, since he's pretty much taken over the party anyway.

Another useful idiot...and I though Rodgers had more brains than that.

And all of this is the result of Putin believing what the FSB was telling him, that Ukrainians would welcome Russian troops, etc. Telling the boss what he wants to hear may prolong a career for a little while, but when the stuff hits the fan the boss will look for scapegoats...but then again, that's what most authoritarians (like Trump) want, to be told what they want to hear.

Those outfits will be as popular as SS uniforms were after WW2. 😁

Russia keeps losing colonels (O-6s) because they don't train junior officers or NCOs fearing they could eventually become a threat to them if they're competent. Whenever things bog down, the battalion commander (an O-5 or O-6) has to go forward to figure things out, and promptly gets whacked because he's too close to the front line. This wouldn't happen if they actually trusted people below them to do their jobs. Sergeants in our military typically have more authority to do their jobs and freedom of action than junior officers in the Russian military do. Russia wants a competent military leader...but not TOO competent. Zhukov (who won WW2 for them) was immediately ostracized by Stalin and sent to a military command in some backwater area...can't have someone competent too close to leadership, or people will start getting ideas! I for one hope the Russians never figure this out, and I hope that their military pulls a WW1 and just refuses to fight any more. It may take awhile, since ethnic Russians aren't the ones being killed like in that video above...most of their combat deaths are minorities, and certainly not the sons of families in Moscow!!