Captain Wiggles Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Nah Archie wasn't whining enough. Maybe if he had delivered his speech in Ediths voice ita been more the similar to Don Jr. 🤭 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 ‘This to Him Is the Grand Finale’: Donald Trump’s 50-Year Mission to Discredit the Justice System The former president is in unparalleled legal peril, but he has mastered the ability to grind down the legal system to his advantage. It’s already changing our democracy. What happened in Room 300 of the New York County Courthouse in lower Manhattan in November had never happened. Not in the preceding almost two and a half centuries of the history of the United States. Donald Trump was on the witness stand. It was not unprecedented in the annals of American jurisprudence just because it was a former president, although that was totally true. It was unprecedented because the power dynamic of the courtroom had been upended — the defendant was not on defense, the most vulnerable person in the room was the most dominant person in the room, and the people nominally in charge could do little about it. It was unprecedented, too, because over the course of four or so hours Trump savaged the judge, the prosecutor, the attorney general, the case and the trial — savaged the system itself. He called the attorney general “a political hack.” He called the judge “very hostile.” He called the trial “crazy” and the court “a fraud” and the case “a disgrace.” He told the prosecutor he should be “ashamed” of himself. The judge all but pleaded repeatedly with Trump’s attorneys to “control” him. “If you can’t,” the judge said, “I will.” But he didn’t, because he couldn’t, and audible from the city’s streets were the steady sounds of sirens and that felt absolutely apt. “Are you done?” the prosecutor said. “Done,” Trump said. He was nowhere close to done. Trump’s testimony if anything was but a taste. (In fact, he said many of the same things in the same courtroom on Thursday.) This country has never seen and therefore is utterly unprepared for what it’s about to endure in the wrenching weeks and months ahead — active challenges based on post-Civil War constitutional amendments to bar insurrectionists from the ballot; existentially important questions about presidential immunity almost certainly to be decided by a U.S. Supreme Court the citizenry has seldom trusted less; and a candidate running for the White House while facing four separate criminal indictments alleging 91 felonies, among them, of course, charges that he tried to overturn an election he lost and overthrow the democracy he swore to defend. And while many found Trump’s conduct in court in New York shocking, it is in fact for Trump not shocking at all. For Trump, it is less an aberration than an extension, an escalation — a culmination. Trump has never been in precisely this position, and the level of the threat that he faces is inarguably new, but it’s just as true, too, that nobody has been preparing for this as long as he has himself. Trump and his allies say he is the victim of the weaponization of the justice system, but the reality is exactly the opposite. For literally more than 50 years, according to thousands of pages of court records and hundreds of interviews with lawyers and legal experts, people who have worked for Trump, against Trump or both, and many of the myriad litigants who’ve been caught in the crossfire, Trump has taught himself how to use and abuse the legal system for his own advantage and aims. Many might view the legal system as a place to try to avoid, or as perhaps a necessary evil, or maybe even as a noble arbiter of equality and fairness. Not Trump. He spent most of his adult life molding it into an arena in which he could stake claims and hunt leverage. It has not been for him a place of last resort so much as a place of constant quarrel. Conflict in courts is not for him the cost of doing business — it is how he does business. Throughout his vast record of (mostly civil) lawsuits, whether on offense, defense or frequently a mix of the two, Trump has become a sort of layman’s master in the law and lawfare. “He doesn’t see the legal system as a means of obtaining justice for all,” Jim Zirin, the author of Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits, told me. He sees it rather as a “tool,” said Ian Bassin, a former White House lawyer in the administration of Barack Obama and the current executive director of Protect Democracy, “in his quest to command attention and ultimately power.” But it’s not merely any tool. It’s his most potent tactic and fundamental to any and all successes he’s had. “There’s probably no single person in America,” said Eric Swalwell, the Democratic member of Congress from California and a former prosecutor and Trump impeachment manager, “who is more, I would say, knowledgeable and experienced in our legal system — as both a plaintiff and as a defendant — than Donald Trump.” Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bang Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Karma is indeed a **** with a great sense of humor. ~Bang 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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China Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 How College-Educated Republicans Learned to Love Trump Again Blue-collar white voters make up Donald Trump’s base. But his political resurgence has been fueled largely by Republicans from the other end of the socioeconomic scale. Working-class voters delivered the Republican Party to Donald J. Trump. College-educated conservatives may ensure that he keeps it. Often overlooked in an increasingly blue-collar party, voters with a college degree remain at the heart of the lingering Republican cold war over abortion, foreign policy and cultural issues. These voters, who have long been more skeptical of Mr. Trump, have quietly powered his remarkable political recovery inside the party — a turnaround over the past year that has notably coincided with a cascade of 91 felony charges in four criminal cases. Even as Mr. Trump dominates Republican primary polls ahead of the Iowa caucuses on Monday, it was only a year ago that he trailed Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida in some surveys — a deficit due largely to the former president’s weakness among college-educated voters. Mr. DeSantis’s advisers viewed the party’s educational divide as a potential launching point to overtake Mr. Trump for the nomination. Then came Mr. Trump’s resurgence, in which he rallied every corner of the party, including the white working class. But few cross-sections of Republicans rebounded as much as college-educated conservatives, a review of state and national polls during the past 14 months shows. This phenomenon cuts against years of wariness toward Mr. Trump by college-educated Republicans, unnerved by his 2020 election lies and his seemingly endless craving for controversy. Their surge toward the former president appears to stem largely from a reaction to the current political climate rather than a sudden clamoring to join the red-capped citizenry of MAGA nation, according to interviews with nearly two dozen college-educated Republican voters. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 "Say, he hates all those darkies too!" That's how. Education does not in any way make a person better if they're a piece of **** to begin with. ~Bang 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbo Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 I think I do understand the bulk of💩 trump supporters. That's why I have such (rationally, justifiably) harsh views and wishes for them. 👹 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Die Hard Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 41 minutes ago, Cooked Crack said: Of course, they also accuse Biden of being a dictator. They don’t seem to enjoy his dictatorship nearly as much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Evil Genius Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 (edited) Edit..sorry wrong thread. Edited January 15 by The Evil Genius 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 12th Commandment Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 8 minutes ago, Cooked Crack said: Just one... but it's REALLY BIG 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 I'll bet Joe could identify every state on a US pie. (Remember how Al Franken could draw it?) TFG Doofus probably couldn't name one correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 8 pizzas. Just stunning leadership qualities. ~Bang 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 It goes without saying that ol Joe would have at least reimbursed someone for those 8 pizzas. We all know that Trump stiffed the business for them. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 11 hours ago, The 12th Commandment said: Just one... but it's REALLY BIG OK, are we not going to talk about what psychopath cut the pizza that way? And why is Joe putting his right hand on the pizza? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 12th Commandment Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 5 minutes ago, China said: OK, are we not going to talk about what psychopath cut the pizza that way? And why is Joe putting his right hand on the pizza? Our AI overlords at work 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wiggles Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Quote "Sleepy Joe Poopy Pants" #TrumpSmells 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 3 minutes ago, The Evil Genius said: I would create a series of ads for both the internet and TV. Open with Don babbling and gaffing, and then cut to one of these supporters for like 15 seconds. And that's it. No other message. No making fun of them. Just to scare the folks who would vote again Trump, but don't make voting a priority. Or the "independents" who need to be reminded that it's not a hard choice. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ball Security Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 13 minutes ago, The Evil Genius said: I’m struggling to follow. Who’s in California? Biden? James Woods? Who is doing what with the economy and which direction is it going? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 2 hours ago, The Evil Genius said: So James Woods is young enough to get elected? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skintime Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 44 minutes ago, Larry said: So James Woods is young enough to get elected? And he's in the GOP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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