March 31, 2023

A quiet little caveat about hoping for too much out of the Manhattan prosecution of Trump

The New York case against Trump and his falsifying records to pay off a hooker is probably the weakest of the charges facing Trump. The Georgia cause against election tampering and the federal case about classified documents (and the subsequent obstruction charges) and the federal cases on fraudulent electors and conspiracy to mob incitement are significantly stronger.

Attorney Danny Cevallos explains, starting at about 4 minutes (this section of video will start with the ONLY Trump apologist who actually argues legal points instead of dishonest distractions), that there's jurisdictional issues that make the Stormy Daniels documents more of a misdemeanor in state court because much of them concern the federal election code. Now, it's not true that DA Bragg is singling out Trump (as Magats will complain) since in his short tenure Bragg has gone after over 100 similar cases of white collar financial fraud crimes. Trump's frauds are exactly what Bragg prioritizes as a prosecutor. But it's not hard to see where Trump's lawyers will try to weasel him out of the felony charges

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The best news that Cevallos delivers is that (1) DeSantis really doesn't have standing to obstruct a federal extradition of Trump to New York and (2) it's in Trump's interests to show up in court since resisting arrest makes him much much more vulnerable to without-bail incarceration when he comes up on rape charges in New York later in the year.

I can't begin to tell you how giddy I am at the thought of all the legal shit Trump will be stepping in for the rest of the decade. The only downside is that he's probably the easiest Republican for Uncle Joe to beat in 2024. But it's better for the Republic for Trump to go away in a shitstorm of his own legal making instead of him unleashing all the violence he certainly plans to do in the 2024 general election.

March 29, 2023

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March 26, 2023

Legit question...

If an identical twin learns a new skill, does their twin automatically acquire that skill set? Or do they have to physically touch hands in order to pass off that new knowledge?

March 25, 2023

Woke up in a cold sweat. Every night it's the same nightmare

Michael Chertoff's disembodied head comes through my window and attempts to chomp me to death. Like a giant Langolier, but hungrier. Faster.

Angry.



I need a space pocket to hide away in. I need a space wizard to protect me.

March 23, 2023

How US politics became intertwined with personal identity

About the tribalism that permeates politics now and how it's harming us.

March 22, 2023

Earth's core stopped spinning, foretelling the EndTimes. Also, Earth's core hasn't stopped spinning

This is what the Bible predicted and NOW it's coming true!!

https://youtube.com/shorts/8aqDh578ygk

And this is what the best scientist on YouTube says

March 19, 2023

I have a serious question about Ron DeSantis

How long do you think he's been holding in that fart?



Cause honestly I think he's taking all that built up frustration out on some poor innocent history textbooks

March 18, 2023

Breaking news: Bush and Reagan debate immigration (1980)

I will never not be stunned watching this and reflecting on how much hatred has hijacked the Republican party

This should stand as a warning to all of us. Hate is a camel who wants to get its nose under your tent.

March 18, 2023

The "Spirit of Party" warning in George Washington's farewell address

Washington's final warning to the country was exactly over behaviors like what the Maga wing of the Republican Party is indulging in today: Americans becoming so opposed to fellow Americans' ideas that they get lured into belief in and loyalty to a foreign nation's manipulation. We can and should disagree with each others' ideas and proposals for how to run our shared government. That's the essence of the democracy that's sustained and enhanced our Republic for two centuries. But that argument was always needed to stop at our borders. When connected to matters overseas we should all be bound to support the national interest and never turn against each other to support a foreign faction or interest.

In 1789 Washington was warning against the Republicans' loyalty to revolutionary French propaganda and even fellow Federalists' attachment to British commercial interests, both at the expense of fealty to the American Republic. One constant in US history is many of us fall and fall short of the American ideal, except in the area of bickering with one another.

And I'll be honest with you, there's really nothing wrong with an American party saying 'We should have a more isolationist foreign policy' or 'America shouldn't take sides in foreign wars, especially against nuclear powered foes.' I disagree with those ideas in the case of Ukraine, but they are perfectly legitimate ideas to put out and argue for. Those arguments by themselves aren't disloyalty.

What some Maga Republicans today are doing however does cross the line: falling for Russian propaganda and its anti-free press & anti-democracy policies. They mimic Putin's Christian nationalism, buy into his denial of Ukrainian identify (I even saw a republican congressman on TV a couple of weeks ago refer to Ukraine as "the borderlands"!), and find common cause with him in ginning up hatred against gays and transsexuals--favoring denying fundamental constitutional rights to fellow Americans based on their own personal dislikes.

I remember a few years ago noting the number of Republicans at their national convention sporting "country before party" hats, which is honestly a great slogan and should apply to all of us. But that slogan sitting square on Republican heads seems shockingly empty today. This faction is willing to buy any lie from Russia or denounce any American law enforcement official who prosecutes the anti-democracy activities so long as the criminals are from the Republican Party.

It's technically not treason if it's not an act carried out for the enemy in a war. But it is a core treachery to the principles of our country and a categorical disloyalty to the constitutional mandate that we maintain a republican form of government in all of the United States.

March 14, 2023

The Wisdom of Jordan Peterson

Wisdom of Peterson Word Salad Generator

* "Perception requires exponential boundaries"

* "Pinnochio as the archetype shapes new neural networks"

* "Evil is the force that expresses unique dominance hierarchy"

* "Embodying the Logos transcends your own power, roughly speaking"

* ... and many more