kpete
kpete's JournalWorking for & lying for Trump can always potentially land you...behind bars.
https://dnyuz.com/2024/04/10/trumps-ex-finance-chief-is-sentenced-to-5-months-in-rikers-for-perjury/
The "asshole-ification" of America"
Abigail Disney on the "asshole-ification" of America: "Really w/ the Reagan administration, there was this rise of the narrative of the individual, & that communities didn't matter ... that has flowed into us electing the Ur asshole to office and maybe electing him a second time"
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1778063679402971187
President Biden: This is not your father's Republican Party. This is a different breed of cat.
President Biden: This is not your father’s Republican Party. This is a different breed of cat. Trump runs that party, he maintains a sort of a death grip on it, it’s incredibly dangerous
https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1778038535792025931
Schumer: "Let's wait a few weeks and see what his new position will be."
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) reaction to Trump's statement on abortion:
“Let’s wait a few weeks and see what his new position will be.”
https://x.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1777358932513558621
'Trump Is Simply Lying': Biden Goes OFF On Trump Over Abortion In Blistering Statement
NEW from
@JoeBiden
on Trump's abortion comments >>
“Trump is scrambling. He's worried that since he's the one responsible for overturning Roe the voters will hold him accountable in 2024. Well, I have news for Donald. They will.
https://twitter.com/ammarmufasa/status/1777341476302659899
“Donald Trump made it clear once again today that he is – more than anyone in America – the person responsible for ending Roe v. Wade. He is – more than anyone in America – responsible for creating the cruelty and the chaos that has enveloped America since the Dobbs decision.
“Trump once said women must be punished for seeking reproductive health care – and he’s gotten his wish. Women are being turned away from emergency rooms, forced to go to court to seek permission for the medical attention they need, and left to travel hundreds of miles for health care. In states like Florida, abortion will likely soon be illegal before many women know they’re pregnant. Because of Donald Trump, one in three women in America already live under extreme and dangerous bans that put their lives at risk and threaten doctors with prosecution for doing their jobs. And that is only going to get worse. With all his empty words on fertility treatments, Trump doesn’t tell you the MAGA Republicans he controls in Congress have put forward bills that could ban fertility treatments and that the Speaker of the House he empowered is one of the strongest supporters for a national abortion ban in the nation. Let there be no illusion. If Donald Trump is elected and the MAGA Republicans in Congress put a national abortion ban on the Resolute Desk, Trump will sign it into law.
“Here’s what Donald Trump doesn’t understand: When he ripped away Roe v. Wade, he ripped away a fundamental right for the women of America that the United States Supreme Court had affirmed and reaffirmed for 50 years. As a fundamental right, it didn’t matter where you lived. It was granted to you as an American, not as a resident of any state. Generations of women had come to rely on that right. Now we’re in the extraordinary position where women today have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers. That has never happened before in America. And it cannot be allowed to stand. I am determined to restore the federal protections of Roe v. Wade. So it won’t matter where you live in America: The fundamental right to choose for women will once again be the law of the land. If you give me and Vice President Harris a Democratic Congress, that is exactly what we will do.
“Trump is simply lying. There was no groundswell of support in America for overturning Roe. In fact, support for Roe is higher today in America than it has ever been. The real truth is Trump made a political deal in 2016. He promised to appoint a Court that would get rid of Roe. And he had to make good on that debt. So he did. It was never about public policy or what was right or what Trump believed. It was always about politics.
“Trump admits as much in his statement today. Having created the chaos of overturning Roe, he’s trying to say, ‘Oh, never mind. Don’t punish me for that. I just want to win.’
“Trump is scrambling. He’s worried that since he’s the one responsible for overturning Roe the voters will hold him accountable in 2024. Well, I have news for Donald. They will. America was built on personal freedom and liberty. So, there is nothing more un-American than having our personal freedoms taken away. And that is what Donald Trump has done.
“As I have said many times since the Dobbs decision, Donald Trump and all those responsible for overturning Roe don’t have a clue about the power of women in America. But they are about to find out.”
https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-is-simply-lying-biden-goes-off-on-trump-over-abortion-in-blistering-statement/
An especially brown & cowardly Trump statement on abortion: Whatever each state decides just vote for him.
Trump issues a statement on his abortion position, which is that whatever laws each state decides to have is just fine with him. Whatever anyone does is fine with him, he just needs your vote.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1777314791083704827
Judge: 1/6 was violent, not peaceful; opportunistic, not principled; coercive, not persuasive; & selfish, not patriotic"
Notes from Judge Royce Lamberth at Jan 6 sentencing last week:
"Nor was the January 6 riot an act of civil disobedience, because it was violent, not peaceful; opportunistic, not principled; coercive, not persuasive; and selfish, not patriotic
https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1777310422695100629
NOTES FOR SENTENCING
Today, the Court sentenced Taylor James Johnatakis. The Court ordered that Mr.
Johnatakis be committed to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons for a term of 87 months. The
following are the notes that the Court used when delivering portions of its oral sentencing.
***
A society in which everyone does what is right by his own lights, where adherence to the
law is optional, would be a society of vigilantism, lawlessness, and anarchy. As my late friend
Justice Antonin Scalia once wrote, “t is the proud boast of our democracy that we have ‘a
government of laws and not of men.’” Morrison v. Olson, 487 U.S. 654, 697 (1988) (Scalia, J.,
dissenting). A person dissatisfied with the government or the law has various non-violent ways to
express his or her views. The First Amendment protects freedom of speech. It also enshrines “the
right of the people peaceably”—let me repeat, peaceably—“to assemble.” And history has shown
there is some role for the civil disobedience of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King, Jr.,
in which a citizen engages in principled and peaceful—let me repeat, peaceful—disobedience of
the law in order to protest a perceived injustice. In that situation, the person acknowledges they
have broken the law and accepts the legal consequences that follow.
But what the jury found Mr. Johnatakis to have done on January 6 was neither First
Amendment-protected activity nor civil disobedience. As the Court has said before, “the First
Amendment does not give anyone the right to enter a restricted area or to engage in riotous activity
in the Capitol.” See United States v. Little (Little Notes for Resentencing), No. 1:21-cr-315 (RCL),
2024 WL 386718 (D.D.C. Jan. 25, 2024). It obviously does not give anyone the right to assault
the police. Nor was the January 6 riot an act of civil disobedience, because it was violent, not
peaceful; opportunistic, not principled; coercive, not persuasive; and selfish, not patriotic.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.227212/gov.uscourts.dcd.227212.272.0.pdf
Putting this up as we go into the final week before the 2016 Stormy Daniels election fraud case begins
I Keep Forgetting The Whole QuotePublished by digby on April 7, 2024
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Think about what he said and the fact that dozens of other women have accused him of the same thing and that he’s even been held liable for defamation and sexual assault for over 90 million dollars. The man is a reprehensible reprobate on a level we’ve never encountered in presidential politics — and we’ve had some real beauts when it comes to womanizing. This man is truly disgusting.
https://digbysblog.net/2024/04/07/i-keep-forgetting-the-whole-quote/
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