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brush's JournalJudge Chutkan is doing a good job, has to wait on SCOTUS to rule on whether trump is immune on criminal charges.
But considering Garland, somehow his slowness always seems to favors republicans. It's going on 4 years and there is suspicion that some coup participants are still serving in congress, trump is still running around delaying, delaying, delaying, hoping his appointed judges/justices go along with the obvious plan to allow motion after motion after motion to run out the clock on bringing the 91 felony indictments to trial until after the election, or so close to the election that he can keep yelling that he's a victim of a witch hunt.
And so far Judge loose Cannon and the SCOTUS 6 are complying. SCOTUS for some reason is delaying ruling on the couldn't-be-more-goddam-obvious DC Circuit Court's decision that no one is above the law, even a president, is not immune from breaking the law.
Garland's first order of business on taking office should've been starting an investigation on not just the foot soldiers on J6, but also the planners of the attempt to overthrow the government of the United States...it's so obvious it should've been the very first job of the Attorney General to attend to.
But no, trump and others were running around non-indicted for a couple of years. If Garland had started investigating the attempt to overthrow the government of the United States immediately on taking office we would not be faced with whether trump can run-out-the-clock before the election.
Come on, if not for the House J6 Select Committee putting the DOJ, with way more investigative resources to shame, we wouldn't be here watching the clock tick down like in a football game.
trump should've already been tried, most likely convicted, a year ago. I mean it took how long, how many attempts in the slam-dunk MAL docs case to get him to return just the documents he stole...and he's still got some (DOJ's FBI agents missed finding a secret room with even more stolen, and still retained, hidden docs).
But no, Garland waited way too long to appoint Special Counsel Smith (doing a great job btw), when no special counsel was needed. He, the Attorney General should've taken direct charge of the investigation of the attempt to overthrow the government of the United States. He himself, the AG, that's his job.
But no, his hesitance, timidity, or whatever you call it, some may see it as guile even, him being a Federalist Society recommendation, he went the special counsel route for others to do his job. Hell he even appointed a republican-appointed special counsel, Hur, to go after Biden's docs case. It took years and produced a bang-up, near-400-page, hit job report on Biden which Garland read and released without editing out the blatant HIT JOB comments on "the old, slow, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory not fit to be president." The exoneration of Biden was some 200 pages deep into the report, where as the exoneration of former VP Pence for his similar docs case, took one page and much less time to exonerate Pence with no hit job commentary.
Did I mention Garland is a Federalist Society recommendation, the outfit that generates a list of all the extreme, right wing judges/justices that republican presidents appoint to courts from, including Judge Cannon and the SCOTUS 6 btw?
Is Garland a republican party mole whose, I'll be kind, DELIBERATE moves take much time and seem to always favor the republican party, and trump?
It's too late now but IMO after Biden wins the election, Garland should immediately be thanked for his services and shown the door before he can do more damage.
I still can't believe he released that Hur report without editing out the hit job stuff. Talk about a passive-aggressive stabbing of Biden in the back...
OK, call it whatever you want to call it, but the obliteration of Gaza...
is going to be paid for.
I get that the term "reparations" sets some people off since it's what many African-American activists have asked for for Black descendants of people enslaved during centuries of enslavement with dawn-to-dusk, uncompensated labor (stolen labor).
I'd like to note ironically that Jewish survivors and descendants of the Holocaust received financial benefits, as did Japanese survivors of WWll internment (but Black people — NO WAY).
Maybe we should call the rebuilding of Gaza financial benefits instead as there is no way it's not going to be rebuilt...unless of course Netanyahu gets his way and Jewish settlements are built from the "river to the sea" as he recently called for.
I do too, and McConnell's right on this. We are in the process of, and should continue, to decimate Russia's army...
without firing a shot on our own or committing any troops by continuing to back Ukraine, of which this war is one for their very existence as a sovereign nation.
This should not be hard to understand, and I'm so glad McConnell does, as for the short-sighted other republican senators who are against it...how fucking stupid can they get.
Are they so in the tank for Putin they've forgotten that Russia/the USSR and communism has been our avowed worst enemy since Lenin and Stalin and they can't see that we can put to rest their ability to challenge not just us, but western Europe's hegemony over the Eurasian continental land mass. We've shown that Putin's army is second, maybe even third-rate with the decimation of it Ukraine, with our backing, has done.
That's what's at state, not some short-sighted Putin ass kissing because they see him as another white guy like them, and not the evil mother fucker he is and who is intent on conquering the rest of Europe once he defeats Ukraine.
We and NATO are what stands in the breach against him.
I've tried to be impartial on this, meaing that I believe Hamas must be...
eliminated as Israel must defend itself by retaliating against enemy attackers. I also believe that the ongoing bombings in Gaza has reached the point of over-retaliation as 11,000 Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children have been killed. The bombings must stop.
The bombings IMO were the wrong way to ferret out Hamas, as way more non-combatants have been killed and injured than terrorists who are probably safe in their tunnels, which leaves urban warfare as the long, hard slog that must be understaken to rid Gaza of the Hamas terrorists.
I believe that is going on now and I wish the IDF success at that.
The bombings still must stop though as civilians to be killed by them.
Eventually I'm hoping for a ceasefire, then successful negotiations and finally a two-state agreement and follow through with a partitioned area for a Palestinian state too.
Finally after 75 years.
I'd like his name gone too from NYC.
The site where trump Tower is now was once where an Art Deco gem, Bonwit Teller and Company, a luxury department Store once stood.
It had a magnificent, and highly praised Art Deco frieze that trump promised the Landmarks Commission that he would save. He didn't . It was demolished when he tore down the building.
Such a bastard.
Ridiculous. Progressive boomers/Earth Day made environmental consciousness...
something that heavy smoking and gas-guzzling, heavy exhausts generating vast majorities of the greatest and previous cohorts who had no concern or idea of, become aware of, because of the activism of their children and grandchildren.
And as far as +1.5c, that's, like I said, an accumulation of centuries of human activity of generating, burning and releasing fossil fuel pollution into the atmosphere/greenhouse effect (generally acknowledged by scientists), not just during the so-called time boomers were allegedly "in charge."
How silly.
You're probably right. If Putin does manage to defeat Ukraine...
I imagine he'll wait to rebuild his forces.
It's said that the deconstructionist philosopher Alexandr Dugin titillates his Peter the Great 2.0 fantasies by preaching in his ear of a great Russian empire spanning from the Atlantic in the west to Vladivostok and the Pacific in the far east...as if the eleven time zone Russia already spans isn't enough.
Not a good look for Matinez and the other two racists.
IMO Bass played hard ball if she had something to do with releasing the tape. However it happened it probably won her some votes as many Black voters know about the racism and colorism among some in the LA Latino community, and don't like it.
Ya think those racists weren't playing rough too?
Politics ain't tiddlywinks.
Ridiculous. Hunter Biden has never been a part of the Biden admin. Who doesn't understand?
Why mention Kushner no longer being a part of a sitting admin, and adding "relative" to include Hunter Biden,as if that means anything? Joe Biden is not being charged. That case has dragged on for five years, now suddenly a special counsel is required, a trump-appointed one at that who requested SC status for himself? He has now charged Hunter Biden with 3 repetitious, felony charges that have rarely ever been bought.
I sense an agenda.
You clearly don't understand republican appeasement and what can result when you see it.
And as far as calling the WH, again, don't be ridiculous. This is a discussion board where we express out views. Have you called Garland to express your support?
And see post 77.
Romney, the only current repug senator with just a smidgeon of integrity...
but still a repug as he bows out with shots at Biden's ability, the president of recent times who has accomplished the most legislation that actually made the average American's life better...1) $1.2 trillion n infrastructure package; The $1.9 trillion COVID relief deal; lowest unemployment in 50 years; revitalized NATO to back Ukraine; the Cares Act which sent direct $1,000 payments to Adult Americans and $500 per child which helped tremendously during the depths of the covid pandemic and massive job losses; and of course the Chips Act which is bringing chip manufacturing jobs back to the US.
There's also the lowering of medication costs through negotiations now with big pharma.
Buh-bye, Mitt...still nothing but a repug.
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