Five separate criminal investigations intrude on the former president’s busy schedule; they are the classified records cases (3), the probe concerning his role in the attempt to overturn Joe Biden’s presidential election victory, and his effort to nullify Biden’s victory in Georgia.
I wouldn’t call the man facing these criminal investigations, ‘… 'the world's oldest Professional Juvenile Delinquent', but, perhaps, most people cannot come to terms with how seriously we Americans and our country have been diminished by an immoral and indecent sociopath.
In COOKIE JAR!, TC, colorfully cutup Trump’s bogus ‘explanations’ for holding onto classified documents and he aptly put DJT’s Republican allies in a follies burlesque.
“This is truly a battle between those who want to save America and those who want to destroy her,” Kari Lake, the Republican nominee for the governor of Arizona, told the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas in early August. “That’s where we are at the moment. My question to you is: Are you in this fight with us?”(NYTimes)
An armed man suspected of trying to breach the FBI's Cincinnati field office on Thursday was killed in Ohio after a vehicle chase and hours-long standoff with law enforcement, authorities say.(NYTimes)
‘In the year and a half since a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, threats of political violence and actual attacks have become a steady reality of American life, affecting school board officials, election workers, flight attendants, librarians and even members of Congress…’
‘Rachel Kleinfeld, a senior fellow in the democracy, conflict and governance program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said, there are ways of lowering the average person’s tolerance for violence.’
‘If political aggression is set in the context of a war, she suggested, ordinary people with no prior history of violence are more likely to accept it. Political violence can also be made more palatable by couching it as defensive action against a belligerent enemy. That is particularly true if an adversary is persistently described as irredeemably evil or less than human.’
“The right, at this point, is doing all three of these things at once,” Ms. Kleinfeld said. (NYTimes) See link for gifted article below
TC made in clear in this piece, as well as in I WISH I WAS WRONG - BUT I’M NOT and others that the Republican Party and Donald Trump are one, so goes a turbulent summer and fall. I have not seen any opinions that claim otherwise.
The ‘world's oldest Professional Juvenile Delinquent’ spells serious trouble. Are we getting ahead of him fast enough?
Todays writing by TC is comforting and refreshing; the law and the truth is solid. Foreseeable Trump tactics don't seem to work any more. Still the situation may be like the forest fire season, as is said in the article. "With Mr. Trump facing multiple investigations even as he considers yet another run for office, there are many possible sparks that could flare up in the days and weeks ahead." The lack of truth and the decay of language is like the draught in the forest, and it may not even be enough to get ahead of trump. Systematic lying and "news" under cover of entertainment seems well organized, but there is still a well informed majority, and if it comes to physical violence I think one side is very much better organized and motivated. Both sides may claim to save America, and ask God to do it, but now it is all coming down to get people to vote, and stop the systematic abuse aiming at making voting irrelevant.
The number of Americans in an alternative universe -- is it 20 or 40 million or more? -- is extremely serious. The conspiracy syndrome has hardened; most Americans watch social media and a great number watch Fox News. More Americans are accepting the use of violence. The odds favoring large scale political violence has increased. I don't find any comfort in this. In fact, I am more concerned than I was even a week ago.
'Tracking threats: More students being arrested for troubling social media posts'
'Threats are increasingly disrupting instruction across districts of all sizes and demographic makeup.'
'Students are increasingly using the speed and seeming anonymity of the internet to post threats of violence against their schools and classmates. The extremity of some of these messages is forcing administrators to close schools or entire districts, impose frightening lockdowns, or evacuate buildings while police investigate. And this is now happening almost every day somewhere in the U.S. as the threats cut across districts of all sizes and demographic makeup.' (DistrictAdministration)
'Summary of Terrorism Threat to the United States'
'The United States remains in a heightened threat environment, as noted in the previous Bulletin, and several recent attacks have highlighted the dynamic and complex nature of the threat environment. In the coming months, we expect the threat environment to become more dynamic as several high-profile events could be exploited to justify acts of violence against a range of possible targets. These targets could include public gatherings, faith-based institutions, schools, racial and religious minorities, government facilities and personnel, U.S. critical infrastructure, the media, and perceived ideological opponents. Threat actors have recently mobilized to violence due to factors such as personal grievances, reactions to current events, and adherence to violent extremist ideologies, including racially or ethnically motivated or anti-government/anti-authority violent extremism. Foreign adversaries—including terrorist organizations and nation state adversaries—also remain intent on exploiting the threat environment to promote or inspire violence, sow discord, or undermine U.S. democratic institutions. We continue to assess that the primary threat of mass casualty violence in the United States stems from lone offenders and small groups motivated by a range of ideological beliefs and/or personal grievances.' (HomeSecurity) See link below
Fern, can you post links to these reports rather than copy the report? Usually, at the site, there are additional links for people to find out information they may want as a result of reading the report. Thanks, TC
Thanks. It happens that there are groups and individuals out there who target sites politically and claim "copyright infringement " over "excessive" reposts. While I seriously doubt DHS would be among them, and while "fair use" is still a barrier they have to overcome, the hassle of dealing with it in general is something I'm not interested in having to do, particularly when there's an easy way to give folks the information by putting in the URL. It just happens I became aware of this phenomenon recently and yours were the only posts that do that (harmlessly to my mind, but that's different for those out to make trouble), so I posted the request there since I figure everyone will read your posts. If we all do that, we get the information and we don't let the idiots come along and try to make trouble. (And the @#$#@!! "Mickey Mouse Copyright Act" is just screwy enough to be a problem)
TC, This is an edit of my initial response to you. In the future, should I briefly summarize the report rather that copy pieces of it and then post the link, which is its URL?
He is still trying to slither out as well as squirt squid ink ( love that !) but he is more cornered than he has ever been. That worries me ( having been close up to the tail action of a lassoed gator). Instead of the squid ink distraction he is spewing forth grievances and empowering his aggrieved followers. Fern's important reference is right. The potential for violent eruptions has just beeen exponentially increased. This time, not aimed at the Capitol but at a thousand soft targets. He is at war so his followers are " at war" and that will justify any violent action. Everything uncovered goes through that strange transformation of the alternate universe and gets twisted into something it is not. Very difficult to hold onto a line of reality.
Channeling Christine: Sizzling TC. Just sizzling.
True ‘dat.
🗽
Five separate criminal investigations intrude on the former president’s busy schedule; they are the classified records cases (3), the probe concerning his role in the attempt to overturn Joe Biden’s presidential election victory, and his effort to nullify Biden’s victory in Georgia.
I wouldn’t call the man facing these criminal investigations, ‘… 'the world's oldest Professional Juvenile Delinquent', but, perhaps, most people cannot come to terms with how seriously we Americans and our country have been diminished by an immoral and indecent sociopath.
In COOKIE JAR!, TC, colorfully cutup Trump’s bogus ‘explanations’ for holding onto classified documents and he aptly put DJT’s Republican allies in a follies burlesque.
“This is truly a battle between those who want to save America and those who want to destroy her,” Kari Lake, the Republican nominee for the governor of Arizona, told the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas in early August. “That’s where we are at the moment. My question to you is: Are you in this fight with us?”(NYTimes)
An armed man suspected of trying to breach the FBI's Cincinnati field office on Thursday was killed in Ohio after a vehicle chase and hours-long standoff with law enforcement, authorities say.(NYTimes)
‘In the year and a half since a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, threats of political violence and actual attacks have become a steady reality of American life, affecting school board officials, election workers, flight attendants, librarians and even members of Congress…’
‘Rachel Kleinfeld, a senior fellow in the democracy, conflict and governance program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said, there are ways of lowering the average person’s tolerance for violence.’
‘If political aggression is set in the context of a war, she suggested, ordinary people with no prior history of violence are more likely to accept it. Political violence can also be made more palatable by couching it as defensive action against a belligerent enemy. That is particularly true if an adversary is persistently described as irredeemably evil or less than human.’
“The right, at this point, is doing all three of these things at once,” Ms. Kleinfeld said. (NYTimes) See link for gifted article below
TC made in clear in this piece, as well as in I WISH I WAS WRONG - BUT I’M NOT and others that the Republican Party and Donald Trump are one, so goes a turbulent summer and fall. I have not seen any opinions that claim otherwise.
The ‘world's oldest Professional Juvenile Delinquent’ spells serious trouble. Are we getting ahead of him fast enough?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/13/nyregion/right-wing-rhetoric-threats-violence.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuomT1JKd6J17Vw1cRCfTTMQmqxCdw_PIxftm3iWka3DFDm8ZiOIEGYWP-kDLIrBiaNsvmiuaQtAEKr8iWPtoz-QaI0x3RgC0ud6amZMBLiM-pMSzQmYyldrrbIwPzAXLPCO_Ofstg_q2pQ6HOzy9RqKOhCYrLQkzvcQycQy13SFbxbPPF7ZwxtMpivxxDs15EW9WZTKY_KW9U2UIM96MaR3a7QMzSrsZDWmVxYjAnupGJAZCClvGT2d96HI_7b5eO9AXOqX8Ln0waZa0wOVRWiEzctDfV9BmTJPUlr5qrbfGtRSNrcO2zP4zH61W16jWIU2BC1z3dnBbCvgFhL_U6Q&smid=url-share
Todays writing by TC is comforting and refreshing; the law and the truth is solid. Foreseeable Trump tactics don't seem to work any more. Still the situation may be like the forest fire season, as is said in the article. "With Mr. Trump facing multiple investigations even as he considers yet another run for office, there are many possible sparks that could flare up in the days and weeks ahead." The lack of truth and the decay of language is like the draught in the forest, and it may not even be enough to get ahead of trump. Systematic lying and "news" under cover of entertainment seems well organized, but there is still a well informed majority, and if it comes to physical violence I think one side is very much better organized and motivated. Both sides may claim to save America, and ask God to do it, but now it is all coming down to get people to vote, and stop the systematic abuse aiming at making voting irrelevant.
The number of Americans in an alternative universe -- is it 20 or 40 million or more? -- is extremely serious. The conspiracy syndrome has hardened; most Americans watch social media and a great number watch Fox News. More Americans are accepting the use of violence. The odds favoring large scale political violence has increased. I don't find any comfort in this. In fact, I am more concerned than I was even a week ago.
'Tracking threats: More students being arrested for troubling social media posts'
'Threats are increasingly disrupting instruction across districts of all sizes and demographic makeup.'
'Students are increasingly using the speed and seeming anonymity of the internet to post threats of violence against their schools and classmates. The extremity of some of these messages is forcing administrators to close schools or entire districts, impose frightening lockdowns, or evacuate buildings while police investigate. And this is now happening almost every day somewhere in the U.S. as the threats cut across districts of all sizes and demographic makeup.' (DistrictAdministration)
Indeed very serious. The only one happy about it is Vladimir Putin, and his part in it isn't even made clear.
…but rest assured, he plays a part.
'Summary of Terrorism Threat to the United States'
'The United States remains in a heightened threat environment, as noted in the previous Bulletin, and several recent attacks have highlighted the dynamic and complex nature of the threat environment. In the coming months, we expect the threat environment to become more dynamic as several high-profile events could be exploited to justify acts of violence against a range of possible targets. These targets could include public gatherings, faith-based institutions, schools, racial and religious minorities, government facilities and personnel, U.S. critical infrastructure, the media, and perceived ideological opponents. Threat actors have recently mobilized to violence due to factors such as personal grievances, reactions to current events, and adherence to violent extremist ideologies, including racially or ethnically motivated or anti-government/anti-authority violent extremism. Foreign adversaries—including terrorist organizations and nation state adversaries—also remain intent on exploiting the threat environment to promote or inspire violence, sow discord, or undermine U.S. democratic institutions. We continue to assess that the primary threat of mass casualty violence in the United States stems from lone offenders and small groups motivated by a range of ideological beliefs and/or personal grievances.' (HomeSecurity) See link below
https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-june-7-2022
Fern, can you post links to these reports rather than copy the report? Usually, at the site, there are additional links for people to find out information they may want as a result of reading the report. Thanks, TC
I will make the copy much shorter, TC, in the future. The link in each case provides more detail.
Thanks. It happens that there are groups and individuals out there who target sites politically and claim "copyright infringement " over "excessive" reposts. While I seriously doubt DHS would be among them, and while "fair use" is still a barrier they have to overcome, the hassle of dealing with it in general is something I'm not interested in having to do, particularly when there's an easy way to give folks the information by putting in the URL. It just happens I became aware of this phenomenon recently and yours were the only posts that do that (harmlessly to my mind, but that's different for those out to make trouble), so I posted the request there since I figure everyone will read your posts. If we all do that, we get the information and we don't let the idiots come along and try to make trouble. (And the @#$#@!! "Mickey Mouse Copyright Act" is just screwy enough to be a problem)
TC, This is an edit of my initial response to you. In the future, should I briefly summarize the report rather that copy pieces of it and then post the link, which is its URL?
Trump may finally be in a situation that he can’t buy, bully, or bullshit his way out of.
Let that be so! I want him to be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.
“There is a controlling court case confirming this point from as recently as 2019, which involved a previous attempt on his part to do this.”
TC,
Do you have more 411 on this case from 2019?
He is still trying to slither out as well as squirt squid ink ( love that !) but he is more cornered than he has ever been. That worries me ( having been close up to the tail action of a lassoed gator). Instead of the squid ink distraction he is spewing forth grievances and empowering his aggrieved followers. Fern's important reference is right. The potential for violent eruptions has just beeen exponentially increased. This time, not aimed at the Capitol but at a thousand soft targets. He is at war so his followers are " at war" and that will justify any violent action. Everything uncovered goes through that strange transformation of the alternate universe and gets twisted into something it is not. Very difficult to hold onto a line of reality.