It was a grand jury, a group of people, that voted to indict. Bragg is just one man doing his job. But authoritarians never defer to juries or any laws when they're in charge, which, as you point out, Trump actually is in the republican party. In many ways the wailing supporters are more reprehensible than Trump himself because he lacks …
It was a grand jury, a group of people, that voted to indict. Bragg is just one man doing his job. But authoritarians never defer to juries or any laws when they're in charge, which, as you point out, Trump actually is in the republican party. In many ways the wailing supporters are more reprehensible than Trump himself because he lacks any self-awareness needed for character, but some of them used to know something about decency before they forfeited their souls to the Sirens' call to power. And their high blown demands in the name of "the American people" are the most annoyingly pretentious and manipulative of all because a majority of us voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Yes,Judith ! The message that everyday Americans issued the indictment. Also ,as I was reminded of today, the original case against Cohen was brought by TFG’s DOJ.Same facts sent Cohen to jail. So TFG’s own DOJ proved there was a crime !
yeah, and when the Repugs argue (as they have nee arguing) that the DOJ found the case to lack merit, they're leaving out that they were so ordered by that master of balanced, unweaponized legal principles, Bill Barr.
you know, the tubby fellow who published a six-hundred paged "autobiography" about his "hardscrabble" boyhood spent attending the Horace Mann School (one wonders if he was anybody's boy toy there) and Columbia College from his degraded perch on Riverside Drive.
Speaking of majorities, there is a Trumpist crank in our blue neighborhood who puts out signs along his yard the way Burma Shave used to do on the highway, one word per sign. Now he writes This Is What You Get When You Vote For An Asshole. BIDEN.
my sentiment exactly. but there are so many security cameras all over the place, there's a certain risk involved. I have an asshole just across the street who hasn't taken down his Lee Zeldin posters and it's a perpetual temptation. plus there's a good chance that a Lee Zeldin asshole in this neighborhood would also have a gun.
I have a policy I've tried to observe since 2015, which is not to probe very deeply into the politics of the people around here with whom I get along very well but who, I suspect, are supporters of TFF and his ilk. I've done pretty well with it, but the other day, this guy I frequently run into (who's a sweet guy, has obviously hard life and, most important of all, adores my dogs), who said hello and immediately went into a bullshit rap about "these fucking Progressives." I cut him off and said we should agree not to have this conversation because I am certainly one of the people he hates. so we laughed and settled down a bit, but BOTH of us had that little nagging thing going on about trying to find out HOW MUCH of an asshole the other guy was.
this was NO FUN. but, at the same time, it was a LITTLE BIT FUN.
I ended up by saying that he might as well consider me a commie for his purposes (for his purposes, I am) and he should just deal with THAT. and if he couldn't, that was also cool.
what surprised me about the upshot of the "conversation" was how much less I regretted the whole thing than I assumed I would.
I have a LOT of friends. shedding a few of them is something I can live with, if I must.
it was also very clear how "spotty" (this is being very kind) his information was. I betcha nobody reading this is very surprised...the "upstairs neighbor" I have sometimes bitched about in the past was somehow not aware about the DeSantis anti-knowledge campaign and considers me brainwashed. but he also rejects the Frankfurt School and the famous (and, from my point of view, intellectually essential) Tavistock Centre because they represent "social engineering." this is all LaRouche.
it seems to me that the largest part of parenting could easily be dismissed as "social engineering," right?
On the other side of the street there are those signs that say we love everyone no matter where they are from, who they love, etc.. Tolerance, you know. The old crank knows he is outnumbered and tolerated.
Maybe add some quotation marks around the statement, which would clearly attribute it to Biden. Then again, the need to clarify for the Repubs would require adding “in 2020” to the statement.
It was a grand jury, a group of people, that voted to indict. Bragg is just one man doing his job. But authoritarians never defer to juries or any laws when they're in charge, which, as you point out, Trump actually is in the republican party. In many ways the wailing supporters are more reprehensible than Trump himself because he lacks any self-awareness needed for character, but some of them used to know something about decency before they forfeited their souls to the Sirens' call to power. And their high blown demands in the name of "the American people" are the most annoyingly pretentious and manipulative of all because a majority of us voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Yes,Judith ! The message that everyday Americans issued the indictment. Also ,as I was reminded of today, the original case against Cohen was brought by TFG’s DOJ.Same facts sent Cohen to jail. So TFG’s own DOJ proved there was a crime !
yeah, and when the Repugs argue (as they have nee arguing) that the DOJ found the case to lack merit, they're leaving out that they were so ordered by that master of balanced, unweaponized legal principles, Bill Barr.
you know, the tubby fellow who published a six-hundred paged "autobiography" about his "hardscrabble" boyhood spent attending the Horace Mann School (one wonders if he was anybody's boy toy there) and Columbia College from his degraded perch on Riverside Drive.
Speaking of majorities, there is a Trumpist crank in our blue neighborhood who puts out signs along his yard the way Burma Shave used to do on the highway, one word per sign. Now he writes This Is What You Get When You Vote For An Asshole. BIDEN.
Maybe they could be "lost" one night...
my sentiment exactly. but there are so many security cameras all over the place, there's a certain risk involved. I have an asshole just across the street who hasn't taken down his Lee Zeldin posters and it's a perpetual temptation. plus there's a good chance that a Lee Zeldin asshole in this neighborhood would also have a gun.
I have a policy I've tried to observe since 2015, which is not to probe very deeply into the politics of the people around here with whom I get along very well but who, I suspect, are supporters of TFF and his ilk. I've done pretty well with it, but the other day, this guy I frequently run into (who's a sweet guy, has obviously hard life and, most important of all, adores my dogs), who said hello and immediately went into a bullshit rap about "these fucking Progressives." I cut him off and said we should agree not to have this conversation because I am certainly one of the people he hates. so we laughed and settled down a bit, but BOTH of us had that little nagging thing going on about trying to find out HOW MUCH of an asshole the other guy was.
this was NO FUN. but, at the same time, it was a LITTLE BIT FUN.
I ended up by saying that he might as well consider me a commie for his purposes (for his purposes, I am) and he should just deal with THAT. and if he couldn't, that was also cool.
what surprised me about the upshot of the "conversation" was how much less I regretted the whole thing than I assumed I would.
I have a LOT of friends. shedding a few of them is something I can live with, if I must.
it was also very clear how "spotty" (this is being very kind) his information was. I betcha nobody reading this is very surprised...the "upstairs neighbor" I have sometimes bitched about in the past was somehow not aware about the DeSantis anti-knowledge campaign and considers me brainwashed. but he also rejects the Frankfurt School and the famous (and, from my point of view, intellectually essential) Tavistock Centre because they represent "social engineering." this is all LaRouche.
it seems to me that the largest part of parenting could easily be dismissed as "social engineering," right?
so much bullshit, so little time.
That last sentence.
On the other side of the street there are those signs that say we love everyone no matter where they are from, who they love, etc.. Tolerance, you know. The old crank knows he is outnumbered and tolerated.
Maybe add some quotation marks around the statement, which would clearly attribute it to Biden. Then again, the need to clarify for the Repubs would require adding “in 2020” to the statement.
Damn.
I think I would would struggle with resisting the temptation to make the last four disappear.
My experience (with a neighbor christianproudoathkeeper) if you take the signs down is:
1) they know who took them down
2) they put newer, bigger ones up
3) they insist you need to go to the school board with them to stop the pornography
4) they mention something about Biden taking our guns
5) they ask if you need any trees taken down, got the chainsaw all sharpened up.
So when we give folks directions to our homes, about a sentence into it they interupt to say, "Oh, past all those crazy signs?"