|
Post by Kimby on Jan 21, 2024 5:31:04 GMT
The judge reprimands Trump for not being able to keep his mouth shut, but he wisely does not bar Trump from the courtroom because he knows that’s what Trump wants, and it would rile up his supporters and likely cause them to donate even more money to their demigod. And possibly commit acts of violence against the judge and his staff.
|
|
|
Post by bjd on Jan 21, 2024 7:13:10 GMT
I find it strange that the more Trump appears in court on the various charges, the more money is donated to his campaigns. Do all these Magamorons really believe it's a witch hunt? Or are they putting something in the water in the red states?
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Jan 21, 2024 14:59:49 GMT
Trump found the gateway to the dark underside of the American psyche and gave the ugliness permission to go out and play.
|
|
|
Post by Kimby on Jan 21, 2024 15:13:20 GMT
Sad but true. And how sad is it that many of his most enthusiastic supporters claim to be Christians? Evangelicals are pleased to have a warrior on their side, as they imagine they are under siege. Why is no one stopping their pastors from politicizing from the (tax-exempt) pulpit?
|
|
|
Post by fumobici on Jan 21, 2024 16:30:24 GMT
I find it strange that the more Trump appears in court on the various charges, the more money is donated to his campaigns. Do all these Magamorons really believe it's a witch hunt? Or are they putting something in the water in the red states? Most of them have been badly damaged by the multi-generational effects of poor, underfunded educational systems. Add in generous measures of insane, delusional, evangelical cult-religions, and entire families being immersed in deeply racist, misogynist, anti-intellectual rural American culture. They are operating on a cognitive level barely advanced from apes and forest animals.
|
|
|
Post by whatagain on Jan 21, 2024 16:49:30 GMT
Fumo you said it ! 😹👍💪🏼
|
|
|
Post by mickthecactus on Jan 21, 2024 17:04:53 GMT
Get off the fence fumo.
|
|
|
Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 21, 2024 17:08:25 GMT
Absolutely. I can't understand why Trump is so popular with so many people. Boris has endorsed The Orange One as the next US president, claiming that a second term would be 'a big win for the world'. He did add that Trump's actions during the Capitol Hill riots was an 'egregious error' and that he should have accepted the voters' decisions wih good grace.
Plonker.
|
|
|
Post by kerouac2 on Jan 21, 2024 17:19:32 GMT
I'm not sure I agree with the insult to apes and forest animals.
|
|
|
Post by lugg on Jan 21, 2024 19:44:21 GMT
'm not sure I agree with the insult to apes and forest animals. That made me laugh in what is no laughing matter. Re Boris Cheery - I've not read much about his views lately but that does not surprise me at all.
|
|
|
Post by mich64 on Jan 21, 2024 20:00:54 GMT
I was listening to an interview with Merrick Garland a few days ago regarding the report the DOJ released on the shootings in Ulvade, Texas. What I found interesting was that when he was questioned about the timeline of the cases against Trump, if they are getting too close to the election, he said the investigations are complete and now out of the DOJ's hands, they have been investigated, grand juries have been completed and charges have been filed.
What I think he was trying to get across was that the cases are now in the hands of the Courts, and he has no control of their schedules so those rules/standards that the DOJ does not interfere with an election cycle do not apply any longer. The Court has the indictments, I do not think they have to consider election schedules so if a court date extends into this pre-election period or election period that is not the DOJ concern, the Court calendar does not break for politics. I think that maybe that is what he was hoping the reporter would realize.
|
|
|
Post by fumobici on Jan 21, 2024 20:44:08 GMT
Absolutely. I can't understand why Trump is so popular with so many people. Boris has endorsed The Orange One as the next US president, claiming that a second term would be 'a big win for the world'. He did add that Trump's actions during the Capitol Hill riots was an 'egregious error' and that he should have accepted the voters' decisions wih good grace. Plonker. Boris Johnson supporters are just the UK analog of the pitiable yet dangerous US Trumpers I described above. It's only natural that BoJo would be a big Trump supporter. Then came Liz Truss, and it got even worse.
|
|
|
Post by Kimby on Jan 21, 2024 21:48:53 GMT
DeSantis has dropped out (“suspended his campaign) and endorsed Donald Trump.
If most of his “Trump lite” voters vote for Trump, it could ruin Nikki Haley’s chances for a strong showing in New Hampshire.
Not sure what this means for America. Are there enough sane Republicans and independents in NH to give Nikki Haley their votes?
With South Carolina Senator Rick Scott (who SHE appointed to the Senate initially when she was governor of SC) endorsing Trump, she may not even win her own state.
Will Trump steamroll into the nomination despite his recent confusion: mixing Haley up with Nancy Pelosi and blaming her for turning down security troops on January 6 is just the latest example of Trump “losing his buttons”.
Can America be saved? I don’t think I’m being melodramatic.
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Jan 21, 2024 21:58:31 GMT
Not melodramatic, Kimby, not when you consider the number of articles about what the US will do if Trump is convicted and also elected. I guess he'll just be allowed to take office while suits and appeals are endlessly filed. The US genuinely might not survive after January 2025.
|
|
|
Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 21, 2024 21:58:59 GMT
It's devastating that money, powerful friends and huge corporations manipulate and rule seemingly without conscience. It's disgusting and heartbreaking. We deserve better leaders.
|
|
|
Post by Kimby on Jan 22, 2024 2:42:54 GMT
What irks me is that our media - which is NOT the liberal media the GOP laments - is so corporate-owned that they are fixated on ratings at the expense of telling the truth in a balanced way, without sensationalism. They are paving the way for Trump to waltz back into the White House.
And this time he’s not taking prisoners. He has vowed to get revenge on his enemies, and to use our military for inappropriate purposes, and to eliminate the civil servants who do the work of the government, replacing them with partisan hacks.
And this time he won’t even pretend to appoint experts to important cabinet positions. And he’s said he will pardon all tbe insurrectionists who were jailed for their participation in the events of January 6, 2021.
It is so distressing to contemplate. The guardrails of democracy have turned out to be made of toothpicks.
|
|
|
Post by kerouac2 on Jan 22, 2024 3:38:01 GMT
I agree that this goes beyond mere populism, which has become the trend in already too many countries. These statements are something that would have already put him in prison in many countries because they are much more toxic than mere freedom of speech.
|
|
|
Post by Kimby on Jan 22, 2024 3:40:22 GMT
Our freedoms (speech, right to bear arms, etc.) may be the END of our freedom….
|
|
|
Post by whatagain on Jan 22, 2024 9:12:02 GMT
New Hampshire primary is tomorrow. Latest poll shows Hailey at 40 pc and the Orange fool at 50 pc. Pffff.
Polls also show a tie if trump fights Biden but Hailey winning against Biden.
But GOP goes behind Trump.
|
|
|
Post by Kimby on Jan 22, 2024 16:51:31 GMT
We can hope that the polls are not getting a representative sample of voters.
How many people still have landlines? Do they poll cell numbers? How many people answers calls from numbers they don’t recognize?
Is it possible the old white people the pollsters are talking to are over represented in the polls, resulting in Trump-heavy outcomes?
We can only hope.
|
|
|
Post by kerouac2 on Jan 22, 2024 18:13:17 GMT
I sometimes get polled by e-mail.
|
|
|
Post by Kimby on Jan 27, 2024 3:05:28 GMT
$83 million for defaming E Jean Carroll after sexually assaulting her. Sounds about right.
|
|
|
Post by kerouac2 on Jan 27, 2024 3:52:24 GMT
Do you know if amounts like that are based on somebody's net worth? I've never really known, but it's clear that John Doe would never receive such a penalty.
|
|
|
Post by Kimby on Jan 27, 2024 5:21:48 GMT
John Doe would probably not have been stupid enough to keep insulting his victim and the judge and the court after having been reprimanded and fined for it before.
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Jan 27, 2024 5:31:40 GMT
amounts like that are based on somebody's net worth? "... Carroll’s attorneys relied on a deposition Trump gave under oath at an unrelated case ... During the deposition he threw around all kinds of sky-high figures, pegging his famous name and related brand at $2.9 billion and even $3 billion." sourceJohn Doe would probably not have been stupid enough to keep insulting his victim and the judge and the court after having been reprimanded and fined for it before. True. But John Doe knows he can't ""stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody".
|
|
|
Post by kerouac2 on Jan 27, 2024 6:32:42 GMT
Thanks for the clarification, Bixa. I knew it couldd't just be on a roll of the dice, at least on the part of the judge.
|
|
|
Post by bjd on Jan 27, 2024 8:04:00 GMT
$18.3 million is for compensatory damages and $65M are punitive damages. If he and his lawyers didn't behave like such assholes, the punitive damages would probably be less.
|
|
|
Post by kerouac2 on Feb 11, 2024 12:01:57 GMT
From The Atlantic:
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Feb 12, 2024 1:33:01 GMT
Read that earlier today. Yes, this is especially flagrant, but of a piece of what he has said and shown all along.
|
|
|
Post by bjd on Feb 12, 2024 7:00:49 GMT
Why does even the "liberal media" give that asshole so much media coverage? Allegedly, no publicity is bad publicity, but this just excites all those supporting him. And Republicans have lost any credibility about their supposed patriotism.
|
|