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Yes, he was right and still is.
That's a situation related to my shadowban.
— Joe F Spaulding π¦ (@beyond_process) April 24, 2024
Biden Was Right About Both Antisemitism and the Palestinians Sometimes basic humanity means seeing βboth sides.β
"Donald Trump has neutered Republicans' power to sabotage Joe Biden
It also doesn't hurt that Democrats in Congress have held unprecedentedly united"
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Yep -- Biden has been bad for Palestinians. Trump would be worse.
[...]
...There is a reason Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu all-but-openly campaigned for Trump against Biden in 2020 .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/29/israeli-zeal-for-second-trump-term-matched-by-palestinian-enmity . American policy in the Trump administration .. https://www.vox.com/trump-administration .. was a laundry list of gifts to the Israeli right:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=173989843
Inside Israelβs war
"Witnesses of Aid Convoy Violence Describe Shooting, Panic and Desperation"
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You have 5.2 million people or so, that have no civil or political rights in their own land.
How do you not call that apartheid?
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174017328
[...]How Israel Quietly Crushed Early American Jewish Dissent on Palestine
βOur Palestine Question,β an explosive new book by Geoffrey Levin, delves into American Jewish McCarthyism from the 1950s through late 1970s.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=173965072
How an AP photographer made this image of Israeli female soldiers taking a selfie at the Gaza border
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=173962873
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Shimon Peres doubts Israel can win Permanent war or Survive Annexation of West Bank
November, 2015 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=118223699
Smotrich at Knesset: Ben-Gurion should have βfinished the job,β thrown out Arabs
September, 2022 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170039047
Netanyahuβs Betrayal of Democracy Is a Betrayal of Israel
January, 2023 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170949384
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Ehud Barak says more than two decades ago he was new enough in Israeli politics to tell the truth.
He declared then that if he was a Palestinian, heβd probably be a terrorist.
That comment could have derailed a spectacular military and political career, but the former general chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) went on to become prime minister and defence minister.
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By Jonathan Chait, whoβs been a New York
political columnist since 2011.
In the wake of the most recent spree of antisemitic harassment .. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/columbia-protest-anti-semitism-campus-israel-jewish-students-justice-palestine.html , President Biden made a statement denouncing the harassment of Jews, while gesturing toward sympathy for the plight of Palestinian Arabs: βI condemn the antisemitic protests. Thatβs why Iβve set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who donβt understand whatβs going on with the Palestinians.β
Unsurprisingly, this caused an outrage response from the eliminationist left. Somewhat more surprisingly, unless you are familiar with this particular pathology, Bidenβs statement also generated outrage on the political right.
βBiden condemns βantisemitic protests,β and βthose who donβt understandβ Palestinians in echo of Trump βboth sidesβ remark,β blared .. https://nypost.com/2024/04/22/us-news/biden-condemns-antisemitic-protests-those-who-dont-understand-palestinians-in-echo-of-trump-both-sides-remark/ .. the New York Post. The Federalist .. https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/23/joe-biden-says-there-are-very-fine-people-on-both-sides-of-the-oct-7-debate/ .. (βJoe Biden Says There Are Very Fine People On Both Sides Of The Oct. 7 Debateβ), The Wall Street Journalβs op-ed .. https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-has-a-very-fine-people-moment-riots-protesters-aa31365e?mod=opinion_lead_pos12 .. page (βBiden Has a βVery Fine Peopleβ Momentβ), and other .. https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/useless-biden-cant-help-but-botch-his-response-to-campus-antisemitism/ .. conservative media have repeated the theme.
This is a familiar anti-anti-Trump tactic: finding Trumpβs most indefensible moments and then attempting to blow up a minor or imagined Biden infraction to an equivalent size to neutralize the issue. In this case, they are pretending Bidenβs expression of sympathy for Palestinians is the equivalent of Donald Trump calling the pro-Confederate demonstrators in Charlottesville βvery fine people.β
But there was nothing in Bidenβs remark that hinted of sympathy for the antisemitic protests he was denouncing. He was remarking that Palestinian people are suffering and deserve sympathy and attention, and not allowing his radical critics to take ownership of that sentiment.
Since both sides has now become an epithet used by, well, both sides, it is worth making a defense of the general construct. The term both sides became sarcastic shorthand for a common practice in the mainstream media of pretending offenses that were solely committed by the Republican Party were being shared by Democrats. You could find this trope in stories about subjects like, say, the debt ceiling, where fake neutrality would cause reporters to pretend both parties were using hostage tactics .. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/debt-ceiling-congress-blame-republicans-democrats-default-new-york-times.html .
Yet the general idea of adopting a broad moral framework and balancing competing moral principles remains correct. The error is to misapply it to situations in which all fault is concentrated in a single party. But I do not think that is a useful way to approach all political conflict. And it is an especially poor one for the conflict in the Middle East.
Biden has taken abuse from all directions for attempting to hold multiple values in his head at once. The president has, at various times, expressed the following ideas:
1. Terrorist attacks on civilians are wrong.
2. Israel has a right to self-defense that is bounded by a requirement to minimize civilian casualties.
3. Bigotry against Jews, Muslims, or Arabs is categorically wrong.
Now, one might object that, in praising Biden for these morally intuitive positions, I have set the bar too low. And it is a low bar indeed. But the pertinent thing is that Biden and his allies are the only faction in American politics that has managed to clear this low bar.
The groups leading the left-wing protests against Biden not only refuse to condemn Hamasβs butchery of Israeli civilians .. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/columbia-protest-anti-semitism-campus-israel-jewish-students-justice-palestine.html , they actively glorify it. The Republican Party has overlooked or justified Trumpβs naked bigotry against Muslims .. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/new-zealand-shooter-trump-racist-muslims.html .. and frequently dismissed the idea that Israelβs counterterrorist attack .. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/10/your-moral-equation-must-have-human-beings-on-both-sides.html .. needs to follow any standard of care for civilian life.
Trump defenders Alan Dershowitz and Andrew Stein, writing .. https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-has-a-very-fine-people-moment-riots-protesters-aa31365e?mod=opinion_lead_pos12 .. in the Journal , blame Biden for the βpoliticization of a clear moral issueβ:
Mr. Biden should unqualifiedly condemn antisemitism and harassment and violence against Jews. Trying to balance that justified condemnation by suggesting a false moral equivalence is wrong and will hurt him politically. Most Americans understand the difference between the murderers and rapists of Hamas and the defenders of Israel, even if they sometimes fault Israeli actions. If Mr. Biden fails to understand that difference β or, worse, understands but deliberately blurs it β voters will see through his politicization of a clear moral issue.
Many of these antisemitic rioters are as anti-American as they are anti-Israel. Their chants include βDeath to America,β βRevolution,β and βGenocide Joe.β Some openly support Iran.
The sheer chutzpah of this passage is astonishing. They are blaming the president for slogans being used by anti-Biden protesters. Meanwhile, Trump has been delighting .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/14/genocide-israel-gaza-iran-trump-biden/ .. in chants of βGenocide Joeβ at his rallies. Yet Trumpβs defenders have somehow transmogrified the blame for an attack line used against Biden, and taken up by Trump, onto Biden himself.
Devising an effective and moral response to a terrorist group that deliberately maximizes civilian casualties is hard. Influencing policy in another country, even one that is subject to your leverage, is even harder. It is fair to fault Biden for having failed to stanch the conflict.
But itβs easy to devise a solution when youβre free to ignore the humanity of one side of the conflict. Biden is struggling to create and carry out a vision because he is trying to do something morally complex. That is a basic standard of decency his critics on the left and right alike have failed to clear.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/biden-statement-condemn-anti-semitism-palestinians-going-on-campus-protests.html#/
After Dobbs, Americans are turning to permanent contraception
More young women are tying their tubes
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/04/19/after-dobbs-americans-are-turning-to-permanent-contraception
Apr 19th 2024
Donald Trump has neutered Republicans' power to sabotage Joe Biden
It also doesn't hurt that Democrats in Congress have held unprecedentedly united
By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
Columnist
PUBLISHED APRIL 24, 2024 9:00AM (EDT)
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/24/donald-has-neutered-republicans-power-to-sabotage-joe-biden/
While most of the country was riveted by recaps of Donald Trump's sordid hush-money trial on Tuesday, something amazing was happening in Washington: the Senate debated and then passed the national security package that's been consuming the Capitol for the last six months. With a lopsided vote of 79-18, the bills with aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan among some other things will soon be signed by the president and behind us. Notably, there is no increased funding for the border because Donald Trump ordered the Republicans to reject it so that he could keep demagoguing the issue during the campaign. Nevertheless, Tuesday's vote is a big win for President Joe Biden and the Democrats.
The GOP infighting has escalated in the wake of the House's months-long tantrum led by the far-right extremists who seemed to truly believe that they could hold their breath until they turned blue and they would eventually get everything they wanted.
Leading MAGA rebel Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., left town without calling for Speaker Mike Johnson to vacate the chair, demanding instead that he resign, which isn't going to happen. Podcaster Steve Bannon and a couple of fellow right-wing sad sacks β Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Paul Gosar, R-Az. β joined the call but it's clear that however frustrated some of them might be there is no appetite in the House GOP for any more internecine fights, at least for the moment. And the rest of the party is obviously sick of the kooks.
GOP Sen. Tom Tillis of North Carolina pulled no punches, talking about Greene's malign influence, calling her "uninformed" and "a terrible leader" and complaining that she's "dragging our brand down."
Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas probably speaks for many in his party who are too cowardly to say it as plainly as he did when he called the wild extremists in the GOP "scumbags."
GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw: Some Republicans "want Russia to win so badly" they may oust Speaker Johnson
They all might want to take a look at the big orange guy who's actually pulling the strings but he's even turning his back on Greene and continuing to support Johnson, recently telling a radio host:
Look, we have a majority of one, OK? It's not like he can go and do whatever he wants to do. I think he's a very good person. You know, he stood very strongly with me on NATO.
It was a bit low energy but it's pretty clear that Trump not going to back any play to oust Speaker Johnson so Greene is sidelined, at least for now.
There's no doubt that it took a very steady hand in the White House to stay the course and keep working the legislative levers to get the job done.
It's been a bad run for Trump and for Greene these past few weeks. But you know who's having a great run? President Joe Biden. His poll numbers are edging up but the general election still looks incomprehensibly tight considering how much policy success the president has had with a Congress that is so dysfunctional. Somehow he and the Democrats have made it work for them.
I think we're all familiar with Biden's big legislative wins in the first two years: the American Rescue Plan, which set the table for a very positive economic recovery, a big infrastructure bill that is just now coming online all over the country, the first major gun safety bill in decades, capping prescription drug costs for seniors and much more. And it was all done with razor-thin majorities in both chambers.
Most pieces of legislation passed with bipartisan votes despite what is arguably the most toxic political environment since the 1850s. It was a remarkable feat but I think most observers assumed that it was going to be the end of it when Republicans managed to eke out a tiny victory and flip control of the House in 2022. How could anything get done with Donald Trump pulling the strings and crazed right-wing extremists dominating the caucus?
House Republicans had their fun with the Hunter Biden farce and the various "investigations" into the so-called Biden Crime family which have gone nowhere. And immigration has been a genuinely vexing problem that the GOP has exploited as they always do. But as it turns out, while the House Republicans ran around in circles causing chaos on a weekly basis, the important sausage kept getting made. And despite all the drama, the Biden White House ended up getting most of what it wanted without having to give up much of anything in return, at least in part because the Republicans wouldn't take yes for an answer when concessions were offered.
The biggest achievement was avoiding a costly debt limit/government shutdown and I wouldn't have bet that would happen. But former speaker Kevin McCarthy and the White House negotiated a spending deal that served as the excuse to take down McCarthy. (As it turns out it was really about McCarthy refusing to stop an ethics investigation into Florida gadfly Matt Gaetz, but that's another story.) McCarthy's successor Mike Johnson kept the spending agreement in place and fought off another attempt to shut down the government. Just this past month, House Republicans passed the FISA extension backed by the White House and now the big national security package: the ugliest sausage-making extravaganza ever.
It's been such pandemonium that it was hard to see exactly what was happening but now that the smoke is clearing it's obvious that the writing was on the wall when McCarthy gave so many concessions to the crazies during that bizarre speakers' race at the beginning of the term. Handing the keys to that faction was a major mistake because those people are maximalists for whom politics is all or nothing and they can't accept that having a tiny majority in one house of Congress makes that impossible.
In the end, it took the House Democrats being unprecedentedly united, despite some very real tensions within their own coalition, and a willingness for some moderate Republicans to finally stand their ground despite dilly-dallying around for months. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., kept his majority together without the centrist divas causing any trouble for once.
Not only that, Senate Republicans who haven't completely gone insane refused to follow the House model and came through on the important issues as well. But there's no doubt that it took a very steady hand in the White House to stay the course and keep working the legislative levers to get the job done. It wasn't pretty but under the circumstances, the achievements are very big wins at little cost. Meanwhile, the Republicans are reeling with internal strife while their leader sits fuming in a courtroom daily.
https://twitter.com/beyond_process/status/1783149827791942106
Joe F Spaulding 🦉
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🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨
Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, former state house speaker Tom Leonard and his wife Jenell, GOP consultant Stu Sandler, and former MIGOP chair Laura Cox are named as "unindicted co-conspirators" by an investigator in the Michigan fake electors scandal!
https://twitter.com/beyond_process/status/1783171100920180932
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His links don't show up as the full tweets, just as a link. Same process, posted link as usual with another example, and it shows up as the full tweet. At least that what it is in the preview, see after I post it. I suppose this would be part of Musk's "free speech" algorithms freely blocking other people's freedom. Copied actual text posted below of Spaulding's posts.
A top Republican admits what we have known all alongβthere was a bipartisan border bill on the table that the GOP walked away from because Donald Trump opposed it. pic.twitter.com/KVYAv9WUYo
— House Judiciary Dems (@HouseJudiciary) April 24, 2024
Donald Trump Suffers Huge Vote Against Him in Pennsylvania Primary
Source: Newsweek
Donald Trump suffered a blow in the Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday, as tens of thousands of Republicans refused to vote for him despite being the presumptive GOP nominee.
The former president won the primary race in the key swing state with 83.5 percent of the vote, amounting to more than 786,000 votes.
However, Nikki Haley, who ended her campaign for the White House after Super Tuesday in March, still received 16.5 percent of the vote, equating to more than 155,000 ballots.
Trump has dominated the Republican primary, and won enough delegates to clinch the Republican presidential nomination in March after victories in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington state. However, there have been signs that Trump is still struggling to garner support from more moderate and independent voters who could be key in the general election against President Joe Biden, especially in the swing state of Pennsylvania.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-pennsylvania-primary-presidential-election-huge-vote-against-him-1893520
The media keeps wanting Democrats to be demoralized and keep hand-wringing and "worrying" about an "uncommitted" protest vote while they CONTINUE to IGNORE the "Haley Factor", which is a protest vote that is STILL happening against 45, and that in some cases, almost doubles the Biden protest vote.
From the OP excerpt regarding yesterday's PA Primary -
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143230348
Marjorie Taylor Greene Finds Herself Increasingly Isolated Within Congress
Published Apr 24, 2024 at 10:14 AM EDT Updated Apr 24, 2024 at 11:57 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-finds-herself-increasingly-isolated-within-congress-1893695
Senator Thom Tillis on Marjorie Taylor Greene: I think sheβs uninformed, she is a total waste of time. She is a horrible leader. She is dragging our brand downβ¦ pic.twitter.com/CoUAoWO5gK
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 23, 2024
Powerful stuff for the eyes of the Jury people
Trial exhibits:
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) April 24, 2024
Some of the National Enquirer headlines that ex-AMI chief David Pecker testified were part of the behind-the-scenes scheme to prop up Trump and discredit his political rivals have been released by the court.
They were entered into evidence on Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/DvG8jwqQeX
SCOOP: Looks like Trump has been using a GOP compliance firm as a go-between to pay lawyers, allowing him to keep some of the attorneys heβs paying hidden from the public. Itβs an $8 million mysteryβand experts say itβs probably illegal. Me @thedailybeast https://t.co/gF9dk7nUOs
— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) April 24, 2024
Well, there is a reason for this.
GymJordan was a bit busy going to college gym locker rooms and watch coaches molest boys. Too much to do and so little time to do it.
busy dude
Ex-Trump Attorney Tells CNN New Trump Rant To Local News βA Direct Violationβ Of Gag Order
https://www.mediaite.com/news/ex-trump-attorney-tells-cnn-new-trump-rant-to-local-news-a-direct-violation-of-gag-order/
Wasn't it just last week that Comer told Raskin to "just wait" because the evidence required to impeach was coming? Even Jordan was smart enough to slither back into his hole, but Comer was still at it.
If the people of Kentucky elect that piece of garbage to be their Governor then the characterization of Kentuckians as ignorant rubes will be confirmed. My hope is they are smarter than that.
The bigger risk may be when the MAGAts start looking for a replacement charlatan to take the place of the orange shitgibbon once he croaks. Comer probably has what it takes to win over that crowd.
Capitulating Comer having a sad, looking forward to the next corrupt conspiracy project.
How the House GOPβs Biden impeachment effort fell apart
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/24/politics/house-gop-biden-impeachment-effort/index.html
By Annie Grayer and Melanie Zanona, CNN
10 minute read
Updated 10:42 AM EDT, Wed April 24, 2024
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer was eager to take the reins of a high-stakes investigation into President Joe Biden and his family, seen as central to the House Republican agenda β a coveted perch that brought the added benefit of elevating his national profile.
But after 15 months of coming up short in proving some of his biggest claims against the president, Comer recently approached one of his Republican colleagues and made a blunt admission: He was ready to be βdone withβ the impeachment inquiry into Biden, according to the lawmaker who relayed the conversation to CNN.
Comer has grown increasingly frustrated as his investigation appears to be at a dead end, with Republicans resigned to the reality that they donβt have the votes to impeach the president, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the situation told CNN.
Sources say the Kentucky Republican is now focused on tactfully wrapping up his work β all while Comer, a five-term congressman, has another matter on his mind: ambitions to run for higher office one day, including potentially running for governor, according to lawmakers who have spoken to him.
βComer is hoping Jesus comes so he can get out,β one of the GOP lawmakers who spoke to Comer told CNN. βHe is fed up.β.......................
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That's also true.
And just think how many of them died from covid.
I'd add that there're fewer registered Republicans now than there were in the run up to the 2020 elections, so that would also skew the results.
Roseanne Barr is trending because she made a haha post (and then deleted it) that Biden raped her in Bergdorf Goodman. Poor Roseanne isn't aging well.
Roseanne Barr needs medical help. https://t.co/ABb9YvnCfq
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) April 23, 2024
I don't know. I can't find polls on MAGA beliefs between 2020 and 2024.
I don't really think so. Trump immediately said the election was "stollen" from him, and naturally the people who'd voted for him bought into that.
Well, they got that wrong but are the stats correct?
Six years ago, 1/4 of Trump voters believed the 2020 election was stolen. The number today is 70%.
Huh? The 2020 election took place three and a half years ago.
That's a relief...
SΓΌddeutsche Zeitung on the American press
An article in the April 4 SΓΌddeutsche Zeitung (byline Michaela Haas) talks about how the American press has reported on Donald Trump. It is truly damning. Here are a few choice excerpts.
When Trump said he would pull out of NATO if elected president, US TV News broadcasts spent less than 6 minutes on the story. In the same period, they spent over 21 minutes on Biden's advanced age.
In 2016, more broadcast time was spent on Hillary's sloppy e-mail management than on all of Trump's scandals together.
When Trump said he would use the military to stifle political opposition, the Associated Press reported "Trump intends a wider role for the military".
The US population largely believes the Trump propaganda that the economy in in the dumps due to Biden, whereas the truth is historically low unemployment and strong GDP growth.
Local radio broadcasters constantly report on a crime wave caused by immigration, whereas the truth is that US-born citizens have double the crime statistics of undocumented immigrants.
Six years ago, 1/4 of Trump voters believed the 2020 election was stolen. The number today is 70%.
3/4 of all voters today do not know that Trump called his political opponents "vermin" and promised mass deportations on the first day of his presidency.
Online news is driven by algorithms to maximize click-bait. People do not know what to believe, and have become cynical and apathetic. The most important duty of the press, to inform people, has been lost.
It seems that if one wants to know the facts about Trump, it is better to read the foreign press.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/23/2236782/-S-ddeutsche-Zeitung-on-the-American-press?pm_campaign=trending&pm_source=sidebar&pm_medium=web
US Senate passes $95bn aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
The Senate, in a bipartisan super-majority, overwhelmingly voted to advance the measure, which Joe Biden is expected to sign
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/23/senate-aid-bill-ukraine-israel-taiwan
The US Senate voted resoundingly on Tuesday to approve $95bn in wartime aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as a bipartisan super-majority united to send the long-stalled package to Joe Bidenβs desk for signature. The final vote was 79 to 18.
The bill easily cleared a key procedural hurdle earlier in the day. The Senate overwhelmingly voted to advance the measure in a step hailed by the Senate majority leader as βone of the greatest achievements the Senate has faced in yearsβ.
βToday the Senate sends a unified message to the entire world: America will always defend democracy in its hour of need,β said Chuck Schumer in a floor speech on Tuesday afternoon.
βMake no mistake, America will deliver on its promise to act like a leader on the world stage, to hold the line against autocratic thugs like Vladimir Putin,β he continued. βWe are showing Putin that betting against America is always, always a grave mistake.β...........................
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BREAKING: The FTC just banned non-compete agreements.
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) April 23, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission has issued a final rule making it illegal for bosses to make workers sign noncompetes in any scenario, and voiding nearly all existing noncompetes.
This is a game changer for American workers. pic.twitter.com/9n1tJWpQl4
GREAT!! That should utterly doom her Senate run.
Wow, maybe there is hope. Of course, he's probably just preaching to the choir, don't see any red hats around. Still may reach a few people.
This evangelical is over Trump. π
— Rachel Bitecofer π½π‘ππ¦ (@RachelBitecofer) April 23, 2024
Calls his Bible disgusting.
pic.twitter.com/2d8rgC8iwN
Considering court adjourned at 1:00pm the past 2 days, he had plenty of time to go play in the sunshine.
Does he even go to the play golf in the mornings? i thought he sat around and watched Fox News then.
Mfer flipping on abortion ruling again
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/kari-lake-says-unfortunately-arizona-isnt-enforcing-1864-abortion-ban-rcna148948
The Absolute Looniest Trump Trial Takes on Fox News So Far
βHE NEEDS SUNLIGHTβ
Just two days into this historic trial, Fox News has managed to compare Trump both to a civil rights era freedom fighter and a *Roman emperor being assassinated.
*Maximus Stupiditus?
Justin Baragona
Senior Media Reporter
Updated Apr. 23, 2024 4:58PM EDT Published Apr. 23, 2024 3:06PM EDT
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Getty
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-absolute-looniest-trump-trial-takes-on-fox-news-so-far?utm_source=web_push
After a nearly weeklong jury selection process, the criminal hush-money trial of former President Donald Trump kicked off Monday with opening statements and the prosecutionβs first witnessβformer National Enquirer chief David Pecker.
Mondayβs proceedings produced several headlines, such as Pecker discussing his habit of βcheckbook journalismβ that resulted in him helping arrange a $130,000 payment in 2016 to adult film star Stormy Daniels to kill a story about her alleged one-night stand with Trump.
Over on Fox News, however, much of its trial coverage instead revolved around parroting the ex-presidentβs grievances about the case and how it is akin to βelection interferenceβ since heβs required to appear in court.
While the rest of the cable news landscape has devoted round-the-clock coverage to the trial, the conservative cable giant has mostly dipped in and out. Spending the bulk of its time on the pro-Palestinian protests at Ivy League schools, Fox News has centered a large portion of its Trump trial coverage on criticizing the case and the courtβs treatment of the former president.
This has resulted in the right-wing networkβs pro-Trump personalities and guests taking increasingly goofy and zany positions to defend the twice-impeached ex-president. For instance, amid reports that Trump has repeatedly dozed off in the courtroom, several Fox Newsers have applauded him for thisβeven as they simultaneously mock President Joe Biden as βSleepy Joe.β
But praising the MAGA king for catching some shuteye during his criminal trial isnβt even among the looniest reactions that have made its way to the networkβs airwaves this week. Instead, weβve had a former Speaker of the House compare Trumpβs plight to slain Civil Rights-era freedom fighters, a primetime host insist the ex-president is being treated worse than terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, and a morning anchor bring up middle-school indiscretions for some reason.
Letβs take a look at the goofiest takes aired by Fox News:
ITβS βCRUELβ TO KEEP TRUMP OFF THE GOLF COURSE
Primetime host Jesse Watters, a former Bill OβReilly lackey whose stock in trade is delighting Fox News grandpas with his performatively outrageous antics, was beside himself on Monday that golf-loving ex-president was stuck in the courtroom and not getting enough time on the links.
βThe guy needs exercise. Heβs usually golfing. And so, youβre going to put a man whoβs almost 80, sitting in a room like this on his butt for all that time? It's not healthy,β Watters exclaimed on Mondayβs broadcast of The Five. βYou know how big of a health nut I am. He needs sunlight and he needs activity. He needs to be walking around, he needs action. Itβs really cruel and unusual punishment to make a man do that. And any time he moves, they threaten to throw him in prison!β
Hours later on his solo primetime show, Watters doubled down.
βTrump has been on the move his whole life,β he fumed. βGolf, rallies, movement, action, sunlight, fresh air, freedom. This isnβt lawfare. This is torture. Theyβre making a 77-year-old man sit in a room for eight hours straight, four days a week.β
GITMO PRISONERS HAVE IT BETTER THAN TRUMP!
Wattersβ MAGA propaganda didnβt just stop with demanding that Trump get more rounds of golf. He also asserted that detainees in the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison receive more preferential treatment than the ex-president has been afforded throughout his trial. This included Watters namechecking a notorious al-Qaeda terrorist who has been called the βprincipal architect of the 9/11 attacks.β
βHe has to sit there all week for six weeks. If he says anything, theyβll throw him in jail. If he leaves, they throw him in jail. Thatβs crazy,β he grumbled on The Five. βThey had more allowances for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. I think they bought a million-dollar soccer field for the people in Gitmo. I donβt know if [Mohammed] was able to visit his son for his high school graduation, but itβs similar.β
Despite this claim being repeated ad nauseam on Fox, Judge Juan Merchan has not actually ruled yet that the former president cannot attend his son Barronβs high school graduation.
ITβS JUST LIKE THE END OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC!
During Tuesdayβs broadcast of midday roundtable show Outnumbered, Ian Priorβa GOP operative and regular Fox News guest who the network once tried to pass off as just a βconcerned parentββwarned that the hush-money trial could result in the end of America.
Reacting to the possibility that Trump could be held in contempt for repeatedly violating the judgeβs gag order, Prior likened the ex-president being restricted from attacking trial witnesses and court staff to the fall of Rome.
βThe very problem that we have here is we are weaponizing the justice system to go after former presidents. You back up 2,000 years and this is the kind of thing they would do in the Roman Republic that led to the end of the Roman Republic,β he dramatically proclaimed. βCaesar is out there and says if you do not come back to Romeβ¦ and face prosecution, what did he do? He crossed the Rubicon and thereβs the end of the Republic.β
MIDDLE SCHOOLERS SHOULD BE SCARED!
Just ahead of opening statements on Monday, pro-Trump Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt said that the ex-president facing criminal charges for paying off a porn star to help his election chances could result inβactually, weβre not really sure what she was trying to say.
Weβre just going to report and let you decide.
βDoes this set a precedent for other people who want to run for president?β Earhardt sighed. βWhat if they've done something like this in the past and they can say, 'Oh, well, they told me in the 8th grade they want to run for president, so since they paid off a girl when they were 30 years old, then that was election interference!'β
βLITERALLY LIKEβ CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS IN THE β60S
The award for zaniest take, however, goes to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who claimed that the possibility of serving jail time made Trump akin to slain freedom fighters during the civil rights movement or Marlon Brandoβs character in a 1950s classic film.
βI am deeply worried that tomorrow, a totally corrupt judge and a totally corrupt district attorney are going to try to put a former president of the United States, candidate of his party, and front-runner in the polls in jail. Now, I think this is so horrendous that there has to be some way to reach out to the Supreme Court,β the Fox News pundit said on Monday nightβs Hannity. βThis is literally like some of the civil rights workers in Mississippi in the 1960s. The New York system is now so deeply corrupted and it's so bitterly, deeply anti-Trump.β
Raging about the Biden familyβs business dealings and Judge Merchanβs daughter, Gingrich then analogized the trial to an Oscar-winning movie about corrupt unionsβwhile getting the director wrong.
βI mean the whole thing frankly resembles On the Waterfront, Stanley Kubrick's brilliant film. This is about corruption. It has nothing to do with honesty, and what worries me is it's a genuine threat to Donald Trump,β Gingrich huffed. βI mean, I think any step that would put him close to a New York prison is an extraordinarily dangerous step and I would hope that there's some legal way to block it and make sure that it never happens, because the thugs he's dealing with are totally out of control, have total contempt for the rule of law, and frankly are unworthy of being in the offices they hold.β
MY DAD IS LOVED BY βHUNDREDS OF MILLIONSβ
Appearing on Trump confidant Sean Hannityβs primetime show on Monday, the ex-presidentβs son Eric Trump bemoaned that his dad was facing 34 criminal charges over allegedly falsifying business records to cover up the hush-money payment made to Daniels before the 2016 election.
According to the younger Trump, however, his father was too busy running the country to keep track of these records, though he added βnot that anything was done wrong in the bookkeeping.β Of course, Trump wasnβt actually president when he allegedly arranged to pay Daniels off to keep her quiet in an effort to keep the story from impacting an upcoming election.
Eric Trump also complained to Hannity that it seemed unfair that his dad was facing criminal charges over such a relatively small amount of money since the vast majority of the American public supposedly loves him. βTheyβre going after the former president of the United States, a person beloved by hundreds of millions of people in this country, over $130,000,β he groused.
Donald Trump, the King of Fake News & Election Interference. It was all rigged. pic.twitter.com/EvQ6p1HiiH
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 23, 2024
Thereβs not enough whiskey in the world...
The argument over the gag order demonstrated that to be the former president*βs lawyer is to enter into his conspiracy against common sense.
By Charles P. Pierce PUBLISHED: APR 23, 2024 3:23 PM EST
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a60582569/trump-trial-day-two/
former president donald trump's hush money trial continues in new york
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Day Two of the New York Trial began with a discussion of whether El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago violated the gag order dropped upon him by Judge Juan Merchan. In terms of actual reality, in which words mean what they really mean, he tore the gag order to ribbons and dropped the pieces into the East River long ago. But even the most cosmic of liars deserves his day in court, so the forms and procedures must be followed. Which doesnβt mean that the judgeβs patience is required to be limitless, or that he is required to follow defense counsel all the way into MAGA Neverland.
The argument over the gag order demonstrated quite convincingly that to be the former president*βs lawyer is to enter into his conspiracy against reality and common sense. It requires you to present arguments that make little or no sense. It requires you to sound like a jackass. It requires you, eventually, to get the judge all honked off at you. From The Guardian:
First off, however, Juan Merchan heard arguments about a request from prosecutors to hold Trump in contempt of court. They said he repeatedly violated a gag order barring him from publicly attacking witnesses in the trial. Todd Blanche, Trumpβs lawyer, argued that his client was just responding to political attacks with some of the alleged violations, not flouting the judgeβs order.
He further argued that seven of the instances cited by the prosecution did not violate the gag order because they were reposts of other peopleβs content on social media. βReposting an article from a news site or a news program,β he said, βwe donβt believe are a violation of the gag order.β
Hmmm. Intriguing.
Merchan asked whether there was any case law on it. Blanche replied: βI donβt have any case laws, your honor, itβs just common sense.β
βCommon sense,β of course, would have had the defendant in the clink ages ago. This kind of statement explains why I am not a judge. Instead, Merchan let Blanche have a little more rope.
As Blanche continued to repeat that claim, the judge rebuked him. βMr. Blanche, youβre losing all credibility, I have to tell you right now,β Merchan said. βYouβre losing all credibility with the court. Is there any other argument you want to make?β
The defendant, of course, walked out of court when it adjourned and beat feet for the now-familiar bank of microphones for the daily Whine βnβ Lies session.
Trump addressed the media in the hallway outside the courtroom, complaining that it was βtotally freezingβ inside, per pool. Asked about his thoughts on the gag order, Trump said it was βtotally unconstitutional,β adding:
Iβm not allowed to talk, but people are allowed to talk about me.
Because those βpeopleβ are by and large not convicted or indicted criminals.
Iβd love to say everything on my mind.
Thereβs not enough whiskey in the world...
I spent the entire day watching TV and drinking beer. It was great!
Hmmmm...
I see that. I was only comparing using "entire" or no modifier. I did think of it in the context of that issue in front of the court at that time though whether "all", "entire", or nothing. If that what was meant by "to be fair" that it was only to that specific case and not the entire trump trials, then I get it. I had to go review, the english language can be quite taxing sometimes, and it's my first language. lol
https://englishhelponline.me/the-difference-between-words-all-whole-entire-each-and-every/
I recently had a request from one of the readers to explain the difference between the words: all, whole and entire. So thatβs what Iβm going to write about today, but Iβd also like to include the words βeachβ and βeveryβ.
The word βallβ is used with countable or uncountable nouns to refer to 100% of many things. For example:
All of my furniture is from Ikea. (uncountable)
I bought all of my plates from ABC department store. (countable)
The words βwholeβ and βentireβ mean 100% of one thing. It is used with countable nouns. For example:
I ate the whole pie by myself. Iβm so full right now.
I spent the entire day watching TV and drinking beer. It was great!
The word βeachβ and βeveryβ are very similar but have slightly different meanings. They are both used with countable nouns. The word βeachβ focuses on the individual parts that make up a collection of something, but βeveryβ focuses on all the parts that make up a collection of something. For example:
Each of the stamps in my collection came from a different country.
Every stamp in my collection is very valuable.
Each person in my family is very special to me.
Every person in my family can play the piano.
In addition, we use βeachβ when we want to focus on the differences between things, and we use βeveryβ when we want to focus on the fact that things are the same. For example:
I have many pins in my collection and each one comes from a different country.
I paid over $20 for every pin in my collection.
I hope this is clear to everyone. Please note that when the words βeachβ and βeveryβ are followed by a verb in the present tense, it must have an βsβ. Therefore, βeachβ and βeveryβ follow the same grammar rules as βheβ, βsheβ and βitβ.
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Well... I'd argue that "all" and "entire" do not mean the same thing in this case. "All" seems to me to be a different kind of modifier.
I think the judge meant "all credibility" on this issue, which was Blanche's contention that Trump had been meticulous about abiding by the terms of the gag order.
βYouβre losing all credibility with the court,β Merchan tells Blanche.
— Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) April 23, 2024
That is just SO COOL!!!
Yeah, JFK Jr. flew him in from Memphis.
Elvis showed up at the trial?
To be fair, the judge did not say Blanche's "entire" credibility was at risk. Somebody ought to tell the headline writer to chill.
According to most commenters, it's not a desirable thing to have happen, but it's not the end of the world.
Well... they didn't tell him he couldn't LIE. They told him he couldn't lie about members of the jury and their families.
Yes. Blackhawks and I were. I asked Dave, and he fixed the problem.
Recap
An eventual day is over in the Trump trial. We had testimony about Playboy model, porn star, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Hope Hicks, Clinton, JFK, Steve Bannon, even Elvis! Here is my full recap β¦ https://t.co/jPeVLHURt6
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 23, 2024
Only one person shows up for the Mfer:
Question for Stormy Daniels when on the stand:
Do these look familiar?
Too big?
How about the little one in the front?
— Sister Resister πβπ¦Ίπββ¬πΎ (@GoodTroubleGran) April 23, 2024
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