My pill caddy says it is Saturday. The fact that I am sitting in my office nestled between two stadiums in Seattle means that I’ve got some things to do today that can’t wait until next week. It is also Day 18 on the GOP War on Math in the House of Representatives.
First the Headlines that caught my eye this morning:
1. Biden Says Hamas Attack Was to Halt Israel-Saudi Arabia Thaw
2. The Reckoning That Is Coming for Qatar
,000 for gag order violation after threatening him with jail time
4. Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro pleads guilty over efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss in Georgia
5. White Supremacist Nick Fuentes is Causing Chaos Inside Texas Youth GOP
6. Inflation is following an ‘eerily similar’ path as the one taken in 1966-1982
7. House speaker race starts again for Republicans after ousting Jordan
Now my unsolicited commentary on these headlines:
Remember, I haven’t actually read the articles attached to these headlines, which makes this whole thing fun for me.
1. I wasn’t one of the 22 million people who watched Biden speak the other day. But I did catch the snippets on NPR on my way into the office yesterday morning, which is how I got my first laugh of the day:
“One of the reasons why they acted like they did, why Hamas moved on Israel, is because they knew I was about to sit down with the Saudis.”
Okay, it may have been ‘one’ reason, but it was probably somewhere around six or seven on the list of five reasons.
2. On the Reckoning of Qatar. I seem to recall that the Saudis cut ties with Qatar in 2017 over Qatar’s “embrace of various terrorist and sectarian groups aimed at destabilizing the region”, including the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaida, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and groups supported by Iran in the kingdom’s Eastern Province city of Qatif. The head of Hamas is headquartered NOT in Palestine, but in Qatar. If the West needs to get some kind of message through to a terrorist organization anywhere in the Middle East, they only have to go see them in Qatar.
3. Trump has zero self control. He couldn’t go one day without getting tagged. It doesn’t matter if he believes he is 100 percent in the right, or if the gag order against him *might* be overturned in an appellate court (unlikely), if he violates an existing court order currently in place and enforceable, then he is going to find his fat ass in a holding cell with a 2″ hard-plastic mattress and a stainless steel toilet/sink combo instead of the 24k gold-plated toilet he is used to.
4. The third guilty plea deal in Georgia this week. The third co-defendant turning “state’s evidence” on criminal defendant Donald John Trump. It’s usually what happens in almost every ‘conspiracy’ case in both state and federal courts: lower-level defendants in the scheme almost always plead guilty in exchange for their testimony against the higher-level defendants. Probation for a misdemeanor conviction in exchange for testimony is far preferable to ending up with 240 months in prison. There isn’t anyone who is willing to sacrifice their lives for Donald Trump.
5. Your Father’s Republican Party is DEAD. The principles of the Republican Party have all been hollowed out, and replaced by Trumpublicanism. The racists and bigots of the Democratic Party (the so-called “Dixie-crats”) left the Democratic Party and became Republicans during the Nixon years (the Southern Strategy), and had been slowly dying ever since. Trump was the final nail on the coffin.
6. History repeats. Economics are cyclical.
7. The Republican Party can’t govern itself. I don’t know why they think they can govern a nation.
8. “It’s hard to imagine, but Tucker Carlson is turning the GOP into the pro-Russian, pro-authoritarian party.” – Mitt Romney in his new book, ““Romney: A Reckoning,”
9. This is not normal, nor is it acceptable. Anyone engaging in this kind of behavior needs to be in jail. Death threats? Evictions? The problem isn’t the person receiving the threats, it’s the fucknozzles making the threats. It’s the asswipes who would evict you over your political stances who are the “problem”.
What I am streaming:
I’m in-between shows right now. Basically, with a dozen streaming platforms available to me at any given moment, I am having trouble deciding on what to watch next. When that happens, I just start watching standup comedy routines. Last night I watched a comedian from Iceland.
What I am reading:
The Drifters is a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener, published in 1971 by Random House. The novel follows six young characters from diverse backgrounds and various countries as their paths meet and they travel together through parts of Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Mozambique. The story is told from the perspective of the narrator, George Fairbanks, who is an investment analyst for the fictional company World Mutual Bank in Switzerland. Mr. Fairbanks is connected with nearly every character in some way, and they all seem to open up to him throughout the novel in one way or another.
The Rodeo Song – Garry Lee and the Showdown
A couple of memes from da memebox
Okay, that’s it for today. Have a great day.
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One wonders how much self control the author would use if he found himself confronted by the people’s court with a host of false charges aimed at destroying him. Especially if remaining silent would be a tacit admission of guilt and play into the hands of the apparatchiks. Ah to have the wisdom and knowledge of the author. Alas I only spent 30 years aboard under third world dictatorships observing the wonders of justice in such systems and seeing the wonders of such tactics. Hence I’d rather go out like a Bonhoffer, a man without self control, than a lickspittle pleading for mercy from a jumped up lickspittle.
I am assuming you are referring to me, as the ‘author’?
Having been both a federal prosecutor and a federal public defender, I can tell you from experience that 99 percent of the people who get indicted not only are guilty, but end up convicted. Of that number, over 90 percent of them plead guilty to lesser-included charges.
What we are seeing in Fulton County Georgia with three of the sixteen defendants pleading guilty in exchange for a reduction of charges, no jail time and an agreement to cooperate in the trials of any co-defendants is the NORM when faced with legal jeopardy for crimes that were literally publicized in real time in front of everyone.
NONE of the crimes Donald John Trump is charge with occurred behind closed doors, out of the site of the public. On top of that, Trump hasn’t exactly kept his mouth shut when it comes to openly admitting to those crimes. He just doesn’t believe that HE should be charged with those crimes because he was a president at the time and therefore believes that he is above the law that everyone else has to follow. That is literally his legal argument.
Well, you aren’t in a third-world dictatorship now. As much as Trump and the rest of you Trumpublicans want to dismantle the rule of law here in THIS country, we still have a very robust and fair legal system with numerous checks and balances in place still.
And you will most likely end up in prison doing far more time that you probably needed to.
There is little doubt in my mind that if you end up finding yourself under indictment for 91 felonies in four separate jurisdictions for allegations of crimes that were committed in front of virtually EVERYONE, that you are going to be found guilty of at least most of those crimes if you took them to trial. Especially if you’ve been bellowing like a belligerent mule throughout the entire process and calling any and everyone who crosses your path derogatory names and making bombastic threats.
The prosecutor side of me would welcome this behavior, because it would make my job even easier. The public defender side of me is would be freaking out if I had a client like Trump. There would be no way I could win, either by obtaining an acquittal, or by keeping this guy from serving a LOT of time behind bars.
Here is a cold, hard fact when it comes to criminal law — at least in the federal system: If you fight the charges, you WILL end up serving the high-end of any sentencing guidelines, and you would not get a sentence reduction for this thing called, “Acceptance of Responsibility”.
Over his life, Trump and/or his company has been to court over 1600 times, mostly in New York, mostly dealing with fraud. All of those cases could have been in criminal court, but because he had money, he managed to keep them all in civil court, where he could throw a lot of money at it and it would mostly ‘go-away’. In those cases he could be as belligerent as he wanted and it would not reflect on him in any real way.
But he’s crossed over into the criminal courts, where things are vastly different — he could lose his liberty, and that gives him MANY more rights and considerations than if he was still in a civil court.
But those additional rights and considerations — which are meant to protect him — are being ignored by Trump, and THAT’S where Trumps problems began and will continue to drag him down. He WILL find himself in a jail cell for contempt of court if he continues on the way he has been.
FUN FACT: Trump could easily end all of this in about 90 days and get on with his life running for president. He could make a plea deal that would allow him to plead guilty to some lesser-included charge in exchange for dismissal of the vast number of charges and a sentence of probation. Maybe he would end up with a few months on home confinement due to his age and health.
But he could still run for POTUS and win if he wanted. There is NO prohibition from being POTUS with a felony conviction, unless it is for insurrection.
But Trump is incapable of admitting he was ever wrong about something, so this will never happen.
But hey. I know that nothing I say here is going to change your mind. You are just going to have to see it for yourself, I guess.
Since comments have been closed after your last diatribe. Here comes mine.
Foreign affairs? Biden can’t get anything right in foreign affairs, even Obama’s Secretary of Defense said so. Gates Stands By Statement That Biden Has Been Wrong On Nearly Every Major Foreign Policy Question
For proof, I offer Afghanistan (I know you think it’s all Trump’s fault, BUT Biden ignored his general’s advice), Ukraine, his burning desire to strike a deal with Iran (which you will NEVER convince me is a good idea) not to mention his paying ransom money for hostages, which will only cause more hostages to be taken. And the open border. When gas prices got too high, he begged Saudi Arabia (another country he fucked up American relations with) and Venezuela, with a Communist hostile government, them to give us more oil. He made America look like IDIOTS. We are perceived as weak all over the world. He left $80 billion worth of the latest military equipment in Afghanistan. As a gift to the Taliban. Who are now killing women and forbidding them to be educated.
Now you’re defending Hamas and the Palestinians. I think Israel should carpet bomb Gaza. I really don’t care if it’s Hamas or the pals digging up pipes; it’s not my problem and it’s not Israel’s to solve. They wanted autonomy and voted for corrupt, evil Hamas. Do you want to go there and sort out the good from the bad? Or do you want Israel to do it? They’ve already done more to help them than any other country and army in the world, by giving them time to get out. And humanitarian aid. It’s up to their Egyptian brothers; meanwhile no other Arab country wants them, but Israel should put up with them, when their raison d’etre is to kill every Jew in the world. Torture, massacre, decapitate babies, make parents watch their children be tortured and killed, and then kill the parents. Rip a pregnant woman’s fetus from her stomach. You seem to already have forgotten the horrors committed by Hamas 2 weeks ago, which no other country would tolerate.
Yes, just like everyone else in this world, you are condemning Israel for being victims. Like professors at Columbia, Cornell and Stanford. Like the students of Harvard. Like the many mobs all over this world. Antisemitism never dies, it just changes form. The world is like 1939 again. Do you know a man attacked a woman in the subway, “Because you’re Jewish”? They still haven’t caught him. And the president of a synagogue in Detroit was found stabbed to death today and she had worked HARD to bring Muslims and Jews together. Like you, a lefty.
I wish you could have heard the Zoom talk I listened to, where an expert on Arabic affairs, who worked for the State Department, the Pentagon, who speaks Arabic and Farsi, who lived with Arabs and Iranians, explained Islamic culture. They NEVER FORGET. If your great-grandfather killed their great-grandfather or did anything to their family, they will be your enemy FOREVER. And he had friends with these people. They cultivate patience; it doesn’t matter if it takes 10 generations or 1,000 years to get back at you. Another Islamic cultural norm is that once they are on land, it belongs to them. Forever. This is Islamic culture and ideology. And this guy knows a hell of a lot more than you. Maybe you should go and read Jihawatch.org. Here are some of today’s articles: · Germany: Muslim accused of raping, beating 15-year-old, ‘I’ll destroy your entire family. I swear by the Qur’an.’
France: Knife-wielding Muslim arrested near a high school, had ‘radical religious books’ and ‘photos of beheadings
UK: Muslim migrant carries out jihad terror attack for ‘Palestine,’ details heavily restricted
Nigeria: Muslims invade lawmaker’s home, abduct his wife and children
Hamas sympathizer enjoys senior role within Biden’s national security apparatus
57% of US Muslims Believe Hamas Atrocities Justified
Finally, you are obsessed with Trump. I assume that’s the “elephant in the room.” Did I mention Trump even ONCE in my comments. NO. You are suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. You should get it treated, since it gets into everything you say and do.
In response to your typical lefty liberal remark about how all religions are the same, only ONE has in its founding text the commandment to go out and kill. In Islamic history and doctrine violent jihad is founded on numerous verses of the Qur’an — most notably, one known in Islamic theology as the “Verse of the Sword”: “Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is forgiving, merciful” (9:5). That’s the reason 95% of the wars and terror committed today are connected to Muslims.
Let’s blame Joe Biden for this:
Other than that, you just keep repeating yourself.