I am impressed with the thought processes of people and some states that are considering calling for the death penalty for women or people assisting women who have an abortion because all life is sacred.
Doesn’t even need to go that far. The states that are introducing laws making it illegal to have abortions in OTHER states is irrationally unhinged enough.
This is , of course, the Land of the Free and staunch defender of personal rights.
That is unhinged, but how do you rationalise saying all life is sacred therefore I sentence you to death.
The irony is he still hasn’t officially nominated to run for president.
Really? Could you provide links? I know the Republicans are unhinged but I wasn’t aware of them going that far.
It’s hard to see the GOP nominating anyone other than Trump right at the moment.
South Carolina currently has one pending.
He’s quietly hoping that Trump’ll get dealt with by the legal system before he does. If he nominates, then he officially has to start running against Trump, and that means criticising Trump. And that’s something he’s too chicken (or calculating) to do because he knows that Trump still has a firm grip on the dangly bits of most of the republican voter base (insert ‘small hands’ joke here). De Santis doesn’t want to actually go up against Trump, he wants to Bradbury it in once Trump falls over or makes himself ineligible in some way, and paint himself as the true inheritor of Trump’s legacy (whatever THAT is).
https://theshot.net.au/general-news/trump-americas-most-wanted/
In a Manhattan courtroom this month, the world witnessed (and by world , I mean those who give a fig about Donald Trump) another instalment in the long running American soap opera, Trump – America’s Most Wanted.
Series 8 in our episodic melodrama has something for everyone; an aggrieved, convicted former lawyer, a smart-mouthed, pneumatically breasted adult film worker, a missing-in-action European trophy wife, men with oversized watches and undersized vocabularies, women with too much make-up and far too little brains, and a door slammed in the face of the stupidest smart man to ever walk on the planet, Donald J Trump.
It is true however, that there are far more characters in this entire indictment charade than spare ferret hair on Donald Trump’s head. It is also probably true that in the same way Voltaire claimed if God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him , it was necessary for some Americans to invent Donald Trump to further legitimise and enshrine their idiocy. Yes, if Donald Trump did not exist, America would have invented him.
Trump isn’t the cause of America’s problems, he’s the symptom. He is the embodiment of everything the world loathes about the ugly side of the USA; excessively loud, devoid of intelligent thought, unable to see the world beyond its own blinkered backyard, with far too many people who think ■■■■■■■■ on gold covered toilets is the embodiment of class.
Trump is an ugly man from an ugly nation, caught up in an ugly vortex of his own making – and it’s only going to get uglier from here.
Before we go any further we should probably look at exactly what it is that Trump is accused of and yes, pretend we care that a man who has made a fifty year career out of exploiting the world for his own ends – and burying his ex-wife on his golf course – will finally meet some sort of come-uppance. Because in a just world, we all know Donald Trump would be dumped in a Long Island sewage canal and flushed out to sea, swiftly followed by his parasitic, Gucci-clad family, (results may vary).
But all we have at the moment is the office of the Manhattan District Attorney, an office that has been following Donald Trump’s crimes for several years. In December last year, they successfully prosecuted a conviction against the Trump Organisation on charges of orchestrating a 15-year tax fraud – Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan DA’s, biggest trial victory to date.
Trump himself was not charged in the case, but the diligent, patient hunting by Bragg has apparently so rattled Trump that he posted a (since deleted) photo of himself with a baseball bat next to an image of Mr Bragg.
And to the current case against Trump itself, what is it about? Essentially Donald has been charged (or indicted, as they say in the US) with 34 felony* counts, the specifics of which remain unreleased, or sealed. (*A felony in the USA is simply any crime that carries a penalty of imprisonment for more than one year or the death penalty, but let’s not get too carried away about that just yet).
The statement of facts released in Donald’s indictment by the DA’s office is a thing of beauty, outlining as it does that he “violated election laws and made and caused false entries in the business records of various entities in New York.” Of course the Statute of Frauds (SOF) in this instance is much more than that, because the DA has compiled a carefully presented narrative that builds to a dramatic conclusion, important to remember when a judge is reading this in their brief before hearing legal arguments.
Essentially, dear old Donald is alleged to have rolled around in some hotel room sheets with an adult film actress, Stormy Daniels, back in 2006 when he was just a repulsive property developer with a bad tan and malignant tendencies, instead of what he is now, a repulsive ex-President with a bad tan and malignant tendencies.
In 2016, Donald organised for his then lawyer, Michael Cohen, to pay Ms Daniels USD$130,000 to keep quiet about the sex act involving something called a “toadstool ■■■■■” because Donald was running for President and wanted to present a pristine image to the United States electorate – which, given his tendency to invoke mass violence, mock the disabled and molest women, you must agree was a complete waste of his money.
Donald also asked Mr Cohen to pay off a Trump Towers doorman who had gossip about a child allegedly fathered by the Donald (you’d think he would have worked out how that happens by now) as well as another woman he claims he never had sex with, Karen McDougal, who received USD$150,000 for seemingly not knowing Donald Trump or ever meeting him.
But in the end, as vomit inducing as all of those details are, they are essentially a private matter for Donald and Wife No.3. Where they became a matter of criminality was when Donald asked his lawyer to pay the monies himself, with Donald then reimbursing Michael Cohen via a monthly retainer. Had it stayed at that, we might have just had some dodgy private contractual matters that might never have seen the light of day.
But here’s the problem: in his never-ending quest for greed and stupidity, Donald decided to claim these “legal expenses” (bribery/hush money) in his presidential campaign funds. That is, the hush money Michael Cohen paid out on Donald’s behalf was illegitimately claimed by Donald as legitimate legal expenses for his Presidential campaign, a violation of several US federal and state electoral laws – not that breaking the law has ever bothered Donald before.
And so Donald finds himself trotted into a Manhattan courthouse, with more media than supporters there to witness him, fantasising about courthouse staff in tears at his plight and rabidly posting late-night hate posts on his Truth Social platform that can’t even manage to pay its own web hosts.
Steathly has posted above about South Carolina and there is a bit more of a write up here as these thoughts seem to be spreading:
Beyond politics.
Explosion at a Texas dairy plant killed 18k cows.
That’s intensive farming for you.
Cows valued at US$2k each.
You have to be Brave to make it your Home.
What kind of explosion kills 18k cows and no humans?
Mootually assured destruction?
1 human critical, possibly gas caused explosion.
Do you have any udder puns like this?
I do not.
I was thinking Intercontinental Bovine Missile, but that’s a bit of a stretch.
Seven years on, I still can’t get my head around why anyone would vote for this human excrement to be their leader.