THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CATS
EVERY PERSON WHO COMMENTS WILL GET A CAT
RULES IN THE DIARY
WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in the DIARY that you LIKE
YOU CAN REPOST IT AS COMMENT in the DIARY
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My tweet about Trump violating his gag order has more likes than the truth social post in which Trump violated his gag order and I’m wondering if I’m part of the problem or part of the solution.
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Amen Professor Tribe!
1. The criminal trial that begins April 15 has a theme almost nobody has yet fully appreciated. It’s the through line of illegally manipulating elections by distorting the information on the basis of which those elections are decided.
2. Now, for instance, with his nonstop efforts to delay the trial’s opening, Trump is doubling down on that strategy by trying to keep voters from seeing, before they cast their ballots in November 2024, how a jury of twelve ordinary citizens would evaluate the Manhattan DA’s charge that Trump tried, on the eve of the 2016 election, to keep the voters from learning that the Access Hollywood Tape was just the tiny tip of a sordid iceberg, one he feared would melt down all over his then teetering presidential campaign with the facts about his sex affair with Stormy Daniels, an affair that seems trivial in hindsight but that loomed large at the time in that cliffhanger-close election.
3. Think about it: Using the legal system — or, more accurately, abusing it — to cover up, in order to win in 2024, how he covered up the truth in order to win in 2016!
4. That double-layered coverup, if successful, would more than make a mockery of our constitutional system. It would shred it, all the more so because the one thing Trump hasn’t even tried to cover up is his dictatorial plan to wield unlimited power over us all.
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What an as shat
STEPHANOPOULOS: Will your support for Trump continue even if he's convicted?CHRIS SUNUNU: Yeah. This has been going on for more than a year and his poll numbers never go down.S: But you're going to politics. I'm asking about right and wrong. CS: This is about politics.
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Right, because these are the qualities that matter most in a running mate...
Trump's desperation for cash is complicating his VP search: report www.rawstory.com/...
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According to campaign insiders, "Mr. Trump has asked several people about the fund-raising prowess of possible running mates," with Bender writing, "It is also unclear among Mr. Trump’s advisers whether he ultimately intends to give considerable weight to a contender’s fund-raising ability, or whether his recent focus is a consequence of his overall concerns about cash. That fixation has permeated both his presidential bid and his costly legal defense in his four criminal cases — and further blurred the line between the two."
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And in case Elise Stefanik is on that short list, here are a few nuggets for you. The Family Fortune Behind Elise Stefanik’s Humble Origins Myth
Here's the lede:
Since her first campaign for Congress, Elise Stefanik has downplayed her parents’ wealth—and the $1.8 million D.C. home they bought her.
The article details a whole heck of a lot more.
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Yup.
Voter fraud isn’t a thing, especially involving noncitizens. The tiny number of incidents has no impact on an election. And when it has happened, Republicans are the culprits.
Republicans can’t win elections with their bad ideas and policies, so they resort to voter suppression.
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And in other news:
This week, SCOTUS considers whether conduct of Jan 6 attackers (and Trump) violates statute making it a crime to corruptly “otherwise obstruct, influence, or impede any official proceeding, or attempt to do so.” Come on, textualists, this isn’t hard.
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Hey, did you hear that IDJT had a rally last night? If you click on the xit, it'll take you to the Meidas Touch article that discusses.
Trump again struggled through his meandering speech — this time in Pennsylvania. Trump repeatedly slurred and mispronounced words and suffered from numerous cognitive lapses.
If you don't want to click, here are some low-lights:
Trump: The people of Israel are under attack right now. That’s because we show great weak nicks
Trump, confused: This was a magastine that I’ve never read
(He was referring to Rolling Stone magazine).
Gobbledygook about loving women, followed by
Just last week it was reported that an illegal adlinthin-- and you just look at thisss, what's happening" -- Trump
Supposedly referring to "illegal aliens... "
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Evening Shade Seekers! Happy National Gardening Day!
And Happy National Dolphin Day!