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August 15, 2023

FYI "the other 18" who were indicted along with Trump

They include lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro and Jeffrey Clark, as well as Trump’s White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

Ray Smith and Robert Cheeley, lawyers working for Trump in Georgia, were also indicted for allegedly lying – Smith to a Georgia Senate committee, and Cheeley to a Georgia grand jury.

Three of the 16 people who falsely claimed to be Georgia’s electoral college voters were indicted: David Shafer, then the state GOP chairman; Shawn Still, who was GOP finance chairman; and Cathleen Alston Latham.

Trump campaign official Michael Roman, who was allegedly involved in the fake electors scheme, was also indicted. Others who were charged include Stephen Lee, William Floyd, Trevian Kutti, Scott Hall and Misty Hampton.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/15/who-are-trumps-18-co-defendants-charged-in-georgia-poll-meddling-case

FAFO time .... now do the fake electors want to spend a long time in Prison to protect TFG?

August 14, 2023

All this Hunter Biden crap was started from Russia. As per the GOP run senate intel committee.

Slate
A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset
He helped Putin manipulate the U.S. election in 2020, as he did in 2016.

"Attacks on Biden and his son, Hunter, were part of this operation. Through “US officials and prominent US individuals, some of whom were close to former President Trump and his administration,” the report says Russia’s intelligence services “repeatedly spread unsubstantiated or misleading claims about President Biden and his family’s alleged wrongdoing related to Ukraine.” In this way, Trump’s circle “laundered” the Russian-planted stories, which were then recirculated—and promoted by Russia’s online proxies—as American news."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html

The GOP, Fox News, and other right wing sites are now promoting and have been pushing this Russian produced bullshit
just like the did w/John Kerry & the swift boat shits, HRC & her emails, Bill Clinton and the B.J., Judge Kavanauh, and the
WMD in Iraq. (some of those did not start w/Russia) They are not burdened by the truth.

August 13, 2023

True ass story from this afternoon some guy told me, "Well what about the $20 million a month ....

... that China is sending to Joe Biden through his kid?"

August 13, 2023

Can Fani Willis who is in Fulton County do anything about Trump and Co. "work" in Coffee County?

Thanx to DUer blogslug for posting this:

Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump's team is behind voting system breach
Source: CNN

... Together, the text messages and other court documents show how Trump lawyers and a group of hired operatives sought to access Coffee County’s voting systems in the days before January 6, 2021, as the former president’s allies continued a desperate hunt for any evidence of widespread fraud they could use to delay certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory.

 Last year, a former Trump official testified under oath to the House January 6 select committee that plans to access voting systems in Georgia were discussed in meetings at the White House, including during an Oval Office meeting on December 18, 2020,  that included Trump. 

Six days before pro-Trump operatives gained unauthorized access to voting systems, the local elections official who allegedly helped facilitate the breach sent a “written invitation” to attorneys working for Trump, according to text messages obtained by CNN.

Investigators have scrutinized the actions of various individuals who were involved, including Misty Hampton, a former Coffee County elections official who authored the letter of invitation referenced in text messages and other documents that have been turned over to prosecutors, multiple sources told CNN...

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/politics/coffee-county-georgia-voting-system-breach-trump

August 13, 2023

Lock Trump up now. He is thumbing his nose at both Judge Chutkan and her court's magistrate orders.*

It is time to put an end to this non stop Trump Shit Show. Enough!

In just 3 to 5 days with no spray on tanner, hair styling, lifts in his shoes, shoulder pads, adult diapers,
and having to follow the do what the correction officers tell him to do will be the end of him. Especially
if they get some pictures of "the real Donald Trump" leaving custody looking old, bald, pale, and stoop
shouldered and the world gets to see those images.

* Trump Ignores Warning by Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218177170#post24

BTW if locking Trump up gets his mouth breathing base all worked up oh well fuck 'em because if they
want to stay loyal to a man with 4 indictments and > 100 felony charges including espionage, trying to
violently over throw our democracy, and selling out our country fine take that ride on the Trumptanic.

August 11, 2023

How Invasive Plants Fueled an Inferno in Maui

Research by Clay Trauernicht, a fire specialist at the University of Hawaii, and others has shown that the scale and frequency of wildfires have been increasing across in Hawaii from the early 1900s to the 2010s. The researchers also identified a major culprit: non-native plants.

“Wildfires were most frequent in developed areas, but most areas burned occurred in dry non-native grasslands and shrublands that currently compose 24 percent of Hawaii’s total land cover,” the researchers wrote. “These grass-dominated landscapes allow wildfires to propagate rapidly.”

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The non-native grasses were brought to Hawaii by cattle ranchers in the 19th century, University of California Santa Barbara ecologist Carla D’Antonio told me. “They were selected because they were drought tolerant.”

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The grasses are an especially potent fuel, D'Antonio explained, because they grow quickly when it rains and then stick around, deeply rooted into the soil, as dry, dead organic matter, becoming a “standing layer of very ignitable fuel.”

https://heatmap.news/climate/how-invasive-plants-fueled-an-inferno-in-maui

Please everybody out there no matter where you live when you plant plant a native. This is one of the most important
things you can do.







August 9, 2023

Glen Kirschner, "Judge Chutkan don't come to play."

Glen Kirschner, "Judge Chutkan don't come to play."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143111482

Timeline:
Trump's lawyers file their paperwork @ 5 PM Monday ..... including a picture of President Biden with his Dark Brandon coffee mug along with something about Joe Biden isn't being nice to us.

Jack "the hammer" Smith's people file their answer @ about 6 pm Monday ..... Team Jack Hammer was already working on their response before Trump's Lawyers even filed their paperwork

"Judge I don't come to play" @ 9 pm Monday sets a meeting on the protective order for this Friday

Trump's lawyers asked for a delay Tuesday in the AM ... they said the couldn't make the meeting this Friday

Tuesday afternoon "Judge I don't come to play" sets Friday @ 10 AM as the date and time for a meeting on Jack Smith's
request for a Protective Order

August 9, 2023

Ohio with about 30% of the vote in issue 1 is going down ..

... by something like 70 v 30%. The Republicans are the
dog who has caught the car. Even consistently red and suburban and red counties are voting pro women.

I am happy.

August 8, 2023

Is the "America's Manhood is under attack" a Russian produced or disseminated meme?

It seems to being pushed by the right wing.

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