Septua

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January 16, 2024

Trump and the "Religion Connection"

I'm sure some at DU already know this, but I hadn't remotely considered it...

I was thinking about why a sensible, sane, God-fearing individual could possibly support Donald Trump for another term when Trump is the antithesis of a sensible, sane, God-fearing personality. So, I Google searched 'bible scripture references for Donald Trump' (something like that) and came up with several.

In a nutshell, the religious radical right has decided God chose Trump to make America great again.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/3/5/16796892/trump-cyrus-christian-right-bible-cbn-evangelical-propaganda

Standing on a sunny street, reporter Chris Mitchell says, “Christians are divided about what to do on Donald Trump.”

Some want to abandon him, he says. Others want to stand with him. But others, he says, are wondering: Does Trump have a “biblical mandate” to become president?

For these leaders, the biblical account of Cyrus allows them to develop a “vessel theology” around Donald Trump, one that allows them to reconcile his personal history of womanizing and alleged sexual assault with what they see as his divinely ordained purpose to restore a Christian America.

I cannot comprehend how anyone could come up with that degree of asininity to excuse Trump or worse, dare to.

“I think in some ways this is a kind of baptism of Donald Trump,” says John Fea, a professor of evangelical history at Messiah College in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. “It’s the theopolitical version of money laundering, taking Scripture to … clean [up] your candidate.”

I agree with Mr Fea...

January 12, 2024

How the media should interview Trump and Trumpettes.

Whether it's Trump or Comer or MTG or what's-his-name Speaker of the House, ask ONE question and continue to ask the same question until they give an accurate, honest answer. Most here already know that...

https://steveinskeep.substack.com/p/how-to-cover-2024

A presidential campaign calls on us to meet the highest standards that we already have. To report independently and accurately. To reflect on what’s relevant and what’s not. To question all assumptions, including our own. To investigate. To apply perspective. To prove what we say; to challenge others to prove what they say; and to note when they fall short.

Joe Scarborough and Steve Inskeep illustrate how to do it. (It's well worth the 8 minute watch)

January 9, 2024

Tell me I'm wrong.

Regarding the 2024 election, assuming a Biden-Trump contest.

If Trump evades a conviction and wins the election, game over.

If he loses, we'll have a sequel to rigged elections, court cases and protests.

If convicted, he'll continue to "campaign" (his campaigning is merely propagandizing) from house confinement or jail or whatever arrangements the courts decide.

If he wins, he'll demand to be declared President of the country. Lots of court cases and protests.

If he loses, it'll be rigged elections, court cases and protests.

January 7, 2024

Meet The Press and Kristen Welker

(Wasn't aware I double posted...got a glitch on the first attempt and thought it didn't go through)

I don't generally attack the political left leaning talk show moderators but Meet The Press and some of the others get a Republican on the hot seat and then fail to turn on the heat. Stefanik was on this morning, spreading unsubstantiated disinformation and skirting the questions. Where Welker could have stayed on a particular point until Stefanik admitted the truth or walked off the set, Welker would say "I need to move on to the next topic."

Moving on the the next topic results in the spread of more unsubstantiated disinformation...

I don't know if the NBC upper management puts a bridle on MTP moderators or what but when the interview ends, I can't help but score a win for the guests. Stefanik definitely won today.

January 7, 2024

Meet The Press and Kristen Welker

I don't generally attack the political left leaning talk show moderators but Meet The Press and some of the others get a Republican on the hot seat and then fail to turn on the heat. Stefanik was on this morning, spreading unsubstantiated disinformation and skirting the questions. Where Welker could have stayed on a particular point until Stefanik admitted the truth or walked off the set, Welker would say "I need to move on to the next topic."

Moving on the the next topic results in the spread of more unsubstantiated disinformation...

I don't know if the NBC upper management puts a bridle on MTP moderators or what but when the interview ends, I can't help but score a win for the guests. Stefanik definitely won today.

I would love to see Stefanik on Deadline White House, whenever Nicolle gets back. She would shred Stefanick's comments and positions.

January 7, 2024

Missouri election official threatens to take Biden off the ballot.

It was predictable.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/missouri-remove-biden-ballot-trump-b2474306.html

Hours after the Supreme Court announced it would hear Mr Trump’s appeal of the Colorado decision on 5 January, Missouri’s Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft wrote on X: “What has happened in Colorado & Maine is disgraceful & undermines our republic. While I expect the Supreme Court to overturn this, if not, Secretaries of State will step in & ensure the new legal standard for” Mr Trump “applies equally to” President Biden.

(Never mind the disgraceful undermining of the Republic by Trump and cronies)

“If Democrat states are saying we’re not going to let these Republicans run, you bet you’re going to see the same thing happening from Republican states. And it’s not good,” Mr Ashcroft told NBC News.

'Course Biden has done nothing close to conspiring to stage a coup. But facts and truth are irrelevant in the MAGA world.

January 1, 2024

Trump's Double Jeopardy Defense

Ii is first of all, a ridiculous point of attempted legal merit since Congressional impeachment trials are a function of the Legislative branch of government. But assume for a moment, it could be considered in Trump's case, as a previous acquittal.

The "jury" was tainted...If the Senate vote had been by secret ballot, they would have probably convicted him. But fear of retribution and lack of spine on the part of some of Repugs, led to the acquittal, so it was a mistrial which are void.

Just a thought.

December 29, 2023

Immunity for Trump IS a possibility

I think it will eventually hinge on whether his coup attempts are ruled to be within the "outer perimeter" of Presidential official duties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_immunity_in_the_United_States#:~:text=The%20president%20of%20the%20United,Constitution%20or%20any%20federal%20statute.

The president of the United States enjoys absolute immunity from many lawsuits while in office; it is legally untested whether they also enjoy criminal immunity from arrest or prosecution.[a] Neither civil nor criminal immunity is explicitly granted in the Constitution or any federal statute.[1]

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/can-presidents-absolute-immunity-be-trumped

The key, again, is that Fitzgerald’s absolute immunity, particularly as caveated by Jones, still recognizes that there are some things a President does while he is President that simply are not part of his official duties—and for which he cannot therefore invoke the Constitution as a categorical shield from civil liability.

The problem is that Fitzgerald does not quite say what it’s cited to mean—and neither does Jones. And Donald Trump’s peculiar personality and bizarre mixing of his personal and official personas seems sure to test the parameters of the extant doctrine.

Our point is not to take a position on the strengths or weaknesses of the arguments in any one case, but to make a larger point about the doctrine—and the ever-increasing significance of its less-than-categorical immunity rule.

December 27, 2023

So Democrats, what's the plan?

I keep hearing the Left side saying "Biden hasn't got the messaging right." "He needs to talk about the successes." Most every time I hear Joe speaking, he's talking the successes. Thing is, the people who are pro-Trump aren't listening; for them it's the border, inflation (high prices), jobs, wages...whatever. They say the economy is bad but don't know the difference between a healthy economy and inflation.

And whatever the hell they are unhappy with, it's Biden's fault and Trump is promising he'll fix it all and get retribution to console their souls. These people don't give two shits about statistics or successes or democracy based government. If a candidate says he can fix it, they'll vote for him.

Meanwhile, the Right side is doing everything possible to suppress the vote and spread disinformation to keep the Trump movement ginned up.

The Democratic Party leaders are trying to win an election the old fashion way: statistics, successes, civility and honor. The Republicans are barbarians: no rules, no limits, no civility, no honor. Just win; by whatever means necessary. The Dems are trying to win a gunfight with a fly swatter.

The Republican plan is simply that of making Biden look worse than Trump. The Democrats need to let the successes speak for themselves, for the ones listening, and start a massive, negative campaign to reveal Trump for what he is and what he will do in a second term.

And they can do that with civility and honor because the truth alone, will make Trump look far worse than Biden.

December 15, 2023

Can someone explain to me which part of the Constitution...

..leads Trump and his lawyers to think he has immunity from all his indictment charges?

Or is it the same cockamamie propaganda as the Presidential Records Act giving him the right to take a bunch of government documents home when he left office?

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