Septua
Septua's JournalI think it's time for...
..all the world leaders to agree to shut Russia down before Putin goes any further with his insane crusade to take control of Ukraine, before he wrecks the rest of the planet.
Not sure if that's possible but the powers to be got to stop his crazy shit somehow.
To indict or not.
I stumbled onto the link and decided it's a pretty good argument for indictment. Much of what has already been posted on this forum. Rather lengthy...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/if-prosecuting-trump-sets-a-dangerous-precedent-so-does-letting-his-crimes-slide?ref=scroll
The Jan. 6 Committee has shown a ton of evidence that former President Donald Trump and various accomplices committed conspiracy to defraud the United States when he tried to stay in power after losing re-election. The FBI search of Mar-a-Lago—and Trump’s many shifting, contradictory excuses—indicate he likely committed felonies regarding the removal and concealment of national defense material, and obstruction of justice.
The legal answer, the one from rule of law, is straightforward. Prosecutors have ample evidence of serious criminal activity. The government has a legitimate interest in deterring a repeat of these crimes (especially the coup-related ones). No one is above the law, not even the person who was once the most powerful in the world.
But the political answer is more complicated.
Whatever the Department of Justice (DOJ) decides, it will set precedent, provoke public reactions, and shape history.
American institutions—courts, military, and though it was a close call, Congress—overcame Trump’s scheming, upheld the rule of law, and got him out of office. But he kept lying, plotting, and committing more crimes. In response, prosecutors filing charges in criminal court based on evidence acquired in a well-predicated, legally authorized federal investigation is what passing this ongoing stress test would look like.
This is the moment for the institutions of Constitutional democracy to make their stand. Trump’s bluff must be called. Ours is a government of laws, not of men.
Straight talk from Rep Ro Khanna, (D) California
"If the republicans take back the House, they're going to be talking about Hunter Biden all the time...all they want to do is have investigations into this Presidency...it will be two years of obstructionism."
Source: Politics Nation-MSNBC
Lies, damn lies and statistics...inflation.
I switched to Fox this AM to see if they were talking about any of Trump's legal issues and of course they weren't...the border, crime and inflation dominate their daily air time. At some point Bartiroma was going on about our inflation being due to government spending, suggesting it's all Biden's fault. And she knows better than me, it's a false narrative. Needles to say, if the rest of the world was at 3 or 4%, we could point at Biden for the US inflationary conditions but the rest of the world ain't at 3 or 4%.
So as I've done so many times, I called upon Google to give me the facts, again.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/did-government-spending-alone-really-120000491.html
And all that makes perfect sense. It's supple-demand, with a little corporate greed thrown in.
https://patrioticmillionaires.org/2022/05/06/corporations-are-bragging-about-inflation-price-gouging/
I get this call every day...beware.
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/scammers-continue-to-push-ppp-loan-scams-072922.htmlMisguided priorities
We have an ex-president (Trump) who left office at about 3/4 autocrat status. He had taken control of the Justice Dept and the Republican (former) Party caucus in D.C. He tried to invalidate an election, incited a riot in an attempted overthrow of the government, left office with 100+ classified documents, saying they belong to him and now has a judge who is making every effort to protect him...
Meanwhile, Fox news is reporting on the southern border "crisis"... 
"..the likes of which the country has never seen..."
Is Trump so presumptively arrogant, he believes DOJ would actually be intimidated by a veiled threat of violence in making a decision to indict him?
I'm not even sure there would be a "likes of which we've never seen" violent result by his fanatical base. I don't doubt there would be an uproar from the Republicans running the talk show circuits (that's already happening) and some spotty protests by the kooks but something to a 'degree we've never seen' is a stretch. I know there is a large number of his base who also dispense with the threats of civil war but I just don't think there is a big enough number of truly committed militants willing to go the distance.
Per Google searches, 2000+ people entered the Capitol on Jan 6...900 (near half) have been charged with related crimes. That fact, in itself, would be a mental impediment to most when considering doing something that would lead to arrest and jail. And as said before, some dude with a wife, kids and mortgage can't just wake up one morning and say "Well, I got to go overthrow the government today." It's just not something I can realistically accept taking place. And I don't believe Trump is all that popular, it's just what he has led his followers to believe he stands for.
And of course, Trump's only strategy in dealing with any negative issues for him, is to mouth off a lot of nonsensical bluster.
Jan 6 was a riot "the likes of which we've never seen" that no one thought could or would happen and there simply wasn't adequate defensive measures taken to thwart it...but it won't happen again. We learn from our mistakes.
A dissection of Judge Cannon's initial ruling
She doesn't seem to know much about the law...
Everything Wrong With Judge Cannon’s Ruling
https://www.lawfareblog.com/everything-wrong-judge-cannons-ruling
The Mar-a-Lago incident is simply a document storage dispute
Renewing their request for an expansive independent review of records seized from Mr. Trump, the former president’s legal team argued that documents marked as classified should remain off limits to the F.B.I. and prosecutors. They asked the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, to maintain her order barring agents from using any of the materials taken from his estate until an outside arbiter, known as a special master, has vetted all of them.
The 21-page filing was an aggressive rebuke of the Justice Department’s broader inquiry into whether Mr. Trump or his aides illegally kept national security secrets at his property, Mar-a-Lago, or obstructed the government’s repeated attempts to retrieve the materials. It played down the criminal inquiry as a “storage dispute” and insinuated that officials might have leaked information about the contents of the files.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/us/politics/trump-doj-special-master.html
The Rethug sky is falling...
..in fact, it's been falling for 100 years, starting with FDR. Rethugs keep telling us Democrats will take us to Socialism. Democrats have held the White House about half the time and the same Constitutional Republic remains.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/08/31/even-after-their-fear-mongering-proves-wrong-republicans-keep-it-heres-why/
Truman speech (audio @ 6 minutes): https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/soundrecording-records/sr59-160-president-truman-rear-platform-remarks-syracuse-new-york
Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called farm price supports.
Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
When the Republican candidate inscribes the slogan "Down With Socialism" on the banner of his "great crusade," that is really not what he means at all.
What he really means is "Down with Progress--down with Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal," and "down with Harry Truman's fair Deal." That's all he means.
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