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He claims the sex never happened. If so, why did he shell out $130,000 to her for not talking about what he claimed didn't happen?
By DOUG THOMPSON May 8, 2024
Donald Trump, Stormy Daniels (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Donald Trump, the disgraced, criminally-indicted former president brags with claims he delivered removal of the landmark Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court, failed to wear a condom when he dropped his boxer underwear and screwed porn actress Stormy Daniels in his hotel room in Reno, Nev., she told a New York court Tuesday.
Such revelations had Trump using profanity to display his anger and his defense lawyers moved for mistrial, a common stunt he has used often in past court proceedings. It was denied by the judge
Reports The New York Times:
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When Donald J. Trump met Stormy Daniels, their flirtation seemed fleeting: He was a 60-year-old married mogul at the peak of reality television fame, and she was 27, a Louisiana native raised in poverty and headed to porn-film stardom.
But that chance encounter in Lake Tahoe, Nev., some two decades ago is now at the center of the first criminal trial of an American president, an unprecedented case that could shape the 2024 presidential race.
This week, Ms. Daniels has been on the witness stand telling her side of the story, often in explicit detail. She has already faced five hours of questioning, and after the trial’s midweek hiatus, she is expected to return on Thursday to undergo additional cross-examination from Mr. Trump’s legal team.
While Trump has bragged about his prowess in bed with other people’s wives, younger women and others, he doesn;t seem to like it when someone discusses messing around with him. He anger and obscenities flared so often that he faces yet another citation for criminal contempt of court from a judge who has threatened to throw his lying ass in jail.
This, of course, is the same Trump who was recorded bragging that all he had to do to nail married women was “grab their pussies” and they woud let him whatever they wanted because he was a celebrity, if hosting a laughable reality show called The Apprentice is something to crow about.
Trump was caught calling news outlets like New York Post, claiming to be a press operative with salicious stories about a sordid sex life of adultery, threesomes and other fantasies. He is also the fraud who hired a classmate to take his college boards, used a old friend of his millionaire father to fabricate a “bone-spur” lie to evade the draft during the Vietnam war and was found guilty of illegally using donations to his fake charity to pay personal expenses for his lavish lifestyle.
A longtime Democrat, Trump changed into a fake conservative Republican to run for president. His shams also use religion he doesn’t embrace to claim he reads the Bible, but can’t name a single part of it to cite as a favorite. Strapped for cash after losing a big civil case, he turned to hawking bibles that cost less than $15 a copy to produce for $65 apiece on the Internet at the same time he was launching a stock offering for his third-rate social media website but hid its massive losses that auditors uncovered after shares were sold at overvalued prices but now is losing more money and shares are all but worthless.
Trump turned what are considered money-making operations into duds. His attempts to become a major operator of casinos ended in massive bankruptcies. His involvement with the Republican Party, once called the “party of Abraham Lincoln turned it into a struggling, corrupt political operation run by fascist group that has sent sane members into the exits.
GOP lawyer/activist George Conway left the party and helped start The Lincoln Project, a media operation that produces strong ads that condemn Trump. Conway calls Trump “a narcissistic psychopath.”
[video:youtube][/video] (Courtesy of The Lincoln Project and YouTube)
Mary Trump, niece of con artist Donald, calls him an “anti-American authoritarian wannabe” and warns that he is a major threat to democracy and the nation, a warning echoed by a rapidly growing segment of true patriots who want to see him convicted for his many crimes and sent to jail to die in disgrace.
In its coverage of the testimony of Stormy Daniels this week, the New York Times also reported:
Ms. Daniels said the future president had invited her to dinner inside his palatial Lake Tahoe hotel suite. He answered the door wearing silk pajamas. When he was rude, she playfully spanked him with a rolled-up magazine. And when she asked about his wife, he told her not to worry, saying that they didn’t even sleep in the same room — prompting Mr. Trump to shake his head in disgust and mutter “bullshit” to his lawyers, loud enough that it drew a private rebuke from the judge, who called it “contemptuous.”
Ms. Daniels then recounted the sex itself in graphic detail. It happened, she said, after she returned from the bathroom and found Mr. Trump in his boxer shorts and T-shirt. She tried to leave and he blocked her path, though not, she said, in a threatening manner. The sex was brief, she said, and although she never said no, there was a “power imbalance.”
Daniels is not alone when it comes to becoming a victim of a sexual predator like Trump. A jury first awarded E. Jean Carroll a $5 million judgment against Trump for sexual abuse.
As the Associated Press reported:
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A jury found Donald Trump liable Tuesday for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996, awarding her $5 million in a judgment that could haunt the former president as he campaigns to regain the White House.
The verdict was split: Jurors rejected Carroll’s claim that she was raped, finding Trump responsible for a lesser degree of sexual abuse. The judgment adds to Trump’s legal woes and offers vindication to Carroll, whose allegations had been mocked and dismissed by Trump for years.
Jurors also found Trump liable for defaming Carroll over her allegations. Trump did not attend the civil trial and was absent when the verdict was read.
Trump immediately lashed out on his social media site, claiming that he does not know Carroll and referring to the verdict as “a disgrace” and “a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time.” He promised to appeal.
Trump stepped up his attacks on Carroll and he was back in court and the jury upped the ante by awarding another $83 million to the bill. Trump has lost other cases and nowowes more than $500 million which, with interest and penalties could push it over a billion this year.
The judge in the E. Jean Carroll case later determined that Trump was also a rapist in her case.
While Daniels’ sexual encounter with Trump was a one-night stand, his hush money case also involves former Playmate Karen McDougal who said she and Trump had a longer affair and Trump paid $150,000 to try and keep the story from surfacing.
Daniels got $130,000 from Trump. He denies ever having sex but hasn’t yet come up with a documented reason why he paid both women for disclosing sex he claims he never had.
Them, that have been put there by Trump, are, obviously, going to not decide this one. They get to pay back to their Lord and Master for all his whatever.
Wouldn't it be nice if we had a congress that actually did their job. When dealing with the supremes one might even think that a serious congress would, at the very least, make the Supremes behave as the Supremes themselves force the rest of the courts to behave. I know, too much for anybody to actually expect.
There won't be another charge in the courts as he (Trump), and his pals, and them that he installed, apparently have had all other charges extended to after he gets to be president. What, however, happens if he is NOT the next president?
Instead of just looking at this upcoming rematch from inside the anti-Trump cocoon, I step outside and take a good view of the entire electorate trying to figure out where things stand today and if possible, why. I’m as much anti-Trump as anyone else, but being anti-Trump isn’t going to change the reasons why we have an election coming which gives him a 50-50 shot at regaining the white house. That shouldn’t be but is. It’s reality. Why is this so? I get the feeling that few care. Perhaps they’re right, it seems there’s nothing at this point that could change the dynamics of this rematch or who the candidates are.
A lot has changed since 2020. Trump hasn’t become more popular; he’s still disliked and unwanted by around 55% of all Americans. But Biden has dropped to the level of Trump in the dislike and unwanted column. According to Gallup, independents, the non-affiliated, the less to non-partisan group of voters make up 41% of the electorate today. They’ve went from viewing Biden positively, viewing Trump negatively as their vote for Biden in 2020 proves 54-41. To viewing both Biden and Trump negatively today. Hence you have the basic tie between Biden and Trump. You have a third of independents refusing to choose between Biden and Trump, they dislike both, they don’t want neither one. They’re falling into the vote third party, will not vote, undecided columns. They made their choice in 2020 for Biden, this year they’re not making any choice.
It's not that I disagree with you. I don’t. It’s the study of these swing voters, the non-affiliates, the less to non-partisans that has always grabbed my interest. For these voters, Trump was alone in the doghouse in 2020, 2024, Biden has joined Trump in the doghouse. Which is impossible for most anti-Trumpers and democrats to understand or even acknowledge. Trump hasn’t gained any support from swing voters, he’s lost some, down from 41% to 37% today. But Biden has lost the support of almost 20 points worth, down from 54% to 35%. Which really put the emphasis on the dislike and unwantedness these swing voters have, feel for both major party candidates. I repeat, the democrats have chosen the wrong candidate to ensure Trump’s defeat. That almost any other democratic candidate than Biden in my opinion would be wiping the floor with Trump. But the DNC and Democratic Party leadership made sure, used all their powers to ensure Biden wouldn’t be challenged in the Democratic Primaries. You have this prior to the primaries - Poll: Two-thirds of Democrat-leaning voters don't want Biden as 2024 nominee
I agree with you, but this won’t stop me studying swing voters. They’re the election deciders. Not neither major party’s base. Not the pro or anti-Trumpers either, but those who dislike and don’t want neither Biden nor Trump to become the next president, how they vote, if they do vote will decide this election.
And yet some of those folks mentioned in Doug's post will still vote for him. It's amazing how many say they don't support him but will still vote for whoever the GOP candidate is! As we all know, in this case it is Trump!.
It was a reference to what Trump would do if he lost the 2020. He led an insurrection, so yes, it can happen in America, and not only that but he is poised to repeat in 2024. You still seem to believe he is a normal candidate ... I don't know why ... all I can type is .... yes it CAN happen in America and it is happening as I type.
Trump is not the old time normal candidate of America's past. He represents the worst in American political thought, having it's seeds sown some 30 years ago by conservative Republican anarchists. Should Trump lose the vote, expect the most insidiously egregious attack on Democracy from Trump and his loyalists, at the local, state, and federal levels. And if you don't think it can happen in America ... well ...
I noticed this morning that his court trial is starting with the juicy ladies stuff. First one today (I think) but sure to have more. I also suspect that folks will, now, start to actually watch it all. I also suspect that its gonna be hard on Trump (makes me feel SO bad for him (almost)). There is also the simple fact that Trump lies will be, yet again, displayed for all to see.
Apparently they will be done with this one in two weeks. This also means that they can also start another one in, about, two weeks. One can only wonder which one will be next.
In an interview with Time magazine, Trump said he will fight what he calls "discrimination against White people." Yep He's a racist.
By DOUG THOMPSON May 7, 2024
(Democracy Docket)
Some of us in America have felt, for some time, that disgraced, criminally-indicted former president Donald Trump is a racist. Now, in an interview with Time magazine, he admits it openly and pledges that if he wins election to another toxic term in the White House, he will push to “rid the nation” of what he claims is a “growing anti-white problem.”
About what we should expect from what Rep. Maxine Waters calls “a pure racist.”
“If you look at the Biden Administration, they’re sort of against anybody depending on certain views,” Trump told TIME in an interview when asked about his supporters who believe anti-white racism now represents a greater problem than anti-Black racism. “They’re against Catholics. They’re against a lot of different people… I think there is a definite anti-white feeling in this country and that can’t be allowed either.”
His answer to he claimed problem? Encourage and support violence against those who disagree with him. Encourage another Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and spread it to the cities and other parts of America.
“I don’t think it would be a very tough thing to address, frankly,” Trump says. “But I think the laws are very unfair right now. And education is being very unfair, and it’s being stifled. But I don’t think it’s going to be a big problem at all. But if you look right now, there’s absolutely a bias against white [people] and that’s a problem.”
Trump calls the rioters who trashed the Capitol in 2021 “patriots” and promises to pardon those convicted and imprisoned for their sedition against the nation. When Time asked if he supports violence as an answer to put get hi back into office, he said “it depends” on whether or not he wins.
“We don’t win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election,” he claims, repeating his long-discredited claim that he lost the 2020 election because it “was stolen from me.”
As Time reports:
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Trump also tells TIME he might pardon the more than 800 men and women charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack, most of whom have pleaded guilty. The assault left more than 140 law enforcement officers injured and sent lawmakers into hiding. More than 120 people have been accused of using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer, and members of extremist groups were found guilty of seditious conspiracy.
Six months out from this election, Trump is laying the groundwork for antother onslaught of lies that claim he was cheated if he loses. Every court ruling in this nation in the last three years, inclyuding the Supreme Court that is packed with his appointees, have ruled against is false clsimas that hte election was a fraud.
Time continues:
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Trump has sought to recast the insurrectionist riot as an act of patriotism. “I call them the J-6 patriots,” Trump tells TIME. When asked whether he would consider pardoning every one of them, he says: “Yes, absolutely.
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Rep. Maxine Waters tells MSNBC that Trump is “a pure racists” who is attempting to overturn America. She is not alone.
[video:youtube][/video] (Courtesy of MSNBC)
Trump more than a pure racist. He is the leader of a clabern of hate groups who preach violence agaisnt those who support a nation founded on immigrants and a divese population. He solicits and supports those who espouse White Supremacy and their hate and violence. He preaches hate.
He must be stopped by the voters this November and conficted of his more than 80 feloonies he faces in multiple federal state trials he faces. In a flagrant case of hypocrisy, he attacks current Biden for what he calls “Gestapo-like tactics”when he is the real fascist in the race this year.
As The New York Times reports:
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Fresh from his criminal trial in New York, Donald J. Trump delivered a frustrated and often obscene speech, lasting roughly 75 minutes, at a Republican National Committee donor retreat in Florida on Saturday, attacking one of the prosecutors pursuing him and comparing President Biden’s administration to the Nazis.
“These people are running a Gestapo administration,” Mr. Trump told donors who attended the event at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, Fla., according to an audio recording obtained by The New York Times. “And it’s the only thing they have. And it’s the only way they’re going to win, in their opinion, and it’s actually killing them. But it doesn’t bother me.”
Before making the comparison, Mr. Trump baselessly insisted that the various indictments against him and his allies in several states were being orchestrated by the Biden administration.
Trump’s niece, a psychologist who knows the dangers of her uncle, calls Trump an “authoritarian wannabe” who is a traitor to America and is guilty of sedition and treason.
Mary Trump says:
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And the problem is that we’re seeing that these are being treated as two entirely different people. It’s as if the fact that he is a criminal defendant, the fact that he has committed, allegedly, crimes against the United States of America have no impact whatsoever on his relevance or his standing as a candidate for the presidency.
And the problem is that we’re seeing that these are being treated as two entirely different people. It’s as if the fact that he is a criminal defendant, the fact that he has committed, allegedly, crimes against the United States of America have no impact whatsoever on his relevance or his standing as a candidate for the presidency.
Yes, Trump is a racist and a traitor. So are those who support and enable his lies, hate and the violence he embraces. He must be held accountable for his sedition and treason against the United States of America. So should they.
I don’t remember ever typing that. I know I’ve said that Biden was the wrong candidate to ensure Trump’s defeat. That still holds true today. If the election were held today, Trump would probably win. Here’s the electoral college with the candidate which have a 5 or more-point lead assigned to the candidate with the lead. States with less than a 5-point lead are tossups. Trump with a 246-216 electoral college vote lead.
The election isn’t today. Why my thinking on Biden finally pulling this out? You still have a quarter of the voters out there that still believe Trump and Biden won’t be their party’s nominees. That somehow, someway, both will be changed, be swapped out for someone else. The reality that this rematch happening is still lost on them. Once this sinks in, Trump vs. Biden, they’ll make a choice between them. They won’t be happy; they’ll probably be angry as all get out at being forced to choose between Trump and Biden. By not having someone else to vote for. But I think their memories will be jogged, even though they don’t want Biden, that they’ll begin to remember why they disliked Trump so much in 2020. That Biden will become the lesser of two evils to them, the candidate they least want to lose. That Trump’s childish, 4-year-old spoiled brat antics, his 3rd grade schoolyard bullying tactics, his lies, his legal problems which I hope one of his legal problems results in a guilty verdict. That Biden is still the only adult in the room. A great grandfather type of an adult to them. Perhaps an adult who has done a very poor job in their eyes as president, an old man they worry about him being able to survive another term in office along with his mental fitness, but an adult, nonetheless.
In plain English, I’m counting on Trump defeating Trump, not Biden defeating Trump. With Biden’s numbers and all the fears and liabilities associated with him, Biden can’t defeat Trump. But Trump can defeat himself which in the end, I confident will happen. That Biden will become the fist sitting president with an overall job approval of well below 50%, currently at 40%, of being viewed unfavorably by 58% of all Americans to win reelection since Gallup and Pew Research started keeping track of these things back in 1948. All thanks to the Republicans nominating Trump.
But I recall what you typed .... it could never happen in America.
Just because Trump was unsuccessful the last time does not mean he will be unsuccessful this time. All the pieces are in place .... Republicans are actively as I type attempting to throw out votes, and that is just the obvious "legal" stuff.
Can't happen in America .... its already happening
Yes I understand your argument and the statistics. none of which entered into my argument for all the reasons you believe it should. My argument is based solely on objective rational thought. I don't care if the race was between Trump and a "dead ham sandwich", voters should recognize all the dangers of incompetency, corruption, and authoritarianism. It should not be framed as a race between one old guy ... o and another old guy, but as one person who supports Democracy and one who abhors it.
Just because we are forced into choices which are unpalatable, does not mean we should ignore the qualities essential for "good" governance. I made the same argument in 2016. Clinton was the competent journeyman, even though flawed, candidate, she was still by far the better choice.
I can't imagine how Democracy will be decided on by less than 100,000 voters. I guess in a modern world we deserve to be enslaved by a currently indicted person apparently willing to sell out his country for few bucks. What I know is there are not enough attorneys in America to keep Trump from weaponizing government. He has a whole cadre of loyalists willing to lie cheat steal and probably kill for him in order to be the once and future king of America, Savoir, anointed by God, and crowned by his own hand, despite what Bill Barr thinks. For me ... well, I will be known as rapace for as long as I should remain free from his jack booted thugs.
Yep and short memories is just the start. This is particularly true of the voting public. I have, pretty much, whined enough on that stuff. After you told me about your adventures in buying surplus stuff I thought I would take a look. What I found were, literally, hundreds (if not thousands), of places to buy surplus. The entire surplus thing is also interesting. States, for instance, have stores to buy their surplus as does the fed as well. This is also true of universities. Dawns on me, its actually an industry! Amazing!
There seems to be not only government but entire companies dedicated to the sale of surplus. Pretty amazing but I gave up. I spend quite a bit of time spending very little buying stuff I don't need because I have a lot of time on my hands these days. When I buy on the net I usually just goto ebay as they, pretty much, sell everything. Much of what I buy on ebay comes from amazon. That one has always amused me. I have a friend who sells a lot on ebay and he explained why that is but I never figured it out.
For the last two years, this is from a numbers guy, an avid polls watcher and research paper reader, Biden has had somewhere between 55-60% of all Americans who don’t want him reelected. The Pew Research paper delves into this along with job approval numbers, the age and mental fitness worries all play into where we’re at today with this rematch. I give the Trumpers a higher percentage of all Americans than you. Around 30%. No where near enough to win an election. What we also have is around the same percentage of Americans who don’t want Trump to regain the white house. Thus, the basic tied between Biden and Trump.
Even in 2020, people weren’t in love with Biden. He was that year, an acceptable alternative to Trump. People were anti-Trump, but not pro-Biden which translated into Biden’s 7 plus million vote victory. But at the same time, a lot of people who voted for Biden, against Trump, turned around and voted republican down ballot enabling the GOP to gain 13 house seats. 2020 was only the second time in our history where a candidate won the popular vote on his way to the presidency and lost house seats. 1884, Grover Cleveland won the popular vote and the presidency by 50,000 votes, yet the democrats lost 8 house seats. 50,000 is a huge difference than winning by 7 plus million.
We had a sitting president in 2020 that the people didn’t want reelected, but an acceptable alternative to that sitting president in Biden. Today, we’re back to having a sitting president that isn’t wanted, ALA 2020, but the alternative isn’t wanted either. Hence the basic tie. And yes, it’s independents that has switched from going to Biden in 2020 54-41 to going to Trump so far this year, 37% Trump, 35% Biden, with the rest in the vote third party, will not vote or undecided columns. Which wipes away the 7 million vote margin Biden won the 2020 election by. You have 28% of independents still looking for an alternative to both Biden and Trump. They don’t want neither one. They’re falling into the vote third party, will not vote or still undecided columns.
People are just as much anti-Trump today as they were in 2020. The big difference is today they’re also anti-Biden whereas in 2020 they weren’t. Biden is president today, not Trump which is another huge difference.
The obvious part was Biden wasn’t going to win reelection. That is until Trump became the GOP nominee. Which turned an obvious landslide defeat into a 50-50 shot for both. Biden’s numbers are worse than Jimmy Carter’s in 1980, worse than G.H.W. Bush in 1992, worse than Trump’s in 2020. With the dislike and unwantedness of Trump still present, I firmly believe that almost any other democratic candidate than Biden would be trouncing Trump. Most people wanted someone other than Biden and Trump this year. Most wanted a fresh, younger face, not two old foggies which one belongs in a nursing home and the other in jail.
But unlike you, I believe Biden will pull this out. Never underestimate the power of incumbency. Then too, way too many people out there among the masses still can’t believe this election will be between Biden and Trump. That reality hasn’t sunk in yet.
"The answer is simple and so obvious that it gets totally overlooked" So I am a clueless rube. Let me explain.
I am not a bigot, but I understand how bigotry can drive a person;s political beliefs. So I completely understand why the Republican Base (for most of them) are attracted to Trump. He figured out what the driving force was of the Base and tapped into it. The result of their bigotry is now called White Rural Rage. Everything these folks hate about the federal government can be distilled to bigotry. So I get the 35%-40% who continue will will never stop supporting Trump. Did you see the video from one Miss university???
So the question becomes what motivates the 10-15% who support Trump, to make up the 50% support he gets in polling. Presumably these are independents. If they are irrational thinkers and it simply a beauty contest, I get it. They are my stupid electorate. I suppose some like the authoritarian nature of Trump i.e. he should be king. Again, my stupid electorate. Etc. No objectively rational person would consider Trump a good candidate, even if he were running against a dead ham sandwich. Trump is a narcissist whose only concern is garnering popular adulation at whatever expense it costs the country. Trump is incompetent. This is proven in his business dealings. Trump as a self promoting narcissist uses grifts as a means to elevate his ego at the expense of other people. Trump has an authoritarian streak in him (based on his narcissism)for which he will destroy Democratic institutions in order to idolize himself. etc.
Since I am clearly not very smart, the answer is no, I do not have a clue what is so obvious.
Have you or any democrat for that matter, anti-Trumper ever asked themselves why Trump at this point in time stands a 50-50 chance of regaining the white house? The answer is simple and so obvious that it gets totally overlooked.
P ... I am not arguing the accuracy nor the efficacy of polls. My argument is it doesn't matter a mote what the polls are saying. I am arguing the fix is in and Trump will be the future occupant of the WH, regardless of what the future vote totals say.
Yep you read it here .... yes I am that mad voice alerting the populace of the Death of Democracy. Get ready to take the loyalty oath.
Jgw, most Americans have very short memories. For an event to have an impact on an election, it must happen within 2-3 months of the election date. Many Americans are looking back on the Trump presidency thinking they were better off under Trump than Biden. They’ve forgotten the reasons they voted against Trump in 2020.
I can remember when the two parties actually created legislation to deal with the southern border. BOTH sides had to sit down and create this bill. As far as I can tell this was the first time, in a long time, that both parties had actually sit down and work something like this to fruition. Then cam Trump and told them to not pass it on as he needed to be able to attack the Dems for not taking care of the southern border. The house Republicans duly shut the whole thing down. The newsies cleverly showed the Republican house member who did the legislation and he was a bit upset about it all but the Republicans duly did their job as per Trump's desires. I remember, at the time, that I thought that, perhaps, both parties had displayed a capacity to actually do their job. I was wrong, Trump fixed that one.
Since then I have continued to watch the news and I don't think I heard anything about the above more than 2 times and one never hears about it anymore. Biden - nope, never mentions it. Same things with all the newsies - not a word. Trump gets to nail Biden and nobody mentions the fact of what Trump did. Since I do not spend all day, every day, listening I may be wrong but, basically, Trump has is way blaming Biden for the southern border all the time and nobody calls Trump on what he did.
Just thought I would mention that one as, now, amongst other things, Trump is getting a free ride. Oh, and the Republicans are regularly calling Trump an ex President of the United states which was one of the greatest presidents of all time. When he left office, incidentally, he was given the title of worst president in the history of the country. That too seems to be forgotten now.
On Saturday night there was a Saturday Night show which, amongst other things kinda dealt with students fighting for, and apparently, for Palestinians and, oddly, against Palestinians (not sure exactly). Anyway, part of their skit was about parents being concerned about what was going to happen to students who get arrested, do not graduate, and are thrown out of the schools that they had invested 4 years of their lives and money spent. It was funny. It was also a fact and there are, now, literally thousands of students which have been arrested, thrown out of school, and have basically destroyed their own lives.
One can only wonder what is going to happen next in this disaster. Its a disaster for the students, its a disaster for the schools, and it is certainly a disaster for parents who worked hard to support the students. Then there are the debts to the country and also the interests involved which the students owe and for which most of them will not have jobs that will produce enough money to pay the debts which will expand hugely due to the interest involved. Again, apparently I am talking about THOUSANDS of idiots! I also believe that the students didn't think before they did what they did. I also suspect that most do not come from wealthy families. The schools are going to be put into serious pressure about what they did, or didn't, do. There are going to be parents who will be REALLY angry, etc. I suspect there will also be other things happening over this one as well and not now noted.
I am writing this so that others might have something to say about this one. It happened, its gonna be a real mess, and I just wonder what others have to say about this one.
Forgot one thing. Apparently Netanyahu, once he leaves his job, gets to goto jail for something (shades of Trump). I have been following him for a very long time. He, and those who support him, firmly believe that the Palestinians have absolutely no rights to any land there and should go or die. This is no secret.............
Ooops - one last: Netanyahu was told about the attack that they had against them but did absolutely nothing about it. Basically, he knew what was going to happen and let it happen.
What polls do is to give you the mood of the country on whatever topic, issue, election, etc. they’re polling. As to the accuracy of the polls, most are fairly accurate as in the sense the final results falls within the MOE (Margin of Error) of the polls usually determined by the amount of people polled.
Forget the horserace numbers, they’ve been within the MOE since this rematch of an election began. A basic tie as I call it. But what the number show by delving deep within the polls, research papers, not just looking at the horserace number is this rematch is the last thing most Americans want. The numbers show very little enthusiasm for voting for the presidency. Around 55% with very little or no enthusiasm at all. That both major party candidates are disliked and unwanted to become the next president. For different reasons for sure. The disgust, disgust is probably the proper word to use for this rematch is evident all around for everyone to see. If they’d open their eyes.
Something is very wrong with the choices offered by both major parties, at least for most or a majority of Americans. What does 49% of all Americans who would replace both Trump and Biden with someone else as both major parties’ nominees if given a chance to do that. Not just one, both. What does 62% of all Americans saying this country needs another choice other than Trump and Biden?
What the research papers, delving deep within the polls show is around 35% of all Americans really want Trump to regain the white house. That around that same percentage, 35% want Biden reelected. That 30% don’t want neither one. This 30% think both Trump and Biden would not make a good president and be bad for the country if either one is elected. They’re mood today which is in my opinion much more important than the horserace numbers is one of who cares who wins or loses. For this 30% of all Americans, this rematch is a lose, lose rematch. Yet, this 30% are the election deciders, that is if they vote. If those who do vote, how many will choose between the two major party candidates, how many will vote against both by voting third party as 6% did in 2016? Which candidate will this 30% deem the lesser of two evils, the least worse candidate, the major party candidate they want to lose the least, not win, but lose the least?
All I can say is both major parties are totally blind to the mood of the entire electorate, most Americans about this rematch. The big question, what can be done to change this mood? I’d say nothing, it’s way past time for any possibility of changing. The rematch is set in stone.
Trump’s psychologist niece calls him an ‘anti-American authoritarian wannabe’
But she worries that t that damning evidence agaisnt him in the hush money trial may not be enough to stop him
By DOUG THOMPSON May 5, 2024
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Donald Trump’s niece says her uncle, a disgraced former president is, in reality, an anti-American authoritarian wannabe and a critical threat to our nation’s democracy who continues to have the support of a Republican party that helps moralize his outrageous and dangerous behavior.
“I think the real split screen we need to think about is Donald Trump, presidential candidate for the Republican Party, and Donald Trump, anti-American authoritarian wannabe,” Mary Trump, a psychologist who know and understands the danger he is to America, tells MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace.
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And the problem is that we’re seeing that these are being treated as two entirely different people. It’s as if the fact that he is a criminal defendant, the fact that he has committed, allegedly, crimes against the United States of America have no impact whatsoever on his relevance or his standing as a candidate for the presidency.
And the problem is that we’re seeing that these are being treated as two entirely different people. It’s as if the fact that he is a criminal defendant, the fact that he has committed, allegedly, crimes against the United States of America have no impact whatsoever on his relevance or his standing as a candidate for the presidency.
Even with the damning evidence against him in the current hush money trial that clearly shows the corrupt president paid off two women he had affair with to keep quiet so he could become president in the surprise win in 2016, his niece says it might not be enough.
“It worries me, quite honestly, that as deep the trouble is that he’s in, it may not be enough,” she told Wallace. “It is really troubling, because it seems that there’s always a way out for him. There’s always somebody willing to bail him out. Even if it looks like there’s no escape. … And I don’t know — it worries me, quite honestly, that as deep the trouble is that he’s in, it may not be enough.”
On Huffpost, Ben Blanchet reports:
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The comments from the former president’s niece come as he faces 34 counts of falsifying business records tied to hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election.
The former president and presumptive GOP presidential nominee leads President Joe Biden by less than 1 percentage point, as of May 2, according to an average of national polls compiled by FiveThirtyEight.
Trump is like a vampire who rises from political death time and time again after getting caught in stunds like hte audio tape where he bragged about forcing himself on married women by “grabbing their pussies” and succeeding because he is a celebrity.
Implicit in a polling regime to comprehend voter opinions, is all voting sites are equally fair and free from obvious voter impersonation fraud. But that is not the case. So let's examine my argument.
This election much as the previous general election will be putatively determined by just a few votes in a few so-called battleground states. One of the seminal Republican stratagems has been to disenfranchise predominantly Democrat voter blocks. This corrupt practice has become forefront in this stratagem by Red State laws which, with laser focus, single out Democrat blocks for "legal" disenfranchisement, under the guise of making the voting process more secure. Since the result of the election will be determined by just a few votes, it doesn't take many "legal" impediments to keep a sufficient umber of Democrats from voting to swing an election.
Further, Republicans have adopted one of the most repugnant plans, reminiscent of KKK tactics to not just disenfranchise voters but to intimidate them while trying to vote. Their plan is to target people of color. This is the same plan True the Vote uses to intimidate black people in Texas not to vote. True the Vote is also the racist organization which provided Dinesh with non existent evidence of fraud, which formed the basis of his movie, 2000 Mules. Republicans are willing to plumb the depths of depravity to win an election.
If that were not enough, Republicans have in place the infrastructure which can guarantee a Trump win regardless if he actually wins. At local and state levels they have election boards and partisan overseers to ensure they win by throwing out votes. One of the more egregious methods is to throw out mail-in ballots which do not have an exact signature match to voter registration card. The assumption is this will throw out Democrat votes (and Republican votes) but same day turn out by Republicans would make up the difference. Every loss of Democrat votes help ensure a Republican win, when the voting is close.
And finally we have an ultra- conservative Speaker of the House who has already been complicit in attempting to overthrow one election. Should certification come down to procedural issues of MAGA representatives objecting to certification, Rep Mike Johnson would simply intervene and guide the process into the House, where Republicans would anoint Trump the winner.
People say it can't happen in America, but we have already seen what Trump has done and he has already indicated he will not concede this election, especially now that he has his loyal soldiers in place.
Polls!!! .... who needs polls when you rig an election.
Here in my opinion was the beginning – “The Hastert rule, also known as the "majority of the majority" rule, is an informal governing principle used in the United States by Republican Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to maintain their speakerships[1] and limit the power of the minority party to bring bills up for a vote on the floor of the House.[2] Under the doctrine, the speaker will not allow a floor vote on a bill unless a majority of the majority party supports the bill.[3]
Under House rules, the speaker schedules floor votes on pending legislation. The Hastert rule says that the speaker will not schedule a floor vote on any bill that does not have majority support within their party—even if the majority of the members of the House would vote to pass it. The rule keeps the minority party from passing bills with the assistance of a minority of majority party members. In the House, 218 votes are needed to pass a bill; if 200 Democrats are the minority and 235 Republicans are the majority, the Hastert rule would not allow 200 Democrats and 100 Republicans together to pass a bill, because 100 Republican votes is short of a majority of the majority party, so the speaker would not allow a vote to take place.[4]
The Hastert rule is an informal rule and the speaker is not bound by it; they may break it at their discretion. Speakers have at times broken the Hastert rule and allowed votes to be scheduled on legislation that lacked majority support within the Speaker's own party. Dennis Hastert alleged the rule was "kind of a misnomer" in that it "never really existed" as a rule.”
Gingrich does get blamed for a lot of stuff Hastert did. But certainly, Gingrich was by no means a saint. Gingrich was one of those politicians democrats love to hate. There was plenty of good reasons for that. Perhaps the biggest reason was the “Contract with American,” Gingrich came up with that ended 40 straight years of house rule by the democrats. The republicans gained 54 seats in the 1994 midterms. Gingrich while speaker also push for Bill Clinton’s impeachment over Monica Lewinski. It was, however, Hastert who went through with the impeachment of Bill Clinton after he took over as speaker.
How strange, I always thought it was Gingrich. Guess I was wrong. Do not remember Hasturt but then, its a miracle that I still remember my own name. I asked my girl at the VA if there was a memory pill yet and she said there was not. There are, however (she said) some that may help. She said the problem with them is that there may be connected problems and then she not only told me the list of those that are out there but what else might happen if you take one of them. Both lists were very long. You do not want to try any of them!
That still exists. My son in law who was an ems medic went into the air force which paid for his college, medical training to become a nurse. That I think was for a 4-year obligation to the air force. It worked out one year for every year of college. Stuff like that still exists as far as the military. After college, he became an automatic 2LT.
As for Gingrich, he gets blamed for a lot that Dennis Hastert did. It was the Hastert rule that started all of this. I doubt very few even remember Hastert as Speaker. Gingrich was overthrown much like McCarthy was by the republicans.
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