You Will Anyway

Friday, April 26, 2024

Another day of Trump bullshit

Where we left off yesterday:

And so...

Not a good look for the defense attorney.

Ridiculous.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Trump Manhattan trial tidbits

He fucks everybody. Ask Michael Cohen...

Thursday, April 25, 2024

Presidential immunity hearing

No.

The correct answer is: absolutely not.

And if it's yes, then I guess Biden has a job to do.

SCOTUS gave him the delay, now the lawyers can say whatever will keep him happy. It doesn't have to be an actual effort to argue the case.

Despicable. But good on Sotomayor, I guess, for making them say it.

I expect Justice Roberts will find other reasons to send the case back to Chutkan for further action before she can set the trial date.

Yes. None of this makes any sense at all. It was only ever a delay tactic, and SCOTUS is complicit.

But Alito is making his loyalties clear.

Oh, my goodness. That's a stretch the light from another universe couldn't match.

Reasonable guess.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 04/26/2024:

Meanwhile in Manhattan

Well, that's gonna leave a mark.

Also...we're still waiting for Merchan's decision on the gag order violation.

As is that.

Trying to keep his fingerprints off the deal.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Denied

It's a triple-trial news day for Trump. His presidential immunity claim is being heard at SCOTUS, and his fraud/election interference/hush money trial is in session in Manhattan.

WTF!

Well, I hope they retry the son-of-a-bitch.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Shades of Kent State at UT Austin

Similar outrageous fascistic action is happening at other universities.

At Columbia University in New York, faculty staged a walkout in protest on behalf of their students who were removed from campus grounds, and classes were canceled in favor of online study.

UPDATE 02:04 pm:

UPDATE 04/26/2024:

Kent State is also in Ohio. You'd think these people might reflect on that.

"It takes only a bit of knowledge of history to realize how dangerous it is to think that the people who run the country know what they are doing." -- Howard Zinn

"It’s not about not having something to hide; it’s about having something to lose. What we lose when we’re under observation is our humanity...Rights are inherent to our nature, they’re not granted by governments, they’re guaranteed by governments. They’re protected by governments." -- Edward Snowden

"Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause.” -- Howard Zinn

"What we have is a foreign policy which is essentially a marketing strategy for selling weapons." -- Jill Stein

"We should always remember that the danger to societies from security services is not that they will spontaneously decide to embrace [Stasi style] mustache twirling and jackboots to bear us bodily into dark places, but that the slowly shifting foundation of policy will make it such that mustaches and jackboots are discovered to prove an operational advantage toward a necessary purpose.” ~ Edward Snowden

"America: just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable." ~ Hunter S. Thompson

"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws." ~ Mayer Rothschild

"News is what somebody does not want you to print. All the rest is advertising." ~ LACUNA

"What matters in journalism isn't politics, which are as universal and inescapable as breathing. What matters -- along with a fundamentally adversarial attitude toward government, without which "journalism" is simply public relations -- is integrity, transparency, evidence, coherence, and principle. These are the principles on which we should evaluate the quality of journalism, and their absence is why some journalists are so desperate to get you to focus on something else." ~ Barry Eisler

"There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack." ~ Molly Ivins

"The brain of our species is, as we know, made up largely of potassium, phosphorus, propaganda, and politics, with the result that how not to understand what should be clearer is becoming easier and easier for all of us." ~ James Thurber

"The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plane....When you hold up your arm and swear to uphold the Constitution, you don’t say, 'Except in wartime.'" -- George McGovern

"I’ll believe that corporations are people when Texas executes one." ~ Bill Moyers

"When did hope become a political dynamic? Hope is right below wishful thinking and right above performing a rain dance on the scale of activity." ~ Rich Hall

Life, as Explained in "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead"

GUILDENSTERN: What a fine persecution---to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

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ROSENCRANTZ : The only thing that makes it bearable is the irrational belief that somebody interesting will come on in a minute.

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GUILDENSTERN: But for God's sake what are we supposed to do?!

PLAYER: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn.

GUILDENSTERN: But we don't know what's going on, or what to do with ourselves. We don't know how to act.

PLAYER: Act natural. You know why you're here at least.

GUILDENSTERN: We only know what we're told, and that's little enough. And for all we know it isn't even true.

PLAYER: For all anyone knows, nothing is. Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions.

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GUILDENSTERN : We act on scraps of information... sifting half-remembered directions that we can hardly separate from instinct.

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PLAYER: Life is a gamble, at terrible odds-if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.