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Fonz wrote: ↑Sat Sep 03, 2022 9:49 pm

geordie_6 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 7:17 pm

C69 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 5:49 am A couple of issues that may be of interest on the fringes of USA politics.
Watch out for the return of Palin in Alaska and a possible Democrat being elected in the mid terms. This may happen witj the Republicans vote being possibly split.

The other big bombshell is the startling drop in life expectancy especially in native Americans and Native Alaskans.
It really quite startling really. I think life expectancy for native Alaskans now is the same as the 1947 life expectancy for white Americans or something similar.
I'll try and find the source.

They don't care about them, they really don't. Look at the number of missing women who are Native American or First Nation, and the minimal investigation which seems to have been undertaken. They don't help them, they blame them.

I mean, by and large they're just out of sight, out of mind. There are just too few of them for it to be worthwhile for political actors to appeal to Native American issues.

So few they'd number more than the populations of Vermont, North or South (or indeed North and South) Dakota, Wyoming, Alaska, Delaware.....

Because if those things don't matter you'd hope people would be campaigning to subsume those states into places that matter, reduce the amount of governance and whatnot

Rhubarb & Custard wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 8:38 am

Fonz wrote: ↑Sat Sep 03, 2022 9:49 pm

geordie_6 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 7:17 pm

They don't care about them, they really don't. Look at the number of missing women who are Native American or First Nation, and the minimal investigation which seems to have been undertaken. They don't help them, they blame them.

I mean, by and large they're just out of sight, out of mind. There are just too few of them for it to be worthwhile for political actors to appeal to Native American issues.

So few they'd number more than the populations of Vermont, North or South (or indeed North and South) Dakota, Wyoming, Alaska, Delaware.....

Because if those things don't matter you'd hope people would be campaigning to subsume those states into places that matter, reduce the amount of governance and whatnot

Well oddly enough we don't apportion seats in our legislature by race.

Not like Vermont or Wyoming's concerns are anywhere near the forefront of the national mind anyway -- nor even those places' existence. Hell, half the time when I tell people out here I'm from Missouri, I might as well have said Zanzibar: a blank then quasi-bemused expression crosses their face as their Twitter and Netflix-addled brains scramble to retrieve the meaning of a word not heard since a 4th grade geography quiz. Even (especially?) "educated" people routinely mix it up with some other flyover state that starts with M.

Nevertheless, I've noticed over time that you guys love to kvetch about the little states like those you've listed, but a lot of the little states are among the nicest in the union, rather than being ungovernable monsters like California, Illinois, etc. We should have way more states tbh.

Fonz wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 4:13 pm

Rhubarb & Custard wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 8:38 am

Fonz wrote: ↑Sat Sep 03, 2022 9:49 pm

I mean, by and large they're just out of sight, out of mind. There are just too few of them for it to be worthwhile for political actors to appeal to Native American issues.

So few they'd number more than the populations of Vermont, North or South (or indeed North and South) Dakota, Wyoming, Alaska, Delaware.....

Because if those things don't matter you'd hope people would be campaigning to subsume those states into places that matter, reduce the amount of governance and whatnot

Well oddly enough we don't apportion seats in our legislature by race.

Not like Vermont or Wyoming's concerns are anywhere near the forefront of the national mind anyway -- nor even those places' existence. Hell, half the time when I tell people out here I'm from Missouri, I might as well have said Zanzibar: a blank then quasi-bemused expression crosses their face as their Twitter and Netflix-addled brains scramble to retrieve the meaning of a word not heard since a 4th grade geography quiz. Even (especially?) "educated" people routinely mix it up with some other flyover state that starts with M.

Missouri makes me think of Mark Twain, the song Shenandoah, oh and the odd Tom Waits lyric.

All very romantic.

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 7:53 pm Missouri makes me think of Mark Twain, the song Shenandoah, oh and the odd Tom Waits lyric.

All very romantic.

Cheers

I do miss humid midsummer days by the river, air so thick you can cut it with a knife...it's not hard to find places where you can't really tell civilization is nearby, and you're basically able to see what the rivermen and explorers saw at that time. When I was a kid I used to like to pretend I was Lewis and Clark. I grew up only half a mile from the Missouri River and a few miles from where it meets the Mississippi.

(The song Shenandoah refers to the river actually, only a small part of which is in the state, but all good)

The DOJ have served their appeal, against the Florida Judges decision to allow a Special Master, & they aren't taking any shit i!

They're using the opening to force the issue on whether, or not, the material seized were actually declassified, or not, & challenging another set of shitgibbon lawyers, to lie, & destroy their careers, or admit the lies & bullshit.

Top tip guys; if you don't want to look like a bunch of crooks arranging alibis; when you meet on a Golf Course .... someone bring some fucking clubs !!!!

Like mobsters avoiding wiretaps.

I see Bill Clinton's pursuer, Ken Starr has died.

I was aware he was a raging hypocrite for having an affair during the hearings, and represented Epstein (such Christian morals) but I didn't know he was fired from Baylor University for covering up the rapey antics of the football team and others.

I see one of his ex White House lawyers reckons he is completely fucked over the election and will definitely face criminal prosecution

We all have our fruitcakes.
This is one of ours.

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Yeah riiiiiight......

First steps of indoctrination?..

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The cavalcade of cretins that make up the shitgibbon legal team, are really playing a blinder down in Florida

They got their choice of Special Master, because the Feds knew a proper Judge when they see one; & now their choice has asked the obvious first question; & asked what documents are Classified, & what ones has your client De-Classified !

.... to which; there's no answer that can be made, without either perjuing themselves, or destroying any possible defense, so they refused to answer ..... which leaves the Judge one choice; no disagreement on the status of the documents, work on the principle that the status of the documents is as presented, i.e. Classified, then the Prosecution is justified in its position, & 99% of the documents are, as they appear to be, not subject to any review, & are Classified ..... & it won't take long to review the handful of Un-Classified documents.

de Santis could have broken the law with his little stunt flying asylum seekers/migrants to Martha's Vineyard.

It's been long-investigated and mooted, and now Letitia James has finally pressed the button - The Donald is being sued by the NY State Attorney General for 'systematically misstating the value of his properties'

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/09/21 ... itia-james

inactionman wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 3:51 pm It's been long-investigated and mooted, and now Letitia James has finally pressed the button - The Donald is being sued by the NY State Attorney General for 'systematically misstating the value of his properties'

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/09/21 ... itia-james

Well that's Eric fucked !!!

Weisselberg is a cooperating witness, & in a Civil case, a jury can take an inference from witnesses taking the 5th, so all the evidence will be on the States side, & just stone wall silence on the defendants side. The shitgibbon is as popular as smallpox in NY, so I'd say they're fucked !

And then the Feds, & IRS will clean up whatever is left over, after NY gets their $250M, & kicks the scum out of the State

[Edit] Just thinking, if Melanoma doesn't want to get stiffed, she'd be well advised to file for divorce now, & make sure that any settlement is approved by the Courts, before the IRS, & NY take it all, & she, & the sprog get nothing, (or what feels like it, after having to deal with being fucked by the Orange horror for years).

But, but, but..

Another Witch Hunt by a racist Attorney General, Letitia James, who failed in her run for Governor, getting almost zero support from the public, and now is doing poorly against Law & Order A.G. candidate, highly respected Michael Henry. I never thought this case would be brought - until I saw her really bad poll numbers. She is a fraud who campaigned on a “get Trump” platform, despite the fact that the city is one of the crime and murder disasters of the world under her watch

And but. And but...

Attorney General Letitia “Peekaboo” James, a total crime fighting disaster in New York, is spending all of her time fighting for very powerful and well represented banks and insurance companies, who were fully paid, made a lot of money, and never had a complaint about me, instead of fighting murder and violent crime, which is killing New York State. She is a failed A.G. whose lack of talent in the fight against crime is causing record numbers of people and companies to flee New York. Bye, bye!


And,and,and..

The New York Times: “Her (Peekaboo James) case against him could be difficult to prove. Property valuations are often subjective, and the financial statements include a (very strong) disclaimer.” Thank you

Fucking loon!..

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 11:41 pm The cavalcade of cretins that make up the shitgibbon legal team, are really playing a blinder down in Florida

They got their choice of Special Master, because the Feds knew a proper Judge when they see one; & now their choice has asked the obvious first question; & asked what documents are Classified, & what ones has your client De-Classified !

.... to which; there's no answer that can be made, without either perjuing themselves, or destroying any possible defense, so they refused to answer ..... which leaves the Judge one choice; no disagreement on the status of the documents, work on the principle that the status of the documents is as presented, i.e. Classified, then the Prosecution is justified in its position, & 99% of the documents are, as they appear to be, not subject to any review, & are Classified ..... & it won't take long to review the handful of Un-Classified documents.

Judge Cannon ruling utterly rejected on appeal. As rejected as a ruling can get rejected.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/2 ... r-00058176

Flockwitt wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:44 am

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 11:41 pm The cavalcade of cretins that make up the shitgibbon legal team, are really playing a blinder down in Florida

They got their choice of Special Master, because the Feds knew a proper Judge when they see one; & now their choice has asked the obvious first question; & asked what documents are Classified, & what ones has your client De-Classified !

.... to which; there's no answer that can be made, without either perjuing themselves, or destroying any possible defense, so they refused to answer ..... which leaves the Judge one choice; no disagreement on the status of the documents, work on the principle that the status of the documents is as presented, i.e. Classified, then the Prosecution is justified in its position, & 99% of the documents are, as they appear to be, not subject to any review, & are Classified ..... & it won't take long to review the handful of Un-Classified documents.

Judge Cannon ruling utterly rejected on appeal. As rejected as a ruling can get rejected.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/2 ... r-00058176

Never piss off the Librarians !

You know he's shitting himself, when the notorious tightwad, spends $3 million of his hard grifted cash on a lawyer !

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/1 ... k-00056968

Whatever is the stage beyond schadenfreude, I'm there !

One of the US talking heads said several weeks ago, that; "every day from today, will now be worse than the day before", for the shitgibbon.

Never a truer word spoken !

Today the Special Master, that his brilliant legal team demanded, & the one they suggested, has come out & said that he wants to be done by the end of October, so won't get the long drawn out process he wanted, & in any case the lost appeal means that the Feds are free to proceed with the criminal investigation.

But more important; he has ordered the shitgibbon, & his lawyers, & staff, to give sworn affidavits of the accuracy, & completeness of the inventory for the documents seized, within a week !!!

So now he has to either break the habit of a lifetime, & tell the truth, or perjure himself.

This is what happens when you steal, & you lie, & then hire the shittest bargin basement lawyers to defend you.

The obstruction of justice case here has to be the easiest case in the history of the US legal system.

The Judge also made it clear that the Bill has to be settled promptly, or he'll flay the orange cunt .... or legalese to that effect

Side note, I see former AG Barr shat himself in public again. Tried to make out that the Trump kids were just children and it was inappropriate for them to be dragged into this. They're in their 30s and 40s and held senior positions in the Trump Org ffs

OOF, this thread

The latest Trump interview on Fox News was hilarious as well. According to Trump Classified documents can be declassified in his mind and that no procedure is not necessary to declassify documents. He also said that the FBI raids on Mar a Lago could be that they were not necessarily looking for classified documents but for the Hillary tapes
Also mentioned something about the valuation of properties, etc by basically stating that all his documentation has a disclaimer on that could mean that the info on it might not be "true" and that therefore it is the fault of the bank managers, etc that read it if they believe the values mentioned on it
Maybe he is trying to go for an insanity plea

A Judge is now threatening to throw Rudy into prison at the start of October !!

Why ?

Treason ... No
Perjury .... No
Obstruction of Justice ... No

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Failure to pay alimony !!!

Remember the rumours about this one?
It's true.

Happy Birthday Jimmy !

He is the kind of Leader we can all have. We just have to reject anyone who doesn't meet the mark !

The dumb orange shitgibbon is now suing CNN...Over election lies..

TB63 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 7:17 am The dumb orange shitgibbon is now suing CNN...Over election lies..

He'll be dead before it even gets close to court; he's now just flooding the zone with shit; anything to distract from the noise of all those chickens coming home to roost !

It's now been revealed that he himself packed many of the boxes in the White House, (hard to believe as the commentator said), but the result of one of his former lawyers, that refused to lie about what was in the boxes,also advising the rest of the staff to not touch the boxes !!!

Which shows the Lawyer had remarkably good judgement, because it's now being reported that the dipshit lawyer that did state that there were no other Classified documents in the fleapit in Florida, is now Lawyered up herself, & she is reportedly now a cooperating witness .....

It's also being reported that the, "Attack of the Librarians Case", is, way, way closer to charging him, than any case the Jan 6th Committee & DoJ can put together, & is a slam dunk, with literally boxes of evidence, witnesses, & textbox evidence of criminal conspiracy.

Like I said before; the idea of a man who's, proud boast is he's never read a book, going to prison for stealing documents is delicious.

[Edit] And no sooner do I post, than his crack legal team file another risible, & illiterate appeal, but this time to SCOTUS, & looking for the Justices be as obviously corrupt & unfit for office as the tame Judge down in Florida

Somehow they have to accept that the Florida Appeals Court isn't the right venue to appeal to for the decision of a Florida Judge; but that Judge is the right venue for what is a Federal case .... square that fucking circle, & don't look like a partisan flunky !

This made me chuckle...

I see noted Christian and hater of sin Marjorie Three Toes Greene is divorcing her husband having been found to have been snagging the manager of her gym.

Gay marriage bad, extramarital sex and divorce good.

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 8:20 pm I see noted Christian and hater of sin Marjorie Three Toes Greene is divorcing her husband having been found to have been snagging the manager of her gym.

Gay marriage bad, extramarital sex and divorce good.

Well, he's filed for divorce, not her. And she's asked for it to be held in private, but as the filer, he decided it should be public..

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Listen to the end!!!

Herschel Walker has the intellect of a potted plant; you can see why the GOP want another cretin they can manipulate in office.

Of course, they couldn't get away with this, if GOP voters weren't, in large part, equally dense; I mean they've been re-electing Mitch for decades, & all that's happened for Kentucky is that the State & it's citizens have gotten poorer, & poorer relatively, & Mitch has gotten richer, & richer.

One too many concussions for Herschel.

How depressing must it be for him (and, if course, the hapless Vikings) that by getting rid of him the Cowboys built a dynasty?

20 posts in an hour, all loony tunes and he ends with..


https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonal ... 3755902029

I can wave my tiny hand and declassify a document, soooooooo, why hasn't this been raised in court?..