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22 minutes ago, do or die said:

Trump Tells Stunned Hannity FBI Were Looking for Hillary’s Deleted Emails in Mar-a-Lago Raid
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/watch-trump-tells-stunned-hannity-fbi-were-looking-for-hillarys-deleted-emails-in-mar-a-lago-raid/

Ultimate "But Hillary" moment.

Imagine thinking this man is smart. Where are they now? 

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12 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

interesting.  I don't think I've seen him referred to as "Former President Trump" on right-wing nutjob TV.  It's always "President Trump." 

Reality is like water, in the long run it gets inside...

23 hours ago, HardCoreBlue said:

Isn’t fraud criminal? Yea I know I’m having a hard time keeping up.

I'm not 100% on all of the details of why this is civil instead of criminal .. but one thing I did note about the NY lawsuit is that the AG is asking for Trump and his fleshy brood to be excluded from corporate governance or ownership in New York state forever, which is a pretty significant penalty.  They're also asking for a quarter billion dollars but I think that's probably just icing.

 

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1 hour ago, JCon said:

Imagine thinking this man is smart. Where are they now? 

it is his greatest hit. it got him the Presidency. 

so he keeps playing it. Probably gets more money every time.

I think most of his fans have brain damage.

  

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interesting Trump statement yesterday re classified docs, fox interview.

 

"“Because you’re sending it, to Mar-a-Lago or wherever you’re sending it. And there can be a process, but there doesn’t have to be. You’re the president. You make that decision. So when you send it, it’s declassified. I declassified everything.”

 

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57 minutes ago, johnzo said:

interesting.  I don't think I've seen him referred to as "Former President Trump" on right-wing nutjob TV.  It's always "President Trump." 

Reality is like water, in the long run it gets inside...

I'm not 100% on all of the details of why this is civil instead of criminal .. but one thing I did note about the NY lawsuit is that the AG is asking for Trump and his fleshy brood to be excluded from corporate governance or ownership in New York state forever, which is a pretty significant penalty.  They're also asking for a quarter billion dollars but I think that's probably just icing.

 

In a criminal proceeding, the onus is on the prosecution to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. In civil proceedings, it comes down to a preponderance of evidence (a simple majority of proof). With civil court, there is no threat of incarceration, except in a very rare circumstance, but a massive judgement stripping Trump of both his aura of invincibility and a great deal of his liquid wealth would both render him an object of pity and do more harm to his psyche than a jail would. Jailing him might give him the persona of a martyr, but a civil conviction would reveal him as he really is: a ego-inflated liar and thief, much, much poorer than he would have people believe.

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Trump-Backed House Candidate Argued Against Women's Right To Vote

A Michigan GOP congressional nominee supported by former President Donald Trump once said the country would be better if women could not govern or vote, and argued that patriarchy “is the best model for the continued success of a society.”

John Gibbs made the sexist arguments online in the early 2000s while he was a student at Stanford University, according to CNN’s KFile, which unearthed pages from his site via internet archive services.
Gibbs, who worked in the Trump administration’s Department of Housing and Urban Development, won Michigan’s GOP primary against incumbent Rep. Peter Meijer, one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump over the Capitol riot. He faces Democrat Hillary Scholten in the November election.

Gibbs founded what he called a “think tank” named the Society for the Critique of Feminism, which was hosted on his personal page at Stanford in 2000 and 2001. On that forum, he argued that the country would be better off if women could not vote or govern, asserted that women are not as capable as men at thinking logically “without relying upon emotional reasoning,” and contended it’s not a father’s “primary task” to raise children, “whereas it is the mother’s.”

“Some argue that in a democratic society, it is hypocritical or unjust for women, who are 50% of the population, not to have the vote,” Gibbs argued. “This is obviously not true, since the founding fathers, who understood liberty and democracy better than anyone, did not believe so. In addition, all people under age 18 cannot vote, although they too comprise a significant portion of the population. So we cannot say that women should be able to vote simply because they are a large part of the population.”

At the end of that argument, he wrote: “Thus, we conclude that increasing the size and scope of government is unequivocally bad. And since women’s suffrage has caused this to occur on a larger scale than any other cause in history, we conclude that the United States has suffered as a result of women’s suffrage.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-gibbs-women-sexism-republican_n_632be3e1e4b0013f244da138

(Can you imagine what a precedent this would set?)

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54 minutes ago, Mark F said:

I think most of his fans have brain damage.

  

It’s not about stupidity in that sense. It’s really more about gullibility, and it’s not really a Trump thing. It’s more about “owning the Libs”, Trump is just the convenient figurehead at the moment and can be replaced by DeSantis, just like Trump replaced McConnell. And the Democrats have joined the fray. It isn’t about what your side’s policies are, it’s about what you believe the other side’s agenda is and labelling it “the boogeyman”. Elections now are really pretty much one-issue votes: “How do you keep the other side out of power?” Whatever their platform is. For Dems, you attach women’s reproductive rights, vote-rigging, fascism, destroying democracy, and unfair lying politics to the other side and say “bad” without offering an agenda other than “we can’t allow that to happen”. Republicans scream “socialist communism”, “crime ridden cities” and “border crisis” and attach it to Dems, and say “bad” without offering an agenda other than “we can’t allow this to happen”. And gullible people, without really believing the mouthpieces that spew this, buy into the concept of the rhetoric to support their fear of “other” and find a scapegoat for their own failings. 

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QAnon Prepping For Trump to Regain Presidency on 9/24, With a ‘Simpsons’ Episode as Prophetic Basis
QAnon believers are prepping for something big this Saturday: the anticipated reinstatement of former president Donald Trump, by way of electromagnetism.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/qanon-is-prepping-for-trump-to-regain-presidency-on-september-24-cite-simpsons-episode-as-proof/

Um, ok.....

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7 minutes ago, do or die said:

QAnon Prepping For Trump to Regain Presidency on 9/24, With a ‘Simpsons’ Episode as Prophetic Basis
QAnon believers are prepping for something big this Saturday: the anticipated reinstatement of former president Donald Trump, by way of electromagnetism.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/qanon-is-prepping-for-trump-to-regain-presidency-on-september-24-cite-simpsons-episode-as-proof/

Um, ok.....

This is what we are dealing with. The contingent of people out there saying ‘both sides I’m a moderate’ do sanity no favours.

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9 minutes ago, do or die said:

QAnon Prepping For Trump to Regain Presidency on 9/24, With a ‘Simpsons’ Episode as Prophetic Basis
QAnon believers are prepping for something big this Saturday: the anticipated reinstatement of former president Donald Trump, by way of electromagnetism.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/qanon-is-prepping-for-trump-to-regain-presidency-on-september-24-cite-simpsons-episode-as-proof/

Um, ok.....

Truly the dumbest people. Good thing all their money is going to Trump, so that he keep his lavish lifestyle. 

Just now, HardCoreBlue said:

This is what we are dealing with. The contingent of people out there saying ‘both sides I’m a moderate’ do sanity no favours.

No, they're "conservatives". They don't even know what that means or how to spell it. 

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29 minutes ago, do or die said:

QAnon Prepping For Trump to Regain Presidency on 9/24, With a ‘Simpsons’ Episode as Prophetic Basis
QAnon believers are prepping for something big this Saturday: the anticipated reinstatement of former president Donald Trump, by way of electromagnetism.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/qanon-is-prepping-for-trump-to-regain-presidency-on-september-24-cite-simpsons-episode-as-proof/

Um, ok.....

I’ve lost count, but what number is higher- the number of times someone has floated a date for TFG’s reinstatement since his election defeat, or the number of times Majorie Taylor Greene has filed articles of impeachment against Joe Biden in the House? Both numbers are over 10 times each. 

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