That is two months before the Republican National Convention……
That is two months after the Manhattan DA’s criminal trial for Trump……
Could the Atlanta Criminal trial fit in the middle or go before these two?
And?
When does the HUGE January 6 trial start?
BTW?
The Justice Dept. ‘memo’ that Mueller used to duck charging Trump for prosecution due to political activity has been flushed down the toilet
Seriously?
Donald J Trump IS IN DEEP SHIT
And ?
What does his party do thru ALL of this?
Donald Trump will stand trial on May 20, 2024 — after most presidential primaries have elapsed — on charges that he hoarded military secrets at his Mar-a-Lago estate, a federal judge ordered Friday.
U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon appeared to split the difference between prosecutors’ request for a December 2023 trial date and Trump’s request to postpone the trial until after the November 2024 election.
Trump, who is mounting a bid to return to the White House, already faces a criminal trial set for March in New York on unrelated state charges of falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 presidential election.
The former president also faces the prospect of additional criminal charges from special counsel Jack Smith in a separate investigation of interference with the 2020 presidential election and a potential indictment in Georgia in connection with a local district attorney’s probe there of alleged vote tampering in that state.
The new ruling from Cannon, who was appointed by Trump, largely sidesteps the issue of how the preparations for the trial in the federal case she is overseeing will interface with the demands of a presidential election campaign…..
Note….
There are several big Civil cases coming at Trump from now thru next year also………
Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻
@AWeissmann_
BREAKiNG: big win for Jack Smith on trial date. But the key is making this schedule stick.
New Open Thread is HERE…..
Morning All……
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Trump Jan. 6 indictment cold come down any day now……..
Atlanta in the next few weeks……
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Interesting………
The Jan 6 indictment’s have NOT dropped?
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McConnell stops in mid sentence while talking to media…..
Walked back to his office…
Then came back to resuming his media appearance….
TRhe Fed increases the Base Interest rate by a .25%……
A Good Morning to all who come to this place….
Morning……
Glad to see more comments coming in
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Waiting for the inevitable indictments to be dropped on Trump & Co.
NeverTrumper Brett Stephenson sums up today’s Republican Party…
They were the party of law and order.Now?They want to abolish the FBI.
They were the party that revered the symbols of the Nation .Now?They think the Jan.6 riots were like a normal tourist visit.
They were the party of moral character and virtue.Now?They couldn’t care less that their standard bearer consorted with a porn star.
They were the party of staring down the Evil Empire.Now?Theyre Putin’s last Best hope.
They were the party of free trade.Now?They are protectionists.
They were the party that cheered the Supreme Courts 2010 Citizens United decision that argued that corporations had free speech.Now?They are being sued by Disney because the company dared express an opinion they dislike.
They were the party that once believed that family values don’t stop at the Rio Grande.Now?Some of them want to invade Mexico.
Yes……
For Good Many he IS CORRECT
I told you so. Ramaswamy is the man to watch.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4116663-ramaswamy-ticks-up-in-gop-primary-against-trump-desantis-poll/amp/
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/20/vivek-ramaswamy-pete-buttigieg-00107193
The next question is, what’s the over-under on his eventually going up in smoke like Herman Cain?
99.9% that he won’t be the Republican nominee.
Good to have ya back SE…….
I SERIOUSLY DOUBT the 2024 Republican Presidential nominee will a person of color…….
Herman Cain is an apt comparison. As is Ben Carson.
Republicans like to have a minority flavor of the month that they crow over and par themselves on the back for supporting for a brief time.
During this fling GOP voters will brag about how courageous these flash in the pan contenders are for “telling the truth” about race in America: that black and brown people are making too big a deal about it and white conservatives are the actual oppressed !
While Vivek Ramaswamy is a joke (what distinctive features does he offer that others don’t? cf. fellow entrepreneurs Carly Fiorina & Meg Whitman), I don’t yet fully discount Tim Scott or Will Hurd.
Amen Scott…….
Old days term was ‘Tokenism’.,,,,
Exactly!
Yeah the Republicans are going to nominate a Hindu.
His only shot is swaying hard core Trump supporters in the wake of further indictments and emphasizing his commitment to picking Token Democrat RFK Jr as a running mate.
Odds of success are about 0%. All this noise being just a function of DeSantis’ collapse, I joked elsewhere online that a regular customer at my store, who’s probably too dumb to know what a nuclear football is, is also probably on his way to overtaking DeSantis for second place.
It appears the rise and fall of another alternate universe sothsayer is imminent….
Couldn’t happen to a better political party!
Alarming scene today as Mitch McConnell froze at the podium and was unable to talk at his weekly presser.He had to be helped away and Assistant Minority leader John Thune completed the briefing.
McConnell had not looked well recently.
He passed out back a while ago and hit his head….
Lawrence O’Donald thinks Trump gets hit with his THIRF criminal indictment, This one from the Fed’s Again, for the Jaan. 6 2020 actions ….
We’ll know tomorrow…..
Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻
@AWeissmann_
And
@Lawrence
just reported that may well be tomorrow! stay tuned…..
Good points made about McConnell and all the other olds on Capitol Hill.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QtB1JzA65O0
Yes but meaningless……
In fact the senior lawmakers in the US Congress average IS 64 years……
The Top 20 in seniority are ALL over 70 years of age……
Some seem vibrant and in good health….
Some not….
It IS up them and their fellow members to address this….
NONE seem inclined to do so……
‘There but for the Grace of God go I’…..
Afternoon All…..
Afternoon Folks
Morning.,,,,,
Paul Reubens
‘Pee Wee ‘ Herman has passed
He was 70 and lost his fight to Cancer
Morning…….
Again Happy to have more people checking in!
Warming up for the run to next November!
Morning……….
The shit HAS hit the fan……
We’ll see how this plays…….
And Atlanta is next up shortly
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Trump just KEEPS digging himself DEEPER into a hole……
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He is Trump’s lawyer admitting on cable news that his client DID the law….
Ya can’t make this shit up….
The lawyer’s are NOW infected with the Trump running at the mouth….
Trump’s Lawyer Says He Made Only ‘Technical Violation’
John Lauro, Trump’s criminal defense attorney, told NBC News that if former President Donald Trump committed a “technical violation of the Constitution,” it doesn’t mean he necessarily broke any criminal laws.
Said Lauro: “These kinds of constitutional and statutory disagreements don’t lead to criminal charges.”
Morning…..
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Decision Desk HQ projects Ohio Issue 1 has been defeated.
#DecisionMade: 8:09pm EST
Follow more results here:
Thus was a attempt to cut any state wide referendum on abortion…..
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Trump IS really pushing the judge to seriously consider putting his ass in jail,….
My view continues to be that Donald Trump is NEVER gonna be President again……
And i am increasingly thinking that he may indeed do some jail time…….
The guy just-is incapable muzzling his mouth
I just have the this feeling that Trump is NEVER GONNA his only government job back and he his going to take down the Grand Ole Party with him which will benefit the System and Democrats……
America will not go backwards…….
WordPress just did a software update that should have this site load faster…
Yeah that’s been your “view “for seven years now.
As I’ve commented before ,one day Trump will exit the scene and we will read here…
“ Told Ya So!”
He, he, he as I applaud!
I’ll have post later…..
Trump is asking that he wants a secure facility set up in his house for the files case documents reviews
Morning…..
Trump throwing down against Biden again…..
Former President Trump on Thursday unleashed a torrent of insults against President Biden, attacking him in personal terms as Trump’s legal problems continue to mount.
“What Crooked Joe Biden, who can’t string two sentences together, has done to our once great Country through his Open Borders CATASTROPHE, may go down as the greatest and most damaging mistake ever made in USA HISTORY,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “It is not even believable that such incompetence and stupidity could have been allowed to happen.”…..
More….
Morning…….
Trump is going to have a rough weekend….
And a trip to Atlanta next week
He may have company
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Quote of the Day
“Donald Trump is a liar. Donald Trump is a loser. And Donald Trump is a national security threat to the United States of America. And we need to be honest about that. And if we nominate him, if the GOP nominates him, then we’re giving Joe Biden and Kamala Harris four more years.”
— Former Rep. Will hurd (R-TX), quoted by The Hill.
Gaetz jokes he could be attorney general under Trump: ‘A boy can dream’
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) pushed back on critics of the House investigation into Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, on Friday, saying a future Republican attorney general — like himself — could push for charges years from now….
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I’ll more on House wingnuts working to beat Joe Biden to divert attention from Trump’s legal mounting legal load….
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Donald Trump is going to be courts for the next TWO YEARS..,,..
There is absolutely NO WAY he’s going to beat ALL of the charges….
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I see the PDog tag team has chimed in again…..
Morning All…..
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Morning everyone ……
Republican piece of garbage for the day…
Some Congressman from California named Derrick Van Orden (I’ve never heard of him) who accosted some teenage pages who were taking selfies of themselves in the rotunda The Garbage told them to “get the fuck out” of the rotunda,was screaming inches from their faces literally scaring the kids who were sixteen years old.
What a two bit bully this Garbage is!
Another example of conservative “values”
This the guy that was cussing like a sailor?
“Independent” (but basically Republican) garbage of the day: Joe Rogan says it’s “a fact” that Jan. 6 was a false flag operation..
In the past Rogan has admitted his stupidity and my prediction of he will again on this matter and eat his words in a few days.
Storms coming…….
Indictment’s and arrests…,…
January 6 maybe something GOPer’s want avoid and have tried to……
Bit the Feds KEEP pounding away at the participants
Many of my fellow Liberals/Progressives preach some sort of tolerance and empathy for the “open minded,” “normal” Rogan. I’ll admit I once fell for that thought process. Pushing all the other stuff he does strains that logic’s credibility, and this new gem shatters it entirely. I lend him no further credence.
As an aspiring fiction writer, I have to pose myself moral dilemma type questions. One of them is “Would I go on Joe Rogan’s podcast to converse and promote my works?” I used to be a fairly solid yes, nowadays just the opposite. Sam Seder’s Majority Report would be far more appealing.
Wisconsin, actually. Sadly his flipping his current seat from D to R was instrumental in handing over House control last year.
Joe Rogan Says It’s a ‘Fact’ That January 6 Was False Flag
Podcaster Joe Rogan once again pushed the baseless conspiracy theory that the Januray 6 Capitol insurrection was a false flag operation orchestrated by the federal government, the Daily Beast reports.
Said Rogan: “The January 6 thing is bad, but also, the intelligence agencies were involved in provoking people into the Capitol Building. That’s a fact.”
New Jersey Lt. Governor Is Dead
New Jersey Lt. Governor Oliver (D), who was supposed to be the acting governor this week while Gov. Phil Murphy (D) was out of the country, has died.
RIP. I wonder of Gov. Murphy appoints a new Lt. Gov or does the position remain vacant until the next election like the US Vice President’s used to be prior yo the 25th Amendment.
The State of New Jersey didn’t even have a lieutenant governor until 2010 — after a constitutional amendment won popular approval following all kinds of confusion in the preceding years.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_New_Jersey
Senate pages were lying on the floor of the gallery so they could take traditional pictures of the Rotunda ceiling above them, when this jerk exploded. See
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/29/1190926613/van-orden-curses-senate-pages
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Rep. Van Orden gets bipartisan scolding after he cursed at teen Senate pages
July 29, 202312:31 PM ET
Juliana Kim (NPR)
Rep. Derrick Van Orden, a freshman Republican from Wisconsin, said he was enraged after witnessing a group of high school-age Senate pages “defiling” the Capitol and treating the building like a “frat house common room.”
What were the teenagers exactly doing? Briefly lying on the floor to snap photos of the historic Rotunda dome.
On Wednesday night, Senate pages, who help assist day-to-day operations at the Capitol, were touring the Capitol as part of their last week of service, Punchbowl News first reported. To capture a photo of the ceiling, some pages positioned themselves and their camera on the floor. That’s when Van Orden walked in.
According to a transcript written by one of the pages and obtained by The Hill, Van Orden said, “Wake the f‑‑‑ up you little s‑‑‑‑” and “Get the f‑‑‑ out of here. You are defiling the space.” He reportedly also called the teenagers “jackasses” and “lazy s—-.”
Since the incident, the congressman has refused to apologize for his outburst — insisting that he was protecting the integrity of the Capitol Rotunda.
“I have long said our nation’s Capitol is a symbol of the sacrifice our servicemen and women have made for this country and should never be treated like a frat house common room,” Van Orden said in a statement.
Senior members of Congress say the freshman needs a lesson on manners
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he was disturbed by Van Orden’s behavior and his lack of remorse.
“I understand that late last night a member of the House majority thought it appropriate to curse at some of these young people,” Schumer said Thursday on the Senate floor. “I was shocked when I heard about it. I am further shocked at his refusal to apologize.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., agreed with Schumer, adding “everybody on this side of the aisle feels exactly the same way.” Both Schumer and McConnell also took time to thank the Senate pages.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters Friday that the incident was possibly a “misunderstanding” — adding that he planned to call Van Orden later that day. McCarthy’s team did not immediately respond to NPR’s request for an update on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Rep. Chip Roy, a Republican from Texas, poked fun at Van Orden’s outburst by imitating the position that the Senate pages reportedly were rebuked for.
Our Former County Executive in Nassau County, NY went to Prison for this shit…
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court
How many decisions in the Supreme Court did he make because of this?
I wish I had a friend like this…
He didn’t have a Supreme’ job for life……
My former Church Pastor Brian Houston has been cleared
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1194499061/hillsong-church-brian-houston-not-guilty-concealing-sex-crimes
You have LOST James and that obnoxious Keith too who tried to smear that Family.
What have I lost?
And nice to hear from U……..
Frank Houston in his capacity as a Minster at Daniel’s church fucked little children and covered it up by hiding behind the church.
His son Brian knew what his father was doing and didn’t tell the authorities. He publicly admitted he knew what his dad was doing.
Those are the facts. That church is full of perverts.
Update….
Houston stepped down as Hillsong’s global senior pastor in January last year after police charged him with concealing his father’s crimes.
Hillsong Church leader steps down to defend charge of concealing child sex abuse
He later resigned over a separate internal church investigation that found he had breached its code of conduct by engaging in inappropriate behavior toward two women.
In a statement to CNN following the verdict Thursday, Hillsong said it “acknowledged the decision of the court.”
“Our prayer is that those impacted deeply and irrevocably by the actions of Frank Houston will find peace and healing and that our former senior pastor Brian Houston and his family can look to the future and continue to fulfill God’s purpose for their lives,” the statement read.
The church has previously distanced itself from Frank Houston. In a statement published in August 2021, it said it “was never involved in or a party to the matter” of the abuse allegations against him……
More…
This is called damage control or propaganda.
The old guy molested children, his son knew, said nothing.
Jim Jordan?
Latest CBS/ YouGov poll finds Trumps lead nationally growing LARGER than ever over his Republican rivals.
Trump gets 62% support among Republicans .Desantis is a distant second at 16%.
DeSantis is done……
His politics doesn’t work with GOPer’s and certainly not with Dem’s….
His only chane would be IF Trump somehow imploded before the July Republican Convention….
Wall Street Journal says that Mitt Romney Isn’t currently acting like someone running for re-election.
Says he will make a decision in the fall.
Tester, Sinema and Manchin have the SAME situation brewing for them….
Morning….
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66517660
The justice system across the world is just ass wiping paper for the rich elites. Judge probably has financial backing from the cult’s leaders.
Daniel….
The church don’t want him back it appears….
Let it go….
Laura Toganivalu & her Husband Peter to start new Church in Sydney the couple announced a couple of Days ago. Laura is the daughter of Brian Houston.
https://www2.cbn.com/news/world/brian-houstons-daughter-son-law-announce-plans-start-new-church-he-calling-us
What Hillsong did to Brian and the entire Houston Family was insane!