Post by Bob LathamYou only have to look across the pond where the Democrats have
weaponised the entire justice system and changed the whole meaning of
the word "moral". It no longer refers to what you do, it now means -
why you do it, so any vile, corrupt, dishonest act done against Trump
is now seen as moral and is for the greater good.
More nonsense from the sewer that was called Shitter (and should still
be) as usual calling black 'white' and white 'black', ie the complete
reverse of the actual truth. The Trump incited insurrection on Jan 6
was a clear attempt at Putinising the American democratic system, he has
clearly broken the law in multiple further ways, and has even said
publicly that if elected he intends to become a dictator (though
afterwards he backtracked that to "for a day") and will revenge himself
on all those who have taken him to court. Wasn't his disastrous
*actual* presidency enough evidence for you? It was for many Americans,
a recent poll of who had been the best and worst presidents in US
history placed him bottom. Currently he faces or has lost more than 91
charges, with potentially more from his attempts to overturn the 2020
election in more states in the pipeline.
To start with the two civil cases he's already lost, he owes tens of
millions in *punitive* fines for slandering a *second* time a woman he
raped, E. Jean Carroll, but has just slandered her again, leading to the
possibility of him being sued by her a third time, which, if happens, he
will certainly lose, and the fines may then be ratcheted up another
order of magnitude in an effort to teach him the wisdom of putting his
brain in gear before operating his mouth. More seriously, for him but
of course not for the rape victim, he also owes hundreds of millions in
fines for falsifying his business records for tax purposes, money which
all the signs indicate that he doesn't have in readily realisable cash,
and will have to start selling significant assets to pay it 'when' -
according to seemingly most US legal experts - not 'if' he loses his
attempted appeal. Meanwhile the running of his businesses are being
overseen by a caretaker official.
But he still faces 91 charges in four separate *criminal* cases still to
come to court. Potentially, he has to be found guilty on only *one* of
these 91 charges to end up in jail. The only real question is not his
guilt, but whether the lumbering US justice system can get him convicted
before the election against a barrage from his lawyers' of delaying
tactics by raising the most absurd & ridiculous appeals, most of which
most courts if they were trying anyone else would feel able to just
dismiss out of hand.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61084161
But, if all the above wasn't enough to convince a rational person that
he's a danger to US democracy and thereby to the democracy of its
allies, you should consider some other points ...
The idolatrous Republican party is now completely in the hands of their
Orange Juju, literally, in that their national convention is now
completely controlled by members of his own family, and they are laying
off people, around 60 at the most recent count, to leave more money for
paying his legal fees and fines from his lost court cases. So all the
money that well-meaning people in the past have contributed to achieve a
political effect is instead being syphoned off for something else entirely.
Republicans are engaged in a nationwide campaign of attempting to ensure
a continuous House majority by redrawing electoral boundaries in the
states that they control to reduce the number of democratic
Representatives that they elect. They have already attempted and lost a
number of cases in this endeavour.
They are also trying to tighten up state voting laws in such various
ways as to disadvantage the sort of people in society who are more
likely to vote Democrat. To give just one example, currently most
states allow postal ballots to be counted as long they are postmarked on
or before election day, but some Republican-controlled states are trying
to alter the rules in their state so that ballots have actually to
arrive before election day; superficially this seems reasonable, but the
trouble with it is that it opens the possibility for votes from Democrat
areas to be deliberately delayed by bad actors in the postal system so
that they will not be counted.
Then there are the wide ranging consequences of overturning Roe v Wade.
As embryos of any age are now considered people, this is affecting not
just abortion but IVF and potentially even contraceptive rights. Those
in the US of reproductive age, particularly of course women, stand to
lose significant reproductive rights and control over their own bodies.
But nowhere is the shambolic state to which Trump & his MAGA high
priests have reduced the Republican party more noticeable than in
Congress. As you are always raging against Putin and condemning
everyone who argues against you as being rabidly left-wing (when of
course the real truth is that it is you who is rabidly right-wing), I
presume that, like most people in Western democracies, you want Ukraine
to win its war of freedom against Russian oppression? So, given the
ineffectual & unfunny clown show to which Republicans have reduced the
House of Representatives, so that it is unable to pass almost any
legislation because they want to fuck any chance of Biden passing any
such in the last year of his term to, as they think, increase their own
chances of winning the forthcoming election by pointing the public to
the chaos that they themselves are causing and blaming Biden for it, how
can you justify Trump's stated aim of preventing any aid to Ukraine
passing through the House, and his stated aim of not giving any aid to
Ukraine if he is elected? Even long-standing GOP Representatives -
mostly those who are so who are so pissed off at the current state of
obeyance to the Orange Juju that they are not seeking re-election anyway
- are considering resigning early in order to reduce the GOP majority
and possibly even hand it back to the Democrats, so that normal
government can resume. One went yesterday, there are rumours of a few
more, and I think only 4 or 5 in total are needed to overturn the
Republican majority, and then maybe the House can resume its normal
business of government that they were elected to do, including passing
the Senate bill to give desperately needed aid to Ukraine.
Etc, etc. When Trump even says openly that he intends to be a dictator,
FFS, BELIEVE HIM!
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Provenance for the above can be found mostly in most decent mainstream
news sources, naturally particularly US ones.
Some further interesting details come out of a number of YouTube videos
by Brian Taylor Cohen, so a word or two about him. He is quite
obviously very anti-Trump, but his solo rants on that subject are not
the videos I would point you to, but others where he discusses various
legal and political points with experts, whom he lets speak largely
uninterrupted:
+ Those subtitled The Legal Breakdown with Glenn Kirschner
+ Those subtitled Democracy Watch with Marc Elias
+ Those subtitled Inside The Right with Tim Miller
https://www.youtube.com/@briantylercohen/videos
Further interesting videos come out of the Meidas Touch, particularly
those that cover in depth the legal issues raised by the Trump cases:
https://www.youtube.com/@MeidasTouch
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