Nice little country you have there. Trump was found guilty of fraud (34 counts) in criminal court by a unanimous jury decision. A separate unanimous jury found his business to be liable for fraud in a civil court proceeding. He and his family were found liable for defrauding their own charity and banned from operating a charity in New York. Trump University, also dissolved for reasons of fraud. Numerous NYT articles and books detailing the family's tax and bank fraud over the years. And DOJ grants this man, this family, and this business immunity from investigation or audit.
Separately, we see one party, of the two that are available to govern, obsessed with the 2020 election that was exhaustively litigated and proved 60++ times to be legitimate. Obsessed with going after Biden, who is no longer in public life. Obsessed with making it as hard as possible for "those people" to vote. Refusing to release the Epstein files contrary to a law that they voted for nearly unanimously. Sitting passively while the regime murders random people going about their business in boats. Nice little country you had there.
Mystery? Most folks who care about their kids and are not brain dead would never allow a pedophile swindler into their homes, much less come into contact with their children. Why then are they willing to put up (ignore or accept) with T's corrupt and malignant behavior?
Trump certainly has something in common with PT Barnum. Not 'The greatest show on earth!" I was thinking more along the lines of "There's a sucker born every minute."
As for Biden's diary and memoir about his son, I was reminded of a line from William Faulkner's The Reivers.
In the Deep South of 1905, a Black man confronts a White sheriff who's threatening his family: "There's a line where the law stops and just people begin."
What kind of sickness makes someone fixate on the fealty they think they owe a heartless swindler while aiming to exploit a parent's grief over the death of a child?
Thank you for putting so many Trump atrocities together. It is overwhelming. It's a nightmare on a daily basis. I don't know how much time, if we get the chance, it will take to repair all of the damage or if we can sustain the will to do it.
The amount of graft multiplies daily and you are doing great service to track it. We need these truthful accounts to fly in the face of their lies and aggression.
By gosh, what a great time to re-read Stefanie Zweig's memoir, "Nowhere in Africa" (Nirgendwo in Afrika.) I'd skip the movie, perhaps, because what is relevant about her memoir is that the Zweig family escaped the Holocaust in Kenya, and that her father was a lawyer. When the German court system was being re-established after the Nazi defeat, he was asked to return to Germany, to play a role in rebuilding a trustworthy court system, as he was one of the few people with legal competence not tainted by the regime. He did. He liked the idea of helping to right a wrong. However, the stress of his African experience (drafted into the British Army, with too much time out in the bush, etc) and the new stress back in Germany gave him a fatal heart attack at the age of 53. But, still, the new democratic German state found him, incredibly enough, asked him to come home, and he did (as a Jew, yet). And, yes, the rebuilding of a stable legal system was successful. Food for thought. Stefanie's follow-up memoir, "Somewhere in Germany" is powerful, too. She found a job in journalism in Frankfurt. In a country with a still actively anti-Jewish population that professed the opposite, she went to work for a man who told her straight out that he had been a bad anti-Semite, had put it behind him, and that she should know this truth before their interview went any further. She accepted a position immediately, on the principle that he was an honourable and honest man. So, there are ways through this.
Nice little country you have there. Trump was found guilty of fraud (34 counts) in criminal court by a unanimous jury decision. A separate unanimous jury found his business to be liable for fraud in a civil court proceeding. He and his family were found liable for defrauding their own charity and banned from operating a charity in New York. Trump University, also dissolved for reasons of fraud. Numerous NYT articles and books detailing the family's tax and bank fraud over the years. And DOJ grants this man, this family, and this business immunity from investigation or audit.
Separately, we see one party, of the two that are available to govern, obsessed with the 2020 election that was exhaustively litigated and proved 60++ times to be legitimate. Obsessed with going after Biden, who is no longer in public life. Obsessed with making it as hard as possible for "those people" to vote. Refusing to release the Epstein files contrary to a law that they voted for nearly unanimously. Sitting passively while the regime murders random people going about their business in boats. Nice little country you had there.
Mystery? Most folks who care about their kids and are not brain dead would never allow a pedophile swindler into their homes, much less come into contact with their children. Why then are they willing to put up (ignore or accept) with T's corrupt and malignant behavior?
Trump certainly has something in common with PT Barnum. Not 'The greatest show on earth!" I was thinking more along the lines of "There's a sucker born every minute."
As for Biden's diary and memoir about his son, I was reminded of a line from William Faulkner's The Reivers.
In the Deep South of 1905, a Black man confronts a White sheriff who's threatening his family: "There's a line where the law stops and just people begin."
What kind of sickness makes someone fixate on the fealty they think they owe a heartless swindler while aiming to exploit a parent's grief over the death of a child?
Thank you for putting so many Trump atrocities together. It is overwhelming. It's a nightmare on a daily basis. I don't know how much time, if we get the chance, it will take to repair all of the damage or if we can sustain the will to do it.
The amount of graft multiplies daily and you are doing great service to track it. We need these truthful accounts to fly in the face of their lies and aggression.
By gosh, what a great time to re-read Stefanie Zweig's memoir, "Nowhere in Africa" (Nirgendwo in Afrika.) I'd skip the movie, perhaps, because what is relevant about her memoir is that the Zweig family escaped the Holocaust in Kenya, and that her father was a lawyer. When the German court system was being re-established after the Nazi defeat, he was asked to return to Germany, to play a role in rebuilding a trustworthy court system, as he was one of the few people with legal competence not tainted by the regime. He did. He liked the idea of helping to right a wrong. However, the stress of his African experience (drafted into the British Army, with too much time out in the bush, etc) and the new stress back in Germany gave him a fatal heart attack at the age of 53. But, still, the new democratic German state found him, incredibly enough, asked him to come home, and he did (as a Jew, yet). And, yes, the rebuilding of a stable legal system was successful. Food for thought. Stefanie's follow-up memoir, "Somewhere in Germany" is powerful, too. She found a job in journalism in Frankfurt. In a country with a still actively anti-Jewish population that professed the opposite, she went to work for a man who told her straight out that he had been a bad anti-Semite, had put it behind him, and that she should know this truth before their interview went any further. She accepted a position immediately, on the principle that he was an honourable and honest man. So, there are ways through this.