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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 24, 2024 21:15:04 GMT -5
ok. listen. i realize that this is a subtle argument about currencies. it really is. you can look at it a dozen ways, some good and some bad. let's just back up to the 10000 foot view, as a ruducto ad absurdum argument. if having a weak currency is GREAT, then the countries with the weakest currencies should be the BEST countries to be in, right? here are a list of the 10 weakest currencies in the world:
Lebanese pound (LBP) Iranian rial (IRR) Vietnamese dong (VND) Sierra Leonean leones (SLE) Laotian kip (LAK) Indonesian rupiah (IDR) Syrian pound (SYP) Uzbekistani sum (UZS)
question 1: how many of you have been to any of those countries? question 2: how many of you WANT TO GO to any of those countries? question 3: how many would want to move a business there? question 4: how many aspire to travel, work, or live there?
out of thirty two possibilities, i scored a ONE. how about any of you?
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 24, 2024 21:04:24 GMT -5
Hopefully, ripvanwinkle reads the whole article. Especially the last paragraph which is at the bottom of the linked article. Can Trump get a fair trial?
Donald Trump says he can't get a fair trial in heavily Democratic Manhattan as his hush money case starts Former President Donald Trump's first criminal trial got underway Monday with opening arguments and the first witness testimony in a Manhattan courtroom. Prosecutors said that shortly before the 2016 election Trump ordered "hush money" payments to a porn star who claimed she had an affair with him years earlier, then tried to cover up the payments by falsifying business records. As he arrived at the trial, which Politico described as "indisputably historic," Trump said the case was "election interference" intended to derail his 2024 bid to win back the White House from President Joe Biden. Jury selection got off to a bumpy start last week, as dozens in the first batch of 96 potential jurors were weeded out after saying they couldn't be fair to the twice-impeached former president. One seated juror was replaced over old anti-Trump social media posts. Judge Juan Merchan admonished Trump for making audible comments about a prospective juror, warning that he would not have "jurors intimidated in this courtroom." By the end of the week, though, Merchan declared, "We have our jury," and swore in 12 jurors and six alternates who vowed to be "fair and impartial." Trump has pleaded not guilty in what The New York Times noted was the "first criminal trial of an American president." He has repeatedly denied having sex with the adult-film actress, Stormy Daniels. He is accused of telling his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to pay Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet so the scandal wouldn't damage his 2016 presidential campaign. Once in office, prosecutors say, Trump reimbursed Cohen in 12 installments but covered up the scheme by describing the checks to his then-lawyer as payments for ongoing legal services. Trump has repeatedly blasted District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case as a political "witch hunt." He also has accused Merchan of bias, and complained he can't get a fair trial in heavily Democratic New York City, arguing that any jury picked there would be biased against him. Will Trump's trial be fair? Rest of article (including the last paragraph of it) here : Can Trump get a fair trial?I read the article and the last paragraph but it didn't change my mind and I found this paragraph the most telling. "It's wishful thinking to expect Trump to "get a trial most people will accept as fair," said Henry Olsen in The Telegraph. Manhattan is "one of the most Democratic and liberal counties in the country," so the jury pool was polluted. Bragg has made "repeated statements" making it clear he was out to get Trump any way he could. And Merchan refused to recuse himself even though he "donated to Biden's 2020 campaign and his daughter is a Democratic political consultant." No wonder "Trump supporters view this prosecution as grounded in politics, not law."
This trial should have been moved to another venue. Another Judge.
no, the defendant should be moved to a jail cell, and cut off from the internet. question for you rip- how much influence to your kid's politics have over yours? i know a lot of parents, and NONE of them tell me more than "very little". most say "none". i would also add that working for the DNC doesn't make you a Democrat, but i know that is probably tough for you to swallow.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 24, 2024 21:02:22 GMT -5
Are you pretending you don't know he's putting out hits on the judge, jury and prosecutors? LOL. I want some what you've been smoking. Show me the proof he has put out death hits on the judge, jury and prosecutors. You've been watching MSDNC TV news to much. i want some credit for anticipating this response. and you, rip, should read my post. it is just a little up the page.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 24, 2024 20:59:39 GMT -5
showing images of the unborn that are nearly to term is standard anti-abortion propaganda.
it is also well south of 1% of all abortions.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 24, 2024 20:44:46 GMT -5
you will note that the dollar did quite well under Trump, as well (+10%). so, if Biden is a disaster because of a strong dollar, so was Trump.
this is what i mean. he doesn't understand shit about economics, but everyone things he is some kind of business shaman. he is a business sham man.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 24, 2024 20:43:04 GMT -5
here is a graph of US dollar versus the world:
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 24, 2024 20:38:28 GMT -5
Apparently, a strong US.dollar is bad for the country. Trump Blames Biden For Strong Dollar—As US Currency Reaches New High Against Japanese YenFormer President Trump called the U.S. dollar’s new 34-year high against the yen a “disaster” on Tuesday, claiming it would harm U.S. manufacturers and force them to relocate plants overseas—echoing protectionist sentiments after reportedly exploring ideas about devaluing the dollar if he returns to the White House. In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday morning, Trump said the dollar’s new peak would be a “disaster for our manufacturers and others,” claiming it would make them “unable to compete and will be forced to either lose lots of business, or build plants, or whatever, in the ‘smart’ Countries.” The dollar hit a 34-year high against the yen on Monday, rising to 154.85 yen versus one dollar—and is at 154.86 on Tuesday. The former president blamed the White House for the strong dollar, claiming President Biden weakened his trade policies against China and Japan—who he said will now “pick apart the U.S.” However, experts believe the dollar’s strength is likely related to the success of the U.S. economy compared to other nations, as well as rising inflation and the Federal Reserve’s call to delay interest rate cuts, Bloomberg reported. Rest of article here: Trump Blames Biden For Strong Dollar—As US Currency Reaches New High Against Japanese Yenif this country had economic literacy, Biden could run on this. a good measure of how a country is doing is its currency. the USD is currently the 10th strongest currency in the world. this is exactly the same as 2020, by the way, so there is no particular change there. the Euro has fallen from 7th to 9th, however. a weak currency is TERRIBLE for a country and it's people. it is typically associated with high unemployment, high inflation, and negative real economic growth. the US has none of these things.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 24, 2024 20:30:16 GMT -5
Another waste of student loan forgiveness - $250,000 to a music student dissolved -
He says "Beyond financial goals, Lambdin said the relief was also allowing him the freedom to pursue some of his long-term dreams, including taking a sabbatical to study with his meditation teacher in India". This is what I object to.
really? what i object to is that musicians spend 10000 hours learning their craft and then get paid $100/night. to each our own, i suppose.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 24, 2024 18:38:39 GMT -5
i am not sure it works that way. it doesn't need to be decided before the election. the trial needs to start before the election. that will put all of this madness on display at the most critical part of the cycle. i actually think that is LIKELY to happen. I believe the judge gave them 9 months to prepare, and the clock didn’t start until after the Supreme Court either heard or decides the case - I’m not sure which. But 9 months from now is past the election, and even past the inauguration. my understanding is that they had already had some time to prepare. the clock had started, then was stopped. i think it goes to trial before YE. but please, correct me if i am wrong. a link would be helpful.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 24, 2024 18:33:43 GMT -5
81 million votes? that is what Biden got.
those are not her peeps.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 24, 2024 16:39:19 GMT -5
Team Trump Is Ready to Lose the Supreme Court Immunity Case. They're CelebratingDonald Trump's inner circle doesn't expect the Supreme Court to go along with his extreme arguments about executive power in the immunity case before the justices. But what the high court does now is almost beside the point: Trump already won. Three people with direct knowledge of the matter tell Rolling Stone that many of the former president's lawyers and political advisers have already accepted that the justices will likely rule against him, and reject his claims to expansive presidential immunity in perpetuity. Bringing the case before the court - after a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., shut down their arguments on executive power - was a delaying tactic designed to push Trump's criminal election subversion trial past Election Day this fall. The strategy paid off so much more than MAGAworld anticipated. "We already pulled off the heist," says a source close to Trump, noting it doesn't matter to them what the Supreme Court decides now. Trump's lawyers and other confidants had widely expected - and had told the former president as much - that the court maneuver would delay the election subversion trial, but perhaps only to around the summer. For months, Trump attorneys were actively preparing themselves and their client to face a trial, over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his role in the violent Jan. 6 assault at the U.S. Capitol, right around the time of the Republican Party's nominating convention, the sources add. If the federal trial were to proceed during this election year, much of Team Trump had predicted it would be significantly more damaging politically to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee than, for instance, his ongoing criminal hush-money trial in Manhattan. Rest of article here: Team Trump Is Ready to Lose the Supreme Court Immunity Case. They're Celebrating i am not sure it works that way. it doesn't need to be decided before the election. the trial needs to start before the election. that will put all of this madness on display at the most critical part of the cycle. i actually think that is LIKELY to happen.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 24, 2024 16:36:55 GMT -5
You're wrong. A "gag order" is the term for when a judge prohibits the attorneys, parties, or witnesses in a pending lawsuit or criminal prosecution from talking about the case to the public. So it should apply to everyone. So why only Trump? If they can say bad things why can't Trump do it to them?? Violation of his 1st amendment rights.
Are you pretending you don't know he's putting out hits on the judge, jury and prosecutors? i hate to do this, because it seems like i am siding with MAGA here, but i feel compelled to respond. MAGA has been behaving in a certain way for nearly a decade now. they treat outsiders with extreme disrespect that comes off as hostile. and this has just become the NORM for them. so, when Trump does it, they (and i need to qualify "they", which i will do, below) don't see it as weird, threatening, unusual, or possibly illegal. it is as normal as breathing to them. when i say "they", however, i mean the people that are just in it for the fun, the humor, or the "fuck-you-ee-ness" of being MAGA. they would never march on the capital, or beat up a liberal, or do anything stupid to ruin their quiet little MAGA lives. unfortunately, there is a subset of MAGA which is not "they". that subset is absolutely down with all of the above behaviour. they are the folks that stormed the capital. they are the guy who bashed in Peolsi's head. they are the guys and gals planning thwarted attacks. and, unfortunately, "they" don't seem to understand that they exist, or even identify with them. "they" think that they are ANTIFA or something. so when Trump says things like he does, "they" don't understand how it is a threat, because "they" talk that way to their family, friends, coworkers, and other MAGA. it seems fine to them, even though it is not.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 24, 2024 16:25:06 GMT -5
he was not known for original material. i remember that i did a C&P of one of his posts into Google and was able to find it on some right wing blog. when i pointed that out to him, he started altering text to make it harder to trace. It was probably his blog. I remember a lot of his opinions - but one I think about often is his insistence that Tylenol was a sugar pill and the entire medical industry was fooled, therefore they shouldn’t be trusted. oh man. that is a good one. sorry i missed that. even sorrier that rmd wasn't around for that.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 24, 2024 10:38:26 GMT -5
That’s where these stupid conspiracy theories fall apart. For what possible reason would Hillary Clinton engage in a conspiracy to murder someone and risk going to jail - especially for a loud mouthed former TV reporter who sues everyone and has yet to win an election? There is no reasonable explanation. I saw in her wiki page she also grew up Catholic, then became Buddhist until 2015, then she decided she was an evangelical Christian. Seems to be a fairly flexible person. Any way the wind blows. Well according to WCP and David Pecker of the National Enquirer, Hillary only had weeks to live. So by the time of Hillary' trial for knocking off Kari Lake, Hillary would be long dead. Come to think of it, WCP's news flashes to us were often found on the cover of The National Enquirer. he was not known for original material. i remember that i did a C&P of one of his posts into Google and was able to find it on some right wing blog. when i pointed that out to him, he started altering text to make it harder to trace.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 24, 2024 10:36:33 GMT -5
I think in Kari Lake's instance she claims Hillary wants to kill her in a bid to be relevant. I doubt Hillary thinks about her much at all. That’s where these stupid conspiracy theories fall apart. For what possible reason would Hillary Clinton engage in a conspiracy to murder someone and risk going to jail - especially for a loud mouthed former TV reporter who sues everyone and has yet to win an election? There is no reasonable explanation. I saw in her wiki page she also grew up Catholic, then became Buddhist until 2015, then she decided she was an evangelical Christian. Seems to be a fairly flexible person. Any way the wind blows. yeah, you guys are right. it has nothing to do with Clinton and everything to do with Lake. and to think she used to be a Democrat.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 23, 2024 21:32:38 GMT -5
I heard two good conspiracies today. Kari Lake claims Hillary Clinton is plotting to kill her, and Marge Taylor Greene says the Democrats want to get Trump into prison so they can murder him. The far righties are pretty blood thirsty. paranoid was the word that came to my mind.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 23, 2024 21:18:40 GMT -5
rip- keep in mind that criminal defendants can, and often do, have their first amendment rights limited.
he does NOT have a first amendment right to intimidate the jury or witnesses. nobody does. stop parroting Trump.
did Cohen intimidate witnesses or the jury? i might have missed that, but if he did, then he should be held to the same standard as Trump.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 23, 2024 20:30:55 GMT -5
he was going to get his genitals kicked in.
not sure why he even THOUGHT running again was a good idea.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 23, 2024 20:29:08 GMT -5
I thought a Judge's gag order in a case applies to all people involved in the case. Why can Cohen and others make podcasts and disparaging statements and get interviewed by the press and Trump has to keep quite? Just wondering
I doubt a rouge individual would threaten or harm a juror, a member of the court staff or the family of the judge over what Michael Cohen says. he's more orange than rouge.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 23, 2024 20:28:06 GMT -5
I thought a Judge's gag order in a case applies to all people involved in the case. Why can Cohen and others make podcasts and disparaging statements and get interviewed by the press and Trump has to keep quite? Just wondering
i thought Trump was on trial, not Mr Cohen. my mistake.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 23, 2024 18:08:17 GMT -5
that is another charge you can add to make up for the three that were dropped.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 23, 2024 18:07:11 GMT -5
In this case, the criminal narcissist deserves it. I bet Trump longs for the era when newspapers had a gentleman’s agreement not to report about presidential sex. Like with Kennedy. That got ruined over the pearl clutching about Clinton and the intern. I remember all the GOP condemnations about lurid sex in the Oval Office. Now, of course, the GOP is running a guy convicted of publicly defaming one of his victims and that seems to be fine, so of course Trump would expect everyone to be cool with him paying off sex partners and the burying the proof ‘to not upset Melania.’ as if Melania has ANY say over it. what could she possibly say to shift him one iota?
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 23, 2024 12:15:27 GMT -5
“Spoiler alert: There’s nothing wrong with trying to influence this election. It’s called democracy.”
through fraud? um....yeah there is.
edit: i have been thinking about this all afternoon. he basically threw the case away with this comment, imo. he admitted that it was election interference before they even called the first witness.
what he should have said is that there is nothing illegal about trying to hide your indiscretions. but since he has not admitted to indiscretions, he could not do that, either.
i think Trump has backed himself into a corner. if he did nothing wrong, then why hush it? if he did something wrong, but was NOT trying to hide it from the public, why not just admit it and get it out in the open? if he was trying to hide it from his wife, why would he care about the timing of it?
i think he has given the whole game away. and i think that any reasonable jury will think so, as well. this might be over in May.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 23, 2024 12:10:12 GMT -5
this is a pretty bold play by the prosecution. do you need me to elaborate?
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 23, 2024 12:08:24 GMT -5
shitgibbon is a very clever contraction. Can you elaborate so I don’t spend an hour on google trying to figure this one out? i just think it is a very humorous and unobvious way of engendering an image of the subhuman known as Trump.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 23, 2024 12:06:51 GMT -5
I long for the days of impartial journalism. The remarks about his appearance were unnecessary. not disagreeing here, but impartial journalism has no impact on Trump or his minions. one could argue that our current situation demands that we make very pointed and candid remarks about the character of the man who is vying to lead us.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 22, 2024 11:25:41 GMT -5
i don't wish this on ANYONE, but if he DOES end up disabled, which is quite likely given his health, i hope he feels the pain of all of those LIKE HIM that he wronged.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 21, 2024 18:07:54 GMT -5
yes, because gruesome death is just so beautiful. what a sick fuck. You are talking about a person to whom his floor was more important than the guest who was bleeding on it and needed medical help.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 21, 2024 18:06:47 GMT -5
shitgibbon is a very clever contraction.
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 21, 2024 18:04:05 GMT -5
I think he was likely responsible for many more deaths than a million. I know I lost 2 cousins, hard core Trumpers I'm sure. Both died of COVID, how stupid can you get? We lost quite a few in our small communities. And I'm betting they all voted, so that should help next time. I thought only 144,000 would be the chosen ones, are there supposed to be more? That sure isn't many. it is just a round number. i agree with you. i gave him a pass for about the first 100k. after that, it is all on him. and yes, that includes the number of deaths under Biden. the key is to get people to buy into the vaccine, and his people never did.
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