http://thenewstalkers.com/john-russell Mon, 09 Nov 2026 14:26:47 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/john-russell/blog/3058/trump-ruins-america-the-final-countdown-for-now http://thenewstalkers.com/john-russell/blog/3058
The New York Times found that one in six sentences in Trump’s cabinet meetings contained praise, crediting him with accomplishments or attacking opponents











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I wrote Zombie Democracy to find out whether the United States has become one itself. The book is built on a test of eight questions, one for each thing your vote is supposed to control, asking whether it still does.


Representation. Does the House still reflect how the country voted?


The power of the purse. Does Congress still decide what the government spends?


Rule of law. Does the executive obey court orders?


An impartial court. Does the Supreme Court rule the same way for presidents of both parties?


Civilian control of force. Do the military, the National Guard, ICE and federal law enforcement answer to whomever the voters elect?


A free press. Can reporters cover the executive from inside its buildings without being barred for what they publish?


Political prosecutions. Can the opposition oppose without being investigated or indicted for it?


Accountability. Do the institutions built to catch abuse still act: the inspectors general, the whistleblower channels, the bar committees, the prosecutors and the Senate?


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We’re four days out, and Donald Trump is in a very dark mood. New reporting indicates that he’s privately raging over a possible looming loss , yet at the same time he still holds out hope that his formidable cultural power can pull out a victory. In a sense, this election really is a referendum on Trump’s deep faith in his limitless control over the culture. Yet it comes as the final burst of polls really paints a powerful picture to the contrary.
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Report Emerges That John Cornyn Is Helping Sabotage Ken Paxton's Texas Senate Campaign

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John Cornyn reportedly told a friend he is working to sabotage Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's U.S. Senate campaign to teach Republicans a lesson after losing his own party primary. Paxton's fundraising appeals highlight attacks from fellow Republicans like Cornyn and the establishment.



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The Times reported that Putin initiated the LUKOIL deal when he met with Witkoff and Kushner on September 5, representing it as a way of showing Russians that they can do business with the US. Naturally, Trump fell for it because he considers Russia “a tremendous opportunity” and not a mafia run by a megalomaniac who wants to conquer Europe and destroy America. It is irrational to believe that rebuilding economic ties will convince Putin to compromise in Ukraine. American voters get this, and Republican Don Bacon of Nebraska politely described Trump’s complicity: “The president has always had a moral blindness when it comes to Putin, and propping up Russia’s war economy is terrible”.

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Homeland Security Secretary   Kristi   Noem’s odds of leaving President Donald Trump’s Cabinet have spiked after two Americans were   shot dead   by federal agents in Minnesota.
Noem, 54, is now the favorite to be the first to be fired or to resign from the Trump administration on prediction markets Kalshi, which gives her a 37 percent chance, and Polymarket, which gives her a 29 percent chance.
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Her boldly lying about Renee Good was just fine with Trump and his administration, anyone can make a mistake and innocently smear an American citizen by calling her a domestic terrorist.  Shit happens.  But to do it twice in two weeks? Who does she think she is , Donald Trump?  The boss doesnt like her horning in on his modus operandi. 
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Gregory Bovino, winner of the "most times referred to as a Nazi" award is feuding on X with a number of Republican politicians.  Oddly, or not, all of them are GOP who have cozied in the direction of opposing Trump on one issue or another.
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Trump has threatened to sue us (again), so we would like to respond with an official statement: Mr. President, go fuck yourself. 



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It’s September 2025. The president has declared a national emergency to deport migrants and order extrajudicial killings; he imposes taxes and deploys troops by emergency decree; the Supreme Court greenlights his usurpations via its emergency docket. Perhaps it’s time for congressional Democrats to recognize that this is not remotely business as usual, and begin to behave like it.

Almost like it’s an emergency.

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BREAKING: In a shocking moment, during a rant in which he brutally criticizes Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Trump forgets that he appointed him, saying "I'm surprised he was appointed. I was surprised that Biden put him in." Trump nominated him in 2017.











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What they're saying:   "It is terrible what they are doing in Israel to Bibi Netanyahu," Trump wrote. "He is a War Hero, and a Prime Minister who did a fabulous job working with the United States to bring Great Success in getting rid of the dangerous Nuclear threat in Iran."
Trump claimed Netanyahu is "in the process of negotiating a Deal with Hamas, which will include getting the Hostages back," and questioned how Israel could force its leader "to sit in a Courtroom all day long, over NOTHING."
He then warned: "The United States of America spends Billions of Dollar a year, far more than on any other Nation, protecting and supporting Israel. We are not going to stand for this."
The extraordinary statement was widely interpreted as an effort to leverage U.S. military assistance to pressure Israel to cancel the trial.
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Note :  Zohran Mamdani did not exist in 1986.  Nor did twitter. 

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(1) Rep. Jack Kimble on X: "This is extremely troubling. https://t.co/1SwT88NKHS" / X
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Evidently there is some doubt the birthday parade will happen. Bad weather will be the "reason" but the truth may be that the crowds will be too small for Trump to feel properly honored. Word is DC hotels have not filled up with MAGA pilgrims. 
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 In August 2024, Trump  said  of the Democratic Montana Senator Jon Tester (who lost that year): “He’s got the biggest stomach I’ve ever seen.” Trump even mocked one of his own supporters at an August 2019 rally,  saying , “That guy’s got a serious weight problem. Go home, start exercising!”
These are all textbook examples of what psychologists call  narcissistic projection . Trump is a crook (a  convicted felon , in fact), so he  calls other people crooks . He’s a liar ( The Washington Post  counted  more than 30,000 whoppers  during his first term alone), so he calls other people liars (even  a Gold Star widow !).  He’s  an ignoramus  so he  calls other people stupid . Trump’s obsession with other people’s weight is another manifestation: He’s an overweight man who calls other people (less politely) overweight.
How Trump’s Obsession With Weight Explains His Misrule
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Donald Trump's inability to broker a continuing –– but tense –– peace between Israel and Iran  has reportedly placed him on the outs with his MAGA base  after Israel launched an attack that threatens a growing war in the region.

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A video of Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) being tackled and handcuffed spread rapidly across social media Thursday after he interrupted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a news conference in Los Angeles, where protests have raged all week against the administration's crackdown on immigrants,   reported NBC News .
"It capped a week when the Democratic Party seemed to finally find its   voice , in ways big and small, to push back against the administration," the network reported. "From California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s questioning President Donald Trump’s acuity to Padilla’s move to interrupt Noem to mini-rebellions playing out at the nation’s capital, Democrats began to break the hold Trump usually has on the news cycle."
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Good night and good luck fellow share holders. It’s going to be a rocky tomorrow.



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NEW YORK ( The Borowitz Report )—Offering a remedy to last week’s devastating crash on global stock markets, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Monday that the plummeting trend could be reversed if investors would drink high doses of cod liver oil.

“Stocks are crashing because investors are in a bad mood, and the reason they are in a bad mood is because they are not getting enough Omega-3 fatty acids,” he said. “This is what caused the Great Depression.”

Bolstering the credibility of his suggestion, he added, “Dr. Oz is with me on this.”

Kennedy’s prescription, however, was met with skepticism from financial experts, who noted that tariffs on cod liver oil had made the liquid virtually unaffordable.

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Let’s say you want a good sandwich.  Bob can make it better or more cheaply or more conveniently than you can.
You pay Bob $5. Bob hands you your sandwich.
Yes, Bob gets your money, but you get the sandwich you wanted at the price you were willing to pay. You arguably have a $5 trade deficit with Bob, because Bob didn’t buy anything from you.
Donald Trump would argue that you’re propping Bob up with a $5 subsidy.
But you didn’t subsidize Bob. Bob did not steal anything from you. You didn’t give Bob a gift — you chose to buy his sandwich for your own reasons.
Chaos follows Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ – Winnipeg Free Press
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"They want 1939 Germany, they're going to get 1789 France if they keep fucking around."
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Say there’s a 60 percent tariff on Chinese imports. When Walmart imports “Mr. Coffee” machines from China (where they’re made), China doesn’t pay the 60 percent tariff to the U.S. government. Walmart does.

If Walmart had bought the coffee machine for $20 before the tariff, the 60 percent tariff requires Walmart to pay an extra $12 — bringing the total cost of each coffee machine to $32.
Walmart doesn’t want that extra $12 to cut into its profit margin, so it will try not to absorb that cost. Instead, it will pass the extra $12 on to its customers.
Walmart’s CEO  has already said  it expects to raise prices in response to Trump’s tariffs in order to protect its profits.



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A French scientist was denied entry into the United States after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages criticizing Donald Trump and his administration.

Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister of higher education and research, told  Agence France-Presse  in a  statement  that the scientist was traveling to a conference near Houston on March 9 on assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) when he “was denied entry to the United States before being expelled.”
“This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy,” Baptiste added.
French scientist barred from entering the US over anti-Trump phone messages. - The Mind Shield
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Donald, bring it. I’m so tired of your victimy whiney belly aching crap. You friggin won and you STILL are complaining all the time. BRING IT YOU SMALL LITTLE BOY









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https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-politics/trump-finds-new-conspiracy-theory-to-embrace-in-post-midnight-rant/





“The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen,” Trump raged. “In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!”
Biden had been mulling these preemptive pardons for weeks, so it’s unclear what Trump is basing his claims on. Of course, he is known for making stuff up and latching on to conspiracy theories, so this should hardly come as a surprise.
“[Biden] knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime,” he added. “Therefore, those on the Unselect Committee, who destroyed and deleted ALL evidence obtained during their two year Witch Hunt of me, and many other innocent people, should fully understand that they are subject to investigation at the highest level.”
All the evidence?
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President Trump has called Social Security a scam .



Elon Musk called it a Ponzi scheme, ask that of the people in your District ask that Mr Smith about the more than 198,000 people in your District who rely on Social Security ,,and you won't even let the person who's planning to privatize it, who's telling the big lie in front of everyone as bold as he possibly can saying this is what we're going to do. The Congress is in our back pocket we don't even have to come before them and testify because we control the house we control the Senate and we control the presidency.



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BREAKING: Steve Wozniak, The co-founder of Apple Just accused Elon Musk of stealing money, lying about Tesla’s capabilities, and conning the public.



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Chimamanda Adichie: ‘America Is No Longer America’
As a citizen, things have changed for me. I mean, you have to remember that I come from Nigeria, where, growing up, America was the place where everything went the way it was supposed to go. And the reality is that Nigeria and the U.S. are the same now. Someone said to me, “Are you thinking about moving back to Nigeria?” Well, no, because it’s the same.
Beckerman:  Nigeria moved to you.
Adichie:  The only difference is that I don’t have to use my generator as much here in the U.S. In Nigeria today, we have a president who, in my opinion, was not elected. And Nigerian politics has always been a politics of patronage: the Big Man, and you give your friends jobs, that kind of thing. But I think that Nigerian leaders, even if they just pay lip service to ideas like competence, they are not likely to be so brazen about creating sort of long, lasting actions from personal vengeance. It’s the brazenness of it [in the U.S.] that just feels to me stranger, stranger than Nigeria.
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They used to have measles parties, basically get all the kids together so they all catch it and develop immunity.
Then when I was a kid, they did the same thing with chicken pox.
Now, they demonize parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids.”
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I’ve heard from a solid source that medical supplies from US to frontline medics in Ukraine are being withheld through USAID and military logistics. If true this is absolutely unacceptable.



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BREAKING: In the DEI hire of the century, Buckley Carlson, son of Tucker Carlson, is joining Vice President J.D. Vance's office as deputy press secretary. MAGA opposes helping minorities but has no issue with nepotism when it benefits their own. Hypocrisy noted.





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Jan 6 Rioter Pardoned by Trump Wanted on Child Solicitation Charge

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Trump Leads America Boldy Into Decline

Trump Leads America Boldy Into Decline | Froma Harrop | Columns | ArcaMax Publishing


Froma Harrop   on   Jan 28, 2025



Not a month old, the second Trump presidency is barreling toward the decline that big-mouth leaders have been sending their countries for centuries. Theodore Roosevelt warned of such dangers.
Speaking at the 1901 Minnesota State Fair, he famously shared the African proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Roosevelt elaborated: "If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble." For a nation, he added, "It is both foolish and undignified to indulge in undue self-glorification, and, above all, in loose-tongued denunciation of other peoples."
Trump's threat of a 25% tariff against Colombia if it didn't start accepting planeloads of deported Colombians did work. But rather than take quiet satisfaction, he had to make a high school-level jab against Colombia's leader, calling him "very unpopular amongst his people." (An earlier White House statement on the planned sanctions ignorantly misspelled Colombia as "Columbia.'" That's the university, not the country. Also the Hollywood filmmaker.)
China is another matter. Trump has backed off on the big-stick approach toward China. He's now threatening tariffs of 10%, marked down from his earlier 60%. But can China be intimidated by a smaller stick from a blowhard? A stick of any size constitutes a challenge to China's self-esteem, something China has in quantity, and its own quest for global dominance.
About which, China has developed an AI model called DeepSeek that's almost as good as its American competitors' while using inferior AI chips. It costs a lot less and consumes less energy. That triggered a rout on Wall Street, hitting investors, not to mention Trump's beloved technology oligarchs, in the gut.
Americans now have a recovering (we hope) alcoholic in charge of the nation's defense. Even if Pete Hegseth were a beacon of sobriety, he utterly lacked the qualifications for that job. He was, however, a photogenic talking head on Fox.
On his first day at Defense, Hegseth announced big plans to ban transgender people from the military. Why Americans should feel safer knowing that people who identify with a gender other than the one they were born with can't serve in the military is unclear.
Israel, Australia, Canada and Germany let transgender soldiers operate openly without concerns for military readiness. In this country, female-born Shane Ortega served in the Marines before transitioning to male identity. He then transferred to the Army and flew countless helicopter missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Elsewhere in his second presidential term, Trump has failed his promised follow-through on lowering the price of groceries. On the contrary, egg prices are setting new records. They are up nearly 37% from this time last year, and are expected to go higher still. Kind of makes you miss the more affordable grocery carts of the Biden era.
Lumber prices have risen 35% from five years ago. Trump's threat to slap a 25% tariff on Canada, a major supplier, isn't going to make wood products more affordable. One feels for the disaster-struck people of North Carolina and California who need lumber to rebuild.
But since the construction industry depends so heavily on workers whom Trump vows to rapidly deport, there may not be enough people left to do the rebuilding. At the very least, the cost of employing them would go way up.
As for shaking his shrunken stick at China, Trump has become one of the "obnoxious" individuals Theodore Roosevelt warned against. One "who is always loudly boasting" and "absolutely contemptible" for not being prepared to back up his words.
In other business, Trump's attacks on electric vehicles are helping Chinese competitors eat our domestic carmakers' lunch on EV production and future sales. That depressing topic is for another day.

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Now that’s a vote of confidence!
A New Jersey woman tore off her top, swung it like a lasso in defiance and voted in her bra after being told she couldn’t wear a MAGA hat and Trump shirt at the polls.
The white-haired woman was casting her ballot early at a firehouse in Hamilton Township, about five miles east of Trenton, on Oct. 26 when a poll worker asked her to take her pro-Trump hat off and get a jacket from her car to cover her shirt.







A New Jersey woman was photographed at a Hamilton Township polling site in her bra after she was reportedly asked to remove her pro-Trump shirt and MAGA hat.   reddit/TheTrumpZone



Jill Moyer, the Mercer County Board of Elections chairperson, tried to tell the woman she would hold her place in line.
“Before I could get it all out, she took off her shirt and flung it around,”   Moyer told NJ.com.


The bra-zen woman flipped poll workers the bird and shouted, “Suck my c–t,” witnesses said.
“This is why I vote Trump,” she added, according to a since-deleted Reddit post showing the woman wearing silver hoop hearings and a nude bra.
Moyer went to call the police but the unidentified woman quickly cast her ballot and left.




Each state has laws regarding political activities near polling places and some restrict what voters can wear to them.   REUTERS







Electioneering is prohibited within 100 feet of polling sites in New York, prohibiting apparel specifically advocating for or against a candidate or ballot proposal.   REUTERS



Jersey’s electioneering law bans any political gear that can be “read or viewed to identify support or opposition of a candidate.”
The post, later shared and deleted by   author and Kamala Harris surrogate Mark Greene on X,   caught the attention of Trump running mate,   Sen. JD Vance , who shared it.
“What a patriot,” Vance wrote, according to screenshots.
“I’d buy that lady a beer,” one man commented on social media.
Others disagreed.
“Why can’t people just respect the rules and stop treating the workers with disrespect,” one woman opined on Facebook.
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Kamala Harris’ opponent, former president Donald Trump, has saddled up a horse called “Chaos” for his his final stretch ride. It’s so Trumpian it shouldn’t come as a shock. Chaos has always been his friend. Create a crisis today so people forget yesterday’s crisis and tomorrow’s even more egregious lunacy seems comparatively normal. Dominate headlines because chaos always commands attention. After all, imagine you are an assignment editor somewhere, do you want 1000 words or 5 minutes of video on a rational argument about some policy issue or on Holyshitwhathefuckwasthatcraziness?

Trump’s mad dash is also being amped up by the fact that he know that if he loses he could actually go to jail. So he will say or do anything—up to and including, don’t you doubt this for a minute, sending America into the throes of a civil war if it might keep his expansive ass out of the penitentiary.
He lies. He howls. He does something he thinks is dancing but isn’t. He accuses. He rants. He froths at the mouth. He compares himself to Jesus.
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New Quinnipiac poll of registered voters in Wisconsin:


Biden 50 Trump 44


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Jurors struggle to keep straight face during Stormy Daniels testimony recalling spanking Trump with magazine

Jurors at Donald Trump's hush money trial struggled to keep a straight face Tuesday as porn star Stormy Daniels described once spanking the...



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The trial began on April 15 and is currently in process. It could last a few more weeks.

How grave is the allegation?
Falsifying records is a crime, and crime is bad. But many people have analogized this case to Al Capone’s conviction on tax evasion: It’s not that he didn’t deserve it, but it wasn’t really why he was an infamous villain. Prosecutors contend, however, that Trump aimed to corrupt elections by hiding information from voters. This case feels more minor, in part because   other cases have set a grossly high standard for what constitutes gravity.
How plausible is a guilty verdict?
Though   some critics   were dismayed that this was the first criminal charge for Trump, it has overcome questions about statute of limitations and legal basis. Prosecutors are hoping a methodical case will convince jurors.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/donald-trump-legal-cases-charges/675531/?utm_source=feed


Trump likes to compare himself to Al Capone, but he isnt sharp enough to really get the true comparison.  Capone was known as a serial criminal who slipped out of prosecutors grasp for many years, and was brought down by a relatively trivial tax charge. 
Trump has been a serial criminal who has skated past responsibility due to his celebrity status and the fact that white collar crime is often overlooked. 
Poetic justice if he is brought down by a porn star. 
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Because big business didnt want the border closed. They like the cheap illegal labor. 



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the former president reached new heights of incomprehensibility on Wednesday when he attempted to pronounce “infrastructure”   during a campaign rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Trump was criticizing President Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure package, which he signed into law in 2021, when Trump tried to say that four-syllable word.
″[It didn’t] work out too well ― $1.2 trillion for their fake infra-struck-er-sher par-,” Trump said. 



it actually sounds worse when you hear it than when you read it  (video at link)
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Trump now must go to jail
he has violated both the terms of his release
on bail in Washington in the election
subversion case and the terms of the gag
order in the same case
he has attacked criticized and called a liar one of the
probable Witnesses against him ,Cassidy
Hutchinson
there is no other choice for
judge chutkan than to put him behind bars
moreover just for added insolence in
making those remarks Trump actually
confirmed that what Cassidy Hutchinson
testified to was true , he did try to get
the secret service to take him to the
capitol so he could watch his attempted
coup on January 6th 
YouTube Transcript - read YouTube videos
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The legal system is failing the public . Endlessly telling Trump " next time there are going to be consequences" has done nothing but enable him
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62% of Republicans would be good with Trump pardoning the J6 rioters
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/2/2238338/-Why-Trump-s-Time-interview-is-even-worse-than-you-think?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main
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it seems they respect neither law or order
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]]> Thu, 02 May 2024 10:19:13 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/john-russell/blog/2829/decision-2024-2 http://thenewstalkers.com/john-russell/blog/2829 Didnt he meet Stormy Daniels at a golf event ?  (It may have been one of the other porn stars or playmates has been entangled with, Karen McDougal). 

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anti-MAGA Republicans are having revulsion at the news that South Dakota governor Kristi Noem shot and killed her 14 month old hunting dog.
a sample 
"When I saw tweets about Kristi Noem murdering her puppy, I thought to myself, 'Damn, one of the other VP contenders' teams found some oppo,' until I realized SHE wrote about it in HER book. I'm not sure why anyone would brag about this unless they're sick and twisted," Sarah Matthews who served as the deputy White House press secretary in the Trump administration, posted to X.

The Lincoln Project, a group comprised of anti-Trump Republicans, posted to X, "Kristi Noem can now add 'puppy killer' to her long resume of degenerate behavior. Everyday that there's darkness permeating from MAGA world, we must fight it w/ the best weapon we have in our arsenal - optimism."
Rick Wilson, a co-founder of   The Lincoln Project , wrote, "Not every dog is for the field, but 99.9% of them are trainable or re-homeable. We have one now who was never going in the field, but I didn't kill her. She's sleeping on the couch. You down old dogs, hurt dogs, and sick dogs humanely, not by shooting them and tossing them in a gravel pit."

Republicans Slam Kristi Noem for Killing a Puppy (newsweek.com)
I would hate to think that her admission to being a puppy killer upped her MAGA cred in her quest to be Trump's running mate, but who knows? Stranger things have happened in the Trumpian universe. 
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 "it’s the first time I know of in modern history where someone basically tried to take over the
government and you’re seeing it in everything that came out during the January 6 hearings now you can’t just put blinders on and pay attention to  what you want to hear I will never vote  for Donald Trump in this election coming  up or any election because I feel he is  a danger to the Democracy of our country"






Former Trump Supporter: "I'll never vote for Trump in this election or any election" - YouTube





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Former President Donald Trump  is speaking out aggressively against independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who he claims is a Democratic Party "plant."
Trump made the accusations on Friday night via his proprietary social media platform, Truth Social.
"RFK Jr. is a Democrat "Plant," a Radical Left Liberal who’s been put in place in order to help Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in the History of the United States, get Re-Elected," Trump wrote.
Trump accuses RFK of being a 'Democrat plant' and 'wasted protest vote' | Fox News
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Why?   Most likely (actually certainly) because a new poll showed Kennedy Jr taking more votes from himself than Biden. If the polls shift again Trump's view of Kennedy will shift again. Maybe he will neuter Kennedy by offering him the post of "Secretary Of Vaccine Denial" in a new Trump administration (please God ! forbid it) .
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A Supreme Court Justice Gave Us Alarming New Evidence That He’s Living in MAGA World

Dahlia Lithwick: Justice Alito trotted out this theme that was kind of bone-chilling: He said “we all want” a “stable democratic society,” and nothing could be worse for democracy than holding a president to account, because that will “lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy.” As if democracy requires giving immunity to criminal presidents because otherwise they won’t leave office. This was when I went through the looking glass—it literally felt like “don’t make me hit you again” democracy.
Supreme Court immunity arguments: Trump has convinced one justice he faces an illegal prosecution. (slate.com)
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Has our Supreme Court sold us down the river ? 
Initially on Thursday the justices seemed highly skeptical of the Trump lawyers argument for immunity, spurring a momentray belief that the J6 trial could happen in the next few months, but then when the Special Counsel's advocate began, the right wing plot began to emerge. They were even more skeptical of Jack Smith's position. 
I doubt if any of this was the result of the lawyers presentations on the day. 
This outcome (stalling) was predetermined by the conservative justices before this hearing even happened. 









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Lara Trump claiming there are 81 states. Sure has Obama beat.
https://x.com/MeidasTouch/status/1783196306430668888
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The post Scotus hearing consensus on immunity is that the Court will send it back to the lower courts on an ideological based vote, thereby ensuring (nearly) that no trial will proceed before the election. 




David Rothkopf


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SCOTUS may do more net damage to our democracy in expanding presidential powers and delaying Trump's trials until after the election than Trump actually achieved in his attempted coup. Think about it. It's nauseating.

























There is evidently a very interesting possibility growing out of the likelihood that the SC will throw it back to the district court (Chutkan). She can hold an evidentiary hearing, essentially allowing Jack Smith to present his evidence of trumps wrongdoing without a jury.  This would be a good idea. The most important thing is that the American people hear the details of Trumps criminal behavior before the election. Under this circumstance they would. 







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I think this is something not enough people are giving thought to. There was a German journalist covering the Trump trial for a German magazine interviewed on tv yesterday.  He said the people in his country are following the case closely, and are amazed and disheartened about what is happening to the American justice system. 























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