As a New Yorker, something that makes me MAD at this pitiful man-child who's in the courtroom today. It's the MILLIONS of dollars he's costing the citizens of NEW YORK who have to pay for the 36,000 police officers, etc. and the inconvenience to the citizens of the city who have to change and arrange their travel and meetings, etc. What a selfish, selfish person he is.
The GOP is the "party of Lincoln" in name only. IMO this has been true for at least a century, but when the white Southern Democrats answered the call of Nixon's "southern strategy," deserted the Democratic Party (good riddance to bad rubbish), and became Republicans, the GOP lost any connection to the Republican Party of Lincoln's day.
Politics has always been a "dirty" game but even having lived through Watergate I can't believe how low things have gone. A large portion of the country has decided that reality is no longer important. It's more than a bit scary
Dana Milbank's THE DESTRUCTIONISTS does an excellent job of demonstrating the decline of the GOP starting from Newt Gingrich's rise in the '90s, which had its roots in the Reagan administration. When I look back, the 1970s feel like a distant, halcyon time. I'm pretty sure I didn't see them that way at the time, when I was a sentient, politically engaged adult in my 20s, but it did seem that we were making progress -- on equity, the environment, climate change, and the rest of it. In retrospect, the election of Ronald Reagan looks like a Berlin Wall in U.S. history.
it actually hasn't been "the party of Lincoln" since WAY before Nixon. I date it from 1878, when the party decided that it was no longer interested in promoting Reconstruction.
and it's ALWAYS been the party of corporate interests, Lincoln included (and I defer to pretty much no one in my admiration for Lincoln).
a moment I "loved" during the 2016 campaign was when TFF announced to the world that "Lincoln was a Republican...very few people know that."
I am getting very tired of the use of the word "unprecedented"to describe the scenario TFG is in. What is really unprecedented is that we have an ex-POTUS who has been impeached twice, tried to overthrow the results of a free and fair election ie. the government, paid hush money to a porn star for her silence about an extra-marital affair and has made millions of dollars during his presidency from his many businesses because he refused to put these businesses into a blind trust as required and thus violated the Emoluments Clause of our Constitution. This is in addition to the many smaller but egregious actions that he committed every day during his presidency and the 2+ years since.
I have a small mental exercise override where I replace it with "unPresidented" each time I hear a talking head utter that word in regard toTrump. Quite surprising how much pleasure can be derived from such trivial pursuits.
Growing up as the daughter of a lawyer l was regaled with stories of the importance of ethics. One of my father’s brothers was a corrupt businessman and my father refused to represent him in court.
The importance of honesty was also front and center. A young client was warned that unless he admitted his culpability my father would not represent him.
My own grandchildren have grown up with stories of a corrupt businessman who became president of the United States. They are happy to live in Canada and cannot understand why people would vote for someone so untrustworthy.
I am glad this is happening even though it is the least "strong" criminal case. Lucian, maybe you know the answer to this...at least one secret service agent was obese that was shown. I would have thought there was a yearly physical. That fellow would have had trouble dancing let alone scrambling to save the life of an ex-president.
There is a book called "Zero Fail...." wherein Trump complains about short, fat Secret Service agents protecting him. There was some speculation that he was confusing office workers with his security detail.
We did a lot of training with Secret Service and all of them were in great physical condition, much better than we were.
News reports say as of the moment, he’s quiet. The judge may still warn him not to bleat the minute he’s outside, or he’ll be told how the cow ate the cabbage!
Once they broke a nice camera of mine one of them made me check. That building is well-known to Manhattan voters, law-breakers and law-abiding. It's one of the courthouses where you report for jury duty.
one summer, I had a fun little Urban Corps job as "head writer" for the Probation Dept. and one of the offices we worked in was that courthouse. it was fun because my first day there, I ran into an old college pal. the guy majored in Ancient Greek and ended up working for the DA. he was full of great courthouse stories, so for most lunches, we roared with laughter.
You were lucky. I like that neighborhood so much I've haunted it since the three years I worked there, but lunch then was take-out at my desk. The hours I kept were too odd for socializing (till too late at the Lion's Head—where I may well have heard those probably unprintable stories from guys whose job was to write them).
Trump announced his candidacy early for the sole purpose of being able to claim any charges against him were political.
On Morning Joe today, Scarborough is claiming these charges are underwhelming and "all misdemeanors." I had this strange feeling after waking up late and watching this on my DVR of being transported to an alternate universe.
I've always thought that Joe Scarborough was, is and will always be a raging asshole.
I remember the endless bullshit he'd come out with when he was in Congress.
I also would have preferred the first indictment to have been one of the more slam-dunk crimes TFF has committed, but a few days of thinking has me now regarding these charges as ice-breakers. "appetizers" as it were.
NO BAIL?!? What's to keep him from escaping to Russia? I'm sure Putin can give him a dacha for his many sabotage services (though not one of the neo-tsar's mansions - after all, tRump didn't *succeed* in making the US implode.)
Fine with me if he escapes to Russia, as long as he forfeits Secret Service protection and his pension in the process. Besides -- I'm sure he could raise any bail, no matter how much, by fleecing his devotees, and it wouldn't bother him one whit to leave them holding the bag.
Russia or any other country with no extradition, I'm fine with it too. I'm really not looking forward to seeing his repulsive face every day of this trial.
As a New Yorker, something that makes me MAD at this pitiful man-child who's in the courtroom today. It's the MILLIONS of dollars he's costing the citizens of NEW YORK who have to pay for the 36,000 police officers, etc. and the inconvenience to the citizens of the city who have to change and arrange their travel and meetings, etc. What a selfish, selfish person he is.
How sad that this unethical, immoral and hopefully soon to be convicted criminal is the defacto "leader" of the Party of Lincoln.
Thanks for keeping us in the loop.
The GOP is the "party of Lincoln" in name only. IMO this has been true for at least a century, but when the white Southern Democrats answered the call of Nixon's "southern strategy," deserted the Democratic Party (good riddance to bad rubbish), and became Republicans, the GOP lost any connection to the Republican Party of Lincoln's day.
Politics has always been a "dirty" game but even having lived through Watergate I can't believe how low things have gone. A large portion of the country has decided that reality is no longer important. It's more than a bit scary
comparing Watergate to almost ANY day during the last seven or eight years makes Watergate look like "business as usual," with a big yawn.
Dana Milbank's THE DESTRUCTIONISTS does an excellent job of demonstrating the decline of the GOP starting from Newt Gingrich's rise in the '90s, which had its roots in the Reagan administration. When I look back, the 1970s feel like a distant, halcyon time. I'm pretty sure I didn't see them that way at the time, when I was a sentient, politically engaged adult in my 20s, but it did seem that we were making progress -- on equity, the environment, climate change, and the rest of it. In retrospect, the election of Ronald Reagan looks like a Berlin Wall in U.S. history.
I heard someone on NPR the other day describe Watergate as "quaint"
it actually hasn't been "the party of Lincoln" since WAY before Nixon. I date it from 1878, when the party decided that it was no longer interested in promoting Reconstruction.
and it's ALWAYS been the party of corporate interests, Lincoln included (and I defer to pretty much no one in my admiration for Lincoln).
a moment I "loved" during the 2016 campaign was when TFF announced to the world that "Lincoln was a Republican...very few people know that."
fucking idiot.
I am getting very tired of the use of the word "unprecedented"to describe the scenario TFG is in. What is really unprecedented is that we have an ex-POTUS who has been impeached twice, tried to overthrow the results of a free and fair election ie. the government, paid hush money to a porn star for her silence about an extra-marital affair and has made millions of dollars during his presidency from his many businesses because he refused to put these businesses into a blind trust as required and thus violated the Emoluments Clause of our Constitution. This is in addition to the many smaller but egregious actions that he committed every day during his presidency and the 2+ years since.
I have a small mental exercise override where I replace it with "unPresidented" each time I hear a talking head utter that word in regard toTrump. Quite surprising how much pleasure can be derived from such trivial pursuits.
The Queens Eagle refers to Individual-1 as "A Queens man, former resident of Jamaica Estates, was indicted."
l believe the Eagle has also headlined him as "Man from Queens"—he's going to be MFQ to me for awhile.
MFQ! Another way to spell "mo-fo"!
Growing up as the daughter of a lawyer l was regaled with stories of the importance of ethics. One of my father’s brothers was a corrupt businessman and my father refused to represent him in court.
The importance of honesty was also front and center. A young client was warned that unless he admitted his culpability my father would not represent him.
My own grandchildren have grown up with stories of a corrupt businessman who became president of the United States. They are happy to live in Canada and cannot understand why people would vote for someone so untrustworthy.
Watching NBC. They just showed a photo of Drumpf sitting at the defense table. He doesn't look so smug sitting there.
I am glad this is happening even though it is the least "strong" criminal case. Lucian, maybe you know the answer to this...at least one secret service agent was obese that was shown. I would have thought there was a yearly physical. That fellow would have had trouble dancing let alone scrambling to save the life of an ex-president.
There is a book called "Zero Fail...." wherein Trump complains about short, fat Secret Service agents protecting him. There was some speculation that he was confusing office workers with his security detail.
We did a lot of training with Secret Service and all of them were in great physical condition, much better than we were.
I didn't see that but I'm curious how you know he's a Secret Service agent.
News reports say as of the moment, he’s quiet. The judge may still warn him not to bleat the minute he’s outside, or he’ll be told how the cow ate the cabbage!
Will the Secret Service have to serve time with him to still provide protection?
I don't think it is likely trump will serve time in prison for the very reason that Secret Service can't protect him there.
From prior experience, I believe that inside the Manhattan court building, NYS Court Officers are in control, not police officers.
Once they broke a nice camera of mine one of them made me check. That building is well-known to Manhattan voters, law-breakers and law-abiding. It's one of the courthouses where you report for jury duty.
one summer, I had a fun little Urban Corps job as "head writer" for the Probation Dept. and one of the offices we worked in was that courthouse. it was fun because my first day there, I ran into an old college pal. the guy majored in Ancient Greek and ended up working for the DA. he was full of great courthouse stories, so for most lunches, we roared with laughter.
You were lucky. I like that neighborhood so much I've haunted it since the three years I worked there, but lunch then was take-out at my desk. The hours I kept were too odd for socializing (till too late at the Lion's Head—where I may well have heard those probably unprintable stories from guys whose job was to write them).
Trump announced his candidacy early for the sole purpose of being able to claim any charges against him were political.
On Morning Joe today, Scarborough is claiming these charges are underwhelming and "all misdemeanors." I had this strange feeling after waking up late and watching this on my DVR of being transported to an alternate universe.
I've always thought that Joe Scarborough was, is and will always be a raging asshole.
I remember the endless bullshit he'd come out with when he was in Congress.
I also would have preferred the first indictment to have been one of the more slam-dunk crimes TFF has committed, but a few days of thinking has me now regarding these charges as ice-breakers. "appetizers" as it were.
Aahhhhh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWoT2rDzFYc
Couldn’t happen to a better person !
I'm wondering if he intends to mouth off to the court to get remanded.
He does not want to go to Riker's which is where the majority of accused are sent. His CFO is doing time there.
Nor would the Secret Service approve of it.
NO BAIL?!? What's to keep him from escaping to Russia? I'm sure Putin can give him a dacha for his many sabotage services (though not one of the neo-tsar's mansions - after all, tRump didn't *succeed* in making the US implode.)
Fine with me if he escapes to Russia, as long as he forfeits Secret Service protection and his pension in the process. Besides -- I'm sure he could raise any bail, no matter how much, by fleecing his devotees, and it wouldn't bother him one whit to leave them holding the bag.
Russia or any other country with no extradition, I'm fine with it too. I'm really not looking forward to seeing his repulsive face every day of this trial.
"Russia Russia Russia..."
Now there's a thought.