Aaaahhh…isn’t it great how the worm, as well as the world, turns? It seems like only yesterday that we were celebrating the indictment of Defendant Trump for his theft and mishandling of classified documents, 37 delicious counts in all. And now Special Counsel Jack Smith gets to turn his attention to all the schemes and scams run by Defendant Trump in his two month long attempt to overturn the election he knew he had lost on Nov 3, 2020.
Dollars to donuts prosecuting war criminals, with the requisite, unavoidable examination of the horrifying evidence, in grisly granular detail, has permanently altered Smith's tolerance for the slimy ilk of Defendant Trump and his despicable cohorts.
Your daily column is the best part of my day. And reading commentary from the incredibly brilliant people that are also your subscribers, makes me feel smarter by default!
Much love to all you brilliant & kind people from Kansas City Mo
Kansas City?! As in BLUES AND SWING FROM KANSAS CITY BY MASTER MUSICIANS OF THAT THING? You said the magic word, Abracadabra presto-chango and here it is!
Cut #2 "Moten Swing," My late favorite Uncle Phil's {"I followed Generals Patch and Patton across France" etc. Married a gal born in Kansas City, now residing in Brookline, Mass.} favorite
song from the entire era...
1:09:45
Jay M̲c̲S̲h̲a̲n̲n – ̲A̲ T̲r̲i̲b̲u̲t̲e ̲T̲o̲ C̲h̲a̲r̲l̲ie̲ P̲a̲r̲k̲e̲r (̲1̲9̲8̲9̲)̲
"This is a hell off a roller-coaster swinging ride, folks. Arrangements by Basie stalwart the fabulous Mr Ernie Wilkins (why this band has a Basie feel). But just listen to these passionate swingin’ solo’s from the best in the business and with Jay on the ivory’s. Bloody great stuff folks, so dig the ride. Toodeloos & Cheers!
I enjoy learning that the FBI seized 18, count them, 18, of Giuliani’s electronic devices. The vast investigative machinery you’ve digested and distilled for us is convincing this cynic that the treason we’ve witnessed on live television and read about ad nauseam is under the perusal of a disciplined prosecutorial mind, the scary Jack Smith. He is a man who believes firmly in the rule of law. Unlike Mueller, Barr, Garland, and Bragg, he has no political instincts, no patience, no depraved ratiocinations about presidential immunity or power. The orange jumpsuit is a straw man. The goal is to deactivate Trump politically once and for all. That, my friends, is in reach.
I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of Jack Smith's very special attention, because among other things, he graduated from Harvard cum laude, with a JD. He's also a triathlete, which training for is extremely physically and mentally demanding.
He can play 3 d chess, a violin and recite the Declaration of Independence, from what I can imagine all while nailing Trump within an inch of his ass.
(ok, so I exaggerate, but if we need a Superman, I'm gonna nominate him)
But seriously, he's aiming to take down Trump and I don't doubt for a second he's doing everything by the book, and to the letter of the law.
I have the feeling he saw what happened to Robert Mueller vowed he would finish the job and finally nail the biggest criminal the WH has ever had.
It takes money, manpower and lots of attention to detail.
And I'm betting our tax dollars are being spent very wisely.
Jack Smith is going to win this race once again dragging Trump's fat carcass behind him.
He aims to win, and I'm not gonna bet that he won't.
I just have one special request, if he reads this:
Get Michael Flynn and put him in prison for the rest of his life as well.
Then I can finally rest easy knowing that justice will be served.
Thanks, Judith. I ran out of steam. If I were Jack Smith I wouldn't want to face Paul Chevigny over family dinners if I didn't do right by my special counsel duties.
Paul has another claim to fame of enormous import to musical posterity: He won the case that ended NYC's notorious cabaret laws that tormented any talent with an arrest record, thus ruining lives by banning Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Chet Baker, and countless other jazz titans from playing nightclubs.
Paul wrote a long account of a personal blues pilgrimage he made to Memphis when Furry Lewis and other blues giants were being discovered after long work lives in menial jobs. I've never been able to find it in the mid-'60s Village Voice archive, but I know it was there, over a few weeks, because I accepted and edited it.
(Wikipedia is uncharacteristically unreliable on the cabaret lsws—written by an advocate of dancing in today's clubs, an unresolved dispute, shaky on the '30s-'60s background. [ cf Paul Chevigny: "Gigs : jazz and the cabaret laws in New York City," Routledge, London, 2012. " (A) much-needed study of the social, political, cultural and legal conditions surrounding a change in law and public attitudes toward vernacular music in New York City."] )
CORRECTION Much as Paul Chevigny loved the blues, I did him and Grover Lewis an injustice by attributing the pilgrimage to Memphis to Paul. It was Grover who made that trip. Blame 20th century chemicals, not 21st century brain fog; I somehow turned Grover into Paul long ago.
I must have been on the toilet when they handed out the brain cells required to comprehend this endless, complex political chicanery but I am holding on only because of your brilliance and clarity.
Think of this way: these schemes are so goofy on so many levels, with so much bogus "evidence" being waved around as if it was dispositive, it's completely understandable if more reasonable human beings (that's you!) have some difficulty following the pretzel logic motivating the skullduggery, hell's bells, even the legal commentators on the major networks, and other online media outlets, have struggled at times to "pierce the veil" these skunks sprayed in the air (mixing metaphors) to hide their shady deeds.
What a delightful piece today! If only to read a synopsis of the feds efforts to put the seditious traitor into Florence SuperMax and have him wearing orange for the rest of his pathetic life. 👍🏻👍🏻‼️
I still can't comprehend the gravitational pull of Trump on the moronic people -- many of them lawyers, yet -- who thought they could actually pull off this subversive stunt. Every one mentioned by Mr. T. as being in Jack Smith's net could have been a patient at St. Elizabeth's, if judged by the metric of the possibility of a successful outcome.
Re Rudy meeting with the Federales, there's a real possibility that his brain, i.e. his memory, is so pickled in Johnnie Walker as to make him useless to Mr. Smith. And it's possible that the only way for him to avoid prison, as an accomplice, is, well ... St. Elizabeth's.
If it was a medical diagnosis, yes, but proving someone in a courtroom is or was *non compos mentis * for purposes of meeting one prong of a multi-pronged set of elements within a statute, on behalf or against defendants in criminal cases, follows different standards than psychiatry.
So you're right, Margo, Rudy is likely on the edge of sanity in some sense, but as long as he can summon up enough verifiable lucidity to answer the prosecution's relevant questions, even if intermittently, that's enough.
"[E]nough verifiable lucidity to answer the prosecution's relevant questions, even if intermittently."
You need to comprehend the surrounding setting as well : Giuliani will be extremely motivated to summon up any possible psychic focus to help him avoid prison, or to get a lesser sentence. He will be presented with an entire tableau of processes he himself used hundreds of times, probably more, in his own legal career.
All you have is speculation that, because he has been stewed to the gills in some past videos (or else taking meds along WITH some kind of wine or booze, which amounts to the same thing) he will ipso facto present himself the same way, or similarly enough, to render his testimonial value otiose.
We will see what happens, Rudy's testimony is lagniappe after Mr. Smith's Gumbo a la Grifter, not the main course!
Left unmentioned are the approximately eight or nine sitting members of the House including one Gym Jordan who were also up to their elbows in being the executors of the plot once it got to the House Floor. So far they have all skated free. Wonder what will happen if Smith subpoenas some of them for testimony on their involvement? When TFG said "his guys in Congress" would do the dirty work, who was he referring to?
This is very interesting. A whole traitor’s arsenal of smoking guns is showing up. I am extremely concerned about optempo as the Republicans play their internecine games leading up to 2024. Can Smith get results in time?
I think that many of these people will continue to lie and stonewall, even under oath. Or they'll ignore the subpoenas. We can only hope that the few who aren't hardened, remorseless fascist criminals will actually tell the truth!
I think the fact is that there is "NO honor among thieves," especially among this bunch, so they will throw the others under the bus to save themselves - or lessen their prospective sentences - in a leptosecond.
It makes me sad to know that you are probably right. However, let us take heart from the proffer by Ghouliani's legal team. That might yield some results.
And that's just Jack Smith. Let's not forget the separate Georgia investigation which, being a state investigation, is beyond the reach of federal interference (i.e. Trump becoming president and getting all federal charges dropped).
Mind boggling! It truly frightens and astounds me that the Orange POS could convince so many "educated" people to participate in such an obvious act of treason. He's a super magnet for attracting unethical, immoral, criminal narcissists like hisself.
Jack Smith is like a submarine, he runs silent and deep til he strikes. Don’t rule out a NJ grand jury looking into Bedminster storage issues etc
I have always been delighted that Jack Smith was appointed SC.
I hope he is able to get these blatant criminals convicted.
That's a very comforting image!
All you need to see is those dead shark's eyes and you know.
Dollars to donuts prosecuting war criminals, with the requisite, unavoidable examination of the horrifying evidence, in grisly granular detail, has permanently altered Smith's tolerance for the slimy ilk of Defendant Trump and his despicable cohorts.
My first thought when I saw his picture--he has a face that says "don't f*ck with me"
My first thought was "John Brown has come again" -- IOW, very similar to yours.
Hopefully, that super heavy coffin of Ivana Trump gets dug up so we learn what's hidden that thing along poor Ivan's remains.
And Ivana’s grave.
Your daily column is the best part of my day. And reading commentary from the incredibly brilliant people that are also your subscribers, makes me feel smarter by default!
Much love to all you brilliant & kind people from Kansas City Mo
Kansas City?! As in BLUES AND SWING FROM KANSAS CITY BY MASTER MUSICIANS OF THAT THING? You said the magic word, Abracadabra presto-chango and here it is!
Cut #2 "Moten Swing," My late favorite Uncle Phil's {"I followed Generals Patch and Patton across France" etc. Married a gal born in Kansas City, now residing in Brookline, Mass.} favorite
song from the entire era...
1:09:45
Jay M̲c̲S̲h̲a̲n̲n – ̲A̲ T̲r̲i̲b̲u̲t̲e ̲T̲o̲ C̲h̲a̲r̲l̲ie̲ P̲a̲r̲k̲e̲r (̲1̲9̲8̲9̲)̲
diegodobini2
14.2K subscribers
youtube.com/watch?v=Han40LhQ1U8&ab_channel=diegodobini2
Apr 14, 2022
tracks:
0:00:02 T̲h̲e̲ ̲J̲u̲m̲p̲i̲n̲'̲ ̲B̲l̲u̲e̲s̲
0:05:48 ̲M̲o̲t̲e̲n̲ ̲S̲w̲i̲n̲g̲
0:09:57 ̲I̲'̲m̲ ̲J̲u̲s̲t̲ ̲A̲ ̲L̲u̲c̲k̲y̲ ̲S̲o̲ ̲&̲ ̲S̲o̲
0:13:50 ̲L̲o̲n̲e̲l̲y̲ ̲B̲o̲y̲ ̲B̲l̲u̲e̲s̲
0:19:18 ̲P̲a̲r̲k̲e̲r̲'̲s̲ ̲M̲o̲o̲d̲
0:26:07 ̲S̲a̲y̲ ̲F̲o̲r̲w̲a̲r̲d̲,̲ ̲I̲'̲l̲l̲ ̲M̲a̲r̲c̲h̲
0:30:06 ̲T̲e̲n̲d̲e̲r̲ ̲T̲o̲u̲c̲h̲
0:35:24 ̲S̲w̲i̲n̲g̲i̲n̲'̲ ̲T̲h̲e̲ ̲B̲l̲u̲e̲s̲
0:43:02 ̲C̲o̲n̲f̲e̲s̲s̲i̲n̲'̲ ̲T̲h̲e̲ ̲B̲l̲u̲e̲s̲
0:47:37 ̲H̲a̲v̲e̲ ̲Y̲o̲u̲ ̲E̲v̲e̲r̲ ̲H̲a̲d̲ ̲T̲h̲e̲ ̲B̲l̲u̲e̲s̲
0:52:13 ̲S̲e̲b̲a̲s̲t̲i̲a̲n̲
0:57:33 ̲V̲i̲n̲e̲ ̲S̲t̲r̲e̲e̲t̲ ̲B̲o̲o̲g̲i̲e̲
1:07:44 ̲H̲o̲o̲t̲i̲e̲ ̲B̲l̲u̲e̲s̲
@ronaldunkel2681
1 year ago
"This is a hell off a roller-coaster swinging ride, folks. Arrangements by Basie stalwart the fabulous Mr Ernie Wilkins (why this band has a Basie feel). But just listen to these passionate swingin’ solo’s from the best in the business and with Jay on the ivory’s. Bloody great stuff folks, so dig the ride. Toodeloos & Cheers!
youtube.com/watch?v=Han40LhQ1U8&ab_channel=diegodobini2
For a photographic record, all the above arrested at the same time and posed together in orange jump suits.
The we could then all buy the photo and raise more cash for charity than the imbecile family of Circus Peanut ever scammed in their lives.
I enjoy learning that the FBI seized 18, count them, 18, of Giuliani’s electronic devices. The vast investigative machinery you’ve digested and distilled for us is convincing this cynic that the treason we’ve witnessed on live television and read about ad nauseam is under the perusal of a disciplined prosecutorial mind, the scary Jack Smith. He is a man who believes firmly in the rule of law. Unlike Mueller, Barr, Garland, and Bragg, he has no political instincts, no patience, no depraved ratiocinations about presidential immunity or power. The orange jumpsuit is a straw man. The goal is to deactivate Trump politically once and for all. That, my friends, is in reach.
I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of Jack Smith's very special attention, because among other things, he graduated from Harvard cum laude, with a JD. He's also a triathlete, which training for is extremely physically and mentally demanding.
He can play 3 d chess, a violin and recite the Declaration of Independence, from what I can imagine all while nailing Trump within an inch of his ass.
(ok, so I exaggerate, but if we need a Superman, I'm gonna nominate him)
But seriously, he's aiming to take down Trump and I don't doubt for a second he's doing everything by the book, and to the letter of the law.
I have the feeling he saw what happened to Robert Mueller vowed he would finish the job and finally nail the biggest criminal the WH has ever had.
It takes money, manpower and lots of attention to detail.
And I'm betting our tax dollars are being spent very wisely.
Jack Smith is going to win this race once again dragging Trump's fat carcass behind him.
He aims to win, and I'm not gonna bet that he won't.
I just have one special request, if he reads this:
Get Michael Flynn and put him in prison for the rest of his life as well.
Then I can finally rest easy knowing that justice will be served.
Jack Smith is Paul Chevigny's son-in-law. That's all I need to know.
For those who (like me) didn't know who Paul Chevigny is: https://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_G._Chevigny
Thanks, Judith. I ran out of steam. If I were Jack Smith I wouldn't want to face Paul Chevigny over family dinners if I didn't do right by my special counsel duties.
Paul has another claim to fame of enormous import to musical posterity: He won the case that ended NYC's notorious cabaret laws that tormented any talent with an arrest record, thus ruining lives by banning Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Chet Baker, and countless other jazz titans from playing nightclubs.
Paul wrote a long account of a personal blues pilgrimage he made to Memphis when Furry Lewis and other blues giants were being discovered after long work lives in menial jobs. I've never been able to find it in the mid-'60s Village Voice archive, but I know it was there, over a few weeks, because I accepted and edited it.
In fact, Paul so loves that music he and Bell Gale named their younger daughter Blue. You may know Blue's name from "This American Life" broadcasts. Bell (rip) had a distinguished career of her own. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/bell-chevigny-obituary?id=31708951
(Wikipedia is uncharacteristically unreliable on the cabaret lsws—written by an advocate of dancing in today's clubs, an unresolved dispute, shaky on the '30s-'60s background. [ cf Paul Chevigny: "Gigs : jazz and the cabaret laws in New York City," Routledge, London, 2012. " (A) much-needed study of the social, political, cultural and legal conditions surrounding a change in law and public attitudes toward vernacular music in New York City."] )
CORRECTION Much as Paul Chevigny loved the blues, I did him and Grover Lewis an injustice by attributing the pilgrimage to Memphis to Paul. It was Grover who made that trip. Blame 20th century chemicals, not 21st century brain fog; I somehow turned Grover into Paul long ago.
I would like to see Flynn returned to active duty, court martialed, forfeiting all pay and benefits.
I must have been on the toilet when they handed out the brain cells required to comprehend this endless, complex political chicanery but I am holding on only because of your brilliance and clarity.
Think of this way: these schemes are so goofy on so many levels, with so much bogus "evidence" being waved around as if it was dispositive, it's completely understandable if more reasonable human beings (that's you!) have some difficulty following the pretzel logic motivating the skullduggery, hell's bells, even the legal commentators on the major networks, and other online media outlets, have struggled at times to "pierce the veil" these skunks sprayed in the air (mixing metaphors) to hide their shady deeds.
What a delightful piece today! If only to read a synopsis of the feds efforts to put the seditious traitor into Florence SuperMax and have him wearing orange for the rest of his pathetic life. 👍🏻👍🏻‼️
I still can't comprehend the gravitational pull of Trump on the moronic people -- many of them lawyers, yet -- who thought they could actually pull off this subversive stunt. Every one mentioned by Mr. T. as being in Jack Smith's net could have been a patient at St. Elizabeth's, if judged by the metric of the possibility of a successful outcome.
Re Rudy meeting with the Federales, there's a real possibility that his brain, i.e. his memory, is so pickled in Johnnie Walker as to make him useless to Mr. Smith. And it's possible that the only way for him to avoid prison, as an accomplice, is, well ... St. Elizabeth's.
If it was a medical diagnosis, yes, but proving someone in a courtroom is or was *non compos mentis * for purposes of meeting one prong of a multi-pronged set of elements within a statute, on behalf or against defendants in criminal cases, follows different standards than psychiatry.
So you're right, Margo, Rudy is likely on the edge of sanity in some sense, but as long as he can summon up enough verifiable lucidity to answer the prosecution's relevant questions, even if intermittently, that's enough.
Ah, but what if he can't? Years of alcoholic brain damage could possibly render his recollections useless, if not meaningless.
Can't what? The operative language is
"[E]nough verifiable lucidity to answer the prosecution's relevant questions, even if intermittently."
You need to comprehend the surrounding setting as well : Giuliani will be extremely motivated to summon up any possible psychic focus to help him avoid prison, or to get a lesser sentence. He will be presented with an entire tableau of processes he himself used hundreds of times, probably more, in his own legal career.
All you have is speculation that, because he has been stewed to the gills in some past videos (or else taking meds along WITH some kind of wine or booze, which amounts to the same thing) he will ipso facto present himself the same way, or similarly enough, to render his testimonial value otiose.
We will see what happens, Rudy's testimony is lagniappe after Mr. Smith's Gumbo a la Grifter, not the main course!
Left unmentioned are the approximately eight or nine sitting members of the House including one Gym Jordan who were also up to their elbows in being the executors of the plot once it got to the House Floor. So far they have all skated free. Wonder what will happen if Smith subpoenas some of them for testimony on their involvement? When TFG said "his guys in Congress" would do the dirty work, who was he referring to?
GO Jack Smith!!!!!
This is very interesting. A whole traitor’s arsenal of smoking guns is showing up. I am extremely concerned about optempo as the Republicans play their internecine games leading up to 2024. Can Smith get results in time?
I think that many of these people will continue to lie and stonewall, even under oath. Or they'll ignore the subpoenas. We can only hope that the few who aren't hardened, remorseless fascist criminals will actually tell the truth!
I think the fact is that there is "NO honor among thieves," especially among this bunch, so they will throw the others under the bus to save themselves - or lessen their prospective sentences - in a leptosecond.
It makes me sad to know that you are probably right. However, let us take heart from the proffer by Ghouliani's legal team. That might yield some results.
Trump and poison ivy have one thing in common - touch them and nothing but pain and suffering ahead,
And that's just Jack Smith. Let's not forget the separate Georgia investigation which, being a state investigation, is beyond the reach of federal interference (i.e. Trump becoming president and getting all federal charges dropped).
Mind boggling! It truly frightens and astounds me that the Orange POS could convince so many "educated" people to participate in such an obvious act of treason. He's a super magnet for attracting unethical, immoral, criminal narcissists like hisself.
Truly, what is his magical power? I find him obese and disgusting (not because he's obese). Where's the magic? Does anyone have an opinion?
He's the Corruptor - the living embodiment of corruption. Why people fall for it is beyond my comprehension
Only 74,000,000 racists know for sure.
Sounds like great progress is being done. Sure hope there's a wall of indictments for a whole bunch of people on the way.