Crazed Trump lawyer Sidney Powell entered a guilty plea in her RICO case in Georgia today, one day before her trial was scheduled to begin. She is admitting to breaching election systems in Coffee County, Georgia, including copying hard drives from voting tabulators and stealing information and software that was the property of Dominion Voting Systems. Powell did this with the help of other Republican officials who were indicted along with her, whose cases have not yet come to trial. Powell had demanded an early trial on the Georgia charges, and she got one.
CORRECTION: Sidney Powell was not indicted by Jack Smith in Washington D.C., but may be called as a witness against Trump in that case. Corrected in the text of the column. H/T Stu Shapiro.
I was wondering about that myself...and doesn't her status as an "unindicted co-conspirator" suggest that at some point in the future, she COULD be indicted in the Washington case?
I really don’t care if the Kraken Klan of underlings actually go to jail as long as they wind up paying big money and help send the head moron to a permanent home in perfidy.
Sorry! That was "not paying big money" -- auto spell strikes again. And yes, good news but she's getting off way too lightly. She tried to overturn an election for god's sake!
I'm afraid we're all going to be disappointed because she is getting 6 years probation and some things to do. Now, I can't speak for her but she does know prison could be in the picture if she messes up and breaks any of the conditions of her probation. And she is supposed to testify against all those other idiots who were involved in this. Meanwhile, off camera more and more, Giuliani is broke and circling the financial drain. His digs are going to be sold one way or another and he's not likely to wind up with much in his pocket and where shall he live in New York as a pauper. Some of this is just so delicious I might need to go giggle in the corner a bit.
This is excellent news. Agent Orange, baby man, wannabe Supreme Dear Leader, who spent his entire time while desecrating the Oval Office insisting the everyone around him deliver endless nauseating flattery and pledge undying loyalty, is now learning--shocking!--that every single one of them is just like him: looking out only for themselves, and happy to throw him under the bus.
And there's a whole convoy of buses. Somebody hand him a diaper to cry on.
Lucian, her fine seems so low, given the enormity of her treasonous actions! Six years probation is the “price” we have to pay for her flipping on dump and the others. How comforting to know she cannot say “My Bad” in one jurisdiction and then say “I didn’t do that” in another. What about her law license??? I hope she never can practice law anywhere again. Thanks for the great reporting. And, yes Deborah, it is wonderful Gym The Groomer backed out. What a crew!
Usually, when prosecutors make request probation only and minimal fines, it's because the defendant has some juicy goods to share. Let's hope she releases the kraken on the orangutan. Clash of the Sad Titans. Pass the popcorn!
All I can think of when I hear "Kraken" is Clash of the Titans, the one with Harry Hamlin and Sir Laurence Olivier. I hear Olivier's voice as Zeus saying, "Release the Kraken!".
Norris Blaxall covers part of the reasoning, Powell cut a deal, now she can squeal and squeal for real!
I will add that every single court appearance or lawsuit she ever files will be under heightened scrutiny from the bench, to see if Krackpot Kraken Powell has or has not experienced any form of relevant metanoia - sincere remorse for blatantly violating the most basic code of professional ethics all attorneys (and indeed, anyone with a law degree) is expected to have assimilated and follow, instead of the path she took according to the indictments.
Metanoia (from the Greek μετάνοια, metanoia, "changing one's mind") has been used in psychology since at least the time of American philosopher/psychologist William James to describe a process of fundamental change in the human personality.[1]
The term derives from the Ancient Greek words μετά (metá) (meaning "beyond" or "after") and νόος (noeō) (meaning "perception" or "understanding" or "mind"), and takes on different meanings in different contexts.
Developments
William James used the term metanoia to refer to a fundamental and stable change in an individual's life-orientation.[1] Carl Gustav Jung developed the usage to indicate a spontaneous attempt of the psyche to heal itself of unbearable conflict by melting down and then being reborn in a more adaptive form – a form of self healing often associated with the mid-life crisis and psychotic breakdown, which can be viewed as a potentially productive process.[2] Jung considered that psychotic episodes in particular could be understood as an existential crisis which might be an attempt at self-reparation: in such instances metanoia could represent a shift in the balance of the personality away from the persona towards the shadow and the self.[3] *******
Richard, what a wealth of new knowledge you have provided! I will most likely never use metanoia in a sentence, but I loved your explanation and history of the term. Thank you!
Using in a sentence difficult. As a song lyric rhyme, even more problematic. (Channeling my inner Cole Porter and Larry Hart.) Of course, using "metatonia" by itself, as a more-than-adequate substitute for Handel's "Hallelujah" works.
Metatonia! Metatonia! Metatonia!
For the D.A. magnificent, triumphs!
Metatonia! Metatonia!
A little sacrilegious, to be sure, but ever since Defendant Donny held up that prop Bible, anything (Anyone) is fair game. PS: the betting pool on how many times Defendant Donny has been to church on a Sunday since leaving the White House has been closed, since 100% of the bettors chose 0 (zero).
Thanks, The Varieties of Religious Experience was ancillary reading in an Existentialism and Theology course I took at Macalester just over fifty years ago,
I am also a Macalester alum :-). Great school. In retrospect I wish I had stayed there all four years, instead of transferring to a certain institution in New Haven at the start of my junior year. I was far less happy there. Wish I'd stayed at Mac!
Really, well doesn't surprise me you were at Mac, nor were admitted to what I take to be Yale, or that it seems in retrospect maybe you'd have preferred to remain, still, it's just impossible to really really really know if what you chose was the right choice.
I ended up finishing my undergrad philosophy begun at Mac at the U-Twin Cities, then was admitted to grad school there / here in philosophy, then (arguably a "mistake" but same applies to me as to you) to law school, graduated from what is now Mitchell-Hamline.
Teevee prosecutors like telling the viewers the first to flip gets the best deal. While true, they neglect to point out how distasteful the first deal is. A better way to look at it is the first pancake off the griddle. Not exactly the most appetizing or best looking yet there must be a first one.
Doesn't trying to throw an election quality as some flavor of treason? Why aren't these traitors getting punished? Do they all have naked photos of each other or what?
Q. Doesn't trying to throw an election quality as some flavor of treason?
A. Treason is legal word that is sharply defined. What occurred has a far better word in the English language that isn't first and foremost a legal word, betrayal. The word is broad another to cover many transgressions (of an oath, vow or own word) of many types including its most common usage, cheating.
Q. Why aren't these traitors getting punished?
A. Justice comes in many forms. The legal system is but one of many.
Q. Do they all have naked photos of each other or what?
A. You might be on to something even if it's not nudes.
I thought that, too. The downside is she’ll be on the witness stand testifying against him. Then again, maybe he’s set to flip too. The number of defendants is starting to look more manageable.
Thanks again, Lucian, for unpacking this for us (so we don't have to) with such writing flair (three words -deep doo doo). And I really appreciate your calm-headed and measured approach to Israel-Hamas.
Patris, As Alice Roosevelt (Eleanor’s cousin) famously said “If you have nothing nice to say about someone, come sit down next to me!” Ugly clownfcks is right!!
I'm talking about their odiferousness when on defense, the fur patterns are definitely distinct and for all I know, with the scent glands removed (if that isn't too cruel?) they make great pets...
Alternatively, they may have hammered out a deal where that outcome depends on her absolute adherence to a "Spilling ALL the Beans" clause, if Powell tries to get cute, the prosecutors recommend to the relevant legal review board she be disbarred, if not, she's on probation for years under penalty for losing her license to practice law (and more) if there are further crimes and misdemeanors.
Richard, I’ve been told by friends who are attorneys that for a lawyer who lies in court, disbarment is automatic. Might that also apply to testimony before Congress?
It might, that's why Krackpot Kracken Powell and her co-conspirators are hoping Vladonald Trumpski somehow evades justice and pardons the whole lot....oh, the horror, it's back to Scheherezade & Respighi : Fountains of Rome for me soon!
Can only take so much of this while nursing along a head cold recovery!
I DID forget Susanna, thanks for the reminder. Wow, maybe she doesn't learn anything and blunders into a legal mess eventually that she can't skate from.
This may be the answer. As I understand it, she does not automatically lose her license if she is useful to DA Willis, and they believe she has not withheld anything. However ... who in their right mind (or even their left) would hire her? But, then again, who in their right mind is still for another term for Trump, so who knows anything anymore?
The RWNJs will (some of them) feature her as a "martyred victim of the Deep-State-FBI-Leftist-Globalist- Democrat-Elders-0f-Zion-Soros-Anti-God-Puppets-of-Wall-Street-Rothschild-Rockefeller-Elitists," on their propaganda outlets, because "Poor Sydney Powell was hounded out of her legal career for defending our REAL PRESIDENT Donald J. Trump!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SEND MONEY NOW to stop
this heinous attack on all that is sacred and 'Merican, PATRIOTS!!!!!
Peter, I think the magats will deluge her and others with death threats. One House of Representatives repugnants got “credible death threats” after refusing to vote for gym Jordan for Speaker. They are some nasty rattlers out there with their AK 15’s locked and loaded for their orangutan, as someone here so aptly named it (my new pronoun for dump)....I feel like we are living in an altered state the more I read of these monsters....
CORRECTION: Sidney Powell was not indicted by Jack Smith in Washington D.C., but may be called as a witness against Trump in that case. Corrected in the text of the column. H/T Stu Shapiro.
I was wondering about that myself...and doesn't her status as an "unindicted co-conspirator" suggest that at some point in the future, she COULD be indicted in the Washington case?
This news is almost as good as Jim Jordan not running for another try as speaker... YIPPEE
I really don’t care if the Kraken Klan of underlings actually go to jail as long as they wind up paying big money and help send the head moron to a permanent home in perfidy.
She's not paying big man net though and I do want her in prison. She's a slime ball traitor.
Sorry! That was "not paying big money" -- auto spell strikes again. And yes, good news but she's getting off way too lightly. She tried to overturn an election for god's sake!
Any lawyer who would work for Mike Flynn automatically has a screw loose!!
I'm afraid we're all going to be disappointed because she is getting 6 years probation and some things to do. Now, I can't speak for her but she does know prison could be in the picture if she messes up and breaks any of the conditions of her probation. And she is supposed to testify against all those other idiots who were involved in this. Meanwhile, off camera more and more, Giuliani is broke and circling the financial drain. His digs are going to be sold one way or another and he's not likely to wind up with much in his pocket and where shall he live in New York as a pauper. Some of this is just so delicious I might need to go giggle in the corner a bit.
This is excellent news. Agent Orange, baby man, wannabe Supreme Dear Leader, who spent his entire time while desecrating the Oval Office insisting the everyone around him deliver endless nauseating flattery and pledge undying loyalty, is now learning--shocking!--that every single one of them is just like him: looking out only for themselves, and happy to throw him under the bus.
And there's a whole convoy of buses. Somebody hand him a diaper to cry on.
Oh, Elizabeth....psychopaths of a feather flock together! Agent Orange Baby Man will need that diaper for more than his salty crocodile 😭 tears! 😂
And a diaper to SIT on!
One can only hope.
Lucian, her fine seems so low, given the enormity of her treasonous actions! Six years probation is the “price” we have to pay for her flipping on dump and the others. How comforting to know she cannot say “My Bad” in one jurisdiction and then say “I didn’t do that” in another. What about her law license??? I hope she never can practice law anywhere again. Thanks for the great reporting. And, yes Deborah, it is wonderful Gym The Groomer backed out. What a crew!
Usually, when prosecutors make request probation only and minimal fines, it's because the defendant has some juicy goods to share. Let's hope she releases the kraken on the orangutan. Clash of the Sad Titans. Pass the popcorn!
I cannot imagine they'd sign a plea deal if she wasn't going to flip on the Orange Kraken, because they clearly had the goods on her.
Norris, “....releases the kraken on the orangutan” are priceless words to ponder. Hilarious, also! I am getting my kernels ready.....
All I can think of when I hear "Kraken" is Clash of the Titans, the one with Harry Hamlin and Sir Laurence Olivier. I hear Olivier's voice as Zeus saying, "Release the Kraken!".
Norris Blaxall covers part of the reasoning, Powell cut a deal, now she can squeal and squeal for real!
I will add that every single court appearance or lawsuit she ever files will be under heightened scrutiny from the bench, to see if Krackpot Kraken Powell has or has not experienced any form of relevant metanoia - sincere remorse for blatantly violating the most basic code of professional ethics all attorneys (and indeed, anyone with a law degree) is expected to have assimilated and follow, instead of the path she took according to the indictments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metanoia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metanoia_(psychology)
Metanoia (from the Greek μετάνοια, metanoia, "changing one's mind") has been used in psychology since at least the time of American philosopher/psychologist William James to describe a process of fundamental change in the human personality.[1]
The term derives from the Ancient Greek words μετά (metá) (meaning "beyond" or "after") and νόος (noeō) (meaning "perception" or "understanding" or "mind"), and takes on different meanings in different contexts.
Developments
William James used the term metanoia to refer to a fundamental and stable change in an individual's life-orientation.[1] Carl Gustav Jung developed the usage to indicate a spontaneous attempt of the psyche to heal itself of unbearable conflict by melting down and then being reborn in a more adaptive form – a form of self healing often associated with the mid-life crisis and psychotic breakdown, which can be viewed as a potentially productive process.[2] Jung considered that psychotic episodes in particular could be understood as an existential crisis which might be an attempt at self-reparation: in such instances metanoia could represent a shift in the balance of the personality away from the persona towards the shadow and the self.[3] *******
Richard, what a wealth of new knowledge you have provided! I will most likely never use metanoia in a sentence, but I loved your explanation and history of the term. Thank you!
Using in a sentence difficult. As a song lyric rhyme, even more problematic. (Channeling my inner Cole Porter and Larry Hart.) Of course, using "metatonia" by itself, as a more-than-adequate substitute for Handel's "Hallelujah" works.
Metatonia! Metatonia! Metatonia!
For the D.A. magnificent, triumphs!
Metatonia! Metatonia!
A little sacrilegious, to be sure, but ever since Defendant Donny held up that prop Bible, anything (Anyone) is fair game. PS: the betting pool on how many times Defendant Donny has been to church on a Sunday since leaving the White House has been closed, since 100% of the bettors chose 0 (zero).
Thanks, The Varieties of Religious Experience was ancillary reading in an Existentialism and Theology course I took at Macalester just over fifty years ago,
has been useful ever since.
I am also a Macalester alum :-). Great school. In retrospect I wish I had stayed there all four years, instead of transferring to a certain institution in New Haven at the start of my junior year. I was far less happy there. Wish I'd stayed at Mac!
Really, well doesn't surprise me you were at Mac, nor were admitted to what I take to be Yale, or that it seems in retrospect maybe you'd have preferred to remain, still, it's just impossible to really really really know if what you chose was the right choice.
I ended up finishing my undergrad philosophy begun at Mac at the U-Twin Cities, then was admitted to grad school there / here in philosophy, then (arguably a "mistake" but same applies to me as to you) to law school, graduated from what is now Mitchell-Hamline.
I have a few other choice words in Greek for her, but the ghost of my dad might smite me if I write them out here.
Having played fuutbol w/foreign nationals including Greeks, you triggered many-many in my noggin'.
Maybe go classical, she has baleful looks like Medusa that could chill the blood, etc.
But sometimes the really vulgar curse words sum it up even better, just not so much on blogs....
All true.
Love your comment RT. Anytime Greek etymology and William James appear in one comment, I’m bedazzled
Philosophy major, can't help myself!
Teevee prosecutors like telling the viewers the first to flip gets the best deal. While true, they neglect to point out how distasteful the first deal is. A better way to look at it is the first pancake off the griddle. Not exactly the most appetizing or best looking yet there must be a first one.
Doesn't trying to throw an election quality as some flavor of treason? Why aren't these traitors getting punished? Do they all have naked photos of each other or what?
Marcia....probably😹
Q. Doesn't trying to throw an election quality as some flavor of treason?
A. Treason is legal word that is sharply defined. What occurred has a far better word in the English language that isn't first and foremost a legal word, betrayal. The word is broad another to cover many transgressions (of an oath, vow or own word) of many types including its most common usage, cheating.
Q. Why aren't these traitors getting punished?
A. Justice comes in many forms. The legal system is but one of many.
Q. Do they all have naked photos of each other or what?
A. You might be on to something even if it's not nudes.
I'm wondering about that too. How low do you have to go in Texas?
Well, Chesbrough wanted to be severed from Powell, and now he is, so no more Cheese & Kraken.
I thought that, too. The downside is she’ll be on the witness stand testifying against him. Then again, maybe he’s set to flip too. The number of defendants is starting to look more manageable.
I think the large number Willis announced (19?) was destined to come down ...
Yes, they are flippin’ like hotcakes!!!!
He shouldn’t be offered any kind of plea deal.
Margo, “Cheese & Kraken” is the best I’ve seen. Brilliant!
Indeed! Margo wins the internet! 🏆😉😂
Heehee!
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That one made me laugh out loud!
"That's terrible!" she says, picking herself up off the floor.
Thanks again, Lucian, for unpacking this for us (so we don't have to) with such writing flair (three words -deep doo doo). And I really appreciate your calm-headed and measured approach to Israel-Hamas.
Krakass is more like it!
So the faux leopard print sweater wearing legal fox has changed her spots. I guess truth telling when you're stuck in a foxhole has its benefits.
I know I’m petty to get specifically crazy about her fashion choices but good goddess I can’t take her.
(To be fair, i find all of them are ugly clownfcks)
Forget the fashion choices, she just LOOKS nuts.
Omfg yes.
Patris, As Alice Roosevelt (Eleanor’s cousin) famously said “If you have nothing nice to say about someone, come sit down next to me!” Ugly clownfcks is right!!
Cathartic as hell isn’t it? (While my superego is yelling no no no!)(and my id is practically gloating)
I made a needlepoint pillow with that wonderful saying.
Doesn't have the persona to fit animal prints, well, maybe a skunk....
I love skunks!
Me, too. Were probably the only people in the world who do.
I'm talking about their odiferousness when on defense, the fur patterns are definitely distinct and for all I know, with the scent glands removed (if that isn't too cruel?) they make great pets...
Ha! Though I was wrong to say it
I'm not one to diss anyone on fashion choices. Usually. However, liars are fair game. In those cases I am willing to take cheap shots.
Powell needs to be disbarred and after she testifies against her co-conspirators, never be heard from again.
My guess is her disbarment is a done deal.
Alternatively, they may have hammered out a deal where that outcome depends on her absolute adherence to a "Spilling ALL the Beans" clause, if Powell tries to get cute, the prosecutors recommend to the relevant legal review board she be disbarred, if not, she's on probation for years under penalty for losing her license to practice law (and more) if there are further crimes and misdemeanors.
I think fear of the jug pretty much guarantees all of the beans ...
lol, Roastaroma tea with stevia extract chocolate flavoring almost came out of my nose, you sum it up well!
Richard, I’ve been told by friends who are attorneys that for a lawyer who lies in court, disbarment is automatic. Might that also apply to testimony before Congress?
It might, that's why Krackpot Kracken Powell and her co-conspirators are hoping Vladonald Trumpski somehow evades justice and pardons the whole lot....oh, the horror, it's back to Scheherezade & Respighi : Fountains of Rome for me soon!
Can only take so much of this while nursing along a head cold recovery!
I speculate about that elsewhere. Don't forget we're talking about the Texas bar, and a judge has already let her off the hook once. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/23/politics/sidney-powell-disciplinary-action-tossed/index.html
I DID forget Susanna, thanks for the reminder. Wow, maybe she doesn't learn anything and blunders into a legal mess eventually that she can't skate from.
This may be the answer. As I understand it, she does not automatically lose her license if she is useful to DA Willis, and they believe she has not withheld anything. However ... who in their right mind (or even their left) would hire her? But, then again, who in their right mind is still for another term for Trump, so who knows anything anymore?
The RWNJs will (some of them) feature her as a "martyred victim of the Deep-State-FBI-Leftist-Globalist- Democrat-Elders-0f-Zion-Soros-Anti-God-Puppets-of-Wall-Street-Rothschild-Rockefeller-Elitists," on their propaganda outlets, because "Poor Sydney Powell was hounded out of her legal career for defending our REAL PRESIDENT Donald J. Trump!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SEND MONEY NOW to stop
this heinous attack on all that is sacred and 'Merican, PATRIOTS!!!!!
Yes, well, Texas.
Peter, I think the magats will deluge her and others with death threats. One House of Representatives repugnants got “credible death threats” after refusing to vote for gym Jordan for Speaker. They are some nasty rattlers out there with their AK 15’s locked and loaded for their orangutan, as someone here so aptly named it (my new pronoun for dump)....I feel like we are living in an altered state the more I read of these monsters....
If she doesn't wind up with a book deal, I'll be very surprised.
The last one to cop a plea won't get much. This is going to get ugly.
The uglier, the better, George!
Karma acting quickly but she has more work to do.
by the way, since she is being sued by dominion voting systems i imagine this confession can be used by them?
In this moment, the penalties might seem relatively tame.
The rewards -and the true settlement of debt to society - fully emerge from whatever testimony Powell gives in this and other cases implicating tfg.
To steal a line from Rogers and Hammerstein: "Oh what a beautiful mornin!"
First of many, is my guess...