This is the day that defendant Trump revealed his plan for the rest of his life. Today in the case brought against him by New York Attorney General Leticia James in a Manhattan courtroom, every syllable Trump uttered was in furtherance of getting himself elected to the presidency of the United States. He doesn’t care that he has already lost the case against him, having been declared liable of defrauding banks and insurance companies in a scheme to enrich himself. He doesn’t care what the decision by Judge Arthur F.
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Listen,I knew TFG was bad news way before that elevator ride in 2015.The old adage of when someone tells you who they are , you should listen is completely true here.He is and has been, bar none, the worst thing to happen to this country.It is insulting to any thinking person to hear that he is leading Biden in the polls which makes me wonder who is answering these polls anyway?Russian bots?Billionaire trolls and sycophants?We have a year to go before the election.I refuse to get caught up in this faux poll freak out.Sleeves must be rolled up and much doable work is out there to be done.
I believe that to be true. In addition, young people seem uninterested in talking to pollsters. I have been ignoring poll results for quite a long time. Also, some polling operations are known to have a bias, which they can help along via their sample.
Public polling has lost its edge with the explosion of cellphones. Their crosstabs rarely include how many attempts were made in order to arrive at their so-called scientific sampling or the actual breakdown of how they made contact. At one time they could boast of an error rate of +/- 5%. Those days are gone.
The only polling that is conducted which captures voters, likely to vote, and not sure are those conducted by political parties and in some instances candidates. Those tell are far better picture from the voter, precinct and state level on up. And they use multiple methods to contact voters and potential voters, including those coming into voting age.
I would ask still more annoying but relevant questions, but I am headed back for more research into a very bizarre legal case, involving extremely complex disputes over wills and estates:
If you get worn out with the ongoing Trump farrago of facts, fictions and forecasts, you might dive into this case, as a temporary respite, before returning to our unavoidable civic duty as suggested by LKTIV's stellar work above: i.e., organizing massive legal resistance every step of the way against a Trump Cult victory and the aftermath, until hell freezes over at which time we fight them on the ice.
More than 5 years following the death of a good friend who died intestate, an arbitration hearing is set for later this month to determine if that friend's handwritten notes will be accepted as his will, or if he will be ruled as having died without a will.
The latter situation, if the court rules he indeed died intestate, will result in the division of his estate between his cousin here in town (who has been handling administration of the estate) and an unknown "cousin" who may or may not have been formally adopted by the previously unknown brother of said friend's mother. We all were stunned to learn that his mother even had had a brother! This unknown cousin, in another state, was found due to laws requiring an heirship search (certain attorneys love these opportunities!). It remains to be seen how much of the estate remains after all of the attorneys' fees and litigation costs are added up.
This is a CRUCIAL reminder to all to create a Trust or a Will, even if the Will is handwritten and dated/initialed the deceased (a holographic will).
Thanks for this comment, Judith. It's an eminently common sense and important reminder that what Charles Dickens was brilliantly satirizing, at times hilariously, along with a sprawling admixture of arcane legal terms and huge cast of characters, is prone in our era as well, to pile up needless legal costs, and sometimes produce results with the estate the decedent may have not wanted at all.
So leave a will, don't leave your relatives and friends at sea as to what they should do.
That's true--we wouldn't advance the narrative that the media has evidently decided upon. The narrative wthat will get them more simoleons. Until it doesn't.
Someone commented on Robert Hubbell's substack that the NYT poll had a disclaimer that it had "OVERSAMPLED Republicans." Somehow, that little tidbit never made it into the article, much less the headline.
"He doesn’t care that he has already lost the case against him, having been declared liable of defrauding banks and insurance companies in a scheme to enrich himself," writes Mr. T. I am not sure he has absorbed that, because he is deranged. I mean seriously unhinged. Did you catch his announcing he was busy protecting the country in 2021? I believe it was Judge Engoron who asked if he was president then? He said, "No." His synapses are shot. Frightening nonsense just falls out of his mouth as though he were some kind of slot machine for scary shit.
As for refusing to got to jail, or to do this or to do that, I cannot see his Bartleby approach succeeding,
and I'm about as Henny-Penny as you can get. As pessimistic as I am about what's going on with crazy people in government, I believe, deep down, there will be some part of law enforcement that will drag him to jail or garner his bank accounts. Polls be damned, I do not see the man being elected.
Thank you I was just about to slash my wrists. This is the most gloomy, and doomy opinion piece on the orange pus sac I’ve read in a long time. It just cannot be that a man this far into losing his faculties with this many indictments will slither out of all of them.
Reread Lucian. It doesn't matter whether he is crazy or whatever. If he wins the election, his selected followers will do as he (or his handlers) tell them to do. They are all "in his pocket'. This IS the major battle of all time. Note he will invoke the Insurrection Act.
Slot machine for scary shit! Great image. The jackpot is a cascade of...you get the picture. Some of us are old enough to remember Horn & Hardart Automats, where dad or mom fed nickels into a slot until the little door unlocked and they could reach in and pull out the particular dish they'd paid for. Deranged Defendant Trump worshipers have fed hundreds of millions of dollars into DDT's unsatisfiable machine to ensure access to a jackpot of his "scary shit."
How in the hell did we get to the point where this arrogant pustulant boil of an excuse for a human being can get away with this crap? His lawyers literally announcing in court that he's the "future President of the United States" when the judge dared push back on his pontifications? This is out of control.
You’re absolutely right about Trump. What scares me most is that millions of my fellow Americans are just fine with all of this and treat this despicable man as a hero. Over here in northwestern PA, right-wingers have invaded Erie County government, state Assembly seats and a few local school boards. People need to pay attention NOW, while there is still a chance of stopping him.
America's media rather spend a full day amplifying and multiplying Trump then standing back and tell the audience-readers what truly is at stake as you just did. 8yrs into this horror show yet they can't bring themselves to point out what he would do if elected a 2nd time, including ignoring Trump's own words. Pathetic.
Agree. Is a more polished version of the cheesy tabloids and reality teevee shows. Is painful to read or watch. (There are some notable exceptions, too few though)
I have long canceled the msm feeds I subscribed to in favor of substacks by writers who can tell truth from fiction. I refuse to pay for bs and biased misinformation.
Ah, but you need to know your enemy. Keeping an eye on what they are spewing is the only way to build a case against it. Ignoring an oncoming train won't make it go away. That being said, I agree with you about favoring Substack writers for telling truth from fiction.
Understandable given the history and trajectory of the media. One often overlooked contributory is the same old-same old group of commentators (stretching the word beyond its limits) and sources.
In the quest for hearing both sides rather than the search for truth, the media has created false binary choices while omitting everything in between. Rather than stimulate thought in the readership or viewership, the media is positioning its audience to line up with one or the other.
Paraphrasing Orwell, the media told you to reject your own thoughts and replace them with their oft-repeated limited evidence and oversimplifications. It was their final, most essential command.
Seriously - if you don’t step up, focus and get involved in elections right - if only to go vote and urge everyone you know to now - we're giving that criminal canned ham the keys to the kingdom.
Nov 7, 2023·edited Nov 7, 2023Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV
He and his minions belong in prison. He is not above the law and I hope one of the judges and/or juries recognize him for the criminal he is and the danger to our country and democracy he is. Having grown up in southwestern CT, I was exposed to his shenanigans all my formative years. I was, and still am, appalled he was ever a candidate for political office and further, that a sufficient number of our fellow citizens were, and still are, taken in by his bullshit enough to elect and possibly re-elect this grifter and liar. God help us if this comes to pass...
Tonight I'll re-read "The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry and tomorrow rejoin the effort to drain the cesspool of hate and lies Trump created, and in which some in our society enjoy swimming.
I don't know if I have any MAGA neighbors. I put Charles Booker signs in my yard when he ran and left them up as long as they withstood the weather. Everyone knows where I stand.
Trump and his lawyers showed a total disregard for both the rule of law and authority of the court. Not only did they make asses of themselves, they showed that there are no limits when it comes to protection of the Dear Leader. In a rational world where the law was applied equally to all he would be sitting in Rikers tonight and his lawyers would be facing disbarment. But sadly, this is not a rational world.
I agree and add to that. He will use violent means to pay back. Perhaps via militias, perhaps police, but there will be violence. Trump is a killer. 1932.
Get out the vote by every means possible. Register every sane potential voter out there. Every one of us needs to actively “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic”.
I have a Trump cat toy that my daughter gave me that I have made into a Voodoo doll.Don’t know anything about this but it cannot hurt ( one pin in the eye one in the heart) lol
A New Orleans voodoo street artist created one for me six years ago. It's now a pin cushion. Not pinning my hopes it will do the job, but it's a great reminder to stay strong.
My children gave me one. And a doll that I used to bang on the kitchen counter. When I finally had more than I could bear, i gave it to their very mischievous dogs. That doll was history in record time!
I’ve still got mine in my guest bathroom along with a toilet paper roll with his face on each segment, his mouth is in his signature O ready to receive his next offering, my grandkids love it, that is the only way I would ever allow him to be in my home. 🤷♂️ I find it almost painful to utter his name, it’s easier to refer to him as the insipid imbecilic clown.
I used up all the toilet roll with his face on it. It was not worth the paper it was printed on, either-rough and grainy, sort of like European toilet paper.
If I used it, it was only once or so just so I could get the pleasure of rubbing his face in it. Cheap is the right word for it, I loathe him so much, it's the only place I don't mind seeing his face in my home.
I guess I'm a bit superstitious. It was given to me prior to the last election and he was DUMPED. So, when we manage to dump him once more (and I'm trying hard to be optimistic), I'll probably let my two cats have their way with it!
It does seem to be the time to invoke some eldritch spells or faerie magick to stop what is coming. Where is a druid circle, witches coven, or ninja hit squad we can crowdfund to take care of this business?
Good piece and great read..but I'm about ready to shut down the Trump train that fuels the papers and magazines, authors and writers.
you see, I'm exhausted from hearing about Trump, hearing him, his threats, boasts, lies, fantasies, insults, insanity unlimited.
We've been living with this asshole for over 6 years, and I'm just so fucking tired of the addle-pated moron that I could scream.
It's not your fault, Lucian, but it is the fault of millions of Americans with mush for brains and spaghetti for spines with a healthy dose of racism and hatred for mankind who had no business voting for the son of a bitch in the first place.
Trump is a con man, and like all of them he's got his audience enthralled. I will be eternally grateful for the first judge to put him in prison. Any of them.
Of course we are going to have disqualify Ms. Boom-Boom Cannon as a judge because she's already shown her cards-she's incompetent and a Trump acolyte who delights in his pleasure.
I wish I could fast forward to November 6, 2024 and pray that we got it right once again. Because we just can't endure another term of that asshole who speaks with brains made of mud.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 well said Mary, I think we are going to make it, I hope it’s not even close but I’ll take it even if it is. The park service needs to be planning on a national urinal to be installed over whatever monument he wants, so that we have a place to relieve ourselves when visiting to lay another curse on what’s left of him. A self emptying spittoon wouldn’t be out of place as well.
This column, tonight, is our biblical guide as to what will happen when a fascist, a wannabe authoritarian would be elected as a leader of what used to be a “free” country. It will be disastrous, scary, and wrecking to our very being. As the UAW workers fought back successfully to get salaries and benefits, their message STAND UP should be all of ours! Now is not the time to slink into some cubbyhole. STAND UP
Listen,I knew TFG was bad news way before that elevator ride in 2015.The old adage of when someone tells you who they are , you should listen is completely true here.He is and has been, bar none, the worst thing to happen to this country.It is insulting to any thinking person to hear that he is leading Biden in the polls which makes me wonder who is answering these polls anyway?Russian bots?Billionaire trolls and sycophants?We have a year to go before the election.I refuse to get caught up in this faux poll freak out.Sleeves must be rolled up and much doable work is out there to be done.
I’ve read that polls only contact people via landlines, which seriously skews their results toward older and more conservative voters.
I believe that to be true. In addition, young people seem uninterested in talking to pollsters. I have been ignoring poll results for quite a long time. Also, some polling operations are known to have a bias, which they can help along via their sample.
Public polling has lost its edge with the explosion of cellphones. Their crosstabs rarely include how many attempts were made in order to arrive at their so-called scientific sampling or the actual breakdown of how they made contact. At one time they could boast of an error rate of +/- 5%. Those days are gone.
The only polling that is conducted which captures voters, likely to vote, and not sure are those conducted by political parties and in some instances candidates. Those tell are far better picture from the voter, precinct and state level on up. And they use multiple methods to contact voters and potential voters, including those coming into voting age.
We say it daily.... they haven’t polled us.
Are you in a swing state? No? Then what difference does your vote make in the prospective national presidential election?
https://democraticautopsy.org/
I would ask still more annoying but relevant questions, but I am headed back for more research into a very bizarre legal case, involving extremely complex disputes over wills and estates:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarndyce_and_Jarndyce
If you get worn out with the ongoing Trump farrago of facts, fictions and forecasts, you might dive into this case, as a temporary respite, before returning to our unavoidable civic duty as suggested by LKTIV's stellar work above: i.e., organizing massive legal resistance every step of the way against a Trump Cult victory and the aftermath, until hell freezes over at which time we fight them on the ice.
More than 5 years following the death of a good friend who died intestate, an arbitration hearing is set for later this month to determine if that friend's handwritten notes will be accepted as his will, or if he will be ruled as having died without a will.
The latter situation, if the court rules he indeed died intestate, will result in the division of his estate between his cousin here in town (who has been handling administration of the estate) and an unknown "cousin" who may or may not have been formally adopted by the previously unknown brother of said friend's mother. We all were stunned to learn that his mother even had had a brother! This unknown cousin, in another state, was found due to laws requiring an heirship search (certain attorneys love these opportunities!). It remains to be seen how much of the estate remains after all of the attorneys' fees and litigation costs are added up.
This is a CRUCIAL reminder to all to create a Trust or a Will, even if the Will is handwritten and dated/initialed the deceased (a holographic will).
Thanks for this comment, Judith. It's an eminently common sense and important reminder that what Charles Dickens was brilliantly satirizing, at times hilariously, along with a sprawling admixture of arcane legal terms and huge cast of characters, is prone in our era as well, to pile up needless legal costs, and sometimes produce results with the estate the decedent may have not wanted at all.
So leave a will, don't leave your relatives and friends at sea as to what they should do.
That's true--we wouldn't advance the narrative that the media has evidently decided upon. The narrative wthat will get them more simoleons. Until it doesn't.
Someone commented on Robert Hubbell's substack that the NYT poll had a disclaimer that it had "OVERSAMPLED Republicans." Somehow, that little tidbit never made it into the article, much less the headline.
WTF!!
"He doesn’t care that he has already lost the case against him, having been declared liable of defrauding banks and insurance companies in a scheme to enrich himself," writes Mr. T. I am not sure he has absorbed that, because he is deranged. I mean seriously unhinged. Did you catch his announcing he was busy protecting the country in 2021? I believe it was Judge Engoron who asked if he was president then? He said, "No." His synapses are shot. Frightening nonsense just falls out of his mouth as though he were some kind of slot machine for scary shit.
As for refusing to got to jail, or to do this or to do that, I cannot see his Bartleby approach succeeding,
and I'm about as Henny-Penny as you can get. As pessimistic as I am about what's going on with crazy people in government, I believe, deep down, there will be some part of law enforcement that will drag him to jail or garner his bank accounts. Polls be damned, I do not see the man being elected.
Of course Trump is insane. And 70 million voters have drank his poisonous KOOLAID.
MAD MAD WORLD
Thank you I was just about to slash my wrists. This is the most gloomy, and doomy opinion piece on the orange pus sac I’ve read in a long time. It just cannot be that a man this far into losing his faculties with this many indictments will slither out of all of them.
Reread Lucian. It doesn't matter whether he is crazy or whatever. If he wins the election, his selected followers will do as he (or his handlers) tell them to do. They are all "in his pocket'. This IS the major battle of all time. Note he will invoke the Insurrection Act.
I'm betting he will not even be the nominee.
I hope that you are right!! Right now, the steamroller seems to be rolling.....
Margo Howard: It would be interesting to know your reasons why you think the t-rump-enslaved GQP would even consider nominating anyone else!
Doesn’t matter. He galvanized the Deplorables. The future belongs to them.
I think they will peel off. We will see, won’t we?
Slot machine for scary shit! Great image. The jackpot is a cascade of...you get the picture. Some of us are old enough to remember Horn & Hardart Automats, where dad or mom fed nickels into a slot until the little door unlocked and they could reach in and pull out the particular dish they'd paid for. Deranged Defendant Trump worshipers have fed hundreds of millions of dollars into DDT's unsatisfiable machine to ensure access to a jackpot of his "scary shit."
I’m with you, Margo! No way, Jose....
Have you every considered writing for Comedy Central?
It's funny you should say that because all kinds of people have said I should do stand-up. Out of the question, of course, but many thanks.
How in the hell did we get to the point where this arrogant pustulant boil of an excuse for a human being can get away with this crap? His lawyers literally announcing in court that he's the "future President of the United States" when the judge dared push back on his pontifications? This is out of control.
You’re absolutely right about Trump. What scares me most is that millions of my fellow Americans are just fine with all of this and treat this despicable man as a hero. Over here in northwestern PA, right-wingers have invaded Erie County government, state Assembly seats and a few local school boards. People need to pay attention NOW, while there is still a chance of stopping him.
Agree fully. All hands on deck--tomorrow and in the future!
America's media rather spend a full day amplifying and multiplying Trump then standing back and tell the audience-readers what truly is at stake as you just did. 8yrs into this horror show yet they can't bring themselves to point out what he would do if elected a 2nd time, including ignoring Trump's own words. Pathetic.
clicks...ads...money...billionaire r/w dipwads in positions of power...it's not about truth or reality
Agree. Is a more polished version of the cheesy tabloids and reality teevee shows. Is painful to read or watch. (There are some notable exceptions, too few though)
I have long canceled the msm feeds I subscribed to in favor of substacks by writers who can tell truth from fiction. I refuse to pay for bs and biased misinformation.
Ah, but you need to know your enemy. Keeping an eye on what they are spewing is the only way to build a case against it. Ignoring an oncoming train won't make it go away. That being said, I agree with you about favoring Substack writers for telling truth from fiction.
Understandable given the history and trajectory of the media. One often overlooked contributory is the same old-same old group of commentators (stretching the word beyond its limits) and sources.
In the quest for hearing both sides rather than the search for truth, the media has created false binary choices while omitting everything in between. Rather than stimulate thought in the readership or viewership, the media is positioning its audience to line up with one or the other.
Paraphrasing Orwell, the media told you to reject your own thoughts and replace them with their oft-repeated limited evidence and oversimplifications. It was their final, most essential command.
All hands on deck.
Red Alert!
Seriously - if you don’t step up, focus and get involved in elections right - if only to go vote and urge everyone you know to now - we're giving that criminal canned ham the keys to the kingdom.
More like Orange Alert!
He and his minions belong in prison. He is not above the law and I hope one of the judges and/or juries recognize him for the criminal he is and the danger to our country and democracy he is. Having grown up in southwestern CT, I was exposed to his shenanigans all my formative years. I was, and still am, appalled he was ever a candidate for political office and further, that a sufficient number of our fellow citizens were, and still are, taken in by his bullshit enough to elect and possibly re-elect this grifter and liar. God help us if this comes to pass...
I didn't want to sleep tonight anyway.
trump is a runaway train.
Tonight I'll re-read "The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry and tomorrow rejoin the effort to drain the cesspool of hate and lies Trump created, and in which some in our society enjoy swimming.
Wendell Berry is incredible.
Proud he's in Kentucky. Met him years ago.
He's worthy of our pride. I live in Louisville, so the paradox isn't too bad. I'm among liberal, progressive company.
I am in NKY. Where Cameron signs abound this week.
I don't know if I have any MAGA neighbors. I put Charles Booker signs in my yard when he ran and left them up as long as they withstood the weather. Everyone knows where I stand.
Trump and his lawyers showed a total disregard for both the rule of law and authority of the court. Not only did they make asses of themselves, they showed that there are no limits when it comes to protection of the Dear Leader. In a rational world where the law was applied equally to all he would be sitting in Rikers tonight and his lawyers would be facing disbarment. But sadly, this is not a rational world.
I do not believe that poll or that trmp will win.
Vote.
Thank you LT writing and posting this article
You are right
I agree and add to that. He will use violent means to pay back. Perhaps via militias, perhaps police, but there will be violence. Trump is a killer. 1932.
Get out the vote by every means possible. Register every sane potential voter out there. Every one of us needs to actively “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic”.
I have a Trump cat toy that my daughter gave me that I have made into a Voodoo doll.Don’t know anything about this but it cannot hurt ( one pin in the eye one in the heart) lol
A New Orleans voodoo street artist created one for me six years ago. It's now a pin cushion. Not pinning my hopes it will do the job, but it's a great reminder to stay strong.
I had a toilet plunger that looked like him. After a while I let the dog "play" with it. It is no more.
My children gave me one. And a doll that I used to bang on the kitchen counter. When I finally had more than I could bear, i gave it to their very mischievous dogs. That doll was history in record time!
Funny, we both fed his likeness to the dog!
An appropriate way for him to spend final moments, doncha think?
I’ve still got mine in my guest bathroom along with a toilet paper roll with his face on each segment, his mouth is in his signature O ready to receive his next offering, my grandkids love it, that is the only way I would ever allow him to be in my home. 🤷♂️ I find it almost painful to utter his name, it’s easier to refer to him as the insipid imbecilic clown.
I used up all the toilet roll with his face on it. It was not worth the paper it was printed on, either-rough and grainy, sort of like European toilet paper.
If I used it, it was only once or so just so I could get the pleasure of rubbing his face in it. Cheap is the right word for it, I loathe him so much, it's the only place I don't mind seeing his face in my home.
I have a "Dump Trump" roll of toilet paper that sits intact in the bathroom. It's a constant reminder of that POS.
Why intact? Just sayin' ...
I guess I'm a bit superstitious. It was given to me prior to the last election and he was DUMPED. So, when we manage to dump him once more (and I'm trying hard to be optimistic), I'll probably let my two cats have their way with it!
My hunch is you'd get more pleasure from using it. As I understand cats and their toileting, the insult would be wasted on your feline.
It does seem to be the time to invoke some eldritch spells or faerie magick to stop what is coming. Where is a druid circle, witches coven, or ninja hit squad we can crowdfund to take care of this business?
We burned ours on Jan 20, 2021.
Good piece and great read..but I'm about ready to shut down the Trump train that fuels the papers and magazines, authors and writers.
you see, I'm exhausted from hearing about Trump, hearing him, his threats, boasts, lies, fantasies, insults, insanity unlimited.
We've been living with this asshole for over 6 years, and I'm just so fucking tired of the addle-pated moron that I could scream.
It's not your fault, Lucian, but it is the fault of millions of Americans with mush for brains and spaghetti for spines with a healthy dose of racism and hatred for mankind who had no business voting for the son of a bitch in the first place.
Trump is a con man, and like all of them he's got his audience enthralled. I will be eternally grateful for the first judge to put him in prison. Any of them.
Of course we are going to have disqualify Ms. Boom-Boom Cannon as a judge because she's already shown her cards-she's incompetent and a Trump acolyte who delights in his pleasure.
I wish I could fast forward to November 6, 2024 and pray that we got it right once again. Because we just can't endure another term of that asshole who speaks with brains made of mud.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 well said Mary, I think we are going to make it, I hope it’s not even close but I’ll take it even if it is. The park service needs to be planning on a national urinal to be installed over whatever monument he wants, so that we have a place to relieve ourselves when visiting to lay another curse on what’s left of him. A self emptying spittoon wouldn’t be out of place as well.
And HOW are “we” going to “disqualify” Judge Cannon!???
I don't know-but if she had any kind of ethics, she'd recuse herself.
what he said.
and bigtime.
This column, tonight, is our biblical guide as to what will happen when a fascist, a wannabe authoritarian would be elected as a leader of what used to be a “free” country. It will be disastrous, scary, and wrecking to our very being. As the UAW workers fought back successfully to get salaries and benefits, their message STAND UP should be all of ours! Now is not the time to slink into some cubbyhole. STAND UP
Amen, sister. For now, we get out the vote. If he is elected, we hit the streets.