A Snippet from the Court Hearing – Attack on Paul Pelosi
As taken from Civil Discourse.
The attack on Pelosi’s husband. This is not major news until you get to the third paragraph. You then read about how the fat xxx is making light of the attack on Paul Pelosi with hammer. I can tell you what treatment prisoners might receive in person from levels 1 to 4. I would love to see trump in a level 4. Won’t happen. Possibility of a Level 2 with exposure to other prisoners. Watch how you name quickly fades. Six months there and then to a Level 1.
Joyce Vance . . .
DePape’s lawyer told the jury she wouldn’t dispute the attack. Instead, she planned to show that her client believed scores of crazy conspiracy theories and thought he was fighting child abuse and corruption. DePape, a Trump supporter, bought into a whole host of QAnon conspiracy theories. The charges against him are assault and kidnapping, and the apparent defense strategy is to dispute whether the DePape intended to prevent Nancy Pelosi from carrying out her official duties, which is an element of the federal kidnapping charge against him.
The defense will have an uphill battle establishing even that limited defense. In their opening statement, prosecutors played a tape recording of a jailhouse call DePape made to a reporter. “I have an important message for everyone in America: You’re welcome,” DePape said. “I would also like to apologize. … I’m so sorry I couldn’t get more of them.” He said he should have gone to Pelosi’s home more prepared.
Meanwhile over the weekend, Donald Trump continued with his carelessness(edit) about the risk of provoking more violence, laughing and joking about the attack on Paul Pelosi and saying things like, “the only terror we had was Nancy Pelosi,” and calling her a “crazed lunatic.” Trump asked the crowd, “what the hell was going on with her husband? Let’s not ask,” before imitating the kind of comment lawyers make in courtrooms by saying dramatically with his arms raised, “I’ll withdraw the statement.” (He meant I’ll withdraw the “question;” apparently, he didn’t pay close enough attention in the courtroom.) Trump went on to “joke” that the Pelosis had a wall around their house, before laughingly saying, “It didn’t work very well.” That, friends, is the Republican Party’s leading contender to be president in 2024.
Thank you for bringing up the craziness that has seated itself at the GOP Throne. It’s unfathomable he still has appeal to mature adults. At this point, what is there to back Trump for aside from the college-age boorish mantra of “sticking it to the man?”
What makes you think those adults are mature?
And my biggest fear is the Fat xxx could easily be the next president. While the more populous blue states could overwhelmingly vote democrat, a small margin in the swing states could hand him the victory. Same with the senate, the red states may have a much smaller population, but there are more of them which could hand the senate majority to the Republicans; even with a lower total vote count for Republicans. The House of Representatives could also go to the Republicans due to the gerrymandering of swing states. I can easily see 55+% of the country voting Democratic, but control of both houses and all three branches of government being in the power of the Republicans. Ironically, it was the Great Compromise that developed our system of selecting representation that brought our country together, and it may be what tears the nation apart.
Mark:
Repubs keep blowing themselves up on Abortion. I think we are also getting a heap of bad reporting by the news outlets claiming Biden is losing his cognitive ability. He still writes well from what I have read. We all get a little slower verbally as we age.
But to your point, Michigan is no longer gerrymandered due to a publicly passed amendment to its constitution creating a committee drawn from the public to create the voting districts. One for the good guys. The impact in Michigan was a state senate which was Republican since 84 is now Dem majority. The House is the same. Redistricting by the committee actually worked.
Wisconsin suffers from a similar dilemma and has not fixed itself.
Pennsylvania has its issues too.
In 2016, Michigan Dems asked for help from the party and did not get it several weeks before the election. In the three states (above) that swung the election to trump, the anyone but Clinton and trump vote swung the election to trump. That vote in those three states was three times what it was in 2012 and also 2020. Dems fault.
It is too soon to take action; but, it is not too soon to keep reminding people of how they and the economy were protected and saved economically. We do not say much about what took place. Which Dems should be talking about it.
What about recession? One place to start reading about the chances of such is right here at Angry Bear in New Deal democrats’ daily piece on the economy and what is going on with it in various segments. Ending comment in his latest:
“This indicator has been saying “soft landing” since the end of last year, but if as I suspect wages keep decelerating while headline inflation stabilizes, it will be more consistent with the “continuing slow deceleration” scenario.
In conclusion, the jobs report for October is convincing that there is no recession now. But it is not convincing for either the “soft landing” or “continued slow deceleration” scenario. If we are truly going to have a “soft landing,” I would expect to see continuing jobs growth of 100,000 or more each month, an unemployment rate below 4.0%, and no downturns in either construction jobs or goods producing jobs as a whole.” Scenes from the October jobs report: soft landing vs. continued slow deceleration
He could be wrong too. Dems should be talking the economics too. We have no long journey to make like we suffered in 2008 . . .