Donald Trump, US President #47, US President #45, convicted felon, twice impeached, four times indicted, liable of rape, convicted for financial fraud, guilty of hiding hush money payments to porn actress in attempt to influence 2016 elections

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#3021327 14-Jan-2023 16:23

Thank Christ for that. And hopefully they only rule the House for 2 years. All going well in 2024 this bunch of dropkicks will be on their way out.

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#3021337 14-Jan-2023 16:50

quickymart:
Thank Christ for that. And hopefully they only rule the House for 2 years. All going well in 2024 this bunch of dropkicks will be on their way out.

Don't bet on it. The US electoral system is set up, through a combination of FPP, a bunch of hacks designed to make things fair for a rural colony 250 years ago, and the American me-first mindset, to ensure that once polarisation has set in it can't be fixed. What's going to happen is ongoing gridlock with the Demorats flapping around ineffectively and the Republicans sabotaging everything they can, first all the smaller stuff and then as they get more traction by removing safeguards, bigger and bigger things.

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#3021338 14-Jan-2023 16:54

It is a mistake to view the Republicans as a monolithic entity. They are even more divided than the Democrats and even now there are still sane moderates in the party and Congress. As the Speaker circus vividly illustrates, getting them all to vote as a bloc on any single issue makes herding cats look like a North Korean military march by comparison.

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#3021345 14-Jan-2023 17:07

Rikkitic:

It is a mistake to view the Republicans as a monolithic entity. They are even more divided than the Democrats and even now there are still sane moderates in the party and Congress. As the Speaker circus vividly illustrates, getting them all to vote as a bloc on any single issue makes herding cats look like a North Korean military march by comparison.

True but unfortunately anything put forward by the Dems or Biden will result in them voting as a block.

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#3021357 14-Jan-2023 17:34

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Rikkitic:

It is a mistake to view the Republicans as a monolithic entity. They are even more divided than the Democrats and even now there are still sane moderates in the party and Congress. As the Speaker circus vividly illustrates, getting them all to vote as a bloc on any single issue makes herding cats look like a North Korean military march by comparison.

True but unfortunately anything put forward by the Dems or Biden will result in them voting as a block.

Yup. But their divided nature and the FPP-created perpetual razor-thin margin also means the après moi, le déluge nutters hold the balance of power and can dictate to the non-nutters. Look at the Kevin McCarthy debacle for a case study.

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#3021379 14-Jan-2023 20:29

Business Insider, December: Twitter reinstates the account of 'Baked Alaska' — the far-right troll who pleaded guilty to a Capitol riot charge

Twitter has reinstated the account of an internet troll who pleaded guilty to a Capitol riot charge.
"Baked Alaska"'s account was suspended in 2017 for violating Twitter's hateful conduct policy.
The reinstatement appears to be part of Elon Musk's plan to offer a "general amnesty" to suspended accounts.

Independent, December: Capitol rioter slams Trump: ‘I can’t believe I’m going to jail for an NFT salesman’

...After the former president revealed his digital trading card collection on Thursday, online persona "Baked Alaska", wrote on Twitter: “I can’t believe I’m going to jail for an NFT salesman”.

"Baked Alaska" became a high-profile Trump supporter during the 2016 presidential election and was banned from Twitter in 2017 after repeatedly posting anti-semitic and white nationalist content.
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Republicans, Maga loyalists and even President Joe Biden chimed in to make fun of the former president’s “major announcement”.

“I had some MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENTS the last couple of weeks, too,” Mr Biden wrote on Twitter, before listing the Brittney Griner release and other policy objectives.

"Baked Alaska"continued to rail against the former president on Twitter, and speculated that the Maga base would throw their support in for Kanye West.

“I wanted to make America great again but all i got was this sh***y nft,” "Baked Alaska" posted on Twitter.
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Axios, January: "Baked Alaska" sentenced to 60 days in prison for role in Capitol riot

A [Trump appointed] federal judge sentenced far-right media personality "Baked Alaska," to two months in prison on Tuesday for his role in the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol, he confirmed on Twitter after his sentencing hearing.

"Baked Alaska", who pleaded guilty in July to having "willfully and knowingly paraded, demonstrated, and picketed in" the Capitol building, livestreamed himself inside for nearly 30 minutes the day of the riot, according to court records.

Throughout the video, he repeatedly encouraged other rioters to enter the building and berated a Capitol Police officer for breaking his "oath to the constitution."

He also used a telephone in a senator's office to pretend to "make a call to the 'U.S. Senate', stating, among other things, 'We need to get our boy, Donald J. Trump, into office'," per court documents.

He then entered another senator's office, where he "sat on a couch and placed his feet on a table," and said "occupy the Capitol, let's go."
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#3021385 14-Jan-2023 21:12

Best place for a POS like this is jail.

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#3021421 15-Jan-2023 06:41

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Best place for a POS like this is jail.

Yea, but only 60 days? That is ridiculously low.

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#3021436 15-Jan-2023 08:06

linw: For "Baked Alaska" Yea, but only 60 days? That is ridiculously low.

He plead guilty early, disavowed Trump. It was the maximum negotiated as part of his plea bargain.

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#3021557 15-Jan-2023 12:14

An opinion piece on the differences between Biden and Trump's classified documents and why they are different (which they are):

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/01/14/biden-documents-trump-hillary-00077923

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#3021639 15-Jan-2023 14:55

The Guardian - Trump’s political fate may have been decided – by a Georgia grand jury

14 Jan 2023

Even as Donald Trump prepares to dial up his campaign to take back the White House, the former US president’s political and personal fate may already have been decided by the secret workings of a grand jury in Georgia.

The 23-member panel, convened to consider whether Trump and others committed crimes in trying to overturn his defeat in Georgia when it appeared the state might decide the outcome of the entire 2020 presidential election, was dissolved on Monday after submitting its conclusions and asking that they be made public.

If the grand jury’s report recommends prosecution, a county district attorney in Atlanta, Fani Willis, will face the most consequential decision of her career - whether, for the first time in American history, to charge a former president with a criminal offence. ...

Norman Eisen, the lead author of the Brookings report and former White House special counsel for ethics and government reform, said he thinks charges against Trump are “highly likely”.

“The evidence is powerful and the law is very favourable to the prosecutors in Georgia,” he said. “I believe the [special grand jury] report very likely calls for the prosecution of Trump and his co-conspirators.” ...

Trump has dismissed the threat to his freedom with his usual bluster.

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#3021655 15-Jan-2023 15:38

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Trump has dismissed the threat to his freedom with his usual bluster.

In Trump's case that's actually justified. He's been counted down-and-out by commentators more times than the Russians have announced the capture of the same town in Ukraine.

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#3021750 16-Jan-2023 07:09

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/chuck-todd-laughs-ron-johnson-170254327.html >> a Trump-loving, election-denying Republican doesn't like being asked hard questions

https://www.axios.com/2023/01/15/comer-trump-classified-docs-investigation >> another Trump fanboy plays victim on Trump's behalf, saying they're investigating Biden because Trump has already had "so many" investigations against him. No doubt this is a tactic he learned from Dear Leader 🙄