Yeah, about that...
All because the building has his name on it doesn't mean he has anything to do with owning it.
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All because the building has his name on it doesn't mean he has anything to do with owning it.
Yeah, about that...
All because the building has his name on it doesn't mean he has anything to do with owning it.
Yeah that's true that there are many buildings with his name on it that aren't his, or at least there were. As he started becoming such a polarizing figure during his presidency many of those buildings with his name began removing his name, not wanting to be associated with him any longer. The properties I'm talking about though are his, like Trump Tower (the one with his personal apartment that he fraudulently valued based on being 30,000 square feet that he later admitted was real only 11,000 square feet) or the one he calls 40 Wall Street, or Mar-A-Lardo, or his several golf courses. All of which he has referred to in the past as the crown jewels of his empire.
Gold Sneakers? Fantasy Digital Trading cards that depict him as being in much better physical shape then he is. He even has several bobble head dolls now that he's been pitching.
Also he still has many followers willing to send him money even though they barely have enough to live on. Which is fine if his debts were just a few million but now that his legal debts are around half a billion...well he doesn't have that many delusional followers.
If you consider the Haley voters as "No Chump" voters then he's in big trouble and poised for another loss. Even Fox News won't buy it this time if he shows up with his cavalry of wackos thinking the election was stolen again. How many people will want to own property formerly owned by a criminal who tried to trash democracy? The cost of fumigating the orange stink from these properties will be enormous and potential buyers will know it.
I predict a major crash and burn for the Chump.
Even if Haley got no voters and Trump got all the primary votes, he would still be poised for a loss because he's lost most if not all the independent votes and he's lost almost all the women voters with his claiming responsibility for Roe v Wade being overturned. Even though Biden has many against him for being old and there are all those threatening to not vote for him because of Gaza, I seriously doubt enough of them will sit out in protest to let Trump win. That's how Trump won the first and only time and too many remember that to let it happen again. I just hope when he loses again to Biden he doesn't convince a bunch of his followers to do something stupid like they did with Jan 6. because there will be forces rady to deal with that much differently this time and Trump won't care, he'll just be desperate to get back into office so he can pardon himself.
When Trump loses in November I think that the violence is guaranteed. Not another riot like we saw on J6, but small pockets of violence by individuals or small groups at most.
I've lived in some of the roughest neighborhoods in Chicago and Milwaukee and never felt the need to carry a gun. These last few years I've been carrying more and more because of the MAGA assholes. I live in a deep red area and I know damn well one of these stupid motherfuckers is going to pop off. It's just a question of when.
Yeah, unfortunately you're probably right but for their sakes I hope someone in their lives or some unexpected event stops them because like I said, the response to anything like that will be much more forceful then it was on Jan 6. I've heard reports in the last month or so where authorities all around the country are expecting something to happn, some form of violence and I suspect those authorities will be more trigger happy then usual just to make sure things don't turn into a riot Now of course if some MAGA moron stupidly decides to get violent then they'll only have themselves to blame for what happens to them. Still I feel it would be a shame for that to happen because they will most likely be some weak minded idiot that Trump and the whole MAGA movement manipulated into whatever it is they decide to do Too many have already suffer and all just because Trump's ego can't handle that he lost fairly and squarely to Biden.
What makes it even worse is that if Trump really wants to win there are things he could do now that could make that happen. For example, this past week Biden called for Trump to join him on coming up with a solution to the border issue. If Trump took him up on that offer not only would he get half the credit for doing something to solve the border crisis but he would also be seen by many as putting his petty self interests aside to do something to help the country which would make him seen as finally being reasonable and willing to work across the political aisle to get things done and all he would really have to do is just instruct house members to not block whatever plan or bill is put before Congress to address the border. I mean he wouldn't really have to put any real thought into it. With the result being that many would probably think okay maybe he can do something productive in a second term. Alas he's too short sighted for anythng like that to ever happen which is just one of the many reasons he is unfit to every hold the office of the Presidency ever again.
Well I guess Supreme Court Republicans are no more serious in their beliefs about states rights, then any of their counterparts in Congress. Not even Neil Gorsuch who once said ruling as an appellate court judge in Colorado, asserted that Colorado had the right to enforce a different election law defending its “legitimate interest in protecting the integrity and practical functioning of the political process.” That case, Hassan v. Colorado, dealt with a state statute enforcing the federal constitutional requirement that a person must be a naturally born citizen of the United States in order to run for the presidency.
It seems that Neil Gorsuch had no problem letting the state have it's own ruling regarding natural born citizenship but feels that it's overstepping it's authority to decide that an oath breaking insurrectionist can't be on the ballot for the Presidency based on the 14th Amendment Section 3 of the US constitution. Of course it doesn't really matter since all 9 Sumpreme Court Justices decided that states can't do that, even though they didn't argue that Trump was not an oath breaking insurrectionist which was also part of the Colorado ruling that was being appealled before the Supreme Court.
truthout.org
It seems that Neil Gorsuch had no problem letting the state have it's own ruling regarding natural born citizenship but feels that it's overstepping it's authority to decide that an oath breaking insurrectionist can't be on the ballot for the Presidency based on the 14th Amendment Section 3 of the US constitution. Of course it doesn't really matter since all 9 Sumpreme Court Justices decided that states can't do that, even though they didn't argue that Trump was not an oath breaking insurrectionist which was also part of the Colorado ruling that was being appealled before the Supreme Court.
Colorado Supreme Court Uses Neil Gorsuch Ruling to Justify Blocking Trump From Ballot
Trump is barred from running for office again under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, the court ruled.
truthout.org
From what I've been hearing from those far more knowledgeable than me on this subject, is that this was a longshot to begin with.
The Trump immunity case however is not. That's the one where we will see which Justice believes in the Constitution because that particular subject is spelled out very plainly in the Constitution.
The Trump immunity case however is not. That's the one where we will see which Justice believes in the Constitution because that particular subject is spelled out very plainly in the Constitution.
RickLafleur
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The sources I've been hearing from said both this one and the immunity one were vey clearly spelled out in the Constitution against Trump. In fact Judge J. Michael Luttig who is a former Appeals Court very conservative judge who is also regarded as a constitutional scholar had been going around saying that this one should have been a no brainer for the Supreme Court, in fact he wrote one of the amicus brief that was submitted to the Supreme Court in favor of Colorado. The only way it could have been considered a longshot is that there were decisions like the one they made that was an easy out for them (aka off ramp). The immunity one though should be pretty hard for the Sumppreme Court to go against though because the 52 page decision the lower appeals court with the 3 judge panel wrote was being refered to as bullet proof be everyone I heard talking about it. They (the Supreme Court) is still probably going to help Trump out by withholding their ruling until June to give Trump as much of a delay on his court cases as possible.
RickLafleur
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RickLafleur
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Just out of curiousity, I've noticed over the past few months this thread which used to have daily new postings has gone thru periods of silence that lasted days and even a week or more at times and it got me to wondering exactly why?
Is it due to a feeling of pointlessness, a feeling of preaching to the choir, a feeling of there being nothing new to say, all of the above or some other reason entirely? I would have to say for my part it's mainly there just being nothing really new to say that hasn't already been said. I mean I see new stuff almost daily that I could post about mostly dealing with the way Trump is manipulating the courts to delay his cases to a point beyond the election in hopes that the election and/or a hopeful win will allow him to at best eliminate the cases and at worst postpone the ones he can't kill or pardon himself from (which at the moment only appear to be Georgia and may also include Arizona in the near future). The one New York case looks like it might be the only one to complete before the election.
I do also see a lot lately about how his cognitive state is in a pretty steady decline but while it couldn't happen to a more deserving person (given his attacks of this nature against Biden) I'm reluctant to post much about that because as I age it's something that might happen to me as well one day and I wouldn't want someone posting that about me.
Is it due to a feeling of pointlessness, a feeling of preaching to the choir, a feeling of there being nothing new to say, all of the above or some other reason entirely? I would have to say for my part it's mainly there just being nothing really new to say that hasn't already been said. I mean I see new stuff almost daily that I could post about mostly dealing with the way Trump is manipulating the courts to delay his cases to a point beyond the election in hopes that the election and/or a hopeful win will allow him to at best eliminate the cases and at worst postpone the ones he can't kill or pardon himself from (which at the moment only appear to be Georgia and may also include Arizona in the near future). The one New York case looks like it might be the only one to complete before the election.
I do also see a lot lately about how his cognitive state is in a pretty steady decline but while it couldn't happen to a more deserving person (given his attacks of this nature against Biden) I'm reluctant to post much about that because as I age it's something that might happen to me as well one day and I wouldn't want someone posting that about me.
RickLafleur
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If you had cognitive impairment and you ran for president while claiming your opponent suffered from cognitive impairment, you would be fair game as far as I’m concerned.
I don’t post videos showing trump’s cognitive decline to be cruel (it’s just a bonus), I post them because maybe a few people sitting on the fence will wake up. A few votes in a state like Michigan could make a difference in November.
Trump is a man who mocked people with disabilities so while ridiculing him may be cruel, he fucking deserves it. Fuck trump and fuck any moron who wants this lunatic to be president.
