Yes, I see that in his sober expression. He has ‘presence’, that is, he gets our attention even as he listens in silence. His performance is very measured.
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…and after Judge Upadhyaya specifically instructed MrTDIFFG not to commit any more crimes, including, but not limited to: “… try[ing] to influence a juror or to threaten or attempt to bribe a witness or any other person who may have information about your case, or to retaliate against anyone for providing information about your case to the prosecution, or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice,”
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Judicial admonitions are for the common proles. Trump isn’t subject to the same rules as everyone else. Sooner or later those longing for his comeuppance will resign themselves to that fact.
If Trump isn’t supposed to be threatening witnesses, why is he doing it to no detriment? Because the rules don’t apply to him.
Kinda like Jesse Watters saying “Lock her up” was sarcastic. What did his idiot viewers think about that? I know; they don’t think.
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Soon they will try to float notion that they were merely satirizing Antifa when they were chanting to hang Mike Pence on J6.
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Moore v Harper was 6 - 3. There are three justices who think it is acceptable for state legislatures to throw out the votes of the citizens.
ETA. Thomas, Gorsuch, Alito.
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Josh has a great piece up about Eastman’s admission that they were trying to overthrow the government. The whiny little bitch wants to rebel because, “OSHA is so oppressive”, and “Drag queens! There are drag queens here!,”
I notice that the pasty little f$ck wasn’t up there on the barricades, though.
He must think of himself as a modern Robespierre. I guess he hasn’t actually read his history.
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Yeah this is new one for me too. I guess FL teachers won’t be adding this when they teach reconstruction.
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A clear example of institutionalized White Supremacy, imo. The Civil Rights Act may have bolstered enforcement but we’ve seen how kkk-adjacent administrative strategies have metastasized regionally into elections interference and manipulation by race and economic class. It’s to the varied Congress’ credit the civil war laws haven’t been amended out of existence or repealed.
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au contraire mon frère,
Jan 6th, 2021
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My point, exactly. He was happy to incite the riot, but didn’t get close to the violence.
Robespierre, or Marat perhaps.
Maybe he can lead his prison company to put on a rousing, “Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade.”
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With the funds he got by submitting a grant proposal to the National Endowment for the Arts.
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I’m old, and growing up with family members who discussed issues and politics but not party affiliation, I didn’t form a partisan identity. Did modern Republicans (at least until about 40 yrs ago) actually identify with the party’s ideologies from the Civil War era? I guess it just goes to show that any “branding” project remains vulnerable to the calibre and cause of the people who populate its following. Twitter>X comes to mind as a glaring and recent example.
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Tiempo Cambio.
Irony remains
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It’s difficult to organize people into effective groups. Religion has been used to provide standing group support for good or ill for a very long time; especially with the advent of modern communications.
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If the rules don’t apply to him, then it’s very odd that he showed up and surrendered for arraignment at the DC court this week like any other defendant.
We’re early in the cycle of warnings about what he can say about his various criminal cases. Trump is going to push that threshold as far as he can, and he may be given more discretion than the average person because he’s a political candidate. But I don’t believe he’ll be given unlimited freedom to say anything he wants going forward. Let’s see how this plays out.
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Death is too good for him. Better he see himself become irrelevant, ignored, forgotten and so I would wish him a long life without freedom.
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Our country’s history is dark and amazing. Critical Race Theory (a law school course, I think at graduate level) delves into the negative impacts of institutional and societal racism which travel with us to this day. It will be an invaluable field of discussion, debate, comprehension, and tool of correction if we allow it.
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I have tracked the lives of people my ancestors enslaved in Missouri. They lived next to those ancestors in 1870 and had moved to Springfield ill be 1880. This article teaches me one more reason why. Although Springfield had its own terrible history in 1908.
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