The problem with the GOP kleptocracy model that puts certain people above the law, is that it also selects for rather vaccuous individuals. Glenn Youngkin was handed a gift this week, but, no, not taking yes for an answer. He’s still Trumping along, not even feigning the “centrist” behavior Politico praises him for. First Boston, Credit Suisse, Carlyle Group, you’d expect more adept behavior from somebody positioning themselves for a national election. Have our kleptocrats simply gotten lazy?
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I still think the content of the classified docs will be a shocker; a turning point where he can’t be defended. It has already been leaked that some of them were nuclear secrets and one was a classified doc on French president Macron. There is zero evidence so far, that Biden or Pence withheld this kind of sensitive information or were personally involved in absconding with it like Trump was.
And yeah, the obstruction charge may be enough to sink him even if he skates on everything else. Both in the trial and in public opinion.
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OK Glenn, what if trump actually shot someone on 5th ave as he once bragged? What would ya think then?? Let him walk cuz he’s trump? I think not Glenn
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Given that TFG has raised several million dollars off the indictment, one can clearly see when someone like Youngkin joins the chorus, he’s seeing dollar signs. It’s not lazy. It’s greedy.
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Remember “LOCK HER UP!” ?
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Yes, but Hillary was a Democrat.
The real truth should read:
Arresting a GQP presidential candidate on a manufactured basis should not happen in America.
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Greed is one of trump’s main characteristics. Which is why I’d get a kick outta seeing him destitute with no income possible.
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Yes that is a great start.
Also, I would think after 7-8 years of rising and almost automatic death-threats against all levels of public and national politicians, govt. officials, and journalists that we would have a dedicated Death Threat force and some stiffer laws re-worked or created.
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Glenn received his MBA from Haavaad, so he should know that differentiation is essential to marketing, branding and political success. He should be uniquely Glenn, like Obama was uniquely Obama.
This presumption is palpably wrong. It is not simply the heavy advertising or the clever packaging that accounts for the preeminence of so many General Foods and Procter & Gamble products. Nor is it their superior generic products that explain the successes of IBM, Xerox, ITT, and Texas Instruments. Their real distinction lies in how they manage—especially, in the cases of P&G, General Foods, IBM, and Xerox, in how they manage marketing. The amount of careful analysis, control, and field work that characterizes their management of marketing is masked by the visibility of their advertising or presumed generic product uniqueness.
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This is all kinds of fucked up.
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Is this a different story, but similar, to one that was posted last year? I remember this having been an issue before.
It’s sad, but if the obligation was to do the slaughter (I think a contract or agreement was signed), then legally (but not morally) this is the outcome.
ETA: it’s why the farm does dairy goats and no longer shows. Too stressful for the family and the animal(s).
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It’s going to be very difficult to get stiffer laws than we already have concerning threats due to First Amendment protections. Ultimately that’s a good thing, or we couldn’t say many of the things posted here on TPM about what “should” happen to Trump and others.
What the law considers a “true threat” is very circumscribed. It has to be a threat of immediate and directed action. “I’m leaving my house right now with a gun to kill you,” not “Someone should kill you,” or “You should be killed.” Note the difference in language; this is why Trump has never been prosecuted for his indirect threats.
This site has a pretty good breakdown on how it works, and how local jurisdictions sometimes have to come up with their own definitions because the SCOTUS has never pinned down the exact definitions. Excerpt:
Left to their own devices, the federal circuit courts of appeal have created several approaches to their treatment of true threats cases. Among these is a particularly detailed and speech-protective test crafted by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The court stated in United States v. Kelner (2d Cir. 1976) that a true threat is a threat that “on its face and in the circumstances in which it is made is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to the person threatened, as to convey a gravity of purpose and imminent prospect of execution.” Until the Supreme Court formulates a definitive test for true threats, lawyers must invoke the test that prevails in their jurisdictions.
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I saw that earlier before morning coffee. Three things came to mind:
- ACAB
- We should send them copies of “The Pet Goat”
- ACAB
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What will we tell the children? oh wait
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Alas, there’s a section of the American public who, as one TPM commenter said, could see a video of TFG throwing live babies into a wood chipper and not be moved.
I do sooooooo much hope your prediction comes true.
I never believed TFG’s presidency was a black swan.
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Yes, we saw Rachel. Got me thinking. Could TFG cop a plea?
Dare I hope?
Will Birnam Wood come to Dunsinane?
Will butterflies fly out of my ass?
You know, if he could be made to believe he’ll go to the joint with a felony conviction, he just might cop that plea.
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Shoot, I’ve seen worse in Walmart.
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I always believed that the Democratic Convention in 2016 was the worst assemblage that could have been brought together…and contributed greatly to Trump having a ghost of a chance to take the WH.
I could take up half of a single-spaced page in listing the ways in which it failed us, but it comes down to this:
-- We should have united behind the Nominee in a humble, cooperative manner--
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