Thought for the Day

[Stavros]

So they are going to transform the US with the Ten Commandments and a major reversal of 1960s 'Liberalism', to put GOD and the TEN COMMANDMENTS back into everyday life. Thus

"Josh Hawley (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/23/josh-hawley-anti-abortion-arguments-embryo-ruling), a Republican senator for Missouri, warned of a “radical anti-faith agenda” gripping the country. He said: “Who’s dividing America is the radical left and that’s why I say to you we don’t need less Christian influence in our society, we don’t need less Christian witness in our society; we need more in every part of government, in every part of society.”
To approving roars from the audience, Hawley added: “We ought to take the Pride flag (https://www.hrc.org/resources/lgbtq-pride-flags) out of schools and put the Bible back in. You know what? We ought to take the trans flag down from all of our federal buildings and over every federal building in America write the words, ‘In God we trust’. In God we trust. Amen.”"
In Trump we trust: religious right on crusade to make their man president | Donald Trump | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/22/trump-christians-president-religion)

But what does this mean in terms of the law? If there is to be a Nationwide ban on Abortion, on IVF, on Contraception -and for men as well as women- then what happens with regard to the Commandment not to Commit Adultery? Surely the logic of this 'Christian' politics demands that Adultery be illegal. Then comes the obvious question: the Punishment. So how about the Punishment of Adulterers in Plymouth Colony. Scarlet Letter anyone?

"Plymouth Colony never attempted to put anyone to death for adultery, although Mayflower passenger William Latham's wife Mary was hanged for adultery in the neighboring Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1644. In Plymouth Colony in 1639, Mrs. Mary Mendame of Duxbury was convicted of "uncleanness" with an Indian named Tinsin, and was sentenced to be whipped at a cart's-tail through the town streets and to wear an AD badge: which, if she was found without, would be branded onto her forehead. In 1641, an adulterous affair between singleman Thomas Bray and Mrs. Anne Linceford was discovered, and both parties were sentenced to public whipping at the post, and to wear the AD badge on their clothing. In 1658 the law was finally rewritten to formalize how it had been administered previously: it defined the punishment for adultery as two severe whippings, once right after conviction and once at a second time to be determined by the magistrates; and the individual would have to wear the letters AD "cut out in cloth and sowed on their uppermost garment on their arm or back." If at any time they were found without the mark within the jurisdiction of the Colony, they would be publicly whipped."
Crime — MayflowerHistory.com (http://mayflowerhistory.com/crime#:~:text=In%201658%20the%20law%20was,AD%20%22 cut%20out%20in%20cloth)

DJT, watch and learn, for righteous fury is comin' your way.

[Stavros]

What if the Panama Canal runs out of water, and ships can't get through? It helps transport 6% of global maritime trade worth $3.34 billion a year -but would even a temporary closure cause havoc on the markets and raise prices domestically, in the US and elsewhere?

Panama Canal agency warns water shortage "is not over" (yahoo.com) (https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/panama-canal-agency-warns-water-010159034.html)

[KnightHawk 2.0]

If the Democratic Party thought the President Joe Biden wasn't up too the task of serving a second term?,than they should have started the process of looking for a replacement a year ago,someone who they think that can defeat Donald Trump in a general election. It is way too late for President Joe Biden to step aside and end his campaign for reelection,and go through the process of naming a new nominee. One bad performance in a 90 minute debate,doesn't erase all of the great work him and his administration has done over the last 3 1/2 years. The so-called political pundits and strategists needs to stop panicking and support their guy.

[broncofan]

I wanted to say that I got it wrong with respect to Biden's mental state. I didn't post it here but I'll be honest. I've often heard him speak and thought he did not sound good, but then would see him bounce back with a relatively clear and good performance.

Maybe there's some willful blindness, but there is also the issue of exponential decline at a certain age. What that age is might vary, from person to person, but it frequently occurs between the ages of 80 and 90. Someone who is suffering cognitive decline might be just as sharp on some days, and then start to have more bad days. Then at a point, they are never able to muster the energy and focus to perform at their best. It is this last progression that surprises people. From good days and bad to mostly all not so great.

[blackchubby38]

I wanted to say that I got it wrong with respect to Biden's mental state. I didn't post it here but I'll be honest. I've often heard him speak and thought he did not sound good, but then would see him bounce back with a relatively clear and good performance.

Maybe there's some willful blindness, but there is also the issue of exponential decline at a certain age. What that age is might vary, from person to person, but it frequently occurs between the ages of 80 and 90. Someone who is suffering cognitive decline might be just as sharp on some days, and then start to have more bad days. Then at a point, they are never able to muster the energy and focus to perform at their best. It is this last progression that surprises people. From good days and bad to mostly all not so great.

You weren't the only one. There were times when I thought that Biden looked and sounded fine. But there were other times I thought he would be lucky if he was going to make it to end of his first term in office.

Where I really started to get concerned was when he traveled to Europe one time (I think it was when he went to meet with President Zelensky) and his wife went out of her way to talk about how Joe was fit enough to make the trip. Almost to point where she way saying she would like to see a younger person do the same thing.

[broncofan]

I like Joe Biden as a person, regardless of politics. I could feel how distraught he was when his son, Beau, died of brain cancer. I like that he challenged hedge fund manager and grade A asshole (I repeat myself) Bill Ackman to a fight when he thought Ackman had insulted his son's memory. I can also see his pain and empathy for Hunter, whose adult life has been riddled with difficulties, most notably addiction problems.

I feel bad that he is not going to be running for a second time because I think he has an intrinsic likeability. But I acknowledge that he is not the most likely person to win, and seems to have more difficulty expressing himself clearly than someone running for office should.

In a different thread I think filghy may have mentioned cult like behavior and I have to say I was surprised to see it among my friends who are supporters of Biden. Initially I was not sure whether his bad performance would blow over or whether he had another gear. As I saw testimonials come in, particularly George Clooney's op-ed, I started to think that what I saw was something people close to him have seen and knew would be a continuing problem. The reason the Biden fans' behavior seemed cult-like is that as new people stepped forward to say he should stand down, their response was always the same. Either the person recommending he step down, a person with no history of corruption, has been corrupted and moved to the dark side. Or this person has been duped by a well orchestrated media campaign to sabotage Biden because Trump will sell more newspapers. Every single time it was, "I used to respect her", or " I'm done with him now" or "I always knew he was trash (but never said it)". And these were mostly people who had long records of public service, clean records with respect to ethics.

It was sad to see. They are not convinced even now.

[filghy2]

It was sad to see. They are not convinced even now.

Biden standing down actually helps them because we won't see the counterfactual. If Harris loses they'll say that Biden would have won if he wasn't undermined by the media and disloyal Democrats. If she does win they'll say it was due to Biden and he would have won anyway.

[Stavros]

I don’t often go to Biergarten when I am here, but I was taken to one by a friend. An American I met there said the US is too sexist country to vote for Kamala Harris. I don’t know if this is true, and I would like to think Trump, as usual substituting reason for crude insults has demeaned himself in her favour with that three letter word, but the other insults - ‘DEI hire’ for example-keep coming, and will be added to as the weeks go on.

Yes, Harris has to do more to convince people she is the right one, but is the campaign now going to be about policy, or whether or not the US is ready for a female President?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/27/misogyny-emergency-huge-outpouring-kamala-harris-us-electionction

[Stavros]

This is weird - a conference in which Americans are urged to 'vote Biblically', with multiple references to the Old Testament, which I honestly believe is sort of Jewish, then this, from the 'Evangelists'--

"After Wallnau spoke, Bill Federer, an evangelist who has written more than thirty books weighing in on US history from an anti-communist and rightwing perspective, offered a brief and often intensely inaccurate, intellectual history of the US and Europe. During his talk, Federer dropped references to the villains of his historiography – among them Karl Marx, Fidel Castro, the German philosopher Hegel and, “a little closer to home”, the political theorist of the New Left, Saul Alinsky. The crowd, apparently already versed in Federer’s intellectual universe, groaned and booed when Federer mentioned Alinsky.

Federer also railed on “globalists”, tapping into the longstanding antisemitic idea (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/us/antisemitism-republicans-trump.html) of a shadowy cabal led by wealthy Jewish people who dictate world events.

“Globalists,” Federer said, “are giving money to LGBTQ activists to get involved with politics.”"
‘We have to be voting biblically’: the Courage Tour rallies Christians to get Trump in office (yahoo.com) (https://uk.news.yahoo.com/voting-biblically-courage-tour-rallies-100031439.html)

Note: Saul Alinksy was a political organizer, not a political theorist. As for Hegel being a villain of history- I guess one wonders if Federer even knows who he is. Maybe its a form of word tennis?

[Stavros]

The Telegraph offers this explanation for the ugly scenes in the UK following the murder of young girls in a dance class. The confrontations were sparked, in part if not whole, by the allegation the murderer was a Muslim, when in fact he is Christian, and also born here not an immigrant. The damage has been done. Behind this, according to the article, is a possibly autonomous Russian website which nevertheless seems to be part of Putin's 'information war' with the Democratic west. The aim is simple: create chaos or disorder to undermine public faith in politics, to use an open society against itself.

People believe what they want to believe, facts be damned. But in the end, with that tactic, we are all damned.

The obscure Russian-linked ‘news’ outlet fuelling violence on Britain’s streets (yahoo.com) (https://uk.news.yahoo.com/obscure-russian-linked-news-outlet-140000627.html)

[Stavros]

‘A polarisation engine’: how social media has created a ‘perfect storm’ for UK’s far-right riots | Social media | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/aug/03/a-polarisation-engine-how-social-media-has-created-a-perfect-storm-for-uks-far-right-riots)

[Stavros]

One of the curious features of the confrontations between the police and various rioters, some of whom are local Muslims afraid the Nationalists and Racists are going to attack their mosques, others who target hotels being used by asylum seekers, is that we don't really know who is sending the messages such as "‘Nottingham rising, we’ll be here at 3pm on Saturday’" (see Guardian link).

Telegram appears to be the primary vehicle for the people who both create, and respond to posts that either allege crimes or identify dates and locations of demonstrations. In the case of the 17-year old who murdered girls in a dance class, the original post identifying him as a Muslim who arrived as an illegal immigrant on a boat across the English Channel has been deleted or lost, but was promoted by Andrew Tate which in turn was the source of the provocative post by Nigel Farage who claimed to be asking an honest question when asking if the Police knew more than they were telling the public.

This toxic environment can be debated in terms of algorithms and some of the people involved, like Farage and Tate -the latter has said 'Thank you' to Putin for ending Covid (!)- but as The Conversation article argues, it is harder to censor content that on most platforms has, or was banned before Musk and X decided that Hate Speech is Free Speech.

Why Telegram is the go-to app for those wanting to spread toxic information | Apps | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/07/why-telegram-is-the-go-to-app-for-those-wanting-to-spread-toxic-information)

Farage cites Andrew Tate as source of questions about alleged Southport attacker (yahoo.com) (https://uk.news.yahoo.com/farage-cites-andrew-tate-source-174917723.html)

Who is Andrew Tate? The self-proclaimed misogynist influencer - BBC News (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64125045)

Andrew Tate bizarrely claims Covid ‘went away after Ukraine invasion’ | News | Independent TV (https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/andrew-tate-tucker-carlson-ukraine-covid-b2373786.html)

Riots in the UK: online propagandists know how to work their audiences – this is what we are missing (theconversation.com) (https://theconversation.com/riots-in-the-uk-online-propagandists-know-how-to-work-their-audiences-this-is-what-we-are-missing-236084)

[Stavros]

An overview of Right Wing groups and individuals in the Uk

The EDL, actors and conspiracy theorists – a guide to the British far right | Far right | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/07/the-edl-actors-and-conspiracy-theorists-a-guide-to-the-british-far-right)

[Stavros]

Farage blames Andrew Tate, Tate turns on Nigel Farage, a standard example of why the extreme right has never been able to hold together for more than a few years before egos clash and they go their separate ways, why UKIP more or less fell apart when Farage abandoned it, ditto the Brexit Party, and Reform UK will probably not last longer than this Parliament. Tate enjoys being provocative, I suspect it is his only reason to exist, and I doubt he cares much about the consequences, these people rarely do.

Andrew Tate slams Nigel Farage "for throwing me under the bus" and blaming riots on him (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/andrew-tate-slams-nigel-farage-for-throwing-me-under-the-bus-and-blaming-riots-on-him/ar-AA1oorff?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDGEESS&cvid=fce799c618864e6ea8f0db434c6ebfea&ei=85)

[Stavros]

More on the sources of the fake news that sparked off the riots in the UK-

The real story of the website accused of fuelling Southport riots - BBC News (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y38gjp4ygo)

[Stavros]

Ann Coulter has fabulous hair, and an equally fabulous view of American history and the peoples who have lived there, and continue to do so, willingly or not.

Her latest invention followed Tucker Carlson with his 'Legacy Americans' with the view that Kamala Harris is not a 'Foundational Black' American. She goes on to argue that while 'Foundational Black' Americans were/are (?) entitled to Civil Rights laws, nobody else is, or something like that. So I guess if you are an immigrant from Nigeria or Kenya, you also can't be a 'Foundational Black'? Merely Black, and if you were never part of Slavery, then Civil Rights ain't for you?

I know she isn't the brightest pundit on the circuit, but it is almost fascinating to see Americans like her and Carlson in effect demeaning, indeed, disqualifying other Americans from the same rights they have because they don't meet some invented criteria, like Legacy, and Foundational.

Is Stupid American, or Ignorant American an invented concept, words too far?

Ann Coulter attacks Kamala Harris’s racial identity as not ‘foundational Black’ | The Independent (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ann-coulter-kamala-harris-race-b2594792.html)
(and note she tells Vivek Ramaswamy she won't vote for him because he is Indian...!)

[Stavros]

Robert F Kennedy, the man whose voice gives gravel the texture of semen, has, he claims 'suspended' his campaign to be the next President of the USA -only he hasn't. This contradiction -he has withdrawn his name where he can from mostly Republican-leaning States, but remains on the ballot where he is too late to withdraw or the State leans Democrat- suggests Mr Kennedy has a slim grasp of facts. But given his denial that more than 200 years of immunology has been a major advance in public health, or is even part of some global conspiracy to do who knows what, society can at least sigh that this Grade A cretin was ever on any Ballot, anywhere. That such a man would then endorse a convicted criminal as President sums up the astonishing fact that crime, lies and contempt for the rule of law have become normalized.

RFK Jr ‘suspends’ presidential campaign and endorses Trump as he rails against ‘rigged’ system (yahoo.com) (https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rfk-jr-suspends-presidential-campaign-192504645.html)

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Robert F Kennedy, the man whose voice gives gravel the texture of semen, has, he claims 'suspended' his campaign to be the next President of the USA -only he hasn't. This contradiction -he has withdrawn his name where he can from mostly Republican-leaning States, but remains on the ballot where he is too late to withdraw or the State leans Democrat- suggests Mr Kennedy has a slim grasp of facts. But given his denial that more than 200 years of immunology has been a major advance in public health, or is even part of some global conspiracy to do who knows what, society can at least sigh that this Grade A cretin was ever on any Ballot, anywhere. That such a man would then endorse a convicted criminal as President sums up the astonishing fact that crime, lies and contempt for the rule of law have become normalized.

RFK Jr ‘suspends’ presidential campaign and endorses Trump as he rails against ‘rigged’ system (yahoo.com) (https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rfk-jr-suspends-presidential-campaign-192504645.html) One batshit crazy delusional old weirdo and shill endorseing another. Not surprising at all to see why Robert F. Kennedy is the black sheep of his family. And why his family distanced themselves from him and endorsed Joe Biden.

[Luke Warm]

When Marriage Equalty (“gay marriage”) was being debated in the US, there were right wing voices saying “how will I explain this to my children? When my kids see two men kissing, how do I explain that?”

Well I would like to know, how will right wingers explain to their children that they voted for a sex offender to be president? How will they explain to their children that they voted for a convicted felon to be president? (I can guess: “Donald Trump dindu nuffin”)

[Stavros]

Presumably if this was 1980, Tucker Carlson would be interviewing Leonid Brezhnev to get 'his side of the story' on Afghanistan, and why should the US be funding a war thousands and thousands of miles away?

A measure of how far from Reagan the Trump metaverse has strayed.

As for Carlson's other remarks on Moscow being 'really pretty' with so many 19th century buildings...oh dear, the man just doesn't do travelling, least of all in a city with some of the most poorly maintained slums in Russia. Rather like Washington DC?

See what you want to see, hear what you want to hear.

Tucker Carlson: Putin takes charge as TV host gives free rein to Kremlin - BBC News (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68248740)

So he has moved on from interviewing an indicted mass murderer, to so-called 'Historian' Darryl Cooper, who said

"Cooper, after acknowledging this doesn’t mean he believes Hitler (https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/adolf-hitler) was WW2’s “protagonist”, went on to explain how the Nazis “launched a war they were completely unprepared to deal with”."
Tucker Carlson accused of airing ‘pro-Nazi propaganda’ on show – as Elon Musk promotes it as ‘worth watching’ | The Independent (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tucker-carlson-nazi-podcast-elon-musk-b2606800.html)

It beggars belief that anyone could claim to be a historian and make say such verifiable rubbish, but then evidence is like the truth, not longer relevant to whatever agenda Cooper has. Carlson's agenda is to make Trump America's eternal leader, and so it appears that Elon Musk supports this neo-Nazi garbage too, though he might have deleted the post he made, as if that mattered.

Perhaps the worst aspect of this is that most Americans, and most of the media, just don't care. If people want to defend Hitler and denounce Churchill, that's free speech, innit?

How to stop a 14 year old with a gun- give more 14 year olds guns -?

[MrFanti]

As a person with African roots, I find the ironies and hypocrisies here to be absolutely hilarious! :D

-"Colored People" is offensive yet...

--"People of Color" is just fine...
--"NAACP" is just fine...
--"Black People" is just fine as well (even though none of us have Black skin)...

[Stavros]

It may be a characteristic of Trump that, having escaped another assassination attempt, he begs for money. But what underlines this is the extent to which gun violence has become a normal part of American life. I don't know when it became normalized, I suspect a long time ago, but I don't think we need speculate that this aspect of American life is not going to go away, decline or more importantly, be addressed as a political issue that has or even needs a solution, when the obvious solution is to either Repeal the 2nd Amendment, or amend it to establish a clearer meaning, if anyone can think of one.

Does the 2nd Amendment give one American the right to purchase a firearm in order to kill another? I don't think so.

But it might also be a step forward if politicians and their supporters did not use the rhetoric of violence to campaign for what they think will be a better America. I don't know how the use of words like 'bloodbath', 'retribution' or 'Stalingrad every day' is supposed to calm nerves, but when Harris and Walz say Americans should focus on what unites rather than divides them, I do feel that dolphin has sunk beneath the waves, and is unlikely to re-surface soon. Elon Musk, speculating on why there has not -we assume- been an assassination attempt on Kamala Harris will be criticized by some, but the views he holds don't inspire confidence that the 'concept' of political assassination is totally unacceptable. Just as the attempt to normalize the attack on the Capitol on Jan 6 2021 deepens the anxieties some people have about the future of the USA. If it has one.

[Stavros]

No hospital, no cars … and only three school pupils: life on a remote island – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/sep/19/no-hospital-no-cars-and-only-three-school-pupils-life-on-a-remote-island-in-pictures)

Must be Alicudi

Alicudi - History (alicudi-paradiso.com) (https://www.alicudi-paradiso.com/english/alicudi/history/)

[Stavros]

This is a longer read than most, and an important one too, I think, as far as Transgender politics and policy goes. If I have one criticism, it is that the cases referred to are all of young people who have benefited from early stage advice and therapy, while I know that there is an argument that such treatment ought not to take place before the individual is at least 16 or even 18. The cases here suggest early onset treatment is positive, but does not offer any reporting of cases where it was not just a failure, but damaging, possibly even fatally so. It may be that as far as is known, most cases of treatment are positive, but I doubt all of them are. This remains a sensitive and difficult issue to analyse in depth.

The article moves beyond young people to refer to LGBTQ+ in general.

That said, the position of Trump, his party and Project 2025 appears to be that every US citizen is equal before the law, but not if they are transgendered. At this most basic level, it shows how fragile democracy and the rule of law is in the US, and that by extension this is also true of other Liberal Democracies.

If Trump wins the election, he could launch a ‘catastrophic’ rollback of LGBTQ+ rights | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/sep/24/donald-trump-presidency-republican-lawmakers-targeting-lgbtq-policies)

[Stavros]

Goodbye World, Hello Nowhere

Have those who think human beings should become a 'Multi-Planetary' species given up trying to solve the problems we have here, on this humble Planet Earth that Carl Sagan once called 'a quiet place in the Universe'?

Elon Musk wants people to live on Mars, and so does a minor English geek, Brian Cox. Here he is, echoing the hopeless drivel of the X-Man

"There are limited resources on the Earth and damage is being done to the planet through “civilisation’s thirst and requirement for more resources”, says Prof Cox, making it imperative we look towards becoming a multi-planetary civilisation."
'Human race needs to expand beyond Earth,' says Prof Brian Cox - BBC News (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg9qd22k7po)

Cox once made an expensive programme about what it would be like to live on Mars, when all he needed to do was spend a weekend in the Atacama Desert in Chile with just a backpack and bottle of water to decide which he prefers- the comforts of home or the misery of nowhere.

In just one week Israel has made a million people homeless in Lebanon, with more to come, to add to those made homeless in Gaza, the Ukraine -and even, for the time being, in Georgia, USA as a consequence of Hurricane Helene. In the US I expect practical solutions will over time re-house and re-build, while Elon Musk and Brian Cox look on in despair, and decide 'enough is enough', and because they cannot cope with, or can't be bothered with practical solutions to housing, food prices, and extreme weather events want to live on Mars, where the housing is a prison because you can't go outside and breathe the air; where the food is synthetic mush from cans and sachets unless they find a way to grow potatoes in a tent; and where extreme weather events happen every day, sometimes all day for months if not years on end.

When men with an interest in science and technology abandon practical solutions to the problems caused by Capitalism, one wonders what their intellect is made of. There is no need for scarcity in today's world, we have plenty, it is the age old factors of greed and profiteering that prevent the people who marshal our resources having their fair share of its products.

I can understand the fetish for space travel, but it is no solution to dealing with real issues here and now, and doing so to improve life over the long term. Mars is not a solution, living, in effect in Nowhere is despair where none is needed.

And why go to Mars if there ain't an opera house there?

[KnightHawk 2.0]

The twice impeached four times indicted convicted felon Donald Trump said the following disgusting comment,at that so-called townhall he had on the propaganda channel: Any black or latino who votes for Kamala Harris should have their head examined. Anybody who supports and voted for an Orange Rambling Malignant Narcissistic Thinskinned Petulant Child like Donald Trump,who constantly talks shit about the United States of America,and cozying up to dictators like Vladimir Putin,Victor Orban,Kim Jung Un and Xi Xinjiang Ping. And made derogatory and dehumanizing comments about the Arab,Asian,Black,Haitian,Hispanic,Jewish,Muslim and LGBTQ Communities should really have their heads examined. And Donald Trump comments continue to show how unfit,unhinged,mentally unstable and unqualified he is to be president of the united states,and should be disqualified from holding public office.

[MrFanti]

[COLOR="#2F4F4F"]The twice impeached four times indicted convicted felon Donald Trump said the following disgusting comment,at that so-called townhall he had on the propaganda channel: Any black or latino who votes for Kamala Harris should have their head examined.
Just as bad as Biden saying "If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black’"

As a Black man, to me, BOTH COMMENTS piss me the heck off......Who the fuck are they to judge my Blackness!

[filghy2]

As a Black man, to me, BOTH COMMENTS piss me the heck off......Who the fuck are they to judge my Blackness!

But it's okay for you to judge others' Blackness?


It has nothing to do with polls IMHO, we Blacks didn't support her because of certain things that she did - hence the reason why she dropped out before even the primaries had started. And IMHO, I can think of a few Black women that I'd pick over her.
But technically, she's not Black......so I guess that makes my point moot.....:cool:

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Green Party Candidate Jill Stein who hasn't been heard from in eight years popped back up recently,and can't be taking serious as a third party candidate. And the only reason she decided to run again,is to play spoiler in this year's election. A vote for Jill Stein,is a vote for the Convicted Felon Donald Trump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYs40bctmPs

[MrFanti]

Green Party Candidate Jill Stein who hasn't been heard from in eight years popped back up recently,and can't be taking serious as a third party candidate. And the only reason she decided to run again,is to play spoiler in this year's election. A vote for Jill Stein,is a vote for the Convicted Felon Donald Trump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYs40bctmPs

I'm for ANY voter that thinks outside of the brainwashing that makes them believe there are only two parties, Republican and Democrat.

[Stavros]

I'm for ANY voter that thinks outside of the brainwashing that makes them believe there are only two parties, Republican and Democrat.

Would you agree with me, that to build an alternative to the two main parties, it must come from the base -that a successful 'third party' needs to be established in a place and build a reputation through local politics, such as a town or city council. People are not going to vote Green because of Jill Stein, but they might if a Green Party was able to demonstrate to local people that it had the policies they support -for example, on pollution, energy saving strategies in the home, carbon reductions in the town etc- and the people to implement such policies.

I understand that the two main parties have the money and the infrastructure, but is it impossible for a third party to win local support? Or is it that potential game changers don't make the effort? The Black Panther Party in the 1960s and 1970s had many flaws, but it also had a strong social base in Oakland and a few other places, and was this not the best means to build a party with national appeal, albeit in their case a restrictive one?

[Stavros]

This is close to the top of my reading list. It helps counter the dangerous rubbish people have heard from RFK, with the scary thought that this odious fool is being tipped by some people, if Trump wins, to be given a job related to health care, for which he is so obviously not qualified.

Maybe someone can mail him this book, though I doubt he reads books, whatever.

Breakthrough by William Pao review – the drugs do work | Science and nature books | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/30/breakthrough-by-william-pao-review-the-drugs-do-work)

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Tuesday's night humiliating loss in the 2024 Election should be a wake up call for the Democratic Party,that they need to change their messaging to voters,because their current messaging isn't resenating with voters anymore. And do some serious soulsearching about what went wrong for them,and how the pollsters were way off with their projections. And go back to the drawing board and come up with a new strategy on how to rebuild and expand their base and reach new voters. And also come up with a new plan to win the 2026 Midterms and find candidates that has an excellent chance of winning the 2028 Presidental Election.

[MrFanti]

Tuesday's night humiliating loss in the 2024 Election should be a wake up call for the Democratic Party,that they need to change their messaging to voters,because their current messaging isn't resenating with voters anymore.
IMHO, Bernie Sanders was 100% spot on as to one of the reasons for what went wrong for them.

[MrFanti]

Tuesday's night humiliating loss in the 2024 Election should be a wake up call for the Democratic Party,that they need to change their messaging to voters,because their current messaging isn't resenating with voters anymore. And do some serious soulsearching about what went wrong for them,and how the pollsters were way off with their projections. And go back to the drawing board and come up with a new strategy on how to rebuild and expand their base and reach new voters. And also come up with a new plan to win the 2026 Midterms and find candidates that has an excellent chance of winning the 2028 Presidental Election.
Looks to me like the Democrat campaign has effectively killed all pollsters since most folks with a brain will never take them seriously any more.

[Stavros]

Looks to me like the Democrat campaign has effectively killed all pollsters since most folks with a brain will never take them seriously any more.

Polling is not a perfect science as most polls are 'adjusted' -we had this in the UK in 2017 when the polls suggested the Tories were way ahead of Labour and the result was a hung Parliament. Turned out the pollsters 'adjusted' the figures and in the process this reduced the assumed impact of first time voters

I am not a pollster, but I also got wrong my prediction that Harris would win the popular vote, as was the case with Clinton and Biden, because I did not believe Trump had, or could grow his voter base, which is precisely what he did. When someone is so full of rage, lies and contempt for the process, it is hard to accept the voters agree with him. And in some of the Senate and House races, the votes are close, so on one level it has not been a rollercoaster victory for Trump -either way, the US is now more bitterly divided than I think it has been in my lifetime.

[filghy2]

Polling is not a perfect science as most polls are 'adjusted' -we had this in the UK in 2017 when the polls suggested the Tories were way ahead of Labour and the result was a hung Parliament. Turned out the pollsters 'adjusted' the figures and in the process this reduced the assumed impact of first time voters

The problem for pollsters is that it's increasingly difficult to get people to respond. I never get polled because I never take a phone call if I don't recognise the number. Experience tells me it's likely to be a scammer or someone else trying to get money out of me.

Non-response seems to be a bigger problem with Trump-leaning voters who tend to be mistrustful of pollsters. They try to make adjustments based on what happened previously, but as every election is different it's always an inexact science.

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Here is a link to an article from CNN on how readers felt about the outcome of the 2024 Election. https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/09/politics/reader-reaction-election-outcome-dg/index.html

[Stavros]

Two contrasting articles in the Sunday papers

In the Telegraph but behind a paywall=

"Janet Daley
Trump is obnoxious – but his victory shows the American Dream is alive
Latino voters switched over to the Republicans in their millions. They share the hope of building a richer, better life in a new country".
Trump is obnoxious – but his victory shows the American Dream is alive (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/09/trump-obnoxious-but-american-dream-alive-us-election/)

And then this:

Andrew Gumbel
The US has lost faith in the American dream. Is this the end of the country as we know it? | Donald Trump | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/09/the-us-has-lost-faith-in-the-american-dream-is-this-the-end-of-the-country-as-we-know-it)

[KnightHawk 2.0]

With Donald Trump winning 312 electoral votes in the 2024 Election,and Republicans gaining control of the US Senate and keeping their majority in the House Of Representatives,they have completed the trifecta of dominance of Washington DC and too push through their leader's dangerous agenda for the next year four years to reshape the government and the country. Will be interesting to see how the Democrats and their Party Leadership respond being in the minority,and how they are going to stop anything the Republicans try to ram through both chambers. And be the guardrail to protect democracy and keep Donald Trump in check.

[MrFanti]

Who was POTUS when Russia annexed Crimea in 2008 and who was POTUS when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and 2022?

[Stavros]

Who was POTUS when Russia annexed Crimea in 2008 and who was POTUS when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and 2022?

Russia did not annex Crimea in 2008, it did issue 'ethnic Russians' with Russian passports, which was seen at the time as provocative. This is what Putin said

"In an interview with Germany's ARD television in 2008, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Moscow recognizes all of Ukraine's borders, and that there is no issue of ethnic conflict in Crimea. His comments, delivered shortly after Russia's military intervention in the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia, stand in stark contrast with Moscow's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its support of armed separatists in eastern Ukraine."
Putin's 2008 Comments On Crimea, Before A Sharp Change Of Tack (https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-crimea-ukraine/26942862.html)

Obama was President when Crimea was illegally annexed in 2014 and said this

"“Part of what happened was, both myself and also [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel, who I give enormous credit for, had to pull in a lot of other Europeans kicking and screaming to impose the sanctions that we did and to prevent Putin from continuing through the Donbass and through the rest of Ukraine,” he added.
Obama said that the sense of identity and ability to push back against Russia developed in Ukraine after the 2014 annexation, and that identity and ability is what led to the fierce resistance now.
“We challenged Putin with the tools that we had at the time, given where Ukraine was,” he said."
Obama defends 2014 Crimea response: ‘We challenged Putin with the tools we had at the time’ (https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4063939-obama-defends-2014-crimea-response-in-cnn-interview/)

Joe Biden was President in 2022.

Can you confirm, Mr Fanti, that you think NATO or states in Europe should have waged war against Russia in 2014? And what, in legal terms, would have been the Casus Belli -and would such a war have required the authorisation of the Security Council of the United Nations?

Who was President when the The Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan was signed in 2020, and can you re-frame this as the USA surrendering to the Taliban, even giving them a date when US forces would be removed from Afghanistan? Why did the US Govt exclude the Afghan Govt from the negotiations that led to the 'Agreement'?

Who was President when Israel formally annexed the 'Golan Heights' that in legal terms was, and is Syrian territory? Can you confirm that the USA does not believe there is any merit in adhering to the International Law on territorial sovereignty, or that Israel is a special case and can do anything it wants, anywhere anytime, with the full approval of the USA?

[Paladin]

They didn't really start with Crimea until later. They went after Georgia in 2009. I was in afghan getting rocketed and eating dust sandwiches at the time, so O, O, and B

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Not surprising at all that Donald Trump picks Robert F Kennedy Jr,who is a conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer to be in charge of Health And Human Services which oversees the CDC,NIH,FDA and fifteen other departments. RFK Jr has a few things in common with Matt Gaetz,Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard,all are conspiracy theorists that have very warped views,no experience and are unqualified for the jobs they are being appointed for. And will be interesting to see if any Republicans pushback againist Donald Trump and say no to confirming any of these batshit crazy picks,or will they fall in line and confirm them anyway?.

[Stavros]

Not surprising at all that Donald Trump picks Robert F Kennedy Jr,who is a conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer to be in charge of Health And Human Services which oversees the CDC,NIH,FDA and fifteen other departments. RFK Jr has a few things in common with Matt Gaetz,Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard,all are conspiracy theorists that have very warped views,no experience and are unqualified for the jobs they are being appointed for. And will be interesting to see if any Republicans pushback againist Donald Trump and say no to confirming any of these batshit crazy picks,or will they fall in line and confirm them anyway?.

Also illegal, in terms of the written law, but these days who cares about that when the President-elect is himself a convicted criminal?

Illegal to promise job in exchange for political endorsement? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45xivjo95q8)

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Also illegal, in terms of the written law, but these days who cares about that when the President-elect is himself a convicted criminal?

Illegal to promise job in exchange for political endorsement? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45xivjo95q8)Completely Agree 100%. And very informative video.

[MrFanti]

Completely Agree 100%. And very informative video.
Seems like Hillary Clinton did it first

Hillary Clinton Endorses Barack Obama
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/us/politics/07text-clinton.html

[filghy2]

Seems like Hillary Clinton did it first

Hillary Clinton Endorses Barack Obama
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/us/politics/07text-clinton.html

Relevance? She endorsed him after he won the primaries, which is what almost always happens. She didn't drop out in return for a job. There have been many cases where someone has taken a job after losing the primaries - eg George Bush senior became Reagan's VP in 1980.

[KnightHawk 2.0]

All the people who for a perverted creep and sexual predator and convicted felon Donald Trump,two weeks ago in the 2024 General Election are now regretting their decision,it is way too late to have buyers remorse now. You get what you voted for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4erSbHJrg8

[MrFanti]

All the people who for a perverted creep and sexual predator and convicted felon Donald Trump,two weeks ago in the 2024 General Election are now regretting their decision,it is way too late to have buyers remorse now. You get what you voted for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4erSbHJrg8

Yep!!!
Kinda like when D.C. voted drug addict Marion Barry as mayor....

[tslvr]

Also illegal, in terms of the written law, but these days who cares about that when the President-elect is himself a convicted criminal?

Illegal to promise job in exchange for political endorsement? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45xivjo95q8)
Actually not convicted at this point. In the US sentence and conviction paperwork have to come down.

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Matt Gaetz withdraws from Attorney General consideration after Donald Trump picked him for the job last week,will be interesting to see who Donald Trump nominates next to be Attorney General and will he actively interfere and pressure Republican Senators to confirm them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_BshyLjKzI

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Donald Trump announces former Florida Attorney General Pamela Bondi as his new attorney general pick. Lets see how many Republican Senators will vote to confirm her,and how many of them will do the right thing and don't confirm her,because of her checked past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Uya9obIgU

[KnightHawk 2.0]

The American People have been warned about what would happen if the Convicted Felon Donald Trump wins the 2024 Election and gets a second term,unfortunately many people weren't paying attention or took the warnings seriously. And now they're seeing it take place right in front of them,with the people that he is selecting for cabinet positions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88v3dzHOrfw

[KnightHawk 2.0]

The FOX Propaganda Channel confesses its plan for their leader Donald Trump. And they can claim all they want that it is classic conservatism,but most people know that it is a much darker and downright terrifying agenda to reshape the United States. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLDKdw8YnU4

[MrFanti]

The FOX Propaganda Channel confesses its plan for their leader Donald Trump. And they can claim all they want that it is classic conservatism,but most people know that it is a much darker and downright terrifying agenda to reshape the United States. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLDKdw8YnU4
They are all biased!
FOX/OANN = Conservative
MSNBC/CNN=Liberal

[filghy2]

They are all biased!
FOX/OANN = Conservative
MSNBC/CNN=Liberal

No matter what happens over the next 4 years, it's good to know that the only reponse from The Fanti will be 'bothsidesism' and 'whataboutism'.

[Stavros]

They are all biased!
FOX/OANN = Conservative
MSNBC/CNN=Liberal

Fair Broadcasting was ended by Reagan in 1987, Murdoch encouraged him to do so. I think you know this, so why complain? You also did not list the platform of The Great Elon Musk, as biased as it gets, but which some people are terrified of crossing, free speech being what it is in the US these days-

‘We live in a climate of fear’: graphic novelist’s Elon Musk book can’t find UK or US publisher | Elon Musk | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/23/we-live-in-a-climate-of-fear-graphic-novelists-elon-musk-book-cant-find-uk-or-us-publisher)

[KnightHawk 2.0]

The Grift that keeps on giving,the Convicted Felon and Con Artist Donald Trump back again with a new scheme. This time selling Acoustic and Electric Guitars on his failing social media platform. And he ain't only one his son Donald Trump Jr is getting in on the grift. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vNDjq7ombg

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Now For Some Positive News: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez donates over 1,000 Turkeys to NY-14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rgIyB1nutw

[Stavros]

"President-elect Donald Trump (https://www.cnn.com/politics/president-donald-trump-47?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo) on Monday promised massive hikes in tariffs on goods coming from Mexico, Canada and China starting on the first day of his administration, a policy that could sharply increase costs for American businesses and consumers.The move, Trump said, will be in retaliation for illegal immigration and “crime and drugs” coming across the border.".
Trump ups the ante on tariffs, vowing massive taxes on goods from Mexico, Canada and China on Day 1 (https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-ups-ante-tariffs-vowing-001501760.html)

While this may be yet more evidence that the Republican Party has rejected Free Trade, or Free Market Capitalism in favour of 'Government Everywhere', it seems to me there is a massive question that is not being asked, though I don't know how this debate actually takes place in the US:

How is the Federal Govt, or any State Govt in the US campaigning to end addiction to Fentanyl?

If so many Americans are dying from Fentanyl, and criminal gangs making millions of dollars from the trade, why not attack the fundamental problem: the use of the drug, instead of (or in addition to) the suppliers?

There is a trade in Marijuana because millions of Americans like it, and use it. The same is true of tobacco, alcohol and donuts. All can have negative long term side effects, from Diabetes to Addiction to Death.

Taxes on imports seems to me an instrument that may be more about global trade than drugs, and Trump wants to re-structure global trade so that the US wins every time -even though the US is dependent on imports for so much of its industrial output.

So not an advance anywhere, just the next US Govt going round in circles, while people's lives suffer and end. Level of policy innovation: none at all.

[Paladin]

There are some 11,000 nKorean troops in russia now fighting alongside the ruskies against Ukraine and have3 been sending missiles / rocktes to russia as well. Iranian drones are also in use by the ruskies, and houthies are reported to be making there way to russia to join the fighting. And the US hasn't done a damn thing about it.
Any thoughts on this???

[filghy2]

There are some 11,000 nKorean troops in russia now fighting alongside the ruskies against Ukraine and have3 been sending missiles / rocktes to russia as well. Iranian drones are also in use by the ruskies, and houthies are reported to be making there way to russia to join the fighting. And the US hasn't done a damn thing about it.
Any thoughts on this???

You mean apart from providing more than $100 billion in arms and other aid to Ukraine, which has been opposed by Trump and his MAGA cronies? What have the Romans ever done for us?
https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-us-aid-going-ukraine

[Stavros]

Israel or Housing?

"Last month, the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs published a revealing report on the cost (https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2023/2024/Costs%20of%20War_US%20Support%20Since%20Oct%207%20 FINAL%20v2.pdf) to American taxpayers of the war in Gaza. Since October 2023, Israel’s war on Gaza, and more recently on Lebanon, has cost the U.S. $22 billion. This is only the publicly declared number, the report describes, as efforts have been made to obscure through bureaucratic tactics the total amount of aid and the types of systems involved.
A particularly glaring example was the decision to arrange 100 separate arms deals (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/06/us-weapons-israel-gaza/) with Israel between October 2023 and March 2024, each kept below the dollar threshold that would require reporting to Congress.".
It's time for the US to stand up to Israel (https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5011980-israel-gaza-war-crimes-us/)

"On Wednesday, I went to a luncheon hosted by the Columbus Metropolitan Club (https://columbusmetroclub.org/) on the topic of homelessness. The panelist posed a question to one of the panelists: what would it cost to end homelessness in America?
The panelist Bob Weiler, a real estate developer in Columbus, said the money exists, but the political will doesn’t....
there should be cheaper ways to house people than simply paying the median rent, but these figures suggest that on the high end, eliminating homelessness in the United States should cost somewhere from $11 billion to $30 billion per year.".
What would it cost to end homelessness in America? — Scioto Analysis (https://www.sciotoanalysis.com/news/2024/1/16/what-would-it-cost-to-end-homelessness-in-america)

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Buckle Up,Buttercup: Representative Jasmine Crockett delivers a powerful breakdown of how Donald Trump's economic policies will directly affect working families and the broader economy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksZfYa2yWsc

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Right Wing Christian Nationalist And Insurrectionist MAGA Mike Johnson is panicking because he may lose the majority in the House Of Representatives,as Democrats surprisingly flipped seats in the house. And he knows that if he ends up losing the majority,he'll be no longer speaker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaKaGS3GPpM&list=LL&index=8

[KnightHawk 2.0]

President Joe Biden made a major announcement this evening,that he is pardoning his son Hunter Biden in connection with two federal cases. Right Wing Media outlets like The FOX Propaganda Channel and others are going to freaking about this announcement,and if their leader Donald Trump granted one of his sons a pardon,they wouldn't have a problem with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGp5P8WQQ_I

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Right Wing Christian Nationalist And Insurrectionist MAGA Mike Johnson is panicking because he may lose the majority in the House Of Representatives,as Democrats surprisingly flipped seats in the house. And he knows that if he ends up losing the majority,he'll be no longer speaker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaKaGS3GPpM&list=LL&index=8
And the dopey ass look on Mike Johnson's face is priceless,because he knows he'll be up a creek without a paddle if he loses the control of the House Of Representatives.

[KnightHawk 2.0]

The GOP shocked as Democrats House Win becomes official. On January 3rd 2025 the House Of Representatives will look very different. MAGA Mike Johnson will have a 2-3 seat majority,which will make very hard for him getting rules and legislation pass or get things done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXfxdG7qD7g

[MrFanti]

Where's the Pardon for Thousands of Black Men Locked Up for What Hunter Did? | Opinion
https://www.newsweek.com/wheres-pardon-thousands-black-men-locked-what-hunter-did-opinion-1994163

[Paladin]

Where's the Pardon for Thousands of Black Men Locked Up for What Hunter Did? | Opinion
https://www.newsweek.com/wheres-pardon-thousands-black-men-locked-what-hunter-did-opinion-1994163

They're not the criminally corrupt, demented, puppet masterted, feckless, foppish dolt's sons.

[KnightHawk 2.0]

President Joe Biden's Exclusive Interview With Meidas Touch Network. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJfOAjUleTc

[KnightHawk 2.0]

It is way too late to have regrets voting for a Orange Rambling Malignant Narcissistic Convicted Felon,like Donald Trump who can't even put a coherent sentence together. A Fraudster and Charlatan who went back on the promises he made to lower grocery bills,end the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine in 24 hours. And during his day in office he signed hundreds of Disgusting And Despicable Executive Orders targeting the Black,Hispanic,LGBTQ and Trans Communities and DEI. Y'all get exactly what you voted for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWhYFaEKEdM

[KnightHawk 2.0]

It is too for Senate Republicans to have concerns about the nominees for Donald-ORMNCF-Trump's cabinet,and if they had any concerns about the nominees,they should have joined their democratic counterparts and voted no againist confirming Pete Hegseth,Tulsi Gabbard,Robert F Kennedy Jr and Russell Vought,but instead did the opposite and voted to confirm them anyway,because they are afraid of their leader Donald-ORMNCF-Trump,Elon Musk,his enablers in the senate and being primaried. The Senate Republicans now have to deal with the consequences of their actions for the next 4 years.

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is a weak ass spineless coward,who says he'll vote yes for the Republican Funding Bill to avoid a government shutdown after saying a day ago he wouldn't. And allowing Donald Trump and Elon Musk to continue to dismantle government services that everyday americans rely on,while giving millionaires and billionaires tax breaks. The best choice for the country,would have been standing up for the american people by tanking the funding bill and the letting the government shutdown,and would have shown that Republicans are incompetent and can't get anything done. And tomorrow's vote will show a divide in the Democratic Party. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/schumer-gop-funding-bill/index.html

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is a weak ass spineless coward,who says he'll vote yes for the Republican Funding Bill to avoid a government shutdown after saying a day ago he wouldn't. And allowing Donald Trump and Elon Musk to continue to dismantle government services that everyday americans rely on,while giving millionaires and billionaires tax breaks. The best choice for the country,would have been standing up for the american people by tanking the funding bill and the letting the government shutdown,and would have shown that Republicans are incompetent and can't get anything done. And tomorrow's vote will show a divide in the Democratic Party. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/schumer-gop-funding-bill/index.html House Democrats standing up for their constituents by not voting for the GOP Funding Bill,while Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and nine other democratic senators folded like lawnchairs,and voted with Senate Republicans. Absolutely Pathetic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJJMaydVUtA

[KnightHawk 2.0]

This is what happens when the super majority right wing Supreme Court gives an Orange Rambling Malignant Narcissistic Sexual Predator,Adjudicated Rapist and Convicted Felon like Donald Trump complete ammunity to do whatever he wants,he and his corrupt cabinet threatens to arrest them. The US Supreme Court created this monster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpAD0CgkykI&t=9s