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- Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:11 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1073
- Views: 119546
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Donald Trump's former Attorney General Bill Barr was interviewed tonight on CNN, during which time a chyron noted that Barr "says Trump shouldn't be near the Oval Office, but says he'll vote for him in November." Barr also said that he did indeed hear Trump, as president, suggest on multip...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 3:12 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 228
- Views: 33705
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
My post has been slow in the writing, but to elaborate on what V notes: Rhona Graff, who was Donald Trump's executive assistant, today testified that Trump's Outlook contacts, which she maintained, included an entry (including email, phone number, and two physical addresses) for Karen McDougal, the ...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:32 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1073
- Views: 119546
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
This probably won't make sense to casual readers without some explanation: https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1783980253955637430 That would be South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, viewed by some as a possible running mate for Donald Trump, and rumored at one point to have been dating sometime Tru...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:47 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 353
- Views: 51624
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
" US-led Gaza humanitarian aid pier comes under fire, UN officials say " ( Army Times ). While no group has claimed responsibility for this mortar attack on the U.S.-led international effort constructing a pier to deliver food into Gaza, a "Hamas official told the Associated Press on ...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
- Replies: 1026
- Views: 119901
Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
From the BBC "Two British men in their early 20s have been charged with burning down Ukrainian businesses in England on behalf of Russian intelligence."
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:18 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1073
- Views: 119546
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
In an interview this morning, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said:
(1) He has turned down multiple requests from Donald Trump's campaign to be Trump's running mate this year.
(2) He thinks that abortion medication hasn't been studied enough to be deemed safe for use.
(1) He has turned down multiple requests from Donald Trump's campaign to be Trump's running mate this year.
(2) He thinks that abortion medication hasn't been studied enough to be deemed safe for use.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 3:53 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1073
- Views: 119546
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Yesterday Politico reported that two sources told them the reason the New York Times ran so many stories about President Biden's age following the release of Special Counsel Robert Hur's report, and the reason the Times in general has taken an oddly harsh perspective of Biden, is that the publisher,...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 3:01 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1073
- Views: 119546
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Today, 538.com launched its 2024 presidential polling average, which shows Donald Trump leading President Biden nationally by 0.7 points. That's improved by about 1.5 points from a month ago. Trump currently leads Biden in most swing states.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 2:41 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Chaos in Congress
- Replies: 615
- Views: 84819
Re: Chaos in Congress
Reuters reports that ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, would rather shut down the platform than sell it to a company not based in China as required (in the next nine months) by a bill that passed both houses of Congress (with a strong bipartisan majority) earlier this week and was signed into...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 2:26 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 353
- Views: 51624
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
Actual exchange (video at link ) between pro-Palestine protesters in New York: “Do you know what NYU is doing?” “About what?” “About Israel. Why are we protesting here?” “I wish I was more educated." But down at the University of Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott had a bunch of people arrested in blatant...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:37 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2009
- Views: 293840
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
The judge in the other of Hunter Biden's federal cases -- the one in Delaware -- also has ruled against Hunter's motions to dismiss. As before, this seems to have been expected by most expert observers. But in my opinion, she says something egregiously wrong: "Defendant's claim is effectively ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:54 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: E. Jean Carroll's lawsuits against Trump for Sexual Assault and Defamation
- Replies: 216
- Views: 37014
Re: E. Jean Carroll's lawsuits against Trump for Sexual Assault and Defamation
I think it may be helpful to note that Republicans were among the many people who were outraged by the reports of Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein , and other "Hollywood" figures sexually assaulting women and getting away with it, which was a leading impulse behind the passage of the survivor...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:22 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 228
- Views: 33705
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
I've been busy at work and only read bits of today's news. I see that David Pecker testified that Michael Cohen told him that "Jeff Sessions is the attorney general and Donald Trump has him in his pocket."
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:44 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 228
- Views: 33705
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Legally, this is not a big deal, but still ... It may not matter legally whether or not Donald Trump really had a months-long affair with Karen McDougal and a one-night stand with Stormy Daniels, but I think the jury would be more inclined to let Trump off the hook if they believed the two stories ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:20 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election
- Replies: 336
- Views: 79329
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:15 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election
- Replies: 336
- Views: 79329
Re: Trump Indicted for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election
When Donald Trump's attorney said that it could be an official act for a president to assassinate a political rival, I agree that one of the justices should have asked : "Mr. Sauer, if you lose this case, your client faces some prison time. But if you win it, President Biden could kill your cl...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:40 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election
- Replies: 336
- Views: 79329
Re: Trump Indicted for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election
Most legal commentators seem to fear that Chief Justice Roberts is the swing vote and that he seems inclined to remand this case to the Court of Appeals to more carefully analyze which of Donald Trump's crimes were official acts and which were private acts, and of course Trump will appeal to the Sup...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:46 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election
- Replies: 336
- Views: 79329
Re: Trump Indicted for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election
I think Alito's brain would explode:
Anyway, it sounds like some of the Republican judges are inclined to rule for immunity?
Anyway, it sounds like some of the Republican judges are inclined to rule for immunity?
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:48 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 353
- Views: 51624
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
Axios reports : "IDF chief Harzi Helevi and Shin Bet director Ronen Bar secretly visited Cairo on Wednesday for talks with top Egyptian officials about a possible Rafah operation." - - - - - - - - - Meanwhile, the left-leaning Israeli newspaper Haaretz calls for the U.S. to recognize a Pa...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:36 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Elon's Twitter
- Replies: 455
- Views: 63912
Re: Elon's Twitter
Elon Musk said today that Alex Jones's Twitter account will be reactivated and also streamed a live chat between the two of them plus Andrew Tate (the kickboxer who's been indicted on sex trafficking charges in Romania) and Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. Edited to add: Michael F...