District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who has been assigned to preside over the case in which Trump is accused of trying to overthrow the U.S. government, finds herself in a tough position.
That’s because Trump continues to spread lies in order to win over public opinion and make threats against prosecutors, perhaps because he knows that the judge is unwilling to find him in contempt of court and remand him into custody until his trial.
As shown in the video below, an auto analyst, “Elliot” takes a spin in Toyota’s Japan-only electric kei car: the C+Pod, and asks, “Could this tiny EV be the affordable electric car we’ve been waiting for, and a sign that Toyota might be more serious about electric that it first appeared?”
The answer is no. Toyota knows very well that low- and medium-speed EVs (top speed 37 MPH) have an extremely limited appeal, if only because they require most people to own two cars. And this one, made of plastic, sounds like a distinctly noisy and otherwise unpleasant driving experience.
To me, this appears like just another attempt at greenwashing on Toyota’s part. I don’t even give it a C+, pardon the pun.
Regardless of how this ends for Trump, it will be a very long time before we (and the rest of the world) can begin to forget the vast humiliation that Trump has leveled upon the United States of America.
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The cartoon here is an apt description of what we mean by the phrase “defund the police.”
This may be the worst misnomer in the history of the English language, because it suggests that we neither need or appreciate law enforcement. What we actually mean is not defund, but rather focus, redirect, or concentrate.
Police should be redirected so as to focus solely on stopping criminal behavior that threatens public safety.
I’m not sure that Trump is as unhinged, and is such a danger to himself, as people say. Though I guess we’ll find out when he goes to trial, defending himself against a wide range of charges, and the prosecution introduces evidence that was derived purely from Trump’s own words, whether verbal or written.
Right now, he seems to be skirting the line that separates free speech from threats against Jack Smith, his judges, and the turncoats from his former inner circle. If you ask me, I’d say he’s doing this with a great deal of skill and panache.
Keep in mind that Trump, now in his 78th year, has survived a lifetime of white-collar crime, without so much as a scraped knee. Let’s also not forget that his very freedom depends on the support of tens of millions of people who hang on his every word of aggression and bravado.
Playing it safely (and honestly) is a quick way to lose that support, and wind up dying in prison. I’ve never seen the inside of a prison, but I’m told they have no gold toilets there.
2GreenEnergy “headquarters” is in Santa Ynez, CA a small town in a rural part of the state. As such, it’s chuck full of Trump supporters.
Yet one doesn’t see many overt suggestions of that. For example, the merchandise photographed at left is from the Trump Store, and I’d be astonished to see any of it around here.
And today, with Trump on his way to prison, that’s truer than ever before.
I hear people say this constantly, but I remind them that what this country needs is not a dead criminal ex-president, but the repudiation of a criminal ex-president.
This can only happen via indictments, trials, convictions, and prison sentences.
So far, so good.
A reader sent me this pic and notes: Welp, time for my regularly scheduled bi-monthly “am I gonna make it to the gas station” panic.
My advice: Find out how large your gas tank is and how many gallons of gas are required to fill it when your range indicator says 0 miles. Act accordingly.
When I’m not running the air conditioning, my Prius gets 51 – 52 MPG, and my range indicator says 0 miles when I still have 1.9 gallons in the tank, meaning almost 100 miles.
When the range says 0, I reset my trip odometer to 0, and fill up when I actually am running low. Saves time spent pumping.
Here are the words of American singer, writer, actor, and comedian Henry Rollins, and he’s not alone in this belief.
It’s certainly true that elderly people in the U.S. grew up in an era where bigotry was extremely common and almost universally accepted. When they die, these attitudes go with them to the grave.
Another theory, however, is that prejudice is a natural result of hate, fear, hard times, and lousy education.
Hate and fear derive from the rise of social media and right-wing “news” sources.
Hard times come from wage stagnation and the growing chasm between rich and poor.
Lousy education is the result of a society that has simply lost interest in the subject, pays its teachers slave wages, and suffers from the cream being swept off the top and sent to private and charter schools.
