Is progress being made in the prosecution of the Trump Organization? I don’t know, but I have to say that the pressure that the judge is putting on the former president is pretty feeble.
If Trump’s net worth is $5 billion, a daily fine of $10K will take 500,000 days, or 1370 years, to become exhausted.
There is no real surprise here. These are terrible people who have no sense of shame or personal integrity.
When he was a preteen, my son used to be fascinated by the “Darwin Awards,” bestowed unto those who, by virtue of their dying by their own blatant stupidity, went to their doom before contributing genes of lesser intelligence into the overall pool.
“Dad! Dad!” Jake would beg, “When are this year’s winners going to be announced?” “Patience,” I’d reply. “I think they’re due soon.”
Here’s a true story from that year’s victor:
A young man thought it was a good idea to go bungee jumping off a bridge with a cable around his ankles that is made of steel, rather than some sort of elastic. At a few hundred feet beneath the surface you dived from, his body is now doing ~250 MPH, and the cable is fully extended. The cable snaps off his feet, and the rest of him continues, plunging to his death.
The story of the guy who came in second place was good as well, but I have to admit it really wasn’t quite as impressive at the first.
The whole thing became an annual father-son event that lasted quite a few years. I wish I could honestly report that we were talking about Plato and Socrates, but we weren’t.
As suggested in the NPR report above, there is a case to be made that today’s Trump supporters are collectively taking themselves out.
The fellow on the right is the “Pope” of the Russian Orthodox church, and has blessed Putin for the war against Ukraine, essentially blessing mass murder, war crimes, and genocide.
You might have thought that, with all the evidence of a conspiracy to overthrow the government, at least some of the people involved would start to tell the truth, rather than continue to block all progress.
But you’d be wrong.
Whether it’s used as a noun or a verb, “demand” is a funny word. If one of these things comes from a powerful source, it happens. If it comes from a daily newspaper, I’m not sure how much weight it carries.
In any case, it’s a start. And what the Republicans are doing to support Trump and his criminality really must stop.
It’s hard to imagine that this won’t happen, even with the evidence we have today.
These people conspired to illegally overturn the election.
It’s clear as day.
The meme here raises some interesting points, but it’s loaded with errors.
The existence of ether was an assumption in pre-20th Century physics, before the nature of light was understood. It was believed that the propagation of light waves must be somehow similar to the propagation of ocean waves, i.e., that they require a physical medium. In 1887, physicists Michelson and Morley performed an experiment which, to their great surprise, disproved this theory, and paved the way for Einstein’s theory of special relativity in 1905, i.e., that space and time are relative to the motion of the observer with respect to the observed.
Einstein’s general relativity in 1915 and the inception of quantum mechanics in the 1920s flooded our minds with all manner of counterintuitive notions, but still, nothing resembling a stationary ether.
It is true that “empty space” is not truly empty; particles are constantly coming into existence and annihilating. Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle (1927) suggests that it at least some energy everywhere, and some say this provides a path to harvesting “free energy” from the universe, though this is completely untrue.
Following the assertion above, some people also say that “the elites” are sitting on a free energy technology (and a cure for cancer, etc.) but for some reason are not releasing it to the public. I’ve come across this dozens of times since I entered the renewable energy field, but it’s ridiculous. Imagine that you’re a member of this elite group. The planet is roasting and you have relatives who are dying of cancer, but you keep your secrets nonetheless? Sorry.
Btw, it’s perfectly possible that we are all connected in a way yet to be understood. There are lots of people who believe this, and I’d hardly call them crackpots. If the answers come at all, they will probably follow an understanding of consciousness.
There are plenty of religious theories on this out there, and you’re free to believe whatever you will, but I’m afraid science is a very long way from having this nailed down.
I remember this when it happened at the time.
Using it as a reason not to argue with people online made me smile.
It’s true that there are some dim bulbs out there, and many more as a percentage than there were 40 years ago. Still, I enjoy engaging with people on topics of the day.
Many will recall that fraudster Steve Bannon was arrested and charged with the same crime as these two, but was pardoned by former President Trump.
Americans worry, and for good reason, that the only people who will wind up in prison for the crimes associated with the Trump administration will be those who don’t have the political connections required to subvert the justice system.
At this point, it’s abundantly clear that there was a vast conspiracy at the highest level of government to overturn the 2020 presidential election, thus overthrowing the United States, a textbook case of treason. Many of us are terrified that no charges will be brought against the perpetrators, essentially nullifying American democracy.
At that point, to paraphrase Lincoln, this government of, by, and for the people will have perished from the Earth.
