Some people speculate that the New York State Attorney General doesn’t need the cooperation of Don Jr. and Ivanka Trump, i.e., that there is already overwhelming evidence of fraud. It’s hard to know from here.
Insofar as this is a civil rather than criminal case, the Fifth Amendment doesn’t come into play. Should be interesting.
Here’s a glass-is-half-full kind of atheist whose attitude should be admired. Look at how close we are to complete agreement!
I’m reminded of a guided tour I once had at the J. Paul Getty collection of antiquities. I asked the guy, “Are you trying to tell me that the ancient Greeks who developed geometry, democracy, ethics, metaphysics, and so many disciplines within the arena of science believed that the sun was pulled across the sky by some fellow driving a chariot?”
He smiled, “Well, their society was surprisingly like ours. True, Socrates, Euclid and the others didn’t believe that stuff, but the people growing grapes 200 miles outside of Athens never thought to question it. Today, if you’re a molecular biologist or an astrophysicist, you’re extremely unlikely to believe that an omniscient being is looking down on you and guiding your life. But what about the people growing corn in Iowa?”
From where we sit at this point, it certainly does appear that Trump interfered with the election. It’s hard to know if the evidence as it currently exists would be sufficient to obtain a conviction, but keep in mind that the body of evidence is growing by the day; by next week at this time, things could look as black as the ace of spades for the former president.
Trump has been invincible all his life, and he likely thought there was no power on Earth that could keep him from getting his way. Looks like he was wrong here.
Here’s a start-up that is raising investment capital to build one-person helicopters using technology heretofore confined to drones. Pilots won’t require a license, just a one-hour training course, on the ground using a flight simulator.
At that point, they’re free to take this little baby up and go wherever you please. It’s billed as a vehicle for commuting to and from the workplace, so you’ll be in restricted air spaces, but no matter; just try not to run into things. Why would the FAA care that you’re in the flightpath of planes landing at LAX or O’Hare? Try not to worry about weather conditions and the fact that you are completely clueless about aircraft, and just enjoy the freedom formerly available only to birds. (more…)
Apparently, this is a pic of one of Donald Trump’s lawyers…., hoping to get paid.
As I like to say, anyone who deals with Trump in any way is an ass****. Anyone who deals with Trump in business is a stupid ass****.
The ugly part of dealing with the anti-vaxxers is that there are so many different flavors of them. One such sort are the religionists, who believe: “Faith, not fear.”
The most extreme view in this category is that those who get vaccinated are showing disloyalty to God.
We’re in deep bandini.
Here’s a phenomenon that shows no sign of abating:
• Someone with a large social media following makes claims that put millions of people in danger.
• Big tech close their account, as companies like Twitter and Facebook do not want to be a platform to spread harmful lies.
• Outrage ensues re: censorship. Idiots who think that private companies can’t apply their terms and conditions to their users call it a violation of free speech.
Is this just a passing thing, or will it become a permanent feature of a society in which half the country has lost touch with reality? I have no clue.
So much remains unknown, or at least unproven, at this point. Yet it appears inevitable that the evidence will point to a massive undertaking to undermine the election.
At that point, we’ll need to connect Trump to this. What role did he play? Even if he simply knew about it and let it happen, that should get the job done at his trial.
Is the state of New York going to be as permissive as the U.S. Congress when it comes to people ignoring subpoenas?
I’m betting no.
By the time ExxonMobil finally paid restitution to the people whose lives were disfigured by the 1989 oil spill from the Exxon Valdez , more than 8000 of them had died, either of the disease the spill caused, or of old age.
They are nothing if not masters of delay.
It appears now, however, that their atrocities in Indonesia are going to finally be litigated in court.
This, of course, isn’t the end. It’s not even the beginning of the end. We need to prepare ourselves for a very long run.
Hats off to Steven Donziger, best known for his work bringing Chevron to justice for what they did to the indigenous people in Ecuador.
