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https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/31/after-trumps-conviction-republicans-should-do-to-democrats-what-they-did-to-him/

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-outlaw-saturday-june-1-2024-c

As of yesterday afternoon, Trump’s campaign shattered fundraising records, raising an astonishing $53 million dollars from small donations in just 24 hours following the Manhattan Verdict. Maybe even more meaningfully, a full third of those donations were from new donors who had never previously participated.

https://x.com/Shawn_Farash/status/1796608352002154859

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-outlaw-saturday-june-1-2024-c

Bear with me for a little history lesson. In 1960, Alabama’s democrat officials indited Dr. Martin Luther King on charges of perjury, related to alleged underpayment of his state income taxes in 1956 and 1958. Dr. King’s intial charges were misdemeanor tax evasion. But democrat prosecutors later upgraded the charges to felony perjury — for lying on his tax returns — with a possible prison sentence of two to five years for each count.

Boosting misdemeanor tax evasion — which requires dishonest tax reporting — into a felony required some very creative prosecutorial thinking.

The technical basis for charging Dr. King with felony perjury instead of misdemeanor tax evasion was the Orwellian allegation that he had perjured himself in signing his evasive tax returns. Note that, like with Trump, Dr. King’s alleged unreported Alabama income was related to political donations.

And as with Trump’s prosecution, it was the first time in Alabama history that any defendant was ever charged that way.

Both cases were brought by democrats against their political enemies. Both cases involved charges for victimless process crimes. Both cases involved creative bootstrapping of misdemeanors into felonies. Both cases included unprecedented interpretations of the law, charging prominent political figures with crimes never brought against others. Both cases involved charges deeply intertwined with their political activities and public roles: campaign donations in Dr. King’s case, and “legal expenses” argued rather to be campaign expenses for Trump.

Dr. King’s case might help explain why black Americans resonate with Trump’s conviction. And it might also help explain yesterday’s Daily Mail’s headline, which explains in part what has forced corporate media into its desperate efforts at damage control:

Patrick says

Dr. King’s case might help explain why black Americans resonate with Trump’s conviction. And it might also help explain yesterday’s Daily Mail’s headline, which explains in part what has forced corporate media into its desperate efforts at damage control:

In other words, fuck around and find out.

Patrick says

jazz_music

Please read https://patrick.net/post/1381434/2024-06-01-grand-unified-theory-of-recent and tell me where I'm wrong.

I read it, all be it quickly. I saw a lot of assumptions being made. Some I disagree with, some I don’t.

The unification you mentioned is a whole bundle of conspiracies, heard on the right wing echo chamber, brought together into an over arching narrative.

It has the quality of truthIness and hints at the knowledge of some great truth, which only special people know, and that means nobody who has liberal political views.

If I did an exhaustive takedown of that little essay, you might merely consider it proof that I am of the unwashed outsiders, who think that government is a vehicle that must be driven by the people, in opposition to the monetary might of wealthy interests.

And pursuit of wealth gets to be a murderous sickness with the result of killing all because in the final analysis, there is room for only one rich person to exist. Then there would be peace and universal austerity.

Trump is not a hero, he is looking for wealth and power not to satisfy his rejection by other elites, but to soothe his daddy issues. You follow him to your betrayal and doom.

He reveres dictators for the simplest reasons, he wants to be one. Never put your fate in the hands of anyone who claims that they will be your hero. You must get actively involved. All of us must manage our fate,

He only wants your silence and loyalty. The same as all who came before him, with the audacity.

Patrick says

jazz_music

Please read https://patrick.net/post/1381434/2024-06-01-grand-unified-theory-of-recent and tell me where I'm wrong.

I read it, all be it quickly. I saw a lot of assumptions being made. Some I disagree with, some I don’t.

The unification you mentioned is a whole bundle of conspiracies, heard on the right wing echo chamber, brought together into an over arching narrative.

It has the quality of truthIness and hints at the knowledge of some hallowed yet completely unfounded truths, which only special people know, and that means nobody who has liberal political views.

If I did an exhaustive takedown of that little essay, you might merely consider it proof that I am of the unwashed outsiders, who think that government is a vehicle that must be driven by the people, in opposition to the monetary might of wealthy interests.

And pursuit of wealth gets to be a murderous sickness with the result of killing all because in the final analysis, there is room for only one rich person to exist. Then there would be peace and universal austerity.

Trump is not a hero, he is looking for wealth and power not to satisfy his rejection by other elites, but to soothe his daddy issues. You follow him to your betrayal and doom.

He reveres dictators for the simplest of reasons, he wants to be one. Never put your fate in the hands of anyone who claims that they will be your hero. You must get actively involved. All of us must manage our fate,

He only wants your silence and loyalty. The same as all who came before him, with the audacity.

RayAmerica says

For whatever the reason, it seems to be in the DNA of most Americans to support the underdog, in particular, if that underdog has been obviously unfairly mistreated

You should consider the implications that this is not some little known fact.

DhammaStep says

RayAmerica says

For whatever the reason, it seems to be in the DNA of most Americans to support the underdog, in particular, if that underdog has been obviously unfairly mistreated

You should consider the implications that this is not some little known fact.

I think I understand your comment but, could you explain it?

Patrick says

Dr. King’s case might help explain why black Americans resonate with Trump’s conviction.

I doubt that many Black Americans are even aware of the phony tax evasion felony charges against MLK. In fact, most Blacks seem unaware that it was Dems who prosecuted MLK overall.

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/trump-sentenced-to-four-years-confinement-in-oval-room-in-washington-dc

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/welp-250-years-wasnt-a-bad-run-says-george-washington-looking-on-from-heaven

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/banana-republics-starting-to-feel-kinda-bad-for-united-states

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/democrats-celebrate-trump-being-convicted-of-whatever-it-was-he-did

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/even-rino-mitt-romney-is-denouncing-trumps-sham/

Even the notorious RINO and former presidential candidate Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah is denouncing the sham conviction of President Donald Trump.

In a rigged trial orchestrated by New York Democrats in conjunction with the Biden White House, Trump was found guilty of all 34 charges of falsifying business records related to a hush-money payment made to adult porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election.

Romney, who makes no secret of his disdain for the former president and has tried to sabotage him at every turn, argued that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg should never have let the case go to trial.

“Bragg should have settled the case against Trump, as would have been the normal procedure. But he made a political decision,” Romney reportedly told his biographer McKay Coppins, a writer at the Atlantic.

“Bragg may have won the battle, for now, but he may have lost the political war,” he continued. “Democrats think they can put out the Trump fire with oxygen. It’s political malpractice.”

It's also a criminal abuse of power. Everyone involved in creating the sham trial should themselves be in prison.

jazz_music says

If I did an exhaustive takedown of that little essay

@jazz_music

Why don't you try to argue even one of the points rather than just dismiss it all without even considering the facts.

Are you opposed to higher wages for US blacks by mass deportation of illegals?

Patrick says

Even the notorious RINO and former presidential candidate Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah is denouncing the sham conviction of President Donald Trump.

No, Mittens is just upset that this sham trial looks like it enhanced Trump's path to victory. Mittens is unconcerned about the use of lawfare or the phony charges.

https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1796738483366543705

Donald Trump Jr. on his father’s conviction.

Patrick says

It's also a criminal abuse of power. Everyone involved in creating the sham trial should themselves be in prison.

Who is this smallish group of people who are able to pull this off?

Patrick says

Why don't you try to argue even one of the points rather than just dismiss it all without even considering the facts.

Are you opposed to higher wages for US blacks by mass deportation of illegals?

Keeps us appraised of the the delusional agitprop repeating station broadcasts, raw assertion fallacies, the head in the sand obliquity of liberal reactive madness and feedbags of Satanic inversion Bernaysian fantasy.

"Facts. We don't need no stinkin' facts."

"Democrats are literally the worst ever. At this point, if anybody tells me they are a democrat, I know they quackccine brain damaged and need help." Who ever said these were their 'beliefs' rather than just the ticker tapes from their employers?

And now we take a break from our regular programming for a little bit of Zero Hedge porn...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/maher-if-trump-goes-jail-there-will-be-racial-civil-war

UkraineIsTotallyFucked says

And now we take a break from our regular programming for a little bit of Zero Hedge porn...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/maher-if-trump-goes-jail-there-will-be-racial-civil-war

LOL! Maher is officially an idiot, even if he is just spouting his teleprompter screed. Hugh Hefner should have screwed some smarter shiksa.

https://public.substack.com/p/blind-fury-drives-anti-democratic

https://www.racket.news/p/a-sham-case-and-everyone-knows-it

Patrick says

And it was labelled a Legal Expense.