Execution? Or white-collar reasonable doubt?
[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2978827]So, yeah, this was the same as the Trump case in the same locale. It is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt not guilty if you suspect someone committed a crime. And like with Trump, liars were allowed to testify and people who were telling the truth and would have cast doubt on the guilt of the accused were excluded. [/QUOTE]
Oddly enough, I think MDS1, may have said it best [i][b](without the diatribe and REAMS of right-wing COPYRIGHT propaganda...)[/b][/i]
[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2978848]He should not have been pardoned, [b]he should of been executed!![/b][/QUOTE]
Here we go with the criminal "white-collar" defense:
[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2978827]I think what really got me is the federal agents corruption. They pocketed about a $1 million apiece in Bitcoin and were caught. At that point, the entire motivation for LE IMO becomes suspect. Was getting the right guy their motivation or was it lining their pockets? To me, that is huge reasonable doubt, and I am not sure they got the right guy.[/QUOTE]
Forgive me for laughing just a tad, at your response. As it's always gives me a smile and a chuckle, when conservative types and "Republican Libertarians" are pining about some guy going to jail for white-collar crime, that is supposedly "non-violent" and a "victim less" crime.
Not sure why should it come as a shock to you, that federal agents/cops would pocket some of the illicit proceeds of a crime? What, you think cops/police officers, only do it when they arrest some blue-collar street thug drug dealer or high-level street kingpin drug bust? I'm sure there's reasonable doubt in those cases too.
The way I see it, [i][b]your "reasonable doubt" argument,[/b][/i] is simply a case of, "how expensive of a suit is your lawyer wearing and how good are they at litigation, while wearing said suit"?
Note, you often bring up these moot points, as if their rich/expensive lawyers didn't get the opportunity, to defend/argue such evidentiary findings and "reasonable doubts".
Chinese EVs are as good or better than...
[QUOTE=Sirioja;2977841]Many in Europe feel shame now from jumping monkey Musk behavior. I think Tesla should fall in Europe. Do you compare Hyundai or Kia with Porsche or Audi? When I needed to improve my Audi V8 and engineerd powered with french gas from agriculture, getting more powerful and 0% pollution on technical control, to save our planet, when Tesla batteries and chineses make pollution. When he doesn t bullshit like always, but maybe he will find who killed JFK? Senile old Trump cry like a baby about USA 350 billions debt with Europe: Europe is bad with us, when for sure not buying shit USA foods to get sick and obese, when Coca and McDo make our children obese, nor USA cars which can t compete with European cars. [/QUOTE] Not sure what your overall view or statement being made is, but I would rank or rate many of the Korean and Chinese EVs, as being better or on par with that of Porsche, Audi, Toyota, Honda, Ford or GM.
[QUOTE=Sirioja;2977841]Americans dream about Porsche, Audi, MB or BM, or french hands made Bugatti, or Ferrari or Maserati, when only very few Europeans dream about American cars. Rather than crying like a senile baby, he should work to improve USA products quality, when quality is not important in USA, but just money, so, don t ask others to buy your shit, when far below European standards for quality, and he has big work with Boeing.[/QUOTE]
Again, you couldn't be more wrong!
The more that both America and Europe, hang on to their legacy fallacies, that our cars, EVs, computer chips, AI or machine technology, is still better than anything China has to offer, the more devastating the disruption is likely to be, when China delivers that knockout punch and blindsides the U.S. and Europe, due to our Trumpian style arrogance and hubris.
Take the huge disruption, for example, that [b]China's DeepSeek's AI,[/b] currently just delivered to the AI sector and the NVIDIA's of the world. Look at BYD, disrupting and destroying legacy auto, like Toyota, Nissan, Stellantis and VW.
Ultimately, these disruptions will playout to the detriment of the U.S. and Europe, if they cannot step-up and be as competitive, innovative, efficient or as economical in producing these products, as China can.
Well I posit that the USA needs to ban ALL American investment in the CCP
[QUOTE=Spidy;2978973]Not sure what your overall view or statement being made is, but I would rank or rate many of the Korean and Chinese EVs, as being better or on par with that of Porsche, Audi, Toyota, Honda, Ford or GM.
Again, you couldn't be more wrong!
The more that both America and Europe, hang on to their legacy fallacies, that our cars, EVs, computer chips, AI or machine technology, is still better than anything China has to offer, the more devastating the disruption is likely to be, when China delivers that knockout punch and blindsides the U.S. and Europe, due to our Trumpian style arrogance and hubris.
Take the huge disruption, for example, that [b]China's DeepSeek's AI,[/b] just delivered and currently doing to AI sector and the NVIDIA's of the world and BYD disrupting and destroying legacy auto, like Toyota, Nissan, Stellantis and VW, will ultimately playout to the detriment of the U.S. and Europe, if they cannot step-up and be as competitive, innovative, efficient or as economical in producing these products, as China.[/QUOTE]BYD wouldn't even exist without IP theft from American companies, and investment from Scumbags like Larry Fink and Warren Buffet.
[URL]https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/tesla-trade-secrets-stolen-by-chinese-companys-owners-us-says[/URL]
Our Lord and Savior needs to ban both.
[URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/politics/trump-policy-blitz.html[/URL]
Trump's 'Flood the Zone' Strategy Leaves Opponents Gasping in Outrage.
A deliberate effort by the president and his team to roll out an unceasing flow of initiatives has knocked his rivals off balance in the first days of the new administration.
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Some Democrats have suggested that President Trump and his aides may soon run out of steam, exhausting their policy moves and eventually themselves. Credit. Kenny Holston / The New York Times.
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The strategy has existed since at least 2018, when the former Trump administration strategist Stephen K. Bannon boasted of the ability to overwhelm Democrats and any media opposition through a determined effort to "flood the zone" with initiatives.
This time, the flood is bigger, wider and more brutally efficient. As President Trump begins his second term, he has enacted his agenda at breakneck speed as part of an intentional plan to knock his opponents off balance and dilute their response.
Firing inspectors general. Sweeping clemency for Jan. 6 defendants. Investigations of perceived enemies. A federal hiring freeze. Moving to end birthright citizenship. An immigration crackdown. Terminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Revoking security clearances.
On Tuesday, just when Democrats thought they might come up for air, news broke that Mr. Trump had ordered a freeze on trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans, prompting a new round of outrage.
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But the flood has had its intended disorienting effect: How can Democrats fight back when they can't catch their breath?
"It's been overwhelming sensory overload," said Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.
"One moment I'm on the phone with someone who does cancer drug clinical medical trials for the government who has been slated for removal because one small part of her job is outreach to the minority community," he said. "The next moment I'm talking to lawyers at the Department of Justice and they've been slated to be involuntarily reassigned. It just doesn't stop. ".
One of the architects of Mr. Trump's rapid-pace strategy is Stephen Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff for policy, who has pushed the flood-the-zone tactic. Mr. Miller believes that those he regards as Mr. Trump's enemies have limited bandwidth for opposition, and he has told people that the goal is to overwhelm them with a blitz of activity.
"The breakneck speed is putting everyone on their heels," said Ryan Walker, the executive vice president of Heritage Action for America, a conservative advocacy group that has developed policies embraced by Mr. Trump. Mr. Walker said he had seen a "sea change from the first administration" in terms of how quickly the new administration was working.
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Some Democrats have suggested that Mr. Trump and his aides may soon run out of steam, exhausting their policy moves and eventually themselves. Mr. Raskin said Democrats needed to fight the feeling of being disoriented, weather the torrent of news and determine which policies they could actually fight in court.
"Everyone needs to maintain as much mental clarity and emotional composure as possible," he said. "We need to figure out where the administration has clearly violated the Constitution, such as with birthright citizenship, and where the courts will still work for us. In other cases, we're going to have to be creative and nimble. ".
Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, called a meeting on Wednesday to open a "comprehensive three-pronged counteroffensive" against Mr. Trump's blitz. Democrats believe the Trump administration erred badly by freezing grants relied on by many Americans, and will discuss contesting that move through legislation and a communications strategy.
"It's a little bit like drinking from a fire hose," Representative Gerald E. Connolly of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, said of the pace of Mr. Trump's moves. But he said that speed is likely to cause sloppiness and mistakes.
"They're going to stumble," Mr. Connolly said. "They're going to screw up, and we're going to pounce when they do. In their haste to remake the federal government, they're going to make big, big mistakes. ".
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There was a similar feeling from advocacy groups trying to keep up with Mr. Trump's sweeping immigration changes. Within hours of taking office, Mr. Trump sought to bar asylum for people arriving at the southern border, suspend the Refugee Admissions Program and declare migrant crossings at the USA -Mexico border a national emergency. The administration welcomed news crews to ride along with federal agents as they pursued undocumented immigrants.
"The Trump administration is issuing multiple overlapping orders in an effort to have us play Whac-a-Mole. But we are prepared to do that," said Lee Gelernt, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who represented the group in many of the highest-profile cases during the first Trump administration, including a challenge to the family separation policy.
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Stephen Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff for policy, has advocated the "flood the zone" strategy. Credit. Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times.
During the first Trump administration, many on the right were still learning how to use the levers of government to achieve their goals. Now they have entered office ready for a full-scale blitz.
"They were not this prepared," Mr. Walker said. "They had not done this much homework before getting into office. And importantly, they've been able to find acting folks in all of these agencies to get this stuff across the finish line, and that is a feat of personnel management that we just didn't see in the first administration. ".
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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia and the chairwoman of new House subcommittee aiming to scale back government by working with Elon Musk's government efficiency effort, said Democrats should get used to late-night policy moves that were unknown during the Biden administration.
Mr. Trump's agenda was endorsed by the voters, Ms. Greene said, and he is working "as fast as humanly possible" to enact it.
"That requires staying up late at night," she said.
On Mr. Bannon's "War Room" podcast this weekend, his voice was filled with pride as he praised the pace of the new administration.
"If you look at the scale, the depth and the urgency, that comes from years of people working on this," he said. "This didn't happen overnight. ".
He singled out Mr. Miller for praise, before encouraging the administration to push forward relentlessly.
"All pedal, no brake. Drive it. Drive it. Drive it," he said, adding: "When you've got this kind of momentum, you do not stop, you do not think. You go, you go, you go. ".
And so it begins, continued
Trump's Pandemic Part 2, dot #6.
Yes, a judge has blocked this for the moment. But it is glaringly obvious that Trump is pulling all the stops to leave Americans most likely exposed to it bare ass naked against prevention and treatment for what might very well be an emerging animal-to-human transmission and mutation of the H5 virus, among many other issues:
[B]Medicaid payment portals down after Trumps federal funding freeze.
Lawmakers and state officials say portals inaccessible for one of largest health insurance programs in US.[/B]
[URL]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/trump-federal-funding-freeze-medicaid[/URL]
Trump's Administration now appears to be trying to float the idea that they had no idea what "shutting down the government" meant. Considering their astonishing ignorance about the most basic aspects of ordinary life, they might actually manage to convince a few people to accept that excuse.
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I would be reporting it, too, however
[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2978920]I called in between 2017-2021 and I have them on speed dial again as should everyone else!
[URL]https://www.ice.gov/contact[/URL][/QUOTE]Oh, I would be calling in and reporting this very day, too!
However, it would have been stupid and counterproductive to the Great Biden / Dem Recovery of 2021-2024 from the Great Trump / Repub Economic Disaster that Biden inherited to have called in those reports from about Election Day 2020 to Election Day 2024.
During those years Biden brilliantly exploited increased immigration to stimulate the economy / recovery, knowing full well that it was helping to create more jobs, expand the economy, prevent Trump's Pandemic Inflation from getting out of control and all without increasing the crime rate by so much as a tiny tick. In fact, it coincided with Biden greatly reducing the crime rate that skyrocketed under Trump.
But now that 49.7% of the electorate wants to further elevate and enrich Trump, President Musk and their billionaire buddies at all cost and make the other 99% of Americans pay for it, it's time to really deliver the Trump Campaign promises ASAP!
Good point. I forgot that one.
[QUOTE=Xpartan;2978955]And let's not forget the Unholy Grail of illegal immigration: the meat-packing facilities.
[URL]https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/23/trump-deportation-plans-food-system-00200013[/URL]
I'm so tired of this blatant hypocrisy that I too LOOK FORWARD to Trump fulfilling his pledge to end illegal immigration.
Of course, you and I and everyone else with an ounce of a brain knows it'll never happen. Illegal workers are too important to the US economy. The noise will subside, and it's going to be back to business as usual aside from broken hopes and broken families that are unfortunate enough to be caught in the middle of Trump's media blitzkrieg.[/QUOTE]They are obviously picking and choosing their targets. He'll, I think many of the Trump "sweeps" are of immigrants already in holding pens waiting for a ruling on their visa. LOL.
It would be so easy to round up thousands of undocumented workers in a nanosecond if they targeted meat packing plants, Gulf of America vacation destinations, garment factories, Trump Golf Resorts, Trump Hotels, Trump Tower Office Building janitorial departments, every loading dock receiving Amazon order shipment and deliveries and so on.
Why haven't they done it?
Education for the chonically illiterate
[QUOTE]The Constitution gives Congress the power to impeach federal officials. An official can be impeached for treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors.
The House of Representatives brings articles (charges) of impeachment against an official. Learn more about the Houses role in impeachment.
If the House adopts the articles by a simple majority vote, the official has been impeached.
The Senate holds an impeachment trial. In the case of a president, the U.S. Supreme Court chief justice presides. Learn more about the Senates role in the impeachment process.
If found guilty, the official is removed from office. They may never be able to hold elected office again.
If they are not found guilty, they may continue to serve in office.[/QUOTE]If [B]Trump[/B] committed a crime while in office. Then someone better step up and prove it. Otherwise it is just bunch of sore losers up in here beating on their keyboards.
[B]It this what the thread has to look forward for another four years?[/B]?
