The thing is, Giuliani famously said, "Truth isn't truth".
Why would anyone offer him a plea deal when anything his says after swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth can so easily be undermined by Trump's defense?
Just as an aside, it's not that I don't think Giuliani, Trump and many others shouldn't be tried, but does anyone else shudder at the thought of these old men possibly spending the rest of their lives incarcerated?
Whoop! Leap of subject, but while we're here, surely identifying as a school desk would be transobjectism.
I don't know why you would hope that a child's transgenderism is a passing phase. In my albeit limited experience, gender identity is no more something to grow out of than s*xual preference. Any distress is based in bullying and bigotry, just as it always has been with identifying as gay.
There is no precise definition of 'race' and certainly, there is no biological basis for distinct racial groups.
Having said that, race is a relevant part of social identity that cannot, should not be ignored. Bigotry won't go away if we simply pretend is doesn't exist and history suggests quite the opposite. We'd also be ess interesting and fun.
The word 'race' is, and has been used to signify a number of different groups including Jewish people, particularly where the group belonging has been inherited through the mother's line. I refer to mysellf as racially Jewish for that very reason, although I was raised Catholic and am now non-religious. It's still a part of my heritage.
I respect your self-identity, as I'm sure you respect mine.
In answer to the blog topic, who died and made you god?
Riz can identify as he pleases, when he pleases, how he pleases and to whom he pleases.
It's not his responsibility to avoid offending others' bigotry.
In the wake of Ken's comment that 'violence in a hostile environment is how America was created' and your comment 'the American people are violent by nature its in their genes', I thought it was relevant to point out that we Brits probably trump everyone in terms of a violent, bloody history.
I don't think we're entirely slaves to the US either, although there is an element of that. We've got Tony Blair's war crimes, the occupation of Northern Ireland and donating our policing resources to the Saudi's despite them torturing and hanging children, disabled people and peaceful protestors.
And yet we don't have the same culture of weapons and gun crime.
I've heard a rumour that SA doesn't exactly have a utopian history, either. Is it in your genes?
Some might speculate that if Trump hadn't raped, stolen, defrauded, lied and conspired to overturn a constitutional democracy, it would have been less uphilly for him.
And it's only going to get more uphilly as his former colleagues, employees and co-defendents realise that loyalty only goes one way in Trumpworld. Y'know, more flipping than an Olympic gymnastics event in a bid to avoid full culpability for their own criminal actions.
In fact, it's beginning to look a bit North face of the Eiger uphilly for quite a lot of the nice Republican folk. Flipping for many will be the difference between getting down from base camp alive and becoming a frozen monument to failure somewhere inbtween base camp and the peak.
PS. (because you did manage to distract me briefly) It's notabe that you didn't say my comment was irrelevant because Trump doesn't show malignant narcissistic traits.
PPS. If Biden is a puppet with multiple handlers, then a very large group of people can't have a Persnallity Disorder by default, ergo Trump is still the malignant-narcissist-Hitler-alike.
PPPS. How quickly you forget how much time Trump spent of vacation.
Yeah, like I said, the more you claim that everyone is in on it, the more you shoot yourself in the foot. The more you claim how unpopular Trump is, the more you admit there was no stolen 2020 election.
Having said that, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment is self-executing thus a large number of Republican's in office are already automatically disqualified from those positions on the grounds of insurrection, rebellion, or providing aid, or comfort.
In practise it will take a while for all those disqualifications to make their way up to the Supreme Court, but it's looking like the Republican party in it's current form may well be decimated.
Hopefully that process will happen sequentially enough that the criminals and fruitloops can be replaced with law abiding, rational Republicans without disrupting the normal functioning of government, or what used to be the normal functioning of governent before folks started thinking Jews were firing laser beams from the sky and election workers were likened to drug dealers on the basis of no evidence whatsoever and indeed evidence to the contrary. <--- sorry to remind you, I thnk you're trying your best to ignore Rudy's outright admission that he lied about there being election fraud.
I can partialy answer my own question in as much as independent presidential candidates typically must petition each state to have their names printed on the general election ballot.
I still don't get the process when a candidate is nominated by a political party.
I'm just wondering how many law suits there will be if the Secretaries of State either accept, or refuse to put Trump on the ballot according to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
Tell me, if the majority of people are against Trump, then how come he won the 2020 election by a landslide? The more people you heap on the anti-Trump stolen election conspiracy, the more you outweigh the likelihood of that same conspiracy. That's the problem when you can't get any lies, or misinformation to stick.
Here's a story similar, to yours from a reputable site:
As for the 1930's Germany allegation, Biden, however many faults he has, isn't the one with malignant narcissistic personality traits like Hitler. Just sayin'.
I hear what you're saying, but that's a seperate issue, isn't it?
If he is held completely, or partialy culpable for some, or all of the deaths and injuries on that day, then a just sentence should account for that.
Justice should not include deterrence as that is retribution based on what others might do in the future, not what Tarrio did in the past.
The sentence will either deter, or it won't, depending on who is viewing it. Saying it was meant as a deterrent was pointless at best and possibly opens it up for challenge.
You missed some bits - Giuliani failed to preserve and produce evidence as ordered by the judge in the defamation suit such that he bypassed the discovery phase of the trial.
He was found liable by default, but also admitted that he made up his claims of election fraud in this case brought by Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, the African-American Georgia election workers he likened to drug dealers.
It may be that he had no credible evidence opposing the suit, but that would have been established had he produced the material he was asked for. If however, he avoided the discovery phase deliberately, as Judge Beryl Howell referenced in her ruling, it paints a picture of spoilation, or tampering with evidence.
That begs the question of why Giuliani might tamper with evidence at the same time as creating evidence against himself (and potentially his alleged co-conspirators) in the Georgia state RICO and Washington federal election conspiracy cases. His admission of making up and deliberately propagating an election fraud tale go to the very heart of the two criminal cases. He has potentially, perhaps almost certainly, screwed himself and maybe others in those upcoming trials.
The question is, what was so damining in that undisclosed evidence that Giuliani admitted to making up that claim of election fraud that will inevitably be used in the criminal cases? What could be worse than the RICO and federal conspiracy charges?
So, Democrats don't want Trump in office, liberals don't want Trump in office, antifa don't want Trump in office, nasty feminists don't want Trump in office, BLM don't want Trump in office, the popular vote doesn't want Trump in office, Fauci doesn't want Trump in office, prosecutors don't want Trump in office, judges don't want Trump in office, security services don't want Trump in office, election workers don't want Trump in office and even way too many Republicans don't want Trump in office.
That he is a threat is less the salient point than he was a threat given he was found guilty of seditious conspiracy relating to J6 2020. He wasn't tried for seditious conspiracy in the future.
Where the lengthy sentence is questionable in my opinion, is in the judge stating that it must act as a deterrent. That perhaps implies a retributive element that goes beyond justice that is proportional to the crime.
As for justifying imprisoning Trump, I don't think you have to fret about that. Tarrio's conviction is completely insignificant compared to Rudy Giuliani owning that he lied about election fraud and being found liable in the defamation suit against him.
The question is, why did Rudy just hand over the Georgia and Washington cases to the prosecution on a plate? Why did he grease the wheels of Trump's prosecution and disqualification rather than preserve and produce evidence for the discovery phase of that defamation suit?
Back on topic - the Secretary of State has the authority and discretion when it comes to putting names on the presidential ballot, right?
Does each candidate have to apply to be put on the ballot in each state, do they apply in the state where they live, or where they choose to apply? How does this bit of your system work?
I think perhaps that's one of the many inherent faults of the system: anyone who would make a good president/prime minister doesn't want to be one; anyone who wants to be one is unsuitable by default.
Being the most powerful person over milllions and millions of people attracts the odd balls and narcissists who are necessarily and entirely out of touch with the people they seek to govern.
Ummm...I think the Brits have invaded more in their time, but I didn't realise it was a competition.
I'm not sure it's just a numbers game, either. There is devastation, oppression, ethnic cleansing, theft, murder, apartheid, discrimination, tyrants, dictators, despots, cruelty, etc. Urges to dominate are by no means exclusive to the Democrats in the US.
Well, rather than listening to what ther people said, or didn't say about him, maybe you could have listened to him directly. It was patently obvious with everything that fell out of his mouth (or other orifice) that he was a completely inappropriate candidate for the office.
I'd even go as far to say that you could have muted the sound and just watched his body language to know that he should not be in a position of power.
I respect your knowledge and experience in so many areas, I respect your focus on facts, but politics, including the politics of war, is inherently governed by human psychology.
The diminishing quality of disposable paper cups and towels are perhaps a function of environmental issues and quite rightly so.
Perhaps that's also true for other products as businesses aim to meet environmental demands. I wonder how long it will take to go back to the days where items could be repaired, rather than making them flimsier and necessarily disposable if so much as a screw comes loose.
Over here people are encouraged to bring their own cup with a lid when purchasing a beverage from a cafe, or vendor. Customers who don't wash ther cups are often refused service due to cross contamination issues, however.
I carry a lightweight, quick drying towel in my bag for either drying my hands, or swings and slides in the park when the need arises.
Generally speaking, I don't buy a lot of stuff. When I do, I aim for re-used and recycled for most things and I make things last, upcycle and recycle once they're in my possession.
So, no, I haven't noticed the diminishing quality of stuff from before covid, but I have noticed that trend since the middle of the last century.
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MAGA: My Attorney Got Arrested!!The thing is, Giuliani famously said, "Truth isn't truth".
Why would anyone offer him a plea deal when anything his says after swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth can so easily be undermined by Trump's defense?
Just as an aside, it's not that I don't think Giuliani, Trump and many others shouldn't be tried, but does anyone else shudder at the thought of these old men possibly spending the rest of their lives incarcerated?