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Post by Merge on Feb 20, 2024 1:10:51 GMT
Policy disagreement? That’s some new bull. She’s on another thread defending Trump’s massive fraud! I mean, who in their right mind thinks fraud is defensible? And the cherry on this ludicrous sundae is claiming that we are the ones who are "dishonest" right after that! Dems: Trump is a criminal. Gia: No he’s not. Dems (after Trump himself tells the world his fascist plans): Trump is a fascist wannabe. Gia: No, he’s not. You’re delusional and being manipulated. Lol. It’s like The Dead Parrot sketch in Monty Python. Customer holding a dead bird: This parrot is dead. Pet shop clerk: No, it isn’t, it’s resting. And the Republican Party is not racist? Wow, that’s really big news to me. Because for decades up ‘til the present, they’ve been trying to prevent black voters and other people of color from voting. Disenfranchisement and voter suppression are practically their slogan! What a numbskull. Spot on! As usual, Lizacreates is much classier and more succinct than me. No worries - I'll own my rant up there. But someday I hope to be as smooth as Lizacreates about it all. Lifegoals.
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 20, 2024 1:11:33 GMT
Fascism is not a far Right thing. That's bullshit from Wikipedia and it's telling that that's the one you chose. Part of "your manipulated hatred of REPUBLICANS". Actual dictionaries Merriam-Webster and Britannica make no mention of far Right, anything. You claim to not want a racist, lying, fascist, corrupt, sexual assaulter for president and yet, that's exactly what you get when you vote for Biden. You claim to want safe, crime free, neighborhoods, with no food deserts for low income people. But those things don't happen in blue cities. You have many people attacking innocent bystanders, shoplifting and shoplifting rings being incentivised by policies of the party you support. Nationwide. You seem to be so caught up in your manipulated hatred of REPUBLICANS that you’re not even aware of what your own party is doing. You also don’t seem to understand what fascism is and how it applies just as well to the current administration that you support. Democrat politicians, movies, TV, news media, social media, search engines. The violence, rampant theft and theft rings that the party you support encourages with their policies is causing many stores to leave areas that don't have policies to prevent this because of your party. The stores can't sustain this level of theft. This most often affects neighborhoods that really need these drugstores, grocery stores and value department stores. They have no other option that they can get to. You personally are hurting actual people. Fuck you. You are a monster, Gia. Your cult has made you a monster. I will never forgive you and your people for what you are doing to this country, and I hope that history deals with you the way most of us have dealt with Nazis and fascists of all stripes. All of us, that is, except for the party you worship. They love the Nazis and fascists! They're very fine people and very special, and Trump loves them very much, especially when they're committing violence on his behalf. All that stuff you mentioned about cities up there is a dog whistle for "urban" people that we often hear from white nationalist groups. I live in one of the large cities you mention - a big, blue sanctuary city not far from the border. Those people you're talking about are my neighbors. Your party wants to further defund and then destroy our public schools, the ones most of us depend on to help lift people out of poverty. Your policies cause greater poverty and you’re “surprised” when people turn to crime. The bullshit your people make up about what is going on in our cities is based on nothing but fantasies, just like the bullshit you make up about what's going on at the border. You all sit in your non-border states and your suburbs/rural areas and make city people out to be monsters, when you are in fact the monsters. It's just stupid that you think that Trump's own people have been "manipulated" against him when they're speaking from their own personal experience working with him. Seriously, how dumb do you have to be to think that? Absolute willful stupidity. You say you don't like Trump, either, but you also don't believe any negative thing anyone says about him. Hypocrite. Eat shit, Gia. You're a huge failure as a human being. It should physically hurt to be as stupid and cruel as you are. You and Marge and Bobo - quite a trio of the stupidest people ever to open their mouths. You can't refute anything I said above. All you can do is try to turn it around with your ignorance and shout, I know you are, but what am I? like an eight year old on the playground. So incredibly stupid. I know. 🙄 You've called me that before. Another time you were MENTALLY UNABLE TO CONVERSE WITHOUT VICIOUSLY SMEARING anyone who disagrees with you, backs it up and stands up to people like you, who will not allow any other facts or opinions other than yours, WITHOUT SMEARING THEM.
That is someone you seem to think you have sufficiently smeared and you are applying it to me as nothing more than a smear tactic' "like an eight year old on the playground." My name is morecowbell. If you call me anything else, it is for no other reason than the simple point of smearing. Every time you call me anything but morecowbell you continue to show JUST HOW MUCH YOU ARE MENTALLY UNABLE TO HANDLE DISAGREEMENT.
"dog whistle" is a smear tactic you and your party likes to employ. Nothing more, nothing less. KEEP SHOWING JUST HOW MUCH YOU ARE MENTALLY UNABLE TO DEAL WITH DISAGREEMENT.Oh, the irony. You have no self awareness.
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Post by Merge on Feb 20, 2024 1:26:17 GMT
You are a monster, Gia. Your cult has made you a monster. I will never forgive you and your people for what you are doing to this country, and I hope that history deals with you the way most of us have dealt with Nazis and fascists of all stripes. All of us, that is, except for the party you worship. They love the Nazis and fascists! They're very fine people and very special, and Trump loves them very much, especially when they're committing violence on his behalf. All that stuff you mentioned about cities up there is a dog whistle for "urban" people that we often hear from white nationalist groups. I live in one of the large cities you mention - a big, blue sanctuary city not far from the border. Those people you're talking about are my neighbors. Your party wants to further defund and then destroy our public schools, the ones most of us depend on to help lift people out of poverty. Your policies cause greater poverty and you’re “surprised” when people turn to crime. The bullshit your people make up about what is going on in our cities is based on nothing but fantasies, just like the bullshit you make up about what's going on at the border. You all sit in your non-border states and your suburbs/rural areas and make city people out to be monsters, when you are in fact the monsters. It's just stupid that you think that Trump's own people have been "manipulated" against him when they're speaking from their own personal experience working with him. Seriously, how dumb do you have to be to think that? Absolute willful stupidity. You say you don't like Trump, either, but you also don't believe any negative thing anyone says about him. Hypocrite. Eat shit, Gia. You're a huge failure as a human being. It should physically hurt to be as stupid and cruel as you are. You and Marge and Bobo - quite a trio of the stupidest people ever to open their mouths. You can't refute anything I said above. All you can do is try to turn it around with your ignorance and shout, I know you are, but what am I? like an eight year old on the playground. So incredibly stupid. I know. 🙄 You've called me that before. Another time you were MENTALLY UNABLE TO CONVERSE WITHOUT VICIOUSLY SMEARING anyone who disagrees with you, backs it up and stands up to people like you, who will not allow any other facts or opinions other than yours, WITHOUT SMEARING THEM.
That is someone you seem to think you have sufficiently smeared and you are applying it to me as nothing more than a smear tactic' "like an eight year old on the playground." My name is morecowbell. If you call me anything else, it is for no other reason than the simple point of smearing. Every time you call me anything but morecowbell you continue to show JUST HOW MUCH YOU ARE MENTALLY UNABLE TO HANDLE DISAGREEMENT.
"dog whistle" is a smear tactic you and your party likes to employ. Nothing more, nothing less. KEEP SHOWING JUST HOW MUCH YOU ARE MENTALLY UNABLE TO DEAL WITH DISAGREEMENT.Oh, the irony. You have no self awareness. Yeah, yeah. Don't care what you think.
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Post by lizacreates on Feb 20, 2024 1:35:49 GMT
Policy disagreement? That’s some new bull. She’s on another thread defending Trump’s massive fraud! I mean, who in their right mind thinks fraud is defensible? And the cherry on this ludicrous sundae is claiming that we are the ones who are "dishonest" right after that! Dems: Trump is a criminal. Gia: No he’s not. Dems (after Trump himself tells the world his fascist plans): Trump is a fascist wannabe. Gia: No, he’s not. You’re delusional and being manipulated. Lol. It’s like The Dead Parrot sketch in Monty Python. Customer holding a dead bird: This parrot is dead. Pet shop clerk: No, it isn’t, it’s resting. And the Republican Party is not racist? Wow, that’s really big news to me. Because for decades up ‘til the present, they’ve been trying to prevent black voters and other people of color from voting. Disenfranchisement and voter suppression are practically their slogan! What a numbskull. Spot on! Lol. I wasn’t going to comment, but I’m like…are we being punked? How can someone be this thick?
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 20, 2024 1:39:11 GMT
I know. 🙄 You've called me that before. Another time you were MENTALLY UNABLE TO CONVERSE WITHOUT VICIOUSLY SMEARING anyone who disagrees with you, backs it up and stands up to people like you, who will not allow any other facts or opinions other than yours, WITHOUT SMEARING THEM.
That is someone you seem to think you have sufficiently smeared and you are applying it to me as nothing more than a smear tactic' "like an eight year old on the playground." My name is morecowbell. If you call me anything else, it is for no other reason than the simple point of smearing. Every time you call me anything but morecowbell you continue to show JUST HOW MUCH YOU ARE MENTALLY UNABLE TO HANDLE DISAGREEMENT.
"dog whistle" is a smear tactic you and your party likes to employ. Nothing more, nothing less. KEEP SHOWING JUST HOW MUCH YOU ARE MENTALLY UNABLE TO DEAL WITH DISAGREEMENT.Oh, the irony. You have no self awareness. Yeah, yeah. Don't care what you think. Yeah, yeah, I know, but remember... You started this personal attacks and smear campaign, not me. And you do NOT hold the moral high ground that your politicians, news media, social media, and search engines have convinced you of.
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 20, 2024 1:51:21 GMT
Policy disagreement? That’s some new bull. She’s on another thread defending Trump’s massive fraud! I mean, who in their right mind thinks fraud is defensible? And the cherry on this ludicrous sundae is claiming that we are the ones who are "dishonest" right after that! The banks and the real estate industry disagree that it was fraud. And I've said that. Numerous times. So, yes, your claim that I'm defending fraud IS completely dishonest.
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 20, 2024 2:05:44 GMT
The banks and real estate industry don't get a say in whether or not is was fraud. That's not how it works, it's up to the courts to decide. And the court struck down all of the arguments that you're making, the same ones that Trump's lawyers presented. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/16/trump-verdict-judge-new-york-fraud-caseIn his verdict, Engoron said that Trump profited by paying lower interest rates when working with lenders such as Deutsche Bank who, because of the fudged financial statements, believed Trump had a higher net worth.
Michiel McCarty, an expert witness who testified at the trial for prosecutors, calculated that Trump saved $168m with lower interest rates because he inflated the value of his net worth. Engoron agreed to this amount, saying that “defendants’ fraud saved them” from having to pay a higher interest.
Another $126m of the fine came from calculating the “ill-gotten profits” Trump received when he sold the Old Post Office building in 2022. Trump was able to purchase the building, which he turned into a hotel, through the use of inflated financial statements.
“As with so many Trump real estate deals, the Old Post Office contract was obtained through the use of false SFCs (no false SFCs, no deal),” Engoron noted in the verdict.
In the verdict, the judge struck down a few core arguments Trump’s lawyers made throughout the trial.
The first was that lenders did not rely on the financial statements when making deals with Trump. It was an argument that was repeated throughout the trial, including when Trump and his sons took the witness stand.
The life of the loans, Engoron wrote, were “based on numbers on [the financial statements], which lenders interpreted in their own unique way”, Engoron said.
A similar line of argument was made by Trump’s lawyers, who often said the reported financial figures were immaterial, or that they didn’t matter to the financial statements. Trump expressed this in his own testimony, when he said that lenders knew how wealthy he was and that was all that mattered.
In his verdict, Engoron appeared particularly frustrated by Trump’s materiality arguments, saying that “faced with clear evidence of a misstatement, a person can always shout that ‘it’s immaterial’”.
Trump and his sons as witnesses also argued that it was the job of their outside accountants to get the financial statements right. But Engoron pointed out that there was “overwhelming evidence adduced at trial demonstrating that [the accounting firms] relied on the Trump Organization, not vice versa, to be truthful and accurate, and they had a right to do so”.
“The buck for being truthful … stopped with the Trump Organization, not the accountants,” Engoron wrote.
“Absolute perfection, including with numbers, exists only in heaven,” Engoron wrote. “If fraud is insignificant, then, like most things in life, it just does not matter.”
But these frauds were not merely significant: they “leap off the page and shock the conscience”, he continued.
In the face of this, what truly rankled Engoron was Trump and his allies’ refusal to acknowledge almost all the errors at the heart of this case. “Their complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological,” the judge wrote. “They are accused only of inflating asset values to make more money.
“The documents prove this over and over again. This is a venial sin, not a mortal sin. Defendants did not commit murder or arson. They did not rob a bank at gunpoint. Donald Trump is not [the late fraudster] Bernard Madoff.
“Yet, defendants are incapable of admitting the error of their ways. Instead, they adopt a ‘see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’ posture that the evidence belies.”www.voanews.com/a/judge-rules-donald-trump-defrauded-banks-insurers-while-building-real-estate-empire/7285539.htmlThe judge said the disclaimer on the financial statements "makes abundantly clear that Mr. Trump was fully responsible for the information contained within" them and that "allowing blanket disclaimers to insulate liars from liability would completely undercut" the "important function" that such statements serve "in the real world." apnews.com/article/donald-trump-letitia-james-fraud-lawsuit-1569245a9284427117b8d3ba5da74249“In defendants’ world: rent regulated apartments are worth the same as unregulated apartments; restricted land is worth the same as unrestricted land; restrictions can evaporate into thin air; a disclaimer by one party casting responsibility on another party exonerates the other party’s lies,” Engoron wrote in his 35-page ruling. “That is a fantasy world, not the real world.”
Trump’s lawyers, in their own summary judgment bid, had asked the judge to throw out the case, arguing that there wasn’t any evidence the public was harmed by Trump’s actions. They also argued that many of the allegations in the lawsuit were barred by the statute of limitations.
Engoron, noting that he had rejected those arguments earlier in the case, equated them to the plot of the film “Groundhog Day.” He fined five defense lawyers $7,500 each as punishment for “engaging in repetitive, frivolous” arguments, but denied James’ request to sanction Trump and other defendants.
Engoron found that Trump consistently overvalued Mar-a-Lago, inflating its value on one financial statement by as much as 2,300%. The judge also rebuked Trump for lying about the size of his Manhattan apartment. Trump claimed his three-story Trump Tower penthouse was nearly three times its actual size, valuing it at $327 million.
“A discrepancy of this order of magnitude, by a real estate developer sizing up his own living space of decades, can only be considered fraud,” Engoron wrote.
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 20, 2024 2:13:12 GMT
The banks and real estate industry don't get a say in whether or not is was fraud. That's not how it works, it's up to the courts to decide. apnews.com/article/donald-trump-letitia-james-fraud-lawsuit-1569245a9284427117b8d3ba5da74249“In defendants’ world: rent regulated apartments are worth the same as unregulated apartments; restricted land is worth the same as unrestricted land; restrictions can evaporate into thin air; a disclaimer by one party casting responsibility on another party exonerates the other party’s lies,” Engoron wrote in his 35-page ruling. “That is a fantasy world, not the real world.”
Trump’s lawyers, in their own summary judgment bid, had asked the judge to throw out the case, arguing that there wasn’t any evidence the public was harmed by Trump’s actions. They also argued that many of the allegations in the lawsuit were barred by the statute of limitations.
Engoron, noting that he had rejected those arguments earlier in the case, equated them to the plot of the film “Groundhog Day.” He fined five defense lawyers $7,500 each as punishment for “engaging in repetitive, frivolous” arguments, but denied James’ request to sanction Trump and other defendants.
Engoron found that Trump consistently overvalued Mar-a-Lago, inflating its value on one financial statement by as much as 2,300%. The judge also rebuked Trump for lying about the size of his Manhattan apartment. Trump claimed his three-story Trump Tower penthouse was nearly three times its actual size, valuing it at $327 million.
“A discrepancy of this order of magnitude, by a real estate developer sizing up his own living space of decades, can only be considered fraud,” Engoron wrote.NONE of that changes the fact that I, in relying on the bank that did business with Trump saying, it wasn't fraud, the real estate industry saying it's not fraud, I in fact was NOT defending fraud.
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Post by lucyg on Feb 20, 2024 6:12:59 GMT
The banks and real estate industry don't get a say in whether or not is was fraud. That's not how it works, it's up to the courts to decide. apnews.com/article/donald-trump-letitia-james-fraud-lawsuit-1569245a9284427117b8d3ba5da74249“In defendants’ world: rent regulated apartments are worth the same as unregulated apartments; restricted land is worth the same as unrestricted land; restrictions can evaporate into thin air; a disclaimer by one party casting responsibility on another party exonerates the other party’s lies,” Engoron wrote in his 35-page ruling. “That is a fantasy world, not the real world.”
Trump’s lawyers, in their own summary judgment bid, had asked the judge to throw out the case, arguing that there wasn’t any evidence the public was harmed by Trump’s actions. They also argued that many of the allegations in the lawsuit were barred by the statute of limitations.
Engoron, noting that he had rejected those arguments earlier in the case, equated them to the plot of the film “Groundhog Day.” He fined five defense lawyers $7,500 each as punishment for “engaging in repetitive, frivolous” arguments, but denied James’ request to sanction Trump and other defendants.
Engoron found that Trump consistently overvalued Mar-a-Lago, inflating its value on one financial statement by as much as 2,300%. The judge also rebuked Trump for lying about the size of his Manhattan apartment. Trump claimed his three-story Trump Tower penthouse was nearly three times its actual size, valuing it at $327 million.
“A discrepancy of this order of magnitude, by a real estate developer sizing up his own living space of decades, can only be considered fraud,” Engoron wrote.NONE of that changes the fact that I, in relying on the bank that did business with Trump saying, it wasn't fraud, the real estate industry saying it's not fraud, I in fact was NOT defending fraud. Of course it does. A court of law says it was fraud. That makes it, ya know, FRAUD. Sorry the world doesn’t work the way you want to claim it does.
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 20, 2024 9:00:17 GMT
The internment camps are a shameful part of our history and the fact that Trump is talking about them for undocumented immigrants is absolutely horrific. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-19-2024Today is the anniversary of the day in 1942, during World War II, that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 enabling military authorities to designate military areas from which “any or all persons may be excluded.” That order also permitted the secretary of war to provide transportation, food, and shelter “to accomplish the purpose of this order.” Four days later a Japanese submarine off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, shelled the Ellwood Oil Field, and the Office of Naval Intelligence warned that the Japanese would attack California in the next ten hours. On February 25 a meteorological balloon near Los Angeles set off a panic, and troops fired 1,400 rounds of antiaircraft ammunition at supposed Japanese attackers.On March 2, 1942, General John DeWitt put Executive Order 9066 into effect. He signed Public Proclamation No. 1, dividing the country into military zones and, “as a matter of military necessity,” excluding from certain of those zones “ny Japanese, German, or Italian alien, or any person of Japanese Ancestry.” Under DeWitt’s orders, about 125,000 children, women, and men of Japanese ancestry were forced out of their homes and imprisoned in camps around the country. Two thirds of those incarcerated were U.S. citizens.
DeWitt’s order did not come from nowhere. After almost a century of shaping laws to discriminate against Asian newcomers, West Coast inhabitants and lawmakers were primed to see their Japanese and Japanese-American neighbors as dangerous.
Those laws reached back to the 1849 arrival of Chinese miners in California and reached forward into the twentieth century. Indeed, on another February 19—that of 1923—the Supreme Court decided the case of United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind. It said that Thind, an Indian Sikh man who identified himself as Indo-European, could not become a U.S. citizen. Thind claimed the right to United States citizenship under the terms of the Naturalization Act of 1906, which had put the federal government instead of states in charge of who got to be a citizen and had very specific requirements for citizenship that he believed he had met.
But, the court said, Thind was not a “white person” under U.S. law, and only “free white persons” could become citizens.
What were they talking about? In the Thind decision, the Supreme Court reached back to the case of Japan-born Takao Ozawa, decided a year before, in 1922. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled that Ozawa could not become a citizen under the 1906 Naturalization Act because that law had not overridden the 1790 naturalization law limiting citizenship to “free white persons.” The court decided that “white person” meant “persons of the Caucasian Race.” “A Japanese, born in Japan, being clearly not a Caucasian, cannot be made a citizen of the United States,” it said.
As the 1922 case indicated, Asian Americans could not rely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, to permit them to become citizens, because a law from 1790 knocked a hole in that amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment provided that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” But as soon as that amendment went into effect, the new states and territories of the West reached back to the 1790 naturalization law to exclude Asian immigrants from citizenship on the basis of the argument that they were not “free, white persons.”
That 1790 restriction, based in early lawmakers’ determination to guarantee that enslaved Africans could not claim citizenship, enabled lawmakers after the Civil War to exclude Asian immigrants from citizenship.
From that exclusion grew laws discriminating against Chinese immigrants, including the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act that prohibited Chinese workers from migrating to the United States. Then, when Chinese immigration slowed and Japanese immigration took its place, the U.S. backed the so-called Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907 under which Japanese officials promised to stop emigration to the United States. The United States, in turn, promised not to restrict the rights of Japanese immigrants already in the United States, although laws prohibiting “aliens” from owning land meant Japanese settlers either lost their land or had to put it in the names of their American-born children, who were citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment.
After the 1923 Thind decision, the United States stripped the citizenship of about 50 South Asian Americans who had already become American citizens. One of them was Vaishno Das Bagai, an immigrant from what is now Pakistan who came from wealth and who settled in San Francisco in 1915 with his wife and three sons to start a business. Less than three weeks after arriving in the United States, Bagai began the process of naturalization. He became a citizen in 1920.
The Thind decision took that citizenship away from Bagai, making him fall under California’s alien land laws that said he could not own land. He lost his home and his business. In 1928, explicitly telling the San Francisco Examiner that he was taking his life in protest of racial discrimination, Bagai committed suicide. His widow, Kala Bagai, became a community activist.
World War II changed U.S. calculations of who could be a citizen as global alliances shifted and Americans of all backgrounds turned out to save democracy. From Japanese-American concentration camps, young men joined the army to fight for the nation. In 1943 the War Department authorized the formation of Japanese-American combat units. One of those units, the 442d Regimental Combat Team, became the most decorated unit for its size in U.S. military history. Their motto was “Go for Broke.”
Congress overturned the Chinese exclusion laws in 1943 and, in 1946, made natives of India eligible for U.S. citizenship. The last Japanese internment camp closed in March 1946, and Japanese immigrants gained the right to become U.S. citizens in 1952.
In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford officially repealed Executive Order 9066 and noted that it was a “setback to fundamental American principles.” “We now know what we should have known then,” he said. “[N]ot only was that evacuation wrong, but Japanese Americans were and are loyal Americans…. I call upon the American people to affirm with me this American Promise—that we have learned from the tragedy of that long-ago experience forever to treasure liberty and justice for each individual American, and resolve that this kind of action shall never again be repeated.”
But now so-called “internment camps” are back in the news.
Trump has promised his supporters that in a second term he would launch “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” To deport as many as ten million of what he called “foreign national invaders,” Trump advisor Stephen Miller explained on a November podcast, the administration would federalize National Guard troops from Republican-dominated states and send them around the country to round people up, moving them to “large-scale staging grounds near the border, most likely in Texas,” that would serve as internment camps.
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 20, 2024 9:40:35 GMT
slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/biden-age-controversy-vs-trump.htmlBecause last week’s natterings unerringly become this week’s news, we are now trapped in a mind-numbing collective freakout about special counsel Robert Hur’s purposefully deceptive and broadly misunderstood takedown of President Joe Biden’s possible criminal conduct, a “report” replete with wholly gratuitous potshots about his mental acuity. The freakout has become a national news story on par with former President Donald Trump on Sunday threatening to abandon our NATO allies and let Russia “do whatever the hell they want.” (Note for those at home: these two things are actually not at all on par in terms of threats to world order and planetary stability.) As Margaret Sullivan points out, the Biden story consumed the weekend news cycle, while the Trump comments barely registered as a blip.
Interestingly, all of the #BidenTooOld coverage is about as new and revelatory as #ButHerEmails. If nothing else, it proves that a scandal holding that the president forgets things is always going to go down smoother than a scandal in which a special counsel flagrantly violated a long-standing Justice Department practice and protocol not to “criticize uncharged conduct.” As Sullivan was quick to point out, CNN and the New York Times and every U.S. corporate media entity and its cousin jumped onto the bandwagon. “For the media to make this the overarching issue of the campaign is nothing short of journalistic malpractice,” the former public editor of the New York Times wrote.
Biden is old and he forgets things. Nobody is unaware of these facts, up to and including President Joe Biden, who said as much of himself in his press conference last week. But the ploy worked as intended, with the Hill cheerfully reporting that as a result of the Hur report and the wall-to-wall questions it spontaneously raised, 86 percent of Americans now believe that Biden is too old to serve in office.
So now Americans face the problem that Biden is old, while Trump is an authoritarian who wants to “create a private red-state army under the president’s command.” The purpose of this army, per Stephen Miller, is to deport as many as 10 million “foreign-national invaders” who he claims have entered the country under Biden, and the plan, as Ron Brownstein describes it, is to “go around the country arresting illegal immigrants in large-scale raids.” Then, he would build “large-scale staging grounds near the border, most likely in Texas,” to serve as internment camps for migrants designated for deportation.
One can certainly see why the two stories would weigh the same.
Perhaps one way to navigate yourself through this seemingly insoluble morass would be to ask yourself why Biden, who is stipulated #Old, has managed to helm the most successful presidency in modern history. Booming economy, eye-popping jobs reports, first gun violence reduction bill in decades, $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan plus COVID relief, Inflation Reduction Act, infrastructure prioritized, judges seated. Pick your metric—there have been a lot of wins. And the reason this old man who sometimes forgets things like dates has gotten all this done? He has, for the most part, surrounded himself with experts, genuine scientists, respected economists, and effective governmental actors and advisers.
Governance is not an action film. There is no minute-to-minute psychodrama involving someone in a tight black T-shirt mincing along the outdoor ledge of a skyscraper, ninja-kicking his lonely way down to the stairwell, where he karate-chops the well-armed baddies and then commando crawls his way into an empty vault with the glass chest where the nuclear reactor sits. No. Despite our fascination with the Great Man theory of American lawmaking, the presidency is an office that largely turns on superb staffing, visionary planning, deft political negotiation, and artful execution. Joe Biden doesn’t actually have to remember every single detail himself—he has to use his judgment to employ and empower a large contingent of skilled experts to execute upon their agreed-upon vision.
If you are unconvinced, the best evidence that we keep falling for Great Man fantasy propaganda is the unmitigated failure of the first Donald Trump presidency. Here we had a self-described loner literally trumpeting his I-alone-can-fix-it worldview, all embodied in Great Man megalomania. He managed to accomplish virtually nothing: Almost none of his promises for single-handed economic revitalization, world domination, or intrepid urban crime-solving panned out. His great dreams were either strangled in infancy by staffers or halted by courts. And whether you believe that this happened because Donald Trump surrounded himself with incompetent yes men or steely adults in the room, both versions serve to offer proof of concept: Donald Trump accomplished close to nothing because the people around him were either too inept to put his vision into practice or too skillful at blocking him to allow him to put his vision into practice.
Put another way, if you or anyone you know finds themselves reacting to the Biden Is Old revelations with the thought that, sure, Donald Trump is a 91-indictments-richer, adjudicated sexual abuser, defamer, liar, violator of national security, self-enriching, fascist-boosting insurrectionist, but it’s OK because he will surround himself with people who might check those impulses—well, doesn’t it rather intuitively make more sense to instead vote for the highly effective, internationally respected, but yes, sometimes forgetty guy who is surrounded by people with day planners? Donald Trump may be four-years-less-elderly, but he still confuses Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi. He is also still an authoritarian fantasist who has run through every reasonably competent staffer and Cabinet official and is now turning to the profoundly dangerous ones. It’s really not a contest when you compare him to anyone who has surrounded himself, and will continue to surround himself, with competent, skilled people who get things done.
The real reason we all keep falling for Great Man horse race stories is because they are good for fueling fantasies of all-powerful big daddy presidents who control every tiny aspect of governance in their tiny wee hands. If that is your jam, well, it would make sense to vote for the only candidate who believes in the same dream. If it’s not, the question is reducible to rather simple stakes: Do you want the Big Daddy who surrounds himself with sycophants and nutters and people with shared last names, or the one who surrounds himself with competence and expertise? This doesn’t seem, on balance, like a really tricky call. Do we prefer presidents who can backflip and ninja-kick their way to total world dominion? Perhaps. To my knowledge, nobody ever made a Tom Cruise movie about listening and learning and compromising. But if you still believe governance to be a sober and serious enterprise, vote like the alternative is chilling, because it is.
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 20, 2024 9:42:41 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 20, 2024 10:05:03 GMT
NONE of that changes the fact that I, in relying on the bank that did business with Trump saying, it wasn't fraud, the real estate industry saying it's not fraud, I in fact was NOT defending fraud. Of course it does. A court of law says it was fraud. That makes it, ya know, FRAUD. Sorry the world doesn’t work the way you want to claim it does. Not only is that not how it works, I don’t think her statement about the banks and real estate industry is even accurate. One guy, a Trump supporter, hardly qualifies as the real estate industry. And I don’t think executives at Deutshe Bank actually testified that it wasn’t fraud.
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 20, 2024 13:29:38 GMT
NONE of that changes the fact that I, in relying on the bank that did business with Trump saying, it wasn't fraud, the real estate industry saying it's not fraud, I in fact was NOT defending fraud. Of course it does. A court of law says it was fraud. That makes it, ya know, FRAUD. Sorry the world doesn’t work the way you want to claim it does. No, it absolutely does not. If I'm relying on the bank and the real estate industry saying that it is NOT fraud... Then MY belief is that it is NOT fraud, therefore I am NOT defending fraud. Sorry the world doesn’t work the way YOU want to claim it does. 🙄
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Post by Merge on Feb 20, 2024 13:32:40 GMT
The internment camps are a shameful part of our history and the fact that Trump is talking about them for undocumented immigrants is absolutely horrific. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-19-2024Today is the anniversary of the day in 1942, during World War II, that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 enabling military authorities to designate military areas from which “any or all persons may be excluded.” That order also permitted the secretary of war to provide transportation, food, and shelter “to accomplish the purpose of this order.” Four days later a Japanese submarine off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, shelled the Ellwood Oil Field, and the Office of Naval Intelligence warned that the Japanese would attack California in the next ten hours. On February 25 a meteorological balloon near Los Angeles set off a panic, and troops fired 1,400 rounds of antiaircraft ammunition at supposed Japanese attackers. On March 2, 1942, General John DeWitt put Executive Order 9066 into effect. He signed Public Proclamation No. 1, dividing the country into military zones and, “as a matter of military necessity,” excluding from certain of those zones “ ny Japanese, German, or Italian alien, or any person of Japanese Ancestry.” Under DeWitt’s orders, about 125,000 children, women, and men of Japanese ancestry were forced out of their homes and imprisoned in camps around the country. Two thirds of those incarcerated were U.S. citizens.
DeWitt’s order did not come from nowhere. After almost a century of shaping laws to discriminate against Asian newcomers, West Coast inhabitants and lawmakers were primed to see their Japanese and Japanese-American neighbors as dangerous.
Those laws reached back to the 1849 arrival of Chinese miners in California and reached forward into the twentieth century. Indeed, on another February 19—that of 1923—the Supreme Court decided the case of United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind. It said that Thind, an Indian Sikh man who identified himself as Indo-European, could not become a U.S. citizen. Thind claimed the right to United States citizenship under the terms of the Naturalization Act of 1906, which had put the federal government instead of states in charge of who got to be a citizen and had very specific requirements for citizenship that he believed he had met.
But, the court said, Thind was not a “white person” under U.S. law, and only “free white persons” could become citizens.
What were they talking about? In the Thind decision, the Supreme Court reached back to the case of Japan-born Takao Ozawa, decided a year before, in 1922. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled that Ozawa could not become a citizen under the 1906 Naturalization Act because that law had not overridden the 1790 naturalization law limiting citizenship to “free white persons.” The court decided that “white person” meant “persons of the Caucasian Race.” “A Japanese, born in Japan, being clearly not a Caucasian, cannot be made a citizen of the United States,” it said.
As the 1922 case indicated, Asian Americans could not rely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, to permit them to become citizens, because a law from 1790 knocked a hole in that amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment provided that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” But as soon as that amendment went into effect, the new states and territories of the West reached back to the 1790 naturalization law to exclude Asian immigrants from citizenship on the basis of the argument that they were not “free, white persons.”
That 1790 restriction, based in early lawmakers’ determination to guarantee that enslaved Africans could not claim citizenship, enabled lawmakers after the Civil War to exclude Asian immigrants from citizenship.
From that exclusion grew laws discriminating against Chinese immigrants, including the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act that prohibited Chinese workers from migrating to the United States. Then, when Chinese immigration slowed and Japanese immigration took its place, the U.S. backed the so-called Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907 under which Japanese officials promised to stop emigration to the United States. The United States, in turn, promised not to restrict the rights of Japanese immigrants already in the United States, although laws prohibiting “aliens” from owning land meant Japanese settlers either lost their land or had to put it in the names of their American-born children, who were citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment.
After the 1923 Thind decision, the United States stripped the citizenship of about 50 South Asian Americans who had already become American citizens. One of them was Vaishno Das Bagai, an immigrant from what is now Pakistan who came from wealth and who settled in San Francisco in 1915 with his wife and three sons to start a business. Less than three weeks after arriving in the United States, Bagai began the process of naturalization. He became a citizen in 1920.
The Thind decision took that citizenship away from Bagai, making him fall under California’s alien land laws that said he could not own land. He lost his home and his business. In 1928, explicitly telling the San Francisco Examiner that he was taking his life in protest of racial discrimination, Bagai committed suicide. His widow, Kala Bagai, became a community activist.
World War II changed U.S. calculations of who could be a citizen as global alliances shifted and Americans of all backgrounds turned out to save democracy. From Japanese-American concentration camps, young men joined the army to fight for the nation. In 1943 the War Department authorized the formation of Japanese-American combat units. One of those units, the 442d Regimental Combat Team, became the most decorated unit for its size in U.S. military history. Their motto was “Go for Broke.”
Congress overturned the Chinese exclusion laws in 1943 and, in 1946, made natives of India eligible for U.S. citizenship. The last Japanese internment camp closed in March 1946, and Japanese immigrants gained the right to become U.S. citizens in 1952.
In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford officially repealed Executive Order 9066 and noted that it was a “setback to fundamental American principles.” “We now know what we should have known then,” he said. “[N]ot only was that evacuation wrong, but Japanese Americans were and are loyal Americans…. I call upon the American people to affirm with me this American Promise—that we have learned from the tragedy of that long-ago experience forever to treasure liberty and justice for each individual American, and resolve that this kind of action shall never again be repeated.”
But now so-called “internment camps” are back in the news.
Trump has promised his supporters that in a second term he would launch “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” To deport as many as ten million of what he called “foreign national invaders,” Trump advisor Stephen Miller explained on a November podcast, the administration would federalize National Guard troops from Republican-dominated states and send them around the country to round people up, moving them to “large-scale staging grounds near the border, most likely in Texas,” that would serve as internment camps.But it's just a policy disagreement! What's the big deal?!?
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Post by Merge on Feb 20, 2024 13:45:56 GMT
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Post by Merge on Feb 20, 2024 13:48:23 GMT
Meanwhile, the house is on a 2-week break despite its failure to pass a funding bill for the border, and this is what the speaker and Republican front-runner are up to. x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1759757896999383370?s=20So is the border a crisis, or can it wait until Mike has finished kissing up to his dear leader? (Actually, border funding is being withheld at the request of dear leader, who prefers to campaign on it.)
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 20, 2024 13:48:29 GMT
Of course it does. A court of law says it was fraud. That makes it, ya know, FRAUD. Sorry the world doesn’t work the way you want to claim it does. And I don’t think executives at Deutshe Bank actually testified that it wasn’t fraud. No one said they did.
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 20, 2024 14:10:30 GMT
The internment camps are a shameful part of our history and the fact that Trump is talking about them for undocumented immigrants is absolutely horrific. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-19-2024Today is the anniversary of the day in 1942, during World War II, that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 enabling military authorities to designate military areas from which “any or all persons may be excluded.” That order also permitted the secretary of war to provide transportation, food, and shelter “to accomplish the purpose of this order.” Four days later a Japanese submarine off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, shelled the Ellwood Oil Field, and the Office of Naval Intelligence warned that the Japanese would attack California in the next ten hours. On February 25 a meteorological balloon near Los Angeles set off a panic, and troops fired 1,400 rounds of antiaircraft ammunition at supposed Japanese attackers. On March 2, 1942, General John DeWitt put Executive Order 9066 into effect. He signed Public Proclamation No. 1, dividing the country into military zones and, “as a matter of military necessity,” excluding from certain of those zones “ ny Japanese, German, or Italian alien, or any person of Japanese Ancestry.” Under DeWitt’s orders, about 125,000 children, women, and men of Japanese ancestry were forced out of their homes and imprisoned in camps around the country. Two thirds of those incarcerated were U.S. citizens.
DeWitt’s order did not come from nowhere. After almost a century of shaping laws to discriminate against Asian newcomers, West Coast inhabitants and lawmakers were primed to see their Japanese and Japanese-American neighbors as dangerous.
Those laws reached back to the 1849 arrival of Chinese miners in California and reached forward into the twentieth century. Indeed, on another February 19—that of 1923—the Supreme Court decided the case of United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind. It said that Thind, an Indian Sikh man who identified himself as Indo-European, could not become a U.S. citizen. Thind claimed the right to United States citizenship under the terms of the Naturalization Act of 1906, which had put the federal government instead of states in charge of who got to be a citizen and had very specific requirements for citizenship that he believed he had met.
But, the court said, Thind was not a “white person” under U.S. law, and only “free white persons” could become citizens.
What were they talking about? In the Thind decision, the Supreme Court reached back to the case of Japan-born Takao Ozawa, decided a year before, in 1922. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled that Ozawa could not become a citizen under the 1906 Naturalization Act because that law had not overridden the 1790 naturalization law limiting citizenship to “free white persons.” The court decided that “white person” meant “persons of the Caucasian Race.” “A Japanese, born in Japan, being clearly not a Caucasian, cannot be made a citizen of the United States,” it said.
As the 1922 case indicated, Asian Americans could not rely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, to permit them to become citizens, because a law from 1790 knocked a hole in that amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment provided that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” But as soon as that amendment went into effect, the new states and territories of the West reached back to the 1790 naturalization law to exclude Asian immigrants from citizenship on the basis of the argument that they were not “free, white persons.”
That 1790 restriction, based in early lawmakers’ determination to guarantee that enslaved Africans could not claim citizenship, enabled lawmakers after the Civil War to exclude Asian immigrants from citizenship.
From that exclusion grew laws discriminating against Chinese immigrants, including the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act that prohibited Chinese workers from migrating to the United States. Then, when Chinese immigration slowed and Japanese immigration took its place, the U.S. backed the so-called Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907 under which Japanese officials promised to stop emigration to the United States. The United States, in turn, promised not to restrict the rights of Japanese immigrants already in the United States, although laws prohibiting “aliens” from owning land meant Japanese settlers either lost their land or had to put it in the names of their American-born children, who were citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment.
After the 1923 Thind decision, the United States stripped the citizenship of about 50 South Asian Americans who had already become American citizens. One of them was Vaishno Das Bagai, an immigrant from what is now Pakistan who came from wealth and who settled in San Francisco in 1915 with his wife and three sons to start a business. Less than three weeks after arriving in the United States, Bagai began the process of naturalization. He became a citizen in 1920.
The Thind decision took that citizenship away from Bagai, making him fall under California’s alien land laws that said he could not own land. He lost his home and his business. In 1928, explicitly telling the San Francisco Examiner that he was taking his life in protest of racial discrimination, Bagai committed suicide. His widow, Kala Bagai, became a community activist.
World War II changed U.S. calculations of who could be a citizen as global alliances shifted and Americans of all backgrounds turned out to save democracy. From Japanese-American concentration camps, young men joined the army to fight for the nation. In 1943 the War Department authorized the formation of Japanese-American combat units. One of those units, the 442d Regimental Combat Team, became the most decorated unit for its size in U.S. military history. Their motto was “Go for Broke.”
Congress overturned the Chinese exclusion laws in 1943 and, in 1946, made natives of India eligible for U.S. citizenship. The last Japanese internment camp closed in March 1946, and Japanese immigrants gained the right to become U.S. citizens in 1952.
In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford officially repealed Executive Order 9066 and noted that it was a “setback to fundamental American principles.” “We now know what we should have known then,” he said. “[N]ot only was that evacuation wrong, but Japanese Americans were and are loyal Americans…. I call upon the American people to affirm with me this American Promise—that we have learned from the tragedy of that long-ago experience forever to treasure liberty and justice for each individual American, and resolve that this kind of action shall never again be repeated.”
But now so-called “internment camps” are back in the news.
Trump has promised his supporters that in a second term he would launch “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” To deport as many as ten million of what he called “foreign national invaders,” Trump advisor Stephen Miller explained on a November podcast, the administration would federalize National Guard troops from Republican-dominated states and send them around the country to round people up, moving them to “large-scale staging grounds near the border, most likely in Texas,” that would serve as internment camps.But it's just a policy disagreement! What's the big deal?!? It doesn't look like internment camps are the words of Trump. Looks like another instance of the time Obama built "migrant holding facilities" that SUDDENLY, MAGICALLY became "cages" when Trump took office. More bullshit.
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Post by Merge on Feb 20, 2024 14:26:13 GMT
But it's just a policy disagreement! What's the big deal?!? It doesn't look like internment camps are the words of Trump. Looks like another instance of the time Obama built "migrant holding facilities" that SUDDENLY, MAGICALLY became "cages" when Trump took office. More bullshit. Umm … no.
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 20, 2024 14:31:51 GMT
It doesn't look like internment camps are the words of Trump. Looks like another instance of the time Obama built "migrant holding facilities" that SUDDENLY, MAGICALLY became "cages" when Trump took office. More bullshit. Umm … no. Umm... yep. That is exactly what happened.
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 20, 2024 14:54:32 GMT
NY Times columnist Ezra Klein calls on biden to step down. "I think Biden, as painful as this is, should find his way to stepping down as a hero. That the party should help him find his way to that, to being the thing he said he would be in 2020, the bridge to the next generation of Democrats.
And then I think Democrats should meet in August at the convention to do what political parties have done at conventions so many times before, organize victory."
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Post by lucyg on Feb 20, 2024 15:15:32 GMT
Of course it does. A court of law says it was fraud. That makes it, ya know, FRAUD. Sorry the world doesn’t work the way you want to claim it does. No, it absolutely does not. If I'm relying on the bank and the real estate industry saying that it is NOT fraud... Then MY belief is that it is NOT fraud, therefore I am NOT defending fraud. Sorry the world doesn’t work the way YOU want to claim it does. 🙄 The bank involved was all up in Trump’s business and making money off his activities. They may or may not be reliable informants. I have no personal knowledge of what they may or may not have claimed, but I’ll take your word for it. Please provide evidence that “the real estate industry,” not some random dude who works in the real estate industry and may or may not be making money in some way off Trump’s activities, claims Trump didn’t commit fraud. And then you will still have the issue that a court of law decided Trump committed fraud. That is how we establish fact in this country. Not by finding someone who says what you want to hear, and then clinging to it for dear life no matter what the actual facts say.
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Post by lucyg on Feb 20, 2024 15:19:19 GMT
And I don’t think executives at Deutshe Bank actually testified that it wasn’t fraud. No one said they did. Un-f*cking-believable. No one gives a shit what they say in their press releases. That’s marketing, not truth.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 20, 2024 15:23:26 GMT
Otherwise .... think of how TFG claims he undervalued everything. On his state, and presumably federal taxes. He sure screwed every person in NYS by not paying taxes and we know one year he only paid $700+/- federal taxes and others zero, and he bragged about it. But specifically in NYS he hurt millions of people by claiming everything undervalued!!!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 20, 2024 15:27:12 GMT
YES. I saw that last night but couldn't open the op-ed!
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Post by Merge on Feb 20, 2024 15:35:18 GMT
Umm... yep. That is exactly what happened. 🤡🤡🤡 At the very least, we’ve gotten you to show your unwavering loyalty to dear leader so there’s no doubt. But hon, he’s never going to love you back. Why don’t you share some of the things you like about what Trump did in the past and what he says he will do next? You should probably leave out the fraud.
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 20, 2024 16:10:52 GMT
No, it absolutely does not. If I'm relying on the bank and the real estate industry saying that it is NOT fraud... Then MY belief is that it is NOT fraud, therefore I am NOT defending fraud. Sorry the world doesn’t work the way YOU want to claim it does. 🙄 The bank involved was all up in Trump’s business and making money off his activities. They may or may not be reliable informants. I have no personal knowledge of what they may or may not have claimed, but I’ll take your word for it. Please provide evidence that “the real estate industry,” not some random dude who works in the real estate industry and may or may not be making money in some way off Trump’s activities, claims Trump didn’t commit fraud. And then you will still have the issue that a court of law decided Trump committed fraud. That is how we establish fact in this country. Not by finding someone who says what you want to hear, and then clinging to it for dear life no matter what the actual facts say. The point being... If I'm speaking of it NOT being fraud and talking about why I think it isn’t fraud, that is in no way, defending fraud. Even if you think I, the bank involved, and "some random dude"🙄 Kevin O'leary are wrong- doesn't magically change "not fraud" into "defending fraud".
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 20, 2024 16:13:53 GMT
No one said they did. Un-f*cking-believable. No one gives a shit what they say in their press releases. That’s marketing, not truth. Un-f*cking-believable, indeed. No one is speaking of press releases and marketing. You just pulled that out of your ass or something. Me: The bank said that they enjoyed doing business with Trump and looked forward to doing more business with him aj2hall: I doubt banks are looking forward to doing more business with him. Me: You can doubt it all you want. That's what they testified to. Under oath. Now she's conflating that with me saying they testified under oath "that it wasn’t fraud".
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Feb 20, 2024 16:24:47 GMT
The bank involved was all up in Trump’s business and making money off his activities. They may or may not be reliable informants. I have no personal knowledge of what they may or may not have claimed, but I’ll take your word for it. Please provide evidence that “the real estate industry,” not some random dude who works in the real estate industry and may or may not be making money in some way off Trump’s activities, claims Trump didn’t commit fraud. And then you will still have the issue that a court of law decided Trump committed fraud. That is how we establish fact in this country. Not by finding someone who says what you want to hear, and then clinging to it for dear life no matter what the actual facts say. The point being... If I'm speaking of it NOT being fraud and talking about why I think it isn’t fraud, that is in no way, defending fraud. Even if you think I, the bank involved, and "some random dude"🙄 Kevin O'leary are wrong- doesn't magically change "not fraud" into "defending fraud". Except it IS fraud.
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