The political prosecutions are beginning. Shumer first target

[GenesisNemesis]

GOP Official Calls for Democratic Congresswoman to Be Executed

As the nation talks about the rise of political violence, a Republican official blatantly called for Representative Pramila Jayapal to be hanged.

newrepublic.com

But it's the left that's violent.

(Sarcasm).

Clearly we need to shoot Arizona Rep. John Gillette an email explaining the context and asking him to retract.

You're going to be put on a list (a mailing list).

 

[blastula]

Fox News could be declared terrorists now.

 

[ZiprHead]

Grand jury declines to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, less than two weeks after the first case was dismissed

Federal officials failed to secure the new indictment against James, whom Trump has targeted, after a judge said the previous one was secured by an unlawfully appointed prosecutor.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[ZiprHead]

Alina Habba has resigned.

 

[ZiprHead]

Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal

The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”

www.propublica.org

President Donald Trump branded one foe who did so “deceitful and potentially criminal.” He called another “CROOKED” on Truth Social and pushed the attorney general to take action.

But years earlier, Trump did the very thing he’s accusing his enemies of, records show.

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a “Bermuda style” home in Palm Beach, Florida, pledging that it would be his principal residence. Just seven weeks later, he got another mortgage for a seven-bedroom, marble-floored neighboring property, attesting that it too would be his principal residence.

In reality, Trump, then a New Yorker, does not appear to have ever lived in either home, let alone used them as a principal residence. Instead, the two houses, which are next to his historic Mar-a-Lago estate, were used as investment properties and rented out, according to contemporaneous news accounts and an interview with his longtime real estate agent — exactly the sort of scenario his administration has pointed to as evidence of fraud.

 

[RVonse]

This is going to maybe sound like crazy alarmist paranoia, but…
In all seriousness, is it a good idea to post things on this site calling for/gleefully describing/advocating/hoping for, the president’s death?
Articulating all kinds of satisfying ways in which you’d like to see it happen?

Don’t get me wrong—this is PURELY from a place of, “what if printouts of this discussion ended up in the wrong hands, at the wrong time?”

It isn’t out of fealty to Trump; trust me.

But even if a post doesn’t arguably rise to the level of being actionable by the Secret Service, I think a wiser course is to not hand ANYONE in this administration a reason to, at best, close the site down.

And if you don’t know what’s “At worst,” I don’t think you’re paying attention to trends…

Compliance in anticipation of the totalitarian demands of a despicable regime, with rules that they have not yet even articulated, is one of the ways that such regimes consolidate their power.

We should not moderate our speech based on fear of (unlawful and unconstitutional) retribution; Indeed, we should hesitate to moderate our speech even when such retribution is underway.

They want to take away our rights. Appeasing them, by volunteering to give up our rights, is a poor tactic (and abject cowardice), if we care about defending those rights.

Don't get me wrong; Cowardice is a perfectly valid approach to self-preservation, as a tactic during a direct assault. He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day. But it's very poor strategy to capitulate at the mere hint that a fight might otherwise ensue.

200 years ago when our country was founded it was just risky not to moderate speech. And they were still plenty nervous even at that time.

But that was before the digital age. Now everyone and every utterance is recorded for eternal on immortal hardware. Nothing you write today ever goes away. Ever.

That kind of changes the math for the risk versus reward ratio IMO.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Alina Habba has resigned.

She would have needed to be lawfully appointed to "resign". She has merely accepted she was never lawfully appointed.

 

[crazyfingers]

Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal

The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”

www.propublica.org

President Donald Trump branded one foe who did so “deceitful and potentially criminal.” He called another “CROOKED” on Truth Social and pushed the attorney general to take action.

But years earlier, Trump did the very thing he’s accusing his enemies of, records show.

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a “Bermuda style” home in Palm Beach, Florida, pledging that it would be his principal residence. Just seven weeks later, he got another mortgage for a seven-bedroom, marble-floored neighboring property, attesting that it too would be his principal residence.

In reality, Trump, then a New Yorker, does not appear to have ever lived in either home, let alone used them as a principal residence. Instead, the two houses, which are next to his historic Mar-a-Lago estate, were used as investment properties and rented out, according to contemporaneous news accounts and an interview with his longtime real estate agent — exactly the sort of scenario his administration has pointed to as evidence of fraud.

I'm amazingly unsurprising that Trump did what he's accusing others of doing.

 

[ZiprHead]

I'm amazingly unsurprising that Trump did what he's accusing others of doing.

Probably where he got the idea.