You can say that again !
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- Report on Russia and Ukraine
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Interesting article https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13825105/Former-RAF-engineer-nurse-wife-sign-British-couple-use-double-suicide-pod-Switzerland-dementia.html from two points of view. 1) Aussie Dr Phil Nitschke, who at one stage was working in…
Yeah Dover. The hootie tooties are now a major world power.Cope! I never said it’s a major world power. You…
Why would Yemen give two-shits about Gulf Arabs?
This is almost too funny.
Heard today that Bidens own 75% of wheat crop in Ukraine so a vested interest in outcome
DNC Switches to ‘Virtual Nomination’ for Biden to Avoid Floor Fight
Re the judge in the Trump railroading case, all might not be lost. Perhaps the 24 judges on the official panel all refused to participate in such a blatant kangaroo court?
In that case, it is likely that an appeal will be upheld swiftly.
What this farce does prove is the corruption of the DemonRats and their supporters (hello mUnturd).
Caleb Bond is competent at reading current affairs scripts written by other journos.
But he is not Sky News’s best political analyst Peta Credlin.
It annoys the hell out of me when such provincial underlings are parachuted unanounced into key programs, as has happened this evening.
Knuckle Dragger, I see Ben Horne, Daniel Cherny and Crash Craddock have named David Warner as Australia’s best ever in white ball cricket. Ahead of Gilchrist and Ponting. And Warne. Wowee
Top-right corner of the hot-crazy matrix. Dem eyes!!
With Senator Alex Antic
Andrew Bridgen MP – Fighting the Good Fight in the UK Parliament
Yes. I saw.
I had initially thought that what I read was some sort of pixel mirage, before I realised that these people were actually serious.
I also realise there’s clickbait involved in online news. However, this trifecta of idiots have now – due to their very obvious alignment with political journos piling onto what they see as winning causes – joined sporting ‘journalists’ of the calibre of Michael Slater, Mark Robinson and Paul Kent in the pantheon of Useless Weathervanes and Hopeful Superbox Guests.
University of Sydney professor Sujatha Fernandes
I suspect it wasn’t her brains got her the job.
I’d roll those dice.
Wouldn’t use my real name, obviously. Or disclose my address. Strictly an away game, and would have the wallet, keys, shades and smokes prepositioned towards the nearest exit.
Stabbing on the metro in Lyon.
Apparently the French government want the video off social media.
Do they have an esafety commissioner?
https://x.com/DamienRieu/status/1795149631292166553?t=DZeYawcmXmcpZkl-UctL7A&s=19
With regards to bad backs.
Pilates.
Its never too late.
Ive had a bad back since a car accident in my early 20’s.
Done pilates on and off.
For the last 6 months I’ve done Pilates once a week.
Back has never felt so good.
Im the worst in the numpty class by a long shot, but swallow your pride & look after your backs.
Some more analysis of the Rafah massacre.
https://x.com/jammach/status/1795723847762952432?t=rMlkPGwITQijQEuV5HqQ9A&s=19
It should be noted that in 2005 when the Tigers last won the premiership they did a team pilates session once a week.
I’ve had two lower back surgeries. So far.
I’d given some serious thought to pilates, but right now I can’t face going into Lorna Jane and buying yoga pants.
The usual apoplexologies if this is repetitious, but via Red State comes the news of a proof-of-life video of a 7 Oct captive. The downside being that Alexander Trupanov declared:
The author of the article emphasised that Trupanov spoke of past tense, meaning he himself is now likely dead.
(I might note that I did NOT watch the linked video message myself).
A very interesting video interview of a Kurdish doctor based in Denmark who recently spent four weeks in northern Gaza
https://x.com/EFischberger/status/1795788635675005379?t=dx_Y7saojwRmW_6f2C30rg&s=19
Whilst ‘you lot’ (h/t the Munsterous Moron) are cleaning up after dinner and sitting down with a glass of…um…cordial, I am sipping my cappuccino and pondering how to describe the smell of an Italian pasticceria.
It dragged both of us in as it wafted out the door we were determined to pass by on our morning walk through Lucca. Warm ,clean, yeasty, top notes of cinnamon, nutmeg and honey, underpinned with fresh ground coffee and sugar, with a lingering scent of strawberries and liqueur. It’s irresistible and almost impossible to put into words.
Clearly our resistance was futile.
H/C copy of SPARE by Prince Harry sighted in op-shop ..$2.99 ..
gave it a miss .. LOL!
At Coastal Town where I get up to a bit, a retired farming couple are regulars at Pilates.
He’s gone from hobbling around with a crook back a few years back to last time I saw him jogging on one of the beaches.
If an old farmer can do it, anyone can.
Now going ashore for the day in Mindelo, Cabo Verde…so small it’s hardly on the maps. Nevertheless has 600,000 people over 12 islands…Now going ashore for the day in Mindelo, Cabo Verde…so small it’s hardly on the maps. On the upper RH corner of Africa. Nevertheless has 600,000 people over 12 islands…
No other religion than Christianity – 100%. Seems to subsist on tourism, sugarcane, and some port and harbour work.
KD earlier:-
Standard “stay out of jail” fare.
If they are sitting at home on the dole, the first thing their brief will tell them is either get a job (for a certain cohort this will be a “trainee cultural officer” at the local co-op) or enrol in a TAFE course, preferably with as long duration as possible.
Serve to the duece court, short and off pace …
Backhand return takes the chalk in the corner …
Cassie of Sydney
May 30, 2024 4:27 pm
BTW, I think the word you are looking for is “amazed”.
Not “amazzed”.
You’re welcome, Wodney.
“Here we go again, another example of allegations treated as facts, reported on and thrashed over on social media, damaging reputations but ultimately found to be unsubstantiated and very likely untrue.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13474517/PVO-Hawthorn-racism-saga-ABC.html
The Labour Party Lay Out Their Traitorous Credentials
We haven’t discussed the geopolitical story of the day.
South Korea floated thumbdrives loaded with K Pop into North Korea.
North Korea replied with 260 balloon-borne smelly No. 2s.
Not sure which is the worst munition. I suspect the Geneva Conventions were broken by both sides.
Standard “stay out of jail” fare.
Knew of a bloke up on his fourth high-level drink-driving charge. This one involved crashing a car down a bank almost into a pond. Jail time was an option.
He went to Legal Aid. They a) got him enrolled in uni as a “senior” student and b) deferred the case several times.
By the time it got to court it was “don’t spoil the forthcoming career of this up and coming veterinarian your Honour”.
He walked, and promptly dropped out of uni.
Curse you Megan. I’m salivating just reading your description of the place.
BB, those guys are just trolling. Shane Warne is the best ever in the world.
rosie
May 30, 2024 8:08 pm
As posted earlier today, I heard a report of this on 3AW.
Absolutely bizarre non-secateur.
Two senior legal eagles, including a JURDGE, find “nothing to see here” but the reporter insists on inserting the “growing calls for compo” line.
Could have almost been an audition for Ultimo.
Top Ender, damnfine piece in the Spectator on the shambles of submarine procurement. Well done!
Australia rejects proposal to recognise Palestinian state
Earlier article about Che Proctor who was sentenced to under three years for a fatal accident in a stolen car today.
Koorie court where life is cheap.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/melbourne-baby-boy-declared-missing-warrant-issued-for-fathers-arrest/15044651-da0b-43b3-a460-36843f8f7175
Believe all women, except for Jewish women. Am I surprised at how degraded our academic institutions are? Sadly, no. An institution like the University of Sydney, once a respected academic institution, is now completely corrupted, by faux garbage courses like the one Sociology professor Sujatha Fernandes teaches. Oh and nobody should be surprised that the rot at Sydney University is being overseen by a gutless parasitic mediocrity by the name of Mark Maggot Scott. Mark Maggot Scott has a lot of form overseeing the hollowing out and destroying of institutions, and for his work he’s even been rewarded by so called “Liberal governments”….but don’t get me started on that, I could rant all night about that!
I think Nikki Haley said it best yesterday, or wrote it best, when visiting Israel she wrote on an IDF artillery shell…..
Finish them
I second that. And in a better world the careers of professor Sujatha Fernandes and Mark Maggot Scott would also be finished. But sadly we don’t live in a better world, and the likes of Fernandes and Scott will continue to swan through, richly rewarded by you and me.
Now I know why we couldn’t view the cathedral today. It’s Corpus Christi.
We got lost on our way down to the Alcazar and ended up at Plaza De Espagna. Very impressive. All the way, in the background, we could hear bells. Nice.
Wended our way back up past the golden tower and the crowd thickened. Tourists! Except many were way too well dressed. Intrigued, we finally got to the great bell tower, which was going hell for leather pealing away. The great bells rocking back and forth in their cradles, calling the faithful in unapologetic joyfulness.
The Beloved, much taller than I, saw the procession first. Rank upon rank of people carrying platforms depicting saints, then silver censers and beautiful star shaped silver vessels, many with little tents above them. The crowd was thick, I was filming, and I wormed my way into a group of happy nuns. One glance and they recognised me as a fellow believer (it has happened to me so often I don’t doubt it any more). Lots of smiles and nods.
The parade went on for ages. There was a brass band, all taking selfies.
In the end the heat saw us off. And still the columns of people continued into the vast cathedral.
Some serious d*ckheads in this clip.
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Avi:
This is what happened when I joined anti-child mutilation activist Billboard Chris on the streets of Melbourne.
Melbourne Leftists LOSE IT at Billboard Chris and Avi Yemini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAbvbBVl3FA
Classics.
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Glenn Frey – You Belong To The City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TToLgW7zuc
A Slush Fund for Radical Protesters?
Our Revolutionary Times
Nearly 80% of Americans now view fast food as a luxury: survey
Rishi Sunak Admits to ‘Infected Blood Scandal’
Neil Oliver: ‘…it’s going to get ugly!’
Boston Democratic mayor says criminals should not be prosecuted for theft, gang registry should be abolished
It’s no exaggeration to say Hiden is the most incompetent president in the nation’s history. There’s nothing anyone can say positive about this corrupt moron.
I think my cat just had a stroke. Walking around heabutting walls and pissed all over the carpet. Asleep at the momemt.
22 years was a good innings.
10cc – I’m Not In Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STugQ0X1NoI
Is that so?
Truths is hurty.
From the Townhall.
It’s about Trump, should he win, but applies to any action or conflict if you plan ahead.
If you don’t then why bother?
“Speed is not just of the essence – it is everything. Look at what happened with Israel in Gaza. It should have destroyed Hamas immediately. No waiting. No screwing around. Get in there and get it done. Nothing wins like winning. There’s no victory like victory. You’ve got to get in there and make it happen fast. When you hesitate, it gives the enemy the time to rebuild, re-orient, and counterattack. The IDF should’ve been hanging scumbags from what few lampposts that remain standing in Gaza within the first month, well before all the little keffiyeh-clad scumbags started occupying campus quads and President Gumby started showing his spinelessness.
Audacity, audacity, audacity.
The same is true with Trump taking power again. Take power and use power ruthlessly and without hesitation or lose – those are the choices.”
We have no leaders in that league, sadly neither does Israel, too much looking over the shoulder at what the rest of the world thinks.
Much good did it them, still condemned.
It’s 6:30pm and 38C in Seville. Not a breath of wind. Even a bit cozy for Aussies!
It’s a lovely city but, like most of Europe, it has been eaten by motor vehicles. And they drive fast down the narrow cobbled lanes, barely wide enough. Most cars are peppered with dings. Pedestrians beware!
No wonder everyone goes out late – it’s just so hot. The tourist map is a gift to taxi drivers…basically unreadable. The maze of streets was like the Mines of Moria.
The Parasol, a Seville landmark, is an interesting modern structure tucked away behind a church – we were approached several times by pan handlers as we sat under it trying unsuccessfully to cool off. Wanted to go up to the viewing platform but the escalator was broken.
Tomorrow it’s the UK. Gibraltar, at least. Need to pack the passports. My great great grandmother was born there, a daughter of a service family.
Tensegrity, that is what it’s called but I’m sure all Cats knew that.
I will have a go and try to build one.
Most Supreme Court watchers thought the NRA would win their case against NY state.
Fewer expected it to be a 9-0 win.
And ever fewer had Sotomayor (or more likely her clerks) delivering the courts opinion.
Hope you like Gibraltar, Calli. We were there last year.
Check out the Trafalgar RN fatalities buried in the small cemetery near the bottom of the chair lift. Also avoid the British fish and chips in the main drag – not good and over-priced. There is better dining at the small cheap and cheerful cafes in the same street.
Johannes Leak.
Brett Lethbridge.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Bob Gorrell.
Chip Bok.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
The root cause of the Gaza pier fiasco is the same as that of the Afghanistan retreat debacle.
Progressives, Biden in particular, prioritizing political point scoring and ignoring harsh and unforgiving realities to do so.
Ordering dangerous and expensive actions be taken with absolutely no consideration for risk or cost, all for a fleeting point or two in the polls.
That’s one of the reasons Biden and progressives of his like are so dangerous to their nations.
Ahh, Johannes, you’ve done it again!
What a pair of joyless old scrotes.
The root cause of the Gaza pier fiasco is the same as that of the Afghanistan retreat debacle.
I made this point on C.L’s fine blog the other day. There’s a definite pattern emerging and it is not going to end well. But end it will.
I wonder how many people actually tune into the 730 Report these days. I haven’t watched since the Kerry O’Pooface era. The Tingle always seems to wear a scowl. I wonder what her problem is. Not financial.
BBC going full speed ahead linking Italy’s Meloni to Mussolini and Hitler.
Shock horror, there is a drift towards more right/conservative parties in Europe. “What some consider extreme is becoming mainstream”.
How dare they!
Anything to the right of the Beeb is of course “extreme right”.
Yes definitely and unhappy camper. Could it be hormonal? Transitioning hormones perhance? – can be devilish I hear? Or could it be a terrible unscratchable itch?
I just watched a piece on BBC about fascism in Italy.
The full suite of symbols – salutes, swastikas, dirty maniacal looks.
Then, wonder of wonders, the BEEB commentator says this has been a feature for years. At that point my spidey senses activated. Why report it hysterically now?
Can’t imagine why. It’s a mystery.
Tinta, I believe everyone has a capacity for happiness, and it’s a sliding scale.
If you’re born with a lion’s share – lucky you. It never seems to run out, regardless of circumstances. If you have but a little and refuse all the ways to top it up…you look and sound like a withered old prune.
The Tingles of this world have rejected the wells of joy and ambled on into the desert.
Just now on Twitter. Jury has reached a verdict in the Trump mistrial.
Dunno, not a lawyer, but if this means it’s unanimous doesn’t sound good.
The Tingle always seems to wear a scowl.
I can deal with a scowl. Rather, I find her to be a rancid mix of creepiness, nastiness and malevolence. She’s like a hideous creature from a gothic horror movie, it’s why I call her Mrs Nosferatu.
ABC America, says Trump found guilty. Well FMD.
Did you visit the Antiquarian museum under the Parasol calli? Roman mosaics unearthed when thy excavated for the foundations. Bet you never went to the best bar in the world, a little bar a couple of streets back from the Parasol, called Bar Alfalfa. Not a flash place but as Spanish as it comes. I loved the bars in Spain. Don’t bother too much in Australia.
Trump found guilty on all 34 counts.
FMD.
ABC America, says Trump found guilty. Well FMD.
Not surprised. This is clear evidence that the USA is in deep, deep trouble.
Any predictions on what will happen in the USA now Trump has been convicted?
Victor Hanson Davis said recently that the country is looking very much like the 1850s in state political sentiments.
Was the verdict ever in doubt?
The US legal system is unfortunately wide open to political prosecutions. It’s only the decency of the citizens that has stopped such cases before.
The Democrats through Obumma have corrupted institutions to a point where they represent Soviet style adherence to the party and not the people.
I’m so sure, Cassie. This is blue state venom and it’s not the entire country.
The Grauniad in rapture:
And if they don’t, where does this peril lie?
Xi calls for peace talks in Gaza.
The Great Panda has spoken, Wally Wong will follow.
This is blue state venom and it’s not the entire country.
I know this but the USA is fracturing, big time This was, from day one, a purely political hit job designed to silence Trump. They will send him to prison where they will kill him.
Judge Juan Merchan has set sentencing for 11 July at 10am ET.
The Donald meekly throws himself on the Court’s mercy:
You are right Tinta, la Tingle does have a mannish cast to her features.
The Democrats through Obumma have corrupted institutions to a point where they represent Soviet style adherence to the party and not the people.
No different here.
An excellent letter, though I doubt the students care for truth.
Anti Semitism isn’t about that.
https://x.com/HilzFuld/status/1796252939280863309?t=258BnRPN_NvsP-oaP8IhDg&s=19
Wow! Sky News is now running a US commentator saying that the justice system has worked properly to arrive at a conviction! The Australian public will not (based on what we’ve seen so far) get the whole truth from any local daytime current affairs service.
Daytime Sky will, of course, like most of the media, completely gloss over the awful way the trial has been conducted. One conservative commentator (Stinchfield at Gateway Pundit) makes a convincing case why Merchan should have recused himself from the trial, and maybe even worse!
Trump Trial Judge Could be Disbarred for his Actions. Here is the Case Against Him… (Video) | The Gateway Pundit | by Grant Stinchfield
Has anyone else noticed how this legal malfeasance against Trump has aged him?
Tony Abbott
https://x.com/HonTonyAbbott/status/1795981123174256901?t=eBnwQkEGjazxED77_P8ZQA&s=19
And the most extraordinary antisemitic memes I have seen on twitter
https://x.com/pepedownunder/status/1795997969767952572?t=fAghzYTzQ4UH6S_pXwYefA&s=19
Donald Trump is a great patriot, a man who loves his country. He tried to save his country and he still thinks he can. I admire him for that, his deep love for this country, and the fact that despite everything thrown at him he persists. He really is like a character out of a John Ford film. Always the outsider, yet someone who encapsulates true American values, true grit, which is why so many Americans like him. Whilst those on the left left pride themselves on ‘resistance’, we on the right should adopt Trump’s persistence.
But over the last week I’ve been thinking about what someone said to me. He reads this blog and he’ll know what I am talking about. He said the game is up, it’s over, finished, and we should just sit back and watch the decline. Being prone to pessimism at times I suspect this person may be right but at other times I perk up and I think we should persist, we need to fight. However in order to fight a war you have to turn up and across the West nobody ever turned up to fight that war apart from one…..a man named Donald Trump. For his bravery, for his patriotism, he is now paying a high price.
I don’t know what will happen, it’s a depressing day, not an unexpected verdict given it was NYC…..but depressing.
With no prior criminal convictions and a non-violent offence, the probation office in Manhattan will have to come up with something extraordinary to recommend a prison sentence in Trump’s case.
Big cities breed rats Cassie.
The patriotic and decent are found in the heartlands.
The Jewish people deserted the cities of Europe to set up a self sufficient rural life in Israel and from that base they built a nation.
In amongst all the rubbish TDS commentary, Sky did briefly cross to Fox News’s Judge Janine Piro, who said that the USA just went over the cliff.
I think it went over that cliff some time ago, but we can argue the chronology.
So much crookedness came about during Trump’s four year term while they tried to bring him down.
Cassie, your friend is correct. I have been saying the same thing for some time. The USA cannot now be rescued by Trump or De Santis, or any other patriotic pollie.
There are simply too many bad actors in too many positions for the tide of corruption to be reversed. Years of work by Obama and Soros are paying off.
Actually, there was probably more moral, philosophical and religious commonality between the southern and northern states in the 1850s than there is now between red and blue states.
That they were able to unite and rebuild their great nation once the issue of state sovereignty was politically resolved by the war is indication of that.
It’s not over, nor by a long shot.
I just read on twitter progs in Europe are becoming alarmed at political shifts to conservatism.
Impoverishing people with climate policies etc might do that.
Even the government of NSW has put reliable power ahead of the climate emergency.
When you do that, it’s not an emergency.
How’s the feminisation of the western world going so far?
Bits of fluff like Annaliese keep saying “this is unprecedented” – referring to the conviction.
What it more disturbing is that the level of corruption/weaponisation of the legal system has reached a peak which is truly unprecedented.
Of course there was the use of the IRS by Obama, and the ongoing pogrom against ordinary citizens who had the temerity to turn up to the Capitol on January 6th 2021.
But the lawfare now being used against Trump is a disgrace. Even Joe Siracusa says it’s ridiculous, and that America has reached a bad place.
Another “unprecedented” event is Biden saying US weapons can be used by Ukraine into Russian territory! Nice distraction move, but enormously dangerous.
i don’t expect there will be riots and civil disobedience a la the George Floyd ones and the Palestinian protests as they are and were all organised by powers that be. Ordinary Americans with an ounce of intelligence and morality will simply speed up their exits from blue states. They see the Democrats states as too dangerous for them and their families.
i can also see the exit of a lot of businesses from blue states, particularly NY, due to this debacle. Who can afford to work there not knowing when they will run afoul of the politburo. Without a shot fired the US will split into two unless cooler heads on the left stop this happening but seeing who is in charge there is no hope.
On a brighter note, the mudlarks from Port were given a smacking by Caaarrrlton last night.
Like their power system, the football teams only work occasionally.
Orange looks good on Vonshitzenpants.
And we have a visit from the idle and irrelevant.
Ted Cruz on the Trump verdict.
https://x.com/tedcruz/status/1796293179848724778?t=ba-HmXPDp2PFDciCkdxwYg&s=19
And of course, who appears, the Jew hating pervert apologist.
The thing is with the left, they don’t mind a bit of rape, when it’s Israeli Jewish women being raped.
Wise words.
I crap on about the tedious detail, but electricity is an absolutely fundamental basis for Western society and its economies.
As such it is an acid test for the motley of climate-driven policies which have sprung up over the past 30 years.
And also, critically, everything that stands behind the development and execution of those policies: expertism, unaccountable executive government, Lysenko-style debased science – and the rise of a culture of complete abdication of responsibility in representative government. All the centralist, Marxist flavoured stuff.
What we are witnessing is the screech and puff of smoke as physical and economic reality catches up.
Rosie, great observation. Most people know this to be true except those financially comfortable and without other interests who need a cause, and school children whom they have panicked with their stupidity. When all dangers have been obliterated the human mind will look for them elsewhere to keep the primitive part of their brains busy.
Oi Gez
What would you use to kill off kikyuyu now that it’s cold and slow? 2,4-D and esters are off the menu cos there are alpacas further along the ley lines
Trump can delay the implementation of any sentencing by appealing. But the fuking judge (spit) will sentence him to jail time for sure.
Fuk the lot of them. The stock market will crash and the world will descend into chaos but hey, the old pervert has convicted his opponent.
On the Melbourne racing station, the man from tab.com.au tells me that, even after today’s conviction, Donald Trump is still $1.90 favourite to be the next president of the USA.
The Democratic Party hoodlums of New York City may actually have started a second American revolution where the corrupt leader of the old regime oversees the jailing of his political rival, who goes on to reclaim the presidency from a prison cell.
Urgent. Somebody go immediately to Munty’s home. He will be killing himself with excessive masturbation. He needs to be stopped.
Trey Gowdy on Fox just mentioned in passing that Trump won’t go to jail because it’s pretty hard to get a jail sentence for ANYONE in NY State ( chortle).
Crossie
May 31, 2024 8:17 am
I make no predictions as to what will happen, I have usually less than 50 % strike rate.
For this to happen, in the manner it happened, shows that the United state is anything but united.
It’s easy to say, ‘Oh well, a blue state is not the US’ Trump will still be convicted and possibly sent to jail, then what?
Disgusting.
Somebody may have already linked to this and I missed it.
Long but worth reading.
https://im1776.com/too-big-to-win/
Sure Erik prince is pushing his own barrow but this is a pretty clear and cold exposition
A certain coroners inquest in Austfailure has decided my friend must be found to be guilty of something in order to placate a bunch of pisswreck family members of a psychotic lady shot by another officer.
Not failing: The mental health professionals who released her days before after she was taken in for a “completely different” episode.
Because god knows, they wouldnt release a person with mental illness back onto the streets!
Not failing: The unknown person/persons who supplied her with drugs – because its likely to create a lot of inter-family trouble.
Not failing: The other officers on the scene who didnt get out of their cars.
No it appears the one who will be found to have failed is the one who approached the lady – bare handed and was attempting to talk her down – same as he did a week or 2 before.
Trump verdict will accelerate bifurcation of USA.
Conservatives cannot conduct business in liberal parts and will withdraw from such completely leaving those places entirely to the criminal Democrat machine.
Ultimately the denizens of those places will suffer the consequences.
Biden has quite a list of accomplishments, jailing Trump, crashing the economy, starting two new wars with a third one, Taiwan, on the horizon and plunging his country into a degeneracy spiral via the transgender movement. Im sure there are more horrors that have slipped my mind.
Somewhere OJ is just smiling.
Amusingly Biden put out an edict that you are not allowed to bet on the election, nor quote odds.
Biden Administration Orders Ban on Election Betting Markets (21 May)
I took this to mean the Dems can goalseek the polls for best political effect but they don’t control the betting markets.
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It isn’t Trump your sort should be afraid of.
It’s what comes after if they succeed in eliminating Trump.
WA farmers plan to flood freeways in stand against live export banBy Claire OttavianoMay 30, 2024 — 3.47pm
3 min
About 1500 WA farmers and livestock transport industry workers will flood the CBD in their trucks on Friday morning to protest the ending of live sheep exports.
Ben Sutherland will travel from Ravensthorpe in his livestock truck, keen to add his voice to the ‘Keep the Sheep’ campaign.
Keep the Sheep campaigners say a live export ban would devastate WA farming families and their communitiesCredit: Bloomberg
“We’ve had an overwhelming response to the rally and it’s only gaining traction,” Sutherland, who is also the Livestock and Rural Transport Association of Western Australia vice-president, said.
“It’s going to be a pretty long procession and will make an impression, but the aim is not to be an aggressive protest, it’s a passive protest.
“It’s not going to be doom and gloom, the traffic entering the city is going to be minimal, mainly utes and flat-tops with hay bales as well as semis and prime movers without their trailers.
“We’re here to gain public support, not piss them off.”
Four convoys will leave at 8am from Bedfordale, Mundijong, Neerabup and Rous Head, passing through the city via Mounts Bay Road, past Elizabeth Quay and Riverside Drive before heading out via the Causeway.
While Sutherland’s vehicle is too big to enter the city, he will head a convoy with other larger trucks and livestock crates heading north on Roe Highway where they will meet in Bullsbrook with the remainder of the procession.
The protest coincides with Thursday’s introduction of legislation into Federal Parliament to phase out the live sheep export trade by May 30, 2028.
Mr Sutherland said the major piece of legislation would affect not just truckers but the rural community on the whole.
Let me see now, 34 charges, 34 guilty verdicts, four years maximum gaol sentence per charge… that adds up to a lot of time in federal penitentiary.
No wonder Uday and Qusay were blubbering.
Not a good day for the USA. The lawfare against Trump is a disgrace to the legal system.
Unfortunately the Dems and deep state going to be more motivated to keep him out of the White House as can’t risk him winning.
Democrats are like the underage kid who has “borrowed” Dad’s Porsche.
You know an encounter with a roadside tree is imminent.
“For they know not what they do”.
Obama’s ultimate objective is a serious outbreak of violance.
Arky
May 31, 2024 8:42 am
You just watch the rules and regulations coming in, concerning the removal of manufacturing plants, machinery in those states.
The left or should I say the communists weren’t born yesterday.
Apathy of the ordinary people is the problem, nothing outrageous will happen if Trump is jailed, there I made a prediction.
The deep state has plans in place for any violent uprising, they wouldn’t have allowed the trial to go they way it did otherwise.
(All those guns are just a heap of junk in the hands of people unwilling to use them, watch this space)
Sorry Wally but using chemical when plants with dormancy and root preservation is mission impossible.
There are chemicals that would bare out the area but they have long residual action on many species you’d rather see growing.
On farm we would plough couch type plants to expose the roots to dry cold conditions and then attack new susceptible shoots with chemical.
@TheInsiderPaper
JUST IN – Donald Trump’s donation site just crashed after verdict
Sean Davis
@seanmdav
I’m glad we’re leaving for Spain tonight as I’ve had enough. This deep blue city that cares so much about illegals leaves their own dying in the streets and cares even more in framing an innocent man with false charges.
I called 911 this earlier as there’s a homeless black dude on our corner who looks like he’s in a really bad way. He’s always scratching himself from his private parts and everywhere else. He looks like he’s in terrible shape and needs to be assessed. Caring blue state people just walk right past him.
A billionaire lives in a US$40 million house lives no more than 50 yards from where this dude was laying on the ground.
You just gotta love the blue states.
Ron DeSantis: Trump Verdict Represents ‘Political Agenda of Some Kangaroo Court’
Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ)
If it weren’t a serious matter you’d have to laff ..! .. It seems that Europe is concerned that Russia might be upset enuf about their Ukraine aid efforts that they would have the temerity to retaliate ….. You reap what you sow .. FFS
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/europe-on-high-alert-after-suspected-moscow-linked-arson-and-sabotage/ar-BB1niQyp?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=32384550ebf043b685f411d4be0727cf&ei=21
I see the resident fat phuck is beside himself with glee belching his halitosis. FMD
Why would they warn anyone when they organised the whole thing?
WAYNE ROOT: My CIA Sources Say Biden Administration Knows Waves of “Red Dawn” Terror Attacks Will Be Carried Out in USA Any Day. Yet They Refuse to Warn the American People. Why?
Whether this upcoming November election is kosher or not, it will be the last one America has. In 2028, if the incumbent loses they know they will face prison and possibly execution (as will their families) so they can’t possibly allow a vote to happen.
Democracy is a catastrophic idea and should have gone a long time ago. Inasmuch as it should occur, it should have been rigged to ensure only people likely to vote for civilisation are allowed to.
WATCH — ‘I’m Done’: Democrat California State Senator Roasts Party for Trying to Protect Pedophiles
Farmer Gez @ 7:22 am
The public and very noisy collapse of US exceptionalism and western resolve is a very great comfort to the Axis of Xivil.
China is happily bulldozing through the hole in global affairs left by nearly 20 years of fractured and inconsistent Administration – bringing with her all the delights of dictatorial government.
@julie_kelly2
Republicans stood silent for 3 years as Biden’s DOJ/FBI investigated, raided, charged, prosecuted and incarcerated 1,400+ Trump supporters for Jan 6. They not only tacitly endorsed it but funded it.
Of course this unprecedented conviction of Donald Trump would be the natural result. Today’s verdict is as much an indictment of GOP weakness and cowardice as it is the lawless Marxist tendencies of the Democrats.
Eat me last Mr Crocodile! Hun:
So what’s it going to be Labor? Enforce the laws already on the books or continue to indulge these dickheads?
A pretty reasonable one.
As JC and others regularly note, the general US population bears no resemblance to the arseholes running the joint. But neither do they resemble the settlers and frontier folk of the 1860’s.
In Cheer Up and Carry On news:
Under Pressure, Biden Allows Ukraine to Use U.S. Weapons to Strike Inside Russia
President Biden, under pressure from his top national security aides and European allies, has authorized Ukraine to conduct limited strikes inside Russia with U.S.-made weapons, opening what could well be a new chapter in the war for Ukraine, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
I guess that’s a call to make when you are 82 and disappearing into the fog of dementia.
Right on, man!
Um…will there be free pizza?
Dr. John Campbell with Patrick Holford
Your dementia risk
I see American democracy is having a normal one today.
Aha, that’s the scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off where the kid pushed his father’s Porsche out the Frank Lloyd Wright glass encased garage and into the wilderness beyond.
Trump was convicted by a jury of his peers, in a case which was so open-and-shut that the jury only took two free lunches to decide on the verdicts. That is law and order, plain and simple.
Arky, I have had it up to here with dark and stormy portents of horrid happenings if crooks like Trump are faced with the routine consequences of their actions. If his supporters want to commit further crimes on behalf of their Dear Leader, they will be prosecuted en masse like the January 6 rioters, and spend years in gaol.
Protests outside the NY courthouse were pitifully small. The long, long sentences handed out to January 6 criminals spooked the crazies this time. The Proud Boys and III%ers have effectively been dismantled, their leadership either in pokey or scared shitless.
No, there won’t be another insurrection. Maybe an incarceration.
I see neither C.L. nor Michael Smith have caught up to the daily news yet.
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The last time they assassinated a president, the 1960s ensued. Lyndon Johnson and Nixon ensued. War. Conscription. Go take a close look at your children. Are they boys or girls? Doesn’t matter, gender is a construct, next time they’ll conscript the lot of them. And when America conscripts, we conscript.
The Demonrats are quite prepared for a violent civil uprising. It would satisfy their “insurrection” craving to the extent they could impose martial law and defer elections.
Even some angry former seals taking out a few crooked DAs and shonky judges would do, for them. We saw the totalitarian streak emerge during the COVID period, there and here. It would be off the leash after even one or two assassinations of a minor nature.
How apt? Conservative protesters jailed and ruined. Leftie pro-Palestinian protesters on university campuses provided with tents and other goodies. Ain’t freedom grand? You just have to protest what the power elites agree with. In other words, not protests but demonstrations of approval. Monty, you really are a despicable human.
Incredibly arrogant and unhelpful (for us) comments on the Trump sham this morning from that flabby corrupt moron and all round sack of excrement, Teats Peanuthead.
No, I’m not going to bother posting them. People can look them up if so inclined.
Join us as we take a stand against the weapons industrial complex in Naarm
Considering the “weapons industrial complex in Naarm” was overcome by about 120 redcoats with smoothbore muskets I somewhat doubt the Israelis will be overly inconvenienced.
Oh dear. Laura is woeful regarding the judge’s partiality.
This is the best site for local and international news. Thanks Dover and thanks to the many excellent contributors.
Context is 9/10s of interpretation.
It was in a speech before Arab foreign ministers and included a call for “justice.”
I’m not surprised but I’m disgusted anyway.
mole, the details escape me atm, but there is a military production facility in Victoria and Israel is a client.
mUnter, earlier:
I recall a lot of flogs expressing a very similar sentiment about someone else only a few years ago. Now who was it……
Ah yes. George Pell.
It’s been good to hear Monty give us all his approval of the statistically high number of black people in America being incarcerated.
Tried and convicted by a jury of their peers. There is no systemic bias against blacks in the US legal system. Monty tells us so.
Roger
May 31, 2024 9:55 am
They use the imaginary old name, I assume it refers to the imaginary old facilities.
John Hinderaker is always a very measured commentator but he has just uploaded this on his powerline blog. Dover, I think it should be posted in full here, which I have done…..
GUILTY
A grotesquely biased jury of Trump-haters, led by a judge who put service to his party above his judicial responsibilities, has returned guilty verdicts against Donald Trump on all 34 counts with which he was–absurdly–charged.
What this shows is that the most important variable in any case is who decides it. Here, the Democrats knew that they could impanel a rabidly anti-Trump jury in Manhattan, so they did so. It is very much like the lawsuit that Michael Mann brought against Mark Steyn and others, of which I observed some of the latter stages. The defendants were properly happy about how the trial had gone, but the facts didn’t matter. The Democrats had chosen the right venue, Washington, D.C., and a biased jury found for Mann. Same thing here.
What to do now? First, it is now absolutely essential that Trump be elected president. The Democrats cannot be allowed to get away with this effort to turn America into a banana republic.
Second, the Democrats understand nothing except the raw exercise of power. Therefore, Republican attorneys general and district attorneys should bring criminal charges against Democratic officeholders wherever possible. No Democratic officeholder should be allowed to retire, in any jurisdiction with Republican law enforcement, without facing criminal charges. There can’t be a single Democratic official in America against whom a criminal case can’t be brought that is better than this case against Trump. It should be open season on Democrats in the criminal courts.
Third, the criminal prosecutions should begin with Joe Biden. Unlike Trump, Biden is actually a criminal. He is already known to be guilty under the federal bribery statute. If Trump wins in November, his Department of Justice should immediately indict Biden, and Biden should be hounded until the day he dies or goes to prison, whichever happens first.
Of course, Republicans face a disadvantage that Democrats don’t. Some cases, including, I assume, a criminal prosecution of Biden, would have to be brought on the Democrats’ home turf, Washington, D.C. If that is the case, so be it: as Mark Steyn says, the process is the punishment. Biden likely would not live long enough to face a jury in any case. And attorneys general in states like Texas, Florida, South Dakota, etc., should look into whether Biden’s taking of bribes or other actions could qualify as crimes under their states’ laws. After all, if Alvin Bragg can prosecute Donald Trump for federal campaign finance violations that he didn’t commit, another state official can likely find grounds to prosecute Biden for bribery, which he did commit.
I think the time for turning the other cheek is over….finito. They have stoked war, they want war, then war they will have.
Oh and whilst we are a long way behind the USA when it comes to conservative politicians and commentators being targeted politically and judicially, let me remind you all here of what was done to Craig Kelly, Pauline Hanson, Andrew Cooper and Tony Abbott (Abbott and Cooper were targeted under the federal government’s national security laws back in 2019…and a so called conservative government sat back and did nothing).
It’s also good to know that Monty hated Nelson Mandela and viewed him as a terrorist.
A great day for tin pot regimes everywhere.
The U/S can no longer claim any moral authority over them.
Shorter monty
Like his lot, they seem to think they will get off scot free.
Reminds me of a few parables from the bible: the Good Samaritan, the difficulty of a rich man getting into heaven for not helping the poor man, loving thy neighbour.
On the political side, it is the preferring of illegals over citizen poor that will cost Democrats at the elections from Black voters. Good.
M0nty:”Trump was convicted by a jury of his peers, in a case which was so open-and-shut that the jury only took two free lunches to decide on the verdicts. That is law and order, plain and simple.”
When even CNN’s own legal analysts say the case is pretty shaky and wouldn’t have been prosecuted if the defendants name was anything other than Donald Trump;
when lawyers with decades of experience who are NOT Trump supporters (like Jonathan Turley, who is a professor of law with 50+ years experience) suggest that there are many grounds for appeal;
when the judge allows the irrelevant testimony of Stormy Daniels regarding their alleged affair while preventing the defense from allowing a former FEC chairman to testify as to why this was never prosecuted as a federal campaign finance violation (hint, it’s not!);
when Trumps federally described due process right to know the exact accusation against him is violated and the judge tells the jury they don’t need to concern themselves with exactly which crime Trump is alleged to have been hiding;
when the prosecution says Trump was all over what he was paying and why even when prez because some checks he didn’t sign, yet Cohen by his own admission defrauded Trump’s organisation of more than $30k;
when the judge is openly hostile to the only witness the defense called, sustaining prosecution objections before they are even elucidated by the prosecution and without even the appearance of deliberation;
when all that and more is true, this is not law and order M0nty, it’s lawfare.
They don’t even appear to care that it will get tossed on appeal because of the above and more, just that they think they can hang the albatross of “convicted felon” around Trump’s neck. Anyone who thinks this is dodgy will now, as you seem ready to do, be called a “justice denier”. When (not if, when) Trump wins on appeal, they’ll say he got off on a “technicality” and that he’s really a felon. And Trump won’t be able to sue them, because they will claim both that he’s a public figure (raising the bar extraordinarily high for libel) and they were offering “opinion” (even when it’s not clearly labelled as such and appears in their “news” sections).
There are comments on Fox News that Putin is laughing. I bet so is president Xi and Little Fat Kim and the mullahs in Iran and the Europeans and the Africans and the South Americans, except Milei, and even the penguins in Antarctica. Even I’m laughing that US Democrats and their billionaire elites have lost their minds.
They have become a living example of that ancient Greek saying that those whom gods wish to destroy they first make mad,
Fluffy Annaliese implies that only Trump and his supporters think the charges are political.
Lachlan Cartwright (Hollywood Reporter) saw a trial which was “incredibly fair”. Jury was wise and attentive, and knew what they were doing; no way there was anything wrong with their verdict.
Thanks Sky News, maintaining your usual standards.
cohenite
May 31, 2024 8:27 am
I don’t think he will get jail.
He will impose some sort of “community service” which will be both degrading and restrict his campaigning.
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was also convicted by “a jury of his peers”
“…nothing outrageous will happen if Trump is jailed,…”
If Dan Bongino is right and the USSS is politically compromised and gutless at the top, and they are prevented from protecting Trump should he actually end up in prison, AND Trump is hurt or killed while “inside”, then “outrageous” things may indeed happen – martyrdom tends to make outrageous things happen and Trump would certainly be a martyr to many if killed in prison.
I certainly wouldn’t put it past HillBillary to pay someone to get him shanked inside..
Laura decides to put her TDS up in lights while talking to James Morrow and Paul Murray. And she plays Interviewus Interruptus worthy of the ABC when Paul Murray tries to explain how the case should never have been brought – and then interrupts Jame Morrow when he tries to say what Trump achieved last time.
“Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was also convicted by “a jury of his peers””
What were the words of the song again?
Oh, yeah:
”
How can the life of such a man,
be in the palm of some fools hand?
…
to see him obviously framed,
couldn’t help but make you feel ashamed,
to live in a land where justice is a game
”
Apropos?
A Day That Will Live in Infamy: Donald Trump Found Guilty on 34 Counts
Styxhexenhammer666
The fault lies in those who brought the charges to court. That’s the political act and widely bragged about in the media.
The same occurred with Pell. Vigilante Vicpol and a DPP head who was proven not to know the rules of evidence by the HC. She’s still there.
I muse what would have happened if, in his frustration, the witness had answered the questions anyway and ignored the banging gravel of the Judge.
If you are going to be part of a clown show, why not participate?
Via Black Ball
Wait! What? The Pallie protestors have finally caught up with the events of 7 October?
At least now it can be acknowledged that De Niro was a shit actor.
Wannabe foul mouth gangster weirdo.
Consider Goodfellas. Memorable performances by the late, great Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci. Then there was little Bobby doing his usual grimacing non performance.
Take a look at Cape Fear. The excellent Robert Mitchum in the original brought forth into existence a type of malignant sociopathic character never before seen on the screen. Little Bobby took that character, rendered it in the usual Bobby verbal ticks and added some pervy irrelevance. Yuck. Still a good picture, but only because of Nick Nolte and supporting cast.
Don’t get me started on The Godfather Part Two. Playing Vito Corleone after Marlon Brando had already filled out who Vito was, Little Bobby decided that Vito was really just the same as all the other gangster characters he would play in every movie he was ever in. The Bobby parts of Godfather II are fast forward territory every time.
“As JC and others regularly note, the general US population bears no resemblance to the arseholes running the joint. But neither do they resemble the settlers and frontier folk of the 1860’s.”
Not sure that’s true – like those of old, the current crop know that if they go down the path of violence, then their lives will be irrevocably changed. They will try, as did their forefathers, to avoid this change. But there are limits – different for different people, but limits just the same. And if they decide they have no choice any more, then they will fight like no others – because they have been forced into what they didn’t want to do, and their lives as they see them are ruined, even if they “win”.
People in such a situation are the most dangerous of enemies – they have nothing left to lose, believing they have already lost what was precious to them, and so it is only “right” and “revenge” they fight for. Not to win, but to make the enemy pay for what they were “forced” to do.
Regardless, if only 5% of the population is so incensed and participates, that is about the same level of participation as the US war for independence – at least at the beginning.
That’s all it takes.
Hope it doesn’t come to that, but it’s easy to see it might – slowly at first, then all at once, as it were.
Interesting times, in the Chinese curse sense.
My thoughts on the Stormy bullshit:
Judge Merchan is an associate Judge who is not on the panel of 24 NY judges selected at random to adjudicate on such trials. Despite this he has adjudicated on all 3 of Trump’s trials in NY
1 Justice Juan Manuel Merchan presided over the 2022 tax-fraud trial that led to the conviction of the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg. This was where Trump’s corp gave free parking to clients and this was held to be a state tax fraud.
2 He is also the judge for the fraud and money-laundering case against Steve Bannon, a staunch Trump ally. Bannon now appealing.
3 Now the Stormy trial.
It is statistically impossible for Merchan to be selected randomly for all 3 trials.
Merchan donated to Biden and a group called Stop Republicans.
Merchan’s daughter Loren Merchan, is president of Authentic Campaigns and has raised at least $93 million in campaign donations for the democrats — and used the case in their solicitation emails — raising renewed concerns that the jurist has a major conflict of interest.
The jury was selected from Manhattan which voted up to 99% in favour of biden
The 34 charges were state based accounting and book-keeping charges, Class E felonies, the lowest type, essentially misdemeanours, to do with how payment to Cohen was made. The more serious Federal felony charge was because Bragg said the payment contravened election law. Normally state prosecutors can’t bring federal charges but because they said the contravention of election law was based on state book-keeping offences they were allowed. Never been done before. And this is important because while Trump as POTUS can pardon the federal crime he cannot pardon the state laws and since the federal crime is based on the state laws he could not pardon himself!
Trump did not pay Cohen’s account, his accountants did. During the trial Cohen admitted he lied about his account to Trump and also a phone call to Trump’s body-guard which was not about Stormy but about a 14 year old prank caller to Cohen. This phone call was the basis of the prosecution’s allegation that Trump was informed by Cohen of the payment to stormy and it was proved to be a lie.
David Pecker former publisher of the National Enquirer testified he had made a number of payments to other people making allegations about Trump. Pecker testified that his company made two catch-and-kill payments to honour his agreement with Trump, paying $30,000 to a former doorman who falsely alleged that Trump had a child out of wedlock, and $150,000 to former Playboy model Karen McDougal in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump that he denied took place.
Pecker also said he flagged Stormy Daniels’ potential story to Cohen in October 2016, but declined to make the $130,000 hush money payment out of his own pocket. Cohen paid stormy with his own money and then billed Trump after Trump had been elected as POTUS. Cohen had billed Trump before including $50000 to Red Finch, a polling company from which he stole $30000. It is likely that Trump did not even know about Cohen’s payment to stormy at the time it was made. If Trump did not know about the payment he cannot have had an intent to commit the book-keeping charges which the book keeping charges require.
The Federal Elections Commission (FEC) closed in 2021 its investigation into whether former President Trump illegally made hush money payments to women prior to the 2016 election.
The FEC voted 4-1 to close the inquiry after failing to find that Trump or his campaign “knowingly and willfully” violated campaign finance law when his former attorney Michael Cohen paid $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep her from disclosing an alleged affair.
Daniels then sued Trump to allow the NDA to be ended so she could talk about the payment in a federal court and lost and now owes Trump >$500000 in costs
In January 2018 Daniels published a sworn letter stating she did not have sex with Trump. She later contradicted this also under oath in the trial.
During the hearing Merchan stopped Trump’s team from calling as a witness Brad Smith, a member of the FEC to testify about the NDA and how it did contravene election law. Merchan said Trump’s team could call Smith but that Smith could not testify on the law because he, Merchan, was the legal expert not Brad Smith!
In 2008 Obama was fined $375000 for campaign violations where he kept secret $millions worth of donations and the identities of the donors. The identities of those donors is still not known.
Trump can appeal after his sentencing which is scheduled for July 11. The sentencing will be then held in obeyance pending the result of the appeal to New York’s First Judicial Department appellate court. At least merchan won’t be on the bench for the appeal.
Daniel Greenfield is out of the blocks:
Trump Found Guilty of Running Against Democrats (31 May)
Ham sandwiches will be filling up Rikers Island very rapidly.
My thoughts on the Stormy bullshit:
Judge Merchan is an associate Judge who is not on the panel of 24 NY judges selected at random to adjudicate on such trials. Despite this he has adjudicated on all 3 of Trump’s trials in NY
1 Justice Juan Manuel Merchan presided over the 2022 tax-fraud trial that led to the conviction of the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg. This was where Trump’s corp gave free parking to clients and this was held to be a state tax fraud.
2 He is also the judge for the fraud and money-laundering case against Steve Bannon, a staunch Trump ally. Bannon now appealing.
3 Now the Stormy trial.
It is statistically impossible for Merchan to be selected randomly for all 3 trials.
Merchan donated to Biden and a group called Stop Republicans.
Merchan’s daughter Loren Merchan, is president of Authentic Campaigns and has raised at least $93 million in campaign donations for the democrats — and used the case in their solicitation emails — raising renewed concerns that the jurist has a major conflict of interest.
The jury was selected from Manhattan which voted up to 99% in favour of biden
The 34 charges were state based accounting and book-keeping charges, Class E felonies, the lowest type, essentially misdemeanours, to do with how payment to Cohen was made. The more serious Federal felony charge was because Bragg said the payment contravened election law. Normally state prosecutors can’t bring federal charges but because they said the contravention of election law was based on state book-keeping offences they were allowed. Never been done before. And this is important because while Trump as POTUS can pardon the federal crime he cannot pardon the state laws and since the federal crime is based on the state laws he could not pardon himself!
Trump did not pay Cohen’s account, his accountants did. During the trial Cohen admitted he lied about his account to Trump and also a phone call to Trump’s body-guard which was not about Stormy but about a 14 year old prank caller to Cohen. This phone call was the basis of the prosecution’s allegation that Trump was informed by Cohen of the payment to stormy and it was proved to be a lie.
David Pecker former publisher of the National Enquirer testified he had made a number of payments to other people making allegations about Trump. Pecker testified that his company made two catch-and-kill payments to honour his agreement with Trump, paying $30,000 to a former doorman who falsely alleged that Trump had a child out of wedlock, and $150,000 to former Playboy model Karen McDougal in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump that he denied took place.
Pecker also said he flagged Stormy Daniels’ potential story to Cohen in October 2016, but declined to make the $130,000 hush money payment out of his own pocket. Cohen paid stormy with his own money and then billed Trump after Trump had been elected as POTUS. Cohen had billed Trump before including $50000 to Red Finch, a polling company from which he stole $30000. It is likely that Trump did not even know about Cohen’s payment to stormy at the time it was made. If Trump did not know about the payment he cannot have had an intent to commit the book-keeping charges which the book keeping charges require.
The Federal Elections Commission (FEC) closed in 2021 its investigation into whether Trump illegally made hush money payments to women prior to the 2016 election.
The FEC voted 4 to 1 to close the inquiry after failing to find that Trump or his campaign “knowingly and willfully” violated campaign finance law when his former attorney Cohen paid $130,000 to Stormy to keep her from disclosing an alleged affair.
Daniels then sued Trump to allow the NDA to be ended so she could talk about the payment in a federal court and lost and now owes Trump >$500000 in costs
In January 2018 Daniels published a sworn letter stating she did not have sex with Trump. She later contradicted this also under oath in the trial.
During the hearing Merchan stopped Trump’s team from calling as a witness Brad Smith, a member of the FEC to testify about the NDA and how it did contravene election law. Merchan said Trump’s team could call Smith but that Smith could not testify on the law because he, Merchan, was the legal expert not Brad Smith!
In 2008 Obama was fined $375000 for campaign violations where he kept secret $millions worth of donations and the identities of the donors. The identities of those donors is still not known.
Trump can appeal after his sentencing which is scheduled for July 11. The sentencing will be then held in obeyance pending the result of the appeal to New York’s First Judicial Department appellate court. At least merchan won’t be on the bench for the appeal.
Government must defy alcohol lobby to help end family violence, say advocates and MPs
Banning late night booze deliveries is what they want to do. Sure why not. It won’t make a lick of difference but we must be seen to be doing something.
Incidentally, is there any hard data showing rates of domestic violence are increasing? I’d say it’d be falling post-lockdowns (when it likely went through the roof, for obvious reasons).
WHO Director, General Tedros Ghebreyesus, has conceded the failure of the WHO Pandemic Treaty at the start of the World Health Assembly 77.
This is a great day for those of us who have stood against a global health dictatorship, including myself and One Nation Australia.
Ghebreyesus was a terrorist with the Tigre Liberation Army. While at the helm of WHO, he has actively covered up the rape and sexual exploitation of women in the Congo by WHO personnel, as found by his own investigative commission.
The elites are weeping into their champers and crying ‘why don’t the proles believe us any more?’
U.N. Despairs at Declining Influence, Blames Drift from Globalist Central Governance (30 May)
Well if you weren’t raping us over and over with fascist policies on Covid and climate rubbish you might not have soiled your nest quite so badly. I hope Israel withdraws from the UN and sparks a wider exodus.
Amazing to see people still thinking the Dems are largely the problem given how limply Republicans are largely responding to the news.
The democrat regime must be pretty confident about the outcome of any future election.
U.N. Despairs at Declining Influence, Blames Drift from Globalist Central Governance (30 May)
Best news I have heard in a long while.
Oi Gez
2lts/ha equivalent of Crucial with a 40gr/ha equivalent of Te’rador spike.
Follow up in a week with a drenching of paraquat 250@ 2lts/ha.
For example:
Amazing to see people still thinking the Dems are largely the problem given how limply Republicans are argely responding to the news.
DB, I thought that in relation to the bogus arrests on Jan 6, 2021 & the witch hunt that followed.
Nonetheless, there is a pressure limit in these matters. We know that Republicans (& probably disaffected Dems) are moving out of the blue states in huge numbers. Many in the black population are also turning against the Dems.
Time will tell. But I agree with those who predict that if Trump survives without being assassinated (in the streets or in prison, & barring massive interference, he will win the presidency. Either of these events could trigger a major civil uprising.
Now the latter was predicted after the dubious voting procedures in the last presidential election. But, as historian Victor Davis Hanson has remarked, current sentiments are looking a lot like the 1850s.
Demented Phillip Adams is asking if Tesla should be boycotted because Elon has shown some sympathy for Trump.
As always with Leftards, it’s never the principle (in this case ruinbles), it’s always the side…
Near as I can tell, Donald J. Trump has been found guilty of being Donald J. Trump.
This omits the reality that conservatives have a real dilemma over these things. Conservatism means observing conventions, rules and a duty to a greater good.
The Marxists have always known this is the weakness to exploit.
Of course, you are right, Arky. We have watched this happen in all of our institutions, but particularly in education. I will say this for the Marxists – they are as determined and ruthless as they need to be. I saw it first hand years ago. Hard faced, humourless ideologues. But they are a difficult force to counteract – especially in those days long ago when we thought the battles were won forever.
Cassie at 10:01
A big deal is being made of protecting the anonymity of jurors, the implication being that they would be in danger if their identities became known.
The truth is, the anonymity is to prevent the public examining the political history of jurors and maybe finding a few pussy hats in their closets.
Context is 9/10s of interpretation.
It was in a speech before Arab foreign ministers and included a call for “justice.”
Absolutely.
Beyond formal appeals to the virtues of Guanyin, Team Xi does not give a rat’s ring for Gazans or Israelis. The commentary coming out of China is wholly CCP political; building hegemony in the ME and discomfiting the West by highlighting the contradictions, ambiguities, inconstancies, and general hypocrisy of western leaderships.
Let’s see if any jurors out themselves, for paid interviews or mere basking.
Read that Elon Musk had this to say at a recent conference :
Elon Musk recently spoke at the Bosch ConnectedWorld 2024 conference.
Bmost of his talk was a stark warning.
‘The artificial intelligence compute coming online appears to be increasing by a factor of 10 every six months. Like, obviously that cannot continue at such a high rate forever, or it’ll exceed the mass of the universe, but I’ve never seen anything like it.
‘The chip rush is bigger than any gold rush that’s ever existed.
‘I think we really are on the edge of probably the biggest technology revolution that has ever existed.’
No wonder China is so bent on taking Taiwan. Also understand they have recently constructed an enormous chip factory of their own.