Contact him, Bashi. See if he responds.

https://williambradleynewwestnotes.wordpress.com/contact/

Not his first cousin:

From Bill Bradley's speech in Crystal City, 1999

My father never went to college. At 16, he quit high-school and went to work for the railroad to support his widowed mother and two sisters, and later got a job here at the local bank, "shining pennies" as he called it. He worked his way up assistant cashier, cashier, manager, vice-president - until eventually he was the majority shareholder.

Two sisters who would not have passed on the Bradley name and no sons of the mother with Warren or anyone else.

I'm getting closer to Bill's full family tree...

DeSantis is just pissed he got his ass handed to him by a mouse...

Yep! They slipped him a Mickey. :)

I supplied William Bradley's bio because Caddy forgot who "my source" was.

Caddy didn't forget who your source was; you entirely failed to name or cite your source. The only thing Caddy may have forgotten was your peculiar tendency to rely heavily on the asinine opinion of a single source to the dang near exclusion of all others. Anyone who questions your source is then summarily dismissed by you as someone who didn't understand his (usually) weak-ass opinions that echo right-wingnut talking points and MAGA propaganda.

John M gave you solid excellent answer, and your response was to opine he was jealous... which is fathoms beyond ridiculous. You then (as per your usual) responded by questioning his ability to understand your source's elementary opinions. Mr. Bradley's commentaries aren't the least bit complicated to comprehend. No one is confused by him... with the possible exception of yourself. It seems frequently to fly totally over your head that Bradley is doing nothing more than parroting right-wing fantastical bullshit.

I posted some quotes from his last emailed piece for the sake of starting a discussion amongst us Weigantians, not to invite denigration of his credentials or intelligence.

Ah, the Elizabeth Miller standard "muscular debate" whining diatribe. I regret to inform you (again) that muscular debate/discussions regarding someone's/anyone's weak-ass opinion will just naturally frequently have a tendency to inspire denigration of the author's credentials and/or intelligence. That's how debate/discussion works.

But, civil discussion has never really been much of a hallmark of this place, has it ... :(

Us not agreeing with Bradley's typical prattling nonsense is not the equivalent of being uncivilized. We gave you muscular debate, and you claimed we didn't understand your source! I got news for you; Bradley isn't complicated... quite the opposite, in point of fact.

Heh. :)

Oh please prey tell what echo chamber I am in?

He is right or he is wrong. A quick google of Alvin Bragg demonstrates he is wrong. Why is he pushing that story?

I search absolutely everything and everyone. I want to know who it is, what they think, where they purvey their ideas, et. This usually takes minutes. Your guy basically does not exist. That is interesting in it's self. Much more so than any political discussion. I was not going after him, I was trying to find his existence at all.

Stop wasting your time and mine.

Isn't that intrinsically why we are all here: to waste time?

Stop wasting your time and mine.

Your Bradley quote is misleading and wrong. Why should I take him seriously if he is bullshitting? As for William Bradley, you posted his name, I google to see who the guy is and why should I take him seriously. He comes up with nothing. At all. That is incredibility suspicious. The internet rarely forgets. As I said, some of his bio could be pre-internet but all? Doubtful.

Grow up

How Don Harris of you...

Your comment here and your hanging on every syllable of my Bradley quote and yet not looking at it as a whole essentially misses both the point of the quote AND of my posting it, small that it is ... but never mind.

And, why are you spending so much time on his bio? I only posted it because Caddy forgot who he was. Senator Bill Bradley is his cousin, btw ... ;)

As for the rest of your, ah, analysis of his bio???, do you know what a bio is? A bio mentions a lot of things that are no longer active because, wait for it, he has retired and now only shares his 'columns' with those of us who are lucky enough to be on his email list because we have been reading his stuff for decades. Grow up.

For your information, the bio from Huffington Post that I presented here is not at all exhaustive.

"Dee Santis" has also apparently been practicing in the mirror and has really got those Trump hand gestures down cold now. That's how stupid he thinks voters are, that they won't notice he changed the pronunciation of his own surname and is literally now copying Donald Trump's hand gestures.

I wonder if there is a video on YouTube I could use to illustrate this? *be right back*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKIe7sb9QWQ

"Dee Santis" is now even wearing the Trumpian orange clown makeup!

So if this keeps up apace, we're not going to be able to tell the Donald and Ronald clowns apart from each other since "Dee Santis" is slowly morphing into a Donald-like clown clone... we'll just call the old clown Donald and the new clown McDonald.

Ronald McDonald.

Problem solved. :)

I think I am not overthinking this but rather overreacting to this/CW’s warning because I just bleeping hate hate hate political correctness and safe spaces and censorship of (possibly) offensive material to (possibly) some people.

So you're saying you need a safe space from safe spaces.

Heh.

So fine, Ms. Smarty Pants — I suppose that CW’s warning did in fact trigger me, whatever. :)

It's only words... just like the other words.

One other thing…how the hell you know that I’m a bald white guy?

Your language, your age, and I pay attention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCTunqv1Xt4

Lets start with [30].

Alvin Bragg, who has downgraded most felony cases in his jurisdiction

Technically true but misleading. Bragg has downgraded 52% of felonies to misdemeanors vs 40% as the high of his predecessor.

which is experiencing a crime wave

New York is experiencing a crime wave but no more so than the rest of the country. You also have to realize that per capita New York is a freakishly safe city and even with a crime wave is safer than all but a small handful of cities in the rest of the country, like single digit handful...

now treats armed robbery as a misdemeanor.

Not true, he treats armed robbery as misdemeanor only in cases where there was no threat of actually using the weapon. He later back tracked and any use of a gun in a commercial armed robbery would be a felony even if the gun did not work, was unloaded or the gun was a convincing fake.

But falsifying a business record is suddenly a felony when it involves Trump?

In NY falsifying a business record in the first degree is a class E felony…

Now the fun part [61]

What a strange rabbit hole that was. This William Bradley has a truly amazing bio. One I would think would not only have a wikipedia page but one with considerable scroll down on it. He is not on wikipedia…

Matter of fact I have yet to find confirmation of just about anything contained in this bio. I cannot find his name connected with any presidential, gubernatorial or senatorial campaign. Shadow Conventions 2000 does have a Bill Bradley, the senator of New Jersey who ran against Gore in the presidential primary, but no William. And this is reoccurring, Bill Bradley, the Senator, had an SiriusXM radio show but nothing comes up from William. There is a William Bradley New West Notes blog and it’s very pretty but has no content. Like ZERO stories or posts. LA Weekly does not have a chief political writer named William Bradley but it does have two guest writers: Bill Bradley with a bunch of stories and a William Bradley with just two. William Bradley comes up with nothing for California Business and Golden State Report. The Sacramento News & Review does have a writer by the name of Bill Bradley but not William. I cannot find proof he ever received a Clio. Wikipedia has a list of all the fellows of the Royal Geographical Society, it does not contain William Bradley. There is a William Bradley connected with the Royal Society of Arts but he died in 1857. Nothing comes up with his name for UCLA, Naval War College, Stanford or Oxford. No connection to Al Jazeera. And so on and so forth. I mean I would expect some stuff to not show up especially if it predated the internet but nothing? At all? Dam! This guy has fluffed his bio on the squirt of sugar syrup to cotton candy level. A true George Santos of political commentating. Don’t believe me? Validate his bio yourself. The only thing there is proof of is he had a column on Huffington Post and his bio there is the only place any of his claims show up in search.

On the other hand I did find out about Will H. Bradley, an American Art Nouveau artist. As I’m a huge fan of the Art Nouveau period of art and had not heard of him, that was a treat. So, at least there’s that…

Michael Martin Murphy - Wildfire

... I always revert back to the seventies.

and now for something completely different...

I supplied William Bradley's bio because Caddy forgot who "my source" was.

I posted some quotes from his last emailed piece for the sake of starting a discussion amongst us Weigantians, not to invite denigration of his credentials or intelligence.

But, civil discussion has never really been much of a hallmark of this place, has it ... :(

When I searched online for "Bragg downgraded felonies to misdemeanors" I got immediate hits from the following news sources:

Daily Mail
NY Post
Fox News
Washington Times
NY Sun
Local Today
Just The News

In short, last year the entire right-wing media complex adopted the language, word for word, that Bragg "downgraded felonies to misdemeanors" with the implication that he is totally soft on crime, and possibly even Woke, or Marxist, who knows?

When I finally found an article that actually reported on Bragg's policies rather than clutching its pearls at the so-called 'crime wave' that rolled over New York City this year thanks to Bragg (as Kick notes - it didn't, actually), it was from that old neoliberal rag the NY Times.

The article (link below) notes, in complex detail for intelligent and discerning readers, that reducing felonies to misdemeanors in selected cases and circumstances has the net effect of reducing crime in the future. That's because people are not being put away so often for minor crimes deemed felonies during panicky periods in past years, and so are not learning more criminal habits in jail, and likewise are not losing their ability to get jobs after jail due to a felony conviction.

Not just in New York City, but other cities to the south and west, downgrading *some* felony categories has become 'best practice' in law enforcement - because it works.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/opinion/crime-new-york-district-attorney.html

Now it ought to be obvious that white-collar crime, felonies and all, have nothing to do with Bragg's initiatives about petty street crime. That Trump's crimes are at the felony level, in Bragg's judgment regarding the written laws about business practice, is completely unrelated to his prosecution directives about a theft by a criminal who had a weapon on his person, but never displayed it during the crime but who would nevertheless have been charged with 'armed robbery' rather than 'robbery'.

If Mr. Bradley is as smart as his resume implies, one would think he would know this, and refuse to make false comparisons. But his use of the exact phrase used by all the right-wing echo chamber suggests that he is just a manipulative mouthpiece, not the thoughtful political consultant that he sells himself as.

"Alvin Bragg, who has downgraded most felony cases in his jurisdiction — which is experiencing a crime wave — to misdemeanors, now treats armed robbery as a misdemeanor. But falsifying a business record is suddenly a felony when it involves Trump?

There ... that's a little more context. Next time I shall quote him in full! :)

Jealousy never gets you very far.

The Spanish Inquisition????

or....

The Spanish Inquisition?

Between the two I find Kick's critique far more convincing than Bradley's commentary. Bradley comes off as deliberately deceptive of his more credulous readers with rhetorical questions like "But falsifying a business record is suddenly a felony when it involves Trump?" I wonder what other aspects of the US legal system Bradley is equally ignorant of?

And who brags about being an Eagle Scout on their grown-up resume?

I trust that you’re referring to America buying into Reaganomics forty-some years ago.

That's a pretty good starting point for understanding what the Republican cult of economic failure is all about.

William Bradley
Political Analyst, former presidential campaign advisor and special advisor to the governor -- "Let there be light."

William Bradley is an award-winning columnist and investigative reporter and a frequent political advisor. He has been a senior advisor, special advisor and special consultant to presidential and gubernatorial campaigns, governors and senators. Senior advisor with Arianna Huffington for Shadow Conventions 2000, veteran of a half-dozen U.S. presidential campaigns, he has advised leading parties in Mexico (PRI, PRD), Japan (LDP), Germany (Greens), and Russia (DemRussia). His New West Notes former blog and longtime newsletter has a 90%-plus forecasting record. The Post featured columnist and former chief political writer for LA Weekly (then the nation's largest metropolitan weekly), California Business, Golden State Report, and Sacramento News & Review has held posts in federal, state, and local government, co-founded Campuses United Against Apartheid and a newspaper in California's capital, dabbled in Hollywood, worked with Silicon Valley's marketing guru, garnered a Clio. An Eagle Scout and black belt, he has also written for a score of major international publications, hosted a national radio show on SiriusXM, and has been an AFP stringer and on-air analyst and consultant for Al Jazeera. A summa cum laude Berkeley grad and decorated Navy vet who has traveled in 50 countries, Bradley is USC Annenberg's first senior fellow for online journalism, longtime national AltWeekly Awards judge and has been a National Merit Scholar, VISTA Volunteer, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Royal Society of Arts, UC regents fellow, UN special attaché, and UCLA, Naval War College, Stanford and Oxford postgrad. Dubbed an "All-Pro" operative by Campaigns & Elections, mainly for his presidential campaign work, during his twenties, the American Legion life member is a permanent student of the dynamics of history who enjoys the cavalcade of events in these dark and fascinating times.

I consider myself to be a very luck girl to be on his email list. Which is the primary intervention in keeping me on the straight and narrow as I try to navigate through the wonderful world of (geo)politics. :)

Besides, why do I need to provide you with all of the details about how I get information to form my opinions. This is a freakin' blog, for crissakes not the Spanish inquistion!

I trust that you’re referring to America buying into Reaganomics forty-some years ago.

Elizabeth, every time !

I suggest you do what everyone else here does,

1- ID your source of what your source says is important enough to post about it,

2- Provide the link, hello?

…I meant to say a right properly formatted link.

:D

Kick, I’m glad that you divined what I was somewhat inartfully getting at. I think I am not overthinking this but rather overreacting to this/CW’s warning because I just bleeping hate hate hate political correctness and safe spaces and censorship of (possibly) offensive material to (possibly) some people.

So fine, Ms. Smarty Pants — I suppose that CW’s warning did in fact trigger me, whatever. :)

some of them... like you just described in your example. I actually don't use that word you're gleefully tossing around in the same manner I don't hurl the term "skinhead" to every baldheaded white man I speak with.

So, to recap: All men are pricks, all bald white men are skinheads, but all women are most assuredly not lady parts. Just kidding. But y'all get my point. :)

One other thing…how the hell you know that I’m a bald white guy?

That kind of weirds me out.

Try not to get your hopes up too high, okay ... I'm just sayin ... :)

Donald Trump has every right to defend himself... also outlined in the United States Constitution. Rather than actually keeping his Orange Blowhole shut and acting like a man, Trump moans like a pathetic victim: "If they can do this to me, they can do it to you."

No shit, Dopey Donald! If anyone in America funnels money through a law firm (admitted by your lawyer on live television) and "cooks the books" to hide it, they too could be indicted for crimes.

I cannot for the life of me deduce why these Righty MAGA rubes think this ginormous windbag is a strong leader when all he ever does is whine like an effing toddler. If he wants to grab a pussy, he should take his fat arms and wee small hands get ahold of himself; he's the biggest pussy I've ever seen.

How does that old saying go, again?

Let me think ... oh, yeah ... a prosecutor can get a grand jury to "indict a ham sandwich".

That's the rumor; however, apparently a prosecutor cannot get a grand jury to indict a former president since only one of them has actually ever done it (so far).

Apparently, that saying originated in ... wait for it, New York.

Yes. Chief Judge Soloman Wachtler had wanted to scrap the grand jury system of bringing criminal indictments in New York. Meanwhile, over on American Pravda lately, former president Donald Trump has nothing but love for the grand jury system... but I digress.

FUN FACT: Sol Wachtler got indicted in 1993 for extortion and other crimes. You see, Sol was having an affair with a prominent Republican fund-raiser, Joy Silverman. After his affair ended, Wachtler began a series of threatening phone calls and letters (documents case) to Silverman which included a sexually explicit note addressed to her 14-year-old daughter, including a condom enclosed (hard evidence... no pun intended).

He pleaded guilty to making threats to kidnap Silverman's daughter and was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison.

So, to recap: Another typical Republican scumbag adulterer, and they locked him up.

More from my source whose political analyses can be described in many ways but, ah, incorrect ain't one of them:

Yes, your source is definitely incorrect, which is obviously why he asks his readers stupid questions rather than posting the actual New York statute. And you fell for that hot air of his like a lead balloon.

"It is amusing to note that so many folks who claim they just love love love democracy and Trump is just finished finished finished are suspiciously insistent on finding some way, any way, of blocking him from running again.

That's beyond an effing ignorant statement from your shitty source who obviously doesn't "love love love democracy" enough -- or give his readers enough credit that they're not all effing ignorant as to the laws outlined in simple English regarding that democracy -- particularly in regards to the Manhattan DA's case and language expressly contained in the United States Constitution. The United States Constitution has three requirements of a candidate for POTUS.

The president must:

(1) Be a natural-born citizen of the United States,

(2) Be at least 35 years old, and

(3) Have been a resident of the United States for 14 years.

Anyone who meets these requirements can declare their candidacy for president. Trump's got all three of those covered so don't let the opinions of stupid people fool you that Poor Donald will not be able to run if he's indicted by Alvin Bragg for his crimesd. It's patently absurd.

Trump is already obviously running, and there's only one thing that could potentially stop him, and that is contained in the 14th Amendment -- known for it's declaration of equal protection under the law -- passed during Reconstruction in order to address discrimination toward non-white citizens of America. Contained in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment is language that states that any person who has taken an oath to protect the Constitution can be barred from holding office if they participated in an insurrection against the United States or helped enemies thereof.

How Section 3 of the 14th would be applied to Trump is debateable, but the utter asinine assertion that Trump is being kept from running is laughable on its face.

"Better to defeat him than disqualify him...

Disqualifying him would be near impossible; this isn't even a question to those who know the three qualifications to run for POTUS.

... Which is supposedly easy, right?

Another stupid question. We have a divided America wherein it isn't easy for anyone to win the presidency... regardless of who they are.

According to various echo chambers. Er, but for the fact that he’s ahead of Joe Biden in most non-partisan polls."

That's actually total bullshit also. :)

From a trusted source:

"Alvin Bragg, who has downgraded most felony cases in his jurisdiction — which is experiencing a crime wave — to misdemeanors, now treats armed robbery as a misdemeanor.

That's bollocks. Your "trusted source" is attempting to undercut the validity of the charges contained in the indictment against Trump while at the same time portraying Democrats as being weak on crime. Why on Earth would you trust a shitty source like that? Alvin Bragg's jurisdiction is Manhattan, and they are most definitely not experiencing a crime wave.

But falsifying a business record is suddenly a felony when it involves Trump?

You will notice your so-called "trusted source" asks questions in Fox Newsian fashion. Why would you trust a source like that?

In answer to your source's stupid question: No, falsifying a business record isn't suddenly a felony when it involves Trump. Falsifying business records in the first degree is a felony under New York State law (New York Penal Code Section 175.10) and also isn't new or novel in regards to Trump or anyone else and is prosecuted by DAs across New York State on a regular basis.

You and your source need some examples? No problem.

An individual “is guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree when he commits the crime of falsifying business records in the second degree, and when his intent to defraud includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.” N.Y. Penal Code § 175.10.

For Trump to be prosecuted for felony violation of falsifying business records, the statute requires the DA to prove not only that Trump is guilty of falsifying business records (a misdemeanor), but that he did so with the intent to commit “another crime,” or aiding or concealing the commission of “another crime.”

https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/survey-new-york-felony-falsification-of-business-records-just-security.pdf

The link contains a list of falsifying business records in the first degree, felony cases prosecuted in New York.

You will note that the New York statute doesn't require that the falsifying of business records has to involve the commission of another "state" crime. You will also note that Michael Cohen has been prosecuted by Trump's DOJ and gone to jail in commission of a crime and David Pecker/AMI has already entered into a non-prosecution agreement wherein he admits to knowingly committing crimes.

I would also wager I know your source. You've posted his opinion pieces before. :)

…so hell yeah: Libtard hypocrisy/virtue signaling/talkin the talk and NOT walking the walk triggers me, duh.

You're overthinking it and also making yourself sound like one of them snowflakes you mentioned. Good news is your own posts reveal you're not a total lost cause. Yes, I am teasing with you... while at the same time being totally serious. I connected your own dots for you. I don't do that for just anybody. :)

i must admit your somewhat gratuitous use of the n-word may traverse a bit out of the first column and into the second, but if i'm alone in that perception i'll let it be.

You are not alone. Caddy knows this even if not on a conscious level because... as he already explained:

He also indicated (the obvious) that if’n you ain’t black the respectful thing to do is to ASK if they’re cool with it.

~ Caddy

*
So not all that different than CW being conscientious of his myriad of readers.

So, to recap: All men are pricks, all bald white men are skinheads, but all women are most assuredly not lady parts. Just kidding. But y'all get my point. :)

How does that old saying go, again?

Let me think ... oh, yeah ... a prosecutor can get a grand jury to "indict a ham sandwich".

Apparently, that saying originated in ... wait for it, New York.

Heh.

He also indicated (the obvious) that if’n you ain’t black the respectful thing to do is to ASK if they’re cool with it.

Now you've gone and made some sense when at first glance you were demonstrably hiding it. Let's connect some dots here and apply the logic you already know. Why do you suppose CW applied his "trigger disclaimer" to that quote of Stormy Daniels? Actual question... not to be confused with rhetorical.

It seems to me CW likely because Stormy Daniels referred to herself as "this pussy" as a callback to Trump referring to women allowing him to grab them. She's used the term in place of "woman," thus conceivably having the effect to some people (not me) as characterizing women as such. Kind of like referring to all black persons as that word which they've reclaimed that you've quite rightly explained you should ask them if it's okay for you to use. He didn't so much ask if it was okay, but he did give a conscientious warning that he was going to post something that might offend some women... and maybe even some men out there who wouldn't take kindly to having their woman referred to as such. And here you go getting offended when you're not even a woman. You are offended because of a dang conscientious disclaimer; go figure.

In contrast many white Libtards will soil themselves over “the n-word” but not be willing to put their money where their mouth is regarding “making things right.”

You're overthinking it. :)

So, to recap: Nothing wrong with notifying somebody first before you hurl something that could be construed as offensive to some of them... like you just described in your example. I actually don't use that word you're gleefully tossing around in the same manner I don't hurl the term "skinhead" to every baldheaded white man I speak with.

More from my source whose political analyses can be described in many ways but, ah, incorrect ain't one of them:

"It is amusing to note that so many folks who claim they just love love love democracy and Trump is just finished finished finished are suspiciously insistent on finding some way, any way, of blocking him from running again.

"Better to defeat him than disqualify him. Which is supposedly easy, right? According to various echo chambers. Er, but for the fact that he’s ahead of Joe Biden in most non-partisan polls."

And now, a musical interlude... I may have posted this one a time or two before over the years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUrUfJW1JGk

to what end?

To the end where no one is above the law.

As it has been explained to me, (1) he's going to be "arrested for what looks like a possible presidential campaign finance violation that federal prosecutors passed on years ago"

Somebody explained it to you incorrectly. A grand jury has indicated he should be indicted on multiple counts of forging business record... "cooking the books"... likely one charge per fraudulent business item. Federal prosecutors in Trump's DOJ did not pass on it years ago, they convicted Trump's fixer Michael Cohen for doing it at the direction of "Individual 1," and they entered into a non-prosecution agreement with David Pecker/AMI. You can read the NPA in its entirety at the link I provided above.

Trump fired his own appointee at SDNY, Geoffrey Berman, but not before Barr applied pressure on him to take steps politically favorable to "Individual 1"... Trump.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/08/politics/geoffrey-berman-book-doj-nyt/index.html

Obviously, Trump firing the prosecutor he knew was investigating his fixer and himself for crimes is the definition of obstruction of justice, but I digress. Also, it was special counsel, Robert Mueller, who referred the entire matter to SDNY.

(2) a local DA has no jurisdiction when it comes to questions about the financing of a presidential campaign.

He/she dang sure does when the financing involves falsifying multiple business records in violation of state law. This is a highly documented case wherein it appears to me they're going after Trump for conspiring with Cohen and Pecker/AMI. It appears to me there was a conspiracy that included Weisselberg, Cohen, Trump in how to gross up the payments to conceal them and also a conspiracy with Pecker, Trump, and Cohen and the Trump campaign to "catch and kill" the Trump commissions of adultery. Does any of that violate state laws? Yes, multiple of them, which we'll find out when indictment is unsealed. I imagine this case is not a whole lot different than the 17 counts that Alvin Bragg has already secured criminal convictions on ALL counts against companies of the Trump Organization.

Are they going to get him for falsifying business records as the hush money reimbursement to one of his lawyers was listed as a 'legal fee'? This is a misdemeanor "not a felony, even if Trump himself can be deemed responsible for the bookkeeping entry. Which would appear to be in error only in the use of the word fee rather than expense."

This is a rather simplistic view of the conspiracy that was going on among multiple persons who have already gone to jail and/or entered into non-prosecution agreements for committing these crimes. If David Pecker is the first and last witness that was presented to the grand jury, it seems highly unlikely these charges don't somehow involve that conspiracy among them to "catch and kill" the stories of Karen McDougal and Stephanie Clifford a.k.a. Stormy Daniels.

Equal justice under the law.

"Alvin Bragg, who has downgraded most felony cases in his jurisdiction — which is experiencing a crime wave — to misdemeanors, now treats armed robbery as a misdemeanor. But falsifying a business record is suddenly a felony when it involves Trump?

"Absurd. But not surprising."

…so hell yeah: Libtard hypocrisy/virtue signaling/talkin the talk and NOT walking the walk triggers me, duh.

Elizabeth, it’s like the two impeachments: no one expected that Senate Repugs would actually do the right thing by our country. But a Democratic Party’s NOT at least trying would indicate that Ralph Nadar was right: Tweedle Dee versus Tweedle Dum…

Say hello to the new Boss
Same as the old Boss…

there's a difference between something that is triggering to the terminally sensitive and something that is legit offensive. i must admit your somewhat gratuitous use of the n-word may traverse a bit out of the first column and into the second, but if i'm alone in that perception i'll let it be.

JL

to what end?

To the end of making it clear that we are a nation of LAWS and not MEN! That the former (or any) so-called Leader of the Free World does NOT get to break our laws/break our Constitutional Republic.

Yes, this means that even if Trump beats this apparently** weak case — and even if no one ELSE indicts Trump (the longest of shots now that Alvin Bragg hath pulleth the trigger) — it will DISSUADE future Presidents from doing likewise. Either our laws apply to everyone or else they are a sham.

*Apparently weak…but no one knows what charges and corresponding evidence the Grand Jury based it’s vote for indictments (30 is the “word on the street”)

Agreed!

IMO Political correctness is a bullshit excuse for Libtards not putting one’s money where their mouth is. It’s okay for you and/or I to be offended. We are wearing our “big person pants.”

Why do black people call themselves nigger? It’s because they decided to adopt that hateful nomenclature as a way to TRIUMPH over it. One Brother informed me that they’re saying n-i-g-g-a which stands for,

Never
Ignorant,
Getting
Goals
Accomplished.

He also indicated (the obvious) that if’n you ain’t black the respectful thing to do is to ASK if they’re cool with it.

In contrast many white Libtards will soil themselves over “the n-word” but not be willing to put their money where their mouth is regarding “making things right.”

So — don’t even TRY to convince me that the Democratic Ownership Class is any LESS greedy than the Repug Donor Class.

Whythehell do you think that we got stuck with William “Triangulation” Clinton for eight years?

And after good house nigger Obama’s “Hope and Change” bullshit flopped so badly that Murica elected a New York Douchebag in 2016?

Thanks, Elizabeth. I hoped that I wasn’t the only Weigantian that sees it this way.

[11] italyrusty you make an excellent point! Bragg proved to have the balls to be the first to jump. It doesn’t matter if Trump is convicated or vindicted because now the dam of indictments hath been cracked and yea verily, the wicked shall yet reap what they have sown.

[14]

If there’s one thing I can count on it’s Kick doing some digging so as to edify Weigantia. Well done — I for one appreciate that you save us from inevitably wanting to look this up! I’ll therefore give you a “pass” on not going full Monty and including the subject matter: like Sunday Evening Canadian** Rock n Roll Appreciation Night. This makes it convenient to go back and KNOW which kickass song that she turned me on to.

**and other nationalities.

[17]

nypoet I am in the Bill Maher School of Political Incorrectness. (8:23)**

While this episode is about “Presentism” among the “Woke” crowd, you will get the gist of where I’m coming from and why I hate hate HATE snowflake sensitivity…

to what end?

As it has been explained to me, (1) he's going to be "arrested for what looks like a possible presidential campaign finance violation that federal prosecutors passed on years ago" and (2) a local DA has no jurisdiction when it comes to questions about the financing of a presidential campaign.

Are they going to get him for falsifying business records as the hush money reimbursement to one of his lawyers was listed as a 'legal fee'? This is a misdemeanor "not a felony, even if Trump himself can be deemed responsible for the bookkeeping entry. Which would appear to be in error only in the use of the word fee rather than expense."

[trigger warning: explicit and possibly offensive language ahead]

~ Chris Weigant, conscientious blogger

Are you fucking kidding me CW or was this solely tongue-in-cheek?

You seem to have gotten triggered... proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the author was quite right and on target to post that conscientious warning, you know, being that his column is broadcast to the entire world and not just you personally.

My God I truly despise this kind of shit:

Y’all (I’m talking to you, Kick and poet)...

I'm not God (obviously) and certainly cannot speak for Him, but I can report from widely distributed evidence that you've directly violated His Commandment Three. As for poet, I obviously will not speak on his behalf because he might smite me.

... have a right to free speech — but you do NOT have the right to not be offended!

I am most definitely never not free to not be offended any time I choose to be not affronted... and amen. That goes for poet too, though my saying so might surely get me stoned.

So, to recap: You seem both triggered and stoned. :)

Then again, Trump himself predicted he'd be indicted weeks ago, and the protests that did spring up on the Tuesday he (wrongly) identified were pretty small and pathetic, so nobody really knows.

He also stated to reporters aboard his plane after his campaign rally in Waco, Texas:

I think they've already dropped the case.

~ Donald Trump, March 2023

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He also screamed (in all caps) his praise for the grand jury on his rip-off of Twitter.

When his campaign was asked to comment about Trump's claim that the case had been dropped, his campaign spokesman responded:

This has been dropped because everyone knows this was a partisan witch-hunt by a radical, leftist DA that sought to politically weaponize the Justice system to influence an election.

~ Steven Cheung

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These "Lock Her Up" hypocrites are effing hysterical. They should seriously stop believing the confirmation bias bullshit propaganda served to them on Righty-rube TV.

mistake or not, it had to happen. kinda like the impeachments; perhaps not the wisest political move, but legally necessary.

JL

what on earth are you talking about?

Joe Biden's Justice Department and the federal government in general had nothing to do with it.

I wouldn't say "nothing" to do with it since it was Trump's DOJ that actually entered into the NPA with AMI/Pecker who along with Cohen and his tape recorder and Pecker and his NPA are solid evidence that proves that the Trump campaign had conspired with AMI/Pecker to "catch and kill" stories regarding Trump's adultery.

Apparently, it isn't a crime to pay off multiple porn stars. The crime is the conspiracy to knowingly cover it up and the commission of "cooking the books" -- a.k.a. falsifying business records, which Rudy Giuliani (conveniently) already admitted to Sean Hannity on live television:

They funnelled it through a law firm; then the president repaid it.

~ Rudy Giuliani, May 2018

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Since the "president repaid it" in multiple checks and then "cooked the books" (and likely didn't pay taxes on it either, yet another crime), I would wager there are multiple counts of fraud for each instance of fraudulent remuneration to Michael Cohen. These type of fraud charges and tax avoidance are the same type of charges for which the Trump Organization have already been criminally convicted by Alvin Bragg on 17 counts... every single count he brought against them.

Michael Cohen has already served time in jail for doing that -- at the Direction of "Individual 1" a.k.a. Donald Trump -- and AMI/Pecker entered into the non-prosecution agreement with Trump's DOJ and admitted knowingly violating the law in concert with Trump's campaign.

Whatever happens, like pretty much all things Trump, it is bound to be a spectacle that boosts his television ratings. Which is really all he cares about anyway, when you get right down to it.

You seem to have overlooked Trump's insatiable greed and lust for money. :)

Because the New York grand jury went first, the relative merits of the Stormy Daniels case will be endlessly dissected and discussed in the coming days, but as of this writing nobody outside of the grand jury or the prosecutor's office is fully aware of either: (1) the exact charges against Trump (said to be on the order of 30 separate charges, but no details have been released yet), or: (2) the evidence which convinced both the prosecutor and the grand jury that Donald Trump had not just broken the law but that this could be proved beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

Well, we actually do already know that David Pecker was the last witness to speak to the Grand Jury after having also been the first, and that points to the high probability that there's likely to be a conspiracy-type charge against Trump because it was the National Enquirer/AMI whom Daniels was originally going to sell her story, and Pecker notified Cohen and also spoke with Trump directly about it. Trump conspired with AMI/Pecker to "catch and kill" more than one affair, and AMI was found by the FEC to have violated campaign finance laws but entered into a non-prosecution agreement (NPA) on September 20, 2018, with Trump's DOJ:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1119501/download

In Exhibit A to the letter (link above), AMI/Pecker admits to knowingly violating the law in concert with the Trump campaign, and the "catch and kill" agreement regarding Karen McDougal is described in detail... the Playboy model with whom Trump had an affair.

Nobody knows -- and we won't even begin to know until next Tuesday at the earliest.

Oh, look! It's not even Tuesday yet, but we already do actually know some stuff regarding the facts of Trump's conspiracy with Pecker/AMI. :)

So, to recap: Trump can blame Biden and Merrick Garland et alia until the cows come home, but it was Trump's DOJ who was all over the Trump campaign's conspiracy to break the law in order to influence the 2016 election.

Are you fucking kidding me CW or was this solely tongue-in-cheek?

My God I truly despise this kind of shit:

Y’all (I’m talking to you, Kick and poet) have a right to free speech — but you do NOT have the right to not be offended!

Put on yer big-person pants, go watch some Jordan Peterson (8:02) and you, too, may have a chance at escaping perpetual delicate snowflake mess.*smh*

I have a few fun music-related Facebook pages you might like to get lost in. Oh, wait ...

Of course, you'll definitely have to stay away from THIS place for the duration. :(

Ha!

Count me in with the vindicted crew. Heh.

And I'm back to skipping past his quotes, turning the page or clicking past a screen with his image, and generally wishing he'd just go away forever.

And now you tell me it's going to be a Trump Marathon of endless "news" stories and pictures of him for months if not years. Gah. Gah squared. Where can I go? How can I hide?