Voldemort gets his sentence, Golem gets his sentence, Darth Sidious gets his sentence

Woke up in the middle of the night and looked at the news. Trump convicted of 34 counts of falsified business records to conceal a sex scandal that could have hindered his 2016 campaign for the White House. (NY Times)

People are happy that there's some external objective evidence of something we've always known.

I can't imagine the people who were going to vote for him will be swayed by this, they see everything negative against him as false anyway. More fake news. The people who wear golden diapers will just be sold t-shirts with 34 on it.

The new territory isn't actually very exciting. He can still vote for himself because Florida follows the laws of the conviction and in NY you can still vote as a felon.

What is the sentence? We shall find out. 1 in 10 cases of fraud lead to imprisonment. (NBC)

They say he drives up clicks and attention, but I avoid him. He does provocative things for the attention. Whether or not his fascist rhetoric is sincere or attention getting, I don't care, not really interested in amplifying anything he says, even if it's to express disgust at his cocamamie ploys. Not even to parse how wrong it is. I was never going to vote for him and this doesn't change that fact.

HCR writes:

After slightly less than ten hours of deliberation, a jury today found former president Donald J. Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to unlawfully influence the 2016 election.

For the first time in our history, a former president of the United States is a convicted felon.

For the first time in our history, a former president of the United States has been convicted of committing crimes to steal an election.

Republican senators could have convicted Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors in 2019. In that year, the House impeached Trump after he tried to rig the 2020 presidential election by withholding congressionally appropriated funds to support Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s 2014 invasion. He withheld the funds to try to force Ukraine president Volodomyr Zelensky to manufacture dirt on Democrat Joe Biden.

Republican senators could have convicted Trump, but they acquitted him.

Republican senators could have convicted Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors in 2021. In that year, the House impeached him after he tried to seize the presidency by instigating an attack on the U.S. Capitol and trying to rig the count of the electoral vote after Americans had elected Democrat Joe Biden.

Republican senators could have convicted Trump, but they acquitted him.

Today, twelve ordinary Americans did what Republican senators refused to do. They protected the rule of law and held Trump accountable for his attempt to rig an election.

(Read the rest on her substack, worth subscribing to.)

One in ten Republicans probably won’t vote for a felon. He just lost 10% of his voters. Source

Reddit: “ Previous polls showed 20% "would not" vote for him if he was convicted. He keeps lowering the bar and they happily climb down with him. Before he was president, 72% of Evangelical voter disagreed with the statement: someone can make immoral choices in their personal life, but still be a moral leader. By the end of his term it was %30. Hypocrites.”

Manet and Degas

Brilliant video explaining the exhibit. Go to the Met and see the exhibit! It's really quite special. In the last gallery the painting this sketch is based off of, of the execution of a Mexican president. The painting has been cut into sections, and the surviving Degas has reassembled them. NY Times review

AOC

Dark Brandon meet Dark Alex. I see her advising the republicans to stick to their guns and never compromise. They don’t want to do anything, only obstruct. So they don’t actually need to be unified. Chaos isn’t organized. This is fine. Read all about it from Heather Cox Richardson , a historian who covers current events. "As their policies threatened to lose voters by concentrating wealth upward and hollowing out the middle class, Republicans increasingly warned that minority voters wanted socialism and were destroying the nation to get it. Trump rode that narrative to power, and now tearing down the current government is the idea that drives the Republican base." While we're at it, here's another funny photo from the Onion: And then: I listened to the Times podcast about George Santos . He basically lied about, I don't know, 80% of his resume, and has a mysterious $700k in his "corporation" which has no clients. So he's a Russian or Chinese plant, o...

The case for Harris

Motley Kamuka Blog endorses Kamala Harris. In general, Trump just wants to lower taxes on the rich, and do nothing, sell whatever influence he can to line his pockets. Apparently the emoluments clause in the constitution has no teeth. Harris has a set of ideas about policy that are fairly middle of the road. In most countries she's would be seen as a centrist. Spin about her radical agendas are exaggerated. I'm not sure how he got past " grab them by the pussy ", but he did and here we are. Women: Obviously the idea of giving women pregnancy tests at the borders of the state, and then if they come back and don't have a baby, they go to jail, isn't really what most women want. Pick Harris. I understand if you think abortion is murder, maybe you've been told that by the Catholic church, which has the same ideal of Buddhism that you don't kill--so follow your religion for yourself. Not everyone is Christian or Buddhist or even has a religion. Women are ...

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