No, the whole system found a new way to block it, so now Trump could say ‘Release the files!’ without worrying about it actually happening.

This way his thralls can point to him being ‘open and transparent’, and no evidence is ever released.

The grift never ends.

I don’t know for sure, but I imagine settling out of court, specifically avoids setting a precedent. Which in this case means if they want to run it, they’d not have the precedent to protect them, but also have to choose settling, or paying to fight an overtly partisan court system right up to the supreme court.

They’ve capitulated enough for us to know that was never going to be N option.

No network is going to do more to draw the attention of the administration, than allow late night hosts to make jokes about him, and even that isn’t going to last much longer I expect.

He does care about the law, just in the conservative way.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

• Frank Wilhoit

The problems the US faces don’t die with him.

Unless you use that 6 seconds to work with the ref to rewrite the rules of the game such that passing the ball to a second quarterback resets the time, along with a bunch of other rule changes.

Yeah, of course. But only one one can best.

Peaceful protests are vulnerable to being incited to violence.

And in late stage capitalism, government is only listening to capital holders. Money speaks way louder to capital holders than the inconvenience of a protest.

General strike is way more effective

I love your optimism.

But at some point, you have to look around and say this isn’t business as usual anymore right?

Maybe we’re not there for you yet, but have you set up your own lines where you can say, once they’ve crossed that line, it’s not okay?

My lines were way back when he promised to chase down dangerous criminals, and they started rounding up day labourers. When they tried to pretend due process was unnecessary and undeserved by the people they didn’t like.

When they deployed military units in domestic cities under the completely bogus claims of emergencies.

Nothing they say is true, because the only thing they treat as true, is whatever is most expedient to them in any given moment.

There is no legal or traditional way of running the government that is safe from their perverting intentions.

Congressional approval is kind of a forgone conclusion at this point isn’t it?

I don’t trust any of the safeguards in place to hold. Some might. Some won’t. The ones that fail will be abused to a greater and greater extent as they test their limits.

If that is all they are doing, it’s to normalize their presence. Until it isn’t all they’re doing anymore.

You can trust them, because they aren’t bound by the same chains as the mainstream media. That is where I get all my best news from. /s

Also notable : https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ex-national-enquirer-chief-details-202155831.html

David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer, testified at Donald Trump’s hush money trial Tuesday about the “catch and kill” agreements between the former president and the tabloid, detailing arrangements involving Trump’s former doorman and an ex-Playboy model.

So it is actually kind of interesting that they’d be talking about this at all.

Say hello to State Media

It might be that, but I don’t think that makes it any less dangerous as a path to set precedent to start going after any political group that they don’t like.

Couple that with an illegal, but unchallenged executive order (not implemented yet) to prevent candidates from running, or appearing on ballots who are ‘under investigation’, and the mid-terms could be completely derailed by bogus charges on key candidates, cementing the current administrations strangle-hold.

They’ve already shown they have to problem doing the exact things they accused the Democrats of doing, so I wouldn’t put this past them at all.

I think the whole ‘Barbie’ thing is a reference to how the women in Trump’s orbit all have the same over-manufactured aesthetic.

I’m not speaking from experience with the firefighters side here, but I do think it come’s down to the ick factor of smell is so much stronger than the yum factor.
Smell is how we know if something is safe to eat, so if its off even a bit, that jumps to the peak of our attention.

Usually if you burn something a little bit, that’s the only smell you notice.

Not yet…

Yeah, just leave the country. We’ll totally let you come back. Promise.

Prison labour

Also, while using the app, there is zero accountability for who told who to do what within the government. FOIA is useless for any conversation happening within that app, self hosted or not.

Yeah, people keep making this mistake, but if you’re considering the dates of when they agreed to bring fifa to the US, trump figured his second term was going to be over. But then the 2020 ‘rigged’ election happened, giving him a shot for a second term in 2024.

Wonder how the turn out is going to be when his allies are all too scared or too pissed off to enter us territories.