Posted on 05/31/2024 5:08:52 AM PDT by Twotone
As everybody but the New Guinea tribesmen who ate Joe Biden's uncle knows by now, Donald J Trump has been found "guilty on all counts" - a quintessentially American expression because, of course, the multiple-counts racket is one of the many perversions of judicial norms that have long disgraced the US courthouse.
Just twenty-four hours ago, my friend John Hinderaker was writing:
Experience has given me a lot of faith in the basic fairness of juries.
Late yesterday, he remembered - oh, yeah, I've been here before:
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.
John Hinderaker is, as I have written, the soul of moderation, and no rah-rah Trumpy cheerleader. But, when the ruling party criminalises opposition and thus makes "normal" politics impossible, you got no choice:
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.
The first part is correct. The second is not. As I've been saying for months now, a "banana republic" is by definition an irrelevant peripheral basket-case on the fringe of the map: yes, yes, I know, if you're watching that pier break apart off Gaza and US navy vessels wash up on Israeli beaches, what's left of America may increasingly seem like that, but it is still in theory "the leader of the free world".
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Pinochet did nothing wrong.
The number of EVIL individuals in the republic and the world are more than one person can imagine or handle.
I just wish the Founders had outright STATED that the US Constitution was written for White Men and could only survive if voting were limited to them...but they didn’t, and now we’re seeing the results.
Bkmk
No nation on earth will ever respect this nations government or even it’s citizens any longer.
All they have to say is...”Why should we ever give consideration to the USA when they have become what GERMANY became and did prior to the second world war.”
“Because an act of explicit political hygiene is the bare minimum necessary.”
The time is at hand to choose your side.
America’s Ruling Class Elites are indeed “The Great Satan.”
The people got the government they deserve - good and hard.
the young people in USA face a very bleak and dangerous future
I'm starting to wonder if maybe, humanity being replaced by Artificial Intelligence might actually be a good thing.
95% are DEMOCRATS!
Saddest Mark Steyn column ever. Pray for him.
This July we should recall the events of another hot day in July when the people said they had enough and stormed a place called the Bastille tearing that fortress down with their bare hands and sparking a bloody revolution.
"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."
No Mark, a banana republic would be far better than what they will do if they can. Think nazi Germany, Stalin's Russia, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Idi Amin's Uganda, Caligula's Rome, and--Mao's China!
My dad was fond of saying, ‘You can’t fight city hall’.
I loathe the likes of Hogan far more than I loathe Alvin Bragg: The latter campaigned for office on a promise to get Trump, and delivered to his voters. The former, in pretending that there is anything "great" about this that should command our "respect", is making evil and corruption respectable and bipartisan.Regardless of the result, I urge all Americans to respect the verdict and the legal process. At this dangerously divided moment in our history, all leaders—regardless of party—must not pour fuel on the fire with more toxic partisanship. We must reaffirm what has made this nation great: the rule of law— Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) May 30, 2024
Total scumbag. Trump needs to purge him.
Every election we have Freepers coming out of the woodwork to demand we support people like this guy and the Mitt Romney’s of the world, because they will do yoga with senate Republicans or some rot.
Indeed.
Hogan is a milque-toast RINO, but he is the best that can be expected from Maryland.
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