vyshka
4882
Would be karmic justice if he doesn’t make a cent off that book.
Trump said “after I leave office”?
That’s encouraging!
CF_Kane
4885
Corresponding state and federal charges do not (and have not ever in the history of American jurisprudence) triggered the double jeopardy rule. It falls under the separate sovereigns doctrine. See, most recently, Gamble v. United States, No. 17-646, 587 U.S. ___ (2019).
vyshka
4886
Christ this moron is going to be ODNI:
vyshka
4888
Even better, he probably can’t get a TS/SCI except for Trump forcing it:
This sort of thing is why even if Trump manages to lose the election (and it’ll be that if it happens, because the Democrats still seem to be unable to politic themselves out of a paper bag), he may well have already gutted most of the American government in ways it will take decades to fix. That is, if we don’t get blindsided by something we should have seen coming if it wasn’t for having our entire intelligence apparatus dismantled.
Timex
4891
Saying mean things about Trump will have a much larger impact than his utter lack of qualifications and his apparent dealings with a foreign adversary.
Those wishing to serve in the executive branch of government right now should probably watch all four seasons of The Tudors just to get a general idea of what they’re getting themselves into.
vyshka
4893
The best part of all of this for Republicans is it all feeds into their long time narrative that government is broken, evil, and the cause of your problems. Sometimes I wonder if they do it on purpose for that reason.
/yes
Seriously. I know people who, while otherwise totally marvelous, sincerely believe that government is an evil, plain and simple, and that as we can’t get rid of it totally, the next best thing is to make sure it is totally inept so it can’t accomplish anything.
These people are not stupid; they have advanced degrees and think at a very high level in most cases. They are, however, universally well-off, and have internalized to the cellular level the idea that one, they are self-made, and two, government is solely a means for the have-nots to take their stuff, one way or another.
Oghier
4895
This describes 80% of the republicans I know. They’re the ones who freak out about welfare queens and poor people with iphones. The other 20% are mostly afraid that the US will be ‘lost’ when whites and white culture become a minority. They lose their marbles when asked to “Press one to continue in english.”
This is why I disagree with the oft-repeated statement that all conservatives are racists. In my experience, it’s mostly greed. That usually includes the ability to ignore/ compartmentalize the party’s racist policies.
Fair enough. Though it’s also viable to argue that ignoring racism is in fact abetting it. And once you get beyond the equation of racism with people acting horribly to people of color, using explicitly harmful language, and generally being an ass, and start to see it as the constructed form of political and social power that it is, the lines begin to blur pretty heavily. I mean, really, I don’t think I’ve ever seen any self-professed conservative complain about the poor without the context making it very clear that the poor in question are non-white.
I have a family member who can’t wait to move away from Minnesota because the taxes are so high. She paid 30% overall last year, she tells me, between state and federal, on her well-north-of-six-figure income.
Heaven forfend.
Has she tried getting most of her income from capital gains? She should try that, the rates are much better.
I’m reasonably sure that after her “high” taxes her net is more than my gross.
KevinC
4901
What. The. Fuck. If this isn’t overturned in an appeal, that pretty much destroys any ability to rein in a president?
