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Latest: From the hardly surprising department: Judge Merchan has delayed ruling on the dismissal motion on grounds of immunity until November 19th citing "exceptional circumstances". You don't sentence a president elect every day especially when the defendant's lawyers are threatening "civil war". The defense and prosecution submitted a joint letter asking for a postponement, Sentencing has been postponed numerous times. Each time it is delayed the chances of him serving any sentence decreases.
Update: Judge Merchan is set to rule on dismissing Trumpilini's this week based on the Supreme Court's immunity ruling. Dismissing it now will allow the judge to avoid the problematic sentencing of the defendant later this month. Rudy Giuliani's time to turn over assets to Freeman & Moss is up on the fourteenth. His lates dodge is that his Joe DiMaggio jersey is locked up in an upstate storage facility to which he has no access. The jersey could be worth more than $10,000.
More: White people still have enough votes to defeat the "Rainbow Coalition" as demonstrated in the decisive sweep of the nation's electorate. With defections and/or under performance by minorities as occurred in this election, the white majority can win bigly. Latinos are noted for their willingness to support authoritarianism; just look at Latin America. Evangelicals have a bad case of homophobia. Blaming Joe Biden for the Democrats' comprehensive loss is stupid; he was an effective President, but in light of the threat posed by Trump overstayed his welcome. Boss Pelosi does have one valid point. Biden's exit was too late in the game. The truncated coronation of Harris disrespected the people's right to choose; she was the choice of Democratic insiders. US Person does not doubt Mamala's qualifications far exceed the criminal con-man's but in the end that did not matter; the hoi polloi chose a criminal over a prosecutor.
Democrats have deserted their home in the Great Society and New Deal. The Repugnants moved in with their billionaire-funded brand of snake oil. Talk to Bernie Sanders, he knows: “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party, which has abandoned working-class people, would find that the working-class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.” At 83, Nancy should retire to stock picking, NOT picking presidents. Until the party abandons corporatocracy and offers fundamental social change* that benefits the working and middle classes they will met with the same carnage at the polls.
Operation "Madam President" will have to wait until after the long night of the American Fascist, and perhaps until 2040 when whites become the new minority. This crushing defeat can be understood in terms presented by Isabel Wilkerson, in her book Caste. People did not vote against their interests, they voted for their position in society. Even poor white people whose antecedents were immigrants can look down on today's undocumented immigrants. Since the founding the states have always been socially conservative. America's revolution was led by colonial aristocrats, not the hoi palloi. Once independence from the crown was established, "The Democracy" felt cheated as the status quo returned under a new flag.
{07.11.2024} US voters made history on Tuesday night. For the first time in history they elected a convicted felon President of the United States. US Person for one, never thought that would happen, crediting the electorate with better judgement. Apparently he was not the only as a sense of shock pervades the country. If Democrats want to learn from this terrible result, they should look at this cogent fact: twice Democrats ran a woman against Trump, one white centrist and one black progressive. Both lost the electoral college vote, the only one that counts under our compromised voting system. Harris did not carry a single swing state out of seven, and she lost the popular vote to boot. But the defendant lost to old Joe Biden in a fair contest.
People ask, what will happen to his criminal prosecutions now he is president-elect? Simply put they will be quashed. The two federal cases are the easiest to dismiss. He will simply order his Attorney General--possibly handmaiden Eileen Cannon--to withdraw the prosecutions for obstructing justice and formetting a coup, if the Department of Justice does not do so on its own accord. It has a rule against prosecuting sitting presidents. He will fire Jack Smith as soon as he gets into office.
The state cases are not so straight forward for him, but those too will die off. The Georgia case is already on life-support as a Repugnant legislature seeks the removal of the Fulton County DA on appeal. If the case survives that attack, defense attorneys will appeal dismissal on federal supremacy grounds. If New York judge Juan Merchan has the temerity to sentence the defendant to a jail term, his decision will be appealed while Trump is out on bond all the way to the US Supreme Court where the gang of six wait to set him free in a year or two from now. He will not be held accountable for his crimes; his cynical strategy of using politics to defeat the justice system has worked beyond his fervent dreams. Court granted immunity has put him above the law.
Not that he or his minions have any respect for the law. Law is for little people, not Dear Leader and Friends. Rudy Giuliani showed up at the Trump polling station in West Palm Beach in his vintage Mercedes convertible he was ordered to turn over to the defamation plaintiffs Freeman and Moss. He don't need no stinkin' order, he is a Friend of Trump. Nevertheless Judge Lyman has given him until Monday to comply with his order. The violent insurrectionists of January 6th will be pardoned. The next four years will be filled with outrage and fear. US Person voted for Harris, mostly because he opposes fascist dictatorship in all forms. Yet he had a repeated, uncomfortable memory of Ronald Reagan's landslide victory over Jimmy Carter, another under-appreciated incumbent. 'Merica only has itself to blame for what happens next.
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* Some suggestions: single payer medicare for all; re-regulation of big business especially Wall Street and the fossil fuel industry; equitable taxing of the wealthy; remove the cap on Social Security contributions; effective anti-trust enforcement; doubling the federal minimum wage; elimination of the filibuster in the Senate; elimination of the Electoral College system; legislating repeal of Citizens United and the presidential immunity granted by the MAGA Court; disallow stock buying by Congress persons; price controls on food and energy. Biden was pro-union and passed some progressive legislation, notably the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act. But that was not enough to convince working people that the Democrat have their back. They also did a poor job of communicating what they did do on behalf of the rest of US. The party needs to create and analogous media sphere to counteract non-stop right wing propaganda,