signalmankenneth
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Today we discuss crime, punishment and stain removal.
You seem to write an awful lot about Donald Trump
Alas.
You don’t like our former president?
I think he’s a human stain that soils everything he touches.
Moreover, I could happily get by without ever typing the T-word again so long as I live.
But liking or disliking Trump has nothing whatever to do with the imperative of highlighting the clear and present danger the unhinged ex-president continues to pose to our country and our system of democracy.
Very noble of you.
I’m just trying to make a living.
Couldn’t you ignore him?
Ah, the ostrich strategy.
Trump thrives on attention the way plants need water and all of us need oxygen. He famously said bad publicity is sometimes better than none at all. So it’s tempting to deny Trump his drug of choice and the means he uses to perpetuate his never-ending cash grab.
His rallies are easily ignorable, having long assumed the diminished feel of a faded band grinding out stale oldies on the county fair circuit. Even Fox News (motto: Ratings Over Country) no longer carries them live.
But turning away doesn't mean Trump would go away.
Besides which, at the moment he's the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. He continues to hold sway over a vast swath of the GOP and many of its leaders, including the speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, who follows the master of Mar-a-Lago like a Pomeranian on a leash.
That’s why it’s important to keep spotlighting Trump's continued recklessness and mendacity.
And you'd have to agree that, by any estimation, the first-ever indictment of a former president is noteworthy.
How strong is the case against Trump?
I’m not a legal expert. And most among the commentariat aren’t either, save those who are legal experts.
And those qualified to parse the 34-count New York City indictment disagree on whether Manhattan's district attorney should have brought the case, especially given other potentially more solid ones involving Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and incite the Jan. 6 riot.
But whatever a judge and, maybe eventually, a jury decide in the New York case, it's worth noting the allegations are about more than extramarital sex or shoddy record-keeping.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/column-heres-why-unhinged-trump-120007223.html
You seem to write an awful lot about Donald Trump
Alas.
You don’t like our former president?
I think he’s a human stain that soils everything he touches.
Moreover, I could happily get by without ever typing the T-word again so long as I live.
But liking or disliking Trump has nothing whatever to do with the imperative of highlighting the clear and present danger the unhinged ex-president continues to pose to our country and our system of democracy.
Very noble of you.
I’m just trying to make a living.
Couldn’t you ignore him?
Ah, the ostrich strategy.
Trump thrives on attention the way plants need water and all of us need oxygen. He famously said bad publicity is sometimes better than none at all. So it’s tempting to deny Trump his drug of choice and the means he uses to perpetuate his never-ending cash grab.
His rallies are easily ignorable, having long assumed the diminished feel of a faded band grinding out stale oldies on the county fair circuit. Even Fox News (motto: Ratings Over Country) no longer carries them live.
But turning away doesn't mean Trump would go away.
Besides which, at the moment he's the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. He continues to hold sway over a vast swath of the GOP and many of its leaders, including the speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, who follows the master of Mar-a-Lago like a Pomeranian on a leash.
That’s why it’s important to keep spotlighting Trump's continued recklessness and mendacity.
And you'd have to agree that, by any estimation, the first-ever indictment of a former president is noteworthy.
How strong is the case against Trump?
I’m not a legal expert. And most among the commentariat aren’t either, save those who are legal experts.
And those qualified to parse the 34-count New York City indictment disagree on whether Manhattan's district attorney should have brought the case, especially given other potentially more solid ones involving Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and incite the Jan. 6 riot.
But whatever a judge and, maybe eventually, a jury decide in the New York case, it's worth noting the allegations are about more than extramarital sex or shoddy record-keeping.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/column-heres-why-unhinged-trump-120007223.html