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[Huntn]

Anxiety surges as Donald Trump may be indicted soon: Why 2024 is 'the final battle' and 'the big one'​

Anxiety surges as Donald Trump may be indicted soon: Why 2024 is 'the final battle' and 'the big one'

Donald Trump's many legal problems – and calls for protests – have generated new fears of political violence and anxiety about the 2024 election.

www.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON – It looks like American politics is entering a new age of anxiety, triggered by an unprecedented legal development: The potential indictment of a former president and current presidential candidate.

Donald Trump's many legal problems – and calls for protests by his followers – have generated new fears of political violence and anxiety about the unknowable impact all this will have on the already-tense 2024 presidential election

I’ll reframe this is a more accurate way, Are Presidents above the law? This new age was spurred into existence when home grown dummies elected a corrupt, mentally ill, anti-democratic, would be dictator as President and don’t bother to hold him responsible for his crimes, don’t want to because in the ensuing mayhem and destruction, they think they will be better off. The man is actually advocating violence (not the first time). And btw, screw democracy too. If this feeling spreads, we are In deep shirt.

This goes beyond one treasonous Peice of work and out to all his minions. This is on you or should we be sympathetic to the idea of they can’t help being selfish suckers to the Nation’s detriment? Donald Trump is the single largest individual threat to our democracy and it‘s all going to boil down to will the majority of the GOP return to his embrace and start slinging his excrement to support him?

 

[Huntn]

On the lighter side...
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Jimmy Fallon Says John Wilkes Booth Would Object to Trump Thinking He’s ‘Treated Worse’ Than Any Past President | Video

"When you think of the fake things, nobody’s been treated like Trump in terms of badly,” the former president once again argues The post Jimmy Fallon Says John Wilkes Booth Would Object to Trump Thinking He’s ‘Treated Worse’ Than Any Past President | Video appeared first on TheWrap.

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POSs, Insurrectionists, threats to the basic existence of our country, corrupt nincompoops who are elected by Koolaid drinkers to burn the house down, typically are not treated in a loving manner.

 

[MT15]

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

Bates is right, but I would hold Kelly more accountable than the rest of them. In particular Mattis, he was just the CJCS, not a policy maker.

Edit: just realized I confused Mattis with Miley

 

[MT15]

Trump threatening violence if he doesn’t win. Again.



Yawn. I don’t think there will be violence when he loses again. Not like before.

 

[Optimus Prime]

There’s a scene in the new documentary about Stormy Daniels from April 2023, when Daniels, buried in her plush hotel duvet in a room overlooking Tower Bridge in London, learns her 11-year-old daughter had just ended her school year with straight A’s.

Daniels had been flown to the U.K. to appear on Piers Morgan’s talk show, as well as on Good Morning Britain. But instead of looking energized by her star treatment, she appears quite simply exhausted. When she explains the text from her daughter to the documentary filmmakers crowding her room, she fights back tears.

“Instead of being there with her, I’m here talking about an ex-president’s penis,” she says.

In the documentary, Stormy—which comes out Monday on Peacock—there are many moments when Daniels seems to confront, bleakly, the absurdity of her situation.

There is no playbook for an adult film actress who finds herself at the center of a political scandal involving the president of the United States, and Daniels, the documentary makes clear, hasn’t been reveling in her explosive fame and new jet-setting lifestyle since she became a public figure in 2018.

Daniels, you’ll recall, first entered the public eye in January 2018 when the Wall Street Journal reported on a $130,000 hush money payment from Trump over a sexual encounter with her from 2006.

In that story’s wake, Daniels projected a defiant, provocative, retort-ready persona to the public, all too aware of how that public would gleefully consume the entry of an adult film actress onto the political scene. But the Daniels of the documentary feels no such empowerment. She feels like she was along for the ride, just like everyone else. And she is miserable.

It’s a jarring contrast with the public memory of this time. The audience, which likely will best remember the most outrageous and salacious moments of the largely Trump-era saga—the juicy interviews with details about Trump’s sexual proclivities; the gleeful watch parties for her 60 Minutes appearance; the #Basta tweets from her bizarre, media-hungry attorney Michael Avenatti; the playfully politically themed stripping tour; the confident proclamation on Saturday Night Live that a storm was a-coming, baby—may be surprised to hear that behind the scenes, Daniels felt like a victim.…….

In nearly every scene from 2018, Daniels expresses intense paranoia. She recalls a friend telling her that the Republican Party likes “to make their problems go away.”

She tells the journalist Denver Nicks, who shot much of the footage used in the early parts of the documentary (later used by Stormy’s director Sarah Gibson) that she had, in part, agreed to the hush money payment because she wanted a “money trail” linking her to Trump “so he could not have me killed.”

She records a last will and testament. In one scene, as her daughter plays in a shopping mall, she tells Nicks that they need something in writing to ensure he retains the footage “in case something happens.”…….

Stormy Daniels Is Telling a Different, Darker Story Than She Used To

A new documentary shows just how much she—and the country—have changed since 2018.

slate.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Ok... who's next?

Pence says he ‘cannot in good conscience’ endorse Trump | CNN Politics

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday said he “cannot in good conscience” endorse presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, arguing that Trump is pursuing an agenda that is “at odds with the conservative agenda.”

www.cnn.com

A procession of prominent Republicans who wanted to guide their party away from Donald Trump in 2024 have come around to him as the former president became the party’s presumptive nominee.

And many have offered virtually the same justification in grudgingly offering support: He’s at least preferable to President Biden.


“I think he’d be better than Joe Biden,” said Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. “It’s as simple as that.”


“I mean, the alternative is Biden,” said New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu.


“The choice before the American people is crystal clear: It’s Donald Trump or Joe Biden,” said Senate Minority Whip John Thune (S.D.).


Trump’s own vice president offered a very different take Friday.
In declining to endorse Trump, Mike Pence made a major statement that undercut other Trump-skeptical Republicans who have suggested through their actions that there is no alternative.

His decision could also provide a permission structure for others whose endorsements are up in the air, like Nikki Haley, to hold off.

“It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” Pence said told Fox News on Friday.


But it did come as something of a surprise.

Pence, after all, had raised his hand at an August debate when he and the other GOP presidential candidates were asked whether they would support even a criminally convicted Trump if he were nominated.


Pence’s stated reasoning is also notable. It’s not that he views Trump as dangerous to democracy, or even so much that he’s upset over Trump’s attacking him for his refusal to try to overturn the 2020 election on Jan. 6, 2021. (Some rioters chanted “Hang Mike Pence,” and Trump attacked Pence on Twitter even after being informed of the Capitol unrest.)

Instead, Pence pitched the current version of Trump as insufficiently conservative on issues such as abortion, the national debt, and China and TikTok…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/16/mike-pence-why-no-trump-endorsement/

 

[fooferdoggie]

Trump threatening violence if he doesn’t win. Again.



Yawn. I don’t think there will be violence when he loses again. Not like before.

no but that he is asking for it really shows how little he cares about anyone.

 

[MT15]

This doesn’t really excuse it, IMO. He does this on purpose because he knows almost all of his base will only hear the violent words.

 

[Taurus]

There’s a scene in the new documentary about Stormy Daniels from April 2023, when Daniels, buried in her plush hotel duvet in a room overlooking Tower Bridge in London, learns her 11-year-old daughter had just ended her school year with straight A’s.

Daniels had been flown to the U.K. to appear on Piers Morgan’s talk show, as well as on Good Morning Britain. But instead of looking energized by her star treatment, she appears quite simply exhausted. When she explains the text from her daughter to the documentary filmmakers crowding her room, she fights back tears.

“Instead of being there with her, I’m here talking about an ex-president’s penis,” she says.

In the documentary, Stormy—which comes out Monday on Peacock—there are many moments when Daniels seems to confront, bleakly, the absurdity of her situation.

There is no playbook for an adult film actress who finds herself at the center of a political scandal involving the president of the United States, and Daniels, the documentary makes clear, hasn’t been reveling in her explosive fame and new jet-setting lifestyle since she became a public figure in 2018.

Daniels, you’ll recall, first entered the public eye in January 2018 when the Wall Street Journal reported on a $130,000 hush money payment from Trump over a sexual encounter with her from 2006.

In that story’s wake, Daniels projected a defiant, provocative, retort-ready persona to the public, all too aware of how that public would gleefully consume the entry of an adult film actress onto the political scene. But the Daniels of the documentary feels no such empowerment. She feels like she was along for the ride, just like everyone else. And she is miserable.

It’s a jarring contrast with the public memory of this time. The audience, which likely will best remember the most outrageous and salacious moments of the largely Trump-era saga—the juicy interviews with details about Trump’s sexual proclivities; the gleeful watch parties for her 60 Minutes appearance; the #Basta tweets from her bizarre, media-hungry attorney Michael Avenatti; the playfully politically themed stripping tour; the confident proclamation on Saturday Night Live that a storm was a-coming, baby—may be surprised to hear that behind the scenes, Daniels felt like a victim.…….

In nearly every scene from 2018, Daniels expresses intense paranoia. She recalls a friend telling her that the Republican Party likes “to make their problems go away.”

She tells the journalist Denver Nicks, who shot much of the footage used in the early parts of the documentary (later used by Stormy’s director Sarah Gibson) that she had, in part, agreed to the hush money payment because she wanted a “money trail” linking her to Trump “so he could not have me killed.”

She records a last will and testament. In one scene, as her daughter plays in a shopping mall, she tells Nicks that they need something in writing to ensure he retains the footage “in case something happens.”…….

Stormy Daniels Is Telling a Different, Darker Story Than She Used To

A new documentary shows just how much she—and the country—have changed since 2018.

slate.com

Those last lines...

A porn actress is out of f***ks.

Her testimony is probably going to sound like Red's last parole hearing.

 

[Huntn]

The quest for power tends to corrupt.

 

[Optimus Prime]

There’s a scene in the new documentary about Stormy Daniels from April 2023, when Daniels, buried in her plush hotel duvet in a room overlooking Tower Bridge in London, learns her 11-year-old daughter had just ended her school year with straight A’s.

Daniels had been flown to the U.K. to appear on Piers Morgan’s talk show, as well as on Good Morning Britain. But instead of looking energized by her star treatment, she appears quite simply exhausted. When she explains the text from her daughter to the documentary filmmakers crowding her room, she fights back tears.

“Instead of being there with her, I’m here talking about an ex-president’s penis,” she says.

In the documentary, Stormy—which comes out Monday on Peacock—there are many moments when Daniels seems to confront, bleakly, the absurdity of her situation.

There is no playbook for an adult film actress who finds herself at the center of a political scandal involving the president of the United States, and Daniels, the documentary makes clear, hasn’t been reveling in her explosive fame and new jet-setting lifestyle since she became a public figure in 2018.

Daniels, you’ll recall, first entered the public eye in January 2018 when the Wall Street Journal reported on a $130,000 hush money payment from Trump over a sexual encounter with her from 2006.

In that story’s wake, Daniels projected a defiant, provocative, retort-ready persona to the public, all too aware of how that public would gleefully consume the entry of an adult film actress onto the political scene. But the Daniels of the documentary feels no such empowerment. She feels like she was along for the ride, just like everyone else. And she is miserable.

It’s a jarring contrast with the public memory of this time. The audience, which likely will best remember the most outrageous and salacious moments of the largely Trump-era saga—the juicy interviews with details about Trump’s sexual proclivities; the gleeful watch parties for her 60 Minutes appearance; the #Basta tweets from her bizarre, media-hungry attorney Michael Avenatti; the playfully politically themed stripping tour; the confident proclamation on Saturday Night Live that a storm was a-coming, baby—may be surprised to hear that behind the scenes, Daniels felt like a victim.…….

In nearly every scene from 2018, Daniels expresses intense paranoia. She recalls a friend telling her that the Republican Party likes “to make their problems go away.”

She tells the journalist Denver Nicks, who shot much of the footage used in the early parts of the documentary (later used by Stormy’s director Sarah Gibson) that she had, in part, agreed to the hush money payment because she wanted a “money trail” linking her to Trump “so he could not have me killed.”

She records a last will and testament. In one scene, as her daughter plays in a shopping mall, she tells Nicks that they need something in writing to ensure he retains the footage “in case something happens.”…….

Stormy Daniels Is Telling a Different, Darker Story Than She Used To

A new documentary shows just how much she—and the country—have changed since 2018.

slate.com

Does anyone think if the Stormy Daniels News had broken before the election in 2016 it would have made a difference?

If a week or two after the Billy Bush Access Hollywood tape came out this porn star affair came out would Hillary have won?

When the story first happened I’ll admit I thought that it would have now I’ve changed my mind and don’t think it would have had any effect at all

If it came out he’s having an affair right now I don’t think it would matter to his base one bit

 

[fooferdoggie]

Does anyone think if the Stormy Daniels News had broken before the election in 2016 it would have made a difference

If a week or two after the Billy Bush Access Hollywood tape came out this porn star affair came out would Hillary have won?

When the story first happened I’ll admit I thought that it would have now I’ve changed my mind and don’t think it would have had any effect at all

If it came out he’s having an affair right now I don’t think it would matter to his base one bit

nothing matters to his base. one of them said he could shoot people from the Whitehouse steps and he would still vote for trump. thats how far trump has corrupted his base.

 

[MT15]

Does anyone think if the Stormy Daniels News had broken before the election in 2016 it would have made a difference

If a week or two after the Billy Bush Access Hollywood tape came out this porn star affair came out would Hillary have won?

When the story first happened I’ll admit I thought that it would have now I’ve changed my mind and don’t think it would have had any effect at all

If it came out he’s having an affair right now I don’t think it would matter to his base one bit

Yes, but he cannot win with only his base. Would it have convinced some mainstream Rs to just not vote for him? I have to think it would have. We can never know for sure though.

 

[MT15]

I remember Trump being outraged about Kap.

 

[MT15]

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[fooferdoggie]

so trump was never president? thats great. man the man needs more meds.

 

[Optimus Prime]

VANDALIA, Ohio — Former president Donald Trump ratcheted up his dehumanizing rhetoric against immigrants Saturday by saying that some who are accused of crimes are “not people.”

“I don’t know if you call them people,” he said at a rally near Dayton, Ohio. “In some cases they’re not people, in my opinion. But I’m not allowed to say that because the radical left says that’s a terrible thing to say.”…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/16/trump-immigrants-not-people/