If I may recommend - I’m a HUGE fan of old school R&B and soul, but once Sharon Jones hit the scene over the past 15-20 years, what I call “revival soul” has been so so so amazing! So many modern bands going back to the old sound! I have a spotify playlist here open.spotify.com/playlist/5o3TgsTajPiYH1JUqLuAm6?…
But, if you aren’t on spotify, try a pandora station built off Sharon Jones, Curtis Harding, Lady Wray, Lee Fields, The Tesky Brothers, Durand Jones, - ugh! so much good music!!!
@ren When they were on tour just before her death they played Santa Cruz CA, where I was living at the time, and I REALLY wanted to go to the show (even though I really didn't know anything about them at the time) but couldn't due to personal commitments.
I SO wish I'd been able to go to that show. -sigh-
I feel so lucky to have seen her 3 different times. Once before she hit, once after, and once more in NYC post-cancer recovery. Just amazing.
The first time we saw her we went down to Jacksonville and saw her in a dive bar on Super Bowl Sunday. Just 10 of us in the whole crowd dancing to get putting it all on on this tiny stage.
that’s awesome and makes me so happy!!! While it’s not Sharon Jones specifically, but I really am thankful for what she & the Dap-Kings and Daptone Records did to music over the past 20 years.
Persecuting your political opponent is banana republic tier behavior.
Your political opponent broke the law.
The only case that appears to have merit is regarding the withholding of classified documents. Other cases seem weak. Trump will argue that “well Hillary Clinton did it why can’t I?” and to be fair he would have a point there. It comes across as political persecution and it wouldn’t surprise me if jury nullification was the outcome. Either way it won’t stop him from running for president.
Persecuting your political opponent is banana republic tier behavior.
Not when that opponent attempted to overthrow the government because he lost an election. The banana republic would have been if they didn’t hold Trump responsible.
I don’t believe Trump’s behavior on Jan 6th meets the level of an attempted coup on the government and 2) holding politicians accountable is all fine and good if applied equally and not selectively enforced.
Did you think Osama Bin Laden was innocent too? He was in a cave in Afghanistan and not in the United States leading the attack. Personally I strongly believe both are guilty of organizing attacks on the United States.
There’s a massive difference between Trump and Clinton.
Trumps win was investigated for suspicions of Trumps campaign and Russia colluding to win the 2016 election and to undermine Clinton. This was investigate and it was found that yes, Russia interfered with the 2016 election, but there was not enough evidence to prove there was any collusion between the two.
Trumps investigation is different in that there’s mountains of evidence of him being told over and over again that he lost the 2020 election fair and square. There is also massive amounts of evidence of him knowingly lying about the election being stolen from him, along with evidence of him actively trying to overturn the results.
Also a massive difference; Clinton conceded in 2016. Trump refused to concede in 2020.
I’m having a hard time seeing Trump wiggle his way out of this one, honestly. But he’s done it before so it’ll be interesting to see what happens.
Well in that case I think there’s still major differences. Clinton was guilty of being an idiot, Trump is accused of purposefully lying to the government about withholding classified documents, and had conspired to hide them with many of his staff members
Clinton met the statute requirements as it was a strict liability crime but for some reason Comey read an intent clause into it that doesn’t exist in the statute. He let her skate by on this intent aspect which he made up.
He absolutely would not have a point here. She would not face these sorts of consequences regardless for the same reason Pence, Biden, Bush, and numerous others have not. When it was discovered they may have had confidential information they and were asked and they immediately began cooperating with officials. Not so for Trump. In addition the type and scale of that classified information is in a class all its own in this case. You cannot use an past events for comparison in this case because it is completely unprecedented the disregard for law and the norms is on a whole different level from anything that has come before it.
The documents thing doesn’t come close to the Georgia election fraud case. There is a literal recording of Trump telling a member of his party to “find 11,780 votes.”
Correct, but that can be read as either hey all I need is this many votes and I know I have those votes (erroneous thought or not) or you can read it as I need you to conjure up that many votes wink wink nod nod. It isn’t an explicit statement despite many people reading it that way.
Intent is always hard to prove. Not a lawyer, but I believe this is where the standard of “reasonableness” comes in. Since we can’t read Trump’s mind, we can’t just guess that he thought they were there and wave it away. We have to ask if a reasonable person, under the same circumstances, would have known whether or not those 11k votes existed. Given that he was told by basically everyone with knowledge of the matter that they didn’t, we can conclude that he knew the votes were not there, and asking for the votes to be “found” was asking for them to be conjured up.
We absolutely can unless he wants go go for an insanity plea, because that’s the only way it could be claimed that he is unreasonable enough to not be held accountable. If he can’t plead insanity, then he must be a reasonable enough person to be held accountable.
I encourage you to learn facts and circumstances around these cases. Legal eagle on youtube can provide an informative, entertaining overview from a lawyer’s perspective. The details surrounding the documents and the subjects response to inquiry is very different.
I’ve been going through Animal Collective’s discography lately.
They’re so hard to get into, but I’m finding beauty in the noise. It’s like they write music as impressionist artists. It can be recognized as a music, but it’s distorted and smeared.
Season 3 is having some problems ::: spoiler Spoiler for Season 3 First of all I AM enjoying the show, but making Vaughn’s Wife a sleeper agent just feels lazy. There was a really solid drama there with that conflict, but making her a spy just breaks the whole thing. You no longer have any sympathies for her. And frankly, it makes some of her earlier actions completely nonsensical.
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