I guess Drew Findling was the person who made Trump cancel an event where he wanted to spout out more lies about the Georgia election and then told Trump “we can not put these lies onto a 100 page long paper and read in court either” even when you promise we will and so he had to go.
This is very good, because it means Findling was an actual lawyer who could have successfully defended Trump (or at least kept him of digging himself deeper and deeper) and now Trump is forced to go with someone who either doesen’t care on being a reasonable lawyer or isn’t one.
Just a reminder how everything the GOP tried against the election outcome in Georgia went so far:
“Rather than presenting their evidence and witnesses to a court and to cross-examination under oath, the Trump campaign wisely decided the smartest course was to dismiss their frivolous cases,” Raffensperger said.
Trumps problem is, all the people who “wisely” made the decision to not go forward in this direction and to hold him back are now gone.
no lawyer can defend him as there is to much actual evidence which is why trump wants to bring in bs for the court of public opinion and by that the opinion of his rabid base. He needs an attorney ready to turn the case into a circus and willing to get debared to do so.
I’d define it working on whatever you want for a living.
I don’t necessarily mean surfing and getting drunk every day, but just being able to make a living off something that you actually want to do.
I make enough to make ends meet and pay off my mortgage and then some, but I’m not financially secure enough to just quit from one day to the next or start a company myself to make the things that I think the world needs or that I find interesting.
I believe that there’s a huge potential if people weren’t bound to always have a job that pays the bills. Most people are limited to carrying out the ideas of a few people who have the means to live their dreams.
Universal basic income could solve this and realise that potential. And it only requires taxing of the richest or automation of the government services. If we did a little of each, we could actually have this.
Ability to pay all expenses, including things like sudden repairs, medical payments, job loss for up to 6 months, etc with minimal impact to quality of life.
Ability to partake in moderate luxuries such as travel, dining out, new phone/TV/etc every so often. Does not mean you have enough to always buy whatever you want, but have enough to have some extra enjoyment.
Ability to take care of 1-2 children including education, day care, medical, activities, etc
Just based on the healthcare component alone, I don’t think it’s feasible for Americans to be financially free until they hit the millions. Otherwise, if you ignore that aspect I’d say its around the mid level executive type of income or about ~$300-600k year depending on location. If it’s just moderate financial stability, then it’s maybe only $90-200k, but I don’t think I’d call that level ‘free’
Gross, a grown man raping a 12 year old is unquestionably evil. Someone like that just needs to be kept out of society. Just throw him on an island with all the other criminals and let them fend for themselves.
Shouldn’t background checks for Top Secret clearances that involve employees in closer contact with important government officials screen out those with links to radical ideologies?
Even National Guard members deployed to serve as an extra layer of security at the inauguration were vetted by the FBI to ensure no infiltration by potential insider threats; 12 National Guard members were removed due to security concerns. One Army reservist with a current security clearance and access to a naval munitions depot in New Jersey was also arrested in connection with the assault on the Capitol.
Billionaire giga-donors. They don’t give a fuck about stupid voters. “Find me 11,800 votes” speakers for itself how much they care about elections and voters.
What a weird choice of a song by the GOP. I mean, yeah, it makes fun of poor people who are overweight… but most of the song is about how bad the very people up on stage are.
Incumbent Republicans have been running on “Washington DC is terrible and everyone there is a horrible crook” messaging for decades, their voters “know” it’s not them the song is talking about (“know” in quotes because there’s no textual basis for that belief and the literal lyrics of the song taken out of context could be describing Mitch McConnell or whoever, but Republicans have never let pesky facts get in the way of a good hate and they’re not about to start here)
Dog I’ve been lying flat since I figured out the world wasn’t how I imagined it. I’m so stuck in my lack of freedom I’m like not even in the top 10 decision makers in my own life.
Honest question - where do we draw the line between mental illness and reactionary/far right politics? Noone of sound mind would believe the ludicrous conspiracism that the mainstream conservative media like Fox constantly spews forth - and that’s to say nothing of the more extreme OAN and Infowars.
Case in point - gay and trans people are inherently paedophiles (honestly wtf?)… A super-common talking point that begs the question what do we do about the people (the lunatics stupidly think are) raping our children?
We’ve reached the point in the medicalisation of everything where being an asshole must be a mental health problem because ‘no sane person would think that’. Being irrational and believing lies is not mental illness, it is normal human behaviour. Cruelty is normal human behaviour.
Of course they’re assholes, but that’s not the point - they’re brain-broken delusional, and victims of genuinely unhinged conspiracism. They’re not mutually exclusive.
Believing the transparent, self-contradictory nonsense is absolutely pathological… I assume you think someone that believes they’re Queen Victoria are delusional - where do you draw the line?
Unless this can be proven, it’s a bold claim to say it’s normal human behaviour to be cruel. Current research suggests the opposite. The majority of humans are born with empathy and the desire to help others and be nice.
I think the courts use the criteria that if they knew what they were doing would get them in trouble. Running away, hiding evidence, obscuring identity.
Having beliefs that don’t match the real world isn’t mental illness in of itself.
I’m curious why you jumped to the legal argument. If someone is unaware of the consequences of their actions, it becomes difficult to hold them legally or morally accountable. This is also the basis for an insanity defence.
While having beliefs that don’t match the real world isn’t inherently mental illness - it definitely is beyond a certain point. The clinical definition can be found in DSM5 297.1 (F22).
It’s the difference between “I believe Jesus is my personal lord and saviour” (delusional but understandable) and “I am Jesus… No I can’t swim, but watch me step off this boat and walk on water.” (delusional to a clinically relevant, harmful degree).
Bigotry is not a mental illness, and actually mentally ill people are much more likely to be the victims of violence than to perpetrate it.
Please stop spreading this ableist excuse.
This guy killed someone because he was a violent hateful bigot, and is direct and not at all unexpected result of a violent hateful and bigoted society. That might not be an easy or comfortable reality to deal with, but that's what it is. Stop scapegoating mentally ill people (who yes, deserve significantly more help and support than we get, but that doesn't change the fact that society created this, and many other, killers, not mental illness).
It’s also not ableist because “mentally ill people” is not even close to a homogeneous group of people. There are thousands of different mental illnesses and more than 20 % of people in the USA are mentally ill.
No one is saying these people are all murderers.
Please stop trying to push this weird agenda of “some people are just born evil” or made evil or whatever it is you are trying to say. It’s a step forward to recognise how society can prevent criminal behaviour, for example by treating mental illness better. “Evil” does not exist. There is always a reason of why someone behaves the way they do.
"…political conservatism and motivated social cognition (Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski & Sulloway, “Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition,” Psychological Bulletin). In a nutshell, the article—by Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers—seems to suggest that conservatism is a mild form of insanity. Here are the facts. A meta-analysis culled from 88 samples in 12 countries, and with an N of 22,818, revealed that “several psychological variables predicted political conservatism.” Which variables exactly? In order of predictive power: death anxiety, system instability, dogmatism/intolerance of ambiguity, closed-mindedness, low tolerance of uncertainty, high needs for order, structure, and closure, low integrative complexity, fear of threat and loss, and low self-esteem. The researchers conclude, a little chillingly, that “the core ideology of conservatism stresses resistance to change and a justification of inequality.” The above list of variables is more than a little unsavory. We are talking about someone full of fear, with a poor sense of self, and a lack of mental dexterity. "-above is an excerpt from Psychology today article
No, these people literally need medical intervention and they’d very likely be better, more compassionate, healthier people.
Mental illness is chemical imbalance, inherited conditions and unresolved trauma. Science has answers and therapies, but this group is socially conditioned to avoid addressing their metal health and our society fails (largely in a broken loop full of the same conservatives denying funding) in not making access to care undeniably available, affordable/free and encouraged.
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, ‘Fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me—you can’t get fooled again.’”
The first time, the Conservatives on the Supreme Court stopped the vote counting when it looked like Bush would lose Florida. The legal justification used was "because we want Bush to win".
The second time was a combination of Swift Boating and the man who oversaw the Ohio part of the election, literally worked for the Bush Campaign. Which turned out like this.
It is pretty amazing that no matter how bad these Republican politicians are, the country seems to forgive and forget about it and is willing to give the next Republican another fair shot.
And this has been going on for decades now. We are now dealing with Trump, but before that was W and before that was Reagan and before that was Nixon. Each one was incredibly unpopular. Each one embroiled in controversy and corruption and incompetence. And yet it seems like the second these clowns step out of the White House, the American people are right back to willing to give the GOP another shot at running the show. It’s like we collectively have the memory of a goldfish, and we can’t process the idea that maybe, just maybe, the party that is always condemning the government, maybe isn’t well suited to actually running that same government.
You’re just stuck with your undemocratic electoral process 🤷
I would gladly see the US split in four or five countries just to grab a bowl of popcorn and watch the republican parts become the third world country they so dearly wish to become.
Yeah but it got memed a decade after he left office. Flubbing up one quote is much better than giving the press a sound clip of you saying “shame on me” while running for reelection after one of the most controversial presidencies.
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