Donald Trump** – Page 19

Video Thread 3/5/22

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 12:11 pm Open Thread, Politics

Mar 052022

Glenn Kirschner – NY Prosecutors Investigating Trump Resign, DA Alvin Bragg Refuses to Release Resignation Letters I am posting this because I am not hiding anything. But I would point out that a straight stick points two ways. And I have not forgotten that when Tish James jumped in in Trump** her office announced that they and the Manhattan DA’s office would be coordinating their efforts. I would expect that a major element of that coordination would be coordinating the order in which steps would be taken. Again, a straight stick points two ways. We don’t have evidence for either direction at this point.

Lincoln Project – Last Week in the Republican Party – February 28, 2022

Ring of Fire – Mitch McConnell Brutally Smacks Down Donald Trump And Rick Scott

MSNBC – Trump Crime? MAGA Riot Panel Reveals Evidence Of ‘Criminal Conspiracy’

Truth Matters – State of Democracy

Armageddon Update | What Is It Good For? (“Scream Sanity” indeed!)

Beau – Let’s talk about Psaki, Hawley, energy, and national security….

Open Thread March 4, 2022

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 6:34 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Mar 042022

Yesterday, I mentioned emptying my mailbox. I don’t think I said that I was expecting a package today which might be small enough to fit into the mailbox if it weren’t full. Well, that package came yesterday. So did four other packages from three different carriers. So did the one bill I still get by mail (I had seen it in Informed deliviery and already paid it at the website, so it can stay in the mailbox as long as it takes before I decide to bring it in.) What’s that saying – “it never rains but it pours”? I found it amusing. Apparently supply chain issues are unwilling to mess with me.

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Short Takes –

ProPublica – Let’s Recall What Exactly Paul Manafort and Rudy Giuliani Were Doing in Ukraine
Quote – It’s all detailed in a wide array of public documents, particularly a bipartisan 2020 Senate report on Trump and Russia. I was one of the journalists who dug into all the connections, as part of the Trump, Inc. podcast with ProPublica and WNYC. (I was in Kyiv, retracing Manafort’s steps, when Trump’s infamous call with Ukraine’s president was revealed in September 2019.) Given recent events, I thought it’d be helpful to put all the tidbits together, showing what happened step by step.
Click through for full summary. No new details – but it may be the first time it’s all been put together into one conected narrative.

The Guardian (opinion) – It’s time to confront the Trump-Putin network
Quote – This weekend, British investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr said on Twitter, “We failed to acknowledge Russia had staged a military attack on the West. We called it ‘meddling.’ We used words like ‘interference.’ It wasn’t. It was warfare. We’ve been under military attack for eight years now.”
Click through for full editorial. Some of us have bbeen saying this for a long time. I remember it coming up in discussions about what constitutes treson under the Constitution. It’s really good to see it being expressed by a respected person in a respected news outlet.

Women’s History – Wikipedia – Lois W
Quote – Her marriage to Bill W. began to be challenging due to the combination of a series of ectopic pregnancies and his drinking problem. Lois began to work on programs to help families of alcoholics after Bill had gone through rehabilitation at Towns Hospital in 1934 and cofounded Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in 1935. The same 12-Steps of recovery used by AA were adopted by Al-Anon or Al-Anon Family Groups.
Click through for full bio. Lois would have been 131 today (she used to say her birthday was “the strongest day of the year.” It’s hard to forget that.) One ectopic pregnancy can be fatal – a series of them just beggars the imagination. So she had to be strong.

Food For Thought:

Open Thread March 2, 2022

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 6:49 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Mar 022022

Yesterday was a fairly quiet day. I got a little knitting done … but didn’t really push.

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Down With Tyranny – Democrats Seem To Think Trump Stole The Documents To Hide Stuff– I Think They’re Naïve And Wrong
Quote – People who think Trump stole the material because he was trying to hide his own misdeeds in office– as many members of Congress I spoke with have told me– are barking up the wrong tree. Trump was peddling the plans for Fort Ticonderoga, 2022 version.
Click through. I fear he is correct, both about what Trump** is doing, and also about the fact that most Democrats are not devious enough to even think of it. (Crooks and Liars also has the story, reprinted.)

There Are Many Words for Vladimir Putin. Is “Strongman” One?
Quote – But Nina Khrushcheva, an international-affairs scholar at the New School and the great-granddaughter of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, tells me she isn’t so much concerned about whether the word is euphemistic as she is that it’s misplaced: “Putin was referred to as a ‘strongman’ back in the 2000s when he was a baby lamb compared to today…Putin now has gone far beyond being a strongman. He is a full-blown despotic, ruthless megalomaniac on par with Stalin and Mao, and proud of it.”
Click through for discussion. I think the term they are all looking for is “toxic masculinity.” That does not imply (contrary to Republican whining) that all musculinity is toxic any more than the term “Counterfeit money” implies that all money is counterfeit.

Womens History – Wonkette – Meet Alice Hamilton, The Patrician Woman Who Saved Your Grandpa From (More) Lead Poisoning
Quote – Hamilton was deeply committed to helping the poor. So she moved into Jane Addams’s Hull House. Living with the poor, she became interested in the problems of workplace health and safety — for good reason. Workers lived atrociously unsafe lives on the job. Many jobs were exercises in seeing how long you could live before you died or lost mental or physical capacity due to the poisons you ingested or absorbed. This is entirely besides the dangers of being burned or decapitated or electrocuted on the job. A poor worker in an American factory was one who might well not live long. Hamilton became an expert on industrial medicine, which wasn’t that hard because it was barely studied in an America utterly indifferent to the question.
Click through for story. This is written – how should I say it – more respectfully than Wonkette’s usual style. But then, the subjuect is more worthy of respect than Wonkette’s usual subjects.

Food For Thought:

Video Thread 2/26/22

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 11:44 am Open Thread, Politics

Feb 262022

Glenn Kirschner – Trump’s Loss in Civil Court Case Provides Roadmap for DOJ to Follow in Criminal Prosecution of Trump

Meidas Touch – Anti-War Protests In Russia!!

Lincoln Project – Trump’s Loyalties (Theu posted a “Last Week” but are doing so much else so fast I had to omit it. I am also omitting the one in Russian with Russian CC.)

Farron Balanced – Florida Republicans To Force Teachers To ‘Out’ Children To Their Families

VoteVets – Lt. Col. (Ret.) Alexander Vindman Articulates What Must Happen Now That Russia Invaded Ukraine

WellRED Comedy – What California Does to Rednecks

Beau – Let’s talk about Republicans in Michigan and the Constitution….

Video Thread 2/25/22

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 11:49 am Open Thread, Politics

Feb 252022

Glenn Kirschner – Once Trump is Indicted, What Challenges Lie Ahead Regarding Impaneling a Fair and Impartial Jury?

Robert Reich – End USPS Sabotage

Lincoln Project – Weakness (BBA)

Ring of Fire – Stand Your Ground Laws Linked To 11% Spike In Gun Homicides

Armageddon Update | Tootin’ For Putin [re-posted from original release date July 2, 2020]

Liberal Redneck – Texas Targets Trans Kids

Beau – Let’s talk about Cruz, Hawley, and Nina Morrison….
As i said in the Open Thread, I am not going to be able to post everything Beau has to say on Ukraine, but personally, I consider him a top source. I posted a link there to his video page. And you can aklways get to his hole page from any of his videos by clicking on the picture on the left below the video.

Video Thread 2/24/22

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 12:00 pm Open Thread, Politics

Feb 242022

Glenn Kirschner – To Pardon or Not To Pardon Donald Trump for his Crimes, That… is Not a Difficult Question

American Bridge 21 – Pres. Biden announces bold response to Russia’s Ukraine invasion

Lincoln Project – Fox Loves Russia (BBA)

Farron Balanced – Supreme Court Kills Trump’s Attempts To Stifle Investigators

Armageddon Update – GOP: Guardians Of Putin

Cracked – If Internet Service Providers Were Honest

Beau – Let’s talk about failed states and the US….

Video Thread 2/23/22

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 12:16 pm Open Thread, Politics

Feb 232022

Glenn Kirschner – Steven Van Zandt Interview, Part 2: The Fight for Racial Justice & Artists United Against Apartheid

American Bridge 21 – Pres. Biden announces bold response to Russia’s Ukraine invasion

Meidas Touch (barf bag alert) – Trump praises Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as ‘genius’ and ‘very savvy’

No Dem Left Behind – Invest in a bright future for working class & rural Americans (I’m ot asking for money, but I wanted to showcase these candidates for Senate)

VoteVets – Lt. Col. (Ret.) Vindman Discusses Russian Aggression Towards Ukraine

WellRED Comedy – Every Boomer Should Be Given the “Kids These Days” Translator

Beau – Let’s talk about a sign about the elections from Colorado….

Video Thread 2/21/2022

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 12:09 pm Open Thread, Politics

Feb 212022

Glenn Kirschner – NY Judge Slams Trump, Don Jr. & Ivanka, Orders Them to Sit for Deposition in AG James’ Investigation

Meidas Touch (Lost Debate) – Here are the 19 LEGAL CASES against Trump! (I think theremay be a misuunderstanding of the term “corpus delicti” here.)

Rebel HQ – U.S. Intelligence Accuses Conservative Website Of Secretly Helping Putin

Farron Balanced – Sidney Powell Sues Verizon To Keep Her Communications Hidden From Investigators

Armageddon Update – Super Bowl LVI

John Fugelsang – Caffeinated – Bribe Back Better

Beau – Let’s talk about San Francisco, DNA, and the rest of the country…. (This DA is Chesa Boudin, who is facing a recall election. I posted about this earlier and I was upset then and am even more upset now. He could use more help from ethical people)

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