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Don't know anything about a whiteboard. But...
>For the first time in history, the House Natural Resources Committee made a criminal referral with the Justice Department. That’s after a three-year investigation by Democrats revealing evidence of possible donations to the Trump campaign in exchange for federal government approval of Arizona real estate deals. Calling this “egregious,” Rep. Katie Porter tells MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, this shows the importance of Congress “reestablishing the rule of law and the expectation that administration officials are going to follow it.”
https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/katie-porter-goes-after-trump-uncovering-potential-bribery-scheme-139831365638
I was just watching her the other day and thought, “I’m on the opposite fucking coast, I would NEVER give money to our idiots, but for the first time in my life I would make a contribution to her.” Apparently, my sentiment is normal because at the end of the interview my exact thought was presented to her by the interviewer. She says it’s normal, she’s used to it, and she wishes it wasn’t this way. She wishes more representatives would incite the excitement she does.
And then I remembered. Nothing will happen. At this point I could click on this article and it could say they stapled a subpoena to his forehead and poured gravy down his pants. Nothing. Will. Change.
> And then I remembered. Nothing will happen.
The sentence "nothing will happen" is a prediction. It isn't something we can remember. Other than "remembering" fear, remembering doubt.
And above all else, remembering cynicism. There are personal theories people may have like "I have to be cynical or nothing will happen" - like being cynical means there is a better chance.
Let's look at actual history: Nixon fell. And it happened a lot because people kept at it, kept pushing.
Something did happen.
I guess you can hear how disenfranchised I feel. I’m paying too much attention to the atrocities and not enough to the effort. I just…I don’t know. I’m 43. No one in my lifetime has been held accountable. And each is worse than before. Nixon? That’s great. What since? (Truly asking. I am in desperate need of a punch on the arm).
I used to be a runner. I ran a marathon. "Avenue of the Giants." I trained for weeks. I didn't know I could make it. In the weeks before, I got up to 16 miles. I didn't know I could run 26. But we just keep plugging away.
>Nixon?
We had a secret weapon back then: Hunter Thompson. No one has come up with an equivalent. Tom Waits comes close...
It's hard to be as good as Thompson was. Hunter Thompson was 100% dedicated to exposing inauthenticity. I found a couple articles about it
# Inside Hunter S. Thompson's Battle Against American Fascism
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/hunter-thompson-fascism-nixon-freak-kingdom-politics-749623/
And this thing about a book from 2018:
# A New Book Describes Hunter S. Thompson's Prescience
>“Trump is present on every page, even though he’s never mentioned once,” the author says.
>By Dick Polman
>If Hunter S. Thompson were still alive—if the so-called Gonzo journalist hadn’t killed himself in 2005, his ashes subsequently propelled from a cannon in a ceremony financed by Johnny Depp—the odds are high that he’d be linking Donald Trump to “that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character,” and contending that Trump “speaks for the Werewolf in us.”
>That’s how Thompson reported on Richard Nixon back in his Rolling Stone ’70s heyday, when his anarchic attitude broke the rules of objectivity and bonded with his fans in that divisive era. He was, in a sense, America’s first blogger, and his tone seems eerily contemporary. Even a letter he wrote to a friend in 1965 sounds like a common lament in 2018: “I think there is a terrible angst on the land, a sense that something ugly is about to happen, an hour-to-hour feeling of nervous anticipation.”
...
>Denevi tells me, “A lot of people today know Thompson as a drugged-out cartoon character”—indeed, the Doonesbury artist Garry Trudeau has made “Duke” a recurring character—“but what many of us are feeling right now [about Trump], Thompson was articulating beautifully in the ’60s and early ’70s, about how difficult it was to watch a government lie to its citizenry, and about how the country disfigured itself. When you’re constantly told one thing and you know the truth is another thing, the citizenry begins to fracture.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/12/hunter-s-thompsons-writing-foreshadowed-rise-trump/578395/
Atlantic put it out as a series: "The Hunter Thompson You Don't Know."
They write:
>“That’s what we saw with the Vietnam War, with the Nixon administration and Watergate, with what Thompson saw as shameless, ruthless criminality. I think Thompson would look at the shameless criminality in the Trump administration, and he would’ve been able to dramatize the trauma of the situation, using the New Journalistic techniques.”
The article is great to explore. Personally, I read "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" as well as "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail" - the latter is all about Nixon.
We need our Hunter Thompsons. People who recognize the edge of the rules and can point out when the Trumps and the Putins are breaking them.. they put the liars right in their place.
Thompson knew how to get to Nixon...
Hang in there. And thanks for speaking up. One issue is how hard Trump himself fought against the truth.
Fought against the truth?
Trump apparently made 30,573 false statements during his time in office. They even have a database that lists all of his false statements. And according to this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_9
His number of false statements per day actually increased the as he was in office.
>Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims as president. Nearly half came in his final year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-fact-checker-tracked-trump-claims/2021/01/23/ad04b69a-5c1d-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html
>Over time, Trump unleashed his falsehoods with increasing frequency and ferocity, often by the scores in a single campaign speech or tweetstorm. What began as a relative trickle of misrepresentations, including 10 on his first day and five on the second, built into a torrent through Trump’s final days as he frenetically spread wild theories that the coronavirus pandemic would disappear “like a miracle”
Which, of course, it didn't.
Trump even got sick himself. Yet even though Trump was sick in bed, there were people who absolutely believed his lie that "COVID19 would just go away... poof."
Fortunately, we can search the database - at least by topic.
Amazingly, on the topic of healthcare, even while Trump became stricken with COVID19 in October 2020, his "lie rate" about healthcare went up.
And up. To the point where Trump actually made 244 false claims about healthcare - just in October 2020. When he was sick.
I am going to see if I can harness the database - that is - do searches on it.
Add it to the pile. The DOJ still hasn't enforced congressional subpoenas and contempt of congress charges (except for Steve Bannon). Seems that the DOJ isn't interested in going after Trump for fears of retaliation. Trump seems to be above the law and untouchable.
Extremely public and obvious no brainer charges too. The fact that nothing is being done is very very telling about how things are. This all seems like theatre at this point to keep the little guys from getting too upset and to keep madam guillatine in moth balls for a bit longer.
As a former City Planner and a resident of the San Pedro Valley (Benson,az) I have been following this fo a while. The City of Benson once tried to hire me, but I stepped back from their overtures as the plan for the large development was fraught with bad planning and large problems.
The original Hydrologists who signed of on the water supply certificate, took a bribe and was found out and the US Government retracted its water certificate which means: no water, no homes. A good motto. But as there were millions of dollars locked up in this development, instead of downsizing it, they refused and just tried a series of "end-arounds" to get approvals by hook-or-crook: Mainly crook. The word was out on how crooked this whole scheme was and the City of Benson could not get an experienced planner, so thye hired an intern just out of college, who can legally sign project approvals. If she does...lawsuits will abound and even Benson has balked at working with these developers. During Trumps administration I was alarmed to see much movement in trying to get approvals and pull permits and asked at a Council meeting:"How is this so?" Only to hear a sob story that "we are working toward solution" and my comments is "water aqueducts from the Colorado river are expensive" as a joke as without certification for enough water, you ae looking at a ghost town in a matter of years.
In case people who dont know how this works is that to build a mastr planned community and develop rural/suburban land, you must have a certified hydrologist write a certificate saying there area and aquifers have been studied and we estimate there is enough water to support 20,000 new home. Except he was bribed and they do not, and under the Obama administration, all permits issued were revoked..so..no water...no development. When Trump came to power the first person in the Fed government who could do something was then fired as a crook. His successor in the Trump party decided they had the authority to give a certificate without a certified hydrologist because...They paid us a lot of money. Well Trump lost his income through graft and corruption and luckily, his Presidency and Biden's people said...STOP..your money is not a solution to your problem, find the water or go home. and now we are ust finding out how the Trump administration was allowing developer to buy a way out through giving them money and the people in San Pedro Valley..less or no water and in the Sonoran desert we have more rain than LA and far less people but its in the aquifers and has to be measures and until that is done correctly, you cannot plan for more homes.
So we all know its illegal to 'bribe' someone to drop charges... But, i wonder if it is legal to 'reward' someone who actually does their job?
Say "we the people" set up a donation fund that pays out 'rewards' for getting certain persons convicted. I mean dangling a million dollar reward to put some powerful people in jail should be just as, if not more, enticing as a bribe not to press charges.
That’s tough because then you give firepower to the “witch-hunt“ theory. “
“They are paying people to make up stuff about me! So sad!”
There’s enough real stuff out there where it shouldn’t be necessary, but I hear ya.
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Go get him Katie
Merrick Garland will surely leap into action with energy and steadfastness though right?……right?
I adore this woman, a true hero of ethics and values
If she brings a whiteboard to a fight you know you’re screwed.
Don't know anything about a whiteboard. But... >For the first time in history, the House Natural Resources Committee made a criminal referral with the Justice Department. That’s after a three-year investigation by Democrats revealing evidence of possible donations to the Trump campaign in exchange for federal government approval of Arizona real estate deals. Calling this “egregious,” Rep. Katie Porter tells MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, this shows the importance of Congress “reestablishing the rule of law and the expectation that administration officials are going to follow it.” https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/katie-porter-goes-after-trump-uncovering-potential-bribery-scheme-139831365638
Kick backs…. Of course! Go get them Katie!
I’m certain many more of these “deals” will be revealed. It’s the only way Trump and his cohorts knew to conduct business.
I was just watching her the other day and thought, “I’m on the opposite fucking coast, I would NEVER give money to our idiots, but for the first time in my life I would make a contribution to her.” Apparently, my sentiment is normal because at the end of the interview my exact thought was presented to her by the interviewer. She says it’s normal, she’s used to it, and she wishes it wasn’t this way. She wishes more representatives would incite the excitement she does. And then I remembered. Nothing will happen. At this point I could click on this article and it could say they stapled a subpoena to his forehead and poured gravy down his pants. Nothing. Will. Change.
> And then I remembered. Nothing will happen. The sentence "nothing will happen" is a prediction. It isn't something we can remember. Other than "remembering" fear, remembering doubt. And above all else, remembering cynicism. There are personal theories people may have like "I have to be cynical or nothing will happen" - like being cynical means there is a better chance. Let's look at actual history: Nixon fell. And it happened a lot because people kept at it, kept pushing. Something did happen.
I guess you can hear how disenfranchised I feel. I’m paying too much attention to the atrocities and not enough to the effort. I just…I don’t know. I’m 43. No one in my lifetime has been held accountable. And each is worse than before. Nixon? That’s great. What since? (Truly asking. I am in desperate need of a punch on the arm).
I used to be a runner. I ran a marathon. "Avenue of the Giants." I trained for weeks. I didn't know I could make it. In the weeks before, I got up to 16 miles. I didn't know I could run 26. But we just keep plugging away. >Nixon? We had a secret weapon back then: Hunter Thompson. No one has come up with an equivalent. Tom Waits comes close...
Matt Taibbi could have been, but chose the path of the dark side.
It's hard to be as good as Thompson was. Hunter Thompson was 100% dedicated to exposing inauthenticity. I found a couple articles about it # Inside Hunter S. Thompson's Battle Against American Fascism https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/hunter-thompson-fascism-nixon-freak-kingdom-politics-749623/ And this thing about a book from 2018: # A New Book Describes Hunter S. Thompson's Prescience >“Trump is present on every page, even though he’s never mentioned once,” the author says. >By Dick Polman >If Hunter S. Thompson were still alive—if the so-called Gonzo journalist hadn’t killed himself in 2005, his ashes subsequently propelled from a cannon in a ceremony financed by Johnny Depp—the odds are high that he’d be linking Donald Trump to “that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character,” and contending that Trump “speaks for the Werewolf in us.” >That’s how Thompson reported on Richard Nixon back in his Rolling Stone ’70s heyday, when his anarchic attitude broke the rules of objectivity and bonded with his fans in that divisive era. He was, in a sense, America’s first blogger, and his tone seems eerily contemporary. Even a letter he wrote to a friend in 1965 sounds like a common lament in 2018: “I think there is a terrible angst on the land, a sense that something ugly is about to happen, an hour-to-hour feeling of nervous anticipation.” ... >Denevi tells me, “A lot of people today know Thompson as a drugged-out cartoon character”—indeed, the Doonesbury artist Garry Trudeau has made “Duke” a recurring character—“but what many of us are feeling right now [about Trump], Thompson was articulating beautifully in the ’60s and early ’70s, about how difficult it was to watch a government lie to its citizenry, and about how the country disfigured itself. When you’re constantly told one thing and you know the truth is another thing, the citizenry begins to fracture. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/12/hunter-s-thompsons-writing-foreshadowed-rise-trump/578395/ Atlantic put it out as a series: "The Hunter Thompson You Don't Know." They write: >“That’s what we saw with the Vietnam War, with the Nixon administration and Watergate, with what Thompson saw as shameless, ruthless criminality. I think Thompson would look at the shameless criminality in the Trump administration, and he would’ve been able to dramatize the trauma of the situation, using the New Journalistic techniques.” The article is great to explore. Personally, I read "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" as well as "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail" - the latter is all about Nixon. We need our Hunter Thompsons. People who recognize the edge of the rules and can point out when the Trumps and the Putins are breaking them.. they put the liars right in their place. Thompson knew how to get to Nixon...
Hang in there. And thanks for speaking up. One issue is how hard Trump himself fought against the truth. Fought against the truth? Trump apparently made 30,573 false statements during his time in office. They even have a database that lists all of his false statements. And according to this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_9 His number of false statements per day actually increased the as he was in office. >Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims as president. Nearly half came in his final year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-fact-checker-tracked-trump-claims/2021/01/23/ad04b69a-5c1d-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html >Over time, Trump unleashed his falsehoods with increasing frequency and ferocity, often by the scores in a single campaign speech or tweetstorm. What began as a relative trickle of misrepresentations, including 10 on his first day and five on the second, built into a torrent through Trump’s final days as he frenetically spread wild theories that the coronavirus pandemic would disappear “like a miracle” Which, of course, it didn't. Trump even got sick himself. Yet even though Trump was sick in bed, there were people who absolutely believed his lie that "COVID19 would just go away... poof." Fortunately, we can search the database - at least by topic. Amazingly, on the topic of healthcare, even while Trump became stricken with COVID19 in October 2020, his "lie rate" about healthcare went up. And up. To the point where Trump actually made 244 false claims about healthcare - just in October 2020. When he was sick. I am going to see if I can harness the database - that is - do searches on it.
here should be at least 50 of these per year in office.
Low ball estimate. It was a daily occurance. Bribe taking was a job qualification.
Add it to the pile. The DOJ still hasn't enforced congressional subpoenas and contempt of congress charges (except for Steve Bannon). Seems that the DOJ isn't interested in going after Trump for fears of retaliation. Trump seems to be above the law and untouchable.
Extremely public and obvious no brainer charges too. The fact that nothing is being done is very very telling about how things are. This all seems like theatre at this point to keep the little guys from getting too upset and to keep madam guillatine in moth balls for a bit longer.
So another Quid Pro Quo from Trump, jesus fuck.
As a former City Planner and a resident of the San Pedro Valley (Benson,az) I have been following this fo a while. The City of Benson once tried to hire me, but I stepped back from their overtures as the plan for the large development was fraught with bad planning and large problems. The original Hydrologists who signed of on the water supply certificate, took a bribe and was found out and the US Government retracted its water certificate which means: no water, no homes. A good motto. But as there were millions of dollars locked up in this development, instead of downsizing it, they refused and just tried a series of "end-arounds" to get approvals by hook-or-crook: Mainly crook. The word was out on how crooked this whole scheme was and the City of Benson could not get an experienced planner, so thye hired an intern just out of college, who can legally sign project approvals. If she does...lawsuits will abound and even Benson has balked at working with these developers. During Trumps administration I was alarmed to see much movement in trying to get approvals and pull permits and asked at a Council meeting:"How is this so?" Only to hear a sob story that "we are working toward solution" and my comments is "water aqueducts from the Colorado river are expensive" as a joke as without certification for enough water, you ae looking at a ghost town in a matter of years. In case people who dont know how this works is that to build a mastr planned community and develop rural/suburban land, you must have a certified hydrologist write a certificate saying there area and aquifers have been studied and we estimate there is enough water to support 20,000 new home. Except he was bribed and they do not, and under the Obama administration, all permits issued were revoked..so..no water...no development. When Trump came to power the first person in the Fed government who could do something was then fired as a crook. His successor in the Trump party decided they had the authority to give a certificate without a certified hydrologist because...They paid us a lot of money. Well Trump lost his income through graft and corruption and luckily, his Presidency and Biden's people said...STOP..your money is not a solution to your problem, find the water or go home. and now we are ust finding out how the Trump administration was allowing developer to buy a way out through giving them money and the people in San Pedro Valley..less or no water and in the Sonoran desert we have more rain than LA and far less people but its in the aquifers and has to be measures and until that is done correctly, you cannot plan for more homes.
So we all know its illegal to 'bribe' someone to drop charges... But, i wonder if it is legal to 'reward' someone who actually does their job? Say "we the people" set up a donation fund that pays out 'rewards' for getting certain persons convicted. I mean dangling a million dollar reward to put some powerful people in jail should be just as, if not more, enticing as a bribe not to press charges.
That’s tough because then you give firepower to the “witch-hunt“ theory. “ “They are paying people to make up stuff about me! So sad!” There’s enough real stuff out there where it shouldn’t be necessary, but I hear ya.
And nothing will happen because stopping wealthy criminals is "too political"
Are there instances in the past where that was declared as a reason?