Phil1111

So no different from GOP senators or house members. No different from the conservative majority on the bench. They sit in a building that features "Lady Justice with her hand holding the scales to weigh evidence. But its all a sham. No evidence need be weighed. Christian-conservative ideology rules the argument with its heavy boot on the scale.

At least the GOP has dropped all pretext of the "compassionate conservative".

Who said making society better was a conservative trait?

Like other republicans.

Because lying and making counter accusations is what republicans do best. First its convenient. Second and most important for republicans its all about winner take all. Any compromise, any real or imagined interpretation of the constitution is something to be used to take and hold power. So these court interpretations of the constitution and precedent are viewed as defeats of the enemy. Or in Brent's view a "bad week for non republicans". What goes unsaid is that this court has years and years of such rulings ahead of it. With judicial overreach thrown in at regular intervals.

Just like how the conservative side of the USSC looks upon the majority of Americans and its obligation to intregrety. You're very insightful!

Its sad and yet is helpful in defining their character. Kicking weak and vulnerable people who just want freedom to live the way they choose. For the right white in America the courts and the constitution are weapons.

Brent has a sign too: And trump has a sign at his golf course:

Rudy is likely doing everything he can to switch that train to a track that doesn't lead to a prison cell.

There are unconfirmed reports coming out of Russia that a purge of Prigozhin allies within the Russian armed forces is underway. Gen. Sergei Surovikin, head of the Russian Air Farce is reported to have been arrested. He was originally reported missing on Saturday. It seems as if the Matryoshka dolls, the nesting Russian dolls is being redefined. It doesn't mean fertility instead layer after layer of corruption.

Only recently has his legal team struck out. For three quarters of a century he has set up scam after scam. Sealing from students, employees, investors, etc. and never gone to jail. His recent sexual assault conviction is the first loss of substance. His political losses in his mind are the failings of others of the GOP party. Look at his recent presidential history. Jared walked away with $2 billion in Saudi money and trump scamraisers never end. It looks as if he will get the GOP nomination. When no banks will lend to him he fundraisers from Fred and Wilma, FOX viewers in trump country. Sometimes the best defense is to let the bad news out in advance in dribs and drabs. To acknowledge it so when dealing with it later its no surprise. Lying about its substance comes naturally to trump and his lawyers.

Its time a thread explored the full range of comments that GOP leaders make in order to stay in touch with its "I love the poorly educated" base. “What’s a Uyghur?” was the comment from Republican presidential candidate Francis Suarez in response to a radio station interview. I'll give him some credit he has not voted for trump for president. Although thats kind of like the statements of many in SC who never admit to voting for trump. Yet are staunch conservatives.

Plus it reinforced the plan to end all terms of liberals on the bench.

So some in SC want to debate facts and ideas. Mark Twain had a thought on such ideas. “Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience”, .

Two to five points increase in GOP primary support for trump

Infighting between capos of a crime family who knows what is really going on. Prigozhin generates billions, yeah billions in income in his various African military scams and propping up governments. Billions in price fixing Russian military contracts. "Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) published its latest investigative work on Friday, revealing what it says is a cartel of businesses owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin and contracted by the Defense Ministry. Widely known as “Vladimir Putin’s favorite chef,” Prigozhin is a billionaire restaurateur' "Wagner Group’s operations in recent years have expanded in Africa, especially into Sudan, the Central African Republic (CAR) and Libya, where it protects investments of Prigozhin, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Last year, the US accused Wagner mercenaries of exploiting natural resources in CAR, Mali, Sudan and elsewhere in the continent. Over the last year of Russia’s war with Ukraine, the Wagner Group has further expanded its network in CAR, where its mining profits reportedly reached $1 billion. In 2020, the group sent soldiers to CAR to take control of an artisanal gold mine and turn it into an industrial complex. The same year, CAR’s Ministry of Mines cancelled the license of a Canadian company at Ndassima, according to a report, and gave a 25-year concession to a Madagascar-registered company called Midas Resources, a Russian entity owned by Prigozhin." Is it nothing but a scam/pretext to overthrow Belarus? Presumably Prigozhin is going to Belarus as a part of a deal worked out by Lukashenko. Is Lukashenko going to fall out a window in the next week or so? Is Wagner going to have nuclear weapons of its own in Belarus to act as a fall back state for Putin? Who the hell knows? According to the latest twists and turns of this story. Putin swallowed his pride and backed down in order to get a ex hot dog vendor not to invade Moscow! Perhaps the next turn is Prigozhin handing Belarus to Putin after clearing out all the Nazis. Putin rewarding Prigozhin with the Hero of the Russian Federation medal. Putin withdraws from Ukraine and calls it a good week.

President Biden made an honest statement and deserves criticism for it. He called Xi of China a dictator. Communists are dictators of course because party votes are a sham. President Biden is usually much better than that. trump saying the same thing would be ignored. Because stupid non diplomatic statements are his forte.

It appears as though President Biden has approved ATACMS for Ukraine. Its like HIMARS but with a 190 mile range. Which would put all of Russian occupied Ukraine within range of present Ukrainian positions. So Putin's bridge, the Black sea fleet still left in Sevastopol and all kinds of parade grounds for Russian generals.

Extra street cred because a gun charge was involved.

So Hunter Biden has been charged by the Feds. Needless to say FOX, trump, et al will soon be talking coverup ignoring the four years when trump had is own private DOJ.

"Imagine IRS agents descending upon America like a swarm of locusts," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warned in an interview with Fox Business. "And by the way, these IRS agents aren't there to go after billionaires. They're there to go after you. They're there to go after your small business. They're there to go after your family." and from the IRS "Let's be very clear about what these resources are and are not doing," Sarin(IRS spokesman) said. "These resources are not raising audits on any small business or any household that makes under $400,000 a year." All moot now that republicans got their way with cuts to IRS.

Plays better in the higher courts.Brownie points so to speak.

Most republicans only watch FOX and don't follow any events outside the US. So you have to be a bit patient with them.

Well some in SC learned how to apologize and speak the truth from FOX news. Take this week for example. FOX was running its usual disinformation propaganda campaign to educate its masses of GOP viewers. It placed a headline banner under a couple stories stating "‘Wannabe dictator speaks at White House after having his political rival arrested.’ Regarding the arrest of trump in Florida. Somebody in the legal department or possibly someone with common sense intervened and ordered the banner removed. Subsequently FOX-pas apologized by running a news story stating that the banner generated "controversy" when it “went too far.”.

FIFY The right has yet to address the idea the if there was a deep state. If the department of justice was corrupt and on and on. That Pence would have been charged in a separate documents case. But pandering to the big criminal in the room is what the GOP has become. But forgetting that Pence came clean right away doesn't fit their self serving narratives.