Posts Made By: James Brown

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

The Dems ought to be going after Trump's grifting, too:


"In the two months since the election, President-elect Donald Trump has urged his nearly 8.5 million followers on Truth Social to buy limited edition guitars that bear his signature and Trump-themed fragrances that “represent winning.”

"A $899 gold-plated inauguration edition was recently added to the line of Trump watches he first launched this summer and his nascent sneaker brand is now offering footwear featuring a state-by-state map of his electoral victory."

"The post-election sales pitches illustrate just how closely Trump’s personal business interests are entwined with his politics."


https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/politics/trump-conflicts-of-interest-second-term/index.html

This sort of thing is unbelievable.  Makes me glad I voted against Trump.  Still, I think the Ds best bet going forward is to pretend Trump doesn't exist, if that is possible.  The criminal prosecutions and lawsuits, the impeachments, and the 24/7 coverage of Trump's lies and excesses only served to motivate his base.  If the Ds campaign in 2028 is just a figurative run against "Trump" they will lose.  About 1/2 the Trump voters love him and don't believe he is a lying grifter.  The other half know he is a lying odious grifter, but voted for him anyway because (A) they're Republicans, and they prefer his policies, no matter what scum he is, or (B) the Biden/Harris years hurt them badly.  The new Trump voters fall into camp B.

We agree that a moderate D will be well poised to win in 4 years because people will absolutely get sick of Trump's chaos.  I think that moderate D needs to run on moderate policies though.  At least in conjunction with emphasizing any faceplants/chaos caused by Trump.  Running on the "I'm not Trump" platform alone is not going to cut it, as shown in '24.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

" I think that moderate D needs to run on moderate policies though. "

Of course, otherwise they wouldn't be a moderate Democrat in the first place ...

Well, yeah - but I meant that they should not run soley on the "I'm not Trump" platform, which was a big part of the Harris campaign.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

"More than 15,000 doctors across the country signed an open letter urging senators to vote against President-elect Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): Robert F. Kennedy Jr."

"In the letter, physicians say they are “appalled” by Trump’s “reckless” appointment of Kennedy, arguing he would be “dangerous” if confirmed to the top public health post."

“This appointment is an affront to the principles of public health, the tireless dedication of medical professionals, and the trust that millions of Americans place in the health care system,” the letter reads. 


“RFK Jr. Has a well-documented history of spreading dangerous disinformation on vaccines and public health interventions, leaving vulnerable communities unprotected and placing millions of lives at risk. His appointment is a direct threat to the safety of our patients and the public at large.”

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5076993-doctors-oppose-kennedy-nomination/

I think RFK is a crummy choice, because of his anti-vax stances.  I expect he will have a rough confirmation hearing.  That said, approximately 1,095,000 US doctors did not sign the letter.  Drawing any conclusions at all from this open letter is silly.

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

It'll be overturned on appeal.  Fabricated, made up charges, taken from ones in which the statute of limitation had run out 7 years prior, taken up by a corrupt prosecutor who had no jurisdiction anyway to charge Federal crimes in a state court, and resurrected from the dead, by a judge who is just as corrupt.  

No other person in NY State ever prosecuted on charges like this except for Pres. Trump.

Pres.  Trump's due process denied in half a dozen ways. 

Yep, it'll be overturned on appeal.  No doubt there.

And conservatism won out in the election over the psycho radical left like yourself, with more people waking up to the corrupt tyrannical leftist losers.  

Trump won.

I agree that it will be overturned on appeal to the NY state court of appeals.   The Supreme Court majority opinion, as described in the CNN article seems well reasoned to me.   Glad to see ACB and Roberts side with the liberals on this one.

If there were any risk of NY sentencing Trump to jail pending his state court appeal, the Supremes would have stayed the sentencing by 9-0 vote.  There is no risk at all of jail, according to the trial court.  If Merchan loses his mind, flip-flops, and sentences Trump to jail, the Supremes will step in and stay the sentence for the reasons argued before.

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

And conservatism won out in the election over the psycho radical left like yourself, with more people waking up to the corrupt tyrannical leftist losers.  

Trump won.

A.  Rod is not a radical psycho.  He is a normal, thoughtful Democrat.  Do you realize how vile the gratuitous name calling makes you look?  Makes you look silly too, since Rod is no radical.  Obviously you do not care.   Happy new year.  Glad to see you making the effort to be more cogent.  Not.

B.  Conservatism did not win.  Populism did win.  If the Rs want to regain the title of fiscally or otherwise "conservative" they have a lot of work to do.

Originally Posted by James Brown

I agree that it will be overturned on appeal to the NY state court of appeals.   The Supreme Court majority opinion, as described in the CNN article seems well reasoned to me.   Glad to see ACB and Roberts side with the liberals on this one.

If there were any risk of NY sentencing Trump to jail pending his state court appeal, the Supremes would have stayed the sentencing by 9-0 vote.  There is no risk at all of jail, according to the trial court.  If Merchan loses his mind, flip-flops, and sentences Trump to jail, the Supremes will step in and stay the sentence for the reasons argued before.

The NY trial court handed down an "unconditional discharge" as I was typing this.   I guess that means, "guilty, but no penalty."  Trump will presumably continue his appeal in NY.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Any comments regarding Alito's call to Trump beforehand? Has any other SCOTUS judge initiated a call to a president or president elect before and particularly when they know they've got cases involving him coming before the court?

As innocuous as can be.   Also Trump called Alito, not that it matters.  Recommending a clerk for a job is something I bet every Supreme Court Justice has done many times.  Note the timing.   

The faux outrage sweeping the left-leaning press over this phone call is the sort of thing, along with the overall failed lawfare etc., that contributed mightily to Trump's victory.   Will they never learn?   

"Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke to President-elect Donald Trump by phone Tuesday to recommend one of his former law clerks for a job in the new administration, ABC News has learned.

"William Levi, one of my former law clerks, asked me to take a call from President-elect Trump regarding his qualifications to serve in a government position," Justice Alito confirmed to ABC News Wednesday. "I agreed to discuss this matter with President-elect Trump, and he called me yesterday afternoon."

The call occurred just hours before Trump's lawyers on Wednesday morning filed an emergency request with the justices asking them to block a New York judge from moving forward with sentencing Trump on Friday in his criminal hush money case.

"We did not discuss the emergency application he filed today, and indeed, I was not even aware at the time of our conversation that such an application would be filed," Alito said. "We also did not discuss any other matter that is pending or might in the future come before the Supreme Court or any past Supreme Court decisions involving the President-elect."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-speaks-justice-alito-amid-push-halt-criminal/story?id=117386419

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Trump will win his appeal, and it appears that I was correct once again in that you don't have the balls to address your hypocrisy about my name calling vs. James Lacey's name calling of me.

I guess the moral of your story is Once a cowardly hypocritical pussy, always a cowardly hypocritical pussy.  

You are truly insane if you think the few times James has called you a name is equivalent in any way to the childish name calling you heap into every other post.   There are orders of magnitude difference.  It is beyond incomprehensible that you can not see this.

So, I think we have two choices.  (1) James has truth on his side if he has indeed called you a sociopath, or (2) you are simply a sad, lonely narcissist who derives some sort of pleasure out of constant, relentless name calling among what should be a group of friends.  Maybe trolling is the only pleasure you have in your life?  We know by your own statements that you don't have female companionship.  If males are your thing, that is OK, but it seems unlikely, unless your real life personality is Jekyll/Hyde with what you display here.   

I've always thought category 2 was correct, but James has a good head on his shoulders.   Maybe it's 1.

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Trump will win his appeal.

Duh, I have said this dozens of times since the trial.   Glad you have learned something from my posts.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

It may very well be innocuous but I think Alito could have used more discretion in this matter by not entertaining the conversation. I think it goes without saying that if this had been a liberal minded judge and a democratic president/elect involved in such a call in the midst of pending SCOTUS cases, the outcry from senate and house Republicans would be deafening...

Yes, I'm sure the faux outrage from the Rs would have been deafening, if the roles had been switched.  There is a reason the approval rating of Congress is in the teens.   People know this sort of outrage over nothing is indeed, over nothing, no matter which side is outraged - and people would prefer that Congress simply do its job.  Fat chance.

That said, the personal attacks by the press and various Senators on Thomas, Alito, Scalia, Kavanaugh, and Bork are unique in the last 40 years.  No liberal justice has ever been slandered in a coordinated attack like Thomas, Bork, and Kavanaugh were.   The outrage du-jour over Thomas and Alito's trips is world class hypocrisy, given the same sort of favors were received by Sotomayor and RBG, but never mentioned in any press reports.   The people know this and it contributed to the Ds totally losing the 2024 elections.

I'll go a bit further and say that Durbin and Warren's ginned up outrage makes me want to puke.  Those fools know, as we discussed a few months ago, that the Supreme Court would have been ideologically balanced within 8 years if they had run an effective campaign.  So, instead of campaigning on the issues that mattered to the working class, they indulged in personal attacks on the Supreme Court justices, threats to court-pack and so on.   This aspect of the 2024 rout is probably minor compared to the border, the economy, and the fact that the press, the Washington insiders, and every high-placed D lied to our faces about Biden's capacity, until it was to late.  But still, there were so many missteps by the Ds the only reason 2024 was even close is because Trump is so odious.