1984Echoes

Good, straight-forward voice and delivery. Competence will be great for this team (yes... including the booth...).

More Existential Hyperbole: https://www.yahoo.com/news/secret-trumps-revenge-plot-hes-104501737.html

New York Daily on Trump's Unfitness (my highlights): https://finance.yahoo.com/news/editorial-testifying-unfitness-trump-testimony-090000605.html Editorial: Testifying to his unfitness: Trump testimony shows what he is about New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News Thu, November 9, 2023 at 4:00 AM EST·3 min read While under oath this week Donald Trump was instructed to answer questions about his financial documents as part of New York Attorney General Tish James’ civil fraud trial over allegations that he illegally altered the value of his assets. Unsurprisingly, the former president and would-be coup leader tried to answer very little, instead turning Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron’s courtroom into yet another venue for his never-ending campaign and crusade against his enemies real and perceived. In a representative exchange, he called the federal and state prosecutors looking into him “all haters.” It’s easy to snicker at Trump’s sophomoric attitude, his inability to keep calm even when his business — the source of his very identity and mythology — are on the line, his pettiness, his casual disregard for legal process. It all feeds into the image of Trump as buffoon, a kind of petulant and malignant forever child who’s always good for a laugh, an image that certainly provides comfort to his many liberal and moderate detractors. Yet that’s not necessarily the right way to view the theatrics on display in the courtroom downtown. To regard them as farce or entertainment ignores just how dangerous the underlying motivations are. Trump’s deepest and perhaps sole true belief is that he is beyond any reproach or accountability, owed nothing but devotion and subservience, and incapable of error. It might strike us as funny that he seems so intent on attacking the very judge that has the power to impose huge fines, hollow out his fraud-riddled real estate operation and remove him from the business via a prohibition on serving as a corporate officer. Really, though, it’s a display of power. Trump is indicating that he doesn’t care or doesn’t have to care what the judge rules, either because he’s already posturing for an appeal or, more likely, because he believes he’s simply untouchable by the law. This was driven home not just by Trump but his lawyers, particularly the similarly unpleasant Chris Kise, who among other things told the judge, when asked if he could control his client, that they should just allow the “former and future chief executive of the United States” answer how he pleased. The implication was clear: Trump is practically preordained to retake the executive reins of the country (note that Kise didn’t simply say “president” but used the term more commonly associated with the generally unconstrained leader of a corporation) and he has the absolute right to answer or not answer questions as he likes, something a lowly judge shouldn’t be able to constrain. From the start, Trump and his team has treated this and every other inquiry into his wrongdoing as a politically-motivated overreach, which would already be concerning if they were not also drawing up plans to exact supposed revenge via taking political control of the federal law enforcement apparatus the second he gets back in the White House. In that light, turning Engoron’s courtroom into a circus is much more sinister than it is amusing. Trump is sure that he just has to wait out the clock until he can get elected again and then will finally free himself from any remnants of legal inhibitions. For that reason alone, he can never be allowed back.

I thought that was Haley...

It was scheduled.... And... Trump is holding a rally down in Hialeah trying to steal their thunder... Hah!

Like, on November 7th, 2023?

Meaning... I'm not going to stop supporting women's rights or the right for everyone to be treated equally regardless of sex or LGBTQ status because some Neanderthals (IMO) whine and choose to vote "conservative" because they want to outlaw or Inquisition LGBTQ and to treat women like chattel. I'm not changing my stances. I'm sure they won't either. We'll see whose ideology wins, in the long-term.

This is true. Which could lead to "quiet" Republican votes in which someone has difficulty admitting they support Trump or the Republican Party in general, and therefore doesn't in public, but votes that way at the actual voting booth (a 2016 problem...). So obviously, another vex in polling... And potentially lost votes for the Dems but... Can't please 100% of the people 100% of the time so to me it's as immaterial as the actual voting impact of the Israel-Hamas war (at least in my mind, at this point...).

We've been through this before. It was called Prohibition. It's just simply true that you cannot "legislate morality". The "Moral Majority" got what they wanted. And now... guess what (to general audience, not a specific question to Rob)?

OTOH... Or what I am hoping for, in conjunction with what you've stated above because I agree with it: Is that their CAUSTIC Theocracy becomes so abhorrent, and their fascist anti-democratic attitudes so apparent, that their popularity descends at a far more rapid pace than their increase in theo-fascism. Can I get a Three Cheers for SECULARISM!?!?!

I don't think voters believed he would be a moderate on abortion... He stated specifically that he would OVERTURN Roe v Wade, and that he would nominate Superiors who would specifically overturn Roe v Wade. The Evangelicals loved it and bought in, voting for him en masse. He got what he wanted by stating a NON-moderate position. I think Republican women or any woman really, who actually supports the right to an abortion but voted for Trump anyways... did so because they just didn't believe him. Or believe that Roe v Wade could be overturned after 45 years of legal precedent. I mean.. Trump is a BUFFOON, but "I still like his policies" or something like that... and therefore, how could this "buffoon" actually do something that seemed so unlikely...? At least in the minds of many. So: I don't think it was his "moderate" policies that win him 2016. It's the disbelief that he could actually be as BAD as what he was rep[resenting himself to be, that there would be guardrails to protect democracy from his worst instincts, that legal precedent mattered, etc... And now most responsible adults are thinking (or at least we hope they are...): "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice..."

I don't blame boomers for Trump. I blame White Trash Bigots, of ALL voting ages, for Trump.

Worse for Islamic-Americans: They have nowhere else to turn. The White Trash Bigoted party (oops... Republicans) HATE Islamic-Americans. They can abide "top 1%" Jews who may be politically/ fiscally aligned with Republican ideology and that is only one reason (also, biblical theory on the land of Israel/ Jerusalem) that they heavily support Israel and are open to fellow Jewish Republicans even with the stain of antisemitism ingrained in a fairly large percentage of this current version of their party. And Jewish Republicans have at least a few reasons to stick with party even if there are also multiple differences they might have with this version. Lack of support of Israel is not one of them obviously. But Islamic-Americans have nowhere else to turn but the Dems. The Republican Party is STRIDENTLY anti-Muslim, from top to bottom. Their best case scenario is a Dem Party that works hard to try to advance Palestinian statehood measures, supports both sides equally, and protects Islamic-Americans from the virulent hatred/ policies of the hard right. If they get less than that... From Biden or the Party as a whole, they can't just turn to the Republicans for relief. They either have to hold their noses and hope for better from the Dems/Biden (if they are not getting all that they want) and vote for them ANYWAYS. Or just stay home. And they're not going to just stay home. They are motivated voters by all accounts... I don't know how much this war changes that but we'll see next year. It affected nothing in this year's elections... And as for young people? They're not "living or dying" on this issue. They have lots of issues with the older generations. Every issue is life or death for them (I'm being hyperbolic). Not just this one, and this one ONLY. That also came out in yesterday's elections. Abortion appears to have been the #1 issue (IE: PA Supreme Court Justice, Dem, elected after promising to protect abortion and pointing out opponent wants to strip abortion rights...). NOT the Israeli-Gaza war.

That means zoning is critical. Obviously it should be OK in commercial areas... but what about mixed commercial/residential (that seems an easy voted no "not in my neighborhood")? But also... commercial should (IMO) have reasonable restrictions like not near schools, etc...

PS: Like how abortion and marijuana were approved in Ohio (red state) yesterday? Or like how Dem Governor Brashear was re-elected in blood red Kentucky yesterday? Or how Republicans LOST their House of Delegates in Virginia yesterday? Oh WAIT!!! That's the OPPOSITE of what you are lol'ing at!!! You are lol'ing at HOT AIR. Sorry.

So go ahead and quantify that. Prove it. Because otherwise... that's just a bunch of hot air that you are lol'ing at...

At first glance (I know it's early) it looks like Virginia Republicans are ALSO losing the House Delegates...

You can run a dead horse for the Dems in 2024 and I'll vote for the dead horse.

Fischer penalty immediately after 2-0 another Rangers PP... And yes, it's now 3-0 on back-to-back penalties/ PP goals...

Rangers power play goal 2-0 in the 2nd... They're still dominating in every phase... The Wings are getting nothing done and look thoroughly outclassed...

Wings are badly being outplayed by the Rangers at the start... Not just shots 8-0, not just score already 1-0... But they can barely get their stick on a puck... Time of puck possession is roughly 95% Rangers to 5% Wings. They're getting schooled...

Pregame includes Chelios... Lots of Detroit topics/ discussion...

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I'll allow that.

That's yet to be quantified... So hold off on lol I would think...