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May 31, 2024

Donald Trump, Felon



In a humble courtroom in Lower Manhattan on Thursday, a former president and current Republican standard-bearer was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The jury’s decision, and the facts presented at the trial, offer yet another reminder — perhaps the starkest to date — of the many reasons Donald Trump is unfit for office.



In the end, the jury heard the evidence, deliberated for more than nine hours and came to a decision, which is how the system is designed to work. In the same way, elections allow voters to consider the choices before them with full information, then freely cast their ballots. Mr. Trump tried to sabotage elections and the criminal justice system — both of which are fundamental to American democracy — when he thought they might not produce the outcome he wanted. So far, they have proved resilient enough to withstand his attacks. The jurors have delivered their verdict, as the voters will in November. If the Republic is to survive, all of us — including Mr. Trump — should abide by both, regardless of the outcome.



https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/opinion/trump-trial-guilty-felony.html
May 30, 2024

A picture is worth 1000 words.

There is no joy in Trumpville…













But back in the real world…









May 30, 2024

"I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain..."

“What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again”

May 3, 2024

Truth Social keeps shrinking despite the Trump trial and looming election

Former President Donald Trump hit the jackpot this spring when his social media company finally went public.

Even though Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT) generates very little revenue, investors are assigning an eye-popping valuation north of $9 billion to the company. Trump’s dominant stake in Trump Media is now valued at nearly $6 billion.

Yet new data shows its main product — the conservative-friendly social network Truth Social — remains a very tiny player in its industry, and it’s getting even smaller.

Truth Social’s average number of daily active US users on iOS and Android dropped by 19% year over year in April to about 113,000, according to data shared exclusively with CNN from Similarweb, a data intelligence company.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/03/media/truth-social-stock-trump-djt/index.html

Never rains, but it pours.

May 2, 2024

J6er who 'fed cop to the people' gets 5 years.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Georgia business owner who bragged that he “fed” a police officer to a mob of rioters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in prison for his repeated attacks on law enforcement during the insurrection.

Jack Wade Whitton struck an officer with a metal crutch and dragged him — head first and face down — into the crowd on the Capitol's Lower West Terrace. Whitton later boasted in a text message that he “fed him to the people.”

Roughly 20 minutes later, Whitton tried to pull a second officer into the crowd, prosecutors say. He also kicked at, threatened and threw a construction pylon at officers trying to hold off the mob of then-President Donald Trump's supporters.

“You’re gonna die tonight!” he shouted at police after striking an officer's riot shield.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-bragged-fed-officer-mob-163846410.html



Enjoy prison, scumbag.

April 28, 2024

AI parody of Noem and other Trumpers.

Fairly funny but I admit being a little weirded out by AI technology.

https://twitter.com/scaredketchup/status/1784366643298324799

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