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Trump Indictment Quiz

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Sat, 01/04/2023 - 03:30

Donald Trump has been indicted for allegedly paying hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 presidential election. To test your knowledge of the case, see if you can guess which sordid details are true and which ones are made up.

1. What happened in 2006?
A. Donald Trump met porn actress Stormy Daniels at a charity golf tournament.

B. Stormy and Trump allegedly had sex in his Lake Tahoe hotel room.

C. Melania Trump gave birth to Barron.

D. During an appearance on the Howard Stern Show, Stern joked that Donald Trump was a sexual predator, and Trump replied, “That’s true.”

E. Trump told the co-hosts of The View, “I’ve said that if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”

F. All of the above, although I wish I were making even one of them up.

Leave Dear Leader alone!!!

https://digbysblog.net/2023/03/31/leave-dear-leader-alone/
Created
Sat, 01/04/2023 - 03:00
If you wondered what that shrill, high-pitched wail you heard late yesterday afternoon was, it was the sound of millions of MAGA Republicans hysterically keening over the news that their Dear Leader, Donald Trump, had been indicted in the New York porn star hush-money case. According to social media and Fox News, this so-called “weaponization” of the government by the Democratic Party spells the end of the Republic as we know it, and “the people” aren’t going to stand for it. Trump released a statement that began: “This is Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history. From the time I came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower, and even before I was sworn in as your President of the United States, the Radical Left Democrats – the enemy of the hard-working men and women of this Country – have been engaged in a Witch-Hunt to destroy the Make America Great Again movement. Same old, same old.

Habitual offender

https://digbysblog.net/2023/03/31/habitual-offender/
Created
Sat, 01/04/2023 - 01:30
First the Trump Organization, now Trump “The new charges against Trump aren’t so much unprecedented, as they simply charge Trump’s biological person with the same crimes for which his corporate persons have already been convicted,” writes Marcy Wheeler: Paying his former sex partners to hide from voters that he cheated on Melania is not, itself, illegal. Having corporations pay sex workers for the purpose of benefitting a political campaign is.  The National Enquirer paid to silence Karen McDougal ahead of the 2016 election; Trump paid off Michael Cohen who paid off Stormy Daniels through the Trump Organization. Trump might have paid off Daniels out of personal funds, but no. Trump’s eponymous corporate persons have already been found guilty of serving as personal slush funds. In 2019, he admitted the Trump Foundation had engaged in self-dealing. And last year, a jury convicted Trump Organization of compensating employees via untaxed benefits rather than salary.

Tickets are selling fast …

https://brianbilston.com/2023/03/31/tickets-are-selling-fast/
Created
Sat, 01/04/2023 - 00:46
for my new shows, for reasons which remain unclear to me. Here’s a brief update on what’s what. A few shows have now sold out: Belfast, Bristol, Corsham, Liverpool (but a new show has now been added), Otley, Painswick, Pocklington. And tickets are disappearing fast for: Banbury, Brighton, Buxton, Colchester, Kendal, London (2 dates), Milton…

The So Far Non-Existent Vulkan Leaks

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Created
Sat, 01/04/2023 - 00:39

The Guardian, Washington Post and Der Spiegel have today published “bombshell” revelations about Russian cyber warfare based on leaked documents, but have produced only one single, rather innocuous leaked document between them (in the Washington Post), with zero links to any. Where are these documents and what do they actually say? Der Spiegel tells us: […]

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The Four Deportations of Jean Marseille: Dispatch #8: 11/10/22

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Sat, 01/04/2023 - 00:00

EDITED BY PETER ORNER AND LAURA LAMPTON SCOTT


A border control station between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

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Jean Marseille recorded these dispatches on his phone while surviving on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from October through December 2022. As the chaos that followed the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse in July 2021 devolved into further lawlessness, Jean witnessed firsthand a city in free fall.

Trump “INDICATED”

https://digbysblog.net/2023/03/31/trump-indicated/
Created
Sat, 01/04/2023 - 00:00
It’s George Soros, insist anti-Semites The Net is awash in speculation since the announcement Thursday afternoon that New York District attorney Alvin Bragg indicted former reality TV star, MAGA cult leader, and insurrection instigator Donald Trump. (Did we mention he was once President of the United States, twice impeached?) The indictment remains sealed until next week, meaning specific criminal charges are not public. Until then, we will endure the endless what ifs and what nows of punditry required to fill web pages and air space on 24-hour cable news. A U.S. president has been indicted! It’s the first time! Smells like a new car! It’s all a plot “FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS,” dontcha know. The 92-year-old, Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor and Jewish billionaire-philanthropist is so peripatetic in conservative lore that they see him hiding in more woodpiles than Commies during the height of the Cold War. Buried under the banner headlines is the shameless anti-Semitism on display by Trump and his defenders. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Sen.

How an Evangelical Homeschooler Learns Sex Ed

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Created
Fri, 31/03/2023 - 23:00

Read your religion chapter about “sexuality.” Ask your mom what the word “sexuality” means. She will snap back, “I thought your father explained that to you?” You will have no recollection of your dad explaining anything remotely related to sex to you. Don’t ask again. Wonder how many more chapters of your religion book will be completely mystifying to you. (You shouldn’t have worried about that too much.)

Commiserate with your friend when she finds blood in the toilet bowl after her mom uses the bathroom. Her mom must be so ill if she’s bleeding into the toilet. You’ve never heard of that disease before.

Thank God that your friend started her period first. Look up the dictionary definition of “menstruation,” which references “menstruating.” Look up “menstruating.” Continue looking up the other references, which just continue circling around each other.

Look up “sex” in the encyclopedia when your parents are away. Then, look up the other references.

Starmer fan claims more in Bristol for Starmer than Corbyn. Oops.

https://skwawkbox.org/2023/03/31/starmer-fan-claims-more-in-bristol-for-starmer…
Created
Fri, 31/03/2023 - 22:39
Claim takes seconds to disprove as desperation shows The Labour right continue to delude themselves – or try to delude others – that Keir Starmer is not toxic with the public, despite evidence that the more voters see of him the less they like. One amusing example took place last night when Tom Canham shared […]

The European Union’s Digital Trade Rules: Undermining European Policy to Rein in Big Tech

https://scheerpost.com/2023/03/31/the-european-unions-digital-trade-rules-under…
Created
Fri, 31/03/2023 - 21:09

By Deborah James / Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Executive Summary This report shows how Big Tech companies are working to constrain the ability of EU democratic bodies to regulate their activities in the public interest through “trade” agreements, which are binding and permanent.  Digitalization is the defining economic transformation of our time. […]

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