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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
In other words, he yet again confirms there was a campaign finance violation by making a statement that makes him look like an idiot: if he's pleading guilty to it, it's because it's a crime.
Of course, what this really is, is the start of the big push to claim the justice system is rigged against him. He's mentioned it before, especially with regards to judges, but this is where it will kick off into a new gear.
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.![]()
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He's also referring to Obama's campaign violation back in 2008, but that was for failure to report
$1.8 million in donations within 48 hours of receipt, which is a pretty far cry from paying off a mistress to make sure she wasn't the Spanner in the Works.
Edited by ironballs16 on Aug 22nd 2018 at 9:02:24 AM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"The DNC has alerted the FBI after detecting an attempted breach of their voter database. They do not believe that their files were accessed as of now.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.I heard an interview with a Democratic Senator (I think Debbie Stabenow, but I'm not 100% sure) where she indicated that cyberattacks on her office happen everyday, multiple times a day.
I'm sure it's both happening more often and getting more attention. More technology and more dependence on it means that more people have realized that it's a legitimate way to attack your foes, especially since Russia did it so successfully and reaped such large rewards for doing so. That can only encourage other actors to get into the mix.
On the other hand, it seems like it was a pretty common phenomenon even before the world went off the deep end in 2016, and it being such big news once made it much more likely to get reported on. The main difference now is that I bet things like voter rolls and such weren't nearly as much as a target in earlier years as they are now.
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |I'm probably going to cross-post this to a few topics, but it's a short editorial about why, exactly, Fox supporters think Hillary is corrupt and Trump isn't
. Spoiler alert: it has nothing to do with the textbook definition of corruption.
On their face, the two stories have little in common. Fox is simply covering the Iowa murder because it distracts attention from a revelation that makes Trump look bad. But dig deeper and the two stories are deeply connected: They represent two competing notions of what corruption is.
Cohen’s admission highlights one of the enduring riddles of the Trump era. Trump’s supporters say they care about corruption. During the campaign, they cheered his vow to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. When Morning Consult asked Americans in May 2016 to explain why they disliked Hillary Clinton, the second most common answer was that she was “corrupt.” And yet, Trump supporters appear largely unfazed by the mounting evidence that Trump is the least ethical president in modern American history. When asked last month whether they considered Trump corrupt, only 14 percent of Republicans said yes. Even Cohen’s allegation is unlikely to change that.
The answer may lie in how Trump and his supporters define corruption. In a forthcoming book entitled How Fascism Works, the Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley makes an intriguing claim. “Corruption, to the fascist politician,” he suggests, “is really about the corruption of purity rather than of the law. Officially, the fascist politician’s denunciations of corruption sound like a denunciation of political corruption. But such talk is intended to evoke corruption in the sense of the usurpation of the traditional order.”
Fox’s decision to focus on the Iowa murder rather than Cohen’s guilty plea illustrates Stanley’s point. For many Fox viewers, I suspect, the network isn’t ignoring corruption so much as highlighting the kind that really matters. When Trump instructed Cohen to pay off women with whom he had affairs, he may have been violating the law. But he was upholding traditional gender and class hierarchies. Since time immemorial, powerful men have been cheating on their wives and using their power to evade the consequences.
The Iowa murder, by contrast, signifies the inversion—the corruption—of that “traditional order.” Throughout American history, few notions have been as sacrosanct as the belief that white women must be protected from nonwhite men. By allegedly murdering Tibbetts, Rivera did not merely violate the law. He did something more subversive: He violated America’s traditional racial and sexual norms.
Once you grasp that for Trump and many of his supporters, corruption means less the violation of law than the violation of established hierarchies, their behavior makes more sense. Since 2014, Trump has employed the phrase rule of law nine times in tweets. Seven of them refer to illegal immigration.
Why were Trump’s supporters so convinced that Clinton was the more corrupt candidate even as reporters uncovered far more damning evidence about Trump’s foundation than they did about Clinton’s? Likely because Hillary’s candidacy threatened traditional gender roles. For many Americans, female ambition—especially in service of a feminist agenda—in and of itself represents a form of corruption. “When female politicians were described as power-seeking,” noted the Yale researchers Victoria Brescoll and Tyler Okimoto in a 2010 study, “participants experienced feelings of moral outrage (i.e., contempt, anger, and/or disgust).”
Cohen’s admission makes it harder for Republicans to claim that Trump didn’t violate the law. But it doesn’t really matter. For many Republicans, Trump remains uncorrupt—indeed, anti-corrupt—because what they fear most isn’t the corruption of American law; it’s the corruption of America’s traditional identity. And in the struggle against that form of corruption—the kind embodied by Cristhian Rivera—Trump isn’t the problem. He’s the solution.
Edited by BlueNinja0 on Aug 22nd 2018 at 11:34:49 AM
That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - SilaswAP just broke on Twitter that New York State investigators have just subpoenaed Cohen in relation to the Trump Foundation probe, as can be read here
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Honestly the fact that 14% of Republicans think Donald Trump is corrupt is surprisingly high, if just 1 in 10 of them stay home then that could have large effects.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Aug 22nd 2018 at 4:25:22 AM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang![]()
It means they get insider info on another potential legal attack vector regarding Trump and co (charity fraud, etc). It has the potential to be good, and it is definitely not a bad thing.
The Foundation was run primarily by Ivanka, Eric and Jr, and daddy can't pardon state level crimes.
Edited by Rationalinsanity on Aug 22nd 2018 at 5:20:43 AM
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
@sgamer82 I believe it is the latter, now that we are aware and alert we are seeing cyber attacks all the time even in cases where there isn't. To use another example, from memory there was not the bug fear of nuclear power before Chernobyl. However after the reactor meltdown at Pripyet was revealed there is such a scare about it even today. Particularly the idea of breeder reactors, which produces more nuclear material than normal and can be used in weapons.
Currently reading up My Rule Fu Is Stronger than YoursThat's terrible, hopefully the damage can be minimized.
Thankfully due to the fact that they're a US state (*cough* Puerto Rico *cough*) they will likely get enough aid to help with the damages.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangBreeders are more dangerous then OTHER generation 4 reactors, yet safer then current reactors.
The reason being that other generation 4 nuclear reactors are passively safe with 0 risk of meltdown even if every single thing went wrong.
Breeders still rely on traditional safety measures, but they are safer then current reactors due to having decades more refinement on those systems.
Hawaii also is considered a place for vacations. It's possible it will get very selective help that focuses on resorts.
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They won't want to help for that reason yes, but unlike Puerto Rico Hawaii has actual power due to being a state and thus they'll more or less have no choice.
And if they fail to help then they'll suffer electoral consequences.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Aug 22nd 2018 at 6:03:49 AM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang

Doesn't really matter, everyone has loyalists and they aren't enough to stop one's dizzying fall.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang