In a separate April 2019 email released by Democrats, Epstein told author Michael Wolff that Trump “knew about the girls.” It is unclear what the phrase “knew about the girls” meant.
It is unclear what the phrase “knew about the girls” meant.
Ummm, no. I think it’s pretty fucking “clear” what that phrase means.
Technically, If the Supreme Court rules that his tariffs were illegal to begin with, he will be expected to reimburse everyone affected. That may be all this is. He’s just trying to spin it as spontaneous generosity, rather than a court ordered obligation.
That’s very good news.
That was because they started investigating those cases a little late. But the cases against him would have warranted prison time, if they had gone to trial.
This time around, he’s doing even more illegal shit, and being super obviously about it. He doesn’t seem to understand that everything he’s doing is going to be used against him. His reckoning is coming.
That would be misappropriation of federal funds, and it would mean that his entire administration is heading for prison, as soon as he’s out of office.
I am serious. They can just keep adding it to the list of charges that will be levelled against him, once he’s removed from office. Steve Bannon wasn’t joking when he said they will all be going to prison, when this is over.
Donald Trump has a certain degree of immunity for official acts only. The people who work for him do not. The only thing protecting any of them right now, is the fact that he’s still in office. Once he’s out, everyone who committed crimes on his behalf, are all going to be charged.
And even he is open to prosecution for anything that can be proven to have been committed for purely personal gain (which is almost everything he does).
You may not remember this, but every single one of the lawyers who did his dirty work after the 2020 election, to try and flip the results…have all been found guilty of crimes and misdemeanors…and had their law licenses taken away. This shit does have consequences. Trump himself is just really good at gaming the system, thanks to the fact that he has so much money to burn on his own defense. But even that will only go so far.
If he has done that, then he’s broken federal law, and will be facing criminal charges and most likely jail time, once he’s out of office. That goes for anyone else who helped him, as well.
“If forced to transfer funds to Snap to make full November allotments, there is no means for the government to recoup those expenditures – which is quintessential irreparable harm. Once those payments are made, there is every indication that the States will promptly disburse them. And once disbursed, the government will be un-able to recover any funds. Worse, these harms will only compound if the decision below stands.
“There is every reason to expect that if the shutdown lingers, the court below will not command the government to tap these funds again in December to support Snap – blowing a bigger hole in the budget for the child nutrition programs.”
This is absolute bullshit. Those funds have already been allocated by Congress in the 2023 Farm Bill. The money is already authorized for use for the next few years. They don’t need to “find it” somewhere else, or “get it back” at some future date. It is literally sitting ina find account, waiting to be used.
The only reason these benefits would be held up for any reason during a government shut down, is if the staff in charge of distributing that money are not currently working. That’s what the $6 billion emergency fund is for. Paying the federal employees needed to make sure that money gets to its pre-authorized destination.
I hope they bring this argument to every other city where they’re trying this.
Fat Spiderman meme.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) posted on X that it would unduly benefit health insurance companies to blindly extend the subsidies: “Another year of insane profits at the expense of consumers and American taxpayers,” he wrote.
So…offloading that burden directly onto consumers is somehow better? This entire line of reasoning does absolutely nothing to solve the problem, it just shifts it from being a “we” problem, to a “you” problem.
If they really had an issue with private insurers making obscene profits, they’d implement universal healthcare and cut the insurance industry out of the equation completely.
Yes. Exploitation apparently doesn’t require intelligence. Just a total lack of empathy.
It always amazes me just how stupid all these billionaires actually are. It just highlights the fact that they did not actually “earn” that wealth, in the first place. If it were truly a matter of talent and skill, they wouldn’t be crashing the economy every five to ten years…but here we are, for the fifth(?) time in the last few decades?
Voting for neoliberals brought us fascism. The slow and steady march to the right, that is enabled and often encouraged by neoliberal politics.
Decades of catering to capitalists, who inevitably become oligarchs, who inevitably decide they want total control without restrictions, is what brought us fascism.
Neoliberalism is what leads to fascism. It’s where fascist go to hide, until fascism becomes fashionable again.
It would mean that American voters are simply repeating the same cycle that brought them fascism, in the first place.
If they manage to break that habit, I would say there’s hope. If they don’t…then there isn’t.
If Newsom becomes president next, the US is officially doomed. It will prove that Americans have learned exactly nothing from recent history.
This is starting to sound like a 2nd amendment issue.
Oh, no. Anyway…