[hrothgar]

Quite good writeup wrt the arrest of Judge Duggan

https://www.emptywhe...e-hannah-dugan/

[kenberg]

hrothgar, on 2025-April-27, 07:43, said:

Quite good writeup wrt the arrest of Judge Duggan

https://www.emptywhe...e-hannah-dugan/

Lenghty but yes, quite good.


Once lawyers get into a case, I have trouble following all the logical (?) points. But the article presents them about as clearly as they can be presented.

We are in deep stuff and it is getting deeper. However the legal case goes, we have a very vindicive president using and often abusig his power. Very hard to predict how this will go, right now it is a combination of disgusting and terrifying.

[WasWinM]

 hrothgar, on 2025-April-16, 11:01, said:

Judge Boasberg just upped the ante

He gave the government an opportunity to purge the contempt.
Barring this, he is bringing in a prosecutor

https://cdn.bsky.app...sm5rckcwv4@jpeg

I BELIEVE that he has the opportunity to chose a prosecutor if the government does not do so

The problem as I understand it is that a special prosecutor is still under the control of the DOJ.

[benellis58]

How did it EVER get to the point that the USA has such a contemptible piece of garbage as its president?

[pilowsky]

benellis58, on 2025-April-27, 20:13, said:

How did it EVER get to the point that the USA has such a contemptible piece of garbage as its president?

Twice

[hrothgar]

We have a badly divided country and out elections tend to get swung by a group of uneducated idiots living in a few swing states.

Listen to some of the focus groups that get conducted with these folks

they're morons

[WasWinM]

 hrothgar, on 2025-April-28, 03:02, said:

We have a badly divided country and out elections tend to get swung by a group of uneducated idiots living in a few swing states.

Listen to some of the focus groups that get conducted with these folks

they're morons

Worse, they’re Christianists who want a Big Daddy to forgive all their transgressions- hence Trump.

[WasWinM]

Was watching Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC and spotted the trouble with Dem messaging. Lawerence kept pounding the high poll numbers who disagree with Trump but ignored the 40% who still approve. What he should have done is gone through each action Trump has taken and explain how that has hurt most Americans and then asked if that is why they still support him.
It’s critical to whittle away at that 40% and to do that it has to be made personal to them. Abstracts don’t matter.

[shyams]

WasWinM, on 2025-April-28, 20:34, said:

Was watching Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC and spotted the trouble with Dem messaging. Lawerence kept pounding the high poll numbers who disagree with Trump but ignored the 40% who still approve. What he should have done is gone through each action Trump has taken and explain how that has hurt most Americans and then asked if that is why they still support him.
It’s critical to whittle away at that 40% and to do that it has to be made personal to them. Abstracts don’t matter.

If that is the gameplan (and I agree it should be), MSNBC is not the platform that can do any whittling.

These are matters best communicated by your political leaders and carried onward by the neutral-ish social media influencers + podcast platforms.

Sorry to say but leaders like Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer et al are doing a worse job than the AOC + Bernie combo. The duo seems to be far more effective at communicating concerns with the Trump policies + rallying the crowd to their (Dem) point of view.

[WasWinM]

 shyams, on 2025-April-28, 20:43, said:

If that is the gameplan (and I agree it should be), MSNBC is not the platform that can do any whittling.

These are matters best communicated by your political leaders and carried onward by the neutral-ish social media influencers + podcast platforms.

Sorry to say but leaders like Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer et al are doing a worse job than the AOC + Bernie combo. The duo seems to be far more effective at communicating concerns with the Trump policies + rallying the crowd to their (Dem) point of view.

I rarely watch MSNBC. It’s a cinch that Trump bashing accomplishes nothing, and that’s all they do.