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Satchel

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  1. How Biden has led the country and the free world is all the more impressive when one considers he is governing during one of the most difficult times in recent history. He took over on the heels of a concluding pandemic, and even as he worked to stabilize the economy, Biden has been confronted with a series of political conundrums. To those of us on the sidelines, decisions that seem simple are anything but. Israel versus Gaza, an intractable border crisis, the unrelenting assault on democracy and supporting institutions at home and abroad, and anti intellectual malaise that has taken hold in much of the country, an ever encroaching fascism. Who ever thought we’d see the return of polio and measles? And through it all, Biden has persevered.
  2. I don’t really get why most people seem to accept that Pope Francis, while feeble in body, and up in age (will turn 88 this year) is capable of making significant changes within a stodgy, difficult organization of one billion people, while they constantly whine about our transformational 81 year old president.
  3. https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1760058482026250328?s=20
  4. Informant also told authorities of Russia’s plans to sabotage this year’s presidential election: https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-fbi-informant-joe-biden-ef48c7543e7a45cd3b8b671d0e2f60e5 LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former FBI informant charged with making up a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company had contacts with officials affiliated with Russian intelligence, prosecutors said in a court paper Tuesday. Prosecutors revealed the alleged contact as they urged a judge to keep Alexander Smirnov behind bars while he awaits trial. He’s charged with falsely reporting to the FBI in June 2020 that executives associated with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid Hunter and Joe Biden $5 million each in 2015 or 2016. The claim has been central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress.
  5. During the flogging, she had to talk about his inability to put in the hard work. Pay attention.
  6. If we valued people more than guns, things would be different…like they are in other civilized countries.
  7. I’ll take LBJ’s brand of racism over Wilson’s any day of the week: Before the election of President Woodrow Wilson, Black Americans worked at all levels of the federal government. But when Wilson assumed office in 1913, he mandated that the federal workforce be segregated by race—leading to the reduction of Black civil service workers’ income, increasing the significant income gap between Black and white workers, and eroding some of the gains Black people had made following Reconstruction. https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/research/how-woodrow-wilsons-racist-segregation-order-eroded-the-black-civil-service/
  8. I’d just like to rest the ugly rumor that Donald has a foul order. Y’all don’t know good cologne when you smell it. Btw, you can get both the J6s and the cologne in a TPack for $650.
  9. Does he sell eggs by the dozen too?
  10. Okay. How do you know when she learned of his views?
  11. Again, I’m not really interested in how stupid you think her actions were. I’m interested in the public flogging.
  12. Maybe Wills shares Mae West’s view of wrongdoing who once opined, Between the two evils, I always choose the one I haven’t tried before..” The misery of the human condition is the knowledge both of the wrong and its inevitability. So, nothing on the flogging itself?
  13. I get the some of you want me to condemn Willis’ poor choices and bad behavior. No objective person familiar with the facts of this case would argue that she helped herself or her cause by sleeping with her co-worker. Since there is a better than even chance she won’t be removed, it’s clear to me this evidentiary hearing uncovered nothing relevant to the allegations deceptive pecuniary. The point and purpose was to force Willis to answer questions about where she slept with Wade, why she kept money in her house, how she spent it, what kind of Vodka she prefers and why Wade might not have been able to get it up in 2020. When the answers and evidence did not comport with the prosecutor’s narrative, they sought to have Willis’ [lawyer] father’s testimony stricken from the record. It was a public flogging that makes Clarence Thomas’ high tech lynching look like a picnic
  14. Since when? Again, some of you must not court house or office very much.
  15. Chuckle. Unresponsive. The public flogging makes about as much sense as Nikki Haley being grilled about her infidelity because she’s prosecuting a political case against Donald Trump.
  16. Clearly you misconstrued my intentions. I started this thread to discuss the disgraceful public flogging of Willis that appears to be unprecedented and unnecessary.
  17. One lawyer called this spectacle “the most Atlanta shit ever.”
  18. Yeah, that would be nice, especially when those of us on the sidelines can compare our best with someone else’s worst.
  19. Since nothing testified to yesterday violates any ethical or legal proscription, the judge should rule accordingly.
  20. We all do things we know we shouldn’t do. What will prove to be a massive unforced error is compelling Wills to explain in court why she screwed the help. You obviously don’t court house much. Should she choose to run, she win re-election in a landslide. People are pissed about this clown show deflection.
  21. Anybody having problems with how Willis defended herself yesterday, can Kavanaugh right off: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/lawyers-ethics-experts-defend-fani-willis-trump-seeks-removal-georgia-rcna137640 A group of attorneys and ethics experts has filed a motion defending Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as former President Donald Trump urges the court to remove her from his Georgia election interference case. In the court filing, 17 signers argued that the allegations that Willis benefited financially from a personal relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade do not constitute grounds for removal. "We have no independent knowledge whether there was a personal relationship at the time of hiring or whether overall spending in the personal relationship was roughly evenly balanced," the motion in defense of Willis reads. "But even if all Defendants’ allegations are true, they do not mandate disqualification here. Indeed, they do not even come close." “Paying for gifts for a romantic partner out of one’s income is normal in the context of a marriage or other romantic relationship,” the filing says. “Neither the relationship, nor the alleged financial benefit to DA Willis justifies disqualification under Georgia law.”h
  22. even it’s related to a Trump trial that hasn’t started yet? The New Yorker seems to think the optics are working against her. After hearing her testimony on the stand I disagree: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/fulton-da-fani-willis-nathan-wade-optics-battle-over-trump-case.html
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