and now it really begins ...

[drjohncarpenter]

Today, EX president. More crime.

















ANOTHER indictment involving Trump.

Trying to overturn a free and fair election in Arizona.

The criminality of the Trump White House is just breath-taking.

Let justice be done, and may it be swift!

[drjohncarpenter]

Today, CURRENT president.











President Joseph R. Biden.

Leading the country, and praising bipartisanship.

We are very lucky.

[drjohncarpenter]

Today, insanity at SCOTUS.























No presidency has required "total immunity" in the history of America.

Until the ex-president decided to make it an issue.

Corrupt to the core, he must never hold any office ever again.

[drjohncarpenter]

Foreshadowing.

[drjohncarpenter]

Today, EX president.











Not a surprise. At all.

[drjohncarpenter]

True love.

[drjohncarpenter]

Today, SLEEPY Don returns.














Another day the ex-president goes to sleep IN THE COURTROOM.

Unbelievable irony here.

[drjohncarpenter]

Pay attention.

[Jaime1234]

I rarely read the annexes I post here, not from CNN anyways. Those interested may find this shocking and wish Kevin Newsome jumps out of his current "laissez faire" attitude and swiftly andf happily becomes the Democrat nominee AFTER the forthcoming and what everyone expects will be the MOST perfect storm in a Democrat Convention since 1968.

I had just arrivred in the US, to enter high school, when it did take place and if this is going to be coOmpared o thAT one, it will be a resounding success for the party which is not in power.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24623637/cnn-poll-april-28-2024.pdf

Here's the first sentence of what CNN analysts say about their own paid for poll.

CNN

Donald Trump continues to hold an advantage over President Joe Biden as the campaign – and the former president’s criminal trial – move forward, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. And in the coming rematch, opinions about the first term of each man vying for a second four years in the White House now appear to work in Trump’s favor, with most Americans saying that, looking back, Trump’s term as president was a success, while a broad majority says Biden’s has so far been a failure.

But "better" news can be read if one reads the entire article

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/28/politics/cnn-poll-trump-biden-matchup/index.html

[drjohncarpenter]

Yup.

[Jaime1234]

Nope

Shocking': Van Jones responds to new Trump-Biden poll



According to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, former President Donald Trump narrowly leads President Joe Biden, 49% to 45% among registered voters, and among voters of color, men split about evenly, 49% Trump to 46% Biden. CNN's Van Jones reacts.

Look for the video... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W87JX9dAgCw

[Jaime1234]

I have a question for readers of this thread. If one is facing a cliff with no water under it, a 100 feet high cliff, and your worst enemy and the person you once accepted as the alternative to save you and the country, an alternative to the one you now hate, if they are both there next to you, and neither helps you as you will surely fall into oblivion, and death, would that person reconsider his or her views on the one he accepted as the best option of the two, in view that he, nor the other, wishes to save his or her life.

Here is how MSNBC avoids the answer which is, OBVIOUSLY, that the person's "death" will not benefit anyone, the reason being he had zero credibility ACROSS THE BOARD IN THE FIRST PLACE. One, Trump, was right in dumping him, the others (himself and MSNBC), wrong in trying to create a notion of credibility, about HIM; which in his case, was never there.

Notice how even every former US President, or VP from the Republican Party (Bush and Pence are the cases in point ), will not vote for either of the two. Every other Republican who had a really important post in the Executive branch, be it Dick Cheney, Bill Barr, are on record as stating they will not vote for either, either...This was not the case in 2016, when every living former US President or candidate for the Presidency for the Republican Party went on the record as voting for Ms. Clinton. Think about this. How the last 3 and a half years have changed how the majority of people look, now, at the last 7 and a half years.


https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/chris-christie-biden-trump-comments-rcna149533

[Jaime1234]

Gallup confirms it

https://news.gallup.com/poll/644252/biden-13th-quarter-approval-average-lowest-historically.aspx

[drjohncarpenter]

For people on planet Earth:

[drjohncarpenter]

Ex-president campaign schedule this week.











Impressive dedication to attracting new voters.

[BrianTCB]

Gallup confirms it

https://news.gallup.com/poll/644252/biden-13th-quarter-approval-average-lowest-historically.aspx

If you think women are going to stand idly by and allow the right wing takeover and subsequent rescinding of women's rights to proceed...you are delusional. Be afraid. Be very afraid at the voting booth.

Women Voters’ Pivotal Role in Electing the Next U.S. President

https://www.cfr.org/blog/women-voters-pivotal-role-electing-next-us-president

Women voters will play a pivotal role in determining the outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Women comprise the largest group of registered voters, and they tend to turn out at high levels to vote, as 68.4 percent of them did in the 2020 election. The question is, where will women throw their weight?

While former President Donald Trump is leading in many polls, the latest Quinnipiac poll shows President Joe Biden in a dead heat with Trump. In that poll, Biden captured 58 percent of the women’s vote, a five-point gain over the last Quinnipiac poll in December. Trump’s support from women declined by five points to 36 percent. That puts Biden ahead of his 2020 performance when he won 55 percent of the women’s vote, compared to 44 percent of women who voted for Trump.

Black and Hispanic women voters provided Biden his winning edge in 2020, as 90 and 69 percent those blocs respectively voted for him. In contrast, Trump still retains the loyalty of a majority of white women, who form the largest single bloc of the electorate at 40 percent, and the largest subgroup of women voters.

But Trump’s support could be softening among white women voters given the rising challenges to reproductive rights. Trump’s share of the white women vote in 2020 actually increased from 2016, when he garnered 39 percent. However, the recent South Carolina Republican primary indicated that Trump could be losing some of them. According to exit polls, a shocking 43 percent of women voted for Nikki Haley, despite the fact that Trump was widely forecast to win that contest by a significant margin. That signals a willingness to cast a protest vote against Trump (and likely some loyalty to their former state governor). Deep-red South Carolina will certainly not cross over to vote Democratic in November, but it may mean that some women are turned off enough by Trump to refrain from voting for him.

Women’s rising discomfort with Trump could be due to several factors, including a jury finding him liable for sexual assault of E. Jean Carroll in a civil case and the imposition of an $88 million penalty by two juries. In addition, he continued to defame the plaintiff during and after the trial. He also repeatedly belittled and made racist and false comments about Haley, his own ambassador to the United Nations. Finally, the abortion issue could have opened a seam even in deep red South Carolina. While 51 percent of South Carolina Republicans support a total or near total abortion ban, significant differences could nonetheless exist—including a reluctance to back a 15-week national abortion ban that Trump has pledged to seek. According to South Carolina exit polls, abortion was the top issue for 58 percent of those who voted for Haley, who has repeatedly warned her party that the votes for a national ban do not exist.

It has become clear that abortion rights are a significant issue animating voters in the battleground states that will determine the outcome of the election. The success of state-level measures defending abortion rights in Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, and elsewhere suggests that significant support for abortion and reproductive rights exist among women and men in red and purple states.

Abortion is far from the only issue on women voters’ minds, of course, although the stories of women facing life-threatening decisions continue to galvanize attention around the issue. Economic concerns predominate across the electorate, and younger voters in particular, including younger women, could choose not to vote for Biden over differences regarding his approach to the Israel-Hamas war. A third-party candidate in battleground states could also pose a significant challenge to Biden’s reelection bid if the margins are close.

Another important subgroup is independent voters, who represent 43 percent of the total electorate; they are roughly divided between those who lean Republican and Democratic. The majority of independents identify as moderate or liberal, rather than conservative, including on social issues, according to the Pew Research Center. That suggests Biden could find some crossover votes if Republican leaners perceive Trump’s positions as too extreme. He will certainly need to retain most of the Democratic leaners to win.

Biden acknowledged the importance of women’s votes in his State of the Union address, and the campaign is giving it new priority with Vice President Kamala Harris leading the charge.

Turnout rates for women have a very good chance of reaching a historic high, not just due to the overturning of the fifty-year-old right to an abortion, but also because that ruling has been followed by an avalanche of actions that many women view as direct attacks on their rights and autonomy. These include state-level abortion bans and restrictions in twenty-four states, court rulings that prevent women from urgently needed abortions to protect their health, efforts to ban the abortion drug mifepristone and limit birth control, and laws that would prosecute women who leave states for abortion care and those who help them. The Alabama Supreme Court decision that frozen embryos are persons caused providers to suspend in vitro fertilization treatments. All of this could lead to a “blue wave” far exceeding the turnout in the 2022 midterms, and with it the possibility that the next president will owe his presidency to women turning out to express their views.

[latebloomer]

When family members finally showed up to 'support" Trump in court, where did they go? Well, first of all, the relatives were Bevis and Butthead -- that is, his two oldest sons. And where did they show up? At the election interference trial in Manhattan? (Don't they both live in Manhattan?) Nope, they went to hear the arguments at the Supreme Court! Even though it is doubtful that they understood very much of what transpired.

What a guy! Trump really inspires familial devotion!

The transcript of Supreme Court arguments is available here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2023/23-939_f2qg.pdf.

And the audio recording of arguments is available here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/audio/2023/23-939.

Well worth your time!

And on a lighter note, Colin Jost's remarks at this year's White House Correspondent Dinner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlBMQXZ1nc0.

And President Biden's remarks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBtXUXknvtE.

Also well worth your time!

[latebloomer]

Very interesting conversation with Chris Christie: Does the truth still matter?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUZIK4xNl-w.

If anyone in your world is under 35, at least listen to the last five minutes: Someone should be shouting Christy's closing comments from the rooftops! They are lo-o-o-ng overdue.

[drjohncarpenter]

April 29, 2020. Remember.














We were not "better off" four years ago.

[drjohncarpenter]

Today's GOP.














Unlawful to the core. An organized crime syndicate.

VOTE BLUE.

[drjohncarpenter]

Another armed, Jan 6th scumbag goes to jail.














FAFO.

"We are a nation of laws, not of men" - John Adams

God bless our precious democracy.

[drjohncarpenter]

Today, CURRENT president.











President Joseph R. Biden.

Leading the country, making things better for all of us.

ALL of us.

[drjohncarpenter]

Today's GOP.














ZING!

Hypocrisy? Just a synonym for Republicans.






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[drjohncarpenter]

Today, EX president.

"On this day in history:

A former president of the United States was held to be in Criminal Contempt for "willful disobedience of a court's lawful mandate" by attacking witnesses and jurors in a criminal proceeding."

Such a mind-boggling situation.

Eight years ago nothing like this could ever be imagined.

But then a lifelong grifter, liar and criminal entered the Oval Office.

America continues to learn a very difficult lesson.

[Jaime1234]

Meanwhile, somoeone cleverer than any of us here on this forum, let alone any where else as far as making a financial comeback against all odds, namely short sells, avoiding impendng disasters previewed by 99% of the financial media "experts", busy at a trial, etc, just won an additional $169m in one day, the catch being he does nor will not need to sell a single item to pay any of his massive legal expenses.

Ok, so he now has 114.5 million DJT shares and the share just closed at $49.93, which means he now owns a company trading in NASDAQ whose personal share is now worth US5.716,985,000 or $5.7 billion plus change. And he certainly is the only one who will not sell a single of those shares. No need. Not in September, not in December of 2024, not even in February of 2025, win or lose the Presidency.

https://www.google.com/search?q=djt+stock&rlz=1C1SQJL_esNI936NI936&oq=&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCQgAECMYJxjqAjIJCAAQIxgnGOoCMgkIARAjGCcY6gIyCQgCECMYJxjqAjIJCAMQIxgnGOoCMgkIBBAjGCcY6gIyCQgFECMYJxjqAjIJCAYQIxgnGOoCMgkIBxBFGDsYwgPSAQs1MTY3MDQ5ajBqN6gCCLACAQ&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/30/djt-trump-media-shares-rise-again-are-up-50-percent-in-the-last-week.html