And gives him permission for a despotic second term.
By Adam Serwer
Near the top of their sweeping, #lawless opinion in Trump v. #UnitedStates, Donald Trump’s defenders on the #SupremeCourt repeat one of the most basic principles of American constitutional government: “The president is not above the law.” They then proceed to obliterate it.
> "Dear Mainstream Media: If someone says it's raining & another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true." -- Sally Claire #truth#MSM#media
Bernie Sanders has joined those blaming the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) for congressman Jamaal Bowman’s primary loss in New York last night.
Bowman, whose criticism of Israel’s war on Gaza made him a target for pro-Israel lobbying groups, was defeated by George Latimer, a pro-Israel centrist, after Aipac and an affliliated group spent almost $15m to defeat him.
Sanders, in a statement today, said it was an “outrage and an insult to democracy that we maintain a corrupt campaign finance system which allows billionaire-funded super PACs to buy elections.” He added:
AIPAC and other super PACs spent over $23 million to defeat Bowman. He spent $3 million. That is a spending gap which is virtually impossible to overcome.
It is not a coincidence that with our corrupt campaign finance system we also have a rigged economy that allows the very rich to get much richer while many working people are falling further behind. Big Money buys politicians who will do their bidding, and the results are clear.
The second and FINAL #SCOTUS opinion today: Snyder v. US. Written by Justice Kavanaugh. The vote is 6-3. Jackson dissents, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan.
Geidner:
The final SCOTUS decision today is Snyder v. US. Kavanaugh has the court's 6-3 decision on ideological grounds, holding that the Section 666 bribery statute does not apply to "gratuities" given for public officials' past acts. Jackson writes the liberals' dissent.
“His campaign would have you believe that our nation’s top chief #executives are returning to support Trump for #POTUS, touting declarations of support from some prominent financiers #SteveSchwarzman & #DavidSacks.”
“That is far from the #truth. They didn’t flock to him before, & they certainly aren’t flocking to him now. #Trump continues to suffer from the lowest level of #corporate support in the history of the #Republican Party.
Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, 2013
Written by a renowned Oxford historian, this fascinating volume presents a global history of truth. Sharp and authoritative, Truth manages to touch every period of human experience; it leaps from truth-telling technologies of "primitive" societies to the private mental worlds of great philosophers; from spiritualism to science and from New York to New Guinea.
I've been thinking about Louisiana mandating the 10 Commandments in every public school under threat of withholding critical funding schools need to survive, and the hard truth is this is classic abusive mentality.
"Love me or I will hurt you."
Any relationship, whether it's with a person, or with the Almighty, cannot be compelled or threatened. A great man once said, "Swords can win territories but not hearts. Force can bend heads but not minds."
Sharks, #Trump claimed, were attacking more than usual (not true) & posed a new risk bc boats were being required to use batteries (not true), which cause them to sink bc they’re too heavy (really, really not true—the world’s heaviest cruise ship, Icon of the Seas, stays afloat bc of laws of #physics despite weighing >550M lbs).
#Trump, undeterred by #truth or #science, invoked his intellectual credentials by mentioning his “relationship to MIT.” (Trump’s uncle was a professor at the university, pioneering rotational radiation therapy, which seems a somewhat tenuous connection for conferring shark- or battery-related expertise to his nephew.)
Joke yesterday by a retired American diplomat: "Of course Russian ships want to go to the Caribbean, it's a lot safer for them there than the Black Sea." — David Frum #quotes#quote#Truth#Humor#RussianNavy
@flexghost I saw clips of this rally. Really, it's incredibly sad how far the #us has fallen due to #trump. This nation has become the #punchline on the #international stage. It will take us generations to recover from this, provided he does not win #reelection.
The stakes are high and even with all this realtime #insanity unfolding at his rallies, his supporters still see him as the bringer of the #gospel of the #honest#truth.
The truth is under assault today... Too many of our leaders know they are spreading lies, and they do it anyway. Don’t be one of those people. Seek out the truth and speak it... The fact is, we cannot remain a free nation if we abandon the truth — Liz Cheney #quotes#quote#Truth
When Trump says, "The real verdict will be on November 5," he's basically admitting the the purpose of his presidential campaign is try to escape the consequences of his crimes.
@GottaLaff If he didn’t like the outcome or direction it was going, or thought everyone was lying, he could have testified himself. #truth#JusticeMatters
#Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection w/a #HushMoney payment made to a porn star to influence the 2016 election. The case could be in the jury’s hands as early as Wed.
#Blanche, draws on a 2018 recording in which #StormyDaniels's lawyer at the time said that his client had “settler’s remorse” for having agreed not to tell her story. Blanche claims that Daniels changed not because she decided to tell the #truth, but because she wanted to make #money.
Blanche introduces what he calls a “separate conspiracy” between Daniels, #GinaRodriguez, her manager at the time, & #DylanHoward, who was the editor of The #NationalEnquirer.
Trump called fallen service members "losers" and "suckers" — according to his chief of staff — he publicly accused soldiers with PTSD of not being "strong," demeaned POWs, and insulted Gold Star parents & a widow. When he pretends to honor service members today, don't believe it.