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Given the Democrat Party's desperation over the current state of their presumptive candidate Joe Biden - So now that SCOTUS has returned the Presidential Immunity case back to the lower court putting the chances of any other conviction of former President Trump at nearly zero; SF wonders whether the sham "Hush Money/Accounting" trial (that on any other day would have been a misdemeanor or more likely ruled past the statute of limitations resulting in a slap on the wrist fine if that) that Trump was convicted of a felony will NOW result in jail time for the Former President........(Again - any other day, any other person - totally different outcome - but the Dems are very desperate this time) We will find out next week......

Alrighty then! He/She (4 Star Admiral, Assistant Secretary of Health at HHI) is supposed to be kinda sciencey, right?

"Easy does it Joe"

Post debate - The questions become (1) How do they replace Biden? Does he gracefully bow out or do they drag him out kicking and screaming? (2) Who would his replacement be? AND My biggest concern of the night - Who is actually running the Executive Branch right now? Because it sure ain't Biden.

What do you call a lesbian on fire? LGBBBQ. 🤣

Is SF the only one wondering what will actually happen to Assange when he gets back to Australia given his previous criminal activity(s) prior to the "Wiki Leaks" saga, or maybe WHY he will owe $520,000 to the Australian Government for a plane ride??? https://apnews.com/article/assange-justice-department-plea-wikileaks-saipan-australia-00eb380879ff636cc9b916f82f82ed40 BANGKOK (AP) — A plane carrying Julian Assange landed Tuesday in Bangkok for refueling, as the WikiLeaks founder was on his way to enter a plea deal with the U.S. government that will free him and resolve the legal case that spanned years and continents over the publication of a trove of classified documents. A chartered flight from London that Assange’s wife, Stella, confirmed was carrying her husband landed at Don Mueang International Airport. Officials there told The Associated Press the plane was scheduled to continue on to Saipan, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the Pacific, where Assange is expected to appear in court on Wednesday. He’s expected to plead guilty to an Espionage Act charge of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defense information, according to the U.S. Justice Department in a letter filed in court. Assange is expected to return to his home country of Australia after his plea and sentencing. The hearing is taking place in Saipan because of Assange’s opposition to traveling to the continental U.S. and the court’s proximity to Australia, prosecutors said. British judicial officials confirmed that Assange left the U.K. on Monday evening after being granted bail at a secret hearing last week. “Thirteen-and-a-half years and two extradition requests after he was first arrested, Julian Assange left the U.K. yesterday, following a bail hearing last Thursday, held in private at his request,” said Stephen Parkinson, the chief prosecutor for England and Wales. The plea deal brings an abrupt conclusion to a criminal case of international intrigue and to the U.S. government’s yearslong pursuit of a publisher whose hugely popular secret-sharing website made him a cause célèbre among many press freedom advocates who said he acted as a journalist to expose U.S. military wrongdoing. U.S. prosecutors, in contrast, have repeatedly asserted that his actions broke the law and put the country’s national security at risk. Stella Assange told the BBC from Australia that it had been “touch and go” over the past 72 hours whether the deal would go ahead but she felt “elated” at the news. A lawyer who married the WikiLeaks founder in prison in 2022, she said details of the agreement would be made public once the judge had signed off on it. “He will be a free man once it is signed off by a judge,” she said, adding that she still didn’t think it was real. She posted on the social media platform X that Assange will owe $520,000 to the Australian government for the charter flight, and asked for donations to help pay for it. Kristinn Hrafnsson, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, said the deal for Assange came about after the growing involvement of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. “This is the result of a long, long process which has been going on for some time. It has been a tough battle, but the focus now is on Julian being reunited with his family,” Hrafnsson told the PA news agency. In a statement posted on the social media platform X, WikiLeaks said Assange boarded a plane after leaving the high-security London prison where he has spent the last five years. WikiLeaks applauded the announcement of the deal, saying it was grateful for “all who stood by us, fought for us, and remained utterly committed in the fight for his freedom.” Albanese told Parliament that an Australian envoy had flown with Assange from London. “Regardless of the views that people have about Mr. Assange’s activities, the case has dragged on for too long,” Albanese said. “There’s nothing to be gained by his continued incarceration and we want him brought home to Australia.” The deal ensures that Assange will admit guilt while also sparing him additional prison time. He is expected to be sentenced to the five years he has already spent in the British prison while fighting extradition to the U.S. to face charges, a process that has played out in a series of hearings in London. Last month, he won the right to appeal an extradition order after his lawyers argued that the U.S. government provided “blatantly inadequate” assurances that he would have the same free speech protections as an American citizen if extradited from Britain. Assange has been heralded by many around the world as a hero who brought to light military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan. Among the files published by WikiLeaks was a video of a 2007 Apache helicopter attack by American forces in Baghdad that killed 11 people, including two Reuters journalists. But his reputation was also tarnished by the rape allegations, which he has denied. The Justice Department’s indictment unsealed in 2019 accused Assange of encouraging and helping U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning steal diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks published in 2010. Prosecutors had accused Assange of damaging national security by publishing documents that harmed the U.S. and its allies and aided its adversaries. The case was lambasted by press advocates and Assange supporters. Federal prosecutors defended it as targeting conduct that went way beyond that of a journalist gathering information, amounting to an attempt to solicit, steal and indiscriminately publish classified government documents. The plea agreement comes months after President Joe Biden said he was considering a request from Australia to drop the U.S. push to prosecute Assange. The White House was not involved in the decision to resolve Assange’s case, according to a White House official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the case and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Assange made headlines again in 2016 after his website published Democratic emails that prosecutors say were stolen by Russian intelligence operatives. He was never charged in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, but the inquiry laid bare in stark detail the role that the hacking operation played in interfering in that year’s election on behalf of then-Republican candidate Donald Trump. During the Obama administration, Justice Department officials mulled charges for Assange but were unsure a case would hold up in court and were concerned it could be hard to justify prosecuting him for acts similar to those of a conventional journalist. The posture changed in the Trump administration, however, with former Attorney General Jeff Sessions in 2017 calling Assange’s arrest a priority. Assange’s family and supporters have said his physical and mental health have suffered during more than a decade of legal battles. Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2012 and was granted political asylum after courts in England ruled he should be extradited to Sweden as part of a rape investigation in the Scandinavian country. He was arrested by British police after Ecuador’s government withdrew his asylum status in 2019 and then jailed for skipping bail when he first took shelter inside the Although Sweden eventually dropped its sex crimes investigation because so much time had elapsed, Assange had remained in London’s high-security Belmarsh Prison during the extradition battle with the U.S.

JUST IN - Due to the economy and the rate of inflation, the sexual position formerly know as '69' will now be '96'......🤣

You would think so...... I believe the official ASB (Assigned Sex at Birth) is determined by a doctor (normally an MD) who upon observing the genital makeup of the baby will assign either male, female or intersex.... However, this methodology is now considered "Phony science" as "cultural transformation" is now considered the new science according to the The Boston Medical Center - The Fenway Institute and informed by Stop Using Phony Science to Justify Transphobia - Scientific American Blog Network I Guess????? https://www.bmc.org/glossary-culture-transformation/assigned-sex-birth Assigned Sex at Birth Noun The sex (male, female, intersex) assigned to a child at birth, most often based on the child's external anatomy. Also referred to as birth sex, natal sex, biological sex, or sex. Other examples: AFAB (assigned female at birth), AMAB (assigned male at birth). Note: It is not valid to use “biology” or “science” to claim assigned sex at birth and/or gender are a fixed, concrete concept and/or binary. Science favors the fact that sex and gender are more complicated and involve much more than one’s sexual organs. Source Adapted from The Fenway Institute and informed by Stop Using Phony Science to Justify Transphobia - Scientific American Blog Network

Agree with Muda, but did anyone else see this? Since the talk about women being included in the draft has come up, everyone seems to know what a woman is........

What an actor.

ONLY LIBERTARIANS - Does this mean that I too, am a Libertarian? Also wondering how many white slaves were in the US at that time if exclusion of whites is on the table...... I also find paying taxes on fireworks to celebrate the day we quit paying taxes to be kinda ironic.....

SF, being an average law-abiding citizen whose only experience with an attorney is minimal at best, instantly thought, after reading "Attorney Shortage" - do we really need more attorneys? 🤣 (No offense intended Bobref)

Come in the front door after knocking where you will be rightfully welcomed with open arms. Quit sneaking through the back door after jumping the fence while talking to your folks on your cell phone......

I will agree with your summation Muda. Political. Is the point that NY State actually changed an existing law, then manipulated the charges brought from a misdemeanor state charge to a felony, then hand-picked an impartial judge missed by everybody? That conviction WAS a political maneuver from the Biden DOJ that nobody can ever convince SF otherwise. The Hunter Biden conviction would never had happened if the sweetheart plea deal offered by the special counsel (Biden DOJ again) would have went through and got past the Federal Judge appointed by Trump.

Why didn't he buy 3 tickets and get seated in the stadium?

Trump's fault I'm sure......He is a convicted felon after all......

It appears the champions of diversity in the WNBA are not happy that a white girl is actually diversifying the league.....

SF was out of town (in DC actually) while this useless tit-for-tat was transpiring...... Yes, SF will be supporting a convicted felon for President this election. Convicted in a sham trial that was obviously (read my previous post describing the methods) rigged to result in a guilty verdict. He is the only (IMHO) legitimate non-politician (yeah, he ran as a Republican and was a Republican President) in DC. He is also the only President in modern history to actually lose personal wealth by serving as President. (IMHO) Both sides of Muda's uni-party are empowered by one thing - no term limits. So long as the ruling class is allowed to remain entrenched in the House and Senate, nothing will ever change - even with a 3rd party President. There needs to be a laser-focused push for term limits.

So "Rule of Law" applies to re-written laws to enable a desired prosecution, dismissing the Statute of Limitations, hand-picking a judge that writes over 50 pages of jury instructions creating a roadmap so tight a guilty verdict was inevitable? Sounds more like a Banana Republic. This thing eventually gets overturned on appeal anyway. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/aug/3/inside-beltway-rush-limbaugh-predicted-donald-trum/ And here is what Limbaugh predicted on Jan. 8, 2021, about Mr. Trump and the Democrats’ possible intentions: “I know they desperately want Donald Trump gone and I know that they desperately want it codified that Trump cannot run again because make no mistake, they remain scared to death of you and they remain scared to death of Trump — and your 75 million, or 80 million votes. And I’m going to tell you, you’re not going anywhere,” Limbaugh told his listeners, assuring his them that their loyalty would remain steadfast. “They can’t separate you from Trump, and more importantly, they can’t separate you from the ideas. They can’t separate you from MAGA. They can’t separate you from Make America Great Again, which I think remains one of our big campaign strengths going forward,” he said. True. The left sure picked the wrong road to head down if they wanted to hurt Trump.

True Dat!

Easy answer - Yes. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/31/trump-campaign-donations-record.html And (IMHO) it will only continue to grow now that the country can see what has happened to this man. 30% of the fundraising came from new donors....... BTW - The "Rule of Law" comments coming from the Left can not apply here. When the law is bent so far in one direction to get this travesty done, there is no "Rule of Law" anymore.