Criminal asshat wasted his money on the flag-it was gone by the next day. I'm glad he's helping the economy by spending money though.![]()
Biden
Trump
Biden, but Trump will legally steal it from him
Pelosi, because it will go into legal proceedings until after the inauguaration
Criminal asshat wasted his money on the flag-it was gone by the next day. I'm glad he's helping the economy by spending money though.![]()
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...mation-lawsuit
Boom!!! after the Trumps threatened to sue the Lincoln Project over the COVID-19 ads now theres a new possible lawsuit where Trump is named as a defendant in a rape allegation.
A federal judge on Tuesday denied Donald Trump?s request that he be replaced as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit alleging he raped a woman in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
The decision by US district judge Lewis A Kaplan came after the justice department argued that the United States ? and by extension US taxpayers ? should replace Trump as the defendant in a lawsuit filed by the columnist E Jean Carroll.
The government?s lawyers contended that the United States could step in as the defendant because Trump was forced to respond to her lawsuit to prove he was physically and mentally fit for the job.
The judge ruled that a law protecting federal employees from being sued individually for things they do within the scope of their employment didn?t apply to a president. But even if it did, Kaplan ruled, Trump?s public denials of the rape allegation would have come outside the scope of his employment.
Lawyers for Carroll had written that ?only in a world gone mad could it somehow be presidential, not personal, for Trump to slander a woman who he sexually assaulted?.
In a statement, Carroll said: ?When I spoke out about what Donald Trump did to me in a department store dressing room, I was speaking out against an individual. When Donald Trump called me a liar and denied that he had ever met me, he was not speaking on behalf of the United States.
?I am happy that Judge Kaplan recognized these basic truths. As the judge recognized today, the question whether President Trump raped me 20 years ago in a department store is at ?the heart? of this lawsuit. We can finally return to answering that question, and getting the truth out.?
Roberta Kaplan, counsel to Carroll, said: ?We are very pleased that the federal court interpreted the plain text of Federal Tort Claims Act as not covering President Trump?s false statements about our client.
?The simple truth is that President Trump defamed our client because she was brave enough to reveal that he had sexually assaulted her, and that brutal, personal attack cannot be attributed to the office of the president.?
The justice department relied solely on written arguments after its lawyer was banned from a Manhattan federal courthouse last week because he had not quarantined for two weeks after traveling to New York from a state where coronavirus positive test rates were high.
Carroll, a former longtime advice columnist for Elle magazine, said in her lawsuit that in the fall of 1995 or spring of 1996 she and Trump met in a chance encounter when they recognized each other at the Bergdorf Goodman store.
She said they engaged in a lighthearted chat about trying on a see-through lilac gray bodysuit when they made their way to a dressing room, where she said Trump pushed her against a wall and raped her.
Trump said Carroll was ?totally lying? to sell a memoir and that he had never met her, though a 1987 photo showed them and their then-spouses at a social event. He said the photo captured a moment when he was standing in a line.
Carroll, who wants unspecified damages and a retraction of Trump?s statements, also seeks a DNA sample from Trump to see whether it matches as-yet-unidentified male genetic material found on a dress that she says she was wearing during the alleged attack.
On Tuesday, Kaplan added: ?We look forward to moving forward with E Jean Carroll?s defamation case against Donald Trump in his personal capacity in federal court.?
He really is trying to kill his supporters!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...rally-n1245065
Hundreds of President Donald Trump supporters were left in the freezing cold for hours after a rally at an airfield in Omaha, Nebraska, on Tuesday night, with some walking around three miles to waiting buses and others being taken away in ambulances.
Six were taken to hospitals, suffering from a variety of medical conditions, the Omaha airport authority said in a statement. The authority said it could not confirm that the people were taken to hospitals because of the cold.
Many of those at the rally at the Eppley Airfield faced hours in long lines to get in and clogged parking lots and busy crowds to get out, hours after his Air Force One departed around 9 p.m. Crowds cleared about 12:30 a.m.
According to dispatches from Omaha Police department, recorded by radio communications platform, Broadcastify, at least 30 people including the elderly, an electric wheelchair user and a family with small children were among those requiring medical attention after hours of waiting in the cold at the rally at the Eppley Airfield.
Image: President Donald Trump looks out at supporters at a campaign rally in Omaha on Tuesday.
"Supporters of the president were brought in, but buses weren?t able to get back to transport people out. It?s freezing and snowy in Omaha tonight," Nebraska State Senator Megan Hunt tweeted.
NBC News has reached out to the Trump campaign, Omaha Police Department, Omaha Fire/EMS and Douglas County Sheriff's Office in Omaha and has not yet received comment.
"There's an issue with a number of people unable to find their cars and wandering in the cold ... see if we can't get everybody reunited with a car," the Omaha Police Dispatch 1129 recording said, according to Broadcastify.
"I've got an elderly male that's down ten blocks...having a hard time breathing right now," audio on Omaha Police Dispatch 1100 said. While another refers to: "Subject says he's about to pass out."
The recordings say there were about "30 patient contacts" and 20 buses backed-up and creating jams as rally-goers had to be shuttled back to busy parking lots and exits. The dispatches also reference patients being taken to Creighton University Medical Center, NBC News reached out to the hospital but did not yet receive a response.
Ahead of the event, the Omaha Police Department warned on Twitter that "Parking at the TRUMP rally is full."
"Is there any place you would rather be than a Trump rally on about a 10 degree evening? ... It's cold out here but that's okay," Trump said as he arrived at Eppley Airfield wearing a heavy black coat and gloves.
Crowds cheered as he pretended to close up his coat.
Trump told the crowd he'd been to Wisconsin and Michigan earlier on Tuesday, where it had also been freezing and raining and thanked crowds for attending.
"I said I won't put on a hat because I'm gonna show you how tough we are," he said.
"It was pouring and it was freezing. It is the coldest right here, right? It is an honor to be with you, I have to say. When we win, you win, Nebraska wins and all of America wins."
Miles Taylor the person behind Republicans against Trump and the Anonymous Trump Letter has been revealed
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrews.../#1de7ca456b3b
TOPLINE President Donald Trump on Thursday continued his all-out assault on former Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor – who revealed Tuesday he was behind an anonymous New York Times op-ed in 2018 about internal resistance to the president within the administration – warning “bad things” will happen to him and calling for both him and the Times to be prosecuted.
Trump initially called for Taylor to be prosecuted for writing the op-ed and an anonymous book expanding on it during a rally in Arizona on Wednesday, calling him a “low-level employee” who never worked in the White House and was “quickly removed from his job a long time ago.”
Taylor began as a senior advisor at DHS in 2017, ascending to the positions of deputy chief of staff later that year and then chief of staff, a job which he said involved briefing Trump in the White House, before resigning in June 2019.
At a rally in Florida on Thursday, Trump said there should be “major criminal liability” for Taylor – who he claimed left his position with “nothing but praise for the Trump – calling him “treasonous” and urging Google to fire him because “bad things are going to happen to him.”
Trump also called for the Times to be prosecuted for unspecified charges, calling the op-ed, written by Taylor, "fake news made up by the New York Times."
Trump claimed on Thursday that he “never even heard of” Taylor despite tweeting about him in August and claiming in February to know the identity of the op-ed author, telling reporters at the time, “I can’t tell you that… We won’t get into it.”
Taylor is far from the only political opponent Trump has called to prosecute in recent months. Trump has long called for Justice Department and Senate probes into his enemies, including former FBI Director Jim Comey, former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden, his Democratic opponent in the presidential election. Trump has also taken a hard line on leakers, calling them “traitors and cowards” and launching numerous internal probes into various leaks.
CHIEF CRITIC
“The state of open dissent in America: the President derides critics as “traitors” and “treasonous”; threatens to “prosecute” & “lock them up”; and ominously warns “bad things” will happen to them,” Taylor tweeted in response to Trump’s warning about “bad things” happening to him. “Is this who we are?”
SURPRISING FACT
Despite serving in the Trump administration, Taylor has endorsed Democratic candidate Joe Biden and cut ads for pro-Biden group Republican Voters Against Trump, claiming Trump promised pardons to officials who broke the law, withheld wildfire aid to California over his disdain for the state’s Democratic governor and declared “magical authorities” beyond the law. Taylor is among more than half a dozen former Trump officials – and hundreds of Republican former officials – who have endorsed Biden.
CRUCIAL QUOTE
“Many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations,” Taylor wrote in the op-ed in 2018, declaring “our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireSt...drugs-73932283
Good Move here.
SALEM, Ore. -- In what would be a first in the U.S., possession of small amounts of heroin, cocaine, LSD and other hard drugs could be decriminalized in Oregon under a ballot measure that voters are deciding on in Tuesday?s election.
Measure 110 is one of the most watched initiatives in Oregon because it would drastically change how the state's justice system treats people caught with amounts for their personal use.
Instead of being arrested, going to trial and facing possible jail time, the users would have the option of paying $100 fines or attending new, free addiction recovery centers.
The centers would be funded by tax revenue from retail marijuana sales in the state that was the country's first to decriminalize marijuana possession.
It may sound like a radical concept even in one of the most progressive U.S. states ? but countries including Portugal, the Netherlands and Switzerland have already decriminalized possession of small amounts of hard drugs, according to the United Nations.
Portugal's 2000 decriminalization brought no surge in drug use. Drug deaths fell while the number of people treated for drug addiction in the country rose 20% from 2001 to 2008 and then stabilized, Portuguese officials have said.
The U.N. Chief Executives Board for Coordination, chaired by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, is also advocating a different approach.
In a 2019 report, the board announced its commitment to ?promote alternatives to conviction and punishment in appropriate cases, including the decriminalization of drug possession for personal use.?
Doing so would also "address prison overcrowding and overincarceration by people accused of drug crimes,? said the board, which is made up of the leaders of all U.N. agencies, funds and other bodies.
Oregon's measure is backed by the Oregon Nurses Association, the Oregon chapter of the American College of Physicians and the Oregon Academy of Family Physicians.
?Punishing people for drug use and addiction is costly and hasn?t worked. More drug treatment, not punishment, is a better approach,? the groups said in a statement.
Opponents include two dozen district attorneys who urged a no vote, saying the measure ?recklessly decriminalizes possession of the most dangerous types of drugs (and) will lead to an increase in acceptability of dangerous drugs.?
Three other district attorneys back the measure, including the top prosecutor in Oregon?s most populous county, which includes Portland, the state's largest city.
?Misguided drug laws have created deep disparities in the justice system," said Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt. "Arresting people with addictions is a cruel punishment because it slaps them with a lifelong criminal record that can ruin lives.?
Jimmy Jones, executive director of Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action, a group that helps homeless people, said arresting people who are using but not dealing hard drugs makes life extremely difficult for them.
?Every time that this happens, not only does that individual enter the criminal justice system but it makes it very difficult for us, on the back end, to house any of these folks because a lot of landlords won?t touch people with recent criminal history,? Jones said. ?They won?t touch people with possession charges.?
The measure would decriminalize possession of less than one gram of heroin or methamphetamine; two grams of cocaine; 12 grams of psilocybin mushrooms; 40 doses of LSD, oxycodone or methadone; and one gram or five pills of MDMA.
The new addiction recovery centers that would be launched in the state would be funded by tax revenues from Oregon's legal, regulated marijuana industry.
Marijuana tax revenues collected by the state in excess of $45 million annually would fund the centers. Doing so would reduce the amount given to schools, the state police, mental health programs and local governments, according to the ballot measure's financial impact statement published by the Oregon secretary of state.
The Oregon revenue department said it received about $133 million in marijuana taxes during the most recent fiscal year that started in July 2019 and ended last June.
Opponents have seized on the funding reductions in an attempt to sway voters to vote against the measure and have also said that decriminalizing hard drugs would make young people more likely to start using them.
The state's voters in 2014 legalized recreational use and sale of marijuana. But it passed by fewer than 200,000 votes of the 1.5 million counted.
Given that margin, the more controversial hard drugs decriminalization measure is unlikely to pass, said Catherine Bolzendahl, director of Oregon State University's School of Public Policy.
But Christopher McKnight Nichols, associate professor of history at Oregon State University, said it's hard to gauge the outcome because voter participation seems headed for a historic high, with many first-time voters.
?We don?t know as much about their preferences,? Nichols said.
If Oregon's voters reject Measure 110, "it may well pass next time, which has been the model for marijuana legalization, for instance, across the country,? Nichols said.
The measure's political action committee, More Treatment for a Better Oregon: Yes on 110, received a $500,000 donation from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan via the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which supports science and education work and promotes criminal justice reform.
?If the measure passes, Oregon will shift to a health-based approach to drugs and addiction,? the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's website says.
I added a poll to this thread. It's going to close on Tuesday, just like the election.
I have another Scenario if Trump loses he will start a Trumptown Commune in Russia and lure his supporters to go to Putin's mansions and have his rallies there. But it will take a Leo Ryan type person in the Attorney General's office and to investigate how big this Trump Cult really is and we will end up in the same situation like in November 1978. Shit This includes all the Kool aid this president has promoted from Hydroxychloroquine, Oleandrin, Colloidal silver, COVID-19 aka SARS-CoV-2 Virus and disinfectants.
https://fox40.com/news/your-local-el...-day-tensions/
If you are in a State Capital city such as Sacramento expect riot police to be all over the downtown area due to the elections. Or in Washington D.C. area expect riot police in the area.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — Law enforcement agencies don’t know what’s going to happen with next week’s election any more than the public, but even if nothing happens, Sacramento authorities said they’ll be ready — just in case.
After a year of protests and demonstrations on both the left and the right, there’s a growing sense that on Tuesday night, political divisions could possibly boil over into clashes on the streets as the 2020 election results come in.
“We will be vigilant and we will take care of any problems that arise, but for people to be aware of what’s going on around them and try not to be in the middle of it so that they don’t end up as a victim or in the middle of a group that they’re not expecting to be,” Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Rod Grassmann said.
Grassmann says starting this weekend, his agency is scheduling extra hours for some of its deputies.
“What we do do around national events or national disasters is that we move to 12-hour shift model rather than have a 10-hour,” Grassmann explained.
That extra two hours on shift means more deputies will be available if needed to “free up resources and personnel in case mutual aid is called or something unexpected happens, we are prepared,” he said.
Similarly, the Sacramento Police Department released a statement to FOX40, stating extra officers will be available “to monitor any protests or disturbances that may occur in conjunction with the elections. As with any protests or demonstrations that occur in our city, rolling road closures may be enacted if the demonstration becomes mobile.”
Also, the Downtown Sacramento Partnership is releasing a list of best practices for election night to its members, many of whom have already boarded up their store and restaurant windows because of an increase of protests downtown this year.
As for any issues at the polls, Sgt. Grassman says those need to be reported to the county’s election board, not 911: “They are in charge of elections, they set all of that up, they monitor that, and they would be the ones to call. Certainly, if at a loss, and as a last resort, they’re always welcome to call us and we will look into it.”
While law enforcement may be preparing for the worst this Tuesday, they are also hoping for the best.
“One of the great things about our democracy, and we are the envy of the world for is that we have peaceful elections and we have peaceful transfers of power,” Grassmann said. “We’re expecting that this time around, also.”
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