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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[LarryBnDC]

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/07/federal-prosecutors-file-sentencing-memo-for-ex-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen.html

Not looking good for Individual #1.

[NeedsAdjustments]

I wonder how Trump himself feels about his "only the best people" boast after he himself has questioned the competence, professionalism and mental capacity of numerous people he has hired.

If the guy is "dumb as a rock" you should have realized that before you hired him, right?

[NeedsAdjustments]

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/07/federal-prosecutors-file-sentencing-memo-for-ex-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen.html

Not looking good for Individual #1.

Second, Cohen provided the SEO with useful information concerning certain discrete Russia-related matters core to its investigation that he obtained by virtue of his regular contact with Company executives during the campaign.

No.  It is not.  Not looking good for Individual #1 Jr. either.

[Hamilton Samuels]

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/07/federal-prosecutors-file-sentencing-memo-for-ex-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen.html

Not looking good for Individual #1.

Second, Cohen provided the SEO with useful information concerning certain discrete Russia-related matters core to its investigation that he obtained by virtue of his regular contact with Company executives during the campaign.

No.  It is not.  Not looking good for Individual #1 Jr. either.

40 pages reveal a lot:

https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181207-27-sentencing-memo-usa.pdf

[whiskeypriest]

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/07/federal-prosecutors-file-sentencing-memo-for-ex-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen.html

Not looking good for Individual #1.

Well, you know the old saying. Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and never, ever, piss off your lawyer.

[Hamilton Samuels]

...Cohen managed to commit a panoply of
serious crimes, all while holding himself out as a licensed attorney and upstanding member of the
bar. His offenses strike at several pillars of our society and system of government: the payment
of taxes; transparent and fair elections; and truthfulness before government and in business.

First, Cohen’s commission of two campaign finance crimes on the eve of the 2016 election
for President of the United States struck a blow to one of the core goals of the federal campaign
finance laws: transparency. While many Americans who desired a particular outcome to the
election knocked on doors, toiled at phone banks, or found any number of other legal ways to make
their voices heard, Cohen sought to influence the election from the shadows. He did so by
orchestrating secret and illegal payments to silence two women who otherwise would have made
public their alleged extramarital affairs with Individual-1. In the process, Cohen deceived the
voting public by hiding alleged facts that he believed would have had a substantial effect on the
election.

It is this type of harm that Congress sought to prevent when it imposed limits on individual
contributions to candidates. To promote transparency and prevent wealthy individuals like Cohen
from circumventing these limits, Congress prohibited individuals from making expenditures on
behalf of and coordinated with candidates. Cohen clouded a process that Congress has
painstakingly sought to keep transparent. The sentence imposed should reflect the seriousness of
Cohen’s brazen violations of the election laws and attempt to counter the public cynicism that may
arise when individuals like Cohen act as if the political process belongs to the rich and powerful.

[Hamilton Samuels]

Cohen’s submission suggests that this was but a brief error in judgment. Not so. Cohen
knew exactly where the line was, and he chose deliberately and repeatedly to cross it. Indeed, he
Case 1:18-cr-00602-WHP Document 27 Filed 12/07/18 Page 25 of 40
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was a licensed attorney with significant political experience and a history of campaign donations,
and who was well-aware of the election laws.
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 In fact, Cohen publicly and privately took credit
for Individual-1’s political success, claiming – in a conversation that he secretly recorded – that
he “started the whole thing . . . started the whole campaign” in 2012 when Individual-1 expressed
an interest in running for President. Moreover, not only was Cohen well aware of what he was
doing, but he used sophisticated tactics to conceal his misconduct. He arranged one of the
payments through a media company and disguised it as a services contract, and executed the
second non-disclosure agreement with aliases and routed the six-figure payment through a shell
corporation. After the election, he arranged for his own reimbursement via fraudulent invoices for
non-existent legal services ostensibly performed pursuant to a non-existent “retainer” agreement.
And even when public reports of the payments began to surface, Cohen told shifting and
misleading stories about the nature of the payment, his coordination with the candidate, and the
fact that he was reimbursed

Sean Hannity is involved. It's just a matter of time before that shoe drops.

[facilitatorn]

I wonder how Trump himself feels about his "only the best people" boast after he himself has questioned the competence, professionalism and mental capacity of numerous people he has hired.

If the guy is "dumb as a rock" you should have realized that before you hired him, right?

All his best people are undocumented. The rest, not so much.

[kiiidcarter8]

I wonder how Trump himself feels about his "only the best people" boast after he himself has questioned the competence, professionalism and mental capacity of numerous people he has hired.

If the guy is "dumb as a rock" you should have realized that before you hired him, right?

Like with Clinton and Gore?

Heh.

[FlyingVProd]

LASD Suspends Operations of Unit That Stopped Thousands of Innocent Latino Motorists on 5 Freeway
POSTED 3:24 PM, DECEMBER 7, 2018, BY LOS ANGELES TIMES

https://ktla.com/2018/12/07/lasd-suspends-operations-of-unit-that-stopped-thousands-of-innocent-latino-motorists-on-5-freeway/

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We have rights, we just need to stand up and fight for them.

The people need to be educated on what their rights are, and we need to start fighting for the rights that we already have.

The cops cannot stop you and search your car for no reason.

The cops cannot stop you and frisk you while you are walking down the street.

The Border Patrol and ICE agents cannot board Greyhound buses without a warrant, just like with a limousine.

People cannot ban you from a rental unit based on your race.

People cannot ban you from a job based on your race.

We have all kinds of rights here in the USA, and we need to fight to regain and retain the rights that we already have.

And we do not need any walls. We won two world wars without building any walls, and we won the cold war without building any walls. We need to have a GOOD NEIGHBOR policy with our good Christian neighbors here in the Western Hemisphere, Mexico, and Canada.

Salute,

Tony V.

[facilitatorn]

Right on Tony.

Under a forest of filings, it also comes out that the Russian infiltrated and inflated NRA illegally coordinated with Individual 1 and many other republican office holders and defeated candidates.

The FEC is doing its level best to ignore this, but Mueller has already transmuted this into bricks for the edifice he’s erecting to keep the criminal undesirables (Kiid would call them the first family. First in trade deficit, bigly.) out of contact with the peace loving and prosperous American population. How do you build a baby jail for a 73 year old baby?

Does Grassley wait for a more pliable gop Committee or does he try and get the new AG pick through in the lame duck like a hot potato?

How hot is it going to get in Bambu’s Little Hell hole after the new year? It’s a preview of things to come for us up here.

NJ’s magazine limit has been upheld.

The fundies need to understand the biblical signs they should voting D not R.

[facilitatorn]

http://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1071201140010815489.html

Brick by brick.

[josh]

I wonder how Trump himself feels about his "only the best people" boast after he himself has questioned the competence, professionalism and mental capacity of numerous people he has hired.

If the guy is "dumb as a rock" you should have realized that before you hired him, right?

Like with Clinton and Gore?

Heh.

There you go, back to the prior millennium for your attempt at a counter-example.

And still, you blew it, Kiiiiiiiid.

Neither Clinton or Gore insulted the intelligence of one of Clinton's Cabinet appointees after the individual left the White House, even if the appointee attacked them.

And none of the appointees claimed that Clinton told him to break the law on multiple occasions.

So, not even a good try!

[josh]

https://politics.theonion.com/giuliani-insists-breaking-the-law-not-a-crime-1827979622

Giuliani says that breaking the law is not a crime.

[josh]

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