Politics What is happening????

Florida plan to have taxpayers pay Trump's legal bills nixed after DeSantis veto threat

The above, giving Florida tax dollars to NPD Trump to help pay his legal bills because he's a FL resident running for POTUS,sounds like it was mostly symbolic, with no one seriously expecting it to go anywhere.

The crazy part is I could see this getting approved here in Texas.

 

Ita pretty crazy to be spending (taxpayer money) time on the clock pushing paper around on a known bullshit bill.
Imagine Florida posting the 83 mill to appeal the defamation case, OJ looses again, than all that cash goes to EJC. Damn that would be pretty funny.

 

I have to disagree with it being funny, with my main reason being what I posted earlier: I can see this happening in Texas under Abbott and Paxton. The least funny part being many Texas voters would be in favor of giving NPD Trump our tax money.

 

Well...that special not funny kinda way. Sadly i agree about Abbott Paxton. I don't really dislike Fla. either but certain folks...yeesh..
I remember Tx. and Fla. being blue in an earlier life.

 

"Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., nominated former President Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize, citing his "historic" Abraham Accords treaty."

The above is from FOX Entertaiment, or my preference, FauX News. That bastion of journalistic standards wants me to register in order to access the story. FWIW no other news source I consider even close to decent is reporting the story.


https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...nominated-a-third-time-for-nobel-peace-prize/

The above story is from 2020. Gee, I wonder where Tenney got the idea to nominate NPD Trump...again. I don't suppose it has anything to do with using the current armed conflicts in the Middle East to make Biden look bad, more than being a serious attempt to honor NPD Trump.

 

https://www.salon.com/2024/01/31/de...m-over-ruling-that-poses-direct-to-democracy/

The lower court go against tradition and legal precedent, say it needs to be a DOJ case.

The DOJ is under the control of an AG who is loyal to a POTUS who wants to suppress minority voting as much as possible.

This sounds likely...downright familiar.

 

Edit: IMO this is more about the politics than the news media coverage.

I'm getting nauseous, & my bowels are starting to churn.

I'm watching ABC this week (yes, their spelling). Senator J.D. Vance (R, Ohio) is defending NPD Trump, & what he wanted done to block the election certification on 06 Jan 2021. And he saying a lot of other bullshit to support the idea the charges against NPD Trump are illegitimate because he is being targeted only for political reasons.

George Stephanopoulos summed up Vances's positions, thanked him for appearing, then they cut off Vance's MIC as he yet again tried to deny his support for NPD Trump is support for NPD Trump.

The big problem I see is Vance can spew his bullshit and make it sound reasonable to people who are inclined to support NPD Trump. And he's not the only one.

 

Ken Paxton is bat shit crazy. And keeps getting reelected.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...en-running-logistics-drug-cartels-1234975257/

If he ever gets ran out of Texas (yeah, right ), we should send him to Florida.

 

The thing is keeping up with Gov. Greg Abbott, AG Ken Paxton, & the Texas legislature* could easily be a full time job.

*Would anybody outside of Texas notice that I left out Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick?

 

Which is why I miss Molly Ivins so much.
Her take on this mess would be priceless.

 

Mentioning Texas...

The Uvalde Police Dept is on the job, vigilantly protecting the Uvalde Couny Commisioners from expletives.

Uvalde Parent Arrested At County Commissioners' Meeting

Apparently nobody in a position of power in Uvalde is willing to name names and assign blame.

But they're protected from harsh language...and the truth.

 

She can't say that, can she?

 

I think these two are still very accurate.

“I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.”

“When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.”

 

One really crazy thing is when you show people like that how their thinking is flawed they just dig their heels in even deeper. "I'm right, you're just trying to twist my words and confuse me!"

That reminds me of what would happen if somebody asked one of my sisters, Sis2, to explain how NPD Trump cares about the common people and is a good Christian.

Crazy people also have the right to refuse medication, be homeless, & die younger from poor health.

 

I've worked in a number of restaurants where it was a rule with certain people that you never brought up certain subjects.
That they were great coworkers otherwise but one subject, like abortion or taxes, would turn them into absolute nutjobs.
They believed shit that was deeply unsettling and in some cases outright racist.
So you just didn't go there, ever.
These were people who seemed perfectly normal, even kind and caring in every other way.
I think some of those people got way worse during Covid because because they lost their touch with normal and spent a lot of time on the net finding connections to the one thing that made them crazy.
I think others were sucked into the Trump train because he agreed with their brand of crazy even if it was just that one thing.
Not all of them are on the right though, some were just totally out there and some were quasi-left.

 

It's like NPD Trump made it OK for
people to drop any pretense of civility,
to openly support to extreme ideas, &
to aggressively attack ideas they're against,
& to use hateful rhetoric , threats, & violence.