Woke Wake-up

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Author: patd

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

50 thoughts on “Woke Wake-up”

  2. more talk of trials and tribulations

    Forcing former VP Pence to testify about the Jan 6th insurrection is good for the country, unlike banning kids from singing Dolly Parton songs or copying Gwyneth Paltrow by getting ozone gas blown up where the sun doesn’t shine.

  3. but will they enforce it?

    New judiciary ethics rules close ‘loopholes’ to require more disclosure of private travel costs | CNN Politics

    After pressure from members of Congress, the federal judiciary revised its financial disclosure rules to require that federal judges – including Supreme Court justices – to be more specific when disclosing non-business travel.
    Under the Ethics in Government Act, judges are required to report information related to gifts of more than minimal value that are received from any source other than a relative. But the law provides an exemption for “food, lodging, or entertainment received as personal hospitality.”
    The new regulations now require that judges disclose non-business stays at resorts, the use of private jets and instances when a third party reimburses a host for costs associated with a visit.
    “The Judicial Conference’s amendment closes a large loophole that allowed individuals and companies with interests before the courts secretly to shower judges, including the Justices, with lavish gifts, including five-star travel,” said Stephen Gillers of the NYU School of Law.
    “Until the change, the true benefactors could remain hidden by calling the gifts ‘personal hospitality,’” Gillers said.
    Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island has led the charge on behalf of some members of Congress to press the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to more clearly define the scope of the exemption. Late Tuesday, he announced that he had received a response.
    “Over the past several months, the Committee has considered this matter,” Roslynn R. Mauskopf, director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, said in a recent letter to Whitehouse. The new policy – effective March 14 – now appears in the Judicial Conference regulations.
    According to the letter, the non-business exemption applies to food, lodging or entertainment and it is intended to cover such gifts of a “personal non-business nature.” But the Judicial Conference regulations now include new language specifying that the exemption does not include “transportation that substitutes for commercial transportation ” (such as a private jet) and “gifts extended at a commercial property” such as a resort. The exemption also does not cover gifts paid for by an individual other than the host.
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  5. As much as I hope Weisselberg is flipping, there’s a chance it’s the Trump team switching his lawyers to one more friendly to them (they pay his legal fees). They were not happy about the plea deal his now former lawyer made for testimony against the company in the recent criminal trial that got convictions on 17 counts of fraud.

    With Weisselberg under threat of more charges against him (for insurance fraud), it makes sense Trump team wants a tougher lawyer who doesn’t make a plea deal, even if that means more jail time for him. He has been a fool all along to let Trump run his defense, but maybe he really has hired an independent lawyer who looks out only for him, and not Trump.

  6. It’s nice that the morning joe person has become an anti-trumper, but all he really wants is for republicans to be electable again.    He likes to gloss over how it was republicans, himself a leader of the pack, who led this country directly to Schtump and the rise of out-front mainstream fascism.  Loud mouth twerp.

  8. I’ve a feeling Disney knew of that loophole LONG  before DumSantis did.  He’s such a…..damn–so many names, so little time.   That boy will soon join all the other forgotten nakatambak da basura.

  9. Weisselberg will need SERIOUS protection going forward. Probably his first demand.  He knows what happebed to Epstein.   Protection such as the world has never seen.  

  12. Doesn’t seem like a Trump lawyer, but hopefully good one for negotiating a flip:

    Weisselberg is now being represented by defense lawyer Seth L. Rosenberg, who previously spent time running the rackets bureau at the very same DA’s office that is now investigating the case.

  14. Today’s crazy from Pumpkin Head (btw he did not repeal the “death tax”, another lie) . The stuff about people who don’t love their children is weird, sounds like projection:

    “I made farmers happy and rich again, and they’re doing a fantastic job. And you know what? Someday it’ll become time for them to leave this beautiful Earth, and they’ll be able to leave their farm without taxes to their children. I got rid of the death tax on farms so that when you do pass away, on the assumption that you love your children, you can leave it to them and they won’t have to pay tax. But if you don’t love your children so much — and there are some people that don’t, and maybe deservedly so — it won’t matter because frankly, you don’t have to leave him anything. Thank you very much. Have fun.”

  15. He’s really on a roll this morning:

    ‘Racist Columnist Charles Blowhard of the Failing New York Times, a sick degenerate who doesn’t like our Country or the values that made it great, prior to its massive FAILURE over the last two years, writes that I should be prosecuted by Radical Left, Soros Backed Lunatics, even without evidence, because I’m White. What has our Country come to? With Blowhard’s racist words and innuendo, dumb as he is, bad things happen, and we are now a Nation in Decline being stupidly led into Workd (sic) War lll.”

  16. sturge, one would assume the DA has an extra set of eyes watching over weisselberg due to his value as a prime witness.  given this january article about the guards there, i hope that bragg has put in more trustworthy ones more loyal to the law than the lawless loser guy:

    Rikers Guards Love Trump, Will Be Nicer to Allen Weisselberg: Expert (businessinsider.com)

    Most Rikers guards are big fans of Donald Trump — so the former president’s longtime top money man, Allen Weisselberg, will likely get preferential treatment as he starts his five-month stint at New York City’s notorious jail complex, an expert told Insider on Tuesday.
    Being 75 years old and in the news will also help Weisselberg, predicted the expert, Five Mualimmak-Ak, a jail-reform activist and former detainee who visits Rikers frequently.
    “Ninety-percent of the guards are Trump supporters, even though most of them are Black and Latino women,” said Mualimmak-Ak, program director for LIFE Camp, a city-based nonprofit. The guards favor the former president’s pro-law-and-order beliefs, he said.
    The city’s former correction officer’s union head, Norman Seabrook, was vocally pro-Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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  17. Could Weisselberg be jumping under the bus himself in hopes to protect his family? Wouldn’t surprise me if those are the threats he’d have the most worry about.

  19. I still remember Morning Joe & Mika from the Hillary wars when they were spouting “but her emails” at the top of every block unless giggling and canoodling with Trump.

    I don’t care how they slam either Trump or DeInsanus, all either of them care about is ratings and paychecks.

     

  20. Jamie, even NBC’s Kristen Welker was doing that then, shoving a microphone in Hillary’s face shouting what about your emails. They were all following scripts and their marching orders from the top, just like the foxes. 

  24. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/politics/affordable-care-act-preventive-care-reed-oconnor/index.html

    Deep in heartless, Republican Texas:

    “A federal judge in Texas said Thursday that some Affordable Care Act mandates cannot be enforced nationwide, including those that require insurers to cover a wide array of preventive care services at no cost to the patient, including some cancer, heart and STD screenings, and smoking cessation programs.”

    “We lose a huge chunk of preventive services because health plans can now impose costs,” said Andrew Twinamatsiko, associate director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. “People who are sensitive to cost will go without, mostly poor people and marginalized communities.”

    In other words, wait until you are symptomatic to go to the doctor, and get more invasive treatments, have worse outcomes…and die. More voters off of the rolls.

    We need health CARE, not health insurance.

    “It is likely the case will be appealed, and the Justice Department has the option to ask that O’Connor’s ruling be put on pause while the appeal is litigated.”

  25. who’s the leader of the club that’s made for you and me

    M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

    https://youtu.be/26RFAwlYtqw

    suck on that, ron. you’re sure to be hearing it as a background in upcoming campaign ads if you manage to win the primaries.

  27. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/media/abc-news-exec-layoffs-disney/index.html

    “ABC News on Thursday stunned staffers, laying off several senior executives and restructuring its newsroom amid a broader workforce reduction being carried out by its parent company Disney…”

    “Among the staffers let go, according to people familiar with the matter, were senior vice president of newsgathering Wendy Fisher; senior vice president of talent Galen Gordon; vice president of talent Mary Noonan; Los Angeles bureau chief David Herndon; vice president of communications Alison Rudnick; senior executive producer Chris Vlasto; and executive editorial producer Heather Riley.”

  28. Ellen Barkin just told Chris Christie to “drop dead you fukin fuck”.

    I guess they’re not censoring twitter yet..

    Wows. you oughta hear what she called mtg…….lol

    thass a bronx girl…….

  34. One of the lawyers I know sent out a reminder that this is just one of many.  He is right.  Here is my response.
     
    There has to be a dance going on over which grand jury delivers something before time out. I heard that the the NYC grand jury had about four weeks left in life. So, doing an indictment now makes sense. There is time enough to cure any issues. The others have different progress and perhaps would use the NYC as cover to do things. Whatever else? But, this feels good for a little bit of seeing the Mafia don get a bee sting.

  35. So the head fake about the grand jury taking a month off seems
    to have been exactly right. Now they can take a vacation after sitting and listening to dumbass’ misdeeds for months.

    Hmmm I wonder if he’ll be released on a PR bond. I’m guessing not.

  36. Now we have other court action, Ms Paltrow is not to blame for some guy stopping in front of her on a down hill trail.  If you have ever skiied the mountains of Colorado and Utah you have come across idiots on the trails.  I skiied cross country and have had a share of the nuts get around me.  On the cross country trails, back country treks and on down hills.  We long skiis would not be able to make turns like the ones with attached boards, but we could be fancy.  Too many times we came across people who should be on the bunny slopes, not the black slopes.

  38. Ms. Bronc, we called them Joeys in New Hampshire. They’d come up from the coast and the call was “Hey Joey, watch this.”  Or something like that. You can guess that a slope side yard sale was in the offing following that call. 

  39. Somehow this would have been less of a big deal if Mitch had not passed the buck. 

  40. Please, I had someone plow into the back of me when she was out of control debarking from a chair lift back at the village area.   She hit me and then hit the ground; I went up in the air and landed on her…and she was pissed at me.  The only safe place is in a ski lodge drinking cocoa.    

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