The Recovering of the Reformed and Repentant Republican

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/03/politics/trump-criticism-judge-royce-lamberth-january-6/index.html

“A federal judge on Wednesday blasted a convicted January 6 rioter for downplaying the US Capitol attack and using the kind of revisionist rhetoric that former President Donald Trump often uses on the campaign trial.”
 

*Yep, when SFB inserts words like “bloodbath” into his campaign speeches, MAGAts are willing to follow though for him.

“This cannot become normal… We cannot condone the normalization of the January 6 US Capitol riot,” US District Judge Royce Lamberth said while sentencing Taylor James Johnatakis to more than seven years in prison.”
 
“The judge declared Wednesday that “the January 6 riot was not civil disobedience,” but instead was a “corrosive” and “selfish, not patriotic” affront to the nation, where Americans were “battling (their) own representative government.” He invoked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Henry David Thoreau as examples of historic American figures who pursued “peaceful” but powerful acts of civil disobedience.”

“There can be no room in our country for this sort of political violence,” Lamberth said.
 
 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/03/africa/botswana-germany-trophy-hunting-scli-intl/index.html
”Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany amid a dispute over the import of hunting trophies.”
 
“The African leader criticised the German government – particularly the environment ministry – for seeking to ban the import of trophies despite Botswana’s ”overpopulation” of elephants.”
“Earlier this year Germany’s environment ministry, which is headed up by Steffi Lemke of the Green party, raised the possibility of stricter limits on the import of hunting trophies due to poaching concerns.”
 
“Masisi told Bild that Germany’s Green party could learn to cohabitate with elephants without hunting them.”
 
“According to Masisi, Botswana has seen its elephant population grow to some 130,000.”
”It is very easy to sit in Berlin and have an opinion about our affairs in Botswana. We are paying the price for preserving these animals for the world – and even for Lemke’s party,” Masisi said.
 
“Botswana’s president argued that conservation efforts have led to an explosion in the elephant population, and hunting is an “important means to keep them in check.”
 
“According to the ministry, Germany is one of the largest importers of hunting trophies in the European Union, and African hunting trophies already require import authorization under current rules.”
 
“Regardless of whether you are for or against hunting as a conservation tool, the hunting industry – as that is what it is – needs to get its house in order,” she said.
“It is largely self-regulated, lacks transparency and is open to rogue behavior,” added Rice.
 
“I find it unfathomable that you’d be horrified of the protection of ones’ livelihood – rural, poor people, who have allowed 40% of the country to be set aside for conservation – when they defend themselves,” Masisi said.
 
So, it’s not about elephant “overpopulation” in Botswana, it’s about money. 
Disgusting that trophy hunting still exist, and every monster who takes part should be identified, shunned, and their businesses boycotted.  I’ll go fist: Don Junior. 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-02/trump-sues-co-founders-of-truth-social-media-company-over-shares

“Trump Sues Truth Social Company Co-Founders to Zero Them Out”
 

“He claims they bungled their duties, forfeiting their stock”
“Trump Media shares plunged less than a week after going public”

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-shorting-trumps-djt-stock-could-cost-you-500-61ffce5e

“Trump Media shares were down 3.5% in afternoon trading Wednesday to trade below the $49.95 level where they closed on March 25 — the day before the ticker symbol changed to “DJT” from “DWAC” following the company’s merger…”

“To short a stock — the act of selling a stock without ever owning it, on the expectation it can be bought back later at a lower price — that stock first has to be borrowed from someone who does own it and is willing and able to lend it. The fewer shares there are available to borrow, the higher the cost to borrow them.”
 
“There is very little stock available to borrow to support new short selling — less than 50,000 shares — and with demand to short this stock extremely high, we are seeing stock-borrow rates at 500% to 600% fee levels,” Dusaniwsky told MarketWatch on Tuesday.
 
“Based on that data, to short 100 shares of Trump Media & Technology Group at the current price, it would cost between $24,895 and $29,874 a year. That means the stock would have to fall about 1.4% a day just to cover the cost of shorting it. And if the short were held for a year, the bet would still lose about $20,000 to $25,000, even if the stock price fell to $1.”
 
“Therefore, he said, any further weakness in the stock price will be driven by selling among “longs,” or investors who had previously bought the stock.”