In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court REJECTED Donald Trump’s motion to block his criminal sentencing in New York.
Trump was found guilty in May of falsifying business records with the intent to commit a second crime.
The office of Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, argued that Trump falsely recorded reimbursements he made to his former lawyer Michael Cohen for paying $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels, so she would keep quiet about an alleged sexual liaison with the then candidate. Trump marked these repayments to Cohen as “legal expenses” on financial documents.
State prosecutors contended at trial that these falsifications were intended to hide Trump’s violation of New York election law, which forbids promoting any person to office through unlawful means. They said that the unlawful means were the payoff to Daniels, as they cast it as an illegal campaign contribution.
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“Hell to the Chief Felon”
Donald Trump, president-elect with a felony conviction, to be sentenced Friday in New York – ABC News
from a day cel-ebrating a man of character to a character who should just be celled….
the times they certainly have been achanging
Attribution: The dumbest of times by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
more of that ABC story — query: will DOTUS be required to respond to judge? will we be able to see his response in real time?
Man of Convictions
Burning desire
Interior of the Will Rogers home that burned. I always loved the swinging couches that hung from the ceiling. As you went up the stairs, all of the doors led to family and guest bedrooms.
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/XkQ.Mx.ittEqO1bYr3jK4Q–/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTIxNjA7aD0xNDQ2/https://media.zenfs.com/en/e__181/baa7e539dac5ae9cad679f0da0b70170
https://www.politico.com/playbook
This song always made me homesick. Now it just sounds creepy with the Santa Ana winds
Just in: Judge dodges jail sentence.
But Trump is now officially a Convicted Felon.
Congratulations Mr. Trump to you and your legal team. You have masterfully delayed proceedings in this and every other court I’m aware of and you have avoided punishment for your crimes. While I cannot sentence you to jail time or restrict you through probation requirements I also cannot disrespect the jury of your peers who found you guilty and allow you to escape all responsibility for your crimes. That said you may now ad FELON to your resume.
Ha! That’s what I said he was thinking about during President Carter’s service ( in addition to whether his lunch order would be with or without cheese). Rest assured, it will be a gaudy mess. Folks will have parties with drinking games. Do a shot every time Eric says my father.” Fifth Ave closed for a public ceremony & then the casket rides up the escalator of tRUMP Tower.
Dumbass is going to say he was exonerated since there’s no prison time or fine.
Joe should pardon Michael Cohen.
FF will get himself buried in Arlington even though he doesn’t deserve it.
Curiosity got to me more than common sense so I headed on over to the far right wing nut job sites to see if they even heard their leader is a criminal. (that’s a joke folks, of course he isn’t) There is the usual the libs want to kill him, it is all a setup, etc. Several did come up with a solid conclusion that it does not matter he can do anything he wants because he is above the law.
That some conclusion has been floating around the liberal side of the world too, but with a different tone. He is above the law because [fill in the blank]. Other than jail time there is nothing that would have bothered sfb. He has spent his life ignoring legal process, except to muck it up. He has attorneys doing the dirty work, at least until they are disbarred.
As for those telling me that being a Felon (big F) means something, tell me exactly what. His world continues without change.
If I were Judge Merchan, I would’ve made Felonious tRUMP pay a 34 cent fine. No checks. Cash. No lackeys to do it for him. Exact change.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5078615-donald-trump-barack-obama-carter-funeral-service/
“You know, we met backstage before we went on, and I thought it was a beautiful service, but we all got along very well.”
*FFS! Backstage? At a funeral? Went on?
Maybe we need to rename todays post,
Mourning in America, pt 2.
Some where this week a kid is facing an automatic 5 years just because he had both fentanyl and a gun in his house. We can’t even give this Asshole a $50 fine and probation all of which could have been put on hold until the end of his presidency.
Jack
Isn’t it time for Americans to stop worshiping the rich and famous.
today’s meme…
Charlie Sykes: “The Supreme Court didn’t save Donald Trump this time, and with a 5-4 decision Thursday evening refused to delay his sentencing in New York on Friday morning.
That means that 10 days before his inauguration, the incoming president was officially sentenced as a convicted felon. As he had signaled he would do, Judge Juan Merchan sentenced Trump to “unconditional release,” letting Trump avoid jail time so that he can assume the office of the presidency. But the conviction is now an indelible part of Trump’s record…Even though this may have been the least of Trump’s crimes, it was not a trivial matter. His attorney, Michael Cohen, went to prison for his role in arranging the payments. And, as Cohen later explained, the payoffs were not designed to cover up a personal scandal but were made ‘for the principal purpose of influencing the election.’ Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal counts, including ‘two counts of illegal campaign contributions related to payments to women.’”
“Cohen served more than a year in prison and a year and a half in home confinement. Trump himself faced as many as four years for his own felony convictions. But, unlike, Cohen, Trump will not serve a day.”
Fair is fair. Pardon Michael Cohen.
Photographer fixed the picture of attendees at the Carter funeral by picking a great angle
https://apnews.com/article/germany-elon-musk-afd-alice-weidel-521a8fb77250ee0f354fa4e76c1ce63d
“Tech billionaire Elon Musk livestreamed his chat with a leader of Germany’s far-right party on Thursday, using the power of his social media platform, X, to amplify the party’s message ahead of an upcoming national election — and raising concerns across Europe about the world’s richest man trying to influence foreign politics.”
*Denaturalize & deport & freeze his assets. He’s violated The Logan Act multiple times.
When you have a good scam or con going, might as well keep it up. The felon sfb is trying to buy the Old Post Office lease back. Yup, home of the buy influence grift. I just read that and cannot find the link. It read that sfb jr (maybe) was in talks with the current lease holder to buy it back. Great investment no doubt. Double, triple, even greater return on your money being laundered from the oligarchs, foreign and domestic.
BB – Bingo! Money laundering.
He’s Felon hard times.
I’m surprised Obama’s face isn’t reflecting the orange glow.
So, the Felon had to turn in his firearm(s) so he can’t shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue? But…he will control the military and will have access to nuke launch codes? It was a weird election season, so maybe something weird will happen in the next, ten days.
Biden making Harris POTUS, so she’d be 47, would make SFB go nuts.
I must agree that Michael Cohen should be unconditionally pardoned. He’s just been through enough. His family has been through too much. It’s simply a humane gesture.
“In the cartoonist Barry Blitt’s portrayal of the upcoming Inauguration Day, the new President is sidelined into a dash of yellow hair and a sliver of red tie. “On January 20, 2025, the next leader of the United States—and of the free world—assumes power,” Blitt said. “Also on that day: Donald Trump is sworn in.”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-01-20
*This New Yorker cover should make Adolf flop his lid.
https://www.bard.edu/news/ronan-farrow-04-reports-on-elon-musks-shadow-rule-for-the-new-yorker-2023-08-22
“The meddling of oligarchs and other monied interests in the fate of nations is not new,” writes Ronan Farrow ’04 in a piece on Elon Musk for the New Yorker. “But Musk’s influence is more brazen and expansive.”
“The United States government is widely dependent on Musk and his companies, Farrow reports, “from the future of energy and transportation to the exploration of space.” A recent crisis regarding the abrupt disruption of communication among Ukrainian military forces via Musk’s Starlink technology only furthered the point that Musk, despite not being a diplomat or statesman, increasingly operates as such.”
Must take care
Right-Wing media having fun amplifying the complaints against Democrats by celebrities who built houses in a desert on cliffsides
There’s a pic of Tom Hanks’ house floating around with his manicured lawn a verdant green with all the surrounding homes incinerated, not a good look
Community service
Walmart eggs $10.49
Mandated cage-free + bird flu.
i got a dozen yesterday at a Kroger-owned store for $4.29, caged and verbally abused chickens possibly idk
Michael Cohen on Chris Hayes now. Pardon him.
Sick chicks.
If I can get out of my driveway I will be out egg hunting tomorrow. We had mail delivery for the first time in several days, snow days are real here.
Picked up a prescription at Walmart. except for a few brown eggs the egg case was empty. But then so was the bread isle. Probably limited restocking due to the storm.
I buy the cheap eggs at Aldis
As a farm boy there are two things I know, animal cruelty causes stress for the animals and stressed chickens don’t lay eggs. In fact if you want to slow down egg production in your backyard flock just let their feet get wet.
Jack
The way to avoid high egg prices is to just not buy them. I’m down to using 2 or 3 eggs a week and that is only for baking. I haven’t eaten an egg by itself for over a month. I don’t buy bacon either.
But I did stock up on $2 whole hams.
Jack
BB: yesterday’s mail interruption was Jimmy.
Ivy
And today, around here, it was 3 inches of snow. It doesn’t take much to keep the mailman home these days. I know because they were to deliver 2 packages. Fedex delivered as did UPS and Amazon but those deliveries were to my neighbors, mine got shipped USPS.
Jack
Ebay sent me an email about 3 hours before the mailman was due, saying the “mailman missed me” as if it was my fault rather than he plain didn’t come.
That after I shoveled off the walkway for him.
Jack
Craig, New system doesn’t seem to allow copy/ paste for images. Unless I’m doing it wrong, I have to save and then use the link button to upload.
i own 22 eggs right now so i guess i’m doing pretty good relatively
Elon is blaming DEI and hiring minorities to blame for the fire and lack of continent of fires.
White South Africans are racist AF
his family left SA right after Apartheid ended, what a coincidence
but yes, racists tend to blame minorities for everything
OK, if you like to smile and cry, watch “extraordinary attorney woo” on netflix, is Korean dubbed to english
Well my old FF initials for SFB (Fat Fuck) are doing double duty now for the First Felon. We are fucked.
Ivy, at WTH Walmart are you finding eggs that expensive? The most expensive ones at the East Bumfuck Walmart are Vital Farms Pasture Raised Grade A Large Brown Eggs, at $7.68. Cheapest are Great Value Cage Free Large White Eggs at $3.22.
Pogo, this:
https://ag.colorado.gov/press-release/all-eggs-sold-in-colorado-starting-in-2025-willbe-cage-free
im going to reset my judgments of trump and maga and let them start fucking up from a clean slate, cuz we lost and lost big
we out of touch
i was telling maga they’re out of touch but it was me
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