“Sorry best we can do is more bombs, officially define antisemitism as calling these guys assholes, and, uh, oh yeah, giving their military benefits packages!”
I applaud the effort. But either they are or they aren’t.
Thomas is married to an insurrectionist, allito is flying symbols used by the insurrectionists.
And the other conservatives on the court are all ardently supporting Trump with half baked rulings buying increasing amounts of time to- they hope- delay the trial long enough for it to not matter.
I wouldn’t actually call them sympathizers- I’d just call them insurrectionists.
Blood in vials might be concerning but evacuation of a whole building for it is ridiculous.
In short… this was a suspicious package, and it’s patently ridiculous to not treat it as a suspicious package.
work place accidents have different responses than (potential) terrorism. and hospitals have different responses than office buildings.
You’re working in the context of a hospital. You have (presumably) the necessary PPE and training to work around infectious agents and be safe. None of that’s going to be true in a generic office building. You’re going to be lucky if the cleaners have a box of gloves and there’s an expired, unchecked and pilfered OSHA cabinet with some bandages, gloves, a stupid CPR mask and a shit load of Tylenol and bandaids.
Hospitals have to weigh the risk and difficulty of moving patients, as well the risk of whatever potential attack is there. A generic office building is exceedingly unlikely to have patients that can’t be moved, or shouldn’t be moved, and it’s extremely unlikely that someone will die because they’re asked to wait outside as it would be with a hospital (in say, somebody coming from car accident.)
For office buildings, it’s simpler and safer to just dump the building than it is to have a more nuanced approach in large part because morons’ll get in the way of a proper search for other materials, effectively prolonging the amount of time it takes, and if there are other materials, everybody whose still in the building is at risk until the suspect material is found and disposed of.
I just don’t see how closed vials could threaten the lives of anyone, much less an entire building. It’s not a loose powder or something. It probably was a threat, but those are common these days. They wouldn’t evacuate if it was a letter with some generic “gonna kill you” threat written on it.
actually, most protocols say you do.
Because that one time it is a real threat, people die if you don’t.
Again, it’s not just the closed vials. it’s possibly whatever is under them. It’s possibly what else was left in the building. You might not dump for a threatening letter sent, but you would dump for a letter that was on top of a heavy box. It’s a suspicious package. you treat it like a suspicious package until you know it’s not.
Democratic U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday that would bar the president and other top officials from accepting payments from foreign governments while in office, a measure clearly aimed at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump....
One is showing that Trump knew he was violating campaign finances, and that he intending to defraud (somebody.)
The other was a thing that was not addressed very well by the prosecution was who was being defrauded. If the purpose of the crime was to defraud voters… he was very late on that score.
(It was in fact government officials and others who read business financial statements being defrauded.)
For the first, I’m not sure you can prove beyond reasonable doubt Trump knows his son’s name, never mind he knows and understands esoteric campaign laws.
In this case intent does matter. It’s a fraud trial. And it’s elevated to a felony because he had to be intending to cover up another crime.
Let’s say someone genuinely thought an apple was a pear. That’s not fraud because there was no intent to deceive, it was just an honest mistake.
To take the analogy a step further, and make it more accurate, maybe the my knew the apple wasn’t a pear, and maybe the prosecution is alleging the cashier ate the original pear, and they’re selling the apple as a pear to hide that.
To elevate it to a felony, they’d have to show that there was the intent to conceal a crime. Which means they had to know that eating the pear was itself a crime.
He’s not being tried for the campaign finance law, this is separate and about him falsifying business records- it’s a felony because his intent was to cover up the campaign thing.
So they could conceivably argue that Trump didn’t know the campaign thing was a problem and there couldn’t have possibly meant to conceal it. At this point taking the misdemeanor would be a win.
A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the second degree when, with intent to defraud, he:
Makes or causes a false entry in the business records of an enterprise; or
Alters, erases, obliterates, deletes, removes or destroys a true entry in the business records of an enterprise; or
Omits to make a true entry in the business records of an enterprise in violation of a duty to do so which he knows to be imposed upon him by law or by the nature of his position; or
Prevents the making of a true entry or causes the omission thereof in the business records of an enterprise.
Falsifying business records in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.
A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree when he commits the crime of falsifying business records in the second degree, and when his intent to defraud includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.
Falsifying business records in the first degree is a class E felony.
To be clear, im not saying he didn’t do it, im saying the prosecution didn’t cover one aspect during the trial (that trump knew he was covering up a crime.)
We’re discussing business fraud. Which (linked to another reply) absolutely requires intent to defraud. - and for the first degree version, an intent to conceal a prior crime.
The issue here is that NY statute requires an intention to defraud, and for the first degree felony, an intention to conceal a crime (either one you’re about to do, will do, or have done,).
intentionally concealing a prior crime kind of requires an awareness that thing being concealed was a prior crime.
An argument that trump was unaware the prior thing was a crime could knock it down to a misdemeanor. (Or get a hung jury.)
A public school in Alabama invited a preacher to speak to students about Jesus and lead them in prayer. One reason we know that is because the preacher bragged about how he got away with itonline....
“I would say it’s not great for mental health. I mean the gaslighting, the condemnation. The shame. The never being perfect enough. And that’s just god. Don’t get me started on all the Karen’s.”
And you wonder why this whole line of thinking is seen as deeply unserious.
in 2020, Biden ran on his vast tenure. but apparently, its “deeply unserious” to look at what hes done? He’ll likely mention it again in the coming year
And yes, he does take credit for acts of congress. the build back better plan comes immediately to mind. Or did you think he did that exclusive? American Recovery Act, too. in fact, he pretty much takes credit for every major piece of legislation that comes off. And to be fair, he does do some heavy lifting and horse trading to get it done, but he’s far- far from alone on that.
maybe you should explain how it all works to the fucking POTUS, then, since he loves taking credit for congressional acts that he think’s we’ll like. can’t have it both ways. that you try to insist he should get it both ways is hilarious.
it is a valid criticism to say nothing he’s done comes even close to ‘enough’. in fact, despite his efforts, he’s released more oil into the market from the strategic reserves than every other president combined., and new oil permits have significantly outpaced permits during Trump’s admin.
but it’s deeply unserious to actually look at Biden’s record. As a president. unless that record is… you know… actually a positive record.
Israel has urged what it called “nations of the civilised world” to refuse to implement any international criminal court arrest warrants issued against its leaders....
Ages ago (2006?). Even then, they got something like 40% of the vote. Less than half the voting-age Gazans alive just before the oct 7 attack were even able to vote in the election. Less that a quarter of the current Gazans voted for Hamas.
This is in comparison to 2022 Israeli elections leading to the current government in Israel.
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