charges are falsifying business records to hide #HushMoney payments in lead up to 2016 election to #influence electorate
just one Trump supporter at the courthouse draped in a Trump flag.
#StormyDaniels's lawyer, #KeithDavidson, to return to stand. He negotiated the hush-money payment at the center of the case, & is expected to lay out details of the deal.
Reminder custodial witnesses like Daus — are tasked w/ verifying & entering records into evidence — because the defense refused to accept anything as basic fact.
In most trials, lawyers agree that certain exhibits should be understood to be true & factual; #Trump’s lawyers consistently refuse to do that, AT ALL, they won’t accept things like this is a table, this is a phone, thus requiring this boring fact verification process.
Georgia Longstreet, the next witness, is a paralegal who monitors social media postings at the Manhattan DA’s office. She will be questioned by prosecutor Rebecca #Mangold.
This is another #CustodialWitness — again only necessary because #Trump’s legal team refused to agree on basic #facts prior to trial.
“Can you briefly describe how #Twitter works?” is a question 🙄.
The gross 🤮 pastor from #Monroe#NorthCarolina who said ‘men’ that #rape women wearing shorts should not be punished, also runs a private (fake)#Christian school that received almost $1 million of tax-payer funds to ‘educate’ children!
The best criticism I’ve seen of post-modernism, specifically Michel Foucault’s flavour of it, comes from Karl Rove—former U.S Presidential advisor to George W. Bush:
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore." He continued "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
In other words, by the time you analyze how power structures work, those in power change the reality of those power structures.
Which means by the time those who critique realize what’s happening, conditions change. It’s too late. With the time it took to analyze, you didn’t act fast enough to resist the “new reality”.
@atomicpoet don’t leave out the vogue for #LGAT scams, which encourage ppl to alter their own reality. #AlternativeFacts they are all the rage amongst the politics, business, and NGO types.
When the Turing test first came about, the populace was far less gullible than today.
But now, after being pounded over most mass media about #AlternativeFacts and such, way too many of our compatriots have become convinced that truth is literally more flexible than it ever used to be.
Sure, AI is getting better, but we're getting dumber at a far faster rate.
Er bestaat behoorlijke consensus onder historici en economen dat onafhankelijke wetenschap een belangrijke motor is in de vooruitgang. Naast het woord van God ontstond er in Europese universiteiten een eigen domein waarin volgens eigen methodiek naar waarheden gezocht kon worden. Niet onfeilbaar maar wel onafhankelijk van de ‘Heilige Schrift.’ Die onafhankelijkheid kwam niet vanzelf en moest bevochten worden. Beroemd is het proces van de kerk tegen Galilei.
Er is een verband tussen #alternativefacts en de bestorming van het capitool. Het is hetzelfde verband als tussen #Agrifacts en de #stikstofcrisis. Je kunt spinnen wat je wil maar de feiten bewegen niet mee. Dan komt er geen oplossing, gewoon omdat je het probleem niet adresseert. Op plekken waar je het wel doet – #ruimtevoorderivier bijvoorbeeld – worden dingen wel opgelost.
Drijfgassen verbieden heeft geholpen, het gat in de ozonlaag werd niet groter en zelfs kleiner.
Wait a sec. Let me get this straight. Politico and WaPo reported that Leonard Leo’s group instructed Kellyanne Conway’s Polling Company to “give” Ginni Thomas’s “consulting” company “another $25K” with “No mention of Ginni, of course.” Then Conway billed Leo for that $25K the same day? So, Leo was funneling cash to a Supreme Court justice’s wife through Conway’s company?!
With enough “Free $peech” you can enshrine “Alternative facts” as fabricated truth within indoctrination infotainment curriculum applied to public schools under the guise of an accredited university made up from whole cloth. Lying is profitable god-given freedom for Citizens United supported by MAGA Americans.
The range of Republican voters’ views on Trump shows he continues to have a tight grip on the party, even among those weary of his rhetoric and legal woes.
Analysis: Even as third indictment looms, many Republicans still stand by Trump (www.washingtonpost.com)
The range of Republican voters’ views on Trump shows he continues to have a tight grip on the party, even among those weary of his rhetoric and legal woes.