Notices by Phil Greer (pgreer@genomic.social)

@dalias @jsm @babe

It is amazing how easy and fairly inexpensive it is to use a "charitable foundation" to launder one's reputation.

This week's #ThursdayFiveList theme is #HighCamp.

Enjoy.

The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men
https://youtu.be/l5aZJBLAu1E?si=TZhPq1qjqZsokC1h

The Cramps - What's inside a girl
https://youtu.be/kakftk9XYTg?si=DfURtN780sJ47R6p

Richard Cheese and Lounge against the Machine - Gin and Juice
https://youtu.be/zysWtY-VPUs?si=rnCSws6RgPgqkwPn

Dead or Alive - You Spin me Round
https://youtu.be/PGNiXGX2nLU?si=pg8-Q3E9VgjeiJSA

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
https://youtu.be/Yem_iEHiyJ0?si=dKelMTiSaHz_v7yg

@WarnerCrocker @SueDiOh

For me the blame goes:

1) the supreme court and the citizens united decision allowing
2) Wealthy donor class buying elections
3) Republican party for not standing up to those in group 2
4) media for utter failure to cover this era correctly (owned by group 2)
5) the voters of this country for having the memory and attention span of a gnat with ADHD (no offense to those with ADHD)
(....more....)

@WarnerCrocker @SueDiOh

6) democratic party for not messaging this problem correctly or presenting a more attractive alternative when there is so much racism and misogyny in this country, but group 4 and 5 make that more difficult.

and finally
7) Biden's DOJ and Garland who are the very last resort when all the checks and balances above fail.

So the last resort failed but then so did 6 other lines above it. Much more blame sits on the first 6 groups.

@WarnerCrocker @SueDiOh

But then you need the media to cover it correctly, and they completely failed at everything regarding Trump and this election.

You would get headlines like "Trump says he is innocent" or "Trump says there is no proof" meanwhile somewhere on paragraph 14 it might says something about what is in the indictment.

How many reporters are still covering the ongoing insurrection cases?

@WarnerCrocker @SueDiOh

Showing that the Oath Keepers and Proud boys who physically started the insurrection were in communication with Trumps people corrected a minor flaw in the impeachment case that GOP reps used to absolve Trump of responsibility.

I will ALWAYS place blame on the republicans for not convicting. Garland did what he could within the laws that we have. He was never a savior, he was a Hail Mary. The people not re-electing Trump was our only hope.

@WarnerCrocker @SueDiOh

Yes, a year of warrants and cracking phones collecting evidence so that it could be presented to a grand jury in 2022. Summer of 2022 Grand jury fights over executive privilege to get Trumps former lawyers and the VP Pence to testify. Jack smith appointed in Nov 2022 after Trump declares candidacy so it doesn't look like a political prosecution, but over year of investigation and grand jury testimony was already in the books.

@WarnerCrocker @SueDiOh

The case started in 2021. Most of the co-conspirators were lawyers. Both lawyer-client privilege and Executive privilege fights had to take place to collect evidence.

Plus, DOJ was spread thin by thousands of insurrection cases. You can argue the top down is better than a bottom up approach, but hundreds of guilty pleas point the finger directly at Trump.

Justice is slow for people with good lawyers and $$$. Trump just ran out the clock.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/11/how-garland-whinger-ankush-khardoris-willful-impotence-helps-trump-evade-accountability/

@WarnerCrocker @SueDiOh

So building a half-assed case that would get tossed by the gop packed supreme Court on appeal leaving justice still not served, is preferable to building a better case and hope the people are smart enough to not elect the orange freak and make it harder for the scotus to toss the verdict.

He could not have known that so many tech oligarchs would get pissed at Biden for actually enforcing laws and decide to buy out the election.