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The trial would be held in the SDNY -- New York City and environs -- where even a jury of Manhattan millionaires would likely find him guilty of whatever the AG or DA charged him with even without evidence because ol' Covid Donnie has cheated and defrauded so many of them or their families or friends.

By November, 2024, Covid Donnie will be lucky to not be a long-term resident of a NYS DOCS facility in the chilly confines of Upstate New York unless he's fled to someplace that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US.

The excerpts from the decision that I heard/read seemed to emphasize the fact that the Exec order treated places of worship differently from businesses, primarily that businesses could have X% of capacity while houses of worship were limited to a specific number no matter what the size. I'm willing to apply the same standards to religious places as to business places, but by the same standard, I think that when masks are mandated to be worn and social distancing observed, that that applies to houses of worship as well.

Does the moron understand that he's publicly announcing that he's going to finance criminal activity? If he actually does this, he opens himself up to all kinds of criminal charges, including RICO seizures. Another Dumbass for Trump! I agree with your take generally. I don't believe that religious organizations should be completely exempt from public health rules. I think that in this case, however, the issue was that the regs imposed by the governor were arbitrary numbers -- 10 people I believe -- regardless of the size of the building while other "essential businesses" were restricted to a percentage of their capacity. Many church buildings --- especially older Catholic churches in urban areas -- are huge and can easily hold hundreds of people and even more modern buildings are large enough to accommodate more than 10 people at 25% or 50% of capacity, which was the standard for businesses.

When all is said and done, here many millions of Trumplets will have given their hard-earned pennies over to billionaire Trump for his post-election slush fund that he can use for anything he wants.

It's funny that CNN hasn't mentioned this on their 6am news even though in their story about the rejection of the latest Trump case in PA they did say that Pennsylvania was scheduled for December 1, 2020.

This ain't socialism, skippy! It's capitalism at it's finest. No wonder you're a Trumplet ...my dog understands the difference between socialism and captialism better than you do: socialism to him is sharing his balls with me if I ask him for one while captialism is gathering as many of his balls as he can find and keeping them all to himself.

NYS AG Letitia James and Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance are more than a match to take on Covid Donnie and his sycophants in court, and there's little doubt that Trump would get some prison time. Even a month in a NYS DOCS facility would easily be the worst experience of Covid Donnie's life, and he'd get more than that, and Cuomo would absolutely not grant him clemency.

On CNN this am they compared it to a third grader's desk that a parent uses in a parent-teacher conference!

If Covid Donnie wants the respect due to a POTUS, he should try acting like one, starting with doing his f'n job instead of golfing and trying to overturn an election he lost by huge numbers while ignoring the growing pandemic crisis.

Pardons don't cover future acts so it's likely these cretins will be heard from again ...

^^^ TBBills didn't call you any names. He said you were on "the fraudulent side looking like an idiot". If you don't want to "look like an idiot", I suggest you stop acting like one. You refuse to face the reality that Trump lost the election both in the Electoral College vote and in the popular vote, and neither was very close. You refuse to accept the word of hundreds of state officials across the country as well as the federal official charged with cyber security that there was no significant or organized election fraud of any kind. You refuse to admit that while Trump and his lapdogs have made all kinds of claims of fraud, they have failed to produce evidence of even a single case of fraud in any court.

This is more or less a "projective" study -- I'm sure scientists have a better name for it -- that takes the limited evidence from recovered covid-19 patients and projects forward. Covid-19 has been around for less than a year, so there's no concrete evidence how long immunity actually lasts. What the researchers did was study how the level of antibodies decreased over the span of a few months in a group of recovered Covid-19 patients and projected that forward. Is that valid? I don't know. The study was published on the internet rather than in a traditional medical journal and hasn't been peer-reviewed. What we do know is that while most people who contract covid-19 don't die from it, some individuals suffer long term heart, respiratory, and/or neurological effects -- so-called "long haulers". We don't know if these effects eventually disappear, diminish or are permanent.

There is no 'it" to be "resolved" on January 20, 2021. At noon, Joseph R Biden will take the oath of office as the 46th POTUS, and at about 12:03 PM, he will be become POTUS and Trump will be a private citizen. All Trump's powers and privileges as POTUS cease. The only power Trump will then have will be however much the cowardice of the national GOP grants him. My guess is that ol' Covid Donnie will skip the Inauguration ceremony to play golf while his sycophants remove his personal effects from the WH and his army of moronic Trumplets impersonate zombie wannabees by marching in the streets of Washington and other cities.

The pregame show starts at 12 noon. The kick off is 12:30. It's supposed to be done by 4.

The Mueller investigation was about candidate Trump and the election. Weissman is proposing that the new AG prosecute Trump for a different crime entirely: obstruction of justice into the investigation of the first case. That's a valid view because nobody, including the POTUS, is above the law. I'm not sure that choosing not to prosecute this new charge would be as detrimental to future prosecutions as Weissman believes.

If all these Trumplets have all this evidence, why the hell don't they ever bring it into court????? Almost all of the cases have been dismissed because the Trumplets never present any actual evidence of their claims to judges.

The Great Snowflake-in-Chief was supposed to attend a "hearing" in a Gettysburg, PA hotel today with Crazy Rudy to promote his "Poor, poor pitiful me!" voting fraud agenda, but the trip was canceled because another WH staffer tested positive. Not sure if the "hearing" is still on. And all those Congressional Republicans who sold out their personal integrity with their silence after the election in the vain hope that Trump would help in the GA runoff look to be getting exactly what they deserve.

The approximately 65% of the eligible voters who voted in 2020 was the highest percentage voter turn out since 1960 IIRC.

Since there has been not a single shred of any kind of large scale election fraud anywhere in the country, there's nothing to "fix". The only improvement to the electoral process itself that needs to be made is that some states need to improve the way they process mail-in voting, which would be to start the process of verifying signatures and "curing" ballots earlier than Election Day or the day after Election Day.

The 2020 election was nothing like previous disputed elections. 1796 - This election was not disputed. 1800 - This election was deadlocked because the emergence of political parties resulted in the Democratic candidates candidates for Presidents (Jefferson) and VP (Burr) wound up with the same number of electoral votes which sent the election to the House of Representatives. This election had nothing to do with fraud. It did result in the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment before the 1804 election. 1824 - None of the 4 candidates for POTUS -- John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, and William Crawford -- got a majority of the popular vote or the Electoral College votes so the election went to the House of Representatives. This election had nothing to do with fraud. 1877 - This election did involve election fraud and voter suppression in which the election results in four states totaling 20 Electoral College were disputed, leaving the Democratic candidate, Tilden, one electoral vote short of a majority, and resulting in a quid pro quo deal that gave the 20 disputed electoral college votes to Rutherford in exchange for pulling federal troops out of Southern states and ending Reconstruction. 2000 - This election came down to fewer than 600 votes in a single state, with the dispute revolving around counting poorly marked ballots (the infamous "hanging chads"). NONE of these elections had a candidate who lost both the popular vote and the electoral vote by significant margins and then tried repeatedly to overturn the election results by 1) claiming massive election fraud without any shred of evidence or 2) attempting to pressure state officials to overturn the state election results. Mail-in ballots have been in use in the US since 1864 without issue. Three states -- Colorado, Oregon, and Washington -- have been using for all mail-in voting for years without issues. Despite your claims, only 9 states mailed out ballots to all registered votes: California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, Utah, Vermont, and Washington. The Trump campaign didn't cry "foul" in any of these states, although the Nevada GOP made jackasses of themselves by claiming that they found out-of-state residents voting by mail in Nevada who turned out to be spouses of US military personnel. If you want to see somebody historically and politically ignorant who runs his mouth, I suggest you look in a mirror.

How are spy planes -- which would be at high altitudes I presume -- superior to spy satellites with better cameras? I can go to Google Maps, select satellite view, and zoom into my house and not only see the arbor at my back gate but also the part of my garden pond that's not obscured by the tree next to it. Wouldn't spy satellites be even more technically advanced?

What has been "unprecedented" about this election was the attempt by Trump and his sycophants to subvert mail-in voting as well as their attempts to discredit the election results. The fact is that mail-in voting has been used successfully since the Civil War, 156 years ago. There was absolutely no evidence of any kind of organized fraud in any state or any kind of electronic tampering with ballot results. That was confirmed by Trump's own cyber security chief who was promptly fired for his honesty.

This is nonsense. There is absolutely nothing that indicates that Biden's "mental condition" is anything except nonsensical wishful thinking by RW partisans. Biden has always made verbal faux pas, probably the result of his childhood speech impediment, stuttering. The US currently faces significant economic problems that haven't been seen since the Great Depression. The economic situation is far worse than the Great Recession but since economic hardships have fallen hardest on marginal economic segments -- low-skill, low wage workers in the hospitality industry, gig workers, mom-and-pop small businesses, etc rather than on major corporations or the finanacial markets -- the situation doesn't seem as dire. If Congress does not get together and pass a stimulus package before the end of the year, the proverbial manure is going to hit the proverbial fan. Getting employment back to the level where it was in January, 2020 will be a major accomplishment in the next four years.

^^^ I agree with both of you. Right now, we need a POTUS who can restore faith in democratic governance by dealing with the daunting challenges currently facing the country by governing in a competent manner with moderate policies that most Americans can at least accept if not support.