It appears as though at least one juror was running his mouth, creating grounds for a mistrial:
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Lawfare
Speaking of show trials and lawfare- the NY government is also saying that Elon Musk shouldn’t receive the stock in the company that he founded and runs. The company is worth approximately $560 billion.
The pay package, valued at roughly $50 billion in stock, was originally approved in 2018 contingent on Musk meeting various goals concerning the company’s finances and stock price, which he did.
The company was worth $57 billion at the time the package was approved. Musk met the goals that were part of the deal, increasing the value of the company by more than $500 billion. He deserves every penny of that compensation package.
Tesla as it is wouldn’t exist without Musk. Make no mistake- this is being done because NY wants to destroy anyone who is seen supporting Trump.
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Just Following Orders
“Just following orders” didn’t work for concentration camp guards, and it shouldn’t work here, either. They know that what they are doing is wrong, yet they do it anyway.
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Making an Example
A Florida woman was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who called the Palm Beach, Florida, woman’s actions “despicable.” What I want to know is how a Manhattan court, which seems to be doing all of the President’s dirty work nowadays, has jurisdiction over a crime which is alleged to have occurred in Florida. There are actual Federal courts in Florida, so there was no need to have the trial in New York, but if you are a liberal, you know that the best place to have a Kangaroo Court that will find someone on the right guilty of being an enemy of the state is New York.
Whether or not you want to get engaged in a legal argument over how someone can steal something that a person left behind, there are a few questions that no one in the MSM is asking. One of them concerns this quote:
With a lawyer for Ashley Biden observing from the courtroom’s spectator section, Harris apologized to the president’s daughter, saying she regrets making her childhood and life public.
Yes, with this trial, the Federal government is officially acknowledging that the document is the actual diary of Ashley Biden. So with that being said, can we now also begin looking into whether or not the diary entries about Biden showering with his then teenaged daughter are accurate? Then there is the money quote:
“Ms. Harris is not the victim in this case,” Sobelman said. “Ms. Biden is the victim in this case.”
That’s correct. But what crime is she a victim of? I would say that the crime of having her diary sold is far less traumatic than being the victim of a pedophilic, child molesting father. Can we now investigate that? I thought that no one was above the law?
No matter what, it was important that an example be made of Harris. She unmasked a Democrat for being the pedo that he is. That can’t be allowed to stand.
They are coming for everyone who dares to oppose them.
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Kangaroo Court
We all know that Trump lost a case in a New York court, and the court demanded that he either pay the fine or post a bond before he would be permitted to file an appeal. The left laughed and partied at the thought of bankrupting him, with the state poised to begin seizing all of his property to pay the judgment when he couldn’t provide the bond.
Then Trump posted the bond, and the left stopped laughing. Then the judge in the case rejected the bond, claiming that the insurance company couldn’t prove that they were solvent enough to pay it.
This isn’t about crimes, nor is it about the law. This is about using the law to destroy someone whose only real crime is to not be a leftist piece of shit. It’s OK though, because the left is only doing this to preserve democracy and destroy fascism.
He is persona non grata, and an enemy of the state. They will stop at nothing to destroy him. This is all about keeping him out of the White House.
As I have said before:
The left simply won’t allow Trump to return to the Oval Office. The Federal Bureaucrats simply can’t allow it, or he will begin swinging the metaphorical budget slashing machete. Should Trump regain the Presidency, a lot of Federal careers will come to an end- perhaps even entire departments.
The left simply HATES Trump, and will see him dead before he is permitted back into the White House. They can’t let Trump ruin their communist takeover.
For those reasons, expect violence when lawfare doesn’t work. Perhaps Trump will even be assassinated. I don’t think that they are desperate enough to take him out like Sadat was killed, but I don’t see Trump ever again being President.
Once he is out of the way, the left begins working their way down the list.
Gun Laws
Another Win
Yesterday, a Federal judge in the district court for the Southern District of California struck down the state law that limited people to purchasing one gun in any 30 day period, stating that such a law is unconstitutional. The lawsuit was brought buy the Forearms policy coalition.
The FPC is doing a great job as a no nonsense gun rights organization. They and the Second Amendment Foundation are kicking ass and taking names.
The FPC is truly doing the heavy lifting that the NRA should have been doing for decades, but were busy paying for Wayne LaPierre’s wardrobe and NetJet account. Just last week, I got another email asking me to join the NRA, even though I have been a life member for more than 20 years.
Right now, they are arguing in a Delaware case, with the state trying to set the stage for a complete semi-auto ban.
I have set up a recurring monthly donation. I would like to point out that it is cheaper to fight now in the courts than it is to fight later in the streets. I get nothing for this post, and am not in any way associated with them, other than being a member and a donor. I am just a gun owner who wants to be left alone. If you are too, maybe you can toss them a few bucks.
Anti American left
Stupidity is giving me a headache
Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Funny, it’s Congress that has the power. Not the states. Not Colorado. It says so right there, and anyone with a third grade reading comprehension understands that.
No, because Article III doesn’t have anything like the Section 5 that is found in the 14th Amendment, and neither does the 22nd Amendment. The left loves to look at every word and twist it to their advantage, (well-regulated militia) but then ignores words that it finds inconvenient. (“Congress has the power,” “right of the people,” or “reserved to the states”)
The left is made up of petulant children who throw temper tantrums whenever anything doesn’t go their way. You point that out, and they immediately began screaming “J6! J6!”
I know that CW2 would be a disaster, but this slow motion collapse is really beginning to wear on me. The left is playing for all of the marbles.
Let’s just get it on, already. This is one of those days for me. I am just over these assholes.
OK, I have to go do something else, something productive for a while, or I am going to blow a gasket.
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The IRS War on the Right
Do you remember when Obama used the IRS to target his political enemies? I do. The IRS even settled a lawsuit and apologized. So did Obama.
IRS leaks have targeted Democrats’ political enemies, such as the National Organization for Marriage, to which the IRS was obliged to pay a settlement after leaking the identities of the group’s donors in order to enable political retaliation against them. For some reason, Barack Obama’s Justice Department never got around to prosecuting that case. Or the case of the IRS director lying to Congress about targeting conservative political groups, or … well, you get the picture.
That was before the Treasury Department investigated itself and found that it did nothing wrong. So now the left is claiming that it was all fake news. Next they will say that the Russians did it because Trump asked them to.
So why am I posting about things that happened more than 7 years ago? Because it is still happening. The House Oversight Committee is looking into allegations that the IRS is selectively not enforcing its tax-exempt rules against liberal nonprofits.
Cancel Culture
Enemy of the State
Leticia James has announced that NY will confiscate all of Trump’s NY property, including Trump tower, if he doesn’t or can’t pay the $354 million fine. I don’t see how they can do that, since Trump only has a 30% stake in the building.
The interesting part here is that Trump tower contains 2.1 million square feet of floor space, with 98% of it currently leased at about $100 per square foot. Trump’s 30% stake in the tower nets him $62 million a year. So overall, the building brings in $210 million a year in rent. The judge in the case found that Trump lied about the value of the building, which Trump claimed was $806 million. The judge claims that the building is worth only $40 million. I am not a billionaire tycoon, nor am I a NY judge or a NY real estate expert, but I think that a building that brings in $210 million a year in rent is worth more than $40 million.
Similarly, the judge in the case claims that Trump’s Mar a Lago in Palm Beach is only worth between $18 million and $27 million. That’s bullshit, and I can easily prove it. Just a block away in Palm Beach is 1200 S Ocean Blvd. That house is a 12,000 square foot home located on 3.4 acres with 9 bedrooms and 9 bathrooms. The lot borders on the Atlantic ocean on the east, and A1A to the west. It’s estimated value is $110 million, or about $9,100 per square foot. Another home which just sold in 2022 for $9.5 million and located less than a mile from Mar a Lago is a 1900 square foot 3/3 home on a third of an acre that doesn’t border the water at all. It works out to $5,000 per square foot.
Contrast those two homes with Mar a Lago- a 16,500 square foot home located on 17 acres of land. If we are to believe the judge, this resort is worth 5 to 10 percent per square foot of the two homes above?
Or you can instead view it as the commercial property that it is. The Mar-a-Lago Club had $29.7 million in gross revenues in 2015, $25.1 million 2017, $22 million in 2018, and $21.4 million in 2019. So it brings in $20 to 30 million a year in revenue. Again, hard to claim that a business brings in 100% of its value each year.
As I have been saying- the left is going to destroy Trump. I don’t think that simply making him a pauper is going to be enough. He will wind up in prison, where he will be killed pour encourager les autres.