Among the many, many, many oddities in the persecution of President Trump by an increasingly totalitarian Democrat Party is that two of the six judges involved are natives of Colombia. One is being impartial, the other sides with the prosecution. The media is OK with the partisanship of Democrat hack Judge Juan Merchan in that loony New York trial. He was born in Bogotá.
Aileen Cannon is the judiciary's saving grace. The rest are corrupt and the reason points to the people who appoint them: the congress. Our congressional leadership is a disgrace. The speaker of the house is Arnold Stang; the minority leader (who holds all the cards) is Jesse Jackson. In the senate, the majority leader is Willie Sutton, and a wilting cadaver heads the minority. If we had federal government leaders, real leaders, corrupt judges would be held responsible and, in many cases, ousted.
Agreed. Here is what the congress has accomplished this session: they passed an abhorrent spending bill and funded yet again a corrupt and lost war in Ukraine while pushing us closer to conflict with Russia. That's it. No curb on spending, no action other than talk about all their feckless investigations, no impeachment of Biden, just a perfunctory impeachment of Mayorkas that means nothing. Might as well have a dictator run the government for all the good the congress has done ...........oh wait!
The NYT's author can't understand why 'emotion' isn't dictating Judge Cannon's rulings and conduct. Emotion is the driving force of liberals. Forget the facts and let emotion rule is the liberal dogma.
But you see, the Trump trials are being conducted under the same rules that governed the Volksgerichtshof trial that took place after the failed assassination of Chancellor Herr Hitler. You know, the one we all remember as taking place on 20 July 1944, during a meeting with Adolf Hitler, when
Claus von Stauffenberg left that bomb under the table. Those trial were conducted with the utmost regard for the procedural and substantive rights of all the accused, right up to the time they were pronounced "Guilty" and taken off to be hung or shot. Judge Merchan is the contemporary iteration of Roy Bean, who gave everyone who stood accused before him a fair trial before he ordered him hung.
As a civil-structural engineer I would tell you that you have nothing to be embarrassed by. Don't believe everything you read about Boeing's fall. Oh, there is plenty of truth so far but there is also an underlying movement to destroy Boeing's market share and reputation by people who have much to gain. Every time a Boeing aircraft has a problem now, such as a faulty engine that aborts a takeoff, the media subtlety suggest it is all part of their construction woes. But aircraft manufactured by other company's abort takeoffs, have engine fires, landing gear problems, etc, all the time. Let's all wait and see how Boeing fairs when the investigations begin. It's far too early to write off a cornerstone of American industry.
True, good points, especially on the competitive angle.
I think I really meant the airlines - if they don't not maintain planes bad juju happens. II have read in many places that Boeing was an engineering driven company for decades and went the marketing way.
True. Their main contributor, Airbus, is government owned (subsidized) and its increasingly hard to compete for Boeing. They got themselves overstretched as well with their civilian a/c business, their defense business, and their space business. And like so many companies today they hired bean counters and business majors to run an engineering and a/c company. As you know, aeronautics is a complex business, and bean counters are clueless. Then those bean counters select more of the same for their corporate board which hurts them even more. I don’t fly much anymore but I always try to get on Boeing planes. When I had a pilots license, Boeing was the gold standard and still is. If it aint Boeing, Im not going. 😀 They just need a makeover.
100% should be inspectors using statistical methods to catch out of tolerance product in the operation they control. Last I checked, flying was safe at the aggregate level, but almost 100% fatality rate when one goes down.
These quality methods probably used to be done but were slowly relaxed for “shareholder value”. It raised the stock for a while but once it tanks it ain’t coming back.
Working in manufacturing most of my life I completely agree. Unfortunately, the bean counters call them 'indirect labor' which must be cut. It is absurd.
As life goes on in America, I have to keep adding to my list the names of treasonous lunatics to completely destroy if we ever regain control of this landslide collapse of a country:
Anthony Fauci
Peter Daszak
Hunter Biden
Joe Biden
Juan Merchan
Alvin Bragg
Matthew Colangelo
Brad Raffensperger
Brain Kemp
The board of elections in Maricopa County
Gretchen Whitmer
Katie Hobbs
The list goes on and continues to grow each week. It will take a decade or more to clean this mess from the front offices and backrooms of government. And, this is before we shutter those offices and reduce our government by more than 50%.
I don't think a decade will be sufficient my friend but it's a start. Those people and many more need to be marginalized and ousted from any public control.
Every time I see the words “hush money” I’m reminded that, a few years ago, we learned that congress had its very own hush money slush fund for the sole purpose of paying off their mistresses to keep quiet. There is a list of all of the members who have used it and we demanded the release of the list. Apparently, it’s in the same broom closet as the 40,000 hours of J6 videos.
I hate that the trial is referred to as the "hush money" trial when, as Don rightly said, is actually an extortion case and Storm and her lawyer should be the ones in the docket. Like the Florida law that was falsely called the "Don't Say Gay" law, the MSM are among the most corrupt and vile people on the planet by twisting and contorting language to give a false narrative.
Great catch- seeing the parallel between Merchan’s daughter and Prince Hunter.
I always enjoy having contacts with expertise in areas in which I confess ignorance. You do that for me (& us) when it comes to exposing journalism malpractice (or counterfeiting journalism with lies and sophistry).
I have had the privilege of serving on several juries in the past . On one we let off a guilty guy because the evidence presented in court wasn’t there to convict. Another was a triple homicide death penalty case… he was convicted but didn’t get the ultimate punishment… unfortunately in my opinion. The guy has killed 3 elderly women for chump change.
I have never heard of jury instructions like the ones given to this jury in NY. When did it ever occur to anyone in the judiciary that a minority vote of only 4 people was good enough to convict someone of anything?
Judge Cannon has some shortcomings I am sure but doing her job correctly and to the best of her ability isn’t one of them.
How this was allowed to stand is beyond me. I too have served on a jury - small time crime. It was a group of 12, all day, every day, to the conclusion, period.
This move is simply to insure that any favorable juror is not able to address the entire group.
This corrupt judge is trying to make history. The jury can also make history by refusing to find Trump guilty of ANYTHING, regardless of the instructions from the “judge”. A “not guilty” verdict would probably send Merchan over the edge and force a directed verdict. And THAT would be interesting.
I didn't want to get this angry this early this morning. I still have another week to go playing the kindly elderly grand mom to my little grand dog; a terrier, blind in one eye and deaf. When kids adopted this dog several years ago, I asked my son how old is this pup, and the reply was "He's your age, Mom!" (I'm 10 months older than Biden!!) I'd post a frowny face if I knew how. OTOH, Merchan is unfortunately young enough to run-out-the-clock sitting behind some bench. Wish he'd go back to Bogota to do it. Take uglyitis daughter with him.
I confess I voted for Judge Judy in the poll because I didn't really recognize any of the other options. I feel like I SHOULD know more but the only things that rang even a distant bell were "Dredd" (Dred Scott? maybe nothing to do with law??) and "Reinhold" (I can't recall at all why I recognize that name a teeny bit).
Don and the commenters here are an erudite group. I learn something everyday here. My only claim to legitimate participation in this erudite group is--Hey, I know the fancy word "erudite"! :)
(Loved the column though; YAY for Aileen Cannon, and appreciated the dissection of the NYT article.)
You are more erudite than you think. I have to look up things on this substack on many days of the week. Never stop learning. You’ll connect more of the dots each day. I enjoy your posts.
I recommend Don Surber's Substack to lots of people, but recently in the back of my mind, I almost warn them that "This is an Advanced column"--it presupposes a knowledge base about current events that most liberals don't possess. I suspect much of it will go straight over many liberals heads, as the media they consume covers such a thin portion of what's going on.
I've been increasingly surprised that when I mention something to liberals--like, there was a listing on Citizen Free Press awhile back that Hertz was selling its fleet of 200,000 EV vehicles--and the liberal just has a blank face--they never heard of that, nor of the extra weight of EV vehicles and the pressure they are putting on parking structures and bridges, nor of the ships transporting EV's that have had fires break out, etc. etc.
This column is an Advanced course in political analysis, which has prerequisite courses many liberals have not taken.
You are a Rhodes Scholar compared to the average liberal. I suggest not wasting your time talking to one as there is no amount of logic and facts that will sway their mental illness.
Well, not going to happen--I'm not going to stop talking to liberals.
One, many in my family are liberals, and I will never turn my back on them.
Two, liberals must be awakened, because America can not survive into the future without a clear exposure and refutation of the progressive/Commie ideology, and the conversion of most liberals back into normal, sane, Americans.
I agree shrugged. My grandmother always said I was the smartest of her grandkids because I was curious & asked questions. When I was in the trades, people made fun of me for asking questions if I didn’t understand or know how to do something. I asked if they were born knowing everything or say they did when asked by superiors. My wife was always laughed at in meetings for taking notes. Peg, do you remember what so & so was saying about(pick a topic)? Look at your notes. Oh you didn’t take notes? Now look at who looks foolish. They started bringing notepads after that.
So what we’ve got here is a sad tale of two judges. The problem is, they’re the wrong judges. Those who would judge Trump should be the electorate: United States citizens, properly identified and duly registered to vote. Your government is working overtime to take that right from us. Time for some major changes and a whole lot less government.
Judge Judy would be the worst possible choice since she is a New York Democrat who cut her teeth in the New York Family courts. I'd much prefer Judge Harry T. Stone presiding. Merchan is a pompous ass, and as we say over here, he is "ate up with hisself."
Judge Jeanine Pirro
Pirro has New York fire in her words and could stand up to the toughest, but her pouty lips are distracting and bothersome.
I took Judge Judy. Just as tough but no facade.
pirro folded like a house of rained soaked cards when fox told her to shut up and tow the orange man bad line.
You don't watch her on THE FIVE, do you. She's been in the courtroom during his trial. She's known him personally for 40 years.
i am aware of all that. are you aware of what i posted? she isn't trustworthy...like everyone on fox. follow the money kitty.
Maybe, but time will tell.
Aileen Cannon is the judiciary's saving grace. The rest are corrupt and the reason points to the people who appoint them: the congress. Our congressional leadership is a disgrace. The speaker of the house is Arnold Stang; the minority leader (who holds all the cards) is Jesse Jackson. In the senate, the majority leader is Willie Sutton, and a wilting cadaver heads the minority. If we had federal government leaders, real leaders, corrupt judges would be held responsible and, in many cases, ousted.
You cracked me up with Arnold Stang. Thanks. I'm not as hell-fire-damnation angry as I was a moment ago.
Don't get angry, Lawsy, get even. It's far more satisfying.
Agreed. Here is what the congress has accomplished this session: they passed an abhorrent spending bill and funded yet again a corrupt and lost war in Ukraine while pushing us closer to conflict with Russia. That's it. No curb on spending, no action other than talk about all their feckless investigations, no impeachment of Biden, just a perfunctory impeachment of Mayorkas that means nothing. Might as well have a dictator run the government for all the good the congress has done ...........oh wait!
Arnold Stang!!!
The NYT's author can't understand why 'emotion' isn't dictating Judge Cannon's rulings and conduct. Emotion is the driving force of liberals. Forget the facts and let emotion rule is the liberal dogma.
Interesting how that emotion is always hate. Merchan is nothing but hate, in every molecule of his body and mind.
Delete emotion. Insert corruption.
But you see, the Trump trials are being conducted under the same rules that governed the Volksgerichtshof trial that took place after the failed assassination of Chancellor Herr Hitler. You know, the one we all remember as taking place on 20 July 1944, during a meeting with Adolf Hitler, when
Claus von Stauffenberg left that bomb under the table. Those trial were conducted with the utmost regard for the procedural and substantive rights of all the accused, right up to the time they were pronounced "Guilty" and taken off to be hung or shot. Judge Merchan is the contemporary iteration of Roy Bean, who gave everyone who stood accused before him a fair trial before he ordered him hung.
Appreciate the legal-beagleness here, Steve. I am sorry your profession is absolutely corrupt.
As a mechanical engineer I am absolutely embarrassed by Boeing so...
As a civil-structural engineer I would tell you that you have nothing to be embarrassed by. Don't believe everything you read about Boeing's fall. Oh, there is plenty of truth so far but there is also an underlying movement to destroy Boeing's market share and reputation by people who have much to gain. Every time a Boeing aircraft has a problem now, such as a faulty engine that aborts a takeoff, the media subtlety suggest it is all part of their construction woes. But aircraft manufactured by other company's abort takeoffs, have engine fires, landing gear problems, etc, all the time. Let's all wait and see how Boeing fairs when the investigations begin. It's far too early to write off a cornerstone of American industry.
True, good points, especially on the competitive angle.
I think I really meant the airlines - if they don't not maintain planes bad juju happens. II have read in many places that Boeing was an engineering driven company for decades and went the marketing way.
True. Their main contributor, Airbus, is government owned (subsidized) and its increasingly hard to compete for Boeing. They got themselves overstretched as well with their civilian a/c business, their defense business, and their space business. And like so many companies today they hired bean counters and business majors to run an engineering and a/c company. As you know, aeronautics is a complex business, and bean counters are clueless. Then those bean counters select more of the same for their corporate board which hurts them even more. I don’t fly much anymore but I always try to get on Boeing planes. When I had a pilots license, Boeing was the gold standard and still is. If it aint Boeing, Im not going. 😀 They just need a makeover.
Boeing is a capitalist corporation that must be brought down Reddog/sarc
20% of Boeing's manufacturing employees should be inspectors.
I bet its not 5%.
The Babylon Bee is reporting that retired umpire Angel Hernandez has been hired as Boeing’s Lead Inspector.
100% should be inspectors using statistical methods to catch out of tolerance product in the operation they control. Last I checked, flying was safe at the aggregate level, but almost 100% fatality rate when one goes down.
These quality methods probably used to be done but were slowly relaxed for “shareholder value”. It raised the stock for a while but once it tanks it ain’t coming back.
Short-term management horizons.
Working in manufacturing most of my life I completely agree. Unfortunately, the bean counters call them 'indirect labor' which must be cut. It is absurd.
It’s by design.
Catching errors costs money.
Well, I guess there are reasons to be a proud homeless person that are filling our streets.
I disagree. Roland Freisler would have been a perfect replacement. See above.
Except a majority of those Judge Bean hung were guilty as sin if the history books are somewhat correct and accurate.
As life goes on in America, I have to keep adding to my list the names of treasonous lunatics to completely destroy if we ever regain control of this landslide collapse of a country:
Anthony Fauci
Peter Daszak
Hunter Biden
Joe Biden
Juan Merchan
Alvin Bragg
Matthew Colangelo
Brad Raffensperger
Brain Kemp
The board of elections in Maricopa County
Gretchen Whitmer
Katie Hobbs
The list goes on and continues to grow each week. It will take a decade or more to clean this mess from the front offices and backrooms of government. And, this is before we shutter those offices and reduce our government by more than 50%.
Seems like you now have at least 81,000,012 on your list now :)
81 million votes my ass
Lol
Votes and ballots are not the same thing.
Amen. Honestly I grossly underestimated the number of stupid idiots outside walking around amongst us.
That's because we all try to see the good in people but perhaps that axiom is no longer valid.
Maybe 12 votes?
That's all they think they need but as usual they are WRONG.
Shrugged, that is a short list. I’d say the list would be as long as one of Don’s columns.
I don't think a decade will be sufficient my friend but it's a start. Those people and many more need to be marginalized and ousted from any public control.
Alan Feuer sounds like a real condescending pr*ck.
I chose Judge Harry Stone because I'd love to see him tell Bull to take the prosecutors out to the woodshed when they invariably eff up.
Same here!
Okaaay! Bull Shannon’s usual reply. He & Selma Diamond were terrific. Hell, the whole cast was great!
Every time I see the words “hush money” I’m reminded that, a few years ago, we learned that congress had its very own hush money slush fund for the sole purpose of paying off their mistresses to keep quiet. There is a list of all of the members who have used it and we demanded the release of the list. Apparently, it’s in the same broom closet as the 40,000 hours of J6 videos.
I hate that the trial is referred to as the "hush money" trial when, as Don rightly said, is actually an extortion case and Storm and her lawyer should be the ones in the docket. Like the Florida law that was falsely called the "Don't Say Gay" law, the MSM are among the most corrupt and vile people on the planet by twisting and contorting language to give a false narrative.
Twisting truth has become msm stock in trade Jim.
“She’s businesslike! She’s prompt! She does her homework!”
These are all traits exhibited by white supremacy. For these sins, she must be removed.
Note to readers lacking discernment, my note (above) is “sarcasm”…
…and her worst sin of all, she’s 100% correct on the Law.
How dare she!!
Great catch- seeing the parallel between Merchan’s daughter and Prince Hunter.
I always enjoy having contacts with expertise in areas in which I confess ignorance. You do that for me (& us) when it comes to exposing journalism malpractice (or counterfeiting journalism with lies and sophistry).
Keep blowing that whistle!
I have had the privilege of serving on several juries in the past . On one we let off a guilty guy because the evidence presented in court wasn’t there to convict. Another was a triple homicide death penalty case… he was convicted but didn’t get the ultimate punishment… unfortunately in my opinion. The guy has killed 3 elderly women for chump change.
I have never heard of jury instructions like the ones given to this jury in NY. When did it ever occur to anyone in the judiciary that a minority vote of only 4 people was good enough to convict someone of anything?
Judge Cannon has some shortcomings I am sure but doing her job correctly and to the best of her ability isn’t one of them.
How this was allowed to stand is beyond me. I too have served on a jury - small time crime. It was a group of 12, all day, every day, to the conclusion, period.
This move is simply to insure that any favorable juror is not able to address the entire group.
4
4
4
Equals 12
There should be a poll to find out if any of Don’s readers ever heard the word “empyrean” before today. I hadn’t.
I like its definition better than the word itself.
This corrupt judge is trying to make history. The jury can also make history by refusing to find Trump guilty of ANYTHING, regardless of the instructions from the “judge”. A “not guilty” verdict would probably send Merchan over the edge and force a directed verdict. And THAT would be interesting.
I didn't want to get this angry this early this morning. I still have another week to go playing the kindly elderly grand mom to my little grand dog; a terrier, blind in one eye and deaf. When kids adopted this dog several years ago, I asked my son how old is this pup, and the reply was "He's your age, Mom!" (I'm 10 months older than Biden!!) I'd post a frowny face if I knew how. OTOH, Merchan is unfortunately young enough to run-out-the-clock sitting behind some bench. Wish he'd go back to Bogota to do it. Take uglyitis daughter with him.
I confess I voted for Judge Judy in the poll because I didn't really recognize any of the other options. I feel like I SHOULD know more but the only things that rang even a distant bell were "Dredd" (Dred Scott? maybe nothing to do with law??) and "Reinhold" (I can't recall at all why I recognize that name a teeny bit).
Don and the commenters here are an erudite group. I learn something everyday here. My only claim to legitimate participation in this erudite group is--Hey, I know the fancy word "erudite"! :)
(Loved the column though; YAY for Aileen Cannon, and appreciated the dissection of the NYT article.)
Yes, we are erudite and strive to ascend into the empyrean after a life filled with good deeds. (OK, I had to look it up as well.) LOL
Ha!
Judge Reinhold is an actor - part of the 1980’s brat pack which included Sheen, Lowe, Ringwald and others.
He got my vote! He was wonderful in “Ruthless People.”
You are more erudite than you think. I have to look up things on this substack on many days of the week. Never stop learning. You’ll connect more of the dots each day. I enjoy your posts.
BTW: Judge Dredd is from a movie - which I had heard of but had to look up because I really didn't know much about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dredd_(film)
Thanks, Shrugged. I agree, never stop learning.
I recommend Don Surber's Substack to lots of people, but recently in the back of my mind, I almost warn them that "This is an Advanced column"--it presupposes a knowledge base about current events that most liberals don't possess. I suspect much of it will go straight over many liberals heads, as the media they consume covers such a thin portion of what's going on.
I've been increasingly surprised that when I mention something to liberals--like, there was a listing on Citizen Free Press awhile back that Hertz was selling its fleet of 200,000 EV vehicles--and the liberal just has a blank face--they never heard of that, nor of the extra weight of EV vehicles and the pressure they are putting on parking structures and bridges, nor of the ships transporting EV's that have had fires break out, etc. etc.
This column is an Advanced course in political analysis, which has prerequisite courses many liberals have not taken.
They are a deadly cocktail of mis-, dis- and Un- informed, and full to the brim of Mal- information.
You are a Rhodes Scholar compared to the average liberal. I suggest not wasting your time talking to one as there is no amount of logic and facts that will sway their mental illness.
Well, not going to happen--I'm not going to stop talking to liberals.
One, many in my family are liberals, and I will never turn my back on them.
Two, liberals must be awakened, because America can not survive into the future without a clear exposure and refutation of the progressive/Commie ideology, and the conversion of most liberals back into normal, sane, Americans.
They ordered 200,000 Teslas. They only received 30 k.
But point taken.
I agree shrugged. My grandmother always said I was the smartest of her grandkids because I was curious & asked questions. When I was in the trades, people made fun of me for asking questions if I didn’t understand or know how to do something. I asked if they were born knowing everything or say they did when asked by superiors. My wife was always laughed at in meetings for taking notes. Peg, do you remember what so & so was saying about(pick a topic)? Look at your notes. Oh you didn’t take notes? Now look at who looks foolish. They started bringing notepads after that.
Judge Reinhold is an actor. He was great in the Beverly Hills Cop movies and, one of my all time favorite comedies, Ruthless People.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001662/
I'm going to put Ruthless People on my movie to-do list.
It was a laugh out loud movie with Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, Bill Pullman, and Helen Slater in the cast. And of course, Judge Reinhold.
Don't underestimate yourself. A lot of people spell it "ERIUDITE"
"Democrats charged Trump with 34 counts of clerical errors..." Coffee spit... Truth.
God bless Cannon and may he Damn Merchan and his Bogota drug handlers extorting his daughter.
…but they themselves were not even errors.
So what we’ve got here is a sad tale of two judges. The problem is, they’re the wrong judges. Those who would judge Trump should be the electorate: United States citizens, properly identified and duly registered to vote. Your government is working overtime to take that right from us. Time for some major changes and a whole lot less government.
Judge Judy would be the worst possible choice since she is a New York Democrat who cut her teeth in the New York Family courts. I'd much prefer Judge Harry T. Stone presiding. Merchan is a pompous ass, and as we say over here, he is "ate up with hisself."