<'For years the Radical Left Democrats have played dirty by boycotting products when anything from that company is done or stated in any way that offends them. Now they are going big time with WOKE CANCEL CULTURE and our sacred elections.

When the left does it, that's cancel culture.

What would be an ideal world or something we could 'Imagine'? I think it is impossible to quantify. Nevertheless, realization that much, virtually all, of the world is not democratic: the rituals of voting etc still leave parties in control. And Capitalism continues. In China there is no Communism. No one really there or elsewhere with any nous, considers China or anywhere else to be Communist or Socialist. Those ideals were similar to those of those in the US who celebrated the break from a Kingdom. Rousseaux in his 'Social Contract' and others influenced this and the Revolutions. The English Revolution came earlier and the English who came close to the possibility of a real democratic republic but this was soon squashed. The long term effect was to facilitate, almost everywhere, the development of Capitalism.

There have been some progresses in the world it could be argued. But the state of "high justice" and equality or freedom is rare anywhere. And people are divided in many ways. Most of us, regardless of our financial position, are not in control of the means of production or the military or the state, wherever we are (it is seen obviously in Russia and Israel where the democracy is a kind of masque hiding behind hunger for power (see the political parties everywhere else (Europe, the US, NZ etc etc). These always facilitate trade or try to, but for votes and for their own financial gains.

If those "marching on the White House" had some kind of peoples' unity, a concern for people of whatever colour or belief, a knowledge they are working class or (middle to upper working class - middle class is a misnomer, it depends on class alliegences) -- as well as that a realization that people throughout the world suffer the same iniquities and injustices: a recognition that we, as Auden wrote in a poem, 'must love one another or die', then their actions would make sense. As it was it was weak, sad and tragic, achieving nothing.

There is, of course, a Far Right poster elsewhere who lives by the above tenet.

<....The Republicans in acquitting Trump claimed it was unconstitutional to try someone after he'd left office. It's plain as day that (1) the framers of the Constitution knew of and endorsed the ability to impeach and try someone after he'd left office, and (2) Congress had done so in 1797 (Sen. Blount) and 1876 (Secretary of War Belknap)....>

Tell you what: if a Democrat had been in office, this is the first week of April and the Crazy Elephant would still be pursuing him.

<....Incidentally, <Secretary of War> is a much more honest title than our current <Secretary of Defense> BS.>

Trump asserted the election was stolen and not once did he furnish concrete proof.

Considering all his prior lies where he failed to prove what he asserted, how in the hell could these people be so dense as to still believe him??

All Trump did was repeatedly flap his gums, with the same lies, over and over again, and his supporters swallowed his bulls.hit.

Hitler did say the bigger the lie, and the more you repeat it, the more likely people are inclined to believe it.

It's not that hard to imagine that these tools have long-deceased relatives who fought Hitler's and Mussolini's fascism, and instead of learning from their past, they bought into Trump's barrage of lies.

<A former FBI forensic accountant key to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election is one of several accountants working on the Manhattan district attorney's investigation into the Trump Organization, people familiar with the matter say.

Morgan Magionos, who was a lynchpin to the prosecution of former President Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is a member of the team of outside experts from FTI Consulting aiding New York prosecutors.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance brought on FTI Consulting last year as part of his office's wide-ranging investigation into possible insurance fraud, fraud involving lenders, and tax fraud.

Prosecutors often retain experts in accounting, money laundering and tax for complicated financial investigations. Vance's office has also recruited Mark Pomerantz, a well-respected lawyer who has deep experience in complex white-collar probes.

Representatives for the district attorney declined to comment. A spokesman for FTI and Magionos did not respond to requests for comment.

Trump has called the district attorney's investigation a "witch hunt." The Trump Organization this week beefed up its legal team by bringing on criminal-defense attorney Ronald Fischetti, who decades earlier was a law partner with Pomerantz. Fischetti's hiring was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Magionos, a certified fraud examiner and accountant, spent nine years at the FBI where she worked in its international corruption squad in Washington, DC. She was detailed to the Mueller investigation and traced Manafort's assets across four countries. Manafort was charged with multiple counts of bank fraud, failing to report foreign bank accounts, and filing false tax returns, among other crimes.

At Manafort's trial, Magionos testified that she uncovered several foreign bank accounts linked to Manafort and traced $15 million in transfers that Manafort used to fund his personal lifestyle, including an ostrich-skin jacket and landscaping services for his home in the Hamptons. Manafort was convicted on eight counts and later pleaded guilty to other charges. Trump pardoned Manafort earlier this year.

Before joining the FBI, Magionos was a senior auditor at Deloitte. She graduated from the Manhattan School of Music with a degree in music in cello performance. Magionos left the FBI in 2019 for FTI.

Manhattan prosecutors are combing through millions of pages of documents, including Trump's tax returns, which they obtained in February after the US Supreme Court blocked Trump's attempt to stop a subpoena to his long-time accounting firm.

Prosecutors are looking into whether the Trump Organization misled lenders and insurance companies about the value of properties and paid appropriate taxes. The investigation encompasses Trump Tower, the family estate known as Seven Springs, its Chicago hotel and condo tower, as well as the hush money payments made to silence Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who alleges an affair with Trump. Trump has denied the affair.

Fischetti joins the Trump team where he will work closely with Alan Futerfas, who has represented the Trump Organization since the special counsel investigation.

"I have worked with Ron Fischetti for decades in large and complicated cases and he is simply one of the finest lawyers out there -- full stop. We are lucky to have him," Futerfas told CNN. Futerfas declined to comment on Magionos.

Futerfas and Fischetti in the 1990s represented two individuals charged in an alleged mafia-linked garbage-carting case. Multiple defendants were charged in the case but only their two went to trial, which lasted nine months. Prosecutors had recordings of the defendants, who were convicted.

Fischetti, who worked with Pomerantz for about eight years where they tried at least one case together, said of his former law partner, "He's a professional and excellent lawyer."

"There's a lot of work to do here. I'm really happy to be on board," Fischetti told CNN.

"It's going to heat up. They didn't bring me in to just do subpoenas," he said.>

<….We need to be focused on embracing the Constitution, not embracing insurrection.

And I think it's very important for people to realize that a fundamental part of the Constitution and- and of who we are as Americans is the rule of law. It's the judicial process. The election wasn't stolen.

"At the conclusion of this investigation, it was determined that Windsor Police Department policy was not followed," according to the news release. "This resulted in disciplinary action, and department-wide requirements for additional training were implemented beginning in January and continue up to the present." >

His "elite forum"... what a joke.

He obviously missed Rogoff.

Da fix is in, babee!

Your ass is grass and 81 million voters were the lawn mower.

<....Days later, the Times reported that the political arm of the House Republicans had upped the ante re: bilking supporters, with a truly psychotic prechecked box that warned “If you UNCHECK this box, we will have to tell Trump you’re a DEFECTOR.”>

<Jay Arnold 🎬
@jadedcreative ·Apr 14

Dear MSM,

The woman on the right is Kayleigh McEnany. You asked her idiotic questions and got idiotic answers.

The woman on the left is Jen Psaki. When you ask her idiotic questions, you look like idiots.

Hope that clears it up.>

Far as dealing with questions of all kinds, Psaki gets my vote eight days a week.

Psaki comes out winner overall here--and it ain't close, either.

McEnany has had everything handed her; while Psaki also led a comfortable life growing up, she is made of sterner stuff.

Would still rather spend my time with AOC, as far as looks and conversations are concerned.

Rumor has it, (not really, it's obvious) the troglodyte who wrote the above comment is the notorious trolling nutcase known as <Big Pawn Hole> via sock puppet.

<....The cop that [sic] aborted Floyd, if found innocent, should be awarded megabucks, which would be taken from the welfare fund. If the cop is found guilty, he hangs.

I would guess that about 80% of the American people are in lock step with me on this. Some are afraid to admit it, but I say 80%....>