The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

I should have said, "no public memorial should be named after someone still alive".
Nope.
You did fine. Just a little noontime levity for New Year's eve. Truth is, the chain retailer Sears of catalogue fame is not related to CitizenVoice's moderator.
I adopted pseud "sear" ~Y2K when invited to moderate a current events forum at Loretta's Lounge / Ezboard.
A "sear" is the component of a gunlock between trigger & hammer.
As current events moderator I wanted free & open exchange: but
though posters could "pull the trigger" moderator sear had the final say in whether or when the hammer would fall.
That's why pseud "sear" is lower case. Not an improper noun, or a proper noun, just a noun.
 
Nope.
You did fine. Just a little noontime levity for New Year's eve. Truth is, the chain retailer Sears of catalogue fame is not related to CitizenVoice's moderator.
I adopted pseud "sear" ~Y2K when invited to moderate a current events forum at Loretta's Lounge / Ezboard.
A "sear" is the component of a gunlock between trigger & hammer.
As current events moderator I wanted free & open exchange: but
though posters could "pull the trigger" moderator sear had the final say in whether or when the hammer would fall.
That's why pseud "sear" is lower case. Not an improper noun, or a proper noun, just a noun.

Funny, but for some reason I confused the definition of the word "seer".
 
"Funny, but for some reason I confused the definition of the word "seer"." #2,202
My parents were writers. We share a love of the language.
I understood the homonym connection:
- sear: gunlock component
- sear: as in cooking on a grill (welcome)
- seer: one associated with clairvoyance or prophecy

But I'm also lazy. I can touch-type it with one hand.

... and the decades slide by ...
 
BREAKING: “GO F*CK YOURSELVES” — South Park writer who owns Trump Kennedy Center web domain profanely responds to legal pressure to give it up.

In what may be the pettiest culture-war skirmish of the year, South Park writer Toby Morton has apparently driven Donald Trump’s orbit into a full-blown meltdown — not with a protest, not with a lawsuit, but with a website and a sense of humor.

As we reported earlier, after Trump allies began floating plans to rechristen the Kennedy Center in his own image, Morton quietly snapped up the domain TrumpKennedyCenter.org and filled it with the kind of deadpan satire that hits hardest because it barely exaggerates reality. The result? A perfectly skewered monument to authoritarian vanity — and, reportedly, a flurry of legal threats from lawyers who did not appreciate the joke.

Morton’s response was swift, surgical, and devastatingly funny.

“Satire is protected speech,” he wrote. “Confusion is a legal requirement, not a feeling. Political parody is not infringement. Criticism is not cybersquatting, and trademark law isn’t a panic button for institutions that don’t like being laughed at. I’ll proceed accordingly while you go fuck yourselves. Dog bless.”

Ouch.

The mock website itself reads like a fever dream scripted by Kafka and produced by Fox News. Visitors are welcomed to “A National Institution Devoted to Power and Loyalty,” where “tradition is preserved, narratives are curated, and history is… selectively remembered.” The site promises future “ceremonies,” “sanctioned appearances,” and a chilling declaration: Participation is not required. Belonging is expected.

Even the visual gags cut deep — a faux logo invoking the Kennedy Center’s iconic silhouette, flanked by Trump’s name and a redacted reference to a “13-year-old girl,” a brutal satirical nod to the long, uncomfortable history surrounding Trump, Epstein, and institutional silence.

The pièce de résistance? A fake upcoming event promising a performance by the “Epstein Dancers.” It’s not subtle — and that’s the point.

What makes the whole episode sting is how little exaggeration is actually required. Morton didn’t invent authoritarian aesthetics or cultish loyalty. He simply mirrored them back, slightly sharpened, and let the reflection do the damage.

In response, Trump-world reportedly reached for lawyers instead of a sense of humor — proving the satire’s thesis in real time.

As Morton made clear, parody isn’t theft. It’s commentary. And judging by how hard this landed, the joke hit exactly where it was meant to.

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https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-...f-absentee-mail-voting-laws-2020-through-2022

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politi...-several-states-even-with-voting-set-to-begin

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/20...les-differ-key-battleground-states-rcna175346

https://ballotpedia.org/When_states_can_begin_processing_and_counting_absentee/mail-in_ballots,_2024

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/table-15-states-with-signature-cure-processes

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-...-postmark-deadlines-for-absentee-mail-ballots

https://www.vote.org/absentee-ballot-deadlines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_DeJoy-

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/politics/california-gop-drop-boxes.html

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/california-gop-says-it-wont-remove-unofficial-ballot-boxes

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-candidate-files-republican-raising-money-democrats-11188015
 
" to disenfranchise voters " #2,205
#2,205 reminds me:
"In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in factor principle.
They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), U.S. president. Letter, 24 Nov. 1808, to his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph
I've never thought of this Jefferson quotation as justification for Gerrymandering, or ballot nullification.

Seems to me, hypothetically, an ethical Republican party would take pride in its political agenda, present it to the electorate, and allow it to sink or swim on election day based on merit.

I mourn the fact the Trump / MAGA GOP seem to have abandoned that model, and have replaced it with a win at any cost approach that includes outright lying to U.S. voters.
"In this journey, I will never lie to you. I will never tell you something I do not believe." Donald Trump 16/08/18
Seems to me such outright wholesale political fraud is a confession inferiority.
In how many cases have Republican candidates known they'd lose the election if they tell the truth, so they lie to gain the office, and then betray the voters that put them there. happy new year
 
BREAKING: House Judiciary Dems outwit Trump and release Jack Smith’s congressional deposition with DAMNING evidence of Trump’s criminal acts!

Blindsiding everyone, the 255-page transcript of Jack Smith’s testimony to Congress about his investigation into Donald Trump’s plot to steal the 2020 election hit the internet on New Year’s Eve, and it quickly became clear why Republicans fought so hard to keep it under wraps.

Smith testified that “Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power.”

“Our investigation also developed powerful evidence that showed that President Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January of 2021, storing them at his social club, including in a ballroom and a bathroom. He then repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents.”

Smith debunked the right-wing conspiracies about his investigation, swearing under oath that President Biden never gave him any instructions about the investigation and never even spoke to Biden about the investigation.

Most importantly of all, Smith demolished the fake narrative that Trump and his cronies have been pushing about what REALLY happened on January 6th…and pointed the finger squarely at Trump.

"January 6th was an attack on the structure of our democracy in which over 140 heroic law enforcement officers were assaulted. Over 160 individuals later pled guilty to assaulting police that day. Exploiting that violence, President Trump and his associates tried to call Members of Congress in furtherance of their criminal scheme, urging them to further delay certification of the 2020 election. I did not choose those Members, President Trump did"

"Pres. Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy. These crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol, part of this case, does not happen without him."

The fact that Donald Trump is President and not behind bars right now is one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in history.
 
BREAKING: House Judiciary Dems outwit Trump and release Jack Smith’s congressional deposition with DAMNING evidence of Trump’s criminal acts!

Blindsiding everyone, the 255-page transcript of Jack Smith’s testimony to Congress about his investigation into Donald Trump’s plot to steal the 2020 election hit the internet on New Year’s Eve, and it quickly became clear why Republicans fought so hard to keep it under wraps.

Smith testified that “Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power.”

“Our investigation also developed powerful evidence that showed that President Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January of 2021, storing them at his social club, including in a ballroom and a bathroom. He then repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents.”

Smith debunked the right-wing conspiracies about his investigation, swearing under oath that President Biden never gave him any instructions about the investigation and never even spoke to Biden about the investigation.

Most importantly of all, Smith demolished the fake narrative that Trump and his cronies have been pushing about what REALLY happened on January 6th…and pointed the finger squarely at Trump.

"January 6th was an attack on the structure of our democracy in which over 140 heroic law enforcement officers were assaulted. Over 160 individuals later pled guilty to assaulting police that day. Exploiting that violence, President Trump and his associates tried to call Members of Congress in furtherance of their criminal scheme, urging them to further delay certification of the 2020 election. I did not choose those Members, President Trump did"

"Pres. Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy. These crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol, part of this case, does not happen without him."

The fact that Donald Trump is President and not behind bars right now is one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in history.

Sorry. but I have to disagree.

Jack Smith is entirely wrong.
It is perfectly legal for presidents to retain copies of classified docs they want, and they were perfectly legal in his social club.

While Jan 6 was bad, it was not at all like an insurrection, and nothing warranted any arrests at all.
It was protected under the first amendment, as a protest.

But the contrast was significant.
In 1973 we protested Vietnam, and they would not even let us on the first step to the capital.
 
"BREAKING: House Judiciary Dems outwit Trump and release Jack Smith’s congressional deposition with DAMNING evidence of Trump’s criminal acts!
Blindsiding everyone, the 255-page transcript of Jack Smith’s testimony to Congress about his investigation into Donald Trump’s plot to steal the 2020 election hit the internet on New Year’s Eve, and it quickly became clear why Republicans fought so hard to keep it under wraps.
Smith testified that “Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power.”
“Our investigation also developed powerful evidence that showed that President Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January of 2021, storing them at his social club, including in a ballroom and a bathroom. He then repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents.”" S2 #2,207
Interesting news.
Why now?

If Smith et al wanted to metaphorically cram a finger in Trump's eye, why not release this Christmas eve, instead of New Year's eve?

"It is perfectly legal for presidents to retain copies of classified docs they want, and they were perfectly legal in his social club." R5 #2,208
Can you quote the statutory language, with link, that grants a post-president this authority?

During their tenure, presidents reportedly have authority to declassify, to make public, as JFK did with the U2 spy aerial photographs of Soviet missiles on Cuban soil.

What Trump did was quite different. And while I don't recall any "official" explanation, it appears retained the classified documents he did, for the purpose of selling them to the highest bidder, probably Putin, thereby betraying sources & methods, and quite likely placing key intelligence assets at mortal risk.

If not that, what?
 
Interesting news.
Why now?

If Smith et al wanted to metaphorically cram a finger in Trump's eye, why not release this Christmas eve, instead of New Year's eve?


Can you quote the statutory language, with link, that grants a post-president this authority?

During their tenure, presidents reportedly have authority to declassify, to make public, as JFK did with the U2 spy aerial photographs of Soviet missiles on Cuban soil.

What Trump did was quite different. And while I don't recall any "official" explanation, it appears retained the classified documents he did, for the purpose of selling them to the highest bidder, probably Putin, thereby betraying sources & methods, and quite likely placing key intelligence assets at mortal risk.

If not that, what?

I looked it up when it happened, but I don't have the actual statute in front of me any more.
But it was really simply.
It basically says presidents can do what every they want with any and all classified docs.
And when they give copies to other people, those people do not have to return them when the president's administration is over.
So it then is perfectly reasonable that any president can give as many copies of classified docs to themselves, as they want.
Historically all presidents have kept copies of classified docs, and that is mostly what their presidentially library is for.
 
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"It basically says presidents can do what every they want with any and all classified docs." R5 #2,210

Count me a skeptic.
Among the government documents that former president Donald Trump improperly retained at Mar-a-Lago were more than 300 documents that bore unambiguous classification markings. Not only should these documents have been turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration (in accordance with the Presidential Records Act), but their storage at an insecure location violated the rules governing the handling of classified material — and could have put national security at risk. Trump has defended his conduct by claiming, without any evidence, that he declassified the documents.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-w...ernment-classification-and-mar-lago-documents

Access to a former President's records is governed in terms of time passed since the conclusion of the presidency:
Less than five years out, no public access is granted due to the Archivist's processing of the records.
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46129

holy crud, it's next year already
 
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