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Judge Aileen Cannon has cancelled planned Aug 25th hearing to discuss protective order in Classified Doc case.
She's not even pretending she's interested any more...

I think she is in way over her head. She is not even particularly well-qualified to be a judge (she seems to have made rookie mistakes in other cases) and now suddenly is at the sharp end of one of the most important trials of her entire lifetime, and she can't really cope. Time to get her replaced by someone better equipped to deal with pressure. I feel deperately sorry for her: all her shortcomings are being held up to the light.

@Wallaw

I agree not many Biden/Harris signs about. I can't decide if it's too early yet or if the amount of vandalism that happened around here in 2020 is making people leery of putting them out. We didn't experience it because we're rural and someone would have had to hop two fences and cross the side pasture, but others in the state had them destroyed, spray painting on their houses, their windows egged. A neighbour had his stolen and he put up a "You may have stolen my sign but you can't steal my vote" banner. And there were instances of car vandalism for bumper stickers. The worst we had on that was getting the finger and some shouting, but we gave as good as we got. I'm hoping the dearth of trucks and yards signs means it won't be that ugly this time. DH says he thinks people are either ashamed to put them out or are afraid of 'Antifa' blowing up their homes and cars (lol).

I rather like the 'Dark Brandon' meme, it makes me chuckle to myself when I see it. And of course Love Is Love always makes me smile. Definitely NOT Trumpinistas.

I'd say 'Poor DeSantis sign all alone' if he weren't such a hypocritical asshole.

Team Trump have suggested April 2026 for Election interference case.
For an innocent man, he's in no hurry to clear his name...

In other news, he has cancelled his news conference releasing the "irrefutable" report of election fraud. Probably listened to his lawyers for the first time ever. It would have jusr been added as evidence for the Prosecution

Apparently Marjorie Taylor Greene is angling to be Trump's VP. I don't think my blood pressure could take that pairing.
Good grief! (To quote Charlie Brown)

Slightly off topic but do our MN posters in the U.S. think that Harris will still be Biden's running mate? Her shining star seems to have waned and the press haven't been particularly kind to her. I've seen some murmurings (admittedly on Xwitter...) that suggested Biden's VP could end up being someone else.

MTG has been angling to be the Fart's VP for a long time now; he has been shown a couple of times not to be particularly keen on the idea.

MTG is too much of a publicity junkie to be Trumps running mate. He doesn't like to share the limelight. And despite what she says, she's not devout enough for the evangelists that came with Pence.

I had always assumed that Harris was chosen to be Biden's VP in 2020 with an eye for her to step up as Presidential candidate in 2024, but she hasn't been popular enough which is a shame, Cos I don't think Biden is a strong candidate. His age was an issue in 2020, and time waits for no man

The orange one is asking for a 2026 trial, lol

The thing is, the VP's role is to be sort of 'seen...but not too often, heard....but not too loudly'. You didn't hear much from Joe when Barack was POTUS, either. And Pence was only trotted out when Doofus needed a boost with the religious right.

I think the problem that Kamala has had is that, being the first female and non-WASC' VP, she was thrust into the spotlight, expected to 'do great things', but then was relegated to the VP's usual role. This has been (erroneously to my mind) interpreted as 'not doing her job very well' when what she's doing is exactly what every other MALE veep has always done. Supporting the POTUS in the background and getting out HIS message, not their own.

I think she'll be Joe's running mate. To choose someone else would, in my opinion, alienate a sizeable portion of US Dem and Independent liberal voters.

As far as MTG as VP nom, I'm not so sure we can rule her out. She's one of the few people that might make Doofus really look like a 'stable genius'. lol

Kari Lake wants to be VP

Kamala Harris has been attacked by the press for buying some French saucepans while she was in Paris, I seem to remember. Manufactured outrage; her action was about as democracy-destructive as Obama wearing a tan suit on a couple of occasions.

If that's the worst they can find to fling, she is probably doing pretty well at her job.

Can you imagine a VP candidate debate between Kamala Harris and Marge Taylor Greene?
It would be like a Chess Grandmaster playing against a pigeon, where - as the saying goes - the pigeon ignores the rules, knocks over the pieces and then cramps on the board

*craps not cramps.
I knew what I wanted to type but autocorrect thought it knew better

Trumps campaign wanted him to appear at Fulton Court on Wednesday to coincide with the Republican debate the he is too scared to won't attend. But Legal team advised Thursday.

Terms of Bond included a prohibition of “act[ing] to intimidate any person known to … be a codefendant or witness in this case”, including in “posts on social media”.

He isn't capable of obeying those terms...

NBC

Terms of Trump's Fulton County bond:

The Defendant shall make no direct or indirect threat of any nature against any:

1. Codefendant
2. Witness
3. Victim
4. The community or to any property in the community

The above shall include, but are not limited to, posts on social media or reposts of posts.

No I can't see him obeying those terms either

Also via NBC

NBC News: Ex-Trump lawyer John Eastman will surrender to Georgia authorities TODAY.

The bit about reposts on Social Media is interesting. Trump frequently reposts stuff that is too inflammatory even for him to post directly.
I wonder if the judge (or is that the arraignment?) will draw attention to this part and get him to verbally agree.

Apparently money is being raised for the Pentagon (maybe to replace the money that was appropriated from schools and facilities for the military and put into the vanity border project instead) by selling online some of the unused and not-really-fit-for-purpose material that was sold to the taxpayer by Trump's chums for building the wall that didn't work. The Republicans are understandably outraged, but I reckon that if you can get money for old iron it is better than just leaving it to rust.

Especially when some of the 80 miles of Trump's wall that actually was built has fallen down, it could be easily scaled, and there were umpteen tunnels under it.

https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-furious-biden-sells-unused-trump-border-wall-millions-1821115

I don't know exactly where you are, Across, but I think I know roughly. Are you OK?

Mark Meadows vs Fani Willis. Wonder who will blink first? Looks like Friday may be interesting.

Meanwhile
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=596N4aPnjrs

Yes, we're fine, thank you for asking. I'm in the northern part of the state and we only caught a 'wee bit' of the weather as the storm passed to the east of us. My cousin in So Cal's patio got flooded but it didn't get into her house.

Your question did catch me a bit. I'm going through some possibly serious health struggles at the moment and I wondered "How on earth does she know about that??" before it hit me you were talking about Hurricane Hilary!

@CatsonPollock

Thanks for the dose of Randy!! Always a day brightener!!

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-indictment-georgia-election-08-22-23/index.html

Current 'live update' stream from CNN.

Looks like poor Rudy can't find a GA licensed lawyer to represent him. Well, since he's announced that he's 'flat broke' it's no wonder. Not to mention being a lying scumbag.

Do we detect the hand of Trump in the naming of that hurricane

Glad to hear you're Ok, sorry about the health problems. I'm fine physically, however am under a lot of stress at the moment, some of it stemming from way back, when I was divorcing Ex. I don't know if you remember when we met on the Relationship board back in 2011-12? I'd PM you, but my PM hasn't worked since the Big Change

Sorry, that was for @AcrossthePond55