Trump47 First Week & Beyond Catch-All

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LosPollosHermanos said:
You just wrote another novel admitting that allegations established by only a preponderance of the evidence, i.e. "more likely than not", the lowest standard in any court and used primarily in civil courts, were a major factor in a man getting two life sentences plus 40 years. I have a problem with that. And I find your idiotic prediction abouty how any criminal trial would have turned out but for excluded evidence to be utterly ridiculous. There is other evidence that all these paid hits were being suggested to him by others, and that he had no part in actually coming up with the plans for them. So I have no idea how a criminal trial would have turned out. The fact that you seem positive about what the result would be is, well, arrogant. Sorry you feel bullied when anyone challenges your constant over the top uninformed arrogance. Entertain the possibility that you are a big part of the problem. Again. But try and be more concise this time.
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Why are you doing this? This is such an odd hill for you to die on, but it appears that's what you want.

1. It was not my characterization of the excluded evidence -- it was the Second Circuit's. I've added basically zero gloss here. I'm just quoting verbatim from the opinion. I expressed no opinion as to whether he would have been convicted; I merely cited the district and appeals courts contentions.

2. I'm sorry that you "have a problem" with the use of preponderance evidence in sentencing but it's common. It's so common and unobjectionable that Ulbrecht didn't even seriously challenge it. Sentencing factors have never been required to be beyond a reasonable doubt. In fact, until 2000, judges could rely on facts not found by the jury to justify a sentencing enhancement that would yield a sentence greater than the statutory maximum.

Anyway, there's this, from Second Circuit:

The drug offenses alone—ignoring all other illicit materials sold on the site —yielded a calculated offense level of 50. Of that calculation, only two levels are attributable to Ulbricht's “credible threats of directed violence” associated with the murders for hire. PSR ¶ 94. Thus, even without considering that enhancement, the drug convictions yielded an offense level of 48, which is higher than the maximum offense level recognized by the Guidelines, for which a sentence of life imprisonment is recommended even for someone who, like Ulbricht, has no prior criminal convictions.

3. You keep using this phrase "uninformed arrogance." Why? It's clear from this discussion that you are patently uninformed, because you couldn't even bother to read the opinions in the case. You watched a documentary instead, lol. Those documentaries are always flattering toward the subject because that's the condition for them getting made. If you didn't know that, you should have. In any event, now you do.

4. You have no substantive response to bullying, I see. Every bully in the world blames the victim -- just as you did (in a completely non-specific way). Your behavior here is like a domestic or child abuser. I have no idea if you've done those things, but a person who has done those things would post just like you. You think about it. When you're bullying people and then blaming them for it, you have badly lost your way. You've basically become MAGA muck. Congrats!
 
CFordUNC said:
Do what now?

Jesus's entire message was about justice, equality, and love of others. He was a political figure- hence, his political execution- who used creative acts of civil disobedience- such as flip the tables in the temple- to challenge the status quo and offer an alternative vision. He promoted peaceful disagreement disobedience. He publicly denounced the political and religious leaders of the day.

In what way was Jesus not an activist?
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In the same way he was white.
 
altmin said:
www.independent.co.uk

Trump claims FEMA is getting ‘in the way’ and pitches abolishing it

Trump wants to shut down the Federal Emergency Management Agency and let states handle their own disaster needs. ‘I don’t think we should give California anything,’ he said
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday floated abolishing the federal agency charged with the response to all kinds of natural disasters and other emergencies across the nation, and leave the task of responding to emergencies up to individual state governments instead.
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Well this puts all those people complaining (without basis) about FEMA’s inadequate response in WNC in a difficult position.

“FEMA’s not doing enough? We’ll just get rid of the whole thing!”
 
The people and things that seem to be winning from Trump 2.0 —

1. J6 insurrectionists
2. Tech billionaires
3. Trump and Melania themselves, on behalf of rug-pullers everywhere
4. Natural disasters
5. Bird flu and other global contagions
6. Consolidated and unfettered executive power

From what I can tell, everyone else is already down 21-0 five minutes into the game. But congrats to the winners, I guess?
 
superrific said:
1. The appeals court did not say the sentence was harsh. Again you lie. Here is the Second Circuit's discussion of this point:

Accordingly, while a life sentence for selling drugs alone would give pause, we would be hard put to find such a sentence beyond the bounds of reason for drug crimes of this magnitude. But the facts of this case involve much more than simply facilitating the sale of narcotics. The district court found by a preponderance of the evidence that Ulbricht commissioned at least five murders in the course of protecting Silk Road's anonymity, a finding that Ulbricht does not challenge in this appeal."

Thus are you incorrect.

2. The reason he wasn't charged with murder was that the government didn't think it could prove beyond a reasonable doubt after it was revealed that the two agents were shaking down criminals for money. That was sheer luck on the part of Ross -- he did what he did, and that the cops had issues was a blessing. Otherwise, he would have been convicted for murder.

The lack of charges means nothing. It doesn't change whether he did it. And he did, as the district court AND three appeals court judges found. They described the evidence as ample and unambiguous.

3. Why would I take that deal? If you're bullshitting, and I know that, then other posters deserve to know that you are bullshitting to them. If you don't post bullshit, then we have no quarrel.

4. I think what's really going on here is that you realized that you got played by the documentaries. And you don't want to admit it to yourself, so instead you lash out at me. It's common bullying. The sin you claim was correcting you; somehow you twisted that into "realizing that at least something is wrong with you, and then you go back to doing the same annoying shit you always do within a couple of days" -- which is not at all an acceptable thing to say, its incredible stupidity notwithstanding. Basically, you're a classic toxic masculinity case.

As a general rule, I think that posts intended to be intentionally hurtful, without any rhetorical connection to the discourse, should warrant discipline. Like this series from the chicken brothers. It's not something we should tolerate. It's bullying. It's pathetic. It reflects poorly on all of us should we indulge this conduct.
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Ulbricht, who the prosecutors have sought to prove is that Dread Pirate Roberts, hasn't been charged with murder-for-hire in his Southern District of New York case, though he faces charges that include conspiracies to sell narcotics, launder money and more. (He does, however, face murder-for-hire charges in a separate case in Baltimore.) In fact, the prosecution admitted in court that the purported victims of the Silk Road killings were never found, and that Canadian police couldn't even locate records for anyone with their names.
www.wired.com

Read the Transcript of Silk Road's Boss Ordering 5 Assassinations

Many of the ideological supporters of the Silk Road have described its sprawling online black market for drugs as an experiment in victimless crime and a nonviolent alternative to the bloody turf wars of the streets. But prosecutors in the trial of Ross Ulbricht, the 30-year-old accused of...
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ZenMode said:
Ulbricht, who the prosecutors have sought to prove is that Dread Pirate Roberts, hasn't been charged with murder-for-hire in his Southern District of New York case, though he faces charges that include conspiracies to sell narcotics, launder money and more. (He does, however, face murder-for-hire charges in a separate case in Baltimore.) In fact, the prosecution admitted in court that the purported victims of the Silk Road killings were never found, and that Canadian police couldn't even locate records for anyone with their names.
www.wired.com

Read the Transcript of Silk Road's Boss Ordering 5 Assassinations

Many of the ideological supporters of the Silk Road have described its sprawling online black market for drugs as an experiment in victimless crime and a nonviolent alternative to the bloody turf wars of the streets. But prosecutors in the trial of Ross Ulbricht, the 30-year-old accused of...
www.wired.com www.wired.com
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Can we let this one go or give it its own thread?
 
lawtig02 said:
The people and things that seem to be winning from Trump 2.0 —

1. J6 insurrectionists
2. Tech billionaires
3. Trump and Melania themselves, on behalf of rug-pullers everywhere
4. Natural disasters
5. Bird flu and other global contagions
6. Consolidated and unfettered executive power

From what I can tell, everyone else is already down 21-0 five minutes into the game. But congrats to the winners, I guess?
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It's all about winning.
At all cost, fuck everyone in your wake. Just win baby.
 


“… Inspectors general can be fired by the president, but only after communicating a reason for the removal to both houses of Congress 30 days in advance. In 2022, Congress strengthened and expanded protections for inspectors general, making it harder to replace them with hand-picked officials and requiring additional explanations from a president for their removal.

While the politically-appointed leaders of agencies and departments come and go with each administration, an IG can stay and serve under multiple presidents.

… Trump installed political loyalists after firing multiple inspectors general during his first term in office -- including five over six weeks in 2020 -- in a move that was criticized by lawmakers and government watchdogs who accused Trump of attempting to erode safeguards and independent checks on the federal government.

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Currently, there are nearly a dozen vacant inspector general positions for Trump to fill, including at the Treasury and Commerce Departments and the National Security Agency.

The inspectors general of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence resigned late last year, giving Trump the opportunity to nominate his own picks to lead oversight of the powerful national security agencies.

… In his first day in office, President Ronald Reagan dismissed more than a dozen inspectors general, and was accused by Republicans and Democrats of politicizing the roles, according to The New York Times.

The outcry led Reagan to hire some of the ousted watchdogs back into their roles, Williams of the Project on Government Oversight told ABC News. …”
 
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