Oh, you mean like slander, libel, inciting riots, or specific and actionable threats?

The Democrats are not going to save us. Consequences will come from the people, or not at all.

unless he has been convicted we can’t have governors removing mayors

NY state law disagrees with you on that.

He needs to be able to defend himself against the charges presented.

He gets to respond to the charges. But it’s not a trial or any kind of judicial proceedings. It is solely a political process, as is impeachment.

The courts don’t remove people from office. That’s a political process.

So you don’t believe rule of law is important?

The Supreme Court is compromised. The Federal courts are partially in the hands of MAGA placeholders. Trump is attempting to nullify the constitution by executive order. There is no rule of law.

It’s justice outside the formal system or no justice at all. Standing by idly and allowing elite impunity is not an acceptable approach.

who was willing to use the checks at her disposal against blatant corruption

Except for the insider trading that she participated in so lucratively. And the one fight that she always prioritized has been to keep the progressives down.

Isn’t that the definition of an asylum seeker?

When I started in software, my first employer was just phasing out punched cards for programming. One of my jobs was to work out how programming would be done using terminals instead of the old workflow of submitting coding sheets to card-punch operators who would then pass the jobs on to operations. Typically you’d find out if your code compiled the next morning. There was a big basket by the computer hall where they’d deposit your card deck and a massive printout on fanfold paper of the job status and (if it went tits up) the stack dump.

By that time (late 1970s), cards had sequence numbers (usually numbered 10, 20, 30 so you could interpolate a few cards if need be). If you dropped a deck on the floor, you had to carefully gather them back up (so they wouldn’t get bent or torn), feed them into a card sort machine, and wait until the deck was sorted. You could also run a special batch job to clone a card deck, for example if you wanted to box it up and ship it to another location.

The big challenge with cardless programming was that computer reliability wasn’t great in those days, so you needed reliable persistent storage of some kind. That was generally magnetic tape. Disk drives were way too expensive, and optical disks hadn’t been widely adopted yet. So to save your work, you used tar or some non-/Unix-OS equivalent. There was version-control software, but it was primitive (rcs, which later had svn built over it).

On the positive side, you could compile and build without an overnight wait.

It is treason. Nobody’s making him do it, he’s doing what he wants to do.

Don’t rule out the possibility of Trump deploying US troops to attack Ukraine and point their weapons at our European allies. He is that much of a Russian puppet.

A more plausible alternative interpretation is that Trump is a source of the disinformation bubble and not its victim.

His is a wonderful use case for jury nullification. Just remember never to use that term during deliberations. Just vote not guilty, and if pressed, say that the evidence doesn’t support the charge. And say nothing more. Jurors are not obliged to explain their reasoning to the judge or to other jurors.

Self-defense and defending another person are both defenses against a murder charge. Neither of those acts is in itself murder. Killing another person is homicide. For it to be murder, additional factors have to be considered.

The more that Trump floods the zone with bullshit, the more likely the defense can convince a judge that a fair trial is impossible.

He isn’t. There is no plea of innocence in the US system. He pled not guilty. There’s plenty of daylight between innocence and not being guilty as charged.

The quality of the average Tesla should be the target.

Is the US government now a “Russia-aligned threat actor” too? Just wondering.

I also wonder which disorder in the DSM manifests with wanting to kill Palestinians.

IIRC it’s called Settler Syndrome.

I don’t see the country doing anything. I see a faction of the elite attempting to seize totalitarian control, loot the government, commit treachery against allies and crash the economy.