It’s just the nth example of his “delay, delay, delay” legal tactic. Legally, he cannot appeal the conviction until he is sentenced, so logic suggests he would want to get this out of the way so that he could launch a full appeal. But that just means that the full appeal starts - and ends - sooner.
While the legal process is still moving, he can claim it’s all bullshit. Sentencing ends the original criminal phase, and his ego cannot have that. None of this makes sense, because nothing makes sense in TrumpWorld.
In 2010, Stephen Colbert joked that the Deepwater Horizon disaster “could never have happened in the Gulf of America!” Throw Veep on to the list of clairvoyant parodies too.
I find him, and all his types, truly sickening. Not only that their first impulse is to always politicize tragedy, but also that they’re so full of shit and disinformation while doing it.
I’m sure there are real and vital public discussions needed to address these disasters but we are, as a country, entirely unable to do so at the moment. I’m not sure we ever will be able to again.
Do not Google today’s shitbaggery from standout deplorable Rep. Andy Biggs. It’s not quite blaming kids on fire for their own plight, but that’s only because he wasn’t talking over footage of that.
The St. John’s River starts just a 5 iron from Mar-a-Lago and flows NORTH for 300 miles. That’s 300 miles of backward-ass country fucks completely oblivious to this obvious Satanic conspiracy, right in Trumpland.
Politics aside. I have a friend that works for Pepperdine, she’s freaked out, had to evacuate her condo. The school is closed. She driving to Santa Cruz to hang out with a friend for the rest of the week. The fire is tragic. The water problem is unsolvable. They built a city with a population that is unsustainable
They already pipe it in from 100 miles away. They’re even trucking in water. The are no sources nearby, The LA river used to have water in it. Now it’s always dry. They would love to benefit from desalination but unwilling to spend the billions of dollars it would take to be viable.
I wasn’t so much talking about the logistics of bring existing water supplies into the city, but of the lifestyle changes that are required to fundamentally change how we consume water so that it is available for the things we truly need and not given away to corporate profits and foreign governments.
California’s water rights laws are insane and allow the few to have access to free, almost unlimited amounts of water. I mean unlimited by law, because it’s not unlimited by nature, which is the reckoning that California is careening towards at ever-increasing speed.
I will post this link again, because it will never not be relevant. Sadly.
Just watch the first 5 minutes for a speed run through the big issue.
