@#31 ... With how many proven cases? Zero?...

It is simple to see ...

When Pres Trump (or a candidate he supports) loses n election, then that election is declared to be ~tainted.~

The bottom line seems to be, Pres Trump has to win, or else the results are invalid.

Of course, that begs a question ...

Why cannot Pres Trump apparently be un
able to deal with people who may vote for others beside who he instructs them to vote for?

Good to see the possible JeffJ aliases posting here. :)

That shows how worried the GOP is about this outcome.

@#19 ... That's my take on it. ...

Yeah, and the MAGA trolls seem to be reveling in denigrating his win.

Pres Trump has even called into question election results.

@#1 ... The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an independent agency of the United States government ...

"Independent?"

Apparently not any more. Now subject to Pres Trump's whims and dicta.

Some background ...

More from the article ...

... The threat, which Reuters is reporting for the first time, was emailed on May 13 by Chief Examiner Fatima Batie to many of the agency's mid-level supervision staff as they were preparing to resume inspections of financial firms following a long hiatus, according to the email and two people familiar with the matter.

Critics say the message amounts to a threat to CFPB staff that would likely make them think twice about how they interact with companies they oversee.

It also underscores how Republican President Donald Trump's administration has reoriented the CFPB's supervisory work, and reflects a broader regulatory retreat from oversight of the finance sector that his appointees say had become overly burdensome, constraining lending and economic growth.

Representatives for the CFPB and the White House did not respond to requests for comment. Batie did not respond to emails and a message seeking comment. Efforts to reach her by phone were unsuccessful. ...

@#20

Do try harder.

@#19 ... That's my take on it. This isn't a ringing endorsement for democratic socialism. It's a public tired of weak corporate democrats ...

Yup.

@#14 ... I feel this was more a "Haley Stevens isn't good enough" vote than a pro dem socialism move. ...

That's been similar to my expressed opinion.

Let me ask ...

The imagined (by GOP) tilt towards Socialism of Democrats ... is it actually more towards supporting Socialism?

Or is it just a tilt away from supporting current ineffectual Democrats?

My current opinion is the latter. ...

That the current Democrat voters seem to be agreeing with the GOP, that the current Democrats are worthless.

Of course the current GOP also seems to be reluctant to even address their lack of a spine. But that's a whole different thread ...

OK, after promoting Texas as a data-center friendly State, Gov Abbott now seems to have done a major retreat.

Has Gov Abbott been listening to the complaints and concerns of the Texas citizens who ~informed~ him about the constant noise (day and night) of the gas-turbine generators being deployed to power the data centers?

@#10 ... People will die ...

People will die?

Or ...

People have died?

@#19 ... " Sen. Rand Paul's office published Fauci's diary entries without redacting those sensitive details."

Anyone else in the medical profession would be subject to sanctions and discipline.

These prikkkks believe they're above it all. ...

The depth to which they go to smear their perceived "enemies" seems to have no bounds.

But the question then becomes...

If their position in the matter is so awesome, why don't they just try to proffer that position instead of denigrating their perceived enemies?

Asked differently ...

When one tries to raise oneself by lowering others, are you really raising yourself?

@10 ... BJ is mad, so it appears the libs did something good. ...

Yeah, The libs seems to have poked that apparent JeffJ troll.

But that aspect aside ...

I remain to be convinced that the Tuesday primaries reflect a trend toward Socialism fr the Democrats.

Yeah, in Michigan, that seems to be the case, but what about the other primaries?

... RFK Jr hosted a large party at his mansion during COVID.

Attendees had to provide proof of vaccination to attend. ...

Wow, is that true?

Found this ...

@#2 ... Good job Dana ...

Yup.

It is part of what journalists do ... ask questions.

When you do not have a good answer to the question posed, just try to denigrate the questioner.

That seems to be Sec Kennedy's approach.

Unfortunately for Americans.

@#2 ... They were all innocent people.

No court found them guilty. ...

Worth a repeat.

Pres Trump has shown that he has little regard for due process under the Constitution. Indeed, his owned (not a typo) SCOTUS has ruled against him in that regard.

Yet he continued to target and kill people without any regard of whether they may actually be guilty.

What, or more important, who may Pres Trump target next?

American Citizens who protest against him?

Oh wait, he has already done that ...

Related?

So, the Judge seems to have ruled that the Trump DoJ (~Thank-you, Sir, I love you~) presented no evidence why the convictions should be dismissed.

More from the article ...

... In a searing opinion in which he repeatedly cast doubt on the government's stated reasons for moving for the case's dismissal, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta conceded he had essentially no power to deny the DOJ's motion while reaffirming his belief that their prosecutions were justified.

"This is the last of the prosecutions seeking to hold accountable those responsible for the events of January 6. That book is now closed," Mehta said. "Today's epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and law enforcement officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy -- the peaceful transfer of presidential power -- to buckle."

"The court cannot write a different ending," Mehta wrote, saying, "Reluctantly, the court grants the motion."

Mehta also noted that -- contrary to President Donald Trump's assertions that the DOJ's prosecutions of Jan. 6 defendants were an unlawful weaponization of government power -- the Justice Department made no such argument in seeking the dismissal of the Oath Keepers case.

"The government does not say that the charges were legally deficient or that the evidence presented is insufficient to sustain Defendants' convictions," Mehta said. "It confesses to no prosecutorial misconduct, nor does it assert any denial or compromise of a defendant's rights. And it does not identify any legal error that resulted in an unfair trial or a wrongful conviction (except perhaps as to the obstruction of an official proceeding counts)."

"Remarkably, then, the government does not maintain that dismissal is in the public interest to rectify a fundamental error or a grave injustice," the judge said. ...

@#8 ... Get used to these kind of nonsensical changes that always profit a few. ...

Yup.

@#7 ... "The issue is, they just continue to proliferate and they keep springing up like dandelions in the spring." ...

A good analogy.

Then there are OpEds like this ...

@#4 ... The countries in the Gulf region are trying to negotiate to open the Strait that Pres Trump's whimsical war had closed. ...

... and that they say they are negotiating among themselves, without the involvement of the US, is very significant.

@#7 ... "The debate of privacy and safety is an important one and at Flock we believe they can coexhist," Flock CEO Garrett Langley said. ...

Yeah that is what Flock is currently saying to get all the cameras installed.

What may be on the horizon, though?

@#6 ... Can't have an Orwellian "1984" culture without Big Brother watching all, listening to all, frightening all. ...

Here in CT, there seems to be many concerned citizens showing up at town meetings to voice their disapproval of the Flock surveillance of their town.

To the point that is appears to now be a state-level concern ...

Yeah, speaking of songs with, I'll say, odd lyrics ...

More from the article ...

... Those small gains added up, meaning that someone's genius-level great-grandparents might only be considered a bit smart by their own generation.

This increase was called the "Flynn Effect" after the educator James Flynn, who published about it in 1984. ...

What caused it?

Hypotheses ranged from population-wide changes like better nutrition, fewer siblings, earlier education, more complex environments, and genetic effects (unlikely, since genes take longer than a few generations to change).

Increasing IQ was seen as a positive thing, since it's correlated with higher educational attainment, better jobs, and even a longer, healthier life. ...

It was expected that this increase would keep going, even if at a slower pace, as humanity advanced.

And then people started getting 'dumber'.

Or at least, their scores on an IQ test dropped. In Europe, several countries reported declining intelligence as determined by standardized tests.

To find out whether the same pattern is emerging in the US, social scientist Elizabeth Dworak made that question the topic of her master's thesis at Northwestern University. She and her colleagues analyzed cognitive test scores from nearly 400,000 American adults collected between 2006 and 2018. ...

Political opinions instead of medical information.

What could possibly go wrong?

@#3

Yeah.

My view is currently along the lines of ... "I'll believe it when I see it."

That aside I agree with #2, that Iran and Oman seem to be the parties negotiating the opening of the Strait does speak volumes.

The countries in the Gulf region are trying to negotiate to open the Strait that Pres Trump's whimsical war had closed.

If the Strait does re-open, I suspect that Pres Trump will try to place himself front and center in the reason it re-opened.

His usual "me-me-me-me, it's all about me" refrain.