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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.

I was pretty astounded to learn a significant number of Muslims voted for the guy

The stories were mainly about Arab-Americans, a narrow majority of whom are Christian (Maronite, Orthodox and Coptic). And the majority of Muslim-Americans have little to no connection or solidarity with the Palestinians.

But the press is too lazy to pick up on these nuances, just as it never reports on the Israelis' relentless attacks on Palestinian Christians. The media narrative is Israelis versus Muslims, and that's all you hear about.

Trump turns on everybody, but he's never turned on Putin. I don't think there was ever a possibility Trump was going to go against Russia, the source of that was probably people around Trump who are less subservient to Putin.

My theory (and not just mine) is that, in the 80s, Trump ratted out the NY mafia to SDNY, and that's why he was protected from prosecution for his many crimes after that. The collapse of Gotti and co. led to the Russian mob getting much more power.

trump does what he wants because it pleases him.

It'd oddly coincidental that it always happens to please Putin too. Also go back to that Helsinki meeting and look at the body language. Trump's is a display of cringing submissiveness that is not consistent with it just being an alignment of interest. Trump is shit-scared of Putin for some reason, kompromat or not.

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.