Re: Donald Trump, convicted felon

2024-06-08 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 6:21 PM PGC wrote: *> I see all this "2 sides to the story" bullshi*t I agree. Some issues do have 2 sides (Is string theory correct?, Should the federal reserve try to raise or lower interest rates?) but some clearly do not (is the world getting warmer?, did Joe Biden wi

Re: Donald Trump, convicted felon

2024-06-07 Thread PGC
On Thursday, June 6, 2024 at 1:50:26 PM UTC+2 John Clark wrote: On Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 12:17 PM PGC wrote: *> I think embracing more direct, brutal honesty could really help.* *I think it's a lot more complicated than that. Although no previous American politician has lied virtually every t

Re: Donald Trump, convicted felon

2024-06-06 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 12:17 PM PGC wrote: *> I think embracing more direct, brutal honesty could really help.* > *I think it's a lot more complicated than that. Although no previous American politician has lied virtually every time he opens his mouth as Trump has, all politicians lie and they d

Re: Donald Trump, convicted felon

2024-06-05 Thread PGC
On Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 1:06:31 PM UTC+2 John Clark wrote: On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 8:34 PM PGC wrote: *> John, the idea is not for Biden to "become Trump" by emulating his behavior, but rather to understand and leverage the appeal of outsider narratives, mavericks, [...] He could direct

Re: Donald Trump, convicted felon

2024-06-05 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 8:34 PM PGC wrote: *> John, the idea is not for Biden to "become Trump" by emulating his > behavior, but rather to understand and leverage the appeal of outsider > narratives, mavericks, [...] He could directly challenge whether Trump > actually managed to "drain the swamp"

Re: Donald Trump, convicted felon

2024-06-04 Thread PGC
On Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 1:22:04 PM UTC+2 John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 5:20 PM PGC wrote: *> Don't underestimate feelings/perceptions, no matter how false or distorted they appear.* If you're correct (and I sure hope you're not) and the people are not interested in the fact

Re: Donald Trump, convicted felon

2024-06-04 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 5:20 PM PGC wrote: *> Don't underestimate feelings/perceptions, no matter how false or > distorted they appear.* > If you're correct (and I sure hope you're not) and the people are not interested in the facts or in the honesty or competency of their president then the onl

Re: Donald Trump, convicted felon

2024-06-03 Thread PGC
Don't underestimate feelings/perceptions, no matter how false or distorted they appear. Facts matter less. Even if economy is growing, unemployment is low, inflation is falling, and Trump is convicted, purchasing power of the average household, due to the inflation/greedflation of the last 4 ye

Re: Donald Trump, convicted felon

2024-05-30 Thread Brent Meeker
I don't see how his sentence can be less than that of Michael Cohen who was sentenced to 2yrs for what he did /*on behalf */of Trump.   The problem is that is that  Trump will appeal any sentence which will then take at least a year to get up to his "supremes". If he's elected in Nov. they wll