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  1. The judges on the panel are attempting to keep Trump from taking this directly to federal court. I don’t think it is going to work, but it might delay to federalization of the case for a few weeks.

  2. Michael Steele, former Republic Party Chairman, tweets:

    Yet again, @realDonaldTrump gets special treatment with his own private system of justice. The NY Appeals Court has decided to give Trump more time to pay less money by reducing his bond from $454M to $175 and giving him 10 days to get the money. This makes absolutely no sense.

    https://twitter.com/MichaelSteele/status/1772285945162670117?t=Hrr3hglfBmYn5CxgC1kPzw&s=19

    Any wonder that Republicans are often viewed as clueless jerks by their own ostensible allies?

  3. That Steele tweet is incredible. “His own private system of justice?” What’s going on is a system of injustice focused on a politically disfavored person.

  4. Kate:

    Yes, TDS is a powerful force even among many people who used to be known as Republicans.

  5. Steele was apparently the token Democrat running the RNC.

    They dropped the bond from $354 million to $175 million. Remember there was approx. $100 million accrued in interest. No mention whether that will be adjusted down or is included in the $175 million.

  6. “Yes, “repellent for many” – but for how many? It should be repellent for all.

    Any business that has the wherewithal to leave but stays… will deserve what they eventually get because the nature of progressivism ensures that the productive will in time be enslaved to the system.

    Michael Steele is a political weasel. Nikki Haley another, the GOPe is infested with them.

  7. }}} only a few steps away from the Stalinist show trials;

    Well, since “Climate Science” is increasingly resembling Lysenkoism, this seems reasonable.

    I have no idea how much anyone understands about the properties of water, but, among other things, it has tremendous power to absorb heat energy. This is why it works so well via the radiator in your car.

    Well, before the earth can warm, the oceans have to warm substantially, too.

    And a direct result of ocean warming would be a substantial increase in cyclones — hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.

    The term for this is “Accumulated Cyclonic Energy” — ACE.

    And it seems that the Total ACE worldwide has, in fact, been decreasing since 1990.

    https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL095774

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    Abstract
    This study investigates global tropical cyclone (TC) activity trends from 1990 to 2021, a period marked by largely consistent observational platforms. Several global TC metrics have decreased during this period, with significant decreases in hurricane numbers and Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE). Most of this decrease has been driven by significant downward trends in the western North Pacific. Globally, short-lived named storms, 24-hr intensification events of ?50 kt day?1, and TC-related damage have increased significantly. The increase in short-lived named storms is likely due to technological improvements, while rapidly intensifying TC increases may be fueled by higher potential intensity. Damage increases are largely due to increased coastal assets. The significant decrease in hurricane numbers and global ACE are likely due to the trend toward a more La Niña-like base state from 1990 to 2021, favoring North Atlantic TC activity and suppressing North and South Pacific TC activity.

    Key Points

    • Global hurricane counts and Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) have significantly decreased since 1990 likely due to a trend toward La Niña

    • Short-lived named storms, extreme rapid intensification events (50+ kt day?1) and global damage have increased significantly from 1990 to 2021

    • Decreasing trend in global hurricanes and ACE is primarily driven by downturn in western North Pacific activity

    Now, there’s no doubt that they have lots of mealy-mouthed excuses for why this does NOT indicate a decrease in global temperatures, but there is zero question that it does indicate exactly that, and is a serious challenge to the entire basis for AGW/”Climate Change”
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    This is not a short term metric, it’s a consistent pattern for literally 30 years!!

    And in exactly the timeframe for which AGW is supposedly building.

    I re-iterate my thesis: AGW/CC is essentially a form of Lysenkoism. Even down to people calling for the arrest and conviction of anyone skeptical enough to question and challenge the bovine excreta.

    BTW, Side Note — Remember, after Katrina, how all the merdia was screaming about how “This was the new normal” and how “We’d all have to get used to this”?

    Well… It should be remembered that, in the ensuing decade, what we ACTUALLY had was the longest period in recorded history (since about 1820, when there were enough people scattered along the Eastern Seaboard) of no — repeat NO class-3 or above hurricanes striking the entire Eastern Seaboard from Texas to Maine. This surpassed a record which had been in place since the decade of the Civil War.

  8. According to this summary at LegalInsurrection, the order reducing the bond also stayed enforcement of the disgorgement and most of the restrictions on Trump and his sons, as well as dismissing the order for a Monitor and a Compliance Officer for the Trump Organization so long as Trump is ready to try the appeal by the September 2024 court term.

    https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/03/appeals-court-blocks-trumps-464-million-bond-if-he-posts-175-million-in-10-days/

  9. I have been dwelling on this from a tactical perspective all day.

    I think Trump should use Mar-a-lago as the bond’s collateral. Several estimates put it around 150 -200 million in value.

    Then when the appeal happens. Simply point to the bond’s issuance to prove one of the conclusions drawn by the judge (his low valuation) of said property. As a clear error in fact.

    Seems to me it would be a great way to introduce the discrepancy into the record

  10. Elon Musk on Monday and this week has posted his fears for November’s 2024 election on X — without a Red [Republican] Wave, America is toast.

    That almost a direct quote.
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/musk-america-toast-red-wave

    He couches this as a Democrat voting Centrist mugged by reality:

    “This is a battle to the death with the anti-civilizational woke mind virus,” Musk wrote. “My positions are centrist,” he added, listing, “Secure borders,” “Safe & clean cities,” “Don’t bankrupt America with spending,” “Racism against any race is wrong,” “No sterilization below age of consent.” He then asked, “Is this right-wing?”

    In May 2022, Musk tweeted that the Democratic Party had “become the party of division & hate,” adding, “so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican.”

    The day before the 2022 midterms, Musk urged “independent-minded voters” to vote for GOP candidates.
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    And he sees the Democrats aim at one party rule through illegal immigration.

    The man Musk has manned-up.

  11. Some New Yorkers no doubt hate Trump for deep-seated reasons sufficient to overcome their business sense. Still, I’d imagine more than a few businessmen are re-thinking the whole banana-republic thing, no matter how much confidence they have that, for now, the banana-ness is on their side.

  12. Any wonder that Republicans are often viewed as clueless jerks by their own ostensible allies?
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    Recall Robert Conquest’s remark that bureaucratic behavior could be most readily explained by assuming an organization was controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies. The Republican National Committee was run by Michael Steele and Ronna Romney McDaniel, the Senate Republican caucus by Glitch McConnell, and the Commission on Presidential Debates by one of Steele’s predecessors, one Frank Fahrenkopf. When they’re not bought and paid for, they are clueless jerks.

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