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vote to acquit comrade trump the most mendacious and corrupt being ever to inhabit the white house evidence didn t matter we knew that and most of us knew that if the democrats used the monkey s paw there d be a price to pay i wanted them to do it anyway almost everybody i know wanted them to do it anyway when they didn t call witnesses most of us immediately assumed the republicans played tough and the democrats caved because that s been our experience but in fact we were all mrs white wanting to resurrect the mutilated body of her dead son we could have had witnesses maybe witnesses for weeks witnesses testifying to trump s appalling behavior it would be so satisfying it would be well profoundly stupid no competent lawyer wants to put a hostile witness on the stand even under oath the risks are too great and now we ve learned the republicans threatened to filibuster biden s appointments and the covid relief bill and probably everything on the biden agenda if the house managers called witnesses to call witnesses would have born out the fakir s warning those who interfered with fate did so to their sorrow even though i don t belief in fate i believe jamie raskin did the wise thing he threw the monkey s paw back into the fire and so things happened pretty much as we all expected senate republicans did what we knew they d do it wasn t fate but it s close enough that it makes no difference raskin didn t use the monkey s paw again we didn t get the 200 pounds to pay off our mortgage but at least we didn t end up with a ten day old mutilated corpse on our doorstep so there s that plus the fact that seven republicans showed a degree of honor and decency by refusing to follow the gop lie is actually a sort of victory but lawdy that mummified monkey s paw is still awfully tempting posted in corrupt motherfuckers itmfa republican fuckwittery 7 replies i have a blue plaid shirt posted on february 7 2021 by greg 15 i suppose by most metrics this is a bad photograph it s dark except for where it s maybe a tad overexposed there s nothing special about it it s not terribly attractive it s just a blue plaid shirt hanging on a stairway post but i was drawn by the narrow band of december light and the way it slid through the transom over the doorway and sidled up against the shirt i saw it originally from another angle and was captivated enough to go fetch a camera an actual camera not my phone i moved to this angle squatted down to get the perspective right shifted over just enough so that the windows in the neighboring house seen through the kitchen window were balanced and made the shot it probably didn t take more than 15 20 seconds it s a semi casual shot of an utterly ordinary moment eggleston might call it a democratic moment though i didn t photograph it in a democratically eggleston way i probably took 14 19 seconds longer than eggleston would have you can jam a lot of pretentious formality into 15 20 seconds he was all about the unpretentious impermanence of everything after all and the revolutionary notion that art existed everywhere and anything was worthy of being photographed i believe in that approach but haven t liberated myself from the tyranny of composition there s always always some level of thoughtfulness in anything i photograph after i shot the photo i chimped it just long enough to see if i got what i was after what was i after the light obviously but also the darkness the nothingness of the stairway in the center there s really not much to see in the photo there s the shirt the window the handrail part of a closet door what s not there is as important as what is i was pleased with the photo then i put the camera down and basically forgot about the photo until yesterday yesterday i bought a new card reader and uploaded the half dozen images from the camera most of the images were crap and immediately deleted but this one sparked the memory of the moment i d shot it i don t often spend time looking at the photos i shoot i shoot them review them at some point process a few delete most of them then i post some of the few i ve processed that s it i m not very interested in seeing the photo after i ve finished it but i looked at this one for a bit thinking about eggleston and the democratic eye and the way the light fell and the enigmatic darkness and i realized i was being a pretentious dick it was just a murky photograph of a blue plaid shirt self in a blue plaid shirt with occasional cat 2013 i ve had that blue plaid shirt since 2001 i didn t buy it i sort of inherited it it belonged to one of the guys who worked for the moving company that shifted my stuff from a small apartment on the upper west side of manhattan to an old farm house in rural pennsylvania the shirt got left behind i probably should have returned it but the movers also walked away with my antique shepherd s crook and a walking stick topped with a hand carved morel mushroom made by my brother so i figure they got the better end of the deal i ve been wearing that guy s shirt for two decades now it s a comfortable shirt it s a sort of utility shirt a useful shirt a practical shirt for knocking around in i wear it around the house i wear it when i go mushrooming in the spring i wear it like a light jacket when it s chilly or breezy i wear it to do yard work it s a shirt i don t have to worry about i don t care if it gets snagged by thorns i don t care if it gets dirty i don t care if it gets stained i don t care because i didn t buy it and even after two decades i tell myself it s not really my shirt photo by jody miller 2015 but clearly it is my shirt after looking at that photo i realized i d taken other photographs that included that shirt of me wearing that shirt other folks had photographed me in that shirt i realized how much time i ve spent in that shirt i realized i ve grown fond of it i realized i have a relationship with that shirt i didn t really know that not until i stopped being a pretentious dick thinking about that photograph as a photograph which brings me back full circle to being a pretentious dick again howard nemerov the poet and brother to photographer diane arbus once wrote the camera wants to know i can t really agree with that i m more inclined to agree with the eggleston approach the camera just wants to see but sometimes the act of seeing helps the viewer to know this is what i know i have a blue plaid shirt it s my shirt i didn t buy it but i own that shirt it belongs to me now that i know that i m going to try to forget it because if i think about it it might change the way i wear the shirt and i don t want to do that it s a lived in shirt and it deserves to be lived in i want to wear that shirt the way eggleston shoots photographs see full circle posted in art stuff photography stuff i think about 15 replies a strong adverse inference posted on february 5 2021 by greg 1 yesterday congressman jamie raskin the lead impeachment manager sent comrade trump an email inviting him to testify at his impeachment hearing the email was in response to trump s reply to the house s trial memorandum which i discussed earlier the email which you can read here began dear president trump which i thought was nice i doubt if raskin really holds trump dear but the term is a traditional courtesy and like my poor old momma always said it never hurts to be polite when you can raskin then got right down to business he wrote y ou filed an answer in which you denied many factual allegations set forth in the article of impeachment you have thus attempted to put critical facts at issue you re probably asking greg old sock what critical facts would those be i m glad you asked although really you need to stop calling me old sock the trial memo basically said trump gravely endangered the security of the united states and its institutions of government and threatened the integrity of the democratic system and interfered with the peaceful transition of power and imperiled a coequal branch government he did all that by lying about the election results frequently and in public trump in his response basically said what me no way i didn t do any of those things i swear that the evidence that i shall give shall be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me god help me raskin in his email responded in light of your disputing these factual allegations i write to invite you to provide testimony under oath either before or during the senate impeachment trial again very nice very polite trump is offered the opportunity to present his side of the events and defend himself he can explain how he actually won the election he can explain his phone calls to the georgia secretary of state he can explain what he meant when he said he wanted to find those extra votes he can explain his call for vice president pence to do the right thing and refuse to certify the election results all he has to do is show up and testify under oath but and we all know that it s what comes after the but that really matters raskin also included a bit of iron fist inside that velvet glove if you decline this invitation we reserve any and all rights including the right to establish at trial that your refusal to testify supports a strong adverse inference regarding your actions and inaction on january 6 2021 in other words put up or shut up trump has the absolute right to present his side of the story but in order to do that he has to swear to tell the truth if he refuses to take advantage of that opportunity if he refuses to make under oath the same claims he s been making in public speeches then raskin and the senate and the public in general is free to infer that trump was as we say in the justice system a lying sack of shit a few hours after he received the email to nobody s surprise trump declined to accept raskin s polite invitation to testify testify under oath like a loser naw i don t think so you re probably wondering greg old sock can the senate compel mr trump s testimony you bet your ass they can once the trial starts the senate can vote to issue a subpoena to trump or any witness for that matter all it takes is a simple majority vote let me amend that i think he can be subpoenaed here s the problem in a criminal case if the accused chooses to remain silent the prosecution can t call them as a witness nobody can compel a criminal defendant to testify in a civil case defendants can be forced to testify but an impeachment is neither a criminal nor a civil matter it s a legislative process trump hasn t been criminally charged with a violation of 18 u s c section 2383 the federal crime of insurrection but that is the impeachment charge so you bet your ass the senate can subpoena him but it s not clear to me whether trump could be compelled to actually testify my guess is that if the senate chooses to subpoena trump and i hope they do his lawyers will do everything they can to quash the subpoena that will require a hearing probably several hearings and a lot of time time that might be better spent passing president biden s legislative measures would it be worth all that time and effort if trump could be compelled to testify under oath historically yes absolutely but is it worth it at the risk of disrupting biden s attempt to get the pandemic and the economy under control probably not i suspect we ll be forced to settle for the strong adverse inference that trump s refusal to testify under oath means he s a lying sack of shit posted in comrade trump election 2020 itmfa 1 reply the gingerbread man defense posted on february 2 2021 by greg 4 the house of representatives has filed its trial memorandum outlining the case it will present to the senate in the looming repeachment trial of comrade former president donald j trump you can read the memorandum here you can also read the answering brief presented by trump s attorneys his most recent attorneys not the attorneys who quit over the weekend or the attorneys who represented him in his last impeachment and declined to represent him in the repeachment also yes i know repeachment isn t an actual word but i d argue that we ve never needed it to be a word because until now there s never been anybody in us history who ever needed to be repeached i ve read both the house s memorandum and trump s response in order to save you the effort i ll summarize them here i m a goddamn saint is what i am but here s the tl dr version of trump s defense run away run away fast as you can you can t catch me i m the gingerbread man first the house managers set the stage noting the us constitution says the house of representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment and that the president shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors trump s response admitted in part denied in part not relevant yes the constitution says congress can impeach and try potus but hey guess what trump isn t potus and therefore it doesn t apply to him second the managers say the constitution prohibits any person who has engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the united states from holding any federal office trump s response admitted in part denied in part not relevant yes the constitution says that but trump didn t do any insurrectioning or rebelling also he doesn t hold any federal office so there third the managers say trump violated his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of president of the united states and to the best of his ability preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed trump s response denied and irrelevant they claim trump totally faithfully executed his duties as potus and he never ever not even once did any high crimes or misdemeanors also he s still not potus fourth the managers say trump did so engage in high crimes and misdemeanors on account of inciting violence against the government by repeatedly lying about the presidential election results and telling folks the results shouldn t be accepted by the american people or certified by state or federal officials trump s response admitted in part denied in part and irrelevant trump they say only exercised his first amendment right to express his belief that the election results were suspect plus there isn t sufficient evidence to show that trump knew his lies were lies and besides he believes them also that first amendment thing again fifth the managers point to trump s speech to the crowd at the capitol ellipse in which he repeated his lies claiming we won this election and we won it by a landslide trump s response admitted in part denied in part yes trump spoke to the crowd yes he told them he d won the election but that was just trump being trump and expressing his opinion first amendment and all that sixth the managers say trump willfully made statements that encouraged and foresee...