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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, January 30, 2024

January 30, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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From cartoonist Clay Jones: “On the campaign trail last week in New Hampshire, Trump was again boasting about “acing” a cognitive test he took while he was president (sic), which was probably the first time a president had to take a cognitive test. Trump told the audience at one of his goon rallies that the test included identifying animals. Trump said, “I think it was 35, 30 questions. They always show you the first one, like a giraffe, a tiger, or this, or that…a whale. ‘Which one is the whale?’ Okay. And that goes on for three or four (questions) and then it gets harder and harder and harder. […] Ziad Nasreddine, the Canadian neurologist who invented the test said it has NEVER included a drawing of a whale. I’m starting to believe Trump was playing with a See-and-Say, where you guess which sound a certain animal makes, then you pull the string to find out if you’re right. The cow says, “moo.” Good job, Tiny. Here’s a cookie.”
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In Court: Docket sounding is scheduled 10 a.m. before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County Courthouse. Cases include that of Marcus Chamblin, one of two defendants facing a first degree murder charge in the Circle K shooting that killed Deon O’Neal Jenkins in October 2019; that of Marshall Thomas, the former Matanzas High School student accused of sexually assaulting a student during class. Separately, he faces three third-degree felony charges of grand theft, two of them grand theft of a firearm. And the case of Danial Marashi, on charges of aggravated battery and leaving the scene of an accident. See the full list here.

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Notably: the E. Jean Carroll verdict, $83 million Trump must pay, once appeals are exhausted, is the bigger deal. But this too happened a couple of weeks ago and shouldn’t pass without notice: Trump sued The New York Times over a 2018 series of articles that revealed he had inherited most of his wealth from his father, and had avoided paying all but $750 in federal taxes in 10 of the previous 15 years. A judge dismissed Trump’s lawsuit. But in mid-January, the judge ordered Trump to pay the Times $392,638 in legal fees. This is what elected officials tend to forget when they bluster about suing media or daring media to sue them: when the officials lose, as they almost invariably do, the legal fees are not a laughing matter. AP reported on Jan. 12: “‘Today’s decision shows that the state’s newly amended anti-SLAPP statute can be a powerful force for protecting press freedom,’ Times spokesperson Danielle Rhoads Ha said, referring to a New York law that bars baseless lawsuits designed to silence critics. Such lawsuits are known as SLAPPs or strategic lawsuits against public participation.”

 

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Do Americans really want to live in a fascist or authoritarian nation? Some may believe it will work out just fine – that the loss of freedom may hurt others, but not them – but most of us don’t want that. Or we wouldn’t if we were fully aware of the consequences. […] [R]ead – for example – Project 2025 from the Heritage Foundation, the shocking (and nearly 1,000-page) rightwing plan to dismantle the federal government and install political allies after a Trump election. As the Associated Press wrote: “Trump-era conservatives want to gut the ‘administrative state’ from within, by ousting federal employees they believe are standing in the way of the president’s agenda and replacing them with like-minded officials more eager to fulfill a new executive’s approach to governing.” Neither politics reporters nor regular citizens need to become full-blown scholars of authoritarianism over the next nine months. But failing to understand and act upon what’s at stake – either out of ennui or because “we’ve always done it that way” – is dangerous.

–From a Margaret Sullivan column in The Guardian, “We must start urgently talking about the dangers of a second Trump presidency,” Jan. 25, 2024.

 

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  1. Jonny says

    January 30, 2024 at 6:16 pm

    Why would I watch Random Acts of Insanity when I could just watch our government?

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