AM Grind Wrap-up for April 11, 2024
Mini-tyrants are everywhere in the deep state. Will you let them take your place? We hope not.
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Opening Statement: RaffyP is IN THE HOUSE aka with the news and topics of the day
“Good morning, it is Thursday, April 11, 2024, and this is YOUR #AMGrind. Today is Philosophy of Thursday, which means we're going to go deep today. And while I think we dig pretty deep every day, I will do my best, with your help, to keep it interesting. I'm excited to have my esteemed and illustrious colleague Lucas, and I expect we'll see Walter and Cheryl amongst others for our conversation. And hopefully some of you will join us on stage as well this morning. We'll start off this morning with a little clarification on the format for y'all.
So, here's what I'm targeting:
7 to 8 EST: News and commentary from me and you.
8 to 9:30 EST: Panel discussion and guest when we have them
9:30 to 10 EST: Last news update and bring me any topics you want to dive into perhaps the next day.
We're so grateful that you have joined us this morning, and we hope you enjoy this Thursday edition of the AM Grind, brought to you by America Mission.
For the news today, I felt like a recap of the Trump legal cases would be useful to everyone here, especially with trial set to start Monday in NYC for the "hush money" case regarding Stormy Daniels. And a certain judge that has tyrant written in bold across his forehead. I've gone back in the archives and resurrected our analysis of this from a while back. In Arizona, a judge has done the right thing and enforced the laws on the books because they were constitutionally enacted, even if enacted in 1864. In economic news, we have some very bad, but, to every American who is not a millionaire or billionaire, that wasn't a surprise. And on the international front we've got tyrants everywhere, so I'll finish updates on what is happening in our neighborhood here in the Americas.
A lot to cover, but we'll get to it I promise, here on the #AMGrind brought to you by
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The News We Discussed:
Topic 1: The “Hush Money” case being tried next week in NYC for Trump’s record keeping related to payments to Stormy Daniels.
Source Material: The Indictment
Overview: What is the charge "Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree" 34 times for the same event. What they did was each invoice related to the legal services of Michael Cohen in this matter including the payment of said invoice was treated as a separate count. So, invoice from Michael Cohen, Creation of Voucher for payment, Cutting of Check for payment, and finally recording the event in the GL for 9 different invoices... The checks appear to have been combined in a couple of cases hence the 34 versus 36 charges.
The suggestion is that these events, which occurred after Trump was elected and in office (Beginning in February 2017) were to subvert the election and were thus upgraded from Misdeameanor charges to felonies. Generally in a conspiracy case, the charge related to the conspiracy is also charged, not so here, since that charge is outside of NY State's jurisdiction.
Note, there are no tax violations, no insinuations that the payments were illegal, nor that the NDA was illegal.
Analysis: I found this article that provides a good analysis of the indictment referenced above.
On a side note, Related to this, Stormy Daniels was ordered to pay a further $122K to Trump in legal fees by the 9th Circuit... Uncanny the timing.
The narrative here is well Trump is like a God, he's an authoritarian and he's guilty of something I tell ya, something, and the Republican's just can't see it.
Topic 2: What is the rule of law and how should we view our laws and their application in society.
Some great quotes:
I think Tacitus perhaps said it best:
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
— Tacitus, 55-120 AD, Roman historian
Aristotle had it right as well:
"Law is order, and good law is good order."
— Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher
A nation of laws is what we have, and that means we enforce the laws that were duly enacted, even if we don't like them.
This week the media is whining about an old law in Arizona that was never repealed. I wonder if they'd feel the same way about, say, the Hatch Act or the Espionage Act.
A federal agency said Tuesday that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre violated the Hatch Act when she used the term “mega MAGA” from the briefing podium.
Topic 3: More money printing for Ukraine by the so-called “conservative” Mike Johnson. Will the conference have the guts to stop it?
Our Congress, even Mike Johnson appears to be ready to send money to Ukraine, and, I cannot understand why. But apparently a session with his caucus was held yesterday that was not terribly productive. We expect this to become very noisy this week. The question is, will MGT follow through on her motion to vacate???
Also on the Ukraine front we have from the Grayzone an update on Sweden's investigation into the Nord Stream 2 pipeline explosion. Essentially they've closed the investigation and it screams COVER UP!!!
From The Grayzone by: Max Blumenthal
Sweden closing Nordsteam investigation a shocking coverup -investig...
The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal interviews Swedish engineer Erik Andersson, who led the first independent investigation to the site of the Nordstream pipelines blast sites, on the Swedish government's sudden closing of the investigation into the terror attack on the eve of joining NATO. Andersson also addresses US meddling in Swedish politics, and...
Topic 4: Supposedly Joe Biden is getting more popular… LOL
Supposedly Joe Biden is getting more popular, which just feels like the polls are being padded by the pollsters, but, frankly, since Trump I can't really rely on polling. They're still behaving like their internal polling tells them they can't win unless they cheat, and cheat big. RCP Average shows a dead heat, but they're not including RFK... Maybe that's who they're going to knock off. Another Kennedy taken out byt he CIA. 5-way shows Trump up 2 points nationally.
I don’t buy it, no matter what Harry Sisson says… Why? Inflation is going up again, and this is the worst timing ever, plus I just don’t trust pollsters. And perhaps that's the beauty of the world God created, the tyrants usually get caught in the act by Gods plan for our world. And the hilarity of watching the Democrats try to explain why it's good for you that bacon is more expense, you might just lose some weight, well, that will be fun to watch!
We also have from
an article about small business and its challenges, and those challenges are only growing now. Granted some of our technology and platforms, etc., have made starting a business easier and require less capital up front, but growing in an environment like this, is getting harder, not easier. So, please, spend a few dollars at a small business today. We can think of one small business, !From our editorial arm the
, the article referenced above.Topic 5: The common thread, the petty tyrants in the “deep state” will always find a way to step into our shoes when we choose not to do our civic duty.
All of these stories have a common thread, they're caused by tyrants doing tyrannical things. Petty mini tyrants and bigger wanna be tyrants, each of them is getting paid back because they failed to do the right thing, because it was the right thing to do. So, while much of it has hurt us, in this room, and has hurt friends and really hurt Trump, God doesn't send in the 2nd string.
We're it folks, but, if we do the right thing, it'll all work out. And I don't think Jen Easterly, our Faces of Tyranny award winner this week will get to bask in the glow of her past achievements (air quotes) much longer.
She knows a great meme when she sees one: Jen Easterly
I'm sure there's plenty more going on in the world, but, for me, that's my take this morning. Please feel free to request a mic and come up on stage. As always, please respect your hosts and each other, and, let's get going today, on the #AMGrind.
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