So we are now into official campaign season and we are now on the steep portion of this curve. Harris has reversed Biden's deficit into a lead and we still have Trump's sentencing in a coupe weeks. Fun story about that - Trump's legal team argued that it was too close to the election for the sentencing and it should be postponed until after November. The prosecutor's office did not oppose this motion. Similar to how they prviously did not oppose delaying it from July to September.
Well, it turns out that the crack legal team that has agreed to get stiffed by Trump on their legal bills is about as good as you would expect.
Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance described how the former president's lawyer Todd Blanche "embarrassingly" did not follow the correct protocols while submitting their latest legal argument, and said that it had been "incorrectly filed."
On August 29, Trump's legal team sought to move the hush money sentencing, currently scheduled for September 18, out of a New York state court and into a federal court. The move was seen as another delay tactic by the former president to stave off his sentencing until after November's election against Kamala Harris, or have the case dismissed altogether.
The request was denied the next day by U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein. The court's clerk wrote that it had been filed under the "wrong event type" and did not include an "order granting permission to file the pleading" or an order granting "leave" by the state court.
So, sentencing in two weeks.
The other point I want to make about the day after Labour Day is that now is when I am attributing the ongoing support for genocide to Harris instead of Biden. US policy decisions are her responsibility now, even if Biden is still POTUS. If she cannot exert control and influence after Labour Day despite being the candidate in November - that is also a disqualifying indictment of her ability to run the nation.
Now the main issue is that we do not know if her actual position on Israel-Palestine is measurably different than Biden's. There is a very strong likelihood that she is also pro-genocide. This is a realization that has taken me a while to get to. My initial reaction is to assume that most people are not in favour of genocide, because I am still a naive idiot in many ways. But this is simply not true - there are just way too many people who are in favour of eradicating "undesirables" and basic humanity just does not have any role in their thinking on those issues.
We will see - they've backed off on hiding behind "working tirelessly for a ceasefire". A phrase that was all over the place right up until the convention and then vanished into the ether. It's only been a couple weeks so far - maybe it's just summer vacation that's quieted down how much "tirelessly working" they claim to be doing.
That's step one. Harris and the ghouls at the State Department need to stop working tirelessly for a ceasefire. Many commenters have noted that "working tirelessly for a ceasefire" is not a real thing and is just a stall tactic giving Israel more time to commit genocide. It is that - but also it's a massive self-own. It's an admission of pure useless impotence and a commitment to wallow in that impotence while pretending that things might somehow change.
In case you're wondering, Biden has been "tirelessly working for a ceasefire deal" since at least February 8. Since before the World Central Kitchen staff were hunted by an IDF drone over the span of a mile and a half before getting executed. And all they have to show for it so far is countless thousands dead, the Rafah incursion, fucking polio outbreaks, and now full-on military offensives in the West Bank. It's like this working towards a ceasefire deal is actually counter-productive if you actually want a ceasefire.
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