Wow.
Letitia James really is an idiot, isn’t she? How could the New York Attorney General be so reckless as to go on camera and deny what is a matter of record? I guess one answer would be “She’s a dead-eyed, arrogant and Machiavellian political operative who lacks the necessary integrity to be a prosecutor…and she’s an idiot.”
This video should be used extensively by Trump, the Republican Party, and to whatever extent possible where the other Trump cases are proceeding. It vividly and revoltingly demonstrates the partisan nature of the Democrats’ lawfare against the former President. Nah, it’s not selective prosecution! How could anyone think that? Criminalizing politics? What are those conspiracy-spouting conservatives talking about?
James isn’t is uniquely repellent—Fani Willis, the equally dishonest Fulton County DA, is arguably worse— but still is an appropriate face to put on all of the Democratic Party’s efforts to win the 2024 election not on merit but by the time-tested totalitarian device of charging political opponents with crimes. (Trump is a fan of Putin?) You never know: there may even be some progressives with integrity who will decide they don’t want to be associated with such anti-democratic tactics…and that is exactly what they are.
Thanks, Letitia!
Ethics Alarms 
I bet guys like Lester Maddox, George Wallace and Strom Thurmond and their true believers are all chuckling in their graves and saying, “I dang tole ya’ll so, ya hear?” Why are politicians of color almost invariably sketchy? Don’t they feel any obligation to be Jackie Robinsons in their positions as pioneers and be always and in every way above reproach? Instead, they seem to think behavioral and professional norms don’t apply to them. They’re somehow special. Tragic.
There are plenty of black politicians who are good people, but they seem mostly Republicans…Tim Scott, Ben Carson, Herman Cain, etc….does Condi Rice count? Even the occasional democrat like Harold Ford, jr., who seems decent.
Many of the democrat ones, though, seem to have reached prominence as race-baiting grievance mongers, so that may well skew the average towards “sketchy”.
I think it’s more than that: I’ve been tempted to write about the phenomenon, but haven’t been able to figure out how, or maybe I’m just chicken. Black politicians have only been ascendant for a relatively short time, and they tend to come out of a hustler culture, with many of the same skills and proclivities of successful drug dealers and hoodlums. Their communities give them a pass, because they are 1) succeeding in the white man’s game, so otherwise dishonest practices are necessary/justified: you know, because of systemic racism; 2) deserve to take a little something for themselves for serving “their” people 3) “it’s about time to see blacks get a piece of the pie” using the same scams and tricks white politicians have. As long as they are genuinely supportive of black voters interests, their constituency not only doesn’t resent the corruption and self-enrichment (“Id do the same if I was in his/her position!”) but even gain in popularity because of it. These politicians are like ex-slaves who made good: heroes.
Black community culture is thoroughly screwed up from slavery and Jim Crow, and I don’t know what is going to fix it.
Black culture is thoroughly screwed up
I think there’s another key component: African culture. There’s concept in African/third world countries called “getting over.” The populous treat the government as nothing but a huge piggy bank from which you figure out how much money you can drain away from. It’s the national sport, getting over. The more you can steal, the more successful you are and the more you are held in high esteem. It’s a much deeper behavior than anything resulting from enslavement. It’s just how things work in shit hole countries. People in the government aren’t there to draw their salaries, they’re there because they are best positioned to drain off as much money as possible before someone else does. It’s a mindset. This was explained to me by a guy who grew up in Uganda and escaped from Idi Amin’s henchmen.
I was watching an interview with Thomas Sowell. He claimed that this isn’t from Jim Crow and slavery, it is from liberal society. In the 1930’s-1940’s, blacks in the North were not more prone to violence, criminality, etc than lower class whites. They tended to have stable families and working-class jobs, just like the lower-class whites. In the South, blacks acted more like lower-class southern whites. They were more violent, more prone to crime and unemployment. In WWII, it seems that IQ tests showed that northern blacks had higher IQ’s than lower-class southern whites. 
In the 1950’s there was an academic debate about what the ‘true’ black culture was. A northern black academic argued it should be the northern model, but a white, Ivy League professor said that those people had ‘sold out’ to white culture. He pushed the idea that the southern blacks, who were emotional, violent, criminal, and lazy, was the ‘true’ black culture. Because he was a white, Ivy league professor, everyone went with that. Sowell, pointed out that this wasn’t, however, African culture, it was redneck culture. The ‘black English’ isn’t influenced by African languages, but by English slang, etc.
Back in the days when blacks were widely excluded from chances at political office, the next best thing for wealth, influence, and social status in many black communities was to become a “minister”. Still is, to a lesser degree. Some very decent people did this, but many hucksters and hustlers did, too (Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, …). Not that this sort of move was/is limited to the black community, but their circumstances may have generated a larger population of this type of influencer.
Aside, re Jesse Jackson: We have an older ex-Secret Service friend who was part of a detail assigned to Jackson during his run for president. He says Jackson was an entertaining sort, and when in private, would sometimes mockingly satirize his own public performances. It was good duty; the black church ladies would put out impressive spreads for Jesse when he came around, so they ate well.
I can’t tell the players without a scorecard, but isn’t this about Letitia James, not Fani Willis?
Get the brick. (Jack knows what this means.)
Yup. Get the brick. I’ll fix it. Nice thing about Sundays…only a few people see my mistakes,
I read Letitia James repeatedly in writing that, and still kept thinking Fani Willis.
Is this like mixing up Elijah Cummings and John Lewis? Samuel L. Jackson and Larry Fishburne? No, I don’t think so. I just have Fani Willis on the brain, and associate the Manhattan case with James’ predecessor, Alvin Bragg.
The similarity between the two women is that both are idiots. But then, obviously, so am I.
Well, at least it’s not Fani Wallis anymore.
I nearly wrote that myself!
This whole thing did lead to one of the most juvenile article headlines I think I have ever read; “Judge Spanks Fani, Tells Her She Can Stay On Case if Her Lover Agrees to Pull Out”. How many 13-year olds did it take to write that one?
Does it disturb you there has not been any retaliatory lawfare?
Is not retaliation a moral duty?
Oh it’s coming, I’m sure of it. 
How can there be a retaliation. The law profession, the DOJ, the judiciary, and especially, the DA’s in major cities are all controlled by the Democratic Party. When my wife and her coworkers looked into a lawsuit about their employer requiring them to participate in a medical trial to stay employed, there wasn’t a lawyer in the state who would take the case. One just said that no lawyer could take the case because the other lawyers and the judges would make sure it ended their ability to practice law. They can’t take a case that goes against the Democratic Party, and that is in a state whose legislature is 90% Republican. Look at how the Bar Association in Texas is trying to disbar any attorney who supported Trump.
The legal system has been captured by the Democratic Party. It is just like the public school system at this point.
Agreed. This is why almost no one will work for Trump, either as a lawyer or in his administration. It’s essentially career suicide.
Do you remember Maraxus?
Because I will never forget Maraxus.
Here is Maraxus, writing in support of prosecuting Rick Perry for abuse of power.
https://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=161693&sid=bf1e964b2d36e629e063999b4953f65a
Back in 2014, this was an extremely fringe belief. There was no way Maraxus’s ideals could become mainstream.
Now it is clear that the Democratic Party adopted Maraxus’s ideals.
The Democratic Party is the party of Maraxus, now.
In the animated series Gargoyles, there is a character called Demona, whose schtick was vengeance against those who hurt her and her kind.
To deal with Maraxus, we must become the party of Demona!
Now, the district court judge is ruling on the reduction of the bond. He is going to decide if the reduction was appropriate and he is expected to reject the bond because he ‘doesn’t like the company Trump used’.