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That’s the title of the article I quoted and it’s a valid interpretation of their ruling No that is absolutely false. You need to re-read the article and quote the sections that say what you claim it says because it doesn’t say that at all The law doesn’t define gratuities at all thats why the Republicans invented a definition. Please provide the definition as you claim it is clearly provided. The question is “what is the difference between a bribe and a gratuity” it says so right there in the third paragraph The law clearly prohibits providing “anything of value” to “influence or reward” an “official act.” I think we can all agree $13,000 cash is something of value, purchasing garbage trucks for the city is an official act and a gratuity is a reward. Even the Republican calls it “a token of appreciation” after an act. I asked you what is your understanding of what makes one legal on one illegal and you dodged the question. Instead you falsely claim that the law clearly defined what made one legal and the other illegal but conveniently you don’t mention what that definition is, because of course the law doesn’t clearly define it at all. The republican judges invented a definition in this ruling that if it’s paid afterwards it’s legal. It says so in the second paragraph.

What is your understanding of the difference between a bribe and a gratuity? The republican judges claimed the only difference, which makes one legal and the other illegal, is whether it is paid before or after the deed, which is absurd.

…..said every dictator and fascist in history

Not quite. The corrupt republicans absurdly ruled that cash kickbacks are “gratuities” not bribes, as long as they paid afterwards rather than before. In other words the argument is not whether the law states all gratuities should be illegal but whether cash bribes should be considered perfectly legal gratuities based on the timing of when they’re paid.

Thanks for confirming my observation, evildoer. Your words are no different than any other despot-worshipper who has ever existed.

So like a typical fascist you support corruption from your party as some kind of ”revenge” for alleged corruption real or imagined by the other party. You don’t even try to deny it. At best you justify more evil based on the previous evil of other people What’s amusing though is that you think this makes you the good guy instead of just another evildoer. On top of that the alleged previous evil you use as justification is often made up or grossly exaggerated therefore you’re just an evildoer making excuses for being evil.

If you loved the Republican Supreme Court recent hits like “corporations are people and political donations are free speech so corporations should be allowed to make unlimited secret political contributions” then you’ll love their latest single “bribes should be legal as long as they’re paid AFTERWARDS”. As if America needs any more legalized corruption, but what else do you expect when Republican crooks like Thomas are blatantly on the take to the tune of millions and the party is completely in the pocket of corporations and plutocrats.

The Supreme Court rules that state officials can engage in a little corruption, as a treat Snyder v. US is the Republican justices’ latest decision weakening anti-corruption laws. Ian MillhiserJun 26, 2024 at 2:06 PM EDT On a 6-3 party-line vote, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that state officials may accept “gratuities” from people who wish to reward them for their official actions, despite a federal anti-corruption statute that appears to ban such rewards. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the opinion in Snyder v. United States for the Court’s Republican-appointed majority. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote the dissent on behalf of the Court’s three Democratic appointees. Snyder turns on a distinction between “bribes” and “gratuities.” As Kavanaugh writes, “bribes are payments made or agreed to before an official act in order to influence the official with respect to that future official act.” Gratuities, by contrast, “are typically payments made to an official after an official act as a token of appreciation.” (Emphasis added.) If that seems like a negligible difference, the facts of this case will probably only underscore that sentiment. The case involves James Snyder, a former mayor who accepted a $13,000 gratuity from a truck company after the city purchased five trash trucks from that company for $1.1 million. Snyder claims that the money was a consulting fee, but federal prosecutors nonetheless charged him with violating an anti-corruption statute. That statute prohibits state officials from “corruptly” accepting “anything of value from any person, intending to be influenced or rewarded” for an official act. As Jackson writes in her dissent, the most natural reading of this statute is that it targets both bribes (payments that “influenced” a future decision) and gratuities (payments that “rewarded” a past decision). As Jackson writes, Jackson argues that the statute should be read to prohibit “rewards corruptly accepted by government officials in ways that are functionally indistinguishable from taking a bribe,” much like the payment at issue in this case appears to be … It’s also notable that neither Justice Clarence Thomas nor Justice Samuel Alito, both of whom have accepted expensive gifts from politically active Republican billionaires, recused themselves from the case. Thomas and Alito both joined Kavanaugh’s opinion reading the anti-corruption statute narrowly. https://www.vox.com/scotus/357170/supreme-court-snyder-united-states-corruption

So do you think Republicans fast and pray before or after they pay their porn stars hush money? Do you do it before or after you jerk off to your rape fantasies? Nothing is different stupid and vile trolls like you have always existed. The only difference is one of you inherited a fortune at birth so you want him to be president You want the entire country to be shitty as your life is.

LOL you've made it clear with your constant sexualized insults that you are the pervert- a violent woman-hating one at that. And while perversion usually doesn’t correlate to ignorance and stupidity as you implied in you lame insult above, you clearly suffer from both conditions. Your lack of formal schooling and sexual success have left you not only ignorant and vulnerable to obvious mid information and manipulation but a toxic blight on society especially females.

A month of fasting and prayer is literally what Ramadan is

"It's going to be a crime": Trump attorney notes show ex-president tried to defy documents subpoena The former president suggested lying to the federal government and claiming he had no classified documents Former President Donald Trump tried to obstruct the criminal investigation into the classified documents stashed at his Mar-a-Lago estate by getting his lawyers to lie about the documents that were subpoenaed in May 2022, asking them repeatedly if it would be "better if we just told them we don't have anything here," according to audio notes reviewed by ABC News. The recording, from then-Trump attorney Evan Corcoran, could be used as evidence of the former president's criminal intent. But that is up to Judge Aileen Cannon, who could rule that the notes are subject to attorney-client privilege. Another federal judge last year ruled that prosecutors could obtain the recording as part of their effort to show Trump misled his own attorneys in an effort to effectively make them accomplices. Corcoran’s notes detail Trump blaming his legal difficulties on his “political enemies." They may support prosecutors' claims that Trump attempted to defy the subpoena that allowed federal agents to eventually seize 102 classified documents — including 17 top secret documents — in the August 2022 on his Mar-a-Lago estate. "Well look, isn't it better if there are no documents?" Trump asked at one point, per Corcoran's notes. The former president, who faces more than 40 felony counts, has pleaded not guilty. Before agents stormed his Florida estate, Trump met with Corcoran and attorney Jennifer Little for an hour and a half meeting, where he brought a box filled with newspaper clippings, Post-it notes, photos and other materials. "I don't want anybody looking, I don't want anybody looking through my boxes, I really don't, I don't want you looking through my boxes," Trump said, according to Corcoran’s notes. "Look, I just don't want anybody going through these things." The notes show that Little and Corcoran repeatedly warned the presumptive Republican nominee about the consequences of not complying, saying “it's going to be a crime.” https://www.salon.com/2024/06/25/its-going-to-be-a-crime-attorney-notes-show-ex-tried-to-defy-documents-subpoena/ Well that’s where they were in fact hidden

LOL wrong on both. What would “LGBTQ supremacy even mean in practical terms LMAO Tolerating LGBTQ as citizens with equal rights is not making them supreme. If posting Ten Commandments is not about Christian supremacy then you’ll support the law also requiring texts from the Koran and other non-Christian religions too right? Literally the first 4 commandments are about forbidding the practices of other religions…how do you say with a straight face it’s not about Christian supremacy?

So Democrats sponsored this event , promoted it went to it, defended it? The venn diagram isn’t as close as you think. Many different types of people support Democrats for many different reasons. There is far more diversity in the Democratic Party than there is in the Cult of Trump. Many left-wing people wouldn’t touch an establishment party like the Democrats with a ten-foot pole Many people can be drag queens, LGBTQ without being political at all. Or may even be conservative. Look at gay Republican drag Queen George Santos for example. As for where I stand LGBTQ isn’t my issue and I don’t understand drag queens and wouldn’t take my kids to a drag show let alone one with alleged nudity(although the nudity seems to be an exaggerated claim here). I wouldn’t call it “child sexual abuse” to do so however and as a point of fact neither does the law. For all I know the alleged drag queen in the OP is that kids parent. Conservatives have been big on promoting the idea that children are the exclusive property of their parents to be raised as the parent pleases, and have said so on a number of topics like spanking, corporal punishment, vaccinations and especially sexual education. Some parents, MAGAs among them, let their kids be exposed to explicit movies and music and other displays of vulgarity. It’s probably more abusive to take your kids to a Klan rally than a drag show but while that has been happening for centuries that doesn’t seem to be something that keeps MAGAs awake at night.

Posting The Ten Commandments is about establishing Christian supremacy over other religions and indoctrinating kids into Christianity. Contrary to right wing ideology, the pride flag is not about about establishing LGBTQ supremacy over straight people or indoctrinating kids into becoming LGBTQ

He has multiple homes and doesn’t normally go to Florida in the summer especially when it’s under construction and especially “discretely”

So you have evidence that they are card-carrying members of the Democratic Party or something? The word “liberal” is not the same thing as Democrat For all you know these ppl are among the millions of Americans who don’t even bother to vote because they are too lazy or too radical or too self-involved.

Probably a more accurate statement would be they were confused where he would stay that wouldn’t result in him abusively lashing out at them. Trump is such an unstable high-maintenance foul-tempered tyrant his minions probably trembled in fear worrying how would deal with the inconvenience of construction and having to sleep in a different room…possibly a room smaller than that of other guests. This is after all the same man who berated his staff at the Washington DC Trump hotel restaurant after he noticed a another guest’s steak appeared to be larger than his and then made them keep a reserve stock of extra large steaks exclusively for him so he could always have the biggest steak in the house. The man is Caligula.

I doubt a single Tennessee Republican involved in this decree will spend a second of their life fasting. This is all just the Republican version of “virtue signalling” to the religious right to make sure that constituency turns out to vote. All of these stupid religious laws coming out of the woodwork like the Louisiana Ten Commandments law are the same thing.

If MAGAs don’t like hearing there will be MAGA violence if Trump loses the election then perhaps they should stop threatening violence if Trump loses the election 💡

Happy Ramadan

So faced with facts you can’t argue against you resort to childish insults Typical.

No neither democrats nor drag queens are my people, simpleton Nope. Show me where Democrats were involved.

What Trump’s Secret Trip Means for His Classified Documents Case The former president snuck down to Mar-a-Lago just weeks before the FBI raided the property. Donald Trump reportedly took a “highly unusual” trip to Mar-a-Lago, just weeks before the FBI raided the Florida estate, to repossess thousands of sensitive documents. But the “discreet,” previously unreported trip—which occurred between July 10 and 12 in the summer of 2022—has caught the interest of investigators, who believe it may have been another attempt to conceal the documents after being served a subpoena for their swift return, ABC News reported Monday. Several witnesses who spoke with federal investigators explained that Trump’s visit to Mar-a-Lago was unexpected for a couple reasons: first, because Trump typically spends the entirety of his summers at his New Jersey residence in Bedminster; and second, because his private living quarters in Mar-a-Lago were under construction at the time of his visit. Staff were reportedly confused as to where the former president would even stay. But behind the scenes, former Trump aide Walt Nauta was working to keep the Florida drop-in as covert as possible. “I’m pretty sure [Trump] wants minimal people around on Monday,” Nauta texted one Trump employee the day before the former president arrived, reported ABC. In another message, sent on July 8, Nauta told a Trump Organization employee to remain “discreet,” adding an emoji with a zipper over its mouth. “They were keeping this one quiet … nobody knew about this trip,” one witness with direct knowledge of the trip told investigators, according to ABC News. But some witnesses who spoke with special counsel Jack Smith’s team did have details on the purpose of the conveniently timed trip. At least one witness who worked closely with Trump told investigators that they believed Trump was “checking on the boxes.” … https://newrepublic.com/post/183010/trump-secret-trip-mar-a-lago-classified-documents

What does any of it have to do with Democrats?