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Leni Riefenstahl Wasn’t busy that week.

 

Conspiracy charges are notoriously difficult to prove. The bar is high. They'd have to prove that Trump knew he had lost - and there was testimony that he had been told so repeatedly, notably William Barr's "The voter fraud is bullshit". They also have to prove that he acted corruptly, that he knew that what he was doing was illegal. That's where the story that came out recently about the fake "Trump electors" being cautioned to be silent, not to leak what they were doing, comes in. That shows that the leaders knew that information was explosive if it got out, and they attempted to hide it. The person involved has to agree to commit a crime, and at least one of the conspirators has to commit an overt act toward making the conspiracy's plan happen.

We're just one night into the hearings and it looks like all four of the necessary jigsaw pieces are on the table. We'll see if they can make the case solidly enough for the DoJ to go forward with it. It will have to be stout and well proven. I think they can make it.

 

JUST IN: Ex-Fox News Editor Chris Stirewalt, Who Blames Network For Fueling Capitol Riot, to Testify at Hearings

 

He was definitely wearing a diaper, right?

 

It Depends.

 

“What happened to the man at the Safeway, what happened to Dustin Walker—these are parables of a sort of progressive-libertarian nihilism, of the belief that any intervention that has to be imposed on a vulnerable person is so fundamentally flawed and problematic that the best thing to do is nothing at all. Anyone offended by the sight of the suffering is just judging someone who’s having a mental-health episode, and any liberal who argues that the state can and should take control of someone in the throes of drugs and psychosis is basically a Republican. If and when the vulnerable person dies, that was his choice, and in San Francisco we congratulate ourselves on being very accepting of that choice.”

 

San Francisco has always, always been a last stop destination for the rootless. That's why they put up suicide barriers on the Golden Gate. "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" came out in 1967. San Francisco has a homelessness problem largely because it doesn't have enough homes. It is and has been for many years a notorious NIMBY community.

 

So are the homeless in SF natives? Former Area residents? What’s the attraction to being homeless in SF?