THE FURTHER CORRESPONDENCES OF MARC SUSSELMAN PART 32
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18 March 2025
MS said:
How about I give you seven?
"https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/18/business/video/jon-stewart-daily-show-schumer-funding-bill-vote-digvid"
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Michael said:
I heard Senator Schumer on the View today, and I do agree with him.
Niccolo Machiavelli said that wisdom is choosing between one of two
bad choices as the better option.
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MS said:
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0ja85V7Ovw"
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Michael said:
I agree with the Lady speaker that constant hate shoved into people's faces from childhood on can turn a people into racists & murderers. But I disagree with the Lady on the root cause of this. She says it's because of the Koran. But I read the Koran all the time & I have no urge to kill anyone. I've attended two Friday prayer services in my lifetime, which I've felt spiritually uplifted by. As a practicing Catholic, I've experienced no more negativity at a Mosque then I've experienced at a Catholic Church, at a Mormon Temple, or any other church for that matter. People are people. And I've never heard an Imam or any other Mosque speaker talk badly about Christians or Jews or anyone else for that matter. Though they could have done so in some other Mosques. And not only that but the true cause of the hatred is the result of Iranian money & arms being channeled to Iran's proxies in the West Bank & Gaza & Lebanon. Once the money dries up, most of the terrorism will dry up. A person may raise the point that the Mosque in California had racist agendas. This is not a direct result of Iranian money, but rather the result of the negative feelings brought on by the wars & skirmishes resulting from Iran's conservative & fundamental powers that sponsor terrorism. Although the latter's power to rule over Iran has been on the decline for many years let's hope Iran regains its old kudos they had & can be found in the pages of ancient Persian history.
After Alexander the Great destroyed Tyre he traveled peacefully to Jerusalem. There the Jewish elders told him Persia gave the inhabitants of Jerusalem a 7th year relaxation from taxation. This is similar
to the 7th year relaxation of debt found in Deuteronomy chapter 15.
And Alexander gave them the freedom from taxation that year.
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19 March 2025
MS said:
"https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/19/politics/video/donald-trump-judge-james-boasberg-impeachment-stephen-miller-digvid"
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MS said:
The DOJ tells Judge Boasberg: “The pending questions are grave encroachments on core aspects of absolute and unreviewable Executive Branch authority relating to national security, foreign relations, and foreign policy,” the DOJ told Judge James Boasberg in a filing Wednesday morning.”
We are on a collision course with a constitutional crisis of major proportions.
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20 March 2025
MS said:
‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook
"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/world/europe/trump-courts-defiance-autocrats-playbook.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20250320&instance_id=150555&nl=from-the-times®i_id=116606494&segment_id=194000&user_id=306c6f279e52d371ba02c31b1c20638c"
Trump is seeking unilaterally to overturn the seminal constitutional law decision Marbury v. Madison, issued by Chief Justice John Marshall in 1803. In the decision, Justice Marshall established the doctrine of judicial review, stating, “It is, emphatically, the province and duty of the judicial department, to say what the law is.” This has been the law in this country for the last 222 years.
But Trump claims that Justice Marshall was wrong. It is the province of the Executive, in particular of this Executive, Donald J. Trump, to say what the law is. Trump is seeking to revive the doctrine of the divine right of sovereigns - L’Etat, c’est moi. It is the duty and obligation of the courts, and of the Supreme Court, to stop him by every means possible. The future of our democracy hangs in the balance.
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Michael said:
What are the true motivations for our current tariffs?
The following is part of a speech given by President Roosevelt &
his view that U.S. tariffs in the 1930s were ruining the economy...
"Our system of constantly rising tariffs has at last reacted against us to the point of closing our Canadian frontier on the north, our European markets on the east, many of our Latin American markets to the south, and a goodly proportion of our Pacific markets on the west, through the retaliatory tariffs of those countries. It has forced many of our great industrial institutions who exported their surplus production to such countries, to establish plants in such countries, within the tariff walls. This has resulted in the reduction of the operation of their American plants, and opportunity for employment." --Speech by POTUS FDR in 1932
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MS said:
This is what our country has become under Trump.
"https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/politics/video/zohran-mamdani-racist-voicemails-digvid"
Sickening.
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22 March 2025
MS said:
"https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/21/politics/video/trump-involvement-deportation-flights-alien-enemies-act-signature-collins-src-digvid"
You mean Trump was not alive in 1798 and did not sign the Alien Enemies Act? Who would have thunk it.
This is all turning out to be Watergate redux.
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25 March 2025
MS said:
"https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/video/jon-stewart-daily-show-waltz-hegseth-journalist-group-chat-digvid"
The most competent administrators that money and a##-kissing could buy.
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MS said:
'Nazis got better treatment': Judge criticizes Trump administration's use of Alien Enemies Act
"https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/politics/video/judge-nazis-treatment-alien-enemies-act-trump-digvid"
This is what happens when a convicted felon and crook is elected President, a man who has no respect for the Constitution, no respect for federal or state law, and wbo, in fact, does know what the word “law” means, and does not care.
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28 March 2025
MS said:
"https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/politics/video/federal-workers-trump-voters-fired-regrets-west-virginia-kaye-dnt-ac360-digvid"
They’re finally waking up – too late.
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MS said:
Trump signs executive order ending collective bargaining rights for many federal workers
On Monday, he plans to sign an Executive Order cancelling the Constitution.
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MS said:
Hillary Clinton: How Much Dumber Will This Get?
"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/opinion/trump-hegseth-signal-chat.html?campaign_id=39&emc=edit_ty_20250328&instance_id=151204&nl=opinion-today®i_id=116606494&segment_id=194637&user_id=306c6f279e52d371ba02c31b1c20638c"
Bravo, Hillary! There but for misfortune (and the country’s deplorables).
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Michael said:
I read her piece this morning. I agree with her. But what I really agree with is that nobody knows what President Trump's game plan is. Is it all well thought out, or is it something he dreamed up? I believe nobody outside the Whitehouse will truly figure it out until much later.
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MS said:
3 Ivy League scholars plan to leave US and teach in Canada amid Trump administration’s higher education battle
So now the U.S. is going to suffer a brain drain. Great.
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1 April 2025
MS said:
Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65
May he rest in peace.
HIs performance as Doc Holiday was one of the greatest performances by an actor in cinema history. Are you my daisy?
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2 April 2025
Michael said:
"If you do, you're a daisy...
"I'm your huckleberry...
"Willow, what the hell happened to you???
"Willow, this is war, not agriculture..."
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5 April 2025
MS said:
"https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/politics/video/harris-trump-second-term-comments-ldn-digvid"
She did tell them so. So did Liz Cheney. But as Zorba says, “You can knock on a deaf man’s door forever.”
Post-script: But their only women – what do they know.
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Michael said:
Anti-feminism was the reason Hillary wasn't elected. And anti-feminism was the reason Kamala wasn't elected. Some may remark the latest election was because of the economy. But anti-feminism made it so much easier for the undecided to vote red. It's a sad time for democracy.
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6 April 2025
MS said:
I urge you to watch this.
Yoseph Haddad's speech at Oxford
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcATzU09Kiw"
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7 April 2025
Michael said:
"If war is bringing the present evils, they shall be corrected
by peace." --Aristotle
"What the planet Earth needs is Peace & Harmony."
"From a Distance music video..."
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Michael said:
I believe I got locked out of my X account (Twitter)
for posting the following tweet several times...
"The tariff war is like the Vietnam War, and President Trump is kind of like Nixon. If the tariff war is unwinnable, Trump will search for a way to exit the tariff war with honor. If he can't, he'll stick with his tariff war. Trump kowtowing to other tariff nations is improbable."
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8 April 2025
MS said:
Supreme Court ruling on Alien Enemies Act raises new due process concerns for migrants
What the ####??!!!!
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9 April 2025
MS said:
Stephen Miller’s cavalier cruelty misses the whole point of Passover
"Miller's point..."
Herr Miller has a hole where a heart should be – and a fungus where a brain should be.
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14 April 2025
MS said:
Trump suggests 'homegrown criminals' in US be sent to El Salvador prison.
"On Prison Video..."
El Duce @##-hole thinks that Marc Susselman can be sent to a jail in El Salvador for criticizing him in emails. And why not send David Zimmerman there as well. He’s a Canadian citizen? Who give’s a ####!
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15 April 2025
MS said:
Trump suggests 'homegrown criminals' in US be sent to El Salvador prison.
Video shows Palestinian student leader at Columbia taken into ICE custody
"Palestinian Student Video"
We are on the brink of a lawless, authoritarian government, led by an egomaniacal narcissist and his cowardly sycophants.
When are we going to start standing up, start protesting, start marching, shouting, “We are mad as hell and we are not going to take it anymore!” When it’s too late? They can’t deport all of us to El Salvador – or can they?
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me.
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MS said:
It can’t happen here.
It’s happening before our very eyes.
And waiting for Hashem to deliver the 10 plagues to our narcissistic demented leader, and hurriedly making matza, will not help us.
We are on our own.
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17 April 2025
MS said:
A question which the Maryland judge should ask AG Pam Brody:
Mr. Trump claims that he can persuade other countries to accede to his demands by raising tariffs on their exports. The Supreme Court has ordered you, and the President, to “facilitate” Mr. Garcia’s release from the prison in El Salvador and his return to the U.S. Why doesn’t President Trump threaten the President of El Salvador to raise tariffs on Salvadoran exports unless he releases Mr. Garcia to U.S. custody?
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MS said:
D.C. federal judge James Boasberg has ruled that there is probable cause to hold the President and his AG in criminal contempt of court for failing to obey his order to have the flights transporting the detainees to El Salvador return to the U.S. so that the they could be accorded due process hearings, as required under the 14th Amendment.
What are Judge Boasberg’s options if the President and Pam Brody disobey him, as it appears they intend to do?
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 42(a)(2) states: “Appointing a Prosecutor: The court must request that the contempt be prosecuted by an attorney for the government, unless the interest of justice requires the appointment of another attorney. If the government declines the request, the court must appoint another attorney to prosecute the contempt.” (Emphasis added.)
Pam Brody is unlikely to appoint a prosecutor to prosecute herself for criminal contempt. Under the wording of Rule 42, when this happens, Judge Boasberg is required to appoint a prosecutor of his choosing to prosecute Ms. Brody for criminal contempt. How about Merrick Garland?
We are headed to the U.S. Supreme Court, ladies and gentlemen. No President, not even Richard Nixon, has ever defied a federal court order.
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MS said:
Eyeing an escape route in the Trump era, these American Jews are moving to Canada
"Moving to Canada..."
You have some new Yiddish neighbors, David.
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19 April 2025
MS said:
The Insurrection Act Explained
"BCenter..."
It’s coming, any day now. The POS is going to find some excuse to deploy it, and start arresting and imprisoning political protesters.
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26 April 2025
Michael said:
I would say President Trump is more like Cornelius Sulla than Julius Caesar: both being autocrats of Rome. Sulla favored the Optimates, or the rich and powerful, whereas Julius Caesar favored the Populars, or the common people, especially the poor.
There are mainly two different types of citizen. You have the rich & powerful which wants to opress the masses and you have the masses who don't want to be oppressed by the rich & powerful. This is of course a platitude of Niccolo Machiavelli.
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27 April 2025
MS said:
Remember when Trump referred to Haiti and African nations as “####-hole” countries. Well, that is what he is seeking to transform the United States into – a ####-hole country where the rule of law and the Constitution are meaningless.
"WisconsinJudgeArrested..."
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MS said:
Trump wants to honor Hannah Arendt in a ‘Garden of American Heroes.’ Is this a joke?
"GardenofAmericanHeroes..."
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MS said:
CNN Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades
"Trump's100Days..."
They are finally – finally – waking up.
Is it too late to save America’s democracy?
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29 April 2025
MS said:
'I've never seen violence like this by Jews against other Jews'
Israel is in a state of chaos.
And it is primarily due to the conduct, and misconduct, by one individual – Prime Minister Netanyahu, the worst Prime Minister in the history of Israel – and a disgrace to the Jewish people.
What’s to be done?
American Jews must vocally and repeatedly demand that he resign.
He is making Israel a pariah in the international community, and is the catalyst for increasing anti-Semitism.
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30 April 2025
MS said:
This State University Has a Plan to Take on Trump
"StateUniversity"
Bravo to both of my alma maters!
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MS said:
In 1937, Russian doctor David Sigua told this joke:
Stalin calls his economists together and says he wants to organize a grand celebration for the people for several weeks. He asks them how much it would cost him, but no one can answer. Finally, one economist intervenes: "It could be done very cheaply: just buy a bullet and shoot yourself, and everyone will celebrate."
The doctor who told this joke was denounced, arrested, and sentenced to 8 years in a gulag.
We should start telling this joke now, before Trump has an opportunity to set up a gulag in El Salvador.
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1 May 2025
MS said:
An interesting statistic:
45 percent of the members of the 114th Congress are J.D. graduates. Fifty-four Senators and 160 Congressmen are lawyers.
The law schools with the most members of Congress are:
1. Harvard Law School: 18 (7 Senators, 11 Representatives)
2. Georgetown University: 13 (5/8)
3. University of Texas: 7 (0/7)
4. University of Virginia: 6 (3/3)
4. Yale Law School (4/2)
6. Boston College: 5 (1/4)
7. University of Alabama: 4 (2/2)
7. Samford University (0/4) (? Do they mean Stanford U.?)
7. IU McKinney School of Law (1/3)
7. University of Kentucky (1/3)
7. Notre Dame Law School (1/3)
7. New York University (1/3)
7. University of South Carolina (1/3)
Yet, few of them seem to know the Constitution.
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2 May 2025
MS said:
"Trump signs order to end federal funding for NPR and PBS"
Of course, he does not want the public to know the truth.
Short of divine intervention, how can the United States be saved from this barbarian?
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4 May 2025
Michael said:
May the 4th be with us all...
It seems many of my fellow parishioners are upset that President Trump had a picture of himself as Pope. Was President Trump hinting he secretly wished to be Pope and POTUS at the same time, or that he was just playfully kidding around? Or, as some hinted at, was he mocking the Roman Catholic Church? You decide...
"NBC news..."
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MS said:
This evening 60 Minutes telecast a report on Trump’s unconstitutional attack on the legal system. You can see the video at the link below.
No doubt, some will claim that the report by 60 Minutes is nothing but fake news from the liberal media. They will keep burying their heads in the sand, until we no longer have a democracy.
"CBS NEWS..."
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5 May 2025
MS said:
For Christian nationalists, Trump’s pope picture isn’t a joke
"Trump's Picture..."
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7 May 2025
MS said:
"People celebrate India's strikes on Pakistan, in Ahmedabad, India." (PHOTO)
There will never be peace on Earth, as long as human beings, descendants of apes, inhabit it. The lust for power and revenge is too strong – like the beginning of the movie 2001 Space Odyssey:
"India celebrates & Pakistan vows retaliation."
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MS said:
Query: How did Kubrick film the apes? They did not have CGI back in 1968, so how did he do it? Did he use puppets? Children dressed in ape costumes? The answer is here:
"A 2001 S.O."
P.S.: In the article, Douglas Trumbull is mentioned. He was the special effects supervisor of the film. If you have attended a movie recently, some theaters have a preamble with a tribute to him.
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MS said:
3 Former Officers Acquitted of All State Charges in Tyre Nichols’s Death
"Police Acquitted..."
Shocking.
“It was among the arguments that appeared to resonate with jurors, most of whom were white.”
But not all. So how many non-white jurors were there? The verdict had to be unanimous.
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9 May 2025
MS said:
How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
"NYTimes..."
“When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the government because they could credibly face government retribution, they no longer live in a democracy. By that measure, America has crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism. The Trump administration’s weaponization of government agencies and flurry of punitive actions against critics has raised the cost of opposition for a wide range of Americans.”
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MS said:
See why this Michigan city is one of the best college towns in the country
"CNN Video..."
Go Blue!
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MS said:
David H. Souter, Republican Justice Who Allied With Court’s Liberal Wing, Dies at 85
Justice Souter was a philosophy major at Harvard. Prof. Wolff had him as a student, and once commented on his blog that he wrote an excellent term paper. (If memory serves, the paper was about analytical philosophy and A. J. Ayer.) His analytical abilities carried over into law, and I found his opinions lucid and progressive.
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MS said:
This is really getting insane.
Police state?
"Baraka Arrested for 'Trespassing' at Controversial Immigrant Detention Facility."
Authorities with Homeland Securities Investigations at the ICE detention facility Delaney Hall this afternoon arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and charged him with trespassing.
The mayor's arrest following an argument with agents came after a tense week at the privately owned and operated immigrant detention center in Newark.
From the campaign:
"Confirmed: This afternoon, Mayor Ras J. Baraka was arrested and detained by ICE. He is currently being transported to 620 Frelinghuysen Ave #1, Newark, NJ 07114. According to a tweet from U.S. Attorney Alina Habba, the arrest is related to alleged trespassing. We are actively monitoring and will provide more details as they become available." - Kabir Moss, Spokesperson for Ras Baraka for Governor Campaign.
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The End.