The Post Insurrection. Part IX. The waiting upon justice edition.

 

March 15, 2024

March 19, 2024

Trump, who represents that his assets are vast, is not able to post a bond covering the full amount of a $454 million civil fraud judgment against him during appeal and has related the same in a filing in court.  He's seeking not to have to post bond.

If the Court does not grant him relief, execution on the judgment could start immediately.

Cont:

Donald Trump is suing ABC News and George Stephanopoulos over comments made in the last This Week episode in the Nancy Mace interview.

April 25, 2024

As Trump sits in a New York courtroom on charges of election interference for paying porn figures not to reveal his dalliances with them, while a married man, a host of figures were indicted in Arizona for an attempt to seat false electors.

May 1, 2024

Trump was fined for violating a court "gag" order in a contempt of court ruling in his hush money trial.  He was further warned that he may be jailed in a future contempt ruling, should this conduct repeat.

The same court is allowing him to appear at his son Barron's high school graduation, which apparently would be the first time that he would attend one of his children's high school graduations.

Elise Stefanik filed an ethics complaint against Trump prosecutor Jack Smith, in a move that itself lacks moral ethics.  Stefanik should be ashamed, but the concept of shame is sadly lacking currently.

May 30, 2024

Trump was convicted on all 34 Counts in the New York election interference case.

The claims that it was a political prosecution and featured a rigged jury will start any second now.

June 6, 2024

The Georgia election interference case, which is one of the more significant ones, has been stayed while an appeal goes forward on whether prosecutor Willis may remain on the case, and so human foibles will end up causing this case not to be heard prior to the election, probably.

Willis should step aside to let t his matter go forward.

July 15, 2024

To the general amazement of the legal community, the classified documents case has been dismissed on the basis of the Special Prosecutor having been appointed in violation of the appointments act.  The Special Prosecutor is going to appeal, but there's no way an appeal will be heard prior to the election.

This is frankly bizarre.

August 3, 2024

The criminal case against Donald Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election shall resume.  It's been stayed for 8 months pending the outcome of the Supreme Court opinion on immunity, which the Judge will now have to figure out how to apply.

August 28, 2024

A new amended indictment has been filed.

September 7, 2024

Not related to the insurrection, but to Trump's legal problems, his sentencing in the hush money case has been delayed until after the election.

Frankly, this makes no sense.

November 25, 2024

Special Counsel Jack Smith has requested that all charges against President-elect Trump be dropped in the Federal case.

The progress of official justice in this mater was horrifically slow, which in part is why we now have somebody as President Elect who should have stood trial well over a year ago.

And hence, as Justice shall not come, and the guilty shall go free, we conclude this trailing thread.

Last prior edition:

The Post Insurrection. Part VIII. The tangled web edition.

Tuesday, October 7, 1924. US and Irish Free State establish relations.

The US established diplomatic relations with the Irish Free State.

The British Labour Party overwhelmingly and definitely ruled out affiliation with the Communist Party.

The Soviet Union declared an amnesty for participants in the Georgian August Uprising on the condition that participants surrender their arms.

"Babe Ruth, Bill Edwards, and mascot" October 7, 1924.

The Washington Nationals beat the New York Giants 7 to 4 in Game 4 of the 1924 World Series.  The series was now tied two to two.

Last edition:

Monday, October 6, 1924. Ali of Hejaz becomes king.

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An embarrasment.

 How on earth can people vote for somebody saying something so monumentally stupid?

People are not affecting climate change. You’re going to tell me that back in The Ice Age, how much taxes did people pay and how many changes did governments make to melt the ice?

Marjorie Taylor Greene. 

What the crap?  The last Ice Age ended 12,000 years ago.

How can anyone vote for somebody so profoundly ignorant?

Only problem was. . .

the photo for the campaign in Georgia was of the Central Asian country, not the U.S. state.

You know, the one that was once part of the Soviet Union.

Oh, the unintentional irony

Monday, September 5, 1774. The first Continental Congress Convenes.

President Peyton Randolph.

The first Continental Congress convened at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia.  Twelve of the Fourteen (not thirteen) colonies sent delegates. Georgia, which was fearful of war with native tribes, did not participate as it hoped for British assistance in the impending war with those earlier denizens.  Quebec had no interest in participating.

Peyton Randolph of Virginia was named President of the First Continental Congress. 

Randolph. . . not Washington.  

Randolph, not Washington, was the first President of the United States by some measures (and Washington is not the first President under any properly considered measure).  He was an American born lawyer who had studied law at the Middle Temple at the Inns of Court in London, becoming a member of the bar in 1743, showing just how unlike the current populist "don't tread on me" crowd these men were.

He died of some sort of seizure in 1775 while dining with Thomas Jefferson.  He was 54 years of age.

Signatory page of the three-page Continental Association signed by 53 of the 56 delegates

Last edition:

Sunday, September 4, 1774. Explorers.

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Thursday, August 28, 1924. The August Uprising.

Georgians rebelled against the Soviet Union in the August Uprising.

The certificate of identity for actress Anna May Wong, born Wong Liu Tsong (黃柳霜), (from Reddit's "100 Years Ago Today, and also on Wikipedia).

Famous as a Chinese American actress, she was a native of Los Angeles.  She died in 1961 at age 56 of a heart attack after a period of ill health.

Last edition:

Wednesday, August 27, 1924. Color photos over the wire.

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August 10, 1774. Illegal meeting.

Georgia patriots, thirty in number, defying an order from Royal Governor James Wright issued the day prior, met in Savannah's Tondee's Tavern.

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Friday, August 5, 1774. Kidnapped Irish cargo.

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Sunday, July 23, 1774. A meeting in Savannah.

Supporters of American independence held a rally in Savannah, Georgia at Tondee’s Tavern.

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Thursday, July 21, 1774. The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca

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Tuesday, March 17, 1824. Irish in Savannah and Old Glory

Savannah, Georgia held its first St. Patrick's Day parade on this day in 1824.

We don't tend to think of the Irish immigrating to the American South, but there were some, although the story is complicated by the conflation of the Irish with the Scots Irish, the latter group actually being a Scottish Protestant population imported by the United Kingdom with the intent to create a sort of Protestant wall in Ulster.  The actual Irish were a massively unpopular "race" in the United States at this point in time.

The original Old Glory.

The name "Old Glory" was applied to the U.S. flag for the first time, with that coming from Cpt. William Driver, a commercial captain who received it from his mother and local women of Salem, Massachusetts.  The name was applied to the individual flag.

Driver was an interesting character and had originally gone to sea at age 13 as a cabin boy.  On an 1831 expedition to the South Pacific, his ship was the only one out of six that survived the trip, and his ship escorted 65 descendants of the Bounty survivors back to Pitcairn Island.  He retired from sailing in 1837 and became a salesman. During the Civil War, he remained loyal to the Union while living in Nashville.

It remained in his family's possession until 1922, when it was donated to the Smithsonian.

The Anglo Dutch Treaty was entered into resolving issues that had arisen due to a prior treaty in 1814.

Last prior:

Thursday, March 11, 1824. Bureau of Indian Affairs formed.

Some Gave All: Fort Gordon now Fort Eisenhower.

Some Gave All: Fort Gordon now Fort Eisenhower.: 

Fort Gordon now Fort Eisenhower.

The post in Georgia has been renamed for Kansan and former President, Dwight Eisenhower.

It's somewhat surprising to realize that nothing had been named for Eisenhower until now.   Eisenhower is so well known to Americans, he really needs no introduction here.

Gordon might.

A lawyer and a plantation owner, Gordon was a cavalry commander during the Civil War.  Following the South's defeat, he was elected to the U.S. Senate from Georgia, became its Governor, and then returned to the Senate.  He never recanted from his racist views.  He died in 1904.

Tuesday, August 3, 1943. The Patton Slapping Incidents, part one.

"Operation Husky, July-August 1943. Navy Comes Ashore. His and of the landing operations of Sicily successfully begun, Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk, USN, (rear), goes ashore to watch Major General Troy H. Middleton, (second right), direct ground tactics near Scoglitti. Photograph released August 3, 1943. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. U.S. Navy Photograph."

Georgia lowered the voting age to 18.  It was the first state to grant 18-year-olds, at that time liable for the draft and fighting in World War Two, the right to vote.

The Red Army launched Operation Rumyantsev aimed at recovering to recapture Belgorod and Kharkov. As with many such actions, the offensive would gain ground, but feature huge Soviet material and manpower losses.

Gen. George S. Patton visited the 15th Evacuation Hospital in Nicosia, Cyprus and slapped Pvt Charles H. Kuhl with his gloves.  Kuhl was in the hospital for malaria, dysentery and shell shock, and made the mistake of giving Patton the incomplete answer to an inquiry about why he was there with  "I guess I just can't take it."  The level of his illness was not appreciated until after the incident, and he had in fact been in the hosptial on two prior occasions prior to it occuring and returend to the front.  The "can't take it" line had been put on his admittance notes.

Kuhl's malarial infection was undiagnosed at the time, and he was actually much sicker than initially believed.  He passed off the Patton incident and didn't seem to think it a big deal.  Patton later apologized directly to him, following the firestorm of bad publicity and official reprimand this incident was partially responsible for, and noted that Patton hadn't realized he was so ill.

Kuhl noted later that when he met Patton, Patton seemed to be quite worn out.  Depictions of Patton fail to appreciate this, but he was constantly ill during World War Two, a condition probably partially brought on by chain-smoking cigars.  Additionally, there is reason to suspect that he suffered from lingering after affects from horse accident related head injuries.

The incident is depicted in the movie Patton, although a second incident that would occur on August 10 is not.  They would ultimately hit the press, but the public, contrary to what might be suspected, largely supported Patton.

Kuhl died at age 55 from a heart attack.

OS2U-3Kingfisher being lifted off a recovery sled  to be swung aboard the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) on August 3 1943.  I had no idea how they did this.

Saturday, May 19, 1923. Double Standards.

Lenin's USSR, which was ostensibly for the rights of small nations, executed the principal leaders of the Georgian Committee for the Independence of Georgia.

Georgia's flag.

Zev won the Kentucky Derby.  H was owned by Harry F. Sinclair of the Sinclair Oil Company.

Italian women marched for suffrage in Rome.

Friday, October 13, 1921. Giants take the Series, Turks take former Imperial Russian Territory, Hine takes photographs of 4H Club members.

The Giants took the World Series with a 1 to 0 victory over the Yankees.

The Treaty of Kars fixed the boundary between Turkey, still at war with Greece, and what was effectively the Soviet Union.

The treat effectively operated in Turkey's favor, granting it territories that had been within Imperial Russia's boundaries.

While both nations were in a shaky position at the time, it's worth remembering that Turkey, while on the defensive, was holding its own against Greece. France and the UK, initially allies in the Greek effort, had abandoned Greece as it became more aggressive in regard to its territorial demands and efforts.  The Turks, on the other hand, had shown an inclination to look East into Turkic territories, something the USSR didn't need to happen.  Moreover, the Soviet Union was having difficulty imposing its moronic economic system on an unwilling population and its political thumb on various ethnicities, so it was arguably in a worse position than Turkey was.  Also, its population was enduring famine to the lunatic nature of its farm policy.

After World War Two Stalin pressed for the return of Imperial Russian lands, but Turkey resisted it, and the Western Allies backed Turkey's position.  Soviet demands were dropped, but Georgia and Armenia have never been happy with the border that the treaty created.

A photographer took a photo of Jacksonville, Florida.

Jacksonville, Florida.  October 13, 1921.

Hine was at the state fair in Charleston, West Virginia, where he photographed members of the 4H clubs.

Philander Knox, a well known U.S. Senator, was reported as having died the day prior.

He was 68 years old.

The original Lyric theater (there's been one since, which while relatively new, is no longer a movie theater, was running Man-Woman-Marriage, a film released that previous March.  It's interesting in that it gives us a glimpse of the touring speed of movies at the time.

A less lurid ad from somewhere else.

Billed as the "Greatest love story of all time" by advertisers, the ostensible plot involved something to with a woman rebelling against a forced marriage, but also gave the filmmakers view of marriage throughout human history.  Robert Sherwood of Time magazine described the film as the worst move ever made, adding that it was "a grotesque hodgepodge about woman's rights through the ages (interminable ages they are, too) with a great deal of ham allegory and cheap religious drool, used to cloud the real motif — which is sex appeal."

Based on the Casper ads, that was probably about right.

Be that as it may, the ads run in the Casper paper got the biological facts right.  Generally, they showed some guy leering over a woman dressed in about as revealing fashion as allowable in the Casper papers, and, viewed left to right, a baby ensues.

What's that voting bill actually say?

I confess, I haven't read the entire bill, and there are some distressing bills out there, but the Georgia bill is getting a lot of heat, without much light shed on it.  Here it actually is:

Georgia Voting Bill.

Much of this bill really isn't as horrific as portrayed.  It pretty much just regularizes practices just informally put into practice last election in Georgia.  It does have a couple of bad provisions, including that its 95 pages in length.  The no water aid in line, which may or may not still be in there (this thing is way to long to fully read) is horrific, but apparently was in it in order to try to stop electioneering at the polls.

By the same token, while I want to be suspicious of the new Wyoming bill because of the times, I can't really find anything objectionable to having to present a photo ID when you vote and I'm really sort of surprised that this isn't the law already.  I do find the provision that a Medicaid Card will work to be laughably Boomer patronizing. . . that's not a photo ID.  But overall, asking for a photo ID at the polls, while probably not really necessary, isn't really burdensome either.

Indeed, by and large the Wyoming legislature did a good job of defeating the really bad bills this session.  The really absurd bill that sought to give the legislature veto power over interpretation of the Constitution, which was flagrantly unconstitutional, didn't make it out of committee, even though it had the backing of most of the county GOP committees.  The horrific bill to limit juries to six, rather than twelve, which was snuck in and supported by the plaintiff's bar made it past the House and died in the Senate.  The WICHE bill did pass, but the Governor caught the foul ball on that one.

Things aren't over yet and there are still some bills out there that I have no idea as to their status, and no doubt some I've never heard of.  Most of the gun rights bills this session were wholly unnecessary or unconstitutional, but I don't know where they are at.  The bill allowing out of states to carry concealed without a permit did pass and I'm not for that and don't think it a good idea as I think Wyomingites deserve some level of control, such a reciprocal permit, on people we don't know traveling through here.  I'm probably in the minority on that one.  The one hunting bill I was tracking failed, which was too bad.

Anyhow, there's all sorts of yelling on various bills around the country, and in Congress, but do people read them?  Probably not.  Probably most people don't have the time.  But the reporting on them lacks nuance and can create misimpressions.

March 17, 1921. Soviet Triumphs

On this day in 1921 the Kronstadt Rebellion was crushed by the deployment of 60,000 troops of the Red Army.  Most of the 10,000 sailors and 5,000 soldiers who were part of the uprising surrendered, but some fled over the frozen Gulf of Finland towards Helsinki, where 800 went arrived.  The distance was over 150 miles.  The siege itself resulted in 11,000 casualties.

Some news outlets in the United States claimed that the sailors were fighting for the restoration of Krensky's government, but this was far off the mark. The revolutionary sailors had anarchist sympathies but more than anything else they called into question the Communists fidelity to the ideals of the revolution, something well worth questioning given their exploitation of nearly everything.

On the same day the Soviet Russian government negotiated a ceasefire with the Georgian Menshevik government, allowing the government to go into exile. 

February 25, 1921. Cold Snap.

Singer Carolyn Nash on this day in 1921.

Socialite Louise Cromwell Brooks. Brooks' second marriage was to Douglas MacArthur.  All of her children were from her first marriage, and all four of her marriages ended in divorce.

Jerusalem on this day in 1921.

Bethlehem on this day in 1921.

On this same day the Red Army occupied Tbilisi, Georgia and declared the country a Soviet Republic.

February 15, 1921. The Centennial of Teton and Sublette Counties.

Today In Wyoming's History: February 15, 1921: 

1921 Teton County formed.

1921  Sublette County formed.

To add to this a bit, Teton County was formed out of what had been part of Lincoln County.  Sublette County was formed out of parts of Lincoln County and Fremont County, the latter of which remains an enormous sized county.

Followers of Gasoline Alley were on day two of the dramatic plot line.

The monument to suffragist was dedicated in the Capital Rotunda.  Photographs of it have appeared in earlier installments of this series.  Almost immediately, however, it was moved to the basement, where it would remain until 1997 when it was restored to the Rotunda.

The New York Post ran a cartoon about Harding.

A publication called Good Morning ran a scathing cartoon associating war with a variety of extra evils.

Good Morning (a journal), February 15, 1921: " The dollar-a-year patriotic profiteers, including the fifty seven varieties of Trust presidents, with Charlie Schwab sprinkling the street. Ku Klux Klan, bodyguard for the profiteers and standard bearers of race hatred, reaction and private vengeance."

Georgian Bolsheviks asked for Soviet assistance in their efforts which resulted in the Soviets dedicating the Red Army to the subjugation of the country.

Eight train passengers were killed, and ten wounded, when the IRA attempted to ambush a train at Upton in Cork, and a resulting gun battle with a British Army unit developed.

The Columbian Air Force was founded on this day.  All of its early aircraft were extremely primitive, even by the standards of the day.

February 14, 1921. Valentines Day. Perhaps love does not conquer all, but then again maybe it does. Enter Skeezix and the grandfather of Maryam D'Abo gets a command.

On this day in 1921 cartoonist Frank King made a major plot change by introducing Skeezix, an abandoned baby, into the plot.

Gasoline Alley principally appealed to men, it had been noted, with its mostly male characters.  Female characters were almost just accessories to the cartoon and the major character, as it had developed to date, was a confirmed bachelor.  Women proved to have little interest in the cartoon, which is no wonder.  It was almost demeaning to women.

King determined to attempt to change this by putting a helpless waif in the hands of Walt, the main character. Walt, a giant (overweight) World War One veteran frequently commented on knowing how good he had it by being unmarried.  Now, all of a sudden, new dramatic tension was added by some poor unfortunate putting a helpless infant in his hands.

On the same day, realizing that it needed an experienced commander for a dedicated fight with the Red Army that was sure to come, the Democratic Republic of Georgia, put Giorgi Kvintadze in command of its forces.

Kvintadze had served in the Imperial Russian forces and had been in charge of the Georgian forces before, but the task was hopeless.  He ended up in France following the Red conquest of Georgia and lived until 1970.

Due to his exile and the following marriages of his children, he is the grandfather of actress Maryam d'Abo. The D'Abo's are a large family of entertainers in various fields.

February 13, 1921. Armenia revolts.

On this day in 1921 Armenians rose up against the Bolsheviks, who had been attempting to take over their country  with the backing of the USSR.  The Soviet sponsored effort was designed to turn the form province of Imperial Russia back over to Russia's hands and into that of the Reds.

The uprising took advantage of a Soviet invasion of Georgia, the last pro western nation which remained independent which had been part of Imperial Russia in the Caucuses. The use of Red forces for that left enough of a vacuum for Armenian nationalist to revolt.  While the revolt was initially successful, obviously it failed long term and Armenia, the first nation in the world to officially adopt Christianity, returned unwillingly to the Soviet orbit.

It's sometimes noted that Lenin "supported" the rights of self determination of small states.  By this point in 1921 the Reds had already reconquered almost all the lands once occupied by Imperial Russia in the southwest of the former empire and had fought or conspired to reconquer nearly every other section of the former Russian Empire.  So much for self determination.

February 12, 1921. Covers, Installations, Rebellions, and Cocker Spaniels.

February 12, 1921, was a Saturday, and hence the day that a lot of print magazines hit the magazine stands, and mailboxes.

Leslie's featured a "Lumber Jane", a woman working in the logging industry, with an illustration by Emmett Watson. We haven't featured Watson here before, but he was a period illustrator.  He died in 1955.

I don't know if the term "lumber jane' is a real one.  I suspect not, and the illustrator and the magazines was simply taking a highly progressive view of female emancipation, a topic of the era.

The Saturday Evening Post also came out, of course.

Frederic Stanley's illustration for the Post was supposed to be funny, and no doubt was for contemporary audiences.  It features two  young men at a masquerade party around Valentine's Day, and the one dressed as a clown has mistaken the one dress as a belle, as a belle.  Today the message would come across with all sorts of other meanings and, because of that, it wouldn't be published at all unless those meanings were intended.

Judge also hit the stands.

Judge, which often had amusing cover illustrations, managed to go full bore creepy with a home bootlegger looking over his shoulder at imagined law enforcement as he works on raisin wine, which sounds absolutely gross.

The monument to Women's Suffrage was hauled up to the capitol rotunda on this day 1921.

Various Washington dignitaries, including Justice White and Gen. Pershing showed up for something.  Perhaps the same event?

Winston Churchill, a member of the British government during the Great War, and a former cavalry officer in the British Army, was appointed Secretary of Colonies on this day in 1921.

In Georgia, a Soviet backed and inspired rebellion spread.

A cocker spaniel named Midkiff Seductive took Best In Show at Westminster.