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And then went on to directly implicate Defendant Trump in the alleged crimes.

The ground just firmed up a bit with Hope Hicks’ testimony. Slipping in at the end her conversation with Defendant Trump in which he states the need to ‘deal with Daniels now’ and in doing so blowing a hole in the Defendant’s claims that Cohen was a loose cannon, running around making decisions and spending hundreds of $thousands of the Defendant’s money without any knowledge or involvement the Defendant. In a bid to ensure the Jury didn’t miss the long, Hicks followed the testimony with tears before turning to the Defendant and saying ‘sorry’. Sorry for what, telling the truth? Perhaps not the ‘Hope’ the Defendant’s supporters and apologists were trying to cling in to.

Has Carlson registered as a foreign agent yet or is he still pretending to be a patriot?

Defendant Trump has been claiming he is prevented from testifying at his criminal trial by the partial gag order he is under. Short form, the Defendant claims he would love to testify but his 1st amendment rights are being denied him. The Judge has put Defendant Trump right on that matter, specifically explaining to the Defendant while in court that the partial gag order does not prevent Defendant Trump testifying in his own defense. Defendant Trump need not be concerned, the 5th Amendment is still at his disposal. But thank you Judge Merchan for having pulled the rug from under the Defendant’s misinformation and self proclaimed victimhood grievance stroking. Supporters of the Defendant please take note, the partial gag order does not prevent the Defendant testifying in his own defense. https://apnews.com/article/trump-hush-money-trial-gag-order-testify-3ea262d3b737a8a0ec2a0282ac09da22

I’ve heard it reported the defendant was being anti-woke. Regardless, he’s just confirmed the reports of his court room naps struck his fragile ego while ensuring future departures into the land of nod will garner more reporting. The defence rests!

It seems to be on the mind of the guy I was responding to.

You obviously need to read up on some Thai history.

Well there’s the character assassination already.

I had a fabulous time thank you. I’ll be honest, I found the whole incident mildly amusing, but then I was blessed with the backing of a company lawyer. It nevertheless was a clear case of assuming a foremost be the culprit. I still correspond with my former PA, she was and is very lively.

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793653970/Embedded-Racism-Japan’s-Visible-Minorities-and-Racial-Discrimination-Second-Edition And a bit about the author: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debito_Arudou

While I don’t assign much weight to ‘anecdotes’ for the reasons I have frequently explained, I will describe a sequence of events from my own experience that is bang on topic. In the spring of 1997 I received my first posting to Japan I arrived in the middle of May to live and work in Kobe. As I’m sure you are aware it was an opportunity not to be missed. I was treated very well in the work place, and assigned a delightful young lady PA, who told me her job was to help me settle in. That was a good start. Then it got weird. On day 2 she came see me with a rather concerned look on her face. I was to be taken to see the company’s lawyer. After checking my passport and asking some questions about were I was staying he said we must go to the police station. I assumed it to be work permit/foreign resident registration issue. No, it was serious. It was a murder inquiry. At police station my documents were examined, I was asked the same questions about were I was staying and if I had any additional evidence of not being in Japan on May 16th. I had arrived late on the 17th. Also at the police station were half a dozen other foreigners, all looking just as concerned as I obviously looked. The cause of this was a schoolboy had been murdered at a nearby school and his severed head left outside the school gate. My alibi was solid so back to work I went. Just over a week later I was again taken back to the police station with lawyer by my side. Again question, again my same solid alibi and again other foreigners queuing for the same treatment. I did not known to me at the time, letters written in Japanese weee arriving at newspaper publishers claiming responsibility. But the police were looking for a foreigner as the culprit. Parents with children were acting with clear fear around me and my foreign colleagues when out and about in town and I was on more than one occasion refused entry to shopping centers. A month or so later the police caught the culprit, a Japanese school boy. To me an experience which perfectly encapsulates the xenophobic attitudes in Japanese society - heinous crime, it must have been a foreigner. The denial of xenophobia in Japanese society is very clearly nonsense. There are xenophobes everywhere, Japan has more than its fair share.

You did read the link I posted? Oh and there’s this: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/minister-sorry-as-veterans-find-id-card-not-valid-for-english-elections

Maybe this is more to your liking: https://cers.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/97/2016/04/The-myth-of-“Nihonjinron”-homogeneity-of-Japan-and-its-influence-on-the-society-Kana-Yamamoto.pdf

Laws once on the statute books have a habit of having long term impacts. The norms of Government behavior today are very different than even a decade ago, who knows what the future will bring.

Amongst the testimony Daniels might give is her account of her and her family being threatened for giving testimony against Trump.

When did I ever say there are countries where you can go and participate in National Elections? I did not. Feel free to go back and check.

I believe Rachel’s wife has spoken on how proud she is of Rachel and their marriage. They seem like a very happy couple.

I’m not convinced the positives outweigh the negatives. There is issue of Governments being in control of what becomes an essential means to obtain essential services. I have on a number of occasions lived and worked in countries in which ID cards are mandated. The period between applying and texting ID is very special kind of purgatory in which the applicant is essentially a ‘non-person’, unable to access bank facilities, rent accommodation, access medical care or even simple things like obtaining a phone SIM card or buy a rail season ticket. I’m sure the idea of such restrictions on immigrants would appeal to our resident racists and xenophobes but at a society level they inevitably lead to abuse of immigrants and increases in crime by people who are excluded. I like the idea of the citizens choosing the Government rather than citizenship being something that Governments can withhold by refusing to issue or by canceling an ID card.

Nope, I didn’t say that at all. Feel free to go back and check.

He’s already setting up his excuses for November, including putting the justification for violence if he doesn’t win,

Did I say that? Was life in Thailand even the topic of discussion?

The fact you wish to frame the issue in terms of your own personal views on immigration is not addressing xenophobia in Japan. I could do a you say I say counter argument offering up my own anecdotal accounts from having lived and worked in Japan, I choose rather to go to the research: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368363544_Racism_in_Japan_Critical_Analysis_on_Japan's_Xenophobia_and_Racial_Discrimination

How does that address the allegation of xenophobia?

Xenophobia as an argument in favor of Japanese xenophobia. That’s probably not new.

He’s not going to ever admit to being beneath the law.