California officials can lie with impunity, secure in the knowledge that no one will make them pay for their crimes.

A comrade notes:

California officials can lie with impunity, secure in the knowledge that no one will make them pay for their crimes. Michael Shellehnberger reports:

"As a new wave of fire and high winds threaten Los Angeles, the media is reporting that California’s elected leaders are not to blame and that right-wing influencers and Donald Trump are spreading misinformation and politicizing a tragedy. Racial and gender quotas through DEI aren’t to blame. No, Mayor Karen Bass didn’t cut the Fire Department’s budget. No, Gavin Newsom didn’t cut CalFire’s wildfire prevention budget. And no, there wasn’t any way to prevent these fires or the fire hydrant water from running out. Climate change made the disaster inevitable due to “whiplashing” rain levels."

They’re all lies.

--https://www.public.news/p/theyre-gaslighting-us?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-restack-comment&r=o9ew2&triedRedirect=true

What will Trump as the president mean for working people in the US? – The Militant

[....] Most of the Democrats’ attempts to use the capitalist “justice” system to cripple Trump and his 2024 campaign are now coming apart. But New York City Judge Juan Merchan set Jan. 10 — 10 days before the inauguration — for a hearing to pass sentence on the incoming president. Merchan presided over the biased prosecution of Trump on charges he recorded a hush money payment to a porn star as a legal cost.

While Merchan admits it would be wrong to imprison or even put Trump on probation, he says passing sentence will brand Trump as a felon.

Partisan commentators in the liberal media delight in the fact Trump will be the only president to ever take office as a “convicted felon.”

But even this isn’t enough for Washington Post commentator Jennifer Rubin. She says Trump should be thrown in jail. The fact this isn’t going to happen, she says, “is largely the fault of voters. They knew he was a felon. They still voted him into office,” she wrote Jan. 6. Rubin echoes the visceral contempt that the upper-middle-class meritocrats who lead the Democratic Party have toward working people.

What will Trump as the president mean for working people in the US? – The Militant