This is what I mean by social media censorship . Whenever I am smeared ( " Did you take your meds today ? " or " you are the resident Catholic, anti-Semite, fascist " ) I type out my blog address which is immediately " DETECTED AS SPAM " .
Just now :Ron Ruggieri corruptclintons a minute ago
Detected as spam Thanks, we'll work on getting this corrected.
Whenever I am anonymously smeared I refer to my blog :
radicalrons.blogspot...
You can be sure THEY will not work on this !
Does any link to a blog get CENSORED here ? What did I do to deserve the high honor of being BANNED IN BOSTON ?
Calling ACLU and Alan Dershowitz !

Dude, our comments are still here.

But, go ahead and call Dershowitz. He's busy selling his fraudulent defense of Trump on FOX but I'm sure he will get back to you.

"I am independent democratic CATHOLIC socialist . What are you ? " Will you answer my simple question ?

This is the now all too typical response of too many self-described " on the Left " individuals on FREE SPEECH issues: they clearly don't believe in FREE SPEECH anymore even if they write for or comment on TRUTHDIG. " Majority Rule " is anathema to them with the threat of all those white trash, Christian
" deplorables ".
" Dude, OUR comments are still here ". So the FREE SPEECH on the Internet issue does not exist for you as long as the Zionist Jew controlled news media does not censor YOU ?
I commend lawyer Alan Dershowitz - who has been blackballed by HIS social circle- for seeing TRUTH on Trump's side at least in the impeachment issue. On the contrary, TRUTHDIG wants to suck up to the New York Times . The voice of the " Deep State " is the voice of the Democrat Party is the voice of the New York Times. So much for " OUR democracy ".
Becoming rather obvious : crypto-Zionist Jews more concerned with their own agenda than any form of " democratic socialism " are acting as fifth columnists for American- Zionism in left wing organizations and political parties. They are a sort of hybrid - half-Zionist- half Stalinist . They constituted the cast of characters on both sides in the notorious Moscow Trials of the 1930s. They were so much present in the Kafkaesque Trump impeachment hearings .They looked and sounded like an old Yiddish Theater Revival soap opera.
Ask " socialist " star on this web site Bernie Sanders to condemn Zionist Jew control of the mainstream news media in the United States . Do you think "TRUTHDIG " will touch on this taboo topic ?
ANY clear headed, democratic socialist would know that President Donald Trump is not the root of all evil in " OUR democracy " ( which gave us " The Donald " ) .

ought implies can---dimocrats r reactionary fascists. the impeachment fiasco is but 1 proof. the amerikan "bureaucratized mind" Goffman..unable to think dialectically (Tocqueville, Gorer, Galtung, Sennet, Lakoff, etc) unable to make connections, naturally succumbs to the what ever fake news narrative they require to compensate for having zero culture....these obsequious people need a police state to govern them...."nowhere in an amerikan public education r the concepts of truth and falsity, nor r ideas ever addressed....amerikans do not converse, they entertain each other. amerikans do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. the problem w amerikans is not Orwellian--it is huxleyan: amerikans love their oppression"
Neil Postman

Dems should be calling Our Mad King what he is: A TRAITOR, which is at the heart of the Ukraine affair: helping Russia push their "the other guy did it, honest" strategy with an ally and in a time of war, potentially costing American lives. Why not go after Giuliani for TREASON also, isn't that what really happened here? "All roads lead to Putin". Hey, sista Nancy, wake the hell up, that's TREASON. Go Bernie!

Is TRUTHDIG going soft in the head lately ? Too many crypto-Democrats , crypto- Zionists writing articles ?" NEVER TRUMP" fever ?
I like this Trotsky quote : " Truth is an orphan in this world ".

Does Mr. Blum pay extra for personal CIA talking point sessions, or is he just parroting the "cover-up" and "debunked" narrative being pushed right now by our war machine media and their enablers in Congress?

I find it sad that Mr. Blum and so many of his ilk may actually believe that the pathetic impeachment articles produced by the partisan, closed-doors House "inquiry" amount to high crimes and misdemeanors. But then again, people who just spent the last three years nursing sour grapes over a lost election while blaming foreigners for the mess are clearly not operating at full capacity or interested in reality. Hubris and arrogance can do that to people.

The Democrat Party has integrated itself with DEEP STATE , the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon War Crimes Machine. Don't trust any TRUTHDIG writer who is sympathetic to the Kafkaesque Trump impeachment circus.
The leading presidential candidates , Biden, Warren, Sanders KNOW this. They are all ambitious AND unprincipled.

" Does Mr. Blum pay extra for personal CIA talking point sessions ". LOVE IT ! Ask Chris Hedges !

What is the point of this? Does anyone seriously think this is going to sway Trump supporters away from him?
Does anyone (aside from Republicans) think a President Pence would be an Improvement???

This is a waste of time. We should be working on getting BERNIE Nominated and Elected President!

Or is that the real goal of this Impeachment ?
To Divert We the People from Organizing for Bernie?

Stop falling for media hype and conspiracy theories. I assume people can walk and chew gum. If they want to organize for Bernie nothing is stopping them.

Individuals with critical thinking skills should distance themselves from " NEVER TRUMP " psychosis and open support for the FASCIST efforts of the Democrat Party to remove Donald Trump from the White House presidency BEFORE the coming election - just 9 months away.
Actually the Trump impeachment proceedings have reminded me of the notorious " Moscow Trials " of the 1930s. The spirit of STALINISM has poisoned this neo-liberal Democrat Party .
NOTE :
["Trotsky also saw an obvious anti-Semitic orientation in the Moscow Trials, at which a disproportionately high number of the defendants were Jewish." ]
Here, in contrast, Trump impeachment is being conducted by " disproportionately high number" of Jewish accusers. YOU don't notice ?

Trump is guilty as hell of the charges in the trial. And plenty more besides.

ABCs of LAW & Order : INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY ?
Just who succeeded in PROVING Trump Guilty in these Kafkaesque Trump impeachment hearings ? Name the crime . Withholding military funds( temporarily for a few days ? ) from some jackass first Zionist Jew president of the Ukraine is high treason ?
He DID collude with Putin to fix the 2016 presidential election. The Mueller Report PROVED that ?

Nice country you've got there. Wouldn't it be a shame if it got invaded and taken over by Putin to add it to his Great Russia project, eh?

All you have to do is announce on CNN that you've started an investigation into one of my political opponents. It won't look to good for you, because you got elected in a landslide on a platform of anti-corruption, but you will get your antitank missiles and other stuff , and you can come for dinner at the White House.

Ruggieri, you're displaying your ignorance about what impeachment is. It's a bad idea going through life as a fool, but showing you that you one are won't help.

It's one of those things that is its own punishment.

I really don't think every individual not seduced by corrupt Democrat Party GROUP THINK , who does not see President Trump clearly GUILTY of any NAMED " high crimes and misdemeanors " is an ignorant fool . I find it weird and disgusting that " progressive " Democrats want to sound like those 1950s, McCarthy era John Birch Society super-patriots who even smeared President Eisenhower as a dupe of communist Russia.
What is so LIBERAL PROGRESSIVE about this DNC based HATE RUSSIA , New McCarthyism ? Did Putin manage to actually CHANGE the vote counts in those critical Rust Belt states ?
To THINKING people on the Left the Kafkaesque Trump impeachment circus recalls the notorious Moscow Trials of the 1930s. They too featured on both sides a cast of obsessed , neurotic Jews.
In propaganda intrigue Putin's Kremlin is no match for the Israel lobby in the USA and the Zionist controlled mainstream news media rendered apoplectic by the defeat of Harpy Hillary , " Hawk Hillary ", " Wall St. Hillary " , " Corrupt Hillary " in 2016 election.
Working class CHRISTIAN Americans have no interest in the National Security State agenda of the Democrat Party. The plutocracy's enemies are not OUR enemies ".
Not ONE presidential candidate of the Democrat Party , not Biden, not Bernie Sanders, not Elizabeth Warren is a voice for world peace .
As a democratic socialist I did not vote for Trump . I voted for LESSER EVIL socialists.

They're named, and he's guilty.

Since when does a GUILTY president get to stay in the White House for four more years ? This was above all POLITICAL TRIAL with the hacks of the Democrat Party playing to public opinion - which REJECTS Trump's removal from office ( unless you want a bloody civil war with Trump's side having all the gun lovers ? )

They're named, he's guilty, and the con whores in the Senate are going to let him walk.

Alexa is reminding you to take your meds. Best to listen to her instead of the voices.

[" Alexa is reminding you to take your meds. Best to listen to her instead of the voices ".]
How much in the spirit of STALINISM to suggest a need for the mental institution ? That is exactly how STALIN'S Russia operated. I was banned on NPR's WBUR on line after denying that anti-Zionism = anti-Semitism. One NPR troll had a refrain for ALL my comments : " Did you take your meds today ? " I also observed that NPR was a virtual social club for " liberal " Zionist Jews . That is how they operate !

I haven't been a Zionist Jew posing as a liberal all week.

Doubt I will become one next week either.

I use my own name and my comments are OPEN on Disqus. Your comment history is closed . So I suspect you are a political operator. You are not INTERESTED in the issue of CENSORSHIP here, the FREE SPEECH issue . So I surmise you are a crypto-Zionist Jew like the rest on " liberal " NPR .
Wrong ?

That's the trouble with a lot of cons (the ignorant ones, anyway). They think that criticism of their asinine babbling is interference with their "free speech".

Which is just deluded crap.

LMAO Oh, so now I'm a " crypto-Zionist Jew? " That sounds very bad, and possibly painful.

I am independent democratic CATHOLIC socialist . What are you ?

President William Jefferson Clinton was called to testify in his impeachment. Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriends, all of them, were interviews, as was a woman's dentist. There were others. Monica's reaction to Ken Starr being defense counsel for Trump: "you are f*cking kidding me!". Every sordid detail was put out there for public consumption. Attorney (?) Alan Dershowitz alleged then that a President did not have to commit a crime to be impeached, which is interesting because he now alleges otherwise.

Senator McConnell has changed rules, and seeks to bar any and all evidence, witness appearances. He seeks to rap up the impeachment so as to keep everything in the dark, safely away from the public.

The same Senator McConnell refused to allow consideration of a well qualified Merrick Garland for SCOTUS, using the excuse that a president cannot make a judicial appointment to SCOTUS during that president's last year in office, which is exactly what occurred during President Reagan's last year when Kennedy was nominated and confirmed. He also filibustered 78 of President Obama's nominations for lower courts, more than the combined totals for previous presidents.

I am a former Republican and what I see in the current GOP is a snake pit, with McConnell being the head viper.

I am not too enamored with the current Democratic Party either.

" House Dem warns weary senators Trump out to steal 2020 election, Russia could attack US " ( Fox News headline )
How can spirit of " truth digging " not reject the whole Kafkaesque Trump impeachment circus ? Here we see " liberal " Democrats sounding McCarthy era alarms about wicked Russia in the manner of the 1950s-1960s John Birch Society super-patriots. NOBODY writing for Truthdig catches the irony ?
I reject the very premises of this Trump impeachment circus : that post-communist Russia is a threat to " OUR democracy " . Just WHO decided for WE THE PEOPLE that Russia is an ENEMY ? And, to be blunt , how many working class Americans give a damn ( to put it un-academically ) about the Ukraine ?

After the break-up of the Soviet Union (around 1990-1991), Russia was promised that NATO would not take one step East towards Russia. And here we are---NATO troops surround Russia, thanks to Obama. Russia has moved nuclear weapons into its borders with Eastern Europe and the U.S. has moved nuclear weapons into some East European countries. On top of that, Ukraine, 5,000 miles away, has now become a core national security issue for the U.S. Yet another country that we'll go to war for.
What would happen if a hostile foreign power had nuclear weapons at our borders and surrounded us with troops? Yet, strangely, Russia is the threat, not the U.S.
Before the 2016 election, Hillary wanted to fly U.S. planes into Syria to establish a 'safe zone." One general said this would have required 70,000 troops to take down Syria's anti-aircraft system. She knew perfectly well that this would set us up for a confrontation with Russia as Russian planes were flying throughout Syria to protect Assad. Yet Russia is the threat.

Well, Russia is trying to expand again. With some success, in fact.

Guess they took a page from our book. Many pages in fact.

So just WHO decided that post-communist Russia was ENEMY of " OUR democracy " ? Not WE THE PEOPLE . But how sickening to hear " liberal " Democrats after 2016 sound like John Birch Society super-patriots of the McCarthy Cold War Era.
WE THE PEOPLE are getting more sick of the Democrats than " The Donald " !

Most Americans DON'T care about Ukraine--or ANY other foreign country,EVEN when WE are paying TRILLIONS in tax dollars & hundreds of soldiers lives BOMBING other countries. But, I think most Americans DO care about THE INTEGRITY OF OUR ELECTIONS. I disagree--to some extent--with the IMPACT that Russia is alleged to have had on 2016: REPUBLICANS use of VOTER PURGES, Closing Down POLLS in poor/Black & Latino neighborhoods, Indian Reservations & on college campuses & other tools of Voter Suppression had a bigger impact. ALL of these means of STOPPING LEGAL VOTERS who AREN'T likely to vote for Republicans are ALREADY HAPPENING AGAIN: 300,000 GEORGIA VOTERS PURGED in Nov. 2019; 200,000 WISCONSIN Voters PURGED in Dec. 2019.

But, Trump going for HELP FROM FOREIGN GOVERNMENT yet AGAIN to SMEAR his opponent is something to be disturbed by. I did NOT Vote for Hillary Clinton OR Trump--BOTH were HORRIBLE candidates (I voted for Green Party's Dr, Jill Stein in MN--a "blue state"). There's TONS of good reasons to Impeach Trump: his DAILY VIOLATIONS of the Constitution's "Emoluments Clause" that BANS the president from TAKING MONEY FROM FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS: Trump PROFITS from FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS at his hotels & selling them apts/condos---IS HE SERVING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE or HIS OWN BOTTOM LINE?

As soon as you find the evidence that Trump colluded with a foreign government in a way that had an impact on our obscene, money-controlled elections in 2016 or otherwise, please provide the hard evidence to the FBI and your Congressional representatives. Over $40 million dollars and three years of the Mueller investigation failed to find anything.

But maybe you're the type of person who believes that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Or that Qadaffi was giving his soldiers Viagra to rape his own people. Or that the White Helmets are a humanitarian organization and not mercenary jihadists. Or that Assad gassed his own people in Syria. Or that Epstein killed himself. Or that Saudi Arabia is a beacon of freedom and democracy. Or that the war in Afghanistan is going well and has been worth the lives and treasure spent in that country since 2003. And on and on and on...

Mueller found plenty. There was evidence of conspiracy with Russia, but not enough for Mueller to lay an indictment because Trump successfully committed at least ten instances of obstruction of justice, which Mueller did prove.

The " integrity of our elections " was sabotaged years ago by the American plutocracy . Can any serious " liberal " worry about Trump " smearing " the likes of Joe Biden ? Both Trump and Biden represent the CORRUPT American capitalism made worse by predatory American imperialism . The " Imperial Presidency " is a bipartisan creation. It began with the winking jingoism of " yellow journalism " and " Remember the Maine ! " circa 1898 .
So the ONLY problem with " OUR democracy " is evil rotten Donald Trump - who happens to be a LEGITIMATE ( by RULE OF LAW ) president of the United States ?
Again, I myself am an independent democratic socialist quite appreciative of THE LAW for the sake of what is left of CIVILIZATION.
I give NO SUPPORT to the corrupt Democrat Party nor right now even " critical support " to any Democrat presidential candidate . Do you think " socialist " Bernie Sanders has a plan to check the Pentagon War Crimes Machine or seriously -like the Bolsheviks in Russia in 1917- END the capitalist system USA? All within the Democrat Party !
Where does Bernie Sanders denounce Zionism in principle ? After all , an exclusive JEWISH state is a mockery even of bourgeois democracy.
Can " socialist " Bernie Sanders co-exist in the same " Democrat " Party as billionaire Zionist Jew Michael Bloomberg - now endorsed by millionaire entertainment media celebrity - and of course, Zionist Jew- Judge Judy ? Yes, indeed ALL wonderful members of the Democrat Party Family ?

OK, so if Trump does speak as his own witness, he WILL lie. Can a President be held guilty of perjury? What would his penalties be?

Trump can't utter 2 sentences without lying. Which is why he would never testify under oath in front of the whole world.

The DOJ's position is that a POTUS cannot be criminally charged while in office. It's legally possible that Trump could be charged with perjury after he is no longer POTUS (notwithstanding any applicable statutes of limitation) but as a practical matter it is unlikely.

Bill Clinton was never criminally charged with perjury although grand jury perjury was one of the articles of impeachment. BC's license to practice law was later suspended for his acts involving dishonesty while he was president.

That charge is what brought the impeachment of Clinton.

Yes, grand jury perjury was the basis for one of the four articles of impeachement filed against BC. The other articles included obstruction of justice, perjury in the Paula Jones case, and abuse of power.

All over personal dalliances that had nothing to do with the execution of the office of the President of the United States. The investigation went on for a year, at taxpayers expense. All of Monical Lewinski's ex-boyfriends were interviewed. Even one woman's dentist was interviewed. All at taxpayers expense.

What is at hand with the impeachment of Donald J. Trump is the use of the office of the President of the United States for personal purposes. And the threat to commit extortion. That is a massive abuse of power.

Trump rigged this impeachment from day one. Barr refused to appoint special counsel like the one in Clinton's impeachment. Dems in the House were left to try to investigate with Trump obstructing the entire time. Trump sent a memo to every agency in the exec branch and warned the employees not to testify. He never even raised executive privilege because his attorneys knew it was a fraudulent claim. Insane!

An average American would be in prison. Trump's supporters elected him to drain the swamp and now they are supporting the worst swamp ever. Trump and his surrogates are telling straight up lies every day and they continue to believe them.

The most frustrating part for me is not even that Trump and his enablers at the top are crooks. It is that they have convinced tens of millions of average Americans to support them. Without their enabling this could not happen. Unbelievable!

"only in USA has nationalism carried w it the Christian meaning of the sacred. the revelation of America serves to blight and ultimately preclude the possibility of fundamental social change". SACVAN BERCOVITCH
quite obvious--one must merely read the infantile ignorant article and the comments attached
Tocqueville long ago observed how peculiar is the US legal system---lawyers the most "conservative force"...it is no accident that US laws r medieval and that 2/3 of the lawyers on the planet live in the USA...as Bercovitch wrote, "amerika is the ultimate trickster's paradise"

You say the same things over and over.

OK...OK...it's 53 to 47, now let's get on with our lives already! Was watching coverage last night...no wonder nothing ever gets done in Congress!

That's the BS narrative FOX has been repeating for days! Nothing to see here. Move along, sheep.

So far today on an npr station I have tuned in and heard about Russia being our enemy and how Ronald Reagan was great. This was part of Schiff's schtick. Every time I tuned back in it was Schiff trashing Putin. Now I tune in and it is a special ops Democrat senator from Colorado talking about 'insurgents' when he was in Afghanistan. Oh, and now he is talking about the stealthy Putin somehow. I don't know how he made that transition as I was not paying attention. I think we the people are supposed to be impressed because so many of these people are now former or maybe current military special forces people. I think it is supposed to mean they are field tested and who knows what else.

OMG! Is Oshkosh, Wisconsin safe? Is Miami, Florida safe? Is Fargo, North Dakota safe? Russians could be attacking anywhere.

I'd like to introduce a slight bit of NUANCE: one can NOT want to go to war with Russia and still NOT praise former KGB head Dictator Putin!

Well, me rita must not be capable of nuance because I am missing the nuance here. My Russian friends who live in the u.s. as of maybe fifteen years ago and travel all the time are very fond of Putin and they are over fifty and lived through a lot there. They are hard core realists, btw as Russians tend to be. They are always telling me that they don't understand why Americans can be so easily manipulated by msm. And I tell them btw. But that is another story. I personally am not into war. Never have been.
Cheers.