Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Now Wasn’t That Nice

Thursday, August 20, 2026

Now Wasn’t That Nice

[Editorial]

Connecting the dots. How many times have you heard this?

Well a little history, the trial is in the discovery phase where both sides can dig into the other files. Something Trump didn’t want… but did happen anyway. You see BBC wanted the extensive financial records from Trump's business trust. His lawyers clearly did not want to provide that financial information.

Okay now we jump a head to now… there is a new judge to oversee the case. The case is now being transferred to Jeffrey Kuntz, a federal judge whom Trump himself nominated. Hmmm…

The judges nomination has been in the works for a while now, but all the paperwork just got completed, just in time to sit on Trump v. BBC. Wasn’t the timing nice?

Now consider this… Kuntz previously ruled in Trump's favor in the Pulitzer Prize Board litigation while he was a Florida appellate judge.

Connecting the dots…

Trump files a $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC. → The case enters discovery. → The BBC seeks extensive financial information about Trump's business interests. → Trump's lawyers fight that disclosure. → Altman temporarily halts the financial disclosure while Trump's effort to narrow his claims is considered. → Then a new federal judge arrives. → That judge was nominated by Trump. → And that same judge had previously ruled in Trump's favor in another Trump defamation case.

Nothing was illegal, but sure as hell rasies a lot of red flags

Connecting the dots. How many times have you heard this?

Well, a little history. The case is in the discovery phase, where both sides can dig into the other side’s files and records. Something Trump didn’t want, but it happened anyway. You see, the BBC wanted extensive financial records from Trump’s business trust. His lawyers clearly did not want to provide that financial information.

Okay, now let’s jump ahead to today…

There is a new judge overseeing the case and it hss is now being transferred to Jeffrey Kuntz, a federal judge whom Trump himself nominated.

Hmmm…

The judge’s nomination had been in the works for a while, but all the paperwork was finally completed, just in time for Kuntz to sit on Trump v. BBC.

Wasn’t the timing nice?

Now consider this…

Kuntz previously ruled in Trump’s favor in the Pulitzer Prize Board litigation while he was a Florida appellate judge.

Connecting the dots…

Nothing about the transfer was necessarily illegal. But nothing about this sequence makes the questions go away, either.

However, it sure as hell raises a lot of red flags.

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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

“A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.”
― Booker T. Washington

"We will not walk in fear one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason."
– Edward R. Murrow

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Thursday, August 20, 2026

Now Wasn’t That Nice

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