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Highly recommend reading back Tony's 2021 article, where in the comments, TX Lawyer has the best overview, re Coale:

TX Lawyer commented:

"...Nah, Coale is just a wealthy MAGA lawyer with a reputation earned in the 80s and 90s (the period when Trump's brain ceased to acquire new information) who's willing to come out of retirement and head up a team of MAGA ambulance chasers for free. This is basically like that week after the election when Trump's legitimate election law firms stopped being willing to file transparently baseless lawsuits for him, so he had to bring in the D-Team of Giuliani, Lin Wood, and Sidney Powell, plus whatever hangers-on they could come up with to keep filing the really baseless stuff....."

Wonder where TX Lawyer is today, and hope they comment.

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I wonder what Putin has on tRump that causes tRump's apparent subservience to Putin? Vance, Hegseth and the rest of tRump's foreign policy team are not on the same page at all. Hegseth's missteps in the past few days has shown disarray in the ranks. And Germany is angry that Musk is touting very right wing political parties in Germany. tRump and his minions are the proverbial bull in the china shop. And that shop can't take any more damage.

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This is so difficult to sort out.

Virtuous acting people, the smartest, the most virtuous ought to be our world leaders.

These tippy top influential individuals in society, they have to be the most virtuous.

Not sure Coale's history of virtuous behavior, and where he really stands in the world.

Trump's past lawyers, those that turned against Trump, had to eat major crow, accept charges and plead guilty, they to me are greater in virtue that the slippery lawyers who promote Trump's revenge mindset.

This all immediately reminded me, that in history, today, the lawyers and top people for Nixon who turned on Nixon, come out as the most virtuous in history. (Dean and Colson are they, in my mind.)

Today, I view, as a layman, the more virtuous individuals who turn on Trump, as to being the actual top, in the virtue measuring scale, even though they got charged, pled guilty.

Same with Nixon's lawyer, Dean, he wised up, pled guilty, did time, for Nixon (who didn't do time, he got his pardon). Same for Colson too.

The Nixon years and participants are how I measure Coale.

He's not as good as Colson, nor as good as Dean, in terms of virtue.

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That top Scientologist mover and shakers don't promote or even bring up their L. Ron Hubbard belielfs (Xenu dumped earth with messed up ghosts-body-thetans which infest all humans and require secret upper Scientology soul-freeing/exorcism) which eventually all come out.

This blog gets it, Tony lays it all out as good as anyone in media history.

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The bigger longer human virtue actual results for the benefit of mankind, by the top movers and shakers in society, is the bottom line.

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There is a tiny nugget of knowledge in Scientology, for focusing on virtuous behavior, it is precept 20 of The Way to Happiness booklet.

But Scientology only uses that precept as window dressing. Way to Happiness due to how Hubbard said to use that booklet, is severely hampered with Hubbard's massive additional regulations still on the books in Scientology that push Precept 20 into irrelevancy from a Scientologist's viewpoint.

My guess is Coale's behavior is due to his non Scientology education and conditioning, not from Hubbard's teachings.

And from that viewpoint, I measure Coale as far less than the past White House counsel greater mover and shakers who did admit guilt, show remorse, and turned on their "great" bosses.

Coale does not measure as the highest, for that reason.

I doubt seriously if Coale has ever considered much about Precept 20.

No one in Scientology is.

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Not surprising to see a Scientology follower gravitating towards another cult that similar racist, elitest, inhuman qualities.

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Birds of a feather flock together.

All the truism sayings that have been around for hundreds or thousands of human history years, to me, as I age, rise to being good measures of it all.

Birds of a feather.

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