I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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It's an ancient proverb: No honor among Trumps.
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Thanks so much Sandy and Chevy!
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Preemptive pardons--for acts already committed but not yet formally investigated or charged--may be legal (Ford did it for Nixon); but prospective and "speculative" pardons--for acts not yet committed by the time the pardoner leaves office--are not. And pardoning someone for potential perjury for lying, or contempt by "taking the Fifth" (one can't refuse to testify on the grounds "it might tend to incriminate" them) concerning acts they've been committed for which they've been pardoned is a prospective, not a preemptive pardon--because the perjury or contempt hasn't happened yet. So as much as Trump thinks he's given Flynn a "stay out of jail" card for future contempt or perjury, he hasn't--unless the Fifth is invoked for something for which Flynn hasn't been pardoned. A President can't confer lifetime (or infinite) immunity, any more than (a la the movie Minority Report) someone can be prosecuted for acts they've yet to commit.
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So, if tRump is even considering preemptive pardons for his family, he must believe they've committed crimes for which they have not been formally charged. But he is hesitant because it may make them look like criminals. When did this disaster of a human ever worry about about the appearance of impropriety? I put nothing past him, especially when he's desperate.
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"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."
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Well, I had been wondering Sandy. Seems if there were a pardon, those people would have to testify against any person NOT having a pardon -- like maybe Trump. I wonder if Trump is thinking about that. The one person who can't get a pardon and everyone able to sing like a canary about them. Oh, how fitting that would be.
Love all the memes and the Seth Abramson's pieces. Trump really is a first class whiner. That is all he did in GA last night. I read in passing on my way here that due to what Trump had been saying before they came up to speak, Loeffler and Perdue were drown out by chants of " Stop the Steal " and " Treason" etc. No one heard a word they said. The officials in GA would have preferred Trump not come -- I think they knew how it would play out and it is not only very bad for many of them with the threats on them, but it does no good at all for the candidates or as well the Reps. party. I would imagine there were a fair number of Reps ( if they would say ) that might have been wishing Trump would change his mind. It has been found that in many of the swing states where Trump rallied right before the election he LOST votes. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-lost. He just isn't worth it anymore, but then he never really was. I wonder if these Reps. will ever own up to how much Trump has dragged them down.
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Dear Evangelicals,
I thought of you today.
I was reading the Bible. (You may remember the Bible from a sitting president's recent upside-down, tear-gassed, church steps photo op.)
I came across Matthew's story of Judas' final moments here on the planet: overwhelmed with guilt, in a searing, sweaty panic—realizing that he had betrayed his beloved Jesus and sent him to an unthinkably violent death, all for thirty cold pieces of silver that now felt worthless in his hands.
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Florida Becomes 3rd State to Surpass 1 Million Confirmed COVID-19 CasesHe'd kissed him and he'd killed him, just to gain a quick windfall that he suddenly realized was fool's gold.
He died knowing he'd forfeited his soul and couldn't get a refund.
I wonder if you will ever have such a last-minute awakening: a similarly sickening moment of clarity-come-too-late, when you look around and see all that you've destroyed and how many people you've grievously wounded—and if you too will realize that you're now permanently in the red because you have abandoned your namesake for another name that adorns very different kinds of buildings.
Take a moment and survey the coins in your hand, now, friends.
Roll them around your fingers.
Feel the weight of them.Your thirty pieces of silver were these last four years,
some Supreme Court Justices,
a couple hundred lower court judges,
the temporary high of a few political wins,
the bully pulpit of a President's Twitter feed for forty-eight months,
and perhaps soon, a woman's right to autonomy over her own body.That was your soul's selling price.
Was it all worth betraying Jesus for, I wonder?
Was it worth brutalizing the already vulnerable and oppressed, whose lives he said he inhabited?
Was it worth aligning with this petulant, profane Caesar in all his pervasive and prolific violence?
Was it worth driving a generation from the Church that Jesus built to be a refuge for wanderers, a balm for the hurting, a destination for weary pilgrims, and a home for prodigals?From where I'm standing, it wasn't.
From where I'm standing, you're bankrupt.
From where I'm standing, you're stuck.I'm out here with the multitudes who will never darken the door of one your gatherings ever again because they've seen your greed.
I'm here with those whose last remaining tethers to religion have been fully severed seeing you abandon the tender world-loving heart of Jesus, in favor of a thin facade of nationalistic bravado.
I'm here alongside hundreds of thousands sitting vigil for a democracy teetering precariously on the edge of death at your doing.
I'm with the disparate humanity who can find something redemptive and beautiful— anywhere else but alongside you.
I'm here with those whose grief you have manufactured, whose peace you have interrupted with chaos, whose voices you have intentionally silenced: with the poor and hurting and the hopeless.I'm there because Jesus is there; where he's always been. You are there with those thirty coins and the time that is running out. He will outlive you.
I imagine you're not able to mourn any of this right now; that you still feel like you're winning. You are still in between the payoff and the wake-up, and so all you're feeling is the fleeting rush of a deal with the devil that always seems like a win—until it doesn't.
But one day soon (either here or hereafter) you're going to reach the place all Judases eventually find themselves: realizing all they've lost to gain a world:
They've lost everything that matters.
Hope those thirty pieces of silver were worth that.
Farewell.
By John Pavlovitz
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Equal opportunists of each other.
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Oh my, I haven't seen any tv all afternoon, but hubby just came in and said Rudy Giuliani has been diagnosed with the virus. I sat here and thought, wow, what took him so long? I can't say that I feel any pain for him. I don't wish anything bad as such, but I really feel that I don't need to wish him well either. Trump does -- wish him well that is.
Then, being he is on THAT side, I wonder -- is this a good way for him to exit the clutches of Trump and the endless failed lawsuits with absolutely no evidence and or merit. I think with Biden having enough certified votes now ( and he will get more ) to be voted in, what is the real point of Rudy wasting the time and energy. Trump won't concede and so there will just be useless fumbling to extract funds from people in some way. That was the point of a lot of this though I do think along the way Trump said it often enough that even he believes the election was somehow stolen from him. Well, in his mental state that is far easier to construct than just admitting that he lost -- which would be so weak of a bully to do.
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Since Rudy was in Georgia on Thursday spewing the virus along with a Trump loser superspreader on Friday, how many Georgia Republicans will be too sick to vote in January?
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Or alive.
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Karma can be a bitch.
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I don't know, but that crazy woman said she saw dead people voting.
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Serenity - that explains why Trump got the votes he did. You'd have to be brain dead
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Guiliani was admitted to the hospital. He's 76 and considered high risk. I wonder if his symptoms are serious enough to require the hospitalization or if he's just there as a precaution. He's really one big bizarro. He's been aaaalllll over the country this past week at hearings, meetings and events, mostly maskless, hugging and shaking hands; getting his photo taken with others. Really, he's a mad man. Totally bonkers.
Yes, the Republicans who refuse to acknowledge Biden's win are indulging Trump, normalizing absolutely everything he does, sparing their own asses and political futures all at the expense of the country. 'Tis a pity.
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He probably has symptoms. Those farts heard round the world would count as GI symptoms. Plus mixing and spreading of these bodily fluids.
He's been spreading this around how many states?
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COVID Wipes Out Trump's Legal Team Before Electoral College Vote
Trump is out of lawyers to lead his legal team after Rudy Giuliani became the latest member of Trump's election challenge to get COVID.
Read more »Thinking about some of those women who have/were standing behind Giuliani recently, I think I'd be worried -- not only about myself but about all the people I might have been around. Just wow -- well, he likely does belong in a hospital. Don't know what else may be a part of his medical record besides age, but many of the Reps. have chosen to play with fire, tempt fate, or do covid Russian roulette. Not a big surprise that Giuliani's number showed up.
At the end of the above piece it touts the irony of Trump ignoring covid which helped him lose the election and now it is helping him lose his legal team -- not that they were much good, but they were stupidly persistent about it.
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And the fun and games just kept coming:
Rudy Giuliani Admits To Illegal Coup Plot In Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Michigan
Rudy Giuliani admitted that he is trying to organize a coup in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin to overturn Joe Biden's win
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Chris Krebs Busts Trump For Waging A Coordinated Disinformation Campaign Against US Elections
The former head of US cybersecurity, Chris Krebs said that Trump is waging a coordinated disinformation campaign against US elections.
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Nosferatu the Attack Rabbit is also a prostate cancer survivor, which is a comorbidity that puts him at higher risk than the average septuagenarian male. Karma is indeed a bee-yotch, but is often visited upon the one who seeks to invoke it. I don't wish him physical harm: I want him alive and well to pay for his crimes.
Did you see SNL's "cold open" last night, with Cecily Strong's spot-on impression of Melissa Carone? ("My family has been thre' ened"). Rudy's second-chair (well, she would be a "second-chair" except they haven't done trials nor even actual hearings) calls herself a "constitutional law professor." However, she teaches legal principles to undergrads...at a college that lacks a law school...and she's just an instructor, not an actual professor. She has never signed her name to any pleadings in the plethora of bullshit Trump election lawsuits. She has never set foot in a Federal courtroom--not appellate, trial nor even motion call. She was a rural CO prosecutor handling mostly DUIs and misdemeanor cases (who always wanted to be "famous," appearing on small-town TV at the drop of a hat as a "legal expert"). But she can rock a gallon of eyeliner, ten lbs. of false eyelashes, go on right-wingTV, invoke Jesus and suck up to Trump. So I guess that makes her a legal-eagle.
Interesting thing about the Judas-Trump comparison: until the final fateful week, Judas actually liked and respected Jesus. Trump has never liked or respected anyone. Jesus did tell all the disciples at the Seder table that one of them would betray him by sunrise. It's as if he not only knew exactly who it'd be but that he may even have instructed him to. (That's the jumping-off premise of Christopher Moore's novel Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff, Jesus' Childhood Pal. Biff was Judas' nickname; he called Jesus "Josh"). It's quite possible that in agreeing to betray Jesus, Judas had no idea how agonizing & gruesome Jesus' death would be--after all, the Romans reserved crucifixion as a death penalty for common thieves & burglars, not threats to the hegemony of the Empire. And without Judas' betrayal, there could be no redemption of humanity were Jesus to live out a normal lifespan and meet a natural end: the whole point of the Incarnation was for Jesus to expiate the sins of the world by suffering & dying prematurely. No betrayal--->no conviction-->no sentence-->no crucifixion-->no resurrection-->no redemption. God would not have "given" His only begotten Son by having him die of an infection or heart attack in old age. Just a thought. (Of course, I'm not a Christian, so what do I know)?
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