I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the
past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish
that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path
may lead to peace. -Agnes M. Pharo0 -
Yes, Melania -- I can't wait till she is out too. Trump and family, delusional dimwits that had no business inside the WH, even as visitors, have created a chaotic hell for these last four yrs. Never in my wildest dreams. Yet, all those Reps. enablers who 'created' right along with the delusional dimwits -- I hope they all end up with the deepest regrets anyone could fall victim to. Not sure what would be appropriate, but whatever negative thing that can befall them.
I do think Trump could be well on is way to annihilating a whole lot of the Reps. party and I hope they are not able to successfully get back for yrs. It would serve them all right. I long for the day Sandy when so many of the Trumpers realize just as casually and badly they were screwed.
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Trill - thank you for posting Melania's Xmas letter. i got a notice for the letter, but since I am not subscribing,could not look at it. It really sums up the savage elitism and I -can -get -away- with -anything attitude of the WH. His throwing a wrench into the most recent relief package is just another example of his diarrhea spewing everywhere. How his base can continue to support him not only defies reason, but compassion as well. Florida is trying to rid itself of non-native invasive burmese pythons. Maybe we could organize a group to go catch a bunch and release them in Mar-a -Largo. I 'd love to see one emerge from a hole 9 and swallow the bastard.
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Nah, that wouldn't work. The gator and pythons would try to eat each other, much like in DC. Take him up A1A, put him on a Space X ship, then blow it up. Uh, maybe not. That would polute the ocean.
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BlueGirlRed--Hah-hah! Like that idea!
Spookiesmom--Yep, the gators and pythons would do each other in.....
I say give Trump the new mutated virus and then put him in a rural hospital screamingly overbooked, filled with grumbling Trumpers and moaning nurses who crave some real relief---and a few dozen ventilators. Have him be placed on a gurney in a hallway off the ER, where he will be SOB as he waits six hours to at last be moved--but now instead of into a cozy room of his own into the only place that has a free bed available, the pediatric ward. Have him be maneuvered into one of those cribs with the tall railings and immediately pass out.
After he's come to, have him wake up, legs cramped from being squeezed in the small space, and look around, wondering where the sounds of sick, unhappy children could be coming from. Complaining of hunger, have him be fed child-sized portions of Farina, Jello, and Zwieback, which he immediately evacuates into his tiny-sized Pampers.....
Only when he's so cramped from the small bed he cannot stretch out onto it have him be moved to a gurney and finally taken to the ICU, where he's placed at last in a full-sized bed. Thinking he's about to get the massage of a lifetime, not realizing that he's been placed face down to make breathing possible as there are no ventilators available, have him be left there for sixteen hours, during which his only visitor will be Michael Cohen, who will laugh the whole time and just before he leaves let his iced-water-filled cup "accidentally" trickle onto DT's bare back. (Melania chose to stay home, saying that "It's too much sicky-sicky there for my clothes...")
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Trill, you old mean thing you, ( while I gleefully clap ) because we all know the fancy drugs won't be available in the hospital you are talking about. Sometimes I just sit and think about all the wonderful people that I know that have gone to their eternal reward and think -- why is that bad people seem to last so long. I really know, but it still gets to me. So many wonderful people and then there are people like the Trumps taking up oxygen and space while taking it away from other people and it seems so mightily unfair.
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Oh well, maybe this will cheer me up a bit:
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Another one who deserves gooey blobs on his head from birds every time he goes outside:
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Jackie, love the Mitch meme! And you are so right--the bad go on and on and on and on.....
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These people are relentless! They are saying the election results in five states should be overturned because the state Legislatures, not the Governors, should have certified the election results.
Two GOP state reps and a Republican running in the special election for the 89th AD are among the plaintiffs in a new federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the presidential election results in five states, including Wisconsin. ... The new suit argues election laws in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and Arizona have cut their state legislatures out of their proper roles in certifying presidential electors and counting their votes. It seeks an order requiring the state legislatures in all five states to certify presidential electors before they're counted.
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The defendants include a string of elected officials in the five states, Vice President Mike Pence, the U.S. Senate, the House of Representatives and even the Electoral College.
Read the suit here.
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A few thoughts after reading this article from the NY Times:
For a Defeated President, Pardons as an Expression of Grievance
President Trump's grants of clemency to convicted liars, corrupt congressmen and child-killing war criminals are a way to lash out at a system that he believes has treated him and his friends unfairly.
By Peter Baker, NY Times, Dec. 24, 2020
1. Bill Barr may have seen the Manafort pardon coming down and didn't want to be a part of it. Per his confirmation hearing, a quid pro quo pardon would be a crime.
At the confirmation hearing in 2019 for William P. Barr, whose last day as attorney general was Wednesday, Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, quizzed him about that. "Do you believe a president could lawfully issue a pardon in exchange for the recipient's promise to not incriminate him?" Mr. Leahy asked.
"No," Mr. Barr replied. "That would be a crime."
Trump regularly dangled the prospect of pardons at the same time Mr. Manafort, for example, was being pressured to cooperate with investigators.
2. Regardless of what he told Nicolle Wallace (see link) or said about Charles Kushner in the past, Chris Christie will never wash off the stink of tRump.
Mr. Manafort and Mr. Stone were not the only beneficiaries of Mr. Trump's presidential forgiveness to have personal ties to him or his friends. He pardoned Charles Kushner, the father of Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump's son-in-law, wiping away a conviction that had long gnawed at the family. Charles Kushner pleaded guilty to tax evasion, illegal campaign donations and witness tampering and spent more than a year in prison.
The elder Mr. Kushner set up his brother-in-law, who was cooperating with the investigation, by hiring a prostitute to seduce him and then sending a tape of the act to his wife, Mr. Kushner's own sister. He was prosecuted by Chris Christie, a U.S. attorney at the time and later the governor of New Jersey. Mr. Christie, a friend of Mr. Trump's, has previously called Mr. Kushner's actions "loathsome" and "disgusting," but declined to comment on the pardon this week.
3. It's not what you know, it's who you know. The four pardoned war criminals were security contractors from Blackwater, the firm founded by Erik Prince, brother of Betsy DeVos. They were championed by Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and outspoken Trump supporter who has been influential with the president in the past. They were convicted after what investigators determined was an unprovoked attack that killed 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007, including unarmed women and children.
Presidents typically avoid pardoning unrecalcitrant child killers, if for no other reason than it would normally be seen as politically radioactive.
But Mr. Trump has made a policy of defying conventional wisdom and redefining what he considers to be justice. He has argued that he is righting the wrongs of a law enforcement system that he believes has wronged him, too. And he has even discussed pardoning members of his family or himself.
With less than four weeks left in office, he may yet have more to say on the matter.
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It is not surprising to me that Trump behaves as he does. What does upset me though is that he lashed out at a system that he believes has treated him and his friends unfairly. It does upset me that he thinks it is retribution to do these things. He gets away with things because he has been allowed such leeway in extracting what he sees as his pound of deserved flesh. If he or his friends were truly wronged you might be able to glean a bit of understanding -- but these people were not just randomly selected out. They did harm to society by breaking the law and just as Trump has had enablers his whole life -- he has now enabled these people to skip punishment for wrongs just as he always did.
It is amazing that anyone ( obviously those who are rich enough or mentally unstable enough ) would think they should be allowed to do as they wish up to and all the way through breaking laws meant to govern ALL of us. I think many of these people know full well they are breaking the law and just think they are smart enough they won't get caught and censured. For Trump who has spent his whole life being enabled -- I think he, whether he knows or not, just can't conceive that he will be troubled with having to pay a consequence. I do think depending on who may be charged, some of these pardoned people may be called upon to testify truthfully since they can w/o going to jail. That could be dicey for them as well as for Trump and some in his circle.
I guess I also wonder about some who are not as mentally unstable as Trump. They may have gotten full pardons but I have to wonder how easy it will be to go back to a life where you are well known for what you did and as well that you became a free person because you aided and abetted a man who held high office for four yrs. when he did not belong there. In my book that adds some pretty sour notes on your reputation and resume. I can't imagine a life where you are now all of a sudden an honest, upstanding, law abiding citizen who can go about their business as though you are Joe Smith from Pittsburg. I'm just glad that we are going to return to "no man is above the law" and hopefully give meaning and depth back to making sure it is upheld much more properly and give back the true meaning of that phrase. We are well past time.
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Day of Hope
Edgar Guest
Christmas is the one day of the year that carries real hope and promise for all humankind. It carries the torch of brotherhood. It is the one day in the year when most of us grow big of heart and broad of mind. It is the single day when most of us are as kind and as thoughtful of others as we know how to be; when most of us are as gracious and generous as we would like always to be; when the joy of home is more important than the profits of the office; when peoples of all races speak cheerfully to each other when they meet; when high and low wish each other well; and the one day when even enemies forgive and forget.0 -
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More from tRump's Space Farce
Mark Hamill, James Gunn, William Shatner Skewer Space Force for Ripping Off Their Franchises
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Regardless of whatever right-wing rag floated the Jan. 6 objection scenario in the Senate, it'll go nowhwere: true, it takes only one objection by a Senator or rep. to bring a challenge to a vote in the House, but it takes a simple majority vote of the House members as individuals--NOT one delegation per state--to invalidate or otherwise reject any state's already certified Electoral College results. The Senate doesn't get to vote on it any longer. And even with the slim Democratic House majority that will be newly seated by then, it'll still be a unified Democratic majority, even if every GOP representative stands with Trump. Therefore, Biden still gets at least 270 electoral votes and probably his full 306. So we won't get to the nightmare scenario of the House's majority of Red state delegations throwing the election to Trump.
Far likelier is the armed civilian insurrection Trump is urging his supporters to foment in his Tweet calling for them to demonstrate at the Capitol Jan. 6. That, and today's Nashville bombing, could lead him to declare martial law. The question then becomes whether the military will obey his unlawful orders.
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Sandy - I am glad you are here to explain and clarify.
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Patient people enjoy the pleasure of saying to whoever is feeling anxious about delays--restaurant servers, clerks waiting on the telephone to get your credit card verified, dry cleaners who were sure your sweater would be ready--"It's okay. These things happen." Patience, in a rushed world, is a shared relief. Witnesses to patient transactions, as well as participants, all get to calm down.
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I did know ( still thank you a lot Sandy) that objections to Pres.-elect Biden being formally recognized on the 6th. wouldn't change anything but I would not have been able to explain it. I hope the martial law declaration doesn't come. Since I think even that would not re-seat Trump and since he is only in the mode of making as much chaos pay-back as he can, if someone has to step in to handle Trumpers, hopefully it will be the Nat'l Guard summoned by the state. Not sure I even said that right.
Maybe we will get a clue when we see how the next few days turn out with the covid relief and shutdown issues front and center. So far, Trump has been pure Trump golfing his time away and pocketing funds for it as usual.
I read in some reports ( more than one, but all left wing sources ) that the Grand Jury/New York has remained hard at work and lately have gone farther in subpoenaing bank employees and insurance officials from Trump's dealings and that he is in more jeopardy than even he may understand. The articles also seemed to indicate there was more readiness to go after Trump sooner rather than later. I personally think the sooner the better. It would seem at the time he most needs it, he may NOT be able to squeak out of consequences that he has avoided his whole miserable life -- which hasn't been so miserable for him actually. Karma is a bitter pill and I'd like to think before he is totally bonkers he would get to APPRECIATE his Karma for what it is. Then again, maybe some would see his monumental election loss as great Karma as well.
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Good Riddance:
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Yes, to the chocolate.
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