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I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,942
    edited January 2021

    Divine so good to hear you seem to be on the up-swing with covid. Hope your hubby is too. I didn't recall til you said about the operation ( appendix ) so maybe he will be a mite slower. Still wishing you both complete wellness as soon as possible.

    Like you, I feel Melania was never meant to shine and I think the book I read written by her friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff ( " Melania and Me ") . pretty much indicated that. It was supposed to be ALL Trump ALL of the time and Melania was going to be kept out of things unless she was needed to prop up Trump for some reason. No one was going to upstage the Donald. I think when her Be Best fizzled and did not spark at all SHE got the message and headed straight into the background. She appeared more, it seemed to me, in the last two or three months before the election than she did most of the rest of the whole four yrs. In other words -- when she was highly expected to be a part of something -- like state visit etc .

    I'm still convinced that these two people were able to recognize that EACH had deep flaws and knew they were a better match than either of them trying to hook up with SANE people. They each had things the other wanted. Trump always looked for what he saw as the MOST ( thinnest, prettiest, arm candy etc ) in a mate and she wanted money and a smooth citizenship path for herself and her family. So, they used each other royal. As I have often heard, if you want to dance you have to pay the fiddler. I think the fiddler wants what is due now. Who knows for sure what will happen to these two people now, but ask me if I care if all the Trumps go to jail. I think they all deserve too.


  • divinemrsm
    divinemrsm Member Posts: 6,621
    edited January 2021

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  • trill1943
    trill1943 Member Posts: 1,135
    edited January 2021

    Love it, Divine! And hope you are coming along!

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,942
    edited January 2021

    If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family. -Desmond Tutu

  • spookiesmom
    spookiesmom Member Posts: 8,178
    edited January 2021

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    Good. Hit him where it hurts.

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,923
    edited January 2021

    A couple months ago I was invited to be part of a small group from around the BCO Boards. The moderators want us to brainstorm ways to make the BCO Community a more welcome place for all, especially newcomers, to engage in and to feel a sense welcome and belonging to when they (we) come here. If you have any thoughts, ideas, suggestions you would like to share with me, please send me a PM.

    From our discussions, here is a question the moderators wanted us to bring back to the different threads we frequent: If they would set up regular Zoom Gatherings for various threads, would there be any interest? So, here is my group discussion question: Would there be any interest on this thread for a Zoom Gathering every once and awhile?

  • yesiamadragon
    yesiamadragon Member Posts: 343
    edited January 2021

    Ruth: I think I would really enjoy that!

  • trishyla
    trishyla Member Posts: 698
    edited January 2021

    I think that would be a great idea. It would be nice to "meet" all the wonderful ladies on this thread.

  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 5,356
    edited January 2021

    ruth,

    Despite spending my teaching days on Zoom and my resentment of it from time to time, I would be happy to participate.

  • chisandy
    chisandy Member Posts: 11,416
    edited January 2021

    I'm definitely up for it.

  • keywestfan
    keywestfan Member Posts: 367
    edited January 2021

    Yes!

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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,942
    edited January 2021

    Ruth, I don't have a set-up ( at least I don't think ) for Zoom. Also computer illiterate. I will though think over the other inquiries about ways to welcome people.

    Spookiesmom, I found your piece interesting. I think not that it is occurring, but more I think that it is so fast. Trump is just an old, not too handsome and definitely portly shall we say fat guy who is a loser. In my mind ( though I could be wrong ) a lot of his after leaving WH conversation might be centered on fraud and evil things the Democrats did to STEAL his election. Most people with any brains ( and Reps. have them even if they don't use them fully ) know that Democratic fraud and other devious measures to steal an election did not happen from the left -- only from the rt.

    Many did not want Trump in FLA, even if some didn't mind, and since he is a loser, in my imagination, many may resent how much they had to pay for their memberships which increased substantially when Trump became an elected to WH person. Generally, it would be hard to 'hang' in with a loser and much harder if the loser gripes and whines and has to 'always' convince you that he was cheated out of something he wasn't. We already know why a lot of them likely don't care to play a golf game with him. Trump should remember that his golf clubs/resorts are not the only ones.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,942
    edited January 2021

    Image may contain: text that says 'Middle Age Riot @middleageriot Republicans are saying Joe Biden's cabinet choices aren't diverse enough because they don't include any incompetent white men.'

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,942
    edited January 2021

    Maybe more the one who helped finish it off:


    Image may contain: one or more people, text that says 'Middle Age Riot @middleageriot Saying Donald Trump ruined the Republican Party is like saying spoiled mayonnaise ruined a pickle and rat sandwich.'

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,942
    edited January 2021

    Image may contain: text that says 'Democrats need to treat the current COVID relief package and their entire legislative agenda exactly how McConnell and Republicans have treated Supreme Court nominations for the last four years: YOU DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO GET IT DONE.'

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,942
    edited January 2021

    Image may contain: 2 people, text that says 'Kevin McCarthy (CA-R) and Lauren Boebert (CO-R) are blaming Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer for the National Guard sleeping in the garage of the Senate building. The same troops who wouldn't even be there were it not for the threat of violence from Trump's crazed supporters. These two don 't have enough IQ points between them to decorate decorate a domino. American News'

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,942
    edited January 2021

    I so hope this is true. I hope not only more comes out but out impeachment managers are able to structure it in such a way that it is all but impossible to avoid anything but a guilty vote. I think that in fact, Reps. just wanted to not be primaried in 22' or 24' would be satisfied.


    Image may contain: 2 people, text that says 'Jill Wine-Banks @JillWineBanks 。ㅇ° I believe even more facts about Trump's role in the failed coup and violent insurrection will come out before Feb 8 trial. That will make conviction a necessary action by Republican Senators. @robreiner' s logic is obvious so voting against conviction may not be an option. @robreiner 8h Rob Reiner Any Senator who votes not to convict Donald Trump is voting in favor of violently overthrowing the United States Government. 12:45 PM. Jan 23, 2021 Twitter for Android'

  • miriandra
    miriandra Member Posts: 2,245
    edited January 2021

    Ruth, I think a Zoom gathering would be a lot of fun!

    Boebert is such a disgrace. I'm embarrassed that she comes from my state. I could rationalize and say that Colorado isn't my birth state, but Tennessee isn't representing itself very well either. I remember back when Lamar Alexander literally walked across the state the long way, and represented solid moderate values. I don't know when he drank Mitch's flavorade.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,942
    edited January 2021

    With Reps. you can always learn something new !! Did I ever tell you how much I hate liars.


    Image may contain: 3 people, text that says 'Don Winslow @donwinslow "Arkansas senator has repeatedly said he served as "a U.S. Army Ranger in Iraq and Afghanistan." That's not true." Sen. Tom Cotton campaigned on his "experience as an Army Ranger" but he didn't have any CONGRESS ABATTLE-TESTED Volunteered LEADER Earned f anArmy Ranger VOLUNTEERED Medal f ispractio Sen. Tom Cotton has claimed he was an "Army Ranger." That's not true salon.com'

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,942
    edited January 2021

    The pictures chosen for this meme are on the money period.


    Image may contain: 12 people, text that says 'America is Great Again because they are not in charge anymore. CALL TO ACTIVISM'

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,942
    edited January 2021

    Image may contain: one or more people, text that says 'And with a stroke of a pen... ...Trump disappeared and sanity returned. CALL TO ACTIVISM'

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,942
    edited January 2021

    None of these people should bed judging Trump during the impeachment trial either:


    Image may contain: one or more people, text that says 'NEWS ALERT Rep. Cori Bush has introduced legislation to expel all House members who attempted to overturn the election. "I believe the Republican members of Congress who have incited this domestic terror attack...must face consequences." Do you support this? Let us know! CALL TO ACTIVISM'

  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 5,356
    edited January 2021

    Illinoislady,

    You don’t need to have a “set up” to use Zoom. As long as you have a screen and your software is up to date, you should have no problem. I assume that ruthbru will be the meeting host. She can send participants a meeting invitation and then all you have to do is click on the link provided. When you do that you get put into a waiting room until the host let’s you in. After that, just take yourself off of mute to speak and click on the video cameras, if it has a red line through it, to be seen. You do not need a Zoom account or anything special to be part of a Zoom meeting. It wouldn’t be the same without you

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,942
    edited January 2021

    Thank you for the Zoom lesson. Sounds like something I hopefully could easily manage. I'm grateful for the info. The description sounds far easier than some of the few ( no matter how few ) things I've taught myself to do on this computer. Back in 2007 when I came to BC. Org. I had never been on a blog -- only thing I did was try My Space and failed in a miserable way. I shall look forward to doing something new. I have Windows 10 so shouldn't be too bad off and if I'm not up to date I pay for a service to update and repair most of my issues.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,942
    edited January 2021


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    Donald Trump's life has radically changed in the days since he vacated the White House.

    Instead of the pomp of the office and the deferential aides hanging on his every word to execute his wishes, the defeated ex-president now faces his Senate impeachment trial and the likely indictment on state charges in New York related to the financial and tax fraud disclosures that The New York Times documented in relation to the operation of his real estate empire, The Trump Organization.

    And, while Trump was immune from any federal indictment as long as he remained in office — a factor that perhaps made his desperation to win the election even more acute than it would otherwise have been — now that he is again a private citizen, nothing but President Joe Biden's desire to reunite our fractured nation prevents the newly-restored Justice Department from now pursuing investigations into Trump's well-documented criminal acts while he was president.

    Washington attorney George Conway has been a frequent critic of Donald Trump for a good portion of his presidency, despite the fact that his own wife Kellyanne was one of Trump's most trusted counselors.

    In an op-ed essay published by The Washington Post on Friday entitled "Former president, private citizen and, perhaps, criminal defendant: Donald Trump's new reality," Conway details the case for a federal prosecution of the former president that is so compelling that the newly independent Justice Department should seriously consider appointing Conway as the special prosecutor to handle the investigation into his laundry list of illegal behavior.

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    Conway begins his essay by detailing the precarious legal situation that Trump now finds himself in, largely a situation of the ex-president's own making.

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    "Private citizen Trump stands stripped of the legal and practical protections against prosecution that he enjoyed during his tenure: constitutional immunity; a protective attorney general; a special counsel operating under self-imposed and external constraints; and the ability to invoke the presidency in litigation, even meritless litigation, to delay state prosecutors' investigations. No longer will he be able to claim interference with his public duties, or to remove those who might allow damaging investigations to proceed," Conway writes.



    The conservative co-founder of the Never-Trump GOP resistance group goes on to point out "How the Biden administration addresses these issues will have long-lasting implications for the rule of law in America — along with potentially enormous political consequences."

    "President Biden himself should stay out of it, and rightly seems intent on doing so. His Justice Department, however, can't and shouldn't," Conway righteously declares, saying that Trump doesn't deserve the mercy shown Richard Nixon.
    "Trump deserves no such grace. His wrongs are far too many to ignore. His demonstrated contempt for the constitutional and legal order is simply too great. That was clear enough before Trump's repellent and possibly criminal efforts to overturn the election results, for which he was duly impeached. Now, an effort to hold Trump to account in the criminal justice system is essential and unavoidable," Conway insists.
    "To deal with Trump, and to do so fairly, Attorney General-designate Merrick Garland, once confirmed, will need to use the mechanism of a special counsel. Indeed, given the astonishing breadth of Trump's wrongdoing, Garland may need to appoint more than one to get the job done swiftly and thoroughly," he says.

    Following this thrown gauntlet with a detailed accounting of the crimes that Trump deserves to be prosecuted for in his opinion, Conway demonstrates in his essay why he is the perfect person to be appointed as one of the special prosecutors that he thinks is needed to deliver justice on behalf of the American people.

    Running through a litany of offenses ranging from Russian collusion to the supposedly "perfect" Ukraine extortionate phone call to fraudulent activity related to both his campaign finances and his tax and insurance dealings in his real estate empire, as well as multiple other instances of potentially criminal behavior, Conway demonstrates an already exhaustive knowledge of the issues at hand and the imperative that Trump finally be called to account for his actions.

    It is certainly worth reading Conway's op-ed in its entirety, which one can do at this link (subscription required.)

    Before you click through, however, and for those of you who don't have access to get behind The Washington Post paywall, take a moment to read the conservative attorney's closing statement in his essay.

    "The laundry list of potential crimes is the product of the brazenness of Trump's behavior over decades. Trump's modus operandi has been to do whatever he considers necessary in the moment and thinks he can get away with. It worked for far too long. Trump has managed to avoid serious legal repercussions — not just during his four years as president, but throughout his life."
    "Trump's presidency has ended. So, too, must his ability to dodge the consequences," Conway rightfully concludes.

    As a Republican and a conservative, Conway could not be faulted as a vindictive Democrat seeking political retribution in his pursuit of justice for Donald Trump, and his professional experience as a lawyer and chronicler of Trump's misdeeds should make him the obvious choice to be appointed as a special prosecutor.

    Let's hope that the Biden administration recognizes the appropriateness of the choice of Conway to pursue the prosecution of Donald Trump and appoints him to that position as soon as possible.

  • divinemrsm
    divinemrsm Member Posts: 6,621
    edited January 2021

    I’m definitely game for Zoom. I haven’ t used it since I’m a FaceTimers, but from Caryn’s description, it sounds easy enough to implement.



  • divinemrsm
    divinemrsm Member Posts: 6,621
    edited January 2021

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    divinemrsm Member Posts: 6,621
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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,923
    edited January 2021

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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,942
    edited January 2021

    Trying to decide Ruth, who the driver of the flatbed Ford might be --- and also as to below -- I had a hearty chuckle recalling the knuckles busting handshake Macron gave to Trump for payback. I LOVED watching Trump try to resist grimacing.

    Joe Biden Is Already Repairing The US Relationship With France

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