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

16946956976997001089

Comments

  • cardplayer
    cardplayer Member Posts: 2,051

    BREAKING: Fulton County Special Grand Jury Recommended CHARGES Against Senator Lindsey Graham In Sprawling Election Crimes, RICO Case

    New reporting broke this morning confirming that the Fulton County Special Grand Jury in the infamous Georgia election crimes case actually handed down a recommendation for criminal charges against none other than South Carolina Republican Senator and devout Trump sycophant, Lindsey Graham, for the lawmaker’s role in the efforts to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election in the Peach State.

    In addition to Graham, the Special Grand Jury also recommended charges against two Georgia Republican senators, David Perdue of Georgia and Kelly Loeffler.

    This information comes from the Special Grand Jury report that was publicly released today.

    While Fulton Country District Attorney Fani Willis lodged sprawling charges against disgraced former President Donald Trump and 18 of his fellow co-conspirators, Willis did not opt to bring charges against Senators Graham or Purdue at the time of her bombshell RICO indictment last month.

    The Special Grand Jury only had the power to make recommendations based upon the evidence they received in this case and the decision regarding how closely to adhere to those recommendations and what charges to bring up against individuals was ultimately at the discretion of the Attorney General.

    However, this certainly makes it much more difficult for Graham to proclaim his innocence.

  • betrayal
    betrayal Member Posts: 3,307

    You go John, we are behind you. Speak for the people you represent and for those who are like thinkers but not in PA. The Senate needs more like you.

    Divine, you chose the high road and stuck to your principles proving that this is the way to go. I am sure others that didn't speak up admire you for how you handled this situation. I am not sure that much will have changed in the other woman's biased views but she did find that she is a loner when it comes to acting out like she did. There may be some that think like her but they did not reveal this by supporting her rant.

    I just wish there was a way that the press would stop reporting every hiccup and fart from the Loon. By publishing these, they give credence to his rants or pipe dreams and increase support from the deplorables. Why he thinks he can manipulate the legal system to meet his expectations is just incredulous. He needs a comeuppance and I think Fani is ready and willing to hand it to him. I especially like how they could sue him for the proceeds from using his mug shot photo since it is copyrighted. I hope they add this to the long list of evidence they have on him. Taking that 7 plus million away would really push him over the edge and it is just another example of him making ill-gotten gains. Once a crook, always a crook in his case.

    As far as Jordan, in his case "air' Jordan would refer to a skull that if you held a lit flashlight to one side, the beam would be detectable on the opposite side. His head is empty and he embarrasses himself every time he has a tantrum with ridiculous demands. He reminds me of a 2 year old and I wish he would pack up his "toys" and go home.

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,700

    Divine, glad you were able to enjoy the last pool day and party. Showing up and moving forward was a class act on you and DH's part. Perhaps her family said something to Rasist Woman, or (best case scenario) she realized how totally out of line she was. For whatever reason, I'm glad she behaved herself.

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,700
  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770

    Love the memes and commentary. It is a huge (or maybe not) misfortune that so many of the Reps. both in and out of government have seemingly turned brainless along with being spineless. All will march along like Enrico Tarrio thinking the Loon will rescue them when he is going to have the time of his life trying to save himself. As well, I have kept hearing (no reason why it isn't true) that the Loon is more and more un-hinged in a somewhat senile fashion — so just when the rest of these people need it most, the Loon will be sitting somewhere in a dark corner drooling on himself.

    As I've said before, I've hated the fact his come-uppance has taken so long because I would like him to have the fullest mentality that is possible for him (despite having quite a lack in that area always) so that he can feel the torture we all suffered through completely.

    Very much see the fact that the media gives such standing to everything the Loon is doing by full reporting as a very high contributing factor to encouraging those who wish to see it as bravery, competence, and caring while it is mainly the opposite. Fear, disability and disgust for anyone but himself. Oh, to go back to the world of actual honest reporting. A few of my favorites:

    Walter Cronkite - David Brinkley - Tom Brokaw - Harry Reasoner - Ted Koppel - Peter Jennings

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770

    I dearly hope his seeing his name prominently on the Grand Juries list for Fani Willis is making his day in the most horrid way possible. She may get around to you yet and I hope the hell she does. The sooner, the better.

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,700

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Concern for U.S. democracy amid deep national polarization has prompted the entities supporting 13 presidential libraries dating back to Herbert Hoover to call for a
    recommitment to the country’s bedrock principles, including the rule of
    law and respecting a diversity of beliefs.

    The statement released Thursday, the first time the libraries have joined
    to make such a public declaration, said Americans have a strong interest
    in supporting democratic movements and human rights around the world
    because “free societies elsewhere contribute to our own security and
    prosperity here at home.”

    “But that interest,” it said, “is undermined when others see our own house in disarray.”

    The joint message from presidential centers, foundations and institutes
    emphasized the need for compassion, tolerance and pluralism while urging
    Americans to respect democratic institutions and uphold secure and
    accessible elections.

    The statement noted that “debate and disagreement” are central to democracy
    but also alluded to the coarsening of dialogue in the public arena
    during an era when officials and their families are receiving death threats.

    “Civility and respect in political discourse, whether in an election year or otherwise, are essential,” it said.

    Most of the living former presidents have been sparing in giving their public opinions about the state of the nation as polls show that large swaths of Republicans still believe the lies perpetuated by former President Donald Trump and his allies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

    Trump, a Republican, also has lashed out at the justice system as he faces indictments in four criminal cases, including two related to his efforts to overturn the results of his reelection loss to Joe Biden, a Democrat.

    Thursday’s statement stopped short of calling out individuals, but it still marked
    one of the most substantive acknowledgments that people associated with
    the nation’s former presidents are worried about the country’s
    trajectory.

    “I think there’s great concern about the state of our democracy at this time,”
    said Mark Updegrove, CEO of the LBJ Foundation, which supports the LBJ
    Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. “We don’t have to go much farther
    than January 6 to realize that we are in a perilous state.”

    Efforts to suppress or weaken voter turnout are of special interest to the LBJ
    Foundation, Updegrove said, given that President Lyndon Johnson
    considered his signing of the Voting Rights Act his “proudest legislative accomplishment.”

    The bipartisan statement was signed by the Hoover Presidential Foundation,
    the Roosevelt Institute, the Truman Library Institute, the John F.
    Kennedy Library Foundation, the LBJ Foundation, the Richard Nixon
    Foundation, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, the Carter
    Center, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, the
    George & Barbara Bush Foundation, the Clinton Foundation, the George
    W. Bush Presidential Center and the Obama Presidential Center. Those
    organizations all support presidential libraries created under the
    Presidential Library Act of 1955, along with the Eisenhower Foundation.

    The Eisenhower Foundation chose not to sign, and it said in a statement
    emailed to The Associated Press: “The Eisenhower Foundation has
    respectfully declined to sign this statement. It would be the first
    common statement that the presidential centers and foundations have ever
    issued as a group, but we have had no collective discussion about it,
    only an invitation to sign.”

    The foundation said each presidential entity had its own programs related to democracy.

    The push for the joint statement was spearheaded by Daniel Kramer,
    executive director of the George W. Bush Institute. Kramer said the
    former president “did see and signed off on this statement.”

    He said the effort was intended to send “a positive message reminding us
    of who we are and also reminding us that when we are in disarray, when
    we’re at loggerheads, people overseas are also looking at us and
    wondering what’s going on.” He also said it was necessary to remind
    Americans that their democracy cannot be taken for granted.

    He said the Bush Institute has hosted several events on elections,
    including one as part of a joint initiative with the other groups called
    More Perfect that featured Bill Gates, a member of the board of
    supervisors in Arizona’s Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix. The
    county, its supervisors and its elections staff have been targeted
    repeatedly by election conspiracy theorists in recent years.

    Gates and his family have been threatened by people who believe false allegations of election fraud.

    “We wanted to remind people that those who oversee our elections are our
    fellow citizens,” Kramer said. “Some of them told stories that are
    almost heartbreaking about the threats they faced.”

    He said he hoped the joint statement would generate wide support, but he
    added: “It’s hard to say whether it will or not in these polarized
    times.”

    Melissa Giller, chief marketing officer at the Ronald Reagan Foundation and
    Institute, said the decision to sign on was a quick one. The foundation
    was approached shortly after it launched a new effort, its Center on
    Public Civility in Washington, D.C. She said the statement represents
    “everything our center will stand for.”

    “We need to help put an end to the serious discord and division in our
    society,” Giller said in an emailed response. “America is experiencing a
    decline in trust, social cohesion, and personal interaction.”

    Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama who is now CEO of the Obama Foundation, said the former president supported the statement.

    “This is a moment where we could all come together and show that democracy is
    not about partisan politics,” she said. “It’s about making our country
    strong, making our country more decent, more kind, more humane.”

    Jarrett said one of the foundation’s priorities is trying to restore faith in
    the institutions that are the pillars of society. To do that has meant
    taking on disinformation and creating opportunity where “people believe
    that our democracy is on the up-and-up.”

    She said Obama has led a democracy forum and is planning another later this year in Chicago.

    “I think part of it is recognizing that we are very fragile right now,”
    Jarrett said, citing the fact that “we didn’t have a smooth orderly
    transition of power in the last election” along with people’s mistrust
    of the court system and elected officials.

    “The wheels on our democracy bus,” she said, “feel a little wobbly right now.”

  • trishyla1
    trishyla1 Member Posts: 103

    Sorry about the profanity.


  • divinemrsm
    divinemrsm Member Posts: 6,614

    Pretty funny, trishyla! Lol

  • betrayal
    betrayal Member Posts: 3,307

    No offense taken trishyla and had a good laugh.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770

    Ruth, I am in such strong agreement with your entry. As for the meme afterwards — who among us hasn't had some occasion to really let it all hang out with the truth of a clever and actually quite honest meme.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770

    OOPS

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770

    BREAKING: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis scores a huge victory as a federal judge rejects a request from Trump's former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to move his criminal charges to a federal court.Meadows was hoping to have his case moved because he likely believes that a federal jury pool would be more likely to be contaminated with MAGA supporters who might let him off the hook.The judge's rejection was a sweeping and powerful rebuttal of Meadows' desperate argument that he deserves to be tried in federal court since he supposedly was acting as a chief of staff when he committed the alleged crimes.In his 49-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Steve Jones ruled that many of the allegations were not within the scope of Meadows' official job and were instead partisan political activities."Even under the ‘quite low’ bar for federal officer removal, the Court concludes that Meadows has not met his burden to show that his criminal prosecution can be removed under the federal officer removal statute," Judge Jones stated.This ruling bodes ill for MAGA — and great for America.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770

    Not just no, but HELL no.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770

    Hope you follow suit then — all these other me too guys are dead.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770

    BREAKING: Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi announces she is running for re-election for her House seat. Smash the

    if you agree she was the best Speaker in your lifetime. Let’s ruin Kevin McCarthy’s day.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770

    Hmm, reminds me of someone — oh yah, the un-luckiest Loon.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770

    INDEED !

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770

    Looks like my brother-in-law, several of them actually.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770

    Whether it’s Mother Teresa’s acts of charity, Gandhi’s perseverance,
    or your aunt Betty’s calm demeanor, as long as you’re motivated to be
    better today than you were yesterday, it doesn’t matter who inspires you.

    Timber Hawkeye

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770

    No sh*t.

  • spookiesmom
    spookiesmom Member Posts: 8,178
  • spookiesmom
    spookiesmom Member Posts: 8,178