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Post by domeplease on Dec 27, 2020 13:57:19 GMT -5
QUOTES OF THE DAY:
--"The NEW Definition for the Word COMPLICITY = The GOP.” Unknown --"Donald arrived in office on the Chaos Train and as recent events show = he will leave office on the Super Chaos Train.” Unknown
ARTICLE OF THE DAY:
--12-27-20: finance.yahoo.com/news/america-the-overprivileged-140301313.html Did you whine in 2020? Were masks too much for you? Did the coronavirus pandemic cause intolerable inconvenience?
Congratulations, American Snowflake—you can’t handle even modest adversity.
... America asks very little of its citizens these days.
There hasn’t been a military draft in 47 years and there’s no requirement or even nudge for young people to consider any kind of national service.
We have laughably low tax rates because Uncle Sam can borrow limitless amounts of money, allowing us to spend way more than we can finance on our own.
If living beyond your means is a privilege, no society has ever been more overprivileged than the United States in 2020.
In response, modern Americans ask not what they can do for their country, but what their country can do for them.
We demand that health care workers take care of us when we fail to take care of ourselves.
We ask others to bear risks so we can reap the reward.
We value vanity over courage and we raise the “freedom” flag to justify laziness and self-interest.
The coronavirus exposed our weaknesses in 2020, but it didn’t cause them. We did.
CRAZY NEWS:
--12-27-20: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-pro-trump-lawyer-called-for-republican-candidates-david-perdue-and-kelly-loeffler-to-be-arrested-as-georgias-runoff-senate-race-heats-up/ar-BB1cgrft?li=BBnbfcL A pro-Trump lawyer called for Republican candidates David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler to be arrested as Georgia's runoff Senate race heats up
L. Lin Wood, a conservative attorney and staunch Trump ally, seemed to suggest on Friday that Georgia's Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, who are running in the critical runoff race next month, should be arrested.
Wood, who has spent the last few weeks spreading debunked allegations of voter fraud, also tweeted out an outlined plan to boycott the state's Senate runoff race, telling Republicans to "break" the election by refusing to vote.
"I have received much criticism for demanding that GA fix the 11/3 fraud before we vote in 1/5 runoff," Wood tweeted on Friday. "In full disclosure, I am not a fan of any of the 4 candidates in Senate runoff. Communists or China compromised in my opinion."
BRAVO NEWS:
--12-27-20 BRAVO: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-bush-official-lashes-gop-for-supporting-delusional-and-unhinged-trump/ar-BB1cfImo?li=BBnbfcL Former Bush Official Lashes GOP For Supporting 'Delusional' And 'Unhinged' Trump.--12-27-20 BRAVO: us.yahoo.com/huffpost/pat-toomey-trump-covid-relief-162836829.html GOP Senator: Trump Will Be Remembered For 'Chaos And Misery' If COVID-19 Relief Expires --12-27-20 BRAVO: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/adam-kinzinger-rips-fellow-republicans-grifting-scam-over-trumps-push-to-overturn-election-i-really-do-worry-about-the-future-of-my-party/ar-BB1cgozR?li=BBnbfcL Adam Kinzinger Rips Fellow Republicans’ ‘Grifting Scam’ Over Trump’s Push to Overturn Election: ‘I Really Do Worry About the Future of My Party’.HATE EVENTS/POLICE EVENTS/IDIOT-STUPID EVENTS:
--12-27-20 IT NEVER ENDS: us.yahoo.com/huffpost/aaron-huffman-prince-william-county-deputy-fired-052334093.html Virginia Deputy Fired After Far-Right Calls For Violence On Social Media A Virginia sheriff’s deputy was fired Saturday after a freelance journalist linked his social media account to chilling threats against politicians and judges. One of the comments — posted on the deputy’s “WeThePeopleWarrior” profile on the right-wing social media platform Parler — called on followers to find the homes of politicians and “liberal” judges, and “remove them from their sanctuary.” “Take back your State capitals,” the post urged. “Find the homes of every Governor, mayor, attorney general, liberal judge, senator, congressman and every major media/social media CEO...find them, remove them from their sanctuary. Bring the nightmare to where they lay their heads and kiss their loved ones. Show them that they are NOT untouchable.” The deputy was identified in a local press report and by The Washington Post as Aaron Hoffman. He was exposed by Charlottesville, Virginia, freelance journalist Molly Conger, who revealed the posts in a Twitter thread. Hoffman told the Post that the account was his, but insisted he didn’t post the comments. “I did not make those posts,” Hoffman said. “I’m trying to figure out who did.” He said the comments also “disturbed” him. By Saturday afternoon all of Hoffman’s social media accounts had either been set to private or deleted. Another post from Hoffman’s account included a threat to kill anyone who touches his children to vaccinate them against COVID-19 without his consent. “Not a threat, but a promise,” the post said. The person behind the WeThePeopleWarrior account also posted that he would become “insanely violent” if anyone tried to make him wear a face mask. Additionally, there was a threatening comment about former President Barack Obama, and a suggestion that the life of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts “needs to be shortened.” Roberts has become a particular target recently of the extreme right wing because of his lack of action to overturn the 2020 presidential election. --12-27-20: us.yahoo.com/news/karen-assaults-falsely-accuses-grammy-142724876.html ‘Karen’ assaults, falsely accuses Grammy-winning father’s son of iPhone theftThe teen is the son of trumpet player Keyon Harrold, who captured the incident of the erratic woman on video; The lost phone was later returned by an Uber driver On Saturday, a white woman frantically accused a Black teen of stealing her iPhone at a New York City hotel, only to discover moments later that it was left behind in an Uber. The teen is the son of Grammy-award winning trumpet player Keyon Harrold, who captured the incident of the woman lunging at him and his son on video. In the video, posted on Harrold’s Instagram page, the unidentified woman is seen urgently telling the hotel manager that the 14-year-old had taken her phone. As the teenager said, “this is my phone,” Harrold intervened, telling him: “You don’t have to explain nothing to her.” As she continued to frantically insist that it’s her phone and asked for it to be proven that it’s not, Harrold replied: “Are you kidding me? You feel like there’s only one iPhone in the world?” Harrold, a frequent collaborator with D’Angelo, Robert Glasper, Common and Maxwell, wrote that he and his son were departing the Arlo Soho Hotel in Manhattan for breakfast when the woman appeared to say she “lost” her iPhone, accusing his son of having it, which Harrold said was “merely ridiculous.” The manager of the hotel asked to see the wallpaper on the teen’s phone, to which Harrold responded: “No! This is my son!” According to Harrold, the woman had stayed in the hotel, but checked out on Dec. 23. While the video was only one minute, Harrold said in the post that the incident lasted for over five minutes. “Now watch as the manager advocates for the lady who is not even a hotel guest, insisting and attempting to use his managerial authority to force my son to show his phone to a random lady,” Harrold posted. “He actually empowered her!!! He didn’t even consider the fact that we were actually the guests.” In the video, she can be seen continuously lunging and reaching towards Harrold as he was shielding his son from her. “She scratched me,” Harrold wrote, “she Tackled and grabbed him. He is a child!!!” Harrold posted that her iPhone was finally found when an Uber driver came to return the phone to the woman soon after the incident ended. “No apology from her after this traumatic situation to my son, not me,” Harrold stated. “No apologies from the establishment. This s— happens too often. It needs to stop!!!” --12-27-20 STUPID BE STUPID: www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/why-these-fox-news-loyalists-have-changed-the-channel-to-newsmax/ar-BB1cgyiR?li=BBnbfcL Why these Fox News loyalists have changed the channel to NewsmaxOn the morning after Election Day, Greg and Jenny Brethen, loyal viewers of Fox News who watched the channel religiously for almost 20 years, turned on their go-to morning show, “Fox & Friends,” and thought they saw something fishy. The Tennessee couple sensed that their favorite Fox personalities, weekday co-host Brian Kilmeade and weekend co-host Pete Hegseth, who appeared in a segment, were holding back. “Like they were both instructed to keep their mouth shut, that’s how I felt,” Jenny said. The previous evening, the nonpartisan Fox News Decision Desk was the first network prognosticator to call the state of Arizona for Joe Biden, a call that to some was early — but ultimately held up. On Nov. 7, the network called the election for the former vice president, although Hegseth won’t call him the president-elect and Kilmeade has qualified his presidency with an uncertain “if.” Whatever it was, Greg said the couple “felt duped.” At that moment, they decided to stop watching Fox News forever and look for an alternative. After hearing about the conservative upstart Newsmax during a pro-Trump rally, they chose to give the channel a shot. “We’re permanently switched,” Jenny, 46, said in a recent phone interview. “We’re not going back. Once you do something like that, you’re done in our book.” Jenny, who said she now watches Newsmax from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, was among the 15 longtime Fox News loyalists who spoke with The Post in depth about why they have flipped the channel to Newsmax in recent weeks and months.
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Post by domeplease on Dec 28, 2020 14:42:01 GMT -5
QUOTE/PIC OF THE DAY:
“When Donald, the vast majority of his WH Team & The GOP along with his Fringed Followers, etc. when faced with The Facts, The Truth, Reality, Reason, Common Sense, etc. THEY do THIS:
Do Me
ARTICLE OF THE DAY:--12-28-20 A MUST READ: us.yahoo.com/news/alternative-facts-witch-hunt-bigly-070007207.html Alternative facts, witch-hunt, bigly: the Trump era in 32 words and phrases. CRAZY STUPID BE STUPID CRAP:--12-28-20: us.yahoo.com/news/republicans-sue-mike-pence-desperate-173200942.html Republicans sue Mike Pence in 'desperate' last-ditch effort to overturn election Several Republicans, including Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), have resorted to suing Vice President Mike Pence as part of a "desperate" last-ditch effort to overturn the results of November's presidential election, The Hill reports. The goal of the lawsuit is to get a federal judge to rule that Pence has the exclusive authority to choose electors when he oversees the Electoral College vote certification on Jan. 6. Despite President-elect Joe Biden's victory in battleground states like Arizona and Georgia, Republican electors held their own votes earlier this month in a move to disrupt the official process as Trump and his allies continue to make unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud. The lawsuit urges Pence to recognize the Republican electoral votes rather than the actual Democratic votes in those. The chances of this lawsuit being successful appear to be negligible. University of California, Irvine, law professor Rick Hasen said flatly "this won't work," while Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis called it "insane." And even if the the plaintiffs do win, Pence — who has not recognized Biden's win, but has generally been quiet about election conspiracy theories — would still have to actually go through with picking pro-Trump electors, a task likely easier said than done. Read the full complaint here.
BRAVO TIME:
--12-28-20 YES, SHE LIES—I HAVE WATCHED HER DO SO MANY TIMES: Jake Tapper revealed Sunday that he never interviews White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on CNN because she “lies the way that most people breathe” — constantly. McEnany is among several lying White House officials Tapper said he avoids because they provide “no value” to an examination of the news. Tapper attacked McEnany’s veracity as a guest on Brian Stelter’s “Reliable Sources” for a look back on President Donald Trump’s war with the media throughout his term. Stelter asked Tapper how he decides who to interview, and how he handles false information from the White House. “There are some people that are so mendacious, I just wouldn’t put them on air,” Tapper responded. “Kayleigh McEnany, I never booked her. Jason Miller from the Trump campaign, I would never book him. These are just people who tell lies the way that most people breathe. There was no value in that.” --12-28-20: slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/12/biden-climate-change-executive-actions-administration.html 7 Ways the Biden Administration Can Combat Climate Change Without Congress Even if legislative efforts fail, the executive branch has some potent tools at its disposal. --12-28-20 BRAVO: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-york-post-editorial-board-tells-trump-its-time-to-end-the-undemocratic-coup-and-secure-his-legacy-by-helping-republicans-maintain-control-of-the-senate/ar-BB1chM7g?li=BBnb7Kz New York Post editorial board tells Trump it's time to end the 'undemocratic coup' and secure his legacy by helping Republicans maintain control of the Senate.
HATE EVENTS/POLICE EVENTS/STUPID-IDIOTIC EVENTS:
--12-28-20: us.yahoo.com/news/racial-slur-viral-video-reckoning-162721930.html A Racial Slur, a Viral Video, and a Reckoning.
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Post by domeplease on Dec 31, 2020 14:41:32 GMT -5
DO ME’S THOUGHTS:
Donald, his Team, etc. PROMISE 100 million Americans would be vaccinated by the end of December. Then that number fell to 60 million; then to 40 million; then to 20 million and the ACTUAL NUMBER vaccinated is somewhere between 2.6 million to 3.5 million. And how is Donald the IDIOT addressing & fixing this critical situation (as thousands of Americans die very day now…)??? = HE IS PLAYING GOLF and STILL WHINING ABOUT THE INVISIBLE VOTER FRAUD, STILL CLAIMING HE WON THE ELECTION, etc. INGER: Where are you—why aren’t you defending Donald as you always have? I would LOVE to hear your Spin/Defense on this ONE??? Come on INGER I want to hear you Justify Donald’s actions…!!! ***SEE ABOVE—A MUST READ—12-31-20: edition.cnn.com/2020/12/31/politics/donald-trump-covid-georgia/index.html Trump absent as vaccine distribution lags and thousands continue to die. A closing indignity on the final day of this horrendous year is that nobody actually seems to expect Donald Trump, who is still the President, to be paying much or any attention to the actual nightmare underway in the country he still leads. At 341,000 and growing, more people have died from Covid-19 in the US this year than died in battle in World War II and Vietnam combined, according to data on casualties in those wars from the Department of Veterans Affairs. There were many more noncombat deaths in those conflicts. But the point here is the country is at war with a global pandemic and the President spent the week on the golf course and tweeting about his election loss instead of trying to save Americans. It's worth mentioning, in case nobody has told him, that more than 3,700 US Covid deaths were reported Tuesday, a frightening new record that will soon be eclipsed since the country notched a record number of new hospitalizations on the same day, which was soon broken on Wednesday.
CONCERNING ARTICLE:
--12-29-20: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ex-pence-aide-turned-trump-critic-very-concerned-about-jan-6-violence/ar-BB1cjSkw?li=BBnb7Kz Ex-Pence aide turned Trump critic 'very concerned' about Jan. 6 violence.A former aide to Vice President Pence who has since become a vocal critic of the Trump administration warned Monday that she feared violence could erupt in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, when Congress will formally certify President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory.
"I'm actually very concerned that there will be violence on Jan. 6 because the president himself is encouraging it," Olivia Troye said in an appearance on MSNBC's "Deadline," shared by Mediaite.
"This is what he does. He tweets, he incites it, and he gets followers and supporters to behave in this manner, and they believe they are being patriots because they're supporting the president," she added.
Trump tweeted Sunday "See you in Washington, DC, on January 6th. Don't miss it. Information to follow!"
Troye, who served as a homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to Pence, left the administration in August and has since blasted its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Her comments come following a Washington Post report that the Hotel Harrington and Harry's Bar, both frequent gathering spots for the far-right Proud Boys group, have announced they will be closed Jan. 4-6, ahead of the potential protests.--12-29-20: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/don-lemon-says-donald-trump-and-his-allies-are-dreaming-of-a-coup/ar-BB1cjyRO?li=BBnb7Kz Don Lemon Says Donald Trump and His Allies Are 'Dreaming of a Coup'CNN host Don Lemon criticized President Donald Trump on Monday for his continued refusal to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election as Inauguration Day looms.
Lemon pointed to recent efforts by Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert, a staunch ally of the president, who is suing Vice President Mike Pence in a longshot bid to overturn the election results.
"He doesn't really care about sending $2,000 checks to desperate Americans," Lemon said. "All he cares about—absolutely all he cares about is not looking like a loser.
"But in his efforts not to look like a loser, he is looking like a loser. He's doing exactly what he doesn't want to do.
"That's why he's still pushing the delusional idea that there is some way that he could override the will of the people when Congress meets to affirm Joe Biden's win on January 6," Lemon said.
"Well the president of the United States, he's dreaming of a coup, right? That's why his minions like Congressman Louie Gohmert, that's why they're suing. They're suing the vice president of the United States right now, Mike Pence.
"Suing Pence in a ludicrous attempt to get the vice president to ignore the electoral votes from the five states that the president claims that he won.--12-31-20 WHAT IS THE LUNATIC PLANNING IF ANYTHING???: us.yahoo.com/news/trump-return-white-house-early-052429133.html No reason given for Trump cutting short his Florida vacation. HOW MANY TIMES HAS DONALD LIED???: --12-29-20: www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?utm_content=con_Tz_Politics_FactCheckerTrump&utm_medium=email&utm_source=acquisition&utm_campaign=pw_acq_con_122920 In 1,372 days, President Trump has made 26,548 false or misleading claims The Fact Checker’s ongoing database of the false or misleading claims made by President Trump since assuming office.
BRAVO TIME:
--12-29-20 BRAVO: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/michael-cohen-predicts-people-trump-pardoned-may-testify-against-him/ar-BB1ck3rk?li=BBnb7Kz Michael Cohen predicts people Trump pardoned may testify against himPresident Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen suggested Monday that recent recipients of presidential pardons may turn on Trump and be forced to testify against him due to their lack of Fifth Amendment protection. --12-29-20 BRAVO: us.yahoo.com/news/u-judge-orders-two-georgia-073653482.html (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday ordered two Georgia counties to reverse a decision removing thousands of voters from the rolls ahead of Jan. 5 runoff elections that will determine which political party controls the U.S. Senate.
The counties seemed to have improperly relied on unverified change-of-address data to invalidate registrations, the judge, Leslie Abrams Gardner, said in her order filed late on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia.--12-30-20 BRAVO: www.cnbc.com/2020/12/31/spurs-becky-hammon-just-became-the-first-woman-to-coach-an-nba-team.html Spurs’ Becky Hammon just became the first woman to coach an NBA team The assistant coach took over the San Antonio Spurs in the second quarter after coach Gregg Popovich was ejected in a 121-107 loss to LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night. Hammon took over the team’s huddles during timeouts and walked the sideline following Popovich’s ejection. Hammon was the first full-time female assistant coach in league history.
BAD VIRUS EVENTS:
--12-30-20 S TUPID & DANGEROUS: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-mexico-megachurches-fined-packed-christmas-services-governor-slams-pro-n1252564 New Mexico megachurches fined for packed Christmas services, governor slams as 'pro-virus' Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said offenders "endangered the lives, livelihoods and health of not only their parishioners but their entire communities." --12-30-20 STUPID & DANGEROUS: www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-30/activists-and-christian-singer-clash-over-maskless-outreach-on-skid-row?utm_source=sfmc_100035609&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=36886+Essential+California+12%2f31%2f20&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.latimes.com%2fcalifornia%2fstory%2f2020-12-30%2factivists-and-christian-singer-clash-over-maskless-outreach-on-skid-row&utm_id=20664&sfmc_id=3384599 Activists, Christian singer’s fans clash on skid row over COVID-19 ‘super-spreader’ concert Dozens of evangelical Christians and activists skirmished in the streets of skid row Wednesday night as controversial evangelical Christian singer Sean Feucht’s followers arrived for a homeless outreach event. Activists assembled dozens of vehicles leading into skid row to try to block Feucht, who has staged largely maskless concerts nationwide to protest COVID-19 restrictions on religious worship. The protesters worried the outreach could catalyze a coronavirus super-spreader event among skid row’s vulnerable homeless population. Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department were on hand to stop any violence, Mayor Eric Garcetti said earlier in the day. Protesters spilled out of the vehicles, chanting, “No mask, go home” and “You don’t look like Jesus. You came here to kill us.” Feucht, apparently in response, moved the outreach a block away. One maskless worshiper, wearing a T-shirt saying “Jesus is my lifeguard,” laid hands on a homeless man lying on the sidewalk, reciting “Satan, be silent. Go away.” She waved off hand sanitizer, and dashed a mask a protester had handed her to the ground and stamped on it. HATE EVENTS/POLICE EVENTS/STUPID-IDIOTIC EVENTS:
--12-29-20: edition.cnn.com/2020/12/29/us/teens-arrested-throwing-bricks-cars-trnd/index.html Four teens were arrested for allegedly throwing bricks at passing cars, severely injuring one man (CNN) Police in Massachusetts arrested four teenagers who they said threw bricks at passing cars, severely injuring one driver. Worcester Police first responded to a call of "assault with a brick" on Sunday afternoon, the department said in a statement. Officers found a man with "very serious, permanent injuries" to his face. The 37-year-old man said someone threw a brick at his vehicle, which struck his windshield and hit him in the face. The man was taken to a hospital for his injuries, though his condition is unknown, police said. While investigating the initial case, police received more calls about passengers of a red SUV chucking bricks at other cars in the area. Police discovered the SUV was stolen, and an officer spotted it on the road. The SUV sped up once police started following it and eventually stopped, and two male occupants got out and fled on foot. Two female occupants stayed in the SUV. After a brief pursuit, police arrested two boys, ages 15 and 16, and two girls, also ages 15 and 16, in connection with the brick tossing. In total, the teens struck 19 cars with bricks, police said. --12-31-20: www.huffpost.com/entry/gabriel-taye-lawsuit-allowed_n_5febc16ec5b6ff747984da4f?ncid=newsltushpmgnews Parents Of Bullied Child Who Killed Himself Can Sue Educators: Court CINCINNATI (AP) — The parents of an 8-year-old student who killed himself after being persistently bullied can move forward with a lawsuit against the Cincinnati school district that alleges wrongful death and other charges, a federal appeals panel ruled Tuesday. The three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court Appeals said Gabriel Taye’s parents had established “reckless behavior” that prevents school officials from receiving governmental immunity for their handling of the case. The lawsuit’s allegations also charge school officials with intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress and failure to report child abuse. The lawsuit says Taye was bullied at his elementary school starting in first grade, with the bullying escalating in his third grade year. Other students punched and kicked him in assaults and on Jan. 24, 2017, knocked him unconscious by throwing him against a bathroom wall, the parents say in the lawsuit. He stayed home sick the next day, returned to school Jan. 26 and was bullied again in the bathroom by students who took his water bottle and tried to flush it down the toilet, his parents say. He killed himself that evening in his bedroom. --12-30-20 WATCH VIDEO OF GOP BLOCKING $2,000 CHECKS: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-republicans-block-vote-on-dollar2000-stimulus-checks/vi-BB1cnS4c Senate Republicans block vote on $2,000 stimulus checks. --12-30-20: www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/new-video-shows-woman-tackle-teen-she-falsely-accused-of-theft/ar-BB1cnS0M?li=BBnb7Kz New video shows woman tackle teen she falsely accused of theft Police released new video late Wednesday showing a woman attacking Grammy-award winner Keyon Harrold's teenage son. The woman had falsely accused the 14-year-old of stealing her iPhone at a New York City hotel. screen-shot-2020-12-31-at-10-14-52-am.png © NYPD screen-shot-2020-12-31-at-10-14-52-am.png NYPD's chief of detectives Rodney Harrison released surveillance footage of the incident, showing the unidentified woman chasing after Keyon Harrold Jr. in the lobby of the Arlo Hotel in Manhattan on Saturday. The video shows the woman wrapping her arms around him before bringing him to the floor. Police also released a photo of her without a facemask. AND: --12-31-20: us.yahoo.com/lifestyle/police-ve-identified-file-charges-200000991.html Police Say They’ve Identified and Will File Charges Against Karen Who Attacked Black Teen on False Accusations of Phone Theft. --12-30-20 ONCE AGAIN—IT NEVER ENDS: www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/black-man-in-new-jersey-misidentified-by-facial-recognition-tech-and-falsely-jailed-lawsuit-claims/ar-BB1cklmJ?li=BBnbfcL Black man in New Jersey misidentified by facial recognition tech and falsely jailed, lawsuit claims A New Jersey man sued police and prosecutors, claiming he was wrongly arrested and jailed after facial recognition software mistakenly linked him to a hotel theft. Nijeer Parks, 33, a Black man from Paterson, said his grandmother told him on Jan. 30, 2019, that an arrest warrant had been issued for him, according to the civil lawsuit filed in Passaic County. He was accused of shoplifting from a Hampton Inn gift store in Woodbridge and then clipping a police car as he sped off. But Parks said in early 2019 that he didn't own a car and that at the time had never possessed a driver's license. Parks said he went to Woodbridge police headquarters on Feb. 5 to clear up the mistake and was arrested. "As he had previously told the clerk, plaintiff told the interrogators that [he] had never had a driver's license, that he had never owned a car, and that he had never even been in Woodbridge," according to the lawsuit by Parks' attorney, Daniel Sexton. "Plaintiff also gave ... a solid alibi that proved he could not have done what he was suspected of doing," the suit says. Parks claimed that as he sat in jail for 10 days, police and prosecutors didn't bother to check fingerprints and DNA at the scene that could have cleared him. "Defendant police department was relying solely on the faulty and illegal [facial recognition software] or some analogous program while all evidence and forensics confirmed plaintiff had no relationship to the suspect for the crimes," according to Sexton. Sexton said all charges were dropped. County prosecutors and jailers, Woodbridge police and the mayor are named as respondents. A Woodbridge spokesman declined to comment Tuesday, claiming that no one from the township had been served with the lawsuit yet. Representatives for prosecutors and jailers didn't immediately return messages seeking their response. --12-29-20 IT NEVER ENDS: www.ocregister.com/2020/12/27/oc-sheriffs-department-pays-nearly-1-million-a-year-in-salary-for-problem-deputies-to-stay-home/?utm_source=sfmc_100035609&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=36738+Essential+California+12%2f29%2f20&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ocregister.com%2f2020%2f12%2f27%2foc-sheriffs-department-pays-nearly-1-million-a-year-in-salary-for-problem-deputies-to-stay-home%2f&utm_id=20365&sfmc_id=3384599 OC Sheriff’s Department pays nearly $1 million a year in salary for problem deputies to stay home ‘That’s money that’s being awarded to people who at the very least are suspected of abusing their authority,’ says one activist. --12-31-20 IT NEVER ENDS: www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/us/nashville-bomber-anthony-warner.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20201231&instance_id=25533&nl=the-morning®i_id=98362458&segment_id=48102&te=1&user_id=f1054b3b9b989deafd744903c62d564c Critics Say Nashville Police Could Have Done More With Tip About Bomber Anthony Warner’s girlfriend told the police last year he was building bombs in his R.V. Police officials said they took their inquiry as far as they could at the time. --12-31-20: www.huffpost.com/entry/muslim-men-kicked-off-flight-alaska-airlines_n_5fe118ffc5b6e1ce8334f6d6?ncid=newsltushpmgtrackhate Muslim Men Kicked Off Flight Over Arabic Text Messages Despite being cleared by law enforcement, Abobakkr and Mohamed, two American Muslims, were prohibited from reboarding their original flight. Two Muslim men said they were unfairly targeted by Alaska Airlines for texting in Arabic, which resulted in their removal from their flight in February 2020. Abobakkr and Mohamed, two American citizens of Sudanese descent who are only being identified by their first names to protect their privacy, spoke at a virtual press conference on Monday and said their civil rights were violated when they were removed from a domestic flight. “When we traveled that day, we were not treated like the rest of the people. It made me feel little and unequal,” said Abobakkr. The latest incident is yet another example of what many Muslim and Middle Eastern passengers have described as “flying while Muslim,” a disturbing pattern of discriminatory experiences faced by passengers at airports. Since 9/11, Muslim and Arab travelers said they’ve been pulled aside for secondary screening each time they travel, asked personal questions about their religious and political views, or even kicked off a plane, all due to unwarranted ethnic and religious bias. --12-30-20: www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/woman-accused-of-refusing-to-pay-for-restaurant-food-allegedly-killed-teen-who-defended-server/ar-BB1cnSy2?li=BBnbfcL Woman Accused of Refusing to Pay for Restaurant Food Allegedly Killed Teen Who Defended Server. --12-29-20 STUPID BE STUPID: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/president-trump-may-have-violated-copyright-law-to-congratulate-himself-for-nobel-prize-he-didnt-win/ar-BB1ckbRz?li=BBnbfcL President Trump May Have Violated Copyright Law to Congratulate Himself for Nobel Prize He Didn’t Win. --12-29-20 STUPID BE STUPID: us.yahoo.com/huffpost/wilks-fracking-donors-ted-cruz-35-million-loan-coronavirus-relief-040634919.html Ted Cruz Got $35 Million For Billionaire Fracking Donors In Last COVID-19 Aid: Report.
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Post by domeplease on Jan 1, 2021 15:14:01 GMT -5
DO ME'S THOUGHTS:
--"The Shape Shifter Virus (my new term for COVID-19) just loves stupid people who do NOT Wear Masks or SD and those that INSIST on attending large crowd events. What the STUPID ONES do NOT realize is the longer the Virus continues to surge, the MORE likely it will Shape Shifter (Mutate) into a Strain so much MORE deadlier than we are facing now—all THANKS to the Idiots!!!" Do Me --"It used to be in America, that WE ALL would be concerned about others’ Lives & Health. Today we have Millions of American IDIOTS who based on their actions/lack of actions do NOT give a Crap about others’ Lives & Health—because it is their so-called RIGHT to do so. Welcome to the New America." Do Me --"Will Donald the Idiot in these last 19-Days of him holding office try something with IRAN in order to remain in office during a WAR???!!! Please do NOT put nothing past this Very Dangerous Idiot." Do Me --"As of today (BELIEVE IT OR NOT), America STILL does NOT have PPE’s for our Medical Heroes, STILL not enough Testing being done; STILL NOT enough Tracers; STILL NOT enough folks Wearing Masks, SD, Avoiding Large Crowds, etc. As our ICU are overflowing with the Infected & sadly the Dead." Do Me
ARTICLE OF THE DAY:
To the editor: A few years ago I came to understand that my biggest regrets, which always stemmed from hurting people in some way, were the result of my selfishness.
I was unaware or, more often, didn't care that getting my way inflicted pain on family, friends and strangers. Even now the shame lingers. ("'Aren't you going to help him?' L.A. hospitals serving the poor and people of color hit hardest by COVID-19," Dec. 30)
It makes me wonder how this country will process its shame in the years to come. Will the COVID-19 deniers, the maskless, the people who refused to do anything to keep others safe while hundreds of thousands of Americans died miserably — will they regret their selfishness?
Looking around the country now, it's hard to imagine a collective sense of guilt for our actions down the road. When doing the least we can — wearing a mask — is denounced as "tyranny," we are in deep, deep trouble as a nation.
Sure, we'll eventually see the end of the COVID-19 crisis. But I worry for my children that America will never recover.
SO DAMN AWFUL NEWS:
--01-01-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/pharmacist-accused-of-sabotaging-more-than-500-doses-of-covid-19-vaccine/ar-BB1coUWx?li=BBnbfcL Pharmacist Accused of Sabotaging More Than 500 Doses of COVID-19 VaccineThe new COVID-19 vaccines are out, so every little bit helps as the country tries to return to normalcy. With that said, it is as bad a time as any to learn that a Wisconsin pharmacist allegedly sabotaged more than 500 doses of the Moderna vaccine. That number goes a long way since the process per person requires two doses. --01-21-20: www.cnbc.com/2020/12/31/trump-budget-chief-refuses-to-direct-staff-to-help-with-biden-spending-plans.html Trump budget chief refuses to direct staff to help with Biden spending plans
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought pushed back on accusations of obstruction launched by President-Elect Joe Biden’s transition team. Biden earlier in the week had singled out the political leaders of the OMB and the Department of Defense for setting up “roadblocks” that hinder his efforts to prepare for the presidency. Vought said in a letter that his agency will not allow current OMB staff to write Biden’s policy proposals “to dismantle this Administration’s work.” OTHER ARTICLE:--01-01-21: edition.cnn.com/2021/01/01/politics/new-year-2021-donald-trump-joe-biden/index.html It's a new year but the politics of 2020 aren't going away
(CNN) It is officially, finally 2021. But while everyone on Earth has had enough of the year that was, Americans need to gird themselves for a bit more 2020, at least to start, as a large portion of Republican lawmakers put their names next to President Donald Trump's effort to overturn the election.
There will be 20 more days of Trump and he will be on fire.
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Post by domeplease on Jan 2, 2021 15:22:48 GMT -5
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Post by domeplease on Jan 3, 2021 17:06:09 GMT -5
DO ME’S THOUGHTS: --I always had a feeling that Inger might be related to Donald???!!!
Trump Rages Over His Own Administration's COVID-19 Death Toll: 'Fake News'. A recent study co-authored by nine scientists who work for the CDC found the actual number of COVID-19 cases as of late September was likely more than seven times higher than the official U.S. count. (The research was conducted in the scientists’ own personal capacities and was not sanctioned by the CDC.).If it Looks like a Duck, Sounds like a Duck, Walks like a Duck, Swims like a Duck then it is = A Duck OR a Inger/Donald. Sadly as hundreds of thousands of American Families MOURN the deaths of loved ones—Donald casts doubts on how their loved ones died.
MORE DO ME THOUGHTS: --Normally when America is attacked, it is from an Outside Terrorist or a Country that we are at War with.Now it is different, for today America & its Democracy is being ATTACKED by Donald, a majority of GOP and millions of Donald’s Crazed Fringed, Cult Like Followers, Hate Groups, Conspiracy Groups, etc. On top of that we have the Russians who conducted the largest ever Cyber Attack on America and Donald does NOTHING = Unbelievable, Disgusting, Vile & Evil--01-03-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-pressured-georgia-official-to-find-enough-votes-to-overturn-election/ar-BB1crhHP?li=BBnb7Kz Trump Pressured Georgia Official to ‘Find’ Enough Votes to Overturn Election--01-03-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ex-solicitor-general-says-trump-talking-like-mafia-boss-and-not-a-particularly-smart-mafia-boss/ar-BB1crmGI?li=BBnb7Kz Ex-solicitor general says Trump 'talking like mafia boss and not a particularly smart mafia boss'
Neal Katyal, who served as acting solicitor general under President Obama, compared a recording of President Trump speaking to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "the way that people in organized crime rings talk."
"I've heard the extraordinary excerpts that the Washington Post has and, at least based on those excerpts, it sounds like Donald Trump is talking like mafia boss, and not a particularly smart mafia boss at that. This is the way that people in organized crime rings talk, and you see it there," Katyal told MSNBC host Alex Witt.
"You know, maybe that works in the Soviet Union or something. It certainly hasn't been the way that America - the American government has operated."
The Washington Post on Sunday broke a story in which excerpts from a phone call between Trump and Raffensperger appeared to show the president asking the state secretary to "find" the necessary votes needed to overturn the results of the election in Georgia.
President-elect Joe Biden won Georgia, a victory that has survived recounts and efforts by Trump to overturn the result in court.
Katyal, now a Georgetown law professor, said he believed Trump's actions were "really truly an impeachable offense."
"This is, you know, the heart of what the abuse of power that our founders worried about so much is - it's, you know, the idea that the government official can use the powers of his office to try and stay in office and try and browbeat other officials that disagree with them," he said.
"So one question is whether or not a high crime and misdemeanor was committed, certainly the tape makes it sound like it has.
The second is whether or not there has been a criminal offense and the federal code 52 U.S.C. 20511 prohibits a federal official from interfering in a state election process," said Katyal.
He stated that the Department of Justice has to "at least has to open an investigation."*** MUST READ –01-02-21 BEYOND DISGUSTING—JUST VILE: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/louie-gohmert-suggests-people-go-to-the-streets-and-be-violent-after-judge-throws-out-baseless-election-suit/ar-BB1cqalU?li=BBnb7Kz Louie Gohmert Suggests People ‘Go to the Streets’ and Be ‘Violent’ After Judge Throws Out Baseless Election Suit After a judge tossed Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert’s baseless lawsuit that challenged President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, the Trump sycophant responded by suggesting that those who live in a MAGA reality should “go to the streets” and be “violent.” Gohmert made the dangerous remarks on the Trump-friendly “news” network Newsmax on Saturday morning while discussing his lawsuit against Vice President Mike Pence that U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle dismissed on Friday. More from Rolling Stone The right-wing bomb-thrower was apoplectic because the judge ruled that the plaintiffs do not have standing to sue, meaning Gohmert and his ilk did not — because they could not — demonstrate injury or harm, which is required to proceed. “The bottom line is, the court is saying, ‘We’re not going to touch this. You have no remedy’ — basically, in effect, the ruling would be that you gotta go the streets and be as violent as antifa and BLM,” Gohmert said. --01-03-21 STUPID & DANGEROUS—A HUGE LIE—BUT IDIOTS WILL LISTEN BELIEVE THIS CRAP: us.yahoo.com/huffpost/peter-navarro-mike-pence-change-inauguration-day-063150649.html Trade Adviser Peter Navarro Astoundingly Claims Inauguration Day Can Be Postponed
…The 20th Amendment of the Constitution, Section 1, very clearly states: “The terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January ... and the terms of their successors shall then begin.”
In one small aside, Navarro, whose salary is paid by American taxpayers, is not supposed to be campaigning for Trump and bashing President-elect Joe Biden’s election under the terms of the Hatch Act. He has violated the law before, but without any consequences, so is clearly unconcerned about it. BRAVO TIME:--01-03-21 SHOULD BE FINED HEAVY $$$ & PUT IN JAIL—THEY ENDANGER Others LIVES AND DO NOT GIVE A CRAP: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-florida-lawmaker-is-calling-for-mar-a-lago-to-be-fined-and-shut-down-after-video-showed-a-ballroom-packed-with-maskless-partiers-on-new-years-eve/ar-BB1cr2W8?li=BBnbfcL A Florida lawmaker is calling for Mar-a-Lago to be fined and shut down after video showed a ballroom packed with maskless partiers on New Year's Eve. --01-03-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/brad-raffensperger-to-donald-trump-what-youre-saying-is-not-true/ar-BB1cr8B2?li=BBnb7Kz Brad Raffensperger to Donald Trump: 'What you're saying is not true'Just days before the crucial Georgia runoffs that will determine control of the US Senate, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger delivered a strong message to Donald Trump as the President persists in attacking the Peach State's electoral process and the Republican leaders in charge of administering the system. "Respectfully, President Trump: What you're saying is not true. The truth will come out," Raffensperger tweeted. Raffensperger's comment was in response to a tweet Sunday morning by the President, in which Trump said he spoke to Raffensperger on the phone in an attempt to convince Raffensperger to look into unfounded conspiracy theories about the vote in November. According to Trump, Raffensperger refused to do so.
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Post by domeplease on Jan 4, 2021 16:30:49 GMT -5
FUNNY YET SAD & STUPID ARTICLE:
--01-04-2! PENCE SAID WHAT???: us.yahoo.com/news/at-georgia-rally-pence-says-america-will-hear-the-evidence-of-election-fraud-on-jan-6-193148658.html At Georgia rally, Pence says America will 'hear the evidence' of election fraud on Jan. 6
Vice President Mike Pence said Monday that the case for widespread election fraud would be made to the American people when Congress meets this week to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Trump.
“We’ve all got our doubts about the last election. I share the concerns of millions of Americans about voting irregularities,” Pence said at an indoor congregation at Rock Springs Church in Milner, Ga., in support of Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in runoff elections there.
Pence, who by law will be tasked with declaring a winner of the Electoral College vote, seemed to leave open the possibility that Trump could still remain in power for a second term.
“Come this Wednesday,” he said, referring to the impending certification of election results, “we’ll have our day in Congress. We’ll hear the evidence.”
DO ME’S THOUGHTS:
“Tequila did you read the above article?” “Yes Do Me, I did & I think Pencer MUST have a witness with solid facts…” “Who do you think the witness is and what do you think are the facts?” “Do Me, It is clear to me the witness is Inger and he will have facts about THE DEAD VOTING…” SO DAMN FUNNY—(I didn’t have the heart to tell Tequila it was Pence not Pencer.) MUST READS:
…It is true that Trump continues to deny his loss and to recklessly try to undermine his successor, President-elect Joe Biden. He may yet inflict more havoc and pain on our country and the world before he is gone, but at least this specific nightmare will end on January 20, when Biden is sworn in as the 46th President. Congratulating ourselves on the stability of our democratic foundations should not blind us to the fact that Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are inheriting a grievously wounded democracy.
It is not just that our laws and norms failed to prevent a raging demagogue from winning the presidency, enriching himself and his family, pardoning convicted murderers and perjuring sycophants, and trampling on the Constitution with quasi-dictatorial behavior.
The inability of our nation's institutions to have blocked, let alone prosecuted in the courts, such malfeasance and venality is a symptom of deeper problems that a changing of the guard, however encouraging, cannot ultimately resolve.
After all, if slightly more than 40,000 voters in three states had changed their minds — or had their ballots suppressed or thrown out — the result would have been different, creating a tie in the Electoral College that would have thrown the question of who should be President into the House of Representatives.
In that scenario, each state would only have a single vote in the House of Representatives, and it is possible and indeed probable that Trump would have been elected, thwarting the will of the majority — more than 81 million people.
It is the sort of trouble we do not need — and it stems from the absurd Electoral College, devised in the 18th century to appease slave states desperate to keep their human chattel.
This is an America where, as we have seen demonstrated in only the past few years, just a handful of Supreme Court justices, anointed by a flagrantly unrepresentative Senate, can undo the rights obtained through decades of struggle by women, patients, workers, minorities and unions — and too often contravene the rights recognized and protected by their wiser colleagues and predecessors on the high court.
We have seen how justices can allow the earth to be ravaged for profit and open the door to corporations to influence elections and legislation with enormous infusions of money.
It is an America where an indecent accumulation of wealth at the top leads to breathtaking inequality and despair in vast sectors of the population, with millions of disaffected men and women looking to some faux populist savior to rescue them.
This is an America that gerrymanders districts, disenfranchises minorities and tolerates racial hatred and anti-immigrant sentiment.
An America that, unwilling to rein in police brutality and gun violence at home, has supported dictators and autocrats abroad as part of a foreign policy that was the de facto consensus for most of our history, no matter which party was in power.--01-04-21: www.huffpost.com/entry/carl-bernstein-trump-far-worse-watergate_n_5ff232bcc5b6ec8ae0b3a50f?ri18n=true&ncid=newsltushpmgnews Carl Bernstein Says Latest Trump Tapes Are ‘Far Worse’ Than Watergate.
Audio of the president trying to persuade a Georgia official to change election results is “the ultimate smoking gun tape,” the Watergate journalist said. The leaked tapes of Donald Trump trying to pressure Georgia’s secretary of state to overturn the president’s election defeat are “far worse” than what occurred in the Watergate scandal, journalist Carl Bernstein said Sunday. Bernstein, whose reporting of the 1972 political scandal led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, said the bombshell tapes of Trump were evidence of an attempted coup. “It’s not déjà vu. This was something far worse than occurred in Watergate,” Bernstein told CNN. “We have both a criminal president of the United States in Donald Trump and a subversive president of the United States at the same time in this one person.” In audio recordings published by The Washington Post Sunday, Trump urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” exactly enough votes to overturn his loss in that state to President-elect Joe Biden in the Nov. 3 election. Trump repeatedly insisted he had won. At one point, Trump seemed to threaten legal consequences if Raffensperger did not investigate his baseless claims. “This is the ultimate smoking gun tape,” Bernstein said. “It is the tape with the evidence of what this president is willing to do to undermine the electoral system and illegally, improperly and immorally try to instigate a coup.”--01-04-21 DID THE IDIOT COMMIT MORE CRIMES ???: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/calls-mount-for-criminal-probe-of-trump-call-to-georgia-official/ar-BB1csRh9?li=BBnb7Kz Calls mount for criminal probe of Trump call to Georgia officialState and federal officials have called for investigations into whether President Trump violated election laws — or possibly committed other crimes — in his Saturday phone call to Georgia’s secretary of state. A recording of the one-hour call was released Sunday by the Washington Post. The president is heard pressuring Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, to “find 11,780 votes” that would put him in the lead over President-elect Joe Biden in Georgia, which has already certified its results. Trump also threatens Raffensperger with the possibility of criminal charges unless he comes up with the votes to overturn the election results. “You know, that’s a criminal — that’s a criminal offense. And you know, you can’t let that happen,” Trump says on the call. “That’s a big risk to you and to Ryan, your lawyer. That’s a big risk.” Criminal justice experts raised the possibility that the implied threat could constitute extortion. It was reported that since the Nov. 3 election, the White House had made 18 calls attempting to connect Trump with Raffensperger, but this was the first time the two spoke. ARTICLES OF THE DAY: --01-04-21: us.cnn.com/2021/01/04/us/father-uncle-coronavirus-deaths/index.html She lost her dad and uncle to coronavirus. Trump's claim that the virus is exaggerated is an insult, she says(CNN) Most New Year's Days, Rosa Cerna would be celebrating the birthdays of her dad and uncle -- brothers born exactly one year apart. This year, she mourned them both at a cemetery in Simi Valley, California. Visiting the graves of the brothers who died of Covid-19, Cerna said she is angry that her 73-year-old father had so much more life to live and that the death of two important men in her life could have been prevented if more people had taken it seriously, she told CNN. "Every day I live knowing that my dad passed from Covid, that my uncle passed from Covid. And some people, I don't think, understand that it could impact them the same way," she said. "They live so carelessly ... but whatever you do could affect somebody else, just like they did to them." As Cerna grieved this weekend, President Donald Trump questioned the number of cases and deaths in the US in a tweet, using the term "Fake News." He claimed the cases and deaths are "far exaggerated in the United States because of @cdcgov's ridiculous method of determination compared to other countries, many of whom report, purposely, very inaccurately and low," he wrote . Both infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci and US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams contradicted his claims Sunday, saying there was no basis for them. "It's an insult," Cerna said. "If it was fake, then my dad would be alive. My uncle ... all the rest of the people that have died would be alive." --01-04-21 BRAVO: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/10-former-defense-secretaries-military-peaceful-transfer-of-power/2021/01/03/2a23d52e-4c4d-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210104&instance_id=25616&nl=the-morning®i_id=98362458&segment_id=48286&te=1&user_id=f1054b3b9b989deafd744903c62d564cAll 10 living former defense secretaries: Involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory.
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Post by domeplease on Jan 5, 2021 17:32:08 GMT -5
EMAIL TO DO ME FROM CLOSED POLITICIAN FRIEND:
Trump is under investigation for Obstruction of Justice, Money Laundering, Campaign Finance & Tax Fraud, Mortgage Bank Fraud, Perjury, Etc. Etc. etc. in NY State, Manhattan, DC, I think also Virginia & Maryland and NOW possibly Exhortation, Election Fraud, etc. in Georgia. Even if he is not found guilty, this is what he will have to go thru, that will be on TV and on the news show/social media every day: -Perp walk to the court house every day of each court room in each jurisdiction. -Sitting in several court rooms for Days in each jurisdiction -Defending his action IF he testifies in multiple court rooms -Listening for days to witness testifying against him in each trial --Listening to as he LIES Under Oath (Perjury) --$$$$ in legal fees Millions --Folks from all Walks of LIFE on social Media –many laughing at him. --Worth it even if he is found not guilty --If guilty, appeals on going for months if not years. What do you think?
UNBELIEVABLE ARTICLES OF THE DAY:
--01-04-21: THE IDIOT DONALD ON THE PHONE CALL USED Q Anon CONSPIRACIES, ETC.:www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/in-call-to-georgias-secretary-of-state-trump-pushed-qanon-and-4chan-created-conspiracy-theories/ar-BB1csMko?li=BBnb7Kz In call to Georgia's secretary of state, Trump pushed QAnon and 4chan-created conspiracy theories
President Donald Trump catalogued a series of false conspiracy theories during an hour-long call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Saturday in which he sought to overturn the state's election results, and they were familiar to anyone following the far fringes of the internet.
Trump floated fragments of several baseless conspiracy theories that were primarily pushed by QAnon conspiracy theorists over the last two months, including a widely debunked theory about voting machines from Dominion Voting Systems.
The wide-ranging slew of theories, spawned on extremist forums like 4chan, were repeatedly referred to by Trump as “rumors” that are “trending on the internet.” He claimed they were reasons Raffensperger should “reexamine [the election] with people that want to find answers.”
And while Trump has embraced conspiracy theories for much of his tenure as president, Saturday's call offered a look at just how much he is now relying on some of the most outlandish theories from obscure corners of the internet to make his case for election fraud.
"Trump manages to distill down to a 10-minute monologue what would take the average person years to pull together,” said Joan Donovan, research director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Donovan noted that many of the baseless claims floated by the president have been embraced in recent weeks by pro-Trump media.
“Everything from fakes, forgeries, and machine hacking to collusion across parties, it's all laid out in detail with rapid fluidity,” Donovan said, noting the conspiracy theories laid out in the call “are very popular on rightwing media like Parler and Newsmax.”
Trump pushed QAnon and 4chan-created conspiracy theories in Georgia call The call offered a look at just how much Trump is now relying on some of the most outlandish theories from obscure corners of the internet to make his case for election fraud. VERY CONCERNING ARTICLES: --01-05-21: us.cnn.com/2021/01/05/politics/william-cohen-donald-trump-democracy-cnntv/index.html Ex-Defense Secretary Cohen says 'we are standing on the abyss of the destruction of our democracy'.--01-05-21: edition.cnn.com/2021/01/05/politics/donald-trump-georgia-election/index.html As Georgia votes, Trump tries to destroy America's faith in democracy.(CNN)Desperate, deluded and dangerous, President Donald Trump drove America deeper into a political abyss on Monday night in his zeal to steal an election he lost and to destroy faith in the democracy that fairly ejected him from office.
The President spewed lies, conspiracy theories and nonsensically false claims of vote fraud before an angry crowd in Georgia on a trip scheduled to help two Republicans in toss up run-offs Tuesday set to seal the Senate balance of power.
But as usual, and as it has been for the last four years, including during the fast-worsening pandemic that he ignored, the outgoing President's primary concern was himself.
"By the way, there is no way we lost Georgia, that was a rigged election," Trump said in the first, inaccurate words out of his mouth after disembarking from his Marine One helicopter, before broadening his disinformation to the November 3 election as a whole.
"When you win in a landslide and they steal it and it's rigged, it is not acceptable," Trump said in an embittered screed, rooted in false claims that he prevailed in an election President-elect Joe Biden won 306-232 in the Electoral College. Trump White House
Though he often wove GOP Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue into his remarks -- and warned of the dangers of a Democratic monopoly of power in Washington if they lost -- the President's appearance was essentially a wild, on-stage prime-time TV version of Saturday's call in which he leaned on Georgia state officials to conjure votes out of thin air in order to discredit Biden's already certified Peach State victory -- a flagrant and possibly unlawful abuse of power.
The President's rants on Monday night contrasted sharply with the stunning point-by-point denunciation of his case by a top GOP election official who used facts and evidence to dismiss false claims of electoral corruption.
"This is all easily, provably false. Yet the President persists," Gabriel Sterling, the voting systems implementation manager for the Georgia secretary of state's office, said in a calm, reasoned news conference on Monday.
Trump created a nightmarish picture of a ranting, demagogic commander-in-chief, wallowing in fantasies of the political fringe -- a frightening prospect since he retains the awesome powers of the presidency for another 15 days.
But he failed to explain how exactly he planned to overturn the constitutional process that will make Biden president, an omission that will bolster the impression he's doing everything he can to tear down America's faith in democracy in a final act of revenge.--01-05-21: us.cnn.com/2021/01/04/politics/georgia-hancock-county-right-to-vote-senate/index.html In majority-Black Georgia county, voting in Senate runoffs is more about fight to vote than right to vote. BRAVO NEWS:--01-05-21: us.yahoo.com/news/georgia-election-official-trump-call-211925396.html Georgia election official on Trump call: ‘Nobody I know who would be president would do something like that’.--01-05-21: us.yahoo.com/entertainment/fox-friends-says-trump-courts-192441299.html ‘Fox and Friends’ Says Trump Courts ‘Anarchy’ With Call for Election Protests: ‘There Is No Proof’ of Fraud
The hosts of Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” said Monday that outgoing president Donald Trump is courting “anarchy” with his call for post-election protests.
--01-05-21: us.cnn.com/2021/01/04/opinions/raffensperger-courage-axelrod/index.htmlThe courage of Brad Raffensperger(CNN)The hour-long recording of the President of the United States, defeated and desperate, begging Georgia's secretary of state over the phone to "find" him enough votes to overturn the election results there was appalling. But surprising? After four years of Donald Trump's blatant assault on democratic institutions rules, norms and laws, anyone who is shocked by this latest outrage simply hasn't been paying attention. It was only a year ago that Trump was impeached for a similar attempt to strong-arm the president of Ukraine. No, what was remarkable about the whole, surreal and sordid conversation was not Trump's recycling of debunked conspiracy theories nor his insistent claim, against all evidence, that he had won the state by "hundreds of thousands of votes." It wasn't hearing the President sounding like a mafia don. It was the calm and steadfast way Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his attorney, Ryan Germany, firmly rebuffed him. After patiently listening to and rebutting each of Trump's bizarre diatribes about supposedly rigged machines, dead voters, shredded ballots and other social media-driven drivel, Raffensperger cut to the chase: "Well, Mr. President," he said, in even tones, "the challenge that you have is, the data you have is wrong." --01-05-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/george-will-rips-ted-cruz-and-josh-hawleys-senate-gang-constitutions-most-dangerous-domestic-enemies/ar-BB1cuB1K?li=BBnbfcL George Will Rips Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley's Senate Gang: 'Constitution's Most Dangerous Domestic Enemies'
Conservative columnist George Will has had enough of Republican senators' behavior, calling Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley "the Constitution's most dangerous domestic enemies" in a new Washington Post op-ed.
The piece, published Monday, tears into Cruz, Hawley "and their Senate cohort" for "fueling the doubts of a large majority of Republicans about the legitimacy of the 2020 election."--01-05-21: us.cnn.com/2021/01/05/politics/montana-steve-daines-electoral-college/index.html This editorial absolutely crushes a Republican senator for objecting to the Electoral College results(CNN) On Saturday, Montana Sen. Steve Daines was one of 11 Republicans who announced their plans to object to the Electoral College results during Wednesday's bicameral session of Congress. Twenty-four hours later, the largest newspaper in his state absolutely eviscerated that decision. "We believe this entire episode to be one of the saddest in our country's political history," wrote the Billings Gazette editorial board in an editorial published Sunday. "How unfortunate that you decided to play a leading role -- in support of the insupportable. ... This action, Senator, is political garbage disguised as statesmanship. It is beneath your office and should be beneath you." Which is, well, tough. And while it won't change Daines' mind -- editorial boards have increasingly limited power to persuade either a politician or the public -- it's worth examining why the Gazette is so disappointed in Daines. The key point of the editorial is that Daines (and the other Republican senators -- including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz -- who plan to object to the results) are basing their opposition to the Electoral College count not on hard evidence but on, as Paul Simon would say, "hints and allegations." As the Gazette editorial board wrote: "The President and a few of his allies repeating endlessly his contentions of fraud with no evidence to back it up does not itself constitute evidence of anything. Now, the senators involved are using the 'allegations' in place of evidence." --01-05-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/give-me-one-example-cnns-sciutto-repeatedly-nails-gop-rep-claiming-evidence-of-voter-fraud/ar-BB1cuy2P?li=BBnbfcL ‘Give Me One Example’: CNN’s Sciutto Repeatedly Nails GOP Rep Claiming Evidence of Voter Fraud.--01-05-21: us.yahoo.com/news/adam-kinzinger-skullduggery-trump-vote-electoral-college-005358976.html GOP congressman suggests he regrets his vote for Trump WASHINGTON — Describing President Trump’s phone call with Georgia’s top election official as “frightening,” an Illinois Republican congressman suggested that he now regrets his vote for the president and might even be open to a third party if his GOP colleagues continue to echo baseless conspiracy claims about a stolen election.
In an interview with Yahoo News’ “Skullduggery” podcast, Rep. Adam Kinzinger also said he is worried about the prospects for violence around the Capitol on Wednesday, when tens of thousands of Trump supporters are expected to show up for protests aimed at pressuring lawmakers to block Joe Biden’s election. Those protesters, he said, have been victimized by a “scam” perpetrated by Trump.
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Post by domeplease on Jan 6, 2021 10:29:17 GMT -5
GREAT, GREAT, GREAT NEWS:--01-06-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-flip-the-senate-in-a-devastating-blow-to-trump-and-republicans/ar-BB1cvD4l?li=BBnb7Kz Democrats flip the Senate in a devastating blow to Trump and Republicans
The Democratic Party has regained control of the Senate, according to projected results from two critical runoff elections in Georgia. The Senate currently consists of 51 Republicans, 46 Democrats, and two Independents who caucus with the Democratic Party. Since Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock won their respective runoffs for Georgia Senate seats, the party will have 50 Senate seats and effective control of the upper chamber because Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will hold the tie-breaking vote.PIC OF THE DAY:
INGER JUMP OFF THE CRAZY TRAIN--IT IS OVER!!! Apply for a REFUND of your Time/$$$.
--01-06-21 SEE ABOVE PIC: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trumps-enablers-are-jumping-off-the-crazy-train-on-new-york-daily-news-cover/ar-BB1cvNf4?li=BBnbfcL Donald Trump's Enablers Are 'Jumping Off The Crazy Train' On New York Daily News Cover It’s the final stop for the Trump train. The New York Daily News on Wednesday used a damning cover to mark the imminent end of President Donald Trump’s “off-the-rails reign.”TEQUILA’S THOUGHTS:“Do Me, Do Me I have some exciting but troubling News…” “What is it Tequila?” “I just heard Satan’s Voice; I did, I did… I swear I did.” “Tequila do not get mad at me, but I do not believe you…” “I can prove it just listen to this: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-transcript-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/2768e0cc-4ddd-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html?utm_content=con_Tx_politics_gacallaudio&utm_medium=email&utm_source=acquisition&utm_campaign=pw_acq_con_010521 .” “Tequila that was Donald speaking to Georgia Election Officials where he threatens them & committed Election Fraud, etc.…and now that I think about it, being Donald I guess you are RIGHT, it was Satan's Voice!!!” CONCERNING ARTICLES/VIDEOS:--01-06-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-signals-extremist-supporters-with-martial-law-talk-promises-wild-dc-protest/vi-BB1cvYc3 Rachel Maddow reports on Donald Trump entertaining the idea of imposing martial law to keep himself in power and his calls for supporters to participate in a--01-06-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-allies-hope-wednesdays-drama-will-be-his-last-stand-%e2%80%94-but-no-one-knows-whats-next/ar-BB1cvSW2?li=BBnbfcL T rump allies hope Wednesday's drama will be his last stand — but no one knows what's next.
--01-06-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-house-task-force-give-extra-vaccine-away-to-anyone-who-wants-it/ar-BB1cvmFp?li=BBnb7Kz White House Task Force: Give Extra Vaccine Away to Anyone Who Wants It
The plan is already in motion, federal officials already talking to states about it. If further enacted, could upend months of debate and strategizing about who should get the vaccine first.
But officials argue that this first-come, first-served approach may be one of the only ways to ensure that millions of vaccine doses don’t expire on the shelf. So far, 24 million doses have been allocated to states, with roughly 28 percent of those doses administered.
President Donald Trump at one point said there would be 100 million doses prepared by the end of 2020. More recently, officials said they would have 20 million doses administered by then.
That didn’t happen. In mid-December states began to report a range of issues—deliveries of doses delayed, vaccination reporting systems shutting down. And as the New Year rolled by, the administration had still not reached its target.
While administration officials, citing everything from production and quality control sluggishness to allocation scheduling conflicts, have admitted there was a slight lag in getting the first batches out to states, they have repeatedly told their local counterparts that distribution would soon get back on track. Internally, though, federal officials in recent days have begun to worry that there are issues at every step in the supply chain that could further slow the vaccination rate.
A surprising number of healthcare and frontline workers haven’t shown up for their vaccinations or are refusing to get them. (According to a Los Angeles Times report, one hospital in northern California has vaccinated less than half of its staff.) Refrigerators have broken, spoiling dozens of doses. And states have struggled to find enough individuals to administer the vaccines.--01-06-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/michael-cohen-thinks-trump-has-actually-deluded-himself-into-believing-he-won-the-election/ar-BB1cuXQM?li=BBnbfcL Michael Cohen Thinks Trump Has Actually Deluded Himself Into Believing He Won the Election. BRAVO NEWS:
'The US isn't an option anymore': why California's immigrants are heading back to Mexico
Years of anti-immigrant policies from the Trump administration have been magnified by insecurities resulting from the pandemic
California’s most vulnerable immigrants have faced unprecedented challenges this year, with some weighing whether it’s worth staying in the United States altogether.
Ten months of a pandemic that has disproportionately sickened immigrants and devastated some of the industries that rely on immigrant labor, combined with years of anti-immigrant policies by the Trump administration have exacerbated insecurities for undocumented people and immigrants working low-wage jobs across California.
For immigrants at the bottom of the economic ladder, it’s never been easy in the US, said Luz Gallegos, the executive director of the immigrant advocacy group Training Occupational Development Educating Communities Legal Center (Todec).
“But California was also always a place where my family – my parents and grandparents – believed they could build a better life,” said Gallegos who was born into a family of immigrant activists and organizers. “It was always a place with potential.”
Until this year.
“There’s been so much fear and trauma – just layers of trauma,” she said.--01-06-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-turn-on-trump-after-georgia-loss/ar-BB1cvW6D?li=BBnbfcL Republicans turn on Trump after Georgia loss.--01-06-21: www.yahoo.com/news/trump-blasts-nieces-conspiracy-theories-173034320.html Trump blasts niece's 'conspiracy theories' as he seeks fraud lawsuit's dismissalNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit claiming he defrauded his niece out of an inheritance worth tens of millions of dollars, accusing her of embracing "conspiracy theories" in her quest to consume him with lawsuits after he leaves the White House. --01-05-21 FLEE BUT THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW WILL NAB YOU: us.yahoo.com/news/speculation-grows-donald-trump-may-223656042.html Speculation grows that Donald Trump may fly to Scotland on eve of Joe Biden's inauguration Nicola Sturgeon yesterday warned Donald Trump that any visit to Scotland would violate coronavirus rules, after it was reported the president may be planning to flee the US ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration. The First Minister of Scotland said although she hoped and expected “that the immediate travel plan he has is to exit the White House," but that "coming to play golf is not what I would consider an essential purpose (for travel).” Prestwick Airport, near the president’s Turnberry golf resort in Ayrshire, is said to have been told to expect the arrival of a US military Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier which has been used by Mr Trump, on January 19 – the day before Mr Biden takes over. The president-elect is set to be sworn into office in a ceremony at the White House on January 20. While it is customary for the outgoing president to attend, reports suggest Mr Trump will snub the event. Mr Trump has refused to concede defeat in the November 3 election to Mr Biden, claiming without evidence that there was widespread fraud. A source at Prestwick airport, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Scottish Sunday Post: “There is a booking for an American military version of the Boeing 757 on January 19, the day before the inauguration. “That’s one that’s normally used by the Vice-President but often used by the First Lady. Presidential flights tend to get booked far in advance, because of the work that has to be done around it.” THE NUT CASES & CRAZY NEWS:--01-06-21: www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/this-is-the-conspiracy-theory-that-prompted-a-pharmacist-to-destroy-500-covid-19-doses/ar-BB1cv033?li=BBnbfcL A Wisconsin pharmacist named Steven Brandenburg purposefully tried to destroy more than 500 coronavirus doses in late December. Brandenburg, an admitted conspiracy theorist, worried that the coronavirus vaccine could change a person’s DNA.
***--01-06-21: www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tucker-carlson-attacks-juneteenth-george-064819211.html Tucker Carlson attacks Juneteenth, George Floyd and Mitch McConnell in racially charged diatribeOn Tucker Carlson Tonight Tuesday, while discussing race and racism in America, Carlson attacked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, George Floyd, Mitt Romney and Juneteenth. Carlson castigated McConnell for comments he’d made about George Floyd’s death while in police custody. Carlson also showed utter contempt for Floyd before moving on to repeat his attacks on Romney from last summer after the Utah Republican marched with Black Lives Matter protesters. “The Republican leader in the senate, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, didn’t bother holding hearings on election integrity or mail-in balloting, that might’ve been nice,” Carlson said. “No. Instead McConnell was busy attacking police officers and eulogizing George Floyd. Remember him? Saint George, the convicted violent felon who apparently died of a drug O.D., a fentanyl O.D. in Minneapolis? Big conservative that Mitch McConnell. Defender of America! Then there’s Senator Mitt Romney of Utah. He was on the street mouthing BLM slogans on camera. Kind of his Jane Fonda moment.” Carlson then turned his attention to Juneteenth, a day commemorating June 19, 1865, the day the last slaves found out they were free. Juneteenth held a special significance last year as it came at a time when much of the country was embroiled in civil unrest over racial inequalities. “At the same time, two Republican senators who should have known better called for replacing Columbus Day, the day that celebrates the discovery of this country, with something called Juneteenth,” Carlson said. “Not a terrible anniversary or anything, but no one had heard of it just last year, and everyone’s, of course, already forgotten about it.” --01-06-21: us.yahoo.com/entertainment/eric-trump-warns-gop-officials-072147914.html Eric Trump warns GOP officials who don’t fight electoral college results: ‘Their political career is over President Donald Trump’s son, Eric Trump, believes his father will remain in office for another term even though the electoral college already confirmed Joe Biden defeated him in the November elections. On “Hannity” Tuesday night, Eric had a warning for any GOP officials who do not kowtow to his father’s demands to overturn the results during the January 6th certification process. “Any senator or any congressman that does not, meaning on this side, that does not fight tomorrow, I'm telling you, their political career is over,” said Eric. “They will get primaried next time around and they will lose if they don't stand up and show some backbone and show some conviction.” he added. --01-06-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fox-news-host-claims-entire-society-is-rigged-after-trump-election-lawsuits-fail/ar-BB1cvaoE?li=BBnbfcL Fox News Host Claims 'Entire Society Is Rigged' After Trump Election Lawsuits Fail.
HATE EVENTS/POLICE EVENTS/ IDIOTIC-STUPID EVENTS:
--01-05-21: www.huffpost.com/entry/medal-of-freedom-devin-nunes_n_5ff2a0f5c5b61817a5379cce?ncid=newsltushpmgpolitics Trump To Award Devin Nunes, Top Russia Probe Critic, Presidential Medal Of Freedom The president is also expected to award the medal, the country’s highest civilian honor, to another political ally: GOP Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio. --01-05-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rep-chip-roy-if-democrats-control-senate-country-will-face-full-scale-hot-conflict/vi-BB1ctrLW Rep. Chip Roy: If Democrats control Senate, country will face 'full-scale hot conflict'. --01-05-21: slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/proud-boys-leader-arrested-charged-burning-church-black-lives-matter-banner.html Proud Boys Leader Arrested and Charged With Burning D.C. Church’s Black Lives Matter Banner
Police in Washington, D.C., arrested the leader of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys on Monday afternoon in connection with last month’s burning of a Black Lives Matter banner taken from a historic Black church in the city. Authorities apprehended Enrique Tarrio, who lives in Miami, when he entered the city ahead of Wednesday’s scheduled rally among fellow far-right advocates of overturning the 2020 election in an effort to keep President Donald Trump in office. While the charge of destruction of property is a misdemeanor, prosecutors are also investigating whether actions of the 36-year-old Tarrio and the Proud Boys—a white nationalist, male-chauvinist organization—constitute a hate crime, which would carry additional penalties. --01-06-21 IT NEVER ENDS: www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jacob-blake-shooting-officer-who-shot-jacob-blake-will-not-face-charges-district-attorney-says/ar-BB1ctUZs?li=BBnbfcL Jacob Blake shooting: Officer who shot Jacob Blake will not face charges, district attorney says. --01-05-21: www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-19-stigma-dangerous_l_5fe0ed0cc5b6a7df6666f1f2?ncid=newsltushpmgpolitics COVID-19 Stigma Is Becoming The Norm — And That's Extremely Dangerous Experts explain why we shame some health issues like HIV and obesity, and why they're worried the coronavirus is getting a similar treatment.
Stigmatizing diseases does a major disservice to public health efforts. Here's how that's playing out with COVID-19.
It’s safe to say that shame and stigma have run rampant throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
People are judged for their choices, whether it’s playing it too safe or engaging in social behaviors. Those associated with COVID-19 are more frequently being hit with a painful stigma: There have been anecdotes about being ghosted by friends after getting sick, hate crimes and racist rhetoric directed toward Asian Americans and some reports about people losing their jobs after contracting the virus.
Shaming isn’t unique to COVID-19. We’ve seen this play out before with other epidemics — mainly with HIV ― but also with more common health issues like smoking, substance use and obesity.--01-05-21: TRUTH OR DARE (LIES???): us.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-scottish-golf-resorts-61-million-loss-133706852.html Losses At Trump's Scottish Golf Courses Top An Astonishing $75 Million.
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Post by chiyankee on Jan 6, 2021 15:21:39 GMT -5
Why is this being allowed to happen?
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Post by inger on Jan 6, 2021 16:10:58 GMT -5
Why is this being allowed to happen? I guess he’s swinging there peacefully? I can’t figure out why the riots were allowed last summer, so how can I figure this one out?... Life in the US has become bizarre...
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Post by kaybli on Jan 6, 2021 16:36:51 GMT -5
This is all Trump's doing. How anyone supports this lunatic is beyond me.
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Post by chiyankee on Jan 6, 2021 17:15:38 GMT -5
Why is this being allowed to happen? I guess he’s swinging there peacefully? I can’t figure out why the riots were allowed last summer, so how can I figure this one out?... Life in the US has become bizarre... Yeah, at least they didn't go loot the local Target or Walmart.
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Post by chiyankee on Jan 6, 2021 17:16:02 GMT -5
This is all Trump's doing. How anyone supports this lunatic is beyond me. What's he have left, two weeks?
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Post by kaybli on Jan 6, 2021 17:17:07 GMT -5
This is all Trump's doing. How anyone supports this lunatic is beyond me. What's he have left, two weeks? For the love of God, just invoke the 25th amendment and get him out of there today before anymore damage is done.
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