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What do you expect on Wednesday?

Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.
- 5 (45.5%)
A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.
- 5 (45.5%)
A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.
- 0 (0%)
More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.
- 0 (0%)
A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.
- 1 (9.1%)
More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.
- 0 (0%)
DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.
- 0 (0%)
Huge disruption to the day.
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM


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Oilcandide

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #64290 on: June 05, 2022, 01:23:21 PM »
https://archive.ph/FvrkF

Woodward and Bernstein look at Nixon and Trump.  From today's WaPo.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #64291 on: June 10, 2022, 12:24:05 PM »
Maybe our supporters have the right idea. Mike Pence deserves it

Keep up the good work, Liz. 
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #64292 on: June 16, 2022, 01:35:15 PM »
MAGA MAGA what you gonna do?

What you gonna do when Justice comes for you?
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #64293 on: June 30, 2022, 10:10:32 AM »
Brittney Griner to be the subject of a  show trial in Russia, guilty verdict very likely

Brittney Griners  trial for allegedly taking hashish oil into Russia is scheduled to begin Friday. At that point it will have been 134 days since the WNBA star was taken into custody while trying to enter the country through a Moscow area airport. She faces 10 years in prison if convicted. But before the trial even begins, U.S. experts and officials say Griner will be the subject of a show trial, and a guilty verdict is almost a certainty. The entire exercise, they say, is a negotiation tactic to push the Biden administration into trading for her freedom.  Its a foregone conclusion and the trial is to uphold the state and to confirm the power of the state, says William Pomerantz, the acting director o the Wilson Centers Kennan Institute in Washington, D.C. and an expert on Russian law.  Justice is not the immediate issue.  via T J Quinn  ESPN


Under Trump this does not occur.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #64294 on: June 30, 2022, 11:00:08 AM »
Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 30, 2022, 10:10:32 AM
Brittney Griner to be the subject of a  show trial in Russia, guilty verdict very likely

Brittney Griners  trial for allegedly taking hashish oil into Russia is scheduled to begin Friday. At that point it will have been 134 days since the WNBA star was taken into custody while trying to enter the country through a Moscow area airport. She faces 10 years in prison if convicted. But before the trial even begins, U.S. experts and officials say Griner will be the subject of a show trial, and a guilty verdict is almost a certainty. The entire exercise, they say, is a negotiation tactic to push the Biden administration into trading for her freedom.  Its a foregone conclusion and the trial is to uphold the state and to confirm the power of the state, says William Pomerantz, the acting director o the Wilson Centers Kennan Institute in Washington, D.C. and an expert on Russian law.  Justice is not the immediate issue.  via T J Quinn  ESPN


Under Trump this does not occur.
Well 8n the sense that Trump was so far up Putins ass that there was no need to pressure him into doing Russian bidding. He already was.doing it.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #64295 on: June 30, 2022, 12:21:15 PM »
Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 30, 2022, 10:10:32 AM
Brittney Griner to be the subject of a  show trial in Russia, guilty verdict very likely

Under Trump this does not occur.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/world/paul-whelan-sentenced-russia-intl/index.html

As opposed to Trevor Reed, who was arrested during the Trump administration, but released under Biden:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/politics/trevor-reed-russia/index.html

Or, of course, the Trump DoJ that reduced sanctions on Russia and refused to pursue criminal charges on their interference in the 2016 election.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #64296 on: June 30, 2022, 06:01:57 PM »
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #64297 on: July 10, 2022, 09:27:10 AM »
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Bottom line, Trump is an extremely tedious dude to have had in our face for seven years and running. My former New York Times colleague David Brooks wrote it best

Weve got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic powers of the entire world are being spent trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/kevin-mccarthy-lindsey-graham-trump-devotion-2024-election/661508/
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #64298 on: July 11, 2022, 05:03:05 PM »
Presidential candidates are always declaring that  the most important election of our lifetime is at hand. In fact, this is usually true only for the person running. From here, though, 2024 does indeed resemble a genuinely fateful  time for choosing, to use the old Ronald Reagan phrase. Trump could really win. In private, pretty much every serious Republican I know would agree that this would be a terrifying outcome. But in public, of course, its still a lot of  I will support the nominee. Or, as Graham said flatly,  I hope President Trump runs again. True believer types like Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado go even further she declared recently that God himself had  anointed Trump to be president. This, admittedly, might make him tough to beat.



Good piece - thanks.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #64299 on: August 08, 2022, 10:23:21 AM »
https://archive.ph/SAi3L

...Former President Donald J. Trump told his top White House aide that he wished he had generals like the ones who had reported to Adolf Hitler, saying they were (totally loyal) to the leader of the Nazi regime, according to a forthcoming book about the 45th president....
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« Reply #64300 on: August 09, 2022, 11:43:14 PM »
Uh huh...
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #64301 on: August 14, 2022, 07:51:15 PM »
YEP

Not your ordinary President


https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/14/politics/trump-documents-mar-a-lago/index.html


Mar-a-Lago not your ordinary Pres.  residence.

 
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #64302 on: August 14, 2022, 07:58:02 PM »
Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 14, 2022, 07:51:15 PM
YEP

Not your ordinary President


https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/14/politics/trump-documents-mar-a-lago/index.html


Mar-a-Lago not your ordinary Pres.  residence.

Kid is proud of Trump's running a place that was porous for US security purposes.

We've had presidents who used private facilities, even their own places, for vacations before. They each had their challenges for the USSS - but those presidents cooperated with the Secret Service, the FBI, and the US Military in keeping US secrets secure.

For sure, not your ordinary president and because of that not a standard residential facility to protect.

Maybe if Trump had cared about the country.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #64303 on: August 15, 2022, 11:32:34 AM »
Hang him.
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« Reply #64304 on: October 03, 2022, 01:32:27 PM »
Mike Lindell's (the MyPillow guy) appeal to SCOTUS rejected.

I presume he will have a soft landing. 

The question is:  can he feather his nest with more donations from sympathetic supporters?
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