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2020 Election - Thread #5 - robkelk - 01-18-2021 Previous threads are previous: (And the fact that we needed more than one thread for what in previous decades was a simple matter of the citizens of the USA exercising their Constitutional right to select their own government shows just how toxic politics has become in the USA.) CBC Analysis: Impeachment will further obscure Trump's contested economic legacy Quote:President Donald Trump claimed to support the little guy against the elite. Quote:Perhaps one of the biggest flaws in Trump's economic strategy was that he chose policy based on how it would appeal to the ideology of his populist base. Sometimes things that appeal to a large number of people are simply wrong. Quote:Perhaps the biggest flaw in Trump's economic strategy is the one that he celebrated as his biggest success: his $1.5-trillion overhaul of the U.S. tax system. While claiming to speak for poorer working Americans, it has been widely recorded that Trump's financial support came from the rich who benefited from tax cuts and rising markets. RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - SilverFang01 - 01-18-2021 Rob, you were right on calling me out on the ad hominem. I apologize. But what I get from Comey's suggestions is the same kind of message we are getting from the GOP. Let's forgive and forget, which not publicly pursuing charges against him and everyone else involved will end up doing. And if we want to restore trust in our institutions we cannot do that. RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - Bob Schroeck - 01-18-2021 Meanwhile, the FBI are pursuing a woman who appears to have stolen a computer from Pelosi's office during the attack, with the intent of selling it to the Russians. Go, you valiant patriot. RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - Bob Schroeck - 01-18-2021 Trump to issue around 100 pardons and commutations tomorrow. RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - Star Ranger4 - 01-18-2021 Is it time to start singing along with Pink Floyd's "the Wall' yet? RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - Bob Schroeck - 01-18-2021 Billionaire backer feels 'deceived' by Josh Hawley over election objections RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - SilverFang01 - 01-18-2021 Armed terrorists are gathering at Michigan Capitol State Capitols, Warned of Threats, Stay on High Alert RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - Dartz - 01-18-2021 (01-18-2021, 12:07 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Trump to issue around 100 pardons and commutations tomorrow. Reopen his Twitter account for a day. That'll keep him distracted enough so he doesn't bother. RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - DHBirr - 01-18-2021 (01-18-2021, 03:03 PM)Dartz Wrote:(01-18-2021, 12:07 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Trump to issue around 100 pardons and commutations tomorrow. Perhaps it'd be better not to actually open his Twitter account ... but make him think it's been reopened, like one of those elaborate illusions the original Mission Impossible crew concocted. That way, he'd be distracted as you say, but his lies might not get out to the StormTrumpers. ----- God made me an agnostic — who are you to question His wisdom? RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - Star Ranger4 - 01-18-2021 well, pretty much ALL his secretaries have disavowed any knowledge of his actions? RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - nocarename - 01-18-2021 If I were a State AG, I'd be looking at the pardon list like a shopping list. How many federal crimes aren't state ones, after all? (Okay, crimes within DC, but otherwise.) RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - hazard - 01-18-2021 (01-18-2021, 12:05 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Meanwhile, the FBI are pursuing a woman who appears to have stolen a computer from Pelosi's office during the attack, with the intent of selling it to the Russians. Go, you valiant patriot. That sounds like an espionage charge waiting to happen. (01-18-2021, 02:15 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Billionaire backer feels 'deceived' by Josh Hawley over election objections Alternative title: Billionaire feels the same way about politician as poor people do. RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - robkelk - 01-18-2021 CBC video: What security in Washington, D.C., looks like ahead of the inauguration A "man on the street" piece - literally. There is nobody else on this particular street in downtown DC two days before the inauguration - and the reporter is outside of the security perimeter. RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - SilverFang01 - 01-19-2021 This hits the nail in the head: RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - Bob Schroeck - 01-19-2021 McConnell says -- on the record -- that Trump "and other powerful people" provoked the Capitol attack. RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - Bob Schroeck - 01-19-2021 More financial fall-out for Trump: Palm Beach County looks to end Trump golf course lease after U.S. Capitol riot And for at least one of his enablers: MyPillow’s CEO says Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohl’s stopped selling his products RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - Bob Schroeck - 01-19-2021 Republican congresscritters in trouble: Democratic lawmaker accuses Boebert of giving tours prior to insurrection GOP Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene referred to Parkland school shooting as 'false flag' event on Facebook Meanwhile the President focuses on issues of vital importance to the world: Trump ‘furious’ so many celebrities performing for Biden inauguration RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - Bob Schroeck - 01-19-2021 Financial fallout, cont'd: Charles Johnson, Giants Owner, Asks QAnon-backing Rep. Lauren Boebert for Donor Refunds RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - aku - 01-19-2021 I strongly believe that the words that can hurt you was written in direct response to the various poli-tic-ian back pedaling wrt their association with T and T's actions. RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - robkelk - 01-19-2021 12 National Guard members removed from Biden inauguration duties Ten for the usual failure to clear a FBI security check, and two for “inappropriate comments or texts”. RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - robkelk - 01-19-2021 I mentioned this three threads ago... (10-09-2020, 09:54 AM)robkelk Wrote: May as well post this here, since oil-drilling in Alaska parkland was one of the Nicknamer-in-Chief's pet projects. Well, the auction of licenses to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was held earlier this week, presumably so that the outgoing administration could take the credit for it. Of the 22 tracts offered, 10 had no bids, and 8 more only had one bidder: the Alaska Industrial Development and Industrial Authority, a state agency. Quote:The sale raised less than $15m (£11m) - far less than the government had hoped. So, this plan was a bust from any objective standard. RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - Bob Schroeck - 01-19-2021 More on the financial fallout: Lawmakers who objected to election results have been cut off from 20 of their 30 biggest corporate PAC donors RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - hazard - 01-19-2021 Time to cut off 10 of the biggest corporate PAC donors from their customers if you're in the USA. Or want the USA government to function. RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - Bob Schroeck - 01-19-2021 (01-18-2021, 12:05 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Meanwhile, the FBI are pursuing a woman who appears to have stolen a computer from Pelosi's office during the attack, with the intent of selling it to the Russians. Go, you valiant patriot. They've caught her. RE: 2020 Election - Thread #5 - Bob Schroeck - 01-19-2021 From the "Too Dumb To Live" Department: Man sends selfie from the Capitol invasion to his girlfriend's brother. Said brother is a special agent with the Secret Service. Guess what happens. |