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patd
4 years ago

sturge, love it.  a fellow moojiciian perhaps?

craigcrawford
4 years ago

that’s Joe’s aviators!

blueINdallas
4 years ago

I was thinking General MacArthur

Pogo
4 years ago

MacArthur in his post military beatnik phase. 
And in other news (from WaPo, where else?)

President Dumdass’ faltering efforts to steal the election results suffered twin blows Friday, as Rethugnicans contended with multiple legal setbacks and as the final state projections in the White House race gave President-elect Joe Biden (unlikely savior of the country’s soul) a resounding 306 electoral votes.

In court, Rethugs on Friday faced losses in Michigan, Arizona and Pennsylvania, while another major law firm withdrew from its representation of the “president”.

Please excuse my ever so slight edits to reflect the realities of our current situation. WaPo tends to use unearned but politically correct references to “president “ Dumbass and his party. 

Jamie
4 years ago

Heading:  Things Sturgeone says that make me go Hmmmm?

Dating back to 14th century England, the ivy cap is a popular type of flat cap that boasts excellent function with minimalist style.  Ivy caps are generally made from wool, cotton, leather and other high-quality fabric blends. … On some ivy caps, a small snap holds the body of the cap down to the brim.

 

tony
4 years ago

Pat, loved the “cheeks” from the previous thread.

patd
4 years ago

i always heard it described as an english gentleman or roadster cap. that style has many a name according to wiki:

flat cap (sometimes “scally cap”) is a rounded cap with a small stiff brim in front, originating in Great Britain and Ireland. The hat is known in Ireland as a paddy cap, in Scotland as a bunnet, in Wales as a Dai cap, in New Zealand as a cheese-cutter, and in the United States as a driving cap. Cloths used to make the cap include wool, tweed (most common), and cotton. Less common materials may include leather, linen, or corduroy. The inside of the cap is commonly lined for comfort and warmth.

patd
4 years ago

in case you missed this latest from LP who still seem to be fighting the good fight for joe & democracy

It’s time for Republicans to put America first.

patd
4 years ago

hah, am not the only one who thinks d’ump will go the pence pardon route

here’s budowsky op ed at the hill:

[…]

First, President Trump has been defeated for reelection. The campaign is over. The results are in, and decisive. Donald Trump has lost. His chance of succeeding in being reelected through any strategy or tactic is mathematically zero.

Second, Trump will issue pardons to his immediate family and whoever else he may feel a residual loyalty to.

Third, Trump will be told by his attorneys that he has no option to pardon himself. He probably has already been told this. The worst case for Trump, both legally and politically, is that he tries to pardon himself, creates a wave of national outrage, and his pardon of himself is overturned by the courts.

Fourth, Trump will resign from the presidency before his term officially ends, and he will be pardoned by Vice President Pence, when Pence becomes president.

A presidential pardon by Pence would not offer protection from cases originating in states, but those cases will be far more manageable if they are not sunk into a morass of federal cases that only a federal pardon can protect him from. 

Fifth, while I suspect we will learn that he is not nearly as wealthy as he claims, Trump can reap extravagant financial rewards from the mother of all business deals which he could conclude shortly after he leaves office.

[continues]

patd
4 years ago

i disagree with budowsky on d’ump pardoning “whoever else he may feel a residual loyalty to” since can’t imagine him having any “loyalty” feelings.  he’ll only pardon those he thinks it’s in his best interest so that they don’t spill their guts on what they know about him.

RebelliousRenee
4 years ago

Hey…  is that Grey Poupon de Fleur…

Jamie
4 years ago

By resigning Trump would keep all the perks provided to ex presidents (pension, secret service protection etc.)

 

Not sure what Pence would get for being President for 30 days.

whskyjack
4 years ago

Here is a picture for the day and Craig this  one is roaming around in your world.
I think it is the boots that make it work. 
 

tiptoe21
4 years ago

LOL, The Lincoln Project says call my congress people and tell them …to pick America over trumpity.  This is Tejas.  Good video, though.

old man
4 years ago

Greta Thunberg Sobs in Heartbreaking ‘I Am Greta’ Scene: “It’s Such A Responsibility”

https://decider.com/2020/11/13/i-am-greta-thunberg-breakdown-scene/

patd
4 years ago

Not sure what Pence would get for being President for 30 days.

jamie, i don’t look for impotus to give him that much time as potus.  he’ll be lucky to be prez for a day.  my guess just long enough for swearing oath from clarence thomas or amy, kissing mother and signing the pardon for d’ump from all past and future federal crimes.  maybe just past midnight inauguration morning so he and mother have to handle the greet and meet at the white house later that day.

patd
4 years ago

and then there’s this scenario reported by lawandcrime 2 years ago:

We know the president has exercised and dangled his pardon power, but one thing that’s debatable is whether he can pardon himself. Nonetheless — plot twist — Vice President Mike Pence could be his only hope, according to a 1974 opinion from the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel. That would be the last year of Richard Nixon‘s presidency. The opinion was written on August 5, 1974 — four days before Nixon resigned in disgrace. That opinion stated that a president cannot pardon themselves, but they do have another option.

This opinion shows that there is theoretically a scenario where Trump could invoke the 25th Amendment to temporarily remove himself from office and be pardoned by Acting President Mike Pence and either resign or resume the duties of his office. Don’t take our word for it, take the DOJ’s:

Under the fundamental rule that no one may be a judge in his own case, the President cannot pardon himself.

If under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment the President declared that he was temporarily unable to perform the duties of the office, the Vice President would become Acting President and as such could pardon the President. Thereafter the President could either resign or resume the duties of his office.

Although as a general matter Congress cannot enact amnesty or pardoning legislation, because to do so would interfere with the pardoning power vested expressly in the President by the Constitution, it could be argued that a congressional pardon granted to the President would not interfere with the President’s pardoning power because that power does not extend to the President himself.

patd
4 years ago

patd
4 years ago

refreshing to hear again some cross-aisle civility 

the hill:

[…]

Kelly, who is expected to be sworn in sometime in December, told the Arizona Republic that he had spoken with McCain’s widow, Cindy McCain, about working in her husband’s old office.

“I mean, this is John McCain, and somebody that I looked up to when I was a 22-year-old pilot in flight school,” Kelly said. “He was the example of how you serve your country under the most challenging circumstances.”

“He was a hero of mine when I was young, and we often don’t get to meet our heroes. It’s also much less often that you eventually get to call them a friend and to be elected to his United States Senate seat, that – that’s a very big deal for me,” he added.

Kelly, a former NASA astronaut and Navy combat pilot, defeated incumbent Sen. Martha McSally (R) in a special election last week to finish the rest of McCain’s term through 2022. McSally called Kelly on Friday to concede the race.

Kelly told the Arizona Republic that the opponents spoke for five to 10 minutes.

“It was a good call,” he said. “Really very nice and positive, and we were talking about how we can best work together here over the next three to four weeks.”

[…]

Kelly is eligible to take the oath of office as soon as Arizona certifies its election results, which is scheduled for Nov. 30. He told the outlet that he expects to take office in early December.

[continues]

Jamie
4 years ago

Small possible problem with Kelly getting McCain’s office:  Who is in it now.  The incoming newbies get to pick offices but only from among those available.  Kelly would have seniority only over those never elected before simply because he would enter slightly earlier.

 

craigcrawford
4 years ago

Fox anchor Eric Shawn, somewhat shaken, responds to his show’s live B-roll of today’s MAGA rally in DC: “We just saw a very disturbing sign, it said ‘Coming for Blacks and Indians, welcome to the New World Order.'”

craigcrawford
4 years ago

Biden’s statewide PA lead just surpassed 65k.

Bink
4 years ago

Must admit coverage of the Million Moron March is hilarious.
 
If * was going to try and foment some sort of civil insurrection, the crowd was big enough to use as a springboard for that, but he went golfing, instead.
 
So, that’s encouraging. 

craigcrawford
4 years ago

Didn’t need to hear this: Washington Post’s plugged-in foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius says “One thing I’m hearing from people I take seriously is the risk of a military confrontation with Iran in the final days of the Trump Administration is real”. (MSNBC)

blueINdallas
4 years ago

Many years ago, a friend staying with me was listening to Charlton Heston speaking at an NRA convention.  He said, “You know what that’s about, right?  Fear of death.”
That’s what the MAGAts are experiencing.  Fear of death of their identity.   They don’t feel connected to the human race, at large.  Small minds, small world, small hearts who care only for themselves and their clan.  
 

blueINdallas
4 years ago

DC MAGAts aren’t wearing masks, for the most part.  Maybe they will mostly die off and that will be the end of the civil war they want to instigate.  Problem solves itself.
President Biden will get education and green jobs for the survivors and they’ll stop acting like little babies. 
 
 

Bink
4 years ago

it was overrated

this isn’t, though:

…Chappelle’s monologue from last week, dare i say “brilliant “

craigcrawford
4 years ago

Trump drove by and waved at his MAGA rally today in DC on the way to play golf. Suckers and losers they are.

old man
4 years ago

So I spent the day watching “Grit…………..  TV With Back Bone”.
First up  “Fort Apache”  . Part of the famous John Ford  trilogy .  All filmed in  the Monument Valley, and nearby .  Years ago , I thought of an idea to research where some of our famous  westerns were shot , and revisit  some of those same places where men like Ford set there cameras. 
We’ve been doing the same idea  for years with glaciers. 
I gotta think that Hollywood  kept pretty good records of just where they were shooting  all these westerns, we all used to lap up .
Like “Night of the Grizzly” with Clint Walker.  He was big and handsome , but he couldn’t act his way out of  wet paper bag. 
 

craigcrawford
4 years ago

Worth noting the daily intel briefings Trump is hiding from Biden would reveal covert ops ordered that might be really stupid and dangerous.

old man
4 years ago

Next up was “Red River” , a huge foundation stone  in the “Myth of Texas”.
John Wayne chases Montgomery Cliff  to Kansas with 9,000 cows in the background.   
I love this movie because of  Noah Berry . He got a lot of screen time , and he was  in a whole feedlot of movies .  He always wore his hat way back on his head.  Nobody else did that .  How he kept it on I’ll never know.  And always black.  It was like a medieval painting where all the important people have a gold halo,  his was black. 
He had a great open face,  and it sat right in middle of that  black hat halo.  And a voice like your favorite uncle.  You know , the wise one. 
One thing about all these ole’ westerns.  The actors got to pick their wardrobe. 
Randolf Scott  had this stained light brown jacket , and  wore the brim  on his hat  that came to almost a point. 
But the real masters of this  were Lee Marvin , Strother Martin.  They didn’t need wardrobe . 
Lee Marvin,  watch his little finger on his “gun hand” .  It’s a genius trick to catch your eye. 
Strother Martin  built an entire career on stealing scenes  from Paul Newman. 
 

old man
4 years ago

Last up  “The Train Robbers” with  Ann Margret 
Ann is at her peak in red pants , John is wearing his toupee .
It does have Ben Johnson  collecting a workman like  check .

old man
4 years ago

I was fan of Gene Pitney –

old man
4 years ago

I have a question  about where we are .
Too invest so much into one charismatic  leader , as never turned out well .  Except when that leader was working to lift people up.  Otherwise , it falls apart.  45 doesn’t have a very long shelf life ,  Given the culture he has built behind him . 
There is going to be one hell of a fight  for power in the right, the day nature  rebrands him “worm food”.  
 

blueINdallas
4 years ago

Poor worms 

old man
4 years ago

Why do we fight each other  ?
This clip explains it all  …………………  Note your blood pressure as you watch it. 
 

 
 Men love this shit . 
 

old man
4 years ago

old man
4 years ago

Blue –
Bingo !  A lot of empty  calories there. 

old man
4 years ago

Conservatives Flock To Mercer-Funded Parler; Claim Censorship On Facebook And Twitter
 
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/14/934833214/conservatives-flock-to-mercer-funded-parler-claim-censorship-on-facebook-and-twi
 
We all have heard of these guys.  They make the Koch’s look like the pope. 
 

old man
4 years ago

We are very near the point that running the world for the benefit of billionaires , ain’t workin out for us. 

old man
4 years ago

“John and I started Parler to provide a neutral platform for free speech,” Rebekah Mercer wrote on Parler on Saturday. She went on to condemn “the ever increasing tyranny and hubris of our tech overlords.”

old man
4 years ago

Army identifies five American soldiers killed in Egypt helicopter crash

Trump has never said a word about this .

More suckers and losers.

old man
4 years ago

One vote in Ga.  ………………….  Read this, this is good .
 
Tucker Carlson issues on-air apology over Georgia voter claims
 
 
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/525980-tucker-carlson-issues-on-air-apology-over-georgia-voter-claims

old man
4 years ago

I’ve been swimming in a sea of anarchy 
I’ve been living on coffee , and nicotine
 
 

old man
4 years ago

Take the bit  in your teeth ………………..

old man
4 years ago

Watch the new senator from Alabama , Tommy Tuberville,  he was a football coach ( And not very good at that )
Most bags of hammers have a better understanding  of history than this guy. 

old man
4 years ago

The # 19  continues  to grind on our  fat happy life. 
Our health care workers are at the end of their ropes.  The deniers  should work in the wards of the “hoax” , emptying bedpans , and changing cathard bags. 
 
Or digging graves  by hand. 

old man
4 years ago

What little  I saw of the crowd today  in DC.  made perfect sense. 
This thing has it’s roots  in the climate denial  movement.  Which was built on other wing nut think tank bullshit.  
The virus and the climate  denial  go hand in hand.  The latter is the spawn  of the former. 
This goes back along way. 

blueINdallas
4 years ago

OM – After today’s Nazi rally in DC, many of them will get to know the ‘rona up close and personal.  It’s just too bad that they will spread it to others.   The dumbasses don’t understand that tRUMPsky despises them.  

old man
4 years ago

Ha, Ha, ha,  …………….. 
DACA Is Restored After Court Rules DHS Head Served Illegally
Federal judge’s ruling means young immigrants who weren’t previously eligible may now apply for the first time in three years
 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-judge-invalidates-trump-administration-s-daca-rollback-11605400169

old man
4 years ago

The coup  will not be televised. 
 

Republican leaders in four critical states won by President-elect Joe Biden say they won’t participate in a legally dubious scheme to flip their state’s electors to vote for President Donald Trump. Their comments effectively shut down a half-baked plot some Republicans floated as a last chance to keep Trump in the White House.

https://www.kcci.com/article/gop-leaders-trump-electors/34676325#

blueINdallas
4 years ago

The Tik-Tokkers who screwed up the Tulsa rally for tRUMPsky are at it, again.  They are flooding the # for the MAGAt march with pics of pancakes. Ha! 

Bink
4 years ago

Future headed for corporarchy, as predicted by sci-fi writers 50-60 years, ago

old man
4 years ago

Elon Musk  tests  P .  He will not get to be  where he wants to be. 
“Life is a funny ole’ dog” 

Bink
4 years ago

How would you like to be trapped in a virology-denying Elon Musk-owned polycarbonate dome on Mars?

old man
4 years ago

Blink  –
Wrong , it’s headed for the collapse of nature , which no one ever dreamed of that long ago. 
 Except me and Neil Young.

Bink
4 years ago

Eh, people adapt🤷‍♂️

That is to say, we’ll nuke ourselves before Earth gets too hot to survive

old man
4 years ago

Bink –
You are national treasure. 

Bink
4 years ago

Finally!  i’ve tried to tell people that FOR YEARS!  Thank you❤️

old man
4 years ago

Life only adapts  if given enough time .  Otherwise it dies,  the current pace of change  is in warp drive. 

old man
4 years ago

Blink –
I suffer from the same palsy .

Bink
4 years ago

Humans are remarkably resilient, though, in the aggregate.  Individually, not so much, but very cockroach-like, in general.
 
You white American boomers got the best life this Earth can offer, it seems🤷‍♂️

blueINdallas
4 years ago

 
I’m posting this, again, cuz it’s Saturday night and Biden won.  It was called a week ago and it feels like two months, but it did happen.  
Jacob Collier is amazing and he’s about all I listen to these days. 
 


”Here Comes The Sun” …on January 20th.

Pogo
4 years ago

Old guy, a lot of Auburnites didn’t much like Toobervile when he was coach there, except for the SEC west wins and the wins over Bama. Had a great year in 2004, though. Other than that, just a decent coach. 

Bink
4 years ago

ok i will re-link to my bluetooth speaker for you, BiD

Bink
4 years ago

worth it, good cover👍

Bink
4 years ago

Have you noticed these *istanis, for all their posturing, get their asses kicked, a lot?
 
…less worried.

old man
4 years ago

Pogo 
He came here  as well  to Texas  Tech,  his chain of goose eggs  soon fallowed. 
Not hard to understand  why he ran for senate  in Alabama.  He’s halfway between a bag of  hammers, and the voting public in Alabama.  

Bink
4 years ago

Like, you see these “boogaloo” rallies, and the big bearded guys in internet-ordered tactical gear with AR-15s are scary, but they never do shit, and one of them always gets their face punched-in.  Just an observation🤷‍♂️

old man
4 years ago

Bink –
What a tonic thanks for that remake. 

Bink
4 years ago

Credit to Bid, their discovery

old man
4 years ago

George’s  enduring message.
 
https://youtu.be/eDrLTW_sesI

Bink
4 years ago

So, when i post a youtube, i get the vid in one tab, click the rightward arrow icon under the video, copy the link it generates, come here, make a short comment, post it, then edit it, then paste that copied link into the edited comment- only way i can consistently embed youtubes onto this forum.
 
Laborious, relatively, i understand.  Wordpress🤷‍♂️

old man
4 years ago

Anger, and hate  never won anything.  It only corrodes your soul, a blinds your sight, and wounds your heart. 

Bink
4 years ago

Ok, my pups are looking at me thinking “just put on a netflix show and go to bed, please”, so i will- good chattin’, peeps✌️❤️🇺🇸

old man
4 years ago

Bink –
U-tube 
Look for the second line  below  the  screen  title,  look for the arrow pointing to the word Share.  Lick that.  It’s just right of the thumbs. 

Bink
4 years ago

(i sent a heart emoji in response to a Republican male friend, recently- haven’t heard from him, since😆)
 
[it’s THAT easy- had i known!😉]

✌️ for realz😴

old man
4 years ago

old man
4 years ago

Blink –
You lay down with dogs , you get up with fleas. 

old man
4 years ago

Bink
4 years ago

They wash off🤷‍♂️

old man
4 years ago

They wash off 
 
 That’s really sweet,  clearly you never moved into an apartment with about several million living in the carpet.  

Bink
4 years ago

ok, love you, good Sir.  i could do this all night, five years, ago, but i’m old now😭😴

old man
4 years ago

Fleas –
After the Corps of Discovery  made its way out of the “Bitteroots” , and found the Columbia, they saw empty  villages  along it’s banks.  When they landed , to investigate, they found fleas.  Lot’s of fleas, 
One does not “wash them off”. 

old man
4 years ago

Blink –
Then we are are a pair of leaky old boats. 

Bink
4 years ago

Dude, i can wash anything off of anything- you just get all the molecules that aren’t off of all the molecules that are.

patd
4 years ago

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