Ex president in exile in Florida, Donald what’s his name, refuses to testify in what his spokesman Jason Miller terms as the the unconstitutional impeachment trial against him in the Senate. Heck, he could at least come in and plead the fifth.
“The President will not testify in an unconstitutional proceeding,” Trump spokesman Jason Miller said.
The statement from Miller came shortly after Trump’s defense team responded to a call from Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.) for the former president to testify and accused Democrats of waging a “public relations stunt.”
“As you certainly know, there is no such thing as a negative interference in this unconstitutional proceeding,” Trump lawyers Bruce L. Castor Jr. and David Schoen said in a letter to Raskin. “Your letter only confirms what is known to everyone: you cannot prove your allegations against the 45th President of the United States, who is now a private citizen.”
While Castor and Schoen did not explicitly say in their letter that Trump will not testify, they were dismissive of Democrats’ efforts.
“The use of our Constitution to bring a purported impeachment proceeding is much too serious to try to play these games,” they said.
Coulda been a good show.
cnn back in 2018:
and from needtoimpeach:
loved the official statement from SAG-AFTRA* yesterday:
*The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is an American labor union representing approximately 160,000 film and television actors, journalists,
BTW, on his letter to SAG is his new questionable legal use of US seal
from IBtimes:
lincoln project had this to say about that:
@ProjectLincoln
Of course this is real.
3:34 PM Feb. 4, 2021
from meaaw:
Is Donald Trump still using Presidential Seal? Letterhead slammed as ‘illegal’ but here’s why it’s not a crime
This morning I had the pleasure of watching C-SPAN2 of the Senate with Madam Vice-President President (of the Senate) providing the final vote to defeat a gqp amend ment to the COVID-19 Relief and then to pass the COVID-19 Relief which is going to end up on President Biden’s desk next week.
This proceeding was so different from the past six years during which the gqp only passed far right people, not real judges in many cases, to federal judiciary positions and continuing resolutions. The gqp did not vote for it, a nice thing for future elections “you were starving on the street after being evicted, and the Dems came to feed you and get you warmed up”
Horsey oped cartoon in seattle times:
Long overdue reality check | Horsey cartoon
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s diagnosis of GOP cancer comes too late.
BB, thanks for the good news. here’s what CNBC has to say about it:
As the cycling season ramps up the UCI is banning the super tuck. Not all riders use it so this affects just a few of them. One change coming up next year is to make the barriers safer. Many riders have been hurt slamming into those or riding over the feet holding them up. Yes folks, an esoteric talk about a most niche, for America, sport. Bicycle racing.
Being a no-show is tantamount to pleading the Fifth Amendment. If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, but refuses to quack, it’s still a guilty duck.
patD – The resolution on that pic/my phone isn’t clear. Is the eagle on the seal facing the olive branch or arrows? If it’s facing the arrows, his followers would see it as a signal to war.
No super tuck? The cyclists who blast down mountains on the ragged edge won’t like that. Yes, improve the barriers – safety equipment that causes accidents probably should be improved.
With a day to reflect on it I still think MTGQ’s speech yesterday was just ridiculous.
all that’s happened and Trump still hasn’t had to testify in person under oath about anything
rachel talks about the seemingly misuse of the term “president” when it comes to the FORMER prez in his defense lawyers’ letters and re his testifying which she also addresses.
do wish the media would either refer to him by his name only or use “former”
Thoughts on what happens to the cult members if SFB goes room temperature from a heart attack or stroke. Cult members make him a martyr and conspiracy kookiness goes bezerky. The rest of the world throws a party. gqp ends up in the dumpster and a new party calling themselves the something else party. The rest of the world throws a party.
BB…..took the thoughts right outa my skull, but I was thinking of the prevailing notion among the True Believers that it was nefarious foul play from the Dip Stet, and baby eating Democrians. Kinda like they tried to do with Scalia, but given the scene of his demise, were helpless to accomplish in that regard.
Michael Beschloss has been doing a kind of fanciful bit of twitter writing about the weird desolate hermit fellow hiding away in south florida……kinda funny.
The way i sees it, he did finally acheive full-on Drooling Marius, but was rendered helpless by the institutions and thereby was unable to prosecute and lay waste to his myriad enemies (I KNOW Rudy did…..lol.) Had he succeeded, there would have been blood in the streets, and heads on pikes.
Is there a spectacle more deranged than that video of K. Gill-foiled dancing before the television as the insurrection was underway?
It becomes more grotesque and macabre with each passing day.
Aren’t so many of these voting bills going to impact their own voters as well as the regular humans?
They may have voted for that mean-girl wanna be, but they’re going to avoid her dumb ass just like everybody else will. To them it’s not WHAT you believe, but HOW you go about believing it.
First AP poll of the Biden administration shows the new president with a 61% approval rating. https://t.co/qZhdJLYWDZ
Gee… and everyone thought that once Joe Biden was sworn into office that things would get boring… myself included. Rick Wilson’s… Everything Trump Touches Dies… was an eye opener. So far…. our nation… and our democracy… (thankfully to voters and the courts) are holding. But the gqp…. not so much. IMO, it’ll take a few years before this stuff shakes out. But I firmly believe in this country… it will shake out…. this too shall pass.
But in the meantime… I’ve come around to Craig’s position…. sit back… get out the popcorn… and enjoy the show!
RR – I think the Biden administration is going far beyond anything I imagined. But, within what I hoped for. How many people remember the Puerto Rico aid being sidelined? I had forgotten about it, but it was definitely on somebody’s list to take care of, and immediately. So many things have been going on during these last two weeks that many are very surprised, like me. And happy about it.
So proud of Uncle Joe. His fixing the mess.
Hey, that approval rating for Joe is only 14 points above Dumbass’ highest approval level at 47.1% that he hit on exactly 1 occasion in 4 years.
And as a fitting tribute to Dumbass’ mismanagement of the pandemic and economy, the economy added only 49,000 jobs in January – tepid at best.
And from NYT:
Aren’t we happy Joe and Kamala won?
Pogo…. what’s really important is that there will be republican voters who will be really happy when they see those checks in their mailboxes/accounts.
Renee, you are exactly right. Be interesting to see if it changes any minds in 2022. As the saying goes, Money talks and bullshit walks.
RIP to Christopher Plummer
Still hoping for that lightning strike as he golfs, so it’s public…and it looks like a thunderbolt from the almighty took him down, you know, for the ‘vangelicals. The borg collective must be completely separated from their master. However, space abhors a vacuum, so some other con artist will start scamming them. Junior or Ivanker, most likely.
Can we go to a 25-letter alphabet, to completely rid ourselves of the Q?
I just got word…….Q has seceded from the Alphabet.
Looks like we are beginning to see the vast difference between the Dumbass “talk a good game” administration and the Biden “work the problem” administration. From WaPo:
Doing something to make things happen – what a concept.
If you’re black or brown, they are the “Law and Order Party”- if you’re white, they are the “Aw C’Mon, Everybody Makes Mistakes, Let’s Forgive and Forget Party”
Watched MTG commentary about her lost of committee seats. For a supposed “good Christian” woman she does an excellent imitation of a whiny, vicious bitch.
whine and sleaze party
Bernie meme, we have a winner.
OMG…. Craig. I thought that I’d had enough with Bernie memes… but that was tooooooo funny!
Why is he starting wildfires with a menorah? i don’t get it🤷♂️
is it a bird? is it a plane? no, it’s SuperNancy!
wapo:
Bink
If you really did miss it, the great Q promulgated that the California wild fires were started by lasers from space controlled by the Rothschilds and other nefarious Jewish entities.
It was Bernies turn to sing “Light My Fire”.
Ah- thank you. i waded out of the online loony pool, years, ago- there’s only room in this noggin for so much bullshit. So yes, i did miss that particular contrivance.
I used to hear shitloads of stuff about the Rothschilds, the illuminati, the knights of something or other, the masons, the Templars? All kinds of weird shit from way over there on the outskirts of out-there Land…….Don’t hear so much any more……mostly it’s just new cabinet innovations or something Bob Dylan may or may not have said to Ed Sullivan’s CBS authority, or cute animals scampering and cavorting in the wild…….or Columbo and Dragnet……….
Not sure I’m up to any good rothschild’s crap, but the idea of jewish space lasers is hard to resist.
MTG –
“I was allowed to believe…… ”
WTF is she talking about ?
And pondering quizzical old movie censorship oddities……..like how did”Dr Hackenbush” slip by the censors of the day. I first learned what censored means from the cartoons which would have sometimes “CENSORED” banners plastered over the action of the cartoon…..way funny to the adults but very enigmatic to a yoot. What the hell does censored mean? A classic was Mickey Rooney slipping in a whole series of lines with the word “BONER” in them. One of those Judy and Mickey put together a show in the barn movies.
One of the lines was actually: “Oh! Pardon my boner!”
Ca-razy
The Rothschilds –
Their place in the pantheon of paranoia goes something like this –
They made their bones loaning money to kings to fight wars.
Therefore, it was in their interests to start wars.
A neat tidy package to wield against all jews.
“allowed to believe” i think it has something to do with being homeschooled…….
Yeah, CueUhNon is all the old anti-Semitic tropes, renamed and repackaged by some pimply basement-dwelling troll
The crash of “Ole’ King Coal” continues unabated –
A Powder River Basin coal mine has closed down for the first time in modern history. At the end of January, mining ceased at the Decker coal mine in Montana after the owner of the mine filed for bankruptcy late last year.
Home to some of the world’s largest mines, the Powder River Basin is the epicenter for coal production in the country. But a dramatic decline in thermal coal demand has left many companies in trouble.
https://trib.com/business/energy/powder-river-basin-coal-mine-ceases-operations-asks-court-to-reject-pension-and-health-care/article_ff0d270f-44d6-5740-87f0-0818a5809d3d.html
Remember this bit of theater ?
My hardhat had a 45 degree grease zert in the top of it.
Weirdest game of Clue, ever.
Bernie, in outer space, with a menorah.
It’s a brand, new game
qLUE
Toddler-size helmet and hands.
Ummm, “I was allowed to believe…” sounds like cult-speak…or just a modifier for her bs.
oh yeah… all those crazy conspiracy theories concerning the Rothschilds and Bilderbergs and such. I remember something about the eye at the top of the pyramid in the back of a $1 bill meaning something nefarious. I once bought a book with all those things… it was hilarious!
Fox News cancels Lou Dobbs’ show and is expected to part ways with the pro-Trump host https://t.co/Qcq2iCebDH
5 hilarious details from “the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency”
Massive report details “the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency” — here are the 5 most hilarious parts
https://www.salon.com/2021/02/03/5-hilarious-details-from-the-craziest-meeting-of-the-trump-presidency_partner/
Lou Dobbs suddenly finds himself to have become “small potatoes”.
I hope someone is planting more trees, because the avalanche of books that are coming, may strip all the forests in North America.
Funny how a $2.7 Billion dollar lawsuit focuses the the mind of the corporate boardroom.
“They Were Expendable”
That meeting is one of the funniest damn things ive read lately……..what a hoot……..
My hardhats were not pretty when I hung them up. Working in oil and gas fields and plants tends to make a mess of everything.
Lou Dobbs fired, LMAO. Oh, the cancel culture on the right, amazing. Glad to see that crazy lunatic lose his stature.
Why Peabody Energy Stock Sank 18% in Early Trading Today
The coal miner posted earnings and investors were not pleased with the results. Here’s a quick rundown of how bad things are.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/02/04/why-peabody-energy-stock-sank-18-in-early-trading/
This is a prime moment for Biden to turn the tables in coal country . And, in turn begin to win again with blue collar workers .
“Cancel Culture”, they love to bleat,
When all the while the board room knows
the true and fearsome meaning of To Cancel.
BB-
I’m in the red French hat , note the down hole rock hammers , leaning on our gravel baskets. This was taken at our LZ behind Park City. ” Jumpin’ out of helicopters, and scaring the shit out of the wild life. “
Sturgeone
Good Timing on The Masons. The History Channel sent over an article today
Secrets of the Freemasons
Imagine thinking you’re immune to being canceled.
The ladies on The View dragged Van Jones. Oh, it was so well deserved. A bootlicker for Trump at times.
Maybe they can repair the land once Mr. Peabody’s coal train stops running
Sturg
Spot on! Imagine! So many over at Fox and on the right have gotten away from ever being held accountable. Being sued has gotten to Fox. I hope that Maria B and Judge “box wine” Pirro are the next to be canceled.
This afternoon was a fun one. I loaded my 4X5 field camera, tripod for that camera, bag of film holders, bag of necessary gear (light meter, hood/cape), into my jogging stroller. Hooked Gale up on the lead and headed over to a street corner I wanted to take a picture of. It was a nice walk, we met several other women walking their dogs, so we caught up on things and traded COVID stories and hopes for shots.
When you set up a large format camera it is a performance on its own, a dance perhaps. First stop and set the brakes on the stroller. Put Gale out for a place to be safe. Get the tripod out and placed for shooting. Get the camera out, set it on the tripod, open it and adjust the rails, get the lens out of its bag, then mount it on the camera. Remove the back plate of the camera so the ground glass is easy to see. Drape the hood over the camera. Adjust the camera for the picture, frame and focus. Go under the hood/cape and using the loupe adjust focus until it is just right. Remove the cape, test the lens and shutter. Take out a film holder and insert into the back of the camera. Take a breath, make sure everything is right, pull the slide out of the holder, then push on the shutter release cable, push the slide back into the holder. Rearrange the setting, then take another picture. Take it all down and go home.
The walkers by were great. “What is that? Is it a video camera?” Is that a Polaroid Camera?” “that is interesting, is it digital?” The younger ones had never seen anything like it in their lives. The very older had memories of their youth and saw cameras like it. I learned large format photography on a Crown Graphic. It is fun to do these things, and it is the base of my kick starting my creativity.
Big Red #40 –
Was owned by Brinkerhoff Signal drilling . I encountered her (Men name machines after women) in the first “Overthrust Belt” gas field. She was drilling infill holes .
This notch in Utah had been explored for years with very rough methods . Chaining bulldozers to trees to winch drills through the trees. Shooting off 50 lbs of explosives on 3 foot stakes in a diamond pattern. This method was really bad , as it blew the woods to toothpicks , and left behind several hundred feet of tangled cap wire.
When we landed on this job , I knew where we were , and I had been at that game for awhile. This part of Utah is covered in ” scrub oak “, very dense at ground level , and 8 to 12 feet tall.
So that morning , I popped out of the brush onto “Big Red’s” pad , on my to way to catch my skid. She took my breath away , a floor that was 50 feet off the ground , with a BOP stack that was over 40 feet . Their crew had been seeing us flying around their site for days. So, my appearance sparked some interest , I waved to the balcony on the drilling floor , and keyed up my Lama pilot .
I asked him to fly my drill components right past them at eye level . Then I disappeared back into the oak forest at the orange survey tape.
At the end of that day , I told the Lama pilot to fly our entire line top to bottom, very low , and slow.
When I got back to the LZ . I told that fat guy on the left with the broken hand , in front of the entire crew , I was going to drill 1,000 feet that month. Later on he told me he could have kissed me for issuing that challenge.
We were digging 30 foot holes at the time , so drilling a thousand feet in one month , ment you were “slamming steel ” .
That helo look I took , was the best ground I ever landed on .
BB – Good for you giving yourself a kick in the creatives. Where does one develop film these days? It’s a lot different taking pictures with a non-digital camera. You can take 50 shots on a camera phone to get one good one, but you don’t have to think much about it.
The worst is in far Northwest Colorado. A mear knob on the Earth. It is the last gasp of a huge volcanoes , ‘glassy throat’ into the past .
As one nears the top , a glass matrix of milky white embedded in Rome Red appears , then these strange blue and white balls appear in the center at the top.
I ran a rock hammer on this for 3 hours , I made a 3 inch ashtray
It is really beautiful glass , and it is not black.
Red and White milky swirls with Blue spheres embedded in it. All of it glass .
I can show you on a map where it is , and my ashtray.
I love this woman
Any boat into any harbor –
The invention of music around a camp fire. Helped make us what we are today. This why Zulu was is so great.https://youtu.be/nQrE8vOM0ss
Guns germs and steel.
So Joe says no security briefings for Dumdass, citing him having no need for them and Dumbass’ erratic behavior. Good for you, Joe, good for you.
From WaPo
No intelligence for you Dumbass (but we knew that).
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