… and then turn it over to the young folks.
Thursday’s Democratic debate:
Biden — who would be 82 years old on Election Day in 2024 — was asked if he would commit to running for a second presidential term if he wins the 2020 election.
“No,” he said. “I’m not willing to commit one way or another.”
“Let’s see where we are,” he added.
With the holidays upon us, we here at The Late Show have a present for you: a brand new animated Christmas classic from the creators of “Our Cartoon President” whose third season starts in January on Showtime.
“And so, ask NOT who has been naughty to you; ask who YOU can be nice to. Ho Ho Ho!”
I loved Murray’s Lounge Singer and saw many different versions of it along the way, but was totally unaware of the “Star Wars” one.
Great Honk, you Knucklehead.
And here I thought Craig might consider getting on my Amy bandwagon … lol
Love the cartoon.
craig, you may want to update uncle sam’s directive above from “impeach” to “remove” unless we’ve more impeachable offenses awaiting or expected to happen to be investigated/voted on. no constitutional cap on how many times a prez can be impeached portends an impeachment-a-month year ahead given just the mueller findings.
getting a lot of media attention and so worth sturge & jamie’s reposts. here’s NYTimes on it:
and from wapo:
the mooch (one of the first who predicted impeachment) now predicts resignation. from newsweek:
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has said that President Donald Trump could be forced to resign if key administration officials are made to testify in his Senate impeachment trial.
Speaking on the BBC Radio 4’s Today show, Scaramucci argued that Trump’s looming trial could be so punishing and make his position so untenable that lawmakers would not even need to remove him from office.
[…]
Figures like acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former National Security Advisor John Bolton did not testify to House investigators. If Schumer can win the support of four Republican senators, his 51-strong group will be able to force witnesses to appear.
Scaramucci—who has become a prominent Trump critic since leaving the White House—told the BBC that this is vital in ensuring “a fair process and a fair trial in the Senate.”
Scaramucci said the president is “pulling a party along with him” and “doesn’t either understand the morality of the position that he’s in or he doesn’t understand the laws that he’s breaking.”
“There’s a level of shamelessness about him that I find horrifying,” he added. Scaramucci said he hoped a handful of GOP senators would work with Schumer, noting senators like Mitt Romney and Lamar Alexander have “been around a very long time” and “understand what President Trump is doing.”
“I think they could say, ‘Hey look, it’s got to be country over party and personal power,'” Scaramucci explained.
If they do so, the Democrats could make the Senate trial extremely uncomfortable for Trump, Scaramucci said. If figures like Bolton, Pompeo, Mulvaney and the president’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani testify, “they’re going to have to tell the truth about what happened,” he predicted.
Citing the explosive testimony given by European Union Ambassador Gordon Sondland, Scaramucci said he does not think “any of them want to go to jail for Donald Trump.”
Their testimony could mark the end for Trump, even before senators are asked to vote to remove or acquit, Scaramucci argued. “I think that would force the president to resign. I think it would be over.”
“Don’t think about the 18 or 19 senators that you need to convict him,” he said. “He’s not going to be able to withstand an intense trial with Justice Roberts as the judge overseeing that trial in the Senate.”
Despite his vociferous opposition to his former boss, Scaramucci said that no one in the U.S. “is in love with the idea of the president getting impeached.” That said, he argued that this particular president “is a lawless criminal” and must be removed.
“Oh my god, with his removal we’d probably have to have a national holiday,” he said. “It’d be like another Fourth of July in the United States.” Though he acknowledged there would be “pockets of anger,” he argued there would be “in general, relief around the country.”
“This is like the Night King being killed in the Game of Thrones,” Scaramucci explained. “Once this guy is removed from office, it’s a personality cult. All that false idolatry of a personality cult will dissipate. And so, at the end of the day, people will look around and say, ‘What were we doing?”
“You can’t support this level of lawless…this isn’t even early-stage fascism anymore, this is like mid-stage to sort of full-blown fascism,” Scaramucci claimed.
“The fever is breaking. It’s classic demagoguery…I think it flames out and when it does, the fever breaks, you’re gonna look around and say, ‘Where was I? Was I nuts? Why was I supporting the guy?'”
Scaramucci, of course, was one of those who previously supported Trump and even served the administration, if only very briefly.
“I have to own the fact that I was supporting him, but at least I was smart enough to say, ‘OK, wait a minute, this is really lawless and this is crazy,'” Scaramucci told the BBC.
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oops, here’s that link from newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-would-forced-resign-if-key-administration-officials-testify-senate-trial-anthony-1478179
I did watch the debate last night. Pogo… your comment in the wee hours of last night about no knockouts and no flameouts was spot on, IMO.
I thought that Klobuchar had her best night. Unfortunately for her… that debate took place 6 days before Christmas and the day after a marathon impeachment day. Plus is was telecast only on CNN and PBS… It was probably watched by a pretty small audience. I don’t see how it moved the polls much.
RR
Amy finally got a major interview this morning on @MSNBC and Twitter is end to end with some major party endorsements plus she is going on a major tour. Let’s see if this gets reflected in polls as she is doing very well in Iowa.
And for a tasty entry on your bucket list … a wine cave.
On a personal note. We had something knock over the pole my bird feeders are on early this morning. It didn’t touch the seed feeders. Just ripped open the suet feeder and ate the 2 cakes of suet. It couldn’t have been a bear… it was in the single digits last night. And bears always eat every last morsel of seed. Looking at the tracks in the snow, we suspect it was a bobcat.
Glad I no longer have domestic cats that go outside.
obviously he never read, or if he ever did does not practice, what Jesusas in Matthew 5 directed his followers to do
39But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.
41And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. 42Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
43Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
Biden will clean up the mess???????
Based on what evidence can that statement be made if anything he would only make it worse
Equal Time Time:
Suck It, Christmas (A Chanukah Album) Explicit
KGC, no one can repair our shattered alliances quicker. He’s on a first name basis with all of them. And no one running can work Congress better. If not for him there’d be no Obamacare.
craig, seeking forgiveness may be a better way to “repair our shattered alliances quicker” and not just by a hug or pat on the back or selling them a bunch of goods.
wapo:
The question was an oddball for a presidential debate, offered to the candidates as a choice in the spirit of the holiday season: Either name a gift each would give to a rival onstage or ask forgiveness from a fellow candidate.
In a Democratic field with a historic number of top female contenders, the responses were revealing. Only the women chose to be contrite.
“I will ask for forgiveness,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.). “I know that sometimes I get really worked up. And sometimes I get a little hot. I don’t really mean to.”
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) was similarly reflective: “Well, I’d ask for forgiveness, any time any of you get mad at me. I can be blunt, but I am doing this because I think it is so important to pick the right candidates here.”
The five men onstage, in contrast, offered the gift of their ideas. Several suggested giving others books they had written. Others focused on policy proposals they hatched.
[…]
“Maybe we are humble,” Klobuchar said of the female candidates, speaking on CNN. She added that it could be an attribute when taking on a bombastic president: “Maybe we need a little humbleness instead of the loudest voice.”
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RR – I will prefer the foxes in search of sex at 3am over a bobcat just looking for a snack. The foxes have a real funky yowl when lovelorn. One showed up at my patio door at 3am last week and scared the bejeebus out of my dog.
BlueBronc…. we have had a grey fox (the biggest member of the species in this neck of the woods) scrounging around our house for several weeks. So yeah… it could have been that. But it’s a big pole and the suet was up pretty high. Either way… I’m still glad my cats are indoor cats only.
Is last night’s debate worth a listen in youtube?
The Movie of the Week , Not a Western Category.
The Tale of the Fox (French: Le Roman de Renard, Dutch: Van den vos Reynaerde, German: Reinecke Fuchs) was stop-motion animation pioneer Ladislas Starevich‘s first fully animated feature film. The film is based on the tales of Renard the Fox. Although the animation was finished in Paris after an 18-month period (1929-1930), there were major problems with adding a soundtrack to the film. Finally, funding was given for a German soundtrack by the UFA — Goethe had written a classic version of the Renard legend—and this version had its premiere in Berlin in April 1937.
Sturg,You better get in contact with your cousin in Glasgow. Offer-up your services as Scottish Consul General to Charleston and the Barrier Isles. Who knows, you might git the geg!
I like their whisky well enough…..hmmmm
I missed the debate last night, replacing it with odd dreams. Odd dreams is good company….
Movie of the Year, once again:
”The King of Hearts”
This quirky comedic war film focuses on Scottish soldier Charles Plumpick (Alan Bates), who is sent to a French town on a mission to disarm a bomb left behind by the retreating German army. Plumpick discovers that the area is deserted except for the inmates of the local asylum. The mental patients playfully take over the town and pronounce the soldier their king. While Plumpick is intrigued by the antics of the former inmates, he must stay on task and find the bomb before it detonates.
Haggis, man, them’s the eats.
Bink – Yes and pay particular attention to Amy. She is hitting Twitter like a storm and major dollars coming her way. She could make IOWA interesting.
Flatus, Love Haggis and we can finally get the real thing in the states.
https://www.scottishgourmetusa.com/product/Hamilton-highland-haggis-in-USA
Movie Night – Auntie Mame
The real one with Rosalind Russell
Good grief I did not remember it was in Technicolor (wide screen).
Wow, this is good. One of my favorite movies. I would have loved to have seen it on Broadway.
I can hardly wait for Peggy Cass.
This is a good movie night.
Good choice BlueB, the Lucy Ball version was such a disappointment
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