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  3. wanna buy a pardon? one sneaky way to transfer the money is by buying an extra super duper membership at mal an ego, another is to purchase a few condos/hotel floors in D’ump properties or perhaps lease the D’ump brand name for a casino, golf course, cruise ship (all conveniently off shore properties).

  4. regarding those calls by bannon and di genoa for beheading and shooting fauci and krebs,  wouldn’t those threats be a federal offence?  there’s some kind of law on the books about being a felony for threatening public employees acting in line of their jobs.

  7. Patd, those pussies aren’t going to do shit to Krebs, and he knows it. I doubt that their insane ramblings would be considered a threat. They’re like Dumbass – woof woof woof, then hope someone does something. Utter chickenshits. 

  9. Pogo – Unfortunately, there  are dumb, evil folks out there who are looking for guidance/who are suggestible.  

  14. Ahah, Poobah. How many redactions might refer to once admired lawyers/mayors and generals, president and presidential campaign organizations?

    Note – updated to correct phone voice recognition errors and a southern drawl.

  15. Unsealed court ruling discloses bribe-for-pardon probe related to Trump White House – POLITICO

    A court ruling made public Tuesday indicates that federal prosecutors have been pursuing an investigation into potential bribery in connection with an effort to secure a pardon from President Donald Trump, although details of the inquiry remain murky.
    The opinion issued by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell in August and released in a heavily redacted form Tuesday shows that Howell granted prosecutors permission to examine emails involving lawyers and an effort to seek a pardon for someone whose name was deleted from the public version of the opinion.
    Howell ruled that the inclusion of a non-lawyer and of a lawyer she described as an “attorney-advocate” who did not appear to be providing legal services voided the attorney-client privilege, at least for some of the messages.
    “The attorney-client privilege does not protect communications disclosed to third parties,” the judge wrote.
    “>Howell’s ruling said prosecutors are investigating a “bribery-for-pardon scheme” in which someone “would offer a substantial political contribution in exchange for a presidential pardon or reprieve of sentence” for an unidentified person.
    […]
    Prosecutors opposed releasing the memo, even in redacted form, but Howell — an appointee of President Barack Obama — overruled their objections. The judge’s August opinion described the investigation as “sensitive and ongoing.” But her description of why prosecutors wanted the entire opinion kept under wraps simply quoted them as saying it “identifies both individuals and conduct that have not been charged by the grand jury.”

  16. also from politico last night:

    Brad Parscale wants to clear the air about his fall from the perches of the Trump campaign.
    During an interview with Fox News’ Martha MacCallum that aired Tuesday, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager opened up about his conflicts with other members of the reelection team, saying he was “removed” from his leadership position in a move that left him feeling hurt and excluded. It was his first public interview since leaving the campaign altogether in September after an altercation with police related to allegations of abuse against his wife. (His wife later retracted the allegation.)
    […]
    During his Tuesday interview, Parscale cut off MacCallum when she said he had left the campaign, curtly saying: “I was removed.”
    “I didn’t get a warning sign,” Parscale said, adding that he was “hurt” by the switch-up. “No one asked me to change my plan. I don’t know exactly why I was removed, and all of a sudden we had to challenge the plan.”
    Parscale said he loved the Trump campaign and is still deeply loyal to the president. But he added that he disagreed with Trump’s approach to the coronavirus pandemic, saying voters — particularly the suburban families the Trump campaign ardently hoped to court — were scared and looking for “empathy” from their leader. Focusing instead on bullishly reopening the economy, Parscale said, was the biggest policy error of the campaign.
    “A young family with a young child who are scared to take them back to school wanted to see an empathetic president. And an empathetic Republican Party,” Parscale said. “And I said this multiple times and he chose a different path. I don’t think he was wrong, I love him, but we had a difference on this. I thought we should have public empathy.”
    Parscale also dished out on “D-level” people around the president, whom he didn’t name but accused of steering the campaign away from a clean victory. Responding to reports that the president yelled at him amid declining poll numbers, Parscale said he was not a “yes man” like others in the campaign who curried the president’s favor by telling him what he wanted to hear.

    […]

    Parscale said he and Trump haven’t had any contact recently — a silence that left Parscale emotional during Tuesday’s interview.
    “It is pretty hurtful, but it’s probably just as much my fault as his,” Parscale said. “I love that family. And I gave every inch of my life to him. Every inch.”

  18. A top official in Georgia said Republicans attacking the state’s election system are “complicit” in harassment and threats against election workers, including death threats against Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his family in recent weeks. “It has all gone too far,” Gabriel Sterling said forcefully at a Tuesday afternoon press conference. “Mr. President, you have not condemned this language or these actions. Senators, you have not condemned this language or these actions.”

  19. the 4 comments i’ve posted above are quite a picture of the current GOPer world: crime, psycho-babble, power-happy greed and fear

  23. ass kicking i refer to is judge releasing this doc, and already indicated she’ll be fine with removing redactions — message to Trump: wanna play the pardon game any longer? could get ugly.

  25. Are payments received for handing out pardons taxable? 🙃

    I found the interview with Brad Parscale to be quite scary.  He “still loves” tRUMPsky.  Either those are empty words and he’s afraid of retribution, or, the SFB cult is still strong.  Either way, SFB won’t go away until the State of NY takes down the crime family, starting with its bloated leader.

  26. gabiel sterling deserves kudos for bravery in a time such a virtue is rare in GOPer world.  hopefully throughout this day the mini-me senators like marco and tom and lindsey will be grilled on charges of inciting violence and harassed into responding to sterling’s plea for them to stop before “someone gets killed.”

  27. NYTimes best of late night:

     

    On Tuesday, Attorney General William P. Barr shot down President Trump’s assertion of widespread voter fraud, acknowledging that the Justice Department had uncovered no wrongdoing “on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”
    “Fraud on a scale — also known as the president’s annual physical,” Stephen Colbert joked on “The Late Show.”
    “It’s so weird that they didn’t find evidence of the very thing they never backed up with any evidence.” — JAMES CORDEN
    “Oh, man. If Bill Barr had a neck, Trump would totally be wringing it right now.” — JIMMY KIMMEL
    “He will be missed.” — STEPHEN COLBERT
    “William Barr has been one of Trump’s most obnoxiously loyal allies throughout — emphasis on ‘lies’ in allies. This would be like if Thelma turned on Louise.” — JIMMY KIMMEL
    “When Trump heard about William Barr, he was so mad, he ordered William Barr to prosecute William Barr.” — JIMMY FALLON

  29. I do not believe that barr released his statement without SFB blessing it.  Those two have been sitting together through all of this.  The statement may have been planned to get the GA voters to start voting. 
    Am I surprised that an investigation has been started into SFB selling pardons, only that an investigation has been started under his watch.  I expected this and many more to show up under a Biden administration.  We, the owners of the White House, will need to go in and take inventory of what is left very soon.

  30. If you have not heard this yet, Black Friday and Cyber Monday did not meet sales expectations.  Wow! Just because millions of people have no income or employment, and millions more are losing their jobs.  If there was a serious thought that this last weekend would have lots of money changing hands for goods they must not be looking out their windows.  The good news for those with jobs and disposable income, the sales are continuing and will probably extend well into 2021. 

  31. Trump considers 2024 campaign kickoff on Inauguration Day The president is not expected to attend his successor's inauguration or even call him but could hold a campaign event Jan. 20.
    WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is discussing the possibility of announcing a campaign to retake the White House in 2024 on Inauguration Day and skipping the swearing-in of his successor, according to three people familiar with the discussions.
    There is “preliminary planning” underway for a Jan. 20 event to kick off a new Trump bid, the people familiar with the discussions said, though it’s possible the president could make the announcement earlier as no final decisions have been made.
     
    Regardless of the timing of a campaign announcement, Trump is not expected to attend the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, according to the people familiar with the discussions. He also does not plan to invite Biden to the White House or even call him, they said.

  32. last week in rawstory:

    Comics Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler announced on Twitter Wednesday that they had purchased President Donald Trump’s campaign site for 2024, if he plans on running.

    A TikTok video showed DonaldJTrump2024.com, revealing that the gentlemen have already worked to ensure the website listed key phrases like “I lost the 2020 election” with subheadings “Trump Lost”, “Trump is a Loser” and “Trump Lost the Election,” The Guardian reported.

    There’s also a banner on the site proclaiming: “Click here to donate to a PAC that has nothing to do with my legal defense team!”
    Selvig and Stiefler told Trump that they would hand over the website “if you tweet ‘My name is Donald Trump and I lost the 2020 election by A LOT. I am a loser. SAD!’”
    The move comes after someone purchased djtrumplibrary.com, which shows a visually stunning website depicting a COVID-19 memorial, a “Wall of Criminality” and an “Alt-Right Auditorium.” There is also a tribute to Republicans known as the “Hall of Enablers” and a “Criminal Records Room” where people can study “Tax Evasion 101.”
    See a video scrolling through the new Trump 2024 site below:

  33. tony, biden’s peeps might be relieved that D’ump won’t be doing the meet & greet at the WH on inauguration day.  they probably hope he’s long gone before then so they can fumigate the place and clear out all the virus and other bugs likely left.

  34. Poobah, I googled it and found the clips on the Howell comment and release of her redacted Order.  She should just fucking release the unredacted order and tell whoever the chief judge of the DC Circuit reports to to fuck off if they don’t like it.  I could figure out to a class the recipients of the “donations” that were the payment in the bribe investigation. 
     
    BB, I saw an article on the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales figures.  While the sales may not have met expectations, they set new records for sales on those days.

    Cyber Monday, traditionally the biggest shopping day online in the year, followed in the footsteps of Thanksgiving and Black Friday this year: big gains on 2019, but still falling short on expectations. None of the usual physical crowds as people look to enforce social distancing recommendations, and many feeling the economic strain of the health pandemic are making for a good if more muted Covid-19 holiday shopping season.

    According to analytics from Adobe, “Cyber Monday” brought in $10.8 billion in online spending in the US. This was at the lower end of predicted range for online spend, which it set between $10.8 billion and $12.7 billion. Smartphones accounted for 37% of all sales, it said.

    For the last several years the Monday been the biggest online shopping day of the four-day stretch starting with Thanksgiving. While the figures are lower than the more optimistic predictions, they are still 15.1% higher than last year’s $9.4 billion spent on Cyber Monday. It also helped online retailers collectively blow past the $100 billion dollar mark so far for the season, at $106.5 billion spent so far (up 27.7% on the same period in 2019), Adobe said.

    Black Friday came in at $9 billion and Thanksgiving at $5.1 billion this year, according to Adobe’s figures.

    Salesforce meanwhile was more optimistic: It said that digital revenues on Black Friday were $12.8 billion, with global figures coming in at $62 billion, while Thanksgiving was closer to $6.8 billion in online sales in the U.S., with the global figure around $30.4 billion.

    (But wait, there’s more)

    One thing that is clear from both companies is that Cyber Monday continues to be the biggest day of them all. Why? It’s a perfect storm: The big rush of sales for the holiday season are up, but everyone is back at work, so they shop online instead of in person. Hence, big numbers on Cyber Monday.

    As with the other days of the long weekend, one thing that has been impacting sales numbers is the fact that sales are starting earlier and earlier, but Adobe said that many consumers still believe that big bargains are laid on for the specific day. Some of the most popular shopping categories have included computers (marked down 30% on average), toys (20% discount), appliances (21%) and electronics (26%).

    ***

    Still, small businesses have tried to spend years catching up, boosted by various startups and companies like Shopify building tools for them to “be like Amazon” in their fulfillment, delivery and other features. Adobe said that Small Business Saturday, the newest of the Thanksgiving shopping holidays, saw $4.7 billion spent, a record for the day and up 30.2% on 2019. And to underscore just how tough times are for small businesses, Adobe said that the money small businesses were bringing in online this year was a whopping 294% higher than an average day in October.

    The fact is the model is changing.  What I don’t see is what the overall sales were this year (internet and in-store sales) compared to last year, although I suspect it’s out there (and may be in the article quoted above, that I admittedly just skimmed).

  35. That LP ad is right….  everything will come out about trump.  Can’t wait to get my hands on that book!
     
     

  37. Pogo – I think that is the whole thing – expectations.  “Brick and mortar are gone, no more malls, shopping online, Amazon takes it all.”  Not exactly the whole story.  But that is the other part of looking outside.  There were lots of shoppers around, I can testify that Annapolis was packed and the shops full on Black Friday.  What fell flat is that the online retailers did very good Friday.  But, the Cyber Monday extensions are continuing.  A lot of retail needs to be consummated to make up for the rotten no good year that was 2020.
    I can tell we are approaching “normal” life in politics.  The media is covering how the greedy old perverts are upset at Biden for his cabinet choices.  He is not working with the gop on who to pick.  Normal once again. 
     

  38. What is missing from the sales numbers are the multitudes of folks who can barely keep a roof over their heads, and, who are depending on food banks.  

    Look at the lines of folks in line for two things:  COVID tests and food.

    tRUMP lost.  The Republicans who refuse to help help average Americans (not their corporate buddies) will continue to lose traction and elections.  

  40. It will be another couple of weeks before the November sales data report is released by the feds so that they can be compared year to year.  The percentage of online versus in person shopping should continue to grow as supply and distribution continue to improve.  I don’t buy a lot of stuff in general, but what I do buy online is generally things I either can’t get locally or can get either cheaper or quicker online, and often from retailers who have a national presence both online and through stores (remember where  I live – East Bumfuck, WV – where mom and pop stores other than food and services are few and far between). Here’s an example of what we run up  against.  Mrs. P wanted to get a couple of smaller scale end tables for our family room, so we went to a local furniture store and priced them “on sale” at $250.00 each, and it would be 4-6 weeks for delivery.  The manufacturer website – not a third party vendor – had the same end tables offered “on sale” at $180.00 each with delivery within 2 weeks.  Now we’ve done business on and  off with the store over the years, and like the folks, but I’m not willing to pay an additional 25% for the same item I can get from the manufacturer that supplies the store.  Whether it was Walmart or Amazon that started the decline of local trade, but it is a thing and when the options are to buy locally at much higher prices, local ain’t coming back.

  41. BB, online v. brick&mortar aside, what used to be Black Friday and Cyber Monday (and after Christmas sales) is now spread out from a week or so before Thanksgiving up until Christmas and beyond.  What used to be 3 or 4 discreet sales events has morphed into a 6 week holiday sales period.  My “Promotions” inbox has exploded over the past 2 weeks – volume of “Buy this shit cheap” emails has roughly doubled over that period, and from what I can tell from my infrequent and brief visits to the mall and Walmart, the same thing is happening in the stores.  Walmart has so many pallets of stuff in the aisles, wrapped in plastic and dated for release on this or that date over the next week or so you can hardly get a cart down the main “north-south” aisles. 

  44. “This is exactly the kind of language that is at the base of growing threat environment for election workers.” In a news conference on Wednesday, GA Secretary of State Raffensperger slammed President Trump’s rhetoric in his tweets on the 2020 election.

  45. Kayleigh is an idiot.  If it’s the Trump vaccine it should rightly be the Trump virus – could she not see that left hook?.  Oh, and if we’re referring to the Pfizer vaccine (that GB already approved – a step ahead of us) the only thing the US did was agree to buy it.

  46. ms petri of wapo:

    Midway upon the journey of my life, I found myself in the midst of a dark and festive wood. And when I sought to escape the wood and climb away, toward 2021, and the new administration I could see gleaming just on the horizon. And there appeared a figure before me, whose voice seemed rusty from long silence.
    “Virgil?” I said.
    “Melania Trump,” the figure said. “Follow me, and I will guide you among these ominous trees, through a place where you will hear desperate lamentations and see ancient, disconsolate spirits in torment. Would you like a tour of the White House Christmas decorations?”
    And Melania led me through a portal, over which was emblazoned “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” festively on a nice little garland.
    “Here is the first circle of decorations,” she said, “where those who did not believe or give enough *bleeps* about the Christmas stuff are forced to lead tours for eternity,” and she flashed me a sickly white grin.
    And as we passed into that first chamber with its stately forest of red and green trees, outside the window I spied faces pressed up to the glass. “They are Never Trumpers,” she explained. “They cannot hope to enter in this place, but only watch from without.”
    And in this first circle of decorations I saw Love and Faith contained in little boxes, tied with ribbons and labeled. And in that room I did behold many trying to claw the boxes open and let Love and Faith out, but they could not, and these were the religious leaders who had endorsed the president overtly and tacitly.
    […]
    In the third chamber was a small fir under a gold chandelier, and there I saw Susan Collins holding the tree, and being made to adjust it in many directions, always about to set it firmly into its stand, but never quite doing so. “I thought she was not punished for this,” I said. Melania only shrugged.
    And in the room thereafter was a painting of a stag surrounded by wintry forest, and the stag’s eyes were frightened. “Why is the stag frightened?” I asked. “This was a Proud Boy,” Melania said. “And in life he loved to hearken to dog whistles, but now the sound of the dog whistle fills him with terror.” And as we watched, the stag turned even whiter with terror.
    […]
    In the next chamber, I watched a miniature train run around and around, and there on the tracks of the train lay many who had given their loyalty to Donald Trump and seen it unrequited, and first among them was Chris Christie.
    And in the eighth chamber beyond that stood an enormous Christmas tree, with 10 great branches. From one branch of this tree dangled many who awaited pardons, and from another some who had received pardons yet still bore a stain….
    […]
    And then on the tree I did behold a stuffed “Be Best” ornament that vaguely resembled a model coronavirus, and Melania put a finger to her lips and said no more.
    She led me down into the ninth chamber, where there was a lake of icing and atop it an enormous gingerbread model of the White House, with wreaths hung in all its windows. Outside it sat a gingerbread Vice President Pence with a frozen expression of abject devotion, never to pass inside, and from within it issued a gingerbread screaming that the election was not yet done, and all who heard it quavered.
    And as I turned to pass from beyond that place, I saw a hand reach into the gingerbread house and seize the gingerbread man inside it, and bear it up toward an enormous, cavernous, hungry mouth —

    And then I awoke, and I was out of the wood, and it was as though the White House Christmas decorations had never been, and I fell upon my knees and swore to repent. And that is how the White House Christmas decorations were this year.

  47. OMG, Alexandra Petri has outdone herself with this White House Christmas/ Nine Circles of Hell takeoff.

    …
    And in the eighth chamber beyond that stood an enormous Christmas tree, with 10 great branches. From one branch of this tree dangled many who awaited pardons, and from another some who had received pardons yet still bore a stain. On one branch was an ornament of a speedboat, and Rudy Giuliani stood on the swift boat shouting about voter fraud, but none heeded him. “For what crime is this man being punished?” I asked, but Melania shrugged and said he was there on his own time.

    Hanging from the fourth branch was a stuffed flag ornament, and inside it came a mighty screaming, from all those who had said the Statue of Liberty did not mean what it said it meant, who had designed the cruel immigration policies, and this stuffed flag screamed and writhed in agony and shed its sequins on the floor.

    And then on the tree I did behold a stuffed “Be Best” ornament that vaguely resembled a model coronavirus, and Melania put a finger to her lips and said no more.
    …

    It is brilliant.

  48. patd, LOL – great minds and all that.  You beat me to it between my 2:33 refresh and as I was composing my comment.

  49. pogo, yeah i was curious what she would make of it especially after reading a couple of days ago the wapo piece

    Everything we needed to know about Melania Trump is in those bewildering Christmas decorations

    It’s our final Christmas with Melania Trump, and we shall celebrate in the usual way: by accompanying FLOTUS on an annual tour of her White House decor, a one-minute video that also appears to serve as a trailer for a movie about a woman who wakes up in a castle one holiday season and goes searching for the person who spiked her eggnog with mushrooms.
    […]
    In a season meant to celebrate family, friends, community and warmth, Melania always appears alone and very, very cold.
    The fans who love Melania’s Christmas decor — and they are legion, and they are loud — will insist they love it because it’s “elegant”; that Melania has returned “elegance” to the White House.
    And maybe this is the disconnect: There are those who feel the White House should be a place of inclusion, a place where you hang up the weird calamari ornament just because Rhode Island made it, and Rhode Island is a part of the country, too. And there are those who feel the White House should be a symbolic showplace, whose inhabitants’ lives are untouched and unbothered by whatever is going on outside of its walls. Melania is not there to welcome you, she is there for you to admire her. When she delivers words, they will be stilted but she will look fantastic doing it.
    […]
    In the end, the clearest sense of this woman’s personality that we were ever going to get was the version dispensed in minute-long clips at the beginning of every December.
    Here was a woman, wandering through an empty mansion, selling us on a version of Christmas and America that you’d swear she didn’t understand herself.

  50. pat, I commented on that virtual tour – Melania speaks not a word and appears for a total of about 5 seconds in  4 (or 5) 1 second clips.  It is as odd as hell.

  52. Powell at Atlanta rally: “All Georgians should not vote at all in the runoffs. We shouldn’t even have them” 

    Crowd chants “Walk Away”. Many carrying pitchforks with American flag tied on.

    More Powell: “Mexico is trucking counterfeit ballots into Georgia right now” 

  53. Hah, Poobah, I just went and read the Opinion released in the bribery for pardon investigation.  Of the 17 page opinion, 9 pages are completely redacted (the Background section).  That section would lay out the underlying facts and actors. We’ll see if it gets released without the redactions.

  54. Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood to cheering crowd in Atlanta about GA runoff Senators Loeffler and Perdue: “They have not earned your vote. Don’t you give it to them. Why would you go back and vote in another rigged election for God’s sake!” 

  55. Lin Wood and Sidney Powell – now there’s a pair for you. I hope that the right wing nuts who believe the shit that Sidney and Rudy (and Dumbass) have been peddling stay home in droves come January.   

  58. Walk away! Love it. (Don’t trust them, though; Dems need every vote.)

    If the tRUMP vaccine cures the tRUMP plague, maybe his minions will actually agree to take it. 

    EU going after Amazon’s use of size and data to squash third-party sellers. Amazon, of course, disagrees to anti-trust allegations.

  59. 2,596 Trades in One Term: Inside Senator Perdue’s Stock Portfolio

    The Georgia Republican’s stock trades have far outpaced those of his Senate colleagues and have included a range of companies within his Senate committees’ oversight, an analysis shows

    An examination of Mr. Perdue’s stock trading during his six years in office reveals that he has been the Senate’s most prolific stock trader by far, sometimes reporting 20 or more transactions in a single day.
     
     
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/us/politics/david-perdue-stock-trades.html
     

  61. What I want to see are all those swamp draining contracts.  Given out to firms like ……………. 
    “Gator Brothers Construction”  and ” Python Pipe Co. ” 

  66. After all we have been through  these past few years . The next few months are going to be like opening  a walk-in locker full of beef, and the power has been out for 2 weeks. 

  69. This isn’t the first time a demagogue and conspiracy-monger has captured the Republican Party. CNN’s Ron Brownstein has pointed out the unpleasant parallels between the way the GOP establishment kowtowed to Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare of the ’40s and ’50s and their servile acquiescence to Trump’s malignant narcissism. In fact, this seems to be a permanent strain in American conservatism:
     

    Whatever their private doubts about his claims, [Sen. Robert] Taft and other GOP leaders concluded that McCarthyism was a political winner for the party. … Gallup polls showed that about three-fifths of Republican voters viewed McCarthy favorably well into early 1954.
    In another parallel to Trump, congressional Republicans were deferential not only because they considered McCarthy an ally, but also because they recognized him as a potential threat. The journalist William S. White captured their skittish ambivalence when he wrote, “In McCarthy, embarrassed Republican leaders know they have got hold of a red-hot bazooka, useful in destroying the enemy but also quite likely to blister the hands of the forces that employ it. Their private fear is that a lethal rocket may at any moment blast out through the wrong end of the pipe.”

  70. Poobah, this may be old news, but from Wapo regarding the redacted Ruling of Judge Howell:

    ***
    In her largely blacked-out 18-page opinion, the judge granted the government’s request for investigators to access the emails, confront three people and take any further investigative steps.

    The opinion was originally sealed. In an update to the court Nov. 25, the Justice Department asked to keep the ruling secret because it “identifies both individuals and conduct that have not been charged by the grand jury.”

    Howell found the response insufficient, directing the government to explain line-by-line why a redacted version could not be released that did not name uncharged individuals, prompting the government to submit the now-public document on Monday, she wrote.

    We’ll see what the grand jury does, right?  I suspect this is the DOJ giving cover to Dumbass, who plans to pardon some if not all of those people whose names have been blacked out in the opinion.

  72. Gov. Doug Ducey is being eaten alive by his own party, thanks to Trump. That’s scary
    Opinion: Donald Trump set his Republican wolves on Gov. Doug Ducey for crossing him. That he still wields that kind of power is worrisome.

     

    No matter the explanation. The Republican wolves led by Arizona GOP chairwoman Kelli Ward descended upon Ducey.
    “#STHU” (Shut The Hell Up), came Ward’s reply. “#ElectionIntegrity is missing in Arizona. Period.”
    Scroll through Twitter feeds and you’ll see that Ward’s was among the nicer responses to Ducey. And though the governor’s series of tweets drew more than 27,000 likes, only a few Arizona leaders – mainly Republican Cindy McCain and Regent Fred DuVal, a Democrat – publicly came out to defend him.

     
    https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/elviadiaz/2020/12/01/arizona-gov-doug-ducey-gets-no-respect-after-trump-smacks-him/3781836001/

     
     

  73. CBS _
    2 lawyers who led the Trump lawsuits in Ga.  Came out and told the wingers not to vote in the run-offs .  “The machines are fixed”.  
    Trump’s speech in Ga. on Saturday  should be a doozy , he released a 46 min. one tonight , Norah  used the word “rambling” to describe it. 
     
     

  74. If  one tracks the American Right from Regan ……………. “Never speak ill of a fellow republican “. 
     
    To these purges  of factions  going on now.   The Barr comments  are a new “tell” .   The party is about to  crack wide open.   The tigers are eating their young. 
    “We’ve come along way baby” 

  85. BB – Exactly.  There is little journalism nor reverence for history in the making.  It’s all show biz and spectacle; so many egos that need to be fed.
    All the MSM will do is make it easier for SFB to continue extracting money from his followers for a third run which will never happen.   
    The media needs to grow up and grow a pair. 

  86. I forgot this ,    ………………
    My gas station manager  that I see everyday , who I did not know her name  when she told me of her father-in-law  had been taken by the #19 .  Told me today  they are burying  one of his brothers. 
     
    Her name is Angelina .
     

  89. Murder rates  ……….. 
    In the heart of MAGA country  two room mates  argue  about  stuff , one  uses a samurai sword  on the other. 
    The murder rates in Lubbock  are up  like everywhere else.  Trust ne , Texans  are killing each other  as fast as everywhere else. 
     
     

  99. Making music made us , a  very long time before an unknown woman in Turkey  invented beer, we were singing our asses off  to scare off the bear.
    When she showed up at that first campfire  with beer , we were off to the races.
    Music and beer rewired  our brains , this is why we love them so much.

  100. The Music and Beer Theory –
    Women invented agriculture.  At that time, men were not dealing with seeds .
    Women were working together gleaning seeds from fields, how to save them , and what to do with them .  Always exchanging  information in the group. 
    One day, a jar  of what would become barley got wet in storage .  Days later she found it .  And like that first guy looking at an  artichoke said, ” I think I can eat this. ” 
    She tried it.  They were  starving .  They all had a wonderful night. 
    See where I’m going with this ? 
    Beer on the Nile  had nearly  100 recipes , most were  more like  3.2 oatmeal.
    This was part of your pay.  Breakfast. 
     
    The  female brewers  are on the tomb walls . 

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