Jan 152021
Meidas Touch – Trump Derangement Syndrome – NSFW
The Lincoln Project
Looking for some hope? Maybe even a little pride (if you can remember what that feels like)? LTG Honore has accepted from Speaker Pelosi the assignment of Special Counsel to investigate Capitol security.
GZero Puppet Regime
Beau on William Burns – Why? Well, watch it.
Keith from yesterday (I checked before posting yesterday … but he’s been very late recently.)
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TDS: Wow, I wish that guy would not hold back so much.
LP: Rick Scott is a criminal, was a criminal, missed being indicted for fraud by one late night phone call warning, and has, I’m sure, eyes on the presidency. He’d be more dangerous than Trump, because he is not THAT deranged. The GOP has no one of honor, of character, of even a semblance of quality, to put up for president. Thank of the 18 other 2016 candidates: Jebbie, Cruz, whothefuck?
DK: Honoré as chief investigator, holds promise, I believe. He certainly won’t have Barr, or his like to interfere.
GZero: Uh, Oh, Vlad is unhappy, tovarisch, not good.
Beau: Quite interesting.
Keith: “…except in cases of impeachment.” I’m no lawyer, no constitutional expert, but it seems to me that “impeachment” does not have to refer to his impeachment, but perhaps that of another federal officeholder. remember the now ancient movement to “Impeach Earl Warren!” He was the head of SCOTUS in the ’50’s. Were he, or anyone else other than a president, impeached for criminal activity,presumably POTUS could not pardon such activity, I’m supposing is what the phrase refers to. If the writers wanted to convey the idea that a president cold not pardon himself, if impeached, or not, they could have been more direct in setting it, I believe. Trump might try to pardon himself just for the shits and giggles of fucking with the system long after he’s out of office. That would fit with his nihilistic penchant.
And, let’s not forget that he was already impeached, last year. He was not convicted, and MAY not get convicted this time either; we will see. If not convicted, and that trial will almost certainly come after Jan. 20th, this time makes no difference. If a trial starts before the 20th, he will certainly make whatever moves he plans, or finds convenient, in the moment, before the 20th.
“It ain’t over ’till it’s over!” Yogi the yogi was a smart fellow. And, boy, could he play ball.
WRT the pardon power, many people are talking about that (sorry to sound like you-know-who – and it isn’t really so much talking as it is internet posting.) Quot homines, toe sententiae. The thing is, they deliberately wrote that to be vague, probably hoping it would never be needed. So it could mean almost anything – provided a court were to say it did. And, of course, we also have a court problem. So about the only way I’m weighing in is to say “Let’s wait and see who challenges what, and then let’s wait and see what the courts do.”
Michael Rapaport: The REAL Trump Derangement Syndrome | The MeidasTouch Podcast
Can you imagine how incendiary it’d be if Michael Rapaport told us what he REALLY thought?
Defund the GOP
Skeletal Scott is scary. (Not to mention a criminal.)
MT: Somewhere in all the f^&*s, Rappaport makes a good point.
LP: I understand major big companies like Disney and Coca-Cola are already withdrawing their financial support for those GOPers involved in the coup. This will seriously hurt the GOP which needs more money to recover from its losses in Congress. Of course, it would be better if they stop donating to the GOP altogether but only if they do not start donating to the Democratic party, because that would compromise it.
DK: It is indeed hope-giving that Pelosi assigned Honoré Special Counsel to investigate Capitol security but this interview didn’t convince me that he won’t be ‘a tiny bit biased’ in this investigation. He already called the leadership complicit several times. He is right, of course.
GZERO: Amusing way to draw attention to that 2021 Top Risks report. Must go and read it now.
Beau: It’s not a bad policy at all to put someone with first-hand user knowledge as the head of a department that needs to become more user-friendly.
KO: Thank you for answering a question I still had, Keith. It’s a relief.
Thanks JD – No