You might remember from an earlier “Friday Fun” that while …
Only 13 Presidents have failed to get reelected,
Only 5 Presidents have failed to win the popular vote,
Only 4 Presidents have been impeached or resigned …
But only ONE President has hit the Trifecta and accomplished ALL THREE!!
And now we can add another accolade to Trump’s “accomplishments”: The only President to have ever been impeached TWICE! If that doesn’t call for a double-ribbon award, I don’t know what does:
In fact, I believe the USPS should issue a commemorative stamp in his honor. Fittingly, it would be called the “Forever Impeached Stamp”.
But knowing Trump, this doesn’t mean he isn’t still totally delusional and divorced from reality. Why, he still wants to put President-Elect Biden in jail.
Shortly after the Trumpkin domestic terrorists rioted and laid siege to our Capitol a little over a week ago, #NoFlyList started trending on Twitter.
Fortunately for felonious Trumpkins, there’s a work-around:
But Trump isn’t the only republican who went down this past week. The blind ambition of my senator, Josh Hawley, led to his backing the wrong horse and joining up with Ted Cruz to vote for disenfranchising millions of American citizens in an effort to subvert and overturn our election.
Hawley, who has been open in his lusting after being President for years, has now effectively flushed his chances down the crapper.
But I’m actually thankful for his indiscretion. Having lived in Missouri over half my life now, it’s been a well-known fact that Hawley’s been the Fashionable Face of Fascism.
Sure, he objected when Biden compared him and Cruz to Goebbels, but it doesn’t take much of an imagination to get from here to there …
And speaking of “going down” – there’s proof now that Trump has had much greater difficulty dealing with his Twitter withdrawal than first imagined.
Out of an abundance of kindness (and fortunately for you) I’m also supplying the antidote to cleanse that image:
My hope right now is that the Inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris comes off without a hitch – with no injuries or deaths, both in Washington, DC and across our great nation.
This is more or less a spur of the moment decision to change direction and share a couple of letters that I’ve sent to my senator, Sen. Joshua Hawley. I’m hoping that it will provide me some catharsis, because I am absolutely livid with that A-Hole.
It all began when I came across an article in the Washington Post where Hawley (turns out mendaciously) claims in a Tweet that “Antifa scumbags” came to his house in Vienna, VA to threaten his wife, screamed threats, vandalized and tried to pound open the door. (That house in Vienna is currently the only home he has. He used his sister’s address in the Ozarks to claim Missouri residence.)
Here’s Hawley’s lying Tweet:
Tonight while I was in Missouri, Antifa scumbags came to our place in DC and threatened my wife and newborn daughter, who can’t travel. They screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door. Let me be clear: My family & I will not be intimidated by leftwing violence
Tonight while I was in Missouri, Antifa scumbags came to our place in DC and threatened my wife and newborn daughter, who can’t travel. They screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door. Let me be clear: My family & I will not be intimidated by leftwing violence
But if you read the WaPo article, you’ll learn it was a peaceful vigil. In fact the group (with NO ties to Antifa) fortunately took a 50+ minute video of their visit:
They don’t arrive at Hawley’s house on Desale St. until around the 24:00 mark. As near as I can make out (the CC isn’t the best) their peaceful vigil consisted of lighting votive candles, chanting, singing, praying and leaving a copy of our Constitution on the front porch.
Most of their peaceful vigil was monitored by the local police. Officer Juan Vazquez told the Associated Press that when police arrived, they found that the “people were peaceful. Officers are only allowed to put in the report what they see,” Vazquez told The Washington Post. “We can’t get warrants on something we didn’t see.”
On Wednesday when Hawley continued to say he was going to object to the Pennsylvania Electoral College vote count – even after Trumpkin rioters had stormed and vandalized our Capitol – I had enough. I sat down and wrote him a “sternly worded letter”. And I followed up on Thursday with another after Hawley was roundly rebuked for his actions – even by fellow Republicans.
(It took a couple times to FAX the letters to his DC office because it kept getting a busy signal – but mine eventually made it through. And I included CCs to his Kansas City office. Those went through easy-peasy.)
Here are my letters – the first on Wednesday evening (although I’m compressing the formatting for space considerations):
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Senator Joshua David Hawley
United States Senator for Missouri
212 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
RE: SHAME ON YOU! SHAME ON YOU! SHAME ON YOU!
Sen. Joshua David Hawley:
Unlike your recent entirely mendacious claim that:
“Antifa scumbags came to our place in DC and threatened my wife and newborn daughter, who can’t travel. They screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door. Let me be clear: My family & I will not be intimidated by leftwing violence” …
Today your compatriots – Proud Boys, White Supremacists, Boogaloo Bois, Neo-Nazis and other radical right-wing terrorists – actually did commit violence against the People’s House – our nation’s Capitol.
Fortunately, as former FBI Director James Comey said: “Lordy, I hope there are tapes” – there ARE tapes documenting the peaceful vigil at your Vienna, VA home. The peaceful vigil consisted of a small group who lit votive candles, sang songs, chanted, prayed and left a copy of our Constitution on your doorstep. All actions protected by our First Amendment rights!
Unlike your Proud Boys, White Supremacists, Boogaloo Bois, Neo-Nazis and other radical right-wing terrorist cohorts who quite literally, to use your very own words: “Screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open the door” of our nation’s Capitol.
To use your very own words again: Let me be clear, true American Patriots will NOT be intimidated by right-wing violence.
This sad and frightening display of Trumpkin scumbags was the product of Trump’s four-years of hate-mongering efforts to create chaos, divide our nation and incite violence. (Again, let me be clear: LORDY, THERE ARE PLENTY of TAPES DOCUMENTING Trump DOING JUST THAT!)
And yet you, in hopes of hitching your wagon to these Trumpkin scumbags in an effort to promote your own hope of launching a presidential bid, have openly announced your intention to contest the results of our free, fair, secure election administered according to the United States Constitution.
Given that there was no irregularity or evidence of election fraud that would justify such an action, it becomes clear that you are simply pandering to the republican party’s right-wing base, which has obviously lost touch with reality and fealty to our Constitution.
Your engagement in the attempted literal subversion of our democracy – whether called sedition, coup, anti-democratic putsch or something else – simply because you did not like the results clearly violates your oath of office. You should, at the minimum, face ethics charges and expulsion.
Our national elections of 2020 have occurred. The people have spoken. Multiple recounts and audits of recounts have been conducted. Legal challenges have been addressed by the courts. Trump et al have lost at least 60 of those lawsuits. And in those legal challenges over 90 judges – appointed by both Democrats and republicans – have ruled against Trump’s unfounded lawsuits. Governors have certified the results. And the Electoral College has voted.
The time for questioning the results has passed; the time for the formal counting of the Electoral College votes, as prescribed in the Constitution and statute, has arrived.
It was a free, fair, secure election administered according to the United States Constitution. It’s well past time for you to do your constitutional duty and standdown.
In Deep Sorrow for Our Country, Aided & Abetted by Your Shameful Actions,
[Real Name]
Actual Missouri Citizen
PS: If you wonder why my salutation is not formatted, as I usually do for other Senators, as:
“The Honorable …”
It’s simply because I find NONE of your actions in this matter to be “Honorable”.
Here’s my second letter sent on Thursday after Hawley is widely chastised for his actions:
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Senator Joshua David Hawley
United States Senator for Missouri
212 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
RE: Your Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, Rotten Day
Sen. Joshua David Hawley:
Josh (I hope you don’t mind me calling you by your Christian name – I like to call ALL my employees by their given first name) sorry to learn you have had such a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, rotten day. (Not that you haven’t earned it – you surely have!)
The dilemma is where to start listing all the events of the day that your seditious actions have produced.
Let’s begin with Missouri’s former Senator, John C. Danforth, assessment of you:
“Supporting Josh and trying so hard to get him elected to the Senate was the worst mistake I ever made in my life.”
It’s clear you backed the wrong horse given that Trump’s lawyer for the Pennsylvania Electoral College vote case (Attorney Jerome M. Marcus for the state of Pennsylvania, the same one YOU used to object to the Electoral College certification) resigned today with these words:
“The undersigned respectfully requests leave of this court to withdraw as counsel … inasmuch as the client has used the lawyer’s services to perpetrate a crime and the client insists upon taking action that the lawyer considers repugnant and with which the lawyer has a fundamental disagreement.”
We learned today that the publisher Simon & Schuster, based on your seditious actions, has cancelled your lucrative book deal:
“We did not come to this decision lightly. As a publisher it will always be our mission to amplify a variety of voices and viewpoints: at the same time we take seriously our larger public responsibility as citizens, and cannot support Senator Hawley after his role in what became a dangerous threat to our democracy and freedom.”
Why even your old Rockhurst High School debate partner calls you the:
“WORST PERSON HE’S EVER MET”
my husband was briefly Josh Hawley’s debate partner in high school and has long, since Hawley first ran for Missouri AG, described him as the worst person he’s ever met.
I was actually going to take a day off. But this afternoon I came across some Tweets from pro-Trump attorney L. Lin Wood that are so amazing I feel forced to share them.
We all know that Wood and his sidekick, Sidney Powell, are conspiracy theory creators extraordinaire, but Wood has taken it to a whole new level. I’ll let you decide if you think Wood is certifiably insane after reviewing his latest “revelations”.
Some background first: As you might know, Wood gained fame back in 1996 by successfully defending Richard Jewell who was wrongly suspected of setting off the bomb at the Atlanta Olympics.
Today his roster of extremely polarizing clients includes Marjorie Taylor Greene, the QAnon hoax supporter who was recently elected to Congress; Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who pointed their weapons at demonstrators outside their mansion; and Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with fatally shooting two protesters in Kenosha, WI.
So it comes as no surprise that he’s an avid supporter of Trump. But what I learned today that has me shaking my head in disbelief – not only that he’s saying it, but some Trumpkins are buying it.
Chief Justice John Roberts, at the minimum, knew Justice Antonin Scalia was going to die beforehand, and might have been involved in his death
Chief Just Roberts is a pedophile who trades minor children to join pedophile clubs
Jeffrey Epstein is still alive
Yep, we’ve sunk that far! It almost makes Trump’s hare-brained schemes to subvert our election sound sane … ALMOST!
A couple of more questions for Chief Justice John Roberts:
(1) You are recorded discussing Justice Scalia’s successor before date of his sudden death. How did you know Scalia was going to die?
(2) Are you a member of any club or cabal requiring minor children as initiation fee? pic.twitter.com/jGxfgLCk4D
A couple of more questions for Chief Justice John Roberts:
(1) You are recorded discussing Justice Scalia’s successor before date of his sudden death. How did you know Scalia was going to die?
(2) Are you a member of any club or cabal requiring minor children as initiation fee?
And when the replies to that Tweet indicated some didn’t believe him, Wood came back with this retort yesterday:
I am fully aware of the onslaught of attacks being made against me based on my revelations about Chief Justice John Roberts. Before attacking me, maybe fair-minded people would first ask Roberts to tell the truth.
I am fully aware of the onslaught of attacks being made against me based on my revelations about Chief Justice John Roberts. Before attacking me, maybe fair-minded people would first ask Roberts to tell the truth.
Or ask Jeffrey Epstein. He is alive.
And you thought Looney Louie Gohmert was crazy when he filed his lawsuit claiming that VP Pence has sole discretion to decide who will be the next president. What a piker compared to L Lin Wood! And that’s saying a lot when Gohmert comes in second place in a “Who’s Stupidest” contest.
FILE THIS UNDER: “You Can’t Make This $hit Up”
It appears it will be impossible to try to keep up with the CRAY-CRAY of Lin Wood. Because now he’s calling for Pence to be arrested for treason, jailed, tried, convicted and face the firing squad!
If Pence is arrested, @SecPompeo will save the election. Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason. He will face execution by firing squad. He is a coward & will sing like a bird & confess ALL.
If Pence is arrested, @SecPompeo will save the election. Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason. He will face execution by firing squad. He is a coward & will sing like a bird & confess ALL.
And if you had any concerns about his sanity, he responded that he’s just fine, thank you very much.
The tweets about my insanity are at an all time high this morning. Wonder why?
No worries. I am fine. The attacks do not concern me.
“A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.” -Vernon Linwood Howard
I hope Santa was good to you this morning. He had a little difficulty in his travels last night …
And that was complicated by a mix-up with an order in the “Lord of the Rings” toy workshop section …
But that hasn’t kept our penguins from getting into the caroling spirit
“Hark!” the Herald Penguins sing:
“Please don’t eat our little wings!
“Eat a goose down to the bone,
“But leave Penguins all alone.
“Baby ducks are very sweet,
“Tastier than Penguin meat.
“If it’s carried in your store
“Please don’t shop there anymore!”
And I would encourage everyone to visit JD’s standard stellar Video Thread 12/24/2020 – and please, don’t miss the spectacular “A Christmas Light Show at A Home in Leggiuno, Italy”! I was blown away by how tastefully done it was. And the peacocks fanning their tales … just amazing!
So in this abbreviated yuletide Friday Fun, I wish you all a
Only 5 Presidents have failed to win the popular vote
Only 4 Presidents have been impeached or resigned
Only 1 President has done ALL THREE!!
So Donald Trump is the FIRST and ONLY U.S. president elected while losing the popular vote (TWICE), impeached, and then fail to be reelected as an incumbent.
FAILED REELECTION
Fifteen American presidents sought reelection as the incumbent, but failed:
John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Martin van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and DONALD J. TRUMP.
LOST POPULAR VOTE
Five presidents were elected while losing the popular vote:
John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, George W. Bush and DONALD J. TRUMP… TWICE!
IMPEACHED OR RESIGNED
Three sitting presidents have been impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives. And one resigned just prior to being impeached.
Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, Richard M. Nixon and DONALD J. TRUMP.
President
Failed to be reelected as incumbent?
Elected while losing popular vote?
Impeached by House of Representatives?
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Millard Fillmore
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Franklin Pierce
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Andrew Johnson
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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Chester A. Arthur
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Grover Cleveland
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Benjamin Harrison
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William Howard Taft
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Herbert Hoover
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Gerald Ford
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Jimmy Carter
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George H.W. Bush
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Bill Clinton
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George W. Bush
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In an effort to redeem himself, Donnie tries to read a Christmas story to kids – but even fails at that!
(Apologies to JD if she’s posted this before. I don’t remember it, and I couldn’t find it on a cursory search.)
And if you’re looking for the perfect Christmas ornament to represent what a god-awful $hitty year 2020 has been, here it is:
I’ve had a few questions buzzing in my head, and I’d genuinely appreciate your thoughts and feedback.
[1] Do You Think Trump Will Resign So Pence Can Pardon Him? And Why Did You Say Yes Or No?
I can see strong arguments for both. On one hand he knows he’s going to face major legal jeopardy at the state level, so he might take the sure way of resigning and then have Pence pardon him. He certainly realizes that a self-pardon is fraught with legal problems, and he might want to be certain he’s fully pardoned at the Federal level.
On the other hand, I’m not sure his megalomaniac ego would permit him to resign.
[2] Do You Think Trump Will Actually Run Again In 2024?
He hates going out as a LOSER – so he might try.
On the other hand, he might lose … AGAIN! Plus he might just as soon take the four years grifting funds from gullible Trumpkins, and then use it to shore up his failing business interests.
[3] Do You Think Trump Will Show Up At The Inauguration? And If He Did, Would That Be A Good Or Bad Thing?
I honestly don’t think his ego could endure being at any event that he’s not the center of attention.
I personally hope he goes to Mar-a-Lago for Christmas – and stay there … forever. (Well, he can go to New York for his trials.)
I’d really hate to see him leave the White House in Marine One on Inauguration day, and then announce his 2024 run on Air Force One on his flight to Florida during the actual Inauguration.
I’d truly appreciate your input on all three – or pick the one that hits you most.
This past Wednesday Trump posted a 46-minute rambling, incoherent, diatribe video on Facebook filled with his baseless lies and whining about the 2020 election making him a LOSER! If you didn’t think Donnie could kick his attack on our democracy up a notch, this video will prove you wrong.
[NOTE: I would NOT advise viewing this – posted only for completeness sake. Although the comments of the Trumpkin Kool-Aid slurpers are amazing – and frightening!]
The media has FINALLY come around to recognizing that Donnie is not well mentally, as reflected in their headlines covering the video:
An Andrew Solender apparently watched at least a good deal of it (bless him) and realized it was BEGGING true American Patriots to respond to his “Powerful New Meme Format” using a chart Donnie held up:
Assisting to facilitate that suggestion, Kevin Hubbard created a blank template of the chart Donnie was holding and invited folks to have at it …
And America responded! They blasted Donnie from all sides, so I decided I’d share some with you. While I didn’t find one that was really funny, they all were based on the truth (something foreign to Donnie and his Trumpkins) – and they made me feel better viewing them.
Some “Themes of Memes” seemed to develop – so that’s how I’ll share them.
I was surprised there weren’t more dealing with Rudy Colludy – but there were a few …
And there were only a couple dealing with Biden winning the election …
Folks enjoyed pointing out that Trump is a LOSER …
And an A$$HOLE …
Trump’s incestuous lust for Ivanka didn’t go unnoticed …
Nor the fact that the Con Man will continue his endless grifting …
Some didn’t seem to fit in any category …
But far and away the most popular theme was scatological …
Feel free to scroll through Solender’s tweet to view all of them (WARNING: some are clearly NSFW)
