If it were free people would still blame Biden for having to drive to the station to fill up. Why can’t can’t someone come to my house and pump it in my car for me?
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Sounds like a perfect commercial for an EV to me! Just drive it and fill up at home every night!
Wait! The Overthrow.com former CEO who was in the batshit White House meeting used to date Russian honey trap Maria Butina?
How is this only coming out now?
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I rarely weigh into political discussions for a variety of reasons but will lightly do so in this case. If the Dems started punching back and using many of the tactics that have been modeled to them and proven to work in election management, it’ll be the first time in decades. Until then, they will continue to be relegated to a second class party, reacting instead of leading and only “not losing” elections occasionally.
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Let’s go, Brandon!
Mexico is paying for the wall!
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Also, I paid $5.99/gal. this morning (and then promptly noticed that the Shell a few blocks away was $5.79/gal.).
I have no sympathy for you free loaders in Texas whingeing about the price of gas.
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There’s the Russian! You knew there had to be one somewhere in that crazy meeting.
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Een russia we just push peeple out weendo, why it so hard here to make new tsar? i make you happy if you help vlad…
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The witness that Trump tried to intimidate was a member of the White House support staff. I’m guessing the poor sod who had to clean the ketchup off the walls. There’s certainly no reason for Trump to be calling this person on the regular.
Still no word on whether he left a voicemail, but it’s something that has not been ruled out. The fact that he made this call himself is perhaps telling itself. It means he’s that desperate and/or he can’t get anyone to make such calls for him anymore.
Barb McQuade wants to up the ante.
https://twitter.com/BarbMcQuade/status/1547226459038797824?s=20
Here’s the balance of her thread:
Under DC law, manslaughter occurs when a person recklessly causes an unintentional death. Under the federal Assimilative Crimes Act, state (or DC) law can be charged federally when it occurs on federal property.
For manslaughter, it’s not necessary to show that the defendant intended the deaths to occur. That’s what makes it different from murder.
As president, Trump has a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. His failure to call up the national guard or even to call off the mob could be described as “causing” the 5 unintentional deaths as the Capitol.
To prove Trump acted recklessly, prosecutors would need to show he was aware of a risk and chose to ignore it. Here, he knew the crowd was armed and angry. And he could see on TV that they were engaging in violence. Death of an officer or member of the mob was a very real risk.
Of course, he himself was the one who set this risk in motion by summoning the mob and then lighting the fuse with his Ellipse speech urging them to march to the Capitol, but that conduct raises some sticky 1st Amendment concerns. His inaction in stopping the violence does not.
Cipollone said they would have blood on their hands if they didn’t act to call off the mob. And yet Trump watched the violence for 3 hours
I think a strong case can be made that Trump committed 5 counts of manslaughter on Jan 6 by recklessly causing the unintended deaths of others.
Manslaughter should not displace the wider charges of attacking our democracy by engaging in a conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruct an official proceeding or commit sedition, but should supplement those crimes to address the harms he caused with those deaths.
DOJ, you up yet?
This is the new lie coming out of the pro-forced birth lobby: abortions aren’t abortions so don’t worry about all these news laws we’re passing.
In this case, the pro-forced birth witness tries to argue that a 10-year old choosing to terminate a pregnancy that was the result of a rape isn’t an “abortion”. I have also seen them argue that the procedure to end an ectopic pregnancy isn’t an “abortion”.
This is all nonsense that they’re throwing at the wall to see if they can slide past the suffering, pain and death that they want to bring down upon women and girls. None of these laws include such a definition of what’s not an abortion. This is demonstrated by the Ohio case itself, because the girl would not have had to be driven to Indiana for the procedure if the Ohio law didn’t consider it an abortion.
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The Indiana AG is now looking to press charges against the doctor who performed the legal abortion on this 10-year old. The reasoning? She was 10…only a child who isn’t mature enought to make that decision…so we MUST force her to have the child.
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Overturning Roe wasn’t the end. It was an accelerant.
I heard women’s periods attract bears. Bears. They’re putting the whole country at risk.
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Steve Bannon’s nth filing demanding a delay in his trial has been denied. Jury selection starts Monday morning.
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This is why we must keep them in the kitchen… for their protection
Seems important.
I wonder if any of the erased messages related to what they were going to do with Pence once they got him into the car.
Isn’t erasing those messages a crime n itself? Aren’t they government records? Not to mention the obstruction of justice charges that must apply.
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Apparently, for the Trump administration, being charged with “every crime imaginable” is a goal.
Charged?
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