To those who would rule by fear, laughter is a mortal threat.
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Well honor is a obtuse concept to modern day politicians, replaced by money as the current benchmark of a person’s worth.
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Mike Huckabee is as slimey and slick as Donald Trump. I met him when he was our Governor because I’m was a band director and my kids couldn’t afford instruments, so he sent me a flute and clarinet. He seemed nicer then.
He and I also lived in the same house in Arkadelphia, but at different times. I think he went to OBU, which is a Baptist college. I went to HSU.
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Everything else in an actual criminal statute, yes, but the emoluments clause has no teeth, no enforcement mechanism other than impeachment/conviction.
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My starter word is reliably potent, but line 2 was mostly luck.
Wordle 1,616 3/6*
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The Trump administration spent another day in court stonewalling U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis of Maryland, defying her explicit order to put on a government witness who could testify with direct knowledge of its efforts to deport the much-abused Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a third country.
Just a thought here judges throughout the country. Given that this administration acts like little children who only respond to threats of consequences, start listing in advance what will happen if your court orders aren’t followed when you issue them.
And then have those consequences be immediate and harsh when they aren’t. Also, don’t just have them be explicit for the administration because, due to Roberts’ asinine ruling on presidential immunity, Trump might ignore the possible consequences anyway. Have them against the lawyers making arguments for the Trump administration.
Something along the lines of, “Put a government witness with direct knowledge of its efforts to deport Abrego on with the court by X date or not only will I rule summarily against the White House in this case for failure to comply with court orders given reasonable notice and time to do so, but I will also refer the government’s lawyers to the ethics commission for professional misconduct wasting the court’s time.”
Stop doing the bare minimum to ensure that your orders are followed promptly and to the letter. Start threatening whatever the maximum punishment you can do is. (I’m not a lawyer so I don’t know the specifics of what the max is.)
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Bob Menendez takes gold bars from Egypt, stashes them in his closet, and (justly!) gets sent away to the ol’ Graybar Hotel.
Otto l’Orange openly takes a personalized gold bar from Switzerland IN THE OVAL OFFICE, and everybody applauds.
Was Uncle Bob’s crime merely hiding his ill-gotten gains?
Asking for a friend.
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Everyone knows if you want to commit crimes get elected president first.
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The DOJ said contradictory things in open court?
One of them must have been false.
They are simply no longer credible.
And it’s simply impossible to get a fair trial now.
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His smarmy “opinions” on PBS NewsHour are only tolerble because Capehart is there to correct him. I do wish Capehart was more pointed in disagreeing with him.
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The deceptions of Miss Piggy are harmless and silly. Ms. Leavitt, however, would probably have us all horribly killed and our bodies used for fish-feed, if she could ever get away with it. She’s so bursting full of hatred, she’d make a great camp-guard in 1940’s Germany.
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Not to Oklahoma Baptist U., which back in the day was a very good college and fairly liberal for a Southern Baptist school, but to Ouachita Baptist U. in Arkansas.
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There are so many, it would be helpful to know to which one you refer. At least we narrowed it down to a woman, but which of the many?
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Anyone else notice how The Onion has waxed sharper recently?
Edit: And ya know, it’s hard to keep up when reality keeps outpacing your work.
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Politics is cyclical. We are now hopefully at the nadir, and this awful bullying witch will live to see her terrible dreams crushed.
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The satirists keep punching but after brief downturns in their fortunes the rich and powerful keep coming right back again.
Which is why we need to return to taxing the bastards at up to, say, 90% of their income, and taxing their wealth at 20% every year. This needs to apply to anyone worth more than $100M.
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She needs to be charged with perjury, I’m just not sure how many charges given the double reverse somersault. I don’t think filing an “oops” cures the problem.
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That gold bar belongs to the people of the United States, although DJT will have the option to purchase it upon leaving office (except by impeachment and conviction?). If he lives long enough to leave office in the normal transfer of power, it will be interesting to see what goodies he unlawfully takes with him.
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As I’m understanding it, the proof that the whole GJ considered the charges thatHalligan has given the judge is a transcript where the foreperson affirmed to the judge that the jury true billed the charges (no indication that he meant re the 2 count or 3 count indictment). They really are grasping at straws.
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