China Sanctions Ex-Trump Admin Officials Including Pompeo, Bannon Within Minutes Of Inauguration | Talking Points Memo

You just defined the Kansas Republican Party especially since 2010.
These people made it illegal to even test for dry-cleaning pollutants in Wichita water, to protect a Republican business millionaire.
They sucked up the entire aquifer and poisoned what was left.
Kansas Republicans are the closest thing to an actual fascist state government in the whole nation.
The fact they took the Governor’s pandemic response powers away is good proof they care nothing about the people and everything about posing their prejudices as authority, above all else.
Brownback’s proto-trump era made these people think they were the Royal Rulers of this state, and many of them still see themselves that way.

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You don’t think he’s got enough heft to shoulder the burden he created for himself?

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HRC International has a nice ring to it.

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Speaking of Brownback has he made his way home yet?

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Good, but waiting for them to rescind Ivanka’s trademarks.

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They are going to sanction Trump as well, but they are waiting for some orders for MAGA and Trump 2024 merchandise to arrive first.

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She already has, of sorts.

First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon told reporters in January that Trump would be prohibited from visiting his golf courses while the country remained in COVID-19 lockdown.

But I like your most excellent idea. However, I would re-word it slightly, to “bar the Trumps entry into Scotland for all eternity.”

Perhaps she could time the announcement to coincide with Scottish brewing company BrewDog’s successfully petitioning to rename Glasgow Prestwick Airport to Joe Biden International. (Glasgow Prestwick is the airport the Kriminal Kockholster Klan always uses to access it’s golf courses.)

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Many people are saying the high in Washington DC today was 46 and the low was 45.

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I’d like to see her kick off a money laundering investigation into Trump Scottish golf courses.

Scottish Green Party leader Patrick Harvie asked First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to use the Criminal Finances Act to probe Trump’s two golf courses in the country.
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Harvie told First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in parliament on Thursday there was a “need to protect Scotland’s good name from association with the toxic Trump brand”.
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It gives law enforcement agencies the power to seize and, if necessary, sell suspicious assets, particularly property, whose owners cannot explain how they paid for them.

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This one is complicated for me. On the one hand, anything bad that comes to these folks is richly deserved. On the other hand, the ostensible reason for at least some of the sanctions involve US reaction to china’s ongoing commission of cultural (at least) genocide. On the third hand, this is (on the face of it) a weird attempt both to curry favor with the Biden administration and to intimidate by suggesting that any new officials whose policy isn’t in line with whatever China wants will get banned from business after their terms.

But still I can be happy Pompeo has troubles. (And more troubles than you might think – try running a campaign without using any china-sourced hardware, software or merch.)

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It takes a big man to move past this sort of thing.

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So Trump himself wasn’t on the list?? Does this mean a “Trump Tower Forbidden City” will be foisted upon the world?

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That’s the way to get to these Russian Mafia hoods. Hit them in the pocketbook by never allowing them to do business in one of the world’s largest economies. Does Russia even produce anything besides natural resources that the rest of the world would even want?

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Good. Are Ivanka’s shitty knockoff clothing patents rescinded?

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Rubber sheets.

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In other news…

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Pretty blondes never get anything taken away from them. Spend more than a weekend with one and eventually you’ll end up giving them half of all you own.

Believe me, I’ve done it more than a couple times.

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Something Biden should do is return the artwork that Trump took from the American embassy in France. It was technically American property, but everyone was outraged that he simply took it away for…what reason? Kicks? Because he doesn’t like croissants? Who knows?

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How about revoking Ivanka’s patents?

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