" … 52 weeks worried…" One remains anxiously on edge the entire time a family member is deployed to a combat zone. I coped by sending a letter daily, which my son then began sharing with others in his unit who were not receiving mail. Wife and I treasure a number of U.S. flags flown in various locations sent to us by some of those soldiers. Those also serve who stand and wait; and we know the pain of those whose loved ones don’t return alive and in one piece.
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Yeah. I haven’t seen it for years. Lawerence Olivier does a passable Quebecois accent.
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My partner got off easy. The cancer in one of her breasts was found early because she was under constant screening due to being already a survivor of a cancer that was in the fatty tissues of one of her thighs. They removed a whole section of her thigh. We call it the Shark Bite.
Luckily the Drs just had to make a small incision on her breast to remove what was there. All is good now. I hope your daughter is also fine now!
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Hmm. Prosecutors noted that defense attorneys would not confer with them. Trump’s attorneys delay, delay, delay. They cannot get classified discovery until she issues a protective order.
Andrew Feinberg@AndrewFeinberg
JUST IN: Judge Cannon has denied the DOJ motion for a protective order over classified discovery because the defence and prosecution haven’t adequately conferred on the matter. DOJ can ask for one again once they’ve conferred with Trump/Nauta attorneys.
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Yes, nonsense, in the sense that some investigative steps were taken well after other, earlier and more probative steps were taken.
Not to say that they shouldn’t have been directly on Trump’s ass from the outset. But the fiction that DOJ did nothing until Cassidy Hutchinson’s prime time testimony woke them up that crimes may have been committed is total nonsense.
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So the more obvious reading of the statute is that he used his office to obstruct one or more public officials from doing their jobs.
Any possibility that the law-enforcement/ national guard non-response on Jan 6 is being referenced here? There might be a lot of paper-trail that hasn’t made its way into the press.
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Finger slap. Santos will portray it as a badge of honor. The GOP gets to retain the seat they won by watching him lie and saying nothing. If they were serious they would expel him.
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Thanks. So far, but she’s still taking tamoxifen and it’s causing abnormalities in her liver blood panels and is also causing problems with her thyroid.
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What we don’t know at this point on the DOJ v. J6 committee timelines is the chicken/egg thing.
e.g. did J6 prompt things like phone seizures because it was new evidence DOJ hadn’t heard before, or did J6 making things public force DOJ to move out before they were ready to to ensure that people who may have been alarmed by the hearings didn’t destroy evidence.
After all, Stop The Steal never actually ended, it just adjusted its sights to 2024, all the work with states to try to change up electoral rules to ensure that they can overturn election results at the State level and not have to certify results if the wrong person wins.
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The shit show will be in slo mo.
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I don’t feel a great deal of sympathy. The best defense they have is they were “just following orders.” We talk about the “big lie,” but they read the news reports, heard that the “irregularities” would not impact the outcome and still signed on as bogus electors. Society relies on everyone following certain norms and rules voluntarily. When people choose to ignore the rules it gives license for others to violate more rules and society becomes chaotic and dangerous.
We talk about Fox whipping up fear, but Fox points out the chaos and folks like this participate and condone creating the chaos. They create a feed forward loop where their failure to obey laws and standards leads to more people not following laws and standards, Fox tells them “People aren’t following laws and standards” so they’re afraid and use their fear to justify not following laws and standards. I’m not sure they understand this, and it doesn’t really matter because they are active and willing participants in it.
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Great video. The “I know something you don’t know…”
smirk and mindset is an impenetrable field.
This is not a stupid person. This is a bright person who has been rewired.
*slow blink* pic.twitter.com/wQXHvcDiFX
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) July 19, 2023
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But the mob was planned for well before Pence refused to commit the crime.
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The only thing that could keep him out of office is impeachment and conviction in the Senate, with the Senate also voting to bar him from office.
Nothing in statute can place additional constraints on the offices listed in the Constitution.
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The Constitution, not Congress, determines eligibility for the office.
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Grand standing at its worst.
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Possible? Yes. Likely? I don’t think so. Combination Taco Bell/KFC indictments are not favored.
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Just yesterday I remarked to a younger person that my fate has been to live through a dark political epoch that began with the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and will end with the incarceration of Donald J. Trump. The ramp up (1963) and wind down (2030) might blur the edges, but those will be the signal events. Or at least I hope so.
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