That’s where the Central Committee comes in. Do you think they’ll approve a brand-new party registrant? I don’t.
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Very, but I’m not sure that particular linguistic affectation is a Trump only phenomenon. It’s the kind of thing you hear on the used car lot, or with the hucksters you see in the commercial boots at the state fair.
At first I thought it was a New York kind of thing, and maybe it is, but I find it spreading in any case. You occasionally hear it spewing from the lips of his disciples. Who knows it may become one of their shibboleths, or if we’re really unlucky it’s own dialect. Then we’ll have to be nice and recognize that “trumponics” is just as valid a dialect as any other.
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Why stop there? Keep heading west until you’ve gone around the globe enough times to undo the whole damn last four years. (Hey, it worked for Superman…)
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That fucker Scott Atlas got in Trump’s ear with the herd immunity concept via mass death. Trump says, “Oh, we can open up the economy then, let’s do it.”
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Ever wonder why they called him Gomez?
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Maybe this is not quite as craven as it might seem …
Michigan GOP Chair Laura Cox - has raw meat craving hyenas to satisfy - so for her - making the deliberate choice of renominating Aaron Van Langevelde was essentially a non-starter … However, appears that she may not necessarily want to insert an automatic election nullification zealot …
According to the article she sent three names to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer:
Linda Lee Tarver - Trump loyalist who filed an unsuccessful lawsuit against the Board of State Canvassers;
Among the three GOP nominees for Van Langevelde’s seat, Tarver of Lansing has been the most aggressive in pushing claims about the Nov. 3 election. She appeared at a Dec. 1 Michigan Senate Oversight Committee hearing about the election.
she said if had been given a vote on the board Nov. 23,
she would not have voted to certify the election.
Tony Daunt, executive director of Michigan Freedom Fund
leads a nonprofit organization that’s spoken out against false claims about the election.
On. Jan. 6, Daunt said the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was "an outgrowth of the rhetoric, lies and conspiracies spread by the president and other elected Republicans who’ve falsely and feverishly claimed November’s election was stolen."
In a Monday interview, Daunt said Van Langevelde handled his vote on Nov. 23 appropriately.
Tori Sachs, executive director of Michigan Rising Action.
she served six years in former Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration and managed Republican John James’ unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2018.
She also has been critical of false claims about the Nov. 3.
“People have arrived at the conclusions they arrived at because they’ve been told over and over in certain echo chambers that the election was stolen, that the votes were rigged, and that somehow Donald Trump was still going be president of the United States even though he lost the election — and those things are simply not true,” Sachs said during a Jan. 10 appearance on WDIV’s “Flashpoint.”
Oh - and just saw this …
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Thank you for the fact checking! Useful information.
baffling … what about pre-emptive pardons? those OK too?
would kind of turn the Presidential Pardon into a sort of PBA Card - that makes violations vanish
How many times can it be used? - or is it like lifetime immunity from prosecution?
Could only imagine a "secret " Presidential Pardon only having any slight possibility of justification if it was related to some highly secret extrajudicial “matter of national security” action that was intended to never see the light of day. There might be instances where a hideously difficult action had to be taken -
(for example - urgent - ‘Hobson’s choice’ having to be made to save large population group - but with casualties in a smaller group - either choice being highly imperfect)
It would be totally bizarre & reprehensible if it was simply a “get out of jail free” card that would just sit in a desk drawer of some criminal awaiting potential prosecution… but then again … Trump would consider it in a number of cases …
… let’s say they find evidence that Barr orchestrated the execution of Epstein … would they then find out that Barr has immunity …?
… let’s say events unfold and the Sheikh considered to have responsibility in the Jamal Khashoggi starts to be investigated … would they then find out that Trump provided him with a free pass …?
If he does the secret pardons - those will be the ones for his family and himself.
There are a number of people (including one of his accountants) that was expected to receive a pardon. However, with the pending litigation with Letitia James, Trump wants that guy to take full advantage of the 5th amendment and will leave him hanging.
but isn’t the prevailing thinking that …
(1.) a “pardon” would need to specifically delineate the crime for which the pardon is being issued.
(2.) a “Presidential Pardon” only has Federal application - evasion of state and local income / property taxes and other state crimes are not shielded
(3.) a “pardon” effectively validates the idea that the individual committed a crime - sot of become a lot of “baggage” for any one considering running for office …
Often, actually.
Mostly when I was eleven years old.
However, I understand that they were originally a New Yorker cartoon series. So, I suppose there is an explanation based on their narrative’s history.
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- no. Post-Civil War, Nixon’s pardon by Ford, Vietnam War “draft dodgers”
- Yes. But if you have someone who is only culpable for Federal, but can reveal info for someone else on State charges, you don’t pardon so they have to protect their own skin.
- No. While it seems counter-intuitive, careful wording can get around that. There is no acknowledgement of guilt required to accept a pardon. Besides, since neither he nor his followers believe what he did was criminal, that’s a moot point for them.
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Not in general, and not in a legal sense, but politically? Maybe.
Yes, before the war, by Charles Addams.
No real explanation except that he used to say the character of Gomez was a sort of cross between Tom Dewey and a pig.
As for the names: There were none in the cartoons. Charles devised them in the '60s for the TV show.
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Oh look, speeding up their slide towards irrelevance.
As always, thanks for the erudite background information.
If it wasn’t for you, I would still think that Jeannine Pirro was Italian and owned an entire herd of Vietnamese Pot Bellied Pigs in the opulent residence that she shared with convicted Al Pirro, while she was the extremely self promoting Westchester District Attorney while Rudolph Giuliani was the most extremely self promoting US Attorney in the History of the Republic.
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As your paragraph shows, my contribution to that episode was … minimal.
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… has a husband whose crimes have not been pardoned.
Early yesterday Ms. Pirro found out that Al was not on the final list of crooks to be pardoned. She called the White House. By the time Trump landed in Florida, and while he was still President, Al had been granted a pardon.
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I am hoping that because Bill Barr (Mr. Pardons For Republicans R Us) bailed out, that some of the Trump pardons are neglectful and defective. Jeanine Pirro has proven every day of her FOX gig that she was unqualified to be a District Attorney or a Judge.
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