Not at all. The boxes were so light because they’re the new InvisibleN95™ line developed by 3M.
You may have seen Pence himself modeling it at the Mayo Clinic last week, space-age stuff.
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I’ve been thinking a see through mask would be a good idea! It wouldn’t look so ominous.
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I’ve got a camo one, rather like the ominous look with sunglasses.
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Maybe they mean that Flynn is a terrorist?
It’s what Mandela was called by his critics.
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Trump is flailing around. Hoping something will stick somewhere and take people’s minds off the tens of millions of people thrown out of work, lack of PPE, lack of testing, lack of plans for opening up that make sense through testing and tracking. The virus just won’t cooperate!
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I guess that crack team of detectives finally got back from Hawaii with Obama’s “real” birth certificate? Please, this man is so full of shit his eyes are brown. Why give him any credibility whatsoever? He lies every time he opens his mouth or sends a tweet.
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Naw, they finally smartened up and, having gone and searched in Kenya and Hawaii fruitlessly, realized that Kenya was under British control at the time, and found the original in the British Archives in London.
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Please proceed, Fat Boy …
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Trump wants to bring up how his campaign colluded with a hostile foreign power? He does?
BRING IT ON!
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From your mouth…
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I’m not sure that the judge can do that. The most he might be able to do is to ream Flynn, his lawyers and DOJ out and then rule that the dismissal will be “without prejudice,” which would allow Biden’s DOJ to file the charges again.
Edited: Actually, the judge can do a bit more. See excellent article in NYT:
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Perhaps Ozzie Nelson?
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Hide the fact that Russia helped him get elected last time. Hide the fact that Russia is helping him now. Persecute the legitimate accountability mechanism to block them from prosecuting him and his corrupt administration or holding them accountable. Hide the crimes and election engineering. Protect the convicted criminals from being held responsible for their crimes to keep them from revealing the truth. Steal the election. Destroy America.
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Maybe he meant Nelson Mandela Muntz.
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Exactly. Please proceed you dumb ass orange baffoon.
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Because he cannot defend. He only knows how to attack. That is a gigantic flaw for an incumbent, especially in the middle of a health and economic crisis on his watch. It is, and its going to continue to be, Trump’s ego trying to assert reality isn’t real.
Going with this approach is where he is now, on attacking Biden. His Ukrainian gambit failed (rather spectacularly, actually…he ended up impeached for it and gained nothing of use), so now its going to be to attack Biden and Obama for investigating him in the first place. Its a bizarre political strategy, but its one that appeals to Trump personally: It allows him to be on the offense, it allows him to voice his grievances, and it allows him to attack the people he blames for his grievances. That’s everything he wants.
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Over promise, under deliver, send the media off to chase the next bright shiny object.
Mission accomplished.
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I have always felt the influence of his “Base” is amplified in image versus real numbers.
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This essay (below) shows what Trump is resting his logic on: a corrupt DOJ. It fits in with plans on (1) distracting from 1.3 million COVID cases and (2) trying to set the stage for more Trump rallies:
["No, this is not like a pardon by other means.
The Barr Justice Department’s corrupt abandonment of the prosecution of Michael Flynn after his guilty plea is a graver threat to the rule of law than the presidential pardon we long expected.
Let me offer a quick hypothetical:
You can imagine a scenario where a rogue president makes corrupt use of his regal power to pardon but the instruments of federal law enforcement remain intact, unsullied and continue to perform professionally. In that idealized scenario, the law enforcement apparatus is still there when the aberrant president leaves office and the next administration arrives.
That is not what is happening right now.
The Justice Department is being dismantled as an independent, broadly legitimate, respected component in service of the rule of law. The damage is more far reaching and permanent than a mere pardon would have been.
A lot gets made of the Justice Department’s reputation for rectitude and professionalism and the benefit of the doubt judges accord it. It’s a bit overdone. Defense lawyers and some former DOJers roll their eyes at the department’s high self-regard with good reason. But what you purport to be, what your stated values are, what you aspire to do – those all matter, even when you come up short in the moment.
Generations of DOJ lawyers have been acculturated to those high ideals. They know and see when those ideals are being subverted. The impacts go far beyond the particulars of a given case or the tenure of a single compromised attorney general. Good lawyers leave the department, as we have already seen. Marginal lawyers cut corners, clip their wings, and acquiesce in the corruption in small, imperceptible ways. Up and coming lawyers steer clear of a hollowed-out Justice Department and the wrong kinds of people are drawn to it.
The effects are generational. The repairs to undo the damage are not swift and cannot be sped up.
Someone observed yesterday that the only remaining corrupt threshold for Barr to cross is to repurpose the Justice Department for the prosecution of President Trump’s perceived political adversaries. Ask Peter Strzok and Andrew McCabe and others who have been persecuted by this Justice Department whether that threshold has really not been crossed."]
Above essay by David Kurtz @chelsea530
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