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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1476465
Yes, the Supreme Court will totally bail out trump in Colorado. And it will be unanimous.
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Fatso needs to run and be beaten like a rented mule.
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So you are ordered to pay Shaye and Ruby immediately and then what do you do?
You go on your show to hawk “supplements” that the FDA has said are useless…oh and when the bottles are empty hang them on your Christmas tree!
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And another one
Jan. 6 rioter nabbed in Bumble dating app sting pleads guilty to assaulting officers (msn.com)
T he woman reached out to several Donald Trump supporters who the app showed were in the Washington, D.C. area, hoping to illicit confessions from those who had flooded into the city because they believed his lies about the 2020 presidential election.
On Wednesday, one of the Bumble users she turned in to the FBI pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers with chemical spray while holding a metal whip.
Andrew Taake, a 35-year-old from Texas, pleaded guilty pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers with a deadly and dangerous weapon, admitting that he used both bear spray and a metal whip to attack officers, during a hearing before U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington. Taake, who had been ordered held in pretrial detention after his arrest in July 2021, appeared in a sparsely filled courtroom on Wednesday in an orange prison jumpsuit.
“Guilty,” Taake pleaded, telling Nichols he was entering his plea voluntarily and of his own free will.
The woman referred to as "Witness 1” in Taake’s FBI affidavit has previously recalled how “comically minimal ego-stroking” from her led Trump supporters to give her information about their activities on Jan. 6.
“I felt a bit of ‘civic duty’ I guess, but truthfully, I was mostly just mad and thinking, f— these guys,” she said, speaking anonymously for fear of online reprisal.
Her strategy, she said, was saying "Wow, crazy, tell me more” to guys on repeat until they gave her enough for her to send their information to the FBI.
She ended up chatting with about a dozen guys in the days after the Jan. 6 attack and said they made comments that were “very on-brand for a MAGA rally,” when they parroted the debunked talking points about the 2020 election they were hearing from prominent Republicans. They couldn’t see her rolling her eyes on the other side of the phone.
Taake, a self-employed handyman who owned a pressure-washing business, had a felony record, but authorities found multiple guns at his home when they took him into custody. Taake was on bond in a separate case when he stormed the Capitol, with a pending charge for soliciting a minor online; court records in Harris County, Texas, show that case is still active.
Taake’s "willingness to physically assault officers with bear spray and a metal whip, while on bond and conditions of release for the felony offense of solicitation of a minor , demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that he poses a concrete threat both to the community and to specific individuals,” a federal magistrate judge wrote, bolding for emphasis, when ordering Taake detained until trial.
His sentencing was set for March 26.
Taake was not the only Jan. 6 defendant arrested thanks to intrepid Bumble users. Robert Chapman was sentenced to home detention on a misdemeanor charge after he was turned in by a Bumble match.
Reached by NBC News after Taake’s guilty plea, the woman who sent his identity to the FBI was glad to see him held accountable.
“FINALLY,” the woman told NBC News on Wednesday. “It’s been wild to see him still defend that attack all this time and makes me even more glad he was caught for it.”
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ALL Confederate statues should be melted down and turned into useful objects, like manhole covers. And for what it’s worth, most of those statues have ZERO artistic value. They were dreck 100+ years ago, and they’re dreck now.
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I think they try to say that he must be convicted of the crime, before he can be forbidden to hold office.
I mean, those were supposed to be the rules of the U.S. House. But they broke them to get Santos out.
(BTW, I don’t agree)
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Ted Cruz does a GOP funny x 2
Collin Rugg
JUST IN: Republican Senator Ted Cruz claims President Joe Biden travels with extra pairs of pants in case he poops himself. Big and stinky if true. “We have a president of the United States who, his team carries extra pairs of pants with him when he travels in case he has poopy pants.”
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DJT has been bailed out of every dispute since his birth. That, with subsequent bad parenting, is the bane of our present existence. He is like toxic waste, i.e. unable to be recycled, a waste of human flesh, irredeemable.
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And Rafael supports Diaper Man for President.
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(though we scribers here at TPM do not recommend ever beating any animal, even a rented mule)
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of course
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Has Rudy thought about walking the roadsides looking for cans to recycle?
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It must have been hard for George Conway when he realized his now ex-wife was completely batshit insane. And a terrible person to boot. I hope he got custody of their daughter.
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That was not the case in the 1860s-70s when Congress exercised its 14th Amendment authority to deny office to the insurrectionists the former Confederate states tried to send to the House. SCOTUS might point to the current criminal insurrection statute as an example of the legislation Congress could enact, but of course trump hasn’t been charged with it, much less convicted.
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I understand Ted Cruz travels with an extra airline ticket so he can escape from his wife and family when the power goes out in their Texas home. (They welcome the break.)
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Wow…another purported Congressional Aide Sex Tape…involving a Republican…
There May be a SECOND Capitol Hill Sex Tape: Report
Turns out having sex on Capitol Hill, filming it, and posting it to social media might be more common a habit than previously believed. Footage of a man masturbating in what appears to be the U.S. Capitol was obtained by Semafor, which reported Wednesday that the clip circulated on Snapchat last year. Another Snapchat clip, a screenshot of which was viewed by the outlet, apparently shows two men having sex. Semafor reported that Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) was told soon after the videos were posted that one of the participants was a member of his staff. A spokesperson for the Republican congressman confirmed to the outlet that reports of “purported, unbecoming behavior” by a senior staffer had prompted an investigation last year, but that “no conclusive evidence” had been found. The unnamed staffer denied to Semafor that he’d participated in the videos and disputed Newhouse’s office’s version of events. The aide said he departed Congress last summer on good terms for reasons unrelated to the investigation.
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Kellyanne: I think Democrats wake up every morning and they look at the calendar on the iPhone and it says January 6th. The date never changes. And then they get into an electric vehicle and go get an abortion.
Yep. She nailed it! That’s exactly what i do, every single morning!
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Daughter almost put herself for adoption. But she is 18 now.
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