When the going gets tough...

lousubcap

For those across the pond; here you go regarding Ashes:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/59798619?xtor=AL-72-[partner]-[gnl.newsletters]-[headline]-[news]-[bizdev]-[isapi]&xtor=ES-213-[BBC News Newsletter]-2021December27-[top+news+stories]  

Botch

A very good AP article on all the crap that's going on, state by state, as part of trump's "slow-motion insurrection".  Not a great way to start off 2022.    
 
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-united-states-elections-electoral-college-election-2020-809215812f4bc6e5907573ba98247c0c
 

dmchicago

How to quit your job. 

By. A. Brown 

Botch

A very scary article everyone should read:
 
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/04/1069232219/heres-where-election-deniers-and-doubters-are-running-to-control-voting

dmchicago

JohnInCarolina

That’s about twice as many citizens as the total number of votes cast, but… sure?

Botch

Curious as to who funds "RawStory"; the real answer is nearby...

JohnInCarolina

https://twitter.com/PattyArquette/status/1480672134745649152?s=20

dmchicago

I like this version. 

lousubcap

Quite a read regarding a course this country is moving down:
https://kottke.org/22/01/toni-morrisons-ten-steps-towards-fascism?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email  

nolaegghead

lousubcap said:

Quite a read regarding a course this country is moving down:
https://kottke.org/22/01/toni-morrisons-ten-steps-towards-fascism?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email  

We're not breaking any new ground, there is history that illustrates what happens when extremists take over, from both sides, governments' major parties and the end result.  It's my belief that intelligent people are going to recognize the patterns of history and move towards a more progressive middle groud.

nolaegghead

(CNN) Members of the far right are already agitating to launch impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden if the GOP is in power in Congress next year. Some leading Republicans want to spotlight former President Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud. And key House and Senate Republicans are vowing to probe the security failures surrounding last year's January 6 attack on the US Capitol -- and turn the attention to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

With Republicans on the cusp of taking back the House and Senate, the GOP is plotting an onslaught of investigations into the Biden administration and promising to make the final two years of Biden's first term in office as painful as possible for Democrats in the run-up to 2024. Those headaches could come in the form of subpoenas, the possible creation of select committees and high-profile hearings on issues ranging from the origins of the coronavirus pandemic to hearing from the President's son, Hunter.

Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, said he fully anticipates that Hunter Biden will testify before the committee if Republicans are in charge.

"We have a lot of questions about where he gets his money, from his artwork, and from his consulting deals," Comer told CNN.

Gulfcoastguy

No unexpected. Live by impeachment, die by it. Same with investigative panels, reading tax records and email in open Congress, investigations, etc.

nolaegghead

Funny how I always thought that you had to do something bad for impeachment.  Like try to dangle money to a foreign government unless they agreed to investigate your political enemy or try to overthrow the elected government.

Gulfcoastguy

Or knowingly present false documentation to a FISA court or blackmail a foreign government to stop investigating your son.

nolaegghead

Gulfcoastguy said:

Or knowingly present false documentation to a FISA court or blackmail a foreign government to stop investigating your son.

The FISA thing was an FBI agent and just no on the other.  This is all long well understood and documented except kept alive by propogandists who also think there was giant election fraud.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/21/fact-check-joe-biden-leveraged-ukraine-aid-oust-corrupt-prosecutor/5991434002/

Gulfcoastguy

Name one person criminally charged with insurrection so far. Btw Biden admitted on video forcing the Ukraine to fire the prosecutor. 

fishlessman

nolaegghead said:

Funny how I always thought that you had to do something bad for impeachment.  Like try to dangle money to a foreign government unless they agreed to investigate your political enemy or try to overthrow the elected government.

theres the problem, i see it now,,,,,,trump dangled money to a foreign government unless they agreed to investigate his political enemy to try to overthrow the elected government. that government was already bought by his political enemy

nolaegghead

Gulfcoastguy said:

Name one person criminally charged with insurrection so far. Btw Biden admitted on video forcing the Ukraine to fire the prosecutor. 

Was it just coincidence all those people stormed the capitol building, you don't think certifying the presidential election where their guy lost had anything to do with it?

Read up on that prosecutor.  The entire EU wanted him gone because he was corrupt.  That had nothing to do with Hunter.

"It's true that Joe Biden leveraged $1 billion in aid to persuade Ukraine to oust its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, in March 2016. But it wasn't because Shokin was investigating Burisma. It was because Shokin wasn't pursuing corruption among the country's politicians.

As European and American diplomats pressed Ukraine to clean up its corruption, they focused on Shokin's leadership of the Prosecutor General's Office, which he took over in February 2015."

He was removed from office in March 2016 by a vote in the Ukrainian Parliament following pressure from the European Union, the United States, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.[2][3]

Read this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Shokin

JohnInCarolina

Gulfcoastguy said:

Name one person criminally charged with insurrection so far. 

Does sedition count?

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1481699739234095112?s=20

Gulfcoastguy

Yes I read that about 30 minutes after my post. I’m surprised it took you this long. Let’s see if there’s a conviction. I imagine that it will be drug out until November. After all there are still people arrested without bail since January 6th 2021.

JohnInCarolina

Gulfcoastguy said:

Yes I read that about 30 minutes after my post. I’m surprised it took you this long. Let’s see if there’s a conviction. I imagine that it will be drug out until November. After all there are still people arrested without bail since January 6th 2021.

Got to be honest here: I’m really not sure what point you’re trying to make.  

Botch

Dr. Fauci didn't say "What a moron", he said "What's up, Maureen?"
Let's print that up on t-shirts and give each other giggling high-fives for the next three months.  

Gulfcoastguy

JohnInCarolina

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1482417179769425926?s=20

You gave me fortune
You gave me fame
You gave me power in your own god's name
I'm every person you need to be
Oh, I'm the cult of personality

littlerascal56

Saturday Night Live was hilarious tonight, with the Biden spoof.  It’s taken a full year for the networks to finally talk about and report on the “Cluster Fock” administration we are dealing with.  It’s just going to get worse over the next year, but we do gave the mid term election to look forward to!

JohnInCarolina

littlerascal56 said:

Saturday Night Live was hilarious tonight, with the Biden spoof.  It’s taken a full year for the networks to finally talk about and report on the “Cluster Fock” administration we are dealing with.  It’s just going to get worse over the next year, but we do gave the mid term election to look forward to!

What’s hilarious is your wall, lol.

JohnInCarolina

https://twitter.com/4lisaguerrero/status/1483231802735009792?s=20

dmchicago

Rut Row. 

JohnInCarolina

This one’s for you, @dmchicago