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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Trump Offered Assange Pardon if He Covered Up Russian Hack, Court Hears

Trump Offered Assange Pardon if He Covered Up Russian Hack, Court Hears
President Trump offered to pardon Julian Assange if he agreed to cover up the involvement of Russia in hacking emails from the Democratic National Committee, which were later published by WikiLeaks, a London court was told on Wednesday...Edward Fitzgerald, Assange’s lawyer, said on Wednesday that a message had been passed on to Assange by former Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.

Impeach him again.

Today’s revelation of Trump’s bribe of Assange is further evidence of what we all know to be true: Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election. He’s trying to do it again. That’s what Criminals do. - Rob Reiner

The World Is A Safer Place Without ~~Saddam~~ Trump

Any Politician Who Doesn't Release Their Full Medical Records After a Heart Attack Has Something To Hide.
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Tuesday he will not release any more medical records during his presidential bid, arguing he’s already released sufficient information to quell concerns about his health.
Sanders, the current front-runner for the Democratic nomination, has faced questions about his health since he suffered a heart attack in October. He insisted at a CNN town hall Tuesday night that the release of three letters from his doctors at the end of December declaring him healthy were sufficient disclosures.

Imagine when Hillary got pneumonia in 2016 she actually had a heart attack, had her team lie about it for days, then promised to release her medical records, but didn't. There would have been editorials nationwide calling for her to drop out of the race. - Victoria Brownworth

Republican Shenanigans

Trump Makes Pence Watch Him Issue Pardons To See How It's Done. - Andy Borowitz

Trump Had Empathy For Wife Of Blagojevich
President Donald Trump spoke with reporters at Joint Base Andrews Wednesday on his way out of Washington, D.C. to boast about his presidential pardoning of Rod Blagojevich — after seeing his wife appear as a guest on Fox News.

Rod Blagojevich Trying To Sell Presidential Commutation To Cellmate For $2.8 Million. - The Onion

Let's just clarify this one more time: Bill Barr is playing y'all. - Rick Wilson

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Right now Bernie Madoff is sitting in his jail cell feeling really left out. - Randi Mayem Singer

Rock The Voter News

The journalism profession hasn't even begun to confront the damage it did to itself in 2016 with its But Her Emails coverage. - Ian Millhiser

Trump & Barr Play Rope-a-Dope
President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr agree on one thing at least: The president is making the attorney general’s job much harder. What they don’t agree on: Trump sees no reason to stop.
Defying Barr’s pleas, the president renewed his public attacks on law enforcement Tuesday, denouncing the prosecutors, judge and jury forewoman in the case of his longtime friend Roger Stone and defending his convicted former adviser Michael Flynn against Trump’s own Justice Department.

I wonder what all short men who support Trump think of his mini-Mike jokes. - Roland Scahill

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Business/Tech News

Boy Scouts Leadership Confident Organization Can Overcome Stigma Of Bankruptcy. - The Onion

So, How's That Brexit Coming Along?
Britain's government on Wednesday faced a backlash over its new post-Brexit immigration plans, which are designed to cut "cheap labour from Europe" in favour of high-skilled English speakers and boosting the homegrown workforce.

Pretty distressing day in Brighton so far. A member of the public threw a cup of hot chocolate at me and screamed abuse about how he hates the BBC, literally moments before I went on air for @bbcsoutheast this lunchtime. Luckily the drink missed my face and hit my coat instead. - Lauren Moss, BBC

Charles Manson is an unlucky bastard. He died before trump had a chance to pardon him. - Angry Naval Officer tweet

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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Federal judges association holding emergency meeting over DOJ interference in Stone case

Federal judges association holding emergency meeting over DOJ interference in Stone case
The Federal Judges Association will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday to discuss concerns members have over President Trump and top Justice Department officials intervening

If Trump loses in November too decisively to deny, there will be a spasm of pardons in December and January, including (who doubts it?) an attempt at self-pardon. - David Frum

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It's disgraceful for the Pope to question Trump's Christianity, say people who spent 8 years questioning Obama's Christianity. - John Fugelsang

Trump's Budget Excludes Funding For Bomb Sniffing Dogs
New Yorkers could see fewer bomb-sniffing dogs at the city’s airports and train stations if President Trump gets his way.
Trump’s proposed 2021 budget released to Congress last week includes plans to eliminate a program that deploys dog teams to detect explosives at crowded travel hubs across the country.

Boy if FOX News keeps playing all those racist Michael Bloomberg quotes he might wind up as the GOP nominee.- John Fugelsang

Republican Shenanigans

I want to be clear how utterly despised Blagojevich was in his own party in Illinois (a Democratic powerhouse).

He was impeached 114-1. He was convicted in the IL Senate 59-0.

*He tried to sell Obama's Senate seat for profit. He does not deserve commutation. - Bradley P. Moss

* That's probably why Trump is commuting his sentence.

I literally wrote a book about billionaires taking over the world, and even I cannot believe that what is shaping up now is a contest between a billionaire and a guy who thinks billionaires shouldn't exist to replace a pretend billionaire. - Anand Giridharadas

Making Sure Sham Educational Institutes Thrive
Led by Secretary Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Department of Education in 2018 revived a Washington, D.C. accrediting agency, just two years after it was shut down by President Barack Obama’s administration. Now, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) is back to determining the viability of higher education institutions, and has reportedly approved Reagan National University, a college which doesn’t appear to exist at all.

Bloomberg Enrages Trump By Buying Greenland. - Andy Borowitz

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Rock The Voter News

How about a Bernie/Bloomberg co-presidency where Bernie redistributes all of Bloomberg's money and Bloomberg spends his time making videos that torment Donald Trump? - Rex Huppke

The Whistleblower of Russian Hacking Petitions Trump For Her Release
Supporters of Reality Winner, a National Security Agency whistleblower who leaked classified information about Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, petitioned Donald Trump on Monday for her early release from prison...Winner was sentenced to five years and three months in August 2018 after admitting breaching the espionage act by passing top secret documents to an investigative news website about the Russian hacking of voting software and its efforts to disrupt dozens of local election systems ahead of the 2016 election.

During my research I interviewed a guy who said he was a libertarian until he did MDMA and realized that other people have feelings, and that was pretty much the best summary of libertarianism I've ever heard. - Hilary Agro

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Business/Tech News

The #CatholicChurch #SouthernBaptistChurch and #BoyScouts are all facing pervasive sexual abuse scandals.

Coincidentally they have been those most relentlessly attacking the morality of LGBTQ human beings.

I think we're starting to see who the real danger is. - John Pavlovitz

I Watched This Stadium Being Built. The Chinese Workers Used Bamboo Scaffolding. BTW China Also Built Wind Farms in Nicaragua at the Same Time.
A $10 million donation from China to the Costa Rican Institute of Sports and Recreation (ICODER) will help fund renovations to the National Stadium, Costa Rica’s largest and most modern sports venue...While a giant Costa Rican flag waves on the western side of the National Stadium, the “Jewel of La Sabana,” as it was deemed by former President Oscar Arias, was constructed by a staff of entirely Chinese workers.
In June 2007, Arias severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan to officially establish Costa Rica’s new partnership with China. As a token of appreciation, the Chinese government offered Costa Rica a new National Stadium as “a gift” and spent an estimated $100 million on its construction...During a visit to San José earlier this year, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Costa Rica against allying itself too closely to China.

I bashed people on Twitter, ate junk food and went to a strip club. How did you celebrate “President’s Day”? - Conan O'Brien

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Monday, February 17, 2020

Bill Barr ouster demanded by over 1,100 ex-Justice Dept officials in scathing letter

Bill Barr ouster demanded by over 1,100 ex-Justice Dept officials in scathing letter
According to a report from the New York Times, over 1,100 former federal prosecutors and Justice Department officials have signed on to a letter calling for Attorney General Bill Barr to step down.
The report states the letter insists, “Each of us strongly condemns President Trump’s and Attorney General Barr’s interference in the fair administration of justice,” adding those actions “require Mr. Barr to resign.”

To the men and women of DOJ/FBI: do NOT resign, stay strong, in all your actions be true to the oath you have sworn, report wrongdoing. The era of Trump and Barr will pass-their slander, insults and corrupt acts will end. We - the American people - respect & believe in you. - Eric Holder

Happy Presidents Day

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Bill Barr Rushed To Walter Reed Medical Center After Remote-Control Implant in Brain Fails. - Andy Borowitz

More Charges Possible Against Giuliani's Associates
Federal prosecutors are weighing new charges against associates of Rudy Giuliani in connection with a company that paid him $500,000, according to people familiar with the investigation.
Prosecutors with the US attorney's office for the Southern District of New York are considering whether to charge Giuliani associate Lev Parnas and at least one of his business partners with misleading potential investors for Fraud Guarantee, the Florida-based company that paid Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal attorney

Donald Trump remains popular among people for whom lies are better than facts, promises are better than accomplishments, Duck Dynasty is better than Shakespeare, superstition is better than science, and Hank Williams Jr. is better than Hank Williams Sr. - Middle Age Riot

Republican Shenanigans

The president says his life was better before he became president.I understand. My life was also better before he became president.#PresidentsDay - Mohamad Safa tweet

Vindman Vindicated
The Army will not investigate Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the former National Security Council staffer who testified in the president’s impeachment investigation, the service’s top civilian said Friday.
Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy made the announcement at an event just days after President Donald Trump said he imagined the military would “take a look at” whether Vindman should face disciplinary action for the “horrible things” he told House investigators about the president’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last July.

The contractors he hired trusted him.The women he married trusted him.The donors to his scam charity trusted him.The students - incl vets - in his fraud online University trusted him.

If you think you can follow both Trump & Jesus, you haven't read either of their books. - John Fugelsang

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The way Republicans obsessed over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spending $300 of her own money to get a haircut you'd think she'd spent $133 million of taxpayer money to play golf at resorts she owned. - Middle Age Riot

Rock The Voter News

CEO Of Robotics Corporation Tells Sobbing Andrew Yang That He Was His Greatest Creation. - The Onion

Hillary Clinton — cleared
James Comey — cleared
Lisa Page — cleared
Peter Strzok — cleared
Andrew McCabe — cleared

Manafort — guilty
Gates — guilty
Flynn — guilty
Stone — guilty
Cohen — guilty
Papadopoulos — guilty
Kilimnik — guilty

The Latest Push To Make D.C. a State
A bill that would make Washington, D.C., the 51st U.S. state was approved by a Democratic-led House committee last week, setting the stage for a vote by the full chamber in the near future. If it passes, as expected, it will be the first time the campaign to bestow statehood on the nation’s capital has been endorsed by one of the chambers of Congress.
Republicans in the Senate are expected to swiftly reject the bill, however, continuing a legacy of partisan sparring over the District of Columbia that has been going on for more than two centuries.

Eleven years ago today, near the bottom of the worst recession in generations, I signed the Recovery Act, paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth and the longest streak of job creation in American history. - Barack Obama tweet

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Business/Tech News

Scientists have detected an unexplainable radio signal coming from space. In other words, now even God has a podcast.- Conan O'Brien

Ivanka Slinks Into Dubai
Ivanka Trump lauded Sunday a handful of Mideast countries, including close U.S. allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, for embarking on “significant reforms” to advance women's rights, while speaking at a gathering of women entrepreneurs and regional leaders in Dubai.

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. — Crazy Horse

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