Majority says they favor conviction as Trump impeachment trial begins: poll

Majority says they favor conviction as Trump impeachment trial begins: poll

A majority of Americans favor convicting former President Trump in his second impeachment trial this week, according to a CBS-YouGov poll released Tuesday.

Seriously, why the f*ck are co-conspirators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz allowed be jurors in the trial of their mobster overlord? asking for 81 million friends. - Jeff Tiedrich

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Jawdropping Video of Capitol Riots to Open Trump Trial Sets Off Shockwaves: 'What a Stain on Our Nation'
• Trump tweeted angrily about Mike Pence while the vice president was trapped and under siege at the Capitol.
• Trump's DC hotel is hiking prices for March 4 - the day QAnon followers think the former president will be sworn in
• Sec of State Blinken Says Capitol Riots Hurt US' Ability to Speak With a 'Strong Voice for Democracy'
• QAnon Shaman's Lawyer Calls Out Trump 'Propaganda' in Inciting Capitol Riot: Millions of Americans 'Did Hang on Every Word of Their President'
• 'Because President Trump said to': Over a dozen Capitol rioters say they were following Trump's guidance
• Babies and children deported to Haiti in apparent defiance of Biden order: report

Biden’s Coronavirus Plan Calls for Americans to Stay Home and Watch Impeachment. - Andy Borowitz

 

Hacker Tried To Poison Florida City's Water. Russia or Q?

A hacker gained access into the water treatment system of Oldsmar, Florida, on Friday and tried to increase the levels of sodium hydroxide -- commonly referred to as lye -- in the city's water, officials said, putting thousands at risk of being poisoned.

The incident took place Friday when an operator noticed the intrusion and watched the hacker access the system remotely. The hacker adjusted the level of sodium hydroxide to more than 100 times its normal levels, according to Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri.

The operator immediately reduced the level back. 

GOP Senators Argue It’s Unconstitutional To Be Forced To Work On A Tuesday. - The Onion

Republican Shenanigans

• Dominion says it hired private investigators in a bid to reach pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell
• Alan Dershowitz Reportedly Lobbied Trump Admin Over Clemency for Fmr Campaign Adviser Convicted of Child Porn, Sex Trafficking
• Melania Trump’s ex-aide hints at even more tapes, as lawsuit against her memoir dropped by DOJ
• Piers Morgan rips Sarah Palin on election claims: 'People like you' are the GOP's problem
• DeSantis Defends Maskless Super Bowl: 'How the Hell Am I Going to Be Able to Drink a Beer with a Mask?'
• Kevin McCarthy Says Joe Biden Hasn't Called Him, Defends Trip to See Trump Amid Impeachment
• After allowing parents to opt-out of the Black History Month curriculum, a Utah school is switching the decision

Trump’s Lawyers Call for Dismissal of Trial on the Ground That They Will Never Collect Fees. -  Andy Borowitz

Trump Being Investigated By Georgia. ROFLOL.

President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia are now being investigated.

Per the New York Times, the office of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is starting an investigation that includes looking at the now-infamous call the former president made to Raffensperger.

Jason Miller claims Trump is happier now that he is off social media.  That makes seven billion of us. - Stephen Colbert

 

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Rock The Voter News

• House Rebuts Trump Defense: He Was ‘Singularly Responsible’ For Inciting Mob
• Biden administration to begin shipping vaccines to health centers
• Biden's Justice Department to ask nearly all Trump-era U.S. attorneys to resign
• Democratic lawmakers push FDA to lift restrictions on abortion pill

Giuliani to Be First Guest of Lou Dobbs Total Landscaping. - Andy Borowitz

South Dakota Republican Intent On Killing More South Dakotans
A state representative in South Dakota wants a new law giving the state the power to nullify executive orders from the Biden administration it deems unconstitutional, heightening the chances of a conflict with the White House in a state that has already vowed not to enforce any potential federal mask mandate.

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Republicans had no problems stealing 2 Supreme Court seats, trying to overturn election for 2 months, introducing 165 new voter suppression laws in 33 states, but holding ex-president accountable for inciting violent coup is a bridge too far. - Ari Berman

Business/Tech News

• Tesla's investment in China is paying off — its sales more than doubled last year
• Eli Lilly says CFO resigns after 'inappropriate communication' with staff
• Fox News Moves to Dismiss Smartmatic’s $2.7B Lawsuit: Our Network ‘Did Exactly What the First Amendment Protects’
• Alcohol abuse rises amid pandemic, with hospitals in SoCal and elsewhere reporting wave of deadly liver disease

Trump's Next Court Appearance: 

The Food Court

New York Is Accelerating The Investigation of Trump. RUN, DONALD, RUN!!!
As former U.S. President Donald Trump goes to trial this week in the Senate on charges of inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, criminal and civil investigations into his businesses are accelerating in New York.

Imagining Trump yelling at the TV in Florida right now. - Schooley tweet

 

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Odd News

• Video shows truck plunge 70 feet off Wisconsin ramp. The driver survived.
• Want to be an astronaut? The European Space Agency is hiring for the first time in 11 years
• Chicago man freezes pants to reserve parking spots
• Lost wallet found inside Georgia cottage wall 66 years later
• 'Skinniest house in London' listed for $1.3 million
• Mississippi city offering remote workers $6,000 to relocate

Time To Deflate Photo

Some of the first park rangers in America weren’t rangers at all. Known as the Buffalo Soldiers, roughly 500 African American men were assigned by the U.S. Army to protect national parks in the west before the National Park Service was created. The wildlife you see today in parks like Yellowstone National Park is in part due to their efforts to fight against poaching. Text and photo from the Department of the Interior.

Peace.

Trump Hiding Behind His Own Political Theater

Read: Former President Donald Trump's defense team's legal brief

In a pretrial brief ahead of former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate, Trump's legal team accused House Democrats of engaging in "political theater" and argued that the upcoming trial is unconstitutional because Trump is no longer president.

Trump should represent himself at his trial like only sane and innocent people do. - Conan O'Brien

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Wild maskless Super Bowl celebrations in Covid variant hotspot spark superspreader fears
• CNN Reporter Aghast at Maskless, Drunk Super Bowl Crowds in Tampa: I Asked the Police, ‘What Are You Doing About This?’
• Rep. Ron Wright dies after contracting COVID-19
• Liz Cheney Raises Question of Whether Trump Attacking Pence During Riots Was ‘Premeditated Effort to Provoke Violence’
• Biden administration suspends Trump asylum deals with El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras

Ivanka Says She Should Be Allowed To Continue Reading Intelligence Briefings To Her Dad. - Andy Borowitz

 

Trump Is Going To Be In Court The Rest Of His Life.
An Illinois judge has ruled that the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is liable for violating two state environmental laws by sucking up millions of gallons of water daily from the Chicago River without a valid permit...Total fines for the violations could be as much as $12 million.

I was not prepared for how many people are willing to let others die rather than suffer even a moment's inconvenience. - Joseph Brassey tweet

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Breaking with the GOP, a top conservative lawyer says Trump can be tried for high crimes and misdemeanors
• RedState Retracts ‘Contest’ Telling Readers to Go ‘RINO Hunting'
• Fox News cancels Lou Dobbs' show; pro-Trump host not expected to be back on air
• Lou Dobbs Retweets Praise from Trump, Swipes at Fox News After Network Cancels Show
• Fox's Kilmeade Fumes Over Biden's Handling of School Reopening: 'Can You Imagine That? Your School Policy Is Teachers First?'
• Impeachment Managers Afraid of Implicating GOPers Who Enabled Trump's Lies About Election Fraud: Report
• Former Overstock CEO Claims Fellow Trump Ally Rudy Giuliani Was 'Sh*t-Faced' Almost Every Night
• Republican governor thinks Joe Biden is ‘pushing children’ to be trans. Seriously
• Kevin McCarthy Reportedly Tried to Get Liz Cheney to Apologize After Trump Impeachment Vote
• Texas pastors under fire for referring to Kamala Harris as racist trope

Lou Dobbs Launches New Venture of Standing On Sidewalk Shouting At People. - Andy Borowitz

 

Geez Louise

A former Republican Senate staffer has been arrested and faces child pornography charges in Washington, D.C. 

Federal authorities arrested Ruben Verastigui, 27, on Friday and have accused him of receiving and possessing child pornography between April and this month

The Republicans know that if Trump is convicted, it will open the door to their convictions.

You can’t punish the King without punishing his court.

They are protecting themselves, not America. - Woman in the Moon tweet

 

 

Want unity? Convict the leader who divides us. - The Lincoln Project

 

 

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"I hate America, 

I honor treason 

& I like being racially insensitive"

...is just too wordy for a bumper sticker; 

that's why we have confederate flag decals. - John Fugelsang

 

Rock The Voter News

• Democrats to unveil $3,000 direct cash payments to families with children
• Joe Biden calls women out of work, kids out of school a 'national emergency' in interview
• Pressly describes Capitol siege image that haunts her
• President Joe Biden Comments on Lack of Black NFL Coaches During Super Bowl: ‘I Don't Understand'

Republicans Blast Biden’s Divisive Position That People Should Have Food. - Andy Borowitz

 

The Next Episode of the Stormy Daniels Telenovela Brought To You by Michael Cohen

When he was Donald Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen was hellbent on silencing Stormy Daniels, even arranging a hush-money payment to the porn actress that landed him in federal prison.

Now, as one of many of the former president's insiders-turned-critics, Cohen is literally broadcasting Daniels' story — including intimate new details of her alleged sexual encounter with Trump — in a discussion ranging from shame and scandal to a haunted house in New Orleans.

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Business/Tech News

• Yellen: Biden stimulus plan 'up to the job' of addressing pandemic challenges
• Four Seasons Total Landscaping Gets Lampooned in Hilarious Super Bowl Ad
• Twitter explores subscriptions to reduce its dependence on ads
• Tesla buys $1.5 billion in bitcoin, sending its price soaring

Trump should not receive intelligence reports unless he is banned from eBay. - Andy Borowitz

 

Surprise. Surprise. Reagan's Trickle Down Economics Was All A Ploy By The GOP.

Tax cuts for the wealthy have long drawn support from conservative lawmakers and economists who argue that such measures will "trickle down" and eventually boost jobs and incomes for everyone else. But a new study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich.

Before anyone gives Tom Brady a trophy, don’t forget that the Chiefs have the right to exhaust every legal avenue to challenge the result. It would be irresponsible to congratulate the Buccaneers so early. Many many fans are upset. Wouldn’t want them to lose trust. - Abraham Gutman

 

I love football but I thought this meme was hysterical!

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Odd News

• British boy wakes from nearly year-long coma
• 'Under A White Sky' Examines What It Might Take For Humans To Continue To Exist
• Wallet lost in Antarctica in ’60s returned to California man
• Lottery ticket worth $1.2M spent 3 months in oblivious winner's drawer
• Man runs barefoot half marathon in the snow to break Guinness record

Time To Deflate Photo

An ear trumpet from 1820 England. How do you turn it on, asked a millennial. 

Peace.

Senate Democrats approve budget resolution, teeing up coronavirus bill

Senate Democrats approve budget resolution, teeing up coronavirus bill

Senate Democrats approved a budget resolution early Friday morning that will allow them to pass coronavirus relief without GOP support.

The budget passed the Senate in a 50-50 party-line vote, with Vice President Harris breaking the tie. Because senators made changes to the resolution, it now bounces back to the House, where lawmakers will need to pass it for a second time as soon as Friday.

Hey Republicans, when you're done fronting for a crime boss, we will be over here, running the country. - Jeremy Newberger

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Capitol rioter 'QAnon Shaman' moved from DC jail to Virginia for organic diet
• Two Capitol riot suspects who took private plane to DC arrested in Texas
• Rep. Tlaib Fights Back Tears In House Floor Speech About Death Threats Against Her and Her Family
• Steny Hoyer Gives Blistering House Speech Against Rep. Greene for Post Targeting 'The Squad': 'They Are Our Colleagues!'
• Virginia lawmakers vote to repeal death penalty

Early this morning I was proud to watch VP Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to push forward necessary aid to help get us through this pandemic. 

This never would have been possible without the people of Georgia. This is what democracy looks like. - Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock

 

Lest We Not Forget That Putin Is The Bad Guy
Retired Adm. William McRaven argued that Russian President Vladimir Putin has outplayed the US and Russia is the greatest external security threat during a recent discussion of the challenges the new Biden administration faces.

Think for a moment. What would Abraham Lincoln say if he saw these traitorous, bigoted, terrorist, confederate flag waving insurrectionists calling themselves "The Party of Lincoln"? - Purple Hayes tweet

 

Republican Shenanigans

• GOP senator warns his party must decide between "conservatism and madness"
• Exiled GOP Pariah Steve King Bashes Kevin McCarthy for Cutting Him Loose Over Racist Remarks But Backing Greene
• Sen. Ben Sasse Hits Back at Nebraska State GOP's Plan to Censure Him for Trump Criticism: 'Politics Isn't About the Worship of One Weird Dude'
• Giuliani Lashes Out on Air After His Own Radio Show Plays 'Insulting' Disclaimer About Him: 'They Gotta Warn You About Me!?'
• Boebert’s tax liens come under scrutiny as she faces potential ethics investigation
• Apparently a Bunch of Fake Catholic Nuns Went to a Trump Rally
• Mike Lindell Says The 'End Of Time' Will Come If His 'Miracle' 2-Hour Documentary Doesn't Catch On
• Dominion Hits All-Star Cast of Pro-Trump Pundits With Preservation Of Evidence Letter

Kevin McCarthy Denies Knowing What A Q-Tip Is. - Andy Borowitz

 

House Strips Marjorie Taylor Greene Of Committee Assignments

The House voted on Thursday to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., from her committee assignments after Republican leadership failed to punish the freshman congresswoman’s embrace of bizarre conspiracy theories and endorsement of violence against Democrats.

The resolution to strip Greene from her seats on the budget and the education and labor committees passed 230-199, with 11 House Republicans joining Democrats in voting for Greene’s removal.

If you're shocked only 11 Republicans voted to hold Marjorie Taylor Greene responsible for inciting violence at the Capitol...

...lemme tell you about the 147 GOPs who voted to throw out African American votes in AZ & PA w/no evidence, later that same night, bc they wanted to. - John Fugelsang

Charles Manson carved a swastika in his forehead and his lawyers didn't quit. - Mike Larsen

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Rock The Voter News

• The Moment VP Kamala Harris Breaks First 50-50 Tie to Clear Path for Biden Covid Relief Bill
• U.S. House expected to advance Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID aid package
• Jill Biden and dogs to appear in ad promoting mask use during Puppy Bowl

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Is Being Unfairly Judged For Things She Has Said And Done. - Andy Borowitz

The Senate Needs Mask Rules With Severe Penalties, All Because Of Dumbasses Like Rand Paul!

Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown once again called out his colleagues in the U.S. Senate on Thursday for not wearing face masks – this time a senator from a neighboring state.

During debate over a budget resolution, Brown briefly interrupted proceedings.

"... I would like to ask Senator Paul, in front of everybody, to start wearing a mask on the Senate floor like the entire staff does all the time," said Brown

The House needs to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene as if she were a bad tattoo. With lasers. - Andy Borowitz

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Business/Tech News

• Economy adds 49K jobs in January, unemployment falls to 6.3 percent
• Donald Trump Resigns From SAG-AFTRA Ahead of Vote to Expel
• Johnson & Johnson seeks U.S. approval for one-dose COVID vaccine 
• UK to begin hotel quarantines for hotspot travelers on Feb. 15

Is it just me, or is it every time we get rid of one lunatic republican, another one pops right up?

This is like having ants. - Velvet tweet

 

 

I Like This Pentagon Spending!

The Pentagon has authorized more than 1,000 active-duty service members to help the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with its vaccination effort against COVID-19.



You know what is a hoax? Trickle down economics.

Dr. Fauci looks twenty-five years younger than he did last year. - Michael Beschloss

 

 

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Odd News

• NASA picks Elon Musk's SpaceX to help with a $99 million mission that will map the creation of the universe
• NASA Is Offering Up To $500K To Figure Out How To Provide Astronauts With Fresh Food In Deep Space
• Cacophony of human noise is hurting all marine life, scientists warn
• California town pays tourists $100 to come visit
• Woman who tried to fake death gets extra year in prison

Time To Deflate Photo

The world's tallest statue is in Gujarat, India. Standing almost 600 feet tall, the Statue of Unity depicts Indian freedom fighter and politician Vallabhbhai Patel. FYI: the Statue of Liberty is 151 feet tall.

Best wishes for a peaceful weekend.