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Monday, January 20, 2025

Biden issues preemptive pardons

President Joe Biden on Monday issued pardons for Gen. Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci and members of Congress who served on the committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

The pardons, which come in the final hours of his presidency, come after President-elect Donald Trump vowed retribution for those he viewed as opposing his first presidency.

General Mark Milley on being pardoned:
"After forty-three years of faithful service in uniform to our Nation, protecting and defending the Constitution, I do not wish to spend whatever remaining time the Lord grants me fighting those who unjustly might seek retribution for perceived slights."

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

Anyone taking bets on when Trump declares Martial Law?

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Buckle Up!
Donald Trump will be sworn in as US president, ushering in another turbulent four-year term with promises to push the limits of executive power, deport millions of immigrants and transform the role of the US on the world stage

Inauguration Forecast Shows Temperature and IQ in the Twenties. - Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

So DOGE was created for Vivek and Elon to cut government waste, and the first cut… was Vivek. - ‪Brian Tyler Cohen‬ ‪

Vivek Ramaswamy has been eliminated from the Hunger Games.- Mike Nellis

Snoop Dogg Goes To The Dark Side

Snoop is just one of many performers lined up for Trump's inaugural events. According to CNN, Nelly will reportedly attend the Liberty Inaugural Ball on Monday, where Trump is also expected to be in attendance. NBC News reports that rappers Rod Wave, Kodak Black, and Fivio Foreign will also allegedly attend events.

Carrie Underwood? Never listened to her anyway. Kid Rock? Be serious.

...Snoop Dogg??? That one hurts. - InvisibleMayDay

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Rock The Voter News

DC hotels still have capacity. Top restaurants are still taking reservations. Popular bars aren’t extending their hours.

Yeah… starting to think cold wasn’t the reason why they moved the inauguration inside lol - Santiago Mayer

$MELANIA?

Returning First Lady Melania Trump on Sunday released her own so-called meme coin $MELANIA just days after President-elect Donald Trump released his own cryptocurrency, which quickly reached an estimated value in the tens of billions on paper.

MAGA, let me get this straight: Donald Trump is selling a meme cryptocurrency and you have no problem with that…

But when Hunter Biden paints and sells his artwork to people, that’s apparently “corrupt?”

Are you serious? The hypocrisy is insane. MAGA corruption is real. - Harry Sisson

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Business/Tech News

Trump Says Crowd for Inauguration Inside Capitol Rotunda Will Top 20 Million. - Andy Borowitz

Trump's crypto scheme is probably the single most corrupt act any president has ever undertaken, right? It's literally "You can pay me, the president of the United States, billions of dollars" and that's exactly what people have done. - Will Stancil

This Is What Is Called Legal Propaganda, Not News.

While the term “mainstream media” is often used as shorthand by conservative pundits as a way to talk about what they see as liberal bias in legacy media, the term misses the mark by a vast margin. That’s because the most influential outlet in the political media ecosystem offers a decidedly conservative and pro-Trump point of view: Fox News.

Since the 2024 election took place on Nov. 5, the top 500 most-watched cable news shows aired on Fox News, revealing just how dominant a voice it has become in US politics. The first non-Fox News show to show up in cable news ratings from Nov. 6-Jan. 14? CNN’s Election Day America, which showed up at spot 507.

Weather forecast for today: Diminishing democracy early in the morning, followed by full-on fascism in the afternoon. - Tea Pain

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I'm somewhere between depressed and desperate.

I was so hoping to retire and go surfing but how can I now?

Friday, January 17, 2025

Panama Canal Officials Respond to Trump’s Threats to Retake It On CNN: ‘We Get To Keep Everything’

Panama Canal Officials Respond to Trump’s Threats to Retake It On CNN: ‘We Get To Keep Everything’

Officials in charge of managing the Panama Canal rebuffed President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to retake control of the vital waterway.

Can someone explain why TikTok is a bigger national security concern than a social media platform run by a South African technofeudal oligarch actively interfering in our elections and sabotaging our national interests here and abroad? - jack-e-smith.bsky.social

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

Four years ago, in the middle of a pandemic, we needed a leader with the character to put politics aside and do what was right. That’s what Joe Biden did.

At a time when our economy was reeling, he drove what would become the world’s strongest recovery – with 17 million new jobs, historic wage gains, and lower health care costs. He passed landmark legislation to rebuild our nation’s infrastructure and address the threat of climate change.

I’m grateful to Joe for his leadership, his friendship, and his lifetime of service to this country we love. - Barack Obama

Sounds As Though Greenland Plans To Fight Trump
President-elect Trump’s talk of taking over or acquiring Greenland is highlighting bipartisan talks about the need to increase security around the Arctic island and boost defenses in the region.

They are literally trying to confirm someone with NAZI TATTOOS as the Secretary of Defense for Trump’s cabinet. Are people even sane? - Kyla Lacey

Republican Shenanigans

We have 8,400 firefighters working the lines; 16,000 personnel; 2,500 National Guard trying to address the issue of looting; 750 CHP as we speak; we have the EPA starting to do phase 1 of the debris removal... All of that [rightwing disinformation] is a deep distraction. - Gov. Gavin Newsom

You've been carefully trained to overreact to Biden and underreeact to Trump. That kind of thing doesn't happen on accident. - Yurock

Vivek Ramaswamy To Run For Governor of Ohio. LOL.

Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-chair of President-elect Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), plans to run for governor of Ohio, two sources confirmed to The Hill on Friday.

The Ohio governor’s mansion will be up for grabs in 2026, as sitting Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) is term-limited.

Vivek Ramaswamy is as FAKE as the FAKE Dementia drug that he made his billions of US dollars from. Ohio Voters will not elect him as Governor of Ohio. The voters in Ohio are very conservative and only vote for white men. - D Patriot

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Rock The Voter News

Putin said to me he wanted to see the Finlandization of Europe. I said I'll tell you what you're going to get, the NATO-ization of Finland. - Joe Biden

Aw, It's Too Cold For Trump On Inauguration Day
The cold weather has thrown President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration into chaos, as it could be moved inside Monday due to temperatures forecast to be below-freezing, according to a report.

I'm writing a piece on Trumpite intellectuals making the "spiritual case" for the conquest of Greenland, that it will spur a rebirth of the "pioneering frontier spirit" in America lost in the 1890s. And seeing now they're moving Inaugural inside because it's too cold. So yeah, not so sure abt this. - Josh Marshall

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Business/Tech News

While I agree w/Jim Acosta, the truth is the free press has let the American people down. If the free press had done their job there's no f--king way in hell Trump would be president and America would be days away from becoming a facsimile of 1934 Germany. - Bill Madden

The Demoting Of Decent Journalists Has Begun At CNN

CNN is considering a substantial demotion for one of its highest-rating stars—who also happens to be a longtime antagonist of President-elect Donald Trump.

CNN chief Mark Thompson called Jim Acosta on Wednesday to propose that his show, CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta, be moved from its 10 a.m. ET time slot to midnight, according to the newsletter Status News.

Live your life in such a way that the entire world doesn't burst out laughing when your rocket blows up. - Jeff Tiedrich

Just a thought: Instead of TikTok, how about we ban assault weapons first? - Andrea Junker

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Peace.

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Former Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will not attend President-elect Donald Trump's traditional inaugural lunch.

Former Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will not attend President-elect Donald Trump's traditional inaugural lunch.

Obama received an invitation but declined to attend, according to a source familiar with the matter. Clinton also was invited but does not plan to attend, according to a second source familiar with the matter, while Bush's office said it was not tracking an invitation to the luncheon.

Perfect. Trump didn't show up for Biden's inauguration, let alone the lunch.

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

Hegseth Offers to Connect Breathalyzer to Nuclear Arsenal. - Andy Borowitz

Pete Hegseth Furious That Confirmation Hearing Conflicts with Happy Hour. - Andy Borowitz

Nyet from Netanyahu as He Stops The Hostages' Release
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is tapping the brakes on claims of success by President Biden, President-elect Trump and partners in the Middle East that a ceasefire and hostage release deal has been achieved to pause 15 months of war.

Fact: Netanyahu met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago and that's when they agreed to extend the war in Gaza for political gain. - Liam Nissan

Republican Shenanigans

I cannot think of a better metaphor for America right now than the Washington Post's mission statement changing from “Democracy Dies in Darkness” to “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.” - Randi Mayem Singer

What's Next? A Trump Produced Docudrama On Himself?
The Trump-Vance transition team has released new official portraits of Donald Trump and JD Vance. The president-elect’s pose is strikingly similar to his mug shot from when he was charged in Fulton County, Georgia, in 2023.

FUN FACT: Trump is a month and a half behind on his promise to "end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours after I'm elected." - Tea Pain

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Rock The Voter News

In four days the United States will enter formally into an era of oligarchy without the rule of law.

Americans have been prepared extensively for this transformation: bad education, deliberate ignorance, disinformation and hate propaganda have irrevocably poisoned civil society. - Michael McKay

Republicans: Crashing the economy since Taft
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Treasury Department, billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, warned during his confirmation hearing on Thursday that Americans are “barreling towards an economic crisis at year-end.”

Racing to a financial crisis but we want to pass a trillion dollar billionaire tax cuts
no more talk about debt, budget or inflation, egg prices, gas, or housing

now priority is
billionaire tax cut
deportation
billionaire tax cut
golfing
billionaire tax cut
executive time
billionaire tax cut. - We are in trouble

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Business/Tech News

A President with absolute immunity to commit crimes and an Attorney General who can't say no.

What could possibly go wrong? - Sen. Adam Schiff

Oo, Oo, Is Mel Gibson Going To Direct A Movie About Trump, With Jon Voight Portraying Trump?
President-elect Donald Trump is hoping to make Hollywood “stronger than ever before” by naming Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight as “special ambassadors,” whose goal will be to bring back business lost to “foreign countries.”

Everything is dumb and terrible, and it's gonna be dumb and terrible for a while. It’s important to do what you can to make it less dumb and terrible, and it's important to find a way make some contentment for yourself in spite of everything being dumb and terrible. - Joe Katz

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Time To Deflate Photo

The Wuppertal suspension railway is an elevated railway in Wuppertal, Germany that opened in 1901.

Peace.