Like everyone else, we were stuck inside a lot this year, and with streaming further blurring the lines between theatrical movies and television features, I’ve expanded the list to include visual storytelling that I’ve enjoyed this year, regardless of format. pic.twitter.com/a8BS8jDkSs
Yes, $600 is an insult. Even more so when you see what other countries have done/are doing for their citizens. But for too many, *principle* is not something we have the luxury to exercise when food, shelter, and health are at risk.
Jon Ossoff to CNN on the relief bill: "I would have voted for it because relief is eight months too late, but $600 is a joke."
"I'm counting down the hours 'til he's gone," Pelosi told her leadership team as they strategized this weekend. "I plan to pull him out of there by his hair, his little hands and his feet."https://t.co/cksYNIzmxM
The woman I bought my home from over 2 yrs ago trying to vote from it absentee 1/5. I've filed official challenge to stop her from casting an apparently illegal vote. https://t.co/V8KzuWBuYL#gapol
Sterling is here at the Fulton County Elections Division to file an election challenge.
The challenge took place after Sterling got a third-party election flyer at his Sandy Spring home reminding a voter named Meron Fissha to pick up the absentee ballot she requested and be sure to “Return it quickly to ensure your vote is counted.”
There was one problem. Meron Fissha had sold her house to Gabriel Sterling in 2018 and moved to Maryland, according to Sterling’s election challenge.
As Congress passed a new $900 billion economic rescue package on Monday night, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) offered a choice bit of spin on how we got to this moment:
“A few days ago, with a new president-elect of their own party, everything changed,” Mr. McConnell said on Monday. “Democrats suddenly came around to our position that we should find consensus, make law where we agree, and get urgent help out the door.”
Getting the story right here is highly consequential. It will shape the arguments that determine the outcome of the Georgia runoffs — and control of the Senate — and should leave little doubt that continued GOP control means McConnell will strive to sabotage the recovery to cripple Joe Biden’s presidency.
This is what McConnell wants to obscure. Because as he has privately admitted, the failure of Congress to deliver a robust aid package to people is putting his Georgia senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue at risk.
So McConnell wants voters — especially those in Georgia — to believe Republicans supported generous aid all along, particularly the stimulus checks in the new deal, and that Democrats refused to act, to harm President Trump’s reelection campaign.
Maddow: “U.S. mired in ‘3-way split screen’ of Trump crises”
“Rachel Maddow outlines how the United States is caught in the coronavirus pandemic crisis made worse, possibly on purpose, by Donald Trump’s mishandling, as well as an election crisis perpetuated by Trump apparently driven mad by sycophants and the fact of losing, and thirdly, the pressure of looming criminal liability for Trump and some of his hangers-on who could benefit from a presidential pardon.”
“The ‘Red Slime’ Lawsuit That Could Sink Right-Wing Media”
“Voting machine companies threaten “highly dangerous” cases against Fox, Newsmax and OAN…”
“Here’s the thing:
Smartmatic wasn’t even used in the contested states. The company, now a major global player with over 300 employees, pulled out of the United States in 2007 after a controversy over its founders’ Venezuelan roots, and its only involvement this November was with a contract to help Los Angeles County run its election.”
🚨 Three days before Christmas, here is today's snapshot of each state's progress in reducing COVID cases/hospitalizations/death, via https://t.co/MfkeAwFiDG
"Members of the Tea Party NV party were 2X as likely to attempt double voting…"
All of these analyses end up showing that by their own metrics, Republicans did more to rig the vote. But all the evidence in the world won't convince someone who hates democracy to accept losing. https://t.co/4sM8dTGAHQ
I can’t remember hearing that he stepped up and went against the grain. Never heard him speak out against tRump and his fellow Republicans who he is not chiding. Pretty sure he voted against impeachment.
GOP Rep. Mac Thornberry says Republicans have a "mindless sort of obedience" to Trump.
"Congress was created to be and meant to be a separate independent branch of government – not one in which its members take their direction from a president." https://t.co/HGRdI7OjN5
We lost another doctor today To COVID But this doctor was mistreated. Her symptoms were ignored, downplayed and dismissed. She posted a heartbreaking video begging her fellow doctors to help save her… She called the patient advocate… She called the chief medical officer…
Chuck Rosenberg,
fmr senior official in the Justice Department and former U.S. Attorney, speaking to Maddow:
Maddow:
“In terms of the way Main Justice and the prosecutors would interact here, I should reiterate,
we know that the prosecutors who are investigating Mr. Giuliani at SDNY have expressed interest in getting these communications. We know they have talked to Main Justice about that. We just had an eloquent explanation from Danya (Perry) about the kinds of concerns Main Justice might have about the fact that he is an attorney and you have to protect the sacred nature of attorney-client privilege. But that there are also Justice Department rules governing these things. One of the parts of this box that’s still blocked to me that I would really like to see into, is whether there has been any effort by Main Justice to lean on SDNY about this. Or to improperly intervene, or divert, or slow them down. We don’t know. Where would we look or how would we approach this in order to see whether that was the case?”
Rosenberg:
“You know it’s interesting to me Rachel, when we’ve seen that heavy handed political interference.
For instance in the Stone and Flynn cases, how did we learn about it? We learned from the line prosecutors in the field about what was happening right? There was this hue and cry from AUSA’s in the field. And so not hearing that, and not hearing that in this case, I’m assuming some regularity here that is just Main Justice career folks and the field SDNY AUSAs in this case, working together to try and get a search warrant approved. So presumption of regularity, Danya explained it really well. And I’ve been on both sides of the equation. I’ve been in the field as an AUSA. I’ve been at Main Justice. There’s a typically healthy tension, occasionally it gets a little unhealthy, but typically a healthy tension between the two. And Danya is exactly right. Main Justice consults at the request of the field on these search warrants for attorneys. They want to make sure that there’s a filter team, a review team in place, because we do take the attorney-client privilege very seriously. They want to make sure that the prosecutors in the field have exhausted other alternatives. Meaning they really, really need this stuff via search warrant. And all those things being in place, being accurate, typically as Danya said the folks at Main Justice sign off on it. I haven’t had trouble as an AUSA in the field getting these types of warrants approved.”
Maddow:
“Chuck let me ask you about Mr. Giuliani’s case in the particular,
because he has been involved in so many of these lawsuits, trying to overturn the election results. On one of the filings that they made in the Pennsylvania case, you can see that Mr. Giuliani uses an iCloud
account – iCloud of course is an Apple product. If Mr. Giuliani reacts tonight by putting all of his electronic devices in a blender and hitting purée, would you expect that Mr. Giuliani’s electronic communications could nevertheless be obtained by subpoena or via search warrant through the companies that he has used for either his phone service or his data plans?”
Rosenberg:
“Well sure that’s a great question Rachel.
There are a bunch of places that investigators will go. For instance they could go to the provider, Verizon or T Mobile, or whoever that may be. And get stuff that is stored. They could go to Mr. Giuliani’s home or office and get his devices and get communications off of that. They can even get communications from other people with whom he has corresponded. I mean unless Mr. Giuliani is only writing to himself, there are other people involved in all of these communications. And so when you take a belt and suspenders approach to investigations, you go to each of these places and you get as much as you can, and you try and corroborate it with other stuff that you get from other people. You know one thing that strikes me Rachel, Mr. Fruman and Mr. Parnas who you talked about earlier, we have no idea whether or not at this point they’re cooperating, and whether or not their cooperation is what led prosecutors in the Southern District of New York to take this next step. Maybe that is part of the probable cause determination. So you triangulate these cases, and you get as much information from as many different places as you possibly can. And so to your point, if he decides to put all his personal devices in a blender and hit purée,
there are still other places for investigators to look.”
Christmas is upon us …we even have a Santa flyover here….heh.
And Belle our chatty cat is fading gracefully away as the snow falls…
–Thanks NW for being with us, thanks to everyone here, must leave thees for now and shall see thees anon.
Excellent. How about Biden puts Ms. Ifill on the SC:) Just saying
BREAKING: Today we amended our suit against the Trump Campaign to add the RNC for their coordinated efforts to pressure state & local officials to discount ballots cast by Black voters in November’s election. We’re bring claims under the Voting Rights Act & the Ku Klux Klan Act. https://t.co/fY7D71crMq
BREAKING: Rosemary Vrablic, the longtime @DeutscheBank official who oversaw the @realDonaldTrump relationship, has abruptly handed in her resignation from the bank, I'm told. She's leaving effective 12/31. https://t.co/y79jxysLQF
Lots of confusion out there. What we passed last night wasn't just COVID-19 relief – it was an omnibus spending bill to fund the entire government for the rest of FY21.
That's why there's a lot of non-COVID-related stuff in it.
Thanks @ConstanceWu for getting the word out about GA! #AAPI Georgians showed up in RECORD numbers for the Nov 3 election — turnout increased by 91% (!) from 2016 with efforts of groups like @AsianAAF.
If you are upset with the stimulus bill, consider supporting @ossoff and @ReverendWarnock – giving Dems full control of the Senate so we can pass more stimulus under Joe Biden, and other good things.
Senator Perdue actively opposed stimulus checks for eight months, and now in a last-ditch effort stop hemorrhaging support, he's pretending to support aid, despite fighting to cut the stimulus checks in half. Georgia voters won't be fooled. #gapol#gasenhttps://t.co/gefULBLIEf
Tonight's the night! Look up! 😍 And if you can't see #TheGreatConjunction where you are, don't worry — Jupiter and Saturn will still look impressive in the night sky over the next few days. https://t.co/2Q8mhI2vkO
The DeKalb County elections board has just rejected challenges to about 50,000 voters' eligibility to vote in Jan. 5 #gasen runoffs, per @ByTylerEstep, and voting rights advocates say a similar challenge in Henry County was also rebuffed. #gapolhttps://t.co/SdKURnnGMO
The Gwinnett County Board of Voter Registrations and Elections has denied a challenge from a conservative group of more than 15,000 voters' eligibility to cast a ballot in the runoffs. https://t.co/nSdOsCtMHA
Months ago Barr ousted the U.S. Attorney for the SDNY, and tried to replace him with a Trump administration puppet, in an apparent attempt at preventing the SDNY from indicting and arresting Steve Bannon. But the U.S. Attorney refused to resign until he had legal assurances that he’d be replaced by his own longtime deputy, Audrey Strauss. Accordingly, Bannon ended up getting arrested.
Now the courts have determined today that Audrey Strauss, who had been serving as Acting U.S. Attorney all this time, is legitimately the permanent U.S. Attorney. This matters, because her “Acting” tenure was set to expire before Trump left office. But now she’s locked in place until the end of Trump’s term, meaning Trump never will get to mess with the SDNY. In other words, Barr did all that for nothing.
3. One obvious possibility discussed in the White House: Trump has spoken about a bunch of pardons on Christmas Eve. Some of the names may have been too much for Barr–so they agreed on his departure on Dec. 23.
5. …ranging from appointing special counsels for Hunter Biden or election fraud, to giving a legal ok for seizing voting machines or for various types of Insurrection Act-type moves by the president. Can one be confident Barr's successor as AG, Jeffrey Rosen, will also say no?
7. In the past, Rosen has been allied with some in the White House counsel's office and others elsewhere in the White House who've been for going whole hog for Trump, as a friend put it. They've run up against resistance from Barr but also from WH Counsel Pat Cipollone.
9. I'm also reliably told senior military officials in the Pentagon are more, not less, alarmed than they were a few weeks ago when Mark Esper was fired. The new crew of Trump loyalists in the most senior civilian positions don't seem there only to burnish their resumes, as…
11. …more sober and weighty than those of 1974 in the weeks before Nixon's resignation. And the difference is that Jim Schlesinger was then Secretary of Defense, committed to checking an unstable and desperate president, not to helping one.
Today marks 10 years since @BarackObama signed the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell into law, bringing about an end to the discriminatory policy. To our LGBTQ+ military members, know that @JoeBiden and I will have your back and won’t stop fighting until we achieve equality.
BREAKING: Trump just pardoned George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty in 2017 to making false statements to federal officials as part of the Mueller probe.
Trump also pardoned Alex van der Zwaan, a lawyer who pleaded guilty to the same charge in 2018 regarding the Mueller probe.
I know… I know… polls blah, blah, blah. I just wanted to share some good news.
Georgia Polls: SurveyUSA, shows Warnock leading Loeffler by 7 percentage points among likely voters. Ossoff maintains a 5-point advantage over Perdue.#GASen Christmas Eve Fulton County Cobb County DeKalb County Gwinnett County Chatham County Atlanta https://t.co/eA8Z8embXy
BREAKING: Trump has pardoned four former U.S. service members who were convicted of killing Iraqi civilians while working as Blackwater contractors in 2007.
BREAKING: Trump pardons Nicholas Slatten, a former Blackwater security guard, sentenced to life without parole for first-degree murder of an unarmed Iraqi civilian in 2007.
4 weeks is way too many for me. We’re going to need super vacuum cleaners & sanitizers to get rid of scum. Plus FBI to sweep every level of government of all bugs, & Biden/Harris admin to systematically get rid of embedded sycophants too. 😳😷
Republicans repeatedly refused to say what amount the President wanted for direct checks. At last, the President has agreed to $2,000 — Democrats are ready to bring this to the Floor this week by unanimous consent. Let’s do it! https://t.co/Th4sztrpLV
Does it feel like we're moving toward a scenario where the military is going to have to refuse an illegal order from Trump? Or does it feel like his tantrum is petering out? And how insane is it that we have to wonder?
The biggest smile today was watching George Takei deliver a nerd moment (all respect) w/ Jason who was covering Joy’s show! And I love George, his laughter brings joy, & his message, even more! Bless! 💞
To be clear, our reporting is not that some future-world prosecutors in the yet-to-exist Biden Administration are seeking Mr. Giuliani's emails. It's that federal line prosecutors **now** are after them. Under President Trump. And have talked to Main Justice about it already. https://t.co/IYfNwDttn2
Schiff: "If you lie to cover up for the President, you get a pardon. If you are a corrupt politician who endorsed Trump, you get a pardon. If you murder civilians while at war, you get a pardon.
"…if you elect a corrupt man as President of the U.S., you get corruption."
Yup! Create a distraction w/ one hand, pickpocket w/ the other hand. Bill Sikes (Dickens character in Oliver Twist) would take him on as an apprentice (pun intended)! 😏😷
But 70+ Million rabid fans voted for him and millions of them own personal arsenals not just a hunting rifle.
I’ll be ‘in the street’ as well, so you won’t be alone.
If we reach 20Jan2021 without a Coup attempt, let alone a successful coup, I’ll apologize for the warnings.
The playbook Trump has been using since well before 20Jan2017, (the birther stunt being the early warning signal) does not have even a sentence in it about exiting peacefully.
New on @MSNBC: House Democrats will attempt to pass a stand-alone bill to provide for $2000 direct payments by unanimous consent on Thursday, NBC News reports, citing a senior Democratic aide.
Unsurprising. I’ve been telling you guys for four years how much he’s reviled behind closed doors—even among his most ardent public defenders—but don’t let the image rehabilitation tours start now — they’re all cowards and should be treated as such. https://t.co/AazV5aKOcw
His appointment will make history. But the @AlexPadilla4CA I know is far more interested in changing history — especially for the working men and women of our state and country.
I can think of no one better to represent the state of California as our next United States Senator. pic.twitter.com/xiAzpTS42Y
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says on MSNBC that the Pentagon should recall Michael Flynn to active duty and immediately court martial him for incitement to insurrection. "He needs to be reprimanded and he needs to be done so officially."
Why are so many powerful people trying to make it so difficult for us to vote? Because they know our power. They know when we vote, things change. They know when we vote, we win. pic.twitter.com/wFYeln6X0M
Nope. You don’t get to enable Trump’s lunacy and corruption for four years and when it becomes too outside the mainstream you get to disown it. Sorry, @GeraldoRivera, this is a stain you’ll never wash out. https://t.co/kBBZGYKE2k
What did @realDonaldTrump do today? He corruptly pardoned a bunch of crooks and is threatening to hold up #COVID19 relief so many desperately need. Trump’s presidency — from beginning to can’t-come-fast-enough-end — was always about Trump. And never about you.
Hah! That’s why they tried to bring down Eric last week, so he doesn’t try for 2024 run. Coz Idiot thinks he’ll run again then. Dood better spend his time getting his jail time GED. 😅😷
A top employee of Dominion Voting Systems, who has gone into hiding after becoming the subject of conspiracies on the right since the election, is suing the Trump campaign, a number of campaign surrogates and pro-Trump media outlets, alleging defamation. https://t.co/QB55y2kw33
Trump’s demands play into #gasen Dem arguments. Says @ossoff: “President Trump is, as ever, erratic and all over the place. But on this point, tonight, he’s right: $600 is a joke. They should send $2,000 checks to the American people right now because people are hurting.” #gapolhttps://t.co/e31TrLyRtY
About 40 current and former detainees have provided sworn statements detailing what they perceived as abusive treatment and systematic medical misconduct at an immigration detention center in South Georgia. #gapolhttps://t.co/rvsjJlfkTX
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel plans to seek sanctions against lawyers who filed lawsuits against the state's election results with claims that featured "intentional misrepresentations."https://t.co/ZCeXvG5xAP
Dear Secretary @stevenmnuchin1: You failed the American people. You hid that @realDonaldTrump wanted $2000 stimulus checks. You are not the President. You cannot substitute your own views. Your job is to negotiate on behalf of @POTUS, not mislead Congress about Trump’s views. https://t.co/WeHw83ngGR
Marco Rubio and two other guys are lost wandering the desert. They come across a glass of water, a sandwich, and a car door. They all agree that they each get one item. Marco Rubio runs up and grabs the car door and says “Now when it gets hot I can just roll down the window!”
19 days ago. If Trump really wanted to push for bigger checks, he could have picked up the phone, sent a tweet, a letter, held a press conference, ordered his Treasury Secretary to demand them in talks with Pelosi, and so on. https://t.co/cbRW3kRhjW
The Arizona Republican Party could face court sanctions for filing a lawsuit even though the state's audit debunked its allegations, a judge has suggested in his ruling tossing the case.https://t.co/Js18C5LNPk
NEW: Jared Kushner personally signed off on arrangements to hide payments to top campaign officials like chief strategist Jason Miller and campaign manager Bill Stepien. Me @Salonhttps://t.co/3f5dZKuT2g
Madge Sinclair played Akeem's mother Queen Aoleon. Died in '95, she was the first female Starfleet captain on Star Trek and the mother of Geordi La Forge. Emmy nominated, she starred with much of black Hollywood. 12/20 marks 25 years since her passing. 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹#Coming2Americapic.twitter.com/aYAcubvPvl
— Ariana Grande's Ponytail Stan Account (@IamLeoBitches) December 18, 2020
This is not some “the fact checker is exhausted and broken!” thing. I’m the same as always. It just doesn’t make sense at this point to spend time re-debunking the outgoing president’s repeated nonsense. And that’ll be especially true when he’s the former president.
A new Trump regulation lets employers take even more of their workers' tipped wages to pay their other employees.
"It's really, really clear this is about the interests of corporate executives and shareholders," economist Heidi Shierholz told me.https://t.co/5OwgK1ZNqh
“New Trump rule could cost waiters more than $700 million in lost wages, allowing employers to take more of their tips to pay other workers”
A new rule published by the Department of Labor on Tuesday would allow restaurant owners to take employees’ tips to pay “back-of-the-house” workers, such as cooks and dishwashers.
An analysis by the Economic Policy Institute found that change could cost workers more than $700 million in lost wages.
The regulation also allows employers to required tipped employees to perform more “non-tipped” labor, such as cleaning.
“It’s really, really clear this is about the interests of corporate executives and shareholders,” Heidi Shierholz, an economist at EPI, told Business Insider.
I’ll never forget how upsetting it was-especially for those of us who served in Iraq-when news broke about this brazen act of hostility on innocent Iraqi civilians. #Trump pardoning the #Blackwater guys sends an awful message to the world about the U.S. & undermines our military.
The US government provided Ali's family a small condolence payment. They donated ½ the payment to wounded US soldiers. Ali’s mother delivered the donation to the US embassy. General Ray Odierno sent this thank you letter to Ali’s family. Donald Trump just slapped her in the face. pic.twitter.com/Pj01BKk8Gu
With the hacking of the government and Trump’s saying, knowing, caring and doing nothing about it — while trying to steal an election and pardoning his criminal friends — it’s hard to articulate how bad he is.
Saying he’s the worst president in history is inadequate.
Republicans are facing real legal consequences from Trump's fraud lies:
A new lawsuit accuses Trump and the RNC of conspiring to violate the rights of Black voters. The lawsuit asks that Republicans get court approval before demanding future recounts.https://t.co/MhjNxtCO2l
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Good Afternoon, TODers! Thanks, Nerdy!!!
Yes, $600 is an insult. Even more so when you see what other countries have done/are doing for their citizens. But for too many, *principle* is not something we have the luxury to exercise when food, shelter, and health are at risk.
KEEP AT IT GEORGIANS!!!
Mine isn’t even in the count yet. Took it to a satellite drop box this time. 🤞🏾
I took mine to a dropped box as well. I’m still waiting for my status to change to show received and excepted. So mine isn’t in the count either.
I’m kinda wishing I had taken it to the county elections board’s drop box instead. It’ll be okay though.
I took mine to the drop box at the county office. Hopefully it’ll register before the Christmas break.
I did that for the general. Took them a week to post online that it was received, but they marked it as of the date I put it in the box.
29 DAYS!!!
Wow! Bet she was voting Republican.
Sterling is here at the Fulton County Elections Division to file an election challenge.
The challenge took place after Sterling got a third-party election flyer at his Sandy Spring home reminding a voter named Meron Fissha to pick up the absentee ballot she requested and be sure to “Return it quickly to ensure your vote is counted.”
There was one problem. Meron Fissha had sold her house to Gabriel Sterling in 2018 and moved to Maryland, according to Sterling’s election challenge.
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Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in Georgia yesterday for John Ossoff and Reverend Warnock.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris On Taking The Vaccine: “I Trust The Public Health Experts”
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris On Trump’s Refusal To Concede: “We Need To Govern”
As Congress passed a new $900 billion economic rescue package on Monday night, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) offered a choice bit of spin on how we got to this moment:
“A few days ago, with a new president-elect of their own party, everything changed,” Mr. McConnell said on Monday. “Democrats suddenly came around to our position that we should find consensus, make law where we agree, and get urgent help out the door.”
Getting the story right here is highly consequential. It will shape the arguments that determine the outcome of the Georgia runoffs — and control of the Senate — and should leave little doubt that continued GOP control means McConnell will strive to sabotage the recovery to cripple Joe Biden’s presidency.
This is what McConnell wants to obscure. Because as he has privately admitted, the failure of Congress to deliver a robust aid package to people is putting his Georgia senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue at risk.
So McConnell wants voters — especially those in Georgia — to believe Republicans supported generous aid all along, particularly the stimulus checks in the new deal, and that Democrats refused to act, to harm President Trump’s reelection campaign.
Speaker Pelosi:
“Floor Speech on H.R. 133, Omnibus Appropriations and Emergency Coronavirus Relief”
(https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/122120-3)
Maddow: “U.S. mired in ‘3-way split screen’ of Trump crises”
“Rachel Maddow outlines how the United States is caught in the coronavirus pandemic crisis made worse, possibly on purpose, by Donald Trump’s mishandling, as well as an election crisis perpetuated by Trump apparently driven mad by sycophants and the fact of losing, and thirdly, the pressure of looming criminal liability for Trump and some of his hangers-on who could benefit from a presidential pardon.”
Why do Republicans always look angry or out to lunch……
“The ‘Red Slime’ Lawsuit That Could Sink Right-Wing Media”
“Voting machine companies threaten “highly dangerous” cases against Fox, Newsmax and OAN…”
“Here’s the thing:
Smartmatic wasn’t even used in the contested states. The company, now a major global player with over 300 employees, pulled out of the United States in 2007 after a controversy over its founders’ Venezuelan roots, and its only involvement this November was with a contract to help Los Angeles County run its election.”
“And so Newsmax and OAN appear likely to face the same fate as so many of President Trump’s sycophants, who have watched him lie with impunity and imitated him — only to find that he’s the only one who can really get away with it.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/business/media/smartmatic-lawsuit-fox-news-newsmax-oan.html)
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Damn!
Color me shocked
I can’t remember hearing that he stepped up and went against the grain. Never heard him speak out against tRump and his fellow Republicans who he is not chiding. Pretty sure he voted against impeachment.
Key word here “Retiring”.
Exactly.
That status seems to give them some backbone, a conscious, and some recall of whatever integrity they may have ever had.
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God rest her soul.
I hope her family stops at nothing to make them pay dearly.
“Feds have discussed making a legal request for Giuliani’s electronic communications,
say two sources. The federal investigation of the president’s personal lawyer is ongoing, said two sources familiar with the matter, with one saying it is “very active.””
(https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/feds-have-discussed-making-legal-request-giuliani-s-electronic-communications-n1250714)
SDNY expressed interest and have discussed with Main Justice about getting electronic communications
from Rudy Giuliani.
Chuck Rosenberg,
fmr senior official in the Justice Department and former U.S. Attorney, speaking to Maddow:
Maddow:
“In terms of the way Main Justice and the prosecutors would interact here, I should reiterate,
we know that the prosecutors who are investigating Mr. Giuliani at SDNY have expressed interest in getting these communications. We know they have talked to Main Justice about that. We just had an eloquent explanation from Danya (Perry) about the kinds of concerns Main Justice might have about the fact that he is an attorney and you have to protect the sacred nature of attorney-client privilege. But that there are also Justice Department rules governing these things. One of the parts of this box that’s still blocked to me that I would really like to see into, is whether there has been any effort by Main Justice to lean on SDNY about this. Or to improperly intervene, or divert, or slow them down. We don’t know. Where would we look or how would we approach this in order to see whether that was the case?”
Rosenberg:
“You know it’s interesting to me Rachel, when we’ve seen that heavy handed political interference.
For instance in the Stone and Flynn cases, how did we learn about it? We learned from the line prosecutors in the field about what was happening right? There was this hue and cry from AUSA’s in the field. And so not hearing that, and not hearing that in this case, I’m assuming some regularity here that is just Main Justice career folks and the field SDNY AUSAs in this case, working together to try and get a search warrant approved. So presumption of regularity, Danya explained it really well. And I’ve been on both sides of the equation. I’ve been in the field as an AUSA. I’ve been at Main Justice. There’s a typically healthy tension, occasionally it gets a little unhealthy, but typically a healthy tension between the two. And Danya is exactly right. Main Justice consults at the request of the field on these search warrants for attorneys. They want to make sure that there’s a filter team, a review team in place, because we do take the attorney-client privilege very seriously. They want to make sure that the prosecutors in the field have exhausted other alternatives. Meaning they really, really need this stuff via search warrant. And all those things being in place, being accurate, typically as Danya said the folks at Main Justice sign off on it. I haven’t had trouble as an AUSA in the field getting these types of warrants approved.”
Maddow:
“Chuck let me ask you about Mr. Giuliani’s case in the particular,
because he has been involved in so many of these lawsuits, trying to overturn the election results. On one of the filings that they made in the Pennsylvania case, you can see that Mr. Giuliani uses an iCloud
account – iCloud of course is an Apple product. If Mr. Giuliani reacts tonight by putting all of his electronic devices in a blender and hitting purée, would you expect that Mr. Giuliani’s electronic communications could nevertheless be obtained by subpoena or via search warrant through the companies that he has used for either his phone service or his data plans?”
Rosenberg:
“Well sure that’s a great question Rachel.
There are a bunch of places that investigators will go. For instance they could go to the provider, Verizon or T Mobile, or whoever that may be. And get stuff that is stored. They could go to Mr. Giuliani’s home or office and get his devices and get communications off of that. They can even get communications from other people with whom he has corresponded. I mean unless Mr. Giuliani is only writing to himself, there are other people involved in all of these communications. And so when you take a belt and suspenders approach to investigations, you go to each of these places and you get as much as you can, and you try and corroborate it with other stuff that you get from other people. You know one thing that strikes me Rachel, Mr. Fruman and Mr. Parnas who you talked about earlier, we have no idea whether or not at this point they’re cooperating, and whether or not their cooperation is what led prosecutors in the Southern District of New York to take this next step. Maybe that is part of the probable cause determination. So you triangulate these cases, and you get as much information from as many different places as you possibly can. And so to your point, if he decides to put all his personal devices in a blender and hit purée,
there are still other places for investigators to look.”
Dr. Fauci: “Says It Is “An Honor to Be Part of This Process” After Getting New Covid-19 Vaccine”
“What we’re seeing now is the culmination of years of research which have led to a phenomenon that has truly been unprecedented.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/12/22/fauci-says-it-is-an-honor-to-be-part-of-this-process-after-getting-new-covid-19-vaccine.html)
Christmas is upon us …we even have a Santa flyover here….heh.
And Belle our chatty cat is fading gracefully away as the snow falls…
–Thanks NW for being with us, thanks to everyone here, must leave thees for now and shall see thees anon.
This is too cute! 😄
Excellent. How about Biden puts Ms. Ifill on the SC:) Just saying
I like it! I like it a lot!
This should be good…
Trivia Night!!!
Huge
LOL!
This is perfect!
This thread gets better and better! 😁
I think Gwinnett County did as well.
Yep!
Months ago Barr ousted the U.S. Attorney for the SDNY, and tried to replace him with a Trump administration puppet, in an apparent attempt at preventing the SDNY from indicting and arresting Steve Bannon. But the U.S. Attorney refused to resign until he had legal assurances that he’d be replaced by his own longtime deputy, Audrey Strauss. Accordingly, Bannon ended up getting arrested.
Now the courts have determined today that Audrey Strauss, who had been serving as Acting U.S. Attorney all this time, is legitimately the permanent U.S. Attorney. This matters, because her “Acting” tenure was set to expire before Trump left office. But now she’s locked in place until the end of Trump’s term, meaning Trump never will get to mess with the SDNY. In other words, Barr did all that for nothing.
And Van Der Swann
Shade…
I know… I know… polls blah, blah, blah. I just wanted to share some good news.
You see the kinds of people he’s pardoning.
Karma will find you
Jaysus! It’s a parade of deplorables! 😖😳
4 weeks is way too many for me. We’re going to need super vacuum cleaners & sanitizers to get rid of scum. Plus FBI to sweep every level of government of all bugs, & Biden/Harris admin to systematically get rid of embedded sycophants too. 😳😷
Nancy:)
Bless Nancy! Am sure Idiot will reverse by chaos-midnight hour! Via tweet, after his empty conversation w/ KFC bucket. 😏😷
The biggest smile today was watching George Takei deliver a nerd moment (all respect) w/ Jason who was covering Joy’s show! And I love George, his laughter brings joy, & his message, even more! Bless! 💞
Damn, I’m gonna have to go find that video. You know I love me some Sulu, I mean George Takei. 😄
😂😂😍
Ironic if the thug admin ends locking up this corrupt cretin.
The most horrible thug almost reelected.
Yup. The presidency is sullied forever by this traitorous thug.
Yup. He knows how fickle the feckless flibbertigibbet msm garbage is.
Yup! Create a distraction w/ one hand, pickpocket w/ the other hand. Bill Sikes (Dickens character in Oliver Twist) would take him on as an apprentice (pun intended)! 😏😷
:D. Mom joke?
Elect the worst person, get the worst abuse of power.
He’s been preparing for it since shortly after midnight 3 Nov 2020.
Only question is will he be allowed to succeed.
Just a foot note: Millions despise that PIECE OF SHIT. And? Millions despise that POS that did not vote because REASONS. (Hate that)
Motherfucking filthy, criminal bastard’s gonna trick himself into office?
NOPE.
NO SIREE BOB.
Even MY ANCIENT SILLY OLD WHITE ASS WILL BE IN THE STREETS.
Yes.
Many despise him.
But 70+ Million rabid fans voted for him and millions of them own personal arsenals not just a hunting rifle.
I’ll be ‘in the street’ as well, so you won’t be alone.
If we reach 20Jan2021 without a Coup attempt, let alone a successful coup, I’ll apologize for the warnings.
The playbook Trump has been using since well before 20Jan2017, (the birther stunt being the early warning signal) does not have even a sentence in it about exiting peacefully.
Not one sentence.
bbl
Force the thugs to vote against it and make a big noise in GA how the thugs voted against it.
How are the courts still entertaining these seditious ‘lawsuits’?
They are all corrupt cowards. Their racist voters are also corrupt cowards.
A moment of cuteness! 🍋🍐
I must be dense; I don’t get it…
“Wo-oah, lemon on a pear” 😁
We had a bunch of this! Like everything, including wallpaper border!
Yes, had the burgundy; sheets, comforter, curtains, shower curtains, towels/washcloths, and trashcan…
Ha! I forgot about the trash can!
Hah! That’s why they tried to bring down Eric last week, so he doesn’t try for 2024 run. Coz Idiot thinks he’ll run again then. Dood better spend his time getting his jail time GED. 😅😷
Morning Y’all!!! 28 MORE DAYS OF THIS!!!
Good, drag their corrupt seditious asses to the court.
Awesomeness! 😄
😂🤣😂🤣
There is always a fucking bill clinton precedent for the thugs to justify their corrupt ways.
what an asshole of a moron.
could face?
bye, bye, birx, you tool.
Wonder what role Daniel would have post the thug’s demise.
Useless tweet from an useless twit. Don’t tell me why it won’t work, tell me how you can make it work as a ‘lawyer’.
“New Trump rule could cost waiters more than $700 million in lost wages, allowing employers to take more of their tips to pay other workers”
A new rule published by the Department of Labor on Tuesday would allow restaurant owners to take employees’ tips to pay “back-of-the-house” workers, such as cooks and dishwashers.
An analysis by the Economic Policy Institute found that change could cost workers more than $700 million in lost wages.
The regulation also allows employers to required tipped employees to perform more “non-tipped” labor, such as cleaning.
“It’s really, really clear this is about the interests of corporate executives and shareholders,” Heidi Shierholz, an economist at EPI, told Business Insider.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/12/23/candid-moments/