Chuck Norris peaked in 2005 Barrens chat.
CraigM
4677
Well the border patrol knows how to handle people crossing the border without documents.
Lets let them give him their regular humane treatment.
morlac
4678
Ding Ding. Key was taking his passport. I’m sure they’ll figure out who he is eventually it just may take about 8 days.
KevinC
4679
That volleyball match seems like a fun national pastime to get us through 2021.
CraigM
4680
Pay per view, we could close the deficit with that alone.
New Olympic sport: Shitgibbonball.
Trump must be held personally accountable, and I think we all agree that impeachment is a priority. However, Clyburn and others are right that it’s not the top priority for the new Congress, particularly the Senate. Getting new Secretaries of Defense, HHS, State, etc. is a higher priority. The collision of multiple simultaneous catastrophes we are currently experiencing requires a working government.
COVID relief is a higher priority. Helping states with vaccination funding and sending people checks is the most time-sensitive thing on Biden’s agenda. Every day lost literally kills people. How can anything hop the queue in front of that?
Trump’s impeachment trial will keep. It may even age like a fine wine, as various prosecutors start to tear into him on January 21. We’ll all know more about his corruption. That may provide more GOP Senators cover to stop lying.
Daagar
4683
Maybe a few less recesses, and they’ll find out they can work on more than one thing at a time.
schurem
4684
What bearing does impeachment have on his pardons? It wouldn’t invalidate them, now would it?
Absolutely no effect on his pardons.
The pardons have been issued. They cannot be undone, not by a future president, not by impeachment.
But if those asshats commit a new crime, well, the pardons can’t do shit.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/capitol-riot-fbi-intelligence/2021/01/12/30d12748-546b-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html
A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and South Carolina and head in groups to Washington.
“As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. We get our President or we die. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
BLM is likely a reference to the Black Lives Matter movement for racial justice. Pantifa is a derogatory term for antifa, a far-left anti-fascist movement whose adherents sometimes engage in violent clashes with right-wing extremists.
Yet even with that information in hand, the report’s unidentified author expressed concern that the FBI might be encroaching on free speech rights.
The warning is the starkest evidence yet of the sizable intelligence failure that preceded the mayhem, which claimed the lives of five people, although one law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid disciplinary action, said the failure was not one of intelligence but of acting on the intelligence.
An FBI official familiar with the document said that within 45 minutes of learning about the alarming online conversation, the Norfolk FBI office wrote the report and shared it with others within the bureau. It was not immediately clear how many law enforcement agencies outside the FBI were told, but the information was briefed to FBI officials at the bureau’s Washington field office the day before the attack, this official said.
Teiman
4687
Could be, but I have never seen something like this before.
Yeah, the political fallout… among Democrats. Nobody else seems to think it matters. (Well, people outside the US certainly think it matters.)
The fact that Trump got elected, and then not removed from office after he got elected, means there’s not going to be much fallout here.
Yeah, I’ve seen a fair number of what I’d call semi-technical acquaintances (mostly outside the US) posting information about Signal and Telegram in response to that.
Alstein
4692
Every thing that happens in the next 8 days will harden the opinion of never-Trumpers against Republicans in general. That might make it easier for Dems to win elections, and those never-Trumpers will likely start moving to the left slowly as they start ignoring right-wing media.
Heckler now shouting over Chuck Schumer’s press conference, which is being held — for some strange reason — on a New York street.
It only took six days for them to organize a briefing:
Menzo
4695
They had to do some internal polling to see if they were actually for or against the coup attempt first.
morlac
4696
His mouth sets the priority list. He keeps it shut even after the 20th your timeline works. If he doesn’t (he won’t) and continues his typical rhetoric than taking care of him becomes a higher priority as it is a national security issue.
edit for typos…lot’s.
