When someone like a Tom Cotton is telling you that you've gone a step too far, it's time to pack it in.

Note that there's a rumor out there that Trump is offering to award the 'Presidential Medal of Freedom' to all of the Republicans in Congress who supports him on Wednesday.

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I wonder if Lewzer's 757 has been painted in AF1 colours yet?

#7 | Posted by REDIAL

It nearly already is. Trump has ordered that the replacement Presidential aircraft fleet are to be painted using basically the same color scheme as was used on his personal aircraft.

This is what Trump's personal 757 looks like:

Anyway...the same name and the same year doesn't mean a damn thing without further evidence. Trump was being willfully hornswoggled.

#131 | Posted by Danforth

While my name isn't all that common, at my first job out of engineering school, I worked in a place where there were three other people with the same last name and all with first names that started with the same letter. Granted, we all had different birthdays. And we weren't related in any way, nor were any of the other people mentioned in this response.

At my second job, I had an office next to a guy with the same FIRST and LAST name, different middle initial. We shared the same admin and it was her number that appeared on our business cards (that was company policy, but we did have our own numbers which we could give to whom we wanted, but our business cards had to have the admin's number). My last job, I had a co-worker who had the same first and last name as well as middle initial (we did at least work in different cities, but we were always forwarding each other's emails). And when I was working in Detroit, I had two supervisors reporting to me. Now we all had different names, one was a women, but all three of us had the same birthday, month and day, and two of us had the same year and the other, the gal, was exactly 10 years younger. And my boss's secretary back at headquarters also had the same birthday, month and day.

Anyone who says that there are no coincidences is simply naive.

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I just ran across a quote that seems to fit with what's going on today:

"A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim." by George Santayana

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This is tied to the fact that Trump promised his supporters in Congress that on January 6th, when they forced the House and the Senate to debate the issue of the electoral votes, that he would be providing them with 'proof' from each of the so-called battleground states that there was indeed election fraud. This was his attempt to get something from the state of Georgia. If they were to look carefully, I suspect that Trump, or his minions, having been putting pressure on Republicans in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona and Wisconsin for them to gin-up some 'proof' of voter fraud in their states so that he can offer it to Congress on Wednesday.

Also not that Trump can still be impeached, even after he leaves office, since one of the consequences of being impeached and convicted is that you are barred from ever holding future public office in America.

This is what's know as a 'Smoking Gun' and could lead to criminal indictment. Besides, Trump should be careful what he wishes for. He might get that 'Special Consul' he's been demanding to look into election fraud, just that they will be appointed by the NEXT Attorney General, and it's stuff like this that will be their focus.

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Yes, and the Trump supporters keep telling us that not allowing them to challenge the electoral vote would be like disenfranchising the 74 million people who voted for Trump. Well, what about the 81 million people who voted for Biden? Is it OK to disenfranchise them?

If you were able to vote, you weren't disenfranchised. Only those who were legally eligible to vote but who were not allowed to vote, these are the people who were disenfranchised.

But the Trump people are right in that millions in this country were disenfranchised in this last election, and in virtually every election held in this country in the last 150 years, but it's not who they claim it was. No, the people being disenfranchised in this country are being done so for one reason and one reason only, because they tend to vote for Democrats. And more than one prominent Republican has admitted, mostly in private, but occasionally they slip-up and say it in public as well, that if everyone was allowed to vote who are legally eligible to vote, that the Republican Party would be reduced to the status of a permanent minority party with also very few nationally or state-wide elected officials. It's only through the use of extreme Gerrymandering that they are able to keep control over state houses or to send Representatives to Congress, therefore they must do what they can to either stop people from voting or to make sure that those who don't vote for Republicans, that their votes are nullified or at least made to count less than those who vote for Republicans.

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And remember when Jared Kushner was telling Trump that there was no need to go all out against the COVID because it was going to mainly impact the Blue states?

Kushner's coronavirus team shied away from a national strategy, believing that the virus was hitting Democratic states hardest and that they could blame governors, report says

Did these people honestly believe that a federal judge would order the Vice-President to violate the Constitution?

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And then we have crap like this:

Colorado GOP leader incites harassment against public health workers by publicizing their home addresses

He'd have to run naked down Pennsylvania Avenue screaming "BUT I WON" for that to happen.

#14 | Posted by Twinpac

Well, we still have three weeks before Trump leaves office.

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The rumor is that Trump will now go to Mitch McConnell and try to blackmail him by demanding that he hold a vote on the House $2,000 direct payment bill or he'll torpedo the Senate run-off in Georgia. He just wants to have a 'win' over the people who refused to support him in his attempt to overturn the election.

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And let's not forget Trump's attack on the US fashion industry for ignoring Melania, whom Trump referred to as a "world class fashion model", yet who was never on the cover of any fashion magazine for all the time that he's been in office. Trump has suggested that his was obviously an attack on him, but that they took it out on his wife.

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It's like on Christmas Day, our #2 granddaughter, Sydney, had to work the opening shift at the local Starbucks (this is in Katy, TX). Anyway, she was manning the drive-thru and her first customer of the day, after paying for his coffee, asked how many people were on duty that early on Christmas, and she said three. He then handed her three $100 bills, said Merry Christmas and drove off. And she wasn't even sure if he was a regular customer or not.

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Well worth the read:

FBI team leader: How I know the Blackwater defendants didn't deserve a pardon from Trump

Case in point:

1 person went to work sick; ensuing outbreak killed 7 in Douglas County

Merry Christmas from sunny and warm SoCal...

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What I think we're seeing is an individual experiencing a psychotic episode, or at best, a simple mental breakdown. But whatever, I suggest that Mike Pence sits down and carefully read the 25th Amendment, and to do so while a couple of constitutional attorneys and at least one psychiatrist are in the room with him to explain why he needs to do this.

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And the yet-to-be-signed COVID relief bill cancels the requirement that employers must provide two-weeks of paid leave for employees who test positive for the virus. What could possibly go wrong with that?

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I suspect that Trump is a bit envious of Vladimir Putin this morning.

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To be completely accurate, Rupert Murdoch resides in the UK, where the National Health Service is inoculating everyone over 80 years of age. Since Murdoch is 89, there's no evidence that he did anything more than showing-up and baring his arm.

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But will they allow Trump to use 'Zoom' to broadcast his rallies from federal prison.

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Trump is taking personal credit for the $600 direct payments as well as the $300 unemployment subsidy. And he's also implying that the Moderna vaccine would have never been developed if it hadn't been for his hard work and effort to eradicate the 'China' virus.

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Perhaps it's time for Mike Pence to brush-up on the details of the 25th Amendment.

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And of course, Trump and the Republicans, having slashed the federal taxes on the uber-wealthy and corporations, are leaving all of that extra tax revenue on the table as it were.

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Looks like a bunch of the Trump/Kushner family members may need those pardons after all.

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