lemonlime

Federal charges for Meadows and Trump and probably others are proper. But 45% of the country and every GOP official will find a way to move the goalposts on this too, and nothing will happen. 52 U.S. Code § 20511 - Criminal penalties A person, including an election official, who in any election for Federal office— (1)knowingly and willfully intimidates, threatens, or coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any person for— (A)registering to vote, or voting, or attempting to register or vote; (B)urging or aiding any person to register to vote, to vote, or to attempt to register or vote; or (C)exercising any right under this chapter; or (2)knowingly and willfully deprives, defrauds, or attempts to deprive or defraud the residents of a State of a fair and impartially conducted election process, by— (A)the procurement or submission of voter registration applications that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held; or (B)the procurement, casting, or tabulation of ballots that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held, shall be fined in accordance with title 18 (which fines shall be paid into the general fund of the Treasury, miscellaneous receipts (pursuant to section 3302 of title 31), notwithstanding any other law), or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both. (Pub. L. 103–31, § 12, May 20, 1993, 107 Stat. 88.)

Still are. They were the last live act I saw before Covid. Ian Astbury still has it.

350,000 plus dead Americans is less than a percent of the atrocities from Benghazi.

It's not just about "keeping the economy chugging along." Or at least it wouldn't be in any kind of sane society. Hell, just from a purely self interested standpoint, I don't want people to have to choose to go to work sick at a nursing home or the grocery store in order to stave off eviction or feed their kids. Or hell, to still have insurance when they wind up in the ICU in a few more days. We're making nonsense decisions as a country, regardless of whether we give poor people $600 or $2000, although at least the $2000 might actually pay a month or so's rent.

I’m so sorry, Bolverk.

Because it's not about abortion. It's about controlling and punishing women without economic means.

My understanding, and I'm hardly a scientist, is that the vaccine doesn't actually prevent the recipient from contracting Covid. Rather it prevents their body from reacting to the Covid infection. And also, therefore, it's very possible that the vaccine recipient could still spread Covid to others.

Elk tartare and elk au poivre at Laanilan Keavari in Finnish Lapland. And I know you said without the atmosphere, but having dinner interrupted to see the northern lights was pretty amazing.

This isn't true. https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2020/11/09/no-trump-didnt-win-the-largest-share-of-non-white-voters-of-any-republican-in-60-years/?sh=37a97d5b4a09

I'm not a front line worker. And that's terrifying if true. But this is the same doc who claimed to work 268 days straight. I'm not sure how credible a source he is. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/12/joseph-varon-covid/

He wasn't a political appointee. He is Director of WH security. I feel terribly for the WH staff, security, cleaning staff, etc., who were exposed by these fucksticks. Although reading the article, this particular official is a big trump supporter....

The GOP isn't a political party. It's a criminal enterprise. There may be a few people acting like it's still a political party, such as Romney, but the party leadership is running a criminal enterprise engaged in sedition at this point. There's no coming back from this. They'll either succeed in destroying democracy, maybe not in 2020, but in 2022 or 2024. Or they'll be relegated to the trash heap, and maybe the few seemingly reasonable Republicans, who have all essentially retired from public office can join forces with the Lincoln Project types and the more conservative Dems like Joe Manchin, and form a new conservative party.

I'm not sure what combination this is of stupidity or that Republicans are now perpetual whiny victims, and they just don't give a fuck whether their grievances are based in fact and they know their base will never appreciate that they're lying and stupid.

Yeah, it's not just the mask wearing. I live in the Northeast, in an area that was hit hard during the first wave. And the vast majority of people wear masks. But cases are still skyrocketing again. And based on my friends' timelines, they're just fine with Christmas parties.

I'm looking forward to the suit against Florida for disenfranchising people convicted of a felony.

#50. You'd think they would get tired of all the winning by now.

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So PA would have until after the inauguration to respond? Or is there some mechanism by which Texas could request an expedited schedule?

The stupid.

Another loss. (note---it was actually 1-47 until this one a few minutes ago. Marc Elias had counted incorrectly in a previous tweet. Now it's 1-48 for real)

Who was appointed by that RINO Bush.