Enough With The Cutesy Titles, People Are Dead: US Politics January 2021 pt 2

Bannon's going to be the first to die after he blows up a Malibu rental cooking crank in the bathroom.

Bannon gonna regrow his fur and take another shot at stardom in the funnies

Pardoning Bannon is obviously terrible, but it's also almost poetic. If you were writing the play, that's how it has to end, Trump pardoning Bannon.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, January 19, 2021

pardoning bannon for scamming maga donors... it's too perfect.

This man's whole life is in shambles because he got mad at Seth Meyers and Barack Obama roasting him. Could've just been grifting in peace for the rest of his life. Whole family hated. Ruined his teen son's life. Just incredible.

— Brandi, Kemi Talbot's Chief Of Staff 😾 (@ItsTheBrandi) January 20, 2021

Lmao he pardoned Lil Wayne

AND Kodak Black

73 pardons, 70 commutations. I don't doubt the theory that he'll save a few of the biggest for tomorrow, as a way to hijack a few last-minute headlines.

That was an epic trump takedown thread

I don’t find this pardon list very surprising or even that objectionable. Bannon ripped off rubes who deserved to lose their money. I’m sure he’ll do something else illegal soon anyway

Bannon ripped off rubes who deserved to lose their money.

people's capacity to rationalize is a bottomless well

The full list:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-executive-grants-clemency-012021/

As I scrolled through the names, I initially read Lou Hobbs as Lou Dobbs--seemed to make sense. The explanation attached to Bannon is very short and oddly unpersuasive.

President Trump granted a full pardon to Stephen Bannon. Prosecutors pursued Mr. Bannon with charges related to fraud stemming from his involvement in a political project. Mr. Bannon has been an important leader in the conservative movement and is known for his political acumen.

He's known for having a face that could scrub a meat slicer

Oh well if he’s known for his political acumen...

This is fine

Dr. Scott Harkonen – President Trump granted a full pardon Dr. Scott Harkonen. Dr. Harkonen was convicted of fraud based on a misleading caption in a press release with respect to a treatment for a disease. Dr. Harkonen is world renowned for his discovery of a new kidney disease, as well as its cause and treatment. Dr. Harkonen looks forward to returning to medicine.

It’s a story

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-press-release-crime-of-a-biotech-ceo-and-its-impact-on-scientific-research/2013/09/23/9b4a1a32-007a-11e3-9a3e-916de805f65d_story.html

of course hed pardon a HARKONNEN

Harkonen
Bienvenue
Pardon

in no way applauding the monster but there are a good deal of pardons to non-violent drug offenders. Notable pardons are unsurprising trash.

So glad Bannon saw the error of his ways and has had the time to feel remorse. Hope he's not going to feel so instutionalsed by his long prison stay that he goes out to commit more crimes to get himself reincarcerated. Do hope that wouldn't be true of any of his buddies either.

I mean old habits die hard and all.
Are bookies running odds yet.

So, by issuing these pardons, does Trump metaphorically take on the guilt of those pardoned?

(I know..)

Focusing on entirely the wrong thing, I know, but smh a bit at "last-minute decision made hours before he’s scheduled to leave the WH".

in the list of pardons I initially mixed up Pelletier with (Leonard) Peltier, but no.

very badly conceived sentence, but about as late as he could email "URGENT" to subordinates, regardless of what time the bloke in the rentavan comes around to take the boxes marked "kitchen stuff" and "blankets" the next morning

That thread above about how trump ruined his life because he was butthurt over being sonned by Obama in a press correspondents dinner beef is intriguing, because the main thrust of that YOU DECIDE documentary that ran just before the 2016 election on US TV laid also out that moment as Trump's motivating moment, the cataclysm that set him on course for the presidency, and it's interesting how quickly everything has fallen apart for him - and how, for so many of us, that falling apart wasn't necessarily inevitable. That moment, now seen as the engine of Trump's destruction, was for four or so years regarded as the motivator for his success.

Thanks, Obama

He should pardon Obama.

Pardon Hunter Biden

Pardon Hillary

pardon mimannas
pardon ididinteeru

also good morning!

happy infrastructure week!

pardon naymwa
pardon urztail

Pardoning hilary wouldve been great in several directions tbf

I just saw a couple female Navy sailors in full formal regalia standing outside N33ra Tanden’s house. Ready to escort her downtown. Pretty exciting!!

Y'all.

Today's the day.

CNN’s Jim Acosta at Joint Base Andrews, site of Trump farewell rally & departure via Air Force One: ‘There’s no crowd at all here. This might be the smallest Trump rally ever.’

Event was called for audience arrival by 7:15 am.

As of 7:35 am, many more flags than spectators.

— (((Charles Fishman))) (@cfishman) January 20, 2021

You can't raise a stain back up when he's in defeat

Good morning!!!

Good morning, everyone

Apparently Acosta is flying on AF1 with Trump to Florida?

They took the frames!

Empty picture frames (night before inauguration 2017) and empty wall - no frames this time- in same spot (night before inauguration 2021)... pic.twitter.com/Moez0nbBUA

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 20, 2021

There's a 2 metre red carpet for Trump between the front door and the lawn.

I hereby inaugur this day. I'm going to inaugur like's it 19-2021.

The list of actions formally released early Wednesday by his transition team also includes a directive to rejoin the World Health Organization. Biden will dispatch Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease official, to speak at the international group’s executive board meeting on Thursday.

On immigration, Biden will also nullify the Trump administration’s directive that attempted to exclude the counting of noncitizens from the U.S. census.

On climate change, Biden plans to sign an order revoking the permit, issued by the Trump administration, that allowed for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. He will also issue an order to rejoin the Paris climate accord, and the United States will officially be part of the 189-country climate agreement in 30 days.

On racial equity issues, Biden plans to rescind the “1776 Commission” established by the Trump administration, which the outgoing president framed last year as a “pro-American curriculum that celebrates the truth” about U.S. history but which the incoming administration says tries to erase the racial scars of America’s past.

Other directives Biden plans to sign Wednesday signal his priorities, including an order that will require masks on all federal grounds, one of several measures aimed at stemming the pandemic.

He just boarded Marine One with Melania One.

Did Nixon ever return to the WH, even once, for so much as a photo opp?

Because the only way this turd is ever returning is in a wheel chair in the stages of something so advanced he doesn't know where he is.

Great morning!

I don't think Nixon ever did, no.

He did -- Reagan snuck him in early '87 to discuss Soviet policy.

Didn't know that (or that Reagan solicited him: always thought it was the way around, with everyone--unsolicited phone calls).