GET OUT: US politics November 2020

Asked by @brikeilarcnn about @RonWyden calling Mike Morell a "torture apologist" and urging Biden not to nominate him for CIA, @JohnBrennan says:

"He would be well advised to not make such charges against patriots like Michael Morell... Ron Wyden knows not of what he speaks." pic.twitter.com/CCNmz6RDzg

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) November 25, 2020

The Obama admin ruled.

Canada geese are a huge success story. They were one of the major impetuses for the movement to preserve more wetlands. Bald eagles have made a big comeback, too, in part because they appealed to the 'patriot' crowd. You take your wins however you can find them.

what's good for the gander (mountain customer) is good for the goose

Here is Trump, today:

“This election was lost by the Democrats. They cheated. It was a fraudulent election,” Trump told the group, prompting widespread applause. “I want to thank everyone for being there.”

“We have to turn the election over,” Trump said, claiming that he had the evidence needed to change the election result. “All we need is some judge to listen to it properly.”

Doesn't sound like he's moving on.

He shall not be moved. Only shall his bowels be.

He has told the world many times over that he will never concede that he lost the election. I expect this is one of the rare times he has told us the truth. A year from now he may still be filing futile lawsuits about it.

I have seen more bald eagles in the past five years of my life than I had in the previous thirty, cosigning Aimless with my own personal experience.

Flynn pardoned. Our long national nightmare is over.

He lives in my neighborhood. I think my son and his grandson are elementary-school classmates? Maybe?

Here it comes:

President Trump on Wednesday announced he had pardoned Michael Flynn, his first national security adviser who was charged in connection with former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

"It is my Great Honor to announce that General Michael T. Flynn has been granted a Full Pardon. Congratulations to @GenFlynn and his wonderful family, I know you will now have a truly fantastic Thanksgiving!" Trump tweeted.

"Congratulations!"

lmao

Wait, Flynn is the turkey this year?

Law and order!!

So... Trump was ready to eat Flynn for Thanksgiving?

xps dammit

“All we need is some judge to listen to it properly.”

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71A%2B8hlITbL._AC_SX425_.jpg

The Random Caps tell us this is an Authentic Trump Tweet.©

*hits Facebook "care" button*

Coronavirus pardoned. Now we can finally move on.

the most unfairly treated coronavirus of them all, and hopefully the legendary ancestor of many more viruses to come

seriously, can we just pelt them with rotten vegetables and spit and yell and cuss at them? i want this one, single thing

“no swamp. YOU’RE the swamp”

swamp the drain

I'm feeling less triggered by utter bullshit like this the more likely it becomes that Donald Trump will drop dead in one of the many courtrooms where he'll be spending his twilight years. Congratulations, indeed!

drank then sweep

Slate has a pretty okay piece on how the Trumpist "Stop the Steal" protestors are actually delivering all the street chaos & anarchism that the Biden/Harris ticket was alleged to foment...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/stop-the-steal-republicans-anarchists.html?via=taps_top

Honestly it’s such a constant stream of projection from the right. When will the media learn to stop reporting it as “Trump/Republicans accuse Democrats of x” and start reporting it as “Trump/Republicans confess that they are actively doing/planning x”? They could have gotten way out in front of this story instead of only coming around to it now.

John Kasich Shrugs Off Outrage Over Flynn Pardon: 'Tomorrow's Thanksgiving, Can We Just Move On a Little Bit?' https://t.co/lgDbnDhv9R

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) November 25, 2020

Hope he gets another prime slot at the 2024 DNC

c'mon guys, there's gonna be football on, let him have his pardon

Here’s a thing

#ELB: Donor Sues True the Vote Claiming He Gave $2.5 Million to Fund Jim Bopp Litigation to Expose Fraud in Battleground States to Help Trump, But the Group Withdrew Their Complaints and Did Nothing. He Wants a Refund. https://t.co/VSyLz5GVr2

— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) November 25, 2020

Fred Eshelman is the founder of Eshelman Ventures LLC, an investment company primarily interested in private health-care companies. Previously he founded and served as CEO and executive chairman of Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPDI, NASDAQ) prior to the sale of the company to private equity interests.

After PPD he served as the founding chairman and largest shareholder of Furiex Pharmaceuticals (FURX, NASDAQ), a company which licensed and rapidly developed new medicines. Furiex was sold to Forest Labs/Actavis in July, 2014.

His career has also included positions as senior vice president (development) and board member of the former Glaxo, Inc., as well as various management positions with Beecham Laboratories and Boehringer Mannheim Pharmaceuticals.

Eshelman has served on the executive committee of the Medical Foundation of North Carolina, was on the board of trustees for UNC-W and in 2011 was appointed by the NC General Assembly to serve on the Board of Governors for the state’s multicampus university system as well as the NC Biotechnology Center. In addition, he chairs the board of visitors for the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of the top pharmacy programs in the United States. In May 2008 the School was named for Eshelman in recognition of his many contributions to the school and the profession.

Eshelman has received many awards including the Davie and Distinguished Service Awards from UNC and Outstanding Alumnus from both the UNC and University of Cincinnati schools of pharmacy, as well as the N.C. Entrepreneur Hall of Fame Award. He earned a B.S. in pharmacy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received his Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Cincinnati, and completed a residency at Cincinnati General Hospital. He is a graduate of the Owner/President Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Kasich has negative amounts of charisma

forgive and forget, or just forget it. whatever! turn the page. let the healing begin. don't pick at a scab, let it heal. let your skin heal the natural way. listen to the inner voice. remove the bad voices. flynn is good for you. confront the opponent. the bad voices are approaching. flynn is on your side. shorten some thoughts. block the others. focus on your skincare. make it smooth. flynn loves you. let flynn live through you. this is a good decision

Second Chance
38 Special
Since you've been gone
I feel my life slippin' away
I look to the sky
And everything is turnin' grey
All I made was one mistake
How much more will I have to pay
Why can't you think it over
Why can't you forget about the past?
When love makes a sound babe
A heart needs a second chance
Don't put me down babe
Can't you see I love you
Since you've been gone
I've been in a trance
This heart needs a second chance

karl:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08vxsk3

feel the Full Flynn Pardon caress your skin

can't get Flynn on other charges then? shame. would have been so ironic after what he said about Hilary.
Like if he did 10x what Hilary did he'd just go free? LOCK HIM UP.

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/11/25/pennsylvania-halt-further-vote-certification/

Some lawyers say Kelly and Parnell should have challenged the constitutionality of this law, passed over a year ago, long before votes were cast in this presidential election.

Good of them

They finally found themselves a hanging judge.

what did the fucking SC do last night

They said religious people can keep the human die-off going, which I approve of in theory. Mixed results in practice.

look here: U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Ginsburg Edition

Quite literally the most insane yet predictable bullshit I could possibly imagine.

" I think my son and his grandson are elementary-school classmates? Maybe?"

can you get your son to beat the fuck out of his grandson?

Elsewhere in the report, it’s stated that Trump is also trying to push through a regulation that would exclude transgender people from federally funded homeless shelters and loosen water-saving standards on showerheads—a personal grievance the president has frequently railed about to rally crowds.

Next up, low-flow toilets.

How the fuck is this press conference with Trump sitting at a tiny desk like a 2nd grader a real thing

"Don't talk to me that way. I'm the President of the United States. Don't ever talk to the president that way," he said.

otoh, he said he'd leave if the Electoral College voted for Biden.

His generosity of spirit glows incandescently.