Marshall Law? Didn't he play shortstop for Detroit?
Oh duh. I meant martial law. lol
You could have told me you were mocking the tweeters calling for "marshal law" and I'd have believed you.
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If Tricky Team Trump TREASON Tax cheat appoints a special counsel, Sleepy Woke Joe Basement Biden should fire them, along with Bull Durham. Watch the repubs’ heads explode and twist themselves into knots trying to discuss “rule of law,” and blah, blah, blah. The senate, the campaign, Cracker Jack investigator Ruddy Ghouliani all came up with nada, zilch, zero, nothing. Screw them and shove it up their ass. And do it at 12:01 pm on 1/20/21. It’ll be forgotten about by March.
I generally agree, although I don't know the laws around the special counsel. However, I would be surprised if the acting AG would assign the SC, since he is a career official. He'll probably get fired too.
POTUS can fire the special counsel by ordering his AG to do so but not without there being a shit storm. Nixon ordered his AG to fire Archibald Cox who refused to do so and resigned. Then he ordered his Assistant AG to do so and he too refused and resigned in protest. Then it came to Bork, who did so and why he wasn't appointed to the SCOTUS during Reagan's term, I think. It was the Saturday Night Massacre or as Arlo sings, Mass-a-creeeeee. All the dems have to repeat is, "hoax," "witchhunt," and "fraud."
All true, but those were not SC's as they are defined today. The current special counsel law was enacted after the Lewinsky scandal. And I don't know the law on that. Perhaps you ahve researched but I have not.
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If Tricky Team Trump TREASON Tax cheat appoints a special counsel, Sleepy Woke Joe Basement Biden should fire them, along with Bull Durham. Watch the repubs’ heads explode and twist themselves into knots trying to discuss “rule of law,” and blah, blah, blah. The senate, the campaign, Cracker Jack investigator Ruddy Ghouliani all came up with nada, zilch, zero, nothing. Screw them and shove it up their ass. And do it at 12:01 pm on 1/20/21. It’ll be forgotten about by March.
I generally agree, although I don't know the laws around the special counsel. However, I would be surprised if the acting AG would assign the SC, since he is a career official. He'll probably get fired too.
POTUS can fire the special counsel by ordering his AG to do so but not without there being a shit storm. Nixon ordered his AG to fire Archibald Cox who refused to do so and resigned. Then he ordered his Assistant AG to do so and he too refused and resigned in protest. Then it came to Bork, who did so and why he wasn't appointed to the SCOTUS during Reagan's term, I think. It was the Saturday Night Massacre or as Arlo sings, Mass-a-creeeeee. All the dems have to repeat is, "hoax," "witchhunt," and "fraud."
All true, but those were not SC's as they are defined today. The current special counsel law was enacted after the Lewinsky scandal. And I don't know the law on that. Perhaps you ahve researched but I have not.
All basically the same since its inception, Special Counsel, Independent Counsel and Special Prosecutor. All basically the same except for the "charge," as directed by the AG and the term of appointment, some are open ended and some have a defined length of term, subject to renewal. I believe what was altered after Kenneth Starr, because it went from a land deal investigation, to a billing records investigation, to Vince Foster's death, to Monica, with no end date, they altered the requirements or included a specificity to the charge. POTUS can't appoint or fire but he can pressure/direct his AG to do so, which CYA Barr did by appointing Bull Durham Special Counsel to investigate Putin on the ritz's election interference, in so doing, leaving the door open to Burisma, fruit from the poisonous tree, "spying," and any crimes uncovered as a result (Ukraine, Burisma/Hunter Biden). Although CYA Barr already knows there's nothing there, it makes for political theater like Benghazi. Plausible deniability to hobble a radical, leftist Sleepy Woke Joe Basement Biden Administration. Its going to be a very long four years with this crop of repubs and its only going to get worse, with 75 million cultists out there.
I believe I heard Neal Katyal say that a president can't appoint a Special Counsel. Forgive me if I'm not remembering correctly. I like Neal. I've seen him retweet PJ before.
haha, I guess Neal would know. He wrote the rules.
The Office of Special Counsel was an office of the United States Department of Justice established by provisions in the Ethics in Government Act that expired in 1999. The provisions were replaced by Department of Justice regulation 28 CFR Part 600,[1] which created the successor office of special counsel. The current regulations were drafted by former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal.[2]
I believe I heard Neal Katyal say that a president can't appoint a Special Counsel. Forgive me if I'm not remembering correctly. I like Neal. I've seen him retweet PJ before.
haha, I guess Neal would know. He wrote the rules.
The Office of Special Counsel was an office of the United States Department of Justice established by provisions in the Ethics in Government Act that expired in 1999. The provisions were replaced by Department of Justice regulation 28 CFR Part 600,[1] which created the successor office of special counsel. The current regulations were drafted by former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal.[2]
Good info. The question is whether the acting AG is willing to do the overtly political will of an outgoing president. I would be surprised if that happened.
"Mike Pence you repressed joyless would-be witchfinder, every time you spoke you always looked like you were straining to expel an enormous bolus of your own hypocrisy from your clenched sphincter.
“Betsy DeVos you blandly foolish soulless entitled child-stealing witch, rotting like a corpse inside your Chanel suit.
“Kayleigh McEnenay, you evacuated husk of a mean-girl cheerleader, the cavity where your heart once was pumped full of spite and moronic lies.
“Bill Barr you vast pompous pus-filled bladder of casuistry, you are an enemy of justice, bloated with resentment and cruelty, wobbling like a jelly at the feet of the oligarchs.
“Jared Kushner you vacuous dainty preening overpromoted nub of mediocrity, squeezed like an entitled smear of toothpaste into a silk suit bought with tear-stained dollars wrung out of the suffering tenants of your slum apartments.
“Ivanka Trump you monstrous slug of vanity, you infantile ninny so marinaded in self-regard that in your pea brain you believe we ought to love you for your crimes.
“Mike Pompeo, you bubble, you booby, you flatulent zero, that roiling in your ample guts that you mistake for world shaking significance is just the acid reflux of irrelevancy.
“Don Junior, you scabrous single-nostriled unloved elephant-murdering human wreckage, vibrating with bitterness and impotent rage at all the opportunities you’ve squandered.
“Sarah Sanders, you crude hulking beetle-browed bully, working your multiple chins as you masticated another stinking quid of falsity, spitting again and again on the people you were supposed to inform.
“Interlude: all you staffers and interns, so eager to crunch your way in your shiny new work shoes over the bodies of the poor and powerless, I smite you and cast you out one by one.
“Eric Trump, you pallid clammy suppurating nocturnal semi-human grub, your absence of charisma is your only notable trait and the act of flushing you from memory will so be smooth and painless that in a month people will find it hard to picture your moon face.
“Rudy Giuliani, you capering cartoonish skull-faced bag of graft and corruption, too stupid even to ask who’s pulling your strings just so long as you can cake your crusty face in tv make-up and clack your jaw at a camera.
“And of course Stephen Miller, you weeping pustule upon the social body, you dreg, you homunculus, you noxious slime felched from the gaping cavity of Jim Crow, one day may you find yourself walking barefoot across hot sand, desperate for water, crying for your missing child.
“With that I'll rest a while, and go to find a street corner to dance on."
"Mike Pence you repressed joyless would-be witchfinder, every time you spoke you always looked like you were straining to expel an enormous bolus of your own hypocrisy from your clenched sphincter.
“Betsy DeVos you blandly foolish soulless entitled child-stealing witch, rotting like a corpse inside your Chanel suit.
“Kayleigh McEnenay, you evacuated husk of a mean-girl cheerleader, the cavity where your heart once was pumped full of spite and moronic lies.
“Bill Barr you vast pompous pus-filled bladder of casuistry, you are an enemy of justice, bloated with resentment and cruelty, wobbling like a jelly at the feet of the oligarchs.
“Jared Kushner you vacuous dainty preening overpromoted nub of mediocrity, squeezed like an entitled smear of toothpaste into a silk suit bought with tear-stained dollars wrung out of the suffering tenants of your slum apartments.
“Ivanka Trump you monstrous slug of vanity, you infantile ninny so marinaded in self-regard that in your pea brain you believe we ought to love you for your crimes.
“Mike Pompeo, you bubble, you booby, you flatulent zero, that roiling in your ample guts that you mistake for world shaking significance is just the acid reflux of irrelevancy.
“Don Junior, you scabrous single-nostriled unloved elephant-murdering human wreckage, vibrating with bitterness and impotent rage at all the opportunities you’ve squandered.
“Sarah Sanders, you crude hulking beetle-browed bully, working your multiple chins as you masticated another stinking quid of falsity, spitting again and again on the people you were supposed to inform.
“Interlude: all you staffers and interns, so eager to crunch your way in your shiny new work shoes over the bodies of the poor and powerless, I smite you and cast you out one by one.
“Eric Trump, you pallid clammy suppurating nocturnal semi-human grub, your absence of charisma is your only notable trait and the act of flushing you from memory will so be smooth and painless that in a month people will find it hard to picture your moon face.
“Rudy Giuliani, you capering cartoonish skull-faced bag of graft and corruption, too stupid even to ask who’s pulling your strings just so long as you can cake your crusty face in tv make-up and clack your jaw at a camera.
“And of course Stephen Miller, you weeping pustule upon the social body, you dreg, you homunculus, you noxious slime felched from the gaping cavity of Jim Crow, one day may you find yourself walking barefoot across hot sand, desperate for water, crying for your missing child.
“With that I'll rest a while, and go to find a street corner to dance on."
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"Mike Pence you repressed joyless would-be witchfinder, every time you spoke you always looked like you were straining to expel an enormous bolus of your own hypocrisy from your clenched sphincter.
“Betsy DeVos you blandly foolish soulless entitled child-stealing witch, rotting like a corpse inside your Chanel suit.
“Kayleigh McEnenay, you evacuated husk of a mean-girl cheerleader, the cavity where your heart once was pumped full of spite and moronic lies.
“Bill Barr you vast pompous pus-filled bladder of casuistry, you are an enemy of justice, bloated with resentment and cruelty, wobbling like a jelly at the feet of the oligarchs.
“Jared Kushner you vacuous dainty preening overpromoted nub of mediocrity, squeezed like an entitled smear of toothpaste into a silk suit bought with tear-stained dollars wrung out of the suffering tenants of your slum apartments.
“Ivanka Trump you monstrous slug of vanity, you infantile ninny so marinaded in self-regard that in your pea brain you believe we ought to love you for your crimes.
“Mike Pompeo, you bubble, you booby, you flatulent zero, that roiling in your ample guts that you mistake for world shaking significance is just the acid reflux of irrelevancy.
“Don Junior, you scabrous single-nostriled unloved elephant-murdering human wreckage, vibrating with bitterness and impotent rage at all the opportunities you’ve squandered.
“Sarah Sanders, you crude hulking beetle-browed bully, working your multiple chins as you masticated another stinking quid of falsity, spitting again and again on the people you were supposed to inform.
“Interlude: all you staffers and interns, so eager to crunch your way in your shiny new work shoes over the bodies of the poor and powerless, I smite you and cast you out one by one.
“Eric Trump, you pallid clammy suppurating nocturnal semi-human grub, your absence of charisma is your only notable trait and the act of flushing you from memory will so be smooth and painless that in a month people will find it hard to picture your moon face.
“Rudy Giuliani, you capering cartoonish skull-faced bag of graft and corruption, too stupid even to ask who’s pulling your strings just so long as you can cake your crusty face in tv make-up and clack your jaw at a camera.
“And of course Stephen Miller, you weeping pustule upon the social body, you dreg, you homunculus, you noxious slime felched from the gaping cavity of Jim Crow, one day may you find yourself walking barefoot across hot sand, desperate for water, crying for your missing child.
“With that I'll rest a while, and go to find a street corner to dance on."
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you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
So she started the lie about who was president when her child was 2?
My mom could've told me Cookie Monster was president and I would've believed her. How is this news?
Welcome to the America that has a former failed businessman (dozens of times over) and reality TV host as President and has made billionaires out of the Kardashians for no apparent reason. We are living in Idiocracy.
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How about that?
Washington (CNN)Televangelist Pat Robertson, a prominent conservative backer of Donald Trump, said Monday that the President is living in an "alternate reality" and should "move on" from his 2020 election loss. snipped
A guy who thinks homosexuality causes hurricanes thinks Trump is living in an alternate reality. And he's right.
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He was and is an historically unpopular president. Thank god for that....
The real reason Trump is failing to overturn the election
Opinion by Timothy Frye
Updated 4:32 PM ET, Tue December 22, 2020
White House sources are sounding the alarm about Trump 03:46
Timothy Frye is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor in the Political Science Department at Columbia University and author of the forthcoming book "Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia." The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN.
(CNN)Autopsies on President Donald Trump's failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election results are piling up. Some point to judges who rejected his unfounded claims of voter fraud. Others argue that democratic norms moved state election officials, prosecutors and civil servants to uphold the rule of law at critical moments. Still others claim that Trump's incompetence doomed the project from the start.
But these views miss an important piece of the puzzle. Trump's four-year effort to subvert democracy failed in large part because he was historically unpopular and politically weak relative to other would-be autocrats.
Some unloved politicians manage to subvert democracy, but a common path to autocracy in the modern world is for a genuinely popular leader to use high public approval ratings and overwhelming legislative victories to cow opponents and undermine institutional checks on their power. The threat to democracy is less an unpopular incumbent trying to steal an election than a would-be autocrat transforming temporary popular support into long-term institutional advantage.
Autocrats like Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey, Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Vladimir Putin in Russia all came to power through more or less democratic elections and became popular before they started to dismantle democratic checks on their power.
Orbán's Fidesz party won a two-thirds majority in parliament in 2010 and then took steps to undercut the judiciary, weaken the Central Bank and create state bodies that stifled the free press.
Following a failed coup in 2016, Erdoğan used his close to 68% approval rating and dominant position in parliament to make constitutional changes that, according to one Vox article, gave the executive "frightening amounts of new powers." In 2017, Erdoğan persuaded a majority of Turkish voters to back changes that transferred vast governmental power to the President and opened the door for him to stay in office until 2029.
In his first year in office, Chávez had an 80% approval rating, which he then parlayed into constitutional changes that vastly expanded executive control. Chávez used a newly empowered National Constituent Assembly populated with loyalists to proposeconstitutional amendments that extended the presidential term to six years, expanded presidential powers and removed one house of the National Assembly.
In his first term in office, Putin's approval rating averaged around 74% (and, yes that approval rating is more or less accurate). In 2004, he was re-elected President in a landslide and proceeded to cancel gubernatorial elections, change electoral rules to sideline the opposition and concentrate political power in the Kremlin.
In the wake of high oil prices that spurred economic growth, foreign policy victories or the collapse of opposition parties, these leaders used great popularity to bully political allies, push potential rivals to the sidelines and demoralize opposition voters. The result has been an uneven electoral playing field, biased judicial institutions and far fewer rights for the media and voters.
Support on the street and in the halls of power is critical because it gives opposition parties greater leverage to block the executive. It also alters the calculations of those who would check the aspiring autocrat's power. If the ruler is unpopular and does not control the legislature, then judges, the military and business elites may expect a power grab to fail and oppose the ruler. If the ruler is popular and controls the legislature, however, they may go along in expectation that others will as well.
Trump, to some degree, appears to share these leaders' contempt for a free press and checks on executive power, but he lacks the popular and elite support they enjoyed. According to 538's poll of polls, Trump is the only modern US president to never reach a 50% approval rating in his four years in office. His average approval rating was just 41% according to Gallup -- a full eight points less than former President Barack Obama's.
Trump's share of the popular vote in 2016 was just 46.4%. Since 1900, only Woodrow Wilson in 1912, Richard Nixon in 1968 and Bill Clinton in 1992 won office with a smaller share of the vote and, unlike Trump, these three winners faced a third-party challenger who peeled off a significant number of votes.
Trump's legislative position was also weak relative to the autocrats he sought to emulate. Trump's party held a thin majority in the Senate in 2016 and lost the House by a significant margin to the Democrats in 2018. And Trump's appeals to Ukraine and China to dig up dirt on his political opponent, his attempts to undercut the free press and his suggestion to postpone the 2020 election were done from a position of weakness rather than strength.
This is not to overlook the damage done to democracy on Trump's watch. Among other things, Trump and his Republican enablers have normalized corruption and nepotism, degraded public discourse, invited foreign involvement in US elections, abused presidential pardons, deepened racial divides and politicized the bureaucracy in ways rarely seen in American history. Trump's refusal to concede after a clear loss is sweet music for autocrats across the globe and a stain on American's reputation.
But his effort to subvert democracy has failed.
Attempts to undermine election results may falter because formal institutions curb executive power, public servants with pro-democratic norms save the day or a leader chooses the wrong strategy. But they are especially likely to fail when the leader is weak. In the end, public opinion and political power are the ultimate checks on aspiring demagogues.
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The Office of Special Counsel was an office of the United States Department of Justice established by provisions in the Ethics in Government Act that expired in 1999. The provisions were replaced by Department of Justice regulation 28 CFR Part 600,[1] which created the successor office of special counsel. The current regulations were drafted by former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal.[2]
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Mom Goes Viral After Keeping Trump Presidency Hidden From Her Son for Past Four Years. https://www.newsweek.com/mom-goes-viral-after-keeping-trump-presidency-hidden-her-son-past-four-years-1556411
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Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
My mom could've told me Cookie Monster was president and I would've believed her. How is this news?
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Washington (CNN)Televangelist Pat Robertson, a prominent conservative backer of Donald Trump, said Monday that the President is living in an "alternate reality" and should "move on" from his 2020 election loss.
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/22/opinions/real-reasons-trump-election-result-failure-frye/index.html
The real reason Trump is failing to overturn the election
Opinion by Timothy Frye
Updated 4:32 PM ET, Tue December 22, 2020
(CNN)Autopsies on President Donald Trump's failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election results are piling up. Some point to judges who rejected his unfounded claims of voter fraud. Others argue that democratic norms moved state election officials, prosecutors and civil servants to uphold the rule of law at critical moments. Still others claim that Trump's incompetence doomed the project from the start.
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