Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Well, THEY believe he's serious anyway
Jesus Christ!On Monday Trump said ownership and control of the huge island was an "absolute necessity" for the US.
BBC
No, the United State of America doesn't. Trump does."For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity."
So, you rent.Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, is home to a large US space facility and is strategically important for the US, lying on the shortest route from North America to Europe. It has major mineral reserves.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.Until now Denmark has been very slow to expand its military capacity in Greenland, they say, but if the country is not able to protect waters around the territory against encroachments by China and Russia then US demands for greater control are likely to grow.
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Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede responded to Trump's comments, saying "we are not for sale".
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Trump's original suggestion in 2019 that the US acquire Greenland, which is the world's largest island, led to a similarly sharp rebuke from leaders there.
At the time Danish Prime Minister Mette Fredericksen described the idea as "absurd", leading Trump to cancel a state trip to the country.
All Hail Caesar
I wondered where it had been these last four years.
No, wait. Trump isn't president yet. It came back on Biden's watch???
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
Whatever happened to "Never Forget"?
I used to think "you won't let us" every time I saw someone writing or saying "Never Forget" about the attacks on 9/11. I guess I was wrong.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
Monday, December 23, 2024
It's actually starting to be funny
I don't see his face on that. Maybe it's on the back.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
Commutations
I suspect he would not have done this had he not pardoned his son.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
UPDATE 12/24/2024:
That's the old Christmas spirit!
Irony exists. January 6, 2020. Anyone remember?The decision was explicitly designed to stifle the death-penalty-loving Trump—who oversaw a modern record 13 federal executions during his first term—before he returns to office.
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On Tuesday, Trump followed up his original post with a promise to pursue capital punishment once he’s back in power.”
“As soon as I am inaugurated, I will direct the Justice Department to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from violent rapists, murderers, and monsters,” Trump wrote. “We will be a Nation of Law and Order again!”
The Daily Beast
Except for three people. WTF?Biden emphasized, in announcing his decision, that he condemns the murderers and grieves for those who suffered losses.
“But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vice-president, and now president, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level,” he said.
The Gaetz report
Trump and Clarence Thomas in unison: Is that all???
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican who briefly stood to become President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be attorney general, was found by congressional ethics investigators to have paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex, and to have purchased and used illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office, according to a final draft of a comprehensive investigative report obtained by CBS News.
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Among the report's most lurid findings were the allegations of sex- and drug-fueled parties and travel, including a 2018 trip to the Bahamas where witnesses say he took ecstasy and had sex with four women.
"From 2017 to 2020, Representative Gaetz made tens of thousands of dollars in payments to women that the Committee determined were likely in connection with sexual activity and/or drug use," noted the report, which lists payments totaling more than $90,000 to 12 different women.
The committee said it also received testimony that at a 2017 party, Gaetz twice had sex with "Victim A," who was 17 years old at the time and had just completed her junior year in high school.
"Victim A recalled receiving $400 in cash from Representative Gaetz that evening, which she understood to be payment for sex," the committee wrote. "Victim A said that she did not inform Representative Gaetz that she was under 18 at the time, nor did he ask her age."
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The committee said it did not find sufficient evidence Gaetz violated the federal sex trafficking statute because although he transported women across state lines for the purpose of sex, those women were all 18 or older at the time.
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The report found "substantial evidence" Gaetz engaged in rampant illicit drug use. The committee said it obtained text messages he sent where he referred to drugs as "party favors," "rolls" or "vitamins." It also said he created a fake email from his Capitol Hill office "for the purpose of purchasing marijuana." The report noted that Gaetz had denied using illicit drugs in his written answers to the committee.
In addition to sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, the report also accused Gaetz of accepting gifts of luxury travel in excess of permissible limits with the 2018 trip to the Bahamas. And, it said he arranged for his chief of staff to assist a woman with whom he had engaged in sexual activity in obtaining a passport, falsely indicating to the State Department that she was one of his constituents.
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The House Ethics Committee had initially voted to keep the report under wraps, but reversed course in a secret vote earlier this month. Two Republican members of the committee were among those who voted for its release, according to two sources familiar with the vote. The committee has 10 members, evenly split between Republicans and Democrats.
CBS News
Begging the question: Why did he wait until now?
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