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wrilbo67

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I actually don't have a problem with people who hunt actual game (Deer, WIld Turkey, whatever), but seriously F anyone who hunts an elephant.  They are one of the most awesome animals out there.  They have almost no natural predators, so it really isn't hard to shoot one.  They just stand there and they're huge.

 

When I went to Africa a long time ago, our safari guide told us there's only two ways an elephant will attack you: 1) they've dealt with poachers in the past and don't like humans because of that; 2) you get between a mom and her baby

 

The serenity of the elephants was seriously one of the things I most remember from that trip.  They don't mess with humans or any other animal.  They just go around doing elephant stuff. They operate in large packs, and when one of them gets injured and can't travel with the pack, he/she will hang out by himself for a few days in the same place, and the pack will come back and check on him.  When an elder dies, they actually mourn his/her death.  The ones that don't hate humans have been known to save people from drowning if they see it.

 

Hunting an elephant is about as overcompensating as someone can get. There's no practical use for doing it.  He straight up wants to kill a big animal. F that guy. 

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these gop sacks of feces won't address the pandemic medically or economically (at least in a manner that helps the non-wealthy) but have all the time in the world for more of their endless, maniacal,  power grabs while the orange pile of sewage that leads them around by his grip on their miniscule ballsack enters his 12th day of "nothing to do here but rage tweet and golf and burn stuff down"

 

so for all the cooperative denizens of the mcconnell/trump world, and it can obviously only be a sentiment, but may your future be full of agony culminating in a timely end on this plane :) 

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-seek-to-stymie-biden-with-final-trump-nominees/ar-BB1b9Nik?li=BBnb7Kz

 

 

Republicans seek to stymie Biden with final Trump nominees

 

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Two months before Joe Biden assumes the presidency, Senate Republicans are racing to install a series of conservative nominees that will outlast Donald Trump.

 

While Trump still refuses to concede the election, the Senate GOP is moving quickly to ensure that the president’s stamp sticks to the Federal Elections Commission, Federal Reserve Board, the federal judiciary and beyond.

 

The effort played out in dramatic fashion this week, as Senate Republicans tried to muscle Judy Shelton onto the Fed by the narrowest of margins but fell short amid senators’ absences from the coronavirus. They’re also plotting a confirmation vote for Christopher Waller, Trump’s less controversial Fed pick.

 

The last-minute push to confirm Shelton, Waller and others is a key part of the Senate GOP’s bid to wield power in the dwindling days of a Republican presidency — even if most in the party still won’t acknowledge Biden’s victory.

 

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s work on pushing lifetime judicial appointments is well known. But Shelton’s term would extend to 2024, Waller’s would last until 2030, and the FEC commissioners would stay on past Biden’s inauguration, as would potential additions to the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

 

“Certainly on the judiciary it’s a continuation of the same sort of priority. But there are other appointments to vacancies that are for terms that would be there not just until the next president is inaugurated, but for several years,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). “There is a desire to continue our work and to have as big an impact as we can.”

 

Democrats view the GOP strategy as cynical and undemocratic. But as long as Republicans have the majority — and can keep their members in the Capitol — there’s nothing Democrats can do to stop them.

 

“It is a mockery of the norms and the democratic process. And certainly defies the will of the American people who just voted out of office the president who is selecting these nominees,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). “It will leave in place some totally unqualified nominees with views antithetical to the will of the American people.”

 

Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) said there’s nothing nefarious about his party’s plans. And when it comes to the courts, he echoed McConnell: “no vacancy left unfilled.”

 

“Obviously whatever’s left [of] unfinished business we want to get it done before the end of the year and the start of the new Congress,” Thune said. “It’s really a culmination of a lot of work that we’ve been doing for a long time.”

 

With coronavirus relief negotiations at an impasse, the to-do list for the lame duck session will in all likelihood be limited to funding the government, passing an annual defense bill and confirming nominees.

 

Senate Republicans also have the majority on their mind, with twin run-off races in Georgia that will determine control of the chamber. While Republicans are favored, Democrats could flip the Senate if they win both seats. That’s got the GOP eager to do what they can between now and January while their majority is assured.

 

The Senate held hearings Wednesday for three nominees to the Federal Election Commission, a panel that has struggled to hold a quorum during Trump’s presidency. If Senate Rules Chair Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) can get all three nominees through the committee and ready for the floor in December, the nation's chief campaign finance watchdog will have a full slate of commissioners for the first time in years.

 

By law, the six-member commission cannot have more than three members from the same party serving, so the GOP would not have an advantage, but it would give Trump an opportunity to leave his mark.

 

When asked about the timing of hearings for the FEC nominees, Blunt responded that filling lifetime vacancies was the first priority but “there just aren’t many of them left.”

 

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is moving quickly to advance a new tranche of judicial nominees, including Thomas Kirsch to take a seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to replace Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Democrats are protesting the committee moving forward on new judicial nominees after Trump’s defeat, but Graham dismissed their concerns in an interview.

 

This week alone, the Senate confirmed four district court judges.

 

“The forces behind this operation want to see these goals accomplished,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). “They spent a lot of good money for the majority that’s doing it and they want to use every last day of it.”

 

Meanwhile, the Senate Energy Committee advanced two nominees this week for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which oversees the nation’s electricity markets. If confirmed, the picks would lock in three Republican appointees on the five-member commission through mid-2021.

 

Senate Republicans also face pressure to jam through Trump’s nominee to the FCC. Doing so would delay Biden’s ability to form a Democratic majority at the five-member regulatory body next year and likely push off new regulations such as a revival of the Obama-era net neutrality rules. Trump himself has needled Senate Republicans to pick up the pace on the appointment, a Commerce Department staffer named Nathan Simington who some conservatives see as critical to Trump’s attempted crackdown on social media giants.

 

“When you have openings in agencies that are usually Republican you probably want to fill it while he’s president. But this is not new ground we’re plowing,” Graham said of the party’s efforts.

 

Even though Trump has largely remained out of sight since losing the Nov. 3 election and continues to block the transition of power, the White House is still sending nominations over to the Senate.

 

On Tuesday, Trump announced his intent to nominate Brian Brooks to a five-year term as Comptroller of the Currency. Brooks currently holds the role in an acting capacity and Senate Banking Committee Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) told reporters he’d consider the nomination given that “Trump is president until this election is resolved, and maybe beyond.”

 

While Republicans may view the lame duck session as a final opportunity to implement their conservative agenda before Biden is inaugurated, Democrats see a Trump-led effort to impede the president-elect wherever possible.

 

“Whether it’s new sanctions against Iran or a pull-out from Afghanistan or FEC and Fed nominees, Trump’s goal right now is to sort of sabotage and make complicated a Biden administration to the maximum extent possible,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), adding that Senate Republicans “are along for the ride on all of it.”

 

 

 

 

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Larry

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Been wanting a constitutional amendment for a while, now.  (I'm not sure a law would do it.)  

 

Any legislative/executive action taken during the period between an election, and the results of the election taking effect, can be reversed by the newly-elected body (bodies), within 30 days of taking office, using the same standard required to enact the action.  (If it took, say, a 60% vote to do originally, then it still does.)  

 

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the main bulk of those judges need to be removed

 

yes i know the appts are al legal and binding but i'm not accepting of that passivity :) 

 

creativity and relentless resolve should be the order on undoing all the trump crap that requires it

 

in terms of the thinking/behavior, i keep seeing both the law and societal norms as malleable as the right wants them to be but only for them, while the left works to play much more by "the rules" even as the right mockingly cudgels them for it (not that everyone doesn't have good reasons to want to slap everyone at various times more than dialogue with them)

 

i'm not one to advocate staying in an abusive relationship, even if there are kids involved

 

sell or donate the kids and move on

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Wondering if a Bar Association complaint would be appropriate. 
 

I think the complaint would be that he used his position as the US's attorney, to perform an action to benefit a different client. 
 

which, I've been told, is the only "crime" for which the Bar Association will disbar someone. 

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3 hours ago, The Evil Genius said:
California doesn't **** around. 

 

 

The thing that drives me up the goddamn wall about this stuff is that there are never ANY actual repercussions for these ****sticks blatantly trying to break the law. 

 

IMO they should be handled the same way someone trying unsuccessfully to buy drugs from an undercover cop is. Tried to break the law? Charged and maybe go to jail.

 

This crap needs to have consequences. Especially if it can be proven that they knowingly were attempting to violate the law.

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19 minutes ago, Berggy9598 said:

Live footage of Guiliani planning the next move

 

 

That is an insult to Wile E. Coyote.  That guy had some great plans and some decent engineering.  He was just let down by poor quality of Acme products (probably made in china) and a nonsensical world.

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New Delays In Final Stage Of Census Could Foil Trump’s Plan To Rig It

 

The Census Bureau has identified issues in the data from the 2020 decennial census that will take an additional 20 days or so for it to fix, and thus delay the release of survey’s apportionment data until after President Trump leaves office, TPM has learned.


According to a person inside the Census Bureau, the additional time it will take to reprocess the data in question has pushed back the target date for release of the state population counts until Jan. 26 – Feb. 6.

 

That would mean President-elect Joe Biden will be in the White House when the Census Bureau delivers to him the numbers for him to transmit to Congress for the purposes of determining how many House seats each state will get for the next decade.

 

President Trump had been seeking to exclude undocumented immigrants from that count, with a policy that several lower courts have deemed illegal in rulings Trump is hoping the Supreme Court will overturn. Excluding undocumented immigrants from that count would decrease the House seats given to immigrant-rich states like California, and increase the representation for whiter, more Republican parts of the country.

 

The issues that the Census Bureau has identified in the data are standard for any census, the source told TPM, and it is routine for the Census Bureau to have to do this kind of reprocessing.

 

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