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    Jean-Francois Millet Charity 1859   • Promises of Security, Prosperity, Accountability … And Fairness (JTN) • Trump Vows To Repeal Biden’s ‘Fooli
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle January 20 2025]

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    Germ
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    Germ
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    #179836
    Dr. D
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    “It’s a Make-or-Break Moment for Housing in California:
    The future of the state depends on how leaders rebuild after the Los Angeles fires.” Vox

    Why would leaders rebuild? It’s not their property. Oh yeah: government owns everything everywhere and they only let you use it. If you beg. That’s the difference between being under a King, or under a Democracy. In a democracy, the people are sovereign. In a dictatorship, they ask permission to build from the king. Doesn’t even occur to journalists, or socialists (but I repeat myself) because we know which assumption they take for granted.

    Note: They were a COMPLETE failure. Complete. Not even ONE house is left standing. Even if a tribe of Bonobo monkeys had built it after typing on 100 typewriters, at least ONE house would be left standing. SOMEONE would have a mass-wall adobe/earthship/Roman Villa/fire-steel pole barn/Japanese castle. But those are all illegal. Because they’d also be cheaper.

    “The Fascinating Backstory Behind Red Dye No. 3:
    Now that it’s banned, a dietitian explains what’s next.” Men’s Health

    Funny how everyone now agrees it’s been deadly all along. Huh. Maybe speak up 40 years earlier next time? Before a million people are killed? …And no one was arrested. Do it again, but harder!

    “This Aggressive Baby Name Trend Is ‘Alarming’ Experts
    “It’s rare for me to outright reject a name or name trend, but … “ HuffPost

    Fear, FEAR baby names!!! They are forms of audio signatures that will vibrate your ear. Karen has moved on to telling everyone what names they can have and what words they can use. Oh wait: they always were.

    Duran pointed out something we sort of know, but doesn’t take the fore: the U.S. is IN Europe, and Europe will do anything to keep us there to suck and sap us to fight their wars, so they can make fun of us for not having health care, while having no army. We know that part. We’re their useless b—h. Pimp hand! Trump will try to draw back as it’s retarded and bad business, why are we there? And Europe will nuke themselves – or us – to prevent that. We know this.

    Here’s the other part: it’s not just that we being there organizes, say, NATO, Europe, and Russia. One of the key unspoken issue is if the U.S. leaves, we leave…what? That’s right, Europe now has to deal with ITSELF. Like Germany vs Hungary vs Italy, vs France. Like BEFORE all this, before we came, and they can’t. Not a decade or more ago, but it’s very easy to see today that Europe will fracture, eat, and fight itself – Instantly – if they aren’t all looking to Big Dummy, the United States, to organize it all with our size and singular outlook.

    This is actually waaaaaaaay more deadly than just not fighting a war for them, one they’re not at any risk for and can GDP themselves if they want – like they did for the 200 years before 1940. So we were providing not one massive service – Trillions in free defense – but this other, more intangible effect Europe is well aware of but we’re not.

    In that case, that’s TWICE as many reasons to leave. Bye. Good luck with that. They will turn the planet to cinder to stop that, release Smallpox+Plague+Marburg. They’ve actually said so.

    “Lithuania Becomes First NATO Ally To Commit To Trump’s 5% Defense-Spending Goal

    See? It’s not all bad. There’s $50 bucks we’ll get back.

    “Trump ‘Makes More Than $58 Billion’ Shilling Meme Coin Before Taking Office
    President-elect Donald Trump made over $58 billion for himself “
    “Trump Unveils “Official” MemeCoin Late Friday; 12 Hours Later It Is Up 16,000% To $30 Billion

    And? There’s really nothing here. Anyone who knows the first sentence of how this works, it’s essentially a direct donation to Trump. Everybody knows it, it’s not a secret how it works. So we’re not allowed to donate? Donate = Scam now? Asking for donations = shilling? I think it’s stupid AF but what can I say? They’re adults, completely informed this isn’t even new, Memecoins have been running hot a year now. Again: government, Elite glue-sniffers with their underwear on the outside say “All that money is MY money. ALL money is MY money. You’re not allowed to spend it but only the ways I want.”

    “Outgoing FBI Director Says China Is ‘Defining Threat of Our Generation’

    Which is why he’s let a completely unknown number, possibly a million, across the border. Somewhere between 5 people and 5 million, but who’s counting?

    NPR Shopped for 96 Items at Walmart to Track How Prices Are Really Changing” Ackschully….

    “A Diet Discovery Reveals That Our Ancestors Were Once Vegetarian” Discover Magazine

    That’s why every human ancestor has canine teeth. Also that’s literally impossible, do a calorie count, dope. The only reason gorillas and orangutans can get anywhere near such a diet is the reason their guts are twice as large as ours and they sit all day. –And they’re still not vegetarians. That’s like saying cows are an aquatic species. Hey: they can swim a few meters, same thing, right?

    “Climate Whiplash and Fire Come to L.A.:
    Climate change has brought both fiercer rains and deeper droughts,” The New Yorker

    But because they knew and been telling us this for 30 years, they quadrupled-down and saved exactly zero water. Bill Maher was like, “They want to raise taxes to pay for this, NO! I want them to use the exorbitant taxes I’ve been paying the LAST 20 years to fix it!” …Welcome to being a Republican, Bill.

    Mr. Fish: so that’s Churchill and America?

    “Planned perfectly. Late switch. Enemies thwarted.”

    Totally agree.

    “Expect fairness, along with unity, to be offered as central themes in Trump’s inauguration speech”

    It’ll be in his speech. Will he take a single action about it?

    TikTok, I know it’s stupid but they’re stupid people. The amount him saving TikTok burns them is immeasurable. It’s all young, addicted, ultra-far head-in-a-blender liberal women on TikTok. That Trump saved their bacon, their smack, their fix, which is something they’ll shoot, kill, and die for, they can’t stand it and are thrashing around like a bucket of dying eels. The one I’ve heard is “The saving is not the real saving.” Uh-huh. And a minute ago you had no saving at all. What about Trump is shutting down free speech? By opening it?

    Well, logic doesn’t matter and has no effect whatsoever, so your guess is as good as mine, but they have to do something. If they don’t “poke” them, they will stay locked in the tunnels, eating soy, waiting for Hale-Bopp.

    “• Trump Team Preparing Early Talks With Putin – CNN (RT)

    Like TikTok, Peace = War. Trump talking to Putin and calling a ceasefire ackshully means he’s a murdering war monger of the military industrial complex. A war profiteering corporatist fascist, not like all those peace loving Socialists we voted in with Albright, Hillary, Obama and Biden. Peace first with all those guys. Not a single rifle was sold. Darn Republicans!!!

    “I have done my best to alert MAGA Americans to the difficulty of regaining control of the US government.”

    Does anyone not know? The problem is they’re still piddling around the edges. That’s why historically it takes a civil war: chilling in an era where you can kill 100 million people in 20 minutes. But so what if we are Rome under Julius, which is quite similar? Yeah, they then limped on, coming and going, but say, “Virtue” was never restored.

    “He hesitated in his first term. This time around, RFK Jr. will insist.
    Trump Vows To Release JFK, RFK and MLK Assassination Records (RT)

    It’s very likely he won concessions from the CIA for doing this. Now he won those concessions and releases them later anyway. I don’t LIKE it, but you have to understand it.

    “he German ambassador to the US, Andreas Michaelis, has warned Berlin that incoming President Donald Trump will likely try to undermine key principles underpinning American democracy,”

    As per TikTok, this is the universal “We all know” sentiment. If only Trump had been President before so we would know what would happen and whether he would leave or not!! : Reality has no hold. None.

    “A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures; even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him [a] concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it, until he [receives] a kick in his fan-bottom. When a military boot crashes his balls then he will understand. But not before that. That’s the [tragedy] of the situation of demoralization.” — Bezmenov.

    ““..the Soros network is funded by the EU budget.” “The biggest corruption scandal in politics is that Brussels is in George Soros’s pocket..”

    And Soros is created, run, funded, and directed by MI6. That’s where he got his money from. They “Broke the Bank of England” – which everyone on earth told them, including Armstrong – and they did it anyway and weren’t mad a bit! Nope, they happily paid them. Poker hand were everyone at the table loses to a guy with a pair of twos. Good show, old chum! …Compare to treatment of the Hunt Brothers, search for Satoshi, any other human in the literal history of Britain, etc.

    So UK>MI6>Soros>EU/WEF. WEF>Canada + Congress, Blackrock, All media, CIA, Navy Intel, etc. Tell me this is not your first rodeo and you’ve read at least ONE history book.

    “For centuries, the world was lorded over by empires that sought to impose their singular, myopic vision upon all peoples”

    Not untrue, but you could also call it “Cohesion”. You think the cohesive group beats the atomized group? Ask Pontiac.

    “• Bill In Congress To Reinstate 8,400 Troops Forced Out Over Covid Vaccine (JTN)

    Why bother? They’re crazy to go back unless 1) Everyone is arrested and tried, 2) They pay $1M a piece for civil rights violations. So all can f—k right off. When you get to where you f—ked off, go ahead and f—k right off again. Then keep going.

    This is what I mean by “piddling around the edges” “Aw shucks, you tried to murder me in my sleep again!! Good one! But we’ll just shake hands and put it in the past, right, honey?”

    “Donald Trump’s nominee for CIA Director just called out the “51 spies who lied”

    Yes, but no one will believe it, so who cares? This half of America will think you’re making it up because, “ even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him [a] concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it, until he [receives] a kick in[the balls]”

    Women don’t have balls, so I guess we’ll all die of old age first. Or maybe you know all the women who are quick to say they were totally, violently wrong, forgive and move on.

    For Australia today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hielN17IxSI

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    #179837
    poppie
    Participant

    Charity. For some it is precocious. Great effort needed to be confounded. For others it is beyond their reach. They make the great effort to confound. It is easier to confound if the basis of your culture, your religion dictates that all others are feral and that charity has no place for them. Precocious charity displaced by fear of the feral. But being feral is being free. The slightest of creatures has a soul. The soul longs to be free.

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    zerosum
    Participant

    Breaking News:
    In his final hours, Biden offered immunity/protection from Trump, to the worst of the worst of the innocents. (Fauci, etc.)

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    Oroboros
    Participant

    A certified fool is the German ambassador to the US. Crazy.”

    As a general rule, German’s have no sense of humor. Let’s say 90% don’t, the other 10% are hilarious.

    But a lack of humor always highlights an Inner Authoritarian to the core.

    Germans have an innate, slavish, tenacious incomprehension of the absurdity of Life at every level.

    The first two world wars showed everyone around the Globe their true colorlessness

    Like the Monty Python skit of WWI British Soldiers telling a “german” joke so funny that it would kill German troops in the trenches.

    Hans: “Hey Fritz, my dog does not smell very well”

    Fritz: “Why Hans? Has he always been like that?”

    Hans: “No, because he is dead”

    How a German bartender tells you ‘enough’

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    #179841
    Dimitri
    Participant

    As predicted

    “ Biden pardons Fauci, Milley, and members of the Jan. 6 committee | AP News”

    And The Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff!

    https://x.com/walterkirn/status/1881318598599209020

    #179842
    Oroboros
    Participant

    @ poppie

    I thought you were preempting my thought on Germans.

    Hahahahahahahahahaha!

    #179843
    Oroboros
    Participant

    First “Beta Test” of podcasting

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    #179844
    Oroboros
    Participant

    A complete lack of Entrepreneurial Vision

    In my restaurant if you smelled like pot you’d get a 50% off coupon.

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    #179845
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I should come out with a trendy new Cologne, Ode du Mary Jane

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    zerosum
    Participant

    “Every radical, foolish executive order of the Biden administration will be repealed within hours of when I take the oath of office,” Trump stated.
    ————
    Additionally, Trump hinted at an upcoming announcement regarding individuals detained for their roles in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots.
    His supporters “will be very happy with my decision on the J6 hostages,” he told the crowd. The president-elect further promised to stop the Ukraine conflict, which he has long criticized for claiming too many lives and costing US taxpayers billions in perpetual military aid to Kiev.

    “I will end the war in Ukraine, I will stop the chaos in the Middle East and I will prevent WWIII from happening,” Trump said
    ————–
    • Can Trump Make A Difference? (Paul Craig Roberts).
    Read and find out …

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    Change is coming.
    Wait for it.

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    #179847
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • Soros ‘Lost The Battle In America’ – Orban

    Tom Luongo goes on about Eurotardistan’s war against Duh’merica as a rewrite of Orwell’s Oceania vs Westasia

    Soro being funding by the Eurotrashtards plays into this very well.

    [Soros]…….fueling several so-called ‘color’ revolutions and having financial ties to hundreds of media outlets, which shield him from any backlash, shape public opinion, and promote what Orban called “LGBT fanaticism.”

    Indeed, Soros perfected ritual cultural humiliation

    Pissing on everyone’s head and tellin’ them it’s rain. Sweet George

    “I approve this message” ………George ‘Of the Jungle’ Soros

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    #179848
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Another Soros Meme Warfare creation:

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    Oroboros
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    Oroboros
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    #179851
    Noirette
    Participant

    Peter 47 on Jan 19 posted: I would be interested if Skripals are still alive, nobody mentions that.

    Imho Yulia and Sergei are still alive. There have been some reports, more or less credible, that they were given new identities and moved to New Zealand.

    Imho, the deal for ‘new identities’ for them was planned quite quickly. “Killing them off” was not an option — as saved by British Health System, Police, Gvmt., from Super-Evil.

    Yulia when she makes her TV statement (while held somewhere ‘safe’ in England) makes it clear that she does not wish help from the Russians (Embassy etc.), that she is fine, and a future awaits. Link below is excerpts not full version.

    In the Inquiry into Sturgess’ death testimony from Sergei *in absentia* dated some time in 2024 exists. It doesn’t add anything terribly vital, nor is it proof, but it sounds very like him to me. Sorry no link, I did keep many links, but the Sturgess Inquiry Site has re-vamped itself, and for now I don’t have time to hunt docs. up, if they still exist.

    https://tinyurl.com/34ssxrdc

    #179852
    ezlxa1949
    Participant

    Russia takes in Crimea. Bad.
    USA takes in Greenland. Good.

    Sigh.

    #179859
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Biden’s preemptive pardons include not just Milley, Fauci, Liz Cheney and Adam Schiff, but everyone on the Select Committee and their unnamed staff.

    Plus “the U.S. Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers who testified before the Select Committee.”

    That is why I am exercising my authority under the Constitution to pardon General Mark A. Milley, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the Members of Congress and staff who served on the Select Committee, and the U.S. Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers who testified before the Select Committee.

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2025/01/20/statement-from-president-joe-biden-15/

    #179860
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    people vs. the banks


    a world system of financial control in private hands
    able to dominate the political system of each country and
    the economy of the world as a whole

    https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/it-starts-tomorrow-people-vs-the

    #179861
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Preemptive pardons to the “staff who served on the Select Committee” include these people (plus unnamed junior staff and other staff?):

    In July 2021, Thompson announced the senior staff:
    David Buckley as staff director. Served as CIA inspector general and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence minority staff director.
    Kristin Amerling as deputy staff director and chief counsel. Served as deputy general counsel at the Transportation Department and chief counsel of multiple congressional committees, including Committees on Energy and Commerce and Oversight and Government Reform. She also served as Chief Investigative Counsel and Director of Oversight for the Senate’s Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.
    Hope Goins as counsel to Chairman Thompson. Served as top advisor to Thompson on homeland security and national security matters.
    Candyce Phoenix as senior counsel and senior advisor. Serves as staff director of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
    Tim Mulvey as communications director. Served as communications director for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

    In August 2021, Thompson announced additional staff:
    Denver Riggleman, senior technical adviser for the January 6 Committee. He previously served as a Republican U.S. Representative from Virginia and was an ex-military intelligence officer.
    Riggleman left the committee in April 2022.[68]
    Joe Maher as principal deputy general counsel from the Department of Homeland Security.
    Timothy J. Heaphy was appointed as the committee’s chief investigative counsel.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_the_January_6_Attack

    #179862
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    You don’t have to look to the Supreme Court or any other arbitrarily appointed judicial body to decide for yourself the starkly obvious logical conclusion that anything even remotely like a so-called “preemptive pardon” is identical to the complete and total abnegation of law itself.

    Please allow me to restate that in a shorter simpler way. If “preemptive pardon” exists, then law does not exist.

    In other words, and more to the point that affects our daily lives. If Fauci and Milley (both of whom are self aware intentional mass murderers) are allowed to be preemptively pardoned, then there is no law in America whatsoever. There will only be RULES which will be either enforced or not enforced, purely on the whim of an authority which claims and believes itself to have the uncheckable power over whatever it chooses.

    So those absurd attempted pardons are a very visible and good litmus test of the New Trumpian Paradigm of Pragmatic Paradise. If the perps get the slammer then he’s legit. And if they walk then we know for certain that he’s just another junior grade Mafia capo protecting his hit men.

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    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.federalregister.gov/presidential-documents/executive-orders/joe-biden/2025
    2025 Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Executive Orders
    In 2025, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., signed 11 Executive orders (Updates are not done)

    #179864
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Incidentally, Biden’s latest and last round of “preemptive pardons” is an excellent confirmation of our well founded suspicions about which of the bad guys are the most vulnerable to successful prosecution. The Attorney General should thank Joe for saving her a lot of work in deciding who to arrest and prosecute first.

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    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-joseph-biden-2021-present#19-Jan-2025-pardon
    January 19, 2025
    DESCRIPTION PUBLIC DISCLOSURE
    Pardon
    Warrant 1

    Warrant 2

    Warrant 3

    Updated January 20, 2025

    #179866
    John Day
    Participant

    @ Doc Robinson. That’s the pardon-list quote I was going to post. Thanks for providing the link yesterday.

    #179867
    WES
    Participant

    Today’s Presidential Parade:

    Today, in a surprised appearance, Julius Ceasar’s four world famous legions, Legio VII, VIII, IX, & X are due to march in the presidential parade, piped in by the Royal Scotish Highlanders Bag Pipe Band.

    Oh, you mean their appearance has now been cancelled?
    Why?
    Moved indoors!
    What a shame!
    There are plenty of D.C. folks, who could each have their own safe spaces, nailed to crosses!

    #179868
    John Day
    Participant

    @MichaelReid: Yes, I’ve got Alex Krainer’s tab up to work-in today, too.

    Also, we’re already quite cold for central Texas, and may get all the roads heavily iced over tonight.

    #179869
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @MichaelReid

    a world system of financial control in private hands
    able to dominate the political system of each country and
    the economy of the world as a whole

    The United States has always and only been a colony of England. A careful study of the history of the United States documents this fact incontrovertibly. Those people (and I use the term loosely) owned America then and they own it now.

    They MIGHT NOT, however go on owning it for very much longer.

    #179870
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Preemptive pardons to “staff who served on the Select Committee” presumably includes at least these 64 staff members (plus 33 contractors and consultants?) named in the Final Report of the Select Committee:

    iii COMMITTEE STAFF
    DAVID B. BUCKLEY Staff Director
    KRISTIN L. AMERLING Deputy Staff Director and Chief Counsel
    HOPE GOINS Senior Counsel to the Chairman
    JOSEPH B. MAHER Senior Counsel to the Vice Chair
    TIMOTHY J. HEAPHY Chief Investigative Counsel
    JAMIE FLEET Senior Advisor
    TIMOTHY R. MULVEY Communications Director
    CANDYCE PHOENIX Senior Counsel and Senior Advisor
    JOHN F. WOOD Senior Investigative Counsel and
    Of Counsel to the Vice Chair
    KATHERINE B. ABRAMS, Staff Associate
    TEMIDAYO AGANGA-WILLIAMS, Senior
    Investigative Counsel
    ALEJANDRA APECECHEA, Investigative Counsel
    LISA A. BIANCO, Director of Member Services
    and Security Manager
    JEROME P. BJELOPERA, Investigator
    BRYAN BONNER, Investigative Counsel
    RICHARD R. BRUNO, Senior Administrative
    Assistant
    MARCUS CHILDRESS, Investigative Counsel
    JOHN MARCUS CLARK, Security Director
    JACQUELINE N. COLVETT, Digital Director
    HEATHER I. CONNELLY, Professional Staff
    Member
    MEGHAN E. CONROY, Investigator
    HEATHER L. CROWELL, Printer Proofreader
    WILLIAM C. DANVERS, Senior Researcher
    SOUMYALATHA O. DAYANANDA, Senior
    Investigative Counsel
    STEPHEN W. DEVINE, Senior Counsel
    LAWRENCE J. EAGLEBURGER, Professional
    Staff Member
    KEVIN S. ELLIKER, Investigative Counsel
    MARGARET E. EMAMZADEH, Staff Associate
    SADALLAH A. FARAH, Professional Staff
    Member
    DANIEL GEORGE, Senior Investigative Counsel
    JACOB H. GLICK, Investigative Counsel
    AARON S. GREENE, Clerk
    MARC S. HARRIS, Senior Investigative Counsel
    ALICE K. HAYES, Clerk
    QUINCY T. HENDERSON, Staff Assistant
    JENNA HOPKINS, Professional Staff Member
    CAMISHA L. JOHNSON, Professional Staff
    Member
    THOMAS E. JOSCELYN, Senior Professional
    Staff Member
    REBECCA L. KNOOIHUIZEN, Financial
    Investigator
    CASEY E. LUCIER, Investigative Counsel
    DAMON M. MARX, Professional Staff Member
    EVAN B. MAULDIN, Chief Clerk
    YONATAN L. MOSKOWITZ, Senior Counsel
    HANNAH G. MULDAVIN, Deputy
    Communications Director
    JONATHAN D. MURRAY, Professional Staff
    Member
    JACOB A. NELSON, Professional Staff Member
    ELIZABETH OBRAND, Staff Associate
    RAYMOND O’MARA, Director of External
    Affairs
    ELYES OUECHTATI, Technology Partner
    ROBIN M. PEGUERO, Investigative Counsel
    SANDEEP A. PRASANNA, Investigative Counsel
    BARRY PUMP, Parliamentarian
    SEAN M. QUINN, Investigative Counsel
    BRITTANY M. J. RECORD, Senior Counsel
    DENVER RIGGLEMAN, Senior Technical Advisor
    JOSHUA D. ROSELMAN, Investigative Counsel
    JAMES N. SASSO, Senior Investigative Counsel
    GRANT H. SAUNDERS, Professional Staff
    Member
    SAMANTHA O. STILES, Chief Administrative
    Officer
    SEAN P. TONOLLI, Senior Investigative Counsel
    DAVID A. WEINBERG, Senior Professional Staff
    Member
    AMANDA S. WICK, Senior Investigative
    Counsel
    DARRIN L. WILLIAMS, JR., Staff Assistant
    ZACHARY S. WOOD, Clerk

    iv CONTRACTORS & CONSULTANTS
    RAWAA ALOBAIDI
    MELINDA ARONS
    STEVE BAKER
    ELIZABETH BISBEE
    DAVID CANADY
    JOHN COUGHLIN
    AARON DIETZEN
    GINA FERRISE
    ANGEL GOLDSBOROUGH
    JAMES GOLDSTON
    POLLY GRUBE
    L. CHRISTINE HEALEY
    DANNY HOLLADAY
    PERCY HOWARD
    DEAN JACKSON
    STEPHANIE J. JONES
    HYATT MAMOUN
    MARY MARSH
    TODD MASON
    RYAN MAYERS
    JEFF MCBRIDE
    FRED MURAM
    ALEX NEWHOUSE
    JOHN NORTON
    ORLANDO PINDER
    OWEN PRATT
    DAN PRYZGODA
    BRIAN SASSER
    WILLIAM SCHERER
    DRISS SEKKAT
    CHRIS STUART
    PRESTON SULLIVAN
    BRIAN YOUNG

    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-J6-REPORT/pdf/GPO-J6-REPORT.pdf

    #179871
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Dr D
    It’s all young, addicted, ultra-far head-in-a-blender liberal women on TikTok.

    Also, my kids tell me that their father’s fiancée’s teenage daughter with cerebral palsy LOVES TikTok — she was in love with a boy on TikTok and therefore decided that she needed to be a boy, just like him. My daughter has the fiancée’s old phone, and the screen has TikTok burn-in, because the fiancée uses TikTok with such frequency. My son with many challenges came out of his room Saturday night on a rant because TikTok was going away, railing against and blaming Donald Trump for taking it away. I had to spend a few minutes letting him know that, indeed, Trump was not president when the law was passed, did not sign it into law, and is not currently president and not the one enforcing the ban, but will become president Monday and is planning a 90-day reprieve. My son declared that on Monday Trump should repeal the law. I sighed — he took Civics last year and passed the class, didn’t he pay any attention? — and informed him that a president cannot unilaterally repeal laws, Congress can repeal and the courts can invalidate them as unconstitutional. Gee whiz — I think that he has been watching too much TikTok.

    #179872
    Oroboros
    Participant

    A Light Comes On

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    #179873
    Oroboros
    Participant

    An Inspirational Message to Live By in These Trying Time

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    #179874
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Pre-emptive pardons

    …it has been like one of those “wait for it” videos — knowing that *it* is going to happen, and the closer it gets to the ending timestamp of the video knowing that it is going to come any moment now — and then it hits…but is no where near as exciting as the buildup.

    #179875
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    Oroboros
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    #179877
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Inauguration Day

    Just sayin’, just in time….

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    #179878
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Even more, some last minute preemptive pardons announced, including Biden family members:

    I am issuing pardons to Gerald G. Lundergan and Ernest William Cromartie. I am also commuting the life sentence imposed on Leonard Peltier so that he serves the remainder of his sentence in home confinement.

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    My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me—the worst kind of partisan politics. Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end.

    I believe in the rule of law, and I am optimistic that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail over politics. But baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families. Even when individuals have done nothing wrong and will ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage their reputations and finances.

    That is why I am exercising my power under the Constitution to pardon James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W. Biden.

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2025/01/20/statement-from-president-joe-biden-16/

    #179879
    WES
    Participant

    Question:

    Has any president before Joe Biden, ever issued preemptive pardons?
    Is there such a legal term as preemptive pardon in the US constitution?

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