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Clash City Rocker

Clash City Rocker's Journal
Clash City Rocker's Journal
January 28, 2021

Marjorie Taylor Greene is deleting old posts off social media

Apparently not realizing that nothing is ever really deleted off social media.

https://twitter.com/kfile/status/1354821456811630596

January 20, 2021

The Byrds - I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better

This seems appropriate today, don’t you think?

January 19, 2021

Trump talked out of pardoning kids and Republican lawmakers

President Donald Trump received an unsettling warning on his final Saturday night in the White House.

Huddled for a lengthy meeting with his legal advisers, Trump was warned the pardons he once hoped to bestow upon his family and even himself would place him in a legally perilous position, convey the appearance of guilt and potentially make him more vulnerable to reprisals.

So, too, was Trump warned that pardons for Republican lawmakers who had sought them for their role in the Capitol insurrection would anger the very Senate Republicans who will determine his fate in an upcoming impeachment trial.

White House counsel Pat Cipollone and another attorney who represented Trump in his first impeachment trial, Eric Herschmann, offered the grave warnings as Trump, his daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner listened. Other lawyers joined by telephone. They all told Trump he should not pardon himself, his family or any GOP lawmakers in a prospective manner unless he was prepared to list specific crimes.

Cipollone and former Attorney General William Barr both warned Trump earlier this month they did not believe he should pardon himself, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN last week. Barr conveyed this position to Trump before resigning last month, sources say.

Trump continued to bring the matter up in the ensuing days, even after officials believed the issue was resolved. But the sobering meeting on Saturday evening at the White House seemed to put the idea to rest.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/19/politics/trump-self-pardon-warning/index.html

January 13, 2021

Op-Ed: The crime Trump committed in stirring up his mob

The author is an associate dean of the University of Connecticut School of Law.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-01-11/donald-trump-incitement-insurrection-capitol-attack

“Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.” Note that last part.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2383

January 13, 2021

The Lincoln Project - Mike Pence for President

This is really funny.

January 7, 2021

Remember that Trump executive order to protect monuments

Because he was afraid that slaveholders weren’t worshiped enough? Hmm, irony...again.
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1347274064335933443

January 4, 2021

Have we talked about Bean Dad yet?

So this guy named John Roderick posted a story on Twitter that went something like this...his nine-year-old daughter daughter asked him to open a can of beans because she was hungry. He made her open it herself, although she didn’t know how to use a can opener. It took six hours.

People were angry about this. Some saw it as abusive. Others went through his old tweets and found several that come across as racist and antisemitic. Apparently he also liked to threaten to rape people.

https://heavy.com/news/john-roderick-bean-dad/

Anyhow, he hosts a podcast with Ken Jennings, the Jeopardy guy. Jennings tried to defend him. It didn’t go over too well. And some of Jennings’ old tweets are coming as a result. Looks like Bean Dad may keep Jennings from getting a full time gig on the show, although they haven’t said anything.

https://mobile.twitter.com/KenJennings/status/1345831929266855936

January 1, 2021

"I'm not going to say 'Happy New Year,' I'm going to say 'Jumanji!'"

I can’t take credit for that one, it came from my wife. But Jumanji to all my friends on DU. We will escape this nightmare soon.

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