On our way to Biden's Inauguration (Trump #119)

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Here we are on our fast moving theads

Investigation that should be

That would certainly be a lot of strongly worded letters.
Portland liberals did rather more than that

@ListeningQuietly

Carter, Clinton, Bush, Obama will all be at the Inauguration. If anything is done to any of them the GOP will discover quite how angry Liberals can get

I read somewhere that Carter will not be attending due to ill health, I don't know if that has been confirmed

I'm clearly not keeping up at the back, as usual - I thought the "salacious gossip" about Melania concerned her alleged affair with the head of security at Trump Towers in New York? Or have they both moved on?

I read somewhere that Carter will not be attending due to ill health, I don't know if that has been confirmed

He is (checks) 96 - two years older than our own Madge.

Good thread. We discussed something similar right back in 2016 (based on Hannah Arendt's work?) about the purpose of big, shared lies and people wanting to be lied to.

Lili Saintcrow
@lilithsaintcrow
twitter.com/lilithsaintcrow/status/1347293759155838976
Let me explain something to those of you who didn't grow up around violently abusive white supremacists.
_ They absolutely do not believe their own bullshit, but it's useful for them to pretend they do.

NBC now running reports showing how the lone black Capitol police officer who was seen being chased up the mob and trying to hold them back with just his baton actually was making himself a human decoy On one landing, he stopped, looked left and then moved off to the right and on up a further flight of stairs, with the mob following him.....

....to the left were doors to the Senate Chamber which he'd established from his glance were unguarded so he continued make himself the target, getting the mob to chase him away from the unguarded doors.

I hope that if that was indeed what happened, he gets an award for bravery.

I'm clearly not keeping up at the back, as usual - I thought the "salacious gossip" about Melania concerned her alleged affair with the head of security at Trump Towers in New York? Or have they both moved on?

No idea, but if you take Melania at face value, all she really cares about is her son and money. Now that the presidential grift is over, 'gossip' could be a threat to her pre-nup.

www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/politics/house-democrats-impeachment-plans/index.html

Resolution brought to the floor for unanimous consent (needed in a pro forma session).

West Virginia GOP Rep. Alex Mooney objected to the request.

Resolution moves to the House tomorrow and a vote is expected Wednesday.

Pelosi has given Pence notice that he has 24 hours to Article 25 or the vote on impeachment will take place.

@DuncinToffee

Henry Zeffman *@hzeffman*

Just announced: Biden and Harris’s first act after being sworn in will be to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier — joined by the Obamas, Bushes and Clintons

That's a big "group of decent presidents and you're not invited Donald" snub

I looked up salacious:

"having or conveying undue or inappropriate interest in sexual matters."

Nobody thinks the Trumps share the same bed, so she must mean something else...?

So say Melania has a 'boyfriend' Hank and spends the majority of her time at a house near her parents and sister. I am really not a conspiracy theory type but there are definitely Melania doubles, lots of them 🤣, some better than others!

*"No idea, but if you take Melania at face value, all she really cares about is her son and money. Now that the presidential grift is over, 'gossip' could be a threat to her pre-nup."

And not necessarily in that order.

Carter announced a while ago that he wouldn't be attending the inauguration

apnews.com/article/jimmy-carter-joe-biden-inauguration-883b9255c96441cd72082cf429b9b331

@DGRossetti

I read somewhere that Carter will not be attending due to ill health, I don't know if that has been confirmed

He is (checks) 96 - two years older than our own Madge.

Yes he is 96, America's oldest living president.

A bit of googling actually confirmed that he and his wife will not be attending

"President and Mrs. Carter will not travel to Washington for the inauguration but have sent their best wishes to President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris and look forward to a successful administration," Deanna Congileo, a spokeswoman for the Carter Center, said in a statement to CNN.

My first memory of US presidents is Nixon ("Tricky Dicky" as DM called him) and the first elected one being Carter the peanut farmer. Probably because Mike Yarwood was doing him ... or did I make that up.

Nixon : I remember watching his resignation
then Ford - not a clever man
then yes, Carter the peanut man
then Reagan and the chimp

The worst thing about Nazis, is they are snobs.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-mob-capitol-riots-poor-low-class-b1785099.html

As a mob of his supporters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, Donald Trump was reportedly unconcerned about the destruction or insurrection taking place but instead how the violent extremists appeared “low-class”.

(contd)

That's if you equate class with money, of course. Trump has no class, but (so he says/lies) loadsamoney.

Pelosi statement on house republicans blocking unanimous consent request

As our next step, we will move forward with bringing impeachment legislation to the Floor.

www.speaker.gov/newsroom/11121

Until long after his retirement, I didn't understand what a genuinely good, religious man, former President Carter is.

@Jaichangecentfoisdenom

Until long after his retirement, I didn't understand what a genuinely good, religious man, former President Carter is.

That's why he had to go ...

This says quite a lot about Carter - can't exactly imagine the current incumbent doing this at 95:
thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/464705-jimmy-carter-back-to-building-homes-for-habitat-for-humanity

@Jaichangecentfoisdenom

Until long after his retirement, I didn't understand what a genuinely good, religious man, former President Carter is.

It’s so often the way. You don’t have to agree with their policies to realise that many MPs of the 80s/90s (of whatever party) were far more competent and upstanding than the current shower in Government.