Oh did you see the Texas governor is PISSED about that? L.O.L.
Gov. Abbott Rips ‘Loyalty’ Screening In Place For Troops At Biden Inauguration: I’ll Never Send Troops To D.C. Again
Oh did you see the Texas governor is PISSED about that? L.O.L.
Gov. Abbott Rips ‘Loyalty’ Screening In Place For Troops At Biden Inauguration: I’ll Never Send Troops To D.C. Again
I just read this part in the article that Benggaul linked.
Abbott can f off.Federal officials are vetting thousands of National Guard troops arriving to help secure the inauguration. Of the 21,500 Guard personnel who had arrived in Washington by Monday, any who will be near President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will receive additional background checks, a standard procedure to counter insider threats that was also taken before President Trump’s inauguration in 2017.
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Love these rubes. These are the people when the other party is in power, especially the President its okay to speak up against the country. When it's party over country tho and you say some you Hate America.
So on this note he promises never to issue National Guard if D.C is being invaded by aliens and god, emperor trump is about to be killed.
Once again Governors making these really shit partisan statements should have some rebuke. Sadly its voting them out is only solution.
Democrats are the best! I will never ever question a Democrat again. I LOVE the Democrats!
I hope McConnell's statement motivates enough people to break with Trump cleanly and vote conviction in the Senate, which then causes an irreparable break in the GOP, with splits going to GOtrumP. If the Senate doesn't vote to convict, I hope people talk Trump into running Third Party in 2024. That will elevate Harris to President.
Democrats are the best! I will never ever question a Democrat again. I LOVE the Democrats!
https://www.americanoversight.org/dh...or-chris-krebs
There's no paper trail for Chris Krebs firing as head of CISA, which is...a bit of a problem. So either there actually IS no paper trail, which again is still a problem, or they got rid of the paper trail, which is also a problem.
my god these pillow memmmmmms are killing me
Buh Byeeeeeeeeeeee !!
Just as a reminder.
It is the final day of the Trump Presidency, and Obamacare has not been repealed.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
Amusingly, I commented on this earlier today.
2 years of total control of the government
2 years of 2/3 control of the government
They did some damage to it, but the fact that it remains in place with most of the core protections unchanged is a testament to both the incompetence of Republicans and Trump (thank goodness) and how strong the legislation itself is.
Tbh I think it's supporting evidence for the theory that the Republican Party and its predecessors aren't so much an actual representative bloc as they are the US' equivalent of the old monarchist wing in early parliaments that was to foul up the proceedings as much as possible to ensure no fundamental reforms threatening the monarchy were actually instituted.
Unfortunately "a basic level of functional competence in government" seems to have become a radical reformist position in the US so they naturally oppose that too.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
Trump's remaining personal lawyers are worried because the Democrats control the House, the Senate, and most importantly the IRS in a matter of hours.
Um...was the last few years not enough notice?In a motion filed Tuesday evening, hours before President-elect Joe Biden takes office, Trump's lawyers expressed concerns that the new administration could provide House Democrats with the outgoing president's tax returns without giving Trump advance notice.
"Whoa! It's not fair to prosecute a political opponent!"House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) in 2019 issued requests and subpoenas to the Treasury Department and the IRS for Trump's personal and business federal tax returns. After the Trump administration rejected those efforts, the Ways and Means Committee filed a lawsuit against Treasury and the IRS. The case has yet to be resolved.
Trump and his businesses are participating in the case as intervenor-defendants. Lawyers for Trump and his businesses said in their filing on Tuesday that the Department of Justice [DOJ], which is representing Treasury and the IRS, could reconsider its position about a request for Trump's tax returns in the new administration. Trump's lawyers also noted that Neal's requests expired when the previous Congress ended earlier this month, and would have to be renewed if he wants to continue to seek Trump's tax returns.
Hmm. What did Trump say he would do, on live TV, to Clinton's face?
"Prosecute a pol..oh. Right. Okay, second goalpost-moving excuse: the whole idea was to see if Trump was a target of extortion or corruption. Now that he's out of office, the security issue is retroactively irrelevant."
Hmm. How many Benghazi hearings were there?
"Dozens. Oh, right."
Trump has claimed he's been under audit for years. Also known as "a federal investigation". He can't really block it. At best, Trump's lawyers can hope they get the same treatment as any other tax-dodging felon.