2020 U.S. Presidential Election

[MsZem]

I found this article about DNA.

Superpower: Your Aunts’ and Uncles’ DNA is Your DNA Too – Maximize Those Matches!

Recently a reader, Ian, dropped me a note suggesting that perhaps not everyone understands the 2-fer value of close family members who DNA test. That’s “two for the price of one.” Even just one fam…

dna-explained.com

It says that you share 25% of your DNA with any aunt or uncle. So it's possible that Mary Trump's DNA could be used, too.

FYI, we also share quite a lot of our DNA with our noble relative, the banana.

No, really.

How Genetically Related Are We to Bananas? | Breakthroughs

We’ve long known that we’re closely related to chimpanzees and other primates, but did you know that humans also share more than half of our genetic material with chickens, fruit flies, and bananas?

www.breakthroughs.com

Do People and Bananas Really Share 50 Percent of the Same DNA?

You probably feel like you have very little in common with that banana lying on your kitchen counter. But science says you do! So, how is this possible? And is that stat accurate? We talk to the scientist who did the research.

science.howstuffworks.com

 

[Simone411]

That was pretty interesting, @MsZem! A thought just occurred, though. Since we're 'kin' to the banana, would that make us cannibals when we eat one?! j/k!

 

[ballettmaus]

Um many democrats number one priority is putting the whole Trump family in jail?! Lol. Vance is working on that. He just announced he wants to put Ivanka in prison along with Trump. He doesn’t even have a crime. He opened investigations of people to try to put them in prison. Not how things are supposed to work.

Name a crime that Hillary, Obama or Biden committed. And not a fictuous one that Trump or the GOP fabricated. An actual crime that they are currently under investigation for or were at the time that Trump wanted to put them in jail for.

US killing suliemani was the right thing. He was an evil monster. His official job in iran was being an evil monster. Iran wasn’t going to win any war over anger over US killing an evil monster

Trump is a monster, so I guess, you'd be okay if a foreign government killed him, too?
Iran was unlikely to win any war but fact is, it would have led to war if Iran had chosen to respond that way. Here are also some "fun" facts on Iran's breakout capacity, curtesy of Senator Murphy https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1333412111607885826

 

[canbelto]

Parents in a deep red district and kids in that district refuse to believe that Joe Biden won. Causing problems for teachers:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/teaching-election-west-virginia/2020/11/29/b8e40a38-2b3a-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html

 

[caseyedwards]

Name a crime that Hillary, Obama or Biden committed. And not a fictuous one that Trump or the GOP fabricated. An actual crime that they are currently under investigation for or were at the time that Trump wanted to put them in jail for.


Trump is a monster, so I guess, you'd be okay if a foreign government killed him, too?
Iran was unlikely to win any war but fact is, it would have led to war if Iran had chosen to respond that way. Here are also some "fun" facts on Iran's breakout capacity, curtesy of Senator Murphy https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1333412111607885826

I can’t. I don’t know of any. Vance just announced he wants to put trump and Ivanka in prison but hasn’t indicted either or said what they are guilty of.

Yes it would. I said this in 2017. It would be nice if nato took care of the horrible problem US was in. I said if would be nice if US allies intervened and saved their ally. If I remember right you didn’t like that suggestion of mine! Or it was some other people. Either way nato didn’t do anything and I would have supported it if they did.

 

[Susan1]

I may watch Fox News for about one minute each day just to see what they're blabbering about and if anything has changed with their point of view. It never fails. They begin discussing how the election was rigged for Biden, joke about his choices for his cabinet members, talk about how strict the cities are about the beer burden, etc. etc. etc.

One minute is all it takes, and I change the channel.

I only see the clips or read the articles. Sometimes I will go down the channels instead of back and forth from CNN and MSNBC and catch them talking about something nobody else is talking about - trump losing, the c.v., or putting down a democrat for one thing or another. So many of them are turning on him though, like he is on them. He said something about how the afternoon shows are terrible. He just likes the Fox and Friends because they let him blather on for an hour with blank looks on their faces. They'll be history if he starts his own trumpy network.

 

[caseyedwards]

I‘ve also noticed that!

It’s like who was more beloved than Chris Wallace? Who does he work for? Lol

 

[Aussie Willy]

Parents in a deep red district and kids in that district refuse to believe that Joe Biden won. Causing problems for teachers:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/teaching-election-west-virginia/2020/11/29/b8e40a38-2b3a-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html

That is very interesting. Thanks for posting.

 

[Reuven]

He just likes the Fox and Friends because they let him blather on for an hour with blank looks on their faces. They'll be history if he starts his own trumpy network.

I used to call them “Three Dopes on a Divan,” but now it looks like they’re using high stools which puts me in mind of the “Triplets” number from “Bandwagon.”

 

[rfisher]

Trump has raised between 150 and 170 million dollars from small donors since Nov 3. If anybody has any questions as to why he's sending in Rudy and company to file baseless lawsuits, goes on conservative TV to make his pitch for free has your answer. And the fine print says he can use the money anyway he wants. He's going to run the grift as long as he can and the GOP in Congress are letting him do it to their own detriment. It was never about the country or the presidency. It was always about the money.

 

[Meoima]

Trump’s absolute last stand to subvert the election will come Jan. 6, when his allies in Congress say they may formally challenge Joe Biden’s victory.

It’s a complicated, little-used process that could get messy — but is unlikely to change anything.

How Trump’s Hill allies could take one last shot to overturn the election

It's deeply unlikely to succeed, but some House Republicans are weighing an effort to challenge Biden's Electoral College win.

www.politico.com

 

[Judy]

Believe it or not, I have a set of cousins(married), one with two masters degrees and the other with a medical degree who support him. They are anti-vaxxers and don't believe in climate change. When confronted with Trump's lies, my cousin just shrugs and says, "Al politicians lie". I tend to think that their support is correlated with their fascination with money.

Yes it’s not only the uneducated. There are a variety of reasons I suspect. Being educated doesn’t always mean that you don’t have issues.

Trump has raised between 150 and 170 million dollars from small donors since Nov 3. If anybody has any questions as to why he's sending in Rudy and company to file baseless lawsuits, goes on conservative TV to make his pitch for free has your answer. And the fine print says he can use the money anyway he wants. He's going to run the grift as long as he can and the GOP in Congress are letting him do it to their own detriment. It was never about the country or the presidency. It was always about the money.

i had seen right after the election was won that Lindsay Graham had said he donated 500 thousand to the cause. Buying his voters of course For the future.

 

[ballettmaus]

I can’t. I don’t know of any.

There you go.

Vance just announced he wants to put trump and Ivanka in prison

Source.

but hasn’t indicted either or said what they are guilty of.

There's a grand jury investigation. Those investigations are secret by law. And unless you want to make a fool of yourself, you should have at least some evidence of a crime.

 

[once_upon]

Yes it’s not only the uneducated. There are a variety of reasons I suspect. Being educated doesn’t always mean that you don’t have issues.

i had seen right after the election was won that Lindsay Graham had said he donated 500 thousand to the cause. Buying his voters of course For the future.

Is he one of the person(s) buying a pardon?

 

[caseyedwards]

There you go.


Source.


There's a grand jury investigation. Those investigations are secret by law. And unless you want to make a fool of yourself, you should have at least some evidence of a crime.

Trump Tax Write-Offs Are Ensnared in 2 New York Fraud Investigations

Inquiries into the president and his businesses, one criminal and one civil, are now looking at tax deductions taken on consulting fees. Some of the payments appear to have gone to Ivanka Trump.

www.nytimes.com

It’s not secret. Vance announced to NYT lol

 

[Meoima]

Parents in a deep red district and kids in that district refuse to believe that Joe Biden won. Causing problems for teachers:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/teaching-election-west-virginia/2020/11/29/b8e40a38-2b3a-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html

I keep saying some people should not be parents and I keep my words. Poor kids.

 

[Simone411]

I really like this article from the Los Angeles Times:

Column: Why Biden should hope that Trump pardons himself on the way out the door

A self-pardon would outrage Democrats, but it would be good for the new president.

www.latimes.com

A pre-pardoned Trump might help Biden navigate the dilemma by making it difficult to proceed with a prosecution.

While it’s unclear that a self-pardon would be valid — it has never happened before, and it collides with the bedrock principle that no man can serve as judge in his own case — the move would guarantee that things would be messy. The first step for any prosecutor would be overcoming the former president’s contention that he is invulnerable to federal prosecution.

Biden might be able to avoid the divisive decision about prosecution entirely by letting, say, New York go first. In any case, Trump appears to be in greater danger there than from federal prosecutors.

The Manhattan district attorney is investigating his family real estate firm, the Trump Organization, on allegations of bank and insurance fraud. And the state’s attorney general is investigating whether he claimed improperly inflated deductions on state tax returns.

Trump faces potential civil legal problems as well. He owes millions of dollars to banks that have held back from suing him while he was in the White House.

The cost of his still unsettled federal tax audit could exceed $100 million. Tax cases are pursued, at least initially, in civil courts, not criminal cases; a pardon won’t relieve him of his obligations to the Internal Revenue Service.

Congressional committees will remain free to investigate him as well.

In short, Trump’s retirement is unlikely to be overly comfortable even if he doesn’t face a federal indictment.

So go ahead, Mr. President, and pardon yourself. Secure your place in history as one of only two presidents who felt they needed pardons because of the potential criminal charges they faced. Sooner or later, we’ll probably see you in court all the same

 

[ballettmaus]

Trump Tax Write-Offs Are Ensnared in 2 New York Fraud Investigations

Inquiries into the president and his businesses, one criminal and one civil, are now looking at tax deductions taken on consulting fees. Some of the payments appear to have gone to Ivanka Trump.

www.nytimes.com

It’s not secret. Vance announced to NYT lol

This is an article about the investigations into Trump. The ones that have a basis in law. I'm looking for the quote where Cy Vance says that he wants to put Trump and Ivanka in prison (without filing charges).

 

[Judy]

Is he one of the person(s) buying a pardon?

Lol I suspect he still wants to golf with his buddy Trump.

 

[MacMadame]

Lol I suspect he still wants to golf with his buddy Trump.

Though who knows why. It's not like Trump is the best golfing companion.

 

[Judy]

Though who knows why. It's not like Trump is the best golfing companion.

Likely it’s because he wants to .. not sure what is the right word .. standing with SC voters that love Trump?

 

[MacMadame]

Likely it’s because he wants to .. not sure what is the right word .. standing with SC voters that love Trump?

Yes but there are ways to do that without being subjected to Trump's golf game.

 

[Vagabond]

Ex-US Attorney asks for investigation of Lindsey Graham call to Secretary of State

Secretary Brad Raffensperger said last month he'd gotten a call from the South Carolina senator in which he felt he was pressured to find ways to invalidate ballots.

www.11alive.com

An Atlanta-based former U.S. Attorney requested an investigation into a call between South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and Georgia Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger last month.

In mid-November, Raffensperger told The Washington Post that he felt that in the conversation, Sen. Graham had asked him questions in a manner that, as The Post put it, "appeared to suggest that he find a way to toss legally cast ballots."

Graham has called that interpretation "ridiculous."

Raffensperger told the paper it "sure looked like he was wanting to go down that road." That interpretation was later backed up by Gabriel Sterling in the Secretary of State's Office, who was on for some of the call.

Kinda obvious whom to believe, innit?

 

[Meoima]

Racine told Maddow that the committee paid $175,000 for the space in Trump Hotel, adding that for the Presidential Prayer Breakfast, it cost just $5,000 for the same space.
“$175,000 charged to the inauguration committee, $5,000 charged for another not-for-profit. Doesn’t sound like a ‘fair market rate’ to me.”

From DC attorney general: Ivanka Trump 'highly misleading' on lawsuit deposition | TheHill

 

[Susan1]

Trump news - live: Press chief quits in apparent nod to defeat, as Murdoch appears to turn on president

Follow the latest updates

www.yahoo.com

Nothing about the press chief quits is in the story?

Press chief quits in apparent nod to defeat​

 

[DORISPULASKI]

So Don Jr wants to run for head of the NRA, it says.

 

[Meoima]

But also, Trump raised $207 million after asking supporters to help fund his avalanche of legal defeats. And so far it's cost him $8.8 million (about a quarter of which was spent on text-message ads!). So overall it's probably working OK for him.
From https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1335015260231700481?s=20

Those Maga idiots who sent Trump money will never realize they simply help him paying his debt huh?

 

[Sparks]

So Don Jr wants to run for head of the NRA, it says.

Which is going bankrupt and is in some legal trouble.

 

[Meoima]

Kellyanne Conway said President Donald Trump has “the right” to exhaust his legal challenges, but acknowledged that Joe Biden appears headed to the White House as the next president of the United States.

“The president wants to exhaust all of his legal avenues, as he has made clear many times. His team is doing that, and that is his right,” Conway said in an interview with The 19th’s Washington correspondent, Amanda Becker, that aired Friday. “If you look at the vote totals in the Electoral College tally, it looks like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will prevail. I assume the electors will certify that and it will be official. We, as a nation, will move forward, because we always do.”
From https://19thnews.org/2020/12/kellya...ike-joe-biden-and-kamala-harris-will-prevail/

By the way...

NEW: The RNC paid a mystery company $42 million this year. The untraceable company, Digital Consulting Group, went from nonexistent to the GOP's highest-paid vendor of the election in just 8 months, receiving 3 of the RNC's top 10 payments ever.
From RNC's highest-paid vendor of the 2020 election: A mystery company formed nine months ago | Salon.com

 

[Vagabond]

Which is going bankrupt and is in some legal trouble.

So he'd be perfect for the job!