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Found what I was looking for. From JVL https://www.thebulwark.com/p/tulsi-gabbard-russian-asset-or-dupe

I'm going to stick this here because this state legislator wants to codify something kin to this in Va. Personally I think it's a good idea (and the guy is a Republican). Too bad Ms Harris didn't suggest this when she was talking about making home buying more available to middle class Americans

There was a reason Pence would not get into the SS car. I seriously believe all Trumpers have developed a serious case of convenient memory loss

I've heard that from every alkie I've encountered and was ordered to hire by a few crooked bosses

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-kremlin-celebrates-trumps-cabinet-picks-like-kash-patel/ Even Russian State TV admits Gabbard is an asset

I suggest also taking a look at the charts inside this reports. As to hotels, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck.... I suspect his company doesn't check for housekeeper citizenship too closely. H

It's easy to get around DC by public transit most of the time. Driving there from Williamsburg, Va is a big pain in the arse because of traffic on I-95. The last couple of trips (primarily spouse work related) we've used AMTRAK from Richmond. Parking is reasonable ($10 a day, compared to exorbitant DC rates) and a 2 1/2 train ride. Maybe $35 if you book business class.

The guy Trump picked actually tried to enforce the law during the pandemic and is now getting hosed by the conservatives for doing so

I needed an Uber here in Billsburg when my wife had the car. I checked with the concierge at the hospital, they recommended a local cab company instead. Evidently here in the exburbs Uber and Lyft is hard to find. Bus service was good but didn't want the two mile hike from the bus stop to the house.

It's more like like an anti incumbent vote than a mandate for either party

It's been a while since I spent any time at DTW. Did a bit of loading vehicles for the monopoly that had the ground transportation bid (cabs and limos). I'm not sure how they handle that now, and if they even check for credibility. It used to be outside companies needed to check in with ground transportation in the parking garages. No curbside pickup allowed. I don't think the mentality of the average passenger has changed however. Most of them are completely clueless when it comes to finding rides

This used to be a reliable GOP seat. U dear Trump they've lost three times n Orange County, CA: Donald Trump lost for the third time in a row A former Trump appointee and wife of CA's GOP Nat'l Committeeman is gonna fail to be re-elected to Congress And in 4 out of 5 congressional races, voters chose Dems https://bsky.app/profile/longfeather.bsky.social/post/3lcidwrzrrk2a

Breaking. NBC News projects: Democrat Adam Gray wins California's 13th Congressional District. This is a flip for Democrats. The House is now set. Republicans can lose just two votes on legislation in the next Congress. https://bsky.app/profile/kylegriffin1.bsky.social/post/3lci6eyfgbk2x This is before any of Trump's nominees leave. I think they're all in safe MAGA seats. Need to stock up on popcorn

https://bsky.app/profile/cnn.com/post/3lcif7zoqwc2n BREAKING: Brian Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare, was shot and killed outside a Manhattan hotel in an apparent targeted attack, law enforcement official says United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in midtown Manhattan, official says | CNN The CEO of UnitedHealthcare was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning, a law enforcement official tells CNN.

So you agree there are probably undocumented people working for Trump

Throw in transportation in major cities, the vast majority of cab and uber drivers are probably here illegally. Cab and limo owners are probably legal. i wonder about some of the folks they hire. Where are they gonna find replacements

Lots of hotel rooms in big cities. Hotels like Trump Inc who i would wager employ illegal residents, and under pay them to clean rooms. Big business people wont take kindly to dirty unkempt rooms

The time to rebuild for 2026 is now (In Va and a few states 2025). Especially after the country has had a taste of the Trump/Musk/RFKjr Triad. Ben Winkler who has been active in Wisconsin, one of the few bright spots in the past election has some ideas.... https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ben-wikler-wisconsin-democratic-dnc-political-technocrat-makes-his-pitch-saving-party?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ben-wikler-post-election-takeaways-for-democrats-dnc

They're also good in brownies and chocolate chip cookies. Walnuts are good for you

Riddle me this Smart Dude. If all farm work is automated then who exactly hires 283 thousand farm workers (the number estimated by the Center for Migration Studies report, look it up). That's about 4% of undocumented workers in the U-S. Now maybe if they (both Republicans and Democrats) actually went after the businesses that hired undocumented workers (builders, landscapers, folks that run poultry houses which are considered agricultural btw, domestic help, Trump's wife, guys like Musk who came here illegally because he lied on his visa application) it would be more effective than whatever we've done in the past. Check your figures, Obama expelled more undocuments than Trump and built more wall.

I deleted the post. My patriotism got the best of me. I'm done dealing with that jerk

Prove it. Show your work

From today’s Bullwerk Don’t Stop With Hunter by Andrew Egger President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter wasn’t just a display of hypocrisy. It was also the latest in a string of decisions the president has made showing a bizarrely incoherent response to the reelection of Donald Trump. During the presidential campaign, Biden and Kamala Harris didn’t hold back about the stakes of the election, correctly sounding the alarm over Trump’s malignant authoritarianism-in-waiting. Yet since Trump won, Biden has oscillated between acting as if norms can hold and as if the house may indeed be on fire. The president has participated in transition activities to ensure a smooth handoff (as he should). And he also gave Trump a backslapping “welcome back” photo op at the White House. Republicans leered—and some progressives fumed—that this pivot showed Biden hadn’t really believed all that stuff about the dangers Trump presented. Biden’s defenders argued that he was just trying to stick up for the battered norm of the peaceful transfer of power. But the Hunter pardon suggests the president believes we are now firmly in a new, abnormal political reality. The dizzying, unprecedented decision to pardon his son not only for the crimes of which he currently stands accused but for any and all federal crimes he may have committed over a decade of his out-of-control life was, as Sonny Bunch notes today, a betrayal of the case he had made to supporters. “The notion that institutions and values are worth defending is something Biden told us to believe,” writes Sonny. “And he dispensed with those stated values the second they proved inconvenient.” But the pardon also betrays a deep worry that Republicans wouldn’t stop coming after Biden’s family until they had extracted their pound of flesh—that we are past the point of saving the institutional legitimacy of our system of justice. Biden is obviously correct that Team Trump is openly gearing up for vengeance, as Trump’s abortive attempt to install Matt Gaetz at DOJ and his ongoing attempt to replace Christopher Wray with Kash Patel at the FBI show. What remains to be seen is whether Biden’s protective actions against those forthcoming vengeances will extend beyond his own flesh and blood. A few weeks ago, former Justice Department attorney Paul Rosenzweig wrote for us arguing Biden should issue preemptive pardons to protect those whom Trump had explicitly threatened over their opposition to his candidacy: People like former Rep. Liz Cheney, whom Trump repeatedly called treasonous for her participation in the House January 6thCommittee, or Gen. Mark Milley, whom he suggested should be executed. “There can be little doubt that Trump has an enemies list,” Rosenzweig wrote, “and the people on it are in danger—most likely legal, though I shudder to think of other possibilities.” Keep in mind that Rosenzweig was writing before Trump’s announcement of Patel, who recently wrote a book explicitly listing dozens of purported deep-state Trump enemies, including everyone from Hillary Clinton and Harris to Robert Mueller and Rod Rosenstein to former Trump aides who have since spoken out against him, like Cassidy Hutchinson and Alyssa Farah. Reading that list, it’s painfully clear that nothing unites the names but perceived enmity to the incoming president. One imagines a loyal lapdog like Patel wouldn’t hesitate to expand that list. Maybe some of these folks wouldn’t accept preemptive pardons. It’s true that, in some people’s eyes, that could look like an admission of some sort of guilt. It’s certainly true that the right-wing infotainment system would howl that argument to the moon. But Team Trump’s rhetoric of retribution has been so naked and explicit that no reasonable person would find that sound and fury compelling. And it’s a little late for Biden to decide he doesn’t want to make any controversial pardons. The point isn’t just to ensure that, say, Cheney won’t be convicted of a crime. The point is to shore up the likes of Cheney, Fiona Hill, and Wray—as much as possible—against oppressive, life-destroying investigations on the part of a weaponized federal executive. Biden can’t protect all of America against Trump. But the people about whom Trump and his lackeys are already openly drooling and braying for revenge—those Biden could preemptively protect. Hunter can’t be the only one who could or should benefit from his use of this power. At least, in this case, the president would be affirming the principles he ran on, not jettisoning them.

Biden needs to go big on pardons in coming days. Become the Oprah of pardons. Everyone on this list gets a get out of jail free card, and then some.