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Rush has passed
I had 3 brothers, the youngest one died of suicide in 2002, the oldest is a good friend. My middle brother was lost to Rush/co decades ago, we rarely speak - last time was in March 2020 when he begged mr pete & i to take Hydroxychloroquine and trust that trump would take care of us.
Rush Limbaugh has passed away.
you can imagine how i feel today.
https://www.wcbcradio.com/?news=rush-limbaugh-dies
They shouldn't be reporters then.
Lotta reporters making pretty clear they’re bored with Biden and want Trump back, miss writing about Twitter insults, etc.
:large
https://twitter.com/BleuZ00m/status/1361875227140120581?s=20
McConnell's Inner Circle: "going total mean girl ought to feed the cable beast for weeks."
McConnell’s Inner Circle Punches Back
February 17, 2021 at 8:24 am EST By Taegan Goddard 47 Comments
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) did not respond to former President Donald Trump’s attack yesterday, but the New York Times did have comments from two in McConnell’s inner circle.
Said Janet Mullins Grissom, McConnell’s first chief of staff: “Trump going total mean girl ought to feed the cable beast for weeks.”
Said Billy Piper, another former top McConnell aide: “It seems an odd choice for someone who claims they want to lead the G.O.P. to attack a man who has been unanimously elected to lead Senate Republicans a history-making eight times. But we have come to expect these temper tantrums when he feels threatened — just ask any of his former chiefs of staff or even his vice president.”
https://politicalwire.com/2021/02/17/mcconnells-inner-circle-punches-back/
TX Turtle Rescue: "there is no empty floor space tonight."
Well surpassed 2,500 turtles we are grateful for your support. We still do not have power. Resident turtles are out which are Merry Christmas, Allison and Hang Ten. Gerry and Fred are in the tanks and doing well, water temperature is being monitored closely.
https://www.facebook.com/SeaTurtleConservation/posts/5368924459814606
They ran out of space at the rescue center, so the local convention center opened its doors to turtle storage. This video was from yesterday afternoon. By the time my mom sent it to me, there were so many more that she said, “there is no empty floor space tonight.”
Sea Turtle, Inc
Sunday, February 14: We have rescued 142 sea turtles so far today from the cold waters of the Laguna Madre Bay on South Padre Island, TX. Thank you goes out to Captain Henry for rescuing over 100 turtles today by volunteering to take our volunteers out on the water. “Selfless acts like Captain Henry’s reminds us of the wonderful and dedicated community we are lucky enough to be part of”, says Wendy Knight, Executive Director of Sea Turtle Inc.
Tomorrow the temperature will fall even lower and hundreds of more turtles are in danger, we beg our community to keep watch for turtles and report any floating or washed ashore in your area. If you are not able to physically volunteer to look for turtles please consider helping us offset the tremendous cost of treating these patients by donating to Sea Turtle Inc.
https://twitter.com/effiedog/status/1361920812400447489?s=20
https://twitter.com/lara_hand/status/1361460058530308096?s=20
Public-Enemy-No-1
a keeper:
https://www.clowncrack.com/2021/02/07/public-enemy-no-1/public-enemy-no-1/
A pandemic. A snowstorm. And a bored guy...
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1361715382826983433?s=20This happened & it will happen again
The Plan
Published by digby on February 15, 2021
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In this interview Jamie Raskin outlines in clear terms what they thought Trump was up to on January 6th:
Placing former vice president Mike Pence front and center was not a strategic choice for the impeachment managers; it was a recognition that Pence was the central player in the former president’s attempted coup. “There was a method to all [his] madness. This was the counting of the electoral votes,” Raskin said. Trump seemed to think that if he could just get Pence to throw out votes from a few states, that would stop the election’s certification and “he could deny the election to Joe Biden.”
Under this thinking, the election’s outcome would go to a vote in the House, and Trump could “declare martial law” to put down the violence. “Vice President Pence became the linchpin” in this fanciful scenario. That is why Trump called Pence the morning of Jan. 6 and reportedly told him, “You can either go down in history as a patriot” or as an epithet[a pussy].
Raskin said, “The American people understand who Donald Trump is. That kind of authoritarian relationship is a threat to democracy.”
Mike Pence knows this first hand, as does Rudy Giuliani and any number of Trump’s confidantes. It really was an attempted coup. And when Pence refused to go along, Trump sicced his violent mob on him, hoping that would delay the vote and persuade him to change his mind out of fear for his life.
This happened.
https://digbysblog.net/2021/02/the-plan/
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