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Laura PourMeADrink

Laura PourMeADrink's Journal
Laura PourMeADrink's Journal
September 24, 2020

Hazmat suit up! If you are brave and able...vote in person.

It is critical that we are close or winning on election night.

September 18, 2020

My shelter pup is a SUPER shedder! Any light-weight stick vacuum

Recommendations? Have a good canister but heavy and have two floors of hardwood.

It's simply amazing how much Tony sheds. It will literally be everywhere every day.

Want a good stick...but one that doesn't require reaching down and removing hair trapped in a comb or brush attachment.

September 16, 2020

New favorite sign




WAS




September 15, 2020

I feel there might be a direct correlation between news cycle ebb and flow

and trump approval. I have checked 538 avg approval every day for years. I saw his approval tick down after his latest travesty...that he didn't warn about covid and thinks generals are pussies. Then, it started going up again. Same time the news moved on to something new.

It is exactly what he wants. He knows the news cycle. Bad news will be replaced by new bad news and people and the news will jump on something new.

We will not succeed unless we aggregate and focus repeatedly on the worse crimes of the last four years.



September 14, 2020

The People v. Donald J. Trump The criminal case against him is already in the works




https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-criminal-case.html

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No commander-in-chief has been charged with a criminal offense, let alone faced prison time. But if Donald Trump loses the election in November, he will forfeit not only a sitting president’s presumptive immunity from prosecution but also the levers of power he has aggressively co-opted for his own protection. Considering the number of crimes he has committed, the time span over which he has committed them, and the range of jurisdictions in which his crimes have taken place, his potential legal exposure is breathtaking. More than a dozen investigations are already under way against him and his associates. Even if only one or two of them result in criminal charges, the proceedings that follow will make the O.?J. Simpson trial look like an afternoon in traffic court.

It may seem unlikely that Trump will ever wind up in a criminal court. His entire life, after all, is one long testament to the power of getting away with things, a master class in criminality without consequences, even before he added presidentiality and all its privileges to his arsenal of defenses. As he himself once said, “When you’re a star, they let you do it.” But for all his advantages and all his enablers, including loyalists in the Justice Department and the federal judiciary, Trump now faces a level of legal risk unlike anything in his notoriously checkered past — and well beyond anything faced by any previous president leaving office. To assess the odds that he will end up on trial, and how the proceedings would unfold, I spoke with some of the country’s top prosecutors, defense attorneys, and legal scholars. For the past four years, they have been weighing the case against Trump: the evidence already gathered, the witnesses prepared to testify, the political and constitutional issues involved in prosecuting an ex-president. Once he leaves office, they agree, there is good reason to think Trump will face criminal charges. “It’s going to head toward prosecution, and the litigation is going to be fierce,” says Bennett Gershman, a professor of constitutional law at Pace Law School who served for a decade as a New York State prosecutor.
September 11, 2020

Love these new signs ❤️

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Gender: Female
Hometown: Ct
Home country: Us
Current location: CT.
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About Laura PourMeADrink

Left of Gandhi.. Question things, especially our own party to hopefully make it #1 by a mile
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