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BigmanPigman

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January 30, 2021

Are the 3 GOP groups The Tea Party, The tRump Party

and the plain old Conservative Party or have they combined the Tea Party and The tRump Party?

January 27, 2021

CA has the second highest Covid Deaths today...

Man, I am so glad we are opening the state again to appease the GOP assholes who want Gov Newsom removed from office for hurting business profits due to extremely high cases in the state and another shutdown.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california/

January 26, 2021

Why aren't they including in the impeachment offences

the most recent crime which tRump tried to get rid of DOJ officials and have SCOTUS overturn the results? They are covering the insurrection on Jan. 6th and pressuring the GA officials to change vote totals (11,000). What about this recent crime?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-pressed-to-change-justice-department-leadership-to-boost-his-voter-fraud-claims-11611434369

"Trump Pressed Justice Department to Go Directly to Supreme Court to Overturn Election Results
The former president dropped the efforts to replace the acting attorney general after top DOJ officials agreed to resign en masse in protest if he succeeded, people familiar said."


January 25, 2021

"Trump's final financial disclosures"

"Following President Trump’s exit from public office, the Office of Government Ethics released his final public financial disclosures, known as a termination report, covering 2020 and the first weeks of 2021.

Among the Trump-branded properties he visited most during his presidency, Trump made $24 million from Mar-a-Lago, about $15 million from Bedminster, more than $44 million from Doral and $15 million from his DC hotel.

According to the disclosure, he was unable to assign a value to the legal services provided by Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, which he has not paid for."

***Read tRump' full financial disclosure at the link (79 pages)

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/trumps-final-financial-disclosures/

January 25, 2021

The new W House "first dogs"...

Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) Tweeted:
Well, dog people, if you haven’t seen them yet, the dog-human bond which grows our souls returned to the White House over the weekend.

Champ and Major Biden are now home. Photos by @schultzinit https://t.co/ydn8hg6eW0 https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1353707314541457408?s=20

Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) Tweeted:
Spotted by pooler @kaitlancollins @petermorrisCNN on the South Lawn -- Champ and Major Biden. The first time dogs of leisure (a term I just made up, as opposed to working dogs) have been seen by reporters at the White House since Bo and Sunny Obama https://t.co/8z2enx1L8n https://twitter.com/betsy_klein/status/1353761983317815302?s=20

January 25, 2021

Coronavirus: Dutch COVID curfew protests turn violent.

"Coronavirus: Dutch COVID curfew protests turn violent"
Hundreds of opponents of the first nighttime curfew in the Netherlands since World War II have clashed with police in Eindhoven, Amsterdam and elsewhere, resulting in scores of arrests.The violence came hours after a group of young people torched a viral testing center overnight in Urk, a fishing industry city northeast of the Dutch capital.

Security forces in both cities used water cannon as well as batons, horses and dogs — and in Eindhoven tear gas — to quell the protests.


"Defiance in Amsterdam"
"Police intervened on Amsterdam's central Museum Square, where hundreds of protesters gathered, reported public television broadcaster NOS — despite the pandemic rules limiting outdoor contacts to no more than two people. Fearing a riot or a disease-spreading event, Mayor Femke Halsema had designated the square as a "high-risk zone" and gave police the power to preemptively frisk people for weapons."

"Nationwide, more than 100 people were detained Sunday, police said. And in Stein — near Maastricht close to Belgium — clashes with police occurred as they broke up an illegal party reportedly attended by 100 people. In addition, more than 3,600 fines were handed out and 25 persons arrested on Saturday night as the Netherlands' first nighttime curfew of the pandemic came into force to rein in a more transmissible variant of the coronavirus. Alleged curfew violators were handed fines of €95 ($116) each."

https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-dutch-covid-curfew-protests-turn-violent/a-56330715

January 21, 2021

Flynn's brother

https://www.rawstory.com/michael-flynns-brother-army-insurrection/

On Wednesday, The Washington Post revealed that the U.S. Army falsely denied for days that the brother of former President Donald Trump's disgraced ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was involved in decision-making during the military response to the Capitol invasion two weeks ago.

"One official directly familiar with the situation said there was concern in both the Army and National Guard about possible political fallout if it was discovered that Flynn was involved in the Army's deliberations," said the report. "That is despite it being commonplace that the person in Flynn's role would have been involved."

Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his discussions with the Russian foreign minister before receiving a pardon from Trump, has in recent years become a supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which held that Trump was secretly trying to defeat a group of Satanic pedophiles who control the federal government
January 21, 2021

Great minds.....

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About BigmanPigman

I am 57, retired teacher and illustrator, life-long dem., activist, union member. Also I do not use social media and I'm technologically retarded. I love dogs, rock music and swearing (a lot). My 17 year old "puppy" died on June 2, 2020. She grew up listening to Animals (Pink Floyd). She has kept me sane through the tRump years, not easy, and has given me endless love, companionship, kisses and tail wags.
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