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Pepsidog

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April 13, 2020

I love the thought but I don't know how to achieve your goal. These appointments are for life and as

a lawyer disgust me that so many young, right-wing extremists were and are being appointed. The first goal should be to fully investigate and remove Kavenaugh for his lies during his confirmation hearing. Stupid lies about the meaning of “Boof”, “Renata Club” and other references he could have attributes to youthful immaturity. Those lies were the most audacious to me because they were so blatant. Did he assault women, of course he did. I was went to an exclusive private Catholic school at the same time as Kavenaugh and was one of the”cool kids” and I know what was going on in my school. Girls being cornered and grabbed all over in cars, blackout drinking, drugs etc. I recall the word “Boof” and it didn’t mean “fart”. These lies were blatant and disqualifying to sit on SCOTUS. I was far from an angel in high school but never touched a girl inappropriately. In fact, I started dating my future and current wife of 35 years during My Junior year and had to bang some heads around and threaten some of my fellow students who tried to grab her in a car. It wasn’t known that we were dating at the time and because I matured earlier than most and had a mans body nobody would mess with me or my girlfriend. Kavenaugh must go then we can deal with some of the radicals Trump appointee to the Federal bench.

April 10, 2020

I read a similar article somewhere, maybe Atlantic, but that said authoritarian rule already here.

Edit-I tried to find the article but couldn’t. It said that Authoritarianism is taking on a new look. Authoritarian’s like Putin, Erdogan and Trump etc. disguise authoritarian rule beneath the guise of democracy with sham elections (Wisconsin) making voting harder for many with the support of SCOTUS. Moreover, they guy the regulatory state and place incompetent leaders at the head of government agencies who essentially have to real power. No doubt Trump and minions have gutted regulations and he has defied oversight and replaced career officials with incompetent political cronies. November is a make or break election.

April 6, 2020

Press harder Press. Speak louder! Don't let him push you around. Ask leading questions "Don't you

agree that your administration’s delay until mid-March in ordering supplies....”. Q. “By eliminating the Bush/Obama PREDICT program to help identify potential pandemic threats worldwide haven’t you crippled the United State’s ability to quickly identify and respond to potential pandemics”. Q. “Didn’t you waste valuable time and endanger the country by golfing and going to campaign events and tweeting for the last three months “. Q. By doing virtually nothing to help predict this pandemic, golding _____ times during the last 3 months, conducting campaign events and calling the pandemic a democratic hoax aren’t you responsible for the or rad of the virus and deaths to date”. Q. Isn’t it true that while Obama era pandemic experts who could greatly help are sitting home your appointment of Jared who has no experience in supply line logistics has caused many needless deaths and helped spread the disease? Q. Isn’t it true Jared is a real estate developer and has no experience in pandemic supply logistics? Q. Have you considered you and Pence resigning so that Nancy Pelosi can much more effectively run the country and the pandemic response?

April 2, 2020

Yep, no congressional oversight per signing statement to bill. Trump has stonewalled oversight at

every turn and it seems his wacko court picks with their “unitary executive “ bullshit beliefs will block any meaningful oversight. Don’t get me wrong, there have been some great rulings against Trump stonewalling on his tax returns and we have been told that these cases are stone cold winners, but we have yet to see a tax return and now SCOTUS will weigh in. I have zero faith SCOTUS will do the right thing and affirm the House’s inherent right at oversight. Donnie is salvaging at the thought of those “perfect” “beautiful “
Bailout checks. Just who in the government will tell him “no checks for you”. This will be the biggest heist of government money in the history of the world. When we Dems get control back imagine what we will inherit. I thought Obama had it bad but the next Dem president will face staggering deficits. Or, like Cheney said, deficits don’t matter.

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