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April 17, 2024

Senate kills first of two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

These impeachment efforts are a joke and I am glad that the Senate got rid of one of these charges
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1780679988120797607
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/politics/senate-mayorkas-impeachment-articles/index.html

The Senate killed the first article of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday as the historic trial of the Cabinet secretary got underway.

The article of impeachment killed by the Senate was for “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law.” Mayorkas still faces a second article for “breach of public trust.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer opened the proceedings by offering a time agreement to Republicans that would have allowed a certain amount of floor debate and votes on trial resolutions and points of order before an eventual vote to dismiss the case.

Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri objected, saying he would not agree to a proposal that would conclude with an “unprecedented” step in US history of dismissing an impeachment case without a trial. Many Republicans wanted an agreement because it would have allowed them to make speeches on the floor about why they think a full trial should take place and other points. Without it, they will not be allowed to speak on the floor – unless they get unanimous consent – except in the form of points of order that would be read allowed by the presiding officer.

Schumer then made a motion to table or kill the first impeachment article because “it does not allege conduct that rises to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor” as required in the Constitution. After several rounds of procedural votes, the Senate passed that motion 51 to 48 with one voting present, killing the first article of impeachment.

April 17, 2024

Senate kills first of two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

Source: CNN

The Senate killed the first article of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday as the historic trial of the Cabinet secretary got underway.

The article of impeachment killed by the Senate was for “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law.” Mayorkas still faces a second article for “breach of public trust.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer opened the proceedings by offering a time agreement to Republicans that would have allowed a certain amount of floor debate and votes on trial resolutions and points of order before an eventual vote to dismiss the case.

Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri objected, saying he would not agree to a proposal that would conclude with an “unprecedented” step in US history of dismissing an impeachment case without a trial. Many Republicans wanted an agreement because it would have allowed them to make speeches on the floor about why they think a full trial should take place and other points. Without it, they will not be allowed to speak on the floor – unless they get unanimous consent – except in the form of points of order that would be read allowed by the presiding officer.

Schumer then made a motion to table or kill the first impeachment article because “it does not allege conduct that rises to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor” as required in the Constitution. After several rounds of procedural votes, the Senate passed that motion 51 to 48 with one voting present, killing the first article of impeachment.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/politics/senate-mayorkas-impeachment-articles/index.html

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1780679988120797607

April 17, 2024

Mike Luckovich- Moscow Marge Unmasked

https://twitter.com/mluckovichajc/status/1780664464422973472

April 17, 2024

Borowitz Report- Majority of Americans Prefer Sleeping Trump to Conscious Version

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGxSlRpHPgfHJvmmlnlrvnDlnGW

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—In a development that an aide to the presumptive GOP nominee called “the best news this campaign has gotten in quite some time,” a new poll shows that a majority of likely voters “vastly prefer” Donald J. Trump when he is asleep to when he is awake.

According to the survey, conducted by the Opinion Research Institute at the University of Minnesota, the conscious version of Trump garners a lowly 41 percent approval rating, in marked contrast with the unconscious version’s 98 percent.

When asked to state what they liked most about the slumbering Trump, 72 percent checked “Cannot say anything,” while a whopping 83 percent ticked “Can do no harm.”

Carol Foyler, a top Trump campaign aide, said that the numbers suggest “we have to do a better job of getting the message out that Donald Trump is asleep most if not all of the day.”

“We need to showcase Mr. Trump at campaign events where he looks heavy-lidded and, ideally, snores,” she said. “If, during a debate with Biden, he were to suddenly doze off and face-plant on the podium, that would be huge for us.”

The aide said that the poll results would help the Trump campaign fine-tune its electoral strategy, adding, “Between now and Election Day, we have to keep Donald Trump on a steady drip of warm milk, chamomile tea, and Ambien.”

April 16, 2024

Biden-Harris Campaign-Wake Up Donald: After Stormy Abortion Ban Coverage, Trump Poll Memo Attempts to Hush Panic

The Biden Harris Campaign is not commenting on TFG's trials but this release still makes me smile

https://twitter.com/DJJudd/status/1780033836350328882

April 16, 2024

Trump, Republican allies conveniently forget Iran's 2020 offenses

As Donald Trump and his allies suggest Iran was too intimidated to launch offenses under his leadership, they're counting on people to have short memories.
https://twitter.com/stevebenen/status/1779936197244051874
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-republican-allies-conveniently-forget-irans-2020-offenses-rcna147881

Nevertheless, Donald Trump did what he always does: He blamed his own country, while claiming the violence wouldn’t have occurred if he were in the White House. The Hill reported:

Former President Trump on Saturday ripped into President Biden over Iran’s recent attack against Israel, arguing it would not be occurring if were still in the Oval Office. “I want to say God bless the people of Israel — they’re under attack right now,” Trump said Saturday during a rally in Schnecksville, Penn. “That’s because we show great weakness. This would not happen.”

Oddly enough, during the event, Trump tried to say that the United States shows “great weakness,” but he ended up saying “great weaknicks.”
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1779295771944272261

.....What’s more, let’s also not forget that in January 2020, an Iranian missile strike left several dozen of U.S. troops with traumatic brain injuries. Trump dismissed the importance of the injuries — the Republican called them little more than “headaches“ — prompting Veterans of Foreign Wars to ask the then-president to apologize for minimizing what had happened to the troops.

Trump ignored the VFW’s appeal.

My point is not to blame Trump for the attacks that occurred on his watch. Rather, my point is that when Trump tries to blame his own country’s leaders for foreign violence, and says such violence would “never” happen if he were in office, we know this is ugly and unnecessary nonsense, intended to persuade people who don’t remember what happened just four years ago.

April 16, 2024

The internet is having fun with TFG's falling asleep at court

April 15, 2024

Borowitz Report- Trump Rejects Several Female Jurors as Not His Type

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGxSlPWDHCBtDsshpGrNJkDHmQd

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—Judge Juan M. Merchan reprimanded Donald J. Trump on the first day of his hush money trial after he rejected a number of prospective female jurors as “not my type.”

The judge declared Trump out of order when he commented that one of the women was “a 5 or a 6 at best.”

“This is what happens when Joe Biden controls the justice system,” Trump said. “He doesn’t know how to pick women. I ran beauty pageants.”

Looking at the panel of jurors, he added, “This should never be allowed to happen in this country.”

Trump’s legal woes worsened further when his entire team of attorneys suddenly pleaded insanity.

The lawyers said they were claiming to be insane “on the grounds of expecting to ever be paid.”

In a nightmare scenario for Trump, Rudy Giuliani has volunteered to defend him.

April 15, 2024

Sedition Hunters and other volunteer groups are making a push to identify J-6 rioters assholes

April 15, 2024

Trump Media Sinks 15% After Registering Shares, Warrants

Trump Media has filed a registration statement with the SEC to help current holders sell their stock and warrants.
https://twitter.com/MichaelBDeane1/status/1779869368639222030
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-media-plunges-registering-shares-130049015.html

Donald Trump’s social media startup tumbled on Monday, extending a two-week slump, after the company took a first step toward allowing the former president and other insiders to capitalize on their stakes.

Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., parent of Truth Social, filed to register shares, including those linked to warrants. The move could ultimately bring forward sales from insiders that are currently not permitted until September.

Shares slumped 15% to $27.83 as of 9:50 a.m. in New York, the lowest level since January. Warrants, which are tied to the stock and can be exchanged with cash for shares of the company, sank 6.9% to $12.75. The company has had its market value slashed by more than $5 billion from a peak after debuting in March.

The slump means the paper windfall for the former president has dropped to $2.3 billion from more than $5 billion in a matter of weeks. However, if the stock can hold above the $17.50 mark, Trump and insiders would be in line to get another 40 million shares to divvy up. Even after the latest slide, that so-called earnout would be worth $1.2 billion.

The company registered as many as 146 million common shares, as well as up to 21 million shares that are issuable upon the exercise of warrants. The filing also registered up to 4 million warrants to purchase common stock. All securities being registered are either held by or underlie securities held by existing holders of Trump Media.

The Form S-1 is amazing. See https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000114036124019745/ny20026576x1_s1.htm
This filing is going to further dilute the public shareholders in a very thinly traded stock
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1779864189059645617
The stock has been as low as $26.83 today.

I am looking forward to reading the Form s-1 and 50 pages of risk factors. This will be fun to watch

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