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I'm sure the lesson the GOP will take away from all of this is: "The voters can't be trusted to make the correct decisions, therefore we need to stamp out referendums!"

But...but...but she can't go to jail! She's taking care of her kids!

The Ohio GOP has solid evidence of election interference! Furious Ohio Republicans Report Widespread Incidents of Women Voting

I think Afghanistan may also have an opinion on this, even though it was called the Soviet Union at the time.

Wait! Are you saying you paid me that money to write a non-fiction book? Mark Meadows' Book Publisher Sues Him for Lying in Book

I hope Mary Trump isn't just giving us false hope: The Hill: Mary Trump says Ivanka Trump will throw her father ‘under the bus’ in fraud trial testimony

There may be hope for Indiana (which I fled many years ago): AG who went on Fox News just to ’embarrass or burden’ OB/GYN who performed 10-year-old rape victim’s abortion ‘engaged in attorney misconduct,’ Indiana Supreme Court finds

It's reaching the point where a grifter can't even make a living anymore! :-( ABC News: Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all counts at fraud trial over crypto exchange FTX The only thing left to do is file to run for president in 2024.

Exactly. Classic ploy of the wannabe dictator is to find a scapegoat for the sheeple to hate/fear: "Those people over there (points to a minority* group) are the source of all your problems! Elect me and I will persecute them to keep you safe!" Out lined in this book in 1951: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer * Minority can be ethnic/religious/racial/immigrant/etc

Well, fewer and fewer, thanks to the crazies. Just this week, another one threw up his hands and said "The hell with it": The Hill: Rep. Ken Buck won’t run for reelection, criticizing GOP’s election denialism His district is the sparsely populated Eastern plains of CO. I usually disagreed with his policies, but at least he had policies, and didn't blindly lap up the MAGA cult's bullshit.

But in a house so closely divided that every vote counts, it would be nice to have a rational person in that seat...unless the D's just take advantage of the fact he is purely a grifter, and just buy his vote.

A counterpoint I read yesterday: There have been just 2 expulsions over the past century, and both were after conviction. Scroll down to the table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_from_the_United_States_Congress So to expell him on indictment rather than conviction, would be unusual.

"BBC HARDtalk" with Stephen Sackur is a great example. The local NPR station switches over to BBC News during the night here, and I've heard him grilling the hell out of politicians.

Yes, 33 years ago he could actually speak coherent English, in complete sentences, just like a native speaker! Interview starts at 3:00

Omigosh! I just found myself agreeing with Mitch!

Are you aware of the tactic of borrowing money while using appreciated stock as collateral, in order to avoid taxes? https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/09/business/elon-musk-wealth-tesla-stock/index.html

The family-values party! ABC News: Ex-North Dakota lawmaker charged with traveling for sex with minor, receiving child sex abuse images Holmberg served more than 45 years in the North Dakota Senate until his resignation last year, after local media outlet The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead revealed he exchanged dozens of text messages with a person who was jailed on charges related to child sexual abuse images.

That taxes the legal income, and minimizes the administrative costs. But sales tax also gets those with illegal income. e.g. the drug kingpin avoids income tax, but he pays a sales tax on his Lamborghini, his Gulfstream, and that yacht.

You can't fix stupid: J6 Defendant Fights Officers in Courtroom After Conviction for Fighting Officers

Reuters: Judge reinstates gag order in Trump federal election case Hopefully, she specified a ball gag this time.

Unless they have a rich daddy who can pay an unscrupulous doctor to make a diagnosis to get them an exemption.

This guy is a gold mine of information both home efficiency and renewable energy: https://www.youtube.com/@UndecidedMF/videos

The Moron will never take a gag order seriously until they throw his flabby ass behind bars.

Ukraine now has a "Siberian Battalion" composed mostly of Russian citizens: Reuters: Ukraine's Siberian Battalion recruits Russians to help fight Moscow The officer said most are from among the indigenous peoples of Siberia and recruits said they want to fight against what they said was Russian imperialism both inside Ukraine and in their homelands. "Starting from Tsarist Russia, when they colonized us, they destroyed our culture, our language and traditions. It was Russification, pure and simple," Gennadiy, a 29-year-old with the callsign Buryat, which refers to his homeland of Buryatia on the shores of Lake Baikal in Siberia, told Reuters.

Google for: Todd Gerhart honey A Trump supporter from Ohio who claims to be contributing the money to causes like cleaning up East Palestine. Ohio.