Another Shoe Drops: Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Others on Trump’s Legal Team

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I have a feeling Rudy is sweating hair dye right now: House Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection issued subpoenas to members of former president Trump’s outside legal team on Tuesday who pursued and disseminated unfounded claims of mass election fraud, including Trump’s former personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani, former White House aide Boris Epshteyn, and lawyers Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.

“The four individuals we’ve subpoenaed today advanced unsupported theories about election fraud, pushed efforts to overturn the election results, or were in direct contact with the former President about attempts to stop the counting of electoral votes,” Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) said in a statement.

They’re all going to defy their subpoenas with bogus claims of executive privilege, of course, like all completely innocent people would do.

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1
The Pie Overlord!  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:01:27pm

We know these numbskulls will commit contempt so what this really means is that the Committee already has all the evidence they need.

2
Dopamine Fish  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:03:18pm

re: #1 The Pie Overlord!

We know these numbskulls will commit contempt so what this really means is that the Committee already has all the evidence they need.

Akiva Cohen points out on Twitter that Rudy, at least, was Trump’s actual attorney, so much of what they might want from him is, in fact, privileged.

3
makeitstop  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:04:07pm

Team Kraken and Eric and Guilfoyle in one day.

Are these walls closing in, or is it me?

4
Belafon  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:04:54pm

re: #2 Dopamine Fish

Akiva Cohen points out on Twitter that Rudy, at least, was Trump’s actual attorney, so much of what they might want from him is, in fact, privileged.

That privilege doesnt shield them in the investigation of a crime they committed together.

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lawhawk  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:08:55pm

There’s attorney client privilege, but as Rudy knows, you can’t commit crimes or cover up crimes as a lawyer in coordination with your client.

That’s the crime fraud exception to the attorney client privilege, and Rudy should know that since he used that back when he wasn’t a shambolic stained shitgibbon for Trump.

The rest of them are likewise going to try and defy the subpoenas, which is exactly what someone who is innocent does. /to infinity and beyond.

These fuckers are guilty as fuck and know it. Everyone knows it, but unless the DOJ picks up the pace, the Trumpists are going to run out the clock and the DOJ will end up getting those cases shut down when GOPers retake the WH. That’s what is at stake, both with the midterms and 2024.

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makeitstop  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:09:27pm

How do you top today’s subpoenas?

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RoJo Must Go!  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:09:40pm

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lawhawk  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:10:46pm

I’m also of the opinion that the 1/6 Commission should be doing one of these a day.

Today Rudy
Tomorrow Sidney
Day after Junior and Guilfoyle.

Keep bringing them. And when they refuse, refer the following day. Yeah, it’s a lot of work, but democracy demands it. It keeps it in the news and reminds everyone what’s at stake and that the Trumpist GOP are hiding from justice because they all know they’re guilty as fuck.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:11:18pm

re: #4 Belafon

That privilege doesnt shield them in the investigation of a crime they committed together.

Was just going to post that. Still, they’ll definitely claim privileged communications anyway. Maybe Sidney Powell will file one of those patented batshit insane lawsuits against whoever.

Why isn’t this stuff on TV? I need amusement!

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A Mom Anon  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:11:24pm

re: #3 makeitstop

I am hoping this is just the beginning of many. I’m scared to hope for too much, but they have outright flaunted their shit, no way is all this madness legal. Especially the money and how it flows around them, all the grifting, not paying what they owe, screwing over “the little people”,etc.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:27:53pm
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Dopamine Fish  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:29:55pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

I have a desk light that doubles as a wireless charger. More recently, I got a wireless charger that also has a solar panel on the other side, so you can set your phone down and set the charging brick on the back of it, and it’ll charge with solar power.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:30:05pm

Interesting. Did a couple of DINO’s little power play just just get blown out of the water?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:30:18pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

MAGNETS!!!

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Cheechako  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:33:44pm

You folks got me hooked…

Wordle 213 4/6

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ipsos  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:34:28pm

re: #14 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

MAGNETS!!!

HOW DO THEY WORK?

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A Mom Anon  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:37:18pm

re: #13 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

This is great, but how much power/influence does it have to even get taken seriously? I’m happy to see it, don’t get me wrong, but maybe getting their faces on TV and talk radio, popular internet channels, podcasts etc, would be helpful too. I hope it goes farther than a letter. I’m also in a “bad guys are winning, fuck!” mode lately, so YMMV of course.

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mmmirele  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:39:12pm

re: #1 The Pie Overlord!

We know these numbskulls will commit contempt so what this really means is that the Committee already has all the evidence they need.

While this is investigatory, by the time they’ve gotten up the food chain to Giuliani, etc., the lawyers on the committee and those working with the committee should have a very good idea of what they expect to get out of these high-profile witnesses. There really should be no major surprises.

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:43:19pm

re: #15 Cheechako

You folks got me hooked…

Wordle 213 4/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
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I’ve consumed caffeine and THC and did a Wordle and consider Wordle the drug.

20
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:51:35pm

Live

Youtube Video

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Belafon  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:53:41pm

re: #13 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Interesting. Did a couple of DINO’s little power play just just get blown out of the water?

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Every, and I mean every, Democrat is calling for this to pass. Which tells you where the two of them are.

I’m planning on doing a story at DK at some point called “When Democrats Don’t Run for Office, You Get Kyrsten Sinema” to push getting people to run for office.

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darthstar  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:57:07pm

re: #19 wrenchwench

I’ve consumed caffeine and THC and did a Wordle and consider Wordle the drug.

But you can only do one Wordle a day…so time it so you can make it count. I’ve been doing mine when I get up to give the dogs their 3am Buddy Biscuits.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jan 18, 2022 • 5:57:12pm

re: #17 A Mom Anon

This is great, but how much power/influence does it have to even get taken seriously? I’m happy to see it, don’t get me wrong, but maybe getting their faces on TV and talk radio, popular internet channels, podcasts etc, would be helpful too. I hope it goes farther than a letter. I’m also in a “bad guys are winning, fuck!” mode lately, so YMMV of course.

Oh I agree. If it isn’t even mentioned on MSM, it’s just an empty gesture in and of itself.

BUT! Maybe, just maybe, some in the rethuglican caucus will hear their words and put their support behind a carve out for these two bills. ** Why yes, gentlemen, I just typed that…. Uhhhhh, what’s with the jacket??? **

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darthstar  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:00:17pm

Not sure if this is 100% true, but I choose to believe it is.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:02:22pm

T-minus 1 minute

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:03:59pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:04:43pm

Max-Q
Vroom, no boom

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Charles Johnson  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:05:08pm

re: #19 wrenchwench

I’ve consumed caffeine and THC and did a Wordle and consider Wordle the drug.

I’m just wondering what they’ll do when they run out of five-letter words. There are about 6,000.

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:05:18pm

re: #27 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Max-Q
Vroom, no boom

They are going to space today.

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:06:46pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

I’m just wondering what they’ll do when they run out of five-letter words. There are about 6,000.

Six-letter words.

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:07:14pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

I’m just wondering what they’ll do when they run out of five-letter words. There are about 6,000.

At one a day, we’ve got quite a few years until we get there.

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darthstar  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:08:42pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

I’m just wondering what they’ll do when they run out of five-letter words. There are about 6,000.

Recycle, repeat. Use about 365 a year so 11 years not counting repeats…only the obsessives will recognize repeats.

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darthstar  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:09:08pm

re: #31 Dopamine Fish

At one a day, we’ve got quite a few years until we get there.

Hopefully Covid-19 will end before Wordle.

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:10:12pm

re: #33 darthstar

Hopefully Covid-19 will end before Wordle.

Mrs. Fish and I are watching The Great Muppet Caper, and we were originally supposed to fly to London this year to add to our international travels. Omicron is obviously going to make that a non-starter, so we were discussing how next year we “probably” will get to go.

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makeitstop  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:12:27pm

re: #24 darthstar

Not sure if this is 100% true, but I choose to believe it is.

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True. Along with a soccer club and a couple of different record labels, IIRC.

‘Life of Brian’ was pretty much all bankrolled by George Harrison.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:12:29pm

On the boat

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Decatur Deb  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:13:54pm

re: #13 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Interesting. Did a couple of DINO’s little power play just just get blown out of the water?

Doug Jones is the best person Alabama ever sent to the senate. Unfortunately he doesn’t know much about 3rd-and-running situations.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:14:03pm

re: #36 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

On the boat

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:16:49pm

re: #38 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

SpaceX’s recovery tech never ceases to amaze me. A Space Shuttle coming home was a matter of routine (until it wasn’t), but landing a rocket on a floating bulls-eye seems like a goddamn miracle.

40
Charles Johnson  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:17:00pm

Yes, I have been looking up five-letter words, why do you ask?

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Charles Johnson  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:17:19pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:17:23pm

re: #33 darthstar

Hopefully Covid-19 will end before Wordle.

I literally burst out laughing when I read that. I’m so twisted.

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makeitstop  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:18:51pm

Both NARAL and Emily’s List have announced they will not give Sinema any campaign contributions. Emily’s List saying she’s undermining democracy.

She’s gonna have to go beg from more rich Republicans.

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sagehen  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:21:38pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

I’m just wondering what they’ll do when they run out of five-letter words. There are about 6,000.

So 15 years?

The fad will have passed by then.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:24:37pm

re: #43 makeitstop

Both NARAL and Emily’s List have announced they will not give Sinema any campaign contributions. Emily’s List saying she’s undermining democracy.

She’s gonna have to go beg from more rich Republicans.

She and Manchin must stay with the Democrats at least until their presence is irrelevant — either the Democrats capture at least 2 more seats or the nightmare is on us and McConnell rules again.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:25:08pm

If you had 953 lbs of fine maryjane in your RV, would you drive rather carefully?

Nearly 1,000 pounds of weed worth $3 million seized in Alabama traffic stop
al.com

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:26:48pm

Pourquoi n’ils mangent pas de la brioche?

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Charles Johnson  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:32:06pm

re: #44 sagehen

So 15 years?

The fad will have passed by then.

But as more of them are solved it will get easier to solve the remaining ones.

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:34:19pm

re: #48 Charles Johnson

But as more of them are solved it will get easier to solve the remaining ones.

Random repeats will sneak in.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:35:36pm

I was going to mention this early but it slipped my mind.

During Clownstick’s cult revival in Arizona he spent a great deal of time trash talking Mark Kelly. This is absolutely infuriating to me. It made my blood boil. Mark Kelly is an American Hero in every sense of the word. Clownstick went on a rant about how Mark Kelly hates America and is a communist and a litany of other horseshit.

This “America Hating Commie”:
Was a US Navy A-6 Intruder Pilot. Served in Gulf War. Flew 39 combat missions.

According to Wikipedia: “Kelly has received two Defense Superior Service Medals; one Legion of Merit; two Distinguished Flying Crosses; four Air Medals (two individual/two strike flight) with Combat “V”; two Navy Commendation Medals, (one with combat “V”); one Navy Achievement Medal; two Southwest Asia Service Medals; one Navy Expeditionary Medal; two Sea Service Deployment Ribbons; a NASA Distinguished Service Medal; and an Overseas Service Ribbon.”

Then he was an Astronaut. The epitome of American Heroism. He was on the crew of 4 different Space Shuttle flights including several stays on the International Space Station. He was in space for almost 6 months total. He piloted the final mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavor.

Clownstick isn’t fit to utter the man’s name no less besmirch him.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:37:43pm

re: #50 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

I was going to mention this early but it slipped my mind.

During Clownstick’s cult revival in Arizona he spent a great deal of time trash talking Mark Kelly. This is absolutely infuriating to me. It made my blood boil. Mark Kelly is an American Hero in every sense of the word. Clownstick went on a rant about how Mark Kelly hates America and is a communist and a litany of other horseshit.

This “America Hating Commie”:
Was a US Navy A-6 Intruder Pilot. Served in Gulf War. Flew 39 combat missions.

According to Wikipedia: “Kelly has received two Defense Superior Service Medals; one Legion of Merit; two Distinguished Flying Crosses; four Air Medals (two individual/two strike flight) with Combat “V”; two Navy Commendation Medals, (one with combat “V”); one Navy Achievement Medal; two Southwest Asia Service Medals; one Navy Expeditionary Medal; two Sea Service Deployment Ribbons; a NASA Distinguished Service Medal; and an Overseas Service Ribbon.”

Then he was an Astronaut. The epitome of American Heroism. He was on the crew of 4 different Space Shuttle flights including several stays on the International Space Station. He was in space for almost 6 months total. He piloted the final mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavor.

Clownstick isn’t fit to utter the man’s name no less besmirch him.

President Trump would have done all that, except for the bone spurs.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:38:39pm

Princesse De Dumballe

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:38:51pm

re: #50 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

I mean 2 months total…. 60 days and 2 months in my brains turned to 6 months.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:40:09pm

re: #24 darthstar

Not sure if this is 100% true, but I choose to believe it is.

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How Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Jethro Tull Helped Make ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:40:35pm

re: #47 The Pie Overlord!

Pourquoi n’ils mangent pas de la brioche?

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A more vile man is difficult to imagine — or maybe Trump is more vile? A lecture from someone born into affluence on how the desperate poor should manage? Inbred cruelty. It does seem as though Tucker had a very dysfunctional childhood and maybe a psychologist can provide insight into how his mother’s abandonment warped his behavior and his view of society.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:40:38pm

re: #52 The Pie Overlord!

Princesse De Dumballe

I want this entire family to either be frog marched to prison or die a horrible death, Voldemort style.

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:42:06pm

re: #53 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

I mean 2 months total…. 60 days and 2 months in my brains turned to 6 months.

Were you counting his twin’s time?

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sagehen  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:42:55pm

re: #47 The Pie Overlord!

Pourquoi n’ils mangent pas de la brioche?

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“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”

― Anatole France

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jaunte  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:44:59pm

re: #52 The Pie Overlord!

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jaunte  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:45:33pm
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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:46:35pm

re: #57 wrenchwench

Were you counting his twin’s time?

Scott Kelly as far as I know had over a year of in space time himself.

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wrenchwench  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:47:38pm

re: #61 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

Scott Kelly as far as I know had over a year of in space time himself.

So the average….

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:50:13pm

re: #60 jaunte

“Trump got rid of ISIS” is one of those lies that’s so comically huge and based on nothing that you don’t even get fact checks on it

On funding gain of function research at the Wuhan Lab: “I shut it down.” No Obama did.

Veterans VA Choice Bill: “We did that.” No Obama did.

“This was the biggest crowd anyone has ever seen.” Every time he appears in public. Dude, Nickleback gets bigger crowds than that and those people are paying to be there.

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austin_blue  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:55:10pm

re: #24 darthstar

Not sure if this is 100% true, but I choose to believe it is.

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true

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 18, 2022 • 6:59:40pm

Spent the afternoon trying to get various software to work on my old iMac. Music managers, etc.

Sigh… most of it was a waste of time.

However I did sign up for the Tidal “HiFi” 3-month offer for $1.

I’ve not used music streaming (other than what comes with Amazon). I’ve streamed plenty of “radio” streams on iTunes long ago, though I’ve not cared to do so recently.

Anyway, Tidal works and looks to be decent as far as a library for older music.

Whether I’m hearing improvements over mp3 with the “HiFi” content… I don’t know. Much of the music does sound better than what I hear on Youtube (which uses compression.) Yet with my small desktop speakers (really cheap) it’s hard to tell.

I’ve already uncovered some holes in the Tidal library. Wish they had more Japanese old stuff.

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Belafon  Jan 18, 2022 • 7:11:33pm

re: #46 Decatur Deb

If you had 953 lbs of fine maryjane in your RV, would you drive rather carefully?

Nearly 1,000 pounds of weed worth $3 million seized in Alabama traffic stop
al.com

I think you drive as I tell people around here: Neither the fastest car on the road nor the slowest.

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jaunte  Jan 18, 2022 • 7:13:02pm
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Florida Panhandler  Jan 18, 2022 • 7:15:24pm

re: #9 Charles Johnson

Even if convicted in the next few years all of these Trump-sycophant criminals are counting on a full pardon in Jan 2025 along with a Cabinet position on top of that.

They will get it and more if our usual apathetic left-leaning voter turnout demographic once again fails to show up to actually vote. This country could rapidly become something very different starting early 2025.


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