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jls4561's JournalAttainder: my fantasy after a Shakespeare binge
I’m currently watching “The Hollow Crown”. I’m getting it through Roku and Apple TV, in case you Shakespeare fans out there want to know. I’m liking it.
England once had something called attainder as punishment for treason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attainder. So basically you could be stripped of all your lands, riches, titles at the whim of the crown, because treason could basically be defined as defying anything the king wanted in those days. Parliament had to sanction it, but they pretty much went along. Now, the US constitution forbids attainder, because it reeks of absolute monarchy.
But let us dream that such a thing were possible for treason. Of course, Congress should not accede to such an act, least it be abused by those such as TFG, but let’s say it were possible.
All tRump’s money is seized, and attainder forbids children inheriting. All lands are seized - Merde a Lardo could be sold to finance a manatee sanctuary. Bedminster could become a public cemetery (after Ivana’s coffin is thoroughly searched and decently reinterred). All Scottish properties would be converted to a wind farm. Trump Tower is converted into an antifascistt museum.
Stripping of titles would put an end to the pretentious fallacy that TFG is entitled to any vestige of privilege the office he once held. No Secrets Service, no pension, no right to have something like the Presidential Seal on the tawdry merchandise he hawks at his hyped up Putt Putt venues. And maybe Israel could finally get the archaeological treasures it lent the White House (not lent you personally, Donnie!) returned.
Of course, attainder for treason often involved execution and while one would hope BLOTUS would commit seppuku via paper cut from one of his precious, beautiful mind boxes, but it could also involve exile. The Saudis might christen Skankvanka the duke and Duchess of Bonesaw and allow them to live there, but after they saw Jared’s performance with their sovereign investment fund, they throw them out. The family could flee to Kim Jong Un, but he would toss them after he found none of them could play basketball worth a damn. I guess Ivanka could call Putin and remind Uncle Vlad of the time he let her sit in the big chair. Vlad would say he had better lap dances, and adamantly declare “Nyet, no Kimberley Guilfoyle!” Vlad offers sanctuary if Jr And Gums will bring their guns and fight in his Ukrainian invasion, but the boys have seen “Hogan’s Heroes” reruns and will not go to the Russian Front. Their post on Twitter reads “We will only sign up to kill defenseless (and preferably endangered) animals.
So penniless, friendless, and homeless, the family wanders the world, hoping for pity. Until finally, Mark Meadows offers a trailer in the NC mountains from which he illegally voted. But they cannot remain after being declared highly undesirable aliens, and face deportation yet again. In a final desperate move, they seek refuge in Slovenia,where Melania persuades the government to allow “chain migration” on the condition that there will be “No fooking Christmas decorations, okay?”
Question about fund raising numbers
My inbox gets requests for donations to various Democratic politicians, some of which elicit a donation.
Some say “Please help us reach our goal before the deadline.” I understand that there are dates when a candidate has to report to the FEC, but what does it matter if I donate before or after that deadline? I know some debates have fund raising criteria. I assume that if a candidate generates X number of dollars it creates momentum to bring in more dollars. I can guess that a campaign might say “Yeah, we met the fundraising goal, we can now buy more ads in our target market.”
Can someone more politically savvy than
I am tell me why it is so important that a candidate to meet his or her monthly/quarterly goal?
Thanks for your help.
How come every time I see a picture of Kevin McCarthy, he is flanked by an entourage and
Whoever is in that picture with him, be it Congressional staff, fellow house rep, or average citizen,
always looks like a house elf waiting to be handed a sock?
Except MTG, of course - she always has an expression that says “I got both your socks, Kev, and I ain’t giving them back!”
Borowitz: Fox replaces Tucker Carlson with Lying Chatbot.
Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch said that the former host had been “rendered obsolete by swift advances in lying technology.”
https://link.newyorker.com/click/31264772.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
Borowitz: Fox replaces Tucker Carlson with Lying Chatbot.
Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch said that the former host had been “rendered obsolete by swift advances in lying technology.”
https://link.newyorker.com/click/31264772.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
Borowitz nails it again!
https://link.newyorker.com/click/30934935.44401/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmV3eW9ya2VyLmNvbS9odW1vci9ib3Jvd2l0ei1yZXBvcnQvdHJ1bXAtY2xhaW1zLWZhaWx1cmUtdG8tYXJyZXN0LWhpbS1pcy1jb25zcGlyYWN5LXRvLWtlZXAtaGltLWZyb20tZ2V0dGluZy1kb25hdGlvbnM_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1ubCZ1dG1fYnJhbmQ9dG55JnV0bV9tYWlsaW5nPVROWV9Cb3Jvd2l0el8wMzIzMjAyMyZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249YXVkLWRldiZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJmJ4aWQ9NWJlNWNhNzBmYmQyOTc2MzY4NzE1ZjI0JmNuZGlkPTQ5Nzg3NjMyJmhhc2hhPTIyZmZmZjQ5OGM0ODU4Mjc0MzQ4ZjRiNGFjYzQ1NWQ2Jmhhc2hiPTU5OWJiZjk3NGJmNGNhZGU3Y2NkMDUzNmM4ODRlN2M0YTNhZDVkOTgmaGFzaGM9MjRhMDQzMzJiOGMzNTgyYmJjY2QwMzQyZjg5ZTg0ZjFkYmNiMmI2ODQ3MDExZmNlMGEzMGNjM2YwYWNkOWM2NiZlc3JjPXN1YnNjcmliZS1wYWdl/5be5ca70fbd2976368715f24C27cd667fTrump claims failure to arrest him is conspiracy to keep him from getting donations
If not arrested by Friday, Trump said, “I will perform a citizen’s arrest on myself.”
Side note: You know you’re on DU when the spellcheck recognizes “Borowitz”.
Thank you for my heart!
Between giving a heart ?️ and recommending giving a heart ❤️ , I haven’t had time to read “Sinema looks like a…”. Gonna do that now.
Still recommending sending a heart to Demsrule86.
Here's what I think about the classified documents found near Biden's Corvette
So, after Biden was on Jay Leno’s garage, Leno expressed unusual interest in the Vette, which troubled Biden, as Leno asked a lot of questions about the car, Biden’s mechanic and so forth. At their weekly lunch, Biden expressed his concern to Obama that Leno might try to purloin his beloved ride and that he should be careful with all the maintenance records, registration and so forth. “Heck!” said Joe, “Those records should be top secret!”
So Obama thought about this and later DID order that they be classified, but forgot to tell Biden.
So of course all the records went home to Delaware where they were later discovered.
But a series of tune-up receipts is a little different from the bundle of documents found at Trump’s place, which had a cover sheet labeled “Possible Buyers” scrawled in Sharpie.
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