Former president Nixon was pardoned this way by Ford. It was a blanket pardon, constrained by an end date. If Nixon did something federally illegal after that date, it would not have been covered.
There are not yet federal charges yet for Trump to be able to address in Kyle's case.
They are probably going to go after him and his family. I doubt they will just let him walk away.
One of the reasons Trump is highly motivated here.
Despite words thrown around, no one went after Hillary. There seems to be enough information that they could have got her at least on a technicality. It doesn't seem to be something America has done, to people out of power or who lose an election. It'd have chilling effects and be something tinpot dictatorships do, not democracies or republics.
Sure, there could be a first time. The MSM has both sides whipped into a frenzy.
The "Covid" Bill was also trying to take care of the regular Federal Budget at the same time.
It wasn't a Covid bill. It was Covid+Federal Budget+Pork.
The Pork is reason enough for a veto and/or a redo, but the Federal part will just come back again.
You don't have to trust Pence, but trust the situation.
If he gets caught screwing Trump, he ends his political life.
Supporting and getting Trump into a 2nd term now, puts him in great shape for the Oval in 2024 if he wants it.
WHAT HAPPENS IF SCORES OF BUSINESSES JUST OPEN THE HELL UP AND START DOING BIZ AND 1000'S OF CITIZENS JUST START BUYING?
The police come in and shut it down and the Business's "Permits" are pulled.
Happened already on Staten Island in NY.
It happened, but it ain't right.
As has been noted by others here, Congress has taken to not officially taking off.
They leave one designated rep and senator behind and run "pro-forma" sessions. The designee starts the session, makes a motion to adjourn the session, which is not opposed.
This was originally to stop recess appointments, but it's expanded. [Without doing more research, I can't say for sure which side started this. ]
The Pork bill is on a different time line.
On 1/2, the 116th Congress ends. At noon the next day, the 117th can start, but any bills from the 116th that didn't make it to law are over.
The 10 days excludes Sundays, but not Holidays. The Pork bill may not have made it to Trump's desk in time, so it may be possible to pocket veto that one, or do a straight veto late enough that it can't be overridden.
If I recall, Remington got sued out of existence, or at least into selling themselves off.
The NY plant closed and operations were heading for Arkansas. It may be the Arkansas plant isn't staffed and supplied up to speed for whatever they were going to make.
A search for penny robocall kicks up two companies:
https://sendcalls.com/
https://robocent.com/
There was another company I can't find anymore, had a url like pennyrobocall.
In the past, I formatted raw data and someone else took the file and used it, and I never knew what company they used.
$5.38 is a magic number. 100 calls to all of Congress for $600.
(Caveat to anyone else reading: Guy named Allen Raymond went to jail for using robos to clog a phone bank on election day a while back, and a candidate is in hot water recently for using robos politically but not including an organization name, so staying legal is very important here.)
TLDR: Can we use cheap Robocalls to contact everyone but the Janitor with a message.
Robocalls are now very cheap, on the order of $0.01 per call to deliver a message.
You record it and upload the .mp3 file. You provide the list of phone numbers. They provide the computer, software and phone lines for the delivery. [You can buy the equipment, it's not special equipment anymore. but you'd need to make a lot of calls to justify the expense.]
Robocalls are legal for political use. Candidates and organizations have to identify themselves and let people opt out. If someone opts out, you have to let them and stop calling them. Political calls do not have to use the Do Not Call registry, but this will be honored this to avoid backlash.
Questions/Issues to be resolved before proceeding:
- What is the legal status of using robos to contact politicians with a message? This is a big one. If it's not legal, robos can't be used. There could be both state and federal law involved.
- Some numbers are already in the robocall providers databases as "Do Not Call." If political office numbers are in there, the robo service won't call them if you provided the numbers and it was legal.
- If this is legal and can work, it will only work for a short amount of time, until congress makes it illegal to contact them this way.
Any message sent this way has to be short enough to get through, but redundant enough to make sure the message gets through.
Thoughts?
Pocket veto is out of the question since the Senate never technically recesses anymore.
Except on 1/2/2021.
The 116th Congress is over and the 117th begins at noon the next day. Not enough time for the NDAA, but the Pork Bill is possibly on track for a veto or a pocket veto.
The Carter number is too low.
He also took care of anyone who went to Canada. Potentially 100's of thousands. Day 1 in office.
- Not getting into whether this was the right or wrong thing to do, just correcting the number.
- Before you get pissed, this does mean there is precedence for mass pardons by a President for Federal Crimes. Such as 2A convictions involving simple carry.
Pence is properly motivated.
Pence has upsides.
If Trump prevails against the fraud, Pence is VP 2021-2025 and has a good shot at the title in 2024, maybe with DJTJr as VP on the ticket.
If the fraud holds, but there's a miracle and we have a clean election again, Trump could come back in 2024 with Pence, but leaving Pence without the title shot until 2028. If elections as we thought we knew them are over, then nobody has a shot.
On downside, if Pence turned on Trump and got caught, his political life is completely over. The Republicans won't have him and he's too conservative for the Democrats. Everyone hates a traitor so a book deal is probably not in the cards.
The motivations of Congresscritters should be concerning.
The Republicans will gain one thing from Trump in the Oval for another 4 years, but can use 2 or 4 years of a Biden/Harris conspiracy to cry "Poor Me" with regard to party fund raising, not having to get anything done "Because Biden", 'We need your help to get them next time" and so forth.
Van Morrison has been singing it out, literally:
He's written three very anti-lockdown songs and sung two of them. Eric Clapton sung the last one. If you want to fill your MP3 player or Play List for those upcoming family visits or if you need music for a protest these are perfect.
As I Walked Out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFOaiWTfvOk
Stand and Deliver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMkV4vYr_ik [Eric Clapton, written by Van Morrison, released 4 days ago]
No More Lockdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUeuhM-NSjU
The Lyrics are as subtle as an antifa bring through a window and do not hold anything back.
For normies a play list of 2 regular Van Morrison songs then 1 lockdown 1 regular, repeat and same for the Eric Clapton song. That way it seeps in.
NPC's are being programmed for handouts.
- Handouts are not good, even if we are getting money taken from us via taxes back.
- Just make the States open up the economy. Most people prefer a job, not a handout, but without a job, they need whatever they can get.
- $600 is worse than $1200 or $2000. If they are going to do it, do it right and not half-baked.
Be careful with the Vitamin D.
You can overdose. In very extreme and very rare cases, that can kill you.
It's "oil based" so your body stores it. If you take too much of a water soluble vitamin your body will excrete it.
Your body creates vitamin D with sunlight.
If you are outside in the sun all the time, you probably don't need to supplement or not much. Part of the reason flu may drop in the summer is people spend more time outdoors and their bodies make enough "D". Of course the lockdowns have screwed this up.
If you can actually get in to see your doctor, they can test your Vitamin D levels and determine if you have enough, too much or not enough.
Warnings aside, there's a bottle of D and Zinc on the shelf around here.