I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

IllinoisLady

I don't have a hand in my emoticons, but my hand is high.

IllinoisLady

https://bit.ly/3B3z7kl I am wondering if this will aid Sinema in perhaps coming to some of her awol senses where the Democrats and the Biden agenda are concerned.

Betrayal

ChiSandy: I am with you on that fund but I want the proceeds to be donated to all those he duped into buying his pillows.

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I always thought drumpf was a horse's ass but now it seems more fitting that he is a pig's. No aspersions on pigs because their IQ is probably light years ahead of his and they are intelligent and caring animals totally unlike him and his spawn.

IllinoisLady

https://bit.ly/3nh7Yp5 I.nteresting if the Loon keeps slipping. Likely the only person I've wished truly broke w/o two nickels in the pocket. Not sure he ever carries money, but it is so, so, richly deserved.

Betrayal -- yes pigs are worlds above the Loon.

AliceBastable

Gee, who'd have thought Dolt45's supporters could be so stupid? 🤪

https://www.stltoday.com/news/national/risky-business-some-capitol-riot-defendants-forgo-lawyers/article_f962c3ff-dbf2-555d-9150-c84c88c53cd5.html

IllinoisLady

Alice, I was not able to open your article but will work on it later. You are right though. Who would ever go into a court w/o the protection of good legal help at their side. I'd think it quite necessary if one is talking about being arrested for partaking in 1/6. Maybe they think they will be looked upon and given some sort of leeway because they weren't smart enough, or had enough funds to secure help. The un-skilled are fools, when even people like Giuliani retain legal assistance for their issues. They don't seem to get they did something SERIOUSLY wrong and could get a serious term in the pokey for it. The Loon make them all feel like it was 'the thing to do' so nothing was stolen from them. They don't seem to see they had nothing to begin with -- an idiot asked them to get HIM something. Now he is just as happy as a mosquito at a concert. These people must still believe the LIE that got them where they were. Boy, they deserve everything they get and then some.

IllinoisLady

https://bit.ly/3b3OoqC So much better when you are a HUGE loser to use other people's funds which I know was the whole idea. What is wrong with people who invest in something where they have little notion of what they money they are handing over will be used for ?? If I even suspected that any money I put forth would go to the Loon I'd be running the other way fast. Scamming and grifting his way through life. Glad his new venture was a flop.

IllinoisLady

Especially the 1/6 history along with black history.

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Something that should have happened as soon as possible after 1/20/2021.

IllinoisLady

IllinoisLady

Give it up home fry. You wore it out quite some time ago.

https://bit.ly/3vzgS5c

Betrayal

I want that Notice sign. I am still laughing about the message. As far as "home fry" he needs to sleep under one of his pillows with a ton of bricks on the top. He is addled from all the drugs he took in the past and it is finally revealing how much brain damage he has suffered.

John Fetterman's wife is Brazilian and has suffered at the hands of those who take issue with her darker complexion. Both are community spirited and he would make a wonderful senator. Toomey did us a favor by retiring because he was the biggest "do nothing" but follow the party line for years. Never met with his constituents nor cared what they had to say to him about meeting their needs. Moron in my book.

Speaking of books, I am reading The Warmth of Other Suns and it is an eye opening read about the cause of Black migration from the South. Some of the reasons they migrated are still in existence and many more are being reintroduced as far as suppression techniques. This should be a must read for all high school students. It is a long book and even in paper back it is a weighty tome. I also have her second book to read once I finish this one. I highly recommend it.

AliceBastable

Love the property sign.

ruthbru

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Spookiesmom

👏👏👏👏next step jail.

IllinoisLady

Ruth, I am more than glad. I am ecstatically delighted to the very nth. degree. It couldn't happen to a nicer d**k.

Betrayal

So he can no longer practice law in Fl, if he loses his seat in the House, I guess he would by virtue of experience be able to segue into being a pimp? What a fine specimen of d**khood. Glad he married into money because she will either have to support him in the future or if she has any brain cells, will take her money and hit the high road. Beavis for sure.

exbrnxgrl

Gaetz was only suspended due to delinquent dues. He has now paid up and is reinstated. Oh well…

https://www.yahoo.com/now/matt-gaetz-reinstated-florida-bar-195400802.html

DivineMrsM

*Take heart, things seem to be heating up in the Gaetz legal drama:

REPORT: MATT GAETZ IS SCREWED SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY

Two top prosecutors have been added to the DOJ's investigation, and the sentencing of the congressman's former wingman has been delayed because of the volume of dirt the guy has shared with the Feds.

BY Bess Levin/ Vanity Fair

OCTOBER 22, 2021

If you've been keeping tabs on the legal drama surrounding Matt Gaetz,you probably noticed that the last month seemingly brought a lull in headlines concerning the Justice Department investigation into whether he paid women for sex and, separately, slept with a minor and transported her across state lines. Some might have taken that pause to mean the Republican congressman was in the clear, and that the only thing he had to worry about was how deeply awkward Thanksgiving with the in-laws would be this year. But unfortunately for the Florida representative, that does not appear to be the case. In fact, multiple developments in the scandal that he has asked us to refer to as "Gaetzgate" suggest the guy should be extremely worried about his future as a free man.

The most worrisome, if one is worried about Gaetz potentially doing a decade in prison, is a report from The New York Times that the Department of Justice has added a pair of top prosecutors to its investigation, "a sign of the complex and high-stakes nature of the inquiry." According to Pulitzer Prize–winning reporters Katie Benner and Michael Schmidt, one of the prosecutors is a public corruption investigator who specializes in child exploitation crimes. The other, Todd Gee, is a deputy chief of the Public Integrity Section, which is part of the DOJ's Criminal Division, a department that is "involved in nearly all major criminal investigations into alleged misconduct by federal, state, and local officials." Among other cases, Gee served as a lead prosecutor on the 2020 conviction of an ex-Navy commander at Guantánamo Bay, who was found guilty of covering up a fight with a commissary worker who was subsequently found dead.

How bad is this news for Gaetz, who has denied any and all allegations against him? As Elie Mystal, attorney and justice correspondent for The Nation, put it on Thursday:

Another person who seems to know how concerning this development is? Matt Gaetz, hence his decision to use a congressional hearing with Attorney General Merrick Garland to smear DOJ prosecutors. Per the Times:

During a congressional hearing on Thursday, Mr. Gaetz asked Attorney General Merrick B. Garland whether the department imposed any special vetting processes before it hired former lobbyists or former congressional staffers to work as federal prosecutors, specifically in the Public Integrity Section. "Is there any prohibition against people who've been lobbyists, partisan committee staff, or political consultants actually going in and serving in the Public Integrity Section, or is that allowed?" Mr. Gaetz asked. He later added, "If someone has been a political operative, to then put them in charge of election crimes, it's kind of like having the fox guard the henhouse."

Mr. Garland noted that it was against Justice Department policy to consider a person's political affiliations or views during the hiring process for career civil servants. "There is a requirement that, once somebody becomes a prosecutor, just like when somebody becomes a judge, that they get rid of whatever preconceptions they had before," Mr. Garland said. Mr. Gaetz asked Mr. Garland for a list of former lobbyists, former political consultants, and former congressional staffers who now worked in the Public Integrity Section. Mr. Garland said that he did not intend to create a list of career officials and their previous jobs.

Meanwhile, the addition of the two prosecutors is far from the only thing Gaetz should be soiling himself over at the moment. During a hearing in Orlando federal court on Monday, a judge granted a request for a delay in the sentencing of Gaetz's former wingman, Joel Greenberg, who has apparently been providing the department with so much dirt that it could use extra time to go through it all. In a hint of just how uniquely horrifying said dirt may be, Roger Handberg, an assistant U.S. attorney, told the judge that Greenberg has made allegations to investigators that "take us to some places we did not anticipate." Greenberg himself had originally been hit with a whopping 33 charges, but ended up pleading guilty to just six, including sex trafficking of a child, which seemingly suggests prosecutors believe he will be able to prove uniquely helpful to them. Per CNN:

As part of his plea agreement, [Greenberg] was required to give "substantial assistance" to investigators as they build out related cases. His lawyer has said that Greenberg has held a series of proffers, or meetings, with the Justice Department. Handberg did not say what investigations Greenberg was providing new information to authorities about, although CNN has reported that Greenberg has told the Justice Department about encounters he and Gaetz had with women who were given cash or gifts in exchange for sex.

According to the Times, Greenberg has told investigators that he saw Gaetz and others have sex with the same 17-year-old he pleaded guilty to sex trafficking. In court on Monday, Handberg called Greenberg a "prolific criminal," ominously adding, "Mr. Greenberg was not alone."

ruthbru

Not political, but pretty interesting!

IllinoisLady

"Peace is not something you attain. It is a permanent state of being within you that you choose to allow in every moment, or not."

Spookiesmom

And good for her!!!!!

AliceBastable

Bravo, Sen. Polsky!

AliceBastable

Hope I haven't posted this before; I lose track of my mental entertainment committee!

IllinoisLady

The mystery of language was revealed to me.
I knew then that 'w-a-t-e-r' meant the wonderful
cool something that was flowing over my hand.
That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free!"

— HELEN KELLER

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

— RUDYARD KIPLING