I have no idea if edicts from the ethics committee has teeth or not. Maybe it’ll just keep him from running for office again for fear they’ll refuse to give him lunch money.
I empathize with the child. The best case scenario is that Ted Cruz is a hypocrite who doesn’t have any problem whatsoever with LGBTQ folks. That he loves his daughter, lavishes her with support and praise in their private home life, and then goes to work to tear down everything she identifies with and encourage his supporters to hate her.
That’s the best case scenario, and it still has obvious potential to cause sustained emotional distress. Years and years of emotional distress.
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Discussing a young teenagers suicide attempt on the national stage is probably also not helping, so we’re not going to do that here.
No more posts about the younger Cruz’s attempt on her own life in this thread.
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STORAGE WARS: FLORIDA
National Security Edition
Where else could the Hoarder-In-Chief have stashed classified docs? I’m assuming the crack search team trump’s lawyers hired has checked under the legs of wobbly tables in the Mar-A-Lago dining room.
I think that Maus_Magill was making reference to the Mexican trip the Cruz family happened to take during the Texas power grid failure.
Color me unsurprised. I had assumed that Republicans were working on secret deals with Venezuela, ever since they started accusing Democrats of working with Venezuela.
Every Accusation Is A Confession.
never mind
The names are obscured but enough detail is given that the list of suspects is pretty darn small. For example “US Senator 1. from Florida” narrows it down to two. Also there is mention of a White house advisor who is later referred to by the pronoun “she” which given the sausage fest that was the Trump Whitehouse would alsobe a pretty short list.
The Orange Imbecile’s complete disregard for security protocols has reached the point of parody. I hope this exacerbates the criminal consequences of illegally possessing classified documents in the first place.
Perhaps, but that was a general note for the whole thread, not a specific sanction against Maus_Magill. The instruction stands even if I’m wrong about which specific incident they’re referencing.
I’m dimly recalling a Mad Magazine item from way back when. It might have been something like, “A Peek Behind the Scenes at the Pentagon,” but like I said, it was long ago, so I’m not sure.
Anyway, a high-ranking officer is chewing out a low-ranking clerk. “How could you put these Top Secret documents in an unlocked filing cabinet?”
“Hey, it was secured. See, I used Scotch tape on the drawers.”
Haven’t thought of that in years, only recently; but the more “Trump and documents” stuff comes out, the more I’m remembering it.
Agreed 100%. I’m hoping that said individuals are fully named in future cases to be revealed in glorious SchadenVISION in the near future, and a new crop of “only the best lawyers” are stuck saying “none of these documents ever mention my client by name” while a judge and jury look on with unimpressed eyes.
And even rolling ones.
A small helping of schadenfreude to start the day:
The graphs included are particularly sweet 
Lol, the closing paragraph:
(Emojis added, of course.)
Wow, that’s a great data source:
https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/summary/summary
This service allows you to rapidly create a visual dashboard that summarizes global news media coverage of a particular topic.
It’s the Onion but the story is true. Being fired by Ye is pretty deep in the cesspool of employment.
I guess this goes here.
Trying to protect our children from the fags while defrauding the government out money meant for sick people.
He was taking money for a non-existent disease so in reality he was defrauding the fraudsters. /s
One of the key areas of disagreement centers on the Trump legal team’s repeated refusal to designate a custodian of records to sign a document attesting that all classified materials have been returned to the federal government, according to two of these people. The Justice Department has repeatedly sought an unequivocal sworn written assurance from Trump’s team that all such documents have been returned, and Trump’s team has been unwilling to designate a custodian of records to sign such a statement while also giving assurances that they have handed documents back.
Stephen Ryan, a white-collar criminal defense attorney, said it is usually not difficult to figure out who should serve as the custodian of records for a company. “In the normal course of business, if you’re a real business, you have records and you have custodians of those records that you can call on,” he said. “It’s the person who holds custody of the records as part of their day-to-day activities.”
In this case, however, there is no representative of Trump who has actually maintained control of the records. “The department is in effect asking for something that doesn’t exist,” he said. “This is an extraordinary problem that is factually relatively unique.”
At this point, he said, “no one wants to put their head in the custodian noose.”