I’ll be there. Just give me some notice so I can press my tux. 
It appears to be a slight exaggeration, based on what info I have read, which was that Hunter “dated” Beau’s widow during the time between his separation and divorce from his first wife; calling that “cheating on his wife” sounds like a pretty big reach. And ultimately, he married someone else entirely.
Yeah, I believe I talked about that in this very thread (earlier version), and was going to post that video–thanks for taking care of it, CalMeacham!
For Trump, two to three weeks in the future is a mystical never-never time frame that he thinks won’t ever arrive, because his brain can’t reach beyond that. So that’s the time frame he says whenever he’s bullshitting, which is just about always.
And the anti-immigrant bullshit keeps on rolling:
It just got harder for immigrants: the U.S. naturalization test is about to change
The key part here is this nonsense:
Doubles the number of questions to be answered during the interview: Until now, public officials who administer the exam during the final interview with USCIS, asked a total of 10 questions from the list of 100, and the applicant had to satisfactorily answer six of those 10 questions to pass.
Although the passing score will remain at 60%, on the revised test, USCIS officers will ask applicants 20 questions instead of 10, so the immigrant must satisfactorily answer 12 to pass.
Furthermore, in the previous test, if an immigrant answered six questions correctly before reaching the last one, this component of the exam ended. In the revised test, even if the person answers 12 questions correctly, the officer must continue to ask all 20.
What on Earth is the purpose of continuing the oral interview even after the applicant has qualified? This is nothing but a time-waster. Of course the current administration and its cretin-in-chief don’t care a whit about the applicants’ time. It’s tying up the time of the interviewer so that means on any given day, the interviewer is now able to interview fewer interviewees. Basic math tells me fewer interviewees means fewer new citizens. That jackass loser cannot stop nickel and diming on anything.
Anyone want to lay odds that before January–by which time it’ll be obvious to even the oblivious individual tarnishing the Executive Office that he’s lost the election–the requirement will be a passing rate of 100%?
I must admit this delights me:
IOW: “Fuck off.”
Not to defend Barr, but when I read the memo that prosecutors were authorized to investigate and “pursue substantial allegations of voting and vote tabulation irregularities” I took it to mean that prosecutors should investigate these allegations if and only if they are “substantial.”
However, the memo could also be read in a manner such that prosecutors should investigate allegations of voting irregularities that have already been determined to be substantial.
If the first interpretation is what was intended, then the prosecutors are all set. If no substantial allegations of fraud have been made, then they need do nothing.
Which means that the second interpretation is probably the intended meaning. Or Barr is playing it both ways. 
This seems to be the case:
However…
The DOJ has as a rule never taken an affirmative role in pursuing election fraud. They investigate when asked to by elections officials refer a case to them based on evidence the elections officials have found.
So Barr’s memo encourages US attorneys toward partisanship – something they never, ever want to taint their work. That’s why Richard Pilger resigned his position over it. Barr’s memo was weak, but it was still highly improper.
The White House spokescritter deflects a question from the media by saying (at approx. 2’ 5" into this video)…
That would be a question for the White House.
They aren’t even pretending to be competent, or even sensible, now.
Sounds to me more like two of the people who loved Beau most were trying to help each other through the grief, but what do I know?
The man who was the head of the department dealing with Election Crimes, who presumably is a lawyer and knows how to interpret memos like this and who, moreover, has worked with Barr since Barr became AG, and who has also been given an award in recognition of his integrity and honesty, was so convinced this memo was intended to interfere with legal election results, he quit. Given his character and the character demonstrated by Barr, I take his word for what this memo meant. Barr is an expert hairsplitter, and he was splitting things mighty fine.
Excellent point.
Another excellent point.
Thanks for the reminders about how improper the memo was in the first place.
I think it is time for Trump to have a new name: Donnie One-Term, abbreviated D1T.
It appears that yesterday’s presser was simply an effort to take credit for Phizer’s vaccine work (“Phizer was wrong about what Phizer said,” according to one wag) and for the usual suspects to heap praise on Donnie One Term’s “leadership.”
I hope there’s an afterlife just so I can read future historians’ recounts about this past four years.
Pfizer.
There’s an evangelical/ fundamentalist tenet informally called “lying for the Lord”. It’s a show of contempt for the secular world. It’s a way of affirming that they put the rules of God above the rule of man.
Some religious communities have taken this to incredible lengths. An entire town, one centered around a powerful church, committed unemployment fraud when donations to the church dropped after 2008. Businesses owned by the church or church members ( like all the businesses in town) fired all their employees on paper only. The employees kept working while collecting unemployment and the owners gave their payroll money to the church.
This was the World of Faith Fellowship in Spindale NC.
Please understand that this constant lying is a feature, not a bug. Not only is it not hypocritical, it’s doctrinal.
Yeah the memo, even though it doesn’t explicitly say anything partisan, is clearly taken as a partisan push by those who read it, which is getting into Hatch Act territory.
Gesundheit.
[gruntsinchagrin]
And these are the same people who make noise about taqqiya and why it means Muslims can’t be trusted…