Norman Alexander
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Trump's Second Term
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Norman Alexander
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Did he even ask for them?The White House
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President Trump has been awarded a full set of 1984 Olympic medals.
Did they have a spare set just lying around from 1984, and someone thought, "We need to clean this cabinet out. I know! Let's give a set to Dear Leader Trump!"
Also, someone please watch what he does with them. They will either be mounted on the Oval Office mantelpiece with his name on them prominently, or he will melt them down for the bullion value and by bitcoin.
bruto
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Wait until the next phase and he will put them on his uniform along with his Silver Star and his Order of Lenin and his Junior GI police badge.
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He hasn't invented it yet.
I'm intruiged by the use of the term 'awarded'. Sure, he's been given a set of medals, but I would have though only the IOCC can actually award medals. Slightly pedantic I know, but it's the internet!
Quite why medals from 1984 have any relevance to the 2028 games is slightly beyond me, but hey, let no opportunity to smooch butt pass you by I guess...
Carrot Flower King
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Personal experience tells me that having a dilated left ventricle is a sod (and I didn't even need fast food).
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That's a pretty bold accusation, against probably identifiable individuals. He'd better have some actual evidence covering his ass for saying that.
Those overeager to kiss Trump's ring by flinging accusations at supposed opponents might do well to remember how Rudi Giuliani got carried away like that and lost a $148 million defamation lawsuit.
Norman Alexander
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I was thinking the same thing. He might find himself on the wrong end of a billion dollar law suit if he isn't careful. See if he smirks when Trump disowns him.
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The 2028 Olympics will be held in Los Angeles, and the last time they were held there was 1984. Not really a mystery.
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Well that's weird. Now Kash Patel sounds even more manipulative - using clever framing to make a point while trying to keep outright lies to a minimum. Her daughter happened to be there filming, which is plausible to me. I wrote a biography of my mother when she turned 80. As far as I can tell, Pelosi's daughter was documenting a key day in Congress, when the vote was to be certified. Sometimes when you're covering an expected event, unscheduled "breaking news" starts to happen. I listened to the Kash Patel clip several times trying to make sure I quoted him accurately and I gotta say, he knows how to package a nothing burger. She's "filming a movie on Jan. 6" is sort of true. As in, her daughter, and probably a crew, was/were filming the day of the vote certification, and when everyone was being evacuated obviously you keep the camera rolling.
He uses her somewhat grumpy nonchalance as evidence that she wasn't afraid of the mob, therefore it was staged. No, I think that's just the way she is. I'm not a student of her, but being grumpily stoic can absolutely be a defense against fear. Or she just wasn't feeling it.
A couple of months ago I had defibrillator pads on my chest and the doctor asking if I gave consent to being resuscitated. I said, grouchily, "That depends. ... not if my brain has't had oxygen for 5 minutes." She said they'd be doing CPR so I said OK. In the moment I had no fear. The defibrillator said "no shock indicated" so they tried a a bolus of adenosine. They said if I felt a sense of impending doom, don't worry about it. No sense of doom descended but my eyes were locked on the monitor. A couple of seconds later my heart rate (pushing 200 bpm) started to fall. I waited a beat and said, "It's working" and they asked, "Can you feel it?" I said "No, I'm looking at the monitor." They laughed.
Deadpan gallows humor. Pelosi seems pretty tough and maybe that's just how she copes.
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Well, yes and no. Have the injured parties seen a penny of that judgement? Has Giuliano actually paid anything towards the judgement?
plague311
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On top of what you've stated, some people just aren't the panicky type. It's not like freaking out would have done her much good, and it couldn't have been a complete shock the riot was going to happen. I'd wager she watched the stupid ◊◊◊◊ give his speech, saw the crowd getting wound up, and then was informed they were moving to the Capitol Building. They were literally moving around a gallows for Christ's sake. I just don't find it to be that odd at all.
plague311
Great minds think...
Yes, and yes.
W.D.Clinger
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It gets worse.
The US Congress maintains a web page that purports to show the text of the US Constitution.
I invite everyone to compare that web page's version of Article I, Sections 9 and 10, to the corresponding sections of the actual US Constitution. (Warning: That PDF is on a web page maintained by the US House of Representatives. At this point, I would not be greatly surprised if the House's version of the Constitution is altered to match the version mangled by the full Congress.)
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We don't know that. We know that a satisfaction of judgement was filed but we don't know the terms. The injured parties may not have received anything (but be "satisfied" that he agreed not to defame them again) and/or any cash settlement may not have come out of his pocket. According to the Reuters report....
"Terms have not been disclosed, but Giuliani said after the settlement that he would keep his apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side, his condominium in Palm Beach, Florida, and his personal belongings. He promised not to defame the plaintiffs again."
So Giuliani doesn't seem to have suffered financially.
LDE1976
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Well, the "Left" certainly wouldn't reveal that Robert E Lee affected a comic Irish accent while ordering his troops not to attack uphill at Gettysburg.
plague311
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You can believe whatever you want but there is no intelligent reason to think that these two women won a $148 million judgement against him and decided to walk away empty handed. The AI summary I read said that they agreed to let him keep his stuff for an undisclosed amount of money, which seems entirely more reasonable than just throwing their hands up and saying, "Well, he said he wouldn't do it again, so I guess we're cool."
Either way, if they agreed to let him off the hook then that's their choice and they have every right to it.