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A day after chaos engulfed Washington, D.C., golfers Gary Player and Annika Sorenstam accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Donald Trump.

Trump also bestowed the honor posthumously to women’s golf pioneer and Olympic gold medalist Babe Zaharias.

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US hits 4k deaths in 24hrs for the first time

These are the people I feel sorry for. Not the man babies inventing things to be angry about, but people who've been so badly let down by incompetent leadership. (Yes, even the ones who voted for that incompetent leadership.)

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Despite a tumultuous and deadly week in Washington, President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to award New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick the nation’s highest civilian honor.

Belichick, a White House official told Politico on Sunday, will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Thursday.



This is making the sports talk show guys in the New England area go nuts because of the riot the other day. Most are saying Bill should not accept this. I want to know why he is getting it in the first place,

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[Dump Trump 2021]

Even belichick refusing to be associated with him now; that's how toxic he's become.

But of course (along with the PGA removing his course) all the man babies will play the victim and say that the PGA didn't want to do that, and belichick didn't want to do that, but they had to because of the woke/PC/liberal/elite/snowflake/communist agenda...

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During Tuesday’s The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, former FBI director James Comey weighed in on whether outgoing President Trump should be charged for the recent attack on Capitol Hill. While he believes Trump should bear some responsibility for the attack, he doesn’t support charging the president for the insurrection.

“I just don't think that the mission Joe Biden has before him,” said Comey, “which is to heal our country both spiritually and literally because so many of our fellow Americans are dying, is not advanced by having Donald Trump get what he wants most, which is to be in the drama, in Washington every single day.”

And while Comey supports Trump being prosecuted for state crimes, like the cases pending in New York, he does not want a national trial.

“I'd rather the lights go out,” said Comey. “Which is the greatest punishment he could imagine. Stand on your lawn at Mar-a-Lago and yell at cars, but not have the lights on there, and let Joe Biden get on with the business of the United States.”

Comey also warned that the former reality TV star craves a lot of attention and affirmation. Since Trump has been banned from most social media platforms, Comey worries he may act out before the transfer of power on January 20th.

“This is a person,” said Comey, “for whom affirmation is like oxygen. He craves it. He needs it. And now he's not only not getting it. He will perceive betrayal by those closest to him. And this is going to be a very, very difficult time for our country over the next eight days.




Totally agree with Comey. Just close the door on Trump and let's move on.  New York is going to hit him and his family hard, so I have no problem with the feds just ignoring Trump from here on out. I am more worried about his rabid followers.

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Yep, I agree with him too.

I do think there's ample evidence that what he was saying and doing wasn't becoming of a president, but I just don't see the point in pursuing a 50-50 type impeachment against him so close to the end.

Everyone knows it was fucking stupid and irresponsible, except his minions, and it will just make his minions more angry and more resentful.

And obviously agree with the point that trump craves all this. I would call trump anarchic if I thought he was intelligent enough to understand the concept...

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Donald gets another first.... first doubly impeached President with twice as many of his own party voting for impeachment.  Clinton had 5 dem votes and Donald got 10 Rep. Oh wait, that's two firsts.... 

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President Donald Trump is reportedly taking out his frustrations on his personal attorney and longtime friend, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

And he’s doing it in the classic Trump fashion: by refusing to pay him.

The Washington Post said Trump is trying to stiff Giuliani, who has spent the past months traveling the country and spreading wild conspiracy theories about the November election on behalf of the president.

Citing two unnamed officials, the newspaper said Trump has not only refused to pay Giuliani’s legal fees but has told aides that all reimbursement requests for travel and other expenses need to go through him.

The Post said Trump was unhappy with Giuliani’s demand for $20,000 a day in fees and “has privately expressed concern” with some of his attorney’s moves.

The former mayor last year denied seeking that specific amount, claiming a much more unusual fee structure instead.

“I never asked for $20,000,” he told The New York Times in November. “The arrangement is we’ll work it out at the end.”

The Times on Wednesday confirmed the latest Post report, adding that White House officials were blocking Giuliani’s calls to Trump.

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Police in the United States are three times more likely to use force against leftwing protesters than rightwing protesters, according to new data from a nonprofit that monitors political violence around the world.

In the past 10 months, US law enforcement agencies have used teargas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and beatings at a much higher percentage at Black Lives Matter demonstrations than at pro-Trump or other rightwing protests.

Law enforcement officers were also more likely to use force against leftwing demonstrators, whether the protests remained peaceful or not.

The statistics, based on law enforcement responses to more than 13,000 protests across the United States since April 2020, show a clear disparity in how agencies have responded to the historic wave of Black Lives Matter protests against police violence, compared with demonstrations organized by Trump supporters.

Barack Obama highlighted an earlier version of these statistics on 8 January, arguing that they provided a “useful frame of reference” for understanding Americans’ outrage over the failure of Capitol police to stop a mob of thousands of white Trump supporters from invading and looting the Capitol on 6 January, a response that prompted renewed scrutiny of the level of violence and aggression American police forces use against Black versus white Americans.

The new statistics come from the US Crisis Monitor, a database created this spring by researchers at Princeton and the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project (ACLED), a nonprofit that has previously monitored civil unrest in the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America.

The disparity in police response only grew when comparing peaceful leftwing versus rightwing protests. Looking at the subset of protests in which demonstrators did not engage in any violence, vandalism, or looting, law enforcement officers were about 3.5 times more likely to use force against leftwing protests than rightwing protests, with about 1.8% of peaceful leftwing protests and only half a percent of peaceful rightwing protests met with teargas, rubber bullets or other force from law enforcement.

ACLED’s data also shows that US law enforcement agencies were more likely to intervene in leftwing versus rightwing protests in general, and more likely to use force when they intervened. American law enforcement agencies made arrests or other interventions in 9% of the 10,863 Black Lives Matter and other leftwing protests between 1 April 2020 and 8 January, compared with only 4% of the 2,295 rightwing protests.

Half of the time police made any intervention into a leftwing protest, it involved using violent force, ACLED found, compared with only about a third of the time for rightwing protests.

Overall, 94% of the leftwing demonstrations in the past ten months were peaceful, compared with 96% of the rightwing demonstrations, according to ACLED’s most recently updated data. Kishi cautioned that the process of categorizing demonstrations as peaceful did not take into account whether demonstrators who engaged in violence or property damage were responding to aggressive or violent behavior from the police.

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I wish for both sides staying home when Biden gets sworn in.

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I value peaceful protest. Maybe you're right, that right now they should stay home.

But that would just be another sign of how fucked America is. Can't even take to the streets and voice yourself without a) keeping control of yourself, and b) the police kicking the shit out of you for no reason.

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lmao or just smh, probably both, also kinda sad. Just the elites doing what they do best, being elitist.    





Despite the fact that Trump and Kushner have more than six bathrooms in their Kalorama neighborhood home in Washington, D.C., secret service agents have been instructed they’re not allowed to use any of them, the Washington Post reports. Instead, agents have had to go to great lengths to find a bathroom on the job. According to the Post‘s report, in 2017, Secret Service agents relied on a restroom in a garage in former President Barack Obama’s house. They also had to make the one-mile drive to the home of Vice President Mike Pence to use a bathroom in a stand-alone guard station.



Since then, the federal government has been forced to implement some changes. Trump and Kushner’s Secret Service detail is still not allowed to use any of the restrooms inside their home, sure, but they can use one that’s apparently costing taxpayers upwards of $100,000. According to the report, the federal government has spent $3,000 a month since September 2017 to rent a basement studio from the Kushner family’s neighbors, just so they would have easier access to a nearby restroom. Lucky!

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But but but, trump is anti elites! He's the friend of the common man!

(I absolutely guarantee you Obama would let a stranger use his bathroom, never mind someone who works to protect him...)

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I disagree with not doing anything. All the calls for "unity" are from the enablers who have spent the past 4 years shitting on "the left" and basically sabotaging Democratic-run states. You don't discourage insurrections by just "forgive and forget." People need to be held accountable; otherwise, they learn that their actions have no consequence.

Also, part of the impeachment is preventing the President from ever holding public office.