On My Bean

How the motherfucking fuck can it be legal for the Orange Obscenity in the WH to commute the sentence of a fucking criminal who’s been convicted of conspiring WITH said Obscenity to commit a crime?

Unlike a pardon, which would have absolved the GOP operative of any wrongdoing, the White House action only lifted Stone’s punishment, a 40-month prison sentence set to begin Tuesday. (source) 

Why not, as long as Treasonweasel’s taking care of his coconspirators, just full on pardon this disgusting pool of gross putrefaction?

Someone who gets a pardon can no longer invoke the Fifth Amendment as a justification for refusing to testify in court. If Stone were called in some other case, he’d be required to spill any beans he had. But if I understand the law correctly, a commutation is more limited. The conviction stands, and the possibility of putting yourself in further jeopardy remains. Thus your Fifth Amendment rights stand. (source) 

I know more about weasels and the laws of our country now than I did four years ago. I wish I didn’t need to. 

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And in other news, due to our death cult of a government, U.S. Citizens are no longer welcome in most countries on the planet. The Republi/Facist Fuckers and their dimwitted and idiot fanbois who have marched this country straight into Hell have gifted us with 3.1 MILLION cases of and 134,000 deaths from Plague45. 

Remember when we used to feel OH SO sorry for Italy?  Their seven day case count average, for the entire country, was 208. Here in Massachusetts? 212.

60.36 million people live in Italy

6.893 million live here in Bay State

We’re not doing well and we’re one of the more successful states.

Hells bells, if it was up to me, I’d send every last one of us to our rooms for a years long timeout too.

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And our wack job prez, his wife/daughter and that braindead piece of used jet trash masquerading as Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos RILLY want parents to send their kids into Plague45’s gaping maw. Why? Are they actually trying to kill your kiddles and grands? 

No – they’re, AS USUAL, thinking with their sphincters. They want the country to go back to “normal” before the election so’s Prez Idiot von Stupid can campaign without all our pesky blood on his hands. Too late!

Is it safe to reopen schools?

In late June, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a recommendation that school administrators aim to have children “physically present in school” for the next school year. Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains that virtual-only classes are the lowest risk option for schooling. And while some countries, including Denmark, Austria, and Germany have had success in reopening schools, other countries, including Israel and Japan, and South Korea, have opened and re-closed schools after seeing a surge in new cases. (source) 

The answer is – it's complicated. The U.S. has NOT been as smart as Germany, Austria or Denmark in handling this shit – not by motherfucking lightyears. We’re still incompetently swimming in COVID so, I’d say FUCK NO.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?
~ Mahatma Gandhi