Funding per legislation come under the purview of the DOJ, then the boss of the DOJ is Trump.

We are used to him not being able to work close with them because that was hindered by all the impeachment proceedings. But it's all back to normal now.
He can work closely with them just as Obama did with Holder.

Trump is the boss, right? If DOJ decide who gets the money, then Trump has influence there. If goes direct from Congress, then he does not. I believe he also decides who gets the military surplus toys too. Not sure.

I havent researched it in some thorough way, so perhaps you can provide more guidance on how it works.

eta: for those not familiar, the Dept of Justice is part of the Executive Branch of the US govt. Trump is the head of that branch - the other 2 being legislative (congress) and judicial (courts)

I was agreeing with you. Sorry if that wasn’t clear. Interjections with knee jerk reactions don’t help.

Cool. No prob. My post provides some explanation anyway.
Even though the person I respond to might know how our branches work, I should always provide some base facts so it is clearer for my fellow Americans (The dern furreners on here seem to know more about it than the locals much of the time!:p).
I still learn interesting facts about it all the time.
People can blame Trump for a lot of things, but it's hard to say he didn't inspire people to be more aware and educated about politics!

Trump Tweets

Nancy Pelosi says she got “set up” by a Beauty Parlor owner. Maybe the Beauty Parlor owner should be running the House of Representatives instead of Crazy Nancy?

Crazy Nancy Pelosi said she was “set up” by the beauty parlor owner when she improperly had the salon opened (and didn’t wear a MASK!). Does anyone want a Speaker of the House who can be so easily SET UP?

It's like everything he says has to include a giant lie. He could easily continue mocking Pelosi for appearing on camera in a public place without a mask, but he has to double down with lies to make it seem even worse.

1. Pelosi didn't have the shop opened. It was open.
2. According to the stylist who did her hair, not only was the shop already open when Pelosi went in, but it's been open (illegally) since April and the owner has been "forcing"* stylists to come in so she can get paid.
3. Mocking Pelosi for being easy to set up is just dumb. If you make an appointment with a business and they position cameras in order to catch you doing something wrong with the explicit (they accepted the appointment) consent of that business, you can't defend against that.
4. Seriously, how can a business owner blame a customer for being inside their business when that business owner always has the option not to allow customers inside?

Don't get me wrong. Pelosi acted stupidly and the day she leaves Congress will be a great one (she is a truly awful leader of both the House and her party) but going after her for getting her hair done is insanity, especially since female Democrats get slammed all the time by Republicans (and jerks in general) for their appearance.

*Presumably, "forcing" in this case means telling the people who work in her shop that if they don't come in they'll lose their spots and she'll find others to take over.

Does anyone want a president who behaves like a childish play ground bully?

Yeah. At least 40% of us via every available piece of information we have.

Yeah and let me tale how awesome it is that a Democratic getting a haircut is a major news story again.

It's because that's all the ****-sipping Republicans have. Sure, Trump did literally everything wrong at the outset of this pandemic which resulted in unnecessary death and economic devastation, and, sure, he continues to make a mockery of democracy and destroy every US institution he possibly can, but a leader of the Democratic Party had her hair done and was caught on a camera without a mask! String her up! #MAGA!

Ah...but they don't think he behaves like a childish playground bully. He's being clever, witty, and triggering the libs! Such is the level of their wit.

While Trump rants on this BS, the stock market crashes again!

Neener neerer neener. :p

11,000 people died in NY nursing homes? Or was that nursing homes in the whole country.

Sorry, too worn out to look it up.

I also like Reagan's schtick: Are you better off now than when you were 4 years ago?

Wrong on so many levels.

Trump wants to claim the check for double voting is at the polling place when it is later when the ballots are checked and counted.

I said earlier neither vote would count but I think they would toss the absentee ballot if you already voted in person and count the in-person one.

The following Tweet has disappeared from trump's stream.

Nancy Pelosi says she got “set up” by a Beauty Parlor owner. Maybe the Beauty Parlor owner should be running the House of Representatives instead of Crazy Nancy?

:confused:

Dow is down 800-900 points today.

That makes sense, going by if you applied rather than when you send the vote in.

"You don't seen graphite on the ground because there isn't any. An RBMK reactor core doesn't explode. 3.6 roetgnen an hour."

The tweet is from yesterday. :D

I now officially hate Captain_Swoop for making me scroll through Eric Trump's Twitter feed. The stupid there is just ....:jaw-dropp

She only had her mask off because it was off while she got her hair shampooed. I believe that was outdoors. You can see she entered the salon with wet hair. She put it back on for the styling. That part of the video exists. Of course Kious or Fox simply hid that part.

Do you dislike Pelosi because she is effective?

Après vous, M. Président.

I think it would be a good talking point taunt.
“President Trump urged all North Carolinians to vote twice. I say, ‘please do not vote twice until you see President Trump do it himself.‘ If he’s afraid to do it, then you shouldn’t either.”

No, I don’t think she is. Being effective would, for example, have resulted in articles of impeachment years earlier. Her tendency towards being openly disdainful of members of her own party helps to mark her as someone who has been in office far too long.

As for the mask issue, she shouldn’t ever enter a closed space without a mask on. She should also be aware of and following local COVID restrictions which would mean not being inside a salon at all.

Are you aware of local COVID restrictions that do not precluding being inside a salon? Trump is full of it when he says salons were not open at that time.

Trump's just jealous because when he gets his hair done he just pops it into the mail and gets it back the following week.

As I understand it, California in general allowed their reopening while San Francisco in specific did not and required them to work outdoors. I obtained this information from [non-Fox/other right-wing) sources today, so if I am incorrect then I plead repeating misinformation from what I consider reputable sources.

Trump Tweets

I’m going to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, the home of the late, great Arnold Palmer - There was nobody like him. I got to know Arnold well, played golf with him, and miss him. See you tonight in Latrobe!

Trump Tweets

Hearing that Iran is looking to execute a great and popular wrestling star, 27-year-old Navid Afkarai, whose sole act was an anti-government demonstration on the streets. They were protesting the “country’s worsening economic situation and inflation”...

...To the leaders of Iran, I would greatly appreciate if you would spare this young man’s life, and not execute him. Thank you! @UFC @DanaWhite @FoxNews

It came back again but with no changes! weird.

Us?

No wonder it was deleted. Not only is it sleazy to want someone who sets another person up to be Speaker of the House, turns out the evidence is pretty overwhelming Pelosi actually was set up.

Are you serious or are you just looking for posts to **** on today?

:confused:

:p

I'm tempted to look, maybe tomorrow.

I like it!

That's a bit excessive. No one was in there. The stylist was behind her.

I think that's just a ridiculously high bar.

We would have all loved to have seen Trump impeached. But you can see that Pelosi knew McConnell would see to it it was blocked in the Senate.

So again, your bar is absurdly high.

Disdainful of her own? You mean when she told the newbies (including OAC) that their idealism was misplaced and they needed to slow it down?

I thought Pelosi was right and I love OAC.

Big Brother says 2+2=5.

The whole thing was confusing.

Newsom said salons in SF County could open. The city mayor said no, then said they could see clients outside. The salons all complained and said it was impossible.

The mayor was very confusing and the rules became unclear.

In the meantime the salon Pelosi went to had been seeing clients illegally "for months".

And the mayor relented and said the salons could open a day (or so) after Pelosi had her hair done.

Trump, Fox News, Tucker Carlson and the whole right-wing blogosphere et al are indeed full of it.

No, it's not a high bar. I don't wait until I walk into a store to put my mask on. I don't even wait until I'm out of whatever vehicle I"m in when I arrive. :rolleyes: Again, it's not. Rightfully impeaching a president is entirely the prerogative of the House and it's not like McConnell was letting the House do much of anything else anyway. Maybe if the House had been a bit more active instead of mainly occupying themselves with sniping, the midterms would have seen a shift of control of the Senate. I don't buy that playing it safe bought them anything. I suspect that every move to the Democrat side was based solely on how objectionable Trump and McConnell have been. In short, there are no pro-Pelosi voters outside of her district.
Then both of you are wrong. It's past time for the corporate-owned centrist Democrats to be driven out of office. For example, we've had over 25 years of Democrats talking big about health care and the best we've done is to make insurers offer to let people pay for their health insurance. Whoop-de-*******-doo.

The Republicans go on and on using "progressive" as a pejorative but the simple truth is that the Democratic party is barely liberal and progressive is a pipe dream.

Yes, but...

I also perused dozens of articles this morning to sort this out.

EastBayTimes.

Heavydotcom



SanFrancisco LocalCBS: Stylist Backs Up Pelosi’s Claim San Francisco Salon Visit Was A Set Up


My summary of what I found:

Turns out the stylist specifically asked the owner of the salon, Erica Kious, if it was OK. That's the owner who says she knew nothing about it.

Also turns out the salon has been seeing clients in violation of the shutdown for months.

Kious took the footage to Fox news because she wanted to use it to complain about the shutdown. No coincidence she went there and later to an interview with Tucker Carlson.

And Pelosi only had her mask off because her hair was shampooed. The footage we don't see showed Pelosi put the mask back on for the styling.

Also Republican Kious has a gofundme set up by another Republican, her friend, and the fund already has more than $40K in it.
EastBayTimes

I sifted through a lot of sources and found more corroborating information as well. Kious owns two more salons in the Bay area and one in Fresno so take her crocodile tears with a grain of salt.

James O'Keefe would be proud.

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