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January 16, 2021

12 years ago today. This happened 5 days before Obama took office????



Today in History, January 15, 2009
Pilot Sully Sullenberger performs “Miracle on the Hudson”
On January 15, 2009, a potential disaster turned into a heroic display of skill and composure when Captain Chesley Burnett Sullenberger III safely landed the plane he was piloting on New York City’s Hudson River after a bird strike caused its engines to fail.

January 15, 2021

My "President T____" is at one (1) written or verbal

I have not typed or said the two words together except for one slip about 2 years ago.

You?

I know it’s really a petty thing but he never gave the office anywhere near the respect it deserves.

January 15, 2021

FYI - Fed Student Loan COVID Forbearance ends Jan. 31, 2021

https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/coronavirus

For anyone still paying loans or if you know some who is. This is the last month payment isn’t due.

There’s no mention of continuing the grace period in Biden’s or any other plan.
January 15, 2021

House Democrats Briefed On 3 Terrifying Plots To Overthrow Government

I had not seen this posted.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-briefed-plot-overthrow-government_n_5ffd29a4c5b691806c4bf199

The first is a demonstration billed as the “largest armed protest ever to take place on American soil.”

Another is a protest in honor of Ashli Babbitt, the woman killed while trying to climb into the Speaker’s Lobby during Wednesday’s pro-Trump siege of the Capitol.


And another demonstration, which three members said was by far the most concerning plot, would involve insurrectionists forming a perimeter around the Capitol, the White House and the Supreme Court, and then blocking Democrats from entering the Capitol ― perhaps even killing them ― so that Republicans could take control of the government.

Lawmakers were told that the plot to encircle the Capitol also included plans to surround the White House ― so that no one could harm Trump ― and the Supreme Court, simply to shut down the courts. The plan to surround the Capitol includes assassinating Democrats as well as Republicans who didn’t support Trump’s effort to overturn the election ― and allowing other Republicans to enter the building and control government.

“It was pretty overwhelming,” one member said.

January 14, 2021

The Girl Scouts wants out of its lease at Trump property

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/14/trump-impeachment-biden-transition-live-updates/

Since the attack on the U.S. Capitol last week, Trump’s company has lost three of its banks, two of its real estate brokers, its e-commerce site, its chance to host a major golf championship and its contracts to run a golf course, two ice rinks and even a children’s carousel.

Now, it is losing the Girl Scouts.

The Girl Scouts of Greater New York, which leases office space in Trump’s building at 40 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, said this week that they are seeking “as a matter of very high priority” to move out. The Girl Scouts’ lease, signed in 2014, was supposed to last 15 years.

The Girl Scouts rents 14,000 square feet on the seventh floor of Trump’s building, according to the real estate database firm CoStar. Their rent has not been disclosed, but — at current market rates — a space that size would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
January 13, 2021

Fox News just had a new video from Trump. Was it on anywhere else?

Called for peace and understanding. Demeaned the riot. Was actually pretty good but he did have to thrown in a little bit about “the assault on first amendment rights” - Twitter.

It was from the Oval. Seated.

Was it on CNN or MSNBC? I flipped around just as it ended but it looked like both were talking about Nancy signing the Impeachment.

January 13, 2021

To those watched Repubs in the House - Welcome to Talk Radio

I’m catching bits here and listening when I can at work. I’m not hearing anything that I haven’t heard verbatim or in kind on talk radio.

You may be appalled or amazed at the consistent level of lies and outright nonsense but that’s talon radio all day long. Everyday. This is what people hear morning, noon (Limbaugh), and night. Over and over and over until it’s legend, lore, and dogma.

This is mostly just the Trump stuff too. You should hear them go to new heights on Hillary, Bill, Obama, BLM, etc.

Welcome to the world that 20-30% of people you pass on the street live in.

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