Been reading about this with people who know a lot more about it than I do.

One school of thought is that he can because it's not specifically forbidden. This is a weak argument that ignores both originalist theory and other readings of the Constitution. It would be like a judge hearing a case against himself.

More common is the idea that a pardon is transitive- it must have a donor and a recipient, and donor and recipient cannot be the same person. Nixon thought of pardoning himself, and decided it would be too tricky and dangerous, and so Ford did the dirty job.

Since no President has ever tried it, should this one try it it would immediately hit the courts, and we can only guess how that would end. One fine mess while the courts play with it.

One thing that would not change is that presidential pardons are for federal crimes, so he would have to deal with several states prosecuting him, and who knows whether, say, the Governor of NY could pardon him, or would want to.

This girl is seriously badass:



Irish food is not known for spice, so here's some troopers:



And this guy is more like me:

Trump is incapable of admitting loss--- this is well known to anyone who observed his past dealings wherein he never "lost" but always had an excuse for being on the losing side.

Erin Burnett's talking to people telling her WH insiders say he won't ever admit he lost the election, but is looking for the way out where he doesn't have to admit Biden won. All of his insiders seem to be telling him to let it go, but he simply will not let it go.

OK, that's psycho Trump, but what I cannot understand is why his party isn't abandoning him. Nixon won re-election with the largest numbers history, and the public was OK with his war and environmental policies. Shit, he was even "That close" to a national health plan.

Any other President with this Wikipedia paragraph would be a hero:



Watergate was small change compared to what our current stench in the White House is doing. When the tapes came out, Senate Republicans told him flat out they supported his impeachment and forced him to quit.

What is different now? I don't believe for a minute that Trump has enough on all of them to force them to do his will. I could be convinced that most of them are low-grade morons that can't find their ways out of a sinking boat, but not one of them has the wit and character to do the right thing? I could also be convinced that Frog Face has some completely in his power, but all of them?

I could see Romney marching over to the Oval Office saying "Here's the way it is..." but only if he led at least small group of Senators. Nope- the Senate Republicans are just a mealy-mouthed group of ignorant ass-kissing cowards.

How did they get this way? They make Goldwater look like a towering giant simply because he had principles. I didn't like his principles all that much, but he had them.

McCain, too.

Now we're looking at more severe controls.

Up Island in Farmingville there was a party with 200-300 people in attendance, and in Riverhead another one with maybe 300. Both got court dates, and I'm sure there were more out there. And the Friendly's in Riverhead has a whole bunch of staff out with it.

Some people are paranoid to leave their homes and too many others are just assholes. Where's the happy middle so we could just get rid of this thing?

https://crooksandliars.com/2020/11/parents-raise-concerns-about-jared-and

https://patch.com/new-york/northfork/s/hb752/new-trump-caravan-will-head-across-li-thursday?utm_term=article-slot-4&utm_source=newsletter-daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

Putting this in the lounge because he's just a comedy backdrop now.

It's trump's lack of understanding of how things work. Now that trump's going away, we probably don't really care, but the problem is bigger than him.

When he said the Mexicans would pay for the wall, we laughed, Mexico laughed, and contractors laughed all the way the bank.

Then he told us the Chinese were paying all those tariffs. Nobody made a big deal out of how tariffs are like sales taxes-- WE pay the tariffs, not the Chinese. The Chinese were expected to lose sales because of the increased cost of goods, but much of what they sell us has no other source, so the only winner is the US govt finding another tax source. The loser is not China, but US consumers. And this is without dealing with the history of tariffs and when the work, or don't

Then he tells us the problem with rising covid cases is testing. This is pure idiocy-- reducing testing will reduce the number of tested cases, but not the uncounted, untested cases. Reducing testing is basically lying to the pubic and increasing the danger of the epidemic. Those cases we can't see can't hurt us? And, of curse, reducing testing gives us other problems.

My aggravation with this is that while we expect the asshole-in-chief to come up with this nonsense, there was no outrage. Educated people did not stand with one voice and say "You are full of shit."

Should I hang a huge TRUMP LOST IN 2020 flag on my car and join them?