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Tucker Carlson just said that word has been sent from some Rino senators that if Trump pardons Assange, they are more likely to vote to convict him in the impeachment trial.

Thanks, and I also wonder if the question of whether 60 votes, or a simple majority was required in the Senate to approve Alaska and Hawaii. As I recall, most everyone was agreeable to those two and there was little controversy.

I know PR has in the past enjoyed special tax incentives for pharmaceutical companies to locate there, and would probably lose those if it became a state. And they have state or independent referendums periodically and chose to remain independent.

And it looks like a constitutional amendment should be required to make DC a state.

I don’t know about that, Gillie. I’ve been having a really hard time deciding who is more divisive, partisan: Schmucky or Pelosi. That’s really a hard one to decide.

He needs to own his own bad judgement in so many ways......it started with Chris Christie. He was told that was his first big mistake.....

The biggest weakness of the Trump administration was that he did not have a group of experienced, old Washington hands, who were loyal to him and his agenda, to fill his cabinet and other key positions. He was given many bad recommendations, some probably to intentionally undermine him.

I don't thinkj it was so much his poor judgement in hiring as it was that the loyal, experienced government individuals he needed simply did not exist for most positions.

What rules were followed to admit Alaska and Hawaii? Didn’t see those two admissions of new states mentioned in the article.

If the primaries are conducted using the same people, with the same process, with the same machines with the same people counting the vote, the RINO anti-trumper will win, regardless the will of the people.

Most of the crazy things related to vote counting, and observers being blocked out, happened in heavily Democrat, inner city precincts. Not any Republicans elected in those areas to be primaried.

I think the vote counting is honest enough in most Republican precincts that vote fraud shouldn't be a factor in which Republicans win in the primaries.

I’ve heard several news stories about how such and such a governor is “ordering” or “sending” troops to DC. I know governors can order troops around in their own state, but I doubt they can send troops to another state, or to DC, strictly on their own authority.

I think these orders have to be coming from President Trump and the Pentagon, who would be ordering the states to send NG troops to DC.

I didn’t see in the article what sort of insurance was cancelled, so can’t relate it to any particular location or risk.

I read the article and didn’t see any mention of what type insurance is involved. And it would be quite a coincident if some annual renewal just happened to come up at this time, but it is possible.

Some necessary details missing from this report.

What sort of insurance can a company just cancel if the premiums are paid on time?? Insurance policies are generally a contract and they can’t simply be terminated for political reasons.

The entire Bushie family becomes more disgusting and despicable by the day. The last thing we need is a return to anything resembling Bush policies.

Oh sure, riots and arson and looting that went on for several months, in multiple cities including DC, are more justifiable than a few hours of running around inside the Capitol by mostly a bunch of weirdos.

If there were at least three strands of barbed wire along the border, folks like Wrong Williams counted that as existing border fence. So, anything that replaced it was not new miles of border wall.

Less and less time for old, traditional things like reading, writing and arithmetic.

Mark just said he thinks all Trump supporters should stay away from DC during the Slow Joe inauguration and related events. I agree 1,000%. What Trump supporter would want to be anywhere near it, and if any sort of trouble does occur, we know who will be blamed.

I won’t be watching a single minute of any of it.

This doesn’t even seem possible. Teachers might be fired for merely attending a political rally? What’s next? Firing people who voted for Trump?

Here is paragraph that explains how IBM's fear of further anti-trust investigations caused them to give up control of the PC operating system in such a way as to allow Microsoft to become what it became.

On Nov. 6, 1980, the contract that would change the future of computing was signed: IBM would pay Microsoft $430,000 for what would be called MS-DOS. But the key provision in that agreement was the one that allowed Microsoft to license the operating system to other computer manufacturers besides IBM — a nonexclusive arrangement that IBM agreed to in part because it was caught up in decades of antitrust investigations and litigation. IBM’s legal caution, however, would prove to be Microsoft’s business windfall, opening the door for the company to become the dominant tech company of the era.

THE AGREEMENT THAT CATAPULTED MICROSOFT OVER IBM

Is there ANY recourse anywhere for justice? I don’t see it.

Parler was probably dropped by a corporate law firm that has other corporate clients. But if they truly have grounds to sue these giant tech firms, there will be shortage of lawyers more than willing to sue these fabulously wealthy firms and owners.

Anyone remember Windows couldn’t even install i.e by default? Basically why Chrome even exists.

And I think the only reason Microsoft exists is that, when IBM developed their first PC, they purposely sought an outside developer for the PC software because they fully expected anti-trust action if they developed and owned both the hardware and software for their new PC. - IBM could definitely have developed their own PC software if they thought they would have been allowed to do it.

Now these giant tech firms just buy up any new firm that might become competition and not a word from the US government.

Several saying they can’t impeach a president once he’s left office. Probably true, but here they plan to impeach him while he is still in office and then try him after he’s left office.

Not sure that’s ever happened before or, if the constitution specifically addresses such a situation.