A day ago, Daniel Ball was a free man because the case against him had been dropped by federal authorities in connection with the blanket pardon issued by Insurrectionist-in Chief Donald Trump.
Ball had been charged with federal crimes for his role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, but was on the verge of going home and no longer having a criminal record.
However, today Ball is back in federal custody and charged with gun crimes, according to Kyle Cheney of Politico, who posted the details on social media.
“A day after his Jan. 6 case was dismissed, Daniel BALL was arrested for pending federal gun charges — the first arrest initiated by the Trump-led Washington Field Office.”
JUST IN: A day after his Jan. 6 case was dismissed, Daniel BALL was arrested for pending federal gun charges — the first arrest initiated by the Trump-led Washington Field Office.
The good news is that Daniel Ball is now back in federal custody and could well be facing 10 years or more in prison. Unless, that is, our felonious head of state decides to pardon this domestic terrorist yet again.
Twitter/X CEO Elon Musk sent out a call on Christmas Day for more “super talented engineers” to be imported from overseas, which would benefit companies such as the ones Musk owns: Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX.
“The number of people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated in the USA is far too low,” Musk wrote online. “Think of this like a pro sports team: if you want your TEAM to win the championship, you need to recruit top talent wherever they may be. That enables the whole TEAM to win.”
No, we need more like double that number yesterday!
The number of people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated in the USA is far too low.
Think of this like a pro sports team: if you want your TEAM to win the championship, you need to recruit top talent wherever…
But Musk’s internet musings didn’t sit well with many of the very people who hold him up as an icon of the American entrepreneurial spirit, with some wondering why he doesn’t hire more engineers right here at home.
We're done with foreign born people stealing Americans birth rights.
If you want foreign workers from India, move to India Elon.
There are over 330 million people in America. Surely, there must be enough among them to build your ultimate team? Why would you deny real Americans that opportunity by bringing foreigners here?
There is plenty of us talent, maybe you are not offering enough. I work Almost 60 hours most week And have been a lead system's engineer on several defense projects and yet every time I turn a resume in to your companies they get rejected. I've been told it's because of my salary…
According to some of the on-air employees who work at the bullshit factory that has the nerve to call itself Fox “News,” there was no reason for President Joe Biden to pardon his son, Hunter, because President-elect Donald Trump would have gladly done the same when he takes office in January of next year.
During a discussion this morning of the full pardon issued by President Biden on Sunday evening, Fox host Lawerence Jones remarked, “You know, as I think the fear may have been misplaced, though, I think that the Democrats, including the president, Joe Biden, thought that Donald Trump would treat them like they treated him with political prosecution. I think they’re wrong. I think Donald Trump would have pardoned Hunter Biden.”
“I think we would have gotten some type of report about the corruption and what’s been happening in Department of Justice,” he continued. “I think he’s going to clean house when it comes to the FBI and Department of Justice, but I don’t think he would have went after Hunter Biden.”
Co-host Steve Doocy agreed that Trump “probably would have gone ahead and pardoned him.”
“The only difference is if Donald Trump would have pardoned Hunter Biden, you know, in 50-some-odd days, is it wouldn’t be for that 10 year period,” Doocy continued. “It would just be for those two things that he’s been convicted but not sentenced to a good point.”
What a load of shit! Donald Trump’s own reaction to the pardon of Hunter Biden directly undercut what Jones and Doocy claimed.
On social media, Trump wrote, “Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!”
As Steve Benen of MSNBC notes, “Trump’s list of scandalous pardon abuses is so long, it could be a lengthy book. The names should be familiar: Paul Manafort. Michael Flynn. Steve Bannon. Roger Stone. Seven different Republican members of Congress who were locked up for corruption crimes.”
“Trump saw presidential pardons as get-out-of-jail-free cards for his friends and associates, engaging in the kind of brazen corruption that would’ve defined his term were it not eclipsed by other breathtaking scandals.”
Donald Trump would have pardoned Hunter Biden? That’s not the least bit plausible. Trump only helps those who can help him. He’s a selfish bastard who, unlike Hunter Biden, deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Now that President Joe Biden has less than two months remaining in office, some conservatives are actively campaigning for him to hand Donald Trump a presidential pardon on his way out the door.
Of course, it seems odd that anyone who supports Trump would think he needs a pardon. After all, haven’t they always said that he didn’t do anything wrong?
In an op-ed they penned for the Washington Post, Marc Thiessen and Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute suggest that Biden could help heal the nation with a pardon.
“From a legal standpoint, Trump does not need a presidential pardon. Special counsel Jack Smith is in the process of shutting down his federal investigations. If Smith does not close his cases, Trump can simply fire him the second he takes office. At the state level, Biden has no pardon power, but the cases against Trump appear to be falling apart,” they write.
Then why should Biden issue a pardon that isn’t even needed? According to Thiessen and Pletka, it would unify the country and help us all heal.
“Absent decisive action, we could find ourselves at the start of a vicious cycle, in which Republicans now argue they are justified in weaponizing the justice system to go after Democrats, and Democrats then feel free to retaliate when they regain power — sending the country spiraling into a miasma of partisan litigation.”
Even though Biden said in 2020 that he would never pardon Trump, the two conservatives say he should reconsider, quoting his victory speech when he defeated Trump: “To everything there is a season — a time to build, a time to reap, a time to sow. And a time to heal. This is the time to heal in America.”
If Biden was sincere when he spoke those words, they conclude, “history can still record that, in the waning days of his presidency, Joe Biden finally delivered on that promise.”
Sorry, Marc and Danielle, but if anyone gets a pardon from President Biden as he walks out of the Oval Office for the last time, it should be Hunter Biden. Do you know why? To piss off all of the douchebags on the right.
Within 24 hours of Donald Trump being named winner of the 2024 presidential election, headlines began circulating that suggested he’d done so by a “landslide.”
But the truth is that the election between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris will be decided by about 1 percentage point, which is nowhere near landslide proportions.
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell expertly laid out the case against a landslide on his show Monday evening, noting:
“Ballots received in the mail tomorrow will be counted in California. So there are literally millions of ballots yet to be counted in this country, including in the state of Pennsylvania, where thousands of votes remain to be counted to determine the balance of the United States Senate.”
“Republicans will probably have 52 senators next year or 53 if Republicans win the Pennsylvania Senate election. The Democrats will probably have 47 members of the Senate or 48 if Democrat Bob Casey wins the Pennsylvania Senate race.”
The GOP will also have a narrow margin of control in the House.
“We still don’t know which party will control the House of Representatives, but we do know that it will be very close. As of tonight, Republicans have 214 seats in the House and Democrats have 205 seats in the House, according to NBC News, with 16 remaining to be decided.”
And then there’s the Trump-Harris margin of victory, which is getting smaller by the second as more ballots are tabulated.
“In the presidential vote. Donald Trump currently has 50.2% of the vote to Kamala Harris, 48.1% of the vote. But that margin will probably narrow after all the California votes are finally counted, and it is possible that Kamala Harris will end up with only one– 1% of the vote less than Donald Trump, a 1% gap. Right now, she’s at 2% less than Donald Trump.”
“If you hear anyone calling this election a landslide, please stop listening to that person! About elections, at least.”
What qualifies as a landslide? Well, when Bill Clinton won reelection in 1996 by a whopping 9%, even that wasn’t considered to be a landslide.
O’Donnell concluded his summary with this historical reminder of what a landslide looks like:
“The last landslide we had was Ronald Reagan’s reelection in 1984, where he won 49 states in the Electoral College, with only the state of Minnesota voting for Walter Mondale, who was from Minnesota. Ronald Reagan beat Walter Mondale by 18 points. That’s what a landslide looks like.”
