Trump and McConnell are both pushing pardons. Trump wants pardons for his criminal cronies, enablers, and children. McConnell wants pardons for meat packing plants and corporate criminals.

Although past presidents have had family members working for them - Attorney General Bobby Kennedy is a famous example - none have ever had to pardon their family members for criminal activity in the White House. Until Trump.

Trump's family of grifters have been extracting money from our government and the American people since day one, starting with the inaugural fund scandal. Just since he lost the election. Trump has raised over $170 million: the grift continues!

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-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "10 Crimes of the Nixon Administration" by Larry Holzwarth.

Article: "Watergate scandal" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Article: "The troubling overlap between Jared Kushner's business interests and US foreign policy" by Mohamad Bazzi.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Has Spent $115 Million On Golf Trips - Or 287 Years Of Presidential Salary" by S.V. Date.

Article: "Official Trump policy: Take refugee kids away from parents" by Emile Schepers.

Article: "Trump admin held back phone numbers and addresses that could have reunited separated migrant children with parents" by David Badash.

Article: "Trump expected to flex pardon powers on way out door" by AP.

Article: "Republicans Want To Make Sure You Can't Sue Your Boss If You Get Sick" by Arthur Delaney, Dave Jamieson.

Article: "New Court Documents Reveal That Corruption at the Trump Inaugural Fund Went to the Very Top" by Russ Choma.

Article: "The stunning hypocrisy of the Trump family's attacks on Hunter Biden" by Aaron Rupar.

Article: "Donald Trump has raised $170 million since Election Day by targeting supporters with appeal for his 'defense fund' - which can actually be used to pay his personal expenses when he leaves White House" by Geoff Earle.

Article: "Report: Trump Revealed Israeli Commando and Mossad Operation in Syria to Russians".

Article: "Coronavirus: US hits record Covid cases and hospitalisations" by BBC.

Article: "McConnell's COVID plan has business tax breaks but $0 for unemployment boost and direct payments" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "Clinton's Pardon of Marc Rich" by PBS.

Article: "Contract with America" by Wikipedia.

Article: "16 Trump officials committed at least 60 Hatch Act violations in October to benefit president's reelection: report" by Alex Henderson.

Article: "Hatch Act of 1939" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "Smoke Signals".

Quote: "You know, there are some children who aren't really children at all. They're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart if you touch them. Me and Victor, we were children of flame and ash." - Smoke Signals.

Book: "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes, 1651. "And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."

Article: "STAGGERING: New CDC Data Suggests True Coronavirus Death Toll is Now Near 400,000" by Tommy Christopher.

Speech: "A Rendezvous With Destiny", 27 June 1936 acceptance speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt. "An old English judge once said: "Necessitous men are not free men.""

Article: "No, Trump Does Not Represent Half the Country" by Aaron Huertas.

Article: "Charles Manson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Locke" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Two Treatises on Government" by John Locke.

Article: "Declaration of Independence"

Article: "F. W. de Klerk" by Wikipedia.

Article: "List of Reagan administration convictions." by lorelynn.

Article: "Comparing Presidential Administrations by felony arrests and convictions (as of 9/17/2018)" by RoyalScribe.

Article: "Chicago school of economics" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bannon vows a daily fight for 'deconstruction of the administrative state'" by Philip Rucker and Robert Costa.

Article: "Denazification" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jewish doctor admits he 'hesitated' before treating Covid patient covered in Nazi tattoos and reveals in that moment he realized the pandemic has taken a toll on him, saying: 'Maybe I'm not okay'" by Megan Sheets.

Article: "Sean Hannity Admits He Doesn't 'Vet the Information' on His Show Then Tries to Unadmit It" by Zack Linly.

Article: "Word of Mouth Still Most Trusted Resource Says Nielsen; Implications for Social Commerce" by Paul Chaney.

Hour Two: What Can Biden & Congress Realistically Do To Help the Economy?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System

Article: "Unemployment Statistics during the Great Depression" by Online Highways.

Article: "Green New Deal" (GND) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Great Depression (1929 - 1930s) by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference." - Franklin Roosevelt's Re-Nomination Acceptance Speech (1936).

Article: "Works Progress Administration" (WPA) by Wikipedia.

What a Joe Biden Cabinet Pick Might Mean for Native Americans... and Democrats
- Julian Brave NoiseCat, Vice President of Policy & Strategy - Data for Progress / proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq'escen and descendant of the Lil'Wat Nation of Mount Currie who'll be participating in the Bioneers panel, The New Deals We Need Now: Green, Red and Blue

Article: "What a Joe Biden Cabinet Pick Might Mean for Native Americans-and Democrats" by Julian Brave Noisecat.

Event: December 12: 12:30 pm: "Panel: The New Deals We Need Now: Green, Red and Blue" (Julian Brave NoiseCat, Vien Truong. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Sikowis (aka Christine Nobiss)).

Article: "Federal and State Recognized Tribes" by NCSL .

Article: "Dozens of House Democrats urge Biden to pick Deb Haaland as Interior secretary" by Sarah Ferris And Theodoric Meyer.

Article: "David Bernhardt" (DoI) by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Remains Of Bears Ears" by Joe Fox, Lauren Tierney, Seth Blanchard and Gabriel Florit.

Article: "US poised to allow more mining on land Trump removed from monuments" by Cassidy Randall.

Article: "Trump administration calls for Arctic oil drilling bids by mid-December - in race to beat the clock before Biden takes office" by Louise Boyle.

Article: "Nelson Mandela" by Wikipedia.

Article: "New York Times' Trump taxes bombshell reveals massive national security threat" by Frank Figliuzzi.

Article: "Thucydides Trap" by Graham Tillett Allison, Jr.

Article: "7-Eleven Shops Raided By Homeland Security In Human Smuggling Probe (VIDEO)" by Caroline Fairchild.

Site: Bracero program.

Law: "8 U.S. Code § 1324 - Bringing in and harboring certain aliens".

Article: "Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The End of Welfare as We Know It" by Alana Semuels.

Transcript: "The era of big government is over" - President Clinton's radio address, January 27, 1996.

Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia

Hour Three: Why We NEED A National Nurse for Public Health
- Teri Mills, President - National Nursing Network Organization & 2019 Oregon Nurse of the Year

Site: "Why We Need a National Nurse for Public Health".

Bill: "H.R.1597 - National Nurse Act of 2019" by Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30].

Bill: "S.696 - National Nurse Act of 2019" by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR].

Site: "Chief Nurse Officer - Rear Admiral Aisha K. Mix".

Article: "Stimulus package status: Negotiations race with new hope toward Dec. 11 goalpost" by Jessica Dolcourt.

Article: "Wisconsin Supreme Court says it won't hear Trump's election lawsuit, case must start in lower courts" by AP.

Article: "Donald Trump's star 'election fraud' witness was so bad Rudy Giuliani shushed her" by Jimmy McCloskey.

Article: "Did Pennsylvania Record Many More Mail-In Votes than Ballots Requested?" by David Mikkelson.

Article: "Georgia GOP seeks mail-in ballot changes after Biden's win" by Ben Nadler, Kate Brumback.

Article: "Trump reportedly derailed a GOP meeting about the Georgia Senate runoffs by praising QAnon" by Kathryn Krawczyk.

Article: "Blood libel" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump roils Georgia GOP as party waits to see if presidential visit helps - or hurts - in crucial Senate runoffs" by Josh Dawsey, Amy Gardner and Cleve R. Wootson Jr.

Article: "QAnon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Periods for Pence' Campaign Targets Indiana Governor Over Abortion Law" by Mitch Smith.

Article: "Death by eviction" by Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria.

Article: "Mitch McConnell slammed for pushing '3-martini lunch' deduction and zero relief for 26 million Americans" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "House passes $2.2 trillion Democratic coronavirus stimulus bill" by Jacob Pramuk.

Book: Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith, 1759.

Article: "Trump Releases Bizarre, Stunning 46-Minute Taped Speech Digging In on False Election Claims and Conspiracy Theories" by Josh Feldman.

Article: "Trump Is Begging People to Vote in a Georgia Election He's Already Said Was Rigged" by Paul Blest.

Article: "Perdue, Loeffler among senators whose stock trading during coronavirus raises questions" by Tia Mitchell.

Article: "Mitch McConnell, an Emperor Without Clothes?" (role of vice president in Senate) by Nicolas Carteron.

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