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[pchang]

Maduro uses foreign currency. Those fancy Turkish steak houses do not take Bolivars...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/09/18/world/venezuela-maduro-salt-bae-steak-intl/index.html

[Broken_Erika]

Not only is their currency worthless, but if i remember correctly, it's pretty much illegal to use any currency but the Venezuelan one there. 'Cause only agents of the foreign American CIA Capitalist-Imperialist conspiracy use foreign currency.

[pchang]

The value of tires is difficult to judge when people cannot afford gasoline.

[Dinner]

To be fair, the currency is absolutely worthless so maybe gifts in kind is the most valuable way to go.

[pchang]

In other news, Goodyear is shutting down operations in Venezuela. Workers are being given 10 tires as severance pay.

[ZEE]

Shhh, let's all try to relax. Calm down the fake news brigade.

Nothing is going to happen to Donald John Trump, the President of the United States. He will get re-elected in 2024, and then again in 2028 once he changes the Constitution to remove term-limits. Just grab a drink or something, watch the Kardashians on TV, and go back to work tomorrow morning. Everything is under control.

[Dinner]

Ford pardoned Nixon in advance of any charges, thus short circuiting any criminal prosecution.

And that is what Donnie small hands is going to be left banking on now. Sadly, it sounds like he has been treating Pence just as badly as everyone else so that begs the question of if Pence will play ball or not.

[Dinner]

Tasty pheasant. A bit gamey but worth it or so I hear.

[Aeson]

No-One can stop The Pheasant Revolution!

PETA will stop it!

[pchang]

Ford pardoned Nixon in advance of any charges, thus short circuiting any criminal prosecution.

[rah]

If they wait for the term to end before they bring charges, Pence may not get a chance to pardon him. I doubt the Dem replacement will.

[Broken_Erika]

Well, it is not me who is waiting for the revolution of the peasants

No-One can stop The Pheasant Revolution!

[Dinner]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/‘a-simple-private-transaction’-trump-lays-out-a-defense-in-a-campaign-finance-case/ar-BBQMC6K?ocid=spartandhp

Trump is effectively an unindicted co-conspirator on two felony chargers at this point (and we haven't even gotten to Mueller's findings yet) by his own Justice Department based upon their own in court sworn statements as well as that off his 12 year plus lawyer and fixer. Word is Mueller is now zeroing in on decades of criminal misconduct by the Trump crime organization not least of which is money laundering for the Russian mob and tax evasion. Then, of course, will be the, oh, so obvious, criminal conspiracy with the Russian government to commit treason against the United States of America among what will no doubt be numerous other charges including conspiring to obstruct justice.

The dye is cast, folks, the writing is on the wall, now, it is just a matter of the clock ticking down.

[pchang]

Pence is too ambitious to commit policital suicide like that. I am pretty sure he would demand more than a year in office so he could attempt to get past such an unpopular move.

[Dinner]

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-impeachment-resignation-robert-mueller-mueller-probe-russia-1251580

How far we have come. Even conservative pundits are now saying Donnie Small Hands will resign the Presidency right before his term runs out so that Mike Pence can pardon him. You see Donnie cannot pardon himself (he can try but the SCotUS will not uphold it) and it is now obvious to even thoughtful conservatives that Donnie Small Hands is a crook and a felon so he has to find a way for someone else to pardon him or else he goes to jail after he leaves office.

With 37% approval ratings and falling he will not win reelection so hoping Pence will pardon him is his only hope.