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Funny considering he was all over TV not too long ago:   Arizona prosecutors have tried for weeks – and so far failed – to serve Rudy Giuliani with notice of his indictment related to an alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in that state. Giuliani is among a group of former President Donald Trump’s allies indicted last month in Arizona alongside the 11 individuals who acted as fake GOP electors from the state in the last presidential election. But the former New York City mayor and one-time attorney for Trump is the only defendant prosecutors have been unable to serve with a summons, according to Richie Taylor, a spokesperson for the Arizona attorney general’s office. The summons is a formal notice that Giuliani has been criminally charged and must appear before a judge on May 21. CNN has reached out to a spokesman for Giuliani for comment. FYI: Guiliani recently lost his radio show because he can't get past the results of the 2020 presidential election. 

W hether it's JP Morgan , Google or Amazon , the big companies who should be thinking about how they treat their employees better have decided to lament how in-person collaboration is the key to their success, and sharing ideas virtually is problematic. Never mind that attitudes seemed to change after the COVID aid ran out , or when people started using that extra time from driving or being in public transportation to spend time with their families (and in the later, some of them decided they didn't want to spend more time with families!). Or that working from home has shown to be more productive .  Maybe it's the fact people were learning things and doing things the CEOs of these companies may not approve.  Here's a solution for the anti-work-from-home crowd : pay employees for their commuting to work: gas, car maintenance, parking. If you're saying that they must physically be there, those workers who are leaving an already suitable work environment at home sh...

 Much like BLM, it's been revealed that Federal employee/assets were part of Jan 6:

  Guess all of that "Stop the Steal" and contesting the certification was for naught : Former President Trump's personal lawyers on Monday urged a federal judge to find that a New York state law on congressional tax return requests no longer pertains to the former president because he's out of office. "While the TRUST Act is not the clearest statute, the best reading is that it does not apply to former Presidents," Trump's lawyers wrote in a court filing. New York in 2019 enacted a law, called the TRUST Act, that allows the chairs of Congress's tax committees to request public officials' state tax returns. Trump then filed a lawsuit in an effort to prevent the House Ways and Means Committee from obtaining his state tax returns.

 Case in Point: the outgoing POTUS' offbeat conversation with Georgia's Secretary of State . Examples of Interesting Excerpts: Brad Raffensperger:  Mr. President, the problem you have with social media, people can say anything. President Trump:  No, this isn't social media. This is Trump media. It's not social media. It's really not. It's not social media. I don't care about social media. I couldn't care less. Social media is Big Tech. Big Tech is on your side. I don't even know why you have a side, because you should want to have an accurate election. And you're a Republican. [snip] Brad Raffensperger:  Mr. President, you have people that submit information and we have our people that submit information, and then it comes before the court, and the court then has to make a determination. We have to stand by our numbers. We believe our numbers are right. President Trump:  Why do you say that, though? I don't know. I mean, sure, we can play thi...

 Based on what the Director of the Borat sequel told Insider , Rudy Giuliani's involvement was prime focus. The director goes on to say that after the clips went viral, it all but discredited Giuliani's attempts to attack Hunter Biden, which in turn would have hampered Joe Biden.  With one less thing to worry about, Biden was able to win the Electoral College by a less-than-projected margin.  Nevertheless, let's not forget that being a white heterosexual Catholic male protected Biden from attacks that would linger on other candidates for a longer period of time. 

 He was the second most despised candidate running for president in 2016, but because he beat the #1 most despised candidate, he thinks that must mean people love him. It's probably one of many reasons he cannot accept the 2020 results. 

  Anything less than 100% loyalty and obedience will earn you his wrath :  President Donald Trump on Sunday lit into Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, expressing regret for supporting the conservative Republican, a statement that could potentially create major discord only weeks before two critical US Senate runoff elections in the state. Trump, still smarting from  President-elect Joe Biden winning Georgia in the November election , has repeatedly blamed the state's usage of Dominion Voting Systems machines for his defeat. Dominion has come under fire from conservatives in the wake of the election,  with the company having to fend off debunked allegations  that their machines facilitated voting irregularities. After weeks of publicly sparring  with Georgia's GOP Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger over the election results, Kemp is Trump's newest Peach State target. [snip]   "Everything has to be approved by the legislature, and they had judges making deals,...

 I sure do: Looks like they didn't try to circumvent recounts , they just tried to use boring-yet-legit legislative procedures. And they were still turned away. 

  Let's get this out of the way : Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have no plans to investigate or imprison anyone with influence, money and power unless they become a political or financial problem.  The Democrats might as well prepare for a GOP comeback in 2022. Say goodbye to the House. 

 There are so many examples, such as: His handling of the COVID-19 Calling it a "Democratic (Party) hoax, then blaming it on China Holding press conferences, then stopping because reporters didn't stop asking questions Letting every state handle things on their own, instead of establishing guidelines for them to follow Getting mad at the states who came up with innovative ways to combat COVID-19 because it made him look bad Not using executive powers to get the private sector to make critical supplies (masks, gloves, ventilators)  Not wearing a mask, or encouraging his staff/followers to wear a mask Holding super-spreader campaign rallies Not declaring a state of emergency during a pandemic Not issuing a UBI for ANYONE, even essential workers Not offering Americans the same healthcare that may have saved his life when he tested positive Claiming that Joe Biden was simultaneously a doddering braindead buffoon, the mastermind of a political crime family, and a Trojan Horse for (...

  What a difference four years and an election make .  Of course, they got what they wanted: round-the-clock ratings from covering speeches, rants, and tweets.

A bomb threat in Philly targeting the location were vote counting was taking place.  The Minnesota GOP Chair actively recruiting anyone willing to claim ballot fraud in the state, regardless of the validity of the evidence. Pennsylvania GOP isn't too sure about fraud claims, but they want an audit .  Biden lead in Arizona is shrinking , but slowly.

  Via Esquire . At least they managed to convince a lot of moderate and conservative Democrats to give them money to make anti-Trump ads (and possibly fund future GOP candidates). 

 Let's take a trip back to 2013 :  George W. Bush went to bed at around 9pm every night when he was president — except for Cinco de Mayo, that is. It’s a fact that former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez says embodies Bush’s legacy with  Latinos . [snip] In the 2004 election, he won a record breaking 44 percent of the Latino vote. It’s a record that no Republican candidate has since topped. In the last presidential election, Republican candidate Mitt Romney garnered just 27 percent of  Hispanic  votes. Arizona State University  political science professor Rodolfo Espino  says that Bush worked the hardest to build a coalition of Latino voters. “Bush set the standard for what Republicans who want to be president need to do. We’ve seen Republican candidates not follow the guidelines for the platform he was pushing for and he paid the price,” Espino says citing John McCain’s lackluster performance with Latino voters. Members of Bush’s administration say...

 Jimmy Dore explains why.

  Never has, never will . 

This has become completely political. Trump wanted to leave, and the doctors capitulated. If the president is just as safe at the White House, why did he have to leave in the first place?  Secular Talk has their own take on Trump's health and what the early leave may mean:

  The only thing that has been clear since it was reported that President Trump tested positive for COVID-19 is that nothing is clear.  The list of infected keeps growing . Whether due to boredom or some family-related psychological quirk , Trump wants to leave Walter Reed Hospital . And this is after Trump did a public-relations-motivated drive around the hospital, throwing doctors and secret service members alike for a tizzy.  "Not enough crazy!" you say? How about the fact that the Trump family went maskless during last Tuesday's presidential debate? Or that while this is going on, Gov. Cuomo won't close business in nine New York COVID hotspots ?  Considering that neither of the two major parties have taken COVID seriously (more focused on Wall Street and Supreme Court nominations; the tepid stimulus check with no follow-up, having no national response, leaving the trouble-shooting up to the states without giving them adequate funding to implement any of their...

  So... multiple news outlets are reporting that President Trump has tested positive for COVID-19. Speculation about how it happened, what the next steps should be, or even how credible it is aside...the victims of Trump continue to ironically be those close to him (political or otherwise).  While Trump reportedly experiencing "coldlike symptoms" and the First Lady is apparently asymptomatic, White House communications guru Hope Hicks hasn't been so lucky : Two sources said she has had a high fever and a cough, with one source adding she lost her sense of smell. Hicks is said to be frustrated with Trump for taking such a cavalier approach to the virus. She was one of the few West Wing staffers to wear a mask in meetings, which her colleagues chided her for. “She was made fun of because she wore a mask,” a friend said. Sources told me Hicks is also upset that news coverage has made it appear that she gave Trump the virus, when in fact no one knows where he got it. “It’...