And really, I’m just sort of stunned and don’t really know what to say.
Only a fucking Republican would think committing treason to defend the country from a treasonous lunatic was a good idea. We’re run by complete idiots and it’s terrifying.
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And really, I’m just sort of stunned and don’t really know what to say.
Only a fucking Republican would think committing treason to defend the country from a treasonous lunatic was a good idea. We’re run by complete idiots and it’s terrifying.
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Mr. Mack
Good to hear Lily is holding steady.
And…I agree. terrifying.
JPL
No problem. The purge is coming, and Paul Ryan will say it’s unfortunate.
The Ancient Randonneur
It’s a coup. Unelected and unaccountable officials run the executive branch. Let that sink in.
SiubhanDuinne
We are in Cloud Coup-coup Land.
Major Major Major Major
Yeah, fuck that guy.
Patricia Kayden
The Senior Official who wrote the op-ed is fine with keeping Trump in office as long as Republicans get their awful policies signed, regulations repealed and Judges confirmed. That’s pretty much the long and short of it.
Omnes Omnibus
@The Ancient Randonneur: Was the Wilson situation a coup?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@SiubhanDuinne: nice
TenguPhule
And the Republicans in both the Legislative and Judicial branches are just fine with this.
dmsilev
@Patricia Kayden: Basically this. Not to go all Godwin, but it inescapably brings to mind the German industrialists who were just fine with Hitler pouring money into rearming Germany and beating up labor-union members, but chose to turn a blind eye towards everything else.
Francis
Re-read the op-ed from the position of a Republican donor. The writer is telling them not to lose their nerve and to keep the checkbook open. Yes, the op-ed states, we empowered a moron. But don’t worry because the mandarins are in control. There’s just enough apocalyptic language to get the NYT to publish it, but it’s really nothing more than a donor pitch
toschek
I remember 6 years ago when Glenn Beck was complaining about Obama’s unaccountable czars running the country, and here we’re in 2018 and it’s actually happening! This is nothing short of a coup, and our government is being run by anonymous cowards wrapping themselves in the flag and patting themselves on the back for destroying the environment while running up an incomprehensible tab on useless tax cuts. People should be taking to the streets over this shit! Fuck the Kavanaugh hearings, we need a national strike like yesterday!
Sorry if I sound crazy, but this is maybe one of the most upsetting things I have ever seen.
TS (the original)
GOP operative and the NYT trying to distract from the SCOTUS nomination – the opposite has been suggested on Maddow show – but I go with the former.
Roger Moore
@SiubhanDuinne:
Where would you like your internets delivered?
Shell
@Patricia Kayden: Along the lines of “He’s a moron,but he’s our moron.”
Marcopolo
The op-ed writer is obviously Wilbur Ross. Oh those droopy eyes, that sloth-like demeanor. He’s been playing us all for fools since the very beginning. And Carson is in on it too!
TenguPhule
In Wonderland, the Red King is supposed to be the sane one.
schrodingers_cat
I vote for the baby snatcher and his henchwoman at the DHS
sukabi
@Patricia Kayden: it’s kinda been the Republican MO since Reagan. They’ve just taken it to the extreme this time. The only two president since Nixon that wasn’t being a puppet for someone was GHWB.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat:
its Kudlow or Mnuchin.
TenguPhule
And its only Wednesday.
Friday news dumpster is gonna have to meet some great expectations.
Mike J
@TenguPhule: It’s Pamplemousse.
Ksmiami
Shun all republicans. Hound them make them miserable- they are excrement
TenguPhule
@Ksmiami:
Excrement has value.
jimmiraybob
Motive: As a political move this puts Pence in a position to clean up after God makes him president. Very Biblical all around.
Motive: Still young and not in prison, Ivanka is the only one that trump wouldn’t have summarily executed if he had the power.
Motive: Trump would be free to flee to one of his foreign palaces and live his life like a wronged king waiting for his chance to return to reclaim his rightful crown. He will die a tragic broken man – empty – mumbling “where is my Cohn?” “where is my military parade?” “where is my space force?” “bring me the traitors!.” In his mind he will have been the greatest Sovereign Lord eveh to build and lead a mighty Christian empire! Before the betrayal. A witches chorus will mock him without mercy. Very Shakespearean.
Glad Lily is doing well.
sukabi
@sukabi: f’n autocorrect..the only republican president that wasn’t a puppet …
Miss Bianca
Idiots, sociopaths, criminals, or all three?
All together now…”All of ’em, Katie!”
Rob
Ugh
Yutsano
@schrodingers_cat:
I mean let’s be honest here…
TenguPhule
Wapo headline.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
If I had to bet, I think I’d go with Kelly. Along with everybody else, it sickens me that we’re watching a soft golpe here. To paraphrase what Dan Coats said a few months ago, the lights are blinking fucking red right now. I don’t know what the fuck we need to do here, not specifically, not what the immediate next step needs to be now, but this fucking clown needs to go, and boy, I mean like yesterday.
dmsilev
@schrodingers_cat: Given that the accomplishments they highlighted were mostly economic “feed the rich” things, I’m more inclined to think it’s one of the Wall Street crew.
I give it a week, two tops, before we have a definitive answer one way or the other.
eemom
Dunno. I still sort of have my money on (1) Zombie McCain or (2) McGahn, but I’m starting to get creeped out by the possibility that it’s a highly organized troll op, possibly for the purpose of diverting attention from the murder of democracy now underway in the Senate. Yes, I know that idea was scoffed at yesterday, but who am I to care? Just cuz you’re a conspiracy theorist doesn’t mean there isn’t one.
germy
Yutsano
@Yutsano: I kan haz edit naow plz? Kthxbai!
dmsilev
@TenguPhule: Yeah, that ship has well and truly sailed, left land behind, and slammed into the iceberg.
Miss Bianca
@Francis:
I’m afraid you’re all too right.
@SiubhanDuinne: I see what you did there, missy!
cthulhu
@SiubhanDuinne:
Obscure albums from 1990 for 200. Alex.
TenguPhule
And this was before the Night of Long Sporks of Dubious quality began today.
HRA
I am very glad about Lily’s update today.
This has been quite a day. U expected to only read about the confirmation hearings and the Bob Woodward book. This NY Times oped piece threw me, too. I am grateful for seeing your tweets on it right next to where I am writing this comment. I am spent with the heat, Mr. A’s medical tests today and the Tiki dog’s constant need for my attention. Thanks, John!
germy
Omarosa says it’s someone in the family.
TenguPhule
@germy: She’s hinting at Mattis or Kelly.
bluehill
Meanwhile Vlad is thinking, could it really be this easy?
dmsilev
@germy: Considering the source, I read that as her trying to metaphorically stick a knife into the back of Jared, rather than any real information or insight that she might have.
Still, root for injuries and all that.
TaMara (HFG)
JFC.
BruceJ
There, FTFY, John.
Yes, from experience when dogs go off prednisone they do drop some weight and have less of an appetite. She should improve as her system re-equilibrates itself.
germy
@dmsilev:
Shakespearean
catclub
@TenguPhule: I think it should be either ‘the executive time of the long sporks” or ‘the television time of the long sporks’
Omnes Omnibus
@TenguPhule: I really doubt that it is someone military.
TenguPhule
@TaMara (HFG): This script would be thrown out of every studio in Hollywood as bad writing.
TenguPhule
@Omnes Omnibus: Its Omarosa. if she doesn’t have tapes she’s probably lying.
dmsilev
@germy: Trump family dynamics seem fated to play out like King Lear. Except with no Cordelia.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@germy: Tiffany! Tiffany! Tiffany! Tiffany! Tiffany!
The last voice Ivanka will hear, the last face she will see, then… darkness.
sukabi
@jimmiraybob: Pence and or Mother have been veeeery quiet and fawning when they surface. Pence is likely waiting for his opening, and thinks this might be one. So he’s a likely candidate.
Mattis, if he’s been scuttling plans to kill Assad and his entire regime and keep the bombs from hitting NK may just feel that going public (anonymously) would spur some action from the spineless/complicit/corrupt republicans who are in a position to check drumpf’s lunacy. I think he’s probably the most likely candidate.
The rest of the cabinet seem too stupid and too corrupt to give 2 shits about anything other than “how much can I steal”.
Miss Bianca
@germy: OK, I actually laughed at that one. The old jokes are the best!
TenguPhule
@TenguPhule: Omarosa making the claim. Goddamn not edit function.
ByRookorbyCrook
This is a communique to the donors and squishy Romney-ites. It is damage control from the GOP to stave off 25th amendment or impeachment talks as more shoes drop from Woodward and especially Mueller. There is no coup. It is ineffectual bureaucracy and soothing wounded pride for the fools who joined this circus. The grand resistance of the Praetorian GOP guard is stealing paper off the Orange Orangutan desk? Can we get them a purple heart for the paper cut they endured? This is infuriating because it is so petty and so ineffectual. We think we are up against Machiavelli and instead, our adversary is a group of spineless syphilitic monkeys who are challenged by matching their right and left shoe in the morning.
Keith P.
Maybe the goal of writing the op-ed was to get Trump to have a major stroke and/or heart attack? That’d be some 11th dimensional chess shit right there.
TenguPhule
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
And then Bannon removes the voice changer and Tiffany’d freshly skinned face mask from his own….
germy
@Miss Bianca: I like Ragnarok’s twitter.
sukabi
@jimmiraybob: what’s in a word…lodestar…Pence likes that word…
TenguPhule
The prosecution has photos of Rep Hunter’s affairs.
Photos.
Hilarity is going to ensue.
opiejeanne
@Mike J: The kangaroo from Chocolat, or a grapefruit?
Mnemosyne
@Patricia Kayden:
This. And the writer is trying to assure the Permanent Republican Establishment that, if they just don’t panic, they’ll totally be able to keep Trump under their thumb and run everything for the PRE’s benefit.
Of course, the famous movie line that keeps going through my head is, “Remain calm! All is well!” as the terrified mob ignores a panicked Kevin Bacon at the end of Animal House.
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
The literal family, like a Trump or a Kushner? Or the “family” family, as in famiglia ?
germy
@sukabi: So it’s Pence’s speechwriter?
Gin & Tonic
For reasons unexplained, the car which was supposed to be delivered at some unspecified time this afternoon, for which the driver called me at 3:00 pm today and suggested tomorrow morning, then called me at 6:30 pm and wanted to know if he could drop it off today after all, was finally dropped off 15 minutes ago. In the dark, so I can’t really look it over, but whatever. It’s here.
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne:
Actually, I would laugh myself sick if it turned out to be young Barron.
germy
@SiubhanDuinne: I took it to mean the trump family. Like javanka.
Aleta
@Patricia Kayden:
Yes, “No one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis” =
If he’s removed from office, Republicans risk losing his voters and losing seats. Or
If we start the process to remove him, it will divide Republicans in Congress. Or
If he goes down he’ll get revenge / expose others.
The Constitution provides a remedy for a crisis like this; but using it would be worse they say.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: What is it?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@germy: Here he is yukking it up with Kellyanne Conway and… Rebekah Mercer
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: A 2012 Subaru Outback, 3.6. It’s been in various overseas locations all its life, so it has only 26k miles, and looks to be in beautiful condition. Buying it from a family friend. I gave some details a couple of nights ago.
Thoughtful David
@ByRookorbyCrook:
I mostly agree, but it’s a bit too self-serving. This is someone trying to distance herself from the collapse. I’m going with Nikki Haley. She thinks this will make her seem a hero and allow her to run for president in 2020.
She has another think coming, but I bet it’s her.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: Cool. I spent the weekend with family and largely away from the internet. It was a good thing – except that I started reading a novel that kept me up until 3:00 on Friday and Saturday.
Millard Filmore
@TaMara (HFG): With the coordination, knowlege (phone numbers) to pull that off, I am guessing this is a Russian controlled event. Maybe the tanks on Ukraine’s border are timed with this.
Ian G.
So we a actually elected Turkmenbashi. At least the people of Turkmenistan never had a choice.
At least there still enough of the rule of law in this country that Tuesday hasn’t been renamed “Ivankaday”. But I’m not sure I’m down with this de facto military junta running things.
Fuck, on some level, it is almost fascinating to learn what it’s like to live in a thoroughly corrupt pseudo-democracy like Pakistan.
Aleta
@Gin & Tonic: It sounds like a great find. I’ve been protected from injury twice by my Subarus.
B.B.A.
@Aleta: If they start the process to remove him, and there are just enough wingnuts in Congress to block the 25th Amendment, then it’s not just a crisis, we’re talking Cultural Revolution levels of chaos.
Calouste
@TenguPhule: I noticed that the prosecution was talking about Hunter’s affairs with five individuals. Individuals, not women. Of course that’s legalese, but it would be nice to use that phrasing and let the evangelical hypocrites in his district draw conclusions on their own…
Mnemosyne
@TenguPhule:
Isn’t that like hoping it’s not cancer while undergoing radiation and chemotherapy?
Barns, doors, horses, etc., also, too.
Barbara
@TenguPhule: I demand a link! I guess we are now finding out why he has recently started saying nice things about his wife.
Barbara
@Ian G.: For a minute there I actually thought you were from Turkmenistan.
The Midnight Lurker
Ten bucks says this is some bullshit Koch PR stunt and Mike Pence will later be revealed to be the ‘author’. See? There was an adult in the room at all times. Vote Pence 2020 – he saved us!
burnspbesq
Another juicy tidbit getting lost today: the Special Counsel’s office dropped a grand jury subpoena on Stone’s associate Jerome Corsi, and he is testifying on Friday.
rikyrah
Of course, he is crooked.
McDeere (@McDeereUSA) Tweeted:
I sometimes think that @nycsouthpaw and I are alone on an island with regard to the Kavanaugh debt story, but I maintain that something is fishy — not only about the payback, as @GrahamDavidA lays out here, but with the debt itself. https://t.co/T4bYrVGrDe https://twitter.com/McDeereUSA/status/1037157592999575552?s=17
Jeffro
@TenguPhule: Wait…I thought Rep Hunter was framed by the Deep State? Are you telling me they DOCTORED PHOTOS OF HIM as well?!?!?
…cue bad Shatner imitation…
“Those. Bastards!”
Mnemosyne
@Francis:
Co-signed. It’s a troll op, but one designed to prevent the big money donors from closing their checkbooks.
Millard Filmore
@Mnemosyne:
Why does the writer need the NYT to communicate this message? Are the other Republicans in leadership positions refusing or unable to pass the message? This op-ed strikes me as a Start The Fires type of thing.
japa21
Here’s the thing. They say they are in control of the situation but then they let this person they consider a danger to the country go into one on one meetings with Putin and Kim. That in itself contradicts everything else they say.
lamh36
Kamala Harris is the real deal, and it’s not suprising why so many on the right and even some on the left…try to undermine her anyway she can.
But homegirl…is a prosecutorial BEAST in these hearings!
Here’s the full video:
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1037518507423002629
rikyrah
Don’t fall for it, Cole.
Don’t.
It’s bullshyt.
All true, but this was written by a craven Traitors.
Stop thinking logically.
Stop believing that they ALL are nothing but TRAITORS ? ?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Barbara:
B.B.A.
@burnspbesq: a mere 14 years later, Kerry is avenged.
SFAW
@Aleta:
Just don’t let Cole drive you — your luck might change.
Jeffro
@burnspbesq: Whaaaaaat?
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Say what you will about Schumer, he made sure that that right person was asking the right questions on the right subjects. Let the boring guys ask the technical things. Have the stars to do the fireworks. She was given the chance and she full on took it.
opiejeanne
@HRA: Our favorite neighbor, and I mean that sincerely, was in an uproar over the op-ed, thinking it meant something BIG. We hadn’t seen it because we were away from all media when it broke, partly on purpose. I was reading a doctoral thesis about banking in Missouri during the Civil War. fascinating stuff.
She’s a Democrat but doesn’t understand a whole lot of what’s going on, so I told her I’d take a look. I read it twice, it’s not that long, and was unimpressed. It hit all of my cynical buttons, especially when the anonymous writer says we’re safer now because of something Trump did, then went on to praise the tax reform and getting rid of regulations. It just strikes me as jumping up and down and waving his arms, “Hey, look at us, we’re the REAL heroes of the resistance, Republicans keeping him from blowing up the world while getting all of our wishes fulfilled.”
Meh.
Geoboy
@jimmiraybob: So when do we find out why Paul Manafort, Putin’s tool, wanted Pence to be vice president so very badly?
BlueDWarrior
@Ian G.: It’s happened because we have ‘half’ the polity now openly embracing autocracy to force society back into the good ol’ days. Democracy can’t work when half the people would rather have a military junta or culturally conservative dictatorship than make peace with abominable liberals.
And the awful thing about it is the fact that we can’t make the fever break until someone from within thier own community throws on the emergency brakes. Until someone the cultural revanchists trusts can get through thier thick skulls, were having fight tooth and nail too hold on to the 20th Century while we are well into the 21st.
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: Just get a Saab.
sukabi
@burnspbesq: maybe we’ll FINALLY get rid of / fully expose that vast rightwing conspiracy.
Mnemosyne
@burnspbesq:
Jerome “I didn’t know President Obama was named after his father” Corsi is going to be put under oath?
That makes me happy.
Spotweld
We are seeing the groundwork for the “reasonable republican”, the “victim republican”, the republican who honestly wanted to help… but didn’t do anything.
It’s bull. The GOP has done nothing but supported Trump to the hilt
patroclus
I’m not stunned at all – we’ve known Trump is a lunatic for quite some time and we’ve known that this has been the attitude of senior Republicans since he took office. This was the attitude of Preibus, McMaster, Mattis, Rosenstein, Wray, Coats, Pompeo, Mnuchin, and all the rest for at least 20 months.
The Kavanaugh hearings are far more important and we should be talking about them more. Women’s liberty, union rights, gay rights, criminal justice, interstate commerce, health care and the rule of law are all at stake and we’re talking about some ridiculous op-ed by a cowardly Republican that concerns policy not at all. Kavanaugh blatantly lied in his 2006 confirmation hearings. He abjectly refuses to answer reasonable questions. He uses right wing buzz words to mask his clear intent. He would be a terrible Justice.
Omnes Omnibus
@Spotweld: No one is buying it. It is being shredded in real time.
opiejeanne
@sukabi: My money’s on Mother as the Anonymous Resister.
Mnemosyne
Here’s my opinion about who wrote the op-ed:
I don’t really care. It’s unimportant, because it’s a message to Republican donors. It could have been several people writing it together.
But in the end, it doesn’t matter, because it’s not news. It’s a begging bowl in print.
Ella in New Mexico
I’m going with Kelly, Pompeo or Bolton.
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus: They don’t sell fighter jets to civilians.
Kay
Wackadoodle. “At once!” Like some crazed king.
Worst president ever. By a mile.
Mr Stagger Lee
@jimmiraybob: I want the Coen Brothers to make that movie!
opiejeanne
@TenguPhule: Ok, that’s just too dark.
Mnemosyne
@Millard Filmore:
Because the NYT is the newspaper of the PRE. Their purpose in life is to prop up the PRE regardless of what elected Republicans come up with. It’s been like that since Reagan, at a minimum.
Omnes Omnibus
@patroclus: Okay.. How do we stop this without some GOPers doing the decent thing?
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: I have one, and it is lovely.
Kay
I love “the grownups” part. Yeah sure. That’s what “grownups” do. They write a mean letter and are too cowardly to sign it.
Is it meant to be a clue? Is this some kind of game? Now we wait for the next one?
How dare these assholes jerk the whole country around like this. They got their fucking tax cut. What else do they want? How much do we have to pay them to go away?
Ladyraxterinok
@dmsilev: IIRC they thought they could control him, they thought they were in control. Until……they painfully learned they WERE NOT!!
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
Thanks, but I think I’ll wait to see if the Chinese can make reliable cars before I buy one of them.
But your comment — or, rather, the googling resulting from it — indicated to me that commenter “trollhattan” may not have chosen that nym/nom as a portmanteau of “troll” and “Manhattan,” as I had (ignorantly, I guess) believed for some time. [Of course, if he/she used “Linkoping,” I probably would have gotten it a lot sooner.]
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: What was the novel?
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: He had a Saab for years.
Mnemosyne
@Ladyraxterinok:
The scientists who create the monster are always convinced they know how to control it. And they are always proven wrong.
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: Good question. Master Class by Morris West.
SFAW
@Mike J:
Will they let me borrow a Viggen, then? [Is the Viggen still produced? Yeah, I know, “Google is your friend, etc., etc.”]
dmsilev
@Kay: Blustering like that makes him look weak. If he knew, or thought he knew, who wrote the article, he wouldn’t need to bluster. Instead, the Times will ignore the demand and he’ll either just keep blustering or forget it and move to the next shiny object.
patroclus
@Omnes Omnibus: We have to pressure Collins, Murkowski, Flake, Corker or someone else to actually pay attention to what will happen if Kavanaugh is confirmed. We have to create a political issue as intense as it was when Bork was defeated. The media must focus on it, we have to talk it up, we have to create a legitimate opposition. We have to make it very difficult for Heitkamp, Manchin, Tester or McKaskill to go rogue. Time is short. Chasing our tail about this op-ed is counter-productive.
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: Hmmm…*goes away to investigate*
PaulWartenberg
Although, seriously.
WE NEED A BETTING POOL ON WHO WROTE IT.
I got five bucks on Jared. He’s trying to trigger his FIL into firing Kelly and Sessions in order to shut down the whole DoJ before Mueller can indict him.
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: The Viggen was ’99-’02.
I am not a Saab nerd!
Ladyraxterinok
@eemom: Add Woodward’s book as additional diversion from Kavenaugh.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
Makes sense. [His nym/nom, I mean. Having a Saab, not so much.]
Mai Naem mobile
@TenguPhule: I don’t think its Kudlow because it sounds like its somebody who has been there since the beginning and Kudlow has been there for a few months. It could be somebody who we don’t know that well.
PaulWartenberg
Regarding the Kavanaugh hearing, Senator Leahy brought up some serious allegations that Kavanaugh was involved in stealing Democratic Party emails back in 2003 (!) and at the least lied about it in previous testimony before Congress. I wonder if Leahy can bring charges on Kavanaugh re: committing perjury to Congress during these hearings.
Bill Arnold
@Mnemosyne:
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: It is from the mid-80s, but is in in my frequent rereads. The copy is is technically mine but it is at my parents’ house, and my dad does the frequent reread as well.
PaulWartenberg
@The Ancient Randonneur:
it’s a coup of handlers trying to manage a president involved in a foreign power stealing the 2016 elections in the first place. the layers of treason on this is like a rotting onion.
Mandalay
Lawrence O’Donnell reckons the blabbermouth is Dan Coats.
Mai Naem mobile
@PaulWartenberg: I thought of Jared but he would be divorced and lose custody of the kids. Also I think he’ll continue to enjoy grifting till the end. I do think it’s a lawyer and probably somebody who has had gov’t experience before. McGahn, Pompeo,Chris Wray or Mnuchin.
SFAW
@patroclus:
Yes, they’ve already proved themselves to be “country before party” more times than I can count. And Flake and Corker have already backed up their tough talk with countless votes contrary to Shitgibbon’s wishes.
And I hear Lindsey Graham is standing tall, like a bulwark against Shitgibbon’s pronouncements about Sessions.
rikyrah
LarryO thinks that Dan Coats wrote the op-ed
BlueDWarrior
@patroclus: the problem is that the Republican party telegraphed from the start that there was nothing that could come out about Kavanaugh that’d change thier minds. And conservative voters have shown they will accept anything from thier politicians so long as the government is used to straight-jacket the evil liberals. The more liberal culture has become despite conservative domination off legislatures (more or less) have driven that third of the polity completely insane.
And it’s going to boil over in a way that’s even worse that electing someone to act as an active spanner in the works. They will not stop until everyone, from thier neighbors to those effete limousine riders are genuflecting to the One True God (however the particular observer defines it).
People who aren’t conservative have to come to understand what is happening, and vote, agitate, and plan accordingly.
rikyrah
What are these demons doing????
Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) Tweeted:
Twenty-four hours later, the grand jury subpoena to 44 North Carolina counties for voting records looks even worse. Joshua Lawson, the lawyer for the State Board of Elections, estimates that it covers more than 15 million documents.
https://t.co/cp6ki8hDuO https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1037497113331068930?s=17
Mai Naem mobile
@Mandalay: Dan Coats would be a good one. He’s old and has nothing to lose.
Mai Naem mobile
@rikyrah: they’re trying to steal another election. Something they’re good at.
Mandalay
@Mai Naem mobile:
Right – that’s precisely the reason Lawrence O’Donnell eliminated other candidates such as Pompeo (who would have a lot to lose by being exposed as the snitch).
Aleta
Woodward says Trump is mentally incompetent and quotes his staff. Raises a question about his nominee who is up for a vote right now. Someone inside the circle writes an op ed to say don’t worry, we’re insulating operations from his whims.
rikyrah
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
He has five Ho’s, and blamed his wife???
Kay
It also should be noted how antidemocratic they are.
Rather than removing the president using legal means, publicly and transparently, these people just decided among themselves they would be president. They have completely removed the public from the process. In fact, they didn’t even bother to tell us they had taken over.
We don’t actually know who is running the country and they don’t plan on telling us. They have absolute, utter contempt for the public. Maybe this was always the conservative dream. They can elect some idiot clown to show to the masses and then appoint a secret “real” leader.
They should be arrested and marched out of there. Make the idiot clown do his actual job, and massively fail at it.
Mnemosyne
@Bill Arnold:
No. No, they do not. Because, despite being rich, they’re not very bright AND they think they’re in control of more than they actually are.
Dunning-Kreuger of the rich is going to kill us all.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
So are we starting the pool for how long until he completely disappears from public view and barricades himself in the residence with Ivanka and Jared and nobody else [*], communicating only by Twitter?
I’d suggest that we hear the sound of boards being nailed in place from the inside, but I don’t think he knows how to operate a hammer. Maybe Ivanka does.
[*] Yes, I left Melania out. I don’t think she’ll enter the bunker with him when it comes to that.
Jay
On the bright side, Canada just had it confirmed that Navarro is the Trade Warrior, Cohn’s the sane one and they are both engaged in treason.
So, CSIS pulls some texts, calls and emails, maybe some Skipes, a little blackmail, a couple small bribes, and Canada get’s everything we want in NAFTA.
Mandalay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
More bad news for the studmuffin:
If the photos of Hunter’s dalliances get released he’s toast.
Mnemosyne
@Aleta:
And the MSM says, “Yay! Problem solved!” rather than rushing over to the Senate and demanding answers from Republican leadership.
The fact that we see through the entire façade is immaterial to them.
Jay
BTW, how’s QAnon reacting to the revelations that the Derp State Bilderburg Illuminati Pedo’s are “inside the party”,
Asking for a friend who wants a clean browser history,………
J R in WV
@burnspbesq:
Oh, good! I’m having a bourbon right now, in honor of the end of the American way of life.
Check out Trump’s demand that the NYTimes turn over the traitor over to the government for national security proposes, followed by a string of replies, my favorite is
Mnemosyne
@Kay:
To be fair, Donald Trump has never had to do his job a single day in his life, and if he started to fail, Daddy always propped him up. Once Daddy was gone, a series of babks and business associates took over the propping-up.
He literally has no idea how to do a job. Any job. Much less a job as hard as being President of the United States.
Ladyraxterinok
@patroclus: So what issue do you suggest? I think you’re correct, but I don’t see how we do it.
And wasn’t there a long committee examination with lots of groups testifying vs Bork. And IIRC he would periodically make v blunt statements that revealed how awful his judicial philosophy was.
The Bork confirmation is what led to the modern day GOP SCOTUS candidates never answering any question directly. Bork’s comments destroyed his chances.
opiejeanne
@rikyrah: That’s very alarming! It’s all getting lost in the media circus.
opiejeanne
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I’ll bet she could figure out which end of the hammer to use.
That came out darker than I intended.
Yutsano
@lamh36: I know people want Kamala in the White House, but I am so pulling for her as AG.