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Repubs in Disarray Open Thread: Crowdstruck

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  1. 1.

    Kent

    Since Trump is motivated only about squelching corruption, I assume that means we will soon be cutting off aid to Israel?  Or at a minimum, cutting it off until they strip Bibi of his position and toss him in prison where he belongs.

     

    I mean seriously, the corruption there goes to the very top.

  2. 2.

    Mary G

    As things currently stand Spencer has gone on record with his version and Esper hasn't (and Trump is just a liar, period). So it seems reasonable to treat Spencer's account—that he refused to carry out Trump's orders re: Gallagher—as the credible one, for now.— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) November 25, 2019

  4. 4.

    Zelma

    Did anyone else notice the handwritten date at the top of the letter Spencer sent?  Sort of like he had it drafted and just needed to date it.  Mattis also apparently had a letter ready.  I wonder if any other Trump staffers are thus prepared.  Of course, anybody with any degree of competence and/or character is long gone.

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    Fuck Them and their Friends – same assholes who were shocked when Dump called in during the campaign to say the families of terrorists should be killed.

  10. 10.

    SFAW

    @Kent:

    Since Trump is motivated only about squelching corruption, I assume that means we will soon be cutting off aid to Israel?

    Maybe it means Shitgibbon will commit seppuku?

     

    Just kidding, of course. Even if we ignore that he is so dishonorable, that he would never do that, there’s the problem of his teeny-tiny hands being too small to hold the handle of the wakizashi.

  11. 11.

    hells littlest angel

    The Crowdstrike thing will not die until Trump does. I think he correctly guesses that it’s a word that sounds terrifying to his hooplehead base. “Crowdstrike! OMG! That’s what terrorists do — they strike crowds!”

  12. 12.

    mrmoshpotato

    @hells littlest angel: It’s entirely believable that Trump trash would believe it, even though it’s insane.

     

    Side note: I wonder if Dump’s brain can still understand that morons fully believe his bullshit.

  13. 13.

    Donald Gisselbeck

    Crackpot theory; some leftist has developed limited psychic powers. All they can do is weaken a few people’s verbal filters. They are trying to destroy  right wing nutjobs by getting them to say outrageous things. It isn’t working.

  17. 17.

    David ??Booooooo?? Koch

    Trump’s ramblings on how many “stars” he’s made over the years are completely off the rails

     

    Dump misspelled “has-beens”

  19. 19.

    David ??Booooooo?? Koch

    “I want a trial,” Trump said of the Senate.

     

    That’s exactly what he said before he caved and settle the Dump University law suit for $25,000,000 dollars.

  21. 21.

    jc

    What I hate about this Crowdstrike nonsense is how Trump and his enablers are quick to push conspiracy theories, but they never even try to provide any evidence to support them.

     

    Trump also blocks people from testifying, and then he pretends he’s exonerated.

     

    Trump ties the world in knots with lies before the truth can put its boots on. He knows the media won’t do the work to clarify matters, which also works to his advantage, if someone tries to pin him down he just dodges or changes the subject — he knows they’ll have to quickly move on. Tragically, these cheap tactics work time after time.

  22. 22.

    mrmoshpotato

    @David ??Booooooo?? Koch: Sooooo he’s going to try to pay off the Senate with Russian mob money from drugs, gambling, prostitution and human trafficking?

     

    Won’t work with Democratic Senators, and all the Russthuglicans are already the Krwmlin’s bitches.

     

    I’m so confused.

  26. 26.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Amir Khalid: There’s a benchmark for Governor of Incorrectly-spelled Kansas?

     

    ETA – and leave the bass out of this.  It would fend off Mike with a sword if it could.

  28. 28.

    Mallard Filmore

    “I want a trial,” Trump said of the Senate.

    He wants this so that he can hear his many fine friends in the Senate defend him.

     

    ETA: this is a reply to David ??Booooooo?? Koch ad #19

  31. 31.

    Sasha

    The running joke here is that the GOP keeps coming up with increasingly impossible standards for impeachment which Trump casually meets within a week.

    Part of me thinks that’s the point — to force Trump’s defenders to throw themselves ever deeper into that orange moral event horizon.

  34. 34.

    pattonbt

    Problem for “sane” Republicans (electorally versus the myriad of other issues) is they cannot win elections any more (except in the most gerrymandered / backwards districts / states) without the support of Trump and the deplorables.  But deplorables can win without “sane” Republicans.  So as always, self interest rules the “sane” Republicans and they have to shift with the wind to stay in the good graces of the Chief Deplorable and his rabble.  Or they could grow principles and lose (Ha!).  There’s always a deplorable in the wings ready to take on a RINO.

     

    One hopes the Californication of the national Republican party will happen sooner rather than later, but structural impediments at the national level allow minority parties great leverage (at least if impeding good governance is the leverage).

  35. 35.

    Anne Laurie

    @mrmoshpotato: Nepotism, d/b/a “good genes”, is the only half-way reasonable argument the Repubs have left.

    Yes, it’s stupid and venal, but it sounds better on the podium than ‘MAH CLAN, OUR CLAN, RIGHT OR WRONG!!!’…

  36. 36.

    Marcopolo

    I don’t know if this has been posted in any other threads but this is a damned good letter from a guy who is making his final break with the Republican party. I am sending it around to my friends on FB so they can link to it there. Some of them have friends on FB who might be reachable.

    Lifelong Republican quitting his party. Worth a read. t.co/tPDA8ONxNs— Jason Kander (@JasonKander) November 25, 2019

  38. 38.

    David ??Booooooo?? Koch

    They’re not saying “Booooooooooooooo”   they’re saying “Bloooooooooomberg”

  39. 39.

    Marcopolo

    @Zelma: I know that we all realize by now that Mattis is just another coward but if there ever was a time for him to speak up…

  40. 40.

    Marcopolo

    NOVEMBER 25, 2019 AT 1:30 AM
    The good news from Hong Kong (no really, this is good news at least until the Chinese crack dow happens):

    Wow: Hong Kong’s pro-democracy parties appear to have secured 90 percent of the districts in the city’s local election on Sunday, according to Hong Kong’s public broadcaster RTHK.

    RTHK reports that pro-democracy parties appear to have won 395 seats out of 452.

    — Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) November 25, 2019

  42. 42.

    lgerard

    Fox is going to have to come up with some sort of CGI background for when trump calls in and starts rambling like a dotard.  Maybe soaring eagles, waving grain  and midwest diners.

     

    They can’t keep showing those 3 bozos sitting there pretending to comprehend whatever this fool is talking about

  45. 45.

    hervevillechaizelounge

    Am I the only person having a hard time differentiating Navy secretary Richard Spencer and white supremacist (and glorious punching-bag) Richard Spencer?

     

    I think Navy Richard Spencer should start using his middle initial like Leo G. Carroll.

  46. 46.

    Ken

    @lgerard:

    Fox is going to have to come up with some sort of CGI background for when trump calls in and starts rambling like a dotard.

    I’d think they already have a “technical difficulties – please stand by” screen.  Maybe one of the humorous ones with a technician tangled up in wires.

  47. 47.

    Shalimar

    @hervevillechaizelounge: I googled Navy Spencer’s bio before I went to bed, left the window open all night, and when I woke up I looked and wondered why a white supremacist’s page was open in a tab.  So yes, you’re not the only one.

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