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Repub Venality Open Thread: Where Is Bill ‘Ever Lower’ Barr?

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No, srsly…

Well, today he went to Albuquerque to tell a bunch of local cops that ‘violent criminals’ are bad people, up with which we should not put (hard sell, that)…

… which qualifies as proof-of-life, but not exactly proof-of-political-viability…

because HairFuhrer is NOT happy!

I guess he wasn’t standing close enough to Patient Zero to catch the ‘rona (or else he got very, very lucky), but he hasn’t been able to avoid #ETTD.

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  2. 2.

    MattF

    Wouldn’t surprise me if Barr takes a lower profile for the foreseeable future. Under his desk would be good.

  3. 3.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Haven’t seen the tweet, but heard on tv that Melania said on Twitter that Barron had also had the ‘Rona but he’s all negative again now.

  4. 4.

    Cheryl Rofer

    I guess he wasn’t standing close enough to Patient Zero to catch the ‘rona (or else he got very, very lucky), but he hasn’t been able to avoid #ETTD.

    He’s refused to release test results.

  5. 5.

    Elizabelle

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  6. 6.

    debbie

    Barr’s results should be meaninglessly redacted. //

     

    P.S. Barr must also be disbarred for that crap about Obama spying on the Trump campaign.

  13. 13.

    Ken

    @Patricia Kayden: Who knows, if Trump is desperate enough for money in a couple of years he might let the guy punch him for ten bucks.  He might even turn it into an event, like a dunking booth at a fair.

    If it comes down to a choice between that and letting his creditors (cough Russian mafia cough) hit him…

  15. 15.

    Jinchi

    shouldn’t someone who hasn’t seen it publish a “summary” of it that baselessly claims what‘s in it

    I’m just saying: the guy spent a lot of time hanging out with Kellyanne Conway during the nomination event.

    So clearly he’s Patient Zero.

  17. 17.

    Ken

    Since Trump doesn’t care whether the government works – he may even want the opposite – I half expect that after he loses, he’ll fire everyone he can, probably using them as scapegoats for the loss.  “I would have won if Barr had told the truth about Obama spying on me” and so on.

    I’d have to say this would be a net positive, since having no-one in the office has to be better than having someone monkey-wrenching everything they can find.  Also it will hamper their efforts to destroy evidence.

  18. 18.

    rp

    That spray tan is unbelievable. But I guess it’s not that noticeable compared to all of the corruption and insanity and lying.

  19. 19.

    Mike in NC

    Hopefully Bill Barr will choke out his last words while hooked up to a ventilator this weekend.

  20. 20.

    Just Chuck

    Barr looks like he has a big sad.  Well, he always looks like that, but now he has a big sad bus coming at him and he’s going to be under its big sad wheels.  So sad.

  21. 21.

    Jeffro

    As seen in someone’s tweet earlier today:

    • Bash probe of “unmasking” = no charges
    • Huber probe of Clinton Foundation = no charges
    • Comey leak probe = no charges
    • McCabe lying probe = no charges
    • Durham origins of Russia investigation probe = no charges
    • Senate GOP probe of Hunter/Ukraine = no charges

    Meanwhile, the president*s taxes are pointing to decades-long tax fraud and money laundering.

    Where. Is. Our. National. Snooze. Media?

  23. 23.

    dmsilev

    Schadenfreude alert. Washington Post Conservative Hack (but I repeat myself) Henry Olsen:

    Trump’s flailing campaign is starting to look a lot like Jeb Bush’s

    One of the most defining political achievements of President Trump’s 2016 campaign was his utter humbling of a rival once seen as the front-runner, former Florida governor Jeb Bush. That’s why it’s especially ironic that Trump’s flailing reelection bid increasingly resembles Bush’s epic plane crash of a campaign.
    The signature moment of comparison came Tuesday at a Trump rally in Johnstown, Pa., where Trump implored suburban women to “please like me.” It echoed the sorry moment that epitomized Bush’s campaign, when he asked his audience to “please clap” during one of his stump speeches.

    Fast-forward to today. Now, it’s Trump who started with a strong cash position and momentum. Before the pandemic hit, Trump had survived everything Democrats had thrown at him and was reaching new heights in job approval (they were still historically low, to be fair, but they were close to the level he needed to win a majority in the electoral college). With the world largely at peace and a record tight domestic labor market, it was easy to see how Trump could gain strength as the year progressed.

    There’s only one thing left for Trump to do to complete the metamorphosis into his foe. Bush’s logo — featuring an exclamatory “Jeb!” — was a much-derided way to avoid his last name, which carried negative connotations for the party’s hard right. Trump’s campaign is similarly attempting to whip up enthusiasm for his personal brand. It might as well borrow inspiration from Bush, and adopt the logo that highlights the reason for its likely embarrassing defeat: “Trump!”

    Olsen shilled for Trump for a long while, so chalk him up under “rat abandoning sinking ship”.

  24. 24.

    Ohio Mom

    This isn’t going to keep me up at night, but if Barron had Covid, I wonder about his grandparents, with whom he lives and who are certainly in the higher risk for complications group.

    Like I said, this isn’t a major worry of mine. More of a passing curiousity, and it’s already passed. Bye-bye.

  26. 26.

    Anonymous At Work

    All of this should tell Barr that he shouldn’t expect a pardon on his way out, and thus faces quite a few subpoenas and possibly lawsuits and/or charges from his time in office.  Wonder how Barr will respond to being threaten by his God-Emperor?

  30. 30.

    Just Chuck

    ‘I’m Not Happy With All The Evidence I Have’

    Actually Donnie, that’d be the evidence you don’t have.

  31. 31.

    MazeDancer

    Extra shade points to Kamala Harris who calmly started a question to Barrett with:

    “You have only been on the bench a short time…”

    Lightweight pretender.

    Barrett hates Kamala. Her eyes lose their possessed righteous fervorness and narrow in focused death rays.

  32. 32.

    Jeffro

    @schrodingers_cat: seconded.  They’re just ridiculous.

     

    @MattF: Olsen throws out a “gee I hope trumpov does X at some point soon or else he’s screwed” column about once a month.

    Hewitt and Theissen probably get some sort of bonus in their wingnut welfare checks for staying the course.

  33. 33.

    Jeffro

    @MazeDancer:Barrett hates Kamala. Her eyes lose their possessed righteous fervor and narrowly focused death rays.

    Sheer jealousy.  One is about to be VP, the other is about to be the person who…did nothing to keep trumpov in power, and got outvoted 7-6/8-5/9-4 on SCOTUS for three decades ;)

  34. 34.

    Eunicecycle

    @schrodingers_cat: I used to live in the town Gary Abernathy is from. I wish my parents were still alive so I could ask them if they knew him. (Well I wish they were still alive for many other reasons, too). But it is extremely conservative. It’s basically Kentucky.

  35. 35.

    Ken

    @MattF: Olsen’s been edging away from Trump for a while.

    Reminds me of my favorite characters and songs from Les Misérables, the Thénardiers and “Master of the House / Beggars at the Feast”.  We know where the wind is blowing, money is the stuff we smell…

  36. 36.

    Mike in NC

    @MattF:  Both hacks — Hewitt and Thiessen — are worrying about Biden packing the Supreme Court. Sounds like they know their shitheel is toast.

  40. 40.

    jl

    Trump only picks the top best people, so interesting that all the top best people end up, in Trump’s eyes, performing poorly, or betraying him, or disrespecting him.

    Barr may be trimming to hedge his bets if this election turns into a wipe-out, and Trump isn’t happy about that at all.

    Good thing that Trump makes his flunkies’ jobs so difficult. And that goes for people like McConnell who probably aren’t Trump flunkies but operators who to some extent think they can use Trump for their purposes. I don’t understand why McConnell is given such a free pass by the corporate news media. If anyone can inform me, please do so.

    McConnell may be trying to dump Trump and save a GOP Senate as best he can, but doesn’t look like a winning strategy. I’ve read that he is trying to cut his losses and set up Biden for failure, but that seems desperate to me. I’ve read that McConnell can’t control the crazier GOP Senators, who are inspired by Trump’s nuttiness, and the worst thing for McConnell is public knowledge he is not a Master of the Universe, but a political thug who is in a very tight spot, and his only and best move is more obstruction and dishonesty.

    Edit: to  clarify, the desperation I am talking about is GOP Senate being the hard ‘no’ on more covid relieve, not the Pelosi/Mnuchin negotiations. If the corporate media decides to report that important fact, and bothers to ask McConnell about it, it won’t look good, and would be good for maybe a couple of Democratic Senate seats.

  41. 41.

    Jeffro

    @Mike in NC: they should be worried.  It’s literally the easiest thing in the world if/when we win the WH and Senate, and *poof* all their embrace of corruption, all those hundreds of millions of Koch dollars…it all goes swirling down the drain

  45. 45.

    Mallard Filmore

    @Anonymous At Work:

     

    Wonder how Barr will respond to being threaten by his God-Emperor?

    Hopefully he won’t write up the self pardon for Trump. Or if pressed, deliver a defective one that quickly fails in the courts.

  47. 47.

    BR

    @jl:

    I can’t remember who said this originally, but the reason McConnell is given a pass is that he isn’t embarrassed by how he operates. He will break every rule and take every opening and have no regrets. So if he’s pressured, he’s happy to say “yeah, I did that and am proud of it” or if the politics suit him just lie and say whatever will help his cause. It’s that immunity from embarrassment that makes him hard for the media to pin down, because they have a general rule that you always go to the subject of a piece for a comment rather than just running a piece that takes the subject of the piece down from an objective standpoint.

  50. 50.

    jl

    @BR: Good point. Fits with McConnell ghoulish chuckling through McGrath’s accurate charges against him in the debate. I just watched a few clips, but all show the same approach from McConnell: misdirect, lie, FU, mislead, repeat lie, FU, etc.

  51. 51.

    jl

    @JPL: Thanks. Trump going to threaten to sue over these ads, like he’s done before? I hope he does, since that seems to get the ads  a lot of free media.

  53. 53.

    jl

    @jl: Oops, sorry, the spot I posted was from months ago. Forgot to check the date. I think that was one of the ads that Trump threatened to sue over.

  58. 58.

    RSA

    @Jeffro:

    Olsen throws out a “gee I hope trumpov does X at some point soon or else he’s screwed” column about once a month.

    It’s almost funny, his suggestions that Trump do something he is totally incapable of doing. Show some graciousness toward Biden. Show empathy with people suffering from COVID. Acknowledge that not everything is gravy. You know, things that any ordinary human being would almost instinctively do.

  62. 62.

    Captain C

    @kindness: Not that he’ll actually do that, but I suspect that Trump is in fact dumb enough to fire his own cover-up artist right when he’s needed the most.

  66. 66.

    HumboldtBlue

    Katie Porter is smashing the myth that you have to be a centrist, corporate-friendly lawmaker if you represent a red district. She’s unapologetically and boldly progressive. Decisions to be corporate friendly tend to be more about member preference than political necessity.

    Another “whoa” fundraising update: @RepKatiePorter raised $5.2 million in Q3. Unheard of for a “front line” freshman who isn’t part of leadership.

  67. 67.

    Elizabelle

    @Patricia Kayden:   Yea Patricia!

    It may suffer for Stonehenge without the midgets, but should still be a lotta fun, and you may be able to watch it later, too.

    @geg6:   Thank YOU for reminding me it was tonight.  All settled in.  Will Koda and Lovey be watching, too??

  69. 69.

    geg6

    @Elizabelle:

    This is a Cleo activity, for sure.  Lovey snores too loud and Koda won’t go upstairs to my office. Cleo hangs up there with me.  She is a quiet kitty who will drape herself on my neck and purr while I watch and listen and laugh my ass off.

  71. 71.

    Melusine

    I hope they recorded the reunion in Dublin!

    “It’s not like dusting for fingerprints. You can’t dust for vomit. Scotland Yard doesn’t have that kind of technology.”

    Can we the Mango Menace to fill in on drums? Just for one night?  ??

  72. 72.

    Miss Bianca

    @Just Chuck:

    Barr looks like he has a big sad.  Well, he always looks like that, but now he has a big sad bus coming at him and he’s going to be under its big sad wheels.  So sad.

    I dunno why, but I feel like this is making me laugh *way* too hard.

    Then again – I mean, fuck it, it’s Bill Barr, he deserves all the scorn, derision, and bad juju that’s coming his way.

  73. 73.

    Miss Bianca

    @debbie: “No one knew…who they were…or what…they were doing there.”

    I was sorely tempted by this one. I love how Hollywood is coming together to do such fun fundraisers for the Democrats – not only an insanely great way to raise money, but a giant FU to Trump. It’s got to gall him to the shallows of his shriveled little soul that Hollywood and Broadway and the music biz all despise him.

  74. 74.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Ken:

    Trump in a dunking booth could be done virtually as a prison sentence. He’ll be obligated to climb back into the perch every time he’s dunked, and the tank is 6 feet deep so he has to get on his toes to keep his mouth out of the water, which is only changed every third day. He could get a 5 minute food break every 4 hours, along with a 5 hour sleep break.  He’ll be in his customary navy suit, white shirt and red tie, which he’ll be allowed to change into another similar suit once a week.

    Dunks can be purchased for $1000 apiece, proceeds to go toward hiring people at the IRS enforcement division and the SEC.

  75. 75.

    J R in WV

    @Jeffro:

    I can’t write the list from memory, but there’s a really long bullet list of people who worked for Trump and are now convicted felons, which would be a good mix with all the investigations of Democrats that resulted in no charges…

    Just saying!

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