Today, Michael Flynn called for martial law to reverse the results of the election and shoot his enemies.
Donald Trump released a 46-minute diatribe, a compendium of his, Rudi’s, and Sidney Powell’s fever dreams about how the election was stolen from him.
How was your day?
On The Road – JanieM – Fall Color Part IV – Trees and Water
L85NJGT
I figured that was part of his pardon deal.
UncleEbeneezer
I was hoping that my anger and resentment of a large swath of my fellow Americans would have ebbed a little after the Election. Really hasn’t happened though. Partly because of Trump’s never-ending bullshit but mostly because of our Covid situation and the refusal of so many people to just do the right thing for everyone’s sake. Also really missing our late doggie, and playing live music which is one of my main passions.
West of the Rockies
Well, sure, Cheryl, but what about Neera Tanden saying some super-duper mean things about some totally-not-corrupt Republicans over the years?//
We on the left can present chapter and verse Republican crimes and cruelties with objective factual evidence for it all. Conservatives make wild, reckless, utterly unsubstantiated claims with no qualms. But in this bizzaro world, Republican voters somehow believe they are the intelligent, righteous and besieged victims.
The absurdity is so farcical as to leave one stupefied.
Feathers
Rudy farted. https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1334352749392228353
West of the Rockies
@UncleEbeneezer:
I have been watching live performances on YouTube. Helps keep me same. By live I mean not music videos, but actual concerts.
Geoduck
I put up Christmas lights.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
I looked out a window of my house today and saw a truck drive by with “Trump 2024” in red vinyl lettering plastered all over it. I thought it might’ve been my mind playing tricks on me at first
Wag
I read about Trump’s 45 minutes of hate, poured myself a glass of red wine, and decided to put up the 12 foot Christmas tree that we cut down in one of our Colorado national forests this past weekend. Looks really good! We will put up lights tomorrow and decorate it on Friday.
Brachiator
Pretty good. I am fighting a cold, slept in late and have been avoiding most things political.
I heard a bit about Trump’s diatribe, and then later heard that it was 46 minutes. Jesus!
The GOP leadership should shut this shit down. They should have shut it down long ago. That they have not done so is, sadly, more confirmation that they intend to continue their war on decency and democracy. It’s unfortunate, but that’s where we are.
Trump is a pathetic loser. I hope he wears himself out with his increasingly unhinged ravings. He may cause some trouble along the way, but this President-reject will be gone soon enough. He can’t really stop it or delay it.
West of the Rockies
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Excellent. Trump is setting off charges (as is Rudy, apparently) and will make the whole damn GOP implode. He is going down and taking the whole foul lot of them with him.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Brachiator:
Have you gotten tested for COVID? It and colds share a lot of symptoms
moonbat
I put more ornaments on my tiny tree and tested the lights but did not leave them on too long. Xmas lights are a siren song to my BIG and playful cat Sparky. He could take my tree clean out with one misdirected swipe of the paw.
luc
The warnings of Germany in 1918:
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEEEXevrTUCcOC9MlI3OQa2oqFwgEKg8IACoHCAowjuuKAzCWrzwwqIQY?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
Sorry for the long link.
Pharniel
Then the trump campaign Twitter account disavowed lin. Just bonkers
But my day was ok.
Figured more out about power automate.
Edmund Dantes
https://digbysblog.net/2020/12/they-knew/
my favorite part of the author they quoted. Is Marc Becker is still holding out some hope for those lost causes and saying “ you can still support the good trump did”.
like he’s a never trumper but doesn’t realize (or want to acknowledge) the party he is pining for never existed really. It’s mostly in the right of the Dem party now.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Pharniel:
Did they really? I just saw him on TeeVee the first time. He looks like if Roger Stone and Donald Trump had a baby, or maybe it’s more as if their respective stylists embalmed a zombie together.
Also, Brian Williams just dropped a rumor I hadn’t heard, but of course trump is going to pardon Papa Kushner. According to Mary Trump, at their wedding Charlie said that when Jared first brought Ivanka around, the real billionaire wasn’t sure the the bankrupt’s daughter was good enough for his princeling. Now trump can remind him every time they see each other: “Remember, Charlie, how you’re not a felon anymore because of me?”
cope
Mostly I acted as majordomo to our recently adopted shelter puppy. In between shifts attending her needs and whims, I made some tasty baby back ribs. That was pretty much it. She’s finally tuckered out enough that I am about to scoop her up and join the already slumbering Mrs. cope in bed. Tomorrow is likely to offer more of the same.
Omnes Omnibus
I found my dream car. Now I just need two or three million dollars.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@luc:
The one saving grace of all of this is that the military has been firmly against getting involved in any of Trump’s/GOP nonsense, unlike the stab-in-the-back myth from 1918 Germany
trnc
FWIW, a pardon does not expunge the record, so Charlie will still be a felon regardless.
Yarrow
Exhausted. Long day with my dad. And I can’t find some of the things I need for baking. Frustrating.
Some asshole at my dad’s place, who I think is maybe the Director (never met him), was standing outside talking on FaceTime with his mask off. Masks are REQUIRED 100% of the time there. Indoors or outside. No exceptions unless you are actively eating or drinking and even then only in certain locations. They have said they will ban anyone who doesn’t comply with their mask requirement and this asshole is not only talking to someone with his mask off he’s doing it right in front of the main entrance door that I have to go inside. Motherfucker.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@luc: The Stab in the Back lie was started by the German army in 1914 to excuse why the Germany army didn’t beat the French army in four months like they promised.
Frankensteinbeck
I wrote the scene with the “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for” mind control joke, and I’m almost done with the embarrassing ancestral ghosts scene and ready to move on to the attack by a school bully in power armor.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@West of the Rockies:
Just imagine. Somebody actually paid money for vinyl lettering on their truck for a guy who may be dead or disabled by 2024. Let that sink in
Omnes Omnibus
@luc: @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Conditions in the US aren’t what they were in Germany 100 years ago. And the “stab in the back” theory isn’t protecting something as central to the German (and Prussian) state and identity as the German army was. When German officers said they were Germany, they meant it and much of the rest of the county accepted it. Historical analogies are valuable, but the differences as well as the similarities have to be taken into account.
Lyrebird
@West of the Rockies: Thanks for reminding me… I wanna go watch everything Yo Yo Ma posted to help us all get through.
I got more done than I’d expected, but this being the end of the semester, still feels like nothing close to enough.
Am trying a Kindle Fire, mostly for the kids, and it won’t let us do anything without using the voice interface. So I feel totally stupid, but I had better sleep. And thank my lucky stars I do not live in GA or AZ. Praying for all the election officials caught up in this kraken shtshow.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
If you’re not extremely picky, I’ll sell you my car and save you 95 percent.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Omnes Omnibus: Yes, what was the line “Prussia is an army with a state attached to it”? Also, it may shock many Americans to learn the German Empire, much like the Russian Empire, was an absolute monarchy. That whole Kaiser the William III thing (the ghost of whom is likely laughing his ass off at Trump stealing William’s “biggest idiot in history with blond hair”)
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: But I am extremely picky.
MobiusKlein
Day went OK. Ran a meeting, had some 1-1s with folks, helped a high school robotics club/team with software, and another day of not being a Jerk at Work.
Saw kid 1 over video in college ( doing Multi Variate calculus), and kid two helped make dinner.
Fuzzy cat in the lap, and drinking some Imperial Stout beer.
Cheryl Rofer
Things seem to be deteriorating mightily in the Republican Party, with some advocating voting against the Georgia Republicah Senate candidates, and others falsely registering in Georgia. The latter are being investigated by law enforcement.
In other news,
Looks like tomorrow’s Twitter feed will be lit. The kitties and I are going to bed.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
Well, then … if you squint real hard at my car, I bet it’ll look like your dream-mobile. Which is what, if I may be so bold as to ask?
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: It is this. I’d just add period correct side mirrors and then be as happy as a clam.
West of the Rockies
@Yarrow:
I had a grocery store confrontation yesterday with a guy who refused to mask his ugly mug.
West of the Rockies
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
They are cultists, brother.
West of the Rockies
@MobiusKlein:
I enjoy a chocolate stout or two around Christmas. Odd little tradition. Thanks for the reminder. Must purchase.
caring & sensitive
@Omnes Omnibus: The Ford GT offered by one of its designers?
Omnes Omnibus
@West of the Rockies: My grocery store doesn’t let anyone in without one.
Omnes Omnibus
@caring & sensitive: See comment 33.
mdblanche
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Clearly a case of economic anxiety.
West of the Rockies
@Omnes Omnibus:
Have Q retrofit it with a rear oil gun. Comes in handy when a Trump truck rally is afoot.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
Well, then, today may be your lucky day! I have something that is almost a carbon-copy of it, although the color might be a little bit off. But I can definitely retrofit a couple of mirrors, for no extra $$$. Shall we try to take this offline, so we can discuss price? As I said: I can save you 95 percent.
Amir Khalid
@trnc:
You and I understand that, but Trump does not. And the people he pardons will tell themselves that since they got out of doing the time, it means they got out of having done the crime. That’s how another pardon recipient, Joe Arpaio, sees it.
tokyokie
Nothing says faith in democratic processes and free elections quite like establishing a military tribunal to murder your political opponents under color of law and then holding a do-over election.
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: You should go to bed. You are clearly too drunk to function.
West of the Rockies
@Omnes Omnibus:
My store officially also does not allow unmasked shoppers, but they no longer confront them. The clerk told me they do like it when other shoppers yell at the umasked.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
Sober as an Obama-appointed judge.
ETA: So I take it your not interested in my offer of a yu-u-u-u-ge, beautiful deal? Wheels like that one don’t come along every day, you know.
Just be glad I didn’t try to sell you a Trabant.
West of the Rockies
@SFAW:
Doesn’t Mr. Bean drive something like that?
Dahlia
@Omnes Omnibus: It’s dreamy. My compliments on your exquisite taste.
TS (the original)
@luc:
From your link
I don’t think it is absurd to compare trump & Hitler. Both belong to the “born to rule” club & both started with a democracy and tried to turn it into something else. Hitler succeeded, trump is still in the “try” stage.
SFAW
@West of the Rockies:
Where do you think Omnes got the idea/dream?
Of course, if memory serves, Omnes used to (or maybe still does) drive a Saab, so his taste is already suspect. [Incoming!]
Kristine
Put up Christmas lights inside and out. Set out decorations inside, including with my Christmas Owl, which I bought because I had never seen a lighted owl lawn figure before. It’s about 2 feet tall, made of wire, wood, burlap, and lots of glitter–too delicate imo for outdoors. It’s wonderfully odd and I love it.
Trump’s spray of horseshit leading to loss of both GA seats to the good guys would be the most wonderful late Christmas gift. I know it may be a long shot, but hope springs eternal in this wild heart.
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: A Ford Anglia? Doesn’t come around every day? Oh well.
@Dahlia: Gorgeous, isn’t it? Now, all I need is a couple of mill. Maybe I should check the couch cushions again.
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: Still does. And what part of the Bronx were we talking about before?
Brachiator
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Fair point. I will look into this.
Cathie from Canada
This is going to be a two-month shit show.
While tens of thousands of Americans sicken and die of COVID throughout December and January, while hospitals collapse and cities start digging mass graves, Trump will remain focused only on staying president.
First he will try to stop the Electoral College from voting in December.
When that doesn’t work, he will try to get some Representatives and Senators to overturn the Electoral College decision in January.
At some point, maybe there will be a supreme court case (though I do believe that is the very last thing Roberts wants his court to be embroiled in).
When none of that works, Trump will start talking about declaring Martial Law.
Maybe the Cabinet will intervene at that point. Maybe the Joint Chiefs will be able to stop him. Maybe NATO will have to speak up.
Its going to be awful.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
I expect this is a feeble attempt to get a rise out of me (Bronx/Queens). Sorta like me asking you how things are in Port Huron, maybe?
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: No, it was just me looking for something football field sized.
PIGL
@cope: Seriously that doesn’t sound too bad. I hope you have many tomorrows like that.
NotMax
Four Treasons Total Landraping.
SFAW
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
According to my hospital’s comparison chart, they actually don’t. Body aches and maybe a dry cough, not much else. Runny nose and sneezing, for example, are common with a cold, but not with COVID.
Danielx
@TS (the original):
Major difference being that Hitler was a very able man.
HumboldtBlue
I completely ignored the news for most of the past two days and have taken refuge in the Great British Baking Show for the last two-and-a-half hours.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
The dream may tarnish a mite during a Wisconsin winter.
Do they make studded snow tires for it?
:)
CaseyL
Today was my day to go into the office. I was pretty busy. One of the things I’m working on right now is scheduling interviews for a fellowship – which will be done entirely by Zoom.
I’m no longer used to having to dress for the office, even if that means jeans these days. Changed into my comfy clothes as soon as I got home, snuggled into the comfy chair,and gave a happy little sigh. (Then got on the computer and kept working; we’re only in the office for half-days.)
I also spent a fair bit of time watching as the Crazy the GOP has nurtured utterly consumes them. The Trump/OANN/Wood-Powell axis is … well, I honestly don’t know how dangerous they are to anyone but themselves. The latest Tweetstorm started with a Trump Campaign tweet saying Wood used to donate to and vote for Democrats: his partisans say (spittle-flecked and none too coherently) he saw the light and is now fighting for the US; his non-partisans say he’s ratfucking the GOP with his calls to boycott the Georgia runoffs.
It’s like watching a blimp slooooowly get too close to the tower (yes, a la Hindenburg). The question isn’t whether the blimp will become a giant fireball; the question is how much collateral damage there will be.
Meanwhile, I’m buying popcorn futures.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@TS (the original):
Seriously, in 1918 Hitler was some corporal in a defeated army and that’s in the same club as some NYC billionaire’s son?
here you go sport – detail discussion about Hitler’s rise to power. Spoiler, everything you know about Hitler is a BS narrative concocted by Germans after WWII to make themselves look like the victims to the victorious allies and our government went along with because we needed West Germany as an ally in the Cold War.
https://youtu.be/_ybtwB-3MZ0
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
Yeah, I figured that out pretty quickly, amazingly enough. As long as you don’t shell the Bronx Zoo, the Throgs Neck bridge, and a few other sites in Duh Bronx, have at it. But how are you going to get an M110 within 15 miles of Duh Bronx?
mvr
I’m sure someone said this already but what he says pot-pardon is not pardoned.
Mallard Filmore
moonbat @ 12
Put “last thing ornament sees” into a Google image search.
NotMax
@TS (the original)
Mentioned previously, highly recommend The Hitler Chronicles, available on Prime.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: It’s not the DB4 GT Lightweight where they removed things like the heater to make it lighter and faster. I am sure I would be fine. Fine, I said.
ETA: Also too, I’ll keep the Saab.
Omnes Omnibus
Very carefully.
MobiusKlein
@West of the Rockies: I’m recommending the Sierra Nevada ‘Narwwhal’ Imperial Stout. Not overly sweet, has a full body, and plenty malty. 8.4/10
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
As in Larry?
;)
“Fill it up with gas, sir?”
“Not so loud, it’ll hear. It gets cranky unless you say petrol.”
FlyingToaster
@Omnes Omnibus:
My dream car — well, dream replacement minivan — is supposed to be out next spring. And, fortunately, it won’t cost as much as a house.
Toyota Sienna Limited – Hybrid
Omnes Omnibus
@FlyingToaster: We have different dreams.
NotMax
@SFAW
Barge landing at Orchard Beach (“The Riviera of New York”), silly.
;)
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Dear god, I’m not a marine.
NotMax
@FlyingToaster
Whoa, that grille. On first look, the Joe E. Brown of SUVs.
:)
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Was attempting to be a little more creative than the obvious answer to getting that close:
Take the A Train.
:)
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Four Seasons Total Fart-Escaping
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue:
Yummo!
Platonicspoof
@Cheryl Rofer:
. . . with the exceptions in paragraph V.
I’m also off to bed, and don’t know what was in the superseded June order, but it looks confusing between the tv version and the 12 pdf pages of the actual order.
Hope more people stay at home anyway.
Ascap_scab
Plus: Roger Stone (yes, that Roger Stone) goes on Alex Jones (yes, that Alex Jones) and sez, ‘Kim Jong-Un sent Biden ballots via a port in Maine’.
https://www.newsweek.com/roger-stone-says-north-korean-boats-delivered-ballots-through-maine-harbor-trump-boosts-fraud-1551937?amp=1
He knows it’s true ’cause he got it from a Q-anon source. The stoopid rages.
Mai Naem mobile
Mark Kelly got sworn in as Senator today. Just want to remind everybody that he has to rerun in 2 years in an off general election year so please don’t expect some Elizabeth Warren kind of voting record from the guy. I am not saying he needs to be pulling a Manchin kind of record either.
FlyingToaster
@NotMax: But not an SUV. I need the sliding doors to off and on-load teenagers.
I drive a 2007 Toyota Sienna Limited. My biggest — and nearly only — gripe with it is the abysmal gas mileage (real-world: 17 highway, 12- city). My previous vehicle (a 1970 VW Microbus) got better mileage than this beast.
I’ve been dreaming of a hybrid version for 3 years, since they showed a concept vehicle at the 2017 Detroit show.
This time, I know to forgo some stuff (seriously, the entertainment package I simply don’t need, and the Platinum would give me features I don’t need). But this will let me pack WarriorTeen and her compatriots and their instrument cases and music stands and get them to wherever the fuck they’re performing. And not be filling my tank every week.
Mai Naem mobile
@Ascap_scab: Roger Stone looked like a tweaker in the little clip he put out yesterday. If he’s not tweaking, he’s got some kind of neurological disease. Either way, it has to be scary.
eddie blake
@SFAW:
container ship/ freight rail.
mrmoshpotato
Anyone need a rock block of Bach?
eddie blake
@NotMax:
that works, too.
HumboldtBlue
Note to self: Always check the speaker volume before switching from an interlude of Allman Brothers One Way Out while you clean up dishes before returning to the regularly scheduled programming of British people baking.
cain
@Brachiator:
Have we tried playing it backwards to see if Satan has any message of hope for us?
cain
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Getting a test at least here in Portland seems to be difficult. I should try walgreens or something – I don’t have any symptoms though.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mai Naem mobile: Roger’s been on roids for years.
lgerard
50 years from now I can see the History Channel showing trump’s 46 minute diatribe as part of a documentary the way they show Hitler’s speaches
He was a monster…..
cain
Anybody see this? A drunkenMAGA version of Janine Melnitz (receptionist character in Ghostbusters) arguing with Lex Luthor while a grimacing Rudy Guiliani looks on. It’s from the hearing earlier today.
cain
@cain:
Oh wait I’m told it’s more like Victoria Jackson
Platonicspoof
@cain:
You can get an antibody test for free if you donate blood to the Red Cross.
An initial positive sample gets secondary testing.
They need blood and convalescent plasma.
Amir Khalid
@West of the Rockies:
Mr Bean drives a classic Mini. You’re thinking of Ron Weasley’s dad, Arthur Weasley.
patrick II
@Edmund Dantes:
My least favorite part. Politicians now take possible violence against their families into consideration what positions to publicly hold. That is happening right now, not in some dystopian political future.
eddie blake
@patrick II:
politicians used to get shot in this country a LOT. it should ALWAYS be a consideration. there are a LOT of fucking guns and a fuckton of crazy people in america.
Fraud Guy
I found out today that the majority of the Democrat Party and Hollywood have been arrested and sent to Gitmo with Gina Haspell and/or executed, and that I am a fool for not believing a random British gentleman on the internet promoting Q conspiracy theories as a side job to their new age consciousness site who claim to have better sources than the mainstream media.
But at least nothing was thrown or broken today.
rikyrah
@Brachiator:
????
Steeplejack (phone)
@Cheryl Rofer:
Fixed your bad link: Senator Melissa Melendez.
mrmoshpotato
We were all wondering.
Cacti
@eddie blake: If you were an adult in the U.S. from 1865-1901, you would have lived through 3 different Presidential assassinations.
lgerard
@Fraud Guy:
Did you hear about how the Dominion server in Frankfort Germany that the CIA had been using to control all our elections in service of the globalists had been seized?
The new supertrump patriots of the DOD prevailed after an extensive firefight that left at least a dozen dead.
Oddly, the local residents didn’t hear a thing
eddie blake
@Cacti:
i wasn’t just talking about successful attempts. and i certainly wasn’t just talking about presidents, or even just american politicians, but yeah.
Luciamia
@Brachiator: He said it was ” most important speech of my life.” Why didn’t he ask the networks to carry it? Guess he didn’t want to interfere with the Rockefeller Christmas tree lighting. What a guy!
Fraud Guy
@lgerard: That’s not sufficient proof for my true believer, because Louie Gohmert heard someone say there was a tweet in German that confirmed what happened. Besides, we all know from Bourne and MI that you can have firefights with silenced automatic weapons that no one can hear.
2liberal
the trump insanity display is motivated by fundraising and will continue until it doesn’t raise money.
patrick II
@eddie blake:
I guess it’s o.k. then.
NotMax
@Cacti
Strangely enough, Abe’s son Robert Todd Lincoln was in the vicinity of all three.
eddie blake
@patrick II:
no one said it was ok. it comes with the job. you wanna lead? you become a target.
patrick II
@eddie blake:
It’s not an on/off switch. There has always been some danger, particularly for the president. But if you can’t sense the increase in fear, not just by this guy but by others, then you aren’t paying attention.
patrick II
John Wall was traded from the Washington Wizards for Russell Westbrook today. Wall had insisted on being traded. He has been injured and not playing for two years. They paid him $40 million/yr during that time, so when he comes back he shows his gratitude by insisting on a trade. It can’t be the coach — they have a new one. If someone paid me $80 million for nothing, I would at least give the new regime a chance when I came back. Maybe he doesn’t like the uniforms.
Brachiator
@Cacti:
It’s 36 years between 1865 and 1901.
I’ve lived through the assassinations of John Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and Pope Paul II.
From 1963 to 1981: 18 years.
J R in WV
@Cacti:
I lived through the assassination of JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and the shooting of George Wallace and Ronald Reagan — and I’m sure I’m not remembering all of the political killings of the period from my birth in ’51 til today.
Frankensteinbeck
@Cathie from Canada:
The generals have already stated that the US military will not be taking part in any coup, or anything at all that involves shooting American citizens. Hitler was referenced in one major statement.
@Fraud Guy:
Yep. Q is way beyond a political movement. They are batshit ‘lizard people!!1!’ nuts. Their mythology is labyrinthine, constantly evolving, and nearly unrecognizable to non-members.
SFAW
@NotMax:
Well, no
body’scar’s perfectETA: I still can’t decide whether that’s the best closing line, or “Mein Fuehrer, I can walk!”
SFAW
@cain:
I think it’s more like Cecily Strong playing Victoria Jackson with a splash of Judge Box o’ Wine.
Fraud Guy
@Frankensteinbeck: Q reminds me of the anti-technology fanatics from the Daybreak series of sci-fi novels by John Barnes–they are infected by a memetic virus that causes self- and societally-destructive behavior.
Citizen Alan
@UncleEbeneezer:
I will hate them until I die if not from beyond the grave. I imagine I’ll have another month at most before my new Twitter account gets banned just like my last one for calling them degenerate subhuman garbage-creatures or something like that.