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Late Night GOP Clown Car Open Thread: There Are People You Can Count On

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… when it comes to being the Worst of the Worst. Like anyone in the Trump Crime Cartel:


Or Little Prince Rand, once again letting slip the mask on ‘Libertarianism’:

Or, just go down to the nadir, see who’s looking for his chance to sell pardons, no questions asked beyond Has the check cleared?

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  3. 3.

    Aleta

    A letter to the Post

    Back around 1992, then-Attorney General William P. Barr ordered published a Justice Department broadside, “The Case for More Incarceration,” in which prison was described as the best antidote to crime. Mr. Barr repeated in public the report’s bottom line: “The choice, then, is simple: more prisons or more crime.”

    Mr. Barr’s ideologically driven bent drove the United States to achieve its place as the nation that incarcerated more of its population than any other: With one-twentieth the world’s population, we held one-fourth of its prisoners. Mostly brown, Black and decidedly poor. Many locked up for years to meet the demands of the “war on drugs” that Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush advanced. No evidence backed Mr. Barr’s claims, and time proved Mr. Barr wrong:  Crime ended up decreasing as imprisonment decreased in states such as New York, California, New Jersey and Connecticut.

    Now, Mr. Barr leaves office having just accepted an award honoring his Catholicism even as he ordered the execution of federal prisoners, including one woman and a man who committed his crime at the age of 18, despite his church’s teachings against capital punishment.

    He was a good fit for President Trump. He was never the honorable or institutionally stabilizing force that some hoped for. His decision to admit that there was no provable fraud in this last election may be seen as an effort to rehabilitate himself.

    Like so many of Mr. Trump’s enablers, he will go down poorly in history.

    Malcolm C. Young, Washington

    The writer is the founder and a former director of the Sentencing Project.

  5. 5.

    StringOnAStick

    @Chetan Murthy: I had to go back and look because I just glanced and my mind said “Eric”, no question.  Do they all come out of the same evil gumball machine?

  10. 10.

    Kristine

    I still can’t get over how they so clearly state that they’re terrified of people voting. They should be beaten about the head and neck with it for the next 40 years, but of course they won’t be.

  14. 14.

    Ruckus

    @Kristine:

    They are always afraid that someone might make an intelligent decision. And vote for the other person, you know a woman or a minority…… at least for someone that isn’t a conservative. And is human. Enough of those people get elected and their entire grifting enterprise will be destroyed.

  23. 23.

    Redshift

    @Aleta: Yeah, I didn’t find out until this summer that after his first stint as AG, Barr was the mastermind behind Virginia abolishing parole. Grrr. However, it’s one of the awful policies that our new unified Democratic government reversed this year.

  25. 25.

    Brachiator

    The White House just named Andrew Giuliani, son of Rudy, to the Holocaust Memorial Council “in part because Trump has known him since infancy and also the president is said to enjoy golfing with the former New York mayor’s son.”

    That Donald. Petty and clueless until the very end.

  27. 27.

    hervevillechaizelounge

     

    If we had a decent press in this country someone would steal Ghouliani Jr’s DNA and prove he’s Eric Trump’s fraternal twin.

    No, let’s spend some time agonizing over Jill Biden’s honorific; let’s ask Dr. Seb Gorka to weigh in!

  32. 32.

    NotMax

    “Here’s the paper appointing him to the Holocaust Memorial Council. Only needs your signature.”

    “Wait a minute, is this right? You positive it’s not spelled Jewliani? Ah, screw it, hand me that Sharpie.”

  33. 33.

    John Revolta

    There’s something…………….off about Andrew. I remember him as a little kid standing next to the podium when Rudy was giving his inaugural speech, and he was gesturing and talking and just acting strange. I couldn’t understand why they let him stand there-?
    And today he golfs with the President. What a country!

  34. 34.

    oclib

    Is a council position a paid position or a pro bono position?  I’ve covered the grounds on google and can’t find squat other than they meet only twice a year….

  37. 37.

    Geminid

    There is so much happening that a lot of the trump corruption news gets lost in the shuffle. I’m hoping for a special “ReGrifting” thread for Boxing Day.

  40. 40.

    Frankensteinbeck

    It isn’t new that Republicans say that they oppose more voting because Democrats might win, it makes sense to their white supremacist voters, and it is completely reasonable to a media for whom politics is a sport and rural whites are ‘America’.

  41. 41.

    DMcK

    @John Revolta: Yep, I remember that. Nothing seemed “off” to me, he was just behaving like any other spoiled little damaged NYC rich-kid asshole would. Hella booze-face on that fucker, I genuinely pity the unfortunate waitstaff he’s undoubtedly abused with no tip

  43. 43.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Aleta:No evidence backed Mr. Barr’s claims, and time proved Mr. Barr wrong:

    So Barr is a true conservative, on the wrong side of history, knew it, did it anyway.

  44. 44.

    Adrian Lesher

    Let’s not forget that Giuliani, like Trump, has shown signs of admiration for Mussolini (I remember that he refused to deny hosting Alessandra Mussolini at Gracie Mansion when she visited New York, and Wayne Barett’s biography of Giuliani documents Giuliani’s mother’s idolization of Mussolini.)

  45. 45.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Brachiator: Makes one wonder if “golfing buddy” was the kind of selection process that Trump used in hiring for his business that made Trump the eleven times bankrupt success he is today.

  46. 46.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @hervevillechaizelounge:No, let’s spend some time agonizing over Jill Biden’s honorific; let’s ask Dr. Seb Gorka to weigh in!

    Times like this I wish the media had some subtlety,

    Media Talking head “Dr Seb Gorka; on these claims that Dr Jill Biden degree is overstated because she insists on it being used before her name at all times, we can assume you agree Dr Seb Gorka (I have that correct, right?). Please comment”

  48. 48.

    Warblewarble

    Important question, were hackers tipped off that cybersecurity at U.S agencies has been weakened under tRUMP?

  52. 52.

    The Moar You Know

    Important question, were hackers tipped off that cybersecurity at U.S agencies has been weakened under tRUMP?

    @Warblewarble:  It wasn’t, hate to tell you.  US Government cybersecurity has been a joke, and I mean that literally, from day one since I started working in that world over twenty years ago.  The USG really needs to burn all their systems down and start from scratch, as not a one of them was in any way “secure” from the day they were deployed.  And they’re compromised beyond repair now, as everyone knew they would be one day.

  53. 53.

    Just Chuck

    @Faithful Lurker: Attacks like this take weeks or months to pull off.  It’s one of the main differences between your average black hat outfit and state actors.  Dismantling the cyber-security apparatus was more about letting his Kremlin pals fuck with elections, methinks.

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