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You are here: Home / Politics / GOP Death Cult / Repub Stupidity Open Thread: “Led By Rep. Louie Gohmert”

Repub Stupidity Open Thread: “Led By Rep. Louie Gohmert”

by Anne Laurie|  December 28, 20206:07 pm| 183 Comments

This post is in: GOP Death Cult, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity

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really the only tangible activity accomplished by this latest dropped deuce ex machina is setting mike pence up to be labeled a pedophile deep state traitor marked for arrest by the imaginary secret shadow court

— kilgore trout, assless pajama afficianado (@KT_So_It_Goes) December 28, 2020

“His constructional duty.” Of all sad words of tongue or pen… Stupid gonna stupid, and the GOP is busily distilling itself down to the mercury-droplet level of poisonous stupidity. Even Mike ‘Win the Morning’ Allen has taken to pointing out the obvious, now that there’s no ‘but my access’ punishment for doing so — “How Trump caved on the coronavirus relief bill”:

… How it happened: Over many days, Mnuchin and McCarthy — aided by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who golfed with Trump in West Palm Beach on Friday — indulged the president’s rants, told him there was great stuff in the bill, and gave him “wins” he could announce, even though they didn’t change the bill…

Reality check … Republican pollster Frank Luntz, who worked hard to understand Trump, told me: “It may be too late. Too late for him, too late for the economy, too late for Covid, and too late for the Georgia senators.”

One can but hope, she said piously.

Man, if only Al Gore had thought to overturn the 2000 election results when he presided over the unsealing/counting of the electoral college votes. https://t.co/N3UG3Vq0JY

— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) December 28, 2020

Donald Trump is the Iraq War of Presidents. In 15 years, everyone who pushed hardest for it will act like it just happened all on its own.

— Jason Kander (@JasonKander) December 27, 2020

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  1. 1.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2020 at 6:11 pm

    “Deuce ex machina”? Really, Kilgore Trout?

  2. 2.

    debbie

    December 28, 2020 at 6:12 pm

    “Constructional duty” is the perfect ending for this very sad episode in our history.

    In the better news department, they just fired a killer cop here. FINALLY.

  3. 3.

    Elizabelle

    December 28, 2020 at 6:13 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:   Deuce can be slang for poop.  Embarrassed to know that, but somehow I do.

  4. 4.

    Frankensteinbeck

    December 28, 2020 at 6:13 pm

    …and everyone will agree Democrats are to blame.

     

    Someone here, I think just this morning, predicted that Trump’s aides lied to him to get him to sign it, and that’s why his weird comments.  Whoever you are, take a bow.

  5. 5.

    zhena gogolia

    December 28, 2020 at 6:14 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    It’s a joke. (“deuce” is slang for feces

    ETA: No doubt a play on “number two”

  6. 6.

    dmsilev

    December 28, 2020 at 6:14 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I dunno, “shit in the machine” seems accurate to me.

  7. 7.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2020 at 6:17 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    I didn’t know that, and was a happier person for it.

    However, I’m pretty sure that wasn’t what KT had in mind. I think he just doesn’t know it’s spelled “deus ex machina.”

  8. 8.

    jl

    December 28, 2020 at 6:17 pm

    The election law people have been mentioning this for a while, as one of the last double dog double down triple somersault supercalifragilisticexpialidocious slam dunks to keep Trump in office.

    I think the best approach would have been to just spring on everyone when Pence presided over the counting, then try to get Trump acting flunkies on board to try to strong arm the executive bureaucracy to look like it was going along, and be called into court with a fait accompli. But Pence wouldn’t get on board, and started planning his very very very very important foreign trip, I suppose.

  9. 9.

    Elizabelle

    December 28, 2020 at 6:17 pm

    @debbie:   Moar about the killer cop, please.

    I just put up a fun twitter thread by a blogger who outed a Northern Virginia sheriff’s deputy who has an … exciting Parler account.  His ass been fired.

    But the thread is so fun.   The deputy is an aspiring Country Western singer, huge gun collection at home … all manner of interesting stuff on that Parler account.  (Which deputy says has been “hacked.”  Uh huh.)

    NOTE:  commenter name and email keeps disappearing, FYI.

  10. 10.

    debbie

    December 28, 2020 at 6:18 pm

    I've decided to represent Mike Pence in the Gohmert vs Pence trial. I have zero experience as an attorney, but as we all know from the last 4 years, Pence puts full and complete trust in people with zero experience in their jobs. Plus, I'm doing it pro bono, as I am a big U2 fan.— Jeremy Newberger (@jeremynewberger) December 28, 2020

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    Elizabelle

    December 28, 2020 at 6:19 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:  I’m pretty sure he used deuce on purpose.  If not, it was a brilliant error.

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2020 at 6:20 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    @dmsilev:

    @Elizabelle #11:

    Hmm, okay, well maybe. (If so, I must be the only person on the planet who never heard the alternative definition for “deuce.”) If I’m wrong about Mr. Trout, I apologise and stand sit squat corrected.

  13. 13.

    Uncle Cosmo

    December 28, 2020 at 6:21 pm

    Get Outa Here, Moronic Eternal Rethuglican Troll!

  14. 14.

    zhena gogolia

    December 28, 2020 at 6:21 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: 
    I disagree. The word “dropped” before it is the giveaway.

  15. 15.

    Delk

    December 28, 2020 at 6:21 pm

    It was ‘dropped deuce’

    ETA see above

  16. 16.

    Anne Laurie

    December 28, 2020 at 6:21 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Rude pun.  ‘Drop a deuce’, per Urban Dictionary.

  17. 17.

    Hoodie

    December 28, 2020 at 6:21 pm

    @Elizabelle:  Hence “dropped deuce”, i.e., a turd.

  18. 18.

    jl

    December 28, 2020 at 6:22 pm

    What will be interesting is when the post-inauguration lawsuits will rev up, and how much they will interfere with Biden’s first days in office, or whole first term.

    Will Trump be able to keep ahead of his creditors long enough to keep a fixed address? Will he match Aaron Burr in the rate at which he has to skip around the states? When he gets his Army of Restoration together, will they putter up the Mississippi in old and oil coal barges? That would be fitting symbolism to keep some fossil fuel money flowing, and inspire the MAGA dead enders.

  19. 19.

    zhena gogolia

    December 28, 2020 at 6:22 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Haha, I probably wouldn’t know it if it weren’t for JL Cauvin.

  20. 20.

    Uncle Cosmo

    December 28, 2020 at 6:23 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    It’s my little deuce coup –
    You don’t know what I got!

  21. 21.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2020 at 6:24 pm

    Okay, okay, okay everybody! I get it now!

  22. 22.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2020 at 6:25 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    I don’t remember his using the term, and I thought I had watched them all.

  23. 23.

    Delk

    December 28, 2020 at 6:25 pm

    Now, if he was blinded by the light, that would be an all together different deuce.

  24. 24.

    different-church-lady

    December 28, 2020 at 6:25 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: “Drop a deuce” is slang for excretions of the bowel kind, so I’m pretty certain it was deliberate.

  25. 25.

    debbie

    December 28, 2020 at 6:25 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    It just happened, so there’s not a lot. But here.

    This was the second of two cop killer incidents in four days here. This cop had a record that made the cop who killed George Floyd look almost like a Boy Scout. One hundred incident reports (though one incident could have multiple reports; someone estimated that 80 would be a more accurate number). The city had to pay out a settlement after he bashed a driver’s head against his car during a DUI stop.

    And don’t even get me started on what happened at and after this specific shooting.

  26. 26.

    Baud

    December 28, 2020 at 6:26 pm

    I see SiubhanDuinne has gotten us off track again.

  27. 27.

    Another Scott

    December 28, 2020 at 6:28 pm

    TheHill:

    The House on Monday passed legislation that would increase the amount of direct payments in the recently signed coronavirus relief package from $600 to $2,000.

    The bill passed in a 275-134 vote. It needed a two-thirds majority under the procedures that were used for consideration.

    The measure faces an uphill battle in the GOP-controlled Senate. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), a member of Senate Republican leadership, said last week that he didn’t think a bill to increase the stimulus checks to $2,000 could pass in the upper chamber.

    […]

    Make Moscow Mitch block it. Give Warnock and Ossoff yet more ammunition to drink his milkshake.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  28. 28.

    Elizabelle

    December 28, 2020 at 6:28 pm

    @debbie:   Thank you.  Checking your link out.

  29. 29.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 28, 2020 at 6:28 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    “Deuce ex machina”? Really, Kilgore Trout? 

    Deuce Bigalow Ex Machina Gigolo!

    (Not the least bit sorry!)

  30. 30.

    Geminid

    December 28, 2020 at 6:28 pm

    Republican leaders are “shining” trump on until the Georgia Senate runoffs, which they are desperate to win. After that, they’ll keep their heads down and hope he doesn’t do something really stupid the last couple weeks of his term, like start a war. They are cynical and gutless.

  31. 31.

    Baud

    December 28, 2020 at 6:29 pm

    @debbie:

    cop killer

     
    I assume you mean killer cop. Cop killer is the inverse.

  32. 32.

    different-church-lady

    December 28, 2020 at 6:29 pm

    @Uncle Cosmo: deuce femmes, un coupe?

    (I’m so, so sorry for this…)

  33. 33.

    Elizabelle

    December 28, 2020 at 6:29 pm

    @Baud:   She pulls that deuce a lot.

  34. 34.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 28, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    IT IS TIME TO FIRE THE WRITERS AND CANCEL THE SERIES!

    This garbage would be hilarious as farce.  As a seditious real political party with actual power, not so much.

  35. 35.

    Suburban Mom

    December 28, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Given that he wrote specifically “dropped deuce” I am pretty sure he knew exactly what he was saying.  (Sorry). After years of driving half of a high school football team home after practice, I’m kind of a grossness expert.

  36. 36.

    debbie

    December 28, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    @Baud:

    Gah! Missed the edit window by seconds

     

    ETA: But, yes, I meant killer cop.

  37. 37.

    randy khan

    December 28, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    @Another Scott:

    Make Moscow Mitch block it. Give Warnock and Ossoff yet more ammunition to drink his milkshake.

    Once again, Trump has been playing -11th dimensional chess.  I am interested, actually, that there were enough Republicans on board to cross the 2/3 threshold in the House.  I don’t know that it makes any difference in the Senate, but it’s still interesting.

  38. 38.

    Baud

    December 28, 2020 at 6:33 pm

    @jl:

    Unlike Trump, Pence doesn’t want to go down in history alongside Benedict Arnold and John Wilkes Booth.

  39. 39.

    Baud

    December 28, 2020 at 6:34 pm

    @randy khan:

    Yes. I thought it was going to be a straight majority vote. I’m impressed.

  40. 40.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 28, 2020 at 6:35 pm

    @debbie: Haha, my brain must’ve autocorrected to “Constitutional,” and now it hurts.

    The Assclowns Who Couldn’t Traitor Straight

  41. 41.

    zhena gogolia

    December 28, 2020 at 6:35 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    He has a podcast with it in the title, and Drumpf on the toilet:
    https://www.amazon.com/Fireside-Craps-Explicit-J-L-Cauvin/dp/B0878WQQP9

  42. 42.

    debbie

    December 28, 2020 at 6:35 pm

    Ha, this’ll eat at Trump:

    Happy to donate latest $23,000 in Art of The Deal royalties to NGO’s providing food to the hungry, battling environmental destruction and climate change, and fighting against racism. Over $200k donated since 2016.
    — Tony Schwartz (@tonyschwartz) December 28, 2020

  43. 43.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    December 28, 2020 at 6:35 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Redacted because you have suffered enough.

  44. 44.

    Elizabelle

    December 28, 2020 at 6:36 pm

    Did any of you guys check out the match.com youtube links I put up this morning?

    First up:  Match Made in Hell.  This one has lots of sight gags, so watch it on as big a screen as you can.

    Second:  When Satan Met 2020.  More dialogue-driven.  They are sitting on a couch.

     

    Satan finding happiness with 2020.  I liked them. I see they’ve been up since early December, but they were new to me.  Maybe not to you …   I’ll take funny Satan over nonfunny and stupid Louis Gohmert (and confederates) any day of the week.

  45. 45.

    VeniceRiley

    December 28, 2020 at 6:37 pm

    It makes Steve Deucey’s name a description.

  46. 46.

    Another Scott

    December 28, 2020 at 6:37 pm

    @Baud: Apparently if they couldn’t get 2/3 they had a backup plan in the works to get it via a simple majority.  I’m glad it didn’t come to that.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  47. 47.

    zhena gogolia

    December 28, 2020 at 6:37 pm

    This is a really shitty thread.

  48. 48.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 28, 2020 at 6:39 pm

    @Uncle Cosmo: Nice!

  49. 49.

    Anne Laurie

    December 28, 2020 at 6:40 pm

    @VeniceRiley: It makes Steve Deucey’s name a description.

    To be honest, for the first couple years, I thought ‘Steve Deucy’ was a vulgar pun on some Fox dude’s *real* name…

  50. 50.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2020 at 6:42 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Those are both very clever. Thanks!

  51. 51.

    zhena gogolia

    December 28, 2020 at 6:42 pm

    Speaking of JL Cauvin
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO49G3alKqY

  52. 52.

    zhena gogolia

    December 28, 2020 at 6:42 pm

    @Anne Laurie:

    Well, to be fair, it is spelled Doocy.

  53. 53.

    West of the Rockies

    December 28, 2020 at 6:43 pm

    Truly, the GOP is now Gilligan’s Island but with 6 Gilligans and a Sarah Palin Maryanne. It’s just non-stop stupid.

  54. 54.

    West of the Rockies

    December 28, 2020 at 6:47 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I’ve heard Dukey but not deuce.

  55. 55.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2020 at 6:48 pm

    @West of the Rockies: That is funny but also true.

  56. 56.

    dmsilev

    December 28, 2020 at 6:49 pm

    Post:

    The House mustered enough votes Monday to reject President Trump’s veto of a $741 billion defense authorization bill, setting up the first congressional override of his presidency just days before he exits office.

  57. 57.

    Elizabelle

    December 28, 2020 at 6:49 pm

    @West of the Rockies:   Green Day!  Dookie!

  58. 58.

    patrick II

    December 28, 2020 at 6:50 pm

    @debbie:

    They had to get a four syllable word in there to sound smart.

  59. 59.

    Baud

    December 28, 2020 at 6:50 pm

    @dmsilev: ?

  60. 60.

    raven

    December 28, 2020 at 6:51 pm

    It’s “number two” you dorks.

  61. 61.

    hilts

    December 28, 2020 at 6:52 pm

    More clueless douchebaggery from Trump:

    He tweeted out a campaign-style video 8 weeks after Election Day

    h/t https://www.mediaite.com/trump/watch-trump-bizarrely-drops-campaign-style-video-8-weeks-after-election-mimicking-decades-old-beef-its-whats-for-dinner-ad/

  62. 62.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 28, 2020 at 6:52 pm

    @patrick II: Proofreading is hard for these idiots.

  63. 63.

    debbie

    December 28, 2020 at 6:54 pm

    We are now watching people who call themselves conservatives argue that vice presidents should have unilateral power to decide presidential elections. https://t.co/ajqYE9ex9H— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) December 28, 2020

  64. 64.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    December 28, 2020 at 6:54 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Your send link is suboptimal because it forces youvto a “desktop” view of YouTube, which is tiny on phones and (some) tablets.

    Fixed here: When Satan met 2020.

  65. 65.

    jnfr

    December 28, 2020 at 6:54 pm

    @debbie:

    Thanks for posting that. I didn’t realize he was donating his profits and I’m glad to hear it.

    Very happy the bill passed the House.

  66. 66.

    dmsilev

    December 28, 2020 at 6:55 pm

    @hilts: It’s just filled with weirdness, like for instance the Nobel medallion that makes a cameo appearance. Guess ‘somebody’ really wants that Peace Prize.

  67. 67.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    December 28, 2020 at 6:58 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    “Second” link.

  68. 68.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 28, 2020 at 6:59 pm

    @hilts: I refuse to sully my memory of Beef: It’s What’s For Dinner.

    (Goes off to watch the original ad)

  69. 69.

    cain

    December 28, 2020 at 7:00 pm

    @Baud:

    I keep thinking that this is some kind of play to remove Pence running for President. I figure Trump would get quite upset if he refused to comply with that lawsuit.

  70. 70.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2020 at 7:01 pm

    Since we’re sharing things that amuse us, and since this is the 141st anniversary of the horrible (not at all amusing) Tay Bridge Disaster, I’d like to present for your delectation the best worst poem of all time. Here is William McGonagall’s 1880 masterpiece, “The Tay Bridge Disaster.”

    Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay!
    Alas! I am very sorry to say
    That ninety lives have been taken away
    On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
    Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

    ’Twas about seven o’clock at night,
    And the wind it blew with all its might,
    And the rain came pouring down,
    And the dark clouds seem’d to frown,
    And the Demon of the air seem’d to say-
    “I’ll blow down the Bridge of Tay.”

    When the train left Edinburgh
    The passengers’ hearts were light and felt no sorrow,
    But Boreas blew a terrific gale,
    Which made their hearts for to quail,
    And many of the passengers with fear did say-
    “I hope God will send us safe across the Bridge of Tay.”

    But when the train came near to Wormit Bay,
    Boreas he did loud and angry bray,
    And shook the central girders of the Bridge of Tay
    On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
    Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

    So the train sped on with all its might,
    And Bonnie Dundee soon hove in sight,
    And the passengers’ hearts felt light,
    Thinking they would enjoy themselves on the New Year,
    With their friends at home they lov’d most dear,
    And wish them all a happy New Year.

    So the train mov’d slowly along the Bridge of Tay,
    Until it was about midway,
    Then the central girders with a crash gave way,
    And down went the train and passengers into the Tay!
    The Storm Fiend did loudly bray,
    Because ninety lives had been taken away,
    On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
    Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

    As soon as the catastrophe came to be known
    The alarm from mouth to mouth was blown,
    And the cry rang out all o’er the town,
    Good Heavens! the Tay Bridge is blown down,
    And a passenger train from Edinburgh,
    Which fill’d all the peoples hearts with sorrow,
    And made them for to turn pale,
    Because none of the passengers were sav’d to tell the tale
    How the disaster happen’d on the last Sabbath day of 1879,
    Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

    It must have been an awful sight,
    To witness in the dusky moonlight,
    While the Storm Fiend did laugh, and angry did bray,
    Along the Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay,
    Oh! ill-fated Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay,
    I must now conclude my lay
    By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay,
    That your central girders would not have given way,
    At least many sensible men do say,
    Had they been supported on each side with buttresses,
    At least many sensible men confesses,
    For the stronger we our houses do build,
    The less chance we have of being killed.

    McGonagall wrote volumes and volumes of this kind of stuff. No, he didn’t mean to be funny, any more than Jon McNaughton does in his hideous paintings. (They both make me ashamed to share Scottish ancestry with them.)

  71. 71.

    cain

    December 28, 2020 at 7:02 pm

    @dmsilev:

    I’m curious to know what his reaction is going to be.. Will he simply deny it ever happened at all and proceed to still bully them as if they had never passed it ?? Or will he suddenly take credit for it and congratulate himself on a well managed “deal”?

  72. 72.

    Doc Sardonic

    December 28, 2020 at 7:02 pm

    @VeniceRiley: Very descriptive if you use the Asian convention of surname first…..

  73. 73.

    lamh36

    December 28, 2020 at 7:03 pm

    The Dems in the house passed the bill to increase the COVID relief payments to $2000 like Chump claimed he wanted. Now it goes to the Senate and guess what…watch the strategy. McConnell will let Perue and Loeffler vote YES to benefit them in the GA runoff, cause he already knows he has enough NO votes to tank the bill. Who wants to bet, that it’s gonna be “Pelosi’s fault” or “neither side cares” to some folks.

  74. 74.

    debbie

    December 28, 2020 at 7:03 pm

    This is sure not to end well.

    A video President Trump tweeted today features the Nobel Peace Prize superimposed over photographs of him with the prime minister of Israel, and the foreign ministers of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.

    A REMINDER: The president has not been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. pic.twitter.com/nJHZbgy5I9
    — David Gura (@davidgura) December 28, 2020

    The Nobel Committee doesn’t permit unauthorized use of its medal:

    This may be of interest to The Nobel Foundation. https://t.co/cQUQPn3cOd pic.twitter.com/O22iJ41L3j
    — David Gura (@davidgura) December 28, 2020

  75. 75.

    Elizabelle

    December 28, 2020 at 7:03 pm

    @debbie:   The firing of Adam Coy, killer cop, made the hourly NPR news recap.

  76. 76.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 28, 2020 at 7:04 pm

    all due respect to Mr Kander, it won’t take fifteen months for trump to become a thing that just kinda happened

  77. 77.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2020 at 7:04 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    I watched it on a phone and had no problems at all.

  78. 78.

    Elizabelle

    December 28, 2020 at 7:05 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone):   Thank you, Steep.

  79. 79.

    Doc Sardonic

    December 28, 2020 at 7:06 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Well bowels and their function, or lack there of, do tend to take up a lot space when oldsters talk….

  80. 80.

    Yutsano

    December 28, 2020 at 7:07 pm

    @hilts:  Ah yes. Using music from a gay composer that many Americans will associate with beef commercials from the 80s. Heckuva job there!

    I actually watched the stupid thing. It really is a “why the fuck would you release this now?” sort of dog headtilt.

  81. 81.

    Roger Moore

    December 28, 2020 at 7:10 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    ProofReading is hard for these idiots.

    FTFY.

  82. 82.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2020 at 7:10 pm

    @Yutsano:

    And it ends with that flag-porn image. Ugh.

  83. 83.

    Spanky

    December 28, 2020 at 7:11 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: My god, what a disaster!

  84. 84.

    Baud

    December 28, 2020 at 7:12 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I cried.

  85. 85.

    Geminid

    December 28, 2020 at 7:12 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Well, they just don’t write poems like they used to…thank god!

  86. 86.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 28, 2020 at 7:13 pm

    @lamh36:

    Scott Lemieux @LemieuxLGM 40m
    It won’t be easy to blame McConnell’s refusal to bring this to a vote on House Dems, but I’m confident large segments of this website can pull it off

  87. 87.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 28, 2020 at 7:13 pm

    @West of the Rockies: Dawn Wells libelz!

  88. 88.

    Baud

    December 28, 2020 at 7:14 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Damn. Is he talking about LGM or Twitter?

  89. 89.

    Yutsano

    December 28, 2020 at 7:14 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:  It almost made me wonder if it was a big troll.

    Almost.

  90. 90.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 28, 2020 at 7:15 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    They both make me ashamed to share Scottish ancestry with them,

    You know who else is Scottish?

  91. 91.

    waratah

    December 28, 2020 at 7:15 pm

    @randy khan:  Trump made sure his base knew he asked for that amount. I live in a blue collar working neighborhood in a red state I know they have heard about this. I was surprised that Republicans are fighting it.

  92. 92.

    lamh36

    December 28, 2020 at 7:16 pm

    BREAKING: The House votes to override President Trump’s veto of the defense bill, sending it to the Republican-led Senate for an override attempt in that chamber https://cnn.it/3aP0zZJ

  93. 93.

    dmsilev

    December 28, 2020 at 7:16 pm

    He promised to bring dealmaking savvy to the nation’s capital, yet President Trump is poised to end his term with back-to-back embarrassments — caving to sign a coronavirus relief compromise he’d called “a disgrace” and facing the likelihood that Congress will override his veto of an annual military operations bill.

    In a bipartisan vote on Monday evening, the House took the first step in rebuffing the president’s veto of the defense bill, which had passed overwhelmingly in both chambers earlier this month. The override vote, which required a two-thirds margin, was 322-87.

    (LA Times)

  94. 94.

    jl

    December 28, 2020 at 7:17 pm

    @Baud: I haven’t read about the Trumpsters lining up any bogus alternative slates.

    Anyone know if any state GOPs have appointed alternative slates? Or is that on the to-do list over the next week?

     

    Edit: if Baud XXXX! could get enough alternative slates appointed, pass them off to the GOP as Trumpster EC votesm, then a miracle is nigh. Wammo boffo! Victory from the ashes! Don’t let victory slip through your fingers again.

  95. 95.

    danielx

    December 28, 2020 at 7:17 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    And the technology already exists, per Driftglass.

    They marched and they cheered and sang lots of brave tunes,
    About how great Beck was, and how Lefties were Loons.
    For one thing, of course, had remained just the same
    The Left and their schemes were always to blame.
    Because there is no need to be careful or watch what you say                                             When your past is as squashy as modeling clay.

  96. 96.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 28, 2020 at 7:18 pm

    @hilts: That is an obscenity.

  97. 97.

    debbie

    December 28, 2020 at 7:18 pm

    @Yutsano:

    Next he will claim he was one of the astronauts on the first moon landing.
    — Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) December 29, 2020

  98. 98.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 28, 2020 at 7:19 pm

    @lamh36: now that’s a surprise, I didn’t think they’d get to two-thirds on that

  99. 99.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2020 at 7:19 pm

     

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    Thank you, Steep. I don’t know what you wrote and redacted, but thank you for understanding.

  100. 100.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 28, 2020 at 7:19 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Sometimes Scottish IS crap.  Not usually, of course, but there are notable examples.  Like Donald, whose mother was an immigrant from Scotland.

  101. 101.

    dmsilev

    December 28, 2020 at 7:21 pm

    Via Josh Marshall, check this out:

    pic.twitter.com/nwpBk3SnYm
    — Arizona Republican Party (@AZGOP) December 28, 2020

    I didn’t think it was possible to outdo Jon McNaughton.

  102. 102.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2020 at 7:21 pm

    @Spanky:

    @Baud:

    @Geminid:

    I know, right? I love that poem. It’s so awful.

  103. 103.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 28, 2020 at 7:22 pm

    @debbie:

    The Nobel Committee doesn’t permit unauthorized use of its medal: 

    Wait.  Dump is going to get a beatdown from the Nobel Committee?

  104. 104.

    debbie

    December 28, 2020 at 7:23 pm

    @dmsilev:

    I like that the face is orange and there’s a hint of orange in the hair. But you know Trump would never carry a pistol like that.

  105. 105.

    Kent

    December 28, 2020 at 7:23 pm

    @randy khan: Once again, Trump has been playing -11th dimensional chess. I am interested, actually, that there were enough Republicans on board to cross the 2/3 threshold in the House. I don’t know that it makes any difference in the Senate, but it’s still interesting.

    Why would the GOP-ers in the House not vote for it? They are just following Trump’s orders. Let McConnell and the Senate take the heat for blocking it. Seems like a no-brainer if you are a House GOPer.

  106. 106.

    Frankensteinbeck

    December 28, 2020 at 7:23 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I’m confident large segments of this website can pull it off

    The Rose Twitter explanation is that Pelosi and McConnell are working together and he provides her political cover.

  107. 107.

    debbie

    December 28, 2020 at 7:23 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Probably just a pithy remark meant to insult him.

  108. 108.

    dmsilev

    December 28, 2020 at 7:24 pm

    @debbie: We could send him to the Moon without too much trouble.

    Just don’t ask about the ‘soft landing’ or ‘safe return’ parts.

  109. 109.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 28, 2020 at 7:24 pm

    @Roger Moore: ?

  110. 110.

    debbie

    December 28, 2020 at 7:25 pm

    @Kent:

    Seems like a no-brainer if you are a House GOPer.

    You answered your own question, no?

  111. 111.

    dmsilev

    December 28, 2020 at 7:25 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Just to spite him, they’ll give a special set of not-Trump Prizes to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden.

  112. 112.

    jl

    December 28, 2020 at 7:26 pm

    @dmsilev: Trump likes the biggest and most spectacular, the best, the classiest, arrivals. He’s always been big on most terrific disasters.

  113. 113.

    geg6

    December 28, 2020 at 7:27 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    He definitely meant to say “deuce.”  No doubt in my mind.  I laughed as soon as I saw it and thought “perfectly apropos.”

  114. 114.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2020 at 7:27 pm

    @hilts:

    You know what, I saw that ad earlier today and figured it was from early in the campaign and I had simply not seen it before. Had no idea until some of the commentary that he just released it today, eight weeks after the election. Delusional.

  115. 115.

    Frosty Fred

    December 28, 2020 at 7:28 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Then surely you must be a fan of Julia Moore, the Sweet Singer of Michigan.

  116. 116.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 28, 2020 at 7:29 pm

    @danielx: Ah the Bush-Off Machine.  From a simpler time when the Rethuglican party was a god-damned fucking pile of shit then!

  117. 117.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2020 at 7:29 pm

    @geg6:

    Right, thanks. Sufficient number of people on this thread have set me right, and I did apologise for getting it wrong. Somehow I’ve never come across that piece of slang, and as I told (I think) Elizabelle, I was happier in my time of innocence.

  118. 118.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2020 at 7:30 pm

    @Frosty Fred:

    Any relation to Sarah Binks, the Sweet Songstress of Saskatchewan?

  119. 119.

    hilts

    December 28, 2020 at 7:31 pm

    Music from a gay composer

    @dmsilev:

    @mrmoshpotato:

    @Yutsano:

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    The decision to use music written by Aaron Copland achieves a trifecta.  He wasn’t simply gay, he was a gay New York jew.

    I think St Elizabeths Hospital

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elizabeths_Hospital

    should be preparing a room for Trump right now because after Jan 6th, he will descend to peak batshit crazy.

  120. 120.

    Jay

    December 28, 2020 at 7:31 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    sadly, lot’s of examples. Crap load of Scots left the Island to fight for freedom. Crapload of others left the Island in furtherance of Empire.

  121. 121.

    NotMax

    December 28, 2020 at 7:31 pm

    As it’s open thread –

    FYI, first season of the British series Flack is coming to Prime on January 22nd (Amazon picked it up to produce a third season after it was canceled).

    Personally have problems with its ululating undertow of unpleasantry but will note that those who like the show really like it. While other folks wax lyrical about Anna Paquin in the lead, for this codger’s (limited) money it’s Sophie Okonedo being part of the cast which made me check it out in the first place, having never been less than strongly impressed with her camera charisma in other productions.

  122. 122.

    Frankensteinbeck

    December 28, 2020 at 7:31 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Delusional.

    It’s just another way of stamping his foot and screaming, “Nuh-UH, I won!”

  123. 123.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 28, 2020 at 7:32 pm

    @dmsilev: “Congratulations to you three on not being traitorous, orange, whiny ass titty babies.”

  124. 124.

    jnfr

    December 28, 2020 at 7:35 pm

    @hilts:

    I can’t believe they included him hugging the flag. That’s so horrible.

    I assume that overall it was made as another ego boost for him.

  125. 125.

    hilts

    December 28, 2020 at 7:36 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Delusional.

    That’s Trump’s middle name and once the election results are made official on January 6, he will redefine insanity.  Maybe, he’ll try to fire Pence or have him arrested.

  126. 126.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 28, 2020 at 7:37 pm

    @jnfr: You misspelled “humping the flag.”

    Sounds like that video is quite vomit-inducing.

  127. 127.

    geg6

    December 28, 2020 at 7:38 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Sorry, I replied before I read the thread.  I’m shocked you’ve never heard that before.  Thought it was quite a common saying.

  128. 128.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 28, 2020 at 7:43 pm

    @jnfr:

    I assume that overall it was made as another ego boost for him.

    Oh yeah, the boat parades are dead give away. I wonder how many of those videos he has on his phone. And the fact that he thinks that flag-hugging is something people want to see

  129. 129.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2020 at 7:43 pm

    @geg6: It probably is. I’m always kind of amazed at the slang and pop culture I’m totally ignorant of.

  130. 130.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2020 at 7:46 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    And the fact that he thinks that flag-hugginghumping is something people want to see

    Had to fix for you.

    ETA: Or what moshie said.

  131. 131.

    Elizabelle

    December 28, 2020 at 7:46 pm

    @geg6:

    Thought it was quite a common saying.

    It is now!

  132. 132.

    hilts

    December 28, 2020 at 7:49 pm

    @jnfr:

    Until Trump came along, I never imagined that a politician could be driven horny by the sight of an American flag.

  133. 133.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2020 at 7:49 pm

    @hilts:

    Maybe, he’ll try to fire Pence or have him arrested.

    Oh plz oh plz oh plz oh plz oh plz oh plz oh plz

  134. 134.

    billcinsd

    December 28, 2020 at 7:49 pm

    @jl:

    I haven’t read about the Trumpsters lining up any bogus alternative slates.

    Anyone know if any state GOPs have appointed alternative slates? Or is that on the to-do list over the next week?

    The Republican portions of the legislatures of Michigan, Georgia, Arizona and Michigan sent alternative votes at the EC voting deadline

  135. 135.

    Elizabelle

    December 28, 2020 at 7:49 pm

    @dmsilev:   Benedict Arnold   Donald!

  136. 136.

    jl

    December 28, 2020 at 7:49 pm

    Jan 6 is Trump’s Alamo. All GOP elected officials must support him on Jan 6 or they are toast.

    “…. You will NOT be re-elected…. ”

    https://twitter.com/jamespmanley/status/1343715864810500096

    Technically, that omits Loeffler, but a nuance that will escape MAGA, probably Trump as well.

    The GA election will probably be very close, so just a few resentful, disillusioned and resentful Trumpsters sitting it out, and a just a few more charged up Dem voters can make all the difference.

  137. 137.

    jl

    December 28, 2020 at 7:50 pm

    @billcinsd: Thanks for info. I haven’t seen that reported.

  138. 138.

    Another Scott

    December 28, 2020 at 7:53 pm

    If McConnell won’t bring $2000 payments to the floor, Bernie will object to the defense bill.

    No payments for people — no New Year’s Eve break for Senators https://t.co/v0isqi9jEI

    — Ari Rabin-Havt (@AriRabinHavt) December 28, 2020

    Interesting! – if it actually happens that way.

    (via LOLGOP)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  139. 139.

    Bex

    December 28, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    @hilts: Somewhere, Aaron Copeland is really embarrassed.

  140. 140.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 28, 2020 at 7:59 pm

    @debbie:

    Saw that on the news. The POS killed that guy in his own garage and they declined to render the victim aid ?

  141. 141.

    Baud

    December 28, 2020 at 8:02 pm

    @Another Scott:

    I didn’t think one could object to an override vote.

  142. 142.

    Baud

    December 28, 2020 at 8:10 pm

    Guy filling in for a Chris Hayes is a douchebag.

  143. 143.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 28, 2020 at 8:13 pm

    @Baud: I think it’s very important to frame Republican malfeasance as a failure for Nancy Pelosi

    (Medhi Hassan, arguably the least clownish clown in the clown car known as The Intercept, so… still a clown)

  144. 144.

    NotMax

    December 28, 2020 at 8:14 pm

    @Baud

    So, an improvement?

    //

  145. 145.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    December 28, 2020 at 8:15 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    No shit… :)

  146. 146.

    jnfr

    December 28, 2020 at 8:16 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    My bad.

  147. 147.

    Baud

    December 28, 2020 at 8:18 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I felt like Jefferies was about to let out a “WTF, man?”

  148. 148.

    raven

    December 28, 2020 at 8:19 pm

    Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airman

     

    Truckin and Fuckin

     
    Everybody’s dancin’ and truckin’
    Everybody’s swingin’ and fuckin
    Truckin’ (truckin’) fuckin’ (fuckin’) everybody’s doin’ it now

  149. 149.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    December 28, 2020 at 8:21 pm

    @billcinsd: I remember at least one photo of the “alternate electors” trying to get inside the venue where the vote was being certified, but security wouldn’t let them in. “The electors are already here.”

  150. 150.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 28, 2020 at 8:23 pm

    @Baud: to me, the answer to the “new leadership” troll should be: Who and what would they have done differently?

    I turned it off when he brought Reich on. I assume Sam Seder and Michael Moore are waiting in the wings

  151. 151.

    Another Scott

    December 28, 2020 at 8:28 pm

    @Baud: I guess his plan is to object to the process before the actual override vote. Or something. TheHill:

    A spokesman for Sanders confirmed that he will object to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) setting up a vote on the veto override of the defense bill until a proposal to increase the amount of the direct payments to $2,000 is also voted on.

    Sanders can’t prevent the Senate from ultimately voting on whether or not to override Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The bill passed the Senate initially this month in a 84-13 vote, with Sanders voting “no” at the time.

    But McConnell is likely to have to move to break a rare filibuster of the veto override effort, forcing it to overcome a 60-vote procedural hurdle and delaying a final vote on Trump’s veto message for days until later this week.

    In addition to Sanders, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said he would similarly slow down the NDAA in an effort to get a vote on increasing the amount of direct assistance provided as part of the $2.3 trillion package.

    “I will be joining @BernieSanders in blocking the defense bill until we get a vote on $2000 in direct cash relief. That relief passed in the House today with 44 Republicans voting for it. Senate Republicans must do the same and get the American people the help they need,” he tweeted.

    Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is expected to try to clear the House-passed bill increasing the amount of direct assistance through the Senate on Tuesday. But because it will only take one senator to block his request, he’ll expected to fall short.

    It’s good to see them fighting for this. Make Moscow Mitch show his yellow underbelly and stacked deck.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  152. 152.

    Baud

    December 28, 2020 at 8:29 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    what would they have done differently

    They wouldn’t have settled.  Duh.

  153. 153.

    Luciamia

    December 28, 2020 at 8:33 pm

    Truly Pence seems like the last person you’d want to draft into this scheme. He looks like he’d shit his pants at the very thought of it.

  154. 154.

    debbie

    December 28, 2020 at 8:34 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    Not only did they not render aid, they didn’t even bother to call EMS. The cop that showed up after the supervisor is the one who ended up calling them.

  155. 155.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2020 at 8:44 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: It’s hard when that happens because when they are replying, they don’t know that 18 people have already answered it.

    If I’m around, I am always willing to edit the original comment to indicate that the question has already been answered.  (on request)

    But if we all read all the comments before replying, no one would ever comment!  :-)

  156. 156.

    M31

    December 28, 2020 at 8:46 pm

    @hilts: gay, New York, communist Jew, to boot

  157. 157.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    At this point, wouldn’t it HELP the Republicans in Georgia if there is a vote for the 2,000?  Loeffler and Perdue can’t get on Trump’s bad side by voting yes, because Trump is for this.  People in Georgia also surely want the 2,000.

    So aren’t we hurting our chances in Georgia by forcing a vote on the 2k?

    I know everyone desperately needs assistance.  But if we can win the senate, they can get the extra assistance right away after Jan 20, I would think.  I don’t understand the Bernie/Markey strategy here.

  158. 158.

    sab

    December 28, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    @WaterGirl: I am kind of disturbed that so many jackals knew the term.

  159. 159.

    NotMax

    December 28, 2020 at 9:08 pm

    @sab

    So much for those who say the jackals don’t know sh*t.

    ;)

  160. 160.

    Another Scott

    December 28, 2020 at 9:19 pm

    @WaterGirl: There are a multitude of ways that it could/will fail in the Senate: Johnson will object yet again.  Moscow Mitch doesn’t want it and he controls the clock.  The 116th Congress ends one second before noon on Sunday January 3 – less than 6 days from now.  He and a bunch of other senators want to go home doing the least work possible.  Who knows, he may try to spin things and say that Bernie and other Democrats are tying his hands with their cloture demands and he can’t bring the $2000 bill to the floor in time, and by the way, the NDAA over-ride failed because those Democrats Hate the Troops™.

    Early voting is going on and has been since December 14.  If Moscow Mitch were worried about COVID relief affecting the GA senate races, wouldn’t he have done something earlier?

    My $0.02. We’ll see.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  161. 161.

    moonbat

    December 28, 2020 at 9:19 pm

    @WaterGirl: Well, there’s the fact that people could actually use $2,000 if they can get it and Dems have been pushing for that all along.

  162. 162.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    @Another Scott: What I don’t want to happen is:

    1. Loeffler & Perdue vote YES so they get credit for that, and
    2. That plays against our argument that with a Republican senate, nothing will get done, so don’t vote for divided government
    3. The vote fails anyway and people get nothing.
    4. and Loeffler and Perdue chances go up, and ours go down.
  163. 163.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    @moonbat:  That is true.  But us getting the senate is everything, and if we can get the senate, we can do so many things that will make a differences with the pandemic, climate change, everything else.

    If we don’t win the senate, I don’t think there’s any more aid for disaster relief.

    The thing is, I don’t think it passes the senate, so our best chance for disaster relief in 2021 is to win both seats in Georgia.

  164. 164.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Oh, no worries. I suspect a lot of people read the threads the way I do: when a new thread appears, read the OT, then the comments in order. HOWEVER, if you see something commentable, by all means comment without bothering to see if anyone else has commented earlier, better, more concisely, and more wittily.

    Once you’ve gone through the first batch of comments, close the window and wander off for a while. Check Wonkette, see if Charlie Pierce has posted anything yet, take a shower, make a tuna salad.

    Upon returning to BJ, check out all the new threads, comment or not, and then — this is key — return to the original BJ post, hit the down arrow, and start reading comments, and commenting on them, from the bottom up. Makes for hours of confused and chaotic fun, every time!

  165. 165.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2020 at 9:40 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: It’s all part of the charm of the BJ experience. ;-)

    But I do recall an instance recently-ish where everyone jumped on a person, who by comment 5 or 7 or 10 acknowledged their mistake/bad wording/whatever and apologized, and got jumped on another 15 times, and that can be overwhelming – even if you logically know that people aren’t ganging up on you.

  166. 166.

    Another Scott

    December 28, 2020 at 9:48 pm

    @WaterGirl: I’m sure Moscow Mitch is trying to figure out a way to “win”.

    Thread:

    Richard M. Nixon
    @dick_nixon

    Those who get the column know we’ve written several times of our respect for McConnell politically but have noted lately, say the past year, he has betrayed nervousness.

    To my mind, with Georgia being the stakes, the thing to do is call the vote and outflank them. If the line is, “Republicans won’t pay you,” call their bluff and claim victory. If it passes it was your brave support of the President, if it fails, you tried.

    I’m guessing McConnell will write his own bill tying the $2000 to austerity measures.

    That last bit sounds like something he would try. But it also sounds like too much work. Why wouldn’t he just let it sit in the pile on his desk with all the other bills the House has sent over??

    tl;dr – Georgia is probably already baked except for turnout – the GOP has said NO since May 15. This $2000 bill is just another opportunity for Moscow Mitch to say “NO”. Make them pay for that.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  167. 167.

    TomatoQueen

    December 28, 2020 at 9:48 pm

    @NotMax:  You’ve been waiting all day (*now night here) to say that, haven’t you.

  168. 168.

    Bill Arnold

    December 28, 2020 at 10:39 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    Plenty have covered it, but always check urban dictionary..
    I’d neglected this rule here, and not knowing Greek, went to google translate which wasn’t helpful, then to urban dictionary.

  169. 169.

    Another Scott

    December 28, 2020 at 11:18 pm

    ICYMI, warning Politico:

    Ossoff led the pack in fundraising, raking in $106.8 million from Oct. 15 through Dec. 16. He spent $93.5 million in that same time period. (Here’s Ossoff’s filing.) Warnock, who is running in the special election, followed him at $103.4 million and spent $86.1 million (Warnock’s filing). The Republicans were massively outraised by their Democratic challengers: Sen. David Perdue brought in $68.1 million, spending $57.9 million (Perdue’s filing) and appointed Sen. Kelly Loeffler raised $64 million, with almost none of that coming from self-funding, with $48.6 million in expenditures (Loeffler’s filing, which was submitted on Wednesday).

    The story notes that “independent” fundraising and spending won’t have to report until after the election. And we know that Moscow Mitch is dumping a lot of money in the race, so who knows which team is really ahead in the money race. But it’s good to know that the good guys have a lot of money to get their message and their voters out.

    Forward!!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  170. 170.

    Bill Arnold

    December 28, 2020 at 11:35 pm

    @debbie:
    The hands are wrong too, unless he got (non-human) hand transplants.

  171. 171.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 28, 2020 at 11:50 pm

    @Another Scott: watching MSNBC and they’re reporting that Chuck Schumer is “pessimistic” about Georgia, in part because of “dwindling finances“

  172. 172.

    Bill Arnold

    December 28, 2020 at 11:55 pm

    @moonbat:
    As WaterGirl says, the control of the Senate is a very big deal, with downstream consequences e.g. how catastrophic global heating gets (billions of human lives at stake) and more locally, the Democratic domestic political agendas. (plural because progressive agendas are more in possible play if the Democrats win control of the Senate.)
    So it’s a legitimate tactical question. It’s in the Senates hands (and then DJT’s little hands) now though. As you say, the $2000 would shift a lot of people from immanent destitution to perhaps not.  But the Rs were really opposed to it prior to being for it because DJT.

  173. 173.

    Another Scott

    December 29, 2020 at 12:05 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:  I never know what to make of “memos” like that.  We’ve all gotten similar emails for decades – there’s always a crisis.  Maybe…

    I’m just some internet rando, but come on.  $50M a month x 2 isn’t enough in Georgia?  Really?  If so, make the case, don’t just say the other guys have more.  (The plutocrats will always have more.)

    My $0.02.

    Cheers,

    Scott.

  174. 174.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 29, 2020 at 12:07 am

    @Another Scott: Rick Wilson (Lincoln Project is involved on the ground) said it’s about lowering expectations for the election, but he also said it’s not over yet

  175. 175.

    Another Scott

    December 29, 2020 at 12:16 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Thanks.

    We should remember that the whole point of runoff elections in the south was to prevent Blacks from winning elections.  So, it’s an uphill fight.

    But, Biden wasn’t expected to win either so we have to keep fighting.  It’s not hopeless.  I’ll probably send some more cash to the troika in the morning (Abrams, Warnock, and Ossoff).

    Cheers,

    Scott.

  176. 176.

    rikyrah

    December 29, 2020 at 3:30 am

    @Elizabelle:

    Saw the Satan and 2020 one a few weeks ago. It soooo  fit.

  177. 177.

    rikyrah

    December 29, 2020 at 3:34 am

    @NotMax:

    Thank you.

    Will be on the lookout for it

  178. 178.

    J R in WV

    December 29, 2020 at 8:43 am

    @WaterGirl: 

    Gosh, if I worried about a mere dozen people telling me how I am wrong, in 8 different ways, I wouldn’t have my BJ career to keep me busy!

    Last post?
    ;-)

  179. 179.

    NotMax

    December 29, 2020 at 9:26 am

    @J R in WV

    Last post?

    Wrong.

    (couldn’t resist) :)

  180. 180.

    WaterGirl

    December 29, 2020 at 9:40 am

    @Another Scott: Yeah, they didn’t mention the $100 million that came in against Warnock from several donors at $15 million each.

    They need to show the whole picture, otherwise this is just intended to discourage additional donating.  Warnock is down $54 million, i believe, compared to what the Rs pulled in for Loeffler.

  181. 181.

    Another Scott

    December 29, 2020 at 11:20 am

    @WaterGirl: Thanks for making it so easy to find previous posts with ActBlue Thermometers.

    https://balloon-juice.com/2020/11/14/help-with-georgia-and-listen-to-stacey-abrams/

    Donated.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  182. 182.

    J R in WV

    December 29, 2020 at 12:09 pm

    The word Deuce is used in many slang ways, including the fecal expression dealt with above.

    MA Deuce is a matched pair of .50 caliber Browning Machine Guns mounted so that both are aimed at the same spot, a brutal near-cannon of military destruction.

    A Little Deuce Coupe was a Ford 1932 coupe favored by people building hot rods, still well known among speed freaks and Beach Boys fans.

    In cards, the two card is often called a deuce, Aces over Deuces is a full house of ones (Aces) and twos (deuces).

    ETA: Last post, this time? (couldn’t resist either!)      ;~)

  183. 183.

    SteverinoCT

    December 29, 2020 at 5:03 pm

    @J R in WV: Acey-Deucey, the Naval variant of backgammon, where rolling a 1-2 gets special moves.

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