Double-barreled CNN home page on one of the biggest Friday nights of the year pic.twitter.com/2MRBfwLzrn
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 12, 2020
… Mostly for that line under the Squatter-in-Chief’s petulant pout: Sarah Palin joins Trump allies in making false election claims.
In case anybody wondered why the six anti-democracy members of the Supreme Court suddenly found their spines, it’s one thing to be remembered for encouraging sedition, and a whole different thing to be remembered for encouraging walking punch lines.
The Oracle of Solace
Good heavens, Trump was right about something: He said “you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning”, and I certainly am sick and tired of seeing his crap lawyers and attempted autogolpe defeated in courts again and again. I just want the Tangerine Nightmare to leave us alone.
Geoduck
I assume the next step will be to offer open bribes and/or threats to the electors to turn faithless and hand him the election that way.
NotMax
“D.C. sanitation crews scheduled for weekend overtime shifts to clean up all the pieces of kraken on the street fronting the Supreme Court. Film at 11.”
NotMax
@The Oracle of Solace
It’s like a concerted effort to deliberately worsen the reputation of the profession of lawyering.
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Major Major Major Major
Ugh, my grandpa tested positive for COVID. He is not in great health.
smike
@NotMax:
Ha!
MobiusKlein
@Major Major Major Major: My dad’s in the hospital, with some bowel obstruction, and other unknown issues.
Seriously Fuck 2020. Hoping your grandpa pulls through. It’s been that kind of decade
Punchy
Realistically, Roberts’ desire to host an apolitical SCOTUS has made him a closet Dem, the way Kennedy acted when necessary to prevemt complete ridiculousness. It may not matter, as that still leaves the court 5-4, but Roberts must be loking around thinking “you left me with THESE shitheads?”
rikyrah
@Major Major Major Major:
??????
rikyrah
I would love a video of the moment they told Dolt45 that the Supreme Court told him to go phuck himself???
West of the Rockies
@Geoduck:
Maybe Trump will appeal to Putin to invade America and escort Lardello to his thrown of hamberders and hatred.
West of the Rockies
@Major Major Major Major:
Oh, man, that’s scary. Best wishes, 4M.
Kent
@rikyrah: I’m sure no one told him. He probably watched it on FOX.
TS (the original)
@Major Major Major Major:
Best thoughts – hoping he has a fast recovery.
Mary G
@Major Major Major Major:
@MobiusKlein:
It’s hard especially during the holidays. Hoping for good outcomes for both your loved ones.
mrmoshpotato
Oh c’mon! This moose-humping nutcase is already in the history books for all the wrong reasons! Why more, you moose-humper?! (Fuck you John McCain for making her existence known.)
Calouste
@Punchy: It’s probably just that the so-called Supreme Court likes to have power. In an autocracy the judiciary is just there to rubber stamp the decisions made by the Leader, and they’re not going to vote themselves into irrelevancy.
Mary G
Stacey Abrams’ successor in the Georgia state legislature just demolished the Trump campaign’s list of allegedly illegal voters. They accused people of voting illegally using a post office box when they lived in condos with a FedEx store on the first floor. Twice. Also they said people voted in other states without checking birthdates. The Trump campaign guy on the other end of the Zoom was reduced to some nonsense about that’s why we need investigations. I’m going to remember Bee Nguyen, another great Democratic Party member, because I think she’ll go far. The video’s a bit long, but I enjoyed every second of it.
Also, WaPo story here. No wonder they keep losing in court.
mrmoshpotato
@Geoduck: PPV Event – at least one male elector dickslaps Dipshit Donnie across his fat, orange, fascist face (and then get tested for every STD known to humanity).
Bye bye national debt!
Yes, I’m sick of this shit. Why do you ask?
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: SAD! All the sads. Cry harder Trump humpers.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Plucking her from the tundra can be laid squarely at the feet of Steve Schmidt. Yes, that same Steve Schmidt for whom so much of B-J now goes ga-ga.
Aleta
@Mary G: Thanks
badsanta
Decade? We are into a century of shit.
Not unlike the last century.
History repeats it self again and again. And I don’t know, Blue Oyster Cult lryics.
Godzilla!
mrmoshpotato
@Major Major Major Major: I’m sorry M^4. I hope he beats it with flying colors.
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah: Not sure about that. Dump’s face is disgusting enough when he’s in a good mood.
smike
@mrmoshpotato:
Hey, Sarah! How’s the
kidsfamilyhusbandlocal sheriff? You know, the one responding to all of those ‘domestic disturbance’ calls?mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Yup. ? Fuck the Lincoln Project. Grifting bastards.
Dan B
@NotMax: Steve Schmidt has some talents. And he has deep flaws and a terribly tainted past. I feel his ability to communicate is excellent. It wouldn’t hurt Democrats to observe what he does. It’s also essential to keep an eye on him at all times. Condemning him forever, I feel, is not productive. His professional skills could serve our purposes.
Worship, no.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
It’s more he, particularly, is a machine-stamped embodiment of “the enemy of my enemy.”
lgerard
I’m disappointed!
If Sarah Palin was going to return she could have at least made another one of those awesome Thanksgiving videos.
Dan B
@mrmoshpotato: Your opinion. I feel their ads are superior and as former Republicans they have cred with a different constituency.
It would be good to know how much they skim. They do seem to be spending it on product and placement.
mrmoshpotato
@lgerard:
What am I missing or forgetting about here?
Comrade Colette
@mrmoshpotato: La Palin wishing the world a happy Thanksgiving while standing obliviously in front of a mechanized turkey beheading gadget in full swing.
Not gonna search for it myself. Have at it if you want to.
mrmoshpotato
@Comrade Colette: I don’t remember that, and that’s ok.
NotMax
@Dan B
Condemn forever? Not at all. I believe in both people’s viewpoints evolving and in people morally reforming. Not suggesting he strut around in a hairshirt but that does not obviate the role public remorse for public deeds plays. He may now lambast the R party for what he describes as what they’ve become (as if it is somehow a sudden punctuated event rather than the current culmination of following an arrow-like odyssey) but I do not at all get the impression he’s yet come to terms with recognizing his own engineered role in egging them on and stoking the fires. That’s what I lament.
mrmoshpotato
LOL!
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
It was — and is — a jaw-dropping dichotomy. Like a student film crossing Ed Wood with Quentin Tarantino.
smike
@mrmoshpotato:
It’s worth googling and watching, and it’s a short clip.
ETA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu785cJgG-w
patrick II
Donald famously has said that you should always get revenge on those who have crossed you. I am wondering how he intends to get revenge on the Supreme Court besides calling them names. Not back them in the next election? Fire them? Lifetime appointments can mean independence.
mrmoshpotato
@smike: I’m sure it’s humorous in the horribleness, but I’m good with never seeing the Wasilla Wingnut’s face ever again. :)
To think John McCain could’ve been standing between us and… Ugh.
NotMax
@patrick II
“Everybody is saying the Supreme Court vote was rigged. I’m instructing the patriots in the DOJ to reverse this fraudulent ruling.”
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Dan B
@NotMax: I’m not interested in Schmidt’s soul or in some words declaring his remorse. I’ve told friends to never give the Lincoln Project a dime. They can raise plenty from Republicans who want to assuage their guilt. I’ll judge them on their actions not their confessions. I’m probably different from you on that. I prefer that people like evangelical Christians work to oppose the pain they have inflicted on minorities. Confess – fugetta bouts it. Fix it and I’ll applaud.
So my feeling about Schmidt’s org is they are messaging as well as, or better than, any Dem org. Biden’s team has done excellent work but LP really had teeth. They managed to get Trump to talk about the points in their Ads. And by “talk” is holler and wail like a stuck pig. I believe their techniques deserve notice.
Forgive Schmidt, nah. Use him and his skills, sure.
mrmoshpotato
@patrick II:
Probably exhaust all languages of synonyms for “loser,” “total loser” and “SAD!”
Oh Dumbfuck Donnie. You didn’t have to run, but now you should flee to your Daddy Vladdy. I wonder how funny Obama finds this minus the damage to our country and mass death.
Dan B
@patrick II: When I heard about the Supreme’s decision the words, ” Amy Coovid Barrett executed in public.” immediately came to me. Minds can be strange things.
NotMax
@Dan B
We’re not far apart, just viewing the landscape from different angles.
mrmoshpotato
@Dan B:
Stuck pigs’ lawyers would like a word. :)
Dan B
@NotMax: It felt that way. I worked for years with religious leaders who were warm and charming. Some were truly working for social justice and the dignity of LGBTQ people. Others mouthed platitudes. I caught a number of them betraying their nice words. Fuck that noise.
Dan B
@mrmoshpotato: I’m sorry if I offended SP’s lawyers.
Not really. I enjoy their singing!
burnspbesq
@patrick II:
Hopefully there will be an overwhelming police presence around the Supreme Court building during today’s MAGAt cosplay.
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
@Major Major Major Major: I’m so sorry. Hoping for the best, for him and so many others.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
It does bring a smile to my face that SCOTUS made the rejection a total dick move on Trump since it will both piss on Donny’s valued weekend (thus ruining Trump’s time off from not going his job) AND making it impossible for another BS appeal before the EC meets.
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
@MobiusKlein: I’m sorry. Now’s not a great time to be medically complicated.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Calouste: That “ambition counters ambition” thing in the Constitution in action.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Geoduck: Well, Trump has only the weekend to do that and you know how Trump hates working weekends (that and working at all)
CaseyL
@Major Major Major Major: Very sorry to hear that; I hope he has a mild case and recovers soon. Also, he could maybe start dosing himself with Vitamin D3 and maybe zinc. Yes, Dolt45’s handlers were shoving D3 and zinc down his throat, but they’ve also been my go-to’s for years whenever I think I’m coming down with something.
@NotMax: I hate to tell you this, but you’re absolutely right: Fart and his GOP enablers say they’re going to appoint a special counsel to “investigate” not only the election but also Hunter Biden.
And on the day that Congress is supposed to tally the electoral votes, Senator Ron I-went-to-Moscow-on-July-4th and Representative Jim Jordan are doing to kick off a floor fight to keep the count from happening.
They’re just going to keep undermining, and grifting, until Hell freezes over.
Luciamia
@mrmoshpotato: Her voice still has the ability to peel paint off the walls.
mrmoshpotato
@Luciamia: And send the paint chips running for the hills.
opiejeanne
@Major Major Major Major: I am so sorry to hear this. I hope he gets better soon.
opiejeanne
@MobiusKlein: I hope your dad gets the care he needs and is able to recover quickly.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Dan B: I know he (and Nicole Wallace) have a lot to answer for, especially Sarah Palin, but Steve’s anti-Trump rants on MSNBC are epic and very enjoyable. The hosts don’t bother having a conversation. Just wind him up and let him go off for a few minutes.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@mrmoshpotato: I remember that! It was during the campaign when she was running with McCain.
burnspbesq
Smart move, Michigan, but it should probably be door-to-door, and for at least a week afterwards.
https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/26871/democracy_2020_michigan_electors_get_police_escorts_monday_in_lansing
Dan B
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan): Schmidt has great utility for Dems. In the Amanpour, Michelle Martin interview he describes doing psychological profiling of their targets to know better how to get under their skin and get them to undermine themselves. And they have plans to be persistent in dismantling Trumpism. It made me realize that Jan 20, 2021 is not going to get a lot better. It will get better but the authoritarian Trumpists will do everything to bedevil lovers of justice, fair play, and democracy.
We’re gonna need all the artillery we can muster and allies, however tarnished and imperfect.
Glad you like Schmidt’s rants. He ranted to Michelle and got red in the face at times but there were also bits of the story of his transformation. They should be a road map for other Republicans. *
*I still don’t know if he can be trusted on economics and the social safety net. One out of three is a start.
Cermet
First, sorry to hear this M^4!
In a ‘study’ older men entering the hospital for sereve Covid that were taking aspirin (low dose for heart issues) were 50% less likely to be put in ICU or require ventilators (limited study of 430 men who were taking it vs. 430 who did not have it.) This was not double blind so one can’t say for sure this works (or safely) but take it for what you think.
Dan B
@Major Major Major Major: Hang in their. Know that we’re thinking about you.
And I’ve read about doctors administering low dose aspirin, zinc, and D3.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Major Major Major Major:
Sorry to hear it. Sending good thoughts.
@MobiusKlein:
And I hope your dad makes a full recovery.
Platonicspoof
@Dan B:
Or hire away the liberals on the LP staff .
Numbers on LP expenditures at OpenSecrets.org. , for what they’re worth. E.g., the New Yorker article mentions “The Project has been criticized for channelling most of the group’s spending through two of the founders’ consulting firms.”
More at Vox on what to me is mostly negative campaigning, however much I appreciate the humor.
Frankensteinbeck
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
I am told the denial includes lawyer speak for “And we will not listen to any cases like this.”
Jeffro
@Geoduck: yes
followed by calls to arms to his violent worshippers
Shalimar
@The Oracle of Solace: Football was better before they added 56 games against the Washington Generals before you even get to the National Championship game.
trnc
@Major Major Major Major: Sorry to hear that.
evodevo
@Dan B: Well, the beauty of the LP was…they were Repubs…the Lamestream Media and the Villager pundits couldn’t tsk tsk and pearl-clutch about the things they assailed Trumpy over, which they would have endlessly if it had been a Dem effort. THAT’S the part I liked….
trnc
This a thousand times. For some of the lower courts, I’ve been saying since before the election that the conservative judges with whom we rarely agree are at least actually conservative and not just lackeys, so they would rule accordingly. That’s been borne out. I don’t give the SC righties the same benefit of the doubt, but 100% agree that they know handing an election to a wannabe dictator doesn’t work out for them the first time they rule against him.
Uncle Cosmo
To be fair, at the time she was a fairly bland and noteunworthy GOP governor whose major assets supposedly appealed to women (as a woman) and men (as a NILF – “Nominee I’d Like To F***”). It wasn’t until the GOP transplanted her under the hothouse lights of national exposure that Snowmobile Snookie blossomed into all-out whackadoodlydoodoo.
Uncle Cosmo
@burnspbesq: GOVs Wolf, Kemp, Ducey should be doing the same. Hell, every governor (and the DC mayor) ought to be doing the same. As well as monitoring phone calls and social media for threats to the electors. And their family members as well – what’s to keep the same sort of scum who plotted to kidnap GOV Whitmer from trying (or threatening) to snatch their kids, spouses, parents, pets etc.?
Che vergogna, that a once-proud nation has come to this.
KenK
@Major Major Major Major: So sorry to hear that :(
KenK
@mrmoshpotato: @#16 I’d like to hear Steve Schmidt’s thoughts on this.
Miss Bianca
@NotMax: I don’t go “ga-ga” for Steve Schmidt (or any of the Never-Trumpers who helped get us to where we are today). I do, however, appreciate his ability to bring a Howitzer to a rhetorical gun fight. And since rhetorical and literal gunfights may be in our future as we try to wrest the republic back from those pasty po-faced cretinous bastards who themselves went ga-ga for Palin and her ilk, I’ll welcome the support. Let that be his penance for inflicting Palin on us in the first place.