To be honest, the only thing that has changed now that we have proof Trump was lying about the virus is that he moved ever so slightly towards evil on the stupid/evil continuum, which in his case is just a circle.
Trump Crime Cartel
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Vote for the Democrats – *We* Don’t Wreck Stuff
Ring worms.https://t.co/QoVwTdSv4z pic.twitter.com/PProYfagc6
— Tom Toles (@TomTolesToons) September 7, 2020
Latest @JoeBiden ad contrasts former VP with President Trump: "This is our chance to put the darkness of the past four years behind us. To end the anger, the insults, division, violence, and start fresh in America."
Running on national cables + AZ, FL, MI, MN, NV, NC, OH, PA, WI pic.twitter.com/r8dwnYwHaI
— Johnny Verhovek (@JTHVerhovek) September 8, 2020
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Destroying the Justice Department One Step at a Time
Trump really think the Justice Department is his and Barr loves acting like his fixer:
In a highly unusual legal maneuver, the Department of Justice moved on Tuesday to replace President Trump’s private lawyers and defend him against a defamation lawsuit brought in a New York state court by the author E. Jean Carroll, who has accused him of raping her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
Lawyers for the Justice Department said in court papers that Mr. Trump was acting in his official capacity as president when he denied ever knowing Ms. Carroll and thus could be defended in court by government lawyers — in effect underwritten by taxpayer money.
Citing a law called the Federal Tort Claims Act, the department lawyers asserted the right to take the case from Mr. Trump’s private lawyers and move the matter from state court to federal court. The law gives employees of the federal government immunity from lawsuits, though legal experts said that it has rarely, if ever, been used before to protect a president.
Ms. Carroll’s lawyer said in a statement issued Tuesday evening that the Justice Department’s move to intervene in the case was a “shocking” attempt to bring the resources of the United States government to bear on a private legal matter.
Flop sweat.
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C.R.E.A.M. Open Thread: The Failing Trump Campaign
Money concerns are very real for Trump's campaign — an unusual predicament for a sitting president, and one that worries veteran Republican operatives, with Trump so far behind in swing states as the race climaxes. https://t.co/b6JYmEfBR5
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 7, 2020
I don’t believe it. he ran his campaign exactly like everything else he’s bankrupted. just surprising. https://t.co/nyiYQaRQqC
— kilgore trout, non mini-stroke haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) September 7, 2020
Spare a (fleeting) thought for the dilemma of the Trump court’s unofficial stenographer. On the one hand, Ms. Haberman will never have such a soft and richly rewarded role in the Biden White House. On the other, if the S.S. Trumptanic has cratered on its iceberg, who else has such a saleable stock of ready-made ‘Eyewitness to Infamy’ anecdotes already drafted for a quickie book contract?…
… His rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr., was relatively broke when he emerged as the presumptive Democratic nominee this spring, and Mr. Trump and the Republican National Committee had a nearly $200 million cash advantage.
Five months later, Mr. Trump’s financial supremacy has evaporated. Of the $1.1 billon his campaign and the party raised from the beginning of 2019 through July, more than $800 million has already been spent. Now some people inside the campaign are forecasting what was once unthinkable: a cash crunch with less than 60 days until the election, according to Republican officials briefed on the matter…
Among the splashiest and perhaps most questionable purchases was a pair of Super Bowl ads the campaign reserved for $11 million, according to Advertising Analytics — more than it has spent on TV in some top battleground states. It was a vanity splurge that allowed Mr. Trump to match the billionaire Michael R. Bloomberg’s buy for the big game.
There was also a cascade of smaller choices that added up: The campaign hired a coterie of highly paid consultants (Mr. Trump’s former bodyguard and White House aide has been paid more than $500,000 by the R.N.C. since late 2017); spent $156,000 for planes to pull aerial banners in recent months; and paid nearly $110,000 to Yondr, a company that makes magnetic pouches used to store cellphones during fund-raisers so that donors could not secretly record Mr. Trump and leak his remarks…
Critics of the campaign’s management say the lavish spending was ineffective: Mr. Trump enters the fall trailing in most national and battleground state polls, and Mr. Biden has surpassed him as a fund-raising powerhouse, after posting a record-setting haul of nearly $365 million in August. The Trump campaign has not revealed its August fund-raising figure…
Nicholas Everhart, a Republican strategist who owns a firm specializing in placing political ads, said the $800 million spent so far shows the “peril of starting a re-election campaign just weeks after winning.”…
Every one of these grifters has been stealing from the till since the infamous day in 2016 when Putin’s interference first bought a ‘win’ for a complicit GOP, and now they’re squabbling over who should’ve showed a little more fiscal restraint.
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Friday Evening Open Thread: Lie-bral Media Mutual Aid
Hats off to the Atlantic and Washington Post for saving Stars & Stripes.
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) September 4, 2020
Top ‘Trending – Political’ story on the Twitter sidebar:
Trump says Stars and Stripes, the military’s independent newspaper, will not be shuttered
On Friday morning, news broke that the Pentagon had ordered the closure of the 160-year-old Stars and Stripes newspaper at the end of September. President Trump Tweeted that his administration “will NOT be cutting funding” for the publication.
‘Course, now we have to hold the bastid to it…
Note: The slashing of Stars and Stripes funding was proposed earlier this year in *Trump's own budget request to Congress* https://t.co/UDT50dcJ11
— Paul Sonne (@PaulSonne) September 4, 2020
I suspect the release of those articles in the Atlantic and the Washington Post just *might* not be serendipity…
Story indicates this can’t happen without Congress agreeing, and lawmakers are lining up against it. But still, what a message for the Trump administration to send to the troops. https://t.co/hqfU1p1R74
— Nahal Toosi (@nahaltoosi) September 4, 2020
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Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Squatter-in-Chief Announces His Plan to Steal the Election
It is illegal to vote more than once in an election. https://t.co/SoyxhjK6KP
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 2, 2020
Dumbarse was supposed to keep this cunning plan on the down low until after Labor Day, but he Just. Could NOT. Resist…
DT: My supporters should commit felonies and maybe crash the election
Spokesperson: The President was of course merely joking
DT: I totally meant it, people should commit voter fraud, maybe it'll help me stay in power
Media: Biden risks entanglement in voter fraud controversy https://t.co/oBuLjUiZVX
— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) September 3, 2020
GOP Death Cult Late Night Open Thread: Behold, A Pale Horse’s A**…
... and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him…
On the lack of social distancing or face masks at Trump’s #RNC2020 acceptance speech in the middle of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, a senior White House official tells @Acosta: “Everybody is going to catch this thing eventually.” ?? pic.twitter.com/0T5e6r3BSx
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) August 28, 2020
There’s Mnuchin, Scalise?, some guy, Wilbur Ross…
Taking the coronavirus pandemic seriously. pic.twitter.com/AFrC6GU3UF
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) August 28, 2020
Herman Cain caught coronavirus at a Trump rally and died. There are 50% more active coronavirus cases in the country right now than there were the day of that rally. pic.twitter.com/fjrFFbh29U
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) August 28, 2020
If a Trump rally plausibly killed a former presidential candidate without any significant repercussions, I doubt losing a few apparatchiks from his acceptance speech will cause much of a stir.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 29, 2020
So the election may be determined by the outcome of a race between disenfranchisement and death. https://t.co/MgxBKZozaE
— Bear Braumoeller (@Prof_BearB) August 29, 2020
DT/45 supporters are sharing this on FB. I don't have the desire to tell them than the man cloaked in white is Charles Manson. pic.twitter.com/jOEUlXpIju
— @297_Aruba_Lover_Jo_Anne (@297_ArubaLover) August 24, 2020
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