US Politics, November 2019: These people are truly sick.

“Quo quo it’s magic! you know. Never believe it’s not quo.”

heh

“The president is not staying in the shadows for this bad act, but rather he’s out there today with his fat thumbs tweeting to try to intimidate her real time,” McCaskill told host Nicolle Wallace.

“I’m so proud of her,” the former Missouri Democratic senator continued. “And every woman in America who has fought in a male-dominated career should cheer for this woman today; her guts, her accomplishments and the fact that she’s the one that stood in their way.”

Fat thumbs that are also exceedingly short, I feel compelled to add.

quo quo, it's magic
when i'm with u-

kraine

Today's insane/hilarious email, this one supposedly from Eric Trump:

Bob,

These Impeachment Hearings are a total Snoozefest.

This charade is a PERFECT example of the “political elite” that real Americans hate. The Democrats have turned into disgusting Swamp People and have become totally unrecognizable to the masses.

For as much time as they spent trying to orchestrate this HOAX, they sure have done a terrible job. There’s not a person in America that believes this nonsense, and it’s time that Adam Schiff faces the facts.

MY FATHER DID NOTHING WRONG. READ THE TRANSCRIPT!

That’s why I’m reaching out to you today, Bob. The Left won’t listen to the TRUTH, so it’s up to Patriots like YOU to help DEFEND PRESIDENT TRUMP from this WITCH HUNT.

We’ve already hit our $3 MILLION goal, so President Trump wants to make a HUGE statement by raising the goal to $5,000,000 before MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. Let’s show these Liberals that America isn’t falling for their act and that America will NEVER stop defending OUR President.

This goal is ABSOLUTELY PARAMOUNT in CRUSHING the Left, so President Trump activated another TRIPLE-MATCH on ALL DONATIONS!

Please contribute $5 RIGHT NOW to defend President Trump and your gift will be TRIPLE-MATCHED! >>

DEFEND PRESIDENT TRUMP

CONTRIBUTE $5 = $20

CONTRIBUTE $20 = $80

CONTRIBUTE $15 = $60

CONTRIBUTE $10 = $40

CONTRIBUTE $5 = $20

CONTRIBUTE ANY AMOUNT

The Do Nothing Democrats are like the desperate ex-girlfriend or boyfriend that you want absolutely nothing to do with. All they do is WHINE and make up LIES.

If anything, this Witch Hunt further proves how desperately this Nation needs my father. That’s why it’s going to take all hands on deck to DEFEND PRESIDENT TRUMP so he can WIN BIG AGAIN in 2020.

We’re giving my father a list of Patriots who went above and beyond to stand with him during this critical time. I know he’s expecting to see your name at the very top.

Please contribute $5 TODAY to help us CRUSH our $5 MILLION goal and your gift will be TRIPLE-MATCHED!

My absolute favorite thing about these is the "we're giving Donald Trump a list, and he wants to see your name on it!" bit at the end. Is that supposed to set off a dopamine rush in the MAGA brain? "The God-Emperor knows my name!"

https://media.giphy.com/media/YReNVsx4s1HR6/giphy.gif

he is going to grift every cent he can out of these hopeless true believers before farting his way off to jail to die. it’s probably the most predictable thing about this presidency. king huckster. he really is the king of this shit. he puts evangelicals in the shade!

free roger stone (and paul manafort and michaels flynn and cohen)!

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/significant-supreme-court-decision-on-trumps-tax-returns-could-come-down-sooner-than-expected/

tried a joek earlier today about wanting to play stone in alt reality shit in which trump frees all his felons, but gets imoeached convicted jailed and they visit him. maybe he transmogrifies comes through the glass and kills them.

the joe sank like a Stone

New: David Holmes confirmed he overheard a July 26 phone call b/t Trump & Sondland in which Trump asked if Ukraine would investigate Biden. Sondland said yes.

—>> Holmes was able to hear because Sondland held the phone away from his ear due to how loud Trump was talking. - CNN

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) November 15, 2019

How out of character for Trump.

lol yeah what 72 year old just yells into the phone like that ??

very much looking forward to the horowitz report exonerating manafort, stone, atwater and associates / incriminitating strzok, page, comey, mueller, hillary, soetero, and hunter biden

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/470566-gop-eager-for-report-on-alleged-fbi-surveillance-abuse

Meanwhile in one of Reddit's seedier corners I saw the tired phrase "but her emails" spelled as "buttery males."

I had never seen that before. Now I cannot unsee it and it will scan that way forevermore.

That was my DN for a while!

via @mkraju, testimony of David Holmes, who heard Trump's voice on Sondland's Jul 26 cellphone call.

Sondland: "Zelensky loves your ass."

Trump: "So, he's going to do the investigations?"

Sondland: "Zelensky's going to do anything you ask him."

Holy hell. https://t.co/3dPTIoopAs

— Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) November 15, 2019

beautiful mental picture of Trump on the call shouting at the phone held like a slice of pizza

Manu also reporting at least two other people besides Holmes overheard what was apparently the loudest phone call ever.

Zelensky Loves Ass

see section VII

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/15/politics/david-holmes-testimony/index.html

"Ambassador Sondland agreed that President Trump did not “give a shit about Ukraine.” I asked why not and Ambassador Sondland stated that the President only cares about “big stuff.” I noted that there was “big stuff” going on in Ukraine, like a war with Russia, and Ambassador Sondland replied that he meant “big stuff” that benefits the President, like the “Biden investigation” that Mr. Giuliani was pushing”

Oh shit Sondland testimony gonna be lit!

he probably did some light perjury already

Seems like this sworn testimony from Sondland could be a problem for him: pic.twitter.com/4qdCYACUpY

— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) November 15, 2019

Sondland's goin under the bus, best $1 mil he ever spent

the whole table was making "hold it!" and head shake signs to tell holmes to turn off speaker phone when he talks to the prez right?xp

That A$AP Rocky stuff bundled in...

come on, be serious

A source familiar with WH discussions said aides to the president are not happy that Sondland apparently shared his call with Trump with others: “the president speaks loudly. Sondland should know that.”

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 16, 2019

The President Speaks Loudly for December title.

trumpeting, trepanation

Speak loudly and carry a big schtick in your tiny hands

I just assumed this whole time that Sondland must’ve been doing that thing where you put the call on speaker and hold the phone out in front of your face

This is the tweet exemplifies the contempt Trump and his family have for public servants. They have ZERO concept of why people do jobs for anything other than money, self-promotion, or personal gain. pic.twitter.com/RzHtYFxmgv

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) November 15, 2019

Stone: GUILTY
Manafort: GUILTY
Cohen: GUILTY
Flynn: GUILTY
Papadopoulos: GUILTY
van der Zwaan: GUILTY
Gates: GUILTY
Pinedo: GUILTY

I'm no lawyer, but I'd guess the guy who all these criminals did crimes for is probably innocent

— Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) November 15, 2019

Apparently, Trump needed a pick-me-up after today's testimony, so he decided to pardon three war criminals.

Trump issues pardons in war-crimes cases, despite Pentagon opposition to the move

President Trump intervened in three military justice cases involving war-crimes accusations Friday, issuing at least two full pardons that will prevent the Pentagon from pursuing future charges against the individuals involved, according to two of their lawyers and a U.S. official.

The service members involved were notified by Trump over the phone late Friday afternoon, said the lawyers, who represent Army Maj. Mathew L. Golsteyn and former Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward Gallagher, a Navy SEAL. Golsteyn faced a murder trial scheduled for next year, while Gallagher recently was acquitted of murder and convicted of posing with the corpse of an Islamic State fighter in Iraq.

The third service member involved, former 1st Lt. Clint Lorance, was expected to be released from the U.S. Military Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas as soon as Friday night. He was convicted of second-degree murder in 2013, and sentenced to 19 years in prison for ordering his soldiers to open fire on three men in Afghanistan.

Sends a real cool message to our current military

when it rains...

BREAKING: Lev Parnas had private meeting with Giuliani and Trump, later bragged he was on a "secret mission" on behalf of Trump to get Ukraine to investigate Bidens, the DNC. https://t.co/ApQ1nqXVhP

— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) November 16, 2019

That's bullshit c'mon Trump insists he never met him

I really don't see how Republicans manage to spin this one.

dude I have said that so many times the last 4 years

I know! Trump personally telling indicted Russian thugs to go on a secret mission to get dirt on Biden is a tricky one.

i’m starting to think the rules for gop and dems are different.

"He was doing his best to protect America from those godless DEMONcrats" - there, spun.

25% of the country think it's a positive act, 15% more think it's bad but 'Democrats do even worse,' 5% more have some impulse to think that it's bad but they really like their tax cut

All these photos of white dudes bursting out of big suits.

It sure is a good thing we have Times opinion columnist Roger Cohen to interview Republican millionaires to tell us which Democrats are truly "electable":

Chuck Hardwick, lifelong Republican, former Pfizer executive, now retired in Florida, voted for Donald Trump in 2016, but not without misgivings. He’d met him in the 1980s and noted a “consuming ego.” Still, elections are about choices, and he disliked the “scheming” Clintons. He was mad at the media for first mocking Trump during the primaries and then turning on him as nominee.

Three years later, Hardwick, 78, whose political career included a stint as speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly, is unsure how he will vote in November 2020. Trump confounds him. He admires the president’s energy, his courage in taking on difficult issues like China “stealing its way to prosperity,” his corporate tax cuts, and what he sees as a revitalizing impact on American ambition.

“But if I was on a board that had hired Trump as C.E.O.,” Hardwick tells me, “I’d have to say to him: ‘You’ve got good traits but you can’t manage people. You’re fired.’”

...

Democrats have to shift sane, moderate Republicans like him their way to get over the line next November.

...

Hardwick views the impeachment inquiry as a “damaging distraction.” Trump’s reduction of a large European state, Ukraine, to a potential source of dirt on leading Democratic candidate, Vice President Joe Biden, was “not good but not worthy of impeachment.” The broader issues, for him, are Trump’s “inept, clumsy and provocative” style on issues like immigration (even if he is right to take it on); his utter fiscal irresponsibility; and a sense that a second term of Trump tantrums “would do great damage to the Republic.”

“It’s really up to the Democrats for me,” Hardwick says. Echoing in his head are Trump’s words in New Hampshire three months ago: “You have no choice but to vote for me” because otherwise everything, including those 401(k)s, is going to be “down the tubes.”

For Hardwick, Elizabeth Warren is not a choice. He likes her American story, her humble beginnings, her quick mind, but thinks she’s too far left on economic policy for the country to accept.

...

Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire former New York mayor who has made active preparations to enter the Democratic primary, gives Hardwick a serious option to reject Trump. “I like him — no-nonsense, stable, clear-thinking, data-driven, he would do a good job and keep the economy moving. He looks better to me every day.” Anyone else? “I would not rule out voting for Biden.”

“But if I was on a board that had hired Trump as C.E.O.,” Hardwick tells me, “I’d have to say to him: ‘You’ve got good traits but you can’t manage people. You’re fired.’”

yeah trump def has good traits. generosity, humility, humor, compassion -- for sure -- the issue is his efficacy as a manager.

a Republican politician is probably gonna vote for Trump, oh noes

man I’m starting to think success & wealth are not the indicators of intelligence and industriousness that I was led to believe

lol that hardwick guy, i mean, dont know his details but he wouldn’t get a foursome at the club, too dumb, maybe not cynical enough. the few i’ve talked to know EXACTLY what trump does and that he’s a crooked lucky dope, which is one reason i didnt think the gop would ride or die.