"Will you shut up, man?" US Politics October 2020

That test houldn't be a problem for him at all no matter how hard it is, because he is in his prime.

that's true, the doctors told him that he is better at the dementia test than anyone they've ever seen

Ordinarily the Attorney General of the United States would personally announce a case as massive and important as the plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer.

Where are you, Bill Barr?

— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) October 9, 2020

watch?v=SimonAndGarfunkel?tune=MrsRobinson

I hope Whitner sues the living fuck out of Trump and wins

that woman

The fuck did I do

lol

take one for the team, wins

pretty sure Barr, who's malevolent but no moron, understands which way things are going politically.

everybody looks forward to Trump losing and going away (hopefully), but I really hope living scum like Barr can be stamped out too. it'll be immensely enraging if they're dark money-funded "university" positions, think tank bullshit, and permanent talking heads status on fox.

Forgive me if my eyes deceive me, but I think this @nytimes report insinuates that Donald Trump, an alleged billionaire, laundered an 8-figure sum from business operations in 2016 to fund his campaign. https://t.co/Xgfwzg61eo

— Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) October 9, 2020

we got ol' Donny by the tail now!

big brain genius stuff

xpost - Or it's not his brand to give a shit about white terrorists taking aim at his opponents.

relevant to Barr, from the casual NYT story just now about how Trump is asking his cabinet to indict his political enemies:

The president castigated his own team, declaring that Attorney General William P. Barr would go down in history “as a very sad, sad situation” if he did not indict Democrats like Mr. Biden and former President Barack Obama. He complained that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had not released Hillary Clinton’s emails, saying, “I’m not happy about him for that reason.” And he targeted Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director. “He’s been disappointing,” Mr. Trump said.

“Unless Bill Barr indicts these people for crimes, the greatest political crime in the history of our country, then we’re going to get little satisfaction unless I win and we’ll just have to go, because I won’t forget it,” Mr. Trump said, referring to the investigation into his 2016 campaign ties with Russia. “But these people should be indicted. This was the greatest political crime in the history of our country, and that includes Obama and it includes Biden.”

Mr. Trump has often argued that his political antagonists should be prosecuted, but in this case, he went further by indicating that he had directly pressured Mr. Barr to indict without waiting for more evidence. “He’s got all the information he needs,” the president said. “They want to get more, more, more, they keep getting more. I said, ‘You don’t need any more.’”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/us/politics/trump-calls-to-indict-political-rivals.html

None of that tax stuff is about taking down Donald Trump, president. It's a state-by-state , porperty-by-property tee-up (to use a golf metaphor) on how to take down Donald Trump, post president (assuming he even makes it that far). It would be only fitting if the thing that ends him once and for all is real estate.

pobrecito /Ned

if only one of the hundreds of things he deserves to pay for would actually happen

bad news for President Biden

Crazy Nancy Pelosi is looking at the 25th Amendment in order to replace Joe Biden with Kamala Harris. The Dems want that to happen fast because Sleepy Joe is out of it!!!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 9, 2020

yep, that's what the meeting is about

what an unexpected twist

the #resistance and the far-right were correct: joe biden has completely lost his mind and can't put together sentences any more. he doesn't make any sense and it's really sad, so now the 25th amendment has to be applied to biden after he wins, which he won't because trump is going to win because Biden shouldn't have been the candidate

stable genius

All i can think of now even a day later is infomersh don going “hey you probly recognize me, your favorite president,” delivered straight. it’s like he was channelling phil hartman

5d chess

I would lol if Pelosi told Trump that invoking the 25th Amendment would boot Biden off of the Democrat's ticket and he believed her

https://i.imgur.com/l9S4rwm.jpg

wait what

Something really bad happened to the @Yankees psyche--much like our President!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 19, 2012

purest form "thanks obama!" style

how nostalgic

please please put him in a televised debate in this exact state

'We're looking into Constitutional means of removing you from office on the basis of your glaringly-diminished capacity.'

'LOL, Biden is in so much trouble!'

'...Yes, and that response is but one of the reasons we're looking into Constitutional means of removing you from office on the basis of your glaringly-diminished capacity.'

Not sure he really believes that one though. Think he's just cooking up some fresh slop for the MAGA trough.

So sad:

Meanwhile, two sources close to Senate leadership said Trump is desperate, has zero leverage to push them to support a bill crafted by Pelosi & congressional Republicans aren’t inclined to wrap themselves any tighter to a sinking ship

w/ @jonathanvswan

— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) October 9, 2020

SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS and Hill sources tell us that they plan to work through this weekend, all next week and possibly next weekend to get a deal.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 9, 2020

WHO KNOWS WHY TRUMP WANTS THIS. He may want noise to fill the silence. Maybe he wants a bump in the stock market. We’re not mood readers or psychiatrists or psychics. This deal could’ve been cut 90 times between May and now.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 9, 2020

I mean I've heard of mutual masturbation but

Limbaugh asks Trump if this is all as much fun for him now because he has to tout his own accomplishments so often.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 9, 2020

xp -- One of my suspicions to begin with was that Trump (by saying he wouldn't do stimulus until after the election) was covering for the fact that the GOP was refusing to do it. Because it didn't strike me as his style -- he doesn't personally care about GOP orthodoxy, he just wants to get elected. I think he thought it was the least bad option to take credit for what was inevitable anyway rather than look powerless. But now he winds up looking powerless anyway. Lol.

It's truly a self-owning.

Yeah it was a slight miscalculation to think people would respond well to "I'm holding the economy hostage unless you vote for me!"

someone send him some Buffy DVDs

Serious question ... how do political experts expect raising the threat of invoking the 25th amendment to play in the overall?

Reminding voters our president needs a straitjacket. Nothing will happen. The point is to send the flare.

yep

just like impeachment

the things that were once thought of as constraints and counterbalances have been reduced to flares, but that's what it is

https://canary.contestimg.wish.com/api/webimage/5dde2dcd6cdfa33ecbe7cc54-large.jpg

Marshall Crenshaw's "Theme From 'Flaregun'" to thread!

someone send him some Buffy DVDs

― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, October 9, 2020 11:57 AM

hahahaaa

I'm glad someone appreciated that

Trump could just put all of this stuff to rest if he just quit or died.

imagine trump apologizing and permanently backing out of public life

it's funny how it's what almost any other person would do in his situation, years ago, but with him it is fucking impossible