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

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

It's like the dude who visibly shat himself at the party opting to ride out the night amidst his increasingly-horrified revelers rather over any of the other sanity-evincing decisions open to him.

rather

I'm glad someone appreciated that

...oh that takes me back.

I feel like Trump has a Carrie moment coming on where he takes out all the haters

Isn’t this it?

don't get the buffy joke?

All the tweets shouting about how people need to be indicted etc really do feel like a real-life version of the Hitler meme scene.

i see that Amy McGrath is way down in her race against McConnell, or at least she was last month at this time (53 to 41, from Quinnipiac)

big fucking surprise. if you're to go down, wish we could go down swinging (booker) in KY

yup :(

Fuck Amy McGrift imo

running a losing campaign against a hated GOP senator is such a great scam to vacuum up donation money

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/amy-mcgrath-pro-trump-ad-kentucky-ohio_n_5f77a05bc5b649e564b2b758

don't get the buffy joke?

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, October 9, 2020 2:20 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Graham deserves presents and thanks for his work. I'll be damned if he's getting them from me, though.
(Ironically, I was going to buy him something off of his wishlist right before this spectacularly unimpressive hissy fit. I'm sorry to rain on everyone's parade, but no one's going to blackmail me into telling them they've done a good job. If this post pushes him over the edge and he deletes ILXOR, I apologize to everyone else.)
-- Dan Perry (djperr...), March 27th, 2003 3:12 AM

What happened here?

Threads like this always make me feel like I know nothing about ILX. Never heard of Graham before.

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Friday, November 3, 2006 2:48 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

yah thats why this is all so facinating now. all this shit happened right under our noses.
― chaki (chaki), Friday, November 3, 2006 3:01 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

So much for forgiveness ey? I don't know, I liked Graham. He never did anything wrong to me so I guess that makes it easier to forget/forgive? Probably.
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, November 3, 2006 4:04 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

He threw a massive hissy fit of the "you all hate me and don't appreciate all the work I've done for you" then promptly started removing features from ILE to prove a point, with the intention of slowly dismantling it until people sent him Buffy DVDs. IIRC Andrew neutered his admin powers after that.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, November 3, 2006 4:25 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I was not yet on ilx at this point but remembered hearing the story in the past.

Amy McGrath also running ads distancing herself from the rest of the ticket incl biden that are being shown over the border in Ohio.

ok lol that buffy thing is a deep ILX cut, don't think i ever encountered that one before. bravo.

it's a cool story for sure

MN, WI, and VA already past 20% of the 2016's total votes cast. FL (14%) and MI (17%) close to that marker.

Data from @ElectProject's fabulous tracker: https://t.co/tzjiaBH1cp

— Kyle Kondik (@kkondik) October 9, 2020

lol og admin beefs

https://i.imgur.com/LiS0Q07.mp4

ok lol that buffy thing is a _deep_ ILX cut, don't think i ever encountered that one before. bravo.

Sometimes I'll tell my family I'm not doing something until I get Buffy DVDs and have never explained the joke. After a few years my wife said "I guess this is some ILX thing."

"Did you know virus floats down? Anyway stay down there."

"Trump according to a source is expected to address the crowd from the balcony of the White House." https://t.co/KZ91oi6Skq

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 9, 2020

for Ceausescu, but relevant

https://deadstate.org/watch-the-exact-moment-when-a-brutal-dictator-realizes-the-crowd-has-turned-against-him/

Blexit is the worst Fred Williamson movie

xp i was thinking more like mishima

Address *what* crowd?

or maybe just norma desmond

for Ceausescu, but relevant

https://deadstate.org/watch-the-exact-moment-when-a-brutal-dictator-realizes-the-crowd-has-turned-against-him/

― sleeve, Friday, October 9, 2020 2:45 PM

just watched the full version of that for the first time, about 20 minutes long. the whole thing is chilling. i knew most of the context, but it was very creepy to watch him carry on for a full TEN MINUTES after that moment happened, improvising blatantly false promises ("uhm, the communist executive committee met just this morning and approved an increase in your wages from 2000 to 2200!"). His comrades on the balcony and the first couple rows of the audience (where his stooges were positioned) continued to clap along and chant and smile, even after the collapse must have been evident...or maybe it wasn't, yet?

at any rate, it's wishful thinking that trump could ever face such a moment

you may say I'm a dreamer

but I'm not the only one

It's quite something to realise what it means that he was in power for 24 years. Imagine another 20 years of Trump. Actually, ew, don't.

feeling safer now

“If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are gonna do things to you that have never been done before.” — the President of the United States pic.twitter.com/RfDKchaw7i

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 9, 2020