GET OUT: US politics November 2020

(Goes to bathroom to look for Schlitz)

He’d bail out his buddies at Uber that’s for sure

― The Bosom Manor Michaelmas Special (silby), Monday, November 9, 2020 10:38 AM (nine minutes ago)

Why rely on Obama when Kamala's brother-in-law (Uber CLO) and his daughter/KH's niece (Chief of Strategy & Leadership) are deep in Uber's executive pool?

Why look at past record and behavior when we can just lob unfounded accusations of favoritism?

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-09-12/kamala-harris-uber-family-campaign-drivers-labor

Eric Schmidt can run the task force from his Mediterranean villa/tax haven

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/11/9/21547055/eric-schmidt-google-citizen-cyprus-european-union

Ah, we can go back to being appalled by Dem corporate servility. Music to my ears.

Trump's lawyer is clearly not a dummy, he has a strong background. My guess is they slapped it together very quickly on low sleep, and it was almost certainly a lower level associate, paralegal or assistant who actually handled the filing. It's not great of them to have that many deficiencies but it can happen in a stressed/time pressure moment. Having handled a lot of filings, I don't wish the experience on anyone. It's my #1 least favorite part of practice and I usually panic for about 6 hours after I file that something was done wrong.

I don't wish the experience on anyone

surely we can make an exception

"If fraud happened, why wouldn't we discount the House and Senate races? They're on the same ballot, you might remember."

To mAke tHe fRaUd sEeM mOrE leGit, duh.

does kind of amaze me they're convinced fraud happened in 2016, 2020, and years before, and all these Pubs are willing to do is occasionally yell about it in public and go back to gardening

I once (harmlessly) filed a confidential document on a public docket -- had it been more obviously and meaningfully confidential I probably wouldn't have made the mistake, but it was still a big mistake and led to one of the literal worst weeks of my entire life. Meanwhile, we had a case where a lawyer (on the other side) forgetting to file something under seal basically opened them up to getting sued for hundreds of millions of dollars.

i have always been way more obsessive about these things than everyone else in the environment i practiced in, people file absolute garbage in crowded state courts esp. in criminal and it's like no one cares, but my brother worked as a paralegal at a fancy law firm in DC and was once scolded because the certificate of service said something was mailed but it was sent via Fed Ex, i always remembered that when proofreading my certificates

Joe Biden fucking sucks

🐦[Biden has hired "Jessica Hertz, former associate general counsel at Facebook, and Cynthia Hogan, former Apple vice-president for government affairs, to his transition team. Eric Schmidt... is being talked about to lead a new technology industry task force" https://t.co/ozNwYfXMfE🕸
— Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (@rasmus_kleis) November 9, 2020🕸]🐦

Not sure why anyone would want to be secretary of defense for just a few weeks, but whatever.

If the idea was to just get someone willing to beat up hippies, shit, don't they already have a bunch of those (Bureau of Prisons, DHS guys, Proud Boys, Boogaloos, or just the many extant cops who are eager to crack skulls)?

Bolivia’s former president, Evo Morales, returned to the country on Monday, a year after his failed attempt to keep power tore the nation apart and sent him into exile.https://t.co/BRSygQrS4T

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 9, 2020

“Failed attempt to maintain power”

why anyone would want to be secretary of defense for just a few weeks

someone who's ambitious as hell and knew this would be the highest position he'd ever have a sniff of. maybe there are pension implications, too?

Tell it to Matthew Whitaker.

why anyone would want to be secretary of defense for just a few weeks

someone who is insane and down for helping out with a coup?

nah I don't think they'll take another stab at Bolivia till Biden takes office

Looking back, it's odd how fast Fox called AZ esp. compared to how slow they are not calling NC (or even AK).

Well if you want more about how Trumpworld received that:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/the-long-love-affair-between-fox-news-and-trump-may-be-over-heres-how-it-ended-last-week/2020/11/09/f4dddb5e-2095-11eb-90dd-abd0f7086a91_story.html

makes u think

xp

the esper thing could also just be petty score settling I guess, maybe in some twisted way he thinks inability to use the military to quell protests hurt him

he was handed a golden opportunity, and he managed to just barely lose the election by repeatedly failing in just about everything he was asked to do, from day one. so he's going to have many, many things to blame the election on, it will never end.

BREAKING: Trump outside adviser David Bossie tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday, sources tell me.

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) November 9, 2020

And this is the guy supposedly running their legal strategy. Well.

well to be fair their "legal strategy" seems to be "keep lying and enrage our base support" more than actual legal stuff

he's planning to infect all the judges

Is fumigation going to be enough come January. I mean in a way having t wreck the place would giuve B a good excuse to thoroughly disinfect.Start the new year sans t cooties

Sue Collins congratulates Biden.

Looking back, it's odd how fast Fox called AZ esp. compared to how slow they are not calling NC (or even AK).

I really do think that's down to not understanding how the mail in ballots work in AZ, it's different from the other swing states in that it would favor Trump rather than be 3:1 Biden

Could Trump name Hell's Angels as Secretary of Defense, or do they ride Harleys which would be a big sticking point?

he's planning to infect all the judges

I read/saw somewhere (not here?) that Fox and AP exclusively share a proprietary projection model, which is maybe why they called AZ early.

Curious to see how Biden's team will go about disinfecting the WH on Jan 20.

Sue Collins congratulates Biden.

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, November 9, 2020 1:54 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

in the most mealymouthed, #bothsides bullshit way ever but i guess "sue collins" infers that to begin with

Trump outside adviser David Bossie tested positive for coronavirus

HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson, MD just tested positive for coronavirus also.

Mary Trump on the end of Uncle Donald: all he has now is breaking things

This is how the most colossal and fragile ego on the planet deals with losing the US election: he does not deal with it at all.

My uncle’s speech late on election night wasn’t just entirely mendacious from beginning to end. It was also deeply dangerous. It’s one thing for random Republicans to call a legitimate election into question, but this was the head of the government. The consequences of that action should not be underestimated.

This is what Donald’s going to do: he’s not going to concede, although who cares. What’s worse is he’s not going to engage in the normal activities that guarantee a peaceful transition. All he’s got now is breaking stuff, and he’s going to do that with a vengeance. I’ve always known how cruel he can be. Shortly after the 2016 election, when I’d see him being particularly cruel, I would think about how he treated my father [Fred Trump Jr, Donald’s older brother, who died of alcoholism at 43]. He took away our family health insurance after his father, my grandfather, died – this was when my nephew needed round-the-clock nursing care, which we then couldn’t afford. That is the kind of man he is.

He’ll be having meltdowns upon meltdowns right now. He has never been in a situation like this before. What’s interesting is that Donald has never won anything legitimately in his entire life, but because he has been so enabled by people along the way, he has never lost anything either. He’s the kind of person who thinks that even if you steal and cheat to win, you deserve to win.

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I worry about what Donald’s going to do in that time to lash out. He will go as far as he can to delegitimise the new administration, then he’ll pass pardons that will demoralise us, and sign a flurry of executive orders. Remember, he will also still be in charge of the US response to the pandemic. There could be a million Americans dead by then under his watch.

After January, things look bleak for Donald. He has more than $400m of debt coming in the next four years. Why at this point would his lenders cut him any slack? He has never paid anyone back. His businesses are in the tank. He has destroyed his brand.

He is going to be a factor in courtrooms in New York City more than he’s going to be a factor in politics, I think. His secretary of defence has already submitted his resignation, and I think there will be more of that. The Republicans might need him for the January run-offs in Georgia, but he could be considered a liability. If he’s acting like a crazy person, senators are going to keep their distance. People will move away from him if there’s nothing in it for them any more.

It’s not like he has any friends, anyway. It’s grim for him. Donald Jr, Ivanka and Eric also know their relationship with their father is both conditional and transactional. I have been saying since 2016 that I was going to have to change my name. I think they’re going to have to change theirs.

As for saying he’ll run in 2024, that’s just a face-saving exercise. It’s a way of distracting him from the fact that he’s probably going to prison. But the worst thing Donald’s looking at isn’t financial difficulties or the prospect of jail. It’s becoming irrelevant. I don’t think he would ever recover from that.

Ben Carson has the vid

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, November 9, 2020 12:15 PM (two hours ago)

Ben Carson has the vid

― (•̪●) (carne asada)

― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Monday, November 9, 2020 12:27 PM (one hour ago)

NEWS: Sec. Ben Carson tested positive for COVID-19 this morning. His deputy chief of staff says he's "in good spirits & feels fortunate to have access to effective therapeutics which aid and markedly speed his recovery." Carson attended the election night party at the White House

— Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) November 9, 2020

― mookieproof, Monday, November 9, 2020 10:35 AM (three hours ago)

NEWS: Sec. Ben Carson tested positive for COVID-19 this morning. His deputy chief of staff says he's "in good spirits & feels fortunate to have access to effective therapeutics which aid and markedly speed his recovery." Carson attended the election night party at the White House

— Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) November 9, 2020

― Ned Raggett, Monday, November 9, 2020 10:26 AM (three hours ago)

#onethread

i get the enthusiasm, but surgeons can't die from covid-19, it's a waste of energy

Donald has never won anything legitimately in his entire life, but because he has been so enabled by people along the way, he has never lost anything either.

Mary Trump otm. Too bad there are 70+ million Americans among said enablers.

I really do think that's down to not understanding how the mail in ballots work in AZ, it's different from the other swing states in that it would favor Trump rather than be 3:1 Biden

― frogbs, Monday, November 9, 2020 2:55 PM bookmarkflaglink

I really don't think so, the guy at Fox acknowledged he understood how the ballots would break for Trump. also they and AP have access to proprietary polling information that no other networks had, and they were both the only networks to call AZ.

may have still been early, but I have a hard time believing they just based their call on a layman's understanding on mail voting.

in the most mealymouthed, #bothsides bullshit way ever but i guess "sue collins" infers that to begin with

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, November 9, 2020 3:00 PM bookmarkflaglink

lol otm

I hadn't even thought about the rogue's gallery of pardons we can expect to see in the next few months...

oh yay, all the right wing spree shooters he will release

the dude that shot Gaby Giffords, to start...

He can only pardon federal crimes, aiui. Most crimes are prosecuted under state law.

pssst Donny, wanna trigger the libs? pardon Snowden. that'll teach em

When even this guy is ragging on you

NEW - Dan Quayle, surviving Republican member of last incumbent president to get voted out of the WH, says it's "time to move on" for Trump https://t.co/fd4CSDW6pB

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 9, 2020

"Donald, it's time for you to goe - the election is over, and if you think the results will change, the answer is 'Noe'"

Dank Whale