GET OUT: US politics November 2020

Aaaaaaand the Pentagon just made Michael Flynn aide Ezra Cohen-Watnick acting undersecretary for intelligence. https://t.co/wvd2kxCFXp

— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) November 10, 2020

didn't this guy resign in disgrace in 2017 or thereabouts?

What a weird time to be alive

apparently it's her nephew, but still!

son AND nephew!

yes. i can't keep up.

with this thread, or life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keNHTo2hhQg

had no idea we were shooting a 2nd season of The Plot Against America

xps - He's slotting in his super-loyalists. Something tells me there's going to be a whole lot of shredding going on.

let's hope that's the most they're able to do

for anyone who missed this step of the Dean Purdey saga in the hour it's been running

so from googling it would appear @deanbrowningpa's black guy identity "Dan Purdy" was also once used on the suspended account @soulcookie322. but before that account became Dan Purdy, it was a white guy named "Pat Riarchy" and "White Goodman". dean is really something else pic.twitter.com/gFkUPkNDPV

— food truck drove away with my debit card (@fart) November 10, 2020

between this and the former-gay-cheerleader-lawyer, my head is spinning

tell it to Pierre Delicto

haha I forgot abt that guy

it's been a long forty years. it HAS been 40, right? since 2016?

He's slotting in his super-loyalists. Something tells me there's going to be a whole lot of shredding going on.

Mm, I saw a comment that this was more of a coverup than anything else. Which, not good either, but anyway.

Grift grift grift

hmmmm pic.twitter.com/06yiorhuDi

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) November 10, 2020

You done hired the hit-maker!

xps, obv

son AND nephew!

― @oneposter (👍) (sic), Tuesday, November 10, 2020 6:03 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51WQf8QCwUL._CR280,0,720,720_UX256.jpg

Forget it, Jake Tapper, it’s Trumpland.

Heartbreaking, etc

John Bolton Rips Pompeo for ‘Delusional’ Comments on Transition: He’s ‘Eviscerated His Credibility Internationally’ https://t.co/7hp58bN2ny

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) November 10, 2020

Props at dropping a Purdie quote into a politics thread

hehe, thanks

lol I hope he tweets about those Beatles sessions

"This tweet is from a suspended account."

I think Pompeo can still carve out a lucrative niche selling international timeshare properties.

Or jalapeño poppers. Or maybe just poppers.

jalapeno poppers fucking rule

Yeah, Pence didn’t lunch with the senate to plot a 25th thing. It was the opposite:

Pence message today to Senate Republicans, per source:

I want to keep serving with you (as president of the Senate), and I think I will.

— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) November 10, 2020

Cool cool cool. Feels like we are going to just keep shrugging this stuff off as theater until suddenly we aren’t.

Pence just wants to be liked. By somebody, anybody.

God.

Pat Riarchy.

Pat Riarchy?

Pat Riarchy!

The Erie postal worker guy who got busted and anyone associated with that is likely in for a world of hurt, thus:

If it was the Postal Inspectors who caught this guy who made the false affidavit, everyone involved should just hug their families and make their peace with God and go lay down in a grave; it’s only a matter of time now.

— SpaceProfessionalHat (@Popehat) November 10, 2020

Pat Riarchy v. Earl Misogyny

Yep. That $130k will disappear in legal fees. Then there's the loss of pension.

Hopefully this will deter others from claiming Texas Lt. Gov's Dan Patrick's reward of $1 million for evidence of election fraud.

Houston Chronicle: Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick offers https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-Lt-Gov-Dan-Patrick-offers-1-million-15716973.php million reward for evidence of voter fraud

Oops. Shouldn't misplace brackets while following our decline into autocracy.

"Hopefully this will deter others from claiming Texas Lt. Gov's Dan Patrick's reward of $1 million for evidence of election fraud."

Fetterman is all in!

Hey, Governor Patrick- it’s your counterpart in Pennsylvania.

I’d like to collect your handsome reward for reporting voter fraud.

I got a dude in Forty Fort, PA who tried to have his dead mom vote for Trump.

I’d like mine in Sheetz gift cards pls.

ps. The Cowboys blow. https://t.co/Y21Q3ZkSEH

— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) November 10, 2020

Feels like we are going to just keep shrugging this stuff off as theater until suddenly we aren’t.

I understand the sentiment. What I can't understand is why thousands of elected Republicans would feel the same kind of desperation that is driving Trump. They have a pretty good gig going and there's a new election every two years. They've maneuvered there way through trickier spots and resumed power regularly enough to know they only need to wait and turn the crank some more and... good times for Republicans are back! Why risk it all on a crazy throw of the dice and maybe crash the whole money machine?

It absolutely is theater. And at some point Republicans will cut him loose, they won't want him hanging around like a dead albatross forever.

xp Death threats to their families, the fact that Trump just got 70+ million votes, reading that Don Jr. and his gf are making a play for RNC power, etc etc.

They are frightened.

Not sure I understand the conventional wisdom that Trump will be “irrelevant” after leaving office...he’ll continue to hold enormous sway in a party that he made his own.

100%. He has the power to turn the base against Republican who crosses him.

For the Trump loyalists he is appointing into higher positions they will do as they are bidden, for many that would include criminal actions, too. What they will discover is that the powers of those positions are not inherent in the office holders, but in the office itself and how it fits into a complex web of laws. When they start giving blatantly illegal orders, they'll run into effective resistance from many sides and soon fail.

Trump derived one obvious lesson from his impeachment trial, that he's untouchable. He will soon find out that when you lose an election by about 6 to 8 million votes, you become very touchable. Even Barr knows Trump is playing with fire and will get burned. He'll do whatever allows him to retain a veneer of legality, but he's not going to immolate himself for Trump.

remains to be seen if he continues to hold sway over the masses once he's out on his ass and getting sued into oblivion

Not sure I understand the conventional wisdom that Trump will be “irrelevant” after leaving office...he’ll continue to hold enormous sway in a party that he made his own.

― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, November 10, 2020

hard to say. he has a lot of rabid supporters, but there are also a lot of soft supporters of the 'he's a good businessman' variety who could fall away

@DanPurdy322 has been suspended for violating Twitter Rules, which imo is a violation of our first amendment rights to lol

xps - he's out on his ass and into a Trump Tower vlogging studio where he clocks 10 million Youtube views a day, trashing any Republican who fails to pay homage (figuratively or literally with sacks of cash for "consulting") and getting sued by corrupt Big City Democrats like Cy Vance

He doesn't need to take over Rush's show, as long as Youtube doesn't boot him he can work for 10 minutes a day and rake in cash.

https://www.wonkette.com/keep-calm-and-remember-what-kind-of-clownass-idiots-were-dealing-with