GET OUT: US politics November 2020

It's not that I doubt BdB's ability to take a grim sledgehammer to his credibility as both a politician and as a functional human being, but somehow I can't hear his wife making that joke in the first place? Idk why not.

Were y'all legit worried about Georgia? The law's clear about the secretary of state having the power.

I'll be honest, in the end I am not a terribly anxious person (just constantly angry and disappointed, lol), but if the last few years have shown me anything it's that the law is not "clear" about as much as we might have thought, especially when it comes to the Federal government. I mean, do I need to make a list? Acting cabinet appointments overstaying their welcome or using powers they don't have. Treasury being compelled to furnish Trump's tax returns and refusing. Countless subpoenas unenforced or met with silence. Violations of the Hatch Act, from campaign events at the WH to cabinets members campaigning for the president. The apparent worthlessness of the emoluments clause. And so on and so on. The "legit" worry is that there is very little faith that things once considered "clear" will be treated or enforced as such, or that the worst we can imagine, even if it ultimately fails, will not be attempted. As long as the rules are not being enforced, then the rules are worthless, and the remedy nebulous or hinging precariously on unpredictable factors, like the whims of lifetime appointed judges, or even luck.

We've all knocked on wood that Team Trump seems to be largely inept, but a smidge more competence is all it might have taken to make things go the other way.

It definitely seems that some 'accepted norms' need to be codified into 'ironclad laws.'

certification in GA re-completed

I respect your opinion, but certification denied.

I love the gullible idiots who keep saying the litigation should be allowed to play out, like they haven't figured out after four years that Trump will just keep filing meaningless lawsuits so he can say there are legal options pending

you know McEnany may almost be worse than Huckabee-Sanders.

almost

I'll be honest, in the end I am not a terribly anxious person (just constantly angry and disappointed, lol), but if the last few years have shown me anything it's that the law is not "clear" about as much as we might have thought, especially when it comes to the Federal government. I mean, do I need to make a list? Acting cabinet appointments overstaying their welcome or using powers they don't have. Treasury being compelled to furnish Trump's tax returns and refusing. Countless subpoenas unenforced or met with silence. Violations of the Hatch Act, from campaign events at the WH to cabinets members campaigning for the president. The apparent worthlessness of the emoluments clause. And so on and so on. The "legit" worry is that there is very little faith that things once considered "clear" will be treated or enforced as such, or that the worst we can imagine, even if it ultimately fails, will not be attempted. As long as the rules are not being enforced, then the rules are worthless, and the remedy nebulous or hinging precariously on unpredictable factors, like the whims of lifetime appointed judges, or even luck.

We've all knocked on wood that Team Trump seems to be largely inept, but a smidge more competence is all it might have taken to make things go the other way.

― Josh in Chicago,

I get all this, so in a sense my post was gauging the rest of y'all.

Where does this bullshit go?

#BREAKING: Kyle Rittenhouse, teenager who shot two people during a protest in Kenosha (Wisconsin), released from jail on $2 million bail https://t.co/d0zPYUizH7

— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) November 20, 2020

alt-right thread, maybe

Done!

Lol at his follow-up tweet being very defensive about who funded the bail.

xps “legal options pending” is the new “IRS audit”

Just enjoy the consequence that he's going to have to leave office as a loser and he knows the whole world knows it, regardless of what he says about it. If he ends up broke and/or in jail, all the better, but at a minimum he's finally run into something he can't just grift his way out of.

Just want to note that this is grifting his way out of it. He's been a massive loser at everything he's ever attempted, except for holding onto some buildings his daddy bought, and being edited desperately around by harried TV freelancers. He just walks away and talks about how great whatever the thing he's doing now is.

I dunno, I still think losing this election is going to eat at him every remaining day of his life. Or at least, that's what I'm going to choose to believe.

he doesn't have an inner life

But he has endless seething rages and resentments. There's no way losing a presidential election, being literally evicted from the White House, doesn't cause him deep and lasting pain. That's what we're all seeing every day right now, but it won't go away once he leaves. He'll still be tweeting the stolen election from his deathbed.

he doesn't have an inner life

xpost - Oh for sure he will. What I would love to see happen is for the media to completely ignore him and let those tweets fall only on the ears of the MAGA faithful, but I don't have a lot of hope for that. Sadly, I think the media (on both side, tbh, the hate clicks are still clicks) is going to keep smearing his shit in our lives for some years to come.

He knows that being a single term POTUS has become a historical aberration - that he's now in the Jimmy Carter/George HW Bush club. Just the way he grimaces these days shows his loserdom.

xpost - except he has very clearly and demonstrably never been a happy man.

the only time he's ever looked happy is in that video where he's dancing with Jeff Epstein

He always looks happy when he's got a huge crowd of midwesterners spraying Covid all over each other.

that he's now in the Jimmy Carter/George HW Bush club

CLUB INTERZONE!

He was waiting for a friend of his

Former Obama Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, whom Republicans brazenly blocked at every turn, is being considered for attorney general in the incoming Biden administration, NPR reported on Friday.

If selected, Garland would be saddled with restoring confidence in a Justice Department that, amid the Trump presidency, has drifted far afield from its original nonpartisan mission — routinely playing politics to do Trump’s bidding.

I wonder if there's some strategic thinking involved with this. You can count on McConnell and the Republicans opposing everything that Biden proposes. The AG is an essential seat to fill, essential among essentials. Out of all the people in the universe who the Republicans _might_ before shamed into not completely opposing, maybe that's Merrick Garland. i imagine that the GOP would be in a tough position where they don't want to deny Garland yet again, and they also want to have a bullshit talking point that "oh yes see we do support merrick garland. our opposition to the supreme court seat was all about..." and then fill in the blanks with whatever contortions McConnell needs to do to make it possible that he was only following procedure and tradition.

why would he leave a lifetime sinecure when a GOP Senate will find an excuse to hold him in contempt

not to mention the fact that his circuit seat will need to be filled, and if mcconnell is in charge, that ain't happening.

who is the next Attorney General, iyo

"Acting"

Whomp whomp

News: Don Jr, the president’s son, has tested positive for coronavirus. He escaped the virus when people around him got infected, including his girlfriend Kimberly, but now has it, per multiple sources.

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) November 20, 2020

"and let those tweets fall only on the ears of the MAGA faithful"

I'm expecting him to be banned from Twitter pretty soon after inauguration

For my own mental health I need to stop thinking these people are interested in justifying their actions any more. They’ll probably just say no, period.

I feel so damn sorry for the virus in him.

(xp to KM)

It is hard to compete with cocaine

I feel so damn sorry for the virus in him.

― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, November 20, 2020 11:01 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah.. ew

Fingers crossed, is failson a comorbidity?

Unfortunately, he'll likely survive and then go all Bolsonaro and say how only wimps die from it.

he can't get the mondo steroids that powered Dad through it, so he'll just up his coke intake

he can’t get the brain damage either

i feel uncomfortably similar to a medieval peasant eagerly awaiting the beheading of some bigtime asshole noble

would rise early, race for good spot at olde gallows

i've gone hungry for the last 3 days because i've been saving my best onion to throw

My family and I will sing the most spiteful Organum.

I don't hope Jr dies from it, I just hope every time he nuts from here on out, green stuff comes out

The MI GOP leaders told Trump they desperately need coronavirus relief money and that they’re not going to mess with the election result.

Seems like the pretty blunt implication here that the president’s focus on the latter issue is distracting from the former. pic.twitter.com/1gGA1o8Sl5

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) November 20, 2020

xp to karl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G6Sgtgk_IM

Xpost Haha. Nice try Donnie

TRUMP: Don’t let the virus kill me! I’ll give anything!
DEVIL: Very well. You will be spared. But in return, I will need your first born s-
TRUMP: Deal.

— Gourmet Spud (@gourmetspud) November 20, 2020

h/t Ned:

It's the first time since 1944 a Democratic presidential candidate has carried Virginia by double digits. https://t.co/rnbATEzRwv

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 20, 2020