GET OUT: US politics November 2020

how do I inject a screencap pic.twitter.com/EQtd2fNbPZ

— kilgore trout, four seasons appreciator (@KT_So_It_Goes) November 22, 2020

I read C Street & The Family over a few days, one right after the other right when the 2nd one came out and it had me sufficiently shook.

hadn’t thought about it in a while until the Netflix thing and it’s weird how almost quaint it all feels now. tbc it’s still very much worthy of concern and in the Before Times when we played at being a functioning Democracy that kind of stuff was my primary bugbear.

uphill but fleeting

vs

downhill but endless

Guys i think Republicans might be...bad

Trump cultists are looking into Tucker Carlson's alleged pedosatanic activities since he asked Sidney Powell to provide evidence of electoral fraud. You love to see it.

I will definitely *not* be Welcoming Tucker Carlson to the Resistance. I’m sorry but you must draw the line somewhere

remember when glen beck was in the resistance for a couple months?

alleged pedosatanic activities

jesus i can't even begin to imagine tucker carlson involved in eyes wide shut shit, he looks like a golden retriever ffs! terrible casting

The only way I can imagine Tucker Carlson is roasting on a spit, but y'know.

Eyes Wide Shut Shit

^the Fox News 2016 Holiday *Christmas* office party theme

Such clarity

Sidney Powell released this statement to @CBSNews and @kristincbrown after the Trump campaign said she's not on the team:

"#KrakenOnSteroids" pic.twitter.com/44aviGL5lA

— Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) November 23, 2020

The only way I can imagine Tucker Carlson is roasting on a spit, but y'know.

I'd say TMI, but you could have said which end you pictured yourself at, so

lolomg

saw a Trey Gowdy meme today and it was so weird. so many also-rans in the post-tea party era. so many names and faces that were touted as the next big thing who either fizzled or (possibly?) bowed out bc of a deep lurking ability to still be embarrassed (haha jk prob not)

these marching Million MAGAs are gonna need somewhere to put all this psychic energy. woe unto us if someone with the right mix of ‘talent’ and utter shamelessness manages to slip in and co-opt it.

It's funny, now that I think of it, there are any number of prominent conservatives that play or played in rock bands. Sekulow, Huckabee, Joe Scarborough. Lee Atwater. Any Dem musical hobbyists?

How soon we forget Martin O'Malley!

Don't look now but rumored Biden Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has two 80s-AOR-type singles up on Spotify as "Ablinken"

Damn, I was hoping he'd been in Blinken-182

Or Blinkin Park

Lol

Susan Rice Cube

Heidi Heitkamper van Beethoven

In the 1981 film Clash Of The Titans, the mythological beast The Kraken is coyly defeated by Perseus when he reveals Medusa's head, whose gaze, even in death, turns The Kraken into rubble & dust.

"coyly"

good context:

"Ugliness and lawlessness and norms violations did not end with the election, and they are not limited to Trump’s tweets or telephone calls. The disease has spread. And even as we should be moving on, acts of transparent racism, defiance of norms of governance, and clownish court performances by Trump surrogates all signal that, for the army of Trump enthusiasts, enablers, and imitators, law continues to be an afterthought—a sand trap limited to suckers, losers, and Democrats. The Republican Party is still insisting that it is a law unto itself. That part isn’t over, or even slowing. It is simply instantiated into more overt forms. Yes, yes we should ignore Trump, and Trump himself is ever-more ignorable. But his enablers and imitators are not slouching away quietly.

Why is Lindsey Graham calling elections officials to demand that lawful votes be suppressed in Georgia? Why is Emily Murphy at the General Services Administration unilaterally refusing to put an effective transition in place? Why is Mitch McConnell continuing to confirm judges and other unpopular nominees? In so doing, Senate Republicans are breaking a 123-year tradition that judges are not approved during a lame-duck session to vote in favor of nominees put forward by a departing president whose party lost the White House. Trump’s youngest judicial nominee, a 33-year-old rated unqualified by the American Bar Association, scored a lifetime appointment this week. She has taken part in two one-day trials, as an intern, and never tried a case."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/republican-party-trump-coup-embrace.html

https://j.gifs.com/vgyVNm.gif

Be funny if the Kraken was on steroids because, you know, it had some sort of rash or something, and rather than a position of strength it was just extra itchy.

Hey, remember Scott Pruitt? That feels like 100000 years ago.

Very amusing thread re the PA case

So the big election-rigging case President Trump wants to tee up for the Supreme Court is actually whether his lawyers should have gotten permission to fix a filing they screwed up. https://t.co/iObAMoWYVn

— Brad Heath (@bradheath) November 23, 2020

From @JerryDunleavy: White House, campaign say Sidney Powell has never shown them evidence to support the voting-machines-changed-millions-of-votes theory. https://t.co/I2GjI1URx2 pic.twitter.com/mtvwhMwMvB

— Byron York (@ByronYork) November 22, 2020

Gop Will Eat Itself.

nice one

lol Trayce, amazing

haaa

Lots of fun reading out there about your next Secretary of State, Antony Blinken

What does it mean nowadays when “White House” says something? Who is speaking and for whom?

winner

Accelerationist MAGAs

100%. BURN IT DOWN! I'm sick of milquetoast, backstabbing GOP. I'd rather the entire country fall to commies than this slow-drip torture. That will hasten the revolution we have to have anyway

— MrsDarcy (@huck68finn) November 23, 2020

So "won't actually stage a coup" is now the benchmark for milquetoastiness.

I presume you are familiar with the story of the Jonestown Massacre and the phrase "drink the kool-aid".

Communist revolution to hasten the conservative revolution is some galaxy brain shit.

I'm not violating any pledge of journalistic confidentially in reporting this: 21 Republican Sens–in convos w/ colleagues, staff members, lobbyists, W. House aides–have repeatedly expressed extreme contempt for Trump & his fitness to be POTUS. (1/3)

— Carl Bernstein (@carlbernstein) November 23, 2020

the phrase "drink the kool-aid".

fake news tbh

Funny that Mitch McConnell is not among those 21 named senators. He knows how to use words to conceal his thoughts.

this was the one you meant to excerpt, probably:

The 21 GOP Senators who have privately expressed their disdain for Trump are: Portman, Alexander, Sasse, Blunt, Collins, Murkowski, Cornyn, Thune, Romney, Braun, Young, Tim Scott, Rick Scott, Rubio, Grassley, Burr, Toomey, McSally, Moran, Roberts, Shelby. (2/3)

— Carl Bernstein (@carlbernstein) November 23, 2020

if bernstein's not violating any confidentiality, why didn't he report that earlier?

Wow

Blackjack!

talk - action = zero

so sick of hearing about these assholes and their "doubts", "reservations", and "concerns" while they continue to march in lock step

man fuck these craven motherfuckers