GET OUT: US politics November 2020

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

I'm sure a lot of apparatchiks had their doubts about Khrushchev and they had a lot better excuse for keeping quiet about it

"I guarantee you..." pic.twitter.com/HRjKjtrziV

— Bad COVID-19 Takes (@BadCOVID19Takes) November 23, 2020

I'm sure Cruz and all the others who made that same bullshit prediction will admit they were wrong any day now

Such courage from Lamar, who is retiring.

Pff, Rubio and Portman et al. will just claim in years to come "I expressed my displeasure! I furrowed my brow in private a lot" etc.

alk - action = zero

― howls of non-specificity (sleeve),

^^ often my favorite Dylan song.

Here's some delicious crazy from Sidney Powell, who totally meant to leap off (and under) the Trump campaign bus:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Engq_nSWMAMf_f3.png

Let the chips fall where they may. For those upstanding republicans, or the craven democrats..

specific nation such as Serbia

Let's do this right:

The 21 GOP Senators who have privately expressed their disdain for Trump are:

What we need is a poll of the people who were in the Trump orbit for < a month before turfing out, lest we ever forget their contribution to this perpetual clusterfuck. Although the Mooch at least seems determined to never let that happen.

Chaffetz was the biggest weiner

"We are proceeding to prepare our lawsuit and plan to file it this week. It
will be epic."

Really disappointed in Ms Powell here. It was only yesterday that I heard her promise loudly and clearly that it would be "biblical".

What we need is a poll of the people who were in the Trump orbit for < a month before turfing out, lest we ever forget their contribution to this perpetual clusterfuck. Although the Mooch at least seems determined to never let that happen.

It seems very on-brand for the world right now that fukkin Scaramucci would come out of this looking halfway "honorable"

yeah its funny how the Mooch, who seemed like the sleaziest guy on the planet, wound up being the one guy with some resemblance of a moral center

I was at a Slayer concert when Mooch was announced in his new role
I was at a Slayer concert when Mooch was fired from his new role

stioll wondering i fgetting fired from this whitehouse looks good on your cv
Or how it compares with avoiding being hired by them in the firstplace.
Does it suggest at least attempting to make some change or alter teh way things were going or is your willing to go along at all a stigma in itself

like to me the most infuriating thing about this whole administration is the way everyone in his orbit continues to treat him like some 4-D chess genius who just loves this country too much to be PC even as he proudly displays his ignorance every fucking day and throws everyone who challenges him under the bus, it was nice to have just one guy in this administration be like "yeah I gave him a chance, he's an idiot"

we're about six months away from the entire GOP trying to outdo each other with "I was keeping it together behind the scenes and fighting against trump every step of the way but I couldn't say anything out loud for party reasons"

jail all these complicit shitheads imo and let them come to a better understanding of what their policies represent for 30-60% of their constituents

we're about six months away from the entire GOP trying to outdo each other with "I was keeping it together behind the scenes and fighting against trump every step of the way but I couldn't say anything out loud for party reasons"

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, November 23, 2020 10:22 AM bookmarkflaglink

so the GOP is Andrew Garfield in Silence?

forks otm x2

pretty sure everyone predicted back in 2017 that this is exactly what the GOP would do the minute he was out of power. don't forget how much they fucking hated this guy in 2015.

so the GOP is Andrew Garfield in Silence?

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/513893751014424576/CwwbXFBH.png

they hate mondays and minorities

pretty sure everyone predicted back in 2017 that this is exactly what the GOP would do the minute he was out of power. don't forget how much they fucking hated this guy in 2015.

2016, too. They hated his fucking guts until the exact instant he became the nominee, then it was "we have always been at war with Eastasia."

the only thing they like more than tax breaks for the wealthy is lasagna

Garfield could look less like Trump.

I'm hoping at the very least having Harris as VP will not let these assholes off the hook, even if Biden pretends to play nice.

I, falsely, as it turns out, was convinced that as soon as he lost the election there would be at least a handful of GOPers loudly and demonstrably jumping off the Trump train, since we all know how much the GOP usually hates the stench of a loser. But, like with a lot of things in the last five years, it just baffles me by how much they are sticking to him like glue.

they're all being blackmailed

Kinda my guess, but jesus, how much intel does he have on all of them?

if georgia was decided, we would be in full denial mode but they want his money and base for a few weeks more.

being blackmailed by Peter Cetera

to be clear, i don't mean TRUMP's money; I mean the runoff money he's bilking.

yeah this is all a show for the millions of Republican voters who literally believe Trump won all 50 states

Blackmailed? Only in the sense that there are tens of millions of MAGAnaut chuds who worship the T and will not brook the least criticism of their god-emperor. And those chuds vote, apparently.

Distance yourself from the Orange One and you get a kooky-ass primary challenger who will whup your milquetoast ass, because the electorate in primaries is dominated by motivated hyperpartisans.

like outside of Gaetz and a few other lunatics I really think these guys are counting down the days until Trump's powerless and they don't have to pretend to like him anymore but this strategy is backfiring because it turns out being a massive, ignorant asshole is what actually makes you popular in the GOP

otm

I suspect we'll see a few more GOP Senators call Biden "president-elect" after Michigan and PA certify, because at that point, Trump can't win unless he finds another state to contest outside of the battlegrounds, which would mean like, him arguing Biden didn't win Illinois.

Toomey actually called him President-elect after PA finished counting their votes. it's easy for them to still be cowardly and say "we were waiting for the votes to be certified unlike those reckless Dems".

some will continue to be silent, and some will say "we need to wait until all of the lawsuits are resolved", which ignores that they will never be resolved because his campaign just keeps refiling to keep cases in circulation so he can argue THE PROCESS HASN'T PLAYED OUT YET.