And Sleepy Joe Will Get The Credit: US Politics January 2021

Cleta Mitchell, attorney who was on Trump's phone call with GA Sec of State, has resigned from her law firm. “Cleta Mitchell has informed firm management of her decision to resign from Foley & Lardner effective immediately," her firm said.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 5, 2021

Yeah, I think her firm was blindsided by her participation in that call.

Abundant evidence suggests that getting caught in Trump's orbit is not a good career move.

I don't know... he's got a bottomless war chest grifted from the unwashed faithful; he could be her sugar daddy if she only proves her fealty.

People in Trump's orbit are as disposable as kleenex. Fealty is hard to maintain when Trump's whims and demands can contradict the previous day's whims and demands.

As noted elsewhere, if she is *not* working for Trump then her conversations are/were not privileged and she can be subpoenaed for stuff.

the needle is back (but not on yet)

omg FUCK THAT NEEDLE

gather 'round needle watchers, that's if you're still livin'

omg FUCK THAT NEEDLE

I mean, I've heard of threading the needle ...

Seen the needle and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone

Queensryche told ya what u need to know about needles

omg FUCK THAT NEEDLE

― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Tuesday, January 5, 2021 2:17 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Look, Neanderthal, what you do on the weekends is your own business, but...

it's easier for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven than it is to fuck a needle

wait i think that's backwards, or is it

I'm sounding with the needle

Joy Phenix voted for gridlock. “They need a backstop,” Ms. Phenix, 55, said outside a polling place in the affluent Atlanta suburbs in east Cobb County where a modest line of voters shuffled through all morning. She said she voted for Mr. Perdue and Ms. Loeffler, but that if Mr. Trump had been elected she would have voted for the Democrats.

the Ron Swanson

I mean, it makes sense if you're an absolute fucking idiot.

I’m cautiously optimistic about tonight - Trumps approval is several points lower than it was on Election Day and I can’t imagine half the GOP claiming that elections are illegitimate is gonna help turnout. Not to mention the whole “you’ll get free money if the Dems win” thing. According to Abrahms the early voting numbers for young & black voters are much higher than expected in a runoff.

This is probably worthless but one can hope:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/georgia-senate-polls/

if we win the Senate somehow, I hope Clarence Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh drop dead of aneurysms immediately

we all know fraud is gonna be claimed and they're gonna try not to seat either of them tho

Let's wait three weeks on their aneurysms... just in case.

I came across this on Media Matters, and I thought it summed up my thoughts pretty well RE conservatives' thinking (even if deep down they know the election was fair and Trump lost, hence the "whether OR NOT it was rigged) it fits their whole grievance narrative.

WILL CAIN (CO-HOST, FOX & FRIENDS WEEKEND): I think Americans, I think Republicans, conservatives, can be forgiven for their skepticism. Because whether or not an election was rigged, it certainly feels like society is rigged right now, from the complete squelching of dissent on college campuses, inside the media institutions, to being lied about the Hunter Biden story, to watching President Trump impeached, every step of the way watching President Trump undermine, his legitimacy questioned. And when you deal with that for not just four years but decades, you start to think, if not an election, the entire society is rigged against people who hold my values. And at some point, Steve, Ainsley, and Brian, you begin to understand that kind of skepticism.

PETE HEGSETH (CO-HOST, FOX & FRIENDS WEEKEND): Especially at the end when you're told no, you can't question it. There will be no questioning at the end. The more you're told not to question, the more you're told not to challenge the more people feel like eh, something's not right here.

Lotta thoughts and thinking going on in that intro, sorry...

So, they're living in an alternate reality and have grievances with that alternate reality. So fuck them all to hell.

Or actually, no, don't fuck them. Send them all. Send them all to hell.

xpost it's more that "you questioned it in court 61 times, and lost 60 of those times, but inexplicably think it's not over"

begin eating these people, but only non-vital organs so they don't die. replace blood often so they stay alive and are slowly eaten for 20 years

Always been the party of feelz b4 realz.

You gotta respect their deeply held beliefs about reality, you see.

feelz b4 realz - candy rain

And to think how we treated President Clinton with professional cordiality and mutual respect every step of the way... Sen. Douche Canoe (R)

oh fucking jesus christ will cain has escaped sports media

complete squelching of dissent on college campuses, inside the media institutions, to being lied about the Hunter Biden story, to watching President Trump impeached, every step of the way watching President Trump undermined, his legitimacy questioned.

tbf this all happened/is happening.

inside the media institutions

nah

Let us not forget the Squelching of Bari Weiss.

The hot mic picked up some of Rowdy Rudy's squelches as well.

I love the notion that “society is rigged against people with my values” without a trace of insight that maybe those values are actually wrong, and society is telling you so.

Wait are hippies The Man now?

Ha yes exactly. It's adorable watching them become countercultural now. Jk it's awful cause they're the most whiny drama queens ever.

They elect this absolute shithead because he'll "fight for us" and then cry foul when those fascistic lefties try to undermine him

Let us not forget the Squelching of Bari Weiss.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra),

minor Evelyn Waugh iirc

I love the notion that “society is rigged against people with my values”

Moreover, it's a God-given truth that people with "my values" should always be running things, even if most of our neighbors don't want us running things and voted against us. Any outcome where we are not running things is totally wrong and cannot be accepted under any circumstances.

idk, just the fact that they are framing in that way means we already won.

I mean: “society is rigged against people with my values”

I'm gay and a person of color, so I don't know what "society" is other than "Fellow citizens who respect Erykah Badu and Pet Shop Boys."

The War on Christmas was particularly successful this year; no caroling, no church services - mission accomplished!

trump promised Biden would cancel Xmas, and he did! unfortunately I still had to buy presents for some people