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

Yeah we had just ordered a new refrigerator so most of it went straight there. We also donated part of it. (3 checks, for 2 adults and 1 kid.)

I have had Priority Mail (2-3 days) take about 10 days for several recent packages.

Got my payment today

Oh! Just got it.

Swagger (def.): To represent America with pride, humility, and professionalism. We've done it. #Swagger pic.twitter.com/HleT4b4nif

— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) January 1, 2021

No one with the COVID got swagger like us

How it started / how it's going, Newsmax edition pic.twitter.com/hA98s7Q90i

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 2, 2021

moves like swagger

omg the Lin Wood stuff going down is CHOICE

Chaki (RIP) v. quick to point out the QAnon / Vanderpump Rules crossover happening as well (on twitter).

It's a little tragic that the only room where Pompeo won't be the biggest asshole is any room occupied by his boss. He really does try so hard.

I feel like tweeting about the vice president facing a firing squad would usually get you a visit from the Secret Service.

I forget, is Wood actually working for/being paid by anybody in all this, or is he just off on his own?

He seems to be in the midst of a high-octane tiger blood manic episode/nervous breakdown atm. A very stable genius imo. #winning

This has an amazing detail: an agent became so enamored of the President’s agenda he quit the Service and became a policy advisor, helping to tear-gas the protestors at Lafayette Square.

Now he’s going back to the Service to train other agents. https://t.co/iS4CR78HAW

— Peter Sagal (@petersagal) December 31, 2020

and sleepy joe will get the credit

Including that Louie Gohmert case that was thrown out yesterday, I wonder what the W-L record now is for post-election court challenges (whether directly initiated by Trump or by someone else on his behalf). They won a minor one early on, and have since lost every single one. I'm totally serious: as a final twisting-the-knife-in-deep farewell, I'd love for some kind of recognition on this page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losing_streak

Every entry is for a sports record, but come on, Wikipedia, show some imagination.

I love that GYBE! live bootleg- "There Will Be 20 More Days of Trump and He Will Be on Fire."

Mitch McConnell’s Louisville Home Spray Painted With ‘Where’s My Money?’ https://t.co/0hdXxgcSOw

— 89.3 WFPL News (@WFPLNews) January 2, 2021

Clemenza, Marc Eliason twitspacebook is generally good at providing a running total, currently 1-60.

Trump and his allies lost 60 cases:
⚖️In state and federal courts
⚖️In trial and appellate courts
⚖️On the merits and for lack of standing.
⚖️Before judges appointed by Trump and others
⚖️Before judges elected in red and blue states

And they only won 1.https://t.co/XBkKKEmG2Q https://t.co/bgg1ehlkyV

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) January 2, 2021

I'm sure that when such an "emergency audit" turned up the exact same results as every other audit of the elections, that would definitely satisfy all these yowling idiots that it was a fair and square vote. For sure, no question. All they're looking for is a fair investigation.

why would you be opposed to an EMERGENCY AUDIT unless you have something to hide

Don't know if it's the go to response to the court case W-L record but just saw someone online give this one: the courts don't even want to hear these cases, because they have no interest in getting involved in overturning election results, even if it's just sooooo obvious the Dems cheated.
Cognitive dissonance is a mutha.

Another truly intriguing headline from CNN: "With Trump a No-Show, Mar-a-Lago Guests Left to Party Maskless with Rudy Giuliani and Vanilla Ice."

I've never changed my display name once in 10 years here, and I don't plan to do so now. But if I ever did, "Partying Maskless with Rudy Giuliani and Vanilla Ice" would be just fine.

Y'know, the absolute absurdity of our times comes in both hilarious and tragic forms, and that news story manages to be both.

in your honour, clemenza

xp

Good job--too good to waste.

I will periodically choose to engage with some random Facebooker spouting obvious untruths in the comments on a news story, just to vent a little. Today it was a guy convinced that the “alternate” slates of electors sent by some Republicans are going to be magically recognized on Wednesday, flipping the election. I explained to him that those are not real electors and were not designated by their state legislatures. He insisted that, no, he had watched it with his own eyes and the legislatures sent two sets of electors. He was laughing about what a rude surprise I am in for. It remains astounding to me how many people not only say this kind of stuff but give every sign of believing it on a deep level.

the funny thing about "lol you'll be sorry on <date>" folk is they disappear after they're proven wrong, pretty much forever

i had one guy tell me I'd be shocked by the SCOTUS ruling on Texas and 5 minutes later the dismissal came out.

What did the guy say after that.

still waiting

I enjoyed the phrase "last-gasp swirl of petulant threats" from this CNN article.

"I think everyone needs to calm down ... It's like a tinder box and throwing lit matches into it." —Sen. Ted Cruz, who has been throwing lit matches into a tinder box pic.twitter.com/xozAujekdk

— The Recount (@therecount) January 3, 2021

Only a true master debater knows the power of telling someone to calm down.

We're all trying to find the guy who did this

Donnie's searching for the real fraudsters...

Good afternoon!

Cruz said challenging the results of the election was not an ideal thing for Congress to be doing, but it seemed better to him than merely accepting the results. “Frankly, two pretty lousy choices,” he said.

Good point, Ted.

If the Washington Post had any balls, they'd post the full recording.

President Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in an extraordinary one-hour phone call Saturday that election experts said raised legal questions.

The Washington Post obtained a recording of the conversation in which Trump alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, begged him to act and threatened him with vague criminal consequences if the secretary of state refused to pursue his false claims, at one point warning that Raffensperger was taking “a big risk.”

Throughout the call, Raffensperger and his office’s general counsel rejected his assertions, explaining that Trump is relying on debunked conspiracy theories and that President-elect Joe Biden’s 12,779-vote victory in Georgia was fair and accurate.

Trump dismissed their arguments.

“The people of Georgia are angry, the people in the country are angry,” he said. “And there’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, um, that you’ve recalculated.”

Raffensperger responded: “Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is, the data you have is wrong.”

At another point, Trump said: “So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.”

The rambling, at times incoherent conversation, offered a remarkable glimpse of how consumed and desperate the president remains about his loss, unwilling or unable to let the matter go and still believing he can reverse the results in enough battleground states to remain in office.

“There’s no way I lost Georgia,” Trump said, a phrase he repeated again and again on the call. “There’s no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes.”

democracy or undermining democracy, really kind of the same if you think about it

xpost Two to one says they will soon.

xpost

there's a 5 minute clip up, now, with the highlights.

honestly, i've read transcripts like this before from him, i know how he sounds, i know what a bald-faced criminal he is, but i found hearing his voice unsettling and raw, just terrible and pathetic, in a new way.

raised legal questions

I finally learned to stop rubbing my hands together and saying “now we’ve got ‘em!” when seeing phrases like this.

WashPost described this as "vague" threatening, but there's nothing vague about this when the POTUS is saying it to you:

“That’s a criminal offense,” he said. “And you can’t let that happen. That’s a big risk to you and to Ryan, your lawyer.”

yes, i get that trump's legal team is a complete fucking joke and that he has not standing and the case would be thrown out and all that, but he still has the power to make it SEEM like it's a criminal offense to his millions and millions and millions of dumbass followers

I wonder if it would raise legal questions if I went on a decades-long crime bender.

how much money do you have? that's what matters, in the U.S.

There’s too many “nothing matters” examples to have kept track of. I think his gelling the world that injecting bleach might kill the virus at a press conference is the biggest I can immediately recall.

if you have no money, you can't pay your bail and you sit in jail until your case comes up, whenever that might be

if you have enough money, you do whatever you want for the rest of your life and millions of people will construct a 4th-rate propaganda operation in your honor and throw money at it all day

xp trump was definitely joking about that bleach, definitely joking. we could all tell by the tone of his voice as he told the joke over a series of 60-90 seconds and kept asking deadpan follow-up questions. he is REALLY funny!!!!!!!

“Let’s see Donald Trump wiggle his way out of -“

please tell your lovers and friends that russia, don, and rudy had to do it again

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Alamos in the world wont save you now

like, I was just thinking taht the one drag of all media having been removed from the orange one was taht there were not going to be any obvious malapropisms or stupid comments from him to name a thread after.
So hence All Quiet On the Bully Pulpit

Here's my vote for a thread title that neither names nor alludes to the choad who's soon to be ousted.

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I like it

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thank you DJP