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

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— Hit Factory Podcast (@HitFactoryPod) January 3, 2021

Have they said where the tape came from? Raffensperger?

wait until the election, when civilians can finally exert their power via the vote

impeachment was tried and failed

We live in a banana republic, so it was made to fail.

You can't say we live in a banana republic and then still invest any sort of confidence in much of the day-to-day of governance. I mean, you can, but it is foolish to do so.

lol pic.twitter.com/Q0R1Gz9M5v

— Opinion Haver (@AsInMarx) January 3, 2021

There’s an additional substantive point I want to draw your attention to. We know President Trump acts like a thug. This is almost a literal replay of the Zelensky phone call which got Trump impeached. But there’s something more. This is a private call. It’s not for public consumption. This isn’t about stoking grievances for 2024 or maintaining control over the post-presidency GOP. President Trump is clearly very intent on remaining in office past January 20th and desperate to do so. He doesn’t think this is a closed question. He’s willing to do anything to remain in office and he believes enough threats can get him there.

this seems destined to go down as:

proud boys et al march on washington, not only on 1/6, but also on inauguration day.
proud boys fomenting violence as biden is sworn in
biden issues order for ...national guard? ... to counter proud boys
"inauguration day violence" for biden

sorry, that quote was from josh marshall. i can't tell if it's too blindingly obvious to post or if people still need to hear it. i think trump rightly sees alt-right paramilitary groups as his allies, and he doesn't seem to have any standards or sense of shame or wrongdoing when calling upon his allies

and that dude last week.

The current right-wing line is that dude last week died of a heart attack. Yes he'd tested positive for coronavirus but that just shows how phony the plandemic panic is. If someone tests positive, any subsequent death is ascribed to the virus. You don't know whether he would have simply died of a heart attack, virus or no virus, so clearly the virus is a Democrat hoax.

Meanwhile - if this is a Banana Republic, why don't we all get stylish khakis?

He’s willing to do anything to remain in office

Evidence suggests this conclusion is absolutely true.

and he believes enough threats can get him there.

More like threats have always been a highly successful strategy for him in the past and he's never paid any consequences for employing them. He won't stop this shit until the pain level for acting this way is greater than the pain of acting like he lost the election.

I think the Daily beast had a “actually Herman Cain didn’t die of covid” piece and I was just like I’m not only not gonna read that I’m also gonna immediately forget I saw the headline.

I just wish these cunts would die

― Change Display Name: (stevie), Sunday, January 3, 2021 3:10 PM (one hour ago)

can we end the monthly threads and just make a rolling us pol thread with this title?

"Tweet far and wide."

What the hell difference will it make now?

proud boys et al march on washington, not only on 1/6, but also on inauguration day.
proud boys fomenting violence as biden is sworn in
biden issues order for ...national guard? ... to counter proud boys
"inauguration day violence" for biden

is this Josh Marshall? We expected violence when Biden won the election. The truth is 99 percent of Trump's fans are too unhealthy and get off on grievance porn to foment any violence, and the 1 percent I worry about every election ever because #whitepeople.

Well, this will dominate the news cycle at least until Nicole Wallace gets to express Shock and Outrage, after which we move on to the next one.

Always with the clear grasp of things:

Trump sometimes forgot Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s name, calling him “George,” and seemed uncertain when the state’s Senate runoff was. https://t.co/ACMbiWMGYv

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) January 3, 2021

Anyway Alfred's right.

is this Josh Marshall?

the part is ilx quotes was, the rest is my doomsaying

i think we'll have a much clearer picture of 1/20 after 1/6, i guess

brb gonna 420

We won very substantially in Georgia. You even see it by rally size, frankly. We’d be getting 25-30,000 people a rally and the competition would get less than 100 people. And it never made sense.

He really is the stupidest person who ever survived seven decades.

it is kinda cool that he's frank though

a shame he's not fred

Just checking myself here--I mistakenly changed Trump's original question ("But have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts?") to "outer parts." Sorry, Mr. President, quite a distortion of your very real concerns.

My cousin-in-law: "It’s a Coup D’Twat."

More amusing than anything else but (Roy is a GOP rep)

! Rep. @chiproytx has challenged the seating of all House members from Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia and other states being challenged by Trump.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) January 3, 2021

What Roy is doing here is showing that Republicans, perhaps unanimously, support seating all of the House members who appeared on the same ballots as Joe Biden in the states other Republicans plan to challenge on Wednesday.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) January 3, 2021

Rep. Chip Roy is challenging the seating of the delegations from AZ PA MI WI NV and GA, basically saying if the presidential election in those states was rigged as the president contends, then so are the elections of the House delegation.

They are now taking a recorded vote.

— Kristin Wilson (@kristin__wilson) January 3, 2021

"Coup d'Twat" is great, mad props

Tonight I am arguing with people on Facebook, a thing I said I’d never do. Because they are so. fucking. stupid.

Rep Chip Roy

President Trump sounded really good (strong, clear voice; no static) on the “recording” - he cares about #ElectionIntegrity, as all Americans do. Thank you, Mr. President!

— Arizona Republican Party (@AZGOP) January 3, 2021

Clear voice no static can’t lose

everybody knows static-voice is a major tell

And Erick Erickson is already on the, “the real criminal is whomever leaked the call” line tonight. Not linking to him, because fuck that guy.

TBF, he isn't saying that, just noting gripes from GA GOP types. The one complaint he quoted basically just asked if the SOS couldn't've waited a day!

True, but that’s clearly the line of thinking he’s teeing up for others to run with, it’s in the replies a lot.

So fucking infuriating that the tens of millions of idiots supporting Trumps attempted coup are the same people who insisted over and over that he would never break the law to get himself elected

that AZ GOP tweet is the joke from 30 rock where liz lemon can't think of anything nice to say about Jenna's movie and starts talking about how cool the trees were

“recording”

ok that account is a parody, right?

I mean I see the blue check but someone is clearly having a laugh

All too real. Kelli Ward is out of her mind.

Clear voice no static can’t lose

― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Sunday, 3 January 2021 23:44 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Oh yes

I have the feeling that this is only the tip of the iceberg of what Trump’s been up to lately. He wouldn’t only be trying to flip Georgia at this point, and I think he implies as much in the recording. This call is just the one that got recorded and released. I’m sure there have been plenty of others.

this is what he does all day long for four years

Josh Marshall's comparison to the Zelensky phone call is otm, and both are an illustration of Trump's utter indifference — and seeming unawareness — that what he's doing is fundamentally wrong. I think he really thinks this is totally fine, this is how things are done. It's how he's done business all his life: threats, wheedling, pleading, complaining, strong-arming. I'm sure lots of people he's done business with have been on the receiving end of those calls.

xpost he's invited multiple state legislators to the White House and called several of them and he was doing that a month ago. he's definitely been doing this non-stop for months.

be prepared for a world of butthurt, his followers are all convinced the votes are gonna change on 1/6, so the whining and empty rhetoric will hit fever pitch. probably good we're mostly all staying in, cos I don't look forward to hearing people whine outside of coffee shops, playing beat up acoustic guitars and singing "Stop the Steal"

Playing musical instruments doesn't seem to be this demo's forte?

What Trump is doing right now is very clearly a felony, right?

xpost I didn't say 'well'. after all, look at this pic:

https://i.imgur.com/MxLTQ3c.jpg

Looool

microtonal...very cool

jute whyte

It must be exhausting for Trump followers to keep track of who to hate today.

Governor Doug Ducey of Arizona is just as bad as Kemp of Georgia.

He is covering up major voter fraud.

Sending an illegal vote count to Congress.

Not calling a Special Session for a vote on who won the state.

Ducey is a Democrat.

We will all remember.

— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) January 4, 2021

So from this I assume there was a Ducey phone call too. Wonder if we'll get tape of that one.