US Politics XXXI-Lame Duck Obese Turtle

[Hewson]

Originally Posted by Headache in a Suitcase

Everyone knows Zombie Hugo Chavez has always been smitten with Susan Collins.

Hugo's a sucker for a furrowed brow.

[Hewson]

Originally Posted by MrsSpringsteen

Distinguished member of the FL House of Representatives

Attachment 12712

Contradictory takes aside, also not smart enough to know Rittenhouse isn't old enough for Congress.

[dazzledbylight]

Originally Posted by MrsSpringsteen

Get some help Geraldo

Fox News correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera on Friday floated the idea of naming the COVID-19 vaccine "the Trump," saying it could dampen the blow of President Trump's defeat in the presidential election.

Rivera said, "I had an idea ... with the world so divided and everyone telling me 'He's gotta give up' and 'Time to leave' ... why not name the vaccine 'the Trump'? You know make it like, 'Have you got your Trump yet?

Eeeeewww! Heraldo was once a seemingly decent human being.

Originally Posted by Irvine511

they are blaming Zombie Hugo Chavez, so that's close.

I know, right!? riiiiiiight. Unbelievable.

Originally Posted by mikal

Biden is going to win Georgia three times!

Oh, I'm making fun - but I won't really fully breath a sigh of relief until
1/20/21 12:01 PM.

[dazzledbylight]

Originally Posted by MrsSpringsteen

Distinguished member of the FL House of Representatives

Attachment 12712

distinguished racist and sexist, maybe?


Meanwhile...

oh, moonlit ...
I see Steve King is showing off his racism, again!
Lucky you.




Irving:
President Trump*

[Irvine511]

Originally Posted by LuckyNumber7

I don’t have any doubts about the Mueller Report’s conclusions and I sure hope BW doesn’t.

I don’t like how the media circus (both sides) covered it. I would say the left was more honest with what was going on, the right was in denial, but the left was drawing conclusions as fact that *we all know are probably true* because Donald Trump is a piece of shit, however they were presented in some sinister sense rather than the sheer stupidity of Trump’s campaign.

I’m willing to buy that they were too inept to *effectively*/*competently* “collude” — but they sure did try. A lot of convicted felons did their best.

They weren’t too inept to obstruct justice at least 10 times.

Which, again, had the GOP cared about the rule of law would have resulted in at least the same impeachment in the house but still probably not in the Senate that we got over yet another Trump-inflicted national crisis over Ukraine (we saw why Trump did it — he was correct in understanding that Biden would win). Because it takes 2/3rds of the Senate, and it is a big thing to, say, *overturn an election*, removal from office would have been unlikely for both highly impeachable offenses.

It’s funny that *overturning an election* is kind of exactly what’s been going on for close to three weeks.

[LuckyNumber7]

Oh my point was more that they probably had no idea what they were doing was potentially illegal. I can almost guarantee that he thought he was being a savvy businessman or something.

[Moonlit_Angel]

Originally Posted by dazzledbylight

oh, moonlit ...
I see Steve King is showing off his racism, again!
Lucky you.

I haven't heard. Do I even want to know?

Thank God he lost that primary this year. Not that the results we did get for my state earlier this month were any kind of improvement, mind, but still.

[dazzledbylight]

Originally Posted by Moonlit_Angel

I haven't heard. Do I even want to know?

Thank God he lost that primary this year. Not that the results we did get for my state earlier this month were any kind of improvement, mind, but still.

I'll spare you the details.

So that means he'll be gone in '21?
Do I remember hearing he lost in your State's primary? A vague echo of satisfaction on your behalf.

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Originally Posted by LuckyNumber7

Oh my point was more that they probably had no idea what they were doing was potentially illegal. I can almost guarantee that he thought he was being a savvy businessman or something.

Ahhhh... the man's been around criminality his entire life. I wouldn't go so far as to say he was just being naive.

Plus the likes of Manafort and Flynn certainly knew what was going on.

I think that the Trump family side knew that this could conceivably get them into some hot water is they won, but ultimately didn't care because even they didn't think they would win. Then once they did the obstruction ramped up because obstruction is something Trump wrote the book on. He literally went out and fired everyone who would stand in his way/prevent him from taking full advantage of the executive.

These aren't the marks of someone who didn't know what he was doing was wrong.

His entire business empire was built off of toeing the line between what is legal and illegal and then buying someone off and/or muddying the waters with lawsuits until the problem went away if/when he went over the line. He's "run" the country the same way.

And that here we are, a few months from his finally leaving office and the right still believes that none of this happened - despite the Mueller report saying otherwise, and despite a bipartisan senate committee confirming much of what Mueller said from a coordination standpoint, despite all the arrests. It shows that his typical way of handling things worked just well enough once again. He will never be held accountable for any of it.

If he were to go down, it will be because he gets Caponed.

[Headache in a Suitcase]

The Trump administration formally shut the door on the Open Skies treaty Sunday, exiting the agreement while moving to get rid of the U.S. Air Force planes that have been used to carry out the nearly three-decade-old accord.

gotta get some last sweeteners in before leaving office. trump tower moscow ain't gonna approve itself.

[Headache in a Suitcase]

and the laying of the groundwork by the right wing media has begun...

https://twitter.com/joelpollak/statu...01777160368130

[phanan]

Sidney Powell is so batshit crazy that even the Trump legal team shifted away from her.

[MrsSpringsteen]

Originally Posted by phanan

Sidney Powell is so batshit crazy that even the Trump legal team shifted away from her.

And they have an awfully low bar. She sounds like a member of QAnon.

Joe Biden actually appointed a special envoy for climate change-John Kerry. So far his picks are diverse and that's great to see. Several women too.

[MrsSpringsteen]

Oh no, poor Melania had to receive the WH Christmas tree today. Merry Fucking Christmas Mel

[Hewson]

Originally Posted by MrsSpringsteen

Joe Biden actually appointed a special envoy for climate change-John Kerry. .

Makes sense...

[anitram]

Originally Posted by MrsSpringsteen

Oh no, poor Melania had to receive the WH Christmas tree today. Merry Fucking Christmas Mel

Attachment 12713

Too green.

Will have to be spray painted a dark, ominous colour.

[BEAL]

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/13...177763333?s=21

If there was only something the Dems could do, like hold her in contempt.

No consequences for this behavior means if continues and will get worse

[Danny Boy]

Originally Posted by BEAL

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/13...177763333?s=21

If there was only something the Dems could do, like hold her in contempt.

No consequences for this behavior means if continues and will get worse

Seriously, WTF is this asking nicely nonsense. That's a week away.

[Danny Boy]

[phanan]

Michigan certifies. Another one down.