Trump

[Digby]

Is anyone still listening? (other than the bloke in North Carolina hoping to get his $2.5 million back)

[morepork]

I don't think so. Its pretty sad.

In other news, Melanie Trump is looking into publishing her memoirs.

"When I am young I make fuck wif Donnell and he give me monies for make leisure time and wearingk clothes. I have make christmas decoration in the Wheat House, and three times I visit children for Be Best, but keep them at far away in case make my clothe dirty."

The End.

[Digby]

She visited Don Jr, Ivanka and Eric? Fair play, I've a new found respect, nobody visits Eric

[Digby]

So after Trump told the press the Justice department was missing in action, that Barr has responded telling the press himself that “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election". Which itself is a shitty comment from Barr as it allows some wriggle room interpretation that they have found stuff, albeit not quite actionable, and they might fine more. Still, Barr, will have the nutters, whether Family Trump or its supporters, baying for his blood for not going far enough in denying reality

Really the update so far is Trump, well nutters donating to Trump's legal fund, have spent $3 million to increase Biden's lead in Wisconsin. And Trump has some astonishingly bad lawyers advocating some astonishingly bad legal interpretations

[morepork]

Think how many small businesses could have been supported to pay their employees with that money. Indulging a fat man that watches TV all day and shelling out for the most inept legal minds in the Milky Way all just to hold onto the senate so they can play fiscal hawks and attack social welfare for four years after spunking trillions (pre-pandemic) on things like a fence, an obscene amount of military nonsense, golf weekends, and corporate tax cuts. It's beyond comical. Personally, I like to be kissed before I'm fucked but these wankers just line up their electorate for full dry penetration. Have you seen the calibre of the cretinous legumes being harvested for this legal master class? Fuck. If this is an insight into the machinery of government over the last 4 years then jebus help us.

[Son of Mathonwy]

Think how many small businesses could have been supported to pay their employees with that money. Indulging a fat man that watches TV all day and shelling out for the most inept legal minds in the Milky Way all just to hold onto the senate so they can play fiscal hawks and attack social welfare for four years after spunking trillions (pre-pandemic) on things like a fence, an obscene amount of military nonsense, golf weekends, and corporate tax cuts. It's beyond comical. Personally, I like to be kissed before I'm fucked but these wankers just line up their electorate for full dry penetration. Have you seen the calibre of the cretinous legumes being harvested for this legal master class? Fuck. If this is an insight into the machinery of government over the last 4 years then jebus help us.

Trump will be milking these idiots for years to come. His kids will too.

[Digby]

After spending some time reading about Krakens I was mostly left with the idea that if Trumps legal team, the Elite Strike Force (ESF), put out the following it wouldn't be the weirdest thing they've said:

This is Radio Freedom
ESF! Aha aha aha aha
ESF! Aha aha
ESF is gonna rock ya
(Are you ready?)
(Ancients of Mu Mu)
(Here we go)
(Ancients of Mu Mu)
ESF is gonna rock ya
(Are you ready?)
(Ancients of Mu Mu)
ESF ESF is gonna rock ya
Eternal
(Ancients of Mu Mu)
ESF!
(Are you ready?)
Aha aha aha aha
(Ancients of Mu Mu)
Eternal
ESF is gonna rock ya 'cause you
Have to
Move to the flow of the P.D. Blaster
Bass ballistics
I'm gonna kick this hard
And you can catch it
Down with the crew crew
Talking 'bout the Mu Mu
Justified Ancient Liberation Zulu
Got to teach and everything you learn
Will point to the fact that time is eternal


And actually the part about the Justified Ancient Liberation Zulu would tie in nicely with some of the ramblings of Paula White, and the talk about the Mu Mu would present a chance for Devin Nunes to once again to come to the fore, and who wouldn't want to hear from Devin?

[paddy no 11]

Think how many small businesses could have been supported to pay their employees with that money. Indulging a fat man that watches TV all day and shelling out for the most inept legal minds in the Milky Way all just to hold onto the senate so they can play fiscal hawks and attack social welfare for four years after spunking trillions (pre-pandemic) on things like a fence, an obscene amount of military nonsense, golf weekends, and corporate tax cuts. It's beyond comical. Personally, I like to be kissed before I'm fucked but these wankers just line up their electorate for full dry penetration. Have you seen the calibre of the cretinous legumes being harvested for this legal master class? Fuck. If this is an insight into the machinery of government over the last 4 years then jebus help us.

Trump will be milking these idiots for years to come. His kids will too.

120M raked in from people who cant afford more taxes apparently

[Sandydragon]

Think how many small businesses could have been supported to pay their employees with that money. Indulging a fat man that watches TV all day and shelling out for the most inept legal minds in the Milky Way all just to hold onto the senate so they can play fiscal hawks and attack social welfare for four years after spunking trillions (pre-pandemic) on things like a fence, an obscene amount of military nonsense, golf weekends, and corporate tax cuts. It's beyond comical. Personally, I like to be kissed before I'm fucked but these wankers just line up their electorate for full dry penetration. Have you seen the calibre of the cretinous legumes being harvested for this legal master class? Fuck. If this is an insight into the machinery of government over the last 4 years then jebus help us.

Trump will be milking these idiots for years to come. His kids will too.

Its like a modern Jordan. People provide money to a person who has no talent but somehow earns money off it.

[Digby]

Surprised it's taken them this long to go public with the buy a pardon bribery scheme

[Mikey Brown]

Satire doesn’t work if both the actors and the writers show no restraint, no subtlety or make it too obvious that they’re trying to be funny.

I guess this is a glitch in the matrix or something.

[morepork]

How is that such unmitigated fuckwits are allowed to waste everyone's time, money, and credibility on this complete nonsense? A big formal hearing was set up for that???

[gransoporro]

She sign a sworn affidavit.

Did you?

DID YOU???

[Digby]

Is it me or does she use the same shoe shiner as Don Jr.?

She seems somewhat squiffy.

[Digby]

At what point does one get prosecuted for a coup? Or even for adding more than a million Covid cases a week whilst refusing to address the Covid issue? Assuming one doesn't count saying a problem is over as being synonymous with a problem actually being over no matter the reality

[morepork]

Work shy fucker has just completely gone missing. Not even trying now. He did sign an executive order to prioritise vaccine distribution to 'Murrica, clearly forgetting he passed up the chance to commit to a Pfizer product in the summer and that the vaccine was engineered by a German company funded by the German government, with Pfizer essentially a licencee for proprietary technology. Oh yeah, it's being manufactured in Belgium.


What a silly sausage the fat orange cunt is.

[Digby]

I was being slightly serious, he does of course get access to the courts to present actual legal challenges to the election results that saw the GOP outperform expected results in just about every race but Trump's. But he doesn't have the right to put pressure on those appointing electoral college voters or to just declare he's won, just because he's bad at stuff and this also bad at enacting a coup doesn't mean this isn't a coup and prosecution shouldn't follow

[morepork]

It's creaking, but hasn't buckled yet. The past few decades have seen executive over reach increase unchecked and having an individual such as Trump as the head of that branch has really emphasized this. There doesn't appear to be a clear path to act on this within the framework of the constitution. I agree with you that having incompetence as the one saving grace is not ideal. It's something that needs sorting out. Good luck with that.

[Sandydragon]

It's creaking, but hasn't buckled yet. The past few decades have seen executive over reach increase unchecked and having an individual such as Trump as the head of that branch has really emphasized this. There doesn't appear to be a clear path to act on this within the framework of the constitution. I agree with you that having incompetence as the one saving grace is not ideal. It's something that needs sorting out. Good luck with that.

I’d recommend to you ‘How Democracies Die’ by Stephen Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. Lots of examples from across the world but they make some good points on Trump.

[Sandydragon]

The frankly ludicrous attempt by the Texas AG on behalf of Trump to change the results in a number of swing states has failed. Thankfully the recent nominations to the Supreme Court did their jobs properly rather than tie the party line.

Short of an actual coup (and this law suit came pretty damn close) it looks like it’s just a matter of waiting for the removals van to arrive now.

[Digby]

is this isn't an attempted coup there's a very thin cig paper marking the gap between what's happening and treason

[cashead]

I don't think so. Its pretty sad.

In other news, Melanie Trump is looking into publishing her memoirs.

"When I am young I make fuck wif Donnell and he give me monies for make leisure time and wearingk clothes. I have make christmas decoration in the Wheat House, and three times I visit children for Be Best, but keep them at far away in case make my clothe dirty."

The End.

It'll just be Michelle Obama's book, except with Obama's name crossed out and replaced with Melania's

[morepork]

If its a coup it's a damning appraisal of the individuals who attempted it. It's a waste of time, money, and ether. Never in the field of human endeavour has so much been spunked by so many for so little reward. The democratic process, as flawed as it is, has resisted the most significant challenge it has ever had and the incompetence of that challenge has highlighted systemic flaws that are there for the correcting. The limp cock of white privilege has been slapped by the cold hand of the attending nurse of public service and shrivelled into the diseased flab of a world view at least 100 years beyond it's shelf life. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Today is a good day.

[cashead]

Hahahahaha, oh me oh my, who could have seen this coming?






Yessssss, devour each other, you cunts.

[Digby]

Further quality work here from law enforcement seizing the equipment of someone they think might be behind a text suggesting people don't need to be complicit in unnecessary deaths, and upon learning there are children in the house drawing their service weapons.