Everyday Treasoning: Please Mister Postman (The Treason Thread, Part 37)

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Just a friendly reminder that Trump allegedly raped a 13yo with Epstein.

Oh and most QAnon’ers are incest survivors who can’t deal with their own Daddy issues or Pedos themselves projecting onto everyone else.

That’s all.

Pres Bone Spurs seems to be hanging it all on Q crazies.

[quote] Why in the world would the President not kick Q’anon supporters’ butts? Nut jobs, rascists, haters have no place in either Party.

R4 Holy Fuck! I’m so fucking sick of living in the twilight zone. Watch this.

Dump asked about 'QAnon' & their beliefs about “a satanic cult of Pedos and Cannibals’ --- "They like me" and "love the country"

You know there's something wrong when you make Jeb Bush look sensible

B.L.M.

The Republicans are gonna need another clown car. It seems like every Republican Senator is planning a run in 2024.

[quote]Just for Ted, My favorite Presidential directive from the 04 campaign will always be when GWB said of you, “I never want to see that asshole on TV with my name next to his.”

Great takedown at R9.

I would hope The Evening Punctuationist might consider turning a blind eye and attributing Steve’s egregious use of apostrophes to his unleashed patriotism and passion.

Just this once.

Miz Lindz is in a pickle in South Carolina. The ultra-Trump sycophant is polling 5 or so points less than Trump. Even SC Republicans know she hasn't done a damn thing for S.C. 'Golf caddying for Trump every weekend and getting her ladybugs stirring on Hannity weeknights, aren't cutting it. While Miz Lindz lines her pockets, she oppose more stimulus aid medicaid resources for the state. Rural hospitals are closing, and she does little other than fawn over Trump.

Fox News with Tucker & Sarah (Palin, not Huckabee this time).

When the giggling sadistic psychopathic mass murdering war criminal doesn't want your name associated with his, that doesn't augur well.

CNN:

Steve Bannon, three others charged with fraud in border wall fundraising campaign

Steve Bannon ARRESTED

They were embezzling by siphoning off money from the alleged charity to build a border wall into shell companies.

Judge throws out Trump challenge to Manhattan DA subpoena for tax records.

R9, love that quote.

Thanks for starting a new thread, OP. And just in time for the arrest of that great patriot, Steve Bannon. (How ever will he keep up his rigorous skin regimen in jail?)

R18 what about his alcohol consumption. He’ll have DTs.

This just gets more and more delicious!

LOCK HIM UP!

LOCK HIM UP!!!

'Mother' Pence & Mikey will pray for him. As will Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell Jr., and Kimberly Guilfoyle.

Isn't Stephen Miller the top protégé of Bannon? What does Rebekah Mercer have to say? Kellyanne has long been tight with Rebekah and Bannon.

*Waiting to see what Claudia says.

Junior and his slag Kimberly Guilfoyle, Corey Lewandowski, Louis Gohmert and Kris Kobach are all featured on the We Build The Wall web site, which is still up and running. They’ll probably rake in records amounts from deplorables today.

[quote]Fox News with Tucker & Sarah (Palin, not Huckabee this time).

Steve Schmidt in response:

Ok. I can’t help it. It has been 12 years since @NicolleDWallace and I had to deal with her paranoia, pathological lying, profound ignorance, brittleness and insanity. We had to deal with her for 70 days. It has been amazing to watch her soar and prove all her critics wrong.

"Junior and his slag Kimberly Guilfoyle, Corey Lewandowski, Louis Gohmert and Kris Kobach are all featured on the We Build The Wall web site, which is still up and running."

All the best people!

Gohmert is as deplorable as they come. He must have survived the Covid-19 infection. That east Texas district that has kept re-electing him has no shame.

Guilfoyle must be in it for the $$$$. Jr. Mint's cock and tounge can't be that awesome for the 51 y.o.

Destroying removed sorting machines.

DeJoy needs to be locked-up. The public shouldn't tolerate his shit. Pelosi and Congress better put his fat ass through the wringer.

Even Putin and his troll farm have to know the Orange Con Man's days are numbered and too many have caught-on to their meddling game. They are salvaging what they can get, hoping for miraculous results via the cheating.

Dejoy will show up for the hearing and get angrily questioned and scolded, and maybe if the stars align, be arrested. And it won't matter because those sorting machines weren't turned off and tarped over for future use, they were *dismantled* and left outside unprotected. And the mail collection boxes won't be replaced. Mission Accomplished and no consequences. This election will be a shitshow.

Barr will soon chicken-out and Trump will lash out harder at him. The coup d'etat scheme will unravel. Prince's mercenary army, Trump's unmarked special units, old men MAGA militias, and Russian special forces, will not be able to intervene.

R12 Tucker "I'm mommy's special boy" Carlson.

r31, Just like Trump wants it to be.

A new report from the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence offers a damning portrait of the people Donald Trump chose as his partners for potential projects in Russia. They include individuals with alleged connections to the mob, to Vladimir Putin and to human trafficking.

The group would comprise an extraordinary list of associates for any international businessman, let alone for the sitting president of the United States.

Trying to link above again:

Is it me? or are many missing the point of why Trump really wants to destory Vote-by-Mail? It's not that more Dems will vote by mail than Republicans, it's because Putin and (maybe the Repugs as well?) has the voting machines rigged! If they're not used by the majority of American voters, then hacking them does no good. They can't hack the mail-in-system they were they were able to hack the machines in swing states in 2016, (that many of us on this thread believe they did and got away with!).

Trump's actions are only more evidence that Russia successfully hacked the machines in 2016, an he knew about it!

Again, maybe I and many others are wrong about this, but it should at least be questioned.

FCI, will you pipe in please?

TRUMP MODEL MANAGEMENT PEOPLE. Trump trafficked in underage eastern european girls FOR YEARS. Do you really believe Trump Escorst are giving guided tours of China ?

Escorts ^^^^

R36 Human trafficking?

*crickets*

The DeJoy appointment has a deeper scandal to it.

Also from CBS News per USPS hearings:

70+ former Republican national security officials endorse Biden.

"We are profoundly concerned about our nation's security and standing in the world under the leadership of Donald Trump. The President has demonstrated that he is dangerously unfit to serve another term."

The link is to a commentary on Bannon and Bannon's ego. Bannon actually considered running for President.

I'm kind of hoping that Bannon has lots of dirt on Jared and will cut a deal, maybe after Barr is out of the DOJ.

R37 I think most of us here at the DL know that's the reason he's trying to dismantle the USPS. Since it's never been "proven" that the 2016 election was hacked, a lot of other people aren't thinking in that direction (for whatever reasons).

Plausible, R37.

I think the prevailing theory, however, is that disrupting the mail creates a reasonable doubt which throws everything out of whack and ties things up in court like Bush v. Gore in 2000. From there they wield the power of incumbency.

It sounds reassuring to argue that he's out January 20th regardless, but they are not following the rules anywhere else so they don't think they will have to then either. This is why Barr is so dangerous.

Dems were shown to use mail and early voting by far larger numbers than Repigs...guess I’ll have to vote in person or vote early

In George Conway's tweet citing The Washington Post, it was the U S. Postal Service Security agents that arrested Steve Bannon.

Hannity chose this life, so no one felt sorry for him, but the stress took its toll. “Hannity would tell you, off-off-off the record, that Trump is a batshit crazy person,” one of his associates said. Another friend concurred: “Hannity has said to me more than once, ‘he’s crazy.’”

...

In the Trump age, left-wing blogs filled up with stories about families torn apart by a loved one’s Hannity addiction. I heard those stories from Fox staffers too: Some of their relatives resented what they did for a living. They made excuses, mumbling that they were simply giving the people what they wanted. “I feel like Fox is being held hostage by its audience,” a veteran staffer said. “The audience has been RADICALIZED,” a longtime commentator texted me, in all caps, as he scrolled through his Twitter feed after a live shot on the daytime show America’s Newsroom. The amount of vitriol shocked him. Any break from Trump was penalized. Nuanced debates about the role of government and taxation and immigration were distilled to a single question: Were you with Trump or against him?

...

Hannity deserved a big share of the blame for this state of affairs. But despite that, and despite the fact that he was rarely at headquarters, Hannity was well-liked around Fox. Colleagues described him as a big-hearted family guy. He paid bonuses to his staff out of his own deep pockets. He ordered meals and care packages to the homes of colleagues who lost loved ones. He even offered to hire a private investigator when an acquaintance died in a mysterious crash. When the network descended on New Hampshire for primary election coverage, Hannity footed the bill for the open bar. A member of Sean’s production crew, a Democrat, told me, “I want to fucking hate him so bad. But he’s so nice to me.”

...

The contrast between Fox’s public face and the private “resistance” has existed ever since Trump upended the presidential race five years ago. It’s the reason why I decided to write a book about the network and its unprecedented alliance with the White House. In all I spoke with more than 140 staffers at Fox, plus 180 former staffers and others with direct ties to the network. Their frustration was palpable. Staffers described a TV network that had gone off the rails. Some even said the place that they worked, that they cashed paychecks from, had become dangerous to democracy. They felt like the news division had been squeezed out in favor of pro-Trump blowhards.

Most of the insiders acknowledged that Fox News was always, on one level, a political project, but many said they were shocked by how thoroughly Fox and the GOP had been merged by Trump, Hannity, and a handful of other power players.

“We surrendered,” one anchor said with remorse in his voice. “We just surrendered.”

A lot of people I spoke to were desperate to talk. Others were terrified. Ailes made everyone paranoid and punished those he suspected of leaking. That same fear of retribution was still very real in the post-Ailes years. Employees suspected their work phones were tapped and assumed their emails were monitored by management. I cannot overstate the level of paranoia among Fox employees.

R37 You say it better than I. You’re correct.

R46 It’s both.

Has Drumpf issued a statement yet that he doesn't know Bannon?

R51, yes, of course. He was asked about it, and said “I know nothing.”

Julia Louis Dreyfus is fucking up tonights convention with her little "jokes". Shes not cute.

R53 She’s great.

Biden gave a helluva speech. That was a great convention especially under such tough conditions. It was beautiful. I’m proud to be a Democrat. I’m proud to vote for our ticket. What a contrast.

R55, FCI, I ww'd you and I second that as well!

I will save my thought of extreme cynicism for tomorrow.

R16: The article says Trump will appeal to a higher court. WHAT higher court at this point? He already appealed to the highest court in the land. When will these appeals to higher courts run out?

(Ugh, I can see him doing the same thing when he loses in November. Appeal, appeal and appeal some more until he gets the answer he wants.)

[quote]I will save my thought of extreme cynicism for tomorrow.

Couldn't it just be your little secret?

[quote] The article says Trump will appeal to a higher court. WHAT higher court at this point?

Putin? God? Judge Judy? He’s got lots of options.

I'm picturing Bugs Bunny " I shoulda picked a lower court"

Seriously, I wonder if anyone has explained to him that if the election isn't settled, Nancy Pelosi becomes president in January.

R61. Fabulous

R61 yeah... we’ll see about that...

Donald Trump: No one has done more for our military than me. NO ONE.

Me, for 56 days: You should really call out Putin for reportedly putting bounties on our troops...

Donald Trump:

More about the Senate intelligence report

Really need to disconnect with the REAL boss and the crinimal enterprise tumbles.

*criminal

Runny 💩 and 🍊 makeup doesn't transfer well person to person.

MAGAt cult logic.

Fetch 🐞 🐞 🐞!

R65 Article is paywalled. Could you or someone please sum up the 5 nuggets? Thank you.

Ditto what r71 asked. Thank you!

R70 Lindz is a little girl!

For R71. Five provocative nuggets from the report:

1. Trump to Putin in 2007: “I’m a big fan of yours.” Trump sent a fan letter to Putin after Vlad was named Time’s Man of the Year.

2. “A GIFT FROM PUTIN!” In 2013, Putin sent a “Fedoskino-style lacquer box,” a traditional Russian gift to Donald through Russian pop star Emin Agalarov, who had been in contact with Don Jr. Junior informed his father by printing out the email and writing (in caps) “YOU ARE BEING SENT A GIFT FROM PUTIN!”

3. Suggestions of a 1996 affair — and a possible kompromat effort. The report includes an allegation that Trump may have begun a brief relationship with a former Miss Moscow in 1996, while he was still married to Marla Maples.

4. Cohen said Trump visited a club featuring a bizarre “sex act.” Trump, Cohen and a few others attended a Las Vegas club that featured a blind man singing a patriotic song while a large woman in a thong bikini performed sex acts on him.

5. Bannon’s wry comment about Donald Trump Jr. and Breitbart. Bannon once said, “I’d describe Don R., who I think very highly of, as a guy who believes everything on Breitbart is true.”

[quote].. featured a blind man singing a patriotic song while a large woman in a thong bikini performed sex acts on him.

NO!!! Not Stevie Wonder and Sarah Huckabee

Wouldn't be the first time r75!

Appeals court rejects Trump's request for hold on Mazars subpoena.

R77 so back to the Supreme Court. What a fucking joke the legal system is in this country! Also, not one Deplorable can give a sane, reasonable answer to “If he has nothing to hide and has done nothing illegal then why won’t he release the taxes?”

R56 Here. Back with my thoughts of extreme cynicism.

I think the Dems did a great job putting the convention together. I thought Biden's speech was inspiring and authentic. If given the opportunity, he will fill his cabinet positions with - ..... - wait for it - ..... - ALL THE BEST PEOPLE. But unlike Trump, Biden's people will be people who have the necessary experience, vision, and QUALIFICATIONS for EACH SPECIFIC task designated. People we can rely on to speak honestly, candidly, without fear. I suspect his top 5 Cabinet members will all be qualified to fill in as POTUS on Short Notice should any (further?) horrible disaster make it necessary.

Now here comes the cynicism: Will it matter? By November, will this election even be relevant? (if it happens at all).

Here's my dumb analogy: Imagine two 3rd-graders...uh...let's name them B and T...and they're competing for a prize. That prize is a large, beautiful chocolate cake. The most beautiful chocolate cake you've ever seen! The contest is played, and B wins fair and square. B's plan is to cut and divide the cake in as many small pieces possible, so he can be generous and pass them out to as many classmates as possible. But just as B is about to slice the first piece, the infuriated T jumps in front of B, grabs a large portion of the cake for himself, then destroys the rest so that nobody else can share!

That's what Trump is gonna do to this country. He knows he's gonna lose. Even Putin can't get him out of this one. He's gonna throw an enormous temper tantrum, and literally destroy anything and everything he can get his fat orange hands on. "If I can't run this country, no one can!".

Fuck!, beginning November 3rd, he's got 75 days to do it! And we all know about his enablers, (the worst and most dangerous being Bill Barr!). The sycophants and bottom-feeders who will stand aside and watch him do it.

But ...uh...what about the instigators? The true architects of his evil policies? (I've heard little or no discussion of these cretins). Steve Bannon-protege- Jew-Nazi Stephen Miller, and his equally sociopathic bride, Katie... both of whom we now have evidence deliberately designed the immigration "kids-in-cages" policy to be as cruel and inhumane as possible! ........ and Jared, who I believe we have evidence was more than complicit in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. If you read some of Bannon's essays that predate 2016, he wanted a race war, he called for it! What's been happening in Portland is no accident, or part of a series of random events. These instigators are stocked with shopping bags containing hammers, They're waiting and wanting to put them in Trump's hands! "Mr. Trump, the nuclear codes?? I have them right here... - (pointing) - There's the button!" ...

Consider all the shit we know about:

*Disabling the Post Office;

*Bounties on the heads of our soldiers in Afghanistan.

What don't we yet know about??? ..... We know Trump's Administration has GUTTED our Intelligence Agencies, and so much more!

Yet they're still in the White House! And will be allowed to stay until January 20th? Really???

Yes, I'm an alarmist! Every single fucking alarm should be on full blast!! Code Triple Red!!! With Trump and his cronies in power until 1/20/2021, perhaps there will be No Country for Old Man Biden to POTUS over!

R78: I thought it couldn’t go back to the Supreme Court a 2nd time.

Judge orders Donald Trump to pay Stormy Daniels' lawyers $43,000 in legal fees.

Don’t hold your breath, Judge

Trump sent Putin a fan letter. LOL. That's like something a teen girl would do.

[quote] In 2013, Putin sent a “Fedoskino-style lacquer box,”

I’m sure it wasn’t bugged or anything.

[quote] In which a sitting Republican Senator is asking her constituents to skip a meal in order to donate to her campaign...

Yes, everyone, please starve so another Trump Whore can stay in Congress. Dear Leader wishes it.

I'm Trump's involvement in We Build the Wall aka We Bilk Them All. I won't be mentioned.

[quote]I thought it couldn’t go back to the Supreme Court a 2nd time.

It can, but he's going to have to do better than "I'm President, you can't do this".

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[quote] Former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg was indicted Wednesday on new federal charges that allege he used his access to state databases to recruit and solicit an underage girl for sex.

That Florida panhandle is full of midwest and northeast deplorable retirees. Combine that with lower-educated, native evangelicals, then someone with deep family money, as with Matt Gaetz, gets elected.

Another day ending in y, another Trump lie. He tweeted this morning that "The Democrats took the word GOD out of the Pledge of Allegiance at the Democrat (sic) National Convention."

In fact, reports Snopes, the phrase "under God" was included during every recitation of the pledge before each night's events.

Any news & ads per Trump's golf vacations and weekends are incomplete unless Ladēē G 💘 🐞 is featured as well.

The golfing video ad:

So who will be celebrities for this Republican Convention featured 'Celebrity Round Table?

Scott Baio, Jon Voight, Kid Rock, Kirstie Alley, James Wood, Sugar Bear, and Kim Kardashian ?????

They Knew

R96, that was really powerful.

yeah, the whole party needs to go. It's just shit at this point. Nothing and nobody worth saving in Congress. Individually no doubt plenty of decent people in the party, but absolutely nobody in any position of influence or power is anything more than a shitweasel. it should have just become the Dixiecrat Party in 1968, but now maybe just the NeoNazi/QAnon Coalition to Make Assholes Grift America.

r96, that was awesome. I wish Rubio, Cruz, and Miss Lindz would go back to being honest about Trump.

WaPo: Trump’s suggestion of deploying law enforcement officials to monitor polls raises specter of voting intimidation:

Too bad Jimmy Carter is in poor health. His group did a lot of good work monitoring elections abroad. Skilled independent observers are needed badly for U.S. elections. Trump cheats at everything.

Trump may try to block polling sites on election day, particularly with Democratic leaning precincts in swing and blue states. He'll claim he received reports of irregularities, and Bill Barr decided something must be done immediately. Don't dismiss his capacity for even deeper corruption.

Only the states can fuck with the elections. So it would be a corrupt Governor that would have block any voting

Attorney General Bill Bar told Rupert Murdoch to “muzzle” Andrew Napolitano, a prominent Fox News personality who became a critic of Donald Trump, according to a new book about the rightwing TV network.

Citing an unnamed source, CNN's Brian Stelter writes in his new book that Trump “was so incensed by the judge’s TV broadcasts that he had implored Barr to send Rupert a message in person … about ‘muzzling the judge’.”

I wouldn't hold my breath, r99.

r99, r105 Beyond fear of lost RNC support and Trump tweets, those spineless sycophants fear MAGAt voters. They are all ambitious, and believe they cant oppose Trump. More than that, kompromat may be at work by Trump, his NE bud, Pecker, and of course, Vlad. There's the collected dirt.

It does make one curious what that kompromat is, beyond dirty money, that involves that many people.

[quote]Individually no doubt plenty of decent people in the party

Pics please.

THIS is what you get when you put the chickenfuckers in charge of the henhouse.

When Trump was elected, Judge Nap was firmly up Jared Kushner's ass. I still can't figure out what convinced Judge Nap to turn on Trump.

[quote]Judge Nap was firmly up Jared Kushner's ass.

Pics please.

R101....Carters foundation already announced they will be monitoring the election...the very first time theyve had to do so in the US.

r107...When Russia hacked the Democrats, they also hacked the Republicans...and you just know there were plenty of corrupt secrets being shared in them...voter suppression, election meddling, covert operations, illegal money and bribes. Not to mention, the Maria Butina charging documents stated there were secret societies within the Republican party that were aligned with Russia.

No pics, R111, LOL. But after Christie was kicked off the transition team, Judge Nap went on TV to defend the move and to imply that there was something wrong about Christie's prosecution of Charlie Kushner. The only one who though there was a problem with the prosecution was Jared, who thought that the whole blackmail scheme should have been presented to a Rabbi for judgement. Some time after that, Judge Nap turned on Trump and never looked back.

R112 Yes. And especially your last sentence. My how we’ve forgotten this juicy detail.

r114 - I hadn't forgotten it FCI. I also haven't forgotten how early you warned us to ONLY listen to the scientists/doctors before we got steamrolled by CV-19. Thank you.

R115 Thank you for reminding us about Maria. I think Barr was initially brought in to handle that.

I’m about to hunker down. We’ve got hurricanes heading this way. Possible flooding event again. I’m freaked out. Almost 3 years to the day Hurricane Harvey hit us with 50 inches of rain.

House passes an additional $25 billion for Postal Service as Trump tweets opposition

There's something in Bill Barr's background, undisclosed to the public, that may be sinister or nefarious. It has to be more than the pay for him to have pursued the AG job. He was already wealthy and did the job during the last period of the G.H.W. Bush administration whereby he had a big role in getting certain Republican former Executive Branch officials off the hook. I don't buy Barr's motive is just about an ideology favoring an autocratic President. Something appears to suggest there are sources, domestic and/or foreign, that Barr is indebted to in some way, and.he has an obligation to deliver in their behalf. One day. It will get revealed, perhaps.

Never forget, r118, that Barr's father was the headmaster of Dalton School in NYC. One day, out of the blue, he hired a young man who was new to town to be a teacher there. This young man didn’t have a penny in his pocket. This young man did not have a teaching certificate. This young man did not have a college degree. This young man wasn’t qualified to be a teacher in any conceivable way. This young man was named Jeffrey Epstein.

[quote]Don gave one speech at a single We Build the Wall event over a year ago with a group of angel moms and besides that, has no involvement with their organization," Amanda Miller, a spokesperson for Trump Jr., told Insider. "He never gave them permission to use him as a testimonial on their website and was unaware they included him as one until today's media reports about it. His previous praise of the group was based on what he was led to believe about their supposed intention to help build the wall on our southern border and if he and others were deceived, the group deserves to be held accountable for their actions."

See, I barely knew them--- Junior Mint

'Mother' is to return to teaching next week. Maybe she's giving-up on campaigning?

[quote]In the short time Nikki Haley was a part of Donald Trump's White House inner circle, she was the subject of many rumors that surrounded the executive branch. Michael Wolff, the author of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, alleged while promoting his book in January 2018 that the president was having an affair. According to Politico, Wolff hinted that clues of the lover's identity could be found in his book. A passage in the book about Haley spending time on Air Force One prompted readers to speculate that Haley was the adulterer.

The Republican convention is this week. If Trump was dumping Pence for Haley, it would have been announced by now.

[quote]Barr told The Associated Press that the Justice Department is prepared to fight the case all the way to the nation’s top court, as his office aggressively pushes to revive federal executions.

So Barr pushes for executions, while busy pushing for dismissals and pardons of Trump culprits.

Not necessarily R122. Between now and Tuesday Pence can find some “Mission Accomplished” reason to withdraw.

Trump is not going to piss off Pence when, in some scenarios, Pence pardons Trump.

[quote]The Republican convention is this week. If Trump was dumping Pence for Haley, it would have been announced by now.

October surprise. Mother Pence goes back to teaching. Gets Covid and dies. Pence must grieve in private. Haley joins the ticket.

So, who's got that syringe of Covid?

[quote] October surprise. Mother Pence goes back to teaching. Gets Covid and dies. Pence must grieve in private.

And then, after a suitable period of mourning (say two weeks) enters into a polyamorous thruple with Matt Gaetz and Nestor.

R119 Let’s not forget also that Donald Barr wrote a Sci-fi novel about sex slaves while Epstein was employed by him.

Cheeto shitshow conference coming tomorrow regarding a "therapeutic breakthrough"

Suprise, it’s poisoned kool aid!

Jim Jones was a great man. Strong. Very beautiful. The best man.

Whaddya wanna bet it’s about that plant extract that the MyPillow guy is hawking?

I wonder what stock Kelly Loeffler has just purchased.

[quote]Cheeto shitshow conference coming tomorrow regarding a "therapeutic breakthrough"

Tom Nichols:

I'm thinking Tide Pod Suppositories, but who knows.

TL;DR:

1) Brian Kemp is a lying sack of shit

2) Creating a paper trail will show actual voter patterns are inconsistent with reported voting machine patterns

R129 it’s to pump the markets. He’ll announce some “cure” and the markets will surge.

Please God, let some reporter there have the balls to ask him about his sister.

[quote] it’s to pump the markets. He’ll announce some “cure” and the markets will surge.

At least one particular stock ☠️ 🌺 =💰

R135 Great post! But if there's a date/time stamp, I can't find it. When did it appear? (within the last 2 days?). Thanks.

The cult believes.. ..

Here's another theory. It's not that Trump is incompetent, or in denial, or has no empathy for the 170,000-plus deaths, (although all are true!) it's that how he and his administration are handling it is on purpose! They didn't create Covid-19, but are taking full advantage! They WANT Americans to die. How better to turn a Democracy into an Autocracy. It's easiest to control the population when they are weak, sick, and dying. It's in the playbook! mericans to die. Why? Because it is so much easier to turn a Democracy into an Autocracy when the population is weak, sick and dying. So much easier to control!!

It is so obvious to me.

^^ sorry for the repeated sentence proportion. My computer slows down when it's intensely hot and humid.

Trump golfed yesterday with his Ladybugs caddy. He enjoys abusing her and she loves the abuse. Taxpayers pay for this shit.

Here, r139.

R135's post backs the theory that Russia did and still does have the voting machines rigged. The real reason behind Trump's war with The Postal Service. How can Russia help him win the election if American voters aren't going to the polls and using the machines?

(from an earlier thread):

It must be said: Vladimir Putin, like Bin Laden before him, has to be ecstatic about how successful his plan was. Beyond his wildest dreams and expectations. His ultimate goal was to weaken and isolate the United States. It was to weaken and disrupt our relationships with our NATO allies, and to be a disruptive presence across the world. And Donald Trump, probably for the first time in his life, has exceeded all expectations. We are isolated and weak. Our economy is in the shitter, and the unemployment numbers will mirror, if not surpass the Great Depression. Cities and states will not be able to pay workers because they will have almost no tax revenue coming in, and of course those massive tax cuts will make it tens time worse and do it a lot sooner. No tax revenue, massive unemployment, important government positions left unfilled at Defense, State, Homeland Security, and the FDA, CDC, etc., etc., etc. He has no competent advisers on the White House staff, he has politicized the Department of Justice and the CIA so they're ineffective, and the Treasury department operates like some sports franchise selling shit with his name on it. Putin has to be impressed with how quickly Trump achieved his goals. In four short years he has the Courts, the military, the economy, everything all fucked up. Truly. And you know what? Because this is Donald John Trump were talkin about, it can always get worse. We know we're voting Blue, but we'd be wrong to think we can let Trump do all the work for the Dems.

(R79)

I wonder how many cult members have died of Covid. the old and unhealthy, and of course the stupid who think masks are communism, have a disadvantage, so I'm guessing quite a few. But I guess for the surviving cult members, it's all good.

Is that all there is?

Colorado has long been a leader with mail-in voting. However, Colorado Senator Michael Bennet says he still isn't confident the election will be run right.

Odd, r149. There was a thread on here earlier today (which I can’t find right now) about some over-the-counter ointment, already approved by the FDA, that you could swab your nostrils with that supposedly killed the virus. I assumed that’s what all this was going to be about.

All this concern about the post office is for mail that had to go round trip WITHIN COUNTIES.

Today will be my final day on Twitter for a little while so that I can focus on some work related things. I hope before my absence I can say a few things that are clear and important to me:

1) Democracy is only as strong as those who hold it to account. I’m old enough to remember a world in which we weren’t a frog in boiling water, accepting every insane lie with a shrug and a roll of the eyes. Do not let the abnormal become normal.

2) At a time in which we are all essentially stuck at home with nowhere to go, five minutes to register to vote is not only easier than its ever been, but basically inexcusable to not allot the time to do if you are remotely concerned about the state of this troubled nation.

3) Populism, Nationalism, & (let’s call it what it is), fascism have never led to any positive outcome for those who allowed it to fester unchecked. I was blessed enough to have two Grandparents who explained to me the life and death consequences of a nation blind to its effects.

4) 3 & a half years ago, there was no context for your choices. Now, it is abundantly clear. If you are supporting a man who also has a rabid following of white Supremacists, Neo-Nazis & racists, your choice is to align with hate. There are no more excuses. It is what it is.

5) To do nothing or choose a 3rd option in a Nation on the brink of no return, is in essence to feel privileged enough to allow the climate to crumble, kids to be locked in cages & health care to be ripped away from millions. Policy won’t matter if we don’t have a Democracy.

6) For once don’t have a short term memory America. 2016 showed us what the next few months will look like. Accusations that lead to nowhere, lies that are shiny objects & deceit to make a decent man & his family look indecent. It worked once & if we let it, will work again.

7) Numbers don’t lie. 175,000 Americans aren’t dead because they had to be. They’re dead because of inaction. Our Western allies all took reasonable measures to stop the spread. We fought about masks for 5 months. That’s not leadership. It’s ineptitude & political expediency.

8) Know a demagogue when you see one. A man who constantly has to scream about stoping ballots from being mailed, (while mailing in ballots himself), threatening to send law enforcement to the polls, & calling drop off boxes into question does not believe in fair elections.

9) Ask simple questions. How many people in an administration must be indicted with crimes before you are willing to open your eyes to the fact that this is the most corrupt administration in modern history?

10) Fight. Scream. Vote. Every day from now until Election Day will be breathlessly hard. Don’t get complacent. Don’t get despondent. Get active. Make calls. Write letters. Rise up. We are all living through history. Find your place in it.

History has its eyes on you. See you all soon. Be well.

Wow. You go, Josh Gad.

Conway family drama.

she seems godawful, and exactly what kellyanne deserves.

KAC leaving White House at the end of the month.

George is leaving the Lincoln Project.

All of this is a little too convenient.

Will Anonymous reveal herself?

r158, hopefully

I had the impression that Kellyanne is one of the few people Trump actually listens to. I think this may be bad news for Trump.

Think like the KGB.

They both left their public positions so that their polling business could take a hefty contract from the RNC and the Trump Campaign for internal polling.

The daughter is a distraction from the business.

She knows Trump will lose.

She and hubby are all about the cash.

^^^Also remember that they are worth around 50 million.

No matter how much she is worth, or how much plastic surgery she has, KAC will always be a nasty piece of trashy with a terrible heart.

Kellyanne Fitzpatrick

Kellyanne was a champion blueberry picker & packer during her younger days in NJ. She was annointed Blueberry Queen.

Tide Pods are not just for washing clothes now. Some Trump MAGAs are consuming such for COVID???? That won't go well.

I think it will probably go well for me r166.

The Republican National Convention 2020?

Shouldnt this be called:

"America's Most Wanted 2.0"?

^the speakers

The Republican Party in a statement said it will not be announcing a new platform of policies to voters at this year's Republican National Convention, but will instead pledge to "enthusiastically" support President Donald Trump.

WSJ: In the absence of his signature campaign rallies, Trump is closely tracking his seagoing supporters and asks aides for boat parade updates. His team tries to direct his motorcade along parade routes and may have him participate in one soon.

[quote]Odd, [R149]. There was a thread on here earlier today (which I can’t find right now) about some over-the-counter ointment, already approved by the FDA, that you could swab your nostrils with that supposedly killed the virus. I assumed that’s what all this was going to be about

Can't this be accomplished by putting something as cheap as Vaseline on each nostril?

The MAGATS will buy anything Agent Orange is pushing. He could tell them to put dogshit on each nostril and those fools would do it. They're nothing but a hateful moronic low-IQ cult.

At the behest of Trump, AG Bill Barr calls media tycoon and NewsCorp/Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch to have Fox News commentor, Judge Andrew Napolitano, muzzled.for being critical of Trump.

Think about it. The Attorney General of the U.S. is attempting to censor/silence media critics of a political figure, Donald Trump. That is way beyond the legal and ethical boundaries of an AG. And yet, Barr is never reprimanded for his deplorable, unconstitutional behavior.

The GOP Convention of traitors, financial criminals, fake "daddies'", pussy grabbers, liars. and environmental destructionists.

Will Nestor be at the Republican Convention to help lock-down much of the Cuban-American vote? His daddy, Matt Gaetz, is a major speaker.

From r170...What the hell?

[quote]The GOP Convention of traitors, financial criminals, fake "daddies'", pussy grabbers, liars. and environmental destructionists.

There you have it! The elusive GOP political platform.

[quote] Melania trashed Trump and his kids — and her former adviser has it on tape: report

[quote] “It’s unclear what exactly Wolkoff is alleging that the First Lady said about the president and his adult children but two sources familiar with the contents of her book confirmed that she reveals the details in her book including harsh comments about Ivanka Trump, the president’s eldest daughter and senior advisor,” Ali reports.

[quote]harsh comments about Ivanka Trump

The Honorable????

[quote] Can't this be accomplished by putting something as cheap as Vaseline on each nostril?

Or, better yet, a couple of delicious Goya beans!

EVIL

Pence on blathering about 4 MORE YEARS! MORE JUDGES! 4 MORE YEARS! TO DRAIN THE SWAMP!

Is 'Mother' monitoring who comes and goes in Mike's multiple hotel rooms?

Rinat Akhmetov, the oligarch who first hired Paul Manafort to do politics in Ukraine, got Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans of $21 million. The billionaire owns four coal mining operations sprinkled across Appalachia ... and two homes worth more than $200 million each.

"Melania trashed Trump and his kids — and her former adviser has it on tape: report"

BeBitch

I thought she'd left the White House years ago.

Breaking: NY Attorney General Miss Letitia James files new lawsuit against The Trump Organization

NY is suing Trump. Jerry Falwell Jr. is being outed as a pervert. I’m having such a good day!

NY AG says Eric Trump cancelled an interview, and now won't comply with their subpoena -- citing "rights afforded to every individual under the Constitution."

If they had just pushed him out during impeachment, they could have avoided all this. Pence is a drip, but they could have rallied around him.

That naughty Jerry Jr, r188!

I'm a little overwhelmed. Kellyanne is out. Eric Trump is taking the Fifth. Jerry Falwell Jr. is outed as a pervert to the Evangelicals. NY AG files legal action against Trump org. And Trump has fucked up the convention in less that half a day in. And it was only last week that Bannon was indicted.

It's like 2020 is putting right what once went wrong.

I know we overuse the word “bombshell,” but I have a feeling Michael Cohen’s book will live up to that word.

r192: Don’t jinx it!🤞

It's so easy to forget things because so much shit is revealed every day - BUT - At least a year ago, (I think), Michael Cohen revealed that Trump blackmailed Falwell w/pictures of him and the poolboy. It's how they got Falwell to endorse him.

Was Falwell scheduled to speak at the Republican Convention?

With Kellyanne jumping ship, who will be the propagandisti-in-chief beyond Trump himself, yapping falsehoods, deflecting, spinning, interrupting, filibustering, generating personal attacks, and blaming Hillary, Obama, Democrats, and now Biden and Kamala?

[quote]Was Falwell scheduled to speak at the Republican Convention?

No. He did four years ago, when he and the missus were in the throes of their affair with Giancarlo (or maybe it was the other guy then).

Anyway, this year features a speech from Falwell's colleague in grifting, Franklin Graham.

For 17 months of alledged work, Hope Hicks receives 1.9 million in compensation from Fox.

Even Fox has limits on home wrecking.

^ Sorry, I was thinking of Graham. I get my Evangelical grifters mixed up sometimes

[quote] she reveals the details in her book including harsh comments about Ivanka Trump, the president’s eldest daughter and senior advisor

A lover spurned...

Iowa's Ernst & Reynolds are Republican Convention speakers. Ernst is in a tight race. Retire her to the cornfields.

Former Fox pundits, Diamond & Silk, in their new book, are blaming systemic racism for their firing.

Did someone at the RNC really call Obama a "monkey"? They’re not even trying to keep up the *appearance* of decency anymore, are they?

It appears that someone yelled "spygate". I listed to the clip, and I did hear an "I' in the word. What Trump thought he heard, who knows?

Lindsey & Trumpster Governor, McMaster of S.C., weren't given speaking roles at the Republican convention.

Lindsey was on Fox Radio with Brian Kilmeade this morning.

Lindsey endorsed Trump's reelection today. What a shocker! 🐞 🐞 🐞 🐞 🐞 🐞 🐞 🐞 🐞 🐞 🐞 🐞 🐞 🐞 🐞 🐞 🐞 🐞

Have American Institutions Held Under Trump? | Morning Joe | MSNBC

"Monkey" and "spygate" sound nothing alike.

[quote]"Monkey" and "spygate" sound nothing alike.

Listen for yourself and decide what you hear.

"spy gate" also wouldn't be exclusive to North Carolina

(I think vinegar based bbq is about the only thing that is)

At first, I thought I heard “monkey.” Dump definitely heard “monkey.” Without stopping to think, that’s what I heard, so he definitely heard it that way. He’s a 74-year-old man, no doubt his hearing is bad (hell, mine is and I’m 25 years younger). Listening more carefully, with the volume up, it could have been something else.

I heard it as spygate multiple times.

Katie Porter grilling DeJoy...

R210, you posted a clip from the official re-election twitter account.

Listen to this one.

[quote]"spy gate" also wouldn't be exclusive to North Carolina

Trump may well have thought he heard "monkey", which speaks to his mindset regarding Obama and/or North Carolina.

That's pretty funny r214

[quote]Listen to this one.

It's the same clip. I still heard an "I" and an "A", neither of which are present in "monkey".

The guy blurted out "monkey".

The Party of Family Values

JFC R220 let it GO. It's not what he DOES it's what's in his heart!!!

and what's in your heart these days, Kellyanne, other than a very strong desire to murder your daughter?

I understand a DL regular can help with that, incidentally.

And so much pee pee inbetween. Kellyanne, did you.........

To be fair, doubt Trump would know what a Garbanzo Bean is.

R222 if you think I have anything against my daughter than we are doing our jobs right!

Daughters who refuse to behave certainly are a Mother's Cross to bear, r222.

[quote] NY Attorney General alleges Eric Trump refused to testify in fraud investigation based on his "rights afforded to every individual under the constitution," meaning the Fifth Amendment. That assertion could be used against him in the NY AG's civil fraud investigation.

[quote] allegation that Trump’s lawyers sought to backdate a valuation document, but the appraisal firm refused to do it. This is ugly. And sounds like someone’s cooperating.

What the heck was Kimberly Guilfoyle and that Don Junior partaking?

Were they time traveling and just returned from a Grateful Dead concert?

Don’t cry for them, they’re on Tina!

I stole that from somebody else.

Dump tries so damn hard to be 'powerful', All those stupid faces he pulls to appear strong, he's absolutely pathetic. A sad pathetic small man.

Native New Yorkers had his number a very long time ago, they never took this 'real estate mogul' seriously. He's an extremely weak pathetic small man, a grifter, a cheat, he's exactly what he calls others: a LOSER!

A TOTAL loser.

So that new guy who came out against Trump, Miles Taylor.... does DL think that he was Anonymous?

No, R230. It's a bigger cunt than he.

I should have added @ R231, that Anonymous is our kind of cunt. Miles isn't shady, he is a career politician.

My money is on Conway.

Jesus, I need to log off- career civil servant. And I am out.

[quote] allegation that Trump’s lawyers sought to backdate a valuation document, but the appraisal firm refused to do it. This is ugly. And sounds like someone’s cooperating.

The former Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg for one. Everything went through him.

Tonight from the Rose Garden, Melania will update you on "Be Best". Dont miss it!

Jesus Christ, the cast of characters here. It's unending. I've genuinely forgotten more shit that's happened in the last three years than I remember. It never stops.

Wonder if the RNC will show one night at the convention, a short film about the "Journey of Nestor", the now Cuban -American who became adopted by a loving dad.

I’m sick of Cubans being able to have automatic amnesty yet few others can all because they vote republican. But you don’t see Dems trying to stop them because they actually have principles. I have heard some younger conservatives are growing upset with this Cuban policy. They want it stopped.

Even white supremacists are abandoning Trump now:

The orange con man has proven his incompetence over and over. What he is doing is not basic conservatism, but personal and family greed. He's not particularly good at hiding his illicit activities and criminal endeavors. What he succeeds at is escaping justice, to date. The Republican Party are his enablers. At least a third of the electorate are firmly in his personality cult.

The Murdoch Fox outfit, promoting and sustaining this character with lies, propaganda, and conspiracy theories, is beyond outrageous.

Did Anonymous say they were going to reveal themselves before the election?

R241 yeah, but her daughter had a nervous breakdown so she might not.

This family needs to heal and stay the fuck off Twitter, Tik Tok and other social media for awhile.

Ooh gworl

Miss Lindzey has her eye on Sean Parnell.

[quote]The Air Force Inspector General (IG) sharply contradicted Attorney General Bill Barr in a report released Monday.

At issue in the 75-page document, which is heavy with Department of Defense jargon, are the actions of the Air National Guard during the first four days of June. During widespread Black Lives Matter protests, the largest protest movement in American history, aerial surveillance was conducted against demonstrators in Washington, D.C., Minnesota, Arizona, and California. At the time, Barr justified the use of those federal agents under the statutory authority contained at 32 U.S.C. § 502(f).

^ I can't wait

Trump wanted to trade "dirty" Puerto Rico for Greenland?

Would he have been negotiating with Eric the Red or Leif the Lucky?

Would that include my mother, r248? Cause I'd be down for that. She's become an embarrassment for me.

I’m not watching this shit show. I’ve been watching conventions since 1996. I will never again watch a republican convention.

I have refused to watch the Republican convention this year. I have watched the anchors and pundits on CNN & MSNBC discuss it. I',ve watched D & R conventions for decades. But Trump and his cultists offer basically lies and hateful rhetoric. They have no platform other than do as Trump wants at any given time.

I don't blame anyone for not watching. I'm watching intermittently, but mostly just so I can join in the abuse on the threads. There is nothing that will actually be said of any use by any republican at this gathering of cultists, grifters, clowns, and maniacs.

But, but, but.....Kellyanne is going to give her farewell address.

'Mother' Pence will talk about her art therapy teaching at a homophobic religious school, and speak about her glorious activities in behalf of military spouses.

Too bad 'Mother' wasn't put in charge of family housing for the U S. military.

[quote]But, but, but.....Kellyanne is going to give her farewell address.

Will that be 666 Park Avenue? Will she get sucked into the abyss in the basement?

Oooo scary!

Damn, I’m missing 11 responses between 244 and 255.

Bunch of assholes, probably 🤷🏻‍♀️

Although, I don’t know how it happened but I accidentally blocked FCI . Sorry. I didn’t mean to. Don’t know how to get him back. 😫

Go to ignored. Find his posts and click on the "x" on the right.

I wish Kellyanne would go rogue and lay all of Trump’s cards on the table in a scathing speech.

Interesting that the Trump campaign pulled all advertising until Sept 8th.

So in other words Kellyanne and George got a FAT contract from the crippled Trump campaign to Hail Mary internal polling for the end of the election. Parscale fucked himself and Trump can't fire him because he knows so much. Nobody else he trusts and the Conways KNOW he is going to lose.

EASY MONEY for the polling company.

Hurricane Laura is thankfully, for me, not hitting where I live.

This RNC is. Category 5 shit show from what I’m seeing. Wow. Who falls for this?

Yay! I can see your posts again, FCI.

I accidentally blocked you some time ago.

Sorry ☺️☺️

R261 lol it’s ok. It was probably over pop singers.

Btw- I’m zooming with my friends and some staffers with a prominent Houston Dem representative soon. They promise big news. Some will not be a surprise- I said previously that big GOP names were going to support Biden. I’d say, from my friends, that close to 50% of current spineless republican congress reps will not support Pres Bone Spurs in private meaning they’re saying they will not vote for him.

Go away r256. Who cares who you block.

On Tuesday morning I read an article called "10 Takeaways from the first night of the RNC"

Yesterday morning it was "5 Takeaways from last night's RNC"

This morning I saw "3 Takeaways from Wednesday night's RNC"

Keep us posted FCI!

I believe September 8 is when Michael Cohen's book comes out, which explains why $$ are resuming on that date.

[bold]Trump Has Now Moved $2.3 Million Of Campaign-Donor Money Into His Private Business[/bold]

Donald Trump continued to shift money from his donors to his business last month, as his reelection campaign paid his private companies for rent, food, lodging and other expenses, according to a review of the latest Federal Election Commission filings. The richest president in American history, who has yet to donate to his 2020 campaign, has now moved $2.3 million of contributions from other people into his private companies.

The most recent expenses look familiar. The president accepted $38,000 in rent last month through Trump Tower Commercial LLC, the entity that owns his Fifth Avenue skyscraper. Since Trump took office, his campaign has paid that company $1.5 million, more than any other property in the Trump empire, according to an analysis of federal filings. The Republican National Committee also coordinated with the campaign to pay Trump Tower Commercial LLC an additional $225,000.

Trump got another $8,000 in July via the Trump Corporation, a management company that he owns. The precise reason for those payments is unclear. Campaign filings describe the rationale as “legal & IT consulting” but it’s still a mystery why Trump’s management company is providing such services. The Trump Corporation has now taken in $281,000 from the campaign since the president entered the Oval Office.

More money went to Trump Restaurants LLC, another company the president owns outright. Those payments may be connected to a kiosk in the basement of Trump Tower that sells campaign memorabilia. It’s hard to imagine that the kiosk has been doing much business amid the coronavirus crisis, but the campaign has continued to pay its rent, $3,000 per month. Trump Restaurants LLC has gotten $117,000 since its owner became president.

Trump Hotel Collection, in which Trump also owns a 100% interest, received another $1,000 in July. The campaign has paid Trump’s hotel properties $226,000 since Inauguration Day, according to the analysis of federal filings.

Not every company cashed in last month. Forbes found no payments to Mar-a-Lago, the president’s golf clubs, or Trump Plaza LLC—an entity that controls property on Third Avenue in Manhattan and previously collected regular rent from the reelection effort.

Trump’s machinations have been going on for years now. Forbes first reported on money moving from his reelection campaign to his business in 2018. The amount has more than doubled since then.

The Trump Organization did not respond to a request for comment. A representative for the Trump campaign ignored a series of questions about the payments and instead issued a broad statement. “The campaign complies with all campaign finance laws and FEC regulations,” the statement said. “The campaign pays fair market value under negotiated rental agreements and other service agreements in compliance with the law. The campaign works closely with campaign counsel to ensure strict compliance in this regard.”

In addition to the campaign, the Republican National Committee and the president’s joint-fundraising committees have also paid millions of dollars to Trump’s businesses. Last month, Forbes reported on $4.7 million of payments from those entities since Trump took office. The president’s total haul—from his campaign, party and joint fundraising committees—now stands at more than $6.9 million.

Not a meaningless sum, even for a billionaire.

While this references a Fox interview, Judge Andrew Nepolitano made some interesting remarks. Come January 20, 2020, Nancy Pelosi could become Acting President if the election is unsettled. He comments on a couple of outcomes from such a scenario.

R270 Yeah, that’s not happening.

[quote]Yeah, that’s not happening.

I dunno.

"Donuts in the break room Mr. Attorney General!"

The fuck it isn’t happening. Nancy will be acting president if the results are not settled. Things are in motion for this scenario.

Trump & Barr detest Nepolitano. On behalf of Trump and/or by his own motivation, Barr alledgedly recently called Rupert Murdoch to have Nepolitano fired from Fox or "controlled" at the network. Barr has no authority for such inteference.

This appears that Nepolitano's messaging about the post office, voting my mail, Russian imeddling, etc., was contrary to the illicit election scheme Trump, Barr, DeJoy, and other cohorts, are trying to pull-off.

What is an AG for if not to threaten the media?

I love how rethugs have realized they aren't getting the house back ever again and are desperate to hold the Senate.

You in danger, Nazi thug bitches!

bumpity bump

Lindsey says QAnon is "bat shit crazy". Four years ago he used the same phrase about Trump.

So, Lindsay will be playing golf with QAnon before Halloween.

Lindsey has an immediate vision.

Your mothers suck cocks in hell!

(GOP mothers, of course....)

[quote]Your mothers suck cocks in hell!

Once again, the ladies have all the fun.

House Democrats announce contempt proceedings against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The contempt resolution against Pompeo, President Donald Trump’s second secretary of State, is being drafted in response to the Cabinet official’s “ongoing refusal to comply” with a congressional subpoena and “his transparently political misuse of Department resources."

This comes fro the Democrat-led House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Eliot Engel, D-NY.

Kyle Ritterhouse's mother, Wendy.

I'm sure Pompeo is concerned.

The Democrats plan to remove the Hyde amendment, which bans federal dollars from paying for abortion. This couldn't wait until after the election?

There were pro-life conservatives who were prepared to vote for Biden because Trump sucks (we know this because they were part of that RVAT video project), and because the Supreme Court decisions this past year disabused them of the notion that Roe was going to be overturned. But now their vote for Biden is going to guarantee more abortions, so that voting cohort is going to have to rethink their position. Not only does Trump get a second chance to win over those voters, it supports the Republican position that Biden is going to bend over for progressives. This is a huge gift to Trump.

R288, if abortion was a deciding issue for you, you were reflectively voting for Trump any way.

Kyle Rittenhouse is being represented by one of Rudy Giuliani's law firms...nothing suspicious AT ALL...move along.

Be good, if it were true.

[quote]I'm sure Pompeo is concerned.

Now just wait a FUCKING MINUTE!

[bold]NYT: Trump relished the outrage he caused by campaigning at the White House[/bold]

[quote]Mr. Trump’s aides said he enjoyed the frustration and anger he caused by holding a political event on the South Lawn of the White House, shattering conventional norms and raising questions about ethics law violations. He relished the fact that no one could do anything to stop him, said the aides, who spoke anonymously to discuss internal conversations.

What if I told you Pres Bone Spurs had already tested positive for COVID-19?

I would believe you.

That's a big 'what if'.

Was it months ago, weeks ago, days ago, or hours ago?

What if the motherfucker starts hacking up a lung and keels over?

Part of me would be relieved and part of me would be mad that he didn't live to see his cunt daughter and prick sons in jail or see his assets forfeit.

It was months ago. Asymptotic. From what I heard.

It will come out, eventually.

Or was it one of those Trump University Covid Tests that was a false positive?

I suspected DJT tested positive right before he was announcing he was on a hydroxychloroquine regimen weeks ago. But with him, hearing the truth can't be expected.

I suspected DJT tested positive right before he was announcing he was on a hydroxychloroquine regimen weeks ago. But with him, hearing the truth can't be expected.

FCI, did you ever say who the prominent current Republicans that were going to support Biden were?

Kellyanne, go home and tend to family matters rather than piling-up more Hatch Act violations.

I would believe it. I would also think that he had the plasma treatment that allowed him to stay asymptomatic. And that is why he had to make that big nothingburger announcement about this line of treatment he would have known nothing about had he not been treated himself.

How the hell did *he*, of all people, get it and remain asymptomatic?

[quote]What if I told you Pres Bone Spurs had already tested positive for COVID-19?

On the one hand, it would make sense, his lackadaisical response to the pandemic could spring from his own uneventful bout with the virus. Since he is incapable of empathy, all that matters to him is what he has experienced.

On the other hand, I have a hard time believing he wouldn't use his infection to garner popular support for his policy to basically let the virus run its course through America. Plus, you know he'd love to boast about his amazing, fantastic, stupendous health and his ability to fight off the effects of the virus.

it seems like I knew this a while ago and why he seemed so unafraid of catching it. It was nice of him not to ever wear a mask and just spread it to everyone else.

I can’t reveal my exact source but let’s say a semi famous person told me that another semi famous person who was involved with the Trumps told them that Donald once paid for an abortion. For a black woman he got pregnant.

^^Noel Casler claims he's paid for a few abortions, (although I don't know if they were all black).

yeah, it's funny nothing specific has come out, but I just can't believe Trump and the way he lived and fucked never led to an unwanted pregnancy and an abortion.

A friend in Pennsylvania wrote a letter to Pat Toomey protesting Louis DeJoy's deliberate sabotaging of the postal service and got a note back from Toomey saying that's just a conspiracy theory and the postal service is doing just fine. So that's their story now.

Breaking news on Trump administration's Office of the Director of National Security cancelling briefings on elections security to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees

According to Donald's own reports as well as his partners' he's always been highly promiscuous but refused to use condoms, which seems to me like a REALLY stupid thing for a supposedly wealthy straight man to do in terms of having to pay for abortions or child support afterwards, and you only have to look at his marital history to know he's caused his share of unplanned pregnancies.

All of this post office and election security business is just so fucking overt. A friend of mine in London asked me this morning why we're not rising up and marching on DC. It’s not Trump that’s making us the laughingstock of the world, it’s our apathy and laziness.

R317 If it is not about a black person being shot or placed in a choke-hold by police, and dies or is severly injured, there won't be mass protests. The media picks and choose where to focus and dwell their attention and express strong alarm. That is not to say peaceful protests over certain police behavior is unjustified, but indeed the masses are apathetic about protesting and marching to deal with the head of snake and his authoritarian enablers

R317 I'd gladly protest if there was a protest anywhere near me. As far as I know, there was only one protest in front of Dejoy's house in DC. I live on the other side of the country. Also, nothing came of the Dejoy protest except a lot of posturing and lies. Many congressmen actually thanked that treasonous piece of shit for his service during the hearings. That made me lose hope that there would be a fair election or that we are living in a real Democracy anymore. I think many Americans feel powerless and defeated rather than apathetic.

CNN is covering the John Ratcliffe antics on what limited details they have. DJT's outfit announces their controverial moves on weekends to minimize early coverage, since most reporters and other staff are off-work for the weekend. And most Congressmen are back home campaigning or vacationing.

^controversial (sp.)

The Republicans in the House and the Senate (where they own a majorty), refuse to do anything to counteract Trump and his cohorts misdeeds. Instead, they praise such.

If one listened to, and embraced the messaging of Committee Chairman, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), DeJoy must be the world's most brilliant and ethical innovator and manager.

Beyond Mitt Romney, finding Republicans at the Capitol that are willing to disagree with Trump on record about anything, are quite few and are in blue or purple districts.

Does anyone have a gameplan for when Trump wins the White House and the GOP win both the House and Senate due to election tampering ? You know its coming...What will anyone do when we face the inevitable ?

Heard Biden and Harris are waiting till after Labor Day to go forth and campaign. Meanwhile, Trump has been to NH, Louisiana and Texas per the hurricane, and other stops are planned. All his speeches get covered in the media. Biden needs to do at least one event now. Go to a midwest state and have a social distancing forum with teachers, or firefighters, health care workers, seniors, or some other small group of people and have it broadcast on a network.

[quote] All his speeches get covered in the media

Everybody loves a good trainwreck. But, then, you go on with your life and forget about it the next day.

R305 Yes, most have come out. Most aren’t elected republicans. There are a lot who won’t vote for him on Nov 3rd but will not say it. Their staffers all know. They’re cowards and, from their own staffers, have tons of dirt on them. That dirt isn’t from Pres Bone Spurs, it’s from donors. Between Putin and republican donors, gop reps are being blackmailed. A lot of times they’re working together. Remember the secret societies within republican circles?

He was asymptomatic and yes, was getting a ton of treatment. I highly doubt he received hydroxychloroquine. I think he is waiting to reveal he had it because so many who had it have had complications later. My brother being one of them.

[quote]Does anyone have a gameplan for when Trump wins the White House and the GOP win both the House and Senate due to election tampering ? You know its coming...What will anyone do when we face the inevitable ?

The Democratic Party will be declared illegal in such an eventuality, so your point is moot.

If Trump had Covid, he probably killed his own brother. And, then went about his day. That's who these fuckers support.

Trump Administration will no longer allow Congress to be briefed on election security.

That’s all, Folks! We had a good run. See you at the Camps!

All that's really left is for Trump to just go on tv and say, "Oh, yeah, I'm going to cheat. Here's exactly how."

Actually, R330, at this point, I'm almost surprised he hasn't gone on TV to say he's canceling the election altogether. Lord knows he's gotten away with everything else.

Thank god for these threads. The rest of DL feels like it’s been hijacked by the RNC's propaganda wing.

And after all of Trump's law breaking and Mark Burnett produced shit show we have this:

Asshole-in-Chief gives his autograph to emergency responders in Louisiana, tells them to sell it on eBay

R333 Those polls are why we are seeing unprecedented troll activity here and all over social media.

DjT, Barr, DeJoy, Pompeo, Ratcliffe, DeVos, Navarro, Mnuchin ,Mulvaney, Chao, Carson, Kushner, Miller, etc., are all bad news.

Meadows is a super DzJT sycophant.

Stats

About the mail...

R331, I think he thinks he can win now

R331, I think he thinks he can win now

Such lovely evangelicals....

Your evidence she is evangelical?

^Why yes, Boris. She attends Frontage Road Pentacostal.

Dump is so fucking stupid. The HEROEs act languishes and the package would work to shore up the economy thus benefitting him. He can try to blame Dems but they are the only ones who have tried to negotiate in good faith. The economy will get a lot worse because the R's refuse to negotiate and the buck stops at the top. Dump owns this also, the stock market will crash in October once the economy tanks.

Barr's 'October Surprise' will not be a surprise. It's a sordid gimmick he plans to pull in early October in tandum with Durham to impact the election in favor of Trump.

[quote].“Barr’s active promotion of Durham’s investigation has already discredited it in the eyes of many,” Bromwich told The Intercept. “Any criminal charges or public report released close in time to the election — generally defined as within 60 days — would be viewed with great skepticism.” Other former DOJ officials went farther. “It seems inevitable that Barr will attempt to unleash an October surprise through the Durham investigation,” Rosenzweig, the former prosecutor, told me.

^tandem

r331, cancelling the election isn't one of those things that Trump can get away with fudging on because the public don't care, like his numerous violations of the Hatch Act and emoluments clause. Only Congress can do that, and Yertle McConnell has stated on the record that that's not going to happen. I'm not saying they're not going to try to fix the election, but if they become too blatant about it, there could be results they CAN'T fix, like other major nations and international organizations refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the election and Trump's right to act as president. And don't think they'd hesitate.

Justice Dept. Never Fully Examined Trump’s Ties to Russia, Ex-Officials Say

The former deputy attorney general maneuvered to keep investigators from completing an inquiry into whether the president’s personal and financial links to Russia posed a national security threat.

^^DOJ in '17 secretly curtailed FBI counterintel investigation of Trump financial/personal ties to Russia. DOJ concealed this from FBI at time, leaving FBI w/ impression Mueller would do it. But Mueller ultimately didn't.

Fuck.

That article at r333 is from JUNE. Like a million years ago.

Why would trolls be hitting DL now because of an article that appeared in JUNE?

[quote] Why would trolls be hitting DL now because of an article that appeared in JUNE?

The reason people are willing to live in a fantasy construct is because one is built for them. This sort of disinformation crap needs to be taken down as it appears before people start to get sucked in. Thank you, r353.

I'm watching the mayor of Portland right now on MSNBC and he's knocking it out of the park.

You’re right, R355, he’s terrific.

I'm shocked to hear that. Horrible tenure as mayor.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler: "Do you seriously wonder, Mr. President, why this is the first time in decades that America has seen this level of violence? It's you who have created the hate and division."

The Mayor of Portland is one of the very FEW who has the guts to say to Trump what needs to be said. Not being afraid to call him out for being a bigot, a racist and for being the catalyst for these right wing demonstrations that have now resulted in a death.

Go Mayor Wheeler!

I don't know, somehow I don't think that making Republicans the official party of mass shooters is a winning strategy. But I could be wrong.

And who is doing that r360? Wheeler called out Trump, he didn't condemn the whole Republican party.

But he should. The entire GOP is a cancer on America and society as a whole. Every single modern Republican administration has been a social and economic disaster and riddled with criminals.

Ted Wheeler is not the head of the Republican party. Donald Trump is.

I'm not sure what speech the posters above watched. He said nothing of substance. Condemn the violence, call out trump (how brave!) and offered zero substance on how to deal with the issues facing the city. He said the national guard isn't needed, yet he has done zero to stop the chaos. For the last two weekends the police have stood by and watched the alt-right protestors have their way. In the same press conference as Wheeler, the police chief was asked why the police didn't slash tires of the trump train participants as they have been other protestors. His response was that option is not always feasible.

The Portland police have been exposed as having communicated and coordinated with the proud boys/patriot prayer groups at past protests, so to expect any action to be taken against them (or the idiots on the left who are setting things on fire every night) is an exercise in futility.

I’m 99% sure those setting fires are not on the left. The police are in on this. Disgusting.

Take of your tinfoil hat R365, the police aren't deliberately setting fires.

Also, Ted Wheeler is a horrible public speaker in general. He has a halting cadence to his speech patterns, which makes listening to him annoying as hell.

R366 You’re wrong. On both counts.

Wheeler got high marks for his speech today.

So many trolls out today.

Trolls usually know to stay away from this thread.

This:

Russia altered voter tallies in the 2016 election. This is one of the things Richard Blumenthal was hinting at when he came out of that meeting. What he insisted the American people should know....

Hillary should get her rightful 4 years as President.

Marsha Blackburn - C U Next Tuesday....

Of course the Russians hacked the vote in 2016. I was in Michigan. I knew instantly that something fishy happened. They're very smart about how they do it. It only takes a few votes per precinct. And the switch doesn't necessarily go to Trump. It can go to Jill Stein or some guy named Johnson. Now there is no doubt Trump was helped by Comey, and the race tightened up in October. But Hillary was still going to win and those fuckers stole the election. She is the duly elected legitimate POTUS. ( remember that when reading stupid articles about how Americans will "never vote for a woman." We did!)Anyone who doubts this is still a believer in Santa. Ask yourself: Why would Putin set up Troll farms, involve his GRU agents, send people here in 2015 to scope out the election operations and invest millions in social media, have his people working with Cambridge Analytica, Wiki Leaks, in a comprehensive effort to help Trump, flooding the NRA with $40 Million, spreading millions around to McConnell's super pacs and Ryan's? They weren't subtle. Putin knows better than most how the intel community operates. He knew we would discover the finger prints. Why go to all that effort if you weren't going to guarantee the outcome?

It has already been established that they got into the voting rolls in all 50 states. First they said 21, then they said no, it's more, it's 37, and within the past few months they have acknowledged all 50 states were compromised....and then they add the disclaimer that " there is no evidence that this affected the outcome...." LOL! Right. No, there is no "evidence." It evaporates. No trail, no paper ballots, nothing. Just a lot of circumstantial facts. Putin wanted Trump to be President. Putin caused "X" number of things to happen. Putin had his oligarchs invest millions, and used his own intel agents, many of whom have now been named and indicted. And Trump became President. Duuh!

r372, and so should Al Gore, because he was just as robbed in 2000 by the Supreme Court among others.

Hillary will have to get in line.

Lady G got over $800,000 for her PAC by just one oligrach. Rubio, Kascich, and others received PAC money from the same oligarch. #MoscowMitch received much more obscene amounts. Zero hearings in Congress about it. No PAC head was punished by any authority.

Reality Winner still sits in prison for leaking DHS documents showing the vote was hacked. It was quick to silence the story, but true. Glenn Greenwald is a russian piece of shit for turning her in.

Glenn Kirschner:

DNI Ratcliffe Refuses to Brief House/Senate Intel Committees on Foreign Election Interference

Michael Flynn's appeal is denied.

Biden is speaking in CNN right now. He’s ripping Trump a new asshole.

Can somebody post on the politics thread that Biden is speaking? I can’t post on that one, it crashes for me. TIA.

Mike Pompeo is the worst Secretary of State in History

What is herd immunity, and why are Trump officials pursuing an idea WHO calls ‘dangerous’?

ABC:

Barr’s removal of career national security official, before election, raises concerns

Evil. I have a friend in Sweden who's dead because the government there decided to pursue "herd immunity".

CNN:

Fact check: Trump shares White nationalist's video in retweet falsely blaming Black Lives Matter for 2019 subway assault

Bloomberg:

Bannon’s Co-Defendants Plead Not Guilty in Border Wall Case

It's gotten to the point of who is going to stop them from doing all this shit? No one. They're emboldened and have set themselves up to know they can get away with anything they want.

The Hill:

Former Melania Trump friend says she is working with multiple prosecutors on inauguration financing

Trump may try to have that witch doctor from Cameroon replace Fauci.

Read about treason at R383

If Trump is reelected, expect Trump and Barr to pursue political prosecutions. They are trying to do some of it now as an October surprise.

[quote]With unprecedented numbers of Americans starting to cast early votes in the presidential election come mid-September, many eyes are on what Attorney General William Barr and his colleagues in the Justice Department will do. If they abide by a longstanding Justice Department rule of forbearance — sometimes called the 60 or 90-day rule — they will refrain from public indictments or other overt disclosures in cases that could affect the election. Prosecutors would, instead, conscientiously defer such actions until after the public votes. But that does not appear to be where Barr is headed. The attorney general has recently made statements that lay the groundwork for inappropriately deploying the Justice Department to damage the Democratic candidate for president, Joe Biden in the coming weeks. It’s by all appearances a highly orchestrated plan.

Trump and Barr can play all the games they want....win or lose, Trump will never be inaugurated in January 2021. If he wins, especially by deception , voter fraud or political partisanship, he will be Mussolinied on the front lawn of the White House. There will be a revolution, and it wont be by Trumps sycophants.

Tantalizing tidbit from Michael Schmidt's new book, "Donald Trump vs. the United States," courtesy of NYT's Adam Goldman:

Describing Trump’s unexpected November 2019 visit to Walter Reed Medical Center, Schmidt reports the White House wanted Mike Pence “on standby to take over the powers of the presidency temporarily if Trump had to undergo a procedure that would have required him to be anesthetized.”

Kind of odd for what was purported to be a routine check-up.

Early voting starts in less than a month. An October surprise is a month too late.

I like the way you think r395.

Mr. Saunders asked Mr. Mnuchin about his son.

The elder Mr. Mnuchin appeared pained. “His politics appall me, too, really appall me,” he replied, according to Mr. Saunders. “But he’s my son.”

Robert Mnuchin didn’t respond to requests for comment for this article. When a New York Times reporter asked him about his son last year, he demurred but seemed to be near tears.

Robert Mnuchin’s wife, Adriana, has reminded people that she is not Steven’s biological mother. (The couple married when he was a toddler.)

[quote]Robert Mnuchin’s wife, Adriana, has reminded people that she is not Steven’s biological mother.

And who could blame her?

I would do the same. Repeatedly.

Robert Mnuchin’s wife, Adriana, has reminded people that she is not Steven’s biological mother. (The couple married when he was a toddler.) She reluctantly attended Steven’s 2017 wedding to the Scottish-born actress Louise Linton. Ms. Mnuchin pretended her arm was injured in order to avoid having to shake hands with Mr. Trump, according to her grandson Zan Mnuchin Rozen.

Even Ms. Linton has said people shouldn’t assume she shares her husband’s politics.

Mr. Rozen, 22, wrote on Facebook in June that “my uncle has been complicit in, and in some cases directly culpable for, many years of the marginalization, persecution and stereotyping of black people in the United States.” His actions “cannot and will never be defensible.”

R397, Robert Mnuchin was a much more successful investment banker than his son; he was a partner at Goldman Sachs and got Steven his job there. This is another one of the nepotism stories that plague the Trump administration.

"Even Ms. Linton has said people shouldn’t assume she shares her husband’s politics."

She must be trying to save her career. She was acting like a gangster’s moll a couple of years ago.

Maybe she’s planning her exit as soon as Trump is out. They will have stolen all they can get by then.

I love that Gal Gadot had him kicked off WW84.

Glenn Kirschner:

Mike Flynn & Bill Barr Lose in DC Appellate Court, Case Returned to Judge Sullivan for a Hearing

What the fuck is this bullshit?

[quote]Six Democrat mayors in Minnesota endorse Trump for reelection

[quote]Six Minnesota Democrat mayors and one former Independent mayor have endorsed President Trump for reelection after claiming that Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden hasn't done anything to help working class people.

R405, the use of 'Democrat' instead of 'Democratic' should have been your clue. Also, it's the Daily Mail.

Next try.

Daily Mail or not the information is correct though, isn't it? Those Mayors, Democrats, have inf act endorsed Drumpf.

Those mayors are from an area in the northeastern part of the state, which Trump won last time.

Laura Ingraham: Who do you think is pulling Biden's strings?

Donald Trump: People that you've never heard of. People that are in the dark shadows. We had somebody get on a plane from a certain city this weekend, and in the plane it was almost completely loaded with thugs wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms, with gear and this and that. They're on a plane.

Ingraham: Where is it going?

Trump: I'll tell you some time. It's under investigation right now.

He's gone completely off his rocker, hasn't he?

NY Magazine: Trump described officers who engage in police brutality as “chokers … just like in a golf tournament they miss a three-foot putt.”

Just as the president was comparing police brutality to his favorite pastime, Ingraham cut him off, providing some critical, live PR: “You’re not comparing it to golf because that’s what the media will say.”

While Ingraham managed the rare feat of cutting off the president before he expanded on an already callous comparison, she was not able to stop him from entering full conspiracy mode while discussing Joe Biden’s supposed influence from the left.

Bump

Regarding the men in black, Trump was probably given some bit of intelligence that he was not supposed to talk about, but his swiss-cheese brain got things mixed up and he blurted out bits and pieces that don't make sense to us, but probably makes sense to someone who was at some briefing. Or else he saw a movie and got it mixed up with reality.... wouldn't be the first time.

Chasten Buttigieg is on Morning Joe.

Pete, I'm your supporter, but too soon.

Actually it was good interview. Chasten has written a book. He articulates well.

[quote]He articulates well.

Oh, yeah. And he swallows.

[quote]"Lindsey Graham, a man who I used to have tremendous respect for, he's changed. He's not the same person," Harrison told "Axios on HBO."..

Calling Lady G a "man"; those are fighting words!

I never realized how heavy Graham is.

Lady G has added quite a bit of girth to her frame.

Maybe she's pregnant?

R417, see R415

[quote]No doubt Collins hoped Trump would respect laws and traditions. But, unfortunately, the lesson Collins taught Trump is that she, along with nearly all Republicans in Congress, will not stop his law-breaking and corruption and therefore fail to do their jobs in our constitutional system of checks and balances.

Concerned Susan needs to say Trump didn't learn his lesson, and his impeachment has only emboldened him at law breaking. She needs to declare she was wrong, and say she should have voted for impeachment. She'll never do it, and it would not do her reelection efforts any measurable good, but may give her a tad of enhanced respect from somewhere when further stories of this saga are written.

^impeachment acquittal

[quote]— Donald Trump wanted his inauguration to look like a North Korean military parade. When discussing the parade with Winston Wolkoff and Ivanka during the transition, Trump said: “I want tanks and choppers. Make it look like North Korea,” he told them. Winston Wolkoff wrote: “He really wanted goose-stepping troops and armored tanks? That would break tradition and terrify half the country.”

Republicans who have never served a day in the military, see the military's prime role as propping up authoritarian regimes with parades and displays of weaponry.

[quote] I never realized how heavy Graham is.

Hey, if you happily eat two tons of shit a day, you’re gonna put on a few pounds.

Does orange makeup and Big Macs cause sperm to be loaded with cholesterol?

[quote]Regarding the men in black, Trump was probably given some bit of intelligence that he was not supposed to talk about

Or he got it from Facebook: Trump's 'plane loaded with thugs' conspiracy theory matches months-old social media rumor.

Tony Doukopil asked Trey Gowdy this morning if he's intending to vote for Trump and without a moment's hesitation, he just said "Yes." At that point, Tony said thanks and ended the interview.

Apparently, like most Rethugs, he only cares about the law where it comes to Benghazi, not Trump.

Ratings

Orange con man is an asset to a .thug who pays the Taliban to kills U.S. troops. He hires thugs.

P-R-O-J-E-C-T-I-O-N

Has Gowdy fully gone trans now? Can't tell if he is FtM or MtF trans. He looks petite butch lesbian how he does his hair.

Posted on another thread:

"If he doesn't get re-elected he's going to prison. "

People all over keep mentioning this and i don't disagree. But this is the thing: According to AG Policy, you can't indict a sitting president. But that's "policy" - NOT law. AG Bill Barr has already shredded numerous policies since he took over. The Democrats have to gang up and challenge this. NOW!

Not wait until after Election Day in case Trump "wins". I wish there would be more discussion about this.

I really don't think Trump will go to prison. He could be arrested for state crimes next year, but his lawyers would have him out on bail in a day. Then his lawyers would drag things out for a couple of years, and eventually, Trump's cognition would be so bad, he might not be able to stand trial.

If he's mentally checked out, then I hope he ends up like Junior Soprano; sitting like a vegetable in a disgusting state mental hospital, mindlessly stroking a one-toothed cat.

What would you have them do that they're not doing, r431?

Not surprising: 'The Corruption Is Bottomless': Documents Reveal Chair of Postal Service Board Is Director of McConnell-Allied Super PAC

Would be interesting to see the makeup of this 3 judge panel.

r434...for starters, challenge the OLC opinion in court. It is just an opinion, not a law, that was instituted during Watergate to protect Nixon.

Hey fucker at r433: I may only have one tooth, but I deserve SOME dignity!

Keep that hideous fucker away from me.

[quote]Would be interesting to see the makeup of this 3 judge panel.

I am more interested in the gowns and hairstyles.

[quote]Winston Wolkoff wrote that Melania Trump clearly had no interest in “revealing her thoughts, feelings and perspectives about anything.” Still, Winston Wolkoff thought the first lady would at least reveal some kind of emotional response to a good friend who had been trusted to help organize her husband’s 2017 inauguration. But Melania Trump kept up her breezy, emoji-filled texts to Winston Wolkoff and seemed to shrug it all off. Winston Wolkoff said her friend’s “nonresponse cast her as either a long-suffering victim of her unfaithful husband or a coldhearted gold digger.” “I now realize Melania is not a normal woman,” Winston Wolkoff continued. “Two women had described having sex with her husband on national TV in graphic detail in the same week. Her private response: ‘It’s politics.’ Her public response: dead silence. It just wasn’t a human reaction."

Which is it? Long-suffering victim of an unfaithful husband husband; or a cold-hearted gold digger? Could it be both?

She's a floor wax AND a dessert topping

'Mother' doesn't need to trot her homophobic ass to Charleston.

Incumbent Democrat Joe Cunningham will defeat that Trumpster, Nancy Mace.

Wonder who wrote a book on the mind for Marsha Blackburn, then read it to her?

You couldn't pay me enough money to click on that, r446.

When is Michael Cohen’s book coming out? I really don’t care about peepee tapes. I want to hear what Dump really things of his supporters.

Once we’re rid of Pres Bone Spurs the caliber of republican we get going forward is going to be worse and worse. Look at the trajectory! They get more extreme and loony. Before long, Sen Blackburn (R- kickinthecuntbone) will be their “moderate” compared to the Q nuts starting to get a foothold in the gop.

Republican staffers are horrified.

Wonder how long it took the Know Nothings to just give up and disband.

Ugh, “thinks” at r448.

Fuck those enablers, r449!

Those pricks enabled, covered for, encouraged and cheered shitstains like puke gingrich. They cozied up to the liars and cunts at fux.

They cheered as rethugs gutted education, vilified science and legitimized cunts like limpballs, o'liely, hannity and fucker.

They can ALL eat a diaper full of fat Donnie's shit and DIE. This is THEIR MONSTER!

These cunts are only "horrified" because the veneer has been stripped away, exposing them for the vile, grasping, pandering pricks they are.

R452 Staffers not congressman.

Well staffers are going to have to re-examine their life choices also. Everyone get out of that stupid party. It's dead inside.

R454 They are but it’s a good life. If I wanted to live in DC it would be my life.

Staffers are just as responsible, FCI. Reset, the fucking SS and concentration camp guards claimed "just doing my job".

Fuck that. None of these assholes had a soul. They hired these staffers from Bob Jones u and liberty u and every other talibangelical "university" they could find to push the anti-science, misogynistic, bigoted, racist homophobic agenda.

Every last one of these staffers could have, at any time, said, "this is disgusting" and left. But they didn't. They marinated in the lies and the filth. They deserve every bit of shit they're going going to be covered in.

They're ALL complicit.

R456 I’m not arguing otherwise. Some are decent people whom I have major policy differences. They leak like crazy. Many are coming to realize they have aided and abetted this rise in fringe, violent loons taking over their party. I know I warned many. It was clear where the gop was quickly going. Luckily, I interned during a Dem House majority.

All the tRump enablers, lackeys, etc. are TRAITORS

Glenn Kirschner:

Appeals Court AGAIN Delays Release of Trump's Tax Returns. Our Courts are Broken Procedurally

BuzzFeed: New FBI Documents Show What Witnesses in The Mueller Probe Told Federal Investigators About Trump and Russia

That won't end well, r460.

WaPo/Stephanie Wolkoff: Melania used private email accounts and encrypted messaging in the White House

Let's see the media start screaming about Melania's e-mails.

Of course they won't.

R463 Except no one cares about a hoe’s emails.

Yet they have no problem with Jared and all the other criminals in the White House using Whatsapp to send, hide, and then delete messages so theirs no trail.

Not the point r464.

R466 Calm down it was a well timed Melanie hoe dig.

It's ho...

Boutique Shopping

Claudia's parents are very wealthy. But people are sending her money for emancipation.

Marsha Blackburn rails against China but offers zero criticism of Russia.

That shopkeeper best keep an eye on that kleptomaniac, r70.

Hopefully, she's aware of what Al Franken conveyed many months ago., r473.

Hopefully, she's aware of what Al Franken conveyed many months ago., r473.

U.S. stocks nosedive as tech saps rally, slashing more than 800 points off Dow

Not sure if these allegations will have any impact on @45's cult following given anonymity of sources but reading it is enraging

Bizarre. Read it for yourself. LOL.

R477 Cadet Bone Spurs is beyond disgusting. This story in full needs to be aired on cable news, placed in the Stars & Stripes, and the Lincoln Project and Biden campaign need to use the information. Trump will lie and deny.

That article, R477, is incredibly enraging. Trump is just one big blob of sociopathic impulses.

JFC, that article at r477 is disgusting.

What a vile, putrid pile of shit! I can't even with any member of the military who continues to support this shitstain.

Every generation of my family has served in the military. Fuck this pathetic, weak, slovenly dirtbag!

How DARE this sniveling coward disrespect the soldiers who died in WWI and WWII? God, I want to kick him in the cunt bone until he's dead.

[quote] Bizarre. Read it for yourself. LOL.

Oh please, compared to Sarah’s the size of my shits were nothing to brag about!

'The Huck' dumps and the Smellyanne's queefs, can't be enduring.

"THANK ME, POORS!"

"THANK ME, POORS!"

The super-bloated corruption producer and enabler ain't telling the truth.

Joni Ernst repeats debunked conspiracy theory.

Sierra Club endorses Sara Gideon of Maine, opponent of Susan Collins.

Ultra-Trumpster, Marsha Blackburn, voting for Trump spending initiatives and tax cuts for the wealthy, with a soaring debt, isn't conservative.

She needs to be apologetic and be truthful.

Martha McSally is down by 17 points according to a Fox News poll. Maybe Trump will go to AZ and do a rally for her.

Barr is on a spree of untruthful declarations.

Wash that mouth out with bleach and hydrogen peroxide.

She's a LOSER, r490!!!

Shannon Sharpe calling out Miss Lindz on Twitter:

Fox news confirms the "suckers and losers" brouhaha after initially calling it a hoax:

And now that idiot wants the reporter from Fox fired for saying the truth.

And now that idiot wants the reporter from Fox fired for saying the truth.

Her sources are..."unimpeachable".

Is this thread still going?

^It is probably pay walled at this point.

CNN: Mnuchin and Pelosi no closer on stimulus even as they agree in principle to fund the government

CNN: VA secretary dismisses Trump POW remarks as 'politics' and denies President made disparaging comments about fallen Marines

*

Asked by CNN's Dana Bash whether it was acceptable for Trump in 2015 to question whether the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, a Navy veteran who was held as a prisoner of war for more than five years during the Vietnam War, was a war hero and make other comments that denigrated American service members who were captured during war, Wilkie said: "Well, it's politics."

me! me! me!

DJT lashes out at Laurene Powell Jobs over The Atlantic article.

It's getting to him. The media needs to keep the "losers and suckers" comments about war casualties by Trump on the front burner.

The Atlantic's editor in chief says there's more to come.

CNN - Schiff: Barr flat-out misled with a 'blatantly false statement'

Glenn Kirschner:

How to Defeat Trump/McGahn/Barr's Weaponization of the Courts

Bar, Pompeo, etc. will be stuffing themselves with burgers, hotdogs, hot sausages, barbecue ribs and chicken, and potato salad, today.

Hopefully with extra lard sauce r508!

Eat up, Clarence! Ginny, put some extra sauce on that brisket!

Ginny ain't never put hot sauce on nothin', R510

Maybe raisins (for sweetness) and mayonnaise (for crispiness on the outside!!!)!

Sounds like Louis DeJoy lied to Congress.

Not surprised.

The ambitious Nikki Haley defends Trump.

R513, ah, Nikki Haley. She once had a future.

Adam Schiff noted Bill Barr lied.

I want Barr to come up with some deranged October Surprise that completely backfires and sends Trump fleeing to Moscow on a private jet, never to return, a week before Election Day.

Lindsey is favoring oil drilling off the South Carolina coast. She's in the pocket of the petroleum industry.

[quote]COLUMBIA, S.C. — Offshore drilling, an issue that has created some bipartisan unity in South Carolina among opponents who argue such expansion would mar the state’s pristine coastline, is surfacing in a political action committee’s effort to oust U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham. As the state’s beaches teem with visitors on Labor Day, Lindsey Must Go PAC is flying a plane up and down the South Carolina coast, with a trailing banner reading ”L. Graham Will Drill 4 Oil Here.” Officials with the PAC say the plane expenditure and an accompanying digital ad decrying Graham’s support for drilling expansion legislation and alleged ties to the oil industry, are part of a six-figure buy over the next two weeks, now that the campaign has entered its final two months and voters are starting to tune in.

Five years ago Graham tweeted this:

[quote]"At the heart of [Trump's] statement is a lack of respect for those who have served," he wrote. "A disqualifying characteristic to be president."

[quote]In the years since the tweet, however, Graham has evolved to become one of Trump's most loyal defenders, despite the fact that the president has continued attacking McCain even after his passing in 2018.

Don't you mean Nimrata Randhawa, r514?

Bernie:

[quote]"Today, I say to Mitch McConnell: Do your job. Let us pass the HEROES Act or legislation that is even better. But, for once in your life, stop worrying about your billionaire campaign contributors, and respond to the needs of working families."

Hope is fading that there will be any coronavirus relief bill when Congress returns.

[quote]McConnell had been a force for a deal but does not appear eager to force a vote that exposes division in his ranks. Many Senate Republicans are also wary or opposed outright to another major chunk of debt-financed virus relief, even as GOP senators imperiled in the election like Susan Collins of Maine and Cory Gardner of Colorado plead for more. Republicans are struggling to coalesce around a unified party position — and that's before they engage with Democratic leaders, who are demanding far more.

Trump senior staffer, Francis Brennan, mocks Joe Biden for visiting the graves of his son, first wife, and his daughter.

The Trump campaign are doing what Trump does. They are no limits to their viciousness.

An interesting thing about that, R522, is that shortly after I read an article about this I clicked over to comments and someone with a million crosses and "Christian" all over their profile was spewing hatred, anger and divisiveness.

'They are not a Christian', I thought.

It was then that I realized that maybe instead of just being an asshole this campaign director is playing chess and giving cover to the base. Maybe?

R523, I’m not sure what counts as “chess” here. Evangelicals need no cover for their hatefulness, they never have.

R523, true, evangelicals don't need cover. But how often do people complain about Democrats self editing and taking the high road to avoiding appearing or sounding hypocritical? (That's why The Lincoln Project is so successful).

Spiritual Advisor to Trump, Pula White.

Has she brought the Trumps and Guilfoyle to the Lawd?

She campaigns to the evangelicals on behalf of Trump.

Becki Falwell is more interesting.

It wasn't just the pool boy.

Who is Paula White...

There's some good shit on this thread.

In case one is wondering, Louie Gohmert survived Covid.

Bump.

Since this relates to Trump's all-encompassing corruption: the Justice Department has moved to replace Trump's personal lawyers in the defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll, who says that Trump raped her. You, as a taxpayer, wanted to pay for Trump's defense in a private lawsuit, didn't you?? Of course you did!

Fallen Heroes

Elie Honig on the corrupt Bill Barr

Sheer Lunacy

New Miss Lindsey ad of a different kind

This is what is coming down the path. It looks like they are really going to try to claim treason and attempt to slime Biden:

[quote] The dirty FBI agents and crooks and their co-conspirators in the MSM are trying to re-frame Trump as a stooge for the Kremlin. Meanwhile, AG Barr and Durham are sitting on revelations -- including smoking-gun documents -- that could blow up that false narrative once and for all

On Morning Joe today, Claire McCaskill referred to Trump sychophant, Sen. Ron Johnson, as a Putin puppet. That is too kind. Johnson as the Oversight Committee Chair, lavishished so much praise on DeJoy in damaging the USPS to give Trump an advantage in voting for the election.

There's so much more that shows this Wisconsin Senator is acting as if he is awash in kompromat.

[quote]In the Republican fever dream version of this scenario, the Deep State is a tool of the left deployed against Donald Trump to foil his plans to make America great again, but what if it was the other way around? What if all the president’s whining about forces allied against him were a feint to distract us from the real conspiracy? Put on your tin foil hats because while I don’t normally believe in conspiracy theories, I’m pretty sure Bill Barr is the Deep State.

[quote]Think about it! He’s been in and out of government for 40 years, he (was) well respected and always in proximity to power, he looked and talked and acted just like every other Reagan Republican you’ve ever seen for decades but when the order came down he swung into action seizing power at the U.S. Department of Justice and turning it into a fully functioning personal law firm for the president. Bill Barr is a sleeper agent. Wake up sheeple! He lied about the Mueller report. He let Manafort out of prison. He’s currently trying to get Michael Flynn’s charges (which he plead guilty to, twice) dropped. The evidence is overwhelming!

Deutsche Bank hires a Bill Barr cohort.

[quote]Attorney General William P. Barr has a lot on his plate. In addition to overseeing a department with 113,000 employees and a budget of nearly $30 billion, he has to force out U.S. attorneys who might start investigating President Trump, spread lies about mail balloting to support Trump’s efforts to sow chaos in the election, help Trump’s cronies escape legal responsibility for their actions and think about engineering an “October surprise” to help Trump win another term. It keeps him busy. But not so busy that he isn’t on-call to come to Trump’s aid whenever the president needs it, even if it means stepping into a private lawsuit involving Trump and a woman who says he raped her in the mid-1990s:

Glenn Kirschner:

Woodward's Tapes, Trump's Covid Admissions & a Homicide Prosecutor's Take on Criminal Liability

Joe's on FIRE...

Yeah, Scarborough rips into the editorial staff/page of Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal that wants Trump reelected.

[quote] President Trump recites the Pledge of Allegiance at this morning's 9/11 commemoration in Shanksville, PA.

(it's even worse than I heard it was)

Nora Dannehy, John Durham's assistant (#2), resigns from Barr's retaliatory 'investigate the investigatos' initiative in behalf of Trump.

News update on Louis DeJoy's campaign finance scandal.

There was an early morning protest today at the home of Louis DeJoy in Greensboro, NC. They were shouting and marching with signs saying: 'Wake Up, DeJoy'.

The local CBS & Fox links don't connect on DL.

[quote] When the now former British Ambassador to the United States Kim Darroch described Donald Trump's White House as "inept" and "deeply dysfunctional" — and added that the president "radiated insecurity" — an international scandal ensued.

[quote] I have said publicly several times since that, you know, I stand by my judgments ... I think it's been written a thousand times that this was a president who thrived on chaos and disruption and who didn't believe in, or didn't operate by, the normal processes and structures and norms, if you like, of the office. And, you know, whether you think he's done a great job, or that his record is more mixed, I think it's inarguable that he has stuck to that very unique style of conducting the presidency.

Absentee Ballot Request Form

....from both sides of her mouth.

Wisconsin Republican shenanigans in Wisonsin per absentee ballots. Kanye West and the Green Party are part of it.

Alternate thread

Glenn Kirschner: Flynn Case "Prosecutor" Gleeson Slams Barr's Position, Urges Judge Sullivan to Sentence Flynn

Link to new thread.

So now we have threads 37, 37A and 38.

Plenty of room for all the treasoning going on.

Oh for chrissakes, there's a 38 as well??? C'mon people.

You'll manage to get over it.

I can't stand...

not...

finishing out the thread

Well, then finish it out and be done with it Doris.

Well, posting 39 more inane posts seems so...so daunting. And I got other things going on, doncha know.

Every journey begins with one step Doris.

Perhaps fill the rest with Miz Lindz pics.

"Fetch my balls, Lindsey!"

The Hill:

Pelosi seeks to put pressure on GOP in COVID-19 relief battle