Wild and inaccurate claims from an administration apologist about how social media was to blame. Except that the time frames don’t add up - AND - how DumpsterFire could have appeared on all TV networks in a matter of minutes if the [reviving] “the short fingered vulgarian” gave a rat’s ass about this country and constitution."
" What Gidley – and, by extension, Trump – is engaging in is a classic bit of scapegoating. Remember that Trump is fundamentally unable to ever blame himself for anything . And so, in the wake of the disastrous and dangerous events of January 6, he and his cronies are trying to foist the blame on the forces of so-called “Big Tech” that deplatformed Trump after he repeatedly failed to issue a forceful condemnation of the rioters.
You do realize that Barr, being Attorney General, had absolutely no choice but to push back on Trump.
What else could he do? Agree with Trump but refuse to investigate? Order the entire DOJ to make up evidence of fraud? He’s the one person that could do something about the massive fraud.
Trump really believes he won the election. Even in the total absence of evidence, he thinks he’s incapable of losing. Even if he doesn’t believe the wilder conspiracies ( and I don’t think he does ), he thinks anything he does in service of restoring him to his rightful place as President is justified.
That’s why he asked the GA Sec of State to flat out lie and say they found a math mistake ( “just say you recalculated”) that changed the result. Trump’s rationale on that call is that since everyone knows he won by a lot and they just can’t find the fraud, it’s A OK to outright cheat to make everything right.
Anyway, I digress. Barr was going to quit or get fired. No other option, he was backed into a corner. It was inevitable, that’s why I called it on Nov 6th or thereabouts.
Bill Maher usually pisses me off more than he entertains me, but he has a point with this that follows. Since Trump is having such a hard time understanding that he’s lost, no matter who says it, Maher has a Seuss-like childrens book (Pack your shit and go) that explains the situation to the Dumb Don:
What’s been clear, in this atmosphere, is that what we think of as “no choice options” were potentially out the window, with people all over the R side, from state certification boards to state legislatures to Congress and Pence potentially willing to do what they couldn’t/shouldn’t. Not that their actions would be sustained, but more fuel is more fuel. I wasn’t thinking he would come up with enough (fake) fraud to claim to sway an election. I was more thinking along the lines of selective release he’s been so good at - say announcing just before Jan 6 that there were a bunch of irregularities being investigated, which would turn out to be 1 or 2 votes but give cover to the legislative coup.
An interesting column by sports reporter Rick Telander:
“Yes, I write about sports. But the subjects of sports and democracy coalesce.
The man who has lied all his adult life; who cheered on the violent assault on our nation’s Capitol; who has cheated at most everything he ever has done, including golf, taxes, contracts and marriage; who boasts and preens like a dictator and would bring down our democracy rather than admit he lost an election — this man has done incalculable harm to our republic.
Trump said former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was a danger for kneeling silently. He has destroyed trust in facts. He said my profession, the free press, is ‘‘the enemy of the people.’’
Not anymore, Don. Nope. You yourself are the enemy of the people.
Own it, con man.”
Yes, a good, solid, unsurprising president, not one that strives for greatness but one who wants to repair this nation and return it to normalcy. Which is exactly what we need.
He’s got 2-4 years of Congress, so he should be able to push thru almost every repair.
Yep, I hope so. I hope if a Republican wins in 2024, they are a reasonable person that won’t re-implement everything Trump did. Come on, there has to be a somewhat reasonable Republican out there.
Pete Meijer? A guy who voted to impeach something like 10 days(or less?) into his first term as representative?
Modnote: I’ll make it official, your snipping changes the meaning of the post far more than allowed. As it is when you snip, you should show it with ellipses or some equivalent indicator. But in this case … Biden … would still lose all meaning, Please don’t do this again.
This is just a guidance, not a warning. Nothing on your permanent record.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Mitt Romney runs again. He’s built a lot of goodwill among the center-right crowd. And if someone on the far left is nominated (like Warren or Sanders), he could pull a lot of median voters.
The fear for someone like Romney is the hate they(and probably Meijer) are getting from extremists on the right. I don’t think Romney is going to try again. He lost to Barack Obama, probably will lose to Joe Biden. Maybe he could be Harris?
I guess there’s no danger the GOP would lose that seat in the Senate - he’d be an easy replacement in Utah. But would he give up the ability to do more in the Senate than as VP? He’d be a pretty strategic pick if the Presidential candidate wanted him on the ticket - much like Pence was for Trump.
Sean Spicer applied to join the White House Press Corps. He now reports for Newsmax where he has his own show. What other lies will Spicer be telling the public about the White House?
Ironically enough, as much as Spicer lied he turned out to be the best of Trump’s press secretaries. But that just shows the depths the rest of them descended to.
Trump is desperate to bump his attendance for his send off. Scaramucci said he even got an invitation to the send off.
Trump is reportedly furious that A-list celebrities are performing at Biden’s inauguration and refused to attend his inauguration.
Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy are attending Biden’s chapel service on Wednesday morning and skipping out on Trump’s farewell. Other GOPers may follow.
