In a lawsuit against Lin Wood filed by his former partners, they claim that Wood claimed that he may be the second coming of Christ, and that he has represented Bible characters.’
If, in the new year, pandemic vaccines aren’t available as promised, Americans can’t return to work because economic relief isn’t delivered or an adversary successfully attacks the United States because national security agencies couldn’t pay for new defenses, a hefty share of the blame should be placed on a man you’ve probably never heard of: One Russell Thurlow Vought.
As President Trump’s budget director, he conspicuously failed in his stated goal of controlling the debt. Despite his efforts, the debt increased by $6 trillion on his two-year watch as director of the Office of Management and Budget, the biggest jump in history.
He also has been disastrous in his fiscal forecasts. On Feb. 10, he predicted 2.8 percent growth for the year, saying, “our view is that, at this point, coronavirus is not something that is going to have ripple effects.” A few weeks later, the economy collapsed.
But what Russ Vought is very good at is sabotage. He’s sabotaging national security, the pandemic response and the economic recovery — all to make things more difficult for the incoming Biden administration. That he’s also sabotaging the country seems not to matter to Vought, who has spent nearly two decades as a right-wing bomb thrower.
He has blocked civil servants at OMB from cooperating with the Biden transition, denying President-elect Joe Biden the policy analysis and budget-preparation assistance given to previous presidents-elect, including Barack Obama and Trump himself.
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Well, everybody is good at something. Excelling at fucking up is the top qualification for being on the trump team.
I was thinking someone should print up a deck of cards with their pictures on each one like we did in Iraq a couple decades ago but now it’s too many – it would take six decks.
Maybe if we stuck to just senators…
The other problem being it would be all Jokers.
I’m disappointed that “Hung from a cross” wasn’t an option.
I outlined a couple of scenarios here (#2523) but events are evolving.
1.The Wag the Dog (WTD) theory. If we are at war, no way can we change the current leadership. DumpsterFire must remain President.
a. “I alone have intimate knowledge of the situation (that I created). Biden couldn’t step in (we’ve been blocking his briefings).”
“We should bomb Iran. They’re mooslems and black aren’t they? The Yosemites would like that. Win Win.”
“Sir, they are majority Persian, our census considers Iranian-Americans white, Aryan if you will - I’ll shut up now, Sir”
“But they’re mooslem, terrorists, thugs; right?”
“Yes Sir, we’ll get right on it. Do you want Jared or Pompeo on point?”
“Jared, can’t trust outside the family. Get me Vlad on the phone too. I need his input. Get Murdock and that Sinclair guy spun up. Just a few bombs but Fox, Hannity, Carlson will blow it up so it’s a bigly conflict. Huge. Wipe this virus right off the headlines. Enough to cancel that Jan 6th thing. Can’t have Congress meeting during war, too dangerous. That electoral school thing can wait a few years (har har har).”
- The resignation ploy.
“Sir, all the family, donor, and legislative pardons are done and signed. Your pardon from Pence is done and signed. All you need to do is resign, then Pence will pardon you.”
“I’m not really feeling this resignation thing. Might make me look weak.”
"Sir, it’s just a pretend resign. If you look at this chart with pictures; it happens like this:
Pence becomes President - remember we’re just pretending here.
He selects a new Vice President to oversee the electoral voting. No time to actually confirm - Mitch is on board. The certified electors will be thrown out and your supporters’ votes counted. You win, back in as President."
“Who’s going in as the new Vice President?”
“Your choice sir; could be Giuliani, Pompeo, Jordan, Hawley, Paxton?”
“Where’s my sharpie, I’ll write in Ivanka. She looks great, doesn’t she. I wanted her to be Vice President all along.”
“Yes sir. And the best part. The resignation thing means you technically didn’t complete your first term so you get to two more terms. Great huh?”
“Two terms, they stole my votes in 2016 and 2020. I get to run as many times as I want.”
“Yes sir, brilliant.”
I’m overthinking this I know.
Carroll County, Ohio GOP claims the Nashville bomber was a Democrat.
Not at all-- it’s great. I’ve got Lorne Michaels on the phone!
A federal judge has ruled that the state of South Dakota can’t use covid as an excuse for not bringing a defendant to a speedy trial since the state, and the governor, have done little to mitigate the virus’s impact.
Update: The case has been dismissed for lack of standing.
“The problem for Plaintiffs here is that they lack standing. Plaintiff Louie Gohmert, the United States Representative for Texas’s First Congressional District, alleges at most an institutional injury to the House of Representatives. Under well-settled Supreme Court authority, that is insufficient to support standing,” U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle wrote, echoing the Department of Justice’s argument that plaintiffs sued the wrong defendant. “The other Plaintiffs, the slate of Republican Presidential Electors for the State of Arizona (the ‘Nominee-Electors’), allege an injury that is not fairly traceable to the Defendant, the Vice President of the United States, and is unlikely to be redressed by the requested relief.”
“Accordingly, as explained below, the Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over this case and must dismiss the action,” the judge said. Judge Kernodle was appointed by President Donald Trump .
Louie Gohmert calls for violence in the streets after his lawsuit is rejected by the court (by a judge appointed by Individual 1)
(Note, this is Newsmax’s twitter account)
The money quote there doesn’t seem to bear much resemblance to the headline. OTOH, it IS Gohmert…
(And Newsmax)
Maybe Gohmert isn’t calling for violence, maybe he’s calling for people to take more vitamins! They almost sound the same.
(That’s all I got.)
No, no. Violins, VIOLINS.
Never mind - emily litella
When does she do her commentary on erection fraud?
Nothing says, “Piece of shit,” like Ted Cruz.
I need a word to describe feelings beyond disgust.
Use the forks!
You feel Cruzed.
Rafaeled
Proud Boys tried to march on the governor of Oregon’s official residence yesterday, but they were stopped by Salem police with pepper balls and rubber bullets. The Proud Boys are outraged, the police are supposed to be their friends! The PBs swore at the cops and asked why they weren’t supporting them, since they’re their friends, and stomped on Blue Lives Matter flags.