Rats don’t always live in the sewers. They come up once in a while to steal your food.
“Sludge always sinks to the bottom.” Again, definition:
Sludge: a deposit of ooze at the bottom of a body of water.
‘Trump’s dumps block the pumps’ too crude?
Slight hijack: all this talk about sludge is reminding me of an anecdote Obama told in his book, where Trump made an unsolicited call to David Axelrod after the Deepwater Horizon spill, offering his services in plugging the leak.
Nothing is too crude when speaking about this situation.
I reckon he’d plug a joint of 9 5/8" casing pretty well. Should have taken him up on it.
Obama mentioned that Axelrod, while trying to stifle a laugh, mentioned to Trump that the leak was already pretty much plugged anyway. I would have strung him out a little on it though, just to hear what harebrained scheme Trump would have cooked up.
Of course, once Axelrod told him that, Trump immediately pivoted to trying to sell the idea of his building a new ballroom for the White House.
Holy shit. That Lin Wood character who has rocked up with Sydney Powell as apparent Trump legal surrogate is now claiming to his followers that Mike Pence is a traitor and the qanon nutjobs are jumping on to say Pence is a pedophile.
This country is poisoned no matter what.
Thanks. I was going to post something along those lines, but you said it better.
At high enough pressure, anything will fit through a small orifice.
And enough AstroGlide.
All I can find is an article on Raw Story about some tweets Lin Wood sent out on the evening of 12/25. He lists a bunch of people, including Pence, “Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Stephen Breyer, Joe Biden, Obama, Clintons, Bill Gates, Mark Meadows, Pat Cippoloni, Bush 41 & 43, George Soros, Cocaine Mitch” and others of being communists, pedophiles and child sex traffickers. Is this where you saw this or are you referencing the tweets? This is so scattershot I don’t see how it will impact Pence in any real way. If the Veep were singled out, then that would be notable but being part of a crazy mishmash of a list by someone who is clearly a loon isn’t likely to stick imo.
Lin Wood, hard at work:
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Yes that’s the Lin Wood tweet. The people in the replies and on parler are implicating Pence now.
This account does a good job of sharing the most batshit takes
He’s a universal plug. Just insert him hands first and push as far as necessary to fill the hole.
Looks like Lin Wood’s Twitter account has been suspended but I did find this meme he posted explaining what is going on:
Total lunacy.
Trump is destroying the Republican Party and it’s only going to get worse for them. OTOH, with the pea brains of most MAGAs, they’ll forget all about him in 6 months and Moscow Mitch will still be majority leader and everything will go back to the way it was before. What are they going to do, start a new Tea Party that will get widespread support? As Carl Sagan used to say, “Well, maybe.”
You’re thinking about this as too organized a movement. You’re thinking a collective organization with a top-down structure, or a coordinated group negotiating a plan together.
Yes, and that is what scares me - that I can’t dismiss the idea of tens of thousands of average Americans getting stirred up enough that widespread violence kicks off that escalates into armed groups in conflict in major cities across the country.
Yes, that is more the scenario I envision.
A Million* MAGA March runs in to a Donald Must Go demonstration, violence ensues. Riots and counter riots break out everywhere. The police have already shown that that scale of activity is too much for them to handle.
- Might be a slight exaggeration.
My scenario is less an organized revolution and more mass chaos and destruction and death. Ruby Ridge and Waco become “The Alamo” of the new movement, as Biden tries to bring the country in line but the pissed off Trumpers equate him to the Anti-christ and Stalin. (That should be Lenin, but they aren’t smart enough to know that.)
That is the most likely scenario, and certainly what I hope for. But even if that is what plays out, there are still a lot of sore people with a grievance escalating the sentiment that the election was stolen. That festering division makes what the last 20 years have been seem downright friendly.
The Attorney General of Texas filing a lawsuit with the Supreme Court.
Other state attorneys general and federal legislators signing on.
Senator Ted Cruz agreeing to be the litigator if the Supreme Court heard the case.
Government Services Administration Administrator Emily Murphy holding up transition funds for Biden’s team. Sure, she came around, but she was unreasonable to do so in the first place.
Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller canceling transition security briefings, delaying necessary information transfer for National Security.
Those are tangible actions. And I dispute your contention that Republicans remaining silent or actively supporting the notion that the election was rigged or otherwise contending that Trump is the true victor is harmless. This is snowballing down the hill, and the further it goes, the bigger the snowball, the harder to stop it. Every Republican not contesting Trump’s falsehoods and pandering to the Trump crowd is contributing to the oncoming avalanche that will drive them further and further to avoid being squished with the rest of us. Today, it’s just refuse to admit Biden won. Then it’s contest the voting as inaccurate and rife with fraud. Then it’s hold out hope the Electoral College will somehow deviate. Then comes Congressional certification, and steps to slow or obstruct the process, merely for show. Every bit of that is fostering the sentiment that our government is broken, that the election was rigged, that the Democrats cheated, that Biden is not legitimate, and at a minimum that stronger actions will be required next election. Actions to reduce voter access, reduce voter participation, put up obstacles for non-white Americans. Actions to intimidate liberals to keep them from showing up. More protest rallies waving guns around, more “poll watchers” showing up outside voting locations with their guns on full display.
Yes, this is what I think Trump is mainly about. He is a conman, he’s been a conman all his life, he’s lining up the next con. How can he make money off this?
But even more importantly for Trump, he’s trying to protect himself from legal action by making any attempts at criminal or civil actions against him be perceived as politically motivated attacks rather than legitimate legal interests. He’s trying to make going after him such a political minefield that it discourages Biden and the Dems from pursing anything, lest it “tear the country further apart” and “destroy the precedent that in America we don’t jail our political opponents”, etc.
Yeah, we have seen how Trump thinks of “non-profit” organizations. They are just another loophole for a slush fund. “I’m going to pay a charity as part of my punishment. Since it’s going to charity, it comes from my non-profit set up for funding charities. That’s totally legit, right?”
Yeah, there were two rounds of $1200 checks, plus the latest push for a whole $600. WOO HOO! I’m Rich! I can retire to a life of luxury!
Sure, some of us don’t need the stimulus to stay afloat. I mean, it’s nice to have more income to pay bills or even splurge, but, for example, as a grocery store employee I was not financially hit at all by covid. If anything, it gave me more money from overtime.
But for anyone actually affected by the impacts of shutdowns, this is a ridiculous sum of money. Like handing out pennies and calling yourself a philanthropist. I would rather see targeted spending of substantial amounts than a pittance spread around evenly. And I’m one of those “evil librul socialists”.