The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making Part Deux (Part 1)

Wait, my mistake. The bulb is not going to pop, it is going to run out of gas.

Can’t be bothered to link to an actual news site to begin with?

I’m done.

Ahem.

“Let HIM.”

That is all.

I’m guessing I’ll live to regret this, but I’ll ask anyway: What could we possibly do that would be more convincing to you personally to vote for Biden than the constant lying, mishandling a pandemic that led to 200,000 deaths, rampant corruption, campaign finance laws broken, doing the bidding of Vladamir Putin, the white supremacy and anti-semitism, the inviting of an enemy to Camp David, the selling out of the Kurds, or any of the hundreds of things Trump has done so far to make a mockery of our country.

While changing his previous stance that keeping deaths under 200,000 is a sign of success; now it’s 2.5 million is a sign of failure. Do you really want to give him that chance of being an utter failure under his own terms, whereupon he will, of course, change those terms again?

I don’t even know why anyone would need the Atlantic to believe it.

I’m somewhat in agreement with Happy L that just because it’s published by the Atlantic doesn’t necessarily mean that this is an actual campaign strategy or that it’s anything beyond brainstorming at this point, but I don’t doubt for a moment that it’s come up in at least one late night strategy session. The fact that this is being even considered by anyone in Republican circles other than Alex Jones is chilling.

Don’t look now but Donald Trump’s approval rating is now almost at 43%. He’s a little closer to that magic number of 45-46%.

I typically ignore these stupid comments. But you seem to pull it more often than anyone else, so I’m briefly pausing my silence.

Stop. Just stop. It adds nothing to the discussion, and it makes you look ridiculous. Go play on grammer.com if you feel the need to endlessly correct others for no reason.

That is all.

Great! Glad to hear you no longer consider linking to click-bait sites run by actors to be the same as actual news sites.

Bye, Felicia.

Well, this IS the first time I ginned up the temerity to correct Jesus.

Also: piss off.

And have a nice day. :slight_smile:

For a guy who shits out links like it’s his full-time job, don’t get pissy when someone simply asks you to be better at citing stories. Like, post the original story, not a click-bait recap. And when you do link to George Takei, perhaps you should not be surprised when you get a request for further clarification or citation. Maybe I don’t want to sift through Oh Myyyy! pages to find links to relevant tweets or Atlantic articles.

He got a bump from two polls rated C/C+, at least one of which always skews right. Let’s see where it’s at a week from today, assuming he even shows up at the debate. Karl Rove is going against Trump.

Just to change the subject a little, I notice that the Republicans have apparently realized that by indicating that Biden is barely able to function, they have set a very low bar for his debate performance. At this point, if he remains awake and reasonably coherent, he will have exceeded their characterization of him. Therefore, I am all of a sudden seeing them assert how good a debater Biden actually is.
biden-is-actually-a-very-good-debater
Biden a good debater, as per Trump

Then it should be “Let him whom …”

Sometimes getting something to scan smoothly is more important than prescriptive rigidity.

No no no, not whom. “Who” is proper as it is the subject of a subordinate clause. Now just stop it!!

President Donald Trump declined to say if he would accept the election results in November.

Asked at a press conference Wednesday if he would “commit to a peaceful transferal of power” if he lost the election, Trump said: “Well, we’re gonna have to see what happens.”

The president then tried, again, to delegitimize mail-in voting, saying: “You know that I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots. The ballots are a disaster … Get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a peaceful … there won’t be a transfer, frankly, there’ll be a continuation.”

My bold.

The ballots! They’re the problem! Why didn’t we think of that?? (Universal group head-slap)

Who needs ballots? They just cause problems-- mail or not, absentee or not, in-person or not, to count or not… it goes on and on. So let’s just get rid of the fuckers and keep the same gummint forever. That’s the ticket!

If they have a debate, are they going to strap Trump to his chair this time?