Attorney General Bill Barr has now locked in an ongoing Trump fever dream investigation of the FBI investigators who opened a probe into his campaign’s ties to Russia during the 2016 election.
Barr announced Tuesday that he had appointed Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham to serve as special counsel in that probe, virtually ensuring the inquiry will extend into the Biden administration and provide Trump and his Republican allies with fodder to continue complaining about unfair treatment of the most facially corrupt presidential candidate and commander in chief in U.S. history. In other words, Trump’s whining is so far from over.
According to CNN, Barr’s order appointing Durham directed him to submit a final report on his findings to the attorney general upon completion of his inquiry so it could be made public. That attorney general will likely be serving in the Biden administration—another mess to clean up, courtesy of Trump’s miscreants.
And the punch line… wait for it…
Barr made the appointment official on Oct. 19 but withheld the announcement to avoid the appearance of interfering with the election.
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Yeah, like appearances really count.
Why didn’t Barr just give Donnie a new set of golf clubs as a parting gift?
The current official GOP platform is apparently that requiring Americans to wear masks in public is an unacceptable impingement on their freedoms, but imposition of martial law to overturn the results of an election is necessary to ensure their freedom. Do I have that right?
Yes. Democrats are destroying the Constitution so we need to suspend the Constitution and … (jail them? Kill them?)!!!11!
This is extremely concerning, to put it mildly, and I wish I had a place to hide. I keep thinking “stop the ride, I want to get off,” but there is no “off.”
A somewhat random question that I can’t be bothered to make a thread to ask. Norwegian political parties tinker with their political platforms before every election, and at least try to work and vote according to that platform whether they have power or not. Do US parties treat their platforms as anything other than campaign material? And if they do, what does that mean for the “Our platform is to support the great and glorious president Trump”-party now that he lost?
Not really, no. The positions staked out by individual candidates (which generally agree with the party platform, but don’t necessarily) are what people pay attention to.
As long as Republican politicians are in thrall to the MAGAtroids, they won’t really be able to draft a platform, lest it contain some position that draws the wrath of Napoleon Boneyspurs. That’s how they ended up first recycling their 2016 platform and then (after getting roundly mocked for failing to edit out the plethora of denunciations of “the current administration”) just saying, “screw it, our platform is whatever the Toddler-in-Chief wants it to be”.
For we US parliamentarians, the Norwegian system and others like it in western Europe are much less focused on the individual candidates than we are here. The parties are their platforms and vice versa, though I suppose (help me out here, Euro Dopers) some parties would be considered to have more ineffectual individuals at the top of it than others.
With our federalist, first past the post system of voting, we are pretty much locked into a two party contest that ensures that the coalitions supporting the major candidates will be big and bulky, with tons of disagreement on big issues within each major party. That usually works ok and results in a moderate person winning the White House but it has fractured recently when, as noted in previous posts, one of the major parties went batshit crazy and decided that its policies were whatever President Dump twitted from the shitter that morning.
I also note that it was timed to coincide with Barr’s announcement that there was not widespread election fraud. I wonder if this was an attempt to mollify the toddler in chief with a bit of candy after taking away his toys.
On the heels of Individual 1 saying he would veto the defense appropriations bill if it includes a requirement to rename military installations named for Confederates, he’s now saying he will veto it if it doesn’t include a provision to repeal Section 230.
The crazy just don’t quit… I have to say, Donnie’s (so-called) presidency was 1,000 times worse than I ever imagined it would be when I started part 1 of this thread four years ago. And he truly is getting worse every day. There is NO ONE to stop him. He’s completely out of control. Like someone on a shooting spree except he’s shooting off his mouth.
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday released a 46-minute videotaped speech that denounced a “rigged” election and was filled with lies the day after his own attorney general joined election officials across the country in attesting to his defeat.
Mr. Trump recorded what he said “may be the most important speech I’ve ever made” in the Diplomatic Room of the White House and delivered it behind a lectern bearing the presidential seal. He then posted a two-minute version on Twitter, with a link to the full version on his Facebook page.
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Some of the president’s key Republican allies on Capitol Hill and elsewhere have urged him to move on in recent days. Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, who has been conspicuously silent about Mr. Trump’s claims, finally referred this week to the “new administration” that would be taking over next year, a clear signal to Mr. Trump that his time in office was coming to an end.
Whoa! Did you catch that?? I bolded it, 'cause you might have blinked and missed it: that MF Mitch referred to the “new administration.” I guess Joe is supposed to heave a sigh of relief that he’s finally been legitimized by the kingmaker, eh?
The MAGAts are still feeding Donnie’s delusions. He is one sick bastard.
But he retains the support of a core group of voters who quickly responded to his latest attack on the election. Within a few hours, his tweet had been “liked” by almost 134,000 Twitter users, and his Facebook video had been shared 93,000 times.
