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  1. 18 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Inasmuch as unlike the rest of the GOP,  the GOP-appointed justices are not subject to reelection, I think they are free not to protect Trump, including the ones appointed by Trump.  Roberts has already been publicly disloyal to the asshole-in-chief.  

    And Turtle and Trump can’t force Roberts to swear Trump in when somebody else wins.   Trump’s two biggest concerns are saving his ass, and protecting/enhancing his little financial empire.   Trump could give a fuck about the GOP itself - it’s all about keeping the wolves at bay and keeping he and his bank accounts safe from the states.   Trump is not happy - anybody who sits around on twitter cranking out 100+ tweets and retweets every day whining about everybody else, is miserable as hell, and not wanting to do their work.   
     

    Trump clearly wants out, but he has to deal with the legal fallout.   If he figures that out, he’s out of there.   

  2. 15 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Trump owns the cops and the Congress. He might own the courts. That's certainly been the goal. Does he own the generals? They may be our only hope. 

    I hope there's room for me on the ledge. 

    Cops?  The FBI?  The guys that Trump has been constantly, and very publicly, shitting on?

  3. 1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

    I like to tell myself that Bill Hicks in 2019 would be the same as Bill Hicks in 1991.

    Sadly, he'd probably be MAGA and that make me sad.

    You could have Bill Hicks and George Carlin touring together and doing 3-4 hour sets every night, selling out everywhere, and one would talk about the stupidity of Trump, while the other tackled the stupidity of Trump's fanbase, and they could easily alternate.   Your typical Trumpkin would drive people like Hicks and Carlin up the fucking walls.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    But they're not planning on leaving.  They just acknowledge that under ordinary rules and operations, they'd have to leave.

    SOLUTION: fuck normal rules.  That's why they're going all-in on voter disenfranchisement, blocking any meaningful efforts to stop election interference, etc.  They intend to stay forever.  They would be perfectly happy with the old-school Soviet style elections: "The beloved Dear Leader of the Party, a Leader greater than Jesus Christ and Lincoln combined, Donald Trump Jr., has been propelled to victory by a margin of 98%-2%, reflecting the great love the people have for their One True Leader, who has Made America Great Forever."

    Except they aren't acting like it.  Trump is not acting like it - FFS, he's being triggered by teenage girls on twitter, and he's cranking out tweets and retweets every 5 minutes or so for hours on end.

    Trump is not acting like an alpha male who is sure he will be sitting in the Oval Office 13 months from now.

    Hell, at times, he's acting like he's not even sure Turtle and Co. are going to bail his ass out.

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  5. 2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    The really big problem here is not that they're this crooked -- it's that they're this open and brazen.  What that tells you is that they no longer fear any consequences, the rule of law, etc.

    Or they are on their way out of power, and have decided to loot everything they can on the way out the door.    That means not just taking cash out of the register, but taking the register itself.  And the door they are leaving through. And everything else that they can grab.  
     

    As several of us have said, these people are not acting like a party that thinks it will have power after the next election cycle or two.  These are people who have decided to write off the Millenials and Gen-Xers.   That means they are seeing polling data they don’t like, seeing demographics trends they don’t like, or they know that when everything is exposed, they are finished for a long time to come.   Or a combination of those three.    Dozens of Republicans aren’t retiring from Congress for shits and giggles.  

  6. 45 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    When the Senate acquits, we will then live in a dictatorship full stop. 

    If you believe that, then we are already in a dictatorship.     And yet, we aren’t.  Trump can’t silence his critics.   Devin is still suing a fucking fake cow.  Trump is still shitting his Depends on Twitter.   

  7. 5 hours ago, Serak The Preparer said:

    "On Friday, four Republican members of Congress — Reps. Mark Meadows, Jim Banks, Vicky Hartzler, and Brian Babin — penned a letter to Attorney General William Barr over their “concern for the rule of law as well as the welfare of our people.” The representatives asked Barr to “declare the prosecution of obscene pornography a criminal justice priority” worthy of the full power of the federal government."

    I do not believe any of them will be caught looking at heterosexual porn.

    And of course there is a Texan in that group.

    And of course, he's from East Texas.

  8. 1 hour ago, SmokeyTheBear said:

    When you run dirty money through lobbyists, and know you risk jail time without Trump and Bill Barr to protect you, you kind of do everything you can to protect yourself. Country be damned.

    Fixed.  If Trump didn't have Barr running point, who knows where things would be at this point.

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  9. 1 hour ago, Irwin F Fletcher said:

    Chapter 6 is another fantastic episode. Really like how they introduce new characters in each chapter, killing off some and leaving others to come back for future chapters

    And they aren't no-names - Bill Burr, Mark Boone Jr., Clancy Brown aka Kurgan, the woman who played Nymphadora Tonks in Harry Potter.  The director directed the second episode, and he co-wrote this episode with one of the Thor Ragnarok writers.  There's a Gary Cooper western, Vera Cruz, that some are comparing this to.

    Oh, and one of the IT guys literally became a robot.

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  10. 15 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

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    12 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Collins having a temper tantrum and is stuck on the words ‘bush league.’ 

     

    2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    This morning's episode of "Manufactured Outrage:  The Doug Collins Story" should be entertaining.


    Reminder: Doug Collins is still a chaplain in the Air Force Reserve.  A lieutenant colonel at that.   Because he’s acting exactly like a chaplain should.   

  11. 12 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Maybe the ones who are uncertain of their 2020 outcomes, but McConnell told Hannity today that the Senate would be taking its cues from the WH lawyers. (Paraphrased but yes, you read that correctly). That doesn’t sound like politicians who are planning on leaving power ever. 

    Trump and Turtle  can’t stop Roberts from swearing somebody else in, come January of 2021.   Turtle says and does things to please Trump, or more importantly his base, but the moment Trump is an actual anchor on the Senate, he better hope there’s not an impeachment vote coming up. 

  12. 10 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    He won't show up if he thinks there's a chance he'll get punched in the nose. He's a coward. He'll show up for Warren. He won't show up for Biden. 

     

    2 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    If anything in this world, Trump does to play the victim.  He won't do these because they're "unfair."  The new talking points from the Republicans will be how the Debate Commission is biased.  They'll also start seriously mentioning the third term thing.  Both will become normalized and the Fox News viewers will buy right in.

    1. He’s extremely sensitive about being seen as a draft-dodger as well as not being very macho (he passed it down to his sons - look at their dumbass macho photo shoots and the like).  To the point that he’d like to give himself medals.   Everybody but Fox News would call him a coward for skipping the debates.  He cares a lot about what others think of him.   He associates himself with people that he thinks are tough (Putin, the military, etc,). 
       
    2. He truly believes he’s the smartest guy in the room.  His handlers can tell him that his opponent and the moderators are going to try and trip him up, and he will get pissed because he knows he’s smarter than the moderators or his opponent.   There is nothing worse to him than somebody around him telling him that a moderator or Warren or whoever will get the better of him.  
       
    3. He’s desperate to win and stay out of the clutches of various state AGs.  He probably thinks his debates vs Hillary helped him.  He’s not going to give up the chance to be seen by everybody, and he probably believes debates can help him.  

    Keep in mind that he thinks he does a better job at talking to the media than having WH briefings.  

  13. 1 hour ago, TexEx15 said:

     

     

    1 hour ago, mdmost said:

    That’s fine. The Dem candidate gets 2 hours of taking questions and attacking Trump’s record and positions.

    On the one hand, Trump does not want to have to defend a lot of the shit he’s done - and unless it’s on Fox News, he won’t have control of the questions.  On the other hand, Trump would not want to give up the free publicity/public spectacle.   It would drive him nuts the moment he was labeled a coward, particularly if it’s Warren he would be facing.   It would not be a good look for him if he is scared of a woman.  

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