Biden’s Presidency Faces Early Defining Moment In GA Runoffs | Talking Points Memo

[darrtown]

@tsp

It’s probably never happened before in this country where the nation is depending on Georgia to protect us from Kentucky.

I’m convinced that the vote books in Kentucky were “cooked”. An enterprising young reporter could make a name for themselves should they dive into that morass and make sense of it. There’s a Pulitzer Prize waiting there.

[emiliano4]

That we are talking about Trump in any way other than as a criminal defendant speaks to the propaganda machine and paid minions/slaves who have gotten him, essentially, to this very point in time.

[Ethics_Gradient]

@evan

in a Democratic controlled senate.

I hope you’re right. But two things: He doesn’t have to change to being a Republican, he only has to vote for Moscow Mitch as Majority Leader. And he wouldn’t then be in Democratic-controlled senate, it would be Republican-controlled.

[rucleare]

@pine

The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd - PressThink

That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it.

Chuck Todd should be summarily fired from NBC and all its affiliated news organs. He is a simpering, both-siderist mouth organ for political pap who spends most of his on-air time playing with his fucking pencil and trying to tease reasonableness out of every goddamned outrageous thing a foolish simpleton advances or posits in response to his lame questioning. Now ask me if I like him.

[darrtown]

@pine

“I remain unconvinced that trump has any political future”

The man is broken in front of our very eyes,and there is no getting around that.

Not nearly broken enough for my taste

[misterneutron]

@lizzymom

It’s all about him. It always is.

Bingo. And that’s why I agree with @ClutchCargo’s prediction about Trump’s political future:

@ClutchCargo

I remain unconvinced that trump has any political future after high noon on 1/20/21.

Trump won’t work tirelessly on behalf of Republican candidates. He never has before, other than making a perfunctory endorsement once in a while, while pausing between self-laudatory statements. Why would he start doing so now, unless his dementia takes a beneficent turn, rather than the usual downward spiral? And once he’s out of office, he’s going to have trouble getting air time outside of the wingnut sphere.

[darrtown]

@rucleare

Chuck Todd should be summarily fired from NBC and all its affiliated news organs. He is a simpering, both-siderist mouth organ for political pap who spends most of his on-air time playing with his fucking pencil and trying to tease reasonableness out of every goddamned outrageous thing a foolish simpleton advances or posits in response to his lame questioning. Now ask me if I like him.

OK, tell us what you really want to say…
((ducks and looks for Kevlar and helmet))

[emiliano4]

In my environs you have to take a number for a position in line to rant about Chock Tudd.

(we offer prizes for the best rants )

[pluckyinky]

@zandru

Regardless of the Georgia Senate races, it’s time for all Republicans in the Senate who deplore the end-stage Trump antics and baseless challenges to the election results to put their money where their mouths have gone – and declare themselves Democrats . Take the gavel out of Mitch McConnell’s hands.

I agree with the sentiment, but I really don’t think anyone needs to go this far to get their point across. Becoming a Democrat in this environment might even diminish the point they wish to make. What I’d like to see are Republicans who remain Republicans yet speak out against Trump, vote against him/the GOP, break with the party and tell McConnell to pound sand. I think that might be even more effective in the long run.

@docd

He may realize that even with a rally in Georgia , they may well lose those Senate seats.

The internals might be bad enough that he’s trying to declare fraud in advance. Makes sense.

[darrtown]

@misterneutron

And once he’s out of office, he’s going to have trouble getting air time outside of the wingnut sphere.

Best would be to see donald on a street corner competing with a guy holding a chunk of cardboard that says “homeless” and shouting that Jesus Saves!!!

[lizzymom]

@darrtown

I’m convinced that the vote books in Kentucky were “cooked”. An enterprising young reporter could make a name for themselves should they dive into that morass and make sense of it. There’s a Pulitzer Prize waiting there.

I generally don’t tend to speculate on stuff like this, afraid of getting sucked into some conspiracy theory or other.

But in this case, it’s McConnell, whose popularity is in the toilet, yet somehow re-elected solidly. I realize that there are people who would slit their own throats rather than vote Dem but still, something seems really, really off.

And…it’s McConnell. The master of dirty tricks. I gotta say, I tend to agree with you on this.

[tsp]

Well said!

[emiliano4]

Thanks for that…from these folks…

Chuck Hagel
Arlen Spector
Dick Lugar
Jack Javits
Lowell Weicker
Ed Brooke

[tsp]

@darrtown

@misterneutron

And once he’s out of office, he’s going to have trouble getting air time outside of the wingnut sphere.

Best would be to see donald on a street corner competing with a guy holding a chunk of cardboard that says “homeless” and shouting that Jesus Saves!!!

[misterneutron]

@misterneutron

And once he’s out of office, he’s going to have trouble getting air time outside of the wingnut sphere.

BTW, some would maintain that Trump will always be “good copy” - as long as he’s saying something inflammatory, the MSM will cover it. But I suspect that we’re never going to hear anything from him about his disagreements with the Biden administration on matters of policy. What does Trump know about policy?

No, all we’re ever going to hear from him is how the election was stolen from him. That’s going to get pretty old by about March. Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

[evan]

How would he have any advantage as a Democrat a Republican controlled senate in any way if he could just as easily vote for Schumer as majority leader and be a Democrat in a Democratic controlled senate?

Really, if he wanted to be a Republican, he would have done it already. It certainly would have made his political life a lot easier.

[grack]

@lizzymom

But in this case, it’s McConnell, whose popularity is in the toilet, yet somehow re-elected solidly. I realize that there are people who would slit their own throats rather than vote Dem but still, something seems really, really off.

I remember seeing a lot of vexed comments about how poor of a campaigner McGrath was. So I tend to lean towards Occam’s Razor.

[southerndem]

Well in Kentucky they did vote to take away their healthcare

[darrtown]

@lizzymom

I gotta say, I tend to agree with you on this.

There are districts in KY known to be solidly democrat for multiple elections going back decades and suddenly this time they vote 60% for Mitch yet down ballot it’s democrat? And at least one precinct had more votes than registered voters. Hmmm. The local press has been rather muzzled covering this as well. But there’s this…

Why The Numbers Behind Mitch McConnell's Re-Election Don't Add Up

[jinnj]

Also - there’s going to be a huge … maybe traumatic… transition impact on Trump - mental & physical … he has been spinning in this attention centrifuge …and it is going to stop abruptly
… stuff like that (especially when it is the result of defeat … of being a loser) has a profound mental & physical effect.
And in the knowledge that extensive massive legal efforts are marching on him & his enterprises from all directions … and any one of these could crush him … and many of them are perilously close to flaming up into an inferno.
… and is his marriage in the crapper?
And what is his real health status?