A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
Arizona GOP secretary of state nominee Mark Finchem, an election-denying Oath Keeper who was outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, told Time magazine that as secretary of state, he would certify a Biden victory in 2024 “if there’s no fraud” – but “I think you’re proposing something that, quite frankly, is a fantasy.”
first and just another normal day
Sports world reacts to insane Donald Trump golf story (msn.com)
According to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, Trump has a “rotating cast of aides” that follow him on the golf course and read him compliments from Twitter or the rest of the Internet as “positive reinforcement” while he’s golfing.
As Trump has been out of office over the last 20 mos,a rotating cast of aides has been tasked with following him around the golf course at the club he's at and giving him positive reinforcement from Twitter and wherever else they find it on the web, per ppl told of the practice.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 20, 2022
“* House Republican leaders are whipping against the legislation, calling it “Democrats’ latest attempt at a federal takeover of elections in order to stack the electoral deck in their favor” (notably the same complaint they had about Democrats’ voting rights bill).”
Because only WE (Repugs) can stack the electoral deck. Any attempt to counter our good stacking is bad stacking and an affront to stacking itself… Wait.
Voter suppression is government control.
An elderly Russian-speaking woman was filling water bottles in a newly liberated eastern Ukrainian town as an interviewer talked to her. She kept referring to Putin as Putler, so the reporter asked her what that meant. She responded that it combined little Putin with Hitler. Putler! I love it! (But not him!)
…when she broke down and admitted to giving massages to Alan Dershowitz and confided he did NOT keep his underpants on.
It’s no wonder he’s embracing Q.
You’rE not FIRst! I thOUGHT you migHT be deaD untiL 1 MinutE ago…
Lost my edge man, ebb and flow. 
During a Wednesday morning CNN interview, reporters Rachael Bade and Karoun Demirjian discussed sections of their new book – titled "Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress’s Botched Impeachments of Donald Chump" – that dealt with McConnell’s evolving position on whether Chump should be convicted and then barred from ever again running for federal office.
“There was a narrative that the republicans would never convict Chump… but our reporting is that [McConnell] was very close after January 6th,” Bade explained. “He was furious with Chump, came back to his office and saw the damage to the Capitol, and told his aides that ‘We all knew Chump was crazy, I’m never going to speak to him again.’”
However, Bade revealed that McConnell’s plan to boot Chump out of American politics was quickly thwarted after he was “sandbagged by his own members.”
“He thought there would be enough Republicans to convict Chump but then they coalesced about this argument that you can’t impeach a former president,” she said. “And McConnell debated with his counsel, ‘Why would framers put that in the constitution if they want to limit it to an office holder?’ And then, ultimately, he was forced into taking a position.”
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Stunning, innit, Rs are fine blowing sunshine up their own asses that a former president can’t be held accountable for ransacking and over-running our seat of govt, and attempted overthrow of our republic…but should be allowed to hold all the classified docs he manages to steal as he leaves office after the aforementioned coup.
ETA: I meant that to mean, aw shucks it’s too bad we can’t Impeach him because he just scurried away in time and gol-durn it, we can’t hold him responsible. But now, they feel he has certain rights that nobody else in all of history is entitled to…stealing docs and the rights to keep them.
A super PAC aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has canceled nearly $10 million it had reserved for television ads in Arizona, an official with the group said Tuesday, pulling out of a battleground state where Republican challenger Blake Masters trails Sen. Mark Kelly (D) in the polls
Now, Kelly needs to do a full-court press, linking the abandoned Masters to TFG. He doesn’t have to be strident about it. Just the facts, ma’am.
Same with Barnes in Wisconsin and all the others where the GQP is on the ropes.
How do I get in on contracts where I can promise $10 mil in payments and then rescind my offer later? I know these companies just have money coming out of their ears during election cycles, but I wouldn’t think they are so fat and lazy that they don’t care when someone signs on the dotted line for $10 mil and then pulls out.
“We have every belief in our country-destroyer candidate and pledge $10 mil to help him disenfranchise every man, woman, and child in his state and turn the whole place into rotting mush. Oh, never mind. We lost confidence in his ability to raze the great state of AZ into formless rubble.”
TrUMp GEts No JUstice FroM JUdges NOT apPOinted by TruMP. LibTArd TruMP derangEment sYndroMe ConsPiracY!!!1!one!!!1!!!
“Finchem argued that Biden’s 2020 victory in Arizona “strains credibility” because he apparently “can’t find anyone who will admit” they voted for him.”
So, angry fascist dickhead is apparently now “hunting down” Biden voters? And if he ever asked anyone, they refused to answer him honestly or simply walked away. That’s his fucking proof? Then again, you’re dealing with religious dumbasses who believe the rising sun is prima facie evidence of their giant fucking sky daddy.
Dear Hubby was totally shocked this morning when he heard about this story:
Feds charge 47 in largest alleged COVID-aid scheme to date (nypost.com)
His money quote was ‘I guess this means we aren’t Minnesota nice anymore’. He really was disturbed by this, having grown up in the State. It’s just not what he’s come to expect.
That Manchin expresses surprise that Republicans oppose the things they supported one week ago should come as no surprise to any sentient being. What is a surprise is that Manchin labors under the belief that Republicans act in good faith. I wonder how many scam emails he clicks “in good faith” each week.
Republicans don’t care about government control under a republican president. And yet Trump used more Acting Cabinet members than anyone.
