Originally published at: Jack Smith Plans To Close Up Shop Before Trump’s Inauguration
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. The Collapse Of The Trump Prosecutions Is Almost Complete Special Counsel Jack Smith is planning to wind down his two cases against Donald Trump and step down before Trump’s inauguration in January, the NYT reported.…
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First, yeah, whatevver. There is no God.
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My guess is that they will move to approve the nominations by acclamation so that they can avoid the charge of abdicating their responsibility as a Senate. It won’t quite do what he wants with the demand that he be allowed to use the recess appointment power, but it would give them the pretense of having followed the Constitution. And he’s absolutely right that following the actual process would take a lot of time, as even minimal hearings would bring out massive embarrassing revelations about his nominees.
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Good follow up to today’s morning memo.
Bottom line, we will see if the Senate Republicans are willing to guard their power by whom they decide will lead them.
Ha, Ha! C’mon, it’s Republicans, they will fold like a wet noodle for Donald.
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I asked Mike, a kid patrolling our neighborhood what he was on the lookout for. “I’m watching for an elephant stampede so I can warn everyone to get inside.”
“Oh. Do we experience elephant stampedes very often here in Ohio?”, I asked.
“No one’s ever been killed in an elephant stampede here. You see how will well my patrol works!”
ETA: damned autocorrect.
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doG’s on vacation just now. She left the Western Marketing Manager for the Orion Arm of the Galaxy in charge.
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Buckminister Fuller had an acronym for it: Grunch, The Gross Universe Cash Heist. The Trump Administration will be populated with all sort of goofy distractors, but the main story will be one of diverting resources and wealth flows, probably to very narrow groups. It’s more accurate to speak of an administration-like administration, because there will be little governance. We should be asking about what it will look like after the con is complete and understood, say, a decade from now.
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Yes. I keep remembering a short story by Ray Bradbury, “A Sound of Thunder”.
https://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/ASoundofThunder.pdf
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If people are concerned about national security (lord knows I am now) then surely the first action taken shouldn’t mirror Stalin’s purge of the soviet military brass before the third WW. The reaction I would have expected when this childish idea was announced wasn’t silence and crickets. But here we are.
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It won’t work under Roberts’ Rules, and I doubt it will work under Senate rules. Approval by acclamation fails if there is even a single dissent.
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We ARE entering INTO a glorious TIme for America! QualifieD LEadersHip! MEn who DOn’t thinK they arE chicks! unWoke the Military by TV personalities! EveryboDY gettinG rich from Tariffs! finaLLY solving ALL crime by deporting illegaLs!
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Great story.
I am waiting for that sound of thunder, in whatever form it may take.
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Puppy is a good kitteh, protecting you from the evil news feed.
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The big question of the day (for me) is will Biden shake the hand that Trump used to wank his mic?
I think that the shot from his rally should be played on a continuous loop anytime Trump is around. Imagine being a general who has to salute the Fellater in Chief and than go meet his counterparts in other countries.
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He’s ALL "get the F@ck off Of TwiTTER and FEEd my ass.
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Well yeah. That too.
And he’s got a good point about getting the F@CK off Twitter.
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I would posit that it will be the Senate willfully surrendering their power to pick cabinet positions as they transmogrify into the Merkkkan Duma.
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MM early this AM
A hint of good news
Judge declines to postpone Steve Bannon’s trial on ‘We Build the Wall’ fraud charges
A New York judge on Tuesday declined to immediately postpone Steve Bannon’s Dec. 9 trial on charges that he defrauded supporters of President-elect Donald Trump who donated to an online campaign to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Bannon, who was a White House strategist during Trump’s first term in office, pleaded not guilty in 2022 to charges that he defrauded donors to “We Build the Wall,” an online fundraising effort to raise money for Trump’s signature policy.
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