Amid President Trump’s ongoing temper tantrum as he refuses to concede to President-elect Joe Biden, a few of his international allies have begun coming out of the woodwork to congratulate Biden after news outlets projected the former VP won the presidential election.
Who the fuck cares what Boris and Bibi think. Both of them are ass wipes like Rump, only foreign.
Congratulations JoeBiden and KamalaHarris on your lection-eay ictory-vay.
– Bibi, International Profile-In-Courage
Trump is a geriatric, distended warthog in the last stages of death from the bloat.
I’m waiting for Gurbangouli Berdimohamidow and Nursultan Nazarbayev to weigh in before I make up my mind. /s
I am waiting for Vlad Putin to “weigh in” but my guess is Vlad is still the man behind the curtain filing all those stupid lawsuits and telling Bill Barr and pompous Pompeo what to do.
I love that Johnson used one of Biden’s campaign slogans to describe the work the US and GB will be doing - “building back better.” That was a purposeful twist of the knife in Trump’s backfat.
The Official Post-Election Photo
not really, I think. I don’t think Johnson ceared too much about Trump - one way, or another. Yes, certain (supposed) ideological agreements, but I dont think Johnson is as reality challanged as GOP. I don’t think he had any false assumption that Trump would have been an actual friend of him and his goverment, while Biden presumably would prefer a labour goverment but tried to find common ground and mutual advanrage who ever is in Downing street 10.
And not being “reality challanged” means understanding who won the election and going through the usual motions
Bibi knows that the bogus one sided peace agreement that he and Kushner put together will be dropped by the Biden administration. Also Biden will restore diplomatic relations with the Palestinians and restart aid.
Johnson understands that his trade agreement with the US is not going anywhere as long as he tries to renege on the Northern Ireland provision in his Brexit deal with the EU.
Both are not going to let Trump’s nonsense get in the way.
Can we stop putting this in terms favorable to Trump, please? This has nothing to do with “denial.” It is an active attempt to steal an election AND, failing that, at the very least to to continue the work of breaking down American society into a divided poised-for-violence mess in which there is and can be no social contract whatsoever anymore, such that the GOP can continue abusing whatever power it has while blocking any and all attempts to exercise power by the rest of the country. This has nothing to do with them not believing the election results in the way their complete fucking imbecile KKKult believes that. The only disbelief Trump is suffering from is that his attempts to rig the election through DeJoy and funneling everyone to rigged voting machines somehow wasn’t quite enough.
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
–Nazi leader Hermann Goering, interviewed by Gustave Gilbert during the Easter recess of the Nuremberg trials, 18 April 1946, quoted in Gilbert’s book Nuremberg Diary
The leaders congratulating Biden are like acid in Trumps veins. It is eating away at him from the inside out. Trumps rein is almost over and the world knows it. He is being humiliated, not for losing but for refusing to act like a sane adult in defeat.
There are so many people in de nile that one could walk across without getting one’s shoes wet.
+1000. Anyone who believes this is about Trump’s ego or denial is getting played by the GOP machine, again. Again! How many more decades do we want to play this fucking game? Honestly, we probably don’t even have a decade left before its too late. We’re at the tail end of a slow-roll coup. I guess the only silver lining - assuming we let them get away with it - is that their children are going to die just like ours in the soon-to-arrive environmental flaming shit storm.
I just learned that shortly after Esper was removed as Secretary of Defence, the Under-Secretary of Defence for Policy, James Anderson, resigned. Retired Army Brigadier General Anthony Tata (a frequent Faux Snooze guest and Obama critic) appears to be taking over the role. This is yet another end-around the Senate confirmation process, since Tata will be “Acting”. Apparently Anderson wasn’t getting along with the White House personnel office and Tata.
Heck, I’ll just be thrilled to have foreign government officials not laugh at our diplomats going forward. I look forward to not cringing every time a US official said or did something vis a vis foreign countries. I look forward to Trump not embarrassing as at international meetings. And I look forward to Ivanka no longer posing as some sort of expert at Davos and foreign capitols around the world.
Two can play that game. Let McConnell refuse to confirm Joe’s appointees and watch Joe pull this little ditty out and use it against them.
Boris Johnson is in deep kimchi, he cannot over kiss Biden ass , the EU have him over the barrel, if he doesn’t have US support he is totally screwed.
My understanding is that the Senate’s role per the Constitution is to “advise and consent”, not “dictate” to the President or “overrule” as they see fit.
If words mean anything, and I think the framers chose their words carefully, then Mitch is way out of bounds here. “Advising” does not allow the Senate to make preemptive demands, and hopefully Biden will make that clear to Mitch.
hat tip to someone on Daily Kos who made a similar point.