Originally published at: What Trump II Might Actually Look Like In The Real World
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Trump’s Slow-Burn Authoritarianism An important piece out this morning from my former colleague Greg Sargent that grapples with one realistic and less overtly authoritarian scenario for a second Trump presidency: A second Trump presidency could…
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Fr!!$t
And the loser again can’t admit when he loses:
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Second!
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“Arby’s in your pants?” I fear I’m at a disadvantage. Christamitey, these people are so bizarre!
Loomer has been traveling with Trump of late and appears to have displaced MTG as his Main MAGA Maven, assuming he thought anything of her sycophancy to begin with.
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I think the Alberto Gonzalez endorsement may garner Kamala one vote, Alberto’s, and that’s if he’s telling the truth.
How many of tsf’s voters even know or remember or care who Alberto is?
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Polecat fight?
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MTG looking for a job or hookup at her local comedy club?
MAGA is “kind, loving, and welcoming…”?
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They should fire everybody at ABC Fake News, whose two lightweight “anchors” have brought disgrace onto the company!
Voters will fire everyone involved with the Trump/Vance ticket, whose two lightweight “candidates” are festering tumors on the sphincter that is the Republican Party.
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The article is good, a little unnerving and certain to be disagreed with, especially the bit about Cornell West and Jill Stein.
Efforts to restore democracy to the United States, a troubled, oil-rich former British colony with a history of political violence, may have suffered a serious setback this week after yet another chaotic presidential debate, some Americanists say.
Held in the relatively stable northeastern state of Pennsylvania on the eve of the 23rd anniversary of the country’s worst terrorist attack, the debate was a chance to showcase the democratic progress the country had made since the violent, shambolic elections and attempted coup nearly four years ago.
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Kilkenny cats, I’d say, if it weren’t for the slander on Kilkenny cats.
Here’s hoping they destroy each other.
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Dare I ask? What is “an Arby’s in your pants”? Is she implying MTG is a man? You know, roast beef…
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That tweet featuring the little Nazi won’t load.
Correction: It shows it’s trying to load at the top, and when I clicked on it, there it was. Weird.
Also, I’m not litening to him for almost four minutes. I’ll just assume what he said was typical for him.
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Fredo!! Forget Swift!! This changes everything!!
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“They are state-level officials scouring statutes to prepare for legal tussles over who controls the National Guard.”
Hello! There will be no legal tussles. Trump will do whatever the hell he wants and no court can stop him. That’s what the Supreme Idiots said.
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And it the Senator from TN is so concerned about cats and ducks, for a start should not he propose a ban on duck hunting? Shooting those poor, defenseless ducks out of the sky with explosives? How unfair.
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It must be some kind of MAGA code. I’m flummoxed.
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From the MM:
I’ve been hearing for months about people inside and outside of government who are girding for Trump II because of the roles they’ve played in, variously, investigating Trump, serving in the Biden administration, or simply working for a targeted department or agency. It’s toxic stuff that has real world effects already, even if Trump ultimately loses election. The potential threat itself is corrosive to the civic space.
We’ve already seen examples of what this might look like via, not Trump, but his partisans–I’m thinking of election officials (themselves Republicans) harassed in counties that Trump won in 2020 because those people believe he had not won by enough.
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But will they fire down-ticket positions. Will they get all the way down into the severely gerrymander districts that give us people like Gaetz and EmptyG (kind and loving, my left cheek)?
I don’t see it happening. It can’t happen, because the numbers just won’t add up for a Dem takeover of both houses of Congress. Even a GQP majority of one in either shuts down any possible programs and legislation by the Harris administration. Should TIFBG win, a majority of one will rubber-stamp everything he wants.
This is a real problem here and I don’t know how it gets resolved.
Nice to see that the certification will get the highest level of security at the Capital, but unless all the States behave themselves and certify the vote as it was made, that really guarantees very little.
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OT?
Yesterday on Fox News, JD was asked about Taylor Swift’s endorsement. This is what he had to say (emphasis mine):
"“We admire Taylor Swift’s music, but I don’t think most Americans whether they like her music, are fans of hers or not, are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans.”
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