Michael Flynn’s real time in the barrel goes back to the Mueller investigation with whatever Russian involvements Flynn had, as well as a variety of other deals like the Russian/Saudi nuclear “Marshall Plan” project, that will not relate to the lies to the FBI. The latter had Kushner and even Bannon involved. It’s not going to be about…
Category: 2016
GOTV, maybe we can worry less on Wednesday
As in 2016 there are key counties that will lead to victories. The NY Times identifies 20 of them, even if there could be surprises in the final counting. The weird calculations include the multiple visits in 2016 and 2020 to Macomb county, Michigan by Trump and the insistence on thinking that superspreader rallies are the…
Fortunately, Trump might not ever appear “ahead” on Tuesday night, because hoaxes and fake news
Trump’s hoaxes and fake news have become so normalized as iterated false claims, that we cannot now admit his victory is anything other than horseshoes and hand grenades. He simply won’t have a 2000 election result even if he can’t get a 2004 election result. At present count there will be 10,000 lawyers employed to address any challenges which should not…
Congressional Fudds and Chuds: Axios finds all the Trump toadies
Axios gives us a map of Trumpian sycophancy with the consistent “always Trumpers” in Congress as Trump goes back on the road to more super-spreader events in swing states. Tonight’s Trump remarks: Andrew Feinberg @AndrewFeinberg INBOX: @TeamTrump has done something unusual for them. They've released excerpts of @realDonaldTrump's prepared remarks for this evening's rally. We…
'Every species of boodle corrupt politics known in any campaign' now virtual front-porch campaigns
The Trump campaign goes virtual and now may attempt a national address to get more free media even after spreading the Trump virus at a fundraiser Thursday. Contact tracing may go back to the Amy Coney Barrett SCOTUS nominee announcement as the super-spreader event, even as Hope Hicks specifically has been identified. Fox News floated the idea…
Trump's Fountainhead: his debates are about post-election, where lies don't compound like interest
Other than delusions of victory, Trump is trailing and needs to win the debates. Yet Trump, as with his original 2016 plan, remains focused on surviving past inauguration day short of an indictment. Trump is desperate for a post-election deal that will cover his massive billion-dollar debts which he may cover with counter-intelligence information for the…
“They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money.” Trump's a heroic libertarian tax evader.
“Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.” Trump’s betrayal has come from a number of sources, and he’s going to spend more than a bit of time trying to get revenge on what he called ‘fake news’ today. More interesting will be when someone somewhere picks up the tab for his tax bill…
US lawyers do not dispute that Assange was offered a POTUS pardon
The Trump Administration does not dispute that Dana Rohrabacher and Charles Johnson offered Assange a pardon from Trump if he would say Russia had nothing to do with the DNC Wikileaks. Assange was offered presidential pardon to help 'resolve' Russia's role in the DNC hack and cover up links to Russia's involvement, court told….
getting ahead of ourselves, but Biden's transition team doesn't seem quite as indictable as Trump's
The real story breaking is the 2012 performance piece Trump created to “fire” an actor playing PBO. But the real transition will be leaving Donald’s house of Klan kayfabe in 2021. Ten years earlier Trump couldn’t get over being humiliated by PBO at the 2011 WHCA dinner and still can’t get past the idea that PBO was…
Maureen Dowd is simply the Maggie Haberman of Chanel Rions.
Reminiscent of the Londo Cotton “send US troops” fiasco, the NY Times editorial folks need some staffing changes like the USPS. A vendetta is not a sports utility vehicle, MoDo really hates the Clintons – ya think? Maureen Dowd managed to forget about Clinton/Kaine AND McCain/Palin. “Correction: Aug. 8, 2020 An earlier version of this column incorrectly…
Russia, Facebook, and Trump: Facebook still eased fact-checking rules for conservative pages
So much for having things both ways. Disinformation flooding continues. x “Can Trump place Facebook ads that feature Nazi symbols? Yes… Can he spread lies about mail-in fraud? Yes. Can he threaten #BlackLivesMatter protesters with violence? Yes. Will be he be able to use Facebook to dispute the election? Watch this space…”https://t.co/WaxeEEUYqC— Adam Rifkin 🐼 (@ifindkarma)…
U.S. GDP posts biggest ever slump in second quarter near 33% plunge as Trump jabbers election delay
Pay no attention to another Trump attempt to violate the Constitution like a sex slave. The #TrumpVirus begat a #TrumpSlump. x It worked. Trump’s nonsense talk about delaying the election dominated the very few reporter questions Trump allowed at his briefing. That was exactly what Trump wanted. Nothing about the worst collapse of GNP in…
Denial Don talks about a COVID “99% survival rate” as RWNJs worry about burning flags at Gettysburg
The problem of Trumpian logic and math is that epidemiology has too many syllables. A “99% US survival rate” for Trump is the rhetorical acceptability of a million deaths. The weeks have become even more absurd as the election approaches. That 99% meme accompanies attempts on Twitter to convince people that masks are a health risk, much…
“The 2016 campaign all over again, …the Muslim ban and the wall, just add Confederate statues”
The real question is whether Republicans are really the “unnerved who have long enabled him but now fear losing power and forever associating their party with his racial animus.” Leaning on a culture war requires the power of a reactionary populism that can keep intimidating and oppressing people on the basis of race, class, and gender…
Trump: “These aren't my voters”, this is not my beautiful border, this is not my beautiful COVID-19
The latest Trumpian trope could be that the second COVID wave is Mexicans! The latest WH trial balloon is that COVID-19’s second wave is actually coming over the border, because … NAFTA, or something, something. Wait for it to appear in his Tulsa speech. itsgoingdown.org/… It’s another round of caravan-scaring, rather than the going to Trump…
America's slide to authoritarianism continues with inviting Russia to the G-7
Month of disruption are ahead. and Putin possibly egging on Trump in the phone call on the same day as the St John’s photo-op does not bode well for life in the Drumpfbunker as November approaches. If the G-7 summit is held in the U.S. in September, and Russia is invited as a nonmember, prepare…
Bernie endorsed Biden, get over it, regardless of which side you were on
David Atkins attacks a “marxist” strawman in a Washington Monthly article, because moderates need to rationalize their reactionary acts. The after-action reports for 2020 should instead address the need to reconcile party unity even as it demonizes their respective biases. For example, “running against the Democratic party” was only a trope for those trying to defeat Sanders, especially in…
“no more 2016s” counter-revolution must not lapse into reactionary thinking, even if it has
Trump represents a vestigial Reagan revolution, if not a fascist revolt beyond St. Ronnie, moving the media frame closer to autocratic dictator now ready to manipulate a pandemic into a looming recession. It is time to end Trump’s reign of terror even if the standard bearer might not resemble the necessary structural changes that the nation…
#BlueNoMatterWho needs a 2008 GOTV turnout
The question is whether the Senate can be flipped, and it depends on the POTUS candidate while holding the House. Turn-out must be by proportion more than in 2016 since the Electoral College requires certain swing states to be won by much larger margins in 2020. Basically, the tipping point for Senate control shifts from North…
if Susan Sarandon is not the James Woods of the left, does that honor go to Dick van Dyke
The year-round Silly Season continues and apparently there is a primary insurgency against Nancy Pelosi, as if we could have imagined Steny Hoyer holding Trump’s tiny feet to the impeachment fire. Then there’s celebrity endorsers. Actress and activist Susan Sarandon hit back at 2020 Democrat Pete Buttigieg for claiming that front-runner Bernie Sanders could undermine…
