By Karen
By dismissing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish to wait until after the election to replace her, Trump, Moscow Mitch, and Losing Lindsey pissed on her casket as it sat on the Supreme Court steps.
And their pick, Amy Coney Barrett, had no problem stepping over Justice Ginsburg’s body before was even in the ground.
I only caught a bit of Barrett’s acceptance speech. So young, so cute, all those children, such family values.
But she clerked for Antonin Scalia, has only three years of judicial experience, and Trump likes her. That’s enough for me to conclude she’s an unqualified, reactionary dip-shit (female Kavanaugh, if you will) who would set the country back 150 years.
Her confirmation seems sure, and Trump will gloat over “owning” one-third of SCOTUS. I hope every dickless Republican who enables this rots in hell for eternity.
Now that I got that off my chest, let’s turn to James Comey. Last night he got another 15 minutes of fame being played by Jeff Daniels in the Showtime two-part series, The Comey Rule. Part 2 is tonight…
Last night was Comey agonizing over whether to go public about the investigations into Hillary’s emails — there were two, and neither produced a shred of evidence that her private server ever had negative repercussions on national security — to this day.
Meanwhile, Comey learned Trump’s cronies had gazillion contacts with Russians and opened an investigation into that before the election — but kept it secret.
Jeff Daniels has been making the interview rounds and saying Comey was “between a rock and a hard place” with Hillary. True. But he could have leveled the playing field A LOT by alerting voters to Trump’s Russian ties.
Comey, by treating Trump the mobster like he was a fellow Boy Scout and they both lived by an ironclad code of honor (as did Robert Mueller), Comey fucked the country, but good.
In turn, Comey got himself fucked by being fired on TV. Handing Trump the White House wasn’t enough to fill Trump’s bottomless pit of need.
And NOW The New York Times finally got its mitts on Trump’s tax returns. It’s just as you’d expect.
- Trump claims many, many, many bogus expenses.
- Trump’s businesses are mostly in the red.
- Trump has paid few taxes or none at all for decades.
- While in the White House, he’s made millions from foreign governments and others patronizing his businesses to get favors from the U.S. government.
- He earns millions by forcing taxpayers to pay (at inflated rates) for his hundreds of visits to his own properties.
- He’s only rich on paper; he lives like a leech.
- He’s got huge debts coming due, and he can only hold off creditors by continuing to grift from the White House; otherwise, he’s toast.
Tomorrow, Trump debates Joe Biden. On Twitter, Trump’s been demanding Biden take a drug test, which can only mean Trump is pumped to the gills. We just don’t know whether he’ll snort Adderall and bounce off the walls, or if his doctors will sedate him into a semi-coma. We’ve been seeing more of that lately.
Either way, the bar is quite low for Biden. All he has to do is let Trump babble nonsense, respond in complete sentences, and laugh off Trump’s infantile taunts and he’ll look more presidential.
With each passing day that Republicans cling to a sinking Trump, stealing every advantage they can, while they can, they’re creating for themselves an even greater backlash at the polls as public disgust reaches a crescendo.
BONUS: The Washington Post named this monologue by comedian John Mulaney, “There’s a Horse in the Hospital,” one of the 10 best Trump take-downs…
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Great post, Karen, as usual. I hope you’re right about how Biden should handle Trump. Sounds good, but who knows what ridiculous things Trump is going to trot out? This whole thing makes my head hurt. Anyway, enjoying your posts and thank you for all of your hard work in keeping up with the insanity that has
become 2020!!
Mary, you’re welcome. The biggest pitfall Biden needs to sidestep with Trump is trying to respond to whatever nonsense Trump spouts, rather than just giving it a shrug and laughing it off. Otherwise, Trump takes control of the whole debate by blabbering one absurdity after another and has Biden chasing every squirrel.
The bonus to that is that Trump hates being mocked more than anything, and it will drive him to behave even crazier (or even more epic, walk out because he “choked like a dog”). With any luck (and if he snorted Adderall), Trump will go totally berserk and make sweaty Tricky Dicky Nixon in the 1960 debate against Kennedy look like he was a cool cat.
Just yesterday, when Trump was again demanding that Biden take a drug test, the Biden campaign responded EXACTLY as they needed to:
“Vice President Biden intends to deliver his debate answers in words. If the president thinks his best case is made in urine he can have at it,” said Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s deputy campaign manager. “We’d expect nothing less from Donald Trump, who pissed away the chance to protect the lives of 200K Americans when he didn’t make a plan to stop COVID-19.”
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/biden-campaign-responds-trumps-drug-180906041.html
If Biden can pull off comebacks like that, he’s the winner hands-down.
First… I simply can’t understand that Trump can replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Amy Coney Barrett when Obama wasn’t allowed to choose years ago! What’s the difference this time?
I wish I could see the debate tonight, but it’s on at 2:30 am my time, so I will probably be fast asleep. Hopefully I can see it tomorrow. I really hope Biden will sleep well before the debate, and that he will give a few examples of Trump’s 20.000 lies, and also that Trump will have to answer some questions about his tax fraud. Btw, the woman who were moderating the debate years ago mentioned fact-checking during the debate – that would be very appropiate! I hear that someone from Faux News will be asking the questions – does it really have to them? Why not one of the decent public channels, like MSNBC?
One of our commentators in the US talked to some people in the street, they said: Biden is not the perfect president, but I will vote for him to get Trump out of the WH!
Randi, the Fox person hosting the debates is Chris Wallace. He’s considered the most fair and honest person at Fox, relatively speaking. He actually used to be a reputable mainstream journalist. When he recently did an interview with Trump, he called him out some of his bullshit. So, he’s the best of the worst, as far as Fox goes. Trump probably insisted on Fox hosting the first debate because he knows CNN and MSNBC moderators wouldn’t fawn over him. But I don’t think Wallace will, either.
I think Trump’s lie count is getting closer to 30,000 now. If his mouth is moving, a lie is coming out. He’s twisted himself into such a knot of deception about EVERYTHING, personal and his job performance, he’s completely lost his grip on reality and there’s no telling what he’ll say trying to cover his ass. Most of the time it’s pure gibberish that makes no sense.
I don’t think they’ll fact-check Trump on EVERY lie during the debate, only the whoppers. Trump only lies and insults because he never bothers to learn an facts (and they say he’s doing no preparation for the debate), the debate would come to a standstill if they stopped him on everything. But Biden could certainly throw some of Trump’s lies back in his face and make him look ridiculous. There’s no hiding 207,000 dead bodies, for example.
On the Supreme Court, Republican senators are stealing a Supreme Court for the second time. (The first one they stole went to Neil Gorsuch instead of Obama’s pick, Merrick Garland). When that first vacancy came up (I think in February) of Obama’s last year in office, the Republicans said, “Oh, NO, we can’t POSSIBLY confirm a justice in an election year.” The election was still about 9 months away in November. There’s video of every one of those bastards saying, “The American people must have a voice and let the next president decide who gets the SCOTUS job.”
Now it’s an election year again, less than two months before the election, and the SAME Republicans (Graham, McConnell) are saying, in so many words, “Fuck the election. We’ve got the power today. Our Republican president picked someone WE like. We’re going to shove her onto the court BECAUSE WE HAVE THE VOTES RIGHT NOW.”
So, the laws haven’t changed. It’s just Republicans – again – doing every rotten thing they can to grab as much power as they can while they have a majority. I hope they lose that majority in the Senate in November by many seats. If Democrats take back the White House and the Senate (they already have the House), McConnell loses his power to call the shots – if he doesn’t lose his own reelection. But right now polls show that people in Kentucky where he comes from are as backward and stupid as ever and will reelect him.
Biden ISN’T the perfect president simply because he’s too old. But he’s been around a long time, everybody knows him, they know he won’t do anything crazy, so he’s a much safer bet than Trump on all levels. Biden will probably serve only one term, them step aside so Kamala Harris can run in 2024.
Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on the debate. What a trainwreck. I don’t quite understand why Wallace couldn’t (or wouldn’t?) turn off the mic when the tangerine doughboy was heckling Biden. Most of my kid’s teachers could have done a better job of shutting him up as they’re so used to dealing with bullies.
I gave up and turned it off halfway through as it put me in such a bad mood. I can’t imagine what you’re feeling having to put up with him.
bassgirl, from everything I’ve seen today, Wallace didn’t have the capability to cut Trump’s mic. But he was a limp noodle. He should have brought Trump up short on flouting the rules, instead of pleading with him to be good. That only egged Trump on because he felt like he was winning and loved watching Wallace squirm.
I did watch the whole thing and it will be used as the first confirmed evidence of Trump’s drug addiction and dementia, whenever those diagnoses are made public, unless he tops it by running screaming and naked down Pennsylvania Avenue when he finds out he lost the election. He made an epic fool of himself. I really expected him to whip out his dick and challenge Biden to compare.
I’ll be posting about it tomorrow.