Monday, June 29, 2020
TraitorTrump
The assessment was first reported by The New York Times, then confirmed to The Associated Press by American intelligence officials and two others with knowledge of the matter.
One official said the administration discussed several potential responses, but the White House has yet to authorize any step.
The intelligence officials told the AP that Trump was briefed on the bounty matter earlier this year; Trump denied that, tweeting Sunday neither he nor Vice President Mike Pence had been briefed. Trump tweeted Sunday night he was just told intelligence officials didn’t report the information to him because they didn’t find it credible.
One official said the administration discussed several potential responses, but the White House has yet to authorize any step.
The intelligence officials told the AP that Trump was briefed on the bounty matter earlier this year; Trump denied that, tweeting Sunday neither he nor Vice President Mike Pence had been briefed. Trump tweeted Sunday night he was just told intelligence officials didn’t report the information to him because they didn’t find it credible.
Sunday, June 28, 2020
The Great Trump Death
It's quittin' time here at Ye Old Publocc. I am relying totally on Johns Hopkins for the raw numbers and as of right now there are,
125,803 American who have been Killed by Donald Trump with his Trump Virus. Closing in imminently on 126,000 which we will hit tomorrow, perpahs as we all sleep tonight. No idea how many Trump killed today and will be gingerly in moving to the least untrustworthy site, The New York Times, for that number and the more important seven-day trend line which, I am quite confident will continue on its downward trajectory. The good, and the best, news. But that will not be available until tomorrow.
Good night +'s and -'s and all the ships adrift.
125,803 American who have been Killed by Donald Trump with his Trump Virus. Closing in imminently on 126,000 which we will hit tomorrow, perpahs as we all sleep tonight. No idea how many Trump killed today and will be gingerly in moving to the least untrustworthy site, The New York Times, for that number and the more important seven-day trend line which, I am quite confident will continue on its downward trajectory. The good, and the best, news. But that will not be available until tomorrow.
Good night +'s and -'s and all the ships adrift.
This is Rare
Marty Baron Made The Post Great Again. Now, the News Is Changing.
The ultimate old-school editor is grappling with a moment of cultural reckoning.
A New York Times article on their main domestic opposition over in the District is rare. I read the article, intrigued that WaPo had a single individual who had "made the Post great again." (Oh wait a minute! Is the Times subtly trolling WaPo with that lede? MAGA?) I wrote what I believed the opposite of what ails the Times, management by committee. Call me old-school too, I don't mind, but as I wrote on the Times story that their editor of the Opinion Page had been ousted, the Times seems to me to be adrift. The editorial board is of unmanageable size, the publisher is new and young. There is no Ben Bradlee--or Marty Baron--at the Gray Lady. This article, in the Times, about the Post, chronicles the challenges a 65 year-old has in managing a reporting staff young enough to be his children, some of them not of his skin complexion. Some minority staff have left and that is painful for any executive. But my take from this article is that the buck, whether it's a crisp new Ben Franklin or a phony, stops at Mr. Baron's desk. At the New York Times my impression is before that bill works its way through the confusing, laborious, time-consuming, multi-branched chain of command it has lost part value to erosion of inflation and comes back solipsistic, pastel rather than primary.
The Times is bloated. The Post streamlined. Sure, one man making the decisions, and a 65 year-old Whitey, is going to invite chafe underneath. But Mr. Baron has principles with which he rules and he enforces them against his stars, not just minorities. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh infuriated Bob Woodward with his lying duplicity and Woodward had Kavanaugh dead. He was going to out him as a source. Mr. Baron killed Woodward's explosive story. One of Baron's principles is that you give your word to an anonymous source that you will not reveal his identity in print, you damn well keep your word. The Times writes,
The ultimate old-school editor is grappling with a moment of cultural reckoning.
A New York Times article on their main domestic opposition over in the District is rare. I read the article, intrigued that WaPo had a single individual who had "made the Post great again." (Oh wait a minute! Is the Times subtly trolling WaPo with that lede? MAGA?) I wrote what I believed the opposite of what ails the Times, management by committee. Call me old-school too, I don't mind, but as I wrote on the Times story that their editor of the Opinion Page had been ousted, the Times seems to me to be adrift. The editorial board is of unmanageable size, the publisher is new and young. There is no Ben Bradlee--or Marty Baron--at the Gray Lady. This article, in the Times, about the Post, chronicles the challenges a 65 year-old has in managing a reporting staff young enough to be his children, some of them not of his skin complexion. Some minority staff have left and that is painful for any executive. But my take from this article is that the buck, whether it's a crisp new Ben Franklin or a phony, stops at Mr. Baron's desk. At the New York Times my impression is before that bill works its way through the confusing, laborious, time-consuming, multi-branched chain of command it has lost part value to erosion of inflation and comes back solipsistic, pastel rather than primary.
The Times is bloated. The Post streamlined. Sure, one man making the decisions, and a 65 year-old Whitey, is going to invite chafe underneath. But Mr. Baron has principles with which he rules and he enforces them against his stars, not just minorities. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh infuriated Bob Woodward with his lying duplicity and Woodward had Kavanaugh dead. He was going to out him as a source. Mr. Baron killed Woodward's explosive story. One of Baron's principles is that you give your word to an anonymous source that you will not reveal his identity in print, you damn well keep your word. The Times writes,
And the steadfast adherence to the longstanding rules of newspaper journalism and the defense of the institution, which have defined Mr. Baron’s tenure at The Post, prevailed.
Marty Baron got Bob Woodward to stand down. Yes, it seems apparent Baron could do better; he, like all of us Boomers, are wary of X'ers and Y'ers and this new-fangled social media. Speak with one voice! Here!
“The Post is more than a collection of individuals who wish to express themselves,” Mr. Baron wrote. “The reputation of The Post must prevail over any one individual’s desire for expression.”
That's a tough sell to the younger generations. But. That. Is. The. Way. It. Is. Going. To. Be. At. The Washington. Post--so long as Marty Baron is in charge. He's going to stay through the inauguration of President Biden but then he's leaving. And my take on that is that that's a shame. Do Not go the way of the New York Times. The Washington Post must continue to speak with One Voice. "The Post must prevail over any one individual's desire for expression." Just right. The Times is still searching for that one voice, those immutable principles, and the Times has suffered upheaval and newsroom revolts that make the Post look like one big happy family. The Times needs a Marty Baron, a Ben Bradlee, but don't know that that is what they need. Inspiring article, to me on the culture at WaPo.
Another thing I can't do
Today, on one of my jags that started with a pregnant Kristin Labransdatter I thought of another chick knocked up with child on her wedding day as unmistakably depicted in Van Eyck's spectacular "Arnolfini Wedding;"
put the book down (mistake), googled Arnolfini Wedding (Oh excuse me, "The Arnolfini Portrait"), never get tired of looking at that painting; thought, "That must have been painted around the same time" as the setting for the book (15th c vs 14th c, close enough for government work); thought further, "'Bout the same neck of the woods, too, ain't it?"(Belgium-Sweden/Norway both Northern Europe I'll take it), enlarged the mirror on the wall agayne;
If I had stopped there...Thought of how many mirrors there were in paintings after they were invented, it was the new fad, the go-to prop in painting; googled mirrors in paintings; thought of David Hockney's book and the upside-down thing-a-mijg, ah! the camera obscura, googled Secret Knowledge; "lenses," that was Hockney's term, googled camera lenses in art, got some photographs which shouldn't have surprised me but did; looked at a bunch of them. I then made the executive decision to add "nude" to the search term zoom gone. After looking at a half dozen or dozen, or a dozen hundred, I came upon this.
I had to defocus my eyes, I wasn’t seeing it in the thumbnail. Hit enlarge.
Went: “Are you fucking kidding me,”
The model’s face reflected in, and perfectly framed by, the camera lens that is taking the photo of the two of them in a mirror opposite and taking the photo of the model’s face in the lens and it’s perfectly centered and framed and...”HOW’D THEY DO THAT?!
There are some talented, creative motherfuckers in the world and I ain’t one of ‘em’s all I know I know that’s right.
So that cost me a couple hours. Swine internet. In reality, no. That was a discovery.
Hmm hmm hmm
If I had stopped there...Thought of how many mirrors there were in paintings after they were invented, it was the new fad, the go-to prop in painting; googled mirrors in paintings; thought of David Hockney's book and the upside-down thing-a-mijg, ah! the camera obscura, googled Secret Knowledge; "lenses," that was Hockney's term, googled camera lenses in art, got some photographs which shouldn't have surprised me but did; looked at a bunch of them. I then made the executive decision to add "nude" to the search term zoom gone. After looking at a half dozen or dozen, or a dozen hundred, I came upon this.
And this (never was scared a no nudity), and went there.
I had to defocus my eyes, I wasn’t seeing it in the thumbnail. Hit enlarge.
Went: “Are you fucking kidding me,”
And, “HOW’D THEY DO THAT?!”
There are some talented, creative motherfuckers in the world and I ain’t one of ‘em’s all I know I know that’s right.
So that cost me a couple hours. Swine internet. In reality, no. That was a discovery.
Oh my God-God. Sacha Baron-Cohen infiltrated a 3% rally in Washington state. Dressed as a hillbilly he began singing a country/western style song with vile, racist lyrics. The 3%’ers sang along for a little bit but then caught on and eventually chased him off stage...But he wasn’t done. While the rally organizer was being interviewed afterwards by a sympathetic Fox reporter, Sacha came back in a new disguise and filmed it! First, the song:
😂🤣🤦🏻♂️😭
Then the interview:
And lastly,
"Bounty"
Reasonable minds can differ but in my view that is a harder punch than "It’s a betrayal of the most sacred duty we bear as a nation–protect & equip our troops..." lol
They roll over Trump like a tsunami, wave after wave after wave of attack. It’s all he can do to just keep his head above water—he cannot counterattack. In boxing that is how you defeat a great counter puncher. If you hit your opponent Fast & Furious, Shock & Awe he can only go into a defensive crouch. He cannot counter punch and Trump is the best counter-punching politician of our lifetimes. The Times story came out very late Friday evening. By Sunday morning Lincoln Project is back at him while he's playing golf. That's not much time between rounds. No rest for him! He can ignore or tweet or attempt to just survive but he cannot counter punch.
I wrote in 2016 that Democrats should adopt this tsunami strategy--hound Trump, wherever he goes, you go. Overwhelm him with numbers. I used a photograph of a lion, his back to water's edge, hemmed in by a pack of hyenas, this one nipping at his tail, this one feinting, this one daring to lunge at his throat as the lion turns his head in distraction, pressing, pressing, moving closer and closer... Every day give your most effective surrogates—Liz Warren I particularly had in mind—daily attack points. Every day a different attack from a different person. It would overwhelm any one creature.
And this is what you see today. Trump overwhelmed, dazed and fatigued--"Fatigue makes cowards of us all," Vince Lombardi said. And when you start as a coward...Trump has given up—on COVID-19, on the election.
The Biden campaign has its admirers. One of them is Trump, who has described their strategy of keeping their candidate largely hidden, "beautiful." Pick your adage: run out the clock; don't get in your opponent's way when he's making a fool of himself; if it ain't broke, don't fix it. And by God, Joe Biden is up 9%. Why quibble?
I do think the Biden campaign has been shrewd to keep Biden hidden. in an epidemic he is practicing social distancing and is masked up--that shows he's responsible, a welcome contrast with Trump. The strategy keeps Biden from missteps verbal and physical. It contrasts well. It shows that Biden will not rise to every hooked bait thrown in the water, while Trump is constitutionally incapable of not striking at it. It cedes the sidewalk to Trump to find every goddamn shit puddle to stamp his feet in, and when the sidewalks are dry to squat and take a dump and then step in one of his own making. Which Trump has done with alacrity. I can admire such a strategy and I do, cautiously. I would be more admiring if when Biden does attack he throws his weight behind every punch. Biden did not do that yesterday. I did not admire that strategy yesterday, I was contemptuous of it.
Democratic strategists, a critical mass of the active ones, it seems, believe that the Lincoln Project's ads are all to no effect in moving voters from the fence or from Trump to Biden; that's it's all good and at times amusing theater but that's all. They might be right, I don't think so, "Bounty" has racked up 9.1 million views in half a day, but it might be that no strategy, rope-a-dope or Shock & Awe or anything in between can change the facts on the ground: two symbiotic national crises—a health epidemic and a recession/depression— whose solutions are mutually exclusive, and another, overlapping, completely separate, police brutality/race crisis, both in an election year, both of which the generic president badly mishandled and exacerbated, and that these twin terrors would have sunk Trump or Obama or Abraham Lincoln regardless of opposition strategy. And/or Democratic strategists are just constitutionally unsuited to Attack. We cannot ever know for sure, but a whole lot of somebodies watching those Lincoln Project ads, Trump is overwhelmed, literally and figuratively in over his head, and he has given up. That we know. All of us must in our own way stand vigilant guard over the grave.
Saturday, June 27, 2020
BETRAYAL! Trump's Thin Sheets For the Troops
Hey Lincoln Project, yinz planning on running an ad on the meager 150 thread count cotton sheets Trump provided our boys and girls over Afghanistany way?
"Biden accuses Trump of ‘betrayal’ for ignoring intel that Russia put bounty on heads of American soldiers "-NY Daily News
Jennifer Epstein
@jeneps
Jun 27, 2020
"Donald Trump has continued his embarrassing campaign of deference and debasing himself before Vladimir Putin. He had has this information according to the Times and yet he offered to host Putin in the United States and sought to invite Russia to rejoin the G7"
"Embarrassing"? That the hardest you can punch? A little boy caught peeing outside is embarrassing. So Trump got caught with his dick out?
Jennifer Epstein
@jeneps
Trump's “entire presidency has been a gift to Putin but this is beyond the pale. It’s a betrayal of the most sacred duty we bear as a nation–protect & equip our troops when we go into harm’s way," Biden said. Noted he's a mil dad & said he's "disgusted" on behalf of mil families.
4:07 PM · Jun 27, 2020
"gift": Is that just the kinda guy Trump is? A generous, share-the-wealth type of guy who just goes up and down Fifth Avenue bestowing "gifts" on people?-Or-is Donald Trump a greedy, me-first narcissist who wouldn't give anybody a penny unless he got something in return?
This was no "gift" Mr. Vice President, soon to be Mr President-elect, and Mr President. The same Russian agency, the G.R.U., that stole the 2016 election for Trump is the one that offered bounties for the killing of Americans in Afghanistan. The same Russian agency, the G.R.U. is now helping Trump try to steal the 2020 election from you. Why do you think Trump has ignored the G.R.U. bounties in Afghanistan? It is a DEAL. Russia owns Donald Trump. Trump's only chance of stealing the election from you is to stay in G.R.U.'s good graces and that means ignoring--without so much as a request of Putin to STOP--the G.R.U.'s bounties on American soldiers. Trump is trading American soldiers lives for his own political life. This is a DEAL Mr. Biden and TraitorTrump is practicing "The Art of the Deal."
"Protect & equip": So what was this, like a wardrobe malfunction? That's the "most sacred duty" Trump "betrayed"? Like the helmets weren't thick enough? What are you fucking talking about! The Russians were paying bounties to kill American troops!
@jeneps
Jun 27, 2020
"Donald Trump has continued his embarrassing campaign of deference and debasing himself before Vladimir Putin. He had has this information according to the Times and yet he offered to host Putin in the United States and sought to invite Russia to rejoin the G7"
"Embarrassing"? That the hardest you can punch? A little boy caught peeing outside is embarrassing. So Trump got caught with his dick out?
Jennifer Epstein
@jeneps
Trump's “entire presidency has been a gift to Putin but this is beyond the pale. It’s a betrayal of the most sacred duty we bear as a nation–protect & equip our troops when we go into harm’s way," Biden said. Noted he's a mil dad & said he's "disgusted" on behalf of mil families.
4:07 PM · Jun 27, 2020
"gift": Is that just the kinda guy Trump is? A generous, share-the-wealth type of guy who just goes up and down Fifth Avenue bestowing "gifts" on people?-Or-is Donald Trump a greedy, me-first narcissist who wouldn't give anybody a penny unless he got something in return?
This was no "gift" Mr. Vice President, soon to be Mr President-elect, and Mr President. The same Russian agency, the G.R.U., that stole the 2016 election for Trump is the one that offered bounties for the killing of Americans in Afghanistan. The same Russian agency, the G.R.U. is now helping Trump try to steal the 2020 election from you. Why do you think Trump has ignored the G.R.U. bounties in Afghanistan? It is a DEAL. Russia owns Donald Trump. Trump's only chance of stealing the election from you is to stay in G.R.U.'s good graces and that means ignoring--without so much as a request of Putin to STOP--the G.R.U.'s bounties on American soldiers. Trump is trading American soldiers lives for his own political life. This is a DEAL Mr. Biden and TraitorTrump is practicing "The Art of the Deal."
"Protect & equip": So what was this, like a wardrobe malfunction? That's the "most sacred duty" Trump "betrayed"? Like the helmets weren't thick enough? What are you fucking talking about! The Russians were paying bounties to kill American troops!
"In Tulsa, Trump Campaign Subverted Social Distancing One Sticker at a Time"-Billboard
As BOK Center employees worked to mitigate risk of COVID-19 spread at the President's June 20 rally, his reelection staff set about removing safety warnings.
Hours before President Donald Trump took the stage last Saturday at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for his first rally in the COVID-19 era, arena workers were busy labeling thousands of seats with “Do Not Sit Here Please!” stickers to promote social distancing, part of a new safety protocol at the arena known as VenueShield.
Campaign staff quickly radioed over to an executive at ASM Global and asked the arena to stop labeling the seats. In fact, "they also told us that they didn't want any signs posted saying we should social distance in the venue," says Doug Thornton, executive vp for ASM Global, who oversees nearly 100 arenas across five continents...
The stickers were a mandatory component of VenueShield, ASM continued stickering every other seat when something unexpected happened: “The campaign went through and removed the stickers,” says Thornton.
A video created by a third party and reviewed by Billboard shows Trump staffers methodically walking the aisles of BOK Center and peeling the three-inch square stickers from thousands of chairs ahead of the “Make America Great Again” rally. (Trump’s campaign did not respond to Billboard’s request for comment.)
The sticker episode concluded an anxiety-filled week for BOK Center staff wherein hundreds of Trump campaign workers inside the building inconsistently followed basic safety protocols like wearing masks and social distancing. Several days before the event, ASM asked the campaign to submit a safety plan in writing, but the campaign never fulfilled the request.
While the Trump campaign undermined arena mitigation efforts to protect attendees from the coronavirus, it did take steps to limit its own liability by requiring rally attendees to sign away their rights to sue if they contracted COVID-19.
"We know that eight Trump campaign staff members that were here tested positive for the coronavirus and we know that two of them were intermingling with the people in the arena," said Tulsa Police Department corporal David Crow during a Tulsa Public Facilities Authority meeting Tuesday. "Obviously, we know that that event probably triggered some type of broader infection."
Now much of Trump’s campaign staff, including campaign manager Brad Parscale, is in “quasi-quarantine”...
“In a public health crisis like this we need to make sure we are following the advice of medical experts and we are not doing things for politics, or doing things to impress people or whatever last Saturday’s performance was all about,” Crow said.
...
Meanwhile cases of COVID-19 in Tulsa are rapidly increasing. On Thursday, 438 new cases were reported in the state, a 70% increase over the previous day, which set a record with 259 new cases. Mayor Bynum told the Tulsa World newspaper he is now considering making mask use mandatory in public and temporarily banning all events with more than 250 people...
...
ASM is not finished with Trump -- the Republican National Convention has been moved from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Jacksonville, Florida, where ASM manages all seven city-owned venues including VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena where much of the televised program will take place. A recent poll by the University of North Florida poll showed that 58% of residents oppose holding the convention in Jacksonville.
“We're going to be working with the same Trump campaign staff that we worked with in Tulsa,” Thornton says...
Also:
Hairy Boner, Too
Trump campaign postpones Pence's campaign events in Florida and Arizona
(CNN)
Yesterday, yesterday, Easter Island Statue said,
"The reality is we are in a much better place. We were able to flatten the curve."
Yesterday, the same yesterday, there were a record 45,255 new daily cases. This is what "being "in a much better place" looks like to a statue.
This is what "flattening the curve" looks like when you're a statue:
New Record 9,585 Cases as--"Mike Pence postpones Florida campaign tour as push to reopen US stalls"-The Guardian
The fecal log expelled from the asshole of the Great Banana Republic of America.
It's overchoice isn't it? There's just so much going on, the Trump Epidemic, the election, protests, Trump's serial scandals. It is exhausting and just fries your brain after awhile. It's over. "He's going to be your president 'cause some people don't love me, maybe..." Yeah. President Biden takes over January 20.
#TraitorTrump
The Commander-in-Chief! Bounty killings of American soldiers under the Chief's command! Three months! No Action! Yes, that is TREASON!
Why is this not getting 24/7 365 coverage? Why is it not the top story on every media outlet in the West?! Do you know where it is in Google's news aggregation? ELEVENTH!
Why are there no enraged protests outside the White House? Why are reporters not bombarding the White House with questions, demanding answers? Where is the Biden campaign with an ad? Where is the Lincoln Project? ATTACK! ATTACK!! ATTACK!!!
Why is this not getting 24/7 365 coverage? Why is it not the top story on every media outlet in the West?! Do you know where it is in Google's news aggregation? ELEVENTH!
Why are there no enraged protests outside the White House? Why are reporters not bombarding the White House with questions, demanding answers? Where is the Biden campaign with an ad? Where is the Lincoln Project? ATTACK! ATTACK!! ATTACK!!!
#TraitorTrump
From the Times’ original report: It’s the same goddamned Russian unit that helped Trump in 2016!
The officials briefed on the matter said the government had assessed the operation to be the handiwork of Unit 29155, an arm of Russia’s military intelligence agency, known widely as the G.R.U. The unit is linked to the March 2018 nerve agent poisoning in Salisbury, England, of Sergei Skripal, a former G.R.U. officer who had worked for British intelligence and then defected, and his daughter.
Western intelligence officials say the unit, which has operated for more than a decade, has been charged by the Kremlin with carrying out a campaign to destabilize the West through subversion, sabotage and assassination. In addition to the 2018 poisoning, the unit was behind an attempted coup in Montenegro in 2016 and the poisoning of an arms manufacturer in Bulgaria a year earlier.
American intelligence officials say the G.R.U. was at the center of Moscow’s covert efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. In the months before that election, American officials say, two G.R.U. cyberunits, known as 26165 and 74455, hacked into Democratic Party servers and then used WikiLeaks to publish embarrassing internal communications.
...those efforts were aimed at helping tilt the election in Mr. Trump’s favor...
The officials briefed on the matter said the government had assessed the operation to be the handiwork of Unit 29155, an arm of Russia’s military intelligence agency, known widely as the G.R.U. The unit is linked to the March 2018 nerve agent poisoning in Salisbury, England, of Sergei Skripal, a former G.R.U. officer who had worked for British intelligence and then defected, and his daughter.
Western intelligence officials say the unit, which has operated for more than a decade, has been charged by the Kremlin with carrying out a campaign to destabilize the West through subversion, sabotage and assassination. In addition to the 2018 poisoning, the unit was behind an attempted coup in Montenegro in 2016 and the poisoning of an arms manufacturer in Bulgaria a year earlier.
American intelligence officials say the G.R.U. was at the center of Moscow’s covert efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. In the months before that election, American officials say, two G.R.U. cyberunits, known as 26165 and 74455, hacked into Democratic Party servers and then used WikiLeaks to publish embarrassing internal communications.
...those efforts were aimed at helping tilt the election in Mr. Trump’s favor...
Because Trump is Russia's Bitch. They OWN Him
When Iran killed Americans in the Middle East Trump ordered their general assassinated immediately. FOR THREE MONTHS Trump has taken NO ACTION WHATSOEVER, not even a "diplomatic protest"--HASN'T EVEN ASKED RUSSIA TO STOP, PRETTY PLEASE, STOP.
Friday, June 26, 2020
Huh. Wonder why Trump hasn’t responded.
Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says
The Trump administration has been deliberating for months about what to do about a stunning intelligence assessment.
The United States concluded months ago that the Russian unit, which has been linked to assassination attempts and other covert operations in Europe intended to destabilize the West or take revenge on turncoats, had covertly offered rewards for successful attacks last year.
...
The intelligence finding was briefed to President Trump, and the White House’s National Security Council discussed the problem at an interagency meeting in late March, the officials said. Officials developed a menu of potential options — starting with making a diplomatic complaint to Moscow and a demand that it stop, along with an escalating series of sanctions and other possible responses, but the White House has yet to authorize any step, the officials said.
[“a diplomatic complaint”! “You stop that right NOW!” Hohoho.]
“Every time you call a Democratic consultant he’s on a conference call. The Never Trumpers don’t do conference calls; they’re out there attacking!”-James Carville
...Democratic strategists believe this is a low-water mark for Trump and expect a tightening of the race as the election gets closer.
There you go! That's the difference between Democratic strategists and Never Trump strategists. Democrats are "traumatized" by 2016. They have no confidence. They stand face-to-face staring Optimism in the face and they blink. They fear fear. They're too nice. Cerebral. Cool. Dignified. Now listen to me...Or not, it's up to you, I didn't mean to be giving you orders. Donald Trump is DONE. With a margin of error of live boy/dead girl, Trump is DEAD. He has given up. What you should do is DIG UP HIS BODY AND KILL HIM AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN 'CAUSE HE DIDN'T DIE HARD ENOUGH! You, Democratic strategists, should be smelling rotting flesh in the water and circling it and gnashing at it with a killer's instinct! Instead, you're acting as Resurrectionists tossing him that"low-water mark" life line! "DON'T GIVE UP DONALD! Things can only get better for you. AND WORSE FOR US! We don't think you're really dead, not dead-dead. We won't kill you dead anymore. You just lie there and relax. Would you like some water? One hand or two hands?"
How dare you! Democratic strategists should be chortling, taunting, dancing on the grave, digging Trump up and mutilating his body, playing soccer with his skull. That's what George Conway and the Lincoln Project dudes (and dudettes) are duding. George posted an electoral map showing that based on the latest state polls if the election were held today Biden would win Texas, Mississippi and over 400 EV's.
Why is LP doing that? Oy vey. To use Dem language, "your thoughts become your reality, snowflake." If you don't have the confidence that you can do something you're prolly not going to do it.
There you go! That's the difference between Democratic strategists and Never Trump strategists. Democrats are "traumatized" by 2016. They have no confidence. They stand face-to-face staring Optimism in the face and they blink. They fear fear. They're too nice. Cerebral. Cool. Dignified. Now listen to me...Or not, it's up to you, I didn't mean to be giving you orders. Donald Trump is DONE. With a margin of error of live boy/dead girl, Trump is DEAD. He has given up. What you should do is DIG UP HIS BODY AND KILL HIM AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN 'CAUSE HE DIDN'T DIE HARD ENOUGH! You, Democratic strategists, should be smelling rotting flesh in the water and circling it and gnashing at it with a killer's instinct! Instead, you're acting as Resurrectionists tossing him that"low-water mark" life line! "DON'T GIVE UP DONALD! Things can only get better for you. AND WORSE FOR US! We don't think you're really dead, not dead-dead. We won't kill you dead anymore. You just lie there and relax. Would you like some water? One hand or two hands?"
How dare you! Democratic strategists should be chortling, taunting, dancing on the grave, digging Trump up and mutilating his body, playing soccer with his skull. That's what George Conway and the Lincoln Project dudes (and dudettes) are duding. George posted an electoral map showing that based on the latest state polls if the election were held today Biden would win Texas, Mississippi and over 400 EV's.
Why is LP doing that? Oy vey. To use Dem language, "your thoughts become your reality, snowflake." If you don't have the confidence that you can do something you're prolly not going to do it.
In a different tongue: The body rots from the head down. LP has waged psy op warfare on the Orange Orangutan and they've have taken that motherfucker's soul; they have taken the faith and fight out of the Trumpbags. Both are depressed, demoralized--they have given up. Too bad because We accept no surrender! We shoot prisoners! That's how you handle a bully. Churchill corrected a general who minuted him that he was going to defeat one of Hitler's armies. "I think the word you're looking for is CRUSH!" That should be our attitude. We should be cackling and strutting and further humiliating and hitting that lifeless corpse harder and faster! This isn’t going to be a repeat of 2016. I don’t see a world where Democrats take their foot off the gas. The stakes are just too high. This is not going to be a repeat of 2016, not even close. Biden will win and win handily. But...when exactly have the Dems had the pedal to the metal? They're intent on making this Olympics electioneering by building in a degree of difficulty. When Biden wins...No, when Biden is inaugurated the Democratic strategists will go "That was hard! Ja see that back flip off the step-over-toe hold?"
Acyn Torabi
@Acyn
Carville: You’re right, I’m a big admirer of these Never-Trumpers, these Bulwark people, and these Lincoln Project people
https://twitter.com/i/status/1276363592959275008
“Every time you call a Democratic consultant he’s on a conference call. These guys don’t do conference calls; they’re out there attacking!”😂
@Acyn
Carville: You’re right, I’m a big admirer of these Never-Trumpers, these Bulwark people, and these Lincoln Project people
https://twitter.com/i/status/1276363592959275008
“Every time you call a Democratic consultant he’s on a conference call. These guys don’t do conference calls; they’re out there attacking!”😂
“It is the moment that defines the Premier League era.”
Eight years on people are still talking and writing about this. They will be talking and writing about it as long as there are people. I will never forget it as long as I live.
My kids, then 23 and 16 were at their mother's house. My son stormed out of the Florida room and slammed the door to take a shower. Moments later my daughter yelled to him, "WE SCORED!" He came out half naked to watch the ending.
I was in my condo, reading. Not paying attention to the match. That certain that we would win. I got a text from my son. My hands shook on the steering wheel as I drove to my office to catch stoppage time on my computer.
It was the most intense frisson I have ever experienced.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/english-premier-league/story/4094160/remembering-aguerooo-and-man-citys-epic-comeback-to-pip-man-united-to-the-2012-premier-league-title
Eight years on people are still talking and writing about this. They will be talking and writing about it as long as there are people. I will never forget it as long as I live.
My kids, then 23 and 16 were at their mother's house. My son stormed out of the Florida room and slammed the door to take a shower. Moments later my daughter yelled to him, "WE SCORED!" He came out half naked to watch the ending.
I was in my condo, reading. Not paying attention to the match. That certain that we would win. I got a text from my son. My hands shook on the steering wheel as I drove to my office to catch stoppage time on my computer.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/english-premier-league/story/4094160/remembering-aguerooo-and-man-citys-epic-comeback-to-pip-man-united-to-the-2012-premier-league-title
#TrumPrison
Whilst we continue to batter TrumPunk prudence requires us to plan for the transition from Trump World to World Without Trump. Which type of facility? Incarcerative only? Cum torture? Along those lines Guantanamo inevitably comes to mind. We must needs begin recruit suitable rapemates. What should the screening of volunteers be?
For Cucky Kushner, I'm thinking his father's former prison. He'd be a legacy!
The People must not be deprived of their justice on Ivanka. Thoughts?
Barr? Put him in with Cucky? Pence? So many former people so little time.
The Trail of Beers for the Trumpbags: Oy vey, this is a logistical nightmare. Should it start in the South and end in Idaho? Two, three, four or more razor wire-topped chain link fenced areas? We have to plan for 60M, maybe fewer but we must plan. I think in the South. States that border on the gulf. Cut down on fencing. Could you fit 60M people in Alabama? Oh wait! No, Florida is the obvious venue. NO fencing. Start them in the Keys and move up the fecal log as necessary.
We have a lot to do.
For Cucky Kushner, I'm thinking his father's former prison. He'd be a legacy!
The People must not be deprived of their justice on Ivanka. Thoughts?
Barr? Put him in with Cucky? Pence? So many former people so little time.
The Trail of Beers for the Trumpbags: Oy vey, this is a logistical nightmare. Should it start in the South and end in Idaho? Two, three, four or more razor wire-topped chain link fenced areas? We have to plan for 60M, maybe fewer but we must plan. I think in the South. States that border on the gulf. Cut down on fencing. Could you fit 60M people in Alabama? Oh wait! No, Florida is the obvious venue. NO fencing. Start them in the Keys and move up the fecal log as necessary.
We have a lot to do.
The Lincoln Project Will Be My Fondest Memory of CoronaWorld
David Plouffe was a top Obama advisor.
They are funny while being serious.
Playful tweet by one of our Democratic heroes. Playful response. They’re just regular guy and women/guys.
A popular meme that of course they turn wittily to their/our political advantage.
Joe is going to owe them. And this is all that they’re in it for.
The effect of that ad. Stirring,” David Plouffe’s word. It’s the reason this R is voting D.
I am a Democrat and I am proud to be part of the Republicans at The Lincoln Project too. They have completely changed my unremitting hostility to Republicans. COMPLETELY changed it.
They are funny while being serious.
Playful tweet by one of our Democratic heroes. Playful response. They’re just regular guy and women/guys.
A popular meme that of course they turn wittily to their/our political advantage.
Joe is going to owe them. And this is all that they’re in it for.
The effect of that ad. Stirring,” David Plouffe’s word. It’s the reason this R is voting D.
I am a Democrat and I am proud to be part of the Republicans at The Lincoln Project too. They have completely changed my unremitting hostility to Republicans. COMPLETELY changed it.
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