I was reading the latest Haberman column in the NYT and it sounds like the drugs are both stripping away the last shreds of Trump’s sanity, and he is finally realizing he may very well lose. The first debate, his SCOTUS nominee, his recovery (for now) from the virus – none of it is working in his favor, he’s falling farther behind. And he is very much the “if I’m going down you’re fucking well going down with me” type.
Semi-serious question – if Biden wins decisively, what are the odds the GOP does an about-face to salvage what they can from the wreckage, sections Trump under the 25th Amendment, and Pence takes over to handle the transition? Otherwise, Trump has until January 20th to start a war or otherwise keep stirring up shit.
The GOP cannot do an about-face on Trump because the GOP IS Trump. Much more likely outcomes:
1.) Trump and the GOP completely reject the election results as fraudulent. There follows months of litigation climaxing in SCOTUS voting 6-3 that counting votes cast for Biden would do irreparable harm to Donald Trump, therefore Trump remains president.
2.) Trump and McConnell capitulate in the face of a Biden landslide, but decide that the only reasonable answer is to wreck as much of the economy and the remaining functionality of government as they possibly can. Trump unilaterally defunds and fires everyone at agencies like the EPA, Education, HHS, HUD, etc. The objective is to leave Biden a mess so huge it cannot be cleaned up. (Also, Trump refuses to allow any kind of transition, so Biden's people walk into office cold on Jan. 21.)
Yeah, you’re probably right -- after McConnell gets ACB on the Court he’ll refocus on 2022 and all he’ll care about is fucking up the economy so bad for Biden that 2022 is in play. But Pence is a tailor-made errand boy and a more reliable one. I see McConnell as the most dangerous man in Washington and he plays a VERY long game.
Well. That was horrifying. The part in the Twilight Zone episode where it stops being ironic and starts being creepy on the way to legitimately terrifying. Well done Roy, and what are you using for the insomnia, anyway? Because if you're gonna share it around, you should share your hints too.
When you started writing about Trump's "formula," it seemed an excellent parody. But here we are and Donald Trump is literally being kept ambulatory by a cocktail of extremely powerful drugs that have all kinds of bizarre psychological side effects. Reality outstrips parody once again.
Interesting. I always thought the one thing that wasn't parody was the "formula." I mean, imagine going to the CDC dressed like a buffoon, MAGA hat and all, waving your hands to and fro as you "educate" the doctors and scientists there on your epidemiological theories based on what you learned about avoiding the clap back in Jamaica Estates. And then you tell them how smart you are about all this coronavirus stuff and how you know it better than even some of the doctors and how they all admire you for it. I mean if you weren't high as a kite snorting Adderall or some other "formula", what on earth would make you think but you could do this? (Or, for that matter, extend the course of a hurricane with a Sharpie for all the world to see?) Now with the steroids on board he's flying even higher and riding a wave of feel-good confidence in his own brilliance. If he's not pharmaceutically blitzed then he would have to be out of his mind to do all this, like some sort of malignant narcissist moron who... Oh. Hold on. I may have just weakened my argument there.
Trump’s poll numbers are headed for the infamous 27%, the DOJ is too busy arresting white supremacists to go after Obama, Nancy Pelosi is trolling him with a proposed commission on the 25th amendment, Mitch McConnell is not so evil that he’ll expose himself to the Coronavirus Swamp that is the White House, Pence drove the last suburban housewife holdouts into Biden’s arms, the Presidential Debate Commission grew a spine and told Trump to go cough onto his PC, the virus is exploding in the Midwest. Yep, definitely time for a big rally in Florida. Uh-huh, sure, good idea, get out there and try to make it through a speech without a cough the media will run on every Sunday talk show.
I find it profoundly disturbing that Trump had to a) allow a few hundred thousand Americans to die; b) appear in a live televised debate as a clearly unhinged sociopathic bully; c) have the economy crash to Great Depression levels; and d) contract the disease he denies and then publicly state that he wants others to get the disease before his poll numbers started to tank.
I might wonder which of those things finally made some of his supporters say "eh, enough," but just the fact that you'd let things get THAT FAR before you even considered dropping your support says you're also a sociopathic monster.
As for Trump's rally in Florida, I'm hoping he goes to The Villages.
As for Hopey, the shtick that there’s, say, a problem between them, I don’t know. Stumbled across a photo of the two of them on the electric tweet thing where she looks no shit ecstatic to be with him. Indeed, both are glowing so much in each other’s company that it’s disgusting.
What posting in a wonky internet connection chewed up:
I have my old fart theories about Donnie, some maybe disproved, some yet to be.
But the one that Donnie is the greatest campaigner against himself — and, polls (FWIW) suggest, he’s getting better at it 24/7.
It therefore follows that Old Joe cutting out negative ads while Donnie’s ill — so what? Again, Donnie is a negative ad against himself and the media are providing Biden with a shit ton of free time; not so much covering Old Joe’s actual positions so really, it’s all good.
Talk about providin' Biden with free time: Now that Trump's refused to debate remotely, ABC will spend the evening giving Biden a town hall. I hope he'll begin every answer with, "As President Trump, who is too chickenshit to debate me, would know..." but I'm not holding my b.
Very nasty. As it happens, my sister and I watched Key Largo with attention a few days ago.
The same comparison presented itself to us.
The fact that Edward G. Robinson's Rocco dwarfs Trump in intelligence and organizational ability, sitting on top of a similar pathological egotism, agonizingly points up our current horrible fiasco.
Trump's mad spews over the last days brings up the question of how to legally keep crazy persons from gaining the White House
Trump's a Rocco type but you're right -- Rocco wasn't that stupid. He had to claw his way up and that shows some skill. Tubby just rode the money train. But the boundless entitlement, cruelty , and faith in his own thuggery matches up.
(sarcasm) Obama couldn't give anybody swine flu being Moooozlim (/sarcasm)
it's like you've got a remote camera in the oval office.
I was reading the latest Haberman column in the NYT and it sounds like the drugs are both stripping away the last shreds of Trump’s sanity, and he is finally realizing he may very well lose. The first debate, his SCOTUS nominee, his recovery (for now) from the virus – none of it is working in his favor, he’s falling farther behind. And he is very much the “if I’m going down you’re fucking well going down with me” type.
Semi-serious question – if Biden wins decisively, what are the odds the GOP does an about-face to salvage what they can from the wreckage, sections Trump under the 25th Amendment, and Pence takes over to handle the transition? Otherwise, Trump has until January 20th to start a war or otherwise keep stirring up shit.
The GOP cannot do an about-face on Trump because the GOP IS Trump. Much more likely outcomes:
1.) Trump and the GOP completely reject the election results as fraudulent. There follows months of litigation climaxing in SCOTUS voting 6-3 that counting votes cast for Biden would do irreparable harm to Donald Trump, therefore Trump remains president.
2.) Trump and McConnell capitulate in the face of a Biden landslide, but decide that the only reasonable answer is to wreck as much of the economy and the remaining functionality of government as they possibly can. Trump unilaterally defunds and fires everyone at agencies like the EPA, Education, HHS, HUD, etc. The objective is to leave Biden a mess so huge it cannot be cleaned up. (Also, Trump refuses to allow any kind of transition, so Biden's people walk into office cold on Jan. 21.)
Ok, kill me now.
Yeah, you’re probably right -- after McConnell gets ACB on the Court he’ll refocus on 2022 and all he’ll care about is fucking up the economy so bad for Biden that 2022 is in play. But Pence is a tailor-made errand boy and a more reliable one. I see McConnell as the most dangerous man in Washington and he plays a VERY long game.
Unfortunately, I do not see a third alternative. You've covered all the bases.
2 seems most likely, but I wouldn't count out 1.
Well. That was horrifying. The part in the Twilight Zone episode where it stops being ironic and starts being creepy on the way to legitimately terrifying. Well done Roy, and what are you using for the insomnia, anyway? Because if you're gonna share it around, you should share your hints too.
The White House Follies have always spooked the bejesus out of me.
Lager.
When you started writing about Trump's "formula," it seemed an excellent parody. But here we are and Donald Trump is literally being kept ambulatory by a cocktail of extremely powerful drugs that have all kinds of bizarre psychological side effects. Reality outstrips parody once again.
Interesting. I always thought the one thing that wasn't parody was the "formula." I mean, imagine going to the CDC dressed like a buffoon, MAGA hat and all, waving your hands to and fro as you "educate" the doctors and scientists there on your epidemiological theories based on what you learned about avoiding the clap back in Jamaica Estates. And then you tell them how smart you are about all this coronavirus stuff and how you know it better than even some of the doctors and how they all admire you for it. I mean if you weren't high as a kite snorting Adderall or some other "formula", what on earth would make you think but you could do this? (Or, for that matter, extend the course of a hurricane with a Sharpie for all the world to see?) Now with the steroids on board he's flying even higher and riding a wave of feel-good confidence in his own brilliance. If he's not pharmaceutically blitzed then he would have to be out of his mind to do all this, like some sort of malignant narcissist moron who... Oh. Hold on. I may have just weakened my argument there.
Trump’s poll numbers are headed for the infamous 27%, the DOJ is too busy arresting white supremacists to go after Obama, Nancy Pelosi is trolling him with a proposed commission on the 25th amendment, Mitch McConnell is not so evil that he’ll expose himself to the Coronavirus Swamp that is the White House, Pence drove the last suburban housewife holdouts into Biden’s arms, the Presidential Debate Commission grew a spine and told Trump to go cough onto his PC, the virus is exploding in the Midwest. Yep, definitely time for a big rally in Florida. Uh-huh, sure, good idea, get out there and try to make it through a speech without a cough the media will run on every Sunday talk show.
I find it profoundly disturbing that Trump had to a) allow a few hundred thousand Americans to die; b) appear in a live televised debate as a clearly unhinged sociopathic bully; c) have the economy crash to Great Depression levels; and d) contract the disease he denies and then publicly state that he wants others to get the disease before his poll numbers started to tank.
I might wonder which of those things finally made some of his supporters say "eh, enough," but just the fact that you'd let things get THAT FAR before you even considered dropping your support says you're also a sociopathic monster.
As for Trump's rally in Florida, I'm hoping he goes to The Villages.
As for Hopey, the shtick that there’s, say, a problem between them, I don’t know. Stumbled across a photo of the two of them on the electric tweet thing where she looks no shit ecstatic to be with him. Indeed, both are glowing so much in each other’s company that it’s disgusting.
What posting in a wonky internet connection chewed up:
I have my old fart theories about Donnie, some maybe disproved, some yet to be.
But the one that Donnie is the greatest campaigner against himself — and, polls (FWIW) suggest, he’s getting better at it 24/7.
It therefore follows that Old Joe cutting out negative ads while Donnie’s ill — so what? Again, Donnie is a negative ad against himself and the media are providing Biden with a shit ton of free time; not so much covering Old Joe’s actual positions so really, it’s all good.
Talk about providin' Biden with free time: Now that Trump's refused to debate remotely, ABC will spend the evening giving Biden a town hall. I hope he'll begin every answer with, "As President Trump, who is too chickenshit to debate me, would know..." but I'm not holding my b.
"With a scream HICKS wrenches away and flees." She works for the bum, right? This one doesn't add up.
Sure it does. This isn't what she signed up for!
Love to the reference to Key Largo - one of my favorite movies!
To be fair, corticosteroids are some good shit.
Is this the end of Rico? Is this the beginning of RICO? Is this the beginning of the end?
The end of Cody Jarrett came unbidden to *me*. "Finally made it Pa! Top of the world!!!"
Isn’t that the one with the famous scene where Bacall says, “You just pucker up your lips and blow”?
Oops that was supposed to be with a Key Largo comment below.
The "You know how to whistle, don't you Steve?" scene is from To Have and Have Not, Bogie and Bacall's first on screen pairing.
Very nasty. As it happens, my sister and I watched Key Largo with attention a few days ago.
The same comparison presented itself to us.
The fact that Edward G. Robinson's Rocco dwarfs Trump in intelligence and organizational ability, sitting on top of a similar pathological egotism, agonizingly points up our current horrible fiasco.
Trump's mad spews over the last days brings up the question of how to legally keep crazy persons from gaining the White House
Trump's a Rocco type but you're right -- Rocco wasn't that stupid. He had to claw his way up and that shows some skill. Tubby just rode the money train. But the boundless entitlement, cruelty , and faith in his own thuggery matches up.
I know movie theaters are still closed, I hope this is on Apple TV!
Tell your show-biz friends!