JUST IN: Michigan election board certifies Biden win https://t.co/9N1LV1Ga9q pic.twitter.com/UhkUUIOHCt
— The Hill (@thehill) November 23, 2020
ETA:
new from my colleague @KristenhCNN:
GSA has informed president-elect Joe Biden the administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, according to a letter from administrator Emily Murphy sent Monday afternoon and obtained by CNN.— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) November 23, 2020
Biden’s margin in Michigan is nearly twice Trumps 2016 margins in Michigan, Wisconsin, & Pennsylvania combined
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 23, 2020
Apt that right up to the end at least half the Republicans say nothing because they’re afraid of a tweet. https://t.co/b8kLTK1xVG
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 23, 2020
The No, Fuck YOU Administration off to a great start today and I mean that sincerely. https://t.co/7l6CU9sdxR
— Allison Hantschel (@Athenae) November 23, 2020
Worth noting: Reps from the Biden team were on all 5 of the biggest Sunday TV shows this A.M. Ron Klain was on This Week, Jen Psaki on SOTU, Symone Sanders on Face, Cedric Richmond on MTP, and Kate Bedingfield on Fox. ZERO Trump reps.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 22, 2020
Moar breaking news!!!!
President Trump is worried that his campaign’s legal team, which is being led by his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, is comprised of “fools that are making him look bad,” @NBCNews reports. https://t.co/Cc2hDTzAMT
— CNBC (@CNBC) November 23, 2020
Cheryl Rofer
Add that GSA_Emily finally gave in.
Baud
Onward!
Kristine
Yea. About bloody time.
Cheryl Rofer
Mai Naem mobile
Buh bye Orange Dbag. Take the rest of your grifter family with you. Leave the keys in the mailbox.
Emma from FL
@Cheryl Rofer: Well, hell. It’s beginning to look like one of those Rube Goldberg machines that kick over dominoes…
Cheryl Rofer
@Cheryl Rofer: That is some defensive letter.
dr. bloor
@Cheryl Rofer:
The effects of an hourly quote and a request for a retainer from your local barrister tend to have a clarifying impact on your moral dilemma.
germy
I love Symone Sanders and I love the title of her book:
No, You Shut Up: Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America
Zzyzx
@Cheryl Rofer: I’m amazed that Trump isn’t firing off tweets between that and Michigan. My real lawsuit is NEXT week!
Keith P.
18 hours since the last Trump tweet. It *feels* like a record.
Scout211
@Cheryl Rofer:
I guess she needed the Michigan vote certification today for cover to actually do her job.
She seems nice. //
sanjeevs
https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1331006314269577217
Major Major Major Major
@sanjeevs: praise the lord!
VeniceRiley
@Cheryl Rofer: She can’t bring herself to type “ascertained.”
dr. bloor
@sanjeevs: The times, they are a changin’.
The Moar You Know
This is the 18th day Trump has lost the election.
Oddly, I’m still not tired of all this winning. Not one bit. Watching this dumb asshole drag himself through day after day of total humiliation, when he could stop it all with just two words, has been epic.
Mary G
I want to feel like all my admonishing postcards after every vote for a trump nominee and the ten or so I sent screaming about collaborating with Lindsey Graham may have paid off:
satby
@Cheryl Rofer: Absolutely a CYA prepared for if she got sued.
Sloane Ranger
Hurrah! What a relief. New Trump tweet reported by Jim Acosta making it sound like the Orange One instructed GSA to certify the election for Biden for the best interests of the county. I strongly suspect someone else has possession of his phone.
satby
@Mary G: Thank you for your service!!
Baud
I guess Trump issued a statement suggesting that he made the decision, not the GSA.
The Moar You Know
Oh, that letter. Someone give Emily a hand with the final nail, please.
raven
Ari say Trump be capitulating!
scav
@Scout211: Vain hope on her part.
Are they going to have to come up with some sort of witness protection-like program for the entire administration?
Scout211
https://www.kcra.com/article/gm-flips-to-californias-side-in-pollution-fight-with-president-trump/34762100
And the dominoes keep falling . .
Dan B
@Cheryl Rofer: Thanks for posting this. I’m sighing with relief so much I must remind myself to inhale.
germy
Jenna Ellis is not giving up. She just retweeted this:
debbie
@Cheryl Rofer:
Most of her letter is a very Trumpian whine about her!
Mai Naem mobile
@Cheryl Rofer: I think Murphy was scared of becoming famous via a Katie Porter gif. It may still happen.
Spanky
@Zzyzx:
I’m picturing him slumped over like Hitler in the last shot in the Downfall meme.
natem
Shut the fuck up Maggie
Suzanne
I wish that I could never again see that image of Rudy Giuliani with diarrhea running down his cheek.
Redshift
“Who keeps hiring these idiots? moans man who hired the idiots.
Dan B
@sanjeevs: Moar good news!
Friends in San Francisco back when she was on the council (board of supervisors?) despised her. I’m not sure why especially since they didn’t want to talk about her, made their skin crawl.
MisterForkbeard
@sanjeevs: Sounds like she’s on her way out. We can hope – time for new blood.
Spanky
@Mary G:
I think you certainly should. Thank you for your efforts on all our behalf.
danielx
Dude, it’s not your legal team which is making you look bad….
Kent
She isn’t old enough to retire. She wants to have a nice posh administrative job in the private sector after this. Like HR director of some fortune 500 company or something like that. Becoming a household name and too politically toxic to over 50% of the country was going to make that impossible.
The Moar You Know
@natem: thank you. That’s the only possible response to that utter load of horseshit
Redshift
@germy: If anyone voted for other Republicans and didn’t vote for Trump, that’s clear evidence of fraud! There’s no other way that could possibly happen! /MAGAt
Mai Naem mobile
@Mary G: sounds like DiFi is not going to run again. Not sure Pelosi is going to stick around for many more years. That’s some heavy state leadership loss even if Kamala is Veep.
Martin
@Mai Naem mobile: Plus Congress was coming. Part of the pleasure of being the head of the GSA, is nobody knows who you are or what you do. That was changing extremely quickly for Emily.
MomSense
@Keith P.:
Are we ready to speculate as to whether he will stay in the country or flee to a non extradition treaty country? I doubt he will want to arrest Biden’s inauguration.
germy
SiubhanDuinne
@Cheryl Rofer:
It’s both defensive and offensive. Did you catch “Dear Mr. Biden”? Not “Dear Mr. President-elect,” not even “Dear Vice President Biden.” There is absolutely no bottom for these people.
Steeplejack (phone)
Did Emily Murphy appear before the congressional committee today? I read that it was going to be a closed session. Maybe they read her the riot act and spurred her to action.
Spanky
@MomSense:
Paging Dr. Freud. Dr. Freud …
danielx
@MomSense:
Do you mean ‘attend’ instead of ‘arrest’? I have no doubt he would like to see every single person attending Biden’s inauguration arrested and imprisoned.
germy
@SiubhanDuinne:
“Hey Joe”
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
Oh joy, another book to order. I’m never, ever, EVER going to get through all the books in my Kindle, am I?
Mai Naem mobile
Just saw Janet Yellen is being considered for Treasury. I am happy with that choice. Qualified and a woman and a slap at Orange Dbag. Such a nice change from weasely weasel Stephen Mnuchin.
Major Major Major Major
Redshift
Ah, quintessential narcissist. He surrounds himself with yes-men for his entire life and fires anyone who disagrees with him or fails to praise him to the skies, but when it goes south, it’s because they weren’t “honest.”
MomSense
@danielx:
Yes – auto correct probably saw my non extradition treaty and figured I meant arrest.
The Moar You Know
@Steeplejack (phone): No. Sent a letter saying she’d send an assistant next week. I assume someone then told her what lawyers cost and she’d be out of pocket on that.
Baud
@Redshift:
I hope he sues Rudi.
germy
Don’t click on this photo:
debbie
@Mai Naem mobile:
Seconded. That was about the only good news I heard today, at least until I heard about the MI certification and Murphy’s capitulation.
KenK
@germy: @#50
“Hey Joe” – where you goin’ with that gun in your hand?
dm
@Baud: Can’t be true. Emily says right there in her letter that she came to the decision without outside interference or influence.
germy
@dm:
She lies even in her letter.
Even her signature is piggish.
Another Scott
@Cheryl Rofer: The word cloud of “I” and similar personal pronouns of that letter would be interesting…
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
Mary G
@Mai Naem mobile: Plenty of talent in the pipeline, such as Schiff, Lieu, Porter, and my rep Mike Levin who is excellent on the environment.
zhena gogolia
I am not tired of the winning.
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
Isn’t Dr. Paul Gosar the guy who is so cray his entire family not only voted against him in 2018, but cut a campaign ad against him?
danielx
Consensus is Chuck Todd by a country mile, for reasons I am at a total loss to explain.
David ?Booooooo!? Koch
CNN reports Biden to name Amy Poehler as Secretary of Comedy
NotMax
@Baud
Rudy will be busy holding pressers at the Waldorf Astoria Car Wash or the Ritz-Carlton Laundrette.
TS (the original)
@Cheryl Rofer:
Said it on the last thread, I hope she is the first person fired after Biden is inaugurated. Like everyone in this administration, her letter exposes that the lies will continue until the bitter end.
debbie
Never mind.
Cheryl Rofer
I usually don’t like to post Trump tweets, but I’ll give him this one:
dmsilev
@Cheryl Rofer:
It was the same tone as all those news stories where “her friends” informed the media that she was a selfless policy person who was deeply morally conflicted and was under no pressure whatsoever from Trump.
In other words, she’s still throwing herself a pity party and should not be lauded for finally and grudgingly doing something that the law said she should have done two weeks ago.
germy
@SiubhanDuinne:
I believe so.
Jenna Ellis is an elite strike force.
dmsilev
@danielx: Chuck Todd gave us “If anything, she was too prepared” in the 2016 debates.
Cheryl Rofer
I see debbie beat me to it. Also this:
Nora Lenderbee
Biden’s team should send her a reply, and begin it “Dear Emily:”
debbie
@Cheryl Rofer:
Aww, but yours were prettier!
zhena gogolia
@SiubhanDuinne:
Yep.
Baud
@Cheryl Rofer:
At the same time?
NotMax
Is Fox going to send out staff for a breaking news story that the trees in Michigan are no longer just the right height?
//
@debbie
You do not want to know what that was first misread as.
:)
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
In West Haven, CT, there is a Yale Auto Parts junkyard. My ex-husband wanted them to put up another sign, “Not affiliated with any university.”
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack (phone):
According to Katie Porter, Emily didn’t show. Sorry, no link; saw it in a Porter tweet but don’t know how (can’t be bothered) to track it down.
hueyplong
That GSA letter is a piece of shit, especially read in conjuction with the tweets sent out under Trump’s name.
I expect there to be a lot of stalling and and passive-aggressive obstruction in lieu of the former flat-out stonewalling.
Never, ever assume anything in the neighborhood of good faith from these people.
debbie
@Cheryl Rofer:
If Trump, say, absconded to Scotland, would the Secret Service still have to protect him?
Yutsano
This is somewhat OT, but I don’t believe I’ve ever seen an editorial board beat a member of their own editorial staff around the head so thoroughly before…
TS (the original)
@Sloane Ranger:
Proving that her letter was far from the truth – to quote but one sentence
If don is going down, he’s taking all the sycophants with him.
HumboldtBlue
@sanjeevs:
Thank all the gods and goddesses.
Cheryl Rofer
@debbie: I don’t know.
HumboldtBlue
@SiubhanDuinne:
That woman scheduled an aide to appear on her behalf.
Sally
May I just say, trump and trumpoids, none of these dipshit clowns in the “legal” elite squad are making you guys look bad. Birds of a feather – all the “best” people, amirite?
burnspbesq
@MisterForkbeard:
I’m sure Guv Gav hopes so. He needs two appointments to satisfy all the interest groups claiming it’s their turn.
Matt McIrvin
@Cheryl Rofer: Can you imagine being one of the Secret Service people assigned to Trump’s post-presidential detail? It’s the ultimate booby prize. Maybe a few of them like him, I guess.
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
That can never be unseen. Yikes!
Mary G
Karen S.
@Kent: Somehow, I get the impression that HR might be a good fit for her. (shudder)
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
I have a sneaking suspicion that the part of the reason Trump hasn’t wanted to cooperate with the transition is because when the Biden team asks “what’s the current rollout plan for vaccines?” The Trump folks will say “there isn’t one” and it’ll be clear in about 5 minutes that the Trump folks don’t have a plan for anything.
They didn’t write a single term paper and don’t want that exposed.
patrick II
@Cheryl Rofer:
If we have to continue to have the Secret Service pay outrageous prices to stay at Mar a Lago during his post-presidency, I support giving him a couple of guard dogs and telling him he’s on his own.
SiubhanDuinne
Jenna Ellis is on Ari Melber, and I can’t even begin to make sense of it.
Cheryl Rofer
SiubhanDuinne
@Karen S.:
She’d be perfect as president of an HOA.
debbie
@Cheryl Rofer:
Wow, that last part of that last sentence!
Eunicecycle
@SiubhanDuinne: I immediately changed the channel. Not gonna try.
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne:
PHRASING! Sorry about that. She’s a guest on Ari’s MSNBC show, is what I meant, and I’m ashamed of you for your potty brains.
burnspbesq
@Yutsano:
Thiessen richly deserves it. Our local paper ran the column over the weekend, and it is medicinal-grade bullshit.
germy
@SiubhanDuinne:
An hour ago:
sdhays
@Mai Naem mobile: Didn’t they have a closed-door meeting today? Now I really, really want to know what was said. Did she need a change of pants afterwards
ETA: Ah, I see she chickened out. Not surprised.
Mike in NC
So it seems like the Trump Crime Family will decamp to Mar-a-Lago for Christmas after all and never set foot in DC again. Cool.
HumboldtBlue
@germy:
I just came here to post that tweet.
scav
@debbie: Yeah, that sentence is quite quite pleasing.
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
OT – the winning continues.
Ducked out an hour or so ago to the nearest market for some last minute items for holiday meal prep. Fresh yams, fresh mushrooms, that sort of stuff. Scored the very last can of crushed pineapple (a necessary part of the particular cranberry relish I savor) in the store, hunkered all alone at the back of an otherwise wide expanse of empty shelf.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@David ?Booooooo!? Koch: I would have accepted Tina Fey too. Or Melissa McCarthy.
Martin
In other news, GM has abandoned Trumps position on CAs right to regulate air quality and fuel mileage (consider the timing if you think any part of that decision was in good faith or based on science or economics) but it’s a nice little victory for CA and climate change efforts.
SiubhanDuinne
@Suzanne:
I refer you to the link @germy #58. Believe me, you’ll welcome Rudy’s dyearrhea.
Mai Naem mobile
@Martin: part of me wants all these Trumper enablers to wear a red T like Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter, for the rest of their lives. But I know it’s an awful inaccurate analogy. I feel like a bad person wanting them to be treated like the French did after WW11 with the collaborators. I just don’t want them to move on and not be held responsible.
burnspbesq
If I worked for ICE, the idea of Alejandro Mayorkas as Secretary of DHS would have me shitting bricks.
ETA: and updating my resume.
lamh36
Evening BJ.
Read that Feinstein is stepping down as top Dem on Judiciary.
I’m thinking those of us who mentioned dementia or some sort of age-related impairment on Feinstein’s part lately may well have been correct.
I have a feeling it’s just a matter of time before she announces her full retirement. The question is when?
I know re-election isn’t until 2025 right? But IDK that she’ll even make it to 2025 before just stepping down.
I wonder if she’ll wait to see who Newsom picks to replace Harris and then decide.
sanjeevs
Choices like Blinken and Yellen for his Cabinet are going to make it hard for the GOP Senators to go against confirmation.
Not that they won’t, but still.
natem
@Martin: I for one am tired of all this winning.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@Mike in NC: I think part of the reason they moved to FL is that FL bankruptcy laws let you keep your primary residence. At least that’s what I read somewhere. Not sure it’s true.
Brachiator
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?:
And Trump always lied about the Obama administration not leaving them anything or co-operating with them.
I am so tired of this fool. I can’t wait until he is finally gone.
Baud
@Martin:
Elections have consequences.
Suzanne
@SiubhanDuinne: Yes, that is the Gosar!
I seem to recall you (I think?) saying that you were considering relocating to Prescott. If you did, you could have Gosar as your congresscritter.
It’s a shame, I actually really like Prescott.
burnspbesq
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?:
yup. Florida has an unlimited homestead exemption. Remember the mass exodus of KPMG partners to FL circa 2004?
craigie
@Cheryl Rofer:
I bet a million dollars he didn’t write that.
mrmoshpotato
Who’s gonna tell the traitorous, orange, Soviet shitpile about all the winning – and us not getting tired of the winning?
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@TS (the original):
Maybe. Or Trump realized he couldn’t stop her and sent out that tweet so his followers would think he was being gracious and in control of the situation.
H-Bob
@danielx: “Dude, it’s not your legal team which is making you look bad….” like “it’s not the dress that makes you look fat ….”
VeniceRiley
On twitter, I called it a half-ascertainment.
Suzanne
@SiubhanDuinne: AHHHHHHHHH
LuciaMia
Ahhhh, ( exhaling) thank god. Finally the GSA gives it up. In Trumps tweet he , of course, takes the credit, tho Emily says it was her final decision.
debbie
I can’t wait to see the photo of the first Cabinet meeting with all the diversity!
Kristine
Wondering if Giuliani was paid ahead of time, or if money is owed.
It would be a joke if he sued for payment.
SiubhanDuinne
@HumboldtBlue:
Yup. For a roaring 30 minutes, a week from now.
NotMax
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
Well, there’s still that niggling signed agreement… (WaPo link)
Fair Economist
@Scout211:
GM is ahead of Ford and Chrysler in its EV development and is hoping to leverage that.
burnspbesq
I wonder if the publication of this article in this morning’s Detroit Free Press had any impact on the certification vote?
https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2020/11/23/michigan-canvassers-who-could-face-felony-charges/6388235002/
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
Thats it! Thanks.
(I do love Katie Porter.)
Steeplejack (phone)
I thought part of the Mar-a-Lago deal with the local authorities was that it cannot be used as a residence. Is that one more thing Trump is going to get away with ignoring? He and Melania voted from there, so I guess so.
Although Pence trumped him by using the Indiana governor’s mansion as his voting address. ?
Brachiator
@sanjeevs:
It would be cool if Biden could find someone with the surname Nod for his cabinet.
Blinken and Yellen and Nod.
WaterGirl
@Cheryl Rofer: I hate her even more for writing such a self-serving, excuse-making piece of drivel. I couldn’t even make my way through the whole first page.
mrmoshpotato
LOL!
Mai Naem mobile
@Kent: She can go do HR for the Trumpov Org until its bankrupt and then move onto the Kushner Companies. I really should be a career counselor.
Immanentize
ACERTAINMENT!!
WE HAVE ACERTAINMENT!
And, Feinstein steps down as Ranking Member on the Judiciary Cmmt.
Lovely Day!
Fair Economist
@Mai Naem mobile:
The general expectation was that she wouldn’t run again in 2024 at age 91 anyway. The hope is that she’ll step back from a lead role in the Senate and if the rumors that she’d getting a bit dotty are true that would be a reasonable step. *Most* people in the early stages of dementia realize something is wrong and take appropriate steps.
CA still has 4 House chairs and of course the largest Dem House delegation by far. We’ll be fine.
WaterGirl
@sanjeevs: Halle-fucking-luia!!! Thank you Diane Feinstein.
Danielx
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?:
Whole Trump administration reminds me a lot of a guy who was my roommate first semester at IU. Guy never seemed to go to class – got up late, went over to hang out with his homies living at the next quad over, came back….etc etc. I moved out at the last of the semester for off campus housing after semster break and the guy was gone like he’d never been in the dorm room. I checked the mail, and for the first and last time in my life opened somebody else’s mail, that being his grades.
I had to know.
Turned out he had achieved a 0.00 GPA, which was quite an accomplishment at the time. I mean, if you were warm and breathing and took quizzes/exams you could pull a D average. So with the Trump administration – even a little effort could have made such a difference.
LuciaMia
Sounds like Santa’s elves.
SiubhanDuinne
@Suzanne:
what a memory you have! Wow, I’m impressed!
I’m rethinking moving to Prescott. I kind of like living in a part of the country that’s turning purplish-blue before my very eyes, and that I’m playing my part to help bring about. But family circumstances and dynamics have also changed a lot, so much of my original reasoning (being close to siblings) no longer applies. But it’s all still very iffy.
geg6
I’m really psyched to see Biden’s pick for Education. Kicking DeVos out of that office is one of my great joys in Biden’s win. Also the VA because they have made my life miserable, changing compliance requirements. The most recent change happened the other day after I’d had my exit interview for the campus’ biannual compliance survey. Within an hour of the exit interview, I got a call from the compliance officer that I needed to provide a whole set of data for each semester going back to Spring 2017 even though I already had a waiver on the rule that requires that data. The VA had just informed him of this change. He said he couldn’t send the official letter until I did. We don’t collect the data the same way they want it, so both the registrar and I had to spend the next three days getting the data, determining it was all correct and converting it to the metrics they wanted. It was infuriating and exhausting and it shouldn’t happen like that.
WaterGirl
@Mary G: Congratulations!
japa21
@SiubhanDuinne: My guess is that nobody had any pott brained reactions to the original comment until you brought it up. And don’t make any potty brained interpretations of my last comment.
Roger Moore
@SiubhanDuinne:
To hell with that! HOAs are already bad enough without more Karens on their boards.
Benw
Haha suck it Trump!
Hoodie
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?: I thought Trump had an agreement with the local municipality that the Mar a Lago couldn’t be used as a permanent residence.
ByRookorbyCrook
@Kristine: Ghouliani just needs to give a kickback to Trump, say, 25%? The Campaign is paying and if Trump gets his beak wet the payment will be okayed. The Rubes will be donating to keep the legal battle going…
Roger Moore
@Mai Naem mobile:
Yes, but she needs to think beyond 2021.
LurkerNoLonger
@Cheryl Rofer: Trump didn’t write that Tweet and I can guarantee one is coming along (that he does write) that will totally contradict it.
Mike in NC
@debbie: Fat Bastard did do a few things to Make America White Again. There was a photo of him from a couple of years ago posing with White House interns. 90% of them were white males.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: You might want to check BJ around 8pm tonight. Ask and you shall receive!
piratedan
@SiubhanDuinne: if not Prescott, you could look at Flagstaff, it’s in Coconino Co., which I believe is represented by Mr. O’Halleran (who is a Dem)
SiubhanDuinne
@Mike in NC:
Can’t help wondering if Melania is going to leave the nation a special LDFY (Lame Duck Fuck You) Christmas display in the White House.
cain
I would like to see no Biden people show up for Chuck’s show. Fuck that guy. I want to see Meet the Asshole go down the toilet.
cain
@Cheryl Rofer:
When do you all think the divorce is going to happen? I think Melania is gonna move back to New York City – living Orange fool at Fart-is-Largo.
cain
They would have tried, but probably would take a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
cain
I assume the only instructions this aide would have would be repeat the refrain “I know you are, but what am I?”
LurkerNoLonger
According to Mark Elias: “ Trump and his allies are now 1-35 in post-election litigation.”
I’m not good at percentages, but that sounds pretty bad.
Mary Ellen Sandahl
@debbie:From the Scots? You betcha. If nothing else they’d be yelling fabulously vicious invective at him everytime he poked his evil nose out the door.
JoyceH
@Matt McIrvin:
Presidents are entitled to Secret Service protection for the rest of their lives. But the security detail can be waived (Nixon did), and my prediction is that Trump is going to waive it – maybe not right away, but eventually. Think of what we know about his behavior and business practices. You think he’s going to want government agents following him around, seeing where he goes, who he meets, what he does?
sdhays
@SiubhanDuinne: I hope so. It would a wonderful visible gift to throw back in the face of those Christmas warriors – “Your own fucking queen hated Christmas and didn’t even give enough of a shit to do it her last opportunity after she didn’t have to try to keep up appearance.”
@cain: I just saw that Rahm is being considered for a position in the Biden administration, and it occurred to me that Rahm is the Chuck Todd of the Democratic Party. He keeps being given new powerful positions after doing a poor job in his previous one. With all of the talent out there, why must we keep going back to this guy? It’s annoying.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@cain: I see her setting up in Paris or London, summers in Slovenia
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@sdhays: I really hope those rumors are coming from Rahm Emmanuel and no one else.
in fairness, he wasn’t given his last position, he won it.
SiubhanDuinne
@LurkerNoLonger:
What gave it away? For me, the tell was
Scout211
@cain:
My guess: Not until he decides that he won’t run again in 2024. For some reason he thinks staying married earns him more votes.
But as soon as he decides not to run again, they will make the “difficult decision to consciously uncouple.” Or whatever . . . Bring in the lawyers!
Kent
I doubt it. Top-flight 24/7 security is enormously expensive. Like millions and millions per year. I expect he’ll use the secret service for his perimeter security and screening of visitors but won’t keep them in the room standing next to him when he is cutting deals and such.
Jeffro
@germy: we’ve been looking at this all wrong …it’s really been Herr Fuhrer Dobbs who’ll be the last one in the bunker
Bex
@Cheryl Rofer: Melania will be gone in a hot second after 12 noon on Jan 20.
cain
@Scout211:
I think Melania is going to serve him papers – she wants out of this shit show. Settle down with a Secret Service agent and live off whatever millions she can get before Trump is completely broke.
Maybe write a book!
cain
Someone said this.
Ok ok,it was me :D
zhena gogolia
@burnspbesq:
ICE is a rats’ nest that I hope we can clean up.
SiubhanDuinne
@piratedan:
Thanks. I’m actually rethinking the whole AZ thing, but I’ve always wanted to see Flagstaff. If I can travel to Phoenix next spring for my grandniece’s wedding, I’ll check out both Flagstaff and Prescott.
cain
Soon will we welcome Mrs. Kayleigh Mcenany Trump? Such a lovely woman with all the right traits that Trump looks for.
Can’t wait for these rats to jump off the ship and hopefully never to be seen again.
cliosfanboy
@Roger Moore: Dunkin Donuts spokesperson??
japa21
@SiubhanDuinne: We have friends who live in Prescott Valley. They love it there. Prescott still has an old central area with quaint shops. I love the statue of the Rough Riders there. It is lovely and so many places within a few hours drive.
Roger Moore
@SiubhanDuinne:
She could continue her tradition of plagiarizing from previous First Ladies by decorating her Christmas tree with sex toys and drug paraphernalia. Yes, I realize that didn’t actually happen in the Clinton White House, but it would be funny if she believed it and followed suit.
Captain C
@SiubhanDuinne: If you get a chance, don’t forget to check out Jerome, which is right between Prescott and Flagstaff on the 89A (which is a great, scenic drive in and of itself).
Roger Moore
@cain:
She isn’t from Eastern Europe.
Steve in the ATL
@SiubhanDuinne: next door neighbors at the lake are from Flagstaff. I didn’t think it was real place until you mentioned it. Sister and one of her previous husbands had a place in Prescott with a sculpture garden. Yes, she knows how to marry well.
haven’t been to the alleged Flagstaff but neighbors said they moved here to get away from the snow there. Prescott is nice, as noted supra. Sedona is nice too, for half a day or so.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: Your creation is featured in the next thread over.
leeleeFL
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?: It’s true. Not sure Mar al Lago will qualify though, since it’s a club, not a house. I hope not, I would love to see them in an old tract house in South Florida!
cain
That’s true – I don’t think he likes the Scots anyways. I suppose he’ll need to find another woman from there. He’s got those assume dancing skills, he’ll do fine.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@leeleeFL: I’ve been wondering if he’ll make Mar-A-Lago into his library. After he’s dead, of course, no way he’s gonna give up that sweet, sweet cash stream for bilking the rubes. “Donate to our library fund and win lunch with the trump of your choice* at Mar-Lago**”
*Donald, Ivanka and Barron not included
** Monday through Thursday between 1 and 3 pm. Lunch options include choice of Daily Special, Cobb Salad or Half-Sandwich/Cup of Soup Combo and one (1) fountain beverage or iced tea (Arnold Palmer $1 extra). Travel expenses the responsibility of contest winner(s).
Salty Sam
@Brachiator: Blinken and Yellen is how I wake up from nightmares.
WaterGirl
This was the longest election night, ever. Finally, relief!
Kent
My money was on Hope Hicks, who was the Trump Whisperer apparently.
mrmoshpotato
Are we taking bets on how many times that gold-digging, birther bitch gets slapped at each book signing?
Fuck her. Fire her into the Sun too.
Brachiator
@Salty Sam:
Ha!
Very droll.
mrmoshpotato
American Nuremberg trials in Florida – works for me.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Kent: that might be a bet worth placing….
Though I shudder to think what happened to that young woman to make that a perfectly plausible scenario. And IIRC she dated a couple of the more repulsive hangers-on in the orbit. Lewandowski?
Kristine
@cain: @Roger Moore: Marla Maples wasn’t from Eastern Europe.
Another Scott
@mrmoshpotato:
It’s only fair, amirite??
Cheers,
Scott.
Geminid
@SiubhanDuinne: Flagstaff is a cool town, up on the Coconino Plateau with lots of trees. The Lowell Observatory is worth a day’s visit. The drive north from Phoenix is probably pretty nice; the drive from Flagstaff south off the plateau is spectacular.
prostratedragon
@patrick II: Make him pay extra and in advance for the handlers.
Matt McIrvin
@Another Scott: Like Arlington Cemetery?
jonas
@Matt McIrvin: You’re a veteran USSS officer. What would you rather do? Follow an ex-president around as he — *shudder* — gives speeches, hugs orphans in third-world countries and builds houses for poor people, or golfs and hangs out with rich assholes in the clubhouse? You might get Kid Rock’s autograph!
Another Scott
@Matt McIrvin: Exactamundo.
Cheers,
Scott.
sdhays
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: True, but didn’t he decline to run for another term in Chicago because it was clear he wouldn’t be reelected? I recall the voters there were more than done with his shitty performance. He won in the first place completely on his association with Obama.
Amir Khalid
@Cheryl Rofer:
I anticipate Trump’s Secret Service detail blowing through its annual budget paying for accommodations at Mar-a-Lago.
Miss Bianca
@Cheryl Rofer: Oh, myyyyy…some excellent weaselword-smithing there.
sgrAstar
@Mai Naem mobile: CA is not looking at any “leadership loss” whatsoever. We are absolutely crawling with excellent leaders who are ready to step up. The prospect of a new, motivated leadership group in California is really thrilling.
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Miss Bianca
@germy: Oh, man – so do I! Gonna have to order that one up when it comes out!
Misterpuff
@Cheryl Rofer: Secret Service should temp service outsource that detail to the Michigan Militia MAGAt maggots.
artem1s
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony:
I assumed he was trying to keep grifting the fools who are donating money to his legal challenges.
Miss Bianca
@burnspbesq: Heh heh heh
dnfree
@NotMax: do you make the cranberry relish with fresh cranberries, a whole navel orange complete with peel, and crushed pineapple? That’s my favorite.
MCA1
@Nora Lenderbee: Was thinking along the same lines.
“Dear Soon-to-be HR Manager at A Regional Jimmy John’s Franchisee,
We have received and reviewed your letter of today, including the small portion thereof wherein you conveyed information relevant to PRESIDENT-ELECT JOSEPH R. BIDEN’S transition. Despite not seeing anywhere in said letter the phrase “I have ascertained,” which would be the constitutionally appropriate form of the applicable correspondence, delegates of PRESIDENT-ELECT JOSEPH R. BIDEN’S transition team will be at your office at 8:00 A.M. tomorrow morning to begin the transition process.
Attached is our preliminary list of required documentation and information. We trust that, as the election was two weeks ago today, you and your staff have previously collected the majority of material pertinent to these matters and will have it ready for delivery tomorrow morning. Any missing materials should be delivered no later than 12:00 P.M. Wednesday, November 25.
We will bring our own coffee.
See you soon, emily.
Ronald Klain, Chief of Staff to PRESIDENT-ELECT JOSEPH R. BIDEN
cc: Nancy Pelosi, Speaker, United States House
Katie Porter, United States House Representative, Badassville, California”
Miss Bianca
@dnfree: oooh, that sounds good!
Bill Arnold
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?:
And cunning plan B is to get Florida (or NYS, or both) to secede from the Union so that he can’t be extradited.
Bill Arnold
@craigie:
Doesn’t even look like Scavino’s writing, though he can be a chameleon.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: Yes.
J R in WV
@sdhays:
never gonna happen…
Another Scott
If anyone is curious, this tweet has the letter sent to Obama’s transition team in 2008:
Back in the olden times, when GOP appointees knew how to do the job…
(via notlarrysabato)
Cheers,
Scott.
SFAW
@Spanky:
“Das war ein Be-FAIL!!”
Note to Amir: Na, ich weiss wie man “Befehl” buchstabiert.
burnspbesq
@MCA1:
You’ve obviously never been to Irvine.
Original Lee
@SiubhanDuinne: I was bothered by that, too, but then I looked it up in Emily Post, and it’s actually correct. The verbal address is Mr. Vice President or Mr. President-Elects, but the letter salutation is Mr. Biden.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@burnspbesq: I’ve been to Irvine several times, I’m still laughing.
Gotta tell the kid(former resident).