49 thoughts on “Perdue Plucked”

  3. FLAPOL about the above:

    Fresh off a 2020 cycle that saw the dissident Republicans at the Lincoln Project kneecap the reelection hopes of President Donald Trump, the veteran consultants continue their work to dismantle Trumpism.
    The latest venue for that quest is Georgia, where the Lincoln Project contends Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, Republicans in tough runoff challenges, are merely “pet Senators” for the current Senate Majority Leader, Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell.
    “You might think this ad is about Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue,” a whisky-voiced male says on the vocal track. “Yeah, they got secret COVID briefings while their stockbrokers cashed in. And yeah, they embraced the crazy conspiracy nuts. But they aren’t really on the ballot.”
    Rather, it’s McConnell and the Trump legacy for which the January elections stand as a referendum, the ad contends.
    “Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are really running against Mitch McConnell,” the narrator warns. “If Mitch elects his pet Senators, it’s four more years of what we just voted out.”
    […]
    “Georgians have a unique opportunity to remind Americans just how little Republicans worry about anything other than their own prospects — political, personal and financial.” said Reed Galen, co-founder of The Lincoln Project. “Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue obeying Mitch McConnell’s agenda mean Americans withstanding another four years of lying, distrust, and failed leadership with him in power.”
    The ad will air this week in major Georgia markets such as Albany and Augusta, according to a Wednesday afternoon media release accompanying the creative. However, the group did not say what the budget is for the buy.

  4. why that LP ad might work in the GA runoff

    msnnews:

    Statistics released by Public Policy Polling on July 28 showed that a majority of voters in Colorado,

      Georgia,

    Iowa, Maine and North Carolina disapproved of McConnell’s position regarding federal aid to states during the pandemic. How much should be allocated to states in federal aid under the next stimulus is an area of discord between congressional Democrats and Republicans. The polling data additionally highlighted McConnell’s general unpopularity among voters in those states, with disapproval ratings ranging from 45 to 57 percent.

    [emphasis mine]

  7. I don’t know about the other seniors on  the trail, but I am a bit miffed with Social Security this year.  I just got informed that after the annual increase in the cost of Medicare, I will be receiving a whole $9.00 per month more next year.  

    Glad I live with my son.  I can’t image what some seniors totally on their own have to survive.

     

  8. Here’s some comic relief from Wapo. And can’t we all use a bit of comic relief?

    Weeks after Melissa Carone was tapped by the Trump campaign as a star witness in Michigan, little appeared to be going as planned with the contract IT worker’s testimony — an unverified series of claims about ballot fraud at Detroit’s vote-counting center.

     

    In interviews with conservative-leaning media, last month, her offbeat tale suggesting ballots were being smuggled inside food vans seemed to baffle even Fox Business host Lou Dobbs. Two days later, a Wayne County judge ruled that her allegations “simply are not credible.”

    Yet, there she was in front of a Michigan House panel on Wednesday, dressing down a Republican lawmaker as she loudly insisted, without proof, that tens of thousands of votes had been counted twice. At one point, she was audibly shushed by Trump campaign attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani.

    “I know what I saw,” Carone told state Rep. Steven Johnson (R), raising her eyebrows sharply. “And I signed something saying if I’m wrong, I can go to prison. Did you?”

    On social media, her pointed declarations, Midwestern lilt and poofy, blond updo drew comparisons to “Saturday Night Live” characters played by Victoria Jackson and Cecily Strong. By early on Thursday, one clip of her exchange with Johnson had been viewed about 9 million times.

    For many following along, the viral clips of Carone appear to sum up the last-ditch legal efforts by the Trump campaign to challenge the vote in swing states won by President-elect Joe Biden. As the campaign’s lawsuits have been repeatedly tossed out in court, Giuliani has instead urged Republican legislators to embrace his unverified claims of fraud and halt their states’ vote certifications.
    (…)

     
    You really can’t make this up. The clips of her testimony are worth their weight in gold.

  9. Jamie – remember that snrmjrldr is part of the group trying to get rid of Social Security.  If Biden had lost and the House flipped we would have seen that attack next year.

  10. Bye bye Bill? 

    President Trump remained livid at Attorney General William P. Barr on Wednesday, with one senior administration official indicating there was a chance Barr could be fired — not just for his public comments undercutting Trump’s unfounded claims of election-shifting fraud, but also for steps he did not take on a probe of the FBI’s 2016 investigation into Trump’s campaign.

    A day after Barr told the Associated Press that he had “not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” Trump continued to complain about his attorney general, people familiar with the matter said.

    One senior administration official said there was a chance Trump would fire his attorney general and asserted that the president was not merely frustrated over Barr’s fraud-related assertions. The person said that several people are trying to persuade Trump not to do so. Like others, this official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

    Trump, the official said, was perhaps even angrier that Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham did not issue a public report of his findings before last month’s election, and that Barr had secretly appointed Durham as special counsel in October, giving him extra legal and political protection to continue the work he started a year ago. Durham is examining whether crimes were committed by law enforcement during its 2016 investigation of whether Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russia.

    “A lot of it is Durham,” the official said. A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment.

    (…)

    This was inevitable – we’ll see if D’ump has the balls to dump Barr. 

  15. “thinly-veiled”?

    you must never had a sloppy slobbery drunk* accost you at an office christmas party.  nothing veiled, thinly or otherwise, about it

    *too often then not an executive suite inhabitant

  17. Image result for travel Gnome

    the traveling garden gnome replaced by a chunk of steel?   

    the hill:

    After a mysterious metal monolith recently appeared in Utah and was promptly disassembled, another was spotted in Romania. Now, a third such obelisk has popped up — this time on a mountain in Southern California.

    The new monolith was found atop Pine Mountain in Atascadero early Wednesday and drew a crowd of hikers throughout the day.

    Unlike the Utah structure, this equally mysterious monolith was not secured to the ground, allowing it to be removed by vandals on Thursday, despite that it reportedly standing at 10-feet tall and 18 inches wide, and weighing about 200 pounds.

    [continues]

  21. Here is a great one – Chinese company Smithfield has offered to use its American supercold containers to move the COVID vaccine around.  Those are in the company’s refrigerated trailers used to haul pork products and other things.  Pretty cool and it must put a burr in some SFB diaper that a Chinese company is willing to do this.

  23. On Wisconsin, on Wisconsin…

    Wisconsin Supreme Court declines to hear Trump campaign challenge to election results

    The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday declined to take up a challenge to the presidential election filed by President Trump’s campaign, finding that under state law, it should have sought a hearing first in a lower-level court.

    Trump’s campaign could still seek to challenge President-elect Joe Biden’s more than 20,000-vote lead in the state in Wisconsin circuit court.

    But the refusal of the state’s highest court to take up Trump’s petition is a new blow to Trump’s foundering efforts to overturn the election — and a particularly stinging rebuke, given that conservatives hold a 4-to-3 majority on the elected panel.

    One conservative member of the panel, Brian Hagedorn, joined the court’s three more liberal members in declining to take the case.

    Hagedorn wrote that he had determined the court should decline to take the case so the Trump campaign could “promptly exercise” its right to seek action in a lower court.

    (…)

    Lower Court says Hagedorn – to start the process where it shoudl have begun, and time’s a wastin’. All that winning must be exhausting to the Dumbass team.

  25. and continuing from the previous comment…

    (…)

    Trump also filed a lawsuit in federal court late Wednesday challenging the Wisconsin results. That case argues that state elections officials violated so many state laws in running the election that they violated constitutional provisions assigning the job for deciding how to choose presidential electors to the state legislature.

    The practices to which the president objected were similar to those his campaign has previously challenged that have been in place for years and were applied to ballots across the state.

    Now I’m not much of a lawyer, and I’m a somewhat lapsed English major, and sometimes my grasp of logic is tenuous, but I’m trying to make sense of the 2nd sentence in the first paragraph above and make it make sense in light of the second paragraph.  Frankly, It sounds like a bit of legal legerdemain to me.  The kind that draws a “What was that you just said?” response from the bench.

  26. Just got a CNN notice that Joe told Jake Tapper he would ask Americans to wear masks for 100 days after he takes office.  OK, good idea, but that ain’t gonna buy Ossoff and Warnock a bunch of votes in GA if Perdue and Loeffler hang that around their necks in the runup to the runoff.

  27. I always thought mistletoe was a nice way to shoot this goofy plant out of the trees, take it and sell it on the streets of New York and thereby pay for a nice week there seeing weird New York shit.  That’s how I met Imus at the Lone Star on 5th Ave. in 77.  Fred too.
     Gonnegtions.
    —F. Scott

  29. I quit smoking a week ago.  Ordinarily I don’t make announcements of personal life decisions but this time I pondered.  I had this tooth wobbling around in my lower right-hand jaw…..it made eating problematic so I quit eating (not totally) and took some serious pain pills here and there for a week……then I decided that the situation in my jaw was, well, I had to procure penicillin NOW in the correct application, know the feeling?
    thar was part one

  30. I got a thought just now: I’m really not used to thinking much about it, again ordinarily,
    They love him because he’s such an asshole.   I can’t say they’re wrong.

  32. If you’re an unapologetic racist/bigot, or a willing fascist, or you live off passive income, then Trump’s your guy

  34. Apparently, there aren’t any bars in Texas, anymore.   Due to an increase in COVID numbers, Texas bars must close.  However, bars re-classified themselves as restaurants, so they are only reduced to 50% capacity like actual restaurants.

  36. It’s an absurdity to assume the average contemporary citizen has the time and sophistication to make informed judgments on complex policy issues, which is why the “drill, baby, drill” mentality is so comforting to many of them.
     
    They will become no more intellectually curious on January 22nd, and here’s the worst part: THEY HAVE OR WILL REPRODUCE (at vastly greater rates than those with liberal educations)

  42. i keep furry anti-depression entities around for just such occasions, they’re always so happy to see me (as opposed to most people who tend not to be)!

  43. I was a bit worried today, For the last couple of months I’ve been going to the wound care clinic dealing with a spider bite aggravated by diabeties. It is not the sore on my leg that was the problem it is damn near healed. What was worrysome was all the people that weren’t there.  I usually check in through the hospital and they have 2 or 3 people plus the person at the desk. to check you in but not  this time only the person at the desk so I had to wait. Then I went up to the clinic and they had a nurse shortage too. Just one of the 3 regular nurses were there and the aid that would finish up wasn’t there. 
    Don’t know what is going on but I sprayed the hell out of my hands everytime I touched anything and used every hand sanitizer machine as I walked out of the place just in case.
    Jack

  44. I got an extra furry critter if you need him. Sammy is quite the kitty. A neighbor passed away last week and his wife was in the hospital from a stroke at the time. So I caught him and brought him over to my house and assured her I would take good care of Sammy. He is having a little trouble adjusting to a multispecies household but he is getting there.
    Jack

  46. Mike Judge (MIT grad) creator of “Beavis and Butthead”, predicted all of this, 15 years, ago, in his previously cited movie “Idiocracy”, here, which actually isn’t a very good movie, so here’s the best scene:

  47. A lot of truth to that video clip.
    I’m going to throw in a “yeah, but…..”
    Uncles have the best chance of living the good life and passing on their genetic material. That is if they have cooperative siblings.
    The uncle gets to spoil the children, doesn’t have to spend money or time raising them, weeds out the stupid ones as he encourages them to do “fun things”
     
    Then in his old age just remind all those nieces and nephews that Old Uncle Jack didn’t have to spend all his money raising kids it is all setting there in the bank just waiting for someone to inherit.
    Them or that nice looking blond down the road……

    yeah, I know
    Jack
     

  48. Correction: Mike Judge is a UCSD physics grad, not MIT.   i think he turned down MIT or something, i forget, but if you’ve ever taken college-level physics, you’d know a degree in it is tough stuff

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