55 thoughts on “Groveling Old P-words”

  1. the Grand Old Politicians: now the party of greedy, grouchy, groveling, and gruesome pro-deathers, putin-puppets and pusillanimous putzes.

    [for the non-PC, the D’ump grabber word also applies]

  2. well, maybe not Mitt

    business insider:

    Mitt Romney tears into Republicans who are threatening to protest the Electoral College vote that will confirm Biden’s election victory
    […]
    “This is madness. We have a process, recounts are appropriate, going to the court is approp & pursuing every legal avenue is appropriate, but trying to get electors not to do what the people voted to do is madness,” Frank Thorp V of NBC News quoted Romney as saying.
    A representative for Romney confirmed his statement to Business Insider.
    President Donald Trump’s campaign and some allied Republicans have waged lawsuits in multiple states seeking to overturn the 2020 election results. President-elect Joe Biden’s victory became clear days after Election Day, but Trump has yet to concede.
    “It would be saying, ‘Look, let’s not follow the vote of the people, let’s instead do it what we want, that would not be the way a democratic republic ought to work,” Romney said.

  6. craig, good idea.   for those rare occasions when a GOPer publicly chastises D’ump say: he isn’t “pencing” or didn’t “pence” words.

  7. “Let’s see whether or not somebody has the courage, whether it’s legislators or legislatures or a justice of the Supreme Court or a number of justices of the Supreme Court,” Trump said. “Let’s see if they have the courage to do what everybody in this country knows is right.”

     

    to pence or not to pence, that is the question

    whether ’tis nobler in the mind not to suffer
    the slings and arrows of outrageous tweets,
    or to take arms against He of Troubles,
    and by opposing Him end the nightmare and sleep,
    to sleep and thus to dream of better days and ways

     

    [apologies to willie shake]

  8. Joe Scarborough Regrets How Much Time ‘Morning Joe’ Spent on Hillary’s Emails MY BAD “But obviously looking back on it, we on ‘Morning Joe,’ and others in media, paid way too much attention to that,” he said.

    “I thought that was very legitimate at the time,” he said. “I thought the Clinton Foundation and how the Clintons chased in on public service, that was a legitimate question to ask. Hillary Clinton getting paid by Goldman Sachs to give a speech or getting paid by state colleges to give a speech… I think all of that was legitimate. ”
    “But obviously looking back on it, we on Morning Joe, and others in media, paid way too much attention to that,” Scarborough added. “Especially if you look at what we’ve been through over the past four or five years.”
    This would appear to be the first time Scarborough, who has become a vocal critic of the president’s, has publicly suggested he and his program spent too much time on the emails story, which centered on Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state.

    Joe and Mika can just piss right off!

  9. Trump’s Most Malicious Legacy The outgoing president leaves behind a tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional political culture. DECEMBER 7, 2020
    According to one poll, 70 percent of Republicans say they don’t believe that the 2020 election was free and fair. According to another, 77 percent of Trump backers say President-elect Joe Biden won because of fraud. And a Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 68 percent of Republicans said they were concerned that the 2020 election was “rigged,” and that only 29 percent believed that Biden had “rightfully won.” More than half of Republicans said Trump “rightfully won” but the election was stolen from him because of widespread voter fraud that favored Biden, claims that are hallucinatory.
    Uri Friedman: The damage will last
    This may be Donald Trump’s most enduring legacy—a nihilistic political culture, one that is tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional, swimming in conspiracy theories. The result is that Americans are disoriented and frustrated, fearful of and often enraged at one another.

  14. So, Texas AG’s election lawsuit is really about trolling for a pardon… 

    Paxton, who has been under indictment since 2015 for felony securities fraud charges, is facing fresh criminal allegations from eight of his top deputies, who said they believe he broke the law by using the agency to do favors for a political donor. https://t.co/i4kISZNvte

  16. States TX sued should countersue, challenge Trump’s Texas electors based on notorious voter suppression, such as closing minority polling places and restricting drop-off boxes to one per county.

  17. whose paying for all these lawsuits?  taxpayers that’s who.

    court costs, AG & staff salaries, tech & travel expenses etc.

  18. the hill:

    President Trump on Wednesday suggested he will intervene in a case brought by the state of Texas against other states alleging election fraud in yet another last gasp effort to subvert the outcome of the presidential election.

    “We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case. This is the big one. Our Country needs a victory!” Trump tweeted.

    It was not immediately clear if Trump planned to intervene in his personal capacity or if his campaign would get involved. A campaign spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.

    [continues]

  19. Craig….  now I’m blushing….  thanks.
     
    trump wants to intervene in the TX case because he’s still shilling for $$$.  Hey you trumpers and trumpettes….   give plenty and often!

  20. First question is what standing did Texas have to bring the suit and what damages can they demonstrate?  And they better be able to come forward with evidence of the 80,000 fraudulent signatures they alleged or there will be one pissed off judge. 

  21. Jim Crow still not dead. 4 of the 10 most populous counties in Georgia are reducing the number of locations where people can vote early in the state’s Senate runoff races, prompting outcry from civil rights and voting rights organizations.

    Stacey needs more help:

    http://gasenate.com 

     

  22. Carone has Corona and tells Michigan to fuck off, she’s not self-quarantining.

    A witness who attracted national attention after testifying at the side of Rudolph W. Giuliani about alleged voter fraud in Michigan says she is not self-quarantining and has not been tested for the coronavirus in the wake of Giuliani’s positive test and hospitalization.
      
    Mellissa Carone testified before state lawmakers on Dec. 2 for about 30 minutes while sitting beside the president’s personal attorney in Lansing, according to a video of the hearing. Neither wore masks. She also posed for photos with Giuliani, who health officials later said was “extremely likely” to have been contagious with the virus at the time.
     
    Health officials in Ingham County, which includes Lansing, on Monday ordered anyone who had been in contact with Giuliani at close range and for more than 15 minutes to self-quarantine after President Trump tweeted that his personal attorney had tested positive for the coronavirus. The county officials said they cannot enforce the directive outside their borders.
     
    In a phone interview Tuesday from her home in the Detroit suburbs, Carone told The Washington Post that she was living her life normally and had no plans to change that. She said she was unaware of the health advisory and was not worried about contracting the virus.
     
    “I would take it seriously if it came from Trump, because Trump cares about American lives,” Carone said, adding that if television networks friendly to Trump such as One America News or Newsmax “told me to go get tested, I would do it.”
     
    “It is not that I don’t believe in getting tested. I don’t trust the tests,” Carone said.

    She spoke admiringly of Giuliani, calling him “one of the most respectful, polite, just down-to-earth people I have ever met. He is great.”

    ***

    About two months before she worked at the Detroit election center, Carone finished 12 months of probation after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct in Michigan’s Wayne County, court records show. Carone had originally been charged with obscenity and using a computer to commit a crime, after she was accused of sending videos of herself and her boyfriend having sex to her boyfriend’s ex-wife, according to police records.

    Continues … more duh to come)

     
    Star witness indeed. Sheesh, it is hard to believe but Ms. Carone is apparently even more stupid than she appeared from the video of her testimony.  And her reliance on the advice of D’ump, OANN and Newsmax supports a Michigan court’s finding that she is not credible, and since her criminal conviction wasn’t known at that time, there’s teh cherry on the top of the sundae.

  23.  
     
    I is damn near noon and I’m still in my robe
    I just finished a late breakfast, an egg scramble with pineapple ham and onion. Biscuits with homemade peach jam.  and now I’m sipping on a double shot Irish coffee.
    Why? Because I can!!!
    It was pointed out to me that with the passing of my neighbor Lloyd I am now the “Old Man on the Block” and as of today I’m one year older.
    I’ve always hung around people older than me, It keeps getting harder to do. 
    Congrats to Renee on winning the alliteration gold medal.
    Jack

  24. Pogo, for standing TX is exploiting Supreme Court original jurisdiction for disputes between states. Easiest out for Court is deem this just a political matter we don’t get into, no legal issue here. 

  25. Thinking about assholes such as Ms Carone.
    There is where google glasses with facial recognition would come in handy. It would let you avoid such assholes. 
    Google was just too far ahead of it’s time.
    Jack

  26. Poobah, even in a dispute between the states, the state bringing the suit has to have a claim that the other state’s action is damaging it.  I don’t see it in this case.  Maybe SCOTUS will see something I don’t, but it sounds dubious at best.  And as for Trump intervening, based upon what – his claim of voter fraud in the swing states that so far has lost in every case that looked at potential merit to the allegations of fraud?  Yeah, that should be a great argument to make.

  27. Oh, and Jack, happy birthday.  Nothing like daytime drinking to celebrate.  Have a couple more and take a nap.

  28. I’ll tell you who can help Stacey Abrams.  The Georgia sports teams.  Just like the NBA stepped up during the general,  GA athletes can demand team owners help out with the election…and that includes coordinating transportation to polling places!

  31. Amazon was telling me those $15 box of disposable mask I bought last summer is now down to $5 dollars.
    So there is no excuse except of course being an asshole
    Which reminds me I haven’t played this song since the wars in here in 2008?

  32. Dennis Leary – he’s one of those actor/comedians I like one day and can’t stand the next.  I know he does a great job of being an asshole in his comic routine.

  37. Happy Birthday Jack!
     
    I got my masks off of Etsy….  for me… they had to be colorful and pretty.

  39. Happy Birthday Jack!
     
    Yes, Paxon is a criminal.  He was in this local court jurisdiction, but he got moved to a more favorable one ! Ha!   Yepper, another repube who wants a pardon. He;s above the law, don’t ya know!   It’s a really LONG time indictment. As long as trumpity’s tax audit! 
     
     

  40. Listened to a bit of the hearing on the army and sexually harassing and killing their own members. One of the men mentioned that if you have alpha males and women they should have paid attention.  I want to hear more about the alpha males and women.  Aren’t alpha males the ones in charge and that’s why it should be taken out of their hands, so to speak? 
     
    It’s men like the alpha males who give males a bad name.

  46. NYTimes:

    17 Republican Attorneys General Back Trump in Far-Fetched Election Lawsuit
    The move is an attempt to bolster a baseless legal effort by Texas that seeks to delay certification of the presidential electors in four battleground states that Mr. Trump lost.

    Despite dozens of judges and courts rejecting challenges to the election, Republican attorneys general in 17 states on Wednesday backed President Trump in his increasingly desperate and audacious legal campaign to reverse the results.
    The show of support, in a brief filed with the Supreme Court, represented the latest attempt by Trump loyalists to use the power of public office to come to his aid as he continues to deny the reality of his loss with baseless claims of voter fraud.
    The move is an effort to bolster a lawsuit filed on Tuesday by the pro-Trump attorney general in Texas that seeks to delay the certification of the presidential electors in four battleground states the president lost. Mr. Trump has been holding out hope that the Supreme Court will hear the case and ultimately award him a second term. Legal experts are skeptical, however, and have largely dismissed it as a publicity stunt.
    Late Tuesday, the president asked Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Republican, if he would be willing to argue the case, according to a person familiar with their conversation. Mr. Cruz agreed, this person said. And the president has filed a motion with the court to intervene, which would make him a party to the case.
    [continues]

  47. the hill:

    Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R) questioned why the state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) believed that his state’s officials should have a say over how other states conduct their elections.

    Speaking with CNN’s Manu Raju, the Texas Republican was referring to Paxton’s claim that the results of voting in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia were “tainted” due to changes to election processes in those states.

    “You know, it’s very unusual because when a state sues a state, the Supreme Court of the United States has original jurisdiction, so you don’t have to go through the ordinary procedure. I read just the summary of it, and I frankly struggle to understand the legal theory of it,” Cornyn told CNN.

    “Number one, why would a state, even such a great state as Texas, have a say so on how other states administer their elections,” the senator continued. “We have a diffused and dispersed system and even though we might not like it, they may think it’s unfair…those are decided at the state and local level and not at the national level. So it’s an interesting theory, but I’m not convinced.”

    [continues]

  48. All in all, over all, and in all ways, Tejas is ridiculous, a mess, dangerous to democracy and dangerous to every citizens’ health. 

  50. What happens at those casinos on Sundays when you can’t have a mimosa at brunch because of the blue law?

  52. Didn’t decorate.  Didn’t really do gifts. Not making cookies because you can’t share food at work.   Managed to mail three cards.  If I could sleep until mid-January…

  53. And the news just keeps coming. Thanksgiving is back to visit. 

    U.S. records more than 3,000 deaths in a single day, a new high

    After weeks of surging infections and rising levels of virus hospitalizations, the United States recorded more than 3,000 covid-19 deaths in a single day, a pandemic record, according to a Washington Post analysis.

    The harrowing milestone comes as two vaccine candidates appear to be on the verge of clearing the country’s final regulatory hurdles. Yet the new death record, as well as a new high of more than 106,000 covid-19 patients in hospitals, are grim reminders of the pandemic’s devastating toll.

    670 more deaths than on December 7, 1941. Hope the turkey and hugs were worth it. Dumbshits. 

    But Dumbass sees the greatest issue demanding action to be a meritless lawsuit brought by Texas. Fucking asshole.

  54. …
    But the D’ump administration takes notice and acts responsibly. 
     

    State Dept. hosts 200 guests for holiday drinks despite public health experts’ concerns
    ByJohn Hudson

    The State Department hosted roughly 200 guests Tuesday night at the presidential guesthouse despite the concerns of public health experts and a new positive coronavirus case on the premises since last week, according to two U.S. officials.

    The party included a tour of the White House’s holiday decor, followed by a self-guided tour across the street at Blair House, where foreign diplomats, their families, U.S. staffers, and friends and acquaintances of the State Department’s chief of protocol convened. About 200 guests attended, among them the ambassadors of Afghanistan, Egypt, South Korea and Guatemala, officials said.

    A State Department spokesman said the “Holiday Cheer” reception that typically follows the tour was canceled this year because of concerns about spreading the coronavirus, but two bars were set up in the guesthouse as the face-shield-wearing catering staff poured drinks into holiday-themed paper cups. Guests unmasked to consume the beverages, congregating and creating occasional choke points, the two officials told The Washington Post, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

    ~~~ Nothing gets past these guys. ~~~

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