Sunday TRashdUMP

 In politics, most of the important stuff happens during the M-F work week. Since there isn't much interesting activity on the weekend, I spend more minutes than usual checking out the opinions being shared in DU discussion forums and liberal webpage reader comments. This morning I was surprised by the pessimism about the coming election voiced by liberals in forums and comments. It seems like a lot of Democrats are bracing for another win by the waste of shit. Personally, I'm more optimistic about Joe B kicking his ass again. Here are some of the factors that give me hope:

• The odds are good that Donald Turnip will be found guilty on at least some of the 91 felony counts he'll face in trials held in NYC, Washington DC., Florida, and Georgia. There have been several polls reporting that significant numbers of MAGA voters won't vote for Turnip after he's been convicted of a felony.
• Turnip is winning the MAGA primary elections, but he's losing substantial percentages of the vote as follows: (Iowa 51-49), New Hampshire (54-46), Nevada (Dump did not participate in primary), South Carolina (60-40). Turnip is getting 50-60 percent of the MAGA primary vote, and exit polls show that many Republicans voting against him in primaries won't vote for him in November either.
• in the next few weeks, there should be plenty of media reporting about the difficulty Turnip is facing as a result of his New York fraud cases and the E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit, and his lack of funds to secure the bond.
• The media obsession over Joe Biden's age should be offset (or balanced) by increased media coverage of Turnip's obvious dementia.
• Turnip intends to grab control of the RNC by replacing its leadership with members of his family and loyal accomplices. Lara (his son Eric's wife) is expected to hold a major position, and has already told reporters that the RNC treasury will be spent on making sure Turnip wins by paying his legal expenses. This may be a bridge too far for some influential Republicans.
  

Primary Games

Nikki Haley has been running against El Muy Gordo for the MAGA nomination, but she's been reluctant to deliver an aggressive argument that she would be a much more effective precedent (sic) than he was. After the Iowa caucus, El Muy Gordo has chosen to launch a nasty racist attack against her, indicating that he's now recognizing her as a serious opponent. The good part is that being slimed by a pig like El Muy Gordo could motivate Haley to take retaliatory measures against him, which would ultimately help Joe,

Updated 742 PM Saturday 20 Jan: If the Iowa caucus results are indicative, it seems that about half of Republican voters will stick with the MAGA Maggot, but the other half are willing to vote for someone better than Muy Gordo (anyone). Maybe it's time for Nikki Haley to start pushing him hard on stuff like his mental fitness.

Almost Friday the 13th

When El Guano Grande tried to take control of the courtroom by presenting his closing argument in the New York fraud case, it was additional proof that the waste of shit isn't very bright. The only thing keeping him afloat is that almost all his zombie followers are much stupider than he is. Without zombies ready to carry out his death threats, El Guano couldn't keep MAGA Monkeys in Congress trembling in fear of him.

First Friday of '24 Lowlife Report

I hope that every trial results in multiple convictions on felony charges, and that in each case, Sicko Stinko experiences pain comparable to three large bricks being shoved up his ass. I haven't researched it, but I'm wondering if flagrant violation of the Constitution's Foreign Emoluments Clause could be prosecuted as a separate crime. Sicko collected several million in payments from China et al, between golf vacations. How many of the real U.S. presidents made that much profit on the deal?

If nothing else, these violations need to be a major issue in the '24 campaign.

While we're on the subject, Stinko's brain-dead lawyer is completely wrong (no surprise there). Her client isn't the most persecuted precedent (sic) ever, but he is without doubt the most thoroughly evil, incompetent, ignorant mental case to ever occupy the office. This is what happens when the most powerful government office in the country is handed over to one of the eight worst people in the world.

What we need now is a capable president who can sound the alarm while giving Sicko Stinko the kind of ass-kicking he'll never recover from. Joe should be able to handle the responsibility.

Constantly Wrong About Every Damned Thing

For several weeks, I've been reading the stream of insane hate-filled tirades Donny Stinkeye posts on social media about Joe Biden. In all of them, his descriptions of Joe are totally false, but he has described himself perfectly. 

For example, Joe will eventually be remembered as a capable president who did a good job of cleaning up the damned mess left by the asshole who had the job before him. On the other hand, Stinkeye will be permanently remembered by decent patriotic Americans as the worst president of the first 46 and eventually the worst one ever. 

Donny Stinkeye is a product of the fantasy world of TV reality shows, so he's completely disconnected from the world sane people live in. He quickly managed to drag the whole MAGA Monkey party into his stinking cesspool of make-believe. Sending him into irrevocable exile in Russia, or a twenty-year prison sentence without parole possibilities, would solve a multitude of problems this TRash dUMP is causing.

Q NOTES # 325: Wednesday's Game

The fissure in the (R) Party divides a small group of traditional right-wingers (Group A) and a large group of fascists who are devoted followers of El Cheezo (Group B). There seems to be a third group with members who don't mesh comfortably with either of the main groups. These people (Group C) are trying to straddle the fissure. The game we're playing this week is trying to pin down which (R)s belong in which group.

As of this morning, I feel pretty safe in assigning Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney to Group A since both are clearly part of the traditional conservative establishment, and both voted to impeach Cheezy. This week's headline grabber is Rep. M.T. (Empty) Greene, the poster gal for Group B. Finally, Marco Rubio is a classic example of the Group C fissure-straddler.

In my opinion, the problem that's developing for the (R) Party is as follows: Cheezy's no traditional right-winger; he's a TV performer who played a successful business tycoon on TV back when, then tried to play a U.S. president on TV for the last four years. His only interest is himself, not the (R) Party, and loyalty is strictly a one-way street (to him). He's best described as a corrupt, incompetent mental case.

The fascists in Group B constantly compete for Cheezy's attention and approval, but the only ones he smiles upon are those he can use: people who are corrupt, incompetent mental cases like himself. Any political party built on the foundation of loyalty to El Cheezo will eventually be a party completely filled with corrupt, incompetent mental cases.

Q NOTES, DAY 257: Endless?

After a slow news day on Thanksgiving, the frequency of fresh outrage reports is expected to increase soon. So far this morning, the top story seems to be Cheez Doodle's tweet that Joe won't be able to take over the presidency until he proves his 80,000,000 votes weren't obtained illegally through some kind of fraud. 

Two things that occur to me: 

First of all, Joe receiving the largest popular vote total in United States history and beating him by 6.2 M votes is eating away at Cheez Doodle, and it will continue to eat on him until the day he dies. His own impressive vote total will never finish better than 2nd place, ever. 

Second of all, Cheezy is gradually slipping into irrelevance in the overall scheme of things. Every day, more and more people will lose interest in him or stop caring about anything he does. The one thing he can do that still gets him a few minutes in the media spotlight is post increasingly insane shit on Twitter.

Q NOTES, DAY 226 (Part Two)

There's a lot happening in the news today, and it's pretty chilly outside, which means I'm spending most of my day indoors at a keyboard. There's never a shortage of Cheez Whiz insanity to type about; it's really a matter of narrowing down to the worst things he's done each day.

In the grand scheme of things it won't mean much, but Cheezy's been busy on Twitter creating an imaginary world where anyone who doesn't completely agree with him is part of a conspiracy to make him look bad. In this world, COVID is a minor nuisance that the Great Americans (the ones at his pep rallies) don't care about, and he's on track to win virtually every state when the networks announce he's been reelected next week. Also, Fox News is devoting too much airtime to Barack Obama and Joe Biden (Joe being the one who's not too sharp mentally in Cheez Whiz world).

With Russian Asset Trump (RAT), I never know for sure whether his ability to confront reality is totally shot to hell, or if he's trying to get by with the same old scams that worked so well when he was just another tabloid celebrity with a TV reality show, and most people thought he was amusing. 

But in my opinion, the ultimate move on his mental checkerboard today is advice to people who voted for Biden but are having second thoughts after watching RAT's triumph in the last debate: Vote again and change it! Yeah, that's okay in most states.

It probably won't make RAT happy to learn that NBC News is now considering Texas a tossup state in the election. Flip a coin, baby. Apparently the (R) voter suppression apparatus isn't quite as formidable as we were told it would be.

Inconsequential

In terms of ability to exercise effective leadership in any situation, MF-45 has the substance of a hummingbird fart in a hurricane (category 5).

Those of us who aren't flaming assholes knew MF-45 would wreck the country. We just didn't know exactly how he'd do it.

Concealment

During any potential national health crisis, the real presidents always wanted information made available to the public. But not the love god. After all, being openly contradicted by professionals with expertise is one of numerous things that panics the great orange blob.

Added 8:08 PM: Looks like the Senate (R)s who wanted the spectacle of Hunter Biden under subpoena suddenly realized that House (D)s might create the spectacle of Jared and The Rotten Spawn under subpoena. That would have been entertaining.

Downsizing

Donny 10 Flushes won't really be happy until the entire federal government consists of one person: him.

Loose Lips Sink Ships

It wasn't surprising to read a report that Donny Doink revealed some secret information while he was running his mouth over the weekend. Someone told Donny that a president has considerable latitude in declassifying information. Being a big-league doink, he understood this to mean that he never had to let national security issues get in the way of a good story.

Everyone in the world with some degree of access to electronic media and an IQ over 100 knows that nearly every word Doink speaks or tweets is bullshit for one or more of the following reasons:

• Donny is a pathological liar.
• Donny is too ignorant to know facts, and too lazy to learn them.
• Most of the time, Donny exaggerates the significance of his role in events to make it appear he knows what a president is supposed to do.
• Donny constantly takes credit for good things he didn't do, and blames other people for bad things he did do.
• He has a bad habit of repeating stuff he hears on Fox News and other right-wing media sources that are even less reliable than Fox News.
• It's easier for Donny to threaten to do something than to actually do it.
• He must conceal his criminal activities to avoid prison time.

Add it all up, and we'd need to be pretty fucking stupid to waste precious minutes of our lives worrying about what Danny Doink just tweeted or said to reporters. About 99 out of every 100 things that spill out of that sorry bastard's pie hole have no connection to the real world.

Uncontrollable

Donnie TrumScum has Booger Barr as his personal attorney, with taxpayers footing the bill. He was able to pull this off because the GOP Senate confirmed Barr with the knowledge he didn't give a fuck about the Attorney General position or the Department of Justice.

This morning, TrumScum announced he'll assert executive privilege to make sure no one but him will ever see the complete Mueller report. A two-year investigation of Donnie's participation in obstruction of justice and collusion with Russia to corrupt a presidential election, and now the criminal is the only one who can read the report on his crimes?

The people who designed this system apparently overestimated the ability of American citizens to choose elected officials wisely. When we finally clean up the current shitty mess, we need to make sure that future Republican presidents always face unified House and Senate Democratic majorities. The system is too fragile to work without the expected checks and balances.

The one (only) thing TrumScum does effectively is con the stupidest people in the world into admiring him. He has that scam down pat after years of practice.

Don Donnie

It's hard to think of him as comical, but occasionally I get a laugh when the fat stool sample pretends to be the godfather character in a criminal empire. You know, that guy who has subordinates kissing his hand in fear?

"Nobody disobeys my orders."
Okay, pappy. Whatever.

Warren

I'll probably only say this once: If a worthless, rotten pig like Donald Wangdoodle is eligible to be president, I can't imagine anything that would disqualify Liz Warren. She's not at the top of my list, but on her worst day, she'd be 1,000,000 times better in the job than Rectal Itch has been.

Obama did it first? No.

You know Tiny Tallywhacker is lying again because he'd never do anything that Barack Obama did. What really frosts my butt is that so many people live their worthless lives believing every word of this shit.

Nationalism

When Donny Pretty Shitty brags that he's a "nationalist" to a gym full of nose-pickers, goobers, and yahoos who support Rafael (Ted) Cruz, there are only two possibilities: Donny doesn't understand the meaning of the word, or he does. Either way, it's not acceptable. Someone needs to send him an official notification of immediate termination of service.

The Hand-off

From Alternet: If Robert Mueller and his troops are as sharp as I believe they are, they're probably ready for the possibility that Donnie Dog's Ass will make a move to fire Rosenstein. There's plenty of serious criminal activity to go around... everybody in law enforcement may eventually get a chunk of the action to prosecute.

Plea Deals

I've been waiting for some good news on the Mueller investigation front, and it seems like I'm getting some. Paul Manafort apparently agreed to a plea bargain that requires his cooperation with the investigation. In today's world, anything that's good news for me is probably bad news for Donnie Stinkfinger. Here's the write-up by Marcy Wheeler at Empty Wheel.

If it's not illegal, it should be.

We can add Fat Freeloading Motherfucker to the guidebook of ugly ways to describe Donnie Squalid. The brain-dead goobers in his audience should be forced to foot the bill for this shit through mandatory campaign donations equaling 75 percent of their annual income.