Pressley and I were standing around in the sitting room, discussing the finer points of Cohen’s book, when we heard the “When did he know” tapes from Woodward’s book.
In the last four days we’ve gone from “losers and suckers” to “what a sleazy businessman/person/candidate” to “suppressing the truth about COVID-19.” tRump’s spokesweasels and PR flacks have swarmed emergency rooms all over the nation suffering from severe whiplash. McNinny badly sprained her tongue trying to lie fast enough to keep up with the breaking scandals.
In what may be he most stupid thing I’ve ever seen tRump do, he blamed Woodward for causing deaths by not exposing tRump’s lies sooner.
While Louisiana’s good ol’ boy, Senator John Kennedy. made a hash of defending Mr. Flip-Flap-Flop*, most of his compatriots were dong their very best duck and cover ballet. If you look into their cold dead eyes, you can see the butterflies of abject fear flapping around. Those that can still think are starting to panic about November.
They know that the guy flying the plane doesn’t have a pilot’s license, has never flown one before, refuses to listen to ground control, and has already managed to rip off parts of the wings and break open the fuselage.
They are at the point of fight or flight. Based on the supreme lack of success of their mascot, The Fighting Bonespur, many will choose flight. And that presents them with a serious problem. None of them are worth diddly squat as pilots. Expect to see a lot of them crash and burn, as they waited too long to try get away from the gravitational effects of Bullshit Mountain (h/t Bill in Portland Maine).
They haven’t lost everything just yet. We’ve received word that the Republican Flight Academy has expanded its course offerings and added new instructors to handle the expected crush of rodents, weasels, bootlickers, sickophants, lickspittles and Mitch as they they make one last attempt to salvage something from the mess they’ve created. They’ve already declared it to be an every man for himself event. The main seminar will be, How to Safely Distance from tRump without Alienating the Base. They haven’t found an instructor yet as no sitting national republican politician has managed to thread that needle.
Lindsay Graham, Joni Ernst, Thom Tillis, Cory Gardener, Susan Collins, Jim Jordan, Elise Stefanik, Devin Nunes, Louis Gohmert, Doug Collins and a raft of others have all committed to going down with the plane (It would have been a ship except the metaphor is about flight so ...).
Tom Nichols, Professor of International Affairs at the US Naval War College and a livelong repubilcan, described what should happen thusly:
Today the Republicans are the party of “American carnage” and Russian collusion, of scams, plots, and weapons-grade contempt for the rule of law. The only decent, sensible, and conservative position is to vote against this Republican Party at every level, and bring the sad final days of a once-great political institution to an end. Then build the party back up again—from scratch.
I want these people dragged away from the levers of power more than anything else I can think of. They are actively destroying my country and my planet. It has to stop. It is as if everything that is wrong with our society got together and concocted a plan to make it worse. Only they don’t have a plan. They haven’t had a plan for years. They gave the controls to a moron and he’s busy flying the plane into the ground, handy mountains and his massive ego, over and over again.
We are the runway foam. We will put out the fire.
*I thank Michael Cohen for his succinct description of the mechanics of tRump’s absurd complicated combover.
Pressley sez: I think you should apply the same logic you use to ‘control the pet population’ to controlling republicans — neuter them. If you can do it to us, you can do it to them. We are, after all, orders of magnitude more loyal and caring.
Up the Resistance!
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crystaline posted this in the comments a couple of days ago, ninjaing this link.
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There’s also one of these for McSally, Perdue and Tillis
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Note: I think this is Shade #305 and the 300th I’ve written. I was going to have a special Shade to celebrate the occasion, but lost track and forgot until I was getting the pie. Oh, well.
Mokurai used today’s GNR to look forward: Good News Thursday: It Will Take a While to Get Used to #SoMuchWinning
If Goodie hasn’t gotten you excited about Joe yet, you aren’t paying attention: Biden has restored dignity to an elected office before: Day 59 out of 100 days of loving Joe Biden
Yosef 52 updated his takedown of tRump’s COVID-19 response: Trump and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Record of Utter FAILURE (New Information Added)
Yosef 52 is also a very sharing person. He very much wants you to share this (So do I): Vital Information About Voting, Getting Out the DEMOCRATIC Vote, and Influencing the Electorate