The Long Memory

Rows of empty seats in an arena

Trump is speaking at the same Atlanta arena where Kamala packed it to the rafters a few days ago. Except for Trump there are hundreds of empty seats.

My expectations for the level of ineffectual, grifting train wreck a ground game that had been outsourced to Charlie fuckin Kirk was gonna be were sky high and this just soared over them effortlessly. 😂

This isn’t particularly surprising. The default in America is to pay lip service to free speech but when confronted with specifics to favor protecting speech we like and punishing speech we don’t like.

I knew their ground game would be absolutely superb as soon as I heard they'd outsourced it to Charlie Kirk's grifting ass, but this is really blowing my expectations out of the water. 😂

A version of the figure in the linked article (cabinet officers under Trump, grouped by whether they have declared support or opposition to his candidacy - actually a merged version, so no rows are grayed out) with several members highlighted to indicate they are, according to my memory, accused of misusing their office for personal gain, or of obstruction of justice. I could be forgetting a bunch!

I think an annotated version is useful really.

With the caveat that this is by what I remembered offhand looking at the names, I could be forgetting a whole bunch.

Omg “we’re not going back to the alleys” is SO GOOD

With only six months to go in Biden's presidency, we have to admit he did not do a good job executing his plan to hunt and kill all Republicans

They literally would've covered the entire front page in BIDEN MUST RESIGN demands for a week if he had backed out of a debate and instead invited Trump on Pod Save America instead

Yes and also the beginnings of the next big lie. If "the entire Kamala phenomena [sic.] is completely and utterly fake," there can only be one legitimate outcome to the election.

Did Stalin write this?

Defending democracy and self determination and wrecking a major American adversary at the same time is a fantastic use of our tax dollars actually and we should be giving the Ukrainians more weapons and equipment. 💪💪

Tweet from Kamala HQ with a video of Donald Trump on Fox Business: Trump goes on unintelligible rant: "Google, nobody called from Google. One of the things like doing a show like yours, your show, you know, you see it on Fox, but when you really see it is all over the place, they take clips of your show that you're doing right now with me and if I do a good job, they're gonna vote for me, they're gonna vote for me because it's not just on Fox, it's on Fox is a smaller part of it. You're on all over this, those little beautiful cell phones you're on, you're all over the place. You have a product, you have a great product. You have a great brand. So you have to get out, you have to get out, you have to do things like your show and other shows and Google has been very bad. They've been very irresponsible and I have a feeling that Google is gonna be close to shut down"

KamalaHQ engages in dirty political trick of quoting Trump at length verbatim.

𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐒 𝐈𝐓 𝐎𝐍:
Elon’s PAC is running an ad encouraging voters to register.
If you click the ad link, it asks you for all your personal info & instead of helping people to register to vote in battleground states, it says “thank you.” That means you gave over your personal data to a political operative.

Out of touch Skinner meme. Top Panel, Principal Skinner from The Simpsons pondering. Caption: Should I shut the hell up about childless cat ladies? Bottom panel, Skinner looking up. Caption: No, it's my children who should shut the hell up about Pikachu

I hope not, for his kids' sake.

Top of the list of priorities the next time we have a trifecta has to be court reform that includes SCOTUS expansion and abolishing the 5th Circuit and replacing it with a new appeals court from scratch. The No Kings Act is an easier lift and also a nice start.

Adam drops some real heat in this one, for example:

“Some of the dimmer conservatives on the internet have suggested that being descended from slave owners makes a person not Black; you have to wonder if these people are capable of counting to 10 on their fingers.”

Just as “weird” has been the epithet that actually stings even though it seems mild, I think the most stinging (and accurate) critique of the NYT is that it’s simply bad at journalism and writing. It often can’t write clear understandable headlines and that’s true even outside of politics

I like to imagine that the spineless milquetoast who writes headlines for the NYT talks like this nonstop

“Officer! My Wallet Is Facing a Crisis After an Encounter with a Hoodlum-Tinged Man I Met Whilst Riding the Subway”

When you've lost Kyle Rittenhouse... 😂

For how much they claim to love the Constitution, this crowd sure does urinate on the Emoluments Clause from a great height. King Con literally opened a hotel down the street from the WH the sole purpose of which was to be a bribe-laundering op for foreign princes and potentates.

5. And now we find out the Egyptian military dictatorship gave him $10 million in cash and Bill Barr and other political appointees torpedoed the investigation into it. And that's just the stuff we know about. Pretty much exactly what you'd expect from a protege of Roy Cohn.

3. The Emiratis were bribing Trump via real estate deals. 4. Everyone--the Saudis & Chinese esp--was bribing Trump directly via overpriced stays at the hotel he opened down the street from the White House specifically as a bribe-laundering operation and then sold it shortly after leaving office.

A non-exhaustive recap: 1. The Turks were bribing Trump's incoming National Security Advisor, Flynn, who was involved in a plot with them to kidnap Fetullah Gulen from his home in Pennsylvania and send him back to Turkey to be tortured. 2. The CCP was bribing Jared and Ivanka with patents.

We either have the rule of law or we don't. If we want to have the former, it's essential we hold the powerful to account.

Day 1 of the Harris admin needs to feature an AG not named Garland who will appoint a special counsel to pursue this to the ends of the earth without fear or favor.

If Sha'Carri wins the damn thing after all she went through last time around, I may well remain stoked for over 48 hours. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgXO...

just as 'the jew' is both capitalist overlord and underclass communist in the ur-fascist pantheon of nemeses, 'woke' is both christian slave morality and anti-christian secular nihilism

Lol this is definitely satire, but it's hilarious. 😂

Vetter/JD
- Anything else?
- I once trashed an athlete.
- Kaepernick?
- No, not like that.
- A Rod?
- No, a popular one.
- Jordan? Tiger? They're not tha...
- One of our most beloved athletes
- [...]
- Who's scheduled to have a huge redemption story
- [...]
- In 2 weeks.
[Trump's sons:] We're good.