Trump's Stooges, in All, But in Name

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Trump's Stooges, in All, But in Name

A stooge, a shill, a lackey Lack Key-lacks the key ? Must lick the boots of the key holder ?

(The Three Stooges comedy team are currently being recycled on TV - they were not evil.)

Fuck legitmate credibility! (Trump's Alliance burned their credibility on a pyre.)

Stooge-One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe.

Jonathan Chait ✓
Twitter › jonathanchait

Conservatism and fascism are not the same thing

(link to Intelligencer via NY magazine)

21 minutes ago
 
You really ought to provide links with this kind of post -- as posted, there is no way for us to know the names of these "stooges."
 
Early morning cartoon show is recycling Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck has returned.

Daffy Duck :
"I may be a craven little coward, but I'm a *greedy* craven little coward."
"I just gotta have that five Gs!"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050341/characters/nm0000305

Ducking the Devil
1957

The Tasmanian Devil escapes from the City Zoo. The reward for his capture
is 5000 dollars, which is enough incentive for Daffy Duck to overcome
his frantic cowardice and musically lull the Devil into peacefully walking
back with him to the City Zoo.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050341/
 
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) acknowledged the one year anniversary
of the Jan. 6 attacks in a letter to his GOP colleagues on Sunday -

from the desk of Rep. Kevin McCarthy
"Unfortunately, one year later, the majority (Democrat) party seems no closer
to answering the central question of how the Capitol was left so unprepared
(on January 6th) and what must be done to ensure it never happens again,"
he added.

"Instead, they (Democrats) are using it as a partisan political weapon
to further divide our country."

McCarthy Whines, Without Any Apparent Irony
- Daily Beast

January 3, 2022

Colossal Whiner Kevin McCarthy: Dems 'Dividing Country' Over J6

- Frances Langum

Get a load of this guy. Again. Kevin McCarthy sent a letter to his House Republicans
blaming Democrats for "dividing the country" over last year's violent insurrection
against the Capitol Building and those working in it. Really, Kevin?

- via Crooks and Liars

January 3, 2022

Kevin McCarthy Furious Democrats Doing So Little To Protect Capitol
From Republican Trump Insurgents

- Evan Hurst

Thursday is the one-year anniversary of that time a bunch of Republican
terrorist-attacked the US Capitol to make the Republican president happy
and to try to force Republicans in Congress to steal democracy for said
president.

- via Wonkette

Axios ✓
Twitter › axios

Trump and fervent allies, including Steve Bannon, plan to go on the offense
during the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection — in fiery contrast to
Congressional GOP leaders who plan no events, sources with direct
knowledge tell Axios.

32 minutes ago
 
I'm not sure if it's whining, so much as it is giving his base what he knows they want. The deplorables are desperate to believe the Democrats were in the wrong, and the whole "they were really Antifa in disguise" thing fell flatter than a pancake, as did "technically it wasn't an insurrection" among anyone who doesn't desperately want to believe that. But the lie that Pelosi was in charge of the Capitol Police and thus it was her fault for being unprepared does seem to have gotten some traction. So he might as well play to that. It's not as if there's any political upside to a Republican admitting the truth here.
 
California formerly-Republican hopeful, Kelly Ernby, exhibited symptoms of
Covid-19, and a week later, she was dead. 46 year old woman, no morbidities.
Anti- masker, Anti-Vaxxer, Anti-mandates. She died yesterday!

Just another, formerly-Republican MAGA Pied Piper, saying something horrible,
and leading others to untimely deaths -

Today!
Trump minion, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin:
"Why do we think that we can create something better than God in terms of combatting
disease?"

"There are certain things we have to do, but we have just made so many assumptions,
and it's all pointed toward everybody getting a vaccine."

Senator Ron Johnson ✓
Twitter › SenRonJohnson

Once again the COVID gods are attacking truth. I won’t apologize
for being in awe of creation or for the assumption that immunity
from COVID infection might outperform immunity created in a lab.
Unfortunately, the vaccines aren’t as safe or effective as we hoped.

32 minutes ago
 
Self-appointed President of Florida, Gov. Ron "De Satan" DeSantis decided that
he needed to have the same protection from the public as President Joe Biden -
He took over a public building for a closed, private press conference - press
and Trump cheerleaders, only. No peasants to ruin his propaganda recording session.

Florida Department of Health administrative building in Duval County, Jacksonville, Florida

Ron DeSantis was there to whine about the amount of monoclonal antibody treatment doses
granted to Florida.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/04/florida-news-conference-handcuffs/

De Satan's goons take a disabled 72 year old man to the ground -
Frazier was told by a man who described himself as a facilities manager
that the conference was only for “credentialed press” and asked everyone
to leave “who is not media.”

Mr. Frazier was not even permitted to use his electric wheelchair to leave.
He was frog-marched out, in handcuffs and placed in the back of a patrol car.
Mr. Frazier said officers detained him there for 40 minutes, then released him
with a notice to appear in court for a trespassing charge.

https://floridapolitics.com/archive...s-return-to-omicron-overwhelmed-jacksonville/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/04/florida-news-conference-handcuffs/

Only White Supremacists are allowed to protest Democrats, in President De Satan's state.

Ron De Satan's sidekick, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, had his time in the spotlight, on Faux TV

Florida’s Surgeon General appeared on Fox News Tuesday night and said
people should not be required to have a negative Covid test before flying
or going to school.

He also said that vaccines are not the way to end the pandemic.


“The vaccine passports, you know, this requirement to get tested to go to school
or to get on a plane,” said Ladapo. “I mean, it’s just ridiculous. This idea that,
you know, that you could stop this with vaccines was unrealistic,
but the policies are based on the idea that you can stop this
with vaccines and mass testing and things like that.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/joseph-ladapo-says-vaccines-wont-end-pandemic/
 
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Stephen Colbert gave his audience a laugh, as he told them of some of Trump's stooges,
burying forged election documents into the National Archives. Colbert ripped them,
for impersonating real electors.

They got caught!

It seems that it did not stop, after that happened.


Rachel Maddow MSNBC ✓
Twitter › maddow

"In exactly how many states did this happen? We previously knew of one;
now we know of three. Trump lost 25 states in 2020. How many of them
included election opponents willing to send forged election-related documents
to government offices?"

(link to MSNBC)

24 hours ago


"It's not like they created these documents to hold close to their chest and fantasize
that this had been the real outcome. It's not like they created these documents just
to keep themselves as a keepsake. They sent them in to the government as if they
were real documents. And it's not like they sent them in saying -
'We know they're not the real electors, because Biden won here, but here's our names
for posterity. Here's our names for your records.' No, they actually created these fake
documents purporting to be the real certifications of them as electors."
- Rachel Maddow

Maddow Unearths Five Fake State Documents Declaring Trump Victory in 2020 Election

(It appears that there are seven states, so far.)

Swing State Trumpers Forged Electoral Letters in Harebrained Scheme
to Overturn Biden’s Win

Pro-Trump groups in at least five states sent the government forged certificates
of ascertainment declaring Trump the recipient of the state’s 2020 electors.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported on the falsified documents Tuesday night,
noting that the fake certifications, which were obtained by watchdog group
American Oversight, have “almost the exact same wording” to the real
documents.

“They sent them into the government as if they were real documents,” Maddow said.
They actually created these fake documents purporting to be the real certifications of
them as electors,” she added. “They all match, exactly. Same formatting, same font
same spacing, almost the exact same wording. All of them.”

- Rolling Stone

January 12, 2022
 
Detroit Free Press ✓
Twitter › freep

GOP attempt to award Mich. Electoral College votes
to Trump referred to feds, Nessel says

Detroit Free Press

12 hours ago

January 14, 2022

Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a television interview Thursday
her office has referred the submission of a false slate of presidential
electors from Michigan Republicans for the 2020 presidential election
to federal prosecutors.

Nessel made the comments Thursday during an interview with MSBNC’s
Rachel Maddow.

As Michigan’s presidential electors convened on Dec. 14, 2020, to cast their votes
for Joe Biden, a group of Republicans signed on to their own certificate that
attempted to award the state’s 16 Electoral College votes to Donald Trump.

The document, shared with the U.S. House committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6
assault on the U.S. Capitol last year, was obtained by POLITICO.

Law enforcement denied access to the group of Republicans who tried to deliver
their own electoral votes to the Capitol in Lansing that day, incorrectly arguing
they were the state's presidential electors.

- Detroit Free Press

Twisted Faux TV logic -
"We appointed ourselves, as electors."
"We did it to prove a point. Only an idiot, or moron, would accept us as official electors."
"Of course, the papers are forged fakes, and full of lies."
"Yes, we did insert the fakes into an official government document storage."
"It would not be our fault, if a govrnment clerk made the mistake of using our
fake documents, to award the votes to Trump."

"How else do you expect us to battle against the truth ?"

"The truth, is not the truth."

"The truth, is not the truth."
Advertisement

Rudy "Collude-y"Giuliani, President Trump’s lead attorney in the Russia investigation.
made the comment during an appearance on “Meet the Press” in August. Giuliani was
explaining that he would not allow special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to rush Trum
into an interview because investigators could trap the president into perjuring himself.
And the interview turned into a strange discussion of what truth is.

December 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...truth-rudy-giulianis-flub-tops-s-quotes-year/

"This is our political campaign and our personal political stances."

"Our own personal opinion, is that the election was stolen from Trump, and we took action."

bodysong comment -*exasperated*
 
"So Pence avoided a coup by noting that the Parliamentarians had validated
(by checking with each state’s Sec of State) which slate of electors were real
and which were fraudulent? "

This year-old, middle-of-the-night tweet —
as Congress was finalizing the 2020 election —
is getting a lot of renewed love today as people
revisit the Trump-led effort to line up fake electors
in 2020 and pass them off as legitimate.

This is how Pence worked around it:

(link)

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) January 13, 2022

January 14, 2022 1:47 AM

We now know that VP Pence was so unsettled by Trump’s attempt
to disrupt the electoral college vote certification that he consulted
Dan Quayle.

There’s now evidence that he tried to void the attempts to substitute fraudulent
“Trump” electors by requiring additional authentication. It would have been
rechecked again anyway, but does show Pence’s attention to constitutional duty
in the face of pressure from Trump himself.

OTOH it wasn’t so much a “workaround” as it could be Pence’s CYA in the face of
the scenarios spelled out by lawfare collaborators like John Eastman in his memos.

On the other end of the process it now has been shown that Mark Meadows may have
been involved in this production of fraudulent elector certification in swing states.

Even if they were only meant to delay the process, the extent to which false documents
were prepared and signed shows the level of collusion.

- Daily Kos

Trump's pretend electors made no efforts to be secret. They were dismissed, as clowns.

What if no one checked to see who were the real, bona fide, legitimate, vetted electors ?

Trump's well publized events have revealed themselves to be Potemkin facade propaganda.

External appearance is divorced from the reality that supports and surrounds it.

- What remains after the parade moves along and departs, are the jerks
that perpetuate the fuckery.
 
This comes from a person whose lips are surgically attached to the perimeter of Biden's anus where she's literally sustained by his body songs. What a nut.:rolleyes:
 
Is there a more subservient Trump stooge, than Rep. Kevin McCarthy ?

It is commonly known, that Rep. Kevin McCarthy has a fierce ambition to
become the next House Speaker - but there is some fuckery attached to voting
for Trump to become House Speaker.

You don’t need Trump as speaker if you have Kevin McCarthy

Politics
Analysis

January 13, 2022

McCarthy’s position was clear: He was nestling back into Trump’s embrace.

In late January, before the call with Trump was reported, McCarthy traveled
to Mar-a-Lago to pose for a photo with the former president.

McCarthy ended up pushing back against the sort of “fact-finding commission”
that he had initially advocated.

On Wednesday, just shy of one year since he proposed that commission,
the one that was formed, led by House Democrats, sent him a letter requesting
his testimony about his interactions with Trump and, of course, that phone call.
McCarthy quickly rejected the request. Once again, in the battle between Trump
and scandal, Trump won.

Senator (Moscow Mitch") McConnell leads his party’s caucus in a chamber where
Republican power has backstops. The filibuster gives the minority the power to block
legislation.

The allocation of two senators to every state, including low-population, heavily
Republican ones, makes it easier to hit a 50-vote margin — much less the 42 votes
needed to uphold a filibuster.


Rep. Kevin McCarthy, on the other hand, is aiming for the top job in the House,
should his party win more seats in this year’s midterms, which seems likely.

To secure his position, McCarthy has bet on Trump.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/13/mccarthy-trump-house-speaker/

"Whatever the answers, it seems clear that the speculative, semi-earnest rumblings
about electing Trump himself as speaker a few weeks ago were not necessary.
McCarthy, to secure his position and a majority, has bet on Trumpism as his strategy.

The left will see the headline of this article as an indictment. McCarthy will see it
as an endorsement.

- Washington Post

January 21, 2022

Kevin McCarthy was done being nice. The House Republican leader cast off
his typically sunny demeanor during a December 8 meeting of the GOP conference
to deliver a stern warning to his most raucous members:


"He said, 'If any of you come to me and tell me that you're not going to vote for me
unless I do something, I'm going to do exactly the opposite, even if I agree with you,'"
said Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, who was there at the time.

A second Republican member told CNN McCarthy punctuated his threat with, "I mean it."

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/politics/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-gop-conference/index.html

Hanging over all of McCarthy's moves is former President Donald Trump,
the undisputed leader of the Republican Party to whom much of the House
conference remains fiercely devoted and whose opinions of people can turn
on a dime.

And while no one has said they would challenge McCarthy for speaker --
and few in the conference believe anyone could pose a serious threat --
there is no shortage of ambitious politicians waiting in the wings
should McCarthy stumble.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/politics/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-gop-conference/index.html

Quit trying to hold your vote for speaker over my head!

Kevin McCarthy lashes out with profanity at GOP members
trying to extort him over speakership vote

- AlterNet 12 hours ago

January 2021

Kevin McCarthy ✓
Twitter › GOPLeader

In just one year of one-party rule, Democrats are running our country
into the ground: Our economy is DAMAGED. Our streets our DANGEROUS.
Our enemies our DOMINATING. And America’s morale is DOWN.

(link to a broadcast ? )

1 day ago
 
I'm not sure if it's whining, so much as it is giving his base what he knows they want. The deplorables are desperate to believe the Democrats were in the wrong, and the whole "they were really Antifa in disguise" thing fell flatter than a pancake, as did "technically it wasn't an insurrection" among anyone who doesn't desperately want to believe that. But the lie that Pelosi was in charge of the Capitol Police and thus it was her fault for being unprepared does seem to have gotten some traction. So he might as well play to that. It's not as if there's any political upside to a Republican admitting the truth here.

Why did Frau Pelosi reject Trumps offer for 10,000-20,000 National Guard troops for 1/6????
 
Why did Frau Pelosi reject Trumps offer for 10,000-20,000 National Guard troops for 1/6????

She didn't, and you know she didn't because I've debunked that for you at least twice. Trump never made any such offer, and Pelosi wouldn't have had the authority to refuse it if he had.
 
Where it began -

Most infamous was Kellyanne Conway’s explanation that Trump’s advisers have
“alternative facts.”

Conway used the phrase to explain then-White House press secretarySean Spicer’s
utterly false and easily disprovable claims about the size of Trump’s inauguration crowd
— comments clearly meant to bolster Trump’s own false claims and ego.

“Don’t be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck”
Kellyanne Conway told NBC News’s Chuck Todd when he noted that
the White House basically began the Trump presidency with these falsehoods.
“You’re saying it’s a falsehood, and they’re giving — our press secretary, Sean Spicer,
gave alternative facts to that."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...nways-legacy-alternative-facts-ification-gop/

Where it is -

Boris Epshteyn, a strategic adviser for Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign,
was pressed Friday about his role in efforts to legitimize alleged pro-Trump electors
from states that Joe Biden won.


“Yes, I was part of the process to make sure there were alternate electors
for when, as we hoped, the challenges to the seated electors would be heard,
and would be successful,” Epshteyn replied, echoing his comments to
The Washington Post, which revealed new details about the plot
in a report Thursday.

- Daily Beast
January 21, 2022


This reportedly involved helping pro-Trump electors access state Capitol buildings,
drafting language for phony electoral certificates to send to the federal government,
and finding replacements for electors who didn’t want to go along with the plot
to subvert the will of the American people.


“So, Ari, everything that was done was done legally by the Trump legal team
according to the rules and under the leadership of Rudy Giuliani.”
- Boris Epshteyn

Fraudulent election certificates were submitted to Congress and the National Archives
by Republicans claiming to be pro-Trump electors in at least five states,
Michigan among them.

*Each Secretary of State performed a check, to weed out MAGA clowns, pretending
to be real, legitimate electors.
 
She didn't, and you know she didn't because I've debunked that for you at least twice. Trump never made any such offer, and Pelosi wouldn't have had the authority to refuse it if he had.

You’re wrong!
 
Christopher Miller testified under oath to the sham 1/6 committee.
The same Christopher Miller who actively obstructed the transition? I wouldn't trust him any farther than I could throw him, and it doesn't exactly come as a surprise that a Trump lackey would blame someone the deplorables already loved to hate.

Trump offered but he can’t force it. Both Frau Pelosi and the DC Mayor had to sign off on it. They didn’t. If Frau Pelosi had wanted them, the DC Mayor would have to accepted Frau Pelosi’s acceptance.

I don't know where you pulled that from, but not a single part of it is true. The ability to call the National Guard to the Capitol rests with the Capitol Police Board, which is made up of the House Sergeant at Arms, the Senate Sergeant at Arms and the Architect of the Capitol. The then-members of the board have disputed one another's stories on who decided not to call the Guard sooner and why, but all are agreed that Pelosi had nothing to do with it. The House Sergeant at Arms answers to the Speaker of the House, but he does not need her permission to call the Guard and there is no evidence whatsoever that he ever discussed the matter with her on 1/6/21. (Same with McConnell, to whom the Senate Sergeant at Arms answers.) When she was finally notified of the decision later in the afternoon, she supported it.

Trump could have sent in the Guard, and he wouldn't have needed Pelosi's permission or the mayor's; but the Department of Defense has no record of any such request. What they do have records of is a conversation he had with Miller the night before, where he wondered out loud how many troops might be needed (proof, if you ask me, that he had at least some expectation of what ultimately happened), but he did not make a request. It was Miller who ultimately did order the troops in, and he didn't need Pelosi's permission either - but he did in fact have her support.



https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-235651652542
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-request-10000-guard-troops-jan-6/8929215002/

No, I'm not.

Prove she didn’t reject the offer!

I already did, and more to the point, the Speaker of the House has no authority whatsoever to block the president from mobilizing the National Guard. That just is not how it works.
 
Is there just one MAGA politician, that is not a greedy, cowardly weasel, posing as a bully ?

Peter Navarro, Trump's operative - pays "tribute" to Emperor-in-Exile, Trump
(All MAGA and formerly-Republicans "pay "tribute" to Trump, one way, or another.)

Peter Navarro, who served as a trade adviser for former president Donald Trump,
unsuccessfully tried to downplay the violence committed by Jan. 6 rioters on Friday.

January 22, 2022

- Raw Story

Jan 21st, 2022

Later, the discussion turned to the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6 and what role
Donald Trump played in it. The host played a clip of Trump describing that day
as “peaceful.”

“I ran the Mall that day,” Navarro said. “I saw nothing but peaceful people walking
along up to that Capitol. I did not personally observe storming the gates there–”

“But you see it on tape,” Melber interrupted. “You know what happened."

"You know Donald Trump lied about it.”

“Where were the Capitol police?” asked Navarro.

“The Capitol police were being beaten and attacked by Trump fans.”
“I think you know that.”

- Ari Melber

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/ari-mel...lice-were-being-beaten-i-think-you-know-that/


Peter Navarro
Twitter › RealPNavarro

Please check out episode 18 of the In Trump time podcast and find out why
we should be flooding the zone with therapeutics like hydroxychloroquine
why @gregkellyusa and @Newsmax rule the 7 PM roost.

1 day ago

Joe Biden is destroying your 401K as he destroys the US economy.
Find out the details in Episode 17 of the In Trump Time podcast.
Prescient stock market call if I do say so myself.

3 days ago

Please check out Episode 16 and declare your independence
from the Biden/Fauci Forced VAX Nation. As a bonus, find out
why Alex Berenson is a dick.

4 days ago
 
Jan 21st, 2022

Boris Epshteyn Says Effort to Swap in Pro-Trump Electors Was Done
‘Under the Leadership of Rudy Giuliani’

MSNBC’s Ari Melber interviewed former Trump 2020 campaign strategic adviser
Boris Epshteyn, who has been subpoenaed to appear before the Jan. 6 House committee,
on Friday night.

The 10-minute long interview was combative at times and saw Epshteyn push debunked
allegations that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election and
defend a coordinated effort led by Rudy Giuliani to replace Biden electors with Trump
electors

“There’s also been reporting about the attempt to seat fraudulent electors.
Is that something you ever worked on or would support, for example, in
Michigan?” Melber asked, referencing letters sent from seven states that
submitted fake pro-Trump electors for certification.

“That’s so funny. Not fraudulent electors, Ari. It’s alternate electors.”
- Boris Epshteyn

Ari Melber continued to push on the legality of the pro-Trump push
to “seat fraudulent electors.”

“First of all, Ari, I don’t think you’re the one who’s going to be determining, or your
audience, whether there was any perpetration of fraud,” Epshteyn shot back.

Melber shot back, “part of what you said is false, but we are going to move on.”

https://www.mediaite.com/news/boris...s-done-under-the-leadership-of-rudy-giuliani/

bodysong - How, exactly, did MAGA plan to get rid of the real, legitimate electors,
and swap in Trump's fraudulent electors ?
 
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