The NYT calls for Trump’s impeachment or criminal prosecution; UD finds herself wondering whether a quicker cleaner way of stashing him in Florida for the duration would be something like the following:
Pence and McConnell, after meeting to work out their strategy, meet with Trump and lay out his options:
- Stay prez in name only; retire to a distant golf course and make Pence the real prez.
- Stay in DC and face every form of legal/political torture/humiliation Pence, McConnell, and their co-conspirators can inflict. It will be relentless.
January 7th, 2021 at 10:04AM
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/6/2006558/-The-Lincoln-Project-Weighs-In
A very good Lincoln Project video. In the past I might have said “a little breathless,” but I’ve just had a reminder of what happens when the sympathetic nervous system takes over while a would be dictator is trying to do the same.
I understand LP is working on a dooozy, featuring Josh Hawley with a raised fist in front of yesterday’s mob. Hope Teddy Boy does at least a Cameo.
Dante should remodel Mara Lago.
January 7th, 2021 at 11:06AM
Greg: Whoo! No one does it like the Lincoln Project, and the ad you just linked me to is – in light of yesterday – incredibly prescient.
And hate to sound as though I’m out for blood, but I cannot wait for LP’s full frontal attack on Hawley and Cruz, whose names I can barely type. They need to be removed from our common life so that we no longer have to mention them, let alone have anything to do with them. They need to be placed in very pleasant gated communities in West Virginia, allowed out once a day to buy more Trump banners for their bedrooms.
January 7th, 2021 at 11:38AM
I’d just go for the metaphorical blood* without even ironic apologies, after Trump’s gotten the quart or two of the real stuff he wanted all along – from Death Row and now the riot. I think a major part of his psychology is that he wants to be God, i.e. without limits. Has since he was devil-child. Hence the shooting on fifth avenue comment early in his “administration.” Transgressiveness is feature not bug, not simply something one does to facilitate stealing or getting huge amounts of political power. No, the only way to be God (not just a god; mythological gods had some limits) is to flatten resistance to whatever you might do. The only way to make sure you’re on the Golden Throne is to do the most outrageous stuff, and see no resistance. To lie as if your lying were life’s breath. In the early days he sometimes was able to restrain and restrict himself to smaller scale atrocities in order to pursue money and sadistic fun, but also to gather power for project God.
January 7th, 2021 at 11:42AM
Apologies for my duplicate comment. I tried to change my nom d’electron, after I hit “submit” and while the wheel of death spun. Please delete duplicate if possible.
January 7th, 2021 at 11:45AM
Done.