They can try, but there is no outcome to that scenario that doesn’t lead to either President Biden or Acting President Pelosi. The way the rules work, if the Senate tries to play hardball, the House can just refuse to act on these bogus challenges until Trump’s term ends, at which point the succession rules put Pelosi…

Unfortunately that doesn’t mean his worst supporters in Congress won’t still try and fuck with the certification of the Electoral College in January: How Trump’s Hill allies could take one last shot to overturn the election

Yeah, in any sane context, things Bill Barr has already done WRT empowering the executive would be unacceptable. The fact that even he has a limit speaks only to how nonsensical and insane Donald Trump actually is.

And in case anyone is wondering where TrumpWorld is going on this:

Thats why Trumps lawyers never want him to testify. On Twitter or Fox, its an opinion. In. a court of law it’s libel, or slander or perjury. Rudy can say “ Election Fraud!” All he wants outside of a court, but in the courtroom he is subject to having penalties applied.

I’ll take having to protect my head from rats falling into an open space over sinking into a quicksand of rats any day of the week. No-brainer.

Oh, and this just dropped:

Barr leaving the sinking S.S. Trump is really the last shoe. It’s a declaration that the DOJ is not going to side with Trump, which means there’s virtually no chance any other elements of the federal government – particularly the military – will do so in the event Trump tries to do anything too nuts.

From the 0.1 second thought experiment I ran, it is vastly easier running out from under a rat-fall than extracting oneself from a heaving rat-pit. On request, I am willing to show my work.

I vote rats falling on me, 100%. The rats will, in that scenario, try their best to get the hell away from me as soon as possible. If I fall into rats, there’s a chance they’ll attack me instead for invading their nest.

I also imagine the rats wouldn’t be very happy about you falling into their nest, but if they fall on you they’d probably scatter.

I’d much rather have the rats fall on me.  The Shoulders incident involved him being afraid to scream for help because he didn’t want the rats to get into his mouth.   Fuck.

It’s not so much a “loophole" as a "collectively bargained benefit," which is only one of many reasons why police unions suck.

Since when did we start pronouncing f-e-a-t-u-r-e “loophole?”

“fucking duh” legislation.

Demeaning Black women is an entrenched national sport though we do/have done everything from suckling white babies to being the driving influence in global style to saving election after election. We raise the bar in academia, in media and entertainment. We bring the light wherever we enter. Regarding the…

So weird, why wouldn’t they just ask her to record it herself? It’s like self promotion or something so it probably wouldn’t have cost them anything. Then to get a guy to read it, then find a white guy, and let him do it in an awful accent, so many bad decisions.