This isn’t an attempted coup at this point. But it is sedition.

It’s like not even Saturday anymore, but this is the only place I can think of to post this. Does the Jezebel redesign make anybody else crazy? Or is it just me? At first I thought, okay I’ll just give it some time. But it’s been a bit now and... I can’t do it. I just can’t really figure out what’s new, the “latest”…

An incoming POTUS can reverse any and all previous executive orders on day one with the stroke of a pen. They don’t need Congress at all. And Congress can invalidate any executive order with legislation, but they need a 2/3 majority to override a presidential veto. Of course, if Congress passes a law to overturn an…

The entire point is to hamstring the incoming administration. This is McConnell in 2008 but on steroids and throughout the entire executive branch. Which is to say, they’re absolutely willing to crash America in any way they need to in order to blame it all on Democrats and then claw back some power.

That and they’re…

Thank god they’re colossal idiots.

And one of the duties of the Secret Service is to remove a president who refuses to leave office on January 20th. For anybody worried about whether they would actually follow through, GUESS WHO TRUMP HAS BEEN TREATING LIKE SHIT THIS WHOLE TIME??

I really don’t get how hate keeps winning.

Yep. Also, if everyone voted, Republicans would almost certainly never have a majority again, because their policies are so unpopular. They’d have to change their policies and platform or else resign themselves to the ignomity of semi-permanent electoral irrelevance. It’s literally why their go-to tactic is voter…

No, they created him. The GOP has been drifting toward autocracy for a couple decades now, and Trump was just the logical next step. This shift has been fueled not just by Fox News, but really by right wing talk radio, which shifted to the far right, in particular spouting white nationalism and nativism. And that has…

From that Axios interview with Ted Cruz:

A lot of what he does is also low key (and low brow) counter-disinfo. This Giuliani stunt has people asking if he couldn’t figure out he was being set up by SBC, how the hell would he have any kind of resistance to being a Russian asset? (He doesn’t, as we’ve seen in recent days.)

She had it a couple months ago, so it’s unlikely she’ll get it again so soon (though if it’s a different strain it’s possible? but unlikely).

This is spot on.

And what infuriates me most is that the bar is so low for Trump that there really is no bar. Trump literally just has to make it through the debate without literally melting into a blabbering, cursing pile of bubbling hair and vomit and it will be declared he delivered a “presidential” performance,…

They’re all being so mealymouthed about this.

“He will accept the results of a free and fair election” is meaningless when he has been shouting hysterical nonsense for months about how mail in voting is fraud (but only if the votes are for Democrats... his campaign has been encouraging supporters to vote by mail, and…

This. The GOP knows that if Trump is ahead after polls close on election day with all precincts reporting, all they have to do is create legal chaos, continue to lie about the legitimacy of the mail-in vote, and drag things out as long as possible. They will also try to get as many ballots thrown out as possible both…

It’s amusing how people think that if Trump wins there will ever truly be free and fair elections again.

For a Supreme Court nominee to be appointed, first they have to be nominated, then they go through a hearing in the Senate judiciary committee. Traditionally this has taken about a month to collect all the background info they need, but really they can take as much or as little time as they want. After the hearings…

Alllllll of this.

Yep. They sent Mark Meadows in to “negotiate,” meaning stonewall and demand Democrats bend to the will of the GOP. When Democrats tried to meet Republicans in the middle, he refused to budge.

Look at what happened in 2008. It’s happening again. The GOP knows they’re heading for a bad election (if we’re lucky) and…

I just want to say to the letter writer again, to echo everyone else, your dad’s death is not your fault.