Trump said he would fire DeSantis if he loses Florida. I wonder who he would choose as his replacement

— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) October 27, 2020

It’s all about personal loyalty and power to Dimestore Putin.

re: #1 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

But, he can’t ‘fire’ DeSantis because.. never mind.

re: #2 BigPapa

re: #2 BigPapa

But, he can’t ‘fire’ DeSantis because.. never mind.

Yeah he thinks the governors are his to boss around and demand loyalty from.

re: #3 Nyet

It is seriously disturbing how many MAGAs replying to this tweet are confused by the spacing circles. Um, guys, if you get a chance you might want to Google “COVID-19”.

— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) October 27, 2020

from downstairs, note two things

Joe Biden walks to the podium here in Warm Springs, GA pic.twitter.com/x1dneI24Iy

— Pat Ward (@WardDPatrick) October 27, 2020

- joe wears a mask from way back off camera even though he is more than 6 feet from anyone
- stairs. with a little upspeed near the end ;-)

re: #4 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Yeah he thinks the governors are his to boss around and demand loyalty from.

well the R ones anyway

Joe on fire. Oh I want him to go to Texas this weekend!

re: #6 Ace-o-aces

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There’s just this reality that doesn’t exist in Trump’s America. The pandemic is always on my mind even when I’m high as a kite.

re: #60 Jay C

Recess appointments? Aren’t they only valid until said “recess” is over?
And (most of them??) expire with a new Congress anyway?

How much damage could be done if Mitch changed his mind and said they were adjourned tomorrow?

While a recess appointment only lasts until the next inauguration, that’s a lot of time to do further damage to the government on the way out.

US Postal Service on-time delivery times for First-Class Mail have dropped again — now nearly as bad as the worst period this summer. If you are voting absentee and haven’t returned your ballot, experts say drop it off in person. Do not rely on #USPS delivery at this point.

— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) October 27, 2020

OhBoy! When #Trump said he was going find a new drug for #Covid, I did not think he meant meth. But I suppose if you got everyone hallucinating … White House science office says Trump ended COVID-19 pandemic. https://t.co/oZXhbxShX6

— Bob Krause (@KrauseForIowa) October 27, 2020

“Confident CJ Roberts isn’t happy”

Sigh.
Cannot help himself. https://t.co/GfRkpvR3DC

— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) October 27, 2020

This is terrible for Justice Barrett. She can and should stop Trump campaign from using her in this manner. Once an image is set, hard to undo. This hurts her credibility. https://t.co/0chqUpIdnf

— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) October 27, 2020

Bess Kevin: Trump just signed an EO letting him purge thousands of federal workers for disloyalty, Vanity Fair.

Even if he loses, the action could sabotage a Biden administration indefinitely.

There are two parts to the order. He is basically swapping the expert class and the political class, so that the expert class can be fired at will, and the political class CAN NOT. So if they had time to move everyone around, Biden could not get rid of DT moles.

GAH!

Creating the new category…could allow a lame-duck President Trump to cripple his successor’s administration by firing any career federal employees who’ve been included on the list. It also could allow Trump administration officials to skirt prohibitions against “burrowing in”—the heavily restricted practice of converting political appointees (known as “Schedule C” employees) into career civil servants—by hiring them under the new category for positions which would not end with Trump’s term. Another provision orders agencies to take steps to prohibit removing “Schedule F” appointees from their jobs on the grounds of “political affiliation,” which could potentially prevent a future administration from firing unqualified appointees because of their association with President Trump.

Today, driving to the secret place where I can let my dog run, I passed someone standing in the median dressed in PPE and holding a sign. The sign’s words were hidden from me and I couldn’t make them out in the rearview mirror as I passed. On the way back, the person was still there. The sign was homemade and not entirely clear, but I could at least make out “covid is not a hoax…it’s getting worse…Donald Trump has failed you.”

That’s bold for this mostly red town.

re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Left hanging on the last thread, I left out part of that.

During yesterday’s hearing, Dave Daubenmire asked Marcelain to give his son a chance.

“I believe Zach has been greatly punished because of his association with me,” the father said. “I really believe in my heart that this case can be an example” of positive change by his son.

Marcelain seemed moved by the sentiments expressed by the father and son, as well as nearly 100 letters of support sent to him by people who know the younger Daubenmire and his family.

“I can see no purpose of incarceration,” Marcelain said. “I don’t know about your redemption. That’s handled by a different court.”

You wouldn’t get that break as a Muslim or an atheist.

re: #15 retired cynic

Bess Kevin: Trump just signed an EO letting him purge thousands of federal workers for disloyalty, Vanity Fair.

There are two parts to the order. He is basically swapping the expert class and the political class, so that the expert class can be fired at will, and the political class CAN NOT. So if they had time to move everyone around, Biden could not get rid of DT moles.

GAH!

I’m pretty sure everyone will have a list of whose a political appointee and who isn’t.

re: #6 Ace-o-aces

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— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) October 27, 2020

re: #14 Dread Pirate Ron

Her “credibility” doesn’t matter to her; if it did she would have declined the naked power grab. She is a conservative and a Christian; she only cares about gaining and expanding power, that’s it. She’s on the Supreme Court. She’s there until she dies, retires, or is somehow removed.

The same goes for the Chief Justice. For someone who is constantly touted being concerned about his “legacy,” it sure seems the only legacy he is concerned with is consolidating conservative power.

Is that like her “dictator’s wife” outfit or something?

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 27, 2020

Mission accomplished! Congratulations, Justice Barrett. https://t.co/0zIQQa7B3Y

— Senator Deb Fischer (@SenatorFischer) October 27, 2020

There you have it. Their “mission” is to pack the courts, which provide accountability for all other branches of government, with lifetime appointments for inexperienced far-right activists who have never even tried a case.

They don’t even hide it. Sad and truly beneath us. https://t.co/mWIptnYHWC

— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) October 27, 2020

I have said, far-right conservatism is a jobs program for women, and as the former president of my college conservative group, I can attest to the opportunities and power you can access once you are willing to turn your back on other women. https://t.co/URZO8w6kRU

— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) October 27, 2020

re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Her “credibility” doesn’t matter to her; if it did she would have declined the naked power grab. She is a conservative and a Christian; she only cares about gaining and expanding power, that’s it. She’s on the Supreme Court. She’s there until she dies, retires, or is somehow removed.

The same goes for the Chief Justice. For someone who is constantly touted being concerned about his “legacy,” it sure seems the only legacy he is concerned with is consolidating conservative power.

There is a hint of a point that Kristol makes though… a smarter/more strategic/more astute/more long term thinker would recognize that being “too political” in this way could open the door to Dems expanding the Supreme Court as part of a larger court modernization bill. A larger court would dilute the power of the individual justices, so even in a very game theory personal power sort of way, this is not the way a justice should comport themselves.

re: #9 🌹UOJB!

Joe on fire. Oh I want him to go to Texas this weekend!

You saw this, right?

BREAKING: The Biden campaign has announced a three-day bus tour in TEXAS, starting tomorrow in Amarillo, Lubbock, Abilene, Fort Worth, and Dallas. Congressmembers, elected officials, Democratic candidates, and special guests will be part of the tour.

— United for the People 💛🥁 (@people4kam) October 27, 2020

OH NO HE DIDN’T

OH YES HE DID!

Kris Kobach asks for allegedly fraudulent Bannon wall funds to be ‘unfrozen’ so he can get paid for his work promoting it

rawstory.com

re: #22 Charles Johnson

that was what I immediately thought of too! they showed her such kindness, and she just shits on everyone.

— Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette Editrix, King Of You (@commiegirl1) October 27, 2020

re: #25 makeitstop

You saw this, right?

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Abilene?! Why, Biden, Why? //

re: #28 Belafon

Abilene?! Why, Biden, Why? //

Johnny Cash karaoke?

J-O-H-N-N-Y C-A-S-H - I’ve Been Everywhere - With Lyrics

Thread, four tweets.

ICE is set to announce more arrest results in a press conference tomorrow in Minnesota.

I’ve never seen so many press conferences on otherwise small ICE operations during my time covering this beat.

— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) October 27, 2020

re: #15 retired cynic

Bess Kevin: Trump just signed an EO letting him purge thousands of federal workers for disloyalty, Vanity Fair.

There are two parts to the order. He is basically swapping the expert class and the political class, so that the expert class can be fired at will, and the political class CAN NOT. So if they had time to move everyone around, Biden could not get rid of DT moles.

GAH!

Shrug. What an EO creates, an EO takes away. Biden needs 5 seconds to fix this.

Llre: #25 makeitstop

You saw this, right?

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Bring Willie Nelson!

re: #15 retired cynic

Bess Kevin: Trump just signed an EO letting him purge thousands of federal workers for disloyalty, Vanity Fair.

There are two parts to the order. He is basically swapping the expert class and the political class, so that the expert class can be fired at will, and the political class CAN NOT. So if they had time to move everyone around, Biden could not get rid of DT moles.

GAH!

Yeah, fuck that. Fire them. What’s Trump gonna do, sue?

re: #20 The Pie Overlord!

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That’s great—I love Jeff Daniels. Such a talent.

One of my favorite Newsroom scenes (damn, I miss that show)

Jeff Daniels - That’s How I Got to Memphis (The Newsroom Series Finale)

re: #33 makeitstop

Yeah, fuck that. Fire them. What’s Trump gonna do, sue?

All Biden has to do is sign a new EO and we are back to where we were. Trump did this so that he could fire the experts.

re: #35 KGxvi

All Biden has to do is sign a new EO and we are back to where we were. Trump did this so that he could fire the experts.

Trump did this to fire Dr. Fauci. Period.

New: employees at Verkada, a facial recognition and security camera startup, abused their company’s own surveillance cameras to monitor and harass women colleagues, making a Slack channel with their faces and sexual comments, according to sources, docshttps://t.co/lamLASFF5Q pic.twitter.com/dbP9V5i1Ze

— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) October 26, 2020

LP is not quite done with Graham. This one’s going on the air.

No one can trust Lindsey Graham, not even Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/B7cVuJVlPO

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 27, 2020

re: #34 BeachDem

That’s great—I love Jeff Daniels. Such a talent.

One of my favorite Newsroom scenes (damn, I miss that show)

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My introduction to him was Dumb and Dumber but he’s got so much depth as an actor.

re: #38 makeitstop

LP is not quite done with Graham. This one’s going on the air.

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I know a lot of us don’t trust the LP but I’m fine with them as temporary allies.

re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Verkada LOL!

re: #38 makeitstop

LP is not quite done with Graham. This one’s going on the air.

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I’m still rather amazed at how wide a field the Dems have this time around. Not just in the EC but in the Senate.

…ugh. I just set up a network for a wiring company to put in a Verkada installation. I can’t say where, but let’s just say there are ALL ages around that facility.

grandma, you fucking asshole.

— Willow 🍞+🎪 (@RockShrimp) October 27, 2020

re: #44 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Maybe if 3 cops didn’t confiscate ppe from polling stations, they could have better served the community elsewhere

— Ya_boy_Spit (@spit_ya) October 27, 2020

Jr’s high again

Cocaine Mitch!!! 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/9Ux1Gj6wbE

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 27, 2020

re: #39 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

My introduction to him was Dumb and Dumber but he’s got so much depth as an actor.

I’ve seen so much of his stuff, but actually never watched Dumb and Dumber.

The weather turns to shit and look who shows up. And so it starts.

I see Air Force 1 or 2 going to Denver? It was at 29,5 dropped to 28k then transponder shut off near North Platt.

re: #45 🌹UOJB!

A 279% increase from what? And in what context? Are we talking per day? Per week? From the same weekend last year? Year to date?

Also, that 279% increase means the base number was 19… in a city of 8.4 million people.

The number of coronavirus cases in the Panhandle doubled in less than a month, health officials released during Monday’s Panhandle Public Health briefing.

Since Oct. 4, Panhandle Public Health District has reported 965 cases of COVID-19, with a total of 1,957 cases since PPHD began tracking in May.

starherald.com

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💥📺💥
Questions? We’re here to answer them. Tweet #AskTheBreakdown pic.twitter.com/eJsyXtt8W8

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 27, 2020

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— Barbara Henry (@Barb_Henry) October 27, 2020

BREAKING: Texas Supreme Court UPHOLDS Gov. Abbott’s order limiting counties to 1 mail ballot drop-off site, DISSOLVES temporary restraining order that blocked Abbott’s Oct. 1 order that closed extra sites.

— Chuck Lindell (@chucklindell) October 27, 2020

Looks like NOLA is going to be a direct hit by a hurricane on Thursday.

This will affect the election results in Louisiana, yes?

NOLA is probably properly prepared for a cat-2 hurricane, yet there will be plenty of problems.

I have little doubt that Trump will ignore this, and then try to blame the problems on Democrats.

re: #49 Dread Pirate Ron

I see Air Force 1 or 2 going to Denver? It was at 29,5 dropped to 28k then transponder shut off near North Platt.

LIVE AT 7:30PM: Parking is full at President Trump MAGA rally at Omaha airport (WOWT-TV, NBC Omaha)

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - At 6 p.m. the Omaha Police Department issued a notice allocated parking at Eppley Air Field is full while shuttles for transportation will no longer be taking people to the event.

The rally is inaccessible by foot, Uber, cab or any other means of transportation while parking is not allowed in surrounding neighborhoods, roadways or businesses, police stated.

With one week until Election Day, President Trump is planning to end his day on the campaign trail Tuesday in Omaha.

The president is expected to speak at the Make America Great Again Victory Rally, which starts at 7:30 p.m. at Tac Air.

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They really want that NE-2 electoral vote.

re: #58 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Looks like NOLA is going to be a direct hit by a hurricane on Thursday.

This will affect the election results in Louisiana, yes?

NOLA is probably properly prepared for a cat-2 hurricane, yet there will be plenty of problems.

I have little doubt that Trump will ignore this, and then try to blame the problems on Democrats.

Alex Jones will blame it on the CIA’s 5G Weather Machine…

Here, have some stuff:

Mistakes were made.

Cut… CUT!

MP4 Video

HWRF (hurricane specific model, which performs pretty well in the short term):

re: #31 William Lewis

Shrug. What an EO creates, an EO takes away. Biden needs 5 seconds to fix this.

Exactly. We just enact another executive order countermanding Trump’s executive order giving Biden the power to fire any civil servant to whom Trump’s executive order applies, no matter their party affiliation. Purge the Trump loyalists, then wait an appropriate interval, and then draft a new executive order reinstating the pre-Trump policies.

And when the Republicans complain, we tell them to “Eat shit.” They killed the rule of law. They went Jacksonian with reinstituting the spoils system and ignoring rules and court decisions they didn’t like. They turned the presidency into a virtual dictatorship.

We need to be willing to outbrazen the Republicans, to out-Mitch McConnell the real Mitch McConnell, to be as petty and vindictive as the Republicans, and not allow ourselves to feel guilty about it.

re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They flew over Denver at 28k. Next city is Las Vegas. He must be going to pick up a suitcase of cash from Adelson.

re: #63 A Three Hour Tour

Yes, a Biden EO can do away with Trump’s EO.

But what really needs to be done is Congress enact a law that corrects the abuses that have popped up in the Trump administration.

re: #65 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Yes, a Biden EO can do away with Trump’s EO.

But what really needs to be done is Congress enact a law that corrects the abuses that have popped up in the Trump administration.

That too.

re: #31 William Lewis

Shrug. What an EO creates, an EO takes away. Biden needs 5 seconds to fix this.

I used to believe this, then DACA happened. I think this particular EO will probably be easier to reverse than DACA though.

A couple threads back there was a discussion regarding SUNY (State Univ. of New York) schools holding students from going home for Thanksgiving unless they’d had a recent negative Covid-19 test.

The SUNY schools (or at least the one my brother teaches at) is doing constant on-going testing of students, faculty, and staff. They collect samples and do mass tests of 500 samples at a time to monitor if there are cases. If a mass sample has a positive they do follow-ups in that test group to find where the positive was.

So, a campus should have a on-going idea of whether they have active cases and a pipeline going to quickly narrow down and find positives when they occur. And hopefully have an idea that most of their student body is “clean” to go home in five weeks.

re: #67 danarchy

I used to believe this, then DACA happened. I think this particular EO will probably be easier to reverse than DACA though.

Isn’t “clarifying” (?”finalizing”?) the status of DACA recipients either:
1. One of the main planks in the Democratic platform this year?
2. Something that has already been enacted by the House (and, unsuprisingly, buried in the Senate by inaction)?

re: #15 retired cynic

Bess Kevin: Trump just signed an EO letting him purge thousands of federal workers for disloyalty, Vanity Fair.

There are two parts to the order. He is basically swapping the expert class and the political class, so that the expert class can be fired at will, and the political class CAN NOT. So if they had time to move everyone around, Biden could not get rid of DT moles.

GAH!

why can’t Biden reverse it with his own EO?

NEW: A neo-nazi who left the Marines last month and a porn actor have been arrested in Idaho on federal weapons charges. Here’s a story with @letsgomathias that lays out what we know so far: https://t.co/yAKCUsK0zv

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 27, 2020

There’s an E-6B Mercury over California. I wonder if they’ll launch a Minuteman III from Vandenberg tonight.

re: #72 Dread Pirate Ron

I know that they have a launch scheduled. They are aiming at Kwajelein. I almost had a job there, would have been interesting. I still read the weekly newsletter from there.

re: #71 gocart mozart

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The buddy comedy you didn’t want.

Minuteman III missile system test launch planned for Vandenberg Air Force Base

re: #24 KGxvi

A larger court would dilute the power of the individual justices, so even in a very game theory personal power sort of way, this is not the way a justice should comport themselves.

Game theory? That sounds like science! We’re too smart for science!

re: #65 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

considering the speed that Nancy Smash moved at during Obama’s first year, with the financial meltdown of the western world, I fully believe she’s capable of doing said same if Biden is elected and the Dems have control of the Senate.

I fully expect the following:

COVID AID - with comprehensive testing and tracing, emergency PPE manufacture, masking mandates, plans for vaccine distribution
Financial forgiveness of student loans, small business loans and a moratorium on evictions and rate fixation for residencies
expansion of courts not just at SCOTUS but across the current circuits with possible additional circuits created
VRA
police reform
modified tax plans
ACA expansion
environmental reforms, rejoining Paris accords
green new deal planks enacted

plus a bunch of other stuff that would make this TL;DR

I could say yes, but who cares? Plenty of people without college degrees could run this country better than Trump ever has.

As much as GOP cry about “elites,” they’re the ones who constantly mock food service workers, people w/o degrees, etc as dumb. It’s classist & disgusting. https://t.co/t4FepwyeGl

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 26, 2020

MrBWS (high school grad and IBEW journeyman) and I (Master’s degree plus post-grad UK fellowship) both concur.

re: #31 William Lewis

Shrug. What an EO creates, an EO takes away. Biden needs 5 seconds to fix this.

Biden could just use this to get rid of Trump people.

Note the ending on this Lincoln Project video:

Fairytale

re: #15 retired cynic

It’s an EO. Boden can sign an EO that all of these people are reassigned to superfund cleanup the day he gets into office.

Gloves and boots optional.

LOLOLOLOLOLOL!

Trump’s Campaign website hacked/defaced by someone who is sick of the “fake news spreaded daily” by the president. pic.twitter.com/035neUv7kc

— Nicole Perlroth (@nicoleperlroth) October 27, 2020

I remember my dad’s nickname for you: “Busted Shutter” because you’re always flapping in the breeze @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/lcR5BzrLzR

— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) October 27, 2020

Last time a Dem presidential candidate won Georgia?
1992.
Here’s Bill Clinton campaigning in the rain in Albany, GA 9/23/92
“I was governor of a state not very different from this. I live in a state that’s small enough where even your enemies smile & call you by your first name.” pic.twitter.com/cDavbEzkQC

— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) October 27, 2020

re: #72 Dread Pirate Ron

There’s an E-6B Mercury over California. I wonder if they’ll launch a Minuteman III from Vandenberg tonight.

I’ve read too much bad SF and Bond pastiche’s but - I find myself wondering where else that Minuteman III could go from Vandenberg instead… I really wouldn’t put it past that evil MF’ing Mango Moron to find a way to drop 3 170kt’s on New York…

re: #85 William Lewis

Never happen.

He’s got property there.

re: #15 retired cynic

Bess Kevin: Trump just signed an EO letting him purge thousands of federal workers for disloyalty, Vanity Fair.

There are two parts to the order. He is basically swapping the expert class and the political class, so that the expert class can be fired at will, and the political class CAN NOT. So if they had time to move everyone around, Biden could not get rid of DT moles.

GAH!

An execute order can be immediately reversed.

NEW OLBERMANN VS. TRUMP VIDEO: The list of “Trump’s 50 Worst Atrocities” in two minutes, 20 seconds.

Argue, hate, but please share everywhere, especially the 12-minute version here: https://t.co/nVnN0SMCPE

PLEASE RT TRUMP’S 50 WORST ATROCITIES (you should excuse the expression) pic.twitter.com/ETpLOltwvd

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) October 28, 2020

re: #70 Axolotl

why can’t Biden reverse it with his own EO?

And have an immediate list of who needs to go.