Trump can and often does, use the power of the presidency to destroy lives, both political and personal, as well as the lives and careers of family members. He's vicious and ruthless in his pursuit of vendettas over the slightest infraction. He has no moral fabric or guardrails. He's like a junk yard dog in both temperament and predictability. He WILL go for the jugular.

Congress critters, yes, even Republicans, have good cause to be afraid.

CATDOG

Leave it to Donald to figure out how to dispose of witnesses.

Trump revels in the sense of power he gets from hurting people. That's mental!

However, I think torturing immigrant children crying for their mothers is still his favorite.

And with that I'm going to plonk MOONUNIT from my view. He's just too stupid to waste any more of my time.

MOONUNIT has mental problems if he can recall the months of blue state governors begging the pleading for supplies while Trump coddled Governor DeSantis(R) in Florida with tons and tons of PPEs.

Nor does MOONUNIT remember that on February 23rd, after being made aware that a pandemic was approaching the United States, that Trump shipped 17.9 tons of PPEs and ventilator to China right out of the National Strategic Stockpile and then refused to activate the Emergency Medical Supplies Procurement Act to increase production at a time of great need.

Then to cover his misdeeds, MOONUNIT doesn't seem to recall Trump refusing to send additional PPEs to hospitals and accusing doctors of selling their limited rations of PPEs out the back doors of hospitals. Or telling Governors to "go find their own."

MOONUNIT doesn't recall the way Trump politicized and weaponized the distribution of PPEs.

MOONUNIT doesn't need a link. He needs a memory.

I think Mitt sees illusions of grandeur in his future.

Trump was treated with an experimental cocktail reserved for critical cases. It wasn't a "cure."

As I recall, the cocktail only temporarily prevented the virus from attaching to healthy cells. It's effectiveness was believed to be only 4 months and sometimes less. It was the steroids that made Trump feel like Superman. He's probably still taking them to get through the campaign.

IF Trump actually contacted COVID-19 and IF this whole thing wasn't one of his melodramas to disprove the lethality of the virus, then he's going to be back in the hospital sometime in December or early January.

His age, obesity and other underlying health problems are his worst enemy. Since this virus is known to be lethal, especially under those circumstances, he could even die or be hospitalized in a vegetative state.

I think Bill Barr has been added to the execution list. He failed to give Trump the last minute boost he needed to win ~~ ala a phony "announcement" of a Joe Biden investigation.

Trump is nothing if not redundant. It's the same tactic he used on Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Who said Trump's not predictable ~~ LOL

JPW @ #24

"It's not "afraid," it's "don't want to deal with the bullsh*& hassle."

You don't have to. That's what killfiles are for.

RIGHTISTRITE

"which former prez is going to show up to proudly represent the successes of republicl0wnery?

Certainly not G.W. He's running a PAC for Joe Biden.

Why is everybody so afraid of GOATMAN?

LAMP

"Just where do you think Republicans are sitting on this issue?"

Certainly not where the RNC expected to be on October 26, 2020 with a one term president.

"Pres Putin is desperately trying to regain the respect for Russia it once had."

True, but when Russia has power, it has respect. Trump screwed up when was counted on to help Russia start expanding its power base to it's former glory as the U.S.S.R. Without going into long details, that's what that business in Ukraine was all about.

"How deeply has Russia penetrated the Republican Party."

Much deeper than passing out free propaganda t-shirts for people to wear at rallies. I think it will be a while before we, as Americans, find out the truth about the RNC. At first blush, it seems the RNC attempted to pull off one the biggest upsets in the history of the United States, a Unitary Executive, which means one party rule forever.

I doubt we'll ever know how Russia stood to benefit from a Unitary Executive form of government in America but I think it's safe to assume it had a lot to do with the U.S military assisting with their expansion into Eastern Europe and the restoration of the former U.S.S.R.

I've come to believe that the real Quid Pro Quo was between the RNC and Russia, while Trump was the puppet who did the dirty work. I've come to believe that the RNC's agenda (Unitary Executive), and the smokescreen of chaos Trump created, was meant to benefit the RNC more than Russia.

If we, as a country, ever want to ferret out the truth behind this whole inkblot on our society we have to look beyond the end of our nose at the power behind power and who is really pulling the strings. I think it was the RNC.

LAMP

I agree, but to what end? Trump was expected to get two term. That's the screwup part I was talking about. Now Putin has to start all over again in 2024 or 2028 with somebody who will finish the job. It's the same with what's left of the Republican party. I don't call that a win for Putin. I'm sure he expected a bigger bang for his buck than Donald Trump delivered.

AU

I hope you're right. I look forward to start breathing normally again.

I guess we don't have to wonder any more about who was going to throw whom under the bus first.

We didn't know the details but I think some of us saw Putin's support for Trump start to wane months ago. I'm glad to see the truth finally come out. I'm surprised that their relationship lasted as long as it did considering what a screwup Trump turned out to be.

"The question I have is, how come the Dems haven't shown themselves to be able to mount as effective an ad campaign in all these years as the Lincoln Project?"

#9 | POSTED BY WHODAMAN

All these years?

The primaries haven't been over that long.

How do you know it wasn't a coordinated project since the beginning?

No problem REDIAL

I depend on peer reviewed medical journals to counter most of the B.S. coming from the Trump administration. And I know Dr. Fauci has been somewhat muffled.

Trump is so high on Sudafed, cocaine and steroids these days he's still ranting about Hillary Clinton.

But I get the addle brained connections. It's Hillary >> Obama >> Biden. (wash, rinse, repeat)

He wants them all locked up.

Barr will probably be next on the enemies list ~~ from the way it looks just 9 days out and no announcement about appointing a Special Prosecutor. Time is running out, not that anybody would believe it anyway ~ considering the timing. This isn't 2016.

LOSTANGELES

"a weather machine"

They're not developing one. They're retooling the one Trump uses to blow his hot air.

REDIAL

Yes, I know. But the developers are saying the vaccine probably won't be available for distribution to the public for several months, even then pending approval by the FDA. They're making heroic efforts but they only have one shot to get the dosages right and consistent for the many variations, not to mention the age groups and the severity of the infection and the area of the body being affected.

I read recently that the wrong dosage could kill a patient's natural antibodies.

Ivanka and Kushner would be wise to save their money. Daddy Big Bucks will probably need a loan when the I.R.S. and the SDNY get through with him.

MODER8

"At least Meadows is being honest. "

No he isn't. He's doing the double-talk to pretend Trump is still on the ball. Trump has no influence over the development of a vaccine. Not that he hasn't tried. There are several out there but not ready for distribution until the pharmaceuticals say they are and not a minute before.

Trump's and his minions can afford to spout off. Pharmaceuticals can't.

I'll listen to Dr. Fauci when I want the truth.

JOE

That would be the minimum alright. Trump is going for the jugular. Barr is reticent. I can't see Trump accepting half measures on a one-shot deal. Trump needs a 'one and done' shot to win.

I suppose he could still fire Barr and fish the ranks of the DOJ for an Acting Director that wouldn't require Senate confirmation. Another Roy Cohn IF he can find one.

RIGHTISTRITE

"With this pandemic they want the peasants to die .."

Only peasants in blue states . . . exactly like they handled the distribution of PPEs