Lazy Weekends: Drumpf = Veep?
Posted July 17, 2021
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This week was a revelatory one, wasn’t it? As the January 6th Select Committee sets its first hearing with law enforcement on July 27th, more and more scary-but-not-shocking details are coming out about the depth and comprehensiveness of Drumpf’s attempts to establish himself as the Dick-tator of the United States.
Here’s a story I read this morning quoting Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-MD, the extraordinary leader of Drumpf’s 2nd impeachment effort. Mr. Raskin is also a member of the Select Committee. The story contains some key nuggets about how Mike Pence’s refusal to do the Mango Moron’s bidding on 1/6 likely prevented the overturning of the election and imposition of martial law. And the way the Thugs would have done it, could have been inspired directly by “Veep.”
“All they wanted Pence to do was to rebuff the electors coming in from Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, lowering Biden’s total below 270, kicking the presidential contest into a contingent election,” Raskin said.
“In the event that no presidential candidate can reach 270 Electoral College votes, the next president is selected by the House of Representatives. This rare situation has not arisen since the 19th century [well…except on “Veep,” when an electoral college tie sent the election back to the House!].
“And there they wanted it because we vote not one member, one vote, but one state, one vote,” Raskin went on.
“And if they’d been able to do that, which would not have been really that much if you look at the different things Mike Pence did over the prior four years for Trump, they would have won it with 27 states to 22 for the Democrats and one tied.”
“And at that point, he probably would’ve followed the advice of Michael Flynn and imposed martial law and a state of siege, and this would’ve been the Reichstag moment,” he said.
Barring the martial law part, which is more speculative, it looks like Drumpf’s coup d’etat plan included elements that were similar to what happened on a TeeVee show about a corrupt politician doing anything and everything to claw her way to the White House and stay there. So on brand for TFG! And only Mike Pence stopped it from working.
I never thought I’d say this, but thank Goddess for Mike Pence. (Sorry, Beata!) Unlike in “Veep,” where the peaceful transfer of power was observed no matter how evil the candidate was, the US as we know it wouldn’t have survived the overturning of the election and the reinstatement of der Drumpfenfuhrer.
Brace yourselves for more of these revelations over the next several months, Shinners!
Open thread, as always.
114 Responses to "Lazy Weekends: Drumpf = Veep?"

Yep, yep on Nina Turner, D & S, etc. I guess you could say every village has its idiots… It’s worse than that though I think. They sold their soul to the devil. I hope they got a decent price for it…
Of course none of these women will ever outdo their male counterpart, Clarence Thomas and the damage *he* has done to black people. He has the power plus the lack of character to out-white white people. He’s all for silencing the voices of black people (voting rights). Anita Hill warned us about him… Another Bush appointment…


Great Veep clips, MB. I was laughing so hard! Totally hit my funny bone.
Plus… “Dick-tator”. Funny stuff!
Mike Pence did the right thing. No wonder the MAGAts wanted to hang him. I guess Pence was afraid to get into the secret service vehicle on Jan 6? He was probably right not to trust anyone at that point.


I appreciate what my former governor Mike Pence did to preserve our democracy as I wrote over at SD yesterday. It was the right thing to do.


Mike Pence, Brad Raffensperger (sp?), the Repub guy who said people were going to get killed if they didn’t stop this shit, the gov. of AZ who refused to take Trump’s call.
But it makes me think of “The Hunt for Red October”.
They won’t make the same mistake twice. Right now, they are removing the safety measures (for democracy) on all of their weapons.


@8: I can’t imagine why anyone would consider that I might think otherwise regarding Pence in this situation. Upholding the Constitution is paramount and that is what Pence did.


Loved the new post and comments. I never get enough of MB’s nick name, “der Drumpfenfuhrer” and that great Randy Rainbow parody, ‘Sedition’. His multiple images, standing in a line, and when they all wave their hands around, I can’t stop laughing.
I agree, that I appreciate Pence for doing what the Constitution called for and not what the GOPee criminals wanted him to do.
Thanks to all for the outrage of support for my very sick sister that had to share a room with an unvaxxed woman.
Luna, the hospital is St. Joseph’s. They do have a mask mandate, but if a woman that is 360 lbs in the next bed has trouble breathing with a mask on….then to Hell with the rules. Why couldn’t they have moved her into a room with another unvaxxed person?
It seems my other sister, the unvaxxed Dump supporter didn’t try to see my sick sister, but a week later her male friend was in the same hospital and she went to see him and was pist she was told to wear a mask. That same male friend was offered a Covid Vaccination and he told the nurse to get the Hell out of his room, he wasn’t interested.
If this is the way of hospitals these days, all the patient beds should be separated, vaxxed on one part of the hospital, crackpots on their own wing. They want the freedom to be exposed, let them worry about it.
Unfortunately, my sick sister is too sick to deal with telling the news reporters, she may have to go in to the hospital soon for more possible heart surgery.


Shadow, I am very sorry about your sister’s experience in the hospital. It sounds awful.
In my recent hospital stays, I was in a private room in the oncology ward, a ward that has never had any Covid patients. Staff and visitors were required to wear masks at all times, as were patients outside their own rooms. Once I was in my room, I was told I didn’t need to wear a mask, although I sometimes did (my choice). Everyone who came into my room had to wear a mask. I was allowed only two visitors a day (one at a time) and they had to be masked. If a visitor left, they could not come back the same day to visit me. My SO stayed a long time each day because if he left we couldn’t see each other until the next day. I think these hospital procedures regarding masks were done well.


Beata, so glad you were able to have your own room, but you sure had to pay a heavy price for it. So sorry for what you are going though and so glad you think enough of us to spend some of your time here.
The hospital my sister goes to only lets one person in a day, they can stay as long as they want and can come in several times that day.


Thank you DYB and MB for explaining and for the information!
“It’s remarkable that in retrospect, history will probably treat Mike Pence as a hero.” Ugh, DYB! I think you’re right.
Pence has always been a freaking creepster when it comes to his views on women. I love it when Beata talks about him and Mother. Totally cracks me up even though it’s really sick. And Pence sucking Trump’s dick for four years is nothing to be proud of and disgusting to watch (I think we can all agree on that).
But yeah, I know we’re all on the same page that he did this one thing right. “the one thing in his entire damned life Pence did right”, as DYB said. But it *was* a big one… (hurts to say).


As much as history might see Pence as a 12 hour hero on that day, with the noose outside on the Capital grounds, I see it as Pence taking revenge, giving the Dumpster a big middle finger salute.
He wanted to be the person that finalized sending him out of office and was willing to stay close by so Dump couldn’t up-end our democracy.
I’ll give him 12 hours out of more than 4.5 years of being a degraded ass kisser.


My mother taught me years ago that you never get into the car. You get into the car, you’re a dead person. If they want to kill you, let them do it right there in the open. Chances are they won’t and you will survive.


Haha, it’s not like any of us really understand what is going on in that white haired, fly infested head.
None of us would have degraded ourselves like that working for a nasty looser, and being publicly humiliated like that.


@33: I second that emotion. Great to see you Socal!!


Wow… my eye just caught the 1984 George Orwell quote in the sidebar… I have read the book many times, but whoa. How did I miss that?
That is so freakishly prophetic of Trump’s Republican Party. On pretty much everything, but especially about Jan 6.


Annie, I’m glad you are back and doing well.


OMG, DYB, what a story. You had the right words – “absolutely horrific.” It was overwhelming for me. My God! But it was a story that needed to be told. Thank you for the link.


I’m knitting infinity scarves to give to shelters in the fall. It’s something I intend to keep doing for as long as I can. I find it very satisfying.
I’m not reading that link D put up. Just can’t do it.


I enjoy knitting, between other projects I like to do. I love making my own yarn out of wool fleece, card it and even dye it and add a little bling. My hands have to be busy when I am watching movies or tv shows.


Hey DYB, how did you cook your Boston roast?


@41: Puppy break! Adorable.
I totally agree, quixote. Get on with it.


Sounds delicious, D!


DYB, I agree with Beata, it sounds yummy.


Annie, I used to make a chicken soup with rice and pumpkin that was low sodium but not blah for my mother. It was tasty, healthful and easy to digest.


Speaking of soups I had one of the best veggie soups at Back 40 BBQ restaurant the other day. I was socked it was so good. It would have been good with beef, pork or chicken too.
Anyone have a good family recipe?


Haha, I just told a little lie.
Called up Back 40 and said I had some food allergies with certain vegetables, and could she please find out what veggies were in their vegetable soup. That some of my friends told me how good it was.
They told me, now I can experiment with the ingredients. I think there was butter in it too from the way it looked.


I want to change my online name. “Beata”, my nickname since childhood, does not help me to be taken seriously. I need something better. I used to be “Chuck” on a sports website. Maybe I should become “Barry”, as in Barry Levin, the Jewish man’s name that Annie used to get her letter to the editor published in the LA Times. I like it. What do you all think?


Maybe go whole hog and be “BarryJD”, big-time Jewish attorney-at-law.
My mother would be so proud.


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Jim Jordan is off, the tiny clown on the big stilts, shouting to stand out in the crowd.
Yeah, way to go Nancy!
Then Mc Buttlicker pulls off the other Jr. lickers….Perfect!
I agree with DYB, Nancy should choose some GOPeers that voted against Dump.


I am so happy that Nancy did what she did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I like Majoribanks-Euthorpe! It just screams class.
Or maybe Toby Esterhase, my favorite member of The Circus. I have always had a fondness for Hungarians.
The problem with “Beata” is that it makes me sound like I’m either extremely “sweet” or I’m a Polish hooker.


Catholic karma!


Beata, I don’t think your name is a push over at all, or that you should have a man’s name to get respect. You can always add on something to Beata, if it makes you feel better.


@74: Love it!!!
When I was in college, I knew a girl in Jewish Studies who came back from summer break with a legally changed new name: “Tiffany Rockefeller”. We all had a hard time keeping a straight face when she announced the change.


@75: Thank you, Shadow. I guess I’ve been feeling down and rather worthless lately. I’m not able to do much anymore.
I will probably keep my current online name. It is my real nickname after all. I’ve had it since I was a baby. It means “blessed” in Latin.


83
I have to laugh when looking at the faces of these GOPees, some look rabid…they all look like they have IQs under 50.


These corrupt loyalists of Dump need to get fired and I agree that Congress needs to investigate.
If there is proof that Wray hid this from Congress and the American people, he needs to be fired immediately and Kabinaw needs to be suspended from the Supremes while an investigation goes on and either cleared or fired. No job in government should ever be above the law and not pushed for criminal behavior.
This has to be the best impersonation of Kavanaugh:


99 DYB
I love Biden’s response. If more people would do this to stupid ass questions, maybe, just maybe reporters would stop asking them.
I don’t think most reporters we see on tv are reporters, they should work for TMZ instead.
Even some reporters that used to be decent before, are asking leading, stupid questions – making the person interviewed refute the stupid question and go on to give the answer that needs to be said. Anderson Cooper is one that drives me nuts with his stupid, lead in questions.


Marj 3 Names shows on her outside office wall, exactly the out-of-control state her mind is in.


I’ve mentioned this before… one of the greatest rants I’ve ever heard regarding Catholic priests and how they totally lost any moral authority because of what they did. If you still buy in to the Catholic Church – you’re culpable too.
But it can just as easily be applied to other groups. Say Republicans. And what happened on Jan 6. The terrorist attack on the United States. If you’re still a member of the Republican Party (gang), you’re culpable.


So I got my second Pfizer shot yesterday. I did not receive it from the beautiful Asian-American woman. This poor white guy – late 20s, early 30s was having a very bad day. It was obvious. He was one of those really nice guys that just didn’t want to fuck and be there on this particular day. Come back tomorrow, and things could be completely different.
So he was still trying his best. He said, “you know this is Pfizer, right?”. I’m like, um… yeah…??? He grinned a little and said, “we have to ask.” I’m like, “oh, ok, right. I’m really glad it’s not J & J because I’ve heard it’s not so good for old ladies like myself.” He smiled and said, yes. There have been some issues.
My arm hurt and I have never been so tired in my life. Like I could get up to go to the bathroom and drink some water and then it was back to bed.
But I’m doing good now! One day later. And among the fully vaccinated.

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July 17, 2021 at 9:02 am
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