TF Guy! You know what it means

lizkat said:
Somewhat encouraging to see these guys impressing upon us all that it's about street theatre. Not sure they realize that it's all the jokes will be what linger in the net's viral memory banks... not that once upon a time they showed up to overturn an election.
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At this point they certainly give off a L'art pour l'art vibe.
 
lizkat said:
"Now, this..."

Man I am getting so tired of wondering every single day w/ Trump "what next from this _______"

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1337917708931895303/
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Yes but it must be driving him wild with frustrated rage that power - and the perception of who has, or holds, power - is slipping away from him.

For all of his destructive impulses, I'm not sure just what unilateral powers are still open to Mr Trump, and to what extent people will still carry out, or implement, his orders, especially orders bordering on illegality or insanity.

I suspect that the actual levers of Government are either, 1) not being pulled (many serving rats busily abandoning ship, or, at least distancing themselves from the administration), 2) being pulled in a way that may best avert, or minimise, frustrate, further, future disasters, in areas of competence where the outgoing president's writ does not run, or 3) being reluctantly released in anticipation of a new administration, or, finally, 4) now that the transition is formally underway, the levers of power being run jointly with individuals nominated by the incoming administration.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
Yes but it must be driving him wild with frustrated rage that power - and the perception of who has, or holds, power - is slipping away from him.

For all of his destructive impulses, I'm not sure just what unilateral powers are still open to Mr Trump, and to what extent people will still carry out, or implement, his orders, especially orders bordering on illegality or insanity.

I suspect that the actual levers of Government are either, 1) not being pulled (many serving rats busily abandoning ship, or, at least distancing themselves from the administration), 2) being pulled in a way that may best avert, or minimise, frustrate, further, future disasters, in areas of competence where the outgoing president's writ does not run, or 3) being reluctantly released in anticipation of a new administration, or, finally, 4) now that the transition is formally underway, the levers of power being run jointly with individuals nominated by the incoming administration.
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One may hope. And of course I do. Some days seem longer than others.
 
There are MANY of us counting the days...... Christmas? Pffft! Who cares? Let's just get it and the rest of December over with and move right along to New Year's and once we're in January....Ahhhhhhh!!!! The first couple of weeks of January are going to feel so, SO long, though!!!
 
I wish Trump would go live in Mar a Lago or wherever already, just not come back from the holiday break.

Meanwhile I paper over anxiety over his antics and a naturally short attention span this time of year by indulging in reads I don't usually do -- I'm sampling one of Stacey Abrams' earlier books, romance novels written under nom de plume, for instance!-- amd cruising around for movies starring people I admired for their acting in other movies. Random slashings at the calendar...
 
I'm pretty sure I've gone a day without mentioning how I think this person is the worst, so...

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1338220185409396736/
www.marketwatch.com

Sen. Kelly Loeffler disavows white supremacist after posing with him for photo

The campaign of Georgia Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler is disavowing a photo circulating on social media of her posing with a longtime white supremacist...
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ATLANTA — The campaign of Georgia Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler is disavowing a photo circulating on social media of her posing with a longtime white supremacist at a recent campaign event, with less than a month to go until the runoff elections that will determine the balance of the U.S. Senate.

Loeffler did not know who Chester Doles was when she took a picture with him, her campaign spokesman Stephen Lawson said in a statement to The Associated Press on Sunday. The picture was taken Friday at a campaign event in Dawsonville, Georgia.

“Kelly had no idea who that was, and if she had she would have kicked him out immediately because we condemn in the most vociferous terms everything that he stands for,” Lawson said.

Doles is a longtime white supremacist who spent decades in the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazi National Alliance. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Doles was sentenced to prison for the 1993 beating of a Black man in Maryland and again on weapons violations in Georgia.

Doles is also associated with the Hammerskins, a racist skinhead gang, with whom he marched in the 2017 United the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

In response to a message from AP, Doles said Sunday he had “publicly renounced racism on several occasions in the past couple of years.” Doles added that he attended a “redemption service,” standing “in front of an all-Black congregation and told my story and renounced all racism and asked for God’s forgiveness.”
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Doles posted the picture of him and Loeffler to his account on VK, a Russian social networking site where he has posted pictures of himself posing with other Georgia politicians, including Republican Congresswoman-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene, the paper reported.

Doles has attempted to insinuate himself into Republican politics over the past year, claiming to have renounced his past while maintaining ties with longtime friends in the white supremacist movement.

In 2019, Doles started a new organization called American Patriots USA, a group supportive of President Donald Trump but deeply tied to the far-right militia movement. Doles endorsed several longshot political candidates in the 2020 election, but also attempted to tie himself to Greene, who had Doles removed from an event in September in Ringgold.
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This time, TF Guy is reserved for an entire gov't

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Iran’s execution of journalist Ruhollah Zam, briefly explained

Zam was best known for reporting on a wave of anti-regime protests in 2018.
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Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam, whose reporting helped spur large anti-government protests, was executed by Iran on Saturday morning, according to reports by state media.

Zam, 47, was found guilty of “corruption on earth” and sentenced to death in June 2020. The sentence was upheld by Iran’s Supreme Court on Tuesday this week, shortly before his execution.

The vague charge of “corruption on earth” is often used “in cases involving espionage or attempts to overthrow Iran’s government,” Al Jazeera reported Saturday.

Zam ran the site Amad News and coordinated a Telegram channel, both of which helped spread information during a wave of anti-regime protests that shook Iran in 2017 and 2018. He was living abroad in Paris at the time, but returned to the Middle East in 2019 and was arrested in Iraq by members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

It’s unclear exactly why Zam returned to the region, but Karim Sadjadpour, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, tweeted Saturday that Zam was “reportedly lured to Iraq (from France), kidnapped, taken back to Iran, and tortured into confession. He leaves behind a wife and two daughters.”
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I really do loathe this person's existence, and here's a reminder why

Stephen Miller, Trump’s senior adviser, told Fox News that an ‘alternate slate of electors’ will vote to ‘ensure our legal remedies remain open,’ even though those votes won’t be certified

On Monday, the Electoral College will cast their ballots to elect Joe Biden as the next president of the United States. Despite losing several lawsuits contesting the election, Trump and his team refuse to concede, and Miller’s mention of ‘alternate’ electors is largely symbolic since their votes will not count and are legally irrelevant at this point.
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https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1338482805299351552/

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1338483290253221888/

A completely unnecessary addition reflecting my viewpoint
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1338503312665153537/
 
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THIS guy hasn't gotten the attention they deserve as TF Guy, but I try to give this 🤬 as little as possible. Then he goes out of his way...

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1338648574612168706/

I know I'm not ALWAYS a raging a-- hole, it could just be me, but I think I'd be more upset at having a stroke PERIOD no matter who is near me! I would be upset if that a-- hat was the one near me though, probably NOT doing a F'N thing, while I had a stroke, worried about titles they don't have.
 
JayMysteri0 said:
THIS guy hasn't gotten the attention they deserve as TF Guy, but I try to give this 🤬 as little as possible. Then he goes out of his way...

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1338648574612168706/

I know I'm not ALWAYS a raging a-- hole, it could just be me, but I think I'd be more upset at having a stroke PERIOD no matter who is near me! I would be upset if that a-- hat was the one near me though, probably NOT doing a F'N thing, while I had a stroke, worried about titles they don't have.
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Lol. And a doctor physician at the table would call 911, lay you flat, and wait for EMS to take you to the CT scanner:D FFS, these people are idiots.

(take it from someone who had actually pushed clot buster to treat stroke...I guess that's also a variant of "he who had delivered a child").
 
DT said:
I "signed off" on one those one time. Scary stuff.
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It's an adrenaline rush for the person doing it (for the one getting it too, just a different kind...). Calling fam to get history while reviewing the CT while checking stuff on the eligibility list and teaching a med student concurrently. But it's not really my kind of lifestyle.
 
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