I used to echo "Dems suck at messaging", but I no longer believe that. These people aren't great at "messaging". Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan - none are great "at messaging" (Trump maybe)
They aren't great at anything. They are the beneficiaries of an evil 24x7 media firehouse of lies. They don't control it either - they are controlled by it, and are powerless to disagree with it. Pretty sad state of affairs for a US senator to be a mere puppet.
And now that Trump has seized control of the voters whose minds were damaged by decades of lies - neither the RNC, or Fox News, or anyone is in a position to redirect "the messaging" from whatever fleeting thought is in Trump's mind at the moment.
And so, Dems don't suck at messaging. And Rs that seemed like they had mystical powers are now having that turned against them by Trump. Good. Burn it to the ground.
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Dirk puts on the Rose Colored Glasses and takes a hard look at presidential pardons. Did Trump just checkmate himself in 5D chess? Let's look.
So we have just learned that there is a DOJ investigation into the grant of a presidential pardon in exchange for a bribe. cnn.com/2020/12/01/pol….
Trump, of course, has a long history of having criminals all around him, but he has always seemingly slithered out trouble. How? At least part of it is that he let's others do his dirty work and never QUITE gives orders that can be tied to him. apnews.com/article/7fa7f6…
I can remember when Republicans were ALWAYS on message, no matter how ridiculous, they fed their base with whatever message it took to win. And then there's Syndey Powell on the Lou Dobbs show tonight. A thread.
SP is Trump's Qraken attorney. Lou Dobbs has a HUGE audience. "Where are we in this fight for the WH? We are making great progress, Lou, we have one case in ... GA ... that's getting ready to go to the 11th Circuit.... WE SOUGHT TO IMPOUND ALL THE VOTING MACHINES IN GEORGIA.
(And if that's not nuts enough) "AND WE NEED TO STOP THE ELECTION THAT IS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN IN JANUARY BECAUSE ALL THE MACHINES ARE INFECTED WITH THE SOFTWARE CODE THAT ALLOWS DOMINION TO SHAVE VOTES FOR ONE CANDIDATE AND GIVE THEM TO ANOTHER"
With the rose-coloreds on, its possible to see a brave and determined future prosecutor might be able to find a number of acts by Flynn that are criminal and not part of Mueller's scope or investigation.
Also Rosie-ish: it is within the District Court's powes to determine whether grand jury facts can be released. If he accepts the pardon, then he could also determine that there is no further need to keep the secrets. It's almost necessary, so future prosecutors can know scope
Rosie-ish (h/t @ATLeagle). For all the haters that screamed that @RodRosenstein placed a tight scope on SC Mueller's investigation - the WH limiting its pardon to that scope exposes Flynn to whatever was outside of it.
NEW RULE 1: No one is allowed to rip Pelosi, AOC or any other Dem until they have a working knowledge of why the Rs in the GA run-offs totally suck.
NEW RULE 2: For every 5 posts ripping this massively entitled criminal POS you are allowed one tweet ripping Pelosi/AOC/name the Dem. But really you should just stop it.
NEW RULE 3: If y'all must deep dive in someone's campaign finances, maybe look at hers