Moral high ground
I hope this gets Junior a prison sentence for sedition.
“Moral high ground” ffs. How do you reckon?
Two days after the 2020 presidential election, as votes were still being tallied, Donald Trump’s eldest son texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that “we have operational control” to ensure his father would get a second term, with Republican majorities in the US Senate and swing state legislatures, CNN has learned.
Translating “we have operational control”: we’re in a position to steal the election.
In the text, which has not been previously reported, Donald Trump Jr. lays out ideas for keeping his father in power by subverting the Electoral College process, according to the message reviewed by CNN. The text is among records obtained by the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021.
“It’s very simple,” Trump Jr. texted to Meadows on November 5, adding later in the same missive: “We have multiple paths We control them all.”
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
The November 5 text message outlines a strategy that is nearly identical to what allies of the former President attempted to carry out in the months that followed. Trump Jr. makes specific reference to filing lawsuits and advocating recounts to prevent certain swing states from certifying their results, as well as having a handful of Republican state houses put forward slates of fake “Trump electors.”
If all that failed, according to the Trump Jr. text, GOP lawmakers in Congress could simply vote to reinstall Trump as President on January 6.
Just boys being boys, yeah?
Donnie Dipshit Jr. Proof that the road apple doesn’t fall far from the horse’s patoot. They controlled all the paths except the one that led to Trump being ousted from the White House. So all but that one. :P
I thought we’d agreed that you’d used “Donnie Dipshit” enough now.
Um… I was “triggered.” Enough is enough.
Oh no, not triggered!!!
A thousand apologies.
“Remember, remember, the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason, and plot.”
How appropriate!
@4 Not at all, I’m the one who slipped and I do apologize. It’s one of my go to insults though, and it’s so alliterative paired with Donnie. I shall refrain. :)
Well it was a triggering-joke rather than a real apology. Anyway you’re forgiven, it’s AS IF IT NEVER HAPPENED.
“We have operational control.”
“Roger that, and copy.”
Confusing democratic elections with military maneuvers is a really bad look.
lol, thanks. I’ll do my part and try to use “dumbass” instead. I’ll start practicing right away. Let’s see if I can wear that one out too :D
Looks worse when you’ve never been in the military to know the difference.
Now “Total leverage” I could see him knowing from shady real estate deals, and even though it’s got a strong whiff of corporate-speak, I’ll let him have it.
As for “moral high ground”, I’ve never before heard anyone use that phrase to describe a sewer. He wouldn’t recognize the moral high ground if it fell on him in an earthquake.
I’ll bet calling Daddy POTUS gives him a little stiffy, too.
twiliter& Ophelia– I for one plan to steal the phrase “the road apple doesn’t fall far from the horse’s patoot” and use it as often as possible. With variations on “patoot” as fancy strikes.
twiliter, “I’ll do my part and try to use “dumbass” instead.”: The word “dumbass” is permanently attached in my mind to this commercial.
I’m pretty sure that no member of the Trump family has ever had the phrase ‘moral high ground’ used to describe them or anything they’ve done, going back to their arrival from Germany avoiding the draft.
Lady M, you see, I was really trying not to be so explicit. Obviously I failed. :D
Sack, that’s a good one, I don’t think I ever saw it. The one that sticks out in my mind is when Andy Dufresne was building the library at Shawshank.
…which makes me less regretful about choosing French in high school rather than Spanish. ;)
I saw a version of this that read Remember, remember, the sixth in November”. I plan to, but it won’t do any good. We have two Republicans running for governor, because we have non-partisan elections – which is a nice way to say, dominant party is rarely challenged. When we have opposition at all, they are usually even worse than the incumbent.
Multiple paths, operational control, total leverage…. and still they failed? Christ, talk about incompetent.
Catwhisperer, that was the one ‘good’ thing about Trump’s presidency. It was just too incompetent for the full force of his malignancy to be experienced. I fear we won’t be that lucky next time. The GOP has purged itself of anyone with even a trace of scruples. They’ll be quite prepared to go full court press next time.