Trump is back in DC

Lucky Florida.

He is playing around with Iran and him being back in DC is spooky.

He's going to be playing Battleship for real.

He is planning something, look at his pardoned "advisors" all giving him input. It might be Iran and will leave the mess for Biden. He is beyond being despicable.

If he tried something with Iran ... THEN would they 25 him?

More likely he is trying to bully, bribe, browbeat and cajole GOP congressmen to object to the Electoral College vote.

Tons of shady military movement in the mideast this week. Scary stuff. He'll light the Middle East on fire and just walk away from it.

links R7

[quote]Tons of shady military movement in the mideast this week.

Such as .... ?

Marshal Law?

Is Melania switching the decor back at Mar-a-Lago?

The Mickey D's in Palm Beach ran out of special sauce.

Can he just up and start a war single-handedly? I'm not American and don't know these things. Surely there are checks and balances in declaring war ....

Invade Iran, cause U.S. cities to explode in protests, declare nationwide martial law, cancel the Inauguration because of crisis. The sociopath is surely capable of trying that path, caring nothing about the lives that will be lost. It's only a possibility, a sickening one.

Trump is gonna be in DC for a LONG time.

R14 -

Not Marshal Law, silly.

It’s Marshall’s, Department Store brands for less, everyday!

It’s Marcia Law, actually!

You know damn well if they attempt to declare martial law they'll misspell it.

Yup the "malted machine" at the Palm beach McDonald's is broken

I told them to change the WH locks.

Trump is back because he’s been hounded into paying more attention to the Georgia runoff, but what he’s REALLY going to be doing is hijinks to get the certification disrailed.

An effort that will be about as effective as all his others to date.

You gotta hand it to him though - every time he forces the Republican Party to act in an unconstitutional way, for his own greedy reasons, he splatters more and more dogshit all over that party. A fact I am enjoying enormously. His lack of team spirit or constraint is stunning, and hilarious.

he doesn't give a flying fuck about the GOP

They ripped out all of Melania’s renovations and Donald had nowhere to sit his fat ass. That’s probably why he’s back in DC.

[quote] If he tried something with Iran ... THEN would they 25 him?

At that point, someone just might 86 him

He got their money.

Iran isn't helping

haven't they been saying shit about America and its presidents since 1979?

THIS is why he went back. To twist 139 arms.

The ‘membership’ of Mar-a-Lago is highly divided and overall pissed off and angry about Trump. And a lot of it isn’t political. When he was elected all of a sudden Palm Beach residents had their private planes diverted as an Air Force One order went into effect.

Their golfing was screwed up when he was around. I95 being shut down for an hour and a half most Friday afternoons and whatever day of the week he went back to DC was a nightmare.

Yes, much of the pissed-offed-ness is purely practical. Trump fucked around with their day to day lives for four years. Palm Beach doesn’t love him.

I bet he left early to ‘punish’ Palm Beach and Mar-a-Lago for their lack of loyalty. Petty.

yes, but he's saying good things about Biden

And on the other hand, McConnell is one pissed off tortuga and is doubling down on how angry he is with Hawley and Trump, as it seems, are most of the GOP Senators

"His most consequential vote ever"

Swan also gets a nice dig in that Hawley is just pulling this stunt as a way to make money from Dumplorables.

And, to draw the line between sane Republicans (relatively sane, anyway) and the Cult Crazies, Lin Wood is going around claiming evil forces have corrupted SCOTUS Chief Justice Roberts, Mark Meadows is a tool of big pharma who is trying to undermine Trump.... and Jeffrey Epstein is still alive, protected by the Deep State.

Best explanation I have heard is that Trump didn't want to face all the people at Mar-a-lago asking him about losing the election, but the Iran thing bothers me. Jan 3 2019 was when Trump ordered the killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, some people think Iran might chose that date to retaliate, giving Trump an excuse for war.

Light is a good disinfectant, which is why thinking about the worst things sociopaths might do is probably pro-survival but also anxiety-producing.

I really hope there is a food or other trivial reason for his getting his fat ass back to DC.

AND the GOP splits in two

Trump probably doesn't even know where Iran is.

He is in a mania state. Who knows what crazy ideas he hatched with Rudy in the Mar-a-Lago sauna.

If the U.S. military can't even stage a successful military coup to install Donald as president for life how the hell are they going to go to war with Iran? We've been stalling on that for going on fifty years.

The MAGAts in congress are throwing their knives at Mitch.

He actually can't spend more than 7 days at Mar-A-Lago.

He’s getting fitted for his suit of armor that he’ll be proudly wearing while waiting for his Proud Boys to storm the Capitol on January 6th.

Since when have rules stopped him for doing what he wants R40?

[quote] He actually can't spend more than 7 days at Mar-A-Lago.

Donald thinks rules don't apply to him, if he wanted to stay he would, he scheduled a huge party, charged people $1000 a piece to be there and now Trump won't even show up for the party.

I really hope the Democrats win in GA on January 5. Then all the crying on January 6 will be more enjoyable when it goes down in defeat.

20 more days and his fat ass is gone!!!

r14 is on the right trek. He is absolutely psychotic at this point. His tweets are incoherent, all caps, then inappropriate caps. WTF?

This just happened: "The Department of Justice has filed a straight forward, compelling brief on behalf of VP Pence to dismiss the lawsuit Gohmert has filed against him. The US House has indicated that it will also file a brief."

Yes, in less than 3 weeks he'll be gone, but hats off to Rouhani's idea anyway because this POS is never going to prison.

He can’t plan his way out of a paper bag. He’ll rant and rave for the next 20 days and leave the WH the day before the inauguration.

Every single last Republican in the House, and the usual suspects in the Senate (Hawley, Cruz, Cotton, Graham, etc) could vote against certifying the results, and it won't make a difference. BOTH houses of Congress would have to agree not to certify the results, and there's a 0.000000000000000001% chance that would happen.

The GOP knows full well that no matter what shit they do, millions will still vote for them.

The two Georgia Senators both sold stocks when they got inside information about Covid but told the public it was nothing. They are STILL likely to win.

Trump was apparently pissed off at the First Whore's decorating of Mar A Lago.

I wonder what he likes. Or doesn't like.

No Chinese Modern!

Of course (real) Melania is going to decorate in a manner Trump hates. She is not fake Melania who will hold his hand. IN a huff, Trump went back to DC to work on undermining democracy over the holiday weekend, posture over Iran and try to scare people. He's reaching the negotiation phase on the five levels of grief, working to find something to threaten Congress. Maybe he won't start a war with Iran if they'll let Pence act as president and pardon Trump? He thought he had something to hold over McConnell with the $2,000 check, but Moscow Mitch one-upped him by using DC's oldest trick in the playbook: loading up the bill with a bunch of poison pills such that no one would or could vote for it. But Trump being the inexperienced failed executive didn't see it coming, even now at the end of his four years supposedly leading the party.

[quote]how the hell are they going to go to war with Iran?

Easily. The US has enormous amount of force projection. It can put much of its (vast) defense expenditure on such force projection.

This is something people wringing their hands over China will never get — China has land borders with Russia, India (an enormous country and bitter rival) and others besides. China has to be concerned first and foremost with securing its border integrity and, as a (let’s face it) dictatorship, suppressing internal uprisings.

The US is not terribly concerned with invasions from Canada or Mexico. As a result it can and DOES wield a mighty sword, with little worry about a shield. The US has the power projection capability to kick the living shit out of Iran using missile and air strikes in stunning quantity. What can Iran do in retaliation?

If the Iranians actually start something they are utterly insane.

R51, I read today that Trump liked that golden gilt Eastern European crap and Melania actually liked lighter colors and more modern. Probably she re-did their place gray and white mid-century or something and he hated it.

"Is Melania switching the decor back at Mar-a-Lago?"

That was one of the lame excuses they used to return to DC. They didn't want the optics of him lolling on the golf course while he had politicians do all his dirty work back in snowy Washington.

You know she wouldn't change a thing w/o Turd's approval.