Something is...UP.

[LowerManhattanite]

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I think everyone pretty much sensed it after this weekend when the GOP’s angriest mouthpieces suddenly got quiet.

I joked with a friend at the NYT On Sunday night saying “I’d love to see the group chat from the so-called sane Republicans. I wonder if they’re having ‘THAT’ meeting like the GOP did before they sent their representatives up the hill to speak to Nixon the week he resigned?”

Said friend noted that the so-called sane members of the GOP hierarchy (McConnell, Grassley, Graham) have more than likely been briefed on what 45 had in terms of those documents, who’s implicated in their theft and misuse, and who and WHAT’S been damaged. Not just the Republicans being briefed, but the Democratic members of the senate intelligence committee.

And then?

That NYT editorial calling for 45’s indictment.

Then we had Lindsey‘s freak out over what would happen “IF” his Kompromat Keeper was to be indicted.

He seemed really upset. LOL. About an “if”. I mean…why would he speculate on THAT? 🤔

Next, you had Ben Shapiro effectively pitching The Dotard over the side.

From Murdoch’s NY Post

“The founder of the Daily Wire news site and the host of the daily podcast ‘The Ben Shapiro Show’ suggested that the GOP should nominate a non-Trump candidate in 2024 to make it harder for Democrats to appeal to independent voters.

‘There is a reason Democrats are eager to keep Trump at the center of the conversation: half of independents say Trump is a major factor in their vote, and they’re breaking 4-1 for the Democrats,’ Shapiro tweeted. ‘Republicans shouldn’t play that game. If they do, they’re cruising for a bruising.””

Drudge has been leading with pics of 45 in an orange jumpsuit, with a rolling headline reading “Indictment Watch” and today’s blaring “Dementing Don” over his rants on Truth Social for the last 36 hours.

We’ve gotten the news about the internals from the GOP this cycle and even the words from Mitch’s wattled mouth weren’t good. The Senate looks like it may hold and there’s apparently emerging paths for the House to possibly, once-impossibly do the same. Independents are breaking 4-1 for the incumbent party. An absolute break from the norm, and the blame is laid at the Dobbs decision AND a referendum on 45 even though he’s not on the ticket.

Then today? Murdoch’s NY Post editorial:

“Attorney General Merrick Garland’s raid on Mar-a-Lago has ex-President Donald Trump back in the news. That’s a problem for Republicans, who need to move beyond him,"

It went further. “The current dynamics SHOULD make for a Republican landslide" in the 2022 midterm elections.

"But if the focus is on Trump instead, enraged Democrats will unite, pause their intercine warring while independents will abstain or vote against the GOP."

They’re using words like “albatross” and “boat anchor” to describe him.

It feels like people who are supposed to know things know SOMETHING about what that Mar-A-Lago visit was fully about, and they’re trying to get upwind of where the sh*t is headed.

It started with that sudden quiet this weekend.

There’s a shift in the air and it ain’t just fall coming in.

Something is UP.

Strap in, people

[Claustrum]

1. I completely agree.

And you forgot the freak-out TFG is having on his truth social. I know he rant all the time but he seems to be amplifying it today.

[Wounded Bear]

2. I have to believe the Gang of 8 has been briefed by now...

Hell, the original classified docs were identified in January, then another tranche in Jun. The August haul might not have reached the Intel Committees yet, but the earlier ones surely have.

[underpants]

3. I didn't know Drudge was still up and running

I thought the MAGAs hate him. Must be enough non-MAGA Republicans out there.

[certainot]

15. drudge was the MIC go-to for feeding RW radio and then the kremlin used breitbart

to feed limbaugh and sons. breitbart had a heart attack and bannon took over.

breitbart took over the drudge role - basically the kremlin took over control of rw radio through limbaugh.....US deep state got took. i'll bet there are pics of limbaugh playing golf on trump courses with russians.

is drudge going to make a comeback now that limbaugh rots?

bannon needs to talk about breitbart

[blogslug]

4. I'll say it again

T H E Y D O N' T N E E D H I M A N Y M O R E

[Kid Berwyn]

5. "Current Dynamics"

Yeah, make for a landslide all right — a Democratic one.

[3Hotdogs]

6. GOP is in the shitter either way. Drop him and the Magaloons stay home on Election Day.

Keep him and they get more of what they've already gotten.


AND THEN, there's the issue of abortion. Keep him or can him, that's the real albatross hangi --- it was around their necks, but in May, it dropped. The bird is now wrapped around their balls and biting hard, looking for a lunch snack.

[cilla4progress]

11. I

CONCUR!!

[Ellipsis]

7. The seer speaks...

I would agree.

Great synopsis.


The question is... before or after Labor Day.

[BWdem4life]

8. NY Post spelled "internecine" wrong

Ya, they're worried.

[rubbersole]

9. "It will blow the roof off the house."

The August, September, October surprise. tee-hee.

[Warpy]

10. I just hope he doesn't flee the country before the 2024 RNC convention

I've waited all my life to see a Donnybrook on the floor of the Republican convention and 2024 is shaping up to be the year.

[sarcasmo]

12. Tracking Trump's plane.

[czarjak]

13. Still waiting to be dragged kicking and screaming to The Right Side.

[Marcuse]

14. Release Trump's Russian kompromat on GOP politicians. Set them free from blackmail.

[JMCKUSICK]

16. I think I've figured it out!!!!

I've always wondered why Lindsey Graham is so close to TFG. This scares the shit out of me BTW. Graham is one of the gang of eight and if I'm not mistaken, Minority leader in Senate judiciary committee.
Is it too far a leap to wonder outloud if Graham is keeping Trump in the loop?

Adding that I'm talking about Senate Intel committee. My bad

[LowerManhattanite]

22. God help him if he is.

45 has lost his security clearance. If Graham is sharing intel-based info with him—for whatever reason…he’s in DEEP SH*T too. I would hope that with all of his fecklessness, his duplicity and lily-livered-ness that he would hold his tongue on classified matters with someone who has had their clearance revoked.

[waddirum]

28. Senator Graham is not in the gang of eight

He is minority leader of the Senate Judiciary committee, not the Intelligence committee.

[BadgerMom]

17. "Pause their internecine warring..."

Am I missing something? Are we “warring” with one another? Is that how Justice Jackson was put on the SC? Is that how the first gun legislation in years was passed? Our warring didn’t get in the way of passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. I’m glad the President is standing tall and pushing back on this malarkey. The right just can’t stand the fact that we Democrats are in array.

[halfulglas]

26. That's standard RW and owned media talking points since forever.

Supposedly we are always divided progressives against other dems, etc. and we can't get out of our own way. They kinda forgot how we united to elect Biden and most of us are still quite pleased with the results,even though for most of us (myself included) Biden wasn't our first choice, and I'm pretty sure most other Dems are feeling the same.

I don't think we can convince them we aren't at war with each other, but maybe that's an advantage for us.

[stage left]

18. You count Lindsey Graham

as sane. If he's sane, God help us.

[LowerManhattanite]

23. Thus, why I called them...

“So-called sane”—LOL

[Jon King]

19. They will pivot away from Trump while trying to keep as much of his base as they can.

The top Repubs know Trump is done, the DOJ filing laid out how his passports and other personal items were mixed in with top secret documents. He is done for, likely indicted, but nonetheless would get destroyed in an election in every state that voted against him last time.

So now they pivot to Desantis and hope to keep the Trump base.

[UTUSN]

20. K&R for, and yet we've had so many Fitzmases

[Bev54]

21. I don't consider any one of the three as "sane" republicans.

[LowerManhattanite]

24. Again, why I called them

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“So-called sane”.

[Indykatie]

25. Excellent Post!! Thank You.

[malaise]

27. Great post

Rec

[onetexan]

29. now we know why the freakout - DoJ dropped its filing to the judge. The Con is guilty as sin.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/george-conway-trump-guilty-as-sin_n_630f0f0fe4b0da54bae40b9b



What galls me is this judge's decision lean on allowing this so-called special master given the con has no standing to file such a claim. Besides, who the heck is this judge to make such a call?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

30. OR they just want to distract the electorate from Roe and LGBTQ and voting rights insanity.

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

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[Johnny2X2X]

31. The Republican establishment knows more than the public does

These are long established political operatives with their own sources in the DOJ and their own security clearances.

But they are also America hating scumbags, they're just trying to gauge whether or not they can make the reveals incremental enough to still be able to defend Trump. They need Trump to have a prayer in November.

Until now, I've been under the assumption that the DOJ knew these documents were either being shopped or being exposed to foreign nationals, that was the urgency for the raid. But I'm not so sure anymore, these were stored so carelessly that they could not be allowed to remain unsecured. That's probably going to be a line for the GOP on defending Trump or not, if it's found out that Trump shopped these he will be abandoned. But if it's carelessly storing them, the GOP will stand by him.

[Pluvious]

32. In regards to Lindsey...

I speculate that LG has been told by The Groper - in no uncertain tears and clarity - that “if I go down, you’re going down with me.”

[inthewind21]

33. "SHOULD" make for Republican landslides?

That's wishful thinking. They've lost GAS PRICES GAS PRICES. They've lost THE ECONOMY THE ECONOMY. They've lost LAW AND ORDER LAW AND ORDER. And.... they are swimming upstream through the southern floods over Roe. Trump is just the icing on the cake!