Y’all, the president sure lost his mind this week, didn’t he? I mean granted, it’s more likely that he never had it to begin with. But boy howdy was this one a doozy. Buckle up—this is what you might have missed.
Idiot president peddles conspiracy theories, threatens retaliation against U.S. state
By Hunter
So here we have the impeached, alleged president of the United States taking time out of his busy day of retweeting praise for himself and imagining worldwide conspiracies to force those around him to plead guilty to crimes to, now, pull a Ukrainian extortion move on a U.S. state because he finds absentee ballots sufficiently threatening to his manhood that he believes sabotaging the pandemic expansion of those ballots via Still More Weird Conspiracy Theories to be his only remaining option.
If there is any punditry left to be said about the man, it needs to include this bit or it is irrelevant: The man is garbage. He is a sociopathic nonsense-drooler. He is not only unfit for office, but incapable of fulfilling the official duties. He violates the oath he took with gaudy regularity. He remains president only because the rest of his party is every bit as corrupt and malicious as he is, down to every last root and branch.
New polling shows Democrats have the chance to pick up both of the GOP's Senate seats in Georgia
By David Nir
A new poll from Democratic pollster Civiqs on behalf of Daily Kos shows Republicans at risk of losing both their Senate seats in Georgia this year, but the news is especially dire for Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who's on track for a very short career even if the GOP hangs on in the Peach State.
Loeffler's fortunes look grim, but she’s not the only Georgia Republican in trouble. Civiqs' examination of Georgia's regular Senate election finds Sen. David Perdue locked in tight with all of his potential Democratic opponents—and, for the first time in a public survey, trailing his best-known rival: Investigative filmmaker Jon Ossoff, who ran in the famous 2017 special election for Georgia's 6th Congressional District, edges Perdue 47-45.
This is also the first poll to publicly test the two other Democrats running, and they both perform similarly: Former Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson trails just 45-44 and businesswoman Sarah Riggs Amico is just a little farther back at 45-42. Joe Biden is also up 1 point on Donald Trump, 48-47.
‘Not on our watch': Immigrant advocates lead car caravan protesting Trump's Pennsylvania stunt
By Gabe Ortiz
Impeached president Donald Trump’s Thursday visit to Pennsylvania was met by car “caravan” led by immigrant rights advocates protesting the administration’s pandemic response failure and exclusion of many immigrant families from vital federal relief. Some of the estimated 200 cars displayed “mobile headstones,” organizer Make the Road Action in Pennsylvania said.
“Thousands of my constituents are sick, unemployed or dead. I don’t want a photo op, Mr. President. I want a plan,” state Rep. Mike Schlossberg said in a statement received by Daily Kos. “How are we going to give out PPE? How are we going to do mass testing? How are we going to protect front line workers or my most vulnerable constituents?”
Pelosi: 'Hunger doesn't take a pause': The Senate has to act on next tranche of COVID-19 response
By Joan McCarter
The HEROES Act actually would help people—not enough—but substantively. That includes these highlights:
- $1,200 one-time payment to everyone, up to $6,000 per family;
- $1 trillion in aid to state, local, territorial, and tribal governments to help offset revenue losses due to the pandemic shutdown and retrain public employees;
- $200 billion in hazard pay for the essential workers; a 15% increase in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits;
- $75 billion for testing and contact tracing as well as free treatment for coronavirus;
- an extension of the $600 bump to weekly unemployment insurance payments through January;
- $175 billion in new money for rent, mortgage, and utility payments;
- $25 billion in emergency funding for the Postal Service;
- $3.6 billion for states to run elections safely and securely during the pandemic.
Trump throws Pompeo under bus, runs over him, backs up, runs over him again
By Kerry Eleveld
Welp, congressional Democrats investigating why Donald Trump fired the State Department watchdog just got a whopper of a lead from the man who originally said he let the inspector general go because he had lost confidence in him.
Asked why he thought Steve Linick needed to be removed, Trump offered a blunt response that surely left Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dry heaving.
And that’s it for this week, folks! Anything else you think we might have missed? More you wish we were covering? Less? Sound off below!