Sam Bee chokes back Trump-vomit as she dutifully rings alarms over the GOP’s election-rigging plot
Look, nobody wants to talk about Trump less than Bee
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Samantha Bee had to supply her own “boo”s on Thursday’s Full Frontal. Noting that the pandemic has continued to leave her without a live studio audience, Bee yet dutifully produced the visceral gag reflex a Full Frontal crowd would have undoubtedly produced as she took a deep breath to dive once more into the toxic morass that is Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican Party. Noting that spending four full years coping with the Trump administration’s “tireless effort making everyone’s lives absolute shit” was the sort of experience we’re all glad is finally over, Bee yet told all of us that it’s already time to climb into our stained and distressed protective gear once again.
As Bee cautioned, Trump is already gearing up for a 2024 run, largely by laying the groundwork for another January 6-style white supremacist yahoo insurrection. Apart from recently promising to pardon the last crop of increasingly convicted and jailed MAGA shit-smearers and noose-stringers at one of his super-spreader hate rallies, Bee noted that Trump’s also sowing constant distrust in our election process (which, to be fair, keeps revealing that millions more people vote against him than not). Not to mention threatening to jail those prosecutors who are currently doing their job by throwing Trump’s hardcore base of seditious terrorist goons in prison.
Now, some might call that an overreaction. After all, what do words like “seditious,” “traitorous,” and “worthless, spray-tanned would-be dictator” mean these days anyway? Well, as Bee went on to explain, recent revelations show just how close Trump came to actually seizing voting machines with the military in order to keep himself in power after he got his ass roundly kicked in 2020. Bee marveled at the report that it was disgraced Trump henchman and just-revealed reality show laughingstock Rudy Giuliani who had to talk Trump out of sending in troops to grab those voting machines, banana republic-style. And, honestly, if Rudy-freakin’-Giuliani is one of the last guardrails preventing your democracy from hurtling right into military dictatorship, then your country is, to coin a technical term, totally fucked.
But, as Bee assured everyone, certainly the Republican Party, seeing how pants-wettingly close American democracy came to crumbling under the weight of a malignant narcissist reality show clown and multiply accused sexual predator, will rally this time to belatedly defend the Constitution and our shockingly fragile democracy. Bwah-ha-HAAAAA. Sorry, sometimes you just can’t sustain that level of irony without breaking out in madness-tinged despair-laughter. As Bee went on to show, the GOP is currently all-in, not only on their traitorous orange boy, but in a pell-mell rush to gerrymander, vote-suppress, and outright thuggishly steal the 2022 midterms.
Again, is Bee being alarmist? Well, as the host outlined ongoing GOP plots to install Big Lie-spouting Trump minions to oversee elections, seize the power to outright overrule state election boards and just pick their own winners, mobilize GOP-directed private election armies, make voting harder (especially in populations and districts Republicans perennially lose), and run every racist, fascist-adjacent kook for offices all over the country, we’re gonna say no, no it is not. And if you’ve got a relative telling you that Georgia’s new ban on giving refreshments to people stuck in those GOP-engineered interminable voting lines is to keep people who’ve just waited eight hours to exercise their constitutional rights from being bribed by a bottle of water, then you know just how insidiously all this right-wing mind-poison has seeped into the body politic.
Now, Bee is the first person to admit that she’s the last person who wants to crawl back into this gorge-inducing election-year slime. But, noting that GOP efforts to go full boot-licking authoritarian are already making the concept of a Trump 2024 nomination and election cycle a very real possibility, the host told us that, while it’s been refreshing only being routinely disappointed at the traditional, old school Washington gridlock since the election of Joe Biden, there’s really no time to rest and fume. “What he’s doing right now is a real and dangerous threat,” Bee exhorted, warning, “We cannot survive another four years of a Trump presidency.” Plus, and even more ominously, Bee reminded everyone that we certainly can’t survive another four years of Trump jokes. Boo, indeed.
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the pandemic has continued to leave her without a live studio audience so she’s literally screaming into a void?
it is odd….
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The terrifying part to me is that we don’t need Trump to win the election to ensure the downfall of democracy; we just need him to run. Because then all of the election-suppressing, insurrectionist, gaslighting, Brownshirt mechanisms all get kicked into high gear, with the backing of the whole Republican party, on both the federal and state levels. The GOP will be all in, and even if Trump loses, especially if he loses, there will be no limits to what they can and will do to seize and keep power indefinitely. The official Trump “I’m Running” announcement will be the beginning of the end. I wish I could convince myself that I’m being alarmist about this, but I can’t. God I hope he decides, for whatever reason, not to run.
None of this is shocking. Ever since he lost in November 2020, I fully expected Dump to at least try and run again. There is too much money to be made on the campaign trail, and you know the DOJ is never actually going to get around to jailing him before the 2024 campaign kicks into high gear.Then, they will NEVER risk the social unrest that would occur by locking Dump up in the midst of campaign season.All we can really hope for is that some other GOP politician takes him down in the primaries, which would cause a GOP civil war when Dump inevitably starts attacking the guy who defeated him.Because if Dump gets through the primaries and inevitably loses AGAIN in the general, Jan 6th 2021 will actually really look like a Capitol “tour group” with the shitshow that would come, as the author stated.
… and with a likely Red House and Senate who knows what could happen.
House, yes. Senate, unlikely.
…also, Trump thinks Kamala Harris can just decide the results of elections. So there’s always that. : )
If we’ve learned anything about Trump, its that he flips to whatever stance benefits him at the moment.
Buy a gun, learn how to fight.shit is going to get real and we need to be ready.
Trump doesn’t even need to run because the collapse is immanent. The first time the US fell for Reagan’s promise of a kind, gentle oligarchy we sealed our own fate.
He already applied so that he could continue to collect campaign contributions from his suckers.
Honestly I kind of miss Trump. He made it way easier to talk about things that matter and all of the evil stuff this country does, nobody wants to touch it now that Democrats are in power.Few people are talking about the sanctions and money-freezing that are starving Afghanistan after the pullout, few people are talking about the fact that Biden is nominating a lawyer to a federal judgeship that helped put civil rights lawyer in jail on absolutely meritless charges on behalf of Chevron, and now we’re dealing with a massive surge in covid deaths while the only federal action has been done after Biden’s press secretary made fun of reporters for suggesting the federal government send out masks and tests to people.But again, it’s almost entirely done with polite manners under the banner of the “good party” so nobody gives a shit anymore. Even mentioning it makes people accuse you of being a conservative because you’re not being a “good team player.” Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi, who has seen her wealth increase massively while in office to the point where it’s estimated she might be worth 9 figures, is running for re-election at age 81 and if you question this action, you’re accused, again, of being on the wrong side of history.America is a fucking embarrassment of a nation. Democrats are going to get completely wiped in the midterms and they won’t learn a single fucking thing as voter participation will continue its briefly interrupted slide.
Beats living in Afghanistan!
“America is a fucking embarrassment of a nation. Democrats are going to get completely wiped in the midterms”No they won’t. As of right now, its more likely they gain a seat in the Senate than lose one. They’ll probably lose the House though.And that’s right now—BEFORE the Trump stacked SCOTUS tries to dismantle Roe v Wade and singlehandedly likely tank the GOP’s chances.
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Yeah, Republicans don’t need to do this to win the next election. It’s happening either way. Let’s start talking more about what Democratic leaders need to do to actually appeal to the bottom 50% of the economy.
Dems don’t care. They’re all big money and big money sleeps with the enemy.I felt a spark of hope during the 2020 protests, but clearly people don’t want to do anything more to create change.
Oh trust me, I completely agree. This is just the most I’d reasonably expect from a host like Sam.
They cannot actually appeal to them. The other half want the Democrats either dead or in prison. They have eaten up the idea that all the troubles caused by millionaires outsourcing their jobs to China are the fault of Hillary Clinton and all other Democrats. They want the Federal government disbanded. They want every minority forcibly removed from the country or killed. The other half wants retribution and, just like the Germans in post WWI Depression Germany, which made the US Depression look like a cake walk, they don’t care who they have to murder to get it. This has been the goal going back at least to Gingrich – to undermine and overthrow the US Government. Since every time a little light gets thrown a Russian agent runs back to Moscow, I’d guess the Russians are helping, though it may be opportunism rather than conspiracy.
Half of the country want every minority in the country expelled or killed? You were jerking off a little bit when you typed that, right?
When Hillary said half of Trump’s supporters were racist or misogynist ALL OF THEM SAID THEY WERE. They all stood up and proudly accepted the title of “deplorable.” The GQP didn’t divide on that – they united on it; it’s what they essentially believe.
No, “all” of them did not say that. Most of them aren’t even on Twitter, let alone putting “deplorable” in their bio or whatever. Touch grass
Sure, not all. Just 70 MILLION of them did.
Every person who cast a ballot for Trump – every single one – wants the federal government disbanded and all minorities in the US killed? Log off
Congratulations on believing everything the Democratic Party wants you to.
I don’t. I believe this is what Rush Limbaugh and Tucker Carlson and Newt Gingrich have exactly been saying for the last 30 years, as applicable.
“Yeah, Republicans don’t need to do this to win the next election. It’s happening either way.”They’re probably not taking back the Senate, and unless the Trump clown act is put down before 2024, they aren’t winning the Presidency either.They’ll take the House, but that is far short of what they actually want to do.
Remember this moment in 2 years.
There is no way Trump wins the presidency again. The only way he won it in the first place is that a significant amount of middle-left people didn’t like Hillary in 2016—and nobody knew what an utter disaster Trump would be as POTUS.If the other darling of the GOP, DeSantis, defeats Trump in the primaries, Trump will spend the next 5 months riling up his base with “election fraud” whining and will take down the GOP from within.Theres a greater chance of the Dems picking up seats in both the House and Senate this midterm than Trump winning the Presidency in 2024.
You’re significantly overestimating Biden’s popularity. For many people, he’s just as bad as Trump. DeSantis would never beat Trump, and there is no chance of the Dems picking up seats at midterm on their current trajectory. What outlets do you follow? You seem misinformed.
“You’re significantly overestimating Biden’s popularity. For many people, he’s just as bad as Trump.”What people would those be? The far left? Biden isn’t likely to be appointing judges that would overturn Roe v Wade like Trump did, so right off the bat he’s far better for the far left than another Trump term.Secondly, nobody ever overestimates Biden’s popularity. We didn’t overestimate it in 2020 and certainly not now. Biden won because Trump was so awful to the other side that he inspired a record number of people to turn out to get him out of office. And that was BEFORE he spent the next year and a half trying to upend the country with baseless election fraud claims.
Which is why the only real hope the GOP has for the general election in 2024 is that somebody other than Trump, like golden boy Ron, is their candidate. Trump has no chance of winning the WH again. Well, short of tangible proof of massive 2020 election fraud and Biden having direct involvement in it.The silver lining to a tangible candidate like DeSantis winning the primary in 2024 would be that narcissistic clown Trump won’t accept losing to him either and will spend the next several months till election day fermenting a civil war in the GOP.
They need to act now and prevent it. These people aren’t making their plans in secret.
Didn’t the AVClub post-Biden election vow to stop talking about Trump? I seem to recall an editorial post saying that.
Sometimes you have to pivot when, you know, a Trump-led downfall of Democracy is looming.
Enjoy your dictatorship. Estimated delivery: 2 years.
This is the new “half price freelancers” Los Angeles AV Club. They put rice in burritos and no one can write more than three coherent sentences in a row.
Foolish. He’s a huge threat and should not be ignored.
I know it’s just wishful thinking, but can’t the government charge him with sedition and make it stick? It was pretty clearly an attempted coup. The slow turning system of justice won’t get around to doing anything of substance until after the 2024 election. Hell, it will probably be too late after the 2022 election.
It’s like they don’t actually want to punish him!
That would require the Democrats to grow some balls.
They don’t really think he’s the threat that he is. Despite almost all losing their lives on 1/6. Unbelievable.
I thought there wasn’t going to be any more reporting on that fucker
He’s a threat. It’s maybe best the MSM not give him as much attention, but we need to be aware of him. He’s more of a threat than the 5 or 10 trucks at the Canadian border.
Isn’t Trump due to default on a personally guaranteed $3 million loan this year? Maybe that can make him go literally bankrupt (as opposed to the business bankruptcy he declares every few years) and he won’t have the money to run.
Another insurrection is coming regardless of Trump. Arrests need to occur before that can happen. We know from the hearings that they were aware of the danger before 1/6 and did little to act. They don’t hide their plans and do nothing to mask their intent. Round them up, JAIL them. They will continue to do this until they face REAL consequences. I mean REAL. They are traitors.