Here’s two minutes of it.

Statement by Donald J. Trump, The President of the United States

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 2, 2020

I am blessed with friends who, if I had given that speech, would have stopped me a couple of minutes in and hollered at me to get off my pity pot, told me to drop the wine and the other whine, too, then put on my big girl panties and grab hold of reality by both ears and stay on that bull until the buzzer sounded.

I would have done because I have the best friends.

Donald Trump does not have friends like that.  He’s never wanted friends who are willing to keep him from embarrassing himself in public, so … that explains it.

But, really, 46 minutes?  You’d think somebody would have rushed in with an antidepressant 15 minutes in.

Carter Page.

Remember him?

He was about the screwiest guy on the Trump Caboose. I mean, this guy made all the rest of them look sane.

Last week, Page filed a $75 million dollar lawsuit against Jame Comey, Andrew McCabe, Kevin Clinesmith, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Joe Pientka III, Stephen Somma, Brian J. Auten, the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and for good measure, the United States of America for what he describes as ruining his life.

He’s got a lawyer and everything.

https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1332419313274384386

Think about it, though, $75 million would buy a whole lot of therapy.  And everything in the Williams Sonoma catalog.  Let me make it clear that I do not want everything in the Williams Sonoma catalog, I just want enough money to do it.

Thanks to Kary for the heads up.

Another contribution from Nick Carraway.

New York City just posted the mail-in absentee votes today.

And not surprisingly, they went convincingly for Biden. In Manhattan, Biden received 90% of the mail-in vote, 86% in The Bronx, 85% in Brooklyn, 81% in Queens, 63% in Staten Island. And NYC has a lot of ballots, so Joe got about 700K new votes (for exact totals, you can go to Dave Wasserman’s twitter feed).

As a result, Biden has surpassed 81M votes, has nearly a 7,000,000 vote lead over Trump, and Trump is now below 47% of the total vote (46.9% for Trump, 51.3% for Biden).

Everybody duck!  Trump’s gonna do a tweet tsunami about how crooked that is.

It ain’t. He’s just not well liked in New York City and I cannot imagine why.

Just thought you’d want to know.

So after Trump told Republicans not to vote by mail, he lost Georgia. Roughly 24,000 Republicans who voted by mail in the state’s June primary didn’t cast ballots in the general election, probably because Trump told them not to vote by mail and undermined their trust in the entire voting system.

Biden got 300,000 more votes in mail-in ballots than Trump, and that’s been intensely verified three times. Those votes offset Trump’s election day victory.

So now, Republicans in Georgia are encouraging their people to vote by mail after Trump built a cottage industry off destroying any faith at all in voting by mail or trusting people who ask you to vote by mail. Yep, as we country folks say, he was hoisted by his own petard.  And Honey, it’s been a blessing to see.

It’s likely that early January could be icy in Georgia.  It’s also likely that Trump voters are going to listen to Trump, not Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger or Georgia Governor Brian Kemp – two men Trump has vilified repeatedly.  So we could see another petard hoisted.

This might be fun.

Thanks to Henry for the heads up.

Oh good Lord.  Maybe we should consider ourselves very, very lucky to have kept Mike Flynn under a legal gag order for almost four years.  The disturbed man wants to firebomb the Constitution.

The retired U.S. Army general [Mike Flynn] tweeted out a link to a post calling for the suspension of constitutional law and a new election overseen by the military to ensure Trump remains in office, despite losing the Electoral College 306-232 and the popular vote by more than 6 million.

Ya know, Flynn twice pleaded guilty to a charge of lying to the FBI about his little chats with the Russian ambassador.  I’ve always wondered what they were talking about. Now we know.

Thanks to SGray for the heads up.