No more than half.

The October surprise seems to have worked, not seen Hunter win a single state yet.

They haven't counted the votes from China yet.

It's November now, and the only October Surprise was that Hunter Biden owns or owned most laptops in the world.

This being said, where is Bill Barr? What (if anything) is he up to?

Writing his CV? Trying to figure out what sort of plea deal he could get from his successor?

Yup. Barr chose the wrong hill to die on.

As much of a toadie as Barr has seemed to be, I don't think he's a full-on, foam-flecked Trump devotee like Rudy. I think Barr just believes that a president has powers beyond the law (in fact, beyond reason). I think he's prepared now to shuffle off with his head down and hope no one notices.

Has Barr been seen since he was diagnosed with COVID?

Are you sure he was? I thought he was just quarantined. Time to hit the intertubes.

I've lost track of the surprize. What was it? If it was Hunter laptops, how many was the final count?

Too soon to call - they haven't counted all the mail-in ones yet.

How can I tell my laptop isn't Hunter Biden's?

Slap a beau biden sticker on it and try and sell it to Rudy Giuliani. If he buys it, it's hunters

Yeah, I don't think Barr was officially declared covid positive, but maybe they buried him out back.

Its a proven fact that by this time next year, all laptops will have been in the possession of Hunter Biden at some point in their existence.

I thought it was illegal to count laptops after election day.

I think you should give more weight to Barr's religious beliefs. He may truly have believed that Trump was an instrument of him upstairs, the Big G.

That certainly could have driven his actions. I don't know a lot about Barr beyond his questionable legal choices. I just have the impression that he was more than simply a suck up in love with reflected power, which some (perhaps many) of Trump's people have been.

Being seen as a real lawyer was/is important to him I think. I don't know why he seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. He already said a few weeks ago that everything is political which I thought was a startling admission at the time.

He might be thinking, "Yeah, I'm a toady but at least I'm not a hack like Giuliani."

He made himself disappear - that's his October surprise.

A bunch of Congress critters called on him to launch investigations into the election including seizing ballots. Newt Gingrich thinks he should arrest poll workers. Barr hasn't commented on any of this as far as I've seen.

Fixed it for you...

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In a jurisprudential sense, Barr did the right thing by disengaging from the train wreck of the White House at the end, but that could've been just a coincidence. There might be a good story here, but we won't know until (unless?) he shows up again.

I wonder how exposed Barr is to lawsuits and indictments, because he did several things that weren't good law. Still, he may be immune.

I had a thought besides the guy is hiding his COVID, he knows Trump will be ordering him to pull out a dozen lawsuits about vote counts and he just doesn't want to do that given this is the end of his ride. He's still pretending no one has noticed what an idiot he's already been.

Yes, it's very possible that Barr is unwilling to follow the road over the cliff, whether out of an attack of conscience or an act of self-preservation. It's amazing he hasn't popped up, though. Maybe it really is covid. In any case, it's certainly the end of his ride, and good riddance.

The ONLY chance Barr has not to sink with Trump is to come out publicly against this effort to undermine the legitimacy of the election.
Coward scum.

At some point Barr refused to quarantine himself after the Rose Garden super spreader event, then maybe after the exposure prepping Trump for the debate, it was on some news source I can't now find, he did quarantine himself.

Then Giuliani said on a news program that after the debate event everyone tested positive for COVID except him. He named the people that tested positive and it included "Bill".

That was in early Oct. I believe. It's been a month and we saw Barr sometime before his current absence. The dates didn't exactly match up for Barr having COVID now. But it's possible.

At which point people will hopefully loudly remind him that he called for anyone protesting a Trump victory to be charged with trying to overthrow the government.

People can grow.

Well, some people can.

To be fair, Barr did grow tiresome.

Barr just OK'd the DOJ to look into claims of voter fraud.

https://www.startribune.com/barr-oks...aud/573021781/

Well, Trump did just fire Esper, so . . .

The DOJ's top election crimes prosecutor quits after Barr tells federal attorneys to investigate allegations of voting irregularities before the states can certify the results of the election.

......doubtless to be replaced by someone with fewer scruples in that regard.

That's the problem with principled individuals resigning - they will be replaced by lackeys loyal to the Trump Administration.

Probably not. It's going to be hard to find anyone who would want a job with 2.5 months worth of security and a whole list of variables about future employment. No one knows what the Republicans will look like in a year. Who needs the risk of being radioactive to a party trying to move on past Trump?

I'll also note the USAs out in the districts have resoundingly responded with a, "Yeah, I'll get right on that," to Barr's other questionably legal orders. The DOJ hasn't brought a single case of sedition, even after Barr's guidance to do so.

I'm not sure that the GOP will want to move on past President Trump - or more specifically, the Trump base is so important to GOP support that anyone even hinting at failing to support President Trump risks being primaried.

President Trump was a huge draw in the last election, the GOP cannot afford to risk not having that draw in 2022 and 2024 - never mind that the Trump 2024 campaign will start on 21 January 2021.

Well, one could say that Trump's 2024 campaign has already started. I've heard he's planning rallies right now.

Yeah, that concerns me. I'm worried about what he'll encourage his cult to do.

Thought I would bump this as it all seems to have gone very quiet. Surely this is still so important that the parties involved would still be pushing it? I mean children in danger can’t be OK now... You’d almost think there was some other motive than wanting children protected...

One thing I can see is that on a political level the accusations alone were very effective, not seen Hunter win one EC vote.

You must have missed the news! Turns out that on November 5th Hunter was crushed by a huge pile of his own laptops.

Those Hunter laptops disappeared faster than Colorado drones.

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I'd nom this but I fear we may have used up our Hunter laptop joke allotment.

And the 2018 caravans!

Someone at a press conference should ask Rudy about it.

I think it's safe to say that it was the Hunter laptops that were used to change the votes.

Imagine a special edition of Clue, the board game.

It was Hunter Biden, in the pizza parlor, with a laptop.

Those children were drowned in Rudy's hair dye sweat! Think of the children!

The jokes are fine, but, seriously, I'm still surprised at the lack of any real "October Surprise" from the Trump camp.
Didn't see that coming at all.

Biden's been in politics too long for any dirty laundry he may have had not to have been aired already. They already dragged out everything they had and it went nowhere. Besides, they're the most incompetent bunch of morons out there.

Where is Bill?

He's been very quiet lately.

After Trump loyalists started picketing his home he realized he was in the SA and not the SS.

As far as I've seen, Barr has always been weird and a coward. He's probably hiding under his bed, smelling his old socks.