John Oliver discusses the long week of US presidential election results, including Donald Trump’s various attempts to make the election appear illegitimate, and a historic win for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Someone’s in for a rude awakening soon…
(NBC) U.S. President Donald Trump will be subject to the same Twitter rules as any other user when President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Jan. 20, the social media company confirmed this week.
Twitter places “public interest” notices on some rule-breaking tweets from “world leaders” that would otherwise be removed. Such tweets from political candidates and elected or government officials are instead hidden by a warning and Twitter takes actions to restrict their reach.
But the company said this treatment does not apply to former office holders.
“This policy framework applies to current world leaders and candidates for office, and not private citizens when they no longer hold these positions,” a Twitter spokesman said in a statement.
Georgia Dems know best but there is an argument on ACA before the Supreme Court this week. Saving ACA will require a Democratic Senate.
I’d make a lot of noise about that.— Armando (@ArmandoNDK) November 9, 2020
They’re talking here about computer glitches in Pennsylvania here at work as to why the count should be challenged. They aren’t listening to the Republicans in PA saying that there were no visible problems.
re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg
Someone’s in for a rude awakening soon…
(NBC) U.S. President Donald Trump will be subject to the same Twitter rules as any other user when President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Jan. 20, the social media company confirmed this week.
Twitter places “public interest” notices on some rule-breaking tweets from “world leaders” that would otherwise be removed. Such tweets from political candidates and elected or government officials are instead hidden by a warning and Twitter takes actions to restrict their reach.
But the company said this treatment does not apply to former office holders.“This policy framework applies to current world leaders and candidates for office, and not private citizens when they no longer hold these positions,” a Twitter spokesman said in a statement.
As he ability to make noise gets taken away, the smaller the crowds will get.
Bookmark:
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Yeah, that’s totally normal. https://t.co/AmLSriVzE3
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) November 9, 2020
re: #7 jaunte
Assholes ‘til the end, they are.
So much to investigate, come January.
Wow that is lucky https://t.co/W32OYJNSFI
— Jennifer Hayden (@Scout_Finch) November 9, 2020
re: #7 jaunte
According to a senior administration official, John McEntee, director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office, is spreading the word throughout the administration that if he hears of anyone looking for another job they will be fired.
Take this shove and job it!
I just heard someone on NPR saying that Trump can fire Esper, but the deputy secretary has to replace him, not some random person (unless he fires the deputy sec. as well.) Four years and Trump still doesn’t know/care about the law.
Congratulations everybody for picking up a million dollars of Roger Stone’s tax bill.
re: #3 Patricia Kayden
I think the plan should be: listen to Abrams, Warnock, and Ossof. Folks parachuetting in and telling them how to run the campaign is probably pretty fucking stupid.
Utah has just mandated masks.
It took ‘em 6+ months to do this. How many thousands have gotten sick in UT and how many died in the interim?
Let’s count:
120,000+ infected since April 1.
650+ dead since April 1.
How many of those could have been avoided with masking, social distancing, and hand hygiene mandates.
Most of them. Had we done this nationally, we could have saved most of these lives, stopped the spread of covid19 in its tracks, and restarted the economy completely.
Instead, we got the most incompetent response imaginable.
re: #7 jaunte
I mean, most of them are going to be out of a job in about 75 days anyway…
Totally out of sympathy for these reckless anti-science assholes. https://t.co/F4n63v4DAJ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 9, 2020
Let me know when Trump voters reach out to Democrats. https://t.co/73rTxZDLhU
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 9, 2020
“Reaching out” and healing divisions is a great idea, but not if one side repeatedly demonstrates that they’ll just punch you in the throat when you do.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 9, 2020
re: #9 jaunte
So much to investigate, come January.
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Isn’t that nice to see that Roger Stone got a million dollars of tax forgiveness…and millions of Christians see nothing wrong with that since Roger said he was born again!…just like that phony fucker who started that shit Chuck Colson!
re: #13 KGxvi
I think the plan should be: listen to Abrams, Warnock, and Ossof. Folks parachuetting in and telling them how to run the campaign is probably pretty fucking stupid.
Yep let the Georgians do it their way.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
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Yeah, I am out of fucks to give when it comes to Republicans. Over six months of strained relations with my family, whom I otherwise love dearly, because Trump is a fuckstick who has been increasingly divorced from reality - and I’m tired of it. And for most of my life, they have been deliberately obstructionist to anything Democratic just because it’s the Democrats, not because of any policy or fiscal objections that they can reasonably discuss. Fuck that shit. The hyper-partisanism has to end. Until they can show that they can eat at the adults’ table, they get put in timeout.
Yeah, it’s over.
Every single one of the lawsuits Trumpworld’s filed to claim election/voter fraud to deny President Elect Biden’s win has been defective or baseless on its face.
You can’t even get competent legal team to file docs properly. You lost.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 9, 2020
I just caught this subtweet from an account that live Tweets repeats of the BBC music show Top of the Pops.
A classic #TOTP performance from 17 March 1983. https://t.co/z3esX1MMYh
— Top Of The Pops Facts (@TOTPFacts) November 7, 2020
re: #20 Dopefish: Ever hopeful.
Yeah, I am out of fucks to give when it comes to Republicans. Over six months of strained relations with my family, whom I otherwise love dearly, because Trump is a fuckstick who has been increasingly divorced from reality - and I’m tired of it. And for most of my life, they have been deliberately obstructionist to anything Democratic just because it’s the Democrats, not because of any policy or fiscal objections that they can reasonably discuss. Fuck that shit. The hyper-partisanism has to end. Until they can show that they can eat at the adults’ table, they get put in timeout.
Seriously I’m not gonna go out of my way to gloat but if you post conspiracy bullshit and spread lies, I am shunning your ass on social media.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
I am so sick of Democrats being held to a completely different set of standards of “decency” and “compassion” than Republicans. If people are truly sorry or regret their actions they come find you. They apologize, maybe even do what they can to begin to make it right again, and most important, they get why you may not be quick to forgive if you ever decide to. It’s not our fucking job to make them feel better, that’s on them to become decent human beings who learned from their mistakes and being an asshole to others. No changes come from being more kind and forgiving when people are bullies. That’s on THEM. NOT US.
re: #21 lawhawk
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re: #17 Charles Johnson
The overwhelming majority of Trump voters are NOT stupid, not racist, not anti-science. They are misled by Fox, FB,
I might have bought that for at least some of them in 2016. People were disillusioned and decided to give Trump a chance, many felt that his rhetoric was just that.
They had four years to see what he was really like and yet they still came back in even larger numbers to vote for him again.
Nope, these people are fucking hopeless.
re: #13 KGxvi
I’m going to donate to their campaigns and do what I can to help them win. I’m going to let them take the lead; especially since they know their state best.
That’s what we should all be doing. Take nothing for granted. Fight for every vote.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 9, 2020
re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg
Someone’s in for a rude awakening soon…
(NBC) U.S. President Donald Trump will be subject to the same Twitter rules as any other user when President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Jan. 20, the social media company confirmed this week.
Twitter places “public interest” notices on some rule-breaking tweets from “world leaders” that would otherwise be removed. Such tweets from political candidates and elected or government officials are instead hidden by a warning and Twitter takes actions to restrict their reach.
But the company said this treatment does not apply to former office holders.“This policy framework applies to current world leaders and candidates for office, and not private citizens when they no longer hold these positions,” a Twitter spokesman said in a statement.
So biden will have the special rules and trump wont. So sad
Womp womp
Two days ago. Whoops! pic.twitter.com/YT7hUC9W8a
— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) November 9, 2020
re: #17 Charles Johnson
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Yeah—I’m not really interested in extending an olive branch. If folks can show some contrition for supporting a white nationalist who broke up immigrant families, is responsible for a huge number of deaths during an epidemic, etc. etc., I’ll listen. But fuck trying to be the bigger person right now as if this was just some good faith dispute over reasonably normal policy preferences.
When I broke with the right more than a decade and rejoined the world of sanity and compassion, I didn’t do it because anyone “reached out” to me. Believe me, nobody was reaching out to me.
I did it because it was the right thing to do.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 9, 2020
This seems surgical:
On Wed., the USPS “processed 94.5 % of ballots on time [the expected rate is 97%],” but in the “9 postal districts spanning 5 states — AZ, NV, PA, NC & GA — that have yet to decide the presidential race, the on-time rate was 84.6 %.” https://t.co/MbKWDga965— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) November 9, 2020
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It’s quite honestly possible that this is a bigger win than meets the eye. Our numbers in the House aren’t looking as bad and we still could win the Senate. It’s not an outright defeat of the GOP but we had historical turnout.
This will NOT be a peaceful transition.
Anyone who has had to pull a toddler out of a Chuck E. Cheese knows this.— Arch (@Arch_LGF) November 9, 2020
I’m sure everyone has already noticed that Mark Esper, and also the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration have been fired.
Why do I get the feeling Donnie is somehow trying to sell nukes for (cash/ safe haven)?
re: #32 Charles Johnson
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And look how some on the right still treat you…
When I broke with the right more than a decade and rejoined the world of sanity and compassion, I didn’t do it because anyone “reached out” to me. Believe me, nobody was reaching out to me.
I did it because it was the right thing to do.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 9, 2020
Part of the bullshit working the ref is that they’re going to declare that all the bad shit is the product of Donald Trump…and a coalition of not-Republicans responsible for not being capable of saving Republicans from themselves. On top of which they’re pretending the willful ignorance, racism, and anti-science suddenly started in 2015. They can’t defend Trump because he failed and was embarrassing…but they can disavow him and claim that he was an abnormality. And central to that is pretending that everything conservatives have pulled since 2001is unremarkable; it’s normalization.
They’re calling to be let back into the discourse and set the tone of policy because they’ve engaged in a perfunctory renunciation of the current administration…but at the same time they’re denying that there’s a deeper problem that we were all present for over the last twenty years.
Which is why I don’t fucking get this idea that healing means listening to the center right who are mostly Bush flacks that were fine with war crimes, disappearing money, and declaring large chunks of the country terrorist sympathizers. The center right didn’t speak up about voter suppression at any point in the past, nor about gaming the system to pack courts. At the moment that it was being done in the most vulgar and obvious fashion, they developed reservations that didn’t translate into action.
Attempting to form a coalition with these people is for rubes.
But, hey, they probably won’t say things that make you feel angry…they’ll say nice things about comity and finding the midpoint right up until they have enough power to completely fuck up your life again.
re: #37 aatharuv
I’m sure everyone has already noticed that Mark Esper, and also the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration have been fired.
Why do I get the feeling, Donnie is somehow trying to sell nukes for (cash/ safe haven)?
Because it’s not paranoia when a vengeful asshole with the maturity and emotional stability of a toddler occupies the highest office in the land while potentially out to get you (you being pretty much everyone at this point)…
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Why weren’t Trump voters told to reach out to our side? Why is it that only Democrats are told not to gloat or mock the opposite side? Really odd. It’s as if Republicans get away with everything and are accountable to no one.
re: #39 The Ghost of a Flea
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Part of the bullshit working the ref is that they’re going to declare that all the bad shit is the product of Donald Trump…and a coalition of not-Republicans responsible for not being capable of saving Republicans from themselves. On top of which they’re pretending the willful ignorance, racism, and anti-science suddenly started in 2015.
They can’t defend Trump because he failed and was embarrassing…but they can disavow him in a way that conceals that he was an abnormality. And central to that is pretending that everything conservatives have pulled since 2001is unremarkable. It’s normalization.
They’re calling to let back into the discourse and set the tone of policy because they’ve engaged in a perfunctory disavowal of the current administration…but at the same time they’re denying that there’s a deeper problem that we were all present for over the last twenty years.
Which is why I don’t fucking get this idea that healing means listening to the center right who are mostly Bush flacks that were fine with war crimes, disappearing money, and declaring large chunks of the country terrorist sympathizers. The center right didn’t speak up about voter suppression at any point in the past, nor about gaming the system to pack courts. At the moment that it was being done in the most vulgar and obvious fashion, they developed reservations that didn’t translate into action.
Attempting to form a coalition with these people is for rubes.
But, hey, they probably won’t say things that make you feel angry…they’ll say nice things about comity and finding the midpoint right up until they have enough power to completely fuck up your life again.
You have to be *willing* to allow fox news and twitter to lead you by the nose without question
To which America replies, “Cry more, snowflake!” https://t.co/5KcNMsBhAX
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 9, 2020
Here’s a thought that just occurred to me. Checks and balances isn’t dead in the US. It still works in part.
What doesn’t work is expecting a Congress with at least a GOP blocking minority to be a check on the crimes and corruption of a GOP president. That’s a proven pipe dream.
What does work is expecting that Republicans in positions of power will not give up their personal power in order for a different Republican to become dictator. It’s not because these Republicans are good people, or care about the country. But preserving their personal power will still serve to impede a dictatorship.
E.g., what is in it for the GOP SCOTUS majority to nullify their own power by making Trump a dictator that is above the law? What is in it for McConnell to reduce his power for Trump’s benefit?
re: #44 Charles Johnson
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That’s pretty much what most Trumpsters are saying. “There must be fraud because I just don’t believe a bunch of people would come out and vote for Biden. Case closed.”
re: #44 Charles Johnson
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Trump did it by a mere 77k votes in three states
Bidens done it by way more in like 6 states
re: #44 Charles Johnson
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Oh, well, if RUSH doesn’t believe it, than it just can’t be true. What a slam dunk legal challenge.
I’m so glad @donlemon said this. I’ve had to endure years of death threats, being called n*****s, ****s, told to go back to Africa or leave the country altogether, by Trump supporters. Trump whipped up a special kind of evil.
pic.twitter.com/w6F5xMsM9v— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) November 8, 2020
re: #46 calochortus
That’s pretty much what most Trumpsters are saying. “There must be fraud because I just don’t believe a bunch of people would come out and vote for Biden. Case closed.”
So IOW, basically the converse of what most Democrats were saying after the election in 2016?
JUST IN: Graham to urge McConnell to probe mail-in voting if GOP controls Senate next year https://t.co/jP9wsQvlXE pic.twitter.com/lZ4m0unEZp
— The Hill (@thehill) November 9, 2020
re: #45 EPR-radar
Here’s a thought that just occurred to me. Checks and balances isn’t dead in the US. It still works in part.
What doesn’t work is expecting a Congress with at least a GOP blocking minority to be a check on the crimes and corruption of a GOP president. That’s a proven pipe dream.
What does work is expecting that Republicans in positions of power will not give up their personal power in order for a different Republican to become dictator. It’s not because these Republicans are good people, or care about the country. But preserving their personal power will still serve to impede a dictatorship.
E.g., what is in it for the GOP SCOTUS majority to nullify their own power by making Trump a dictator that is above the law? What is in it for McConnell to reduce his power for Trump’s benefit?
Self over party over country
Why no R judge would ever touch this election
re: #43 dangerman
You have to be *willing* to allow fox news and twitter to lead you by the nose without question
I can make a case for some of the rank and file being brainwashed. But you care for people who are suffering that way; you do not give them power over you.
But the elite class…politicians, pundits, rich guys with their dicks stuck in public policy? They absolutely know better, they understand how the GOP games the system to win, how the GOP uses power to self deal, and when they use this language it’s bad faith.
I belabor the Bush thing because it’s really, really important that we don’t let that chunk of the past get normalized through nostalgia and lame tropes: it sucked, it set the table and prepped the meals for the current banquet of suck.
re: #30 Mike Lamb
Yeah—I’m not really interested in extending an olive branch. If folks can show some contrition for supporting a white nationalist who broke up immigrant families, is responsible for a huge number of deaths during an epidemic, etc. etc., I’ll listen. But fuck trying to be the bigger person right now as if this was just some good faith dispute over reasonably normal policy preferences.
their man hasn’t even conceded yet. rather. he keeps spouting lies, holding rallies. etc.
re: #50 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Why should we unify with bigots? Or anti-science fanatics who can’t be bothered to wear masks? I don’t get it. They need to be shunned.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
If they’re that easily “misled” by Fox, FB, politicians and Trump, chances are pretty damn good that they ARE stupid, racist and/or anti-science.
re: #42 Patricia Kayden
Why weren’t Trump voters told to reach out to our side? Why is it that only Democrats are told not to gloat or mock the opposite side? Really odd. It’s as if Republicans get away with everything and are accountable to no one.
I suspect part of it is because there are more Democratic voters than there are Trump voters. Last time Trump got 46.1% of the vote. This time, he increased his percentage all the way to 47.6%. In both elections, a clear majority thought someone else would be better as president than him (the big difference is that in 2016 there were a few more choices).
re: #51 Jay C
So IOW, basically the converse of what most Democrats were saying after the election in 2016?
Yeah, except for the part where we refused to accept the results. We hated it, but we live in reality.
re: #21 lawhawk
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Translation: The old man is in denial. It’s over. But let’s humor him for awhile longer.
re: #54 The Ghost of a Flea
I can make a case for the rank and file being brainwashed. But you care for people who are suffering that way; you do not give them power over you.
But the elite class…politicians, pundits, rich guys with their dicks stuck in public policy? They absolutely know better, they understand how the GOP games the system to win, how the GOP uses power to self deal, and when they use this language it’s bad faith.
I belabor the Bush thing because it’s really, really important that we don’t let that chunk of the past get normalized through nostalgia and lame tropes: it sucked, it set the table and prepped the meals for the current banquet of suck.
IMO Trump is movement conservatism perfected. Any true deTrumpification of the GOP would have to include the extirpation of movement conservatism from the GOP down to the tiniest details. I’ll deal with the GOP only after it has been reformed to be a reality based center right party of the kind that went extinct with the Rockefeller republicans.
re: #52 Patricia Kayden
Sen. Graham is scared shitless his kompromat will come out.
re: #55 Sir John Barron
their man hasn’t even conceded yet. rather. he keeps spouting lies, holding rallies. etc.
First Accept the results
Next Let biden govern..ie confirm his nominees, do not obstruct
Third bring the house passed bills into the light
Then we can *start* to talk
Too big a burden?
Merrick fucking garland
Kavanaugh
Impeachment verdict before evidence
Barrett
re: #52 Patricia Kayden
GOPers won, including himself.
Does he consider himself illegitimate? What about voter suppression in states like FL?
Oh, that’s right, the only votes that are counted are those for Trump. Anyone else is not legit.
Fuck the GOP.
They’re quick to investigate this bulkshit on a stick, but have refused to investigate Trump’s lies and failures re: covid19 that have killed 300,000+ Americans and wrecked the economy.
re: #58 KGxvi
I suspect part of it is because there are more Democratic voters than there are Trump voters. Last time Trump got 46.1% of the vote. This time, he increased his percentage all the way to 47.6%. In both elections, a clear majority thought someone else would be better as president than him (the big difference is that in 2016 there were a few more choices).
I keep on thinking back what I observed about Trump not long after 2016. Yeah the motherfucker has a bigger support floor than many politicians but he’s got a small ceiling. He benefited last time from it beng a three person race. He did make some small gains between four years ago and now but he’s still someone who ultimately will have finished with under 50% of the vote twice and that’s not gonna cut it.
re: #64 EPR-radar
Sen. Graham is scared shitless his kompromat will come out.
Trump can’t keep his mouth shut. If trump knows it’s coming out. Especially if he winds up in court for his crimes?
re: #52 Patricia Kayden
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re: #51 Jay C
So IOW, basically the converse of what most Democrats were saying after the election in 2016?
The difference is that in 2020, even though the fraud and foreign skullduggery remained in favor of Trump, he still lost.
Trump Stinking Up the White House with Fast Food
That opportunistic Melania can go to Hell. My only positive wish for that whole sewer dump of a family is while his Mom and he wall themselves away from Trump’s grotesque frat parties in the West Wing right now, Bannon is somehow able to grow up and not be a complete right wing loonball dick. The odds are against him but I wish him Godspeed in any effort.
Bannon lives in an abusive household.
re: #71 Florida Panhandler
Trump Stinking Up the White House with Fast Food
That opportunistic Melania can go to Hell. My only positive wish for that whole sewer dump of a family is while his Mom and he wall themselves away from Trump’s grotesque frat parties in the West Wing right now, Bannon is somehow able to grow up and not be a complete right wing loonball dick. The odds are against him but I wish him Godspeed in any effort.
Bannon lives in an abusive household.
Barron. Bannon is the guy who thought it was clever to threaten to behead the head of the FBI and Dr. Fauci while out on bail and looks like he cries into a Jameson bottle every night due to his knowledge that he’s a shitty person that offers nothing constructive to the world.
re: #29 makeitstop
Womp womp
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If enough Trumpy assholes like James Woods check out of politics in Georgia, that would be a very good thing.
It will be interesting to see if Loeffler and Purdue staple themselves to Trump’s ass for the runoffs. It would be the go-to strategy for last week’s election, but Trump may age like fine fish guts in the interim.
re: #33 lawhawk
They want to figure out what went wrong with the suppression effort.
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Defense Secretary Mark Esper apparently knew he was about to be fired and gave an interview with the Military Times which was embargoed until he actually was fired.
Said Esper: “My frustration is I sit here and say, ‘Hm, 18 Cabinet members. Who’s pushed back more than anybody?’ Name another Cabinet secretary that’s pushed back. Have you seen me on a stage saying, ‘Under the exceptional leadership of blah-blah-blah, we have blah-blah-blah-blah?
re: #39 The Ghost of a Flea
And BLM was not a flash in the pan about one man being murdered by the police.
re: #64 EPR-radar
Republicans fishing for excuses to shut down mail-in voting altogether. The more people vote, the more Republicans lose. The easier it is to vote, the more Republicans lose. The more high-tech online voting becomes, the more Republicans lose. This is what it is all about.
Republicans want everyone to stand in line while white rural counties get 10 voting facilities and black counties get 1.
It’s over Donald. The sun don’t shine on the same porn star’s ass everyday, but, mister you ain’t seen a ray of light since you got here. You’ll be evicted soon. pic.twitter.com/G1R2KbN7iC
— Oh. My. Glob. (@efuseakay) November 9, 2020
Republicans Are About to Raise Your Taxes
Nyt…and no. They didn’t hoodwink “us”.
We knew it at the time.
We read the bill
Then we voted accordingly.
Know who voted for trump? The clueless who believe he lowered their taxes.
Joseph Stiglitz: “The Trump administration has a dirty little secret: It’s not just planning to increase taxes on most Americans. The increase has already been signed, sealed and delivered, buried in the pages of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.”
“President Trump and his congressional allies hoodwinked us. The law they passed initially lowered taxes for most Americans, but it built in automatic, stepped tax increases every two years that begin in 2021 and that by 2027 would affect nearly everyone but people at the top of the economic hierarchy. All taxpayer income groups with incomes of $75,000 and under — that’s about 65 percent of taxpayers — will face a higher tax rate in 2027 than in 2019.”
re: #77 Florida Panhandler
Republicans fishing for excuses to shut down mail-in voting altogether. The more people vote, the more Republicans lose. The easier it is to vote, the more Republicans lose. The more high-tech online voting becomes, the more Republicans lose. This is what it is all about.
Republicans want everyone to stand in line while white rural counties get 10 voting facilities and black counties get 1.
GOPers turned out in big numbers too. GOP is more than happy to disenfranchise their own so long as more Democrats are disenfranchised. This is as it has always been. The GOP are afraid of when people vote.
re: #73 ericblair
Loeffler especially has spent a lot of time talking about being to the right of Atilla the Hun and pretty much all of her commercials show her sitting on AF1 with Trump and both of them grinning up a storm. She’s 100 percent with Trump, said it many times. She’s going to have a very tough time trying to talk shit about Rev. Warnock. So far there have been no negative ads directed at him, but I’m sure the GA GOP is brewing up something awful. They can’t even paint him as a socialist though, because he can flip that right to biblical principles based on Jesus’ teachings. It’s been Loeffler and Doug Collins fighting with each other over who is the bestest republican ever so far. Their regular shit might not work this time.
re: #81 A Mom Anon
Loeffler especially has spent a lot of time talking about being to the right of Atilla the Hun and pretty much all of her commercials show her sitting on AF1 with Trump and both of them grinning up a storm. She’s 100 percent with Trump, said it many times. She’s going to have a very tough time trying to talk shit about Rev. Warnock. So far there have been no negative ads directed at him, but I’m sure the GA GOP is brewing up something awful. They can’t even paint him as a socialist though, because he can flip that right to biblical principles based on Jesus’ teachings. It’s been Loeffler and Doug Jones fighting with each other over who is the bestest republican ever so far. Their regular shit might not work this time.
Doug Collins :). Doug Jones is the nice man from Alabama who has a lot of cool musician friends that should be high on the list to be AG. I feel good about this to be honest. I think we have the momentum on our side here.
re: #82 SerialUpDinger
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Tell him the pond is open in broward
re: #83 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Duly noted and corrected, lol. I was thinking Collins and typed Jones. Yes it has been a little goofy around here, eeeeek.
Trump is Trump, he is despicable almost by nature.
But is there a slimier, dirtier creature than Lindsey Graham, who knowingly went 180?
re: #86 Nyet
Oh, they’re all especially horrible in their own special ways. We shouldn’t let them be so modest about it. Heh.
re: #79 dangerman
Republicans Are About to Raise Your Taxes
Nyt…and no. They didn’t hoodwink “us”.
We knew it at the time.
We read the bill
Then we voted accordingly.
Know who voted for trump? The clueless who believe he lowered their taxes.
This is the part that the rubes and the meme repeaters don’t pay attention to.
I work with taxes. I knew. I saw this. I read the tax law. It specifically gave tax breaks to millionaires going forward, but the GOP decided to make the tax cuts applicable to the middle class and low income earners sunset in 2026, which means come 2027, they’re back to paying the older tax brackets. Millionaires and corporations get the benefit of the tax cuts throughout.
This was all part of the GOP effort to make it look like they paid for the tax breaks (gaming the 10 year JCT/CBO scoring). Reality is that GOP never covered the cost, because the economy didn’t grow at the over 4% needed to break even. All this did was grow debt and further shift burdens from the rich on to everyone else.
re: #86 Nyet
Trump is Trump, he is despicable almost by nature.
But is there a slimier, dirtier creature than Lindsey Graham, who knowingly went 180?
Rubio?
Cruz?
re: #83 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Doug Collins :). Doug Jones is the nice man from Alabama who has a lot of cool musician friends that should be high on the list to be AG. I feel good about this to be honest. I think we have the momentum on our side here.
Hope so. I think there are going to be some very weird dynamics in the next few weeks. I’ll post my half-informed drivel on here, but I’ve given more money to Fair Fight because Stacey Abrams looks like she knows what she’s fucking doing.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Mark Cuban:
The overwhelming majority of Trump voters are NOT stupid, not racist, not anti-science. They are misled by Fox, FB, Politicians and Trump.
Wrong, Mark. In the information age, ignorance is a choice. These people are misled because they quite wilfully pick and choose sources that confirm their biases or suit their agenda. A great many of them don’t actually believe the misinformation and propaganda they spew. I will consider reconciliation only when their evil movement has been crushed and flushed.
re: #86 Nyet
Trump is Trump, he is despicable almost by nature.
But is there a slimier, dirtier creature than Lindsey Graham, who knowingly went 180?
susan collins - manufacturers then preys on disingenuous false hope
at least lindsey is obvious
Stay tuned for some more horseshit from the sorest loser in the world. https://t.co/wwf6VSLn0c
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 9, 2020
re: #85 A Mom Anon
Duly noted and corrected, lol. I was thinking Collins and typed Jones. Yes it has been a little goofy around here, eeeeek.
Hey all good. Congratulations on rejoining Team Blue. I really think your state is eventually headed to what we’ve done here. Stacey Abrams and her organization did a helluva job on the ground. She’s my frontrunner for DNC Chair or the guy in Wisconsin who organized those kickass reunions.
re: #91 Nyet
Too, but not quite as intensely.
Rubio went full religious conversion.
Spineless toadys. All of them.
re: #90 ericblair
Hope so. I think there are going to be some very weird dynamics in the next few weeks. I’ll post my half-informed drivel on here, but I’ve given more money to Fair Fight because Stacey Abrams looks like she knows what she’s fucking doing.
I think what helps is Perdue-Loeffler now have to run on their own merit rather than just being a stamp for Trump. Plus their own ethical failings and I think Ossoff/Warnock are good candidates. I’m gonna donate Stacey’s way too. What an organizer.
Spongy. https://t.co/wsVbZdU6rs
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 9, 2020
re: #91 Nyet
Too, but not quite as intensely.
Yeah Graham had the most crazy 180. Remember when Trump leaked his phone number?
re: #94 Charles Johnson
“threshold identification” Let’s make up phrases that sound important.
The unkindest cuts just keep on coming! No choppers can land at Mar a Lago once tRump’s terms ends 20 January. https://t.co/MOTm4BHXGq
— DenisCampbell (@ClientLoyaltyDC) November 9, 2020
Bwhahaha
re: #100 Belafon
“threshold identification” Let’s make up phrases that sound important.
“Victory marginalization”
re: #94 Charles Johnson
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how could you possible know this
besides whether it’s actually thing or not
Stay tuned for some more horseshit from the sorest loser in the world. https://t.co/wwf6VSLn0c
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 9, 2020
re: #94 Charles Johnson
In other words, Trump’s pathetic legal effort is about to go 0-11.
re: #94 Charles Johnson
Threshold identification. Trump’s dipped into the word salad again.
He’s trying to insinuate that there’s issues with ballots that should not be counted. Yeah, the threshold he’s worried about is that Democrats voted - and voted in such numbers that he lost.
That’s it.
That’s all he cares about.
re: #101 lawhawk
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Bwhahaha
the plan is to pave over the helipad
The unkindest cuts just keep on coming! No choppers can land at Mar a Lago once tRump’s terms ends 20 January. https://t.co/MOTm4BHXGq
— DenisCampbell (@ClientLoyaltyDC) November 9, 2020
re: #29 makeitstop
Womp womp
Hate to say (or maybe not) I read walk as wank and had to go back and reread.
re: #106 lawhawk
Threshold identification. Trump’s dipped into the word salad again.
He’s trying to insinuate that there’s issues with ballots that should not be counted. Yeah, the threshold he’s worried about is that Democrats voted - and voted in such numbers that he lost.
That’s it.
That’s all he cares about.
i cant state for certain but i can be pretty sure they dont /cant /arent able to look at the ballot before they do the canvass / confirmation that it’s legit (sig, addr, etc)
Bossie got the ‘Rona…
BREAKING: Trump outside adviser David Bossie tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday, sources tell me.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) November 9, 2020
re: #110 makeitstop
Bossie got the ‘Rona…
So who’s next. Rudy? Jared? Vanky? Jason Miller? Oh and we don’t hear anything about Hope Hicks anymore.
The Waldorf Tattoo Parlor and Pot Shop parking lot awaits his announcement.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) November 9, 2020
re: #100 Belafon
“threshold identification” Let’s make up phrases that sound important.
A quick Google search suggests it has something to do with witness signatures on ballot envelopes. Something that would have been noticed in the opening-the-envelopes stage, I would think.
Heads up. If they’re gonna try the Hail Mary, it’ll probably happen today.
AG Barr just walked into @senatemajldr’s office
— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) November 9, 2020
re: #71 Florida Panhandler
Trump Stinking Up the White House with Fast Food
That opportunistic Melania can go to Hell. My only positive wish for that whole sewer dump of a family is while his Mom and he wall themselves away from Trump’s grotesque frat parties in the West Wing right now, Bannon is somehow able to grow up and not be a complete right wing loonball dick. The odds are against him but I wish him Godspeed in any effort.
Bannon lives in an abusive household.
That link 404’s — here’s another one that works for me.
Trump reportedly stinking up White House with fast food
re: #88 lawhawk
This was all part of the GOP effort to make it look like they paid for the tax breaks (gaming the 10 year JCT/CBO scoring). Reality is that GOP never covered the cost, because the economy didn’t grow at the over 4% needed to break even. All this did was grow debt and further shift burdens from the rich on to everyone else.
Also, it’s going to make it look like the Dems raised your taxes.
re: #111 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
So who’s next. Rudy? Jared? Vanky? Jason Miller? Oh and we don’t hear anything about Hope Hicks anymore.
Maybe Donnie, if he actually didn’t get Covid-19 the last time?
re: #113 calochortus
A quick Google search suggests it has something to do with witness signatures on ballot envelopes. Something that would have been noticed in the opening-the-envelopes stage, I would think.
And which I believe most states have procedures to correct prior to counting.
re: #111 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
So who’s next. Rudy? Jared? Vanky? Jason Miller? Oh and we don’t hear anything about Hope Hicks anymore.
Can we get a package deal?
re: #114 makeitstop
Heads up. If they’re gonna try the Hail Mary, it’ll probably happen today.
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Hopefully that will mean that McConnell announces that he has covid by friday.
Here comes the coup.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) November 9, 2020
Unbelievable. So it turns out all those voters Trump claimed they had caught voting in Nevada who “no longer live there” are active-duty military personnel.
This just keeps getting more and more pathetic. https://t.co/BDFAva1twH— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) November 9, 2020
Remember when Hillary spent the weeks after election day in 2016 whining about voting irregularities, thresholds, and generating multiple bogus legal challenges? No I don’t either.
No.
This is a lie.
They have found nothing and are being as destructive to democracy as you are.
What is absolutely shocking is that they or you would not accept on obvious loss here.
Schlapp’s idiocy about a van full of ballots should have closed the door.
It’s over in NV. https://t.co/6aTOnnklCY— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) November 9, 2020
Vote Forward attorney said while those 170 ballots don’t change the outcome of the election, the USPS’s delayed delivery resulting in them not being counted is concerning.
— Megan Mineiro (@MMineiro_CNS) November 9, 2020
That’s a wrap for today. Plaintiffs are focused on continuing to track USPS operations to identify pitfalls in the ballot delivery system, with runoffs coming up in Georgia and Louisiana.
— Megan Mineiro (@MMineiro_CNS) November 9, 2020
Let me also state for the record: if you are a *Republican* and your Hail-Mary for overturning an election loss is disqualifying *military voters*, you’re pretty much fucked into a Möbius strip.
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) November 9, 2020
re: #123 Sir John Barron
I’m sure it was because deep down inside that she knew that campaign that she ran was illegal and a fraud and to try and take Trump to court, all of these really bad things that she had kept hidden while being the ultimate supervillain of the world would come out as soon as Giuliani made her take the stand in answer for her crimes against humanity… or the like.
Couldn’t help it, I just started giggling as I read this. https://t.co/VenxmHUXH5
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 9, 2020
And we all know how painful that can be.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 9, 2020
re: #116 sagehen
Also, it’s going to make it look like the Dems raised your taxes.
same thing GWB did iirc
re: #124 jaunte
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Oh, is this like the voting “issue” in GA you bragged about yesterday that netted Biden more votes?
re: #117 aatharuv
Maybe Donnie, if he actually didn’t get Covid-19 the last time?
wouldnt that be a kick in the head?
re: #128 Charles Johnson
Since unemployment checks and such are socialism I assume they also will not be accepting any public relief and rely on such staples as bootstrap stew to get by while looking for new jobs?
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re: #128 Charles Johnson
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Wait. If they’re leaving “media” does that mean no more Fox News and OANN (which I always read as ONAN for some reason)?
re: #128 Charles Johnson
Nothing could improve the US more than a mass exodus of Trumpists/Republicans. They are literally a plague upon the nation.
re: #128 Charles Johnson
I must admit to having fantasies about putting them all on a generation ship bound for M-31.
re: #135 calochortus
Wait. If they’re leaving “media” does that mean no more Fox News and OANN (which I always read as ONAN for some reason)?
The reason is obvious….. 😜
re: #124 jaunte
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Nevada is turning out to be a cesspool of Fake Votes. @mschlapp & @AdamLaxalt are finding things that, when released, will be absolutely shocking!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2020
Reached for comment, God simply started laughing and hung up. https://t.co/IIXjy8w3fE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 9, 2020
re: #137 jaunte
I must admit to having fantasies about putting them all on a generation ship bound for M-31.
Because they wouldn’t last more than one generation?
Barr walked out, said nothing
— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) November 9, 2020
Hydroxychloroquine is officially defeated:
Patients were randomly assigned to hydroxychloroquine (400 mg twice daily for 2 doses, then 200 mg twice daily for 8 doses) (n = 242) or placebo (n = 237). Among adults hospitalized with respiratory illness from COVID-19, treatment with hydroxychloroquine, compared with placebo, did not significantly improve clinical status at day 14. These findings do not support the use of hydroxychloroquine for treatment of COVID-19 among hospitalized adults.
re: #140 dangerman
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I thought Twitter was going to stop slapping warnings on his tweets, now that the election has been called.
re: #146 Dopefish: Ever hopeful.
Nope, only after he’s out of office.
re: #135 calochortus
Wait. If they’re leaving “media” does that mean no more Fox News and OANN (which I always read as ONAN for some reason)?
Please be Twitter. Please be Twitter. Please be Twitter.
Looks like Arizona will have final tallies by 7 tonight. Their time, I’m guessing.
re: #147 lawhawk
Nope, only after he’s out of office.
I saw that one earlier in this thread, but I swear there was an article on Saturday or Sunday that said they would be taking them off before he left office, too. Let me try to find it.
re: #121 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Here comes the coup.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) November 9, 2020
re: #142 Mike Lamb
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
How will local arts organizations survive without support from Trump voters?
There’s literally no substance here, not a single identified irregularity. This isn’t how election law works. They might as well be extremely mad that someone said Spider-Man could defeat Gandalf. https://t.co/Fp9DBDpXPk
— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) November 9, 2020
Joshua Holland with some good observations:
Here are 3 key reasons Democrats were caught off guard in 2020 (and why all the finger-pointing is wrong)
New from me. https://t.co/Ijx1jTpUKD— Joshua Holland 🔥 (@JoshuaHol) November 9, 2020
I’d add that as with the 2018 Midterms, everyone in media was yapping away without actual evidence or proof that it wasn’t a tsunami, even as the numbers showed that it was in every conceivable way.
We’re seeing a replay, with the same kind of bias.
Democrats won back the WH, and did so in convincing fashion. It took longer than in 2016 thanks to the pandemic and the need to count mail in ballots, especially in PA where they were not able to crack open those ballots until election day to get a jump on the task of counting as they came in. That meant that the votes were locked in and had they done as other states had done to start counting before Election Day, Trump’s so called big lead would have been no such thing since the votes would have been tallied concurrent with the in-person votes.
The Trump “lead” in those states were a mirage. He was not in the lead. It just took time to count (and it always takes time to count, especially where there are lots of votes TO count. It takes a long time to count in places like NYC too - because we’ve got more people living in NYC than in THIRTY EIGHT OTHER STATES. And once all those votes are tabulated, PEOTUS Biden’s lead will be even wider.
So, why was the lead not as wide as polling projected?
I have my theories. Voter suppression is part. How people respond to polling is another. But I also suspect that there’s some significant number of people out there that have completely bought into the Fox/right wing echo chamber of misinformation and agitprop and there’s nothing that will extract them from it.
re: #154 Sir John Barron
Strong tough Georgians with tears of frustration in their eyes.
re: #153 jaunte
We’ve watched them count in near real time. They weren’t being opaque.
re: #110 makeitstop
DAVID BOSSIE has been leading Trump’s post-election political and legal battle. The president tapped him for the role last week when his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, fell ill with the coronavirus. Bossie now has the virus also.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) November 9, 2020
This is very stupid and bad, and it shows how Donald Trump has corrupted and wrecked large segments of the federal government. https://t.co/9DkuGeda75
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 9, 2020
re: #153 jaunte
YOU ALLOWED DEMOCRAT VOTES TO COUNT. HOW DARE YOU! YOU MUST RESIGN!
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) November 9, 2020
INBOX: @TeamTrump is holding a press conference with @GOPChairwoman and @kayleighmcenany (who is still drawing a government salary) at 4:30 pm pic.twitter.com/Sn8cTgJ3iF
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) November 9, 2020
Can we force McEnany to pay her salary back to the Treasury?
Get out of Florida while you can.
Gov. Ron DeSantis is pursuing a policy that will allow the virus to spread freely until most of the population becomes infected — or is vaccinated with a yet-to-be obtained vaccine — while attempting to protect those thought to be most vulnerable. https://t.co/nDGD2TYCGo
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) November 9, 2020
re: #153 jaunte
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simple.
prove it.
not “let us look and we’ll find it’
you’ve already made the claim. you’re stating it as fact.
show us the facts you have.
There’s literally no substance here, not a single identified irregularity. This isn’t how election law works. They might as well be extremely mad that someone said Spider-Man could defeat Gandalf. https://t.co/Fp9DBDpXPk
— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) November 9, 2020
And McConnell is rat fucking again…
re: #161 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I mean I’ve watched several times where Trump has in fact gained votes in Arizona. There was even one brief batch in Pennsylvania that had a small net gain for Trump. Trump and his allies insisted on not allowing vote by mail to be counted quickly. We would have known much sooner possibly on Election Night. Trump just wants to create a new myth of outrage for his supporters. I’m hoping that if this must prolong the more people will see this for the absurd gaslight bullshit it is.
Nobody expected Mitch McConnell to stand up for the will of the American people anyway. It would be the first time. https://t.co/6GJOixmCTN
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 9, 2020
re: #168 calochortus
I am weirdly invested in AZ going to Biden.
It will. What’s outstanding is majority provisional in an area that went just slightly for Biden. The ballot dumps yesterday were crucial to Trump and they did not go the way he needed them to in order for him to have a realistic shot of taking AZ.
re: #163 Dread Pirate Ron
Get out of Florida while you can.
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we just dont go out
mom hasnt been out since March - except to 3 doctors
mrs dm rarely goes out if ever
i go out once a week for food and home depot (we just gotta)
precious little else
we stay home and shovel dirt
now that the house is surrounded by a moat, courtesy of Eta, we’re safer for a while
re: #171 klys (maker of Silmarils)
It will. What’s outstanding is majority provisional in an area that went just slightly for Biden. The ballot dumps yesterday were crucial to Trump and they did not go the way he needed them to in order for him to have a realistic shot of taking AZ.
Indeed, and I’m way more confident of that than I was a few days ago. It’s just that at this point there’s no real reason to care that much. Except for running up the score and I couldn’t possibly care that much about running up the score could I?
Why yes, I could. And I’m usually such a nice person.
re: #137 jaunte
I must admit to having fantasies about putting them all on a generation ship bound for M-31.
Poor Andromeda - because that would be worse than being chained to a rock for Cetus (or the Kraken if you watched the movie for this myth…)
re: #167 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
And McConnell is rat fucking again…
McConnell should shut his face. He’s not guaranteed to be Majority Leader in January. And if he is, we need to make him a boogeyman the same way that the R’s have with our people. With 22 Republican senators up, time to do that. We’ve got Trump beaten. Now we need to neuter Mitch.
re: #171 klys (maker of Silmarils)
It will. What’s outstanding is majority provisional in an area that went just slightly for Biden. The ballot dumps yesterday were crucial to Trump and they did not go the way he needed them to in order for him to have a realistic shot of taking AZ.
hey
re: #170 Charles Johnson
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That’s Mitch “expressing concern” to keep Trump off his back. He knows Trump has lost and I’m pretty sure is actually strategizing how to let Trump be the scapegoat while he and the rest of the GOP skate and continue to work on retaining power.
re: #174 calochortus
Indeed, and I’m way more confident of that than I was a few days ago. It’s just that at this point there’s no real reason to care that much. Except for running up the score and I couldn’t possibly care that much about running up the score could I?
Why yes, I could. And I’m usually such a nice person.
Every state in the win column makes it that much harder for them to challenge it in court. :)
re: #177 dangerman
hey
I know, I owe you an e-mail. After today’s 13, which I should stop putting off and get out the door for.
re: #172 Sir John Barron
they were happy to let the media call the race in 2016
And in every other race
Three of many things that I’m still pretty shocked about:
1. Biden *only* gets 306 (if AZ and GA are blue). I didn’t think it would be this close.
2. 70M+ asshats voted for Donnie Boy
3. Donnie Boy handily won Florida with gains bigger than Obama won it by.
Same fucker who says Trump is in his rights to contest the voter election results and contest the outcome is the same fucker who insisted on quickly accepting the 2016 results despite evidence pointing at actual foreign interference, actual voter suppression, etc.
GOP delenda est.
re: #128 Charles Johnson
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— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) November 9, 2020
re: #75 dangerman
Wasn’t Esper one of the clowns who approved Trump spraying a peaceful crowd with chemicals so that he could hold a Bible upside down in front of a church? If so, he can sit down and shut up.
re: #128 Charles Johnson
He really thinks that that’s a threat. 😂 The delusion is strong.
re: #181 Dr. Matt
Three of many things that I’m still pretty shocked about:
1. Biden *only* gets 306 (if AZ and GA are blue). I didn’t think it would be this close.
2. 70M+ asshats voted for Donnie Boy
3. Donnie Boy handily won Florida with gains bigger than Obama won it by.
It shouldn’t have been that close. A wrecked economy and a pandemic that killed 300,000+ Americans to date should have destroyed Trump in a landslide.
Fox and the right wing bubble/echo chamber is a huge part of why 1 and 2 go hand in hand.
As for 3, I suspect that there’s a lot to do with how Trump framed Biden as a socialist and the anti-Castro sentiment, right down to how Trump reversed Obama’s openness effort with Cuba (for more on cognitive dissonance, note that Trump wanted to take credit for Israel’s normalization of relations with some of the Gulf States, which is essentially what Obama was moving towards).
re: #170 Charles Johnson
McConnell: A literal “enemy of the people.”
re: #141 Charles Johnson
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She really got into Crystal Methodism!
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) November 9, 2020
For a long time, several people, myself included, have believed that Republican leaders, known for their cowardice, were simply too afraid of Trump and his brazen words and acts to stop him. But it’s become clear that’s not it. Trump let them be who they really are.
— Josh Moon (@Josh_Moon) November 9, 2020
There is no blackmail, there is no kompromat, there is only corruption.
re: #166 dangerman
LOEFFLER and PERDUE jointly attack the Republican secretary of state in Georgia.
I heartily approve of GA goopers attacking other GA goopers weeks before a key election. And we think the little tiff with the Squad is a disaster.
Someone will be on socialist unemployment shortly…..
This AAA employee is refusing to tow a car with a Biden sticker on the vehicle. Let’s make him famous…✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 pic.twitter.com/TBZu8gk44X
— Claudia Silver (@claudia_silver7) November 9, 2020
the approach of letting Trump burn out on his own, so that you can step into the void later without having antagonized him first, may be the longest-running, least-successful strategy in the history of American intra-party politics https://t.co/jrgJgIUysz
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) November 9, 2020
re: #192 Dr. Matt
Someone will be on socialist unemployment shortly…..
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Probably not. I think most tow truck operators just contract with AAA, so he might lose that part of his business, but not the whole thing. Unless, of course, the AAA part makes the difference between solvency and insolvency.
Trumps people are going to make it as hard as possible for Bidens transition team. Joe will be playing from behind on Day one. Hopefully he’s got a good crew who are prepared for this and ready to hit the ground running.
re: #192 Dr. Matt
Someone will be on socialist unemployment shortly…..
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Honestly, this video clip doesn’t show anything. I would really like more than the anonymous say so of a twitter account before trying to destroy someones livelihood.
re: #195 Eclectic Cyborg
Trumps people are going to make it as hard as possible for Bidens transition team. Joe will be playing from behind on Day one. Hopefully he’s got a good crew who are prepared for this and ready to hit the ground running.
Biden won’t be as far behind as other teams, though. Plus, he’s got plenty of other people still around that can help set things up. Here’s one for you: temporary White House Chief of Staff Barack Obama.
As Pence claims credit, Pfizer says it did NOT join in the administration’s partnership.
Pfizer head of vaccine development Dr. Kathrin Jansen told the NY Times: “We were never part of the Warp Speed … We have never taken any money from the U.S. government, or from anyone.” https://t.co/GScL3vodx9— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) November 9, 2020
re: #195 Eclectic Cyborg
Trumps people are going to make it as hard as possible for Bidens transition team. Joe will be playing from behind on Day one. Hopefully he’s got a good crew who are prepared for this and ready to hit the ground running.
Anyone on Team Biden who didn’t see this coming should be fired on the spot for gross incompetence.
Covid19 is only the second worst plague on the nation. First place, as always, is Republicans and their empire of lies and corruption.
re: #195 Eclectic Cyborg
Trumps people are going to make it as hard as possible for Bidens transition team. Joe will be playing from behind on Day one. Hopefully he’s got a good crew who are prepared for this and ready to hit the ground running.
Joe is getting Daily Morning Security Briefings now. As his staff is vetted, they will, too. They won’t lack for information.
Republicans now trying to make “the media can’t call the election” a thing.
If by “call the election” you mean “accurately report the election results,” then yeah, actually the media can call the election.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 9, 2020
I have no way to prove it but I think at least part of the reason it took the media so long to call the election was because they were afraid of right wing whining and yelling.
So they waited longer than usual, and the right is STILL whining and yelling.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 9, 2020
Somewhere in there is a lesson.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 9, 2020
Biden’s GA lead now bigger than Trump’s ‘16 margin in Michigan
— Tim Dickinson (@7im) November 9, 2020
Somewhere in there is a lesson.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 9, 2020
Yes, but the GOP will never learn it.
re: #203 Eclectic Cyborg
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Yes, but the GOP will never learn it.
It’s a lesson for the media.
re: #202 jaunte
Biden to me seems to be running on that he won pretty big and with good reason. Historical turnout and he’s liable to finish with the highest percentage of the popular vote of a challenger to an incumbent in 80+ years. It’s a mandate.
re: #195 Eclectic Cyborg
Trumps people are going to make it as hard as possible for Bidens transition team. Joe will be playing from behind on Day one. Hopefully he’s got a good crew who are prepared for this and ready to hit the ground running.
Joe knows what he’s doing. He doesn’t need them.
re: #200 austin_blue
Joe is getting Daily Morning Security Briefings now. As his staff is vetted, they will, too. They won’t lack for information.
We apparently had a less toxic version of this “starting out behind” after the 2000 election simply because no one knew who won until mid December so they couldn’t really set up full staffs and know who was where. That means people can’t talk to the #2 at X agency because there isn’t one, and even if the current one stays in place, in this case they’re forbidden to talk to anyone. According to someone discussing it on NPR this morning, it’s a not insignificant problem.
re: #205 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Biden to me seems to be running on that he won pretty big and with good reason. Historical turnout and he’s liable to finish with the highest percentage of the popular vote of a challenger to an incumbent in 80+ years. It’s a mandate.
The Republicans will continue to run on HURR DURR STOLEN ELECTION ILLEGAL BALLOTS BUT WHAT ABOUT THE DOWN-BALLOT RACES NO MANDATE NO MANDATE YOU’RE THE MANDATE until 2024. Unless, that is, we shut them up with yet another blue wave in 2022.
Joe Biden: “It doesn’t matter who you voted for … it doesn’t matter your party, your point of view. We can save tens of thousands of lives if everyone would just wear a mask for the next few months. Not Democrat or Republican lives, American lives.” https://t.co/gZGcxbV15X pic.twitter.com/jcuA08EJgS
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) November 9, 2020
I’m not sure we fully appreciate how jarring the switch from President Fox and Friends to President Mr. Rogers is going to be. https://t.co/Dn0abpHkao
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) November 9, 2020
As I just told @JohnBerman… it’s deeply ironic that Republicans, the party of telling hard truths, the party that says facts don’t care about your feelings, can’t acknowledge Biden’s victory because they’re so petrified of offending/angering their base.
— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) November 9, 2020
I’m pretty sure it was the Democrats that said, “Facts don’t care about your feelings.”
Republicans lie about hard truths and said, “Fuck your feelings.”
I know, it’s easy to confuse those two, especially if you’re a reporter.
re: #208 Dopefish: Ever hopeful.
The Republicans will continue to run on HURR DURR STOLEN ELECTION ILLEGAL BALLOTS BUT WHAT ABOUT THE DOWN-BALLOT RACES NO MANDATE NO MANDATE YOU’RE THE MANDATE until 2024. Unless, that is, we shut them up with yet another blue wave in 2022.
I think Blue Wave 2.0 will come in 2022. I usually am not confident about midterms. However, howver we have a lot of Republicans up for re-election in the Senate, I expect the House R Caucus to be more nuttty with the Q believers vocally in it, and I also think the absence of Trump on the ballot will hurt the Republicans just like it did two years ago.
re: #179 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Every state in the win column makes it that much harder for them to challenge it in court. :)
I know, I owe you an e-mail. After today’s 13, which I should stop putting off and get out the door for.
i’m just just waving from behind the moat
re: #212 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I think Blue Wave 2.0 will come in 2022. I usually am not confident about midterms. However, howver we have a lot of Republicans up for re-election in the Senate, I expect the House R Caucus to be more nuttty with the Q believers vocally in it, and I also think the absence of Trump on the ballot will hurt the Republicans just like it did four years ago.
We are going to be in for some rough economic times: Biden can continue artificially pumping up the stock market or let it crash and recover on its own.
Will be a hard decision and needless to say, the GOP will blame him for all of it, even not doing enough to contain Covid, which will suddenly no longer be a Democrat Hoax
re: #210 Dread Pirate Ron
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I’m pretty sure it was the Democrats that said, “Facts don’t care about your feelings.”
Republicans lie about hard truths and said, “Fuck your feelings.”
I know, it’s easy to confuse those two, especially if you’re a reporter.
Remember, it’s “fuck your feelings”, not “fuck my feelings”.
re: #207 calochortus
We apparently had a less toxic version of this “starting out behind” after the 2000 election simply because no one knew who won until mid December so they couldn’t really set up full staffs and know who was where. That means people can’t talk to the #2 at X agency because there isn’t one, and even if the current one stays in place, in this case they’re forbidden to talk to anyone. According to someone discussing it on NPR this morning, it’s a not insignificant problem.
True, but 2000 was way on the tail of an outlier, as odds go. As I understand it, you can jibber-jabber with pretty much anyone once the election numbers are certified, and North Carolina *always* said they wouldn’t have theirs ‘til this Wednesday, anyway.
Caribou
Meanwhile in Finland 🦌🦌🦌 pic.twitter.com/qig01Ho260
— Nature And Animals 🌿 (@animal0lovers) November 9, 2020
My god.
BREAKING—El Paso #COVID19 deaths surging so fast, they now need **10** mobile morgues to store deceased bodies, up from 4 last week. 4 new mobile morgues will goto funeral homes directly. El Paso judge also extending shutdown until hospitals recover. https://t.co/cIy7la33AH pic.twitter.com/uQLiGy5DNQ
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) November 9, 2020
re: #218 Charles Johnson
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re: #195 Eclectic Cyborg
Trumps people are going to make it as hard as possible for Bidens transition team. Joe will be playing from behind on Day one. Hopefully he’s got a good crew who are prepared for this and ready to hit the ground running.
I suspect the drumbeat about “voting irregularities” is going to be a daily thing with Trump until November 2024.
re: #219 Dopefish: Ever hopeful.
and it’s made even more difficult because the GOP refuses to act..
no discussion on the Senate floor, no discussion about how to pay for it, just nada….
because, they believe that they can spin it so the Dems take the blame.
The kicker to this Esper interview is chilling.
‘Who’s going to come in behind me? It’s going to be a real ‘yes’ man. And then God help us.’ https://t.co/spBZlbycgL— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) November 9, 2020
re: #217 Dread Pirate Ron
Caribou
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Places to go, people to see. Hurry up. Move on.
re: #195 Eclectic Cyborg
Trumps people are going to make it as hard as possible for Bidens transition team. Joe will be playing from behind on Day one. Hopefully he’s got a good crew who are prepared for this and ready to hit the ground running.
Joe’s been in the WH recently, his team will be competent, he’ll hit the ground running.
re: #223 Charles Johnson
Pair that line, with another one in the article:
“…Esper gave off the distinct aura of someone trying to be the adult in the room, the last line of defense between the world’s most powerful military and a commander in chief who saw it as a political bludgeon.”— Fresh Peppers (@Fresh_Peppers) November 9, 2020
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Seems Loeffler an Perdue are going after their own Republican SoS in Georgia. I don’t care waht people say. I’m not giving up hope on the Senate.
Good
And rightly so. She embarrassed herself over and over again for months. https://t.co/s47ITfnE3x
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) November 9, 2020
Wait, they’re suing the photographer because he took a picture of them menacing protesters?
This would be Peak Wingnut, except that doesn’t exist. https://t.co/bPLKNhGumq— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 9, 2020
re: #228 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Good
Yeah no reason why she should. I like the team that was announced today. Qualified bunch of people. Saw that Dr. Bright is among them.
re: #218 Charles Johnson
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Not surprising. According the articles that came out during their 15 minute of fame, they are litigious AF.
The response from Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger: “Let me start by saying that is not going to happen. The voters of Georgia hired me, and the voters will be the one to fire me.” #gapol pic.twitter.com/ZBXv4G4gHO
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) November 9, 2020
Let them fight..
re: #226 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Lousy adult in the room anyways given how he handled multiple situations while in the Cabinet regarding Covid-19 reactions in the Armed Forces, his botched speech to the carrier crew after the captain was relieved, and his apparent lack of pushback after Trump pardoned a war criminal.
re: #233 Teddy’s Person ✌
Not surprising. According the articles that came out during their 15 minute of fame, they are litigious AF.
Not surprising; its literally their job!
re: #229 Charles Johnson
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re: #234 Kilroy was here
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GOP Civil War’s first shots will be fired in Georgia. I feel good about the Senate races knowing that they’re feuding and then there’s Collins-Loeffler’s existing beef.
re: #238 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Republicans in disarray!
Speaking of which…
Trump wants a Wisconsin recount, but the RNC is shifting staff to Georgia for Senate fight https://t.co/gUgoszdhcZ
— CNBC (@CNBC) November 9, 2020
Georgia will be a big presidential win, as it was the night of the Election!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2020
according to a person in his circle:
Everything Trump is doing right now regarding election is an exercise to save face. He doesn’t think anything will change results. He doesn’t want to be branded a loser,. Per @msnbc— ʟᴜʟᴜ ʟᴇ ᴍᴇᴡ ᕕ( ͡ ͡°‸↼‶)ᕗ (@LuluLemew) November 9, 2020
The first non-scandal:
Prepare for pearl clutching and fainting couches breaking from Fox, the Magats, etc.,
re: #240 makeitstop
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I think I read they would have to pay $3 million for a Wisconsin recount, so I doubt its going to happen.
You know what’s out there in the universe?
The White House. https://t.co/njiZAXdYeV— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) November 9, 2020
re: #246 makeitstop
Yeah, too late. LOSER.
and a poor one at that
literally, like a billion-dollars-in-debt poor loser
The more this drags on. The more pathetic they look.
re: #240 makeitstop
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first they have to put up $3M.
like that’s ever gonna happen
Trump wants a Wisconsin recount, but the RNC is shifting staff to Georgia for Senate fight https://t.co/gUgoszdhcZ
— CNBC (@CNBC) November 9, 2020
re: #246 makeitstop
Yeah, too late. LOSER.
Pathetic pic.twitter.com/sBPA0cSRi2
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) November 9, 2020
Good point here by @MiekeEoyang. Joint Chiefs trying to figure out who’s legally in charge of DOD. Sure hope nobody attacks before they get an answer. https://t.co/k1YihofuVN
— Jeff Stein (@SpyTalker) November 9, 2020
re: #252 Backwoods_Sleuth
Gone. What was it?
Kayleigh McEnany begins the Trump campaign news conference by trying to explain away why she’s violating the Hatch Act pic.twitter.com/Wm4uCHkuhq
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 9, 2020
re: #248 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The more this drags on. The more pathetic they look.
I didn’t think they could top the 4 Seasons Total Landscape presser, but then it turned out one of Rudy’s witnesses there is a sex offender.
re: #242 makeitstop
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you cant lie your way out of this
you cant buy your way out of this
you cant litigate your way out of this
if it had been by 1 vote - electoral or popular, it’s still a loss.
yours.
like the impeachment.
this doesn’t wash out.
ever.
although you can claim a first!
you’re the first to lose the popular vote twice.
Yeah. The next 2.5 months are going to suck.
I was just starting to be able to sleep again.
re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #243 Dr. Matt
The first non-scandal:
Prepare for pearl clutching and fainting couches breaking from Fox, the Magats, etc.,
right - while trump has a hot line to sean and tucker
and begged rupert on 11/3
re: #244 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I think I read they would have to pay $3 million for a Wisconsin recount, so I doubt its going to happen.
gmta
re: #260 dangerman
right - while trump has a hot line to sean and tucker
and begged rupert on 11/3
Kaliegh came from Fox News.
Fox cuts away from McEninny…
Fox News cuts out of McEnany
Cavuto: “Whoa, whoa, whoa. I just think we have to be very clear: she’s charging the other side as welcoming fraud and illegal voting, unless she has more details to back that up, I can’t in good countenance continue to show you this.” pic.twitter.com/0koLBJasl9— Lis Power (@LisPower1) November 9, 2020
The Trump campaign’s attempt to fuck with the election will be incompetent, but the question is how effectively the established Republicans can buoy it.
re: #256 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I didn’t think they could top the 4 Seasons Total Landscape presser, but then it turned out one of Rudy’s witnesses there is a sex offender.
this has been a mantra for 4 years
we shoulda known better by now
re: #263 makeitstop
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re: #263 makeitstop
Fox cuts away from McEninny…
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Are they going to cut away from Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity as well?
(Would be sort of amusing to see that done actually.)
re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth
All my Hatch Act training says she’s lying.
re: #159 lawhawk
Goddess doesn’t like ugly. She’s picking them off one by one.
re: #264 The Ghost of a Flea
The Trump campaign’s attempt to fuck with the election will be incompetent, but the question is how effectively the established Republicans can buoy it.
They basically aren’t. In particular, the GOP PA state legislators have no apparent interest in taking bullets for Trump by sending up a GOP slate of electors to the electoral college.
There’s also the fact that the Murdoch empire isn’t backing Trump’s little putsch attempts. And why would they? Trump as an out of control president to piss off libtards is one thing, Trump as an uncontrollable dictator would be a real threat to Murdoch et al.
Trump’s chorus of support is from his own creatures.
re: #56 Patricia Kayden
Why should we unify with bigots? Or anti-science fanatics who can’t be bothered to wear masks? I don’t get it. They need to be shunned.
Yes! I don’t think I could be less interested in reaching out to people who don’t care about babies ripped from parents and then LOST, people who have tantrums in public over masks, people who scream shit like “black lives DON’T matter,” heavily armed people who strut around in their army-guy cosplay outfits, people who chant “Jews will not replace us” etc.
Until they see the errors of their ways and come around with some apologies and pledges to act like regular human beings, they can fuck off and keep fucking off til they fuck off past a black hole’s event horizon. Fuck them.
re: #263 makeitstop
When you’ve lost the Propaganda Network, you’re fully lost. Imagine lying too much for Faux Noise.
“Look at the picking and choosing,” Gov Beshear adds. You notice that AG Cameron and other GOP lawyers aren’t challenging the election results in states that voted for Trump, he asks. ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) November 9, 2020
re: #210 Dread Pirate Ron
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Republicans lie about hard truths and said, “Fuck your feelings.”
I know, it’s easy to confuse those two, especially if you’re a reporter.
That was Ben Shapiro.
re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth
Thank God Bevin is gone. I’m pretty sure he would have gone all in.
re: #74 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
They want to figure out what went wrong with the suppression effort.
// (half)
I don’t think that needs sarc marks. I am pretty confident it’s just plain true.
re: #277 Jebediah, RBG
I don’t think that needs sarc marks. I am pretty confident it’s just plain true.
The funny thing is that this will lead to USPS investigations and DeJoy going to prison.
Investigate you fuckers. Do it.
re: #276 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Thank God Bevin is gone. I’m pretty sure he would have gone all in.
Us having the Governor’s mansion and legislature helped big time. I’d never voted by mail absentee. The last few years of my Grandma’s life she did. My mom said the process was so much easier this time. I explained to her that the difference was who runs our state legislature so a special thanks to the House of Delegates Dems.
Yeah it doesn’t work like that. What the fuck is happening? https://t.co/81msJLy2pk
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) November 9, 2020
it’s starting to drip
A Ukrainian businessman told the Times of London that he was asked to lie about Hunter Biden’s business dealings to damage Joe Biden’s reputation.
In return, he was promised a U.S. visa and legal immunity.
re: #280 jaunte
We’re gonna keep making up rules until…something.
I repeatedly asked RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel & WH Press Sec Kayleigh McEnany: How is there a mass conspiracy against GOP voters across the country when the GOP picked up House seats?
They refused to answer directly & instead pointed to claims of fraud without evidence.— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) November 9, 2020
re: #280 jaunte
Yeah it doesn’t work like that. What the fuck is happening? https://t.co/81msJLy2pk
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) November 9, 2020
They are working to delegitimize the results of the election so they can seat a Republican set of electors. They are following the word of their messiah and trying to destroy our electoral process.
re: #284 Hecuba’s daughter
They are working to delegitimize the results of the election so they can seat a Republican set of electors. They are following the word of their messiah and trying to destroy our electoral process.
Do these idiots really not understand it will be their guts dangling from fence posts if they manufacture an excuse to send a GOP slate of electors to the electoral college in defiance of the PA vote?
re: #284 Hecuba’s daughter
They are working to delegitimize the results of the election so they can seat a Republican set of electors. They are following the word of their messiah and trying to destroy our electoral process.
Which will be a hoot since other Republicans in PA have said that that’s not going to happen. Grab your popcorn and watch them go after each other.
Update on the Trump campaign’s legal efforts:
1. Zero lawsuits that, if successful, would reverse the outcome of the election — or come close
2. Zero evidence of any fraudulent ballots
3. One press conference featuring a registered sex offender
4. 150+ fundraising emails— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) November 9, 2020
re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) November 9, 2020
re: #283 jaunte
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I repeatedly asked RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel & WH Press Sec Kayleigh McEnany: How is there a mass conspiracy against GOP voters across the country when the GOP picked up House seats?
They refused to answer directly & instead pointed to claims of fraud without evidence.— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) November 9, 2020
here’s how you do it:
you just made a claim
you’re stating it as true.
show us the facts you have.
if they’re facts, there’s no need to keep them secret or create some big ‘reveal’ ‘in two weeks’. it won’t taint a court case.
tell us what you have or we must report that you have nothing to show
New SecDef just dropped https://t.co/F5FEEbkgRe
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) November 9, 2020
re: #284 Hecuba’s daughter
They are working to delegitimize the results of the election so they can seat a Republican set of electors. They are following the word of their messiah and trying to destroy our electoral process.
Dem governor. I see a veto on the horizon.
Also, Bob Bauer will fight this tooth and nail. They’re flailing.
re: #287 Belafon
Which will be a hoot since other Republicans in PA have said that that’s not going to happen. Grab your popcorn and watch them go after each other.
They’re going after each other in Georgia too and I’m sure as soon as Arizona gets called there too.
Here’s what a judge said about it pic.twitter.com/7krV01XFeE
— Doremus Jessup (@DoremusJ) November 9, 2020
So the election results are final, then? https://t.co/CucNuLxgPT
— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) November 9, 2020
Off mic: “what is happening Trace, we’ve called it…”pic.twitter.com/G0CaFiOOr3
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) November 9, 2020
re: #292 makeitstop
Dem governor. I see a veto on the horizon.
Also, Bob Bauer will fight this tooth and nail. They’re flailing.
Best part was when Der Stupidhair asked for a Jim Baker type and the real Jim Baker told them to cut the shit out. These assholes can do whatever they want but they’re flailing away.
Anybody ever hear “legal votes” said so much before this election?No, b/c Republicans are injecting this language to create imaginary “illegal” voting, to delegitimize the election Trump lost. This distinction worked well with GOP base on immigration, to dehumanize immigrants. https://t.co/h8LyRVLN0h
— Paula Chertok🗽 (@PaulaChertok) November 9, 2020
re: #297 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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The fundamental problem with the GOP position right now is that they are arguing for the thing that caused them to lose. https://t.co/u9VjQQJy1w
— Nunca Trump (@NeverTrumpTexan) November 9, 2020
re: #298 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Best part was when Der Stupidhair asked for a Jim Baker type and the real Jim Baker told them to cut the shit out. These assholes can do whatever they want but they’re flailing away.
now can we safely invest in popcorn futures?
Hillary conceded. Obama welcomed Trump to the WH. No one halted Trump’s transition. In what world did Democrats *deny* the 2016 result? Once again Republicans are arguing about a fantasy world. https://t.co/XxNtnrlm2z
— Touré (@Toure) November 9, 2020
666? REALLY???
BREAKING NBC: Lawyers can’t find the parents of 666 migrant kids, a higher number than previously reported.
Lawyers ordered to find migrant families separated by the Trump admin had said they couldn’t find parents for 545 kids. Now they say it’s 666.https://t.co/xh9pwE3VaU— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 9, 2020
re: #242 makeitstop
So he is prone to embarrassment in that regard.
re: #303 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #262 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Kaliegh came from Fox News.
I think she was groomed, at least in part, as a CNN version of Tomi by Zucker.
re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth
666? REALLY???
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First the Four Seasons next to a porn shop and now this. The writers are really outdoing themselves this season.
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re: #299 jaunte
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specifically to what some of you are starting to hint above
analysis is becoming clear that a good number of people voted biden AND their republican senator
like maine: biden +10. but collins over gideon +9
how are they gonna explain the collins part is ok but the biden part isnt?
Anybody ever hear “legal votes” said so much before this election?No, b/c Republicans are injecting this language to create imaginary “illegal” voting, to delegitimize the election Trump lost. This distinction worked well with GOP base on immigration, to dehumanize immigrants. https://t.co/h8LyRVLN0h
— Paula Chertok🗽 (@PaulaChertok) November 9, 2020
Jen would rather your parents or grandparents died so she didn’t have to encounter people dressed like… doctors and nurses.
Totally not selfish and sociopathic at all.
2/2 https://t.co/B09GlE56nu— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) November 9, 2020
I just saw on my FB timeline that someone has created a Four Seasons Total Landscaping zoom background.
re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth
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All my aunts and uncles are over 70 and my Dad turns 70 next year but fuck our older loved ones right? These people are evil and nuts.
re: #316 Barefoot Grin
I just saw on my FB timeline that someone has created a Four Seasons Total Landscaping zoom background.
The Internet remains undefeated.
This video of Chancellor Merkel congratulating @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris is worth your time. Merkel talks about German history, the role of the United States and much more. Take a look:pic.twitter.com/6t7pEYgVOZ
— Marcel Dirsus (@marceldirsus) November 9, 2020
“All you need to know is that Pence is going on vacation,” a person close to the president tells me, when asked about the prospects for Trump’s legal fight. https://t.co/jjI8vbqfRA
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) November 9, 2020
re: #256 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I didn’t think they could top the 4 Seasons Total Landscape presser, but then it turned out one of Rudy’s witnesses there is a sex offender.
During the McCain campaign, they needed a slide of Walter Reed to illustrate a point during a speech, and… they ended up going with Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood CA.
…Whether it’s the COVID-19 crisis, the economic crisis, or a crisis of access to our democracy, Loeffler and Perdue only look out for themselves — and their stock portfolios — not Georgians.” #gapol #Election2020
— Fair Fight (@fairfightaction) November 9, 2020
also, pretty sure that Loeffler and Perdue are very upset that have to go through runoffs.
re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth
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wow, you can tell ‘healthy’ people just by looking at em?
if you wanna bet your life and the lives of your family on it, im all for it
not me and not mine.
because i cant tell by looking whether you got infected and just have no symptoms yet
Ask yourself: is an infection with an over 99% survival rate in every age category but those over 70 worth: cutting off your relationship with you best friends, canceling Thanksgiving with your grandparents, flinching away from healthy people because you fear getting sick?
— Jennifer Margulis (@JenniferMarguli) November 8, 2020
re: #318 Eclectic Cyborg
The Internet remains undefeated.
Here it is in action!
h/t @laurenpeikoff pic.twitter.com/4gS9LHyPde
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) November 9, 2020
If McConnell and the Senate GOP stand by and let Trump skip the Senate-approved designated successor for SecDef Esper and just appoint an acting secretary of his own choice — well, congrats to President Biden for getting to sidestep the Senate with all his Cabinet picks too.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) November 9, 2020
re: #321 Dread Pirate Ron
I hope he brings back a long lived souvenir.
re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth
666? REALLY???
I mean, if I were a conspiracy shithead I propose that the president and his Nazi goons “losing” 666 kids sounded kind of…sinister and occult?
I mean, good thing the president is a man of moral character and didn’t hang out with two, three, sex traffickers….
re: #317 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
All my aunts and uncles are over 70 and my Dad turns 70 next year but fuck our older loved ones right? These people are evil and nuts.
age is only one high risk factor. it just happens to be more or less readily apparent.
how about younger people who are high risk?
don’t they count?
it’s not an age thing- that’s just one dynamic
everyone with asthma - no matter their age
everyone with any lung issue - no matter their age
everyone with….
you get the idea
re: #326 dangerman
yeah, that’s why there are 11 refrigerated morgue trucks sitting in El Paso right now, because all of those “healthy people” are fucking dancing in the streets and wanted someplace cool to party…
re: #327 makeitstop
Here it is in action!
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Great minds think alike! 🤣 pic.twitter.com/5tx9mrLz5k
— Perry (@PERRYinR0) November 9, 2020
re: #332 dangerman
age is only one high risk factor. it just happens to be more or less readily apparent.
how about younger people who are high risk?
don’t they count?it’s not an age thing- that’s just one dynamic
everyone with asthma - no matter their age
everyone with any lung issue - no matter their age
everyone with….
you get the idea
Yeah I hear ya. I have a heart condition and I definitely am at risk more than most people my age.
re: #325 Backwoods_Sleuth
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also, pretty sure that Loeffler and Perdue are very upset that have to go through runoffs.
why arent they claiming declaring victory
Junior points out that Biden won by at least as much as his dad did in 2016.
He is very smart, this guy. https://t.co/tk5nvaopch— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) November 9, 2020
re: #333 piratedan
yeah, that’s why there are 11 refrigerated morgue trucks sitting in El Paso right now, because all of those “healthy people” are fucking dancing in the streets and wanted someplace cool to party…
nothing’s changed.
Anyone can get it
Anyone can have it and not know it
Anyone who has it (knowing or not) can pass it on
Anyone can survive it
Anyone can die from it
Anyone can experience nasty medical side effects that create a permanent pre-existing condition
Anyone
Oh, and the virus does not fight fair.
And it’s spreading through our stupidity.
it doesn’t matter where you live, who your parents are, how much money you got, where you went or go to school, what your job is, your politics, gender, race, color, age, vegan or gluten status, how ‘in shape you are’, what your favorite tv show is, what the #1 movie was the year you turned 18…
let the idiots do what they want
re: #336 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah I hear ya. I have a heart condition and I definitely am at risk more than most people my age.
these people are horribly focusing on the wrong metrics
re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yeah, I’m real curious who became president after that. //
Basically everything everybody around Trump is saying about the election is complete nonsense. https://t.co/0FKSU8BLQH
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 9, 2020
Gullible, superstitious folk have been duped into suspecting that Trump is the Antichrist. Now we see that it was McConnell all along.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) November 9, 2020
re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth
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you know, aaron, youre right, but ill go you one better
trump is not in the lead, so thats an if pigs were flying argument
you know how for four years we heard ‘i dont want to go into hypotheticals’? well….
Basically everything everybody around Trump is saying about the election is complete nonsense. https://t.co/0FKSU8BLQH
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 9, 2020
BK nails it.
Brianna Keilar rips Trump and GOP over election hypocrisy: “The ex who just won’t accept that it’s over” https://t.co/xwpWXPO7Fq pic.twitter.com/NOtYqKLzPA
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) November 9, 2020
Kayleigh, while pretending to be a PA election law expert, just said Philly was in Allegheny County.
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) November 9, 2020
re: #326 dangerman
wow, you can tell ‘healthy’ people just by looking at em?
if you wanna bet your life and the lives of your family on it, im all for itnot me and not mine.
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Today at the grocery store:
Most everybody wearing masks (it’s a city requirement, but you know…)
One asshole woman had hers either under her nose, around her chin, or in her hand as she yakked on her phone. Every time I chose a new aisle, there she was.
Then she was behind me at checkout—I will give her that she didn’t jump up to put her groceries on the belt until I was done. Her mask was around her chin.
I told the bagger to make sure and stay back/safe when she got to him and muttered that we’re surrounded by morons. He chuckled—then the cashier said, “You’re not talking about me, are you?” I said, “No, no. Not at all,” and the bagger and I conveyed to him who we were talking about.
I added a box of food for the foodbank to my order, which seemed to delight the bagger and checker (I do that every time I go to the grocery) and wished them luck. They laughed and waved as I left.
That’s me, spreading good cheer, one Food Lion at a time.
now for something fun:
“Should always believe a 5-year-old when he tells you 4 times alllll the animals are in the house” Wait for the donkeys… 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/Q7ptGDyvzG
— The Manc (@TheMancUK) November 8, 2020
re: #344 dangerman
just show em this picture and tell them to stfu
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That picture was taken a week before Trump’s inauguration. I would prefer if we didn’t give them permission to be assholes for another 2 months.
Your lord’s castle is gone, and his glory is no more. pic.twitter.com/iNejmtsjC1
— Black Metal Cats (@evilbmcats) November 9, 2020
I’d like to apologize to all the liberals who compared Trump to Voldemort. https://t.co/dXOmSZgf8j
— Eyes on the Right (@EyesOnTheRight) November 8, 2020
re: #349 BeachDem
Today at the grocery store:
Most everybody wearing masks (it’s a city requirement, but you know…)
One asshole woman had hers either under her nose, around her chin, or in her hand as she yakked on her phone. Every time I chose a new aisle, there she was.
Then she was behind me at checkout—I will give her that she didn’t jump up to put her groceries on the belt until I was done. Her mask was around her chin.
I told the bagger to make sure and stay back/safe when she got to him and muttered that we’re surrounded by morons. He chuckled—then the cashier said, “You’re not talking about me, are you?” I said, “No, no. Not at all,” and the bagger and I conveyed to him who we were talking about.
I added a box of food for the foodbank to my order, which seemed to delight the bagger and checker (I do that every time I go to the grocery) and wished them luck. They laughed and waved as I left.
That’s me, spreading good cheer, one Food Lion at a time.
simba says “roar”
four seasons total landscaping local ad pic.twitter.com/AVf1rMGRrL
— Michael Spicer (@MrMichaelSpicer) November 9, 2020
re: #128 Charles Johnson
Anything I can do to speed that up, D’Felon?
Look what we saw today when we went to get breakfast burritos.
The person or persons in this vehicle think that I and my dude literally eat babies. pic.twitter.com/c777UXXG1s
— Peg (@PFlowerstone) November 9, 2020
re: #351 danarchy
That picture was taken a week before Trump’s inauguration. I would prefer if we didn’t give them permission to be assholes for another 2 months.
it was the first one i found
still
“here’s obama and trump right before the inauguration after a smooth and cooperative transition’
re: #326 dangerman
wow, you can tell ‘healthy’ people just by looking at em?
if you wanna bet your life and the lives of your family on it, im all for itnot me and not mine.
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She acknowledges that the infection has a higher mortality rate for 70+, then asks whether it is worth canceling Thanksgiving with grandparents—the VAST majority of which are north of 70?
Welcome to the E-Ring, Acting SecDef Miller: https://t.co/mJ5Qrsxede
— Kevin Baron 🍁🍂 (@DefenseBaron) November 9, 2020
So that’s the second QAnon car we’ve seen in the last couple of weeks. It’s more than a little bit scary.
Have you seen who got into the Sugar Puffs? Why no Susan I haven’t, why do you ask? pic.twitter.com/VVaxi0OOhx
— jamie (@gnuman1979) November 9, 2020
Maybe this is why Barr went to Yertle’s office today…
Trump campaign says it has filed a federal lawsuit that asks to stop Pennsylvania from certifying the results of the general election. Not seeing it in PACER yet tho. https://t.co/bIfPgOBEE8 pic.twitter.com/ZoPzpVXrVG
— Todd Ruger (@ToddRuger) November 9, 2020
re: #363 Backwoods_Sleuth
Like this poor kitty who thought the box was empty pic.twitter.com/drHe3tHw8a
— bloke (@mamafluffs) November 9, 2020
Archaeologists excavating in the village of Poniatach Wielkie, within the Pułtusk County, Masovian Voivodeship, of east-central Poland have discovered hundreds of metal objects that date from the 11th / 12th-13th centuries. https://t.co/1tf0G7ratW pic.twitter.com/CBagNE80R8
— Ticia Verveer (@ticiaverveer) November 9, 2020
re: #354 dangerman
simba says “roar”
I guess I’m into animal-name stores. In Ohio, it was Big Bear, and now the Lion (I have, though, pretty much avoided Piggly Wiggly)
Quickly feeling this is going from they’re humoring the old man to they really are going to try to steal a presidential election.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 9, 2020
re: #280 jaunte
What, the legislature that just retained its GOP majority? Were they fraudulently re-elected?
But I’m not.
It just looks that way because everybody else is a fucking Nazi. https://t.co/B28MU601VD— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) November 9, 2020
What is the criminal penalty for a coup? https://t.co/LD8JJEmNb6
— Zack Kopplin (@ZackKopplin) November 9, 2020
The firings will continue until morale improves (72 days). https://t.co/544Zoztn5a
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) November 9, 2020
i hate him so much
McConnell acknowledges that the election led victories to GOP senators and House members. But for presidential race, he says “no states have yet certified their election results” and Pres. Trump is “100% within his rights” to weigh legal options. He makes no mention of Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/X8rZUXVaOA
— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 9, 2020
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian says he has ordered an end to fighting with Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Pashinian says he signed an agreement with the presidents of Azerbaijan and Russia, calling the decision “extremely painful.” https://t.co/EuOhvf87FP
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 9, 2020
re: #374 Backwoods_Sleuth
i hate him so much
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Oh, and all the Senate and other “victories” *have* been certified Mitch?
You lying sack of shit.
(Edit: Perhaps not fully a lie. But the intent is there to deceive.)
re: #284 Hecuba’s daughter
Without looking, I predict these GOP legislators are:
Scott Perry
Daryl Metcalfe
Chris Dush
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Pfizer now says it *is* a participant in Warp Speed. Spokesperson notes its significant purchase agreement with the US government.
Pfizer’s head of vaccine development had told NYT it wasn’t part of Warp Speed because it didn’t take research $, but that’s not the whole story. pic.twitter.com/6J3FsoRX4a— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 9, 2020
Oh, it’s THAT fucker.
The Pentagon general counsel has tapped Michael Ellis, a Trump White House official and former Nunes aide involved in the infamous “midnight run,” to be the next general counsel at the National Security Agency, according to people familiar with the matter.
— Dustin *Get Your Flu Shot* Volz (@dnvolz) November 9, 2020
re: #377 cat-tikvah
Without looking, I predict these GOP legislators are:
Scott Perry
Daryl Metcalfe
Chris Dush
That is my question: How many PA Republicans in the House are actually calling for this?
BREAKING: Senate is voting now to advance one of Trump’s nominees to serve for LIFE on the federal bench. McConnell still prioritizing Trump’s judges over COVID relief. #NoMoreTrumpJudges
— Vanita Gupta (@vanitaguptaCR) November 9, 2020
#fourseasonstotallandscaping pic.twitter.com/edk4JUu4nH
— Margaret and Helen 🌎 (@HelenPhilpot) November 9, 2020
A strong nominee for a GRITTY™️ https://t.co/aqweMuaNJE
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 9, 2020
re: #216 austin_blue
True, but 2000 was way on the tail of an outlier, as odds go. As I understand it, you can jibber-jabber with pretty much anyone once the election numbers are certified, and North Carolina *always* said they wouldn’t have theirs ‘til this Wednesday, anyway.
I have heard that the 9/11 report said that our intelligence and readiness were damaged by the late start to the transition. It wasn’t anyone’s specific fault that it happened, which is not the case now. The GOP would rather risk the security of the nation than upset Trump. Pathetic.
re: #381 Dread Pirate Ron
Oh, it’s THAT fucker.
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Ellis defied a House subpoena during impeachment and was accused by the official who reviewed John Bolton’s book of politicizing the process.https://t.co/rzgDB1IRCS https://t.co/mAC4uGLJeu
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 9, 2020
Voters in four more states just voted to legalize adult recreational use of marijuana.
It’s past time to end the federal prohibition on marijuana and work to undo the harms done by the War on Drugs, particularly in Black and brown communities.https://t.co/OCg1nyzcd2— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) November 9, 2020
re: #381 Dread Pirate Ron
Oh, it’s THAT fucker.
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Yep, as a refresher, when he got his last big promotion in March:
The Gravity of Michael Ellis’ Promotion to Senior Director for Intelligence at the White House
re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth
That had is in tears. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
re: #389 Dread Pirate Ron
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Easy way to expedite this. Just slip a memo into Trump’s briefing materials indicating that he and the family have investments going in marijuana dispensaries.
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re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth
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While that video was very amusing, it frustrates me that we don’t yet know WHY the campaign had that event there, and the headlines that claim to have “the whole story behind Four Seasons Total Landscaping” kinda trigger me because they don’t have that information I desire.
Trump has found lawyers willing to ask a federal court to disenfranchise *all* Pennsylvania voters.
I am pasting below their request and their signature block.https://t.co/ZABklTV1UH pic.twitter.com/xAMVEisA7K— Matthew Segal (@segalmr) November 9, 2020
re: #395 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Who’s surprised?
Kerns has a page on the Federalist Society site.
— Hans Bessler, House Security (@disco_remix) November 9, 2020
re: #92 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Mark Cuban:
Wrong, Mark. In the information age, ignorance is a choice. These people are misled because they quite wilfully pick and choose sources that confirm their biases or suit their agenda. A great many of them don’t actually believe the misinformation and propaganda they spew. I will consider reconciliation only when their evil movement has been crushed and flushed.
I’ve mentioned this before, so I’ll mention it again.
hi
No not that, the information age thing. There’s a reason I live in the most right-leaning House district in the country. All we have for newspapers are Republican apologia, all radio stations which are not the two music stations are right-wing propaganda or Christian hate radio, the television stations are nearly all Sinclair-owned. Internet service is too expensive for most people.
If people such as Mark Cuban are so worried about right-wing media brainwashing people, why isn’t he investing in media outlets in areas like mine to improve the media landscape?
Only if you live closer to the cell tower in my village than I do (five blocks) can you use cell service instead of the Internet. Cell phone service costs just as much as Internet service here and is useless over vast areas of this state.
Much of Rural America (tm, marca registrada) is like this. No one sees a need for Internet service when it costs so much, particularly if you have to pay rent or food bills.
Republicans ran an attack ad against Brindisi for “backing Nancy Pelosi’s anti-police bill.”That’s the kind of thing Democrats have to deal with. Always has been. Stop pretending that Ilhan Omar going away changes that for you. Just learn to deal with it. https://t.co/8WHYRp7wQ1
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) November 9, 2020
This was the case with every anti-McGrath ad I saw.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe, you’re a pawn of Nancy Pelosi and Obama who are socialists that want to give free money to illegal immigrants.
Worth saying out loud that the claims of fraud, lawsuits, threats to throw out results are best seen as efforts to secure - either formally or informally via threats - permanent legal immunity for Trump and the Trump family. Most likely informal. But that’s whats on the line.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 9, 2020
It’s not just that this lawsuit is embarrassing; it’s that it makes me embarrassed — for the first time in my career — to be a lawyer.
The last thing we should be doing is enabling— let alone affirmatively bringing — such shamelessly transparent attacks on democratic legitimacy. https://t.co/tEdljAKvdW— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) November 9, 2020
re: #395 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
My son wanted to go the polls 11/3 to vote for the first time. On 11/1 he was called out for PA Guard duty across the state. On 11/2 troops at his base voted by mail/military procedure. It’s safe for me to say these Trump/R party actions are trying to stop his vote, right?
— Chris Clutter (@LesPaul60) November 9, 2020
re: #396 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Who’s surprised?
She is apparently a divorce lawyer.
I really hope she loses her license over this for misrepresentations of material fact as an officer of the court.
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