News that the current president hasn’t attended a Coronavirus task force briefing in several months is further proof that executive mismanagement is the primary reason the United States is faring so poorly amid the pandemic. #Colbert #Monologue #ALateShow
Already bananapants.
Now Rudy is talking about Mayor Daley in Chicago…
Reader, that has nothing to do with the case in Pennsylvania.
20/— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) November 17, 2020
Judge Brann asked for confirmation that under the amended complaint, Trump Campaign’s only two remaining grounds are violation of equal protection clause and electors and elections clause.
But Rudy said he wants to amend to add back in due process claims
16/— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) November 17, 2020
Witness corroborates claim against Graham:
A staffer for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger says he participated in that controversial phone call with Lindsey Graham and said he heard Graham ask if state officials could throw out ballots. https://t.co/C0GuO1bfTb— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 17, 2020
Giuliani claims this is alleged conspiracy happening in “big cities, controlled by Democrats.”
“You’d have to be a fool to think this is an accident.”— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
20k to replay old debunked arguments.
jfc just throw out this ridiculous case already. https://t.co/YP5LNqzZPt
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 17, 2020
Rudy is still talking about allegations that all of the courts have rejected concerning fraud.
Rant, rant, rant.
He says that there were “corals and cages” around vote counters.
23/— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) November 17, 2020
THE CAGES, CORAL!
Seems like Rudy has decided to single-handedly bury his case.
Rudy’s been talking for about nine minutes, and he’s just now getting to the part of his presentation that has anything whatsoever to do with the Trump campaign’s legal arguments.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) November 17, 2020
re: #5 Charles Johnson
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Ok Rudy that’s a description
where’s your evidence?
Got any?
Any at all?
jfc just throw out this ridiculous case already. https://t.co/YP5LNqzZPt
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 17, 2020
The best thing that could happen is Rudy and that radio host playing a lawyer bickering in court.
re: #8 jaunte
The judge is giving Rudy so much rope that he’s going to hang not only Rudy but every GOPer who has gone along with this farce.
I only hope that the judge imposes sanctions and costs on Trump to cover the court’s time and the wasted time/effort by the various states having to defend against this baseless claptrap.
Yup. Bananapants.
Rudy says he doesn’t understand how defense can object to two men having standing to sue.
Now Rudy is turning the the Trump campaign as plaintiff. He claims that the Trump campaign was treated totally differently from the “Bush campaign.”
Reader, I think he meant Biden.
26/— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) November 17, 2020
News flash for one Rudolph W. Giuliani: Hey dumbshit, a judge does not care about your conspiracy theory grandstanding. In fact, if they suspect that you’re showering them in bullshit, they’ll shut you right the hell up and make you get to the point.
Iota has been downgraded to a tropical storm, and is about to cross the border into Honduras.
Ya think? https://t.co/jkNoNKb8GP
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 17, 2020
re: #15 Charles Johnson
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Grifters gotta grift… And what sweet poetic justice that Giuliani is grifting off the greatest grifter of all.
“We’re not bringing up a frivolous argument here.”
— Rudy Giuliani, just now, in a clear sign that this case is going great for him.— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) November 17, 2020
I can’t wait to see what Saturday Night Live does with this trial!
Brought forward from downstairs.
re: #350 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
So we’ve established you’re a genocidaire, we just haven’t established how many people you want to see dead.
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No one answers any of these wingnuts back this way.
Seems in 2018 there were 225+ million car accidents in the US. There were approx 38,000 deaths. So I guess I can stop respecting those pesky stop signs and stop lights now right, very low percentage die from car accidents.
Only thing Rudy hasn’t tried is the Chewbacca defense.
Giuliani invokes the specter of a “stolen” election, a claim expressly disclaimed by Team Trump’s lawyers in Arizona.
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
re: #21 jaunte
Noun, verb, 20k for bullshit legal work.
Your honor, my opening statement will take 3 months
re: #22 lawhawk
Only thing Rudy hasn’t tried is the Chewbacca defense.
Imagine trying to explain the Chewbacca defense to Vulcans.
re: #22 lawhawk
yes, your honor, we have sworn affidavits from people who refuse to identify themselves that they maybe have seen some things that might provide some concern about how these votes were counted and verified that illustrate how there are implied shenanigans that illustrate how we must throw out only those votes that we don’t agree with./….
Other than the 2018 North Carolina voter fraud perpetrated by the Republican candidate, there are two problems with mail-in ballots:
1. (Case I mentioned before): An invalid voter whose caregiver votes contrary to their wishes. Over a decade ago, a cousin who was a devout Republican apparently boasted of the votes he cast on behalf of his Democratic mother who was ill from Alzheimer’s and unaware of his actions.
2. Votes are no longer private and may be coerced. An abusive spouse or parent can force others in their household to vote according to their wishes.
re: #25 Belafon
Imagine trying to explain the Chewbacca defense to Vulcans.
It’s possible, but you’d have to rename it to the Klingon defense.
Giuliani rants about Philadelphia, describing it as corrupt in a grand, corrupt, airy conspiracy theory of mass fraud with no specifics:
“This doesn’t happen in an honest place.”
“This is an outrage, your honor, to do this to people.”— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
Over the years of bloviating he must have forgotten about presenting a little thing called “evidence.”
Giuliani has now upped the number of ballots they claim were counted without lawful observation and are therefore illegal, from 682,479 in Allegheny/Philadelphia counties to 1.5 million across seven counties — he hasn’t specified where those numbers come from
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) November 17, 2020
That’s why no one ever does tuberculosis skin tests, colonoscopies, mammograms, blood sugar tests for diabetes, blood pressure, &c.
That would just be crazy.
They are testing everything that moves. It’s crazy to test healthy people.
— Joanne (@plcjoanne) November 17, 2020
re: #18 🌹UOJB!
I can’t wait to see what Saturday Night Live does with this trial!
re: #19 Eventual Carrion
Brought forward from downstairs.
Seems in 2018 there were 225+ million car accidents in the US. There were approx 38,000 deaths. So I guess I can stop respecting those pesky stop signs and stop lights now right, very low percentage die from car accidents.
From the original
“99.6% of those cases were completely asymptomatic or ended in full recovery. It’s weird how they never report that statistic”
but can you tell in advance and just by looking which are gonna be which?
No you can’t
Anyone can get it
Anyone can die from it
Anyone can recover from it..with or without permanent damage
Anyone.
Rudy says he has 100s of affidavits or declarations. Asked court to deny motion to dismiss.
30/— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) November 17, 2020
Show the goods, then, Nosferatu. Talk is cheap, we need to see the receipts.
While this is somewhat funny, it’s completely infuriating.
Rudy alleged 1.5 million illegal votes.
He doesn’t explain how he arrived at that number.— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
re: #19 Eventual Carrion
Brought forward from downstairs.
Seems in 2018 there were 225+ million car accidents in the US. There were approx 38,000 deaths. So I guess I can stop respecting those pesky stop signs and stop lights now right, very low percentage die from car accidents.
And seeing all those car accidents in the past, we never did anything at all such as mandate automobile companies improve safety features, assign highway engineers to improve road safety, enforce drunk drive laws better, &c.
Nope, nothing could be done.
re: #40 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
While this is somewhat funny, it’s completely infuriating.
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re: #32 Sir John Barron
‘specter’ sounds pretty spooky and scary.
Better get Daniel Craig on that STAT.
Rudy: I ask the Court to deny the motion to dismiss so we can quickly move to a hearing and put on our hundreds of declarations. Asks to mark things as exhibits, which one does not really do at a motion to dismiss.
— LastThanksgivingHat (@Popehat) November 17, 2020
re: #34 Charles Johnson
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Where those numbers came from, I don’t think the judge wants to touch them.
You don’t send Rudy Giuliani to court to win a case. You send him there to show that you have no respect for the justice system.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) November 17, 2020
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
If Trump had done it, they’d be Golden Corrals. /s
There was one place worse—Hometown Buffets which were endlessly shut down in Los Angeles County over health code violations—probably because the roaches got ptomaine poisoning from the crap they ate…
Next up
Giuliani’s co-counsel declines to add anything.
Up next is Daniel Donovan, representing the Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth for the powerhouse firm Kirkland & Ellis— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
re: #53 Sir John Barron
He’s asserting the law was broken.
re: #46 jaunte
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“hundreds of declarations, which can’t be challenged or disproved, which will take another six months…..”
Put another way, Giuliani’s freewheeling opening statement bore little semblance to their actual lawsuit.
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
Donovan dedicates his opening statement to a far less flashy rebuttal to what their lawsuit says, not what Giuliani declaimed.
“There is no claim in the complaint that any Pennsylvania voter cast more than one ballot.”— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
re: #29 🌹UOJB!
I found the video feed of Rudy’s court appearance!
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I’ve been thinking the trial of Fielding Melish from Woody Allen’s “Bananas.”
Actual lol imaging Rudy trying to shove some printed memes from Reddit into the judge’s hands https://t.co/7KXen5pBJK
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) November 17, 2020
At what point will Rudy be held accountable for filing so many frivolous lawsuits?
re: #53 Sir John Barron
Which votes? All the absentee ballots? How many are those?
The votes they couldn’t observe, which presumably would be just enough to tip the state over. If they can’t determine a precise number, then probably just invalidate all of the ballots from those counties, just to be on the safe side. Because you know, casually disenfranchising entire counties just to be sure your boss doesn’t get arrested for all his financial crimes in New York is obviously no big deal compared to the horrendous injustice of a couple of ballot observers being mildly inconvenienced.
Defendant’s counsel is proceeding based on a series of slides and in an organized way with an outline and signposts. Again, like a professional advocate. First is addressing standing argument. He’s applying these facts to the judge’s own prior opinion about standing.
— LastThanksgivingHat (@Popehat) November 17, 2020
Liar liar.
..@LindseyGrahamSC is the Dr. Smith of Benedict Arnolds. https://t.co/SGZdBgAUHr
— Hal Sparks (@HalSparks) November 17, 2020
re: #15 Charles Johnson
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Trump’s Administration and Legal is grifters all the way from the very top to the very bottom. It’s a right wing grifter triple decker slush fund with extra cheese dripping down onto the floor with sycophants rolling around licking up the remains in a fuckfest of greed and graft.
Kamala Harris is going to be the tie-breaking vote instead of Mike Pence. 😂
— United for the People 💛🥁 (@people4kam) November 17, 2020
Breaking: sociopathic grifter hoist by own petard. Film at 11. https://t.co/e1ouoDKiUO
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 17, 2020
I wonder who Senator Graham spoke to between the two calls? https://t.co/6K0eFbuEmQ pic.twitter.com/eNHUOPQBjN
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) November 17, 2020
Unfu…. nope. Totally fucking believable:
NEW: Giuliani’s team attempted a “coup” inside the campaign per sources. Legal adviser Jenna Ellis told staff only take orders from “Rudy or Jenna”—leading to a screaming match between Ellis and Jason Miller w. @KFaulders @Santucci https://t.co/DEYVpLPWei
— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) November 17, 2020
re: #70 lawhawk
Unfu…. nope. Totally fucking believable:
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Like the junior officers on the Titanic trying to stage a mutiny: as the water on the bridge keeps rising, and rising, and rising…..
re: #70 lawhawk
Unfu…. nope. Totally fucking believable:
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Giuliani will be in Russia next year, a host slot on RT and a fugitive from justice. He will be among the first to bail out of the US to a avoid criminal prosecution.
Audio from Court case dead. I wonder if the judge is giving Rudy the business.
/Conspiracy theory
re: #78 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Audio from Court case dead. I wonder if the judge is giving Rudy the business.
/Conspiracy theory
There is a link to the court hearing??!
re: #65 Patricia Kayden
Liar liar.
Just followed up with Graham: he says he spoke to Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and someone else in Nevada, *not* the Secretaries of State in AZ and NV.
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) November 17, 2020
San Diego county is almost done counting our votes.
Trump increased his share of the votes, but so did Biden over Clinton. Biden increased the Dem share by more than Trump increased his own share of the total.
The big change was that this time around very few people voted for third party candidates.
Anyway, with total vote count way up, participation rate up, we can conclude this: Very little has changed over 4 years, in the major political party results. Sure, the Dems have registered more voters in 4 years than the Republicans, but the bottom line is that in 2016 36% of San Diego voted for Trump, in 2020 that went up to 37%.
This does suggest that Trump could shoot someone on 5th Ave. and 36% of the county would vote for him.
If after four years of malicious incompetence doesn’t cost Trump, then nothing will.
This all goes to show, once again, that getting votes has everything to do with personality and marketing and nothing to do with performance.
Can’t even imagine what Trump has on Graham for the latter to go so far out on a limb for Trump.
So the operative question is now @SecretaryHobbs
Did Graham lie, or did someone in your office speak on your behalf without your approval?— STEMtheBleeding (@STEMthebleeding) November 17, 2020
Or, hear me out, she’s lying to protect Lindsey Graham, because she sees he stepped in it, and the GOP is always party over country.
re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Or, hear me out, she’s lying to protect Lindsey Graham, because she sees he stepped in it, and the GOP is always party over country.
Or she’s a Democrat, so that seems kind of unlikely.
re: #80 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
So now his story is shifting once his lie has been called out. How convenient,
re: #78 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Audio from Court case dead. I wonder if the judge is giving Rudy the business.
/Conspiracy theory
Update from @nycsouthpaw https://t.co/GUBFPOifCj
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Or, hear me out, she’s lying to protect Lindsey Graham, because she sees he stepped in it, and the GOP is always party over country.
Nah…she’s the SoS in a state that just went to Biden. Running cover for a senator from SC wouldn’t be a good look for her political career.
re: #84 klys (maker of Silmarils)
She is indeed a Democrat.
re: #84 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Or she’s a Democrat, so that seems kind of unlikely.
You are correct; I assumed she was a Republican. She would have no reason to support Lindsey Graham’s story.
Speaking of Sen. Graham:
ALWAYS A TWEET 🔥 pic.twitter.com/oNO1GqFJFV
— tommyrulznyc (@tommyrulznyc) November 17, 2020
re: #79 Dr. Matt
There is a link to the court hearing??!
4000 max. And it was maxed out before it started.
re: #87 Mike Lamb
Nah…she’s the SoS in a state that just went to Biden. Running cover for a senator from SC wouldn’t be a good look for her political career.
She’s a Democrat. She’s not doing a thing for Graham.
re: #82 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Can’t even imagine what Trump has on Graham for the latter to go so far out on a limb for Trump.
I’m 99+% sure that Graham has had sex with underage boys, and that Trump/Putin are using that as blackmail material on Graham.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Tuesday said that President Donald Trump had himself to blame for losing the state’s electoral votes in the 2020 election.
Raffensperger told WSB’s Justin Gray that 24,000 Republicans who voted by absentee ballot in the primary did not cast votes in the general election.
The secretary of state linked the lack of participation to Trump’s effort to demonize mail-in voting.
In new intv with me, @GaSecofState says 24,000 GOPs who voted absentee in primary did not vote in General - says Donald Trump cost himself the election by sowing distrust in absentee: “he would have won by 10 thousand votes he actually suppressed, depressed his own voting base”
— Justin Gray (@JustinGrayWSB) November 17, 2020
re: #92 EPR-radar
I’m 99+% sure that Graham has had sex with underage boys, and that Trump/Putin are using that as blackmail material on Graham.
While it could be that he’s just an asshole, I’m with you 100%.
Just a reminder as to who Linda Kerns is…
re: #82 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Can’t even imagine what Trump has on Graham for the latter to go so far out on a limb for Trump.
The boy was younger than 15?
Republicans used to try to disguise where they get their BS from. In the Trump era, they just openly hook up with white supremacists and antisemites. https://t.co/z4eyhobgF5
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 17, 2020
re: #97 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Was there a republican primary? For POTUS?
Yes. Remember him bragging about them?
re: #94 Dr. Matt
Thanks be to Chluthu that Trump is such a conspiracy nut that he hurt his own re-election chances.
re: #102 🌹UOJB!
Oh there’s probably more to it…
“Live boy became dead boy” is not impossible. There’s just no bottom with these Republican creeps.
re: #97 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Was there a republican primary? For POTUS?
There pretty much always is, even when there’s an incumbent. There wasn’t any serious opposition for him to run against though.
Judge Matthew Brann says the PA Supreme Court just ruled, 5-2, that Philadelphia acted within state law in its handling of election observers….Still taking a break to address tech issues
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) November 17, 2020
re: #105 EPR-radar
“Live boy became dead boy” is not impossible. There’s just no bottom with these Republican creeps.
I got a feeling Lady G is in Norman Bates territory…
Different case. Still waiting on the one paused for audio.
And, news in from @adambonin that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court just ruled against Trumphttps://t.co/5gM2Nh7u2n
53/— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) November 17, 2020
re: #97 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Was there a republican primary? For POTUS?
There was a republican primary for house races.
re: #106 klys (maker of Silmarils)
There pretty much always is, even when there’s an incumbent. There wasn’t any serious opposition for him to run against though.
Yeah Walsh dropped out and Weld was an afterthought.
re: #104 Patricia Kayden
Thanks be to Chluthu that Trump is such a conspiracy nut that he hurt his own re-election.
I think he was banking on fucking over the mail-in vote and was basically doing insider trading by telling his people to vote in person on Election Day. His so-called advisers probably told him they could slam-dunk shut down a late Biden win by disqualifying all absentee ballots based on some legal mumbo-jumbo which he pretended to agree to pay them a fortune for. Now his cases are collapsing, reality is closing in, and he might eventually realize that he sold his chances of re-election up the river for a con.
re: #103 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yes. Remember him bragging about them?
Well yeah but he bragged winning against no one in some cases.
re: #65 Patricia Kayden
Liar liar.
I don’t think Dr Smith needs to be insulted that way. Sen Graham could not manage the carrot costume for example.
re: #107 🌹UOJB!
While the PA court sorts out the technical issue with the phone call, Trump has gone from 1-22to 0-22 as the high court in PA reverses their lone “win” which wasn’t so much a win in the first place since it was already being addressed:
Aaaaaannndd….the single case out of 22 that Trump kind-of won - declaring that monitors didn’t have to observe social distancing rules because conspiracy theories are more important than exposing vote counters to a deadly disease - is now effectively reversed. 0 for 22. https://t.co/7Yy8K2bR0K
— Kurt “Wear a Mask” Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) November 17, 2020
re: #113 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Well yeah but he bragged winning against no one in some cases.
He was still on the ballot though. It was his ego trip.
re: #114 William Lewis
I don’t think Dr Smith needs to be insulted that way. Sen Graham could not manage the carrot costume for example.
Hey, get it right! Dr Smith was turned into a celery stalk! 😉
Assholes gotta ass.
Just a final note, Rachel. I worked in the White House, too. For President Clinton. I could have pursued the same path your husband took but my duty was to the office and the nation, not myself or cronies. He worked at the pleasure of the President. Hubby jumped the shark. https://t.co/aifJtaw3fq
— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) November 16, 2020
Don’t you dare. My husband @AVindman did nothing wrong. He served honorably until his last day. https://t.co/bu967ANvsm
— Rachel Vindman (@natsechobbyist) November 16, 2020
re: #117 🌹UOJB!
Hey, get it right! Dr Smith was turned into a celery stalk! 😉
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re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter
The boy was younger than 15?
I’ve always figured it was probably more a 16 or 17 year old - young enough to be icky and largely illegal, but old enough to be just borderline legal in certain jurisdictions, enough to muddy the waters, anyway.
Enough to destroy Graham politically if it got out, but with enough leeway that Graham could try to assuage any conscience he might have.
re: #108 🌹UOJB!
I got a feeling Lady G is in Norman Bates territory…
That I don’t believe — but a preference for young teens or pre-teens seems quite likely.
ps - if your mask fogs your glasses when you are in court listening, then you take your glasses off, not the mask
ps - if your glasses fog at this stage in the pandemic you’re doing something wrong
re: #113 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Well yeah but he bragged winning against no one in some cases.
Yeah, the RNC tweeted those ridiculous ‘Congratulations, President Trump on winning the _____ primary,’ after most states made it so no one could run against him.
re: #110 Dr. Matt
There was a republican primary for house races.
also, at least in Kentucky, for POTUS there was a choice on the ballot between trump and undeclared for EC electors.
Looks like they ended up finding a pretty decent parking space at the end of the video!
— Bradbury Slocum (@BradburySlocum) November 17, 2020
The court is still working “feverishly” with asterisks, but now with a black font, so make of that what you will. pic.twitter.com/SGdJLuIurG
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) November 17, 2020
re: #116 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He was still on the ballot though. It was his ego trip.
The usually-reliable Ballotpedia notes that Trump won the GA Republican primary on 6/9/20 with 100% of the GOP vote, i.e. 947,352 to 0.
Helped that there seems to have been no one else on that ballot: always produces a landslide….
re: #116 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He was still on the ballot though. It was his ego trip.
So my question, did primary voters vote in the POTUS non-race or just down race tickets?
re: #122 dangerman
ps - if your mask fogs your glasses when you are in court listening, then you take your glasses off, not the mask
ps - if your glasses fog at this stage in the pandemic you’re doing something wrong
He doesn’t wear a mask enough to know how to fix the problem.
When your state governor isn’t doing enough to kill people:
Report: South Dakota driver in triple fatal crash was going 147 mph (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
RAPID CITY, South Dakota — The Maserati driver who died in a crash last month that also killed two passengers was driving about 147 mph on Interstate 90 near Sturgis before rear-ending and going under a semi, according to a law enforcement report.
Driver and car owner Jaden Olson, a 21-year-old from Rapid City; passenger Thomas “TJ” Jackson, a 22-year-old from Spearfish; and Titus Ironshield, a 55-year-old from Cannon Ball, North Dakota, died at the scene of the Oct. 6 crash.
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Several Queens prosecutors have tested positive for COVID while some higher-ups ditch their masks indoors
“There are definitely employees that think masks are taking away their freedom and that COVID is a liberal conspiracy,” one Queens DA staffer said https://t.co/MMIuRjFmLa— David Brand (@DavidFBrand) November 17, 2020
If Trump’s plan to sabotage the Postal Service hadn’t been exposed, and there hadn’t been massive pushback to reverse at least some of the damage, he’d very likely be the president-elect today. He tried to literally steal the election.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 17, 2020
At least he has Trump as a friend lol
— Edgar R (@erod214er) November 17, 2020
Some good news from Michigan, which should not even have to be news, but here we are. And by “here we are,” I mean that in the overused abstract manner as well as the “here we are” as in here we are waiting for this hearing to start againhttps://t.co/0xuAp2A8wM
58/— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) November 17, 2020
Not looking good for Judy Shelton right now pic.twitter.com/fL1egLeF1e
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) November 17, 2020
re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
When your state governor isn’t doing enough to kill people:
RAPID CITY, South Dakota — The Maserati driver who died in a crash last month that also killed two passengers was driving about 147 mph on Interstate 90 near Sturgis before rear-ending and going
underthrough a semi, according to a law enforcement report.
Corrected that for you.
“James Harden and many others in the Rockets’ org. all want OUT of Houston … and it’s all reportedly because the team’s owner is a big Donald Trump supporter.” https://t.co/9I0oc6p5fa
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 17, 2020
re: #138 makeitstop
Tillman Fertitta is a gangster.
I thought it was 24! (Not the case we’ve been following.)
🚨BREAKING: Trump and his allies have just lost their 25th court case. This time in the PA Supreme Court.
They are now 1-25.
More details soon…— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) November 17, 2020
re: #138 makeitstop
Makes sense. The only way for someone to be a Trump supporter is to be mentally and/or morally defective.
Acting-Defense Secretary Christopher Miller right now announcing withdrawing troops from Afghanistan and Iraq.
His Senate-confirmed predecessor had told the WH doing so right now would be a mistake, and that he, CentCom & Afghanistan commanders were unanimous in that assessment— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 17, 2020
re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
When your state governor isn’t doing enough to kill people:
Report: South Dakota driver in triple fatal crash was going 147 mph (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
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i can understand why Ricketts doesnt want to use government power to enforce speed limits. Doing so would breed ‘resistance. ‘
& re: #19 Eventual Carrion
ha!
“[Jenna Ellis and Jason Miller] both threatened to call the president to settle who he wanted to be in charge, sources said.”
This is like a movie a splitting couple decides who keeps a dog by each calling the dog and seeing whom it goes to.— Elizabeth Picciuto 🦃🍠🥧 (@epicciuto) November 17, 2020
re: #144 b.d. (We Won!)
ha!
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re: #121 Hecuba’s daughter
That I don’t believe — but a preference for young teens or pre-teens seems quite likely.
I was going with the Norman Bates dressed as Mother routine…
Lindsey is such a phony pissant. 🙄 https://t.co/PNiySYKnX5
— BlackWomenViews Media (@blackwomenviews) November 17, 2020
It’s time to start calling baseless conspiracies what they are: libelous attacks on the 500,000+ heroic poll workers & election administrators in every corner of the U.S. who pulled off a successful election amid record-shattering turnout and a global pandemic.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 17, 2020
re: #142 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Who would have standing to sue and stop an acting secretary from causing it?
re: #152 Belafon
Who would have standing to sue and stop an acting secretary from causing it?
Probably nobody.
The ‘remedy’ for a President who bungles foreign wars etc. is supposed to be impeachment and removal from office.
re: #151 Patricia Kayden
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It’s time to start calling baseless conspiracies what they are: libelous attacks on the 500,000+ heroic poll workers & election administrators in every corner of the U.S. who pulled off a successful election amid record-shattering turnout and a global pandemic.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 17, 2020
implied but should be stated outright: literally, at great risk to their lives
We’re probably a few minutes away from the court dragging Rudy after an interlude that interrupted the state’s rebuttal of Trump’s insanities courtesy of Rudy ignoring the court filings and spewing conspiracy crap during his allotted time.
Just idly curious if The Times is going to run a piece with a headline “I guess it wasn’t density after all” or if we’re just sweeping months of terrible analysis under the rug. That drumbeat set the stage for non-metro areas assuming this wouldn’t happen. https://t.co/dN6V40Tae1
— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) November 17, 2020
Guess where the covid is hitting the US hardest. It’s rural areas. Areas where there’s the least capacity for ICUs and beds and doctors.
It’s where the GOP held the line on claiming it was a hoax and masking was least likely to be required or complied with.
They’d fuck up a wet dream.
In other news, it appears @RudyGiuliani committed perjury in his pro hac vice petition to appear in MDPA today.
He is suspended from the DC Bar for non payment of dues. pic.twitter.com/tm1DWv93wY— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) November 17, 2020
Pete Ricketts responded to this criticism by saying that sometimes he takes his mask off for pictures “at the request of the other person.” But the video from this night doesn’t show him wearing a mask at all. https://t.co/UmorSL1Tzk
It just is what it is. https://t.co/IEVfOqOGoh— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) November 17, 2020
It Tweets again from its lair!
I have reversed the ridiculous decision to cancel Wreaths Across America at Arlington National Cemetery. It will now go on!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 17, 2020
Another nurse baselessly attacks Governor Ricketts warns of the horrors she’s seeing in Omaha (video, 1:53)
“I have seen so many emergent intubations. I’ve seen people more sick than I’ve ever seen in my life.” COVID ICU nurse Lacie Gooch hopes you will listen. @UNMC_ID @unmc @Prof_Lowe @DanielWJohnson9 @KellyCawcuttMD @JamesLawler11 pic.twitter.com/Sclrap3vlQ
— Nebraska Medicine (@NebraskaMed) November 17, 2020
Context: Nebraska Medicine is one of the best-prepared places in the entire US for a new disease. They have *amazing* people & facilities. They knew the risks. They trained. They had contingencies on top of contingencies.
If someone there is sounding this alarm? It. Is. Bad. https://t.co/bhiOzT7vhM— Ed Yong (@edyong209) November 17, 2020
re: #156 lawhawk
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Guess where the covid is hitting the US hardest. It’s rural areas. Areas where there’s the least capacity for ICUs and beds and doctors.
It’s where the GOP held the line on claiming it was a hoax and masking was least likely to be required or complied with.
Yep, and sadly there’s probably more than a few remote hospitals in those areas, where the 2nd patient needing a ventilator is out of luck.
re: #161 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Until it’s their ass in the hospital, they don’t care. That’s the GOP mindset. Only their abortion is sacred, only their tax bracket matters, etc.. Ask Chris Christie about that, since Herman Cain isn’t available for comment.
They’ve made it abundantly clear: They don’t care. The POTUS hasn’t spoken about in how long, other than to have his minions give him an attaboy for how well he’s handled it? Yeah.
And that’s it. Judy Shelton didn’t have the votes, and will not be confirmed as a Federal Reserve governor.
— Neil Irwin (@Neil_Irwin) November 17, 2020
Stick a fork in the loon.
Judge:
“We had the telephone lines go down for reasons that I don’t understand.”
“My apologies, Mr. Donovan.”
He invites the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s counsel to pick up his arguments where he left off.— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
re: #165 ericblair
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Stick a fork in the loon.
Who was pushing for her appointment and why?
re: #165 ericblair
Stick a fork in the loon.
Not yet. Mitch McConnell voted against his own nomination so he could withdraw it and consider it at a later date.
That said, they’re running out of time. Keeping this dingbat off the Federal Reserve hinges on those two special elections in Georgia.
Party of Death. https://t.co/WWBCGn2i6u
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) November 14, 2020
re: #167 calochortus
Who was pushing for her appointment and why?
Trump is pushing her. McConnell backed him.
hello america this is what happened with canadian thanksgiving pic.twitter.com/iZd1Bok4j0
— patrick (@patwmurray) November 15, 2020
Another way to think about these lags is that some of the people who are infected on Thanksgiving will enter the hospital in the middle of December, and the morgue around Christmas. pic.twitter.com/S9kqHW981l
— Ed Yong (@edyong209) November 15, 2020
re: #170 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Trump is pushing her. McConnell backed him.
Well yes, Trump. But he wouldn’t know fiscal policy from his ass, so I’m wondering where he got her name.
Has Rudy whipped out the metal balls and talked about the geometric logic involving the strawberries yet?
So this break wasn’t that bad, as another good decision had time to arrive.
Mark Aronchick, another lawyer for PA, is arguing now, and is citing the PA Supreme Court ruling that just came down and saying that knocks out what Giuliani was trying to argue re: observer access being a problem (notwithstanding the fact that the campaign removed those counts)
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) November 17, 2020
re: #173 🌹UOJB!
Has Rudy whipped out the metal balls and talked about the geometric logic involving the strawberries yet?
Shuddup about Rudy whipping anything out.
Sure, this sounds nuts to rational people, but make no mistake - it’s an absolutely mainstream right wing position to equate Democrats with Satan. It’s not just Pat Robertson. They hear this kind of bad craziness every single day from right wing media. https://t.co/DQ0m1XotAb
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 17, 2020
In other news, water is falling from the sky. This seems abnormal. (But welcome.)
re: #174 Nyet
So this break wasn’t that bad, as another good decision had time to arrive.
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re: #176 Charles Johnson
Isn’t there a Bible text about God setting up authorities who must be respected? Funny how Evangelicals ignore that text when Democrats win.
re: #126 lawhawk
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re: #176 Charles Johnson
With all those donations, you’d think they could afford a better armature to hold up Robertson’s dangling clay head when he’s on camera.
re: #180 Patricia Kayden
Isn’t there a Bible text about God setting up authorities who must be respected? Funny how Evangelicals ignore that text when Democrats win.
“Render unto Caesar what is Caesars”
re: #183 Eclectic Cyborg
“Render unto Caesar what is Caesars”
There’s a specific verse where it says that governments are set up by God.
re: #172 calochortus
Well yes, Trump. But he wouldn’t know fiscal policy from his ass, so I’m wondering where he got her name.
Initially, her appeal was (from February):
Powell has steadfastly ignored Trump’s taunts. But his term atop the central bank expires in 2022, and Fed watchers believe the president if reelected could look to tap Shelton to replace him.
Her appeal for Trump is no mystery. It is “clear that Shelton wants to politicize the Fed, because she explicitly said she wants to,” Post columnist Catherine Rampell writes. “In an op-ed last fall, she argued that the Fed should ‘pursue a more coordinated relationship’ with the White House.” As one of 12 voting members of the Federal Open Market Committee that sets the benchmark interest rate, Shelton would have limited leverage to pull central bank policy toward Trump’s preferred approach; but as chair, she could exert considerably more influence.
PragerU made a video with a literal Holocaust denier. https://t.co/FzNJjjXetC
— Gravel Institute (@GravelInstitute) November 17, 2020
re: #138 makeitstop
Good for them. I hope he ends up with a bunch of scrubs.
Kentucky sees ‘deadliest day’ yet in pandemic with 33 more COVID-19 deaths https://t.co/kXZXG0BZPd via @courierjournal
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) November 17, 2020
re: #186 DodgerFan1988
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Gov Beshear: Kentucky definitely will announce new COVID restrictions on Wednesday, no maybe about it. “We’re at war and there are some right now who want to surrender and just accept these types of fatalities.” ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) November 17, 2020
re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth
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COVID-19 death toll in Kentucky nursing homes, which passed 1,000 just at the end of last week, is now nearing 1,100. ^JC pic.twitter.com/eCXOfxRXmp
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) November 17, 2020
re: #172 calochortus
Well yes, Trump. But he wouldn’t know fiscal policy from his ass, so I’m wondering where he got her name.
She was his fiscal advisor to his 2016 campaign.
She has been a fixture in conservative politics for a long time … she is sixty-six years old.
In 2009 she wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal arguing for a return to the gold standard.
Capitalism Needs a Sound-Money Foundation (Feb. 12, 2009)
She also opposed FDIC, which aligns with both libertarians and conservatives.
She and Trump both attacked Obama arguing he should get rid of Jerome Powell and eliminate the Fed’s interest rates. At the same time as that was happening, she was staying in Trump’s hotel in Washington, DC.
Mom? pic.twitter.com/1J9UCtAn5r
— Gritty (@GrittyNHL) November 17, 2020
re: #185 BeachDem
Initially, her appeal was (from February):
Powell has steadfastly ignored Trump’s taunts. But his term atop the central bank expires in 2022, and Fed watchers believe the president if reelected could look to tap Shelton to replace him.
Her appeal for Trump is no mystery. It is “clear that Shelton wants to politicize the Fed, because she explicitly said she wants to,” Post columnist Catherine Rampell writes. “In an op-ed last fall, she argued that the Fed should ‘pursue a more coordinated relationship’ with the White House.” As one of 12 voting members of the Federal Open Market Committee that sets the benchmark interest rate, Shelton would have limited leverage to pull central bank policy toward Trump’s preferred approach; but as chair, she could exert considerably more influence.
OK. Thanks.
re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
She was his fiscal advisor to his 2016 campaign.
She has been a fixture in conservative politics for a long time … she is sixty-six years old.
In 2009 she wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal arguing for a return to the gold standard.
Capitalism Needs a Sound-Money Foundation (Feb. 12, 2009)
She also opposed FDIC, which aligns with both libertarians and conservatives.
She and Trump both attacked Obama arguing he should get rid of Jerome Powell and eliminate the Fed’s interest rates. At the same time as that was happening, she was staying in Trump’s hotel in Washington, DC.
So, a sycophant. Great.
re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In 2009 she wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal arguing for a return to the gold standard.
This is the equivalent of rejecting germ theory of disease and expecting to be a doctor.
She would sound less crazy if she said COVID was caused by demons. She should be no where near a bank.
re: #162 lizardofid
Yep, and sadly there’s probably more than a few remote hospitals in those areas, where the 2nd patient needing a ventilator is out of luck.
it’s not like they couldnt have learned from watching NY, NJ etc example 6+ months ago,
let alone numerous other countries
once again, they handed you the playbook and you ignored it
Aronchick notes that the number of votes at issue in the amended complaint would have no bearing on the contest.
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
re: #165 ericblair
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But again — too close a vote. It should have been at least 10-90 against her. And technically it’s not a final vote but a procedural vote but it probably does her in. The GOP is such a despicable organization.
re: #193 IngisKahn
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— Gritty (@GrittyNHL) November 17, 2020
re: #187 plansbandc
Good for them. I hope he ends up with a bunch of scrubs.
Yeah, but Harden’s trying to make his way to Brooklyn.
As a Knicks fan, I find this to be a revoltin’ development.
re: #197 dangerman
it’s not like they couldnt have learned from watching NY, NJ etc example 6+ months ago,
let alone numerous other countriesonce again, they handed you the playbook and you ignored it
They ignored it because their moral superiority and noble rural lifestyle meant Covid was a disease of the degenerate city dwellers.
I hope a recording of this soon appears online (probably a so-called illegal one, but who cares).
re: #171 Belafon
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My area of Colorado, Jefferson County, was going back to full remote learning for K-5 starting 11/30 through at least the end of the calendar year. I had been eye balling the week after Thanksgiving as problematic for schools for a bit because of what happened in Canada (not an original idea, I know). Everyone already had the week of Thanksgiving off, but I was hoping they would move that to the week after. Going full remote the Monday after Thanksgiving is the next best thing—just wish it didn’t extend through all of December (at least). My 6 year old will go to remote learning support at a nearby rec center. They are doing a good job thus far of limiting numbers, keeping things clean, etc. I just hope it continues.
lololol
Aronchick compares the Rudy Giuliani of today to the Jill Stein of 2016.
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
re: #202 calochortus
They ignored it because their moral superiority and noble rural lifestyle meant Covid was a disease of the degenerate city dwellers.
yup
covid doesnt know an urb from a suburb, from an exurb from a herb
and doesnt care
it goes where it wants
Trump re-loses the 2020 Election every single day he doesn’t concede. How embarrazzing 😂😂 #BidenHarris https://t.co/wJMi1MiODs pic.twitter.com/lwt7yQBXJM
— BlackWomenViews Media (@blackwomenviews) November 17, 2020
For the past half-hour, attorney Mark Aronchick – representing PA counties being sued by Trump – has loudly torn into @RudyGiuliani, saying he is ignorant of the law, living in “some fantasy world” and pushing wild allegations that are “disgraceful in an American courtroom.”
— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) November 17, 2020
I hope they end up moving for sanctions.
If we want the Biden administration to hold Trump and his cronies accountable for their crimes we’re going to have apply maximum pressure, because there’s going to be a huge push for him to “move on” and let these monsters skate away.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 17, 2020
re: #208 makeitstop
Sanctions only happen in the movies or cases nobody gives a shit about. But I hope this is a unicorn.
re: #201 makeitstop
Yeah, looks like they’re trying to build a super team.
Oh man. I’m so sorry about your Knicks condition. That’s a hard road.
They were my first fave NBA team. Then I went to the Celtics.
I loved my ABA Rockets who became the Nuggets when they joined the NBA, and they’ve been my team (mostly) since.
Excellent! https://t.co/MFlvL8SEvB
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 17, 2020
re: #202 calochortus
They ignored it because their moral superiority and noble rural lifestyle meant Covid was a disease of the degenerate city dwellers.
It was a Blue State disease.
re: #206 dangerman
yup
covid doesnt know an urb from a suburb, from an exurb from a herb
and doesnt care
it goes where it wants
Yeah, I had to gently explain to someone recently in an online group I belong to, how it is that Covid came to rural W. VA even though no one goes to the places where they have big outbreaks.
re: #217 calochortus
Yeah, I had to gently explain to someone recently in an online group I belong to, how it is that Covid came to rural W. VA even though no one goes to the places where they have big outbreaks.
Like churches?
Parler missed a huge branding opportunity by not calling itself MeinSpace
— Brett Meiselas (@BMeiselas) November 17, 2020
“shhh, i’m thinking”
📸: Imgur user Srajo101 pic.twitter.com/yLc4xftpK1— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) November 17, 2020
I asked Gov. Beshear why he’s waiting 24 hours to announce new steps considering time is of the essence here, and he said he wants to talk first with people who will be impacted and legislative leaders so everybody will be on board.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) November 17, 2020
I agree with pretty much every word of this. https://t.co/uaIviGpl0U
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 17, 2020
re: #219 DodgerFan1988
Parler missed a huge branding opportunity by not calling itself MeinSpace
Living Space
After warning of “uncontrolled spread” of the coronavirus last week, the Navajo Nation entered a lockdown Monday in an effort to stop infections.
The lockdown will last at least three weeks. https://t.co/mUXTmCeund— NPR (@NPR) November 17, 2020
re: #218 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Like churches?
More like no one is commuting to NYC, so how did it get here? Never mind that some people go from NYC to the suburbs and then people from the suburbs go to the exurbs, and someone decides to go home to W. VA to visit family or go fishing. There was no sense that people are traveling all the time and spreading it around. The fact that it had moved slowly to outlying areas was totally lost on this woman.
re: #222 Charles Johnson
Attention Liberals: People Know More Than Politicians.
This is one of those pearls of Wisdom that only apply in one direction.
Like deficits or states’ rights…
Let’s rephrase it to what it means “White people know more than non-GOP politicians”
‘It’s just going to get harder and harder for the Democrats to take majority control of the Senate, unless the system is unrigged’ — Here’s how the GOP entrenched minority rule in America pic.twitter.com/5AaHNA3rS4
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) November 17, 2020
re: #225 calochortus
More like no one is commuting to NYC, so how did it get here? Never mind that some people go from NYC to the suburbs and then people from the suburbs go to the exurbs, and someone decides to go home to W. VA to visit family or go fishing. There was no sense that people are traveling all the time and spreading it around. The fact that it had moved slowly to outlying areas was totally lost on this woman.
It came from West Virginians who work in Ohio.
Seriously.
re: #211 plansbandc
Yeah, looks like they’re trying to build a super team.
Oh man. I’m so sorry about your Knicks condition. That’s a hard road.
They were my first fave NBA team. Then I went to the Celtics.
I loved my ABA Rockets who became the Nuggets when they joined the NBA, and they’ve been my team (mostly) since.
I’m optimistic about NYK getting marginally better this year. New coaching staff, a couple of nice picks tomorrow night, the youngs maybe taking another step. Maybe a surprise left-field trade might help.
They’ll be good again one of these days. Hopefully I’ll live long enough to see it. :)
THIS SAYS IT ALL! https://t.co/zZSspsJPe9
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 17, 2020
What the fuck do Canadian election protocols have to do with…anything?
re: #225 calochortus
More like no one is commuting to NYC, so how did it get here? Never mind that some people go from NYC to the suburbs and then people from the suburbs go to the exurbs, and someone decides to go home to W. VA to visit family or go fishing. There was no sense that people are traveling all the time and spreading it around. The fact that it had moved slowly to outlying areas was totally lost on this woman.
The late arrival of covid19 in rural America and the devastation once it got there were always the easiest predictions of all to make in this mess.
re: #227 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #228 Backwoods_Sleuth
It came from West Virginians who work in Ohio.
Seriously.
Probably, but the principle is the same, it’s not a direct contact, it’s more of a relay from one area to the next.
In other news, it appears @RudyGiuliani committed perjury in his pro hac vice petition to appear in MDPA today.
He is suspended from the DC Bar for non payment of dues. pic.twitter.com/tm1DWv93wY— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) November 17, 2020
re: #184 Belafon
There’s a specific verse where it says that governments are set up by God.
Romans 13 v1,2
1 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.
This section of Romans serves as a negation of every right-wing loony bird assertion that government is bad bad evil Satan Demoncrap Socialist commie hellspawn. Of course the context in this part of Romans serves as an easy-out argument to avoid harassment from local Roman authorities, or was written into the New Testament by Roman bishops on order to serve the then new Holy Roman Empire. In any case, this is clearly a very problematic series of verses for modern American theocrats. Very problematic.
This is just fucking great.
Just moments after the Acting Defense Secretary announced US troop withdrawals, 4 rockets were fired at the US Embassy in Baghdad. US officials were ordered to shelters. Many here at the Pentagon warned troop withdrawals could tempt the Shia militias to test US resolve.
— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) November 17, 2020
Yeah I am thankful to not be dead.
Charlie Kirk: “The Left has always hated Thanksgiving” and “now they’re using the virus as an excuse for you not to be thankful” pic.twitter.com/YtvKyICIy5
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) November 17, 2020
re: #233 calochortus
Probably, but the principle is the same, it’s not a direct contact, it’s more of a relay from one area to the next.
West Virginians who work in Ohio brought it home and then they shared it at church.
First case in my eastern Kentucky county was a young man who worked in Ohio. He gave it to his friends and family before he got tested.
The nursing home outbreak in my county started with one resident who got it from a hospital employee and within a couple of weeks it spread like wildfire and people started dying on a daily basis.
re: #233 calochortus
Probably, but the principle is the same, it’s not a direct contact, it’s more of a relay from one area to the next.
the virus travels from (human) host to host and knows no borders
re: #230 Eclectic Cyborg
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What the fuck do Canadian election protocols have to do with…anything?
Elections Canada had to put that out because the right wing Canadians are going all apeshit about Dominion voting systems. Fucking rebel media loons, one of who’s hosting for Alex Jones today.
Centre County’s count was live-streamed on the web, she notes.
The complaint points to an unidentified voter receiving a provisional ballot.
“The plaintiff’s campaign team was present the entire time… and raised no objections to the process.”— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
re: #238 The Pie Overlord!
Charlie looks like he was ridden hard and put away wet…
re: #238 The Pie Overlord!
Charlie Kirk: “The Left has always hated Thanksgiving” and “now they’re using the virus as an excuse for you not to be thankful”
Entering another person’s home and spreading disease pretty much describes what the First Thanksgiving was about…
it sure is a puzzlement, Marsha…
Twitter has not censored Joe Biden once.
It has censored @realDonaldTrump more than 65 times.
https://t.co/D8fmrqcrJk— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) October 28, 2020
re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth
it sure is a puzzlement, Marsha…
Trump has not been censored, he has simply had clarifying comments added to his content.
Why the hell not?
COVID-19 can invade men’s testicles.
That is what researchers at University of Miami discovered.
They’re studying whether COVID causes fertility issues and if it is sexually transmitted.
Doctors tested the testicles of men who died from COVID and found the virus.
(thread 1/5) pic.twitter.com/imV0N6jCVX— Brian Entin (@BrianEntin) November 13, 2020
ok, this is rich
The DNC’s lawyer Uzoma Nkwonta, from Perkins Coie, is up.
He reiterates a point made earlier by the counties that Trump’s co-plaintiffs sued the wrong counties.
They’re from Trump-backing Fayette and Lancaster Counties.
They sued seven blue counties, alleging vote denial.— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
re: #243 Eric The Fruit Bat
Charlie looks like he was ridden hard and put away wet…
Charlie Kirk looks like he’s made out of mashed potatoes. https://t.co/UsZp097j4h
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) November 17, 2020
The “facts don’t care about your feelings” crowd fled this platform in a rage as soon as they started being fact checked.
— Jennifer Wright (@JenAshleyWright) November 17, 2020
re: #238 The Pie Overlord!
Yeah I am thankful to not be dead.
Wait, I thought we were making war on Christmas? Are we opening a two-front war against Thanksgiving Day as well?
Since when do liberals hate to get together with family (mine excepted) and pig out on way too big a meal for their own good?
re: #247 Teukka
So, soon we will have a generation who are half-virus…
Charlie Kirk: “The Left has always hated Thanksgiving” and “now they’re using the virus as an excuse for you not to be thankful” pic.twitter.com/YtvKyICIy5
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) November 17, 2020
Man, we’re already pouring resources into the War on Christmas, now we’ve got a new front to deal with on Thanksgiving. Who’s going to pay for all this??
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re: #243 Eric The Fruit Bat
Charlie looks like he was ridden hard and put away wet…
You made me throw up in my mouth.
re: #251 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Beat me to it by thaaaat much. :P
re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth
it sure is a puzzlement, Marsha…
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She’s so close to getting it.
So close.
Come on Marsha.
Nevermind, she’s too stupid to figure it out. https://t.co/GJ3c5bin9D— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) November 17, 2020
re: #247 Teukka
Just imagine how seriously covid19 would have been taken as a public health hazard if impotence in men was a common result of getting infected.
re: #257 EPR-radar
Just imagine how seriously covid19 would have been taken as a public health hazard if impotence in men was a common result of getting infected.
Or if it made mens balls shrivel up…
Nuremberg sentenced only Nazis. No anti-Nazis. Unfair.
re: #230 Eclectic Cyborg
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Perhaps Elections Canada should have been more aware of how Trump and company might use the tweet for their own purposes, but Elections Canada was certainly not saying “we of Elections Canada think Dominion does a lot of fraud.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 17, 2020
What if liberals just started throwing right wing bullshit back at them? For example:
The right hates Thanksgiving and they’ve always wanted to abolish it.
The right is waging a War on Christmas. They want to make it impossible for people to say “Merry Christmas.”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 17, 2020
Then when they say, you’re crazy, where’s your proof, we just make up some off the wall rationalization and link to a sketchy website, and then laugh at their attempts to prove otherwise.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 17, 2020
I wasn’t going to type, “I hope everyone realizes I’m not seriously suggesting this,” but then I remembered this is Twitter so I’d better say it outright.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 17, 2020
Also worth mentioning that Canada has just a little over 1/10th of the population of the U.S. i.e. a shit ton fewer votes to count.
re: #258 Teukka
Or if it made mens balls shrivel up…
Yeah, if it was like mumps in adult men except that the balls turn black and drop off at the end, it would have been taken more seriously than ebola.
re: #230 Eclectic Cyborg
Even Canadians were in on the stealing of the election from Trump!! Outrageous!!
The outrage of Republicans NOW, after fighting tooth and nail against any regulation of Internet Service Providers, shouting about how Dem warnings of limited service, online tracking, and sale of private info would be corrected by “the free market” though.
Fucking hilarious. pic.twitter.com/UoOFeWKExB— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) November 17, 2020
re: #260 Backwoods_Sleuth
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iow canada, actually having to explain to some canadians, that no, you have never voted using anything other than pencil and paper.
you have never voted using machines. ever.
This…does not say anything.
Conspiracy theories about Dominion, fomented by Trump, had spread to Canada, where people were like “DOMINION RIGS CANADIAN ELECTIONS TOO!!,” so this tweet explained Canada’s federal elections not only don’t use Dominion but don’t use any machines. pic.twitter.com/ZgYx9rwhE0— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 17, 2020
re: #263 EPR-radar
Yeah, if it was like mumps in adult men except that the balls turn black and drop off at the end, it would have been taken more seriously than ebola.
My-daughter-the-pediatrician says that when talking to parents about vaccines, the conversation sometimes goes along the lines of:
Dr.: Measles could kill your son.
Parent: Well, we’ll think about it.
Dr.: Mumps could make your son sterile.
Parent: OMG! Here, vaccinate him immediately!
re: #254 The Pie Overlord!
re: #243 Eric The Fruit Bat
Charlie looks like he was ridden hard and put away wet…
You made me throw up in my mouth.
Sorry, that wasn’t my intent. Perhaps the SARS-CoV2 lockdown may be a cause for his scrambled hair…
Judge Brann gets to his questions:
“You’re asking this court to invalidate 6.8 million votes… Can you tell me how this result can possibly be justified?”— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
Judge is up.
Judge Brann gets to his questions:
“You’re asking this court to invalidate 6.8 million votes… Can you tell me how this result can possibly be justified?”— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
re: #238 The Pie Overlord!
Yeah I am thankful to not be dead.
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re: #265 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s why I never signed up for Facebook on any regular basis, and my Twitter account is bereft of tweets.
I refuse to become someone’s product.
Giuliani requests a short recess so he can tuck in his shirt. https://t.co/vmCC9fe5pN
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 17, 2020
Rudy appears to be getting his ass handed to him.
I didn’t realize this was “Not Recognizing Sarcasm Day” on Twitter.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 17, 2020
re: #257 EPR-radar
Just imagine how seriously covid19 would have been taken as a public health hazard if impotence in WHITE men was a common result of getting infected.
ftfy
re: #262 Eclectic Cyborg
Also worth mentioning that Canada has just a little over 1/10th of the population of the U.S. i.e. a shit ton fewer votes to count.
Ten times as many people here also means we can have ten times as many people to count votes.
Like a well oiled machine.
Judge Brann:
In the amended complaint, you repeatedly cite the dangers from voter fraud.
But neither count of your complaint seeks relief for voter fraud.
“So it’s correct to say you’re not alleging fraud in your amended complaint.”
Giuliani says no, he is alleging that.— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
Are there any highly placed Democratic politicians who’ve come down with COVID? Seems like it’s all Republicans, which makes perfect sense because they’re such reckless anti-rational assholes.
Judge Brann turns to the “new theory” of standing.
“In the amended complaint, you said your clients tried to vote in Lancaster and Fayette County.”
“So why didn’t you just sue the counties that are responsible for your clients’ injuries?”— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
I entirely hope they put Jenna Ellis in charge.
She is a gaping maw of stupid. A vast chasm of ignorance so deep, a rock thrown from its edges makes no sound. She’s an idiot. https://t.co/S4EyQXLi7b— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) November 17, 2020
Said Ass is now being lifted into a wheelbarrow so Rudy can leave.
Judge Brann turns to the “new theory” of standing.
“In the amended complaint, you said your clients tried to vote in Lancaster and Fayette County.”
“So why didn’t you just sue the counties that are responsible for your clients’ injuries?”— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
nbc news has a story about biden pardoning trump
i am totally against it / yes he doesnt deserve it
- and as we know, it wouldnt solve all (or most) of his legal problems which exist at state level
- and to biden’s benefit, it wouldnt be his admin and the DOJ investigating
here’s the one big plus:
As opposed to Ford/Nixon, Biden could make it enumerated and specific, thus forcing Trump, if he wanted to accept, into an admission of guilt.
fwiw
re: #177 calochortus
In other news, water is falling from the sky. This seems abnormal. (But welcome.)
Is God crying again?
Rudy working on the borat sequel. https://t.co/VHkhuxALWo
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) November 17, 2020
re: #262 Eclectic Cyborg
Also worth mentioning that Canada has just a little over 1/10th of the population of the U.S. i.e. a shit ton fewer votes to count.
Paper ballots are the only way to be sure. You cannot trust any voting system with only an electronic record.
re: #280 Charles Johnson
Are there any highly placed Democratic politicians who’ve come down with COVID? Seems like it’s all Republicans, which makes perfect sense because they’re such reckless anti-rational assholes.
I seem to recall a Democratic Governor may caught it or at least quarantined recently but I’m not 100% sure of that.
re: #284 dangerman
Biden pardoning Trump would be the single stupidest thing the Democrats have done since they were mostly on the wrong side of the civil war.
re: #284 dangerman
nbc news has a story about biden pardoning trump
i am totally against it / yes he doesnt deserve it
- and as we know, it wouldnt solve all (or most) of his legal problems which exist at state level
- and to biden’s benefit, it wouldnt be his admin and the DOJ investigatinghere’s the one big plus:
As opposed to Ford/Nixon, Biden could make it enumerated and specific, thus forcing Trump, if he wanted to accept, into an admission of guilt.
fwiw
Could an admission of guilt in a federal pardon be used as evidence in state charges? If that’s not the case, I’d very much be against one…
re: #288 Eclectic Cyborg
I seem to recall a Democratic Governor may caught it or at least quarantined recently but I’m not 100% sure of that.
That’s my impression as well, but everything is such a blur these days.
Even dead people hate you. Q.E.D. https://t.co/1W5cpdQiK0
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) November 17, 2020
re: #289 EPR-radar
Biden pardoning Trump would be the single stupidest thing the Democrats have done since they were mostly on the wrong side of the civil war.
im not disagreeing
We here in California use paper ballots now. I think we did a short experiment with electronic voting, but in the past few elections I remember paper ballots. And of course this year all registered Californians got a paper ballot in the mail.
And guess what - it works just fine.
re: #291 aatharuv
Could an admission of guilt in a federal pardon be used as evidence in state charges? If that’s not the case, I’d very much be against one…
There is nothing worth considering in a Biden pardon of Trump.
It would piss away millions of votes for Democrats in the future to gain precisely zero future votes from centrists/Republicans.
re: #292 EPR-radar
That’s my impression as well, but everything is such a blur these days.
I was right. Steve Sisolak, Governor of Nevada tested positive on 11/13.
87-year-old Sen. Grassley, 3rd in the US presidential line of succession as the president pro tempore of the US Senate, announces he has tested positive for coronavirus.
— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) November 17, 2020
re: #297 Eclectic Cyborg
I was right. Steve Sisolak, Governor of Nevada tested positive on 11/13.
Feels like 3 months ago instead of last Friday.
re: #296 EPR-radar
That is the problem.
Whatever legal tactical value there would be in a carefully crafted pardon would be outweighed by the enormous political cost that will have to be paid.
Just so you know, quite a lot on the European left prefer Trump to Biden. An example, Sahra Wagenknecht:
re: #298 The Pie Overlord!
Yikes. That could spell the end for Grassley.
re: #284 dangerman
well… it IS NBC news, NBC is the network that floated Trump up, and I’m guessing that this is just idle speculation trying to generate click bait… until Joe or Kamala says it, I’ll be pretty fucking dubious…
re: #288 Eclectic Cyborg
I seem to recall a Democratic Governor may caught it or at least quarantined recently but I’m not 100% sure of that.
Gov Beshear
re: #295 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
We here in California use paper ballots now. I think we did a short experiment with electronic voting, but in the past few elections I remember paper ballots. And of course this year all registered Californians got a paper ballot in the mail.
And guess what - it works just fine.
It depends on the county for in person voting. In Alameda County (SF Bay Area East Bay), at least since 2016, I’ve only seen paper ballots. In San Mateo County (SF Bay Area right south of SF), there are electronic ballots with a paper trail.
re: #306 Backwoods_Sleuth
Gov Beshear
Never tested positive as far as I know, but did have to quarantine after a few of his security people did test positive.
re: #280 Charles Johnson
Are there any highly placed Democratic politicians who’ve come down with COVID? Seems like it’s all Republicans, which makes perfect sense because they’re such reckless anti-rational assholes.
Not that I’m aware of, which is why Republicans in state and federal government are desperately trying to give it to them. In Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, when the GOP became aware of cases within their caucuses, they did not notify the Democrats.
re: #284 dangerman
nbc news has a story about biden pardoning trump
i am totally against it / yes he doesnt deserve it
- and as we know, it wouldnt solve all (or most) of his legal problems which exist at state level
- and to biden’s benefit, it wouldnt be his admin and the DOJ investigatinghere’s the one big plus:
As opposed to Ford/Nixon, Biden could make it enumerated and specific, thus forcing Trump, if he wanted to accept, into an admission of guilt.
fwiw
Not a story, an opinion. Won’t happen because he will pardon himself.
The U.S. is at 140 000+ new cases for the day…and Texas hasn’t reported yet.
re: #307 aatharuv
It depends on the county for in person voting. In Alameda County (SF Bay Area East Bay), at least since 2016, I’ve only seen paper ballots. In San Mateo County (SF Bay Area right south of SF), there are electronic ballots with a paper trail.
True, but we have been primarily vote by mail since 2018 (everyone gets a mail-in ballot, but you can go in to a voting center if you want.) So, mostly paper ballots.
re: #289 EPR-radar
Biden pardoning Trump would be the single stupidest thing the Democrats have done since they were mostly on the wrong side of the civil war.
We cannot let a Mafia criminal cabal be allowed to continuously walk away from the repercussions of their actions. The Republican cult has actively damaged our nation for more than 50 years now enriching themselves at the direct expense of the large majority population of this country.
Pardons for Trump and his criminal gang will only serve to further Republican efforts to destroy what little remains of bipartisanship and national cooperation. We are teetering on the edge of a failed state status, and few seem ready to believe it. Republican leadership wants a filed state. Pardons for them will only serve to hasten it.
re: #297 Eclectic Cyborg
I was right. Steve Sisolak, Governor of Nevada tested positive on 11/13.
Governor Ricketts of Nebraska and his wife are in quarantine after holding a watch party in their home for the election.
re: #301 Nyet
The person in that long review of a German presentation seems to be towing the old line that America-the-aggressor is going to happen regardless of political party in the White House. I suppose that is true.
A radical rethinking of American foreign policy is not on the table with a Biden administration, or any other administration that could be elected in this country.
For Rep. Lewis—and every American voter—let’s get it done.
Georgians, please request your ballots today for the Senate runoff election. Then ask your friends and family to do the same. https://t.co/8NEZFiSrJ5 https://t.co/yX8MRyfk1b— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 17, 2020
re: #298 The Pie Overlord!
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Grassley comes from northwest Iowa. Steve King territory. Chosen (white) people of God.
Same area that is under an explosion of Covid cases.
re: #280 Charles Johnson
Are there any highly placed Democratic politicians who’ve come down with COVID? Seems like it’s all Republicans, which makes perfect sense because they’re such reckless anti-rational assholes.
Governor Walz was exposed, but I don’t think he ever tested positive.
re: #238 The Pie Overlord!
Yeah I am thankful to not be dead.
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re: #244 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Entering another person’s home and spreading disease pretty much describes what the First Thanksgiving was about…
TRADITION!
WTF is trending on Twitter.
Wtf Twitter, all we wanted was a damn editing option. Not this Instagram story BS. Damn it, Twitter.
— Nunya (@YeahThisIsHess) November 17, 2020
re: #296 EPR-radar
There is nothing worth considering in a Biden pardon of Trump.
It would piss away millions of votes for Democrats in the future to gain precisely zero future votes from centrists/Republicans.
Plus he doesn’t fucking deserve one
It’s amazing the degree to which the White House has completely checked out. They just don’t seem to care anymore. One of the biggest failures I have ever seen. https://t.co/xe707tmNUw
— Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) November 17, 2020
Judge Brann asks whether the Trump campaign is raising any other theories of standing.
Giuliani recites his previously-cited theory of standing.— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
He is unable to, he has to lie down even to tuck his shirt in.
re: #298 The Pie Overlord!
If only someone would have told him to wear a mask and not be around maskless idiots…
re: #323 Jebediah, RBG
I think it will be a party of one (Biden) that thinks this is a good idea. If Biden listens to other people, he can always say “the people have spoken” or something similar that takes the heat off him.
To let this go doesn’t teach them anything, it only shows how far they can go and get away with it. They have, and look where we are now. Think of how bad it will be if they all get off scot free.
Just saw a quick presser McConnell gave on @CNN He does not look good. Pale skin, walks with a slight limp, and has trouble breathing.
— Andrew C Laufer, Esq (@lauferlaw) November 17, 2020
karl marx is trending on kpop twitter because someone said he’s more attractive than jin from bts pic.twitter.com/HfqKyabQW2
— levi ♡ (@comradeksoo) November 17, 2020
re: #328 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #328 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Let that creature croak. The world will be better off.
re: #328 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Hang tough Mitch! I rather not have to explain to the wingnuts that we didn’t kill you until after Thanksgiving.
re: #327 PrairieQueen
I think it will be a party of one (Biden) that thinks this is a good idea. If Biden listens to other people, he can always say “the people have spoken” or something similar that takes the heat off him.
To let this go doesn’t teach them anything, it only shows how far they can go and get away with it. They have, and look where we are now. Think of how bad it will be if they all get off scot free.
Exactly! There has to be a big, serious deterrent example made.
McConnell may have won reelection, but will he live to fill out his term? If the governor of KY is a Democrat, does KY law allow him to appoint a Democrat?
In Iowa, should Grassley succumb to Covid-19, the Iowa governor will have no problem finding an even more atavistic Republican replacement.
Yup.
Brann asks what standard of review he should apply in considering the merits of the case. Giuliani says it’s not strict scrutiny, which would be a high bar, because (and it’s very notable that the judge gets him to say this, clearly) “this is not a fraud case”
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) November 17, 2020
re: #334 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Nope. (spit)
McConnell said we could pack the courts, expand healthcare and generally make government help people over his dead body!
re: #334 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Nope. (spit)
Nah, it’s the same as “I’ll pray for you” (aka hillbilly fundy for “fuck you”).
re: #338 b.d. (We Won!)
McConnell said we could pack the courts, expand healthcare and generally make government help people over his dead body!
And we’re all out of gum. Oh, wait, that’s from a different movie.
re: #339 Nyet
Nah, it’s the same as “I’ll pray for you” (aka hillbilly fundy for “fuck you”).
I thought that was “Bless his/her/their/your heart”?
re: #339 Nyet
Nah, it’s the same as “I’ll pray for you” (aka hillbilly fundy for “fuck you”).
Bless his heart.
re: #288 Eclectic Cyborg
I seem to recall a Democratic Governor may caught it or at least quarantined recently but I’m not 100% sure of that.
As of 10/2
several Democratic mayors and governors have contracted the virus, including Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam…
NPR has been keeping tabs on specific members of Congress who have tested positive for the coronavirus or quarantined after being exposed to it. According to the list, three Republican senators and nine representatives have tested positive or were presumed to have the coronavirus since the pandemic began. That’s more than the Democrats, who have had no senators and six representatives test positive for the virus.
re: #328 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #346 Belafon
Imagine if all the GOP leadership died from the virus.
Imagine them being just sick enough that they can’t come in and vote against Democratic bills, but too alive for their power to transition to someone else….
The kraken was released and it was immediately harpooned in the face.
— Akira Takamedo (@AkiraTakamedo) November 17, 2020
Fuck
State certifications watch: Republicans block certification of Wayne County, Michigan results.https://t.co/yYbrT2G0IM
— Andrew Prokop (@awprokop) November 17, 2020
re: #351 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Fuck
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I don’t understand what this means. Do all those votes just not count, then?
re: #338 b.d. (We Won!)
McConnell said we could pack the courts, expand healthcare and generally make government help people over his dead body!
Make it so number 2
re: #351 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The small crack they need to drive a bigger wedge until everything is thrown out. These never should have grown legs. This alternate reality foisted upon voters by the GOP is unforgivable.
re: #336 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
McConnell may have won reelection, but will he live to fill out his term? If the governor of KY is a Democrat, does KY law allow him to appoint a Democrat?
In Iowa, should Grassley succumb to Covid-19, the Iowa governor will have no problem finding an even more atavistic Republican replacement.
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Current through 2020 Ky. Acts ch. 128
Section 63.200 - United States Senator - Vacancy filled by the GovernorThe Governor shall fill vacancies in the office of United States Senator by appointment until the next regular election at which members of the lower branch of Congress are elected, and shall, under the seal of the Commonwealth, certify the appointment to the President of the Senate of the United States. The certificate of appointment shall be countersigned by the Secretary of State.
KRS 63.200
Effective:October 1, 1942
Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effectiv eOctober 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1546-2.
nothing says Beshear can’t appoint a Dem, but I’d bet he’d find a Republican.
re: #352 thedopefishlives
I don’t understand what this means. Do all those votes just not count, then?
Not sure, but I think this just means delay as it moves up to the state level to be certified?
re: #324 Patricia Kayden
CA is one of the better looking states on that map, and has just officially hit the panic button statewide. I can’t even imagine what’s going to happen in states under GOP rule.
The Republican chair of the board, Monica Palmer, literally just said she would be open to certifying the vote in “communities other than Detroit” https://t.co/YQqRmIABOI
— Nancy Kaffer (@nancykaffer) November 17, 2020
re: #339 Nyet
Nah, it’s the same as “I’ll pray for you” (aka hillbilly fundy for “fuck you”).
“Bless your heart”
re: #358 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #360 thedopefishlives
Fuck your racist and partisan shit, Monica. We all know what you’re really saying.
What happens if the votes don’t get certified?
re: #324 Patricia Kayden
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Opinion | Michael Conway: If President-elect Joe Biden hopes to fulfill his pledge to unify the nation, he should do the unthinkable and pardon Donald Trump. -@NBCNewsTHINKhttps://t.co/c4amMCtAO3
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 17, 2020
Because we need a breath of fresh air.
What does @dollyparton do when she’s not delivering more than 100 million books to kids who need them? Helps finance a coronavirus vaccine. #wearenotworthy https://t.co/9ygFLKzcm3
— Cathleen Decker (@cathleendecker) November 17, 2020
NEW: Here’s my story on Rudy Giuliani’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day in federal court, where he was working to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvania voters because of an insane voter fraud conspiracy theory. More to come. https://t.co/aQFjd2GbKI
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) November 17, 2020
Good God
The rot is too deep to be removed. Trump electors in Nevada are suing to have Trump declared the winner even though he lost by more than 2 percentage points. https://t.co/pi7bFtOWEF
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 17, 2020
It goes to the State Board of Canvassers, short term delay, not an issue.
— Zimmy (@zimmy1998) November 17, 2020
re: #333 b.d. (We Won!)
Hang tough Mitch! I rather not have to explain to the wingnuts that we didn’t kill you until after Thanksgiving.
He needs to live long enough for the new Senate term to begin. That way Gov. Beshear’s appointment is for six years.
re: #365 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The decision hasn’t been issued as yet so I’m not sure how this will all shake out. Nothing would surprise me.
re: #364 BeachDem
Because we need a breath of fresh air.
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re: #366 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Good God
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Wait. How can a judge just declare the Trump the winner?
re: #371 Eclectic Cyborg
Wait. How can a judge just declare the Trump the winner?
My question exactly. I want to see what their complaint is. There’s no fucking way it is at all sane and rational.
re: #261 Charles Johnson
The right wing is willing to say out loud that this might be the last Thanksgiving for your loved ones.
Enough craziness for one afternoon. Time to go do something constructive.
Ouch
Judge Brann tells the plaintiffs that they need a new motion for an injunction since they have a such a different amended complaint.
“You should write this down. That’s what lawyers do. They write things down.”— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 17, 2020
re: #371 Eclectic Cyborg
Wait. How can a judge just declare the Trump the winner?
A judge can’t but the electors could try to get away with it.
re: #376 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Ouch
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Damn, that’s gotta hurt. Also, he’s dead correct on that part; when I saw Giuliani was wanting to amend the complaints at the top of the hearing, I wondered if they would need to re-file. Judges don’t like attempting to Perry Mason your way through a court hearing, changing things on the spot.
re: #368 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He needs to live long enough for the new Senate term to begin. That way Gov. Beshear’s appointment is for six years.
That’s… not what the law says.
Beshear gets to make an interim appointment until the next Congressional election, so it’s 2022 whether Mitch descends to hell now or on Jan. 4.
Then there would be an election to fill the remainder of the term until 1/3/27.
Trump right now: pic.twitter.com/IXxxLtU1DI
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) November 17, 2020
re: #377 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
A judge can’t but the electors could try to get away with it.
Nevada GOP legislators said they wouldn’t go against the popular vote, so the electors are trying to crank the crazy up a notch.
re: #368 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He needs to live long enough for the new Senate term to begin. That way Gov. Beshear’s appointment is for six years.
Not precisely: didn’t that cite above *note that “replacement” Senators in KY can only serve until the next general (/Congressional) election, and have to run again to be “confirmed” for the full term? A common practice in many (most?) states.
* re: #355 Backwoods_Sleuth
re: #366 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What? It will be thrown out like the rest of them.
re: #373 stpaulbear
The right wing is willing to say out loud that this might be the last Thanksgiving for your loved ones.
Another right winger or libertarian who’s fine with being a genocidaire, we’re just negotiating how many dead we want. And bullshyte statistics as well:
We are becoming a Nation of Cowards. We have surrendered our Constitutional Liberties to a Dictatorial Political movement that gained control, using COVID-19, a virus 99.98% survivable, and a threat to the very oldest and the sick. The time has come to say no more.
— Feed the Tree (@DemocratsMisery) November 17, 2020
re: #376 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Ouch
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And this is what Rudi charges 20k a day for. He can’t wipe his own ass. His make shit upper was taken to task and his brain is full.
re: #336 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
McConnell may have won reelection, but will he live to fill out his term? If the governor of KY is a Democrat, does KY law allow him to appoint a Democrat?
In Iowa, should Grassley succumb to Covid-19, the Iowa governor will have no problem finding an even more atavistic Republican replacement.
Dear Cthulhu, PLEASE DO NOT PUT STEVE THING IN THE SENATE!
re: #383 Jay C
Not precisely: didn’t that cite above *note that “replacement” Senators in KY can only serve until the next general (/Congressional) election, and have to run again to be “confirmed” for the full term? A common practice in many (most?) states.
*
That’s correct, dammit.
The Governor shall fill vacancies in the office of United States Senator by appointment until the next regular election at which members of the lower branch of Congress are elected, and shall, under the seal of the Commonwealth, certify the appointment to the President of the Senate of the United States. The certificate of appointment shall be countersigned by the Secretary of State.
re: #377 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
A judge can’t but the electors could try to get away with it.
Remember: the electors are chosen by the state parties. They are mostly party operative types. There is absofuckinglutely no cotdam way that any Democratic elector is going to flip to Trump.
2016 was an outlier - the faithless electors were not going to flip the election. They were basically protest votes against both Clinton and Trump (who were, if memory serves, the two least popular presidential nominees in the Post-War Era).
re: #381 Ace-o-aces
PopeHat’s thread on the hearing was rather amazing if you want a lawyerly take on it.
Sanctions never happen, but if they happened once in these 25+ bogus voting challenge cases, it really would serve as a warning to others. I’ve seen it happen IRL only a couple times, but it’s not a common thing. And because it isn’t overused, I think it’s time to exercise that option.
In lawyer talk, this has become egregious.
re: #385 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I still don’t understand how COVID is worse than ever after we’ve tried everything from pretending it’s over to pretending it never happened
— Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) November 16, 2020
re: #389 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The federal constitution requires special elections for Senate seats that have been vacated for whatever reason. Minimum is the next federal election for the rest of the term, but states can call special elections sooner if they so choose.
MI GOP Chair says she’s “proud” that the GOP in a state that claims to have founded the anti-slavery GOP is refusing to count the vote of black people. She’s PROUD of that.
Just disgusting. https://t.co/X5hLy4yjte— emptywheel (@emptywheel) November 17, 2020
re: #295 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
We here in California use paper ballots now. I think we did a short experiment with electronic voting, but in the past few elections I remember paper ballots. And of course this year all registered Californians got a paper ballot in the mail.
And guess what - it works just fine.
That’s right, they bought shiny new voting machines, I want to say sometime in the ’80s, and we used them for one or two elections… then problems with the machines were found and we all went back to paper.
re: #391 KGxvi
PopeHat’s thread on the hearing was rather amazing if you want a lawyerly take on it.
I was reading that. He’s very good at breaking things down for the layman.
re: #318 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Grassley comes from northwest Iowa. Steve King territory. Chosen (white) people of God.
Same area that is under an explosion of Covid cases.
At the beginning some on the right probably looked at the statistics and concluded that non-white people were more inclined to get covid because they were non-white, not because they had the most dangerous jobs and lived in the more people-per-family-per home. Likely concluded that good genes would see them through.
re: #310 Nyet
Not a story, an opinion. Won’t happen because he will pardon himself.
He’ll probably try. The courts will laugh at it and continue on.
re: #383 Jay C
Not precisely: didn’t that cite above *note that “replacement” Senators in KY can only serve until the next general (/Congressional) election, and have to run again to be “confirmed” for the full term? A common practice in many (most?) states.
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you are correct
re: #341 jamesfirecat
I thought that was “Bless his/her/their/your heart”?
Let me help, I speak Goober.
Nope, that’s “You’re a dumbass.” (Usually fem. speaker.)
The first Covid-19 death has occurred in my county.
Panhandle Public Health District Dashboard
Deaths: 31 (+7)
Morrill (seat Bridgeport, 1, +1)
Box Butte (seat Alliance, 2, +1)
Dawes (seat Chadron, 9, +4)
Kimball (seat Kimball, 1, +1)
Total cases: 4,860 (+138)
Most by age: 30-39, then 20-29
Weekly positivity rate: Down to 53.4% (as of November 8)
All cities and villages at “severe risk” except Broadwater (Morrill), Lisco and Llewellyn (Garden) with no cases.
re: #397 Ace-o-aces
I was reading that. He’s very good at breaking things down for the layman.
Reading it where?
Isn’t Popehat by subscription?
re: #393 jaunte
We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas.
re: #399 William Lewis
He’ll probably try. The courts will laugh at it and continue on.
My hunch is that either the day after the EC meets (in December) or the EC vote is certified (January 6), Trump will resign and Pence being the mealymouthed bootlicker he is will immediately issue a blanket pardon for Trump/Ivanka/Jared/Miller for their time in the White House. And then shortly thereafter Trump will announce he’s running in 2024, but on a third party ticket (probably the Constitution Party) so he can bitch about everything Biden does for four years and will be doing rallies anywhere he can. He’ll say the pardons were because Biden was going to try to lock him up, even though everything he did was totally legal and Biden is just mad because Trump did such a good job fighting for real Americans, yadayadayada
Granted, reading that, it sounds like a terrible West Wing spec script, but Trump’s been so fucking terrible the last 4-5 years, it would simply not surprise me if this played out just like this.
The judge is having to teach Rudy basic constitutional law. That’s not hyperbole. This is a description of what is happening at this hearing.
I’ve never seen worse lawyering in an election law case in my life.— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) November 17, 2020
Made it on the backup. Can hear now.https://t.co/0tnq0LnS0f
— LastThanksgivingHat (@Popehat) November 17, 2020
Thread.
re: #403 Jay C
Reading it where?
Isn’t Popehat by subscription?
Heard the “3,999 on the call” announcement, but now just silence. Bummer. The dark angel of tech visits me again.
— LastThanksgivingHat (@Popehat) November 17, 2020
As @GSAEmily endangers American lives by withholding access to pandemic distribution plans and other national security information from the transition team while a bewildered Giuliani fumbles through court proceedings, Trump’s other unserious lawyer measures progress in Martinis. https://t.co/En9vAqK7da
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) November 18, 2020
re: #395 jaunte
This appears to be the Twitter account for one of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers Republican members who voted not to certify. A Gateway Pundit fan who has RTed a Trump tweet claiming mail ballot fraud https://t.co/ddTBziYuvo pic.twitter.com/XJbqQMQp4I
— Andrew Prokop (@awprokop) November 17, 2020
re: #154 dangerman
A friend of mine who worked the polls got COVID as did the other poll workers, despite taking precautions.
Civic heroes.
(He’s recovering)
That hilarious thing senators do when they congratulate a person for winning an election and then tell reporters afterward the election isn’t settled yet https://t.co/SonBgn29yA
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) November 18, 2020
Hopefully this provides some calm to what’s going on in Wayne, MI this evening. https://t.co/qCXOnxl6Ec
— Adam Ambrogi (@AdamAmbrogi) November 18, 2020
Shot:
E.W. Jackson insisted in March, in the early days of the pandemic, that Christians “don’t have to” catch the potentially deadly virus, and he vowed to continue holding in-person church services in violation of Gov. Ralph Northam’s social distancing mandates.
“I don’t have the coronavirus,” Jackson said at the time. “I’m not going to get the coronavirus. I’m not going to give anybody the coronavirus, because I can’t get it, because I talked to God about it, and I’ve taken my vaccine. My vaccine is Psalm 91, and I am free from that mess.”
Chaser:
Jackson told his congregation Sunday that he and his wife had been infected with COVID-19…”My wife, of course, she got it from me,” he added.
re: #414 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Michigan’s Bureau of Elections stands ready to fulfill its duty to complete the canvas for Wayne County, address any clerical errors and improve the quality of the canvass overall. Importantly, this is not an indication that any votes were improperly cast or tabulated.
— Jocelyn Benson (@JocelynBenson) November 18, 2020
…votes from Trump to Biden, late voting, and many more. Therefore, effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been terminated as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2020
re: #406 jaunte
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re: #418 Eclectic Cyborg
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Welp. I gotta admit, I actually didn’t see that coming, but I should’ve.
There it is https://t.co/btvkVbu2qX
— David Smiley (@NewsbySmiley) November 17, 2020
“…Alex Rodriguez, a one-time mechanic with no history in local politics, never started a campaign website, attended no candidate forums and received no donations, save for a $2,000 loan from himself. Mailers pitching his name sent to voters in the Coral Gables area were sent by a shadowy political group that, so far, has been untraceable.
When a television reporter recently tracked Alex Rodriguez down, he pretended to be someone else.
…..Alex Rodriguez’s candidacy appeared to exist for only one reason: to suck votes away from incumbent José Javier Rodríguez, who shares the same surname. The incumbent lost by just 34 votes, and he is now calling for an investigation into Alex Rodriguez — and whoever may have put him up to run.
Read more here: miamiherald.com
re: #411 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The decision came after a number of absentee ballot poll books in Detroit were found to be out of balance, a situation that did not stop the same board from certifying the results in the August primary or the county’s November 2016 general election results.
A county board that fails to canvass within 14 days after the election must give all of its documentation to the Secretary of State’s office and Board of State Canvassers, which then has 10 days to complete the work, canvass and certify the results, according to the board’s canvassing manual.
I’m guessing Secretary of State Benson is probably going to certify the results herself.
re: #420 thedopefishlives
Welp. I gotta admit, I actually didn’t see that coming, but I should’ve.
I’m just surprised he’s only getting around to it now, wasn’t this report issued a few days ago?
re: #414 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
But the state board is made up of 2 Dems and 2 Reps. Same thing can happen. Do you have the break-the-tie vote?
— Adam Keleman (@ABKman) November 18, 2020
re: #418 Eclectic Cyborg
I am actually surprised he did not fire the guy sooner. I cannot wait for this long national nightmare to end. I will never forget that even to the bitter end the entire republican establishment continues to enable this dangerous unhinged sociopath in the white house.
re: #423 jamesfirecat
I’m just surprised he’s only getting around to it now, wasn’t this report issued a few days ago?
He’s been busy trying to find the OAN channel on his TV
re: #328 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Good. I hope he’s about to die.
re: #427 Ace Rothstein
Good. I hope he’s about to die.
Remember, they can’t say that he is dead until we have an official coroners declaration.
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re: #423 jamesfirecat
I’m just surprised he’s only getting around to it now, wasn’t this report issued a few days ago?
he had to hit the links first…
At our current pace we will top 12 million covid cases by Friday. Current average is about four to five days per million.
re: #428 b.d. (We Won!)
Remember, they can’t say that he is dead until we have an official coroners declaration.
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Love for all of the Dems to go around saying IF Mitch is dead for a couple of weeks.
Criminal president fires official from his own administration for vouching for the integrity of a free and fair election that he has lost. Virtually every elected Republican will shrug, and those who say Trump represents no threat to democracy will sneer that this is meaningless. https://t.co/CRvSW4ZCRu
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) November 18, 2020
Ok, here is my complete thread on today’s hearing in PA. Takeaways: I think the Judge was very skeptical of Trump’s claims. I’d expect him to dismiss the case on Friday. Rudy Giuliani … did not do a good job. https://t.co/fWuRJYPCye
— Raffi Melkonian (@RMFifthCircuit) November 17, 2020
re: #433 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Donald, I can fix what I just screwed up for $25,000 a day…
re: #427 Ace Rothstein
Good. I hope he’s about to die.
Well, he was hanging around with Grassley yesterday, so his odds are going up.
Blunt says Grassley attended their GOP leadership meeting yesterday, with McConnell & others.
Asked if they will quarantine, Blunt tells me “I was about 12 ft away from him, maybe that’s why we’re in that big room.”
Adds Grassley has “done everything he can” to protect himself.— Julie Tsirkin (@JulieNBCNews) November 17, 2020
re: #435 BeachDem
Well, he was hanging around with Grassley yesterday, so his odds are going up.
Asked if they will quarantine, Blunt tells me “I was about 12 ft away from him, maybe that’s why we’re in that big room.”
Six feet is a rough safety quide for short exposure in most situations. A lot has to do with the airflows in a particular room
This is the Twitter feed of the Trumporrhoid who refuses to certify the Wayne County election:
It is a garbage fire, as you would expect:
PBS has a show on showing the atrocities of the Nazi death camps. Why don’t we ever see shows on what Mao did in China? He killed more people than the Nazi’s and Communists combined. Yet that is never spoken about.
— William Hartmann (@HartmannDude) January 24, 2020
re: #435 BeachDem
Well, he was hanging around with Grassley yesterday, so his odds are going up.
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Grassley was in the pissing side of the pool, so Blunt is good.
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As I reported last week, Trump can also fire CISA’s deputy director and now (presumably) acting director, but he can’t fire CISA’s third-ranking official, the executive director, a career position that Krebs created specifically for a moment like this. https://t.co/MEk5x1jpsj
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) November 18, 2020
And crybaby-in-chief is not going to MaraGaudy for Thanksgiving, so I really fear what new hell he’ll rain upon us from the bunker. (Does McDonald’s deliver on Thanksgiving?)
re: #440 BeachDem
And crybaby-in-chief is not going to MaraGaudy for Thanksgiving, so I really fear what new hell he’ll rain upon us from the bunker. (Does McDonald’s deliver on Thanksgiving?)
General Steiner will get through with a turkey.
re: #436 Decatur Deb
Six feet is a rough safety quide for short exposure in most situations. A lot has to do with the airflows in a particular room
Does hot air flow faster, because I’m sure there was a whole lot of it in that room.
re: #437 The Pie Overlord!
This is the Twitter feed of the Trumporrhoid who refuses to certify the Wayne County election:
It is a garbage fire, as you would expect:
I have a question on the Trump Trial in the Senate. The House is sending, Managers from the House to the Senate. They’re all Democrats. I’ve never heard of this practice of the House having any participation in the Senate trial. Is this a normal thing?
— William Hartmann (@HartmannDude) January 18, 2020
Because he’s another conservative moran, that’s why he hasn’t heard of it.
re: #437 The Pie Overlord!
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maybe because… the Nazis were sticklers for detailed documentation and Mao was not? Also, Eisenhower ordered everything the allies found the camps be filmed?
Olus, y’know Nuremberg court transcripts, which included testimony by the accused.
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