Seth takes a closer look at President Trump and senior members of the Republican Party engaging in an assault on democracy in an attempt to hang onto power and undercut the legitimately elected next president, Joe Biden.
re: #1 I Would Prefer Not To
Oh yeah, 4 is it, no question.
Giuliani, Graham, Barr etc. would not debase themselves and bet their future, and the future of the GOP itself, on this desperate ploy if they were not truly convinced that prison is the alternative. The widespread support for their shenanigans at lower levels of the GOP could well indicate that the fear of prison is similarly widespread. I really think that this is going to be the greatest scandal in history.
It appears that Sen. Joshua Hawley of Missouri committed Federal election felony 42 U.S. Code §1973i(c) - False information in registering or voting. https://t.co/jwsxlVDCQx
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) November 19, 2020
re: #1 I Would Prefer Not To
I’m 4.
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No video games?!
To hell with that, I’ll deal with the ghosts!
Even DC has had to get into the coyote act:
Coyote Spotted on the National Mall
nbcwashington.com
This wily coyote (Apetitius giganticus) was spotted yesterday morning in East Potomac Park by our tree crew supervisor. While coyotes are known to inhabit nearby Rock Creek Park, it is rare to see them on the National Mall. pic.twitter.com
— National Mall NPS (@NationalMallNPS) July 22, 2020
But, as they say about the National Mall… If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.
And even bears have gotten into the act:
Bear Spotted in NW Released Into the Wild (2013)
A bear spotted in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. has been returned to his natural habitat.
Residents spotted the 100-pound bear around 8 a.m. Wednesday in the 4900 block of Rockwood Parkway NW, not far from Sibley Memorial Hospital. The animal was later seen running across the manicured lawns of Spring Valley before Animal Control officers were able to tranquilize and remove it.
(The bears are usually adolescents and in a similar situation to teenagers at the local mall. Three year old bears are chased away by their mothers so the mother can breed again. The young bear is looking for a territory, it keeps getting kicked out by the current territory holding adult bear and having to move along.
Most of the bears start out in the Appalachian Mountains. The unlucky ones randomly head east along the Potomac River watershed’s stream beds and rapidly end up in Suburbia. Heavy development with lots of dogs, fences, humans and high speed crowded roads are not very bear friendly.
The bear above was very fortunate because it was reportedly tranquilized, transported and released.)
4 5 and 6 are workable, but 1 and 2 are right out and 3 is just meh.
“No smartphone or tablets.” That’s why God invented the laptop, my friend.
The Twilight Zone has taught us that when someone offers a movie projector they’re intending to withhold the films.
Oops
Loaded handgun found in South Dakota man’s carry-on luggage at Eppley Airfield (Omaha World-Herald)
Eppley Airfield is Omaha’s airport.
A South Dakota man was stopped at Omaha’s Eppley Airfield after security screeners found a loaded gun inside his carry-on luggage.
Transportation Security Administration officers found the .380-caliber handgun loaded with six bullets on Tuesday when it entered a checkpoint X-ray machine. Omaha Airport Authority police were alerted and confiscated the gun from the man, who said he forgot he had his gun with him.
“Claiming that you forgot that you had a loaded gun with you is no excuse,” said Michael Fowler, TSA’s federal security director for Nebraska. “If you own a firearm, you should know where it is at all times.”
TSA can issue a financial penalty to travelers who have guns with them at a checkpoint. The penalty for a typical first offense for carrying a loaded handgun into a checkpoint is $4,100, but it can go as high as $13,669, depending on the circumstances.
Nationwide last year, 4,432 firearms were discovered in carry-on bags at checkpoints across the country, averaging about 12.1 firearms per day. That’s approximately a 5% increase nationally in firearm discoveries from the total of 4,239 detected in 2018.
re: #3 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Giuliani, Graham, Barr etc. would not debase themselves and bet their future, and the future of the GOP itself, on this desperate ploy if they were not truly convinced that prison is the alternative. The widespread support for their shenanigans at lower levels of the GOP could well indicate that the fear of prison is similarly widespread. I really think that this is going to be the greatest scandal in history.
Or maybe they think this is their real chance at a permanent transformation of this nation into a white supremacist autocracy run by the GOP. Until Trump is actually evicted from the White House, I remain terrified about the immediate future. Barr has told Trump he has absolute unlimited power and the rest of the GOP has done nothing to disabuse him of this notion.
re: #1 I Would Prefer Not To
I’m 4.
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1 or 5. Could do 6 in a pinch but I’d need a computer even if it’s off line for playing games and hacking lisp.
This:
New from Michigan: Now Wayne County Republicans want to “rescind” their votes to certify election results… pic.twitter.com/2tgT70JuHo
— Donovan Slack (@DonovanSlack) November 19, 2020
And there’s a story going around that the board members who refused to certify were doxxed and threatened, which is why Palmer is attempting to withdraw her certification. Of course hay is being made on the right wing side of things.
re: #15 mmmirele
This:
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And there’s a story going around that the board members who refused to certify were doxxed and threatened, which is why Palmer is attempting to withdraw her certification. Of course hay is being made on the right wing side of things.
NEW: Republicans hold a *$28 MILLION* ad advantage in Georgia Senate runoff races.
Please consider donating: https://t.co/VOL4pjsGrEhttps://t.co/JoxHXOPtJc— Jon Ossoff (@ossoff) November 18, 2020
re: #15 mmmirele
This:
And there’s a story going around that the board members who refused to certify were doxxed and threatened, which is why Palmer is attempting to withdraw her certification. Of course hay is being made on the right wing side of things.
My guess is Pumpkin Pinochet or one of his minions threatened her.
As for being known internationally as a racist, the correct procedure is to double down if you’re a conservative.
re: #18 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My guess is Pumpkin Pinochet or one of his minions threatened her.
As for being known internationally as a racist, the correct procedure is to double down if you’re a conservative.
Yeah, it’s more likely that Palmer was directly threatened by one of Trump’s toadies if she didn’t withdraw her certification.
While South Dakota hospitals overflow https://t.co/5QuNxxa0pp
— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸 (@ASlavitt) November 19, 2020
re: #15 mmmirele
This:
And there’s a story going around that the board members who refused to certify were doxxed and threatened, which is why Palmer is attempting to withdraw her certification. Of course hay is being made on the right wing side of things.
At the moment this doesn’t seem to be reported anywhere but on Twitter.
That doesn’t mean it’s not true, but Twitter isn’t exactly a reliable source.
Donovan Slack seems to be a reporter for USA Today, they have nothing about this on their Website.
Nor does the Detroit Free-Press at the moment, nor the Detroit News, nor the Lansing State Journal.
So this crossed my feeds…
Daniel Morrison: “Qanon” is propaganda. And we know who’s responsible.
“So, to sum up, here is how likely to have happened. People like Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Steve Bannon, Micheal Flynn, (and/or Jared Kushner, Dan Scavino, and Brad Parscale), drawing on strategies outlined by Jeff Ginsea and Chuck Johnson, used companies like Psy-Group, Black Cube, WikiStrat, and Cambridge Analytica, to develop a strategy to drive support for Donald Trump. That involved a lot of things, including this project called Q. They used people like Thomas Schoenberger and Lisa Clapier, who used used puzzle-like strategies and cult-like recruitment techniques to create an ARG style Psy-Op, based a military thriller conspiracy core wrapped in a New Age outer face. It played right into people’s psychological framework, and pre-existing sociological conditions. People like Tracy Beanz, Coleman Rogers, Paul Furber, Joe M, and Ron and Jim Watkins, were either knowingly or unknowingly used to take the Operation to a wider audience. From there, influencers built significant audiences by posting content from the Q Universe, and a self enforcing community grows. Companies like Cambridge Analytica and Gloo then used big data to target the content exactly where it’ll make the most difference. And it’s all supported and amplified by outlets like OANN and Breitbart and whoever else has an interest in a Trump administration.”
Panhandle Public Health District Dashboard
Regarding late revisions in cases in Nebraska, some of those could probably be attributed to late reporting or human error. I’m not in a position to speculate. The Covid Tracking Project, which used to rate our reporting at D-, now rates it at A, for whatever that’s worth.
Revised upward today (new totals):
March 29: 1 (this revises the appearance date of the virus in the Panhandle from April 1)
July 1: 18
August 21: 12
September 1: 22
September 16: 25
October 15: 66
October 30: 243
November 10: 243
November 12: 269
November 17: 85
Total cases on November 18: 5,028 (+48, total quintuple the number since October 1)
In hospital: 78
Deaths: 31 (+7)
Weekly positivity rate: 53.8%, total 19.8%
re: #5 Targetpractice
No video games?!
To hell with that, I’ll deal with the ghosts!
Damn straight — ghosts for me, too. And no bedbugs either.
KEARNEY — Kearney Police Chief Bryan Waugh is asking for voluntary compliance from citizens and businesses with the city of Kearney’s new mask mandate.“Our goal is not to criminalize public health,” Waugh said.
The ordinance requires people age 5 and older to wear masks in public to slow the spread of the coronavirus and ease the volume of COVID-19 cases filling Kearney’s hospitals. Executives of CHI Health Good Samaritan and Kearney Regional Medical Center urged the City Council last week to enact a mask ordinance and encourage other measures to protect the public.
On Tuesday, the Kearney City Council unanimously approved the ordinance, which goes into effect Monday and lasts through Feb. 23, 2021.
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‘Our goal is not to criminalize public health’: Kearney Police Chief asks for voluntary compliance with new mask mandate (Kearney, Nebr. Hub)
re: #25 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“It’s ok if you kill someone because of your negligence. In fact, that would make you a pretty decent police officer.”
Assuming the affidavit is legit, there’s nothing for a judge to really rule on. Palmer says that there were “threats” made against her during the public comment session, but she’s not saying that they influenced her vote. She admits that she was made a “promise” of an independent audit in order to change her vote, only for the SoS to say that such was “nonbinding” after the vote was recorded and the state’s vote total certified. So now she wants to “withdraw” certification and hold it hostage until the “disparities” in the Wayne County absentee votes are investigated to her satisfaction.
The reality: A judge will likely ask her (under penalty of perjury) if she was coerced into changing her vote (“No”) and if she changed her vote willingly (“Yes”). At that point, it doesn’t matter if the audit resolution was binding or not, she voted to certify and there’s no state law that allows her to rescind her vote if she doesn’t like the ultimate outcome.
re: #27 Targetpractice
Assuming the affidavit is legit, there’s nothing for a judge to really rule on. Palmer says that there were “threats” made against her during the public comment session, but she’s not saying that they influenced her vote. She admits that she was made a “promise” of an independent audit in order to change her vote, only for the SoS to say that such was “nonbinding” after the vote was recorded and the state’s vote total certified. So now she wants to “withdraw” certification and hold it hostage until the “disparities” in the Wayne County absentee votes are investigated to her satisfaction.
The reality: A judge will likely ask her (under penalty of perjury) if she was coerced into changing her vote (“No”) and if she changed her vote willingly (“Yes”). At that point, it doesn’t matter if the audit resolution was binding or not, she voted to certify and there’s state law that allows her to rescind her vote if she doesn’t like the ultimate outcome.
Do you mean “there’s no state law?”
More cities in the area are imposing restrictions.
The Cheyenne County Commissioners Monday approved a policy addressing COVID-19 and the increasing number of positive cases in Cheyenne County and the Nebraska Panhandle.
The policy addresses county employees, staff or elected official, and the public.
The policy states that if a person has tested positive for COVID-19, they must self-isolate at home until at least 10 days have passed since the date of the positive test, or at least 10 days have passed since the onset of symptoms, your symptoms have improved or you have been fever free for at least 24 hours.
If you have come in direct contact with a person has been diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus and you have tested negative for the COVID-19 virus, you must self-quarantine for 14 days. County Clerk Beth Fiegenschuh said the 10-day quarantine is from when a person has been diagnosed positive. The 14-day period is if a person has come in contact with someone diagnosed positive, but the person not determined to be positive has shown symptoms.
If an employee is quarantined for either testing positive or coming in contact with someone positive, the period of quarantine will be treated as sick leave vacation or unpaid time off. If the employee has not been exposed but become ill, any time from work will be considered sick leave and deducted from the employee’s sick bank. If there is no sick bank, the time will be taken from the vacation bank, and if there is no vacation time, the time off will be unpaid time.
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Commissioners Pass COVID Policy (Sidney, Nebr. Sun-Telegraph)
re: #28 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
Do you mean “there’s no state law?”
Yeah, I caught and corrected that just a sec ago.
re: #13 Hecuba’s daughter
Or maybe they think this is their real chance at a permanent transformation of this nation into a white supremacist autocracy run by the GOP. Until Trump is actually evicted from the White House, I remain terrified about the immediate future. Barr has told Trump he has absolute unlimited power and the rest of the GOP has done nothing to disabuse him of this notion.
A white supremacist autocracy is obviously their goal, but I don’t think they would take the kinds of risks they are taking now for it. They get more than one roll of the dice on the autocracy: They could simply re-trench, apply their lessons, and go on with the subversion they have executed for the last 60 years. What they are doing now is betting everything on a single throw, even knowing (as most of them do) that the odds are against them. Staying out of jail is something for which they would have only a single throw, right now, with the whole match riding on it.
Georgia’s Olivia Pearson Arrested For Helping Black People Vote. Again. Wonkette
You might recall the insane story of how Olivia Pearson, a civil rights activist and the first Black member of the Douglas, Georgia, city commission, got arrested and charged with voting fraud in 2012 for showing a first-time voter how to use a voting machine — Pearson didn’t touch the machine or tell the voter who to vote for, but she was prosecuted anyway because Georgia only allows helping people with voting if the helper certifies that the voter is illiterate, not just unfamiliar with the voting machine technology. Pearson was also charged for “falsely swearing” that the person she’d helped was illiterate or disabled, although she said poll workers had asked her to help the voter and given her the form to sign afterward.
If you get the sense that there’s a bit of bad blood between Pearson and local white officials in Douglas and Coffee County, you would get a nice pat on the head for being observant. She had also been investigated for such suspect activities as driving people to the polls, registering people to vote, and urging them to vote at election time. Such a troublemaker, in the John Lewis “good trouble” mold. And you know how many times he got arrested.
Pearson’s first trial, in 2017, resulted in a hung jury; when she was finally able to get the venue moved to another county for her second trial in 2018, the jury acquitted her after just 20 minutes of deliberation, and everyone except the people she made uncomfortable in Douglas cheered. Oh, and don’t forget, the prosecutor who went after Pearson over the six years of that case, District Attorney George Barnhill Sr., is the same worthless schmuck who initially decided the two white men who killed Ahmaud Arbery didn’t need to be arrested, because “self defense.” It’s a small racist world, isn’t it?
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re: #32 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
You’re right - I can’t help shake the feeling that this is utter desperation. In politics, you simply regroup and take your shot the next time it presents itself.
This feels like Mafiosi frantically trying to avoid the slammer, like that montage in Scorsese’s Casino.
The “Limitations” section of the mask study conservative media personalities will spend the next 6 weeks flogging is a real hoot. pic.twitter.com/PAVRnk7c2e
— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) November 18, 2020
One of the outcomes of term limits is that there really is virtually nothing voters can do to someone in their second term. https://t.co/xTmi0ZHWQe
— Senator Matt Hansen (@MattHansenNE) November 18, 2020
In the “cut feral conservatives out of your life” category, Nebraska state senator Patty Pansing-Brooks weighs in.
RISE UP! Create own mask mandates NE! NOW! Why wait for ANY executive branch? Don’t meet in person, talk, or sit w/ anyone who won’t comply with YOUR mandate. If some don’t care about our lives, their own, hospital staff or businesses, then isolate them!https://t.co/Ud2Ddn9DrB
— Senator Patty Pansing Brooks (@Patty4Nebraska) November 16, 2020
State senator Kate Bolz (who ran against Rep. Fortenberry and lost the election in NE-1) will join the mayor of Lincoln’s administration. She was term-limited as a state senator under Nebraska law when she ran for the US House.
I’m pleased to share that I will join the Gaylor Baird administration, working to promote economic and employment opportunity for Lincoln. pic.twitter.com/PCffR9Lrgx
— Kate Bolz (@katejbolz) November 16, 2020
So, in COVID related news, right now, the Czech Parliament is debating a request by the government to extend the current state of emergency by an additional 30 days. The only fly in the ointment is that the government doesn’t have the votes for a 30 day extension (it’s a minority government).
So now the parties are haggling over just how long the extension will be….if indeed, any extension at all. The current state of emergency expires at 06:00 local time tomorrow morning. BTW, extremely stupid of the government not to get their ducks all in a row beforehand - they waited until yesterday before even attempting to shore up support for their extension request; that’s like a rookie mistake, and this bunch has been in charge since 2017.
— Devin Nunes’ cow 🐮 (@DevinCow) November 19, 2020
I appear to be here commenting by myself, so you get a bunch of Nebraska politics. You’re welcome. /s
Interesting — @LincolnChamber issues statement opposing recall effort of @MayorLeirion and other members of City Council for their support of a mask mandate in the Capital City. Chamber says it supports their work ‘to keep us safe.’
— Paul Hammel (@PaulHammelOWH) November 17, 2020
Hawley is all upset. But he is the one who actually introduced legislation to pop the DC bubble by moving “policymakers directly into the communities they serve” https://t.co/66KT6mNu8T
— Arthur Delaney (@ArthurDelaneyHP) November 18, 2020
Kayleigh McEnany Calls Public Health Measures ‘Orwellian’, TWO MINUTE HATE! (Wonkette)
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany appeared on state media to share with the good comrades on “Fox & Friends” her insights into state and local guidelines for doing Thanksgiving while also preventing the spread of illness. She said that many local commissars had issued doubleplusungood orders that threatened freedom and liberty here in Airstrip Two. In fact, she said, they were downright “Orwellian.”
Here, watch this Telescreen snippet, while it watches you:
(video of Fox and Friends, 1:14, more after the video)
My Internet service is failing (again). I need to log out and call CenturyLink (again).
In the category “there’s a tweet for everything”:
The Green Party just dropped its recount suit in Pennsylvania and is losing votes in Wisconsin recount. Just a Stein scam to raise money!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2016
re: #44 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In the category “there’s a tweet for everything”:
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At least she paid for a statewide recount… not this racist partial recount.
I think Olbermann is going to have a stroke before Biden officially has the presidency. But you know? So far, he’s right. I remember what he said about Bush/Katrina, and Bush in general, and I found myself in agreement. And now that the US has taken a turn for everything Nazi, I find myself agreeing with him again. But when you’re that amped up every damn day, it has to take a toll.
Holy cow, my house is virtually hermetically sealed when windows and doors are closed and I could smell very strong skunk. I open up the back door and It smelled like my patio got sprayed. My dog who has been sprayed twice before stood at the door contemplating how bad he had to pee. He did his business and ran and hid in the bedroom. I’ve had 3 dogs since I moved here and they all got skunked more than once.
re: #46 PrairieQueen
I’m pretty sure I’m going to have a stroke before Jan 20 if the situation doesn’t change for the better soon, but that said Olbermann is right. He needs to be banned from Twitter yesterday, and in the future the Office of the President of the United States should not use Twitter as a communication medium PERIOD. The White House has a website, and the White House Press Corps is a thing.
The last thing this fucking shitstain needs is a megaphone the size of the Earth.
In nationwide political news, this is apparently going to be the Trump-humpers’ new schtick nationwide:
.@WI_Elections Commission meeting is off to a rocky start, with GOP members arguing for another meeting before @realDonaldTrump recount results are certified
Democrats say there’s no point to meet again because the law spells out how certification goes
Commission is split 3-3— Scott Bauer (@sbauerAP) November 19, 2020
I’m getting so tired of these people thinking that they, and they alone, get to decide the election. THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN.
So, as I posted earlier, the Czech Parliament is currently deciding on a state of emergency extension. Looking like, as of this posting, they might get 14 additional days (until 3 December)…..and that’s it.
re: #348 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We’re back to worrying about things which won’t happen.
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Also:
On the italics, that was addressed by the Supreme Court on the faithless electors from the 2016 election, holding those laws to be constitutional.
The challenge would go both ways: Democrats objecting to the bullshyte electors and Republicans objecting to the real ones. Assuming both objections fail (GOP in the House, Dems in the Senate), all electors for that state are set aside and the number required to win is reduced. Additionally, representatives from that state may not be seated in the new Congress. Any state which does this is voting to have no representation.
Counting Electoral Votes: An Overview of Procedures at the Joint Session, Including Objections by Members of Congress (Congressional Research Service, PDF)
There’s a “safe harbor” provision here as well: if there are two sets of electors, one made in a timely fashion under state law and procedures, and the other not, the first set is deemed valid even if the House and Senate disagree. So, if one set of electors is certified properly and delivered by the Governor or SoS, then rando legislators can publish whatever scribble they want and it will be shitcanned in the joint session. The state’s electoral votes won’t be thrown out. This is on page 8 of the document.
re: #1 I Would Prefer Not To
#4 or #5. A lot depends on the haunting style.
Also, apparently the jackwagons in Wayne County, MI say they want a do-over, after some coaching from Trump’s legal eagles:
Breaking: Republicans on the Wayne County canvassing board announced they’re rescinding their votes to certify results in the election. D’s on the board say they don’t have the legal ability to do that. Their announcement came through a firm that worked for the Trump campaign
— jimrutenberg (@jimrutenberg) November 19, 2020
Sorry, folks, that isn’t how that works. You signed it, you also agreed to a waiver of reconsideration, the deed is done. The vote is in.
re: #24 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
Damn straight — ghosts for me, too. And no bedbugs either.
Main limitation is that the ghosts don’t upset the cat too much. Library + garden + coffee is a huge win.
re: #53 thedopefishlives
Also, apparently the jackwagons in Wayne County, MI say they want a do-over, after some coaching from Trump’s legal eagles:
Sorry, folks, that isn’t how that works. You signed it, you also agreed to a waiver of reconsideration, the deed is done. The vote is in.
I stopped doing this a long time ago, but again, imagine Democratic canvassing board members rescinding their signatures on voting results…
re: #56 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Best part of that animation is near the end, when the record player is spinning the vinyl the wrong way. Either the animators have never experienced a real record player, or it is some deep humor.
re: #55 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I stopped doing this a long time ago, but again, imagine Democratic canvassing board members rescinding their signatures on voting results…
The good news is, the commissioner apparently saw this coming and (as I obliquely alluded to in my post) introduced, and passed, a waiver of reconsideration, effectively stating that the certification is final and cannot be revisited. The papers they filed serve no purpose except as evidence of perjury.
re: #58 thedopefishlives
The good news is, the commissioner apparently saw this coming and (as I obliquely alluded to in my post) introduced, and passed, a waiver of reconsideration, effectively stating that the certification is final and cannot be revisited. The papers they filed serve no purpose except as evidence of perjury.
and proof of their un-waivering loyalty!!!
re: #59 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and proof of their un-waivering loyalty!!!
I grabbed the link from Fark, and the common sentiment is that these man-babies (I think they’re both men) are trying to pull this shit now because they know there’s nothing that can actually be done and they’re either grandstanding for attention, or trying to avoid getting death threats from other Republicans.
re: #60 thedopefishlives
I grabbed the link from Fark, and the common sentiment is that these man-babies (I think they’re both men) are trying to pull this shit now because they know there’s nothing that can actually be done and they’re either grandstanding for attention, or trying to avoid getting death threats from other Republicans.
someone leaning on them from above along with death threats from below (sewer lid lever, that is)
re: #60 thedopefishlives
I grabbed the link from Fark, and the common sentiment is that these man-babies (I think they’re both men) are trying to pull this shit now because they know there’s nothing that can actually be done and they’re either grandstanding for attention, or trying to avoid getting death threats from other Republicans.
One’s a woman, but otherwise that’s my guess. They refused to certify, and got called mean things by Democrats for a couple of hours, then caved and certified, and then got death threats from heavily armed unhinged MAGAts and are trying to claim backsies even after pinky swearing no backsies.
Whatever.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot: Disturbing new details revealed in court documents - ABC7 Chicago https://t.co/yA9FMV6kQ5
— Tracey Kent 🐕 🏳️🌈 (@TraceyKent) November 19, 2020
New filings claim there was a Plan B the militiamen had drawn up, that involved a takeover of the Michigan capitol building by two hundred combatants who would stage a week-long series of televised executions of public officials.
And, according to government documents now on file in lower Michigan court, there was also a Plan C: burning down the state house leaving no survivors.
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Despite the violent nature of the charges, including an alleged plan to hold a mock treason trial for the governor of Michigan once she was kidnapped, several of the defendants have had bond reductions and are now free.
If the election had been any closer, this plan might have succeeded. as it is, they are clinging to it just like they did with hydroxycholoroquinine because Trump is not big on thinking out plan B alternatives (unless he is afraid he has knocked up a bimbo after a round of unprotected extramarital sex)
and yes, if Corona had not come along, he most likely would have won
had hydroxycholoroquinine turned out to be an effective cure he would have won - by a landslide
re: #58 thedopefishlives
The good news is, the commissioner apparently saw this coming and (as I obliquely alluded to in my post) introduced, and passed, a waiver of reconsideration, effectively stating that the certification is final and cannot be revisited. The papers they filed serve no purpose except as evidence of perjury.
Or served the GOP just fine by appearing to muddy the waters. A lot of their actions are not intended to have results, but are intended to simply have the appearance to their base of an investigation or wrongdoing that can then be trumpeted as Democrat corruption.
re: #63 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Whatever.
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Some states, perhaps all, have a concept of state-level treason. It would iinclude waging war against them.
re: #65 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Or served the GOP just fine by appearing to muddy the waters. A lot of their actions are not intended to have results, but are intended to simply have the appearance to their base of an investigation or wrongdoing that can then be trumpeted as Democrat corruption.
I think that blowing smoke and making noise is all there is right now, but if Trump can tip one state, even without changing the outcome of the EC, he will present it as proof that the entire election was rigged.
re: #66 Decatur Deb
Welcome to the post-truth world. Proof is useful, but by no means necessary.
re: #63 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
In a different era, those jackholes would’ve been summarily executed.
re: #69 Dr Lizardo
In a different era, those jackholes would’ve been summarily executed.
Did the plot to assassinate Lincoln also not originally include kidnapping high government officials?
LOL
Trump’s lawsuit trying to overturn the election results in Pennsylvania complains about “pole watchers”.
Men ogling strippers? pic.twitter.com/QsTilJdeal— Roshan Rinaldi (@Roshan_Rinaldi) November 19, 2020
This Senate hearing looks like the tale of a marooned lighthouse keeper and the robot butler he built to stave off loneliness. pic.twitter.com/7Mbvmyk19l
— Philip Michaels (@PhilipMichaels) November 18, 2020
re: #64 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If the election had been any closer, this plan might have succeeded. as it is, they are clinging to it just like they did with hydroxycholoroquinine because Trump is not big on thinking out plan B alternatives (unless he is afraid he has knocked up a bimbo after a round of unprotected extramarital sex)
and yes, if Corona had not come along, he most likely would have won
had hydroxycholoroquinine turned out to be an effective cure he would have won - by a landslide
THIS. To all of what your said.
It’s like Mother Nature is pissed at humanity.
re: #69 Dr Lizardo
In a different era, those jackholes would’ve been summarily executed.
Like that guy in WA.
re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Did the plot to assassinate Lincoln also not originally include kidnapping high government officials?
I don’t recall right off the top of my head, but I know they wanted to take out the VP and the Secretary of War (maybe Secretary of State as well). But they were definitely going after the highest-ranking government officials, not just Lincoln.
Joe Biden’s transition team is in talks with multiple Republican leaders and officeholders to end the transition stalemate, warning them of risks to national security and public health if the president-elect isn’t granted access to the government. https://t.co/q6URljD0oo
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) November 19, 2020
re: #1 I Would Prefer Not To
I’m 4.
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we’re one from column a, 2 from column b, etc
what the hell is a “wine celler”?
re: #75 Dr Lizardo
Secretary of State Seward was actually attacked by an assassin who came to his house and wounded him, but Seward and household members fought the assassin off and he fled. His home in Auburn, NY is now a museum and has both the bloody shirt and the attempted murder weapon
while this is happening (bad for trump)
“President Trump’s frantic post-election challenges are having the opposite effect of what he intended: He’s documenting his demise through a series of court fights and recounts showing Joe Biden’s victory to be all the more obvious and unassailable,” Axios reports.
Said election law expert Rick Hasen: “Each loss further cements Biden’s win.”
this is also happening (bad for conservatives)
Politico: “The conservative movement has become handicapped. Organizations can’t sound the alarm about President-elect Joe Biden’s agenda. Conservative reporters won’t take pitches about Biden’s rumored Cabinet contenders, insistent on covering evidence-deficient claims of voter fraud instead. One conservative group involved in policy advocacy backed off from hiring two soon-to-depart Trump administration officials after growing concerned about the consequences.”
“And it’s all because of an unspoken rule set by President Trump: Do not acknowledge Biden’s imminent White House takeover. Those who have run afoul of the dictate have faced swift repercussions. Some have received angry emails from donors accusing them of siding with the ‘liberal media.’ Those who have tried to start revving up the grassroots engine — warning of what could unfold in January, particularly if Democrats win control of the Senate via two runoff races in Georgia — have been likened to turncoats by colleagues.”
re: #76 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Joe Biden’s transition team is in talks with multiple Republican leaders and officeholders to end the transition stalemate, warning them of risks to national security and public health if the president-elect isn’t granted access to the government.
another way in which this election is unprecedented. we have an incumbent who is well aware of the criminal charges he will be facing as soon as he loses immunity. and he has the full backing of his party to continue to ignore the outcome
re: #79 dangerman
Said election law expert Rick Hasen: “Each loss further cements Biden’s win.”
every time he loses a challenge, he loses the election again
every day he refuses to concede, he loses again
every time he tweets “I WON!!!” in screaming tantrum caps, he loses again.
re: #77 dangerman
we’re one from column a, 2 from column b, etc
what the hell is a “wine celler”?
Spoken like a true Floridian. 😂
It’s a room, usually in a basement, where wine fanatics store vast amounts of wine (usually neck down) which keeps it better. Or something.
I use cheap wine for cooking so that’s my 10,000 ft explanation.
re: #73 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
If I were religious I would say that when man starts worshiping the Golden Calf, God sends pestilence.
re: #78 bmoak
Secretary of State Seward was actually attacked by an assassin who came to his house and wounded him, but Seward and household members fought the assassin off and he fled. His home in Auburn, NY is now a museum and has both the bloody shirt and the attempted murder weapon
That definitely rings a bell - I remember the conspiracy was pretty broad, basically what we’d nowadays call a decapitation strike.
re: #82 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Spoken like a true Floridian. 😂
It’s a room, usually in a basement, where wine fanatics store vast amounts of wine (usually neck down) which keeps it better. Or something.
I use cheap wine for cooking so that’s my 10,000 ft explanation.
Assuming this was meant rhetorically or ironically, I will nonetheless explain that if wine is to be stored for long periods then it is best kept dark and at a constant temperature.
re: #84 Dr Lizardo
That definitely rings a bell - I remember the conspiracy was pretty broad, basically what we’d nowadays call a decapitation strike.
I am sure the guys after Whitmer found it or even used it as an inspiration…because they are such sick fuckers.
“…useless…”
CNN examined records for 50 Michiganders who Trump supporters claim are dead voters. They found 37 were dead and had not voted. Five are alive and had voted, and the remaining eight are also alive but didn’t vote.#GOPConspiracyTheories#DebunkedLies https://t.co/sk1n4myKlY
— ✨Harry Potter Resists✨ (Commentary) (@HarryPotterMAGE) November 18, 2020
re: #85 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Assuming this was meant rhetorically or ironically, I will nonetheless explain that if wine is to be stored for long periods then it is best kept dark and at a constant temperature.
Oh sure, go all factual and shit. 😉
re: #65 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Or served the GOP just fine by appearing to muddy the waters. A lot of their actions are not intended to have results, but are intended to simply have the appearance to their base of an investigation or wrongdoing that can then be trumpeted as Democrat corruption.
Or an attempt to get Democrats so worked up by the possibility that Republicans will keep trying to drag it out that they will create cave to Republican demands.
Fixed.
re: #88 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Oh sure, go all factual and shit. 😉
I live in wine country. Must admit that I don’t drink a lot of it, more than the odd glass gives me a sour stomach. And although I can tell a good wine from a bad one, I have never been able to develop the sort of palate that can tell grape varieties apart (I can tell a red from a whlte by looking at them) and certainly cannot pick out a “hint of apricot and wheat grass with a smoky almond finish”
re: #89 Belafon
Or an attempt to get Democrats so worked up by the possibility that Republicans will keep trying to drag it out that they will create to Republican demands.
Why not? Mitch refused any kind of stimulus/assistance without employer indemnity.
re: #53 thedopefishlives
Also, apparently the jackwagons in Wayne County, MI say they want a do-over, after some coaching from Trump’s legal eagles:
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Sorry, folks, that isn’t how that works. You signed it, you also agreed to a waiver of reconsideration, the deed is done. The vote is in.
“We rescind our waiver of reconsideration and do so rescind our rescindment.”
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re: #78 bmoak
Secretary of State Seward was actually attacked by an assassin who came to his house and wounded him, but Seward and household members fought the assassin off and he fled. His home in Auburn, NY is now a museum and has both the bloody shirt and the attempted murder weapon
I read somewhere that Seward had escaped death by the “lucky break” of having been in a bad carriage accident a few days previously, and had had his neck in some sort of brace because of it. When the assassin (the thuggish Lewis Powell) broke into Seward’s bedroom, he tried to cut the Secretary’s throat, but was foiled by the brace just long enough to allow Seward’s bodyguard time to intervene. Luck….
re: #90 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I live in wine country. Must admit that I don’t drink a lot of it, more than the odd glass gives me a sour stomach. And although I can tell a good wine from a bad one, I have never been able to develop the sort of palate that can tell grape varieties apart (I can tell a red from a whlte by looking at them) and certainly cannot pick out a “hint of apricot and wheat grass with a smoky almond finish”
Pretty much me as well. I appreciate a good wine occasionally and have gone to wine tastings and stuff but it’s not something I care about.
I do know that adding wine when cooking adds a nice flavor so I use wine when cooking way more often than drinking.
So I split the baby/bathwater by buying $20 bottles so it could be drinkable but almost never is (drinken…drank…drunk??).
re: #93 Jay C
I read somewhere that Seward had escaped death by the “lucky break” of having been in a bad carriage accident a few days previously, and had had his neck in some sort of brace because of it. When the assassin (the thuggish Lewis Powell) broke into Seward’s bedroom, he tried to cut the Secretary’s throat, but was foiled by the brace just long enough to allow Seward’s bodyguard time to intervene. Luck….
WOW!
re: #82 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Spoken like a true Floridian. 😂
It’s a room, usually in a basement, where wine fanatics store vast amounts of wine (usually neck down) which keeps it better. Or something.
I use cheap wine for cooking so that’s my 10,000 ft explanation.
true what with the water table, we dont have basements (or cellars)
i think we dont have cellers either but im not sure what one is ;-)
re: #63 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Whatever.
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re: #87 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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sometimes it’s best when news just deadpans it
CNN examined records for 50 Michiganders who Trump supporters claim are dead voters. They found 37 were dead and had not voted. Five are alive and had voted, and the remaining eight are also alive but didn’t vote.#GOPConspiracyTheories#DebunkedLies https://t.co/sk1n4myKlY
— ✨Harry Potter Resists✨ (Commentary) (@HarryPotterMAGE) November 18, 2020
re: #46 PrairieQueen
Trump’s presidency has taken a toll on many of us and that will continue until he’s officially out of the White House for good.
Lre: #93 Jay C
I read somewhere that Seward had escaped death by the “lucky break” of having been in a bad carriage accident a few days previously, and had had his neck in some sort of brace because of it. When the assassin (the thuggish Lewis Powell) broke into Seward’s bedroom, he tried to cut the Secretary’s throat, but was foiled by the brace just long enough to allow Seward’s bodyguard time to intervene. Luck….
There’s a great book about the plot and hunt by and later against Booth, Manhunt. Booth wanted to kill Lincoln, Grant, Seward, & Johnson and cause chaos. Grant wasn’t attacked because he and his wife turned down an invitation to Fords Theater. Johnson’s attempted assassin got drunk with cold feet.
re: #94 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Pretty much me as well. I appreciate a good wine occasionally and have gone to wine tastings and stuff but it’s not something I care about.
I do know that adding wine when cooking adds a nice flavor so I use wine when cooking way more often than drinking.
So I split the baby/bathwater by buying $20 bottles so it could be drinkable but almost never is (drinken…drank…drunk??).
I really am missing out, one need not pay more than €10-12 euros here to get an outstanding wine and a perfectly drinkable one can be found for half that price.
In the category of “they will turn on each other”:
QAnon Mom Arrested For Murder of Fringe Legal Theorist (Daily Beast)
A once murky alliance forged in a world of internet conspiracy theories appears to have ended in murder this past Sunday, with an infamous QAnon mom accused of having shot a fringe legal theorist.
Neely Petrie-Blanchard, a Kentucky resident, had long ago lost custody of her daughters for reasons that are unclear. And to help in the task of getting them back, she turned to Chris Hallett, an amateur legal expert who offered bogus court services through a company called “E-Clause,” and who promised Petrie-Blanchard she could win her daughters back through ludicrous courtroom tactics he borrowed from the anti-government sovereign citizen’s movement.
Petrie-Blanchard went all-in on Hallett’s promises. When she did see her daughters, she dressed them in “E-Clause” shirts and put a vanity “ECLAUSE” license plate on her car.
But, along the way, something went wrong. On Sunday night, Hallett was found face down in the kitchen of his central Florida home, bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds to his back.
(more at Daily Beast)
re: #99 Patricia Kayden
Trump’s presidency has taken a toll on many of us and that will continue until he’s officially out of the White House for good.
i fear it will not stop on 1/20/21 and will continue after he’s out. officially or otherwise.
hopefully to a lesser and more easily ignorable degree
but this guy craves the limelight and will keep doing whatever it takes to have it shine on him (while biden goes quietly conducting the business of government)
#morningjoe OMG, from Dutch TV. This is hilarious. I don’t think the Jumbo Dumbo will like this. https://t.co/gae308T3JE
— Linda Case (@lindacaseauthor) November 18, 2020
re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I really am missing out, one need not pay more than €10-12 euros here to get an outstanding wine and a perfectly drinkable one can be found for half that price.
I’m in Canada. All alcohol is regulated and expensive. The cheapest wine here is $11 (on sale). In the states, cheap wine is $4.
re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In the category of “they will turn on each other”:
QAnon Mom Arrested For Murder of Fringe Legal Theorist (Daily Beast)
(more at Daily Beast)
This attention-grabbing race to the bottom knows no bottom, but it does make the contestants highly competitive. Tonya Harding-style competitive.
re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This attention-grabbing race to the bottom knows no bottom, but it does make the contestants highly competitive. Tonya Harding-style competitive.
In the main, I think they are more a threat to each other than they are to us.
re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This attention-grabbing race to the bottom knows no bottom, but it does make the contestants highly competitive. Tonya Harding-style competitive.
And leaves a wake of ruined lives behind it.
Person dead. Another person a (probable) murderer. Plus two children who have to grow up and deal with the history of this as well. You can argue that the first two might be getting something they deserved for embracing/exploiting the crazy, but the latter?
In what must be music to Gov. Ricketts’s ears, Gering Public School (Gering is the county seat of Scott’s Bluff County) is about to collapse under the weight of Covid-19 in Gering.
COVID-19 has severely impacted Gering Public Schools
Spread is not happening at school, but community transmission is seriously affecting Gering Public Schools’ ability to function, according to interim Superintendent Gary Cooper.
During a Board of Education meeting on Monday night, Cooper painted a dire picture of a district impacted by community spread of COVID-19, echoing many of the problems Scottsbluff Public Schools Superintendent Rick Myles outlined just a week earlier.
“As you know, COVID-19 has been at the forefront of everything the district wants me to provide leadership in,” Cooper said. “The biggest thing is we’ve never experienced this before so I’m not sure how the leadership is supposed to look.”
In all, Gering has seen 123 positive cases during this school year, 46 of which are active. Of those 46 cases, 28 are at the high school or junior high school, according to the district’s COVID-19 dashboard.
When Cooper gave his superintendent’s report on Monday night, Gering’s active case count was 54, which is about 2.5% of the district’s population.
(more at the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
re: #1 I Would Prefer Not To
6.
I know, no Internet. But still mountain view and wine cellar and movie projector? How could you not?
Wait, that means no LGF or Mandalorian? NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! What kind of hell have I sent myself too. :)
.@realDonaldTrump learn to speak Loser https://t.co/aOdEZy62mF
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) November 19, 2020
re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This attention-grabbing race to the bottom knows no bottom, but it does make the contestants highly competitive. Tonya Harding-style competitive.
Hey, if Q wants to take on SovCits, I say LET THEM FIGHT!
Lawyers, Guns, and Money goes after Emily Murphy and CNN.
CNN has a shape-of-the-Earth-views-differ piece of special pleading for Emily Murphy, the General Services Administrator who is refusing to provide the ascertainment that Joe Biden is entitled to as the president-elect. It is massively unconvincing, and indeed is unable to provide anything remotely resembling a decent reason for going along with Donald Trump’s electoral theft operation while obstructing transition during a deadly pandemic. As with many of these, it’s a strangely structured piece, alternating between arguing that Murphy is in an impossible spot and quietly noting that there’s no actual defensible basis for her actions… .
From that article, the equivocation by CNN:
Sources who spoke to CNN could not say whether Murphy has been in touch with the White House on the issue.”She absolutely feels like she’s in a hard place. She’s afraid on multiple levels. It’s a terrible situation,” one friend and former colleague of Murphy’s told CNN. “Emily is a consummate professional, a deeply moral person, but also a very scrupulous attorney who is in a very difficult position with an unclear law and precedence that is behind her stance.
She is not a deeply moral person. She is violating the law.
Emily Murphy is damaging the country for no defensible reason
“Grosse Pointe Antifa”…no, really.
I can confirm from texts shown to me that Wayne County Republican canvasser says she‘s received threats post-meeting.
She says they’ve come from both sides, the right & the left, specifically Antifa from Grosse Pointe.
Yes, Michiganders, you read that last part correctly— Kayla Ruble (@RubleKB) November 19, 2020
“…Antifa from Grosse Pointe….” pic.twitter.com/ue9dUoVAdO
— Rob (@rsayre) November 19, 2020
re: #113 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
At this point she probably wants immunity from any inquiry or prosecution.
re: #115 mmmirele
“Grosse Pointe Antifa”…no, really.
Both of the liberals that live in Grosse Pointe are *very angry*
— Jon Bakos (@SirPhobos) November 19, 2020
re: #115 mmmirele
“Grosse Pointe Antifa”…no, really.
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re: #116 Dave In Austin
At this point she probably wants immunity from any inquiry or prosecution.
Something about sex on the rooftop and allowing drinking on the job comes to mind.
re: #116 Dave In Austin
At this point she probably wants immunity from any inquiry or prosecution.
The upcoming inquiry where she blocked the FBI from moving their building so Trump’s hotel wouldn’t have competition from a new hotel? That inquiry?
She’s a conservative, therefore she’s a criminal. That statement is axiomatic at this point.
Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said on Tuesday that an audit of state voting machines found no signs of foul play, making Trump’s claim that Dominion machines had removed 2.7 million Trump votes from the tally baseless. https://t.co/1akn560NYQ
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) November 19, 2020
re: #116 Dave In Austin
At this point she probably wants immunity from any inquiry or prosecution.
What criminal doesnt?
Fuck me.
The Wisconsin Elections commissioners can’t seem to get along, suggesting the recount will be brutal and could end in a courtroom.https://t.co/LLwehPNPQ0
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) November 19, 2020
re: #123 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Fuck me.
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Yeah, I posted that. From reading around on Twitter, it seems like they were able to come to a conclusion after a bunch of political grandstanding by the Republicans on the committee.
re: #117 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Has nobody done an in-depth interview of how hard it is to be an Antifa in Grosse Pointe?
re: #119 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Something about sex on the rooftop and allowing drinking on the job comes to mind.
Yeah. Scary thought there. I’d be interested in the participants and a few pictures…..
re: #112 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Hey, if Q wants to take on SovCits, I say LET THEM FIGHT!
The only problem would be the collateral damage, such as the woman and two children who were witnesses to the murder.
re: #125 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Has nobody done an in-depth interview of how hard it is to be an Antifa in Grosse Pointe?
The New York Times would, except their reporters will need to reassigned from their Cletus Safaris in Iowa and Western PA…..
How will we pay for ______ pic.twitter.com/U5XFP3EDS4
— hbomberguy (@Hbomberguy) November 19, 2020
Theres no money for medicine. Trust me, I saw the receipt for the missiles
— hbomberguy (@Hbomberguy) November 19, 2020
re: #124 thedopefishlives
Yeah, I posted that. From reading around on Twitter, it seems like they were able to come to a conclusion after a bunch of political grandstanding by the Republicans on the committee.
It also says it is likely to wind up in court.
re: #127 Dave In Austin
Yeah. Scary thought there. I’d be interested in the participants and a few pictures…..
I’m not sure about the sex party but she admitted to the drinking party “Friday’s after work” in the office.
re: #115 mmmirele
I’m drawing a complete….. Blank.
re: #132 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Starts at Noon 30. I know those.
They don’t have the ability to do that.
They certified. That ends this charade.
They’re certifiably corrupt and racist. That’s what we need to know.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 19, 2020
Long thread on Wisconsin’s Electoral Commission ends with this:
Five and a half hours after they started, the Wisconsin Elections Commission votes unanimously on order to be issued tomorrow starting the Trump-requested recount
The order does not refer to the commission’s own recount manual they spent hours revising— Scott Bauer (@sbauerAP) November 19, 2020
today is a bad day
— Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette Editrix, King Of You (@commiegirl1) November 19, 2020
Important News Conference today by lawyers on a very clear and viable path to victory. Pieces are very nicely falling into place. RNC at 12:00 P.M.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, 2020
Gov. Cuomo on following COVID-19 rules: “If you’re socially distant, and you wore a mask, and you were smart, none of this would be a problem — it’s all self imposed. If you didn’t eat the cheesecake you wouldn’t have a weight problem.”
— News 8 WROC (@News_8) November 18, 2020
Thread, five tweets from a sociologist:
This is why I so insistently rail against individualist perspectives on the pandemic.
The problem with that mentality comes into sharp focus when you see cruel statements like this from a politician clearly trying to avoid responsibility. https://t.co/cqKHX0v8iv— Katherine Cross (@Quinnae_Moon) November 18, 2020
re: #139 dangerman
You’re indistinguishable from Hitler in the Bunker moving around armies and divisions that don’t exist.
You lost. You have no path to anything but being indicted after January. You are the most corrupt and incompetent admin in history and your legacy is 250k+ dead Americans.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 19, 2020
From the atlantic. He’s abdicated
The pandemic has been a catastrophe for months, but it seems to be reaching its worst moment in the United States, despite promising advances in vaccine development.”
“The nation cries out for leadership, yet amid one of the worst crises to face the country in decades, President Trump is nowhere to be found.”
“Before November 3, the question of what Trump might do in the likely event of a loss was a topic of speculation: Would he cling to office, denying the results of the election? Or would he quit and slink away? The answer, we now know, is both: He has abdicated nearly all of the work of the presidency, but without either putting a temporary successor, such as Vice President Mike Pence, in charge, or allowing the formal transition to President-elect Joe Biden to begin.”
Marco Rubio: We will block Biden’s Cabinet picks because Democrats are ‘so unfair’ https://t.co/nxa1WcHzve
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) November 19, 2020
re: #1 I Would Prefer Not To
I’m 4.
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re: #143 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
As I lamented on election night, the lack of Democratic wins in the Senate (specifically the failure to flip IA and Maine) really hobbles Biden.
The story is clear by now - Biden will be undermined from day one. No, even before day one with the current fiascos.
There is no clearer evidence that the theocratic takeover of the GOP is intended to take the US back a couple of centuries.
re: #142 dangerman
From the atlantic. He’s abdicated
The pandemic has been a catastrophe for months, but it seems to be reaching its worst moment in the United States, despite promising advances in vaccine development.”
“The nation cries out for leadership, yet amid one of the worst crises to face the country in decades, President Trump is nowhere to be found.”
“Before November 3, the question of what Trump might do in the likely event of a loss was a topic of speculation: Would he cling to office, denying the results of the election? Or would he quit and slink away? The answer, we now know, is both: He has abdicated nearly all of the work of the presidency, but without either putting a temporary successor, such as Vice President Mike Pence, in charge, or allowing the formal transition to President-elect Joe Biden to begin.”
Lacking any federal response at all, this winter is going to be devastating. I’m just hoping to survive with my family until we can get vaccinated.
re: #121 dangerman
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re: #146 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
And the American voters who supported Republican Senators are okay with this country being dragged back in time. I’m going to write some letters for the Georgia runoff and hope for the best.
re: #140 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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sorry. absolutely no.
it’s a metaphor. ok, an insensitive and imperfect one
first, the plain truth is people arent getting infected because they’re out ‘earning income’ that ‘the government’ wont temporarily subsidize
they’re getting infected because they are doing a laundry list of unsafe things
they are not masking, distancing and washing
and
they are making decisions to engage in activities that are not necessary, or critical to their survival or safety
if they government ‘paid them to stay home’ they’d still be not masking and they’d still be going to restaurants, bars, ball games, thanksgiving, enrolling their kids in whatever sport….
re: #147 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Lacking any federal response at all, this winter is going to be devastating. I’m just hoping to survive with my family until we can get vaccinated.
That is our plan as well
Almost nothing else matters
re: #150 dangerman
as long as a large part of America believes Covid is some hoax or conspiracy or that its risks are all blown out of proportion, there are no measures that will help us.
and these people are no longer capable of being educated
re: #136 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Long thread on Wisconsin’s Electoral Commission ends with this:
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The GOP is inadvertently making a strong case to do away with the Electoral College that they love for a straight up popular vote.
re: #148 Sir John Barron
Hard to believe that the GOP in GA is being more responsible than the GOP in WI and MI.
Perhaps they see becoming irrelevant, like they are in California.
re: #115 mmmirele
Annnnd…it is alleged Trump reached out to these two Republicans after the vote.
🚨This is shocking: Trump apparently “reached out” to the two Republican Wayne County Commissioners. The next day, they signed an affidavit saying they want to rescind their votes to certify the results.
Channeling @BrendanNyhan, what you say if you saw this in another country. https://t.co/iLc1SHTmwP pic.twitter.com/U5vVzPBP9u— Josh Douglas (@JoshuaADouglas) November 19, 2020
re: #155 mmmirele
Annnnd…it is alleged Trump reached out to these two Republicans after the vote.
how can you say no to a perfect phone call?
re: #1 I Would Prefer Not To
4 or 5. Ghosts don’t exist. Change my mind.
re: #150 dangerman
Maybe both.
Folks are still being required to go to workplaces or schools which are not necessary at the moment. The so-called essential workers tend to be those who receive the least pay.
Part of being a politician is being able to make hard, unpopular decisions, even when feral and violent conservatives are harassing you.
Every state in the Union is exactly in the same place it was at the start of all this: A two- or three-week shutdown breaks the chain-of-transmission, which in turn makes contact tracing simpler.
re: #83 Greup
If I were religious I would say that when man starts worshiping the Golden Calf, God sends pestilence.
I am religious; it’s part of the text that when man starts worshipping the Golden Calf, God sends THE LAW and JUDGES.
Trump ‘reached out’ to ‘thank’ Wayne County canvassers before they tried to block votes again: report https://t.co/Z9Q6mLNxu4
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) November 19, 2020
Trump’s going to keep committing crimes on the way out the door.
None of this is normal or legit. He’s shredding the rule of law and sabotaging functioning government all while the nation’s economy is going to shudder back into freefall because the GOP obstructionists refuse to lift a finger to help millions who are facing economic ruin as the pandemic spreads and more lives are lost.
re: #1 I Would Prefer Not To
I’m gonna go with 4 because of the margs. Would honestly go with one if it included booze, bedbugs can bedbug.
No way is 2 an option. The worst thing ever in a quarantine is living with people you don’t like.
re: #161 lawhawk
None of this is normal or legit.
But we are so inured to it that we can no longer get outraged
He’s shredding the rule of law and sabotaging functioning governmentagain, this is not news, it is just what goes on from day to day
all while the nation’s economy is going to shudder back into freefall because the GOP obstructionists refuse to lift a finger to help millions who are facing economic ruin as the pandemic spreads and more lives are lost.
and they will blame it on the Democrats when it crashes and complain about the record deficit.
re: #161 lawhawk
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Trump’s going to keep committing crimes on the way out the door.
None of this is normal or legit. He’s shredding the rule of law and sabotaging functioning government all while the nation’s economy is going to shudder back into freefall because the GOP obstructionists refuse to lift a finger to help millions who are facing economic ruin as the pandemic spreads and more lives are lost.
another question that begs to be asked is why these canvassing boards are staffed with partisan hacks and why each party has equal representation guaranteeing deadlock?
re: #126 Dave In Austin
Needs Weed somewhere…….
At this stage, I’ll go with 5. I reckon there’s plenty herb in the garden, which should make all housemates chill.
re: #161 lawhawk
Trump’s going to keep committing crimes on the way out the door.
None of this is normal or legit. He’s shredding the rule of law and sabotaging functioning government all while the nation’s economy is going to shudder back into freefall because the GOP obstructionists refuse to lift a finger to help millions who are facing economic ruin as the pandemic spreads and more lives are lost.
He ain’t done yet, either.
Trump targets vote certification in late bid to block Biden (Associated Press, one hour ago)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Getting nowhere in the courts, President Donald Trump’s scattershot effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory is shifting toward obscure election boards that certify the vote as Trump and his allies seek to upend the electoral process, sow chaos and perpetuate unsubstantiated doubts about the count.
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re: #164 Sir John Barron
another question that begs to be asked is why these canvassing boards are staffed with partisan hacks and why each party has equal representation guaranteeing deadlock?
Because, otherwise, Michigan Republicans, having gerrymandered the legislature in their favor even though they get less votes statewide, would make them all 3-1 in favor of Republicans.
re: #166 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He ain’t done yet, either.
Trump targets vote certification in late bid to block Biden (Associated Press, one hour ago)
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We will have to be as loud as the people in Michigan were.
🚨BREAKING: Trump campaign DISMISSES its last remaining Michigan federal court lawsuit.
Trump and his allies are 1-29 in post-election litigation in court.https://t.co/jFruayaXkr— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) November 19, 2020
re: #166 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He ain’t done yet, either.
Trump targets vote certification in late bid to block Biden (Associated Press, one hour ago)
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This is what flailing desperation looks like
Trump’s more than happy to keep committing crimes if he thinks it’ll keep him office beyond January 20. He knows he’s getting indicted after leaving office. He will burn the nation to the ground to protect himself. GOP are cowards willing to immolate themselves to cover for Trump
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 19, 2020
The lawyers for @realDonaldTrump have lost 28 election lawsuits and counting. So why are they really doing this press conference? Because Georgia is going to announce right around that time that @JoeBiden beat @realDonaldTrump, again.#thursdaymorning thoughts https://t.co/i0WhMnnxFa
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) November 19, 2020
Apparently dipshit’s gonna go on the teevee for a Super Special Announcement in order to bigfoot the end of the GA count.
FOX News, via MSN:
California lawmakers defend Hawaiian trip as criticism mounts
The California lawmakers criticized for agreeing to attend a week-long policy conference on the sandy beaches of Maui may have had to put down their mai tais for a moment to deal with the blistering criticism that has continued at home.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the annual conference is being held at the Fairmont Kea Lani Hotel, where the rooms can cost more than $500 per night.
The event—which is traditionally subsidized by lobbying groups—gets criticized during a normal year. But this year, with so many families in the state facing financial hardships, the meeting has been met with even more scrutiny.
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Nobody has the balls to do this because we’re supposed to hold hands and heal. That’s limpspeak for “ignore them and they’ll go away.”
The Democrats intend to hold trump and any members of his administration who have committed “crimes against the United States” accountable.
Because RULE OF LAW.
Republicans should live by the same “LOCK HER UP”standards as everyone else.
Because DEMOCRACY. pic.twitter.com/aUjsOpUC57— Mel 🆘 the Enforcer (@Fah_Lo_Me) November 19, 2020
re: #161 lawhawk
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Trump’s going to keep committing crimes on the way out the door.
None of this is normal or legit. He’s shredding the rule of law and sabotaging functioning government all while the nation’s economy is going to shudder back into freefall because the GOP obstructionists refuse to lift a finger to help millions who are facing economic ruin as the pandemic spreads and more lives are lost.
I just don’t understand why so many low level humps like the Wayne County canvases and Emily Murphy at the GSA are literally willing to potentially destroy their lives over this monster. Best I can figure is they’re playing Wingnut Welfare Lottery and will be rewarded with a cushy payday (possibly granted by Cheetolini himself) if they play ball.
This is what’s really scary. It feel like 90% of the conservative/GOP/MAGAt population in this country are ready to literally die for a child of privilege who would happily step over their bodies if they were dying on the street in front of him.
re: #176 Mattand
I just don’t understand why so many low level humps like the Wayne County canvases and Emily Murphy at the GSA are literally willing to potentially destroy their lives over this monster.
Trump commands a certain cultish type of personal loyalty that few politicians have.
“Many crimes.”
Tonight I’m calling for the eventual prosecution of donald trump and his enablers for their many crimes against the United States. pic.twitter.com/LJGvzLqQ35
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) November 18, 2020
The reason Dems have such a reputation for being lightweights is because our elected officials are basically do-nothings, all bark and no bite.
re: #176 Mattand
I just don’t understand why so many low level humps like the Wayne County canvases and Emily Murphy at the GSA are literally willing to potentially destroy their lives over this monster. Best I can figure is they’re playing Wingnut Welfare Lottery and will be rewarded with a cushy payday (possibly granted by Cheetolini himself) if they play ball.
This is what’s really scary. It feel like 90% of the conservative/GOP/MAGAt population in this country are ready to literally die for a child of privilege who would happily step over their bodies if they were dying on the street in front of him.
True believers. Racists for Wayne Co, on top.
re: #178 PrairieQueen
Trump is an unindicted coconspirator in federal felonies. He conspired with Cohen (who is now a convicted felon for said conspiracy w/Trump to violate multiple federal laws) to break the law.
Start there. After January, those charges should form basis of first prosecution case against Trump.
That’s how the rule of law should work. No one is above it.
New: Trump’s campaign is dropping its effort to stop Michigan from certifying results — there’s a court notice, affidavits, and Giuliani statement, and they all *contradict each other* (thread coming.) Regardless of what they say, though, this case is overhttps://t.co/8Ze6twtEqE pic.twitter.com/IXfEzhGzrN
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) November 19, 2020
Wayne County has certified. Everything else is noise.
re: #180 lawhawk
The offenses are there. All I know is I don’t want to hear about how it might divide the country, or piss off malcontents, or how it slows the healing process. Ignoring it literally changes the course of this country, taking it further down the path of fascism. Upper tier Dems need to grow a pair.
re: #181 makeitstop
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Wayne County just certified. Everything else is noise.
That dismissal is weird. It says they’re dismissing it because they declined to certify. But we know they didn’t… What the hell is going on?
This fucking guy
Perhaps if you tried to not be disingenuous lying treason weasels, maybe had an idea or two that’s not tax breaks or cutting regulations that protect us, you might get better coverage.
You can’t improve a shit sandwich.
Republicans are a shit sandwich.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) November 19, 2020
re: #179 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
True believers. Racists for Wayne Co, on top.
They live in the Fox News bubble and expect everyone to agree with it and each other. Then they find out what it means for a low-level local apparatchik to get a tsunami of local, national and international blowback that they never knew could exist. Then they figure out that Trump might have the full resources of the US government to protect him, but they sure as hell don’t.
re: #173 ericblair
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Apparently dipshit’s gonna go on the teevee for a Super Special Announcement in order to bigfoot the end of the GA count.
It won’t be him. It will be his idjit lawyers.
re: #183 thedopefishlives
That dismissal is weird. It says they’re dismissing it because they declined to certify. But we know they didn’t… What the hell is going on?
Lying. More lying.
Imagine if Hillary hadn’t conceded 16 days later and the Democrats said nothing. The Republicans would be screaming into every microphone in town, and taking aggressive actions.
After Biden wins again today in Georgia, it’s time for a public rebuke of Trump and his enablers.— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) November 19, 2020
re: #183 thedopefishlives
That dismissal is weird. It says they’re dismissing it because they declined to certify. But we know they didn’t… What the hell is going on?
You’re expecting competence from these mooks?
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re: #181 makeitstop
New: Trump’s campaign is dropping its effort to stop Michigan from certifying results — there’s a court notice, affidavits, and Giuliani statement, and they all *contradict each other* (thread coming.) Regardless of what they say, though, this case is over
newsmax headlines tell us the GOP election officials claim they were “bullied” into certifying results…
In the affidavits, the two GOP members say they felt pressured/duped into agreeing to certify based on promises there would be an audit. One declares that they rescind (unclear what actual legal meaning that has, if any) and one says, I still don’t think we should have certified pic.twitter.com/vmZSE9rAVY
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) November 19, 2020
re: #184 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Don’t want to be paranoid, but I think many in the media really don’t like Republicans.
“don’t like us” = “do not go along with our lies unquestioningly”
Another Republican claim that will fall apart in front of a judge.
Anyone see this NewsWeek arkle?
Trump’s Rhetoric Is ‘So Similar’ to Jim Jones, Says Woman Who Fled Jonestown Cult
re: #194 Teukka
Anyone see this NewsWeek arkle?
Trump’s Rhetoric Is ‘So Similar’ to Jim Jones, Says Woman Who Fled Jonestown Cult
No but will read.
re: #181 makeitstop
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Wayne County has certified. Everything else is noise.
there’s a court notice, affidavits, and Giuliani statement, and they all *contradict each other*
And this is surprising, because….????
The inclusion of “Giuliani statement” in any report about anything ought be (as lawyers say) prima facie evidence of non-credibility….
The time is long past, actually.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) November 19, 2020
re: #190 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
newsmax headlines tell us the GOP election officials claim they were “bullied” into certifying results…
Trump’s actually called these two racist assclowns in Wayne County to reverse their certification. That’s an actual crime. That’s bullying.
Despite zero evidence of any election fraud or other malfeasance that might have affected the tallies, Trump is now interfering and committing crimes to get state officials to say that there was.
re: #176 Mattand
I just don’t understand why so many low level humps like the Wayne County canvases and Emily Murphy at the GSA are literally willing to potentially destroy their lives over this monster. Best I can figure is they’re playing Wingnut Welfare Lottery and will be rewarded with a cushy payday (possibly granted by Cheetolini himself) if they play ball.
This is what’s really scary. It feel like 90% of the conservative/GOP/MAGAt population in this country are ready to literally die for a child of privilege who would happily step over their bodies if they were dying on the street in front of him.
Upding for “low level humps”
GOP to America: Merry fucking Christmas, losers!
Millions of Americans who lost their jobs to the mass layoffs caused by the coronavirus pandemic will be cut off from government aid at the end of December unless Congress acts, a study said on Wednesday.
Lawmakers in March passed the $2.2 trillion CARES Act that expanded the unemployment safety net as Covid-19 wrecked the economy, offering benefits to workers not normally eligible and extending the length of time laid-off Americans could receive benefits.
But funding for those programs expires on December 26, and a study from The Century Foundation estimates that nearly 12 million workers will be receiving benefits from the two main expanded unemployment programs when funding expires.
“This cutoff threatens to pull the rug out from under an economy that has already seen millions of workers lose their state unemployment benefits this fall,” the New York-based progressive think tank said in its report.
Washington lawmakers have negotiated for months over whether to pass a follow-up measures to the CARES Act. But Democrats and Republicans have been unable to agree on how much to spend or what to spend it on, and there’s little reason to believe progress will be achieved before the new Congress is seated in January.
The United States is home to the world’s largest coronavirus outbreak, with nearly 249,000 deaths as of Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Business shutdowns to stop the virus’s spread caused the unemployment rate to spike to 14.7 percent in April as millions of people filed new claims for jobless benefits each week.
Also worth noting: There were almost one million NEW filings for unemployment just this past week.
The crimes are going to go all the way up to Inauguration Day and beyond. My hope is Biden chooses a great AG and lets them handle it from there. Trump is an enemy of our democracy. He’s been hostile to it his entire presidential run.
re: #176 Mattand
I just don’t understand why so many low level humps like the Wayne County canvases and Emily Murphy at the GSA are literally willing to potentially destroy their lives over this monster. Best I can figure is they’re playing Wingnut Welfare Lottery and will be rewarded with a cushy payday (possibly granted by Cheetolini himself) if they play ball.
This is what’s really scary. It feel like 90% of the conservative/GOP/MAGAt population in this country are ready to literally die for a child of privilege who would happily step over their bodies if they were dying on the street in front of him.
The rot goes all the way to the bottom and, in fact, began on the bottom.
re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
hereby and forthwith
DoEsnT cOuNT WiTh NO CaPS!
It already exists….it’s called Qacultists.
re: #207 Dr. Matt
It already exists….it’s called Qacultists.
They will split off from the GOP after the party refuses to let them take it over entirely.
re: #207 Dr. Matt
It already exists….it’s called Qacultists.
Please proceed. Making a new party dedicated to the whims of one angry orange baby will surely end well.
I’m afraid that the Constitution — specifically Article XII, Section 48, Clause B — explicitly declares “no backsies” https://t.co/F5uqjM9vDc
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) November 19, 2020
I just thought how much funnier the current circumstances would be if it was played out with muppets, in a movie. “Muppets Do The White House.”
But they aren’t.
re: #203 Eclectic Cyborg
GOP to America: Merry fucking Christmas, losers!
Millions of Americans who lost their jobs to the mass layoffs caused by the coronavirus pandemic will be cut off from government aid at the end of December unless Congress acts, a study said on Wednesday.
Lawmakers in March passed the $2.2 trillion CARES Act that expanded the unemployment safety net as Covid-19 wrecked the economy, offering benefits to workers not normally eligible and extending the length of time laid-off Americans could receive benefits.
But funding for those programs expires on December 26, and a study from The Century Foundation estimates that nearly 12 million workers will be receiving benefits from the two main expanded unemployment programs when funding expires.
“This cutoff threatens to pull the rug out from under an economy that has already seen millions of workers lose their state unemployment benefits this fall,” the New York-based progressive think tank said in its report.
Washington lawmakers have negotiated for months over whether to pass a follow-up measures to the CARES Act. But Democrats and Republicans have been unable to agree on how much to spend or what to spend it on, and there’s little reason to believe progress will be achieved before the new Congress is seated in January.
The United States is home to the world’s largest coronavirus outbreak, with nearly 249,000 deaths as of Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Business shutdowns to stop the virus’s spread caused the unemployment rate to spike to 14.7 percent in April as millions of people filed new claims for jobless benefits each week.Also worth noting: There were almost one million NEW filings for unemployment just this past week.
Meanwhile, there’s talk of a Government shutdown at year’s end. Trump won’t sign the CR.
re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They will split off from the GOP after the party refuses to let them take it over entirely.
Fine. Let the conservatives split their votes between two parties and allow more Democrats to get elected.
re: #213 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Meanwhile, there’s talk of a Government shutdown at year’s end. Trump won’t sign the CR.
I’m sure a shutdown will TOTALLY help Republicans in those Georgia runoffs.
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re: #200 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Imagine if Hillary hadn’t conceded 16 days later and the Democrats said nothing. The Republicans would be screaming into every microphone in town, and taking aggressive actions.
After Biden wins again today in Georgia, it’s time for a public rebuke of Trump and his enablers.
Rebukes NOT from Biden. The waffly parts of the media are dying to make this into a shape-of-world-views-differ thumbsucker with Biden saying Trump lost and Trump saying Biden lost and who can tell anything anyway, really. “Trump lost this case, and then lost this case, and then lost this case” is a better story. Fucking infuriating, but there it is.
And yes, the actual tweet in the screenshot is still up:
WE THE PROPLE voted him out. https://t.co/3RvlH501EP
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) November 19, 2020
re: #213 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Meanwhile, there’s talk of a Government shutdown at year’s end. Trump won’t sign the CR.
Why the fuck should he?
(I mean that from his third-grade point of view)
Thread about the danger of metastasizing Trumpism:
8. It is very easy to imagine a pro-Trump purge of Republican electeds who don’t play ball with what really looks like a coup attempt in plain sight based on mass invalidation of ballots and elections.
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) November 19, 2020
We thought the deity-like worshipping of Zombie Reagan was bad over the last 3 decades. The modern-day crop of conservative freaks have reached kamikaze levels of hysterical dedication.
re: #204 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The crimes are going to go all the way up to Inauguration Day and beyond. My hope is Biden chooses a great AG and lets them handle it from there. Trump is an enemy of our democracy. He’s been hostile to it his entire presidential run.
It is McConnell and Gingrich who are the true enemies of our democracy. Without Gingrich, the GOP would not have taken over Congress in the ’90s and damaged this nation and without McConnell, Obama would have accomplished far more and would have been able to get his appointment to SCOTUS. Trump is still President because of McConnell and Trump’s temper tantrum is enabled by McConnell. The remaining members of the GOP are as terrible as McConnell but not as effective.
re: #214 Eclectic Cyborg
Fine. Let the conservatives split their votes between two parties and allow more Democrats to get elected.
There was a reason that McCain had to accept Sarah Palin over his first choice of Joe Lieberman: had he taken on a (relatively) moderate Jew, the Fundamentalists would have bailed from the GOP and run their own candidate.
re: #164 Sir John Barron
another question that begs to be asked is why these canvassing boards are staffed with partisan hacks and why each party has equal representation guaranteeing deadlock?
I’d actually to a degree prefer that since I suspect that the boards would otherwise be under the purview/control of the state legislature and probably be in majority control of that party.
And PA, WI, and MI have all shown repeatedly that a minority party in control of a state legislature is pretty much ratfucking central when it comes gerrymandering and other electoral shenanigans as they pull every trick possible to retain control.
Funny how the two Republican members of Wayne County board happened to omit — in their lengthy affidavits — their phone call with President Trump on Tuesday evening before they attempted to “rescind” their votes on Wednesday.
Would be interesting if they had to testify on this. https://t.co/g9GhjYZS7o— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) November 19, 2020
re: #203 Eclectic Cyborg
Chuck Todd and friends will blame this entirely on Pelosi and the Dems for not bending the knee to McConnell.
Has the Trump campaign sent Wisconsin the money for a partial recount? And is it legal to commission something less than a full recount?
re: #227 Hecuba’s daughter
Has the Trump campaign sent Wisconsin the money for a partial recount? And is it legal to commission something less than a full recount?
As I understand, they sent a cashier’s check.
As for the second part, it is a clear dogwhistle to only count the primarily black districts.
re: #225 jaunte
Funny how the two Republican members of Wayne County board happened to omit — in their lengthy affidavits — their phone call with President Trump on Tuesday evening before they attempted to “rescind” their votes on Wednesday.
Would be interesting if they had to testify on this. https://t.co/g9GhjYZS7o— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) November 19, 2020
IANAL but is it legal to lie in your notice of voluntary dismissal?
The AL GOP governor will be at the CV19 coordination meeting today. Our numbers are soaring.
Gov. Kay Ivey among those meeting with president-elect Joe Biden, VP-elect Kamala Harris
Other participants are expected to be New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who serves as the NGA’s chairman, former chairman Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and the governors of Arkansas, Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Mexico and Utah.
re: #222 Hecuba’s daughter
It is McConnell and Gingrich who are the true enemies of our democracy. Without Gingrich, the GOP would not have taken over Congress in the ’90s and damaged this nation and without McConnell, Obama would have accomplished far more and would have been able to get his appointment to SCOTUS. Trump is still President because of McConnell and Trump’s temper tantrum is enabled by McConnell. The remaining members of the GOP are as terrible as McConnell but not as effective.
No disagreement there but Trump is the one that rallies the troops. You get Trump, you’ll weaken McConnell. I would hope that investigations would uncover possible crimes by McConnell to prosecute too.
re: #1 I Would Prefer Not To
I’m 5.
re: #5 Targetpractice
No video games?!
To hell with that, I’ll deal with the ghosts!
That was my attitude, too. Plus cat, coffee, and books.
re: #234 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Compared to the other deep South governors, it seems like she’s taken Covid more seriously.
She’s somewhat less stupid than most of them.
re: #235 Colère Tueur de Lapin
That was my attitude, too. Plus cat, coffee, and books.
Yeah I’ve been reading more since we hit November. I’m finishing the Lincoln biography I’ve been on since September, reading about Russian involvement in Ukraine, and about waves. Got Obama’s memoir on Audible ready to start too.
re: #233 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I’m 5.
Only after interviewing the ghosts first. Casper would be fine but none in the 13 Ghosts remake would be hospitable house guests.
re: #234 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Compared to the other deep South Republican governors, it seems like she’s taken Covid more seriously.
FTFY. Let’s not forget John Bel Edwards.
re: #178 PrairieQueen
“Many crimes.”
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The reason Dems have such a reputation for being lightweights is because our elected officials are basically do-nothings, all bark and no bite.
Prosecuting these people will require a functioning, independent DOJ. Investigating anyone who is still in an office after Biden takes over will require 16 Republicans to cooperate.
Remember that investigation and impeachment back in January?
re: #240 Hecuba’s daughter
FTFY. Let’s not forget John Bel Edwards.
Yeah I did forget about him regrettably.The Democratic governors from what I can see have handled this well. I’m happy with how Northam has done. Just glad we have a doctor in charge rather than a Republican operative which is all Gillespie really is.
re: #218 Interesting Times
And yes, the actual tweet in the screenshot is still up:
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Trump’s coronavirus treatment was approx $100,000.
There”s an article in People last week about the guy who was California’s first Covid case. He picked it up on a ski trip to Italy last winter. Everybody in his group felt awful for the last few days of the trip. Then they flew home, commercial. (the article doesn’t mention how many others on his flight got sick). 3 days after he returned he was in the hospital, a week after that on a vent. He was in the hospital for months. His insurance covered most of the $3 million cost of his care.
But yeah, controlling the outbreak early, when we still could, would have hurt the economy.
re: #237 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah I’ve been reading more since we hit November. I’m finishing the Lincoln biography I’ve been on since September, reading about Russian involvement in Ukraine, and about waves. Got Obama’s memoir on Audible ready to start too.
Which Lincoln one? I’m really enjoying the one by David Reynolds that just came out.
re: #241 Belafon
Prosecuting these people will require a functioning, independent DOJ. Investigating anyone who is still in an office after Biden takes over will require 16 Republicans to cooperate.
Remember that investigation and impeachment back in January?
Right, the way Trump has politicized DOJ. I totally get and think it’s smart for Biden to be mum about any investigations and prosecutions. The AG and DOJ otoh is another story.
I’ll never forgive the Trump campaigns attempt to steal the election for making me pay attention to Twitter again.
re: #244 Sir John Barron
Which Lincoln one? I’m really enjoying the one by David Reynolds that just came out.
Ah! An old classic, Carl Sandberg’s The Prairie Years and the War Years. So good even if it’s over 60 years old.
re: #243 sagehen
But yeah, controlling the outbreak early, when we still could, would have hurt the economy.
“I like the numbers as they are”
I am not a big fan of things zombie, but I really enjoyed the novel World War Z, less for the zombies than for how it describes the pattern of how humanity fails to deal with a pandemic: first by ignoring it, then denying it, then trying to cover it up so as not to spread panic, all of which has the opposite effect when the lid blows off and it starts to spread, then all conventional methods fail because this is an unprecedented thing, then finally a major change of approach (and leadership) who adopt often unpopular and usually unconventional measures to get things under control.
If Trump decides to make a media event of being physically removed from the white house, I hope that the security officers at each side of him are women. I want to see that image so bad and I want to see the look on his face.
re: #249 stpaulbear
If Trump decides to make a media event of being physically removed from the white house, I hope that the security officers at each side of him are women. I want to see that image so bad and I want to see the look on his face.
BIG women, women who don’t cry…
re: #227 Hecuba’s daughter
Has the Trump campaign sent Wisconsin the money for a partial recount? And is it legal to commission something less than a full recount?
The Bush campaign’s whole argument against the recount was that Gore only picked a few counties, instead of asking for the whole State.
Attorneys representing Trump’s re-election campaign in challenging thousands of ballots in Bucks County, Pennsylvania agreed to sign court documents informing the court that there was no evidence of fraud or misconduct pertaining to those ballots. https://t.co/ShOlmNBfkL
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 19, 2020
Trump’s legal strategy: https://t.co/8F8rFMwVuJ
— Jenn Budd ✊🏻 (@BuddJenn) November 19, 2020
re: #238 Hecuba’s daughter
Only after interviewing the ghosts first. Casper would be fine but none in the 13 Ghosts remake would be hospitable house guests.
Can I have Patrick Swayze as my ghost?
re: #182 PrairieQueen
The offenses are there. All I know is I don’t want to hear about how it might divide the country, or piss off malcontents, or how it slows the healing process. Ignoring it literally changes the course of this country, taking it further down the path of fascism. Upper tier Dems need to grow a pair.
Just as a side note, could we retire “grow a pair” from this discussion? Nancy Pelosi didn’t need them to do her job, Stacey Abrams gave us Georgia without them, Kamala Harris… well the list goes on.
In fact, on the evidence, we should be telling people to lose a pair, so they can get the job done.
(As to the subject matter, we should all be telling our representatives — if yours are repugs, tell Joe Biden and Kamala Harris — that any attempt to leave this behind and heal will do further damage to the country, and they would be derelict in their duty if they failed to pursue it.
(The AJ they choose — if the repugs block them, pick one AJ and one deputy and swap them around every 200 days while loudly lamenting the repugs’ lawlessness — should make this one of their highest priorities.)
re: #250 Decatur Deb
BIG women, women who don’t cry…
“And when you put him in the car, don’t be gentle! Don’t tell him to watch his head!”
re: #204 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The crimes are going to go all the way up to Inauguration Day and beyond. My hope is Biden chooses a great AG and lets them handle it from there. Trump is an enemy of our democracy. He’s been hostile to it his entire presidential run.
I agree. I don’t always like Ari Melber, but he had an interesting piece on last night about how Biden needs to stay out of the argument about charges against the Trump administration. We can’t have the appearance that Biden has his own Bill Barr. Glenn Kirschner is making the same arguments. Get a good AG and appoint an independent commission to look into all of the crimes committed by in the last four years.
We should avoid screaming at Biden to take public stands about criminal matters. The ‘free’ press can investigate and report those crimes as much as they can, and some reporters are doing it really well, even if it’s not becoming front page news on all platforms.
re: #194 Teukka
Anyone see this NewsWeek arkle?
Trump’s Rhetoric Is ‘So Similar’ to Jim Jones, Says Woman Who Fled Jonestown Cult
That’s not by accident.
re: #194 Teukka
My pinned tweet, from May:
Watching the religious right in America worshipping Trump and proudly refusing to take reasonable precautions in a pandemic should once and for all convince us that many American fundamentalist Christians are just one Kool-Aid™ packet away from going full Jim Jones.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) May 26, 2020
re: #253 jaunte
I think it’s even more batcrap insane than that.
This is Trump being the smartest guy in the room doing what he always does - lie about absolutely everything, and his “legal” team indulging his insanities.
More than a few of the lawyers refuse to play along, and the rest are willing to immolate their legal careers.
No one in Trumpworld will tell Trump what he needs to hear. So we’re left with Trump burning down the nation in a ragegasm.
re: #257 stpaulbear
I agree. I don’t always like Ari Melber, but he had an interesting piece on last night about how Biden needs to stay out of the argument about charges against the Trump administration. We can’t have the appearance that Biden has his own Bill Barr. Glenn Kirschner is making the same arguments. Get a good AG and appoint an independent commission to look into all of the crimes committed by in the last four years.
We should avoid screaming at Biden to take public stands about criminal matters. The ‘free’ press can investigate and report those crimes as much as they can, and some reporters are doing it really well, even if it’s not becoming front page news on all platforms.
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That’s exactly right. I get the want of Biden to say something but we really need to restore the independence between DOJ and the WH. I trust Biden to choose a top notch AG who will get to the bottom of this. .
We are waiting for a guy who hasn’t accepted his own hair loss to accept losing an election. @realDonaldTrump
— NoelCaslerComedy (@CaslerNoel) November 19, 2020
re: #257 stpaulbear
We should avoid screaming at Biden to take public stands about criminal matters. The ‘free’ press can investigate and report those crimes as much as they can, and some reporters are doing it really well, even if it’s not becoming front page news on all platforms.
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Agreed, but I also want to hear no talk about “moving on.”
re: #262 makeitstop
He’s worse than I was after the 1996 ALCS but to be fair I was 9 and fuck Jeffrey Maier :).
re: #264 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He’s worse than I was after the 1996 ALCS but to be fair I was 9 and fuck Jeffrey Maier :).
Speaking of baseball - Robbie Cano is still an idiot.
I’m glad I put $$$ in the bank since I expect Trump the shut down the government after Christmas and keep it shut down until Jan 20th.
It’s a going away present from that fucking turd.
re: #265 makeitstop
Speaking of baseball - Robbie Cano is still an idiot.
Yeah I saw that. Guy has HoF talent but is an idiot.
If the Republicans retain control of the Senate and refuse to confirm ANY Biden appointment, how can Biden operate? How can anything be accomplished? How can there be investigations if members of the DOJ are going to be evicted every 200 days? This is terrifying. McConnell proved that during the Obama administration he could stop any Obama judicial appointments and now he is leading the way for a repeat performance on a grander scale. There isn’t a single Republican who will not use McConnell as a role model for obstruction.
My guess is that is one way McConnell may force Biden to capitulate. It’s one thing if the Democrats have control of the Senate — but without that, given that Trump has decapitated so many departments, Biden may find it impossible to govern at all. His election slowed down the destruction of our democracy — but it’s still going forward.
GOP delenda est. But that’s not sufficient. After all, Newmax and OAN have proved there are worse alternatives to Faux News. This is a continuing nightmare, even though Trump may not have yet succeeded in his coup, McConnell is running with it.
re: #268 Hecuba’s daughter
If the Republicans retain control of the Senate and refuse to confirm ANY Biden appointment, how can Biden operate? How can anything be accomplished? How can there be investigations if members of the DOJ are going to be evicted every 200 days? This is terrifying. McConnell proved that during the Obama administration he could stop any Obama judicial appointments and now he is leading the way for a repeat performance on a grander scale. There isn’t a single Republican who will not use McConnell as a role model for obstruction.
My guess is that is one way McConnell may force Biden to capitulate. It’s one thing if the Democrats have control of the Senate — but without that, given that Trump has decapitated so many departments, Biden may find it impossible to govern at all. His election slowed down the destruction of our democracy — but it’s still going forward.
GOP delenda est. But that’s not sufficient. After all, Newmax and OAN have proved there are worse alternatives to Faux News. This is a continuing nightmare, even though Trump may not have yet succeeded in his coup, McConnell is running with it.
Simply use temporary appointments the same way Trump did.
If there’s a 200 day limit, replace them with a different temporary person for one day, then bring the original temporary person back for another 200 day span and repeat as many times as needed. I really doubt there’s a law against a person serving multiple temporary appointments.
re: #268 Hecuba’s daughter
If the Republicans retain control of the Senate and refuse to confirm ANY Biden appointment, how can Biden operate? How can anything be accomplished? How can there be investigations if members of the DOJ are going to be evicted every 200 days? This is terrifying. McConnell proved that during the Obama administration he could stop any Obama judicial appointments and now he is leading the way for a repeat performance on a grander scale. There isn’t a single Republican who will not use McConnell as a role model for obstruction.
My guess is that is one way McConnell may force Biden to capitulate. It’s one thing if the Democrats have control of the Senate — but without that, given that Trump has decapitated so many departments, Biden may find it impossible to govern at all. His election slowed down the destruction of our democracy — but it’s still going forward.
GOP delenda est. But that’s not sufficient. After all, Newmax and OAN have proved there are worse alternatives to Faux News. This is a continuing nightmare, even though Trump may not have yet succeeded in his coup, McConnell is running with it.
Attorney General Preet could serve indictments on Republican Senators…
re: #233 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I’m 5.
Well that makes you three years older than the current president.
re: #249 stpaulbear
If Trump decides to make a media event of being physically removed from the white house, I hope that the security officers at each side of him are BLACK women. I want to see that image so bad and I want to see the look on his face.
ftfy
Fuuuucckk..
This is a huge blow to scientists all around the world. For decades, this was a key instrument to searching the cosmos and unlocking secrets.
We need to look again to funding basic science research; a replacement for Arecibo would be good start. https://t.co/xk5VOdR2ct— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 19, 2020
If you needed more evidence that racists are using the term “rigger” as a synonym for the N-word, this chain of replies to my earlier tweet made it explicit.
Attempts to maintain the myth of white superiority are sometimes violent, other times just pathetic.
CW: Racial slur https://t.co/vsGrgkKGPa pic.twitter.com/RcDm5UM7VF— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) November 19, 2020
re: #275 Dr. Matt
What a clownshow. That’s not even Dukakis. It’s Jon Lovitz in a SNL sketch.
re: #275 Dr. Matt
This is from one of the dipshits from Wayne County that tried to rescind their vote to approve the country results.
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“The last time the msm….” called president elect was 4 years ago (and every 4 years).
And WTF is Kramcast?
Fucking cultists.
Got good money that says that Dukakis neme is faker than Trump’s hair. I’m tired of these shitheads who are more loyal to Trump and the alternate universe he’s created than the reality of democracy.
re: #279 i(m)p(each)sos
What a clownshow. That’s not even Dukakis. It’s Jon Lovitz in a SNL sketch.
I was gonna say. That didn’t look right but it was blurry.
re: #278 Patricia Kayden
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If you needed more evidence that racists are using the term “rigger” as a synonym for the N-word, this chain of replies to my earlier tweet made it explicit.
Attempts to maintain the myth of white superiority are sometimes violent, other times just pathetic.
CW: Racial slur https://t.co/vsGrgkKGPa pic.twitter.com/RcDm5UM7VF— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) November 19, 2020
re: #278 Patricia Kayden
I’m so sick of this shit. It’s all about being an obnoxious troll.
re: #276 lawhawk
Oh damn. Probably most famous in the public eye as a key location in the 1997 film.
First Contact.
But deserves more public credit for science like this… Long timeline of discoveries at the link
2016
ARECIBO DISCOVERED THE FIRST EVER REPEATING FAST RADIO BURST.
- FRBs are millisec-duration, radio pulses that appear to be extragalactic. - The repeater demonstrates that its source survives the bursts and rules out a class of models requiring catastrophic explosions. naic.edu
re: #272 The Pie Overlord!
…I hope that the security officers at each side of him are BLACK women.
Yeah. I thought of that a few minutes after I posted it. Sorry I missed it.
re: #276 lawhawk
Fuuuucckk..
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Oh. THAT kind of cable.
2/ A 7-ton steel auxiliary cable slipped its connection in August, and then one of a dozen main cables supporting the *900-ton* platform above the big dish snapped unexpectedly, causing more damage. pic.twitter.com/QjQZCggyNM
— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) November 19, 2020
re: #279 i(m)p(each)sos
What a clownshow. That’s not even Dukakis. It’s Jon Lovitz in a SNL sketch.
I looked up Kramcast, and all I got was an obscure podcast
abc7chicago.com
Don’t know if anyone saw this but the Whitmer kidnapping plot is even more crazy than we thought. I really hope that this is the most extreme that’s been encouraged by Trump but damn just thinking about the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, this is terrorism what these guys wanted to do. Pure and simple. And worst thing is that the Presidency seems to encourage it. Trump created, woke up, or whatever you want to phrase something I fear really dangerous in our country. Governor Whitmer is quite honestly one of the toughest leaders in the country right now. She has my admiration.
re: #221 Dr. Matt
We thought the deity-like worshipping of Zombie Reagan was bad over the last 3 decades. The modern-day crop of conservative freaks have reached kamikaze levels of hysterical
dedicationdereliction.
Just off a conference call with Trump Administration vaccine distribution team. They confirmed that they have not briefed anyone on President-elect Biden’s team and have no plans to do so.
This is potentially catastrophic.— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) November 19, 2020
Giuliani’s “evidence” of fraud remains pathetically weak pic.twitter.com/aj4VZSsCry
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 19, 2020
Remember representative-elect Madison Cawthorn, the guy who has a stiffy for Hitler and tries to conver Jews and Muslims to his particular brand of toxic Christianity?
A young woman is credibly [added] accusing him of being a sex predator.
Earlier in the filmed conversation, his staff asked me whether I was a Christian with a personal relationship with Jesus - with the strong implication that a real Christian would stop sharing the truth about a predator with R next to his name.
— Rochelle is STAYING HOME FOR THANKSGIVING 😷 (@NonNumberChar) November 19, 2020
Madison Cawthorn’s Director of Communications approached me privately with “I just wanted to come to you as a brother in Christ” and “above all we should show love to our brothers and sisters in Christ.”Above stopping predators? No. Stopping predators is love. ✊
— Rochelle is STAYING HOME FOR THANKSGIVING 😷 (@NonNumberChar) November 19, 2020
This needs boosting if you’re interested. The Cawthorn people are really trying to shut her down.
re: #291 The Pie Overlord!
Trump is committing democide before our eyes.
I turned on Rudy and got as far as “we have affidavits”…
where have I heard that before?
re: #293 mmmirele
Remember representative-elect Madison Cawthorn, the guy who has a stiffy for Hitler and tries to conver Jews and Muslims to his particular brand of toxic Christianity?
A young woman is accusing him of being a sex predator.
This needs boosting if you’re interested. The Cawthorn people are really trying to shut her down.
Yeah I’ve been seeing the stuff coming out about him. Hell I visited the same site in Germany that he did but I didn’t do a goofy selfie about it and I also visited Sachsenhausen on the same trip. Cawthorn is goddamned problematic as hell. I see that before he dropped out of college, he was attending a “home school college” that isn’t far from where I used to live.
Giuliani, shorter: Black votes in big cities were fraudulent pic.twitter.com/Ht1zAviEbN
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 19, 2020
re: #271 stpaulbear
Well that makes you three years older than the current president.
Well played, sir. Well played.
re: #284 Rightwingconspirator
Oh damn. Probably most famous in the public eye as a key location in the 1997 film.
First Contact.
Couple of years before that actually. The telescope was used as the setting for the final showdown in the James Bond movie Goldeneye.
re: #300 Eclectic Cyborg
Couple of years before that actually. The telescope was used as the setting for the final showdown in the James Bond movie Goldeneye.
Good point.
He’s a few moments from going all in on the Chewbacca defense.
This clown needs to be disciplined by the state bar for pursuing frivolous court actions and lying openly about the state of his case.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 19, 2020
Unless by “govern” you mean “golf,” he has struggled at it since January 21, 2017 https://t.co/jgeIMkZgye
— Notorious (@realworldrj) November 19, 2020
re: #301 Dr. Matt
FFS. He’s citing my Cousin Vinny.
Joe Pesci or Danny Devito for Rudy in the movie, please.
France’s Macron issues ‘Republican values’ ultimatum to Muslim leaders
I wonder if Trump has sent him a congratulatory note for his support of the the GOP
guy has a real thing for cousins https://t.co/bOfEtttXzO
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) November 19, 2020
Rudy: “You can say that she’s lying. But this is evidence [the lying]”.
re: #269 jamesfirecat
Simply use temporary appointments the same way Trump did.
If there’s a 200 day limit, replace them with a different temporary person for one day, then bring the original temporary person back for another 200 day span and repeat as many times as needed. I really doubt there’s a law against a person serving multiple temporary appointments.
And if the repub shitstains complain, remind them that for the last 4 years they have been claiming the president can do any fucking thing s/he wants. Fuck their feelings.
Rudy is raving like the lunatic he is….keep burying yourself…
re: #309 Eventual Carrion
And if the repub shitstains complain, remind them that for the last 4 years they have been claiming the president can do any fucking thing s/he wants. Fuck their feelings.
Remember all the government posts Trump left open not because of Democratic opposition but because he couldn’t find anybody willing to work for him.
re: #276 lawhawk
Fuuuucckk..
This likely will effectively end one of the few radio-transmission quiet zones in the whole world. THAT, if allowed to happen, would be a metaphorical stake thru the heart of radio astronomy, probably forever.
Here is Kelly Loeffler smiling together with Crazy Q Blood-Libel Believer Marjorie Greene. #Antisemitism pic.twitter.com/aIjljgY6N7
— Key Lime Victory Pie (@Pie_Overlord) November 19, 2020
re: #276 lawhawk
Fuuuucckk..
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The loss of the Arecibo Dish is definitely a harsh blow (and of course, it happened in 2020): presumably, its “decommissioning” is due to an unfavorable analysis of the the cost of repairing it?
The Assange playbook was the Putin playbook, which is now the Trump playbook. https://t.co/UvgRn0tsPS
— Serenity Now! (@Cpo10za) November 19, 2020
Charles Pierce for the win:
Rudy is upset by “the goons” on the other side. “We don’t do that to people.”
Your people plotted to kidnap a fcking governor, you superannuated cousin-jumper.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) November 19, 2020
If there is all this evidence of fraud in Michigan that Rudy is rambling on about, why did the Trump campaign dismiss its own lawsuits there?
And no, I don’t need an answer.
America’s democratic institutions face an extraordinary stress test in the middle of a crisis, but most GOP lawmakers are wary of contradicting a president who’s in denial but has the power to turn voters against them.
Hence this slow, painful dance. https://t.co/XWpmg7eeXb— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) November 19, 2020
“We’re going to have an orderly transfer from this administration to the next one,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters on Tuesday. “What we all say about it is, frankly, irrelevant.” https://t.co/XWpmg7eeXb
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) November 19, 2020
re: #315 Jay C
The loss of the Arecibo Dish is definitely a harsh blow (and of course, it happened in 2020): presumably, its “decommissioning” is due to an unfavorable analysis of the the cost of repairing it?
Capital is reserved for military and paying off the 1%
re: #317 lawhawk
Charles Pierce for the win:
And as I posted, that could have been far worse than it was. They planned to storm the capitol building in Lansing and start executing public officials. These guys were and are terrorists. That’s terrorism.
re: #315 Jay C
Apparently the damage is too extensive to just repair a few things. The damage started after Hurricane Maria and has rippled across the entire structure.
It would be a good idea if the Biden Admin puts forth a budget that includes a line to build a brand new facility there. On top of the practical science involved, the facility is a major revenue generator for that part of Puerto Rico.
re: #319 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #321 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
And as I posted, that could have been far worse than it was. They planned to storm the capitol building in Lansing and start executing public officials. These guys were and are terrorists. That’s terrorism.
And dine of them had their bail reduced and are out free right now.
re: #319 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Except for the fact that Congress is the final decision-maker regarding certifying the results.
re: #321 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
And as I posted, that could have been far worse than it was. They planned to storm the capitol building in Lansing and start executing public officials. These guys were and are terrorists. That’s terrorism.
If the FBI announced that a group of Muslim men had intended to assassinate a state governor or (failing that) storm a legislature and begin executing any who refused to bow to their demands, the entire country would currently be in lockdown as Repubs talked endlessly about the “radical Islamic terrorists” set on bringing down our democracy.
But they’re a bunch of white-as-snow assholes with IQs lower than a snake’s nutsack, so we get a lot of yawning and shoulder shrugging as if this were a totally normal part of our everyday lives.
re: #323 Targetpractice
Repubs are either dickless cowards or willing accomplices. There is no third option.
If it’s gonna happen, talk your lunatic fringe supporters of the fucking ledge.
re: #325 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And dine of them had their bail reduced and are out free right now.
Exactly why I’m angry.
re: #328 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
If it’s gonna happen, talk your lunatic fringe supporters of the fucking ledge.
Yeah, I think we all know my position by this point:
re: #323 Targetpractice
Repubs are either dickless cowards or willing accomplices. There is no third option.
Por qué no los dos
Neither Trump nor the Republicans are going to try to talk the right-wing Proud Boys/Q crowd down at all. Expect the opposite. The GOP will justify every effort to try and screw up the Biden admin, ignoring the deadly impact(s).
re: #327 Targetpractice
If the FBI announced that a group of Muslim men had intended to assassinate a state governor or (failing that) storm a legislature and begin executing any who refused to bow to their demands, the entire country would currently be in lockdown as Repubs talked endlessly about the “radical Islamic terrorists” set on bringing down our democracy.
But they’re a bunch of white-as-snow assholes with IQs lower than a snake’s nutsack, so we get a lot of yawning and shoulder shrugging as if this were a totally normal part of our everyday lives.
Yep, that’s absolutely right. As I’ve said as someone familiar with the details of the Lincoln assassination plot, this may have been more terroristic than that in what they planned to do. They planned to sexually assault the governor too IIRC. My earliest memories of terrorism isn’t of Muslim ones after 9/11, it was of people like Timothy McVeigh bombing out a government center in Oklahoma City.
This was fun. I heard Tim and Fred were listening to some of the songs on my A Promised Land playlist, so I decided to drop in and surprise them. We talked about a lot, from Bob Dylan to old-school mixtapes to the role music played in my memoir. https://t.co/8A0cuVNHZI pic.twitter.com/rQwW8r0wBX
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 19, 2020
This whole fuckiing debacle is a sad attempt to undermine the election process and get faithless electors to turn over the will of the people. And the entire GOP is silent about this.
The motto just put up at work is “Heroes don’t wear capes, they wear masks.”
re: #335 Dr. Matt
This whole fuckigng debacble is a sad attempt to undermine the election process and get faithless electors to turn over the will of the people. And the entire GOP is silent about this.
That the term “faithless electors” is being used as anything other than an electoral oddity is a truly sad indictment of our nation at this moment. A political party is talking seriously about installing the losing candidate in an outright coup…and our media treats that as an object of interest rather than a plot against our nation itself.
re: #334 Belafon
Every time I see Obama do stuff like this I remember what it’s like to have an actual decent human being as a President.
re: #323 Targetpractice
Repubs are either dickless cowards or willing accomplices. There is no third option.
I’d say part of their problem is that not enough of them are dickless.
EW. Ghouliani is just fucking gross.
Ummmmm pic.twitter.com/QgBnilFrty
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) November 19, 2020
re: #333 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yep, that’s absolutely right. As I’ve said as someone familiar with the details of the Lincoln assassination plot, this may have been more terroristic than that in what they planned to do. They planned to sexually assault the governor too IIRC. My earliest memories of terrorism isn’t of Muslim ones after 9/11, it was of people like Timothy McVeigh bombing out a government center in Oklahoma City.
My earliest memories of terrorism are the IRA, the PLO, the Baader-Meinhof Gang and the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Love this version of “Gangsters Paradise.”
When I feel overwhelmed at all the fuckery Trump and the GOP is wreaking upon the U.S., I think back to other depraved epochs, such as when bootleggers basically ran the government, or in the 1870s, when the GOP sabotaged the entire country so it could be run by the thug who controlled New York Harbor, and collected the most bribes.
re: #341 makeitstop
EW. Ghouliani is just fucking gross.
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— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) November 19, 2020
Democrats are “libtards” except for when we flawlessly execute a multi-state voter fraud plan involving millions of votes to win the presidency but losing the House and Senate so it would look realistic
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) November 19, 2020
re: #334 Belafon
That’s awesome. Really like hearing these guys discuss Dylan. I grew up listening to Dylan so I can’t imagine not hearing him for the first time but I love their wonder hearing Bob.
re: #341 makeitstop
EW. Ghouliani is just fucking gross.
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Black oil? Well, that settles it, Rudy is under the influence of one of those aliens from The X-Files.
re: #345 The Pie Overlord!
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Rudy’s having a literal and figurative meltdown.
Ummmmm pic.twitter.com/QgBnilFrty
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) November 19, 2020
re: #333 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yep, that’s absolutely right. As I’ve said as someone familiar with the details of the Lincoln assassination plot, this may have been more terroristic than that in what they planned to do. They planned to sexually assault the governor too IIRC. My earliest memories of terrorism isn’t of Muslim ones after 9/11, it was of people like Timothy McVeigh bombing out a government center in Oklahoma City.
I’m older than you. My earliest memories of terrorism is Puerto Ricans, the FALN. The bombings, the hijackings. Before my time, they also shot up the floor of Congress from the galley, and they tried to assassinate President Truman (one of his bodyguards died protecting him.)
The PLO got most of their most violent ideas from copying the FALN.
re: #350 sagehen
I’m older than you. My earliest memories of terrorism is Puerto Ricans, the FALN. The bombings, the hijackings. Before my time, they also shot up the floor of Congress from the galley, and they tried to assassinate President Truman (one of his bodyguards died protecting him.)
The PLO got most of their most violent ideas from copying the FALN.
I remember the Munich Olympics of 1972
BTW, POTUS Elect Biden is nearing the 80 million mark and his lead is just shy of 6 million.
Biden 79,512,244 (51.0%)
tRump 73,585,789 (47.2%)
re: #354 Dr. Matt
BTW, POTUS Elect Biden is nearing the 80 million mark and his lead is just shy of 6 million.
Biden 79,512,244 (51.0%)
tRump 73,585,789 (47.2%)
but remember, we live in a Republic, not a Democracy
A Republican republic, not a Democrat Democracy!
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If Bill Barr wants an election-related criminal case, here it is. Wire someone up. https://t.co/UOX6WtEzDk
— Michael R. Bromwich (@mrbromwich) November 19, 2020
Random aside:
Do any other AZ residents see the wrong time zone at this site now? Are all times always west coast?
re: #334 Belafon
I love the twins. The pure joy they get from listening to all types of music has been healing for me to watch. They just bring good cheer.
Cool that Obama talked with them!
re: #357 IngisKahn
Random aside:
Do any other AZ residents see the wrong time zone at this site now?
It’s always been pacific time zone, two hours behind my clock here in central.
re: #359 Belafon
It’s always been pacific time zone, two hours behind my clock here in central.
Ya, I kinda remember that. Oh well, it’s right half the year for me :)
re: #354 Dr. Matt
BTW, POTUS Elect Biden is nearing the 80 million mark and his lead is just shy of 6 million.
Biden 79,512,244 (51.0%)
tRump 73,585,789 (47.2%)
“Doesn’t matter but also too we can throw out a County’s vote and win the election.”
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re: #357 IngisKahn
Random aside:
Do any other AZ residents see the wrong time zone at this site now? Are all times always west coast?
1. Don’t know
2. Yes, LGF timelogs are all (AFAICT) on Pacific Time. Something to do with Charles living in LA, I think…..
re: #361 Sir John Barron
“Doesn’t matter but also too we can throw out a County’s vote and win the ekection.”
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Biden’s up by nearly 4% in the PV and 14% electorally. Trump fucking lost and the longer this tantrum goes on the more I worry about our stability as a democratic republic. I do hope that people are watching and seeing how absurd this is.
re: #357 IngisKahn
Random aside:
Do any other AZ residents see the wrong time zone at this site now? Are all times always west coast?
I think Arizona declines to do daylight savings time. So it gets weird at least half the year.
re: #351 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember the Munich Olympics of 1972
That was pretty much my first real exposure to terrorism also.
re: #54 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Main limitation is that the ghosts don’t upset the cat too much. Library + garden + coffee is a huge win.
FWIW, I already live in Quarantine House #5.
re: #249 stpaulbear
If Trump decides to make a media event of being physically removed from the white house, I hope that the security officers at each side of him are women. I want to see that image so bad and I want to see the look on his face.
I’m imagining Bobby Draper in full Martian armor.
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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