Monday, November 30, 2020

#StopTheBias

Nothing About Trump Is Original

Sunday, November 29, 2020

Trump Held Rallies In 30 Counties Two Weeks Before Election; His Support Was Worse Than 2016 In 25 Of Them

In the final two weeks of the 2020 campaign, Donald Trump held numerous rallies, believing they would be essential to winning a second term. But Trump was dead wrong about that, just as he has been dead wrong about everything else in his life.

In 25 of the 30 counties - from Arizona to Nebraska to Pennsylvania - Trump received less support than he did in 2016. In all but five of the 30 counties, his margin of victory was smaller or the county flipped for Joe Biden.




Heather Digby Parton notes: "It’s possible that the reason his rallies actually lost him votes is because half the people who attended them either died or were too sick to vote."

A related thought: It's quite possibly dead people did vote in the election. After casting early votes, they died of COVID-19.

Trump Blames "Big, Massive Dumps" For Election Loss

Well, this comment won't make #DiaperDon go away.
And what happened – if you watched the election – I was called by the biggest people, saying congratulations – political people – congratulations, sir, you just won the election. It was 10 o'clock – and you looked at the numbers and I'm sure you felt that way. This election was over. And then they did dumps. They call them dumps. Big, massive dumps – in Michigan and Pennsylvania, and all over.
Literally no one called Trump at 10 PM. Not "the biggest people", not the smallest people. Not even the middle-sized people. Everyone with a functioning brain had already known for weeks that the election would not be decided on November 3. A definitive call on November 4 or 5 was also unlikely.

We don't need this to be a "Sir" story to know it's bullshit.

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LOL (Trump Accuses Barr Of Plotting To Elect Biden!!)

Fortunately, The US Did Not Just Have A National Holiday For Which Millions Travelled All Over The Country, With Another Huge Holiday One Month From Now

 














Saturday, November 28, 2020

Trump's "Elite Strike Force" Lawyers Are Filing Two Lawsuits That Look Like Shit
(Dozens Of Inexcusable Formatting Mistakes And Typos)

One of Donald Trump's "elite strike force" of vote fraud lawyers who is (winkwink) not one of Donald Trump's "elite strike force" of vote fraud lawyers is filing two lawsuits in Georgia and Michigan.

In the Georgia document, Sidney Powell misspelled "district" twice in the document's first eight words. That's impressive.

Many news reports state both documents are full of typos and formatting errors.

I have worked for lawyers for nearly 30 years, from a sole practitioner to two of North America's largest firms. I have formatted and revised countless legal documents. The appearance of a court document can also serve as a statement about the pride its creators take in their work, for good or bad.

I have a good eye for catching typos and inconsistencies and I've corrected many typos or obvious grammatical mistakes over the years. I scrolled quickly through the Georgia document and dozens of inconsistencies and formatting mistakes jumped out at me. God knows what I'd find if I read the fucking thing. I had plenty of horrendous formatting fuckups from the Michigan document by page 15, so I stopped there.

Both documents show a sloppy and inattentive mindset. The odds are good that the people behind it have a casual and haphazard work ethic and a careless, indifferent focus on the law.


Word processing programs have had spellchecks for decades, but you do have to click a button to have them run. Also note the two consecutive commas in the caption. (I would also move "Northern" to the second line, but having it where it is doesn't constitute an error, I suppose.)
 


There is no closing quotation mark at the end of paragraph 34.
The Georgia document uses two different styles of quotation marks throughout the entire 104-page document: the curly "smart" quotes and the straight, regular quotes.

The paragraphs are left-justified, meaning the right margin is ragged and every line does not extend to the right-margin. All words and spaces will be proportional; there will not be the appearance of additional space between words, unless you put extra spaces between various words yourself for no good reason, as has been done in paragraph 44.

More issues with quotation marks. The sentence in paragraph 79 should end like this: . . . at table 'A'."
Paragraph 98 has some shitty writing. How about this:
In 2019, it was further reported that with the new Dominion Voting Machines being used in Georgia's current voting system, "there's no way to . . .

We have subparagraphs in the (a), (b), (c) format. For ease of reading, these subparagraphs should have a hanging indent so that the left-margin of text lines up under "Recounts" and "But" and "The".

But these subparagraphs, used in the exact same way as above, are a., b., c., etc. Subparagraph c. is missing an opening quotation mark. And these are indented only 0.25 while the ones above are at 0.5. And page 48 includes one of many widows, a big no-no. And there should be a comma after "Berkeley". 

This subparagraph ends with two periods.

The indented quote in paragraph 116 is in italics.

The indented quote in paragraph 117 is not in italics.
The Count II heading is begins at the very bottom of page 69 and continues on page 70. This widow is truly an embarrassment.
Another widow. The sentence should have been moved to the next page.

I also get bugged by minor things like Georgia being abbreviated and Texas being spelled out.

Now this document is a piece of shit. Why is "District" such a difficult word to spell correctly?


The big problem in this document is spacing, with entire sentences presented as one big word. I wondered for a few minutes if this could have happened when the document was uploaded, but I don't understand why it would happen in some places and not in others. 

Anyway, many smaller spacing errors seem like actual typing mistakes or perhaps a PDF was scanned (I'm sure they are using the same arguments in multiple suits in multiple states) and the text was pasted in without making sure it was correct. Also some of the cites are missing the section symbol. The only time an ampersand should be used is if it is in the actual name of a company.

I stopped at page 15. The document is 75 pages.









Friday, November 27, 2020

Trump Loses His Shit, Declares Twitter A National Security Threat After #DiaperDon Becomes Top Trending Hashtag