Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Trump Keeps Pushing Lie Of "Completely Fraudulent Election" So Brainwashed Cult Rubes Will Send Him Their Money (Also Takes Brief Break To Pardon War Criminals)


Pay-For-View Possibility

Trump Pardons Man Who Murdered 17 Innocent, Unarmed
People (Including Two Young Boys, Ages 8 & 11) In Town Square

Since Fox Now Knows It Cannot Lie 24/7 About Vote Fraud Without Getting Sued . . .

Bonus: Fox Host (Who Bemoaned Fact That Americans Marry "Other Species
And Other Ethnics") Is Fixated On Biden's "Obsession" With Diversity Brian Kilmeade, Fox & Friends, July 8, 2009:
Because that's a -- we are -- we're -- we're a -- we're -- we keep marrying other species and other ethnics and other -- I mean, the Swedes -- See, the problem is, the Swedes have pure genes. Because they marry other Swedes. Because that's the rule. Finland -- Finns marry other Finns, so they have a pure society. In America, we marry everybody. So, we'll marry Italians and Irish. . . . That's a -- those are -- That's how I feel.
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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

"Trump Turns On Everyone" (He's Throwing Paranoid Temper Tantrums And Thinks Everyone Around Him Is Weak, Stupid, Disloyal, And Beneath Contempt)

Jonathan Swan, Axios, December 22, 2020
President Trump, in his final days, is turning bitterly on virtually every person around him, griping about anyone who refuses to indulge conspiracy theories or hopeless bids to overturn the election, several top officials tell Axios. . . .

Trump thinks everyone around him is weak, stupid or disloyal — and increasingly seeks comfort only in people who egg him on to overturn the election results. We cannot stress enough how unnerved Trump officials are by the conversations unfolding inside the White House. . . .

Trump is lashing out . . . [I]f you're not in the "use the Department of Homeland Security or the military to impound voting machines" camp, the president considers you weak and beneath contempt. . . .

Trump is fed up with Cipollone, his counsel . . . and [may be thinking of] replacing him with a fringe loyalist.

A source who spoke to Trump said the president was complaining about Pence and brought up a Lincoln Project ad that claims that Pence is "backing away" from Trump. This ad has clearly got inside Trump's head, the source said.

Trump views Pence as not fighting hard enough for him — the same complaint he uses against virtually everybody who works for him and has been loyal to him. . . .

Trump would view Pence performing his constitutional duty — and validating the election result — as the ultimate betrayal. . . .

Trump has even been asking advisers whether they can get state legislatures to rescind their electoral votes. When he's told no, he lashes out even more. . . 

As Axios reported Monday night, the president got his personal assistant to email Republican lawmakers a PowerPoint slide attacking McConnell for being "the first one off the ship," and absurdly claiming credit for the Senate majority leader's victory in his Kentucky re-election. That's quite a message to send two weeks out from crucial runoff races in Georgia, where Republicans need to stay unified.
Giuliani Is Worried Trump Is Listening To Kraken Lawyer, Whose
Advice He Calls Outside "The Bounds Of Rationality, Common Sense,
And The Law" (Advice Which Rudy Completely Agreed With
And Supported Only A Few Weeks Ago)

American Veteran (& State Senator-Elect) Expresses Admiration
For General Who Declared War On The United States To Preserve Slavery
(Fun Fact: Trump Lost Arizona.)

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Dirt Don't Vote


Charlie Kirk is a MAGA-dolt whose main claim to fame is embarrassing himself online.

This was his contribution to Sunday's public discourse:

On the off chance Charlie gets a clue and deletes his tweet, he posted the following numbers and quipped: ". . . And we're not allowed to question his 'victory'":
Barack Obama:
—69,000,000 votes
—873 counties

Donald Trump:
—75,000,000 votes
—2,497 counties

Joe Biden:
—81,000,000 votes
—477 counties

Charlie is operating under the assumption that the number of counties won by a candidate is more important than the number of actual votes cast for that candidate.

Charlie also believes all counties are alike. They are not.

The United States contains 3,142 counties. The Census Bureau reported that more than half of the US population lives in 4.6% of them (143 counties). For example, here are the least- and most-populated counties in the US.

Least-Populated

Kalawao, Hawaii:                   88
Loving, Texas:                    113
King, Texas:                      289
Kenedy, Texas:                    404
Arthur, Nebraska:                 469

Most-Populated

Los Angeles, California:   10,137,915
Cook, Illinois:             5,203,499
Harris, Texas:              4,589,928
Maricopa, Arizona:          4,242,997
San Diego, California:      3,317,749

Twitter tried to help Charlie understand some basic math.

Such as 88 is a smaller number than 10,137,915.

The basic point was: Dirt don't vote.

From others:

Trump won Lassen County, California (4,720 square miles, more than 10,000,000 people)
Biden won Los Angeles County, California (4,751 square miles, fewer than 35,000 people)

Population of Los Angeles County, California: 10,000,000 (1 Biden county (the most populated US county)
Population of Idaho, Kansas, and Kentucky (combined): 9,500,000 (259 Trump counties)

Trump won Loving County, Texas (60 votes to 4 votes)
Biden won Los Angeles County, California (3,028,885 votes to 1,145,530 votes)

Population of California: 40 million (58 counties)
Population of Montana: 1 million (56 counties)

Remember that extremely red map from 2016 that Trump's cult members loved to post? It used the same idiotic logic Charlie used.

Dirt don't vote.

And some people are as dumb as dirt.


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Speaking of idiots who cannot stop embarrassing themselves in public:
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Monday, December 21, 2020

Fox And Newsmax Suddenly Offer "Clarification", Stating There Is "No Evidence" Of Voter Fraud (And All Voting Machines Worked Properly); Trump Meets Again With Lawyer He Disavowed A Few Weeks Ago For Her Unhinged Utterances

It's amazing how the mere suggestion of a defamation lawsuit can focus the mind, causing one to accept reality and admit to making shit up and lying non-stop for six weeks.

Or perhaps Newsmax is part of the Deep State.

. . . Which May Escalate Trump's Seditious Threats
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Book Your Seat Today!

Join your fellow "Patriots" and make your reservation NOW as we are "anticipating" the "hopeful Inauguration" next month.

Don't be a sucker and end up paying an extra $10 for the same seat later. This bus is sponsored by Reggie and Ashley, "but all are welcome".

You must wear "mask on bus" so you don't catch the "sniffles". However, Random Capital letters Are encouraged.

Note: "Chaperone Not Included". 

Tickers are "FULLY REFUNDABLE" and there are "No Refunds". "Contact the organizer for a refund."
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Saturday, December 19, 2020

Trump & Co-Conspirators Plot Overthrow Of Incoming Government With Military Force
Trump Contradicts Secretary of State, Defends Putin Re Government Computer Hack
Senior WH Official: "It’s Impossible Not To Start Getting Anxious About How This Ends"


Note: President Cannot Appoint A Special Counsel

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Faced With Legal Consequences, Fox News Suddenly Starts Debunking Its Own Vote Fraud Lies (Kraken Krackpot Lawyer Also Threatened With Lawsuit)


Keep 'Em Coming

Peter Navarro Wrote A Book Report That He Wants Everyone
To Accept As A Serious Investigation Into Vote Fraud
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Friday, December 18, 2020

"Sure, More Than 320,000 Americans Are Dead Because We Did Nothing To Stop The Virus, But Why Obsess On The Negative? We Deregulated Frozen Cherry Pie Filling (Now With More Rat Feces In 2021)!"

"Yeah yeah, more than 320,000 Americans have died of a virus we did nothing to stop,
okay, whatever, but we have been busy doing super-duper important things!" Really?

It took an entire fucking year to come up with "Guardians". You might think everyone involved with this nonsense is an irredeemable moron. You'd be right. They stole the logo idea from Star Trek and they stole the name from the Air Force. being generous, that's maybe 15 minutes of work. They likely spent the remaining 364 days, 23 hours, and 45 minutes, figuring out how many millions of taxpayers dollars they were getting in "consulting fees".

Oh, and don't forget the essential work done to allow mega-rich corporations to increase profits by putting more rat feces in frozen pie fillings. #AmericaFirst!

Grifters & Fuckers

Brian Williams's Sense Of Humor Cannot Get Any Drier
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"America Is Waiting For A Message Of Some Sort Or Another"

Forty years ago – on December 18, 1980 – Talking Heads played a concert in Rome that was filmed for broadcast on Italian TV. The band's fourth album, Remain In Light, had been out for two months. 

To bring their new songs to life on stage, Talking Heads – David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, and Jerry Harrison – hired several additional musicians: Adrian Belew (guitarist), Bernie Worrell (keyboardist), Buster Jones (bass), Steve Scales (percussion), and Dolette MacDonald (vocals, percussion).

If I was allowed only one Talking Heads album, I'd grab Remain in Light. (Actually, I'd take the expanded CD reissue of The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads, but that's cheating.) Side A of Remain in Light is the sole reason for my choice. "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)", "Crosseyed and Painless", and "The Great Curve" comprise one of the most astonishing album sides in rock and roll history.

Frantz always described the band as playing "thinking man's dance music". For this album, with Brian Eno collaborating as a fifth member, Talking Heads added African polyrhythms, funk, tape loops, and electronics to their unique sound, and Byrne's lyrics evolved into something akin to William Burroughs's cut-up technique.

Lost my shape, trying to act casual
Can't stop, I might end up in the hospital
I'm changing my shape, I feel like an accident
They're back, to explain their experience . . .

There was a line, there was a formula
Sharp as a knife, facts cut a hole in us . . .

The island of doubt, it's like the taste of medicine
Working by hindsight, got the message from the oxygen
Making a list, find the cost of opportunity
Doing it right, facts are useless in emergencies

I would have loved to see this band, but my only Talking Heads concert was a few years later: October 1, 1983, on the Stop Making Sense tour.

December 18, 1980 – Set List

Psycho Killer
Stay Hungry
Cities
I Zimbra
Drugs
Take Me to the River
Crosseyed and Painless
Life During Wartime
Houses in Motion
Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
The Great Curve

Also:

 

November 4, 1980 – Capitol Theater, Passaic, New Jersey

December 20, 1980 – Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany

Audio Only

August 23, 1980 – Heatwave Festival, Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada

December 11, 1980 – Jaap Eden Hall, Amsterdam, Holland

December 16, 1980 – Palasport, Bologna, Italy

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Thursday, December 17, 2020

Trump Calls Fox News "Dead" . . . Because It Won't Stroke His Ego 24 Hours A Day
(And, Overall, Is Simply Too Liberal)


Obsessed Misogynist Tucker Carlson Calls Jill Biden "Illiterate" And "Our National Shame" (Unrelated: COVID Deaths Now 317,000+ (A Record 3,611 Died Yesterday))
More From The Network MAGA-Dolts Consider Too Liberal Let's see:

"Dead people":
Zero evidence presented by Trump's lawyers in 60+ court cases.
"People who voted twice":
Zero evidence presented by Trump's lawyers in 60+ court cases.
"Illegal aliens":
Zero evidence presented by Trump's lawyers in 60+ court cases.
"People who had illegitimate absentee ballots":
Zero evidence presented by Trump's lawyers in 60+ court cases.

 


Although There Is This Attempt At Voter Fraud

At Times, The Washington Post Isn't Far Behind
While Trump Whines About Commercials On Fox News . . .
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Pfizer Tells US It Has "Millions More Doses" Of Vaccine Waiting To Be Shipped; White House Remains Silent (In Accordance With Trump's Obsession With Killing Americans)

A follow-up to yesterday's post about Trump's desire (his obsession, really) to intentionally cause the infection and death of as many Americans as possible:

Over the summer, the Trump administration declined "multiple offers" to purchase an additional 100 million vaccines from Pizer (staying with their original order of 100 million). Those vaccines were then promised to other countries, likely leaving the US without enough vaccines until the second half of 2021.

Not having an adequate supply of vaccines will hamper Joe Biden's efforts at controlling the virus and it will cause the needless deaths of thousands (perhaps tens of thousands) of Americans. It's a win-win for Trump. 

Pfizer now reports that it has told the Trump administration it has "millions more doses" available for shipping. All the US needs to do is tell Pfizer where to ship them. The Trump administration is ignoring Pfizer's request. Again, this deliberate silence will lead to the deaths of many Americans.

Donald Trump, in his final days in the White House, is concerned with doing only two things:
(1) convincing lawmakers to commit sedition and overturn the election results
(2) kill as many Americans as he can.
More than 125 Republicans were eager to violate the Constitution and commit sedition, but Trump ultimately failed. He has been far more successful in causing mass death across the country.

Given the evidence that has steadily accumulated since early February (when he admitted to Bob Woodward that he was intentionally lying about the dangers of the virus, knowing it would increase the number of deaths), it's impossible to believe Trump's actions are not intentional and made with full knowledge of the consequences.

This is not breaking news: Journalists have been stating this fact since late March.

Also: Trump today announced plans to cut at least $200 million in health care funding to California in an act of cruel and petty revenge over a 2014 state regulation requiring insurers to cover abortions.

Yesterday, 3,656 people in the US died from COVID-19 and more than 247,000 new infections of the virus were recorded, the highest single-day number yet since the beginning of the crisis. Current hospitalizations also reached a record high: more than 113,000 patients.

Trump's response? "All-time Stock Market high!" He also tweeted: "Get those 'shots' everyone!", but his actions insured there will not be enough shots for "everyone".

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Fox Already Talking About Prosecuting Biden When He Leaves Office
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Random Things

Now why would anyone think that?

Trump Mulls Preemptive Pardons For Up To 20 Allies, Even As Republicans Balk
Anita Kumar and Andrew Desiderio, Politico, December 3, 2020

President Donald Trump is considering preemptively pardoning as many as 20 aides and associates before leaving office, frustrating Republicans who believe offering legal reprieves to his friends and family members could backfire. . . .

Those up for clemency include everyone from Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to several members of his family — all people who haven't been charged with a crime. Weighing on Trump's mind is whether these pardons would look like an admission of guilt.

Republicans, as they often have when Trump appears about to bulldoze through another norm, are expressing some initial hesitation — but they're not telling him to stop. . . .

The GOP is grappling with how closely it wants to remain aligned with Trump after his presidency. . . .

Trump has not made any decisions about pardons as he and his team contemplate both the legal considerations and political consequences, according to three people familiar with the discussions, all of whom speak to the president. Some around Trump are worried the president could tarnish his legacy . . . if he's too expansive with his 11th-hour pardons.

Roughly 20 top aides and associates are on tap for a potential pardon, though the list is evolving, according to one of the people. The list includes Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, who run the family's namesake business, and Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, a husband-and-wife duo who are both senior aides at the White House. . . . 

Trump is hesitant to pardon any of them, particularly Giuliani, because it may appear that members of his inner circle are criminals, said one of the three people, who spoke to Trump this week. The Giuliani pardon has been discussed more seriously, the person added. . . .

[T]he clemency would not extend to any state charges, congressional investigations or lawsuits — of which there are plenty.

The New York attorney general and the Manhattan district attorney, for example, have been investigating the Trump Organization for possible financial fraud. D.C. authorities also sued the Trump Organization and Trump's inaugural committee, alleging the committee misused funds and funneled money back to Trump's company. Ivanka Trump gave a deposition in that suit earlier this week.


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Brian Beutler, Big Tent, November 20, 2020:

This may be a conspiracy of buffoons, but it's still a conspiracy. When we aren't howling over Rudy at Four Seasons Total Landscaping (plus, also, its neighboring dildo shop) and the gooey dye weeping out of the tufts of hair on his temples, we have to be clear eyed about the fact that Trump really does want to steal the election, and almost every Republican office holder in the country is happy to let him try. Buffoonish or not, it's a vast and proud seditious conspiracy premised on the notion that Republicans can simply reject election outcomes, because one day they might lose more narrowly than this and the stolen courts will overturn the results for them. They're playing along with it when it's hopeless in part because the next time it might work out. 

Transpose a narrower election on to this one, and the scheme no longer seems comical at all. If this election had been a half-point closer, and the outcome hinged on a single tipping-point state, split by a few hundred or a few thousand votes, what's currently playing out as reckless, antic nonsense would instead be playing out as a successful coup. Giuliani would be holding press conferences at a real Four Seasons, next to a fancy dildo shop.

Trump is serious about trying to undo his defeat, because everything, including perhaps his wealth and liberty, turns on stealing the election—or at the very least leaving the country as broken as possible for Joe Biden. If he must leave power, he must also sabotage the team that beat him (that is, he must harm the population at large) so that the Biden administration lacks the bandwidth to hold him accountable, let alone govern the country.

Republicans are now attacking the transfer of power on two fronts: the shambolic pseudo-legal one playing out in a handful of states, and an administrative one. The former involves an endless stream of lies about fraud, frivolous lawsuits, the public and private pressuring of state-level Republican officials to deem whole categories of ballots deficient, or even just toss all the returns and declare that Trump won. . . . 

Against the backdrop of this astounding betrayal, the Democratic leadership has chosen a course of passivity. . . .

If Democrats were like Republicans a large group of party actors would storm agency buildings with cameras and reporters in tow to loudly demand full access to the premises and transition materials, so people don't die unnecessarily of COVID-19. Sheldon Whitehouse would be wearing a gas mask for some reason.

Instead, they have collectively decided to hope public pressure prevails before Republicans do too much damage. Unfathomably, their first resort has been to turn to donors to help them fund a shadow transition.

These are symptoms of the same tendency that drove Democrats to soft-pedal congressional oversight, and fueled this alarming NBC report, sourced to five Biden associates, that says Biden wants to avoid retrospective investigations of Trump, his administration, and his inner circle.

This is all eerily reminiscent of early 2009, when then-President-elect Obama signaled he didn't want federal prosecutors doing retrospective investigations of the Bush torture regime. The connections between that decision and the rise of Donald Trump are real but tenuous. The connections between it and the ascendence of Gina Haspel, torture architect, to the directorship of the CIA, are incredibly direct. . . .

NBC assigned three of its top reporters to the Biden story, so we should assume their five sources know what they're talking about, and that the article reflects Biden's true feelings. If that's right, it's a problem. Biden shouldn't be signaling a preference here either way, particularly at a juncture where Trump basically spends all day screaming "I would rather destroy American democracy than surrender evidence of my crimes." But quite apart from any particular corrupt act Biden might or might not uncover, the party's stoic response is helping Republicans establish an awful precedent.

Democrats have dispatched their best lawyers to slug it out with Trump's goons in court, and those lawyers are performing an admirable service. But legal defense has been the extent of the party's resistance so far, when this isn't principally a legal fight: It's a political fight over the sanctity of the vote, and of important norms governing the transfer of power. Republicans almost certainly can't stop Biden from moving into the White House on January 20, but they can make the early days of his administration hell. If they pull it off without consequence, we can bet that there won't be a smooth transition of power to a Democratic president, free of attempted theft and sabotage, ever again.
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