GET OUT: US politics November 2020

NEW: Richard Pilger, the official who oversees election crimes has stepped down over Barr's memo:
“Having familiarized myself with the new policy and its ramifications… I must regretfully resign from my role as Director of the Election Crimes Branch.”https://t.co/HS1rByXgSJ

— Katie Benner (@ktbenner) November 10, 2020

milo you're a fucking business owner. get off your high horse.

I immediately regret taking your bait, of course, but it was worth noting

milo what is your business

"Mr. Barr has privately told department officials in the days since the election that any disputes should be resolved in court by the campaigns themselves, according to three people briefed on the conversations. He has said that he did not see massive fraud, and that most of the allegations of voter fraud were related to individual instances that did not point to a larger systemic problem, the people said."

Theater. Again

Xpost

Trolling is his business....and business is GOOD!

milo owns a comic book store iirc, not sure if he has employees but I do wonder if they share his views

I don't! I had a vanity 1% of equity and gave it back because I didn't feel right being an owner.

Aquaman believes in landlord reform iirc

Aquaman is a royal, he should be eaten as a warning to others

and there's the great paradox

going back to politics, the overall Barr statement is fairly toothless when you read the entire article(s) (from any source), but I kinda hope the headline "BARR TO LOOK INTO ELECTION FRAUD" results in him getting harassed everywhere he goes anyway.

I mostly just want people to ask him for his thoughts about Space Relations.

barr just seems really irrelevant right now

Briscoe Cain is available to replace Pilger

How dare u accuse milo of not being 100% pure like spring water straight from the source

booty juice comes *right from* the source

Someone forgot to tell Pilger that the Barr shit is overblown i guess

regardless of whether anything's going to "happen", the optics of it are bad, it breaks a longstanding DOJ policy, and the results aren't certified yet. He stepped down as he clearly didn't want to be a part of that, but it's important to note he didn't outright quit the DOJ, which he probably would have done if he was severely wigged out by it.

milo is posting on top of a big pile of avengers money, pretty disillusioned right now. he is also texting w mark ruffalo.

milo tell mark ruffallo my friend called him “mark fluffalo” one time

I just wish I could be as casually dismissive of all this shit as some of you are. I don’t think the election outcome is going to change, but it is still terrifying to watch them even think this anti-democratic bullshit through out loud. And again, while it won’t invalidate the election now, it does further serve to normalize some pretty abhorrent moves for the future. I don’t know, I just don’t feel like laughing it off as mere rhetoric.

_What about the state?_


Good question! The state shouldn't be evicting anyone in our hellish world, no.

In the better world where all housing is social (either state-owned or communes or co-ops of somekind) or personally owned, we wouldn't be evicting people for failure to pay, obviously. In the event that someone was so loud (or whatever) it became a problem - which comprises what percentage of evictions? - then we're going to have to work up a system for how to deal with it! Perhaps after various processes of noise abatement fail, we'll have social housing for noisy people.

But no one should ever, under any circumstances, be rendered unhoused - which is what eviction in the here and now reality does. And if you get evicted in the here and now, no one should tell you not to fuck up the drywall or that you're a bad person for doing so.

but it's important to note he didn't outright quit the DOJ, which he probably would have done if he was severely wigged out by it.

It's VERY hard to fire a career prosecutor who has done nothing wrong. One reading: Pilger felt he couldn't approve requests to investigate fraud - which would influence the election - so relinquished the role; but he believed that people of integrity must stay at DOJ.

— Katie Benner (@ktbenner) November 10, 2020

Bounced Ruffalo from the group text after he shared Plandemic with all of us

I just wish I could be as casually dismissive of all this shit as some of you are. I don’t think the election outcome is going to change, but it is still terrifying to watch them even think this anti-democratic bullshit through out loud. And again, while it won’t invalidate the election now, it does further serve to normalize some pretty abhorrent moves for the future. I don’t know, I just don’t feel like laughing it off as mere rhetoric.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, November 9, 2020 10:20 PM bookmarkflaglink

just to be clear, i'm pretty bummed out about all this shit and in kind of a glum mood because of the developments, even if I don't think they'll amount to anything.

ran into my first friends who believe the fraud shit yesterday. had to change the subject or I woulda choked someone

barr just seems really irrelevant right now

he has much less room for maneuver, but he is not yet irrelevant

impeach

Yeah I wouldn't say I'm so much casually dismissive as I am increasingly of a mind that the people perpetuating (or impishly refraining from comment about) this utter bullshit need to be [ REDACTED] with great swiftness.

impeaching barr would make me happy, in that it would show a commitment to principles other than 'whatever brings Democrats the most power'. although he hasn't committed much that's clearly criminal, barr's certainly flirted with impeachable offenses, in contravention to his oath of office. imo, investigations would be in order, once the next Congress convenes.

"avengers money"

don't know what this means, but I'm reminded of The Avengers

"Ask not what you can do for your country
but what your country's been doing to you"

I have had THE FEAR a few times in recent days as the various would-be machinations have unfolded. But it dissipates pretty quickly when I think about what they would have to actually do to try change anything. We all know they have zero evidence, and since we don't actually live in an outright authoritarian state at the moment, that matters. One thing to remember about even Federalist Society judges is that they are appointed for life, they don't owe Donald Trump anything and a lot of them probably don't actually like him. And the courts are all he has, he has no other avenues. I guess he could try to order his new Defense secretary to go in and shoot the ballot counters or set the ballots on fire, but I really don't think anyone would do that, either.

Plus, his legal fund is just another scam to pay off his debts. It's all totally hollow bullshit. Trump is as much a fake totalitarian as he is a fake everything else.

I'm still getting robocalls from the trump campaign asking to contribute to prevent the democrats from stealing the election

The fear people are feeling is precisely what Trump wants people to feel, which is the best argument for pushing through it by any means necessary. Fuck this puling lame duck piece of shit. Everybody say it with me.

The only legitimacy he has at this point is that which we grant him. Remember the last four years, really feel it in your bones and then flush this turd with gusto.

my wife woke me up this morning with the news that YG's "FDT" was at #1? please tell me this was true.

I dunno, but: YG & Nipsey Hussle "FDT (Fuck Donald Trump)" (WSHH Exclusive - Official Music Video) 29,833,422 views

Over the weekend it was, on iTunes. https://www.brooklynvegan.com/ygs-fdt-rises-to-1-on-itunes-chart-after-trump-loses-election-to-biden/

thanking u

wow!

"I was standing at a Trump merch stand in rural Pennsylvania the moment the election was called for Joe Biden, interviewing the guys running it. Here's what that was like!"

America is so weird

CW: that is a vice article

I meant to mention that in a parenthetical for mobile users - ta.

Let me be clear: I will not vote to pack the courts & I will not vote to end the filibuster. The U.S. Senate is the most deliberative body in the world. It was made so that we work together in a bipartisan way. If you get rid of the filibuster, there's no reason to have a Senate. pic.twitter.com/g0fasdzVmt

— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) November 10, 2020

If he shortened it by a few lines that would be a solid tweet.

Guess who thinks it's a good tweet as written!

Joe, You have delivered an excellent message for America to Brett Baier. Centrist Democrats can partner with R’s. Too bad there are so few of you.

— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) November 10, 2020

dumb question but can someone explain why the mood of everyone flipped from "haha trump's impotent attempts at contesting the results have all failed" to "WE'RE ALL DOOMED" this evening? something obviously must have happened but I can't figure out what

this is the closest post to that?

I have had THE FEAR a few times in recent days as the various would-be machinations have unfolded. But it dissipates pretty quickly when I think about what they would have to actually do to try change anything.

Because any shred of optimism or good faith in the last four years has been dragged, stepped on, torn, set on fire and mocked.