GET OUT: US politics November 2020

xxp fabulous news, fuck Uline forever

Couldn't happen to more deserving folks! The architecture firm I worked for years ago did a build-out for them and they were awful to work for, never mind their terrible politics and donations.

I wouldn't discount the possibility of a OANN/Trump partnership

Such a sad fucking statement that we have to document these rare individual instances of the GOP acknowledging quantifiable facts like they're videos of chimps doing things that humans do. Look, it's trying to think!

How long before his right-wing news network explicitly morphs into nothing more than a means of shilling steaks and ties (or whatever shitty products he's relegated to hawking post-election)?

― Some dads are not YOUR dad (Old Lunch), Thursday, November 12, 2020 10:43 AM (fourteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

"Purchase the Trump TM Fiesta Hispanic Lover's Steak Bowl Liberal Apocalypse Emergency Tub now and help Uncle Don win back the presidency from Sneaky Joe Election Bandit Biden who stole the country from our dear MAGAlomaniac 13 years ago and receive an honorary 6lb bag of Memorial Rudy Giuliani Total Landscaping Liberal Apocalypse Emergency Manure TODAY"

loool get all the way fucked ULine

Rs are fucking filthy in florida!

This story is NUTS. Fascinating read. And good old investigative journalism right there!! https://t.co/5PeDU4cGvT

— Remi Brulin (@RBrulin) November 12, 2020

Sad that HGTV already has the acronym Trump needs for his Home Grifting network.

...f-f-raud?

Lmao Old Lunch

lotta problems with BBC News but some people still doing great work. Ros Atkins put this 6-minute version together of what's going on:

There are so many questions about how senior #Republicans are responding to #Trump's refusal to concede, his insistence the election was stolen without offering evidence & his refusal to co-operate with the transition. We looked at them. Produced @nkean https://t.co/s9RO2QNbEW pic.twitter.com/wH5hbzHyva

— Ros Atkins (@BBCRosAtkins) November 11, 2020

can we go back to the McCloskey thing for a second

so they claimed that photo was ruining their lives but also used it for a Christmas card? god if that ain't modern conservatism in a nutshell

Yeah, apparently that's exactly what is happening. God I hate those two so much.

well shit

“REPORT: DOMINION DELETED 2.7 MILLION TRUMP VOTES NATIONWIDE. DATA ANALYSIS FINDS 221,000 PENNSYLVANIA VOTES SWITCHED FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP TO BIDEN. 941,000 TRUMP VOTES DELETED. STATES USING DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS SWITCHED 435,000 VOTES FROM TRUMP TO BIDEN.” @ChanelRion @OANN

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 12, 2020

REPORT:

Attribution?! He's hedging!

REPORT:

lol xp

No link

I've seen that Dominion list circulating online. Haven't bothered to dig into it, I imagine we will immediately have a lot of debunkings that will have zero impact on the base.

you know Trump supporters are going to believe that is 100% verified because it begins with REPORT:

REPORT: Trump won because angels

Against my better judgment I went and looked at OANN's website and Twitter feed and do not see this report.

WAS IT THAT YOUR POLL WATCHERS WEREN'T ALLOWED TO BREATHE DOWN THE NECKS OF PEOPLE COUNTING VOTES OR WAS IT A MALICIOUS ACT ON THE PART OF SENTIENT MACHINE INTELLIGENCE VOTETRON 2020, MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MIND YOU DUMB ALL-CAPS ASSHOLE, PS GET THE FUCK OUT

maybe "report" is case sensitive?

Maybe it's a secret report.

I've seen that Dominion list circulating online. Haven't bothered to dig into it, I imagine we will immediately have a lot of debunkings that will have zero impact on the base.

Already debunked by NY Times

i don't follow him but to anyone who does, does every one of his tweets now have a disclaimer?

The vast majority, yes.

I would be fired from Twitter because I would be extremely tempted to code a special case for Trump's Twitter account that made the disclaimer read "This user is infamous for being a lying sack of shit."

It would be 3D chess to not investigate electronic voting vulnerabilities for the last four years in order to give Russians access to sway enough votes to Biden that the whole election could be disconnection. It's almost to the level of "So I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you."

On a positive note, Sisters of Mercy is now jamming on my mental jukebox. "Someday, someday, someday. DOMINION."

discounted, not disconnection...

The Dominion story is so typical in that its a Republican Bizarro-world version of the actual Diebold scandals. "They went after our crooked voting machine company, so we'll say they have one too."

Is there really any evidence of the Diebold machines changing votes though? I always thought that was a little far-fetched.

It is, but at the same time, we'd never know, right?

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/biden-trump-us-election-news-11-12-20/h_5e741f568b9995ffbdcee488d6b459b1

xxp That's part of the worldview: Democrats were wrong about Diebold, but it gave them ideas.

See also: Melania Trump's speech that parroted Michelle Obama's speech: "Well, (redacted) was lying when she said it; Melania was telling the truth."

In fact, I've hacked all of ILX and all these posts are me posting as sockpuppets.

Meantime, the purity:

First, thank you for unifying Pennsylvania during this divided time that the Cowboys truly blow.

My dude, you put out a national call for voter fraud + I delivered. It was a dead mom voting for Trump. 😆

Your generous reward will go directly to the Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank. https://t.co/XDbWplUpMl

— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) November 12, 2020

I guess (and again I know this is toeing the line of both-sidesism), but I feel like there is an increasing tendency in American politics to refuse to believe that the other side could have voted the way they did, that there must be a nefarious external force leading to the result. The Democrats' versions of this seem more sophisticated and *maybe* more plausible, but at bottom there still seems to be a similar visceral rejection of the possibility that the other candidate won.

To be fair, the Democratic version of this is generally fueled by Republican administrations spending the runup to Election Day changing as many rules as they can so that it's harder for stereotypically-Democratic voters to participate.

YMP, I get that you were just doing a dumbass extremely-online right-winger voice, but maybe let's not with the Michelle Obama epithet?

Fair point, and if a mod can delete I would not object.

(was a direct quote tho - no hyperbole needed with those fucks)

Is there really any evidence of the Diebold machines changing votes though? I always thought that was a little far-fetched.

Yeah, no evidence of that, but they were a dirty company.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/diebold-incorporated-resolves-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-investigation-and-agrees-pay-252

show me a company doing business in china and I'll show you a company violating the FCPA

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In fact, I've hacked all of ILX and all these posts are me posting as sockpuppets.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, November 12, 2020 4:57 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://media1.tenor.com/images/76679bfab2a69b2a5133628b1c031d04/tenor.gif

(was a direct quote tho - no hyperbole needed with those fucks)

― coupvfefe (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, November 12, 2020 12:04 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I 100% believe you.

It would be 3D chess to not investigate electronic voting vulnerabilities for the last four years in order to give Russians access to sway enough votes to Biden that the whole election could be disconnection. It's almost to the level of "So I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you."

On a positive note, Sisters of Mercy is now jamming on my mental jukebox. "Someday, someday, someday. DOMINION."

― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, November 12, 2020 10:51 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

don't bring a 3D chess knife to a 5D chess gunfight

thanks mod, and thanks for calling it out, peaceman