GET OUT: US politics November 2020

xpost oh, he was the guy?

I just created a VoIP account just so I could create another burner Twitter to taunt a Trump voter.

up to ten permanently suspended accounts now

I knew these lawsuits were gonna be frivolous and dumb but even I'm impressed with the rate this is all falling apart, this is some real Lionel Hutz shit

and Trump is the Kentucky bourbon that Marge stole

"pay rent for the space he's taken up in your head"

if I see this phrase or a variation of it again I'm going to scream

"pay rent for the space he's taken up in your head"

if I see this phrase or a variation of it again I'm going to scream

― akm, Friday, November 13, 2020 9:54 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofb2UZhMXyg

Mentioned bits of this before, but I worked with a lot of die hard conservatives at my first job out of college. It was so engrained and pervasive that it took me years to realize that it wasn't typical

- my boss sent out Christmas cards in late November of 2000 with his family huddled around their Bush/Cheney yard sign and smiling
- i had two different Obama '08 magnets stolen off our car, each time when i was parked at the same contractor's headquarters in the west suburbs of Milwaukee for meetings
- found out later the owner of said contractor called my boss and told me i could never come to his office again if i was going to have anything advertising "that guy" on my vehicle; on the plus side my boss laughed it off and never told me about it, only heard through another employee but the fact that this call even occurred at all is o_O

I still maintain that after the bottom dropped out of the market in 2008 and they ended up laying off 40% of the staff in 2009, that the Obama magnets were a large part of why I was part of that departing group.

sadly I wouldn't doubt it. but that's terrible behavior.

i hate the sound of guitars... a thousand grouching young millionaires

When you hear about employers bringing their politics into the workplace, it's always conservatives. Granted I wasn't around for the height of union politics.

told this story before but I had a client once (can't say their name, but they're a clothing store chain and rhyme with "bowls") who had two executives who were spitting out Obama birther rants in front of me, and our goddamn Service Manager was totally going along with it. I was furious and said nothing cos lol my career but the audacity (this was...uhh...2013, so he'd already been re-elected)

SAY LIKE THE FRENCH SAY / BON SOIR REGRET / A DEMAINS DEMAINS A DEMAINS DEMAINS!!!

fuck yes. I don't have a joke or anything, just that song rules.

like if I was Serious Bizness Person I’d be concerned if people in my org were spouting moon landing conspiracies, and honestly the birther shit is no different.

these ppl are diseased

if I had forseen the Trump era, I probably would have emailed ceo at storethatsellsclothesandrhymeswithbowls.com and said "do u know two of your biggo execs think our Black President is a fakey fake?"

i hate the sound of guitars... a thousand grouching young millionaires

― Change Display Name: (stevie), Friday, November 13, 2020 11:00 AM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The kickoff to one the best albums ever recorded

All Fugazi, all the time, imo.

There was a legal term they mentioned on the radio this morning for someone who keeps filing pointless lawsuits. Abuse of process? Frivolous litigation? Something like that. Supposedly if you're branded a frivolous litigant that often prejudices courts against you, which makes sense.

conservatism was bad as long as I've been alive, but the Tea Party movement really did seem like a shift into "even worse"-ness. like really it was the genesis of "alternative facts" and exploring extra-legal ways to push back on liberalism.

I remember crying when Jared Loughner shot Gabrielle Giffords because I saw actual tea party assholes online celebrating it and felt sick.

I'm coming up on a decade in a government agency (as a contractor up until 7-8 months ago) and there's a sort of unwritten "we aren't talking politics in groups" rule that's been a relief.

Whomp whomp

UPDATE: Attorney for Trump team, RNC and AZ Republican party has filed a motion noting plaintiffs' request for relief is now moot for most of Arizona's ballot.

In other words: A favorable ruling from the judge would, at most, be relevant in two down-ballot races at this point. https://t.co/sjUceByidH pic.twitter.com/2JTItBOo8W

— Maria Polletta🌵 (@mpolletta) November 13, 2020

A problem solved!

The Trump campaign has eliminated the hotline it established so people could report alleged instances of voter fraud after it was flooded with prank calls. They're now directing people to a website where they can submit complaints through a digital form.

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) November 13, 2020

...oh wait

The Trump campaign's lawyer admitted in court yesterday that digital forms have yielded false sworn statements, and a judge blocked entry of the rest as unreliable. https://t.co/iIy9SIIaxL https://t.co/9CSSgD8XEq

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 13, 2020

Report from the recount field in Georgia (Forsyth County):

There are a few observers behind the caution tape, alternating between watching the count and having a conversation about restaurants in Memphis.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) November 13, 2020

The GOP observer and I talked for a while about the new Assassins Creed game, if you want to know how tense this isn’t

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) November 13, 2020

its been fun watching the execs at my company go from openly grousing about Obama (and not so subtly telling us who we ought to vote for) to pussyfooting around everything political for the last 4 years

Wait, are you saying that people aren't using the forms and hotline in good faith?

i hate the sound of guitars... a thousand grouching young millionaires

― Change Display Name: (stevie), Friday, November 13, 2020 11:00 AM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The kickoff to one the best albums ever recorded

― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings), Friday, November 13, 2020 12:23 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ahem target is *not* the kickoff

Wait, are you saying that people aren't using the forms and hotline in good faith?

Well, you know.

i hate the sound of guitars... a thousand grouching young millionaires

― Change Display Name: (stevie), Friday, November 13, 2020 11:00 AM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The kickoff to one the best albums ever recorded

― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings), Friday, November 13, 2020 12:23 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ahem target is *not* the kickoff

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, November 13, 2020 11:35 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sorry, my mistake! I got the songs mixed up

What kind of fan are you

So the real reason the law firm dropped the PA case? Leftists.

Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh lashed out in a statement Friday morning. “Cancel Culture has finally reached the courtroom,” he said, contending that the firm pulling out of the case had “buckled” under the pressure of “leftist mobs.”

Over heard at the WH: "We haven't seen lame duck a l'orange all week. Maybe he's still marinating." @realDonaldTrump

— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) November 13, 2020

Wait, are you saying that people aren't using the forms and hotline in good faith?

It's hard to say for sure, but my submittals as "Hamberdlar69" and "Hamberdlar420" have been met with silence.

Sad! You'd think the Trump campaign would want to know about the numerous fraudulent ballots sent in by D.Z. Nutts and I.C. Butz.

Also saw someone refer to Trump's "chicken coup."

In front of the White House now: pic.twitter.com/CkuxjXkWgR

— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) November 13, 2020

I think I will contact the hotline with some ironclad evidence about my neighbor, Al Coholic. Maybe that will get their attention.

i hate the sound of guitars... a thousand grouching young millionaires

― Change Display Name: (stevie), Friday, November 13, 2020 11:00 AM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The kickoff to one the best albums ever recorded

― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings), Friday, November 13, 2020 12:23 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ahem target is *not* the kickoff

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, November 13, 2020 11:35 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sorry, my mistake! I got the songs mixed up

― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings), Friday, November 13, 2020 5:37 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's my bad because I misremembered the line from Target as being from Do You Like Me, but it's all good because Red Medicine is probs the best Fugazi record by a nose

This dude I know, I.P. Freely, saw some fraud, and he is *pissed.*

Hugh G. Lection

Dicken Syder

Ben Dover already filed a complaint, as did his wife Eileen.

hahahahahahaaha CNN reporting Trump campaign dropping its AZ lawsuit

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/13/politics/arizona-trump-lawsuit/index.html

CNN finally uses the l-word

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/biden-trump-us-election-news-11-13-20/h_3b32c253a51efe960f84f787d0664cbd

Leper?

Inauguration? It's so farcical that he would have one, never mind not actually possibly even *attend* it.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Charles_Manson_-_Lie-_The_Love_%26_Terror_Cult.jpg

oh wow:

Top Trump adviser Peter Navarro appeared on television Friday to baselessly yet emphatically claim that the White House is proceeding under the "assumption of a second Trump term," and that President Trump "won the election," even though he has lost.

Remember: Major new organizations, including CNN, projected Biden will win the presidential election. President Trump has launched a series of legal challenges to the results, even though there has been no evidence of widespread voting fraud despite Trump's claims.

"We are moving forward here at the White House under the assumption that there will be a second Trump term," trade adviser Navarro lied on Fox Business Friday morning.

He continued to lie, saying:

"What we seek here is verifiable ballots, certifiable ballots, and an investigation into what are growing numbers of allegations of fraud under signed affidavits by witnesses and my own view looking at this election, we have what appears in some sense to be an immaculate deception. But if you look statistically at what happened, clearly the president won this election, was leading on election day. And then, after election day, somehow in these key battleground states, they got just enough votes to catch up to the President."

There is no evidence of widespread fraud. In fact, a group of national, state, and private election officials called the Nov. 3 election the "most secure" election in American history.

Yet, Navarro continued to lie.

"Our assumption is the second Trump term, we think he won that election, and any speculation about what Joe Biden might do I think his moot at this point,' he said.

Navarro declined to provide any proof when pressed on the legal argument.

After the Fox Business appearance, Navarro also declined to take questions from reporters that weren’t focused on the executive order aimed at China.

"Not my lane," he said when asked by CNN’s Joe Johns about vaccine deployment. As director of trade and manufacturing policy, it very much is his lane.

oh "lane". crazy

"an immaculate deception" that is just incredible, wow

🚨BREAKING: Third Circuit REJECTS Republican lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania ballot receipt deadline.

Per Court "we do so with commitment to a proposition indisputable in our democratic process: that the lawfully cast vote of every citizen must count."https://t.co/u5JSgphiXF

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) November 13, 2020

https://www.wsj.com/articles/charles-koch-says-his-partisanship-was-a-mistake-11605286893

Ooopsie!

Just had heartfelt phone call w friend @realDonaldTrump who said he's a "realist" who'll do the"right thing" But he wants to see "what states do in terms of certifiction (etc)" He sounded committed to fighting for every vote & if he loses, talking more about all he's accomplished

— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) November 13, 2020