GET OUT: US politics November 2020

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

We just wanted to be able to destroy the world with pollution and pay our employees pennies we didn't mean for all this to happen.

"Just had heartfelt call with my homoculous."

It's not his fault the rapture didn't follow, he tried soooo hard

certifiction indeed

Certifiction ain't no fiction

Geraldo's Freudian slip is showing

Reek of Certifiction

BREAKING and DEVELOPING: Michigan Judge Denies Injunction, Setting Aside Trump Supporters' Conspiracy Theories About Detroit https://t.co/QcAkJd0Cr8 via @lawcrimenews pic.twitter.com/3CGtAJFv3x

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 13, 2020

New: A Michigan judge has rejected a GOP effort to stop the certification of election results in Wayne County pending an audit — "sinister, fraudulent motives were ascribed ... Plaintiffs' interpretation of events is incorrect and not credible" https://t.co/LQJyOCZGjC pic.twitter.com/PgogJeEtzS

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) November 13, 2020

I love the DENIED in all caps... They should have a big red rubber stamp that says that.

meanwhile, in north carolina!

Paul Newby is a Republican running for Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. He’s leading by < 100 votes.

And now he has filed a “protest” demanding that the elections board throw out a bunch of ballots that might prevent him from winning. https://t.co/32RgCSjaMF

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) November 13, 2020

(this is primarily what the phone bank was for, by the way)

The judiciary in general to all these Trump campaign lawyers:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4a/12/e3/4a12e315c3ee727e5f60087fe66c46d5.gif

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

Ooopsie!

apparently it actually includes: “Boy, did we screw up! What a mess!”

Mr. Koch said he has since come to regret his partisanship, which he says badly deepened divisions. “Boy, did we screw up!” he writes in his new book. “What a mess!”

Mr. Koch is now trying to work together with Democrats and liberals on issues such as immigration, criminal-justice reform and limiting U.S. intervention abroad, where he thinks common ground can be found. He has partnered with organizations including the LeBron James Family Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union and even a handful of Democratic state legislative campaigns. In 2019, he renamed the Koch network of about 700 donors as Stand Together.

Still, his political spending remains almost entirely partisan. Koch Industries’ PAC and employees donated $2.8 million in the 2020 campaign cycle to Republican candidates and $221,000 to Democratic candidates, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Our first session of New Member Orientation covered COVID in Congress.

Masks, masks, masks....

I proudly told my freshman class that masks are oppressive.

In GA, we work out, shop, go to restaurants, go to work, and school without masks.

My body, my choice.#FreeYourFace

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) November 13, 2020

jfc, how is this country stocked with such deep stupidity.

My body my choice used in that context...fuck youuu

disgusting

"Free Your Face" is my favorite En Vogue song

I know that was a rhetorical question, jvc, and I've used the term a lot here, but I shall now point to my sign:

RACIST HONKY DEATH CULT

Mr. Koch said he has since come to regret his partisanship, which he says badly deepened divisions. “Boy, did we screw up!” he writes in his new book. “What a mess!”
Mr. Koch is now trying to work together with Democrats and liberals on issues such as immigration, criminal-justice reform and limiting U.S. intervention abroad, where he thinks common ground can be found. He has partnered with organizations including the LeBron James Family Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union and even a handful of Democratic state legislative campaigns. In 2019, he renamed the Koch network of about 700 donors as Stand Together.

Still, his political spending remains almost entirely partisan. Koch Industries’ PAC and employees donated $2.8 million in the 2020 campaign cycle to Republican candidates and $221,000 to Democratic candidates, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

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not sure how to feel about this

Easy...fuck Koch

(also used to be one of my cl1ents)

The Soros nightmare is real now???

She needs an iron mask.

a trolley is hurtling down a track. you have three levers: one that stops the trolley, one that kills upwards of a million people, and one that also kills upwards of a million people but buys four people a cappuccino.

can't believe the Qanon candidate turned out to have some dumb beliefs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/13/daily-202-charles-koch-congratulates-biden-says-he-wants-work-together-many-issues-possible/

The Seminar Network, as Koch’s groups were previously known, rebranded last year under the name Stand Together, which describes itself as a philanthropic community. ... Through its affiliates, to be clear, Stand Together still plans to spend heavily in Georgia ahead of the Jan. 5 runoffs to help Republicans retain control of the Senate next year and ensure divided government.

let's please stop feeding the troll by reposting MTG tweets

The Koch brothers are still pouring money into the GA races for Perdue and Loeffler.

Koch organization instead of brothers now I guess

let's please stop feeding the troll by reposting MTG tweets

oh man, Joan Crawford Loves Chachi is gonna be bummed if we can't post about MTG anymore

seriously, idk, i thought that was especially egregious for her given the COVID trajectory and worth noting, but i get the point

rip mt gox

CNN called Georgia. Probably meaningless in terms of the ongoing charade.

Can we all just take a moment to thank SOROS for paying off the judiciary? Blessings

Just incredibly bleak

It’s Day One, so I’m wearing my “Breonna Taylor” mask.

A few of my Republican colleagues have called me Breonna, assuming that’s my name.

It hurts. But I’m glad they’ll come to know her name & story because of my presence here.

Breonna must be central to our work in Congress.

— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) November 13, 2020

unsurprising but also ffs

Meanwhile, in fun right-wing social media news, there's apparently something called GraceBook. (Of course there is.)

When you get booted do you have to go to disgracebook?

Why do they even need another one when they already essentially control FB?

I replied to that Marjorie Taylor Greene tweet with "Hey, you might catch Covid and die", and they banned me for a week.