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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
So apparently T**** put out a 46 minute video ranting about the results.
I'm not watching it, because I'd rather look after my brain cells.
Still though, find it funny that people are being quite particular on the length of the video. Because a 46 minute video isn't going to stop the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States in January.
Trump's speech was full Q nonsense that spouted every possible conspiracy theory about why he lost and blamed Dominion, election tampering, fake ballots, and more. It'd be hilarious if there weren't people who'd kill over this.
Remember that there were a dozen plots to kill Hillary Clinton while Trump was Presidemt.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Reuters: sources say 40 states with New York leading will sue Facebook over anti-trust practices.
Sooo... the Democratic mayor of Austin apparently vacationed in Mexico while telling his constituents to self-isolate - "'Stay home,' says US mayor at Mexico beach resort".
I'd laugh at that title if I wasn't so mad right now. This sort of thing is not going to help us turn Texas purple.
Edited by nrjxll on Dec 3rd 2020 at 2:10:43 PM
Key passages:
But Mr Adler, a Democrat, denied violating his own regulations.
A number of cases involving Democratic office-holders being accused of double standards on coronavirus rule-flouting have made headlines in recent weeks.
Democrats tend to be more in favour of broad virus-control measures than their Republican counterparts.
- California Governor Gavin Newsom last month apologised after he was caught dining with lobbyists and members of the California Medical Association, all without masks, at a crowded table for 12 in a swanky restaurant in Napa Valley. He initially claimed the meal at the Michelin-starred French Laundry, where some prix fixe plates go for $450 per person, took place outdoors. But photos emerged showing the space had a roof, three walls and another wall with sliding glass doors.
- It has since emerged that one night after Mr Newsom dined at the French Laundry, San Francisco Mayor London Breed attended a birthday party for a socialite at the same restaurant. The meal took place as Ms Breed was urging residents to stay at home and avoid socialising, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
In other recent cases involving Democrats:
- On Tuesday, the mayor of San Jose, California, Sam Liccardo, apologised for attending a Thanksgiving dinner with family members from five households - more than state regulations allowed
- A delegation of California lawmakers jetted off to a resort in Maui, Hawaii, for a conference with lobbyists as state residents were being instructed to avoid nonessential travel
- California Senator Dianne Feinstein - who has called for congressional coronavirus aid to be made conditional on states imposing mask mandates - was photographed at the US Capitol and at an airport without any face-covering
- US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, also of California, was pictured without a mask inside a hair salon, breaking rules that only allow service outdoors, but she refused to apologise
- Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl dined outdoors at her favorite restaurant - shortly after voting to uphold a ban on outdoor dining, which she said endangered serving staff
- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot defended her decision to get a haircut while barbershops and salons were closed under Illinois' stay-at-home order. Ms Lightfoot had previously said "getting your roots done is not essential"
- "Pass the potatoes, not COVID... Avoid travel," tweeted Denver Mayor Michael Hancock last week from the airport en route to a family Thanksgiving in Mississippi
- Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser violated her own Covid-19 travel advisory and quarantine requirements after going to Delaware to celebrate Joe Biden's presidential victory. She defended the trip as "essential travel"
- Last month, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo came under fire after he announced plans to have his daughter and 89-year-old mother over for Thanksgiving, even as he told residents to avoid family gatherings. Amid a backlash, his office later said he had cancelled the dinner.
In a rare alignment of viewpoints, the White House and liberal-leaning cable network CNN blasted Democratic politicians on Wednesday over the controversies.
In her monologue, CNN host Brianna Keilar said: "A number of Democratic leaders apologising, or reversing course, after multiple occurrences of 'Do as I say, not as I do.' They have been caught not following their own coronavirus guidelines."
Two thoughts come to mind here. First, note how "leftist" news networks are perfectly happy to criticize Democrats when they do something wrong. Take note, Fox News. Second, goddamn we're stupid. Do Democrats really expect to be taken seriously when they decide to be exempt from rules they're telling the public to follow?
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"If I had to play armchair psychoanalyst, I'd say it's more because politics is a sport for gregarious people who thrive in each other's company. This is certainly true among the younger crowd, who go to these events to network and socialize with their peers. Politics is as much about who you know as what you do, and Zoom meetings just aren't the same.
If you're an up-and-comer, someone with ideas and drive who wants to be a player, you need to be seen, not just heard. What's a little virus compared to your entire future?
Once you get older and jaded, that's when you decide the rules don't need to apply to you.
Edited by Fighteer on Dec 3rd 2020 at 7:52:56 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"The Wichita Eagle: 75,000 Kansans to get COVID-19 vaccinations by month's end, Gov. Kelly announces
Kelly said that Kansas is expecting its initial shipments of vaccines by mid-December from two pharmaceutical companies - Pfizer and Moderna.
Overall, Kelly said she expects 150,000 doses to arrive in Kansas through December. Each patient will get two doses for fullest effect, which means the state will be able to vaccinate 75,000 people.
The first to receive vaccinations will be front-line health care workers and nursing home residents.
The workers are at the greatest risk of infection by the coronavirus and the elderly are at the greatest risk of dying if they get it.
The second phase will go to persons 65 and older who are deemed “non-high-risk,” she said.
The third and final phase, vaccinating those under 65, will start this winter and continue into the spring, she said.
Other states and countries will soon announce similar plans (it's the first one I've heard of).
Maybe they're secretly Republican psy-ops posing as Democrats to damage the party.
Ironically, there was another Politico editorial
yesterday from the National Review's Rich Lowry saying that Lin Wood and Sidney Powell's behavior is identical to that of Democratic false-flag operatives, thanks to their attempt to blow up the Georgia GOP.
I'd almost feel sorry for the poor bastards at the National Review if they hadn't, y'know, hitched their flag to what's still an utterly evil ideology. They seem to be taking Trump's post-election behavior pretty hard.
Edited by nrjxll on Dec 3rd 2020 at 7:42:23 AM
I'm just tired of the fact that the White House and the Republican branch of Congress has been a field day for the virus for, what, six weeks now, because they refuse to do any kind of distancing, but the instant a Democratic politician does it, suddenly it's "wait a minute, is this thing actually bad?"
Of course it's actually bad. It's been bad the whole time Republicans have been doing it and no one said a damn thing. Maybe it's because we expect better from the Democrats.
It's been fun....I mean, bad COVID behavior from Republicans has been in the news, from refusing measures at rallies (and holding them at all, of course) to the behaviors that have led to COVID spread on Capitol Hill.
I'm not sure anyone expected that being called out by Democrats would get Republicans to change their behavior, though.
That same week, U.S. event planners were told that the guidance did not apply to the upcoming functions they were working on: large indoor holiday parties hosted by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife, Susan, on the eighth floor of the State Department involving hundreds of guests, food and drinks.
A copy of one invitation, obtained by The Washington Post, welcomes guests to a Dec. 15 event titled "Diplomacy at Home for the Holidays" in the Benjamin Franklin Room, the department's flagship reception space, which features cut-glass chandeliers and towering Corinthian columns. Invitations have already gone out to 900 people, said two U.S. officials familiar with the planning, raising concerns about a potential superspreader event.
Behavior around COVID between Democrats and Republicans seems to be similar to corruption.
XKCD made a ranking of presidential middle names
. Joe Robinette Biden is now second. (First is Warren Gamaliel Harding, which is pretty much unbeatable).
As a bonus, "Robinet" means faucet in French. The French and Canadians are going to have a field day with Joe Faucet Biden when he pays them a visit, I bet.
Edited by Redmess on Dec 3rd 2020 at 3:38:18 PM
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesI mean, that's exactly it. Republicans are practically refusing to admit the coronavirus exists, so when they ignore safety precautions it's repulsive but hardly surprising. Folks like this guy, though, are a different story. Austin's been fighting to put stricter restrictions in place than our sociopathic governor wants for months now, so when he ignores them just because he's a big shot that's a lot more hypocritical.
Edit: Holy shit - the article above was tongue-in-cheek, but apparently Breitbart is ACTUALLY accusing Lin Wood of being a Democratic plant.
(Link is to the Washington Examiner, so don't worry about giving Breitbart clicks).
These people are eating each other alive.
Edited by nrjxll on Dec 3rd 2020 at 8:43:13 AM
Trump is handing out pre-emptive pardons for his family and Giuliani, it seems. That's a new one.
I assume this is not actually legal? Though you never know with the US, there may be yet another presidential loophole.
He is apparently also considering pardoning the Tiger King. Yes, really.
Also, redacted people seem to have tried to bribe Trump to pardon him. If Trump accepted those bribes, he could get in trouble for that, I assume.
Edited by Redmess on Dec 3rd 2020 at 8:19:00 PM
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It's not illegal. Ford gave Nixon a preemptive pardon. Bribery definitely is, though.
Wisconson Supreme Court declines to hear Trump's case
, on the grounds that it needs to work its way through the lower courts first. The suit wanted to invalidate 221,000 ballots in heavily-Democratic counties.
Edited by TheRoguePenguin on Dec 3rd 2020 at 11:19:35 AM
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Is he actually doing it? Last I'd heard it was still being discussed.

Some of you have probably noticed Donald Trump isn’t doing so well in court when it comes to election litigation. But just how poorly is he doing? That turns out to be hard to measure.
In precise terms, I mean.
This started out as an attempt to nail down the Trump team’s actual won-lost record, but that turns out to be very difficult to do, and not just because it’s a moving target. It’s also because doing this depends on assumptions and definitions that are rarely consistent from source to source. For example, do you count all lawsuits related to the election, or only those filed after Election Day? All lawsuits filed that support Trump, or only those filed by the official campaign? Do lawsuits filed by Sidney Powell count, or only those that don’t make me snort beverages out of my nose? It all depends.
Similarly, are we counting all wins and losses, or just those that determine the final outcome of a case? For example, a party might (1) seek a preliminary injunction and lose because they couldn’t show immediate harm and a likelihood of prevailing; (2) keep going and then lose on the merits for lack of evidence; and then (3) appeal and lose for failure to show prejudicial error. That would be one “case” but (arguably) three losses.
There’s also, of course, the question whether it even matters—not the overall outcome, but the specific won-loss record. Usually, that doesn’t matter in litigation. Often you don’t end up with a clear-cut win or loss, and a party could lose multiple times but still win if an appeal comes out the right way. It is also true, however, that if an argument or a party has lost over and over and over again, eventually that might qualify as evidence that the argument sucks and/or that the party is pushing it for some reason other than seeking a legal victory.
Consider the “birther” litigation, led in part by Orly Taitz, that intrepid lawyer/dentist who filed many of the lawsuits claiming Obama wasn’t legally president because he wasn’t a “natural born citizen.” I didn’t write about every loss the “birthers” suffered in court, nor could I have, because the last time I checked (in 2012) they had lost 158 times (counting appeals) and had won exactly no times. And according to an updated version of the “Birther Scorecard,” which you can find here, as of August 2015 the tally was a remarkable 0–381. Zero wins. Three hundred and eighty-one losses. If it takes an 84-page table to list all the times you’ve lost in court, I would say that’s admissible evidence that your arguments suck and that you probably have an ulterior motive for continuing.
I could also cite Orly’s attempt to sue the Electoral College, which isn’t a thing you can do, or her attempt to sue me, which has also never been done successfully, but here we’re talking about the overall record. Which sucked.
So how about the Trump team? Again, it’s a moving target. According to Democratic lawyer Marc Elias, who runs Democracy Docket, as of Saturday (Nov. 28) there had been a total of 137 election-related lawsuits filed in 27 states, but that apparently includes lawsuits filed before and after the election by either side. (Non-partisan sources for similar information include OSU’s Major Pending Election Cases site, a partnership with SCOTU Sblog‘s 2020 Election Litigation Tracker.) On Sunday, Elias said the “post-election litigation” tally involved 53 cases, of which Trump had lost 39. Trump did in fact win a case involving a mail-ballot deadline (not fraud) in Pennsylvania, and estimates of the number of ballots thrown out for that reason range from “dozens” to “hundreds.” That’s a little shy of Biden’s margin in that state (80,555), but it still counts as a “win” for counting purposes. So that would make the record 1–39.
It would be worse if we totaled up all the rulings, as with the birthers’ record, because Trump hasn’t been doing any better on appeal. Most recently (as of Friday), the Third Circuit rejected a challenge to Pennsylvania’s election results (see this report and the opinion) by applying this revolutionary legal doctrine: “Charges require specific allegations and then proof.” What, both? Tested against this radical standard, Trump’s claims seem to have fallen short. It was also difficult for Trump to explain this as a partisan decision by Democrats, mainly because all three judges are Republicans (Trump appointed the judge who wrote the opinion, which must have made him really mad). Based on a quick scan, I counted at least nine losses on appeal, so I feel safe in saying that at best Trump’s record would be 1–48 if counted this way.
There are those 13 pending cases, at least one of which is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. (SCOTU Sblog says there are five currently pending there, but I’m not sure those are all included in Elias’s count.) But no one should think (although many do) that any of those cases will produce a shocking final result—at least if other appellate courts continue to apply the Third Circuit’s standard. As Fact Check.org explains here, although Trump, Giuliani, Powell, and so forth routinely claim in public that there was widespread fraud (and/or a Communist conspiracy led by the ghost of Hugo Chavez), when Trump’s lawyers actually appear in court they routinely admit that they have no evidence to support those claims.
So if that’s the case, why are these cases still pending, and why are even more still being filed (several have been filed just in the last week or so)? Well, it could be that dramatic and admissible evidence of voter fraud has just recently been unearthed. I haven’t read the new filings. But it seems doubtful. (Some have suggested the Trump team is waiting to produce evidence until they get to the Supreme Court, and those people are confused about how appeals work.) But dramatic and admissible evidence that Obama was born in Kenya (or wherever) was never unearthed, and yet neither that nor hundreds of losses deterred the birthers from continuing to litigate and even file new cases well into Obama’s second term. I suspect the election litigation is headed down the same path.
This is why I think it’s not entirely accurate to describe most of Trump’s lawsuits as “lawsuits.” They’re an extended version of his public statements, in which he’s constantly making claims about what he wants reality to be, often unsupported by what some call “facts.” His positions and arguments are often just flat-out ridiculous. This would be more of a problem for him, I think, if his goal was to convince anyone. But it usually isn’t. His goals are often just to delay, to cause confusion, and to give some people an easier way to rationalize things they already want to believe. (In this case, he’s also raising an awful lot of money by stringing this out, money that he’s not using for election challenges.) Proof isn’t a necessary element here—he just has to keep making the statements. He often does this by talking, and Twitter has been an absolute godsend for him. But he’s also done it by filing lawsuits.
And if these are your goals, it’s also not necessary to have a real path to victory. That’s why the birther litigation went on even after it was clear it couldn’t make a difference. Someone was willing to pay to keep that going and was able to find lawyers willing to do it. Not the best lawyers, maybe, but lawyers. Here too, it’s no accident that the respectable Republican lawyers who were representing Trump have quietly exited, which is why the comedy team of Giuliani, Powell, and Ellis now have the stage. They have better credentials than Orly Taitz, I think, but I still suspect we’re going to be hearing from them about Hugo Chavez and so forth for years to come.
To be fair, they’ve already won infinitely more cases than the birthers did. (Okay, one more case.) Whether the other column gets anywhere near 381 remains to be seen.
An interesting note to make is that we can expect these lawsuits to continue for years to come, not because they expect to win, but because it provides publicity for them as well as a way to grift more money from Trump's base.
Edited by Redmess on Dec 2nd 2020 at 4:00:37 PM
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