Approximately 566,958 people voted absentee in Wayne County, where Detroit is located, in the 2020 general election. 2,060 appear to have been dead. The Secretary of State published the data of who those specific people were, their home address, and their birthdate. The result was that 2,060 names came back as people who are recorded as having both been dead, and having submitted an absentee ballot.
As stated in the article, it's possible that some of these dead people were alive at the time they filled out and sent their ballots, and it's also possible that two people with the same name and birthdate "might" live at the same address. But only one of those is realistic and it would certain not have made up a large percentage of the 2,060 dead voters.
Does the 2,060 votes actually change anything in Michigan? Nope. But it certainly (one again) exposes the problems with simply mailing out ballots to everyone (whether they requested them or not). If that many dead people voted, how many other ballots were returned for people who otherwise actually didn't fill them out on their own? Also, keep in mind that this is simply one county out of several. A large county and a large "Democratic" county. But still only one county.
Also remember this folks... that in a year or so liberals will renew their demand that voter fraud and ballot tampering is a myth and simply doesn't exist. Well, unless it is done by mysterious Russians infiltrating our election defenses to elect horrible Republicans to high office. We all know that happens.
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BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!v THE GATE WAY PUNDIT.....REPORTING FOR DUMB FUCKING IDIOTS LIKE LIL SCHITTY!!!!!!!
Another red herring that you hope has truth......me thinks once again you have fallen on your own petard........BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! Taking stupidity to new levels of trumpism who again declared at his warp speed meeting that he won the election!!!!!!!!!
At least a somewhat rational comment.
California sends all registered voters mail ballots. A percentage are sent to dead people or recently relocated out of state.
Utah does the same thing.
The Democrats didn't charge fraud.
Hundreds of attorneys across the country have signed on to an open letter condemning the legal efforts pursued by lawyers for President Trump in the hopes of overturning the 2020 election results.
An open letter from Lawyers Defending Democracy has been signed by more than 1,500 attorneys, law professors and officials in the legal profession, including some high-profile signees such as Laurel Bellows, a former president of both the Chicago Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
"More than 35 losses in election-related cases have made one thing painfully clear: President Trump’s barrage of litigation is a pretext for a campaign to undermine public confidence in the outcome of the 2020 election, which inevitably will subvert constitutional democracy. Sadly, the President’s primary agents and enablers in this effort are lawyers, obligated by their oath and ethical rules to uphold the rule of law," reads the open letter.
"Bar Associations need to condemn this abuse and bar disciplinary authorities need to investigate it," it continues.
Other signees include professor Jeffrey Abramson of the University of Texas School of Law, professor Nancy Abramowitx of the American University College of Law college and Elizabeth Bartholet, the Morris Wasserstein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
The letter comes as the president's legal efforts in the key battleground states of Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania were met with more rejections from judges on Monday, including the dismissal of one suit in Georgia dubbed an effort by pro-Trump lawyers to "release the Kraken" against state election officials.
“The claims in the Kraken lawsuit prove to be as mythological as the creature for which they’re named. Georgians can now move forward knowing that their votes, and only their legal votes, were counted accurately, fairly, and reliably," Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) said Monday of that lawsuit.
Giuliani could be disbarred.
The Gateway Pundit says
Dominion voting machines can be accessed by far-left Obama related groups. Individuals related to Dominion accessed ballot marking devices remotely in Georgia (and likely other states) during the 2020 election. This doesn’t sound secure.
No evidence but Scott might believe that!
Sure looks like Lil Schitty and the gateway pundit are a day late and an election short....seems the dead thing in detroit has been prosecuted multiple times by multiple sources....Suggest Lil Schitty use the google machine before looking stupid again!!!!
PolitiFact | Dead voters on Detroit’s voter rolls, including ...
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Nov 05, 2020 · In the November 2016 election, Michigan rejected more than 1,780 absentee ballots because the voters died after they cast their votes. State elections officials previously told us that rather than...
The Supreme Court told Trump to fuck himself.
Supreme Court rejects Pennsylvania Republicans' attempt to block Biden victory
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter
Updated Dec 8, 2020
(CNN) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a request from Pennsylvania Republicans to block certification of the commonwealth's election results, delivering a near fatal blow to the GOP's long-shot bid to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden's victory.
The Supreme Court's action is a crushing loss for Trump, who suggested as late as Tuesday that he thought the justices -- including three of his nominees -- might step in and take his side as he has continually and falsely suggested there was massive voter fraud during the election.
The one-line order was issued with no noted dissents.
The justices acted quickly, just after the final brief in the court was filed Tuesday afternoon, suggesting that they wanted to send a decisive message to challengers of the election results.
Tuesday marks the "safe harbor" deadline for the state under federal law. That means that when Congress tallies the electoral votes in January, it must accept electoral results that were certified before the deadline.
The Democrats didn't charge fraud.
why WOULD they alky?
the dead ALWAYS vote democrat.
LOL. you fucking moron.
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to stop Pennsylvania from certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the state despite allegations from allies of President Donald Trump that the expansion of mail-in voting was illegal .
An open letter from Lawyers Defending Democracy has been signed by more than 1,500 attorneys, law professors and officials in the legal profession, including some high-profile signees such as Laurel Bellows, a former president of both the Chicago Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
alky,
no sane person takes the ABA seriously. it's a liberal lawyer hack farm.
LOL. you fucking moron.
LOL:
‘It’s OVER’: Judge Sullivan throws spiteful 43-page temper tantrum because he can’t do a DAMN thing to hurt Flynn anymore (screenshots)
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/12/08/its-over-judge-sullivan-throws-spiteful-43-page-temper-tantrum-because-he-cant-do-a-damn-thing-to-hurt-flynn-anymore-screenshots/
geezus alky, he's as immature as YOU.
LOL.
Space X is venting 3:00
oh geeze...
eric 'fartwell' swalwell has been banging some chi-com spy skank. not good.
it should be fun watching social media and the msm scurrying to cover this up like a turd in a litter box.
Well that sucked
twell' swalwell has been banging some chi-com spy skank.
Again the trump slurping loser lies like trump!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! The only turd buried is you rat......LOLOLOL
"Roger AmickDecember 8, 2020 at 3:37 PM
Hundreds of attorneys across the country have signed on to an open letter condemning the legal efforts pursued by lawyers for President Trump in the hopes of overturning the 2020 election results." Roger
Read that again.
Legal
House Overwhelmingly Passes Defense Bill
6:37 pm EST
“The House on Tuesday passed a bipartisan $741 billion defense authorization bill by a sizeable veto-proof majority, throwing down the first of two expected gauntlets before President Trump, who has escalated his threat to scuttle the legislation,” the Washington Post reports.
“The 335 to 78 vote represents a bigger margin of victory for the bill than the House mustered for an earlier version of the legislation this summer. House leaders credit the increased support to changes that were made during a months-long negotiation process between the Senate and House, despite Trump’s exhortations to House Republicans to vote against the bill.”
New York Times: “It also amounted to a remarkable break from the president by Republicans, who refused to defer to Mr. Trump’s desire to derail the critical bill as his time in the White House comes to a close.
James Predicts Trump Will Resign for Pence Pardon
5:10 pm
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) — who is currently pursuing a civil investigation against President Trump, while Manhattan’s district attorney has a criminal investigation ongoing — told The View that she believes Trump will take a preemptive measure to try to cut off future federal charges.
Said James:
“The vast majority of legal scholars have indicated that he cannot pardon himself. What he could do is step down and allow Vice President Pence, to pardon him. I suspect that he will pardon his family members, his children, his son-in-law, and individuals in his administration as well as some of his close associates. And then I suspect, at some point in time, he will step down and allow the vice president to pardon him.”
Supreme Court Won’t Block Pennsylvania Certification
4:48 pm
The Supreme Court turned down a request by Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) to block Pennsylvania from certifying results of presidential election, according to Amy Howe.
Washington Post: “The court’s brief order provided no reasoning, nor did it note any dissenting votes. It was the first request to delay or overturn the results of the presidential election to reach the court.”
Top U.S. Cybersecurity Firm Hacked
4:36 pm
New York Times: “FireEye revealed on Tuesday that its own systems were pierced by what it called ‘a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities.’ The company said hackers used ‘novel techniques’ to make off with its own tool kit, which could be useful in mounting new attacks around the world.”
“It was a stunning theft, akin to bank robbers who, having cleaned out local vaults, then turned around and stole the F.B.I.’s investigative tools. In fact, FireEye said on Tuesday, moments after the stock market closed, that it had called in the F.B.I.”
Key detail: “The hack raises the possibility that Russian intelligence agencies saw an advantage in mounting the attack while American attention — including FireEye’s — was focused on securing the presidential election system.”
McConnell Will Direct $123 Million to Georgia Runoffs
4:24 pm
“The Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC affiliated with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, is overseeing the Peachtree PAC, a new political action committee that emerged in recent days to shape the US Senate runoffs in Georgia,” CNN reports.
“The group will spend $43 million in new television and radio ad spending. That’s on top of the roughly $80 million that the McConnell-aligned political organization already has committed to spend through the Senate Leadership Fund and American Crossroads.”
A Presidential Memoir Unlike Any Other
4:09 pm
The New York Times reviews A Promised Land by Barack Obama.
“Barack Obama’s new memoir A Promised Land is unlike any other presidential autobiography from the past — or, likely, future. Yes, it provides a historical account of his time in office and explicates the policy objectives of his administration, from health care to economic recovery to climate change. But the volume is also an introspective self-portrait, set down in the same fluent, fleet-footed prose that made his 1995 book Dreams From My Father such a haunting family memoir.
“And much like the way that earlier book turned the story of its author’s coming-of-age into an expansive meditation on race and identity, so A Promised Land uses his improbable journey — from outsider to the White House and the first two years of his presidency — as a prism by which to explore some of the dynamics of change and renewal that have informed two and a half centuries of American history.”
White House Pushes for $600 Relief Checks
“White House officials are asking Senate Republican leadership to include stimulus checks worth $600 in the emergency economic relief package currently being debated in Congress,” the Washington Post reports.
“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) did not include a second round of stimulus payments in the relief proposal he released last week. Senior Republican leadership in Congress are listening to White House officials push for the inclusion of the stimulus checks… a provision also broadly supported by congressional Democrats.”
Judge Says Flynn Pardon Doesn’t Mean He’s Innocent
2:00 pm
“A federal judge dismissed Michael Flynn’s prosecution Tuesday after President Trump’s pardon, but said the act of clemency does not mean the former national security adviser is innocent of lying to FBI agents about his talks with the Russian government before Trump took office,” the Washington Post reports.
“In formally ending Flynn’s three-year legal saga, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said he probably would have denied the Justice Department’s controversial effort this year to drop the case, which Democrats and many legal experts said appeared to be an attempt by Attorney General William Barr to bend the rule of law to help a Trump ally.”
House Race In New York Still Not Called
1:30 pm
A New York judge is wading through the electoral “errors and delays” that have marred the race between Rep. Anthony Brindisi (D) and former Rep. Claudia Tenney (R), one of the last remaining uncalled races in the country, the Syracuse Post-Standard reports.
Official Says It Was Mistake to Turn Down More Vaccine
1:22 pm
A Trump administration official told CNN it was a mistake not to leave the door open to purchase more Pfizer vaccine doses earlier this summer.
The official added that the U.S. simply may have to hope that the other vaccines being produced by other companies are just as effective as the Pfizer doses.
Taliban Has Coordinated with Al-Qaeda
1:00 pm
“As the Taliban and the United States were finalizing their February deal, Taliban leaders were in frequent communication with al-Qaeda, consulting with their counterparts on the terms of the agreement and assuring them that they would not be betrayed,” the Washington Post reports.
“The active coordination between the two groups has continued to this day, despite the Taliban’s commitment to sever ties as a condition of the peace deal.”
Trump Appointee at Voice of America Won’t Cooperate
12:54 pm
“A Trump appointee with a short but controversial record of overseeing Voice of America and other federally funded news agencies has declined to cooperate with President-elect Joe Biden’s representatives as they seek access to records and personnel,” the Washington Post reports.
Doug Jones Is Leading Contender for Attorney General
12:25 pm
Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) is the leading contender to become Presdient-elect Joe Biden’s attorney general, NBC News reports.
Biden has also been considering Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates.
Rubio Will Run for Re-Election
12:20 pm
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) told Florida Politics he will run for reelection in 2022 and that he thinks Donald Trump will clear the field if he runs for president in 2024.
Said Rubio: “If he decides to run, I think what it means is that Donald Trump will be the next Republican nominee… I still have work to do in the U.S. Senate… I have every intention of being on that ballot in November of 2022.”
Cotton Won’t Say If He Supports Trump Bid In 2024
12:09 pm
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) was asked twice if he supports Donald Trump running for president again in 2024 but he declined to answer, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Said Cotton: “Let’s put one election on the books before we start worrying about two elections out.”
Cotton, who aspires to be president, also said he didn’t think Trump would freeze the 2024 field.
Quote of the Day
11:52 am
“It’s completely unacceptable and it’s not going to work and the president should give up trying to get legislatures to overturn the results of the elections in their respective states.”
— Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), quoted by the Philadelphia Inquirer, on President Trump’s attempts to overturn the election.
Another Trump Lawyer Tests Positive
11:46 am
“President Trump’s lawyer Jenna Ellis has informed associates she has coronavirus, stirring West Wing fears after she attended a senior staff Christmas party on Friday,” Axios reports.
“There are concerns about the potential for another White House superspreader event, though it was unclear whether Ellis posed a risk when she attended.”
Mooney Moves to Condemn Those Who Seek Concession
11:42 am
Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV) introduced a resolution on Tuesday to formally condemn any lawmakers who call on Donald Trump to concede “prematurely” from the presidential race despite having lost, Politico reports.
Texas Sues to Block Battleground States
11:15 am
“Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is suing four battleground states — Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — whose election results handed the White House to President-elect Joe Biden,” the Texas Tribune reports.
“In the suit, he claims that pandemic-era changes to election procedures in those states violated federal law, and asks the U.S. Supreme Court to block the states from voting in the Electoral College.”
Sullivan was appointed by President Reagan to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on October 3, 1984. On November 25, 1991, Sullivan was appointed by President George H. W. Bush to serve as an Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
Compared to a racist rodent bastard!
Brown Shirt Biden.
Mandatory Masking, for 100 more days, Starting Jan. 21 st, 2021.
Sen. Mitt Romney said it would "madness" for Republicans to protest the Electoral College vote that would certify president-elect Joe Biden's win. "We have a process, recounts are appropriate, going to the court is approp & pursuing every legal avenue is appropriate, but trying to get electors not to do what the people voted to do is madness," Romney said.
He's a RINO according the lame duck President
By any sensible measure, being expected to wear a mask in public is no more burdensome than being expected to wear pants — arguably, mask mandates are even more reasonable, since there's a direct public health benefit. But precisely because the American right has absorbed the notion that any responsibility towards others is necessarily an attack on individual freedom, mask mandates are treated as a gross infringement on liberty, while no one seriously objects to shirt-and-shoes requirements in public or commercial spaces.
Kputz is required to wear pants so we don't have to see his shortcomings.
2000 thru today , the Leftist still bitch about the Gore Loss to "W".
So spare us your crying now.
Buck up Buttercup.
Hundreds of attorneys across the country have signed on to an open letter condemning the legal efforts pursued by lawyers for President Trump in the hopes of overturning the 2020 election results." Roger
Read that again.
Legal
Dumb fuck governor of floriduh doing his best impression of the trump authoritarian rule invading a scientists home with guns drawn based of BULLSHIT information......at least 1 R takes umbrage to the the police state you righties want......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Lifelong Republican Ron Filipkowski, who resigned on Tuesday from his position as vice chairman of the 12th Circuit Judicial Nomination Committee (JNC) in Florida, appeared on Cuomo Prime Time Tuesday night and explained why he did it.
A day earlier, agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) raided the home of Rebekah Jones, a data scientist who was fired from the Florida Department of Health in May following a dispute with superiors over properly reporting COVID-19 data.
Filipkowski agreed with the assertion Jones made on Monday night that the raid was an attempt by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to intimidate her and other scientists, and he claimed that the raid wasn’t warranted.
“I watched the video when she tweeted it out right after the incident happened, and I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” Filipkowski said, later adding, “I saw what was happening and I couldn’t believe it. Then I read the search warrant, and I’m a criminal lawyer, and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing in the search warrant about how broad it was, about what they were alleging as a suppose
Floriduh opens its arms to the dumbshit of Mar a Lago.........BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Another idiot to abet desalts!!!!!
Miami Herald
Defeated, lying, narcissist ex-President Trump will make a perfect ‘Florida man’ | Opinion
Fabiola Santiago
Wed, December 9, 2020, 6:00 AM EST
Step aside Congressman Matt Gaetz, Florida man personified, you’ve got real competition now.
The cast of ding-a-ling characters in the state is getting a major infusion of fresh specimens as a result of the 2020 election.
GOP-friendly Florida, the big loser, inherits the Trumps as residents.
The ex-president (feels good to say that, exhaling) will reside in stately Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach and indications are that daughter Ivanka, husband Jared Kushner and their children have plans to head farther south.
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They just plunked down $30 million for a plot of land on Indian Creek, an island village in Miami-Dade County.
It’s supposedly not only a move to be close to daddy.
CNN reported, quoting a source who works with the family, that the first daughter has big political ambitions — like a future run for the governorship of Florida, experience apparently not required although residency is, at least seven years.
President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach is now officially the president’s residence.
President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach is now officially the president’s residence.
Trump show in Florida
So brace yourselves, Floridians: Here comes “The Trumps Take Over Florida,” a new reality show starring the defeated, lying, narcissist ex-president and his entitled children.
We might as well laugh, people.
What’s the alternative?
Besides the sunny weather, the soon-to-be former occupants of the White House are attracted by the friendly accommodations made to conspiracy theorists, coronavirus deniers, and those with a healthy appetite for good old-fashioned corruption.
Your show host: The Republican Party of Florida.
The plot has been laid out well into 2024.
Supporting characters — filming location, Miami — are still auditioning.
But they will surely include, according to Facebook friends in-the-know: Lolita Caravana leading the red car, flag-waving caravan on the Turnpike from Miami to Palm Beach for a weekend bash at Mar-a-Lago and Pepe Ota at Versailles haunting for commie sympathizers, or Democrats, or anyone with a camera willing to turn a clown into an “influencer.”
Swalwell gets rolled by a Chinese spy and says Trump should by investigated for it. It's on you Eric. Man up and own it you prick.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Hundreds of attorneys across the country have signed on to an open letter condemning the legal efforts pursued by lawyers for President Trump in the hopes of overturning the 2020 election results." Roger
Read that again.
Legal
that's our alky. sharp as a billiard ball and always willing to deny US citizens (but not illegal beaners) their lawful due process.
HEADLINES, ETC. at politicalwire.com:
Where truth does not follow Scott:
27 GOP Lawmakers Seek Special Counsel to Probe Election
Top Nevada Court Affirms Biden’s Win
Democrats Blast White House Relief Proposal
"Time is running out. People need help.”
Quote of the Day
“If I would say to you, ‘I don’t want to do it,’ I’d get my house bombed tonight.”
— Kim Ward, the Republican majority leader of the Pennsylvania Senate, quoted by the New York Times, on being asked to sign a letter calling for the state’s electoral votes to be thrown out.
Countries Spend More on Economic Relief, But Not U.S.
CNN Getting Higher Ratings Than Fox News
U.S. Virus Deaths Hit Record Levels
Associated Press:
“Deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to more than 2,200 a day on average, matching the frightening peak reached last April, and cases per day have eclipsed 200,000 on average for the first time on record, with the crisis all but certain to get worse because of the fallout from Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s.
“Virtually every state is reporting surges just as a vaccine appears days away from getting the go-ahead in the U.S.”
Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index: “Growing dread and acceptance of the winter ahead is weighing on Americans’ physical and mental health and raising fears about debt and job security.”
U.S. Could Face Months of Vaccine Shortages
THANKS TO TRUMP'S INEPTITUDE
Politico: “The United States could be heading for a vaccine cliff this spring, with shortages forcing hundreds of millions of Americans to wait for shots amid intense global competition for limited doses.
“The Trump administration has bought 100 million doses each of vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, but the U.S. is unlikely to get additional doses anytime soon because of strong international demand. And both vaccines require two doses per person, effectively halving the already scarce supply.”
ITV News: Two people who had Pfizer vaccine on Tuesday had allergic reactions.
GOP Plots Their First and Last Trump Rebellion
Politico: “Trump’s grip over his party has never been seriously challenged in the Congress, despite four years of hand-wringing over his erratic foreign policy, hard-line tariff regime and scattershot approach to legislation. Trump hasn’t had a single veto overridden, with Republicans loath to directly confront such a wildly popular figure among the GOP base, though they have tanked some of his nominees and tried to influence him behind the scenes.
“But now at the ebb of his power and in the waning days of his presidency, Trump has met his match in defense hawks and the annual defense bill. It has passed 59 years in a row, and even loyal Trump supporters are looking past his Twitter attacks and plotting a rebellion against a president who often seeks vengeance against those who break with him. And they’re acting like it’s no big deal.”
Flournoy Finds Shot at Top Pentagon Job Elusive
Two Presidents, Two Messages
New York Times:
“One president all but declared victory over the pandemic, hailing new vaccines as a ‘medical miracle’ and congratulating himself for doing what ‘nobody has ever seen before.’ The next president declared the pandemic deadlier than ever, calling it a ‘mass casualty’ event that is leaving ‘a gaping hole’ in America with more misery to come.
“Rarely has there been a single hour on a single day that saw such discordant messages emanating from Washington in a time of national crisis. In the middle of a transition of power that has already proved more unsettling than any in more than a century, the departing and incoming presidents on Tuesday offered the American people vastly divergent assessments of the state of their union.”
Axios: Trump’s departing pandemic failure.
White House Rallies Support for UAE Arms Deal
“The Trump administration is working to rally support in the Senate for its controversial high-dollar arms sale to the United Arab Emirates ahead of a vote to block that transfer,” CNN reports.
“Senators of both parties have voiced various concerns about the sale — including the speed at which it is being pursued and its potential impact on human rights and broader regional security — and whether Congress was properly involved in the process.”
Biden Eyes Buttigieg for China Ambassador
Kristi Noem Appears to Acknowledge Biden as President
Biden Will Start With ‘Skeleton Staff’ In White House
To avoid covid contamination
The Deadliest Days In American History
Here are the deadliest days in American history:
Galveston Hurricane – 8,000
Battle of Antietam – 3,675
September 11 – 2,977
Last Thursday – 2,861
Last Wednesday – 2,762
Last Tuesday – 2,461
Last Friday – 2,403
Pearl Harbor – 2,403
Former FDA Commission Scott Gottleib told CBS News the U.S. could reach nearly 4,000 deaths per day from the pandemic in January.
27 GOP Lawmakers Seek Special Counsel to Probe Election
Twenty-seven GOP representatives are urging President Trump to direct Attorney General William Barr to appoint a special counsel to investigate election irregularities, The Hill reports.
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Fat Chance.
This is all from politicalwire.com
Where truth does not follow Scott.
25 million Americans died while Obama was president
We have turned the corner on it, Trump recently told us, for it's on the way out.
==And earlier he told us it would be down to near zero within a few days.
==And last Easter he wanted us to pack the churches.
Trump’s most reprehensible tactic has been to attempt, somewhat shamefacedly, to get local Republican officials to block the certification of votes and state legislatures to appoint Trump electors in clear violation of the public will. This has gone nowhere, thanks to the honesty and sense of duty of most of the Republicans involved, but it’s a profoundly undemocratic move that we hope no losing presidential candidate ever even thinks of again.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-dcola-005&hsimp=yhs-005&hspart=dcola&p=did+25+million+die+while+obama+was+president#id=1&vid=ea459e80fbeec185067fb52ccd4704b1&action=click
Obama was born in Kenya.
25 million Americans died while Obama was president
I was wrong. I fact checked, and only a very few thousand died.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/trumps-h1n1-swine-flu-pandemic-spin/
Donald Trump is an enemy of democracy. Full stop.
In this, he has been aided and abetted by several lawyers, who have explicitly advocated that Republican legislators overturn the will of the people. Before her formal separation from the legal team, Sidney Powell told Lou Dobbs that “the entire election, frankly, in all the swing states should be overturned. And the legislatures should make sure that the electors are selected for Trump.”
Rudy Giuliani encouraged pressure, even intimidation, against state legislators in Michigan to ignore the certified popular vote and award the state’s electors to Donald Trump. “Sometimes it even requires being threatened,” he said.
Jenna Ellis similarly argued that Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania could throw out the results in favor of Donald Trump: “You the legislature, without judicial oversight, can direct and take back that power.”
Donald Trump’s lawyers are enemies of democracy.
25 million Americans died while Obama was president
https://population.un.org/wpp/
So actually a little under 25 million Americans died while Obama was president
Though many are still voting
I meant they died of natural causes, as the population does during eight years.
I should have made that clear from the first.
in other news, the Chi-coms are being given full access to the incoming "administration," which makes sense since they've bought and paid for it, and the incoming cabinet is a cavalcade of virtue signaling, identity politics, tokens.
in other words, no surprises at all.
and it does follow that if you're coming in under an air of theft, fraud, and corruption, your administration does need to be as crooked as humanly possible.
i guess all that's left is to make eric shartwell ambassador to china.
So as I said 25 million Americans died while Obama was president
Of all causes
And as I said, Obama really was born in Kenya.
The Nevada Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Tuesday night to reject an appeal from President Trump’s campaign to overturn the state’s election results, the latest loss in the president’s ongoing legal efforts to have states he did not win declare him victorious.
And Obama is a Muslim!
So as I said 25 million Americans died while Obama was president
Of all causes
Lots of empty chairs at the kitchen table
Trump Says He’s Backing Texas Case
9:42 am EST
President Trump tweeted that his legal team will be joining the election case that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is attempting to bring to the U.S. Supreme Court against the states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Said Trump: “This is the big one.”
Meanwhile, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and David Perdue (R-GA), who each face a Senate runoff election in January, put their names to a statement saying they “fully support” the complaint which seeks to throw out Georgia’s vote.
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lol
THIS IS THE BIG ONE,
AKA, THE REALLY BIG LIE.
Bonus Quote of the Day
“Madness. This is madness. We have a process. Recounts are appropriate. Going to the court is appropriate. Pursuing every legal avenue is appropriate. But trying to get electors not to do what the people voted to do is madness.”
— Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), quoted by The Hill, on Republican efforts to challenge the electoral vote.
Giuliani Witness Who Went Viral Won’t Quarantine
“A witness who attracted national attention after testifying at the side of Rudy Giuliani about alleged voter fraud in Michigan says she is not self-quarantining and has not been tested for the coronavirus in the wake of Giuliani’s positive test and hospitalization,” the Washington Post reports.
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When I saw her sitting there beside Rudy with all the blonde hair piled up on top of her head making her dumb remarks, I was thinking I was watching a SNL parody, not the thing itself.
MADNESS.
Loeffler, Perdue side with Texas lawsuit that Georgia AG says is ‘wrong’
By Greg Bluestein,
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
After the state of Texas filed a long-shot lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme court to toss out Georgia’s election results, Republican Attorney General Chris Carr’s office called it “constitutionally, legally and factually wrong.” He didn’t get much backup from other senior Republicans.
Nearly half of the Georgia Senate’s GOP members issued a statement siding with the Texas lawsuit that seeks to help President Donald Trump undo his defeat here. So did U.S. Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, who said they both “fully support” the complaint filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
It was the latest reflection of a deepening divide in Georgia over President Trump’s false narrative of a “rigged” election. While some state officials have urged Trump to focus on the Jan. 5 Senate runoffs and acknowledge defeat, others have echoed his calls to overturn the election results.
This lawsuit was filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is battling whistle-blower allegations that he engaged in bribery. It asks the justices to delay the Dec. 14 deadline for certification of presidential electors in Georgia and three other battleground states: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
State elections officials have repeatedly said there’s no widespread evidence of election fraud and a series of lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign and its allies in Georgia and other states have been rejected by the courts.
After a third tally, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp, both Republicans, certified Georgia’s election results Monday that showed Joe Biden won the state by roughly 12,000 votes.
Still, Trump’s insistence of voter fraud has taken root in some of his most loyal supporters. And they’re being echoed by elected GOP officials, some who believe the claims and others who seek to curry favor or avoid getting on his bad side.
Then there’s a small number of state Republicans who have defied him – a group that includes Kemp, Raffensperger and Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan.
Raffensperger accused Trump of authoring his own defeat by denigrating mail-in ballots, Kemp refused his demands to call a special session to illegally overturn the election results and Duncan urged the president to concede. Each has been singled out by Trump in scathing attacks.
Loeffler and Perdue have a finer line to balance ahead of runoffs to determine control of the Senate. Though neither have parroted his false claims of a “stolen” election – Loeffler wouldn’t answer that question in Sunday’s debate – they’ve also tried to appease Trump by calling for Raffensperger’s resignation.
In the joint statement, the two senators say Trump has the right to ensure “full transparency and uniformity in the counting process.”
“This isn’t hard and it isn’t partisan. It’s American,” said the senators. “No one should ever have to question the integrity of our elections system and the credibility of its outcomes.”
The statement by 16 GOP state senators went a step further. It claimed a” systemic failure to follow the law has allowed misconduct, fraud and irregularities throughout the voting process of this state” without citing substantiated evidence that’s withstood court scrutiny.
Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs said the conspiracy theories in the lawsuit “are false and irresponsible.”
“Texas alleges that there are 80,000 forged signatures on absentee ballots in Georgia, but they don’t bring forward a single person who this happened to,” she said. “That’s because it didn’t happen.”
Staff writer Mark Niesse contributed to this report.
Let's repeat this:
“Texas alleges that there are 80,000 forged signatures on absentee ballots in Georgia, but they don’t bring forward a single person who this happened to,” she said. “That’s because it didn’t happen.”
Trump keeps chasing his own tail and lots of GOP wimps are doing it with him.
How Biden Should Investigate Trump
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James Fallows: “As he prepares to occupy the White House, President-elect Joe Biden faces a decision rare in American history: what to do about the man who has just left office, whose personal corruption, disdain for the Constitution, and destructive mismanagement of the federal government are without precedent.
“Human beings crave reckoning, even the saintliest among us. Institutions based on rules and laws need systems of accountability. People inside and outside politics have argued forcefully that Biden should take, or at least condone, a maximalist approach to exposing and prosecuting the many transgressions by Donald Trump and his circle—that Biden can’t talk about where America is going without clearly addressing where it has been.”
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Here are eleven expressions of opinion:
It's not up to Biden to investigate trump, it's up to his attorney general. Biden should not be involved at all.
Biden should not investigate Trump, he should have him neutralized
If federal laws were broken, and they were, Biden has to let the Justice Dept. do it’s thing and let the chips fall where they may. He can’t let fear of Trump’s legions cause nothing to happen. That said, nothing wrong with letting the state of NY go first.
There needs to be a special counsel to do real investigations
Someone has to defend our rule of law, if it is still to matter. The GOP doesn't care about it, except to abuse it. So it must be left to Dems and Biden.
no fear or favor, let the chips fall where they may
Damn right
Sure... except he can't be involved in it. He can set this off with his AG in the lead, and make it abundantly clear (repeating every 20 minutes) that this is being run independently of the White House. This can have Congressional involvement, and will obviously involve the Courts, but external reviews will need to be done transparently to demonstrate the AG's independence from the White House.
Biden should do nothing beyond choosing the best person available to be his new AG.
He should then leave any investigations/prosecutions up to that AG and his newly revitalized DOJ, and he should be crystal clear with the American people that he won't interfere in any way..
That's pretty much what the article says despite the headline. "Biden needs to select an attorney general who will be seen as the most
principled and eminent of all his Cabinet members, and choose
correspondingly strong and independent inspectors general for the
executive departments. The rest is up to them."
Someone in his admin needs to do it. If they don't, that sets a dangerous precedent.
Another Trump fail:
Gottleib Confirms White House Rejected More Vaccine
Former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who serves on Pfizer’s board, confirmed to CNBC that the White House rejected an offer to lock in additional doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.
Said Gottleib: “Pfizer did offer an additional allotment coming out of that plan — basically the second-quarter allotment — to the United States government multiple times and as recently as after the interim data came out and we knew this vaccine looked to be effective.”
`Why does the GOP hate democracy????? Why is the party advocating undermining elections??? Is it because they know they are on the way to oblivion and this is their last grasp to remain relevant???
Some Republicans support Trump’s efforts
Our discourse on all this is deeply confused. News organizations sometimes emphasize that few elected Republicans have affirmatively endorsed Trump’s efforts to get state legislatures to overturn popular vote outcomes. This creates the impression that they are quietly tolerating a Trumpian tantrum that they hope will pass, as if the problem here is their mere spinelessness.
But the more important point — and this is almost never conveyed with clarity — is this. While it’s good that some state-level Republicans have rebuffed these efforts, a great many other elected Republicans have refrained from declaring them wholly intolerable, which would demonstrate that they must be unequivocally condemned as existentially destructive to democracy.
By doing exactly this, Toomey has exposed this deficit.
It’s also rarely conveyed with clarity that some Republican senators actually do tacitly support efforts to overturn the election results. This includes Loeffler and Perdue. Loeffler has suggested that by trying to get rogue electors appointed, Trump is merely exercising his “right” to take “legal recourse,” which is nonsense, because that tactic lies outside what the law allows.
A demented lawsuit
What’s more, Loeffler and Perdue have now endorsed this new Texas lawsuit. It literally asks the Supreme Court to step in and invalidate Biden’s electors in Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, on the fictitious grounds that the voting was administered fraudulently in them — echoing claims that numerous courts have shot down already.
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This could clear the way for GOP state legislatures in all four to appoint Trump electors, overturning the results, as Trump himself has repeatedly demanded.
This is insane. As University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck points out, the suit seeks to exploit the fact that the Supreme Court does have jurisdiction to hear disputes between states, but it does not automatically hear such complaints, and in this case, it won’t. The high court already declined to hear a somewhat less crazy lawsuit seeking to overturn results in Pennsylvania.
But the fact that this is a stunt doesn’t make it less disgusting that Loeffler and Perdue have endorsed it. Their statement declares that they “fully support” this lawsuit on the grounds that Trump has “every right” to exercise his “legal recourse.”
Again, here they are declaring this effort to subvert the will of the voters to be a legitimate tactic. Since one of the states is Georgia, this is in effect a declaration of war on their own state’s electorate.
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“The central argument here is that we should let the election be decided by unelected judges and partisan state legislators, rather than the 150 million Americans who cast legitimate ballots,” Vladeck told me. “That would be the end of democracy as we know it.”
The future of the Trumpified GOP
We hear a lot of pious talk about the need to restore solidarity and national unity these days. But as Will Wilkinson points out, such calls should be seen in the context of ongoing efforts to overturn the election: They ring particularly hollow when many major figures on the right are essentially demanding the majority’s “abject submission to the minority’s will.”
Indeed, as Laura Field demonstrates, if Trump can keep exerting influence over the GOP, you can envision him — and the Republicans carrying his mantle — seeking to maintain among supporters a kind of permanent state of warfare against the legitimacy of our institutions and of the opposition. It will be rooted in retributive rage against our system and its voters for rendering its verdict against Trump.
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Philosopher John Dewey wrote that democracy is sustained by “faith” in the fundamental worth of other human beings, faith
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