Friday, March 29, 2024

Oh Look, We Found GA Voter Fraud


 It turns out, it was the GOP all along--or anyway, there was an election-denier who weirdly enough submitted multiple ineligible GOP ballots

Nine times.

While serving as the state party vice chairman.

There's a pattern, here. The GOP hates voter fraud and also, seem to be about doing it. It's almost like more Republicans are primed to think they will get away with it.  It is a given--you just will find more voter fraud happening with Republicans.

They do get caught though. I wonder how they got it into their heads that's there's massive voter fraud and no one ever gets caught. (I do not actually wonder this.)

Thursday, March 28, 2024

The Red Line for Journalism

 

This is what I was talking about: the GOP would take the opportunity to read McDaniels' firing as being about cancelling Republicans when it is really about not giving a platform to election deniers and insurrectionists. Maybe she was "normie" by the standards of today's GOP, where asking if the 2020 vote was legitimate is now a qualifying question. But what if we just altogether derided the absolutely batshit claims that got us here--the Venezuelan voting machines, the German servers, the Italian satellites, the Chinese thermostats, that absolutely shit-pilled people seem to have believed in and are now losing their livelihood for--

I'm talking about Jeff Clarke, for whom this shit was that real. 

Or maybe for Mike Lindell

Ginni Thomas doesn't have a "job" per se, but she believed in the German severs.

There is a lot of rubbish otherwise sane people seem to have believed or pretended to. All of it pretty loosie-goosey bullshit.

These ideas are toxic waste, and were deployed by the Trump administration as if they were actually real, when they look like, in the clear light of day, nonsense.  Why in the world would any reputable news outlet support anyone who lent support to so much bullshit? 

UPDATE: The RNC is considering limiting NBC's access because of the McDaniel firing. But, but--they fired her first? LOL. 

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Joe Lieberman RIP

 

I enthusiastically voted for Gore/Lieberman, although they did not, per history and SCOTUS, win. I did not always agree with Senator Lieberman, and truly did want the US Senate to skew more liberal. I never understood why someone whose VP chances were screwed up in part by Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan, would associate himself with No labels.

I don't have to understand every part of that to wish his family well. And his other loved ones. May his memory be a blessing. 

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

TWGB: Trump The Bible Salesman

 


Donald Trump, who is very broke, is selling Bibles just a minute after whatever this was. This is not someone basking in the luxury of the "pump" phase of his obvious "pump and dump" stock. This is a guy realizing he needs to shore up his most bought-in peeps. The religious Right. So he is out there selling the Lord via his book.

He goes back to this well when it is convenient. Sometimes we all do. But some go back to address their faith, and he goes there to address why he thinks he was chosen, while no one in the real world would believe any such thing. 

Did She "Take One for the Team"?

 

I tried to avoid commenting on the NBC/Ronna McDaniel thing because the idea of a television network stunt casting a political commentator so obviously from "the conservative" side felt like a weird gimmick to me. I don't watch opinion-driven news that much for my own health and mental well-being. When I watch people obviously dissemble, I want to throw things at the tv set. If I were a news host who had someone on my set just being an insultingly gross liar, I would want to throw them off my tv set. 

NBC has now decided after mere days and the revolt of many on-air personalities, who felt sandbagged at having McDaniel, pro-insurrectionist hack, thrust upon their network and impugning their journalistic reputations by association, that they have made a terrible mistake. Away she goes!

Here's where my cynicism comes in--doesn't it feel a bit like sheep dip? $300k isn't a bad investment to demonstrate that journalism can't have the likes of go-along-to-get-along unindicted co-conspirators with the Trump attempted coup. From another direction, McDaniel now has been cancel-cultured. See how the media treats even mainstream Republicans?

See? I'm cynical. It was a shocking thing that perpetuates exactly more of the same.


Monday, March 25, 2024

TWGB: Not Like King David, Either

 


This morning, while working out his deep feelings over how impecunious he was about to be, Trump shared with us a Psalm that, like 2 Corinthians, he had no context for, and as a matter of course, was funny to people who do know scripture. Trump didn't compare himself to Jesus, he was biting off old busy-shanks David. He was saying, though he didn't even know, the beginning of a harsh imprecatory prayer against one's accusers, that basically says, when God is on your side, they just let you do it, and your accusers will get fucked up in due time. 

You know why I know this one? Because it was deployed on President Obama not as the King, but as the evil overseer. And I knew when I heard it then, it was intended as a word of wrath being dripped in the ear of those listening like poison, asking them to act. And Trump is giving himself to "prayer"  (curses) against his foes. Because he wants others to carry out his wrath. Not God. Just...someone. 

Act against Judge Engoron. Act against the prosecutors.  Act as if God whispered it in your ear. 

He's as subtle as a sock in the face. 

Sunday, March 24, 2024

A Golf Clap for Mr. Trump

You know, the sort of thing a tyrant can't really cope with is generally the small stuff grown people usually don't sweat, like being the butt of a joke or losing at something every now and again. In order to cope with being Donald Trump, he has to cheat at golf and win awards for matches held at his own clubs. Joe Biden gets that.

We are still living in the world where President Obama and Seth Myers may have awakened a sleeping ego-monster, after all.

On the eve of the day Trump is supposed to pony up his bond for his appeal, pay his settlement, or watch as the process of asset seizure begins, it sems likely to me that Trump, the beneficiary of many unearned prizes, who was denied the opportunity to "earn" a Purple Heart by his damned bone-spurs and has yet to see that Nobel Prize chucked his way, really needed the morale boost a participation first place trophy gives him

Now maybe I am way off base. After all, Trump could be a great golfer given how often he plays. In a world where we used to just talk about "country club Republicans", here is the guy who own the country clubs! For now.  And who looks more at home in a golf cart?  (I've been to Sicily, though--it is indeed a very hilly walk.) And maybe President Biden truly wishes Don Poorleone well because after all, he was a little rough on him earlier this week. 

That being said, in honor of Joe Biden being a bigger man (from what I hear) I am following his lead and offering a golf clap. It isn't the first clap Trump has received from a nasty woman by a long shot, I am sure. 

Oh Look, We Found GA Voter Fraud

 It turns out, it was the GOP all along--or anyway, there was an election-denier who weirdly enough submitted multiple ineligible GOP ballot...