Today In Biden Land

**TitoFan** · 05-02-2021 01:47 PM

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cyber...b05af50dc1a226

"Judge Slaps Down Election Recount Firm Hired By Arizona GOP Senate"

This is a couple of days old, so who's to say what's happening now in the Arizona Circus. It's heartening to know there are some sane people watching over the asylum. On the other hand, who's to know what damage may have already been done, what with bozos running around with black ink pens and cloaked in secrecy.

So let's recap. These "Stop the Steal" morons would demand that this recount be done:

In secret
With ZERO oversight
With black ink pens in hand

Sounds fair to me.

Personally, I think the Supreme Court should step in and put an end to this wasteful nonsense.

**Kirkland Laing** · 05-05-2021 12:49 AM

Originally Posted by TitoFan

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cyber...b05af50dc1a226

"Judge Slaps Down Election Recount Firm Hired By Arizona GOP Senate"

This is a couple of days old, so who's to say what's happening now in the Arizona Circus. It's heartening to know there are some sane people watching over the asylum. On the other hand, who's to know what damage may have already been done, what with bozos running around with black ink pens and cloaked in secrecy.

So let's recap. These "Stop the Steal" morons would demand that this recount be done:

In secret
With ZERO oversight
With black ink pens in hand

Sounds fair to me.

Personally, I think the Supreme Court should step in and put an end to this wasteful nonsense.

https://twitter.com/normative/status...89423164641281

Related:

https://twitter.com/normative/status...75495319236609

and

https://twitter.com/NGrossman81/stat...65753403777024

**Kirkland Laing** · 05-05-2021 01:02 AM

Fox News’ Chris Wallace pressed Senator Bill Cassidy on whether the Trump administration’s tax cuts have done more to help the wealthy than anyone else.
Wallace brought up Tax Policy Center data showing the average first year tax cut was just $60 for a household making less than $25,000, while households making $3.4 million saw average cuts of $193,000. On top of this, Wallace added, the data suggests that these tax cuts will add $1.5 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.
“Senator, of the 2 million tax filers in Louisiana, only 14,000 of them were paying more, filing gross income of more than $500,000,” Wallace said. “What’s wrong with raising the top tax rate to where it was during the Bush 43 and Obama administrations in order to help the working and middle-class?”

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-wa...e-paying-more/

It turns out that Biden is going for a top rate increase from 37% to a gigantic 39.6% on people earning over $452 000. So in the example above of somebody earning half a million they'd be paying an extra two point six percent on their earnings above 452, or around sixty dollars a week extra tax on their ten thousand dollar a week income. I don't think this is asking too much, do you?

Worth remembering in the fifties and sixties, back when America was great, the top rate of tax was 91%. Unemployment was three percent and economic growth was double that of the supply side era. These things are not coincidental. And the Rockerfellers and the Gettys still managed to scrape a living.

**Kirkland Laing** · 05-05-2021 01:08 AM

Some more random stuff:

Ted Cruz:

https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/stat...71511845314562

Voting stuff:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/01/u...lwatchers.html

https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status...21067391225858

https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/st...20339952111622

https://twitter.com/JanNWolfe/status...30751552897031

One for Spicoli:

https://twitter.com/stuartpstevens/s...07640356741123

**Kirkland Laing** · 05-05-2021 01:15 AM

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/el...-20201223.html

Voter fraud update.

**Kirkland Laing** · 05-06-2021 12:44 AM

Arizona latest. It's getting even weirder:

https://twitter.com/nickmartin/statu...15489691164673

Random stuff:

https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1390036676391673863

https://twitter.com/dmataconis/statu...87566204686337

https://twitter.com/JonathanSelbin/s...19177910231046

https://twitter.com/McCormackJohn/st...18815669178369

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1387173526029832193

**Spicoli** · 05-06-2021 08:48 AM

Liz Cheney. Bigger free swinging Freedom balls and truths spoken than 99 percent of the remaining orange nosed arse tickling imposters currently pretending to be conservative Republicans. Credit where credit is due.

**Kirkland Laing** · 05-07-2021 01:24 AM

Originally Posted by Spicoli

Liz Cheney. Bigger free swinging Freedom balls and truths spoken than 99 percent of the remaining orange nosed arse tickling imposters currently pretending to be conservative Republicans. Credit where credit is due.

You can count the number of Republicans in the House and Senate who will come out publicly and call bullshit on the stolen election claims on the fingers of one hand. You have to take your hat off to them.

The flip side of this is that the rest of them are too scared or concerned about their careers or whatever to stand up to Trump. And at state level you have the same situation and people like Raffensperger in Georgia who stood up for the obvious truth are going to be replaced with Trump people.

This means that if we get a Biden versus Trump rematch in 2024 and Biden wins but it's fairly close in enough states to flip it that we're in big trouble. Trump will claim he was robbed. The House and Senate will almost certainly be GOP controlled by then and they won't have the balls to stand up to the bullshit. Between state officials finding ways to throw the election to Trump and the fuckers in Washington being too scared to do anything about it we have a significant chance of the end of democratic with a small d government in America starting in January 2025.

This is actually the most likely scenario I can think of, that's the awful part. This is the percentage bet here. If both of them make it to 2024 there'll be the rematch. It's hard to knock over an incumbent prez unless there's something really wrong and things will probably be ticking along nicely. Biden will win but in some battleground states the margins will be close enough that it'll be easy for a bunch of yes men to overturn the result one way or another. Almost none of the House or Senate Republicans will say a word, they'll happily go along with it in most cases.

This is not a great situation. Vladimir Putin as an ex KGB man who is now running a KGB ruling regime must wake up every day in disbelief that he actually managed to help bring this about. It's beyond the wildest dreams of any of the cold war era KGB chiefs that they could actually fuck things up in America to this extent.

In other/related news:

https://twitter.com/SenateDems/statu...11122112253958

and

https://twitter.com/nickmartin/statu...54275624046594