Today In Biden Land

[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.

[Kirkland Laing]

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

[TIC]

is this photo real?

[TitoFan]

No. This is the real picture.

[TIC]

no masks?

[Kirkland Laing]

But even after months and months and months of formal and informal scrutiny, there have been no demonstrated examples of systemic efforts to commit voter fraud.In fact, a review of local news reports shows there aren’t many examples of even individual voter fraud. By our count, there have been only 16 incidents in which someone has faced criminal charges stemming from their attempt to vote illegally. This includes instances in which it isn’t clear whether a ballot was cast but excludes failed efforts to obtain absentee ballots.


Those incidents:

• Thurman, above.
• A man and woman from Austin who allegedly tried to vote in Illinois by claiming residence in that state. It’s not clear whether they obtained ballots.
• A man in Lisle, Ill., who allegedly signed a ballot certification with someone else’s name.
• A man in Carol Stream, Ill., who allegedly filled out an online ballot application for someone who shared his last name. It’s not clear whether the ballot was provided.
• A woman in Naperville, Ill., who allegedly signed a ballot certification with someone else’s name.
• A woman in Buckingham, Pa., who allegedly signed a ballot declaration for her dead mother.
• A woman in Quakertown, Pa., who claims to have accidentally mailed a ballot for her mother after she died.
• A woman from Milford, Maine, who reported herself for voting twice, once by absentee at home and once in person at college.
• A woman from Bowdoinham, Maine, who allegedly voted with an absentee ballot for a former roommate.
• A woman in Cedarburg, Wis., who allegedly submitted a ballot for a dead person.
• A man in Stockton, N.J., who allegedly submitted a ballot for a dead person.
• A man in Carteret, N.J., who allegedly voted twice with different names.
• A man in Woodbridge, N.J., who allegedly registered at his business instead of his home.
• A man from Media, Pa., who admitted to casting a ballot for his dead mother.
• A man from Canton, Mich., who admitted to filling out his daughter’s ballot when she was at college.

That’s it. That’s the total.


You’ll notice that none of these incidents hints at some deeper conspiracy. There’s no allegation that any of these people cast hundreds of ballots for their preferred candidates; in most cases, the allegation centers on casting a ballot for someone known to the person facing charges. It’s not even the case that all of these ballots were necessarily cast for Joe Biden. The man from Media, Pa., voted for Trump. In most cases, it’s not clear for whom the vote was intended.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ince-election/



Some other stuff:


https://twitter.com/morethanavote/st...82212380012550


https://twitter.com/marceelias/statu...18440159174660




and


Cheney’s rupture with the House Republican Conference has become all but final in recent days, but it has been months in the making. Edelman revealed that Cheney herself secretly orchestrated an unprecedented op-ed in the Washington Post by all ten living former Defense Secretaries, including her father, warning against Trump’s efforts to politicize the military. The congresswoman not only recruited her father but personally asked others, including Trump’s first Defense Secretary, Jim Mattis, to participate. “She was the one who generated it, because she was so worried about what Trump might do,” Edelman said. “It speaks to the degree that she was concerned about the threat to our democracy that Trump represented.” The Post op-ed appeared on January 3rd, just three days before the insurrection at the Capitol.



https://www.newyorker.com/news/lette...hooses-the-lie

[Kirkland Laing]

I put the over/under on actual vote fraud in the 2020 election at a hundred and I was miles out wasn't I.



https://twitter.com/donie/status/1391044454329556992