Month: February 2021

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• Begin with a long and special story – touching, in a vindictive sort of way:
   
  The conservative narrative was solid! Dominion Voting Systems stole the Presidential election from Trump and gave it to Biden. Switched votes, not counted votes, illegal votes, what have you. It wasn’t true, and the fact that it wasn’t true was provable. Dominion sued Fox, Rudy Giuliani, and Sidney Powell for mega-millions, and named Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro in the suit.
   
  Fox made the smart move and backtracked. The network disavowed the Dominion conspiracy and had Lou Dobbs read the story on camera.
   
  After that, Fox, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro pretty much watched their steps. Dominion and vote manipulation were not to be mentioned within an hour or so of each other, except to point ouot that they were definitely not connected, and Dominion was a great, fine, ethical company with a wonderful record of vote counting integrity. Which, by the way, has the virtue of truth going for it.
   
  The new narrative has been that some voting system other than Dominion stole the Presidential election from Trump and gave it to Biden. Smartmatic seemed like a good candidate.
   
  That wasn’t true either, and the fact that it wasn’t true was also provable, but the ethic in some quarters is never let truth interfere with a good story.
   
  News Corpse has a report. Smartmatic is suing guess who?
   
  This time Fox, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro are not being hauled into court for mere hundreds of millions. Smartmatic is going after all of them for a total of 2.7 billion dollars. That’s with a B.
   
  The introductory part of the lawsuit is hilarious. On the other hand, my humor tends toward the juvenile, so your mileage may vary.
   
  Still, just to provide an idea of scale: If you give your spouse a million dollars with the understanding that your partner will spend exactly $1,000 a day and not return until the money is gone, you will not see each other for 3 years.
   
  Got it? Three years.
   
  But if you give your spouse a billion dollars with the same understanding, you will not see each other for three thousand years.
   
  Word is within hours after getting legal notification of the suit, Fox tossed Lou Dobbs under a few billion buses and let him go-go. He’s still employed and under contract, but his new office is without windows, floor, cealing, heat, water, or running assistants. And he is off camera.
   
  Depending on who else they go after, Smartmatic may end up owning a whole lot of over-priced pillows.
   
• In related non-fake news, The Journal of Improbable Research finds a study published by the National Academy of Science devoted to whether fake news – documented to be false – is most effectively refuted before, during, or after the fake is read.
   
• PZ Myers finds a pattern and develops a pretty good idea of why Tucker Carlson opines, rants, and endorses in the direction he opines, rants, and endorses.
   
• Scotties Toy Box has two images pulled from television that illustrate how Fox and factual media cover the news as President Biden signs some popular orders.
   
• My long time conservative friend Darrell Michaels, at Unabashedly American, really, truly, does not like the terrible harm that President Biden and his leftist minions are doing to the nation. Leftist minions would be me and 81 million other Americans, I suppose.
   
  Well, my friend is not QAnon and has not advocated the assassination of Nancy Pelosi or the overthrow of the US government, so there is that.
   
• OH! By the by, Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger finds that our new President’s immigration policies, which my friend Darrell hates as the province of Biden’s extreme leftist minions, are overwhelmingly popular. 55%, 69%, 72%. Not bad for us minions. And it seems the public supports the rest of Biden’s actions as well.
   
  Buncha durn leftist radicals, that American public.

Continue reading “Vote Steal Suit, Fake News, Tucker, Fox, Biden Bad Good Maybe, GOP, Greene”

 
From Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:
 

Oh no, and what will the FBI do? Investigate the bad things that….the president and his associates caused with their “Stolen election” lie? Or follow the funding of the event where it all went so wrong and the facilitation of it by Trump campaign staff? Explore what exactly happened with the changes made at the Pentagon and whether there was a virtual “stand-down” order surrounding the January 6 events?

Taken at face value, Graham wants us to believe that a lengthy trial would be a bad thing for the country. It seems to me that would be true if one’s definition of the US was “the Republican Party”.

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From Peter Brannen at The Atlantic Magazine:

Since about the time of the American Civil War, CO2’s crucial role in warming the planet has been well understood. And not just based on mathematical models: The planet has run many experiments with different levels of atmospheric CO2. At some points in the Earth’s history, lots of CO2 has vented from the crust and leaped from the seas, and the planet has gotten warm. At others, lots of CO2 has been hidden away in the rocks and in the ocean’s depths, and the planet has gotten cold. The sea level, meanwhile, has tried to keep up—rising and falling over the ages, with coastlines racing out across the continental shelf, only to be drawn back in again. During the entire half-billion-year Phanerozoic eon of animal life, CO2 has been the primary driver of the Earth’s climate. And sometimes, when the planet has issued a truly titanic slug of CO2 into the atmosphere, things have gone horribly wrong.

Today, humans are injecting CO2 into the atmosphere at one of the fastest rates ever over this entire, near-eternal span. When hucksters tell you that the climate is always changing, they’re right, but that’s not the good news they think it is. “The climate system is an angry beast,” the late Columbia climate scientist Wally Broecker was fond of saying, “and we are poking it with sticks.”

The beast has only just begun to snarl.

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From Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American:

Today, on the same day that the remains of Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick, killed in the January 6 insurrection, lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda, the House impeachment managers filed their trial brief for the upcoming Senate impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump. The charge is that he incited the insurrection attempt of January 6, 2021, in which a mob stormed the Capitol to stop the counting of the certified electoral ballots for the 2020 election.

Led by Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), a former professor of constitutional law, the managers laid out Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election and his incitement of a violent mob to stop Congress from confirming the victory of Joseph Biden in the election. They note that Trump bears “singular responsibility” for the tragedy of January 6 and dismiss his argument that the Senate cannot convict him now because he is no longer in office, countering that such an understanding would give a president “a free pass to commit high crimes and misdemeanors near the end of their term.”

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From Julian Sanchez, Senior Fellow at Cato Institute:

Julian Sanchez discusses the national security response to the Capitol attack on WWL’s First News with Tommy Tucker
 

 
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From CalicoJack in The Psy of Life:

As hard as that racist bullshit is to read, imagine if your child came home and told you that those were things other kids at school were telling them. Imagine the realization that you couldn’t protect your children from the worst ravages of overt racism in your community.

Imagine telling your children, “I’m your mother, and I am supposed to protect you. And I failed you.” It’s heartbreaking. We all know that we cannot protect our children from every harmful thing that is out in the world, but we feel like we should be able to. And, there are only a few stark reminders that we can’t… if you’re white.

If you’re not white, then you are reminded frequently that you cannot protect your child from racism.

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From Hackwhackers:

One of the more notorious seditionists appearing in numerous videos and photos is a Pennsylvania thug by the name of Rachel Powell, identified by her pink cap and dark sunglasses often speaking into a bullhorn. That’s her FBI wanted poster above. She was filmed using a large pipe-like object to break a window and giving directions to disorganized rioters inside the Capitol as to what hallways led where. Sadly, but not for long, she’s still at large, facing multiple felony counts.

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See how this works?
 

In a Newsmax segment about "social media censorship" against the MyPillow Guy, Pillow Guy continued to spread false conspiracies about voting machines, leading the anchor to interrupt him, read a disclaimer, try to get the producers to get him off the air, and storm off the set pic.twitter.com/QMzOosVSD1

— Lis Power (@LisPower1) February 2, 2021

They wanted to interview him about “cancel culture”

He wouldn’t stop parroting discredited election fraud conspiracies that could get them in legal trouble.

So they cancel cultured him.

 

From nojo:

Ten days in, and here we are.

Pretty much as expected, really. We were promised a wave of executive orders, and we got them. We were promised time to think about things not relating to an idiot tinpot wannabe dictator, and we got that.

And if Republicans didn’t exactly promise they would try to sweep the Capitol siege under the rug, we’re not surprised we’re getting that, too.

We don’t know exactly where things will be going until the next election — next year! — but the lines are being drawn. Republicans will be pushing themselves even farther off the ledge, looking like Wile E. Coyote standing in midair the moment before he drops into the canyon. This won’t be a problem for “safe” districts — Marjorie ain’t going away — but you can’t win whatever remains of the center being the Party of Traitors.

So there’s something not yet settled: Who remains a Republican after this?

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I love my dog
I love my dog
I’m keeping my dog close.

Thank goodness I am not a cat owner. pic.twitter.com/3bY3yZNl9T

— gregarious (@mistergeezy) February 1, 2021