US Politics May 2021: Joe Manchin's Choose-Your-Adventure Book

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This audit. Your election. What’s happening in Maricopa can seem confounding, but maybe it’s that simple.

Karl Malone, Saturday, 22 May 2021 05:06 (three years ago) link

Last week, the official audit Twitter account accused Maricopa County of spoiling evidence by deleting election databases. The account shared a screenshot of a database directory, without any explanation of what it meant. The wild claim was retweeted more than 12,000 times and boosted by the usual suspects. Pulitzer shared the tweet on Telegram, where followers replied with “Firing squad!” and “Time for hanging?” On Steve Bannon’s podcast, Rep. Finchem, who is hoping to become Arizona’s top election official, wondered if this evidence revealed Maricopa’s “incompetence” or “criminality.” Patrick Byrne, the former CEO who is raising money for the audit, announced that “we now have the forensic proof of another massive federal felony.” “Look at that, you guys,” Gail, the Scottsdale real estate agent, told her followers on YouTube, sharing the database screenshot. “I mean, it’s a crime. This is a crime scene.” The Gateway Pundit, a pro-Trump website that has access to the coliseum, declared that Maricopa officials “DELETED ENTIRE DATABASE DIRECTORY from Voting Machines.” Trump repeated the accusation, announcing on his website that “the entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!” Last week, the official audit Twitter account accused Maricopa County of spoiling evidence by deleting election databases. The account shared a screenshot of a database directory, without any explanation of what it meant. The wild claim was retweeted more than 12,000 times and boosted by the usual suspects. Pulitzer shared the tweet on Telegram, where followers replied with “Firing squad!” and “Time for hanging?” On Steve Bannon’s podcast, Rep. Finchem, who is hoping to become Arizona’s top election official, wondered if this evidence revealed Maricopa’s “incompetence” or “criminality.” Patrick Byrne, the former CEO who is raising money for the audit, announced that “we now have the forensic proof of another massive federal felony.” “Look at that, you guys,” Gail, the Scottsdale real estate agent, told her followers on YouTube, sharing the database screenshot. “I mean, it’s a crime. This is a crime scene.” The Gateway Pundit, a pro-Trump website that has access to the coliseum, declared that Maricopa officials “DELETED ENTIRE DATABASE DIRECTORY from Voting Machines.” Trump repeated the accusation, announcing on his website that “the entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!” Last week, the official audit Twitter account accused Maricopa County of spoiling evidence by deleting election databases. The account shared a screenshot of a database directory, without any explanation of what it meant. The wild claim was retweeted more than 12,000 times and boosted by the usual suspects. Pulitzer shared the tweet on Telegram, where followers replied with “Firing squad!” and “Time for hanging?” On Steve Bannon’s podcast, Rep. Finchem, who is hoping to become Arizona’s top election official, wondered if this evidence revealed Maricopa’s “incompetence” or “criminality.” Patrick Byrne, the former CEO who is raising money for the audit, announced that “we now have the forensic proof of another massive federal felony.” “Look at that, you guys,” Gail, the Scottsdale real estate agent, told her followers on YouTube, sharing the database screenshot. “I mean, it’s a crime. This is a crime scene.” The Gateway Pundit, a pro-Trump website that has access to the coliseum, declared that Maricopa officials “DELETED ENTIRE DATABASE DIRECTORY from Voting Machines.” Trump repeated the accusation, announcing on his website that “the entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!” Last week, the official audit Twitter account accused Maricopa County of spoiling evidence by deleting election databases. The account shared a screenshot of a database directory, without any explanation of what it meant. The wild claim was retweeted more than 12,000 times and boosted by the usual suspects. Pulitzer shared the tweet on Telegram, where followers replied with “Firing squad!” and “Time for hanging?” On Steve Bannon’s podcast, Rep. Finchem, who is hoping to become Arizona’s top election official, wondered if this evidence revealed Maricopa’s “incompetence” or “criminality.” Patrick Byrne, the former CEO who is raising money for the audit, announced that “we now have the forensic proof of another massive federal felony.” “Look at that, you guys,” Gail, the Scottsdale real estate agent, told her followers on YouTube, sharing the database screenshot. “I mean, it’s a crime. This is a crime scene.” The Gateway Pundit, a pro-Trump website that has access to the coliseum, declared that Maricopa officials “DELETED ENTIRE DATABASE DIRECTORY from Voting Machines.” Trump repeated the accusation, announcing on his website that “the entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!” Last week, the official audit Twitter account accused Maricopa County of spoiling evidence by deleting election databases. The account shared a screenshot of a database directory, without any explanation of what it meant. The wild claim was retweeted more than 12,000 times and boosted by the usual suspects. Pulitzer shared the tweet on Telegram, where followers replied with “Firing squad!” and “Time for hanging?” On Steve Bannon’s podcast, Rep. Finchem, who is hoping to become Arizona’s top election official, wondered if this evidence revealed Maricopa’s “incompetence” or “criminality.” Patrick Byrne, the former CEO who is raising money for the audit, announced that “we now have the forensic proof of another massive federal felony.” “Look at that, you guys,” Gail, the Scottsdale real estate agent, told her followers on YouTube, sharing the database screenshot. “I mean, it’s a crime. This is a crime scene.” The Gateway Pundit, a pro-Trump website that has access to the coliseum, declared that Maricopa officials “DELETED ENTIRE DATABASE DIRECTORY from Voting Machines.” Trump repeated the accusation, announcing on his website that “the entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!” Last week, the official audit Twitter account accused Maricopa County of spoiling evidence by deleting election databases. The account shared a screenshot of a database directory, without any explanation of what it meant. The wild claim was retweeted more than 12,000 times and boosted by the usual suspects. Pulitzer shared the tweet on Telegram, where followers replied with “Firing squad!” and “Time for hanging?” On Steve Bannon’s podcast, Rep. Finchem, who is hoping to become Arizona’s top election official, wondered if this evidence revealed Maricopa’s “incompetence” or “criminality.” Patrick Byrne, the former CEO who is raising money for the audit, announced that “we now have the forensic proof of another massive federal felony.” “Look at that, you guys,” Gail, the Scottsdale real estate agent, told her followers on YouTube, sharing the database screenshot. “I mean, it’s a crime. This is a crime scene.” The Gateway Pundit, a pro-Trump website that has access to the coliseum, declared that Maricopa officials “DELETED ENTIRE DATABASE DIRECTORY from Voting Machines.” Trump repeated the accusation, announcing on his website that “the entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!” Last week, the official audit Twitter account accused Maricopa County of spoiling evidence by deleting election databases. The account shared a screenshot of a database directory, without any explanation of what it meant. The wild claim was retweeted more than 12,000 times and boosted by the usual suspects. Pulitzer shared the tweet on Telegram, where followers replied with “Firing squad!” and “Time for hanging?” On Steve Bannon’s podcast, Rep. Finchem, who is hoping to become Arizona’s top election official, wondered if this evidence revealed Maricopa’s “incompetence” or “criminality.” Patrick Byrne, the former CEO who is raising money for the audit, announced that “we now have the forensic proof of another massive federal felony.” “Look at that, you guys,” Gail, the Scottsdale real estate agent, told her followers on YouTube, sharing the database screenshot. “I mean, it’s a crime. This is a crime scene.” The Gateway Pundit, a pro-Trump website that has access to the coliseum, declared that Maricopa officials “DELETED ENTIRE DATABASE DIRECTORY from Voting Machines.” Trump repeated the accusation, announcing on his website that “the entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!” Last week, the official audit Twitter account accused Maricopa County of spoiling evidence by deleting election databases. The account shared a screenshot of a database directory, without any explanation of what it meant. The wild claim was retweeted more than 12,000 times and boosted by the usual suspects. Pulitzer shared the tweet on Telegram, where followers replied with “Firing squad!” and “Time for hanging?” On Steve Bannon’s podcast, Rep. Finchem, who is hoping to become Arizona’s top election official, wondered if this evidence revealed Maricopa’s “incompetence” or “criminality.” Patrick Byrne, the former CEO who is raising money for the audit, announced that “we now have the forensic proof of another massive federal felony.” “Look at that, you guys,” Gail, the Scottsdale real estate agent, told her followers on YouTube, sharing the database screenshot. “I mean, it’s a crime. This is a crime scene.” The Gateway Pundit, a pro-Trump website that has access to the coliseum, declared that Maricopa officials “DELETED ENTIRE DATABASE DIRECTORY from Voting Machines.” Trump repeated the accusation, announcing on his website that “the entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!”

things you just want to copy and paste over and over again, because they sum it up

#onethread
#stopcompromisingwithchristianfascists

Karl Malone, Saturday, 22 May 2021 05:09 (three years ago) link

Fucking scum

Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Saturday, 22 May 2021 05:17 (three years ago) link

I hate them all

Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Saturday, 22 May 2021 05:17 (three years ago) link

So what happens, what do we do when "Cyber Ninjas" confidently claims Trump won? What do we, as people in the reality-based community do?

Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 24 May 2021 17:18 (three years ago) link

Mix a Negroni.

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 May 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link

also get a gun

80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Monday, 24 May 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link

MTG to Robert Reich: Greene responded: "Don’t know you, but when I saw Berkley in your bio, I got it. Just put the hammer and sickle with it."

Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 24 May 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link

Not that far off from something Jesse Helms or Reagan would have said 45 years ago, though. The narrative there fails because conservatives/Republicans have been like this for our entire lives.

Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 24 May 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link

What does MTG have against Busby Berkeley?

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 24 May 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link

"Being a communists professor, you’ve never done the real hard work that builds the economy, you just teach ideas that will destroy it."

silly "professors" and "teachers" doing their teaching! HOW HAVE THEY HELP THE ECONOMY?

(•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 24 May 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link

People need to stop paying this useless person (Greene) any attention.

Deicide at Chuck E. Cheese (PBKR), Monday, 24 May 2021 19:02 (three years ago) link

Yeah, her whole deal is attention. Don't give it to her, she has no power.

Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 24 May 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link

On the other hand, if you don't pay attention to her she apparently follows you down the street, filming herself screaming at you, then posts the whole thing, and then people react to *that.*

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 May 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link

Biden just dropped student debt cancellation down to zero. That’s right, the Biden administration has decided to cancel $0 in student debt.

— Gravel Institute (@GravelInstitute) May 24, 2021

(•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 24 May 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link

chodes

Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Monday, 24 May 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link

DeSantis signed the Big Tech Conservative Ass Protection Act bill, a few days before an injunction is filed I'm sure.

Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Monday, 24 May 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link

the Biden administration has decided to cancel $0 in student debt.

and the official announcement is made on Twitter by Gravel Institute??

What's It All About, Althea? (Aimless), Monday, 24 May 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link

That article shows that tweet is inaccurate.

bulb after bulb, Monday, 24 May 2021 21:35 (three years ago) link

Yeah idk I’m not holding my breath that it happens none the leas

(•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 24 May 2021 21:56 (three years ago) link

Is it? Waiting for the memo his people are crafting to entrench his argument that Congress has to do it means it’s not happening.

At least the “new FDR” pieces have slowed to a trickle.

Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 24 May 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link

Biden doesn't want to do it, but Schumer does, so I wouldn't count it out altogether.

jaymc, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 00:47 (three years ago) link

Schumer can't get Manchin and Sinema on board with legislation that makes Democrats competitive in national elections.

Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 00:59 (three years ago) link

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/24/suspicious-package-rand-paul-490640

no rush guys. at all. you have a lot on your plate. in fact if you need to settle your existing caseload, that's perfectly alright. I'm sure it's nothing.

Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 02:21 (three years ago) link

government shouldn't be involved in investigating anything

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 02:23 (three years ago) link

It was probably a delivery meant for Cocaine Mitch.

Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 02:32 (three years ago) link

the 2019 bill barr memo, unredacted

💥 OMG. They just now unredacted those key portions. So I’m now going to just show you the pages that were previously redacted. I’ll show you the before and after.

1/

— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) May 25, 2021

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 16:54 (three years ago) link

"Just this weekend Richard Marx called for violence against me and now we receive this powder filled letter.”

No, it don't mean nothin'
No victim, no crime
It don't mean nothin'
Till you sign it on the dotted line

Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link

pierce has had it

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a36531276/half-republicans-believe-donald-trump-still-president/


This is beyond the beyond. There is no compromise with this. There is no common ground. There is no deal to be struck. Millions of our fellow citizens are lost in rebellion against reality, and the only solution for the common good is to isolate them from decision-making and hope enough of them find their way back to make the country governable again. I’m not optimistic.

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link

i agree. the idiocy is mindboggling...like, just being near it all the time, by virtue of living in this country and paying attention, is making ME dumber...a LOT dumber!

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 17:00 (three years ago) link

i feel like algernon about 3/4 of the way through the book

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 17:00 (three years ago) link

from the comments... good reminder: Once again let us to re-issue the reminder that these Republicans constitute only around 14-16% of the total population... the stink they make give them appearance of being a larger group, they are by far the minority in the country.

Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link

KEEP TRUMP ALIVE

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link

good piece: dense, heavily referential doomscrolling

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/the-brazilianization-of-the-world/

Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link

move over, Lollapalooza pic.twitter.com/YCp9P0fxEj

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 25, 2021

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link

*Please no coolers*

Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 18:52 (three years ago) link

William H. Macy is not invited. Harsh.

balsamic panic (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link

"please no cool people"

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link

That American Affairs article has a subhead that beautifully sums up late stage capitalism: Modernity without Development.

What's It All About, Althea? (Aimless), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 19:17 (three years ago) link

i haven't been to brazil, but i have been to the first centuries after christ, and in some ways life right now reminds me of that: he said he was coming back, during our lifetimes. but it's been several generations now. some go on believing more fervently than others, others shuffle off because the promise was broken

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link

the party will rage on till 5pm at the latest

burnt hombre (stevie), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 20:02 (three years ago) link

Biden Concerned Ambitious Agenda Could Be Stalled By Him Not Really Caring If It Happens Or Not https://t.co/dwHfwFZXAz pic.twitter.com/LsWEYPKytX

— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 25, 2021

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 20:26 (three years ago) link

How dare you?!

Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link

'Modernity without Development'

Unreleased Minutemen track.

earlnash, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link

It was finally released on Pedro Econospiel Vol. II

Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 22:09 (three years ago) link

lmao i love it when someone's guess undermines a supposedly impressive stat

Rick Scott made a game show for reporters and asked us to guess how much milk prices are up. @GarrettHaake guessed 30%.

Turns out it’s 5.5% pic.twitter.com/tIf3wYJ0T0

— Arthur Delaney (@ArthurDelaneyHP) May 26, 2021

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 16:54 (three years ago) link

I pointed out milk prices went up 9% from 2019 to 2020, asked if Trump was to blame. Scott said “excessive government spending” was the culprit https://t.co/fOePp9DNwT

— Arthur Delaney (@ArthurDelaneyHP) May 26, 2021

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 16:54 (three years ago) link

I would like more inflation

Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 16:57 (three years ago) link


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