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Trump Demands Kari Lake Be Made Arizona Governor After Her Defeat.  Lake, a 2020 election denier, has refused to concede in the state’s gubernatorial race.

Former President Donald Trump called for defeated Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake to be named victor and appointed governor on Monday while repeating baseless voting fraud conspiracies that he has similarly used to contest his own 2020 defeat.

Trump, in a post on Truth Social, claimed without supporting evidence that the former TV news anchor-turned politician was a victim of “another criminal voting operation” and that her Democratic opponent, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, “ran the election.”
“Massive numbers of ‘BROKEN’ voting machines in Republican Districts on Election Day. Mechanics sent in to ‘FIX’ them made them worse. Kari had to be taken to a Democrat area, which was working perfectly, to vote,” he wrote. “Kari Lake should be installed Governor of Arizona.”

[bustamente]

A person this stupid should be in prison, his lawyers who should tell him to shut up or resign

 

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

 

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13 hours ago, Wanna-B-Fanboy said:

 

Doubt it. Even if Musk had the pennies to try to buy Apple's very lucrative music services, the price would be so high that, due to his disastrous Twitter purchase, he would be unable to leverage (borrow the money) the purchase. Moreover, Apple is very unlikely to be interested in selling. Musk is most likely considering setting up a competing service.

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

1 hour ago, Tracker said:

Doubt it. Even if Musk had the pennies to try to buy Apple's very lucrative music services, the price would be so high that, due to his disastrous Twitter purchase, he would be unable to leverage (borrow the money) the purchase. Moreover, Apple is very unlikely to be interested in selling. Musk is most likely considering setting up a competing service.

I guess it's better read as:

 

"Elon Musk is going to put Apple out of Business!"

"Did he buy it?"

 

The funny being he is running twitter, a successful money generating company into the ground.

[GCn20]

13 minutes ago, Wanna-B-Fanboy said:

I guess it's better read as:

 

"Elon Musk is going to put Apple out of Business!"

"Did he buy it?"

 

The funny being he is running twitter, a successful money generating company into the ground.

Twitter has lost money 6 out of the last 8 years and hasn't seen a profitable Q in almost 2.5 years. Not saying that what he is doing with Twitter is right, but it wasn't some golden goose that he ran into the ground either.

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It’s Sickening How Many Guns Were Sold on Black Friday

Somehow, 600-plus mass shootings this year have not dampened the nation’s thirst for deadly weapons.  By the time Thanksgiving rolled around this year, the nation had witnessed 609 mass shootings but had not lost its appetite for guns. Data obtained by The Daily Beast reveals that more Americans tried to buy firearms on Black Friday than they did last year.

In just the 13 days leading up to the annual post-Thanksgiving shopping orgy, there had been enough gun violence to weary any sane county. Three dead and two wounded at the University of Virginia. Five dead and 17 shot at a gay nightclub in Colorado. Six dead at a Virginia Walmart, including a 16-year-old new hire who had spent his first paycheck on a present for his mother.

But come Friday, Americans flocked to buy guns just as they did for Apple AirPods and Revlon One Step hair dryers. The FBI said that its National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) conducted 192,749 background checks—up from 187,585 last year and dispiritingly close to the record of 203,086 set in 2017.

 

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Court Rules Mark Meadows Must Testify In Georgia Election Probe

ATLANTA (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court says former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows must testify before a special grand jury that’s investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia.

The state high court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court ruling last month ordering Meadows to appear before the panel. The former Republican congressman is the latest Trump associate to lose a legal fight over a summons to testify.

The South Carolina Supreme Court opinion says the justices reviewed Meadows’ arguments and found them to be “manifestly without merit.”

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who’s leading the investigation, has said Meadows is an important witness. Because he doesn’t live in Georgia, she had to use a process that involved getting a judge in South Carolina, where Meadows lives, to order him to travel to Atlanta to testify.

Meadows had originally been ordered to testify Wednesday. It was not immediately clear whether that would be rescheduled.

In a petition seeking his testimony, Willis wrote that Meadows attended a Dec. 21, 2020, meeting at the White House with Trump and others “to discuss allegations of voter fraud and certification of Electoral College votes from Georgia and other states.”

[johnzo]

yeah, I would not classify Twitter as something that was thriving business-wise. It has a massive audience of super prominent people but no one has ever figured out how to monetize it.

I'm mainly watching musk's twitter rampage as a software engineer.  It's extraordinarily complex with some gnarly failure modes.  I am curious to see how it runs with 10% of its original engineering headcount being under the gun to roll out new features.

On 2022-11-22 at 6:06 PM, Mark F said:

"President Trump vowed last year to release all the long-secret files related to the JFK assassination, but the administration announced Thursday that some documents will remain redacted until October 2021 for national security reasons.

In a White House memo, Trump said that the nation’s intelligence community persuaded him to keep some parts of documents secret because their exposure could harm “identifiable national security, law enforcement, and foreign affairs concerns.”

"persuaded him" 😂

 

you know that Ted Cruz's father killed JFK, right?  Connect the dots, man!

[blue_gold_84]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/house-democrats-jeffries-1.6669003

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U.S. House Democrats ushered in a new generation of leaders on Wednesday with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries elected to be the first Black American to head a major political party in Congress as long-serving Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her team step aside next year.

Showing rare party unity after their midterm election losses, the House Democrats moved seamlessly from one history-making leader to another, choosing the 52-year-old New Yorker, who has vowed to "get things done," even after Republicans won control of the chamber. The closed-door vote was unanimous, by acclamation.

"It's a solemn responsibility that we are all inheriting," Jeffries told reporters on the eve of the party meeting. "And the best thing that we can do as a result of the seriousness and solemnity of the moment is lean in hard and do the best damn job that we can for the people."

 

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

16 hours ago, johnzo said:

I'm mainly watching musk's twitter rampage as a software engineer.  It's extraordinarily complex with some gnarly failure modes.  I am curious to see how it runs with 10% of its original engineering headcount being under the gun to roll out new features.

It's like watching a $44 billion train, careening off a mountainside in slow motion...

 

I'm all:

 

[bustamente]

How long before they are leaked 

 

[Tracker]

3 hours ago, bustamente said:

How long before they are leaked 

 

Will be leaked within weeks, if not days. Trump's thralls will completely miss the fact that they subsidized him by paying higher taxes to compensate for the free ride he has enjoyed at their expense.

[bustamente]

 

 

[Mark F]

Trump entered As a candidate in 2015.

eight full years of non stop headlines and articles about him.

and no end in sight.

[HardCoreBlue]

From the Washington Examiner:

"I think our campaign was a big shot across the bow for less extremism and less 'angertainment,'" Frisch added.

Whatever.

Regardless, LB still won. Embarrassing.

Colorado people who voted this thing in again can't explain their way out of this one.

In this case, you are who you vote.  

[bustamente]

Special Master no more, maybe they need to have a look at Trumps judge who tried to delay the government from looking at Trumps theft.

[HardCoreBlue]

45 minutes ago, bustamente said:

Special Master no more, maybe they need to have a look at Trumps judge who tried to delay the government from looking at Trumps theft.

Strip this judge and people like them of any future authority and influence.

[bustamente]

36 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

Strip this judge and people like them of any future authority and influence.

Unfortunately I just read that nothing will happen to her, judges wield great unchecked power

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Trump Saddled Republicans With Herschel Walker And Has Now Abandoned Him In Runoff

WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump saddled Republicans with a clearly flawed Herschel Walker as their Senate nominee in Georgia, but in the final weeks before the runoff election, the ex-president has not spent a single dime to help Walker out of the nearly $100 million he has in donor money.

Some 100 groups have poured $69 million into the Dec. 6 runoff between Walker and Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, according to a HuffPost analysis of Federal Election Commission filings through Thursday.

Ten have spent at least seven figures, led by the pro-Warnock Georgia Honor super PAC with $19.4 million and Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund with $15.3 million.

But groups controlled by the coup-attempting former president, who cajoled Walker to get into the race in the first place, essentially clearing the field for the former football star, have not reported spending anything at all — that despite Trump likely having $94 million on hand between his Save America “leadership” PAC and his Make America Great Again Inc. super PAC.

“He’s not going to spend it. He doesn’t care,” said Martha Zoller, a former adviser to Georgia’s popular GOP Gov. Brian Kemp. “People are really resentful of how Trump has handled all of this.”

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Judge Orders Arizona County To Immediately Certify Election Results

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge on Thursday ordered Cochise County officials to certify the midterm election results by the end of the day, saying Republican supervisors broke the law when they refused to sign off on the vote count by this week’s deadline.

Two Republicans on the county’s three-member board of supervisors have not cited any problems with the election results. Rather, they say they aren’t satisfied that the machines used to tabulate ballots were properly certified for use in elections, though state and federal election officials have said they were.

Secretary of State Katie Hobbs filed suit Monday, as did a local voter and a group of retirees, arguing the supervisors are required by law to certify the election, a process formally known as a canvass. Hobbs says she is required to hold the statewide certification Dec. 5 and by law can delay it only until Dec. 8.

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[Mark F]

Repeat after me:

"nobody is above the law"  

"On Thursday, former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg was sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Greenberg was known to host wild parties with attendees like Rep. Matt Gaetz. One attendee of Greenberg’s parties told The Washington Post these events had “sex, drugs — whole lot of it.”

Greenberg’s lawyer, Fritz Scheller, told reporters out front of the courthouse that he was “disappointed” so far “by a number of prosecutions that haven’t been brought.” When pressed further on what kinds of cases Scheller thought his client had helped potentially create, he said, “I think that there’s a number of prosecutions that can be brought in the area of the SBA fraud, the bribery and kick-backs, election fraud, and the sex cases.”

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/1/2139406/-Matt-Gaetz-s-associate-Joel-Greenberg-sentenced-to-11-years-for-sex-trafficking-and-other-crimes

meanwhile an 83 year old woman in the deep south was arrested and jailed for non payment of her water bill.

"A police force in Alabama is facing a flurry of condemnation from residents after it was revealed that an 82-year-old woman was jailed over her failure to pay a trash bill."

 

@Tracker

re k west. extremely disturbing.

The antisemitism is really getting cranked up.  not sure where this is headed.

 

Edited December 2, 2022 by Mark F

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14 minutes ago, Mark F said:

Repeat after me:

"nobody is above the law"  

"On Thursday, former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg was sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Greenberg was known to host wild parties with attendees like Rep. Matt Gaetz. One attendee of Greenberg’s parties told The Washington Post these events had “sex, drugs — whole lot of it.”

Greenberg’s lawyer, Fritz Scheller, told reporters out front of the courthouse that he was “disappointed” so far “by a number of prosecutions that haven’t been brought.” When pressed further on what kinds of cases Scheller thought his client had helped potentially create, he said, “I think that there’s a number of prosecutions that can be brought in the area of the SBA fraud, the bribery and kick-backs, election fraud, and the sex cases.”

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/1/2139406/-Matt-Gaetz-s-associate-Joel-Greenberg-sentenced-to-11-years-for-sex-trafficking-and-other-crimes

meanwhile an 83 year old woman in the deep south was arrested and jailed for non payment of her water bill.

"A police force in Alabama is facing a flurry of condemnation from residents after it was revealed that an 82-year-old woman was jailed over her failure to pay a trash bill."

@Tracker

re k west. extremely disturbing.

The antisemitism is really getting cranked up.  not sure where this is headed.

 

America is headed for where it has always headed with occasional pauses for sanity- a fascist theocracy. Before you scoff, it may be well to remember that only about 20-25% of the American colonists wanted to separate from England, but were so militant that the 75-80% who were not sure were intimidated or converted to the cause.