Superspreader event.
There were 177,000 new virus cases in the U.S. yesterday — the second-highest daily total ever, trailing only a record set a mere five days earlier.
And *this* is the location the Trump campaign chose for its Giuliani presser. There are now about 50 people in this small room. pic.twitter.com/HZEwT0lYgM
— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) November 19, 2020
The Trump campaign said it is dropping a lawsuit in Michigan, after two Republican canvassers in Wayne county briefly declined to certify the county’s election results.
Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, said in a statement, “This morning we are withdrawing our lawsuit in Michigan as a direct result of achieving the relief we sought: to stop the election in Wayne County from being prematurely certified before residents can be assured that every legal vote has been counted and every illegal vote has not been counted.”
But, oops, the two Republicans stopped refusing, in response to pressure from an outraged public. Then they tried to go back to refusing but it was too late, the state … Read the rest
The Trump people confirm – oh no he’s not coordinating with Biden on the pandemic, good heavens no, what a silly idea.
https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1329454314721521667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1329454314721521667%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2Flive%2F2020%2Fnov%2F19%2Fus-election-donald-trump-joe-biden-coronavirus-covid-19-live-updatesSenator Chris Murphy, a Democrat of Connecticut, said a Trump administration official confirmed the White House is not coordinating with Joe Biden’s transition team about the distribution of a coronavirus vaccine.
Oh well, it’s only life and death.… Read the rest
More gloating over the dreary (however lucrative) future that awaits the princess and the pea:
Among the social set that Jared and Ivanka would prefer to rejoin—the one they occupied aboard Adriatic-anchored yachts and on the carpet at the Met Gala—there is a sense of looking around for who, if anyone, will welcome them back. Case in point: an article speculating that Ivanka would attempt to reenter the New York art scene spread around their social circle and wound up in my inbox a dozen times. (For what it’s worth, people familiar with the first daughter’s art collection referred to it as “unimpressive before COVID,” but, post-COVID, “virtually unsaleable.”)
You can see what she’s going for: the quiet, … Read the rest
A couple of Republican election officials in Michigan tried to play the racism card and got scorched.
Analysts and voting rights advocates, as well as Democrats, condemned Republican canvassers for an initial 2-2 vote along party lines that threatened on Tuesday night to stall official approval of Democrat Joe Biden’s win in Michigan, before reversing course and unanimously certifying its presidential election results.
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Democrat Joe Biden crushed Republican Donald Trump in Wayne county by more than a two-to-one margin, and won the state by 146,000 votes, according to unofficial results. Wayne county is the state’s largest and home to Detroit – an overwhelmingly Black city that leans overwhelmingly Democratic.
Probably all the more so when the Republican … Read the rest
A former friend of the Princess’s confirms that she’s as loathsome as she seems to us peasants.
… Read the restDonals Trump’s daughter was obsessed with status and used to blame classmates for her infractions of school rules while projecting a refined persona, Lysandra Ohrstrom, who was a maid of honour at her wedding, claimed in Vanity Fair.
“She had the Trump radar for status, money, and power, and her dad’s instinct to throw others under the bus to save herself,” alleged Ohrstrom, who described Ivanka, 39, as her best friend growing up.
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Beneath her polish, the future president’s daughter occasionally betrayed “rougher, more Trumpian edges”, she wrote. “Ivanka would regularly relay stories of teachers or observers who had commented
Republicans are shocked, shocked.
… Read the restSen. Shelley Moore Capito was scheduled to speak with the government’s top cybersecurity official on Wednesday. But the night before, Christopher Krebs was cast out of a job.
“I was going to tell him thank you for a good job” helping to secure the 2020 election, Capito (R-W.Va.) said after checking her schedule to see if the call was still on. “I’m still going to tell him that — just not today.”
President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening fired Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, after he spent days actively debunking the president’s baseless voter fraud claims. And in a rare turn in the Trump era, Senate Republicans across the spectrum
Powerful analogy! Birds are descended from dinosaurs therefore men are women. Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay….… Read the rest
As always, apologies for quoting the Daily Mail, but you know how it is.
… Read the restThe parents of an autistic teenage boy were warned he would be taken into care after they objected to him being given powerful hormone drugs to help him change sex.
Doctors at an NHS clinic had recommended he be given puberty-blockers – which delay adolescence – after the youngster declared he believed he was female.
But his mother and father, fearing the potential side-effects of the drugs, stopped him going to the clinic. And they suspected his abrupt decision to change sex was a result of his autism.
After the boy told the school he had been barred from treatment, a teacher told his parents
It is so strange to be a nonbinary person interviewing OB-GYNs who talk about the reproductive care "women" need. I don't know how to describe it other than it feels like we're temporarily stepping into a world where I don't exist.
— Jo Yurcaba (@JoYurcaba) November 17, 2020
It is so strange to be a narcissist interviewing OB-GYNs who talk about women instead of about me. I don’t know how to describe it other than it feels like we are not talking about me. If we are not talking about me, it’s as if I don’t exist. Yes I really am that pathetic and needy. I’m so desperate to focus all the attention on me that I feel compelled to … Read the rest
… Read the restAs the only obstacle between President-elect Joe Biden and the formal start of the presidential transition, General Services Administrator Emily Murphy is struggling with the weight of the presidential election being dropped on her shoulders, feeling like she’s been put in a no-win situation, according to people who have spoken to her recently.
This was never a position that Murphy thought she would find herself in, the people said. But as the government official in charge of signing off on the election result, President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the election has thrown Murphy into the middle of a political firestorm.
Facing mounting pressure from both sides, and even death threats, the sources say Murphy
Kayleigh McEnany wouldn’t know George Orwell if he sat on her lap on the tube.
McEnany dismisses public health guidelines to slow the spread of coronavirus as "Orwellian" pic.twitter.com/S70IbQIce6
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 18, 2020
Enforcing rules to prevent the spread of a lethal pandemic is not “Orwellian.”
Orwell would not have admired Donald Trump. I say this with great confidence.… Read the rest
Evil Don fired a DHS director for stating the truth and bragged about it on Twitter.
…votes from Trump to Biden, late voting, and many more. Therefore, effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been terminated as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2020
… Read the restIn response, Krebs tweeted “Honored to serve. We did it right. Defend Today, Secure Tomorrow.”
Trump lost the election to President-elect Joe Biden, in both the popular and electoral vote. Trump had for weeks prior to the election erroneously railed against mail-in voting as being ripe for fraud. The president had encouraged his supporters to vote in person on Nov. 3 — he later complained about
What? What’s he done now?
I have reversed the ridiculous decision to cancel Wreaths Across America at Arlington National Cemetery. It will now go on!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 17, 2020
Let me guess – some crowd thing, that was canceled so as not to spread the virus even more, and he pitched a fit and said SPREAD THE VIRUS MORE.
… Read the restOn Monday, after evaluating plans to hold a large annual event in the midst of an escalating pandemic, Arlington National Cemetery canceled the event planned next month, saying it could not mitigate the risk to thousands of visitors and cemetery staff.
But on Tuesday, after criticism from Republican lawmakers and public outcry,
The full image:
I can’t begin to express how insulting to women that photo is.… Read the rest
Giuliani is earning the desired 2 20k per diem by lying in court:
Rudy Giuliani launched into a series of baseless claims about the election during an appearance on behalf of the Trump campaign in federal court on Tuesday, seeking to block Pennsylvania from certifying its election results.
Giuliani, who requested to appear on behalf of Trump this morning, alleged there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.
That’s false; there isn’t a single state election official in the country who has seen widespread irregularities. The Department of Homeland Security described the 2020 election as “the most secure in American history.”
Weird that this is how he wants to tie the bow on his career.… Read the rest
Giuliani is not a cheap date, apart from that one time at the Four Seasons garden center.
Rudy Giuliani asked for $20,000 a day to assist the Trump campaign’s legal efforts in battleground states, according to the New York Times.
… Read the restThe request stirred opposition from some of Mr. Trump’s aides and advisers, who appear to have ruled out paying that much, and it is unclear how much Mr. Giuliani will ultimately be compensated.
Since Mr. Giuliani took over management of the legal effort, Mr. Trump has suffered a series of defeats in court and lawyers handling some of the remaining cases have dropped out.
A $20,000-a-day rate would have made Mr. Giuliani, the former New York
See the cross and cleavage? Did I call it or what?… Read the rest
It’s #transawarenessweek
Trans men are men. Trans women are women. End of.
Ignore the #terfs and haters.
Image courtesy of @dinoman_j pic.twitter.com/Fa3JqsgeMc
— LGBTPlusProud (@LGBTPlusProud) November 17, 2020
“End of” is not a persuasive rhetorical device, let alone an argument.
The word “are” is not magic. Saying Xs are Ys doesn’t change reality. I can say “houses are turnips” but that doesn’t make it true, not even if I go on to say “End of.”
Women are human. Women are people. Those are reasonable claims, and true if we all agree on what “women” means and what “human” and “people” mean.
People have rights. That’s a moral claim more than it is a factual claim, and there’s a lot of … Read the rest
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday that he has come under increasing pressure in recent days from fellow Republicans, including Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), to question the validity of legally cast absentee ballots in an effort to reverse President Trump’s narrow loss in the state.
SENATOR Lindsey Graham has been pressuring the Georgia secretary of state to get rid of legal ballots.
That’s…a crime, isn’t it? Isn’t there a federal law against trying to mess with votes and/or intimidate voters? Isn’t that just a straight-up you can be prosecuted crime?
(looks it up)
Yes, it is. There are state laws and federal laws against doing this shit.
Raffensperger and his wife … Read the rest
