Arizona Senate Now Looking for Bamboo in Ballots
Having found nothing in their sham “audit” of 2020 election ballots from Maricopa County, they’re now using 5g cameras and black lights searching for bamboo in the paper of the ballots. Because presence of bamboo is the smoking gun that the ballots came from China, right? The Arizona GOP is hanging their entire Big Lie premise on the unfounded conspiracy theory that China flew in 40,000 fraudulent ballots on a Korean airliner on election day and then smuggled them into polling places all over Maricopa County. No matter that China LIKED Trump being president since he handed them Pacific Trade dominance, international markets because of his idiotic trade war, and allowed them to run rampant in the South China Sea during his entire infestation of the WH.
Not only is the Arizona GOP’s efforts to overturn the election dangerous, it makes them look like idiots.
There are bamboo forests around the globe: Central and South America, Africa, Asia (yes, including China, but also India, The Philippines, Australia). Many, many countries around the world buy bamboo pulp to make their paper domestically. The United States included. So GOP, good luck with that!
1What if the paper has borsht contamination?
2Eisenhower tried to warn the GOP.
Goldwater tried to warn the GOP.
Bobby Jindal gave it a try.
Adam Kinzinger is trying…
But the Trumptanic is sinking with all the cultist excess weight in the deck chairs of the QOP. With the exception of over 500,000 unnecessary deaths and the other assorted damage done by that maladministration, we thank you Morton C. Blackwell.
3And dimwit pillow man says today he has both types of voting machines in his possession and in a few days will have “proof” that the machines were corrupted. Wonder if the cyber ninjas are also doing that investigation.
4@Steve – Leave it to a guy who got rich selling ripped up foam in bags to now be an expert on voting machine coding and circuitry. Reminds me of Dan Akroyd’s “Bag of Glass” character. I’m waiting with bated breath.
5Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) likens GOP to “Titanic”: “We’re in the middle of this slow sink. We have a band playing on the deck, telling everybody it’s fine, and meanwhile Donald Trump’s running around, trying to find women’s clothing and get on the first lifeboat.”
https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1391418787166048259
6This garbage, “Chinese” ballots and “Korean” planes – is going to cause further attacks on Asian-Americans by the stupid. BTW, I notice that the attacks are usually on elderly people, preferably women – so not only are the attackers stupid, but cowardly. Even then, the one lady in her late 70’s put that much-younger coward in the hospital.
7I don’t remember Goldwater warning the GOP. He was the problem.
I think I have mentioned that for the last few months I have been studying McCarthyism. The parallels with trumpism are exact, and the lesson for the the Republicans is dire.
Eisenhower detested McCarthy, said he refused ‘to get down in the gutter with that guy.’ Yet despite his power and popularity, he never came up with a strategy to defang McCarthy.
It was only McCarthy’s suicidal attack on the Army that did him in, and that was almost 2 years into Ike’s term, and it cost the party in the midterms.
Presumably there are some sane Republicans who know all this is crazy stuff, but they have much less power or popularity than Eisenhower, and they have not a clue what to do.
And before the Democrats pour out another shot of Old Schadenfreud, they should remind themselves that if it had not been for Covid, trump would have been re-elected in the biggest landslide since 1936.
8Goldwater warned about the Christianist crowd:
“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.”
9How many people currently looking for Chinese bamboo paper ballots in Arizona would be surprised that the MAGA hats & other Trumpaphernalia they’re wearing were made in China? Like the ballots they’re looking for. Which are bad for some reason. Is there a connection?
Or should they really be wearing a pointed DUNCE cap?
10The AZ GOP doesn’t really need bamboo in any ballots. The outcome of their fraudit has been determined from the beginning. They are just putting on a show for the rubes.
If you know anybody who thinks the fraudit is real, sell them a bridge.
11All over Arizona, villages are missing their idiots
12Mr. Eagar @8:
Another thing Barry was right about was Viet Nam, but he was flat out swift boated by who knows in the MIC. Boom! What Goldwater said was Viet Nam was a quagmire after the French experience. That left two equally wrong choices: literally nuke it or engage in a ground war. LBJ screwed the pooch and McNamara later wrote a book of apology that should have been shoved where the moon doesn’t shine.
13willwheaten, we had a bamboo mini-forest here in cold CT. Never harvested it for paper though.
14should you want to see more of a righteous rant against the Arizona GOP, there was an amusing account by someone on Daily Kos — https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/5/6/2029172/-I-never-gave-THESE-bozos-access-to-my-ballot
Lots of snark, sniping and a bit of enjoyable exaggeration in the comments that follow, too.
Here’s a 3 paragraph sample:
The GOP knew going into this that the company they hired, Cyber Ninjas, had zero experience, unlike other firms that bid on the project. But the CN price was lower and the Republican decision makers had to know of CEO Doug Logan’s election fraud comments, even authoring a document telling politicians how to find fraud (which he stands by), so they probably figured they were hiring someone who’d uncover something, or at least invent it.
Soon everyone knew, though, that Cyber Ninjas and the Republican Party didn’t know what they were doing—having no actual procedures in place until a judge demanded them. Then CN said, No we can’t reveal internal documents because they’re “trade secrets,” when everyone fucking knew they couldn’t produce them because didn’t have them (reporters mentioned rules made “on the fly”). The judge was having none of their bullshit and ordered the documents, which CN finally produced.
The 200 pages they literally copied from other manuals didn’t do much to disprove what election experts have said from the beginning: CN doesn’t have the time, money, personnel, experience, or plan to do what they said they’d do—a quick and fair audit.
15Chines paper mills use wood pulp, which we and Canada export. China mostly imports paper and paper products, it’s cheaper than making their own.
Artisan paper there is made of rice slurry, not bamboo.
I did find bamboo paper out there, but it seems to be ecologically friendly TP.
Then again, if any of those lunatics could think logically and do a little real research (instead of swirling around a cesspit eddy at FB), they wouldn’t b such suckers for nonsense.
(Oh, and Goldwater did see this coming. He just stuffed his foot in his mouth and the DNC killed him with the “daisy ad”)
16Hey, soon the will be looking for matzoh infused paper with a manischewitz watermark. This way the can blame George Soroa.
17US paper companies started using bamboo because it was cheaper than wood pulp back in 2015 or so. There’s also bamboo yarn* for knitters who don’t like wool or acrylic (it’s marketed as ‘greener’), bamboo flooring, bamboo cloth. IN terms of paper, it’s toilet paper, paper towels, paper plates…AND printer paper sold at Staples & OfficeSupply under the brand TreeZero (not the only brand of paper w/bamboo in it), plus fine-art paper and other papers. Pretty much all types. So even if they’re capable of finding bamboo fibers in the ballots, they’d have to prove that the ballots didn’t have a clean documented supply chain of US-made paper with bamboo in it.
(* I prefer wool yarn, myself. My current yarn stash rating is SABLE, which means someone will inherit a lot of yarn unless I start knitting at full speed and give up everything else. During the three years I couldn’t knit after the concussions thing, my sock accumulation went to heck and gone, so I’m back at square one and need lots more as fast as I can make them. But though I’ve successfully turned heels and managed the technical bits of sock-making, I can’t knit as long or as fast as I used to.)
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