I Want To Prepare You, Just In Case
I’m trying my best not to talk about you know who. His name makes my stomach churn. But, sometimes you can’t help it, especially if you have friends who might be caught off-guard and hear this while driving down the road, threading a sewing machine, or in the middle of jump starting a nuclear submarine.
So far, the former president has floated the creation of a third-party movement that would enable him to support MAGA-friendly candidates in the 2022 midterms and beyond. He is also interested in becoming “the nation’s leader on ballot and voting integrity,” his senior adviser Jason Miller said on a podcast last Thursday.
Yeah, I warned you. The nation’s leader on ballot and voting integrity. Honey, you can’t even square dance and think about that at the same time, much less make a sandwich.
However, this does bring up an interesting topic.
Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit this morning against Rudy Giuliani.
Dominion accuses Giuliani of promulgating the “Big Lie” that Dominion had tampered with votes to fix the election for Biden, in order to “financially enrich himself, to maintain and enhance his public profile, and to ingratiate himself to Donald Trump for money and benefits he expected to receive as a result of that association.”
This is a great idea, and it’s not because lawyering puts food on my table and pays the rent. You can’t stop Rudy’s free speech but you can make him responsible for it. If he has proof of Dominion’s comlicity and can show that malice wasn’t involved and that he was just doing this for good government, he has nothing to fear. Dominion, on the other hand, must be damn certain that their machines are trustworthy or they wouldn’t be filing all these lawsuits. They, too, are liable if they are just filing them to be pesky.
You’d think that if what’s-his-name and Rudy believed that Dominion screwed them out of an election, they’d be suing Dominion, not just yakking about it. But, hummmm …. they sued Rudy for $1.3 Billion. Yeah, with a B.
I can just see the Trump Voting System – please come vote on these genuine 1 Karat gold Trump voting machines, where you vote counts twice as much if you vote Trump.
“the nation’s leader on ballot and voting integrity,”
When Trump and integrity are used in the same sentence it activates my Princess Bride Quote-A-Tron:
“You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means”
1Story on raw story just now that rudee is complaining that the Dominion lawsuit will make it difficult for him to practice law. He calls what he’s been doing practicing law? Kind of like the orange one and queen melanoma playing house in the WH.
2Show us the boxes, Rudy!
3I’ll be popping corn, if Dominion decides to take Trump, Et al. down for defamation
4Sounds like his majesty is looking for another way to raise money – is the FEC aware of this? And as for the “lawyer”, I hope he carried good liability insurance!
5Is He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named be sued next? Isn’t he on tape saying the same thing about the voting machines?
@Papa: Between the impeachment trial and now this, there is not enough popcorn in the world.
6No one is saying “make free speech a crime.” Civil liability, yes. Ironic how those “free market” Republicons whine so much when the “market” bites them in their bank accounts.
7Stephen Colbert found a solution to putting his name on the tv screen when quoting news articles, etc. He spells it T****.
8I suspect that this is just a precursor to the main show(s).
Win this, get precedent, and then it’s on to go for the BIG bucks from Faux Corp, and that billionaire guy. Dominion’s business is likely gone, so they should get money where they can…
9Oh yes.
I wish I’d have known when I was a kid that I had a first amendment right to lie…
10Colorado, where I have been an election judge 10 times over the past 20 years, uses Dominion machines. I will certify from my perspective as an actual election worker, their machines are the best, and most safe of any I’ve seen. They are NOT connected to the Internet during the election at all. They print out the actual ballot that is scanned at election HQ so the voter can verify what they wanted to vote for is what gets counted.
11Didn’t Ivanka get a trademark from china for voting machines in 2018? Trump branded, no paper trail, hackable software coming right up.
12I expect Rudy’s going to lose big time. It’ll be interesting to see what Fox, Epoch Times, OAN, etc do to mitigate their liability.
13And since T**** (thanks, ronanon) wants a third party movement, others have already suggested that it be called the National Conservative Party. Of for fewer syllables, the Nat-C Party. It’s also been suggested that it start off with a march in Nuremburg, PA.
Y’all can easily fill in the rest of the recommendations for the Nat-C effort ….
As for voting, we now have Republicans-Qanons demanding that the nation use paper ballots. You know, the same party that demanded all voting be by electronic machines after the 2000 debacle. Sigh.
14Thank goodness I’m in a county that already uses paper ballots…at our insistence.
As for “the nation’s leader on ballot and voting integrity”, we already have one of those. He’s called ‘Jimmy Carter’, and he does this all over the world.
15The Surly Professor @14 Republicons/Quack-a-Nons can’t say outright what they want because what they want are more fool proof ways to rig elections such that they can’t lose. Their near miss this time has them flabbergasted. Not that 8 million votes would be a “near miss” to anyone other than them. They’re all suffering Karl Rove 2012 election night shock. “But the fix was in … why didn’t we win?”
16I think I figured out why 45 didn’t have dogs in the WH. He didn’t want to be the second smartest there.
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