Start Writing Checks, Dan
Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick shot off his mouth and said that he would pay one million dollars Texas cash money to anyone who found and reported legitimate election fraud. Back when Trump was coming up empty finding voter fraud, Big Britches Dan made an offer.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Tuesday he is offering up to $1 million to “incentivize, encourage and reward” people for reports of voter fraud in Texas, even as there’s been no evidence of mass voter fraud and experts say it’s rare.
Well, knock knock, Dan. Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman is at the front door with three cases of election fraud and he wants his money. All of them involving Trumpians.
Patrick said election fraud around the country. His counterpart in Pennsylvania found it and now wants to collect.
Fetterman keeps reminding people that Dan Patrick is the dude that said people over the age of 65 should be willing to die of Covid to protect the economy. Yeah, and Patrick didn’t die either so he’s not a man of his word.
I hope Fetterman sues him.
If Abbot could pay $5mil for an inauguration, surely Patrick has an extra $3mil laying around. He won’t need it in the next election because Texas Dems. will blow it again, and GOPers will mindlessly vote for him.
1Texass Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and his cohorts are awful loose with our tax money, since NFW Danny boy wouldn’t be offering that reeward out of his wallet.
PA is pissin’ up a mighty limp rope though, catching more of the perps most likely to commit voter fraud: Rethugs; there is zero chance that Patrick will pay out the reward dinero.
OT: You’ve all heard of the Nashville 2nd St. downtown Xmas bombing [DK link below], that there’s a ‘person of interest’, that LEOs have indicated that they are no longer looking for other suspects, that bits of ‘human’ were found on-scene.
LEOs/FBI are searching the home of one “Anthony Quinn Warner, age 63 [likely a WM, RWNJ?]”, POI; and undoubtedly his background, politics and activities. He apparently owned or worked for “Custom Alarm Electronics”.
You’ve seen and heard the RV video, etc.
I’ll give you some background, opinion, and speculation now.
This was almost certainly a targeted bombing, it is very likely that the explosive used was ANFO [OkCty, T McV], cheap, easy, simple, powerful [knowing a bit about exord].
The AT&T/BellSouth telecommunications and data building at 182 2nd Ave, N, [Nashville Main CO] almost certainly the target.
My guess is that AQW did work there sometimes in the past, providing door locks, cams, etc., and had somehow lost future contracts/income [these buildings have many layers of ‘security’].
Or he was PO’ed about cellular 5G technology, AT&T or whatever.
Every city and town has these telco buildings, usually located a block or two away from the center of town [the Houston equivalents are the old Capitol CO Bldg [~15 stories] on N Fannin, Clay just off Fannin, National near 610-Westheimer, Sunset on Fondren near Westheimer, and dozens more, like 1010 Pine in STL]. They are almost all built very strong [some nukeproof] and have always had tight security. We used to ponder the risks ~0’dark thirty, but getting your vehicle stolen or broke into was the major factor in the downtowns [most did have secured parking].
9/11 took down a lot of telecomms.
Here is the ‘targeted’ Nashville Main CO, which contains multiple telecomm switches, cellular, and huge amounts of data equipment [fiberoptics/servers/xms/ ect], a very partial sample:
“NSVLTNMTDS4 State: TN English Name: NASHVILLE
Switch Type: WECO 4ESS”
“NSVLTNMTDS1
State: TN English Name: NASHVILLE
Switch Type: Northern Telecom DMS100 (Digital) H
LATA: Nashville TN (470)
Exchanges Served: 22”
—-Details, map [zoom in, labeled ‘BellSouth, across from Hooters, etc], etc:
https://www.telcodata.us/view-switch-detail-by-clli?clli=NSVLTNMTDS4
https://www.telcodata.us/view-switch-detail-by-clli?clli=NSVLTNMTDS1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._4_Electronic_Switching_System
There were major telcomms disruptions due to this bombing.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/26/2004194/-Police-reported-to-have-identified-a-person-of-interest-related-to-Nashville-terrorist-bombing
2Alas, Dan Patrick apparently said up to one MILLION dollars. With no minimum. So, it could be as little as one penny.
Still amusing, though.
3Lt. Gov. Fetterman is the guy Jesse Ventura wishes he had been. You know, really smart and articulate. A former wrestler, as well.
4Most of the election fraud was headquartered in the WH, so not hard to find, though the frauster in chief is at mar-la-la-lago land right now.
5Patrick is such a butthead (and paxton and abbott)
What I would like to have heard when Patrick stepped up to get his “ahead of the pack” COVID vaccine shot was “Sorry…you said you’d be willing to die to make the country better for your grandchildren, so you don’t get a shot until every kid their age in school has had one.”
And of course grandchildren don’t want their grandparents to die (good ones, anyway) but want them to keep alive and healthy and keep loving them and sharing their lives. I had no biological grandparent for most of my life…my step-grandmother was a sweet and loving woman, but not my mother’s mother; she’d married my grandfather after the death (from cancer) of his second wife (the first died in the aftermath of cancer surgery.) My mother’s father died when I was four. I missed him from then on; my mother’s life got harder; we lived a long way from any other relatives, so I felt unconnected…Mother and I were the only ones. Contact with her brother was sporadic and not always comfortable.
My father’s father died when my father was eight, and his mother was…my grandmother in name only. (Well, he was a father in name only, for the most part.) Dan Patrick’s attitude, and that of the guy at that right-wing think-tank who dismissed the Texas COVID deaths as “just the elderly and Hispanics” made me furious. I looked the guy up, but the ensuring months produced so many more smug arrogant a-holes that I’ve forgotten his name.
6Dan Patrick is his own worst enemy and his mouth is his super weapon aimed at his own head! That boy will never learn!
7Proud of my Lt. Gov. Hopefully he will be the next Gov. of PA.
With him looks can be deceiving. He looks like a real Bad A**, but if he is, he carries with him a degree from Harvard. He has real ‘blue collar’ appeal, which gives him street cred in PA.
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