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Liz Cheney was behind the key move that stopped Trump from using military to overturn election: report Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) was the organizer of an open letter by all living former Defense Secretaries against the military intervening in election disputes. The revelation was made to Susan Glasser of The New Yorker by Eric Edelman, a friend of Cheney's who served as an advisor to her father. "Cheney's rupture with the House Republican Conference has become all but final in recent days, but it has been months in the making. Edelman revealed that Cheney herself secretly orchestrated an unprecedented op-ed in the Washington Post by all ten living former Defense Secretaries, including her father, warning against Trump's efforts to politicize the military," Glasser reported. "Cheney's rupture with the House Republican Conference has become all but final in recent days, but it has been months in the making. Edelman revealed that Cheney herself secretly orchestrated an unprecedented op-ed in the Washington Post by all ten living former Defense Secretaries, including her father, warning against Trump's efforts to politicize the military," Glasser reported. It wasn't the only action she took. "Little noticed at the time was another Cheney effort to combat Trump's post-election lies, a twenty-one-page memo written by Cheney and her husband, Phil Perry, an attorney, and circulated on January 3rd to the entire House Republican Conference. In it, Cheney debunked Trump's false claims about election fraud and warned her colleagues that voting to overturn the election results, as Trump was insisting, would 'set an exceptionally dangerous precedent.' But, of course, they did not listen. Even after the storming of the Capitol, a hundred and forty-seven Republican lawmakers voted against accepting the election results," Glaser wrote. (Now we know why the Trump GOPers have the vendetta against Liz Cheney)

The treadmill may not kill the company but the punitive damages from killing one child and injuring dozens of others are going to substantial. Aaaand....so many cats, so few good recipes.

Looks like we are in for a severe clampdown in a 6:00 PM announcement.

And guess who is going to get stuck with the bar tab once the party is over?

The GOP is waaay past grasping at the nuances of irony. They are into monomaniacal intent to create a system of politics that exclusively benefits them and can be manipulated at their will.

Damn. I pray that this is an aberration. One day can be anomaly but if we get 2 or 3 in a row....

Not sure if its been posted here already, but apparently the nut-fringe GOPers are demanding that every ballot cast in the last election be tested for bamboo fibers because they are certain that millions of ballots were printed up in China and slipped into ballot boxes everywhere to skew the election in favour of Biden. It just keeps getting crazier and crazier. What will be next- testing for soy sauce residue?

TINFOIL HAT: Tucker Carlson Makes BS Claim ‘30 People Every Day’ Are Dying From Vaccines. Here’s the Truth. Fox News host Tucker Carlson continued his reckless mission to mainstream vaccine skepticism on Wednesday night by dangerously speculating that thousands of Americans have died from COVID-19 vaccinations, citing a faulty open-sourced database that has become a haven for misinformation. Over the past few months, the Fox News star has repeatedly used his top-rated primetime show to cast doubt on both the efficacy and safety of the coronavirus vaccines. Despite the fact that countless clinical trials and real-time studies have found the shots to be overwhelmingly safe, Carlson has told his viewers not to trust the vaccines while questioning if they even work. Carlson ramped up his vaccine fear-mongering on Wednesday night, kicking off his program by asking his audience the following questions: “How many Americans have died after taking the COVID vaccine? That’s not Americans that will be killed by the virus, that is a huge number. It’s how many Americans have died after getting the vaccine designed to prevent the virus? Do you know the answer to that question?” Making sure to point out that he has “been completely in favor of vulnerable people taking the vaccine”—a disclaimer he regularly tosses out in these vaccine skeptical segments—Carlson pointed to the Center for Disease Control’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System to insinuate that dozens of people a day are dropping dead from the vaccines. “Between late December of 2020 and last month, a total of 3,362 people apparently died after getting the COVID vaccine in the United States,” Carlson exclaimed. “That is an average of roughly 30 people every day. So, what does that add up to? By the way, that reporting period ended on April 23, and we don’t have numbers past that.” “Not quite up to date, but we can assume another 360 people at that rate have died in the 12 days since,” he continued. “You put it all together, that is a total of 3,722 deaths, almost 4,000 people who died after getting the COVID vaccine. The actual number is almost certainly higher than that, perhaps vastly higher than that.” Claiming that “fewer than 1 percent of vaccine adverse events are reported by the VAERS system,” Carlson then pondered that the actual number of deaths from the vaccines must be severely underreported. Tucker Carlson Makes BS Claim ‘30 People Every Day’ Are Dying From Vaccines. Here’s the Truth. (thedailybeast.com)

No matter what is found or not found in the ballot recounts, the right-wing fascists in the US and Trump will never accept their losses.

The government doctors said today that everyone who wants one will be able to get their first dose by the long weekend. YAAAAY!!

Numbers are still plateaued. Over the next week, they should fall.

So is McDonalds but that does not mean its good.

The right wing has successfully managed to conflate the two to their core base. This despite repeated and overwhelming evidence that they are being treated like all-day suckers. This is what happens when you delegate your thinking and turn your moral compass off.

That, and religion.

The latest ploy of the anti-vaxers and covidiots is to hype and exaggerate the clotting risk associated with the vaccines. Here is a comparison: Astra Zeneca vaccine: 0.0004% Oral contraceptives: 0.05 to 0.12% Smoking: 0.18% COVID infection: 16.5% (and this is without taking into account the more lethal variants)

We are all masters of self-deception but many Americans are masters of the art. Here in Canada, a good friend who is not stupid believes that Trudeau is single-handedly responsible for forcing all of the premiers and doctors for installing unnecessary bans on gatherings.

Citing Worker Shortage, Montana To Stop Federal Unemployment Benefits Montana will cut off federal unemployment benefits nearly three months early and offer “Return to Work Bonuses” as a favor to employers, Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) announced Tuesday. Gianforte said he hears “from too many employers throughout our state who can’t find workers” and added that the state’s suffering from a “labor shortage” made worse by the benefits. Starting June 27, Montana workers will lose the extra $300 per week the federal government has been paying since December. The state will also cancel federal benefits for gig workers and the long-term jobless. Montana is the only state saying it will forgo federal benefits, which are scheduled to expire in September, though it’s possible Congress could extend them again. It’s also possible other states could follow Montana’s lead. With Montana’s unemployment rate at 3.8%, compared with 6% nationally, the “vast expansion of federal unemployment benefits is now doing more harm than good,” Gianforte said. Across the country, employers and Republicans are complaining of a worker shortage, even though the unemployment rate remains high and wage growth hasn’t accelerated. Economists say if workers are truly hard to find, the scarcity should be reflected by rising wages.

According to his rented playmates, yes.

QAnon cultist businessman goes on Newsmax to say 'Trump is president' and JFK Jr. is his VP Far right wing cable channel Newsmax TV hosted a QAnon conspiracy theorist Monday night who told viewers Donald Trump is still president and his vice president is John F. Kennedy, Jr., who died in a tragic plane accident in 1999 at the age of 38. JFK, Jr. being alive is one of the QAnon cult's beliefs. Newsmax introduced its guest as "a Minnesota business owner who refused to take down a massive, massive Trump 2020 flag that violated his city's ordinance," as Media Matters reports. The cable channel is owned by former President Donald Trump's longtime friend Chris Ruddy. "Jay Johnson is facing increased fines and says not even jail time can stop him from flying this huge flag over his construction business," Newsmax's Rob Schmitt said. "Just this weekend, he doubled down, put up an even bigger flag. This one is 40 by 60 [feet]. It is 900 square feet bigger than his previous flag. So this thing's like 3,600 square feet. It is huge. The size of the footprint of a house. He's also flying it proudly in the small city of Buffalo, Minnesota, which is, I guess, is technically a blue state which makes it even funnier." The flag, Schmitt noted, "has the names Trump and JFK Jr. on it, is that right? With the slogan 'where we go one we go all.' Explain this flag." "Well," Johnson replied, "Trump, to me, is the lone ranger and the lone ranger needs a guy by his side, and that's JFK. And, so, I decided to put it up and leave the people — think about what's going on." "Well, JFK and Donald Trump were friends," Johnson claims (which is debatable.) "And, I don't know if you know this, but Donald Trump is president and Donald Trump needs a vice president. So when the time was right, I bring him out. And he's your new vice president." QAnon cultist businessman goes on Newsmax to say 'Trump is president' and JFK Jr. is his VP - Alternet.org

Too soon. And Carly Rae Jepsen is suing you for plagiarism.

Please, please please let it be Tucker....

It seems that Kenny and Co. are having a death-bed repentance.

If these officers place their quasi-religious beliefs ahead of their sworn duty to uphold the law, they ought to resign or be fired. They will lose the case and doubtless appeal it as high as they can, but at the very least they ought to be suspended without pay until the case is decided. This cannot stand as a precedent- if police can choose to enforce whatever law pleases them, it opens a massive Pandora's box.

Yup. Anyone who refuses to follow der furhrer's delusions is a danger and must be attacker before the truth contaminations spreads. Pathetic.