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MAGA Truthers Make Desperate Last Stand at Miami Church Vigil. The election’s over, and oh yeah, the coronavirus is real. Just don’t tell this crowd. MIAMI—On Wednesday night, Alberto Delgado strolled onto the stage of Alpha & Omega, the Miami-area Evangelical megachurch where he serves as senior pastor, and promised nearly 200 MAGA diehards that Donald Trump would serve another term as president. Despite an avalanche of court rulings rejecting Trump’s fact-free claims of voter fraud, Delgado—a snow-haired, natty-dressed preacher with a baritone voice and who serves as a religious adviser to Trump—assured his flock that the fight for the White House was just getting started. "God can do great things for Donald Trump if you believe," Delgado said in Spanish. “Trump is the man God has chosen for these times. This is why I am telling you we have not lost.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-truthers-make-desperate-last-stand-at-miami-church-vigil?ref=home Wayne County Republicans Desperately Trying to Rescind Their Votes to Certify Election Results Reuters/Shannon Stapleton This is just getting embarrassing now. On Tuesday, the two Republicans on an election board in Michigan’s most populous county made a dramatic u-turn and voted to certify the results of the election. But now they’re trying to claw their votes back. According to the Washington Post, the two GOP members of the four-member Wayne County Board allege that they were bullied by Democrats into voting to certify the results and want their votes to be rescinded.

Don't care if he's into bondage.

I am deeply aggrieved and considering legal action.

The prosecution of the Trump mafia (including his family) must be as dispassionate as possible. The Trumpers will scream persecution and witch hunts but its not as if this will be anything new for them. The DOJ needs to flip a few and then the floodgates will open as everyone tries to throw everyone else under the bus to save their own skins.

The real game here is to try to roil up enough anger among their followers so that the fear of mob violence will compel Biden and Co. to cave in on prosecuting the GOPers who have broken the law, or, in an ideal sitatuon (for them) to create havok and uncertainty in the electoral college that the GOP governors in those states will have an excuse to declare the process invalid and appoint electors friendly to the Trumpers.

Donald Trump Retweets Elections Canada About Dominion Voting Machines: The elections authority was trying to debunk the very conspiracy theories Trump has promoted. By Mel Woods Congratulations to all of you with “Donald Trump retweets Canada’s elections authority” on your 2020 BINGO cards. The United States president took to the social media app Tuesday to reshare bizarrely a post from Elections Canada regarding Canada’s use of paper ballots in elections. Ironically, the elections authority was trying to debunk the very conspiracy theories around voting that Trump has been championing for weeks. In the original tweet, Elections Canada was debunking online conspiracy theories that suggest electronic ballot-counting measures have led to fraud in Canadian elections. “Elections Canada does not use Dominion Voting Systems,” the post read. “We use paper ballots counted by hand in front of scrutineers and have never used voting machines or electronic tabulators to count votes in our 100-year history.” https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/donald-trump-elections-canada-dominion_ca_5fb4551fc5b6f00bd84b7d3d?ncid=other_trending_qeesnbnu0l8&utm_campaign=trending

Pro-Trump coronavirus truthers try to invade Utah hospital overrun with COVID-19 patients: report When President Donald Trump was voted out of office in the 2020 election, one of the top reasons why millions of U.S. residents voted to replace him with former Vice President Joe Biden was his woefully inadequate response to the coronavirus pandemic. Regardless, so-called "coronavirus truthers" on the far right continue to insist that the pandemic is merely a hoax that President-elect Biden and other Democrats used to harm Trump's presidency. And at a Utah hospital that is being overrun with COVID-19 patients, the Daily Beast reports, health care workers are having to cope with extremists who don't even believe that the patients are sick. "Conspiracy theorists," journalist Michael Daly reports in the Beast, have made "repeated visits" to Utah Valley Hospital in recent weeks. According to Daly, Utah's coronavirus truthers "decided that the small number of cars outside the Provo facility was evidence that the pandemic is a hoax" and "entered the hospital with video cameras seeking to film what they believed would be an equally empty ICU."

Rudy Giulliani is billing the Trump election committee $20,000 per week to file these appeals despite the fact that he is no longer a member in good standing of the New York bar. No wonder he is still in there tilting at windmills.

If there are no legal consequences to committing illegal acts, what incentive is there to not commit these or worse again? If Biden and his administration do not prosecute the Trump suppporters, then these same miscreants can legitimately say that they did nothing wrong and wail that they have been wrongfully slandered, This will strengthen their re-election chances and support among the voters who are not diehard GOPers.

You ought to check in with Neville Chamberlain about the success of placating evil.

Biden's big mistake: Trump can't be allowed to escape legal consequences President-elect Joe Biden is privately telling his advisers that he doesn't want investigations of Donald Trump to dominate his presidency, according to NBC News. Biden fears wide-ranging inquires would both serve as a distraction from his agenda and alienate Trump's base at a time when Biden hopes to unify the country. https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump-will-be-prosecuted/

Zero for 24 and counting. Will not faze the Trumpettes at all. Trumpworld’s Insane New Claim: Mafia Rigged the Vote for Joe. A known misinformation merchant pushed a conspiracy theory that the Philly mob delivered thousands of votes for Joe Biden. Of course Trumpworld ate it up. The claim was far fetched: that the Philly mob delivered thousands of votes for Joe Biden. The person claiming it was even less believable: a known misinformation merchant. A Buffalo blog notorious for peddling election misinformation has captured the attention of top Trump supporters with a bizarre tale of the Philly mob swinging the election for Biden. Matthew Ricchiazzi runs the Buffalo Chronicle, a fake news site that’s been masquerading as a real newspaper since 2014. He hit what counts as the big time for crank sites with a handful of dubious and debunked stories about Canadian elections. Now, thanks to some credulous amplification by plugged-in Trumpsters, he’s on the verge of a repeat performance in an American election with a fanciful conspiracy tale about a Philadelphia mob boss cranking out thousands of ballots for Biden. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumpworlds-insane-new-claim-mafia-rigged-the-vote-for-joe-biden

Zuckerberg probably has Trump and Bannon on his speed dial.

SIGN AT A BAGEL SHOP IN CHICAGO:

Trump’s COVID advisor urges Americans to visit elderly for Thanksgiving because it may be their ‘final’ oneTrump’s COVID advisor urges Americans to visit elderly for Thanksgiving because it may be their ‘final’ one David Badash and The New Civil Rights Movement November 17, 2020 President Donald Trump's highly controversial COVID-19 advisor,Dr. Scott Atlas, is urging Americans to visit their elderly family members for Thanksgiving because it may be their final one. Atlas warns against isolation despite the coronavirus pandemic's near-exponential explosion. "This kind of isolation is one of the unspoken tragedies of the elderly who are now being told don't see your family at Thanksgiving," Atlas, a radiologist, not an epidemiologist, told Fox News Monday evening, as Media Matters reported. "For many people this is their final Thanksgiving, believe it or not. What are we doing here? I think we have to have a policy, which I have been advocating, which is a whole person, whole health policy. It's not about just stopping cases of COVID. We have to talk about the damage of the policy itself."

The Trump record in the courts since the election is 0-for-23 and counting with three cases being so flimsy that the court refused to hear them and one judge actually threatening the Trump lawyer with charges for presenting obviously false allegations.

2019 Was The Deadliest Year For Hate Crimes On Record, New FBI Data Shows The overall number of hate crimes also rose to a 10-year high, even as fewer law enforcement agencies bothered to report their statistics. By Christopher Mathias, HuffPost US More people were killed in hate crimes last year in America than in any year since 1992, when the FBI first started recording such killings, new data shows. Fifty-one people lost their lives to hate crimes in 2019, according to annual statistics the FBI released on Monday. That’s a 112% increase over the year before.

The GOP ought to die out in a few years, given that so few of them have gonads and thus unable to reproduce. Not a bad thing, though.

We have never needed a WTF emoji as much as we do now.

Apparently reality is malleable.

"All that is necesssary for evil to triumph is for good men to remain silent". I guess that takes the pressure off most Republicans to speak out.

When I was taking my psych training, we learnt of patient of CG. Jung's. This patient was convinced that he was dead, obviously delusional and resistant to therapy. After much work, the patient conceded that the dead do not bleed, so Jung pricked the patient's finger and a drop of blood appeared. The patient was stunned. He turned to Jung and said," I was wrong. The dead do bleed." Appropos of that: DEADLY DENIALISM: South Dakota Nurse: Dying COVID Patients Think It’s Fake -CNN A South Dakota nurse whose tweets went viral over the weekend says the hardest part of her job is convincing some critically ill patients that they really do have COVID-19. “Their last dying words are, ‘This can’t be happening, it’s not real,” Jodi Doering said on CNN. “Even after positive results come back, they don’t believe it.”

The muted outrage from the premier would a helluva more effective if the Steinbach MLA and MP stood up on their hind legs and vigorously condemned the gathering, leaders therof and the thinking behind it. The organizers should be charged with the indicable offence of conspiracy to commit negligent homicide if one of the attendees gets dies, or committing bodily harm if one of them becomes seriously ill. You get better results if you use a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.