NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 1)

Florida state legislator Anthony Sabatini, whose Twitter bio revels in being called "worst person in the Florida Legislature.”:
“CASES!!! OMG CASES!!! THERE ARE CASES!!! MORE CASES!!! CASES ARE GOING UP!!! CASESESESESESES!!! CASES WENT UP!!! OMG!!! THERES MORE CASES!!! CASES!!! CASES INCREASED!!! THERE ARE CASES!!! CASES CASES CASES—WOW CASES WENT UP!!!SCARY CASES! WOW”

Should be required viewing in every Republican household in the country.

Put in in Christmas/flu season rotation.

A case of paper doesn’t weigh 20 lbs. It’s called 20lb paper, because reasons…

It takes 100 sheets to make a pound, a case of 4000 weighs about 40 pounds.

And that’s for standard 8.5" x 11" copy paper, ballots are usually on thicker paper and are generally more like 17 inches.

So, 89,000 ballots would be well over 1000 pounds, probably pushing past 1,500.

Hah! I didn’t know that. I couldn’t find a weight for a box of paper so I just went with the 20. So it’s a lot heavier. Definitely a box truck. :smiley:

Or perhaps a North Korean ship.

Not a SRIotD, but an article from a Matthew Sheffield, a conservative journalist who now realizes that the purpose of journalism is report on reality.

Most conservatives don’t understand purpose of journalism, says founder of website on media bias

Some tidbits:

The problem, as he describes it, is that most conservatives think the purpose of journalism is to wage partisan political warfare, and that has created an ecosystem on the right where facts and truth are increasingly irrelevant.

After Sheffield went to work at the Washington Examiner, where he was the newspaper’s first online editor, he says he realized that “U.S. conservatives do not understand the purpose of journalism."

“I didn’t understand that journalism is supposed to portray reality,” he wrote.

“Truth for conservative journalists is anything that harms ‘the left.’ It doesn’t even have to be a fact,” he wrote. “I eventually realized that most people who run right-dominated media outlets see it as their DUTY to be unfair and to favor Republicans because doing so would somehow counteract perceived liberal bias.”

The idea that journalism is supposed to report objective reality is actually pretty new. Newspapers that were little more than partisan political propaganda publications were common through at least the Gilded Age.

IIRC, Thomas Jefferson literally founded a partisan newspaper while still Vice President in order to attack Adams and Hamilton. To be fair, this was also to counter a newspaper that represented the Federalist party.

And let’s not forget Hearst and his Remember the Maine! campaign, or the newspaper war in NYC between Hearst and Pulitzer. It’s ironic that the prize given to newspapers or reporters for excellence in reporting is named for Pulitzer.

Today Individaul 1 campaigned for Loeffler and Perdue. The Governor of Georgia did not attend, claiming the death of a dear family friend. The dear family friend was the boyfriend of Governor Kemp’s daughter. The boyfriend was a Loeffler staffer. Apparently his death wasn’t that important to her.

The claims that the Presidential election was rigged is hurting Republican efforts to get Republicans to vote next month. Here is a clip in which someone asks RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel why they should bother to vote when it’s “already decided”.

Here is video from one of the exchanges. A supporter asks why the RNC is not looking into the allegations with the voting machines. McDaniel stated flatly there is no evidence of that.
Then someone asks why they should vote in this election when it’s “already decided”.

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— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) November 28, 2020

Rudy is just letting it all hang out. :nauseated_face:

His ‘expert witness’ the drunk lady has been in trouble recently:

Only the most credible of witnesses for Rudy’s tremendously respectable “hearings”!

Calling any of these “witnesses” is a sham. If it wasn’t mentioned, the Michigan Republican lawmakers who put on this sham “hearing” voted to not put any of those upstanding concerned citizens under oath.

Agreed: for the shows Rudy is putting on, both “witnesses” and “hearings” need to be in quotation marks. And the sentence describing a “witness” should include the fact that the person was not under oath.

I work with cases of paper all the time, you are correct but a box contains 10 reams at 5 LBS each or 50lbs per case.

He can do that now that Borat isn’t going to come charging in to interrupt.

One of the stories on the sidebar of that Daily Beast article concerned Rudy touting a ‘big win’ in Michigan, where a judge ordered that ballots from 22 voting machines be reviewed. Problem was, the ruling was made because a local pot measure won by one vote, and the judge wanted to make sure that the votes were tabulated correctly.

Keep fighting the good fight, Rudy.

Faux News will dutifully report Ghoulani’s ravings. That’s all DumpsterFire watches. Rudy sends the bill for “services.” Everyone (in the alternate universe) is happy; especially Rudy’s ex-wives.

Cecily Strong on SNL portrayed Rudy’s star witness hilariously last night.

Michele Bachmann, still crazy after all these years.

She’s been out if the spotlight for awhile, I still remember The Congresswoman with the crazy eyes. - #176 by BrainGlutton

Commentary on Rudy and the, “elite strike force.”

Includes Roy Cohn, Michael Cohen, Rudy and the new additions like L. Lin Wood and Sidney Powell. Also explains why some of the original law firms involved “backed slowly away into the bushes.”

“… For the first time I can remember, the lawyers have been crazier than the politicians. It says something when Chris Christie is the voice of reason.

Huh, that’s what I thought. And I had originally written up my post as such, pointing that out. But then I glanced over at my case of paper under my desk, and changed it back to 4,000.

It was a while ago that I bought it, actually on my last ream, I must have got it because it was a bit cheaper, at a bit more than .7 cents per page rather than a bit more than .9. Odd that it is priced that way.

Does seem as though the 5,000 is more typical though.