Is there any sort of truth to the Rudy theory that Dominion Voting Systems has anything to do with Hugo Chavez? I don’t see anything in the Wikipedia article about them. He claimed that they sent their data to Smartmatic, which was founded in Venezuela, but I can find no evidence of any such thing. The company was founded in 1997, Chavez didn’t become President of Venezuela until 1999.
The company was also never in Venezuela; it was founded in the US (incorporated in Delaware with HQ in Florida) April 2000.
The founders are Venezuelan.
And they did do work for Venezuela, back in 2004.
MI State Senator Mike Shirkey gets some hard questions about his meeting with Trump and responds by singing a Christian hymn.
What? He has no positions.
He has no principles. He has positions.
Pay less taxes
No responsibility
obstuct Democrats
Suck up to Russia and North Korea
Blame others for his failures
Golf
Oh. Darn. Tots & Pears:
85% of the Stanford Faculty Senate, including Condoleeza Rice, condemns Scott Atlas.
from that story:
Get your fucking heads out of your asses, people. You started off strong and then got stupid: if Scott Atlas being dismissed stops some other jackass from going off and doing jackass things, that’s a net positive.
The Michigan legislators who met with Individual 1 put out a statement where they say they are not interested in interfering with the election, but they do need money for covid relief.
Sounds like the making of a deal with Donny Two-Scoups.
“Got your Covid funds right here” - points to Munchkin who’s busy sucking any unused Federal program funds in for the big finish - “What’s in it for me?”
Looks like my earlier post about Shirkey was presuming that he would cave to the POS POTUS but maybe they didn’t? If so, apologies to Senator Shirkey, perhaps your Christian faith overrode the party over country pressures.
I think it’s far more likely that Trump & Co. just don’t know how to properly administer kompromat.
Or more likely they can’t. Moscow Mitch has already written Trump off and isn’t going to be approving any money. He’s play acting the election fraud angle for now, but that’s just for the rubes.
Given that the Michigan legislators managed to make their way from the airport to the White House without drowning in the Potomac or wandering into Beltway traffic, I doubt they would go for a Trump “I will gladly give you coronavirus relief Tuesday for an election rigging today” deal.
…in two weeks.
Moscow Mitch will try to keep Donny-Boy from blowing up the Georgia Senate run-offs, and that may mean approving cash payments for…something…so long as Donny gets his rake-off. Might as well be for COVID funding as for anything else!
So it’s not yet out of the question that the Michigan officials could claim their trip to see the corrupt clown was fruitful.
Mitch needs those Georgia wins. If he loses the Majority Leader position, his life is basically over.
So Mitch still needs to keep Donny-boy happy.
This is pathetic. I did get a chuckle out of the smackdown that takes place in the first :34 but after that it was just pathetic to watch the lying.
I briefly heard one of The Five Idiots on FOX today saying this. RUSSIA INVESTIGATION! And he said that when he, and others on FOX, talk about a stolen election, people (not most FOX viewers) look at them like they are idiots. A rare moment of unconscious truth-telling
Here’s the thing: Atlas’ statements don’t need to be defended and have nothing to do with chilling free speech. Atlas wasn’t even remotely attempting to make a “Hear me out, let me explain why my position, though controversial, warrants at least some consideration.” He has taken a completely unscientific view and lent his credentials behind policies that are completely counter to public health advice. He is using his credentials and Stanford’s name to inflict damage for some ideological cause that isn’t even remotely connected to his profession. He needs to be shit-canned – and probably sued.
Are the Pubs going to dump Donnie after the Georgia run-offs? What do they need him for after that?