Caturday

Priss is on guard to chase off the other tuxedo cat that has been hanging around recently:

Even More Losing for Trump and His Band of Seditious Bastards

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, ending a desperate attempt to get legal issues rejected by state and federal judges before the nation’s highest court.

The Electoral College votes on Monday, so that was the last gasp of the Confederation of Seditious Bastards.

Sepaking of sedition, there is an argument that the 126 congressmen who signed onto Texas's seditious petition could be denied their seats in the House of Representative under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. I don't think that the Democrats have the balls to try this, though.

Elsewhere, Among What's Left of Conservatives Who Still Believe in Democracy

Lord knows that I've spent a lot of pixels beating up on Jeb Bush, but he, saints preserve us, is making sense:

This is crazy. it will be killed on arrival. Why are smart people advancing this notion? Let it go. The election is over. https://t.co/ocvaAYnata

— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) December 11, 2020

Linda Chavez, who is hardly a liberal, had some harsh words for her fellow conservatives:

The intellectual dishonesty here is breathtaking. For individuals and organizations that champion the rule of law and claim the mantle of the founding principles of our nation to call for overturning an election reeks of hypocrisy. It was one thing for them to advocate for so flawed a man as Trump to lead our nation. But the American people have spoken and to continue to claim that the election was stolen, that votes were fraudulently counted, is to attack the very foundations of our democratic institutions. They sow distrust in democracy itself—formerly the provenance of the far left. Politicians may fear the wrath of Trump’s legion of followers if they speak out, but what is it that drives the “thinkers” like [Bill] Bennett and [John] Eastman? They should know better than to parrot insane conspiracy theories and promote specious legal arguments.

While I am generally content to be the age that I am and to have had the experiences that I have had, when it comes to this topic, I wish that I had another sixty years on this world in order to remind conservatives, at every possible chance, just how hypocritical they have been and how disloyal they have been to the Constitution. I do intend to remind every Repubican of this and that if they didn't speak up against Trump's coup attempt, that they had to have been in favor of it.

Meanwhile. Lucasfilm is really going to make another run at nuking the fridge. This bullshit has been talked about for awhile, but it appears that they are going to do it.

Trump the Seditious Bastard Keeps on Losing.

President Donald Trump lost a Wisconsin lawsuit Friday seeking to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots and overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the battleground state, the latest in a string of legal defeats.

So much losing!

Meanwhile, the Orlando Sentinel apologized to its readers for endorsing a congresman who hates democracy:

We apologize to our readers for endorsing Michael Waltz in the 2020 general election for Congress.

We had no idea, had no way of knowing at the time, that Waltz was not committed to democracy.

During our endorsement interview with the incumbent congressman, we didn’t think to ask, “Would you support an effort to throw out the votes of tens of millions of Americans in four states in order to overturn a presidential election and hand it to the person who lost, Donald Trump?”

Our bad.

It'll be interesting to see how many other papers follow their lead and disavow pas support of members of the Sedition Caucus.

Because It's Friday

SP 4501

The Roster of Traitors

106 House Republicans have signed onto Trump's judical coup attempt.

Every last one of them is a slimy gutless weasel who is fearful of Trump. They are craven cowards who are unwilling to live up to their oath of office. They join the ranks of the states' attorney-generals who should be summarily disbarred.

Their name should be engraved on a Monument to Cowardice. Every one of them should be shunned by those who have served this nation, and by everyone who regards themselves as being a patriot.

Every one of them should be given a free one-way ticket to a nation that is more in tune with their belief that the votes of the people mean nothing: Turkey and Russia should be prime destinations.

Every one of them should disavow their American citizenship, for they are all traitors to the Constitution.

A Math Quiz For Conservatives

1) Which number is larger: a) 81,282,896 or b) 74,222,484?

2) Which number is larger: a) 306 or b) 232?

1(a) is the number of votes Biden received. 1(b) is the number of votes Trump received. Similarly, 2(a) is the number of electoral votes for Biden, 2(b) is the number of electoral votes for Trump. Anyone who answered "b" for either question, if not both, is unhinged from reality.

I've been on wingnut blogs proclaiming "Trump got 74 million votes, how could he have lost?" The answer, Sparky, is easy: Biden got 81 million votes. Biden won, not by a plurality, but by a majority. Biden won by seven million votes. Your guy lost fair and square. The legal blatherings have been both an attempt to overcome a free election by a judical coup and the functionings of diseased minds. The legal filings by the Cabal of Sore Losers have gone nowhere.

Anyone who still believes that Trump won is somewhere on the spectrum between delusional and treasonous.

A Cat’s Song

I’m the night puker, 

I guess you weren’t ready for that, 

I’m the night puker, 

Because I’m only a cat, yeah yeah yeah.

(It happened on my bed at Oh-Dark-Thirty. Twice in two weeks. The second time, I got him on the floor in time. The first time involved a bit of laundry.)

J'Accuse

I have voted for a lot of Republicans in my time. I've given small donations to some.

No more. When Trump attempted a legalistic coup, almost every Republican, from the clowns on the town council to the U.S. Senate, either were silent or backed Trump.  

I cannot, in good conscience, as a person who swore an oath to defend the Constitution, ever vote for a candidate from a party that did its level best to demolish a free and fair election. Besides filing a bazillion baseless lawsuits, the Republicans have taken the lesson of 2020 to be "it's bad for people to vote". They are an authoritarian party, antidemocratic, and an embarrassment to their self-proclaimed patriotism.

The GOP has shown itself to be a party of crazies, racists and fascists. To my mind, anyone who identifies as a Republican has been tarred by that brush.[1] If conservatism is going to survive as a valid political movement, they need to ditch the GOP and form a new party, as was done in Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854.

The Republican party has the potential to being a wellspring of domestic terrorism. Their party leader refuses to denounce right-wing terrorism. You could comfortably seat the number of sitting Republican politicians who have denounced Trump's legalistic coup attempt inside a single intercity bus.[2]

I am done with the GOP, forever.
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[1] And if that shoe fits you, Gentle Reader, wear it.
[2] If not a short bus.

Trump: Now With Even More Losing!

President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has lost its legal bid to nullify President-elect Joe Biden’s 33,596-vote electoral win in Nevada.

The Nevada Supreme Court issued a terse order late Tuesday upholding a state judge’s dismissal of a contest-of-election case that would have either had the Republican president declared the winner in Nevada or blocked the state’s six electoral votes from going to Biden. The nationwide Electoral College tally is next Monday.

“Appellants have not pointed to any unsupported factual findings, and we have identified none,” the justices said.

And more losing:

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Republicans’ last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the electoral battleground.

The court without comment refused to call into question the certification process in Pennsylvania. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf already has certified Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump and the state’s 20 electors are to meet on Dec. 14 to cast their votes for Biden.

The Party of Treason's attempt to engineer a coup through the courts is failing miserably because judges from across the political spectrum have shown themselves to be loyal to the Constitution, not to Trump.

Unlike most Repubican politicians, who have proven, by their actions and, more commonly, their silence to be gutless craven cowards, unwilling to buck their party's petit-fuhrer.

I have littke doubt the the most recent attempt by the Trumpists to use the courts to carry out a coup will fail. Amnd make no mistake, an coup is exactly what the Republicans are trying to pull off.