"Now it turns out that a flag representing the idea that the 2020 election was stolen, that the people should engage in armed revolution against tyranny, and that the United States should be a nation based in Christian theology has been flying over the home of Justice Alito, who is supposed to be defending the United States Constitution impartially."
"The unfortunate truth is that Republicans, under Trump’s influence, no longer accept that Democrats can legitimately win elections. This isn’t a run of the mill ideological difference between the parties. It’s the ruin of American democracy."
"Let’s be clear about what this means. Alito is giving our entire democracy the finger. He has expressed public allyship with the enemies of our Constitution instead of upholding his oath of office. And he’s also a coward and a liar, unwilling to speak his traitorous words aloud, yet ready to throw his wife under the bus the moment he’s questioned about these displays."
"If Alito refuses to recuse himself from cases involving Trump, Congress should impeach and convict him of no less than tending to prostitute the high judicial character with which he was invested, to the low purpose of blatant partisanship. That is, of violating the basic tenets of impartial justice, on which public trust for the high court is based."
…#RightWing#media outlets have promoted the challenges, casting public ofcls as corrupt & creating fodder that could be used in another round of #legal challenges should #Trump lose again.
…The undertaking pulls from every corner of the #ElectionDenial movement. Its parent grp is an offshoot of #CletaMitchell’s nat’l network. A top deputy to #MikeLindell, a promoter of election-related #ConspiracyTheories, helped conceive of the data program the activists use to hunt for suspicious#voters….
Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder and chairman of the software company Oracle and the biggest backer of Elon Musk’s attempted Twitter takeover, participated in a call shortly after the 2020 election that focused on 🔸strategies for contesting the legitimacy of the vote, 🔸according to court documents and a participant.
The Nov. 14 call included Sen. 🔹Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.); Fox News host 🔹Sean Hannity; 🔹Jay Sekulow, an attorney for President Donald Trump; and 🔹James Bopp Jr., an attorney for True the Vote, a Texas-based nonprofit that has promoted disputed claims of widespread voter fraud.
Ellison’s participation illustrates a previously unknown dimension in the multifaceted campaign to challenge Trump’s loss, an effort still coming into focus more than 18 months later.
It is the first known example of a technology industry titan joining powerful figures in conservative politics, media and law to strategize about Trump’s post-loss options and confer with an activist group that had already filed four lawsuits seeking to uncover evidence of illegal voting.
Oracle representatives did not respond to emails, calls and text messages seeking comment.
Ellison is the 11th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of about $85 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
He became a major political power broker during the Trump administration, hosting the president in 2020 for a fundraiser at his estate in California’s Coachella Valley and contributing millions to Republican candidates and committees, including to Graham, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission #ElectionDenial #LarryEllison
#ColumbiaCounty, a heavily #Republican county outside #Augusta, is first in the country known 2 have agreed 2 use the platform, called #EagleAI. Its supporters claim the system will make it easier 2 purge the rolls of ineligible voters»
#ElectionDenial.
Extremism.
Form over function (failure to govern).
Grandiosity.
Independent criminal investigations into #GOP members.
Lies, lies, lies and more lies.
"With the guilty plea and cooperation deal Georgia prosecutors struck on Thursday with Team Trump attorney Sidney Powell, Chesebro’s plea deal should be viewed as an earthquake in the case against Trump."
Republican election strategies based on repeating the "Big Lie" and debunked election-denial conspiracy theories are turning off voters in swing states and even red ones.
The more they embrace authoritarian Trumpism, the more voters vote against them: it's the MAGA Doom Loop.
Confidence in elections is the topic on C-SPAN Washington Journal this morning with John Fortier of American Enterprise Institute. I have observed that the more voters know about the election system, the more confident they are in it. Consequently, Republicans have much less faith in the system than Democrats because they are far more ignorant. Republicans verify this overwhelmingly in their calls, which are loaded with misconceptions. #cspanwj#electionfraud#electiondeniers#elections
Generally, Republicans are less knowledgeable & less educated. than Democrats. I observe that Republicans are also much less intelligent. Ignorance and stupidity makes them far more susceptible to propaganda. GOP callers to Washington Journal are highly stereotypical in that they sound alike, stupidly repeating what they hear on Fox nearly verbatim. This leads me to believe that there is a significant IQ gap between Republicans and Democrats. #cspanwj#politics#electionfraud#electiondenial
@ProPublica It's notable that #BigOil is prominent on this list of corporate donors to #ElectionDenial congresspeople, with an especially high percentage of their $ going to anti-#democracy members.
One more reason to switch to an #ElectricVehicle ASAP.
Comment: abortion & erasure of transgender persons I predict will the key wedge strategies in Republican culture wars leading into the 2024 U.S. elections : noise, disinformation, & identity politics to (1) to divide the electorate, & (2) through information overload induce apathy & dissuade voters from participating / voting - allowing enough of their supporters to elect GOP candidates. ...