62 thoughts on “Finally, Proof of Voter Fraud”

  1. by the way

    See the source image

    oh festivas,

    oh festivas,

    another day for the rest of us.

    your pole so shiny and so bright

    will cheer us from this dawn ’til night.

    oh festivas,

    oh festivas,

    another day for the rest of us.

  2. Sam takes a page from a holiday favorite (you know the one) to explain whatā€™s at stake in the Georgia runoff elections! But in order to really get the full story, she needs help from Senate candidate Jon Ossoff.

  4. santa D’ump comes early

    wapo:

    Trump grants clemency to 20 people, including three former GOP members of Congress and two men convicted in the Russia probe

  5. santa D’ump checks off who’s been naughty and deserves pardons and who’s been nice (relatively speaking) and deserves vetoes delaying aid to folk on verge of being kicked out of their homes.

    wapo:

    President Trump on Tuesday night asked Congress to amend the nearly $900 billion stimulus bill passed just one day before, describing the legislation as ā€œa disgraceā€ and suggesting he would not immediately sign off on aid for millions of Americans.
    […BTW, wouldn’t such a veto also shut down government? …]
    The video landed like a sonic boom in Washington. His own aides were stunned. Congressional aides were stunned. Stock market futures quickly slumped on the prospect that the economic aid could be in doubt.
    [continues]

  6. 15 years before Danny Oā€™Keefe came up with the holiday, my mother, in a blast of ironic foresight gave birth to her whiny, dissatisfied eldest child, who some 20 years later would eschew formal religion (or any other) and become one of ā€œthe rest of us.ā€ Ā Fitting, that.Ā 

  7. Spes est posted this at Wapo this Morning:

    Ā  PARDONS-R-US
    ā€œDirt on me sets you freeā€Ā 
    Donald J. Trump. Pres.

    Preemptives, absolutes and conditionals always in stock
    Indictments not necessary, but encouraged
    Ask about our commutation specials
    Government turkeys our specialityĀ 
    Never again have nightmares about dropping the soap in a shower

    Looking for a venue for that gala pardon party ? Special rates available for the Rose Garden and South Lawn until January 20, 2021. FLOTUS on call to provide Christmas decorating tips for a small additional charge. Meet-and-greet with the Man himself can be arranged with two hours notice (wire transfers only please). Free roll of bathroom tissue imprinted with the Constitution for each attendee. Please note that any guests wearing masks or standing too far apart will be escorted off the property.

    Brilliant.

  8. pogo, were/are you that “whiney, dissatisfied child” and is it your birthday today?Ā  our very own babe in the Festivus manger?

    have a happy one if so.Ā 

  9. D’ump’s pardon firesale ad, only 28 days left to take advantage.Ā  double the donation & he’ll throw in a free margarita (or margaret the bartender) at mar a lago

  10. or click on the Grift Shop at

    ā€œPardons For Saleā€ ā€“ Donald J. Trump Presidential Library (djtrumplibrary.com)

    ā€œPARDONS FOR SALEā€

    Ā 

    Did you, or someone you love, engage in criminal acts in the past four years? No worries, weā€™ve all been there. Whether itā€™s making false statements to federal investigators like Michael Flynn or obstruction and witness tampering like Roger Stone, the fear of federal prosecution is fairly universal in modern American society.

    Ā 

    Since PresidentĀ Trump is discussing giving away pardons like ā€œChristmas giftsā€,Ā why shouldnā€™t you get in the act and pardon those close to you?

    Ā 

    ThisĀ (in no way legally binding and/or effective)Ā Grant of Clemency makes a wonderful stocking stuffer for that felon in your life. Give them theĀ (completely false)Ā peace of mind that they are protected by theĀ (satirical, anti-library of the)Ā President.

    Write in:

    • name of recipient
    • conviction check box
    • day / month / year

    Ā 

    For sale, on a pay what you wish format.

    Download and pay whatever you feel the pardon is worth.

    Ā 

    ā€œIn a closed society where everybodyā€™s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.ā€

    ā€• Hunter S. Thompson

    Ā 

    Pardon PDFĀ Pay What You Wish

  11. patd, yes, I am that whiny, dissatisfied child.Ā  My first grievance – the cost of polished aluminum Festivus poles. My second, Donald J. Trump.

  12. after the 20th next month, the Grift Shop will be taking orders for gently used and purloined WH memorabilia.Ā  discounts available for stained or scratch & dents items depending on the potus era when damaged.Ā 

  13. The first lawyer I ever clerked for sent me an image of a COVID-19 vaccination card yesterday.Ā  Apparently whoever designed the card is a pessimist – it had 4 lines to record vaccinations.Ā 

  14. Canton Ohio used to have a festivus tree, unintentional Iā€™m sure. Ā It was an aluminum poll with metal rings. As the branches. Ā It didnā€™t last too long as the cityā€™s official tree

  15. Pogo…. Ā  happy, happy birthday!
     
    My grievance today is about all the trump supporters who still believe he’s actually won the election. Ā May you all get lumps of coal for Xmas!

  17. …just read an article (but clicked away and lost it) with someone from BioNTech saying there was a very high likelihood the Pfizer vaccine will be effective against the new more-infectious strain, meaning it might not be.
     
    Happy 2021!

  18. The picture of Saturn and Jupiter was made with a Nikon D750 with a 70-300 mm Nikkor lens at 300mm.Ā  1/2 sec at f13.Ā  No post production processing except to crop it and reduce pixels so it can be loaded on Trail Mix.

  21. Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Fetterman relentlessly trolls Dan Patrick seeking $1M voter fraud bounty. Three Trump supporters in Pennsylvania have now been charged in separate voter fraud schemes. Fetterman says they should count for bounty purposes. — Houston Chronicle

  23. Pogo

    The happiest of birthdays.Ā  I shall dutifully contribute to your grievances by not sending anything except the wish that 2021 be an improvement.Ā Ā 

     

  27. Happy Birthday! Ā  Ā 
    Weā€™ve been airing grievances for four years, so today seems the same. Ā Do we know itā€™s Festivus at all, to paraphrase a song.
     

  28. The continuing story of “voter fraud” keeps coming back to the greedy old perverts.Ā  They have dead people voting.Ā  They vote in two states.Ā  They do some type of illegal vote to, as they say, show how Democrats are voting illegally.Ā  I think I saw one Dem voting illegally this year, and pages of repubs voting illegally.Ā  Again, transference is how to interpret anything the gop screams out about Dems.Ā  It is they doing the illegal not Dems.

  33. maggie writes that D’ump is “shuffling” around the WH.Ā  wonder if he’s in his favorite pink robe and fuzzy slippers and is he talking to the portraits yet?

    NYTimes:

    With four weeks left in President Trumpā€™s term, he is at perhapsĀ his most unleashedĀ ā€” and, as events of the last few days have demonstrated, at the most unpredictable point in his presidency.
    He remains the most powerful person in the world, yet he is focused on the one area in which he is powerless to get what he wants: a way to avoid leaving office as a loser.

    He spends his days flailing for any hope, if not of actually reversing theĀ outcome of the electionĀ then at least of building a coherent case that he was robbed of a second term.

    When he has emerged from his relative isolation in recent days, it has been to suggest out of the blue that he would try toĀ blow up the bipartisan stimulus package, driving a wedge through his party in the process, and toĀ grant clemency to a raft of allies and supporters, mostly outside the normal Justice Department process.
    He has otherwise sequestered himself in the White House, playing host to a cast of conspiracy theorists and hard-core supporters who traffic in ideas like challenging the electionā€™s outcome in Congress and evenĀ invoking martial law, seeking to give some of them government jobs.
    […]
    This article is based on interviews with more than a dozen current and former administration officials, Republicans and allies of the president.
    Most of his advisers believe Mr. Trump will depart the White House for a final time by Jan. 20. The pardons he announced Tuesday night suggest he is comfortable using his powers aggressively until then. But how far he will go to subvert the election results, actually refuse to leave the White House or to unleash a wave of unilateral policy decisions in his final weeks is hard to discern.
    […]
    Mr. Trump has spent his days watching television, calling Republicans in search of advice on how to challenge the electoral outcome and urging them to defend him on television. As always, he turns to Twitter for boosts of support and to vent his anger. He has not gone golfing since the weather has turned colder, and is cloistered in the White House, shuffling from the residence to the Oval Office.
    Many Trump advisers hope that his planned trip to his private club in Palm Beach, Fla., Mar-a-Lago, will give him a change of scenery and a change of perspective. He is scheduled to leave on Wednesday and stay through the New Year holiday, although some aides said he still might decide against it.

  36. also kudos to atlantic’sĀ  “Trump’s Enablers Will Meet Their Shakesperian Ends ” by eliot cohen:

    […]Ā So is there nothing left to be said about the final scene of the final act of this dismal play?
    Trump, it bears repeating, is no Shakespearean villainā€”he is too willful, ignorant, undisciplined, and shallow for that. What we are watching is not the despair of Macbeth as he learns that Birnam Wood to Dunsinane Hill doth come and that Macduff was not indeed born of woman. It is, rather, a malignant narcissistā€™s psyche collapsing in on its hollow core. That process may be of clinical or purely malevolent interest, but itā€™s not the stuff of tragedy, because Trump is really only a few shards of a genuine human being.
    But Shakespeare does have something yet to offer us about this moment when treason against the constitutional order is a matter for serious Oval Office debate. The Bard had a rich sense of the creeps and criminals, sycophants and slimeballs, weirdos and wing nuts who hang around power.Ā And although it is true that in an awful lot of his plays the good guys end up poorly, it is reassuring to know that a lot of the toadies, demagogues, and opportunists get theirs in the end.
    Take some of the courtiers to Richard II, a weak and easily flattered king. ā€œCaterpillars of the commonwealth,ā€ the usurper Henry Bolingbroke calls them before dispatching them to the block. They go with a snarl. The duke of Buckingham, faithful aide to Richard III, is at least remorseful when his boss sends him off to meet the headsman: ā€œCome lead me, officers, to the block of shame. / Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.ā€ Of course, members of Trumpā€™s entourage need not fear so gruesome a fate, and I do not wish bodily harm on any of them. Yet gloomy thoughts of a similar kind may have occurred to more than one of the presidentā€™s appointees when he heard the swishing of the Twitter ax descending on his exposed neck.
    Of course, the cast of characters in Trumpā€™s mad court was much wider than this. Pious hypocrites? Jerry Falwell Jr. could probably take a lesson or two from Angelo inĀ Measure for Measure. After preaching a rather austere morality (death as punishment for premarital sex), he tries to commit rape and judicial murder, thinking he can cover up his adventures. He cannot. ā€œThat Angelo is an adulterous thief, / An hypocrite, a virgin-violator, / Is it not strange, and strange?ā€ Well, quite, and while Falwell is alleged to have merely watched rather than indulged, the ruin is similar, and equally well deserved.
    […a lot of classy dumping here on D’ump children and more…]
    It would be pleasant to contemplate a parade of senatorial and congressional lickspittles, craven fixers, nutcase advisers, and unprincipled hangers-on meeting their comeuppance, albeit in considerably less stark terms than befalls most Shakespearean characters. No doubt many will be able to minimize the damage done by their association with Trump. Many will safely monetize their government experience (Dancing With the StarsĀ was Sean Spicerā€™s creative effort in that direction), pretending that their service had nothing but the purest motives behind it, and that they either did not know about the seditious inclinations and plots erupting at this very moment or opposed them. But letā€™s face it: Once the play is over, the supporting roles rarely get reevaluated, and all the lesser villains can hope for, like Iago, is a bit of wonder at their motivations and eventual fate.
    And what of Trump himself? How might Shakespeare summarize his presidency? Let me suggest this: ā€œA tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury / Signifying nothing.ā€

  37. worthy of repeating:

    And what of Trump himself? How might Shakespeare summarize his presidency? Let me suggest this: ā€œA tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury / Signifying nothing.ā€

  38. Thanks to all for the birthday wishes. Actually, 69 doesnā€™t seem any different than 68 did, but itā€™s early. Ā Really feels a lot like SSDD. Iā€™m afraid I have to admit thereā€™ll be some minor idiocy in the pogo household. We got three pods, and from pod 3 LP has to bring his car back down here to get rid of it – he certainly doesnā€™t need to pay to park it up in New York City. BUT only we 3 will be communing other than by phone, FaceTime, etc. Looking forward to taking a few days off.Ā 

  41. So Dodo Donny vetoed the bill and now the soonest anyone will get any relief is well into the new year after a Congressional override which can’t happen at the earliest until December 28. 323,000 dead, millions in danger of homelessness and hunger and the White Power prince vetoes because he doesn’t want base name changes.

  43. Jamie – the idiot and imbecile vetoed the Defense Bill, not the COVID bill.Ā  That forces the Congress back to D.C. to vote next Monday and Tuesday.Ā  Unless something strange happens with the radical far right nut jobs it should be voted in to law.

  44. I thought the two bills had been lumped together.Ā  Well at least the measly $600 will go out.Ā  He had one good idea in four years to increase the amount and naturally the greedy GOP stomped all over it.

     

  45. Octavian used Caesarā€™s fortune that he inherited to pay off the populace so he could assume dictatorial control with little resistance

  55. …very kind of you to respond with sincerity, bronc, the joke being that i would find humor in an effort by the virtuous peoples of this great land to change the locks on the WH while dipshit was in Florida, and then all his shit would Ā be in trash bags on the street when he got back

  57. Eventually, through a series of tribulations and mishaps, he would learn the true meaning of Christmas and stop being such a dick

    ā€œEbenezer Stoogeā€

  58. Charles Kushner, Jared’s father, hired a prostitute to videotape his brother-in-law having sex to intimidate him not to testify against him. And Chris Christie was the prosecutor.Ā 

  59. Another lovely family.Ā  The Trumps and Kushners deserve each other.Ā  Ivanka must have recognized her father in Jared though it is a shame they spawned more of the breed.

  60. jamie, confusion and chaos in critterville so not surprising we’re getting mixed messages on what’s vetoed but will be over-ridden and what’s not or whether will be vetoed or just a way for D’ump to get more attention.

    the COVID bill was mushed together with the keep gov’t running bill into a massive 5,593 page mess. D’ump has only threatened not to sign it.

    however, he did veto the very big defense bill which critters are likely to override next week.

     

  61. Much requested so here it is. We’re fast closing in on the last opportunity to do Christmas Parodies of you know what and who. So expect a few more.

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