On Jan. 6, 2021, they erected a gallows outside the U.S. Capitol building and chanted “hang Mike Pence!”, went hunting for Nancy Pelosi with zipties, used flagpoles as spears and threw fire extinguishers at police officers, and stashed guns in a motel room to arm a “quick reaction [...]
Posts Tagged ‘GOP Election Conspiracies’
July 28th, 2022 - 11:34 pm § in Politics
Tina Peters coughs up $255K for quixotic recount
Rogue county clerk Tina Peters, who’s been indicted for election-related crimes, held in contempt of court, and ordered by a judge to stay away from her office (see details here), lost her bid for Colorado secretary of state in the GOP primary (see story here). That’s an understatement; [...]
July 18th, 2022 - 7:18 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Drop boxes weren’t a problem
“The expanded use of drop boxes for mailed ballots during the 2020 election did not lead to any widespread problems,” KING 5 News reported on Monday, July 18, 2022 (see story here). Washington, which has 100% mail voting, uses drop boxes, but this report is based on a nationwide survey o[...]
July 15th, 2022 - 4:41 pm § in Politics
GOP plots revenge against Jan. 6 committee
“House Republicans are plotting revenge on the select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection,” CNN says, “as the GOP weighs a broader effort to re-litigate some of Donald Trump’s biggest election grievances if it recaptures the House majority.” See st[...]
July 14th, 2022 - 2:12 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Rogue county clerk’s bail revoked
Tina Peters (photo, left), the freak the stupid voters of Mesa County, Colorado, elected as their county clerk responsible for locally overseeing their elections, but who decisively lost the Republican statewide primary for secretary of state (details here), isn’t only a conspiracy nut and ele[...]
July 13th, 2022 - 4:22 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Should lack of education excuse civic ignorance?
Tim Ramthun (photo, left; bio here), 65, of Hartford, Wisconsin, probably doesn’t know better. He’s only a high school graduate who went to vocational school, so he doesn’t have the understanding of government that, for example, a political science major with a graduate school educ[...]
July 1st, 2022 - 6:26 pm § in Politics
Why do Republicans lie so much?
Four Republicans are running for Arizona governor, and three of them claimed the 2020 election was stolen in a debate on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 (read story here). The other refused to say whether she would’ve certified the election if she were governor. In Arizona, the ballots were officiall[...]
The Trump plot in a nutshell
An article in Salon (here) sums up what we’ve learned from the Jan. 6 hearings: “In the public hearings so far, the House Select Committee on January 6 has marshaled facts in fastidious detail showing that former President Trump’s attempted coup was plotted and organized by the pre[...]
June 20th, 2022 - 5:03 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
You don’t have to like it, just shut up and eat it
American politics is a diner, not a white-tablecloth restaurant. The food can be hard to swallow. New Mexico held a routine primary this month. And, as MSNBC reported, “the process was largely unremarkable. Candidates ran, voters participated, ballots were counted, and election results were an[...]
June 1st, 2022 - 3:20 pm § in Politics
John F. Kennedy Jr. reappears!
I’m not making this up; QAnon freaks are. He uses the handle “Juan O. Savin” now, but his birth name is Wayne Willott. Willott aka Savin is camera-shy (for obvious reasons), but I dug up this photo; judge for yourself if there’s a family resemblance to the Kennedys. But IR[...]