Yeah, that stood out to me as well. I chalked it up to that I was watching the very moment that the Republican Party began devouring itself.
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Then in the recap at the end of the press conference they amended the list of co-conspirators with BLM like a secret track at the end of a Side B for loyal listeners who hadn’t turned it off yet.
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I realize that we’ve blown well past this sort of consideration of taste at this point; but does it strike anyone else that this metaphor is about the most coup-flavored possible phrasing of a claim that your lawyers are actually competent?
Elite strike force teams do periodically get involved in…rectifying…insufficiently patriotic electoral results. They generally aren’t lawyers. Seems like one of those allusions that decent people try to avoid.
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These aren’t an elite strike force. They’re the gritty dregs at the bottom of the wine bottle. They’re the unfinished drinks at a party, only some of which have had cigarette butts stubbed out. They’re the possibly alcohol dependant ex-mayor who apparently doesn’t understand either high school English nor legal terminology, that you’re stuck with because nobody else can stand the thought either of you.
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Anyone else find it interesting that every time there’s a news story it’s someone new working for Trump? Does he have more than five non- family members who’ve been in his employ longer than 6 months?
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Theres John Barron, John Miller, David Dennison, and Carolin Gallego. So I think thats a no.
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Melted Stroke Force
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You say this sarcastically, I understand, but I suspect that is exactly the level of logic these asshats are employing, and their Q-addled base will lap it up on command just because. Our democracy is not safe yet. In better shape than it was, but not there yet.
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They are that post-Soviet port wine sold in three liter jars that tastes like it was strained through a hobo’s dirty sock that you buy because there is nothing else for sale and you really want to get drunk that night.
I’m not proud, don’t judge me.
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First they came for the vote counters…
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No, I’m trying for an honest summation of what they’re claiming, based on what I’ve read of their statements. It’s a bit difficult to parse, though, because it’s so totally insane. They’re literally creating a narrative of a far-ranging conspiracy that explicitly described (the apparently undead) Hugo Chavez as being involved. They were implicitly casting aspersions on the other Trump-backing lawyers, making a big deal about how they weren’t working directly for the Trump campaign (even when they were) as a reason for why they lost in court, implying that they couldn’t be trusted and were trying to lose. We’re already in total crazypants territory here.
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I’m obsessed with finding this now. Or making it. Close your eyes and hit play.
Favorite option is to detune this one:
If the music is the “straight man” in this, Starship Troopers could work great:
Last Starfighter too:
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So, when this “elite strike force team” inevitably plows face-first into the ground and ends up with their exposed naked asses pointing at the sky, will that then satisfy the Right as to due diligence? Nah .
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Strike team possibly stricken!
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Insane.
If I pour two 100 proof drinks together will that that make a 200 proof drink?
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Only the best lawyers for the GOP.
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Let me guess, without even clicking; it had something to do with the states’ abbreviations, didn’t it?
Michigan is MI, and Minnesota is MN.
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[holds breath, pinches nose, reads article]
‘…a Texas cybersecurity expert named Russell Ramsland…[claimed] Michigan’s election results were “manipulated” because the number of votes cast in 19 precincts exceeded the number of registered voters. … [Ramsland] was counting the population of towns in Minnesota, seeing they did not match Michigan towns, and finding fraud," Fleischman wrote.’
No comment on whether MI / MN got mixed up, but it seems a likely source of error.
But the quoted takeaway is a pretty good summary of why things like peer review are pretty important, if not-looking-like-a-goof is important.
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Quite possibly, yet so in keeping with something that Trump would flub.
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