The Big Lie is losing a lot of steam and the time frame in which it is dying has certainly been foretold. You don’t need to be Nostradamus to figure out that the house of cards which Donald Trump and his merry GOP band built some months ago had no ability to stand up for long or to withstand scrutiny.
Trump was in Arizona last weekend trying to rejuvenate interest in The Cause, with an eye towards audits in other states starting up soon. Today Twitter took a major step towards shutting that plan down.
Purging. (GETTR) pic.twitter.com/lUyAsorxnV
— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) July 27, 2021
There you have it, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Wisconsin. I can tell you from monitoring local news that any recount in Nevada was a wet dream of Ric Grenell’s back in the day. Not even close to becoming any kind of a real thing. Now they don’t even have a Twitter account and Grenell recently announced he won’t be running for governor of California, to the universal indifference of one and all. Nope, you’ll see stories about Nevada splitting into two states before you’ll see a Nevada audit getting off the launch pad.
Probably. pic.twitter.com/W8fFfLqbgi
— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) July 27, 2021
This is what’s going on in observable reality in Arizona. This is from an email put out regularly by Stephen Richer, who is the Maricopa County Recorder. He is the duly elected official whose job it is to know what went on with the election and the ballots. Here is what he says.
- Trump holds “election integrity” event in downtown Phoenix. The most dystopian thing I’ve ever seen. Repeats election lies that even the Cyber Ninjas have walked back (link, link) as well as the Senate’s audit liasion, who called the fact that Trump voiced the lies “frustrating” (link)Â
- Senate audit liaison Ken Bennett is kicked out of audit by Cyber Ninjas after revealing to White/Halvorsen/Moore group that current additional ballot count is tracking Maricopa County, not Cyber Ninjas (link)
- Maricopa County launches JustTheFacts.vote to counter the lies, inaccuracies, and unfounded allegations aired in the AZ Senate’s recent hearing (link)
- The Cyber Ninjas walk back their claim of 74,000 fraudulent ballots. Whoops? (link)
- Senate Michelle Ugenti-Rita writes, “I supported the audit, but I do not support the Trump audit any longer.” (link)
- This is big. Ugenti-Rita has been one of the loudest conservative voice on election issues for the last six yearsÂ
- 17 out of 30 senators (all 14 Dems + 3Rs) now openly oppose the audit
- Trump and Republican state senator Paul Boyer spar (“Had Trump built the wall like he promised, perhaps he could’ve prevented the 40k #BambooBallots from being imported into Arizona.”) (link)
- Leaks in building where Maricopa County ballots are being reviewed (link)
- Treasure hunter Jovan Pullitzer says $9 million has been spent on the audit… said from a private jet (link)
- Senate issues additional subpoenas to the county. And subpoeana to Dominion (link)
The Arizona audit is out of gas. It’s running on fumes and will shudder to a halt any time now, steaming and thumping. The other audits which were contemplated nationwide are also gasping like fish on the beach and the final paranoid faux-patriotic paroxysm of the Big Lie will take place in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in a few weeks, when Mike Lindell has his nervous breakdown on camera — we guess. Or maybe he’ll do a Howard Beal and threaten to blow his brains out.
Nobody rational can do anything other than guess what Lindell hopes to achieve after four documentaries, the launch of an iffy website and now a cyber symposium, which is supposed to get bigger ratings than Elvis Presley’s 1973 Aloha concert. (Pssst….a billion people watched Elvis worldwide, via satellite.)
There is only one big question remaining now and the person pondering it the most deeply is Donald Trump. And that is: What is Trump’s platform going to be once he can’t sell the Big Lie? Unless I miss my guess, there are a lot of GOPers worried about this, but none so much as Trump. He’s got to find an answer, because he’s painted himself in a corner upholding the Big Lie and that’s what’s filling the coffers.
Maybe he can pull a trope out of his television playbook and make the election a dream? Or he can get amnesia and forget it took place? Trump’s way out on a limb here so it’s got to be something fantastical — unless he decides not to run at all. Maybe that’s how it will be.
I can’t decide which concept I prefer more:
#1) One of those crash tests they do with cars where the vehicle is sent down a track into a solid wall – complete with both real time and slow motion replays of the thing crumpling.
#2) The classic Road Runner scenario where Wile E. Coyote goes over the cliff and has the long, long fall. I’m talking about the older versions with no crash sound at the end – just the little poof of dust with a similar muffled “poof” sound.
Where Wile E. Coyote goes straight out into the air about 40 feet before stopping and looking down at the ground far, far below.
Why not both? Car goes over cliff, then falls and hits the barrier nose first, as it’s lying on the ground.
How about we combine the two? Make the coyote a passenger in the car as it crashes into the barrier, complete with him looking all banged up towards the camera. Then the camera pulls back to reveal the testing was done at the edge of a cliff, and the force of the impact makes the car (and coyote) slip over the edge with the camera moving to an overhead shot of the long, long fall and the “poof” at the bottom!
No such thing as “imported bamboo paper ballots”. If ballots use special paper, then that paper will be tracked by lot and order from the paper supplier to the customer, and you wouldn’t be able to get it without a lot of ID.
This kind of lie makes me wonder if the people spouting it have ever, EVER voted by mail/absentee. You have to be registered just to get a ballot!
Details . . . just gets in the way of their fantasy world, like facts.
Does ANYONE on this site really believe there was fraud in the 2020 election?
Believe it or not we do have conservatives that check in here. I’m not a tech person, much less a cyber-sleuth capable of writing algorithms that can trace people who log on here with the rest of their social media history. Even if I had that ability I’m sure ursula would never approve of doing such a thing. My point though is I’m pretty sure we have conservative lurkers, because sometimes conservative actually put up posts. Some are merely critical and some make you shake your head, but considering the old business truism that for every written complaint a business gets there are ten or more others who feel the same way but don’t bother making a complaint it’s safe to say we have folks hanging around who believe the whole Trump Big Lie bullshit. Hell, Mike Lindell himself went on a rant during one of his “See? SEE? I’ve got EVIDENCE!” (of course he had nothing of the sort) internet shows. He had some back and forth with none other than Roger Stone, mispronouncing ursula’s name in a bunch of crazy ass ways, and encouraging his folks to come here. Sure enough some of them not only did but spoke up. And such people have popped up both before and since. Some in Magical MAGA Land apparently keep tabs on us, just as they do on other progressive sites. So, keep that in mind, should you want to tweak them some, or temper your comments knowing they are “watching.”