Gung-Holier Than Thou

Husband. Dad. Patriot. Liberal. Trying to educate the MAGA nutjobs. Blocked by some dolt named Bongino or something.#resist November spawned a monster

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

Huge amount of mail ballots returned on Election Day.

Millions.

Election workers can't tabulate those immediately.

They must first scan the ballot envelope to make sure the voter hasn't already voter in person.

Then they have to assess the signature on the ballot envelope to make sure consistent with the voter's past signatures (to confirm identity).

Then they have to remove ballot from envelope, make sure it's not torn or otherwise damaged, and then flatten it.

Then they can tabulate it.

Then they have to adjudicate any stray pen marks, overvotes, or write-ins.

They they can report results.

And they have to document all of this.

Hope this helps!

Thx!

S

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

All hell has broken loose at Putin's Economic Forum after Steven Seagal has reportedly eaten several members of the Chinese delegation.

Here, hurriedly waddling from the scene of the crime.

@sseagalofficial

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group. https://t.co/wEAqxMA7AG

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Adriana Camberos stole 10s of millions from American consumers.

Trump granted her a full pardon, allowing her to keep $48.8 million in stolen funds.

[Gung-Holier Than Thou @Trumpcrazytrain]

@DeuceoutB @ChaseWorkey @Inuca12 The right continually insists the left are effeminate weaklings and, at the same time, dangerous and violent sociopaths.

[Gung-Holier Than Thou @Trumpcrazytrain]

@Linda82982011 @YarrowGrace Idiot

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

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I'm sick of hearing Trump supporters say something along the lines of, "How you all feel about Donald Trump is how we felt about Obama!"

That's bullsh*t.

Most of them hated Obama for two main reasons.

1. He's a Democrat

2. Because he's half Black

When Obama was in office, Republicans went after him for the dumbest crap I've ever seen. I saw segments mocking him shopping for Christmas gifts for his daughter. There was one where they belittled him for wearing a helmet while riding a bike. They pushed conspiracies about whether or not he was an American that were completely unfounded. They called him a Muslim, even though he had a well-documented history of Christian church attendance — unlike Trump. Many still believe Michelle Obama is actually a man and called her a communist for trying to encourage Americans to work out more and eat healthier. You know, what Trump supporters today call "MAHA," proving, once again, that they don't really have any real values other than opposing whatever Democrats support.

Then we can't forget the unforgivable — tan suit. No president will ever do something as scandalous as wearing a tan suit.

Yes, it's normal for Republicans to oppose a Democrat. But don't even try to compare why we all oppose Trump to how Republicans were against Obama.

Obama never publicly and personally attacked judges when they ruled against him.

Obama didn't sue his own IRS, of which he is the executive, for $10 billion, only to have his Department of Justice "settle" the lawsuit for $1.8 billion in a slush fund he planned to personally control.

Obama didn't name his personal attorney the acting attorney general.

Obama didn't defend the killing of unarmed American citizens by federal agents, labeling those unarmed Americans as "domestic terrorists."

Obama didn't sue universities that taught material that he disagreed with.

Obama didn't sue media outlets for reporting stories about him he didn't like.

Obama didn't gut funding for medical research.

Obama didn't appoint his top political donor, and the richest man in the world, to a very powerful position within our government.

Obama never tried to put his name on U.S. currency, get a new piece of currency produced depicting his face, put his face on passports, put banners of himself on government buildings, or push for the construction of ballrooms or arches he wants named after himself.

Obama didn't even come up with "Obamacare," that was Republicans trying to slander the former president. The bill's actually the Affordable Care Act. So, even his signature piece of legislation, he didn't name after himself. But Trump did name his online prescription site and child savings accounts after himself.

Obama didn't constantly call for media personalities to be fired for criticizing him.

Obama didn't have his FCC go after networks for not firing those individuals.

Obama didn't order the Department of Justice to go after his enemies.

Obama didn't fire attorneys general for not bowing down and doing everything he told them. He damn sure didn't call files related to child predators a "total hoax," as Trump's called the Epstein files.

Obama wasn't out blatantly manipulating the markets and engaging in insider trading.

Obama didn't accept a $400 million plane from Qatar he then used hundreds of millions of U.S. tax dollars to fix up, which he plans to take with him when he leaves office.

Obama didn't call elections that didn't go his party's way "rigged."

Obama didn't order "blue states" to unethically redraw congressional maps, trying to give Democrats an advantage in midterm elections.

Obama didn't constantly attack our allies while kissing the ass of dictators like Vladimir Putin.

Obama didn't start a war with Iran he promised he wouldn't start.

Obama didn't run up record deficits, he actually reduced them.

Obama didn't try to take over the Kennedy Center and put his name on it.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

DOGE was just a cover for the largest robbery of the American people in history.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed.

Here's what happened:

He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all.

These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees.

Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him.

A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it).

The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth.

But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress.

With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not.

And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her.

The threat does all the work.

By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress.

Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch.

If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place.

Here's the full story: https://t.co/mJzrvzhxGR

[Gung-Holier Than Thou @Trumpcrazytrain]

@akathekig @Beerasore @MJTruthUltra It isn’t hidden but it is debunked bullshit.

[Gung-Holier Than Thou @Trumpcrazytrain]

@DeuceoutB @MellowMartian4 @atrupar You’re just assuming those are fraudulent ballots without any proof.

[Gung-Holier Than Thou @Trumpcrazytrain]

@Beerasore @akathekig @MJTruthUltra They don’t have any of that. You believe bullshit.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

We agree.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

The federal government just banned bison from public land in Montana.

Not cattle.

Bison.

Interior Secretary Burgum revoked grazing permits for 950 bison
on 63,000 acres of federal land in northeastern Montana.

The reason?

Bison raised for conservation don't count as livestock
under a 1934 law.

Bison raised for meat and milk? Fine.

Bison raised to restore a native species to its native land? Get out.

Meanwhile, cattle ranchers across the West keep grazing on your land.

For $1.69 a month.

One cow. One calf. Thirty days. $1.69.

On land that belongs to every American.

The Cheyenne River Sioux. The Coalition of Large Tribes —
50+ Native nations. Defenders of Wildlife.

They all filed formal protests.

They called it exactly what it is.

"DEI for cows."

The bison have until September 30 to be gone.

Who decided cattle belong on public land more than bison do?

#DemsUnited

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

He wanted to look tough. He posted a painting of himself surrounded by oiled-up shirtless men in tiny shorts waving pompoms. Safe to say this did not land quite the way he intended.

[Gung-Holier Than Thou @Trumpcrazytrain]

@akathekig @MJTruthUltra What you’re claiming is logistically almost impossible and completely nonsensical.

[Gung-Holier Than Thou @Trumpcrazytrain]

@DeuceoutB @MellowMartian4 @atrupar I remember some interviews with Gabbard and Noem where they said they had definitive proof of Dem cheating in the 2020 election or some other type of malfeasance. The proof they released didn’t support their claims but they said more evidence was coming. Never happened.

[Gung-Holier Than Thou @Trumpcrazytrain]

@DeuceoutB @Inuca12 Comey was a registered Republican until 2016. You’re still not making sense.

[Gung-Holier Than Thou @Trumpcrazytrain]

@akathekig @MJTruthUltra Ah, so you’re choosing willful ignorance. That’s very popular with MAGAs. Don’t let the complete lack of evidence change your mind at all.

[Gung-Holier Than Thou @Trumpcrazytrain]

@akathekig @MJTruthUltra No, it’s that Democrats are not committing election fraud, they didn’t cheat to win in 2020 and that trump is full of shit.