Jason Piterak

If this all comes crashing down, see you on Mastodon: or @jpiterak on @spoutible

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

It is not conspiratorial to ask for a #SwingStateHandRecount. it is ensuring that the process in determining the most consequential election of our lifetimes is sound, and there are enough alarms pointing to this not being the case.

The Democratic Party needs to stand up for us.

[Jason Piterak @jpiterak]

@WajahatAli Very much agree.
We absolutely need to find a way to counter the right-wing media landscape, because it shouldn’t have been close.

But Harris over-performed compared to nearly all incumbents in the world:

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat.

Some of those stories may even be true!

But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇

[Jason Piterak @jpiterak]

@InsideWithPsaki @neal_katyal Section 3 of the 14th Amendment is clear as day.

How did that go?

[Jason Piterak @jpiterak]

@RachelBitecofer @tribelaw Trump is a useful idiot, but the folks behind him and Project 2025 have been planning for decades… Installing Supreme Court Justices, creating think tank pipelines to media and state legislatures, building coalitions with paramilitary groups and religious organizations…

[Jason Piterak @jpiterak]

@michaelmina_lab @POTUS Might have some movement before Jan 20… But there is zero chance a Trump admin will do anything until people are dying in the streets.

Then to get folks vaccinated, or getting them to implement NPI, or any public health measures?

Let’s see if the current admin listens.

[Jason Piterak @jpiterak]

@EdKrassen You’ve got to be kidding me.

I know you’re only farming, but why would he possibly legitimize a soon to be criminal president?

[Jason Piterak @jpiterak]

@JamesSurowiecki 1) Lots of folks here haven’t read that the Founders wrote at the time, which would have agreed with you.

2) The 14th Amendment Section 3 is pretty clear too. The Constitution will not matter under this SCOTUS.

3)

[Adrian Bott @Cavalorn]

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

[Jason Piterak @jpiterak]

@AesPolitics1 Please. This is incomprehensible word salad.

If machines were internet connected - in any capacity - that’s a problem. I’ve yet to see anything to show this was the case.

[Jason Piterak @jpiterak]

@EdKrassen 😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😭😭😭
You still don’t get it. They have no guardrails this time.

And both Trump and Musk have been in communication with Putin all this time.

[Jason Piterak @jpiterak]

@CUNTMAMA SCOTUS: “If you’re a Republican President, they let you do it.”

[Jason Piterak @jpiterak]

@bhanlon15 @Angry_Staffer With the repeal of ACA, RFKjr as health czar, repudiation of vaccines by his base, oncoming H5N1 pandemic, elimination of scientists in govt by Schedule F, installation of billionaires as a shadow cabinet… I’d say no.

[Dahn @peopleschampdon]

This article was fascinating and sobering. History. Always. Repeats. Itself.

Fed study ties 1918 flu pandemic to Nazi Party gains https://t.co/4E7l2iLl3m

[Jason Piterak @jpiterak]

@VABVOX Friend who worked the polls in NH said that there were a HUGE number of Trump voters who JUST voted top of the ticket.

Dunno if that happened elsewhere. Think we should hand-count some key districts to be sure.

[Jason Piterak @jpiterak]

@bryanbehar Yes.
This plus siloed media landscapes, dominated by right-wing messaging. And so many folks who really don’t know or care how economics, or government, or civics work.

Harris actually did less-bad than any other incumbent administration… in the world.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat.

Some of those stories may even be true!

But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

APPALLING — 67 fake bomb threats.

Most of them targeting heavily Democratic cities — all of which had lower turnout than in 2020.

Many of the threats were traced to Russia.

And somehow this is NOT a headline news story — and there is ZERO federal investigation.

[Jason Piterak @jpiterak]

@SarahLongwell25 Doesn’t hurt to order hand recounts in a several of key precincts, see if things match.

There are oddities that could be explainable. Did Dems split ticket vote, or did lots of Trump voters just vote top of ticket? What happened with mail-in? Worth knowing if something is off.

[Jason Piterak @jpiterak]

@MalcolmNance @CIA Unfortunately, I think most of those patriots will need to be working from outside the government. I can’t imagine Trump keeping most of the intelligence community that Trump considers to have worked against him.

https://t.co/ecwizVyp54

[Jason Piterak @jpiterak]

@imillhiser Exactly.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat.

Some of those stories may even be true!

But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇

[Jason Piterak @jpiterak]

@MikeSington 😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂
Trump?

[Jason Piterak @jpiterak]

@ArmandDoma Even if the actual cause was likely mostly worldwide economic anger, where Harris over-performed almost every other politician worldwide…

People are done.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat.

Some of those stories may even be true!

But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇

[Jason Piterak @jpiterak]

@ArmandDoma Agree.
I see lots of folks saying that the America they thought they were fighting for just doesn’t exist.

This time round, folks are hunkering down with their loved ones to protect who they can, watch folks reap their whirlwind.