On today’s BradCast: The Donald Trump Crazy Train keeps chugging along. And its getting crazier, and seemingly farther off the tracks with each passing hour as the outgoing President’s days in the White House continue to diminish and his likelihood of facing criminal accountability grows nearer and nearer. One of the biggest remaining questions is how many of his supporters are still to get run over by that train.
Among the many stories we cover today…
- Before we dive deep into The Crazy, some very grim milestones in the COVID crisis which, turns out, wasn’t a hoax at all, as both Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz “guaranteed” us before the election. On Wednesday, there were more than 200,000 new cases, more than 100,000 hospitalizations and more than 2,777 deaths confirmed from COVID. All of them single day records, as the pandemic will continue to get far worse in coming months before it begins to get better. All thanks, in no small part, to idiots like Trump, Cruz and whole bunch of other Republicans who sadistically sacrificed their constituents’ lives in dashed hopes of seeing Trump re-elected;
- Following Attorney General Bill Barr’s comments to AP earlier this week that, “to date,” the Dept. of Justice has “not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,” Trump, as expected, reportedly blew a gasket. It resulted in a two and half hour meeting for Barr at the White House and Trump said to be considering whether he will now fire his second AG, despite his years of covering up and lying for the President and his unprecedented directive to dozens of Asst. U.S. Attorneys to investigate bogus claims of “massive fraud” before and after the election;
- On Thursday, the rightwing Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected the Trump Campaign’s latest attempt to toss out hundreds of thousands of votes in a state that Trump lost. Of note, as has been the case in every suit they’ve filed (by way of contrast to what they say publicly to the chumps and suckers who believe in them), Team Trump offered zero evidence of fraud in their complaint. Rather, they complained about absentee ballot procedures that have been in place since before the 2016 election, when Trump is said to have won the state, as well as during this year’s primaries. Apparently they forgot to claim that WI’s absentee voting laws were illegal in those past elections. The suit was rejected today, however, because the court ruled it needs to be filed in a lower state court first before it can be heard by the state Supremes. The Campaign also filed another federal case in the state on Wednesday. It does not argue their was fraud in this year’s election either;
- It’s become so embarrassing that even top Trump sycophant Sen. Lindsey Graham is taking to Fox “News” to tell the Trump legal team that they need to provide proof of their fraud claims in court. “Doing a video is not proof,” he said, shortly after Trump released a 46-minute video on Wednesday, falsely claiming (without evidence, naturally) that he actually won virtually every state in the union this year;
- Lack of evidence of fraud, however, has not stopped the Rudy Giuliani Traveling Dog ‘n’ Pony Show. After making presentations to GOP state legislators in “hearings” held in rented hotel banquet rooms in Pennsylvania and Arizona this week, the Republicans of the gerrymandered Michigan state legislature opened an actual hearing room in the state capital to the Rudy Show. It did not go well. We share the testimony from Melissa Carone, of one of the “witnesses” that Rudy hauled up to the stand. It’s something to behold;
- Meanwhile, down in Georgia on Wednesday, a huge “Stop the Steal” rally at the Peach State capital, headed up by self-disgracing attorneys and Trump Crazy Train Conductors Sidney Powell and Lin Wood (who may actually be mentally ill), likely drove the what’s left of the actual GOP crazy. Wood attacked the very Trumpy Republican Governor Brian Kemp, resulting in “Lock him up!” chants from the QAnon brain-poisoned crowd, before instructing the misinformed throngs that they should absolutely not vote for incumbent Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler or David Perdue in the upcoming January 5th runoff elections that will determine partisan control of the U.S. Senate;
- Finally, we close with some helpful words, believe it or not, from far-right, not insane Trump supporter Erick Erickson. In a Twitter thread this week, the former Editor-in-Chief of the rightwing RedState blog, finally seems to have had enough of the madness of GOP conspiracy theorists who now believe that Trump’s own DOJ, FBI, CIA, Attorney General, and the Republican Governors of states like Georgia and Arizona, not to mention others, have all teamed up to steal the election for Joe Biden. “Maybe…and I know this might just blow your mind…but maybe what if you’ve been lied to the whole time. There is no conspiracy. There is no theft of the election,” Erickson unloads, suggesting that “maybe, just maybe” the problem is Trump and supporters who can’t understand that “ultimately it is really you who are the problem because you so willingly got played and even now want to be played because now you’re emotionally invested in a cause and a candidate and to admit you were played and he lost and there was no deep state conspiracy or theft of the election would actually make you look bad. So it’s better to double down on the lies and bullshit and blame everyone else.”
Sounds about right. Thanks, Erick. You can stop blocking me on Twitter now.
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Can’t think of a more on the nose encapsulation of your integrity than to go from exposing these same companies in 2004, to pretending everything is ok now. People like you need to be exiled from our nation. You don’t deserve to be among us.
Gos @1:
You were put on “moderate” many years ago for violating our commenting rules. That is why your comment above was initially moderated and not visible here.
I’ve unmoderated it however, so others can now read it, and I can respond. (You’re welcome.)
When did I “pretend everything is ok now”? I must have missed me saying that.
Oh, and P.S. Your call for me to be “exiled from our nation” is very very courageous and manly! And even Trumpy! 🙂 Impressive stuff.
Governor Dean, when he was head of the DNC, exorted democrats to focus on wins in state legislative bodies.
He was later scorned for a loud yell upon winning a primary, and faded away into the past.
Democrats should have listened to Gov. Dean.
The republicans picked up wins in the state legislative bodies this election. They can now do more gerrymandering.
That will help them in the next close presidential election.
Democrats are living in a “democracy” (majority votes win) still, after losing to tRump in 2016 even though he did not win the majority of votes then.
This time, only 44,000 votes (not multiple millions) separated Biden from tRump, because we do not live in a democracy:
(Newsweek, The Electoral College Nightmare That Could Have Happened).
Biden won by less relevant electoral college related votes than tRump did in 2016 according to that Newsweek (Tom Rogers) logic.
That 44,000 votes is 0.03% (three one-hundredths of one percent) of the 150 million votes cast.
The additional republican legislative bodies and the house seats won by the republicans makes me wonder why those living in a “democracy” are celebrating so much.
If democrats think they won big there will be no work done to avoid the approaching calamity the republicans are planning even as we “speak.”
“exorted democrats” should be “exhorted democrats”
my bad …
I a lot of evidence. I seen network maps of machines online. I seen Clinton foundation ties to dominion. (brassballs.blog) I seen small clips of bad people doing bad stuff which look like need to be interview with law enforcement, it’s conspiracy everyone’s sub-conscious already knows it, they are all busted, the question is to what level of Treason. Your the one claiming to be news yet the published content here looks a joke to me.
But the Joke is also a TOPPLE. which puts it into a new category.
You’ll fight with your Sub-Conscious as your Conscious gets exposure while the truth is revealed. As your conscious starts to slur speech it will be because you can’t keep the truth straight anymore. If you can’t replace this bad memory you might have to live with it.
‘oia’i’o –
You don’t sound insane at all.