I'm at the "taking no bullshit" part of this exercise. If someone is still on board with "the election was stolen!" stuff after what we've seen in court & what election officials have said for 2 weeks, they're bad actors. They don't deserve to be taken seriously. Full stop.
What Pat Toomey, Brad Raffensperger, Fred Upton, WSJ editorial board, National Review, etc. are doing is not hard. Trump-friendly conservatives saying the obvious: there's no evidence, this is dangerous, it's over.
Others doing the opposite have no excuse. Total hacks.
And again, when SCOTUSblog says there's zero chance any of this comes to the Supreme Court, that's not partisan. They're not "leaning" or "being biased" all of the sudden. It's the same outlet it's always been. They're just telling you reality. It's time for everyone to wake up.
Rudy Giuliani got his airwaves, had his little press conference, got to play lawyer in court for a day. He got tossed like he should have. Lin Wood got his RTs, got to file some stuff, got laughed at like he should have. Sidney Powell is going to meet the same fate. It's over.
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1/ Alright, friends. It’s starting, and I want to get ahead of it. Four years later, can’t believe we are doing this, but… ELECTION FRAUD DEBUNKING MEGA THREAD, PART II
We’ll have a lot of re-reruns from 2020 (original thread below). Send me any you see. I will investigate everything with an open mind, and flag legit evidence. Let’s begin… #Election2024
2/ An oldie but a goodie. This person has added fake audio to the video that didn’t exist when it was first released in 2020. You are watching two election workers “cure” a ballot the machine couldn’t read. 100% normal. 100% legal.
3/ I actually used this video as my primetime example in 2020. Disheartening to see it shared again 21 hours later, with fake audio dubbed in, and already has 2,000 RTs. No community notes. Here is my post about it from 2020: readtangle.com/election-fraud…
2. Biden declared a major disaster on Saturday, which means survivors can already apply for FEMA funds
3. There are 5,000+ national guardsman in North Carolina
4. The U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and U.S. Health and Human Services are all working throughout the region
5. Biden spoke to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) who said he got "everything he asked for" from POTUS in Georgia.
6. Gov. Roy Cooper (D) asked Biden, Harris and Trump to stay out until rescue missions were complete for obvious reasons
7. Local groups and orgs typically lead the immediate relief efforts; the feds support with $$ and additional resources but are rarely the first to respond (again, for obvious reasons)
8. FEMA & local groups are shipping in food and supplies via truck, plane, and even freaking mules!
9. FEMA search and rescue teams are on the ground and have been for days
10. This website is full of people lying about 1-9.
If you want to do something productive, here is a list of ways to help from a Western NC radio station. They include: Donating to Hope Mill Inc's Hurricane relief, donating to operation Airdrop, supporting local charities, etc.
And, by the way, conservative Republicans in Congress literally kept additional FEMA funding out of a stopgap bill *5 days ago* ... so if you hear them asking why we are giving money to Ukraine but not FEMA, that's why.
1/ Don’t talk about this much publicly, but 3.5 years ago, I was in one of the darkest places I had ever been. I had applied to about 60 jobs and gotten zero of them. On seven occasions, I was a finalist for a reporting job I really wanted. All seven times, I got rejected.
2/ I had no idea what to do. My gig at the time, where I'd been for 7 years, was turning into a full on video outlet. I was no longer writing. I had ideas I wanted to execute but no idea how. Then my former colleague/boss/friend @catematthews mentioned something called Substack.
3/ I had some ideas I wanted to execute, namely a politics newsletter that summarized arguments from across the right & left on big, divisive issues. So I started a Substack, came up with a name, and sent out a few crude emails. Today, I just got this notification from Stripe:
Here are 5 of the most interesting political misconceptions that exist and persist in America today 🧵
1. “The Supreme Court is hopelessly divided.” Actually, over the last decade, 43% of all SCOTUS decisions were 9-0 *unanimous* decisions. In 2021-2022, roughly 60% were 9-0, 8-1, or 7-2 decisions. scotusblog.com/2022/07/as-una…
2. “Democrats hate police.” Ask a Republican, and they’ll estimate that about half of all Democrats think most police are bad people. Reality? Less than 20%. This is part of the “perception gap” perceptiongap.us
Every day, I write to one of the most politically diverse audiences (maybe *the* most?) in all of political news. Here are the five pieces from @TangleNews that got the most positive feedback from across the political spectrum this year:
If you think the NYTimes purposefully included a swastika in its crossword puzzle please get to therapy
If you actually need an explanation
1) This isn't what a swastika looks like 2) This shape happens when creating crosswords 3) The reader who made this crossword proudly explained the design!