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24 Sep, 5 tweets, 2 min read
If you think that the Arizona audit didn't provide exactly what Trump and his supporters were looking for, you're almost certainly misunderstanding it. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
There's a lot of ho-ho!-ing about the vote count. But the vote count was never what Trump and his allies were focused on. What the review did is create a veneer of authority for the actual conspiracy theories, which very much survived. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
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wait you're telling me that people trying to score points with trump's base see the arizona audit as a success whatttt
wait you're telling me that people trying to score points with trump's base see the arizona audit as a success whatttt
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25 Sep
The Arizona “audit” didn’t conclude that Biden won Maricopa County. Instead, it gave a false veneer of authority to existent conspiracy theories. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
Trump, of course, wasted no time making false claims about what the Arizona report found. So here is the truth. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
I think the guy running the thing sincerely believes something fraudulent occurred, despite the lack of evidence. So the result was that he highlighted (often easily explicable) questions instead of proving anything.
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15 Sep
I was going to make this Tulare County but it has Yes up 11.
It's fun to actually get to dig into California politics instead of just being like "how many seats did the GOP hold".
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14 Sep
(stolen from @mattgertz)
For those asking if it's real: yes.
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12 Sep
The image here, which one might call tone-deaf with some understatement, is about a decade old. (1/)
It appears to be by an artist named Dave Maestrejuan. (2/) maestrejuan.com/Dave_Maestreju…
He made it for the Orange County Fair in 2011, as he explains on his blog. (3/) maestrejuanart.blogspot.com/2011/07/orange…
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10 Sep
Here you can see the increase in pediatric hospitalizations and how it overlaps with vaccination rates — but, importantly, children are still far less likely to wind up facing such a severe outcome. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
I wrote this piece because I worry a lot, often irrationally, about my own kids. Looking at the numbers assuaged that, if only temporarily.
Here's a more temporally constrained set of data looking at cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Kids are the orange parts, barely visible even now in the latter two graphs. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
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6 Aug
CNN evaluates Mike Lindell's claims and barely leaves anything left for vultures to pick. cnn.com/2021/08/05/pol…
Mike Lindell's arguments were always completely ridiculous and this entire thing has always had the distinct odor of hustlers finding in him a perfect mark. All he's done for months is unwittingly bring other people into the con.
Yoooo this is like pulling Marshall McLuhan out from behind the sign in the movie-theater lobby and then pulling out all of his source documents and then pulling out the people who invented all the words he used.
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