I Guess He Meant....

Many of the court cases being filed all over the Country are not ours, but rather those of people that have seen horrible abuses. Our big cases showing the unconstitutionality of the 2020 Election, & the outrage of things that were done to change the outcome, will soon be filed!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020

By “soon” this one?

Just wow. https://t.co/akuHqXoC0I

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 3, 2020

Although, to be fair, I see why he dumped Powell:

The Kraken conspiracy is so vast that in ARIZONA, they uncovered the fact that ARIZONA state officials did not comply with the wishes if the GEORGIA state legislature.

Wow, that's quite a conspiracy that figured out!https://t.co/kO5qQsbWM0 pic.twitter.com/jxKhsNwdil

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) December 2, 2020

(Actually I think he dumped her because she's running her own fund-raising scam. Grifters cannot serve two masters, because then people are confused as to who's getting the money.) Or maybe it was the competition:

I am watching the "Stop the Steal" rally and have started drafting a tweet about 20 times...but mere words cannot convey what is happening.

Example: Lin Wood just announced that Sidney Powell and Major Mike Flynn should run as a presidential ticket in 2024.

— Jen Jordan (@senatorjen) December 2, 2020

Mood pic.twitter.com/iGwjbrcw6h

— Noble Prize in Sarcasm (@rewegreatyet) December 3, 2020

Anyway, some mighty fine lawyerin' goin' on:

Seems legit https://t.co/f5W0acdQGl

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 3, 2020

Yeah, I don't believe it anymore. I don't even believe he used to play one on TeeVee. Because this is what happened with Rudy in MI today:

Rep. LaGrange asks her if she's aware that MI voters can vote without ID. She bumbles around. "You're confused," LaGrange concludes. I do like this one-question-per-rep format, though.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 3, 2020

Rep. CA Johnson asks witness what is her name. Chairman wants to know if she's trying to intimidate witness.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 3, 2020

Rep. asks why should folks believe witness when judge already has ruled her affidavit is not credible.
"Objection!" says Rudy.
Circus.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 3, 2020

Not even in court would you do that.

Democratic rep wants these people sworn in. "I have an affidavit!" says the witness. "I have 19 things in my affidavit. I have two children and I have two degrees."

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 3, 2020

I have one child and four degrees! I win! I also know affidavits don't mean squat if you are present to testify.

"If it wasn't for my mom, I would've went there."
Witness knows criminality was going on "there."

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 3, 2020

All of these witnesses, as far as I can tell, have been dismissed as non-credible in previous court proceedings. "I didn't see any ballots carried out, but I know people who did."

I've been to UFO conventions that made more sense.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 3, 2020

Witness said that "at least 30,000 ballots were counted multiple times." God, these people.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 3, 2020

And there was this star witness:

a drunk woman is trump team’s star witness in michigan pic.twitter.com/qGxEI3hp2G

— marisa kabas (@MarisaKabas) December 3, 2020

Or was this person the star witness?

One of Rudy’s witnesses just said she thinks “all Chinese look alike” while arguing for Voter ID pic.twitter.com/3gdZFmFMwW

— Icculus The Brave (@FirenzeMike) December 3, 2020

They both seem credible. I mean, one of them signed something that said she'd go to jail if she was wrong. Did you? Huh? Well, did ya, punk?  And the other one thinks all “Chinese” (read: Asians) look alike. Doesn’t everybody? Why must everyone laugh at Trump's mighty sword?

Sorry. I'm out. This is worse than I thought it was going to be.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 3, 2020

I was, too.  But sure enough, it got worse:

I dipped back into the hearing and found Rudy yelling about "dictatorial" COVID restrictions. He's now lecturing the legislators that they should overturn the result.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 3, 2020

So masks are dictatorial and totalitarian, but overruling an entire Constitutional and statutory voting process because the POTUS doesn't like the outcome is...freedumb?

Rudy says didn't ask for a recount because it would just be a "recount of the same fraudulent ballots."

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 3, 2020

Ten-Minutes-In-The-Future Rudy says: "Hold my beer and watch this!"

D rep asks Rudy about why he keeps losing court cases, and why Barr said there was no fraud, and what's this about your seeking a pardon?
Rudy: "I demand that he be disciplined."
Rep. CA Johnson tries to make a statement. Gets gaveled down.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 3, 2020

Happy with that, he decides to crank it past "11" to "Sidney Powell":

Rudy is now lying about the Dominion guys -- "Two Canadian guys went down to Venezuela to meet with Chavez two years ago." Chavez died in 2013.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 3, 2020

It was Zombie Chavez!  Or a seance by his grave!  But then Jenna came in to bat clean up (I know; but this stuff is just unbelievable):

Jenna is now doing her "I Are A Lawyer" act.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 3, 2020

Jenna, who are a lawyer, keeps telling them that the Constitution obligates them not to certify the election. It does not do that.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 3, 2020

Jenna says that Michigan "hasn't really chosen a president yet." And "intimidation of witnesses even in this hearing."

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 3, 2020

Did Trump promise her a lifetime job? Or to adopt her as one of his children? (and no one has chosen a President yet.  The Congress will do that when it accepts the votes of the Electoral College in January.  Michigan doesn't "choose" a President.  The country does.)

All of this was not any kind of official act. Not official, not legislative, not anything. It was just a bunch of random people talking to each other. Well, except for the lady who signed a paper that said she’d go to jail if she was wrong. Did you?

Clearly the only possible outcome of all these efforts is to just declare Trump the winner. We could have saved a lot of time and effort by just cancelling the election, in that case. Yeah, this is so much less worrisome than when Michael Flynn did it. I mean, Flynn is a disgraced military officer. Giuliani is just...Trump's personal lawyer.

Then again, without the election, we wouldn't have had all this fine entertainment.  Why the world would trust us with anything sharper than a rubber ball in 2021 is going to be a mystery.