Today In Utter Insanity

A rumor spread on the right after the election, from QAnon to Louie Gohmert, that the CIA and US soldiers had been in some sort of gunfight in Germany over election fraud. Apparently Sidney Powell tried to get the Trump administration to take action on it. https://t.co/HvozP2jpAx

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 16, 2021

And just so we're clear:

I mean I’m pretty sure if you’re the 60ish Director of the CIA you don’t get to do fun special ops like invade Germany to steal an incriminating server, they make you delegate that to the kids.

Never become management, it sucks.

— ForbiddenPopehat (@Popehat) November 16, 2021

It's also pretty funny that the government its own self wouldn't know about this without Powell calling Ezra Cohen to tell him about it.  A gunfight?  In Germany?  With U.S. soldiers and the Director of the CIA directly involved?  And the German ambassador doesn't ask Washington "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, what the hell man?"  Did none of these clowns understand how government works? (I understand Powell is a former AUSA.  How is it possible she's this dumb?)

Meanwhile, in 30+ states:

Hoo boy

(no I didn’t click on anything and yes I blocked the number) pic.twitter.com/34rX5nPPac

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) November 16, 2021

Which means the government gets the lottery choice of who hears the appeal (no filing in the 5th Circuit as safe harbor!). It also means 30+ state AG's are gonna be surprised as hell at what their underlings have been up to.*

And since I brought up Christie earlier, this isn't as insane as the others, but Christie is insisting he and Trump are "good friends."

Christie's 2016 slogan 😭 https://t.co/aqykQhy7Jn pic.twitter.com/v5lnU54Dsh

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 16, 2021

Then how, pray tell, is he so clueless?

*No, it's absolutely NOT going to happen.  Fraud in election law doesn't work the way it does in contract law; and it almost never works that way in contract law (i.e., reset the game and put everybody back at square one).  3-+ state AG's aren't getting involved in this.  It's all been moot since January 6th.

Upon reflection, another reason it won't happen.  Paxton tried this stunt in 2020.  The Supremes tossed it for lack of standing in December of that year.  A lawsuit can't just be "WE DON'T LIKE THE ELECTION RESULTS!", it has to actually name an adverse party who did the fraud.  Paxton tried to sue Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.  Texas didn't have standing to do that.  How, then, do 30+ states get standing, and whom do they sue?  The other 20?  The Supreme Court?  The Congress?  The electoral college?

The whole idea is rampant with absurdities.