Sasse v. Giuliani (Trump defectors thread)

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Sasse v. Giuliani (Trump defectors thread)

By artappraiser on Thu, 11/19/2020 - 7:56pm |

Good for @BenSasse https://t.co/OqGkfTmiVP
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) November 20, 2020

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https://twitter.com/conor64/status/1329590979884552195?s=20

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Just some interesting retweets of Romney's statement

"Mormom Women for Ethical Government":

We agree with Sen. Romney's statement and are grateful he continues to speak out. There is no ethical or legal justification for the personal pressure the President is increasingly placing on civic servants. It is past time for our leaders to defend our democratic processes. https://t.co/yTVe5lJTbu
— Mormon Women (@mormonweg) November 20, 2020

"Muslim Marine":

The Marine Corps instills within each Marine the values of honor, courage and commitment. But those values have never meant to only be limited to the Marines. Anyone can practice them.

Thank you Senator Romney for your honor, courage and commitment. https://t.co/NWJHNWxqu5
— MuslimMarine (@mansoortshams) November 20, 2020

Muslim Marine also has this one pinned to the top of his home page, got 20K retweets of his own (also note he is followed by some pretty fancy names like Andrew Yang and Neal Katyal)

The President’s been flagged by Twitter at least FIVE TIMES in less then TWO HOURS for dangerously misleading the public. Prior to that at least FIFTY TIMES since Election Day.

RT if you think @realDonaldTrump Twitter account should be suspended ASAP.#DeactivateTrump
— MuslimMarine (@mansoortshams) November 15, 2020

Mitt Romney is a senator from Utah and was the governor of Massachusetts, but he is a son of Michigan. Speaker Chatfield and Senator Shirkey should take Romney’s words to heart and cancel their trip to the White House. https://t.co/lQ1QLw6XyA
— Geoff Garin (@geoffgarin) November 20, 2020

Sen. Romney on how few bills Senate has acted on since Mitch McConnell became Majority Leader in 2018: "In the 2 years I've been in the Senate, we haven't had a single vote on a matter related to health care, immigration, tax policy, climate change, the list goes on." pic.twitter.com/0CTeVQj07N
— Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC (@DrAdeleDiamond) November 20, 2020

NEW: Sen. Romney: "The President has now resorted to overt pressure on state and local officials to subvert the will of the people and overturn the election. It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American President."
— Save The Democracy (BLM) (@DemocracyInn) November 20, 2020

Thank you, @MittRomney. I hope other elected Republicans will speak up as well. https://t.co/uBoTgV6vD7
— Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) November 20, 2020

...since inflaming a deadly pandemic... since shaking down a foreign power for dirt on a political opponent... since ripping children away from their parents... since stoking overt racism around the legitimacy of his predecessor... https://t.co/oX31njxbme
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) November 20, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 11/19/2020 - 11:58pm

Soon after being in on the governors' meeting with Biden--gosh, what a surprise and coincidence--Gov. Larry Hogan goes on CNN and says:

Gov Larry Hogan (R-MD) on Trump’s refusal to concede:
“It’s outrageous.
It’s an assault on democracy...
It’s bad for the Republican Party.” pic.twitter.com/RwQrq9qLr1
— Julie Cohen (@FilmmakerJulie) November 19, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/20/2020 - 12:46am

btw please bookmark this because we're about to see a whole bunch GOP lawmakers who after weeks of passively observing their party's frontal assault on American democracy get brownie points for calling Biden "president-elect" https://t.co/0SW1ttas9b
— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) November 20, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/20/2020 - 1:53am

Trump's next doomed approach

https://amp.detroitnews.com/amp/6350322002

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/20/2020 - 6:59am

Cato: know their names

when this mess is over, some will deserve credit

I don't know who needs to hear this but @CatoInstitute & its scholars are doing more than not endorsing the president's insane conspiracy theories and attempts to undermine the legitimacy of this election. Conservative orgs should follow. Our home page RN https://t.co/3xmA2Ia7Hb pic.twitter.com/2miZh714gi
— David Bier (@David_J_Bier) November 19, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/20/2020 - 7:01am

See Emily Play (or Waiting for Emily Godot)

Click through to Emily & Mike Flynn's conveniently wiped phones in Marcy article

Three Things: About Emily W. Murphy, GSA Administrator | emptywheel https://t.co/VOZkn0mPUA @commiegirl1 @EvanHurst @5DollarFeminist
— Michael Vario (@mvario1) November 20, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/20/2020 - 7:10am

Yesterday, we saw Rudy Giuliani reading affidavits from another case in Michigan without noting that a judge had gone through those and one by one rejected them as either not credible or contradicted by evidence from election officials https://t.co/PCiRqMPSzJ
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) November 20, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/20/2020 - 12:16pm

Geography is tuff

BREAKING NEWS: Republicans erroneously claim there are too many votes in Michigan, because they think that the upper peninsula of Michigan is in Canada.

(This is not photoshopped. This really happened.) pic.twitter.com/OcOPariPym
— Steve Hofstetter (@SteveHofstetter) November 20, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/20/2020 - 5:10pm

Well it is sorta Canada. Proudly Yooper.

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/20/2020 - 5:23pm

Careful, Ramona's gonna show up and kick some righteous ass. Yooper still ≠ Canuck, I'm pretty sure. Yes, it could be the 51st state or the 5th Beatle.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 11/21/2020 - 1:19am

Three more examples:

Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander calls for Biden transition proceedings. https://t.co/JMXeklvQ9z
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) November 20, 2020

BREAKING: Republicans DISMISS challenge to the use of a mail ballot processing machine in Nevada and effort to seek a new election.https://t.co/cJz82uH94u
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) November 21, 2020

“We have not yet been made aware of any information that would change the outcome of the election in Michigan and as legislative leaders, we will follow the law and follow the normal process regarding Michigan’s electors, just as we have said throughout this election.” https://t.co/IxLWb9loQj
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 20, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/20/2020 - 7:04pm

Victimhood stories and then dreaming of revenge about imagined victimhood:

Kayleigh McEnany: "This President was never given an orderly transition of power. His presidency was never accepted." pic.twitter.com/PXfUy92uV0
— The Hill (@thehill) November 20, 2020

Edit to add--clear the White House sent out talking points with this story:

No, Trump Did Not Get An 'Orderly Transition' https://t.co/8vyNcfN0Dr
— RedState (@RedState) November 20, 2020

(One neat thing about Twitter is that you search for keywords, you can see clear evidence of talking points and attempts to make memes go viral.)

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/20/2020 - 7:11pm

Frank just likes to keep score, doing that is one of his favorite things:

The Trump legal team is on pace for a worse win-loss record than the 2011-12 Charlotte Bobcats. (Who went 7-59 in a shortened NBA season.) https://t.co/98rzk7jOR8
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) November 21, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/20/2020 - 7:24pm

and then there's the more analytic thinkers:

The irony of the farcical claims of systemic fraud/vote-flipping in states like MI, PA, WI, NV, etc:

1) Plenty of deeply red states swung against Trump by a lot more
2) The Dem cities where Rudy/Sidney clowns are focusing are some of the only places that swung *towards* Trump
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 20, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/20/2020 - 7:29pm

"keystone coup" (Ezra trying out zippy lingo for his new NYTimes job?) Turns out the Michiganers accepted the invite because they thought it a chance to beg for coronavirus relief money:

The real twist on this is that if Trump had done a better job responding to the coronavirus crisis *before* the election he would've just won and wouldn't have had to try this whole keystone koup thing https://t.co/Lc3VQc1v42
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) November 21, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/20/2020 - 7:59pm

GOP Sen. Blackburn refers to Biden and Harris as “president-elect” and “vice president-elect”: https://t.co/dyk5p7gd3M
— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) November 21, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/20/2020 - 8:03pm

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