Late Night Repub Venality Open Thread: Roy Moore Goes Back to Full-Time Grifting
JUST IN: Roy Moore asks for donations to "election integrity fund" after refusing to concede Senate race https://t.co/C2Ftw2B28d pic.twitter.com/C6bFdnpDPs
— The Hill (@thehill) December 15, 2017
I’d wondered whether Roy Moore was endangering his established Christianist-bubble “calling” by keeping the media’s attention focused on his failed campaign, but then I’m not a professional grifter. Looks like he’s gonna keep looking for the missing birth certificate — I mean, the 20,000 “fraudulent” Doug Jones voters…
Roy Moore’s campaign announced Friday that it is seeking donations for an “election integrity fund” following the former judge’s unsuccessful bid for an Alabama Senate seat….
The campaign is seeking to meet a deadline to report cases of voter fraud before Alabama’s secretary of State certifies the vote. The election will be certified between Dec. 26 and Jan. 3.
In a letter sent out to supporters, the campaign said its budget “ran through” on Tuesday, the night of the Alabama special election, and asked supporters to help raise another $75,000 to collect reports of “voter fraud and other irregularities at polling locations throughout the state.”
“My campaign team is busy collecting numerous reported cases of voter fraud and irregularities for the Secretary of State’s office,” the statement said…
Rally on, “Judge” Moore… the more you posture, the worse your claims look to the loosely political non-Deplorable voting population. Give us Democrats a chance to make you and your chaos-muppet buddy Steve Bannon the face of the GOP for 2018!
Why do I get the feeling we want to get thrown into that particular briar patch? Especially considering the irregularities seemed to affect Jones voters more.
Whole new career paths are opening before them. All the free incoming cash of permanent campaigning — plus the sweet sweet media spotlight and adoring crowds at rallies — now with none of the boring interferring details of actually occupying the office! His Orangeness must be so kicking himself at this point.
This guy needs the General Sherman march to the sea treatment.
Speaking of grifters
Open thread!
I just watched the Bob’s Burgers Christmas special and it’s really good! You should watch it!
That is all.
I thought that John Rogers already smacked down that angle of the vote-fraud argument, as opposed to the vote-suppression argument (vote suppression counts as vote fraud, doesn’t it?).
In other random news, apparently Ted Cruz came at Mark Hamill over net neutrality. Hamill’s response seems to be the first recorded use of “smarm-splaining”.
@Bruce K: Naturally, Uday thought that Rafael pwned Hamill, but it was actually the other way around.
Election integrity funds aren’t cheap to run. The salaries alone …
@Villago Delenda Est: “Evacuate? In our moment of triumph?”
“But I could’a. You saw it, I was winning!”
“No, Trelane.”
@NotMax:
I really loved that episode. Trelane was just such a psycho. Exactly how a kid would act with godlike powers.
Moore has a disagreeable, ugly mouth.
A vignette.
(crack of thunder followed by booming stentorian voice from on high)
VOICE: It’s over, Roy. Give it up.
(thunder cracks again, lightning flashes)
MOORE: #FakeGod!
In the coming days, expect stories to come out attempting to tar the Alabama Sec. of State. Such as:
Witnesses (gasp!) will suddenly come forward to soberly announce they absolutely, positively, saw him munching on some grapes before reaching the checkout at the Piggly Wiggly. Therefore he must resign NOW.
@David 🎅🎄Merry Christmas🎄🎅 Koch: there was a meltdown? And I missed it? 😠
Looks as if it’s gonna be tumbleweed central here tonight. Guess shall stretch out and watch an episode or two of the Finnish series Black Widows.
Y’all have a Merry…
…Monday.
@David 🎅🎄Merry Christmas🎄🎅 Koch:
What happened with Cornel West?
@Villago Delenda Est:
Mark Hamill is older and more experienced than Ted Cruz, smarter than Ted Cruz, and a Jedi master. Ted Cruz is unaware of these facts.
@RinaX:
Vanity, I think. He sees himself as the most significant black thinker around, and is affronted that upstarts like Barack Obama and Ta-Nehisi Coates have dared usurp his crown.
@sukabi:
West reviewed Coates’ new book for the Guardian. West got the title wrong, and then took up the whole piece calling Coates a neoliberal instead of discussing what Coates had to say.
The Atlanta airport is fucked.
@Major Major Major Major: That Bob’s Burgers special was last week. It’s always ground my gears that this show is constantly preempted by sports and only the first season is available on real dvd; the rest is contemptuously emitted on dvd-r.
@oatler.: awww
@Amir Khalid: Thanks…oh one of those “me, Me, ME, ME things. He’s always struck me as an attention seeker.
They are more entertaining when they’re on air. Really hard to pass yourself off as a ‘thinker’ when you’re wild eyed and spittle flecked.
Don’t know if thread is dead but will post anyway: I am in Louisville KY for the week, any Juicers game for a meet-up?
@Glidwrith: Check post above, dude — you’re front paged!
@RinaX:
Jealousy
Why do we care if Moore concedes? I’ve never understood the concession thing.
AND if you contribute in the next thirty minutes, he’ll throw in a free set of Dead Sea Scroll steak knives!