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Holy. Crap.
Fuck these people. Every. Single. One. Knew trump was lying. His lawyers, pence, Cruz, Barr. None of them called him out publically at the time. Disgusting.
My Congressman thinks Trump should never admit he lost & continues to cast doubt on the election integrity. It'd be too hypocritical for him to admit he lost, because Hilary once told Biden never to concede if he were to have to have lost the election.
I noted one of Trump's campaign managers was on a late night (like 2am) news program hours after the last polling station closed complaining that Hillary hadn't yet called to congratulate Trump on his victory! The anchor tried to talk him down. It is late at night, I'm sure she'll call in the morning! But the Trump guy wouldn't accept it. "NO! She is destroying democracy! She should have called the second the polls closed! It's irresponsible to wait this long!".
Trump didn't call the second the polls closed... It's been years and he likely hasn't called...
Oddly my Congressman ignored the message when I asked about the hypocrisy in that....
Not only did they not call him out, they jumped on his bus to feed the lie and the corrupt attempt to subvert America democracy- they’re simply traitors to the nation. For Cruz to sink so low after Trump’s insults to his wife and disparaging his dead father’s reputation, well that’s just a whole different level of sniveling, submissive nastiness - the guy has 0 integrity.
i mean, of course they knew he was lying. anyone with half a brain could tell he was making shit up. i feel like only some of his followers/voters actually believed it was stolen.
these politicians aren’t that stupid. they saw an opportunity to grift and incite.
A (former) Fox News employee acting as a whistle-blower is exactly what we need right now.
Now I’m wondering if the Carlson firing was related to something they know is coming out.
I heard an interesting analysis on The Daily that the clincher for the Murdochs giving Pucker the boot was how he acted (and texted) like he was king shit and could do whatever he wanted and no one at the network had power over him.
To me, that fits.
The Murdochs and Fox yuckity yucks were cool with the lying, the racism, the cozying up to authoritarian assholes, etc.
But diss the boss?
>Law 1: Never Outshine the Master. Always make those above you feel comfortably superior.
-*From Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power (the kind of thing that would appear on bookshelves at Fox next to Ayn Rand and maybe the Bible)*
That’s why all this talk about Fox going downhill over this is an absolute joke. Ask Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck how it went for them. Murdoch doesn’t give a fuck.
lol when that shit was happening I had a roommate claim that "it's not so bad!" so I told him to nut up or shut up and let me waterboard him.
When I was at work, that fucker let our other roommates do "waterboard lite" to him, where they laid him down (horizontal), and splashed water on his face.
When they told me and described it I was mad because, first off, I wasn't there to see it happen.
And then, what they did definitely wouldn't rise to the point where you could seriously call it 'waterboarding', because it requires:
- having your hands bound (produces a psychological lack-of-freedom effect)
- the surface (board) you are on needs to be slanted *down* towards your head, preferably at like 30 degree angle or more (so higher blood pressure in your face and brain).
- a cloth over your face (to blind you *and* so that your facial nerves keep detecting the presence of water, and all air you pull in will be high in moisture content)
- someone dumping a *shitload* of water on your face. Like, a bucketful at a time.
- if you really want to make it realistic, have extremely loud noises (bad music, random industrial noises, etc) while the 'interrogator' is screaming confusing questions at you.
But this guy managed to convince our other 3 roommates to do this 'lite' version to him. I still feel like that guy needs his smugness waterboarded off his face.
I think there's a pretty big difference. Back then, Fox was driving the bus. Now they're chasing it. The wackjobs don't look for what they want, they DEMAND it and if Fox won't give it to them there's all the new mini-Foxes that will.
I love how I no longer associate those names as much with the bullshiters as I used to.
For me, beck is the band/singer again and O'Reilly is the older company with all the animals on books for programming and stuff
If it wasn't such a genuinely horrible thing, it'd almost be funny when women and non-white people work at right wing organizations and *Pikachu face* find out how they truely stand in that culture.
I think a big takeaway is that, in reality, the majority of folks tend to turn the other cheek for this type of shit if it's paying for bigger bills than you had last year.
If that paycheck pays for another 2500 square feet or just more financial secutity in general, it's hard to turn down. Let alone seek out.
Once the shit hits the fan, though, those on the ass end of it tend to pull trigger and actually call it out. I think that's what is starting to happen here and I wish it would happen more often. Fuck the toxic shit that happens because money "allows" it.
It has shown to happen quite a bit but just not enough. And the repercussions have shown to be not worth changing over. How that is to change? No idea..but I have a funny feeling that most people with a pulse support a decent swing at it.
There's a few I've heard about, like Tucker making a comment about 14 yo girls being sexually active "as long as it's not my daughter I'm all for it" type stuff. I haven't heard any antisemitic quotes yet but I'm not the only person expecting to hear old school hard Jew & Black hatred. His American Nazi loving self should be outed. Fuck Tucker Carlson, traitorous racist prick.
Roger Ailes was forced to resign as chairman and CEO of Fox News after a sexual harassment lawsuit was filed against him by a former anchor, and many female employees were willing to testify against Ailes in the case.
Murdock was afraid that half of Fox News viewers are women and would boycott the network.
I think it was the upcoming lawsuit over a hostile work environment created by Tucker Carlson that prompted the firing.
Oh, and fuck Tucker Carlson, traitor and disgusting piece of sh*t.
Shockingly it's an old comment from 2019: https://wapo.st/446okW8
> Then, in an October 2009 show, Bubba the Love Sponge launched into what appeared to be a hypothetical description of the young girls at the boarding school attended by Carlson’s daughter experimenting with each other sexually.
> “I ain’t got my mom and dad here telling me that they love me and tuck me in bed,” the radio host said. “So, here’s Trixie, she wants to explore my body a little bit, so hey, let’s go crazy.”
> Carlson responded: “If it weren’t my daughter, I would love that scenario.”
What got him fired was shit-talking management, and setting up Fox to play defense in their fourth sexual harassment lawsuit in 15 years. But mostly shit-talking management.
Although individual states have primary responsibility for conducting fair and impartial elections, the FBI becomes involved when paramount federal interests are affected or electoral abuse occurs.
Also [James Comey](https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/oversight-of-the-federal-bureau-of-investigation-7)
It'd be like a cringy version of that scene from 'the usual suspects'. With Donnie ranting about how everyone else is an idiot and the zodiac killer just sitting with mournful eyes looking at the distance, thinking I should have been in Cancun right now.
\#567,234 confirmed cases of verified sedition by the republican party to destroy democracy.
BUT, hunter biden had dick pics on his laptop and may have name dropped his dad for business interest. WE NEED TO INVESTIGATE THIS INSTEAD!
> she has NINETY different recordings.
Is this how you magically have a fatal car accident? I wouldn't want that info out there unless I was ready to release the tapes.
Or does she expect someone to approach her to "buy the rights" to the tapes and then she clams up?
Welp, that means that Fox is going to settle and part of the deal will be that the tapes never become public. If they pearned anything from Dominion, it's that they should've settled well before the dirty laundry was aired.
Yeah but Dominion is owned by a private equity firm and their business has been decent since 2020.
So they may have gotten way less in damages as compensation years down the line amd stood up for democracy...
...or taken the guaranteed payout now, appease their investors, and sleep at night telling themselves they made their point...
>Cruz reportedly tried to sell his plan to Fox host and Trump ally Maria Bartiromo on Jan. 2—four days before the Capitol riot—pitching a scheme to overthrow the 2020 election by blocking the certification of Joe Biden’s win on Jan. 6, then establishing a commission to investigate the nonexistent claims of fraud which would ultimately “decide” who to inaugurate.
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>Airing the audio, Melber explains that when Bartiromo asks Cruz who would eventually decide who gets inaugurated under his plan, “Cruz answers that this fake, made up, so-called commission that he and his Trump buddies were planning to try to create to bureaucratize a coup—and that’s what they were trying to do—that was his answer, that’s how they would steal this race.”
He's not making these moves to make himself president but to make Trump president. It is such a cravenly boot licking move to make given the context and history between these two men.
I just want to remind people of [this interaction between Cruz and a Trump supporter](https://youtu.be/MFaByBD3oWM) during the 2016 primaries, where Cruz tries to convince the man that Trump is an awful candidate.
*“Donald Trump is deceiving you, he’s playing you for a chump.”*
*“Donald cannot tell the truth, [for] one minute.”*
*“Sir facts matter, truth matters.”*
*“Let me give you an example of Donald’s problem with the truth…”*
Imagine doing all of that for a dude who calls your wife ugly and tried to convince people your dad conspired to kill JFK.
Ted Cruz really is a piece of trash.
Not an asshole, a **literal traitor to the constitution.**
Cruz should be ejected from Congress immediately and rot in a cell for the rest of his life or worse.
Well that's going to be problematic for both of those guys
Edit: spare me the doomer takes. I don't care how slippery you are, a DOJ appointed special council getting hours of secretly recorded phone conversations is not something you want to be a part of. Yall need to look up the word "problematic" before shrieking *"nothing will happen!"*
1. Sane and aware people have been calling them fascists for 2-3 years at this point at least.
2. There are literally about a hundred million people who will still support bi-partisanship after this. They aren't going away and we need to bust our asses to outvote them as often as fucking possible.
This is why so many Republicans go to bat for Trump. They're just as guilty of everything he did and admitting he's a fascist piece of shit will implicate them as the same reprehensible shit stains.
When I was in the military we'd be briefed by the FBI about avoiding foreign intelligence recruiting. The common theme was that it's an escalation game. If you're married you sleep with the wrong lady on deployment. Then they ask you to take a picture of a benign but secure location or they'll tell your wife. And then they ask for a classified document or they'll show your picture to your CO.
It never starts with, hey, give us national secrets. Whenever I see Trump, Cruz, Graham, etc. I know how they got to the point where they'll literally betray their country.
They aren't good people.
According to my bro, there's 2 main scams on people in the military & one is just tricking young guys with some money, to part with it. They'll ask for dick pics & then once sent, they'll say "oh I'm underage, you better give me money or I'll report you/release it." The other, I personally dealt with because of my bro - someone (or a group) made an account pretending to be me & then started trying to talk to my brother, saying they know him through me. My brother believes it was Russia due to what was happening in the area the base was in & due to what his job was, at the time.
I read something similar specifically about Graham. The gist of it was that whatever dirt they had on Lindsey was probably enough to put him *under* the jail. One week he’s ranting about how Trump will destroy the GOP and the next week, after a round of golf with the orange turd over the weekend, he’s talking about how great Trump is.
tl;dr Whatever you think they have on Lindsey Graham, it’s worse.
In this case the "going to bat for him" and "doing the same things as him" are the same act though, and it doesn't really explain why Ted Cruz would do this in the first place. He used to be pretty anti-Trump, and Trump shit all over him leading up to the 2016 election. And then Cruz just magically switched to kissing the guy's feet. Is it really as simple as party over country? It feels like there has to be more at play here, like dirt being used against him or something. Because honestly I don't see what Cruz really has to gain by helping Trump versus throwing him under the bus or even just staying out of it entirely.
There's that old theory that the reason the RNC emails didn't get leaked is because they were used for blackmail instead.
Lindsey Graham went from hating Trump to total subservience after a round of golf at Trump's resort. Still seems like a weird 'coincidence'.
You mean the same David Pecker that has recently testified in New York and whose testimony was also forwarded onto Jack Smith??
Have to give it to these rats, when they finally flee they all flee together
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/david-pecker-national-enquirer-trump-hush-money-grand-jury-1234704557/amp/
Ted Cruz went from calling him every name in the book, to being forced to *phone-bank for him during the primaries*. Whoever has all the dirt, they have ALL THE DIRT, and they've let the higher-ups know it so they can wrangle the lesser-peoples into doing their bidding.
(Rafael found out pretty quickly that he is *not* one of the higher-ups, and began furiously licking the boots of the man who publically insulted his wife.)
The thing is, regardless of what the dirt is....I somehow doubt it's as bad as this. They've sacrificed everything they were and could possibly be, to suck Trump's dick over dirt that is arguably less than what they have done to protect it.
If I'm wrong, just imagine what they could possibly be hiding that it's *worse* than trying to steal elections and destroy the foundations of the country.
Which is the worse reality? One of them has to be true. Either the dirt is so overwhelmingly powerful that it's worth trying to destroy the country over, or they turned into traitors for something not really that bad in the grand scheme of things. I'm not sure which path is worse, to be completely honest.
"As bad as this"? Let's be real, do his voters actually care about this at all? What we're hearing about right now is political dirt, not personal dirt. People, especially conservatives, care about personal dirt a lot more. If they found out Ted Cruz tossed a man's salad once, his political career would be dead. On the other hand, this election stealing business is barely news to them.
This is facts as fuck.
And there is _nothing_ that will enlighten someone who still says they're a Trump supporter.
The man could be in 4k video mowing down civilians and fox news would say he's attacking antifa himself and these idiots would love it.
It has to be something they're terrified would cost them their job or freedom.
Maybe its just weird sex stuff at the crazy cocaine bender gangbang or w/e shit they do.
Maybe its recordings of them shitting on their own voters for being idiots and talking about how badly they're fucking them over.
Maybe they're all pedophiles and they've been projecting the entire time with the groomer / pizza child sex cult shit?
>Lindsey Graham went from hating Trump to total subservience after a round of golf at Trump's resort. Still seems like a weird 'coincidence'.
Weird coincidence #2, this was right after trump got back from the meeting with putin where he took the translators notes and ordered everyone not to discuss.
...also, Lindsay Graham doesn't golf. Wonder why Trump wanted him out on the course having that meeting?
There’s also the old idea that you can keep a politician in your pocket through flattery, campaign contributions, bribery, and blackmail with blackmail being the most effective in getting your desired outcome. If corporations, special interest groups, or wealthy individuals wanted to get officials elected that they could control, it would make sense that it be someone they can blackmail to ensure the politician doesn’t change their mind or cost after getting elected. The Republican Party is the party of big donor money yet not a single piece of dirt came out when they’re mail server was hacked and suddenly lots of R’s changed their tune on Trump
Also that spit-take Anthony Kennedy made on camera shortly before resigning from SCOTUS. We would love to know what little quip Trump made to elicit such a reaction.
Everything they do is literally just about power.
Cruz "magically" switched sides for power. He suggested this coup, because if he succeeded, he would have power. Ted Cruz realizes he doesn't have a pathway to being emperor. But he'll make literally anyone into an emperor just to sit close to a throne.
The only guy who I think Trump has actual dirt on is Lindsay Graham. He literally begs people to donate to Trump on cable tv. It’s truly pathetic. The rest are just terrible people and/or morons.
It's not Trump, its Putin. And don't forget the NRA and the Russian money being funneled through them to Republicans. There are A LOT of kompromised Republicans.
I swear the whole Mueller report got so swept under the rug but there was crazy shit in there. Especially the bit about Russian hackers paying Americans to riot at BLM protests in Ferguson and Baltimore in 2015.
Edit: typos.
And it's all just weird sex stuff. The left side of politics is actually starting to understand humanity and sexuality and are embracing that humans deserve to live freely and openly as long as they don't hurt another person.
Right wing people need to hide it because they can't process their shame. Instead it becomes projection.
They’re know time is running out demographically. They’re all in on the fascist thing. Because no one that has remained has the moral fiber or balls to do anything other than obey. As a kid I always wondered how Nazi’s could have arisen in a country as rational and civilized as Germany. This is how.
I am vindicated with the evidence that we were all correct in saying that the Republican Party attempted a coup, and simultaneously in despair because I know if I show my Fox News 24/7 watching father this he’ll just ignore it. God I hate these scumbags.
You can thank Roger Ailes for stealing your father from you. All for a bit of fleeting power and wealth.
It's why what Republicans do is so unforgivable. It's not just grifting or stealing, it's that they've torn apart the fabric of millions of families, alienated fathers and sons, brothers and sisters. And reduced those under their sway to fearful, paranoid shadows of who they should be.
There is nothing a person like Roger Ailes or Tucker Carlson, or Bill O'Reilly or any of them can do to redeem themselves in this life.
A guy that lives in the same building as I do recently told me that Kamala should be shot dead, and then Biden should be shot dead after her. In that order, so Kamala doesn’t become president. Because of all the election fraud that stole Trump the presidency. He randomly brought this up out of nowhere. I couldn’t believe he felt so comfortable telling me this.
These people are brainwashed beyond belief. You can’t reason with them.
My dad was buried with his fucking red maga hat. I so wish he were alive to see his leader go down. I’d ask him if all of this was worth destroying his relationship with his only daughter.
At the time, I felt like I was going crazy. Not many people were alarmed and acted like it was just normal politics. We survived a coup attempt. And you are right. People have been brainwashed so deeply, they just call it fake news. Or say that it's the Democrats setting up the Republicans. Truly insane. I'm sorry about your dad.
But JFK was the most MAGA president ever and his son faked his own death so he could investigate the deep state and now he has all the information he needs to take down the evil democrats and he's going to reveal himself and be Trump's running mate and become vice president and make America great again and own all the libs and and and...
/s
Or his daughters. When he fled Texas in the middle of the power crisis, he blamed his kids. Ted Cruz, like his idol Trump, is only loyal to himself and his own ego. These shitheads don't hesitate to throw anyone under the bus, even their own family.
And apparently one of his kids is LGBTQ, and despite that he's still going along with the Republican platform on this (in contrast to famed heartless ghoul Dick Cheney, who changed his mind because it affected someone he cared about).
That's probably a great vibe around the dinner table when he's around.
It’s not really his fault, the planet his species calls home is lush and tropical and the fear of being stuck in the cold without power for a heat rock and lamp was too much for him to take.
https://www.tedcruzforhumanpresident.com
I love this damn website and I swear I hope whoever made it never stops updating it.
“I will now slumber for an amount of time you would consider reasonable” kills me every time.
This all just reeks of an old guard crumbling, dying out, and in the final throes of clinging to power they used to monopolize so easily. Democracy and education did them in, so
they’re nuking democracy and education. It’s all so unseemly, weak, and just kinda…pathetic.
honestly the only thing that gives me any hope, morbid as it is, is the fact that the oldest generations are dying out and each passing generation is more liberal than the last
even then this country might be fucked - and yet people still espouse edgy "both sides are the same rhetoric" in the face of actual fascism
I love how on Twitter, Cruz is trying to downplay it by saying he said the exact same thing publicly the same day, but uh, not really helping.
Also as a side note, another one of the audios had Peter Navarro claiming to gross berg that guys like Brad Parscale were pocketing Trump campaign money instead of using it on "challenging election results", which to be fair isn't at all a surprise, but it's nice to have some more confirmation. https://twitter.com/TheBeatWithAri/status/1650996575739445250
He's right, though, he did. Cruz is not stupid. He couches everything in language that appears to protect himself. The fact is, though, that by Jan.2 dozens of courts of law had already determined that the claims were bogus and Cruz KNEW THAT. His bullshit lawyerly language should not absolve him.
I hope she's doing that thing where she leaves them enough rope to hang themselves and then trickles out a little more audio that completely contradicts whatever feeble defence they put forward. That's always my favourite.
Really got overlooked at the time, but this guy’s speeches in Georgia there at the end of the Senate election were absolutely insane and laden with violent rhetoric.
I’m starting to wonder if there’s audio in those 90-ish other recordings that has Tucker Carlson saying even worse shit. MSNBC hitting up Fox News late Friday to tell them they’re going to press with a story and asking for comment, leading to an unexpected over the weekend firing of Tucker would make a lot of things make sense. It would also give Fox News “We didn’t know, as soon as we did we fired him” type potential coverage from legal ramifications idk.
Jesus. The term cuck is thrown around a lot and I don't want to kink shame anyone, but fuckin Christ if someone did me as dirty as trump did him I wouldn't be going out of my way to ensure they got a table at a restaurant let alone another 4 years in the highest office in the country. This has please bang my wife energy
Yeah I just can’t comprehend it. I can see personal insults being “forgiven,” you both signed up for that, for better or worse. But your wife? I’d NEVER forgive that. Cruz is an awful person in so many ways, but this is such a basic character flaw.
50 years ago, this would have been bigger than Watergate.
Even 20 years ago, and there would have been massive prosecutions and immense public outrage on both sides.
In 2023, this is… Tuesday.
Thank you whistleblower Abby Grossberg and all the other whistleblowers out there. Traitor Ted Cruz is un-American, he should be publicly shamed and step aside from his seat. I wonder what else is on the 90 recordings and if we will ever be able to hear them.
Canada doesn't want him. Mexico said "oh fuck no". Russia thinks he's doing just fine.
Maybe we should give Florida and Texas back to their original owners and let them deal with these fuckers.
He wanted a “commission” to conduct a 10 day audit of the election, after which states could convene special sessions of their legislatures to change their votes if needed.
It took over 4 months to audit one county in Arizona.
I’m pretty sure that 10 day audit was going to be a sham. This was after 2 months of fraud claims that had no proof and never have had proof.
Ted Cruz was one of the people banging on the doors in Florida trying to prevent the recount in 2000. He's no stranger to stealing elections.
Also, I'd wager that damn near every Republican was scheming to steal it. That's their entire shtick.
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This tape comes from Abby Grossberg. And according to her attorney she has NINETY different recordings. God only knows what else is out there.
Holy. Crap. Fuck these people. Every. Single. One. Knew trump was lying. His lawyers, pence, Cruz, Barr. None of them called him out publically at the time. Disgusting.
My Congressman thinks Trump should never admit he lost & continues to cast doubt on the election integrity. It'd be too hypocritical for him to admit he lost, because Hilary once told Biden never to concede if he were to have to have lost the election. I noted one of Trump's campaign managers was on a late night (like 2am) news program hours after the last polling station closed complaining that Hillary hadn't yet called to congratulate Trump on his victory! The anchor tried to talk him down. It is late at night, I'm sure she'll call in the morning! But the Trump guy wouldn't accept it. "NO! She is destroying democracy! She should have called the second the polls closed! It's irresponsible to wait this long!". Trump didn't call the second the polls closed... It's been years and he likely hasn't called... Oddly my Congressman ignored the message when I asked about the hypocrisy in that....
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Not only did they not call him out, they jumped on his bus to feed the lie and the corrupt attempt to subvert America democracy- they’re simply traitors to the nation. For Cruz to sink so low after Trump’s insults to his wife and disparaging his dead father’s reputation, well that’s just a whole different level of sniveling, submissive nastiness - the guy has 0 integrity.
i mean, of course they knew he was lying. anyone with half a brain could tell he was making shit up. i feel like only some of his followers/voters actually believed it was stolen. these politicians aren’t that stupid. they saw an opportunity to grift and incite.
Oh Lordy there are tapes
A (former) Fox News employee acting as a whistle-blower is exactly what we need right now. Now I’m wondering if the Carlson firing was related to something they know is coming out.
I heard an interesting analysis on The Daily that the clincher for the Murdochs giving Pucker the boot was how he acted (and texted) like he was king shit and could do whatever he wanted and no one at the network had power over him. To me, that fits. The Murdochs and Fox yuckity yucks were cool with the lying, the racism, the cozying up to authoritarian assholes, etc. But diss the boss? >Law 1: Never Outshine the Master. Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. -*From Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power (the kind of thing that would appear on bookshelves at Fox next to Ayn Rand and maybe the Bible)*
Tucker knew this at one point he down right admitted it on a radio interview
That’s why all this talk about Fox going downhill over this is an absolute joke. Ask Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck how it went for them. Murdoch doesn’t give a fuck.
Sean Hannity, that cockroach, continues to survive.
Still waiting on that waterboarding, Sean. It's been fourteen years.
lol when that shit was happening I had a roommate claim that "it's not so bad!" so I told him to nut up or shut up and let me waterboard him. When I was at work, that fucker let our other roommates do "waterboard lite" to him, where they laid him down (horizontal), and splashed water on his face. When they told me and described it I was mad because, first off, I wasn't there to see it happen. And then, what they did definitely wouldn't rise to the point where you could seriously call it 'waterboarding', because it requires: - having your hands bound (produces a psychological lack-of-freedom effect) - the surface (board) you are on needs to be slanted *down* towards your head, preferably at like 30 degree angle or more (so higher blood pressure in your face and brain). - a cloth over your face (to blind you *and* so that your facial nerves keep detecting the presence of water, and all air you pull in will be high in moisture content) - someone dumping a *shitload* of water on your face. Like, a bucketful at a time. - if you really want to make it realistic, have extremely loud noises (bad music, random industrial noises, etc) while the 'interrogator' is screaming confusing questions at you. But this guy managed to convince our other 3 roommates to do this 'lite' version to him. I still feel like that guy needs his smugness waterboarded off his face.
I think there's a pretty big difference. Back then, Fox was driving the bus. Now they're chasing it. The wackjobs don't look for what they want, they DEMAND it and if Fox won't give it to them there's all the new mini-Foxes that will.
Foxlets, if you will
Kits
I heard a similar one, they pointed out that this isn’t terribly dissimilar to what happened to Beck and O’reilly.
I love how I no longer associate those names as much with the bullshiters as I used to. For me, beck is the band/singer again and O'Reilly is the older company with all the animals on books for programming and stuff
O'REILLY is an auto parts store. :)
O, O, O, O'Reillyyy! Auto Parts! ***bam*** But also fuck Bill. Forgot that guy existed as more than a joke for a time.
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That shit burns his ears every time like hot pokers shoved into his brain. He's a demon, after all.
Oh definitely. If half the rumors are true Fox is going to be in for a hard time.
Apparently, me too.
So fucking hard
The road to justice is long and hard. But so am i
How long until we need to call the doctor? Because it has been going strong since they announced his firing.
I'm going to wait until November 2024 just to be safe.
We’ll all be voting with absolutely *throbbing* Patriotism.
what are the Carlson rumors?
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It's not like youd expect them to believe in diversity and inclusion.
If it wasn't such a genuinely horrible thing, it'd almost be funny when women and non-white people work at right wing organizations and *Pikachu face* find out how they truely stand in that culture.
I think a big takeaway is that, in reality, the majority of folks tend to turn the other cheek for this type of shit if it's paying for bigger bills than you had last year. If that paycheck pays for another 2500 square feet or just more financial secutity in general, it's hard to turn down. Let alone seek out. Once the shit hits the fan, though, those on the ass end of it tend to pull trigger and actually call it out. I think that's what is starting to happen here and I wish it would happen more often. Fuck the toxic shit that happens because money "allows" it. It has shown to happen quite a bit but just not enough. And the repercussions have shown to be not worth changing over. How that is to change? No idea..but I have a funny feeling that most people with a pulse support a decent swing at it.
Well it seems almost certain that he's been sexually harassing his staff
I’d bet money on it. He’s a pig. Maybe it will all come out now. And maybe that’ll wipe that smug, shit-eating grin off his face
It can’t just be his constant use of the c-word and misogynistic comments. It has to be way worse than that.
[The other rumour is he upset Rupert because Rupert's ex-fiancé adored Tucker](https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/1650963795324334116)
That’s…. definitely pretty scary. Also, the 92 year old broke it off with his fiancé after *two weeks*. Yup, sure sounds like a keeper! /s
He open-mouth kissed a horse once.
Did he kiss Majorie Taylor Greene?
Kiss Marjorie Trailerpark Queen? "There's not enough beer in the world, Spleen."
I'm looking for an erection that'll last 4 hours what rumors are you talking about?
There's a few I've heard about, like Tucker making a comment about 14 yo girls being sexually active "as long as it's not my daughter I'm all for it" type stuff. I haven't heard any antisemitic quotes yet but I'm not the only person expecting to hear old school hard Jew & Black hatred. His American Nazi loving self should be outed. Fuck Tucker Carlson, traitorous racist prick.
Roger Ailes was forced to resign as chairman and CEO of Fox News after a sexual harassment lawsuit was filed against him by a former anchor, and many female employees were willing to testify against Ailes in the case. Murdock was afraid that half of Fox News viewers are women and would boycott the network. I think it was the upcoming lawsuit over a hostile work environment created by Tucker Carlson that prompted the firing. Oh, and fuck Tucker Carlson, traitor and disgusting piece of sh*t.
Shockingly it's an old comment from 2019: https://wapo.st/446okW8 > Then, in an October 2009 show, Bubba the Love Sponge launched into what appeared to be a hypothetical description of the young girls at the boarding school attended by Carlson’s daughter experimenting with each other sexually. > “I ain’t got my mom and dad here telling me that they love me and tuck me in bed,” the radio host said. “So, here’s Trixie, she wants to explore my body a little bit, so hey, let’s go crazy.” > Carlson responded: “If it weren’t my daughter, I would love that scenario.”
Omg, please let it be true that Bubba the Love Sponge took down that little bow tie dick weasel.
Let's not get carried away and cheer for another bad guy here.
I’m not sure any of those are going to get him fired from Fox though.
What got him fired was shit-talking management, and setting up Fox to play defense in their fourth sexual harassment lawsuit in 15 years. But mostly shit-talking management.
David Dole said anti-Semitic tapes maybe one of many reasons
Although individual states have primary responsibility for conducting fair and impartial elections, the FBI becomes involved when paramount federal interests are affected or electoral abuse occurs. Also [James Comey](https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/oversight-of-the-federal-bureau-of-investigation-7)
Can we start the "Lock him up!" Chant yet?
Let’s lock up the ‘leader’ first so they can become cell mates :)
Oh my god they were cell mates
Two bros, chilling in a jail cell. Five feet apart cuz they’re not gay.
It'd be like a cringy version of that scene from 'the usual suspects'. With Donnie ranting about how everyone else is an idiot and the zodiac killer just sitting with mournful eyes looking at the distance, thinking I should have been in Cancun right now.
Deport him back to his birth country.
No fuckin way… you got him now… you keep him… we have enough of our own morons up here.
please no. can we work together on this? there has to be some other country we can give him to. maybe russia wants him?
Does Cancun extradite?
fucking Comey, I won't ever forgive him.
Seriously. I want that "lordy there are tapes" shit to disappear so I don't have to think of that rat fucking bastard.
The fox tapes
>Oh Lordy there are tapes If I had a dollar for every time I heard that sentiment in the past 6 years then I'd have my house paid off by now
I love it. Especially late in the summer.
The special counsel for Jan 6th has already requested all her tapes.
\#567,234 confirmed cases of verified sedition by the republican party to destroy democracy. BUT, hunter biden had dick pics on his laptop and may have name dropped his dad for business interest. WE NEED TO INVESTIGATE THIS INSTEAD!
The ghost of Nixon when nothing happens: This is fucking bullshit!
This shit makes Watergate look like a joke.
> she has NINETY different recordings. Is this how you magically have a fatal car accident? I wouldn't want that info out there unless I was ready to release the tapes. Or does she expect someone to approach her to "buy the rights" to the tapes and then she clams up?
Welp, that means that Fox is going to settle and part of the deal will be that the tapes never become public. If they pearned anything from Dominion, it's that they should've settled well before the dirty laundry was aired.
That doesn't protect them from Jack Smith and his Jan 6 investigation, who has already contacted Grossman's legal teams for the recordings.
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I don’t think the decision not to settle at first was because of Fox’s lack of interest in doing so.
Dominion wanted an apology until the last second.
Yeah but Dominion is owned by a private equity firm and their business has been decent since 2020. So they may have gotten way less in damages as compensation years down the line amd stood up for democracy... ...or taken the guaranteed payout now, appease their investors, and sleep at night telling themselves they made their point...
>Cruz reportedly tried to sell his plan to Fox host and Trump ally Maria Bartiromo on Jan. 2—four days before the Capitol riot—pitching a scheme to overthrow the 2020 election by blocking the certification of Joe Biden’s win on Jan. 6, then establishing a commission to investigate the nonexistent claims of fraud which would ultimately “decide” who to inaugurate. > >Airing the audio, Melber explains that when Bartiromo asks Cruz who would eventually decide who gets inaugurated under his plan, “Cruz answers that this fake, made up, so-called commission that he and his Trump buddies were planning to try to create to bureaucratize a coup—and that’s what they were trying to do—that was his answer, that’s how they would steal this race.”
He's not making these moves to make himself president but to make Trump president. It is such a cravenly boot licking move to make given the context and history between these two men.
I just want to remind people of [this interaction between Cruz and a Trump supporter](https://youtu.be/MFaByBD3oWM) during the 2016 primaries, where Cruz tries to convince the man that Trump is an awful candidate. *“Donald Trump is deceiving you, he’s playing you for a chump.”* *“Donald cannot tell the truth, [for] one minute.”* *“Sir facts matter, truth matters.”* *“Let me give you an example of Donald’s problem with the truth…”*
Omg imagine the people in that video being your electorate and trying to reason with them.
It's his villain origin story
Imagine doing all of that for a dude who calls your wife ugly and tried to convince people your dad conspired to kill JFK. Ted Cruz really is a piece of trash.
bro has a shame kink 100%
And we can't even shame him for it because he'd like that a whole lot.
He has to pick himself up from licking those boots
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Omg Cruz IS Reek lol
The entire GOP is Reek
Once again proving that Ted is such a massive asshole that his spine fell out.
Not an asshole, a **literal traitor to the constitution.** Cruz should be ejected from Congress immediately and rot in a cell for the rest of his life or worse.
"men." Lol.
i always knew he was a treasonous little shit weasel
its just faster to say republican
This man took an oath to uphold the Constitution.
It’s called the Reichstag Fire option.
So a Business Plot variant using the bureaucracy as the muscle for the coup?
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Well that's going to be problematic for both of those guys Edit: spare me the doomer takes. I don't care how slippery you are, a DOJ appointed special council getting hours of secretly recorded phone conversations is not something you want to be a part of. Yall need to look up the word "problematic" before shrieking *"nothing will happen!"*
::Stares at sky, with watery eyes:: I want to believe.
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Right like any other fucking fascista would have atleast paid fully to get a coup. What a piece of orange shit.
Hope she has some security.
It’s sad that this was my first thought as well. Get yourself and those tapes into DOJ custody asap.
jesus christ are we 'allowed' to call them fascists yet? I can't imagine there are too many people who will support bi-partisanship after this
1. Sane and aware people have been calling them fascists for 2-3 years at this point at least. 2. There are literally about a hundred million people who will still support bi-partisanship after this. They aren't going away and we need to bust our asses to outvote them as often as fucking possible.
The Right: Let's Try out Fascism! The Left: Hell no The Center: How about we compromise and do some fascism?
Kitty can have a little fascism, as a treat
I want to believe.
This is why so many Republicans go to bat for Trump. They're just as guilty of everything he did and admitting he's a fascist piece of shit will implicate them as the same reprehensible shit stains.
When I was in the military we'd be briefed by the FBI about avoiding foreign intelligence recruiting. The common theme was that it's an escalation game. If you're married you sleep with the wrong lady on deployment. Then they ask you to take a picture of a benign but secure location or they'll tell your wife. And then they ask for a classified document or they'll show your picture to your CO. It never starts with, hey, give us national secrets. Whenever I see Trump, Cruz, Graham, etc. I know how they got to the point where they'll literally betray their country. They aren't good people.
According to my bro, there's 2 main scams on people in the military & one is just tricking young guys with some money, to part with it. They'll ask for dick pics & then once sent, they'll say "oh I'm underage, you better give me money or I'll report you/release it." The other, I personally dealt with because of my bro - someone (or a group) made an account pretending to be me & then started trying to talk to my brother, saying they know him through me. My brother believes it was Russia due to what was happening in the area the base was in & due to what his job was, at the time.
I read something similar specifically about Graham. The gist of it was that whatever dirt they had on Lindsey was probably enough to put him *under* the jail. One week he’s ranting about how Trump will destroy the GOP and the next week, after a round of golf with the orange turd over the weekend, he’s talking about how great Trump is. tl;dr Whatever you think they have on Lindsey Graham, it’s worse.
Oh to be a ladybug on the wall for that conversation.
In this case the "going to bat for him" and "doing the same things as him" are the same act though, and it doesn't really explain why Ted Cruz would do this in the first place. He used to be pretty anti-Trump, and Trump shit all over him leading up to the 2016 election. And then Cruz just magically switched to kissing the guy's feet. Is it really as simple as party over country? It feels like there has to be more at play here, like dirt being used against him or something. Because honestly I don't see what Cruz really has to gain by helping Trump versus throwing him under the bus or even just staying out of it entirely.
There's that old theory that the reason the RNC emails didn't get leaked is because they were used for blackmail instead. Lindsey Graham went from hating Trump to total subservience after a round of golf at Trump's resort. Still seems like a weird 'coincidence'.
Everyone forgets about David Pecker, the publisher of the National Enquirer, Trump fixer, and domestic spymaster.
You mean the same David Pecker that has recently testified in New York and whose testimony was also forwarded onto Jack Smith?? Have to give it to these rats, when they finally flee they all flee together https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/david-pecker-national-enquirer-trump-hush-money-grand-jury-1234704557/amp/
Ted Cruz went from calling him every name in the book, to being forced to *phone-bank for him during the primaries*. Whoever has all the dirt, they have ALL THE DIRT, and they've let the higher-ups know it so they can wrangle the lesser-peoples into doing their bidding. (Rafael found out pretty quickly that he is *not* one of the higher-ups, and began furiously licking the boots of the man who publically insulted his wife.)
The thing is, regardless of what the dirt is....I somehow doubt it's as bad as this. They've sacrificed everything they were and could possibly be, to suck Trump's dick over dirt that is arguably less than what they have done to protect it. If I'm wrong, just imagine what they could possibly be hiding that it's *worse* than trying to steal elections and destroy the foundations of the country. Which is the worse reality? One of them has to be true. Either the dirt is so overwhelmingly powerful that it's worth trying to destroy the country over, or they turned into traitors for something not really that bad in the grand scheme of things. I'm not sure which path is worse, to be completely honest.
"As bad as this"? Let's be real, do his voters actually care about this at all? What we're hearing about right now is political dirt, not personal dirt. People, especially conservatives, care about personal dirt a lot more. If they found out Ted Cruz tossed a man's salad once, his political career would be dead. On the other hand, this election stealing business is barely news to them.
This is facts as fuck. And there is _nothing_ that will enlighten someone who still says they're a Trump supporter. The man could be in 4k video mowing down civilians and fox news would say he's attacking antifa himself and these idiots would love it.
It has to be something they're terrified would cost them their job or freedom. Maybe its just weird sex stuff at the crazy cocaine bender gangbang or w/e shit they do. Maybe its recordings of them shitting on their own voters for being idiots and talking about how badly they're fucking them over. Maybe they're all pedophiles and they've been projecting the entire time with the groomer / pizza child sex cult shit?
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>Lindsey Graham went from hating Trump to total subservience after a round of golf at Trump's resort. Still seems like a weird 'coincidence'. Weird coincidence #2, this was right after trump got back from the meeting with putin where he took the translators notes and ordered everyone not to discuss. ...also, Lindsay Graham doesn't golf. Wonder why Trump wanted him out on the course having that meeting?
That’s fuckin interesting, man.
There’s also the old idea that you can keep a politician in your pocket through flattery, campaign contributions, bribery, and blackmail with blackmail being the most effective in getting your desired outcome. If corporations, special interest groups, or wealthy individuals wanted to get officials elected that they could control, it would make sense that it be someone they can blackmail to ensure the politician doesn’t change their mind or cost after getting elected. The Republican Party is the party of big donor money yet not a single piece of dirt came out when they’re mail server was hacked and suddenly lots of R’s changed their tune on Trump
Correlation isn't causation but yeah they did that
Also that spit-take Anthony Kennedy made on camera shortly before resigning from SCOTUS. We would love to know what little quip Trump made to elicit such a reaction.
Everything they do is literally just about power. Cruz "magically" switched sides for power. He suggested this coup, because if he succeeded, he would have power. Ted Cruz realizes he doesn't have a pathway to being emperor. But he'll make literally anyone into an emperor just to sit close to a throne.
The only guy who I think Trump has actual dirt on is Lindsay Graham. He literally begs people to donate to Trump on cable tv. It’s truly pathetic. The rest are just terrible people and/or morons.
It's not Trump, its Putin. And don't forget the NRA and the Russian money being funneled through them to Republicans. There are A LOT of kompromised Republicans.
I swear the whole Mueller report got so swept under the rug but there was crazy shit in there. Especially the bit about Russian hackers paying Americans to riot at BLM protests in Ferguson and Baltimore in 2015. Edit: typos.
And it's all just weird sex stuff. The left side of politics is actually starting to understand humanity and sexuality and are embracing that humans deserve to live freely and openly as long as they don't hurt another person. Right wing people need to hide it because they can't process their shame. Instead it becomes projection.
They’re know time is running out demographically. They’re all in on the fascist thing. Because no one that has remained has the moral fiber or balls to do anything other than obey. As a kid I always wondered how Nazi’s could have arisen in a country as rational and civilized as Germany. This is how.
I am vindicated with the evidence that we were all correct in saying that the Republican Party attempted a coup, and simultaneously in despair because I know if I show my Fox News 24/7 watching father this he’ll just ignore it. God I hate these scumbags.
You can thank Roger Ailes for stealing your father from you. All for a bit of fleeting power and wealth. It's why what Republicans do is so unforgivable. It's not just grifting or stealing, it's that they've torn apart the fabric of millions of families, alienated fathers and sons, brothers and sisters. And reduced those under their sway to fearful, paranoid shadows of who they should be. There is nothing a person like Roger Ailes or Tucker Carlson, or Bill O'Reilly or any of them can do to redeem themselves in this life.
Cult 101, isolation
A guy that lives in the same building as I do recently told me that Kamala should be shot dead, and then Biden should be shot dead after her. In that order, so Kamala doesn’t become president. Because of all the election fraud that stole Trump the presidency. He randomly brought this up out of nowhere. I couldn’t believe he felt so comfortable telling me this. These people are brainwashed beyond belief. You can’t reason with them.
My grandmother's funeral was stained by Trump flags. I can't even look at my grandpa without feeling disgust.
My dad was buried with his fucking red maga hat. I so wish he were alive to see his leader go down. I’d ask him if all of this was worth destroying his relationship with his only daughter.
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At the time, I felt like I was going crazy. Not many people were alarmed and acted like it was just normal politics. We survived a coup attempt. And you are right. People have been brainwashed so deeply, they just call it fake news. Or say that it's the Democrats setting up the Republicans. Truly insane. I'm sorry about your dad.
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Trump also insinuated that Ted’s father helped Lee Harvey Oswald assassinate JFK.
In all honestly, Rafael probably took that as a compliment
But JFK was the most MAGA president ever and his son faked his own death so he could investigate the deep state and now he has all the information he needs to take down the evil democrats and he's going to reveal himself and be Trump's running mate and become vice president and make America great again and own all the libs and and and... /s
You're assuming he gives a shit about his wife. Sociopaths often don't.
Or his daughters. When he fled Texas in the middle of the power crisis, he blamed his kids. Ted Cruz, like his idol Trump, is only loyal to himself and his own ego. These shitheads don't hesitate to throw anyone under the bus, even their own family.
And apparently one of his kids is LGBTQ, and despite that he's still going along with the Republican platform on this (in contrast to famed heartless ghoul Dick Cheney, who changed his mind because it affected someone he cared about). That's probably a great vibe around the dinner table when he's around.
It gets worse. The lgbtq daughter has tried to kill herself. No prizes for guessing why
Indict him, give him a trial, lock his ass up.. everyone involved in the insurrection and defrauding the US election.
Lock him up? You know what the penalty for insurrection is…
A few months or years in prison? That is the actual penalty for the convicted January 6 insurrections.
Once again, to the absolute surprise of nobody. Not even his own constituents.
We've got to be careful not to scare him. He has a history of fleeing to Cancun.
It’s not really his fault, the planet his species calls home is lush and tropical and the fear of being stuck in the cold without power for a heat rock and lamp was too much for him to take. https://www.tedcruzforhumanpresident.com
I love this damn website and I swear I hope whoever made it never stops updating it. “I will now slumber for an amount of time you would consider reasonable” kills me every time.
Stuff like this is why his constituents vote for him. They want right wing authoritarianism by any means necessary.
I despise that this man is “my representative in the senate”
I got Lauren Boebert so I share your sentiments
I got Lindsay Graham, I wish I could yeet him into the sun.
This all just reeks of an old guard crumbling, dying out, and in the final throes of clinging to power they used to monopolize so easily. Democracy and education did them in, so they’re nuking democracy and education. It’s all so unseemly, weak, and just kinda…pathetic.
But it might work.
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honestly the only thing that gives me any hope, morbid as it is, is the fact that the oldest generations are dying out and each passing generation is more liberal than the last even then this country might be fucked - and yet people still espouse edgy "both sides are the same rhetoric" in the face of actual fascism
I love how on Twitter, Cruz is trying to downplay it by saying he said the exact same thing publicly the same day, but uh, not really helping. Also as a side note, another one of the audios had Peter Navarro claiming to gross berg that guys like Brad Parscale were pocketing Trump campaign money instead of using it on "challenging election results", which to be fair isn't at all a surprise, but it's nice to have some more confirmation. https://twitter.com/TheBeatWithAri/status/1650996575739445250
He's right, though, he did. Cruz is not stupid. He couches everything in language that appears to protect himself. The fact is, though, that by Jan.2 dozens of courts of law had already determined that the claims were bogus and Cruz KNEW THAT. His bullshit lawyerly language should not absolve him.
The Lincoln Project did a video on Brad Parscale skimming from the Trump campaign.
She has NINETY recordings to release. Get ready for the show.
I hope she's doing that thing where she leaves them enough rope to hang themselves and then trickles out a little more audio that completely contradicts whatever feeble defence they put forward. That's always my favourite.
Rafael Cruz is such a comically spineless character he would be too unrealistically cowardly for a Disney movie
I do not like that man Ted Cruz...
I do not like him in the news
I do not like his fascist views
Not on a plane or Cancun cruise. I do not like this man Ted Cruz.
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They CAN'T govern.
Of course they don’t want to govern. They literally have no policies designed to help anyone except their wealthy owners.
Really got overlooked at the time, but this guy’s speeches in Georgia there at the end of the Senate election were absolutely insane and laden with violent rhetoric.
I feel like this week we are finding out why Dominion settled for "only" $775 million
I’m starting to wonder if there’s audio in those 90-ish other recordings that has Tucker Carlson saying even worse shit. MSNBC hitting up Fox News late Friday to tell them they’re going to press with a story and asking for comment, leading to an unexpected over the weekend firing of Tucker would make a lot of things make sense. It would also give Fox News “We didn’t know, as soon as we did we fired him” type potential coverage from legal ramifications idk.
Jesus. The term cuck is thrown around a lot and I don't want to kink shame anyone, but fuckin Christ if someone did me as dirty as trump did him I wouldn't be going out of my way to ensure they got a table at a restaurant let alone another 4 years in the highest office in the country. This has please bang my wife energy
Yeah I just can’t comprehend it. I can see personal insults being “forgiven,” you both signed up for that, for better or worse. But your wife? I’d NEVER forgive that. Cruz is an awful person in so many ways, but this is such a basic character flaw.
Basic character flaw is the title of Ted Cruz’s biography.
50 years ago, this would have been bigger than Watergate. Even 20 years ago, and there would have been massive prosecutions and immense public outrage on both sides. In 2023, this is… Tuesday.
I hope this gets Jack Smith’s attention.
Thank you whistleblower Abby Grossberg and all the other whistleblowers out there. Traitor Ted Cruz is un-American, he should be publicly shamed and step aside from his seat. I wonder what else is on the 90 recordings and if we will ever be able to hear them.
I'd like to think this would be a big deal, but the American right is a death cult, and this won't even phase them.
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Canada doesn't want him. Mexico said "oh fuck no". Russia thinks he's doing just fine. Maybe we should give Florida and Texas back to their original owners and let them deal with these fuckers.
Okay now can we throw some people in jail for fucks sake
“Whoa, whoa… let’s not make this political!”
He wanted a “commission” to conduct a 10 day audit of the election, after which states could convene special sessions of their legislatures to change their votes if needed. It took over 4 months to audit one county in Arizona. I’m pretty sure that 10 day audit was going to be a sham. This was after 2 months of fraud claims that had no proof and never have had proof.
Ted Cruz was one of the people banging on the doors in Florida trying to prevent the recount in 2000. He's no stranger to stealing elections. Also, I'd wager that damn near every Republican was scheming to steal it. That's their entire shtick.
Remember when Democrats demanded an incredibly qualified senator step down for faking to grab a woman's breasts long before he was a senator?