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Category Archives: Grifters

A tale of bumbling fraudsters

Monday, September 27, 2021

Well, honestly, this is something I did not see coming. It seems the “auditors” in Arizona have determined that Joe Biden did in fact win the electoral votes of that state, and that, in fact, he got 360 more votes than the official tally gave him. I should add that while I used the term […]

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Grifters gotta grift

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

I spent a bit of time yesterday reading the complaint in the case of U.S. Dominion, Inc. et. al. v. My Pillow, Inc., et. al over the last couple of days. You can read and/or download it here. Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, is one of the et. als. among the defendants. It’s a […]

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Grifters gotta grift

Saturday, December 5, 2020

When you think about it, the Republican Party is one massive grifting operation, inasmuch as even before Trump came along, in fact long before Trump came along, it relied on conning its “base” into not just voting against their own interests, but in ponying up money to aid in their own destruction. It’s worked really […]

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One born every second

Friday, December 4, 2020

There’s been a lot of speculation about the nature of the grift that Trump will embark on when he’s escorted out of the White House. It will likely be multi-faceted, the up-side being that if he runs true to form, part of the grift will be an assault on the people who he claims let […]

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Thanks for the memories, internet

Thursday, August 20, 2020

One of the things about the Trump regime is that there are so many atrocities that any particular atrocity is down the memory hole in no time. I may have mentioned that I try to document those atrocities day by day in a journal I keep, but it only skims the surface. By the way, […]

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No one could have predicted this!

Monday, May 13, 2019

Boy, this is a shocker. No one could have predicted it: A source close to the Florida man who raised over $22 million on GoFundMe in the “We The People Will Build the Wall” campaign just revealed today that the money has been diverted to pay for a ‘million dollar’ yacht and high-flying lifestyle. Well, maybe […]

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We’re all fraudsters on this bus

Saturday, March 9, 2019

This isn’t a political post, per se, but it raises a question that has some bearing on our present plight, considering that the person occupying the White House built a career based on fraud, much of which involved misrepresenting his own abilities. I ran across this articleon ProPublica. It’s titled I’m a Journalist. Apparently I’m also one […]

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Hypocrisy ahead?

Thursday, November 15, 2018

I’ve mentioned the Palmer Reporta few times in this blog, and I confess I still take a sort of guilty pleasure in checking it out on a regular basis. My overall impression is that the facts are usually accurate, though the conclusions drawn therefrom are often a little out there, although usually entertaining. Anyway, today the […]

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An anomaly

Friday, September 21, 2018

Sometimes it’s tough being an ultra right wing organization. The problem is, you’re best strategy for success as an organization is failure. Just ask the NRA and the arms manufacturers that back it (we’ll put Russia aside for the moment). Turns out that times are toughwhen you’re on top: The NRA is losing membership fees, and […]

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Fake Everything

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

As the world becomes metaphorically smaller, more and more opportunities open up for grifters of all sorts. And I’m not, at least directly, talking about a certain stable genius. It turns out that many academics are publishing allegedly “peer reviewed” articles in fake academic journals: The story begins with Chris Sumner, a co-founder of the nonprofit […]

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