February 8, 2021: Trump Allies Getting Sued in Bunches

 

2/8/21: Has President Biden insulted any opponent, reporter, random citizen or entire racial or religious group this week? 

Nope. 

It’s a refreshing change.

Seth Rich.

 

Meanwhile, the stock market is going up, which Rejected-President Trump warned would not, could not, happen. If Biden were elected, Donald boldly predicted, “the stock market will crash.” 

The Dow-Jones stood at 28,323 on Friday, November 6, 2020. The next day, the election was called by almost every news outlet and normal human being, in favor of Joseph R. Biden Jr. 

When the markets opened again on Monday, November 9, investors panicked. The socialists were coming for their bank accounts. The Dow rose 835 points on the day. 

At the close this afternoon, the Dow finished at 31,148. So, using the Trump Rule,ˆˆ where you claim any stock market gains even while your predecessor is still in office, as he did in 2016, the Dow is up a shade under 10% thanks to Uncle Joe. 

Call it the Biden Bump!

 

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ON A GRIMMER note,  Americans keep dying from COVID-19, which Rejected-President Trump also said would never happen. 

Fortunately, new cases of the coronavirus are finally falling. According to CDC, we had only 86,706 new cases today. It’s still a fearsome number, but down by two-thirds in recent weeks. 

The death toll is still steep, and has been for months. Deaths recorded in the U.S. so far this month: 

2/1:  1,876

2/2:  3,433

2/3:  3,756

2/4:  5,189

2/5:  3,553

2/6:  2,820

2/7:  1,455

2/8:  1,622

 

Remember when Rush Limbaugh said, don’t worry, this virus is the same as a “common cold?”

 

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NOW-OUSTED White House resident, Donald J. Trump, has helped manage to get a bunch of right-wing idiots sued. 

Day in, day out, since the election, Trump has claimed that a second term was stolen just millimeters from his reach. By rigged voting machines. And, lo, his sycophants did agree. Rudy Giuliani agreed. Rudy was sued. Lou Dobbs agreed. Lou got sued; plus, the Fox Business Network kicked him off the air. The MyPillow guy said the machines were rigged. When he tried to say it again, on Newsmax, the host for the right-wing station walked off the set mid-show. He didn’t want to get sued, too. Sidney Powell, and Maria Bartiromo and Judge Jeanine Pirro all talked up the “rigged machines” fairy tale. Sidney got sued. Maria got sued. Judge Jeanine got sued too. 

Fox News got sued along with them, for $2.7 billion.

 

Who was doing all this suing? Two plaintiffs. Smartmatic, a voter technology company, was one. Dominion Voting Systems was the other. 

More lawsuits, they claim, are “imminent.” The MyPillow fool, Mike Lindell, is definitely going to get hit in a legal pillow fight soon. 

Fox News and other purveyors of the “rigged machines” myth are clearly worried; and if anyone knows “getting sued,” it’s Fox News. Think: Bill O’Reilly and sexual harassment; and Roger Ailes, and more sexual harassment. And Lou Dobbs (again) and Sean Hannity, too.

 

The last two helped peddle the conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton had a young staffer named Seth Rich bumped off after he – not the Russians – leaked her emails during the summer of 2016. Hannity had so much fun pushing the theory that he and his guests pushed it, on TV and radio, several days in a row. The story they were selling, however, quickly fell apart. Police in Washington D.C., where the young staffer was murdered, announced there is “nothing that we can find that any of this is accurate.” A source Fox News relied on said he had seen an F.B.I report about Rich and his dealings with Wikileaks, the outlet that broke the email story. The F.B.I. blew up that tall tale, after searching its investigative reports, and finding nothing of import. 

So Joel and Mary Rich, the murder victim’s parents decided to sue. According to The New York Times, Fox News agreed to pay “millions of dollars” to put the case to bed. For some odd reason, the case was settled in October 2020; but one provision of the settlement was that the agreement could not be announced until after the November 3 election. Because. You know. 

Fox News.

 

BONUS NUTS: You don’t have to be a liberal blogger to think Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is bonkers. Sen. Todd C. Young (R-Ind.) went on the record today, calling her “nutty,” and “an embarrassment to our party.” 

Sen. John Thune, speaking in more general terms, warned that House Republicans faced a simple choice: “Do they want to be the party of limited government…or do they want to be the party of conspiracy theories and QAnon?” 

Rep. Matt Gaetz came to Rep. Greene’s defense, which is kind of like Clyde backing up Bonnie.

 

ˆˆThe Trump Rule was always pretty much BS; and the market often goes up or down for reasons having little to do with presidents. 

It’s fun to mock Reject Don, though.