There Is Bad News And Good News
I started SnarkLord Of The Week on the assumption that thousands of talented Subtstackeans would surely yield a few hundred snarky posts each week. That, I thought, would give me something to write about every week while I worked on something requiring more research and thoughtful development. I was mostly wrong.
The bad news is: I can’t read thousands of posts each week. The good news is: I can, just about, read my 60 subscriptions each week, except when some of the rotters post multiple times per week. Don’t they sleep ffs?
The bad news is: I can’t read 60+ posts each week and do justice to their content. The good news is: many of them are reliably satirical so there’s that.
The bad news is: due to my limitations and biases, the snarknet is not being cast widely enough. The good news (I hope) is: there are options.
Options
Therefore, the news (good or bad - you decide) is that this post will feature the last ever unilaterally nominated, solo adjudicated, SnarkLord Award. The better news (I hope) is:
Unless you vote that SnarkLord of The Week becomes SnarkLord of the Month, to allow more time to scout for and carefully read nominees. I hope readers will also help to cast the net wider by nominating worthy contestants.
Suggestions, critique and contumely in comments please.
On To The Last Ever SnarkLord Of The Week
Better late than never.
wonders Did Democrats Just Blow the 2024 Election? by “Shining light where they don't want it shone.” He sets the scene with a video that you don’t have to watch because it’s from:
2017 (January 6th, as fate would have it!) when democrats repeatedly objected to the certification of electors from states that Trump won:
the video plays; then:
Here we have an entire cast of elected officials objecting to the certification of electors slated to vote for Donald Trump. How many years do you think these guys collectively got behind bars for this insurrection that’s dangerous to democracy?
Right, zero.
How many charges were filed against them? How many censures or fines or any official reprimands at all?
Right, zero.
Keep that in mind going forward.
You may want to watch the rest if you have the time and need to be reminded of all the skullduggery that went on in the vote counting back then but the key bits are from two videos near the end, one with Tucker Carlson that you don’t need to watch because:
Did you catch who was on the ballot at 2:35, getting a dot put into her bubble even though the voter wrote “Republican” as a write-in? (Making the ballot perfect for manual adjudication!) None other than Fani Willis — the DA who brought the indictment against Trump in the first place.
I see why she might not want anybody looking too closely at those ballots.
and the second with independent reporter Heather Mullins that you also don’t need to watch because:
All of these videos and suspicious election-night circumstances demand answers (especially in the light of recent revelations out of Michigan), but that door was firmly slammed shut on all of us.
Shut, that is, until DA Willis flew too close to the sun and cracked it open to charge Trump with conspiracy. Now Trump and his team of high-powered lawyers get to call and cross-examine witnesses, introduce evidence, and demand answers from a system that has refused to give them up since election night — and he can broadcast that information directly onto the televisions of millions of Americans who had no idea it even existed. (Now’s a good time for another reminder that 1/6 was to be the day that evidence of election fuckery was presented to the public — a lucky break for a few specific people!)
Trump has been waiting for this chance since election night.
Oh, Br’er Fox, I don’t care what you do with me, so long as you just don’t throw me in that briar patch over there!!!!
and
In a trial between Trump’s team that’s had three years to strengthen their election fraud case and a system that can’t even manage to upload a file correctly, I know where my money is.
If only I could believe that:
Trump’s Lawyers are that smart and
Trump will not fire them and any successors before the case can be made
Moving Off Substack For A Quick Asnide
Jo Nova has a piece on her blog that is worth quoting for just this bit:
The plan: The hapless homeowners will buy the back up battery for the grid and install it in their garage. Sometimes they might drive it too.
It’s about the insane idea to use electric vehicles as backup for when the grid is, sorry, will surely be overloaded because of stupid everything electrical ideas.
is reliably snide with Covering My Ears So Your Argument Turns Bad in which he starts by referring to:
The Democratic Party’s go-to election lawyer, Marc Elias, [who] is disturbed by the decline of Twitter:
Chris clarifies Marc’s complaint with:
Twitter used to work well, but now he [Marc] receives negative comments, which means that it has stopped working. People can criticize him and express disagreement, so the platform is broken. If it worked, he would only be praised.
Poor darling can’t cope - his mommy never told him No.
publishes the first long form snark I have ever encountered. I cannot do better than urge you to read the whole thing at People Of No Color Compel The Very Heavens To Obey!
And in case you are too lazy, here’s a taste of what you will miss if you don’t:
Racist, incidentally, means noticing something of or at which of-no-colors are superior.
Go discover how to recognize People of No Color.