Showing posts with label Presidential election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Presidential election. Show all posts
Saturday, May 15, 2021
Republicans, Our Votes and Our Democracy
Where we stand, Mr. and Mrs. America. They and their csandidates and office holders and platforms and political party are so very unpopular with most of Americans, all they have is still more, heightened vote suppression.
And so, our nation, that Democracy I was talking about?
Vote suppression.Of fellow, tax paying American citizens. It's all they've got. #VoteThemAllOut
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Quote of the Day -- On Insurrection and January 6
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Quote of the Day -- Insane Republican Party Edition
Monday, March 1, 2021
Message to All Republicans
Yes, a message to all Republicans and to anyone who thinks or says Joe Biden didn't win this last election.
Monday, February 22, 2021
Good News, Bad News Breaking Today
Oh, happy day. At last. Pass the popcorn. This should be good. Not done there on his taxes, this just broke in the last hour, too.
The point being, the Supreme Court already responded to Trump's request for a delay this morning. Fantastic. Onward, Yahoo.
Yet more goodness andyes, it's on the Trumpster, too.
Ex-Gotti Jr. prosecutor hired to help Manhattan DA probe Trump
It seems New York City isn't messing around at all. They hired a tough attorney who has, in the past, gone after the mob and people in it. Huzzah. You go, NYC.
Next up is this.
Hey, actions--and words--have consequences, Mr. Lindell. Buck up.
And now for the bad news.
It seems Republican Representative Steve Scalise was on ABC's "This Week" news program yesterday and just would not admit to George Stephanopolous on air that Joe Biden won our Presidential election and that Trump lost.
Maddening. Dangerous, even.
At least it's more good news than bad. That and the temperatures are warming, as I said, as we all know all so well. Yeehaw. Yay, us.
Have a great week, y'all.
Additional links: Unfortunately, there is the Right Wing, Republican Party, Libertarian hellscape and nightmare that is the state of Texas presently.
Thursday, February 11, 2021
The Dangerous Place We Stand Now
Senate Republicans are working hard on excuses to acquit Trump despite the powerful case against him
This one scares me most, frankly.
Republican state parties stand ready to rip any GOP senator who betrays Trump
“Trump left everyone in the Capitol for dead” as mob hunted for victims like VP Pence
Once more, God help us.
It would be so, so nice if all the Senators would put our nation and people and Democracy first on this vote this week and not their own political party. Meanwhile, a last glimmer of hope today.
Republicans will to have to work to blow off the impeachment case against Trump
A freight train is bearing down on the Republican Party ahead of impeachment vote
The case against Donald Trump is already rock-solid, and it isn't done yet
FBI Provides Proof of Incitement
Republican state parties stand ready to rip any GOP senator who betrays Trump
“Trump left everyone in the Capitol for dead” as mob hunted for victims like VP Pence
Once more, God help us.
It would be so, so nice if all the Senators would put our nation and people and Democracy first on this vote this week and not their own political party. Meanwhile, a last glimmer of hope today.
Republicans will to have to work to blow off the impeachment case against Trump
A freight train is bearing down on the Republican Party ahead of impeachment vote
The case against Donald Trump is already rock-solid, and it isn't done yet
FBI Provides Proof of Incitement
On Republicans and this Impeachment
"The punditry says that fewer than 10 Republican Senators are likely to vote for Trump’s conviction.
This will be an outrage, a sign that a once great party has surrendered to craven opportunism or, worse, brutal authoritarianism."
-- EJ Dionne, The Washington Post
From the article:
Sunday, February 7, 2021
It's a Great Time In America!
First, this. All this. Check out all that great news, ladies and gentlemen.
And then, GO CHIEFS!!!
It's a bee--YOO--tee--full day!!
Have a great, great day, everyone!
Sunday, January 17, 2021
Republican Party Inurrectioin
Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Republican Party treason, traitorous activities and insurrection. (If any are too small to read, simply click on them).
Our own, Missouri's own Senator Josh Hawley wraps up this next one fairly but unfortunately.
Finally, the silver lining to all this ugliness.
And we lose him this Wednesday.
Yeehaw!
Monday, January 4, 2021
Where We Are Now With This President Trump
16 days out. Only two more weeks and two days to inauguration. Yahoo.
This happened today, thankfully.
Judge Reject Last Ditch Effort to Overturn Election
This broke earlier today, about an hour ago.
A federal judge has rejected a legal effort from groups of Trump voters to block Congress from officially counting the Electoral College votes and suggested the attorneys involved may be subject to sanctions, suggesting they were using courts to "engage in such gamesmanship or symbolic political gestures."It was yet another defeat for the dubious last-ditch legal maneuvers aimed at overturning President-elect Joe Biden's victory.
Fortunately, also happening now, today, our Missouri Senator Josh Hawley is getting skewered, too, for supporting the overturning of our votes and election.
Former Senator John Danforth blasts Hawley
Ex-GOP senator blasts Hawley's challenge to electoral vote
The Washington Post puts Senator Hawley and his recent views in excellent, accurate perspective.
Fortunately, Senator Tom Cotton, of all people, of all Senators, from our neighbor to the South, Arkansas, at least did the right thing.
And Paul Ryan, of all people, also came out against Trump and his electoral gambit.
Amazingly, even Senator Lindsey "Lap Dog" Graham came to his senses.
Unfortunately, this became necessary. Fortunately, they all spoke up.
All 10 currently living ex-Defense Secretaries — two of whom served in the Trump administration — have banded together with a new op-ed in The Washington Post in which they insist upon the critical importance of an orderly transfer of power between presidential administrations without any military involvement in dealing with election-related challenges like those which outgoing President Donald Trump and his allies have raised.
Even Dick Cheney--freaking Dick "Right Wing" Cheney came out against Trump's power grab here.
And rightly so. Also fortunately, the business community is coming out with their opinion of Trump's trying to overthrow our election results.
Meanwhile, Trump's colossally misinformed, misguided, quite possibly illegal phone call he made over the weekend to Georgia, asking them to overturn the election and find him, very specifically, "11,780 more votes", is quite possibly, if not likely either getting or going to get him into yet further legal trouble.
There's talk he could be arrested in Georgia when he goes there tomorrow to help get out Republican votes for their two senate candidates.
What took place is incredible.
During the hour-long phone call, which was first obtained by The Washington Post, Trump insisted to Raffensperger that he, rather than Biden, was the winner of the state’s votes. “All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state,” Trump said on the call, where White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Georgia Secretary of State office’s general counsel Ryan Germany, and various lawyers were all present.
It was so incredible, in fact, he isn't even vague about it. He spells out specifically the number of votes he wants, needs them to find. Completely blatant and yet more unprecedented, outrageous Presidency.
Carl Bernstein, one of the two Watergate reporters who helped effectively bring down Richard Nixon, put Trump's phone call, at least, into perspective.
All other Presidents, when voted out of office, respected the votes, the election, the process, the people, Democracy and nation.
Until now.
He needs to concede.
In closing, this is a thing.
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Senator Josh Hawley is Attacking Your Vote, Our Votes, Our Election and Democracy Today, Missouri, America
Yes, Missouri's own Senator Josh Hawley is doing just that. He's attacking your vote, our votes, our election, right down to our Democracy today, Missouri and America.
GOP senator to delay affirming Biden victory by forcing votes on Electoral College results
Yes, grandstanding demagogue Senator Josh Hawley is putting up a fight to help and go with this Republican Party President Trump and his sycophant, uninformed, misdirected and misinformed supporters that we shouldn't accept and recognize President-elect Biden's win in last month's election.
Isn't that wonderful?
Forget that over 50 courts have thrown out all the cases on this because there was and is patently zero evidence of vote fraud. This was from November 23, mind you.
Trump's election fight includes over 50 lawsuits
Most of them have been shot down or withdrawn, and no court has found even a single instance of fraud. Of at least 57 cases to have been filed, including some not directly involving Trump but which could nonetheless affect his standing, at least 50 have been denied, dismissed, settled or withdrawn.
Trump has aggressively ramped up his allegations of election fraud in the weeks since his projected loss, tweeting dozens of debunked theories. Despite the Electoral College vote this week certifying Biden's victory, Trump has still not conceded.
Meanwhile, since the end of November, even more cases have been thrown out, dismissed by judges and courts. This one happened December 14.
Wisconsin Supreme Court tosses Trump election lawsuit
Even Republicans have come out and said Trump and this vote fraud nonsense should go away.
It's not just his call for our election to be overturned, either. This is how this group of Republicans feel about this President of theirs.
Additionally, this was from November 21.
More examples--and from, again, Republicans.
Georgia GOP lieutenant governor says 'no credible examples' of voter fraud
Republicans rebuke Trump over claims of voter fraud
And sure, I get it. Senator Hawley wants to keep in good to great graces with Trump and maybe even more, his supporters, sure, so he can maybe run for the presidency in 2024. I get that. But attacking, again, our votes? Our election? Our Democracy?
Oh, hell, no. This cannot stand. Senator Josh "Mr. Sedition" Hawley can't get away with this.
The Washington Post said it so true and right.
Josh Hawley reminds us that the GOP is the sedition party
I can't recommend enough and ask that anyone and everyone who sees and reads this please phone or email---or both--Senator Hawley and tell him we don't appreciate him subverting our Democracy.
Hawley's office. You may well have to leave a message: (202) 224-6154Thursday, December 17, 2020
Yet Another High Placed Defection From the Republican Party, Thanks to Mr. Trump
Yes, here's yet one more. One more Republican very publicly leaving that political party.
Former NH GOP chair announces she's leaving the GOP
A bit of her story and the article:
Horn said she "became a Republican" because she viewed the party's values as "a voice for equality, freedom and constitutional conservatism, with a rich history of fighting for what was right because it was right."
"For the past five years, however, I have found myself fighting for what I thought were the principles of my party in the face of the ever-deteriorating character and integrity of party representatives," Horn wrote in the op-ed published Thursday by USA Today. "They have revealed their impotence and decrepitude as they have fallen, one by one, at the feet of the most corrupt, destructive and unstable president in the history of our country."
"It seems there is no assault on human dignity too great, no attack on democracy too extreme, to inspire the Republican weaklings in Congress to speak up or stand up to President Donald Trump," she continued.
Meanwhile, this report came out this morning.
Sources say President Donald Trump has told advisers that he will refuse to leave the White House on Inauguration Day. According to a CNN report, several sources have confirmed that Trump will refuse to leave the White House on January 20.
Insane. Insanity.
Thanks, Republicans.
Ever so.
Quote of the Day -- Important Presidential Edition
Since the attack came from the outside, the human inclination was to rally within one's own community for safety. That community was riven with its own violent injustices of segregation and the ugliness manifested against its citizens of Japanese ancestry. But the threat from outside was so great and would be likely so unsparing that America hardened its resolve with nearly miraculous levels of selflessness and sacrifice to the cause of survival. The cost was great in blood, particularly of the young overseas, and in treasure.
It is likely that many of you have a sense of where this is going, the comparison I seek to make.
American democracy is once again under a dire threat. Once again there is death at a scale that is incomprehensible. But the threat is of such a different nature that it may be too convenient to deny the full level of danger. This threat comes from within, a civil cleaving that instead of uniting the nation is dividing it. Perilously so.
This is not a violent threat, at least not yet despite some low-level skirmishes. That could change, but there is nothing approaching the reckoning of Nazi forces sweeping into Paris or a Japanese strike on Pearl Harbor. Meanwhile, the mass death we face doesn't lend itself to the visceral images of war. Our killer doesn't have a face or a flag. It is invisible. Instead of sending our young off to battle overseas, we have medical professionals, grocery store clerks, farmhands, and many others commuting daily into danger. We are mostly aware of what takes place within our four walls of isolation and the looming specter of hunger and homelessness for many of our fellow citizens.
But there is of course another deep worry pervasive in this country. It is about America's heretofore unbroken peaceful transfer of power between presidents. It is the notion that all of us, regardless of party, play by and revere the same democratic ideal that we the people have the power to fire our leaders in free and fair elections. This election has revealed a president who doesn't believe any of that, and a party and base that is eager to go along with him. This is not fringe; it is a movement that encompassess tens of millions of Americans. And to defeat it and preserve American democracy will require resolve, patience, ingenuity, and grit.
I believe that the nature of this threat to American democracy is not being taken nearly seriously enough. And in an odd way I find some comfort in that. I still do not believe most Americans want our ideal of representative government by majority rule to end, not by a long shot. It is tempting to laugh off the outrageousness of the court challenges and see a pathetic man desperate to hold on to fleeting power. There is truth in all of this, and I suspect Donald Trump will struggle to own the national conversation as much as he hopes once he loses his perch behind the presidential podium.
Yet the fissures laid bare by this election, and its shameful aftermath, are not going away. And every Republican official who signed their name, or even spoke by their silence, bears responsibility for what has been the most serious attempt to wreck our union internally since the Civil War. I hope, and pray, we as a nation can walk back from the ledge, that the passions can cool, and a new administration can steer our American ship of state back into the safer harbors of our democratic traditions. The struggle will not be easy, but if victory for American democracy does emerge, and I believe it will, we can resolve to make it much more secure so that this doesn't happen again.
In the dark days of World War II, it was almost impossible to imagine a bright and happy future. But that did happen. Today, we have a vaccine coming and a new government. There is danger still ahead, but hope is possible. It is a hope that must be built on hard work and action. But I would go so far as to say a realization of hope is the likely outcome. I have seen America tested many times, and usually we end up in a better place than where we started.
Steady.
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Highly Placed Defections From the Republican Party
Yes sir and ma'am, there were two rather highly placed defections from the Republican Party in the last few days. First, a member of the House of Representatives.
Congressman Paul Mitchell Resigns from Republican Party
A bit of the story:
So yes, he was retiring but hey, we'll take it. He bailed on the party after being and working in it most if not all of his entire adult life, given its direction under this lunatic of a President.
Then, the second defection.
Steve Schmidt Officially Registers As A Democrat
And who is Steve Schmidt, you might ask? From Wikipedia:
Stephen Edward Schmidt[2] (born September 28, 1970)[3] is an American communications and public affairs strategist who has worked on Republican political campaigns, including those of President George W. Bush, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Arizona Senator John McCain.
Schmidt was the senior campaign strategist and advisor to the 2008 presidential campaign of Senator John McCain.[4] He pushed McCain to select Sarah Palin as his running mate, a choice which McCain came to regret.[5] He was a Vice Chair at the public relations firm Edelman[6] until he stepped down in July 2018.[7]
He's a long time, very entrenched Republican and member of that party. Or at least he was.
The smart people and the people of integrity and thought and backbone are getting out.
Sunday, December 13, 2020
This Republican Party President is Having Another Meltdown Today
Yes, here we go again. This Republican Party President Trump is, one more time, having a social media meltdown. This morning:
MOST CORRUPT ELECTION IN U.S. HISTORY!
Then went to this, minutes later.
THE BIGGEST WINNER OF OUR NEW DEFENSE BILL IS CHINA!. I WILL VETO!
It's getting, it's gotten old. It's tiresome. For and to his supporters, it's dangerous. He's still, still trying to overturn our vote, our votes, our election and to attack our Democracy. Sadly, unfortunately, it has lead to this.
It's reckless, it's dangerous, it's deeply irresponsible.
Added to this, the following shows where we are just now.
...the American coronavirus pandemic is entering its worst stage yet, with cases and deaths skyrocketing across the country. Last Thursday saw over 3,000 deaths — more than 9/11 or Pearl Harbor — and with ICU beds at or near capacity in most of the country, absent serious change it is possible there will be double or even triple that number per day in a matter of weeks. We may yet top the deadliest day in American history, the Galveston hurricane of 1900 that killed an estimated 8,000 people, very soon. President Trump is doing precisely nothing about this.As we know, the Supreme Court, at long last, shot down Trump's and the Republicans' attempt out of Texas to overturn our election and votes. Tomorrow, Monday, the Electoral College will release their offficial election results, confirming, again, that Joe Biden won and is President-Elect and that--wait for it--Donald Trump lost.
Sure, it's been a bad, 4 day weekend for the Donald but using his own words, "It is what it is." It's the reality. We voted him out. We desperately need to get fellow Republicans to talk this, their President down off his ledge and to, at long last, concede.
Link to above quoted article.
Saturday, December 12, 2020
Donald Trump and the Perfectly Bad, No Good, Rotten Weekend
You're Donald Trump---yeah, I know, sorry. It sucks to be you.
Anyway, yesterday, none other than our own US Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, of course, shot down your one more try to sue to have our presidential election and all our votes ignored, denied and overturned.
In two days, Monday, the Electoral College is going to release its formal results to that same election and declare, again, one more time, that you lost.
Way to sandwich a weekend, huh?
And then let's get back to that pesky little issue of the pandemic.
Very Fitting Song of the Day
Dedicated to--who else? One Donald J "Jenius" Trump.
So fitting. So true. So spot on.
Good on you, America!
Onward!
It's a BEE--YOO--TEE-FULL DAY!!
Great news!! Fantastic news Friday!! Say it loud!!
Supreme Court rules against Trump and the FDA authorizes the first coronavirus vaccine in America, both on the same day.
It's like conservative columnist and writer Bill Kristol wrote on Twitter yesterday:
"December 11,2020--a date which will live in Democracy."
Good on you, America. Let's do this.
Friday, December 11, 2020
The Damage Donald Is Now Doing to Our Democracy--and the Very Needed Backlash
I keep saying this and it's so true. I just can't believe where we are. I can hardly believe how low, how badly this Republican Party President Trump is dragging our nation.
“In elections going forward, not trying to steal the election will be seen as RINO behavior.”
The Republican Party Is Now a Seditious Organization
These authoritarian yahoos believe that the Supreme Court will ride to their rescue and disenfranchise millions of people whom they don't believe should be allowed to vote anyway
These next two are out of Chicago. The first, the Sun-Times, the second, the Tribune, with thanks to both of them, for sure.
A critical mass of the party has adopted Trump’s disordered personality for its own.
The attorneys general of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia asked the Supreme Court to reject a lawsuit from Texas seeking to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victories.
Everyone needs to understand this next point.
I think the St. Louis Post-Dispatch got this right, no overstatement.
There are two sane, responsible Republicans, anyway, speaking up and out on the subject of this President trying to overturn our election. Here's the first.
Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah said it would be "madness" for Republicans to protest the Electoral College vote set to certify President-elect Joe Biden's win.
Here's the second.
Other states are thankfully fighting the 17 states' attempt to overturn our election.
I could hardly believe this.
Sure, it's Donald Trump but THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES? Thought to be going to Russia?? To avoid prosecution?? Yet this is where we are. Insane.
Then there is the effect this is all having on Der Fuhrer.
Fortunately, with all the Republican Party insanity, there is this, reality.
So now, Republicans, we ask you, would you get your little temper tantrum over with and join back with the rest of hard-working, sensible, grounded in reality America, stop this nonsense and recognize, respect our vote, our votes, our election and Democracy? Please? We have work to do.
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