Thanks, Republicans.
Now, let's #throwthebumout
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Sunday, November 22, 2020
Saturday, November 21, 2020
This Republican Party President--and What He's Not Doing
So thi is where we stand now with this Republican Party President. He's fighting, still fighting to ignore our vote, our votes, our election and to deny our Democracy. But he's also doing this now, today.
Trump skipped a coronavirus meeting with G20 leaders to play golf
It's unreal. I mean it is literally unreal. This guy keeps getting away with so much.
This, then, is what it boils down to now. This is what needs to happen.
Republican leaders swore an oath to defend the Constitution. That means telling Trump it’s over.
So how about it, Republicans? We're in the worst, most killing, deadly international pandemic in the last more than 100 years and this man, this president Trump of yours is clearly not doing his job. Worse, far worse, he's trying to ignore or deny our election.
We've had enough. Go. Talk to him. Tell him. It's over. We're done. We have to move on. For the nation's security, for our national security, we have to get this done. He's got to go. For once in his life, he has to be a mature, responsible adult and face the music, face this responsibility and reality.
Quote of the Day -- Historic, Depressing Edition
"Surely something can be done to check corruption.
Are we forever to be at the mercy of thieves and ruffians?
Is a respectable government impossible in a democracy?"
--Henry Adams, "Democracy: An American Novel", 1880
The Trump Legacy
The Trump legacy and for that matter, his Republican Party Legacy.
Thanks, Mr. President.
Thanks, Republicans.
Now, if need be, #throwthebumout
Friday, November 20, 2020
Entertainment Overnight -- Bohemian Gravity
In case anyone hasn't seen this before.
Incredible.
Incredibly fun.
Sleep well, campers.
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Look What Uber Right Wing Republican Said Trump Should Concede!
Peggy Noonan, folks! Check that out!
A Bogus Dispute Is Doing Real Damage – Peggy Noonan
Conspiracy theories are damaging the country today and will hurt Republicans tomorrow.
More than two weeks after the election, it’s clear where this is going. The winner will be certified and acknowledged; Joe Biden will be inaugurated. But it’s right to worry about the damage being done on the journey.
Even very Right Wing, very, very, uber conservative PEGGY NOONAN calls Trump's attempts at voter fraud a "bogus dispute" and that i's doing "real damage" to the nation! Even Peggy Noonan gets it!
Yes!
For once, I agree with her!
Concede, Mr. Trump or #Throwthebumout
Yes!
For once, I agree with her!
Concede, Mr. Trump or #Throwthebumout
This Maddening, Possibly Frightening President Now
This so sorry excuse for a President and "leader" is still, still, to this day, pushing to ignore our election, deny that election, ignore our vote and votes and subvert our Democracy.
Even Fox's own deeply Right Wing loony Tucker Carlson says Trump and his legal team have no evidence of election fraud.
Worse, once again it looks as though people in this administration are actually harming or trying to harm the nation, too, one way or another, no exaggeration.
Check that out. Rebuked by someone, another department, in their own same administration. It's insane. We've never experienced anything like this in our nation I don't believe.
Here's another example of what leadership looks like to this man, this President, this Donald J Trump.
President Trump golfs at Trump National Golf Club on Sunday in Sterling, Va. (Al Drago for The Washington Post)
Trump could be a no-show at virtual G-20 as coronavirus ravages the globe
The White House won’t say whether the president will participate in this year’s summit of world leaders
We know why Trump wants to hold onto his position what with tax and criminal investigations pending on, of and for him.
NY probes Trump consulting payments that reduced his taxes
Apparently Ivanka won't be unscathed by the examination, either.
Is it any wonder Trump expressed dislike for New York in the last month or two? They're examining his taxes--for fraud--on at least two different levels. I believe this is the third.
Fortunately, at least a few Republicans are speaking up about this President and his tactics.
Retiring GOP Sen. Alexander said Trump should provide the Biden team with all resources necessary for a smooth transition.
This next one is a very pleasant surprise.
I frankly thought Senator Ernst would lay low and keep quiet on this. I'm pleased to see she's doing the right thing here on this.
This naturally pleased me, too, of course, logical as it is.
Former AG Eric Holder weighed in, thank goodness.
And this is the status just now, fortunately. Not that reality means anything to this Orange Man or his supporters, sadly, tragically.
Unfortunately, this is where far too many people in this Republican Party stand.
This is where this President and his political party have brought us.
“To succeed, Biden will have to do more than secure Americans’ right to vote, ensure that workers’ wages rise, and return life to some semblance of pre-pandemic normality, although those are all necessary,” Adam Serwer writes. “He must show Americans that the government can serve the people, and not just the ambitions, avarice, and ego of its leader.”
National security is one of the major reasons smooth transitions are so crucial, says Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. Perry notes that the 9/11 Commission pointed to the shortened transition period between Bill Clinton's administration and the Bush administration after the disputed 2000 results in Florida as playing a role in al-Qaida's attack in 2001.
Besides not leading the nation during this killing pandemic, this just took place, too. This is from Axios.
The largest free trade area in the world came into existence over the weekend — and the U.S. was not even invited.
Why it matters: For the first time in living memory, the hegemon at the center of a major global free trade agreement is not the U.S.
China has stepped into Uncle Sam's shoes, and now anchors the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, an area covering 2.2 billion people and 1/3 of all the economic activity on the planet.
Why it matters: For the first time in living memory, the hegemon at the center of a major global free trade agreement is not the U.S.
China has stepped into Uncle Sam's shoes, and now anchors the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, an area covering 2.2 billion people and 1/3 of all the economic activity on the planet.
So here's the question. The New York Times poses it this week.
To which I answer, no, no we can't restore the rule of law without prosecuting Trump. Further, and just as importantly, at least, we need to make certain no one and nothing like Donald Trump happens again here, too. Donald Trump's crimes have been too numerous and they have been too grievous, too, both.
And again I say, because it's deserved, too, still, still we are leaderless in this the most killing, deadly international pandemic in the last more than 100 years.
Still, still no leadership from this man Trump, our supposed leader, our President on this pandemic, in any way.
The time has more than come, America.
We are, frankly, America, in one helluva mess, medically as well as politically and this President and his political party are standing squarely in they way of any solutions.
#Throwthebumout
We Can't Have Universal Health Care
No, universal health care will never work here. Not in the United States. It's just not workable.
(Click on picture for easier reading).
God help and forgive us.
Forgive our stupidity. Our inhumanity. Their greed.
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Entertainment Overnight -- Presidential Election Edition
If only this President and his Presidency were somehow entertaining.
This President and his Political Party are More and Yet More Reckless and Dangerous
Now he's up to this today. Still pushing this.
Trump, attorneys step up efforts to reverse election's outcome
Not done there, he's also doing this.
And then check this out. Rudy Giuliani did this. And this is actually what he looked like while he was.
In another bizarre press conference, the president's personal lawyer lobbed unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in a desperate-sounding bid to overturn election results.
It's not bad enough the President is crazy but his attorney and supporters are, too. Look at that photo of Rudy Giuliani. His eyes, his hair color running down his face, his cheek.
This is how desperate he and they all are.
Fighting and denying our vote, our election is Trump's and his administration's top priority so all else goes to heck.
Congress, White House have until Dec. 11 to reach spending deal in middle of coronavirus pandemic
Then this President did this.
Hey, if it's good enough for Senator Lindsey Graham to do, it should be okay for the President. Right?
Trump and his people no way lack for chutzpah.
Meanwhile... Remember that pandemic?
This happened today. Finally.
Only World War II and the 1918 flu pandemic have cost more American lives. And it's not over yet, obviously. Heavens help us.Thanks, Mr. President.
Thanks, Republicans.
And help? Maybe? From Congress?
Fuggedaboudit.
Insane. Insanity.
But that's this President and that's his Republican political party.
Again. God help us. God help us all.
#Throwthebumout
Link:
President is wild card as shutdown fears grow
Atlanta mayor: Trump would 'eat his own children' if it helped him
Judge dismisses Arizona GOP lawsuit seeking audit of county's ballots
Wisconsin election official: We shouldn't water Trump's 'plant of baloney'
Trump's election lawsuits plagued by elementary errors
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Republican Party
Yes, Mr. and Mrs. America, here is your Republican Party and Right Wingers and conservatives, down through American history.
So proud, no doubt.
And now they have Donald J Trump.
God help us all.
On This Day, 1863
On this day, November 19, 1863, then-President Abraham Lincoln gave his very brief and now very famous Gettysburg Address.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Would that we had such an intelligent, capable, thoughtful President now.
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Quote of the Day -- Timely Presidential Edition
Do you know what they call someone who lost but stubbornly refuses to acknowledge that fact?
A loser.
#Throwthebumout
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
The Devolving Insanity of This Excuse for a President
It's difficult to even keep up with both how little and how much this sorry excuse for a leader or President is doing since he got his election defeat. I'll try here, now. Here's the first.
Officials aim to sell drilling rights to the pristine wilderness’s coastal plain before the president-elect takes office
Forget that there is a huge glut of oil on the markets, the international markets and there has been ever before the international pandemic struck but now, with this COVID, there's even MORE oil on the markets because we all are driving so far less. The world doesn't need more oil and likely won't for at least some time, if ever, given the push, however slow, to go electric and sustainable.
Ultimately, it seems this is all he's doing, however, these last few weeks, at least.
Here's the truth of the matter.
But though Trump will be remembered for all these things, he will be judged for one thing above all: When the pandemic came and hundreds of thousands of Americans died, he didn’t give a damn.
Where we stand now with the Orange Man. This, basically, is what he IS doing.
And this.
Trump’s stonewalling of the incoming administration is leaving even some in his own party concerned
President Donald Trump hasn’t called President-elect Joe Biden. The Trump campaign hasn’t reached out to the Biden campaign. The White House and federal agencies haven't briefed the Biden transition team...
There are no briefings being given about coronavirus, troop drawdowns in Afghanistan and Iraq, or aggression by China and Iran. No background checks being done for job applicants. No security clearances being conducted for potential Biden staffers.
The silence could continue into December, when states must certify their results to Congress, according to several Republicans familiar with the expected plans. Until then, they said, Trump and his team will continue to assert the election was fraudulently stolen from them, using unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud to file lawsuits and recounts challenging the results.
It’s a situation without parallel since at least 1963, when a federal law implemented modern presidential transition procedures, mandating the sharing of office space and the spending of money for the process.
The posture threatens to leave Biden’s team unprepared in January when it takes over a millions-strong federal workforce, according to officials who worked for Republican and Democratic presidents and lawmakers of both parties. And, they added, it sends a message to the world that the United States, generally a model across the globe, is vulnerable and unable to administer a seamless transition of power.
Here's the irony, too, added to this insanity.
I mean, really, what the heck? He's trying, fighting to deny he lost the election, seemingly fighting to stay President but HE'S NOT DOING THE JOB. For another example of proof of this, check this out.
He always touted and flouted he was "tough on China" but he doesn't attend this Southeast Asian conference? Not only that but this is far from the first time, too, that he skipped it.
This, however, is the absolutely most frightening thing that did at least occur to him.
But hey, last Sunday? He got in his golf, let there be no doubt.
Mr. "You Won't See Me Out There Playing Golf" did, in fact, do just that.
One more thing he's doing, to the nation, to us, to the people and to Democracy, our Democracy.
It has been nearly two weeks since the election. President-elect Joe Biden won the electoral college by 306-to-232. His lead in the popular vote is 5.6 million and growing. Republican efforts to get courts to shut down counting and invalidate huge numbers of votes are being laughed out of court. This is over.
And what is the president doing? Complaining on Twitter.
He will not prevail, and everyone knows it. The White House staffers desperately spinning on his behalf know it. The Fox News hosts propagating conspiracy theories about stolen votes know it. Every elected Republican knows it. The only ones who don’t know it are the millions of Trump voters who are the targets of this noxious propaganda campaign, the ones being told that American democracy is worthy of nothing but contempt.
This was this morning.
Pool report: "The president has nothing on his public schedule today. He also has not posted any falsehoods on Twitter about winning the election or fraud or anything else, for that matter, in more than 11 hours. The day, however, is young."
His political party is no help, either, far from it.
Not done there, his political party members in Congress are trying to do their own partisan damage, too.
The Senate is expected to vote as soon as this week on Trump’s nomination of Judy Shelton to the Fed. Simply put, Shelton is a demonstrably unqualified partisan quack who has no business working at the world’s most powerful central bank. Her nomination has been condemned by hundreds of economists and Fed alumni, including prominent Republicans and at least seven Nobel laureates. The senators poised to confirm her appear to know she is unfit; ahead of February hearings, a former Republican Senate Banking Committee aide said that “the idea of even calling her as a witness for something was beyond the pale” not long ago.
It's not bad enough we have a non-functioning, non-leading President that's sulking, doing nearly nothing but thrashing about, the people in his political party set up, first, another extreme Right Winger on our Supreme Court and now want to do the same on the Federal Reserve.
But help Americans? During the worst, most killing, deadly international pandemic in the last more than 100 years?
One of the most important things you'd think this Congress could and should do is pass COVID relief aid just now. People's livelihoods and work and homes all depend on it, given our current national situation. The pandemic is spreading and wildly across the nation. It's exploding in cases and deaths, both, and Congress is doing seemingly nothing to help us. It seems it should be issue one for them just now.
So what can we say now except "Thanks, Mr. President! Thanks, Republicans!" You're doing so much for us.
Not.
The other thing we can say?
Bring on inauguration day.
#Throwthebumout
God help us all.
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Monday, November 16, 2020
Entertainment Overnight -- Presidential Edition
These people do great work. You might want to check them out or follow them on YouTube.
USA: It Sucks to be You?
I saw this article today.
Check that out.
Canada was recently ranked the second most beautiful country in the world, and now it is being hailed for its quality of life.
In fact, Canada took the top spot for the category in the latest 2019 Best Countries Rankings by U.S. News and World Report. What's more, this is the country's fourth year in a row in the ranking's top spot.
America? Shall we compare?
- Guess what neighbor to the North has universal health care?
- Guess what neighbor to the North didn't tie health care to profit?
- And who's people don't go bankrupt from health care costs?
- And who's number 1 cause of bankruptcy for citizens isn't health care costs?
- And also has far less guns and weapons?
- And far less shootings and killings?
- And doesn't pay out an obscene amount every year for "defense"?
- And doesn't have an idiotic, self-serving, greedy, uninformed leader of their nation?
So... Ladies and gentlemen?
Can we learn anything?
Maybe?
Could we?
Please?
Presidential Advice--From Richard Nixon?
Yes, presidential advice from, yes, really, Richard Milhouse Nixon, on lame duck Presidents, elections and conceding.
"If I were to demand a recount, the organization of the new administration and the orderly transfer of responsibility from the old to the new might be delayed for months.
The situation within the entire federal government would be chaotic.
Those in the old administration would not know how to act--or with what clear powers and responsibilities--and those being appointed by [John F.] Kennedy to positions in the new administration would have the same difficulty making any plans.
The, too, the bitterness that would be engendered by such a maneuver on my part would, in my opinion, have done incalculable and lasting damage throughout the country.
And finally, I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.
It is difficult enough to get defeated candidates in some of the newly independent countries to abide by the verdict of the electorate. If we could not continue to set a good example in this respect in the United States, I could see that there would be open season for shooting at the validity of free elections throughout the world.
Consequently, I make the decision not to support the contest and recount charges. I know that this greatly disappointed many of my best friends and most ardent supporters--but I could see for myself no ohter responsible course of action."
And therein lies the problem.
Asking or getting this Donald J. Trump to be responsible.
Thanks, Republicans!
#Throwthebumout
Quote of the Day -- Prescient, Cautionary Edition
“We must make our choice.
We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.”
- Louis D. Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1916-39), born November 13, 1856
Sunday, November 15, 2020
This President, the Nation, History and Democracy
Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders·
No figure in history has done more to undermine American democracy than Donald Trump. His "birther" movement tried to delegitimize the Obama presidency. His refusal to accept defeat now is trying to undermine the Biden presidency.
Goodbye Trump
____________________#ThrowTheBumOUT
This Presidential Legacy
Donald Trump is the only president in history to have been impeached, lost the popular vote, and be limited to a one-term presidency.
A fitting legacy.
________________________#ThrowTheBumOUT
Quote of the Day -- Sunday, God, Religion Edition
"I love you so much that I’m going to hide my existence to the point that I will be indistinguishable from other gods, and if you follow the wrong god, you are going to suffer for eternity."
--Unknown
Saturday, November 14, 2020
So Hoping This Historian and His Predictions are Incorrect
An article I think most, if not all adult Americans should probably read, if not adults across the planet, even. It's from The Atlantic this week, online.
The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse
“We are almost guaranteed” five hellish years, Turchin predicts, and likely a decade or more. The problem, he says, is that there are too many people like me. “You are ruling class,” he said, with no more rancor than if he had informed me that I had brown hair, or a slightly newer iPhone than his. Of the three factors driving social violence, Turchin stresses most heavily “elite overproduction”—the tendency of a society’s ruling classes to grow faster than the number of positions for their members to fill. One way for a ruling class to grow is biologically—think of Saudi Arabia, where princes and princesses are born faster than royal roles can be created for them. In the United States, elites overproduce themselves through economic and educational upward mobility: More and more people get rich, and more and more get educated. Neither of these sounds bad on its own. Don’t we want everyone to be rich and educated? The problems begin when money and Harvard degrees become like royal titles in Saudi Arabia. If lots of people have them, but only some have real power, the ones who don’t have power eventually turn on the ones who do.
Here's hoping the author is wrong, of course. Somehow mistaken. You wouldn't think we could possibly get worse than Donald Trump President and the worst, most killing, deadly international pandemic in the last more than 100 years.
Would you?
The original article appears in the December 2020 print edition with the headline “The Historian Who Sees the Future.” It was first published online on November 12, 2020.
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