Election Day Observation

And start with the guy at the top.

Middle Age Riot

@middleageriot

It seems only fair that the people responsible for 40 million lost jobs should lose theirs. #VoteOutTheGOP

Vote, folks!!

And vote blue!!

#BlueWave2020

86 45!

BYEDON!

November 3, 2020, America!! Vote!!

Vote tomorrow, folks! Vote Blue!! Vote him away!!

Tomorrow is the day, folks!!

Vote!!

And VOTE BLUE!!!

All the way down the ticket!!

Donald Trump, According to Another Republican

From very conservative and long-serving Republican Party member Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES:

I find it necessary to reach for the language and colorful colloquialisms of my native land, New Jersey, in order to express my feelings about today’s event in Bedminster. It was a fucking travesty. Truly. An utter Fucking disgrace.

The President of the United States of America stood behind the Seal of his office framed by American flags and his private club’s membership,slurring and raving about his victimization. His titanic self-pity was only exceeded by his dishonesty and uncontrolled lying. His lying was only subordinate to his staggering idiocy, ignorance, ineptitude and incompetence. |

The incompetence, even after all this time, shocks the conscience. 162,000 Americans are dead and the economy is shattered. So many more will die. The evictions, foreclosures and small business closings are just beginning. We are in the early hours of one of the greatest tragedies in our country's history. None of it had to be, but it has happened because Donald Trump is President. His malice, stupidity, ego and insecurity are a lethal combination.

He has wrecked this country in less than four years. He has induced a national nosedive, a decline that is precipitous, dangerous and humiliating. The world is more dangerous. American soldiers are hunted like animals by Taliban killers who are paid bounties by Russian killers and Trump does nothing but kowtow to Putin and advance his agenda.

Trump has divided the country and pitted Americans against each other. He has loosed violence against peacefully assembled U.S. citizens and deployed militarized paramilitary forces to escalate tensions in American cities in the name of law and order, when the real purpose and mission is to stoke the embers of chaos and create fear. Fear, built on a mountain of lies, is the autocrat's sword and shield. Trump stokes fear to abuse his power and press forward with his assaults on the rule of law, our essential constitutions and our national comity, all in the name of his corruption, aggrandizement and cult of personality.

It is a despicable hour in the life of this country. This will be ended because it must end. We will lose the country if Trump isn’t repudiated. Make no mistake about the intentions of a President who is openly undermining the 231-year-old tradition of American elections. He is undermining the legitimacy of the coming election with no regard for the consequences to liberal democracy here and around the world.

Fascism didn’t rise in the 1930s because it was strong. It rose because Democracy was weak. American Democracy is weak, decayed and led by an illiberal man who would cancel the election, lock up his political opponents, enrich his friends and remain in power for life.

Trump is the greatest failure in American history. No American has failed history’s test in a more spectacular fashion. His stoking of racial tensions and a cold civil war in our land will live in infamy. His disgrace will be eternal.

Thanks, Republicans.

Calm, Unemotional Logic on the November 3 Vote

From actor and activist Robert Redford because we seem to be lacking calm, clear, unemotional logic and thought lately.

"I have a lot of vivid memories of growing up in Los Angeles in the 1940s, but one in particular keeps coming back to me today, in these troubled times. I remember sitting with my parents -- actually, my parents were sitting; I was lying on the floor, the way kids do -- and listening to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt talking to us over the radio. He was talking to the nation, of course, not just to us, but it sure felt that way. He was personal and informal, like he was right there in our living room.

I was too young to follow much of what he was saying -- something about World War II. But what I did understand was that this was a man who cared about our well-being. I felt calmed by his voice. It was a voice of authority and, at the same time, empathy. Americans were facing a common enemy -- fascism -- and FDR gave us the sense that we were all in it together. Even kids like me had a role to play: participating in paper drives, collecting scrap metal, doing whatever we could do. That's what it was like to have a president with a strong moral compass. It guided him, gave him direction, and helped him point the nation toward a better future.
Maybe this strikes you as simple nostalgia. I've got a touch of that, sure (who doesn't right now?). But I'm too focused on the future to sit around pining for the old days. For me, the power of FDR's example is what it says about the kind of leadership America needs -- and can have again, if we choose it.

But one thing is clear: Instead of a moral compass in the Oval Office, there's a moral vacuum. Instead of a president who says we're all in it together, we have a president who's in it for himself. Instead of words that uplift and unite, we hear words that inflame and divide. When someone retweets (and then deletes) a video of a supporter shouting "white power" or calls journalists "enemies of the state," when he turns a lifesaving mask against contagion into a weapon in a culture war, when he orders the police and the military to tear gas peaceful protestors so he can wave a Bible at the cameras, he sacrifices -- again and again -- any claim to moral authority.

Another four years of this would degrade our country beyond repair. The toll it's taking is almost biblical: fires and floods, a literal plague upon the land, an eruption of hatred that's being summoned and harnessed, by a leader with no conscience or shame. Four more years would accelerate our slide toward autocracy. It would be taken as free license to punish more so-called "traitors" and wage more petty vendettas -- with the full weight of the Justice Department behind them. Four more years would mean open season on our environmental laws. The assault has been ongoing -- it started with abandoning the historic agreement that the world made in Paris to combat climate change, and continued, just last month, with using the pandemic as cover to let industries pollute as they see fit. Four more years would bring untold damage to our planet -- our home.

America is still a world power. But in the past four years, it has lost its place as a world leader. A second term would embolden enemies and further weaken our standing with our friends.

When and how did the United States of America become the Divided States of America? Polarization, of course, has deep roots and many sources. President Donald Trump didn't create all of our divisions as Americans. But he has found every fault line in America and wrenched them wide open.

Without a moral compass in the Oval Office, our country is dangerously adrift. But this November, we can choose another direction. This November, unity and empathy are on the ballot. Experience and intelligence are on the ballot. Joe Biden is on the ballot, and I'm confident he will bring these qualities back to White House.

I don't make a practice of publicly announcing my vote. But this election year is different. And I believe Biden was made for this moment. Biden leads with his heart. I don't mean that in a soft and sentimental way. I'm talking about a fierce compassion -- the kind that fuels him, that drives him to fight against racial and economic injustice, that won't let him rest while people are struggling.

As FDR showed, empathy and ethics are not signs of weakness. They're signs of strength. I think Americans are coming back to that view. Despite Trump -- despite his daily efforts to divide us -- I see much of the country beginning to reunite again, the way it did when I was a kid. You can see it in the peaceful protests of the past several weeks -- Americans of all races and classes coming together to fight against racism. You can see it the ways that communities are pulling together in the face of this pandemic, even if the White House has left them to fend for themselves.

These acts of compassion and kindness make our country stronger. This November, we have a chance to make it stronger still -- by choosing a president who is consistent with our values, and whose moral compass points toward justice."

--Robert Redford, July 8, 2020

Vote, folks.

November 3, be sure to vote.

And vote blue.

Great News on this coming Fall Election!

Check this out from very business-friendly Forbes Magazine this past Saturday.

Nearly 20 Swing State Polls Were Released Today–Biden Leads In All Of Them

Yet more reason, reasons for hope, campers!

On to November!

Vote!!

And vote blue!!

On This November Election Coming Up?

Let's be clear.  What needs to happen. What needs to happen to this man, to his political party and FOR our nation.

VOTE, folks!!

Tuesday, November 3, 2020!

And VOTE BLUE!!

BLUE WAVE!!!

A Historical, Patriotic Reminder -- And a Hope

Vote, folks!

Come Tuesday, November 3 this year, VOTE!!

And VOTE BLUE!!

BLUE WAVE!!

Have You Seen This Ad for the Republicans?

I've seen this ad on TV multiple times and I have to say, I just love it.



"America first", it says and shows Vice President Mike Pence.

But that's it.

Not once do they show the Trumpster.

They seem to be clearly running from him.

Fantastic.

And why shouldn't they? Check out these articles today.

Broad disapproval for Trump's handling of coronavirus

Biden leads Trump by 8 points, holds big advantage among undecided voters: poll

Biden Now Leads Trump In Texas, 

Poll Finds

Bring it on. 

On to November.

Vote blue.

#BlueWave

Donald Trump, All the Way From the UK

None other than the BBC out of the UK did an expose' on Trump and the Mob.

Thanks, Republicans.

Donald Trump, From the Voices of Republicans Themselves

From the voice of a longtime Republican. Here's the first.

And here's another, a second Republican on this man Trump.

Finally, a Republican from Florida.

Finally, an Army Ranger for pity's sake, against Trump and now against Republicans, too, unless or until they change, he says. This is one of the strongest testimonies out there, I think, against this President, against even this Republican Party and for Joe Biden 2020.

Further but current proof of the insanity or stupidity or both of this President:

Trump claims Biden presidency would mean low ratings for media outlets in bizarre tweet

Donald Trump has claimed a Joe Biden presidency would result in low ratings for media outlets covering the White House — an issue he suggested would cause the end of "our great USA" in a tweet.

Vote, folks. And vote blue November 3.

Link:

The Republicans Who Want to Destroy Trump

Great November Election Projections Out Today

Yes sir and ma'am, terrific, really excellent Fall election projections breaking today on the interwebs. Several.

I'll start here with a prediction on that Trump/Biden election.

The Hill's Campaign Report: Trump's job approval erodes among groups that powered his 2016 victory

Then, another, different source for a poll saying much the same, yes!

Gallup: Trump's job approval rating erodes 

among key groups

I especially love this one because it's yet one more Republican predicting a Trumpian loss this November.

Judd Gregg: The coming Biden coup

And then there's this fantastic prediction for Republicans in the Senate, too.

Senate outlook slides for GOP

Finally today, there is this. Senator Lindsey Graham finally, finally went against this President. Stunning.

Graham, facing tough reelection, breaks with Trump

Check that out:

Sen. Lindsey Graham has publicly opposed President Donald Trump five times in the past few weeks — including a new rebuke Monday — an unusual torrent of dissent from one of the president’s top allies in Washington just months before the South Carolina Republican faces a tough reelection challenge.

Let's not forget what Senator Graham said about this President in 2015.

Lindsey Graham: Trump Is Going To Kill The Party

For that matter, let's never forget what he said during Trump's candidacy.

12 Times Lindsey Graham Rebuked 

Donald Trump's Candidacy

So Senator Graham finally sees Trump tanking in the polls so he goes after him?  I hope that's what's happening here.  Even better, wouldn't it be great if, from now to Nov 3, he does, at long last, break with Trump, permanently, as this says but both, BOTH of them, Trump and Senator Graham, still go down to losses that day, too? Heck, for that matter, let's throw in Moscow Mitch McConnell, too.

November is looking better and better but I assume nothing, we must assume nothing but hope and work for everything in this, these elections. We must VOTE and we must VOTE BLUE!!

#BlueWave

#BlueWave2020

One last bit of good, breaking news today.

Democrats ask Supreme Court to hear emoluments case against Trump

Very Hopeful Electoral News

 Check out these recent polls:

New Poll Has Sara Gideon Up, 51-42, Over Susan Collins

Senator Graham Only Ahead by 4 Points in Polling

Amy McGrath takes the lead over Mitch McConnell in Kentucky

Imagine if Senators Collins and Graham and McConnell all go down this Fall and Trump is thrown out of the White House--as looks very likely--and we also keep the House and take the Senate.

Holy Mary, Mother of Goodness, folks!

VOTE!!

And VOTE BLUE!!

And if you can, help others vote!

BLUE WAVE!!

Great News, America, Americans!

Found today, this morning, out on the interwebs.

Coming soon!

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.

Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald.

A firsthand witness to countless holiday meals and family interactions, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humor to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald’s place in the family spotlight and Ivana’s penchant for regifting to her grandmother’s frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump’s favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s.

Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists, and journalists have sought to parse Donald J. Trump’s lethal flaws. Mary L. Trump has the education, insight, and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not just because of her insider’s perspective but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world’s most powerful and dysfunctional families.

Not done there, either!  John Bolton's also critical if not scathing book is about to come out on and about the Trumpster! Two critical to highly critical to even possibly scathing books coming out on this disaster of a President---and BEFORE THE ELECTION!!

Hallelujah!

There's hope for us, for America, yet!

Notes on this Presidential Election This Fall

Note one.

US Coronavirus Deaths May Cost Trump Reelection, More Elderly Republicans Are Dying

And that is on top of this earlier one.

Fox News Is Literally Dying Of Old Age As Younger Viewers Refuse To Watch Fox

Just the facts, folks.

And this is on top of the fact that Trump himself attacked Fox this weekend.

Stay tuned.

Wish, hope, work and vote for good things, better things.

Is This President Losing It?

The reason I ask the question in the title:

Donald Trump Spent His Saturday Going on a Deranged, Paranoid Rant About the Election

This, ladies and gentlemen, seems clearly to be one more way in which this President has become and is showing himself to be dangerous. Dangerous at least to the nation. At least.

Some from the article:

It’s only mid-April...and President Donald Trump is already accusing Democrats of “trying to steal the election out from under [him].

It seems he sent out a fund raising letter today saying "the Democrats are trying to steal the Election" from him.

Conservative writer David Frum said it so rightly, too, in response:

"Five months from the voting, @realDonaldTrump is explicitly accusing the Democrats of trying to steal the election from him. He will ramp this up so that by Election Day his supporters will not believe any result other than his reelection is legitimate.

The rest of the brief article:

As with many Trump statements, it’s a futile and counterproductive exercise to try to debunk it in full, but he (okay, his campaign’s digital fundraising staffer) is referring to a push, mainly by Democrats, to expand absentee voting access before the fall. In case you haven’t heard, there’s a global pandemic that’s shut down life as we know it in the United States, and turned the act of in-person-voting—or working at a voting precinct—into a life-threatening proposition. Wouldn’t it be nice to vote without dying? And some states, such as California, Oregon, and Washington, already make it possible for anyone to cast their vote by mail—in fact they’ve been doing it a long time with no real issues or fraud. (Incidentally, there was a big case of absentee-ballot fraud in 2018—which ended in a do-over election and the indictment of a Republican campaign worker.)

Trump’s full of bluster, but let’s not lose sight how insane this is. The sitting president is accusing his opponents of “trying to steal” the election simply because they want to make sure people are able to vote safely in a pandemic—and he’s doing it just to raise money....

A frightening man in a potentially frightening time. God, Gods, Heaven and the heavens help us all, from now to November. 

I think there is every indication this President will do and say anything and everything from now to election day in order to get re-elected, nation and people be damned.

Dangerous, indeed.

Vote blue, folks.