President Joe Biden's First Speech

A snippet of the first speech President Joe Biden makes next January to the world:

"Look, y'all, we're sorry. We apologize. Our bad. Sorry for that 4 year detour we took. We'll straighten it all out now. Sorry we 'went there.' No more craziness. We're back, we're back."

Vote blue, folks!

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Quote of the Day -- Possibly Depressing Presidential Version

Quote of the day/week/month/time.

“Countries don’t really recover from being taken over by unstable authoritarian nationalists of any political bent, left or right — not by Peróns or Castros or Putins or Francos or Lenins,” the New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik warned in 2016.

I so pray that's not true.

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Link to original article:

Donald Trump’s Strongman Act, and Its Limits

Rather Shocking Racist, White Catholic News Breaking Today

 I couldn't believe what my eyes were telling me today. This broke a few hours ago.

Pope Francis Appoints First African-American Cardinal

Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, who led the Roman Catholic Church’s response to the sexual abuse crisis in the early 2000s, was among 13 new cardinals named on Sunday.

What the what??

This Pope, Catholics, appointing their FIrST African-American Cardinal??

Now??  October 25, 2020??  Now??

How long have they been in Africa?  How many years?  Hell--pun intended--how many CENTURIES??

So I searched it.  From Wikipedia:

The Catholic Church in Africa refers to parts of the Catholic Church in the various countries in the continent of Africa.

Christian activity in Africa began in the 1st century when the Patriarchate of Alexandria in Egypt was formed as one of the four original Patriarchs of the East (the others being Constantinople, Antioch, and Jerusalem).

All that time, all these centuries, in fact, in Africa and you're only just now, in late 2020 APPOINTING YOUR FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN CARDINAL??

And check this out, too. In my research, I found a Catholic website and page and look at this little fact about Catholics and the people and continent of Africa.

Why is Catholicism so vibrant in Africa?

This:

A person recently moaned to me about the slippage in regular Mass attendance in this country and the drought in vocations. This person had a point. Regular Mass attendance on weekends quickly is becoming the exception, rather than the rule, in this country. Nuns are few and becoming fewer. Seminarians are not many, compared to the past.

This same person opined that celibacy has caused this decline in vocations to the priesthood, and if the pope and bishops had any sense, they would end mandatory celibacy for priests tomorrow.

I simply asked, what about Africa? Celibacy is required there, and they do not have enough seminaries despite the flood of vocations. (We see a sign of this phenomenon in this country: African priests are serving in almost every diocese in the United States, because they are sent here as missionaries!)

No way I thought it would take to now, today, literally, this day in 2020 to finally, finally have an African-American Cardinal. They've been all over the African continent for literally centuries and they're JUST NOW getting the first African-American Cardinal?

Bleached white religion much? Wow. That is some major chutzpah.

In the 60's, when there was so much racial strife and protests and killings and burnings, apparently the Catholics and their Church didn't think it necessary to maybe, just maybe, after all those centuries, of, say,  elevating an African-American to the level of Cardinal in their organization. I find it extremely difficult to believe there was no candidate or were no candidates available that could have filled the role.

So now, as of today, this Pope and the Catholic Church finally, finally appointed an African-American for the post of Cardinal.

How good of them.

Bleached white religion there much, fellas?

Because, Hell, we know you're not putting yer wimmin' in charge.

Right?

And if you look at one at their own Catholic page websites, they're actually congratulating themselves for this announcement today.

Stunning. Seriously stunning. Shocking.

Racist and sexist, both. Those Catholics got it all goin' on.

I can't imagine how they aren't personally and collectively embarrassed by this.

Link:

Catholic Church in Africa 

The Trumpster Takes More Unquestionable--and Deserved--Hits Today

There is an excellent and true and very fair op/ed piece in today's Sunday New York Times by Nicholas Kristof American voters should see.

America and the Virus: ‘A Colossal Failure of Leadership’

In its destruction of American lives, treasure and well-being, this pandemic marks the greatest failure of U.S. governance since Vietnam.

One of the most lethal leadership failures in modern times unfolded in South Africa in the early 2000s as AIDS spread there under President Thabo Mbeki.

Mbeki scorned science, embraced conspiracy theories, dithered as the disease spread and rejected lifesaving treatments. His denialism cost about 330,000 lives, a Harvard study found.

None of us who wrote scathingly about that debacle ever dreamed that something similar might unfold in the United States. But today, health experts regularly cite President Trump as an American Mbeki.

“We’re unfortunately in the same place,” said Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at U.C.L.A. “Mbeki surrounded himself with sycophants and cost his country hundreds of thousands of lives by ignoring science, and we’re suffering the same fate.”

I can't recommend the piece enough.

Not done there, the Times added this.

R.I.P., G.O.P.

The Party of Lincoln had a good run. Then came Mr. Trump.

Of all the things President Trump has destroyed, the Republican Party is among the most dismaying.

“Destroyed” is perhaps too simplistic, though. It would be more precise to say that Mr. Trump accelerated his party’s demise, exposing the rot that has been eating at its core for decades and leaving it a hollowed-out shell devoid of ideas, values or integrity, committed solely to preserving its own power even at the expense of democratic norms, institutions and ideals...

The final op/ed piece I'll mention here today from the Times is this from Maureen Dowd.

King Kong Trump, Losing His Grip

A steaming mad president is running out of steam.

"Biden, the empath;

Trump, the sociopath."

You can only let King Kong, as Don McGahn, Trump’s first White House counsel, dubbed his former boss, smash up the metropolis for so long.

It seems this President, his White House and administration have all given up, too.

White House chief of staff: 'We are not going to control the pandemic'

Meanwhile, this news hit today.

Members of Pence’s Inner Circle Test Positive for Coronavirus

5 people of the Vice President's staff including his Chief of Staff have now tested positive for the coronavirus. Added to that, the Vice President is continuing to campaign across the nation, in spite of this development.

Pence Denounced for 'Grossly Negligent' Decision to Keep Campaigning Despite Exposure to Top Aide With Covid-19

Vote, folks.  In 9 days or sooner, vote.   And vote blue.

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Quote of the Day -- On God and Gods

"If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. 

If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. 

If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."

--Marcus Aurelius

Trump Continues to Just Stun

I was stunned--again--by this President and what I just read this morning.

Trump and his company renewed the internet domain name TrumpTowerMoscow.com.  This year. This election year.

Trump Organization Renewed the TrumpTowerMoscow.com Domain Name — This Year

Again. 

And he has done every year of his Presidency.

Think about that.

The President of the United States, trying, still trying to get a hotel built in Moscow. Russia. Our known, publicly-sworn enemy. Added to this is that he did it during his reelection campaign, to boot, folks.

Keep in mind this hasn't been built.

Yet.

He still, clearly, thinks he may get to build a Trump Tower hotel in Moscow, Russia and he has a bank account--or bank accounts--in China.

TRE45ON, anyone? Everyone?

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Donald J Trump -- A Man of His Word?

Who can believe a thing this man says?

Let's do this, America.  Let's do this, Americans.

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Quote of the Day -- On This Excuse of a President

 From the Daily Kos and The Atlantic today.

As The Atlantic stated in its October 2016 endorsement of his opponent, Hillary Clinton, Trump “traffics in conspiracy theories and racist invective; he is appallingly sexist; he is erratic, secretive, and xenophobic; he expresses admiration for authoritarian rulers, and evinces authoritarian tendencies himself … He is an enemy of fact-based discourse; he is ignorant of, and indifferent to, the Constitution; he appears not to read.”

But no one could have been prepared for just how unfit for office Donald Trump would actually turn out to be, or the incompetence of the people he would choose to surround himself.

Not only did Trump not “grow” into the office—which was the least anyone could expect—he diminished it and poisoned it, along with the country he was elected to serve.

What we have learned since we published that editorial is that we understated our case. Donald Trump is the worst president this country has seen since Andrew Johnson, or perhaps James Buchanan, or perhaps ever. Trump has brought our country low; he has divided our people; he has pitted race against race; he has corrupted our democracy; he has shown contempt for American ideals; he has made cruelty a sacrament; he has provided comfort to propagators of hate; he has abandoned America’s allies; he has aligned himself with dictators; he has encouraged terrorism and mob violence; he has undermined the agencies and departments of government; he has despoiled the environment; he has opposed free speech; he has lied frenetically and evangelized for conspiracism; he has stolen children from their parents; he has made himself an advocate of a hostile foreign power; and he has failed to protect America from a ravaging virus. Trump is not responsible for all of the 220,000 COVID-19-related deaths in America. But through his avarice and ignorance and negligence and titanic incompetence, he has allowed tens of thousands of Americans to suffer and die, many alone, all needlessly. With each passing day, his presidency reaps more death.

Let's do this folks. Vote. And vote blue.  #BlueWave2020

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From the article:

The Atlantic's endorsement of Joe Biden raises a sobering point all Americans should consider

Final Presidential Debate--Trump Takes More HIts

Yes, we had the final Presidential election campaign debate last night as we all know and yes, The Orange Man, The Trumpster, "President" Trump is now taking hits on it as he rightly should this morning. Here are but some.

Right off the bat, let's put this up front.

Post-debate CNN poll: Biden wins final presidential debate

Joe Biden did a better job in the final debate on Thursday, according to a CNN Instant Poll of debate watchers. Overall, 53% of voters who watched the debate said that Biden won the matchup, while 39% said that President Donald Trump did.

Viewers once again said that Biden's criticisms of Trump were largely fair (73% said they were fair, 26% unfair), and they split over whether Trump's attacks on Biden were fair (50% said yes, 49% no).

On from there. 

Trump says that windmills kill 'all the birds' after saying he knows 'more about wind' than Biden

It's difficult to tell just where this President Trump gets his information.

On the news this week that 545 migrant children's parents couldn't be located after the Trump administration separated them, the parents from the children, The Trumpster had this response.

Trump says children separated from their parents were "so well taken care of"

Forget that they're children.

Forget that they're abandoned.

Forget that they're now in institutions.

Forget that they're no doubt scarred for the rest of their lives by this experience, these experiences.

Trump says they're "so well taken care of."

Right. Sure they are. Just as well as if they were, what?  With their own family? With their own parents?

An excellent summary of the final debate comes this morning from Forbes Magazine, I think.

The Biggest Falsehoods Of The Final Trump-Biden Presidential Debate

Just a bit from the article gives a great deal of good information.

• On the Covid-19 death toll, Trump claimed that “2.2 million people were expected to die,” a misleading number which he has stated multiple times to claim that his administration saved 2 million lives. The number is based on the worst-case scenario modeled by the Imperial College of London which hypothesized what would happen if no action was taken during the pandemic and people continued to live their daily lives as normal, with no change in behavior. The model, however, acknowledged that such a scenario was unrealistic.
• Trump incorrectly stated that the country was “rounding the corner” on the pandemic, despite the number of new infections rising once again to nearly 60,000 a day, following a dip in the late summer.
• Trump also falsely claimed that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the federal government’s top infectious disease official, had described Covid-19 as “no problem” and predicted it would “go away soon.” In reality, even back in January, Fauci said that the U.S. had to take the disease seriously, while in February he said that the risk was still low but cautioned “this could change.”
• Trump accused Joe Biden of receiving $3.5 million from Russia and the amount came through Putin, a claim based on a politically charged report released by Senate Republicans last month into Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Russia and Ukraine. The report, however, does not accuse Joe Biden of any wrongdoing or claims that Hunter Biden’s business dealings influenced the Obama administration’s foreign policy. Hunter Biden’s lawyer has also denied that he was the “co-founder” of the company in question.

This one is a particular favorite for me.

• In one of the most bizarre statements of the night, Trump claimed that Biden’s platform is pushing to force buildings to replace their existing windows with smaller ones, or remove them altogether, in the name of energy efficiency. This claim is false since Biden’s platform makes no mention of windows anywhere, nor does the Green New Deal, a more expansive proposal to fight climate change endorsed by many progressive Democrats but not Biden himself.

It goes on from there.

• Under fire for his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, Trump tried to shift blame, repeatedly accusing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of acting slower and accusing her of “dancing on the streets in Chinatown in San Francisco” and urging street fairs and parades. Pelosi made a visit to San Francisco’s Chinatown in late February, where she urged people to take precautions and to be vigilant while advocating the patronage of Chinese businesses. A day later Pelosi called for a broader and more forceful response to tackling the virus, according to the Washington Post.
• During the debate, Biden claimed that Trump had caused America’s trade deficit with China to “go up, not down”. According to PolitiFact, this is mostly false since the U.S. trade deficit with China in goods and service was lower under Trump in 2019, than it was in any of the final three years of the Obama administration, where Biden served as vice president. Biden’s campaign is pointing to a narrower evaluation that includes trade in goods only, where numbers under Trump have generally been higher than they were under Obama.
• Under fire for his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, Trump tried to shift blame, repeatedly accusing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of acting slower and accusing her of “dancing on the streets in Chinatown in San Francisco” and urging street fairs and parades. Pelosi made a visit to San Francisco’s Chinatown in late February, where she urged people to take precautions and to be vigilant while advocating the patronage of Chinese businesses. A day later Pelosi called for a broader and more forceful response to tackling the virus, according to the Washington Post.
• During the debate, Biden claimed that Trump had caused America’s trade deficit with China to “go up, not down”. According to PolitiFact, this is mostly false since the U.S. trade deficit with China in goods and service was lower under Trump in 2019, than it was in any of the final three years of the Obama administration, where Biden served as vice president. Biden’s campaign is pointing to a narrower evaluation that includes trade in goods only, where numbers under Trump have generally been higher than they were under Obama.

PBS wrote this today.

President Trump’s very first line of the night, about COVID-19 deaths, was false and set the tone as he and Democratic rival Joe Biden unleashed a torrent of claims in their last presidential debate.

AP FACT CHECK: Examining claims from the last Trump-Biden debate

Of course, this will all be said to be "fake news" by this President and his followers but so it goes.

As a final but important side note here today, it needs to be pointed out that EVERY modern day candidate for the presidency turned in their taxes. EVERY ONE.

Just not this one. Not Donald J "Jenius" Trump.

In summary today:

1. Hunter is not running for President. 
2. We are not “rounding the corner” on Covid-19. 
3. Vaccines are not weeks away. 
4. Trump can actually behave better if enough people tell him to, if it's absolutely required.
5. Yes, we know when the cages were built, and we also know for what purpose. 
6. The stock market is still not the economy.
7. Trump comparing himself to Lincoln is bizarre. 
8. Release your taxes, Mr. President. We know the audit excuse is complete nonsense. 
9. This debate probably didn’t change anyone’s mind.
10. Meanwhile, too, not one word from this "President" on what he would do if he were, God and heavens forbid, reelected. Not one.

Thanks, Mr. President.

Thanks, Republicans.

Now, let's do this.

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Still more:

Who won the debate? The first polls say Joe Biden

Why Joe Biden won the final debate

745 Economists sign an Open Letter Opposing Trump's Re-Election

More than 700 economists including Nobel laureates oppose Trump reelection

Trump's debate performance was too little, too late

More than 300 military family members endorse Biden

Now the Trumpster Takes a Local Hit

 I'm loving this rather local hit and criticism this Republican Party Trump is taking today. From our Kansas City Star:

Trump attack on presidential debate commission ‘paves the way to violence,’ Danforth says

The Star writes:

Danforth said Trump’s attacks undermine "public confidence in the most basic treasure of democracy, the conduct of fair elections."

Former Missouri Republican Sen. John Danforth pushed back at President Donald Trump Tuesday for charging that the Commission on Presidential Debates is partisan and corrupt, warning that such an accusation “paves the way to violence in the streets.”

“It is not the honor of the commission that is at stake here. What is at stake is Americans’ belief in the fairness of our presidential debates and, in turn, the presidential election,” Danforth wrote in a Washington Post op-ed. “When that faith is undermined, the damage to our country is incalculable.”

It doesn't get much better than this coming, as it does, from a, staunch, well-known and lifelong Republican and the fact that it's in the nationally distributed Washington Post.

Let's do this, folks.

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The original Washington Post article:

Trump’s attack on the debate commission is an attack on the election itself

More Trumpian HIts Today

 This President and his Presidency and administration have all repeatedly stunned me in the last 3-1/2 years. Now the news on him each day surprises if not shocks me.  Check these beauties out today.

Biden Will Make America Lead Again - WSJ

And that's not a big enough endorsement but note who and where it's from, folks. This is from very Right Wing and very conservative Rupert Murdoch and his ultra-conservative Wall Street Journal. That alone is stunning. And naturally very welcome.

This broke today.

Tax records show Trump maintains bank account in China

President Trump's tax records reportedly show that he maintains a bank account in China controlled by Trump International Hotels Management LLC. Trump also reportedly has bank accounts in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The president's foreign bank accounts are reportedly held under corporate names and as a result don't appear on the president's public financial disclosure forms.

More on the same topic.

Claims of 'Extensive' Trump Corruption in China Featured in Controversial Steele Dossier

Potentially damaging details of President Donald Trump's business ties in China have emerged with just weeks to go until the presidential election in another body blow for a re-election campaign undermined by allegations of criminality, impropriety and corruption.

The New York Times revealed Tuesday that Trump International Hotels Management maintained a previously undisclosed bank account in China, which paid more than $180,000 in taxes to the Chinese government between 2013 and 2015.

I add this one just because the detail in the title is good and important.

Donald Trump has a secret bank account in China that he left off his financial disclosure statements

Can you imagine this being true for any other President but this one? I can't. It's like when he conjectured publicly at one of his campaign rallies last week that he would think about leaving the country if he loses this election.  What other President has EVER said or even suggested such a thing?

Yesterday, he collapsed.

Donald Trump leaves contentious '60 Minutes' interview with Lesley Stahl, goes on Twitter attack

He's so fragile he can't do a complete interview with Lesley Stahl for CBS' "60 Minutes."  Again, Republicans, thanks so very much. That's quite the guy you have there.

This President is no way doing himself any favors, I'll say that. At least we have that going for us all.

Then there's this bit of huge, good to great news.

Biden holds massive cash advantage over Trump

And check out how much more.

Biden Campaign Enters Final Stretch With Nearly Three Times As Much Cash As Trump’s

I don't care what you say, that's hope right there, folks.

Finally today, there's this not insignificant note.

Lawyers at firm used by Trump donate $90,000 to Biden, $50 to president

That's gotta' hurt.  I hope.

Let's do this.

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More:

Biden heavily outspends Trump in closing weeks of campaign

Can you see it? Can you see the blue wave? Wednesday Good News Roundup

Trump's promise to give everyone free antibody treatments isn't just a lie, it's impossible

2 Weeks to Election--and the Unprecedented President, Collapsing Unprecedentedly

 Yes, ladies and gentlemen, only 14 more days to the big November election and it really does look like yet more of the Trumpworld is dying or collapsing.  Just look at all the breaking proof.

Admiral from bin Laden raid endorses Biden in dramatic fashion

‘Complicit’: Heitkamp on Sen. Cornyn, Republicans jumping ship as Trump polls sink

Finally, Christians are turning against Donald Trump

Christian leaders speak out against the president

The Republican Crusade Against Donald Trump

Now, even the former head of the Republican National Committee came out for Biden and against Donald J Trump.

Michael Steele in powerful ad endorses Biden/Harris for the soul of our nation

You can't get much more unprecedented than that.

USA Today broke their own tradition of not endorsing a candidate.

Elect Joe Biden. Reject Donald Trump.

In 2016, we broke tradition in urging you not to vote for Trump. Now we're making our first presidential endorsement. We hope it's our last.

This is how things are going in swing state Florida, too.

Florida shatters opening day record for early voting

People don't line up in record numbers to vote, period, let alone during the worst, most killing, deadly international pandemic in the last more than 100 years because they think things are going swimmingly the way they are, folks. All of these voting records not just broken but shattered are a very good indication for us, I think.

Then this just happened in Pennsylvania.

Supreme Court sides with Dems, allows Pennsylvania to count mailed ballots received up to 3 days after election

On the Hunter Biden "story", there is this.

Fox News Passed on Hunter Biden Laptop Story

Even Trump's own Fox network passed on the Hunter Biden untruth of a story.

And then there's this.

50 former intelligence officials warn NY Post story sounds like Russian disinformation

Over 50 former intelligence officials said emails alleged to have been found on a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden show signs of a Russian disinformation operation: “If we are right, this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly that Americans need to be aware of this."

Followed by this, from Trump himself.

Trump calls a reporter asking him a question 'a criminal' for not reporting on the Hunter Biden allegations

With all this, he's either just crude or--what?--stupid? or simply losing it. Honestly.

Trump delivers expletive-filled pep talk to campaign staff

More crudeness and stupidity here. Desperation plays a factor, I think.

Trump Blasts CNN, Chris Cuomo at Rally: 'You Dumb Bastards'

He was caught, publicly, in a lie.

ExxonMobil responds to Trump’s hypothetical bribery call: ‘It never happened’

For that matter, he was caught in lies, yet more lies.

Fact-checking Trump's massively dishonest weekend: The President made at least 66 separate false or misleading claims in three days

Apparently, all the facts aren't lost on the Trump staffers in and of his campaign.

Report: Team Trump Knows It’s Going to Have Its Ass Handed to It November 3

And now, with these mere 2 weeks to go, it looks as though he and his reelection campaign are short on funds.  Oh. Darn.

How Trump plowed through $1 billion, losing cash advantage

It looks for all the world like this very unprecedented President and Presidency is going to have a very unprecedented collapse, Mr. and Mrs. America.

Make it so.

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What Passes for Logic in America Today

 Leave it to Tom Tomorrow.

(Click on picture for easier reading)

God help us all.

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At What Point Do We Do Something About Global Warming?

Let's have a very brief recap of just a few of the events of the last nearly 2 years, shall we?

--Nearly all of the entire continent of Australia was in drought, record high temperatures and then it burned

'Unprecedented' globally: more than 20% of Australia's forests burnt in bushfires

2019 Was The Year The World Burned 

--The Arctic and Siberia and elsewhere hit high temperatures of OVER 100 DEGREES for the first time in recorded history

Temperature hits 100 degrees in Arctic Russian town

Temperature Hits 100 Degrees Above Arctic Circle

--California has had a record 4 million acres of it burn this year with, again, drought and record high temperatures and now 

California exceeds 4 million acres burned by wildfires in 2020

--Colorado is in the midst of its largest ever area burning in wildfires

Record-setting Cameron Peak wildfire consumes more than 200,000 acres in Colorado

So with all this alone, shall we do something, some things on and about climate change and global warming?

Finally?  At long last?

At what point do we do something? At what point do we learn?

Soon?

What's it going to take? What more proof do we need beyond even just this short list of already-occurred, occurring events?

Republicans, Conservatives, All Coming Out for Biden

 Here you are, folks. Another one, this weekend, 2 days ago. Another conservative, yet another, coming out FOR Joe Biden and against Donald J "Jenius" Trump. This time it's from Michael Gerson.

A conservative’s case for Biden

From the article:

The reasons for a traditional conservative to oppose President Donald Trump’s re-election grow daily. There is his abdication of leadership in fighting the coronavirus pandemic; his active encouragement of citizens to adopt reckless and unhealthy behavior; his corruption of public institutions for political gain; his cultivation of right-wing extremism; his determined effort to undermine public confidence in an election he seems likely to lose.

Republicans and conservatives alike.

Career Republicans call on Americans to vote out President Trump

A group of longtime Republican strategists who have worked with the likes of John McCain and George W. Bush have launched a scorching campaign against the president.

Besides p*ssing off the "libs", which we know is so very important to Trump's supporters, what is he, this President Trump, doing right or well for America, anyway? As just one example, there's this:

Federal judge strikes down Trump's plan to end food stamps

During the worst, most killing, deadly pandemic in the last more than 100 years, this President Trump actually wanted to end federal food assistance for the neediest Americans, nearly 3/4 of a million Americans.

And then there's this:

Trump attacked Biden by saying his opponent would 'listen to the scientists' in dealing with COVID-19

Somehow listening to actual scientists and medical specialists, in the worst, most killing pandemic in the last more than 100 years is a bad thing? To this guy, this man, this President? Really?

Here's another breaking example of what I'm talking about.

Former New Hampshire GOP chair: My fellow Republicans, Trump does not deserve your loyalty

Then there's very red state Texas' own Senator John Cornyn publicly coming out against Trump, however sheepishly.

Cornyn says he opposed Trump's worst moves all along, but only in secret. Yeah, that's the ticket

Here's two more reasons, good to great reasons to vote for Biden and against Donald Trump.

Conservative Think Tank: Biden Tax Hike Only Hurts the Rich

And by "hurt the rich", it only means they'll pay a bit more in taxes. They will do without nothing whatever.

Economist: Biden Plan Creates 7 Million More Jobs Than Trump

And note in the article that the economist is writing from Moody's Analytics.

One of the reasons is certainly the "Trump healthcare plan" for the nation.

Added to all this is the fact that this man, this "President", certainly no leader, has uttered not one word of what his plan is or what his plans are for the nation, should he, God and heavens forbid, be reelected.

So that's why. That's why Republicans and conservatives are doing just that, lining up against what in any other year, with any other President, would be their own man.

Thank God and goodness.

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Get The New York Times Today, Folks

Great, even important op/ed piece today from The New York Times.

End Our National Crisis 

"The case against Donald Trump"

CORRUPTION

ANGER

CHAOS

INCOMPETENCE

LIES

DECAY

The Worst President in Modern History

HIS UNAPOLOGETIC CORRUPTION BY MICHELLE COTTLE

WHEN SCIENCE IS PUSHED ASIDE BY JENEEN INTERLANDI

HIS DEMAGOGY BY JESSE WEGMAN

HIS FAKE POPULISM BY FARAH STOCKMAN

HIS INCOMPETENT STATESMANSHIP BY SERGE SCHMEMANN

Let's do this, folks.

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Good to Great, Hopeful News This Week on the Presidential Election

From author Heather Cox Richardson earlier this week, Oct. 15. Good news. Hope.

"...the Trump campaign is in trouble. Polls show the president down by significant numbers, and the voters he has been trying to suppress are turning out in droves. Today Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, a Republican, issued a statement saying he 'cannot support Donald Trump for President,' and the Biden campaign announced that it raised an eye-popping $383 million in September alone, a historic record which comes on top of the historic record of $364.5 million it set in August. This means Biden has $432 million on hand for the last month of the election."

And by "last month of the election", if this is all based on this week, it's actually the last 2 weeks of the election. Even better, of course.

But assume nothing, folks. Vote! Please vote! And VOTE BLUE! Let's do this! 86 45!! BYEDON!!

Trump and McConnell Sewing Their Own Electoral Doom for the Republican Party

This President Trump and Senator Mitch "Moscow Mitch" McConnell, at least, are helping insure Republican Party failure November 4 in this election. This is one more way they're making it happen. This story broke 2 days ago.

McConnell Won’t Support $1.8 Trillion White House Stimulus Bill—Even If Pelosi And Trump Make A Deal

A bit from the article.

With Pelosi and the White House still trying to find common ground between the $1.8 trillion plan and Democrats’ $2.2 trillion plan, McConnell added that he would not put a bill that large on the Senate floor for a vote.

Without support from McConnell and at least some of his Republican caucus, no deal that the White House makes with Pelosi stands any reasonable chance of becoming law. 

Meanwhile, this is going on, along with losing nearly 220,000 Americans, American citizens, to this COVID pandemic, their dying.

8 Million Americans Slipped Into Poverty Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, New Study Says

Researchers looked at the devastating financial effect the pandemic has had on Americans, with Blacks, Latinos and children faring the worst

Fortunately, here's yet another really great indication of how things are going at least in one state, if not nationally, too, for this President and the Republicans.

Trump throws in the towel in Georgia, says he won’t fundraise because “I just don’t want to do it”

And more locally, in Kentucky, this looks like it might well be a great indication of how things are going for that state and for control of the Senate the next 4 years.

One of Kentucky's largest newspapers endorses McConnell's challenger

Then, this story broke in the last day.

White House was warned Giuliani was target of Russian intelligence operation to feed misinformation to Trump

You would think that, after the 2016 election campaign when it looked very much like Russia and the Trump campaign colluded to get him, Trump, elected according to our intelligence agencies, you'd think Trump and his campaign would stay completely clear of even any hint of working with Russia yet here they are. Again.

He, Trump, said and did this earlier in the week.

Trump Rejects California Request for Federal Disaster Aid to Recover From Catastrophic Wildfires

During that state's worst wildfires in the state's history, he, Trump, this Republican Party President, turns down their, California's request for federal aid.  There went California.

Then the Motormouth in Chief said this:

Trump Says If He Loses Election "Maybe I'll Have to Leave the Country"

Can you imagine ANY OTHER President saying something like this? That's quite the patriot. It seems he's already trying to set the stage because he knows he'll be available for trying in a court of law.

Finally today, this week, a GOP Senator himself came out against the Orange Man.

GOP Sen. Ben Sasse unloads on Trump in campaign call

Suffice to say, ladies and gentlemen, things are not in any way going this President's way just now, nor is very much going the way of his/their political party.  And thank goodness.

So thanks, Mr. President.
Thanks, Senator McConnell.

Thanks, Republicans.

Y'all are terrific.

Apparently, if the entire nation were multi-millionaires, you'd maybe, maybe do your jobs and do something for us.

While things seem to honestly be going poorly for this President and his political party, there conversely seem to be quite a few good things going for Joe Biden, his campaign and the Democrats.

Hollywood gives Biden's digital campaign final star-studded push

Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez Endorse Joe Biden

Diddy Endorses Joe Biden, Launches Black Political Party 

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