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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/14/trump-republicans-georgia-fundraising-445207?cid=apn
Republicans not happy with Trump siphoning off the small donor money from Loeffler and Perdue campaigns. I suppose it is payback since GA Republicans didn’t deliver for him. I say go for it. A couple of Senate Democrats from GA will teach ‘em not to mess with the president.
“For starters, Mr. Trump didn’t lose the election in the big cities where he and his allies accuse Democratic mayors and their political machines of rigging the vote. Rather, he lost the election in America’s suburbs.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/13/trump-2020-election-gop-444682?cid=apn
When a candidate loses in a Democratic stronghold 80-20, it is time to concede. But not to Republicans inspired by El presidente. And the reality is that no matter what election reforms are instituted, they will never be enough.
Continue reading “Simply put, Republicans don’t want elections.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-challenges-to-election-face-end-of-the-legal-road-11607518944
“In a challenge to Michigan’s results, she [Sidney Powell] filed a supporting declaration from a witness who claimed voting-data irregularities in Edison County—a place that doesn’t exist.”
That seems to be an apt description of this truly sad, truly dangerous, and infuriating attack on our elections, the officials, volunteers, governors, legislators and most egregiously, the American people. And all to satisfy a deranged president’s warped ego. Yet, the passive acquiescence of Republican Congressional leaders is even more disturbing. To know that they fear our president would be a shock to our founders who struggled to create a system where this could not happen.
Continue reading “WSJ outlines a history of the election and lawsuits…and dangers”
Mr. “Negotiator” has now put us in line behind the rest of the world on the Pfizer drug after the initial contracted doses for about 50 million Americans. Of course there are other manufacturers, but Pfizer is out the door already. UK is starting to inoculate tomorrow with the same drug.
One of Trump’s most vocal supporters, a gifted, high profile lawyer, tells Georgian Republicans to boycott a rigged election. Trump must be in heaven because it proves his stance. Go MAGA. Just look at the video showing crooked workers scrambling to unpack suitcases full of phony ballots. Hidden, secret cameras caught them. Release the Krakpot, err…umm…Kraken. True, Kraken was “released” by Trump’s legal team, but that just proves it.
Or not. 😇 PS: interesting article, though, showing what the CIA used to call “blowback”.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/04/politics/trump-nominee-pentagon-martial-law/index.html
This fellow has tweeted, retweeted some of the most scurrilous conspiracies about everything. And he is slated to be second in command at the Defense Dept. He is for martial law. Now.
Is Trump setting up a coup using the military? Perhaps. Erdogan did. His buddy in investments who consolidated power when he staged a phony coup by some hapless officers.
The gist is that testing Red Cross blood donated in December showed coronavirus antibodies. These were isolated cases, but before much information about Wuhan was even evident. Excepting intelligence that indicated infections in China, but that’s another sad tale.
We will find out how serious these new Supremes really are about following the law as written in the 18th century. Perhaps 2/3 of a person would be a nice compromise based on precedence. After all we get cheap chicken and tomatoes from the undocumented workers, we could at least give them 66 and 2/3% residency.
“Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy,” Judge Stephanos Bibas, a Trump appointee, wrote on behalf of the appeals court. “Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here.”
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