The level of absolute panic in Republicans really is remarkable. Simply losing power doesn't explain all of it. I think they're terrified because massive criminal corruption by the GOP in the last 4 years is gong to be exposed as the new administration starts turning over rocks
This is what I am thinking. That Texas group demanding Biden swing state votes be overturned by SC is just too crazy for it to be all about the loss, especially since they won so many down ballot offices. There is a desperation to their acts and to the non-action of Senate Republicans that is beyond keeping the grifter in office. They have dirty and bloody hands, dark secrets and crimes that they must want to stay hidden
No question about it. Been obvious for a very, very long time – actually since Nixon – that they have amassed a criminal record of enormous proportions.
The Biden Administration needs to set a precedence for enforcing the Rule of Law NEVER seen in America before.
As I’ve noted on many occasions, #NoJusticeNoDemocracy; #NoJusticeNoAmerica.
1. @thecovidmonitor – will be updated with new computer soon 2. Imagine if the camera wasn't recording 3. Imagine if I weren't white. 4. Imagine this were you. Because one day, it might be. 5. Turn rage into action. RT. 6. I'll be back at work tomorrow. https://t.co/q78i0fbjHB
For years the privileged refused to stand up for the marginalized. They looked away or made excuses or denied our pain. Now the horror of our years is being visited upon them and they are shocked and amazed. They chose to believe that systems that were so unjust to so many would be just to them when they finally questioned or did something that the powers did not like. So tired of white people crying all over social media for the past 4 years with statements like “This is not America” and “but we are a land where the rule of law prevails.” This country from day 1 was a place or the favored few. It is a country built on genocide, human trafficking, and exploitation of the poor and the powerless. We are living in the times that so many have warned about but too many ignored.
Well, as you know, this white dude has been stating these facts ever since I arrived at TOD –> ” This country from day 1 was a place or the favored few. It is a country built on genocide, human trafficking, and exploitation of the poor and the powerless. We are living in the times that so many have warned about but too many ignored.”
As noted in my comment, above, the Biden Administration must BEGIN ENFORCING THE LAW no matter the ‘optics’ or other political bull shit.
I have more confidence in Joe Biden & Kamala Harris doing that than at the beginning of any previous Administration in my life time.
Bet Desantis’ head is swimming that all of this got out into the public and on the national scene so quickly. So thankful that she had cameras in her home and that she put it out on social media where it went viral within hours and the national media picked it up. I live in fucked up Florida where they put someone on the ballot who does not exist to pull votes away from a candidate that had a similar name an where another republican was telling people how to go to Georgia and vote in the run-off election for the repub. candidates. This is the state where ALEC wrote the laws and the state legislators were owned by Jeffrey Epstein. The only bright spot is my area in Duval County where even though we have a republican mayor (not a total douchebag), we came strong for Biden/Harris (18,000 plus more votes than the deplorable ticket) and our election officials and staff are fair and helpful.
FL has been cooking their books on Covid from Day One. If you don’t die in a hospital with a tube down your throat, they write the death off to something else. Just to keep bars and Disney open. It should be a damn crime. Despicable.
The play was so obvious here. Trump and his minions thought they'd get a second term and would've used the vaccine to help red states while screwing blue ones. They wanted those doses limited. https://t.co/dGaljn0iHd
Trump’s current tantrums over losing an election are about his lifetime of goalposts being moved in his favor. He was not just a substandard student, he had a learning disability and behavioral problems his family refused to address. They hid his grades, hid his failures…
I so want to see his (trump’s) grades! Remember when President Obama released his “long form birth certificate”? The next thing out of trump’s mouth was now he wanted to see President Obama’s grades? Can someone not get his (trump’s) grades released? He brags about his high IQ but we know … he never got into any of his schools based on merit.
“Rochelle Walensky and the return of competence”
“After a parade of sheep and charlatans posing as White House-endorsed public health officials,
Joe Biden’s selection of Rochelle Walensky to head up the CDC suggests that
conviction and competence are back in vogue in the Beltway.”
(https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/07/metro/rochelle-walensky-return-competence/)
—-Thanks Joe!!
Per Bloomberg News Alert. Sen Doug Jones is leading contender for AG. But PresElect Joe is also considering Judge Merrick Garland. For the latter, I think he should be added to Supreme Court. Karma satisfied! 😂😷
I'm not a legal expert or highly knowledgeable about post-election procedures, but shouldn't the Texas AG mind his own fucking business? https://t.co/9aXfCQY8YH
This is embarrassing. It’s worth bearing in mind that Texas AG Ken Paxton, who filed the suit, is under criminal investigation by the FBI after his own entire senior staff turned him in for corruption. Maybe he thinks disgracing himself further will win a pardon. https://t.co/zmfwTeLcRl
For those asking, Paxton will likely end up facing state and federal charges for an array of financial crimes. If Trump pardons him on the federal charges, then he only has to convince one jury to acquit him instead of two. Or at least that’s what I would presume his thinking is.
My friend @RepMaloney is right. It’s absolutely outrageous that @senatemajldr has prevented the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act from coming to the Senate floor for a vote for ONE FULL YEAR! Allow an up or down vote, Senator McConnell! https://t.co/VseF9IHLsZ
Democrat @JoeBiden sent a clear signal about his "gun safety" agenda for his Presidency as he named@vivek_murthy & @AGBecerra for top health care posts. This is a strong message that gun safety will be treated as a public health issue. https://t.co/uO7zJwUC0m
Think of all the White House staff forced to work at these Covid spreader events and clean up after, to keep their jobs. We don’t know their names because no one is fighting for them. https://t.co/hCrkSY8HsV
Judge Emmet Sullivan WILL NOT let Trump/Barr/Flynn kill justice. He’s accepting “friend of the court” briefs on the issue of the validity/legality of Trump’s corrupt pardon of Flynn. Let the challenge of abusive presidential pardons commence. Because #JusticeMattershttps://t.co/cUQiEv48ba
Morning, Yvette. This means Judge Sullivan seems prepared to address the issue of whether Trump’s pardon of Flynn is lawful or unlawful, rather than just buckle to Barr’s demand that he immediately dismiss Flynn’s case without a hearing. https://t.co/WemMj8Hi3Z
According to a report from the Guardian, residents in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin are furious that they were forced from their homes to make way for a planned Foxconn factory that was touted by Donald Trump and former GOP Gov. Scott Walker — but never materialized.
In 2017, the then-Republican governor and the president announced with great fanfare that Foxconn would be building a $10 billion factory in the town that would one day employ over 13,000 workers making LCD displays.
However those plans “imploded” reports the Guardian resulting in a facility 20 times smaller that is essentially a warehouse.
While the president promised the plant would be the “eighth wonder of the world,” the report points out that the majority of site of the proposed plant is instead a barren stretch of land where houses used to exist.
“We gave up on our ideas.
We gave up on our values.
All we had left was just to game the system against the voter.”
2010:
“REDMAP targeted 107 local state legislative races in 16 states—including, as you might imagine, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Florida. This coordinated campaign offensive flooded these lower-profile races with negative ads, and duly defeated Democratic incumbents amid a surging wave of anti-Affordable Care Act and Tea Party protests. GOP majorities in these critical states were thus empowered to redraw congressional district maps to pack as many Black and Democratic voters into as few districts as possible, creating a wholesale political resegregation along both sides of the Mason-Dixon line.
“They cracked, stacked, packed, and bleached Black voters,” said the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II,
co-chair of the national Poor People’s Campaign. We think of the 2010 election as the Tea Party’s ascendancy,
but its far more momentous impact was to unleash the partisan and racial gerrymanders that played a vital role in creating the Trump electorate. ”
“Inside the Republican Plot for Permanent Minority Rule”:
(https://newrepublic.com/article/159755/republican-voter-suppression-2020-election)
N.B. How unqualified and dangerous trumpy Gianforte and Daines won in MT comes down to the historically unimaginable fantastically false gross KOCH et al attack ads on all of their opponents.
Will the DNC come ahead next time?
With COVID-19 cases reaching an all-time high this week, we've got to continue to do our part to protect one another. This pandemic is far from over and your actions can help save lives. https://t.co/XJ4dbsCihB
“The Case for Not Panicking About Trump’s Pardons”
“Liberals are in full freakout mode about how a disruptive president could use his most unchecked powers. That’s a mistake.”
“Of course, Trump abusing his power in unprecedented and corrupt ways is a big deal, but his critics should put this worry on the back burner. Of all Donald Trump’s voluminous attacks on the rule of law as president, a last-minute pardon spree would be one of the least effectual—and perhaps even a gift to President-elect Joe Biden.”
(https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/03/trump-pardon-self-family-giuliani-analysis-legal-442651)
By contrast.
The trump EFF YOU party and the gop EFF YOU followers are prepared to die for the cause.
And hell no they don’t want health care – far better to die.
“Trump Is Committing A Crime By Pressuring Officials To Falsify Election Results”
Maddow:
“Per The Post’s new reporting, it has been twice in the past week where the president has called the Republican speaker of the statehouse in Pennsylvania and told that speaker that he needs to figure out a way to throw out the Biden win in Pennsylvania and give the state to Trump instead.
I realize it sounds quaint to point this out,
but pressuring officials to falsify election results is a crime.
I mean that’s election interference, right?
If anybody else you knew was pressuring elections officials personally, leaning on them, weighing on them to try to get them to falsify the election results and say the other guy won, they’d be indicted.”
When he was 4, Santiago Potes' parents fled Colombia and settled in Miami.
Now, at 23, he's a new graduate of Columbia University — and the first Latino DACA recipient to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.https://t.co/kqkzMi2iXY
As far as the “system(s)” failures, the sociopath’s lack of shame, conscience, and fear of consequences results in a willingness to say/do things that “normal” people won’t say/do. Consequently, this gives the sociopath an inherent advantage over….25/
— Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych (@Nick_Carmody) May 16, 2019
This is truly ridiculous. If the 50 sister States could sue one another to overturn each other’s election results, there’d be a mind-blowing cascade of at least 50! (ie 50 x 49 x 48 x … x3 x2) intra-family Electoral College megasuits. Endless! https://t.co/vFyqScuJwA
Top Rs – McConnell, McCarthy and Blunt – effectively rejected recognizing Biden as president-elect by voting against a resolution offered by Hoyer that said the congressional inaugural committee was preparing for the inauguration of President-elect Biden and VP-elect Harris.
Blunt responds: “It is not the job of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies to get ahead of the electoral process and decide who we are inaugurating. The JCCIC is facing the challenge of planning safe Inaugural Ceremonies during a global pandemic.”
i found the debate over whether #RedTableTalk should give Olivia Jade a platform infinitely more interesting than anything Olivia had to say. pic.twitter.com/OWO9lzXb8M
Biden has selected Rep. Marcia Fudge to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to Politico. Fudge said last month she wanted to be Agriculture Secretary. “It's always ‘we want to put the Black person in Labor or HUD,'" she said.https://t.co/2HJKR1MfWlpic.twitter.com/qnkOxhvdXy
Question: gerrymandering effed us and we lost a lot of seats in Congress. How is Fudge’s seat filled with a GOP governor? Was there no one else just as competent to lead HUD? We don’t need these complications. Plenty of talented, competent people for these posts.
“I wanted to bring to your attention that 70,000 Georgians who did not vote in the general election have already requested mail ballots to vote in the January 5 runoff.” #gapol#gasenpic.twitter.com/jsQsKqEKmI
“Anybody who knows how Mitch McConnell works can see this coming from a mile away…after Jan. 5th, when McConnell gets most of what he wants on liability, he’ll have no incentive to provide any more economic relief for the American people.”@RonWyden, to me, in this piece: https://t.co/wXoC9uby1j
You cannot negotiate with people who have no soul…no HEART…who are using anti democratic tactics to maintain their POWER
the only thing that they understand or respect is POWER…
so what do we do….do we play hardball….should we wait til January…to see who has control of the Senate…
i say we wait…i know that folks will be hurt…but the GOP is willing to sacrifice them on the altar of greed and power…..as they always have…
But while we are waiting, we also have to plan for any scenario.
Republicans bend the rules without necessarily breaking them. They find the loopholes and take advantage of them. Democrats like to stay within the norms. But times are not normal. For Republicans, POWER supersedes PATRIOTISM. For them, democracy is obsolete.
Therefore, when Democrats are strategizing, they have to take into consideration that mindset. One side can’t follow the rules when the other side sees rules as a suggestion.
I don’t know if it comes down to Democrats doing what they need to do to gain control [Desperate Times/Desperate Measures] and then put legislation/policies in place to get rid of the loopholes or make it difficult to exploit them. Bottom line, SOMETHING has to be done to stop the bleeding.
I agree. Having the rules and everyone respecting and adhering to the rules makes for a peaceful environment. I am tired of all the anxiety and anger I’ve felt since 2016…and it’s even worse now with all the crazy stuff the Republicans are doing to try to overturn the election.
.@SenWarren, a member of Senate Armed Services Committee, said she will vote against Lloyd Austin as Secretary of Defense: "I opposed a waiver for Gen. Mattis, and I will oppose a waiver for Gen. Austin. I don't think we ought to be doing these waivers," @mkraju reports tonight.
How “pure” of her. Thank God she didn’t get the Dem candidacy. She’s worthless on actual governance. Imagine the loons she would have filled the government with because she’s “BOLD”. We need people with experience as recent as possible. Biden gets that. Harris, a career administrator, gets it.
Back to normal in Georgia. Closing polling places in those areas with high numbers of African Americans and most likely to vote Democratic. Will the Republican “heroes” who stood up to Trump stand up for democracy here? No. This is what they do. This is who they are. https://t.co/fJ5ANGGlsX
These GOP “heroes” only stood up because their lives were threatened. They’ve been AWOL on all Dem-directed voter suppression their entire careers. This has been a damn sham from the beginning. Dems are always soooo grateful when one Repub sounds reasonable. A good part of this narrative is the fault of Dems – again. When oh when will they ever learn who their enemies are and how to frame the message?
Can’t believe Stacey Abrams was able to get all nine justices of SCOTUS, Brian Kemp, Doug Ducey and so many more ideological opposites to work together so seamlessly in this election conspiracy.
Over no public dissents, #SCOTUS rejects @MikeKellyPA’s emergency application to enjoin Pennsylvania from certifying its electors.
This is as strong a message as the Court could *possibly* send that it’s not stepping into the election — and that all of this nonsense is over. pic.twitter.com/KuMXyOWQPS
Boom. #JoeKnows Now some Dems need to stop trying to disqualify him. We had a Pentagon out of control. This guy will bring it under control & restore its honor. https://t.co/nEQ9BPZA2t
🚨🚨BREAKING: A unanimous Arizona Supreme Court AFFIRMS "the trial court decision and confirming the election of the Biden Electors under A.R.S. § 16-676(B)."
🚨🚨BREAKING: A unanimous Arizona Supreme Court AFFIRMS "the trial court decision and confirming the election of the Biden Electors under A.R.S. § 16-676(B)."
Effing seditionist. The proper term. But traitor has more visceral punch. The biggest traitor in American history. Not one reporter even saying that calling legislators to overturn an election is a CRIME. WTF, msm?
🚨🚨🚨White House proposes dramatically cutting federal unemployment benefits as agreed to by bipartisan Senate group, in potentially huge blow to relief talks
Mnuchin pitches $0 in federal UI benefit for jobless in exchange for one-time check of $600https://t.co/hPG3B1tuEJ
Just finished watching the PEN America Virtual Gala/Award show. The last part featured Ron Chernow interviewing PBO about everything from the literary life to whether or not the American experiment can survive. Check it out on Youtube if you missed it.
As you all know, Mitch McConnell has no redeeming traits! It’s hard to imagine that most of his constituents can’t see this.
When I came to Congress, I knew I had a responsibility to pull back the curtain for the American people and expose corruption in real time. So, I’m filling you in on Senator McConnell’s attempts over the last 8 days to tank a *bipartisan* COVID relief bill. (THREAD)
We Tihe People are Trump exhausted. Why are the media still pretending he’s relevant anymore? For now (until the “Big House Drifters” 24/7 series on CSPAN) ignore the ignoramus & his spawn. Deprive him of any media so dood can have time to chow down on KFC or whatever can hurry up his exit out of our lives. Any means necessary. KFC sounds about right for Trumpty Dumpty. 😷
Alabama Sen. Doug Jones and federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland are emerging as the leading contenders to be nominated as President-elect Joe Biden’s attorney general, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. https://t.co/OmSRS9s8fp
YES! That would be an appointment I would not be happy with and question. Just sayin’. Plus, *I* think there is a need for a real fighter in the position. Fire in the belly……..
No! Garland must remain on the bench. If we don’t pull off the two GA runoffs (HIGHLY doubtful) McConnell won’t appoint one single Federal judge for Biden. Jones, in a normal world, might be good but not now. We need a POC (says this white Jewish 70 yr old) These are not normal times.
"In the end, the bed-wetters were wrong. Mr. Biden won, and despite having many fewer followers and much less engagement on social media than Mr. Trump, his campaign raised record amounts of money and ultimately neutralized Mr. Trump's vaunted Death Star." https://t.co/KFibqbCk2m
Breaking Axios: Joe Biden is considering a high-profile ambassadorship for Pete Buttigieg, possibly sending him to China, people familiar with the matter tell Axios. https://t.co/yuJ0nPKRVA
He’s ignoring a key point: It was too big a win this time to pull off a cheat. Had it been by one state and 5,000 votes this might have come out differently. The court won’t touch it because it wouldn’t shift anything. They can’t overturn three states won by 40,000 votes. https://t.co/JbGd78idJ2
Because Lindsey knows that Donnie knows ALL that Lindsey has been hiding for the past 20+ years. @JoeBiden's Presidency must be known as the @GOP CRIME BUSTER Administration.
Exactly. On @maddow PA Rep @malcolmkenyatta will not give Sen. Pat Toomey “ a cookie” for coming out late against the shameful Trump election lawsuits. The refusal to accept the outcome of the election is dangerous & threatens our democracy, he says. pic.twitter.com/VTwLyiLSHn
The powerful impression I was left with after today’s nearly two-hour meeting with President-Elect Biden & VP-Harris is the sincerity of their commitment to confront racial justice & equity issues. It was heartening to hear the level of passion & clarity they both presented. pic.twitter.com/W05YvFVIrc
"I really am sorry, from the bottom of my heart. But if the price we pay is 590 deaths a day then this in unacceptable."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel begs Germans to follow coronavirus restrictions in an unusually emotional appeal ahead of Christmas. pic.twitter.com/dNRge9cvdJ
Jen Jordan, a Georgia Democratic state senator who met with Rudy Giuliani: "Little did I know that the most credible death threat that I encountered last week was Trump’s own lawyer." https://t.co/nCMiz08xiT
Gov Inslee was right to put in place these temporary restrictions. These continue to help mitigate the preventable loss of life in our region
Relief is in sight. Thank you to Gov Inslee and your administration for relying on science, not dogma, as the core of your convictions. https://t.co/xuoZlD5CkG
A member of the Defense Business Board has resigned in protest at the Trump White House's purge of the board, replacing members with Trump loyalists and campaign staff.
"My service to the Dept. of Defense was a service to the country, not to a party."https://t.co/BL3qjpzmke
The president directing his legal team to scour the constitution for a way to rescind three Supreme Court justice appointments pic.twitter.com/Qu0TgEuqA5
Ron Filipkowski, a lifelong Republican who was appointed to the 12th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission by Ron DeSantis, has resigned after reviewing the search warrant affidavit the state used to seize computers and phones from Rebekah Jones. https://t.co/aDxM8E0tNK
This White House vaccine summit has gone way off the rails, with Trump ranting about his election loss, continuing to claim that he’s won, saying he hopes SCOTUS steps in, and regurgitating debunked conspiracy theories about “machines” and “ballots being taken away”
Germany has had 20,000 deaths. We've had nearly 290,000, over 14x more. And we have a population only 4x theirs.
Perhaps that's in no small part because Chancellor Merkel is a serious and intelligent person, and you, who criticize her here and elsewhere, are not. https://t.co/LtaiaP4aE3
Pennsylvanians turned out in historic numbers to make their voices heard during the general election.
Special thank you to the election officials who administered a fair, free, and secure election during an incredibly challenging period in our commonwealth and country's history. pic.twitter.com/6HxVSD9nZa
“America under Trump became less free, less equal, more divided, more alone, deeper in debt, swampier, dirtier, meaner, sicker, and deader,” George Packer writes. “It also became more delusional.” https://t.co/5FDFYwLm0d
Trump loyalists have blocked transition meetings at some government agencies and are sitting in on discussions at other agencies between career civil servants and Joe Biden's teams. It's happening at the EPA, State Dept., and U.S. Agency for Global Media.https://t.co/nV9IF68WD3
The Obama Diary 
This is what I am thinking. That Texas group demanding Biden swing state votes be overturned by SC is just too crazy for it to be all about the loss, especially since they won so many down ballot offices. There is a desperation to their acts and to the non-action of Senate Republicans that is beyond keeping the grifter in office. They have dirty and bloody hands, dark secrets and crimes that they must want to stay hidden
True. These are slimy people. They need to be exposed and prosecuted.
No question about it. Been obvious for a very, very long time – actually since Nixon – that they have amassed a criminal record of enormous proportions.
The Biden Administration needs to set a precedence for enforcing the Rule of Law NEVER seen in America before.
As I’ve noted on many occasions, #NoJusticeNoDemocracy; #NoJusticeNoAmerica.
This!
Yup
Thank you and good morning Nerdy & TOD.
Reckless endangerment on full display in the Oval Office.
As I said in the last thread, he was and still is a tool for the traitorous thug.
They willingly put themselves in danger although I feel sorry for the kids.
Yes, imagine ….
For years the privileged refused to stand up for the marginalized. They looked away or made excuses or denied our pain. Now the horror of our years is being visited upon them and they are shocked and amazed. They chose to believe that systems that were so unjust to so many would be just to them when they finally questioned or did something that the powers did not like. So tired of white people crying all over social media for the past 4 years with statements like “This is not America” and “but we are a land where the rule of law prevails.” This country from day 1 was a place or the favored few. It is a country built on genocide, human trafficking, and exploitation of the poor and the powerless. We are living in the times that so many have warned about but too many ignored.
Well, as you know, this white dude has been stating these facts ever since I arrived at TOD –> ” This country from day 1 was a place or the favored few. It is a country built on genocide, human trafficking, and exploitation of the poor and the powerless. We are living in the times that so many have warned about but too many ignored.”
As noted in my comment, above, the Biden Administration must BEGIN ENFORCING THE LAW no matter the ‘optics’ or other political bull shit.
I have more confidence in Joe Biden & Kamala Harris doing that than at the beginning of any previous Administration in my life time.
She’s a fighter. Love her spirit!
This is why you don’t burn bridges.
Wonder if they think it’s real now?
🤔🤔and🤲🤲
Bet Desantis’ head is swimming that all of this got out into the public and on the national scene so quickly. So thankful that she had cameras in her home and that she put it out on social media where it went viral within hours and the national media picked it up. I live in fucked up Florida where they put someone on the ballot who does not exist to pull votes away from a candidate that had a similar name an where another republican was telling people how to go to Georgia and vote in the run-off election for the repub. candidates. This is the state where ALEC wrote the laws and the state legislators were owned by Jeffrey Epstein. The only bright spot is my area in Duval County where even though we have a republican mayor (not a total douchebag), we came strong for Biden/Harris (18,000 plus more votes than the deplorable ticket) and our election officials and staff are fair and helpful.
FL has been cooking their books on Covid from Day One. If you don’t die in a hospital with a tube down your throat, they write the death off to something else. Just to keep bars and Disney open. It should be a damn crime. Despicable.
THIS!!👇🏼👇🏼
Like I said somewhere earlier…. it was purposeful
Thread. Yes.
I so want to see his (trump’s) grades! Remember when President Obama released his “long form birth certificate”? The next thing out of trump’s mouth was now he wanted to see President Obama’s grades? Can someone not get his (trump’s) grades released? He brags about his high IQ but we know … he never got into any of his schools based on merit.
“Rochelle Walensky and the return of competence”
“After a parade of sheep and charlatans posing as White House-endorsed public health officials,
Joe Biden’s selection of Rochelle Walensky to head up the CDC suggests that
conviction and competence are back in vogue in the Beltway.”
(https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/07/metro/rochelle-walensky-return-competence/)
—-Thanks Joe!!
Good Afternoon, TODville Community
🙏💪🙌💪🙏
Per Bloomberg News Alert. Sen Doug Jones is leading contender for AG. But PresElect Joe is also considering Judge Merrick Garland. For the latter, I think he should be added to Supreme Court. Karma satisfied! 😂😷
WT….!?!?!?
paxton is another corrupt scumbag who is doing this to raise his visibility and get a pardon from the racist loser in chief
Yesss.
Hi Everyone! Check it out!
According to a report from the Guardian, residents in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin are furious that they were forced from their homes to make way for a planned Foxconn factory that was touted by Donald Trump and former GOP Gov. Scott Walker — but never materialized.
In 2017, the then-Republican governor and the president announced with great fanfare that Foxconn would be building a $10 billion factory in the town that would one day employ over 13,000 workers making LCD displays.
However those plans “imploded” reports the Guardian resulting in a facility 20 times smaller that is essentially a warehouse.
While the president promised the plant would be the “eighth wonder of the world,” the report points out that the majority of site of the proposed plant is instead a barren stretch of land where houses used to exist.
“We gave up on our ideas.
We gave up on our values.
All we had left was just to game the system against the voter.”
2010:
“REDMAP targeted 107 local state legislative races in 16 states—including, as you might imagine, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Florida. This coordinated campaign offensive flooded these lower-profile races with negative ads, and duly defeated Democratic incumbents amid a surging wave of anti-Affordable Care Act and Tea Party protests. GOP majorities in these critical states were thus empowered to redraw congressional district maps to pack as many Black and Democratic voters into as few districts as possible, creating a wholesale political resegregation along both sides of the Mason-Dixon line.
“They cracked, stacked, packed, and bleached Black voters,” said the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II,
co-chair of the national Poor People’s Campaign. We think of the 2010 election as the Tea Party’s ascendancy,
but its far more momentous impact was to unleash the partisan and racial gerrymanders that played a vital role in creating the Trump electorate. ”
“Inside the Republican Plot for Permanent Minority Rule”:
(https://newrepublic.com/article/159755/republican-voter-suppression-2020-election)
N.B. How unqualified and dangerous trumpy Gianforte and Daines won in MT comes down to the historically unimaginable fantastically false gross KOCH et al attack ads on all of their opponents.
Will the DNC come ahead next time?
“The Case for Not Panicking About Trump’s Pardons”
“Liberals are in full freakout mode about how a disruptive president could use his most unchecked powers. That’s a mistake.”
“Of course, Trump abusing his power in unprecedented and corrupt ways is a big deal, but his critics should put this worry on the back burner. Of all Donald Trump’s voluminous attacks on the rule of law as president, a last-minute pardon spree would be one of the least effectual—and perhaps even a gift to President-elect Joe Biden.”
(https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/03/trump-pardon-self-family-giuliani-analysis-legal-442651)
Brits and their dry sense of humor…I just love the wit of this 90yo…Brilliantly done, Sir‼
By contrast.
The trump EFF YOU party and the gop EFF YOU followers are prepared to die for the cause.
And hell no they don’t want health care – far better to die.
I love this! “No point dying now” @ 90 years old! Bless him! 💞
“Trump Is Committing A Crime By Pressuring Officials To Falsify Election Results”
Maddow:
“Per The Post’s new reporting, it has been twice in the past week where the president has called the Republican speaker of the statehouse in Pennsylvania and told that speaker that he needs to figure out a way to throw out the Biden win in Pennsylvania and give the state to Trump instead.
I realize it sounds quaint to point this out,
but pressuring officials to falsify election results is a crime.
I mean that’s election interference, right?
If anybody else you knew was pressuring elections officials personally, leaning on them, weighing on them to try to get them to falsify the election results and say the other guy won, they’d be indicted.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/12/07/rachel-maddow-trump-is-committing-a-crime-by-pressuring-officials-to-falsify-election-results.html)
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Another Bloomberg News Alert. Patrick Gaspard is leading candidate for Labor Secretary! He was US Ambassador to RSA & former DNC Executive Director.
I don’t know this guy and its not a sexy pick as far as I’m concerned.
He’s actually a good guy, smart. You might remember him as PBO’s Ambassador to South Africa (RSA). Check out his union creds too.
Goodness
I hate them all for what they’ve done.
Blinded by the light?
As we knew they should…
PRESSURE!!! That’s how you do it, Gammy!
Question: gerrymandering effed us and we lost a lot of seats in Congress. How is Fudge’s seat filled with a GOP governor? Was there no one else just as competent to lead HUD? We don’t need these complications. Plenty of talented, competent people for these posts.
You cannot negotiate with people who have no soul…no HEART…who are using anti democratic tactics to maintain their POWER
the only thing that they understand or respect is POWER…
so what do we do….do we play hardball….should we wait til January…to see who has control of the Senate…
i say we wait…i know that folks will be hurt…but the GOP is willing to sacrifice them on the altar of greed and power…..as they always have…
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But while we are waiting, we also have to plan for any scenario.
Republicans bend the rules without necessarily breaking them. They find the loopholes and take advantage of them. Democrats like to stay within the norms. But times are not normal. For Republicans, POWER supersedes PATRIOTISM. For them, democracy is obsolete.
Therefore, when Democrats are strategizing, they have to take into consideration that mindset. One side can’t follow the rules when the other side sees rules as a suggestion.
I agree…but what happens if noone plays by the rules…what happens to the Republic…
I don’t know if it comes down to Democrats doing what they need to do to gain control [Desperate Times/Desperate Measures] and then put legislation/policies in place to get rid of the loopholes or make it difficult to exploit them. Bottom line, SOMETHING has to be done to stop the bleeding.
I agree. Having the rules and everyone respecting and adhering to the rules makes for a peaceful environment. I am tired of all the anxiety and anger I’ve felt since 2016…and it’s even worse now with all the crazy stuff the Republicans are doing to try to overturn the election.
Aaand the purity troll strikes. Useless idiot.
How “pure” of her. Thank God she didn’t get the Dem candidacy. She’s worthless on actual governance. Imagine the loons she would have filled the government with because she’s “BOLD”. We need people with experience as recent as possible. Biden gets that. Harris, a career administrator, gets it.
Oh my goodness, I love this so much! 😁
Where are the so called dem stalwart lawyers on this? Why aren’t they in courts fighting these blatant vote rigging?
There is no reason for Biden to weigh in because these cases are going just fine for Dems. It’s a shrewd move.
These GOP “heroes” only stood up because their lives were threatened. They’ve been AWOL on all Dem-directed voter suppression their entire careers. This has been a damn sham from the beginning. Dems are always soooo grateful when one Repub sounds reasonable. A good part of this narrative is the fault of Dems – again. When oh when will they ever learn who their enemies are and how to frame the message?
Elias seems to be only one fighting these lawsuits.
What’s happening in WI though? I read where they wouldn’t make Safe Harbor because of a statutory hearing this Thursday. Anyone know?
Time for blue states to secede and form their own sane union.
I’m with you on this. Totally.
Typical treasonous traitor.
Effing seditionist. The proper term. But traitor has more visceral punch. The biggest traitor in American history. Not one reporter even saying that calling legislators to overturn an election is a CRIME. WTF, msm?
You can make this a reality, Georgia. VOTE
Amazing how the murkkkans willingly commit harakiri every fucking time.
I loathe them all with the heat of a billion red suns.
That’s the cutest thing today! 💞
Just finished watching the PEN America Virtual Gala/Award show. The last part featured Ron Chernow interviewing PBO about everything from the literary life to whether or not the American experiment can survive. Check it out on Youtube if you missed it.
Any link?
As you all know, Mitch McConnell has no redeeming traits! It’s hard to imagine that most of his constituents can’t see this.
Moscow Mitch is rotting from the core. It’s manifesting openly via his outer extremities. Evil MoFo!
Sorry!
This is what I intended to post.
I wonder if Julian Castro will have a place in Biden’s cabinet.
Mayor Pete too.
I heard Mayor Pete for an Ambassador. Don’t remember to where.
I think he’ll have a role where his talents come forth. Wait & see! 😷💞
lol.
Hah! 😂😂😷
We Tihe People are Trump exhausted. Why are the media still pretending he’s relevant anymore? For now (until the “Big House Drifters” 24/7 series on CSPAN) ignore the ignoramus & his spawn. Deprive him of any media so dood can have time to chow down on KFC or whatever can hurry up his exit out of our lives. Any means necessary. KFC sounds about right for Trumpty Dumpty. 😷
Garland is a fed judge. Why demote him? Promote him, expand the SC.
YES! That would be an appointment I would not be happy with and question. Just sayin’. Plus, *I* think there is a need for a real fighter in the position. Fire in the belly……..
Yup. The guy who took on a civil rights case in a racist as fuck state and won it has the chops to be AG.
No! Garland must remain on the bench. If we don’t pull off the two GA runoffs (HIGHLY doubtful) McConnell won’t appoint one single Federal judge for Biden. Jones, in a normal world, might be good but not now. We need a POC (says this white Jewish 70 yr old) These are not normal times.
Sigh! Such corrupt use of repub power!
Wish he had some coattails though, especially in the senate races.
fuck nate silver, a trumpturd apologist.
Goodnight TOD.
Is jenna – the joke – being paid the dead Fidel Castro himself takes the cake.
Fucking racist morons.
But of course they do.
Good Morning, TODers, 42 DAYS!!!
The absurd
well, the majority of rest of america didn’t give a shit, so why should the traitorous thugs?
The whole ‘transition’ fubar needs a serious re-look. Is it a fucking ‘constitutional’ thingy?
‘life-long’ republican. That’s the whole problem.
yup, is going to be the same old rethug obstruction shitshow from day one. Come on GA.
Get ALL the media to admit it. And then print it.
The treasonous traitor of a racist brought out the seamy underbelly of murkkka and mainstreamed it. And the fucking media played along.
And the media played along!!
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/12/09/44-and-taylor/