We must continue to speak Breonna Taylor’s name, support her family still in grieving, and never give up on ensuring the full promise of America for every American.
I Might Be Donna @Crypsis12
Instead of denouncing the shooting of two officers tonight, Joe fans the flames of his riots. Imagine the damage he could do if he was to become president?
Opinion Piece in THE GUARDIAN: Republicans will replace RBG but Democrats hold the trump cards – no, really (If hardball must be played, there are plenty of reasons to think that Democrats will ultimately come out on top{p) BY David Litt
Progressives should not worry about what will happen if they mimic McConnell’s constitutional hardball. Their representatives need only act with a little less restraint
In 2005, while bragging about his history of sexual assault, a reality TV host laid out a simple theory of power. “When you’re a star,” Donald Trump explained to Access Hollywood host Billy Bush, “they let you do it.”
Fifteen years later, Trump has gone from The Apprentice to the Oval Office, from grabbing women without their consent to picking a woman to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the supreme court. Yet his approach to power has remained quite consistent.
“When you have the Senate, when you have the votes, you can sort of do what you want,” he told Fox & Friends.
This is what political scientists call “constitutional hardball” and what the rest of us call “doing whatever you can get away with”. It is not a philosophy unique to Trump. In fact, it’s one reason why he and Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell, a man as dully calculating as Trump is garishly impulsive, have become such inseparable late-in-life partners. The majority leader has spent decades in Washington treating public service as a sport, going so far as to title his memoir The Long Game. In McConnell’s view, the purpose of politics is to accumulate as much power as possible by whatever means available. In Trump, he’s found a kindred spirit.
Now, both men have the chance of a lifetime: the opportunity to confirm a far-right justice to replace a liberal icon just weeks before election day. It’s hardly surprising that even cursory talk of principle or restraint has gone out the window. Politically speaking, Trump and McConnell are stars. We will, they assume, let them do it.
In the short term, they may be right. Unless four Republicans defect, they can install a deeply conservative justice in the waning days of the president’s first term. But in the long run, the great loser of McConnellism might turn out to be McConnell himself. No one should be rooting for constitutional hardball. But if hardball must be played, there are plenty of reasons to think that Democrats will ultimately come out on top. In fact, enraged Democrats don’t even have to embrace Donald Trump’s whatever-you-can-get-away with mentality to undo Mitch McConnell’s life’s work. All they have to do is exercise slightly less restraint.
For one thing, America’s political institutions are currently biased – in many cases quite aggressively – in favor of conservatives. Restrictive voting laws make casting a ballot disproportionately difficult for lower-income, non-white and young Americans. Unprecedented gerrymandering gives Republicans a built-in advantage in the race for the House, and according to FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver, the Senate’s bias toward rural states makes the chamber about seven points redder than the nation as a whole. Thanks to the electoral college, two of the past five presidential elections have been won by Republicans who lost the popular vote – one reason why even before Justice Ginsburg’s death, 15 of the past 19 supreme court justices were appointed by GOP presidents.
The conservative movement, in other words, already had it pretty good. The average American disagrees with Republican orthodoxy on every major issue: healthcare, climate change, gun violence, immigration, taxes, Covid response. Yet thanks to the biases embedded in the American political process, Republicans have not just remained viable, but secured extraordinary amounts of power. We can’t know for certain who would benefit from upending the status quo that existed at the time of Justice Ginsburg’s passing – but we do know which party has the most to lose.
What’s more, the GOP has not just benefited from the bias of the American political process – they’ve benefited from the fact that many Americans don’t realize such a bias exists. Despite some politicians increasing eagerness to erode our democracy, large majorities of Americans still believe in representative government. Among other things, they want to see higher turnout in elections; they want wealthy interests to have less influence in our politics; they oppose the electoral college; don’t want President Trump to rush through a judicial pick so close to an election; and were horrified when attorney general William Barr teargassed peaceful protesters earlier this year.
It’s possible that as fights over our political process become more high-stakes and more public, Americans will become less supportive of democracy. But it seems more likely that they’ll grow increasingly resentful of the party which views representative government as a threat.
McConnell and Trump may also not realize the extent to which they’ve benefited from a double standard in American politics. For decades, Republicans have broken norms whenever they believed they could. Democrats have broken norms whenever they believe they had no choice.
This is not (or at least, not merely) because Democrats are more noble or virtuous than Republicans. In the 1970s, when the modern conservative movement began, an emerging liberal consensus left the right wing feeling it had little to lose by upending our system of government. Democrats, meanwhile, became the party of active government – and were naturally more wary of the possibility that, in an effort to reform institutions, we might erode their legitimacy instead. More recently, the Senate’s rural skew has meant that red-state, moderate Democrats have more clout than than blue-state Republicans. At the same time the Democratic coalition of young and non-white voters was growing, giving them hope that doing nothing would still give them the advantage over the long term.
If Trump and McConnell rush through the confirmation of an extremist, partisan judge, cementing a 6-3 majority, the calculation for Democrats will change completely. Even moderate members of the party are likely to conclude that they simply don’t have much to lose by acting more aggressively.
Unless they never again win the House, Senate and White House simultaneously, the constitution gives Democrats plenty of ways to restore our democracy even without resorting to McConnellism or Trumpism. They can expand the electorate by restoring the Voting Rights Act, making voter registration universal, and passing comprehensive immigration reform. They can blunt (if not entirely offset) the GOP’s Senate advantage by granting statehood, and two senators apiece, to Puerto Rico and Washington DC. They can undo the effects of McConnell’s court-packing by expanding the bench – not just the supreme court, but lower courts as well.
What’s notable about all of these positions is that they stop far short of what the constitution allows. They don’t involve granting voting rights to recent immigrants, splitting California into seven states, restricting the supreme court’s right to review most cases, or any other long-shot scheme.
In other words, should Democrats ever regain power in Washington, they won’t have to choose between ambition and caution. They can exercise both – and thanks to favorable demographic trends and the overall popularity of much of their policy agenda, they can be confident that they can maintain power by reflecting, rather than ignoring, the people’s will.
Ultimately, what is at stake in the fight over Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement is not merely who will serve on the nation’s highest court. Instead, it’s an idea laid out in one of the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence, right after the part about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
It’s no surprise that Donald Trump wants to govern without consent. But the constitution is clear: we don’t have to let him do it. _______ David Litt, an American political speechwriter, is the author of the memoir Thanks, Obama: My Hopey Changey White House Years and Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn’t, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think Topics
An estimated 870,000 people filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week, up from the previously weekly figure, as the U.S. struggles to combat the coronavirus pandemic and its economic devastation.
Demonstrations in Louisville wore on past nightfall in defiance of a 9 p.m. curfew and remained mostly peaceful until several gunshots rang out in the midst of a skirmish between protesters and heavily armed police https://reut.rs/36181hV
Mollie @MZHemingway
For months now, I've translated Big Media's "mostly peaceful" claims regarding BLM riots to mean "unquestionably violent." And this is why.
media is scared to place these events at the feet of dems where they belong
Two new polls show that Biden is ahead by 10%! Both outside the percentage of error.
Democratic nominee Joe Biden leads President Trump by 10 points nationally in a pair of new polls released Wednesday.
The latest Marquette University survey finds Biden at 50 percent, compared with 40 percent for Trump.
The president's job approval rating sits at 41 percent positive and 58 percent negative. Fifty-one percent approve of Trump's handling of the economy, while 38 percent approve of his handling of the coronavirus.
A new Quinnipiac University survey finds Biden leading Trump 52 to 42, unchanged from it poll
Protestors are now going restaurant by restaurant to chant at diners on Beach Dr. in St. Pete. A lot of diners yelled back, starting multiple confrontations.
This one was the most significant. Protestors took over a couple’s table. Not sure why they were targeted specifically.
Leader McConnell @senatemajldr The winner of the November 3rd election will be inaugurated on January 20th. There will be an orderly transition just as there has been every four years since 1792. 6:46 AM · Sep 24, 2020
"They grabbed one guy, 'I'm a reporter! I’m a reporter!' Get out of here. They threw him aside like he was a little bag of popcorn. [Laughter] But no, I mean honestly, when you watch the crap that we’ve all had to take so long, when you see that, it's actually—you don’t want to do that—but when you see it, it’s actually a beautiful sight. [Laughter, applause] It's a beautiful sight."
It’s such a joke. Meanwhile, POTUS has been awake for several hours working his ass off for us and for our country and with a smile will field questions and read headlines from a hostile press and then deliver a hell of a speech tonight. Willingly. For free. #Trump2020
How could the dems find a candidate with less energy than Hillary ?
Minnesota home targeted by Biden supporters because of Trump sign
Since certain people are too stupid to stay on topic there will be no comments on this post. Just think of what this actually says about 2020 Biden supporters.
sadly, only a damn fool publicly displays their support for Trump.
WASHINGTON — More than 200 retired generals and admirals endorsed Joe Biden for president in a letter published Thursday, saying he had the character and judgment to serve as commander-in-chief instead of President Donald Trump, who has failed "to meet challenges large or small."
Some of the officers who signed the letter supporting Biden had retired only in the past few years, including Air Force Gen. Paul Selva, who served as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump before he retired in August 2019; Vice Adm. Gardner Howe, a Navy SEAL leader who also retired last year; and retired Adm. Paul Zukunft, who oversaw the Coast Guard until 2018.
The list of signatories featured 22 retired four-star military officers, among them Navy Adm. Samuel Locklear, who oversaw all U.S. forces in the Pacific from 2012 to 2015, and Adm. Harry Ulrich, who commanded U.S. naval forces in Europe during President George W. Bush's administration.
There was more national media coverage of Cindy McCain endorsing Biden than Hunter Biden taking money from Russia and being involved in sex trafficking... how telling.
I know children running for first grade class president that spend more time campaigning then Joe Biden has running for a president of the United States.
CH UNTruth SAID: Since certain people are too stupid to stay on topic there will be no comments on this post. Just think of what this actually says about 2020 Biden supporters.
We are not too stupid to stay on topic. We hate violence and wish it would not happen. I personally would never remove a political sign from a neighbor's yard or do violence to property.
We regret the anger that is now loose in America, but look at who the President is, and how he encourages hate.
We refuse to let you make these acts of violence, bad as they are, the sole issue of this election, for there are so many things wrong about Trump being President, many of them based on distortions and out and out lies, that the list is long.
You cannot make his failures go away. And it is on the basis of those failures that the American people are going to deny him reelection.
Like father like son.......elitists with money who do nothing but lie and cheat to win.....and the slurpers swallow another load of trumps fat white ass!!!!!!!
In the full in view wth Telemundo, conducted Sept. 15, Biden can clearly be seen looking to his left, where the television studio set up a screen with live incoming questions from voters. An edited version of the video shows just one moment where Biden was unable to view a question and says, “I lost that line.
The 26 second clip from the video has been shared by people close to President Donald Trump, including his son Eric Trump, who tweeted Wednesday that Biden had been “caught red-handed using a teleprompter.” Trump’s campaign also ran an ad amplifying the false claim against Biden.
A Telemundo spokesperson said Wednesday that recent social media posts claiming that Biden used a teleprompter during an interview with Noticias Telemundo and anchor Jose Diaz-Balart were false.
President Donald Trump received a harsh reception as he and First Lady Melania Trump paid their respects to recently departed Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. After the president emerged from the front of the Supreme Court, a crowd could be heard loudly booing and then chanting, “Vote him out!”
But Roger,,,,,DC is a D city run by D's......Maybe if it was in Louisville, a red city in a red state his entrance would have been on a throne carried by generals!!!!!!!!!
CLEVELAND (WJW) — A number of residents in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood reported over the weekend that their Joe Biden signs had been stolen, and three residents reported that their signs supporting the Black Lives Matter movement were set on fire. Cleveland City Councilman Kerry McCormack is asking Cleveland Police...
Trump Says Chris Wallace is ‘Controlled by the Radical Left’
President Trump said he doubted that Fox News anchor Chris Wallace would ask Joe Biden difficult questions during next week’s presidential debate, The Hill reports.
Said Trump: “Chris is good, but I would be willing to bet that he won’t ask Biden tough questions. He will ask tough questions of me and it will be unfair, I have no doubt about it. He will be controlled by the radical left.” _________
Chris has always asked difficult journalistic questions of everyone. He refuses to sit in Trump's lap, like Hannity and the other sycophants at Fox News.
The Socialist Democrats "Overnight protests in Portland devolved into riots as demonstrators started fires and threw fireworks, and even Molotov cocktails, at police officers"
Injuried 11 officers.
Portland the home of Always wrong Rogers Peaceful protestors.
WASHINGTON — Top Republican lawmakers on Thursday dismissed President Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the 2020 election, seeking to deliver reassurances that the process outlined in the Constitution will be orderly and legitimate.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., tweeted Thursday, “The winner of the November 3rd election will be inaugurated on January 20th. There will be an orderly transition just as there has been every four years since 1792.”
Trump refuses to commit to peaceful transition if he loses election Although McConnell didn’t directly name Trump, it was clear he was responding to the president, who was asked at a White House news conference Wednesday evening if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the election.
"Well, we're going to have to see what happens," Trump said. "You know that I've been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and the ballots are a disaster."
When pressed again on the issue, the president said, "We'll want to have — get rid of the ballots and you'll have a very — we'll have a very peaceful — there won't be a transfer, frankly. There'll be a continuation."
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, a frequent critic of Trump, tweeted Wednesday after the news conference, “Fundamental to democracy is the peaceful transition of power; without that, there is Belarus. Any suggestion that a president might not respect this Constitutional guarantee is both unthinkable and unacceptable.”
On Thursday, one of Trump’s Republican rivals in 2016, Sen. Marco Rubio, of Florida, tweeted, “As we have done for over two centuries we will have a legitimate & fair election It may take longer than usual to know the outcome, but it will be a valid one And at noon on Jan 20,2021 we will peacefully swear in the President.”
In the House, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, said on Twitter that the peaceful transfer of power is “enshrined in our Constitution and fundamental to the survival of our Republic.”
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CONGRESS Hunter Biden role 'awkward' but incidental, Senate says “America’s leaders swear an oath to the Constitution. We will uphold that oath,” she said.
Rep. Steve Stivers, R-Ohio, a former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, echoed his colleague and said on Twitter Thursday that “nothing defines our Constitutional Republic more than the peaceful transition of power.”
“Regardless of how divided our country is right now, when elections are over and winners are declared, we must all commit ourselves to the Constitution and accept the results,” he said. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/there-will-be-orderly-transition-mcconnell-dismisses-trump-s-refusal-n1240933
As President Trump arrived at the Supreme Court to pay his respects to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg the crowd chanted “vote him out,” which as CNN reporter Kevin Liptak notes, is a rare chance for this president to see his opposition this up-close and in-person. ___________
I thought this would happen. How can this unprincipled, self dishonoring charlatan DARE show his face at the place where a principled, righteous Justice lies in honorable state?
Political Wire Trump Mocks Biden for Beginning Debate Prep
TRUMP: Sleepy Joe Biden just closed down his campaign for the day (Again). Wants to rest! He is a very LOW ENERGY INDIVIDUAL, and our Country cannot make it in these exciting, but complex and competitive times, with a Low Energy President !!! _________
Of course, Biden is making no more public appearances today because he is preparing for next week’s debate.
No Shift In the Polls After RBG’s Death
Nate Cohn: “The most recent New York Times/Siena College polls of Texas, Iowa and Georgia found no serious evidence that the Supreme Court vacancy has affected the race for the White House. Nor did the polls find much reason to think this would shift the race in the weeks ahead.
“The surveys were already underway before the death on Friday of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and neither Joe Biden nor President Trump fared meaningfully better in interviews conducted after her death.”
The people also chanted, “Honor her wish!” Ginsburg supposedly said her last wish is for the November presidential winner to pick her replacement.
LOL.
so the USSC is a fucking 'make a wish foundation' now.
in fact, Trump DID honor her wish.
she wanted Hillary, not Trump, to name her successor. sadly (LOL), Hillary was not in a position to do so.
“I think that Mother, like many others, expected that Hillary Clinton would win the nomination and the presidency, and she wanted the first female president to name her successor,” she said in an email.
Residential Building Permits: Down in August - dshort ... www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2020/... Sep 17, 2020 · Building Permits. Privately-owned housing units authorized by building permits in August were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,470,000. This is 0.9 percent (±1.4 percent)* below the revised July rate of 1,483,000 and is 0.1 percent (±1.5 percent)* below the August 2019 rate of 1,471,000.
@C_H_Truth CLEVELAND (WJW) — A number of residents in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood reported over the weekend that their Joe Biden signs had been stolen, and three residents reported that their signs supporting the Black Lives Matter movement were set on fire. You lied about
Residential Building Permits: Down in August - dshort ... www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2020/... Sep 17, 2020 · Building Permits. Privately-owned housing units authorized by building permits in August were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,470,000. This is 0.9 percent (±1.4 percent)* below the revised July rate of 1,483,000 and is 0.1 percent (±1.5 percent)* below the August 2019 rate of 1,471,000.
Impeached Trump is having a no-good very bad day. While trying to get another photo op, he's being booed (again!) and has to listen to chants of "Vote him out!" and "Honor her wish!"
Video clips in links. 👩🏼🍳💋
Thanks, Daniel J Moffett for the heads up!! https://twitter.com/DanLinden/status/1309130018061258761?s=09
These words are the greatest threat to the United States in history.
"Well, we're going to have to see what happens. You know that. I've been complaining very strongly about the ballots. And the ballots are a disaster. ... We want to have -- get rid of the ballots and you'll have a very trans- -- we'll have a very peaceful -- there won't be a transfer, frankly; there'll be a continuation. The ballots are out of control. You know it."
Roger has been unable to debate his topic once again. What is a : " "....well regulated capitalist government that will share the wealth and not limit to the Super rich" Alky
IF he had the financial and economic mental firepower to debate his topic he would, but he drank and medicated it away.
There is no more time for silence. There is no more time for choosing party over country. There is no more time for weighing the lesser of two evils. All women and men of conscience must speak or they are complicit in America lurching towards a dangerous cliff of autocracy and chaos.
This is a moment of reckoning unlike any I have seen in my lifetime. I have seen this country in deep peril, as the hungry begged for sustenance during the Great Depression, as the Nazis marched across Europe and the Japanese across Asia, as missiles were moved into Cuba, as our political leaders were murdered, as a president ran a criminal conspiracy from the Oval Office, as planes were hijacked into skyscrapers. All of these were scary times, but through it all I never worried about a president actively undermining American democracy and inciting violence to do so - even Nixon, for all of his criminal activity.
What Donald Trump said today are the words of a dictator. To telegraph that he would consider becoming the first president in American history not to accept the peaceful transfer of power is not a throw-away line. It's not a joke. He doesn't joke. And it is not prospective. The words are already seeding a threat of violence and illegitimacy into our electoral process.
I suspect he is doing this because he feels he needs to. It is the same reason he sought dirt on Joe Biden, because he is deeply afraid of losing. Losing an election could mean losing in a court of law. It could mean prison time and ruin. But I suspect Trump's motives are more instinctual. He needs to hold on to power for the sake of power. He cannot lose, even if he has to cheat to win. Even if he has to blow up American democracy. He considers little if any about 200,000 plus deaths from COVID. Why would he care about our Constitution or Bill of Rights?
There is no sugarcoating the dangers and darkness we live in. But I remain heartened that the majority of Americans do not want this. Trump is in danger of losing states that he should be winning handily. Yes, his base is energized and numerous. But so is the opposition. I have seen opposition parties in foreign countries channel the morality of their causes to bring great change. And most of those opposition movements didn't have the strength, power, and resources of those who stand against Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has himself defined the stakes of the election. This is a battle for American democracy as we've known it. We are well past warning shots. Allies across the political spectrum are ringing alarm bells. Right now, all those seeking to defeat Donald Trump know winning a close election may not be enough. The size of a victory will likely matter. Failing that, what happens? I don't know. But I would say we all should try to remain steady. Try to conserve our energy for the battles ahead. Be committed to your community, your country, and your conscience. If enough Americans of decency and courage come together, the future of this nation can be better, fairer, and more just.
Anonymous Dan Rather said... There is no more time for silence. There is no more time for choosing party over country. There is no more time for weighing the lesser of two evils. All women and men of conscience must speak or they are complicit in America lurching towards a dangerous cliff of autocracy and chaos.
Indeed Dan.
It is time for you, for YOU Dan Rather, to break out that Underwood typewriter and do your very best MS WORD fakery. Save us from Trump, Dan.
FBI Has Not Seen Any Evidence of National Voter Fraud
FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the agency has “not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it’s by mail or otherwise,” Axios reports. _________
Gosh, Donald. The FBI may force you to abide by the result of the election.
“I would encourage people to be critical thinkers, and to get their news from a variety of sources and make up their own mind and be a skeptical, discerning electorate — which is what I think is the best defense against malign foreign influence.” — FBI Director Christopher Wray, quoted by CBS News.
Goodness. Trump, with Putin's approval, will be wanting to fire Wray.
Summer just ended. The weather is cooling. School is back in session — or trying to be. People are spending more time indoors.
And now, after nearly two months of slow but steady decline, new daily U.S. coronavirus cases are rising again, with the seven-day average increasing by 21 percent — from 34,588 to 41,868 — since Sept. 12.
Is this the start of the pandemic’s dreaded “fall wave”?
The short answer is… it’s complicated. Much of the current uptick in coronavirus cases is tied to geography. In some previously hard-hit places — California, for instance — it’s almost certainly a by-product of increased testing. In others, such as Texas, college outbreaks are a driving force. Meanwhile, a state like Wisconsin — where the average positive testing rate has soared from about 6 percent in early August to more than 17 percent today — seems to have a more widespread problem.
And so even though it’s too soon to say whether a fall wave has begun, it’s not too soon to see the recent rise in U.S. cases for what it is: a warning.
Regardless of whether President Trump thinks we’re “rounding the final turn” of the pandemic, the truth is, we’re barreling into the riskiest months of the year averaging more than 40,000 new cases per day (and possibly rising). That level of spread in turn sets the stage for precisely the sort of fall wave that experts are worried about — and that they’re already starting to see in foreign countries where the virus appeared to be, until recently, under far better control than it has ever been in the U.S.
Evidence keeps mounting that Wray is part of the resistance "deep state" protecting the left
Catherine Herridge @CBS_Herridge
#Burisma NEW: Letter obtained @CBSNews from @Jim_Jordan asks FBI Director Wray whether bureau is investigating allegations against Hunter Biden in Senate report @SenRonJohnson + @ChuckGrassley “..they had asked the FBI about its actions...but have received no answer from you."
In Lieu Of New Justice, Trump Announces He Will Simply Grant Clarence Thomas Two Votes
WASHINGTON, D.C.—President Trump surprised everyone today when he announced he will not appoint a new justice to fill the Supreme Court seat previously held by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Instead, to save the time that a lengthy confirmation process would take, he’s simply giving Justice Clarence Thomas two votes now.
“He’s a great and brilliant Justice,” Trump told the press. “So instead of trying to find another person just like him, he can now have two seats. I checked the Constitution, and nowhere in there does it say I can’t do that. Incidentally, it also doesn’t say a dog can’t be on the Supreme Court. Hey! Maybe Air Bud can do it! Is Air Bud real? Of course, he's real, right?”
Justice Thomas, in addition to having two votes on each decision, will also get twice the pay. And he now has two chairs, which means that during hearings he can use the second seat to put his feet up. “It’s pretty sweet,” Thomas told reporters. https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-decides-to-just-give-clarence-thomas-two-votes and RBG LOVED him
Sleepy Joe Biden just closed down his campaign for the day (Again). Wants to rest! He is a very LOW ENERGY INDIVIDUAL, and our Country cannot make it in these exciting, but complex and competitive times, with a Low Energy President !!! ---------------
FACT CHECK: FALSE
Biden is not a low energy candidate. He is a NO ENERGY candidate.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Sleepy Joe Biden just closed down his campaign for the day (Again). Wants to rest! He is a very LOW ENERGY INDIVIDUAL, and our Country cannot make it in these exciting, but complex and competitive times, with a Low Energy President !!! ---------------
FACT CHECK: FALSE NO, HE'S PREPARING FOR THE DEBATE, DONALD, MEANING THAT HE'LL BE COMING AFTER YOU WITH FACT CHECKS ON YOU!
LOL. Joe Biden is 'debate prepping' so he's incapable of doing anything else the entire day? Trump is leader of the free world and campaigns more than Biden.
Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays
I'm no political campaign expert, but wouldn't a presidential candidate generally know tomorrow's schedule at least a day in advance? Calling a lid first thing in the morning seems . . . unplanned. Almost as if you need to see how the candidate is doing that day.
The Economist: “Democrats can take heart from polling that shows rural voters everywhere have cooled a bit on Mr Trump. He still has a 14-point lead in rural places, but that is well short of his 22-point advantage four years ago. Commentators seem not to have noticed that Mr Biden has so far gained a bigger swing in rural places than he has [even] in the suburbs." ___________
You can fool some farmers all of the time, and all farmers some of the time, but you can't fool all farmers all of the time.
With breathing room to analyze how our country and others handled COVID-19, the scientific community, government leaders, and the public will have the opportunity to examine both the promise and the limitations of basing far-reaching public policy on empirically tenuous theories and models. The massive failures of epidemiological modeling, in particular, and the significant damage their unreliability inflicted on the global economy and health, should make us especially wary of other efforts to make sweeping policy changes on the backs of ambitious abstractions.
I’m talking of course about the climate-change forecasts that, to date, have failed to live up to the doomsday scenarios that their most ardent defenders forewarned.
Climate-change maximalists’ doomsaying assume that models published by groups such as the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are valid, sound, and sensitive enough to account for changes in inputs. But with the coronavirus, we have discovered how blind faith in modeling can be exceedingly treacherous, as the epidemiological assumptions that governments across the globe relied on when making their decisions over the past several months have been proven wrong time and time again.
Bonus Quote of the Day “As a Republican, I am ready to accept any decision of the court as to the outcome of the election and there is no alternative than a peaceful transition of power.” — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by Fox News, suggesting the 2020 presidential election will be decided by the Supreme Court and not voters. ____________
Sorry, Lindsey, but Biden's victory may be so obvious that no courts will need or want to get involved.
Do you believe in DEMOCRACY? It’s called a coup! Trump is now trying to turn America ���� into a Authoritarian country... WAKE UP! Trump is telling you that no matter what happens he will not leave the White House? That is a very serious dangerous promise! How many Presidents in your lifetime have even thought �� like this? Who does he think he is Hitler,Stalin?
"Joe Biden is 'debate prepping' so he's incapable of doing anything else the entire day? Trump is leader of the free world and campaigns more than Biden."
Exactly.
Personally, I believe Biden will do well in the Debates. He does have 47 years of experience.
Example James said... Biden Makes GAINS IN RURAL AMERICA --- political_lire says: Biden Makes Gains In Rural America September 24, 2020 at 12:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Personally, I believe Biden will do well in the Debates. He does have 47 years of experience.
And he has those 3 degrees as well as finishing at the top of his class.
I kind of do remember he had a problem with plagiarism before though that did cause him to previously drop out. As well as just making things up. Kind of significant things,
But he is a "Biden" and takes great pride in all things "Biden"
Ron Brownstein: “The struggle over Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement on the Supreme Court could help propel Democrats to the brink of a Senate majority in November’s election. But whether it lifts them over that threshold could turn on the terms of the confirmation fight. Given the nature of the states that will decide Senate control, the Democrats’ path to a majority may be much easier if they can keep the debate centered on economic issues—particularly the survival of the Affordable Care Act—rather than social issues, especially abortion.
“The reason: The confirmation fight is likely to further weaken the position of endangered Republican senators in Colorado, Maine, and Arizona—states where polls show that a solid majority of voters support legal abortion...
MIAMI — Republicans have closed the traditional voter registration gap with Democrats to an historically small margin in Florida, triggering a wave of Democratic apprehension in the nation’s biggest swing state.
Top Florida Democrats and longtime activists have increasingly groused in private that they feel pressure from Joe Biden’s campaign to refrain from door-to-door canvassing or holding voter registration drives due to the potential spread of the coronavirus and fears of muddying his messaging on the pandemic.
In the absence of such efforts, a concerted drive by President Donald Trump’s Florida campaign to register voters has helped cut the state’s long-standing Democratic advantage to fewer than 185,000 voters, a gap of just 1.3 percentage points, according to data from the Florida Division of Elections released this week.
“It’s late in the game now,” said state Sen. Jason Pizzo, a Miami Democrat. “There’s been no pushback from us, meaning that for every 100 doors that Republicans have proverbially knocked on, it’s not like they pissed people off to the point where they’ve run to the Democratic Party because they’re pissed at the GOP. It’s shown to be effective.”
At least in Florida, Trump is out-organizing Biden. Just another bit of anecdotal evidence that contradicts the polling. I know anecdotal evidence doesn't beat "scientific" sampling. But when it starts to pile up, you have to wonder.
Did The HARRIS Campaign just have a sea change moment? Vote in Person, ditch the mail in ballot.
They may realize that winning election-night gives legitimacy, and any sudden overturn based on late counting votes or recounted votes smells of fraud.
DID THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN JUST HAVE A SEA CHANGE MOMENT?
Trump Encourages Michigan Residents to Vote Absentee September 22, 2020 at 6:13 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
In an about face on mail-in voting in Michigan, President Trump took to Twitter Monday to encourage voters to request absentee ballots and vote early, the Detroit News reports.
It is a tribute to our forefathers that a successful election leads, time and again, to a peaceful transition of power to the successor. This transfer of power is a fine-tuned machine that ensures that there is always someone to lead the country. On January 20, 2001, another American political journey will begin, and the nation will give the "power of the people" to a newly elected President of the United States.
CALI SAID: "'Trump Has 3,400 Conflicts of Interest' Good source their(sic) pederast, you POS"
JAMES SAYS: Without being so childish as to call you a POS, Cali, I will simply invite readers to go to this link and see what CREW (Citizens For Ethics & Responsibility in Washington) say they really stand for:
NEW: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Sen. Marco Rubio, Rep. Liz Cheney and numerous other Republicans are calling for a peaceful transfer of power should President Trump lose the election this November after Trump refused to agree to hand over the reins peacefully and questioned the legitimacy of election results that show him losing.
All Republicans stopped short of calling out Trump for the comments and didn't mention him by name in their calls to preserve democracy.
"We want to believe our commander in chief wouldn’t say such incredibly offensive things. But we also know, deep down, that it’s likely he did. Because he has before.” -Colonel Jeff McCausland, U.S. Army (ret.)
President Trump has made more than 500 visits to the properties he owns and profits from. The president’s frequent travel to and from his properties has cost American taxpayers well over $100 million. President Trump has made more than 300 visits to the golf courses he owns and profits from, despite saying repeatedly during his presidential campaign in 2016 he would not have time for golf. His insistence on spending time at his properties has resulted in at least a million dollars in taxpayer money being spent at his properties. 141 members of Congress have patronized Trump properties. These visits often coincide with events held by special interests or wealthy political donors that rake in millions of dollars for his properties. Special interest groups, many of which have business before the Trump administration, have hosted or sponsored 130 events at Trump properties since he took office. Political groups have held another 88 events at Trump properties. Foreign government-tied entities have held 13 events at Trump properties, and at least 145 foreign officials have visited one of Trump’s properties. Foreign governments have granted President Trump’s businesses 67 trademarks, and have awarded additional trademarks to his daughter’s business, all potentially in an effort to secure favorable treatment from the Trump administration.
A Senate committee is reportedly planning to subpoena the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google if the three executives don't willingly agree to testify before Congress this week, a Senate spokesperson told Business Insider. The committee is holding a hearing on Oct. 1 that's meant to address Section 230, a law that shields social media companies from being held liable for the content of users' posts. Democrats have called for Section 230 to be amended to force social media companies to take a firmer stance to moderate hate speech and misinformation on their platforms, while Republicans — including President Donald Trump — have taken aim at the law over perceived anti-conservative bias.
Trump’s refusal to commit to the peaceful transfer of power is the behavior of a desperate would-be dictator who’d cling to office even if it meant destroying our democracy. It’s pathetic. But because he is the president, we should take his threat seriously.
Hillary Clinton Lock him up in January 20th of 2021!
to force social media companies to take a firmer stance to moderate hate speech and misinformation on their platforms, while Republicans — including President Donald Trump — have taken aim at the law over perceived anti-conservative bias.
President Trump has made more than 500 visits to the properties he owns and profits from. The president’s frequent travel to and from his properties has cost American taxpayers well over $100 million.
This is a big so what. Trump would have done this (and even more) as a private citizen. The only thing that costing taxpayers is the thing he as president has no say in. His secret service protection detail and his retinue of staff and aids necessary to accompany him in the performance of his duties.
(He was actually fine with using his own private plane and staff as air force 1 but the secret service veto that idea as too dangerous.)
Tillis Echoes Conspiracy Theory on Pandemic Deaths
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told a virtual town hall audience that he believed the 200,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the U.S. had been inflated in order to “encourage people to use social distancing.”
He claimed the actual death count was much lower.
Salon: “The response echoes a false conspiracy theory pushed by adherents of the baseless QAnon movement: that public health officials are allegedly lying to the public about the true death count because of ulterior or possibly sinister motives. Only 6% of the reported deaths are attributable solely to COVID-19, the conspiracy theorists claim.” ___________
This sounds like some similar malarkey we've been hearing here. So, how many of you are QAnon cult fanatics -- rat, Cali, others? ________
BTW, Tillis is running behind Cunningham by more than five points in NC, and may very well and deservedly lose the GOP a Senate seat.
Oh, if I remember correctly, someone(s) were claiming here that the actual numbers of Covid cases were far, far less than the number reported, and the rationale, as I remember it, sounded awfully "QAnony." ("Fishy," in other words.)
"Only 6% of the reported deaths are attributable solely to COVID-19, the conspiracy theorists claim.”
"For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death."
Currently, all states select electors through a popular vote (although how that vote works can differ), but that was not always the case throughout American history. In many states, the state legislature selected electors, a practice which was common until the mid-1800s.
The Electoral College in 2020
The following is a summary of how the Electoral College will work in the 2020 presidential election:
Spring and Summer 2020: Nomination of Electors. The political parties in each state nominate their electors. Parties and states have different ways of going about this, but a party's presidential electors are generally loyal or consistent party members. The parties want to be sure they can rely on their electors to cast their votes for the party's nominee for president. The state legislatures choose the state's electoral college electoral voter.
If the President loses the popular vote in Pennsylvania, the Republican legislators can choose the Republican selectors. The same situation could happen in Florida and several other Republican legislators majorities.
This will probably go to the Supreme Court. The conservative majority can elect Donald Trump, despite losing the electoral college votes, by the popular vote by a huge margin.
Currently, all states select electors through a popular vote (although how that vote works can differ), but that was not always the case throughout American history. In many states, the state legislature selected electors, a practice which was common until the mid-1800s.
The Electoral College in 2020
The following is a summary of how the Electoral College will work in the 2020 presidential election:
Spring and Summer 2020: Nomination of Electors. The political parties in each state nominate their electors. Parties and states have different ways of going about this, but a party's presidential electors are generally loyal or consistent party members. The parties want to be sure they can rely on their electors to cast their votes for the party's nominee for president. The state legislatures choose the state's electoral college electoral voter.
If the President loses the popular vote in Pennsylvania, the Republican legislators can choose the Republican selectors. The same situation could happen in Florida and several other Republican legislators majorities.
This will probably go to the Supreme Court. The conservative majority can elect Donald Trump, despite losing the electoral college votes, by the popular vote by a huge margin.
The state drew out the counting you dumb fuck!!!!!! Then when the cases were decided.....Kerry conceded !!!!!!!!! He sure could have drawn it out longer, but did not..
Breonna Taylor's job was an ER technician, she was neither a drug user nor a dealer. "A judge had also signed a warrant allowing the police to search Ms. Taylor’s residence because the police said they believed that one of the men they had been investigating had used her apartment to receive packages. Ms. Taylor had been dating that man on and off for several years but had recently severed ties with him, according to her family’s lawyer." Ms Taylor and her current boyfriend thought the person breaking into the apt was her ex-boyfriend. The cops shot into the apt without a line of sight which is against policy. The "no knock" warrant had been changed to a "knock and announce" warrant BEFORE the raid on Ms Taylor's apt. yet the still busted in. The cops are completely at fault.
Fatty see how I had that in bold, it means that wasn’t my post
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! Your post, you fucking own it you dumb fuck!!!!!!! BTW.....my comment was about trump or was that not obvious for your limited ability to read??????
IOW' the mouth of the south again deflects his inept attempt to blame someone else because he is a dumb fuck!!!!!! bwaaaaaapaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't fix dumbass UGA grads.......LOLOLOLOLOL
No denial from me fatty, just a provable fact that are simply too stupid to understand how to follow very simplistic threads. It’s all those paint chips you ate back in the 30’s or 40’s when you were birthed
You said it was a post you stole from someone else as your own....Now you don't !!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Yeah loser that degree you got is about as worthless as shit stained TP.......instead of being a man....you make more excuses!!!!1 Funny coming from the big mouthed brave southerner!!!!!!!! God you are stupid!!!!!! Simple is all you got loser!!!!!!!
Leaked chat logs show Portland-area pro-Trump activists planning and training for violence, sourcing arms and ammunition and even suggesting political assassinations ahead of a series of contentious rallies in the Oregon city, including one scheduled for this weekend.
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The chats on the GroupMe app, shared with the Guardian by the antifascist group Eugene Antifa, show conversations between Oregon members of the Patriots Coalition growing more extreme as they discuss armed confrontations with leftwing Portland activists, and consume a steady diet of online disinformation about protests and wildfires.
Facebook removes Patriot Prayer pages in bid to halt 'violent social militias' Read more At times, rightwing activists discuss acts of violence at recent, contentious protests, which in some cases they were recorded carrying out. At one point, David Willis, a felon currently being sued for his alleged role in an earlier episode of political violence, joins a discussion about the use of paintballs.
Where other members had previously suggested freezing the paintballs for maximum damage, Willis wrote: “They make glass breaker balls that are rubber coated metal. They also have pepper balls but they are about 3 dollars a ball. Don’t freeze paintballs it makes them wildly inaccurate” [sic.]
Willis did not immediately respond to voice and text messages sent to his listed cellphone number.
Another prolific poster is Mark Melchi, a 41-year-old Dallas, Oregon-based car restorer who claims to have served as a captain in the US army.
Melchi has been recorded leading an armed pro-Trump militia, “1776 2.0” into downtown confrontations in Portland, including on 22 August. At several points in the chat he proposes violence in advance of those confrontations, and appears to confess to prior acts committed in the company of his paramilitary group.
More fake news from the MSN! The enemy of the country!
Rightwing demonstrators chase a Black Lives Matter protester after a pro-Trump caravan rally at the Oregon state capitol on 7 September 2020 in Salem. Rightwing demonstrators chase a Black Lives Matter protester after a pro-Trump caravan rally at the Oregon state capitol on 7 September 2020 in Salem. Photograph: David Ryder/Getty Images In advance of the 22 August protest, Melchi wrote: “It’s going to be bloody and most likely shooting, they’re definitely armed… so let’s make sure we have an organized direction of movement and direction of clearing or other Patriots will be caught in the possible cross fire. When shit hits the fan.”
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He advised other members to ignore weapons statutes, writing, “I saw someone say bats, mace, and stun guns are illegal downtown. If you’re going to play by the books tomorrow night, we already lost. We are here to make a change, laws will be broken, people will get hurt… It’s lawlessness downtown, and people need to be prepared for bad things.”
Following these comments, several rightwing demonstrators were recorded using gas and bats on 22 August, where Melchi and his militia were also present.
In other remarks ahead of the day, Melchi draws on what he claims is his group’s history of traveling to multiple states to engage in violence at protests.
“My Group 1776 2.0. Has been fighting Antifa in Seattle, Portland, for months”, Melchi writes, adding “this won’t be a simple fist fight. People will get shot, stabbed and beat.”
He also claims police cooperation in interstate violence, writing “Yes, going after them at night is the solution… Like we do in other states, tactical ambushes at night while backing up the police are key. You get the leaders and the violent ones and the police are happy to shut their mouths and cameras.”
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Melchi nevertheless recommends that members disguise themselves to avoid the consequences of homicide.
“We must be ready to defend with lethal response… Suggest wearing mask and nothing to identify you on Camera…to prevent any future prosecution.”
We need an armed militias to save our country from the Communist party under Sleeping Joe!
We are here to make a change, laws will be broken, people will get hurt Mark Melchi In response to detailed questions about these contributions, Melchi responded with an email that falsely suggested his comments might have been photoshopped, and concluded with direct threats.
Melchi wrote: “I suggest you don’t threaten combat veterans sweetheart, might get a little uncomfortable for ya big guy!”
Melchi’s sentiments in the chat logs were in keeping with fantasies of, and plans for, violence, which are constantly discussed by group members.
Although some members are connected with extremist groups or militias, on the whole they describe themselves as “patriots”, and they express no clear ideology beyond a hatred of the left, and a preparedness to use violence. The shared allegiances expressed in the group are mostly to the police, the United States and Donald Trump, a person whom some say they are prepared to kill for.
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Ahead of 22 August, a user “Paige” says “I’m waiting for the presidential go to start open firing”.
Melchi, the militia leader, responds, “Well Saturday may be that go lol”.
Alex Newhouse, the digital research lead at the Center for Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute, said of the group that “the main mechanism that makes these communities so dangerous is the incessant desensitization to the idea of political violence”.
Newhouse said that the ideas expressed in the group were entrenched in “extreme nationalism – that a few strong men with guns can together take out an evil that is at once imagined as an existential threat, and pathetically weak”. Newhouse added that the group’s discussions “fit within a broader trend of rightwing extremists becoming more accelerationist over time”.
Rightwing and leftwing protesters battle with mace, paint balls and rocks near Justice Center in downtown Portland Saturday, 22 August 2020. Rightwing and leftwing protesters battle with mace, paint balls and rocks near Justice Center in downtown Portland Saturday, 22 August 2020. Photograph: Brooke Herbert/AP The chatlogs became fractious at the peak of Oregon’s recent wildfire emergency. While some members said they had gone to rural areas to “hunt” imagined antifa arsonists, others became concerned about the dangers.
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As early as 9 September, the baseless idea that the fires were a coordinated arson attack was treated as settled fact, with Melchi writing: “People have officially died from these Antifa Fires. I’d shoot them on site” [sic], and another user, Dub, responding: “Yes sir if I see them they are getting dropped where they stand.”
When adverse consequences of vigilantism became evident, leadership attempted to bring the group back under control. After a member of the group reported that an associate had been arrested in Lane county for “holding [someone] at gunpoint”, the group’s administrator, who used the user name Patriot Coalition, wrote “STOP HOLDING PEOPLE AT GUN POINT- STOP PULLING YOUR WEAPONS… VIDEO- TAKE PICTURES AND CALL 911.”
Mary McCord is the legal director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law School, which on Wednesday released a series of fact sheets on anti-paramilitary laws in all 50 states.
Given details of the content of the chats, McCord said that “this is the kind of thing that might allow authorities to take action”, and that members of the group may “already be in violation of Oregon’s anti-paramilitary laws”.
The group also talked about coordinating at the rally with the Proud Boys, an extreme rightwing group. One user, identified as Bravo91 and a part of the group’s leadership, spoke of phone calls with the Proud Boys.
Along with antifascist demonstrators, Democratic politicians are also the target of violent fantasies in the chats. In particular, Portland’s mayor, Ted Wheeler, is demonized and nominated as a possible target for assassination by the group.
I wonder how many military votes trump lost because of Cindy McCain's endorsement of Biden????? Could be the tipping point for vets and current service people!!!!!! Gotta suck to be a UGA graduate!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Senate passes resolution reaffirming commitment to peaceful transition of power
The Senate passed a resolution on Thursday reaffirming its support for a peaceful transition of power, one day after President Trump refused to commit to such a transition next year if he loses in the November election.
The resolution, offered by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), passed by unanimous consent, meaning no senator objected to it.
"We're in the most difficult times right now, and for the president to even address - to even address the subject of maybe not knowing if he would accept or not is beyond all our checks that that would ever happen in America," Manchin said.
"I believe to have the leader of the free world talk as if we are an autocracy, authoritarian versus a democracy, is something that alarmed me and alarmed a lot of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, even those quiet as some may be, I know they're alarmed," he added.
In the non-binding resolution, the Senate reaffirms "its commitment to the orderly and peaceful transfer of power called for in the Constitution of the United States."
Most police officers are great people. They risk their lives to protect the people! But this sucks.
A Seattle police officer captured on video rolling his bicycle over the head of a protester who was laying in the street is now on administrative leave.
The Seattle Police Department said in a statement Thursday that the actions of the officer -- who has not been identified -- are being investigated independently by the King County Sheriff's Office at the department's request.
Earlier on Thursday, the city's police watchdog group said it was requesting a criminal investigation.
Video of the incident taken Wednesday night and posted on Twitter shows a protester laying in the street as an officer, who is on foot, rolls his bicycle over the protester's head and neck area.
Scott said that joe Biden slurred the pledge of allegiance.
USA today said
It is clear from a full viewing of Biden's speech that he was not attempting to recite the entire Pledge of Allegiance. The claim that he had botched it is unfounded. We rate that claim as FALSE.
SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS: Let me thank all of you for being here this afternoon. This country faces an unprecedented set of crises. We are struggling with a pandemic that has already cost us over 200,000 lives. We have an economy in which we have a grotesque level of income and wealth inequality, where the middle-class today is being decimated, where millions of workers have lost their jobs, and half of our people continue to work paycheck to paycheck, many for starvation wages. We are living in the moment when climate change is ravaging this planet, leading to massive fires on the West coast, drought and unprecedented levels of extreme weather disturbances all across the globe. We are the only major country on earth, not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a human right. Over 90 million Americans are uninsured or under-insured and we pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. All of these issues and others are enormously important and should be the issues that are being debated in this campaign.
But today I am not going to talk about any of them. What I am going to talk about is something that in my wildest dreams, I never thought I would be discussing. And that is the need to make certain that the president of the United States, if he loses this election, will abide by the will of the voters and leave office peacefully. What I will be discussing today is the danger that this country faces from a president who is a pathological liar, who has strong authoritarian tendencies, who neither understands nor respects our constitution, and who is prepared to undermine American democracy in order to stay in power.
With less than six weeks left to go in this campaign, it is my fervent hope that all Americans, Democrats, Republicans, independents, progressives moderates, conservatives, come together to defend American democracy, our constitution, and the rule of law. We must ensure in this unprecedented moment in American history, that this is an election that is free and fair, an election in which voters are not intimidated, an election in which all votes are counted, and an election in which the loser accepts the results.
This is not just an election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, this is an election between Donald Trump and democracy, and democracy must win.
The United States is the oldest continuous democracy in the modern world. We held elections in the middle of a civil war in 1864. We held free and fair elections during World War I, during the Great Depression and during World War II. After all of those elections held in extremely difficult circumstances, the loser acknowledged defeat and the winner was inaugurated and took office.
That is what the United States of America is all about. That is what democracy is all about. But today in Donald Trump, we have a president who has little respect for our constitution or the rule of law. Today, that peaceful transition of power, the bedrock of American democracy is being threatened like never before.
I am not in the habit of quoting former president Ronald Reagan, but I think something that he said in his first inaugural address makes the point about how important, how precious is this part of our heritage, and I quote Ronald Reagan, “The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the constitution routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries and few of us stopped to think how unique we really are. In the eyes of many in the world, this every four-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle.” End of quote.
Protecting this orderly transfer of authority as president Reagan characterized it, this miracle is absolutely essential. If we together, all of us, Republicans, Democrats, Independents want to keep faith with the American ideals we hold so dear and with the sacrifices that so many made in order to protect our democracy. In that regard, I think it is terribly important that we actually listen to and take seriously what Donald Trump is saying.
Several weeks ago, speaking at the Republican National Convention, Trump said, and I quote, “The only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election.” End of quote.
What is remarkable about that statement is that he made it at a time when almost every national poll had him behind and when he was trailing in polls in most battleground states. Think about what that statement means. Think hard about what that statement means. What he is saying is that if he wins the election, that’s great. But if he loses, it’s rigged, because the only way, the only way he can lose is if it’s rigged, and if it’s rigged, then he is not leaving office.
Heads I win, tails you lose. In other words, in Trump’s mind, there is no conceivable way that he should leave office.
Just last night, just last night, Donald Trump went even further down the path of authoritarianism by becoming the first president in the history of this country to refuse to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he loses the election. When asked by a reporter in the White House briefing room, “Win, lose or draw in this selection, will you commit here today for a peaceful transfer of power after the election?” Trump responded and I quote, “We’re going to have to see what happens. You know that I have been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots are a disaster. We want to get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a very peaceful… There won’t be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation.” End of quote from Donald Trump.
That is not his choice. That’s for the American people to determine. Let us be very clear, there is nothing in our constitution or in our laws that gives Donald Trump the privilege of deciding whether or not he will step aside if he loses. In the United States, the president does not determine who can or cannot vote and what ballots will be counted. That may be what his friend Putin does in Russia. It may be what is done in other authoritarian countries, but it is not and it will not be done in America. This is a democracy.
Now, I do understand that Donald Trump is a billionaire or so he tells us. I do understand that he was born to a very wealthy family, and from his earliest days was able to get anything he wanted because his family was rich and his family was powerful. I do understand that when you’re rich and you’re powerful, you don’t have to pay taxes like ordinary people and that it’s easy for you to avoid the military draft. I do understand that when you’re rich and you’re powerful, you can buy politicians and get hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare for your real estate empire.
But this I also understand, no matter how rich or powerful you may be, no matter how arrogant and narcissistic you may be, no matter how much you think you can get anything you want, let me make this clear to Donald Trump: Too many people have fought and died to defend American democracy and you are not going to destroy it. The American people will not allow that to happen.
Despite all of the evidence, Trump continues to be obsessed with the belief that there is massive voter fraud in this country. In 2017 after he won the presidency, Trump insisted that he would have won the popular vote, which he lost by three million votes if “millions of illegal votes had not been cast.” There is absolutely no evidence of that being true. In fact, it is totally preposterous to believe that millions of votes or any significant number of votes at all were cast illegally. This is an assertion supported by no one, not Democratic officials, not Republican officials, no one, and yet that is what Trump said after he won.
There have been numerous studies done on the issue of voter fraud in our country. They have all concluded essentially in the same way. Voter fraud in the United States of America is extremely rare. Our study by Dartmouth University found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election. An article in the New York Times from December, 2016 stated and I quote, “In an election in which more than 137 million Americans cast ballots, election and law enforcement officials in 26 states and the District of Columbia, Democratic leaning, Republican leaning and in between said that so far, they knew of no credible allegations of fraudulent voting. Officials in another eight states said they knew of only one allegation. In Georgia, where more than 4 million people cast ballots, officials said they had open inquiries in 25 cases into “suspicious voting” or election related activity”. End of quote.
“But inquiries to all 50 states, every one but Kansas responded, found no states that reported indications of widespread fraud.” End of quote, New York Times. A report by the Brennan Center for Justice reviewed elections that had been meticulously studied for voter fraud and found incident rates between 0.0003% and 0.0025%. The report concluded that it is more likely that an American “will be struck by lightning than that he will impersonate another voter at the polls”.
Even the conservative Heritage Foundation, which maintains the database on election fraud could only find 143 criminal convictions of mail-in voter fraud out of 250 million mail-in votes cast over the past 20 years, a rate of 0.00006%.
But you don’t have to trust me on this issue. Benjamin Ginsburg, one of the leading Republican experts on election, a man who served as National Council to the Bush-Cheney presidential campaign, a man who played a major role for the Republican party in the 2000 Florida recounts, and who co-chaired the bi-partisan 2013 presidential commission on election administration, recently wrote in the Washington Post, and I quote, “The truth is that after decades of looking for illegal voting, there is no proof of widespread fraud. At most, there are isolated incidents by both Democrats and Republicans. Elections are not rigged,” end of quote.
Let me repeat from one of the Republican party's leading experts on elections, quote, “The truth is that after decades of looking for illegal voting, there’s no proof of widespread fraud. At most, there are isolated incidents by both Democrats and Republicans. Elections are not rigged.”
And even if the statement of Mr. Ginsburg is not good enough for you, here is what the Trump administration’s own voting integrity commission reported. According to an analysis of administration documents by the Associated Press, Trump’s commission uncovered quote, “No evidence to support claims of widespread voter fraud,” end quote, and they disbanded in 2018.
Even a Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, tamped down current concerns about mail-in ballots last month saying, and I quote, “Many parts of our country vote by mail. Oregon, Washington and Colorado have voted by mail for years,” end of quote.
And yet, we have a president today who calls mail-in ballots a hoax and a scam. Trump’s strategy to de-legitimize this election and to stay in office if he loses is not complicated: Finding himself behind in many polls, he is attempting massive voter suppression. He and his Republican colleagues are doing everything they can to make it harder and harder for people to vote.
In addition, he is sowing the seeds of chaos, confusion and conspiracy theories by casting doubt on the integrity of this election, and if he loses, justifying why he should remain in office. In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News, Trump refused to say that he would leave office if he lost. Asked to give a direct answer on whether he would accept the election results, Trump refused. He said, quote, “I have to see. No, I’m not going to just say yes. I’m not going to say no. I didn’t last time either,” end of quote. That’s pretty much what he said yesterday.
In the middle of a pandemic, Donald Trump made clear that he wants to defund the postal service in order to limit the use of mail-in ballots. In an interview on August 13th, discussing a possible deal for a relief package that would have funded the United States Postal Service, Trump let the cat out of the bag by admitting that, quote, “If we don’t make a deal, that means they don’t get the money. That means they can’t have universal mail-in voting. They just can’t have it,” end of quote.
In other words, what Donald Trump is saying to tens of millions of Americans is that at a time when over 200,000 of our people have already died from the coronavirus, you have a choice, you can either risk your health or even your life by walking into a voting booth, or you can’t vote.
How outrageous, how disgraceful is that?
Amazingly, at the very same time, Trump is making completely baseless allegations about voter fraud. Last month, he urged the supporters of North Carolina to try voting twice, which among other things is a felony.
In order to advance his plan for mass voter suppression, the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit in Nevada, which fortunately was dismissed, challenging the state’s mail-in voting laws.
In July, trump used false claims of voter fraud to propose delaying this year’s election, which he obviously does not have the power to do. This was so outrageous that Steven Calabresi, the Co-Founder of the Conservative Federalist Society wrote that it was, quote, “Grounds for the president’s immediate impeachment, again, by the house of representatives and his removal from office by the Senate,” end of quote.
Last week, Trump told his supporters at a rally in Nevada, that he, quote, “Was entitled,” end quote, to serve a third term, which is obviously a violation of the constitution’s 22nd amendment.
On Saturday, Trump suggested to his supporters in North Carolina that he might sign an executive order to prevent Joe Biden from becoming president. Trump has also urged his supporters to become, quote, “Poll watchers.” But what he is really saying is that he wants his supporters, some of whom are members of armed militias, to intimidate voters.
We’re already seeing this in Virginia, where early voters were confronted by Trump supporters and election officials in Fairfax County said that some voters and polling staff felt intimidated.
On and on and on it goes. Every day, over and over again, Trump is making it harder for the American people to participate in the political process and is attempting to de-legitimize the outcome of this election so that if he loses, he can remain in office.
The concerns that I am raising today are not just mine alone, and are not just concerns shared by Progressive’s or Democrats. Miles Taylor, a lifelong Republican who previously served as Chief of Staff inside the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security, on that there is nothing that Trump will not do or say to defeat Biden. This is what he said, and I quote, “Put nothing past Donald Trump,” Taylor told the AP, “He will do anything to win. If that means climbing over other people, climbing over his own people or climbing over US law, he will do it. People are right to be concerned,” end of quote.
Well, I agree with Mr. Taylor. I am concerned and I am very concerned. Last week, my former Senate colleague, Dan Coats, Trump’s own former Director of National Intelligence published a piece in the New York Times, calling for a high level bipartisan and nonpartisan commission to oversee the election, to reassure all Americans that it has been carried out fairly.
Coats wrote, and I quote, “The most urgent task American leaders face is to ensure that the election results are accepted as legitimate. Electoral legitimacy is the essential linchpin of our entire political culture. We should see the challenge clearly in advance and take immediate action to respond,” end of quote. That’s Dan Coats, former Intelligence Director of Donald Trump. I couldn’t agree more. I strongly second Director Coats’ call for this election commission.
Last week as well, Democratic minority leader Chuck Schumer and I sent a letter to Senator McConnell, urging him to hold hearings on the issue of election and post-election security. Senator Schumer and I stated, quote, “We would like to hear from the most knowledgeable people in the country as to how we can do everything possible to make sure that the election and the period afterward is secure and peaceful,” end quote.
Majority leader McConnell, please respond to that letter. Please establish that bi-partisan committee.
And today I call on every elected official in America, whether they be Republican, Democrat or Independent, to vigorously oppose voter suppression and voter intimidation to make sure that every vote is counted and that no one is declared the winner until those votes are counted.
And to my Republican colleagues in the Congress, please do not continue to tell the American people how much you love America, if at this critical moment you are not prepared to stand up to defend American democracy and our way of life. Stop the hypocrisy.
Now with or without Donald Trump this election is unique in American history because it is taking place during a pandemic and a public health crisis. As a result, states all over America are taking the appropriate steps to ensure more Americans can safely vote by mail in their own homes instead of risking their health or their lives to vote in person. The result is that this election will see by far the largest number of mail-in ballots ever.
And let’s be clear. Despite what Donald Trump says, voting by mail is not a new or dangerous idea. Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, and Utah conduct their elections almost entirely by mail. California, Nevada, New Jersey, the District of Columbia, my own state of Vermont, have pledged to mail ballots to all registered voters for the upcoming election. And many other states are making it easier, for obvious reasons, to vote by mail. Trump himself, as well as members of his administration, have repeatedly voted by mail. Members of the United States military have regularly voted by mail since the 1800s.
Given the significant increase in mail-in ballots, Why, you might ask, are Trump and his allies trying to attack the integrity of our vote by mail system? And the answer is pretty simple. A number of studies have shown that for whatever reasons, Republicans are more likely to vote in person while Democrats are more likely to use mail-in ballots. In fact one poll found that only about a quarter of Biden supporters would vote in person on election day while some two-thirds of Trump voters plan to vote in person.
In other words, if Trump can undermine people’s confidence in the validity of votes cast by mail he will be calling into questions the validity of votes that may overwhelmingly support Joe Biden. Let us consider the following scenario, a scenario which I hope very much never takes place:
On election night Trump is ahead in many battleground states based on the votes of those who voted in person on election day. All across the television screens people see Trump ahead before they turn in for the night. But as more and more mail-in ballots are counted, Trump’s lead folds. Trump then announces with no proof that there has been massive mail-in ballot fraud and that these votes should not be counted and that he has won the election. In other words, Trump may well announce that he has won the election before all of the votes are counted and that large numbers of mail-in ballots should be discarded.
Furthermore, in states where Republicans control the legislature, it is possible that the election results will be ignored because of false accusations of voter fraud, and that the legislature itself will use its power to appoint electors pledged to vote for Trump, overriding the will of the people.
And in the midst of all of this, with the death of Justice Ginsburg, Trump is attempting to push through a Supreme Court Justice who may very well cast a vote in a case that will determine the outcome of this election. He is doing that at a time when early voting has already begun and millions of ballots will have already been cast.
In this unprecedented moment what can we as a people do in the struggle to preserve American democracy? First, it is absolutely imperative that we have by far the largest voter turnout in American history, and that people vote as early as possible. As someone who’s strongly supporting Joe Biden, let’s be clear, a landslide victory for Biden will make it virtually impossible for Trump to deny the results and is our best means for defending democracy.
Second, with the pandemic and a massive increase in mail-in voting state legislatures must take immediate action now, now, to allow mail-in votes to be counted before election day as they come in. In fact, 32 states allow for the counting or processing of absentee ballots, verifying signatures, for example, before election day. All states should do the same. The faster all ballots are counted the less window there is for chaos and conspiracy theories.
Third, the news media needs to prepare the American people to understand there is no longer a single election day, and that it is very possible that we may not know the results on November 3rd.
Fourth, social media companies must finally get their act together and stop people from using their tools to spread disinformation and to threaten and harass election officials.
Fifth, in the Congress and in state legislatures hearings must be held as possible to explain to the public how the election day process and the days that follow will be handled. As we count every vote and prevent voter intimidation everything possible must be done to prevent chaos, disinformation, and yes, even violence.
Lastly, and most importantly, the American people no matter what their political view, must make it clear that American democracy will not be destroyed.
Our country from its inception, and through the sacrifices of millions, has been a model to the world with regard to representative government. In 1863 in the midst of the terrible Civil War, Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg stated that this government “of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” That was true then. That is true today. Regardless of what Donald Trump wants, the American people will preserve democracy in our country.
10:51 pm EDT at politicalwire.com: “You want to go into history to look for something like this? Go into Italian history and look at Mussolini. This is the way dictators come to power.” — Presidential historian Michael Beschloss, on MSNBC.
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All this violence and destruction will reelect Trump. Voters across America are fed up with it and with democrats supporting it all.
Joe Biden
@JoeBiden
We must continue to speak Breonna Taylor’s name, support her family still in grieving, and never give up on ensuring the full promise of America for every American.
I Might Be Donna
@Crypsis12
Instead of denouncing the shooting of two officers tonight, Joe fans the flames of his riots. Imagine the damage he could do if he was to become president?
The dems are running the worse candidate ever
Opinion Piece in THE GUARDIAN:
Republicans will replace RBG but Democrats hold the trump cards – no, really
(If hardball must be played, there are plenty of reasons to think that Democrats will ultimately come out on top{p)
BY David Litt
Progressives should not worry about what will happen if they mimic McConnell’s constitutional hardball. Their representatives need only act with a little less restraint
In 2005, while bragging about his history of sexual assault, a reality TV host laid out a simple theory of power. “When you’re a star,” Donald Trump explained to Access Hollywood host Billy Bush, “they let you do it.”
Fifteen years later, Trump has gone from The Apprentice to the Oval Office, from grabbing women without their consent to picking a woman to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the supreme court. Yet his approach to power has remained quite consistent.
“When you have the Senate, when you have the votes, you can sort of do what you want,” he told Fox & Friends.
This is what political scientists call “constitutional hardball” and what the rest of us call “doing whatever you can get away with”. It is not a philosophy unique to Trump. In fact, it’s one reason why he and Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell, a man as dully calculating as Trump is garishly impulsive, have become such inseparable late-in-life partners. The majority leader has spent decades in Washington treating public service as a sport, going so far as to title his memoir The Long Game. In McConnell’s view, the purpose of politics is to accumulate as much power as possible by whatever means available. In Trump, he’s found a kindred spirit.
Now, both men have the chance of a lifetime: the opportunity to confirm a far-right justice to replace a liberal icon just weeks before election day. It’s hardly surprising that even cursory talk of principle or restraint has gone out the window. Politically speaking, Trump and McConnell are stars. We will, they assume, let them do it.
In the short term, they may be right. Unless four Republicans defect, they can install a deeply conservative justice in the waning days of the president’s first term. But in the long run, the great loser of McConnellism might turn out to be McConnell himself. No one should be rooting for constitutional hardball. But if hardball must be played, there are plenty of reasons to think that Democrats will ultimately come out on top. In fact, enraged Democrats don’t even have to embrace Donald Trump’s whatever-you-can-get-away with mentality to undo Mitch McConnell’s life’s work. All they have to do is exercise slightly less restraint.
For one thing, America’s political institutions are currently biased – in many cases quite aggressively – in favor of conservatives.
Restrictive voting laws make casting a ballot disproportionately difficult for lower-income, non-white and young Americans.
Unprecedented gerrymandering gives Republicans a built-in advantage in the race for the House,
and according to FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver, the Senate’s bias toward rural states makes the chamber about seven points redder than the nation as a whole.
Thanks to the electoral college, two of the past five presidential elections have been won by Republicans who lost the popular vote – one reason why even before Justice Ginsburg’s death, 15 of the past 19 supreme court justices were appointed by GOP presidents.
The conservative movement, in other words, already had it pretty good. The average American disagrees with Republican orthodoxy on every major issue: healthcare, climate change, gun violence, immigration, taxes, Covid response. Yet thanks to the biases embedded in the American political process, Republicans have not just remained viable, but secured extraordinary amounts of power. We can’t know for certain who would benefit from upending the status quo that existed at the time of Justice Ginsburg’s passing – but we do know which party has the most to lose.
What’s more, the GOP has not just benefited from the bias of the American political process – they’ve benefited from the fact that many Americans don’t realize such a bias exists. Despite some politicians increasing eagerness to erode our democracy, large majorities of Americans still believe in representative government.
Among other things, they want to see higher turnout in elections;
they want wealthy interests to have less influence in our politics;
they oppose the electoral college;
don’t want President Trump to rush through a judicial pick so close to an election;
and were horrified when attorney general William Barr teargassed peaceful protesters earlier this year.
It’s possible that as fights over our political process become more high-stakes and more public, Americans will become less supportive of democracy. But it seems more likely that they’ll grow increasingly resentful of the party which views representative government as a threat.
McConnell and Trump may also not realize the extent to which they’ve benefited from a double standard in American politics. For decades, Republicans have broken norms whenever they believed they could. Democrats have broken norms whenever they believe they had no choice.
This is not (or at least, not merely) because Democrats are more noble or virtuous than Republicans. In the 1970s, when the modern conservative movement began, an emerging liberal consensus left the right wing feeling it had little to lose by upending our system of government. Democrats, meanwhile, became the party of active government – and were naturally more wary of the possibility that, in an effort to reform institutions, we might erode their legitimacy instead. More recently, the Senate’s rural skew has meant that red-state, moderate Democrats have more clout than than blue-state Republicans. At the same time the Democratic coalition of young and non-white voters was growing, giving them hope that doing nothing would still give them the advantage over the long term.
If Trump and McConnell rush through the confirmation of an extremist, partisan judge, cementing a 6-3 majority, the calculation for Democrats will change completely. Even moderate members of the party are likely to conclude that they simply don’t have much to lose by acting more aggressively.
Unless they never again win the House, Senate and White House simultaneously, the constitution gives Democrats plenty of ways to restore our democracy even without resorting to McConnellism or Trumpism.
They can expand the electorate by restoring the Voting Rights Act,
making voter registration universal,
and passing comprehensive immigration reform.
They can blunt (if not entirely offset) the GOP’s Senate advantage by granting statehood, and two senators apiece, to Puerto Rico and Washington DC.
They can undo the effects of McConnell’s court-packing by expanding the bench – not just the supreme court, but lower courts as well.
What’s notable about all of these positions is that they stop far short of what the constitution allows.
They don’t involve granting voting rights to recent immigrants,
splitting California into seven states,
restricting the supreme court’s right to review most cases,
or any other long-shot scheme.
In other words, should Democrats ever regain power in Washington, they won’t have to choose between ambition and caution. They can exercise both – and thanks to favorable demographic trends and the overall popularity of much of their policy agenda, they can be confident that they can maintain power by reflecting, rather than ignoring, the people’s will.
Ultimately, what is at stake in the fight over Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement is not merely who will serve on the nation’s highest court. Instead, it’s an idea laid out in one of the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence, right after the part about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
It’s no surprise that Donald Trump wants to govern without consent. But the constitution is clear: we don’t have to let him do it.
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David Litt, an American political speechwriter, is the author of the memoir Thanks, Obama: My Hopey Changey White House Years and Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn’t, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think
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WHAT IS IT WITH THE LYING POS "pastor" AND HIS CONSTANT NEED TO SPAM ???
GUESS HE'S VERY FUCKING WORRIED
AND IGNORANT
ROFLMFAO !!!
40 Days Until Election Day
By Taegan Goddard
Here are the national polling averages with 40 days left in previous races:
2020: Biden +7.4
2016: Clinton +2.8
2012: Obama+3.8
2008: Obama +1.1
2004: Bush +5.0
2000: Bush +0.6
1996: Clinton +13.9
1992: Clinton +11.4
1988: Bush +5.1
1984: Reagan +16.9
1980: Reagan +4.6
1976: Carter+4.9
Liar again Scott
An estimated 870,000 people filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week, up from the previously weekly figure, as the U.S. struggles to combat the coronavirus pandemic and its economic devastation.
Reuters
@Reuters
Demonstrations in Louisville wore on past nightfall in defiance of a 9 p.m. curfew and remained mostly peaceful until several gunshots rang out in the midst of a skirmish between protesters and heavily armed police https://reut.rs/36181hV
Mollie
@MZHemingway
For months now, I've translated Big Media's "mostly peaceful" claims regarding BLM riots to mean "unquestionably violent." And this is why.
media is scared to place these events at the feet of dems where they belong
Unquestionably Violent
Who's worried?
Trump supporters, DON'T read some of my posts in the previous thread. The Surgeon General says they could be dangerous to your health!
Two new polls show that Biden is ahead by 10%! Both outside the percentage of error.
Democratic nominee Joe Biden leads President Trump by 10 points nationally in a pair of new polls released Wednesday.
The latest Marquette University survey finds Biden at 50 percent, compared with 40 percent for Trump.
The president's job approval rating sits at 41 percent positive and 58 percent negative. Fifty-one percent approve of Trump's handling of the economy, while 38 percent approve of his handling of the coronavirus.
A new Quinnipiac University survey finds Biden leading Trump 52 to 42, unchanged from it poll
'I'M JOE BIDEN AND I APPROVE THESE SHOOTINGS."
Oh Roger, Wrong again.
Of course the Shooter was party of the Riot.
"The shooting occurred after 8:30 p.m. when officers were notified of a large crowd gathering near South Brook and East College streets."
MSDNC asshat - "Kentucky AG is SKINFOLK but he ain't KINFOLK."
"I'm Joe Biden and I approve this race-baiting."
Josh Fiallo
@ByJoshFiallo
Protestors are now going restaurant by restaurant to chant at diners on Beach Dr. in St. Pete. A lot of diners yelled back, starting multiple confrontations.
This one was the most significant. Protestors took over a couple’s table. Not sure why they were targeted specifically.
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/ByJoshFiallo/status/1308927845687799812
Florida is going to be solid red
Leader McConnell
@senatemajldr
The winner of the November 3rd election will be inaugurated on January 20th. There will be an orderly transition just as there has been every four years since 1792.
6:46 AM · Sep 24, 2020
@ByJoshFiallo
More twitter bullshit posted by the dumb fuck daddy......Not sure why he thinks this tripe is real other than just being stupid!!!!!!!
Trump supporters, I apologize!
I SHOULDN'T have posted 8:52!
PLEASE stay away from sharp objects!
The winner of the November 3rd election will be inaugurated on January 20th.
Well everyone knows the winner on November 3rd will be Trump. But there is the other candidate...
Tim Young
@TimRunsHisMouth
Biden ALREADY called a lid for the day... he might physically and mentally be the weakest presidential candidate in American history.
Yep, that's today folks...
Well it is a kind of quiet day if you are in a basement.
Trump encourages violence
"They grabbed one guy, 'I'm a reporter! I’m a reporter!' Get out of here. They threw him aside like he was a little bag of popcorn. [Laughter] But no, I mean honestly, when you watch the crap that we’ve all had to take so long, when you see that, it's actually—you don’t want to do that—but when you see it, it’s actually a beautiful sight. [Laughter, applause] It's a beautiful sight."
JustSomeGirl
@LoneStarMama4
It’s such a joke. Meanwhile, POTUS has been awake for several hours working his ass off for us and for our country and with a smile will field questions and read headlines from a hostile press and then deliver a hell of a speech tonight. Willingly. For free. #Trump2020
How could the dems find a candidate with less energy than Hillary ?
and demented to boot.
Minnesota home targeted by Biden supporters because of Trump sign
Since certain people are too stupid to stay on topic there will be no comments on this post. Just think of what this actually says about 2020 Biden supporters.
sadly, only a damn fool publicly displays their support for Trump.
this is who Biden supporters ARE.
when they tell you who they are, BELIEVE THEM.
they want you DEAD.
WASHINGTON — More than 200 retired generals and admirals endorsed Joe Biden for president in a letter published Thursday, saying he had the character and judgment to serve as commander-in-chief instead of President Donald Trump, who has failed "to meet challenges large or small."
Some of the officers who signed the letter supporting Biden had retired only in the past few years, including Air Force Gen. Paul Selva, who served as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump before he retired in August 2019; Vice Adm. Gardner Howe, a Navy SEAL leader who also retired last year; and retired Adm. Paul Zukunft, who oversaw the Coast Guard until 2018.
The list of signatories featured 22 retired four-star military officers, among them Navy Adm. Samuel Locklear, who oversaw all U.S. forces in the Pacific from 2012 to 2015, and Adm. Harry Ulrich, who commanded U.S. naval forces in Europe during President George W. Bush's administration.
They aren't suckers and losers like rrb is
Tim Young
@TimRunsHisMouth
There was more national media coverage of Cindy McCain endorsing Biden than Hunter Biden taking money from Russia and being involved in sex trafficking... how telling.
well they did cover the peaceful protests
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
I know children running for first grade class president that spend more time campaigning then Joe Biden has running for a president of the United States.
and get asked tougher questions
ROFLMFAO !!!
Sharyl Attkisson🕵️♂️
@SharylAttkisson
From what I can tell, at this point, you may as well call them the "Get-Out-The-Trump-Vote-Patrol."
https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/status/1308944977213509633
"If you win, will you commit to a peaceful transition of power?"
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1308926238560522240
journalism - the white collar version of tab "A" into slot "B."
CH UNTruth SAID:
Since certain people are too stupid to stay on topic there will be no comments on this post. Just think of what this actually says about 2020 Biden supporters.
We are not too stupid to stay on topic. We hate violence and wish it would not happen. I personally would never remove a political sign from a neighbor's yard or do violence to property.
We regret the anger that is now loose in America, but look at who the President is, and how he encourages hate.
We refuse to let you make these acts of violence, bad as they are, the sole issue of this election, for there are so many things wrong about Trump being President, many of them based on distortions and out and out lies, that the list is long.
You cannot make his failures go away. And it is on the basis of those failures that the American people are going to deny him reelection.
Like father like son.......elitists with money who do nothing but lie and cheat to win.....and the slurpers swallow another load of trumps fat white ass!!!!!!!
In the full in view wth Telemundo, conducted Sept. 15, Biden can clearly be seen looking to his left, where the television studio set up a screen with live incoming questions from voters. An edited version of the video shows just one moment where Biden was unable to view a question and says, “I lost that line.
The 26 second clip from the video has been shared by people close to President Donald Trump, including his son Eric Trump, who tweeted Wednesday that Biden had been “caught red-handed using a teleprompter.” Trump’s campaign also ran an ad amplifying the false claim against Biden.
A Telemundo spokesperson said Wednesday that recent social media posts claiming that Biden used a teleprompter during an interview with Noticias Telemundo and anchor Jose Diaz-Balart were false.
President Donald Trump received a harsh reception as he and First Lady Melania Trump paid their respects to recently departed Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. After the president emerged from the front of the Supreme Court, a crowd could be heard loudly booing and then chanting, “Vote him out!”
journalism - the white collar version of tab "A" into slot "B."
While confusing dumb fucks like you with reality......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
The lying plagiarizing POS "pastor"james said:
We are not too stupid to stay on topic.
but he just can't.
His GODdard doesn't write stuff that fits into a threads topic.
And the cowardly "pastor" is embarrassed enough that he hides the source already.
ROFLMFAO !!!
loudly booing and then chanting, “Vote him out!”
But Roger,,,,,DC is a D city run by D's......Maybe if it was in Louisville, a red city in a red state his entrance would have been on a throne carried by generals!!!!!!!!!
CLEVELAND (WJW) — A number of residents in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood reported over the weekend that their Joe Biden signs had been stolen, and three residents reported that their signs supporting the Black Lives Matter movement were set on fire. Cleveland City Councilman Kerry McCormack is asking Cleveland Police...
The HARRIS Campaign
"burn the muthfucker down".
Trump Says Chris Wallace is ‘Controlled by the Radical Left’
President Trump said he doubted that Fox News anchor Chris Wallace would ask Joe Biden difficult questions during next week’s presidential debate, The Hill reports.
Said Trump: “Chris is good, but I would be willing to bet that he won’t ask Biden tough questions. He will ask tough questions of me and it will be unfair, I have no doubt about it. He will be controlled by the radical left.”
_________
Chris has always asked difficult journalistic questions of everyone. He refuses to sit in Trump's lap, like Hannity and the other sycophants at Fox News.
The Socialist Democrats
"Overnight protests in Portland devolved into riots as demonstrators started fires and threw fireworks, and even Molotov cocktails, at police officers"
Injuried 11 officers.
Portland the home of Always wrong Rogers Peaceful protestors.
Trump says the goat fucker should vote democrat!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Sad you don't deserve to vote for me!!!!
WASHINGTON — Top Republican lawmakers on Thursday dismissed President Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the 2020 election, seeking to deliver reassurances that the process outlined in the Constitution will be orderly and legitimate.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., tweeted Thursday, “The winner of the November 3rd election will be inaugurated on January 20th. There will be an orderly transition just as there has been every four years since 1792.”
Trump refuses to commit to peaceful transition if he loses election
Although McConnell didn’t directly name Trump, it was clear he was responding to the president, who was asked at a White House news conference Wednesday evening if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the election.
"Well, we're going to have to see what happens," Trump said. "You know that I've been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and the ballots are a disaster."
When pressed again on the issue, the president said, "We'll want to have — get rid of the ballots and you'll have a very — we'll have a very peaceful — there won't be a transfer, frankly. There'll be a continuation."
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, a frequent critic of Trump, tweeted Wednesday after the news conference, “Fundamental to democracy is the peaceful transition of power; without that, there is Belarus. Any suggestion that a president might not respect this Constitutional guarantee is both unthinkable and unacceptable.”
On Thursday, one of Trump’s Republican rivals in 2016, Sen. Marco Rubio, of Florida, tweeted, “As we have done for over two centuries we will have a legitimate & fair election It may take longer than usual to know the outcome, but it will be a valid one And at noon on Jan 20,2021 we will peacefully swear in the President.”
In the House, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, said on Twitter that the peaceful transfer of power is “enshrined in our Constitution and fundamental to the survival of our Republic.”
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CONGRESS
Hunter Biden role 'awkward' but incidental, Senate says
“America’s leaders swear an oath to the Constitution. We will uphold that oath,” she said.
Rep. Steve Stivers, R-Ohio, a former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, echoed his colleague and said on Twitter Thursday that “nothing defines our Constitutional Republic more than the peaceful transition of power.”
“Regardless of how divided our country is right now, when elections are over and winners are declared, we must all commit ourselves to the Constitution and accept the results,” he said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/there-will-be-orderly-transition-mcconnell-dismisses-trump-s-refusal-n1240933
‘Vote Him Out’ ‘Vote Him Out’
As President Trump arrived at the Supreme Court to pay his respects to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg the crowd chanted “vote him out,” which as CNN reporter Kevin Liptak notes, is a rare chance for this president to see his opposition this up-close and in-person.
___________
I thought this would happen. How can this unprincipled, self dishonoring charlatan DARE show his face at the place where a principled, righteous Justice lies in honorable state?
Wow, James is on a Roll.
It might help if we stopped calling them "militia," an honorable term for the legal armed force of state governments.
A group of armed men who answer to no civil authority are a "gang"
As in:
"Armed gang members march up 7th St. in downtown Louisville."
Political Wire
Trump Mocks Biden for Beginning Debate Prep
TRUMP: Sleepy Joe Biden just closed down his campaign for the day (Again). Wants to rest! He is a very LOW ENERGY INDIVIDUAL, and our Country cannot make it in these exciting, but complex and competitive times, with a Low Energy President !!!
_________
Of course, Biden is making no more public appearances today because he is preparing for next week’s debate.
No Shift In the Polls After RBG’s Death
Nate Cohn: “The most recent New York Times/Siena College polls of Texas, Iowa and Georgia found no serious evidence that the Supreme Court vacancy has affected the race for the White House. Nor did the polls find much reason to think this would shift the race in the weeks ahead.
“The surveys were already underway before the death on Friday of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and neither Joe Biden nor President Trump fared meaningfully better in interviews conducted after her death.”
More Battleground Polls
A new Franklin and Marshall poll:
PENNSYLVANIA:
Biden 49%, Trump 40%
A new Christopher Newport University poll:
VIRGINIA:
Biden 48%, Trump 43%
1.o1 million news homes were bought by Americans building on their dream.
The people also chanted, “Honor her wish!” Ginsburg supposedly said her last wish is for the November presidential winner to pick her replacement.
LOL.
so the USSC is a fucking 'make a wish foundation' now.
in fact, Trump DID honor her wish.
she wanted Hillary, not Trump, to name her successor. sadly (LOL), Hillary was not in a position to do so.
“I think that Mother, like many others, expected that Hillary Clinton would win the nomination and the presidency, and she wanted the first female president to name her successor,” she said in an email.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ruth-bader-ginsburg-didnt-retire-because-she-wanted-hillary-clinton-to-name-her-successor-daughter-says
Violence hurts the cause of systemic racism destruction.
And permits are down Keep dreaming asshole
Residential Building Permits: Down in August - dshort ...
www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2020/...
Sep 17, 2020 · Building Permits. Privately-owned housing units authorized by building permits in August were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,470,000. This is 0.9 percent (±1.4 percent)* below the revised July rate of 1,483,000 and is 0.1 percent (±1.5 percent)* below the August 2019 rate of 1,471,000.
I wonder when he will block me from Twitter too?
@C_H_Truth CLEVELAND (WJW) — A number of residents in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood reported over the weekend that their Joe Biden signs had been stolen, and three residents reported that their signs supporting the Black Lives Matter movement were set on fire. You lied about
Residential Building Permits: Down in August - dshort ...
www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2020/...
Sep 17, 2020 · Building Permits. Privately-owned housing units authorized by building permits in August were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,470,000. This is 0.9 percent (±1.4 percent)* below the revised July rate of 1,483,000 and is 0.1 percent (±1.5 percent)* below the August 2019 rate of 1,471,000.
A group of armed men who answer to no civil authority are a "gang"
As in:
"Armed gang members march up 7th St. in downtown Louisville."
call them what they are, alky -
antifa and BLM shitbags. or "Biden supporters."
What I have openly stated on USSC openings:
"There's nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being the president in his last year."
I am way too honorable of a person to be a hypocrite and change my mind because of which Party is in the White House.
Impeached Trump is having a no-good very bad day. While trying to get another photo op, he's being booed (again!) and has to listen to chants of "Vote him out!" and "Honor her wish!"
Video clips in links. 👩🏼🍳💋
Thanks, Daniel J Moffett for the heads up!!
https://twitter.com/DanLinden/status/1309130018061258761?s=09
https://twitter.com/DanLinden/status/1309130797455224832?s=09
https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1309130083131588611?s=19
Just(ice) sayin' 😉
They were a gang of whitesupremicist people like you
antifa and BLM shitbags
PURE BULLSHIT ON YOUR PART YOU DUMB FUCK....JUST LIKE YOUR POST ON ALBANY RIOTS........BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
What is this nonscene
"Roger AmickSeptember 24, 2020 at 10:05 AM
Violence hurts the cause of systemic racism destruction."
https://twitter.com/DanLinden/status/1309130797455224832?s=19
Vote him out!
Blogger Roger Amick said...
They were a gang of whitesupremicist people like you
yet is was an antifa/blm/biden supporter who attempted to murder two police in Louisville.
those "white supremacists" as you call them are simply protecting lives and property. and i'll bet you they're not all white.
you're a racist asshole alky, and as we close in on this election i can sense your increased panic level.
embrace the suck that is your candidate and your dilemma, Agolf.
These words are the greatest threat to the United States in history.
"Well, we're going to have to see what happens. You know that. I've been complaining very strongly about the ballots. And the ballots are a disaster. ... We want to have -- get rid of the ballots and you'll have a very trans- -- we'll have a very peaceful -- there won't be a transfer, frankly; there'll be a continuation. The ballots are out of control. You know it."
Roger has been unable to debate his topic once again.
What is a :
"
"....well regulated capitalist government that will share the wealth and not limit to the Super rich" Alky
IF he had the financial and economic mental firepower to debate his topic he would, but he drank and medicated it away.
They were a bunch of older fat white guys like you Jimmy Hitler
https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1302215233705050113?s=19
There is no more time for silence. There is no more time for choosing party over country. There is no more time for weighing the lesser of two evils. All women and men of conscience must speak or they are complicit in America lurching towards a dangerous cliff of autocracy and chaos.
This is a moment of reckoning unlike any I have seen in my lifetime. I have seen this country in deep peril, as the hungry begged for sustenance during the Great Depression, as the Nazis marched across Europe and the Japanese across Asia, as missiles were moved into Cuba, as our political leaders were murdered, as a president ran a criminal conspiracy from the Oval Office, as planes were hijacked into skyscrapers. All of these were scary times, but through it all I never worried about a president actively undermining American democracy and inciting violence to do so - even Nixon, for all of his criminal activity.
What Donald Trump said today are the words of a dictator. To telegraph that he would consider becoming the first president in American history not to accept the peaceful transfer of power is not a throw-away line. It's not a joke. He doesn't joke. And it is not prospective. The words are already seeding a threat of violence and illegitimacy into our electoral process.
I suspect he is doing this because he feels he needs to. It is the same reason he sought dirt on Joe Biden, because he is deeply afraid of losing. Losing an election could mean losing in a court of law. It could mean prison time and ruin. But I suspect Trump's motives are more instinctual. He needs to hold on to power for the sake of power. He cannot lose, even if he has to cheat to win. Even if he has to blow up American democracy. He considers little if any about 200,000 plus deaths from COVID. Why would he care about our Constitution or Bill of Rights?
There is no sugarcoating the dangers and darkness we live in. But I remain heartened that the majority of Americans do not want this. Trump is in danger of losing states that he should be winning handily. Yes, his base is energized and numerous. But so is the opposition. I have seen opposition parties in foreign countries channel the morality of their causes to bring great change. And most of those opposition movements didn't have the strength, power, and resources of those who stand against Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has himself defined the stakes of the election. This is a battle for American democracy as we've known it. We are well past warning shots. Allies across the political spectrum are ringing alarm bells. Right now, all those seeking to defeat Donald Trump know winning a close election may not be enough. The size of a victory will likely matter. Failing that, what happens? I don't know. But I would say we all should try to remain steady. Try to conserve our energy for the battles ahead. Be committed to your community, your country, and your conscience. If enough Americans of decency and courage come together, the future of this nation can be better, fairer, and more just.
Anonymous Dan Rather said...
There is no more time for silence. There is no more time for choosing party over country. There is no more time for weighing the lesser of two evils. All women and men of conscience must speak or they are complicit in America lurching towards a dangerous cliff of autocracy and chaos.
Indeed Dan.
It is time for you, for YOU Dan Rather, to break out that Underwood typewriter and do your very best MS WORD fakery. Save us from Trump, Dan.
Do that voodoo that YOU do.
LOL.
LOL -
Ford Fischer
@FordFischer
·
Sep 5
A couple dozen members of the “National Patriotic Defense Team” Militia are gathering about four miles from downtown #Louisville.
Another right-wing militia group is currently reportedly rallying up about ten miles away as well.
They’re currently listing emergency contacts.
https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1302215233705050113?s=19
a couple dozen white folk. OOHHHHH...
ford fischer is an antifa cinematographer.
heh.
FBI Has Not Seen Any Evidence of National Voter Fraud
FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the agency has “not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it’s by mail or otherwise,” Axios reports.
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Gosh, Donald. The FBI may force you to abide by the result of the election.
Politico:
‘Something’s in the water’: Florida Republicans see surge in voter registration
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/24/florida-republicans-voter-registration-surge-420936
Quote of the Day
“I would encourage people to be critical thinkers, and to get their news from a variety of sources and make up their own mind and be a skeptical, discerning electorate — which is what I think is the best defense against malign foreign influence.”
— FBI Director Christopher Wray, quoted by CBS News.
Goodness. Trump, with Putin's approval, will be wanting to fire Wray.
Yahoo news coverage
Summer just ended. The weather is cooling. School is back in session — or trying to be. People are spending more time indoors.
And now, after nearly two months of slow but steady decline, new daily U.S. coronavirus cases are rising again, with the seven-day average increasing by 21 percent — from 34,588 to 41,868 — since Sept. 12.
Is this the start of the pandemic’s dreaded “fall wave”?
The short answer is… it’s complicated. Much of the current uptick in coronavirus cases is tied to geography. In some previously hard-hit places — California, for instance — it’s almost certainly a by-product of increased testing. In others, such as Texas, college outbreaks are a driving force. Meanwhile, a state like Wisconsin — where the average positive testing rate has soared from about 6 percent in early August to more than 17 percent today — seems to have a more widespread problem.
And so even though it’s too soon to say whether a fall wave has begun, it’s not too soon to see the recent rise in U.S. cases for what it is: a warning.
Regardless of whether President Trump thinks we’re “rounding the final turn” of the pandemic, the truth is, we’re barreling into the riskiest months of the year averaging more than 40,000 new cases per day (and possibly rising). That level of spread in turn sets the stage for precisely the sort of fall wave that experts are worried about — and that they’re already starting to see in foreign countries where the virus appeared to be, until recently, under far better control than it has ever been in the U.S.
"Vote him out! Vote him out! Vote him out!"
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/09/24/trump-jeered-as-he-visits-ginsburgs-casket-at-us-supreme-court/24629507/
Evidence keeps mounting that Wray is part of the resistance "deep state" protecting the left
Catherine Herridge
@CBS_Herridge
#Burisma NEW: Letter obtained @CBSNews from @Jim_Jordan asks FBI Director Wray whether bureau is investigating allegations against Hunter Biden in Senate report @SenRonJohnson + @ChuckGrassley “..they had asked the FBI about its actions...but have received no answer from you."
https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1309145389463986177
Wray must go, he's another Comey bro
thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
I'm beginning to wonder if Hunter Biden made more cash selling out America during the Obama years than Hillary.
His dad sure made a FORTUNE
Christopher Wray: FBI has not seen evidence of national voter fraud effort by mail.
In a day or two will see me @realDonaldTrump Twitter tirade
Christopher Wray "You're fired!" Pack up your phone and go home.
In Lieu Of New Justice, Trump Announces He Will Simply Grant Clarence Thomas Two Votes
WASHINGTON, D.C.—President Trump surprised everyone today when he announced he will not appoint a new justice to fill the Supreme Court seat previously held by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Instead, to save the time that a lengthy confirmation process would take, he’s simply giving Justice Clarence Thomas two votes now.
“He’s a great and brilliant Justice,” Trump told the press. “So instead of trying to find another person just like him, he can now have two seats. I checked the Constitution, and nowhere in there does it say I can’t do that. Incidentally, it also doesn’t say a dog can’t be on the Supreme Court. Hey! Maybe Air Bud can do it! Is Air Bud real? Of course, he's real, right?”
Justice Thomas, in addition to having two votes on each decision, will also get twice the pay. And he now has two chairs, which means that during hearings he can use the second seat to put his feet up. “It’s pretty sweet,” Thomas told reporters.
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-decides-to-just-give-clarence-thomas-two-votes
and RBG LOVED him
No response yet from Scott A**hole.
@C_H_Truth there won't be a transfer, frankly; there'll be a continuation. The ballots are out of control. You know it."
Scott, it's not just politics. This is the greatest threat to the American dream in history. Unless you speak out, you will live in shame.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Sleepy Joe Biden just closed down his campaign for the day (Again). Wants to rest! He is a very LOW ENERGY INDIVIDUAL, and our Country cannot make it in these exciting, but complex and competitive times, with a Low Energy President !!!
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FACT CHECK: FALSE
Biden is not a low energy candidate. He is a NO ENERGY candidate.
ROFLMFAO !!!
They also chanted:
"Grant her wish! Grant her wish! Grant her wish!"
(They being the genuine mourners who were not pleased with Trump's hypocritical presence.)
In Nashville a councilman who said the virus was a hoax before he contracted it, died.
#karma
Roger Amick said...
No response yet from Scott A**hole.
Hey asshole
Maybe he is trying to keep things on topic.
Your as fucking rude as the "pastor"
ROFLMFAO !!!
* You're
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Sleepy Joe Biden just closed down his campaign for the day (Again). Wants to rest! He is a very LOW ENERGY INDIVIDUAL, and our Country cannot make it in these exciting, but complex and competitive times, with a Low Energy President !!!
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FACT CHECK: FALSE
NO, HE'S PREPARING FOR THE DEBATE, DONALD,
MEANING THAT HE'LL BE COMING AFTER YOU WITH FACT CHECKS ON YOU!
thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
Unhinged white liberals today are the most racist people in history.
FACT CHECK: TRUE
just look at racist roger
"I think what I saw this morning was a Bull Connor speech in 2020. … Unfortunately, it was being given by a black prosecutor."
—Black Lives Matter cofounder Alicia Garza
James is extremely closed minded.
Re Roger's 11:33am:
A lot of people having been dying from Trump's alleged "hoax."
thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
LOL. Joe Biden is 'debate prepping' so he's incapable of doing anything else the entire day? Trump is leader of the free world and campaigns more than Biden.
Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
I'm no political campaign expert, but wouldn't a presidential candidate generally know tomorrow's schedule at least a day in advance? Calling a lid first thing in the morning seems . . . unplanned. Almost as if you need to see how the candidate is doing that day.
Got to save the drugs for the debate
Trump War Room
@TrumpWarRoom
A new report from a Senate committee details potential criminal conduct by Joe Biden’s son Hunter.
WATCH:
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1308925706135576578
Maybe Joe just wants to wait for this to go away
Blogger James said...
They also chanted:
"Grant her wish! Grant her wish! Grant her wish!"
no pederast, they chanted "Honor her wish!"
the compostable RBG wanted Hillary to name her replacement.
Trump is honoring her wish.
Biden Makes GAINS IN RURAL AMERICA
The Economist:
“Democrats can take heart from polling that shows rural voters everywhere have cooled a bit on Mr Trump.
He still has a 14-point lead in rural places, but that is well short of his 22-point advantage four years ago.
Commentators seem not to have noticed that Mr Biden has so far gained a bigger swing in rural places than he has [even] in the suburbs."
___________
You can fool some farmers all of the time,
and all farmers some of the time,
but you can't fool all farmers all of the time.
A Pandemic of Error
With breathing room to analyze how our country and others handled COVID-19, the scientific community, government leaders, and the public will have the opportunity to examine both the promise and the limitations of basing far-reaching public policy on empirically tenuous theories and models. The massive failures of epidemiological modeling, in particular, and the significant damage their unreliability inflicted on the global economy and health, should make us especially wary of other efforts to make sweeping policy changes on the backs of ambitious abstractions.
I’m talking of course about the climate-change forecasts that, to date, have failed to live up to the doomsday scenarios that their most ardent defenders forewarned.
Climate-change maximalists’ doomsaying assume that models published by groups such as the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are valid, sound, and sensitive enough to account for changes in inputs. But with the coronavirus, we have discovered how blind faith in modeling can be exceedingly treacherous, as the epidemiological assumptions that governments across the globe relied on when making their decisions over the past several months have been proven wrong time and time again.
KansasDemocrat said...
James is extremely closed minded.
He gets up every morning like Biden but rather than his handlers he waits for Goddard to tell him what to say.
Then copy/paste spams like mad all day.
"Under cover"
ROFLMFAO at the light weight.
NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - Former Metro Council member Tony Tenpenny died overnight due to COVID-19, Vice Mayor Jim Shulman told News4.
According to Vice Mayor Shulman, Tenpenny had been hospitalized for two weeks and had underlying health conditions.
https://www.wsmv.com/news/former-metro-council-member-dies-from-covid-19/article_9fdd1c54-fb70-11ea-b57b-a36cdb13bf72.html
Agolf Twitler the alky conveniently left out the "underlying health conditions" part from his "karma."
Bonus Quote of the Day
“As a Republican, I am ready to accept any decision of the court as to the outcome of the election and there is no alternative than a peaceful transition of power.”
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by Fox News, suggesting the 2020 presidential election will be decided by the Supreme Court and not voters.
____________
Sorry, Lindsey, but Biden's victory may be so obvious that no courts will need or want to get involved.
LOL. Joe Biden is 'debate prepping' so he's incapable of doing anything else the entire day?
watch Biden suddenly announce that he's been in close proximity to someone with Covid and must back out of the debate.
Do you believe in DEMOCRACY?
It’s called a coup!
Trump is now trying to turn America ���� into a Authoritarian country... WAKE UP! Trump is telling you that no matter what happens he will not leave the White House? That is a very serious dangerous promise!
How many Presidents in your lifetime have even thought �� like this? Who does he think he is Hitler,Stalin?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-transfer-of-power/2020/09/23/be6954d0-fdf0-11ea-b555-4d71a9254f4b_story.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&utm_content=curated&fb_news_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJqdGkiOiJmYl81ZjZjODVjODgwMDEyMWY0MjM1Nzc1NiIsImlzcyI6Imh0dHBzOlwvXC93d3cuZmFjZWJvb2suY29tIiwiaWF0IjoxNjAwOTQ3NjQ5LCJleHAiOjE2MDA5NDk0NDksInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOlwvXC93d3cud2FzaGluZ3RvbnBvc3QuY29tXC9wb2xpdGljc1wvdHJ1bXAtdHJhbnNmZXItb2YtcG93ZXJcLzIwMjBcLzA5XC8yM1wvYmU2OTU0ZDAtZmRmMC0xMWVhLWI1NTUtNGQ3MWE5MjU0ZjRiX3N0b3J5Lmh0bWwiLCJ0b3Bfc3RvcmllcyI6dHJ1ZX0.AcOMhqbKX021z5YN87vKC4xPmDqAKIwurJQjzuiPExc
"Joe Biden is 'debate prepping' so he's incapable of doing anything else the entire day? Trump is leader of the free world and campaigns more than Biden."
Exactly.
Personally, I believe Biden will do well in the Debates.
He does have 47 years of experience.
Example
James said...
Biden Makes GAINS IN RURAL AMERICA
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political_lire says:
Biden Makes Gains In Rural America
September 24, 2020 at 12:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
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All day
What a plagiarizing dishonest idiot.
Piece of shit is too complementary,
ROFLMFAO !!!
not worth the effort to point it out all day
Hi Lynn Hart.
Are you always so Spectacularly stupid?
Re 11:54
LOL Someone might want to point out that the quote is from The Economist.
KansasDemocrat said...
Personally, I believe Biden will do well in the Debates.
He does have 47 years of experience.
And he has those 3 degrees as well as finishing at the top of his class.
I kind of do remember he had a problem with plagiarism before though that did cause him to previously drop out. As well as just making things up. Kind of significant things,
But he is a "Biden" and takes great pride in all things "Biden"
Apparently especially his ultra-successful son.
Did The HARRIS Campaign just have a sea change moment?
Vote in Person, ditch the mail in ballot.
Why Democrats Must Keep Focus on Health Care
Ron Brownstein:
“The struggle over Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement on the Supreme Court could help propel Democrats to the brink of a Senate majority in November’s election. But whether it lifts them over that threshold could turn on the terms of the confirmation fight. Given the nature of the states that will decide Senate control, the Democrats’ path to a majority may be much easier if they can keep the debate centered on economic issues—particularly the survival of the Affordable Care Act—rather than social issues, especially abortion.
“The reason: The confirmation fight is likely to further weaken the position of endangered Republican senators in Colorado, Maine, and Arizona—states where polls show that a solid majority of voters support legal abortion...
The President is the greatest danger in history
James's Fucking Daddy.
Hunter did an amazing job, 10's of Millions of Dollars being earned thru hard work.
He surely will be able to support his current wife and child and his Dirty leg and their love child.
Something’s in the water’: Florida Republicans see surge in voter registration
MIAMI — Republicans have closed the traditional voter registration gap with Democrats to an historically small margin in Florida, triggering a wave of Democratic apprehension in the nation’s biggest swing state.
Top Florida Democrats and longtime activists have increasingly groused in private that they feel pressure from Joe Biden’s campaign to refrain from door-to-door canvassing or holding voter registration drives due to the potential spread of the coronavirus and fears of muddying his messaging on the pandemic.
In the absence of such efforts, a concerted drive by President Donald Trump’s Florida campaign to register voters has helped cut the state’s long-standing Democratic advantage to fewer than 185,000 voters, a gap of just 1.3 percentage points, according to data from the Florida Division of Elections released this week.
“It’s late in the game now,” said state Sen. Jason Pizzo, a Miami Democrat. “There’s been no pushback from us, meaning that for every 100 doors that Republicans have proverbially knocked on, it’s not like they pissed people off to the point where they’ve run to the Democratic Party because they’re pissed at the GOP. It’s shown to be effective.”
At least in Florida, Trump is out-organizing Biden. Just another bit of anecdotal evidence that contradicts the polling. I know anecdotal evidence doesn't beat "scientific" sampling. But when it starts to pile up, you have to wonder.
What alcohol, pot and Schedule 1 narcotic abuse does to your brain.
"Roger AmickSeptember 24, 2020 at 12:01 PM
"The President is the greatest danger in history"
Here I will validate Alky "like".
Trump keeps changing his tune on whether Repugs should or should not vote by mail. A rather unstable genius, this stable genius is.
James said...
Re 11:54
LOL Someone might want to point out that the quote is from The Economist.
That's ANOTHER lie by the "pastor"
Lets see what the Economist actually says...
Democrats are doing less badly among rural voters
Now that would be an accurate "quote"
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/09/26/democrats-are-doing-less-badly-among-rural-voters
Like I said I don't have time to correct the "pastor" and his stream of lies all day. And everyone knows where he gets it anyway.
Trump Has 3,400 Conflicts of Interest
A new report says President Trump has engaged in “more than 3,400 conflicts of interest since taking office.”
_____________
When he gets voted out of office, he may be headed toward an orange jump suit and a prison cell.
Did The HARRIS Campaign just have a sea change moment?
Vote in Person, ditch the mail in ballot.
They may realize that winning election-night gives legitimacy, and any sudden overturn based on late counting votes or recounted votes smells of fraud.
CS could be.
Jerry Nadler Appears To Shit His Pants On Live TV…
https://www.weaselzippers.us/456387-jerry-nadler-appears-to-poop-his-pants-on-live-tv/
Trump Has 3,400 Conflicts of Interest
Good source their pederast, you POS
CREW was founded by Democrat activists Norm Eisen (an attorney) and Louis Mayberg (a prominent Democrat donor, and co-founder of the Maryland-based mutual fund management firm ProFund Advisors LLC). CREW’s “Form 990” IRS filing for 2001 lists Mayberg as one of its three Founding Directors; the other two are Daniel Berger (a high-profile Democrat donor who in 2004 made a $100,000 contribution to America Coming Together) and Mark Penn (a fellow at the New Politics Institute, and a top Democrat strategist and pollster who not only played a key role in Bill Clinton‘s 1996 presidential campaign, but also served as head of “message and strategy” for Hillary Clinton‘s 2000 Senate campaign).
CREW has received financial backing from the Arca Foundation, the David Geffen Foundation, Democracy Alliance, the Mayberg Family Charitable Foundation, the George Soros‘s Open Society Institute, the Sheller Family Foundation, the Streisand Foundation, the Tides Foundation, the Wallace Global Fund, and the Woodbury Fund — all institutions distinguished by their support for far-left causes.
Jerry Nadler Appears To Shit His Pants On Live TV…
The comments have been hysterical
@12:07
DID THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN JUST HAVE A SEA CHANGE MOMENT?
Trump Encourages Michigan Residents to Vote Absentee
September 22, 2020 at 6:13 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
In an about face on mail-in voting in Michigan, President Trump took to Twitter Monday to encourage voters to request absentee ballots and vote early, the Detroit News reports.
YOU GUESS THIS HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THAT?
Biden Has Lead In Michigan
September 22, 2020 at 9:21 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
A new MRG poll in Michigan finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race, 46% to 41%.
My inauguration speech in 1981.
It is a tribute to our forefathers that a successful election leads, time and again, to a peaceful transition of power to the successor. This transfer of power is a fine-tuned machine that ensures that there is always someone to lead the country. On January 20, 2001, another American political journey will begin, and the nation will give the "power of the people" to a newly elected President of the United States.
If Trump succeeds to steal the election, On January 20, 2021, the American dream is dead.
re 12:18pm
CALI SAID:
"'Trump Has 3,400 Conflicts of Interest'
Good source their(sic) pederast, you POS"
JAMES SAYS:
Without being so childish as to call you a POS, Cali, I will simply invite readers to go to this link and see what CREW (Citizens For Ethics & Responsibility in Washington) say they really stand for:
https://www.citizensforethics.org/press-release/new-report-president-trump-has-3400-conflicts-of-interest/
Readers may also want to look at the Wikipedia article on Citizens For Ethics and Responsibility in Washington.
(Of course, you can also find lots of right wing lies and propaganda against them, as you did at 12:18.)
Good source their pederast, you POS
So says the follower of whacko doctor Malcolm Kincaid......BWAAAAAAAAAA!!! Way to go mouth of the south!!!!!! Mr Babylon Bee!!!!!! LOLOLOLOL
List the lie(s) pederast. And while you’re at post that video, in Trump’s own voice, calling soldiers suckers and losers
Come’on pedo, here’s your chance
NEW: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Sen. Marco Rubio, Rep. Liz Cheney and numerous other Republicans are calling for a peaceful transfer of power should President Trump lose the election this November after Trump refused to agree to hand over the reins peacefully and questioned the legitimacy of election results that show him losing.
All Republicans stopped short of calling out Trump for the comments and didn't mention him by name in their calls to preserve democracy.
They are afraid of the President Twitter tirades
"We want to believe our commander in chief wouldn’t say such incredibly offensive things. But we also know, deep down, that it’s likely he did. Because he has before.”
-Colonel Jeff McCausland, U.S. Army (ret.)
Not a sucker or a loser.
President Trump has made more than 500 visits to the properties he owns and profits from. The president’s frequent travel to and from his properties has cost American taxpayers well over $100 million.
President Trump has made more than 300 visits to the golf courses he owns and profits from, despite saying repeatedly during his presidential campaign in 2016 he would not have time for golf. His insistence on spending time at his properties has resulted in at least a million dollars in taxpayer money being spent at his properties.
141 members of Congress have patronized Trump properties. These visits often coincide with events held by special interests or wealthy political donors that rake in millions of dollars for his properties.
Special interest groups, many of which have business before the Trump administration, have hosted or sponsored 130 events at Trump properties since he took office. Political groups have held another 88 events at Trump properties.
Foreign government-tied entities have held 13 events at Trump properties, and at least 145 foreign officials have visited one of Trump’s properties. Foreign governments have granted President Trump’s businesses 67 trademarks, and have awarded additional trademarks to his daughter’s business, all potentially in an effort to secure favorable treatment from the Trump administration.
An assault on the first amendment rights!
A Senate committee is reportedly planning to subpoena the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google if the three executives don't willingly agree to testify before Congress this week, a Senate spokesperson told Business Insider. The committee is holding a hearing on Oct. 1 that's meant to address Section 230, a law that shields social media companies from being held liable for the content of users' posts. Democrats have called for Section 230 to be amended to force social media companies to take a firmer stance to moderate hate speech and misinformation on their platforms, while Republicans — including President Donald Trump — have taken aim at the law over perceived anti-conservative bias.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
An assault on the first amendment rights!
how so?
Trump’s refusal to commit to the peaceful transfer of power is the behavior of a desperate would-be dictator who’d cling to office even if it meant destroying our democracy.
It’s pathetic.
But because he is the president, we should take his threat seriously.
Hillary Clinton
Lock him up in January 20th of 2021!
to force social media companies to take a firmer stance to moderate hate speech and misinformation on their platforms, while Republicans — including President Donald Trump — have taken aim at the law over perceived anti-conservative bias.
They have the right to say anything they want!
Roger, I am concerned about you.
Are you suicidal?
Again.
"An assault on the first amendment rights!
how so?"
RRB, putting Alky on the clock.
Hillary Clinton
oh yeah, the one who told joe biden to not accept the results of the 2020 election under any circumstances.
Hillary and John Kerry did not accept the Electoral Vote.
How long did Kerry Draw out the Florida vote?
Hillary ran away .
President Trump has made more than 500 visits to the properties he owns and profits from. The president’s frequent travel to and from his properties has cost American taxpayers well over $100 million.
This is a big so what. Trump would have done this (and even more) as a private citizen. The only thing that costing taxpayers is the thing he as president has no say in. His secret service protection detail and his retinue of staff and aids necessary to accompany him in the performance of his duties.
(He was actually fine with using his own private plane and staff as air force 1 but the secret service veto that idea as too dangerous.)
Better to travel like Obimbo the Pedophile and his wife BIG Mike and mooch off of other Hollywierd Child traffickers and molesters.
Tillis Echoes Conspiracy Theory on Pandemic Deaths
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told a virtual town hall audience that he believed the 200,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the U.S. had been inflated in order to “encourage people to use social distancing.”
He claimed the actual death count was much lower.
Salon: “The response echoes a false conspiracy theory pushed by adherents of the baseless QAnon movement: that public health officials are allegedly lying to the public about the true death count because of ulterior or possibly sinister motives. Only 6% of the reported deaths are attributable solely to COVID-19, the conspiracy theorists claim.”
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This sounds like some similar malarkey we've been hearing here. So, how many of you are QAnon cult fanatics -- rat, Cali, others?
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BTW, Tillis is running behind Cunningham by more than five points in NC, and may very well and deservedly lose the GOP a Senate seat.
Pedo where are the lies you claimed above?
Now you obfuscate and lie about others here with Qanon because you can’t support your pathetic claims.
Man up pedo
I just put some more good stuff on the next thread up.
You're welcome! :-)
Oh, if I remember correctly, someone(s) were claiming here that the actual numbers of Covid cases were far, far less than the number reported, and the rationale, as I remember it, sounded awfully "QAnony." ("Fishy," in other words.)
the lying plagiarizing POS "pastor" james said:
"Only 6% of the reported deaths are attributable solely to COVID-19, the conspiracy theorists claim.”
"For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death."
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm?fbclid=IwAR2-muRM3tB3uBdbTrmKwH1NdaBx6PpZo2kxotNwkUXlnbZXCwSRP2OmqsI#Comorbidities
I guess the "pastor" is now calling the CDC conspiracy theorists.
What the fuck is wrong with him ???
Other than his unnamed "source"
Pedo why do you change the subject when called out?
Why do you lie?
What the fuck is wrong with him ???
He’s a lying dumbfuck
Our nation is at risk forever.
Currently, all states select electors through a popular vote (although how that vote works can differ), but that was not always the case throughout American history. In many states, the state legislature selected electors, a practice which was common until the mid-1800s.
The Electoral College in 2020
The following is a summary of how the Electoral College will work in the 2020 presidential election:
Spring and Summer 2020: Nomination of Electors. The political parties in each state nominate their electors. Parties and states have different ways of going about this, but a party's presidential electors are generally loyal or consistent party members. The parties want to be sure they can rely on their electors to cast their votes for the party's nominee for president. The state legislatures choose the state's electoral college electoral voter.
If the President loses the popular vote in Pennsylvania, the Republican legislators can choose the Republican selectors. The same situation could happen in Florida and several other Republican legislators majorities.
This will probably go to the Supreme Court. The conservative majority can elect Donald Trump, despite losing the electoral college votes, by the popular vote by a huge margin.
Our nation is at risk forever.
Currently, all states select electors through a popular vote (although how that vote works can differ), but that was not always the case throughout American history. In many states, the state legislature selected electors, a practice which was common until the mid-1800s.
The Electoral College in 2020
The following is a summary of how the Electoral College will work in the 2020 presidential election:
Spring and Summer 2020: Nomination of Electors. The political parties in each state nominate their electors. Parties and states have different ways of going about this, but a party's presidential electors are generally loyal or consistent party members. The parties want to be sure they can rely on their electors to cast their votes for the party's nominee for president. The state legislatures choose the state's electoral college electoral voter.
If the President loses the popular vote in Pennsylvania, the Republican legislators can choose the Republican selectors. The same situation could happen in Florida and several other Republican legislators majorities.
This will probably go to the Supreme Court. The conservative majority can elect Donald Trump, despite losing the electoral college votes, by the popular vote by a huge margin.
Anonymous Caliphate4vr said...
What the fuck is wrong with him ???
Yeo,,,,,,trump is a lying dumbfuck who wants to be king!!!!! LOL at you again!!!!!!
How long did Kerry Draw out the Florida vote?
The state drew out the counting you dumb fuck!!!!!! Then when the cases were decided.....Kerry conceded !!!!!!!!! He sure could have drawn it out longer, but did not..
You call us Nazis, but you are the ones tolerating those who carry Nazi and Confederate Flags.
You call us weak, yet you are the ones refusing to help others.
You call us socialists, while you have also benefited from democratic socialism programs.
You accuse us of wanting to take your guns, but you turn a blind eye to those who use their weapons to terrorize rather than to protect.
You call us criminals, but you are the ones breaking laws to get your way.
You call us traitors, yet you are the ones who support tyranny in the form of tyrannical politicians.
Stop projecting and start asking yourself why you are allowing terrible human beings to destroy our country.
Blogger anonymous said...
Anonymous Caliphate4vr said...
What the fuck is wrong with him ???
Fatty see how I had that in bold, it means that wasn’t my post, you fat fuck. Learn how to follow a thread. Damn you’re dumb
Breonna Taylor's job was an ER technician, she was neither a drug user nor a dealer. "A judge had also signed a warrant allowing the police to search Ms. Taylor’s residence because the police said they believed that one of the men they had been investigating had used her apartment to receive packages. Ms. Taylor had been dating that man on and off for several years but had recently severed ties with him, according to her family’s lawyer." Ms Taylor and her current boyfriend thought the person breaking into the apt was her ex-boyfriend. The cops shot into the apt without a line of sight which is against policy. The "no knock" warrant had been changed to a "knock and announce" warrant BEFORE the raid on Ms Taylor's apt. yet the still busted in. The cops are completely at fault.
Fatty see how I had that in bold, it means that wasn’t my post
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! Your post, you fucking own it you dumb fuck!!!!!!! BTW.....my comment was about trump or was that not obvious for your limited ability to read??????
IOW fatty doesn’t understand how to follow a thread. You’ve earned that lo IQ monicker
I win again!!!!
Anonymous CIA Amick said...
CIA Agolf Twitler.
LOL.
IOW' the mouth of the south again deflects his inept attempt to blame someone else because he is a dumb fuck!!!!!! bwaaaaaapaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't fix dumbass UGA grads.......LOLOLOLOLOL
LOLOLOL Mouth of the south denies he owns a post under his own moniker!!!!!!!1 BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! Typical of blameless idiots who vote trump!!!!!!!
Keep speaking Breonna Taylor’s name.
No denial from me fatty, just a provable fact that are simply too stupid to understand how to follow very simplistic threads. It’s all those paint chips you ate back in the 30’s or 40’s when you were birthed
You’re stupid old man and I win
You said it was a post you stole from someone else as your own....Now you don't !!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Yeah loser that degree you got is about as worthless as shit stained TP.......instead of being a man....you make more excuses!!!!1 Funny coming from the big mouthed brave southerner!!!!!!!! God you are stupid!!!!!! Simple is all you got loser!!!!!!!
This is fake news!
Leaked chat logs show Portland-area pro-Trump activists planning and training for violence, sourcing arms and ammunition and even suggesting political assassinations ahead of a series of contentious rallies in the Oregon city, including one scheduled for this weekend.
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The chats on the GroupMe app, shared with the Guardian by the antifascist group Eugene Antifa, show conversations between Oregon members of the Patriots Coalition growing more extreme as they discuss armed confrontations with leftwing Portland activists, and consume a steady diet of online disinformation about protests and wildfires.
Facebook removes Patriot Prayer pages in bid to halt 'violent social militias'
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At times, rightwing activists discuss acts of violence at recent, contentious protests, which in some cases they were recorded carrying out. At one point, David Willis, a felon currently being sued for his alleged role in an earlier episode of political violence, joins a discussion about the use of paintballs.
Where other members had previously suggested freezing the paintballs for maximum damage, Willis wrote: “They make glass breaker balls that are rubber coated metal. They also have pepper balls but they are about 3 dollars a ball. Don’t freeze paintballs it makes them wildly inaccurate” [sic.]
Willis did not immediately respond to voice and text messages sent to his listed cellphone number.
Another prolific poster is Mark Melchi, a 41-year-old Dallas, Oregon-based car restorer who claims to have served as a captain in the US army.
Melchi has been recorded leading an armed pro-Trump militia, “1776 2.0” into downtown confrontations in Portland, including on 22 August. At several points in the chat he proposes violence in advance of those confrontations, and appears to confess to prior acts committed in the company of his paramilitary group.
More fake news from the MSN! The enemy of the country!
Rightwing demonstrators chase a Black Lives Matter protester after a pro-Trump caravan rally at the Oregon state capitol on 7 September 2020 in Salem.
Rightwing demonstrators chase a Black Lives Matter protester after a pro-Trump caravan rally at the Oregon state capitol on 7 September 2020 in Salem. Photograph: David Ryder/Getty Images
In advance of the 22 August protest, Melchi wrote: “It’s going to be bloody and most likely shooting, they’re definitely armed… so let’s make sure we have an organized direction of movement and direction of clearing or other Patriots will be caught in the possible cross fire. When shit hits the fan.”
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He advised other members to ignore weapons statutes, writing, “I saw someone say bats, mace, and stun guns are illegal downtown. If you’re going to play by the books tomorrow night, we already lost. We are here to make a change, laws will be broken, people will get hurt… It’s lawlessness downtown, and people need to be prepared for bad things.”
Following these comments, several rightwing demonstrators were recorded using gas and bats on 22 August, where Melchi and his militia were also present.
In other remarks ahead of the day, Melchi draws on what he claims is his group’s history of traveling to multiple states to engage in violence at protests.
“My Group 1776 2.0. Has been fighting Antifa in Seattle, Portland, for months”, Melchi writes, adding “this won’t be a simple fist fight. People will get shot, stabbed and beat.”
He also claims police cooperation in interstate violence, writing “Yes, going after them at night is the solution… Like we do in other states, tactical ambushes at night while backing up the police are key. You get the leaders and the violent ones and the police are happy to shut their mouths and cameras.”
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Melchi nevertheless recommends that members disguise themselves to avoid the consequences of homicide.
“We must be ready to defend with lethal response… Suggest wearing mask and nothing to identify you on Camera…to prevent any future prosecution.”
We need an armed militias to save our country from the Communist party under Sleeping Joe!
We are here to make a change, laws will be broken, people will get hurt
Mark Melchi
In response to detailed questions about these contributions, Melchi responded with an email that falsely suggested his comments might have been photoshopped, and concluded with direct threats.
Melchi wrote: “I suggest you don’t threaten combat veterans sweetheart, might get a little uncomfortable for ya big guy!”
Melchi’s sentiments in the chat logs were in keeping with fantasies of, and plans for, violence, which are constantly discussed by group members.
Although some members are connected with extremist groups or militias, on the whole they describe themselves as “patriots”, and they express no clear ideology beyond a hatred of the left, and a preparedness to use violence. The shared allegiances expressed in the group are mostly to the police, the United States and Donald Trump, a person whom some say they are prepared to kill for.
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Ahead of 22 August, a user “Paige” says “I’m waiting for the presidential go to start open firing”.
Melchi, the militia leader, responds, “Well Saturday may be that go lol”.
Alex Newhouse, the digital research lead at the Center for Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute, said of the group that “the main mechanism that makes these communities so dangerous is the incessant desensitization to the idea of political violence”.
Newhouse said that the ideas expressed in the group were entrenched in “extreme nationalism – that a few strong men with guns can together take out an evil that is at once imagined as an existential threat, and pathetically weak”. Newhouse added that the group’s discussions “fit within a broader trend of rightwing extremists becoming more accelerationist over time”.
Rightwing and leftwing protesters battle with mace, paint balls and rocks near Justice Center in downtown Portland Saturday, 22 August 2020.
Rightwing and leftwing protesters battle with mace, paint balls and rocks near Justice Center in downtown Portland Saturday, 22 August 2020. Photograph: Brooke Herbert/AP
The chatlogs became fractious at the peak of Oregon’s recent wildfire emergency. While some members said they had gone to rural areas to “hunt” imagined antifa arsonists, others became concerned about the dangers.
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As early as 9 September, the baseless idea that the fires were a coordinated arson attack was treated as settled fact, with Melchi writing: “People have officially died from these Antifa Fires. I’d shoot them on site” [sic], and another user, Dub, responding: “Yes sir if I see them they are getting dropped where they stand.”
When adverse consequences of vigilantism became evident, leadership attempted to bring the group back under control. After a member of the group reported that an associate had been arrested in Lane county for “holding [someone] at gunpoint”, the group’s administrator, who used the user name Patriot Coalition, wrote “STOP HOLDING PEOPLE AT GUN POINT- STOP PULLING YOUR WEAPONS… VIDEO- TAKE PICTURES AND CALL 911.”
Mary McCord is the legal director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law School, which on Wednesday released a series of fact sheets on anti-paramilitary laws in all 50 states.
Given details of the content of the chats, McCord said that “this is the kind of thing that might allow authorities to take action”, and that members of the group may “already be in violation of Oregon’s anti-paramilitary laws”.
The group also talked about coordinating at the rally with the Proud Boys, an extreme rightwing group. One user, identified as Bravo91 and a part of the group’s leadership, spoke of phone calls with the Proud Boys.
Along with antifascist demonstrators, Democratic politicians are also the target of violent fantasies in the chats. In particular, Portland’s mayor, Ted Wheeler, is demonized and nominated as a possible target for assassination by the group.
I wonder how many military votes trump lost because of Cindy McCain's endorsement of Biden????? Could be the tipping point for vets and current service people!!!!!! Gotta suck to be a UGA graduate!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Keep speaking Breonna Taylor’s name.
why alky?
Pitiful, fatty’s incoherent blabbering.
Oh god he’ll think I wrote blubber and start licking his screen
LMAO
You’re so easy fatty
Buh bye
LOL
the guardian
LOL
Pathetic UGA grad trying to be a big man with a sophomoric attempt at being a tough guy,,,,,,,BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Keep digging loser......LOLOLOLLL
It really doesn't mean anything.
Senate passes resolution reaffirming commitment to peaceful transition of power
The Senate passed a resolution on Thursday reaffirming its support for a peaceful transition of power, one day after President Trump refused to commit to such a transition next year if he loses in the November election.
The resolution, offered by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), passed by unanimous consent, meaning no senator objected to it.
"We're in the most difficult times right now, and for the president to even address - to even address the subject of maybe not knowing if he would accept or not is beyond all our checks that that would ever happen in America," Manchin said.
"I believe to have the leader of the free world talk as if we are an autocracy, authoritarian versus a democracy, is something that alarmed me and alarmed a lot of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, even those quiet as some may be, I know they're alarmed," he added.
In the non-binding resolution, the Senate reaffirms "its commitment to the orderly and peaceful transfer of power called for in the Constitution of the United States."
It really doesn't mean anything.
bree-anna taylor you mean?
i gree.
don't run with drug dealers and your chance of getting shot goes to virtually zero.
Shit
Most police officers are great people. They risk their lives to protect the people! But this sucks.
A Seattle police officer captured on video rolling his bicycle over the head of a protester who was laying in the street is now on administrative leave.
The Seattle Police Department said in a statement Thursday that the actions of the officer -- who has not been identified -- are being investigated independently by the King County Sheriff's Office at the department's request.
Earlier on Thursday, the city's police watchdog group said it was requesting a criminal investigation.
Video of the incident taken Wednesday night and posted on Twitter shows a protester laying in the street as an officer, who is on foot, rolls his bicycle over the protester's head and neck area.
https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0X62ecR6?s=a99&pd=06knAsNf
Scott said that joe Biden slurred the pledge of allegiance.
USA today said
It is clear from a full viewing of Biden's speech that he was not attempting to recite the entire Pledge of Allegiance. The claim that he had botched it is unfounded. We rate that claim as FALSE.
🤡It is clear from a full viewing of Biden's speech that he was not attempting to recite the entire Pledge of Allegiance🤣
You know, the thing, come on man.
We can see the video for ourselves. USA is gaslighting.
SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS:
Let me thank all of you for being here this afternoon. This country faces an unprecedented set of crises. We are struggling with a pandemic that has already cost us over 200,000 lives. We have an economy in which we have a grotesque level of income and wealth inequality, where the middle-class today is being decimated, where millions of workers have lost their jobs, and half of our people continue to work paycheck to paycheck, many for starvation wages. We are living in the moment when climate change is ravaging this planet, leading to massive fires on the West coast, drought and unprecedented levels of extreme weather disturbances all across the globe. We are the only major country on earth, not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a human right. Over 90 million Americans are uninsured or under-insured and we pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. All of these issues and others are enormously important and should be the issues that are being debated in this campaign.
But today I am not going to talk about any of them. What I am going to talk about is something that in my wildest dreams, I never thought I would be discussing. And that is the need to make certain that the president of the United States, if he loses this election, will abide by the will of the voters and leave office peacefully. What I will be discussing today is the danger that this country faces from a president who is a pathological liar, who has strong authoritarian tendencies, who neither understands nor respects our constitution, and who is prepared to undermine American democracy in order to stay in power.
With less than six weeks left to go in this campaign, it is my fervent hope that all Americans, Democrats, Republicans, independents, progressives moderates, conservatives, come together to defend American democracy, our constitution, and the rule of law. We must ensure in this unprecedented moment in American history, that this is an election that is free and fair, an election in which voters are not intimidated, an election in which all votes are counted, and an election in which the loser accepts the results.
This is not just an election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, this is an election between Donald Trump and democracy, and democracy must win.
The United States is the oldest continuous democracy in the modern world. We held elections in the middle of a civil war in 1864. We held free and fair elections during World War I, during the Great Depression and during World War II. After all of those elections held in extremely difficult circumstances, the loser acknowledged defeat and the winner was inaugurated and took office.
That is what the United States of America is all about. That is what democracy is all about. But today in Donald Trump, we have a president who has little respect for our constitution or the rule of law. Today, that peaceful transition of power, the bedrock of American democracy is being threatened like never before.
I am not in the habit of quoting former president Ronald Reagan, but I think something that he said in his first inaugural address makes the point about how important, how precious is this part of our heritage, and I quote Ronald Reagan, “The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the constitution routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries and few of us stopped to think how unique we really are. In the eyes of many in the world, this every four-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle.” End of quote.
Protecting this orderly transfer of authority as president Reagan characterized it, this miracle is absolutely essential. If we together, all of us, Republicans, Democrats, Independents want to keep faith with the American ideals we hold so dear and with the sacrifices that so many made in order to protect our democracy. In that regard, I think it is terribly important that we actually listen to and take seriously what Donald Trump is saying.
Several weeks ago, speaking at the Republican National Convention, Trump said, and I quote, “The only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election.” End of quote.
What is remarkable about that statement is that he made it at a time when almost every national poll had him behind and when he was trailing in polls in most battleground states. Think about what that statement means. Think hard about what that statement means. What he is saying is that if he wins the election, that’s great. But if he loses, it’s rigged, because the only way, the only way he can lose is if it’s rigged, and if it’s rigged, then he is not leaving office.
Heads I win, tails you lose. In other words, in Trump’s mind, there is no conceivable way that he should leave office.
Just last night, just last night, Donald Trump went even further down the path of authoritarianism by becoming the first president in the history of this country to refuse to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he loses the election. When asked by a reporter in the White House briefing room, “Win, lose or draw in this selection, will you commit here today for a peaceful transfer of power after the election?” Trump responded and I quote, “We’re going to have to see what happens. You know that I have been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots are a disaster. We want to get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a very peaceful… There won’t be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation.” End of quote from Donald Trump.
That is not his choice. That’s for the American people to determine. Let us be very clear, there is nothing in our constitution or in our laws that gives Donald Trump the privilege of deciding whether or not he will step aside if he loses. In the United States, the president does not determine who can or cannot vote and what ballots will be counted. That may be what his friend Putin does in Russia. It may be what is done in other authoritarian countries, but it is not and it will not be done in America. This is a democracy.
Now, I do understand that Donald Trump is a billionaire or so he tells us. I do understand that he was born to a very wealthy family, and from his earliest days was able to get anything he wanted because his family was rich and his family was powerful. I do understand that when you’re rich and you’re powerful, you don’t have to pay taxes like ordinary people and that it’s easy for you to avoid the military draft. I do understand that when you’re rich and you’re powerful, you can buy politicians and get hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare for your real estate empire.
But this I also understand, no matter how rich or powerful you may be, no matter how arrogant and narcissistic you may be, no matter how much you think you can get anything you want, let me make this clear to Donald Trump: Too many people have fought and died to defend American democracy and you are not going to destroy it. The American people will not allow that to happen.
Despite all of the evidence, Trump continues to be obsessed with the belief that there is massive voter fraud in this country. In 2017 after he won the presidency, Trump insisted that he would have won the popular vote, which he lost by three million votes if “millions of illegal votes had not been cast.” There is absolutely no evidence of that being true. In fact, it is totally preposterous to believe that millions of votes or any significant number of votes at all were cast illegally. This is an assertion supported by no one, not Democratic officials, not Republican officials, no one, and yet that is what Trump said after he won.
There have been numerous studies done on the issue of voter fraud in our country. They have all concluded essentially in the same way. Voter fraud in the United States of America is extremely rare. Our study by Dartmouth University found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election. An article in the New York Times from December, 2016 stated and I quote, “In an election in which more than 137 million Americans cast ballots, election and law enforcement officials in 26 states and the District of Columbia, Democratic leaning, Republican leaning and in between said that so far, they knew of no credible allegations of fraudulent voting. Officials in another eight states said they knew of only one allegation. In Georgia, where more than 4 million people cast ballots, officials said they had open inquiries in 25 cases into “suspicious voting” or election related activity”. End of quote.
“But inquiries to all 50 states, every one but Kansas responded, found no states that reported indications of widespread fraud.” End of quote, New York Times. A report by the Brennan Center for Justice reviewed elections that had been meticulously studied for voter fraud and found incident rates between 0.0003% and 0.0025%. The report concluded that it is more likely that an American “will be struck by lightning than that he will impersonate another voter at the polls”.
Even the conservative Heritage Foundation, which maintains the database on election fraud could only find 143 criminal convictions of mail-in voter fraud out of 250 million mail-in votes cast over the past 20 years, a rate of 0.00006%.
But you don’t have to trust me on this issue. Benjamin Ginsburg, one of the leading Republican experts on election, a man who served as National Council to the Bush-Cheney presidential campaign, a man who played a major role for the Republican party in the 2000 Florida recounts, and who co-chaired the bi-partisan 2013 presidential commission on election administration, recently wrote in the Washington Post, and I quote, “The truth is that after decades of looking for illegal voting, there is no proof of widespread fraud. At most, there are isolated incidents by both Democrats and Republicans. Elections are not rigged,” end of quote.
Let me repeat from one of the Republican party's leading experts on elections, quote, “The truth is that after decades of looking for illegal voting, there’s no proof of widespread fraud. At most, there are isolated incidents by both Democrats and Republicans. Elections are not rigged.”
And even if the statement of Mr. Ginsburg is not good enough for you, here is what the Trump administration’s own voting integrity commission reported. According to an analysis of administration documents by the Associated Press, Trump’s commission uncovered quote, “No evidence to support claims of widespread voter fraud,” end quote, and they disbanded in 2018.
Even a Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, tamped down current concerns about mail-in ballots last month saying, and I quote, “Many parts of our country vote by mail. Oregon, Washington and Colorado have voted by mail for years,” end of quote.
And yet, we have a president today who calls mail-in ballots a hoax and a scam. Trump’s strategy to de-legitimize this election and to stay in office if he loses is not complicated: Finding himself behind in many polls, he is attempting massive voter suppression. He and his Republican colleagues are doing everything they can to make it harder and harder for people to vote.
In addition, he is sowing the seeds of chaos, confusion and conspiracy theories by casting doubt on the integrity of this election, and if he loses, justifying why he should remain in office. In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News, Trump refused to say that he would leave office if he lost. Asked to give a direct answer on whether he would accept the election results, Trump refused. He said, quote, “I have to see. No, I’m not going to just say yes. I’m not going to say no. I didn’t last time either,” end of quote. That’s pretty much what he said yesterday.
In the middle of a pandemic, Donald Trump made clear that he wants to defund the postal service in order to limit the use of mail-in ballots. In an interview on August 13th, discussing a possible deal for a relief package that would have funded the United States Postal Service, Trump let the cat out of the bag by admitting that, quote, “If we don’t make a deal, that means they don’t get the money. That means they can’t have universal mail-in voting. They just can’t have it,” end of quote.
In other words, what Donald Trump is saying to tens of millions of Americans is that at a time when over 200,000 of our people have already died from the coronavirus, you have a choice, you can either risk your health or even your life by walking into a voting booth, or you can’t vote.
How outrageous, how disgraceful is that?
Amazingly, at the very same time, Trump is making completely baseless allegations about voter fraud. Last month, he urged the supporters of North Carolina to try voting twice, which among other things is a felony.
In order to advance his plan for mass voter suppression, the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit in Nevada, which fortunately was dismissed, challenging the state’s mail-in voting laws.
In July, trump used false claims of voter fraud to propose delaying this year’s election, which he obviously does not have the power to do. This was so outrageous that Steven Calabresi, the Co-Founder of the Conservative Federalist Society wrote that it was, quote, “Grounds for the president’s immediate impeachment, again, by the house of representatives and his removal from office by the Senate,” end of quote.
Last week, Trump told his supporters at a rally in Nevada, that he, quote, “Was entitled,” end quote, to serve a third term, which is obviously a violation of the constitution’s 22nd amendment.
On Saturday, Trump suggested to his supporters in North Carolina that he might sign an executive order to prevent Joe Biden from becoming president. Trump has also urged his supporters to become, quote, “Poll watchers.” But what he is really saying is that he wants his supporters, some of whom are members of armed militias, to intimidate voters.
We’re already seeing this in Virginia, where early voters were confronted by Trump supporters and election officials in Fairfax County said that some voters and polling staff felt intimidated.
On and on and on it goes. Every day, over and over again, Trump is making it harder for the American people to participate in the political process and is attempting to de-legitimize the outcome of this election so that if he loses, he can remain in office.
The concerns that I am raising today are not just mine alone, and are not just concerns shared by Progressive’s or Democrats. Miles Taylor, a lifelong Republican who previously served as Chief of Staff inside the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security, on that there is nothing that Trump will not do or say to defeat Biden. This is what he said, and I quote, “Put nothing past Donald Trump,” Taylor told the AP, “He will do anything to win. If that means climbing over other people, climbing over his own people or climbing over US law, he will do it. People are right to be concerned,” end of quote.
Well, I agree with Mr. Taylor. I am concerned and I am very concerned. Last week, my former Senate colleague, Dan Coats, Trump’s own former Director of National Intelligence published a piece in the New York Times, calling for a high level bipartisan and nonpartisan commission to oversee the election, to reassure all Americans that it has been carried out fairly.
Coats wrote, and I quote, “The most urgent task American leaders face is to ensure that the election results are accepted as legitimate. Electoral legitimacy is the essential linchpin of our entire political culture. We should see the challenge clearly in advance and take immediate action to respond,” end of quote. That’s Dan Coats, former Intelligence Director of Donald Trump. I couldn’t agree more. I strongly second Director Coats’ call for this election commission.
Last week as well, Democratic minority leader Chuck Schumer and I sent a letter to Senator McConnell, urging him to hold hearings on the issue of election and post-election security. Senator Schumer and I stated, quote, “We would like to hear from the most knowledgeable people in the country as to how we can do everything possible to make sure that the election and the period afterward is secure and peaceful,” end quote.
Majority leader McConnell, please respond to that letter. Please establish that bi-partisan committee.
And today I call on every elected official in America, whether they be Republican, Democrat or Independent, to vigorously oppose voter suppression and voter intimidation to make sure that every vote is counted and that no one is declared the winner until those votes are counted.
And to my Republican colleagues in the Congress, please do not continue to tell the American people how much you love America, if at this critical moment you are not prepared to stand up to defend American democracy and our way of life. Stop the hypocrisy.
Now with or without Donald Trump this election is unique in American history because it is taking place during a pandemic and a public health crisis. As a result, states all over America are taking the appropriate steps to ensure more Americans can safely vote by mail in their own homes instead of risking their health or their lives to vote in person. The result is that this election will see by far the largest number of mail-in ballots ever.
And let’s be clear. Despite what Donald Trump says, voting by mail is not a new or dangerous idea. Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, and Utah conduct their elections almost entirely by mail. California, Nevada, New Jersey, the District of Columbia, my own state of Vermont, have pledged to mail ballots to all registered voters for the upcoming election. And many other states are making it easier, for obvious reasons, to vote by mail. Trump himself, as well as members of his administration, have repeatedly voted by mail. Members of the United States military have regularly voted by mail since the 1800s.
Given the significant increase in mail-in ballots, Why, you might ask, are Trump and his allies trying to attack the integrity of our vote by mail system? And the answer is pretty simple. A number of studies have shown that for whatever reasons, Republicans are more likely to vote in person while Democrats are more likely to use mail-in ballots. In fact one poll found that only about a quarter of Biden supporters would vote in person on election day while some two-thirds of Trump voters plan to vote in person.
In other words, if Trump can undermine people’s confidence in the validity of votes cast by mail he will be calling into questions the validity of votes that may overwhelmingly support Joe Biden. Let us consider the following scenario, a scenario which I hope very much never takes place:
On election night Trump is ahead in many battleground states based on the votes of those who voted in person on election day. All across the television screens people see Trump ahead before they turn in for the night. But as more and more mail-in ballots are counted, Trump’s lead folds. Trump then announces with no proof that there has been massive mail-in ballot fraud and that these votes should not be counted and that he has won the election. In other words, Trump may well announce that he has won the election before all of the votes are counted and that large numbers of mail-in ballots should be discarded.
Furthermore, in states where Republicans control the legislature, it is possible that the election results will be ignored because of false accusations of voter fraud, and that the legislature itself will use its power to appoint electors pledged to vote for Trump, overriding the will of the people.
And in the midst of all of this, with the death of Justice Ginsburg, Trump is attempting to push through a Supreme Court Justice who may very well cast a vote in a case that will determine the outcome of this election. He is doing that at a time when early voting has already begun and millions of ballots will have already been cast.
In this unprecedented moment what can we as a people do in the struggle to preserve American democracy? First, it is absolutely imperative that we have by far the largest voter turnout in American history, and that people vote as early as possible. As someone who’s strongly supporting Joe Biden, let’s be clear, a landslide victory for Biden will make it virtually impossible for Trump to deny the results and is our best means for defending democracy.
Second, with the pandemic and a massive increase in mail-in voting state legislatures must take immediate action now, now, to allow mail-in votes to be counted before election day as they come in. In fact, 32 states allow for the counting or processing of absentee ballots, verifying signatures, for example, before election day. All states should do the same. The faster all ballots are counted the less window there is for chaos and conspiracy theories.
Third, the news media needs to prepare the American people to understand there is no longer a single election day, and that it is very possible that we may not know the results on November 3rd.
Fourth, social media companies must finally get their act together and stop people from using their tools to spread disinformation and to threaten and harass election officials.
Fifth, in the Congress and in state legislatures hearings must be held as possible to explain to the public how the election day process and the days that follow will be handled. As we count every vote and prevent voter intimidation everything possible must be done to prevent chaos, disinformation, and yes, even violence.
Lastly, and most importantly, the American people no matter what their political view, must make it clear that American democracy will not be destroyed.
Our country from its inception, and through the sacrifices of millions, has been a model to the world with regard to representative government. In 1863 in the midst of the terrible Civil War, Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg stated that this government “of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” That was true then. That is true today. Regardless of what Donald Trump wants, the American people will preserve democracy in our country.
Thank you all very much.
There may be mistakes in the speech. Parts of it show signs of the text being computer generated originally.
10:51 pm EDT at politicalwire.com:
“You want to go into history to look for something like this? Go into Italian history and look at Mussolini. This is the way dictators come to power.”
— Presidential historian Michael Beschloss, on MSNBC.
Go into Italian history and look at Mussolini. This is the way dictators come to power.”
indeed, pederast.
who do you think Killer Cuomo looks to for inspiration?
What BS.
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