Along with Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Turley has become a solid voice of reason in an otherwise partisan world
To be perfectly clear, I don't believe that Trump is going to win these lawsuits and reverse the results of the election. I haven't believed that these lawsuits were anything more than a nuisance since the beginning, even if I wish there was a legal manner to take them more seriously.
The manner in which election lawsuits work simply does not allow for the concept of investigation of aberrations, oddities, or even affidavits of people who saw questionable behavior. But rather an election lawsuit requires that the proof of election fraud already exists and that evidence is in hand. In some ways, there simply isn't enough time to get into discovery, subpoena witnesses, gather evidence, or the sorts of things that most litigation requires. Because of time limitations, we generally rush almost immediately into the end game, which makes the burden on the plaintiff much too difficult for 99 out of 100 situations.
But the reality is that there is still legal maneuvering that can be done, there are questions I believe should be answered. Until the results are certified, Trump has every right to make his legal moves and request answers.
As a software engineer who has spent much of his life working with data, statistics, financial statements and computer software, I can flat out tell you that I don't believe that obvious data anomalies or other significant data related irregularities are generally random or just happen. Certainly the people who I support would not accept the explanation that their financial statement coming back with hard to believe numbers should not be questioned or investigated. Certainly nobody is going to threaten them with punishment for questioning it or investigating it. If these numbers are truly wrong, people in their company could go to jail. We have to work with clients to investigate and double check anything and everything that doesn't look correct. There is no need to have prove of a problem before something is investigated and double checked.
While random can sometimes just happen, random anomalies that fit patterns pretty much never happens when it comes to statistical analysis, computer software, or any form of math or accounting. Patterns suggest issues, and issue always require investigation. But as stated previously, that is not the way it works with elections and it certainly is not the way it works with election lawsuits. Finding an anomaly or even a pattern of anomalies does not meet the legal burden of "proof" necessary.
That being said, there can never be any realistic calls for "unity" after this election when there are physical threats, doxing, and other issues associated with those making these challenges. Certainly there can be no call for "unity" if there are people who believe you can prosecute someone for challenging election results. We don't punish people for being curious, and when even 30% of Democrats believe some cheating went on to help Biden, it does not push any sort of "unity" to attack those who speak the unspeakable.
The people of the United States have no responsibility to submit to calls for "unity". That "unity" will need to be earned by those calling for it. You earn with transparency and respect for questions. You don't earn with threats and doxing. All that does it make it look like you have something "big" to hide.
Wouldn't it have been better for everyone if some of these same people were willing to question some of these anomalies with the same passion and interest that they took in promoting the idea back in 2016 that our President was working as a "Russian agent" and colluding to steal an election? Make no mistake, there is much greater reason to believe that there was ballot tampering and possible fraud in this election, then reason to believe that was that Donald Trump was ever working with Vladimir Putin.
Wouldn't it have been better for everyone if some of these same people were willing to question some of these anomalies with the same passion and interest that they took in promoting the idea back in 2016 that our President was working as a "Russian agent" and colluding to steal an election? Make no mistake, there is much greater reason to believe that there was ballot tampering and possible fraud in this election, then reason to believe that was that Donald Trump was ever working with Vladimir Putin.
Attempts to brush it under the rug will not bring anyone together. It will only pull us further apart.
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unity?
never.
the left has intentionally and maliciously destroyed any chance for unity in this nation. they felt that the achievement of their political goals were worth it, they openly declared war on fully half of the country, and they "won." they won what can only be described as a Pyrrhic victory.
our goal needs to be making every single day of a biden administration a living fucking hell.
Justin Hart
@justin_hart
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Business owners in Buffalo, NY demand “health inspector” leave private property. “Go get a warrant.”
People have had enough of the #COVID19 tyranny curbing their life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1330261324119633923
We are so close to civil war i can smell the gun oil.
- Michael Yon
Yep....the right as in moronic idiots like rat and Justin Hart are only in it for themselves......unity will never occurs with the lack of intellect and abject hate they have for anything that does not make them happy!!!! m Covid is not a problem unless you die!!!! The GOP motto~!!!!
Keep posting rat....you will NEVER admit trump fucked you because you made 50 bucks in your savings under trump!!!!! BWAAAAAAAA
So the covid treatment Trump received has received emergency approval and two vaccines are 90+% successful with tens of millions of doses already made and distribution channels all set and ready to go. But Roger the dumbass thinks Trump is irrelevant. Not even dopey would say something to stupid.
Who is going to believe an obscure blogger over the man The lame duck President fired for reporting that this election was the safest election in history?
Christopher Cox Krebs (born 1977) is an American attorney who served as the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the United States Department of Homeland Security from November 2018 to November 2020. In November 2020, President Donald Trump fired Krebs for contradicting Trump on the prevalence of election fraud in the 2020 presidential elections.
Quick Facts: Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, President ...
Early life and education
Krebs was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1977. He earned a bachelor's degree in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia in 1999, and a Juris Doctor from the Antonin Scalia Law School (then the George Mason University School of Law) at George Mason University in 2007.
Career
Krebs's professional work has focused on cybersecurity and risk management issues. He served as Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Infrastructure Protection, and later worked in the private sector as Director for Cybersecurity Policy for Microsoft.
In March 2017, he became Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security. In August 2017, he was appointed Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, and performed the duties of the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for National Protection and Programs until he was confirmed to that position on a permanent basis on June 15, 2018. In November 2018, the National Protection and Programs Directorate was replaced by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Krebs remained as director of the agency.
It was reported that Krebs was being considered to serve as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security after the departure of Kevin McAleenan, although he was reported to be uninterested in the position.
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He is a non partisan expert in election security who worked for Microsoft! Vs the obscure coldheartedtruthblog.blogspot right wing nutcase.
Jonathan Turley DROPS Chuck Todd in thread for accusing Trump of ‘undermining an incoming president’
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/11/22/dude-look-in-the-mirror-jonathan-turley-drops-chuck-todd-in-thread-for-accusing-trump-of-undermining-an-incoming-president/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Krebs?wprov=sfla1
How about vs Jonathan Turley?
Ch, I will soon answer your thread article in my own words.
Till then--
I will let Chris Christie answer you:
Christie Calls Trump Challenge a ‘National Embarrassment’
11:34 am EST
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Sunday denounced a lack of evidence in President Trump’s legal challenges against election results as “a national embarrassment,” emphasizing that Trump has had his chance to prove allegations of widespread voter fraud in court, Axios reports.
Said Christie: “I have been a supporter of the president’s. I voted for him twice, but elections have consequences, and we cannot continue to act as if something happened here that didn’t happen. You have an obligation to present the evidence."
And let Politico and Newsweek answer:
Trump Threatens to Wreak Havoc on GOP
11:08 am
“President Trump has spent the three weeks since he lost the election savaging a pair of GOP governors for not backing his claims he was robbed,” Politico reports.
“Republicans are worried it’s just the start of what’s in store from the soon-to-be-ex-president.
“Trump’s attacks on Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine — both of whom are up for reelection in 2022 — has led to broader concerns within the party that he will use his post-presidency to exact revenge on perceived enemies and insert himself into races in ways that are not helpful.”
Newsweek:
GOP civil war, inspired by Trump, grips Georgia, threatens other states.
And let Sen. Cramer answer:
Cramer Says It’s ‘Past Time’ to Start Transition
10:55
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) told NBC News that the Trump administration should begin cooperating with President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team, even as he repeatedly defended President Trump’s attempts to challenge the results of the presidential election with unproven allegations of widespread fraud.
Said Cramer: “It’s past time to start a transition, or to at least cooperate with a transition.”
...this election was the safest election in history?
NowThis
@nowthisnews
A hacker only needs 1 minute to change election results in 24 states. Watch how vulnerable our voting machines really are
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1034614864180858880
Vaccines could begin by mid December. Hmmm, how can we give the credit for this to b8den?
Just as easily as trump complained that Pfizer made their announcement to screw him!!!!!!!!!!
A hacker only needs 1 minute to change election results in 24 states
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Twitter bullshit rat......LOLOL at you again!!!!!!1
BTW........why hasn't Rudy brought fraud allegations to court??????? I won't expect a cogent response from the party of dumb fucks.......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Vaccines could begin by mid December. Hmmm, how can we give the credit for this to b8den?
you watch... slow joe an da ho are going to be given full credit for the vaccine right before your lying eyes.
and then, like pure fucking magic, coronavirus will disappear on 01/21/2020.
on the mythical, magical 'systemic racism:'
Shelby Steele, Glenn Lowry and John McWhorter discuss. A snippet:
LOURY: It started a movement, didn’t it? The events that happened in Ferguson, Missouri had deep political resonance for the country as a whole. If it wasn’t Selma, what was it then? What exactly is the difference in your minds between the classic—the iconic—narrative of African-American struggle against oppression on the one hand, and what unfolded in the wake of Ferguson on the other?
S. STEELE: It’s not like Selma. You and I grew up in segregation. I know about segregation. I lived the civil rights movement, saw those noble fights against an enemy that was everywhere in the world I grew up in. So no one had any doubt about the moral integrity of Selma’s protests. But in Ferguson, Missouri, what was the argument? That because one cop killed a black that somehow racism is systemic? It seems to me that the elephant in the room is that racism is so minimal now, that it couldn’t really, in and of itself, get any movement off the ground. There’s not enough of it around. There’s not enough injustice. And what we had instead was a generation looking for power and looking to see how guilty white America would respond. And, in that sense, the movement was cynical. It mimicked the real movement—Selma and the civil rights movement in the ’50s and the ’60s and so forth. It was mimicry. It was theater. It wasn’t real.
http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/35728-Is-there-any-meaningful-racism-in-the-US-today.html
If Congress men of women of either party are being threatened, the FBI and secret service agents need to pursue them.
The media hasn't covered it. But it doesn't mean that they are partisan people. The lame duck President has been dominating the news coverage because he is trying to overturn the election.
Racist rodent bastards believe that the civil rights era was fake news.
Bonkers squared
no alky. but thanks for proving your lack of reading comprehension.
the civil rights era was real.
the 'systemic racism' (LOL) of today is a fucking con. a shakedown. as illegitimate as can be.
and of the three gents mentioned above, two of them are black.
look alky, you don't need to continually prove to us that you're an idiot. we require no more convincing, and haven't in several years.
This is birtherism phase two.
President Trump is reportedly considering putting out an executive order in his final weeks in office to target birthright citizenship, according to two sources who spoke to The Hill.Ending birthright citizenship — which guarantees citizenship to anyone born on US soil, regardless of the citizenship of their parents — has been something Trump's talked about doing since his 2016 campaign.Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is an example of someone who gained her citizenship this way. Her Indian mother and Jamaican father were not yet US citizens when they had her in California in 1964.When reached for comment, a White House spokesman said he wouldn't "speculate or comment on potential executive action.".
His mother was an immigrant.
His youngest son is the son of an immigrant.
He can't overturn the 14 amendment with an executive order, but it would thrill the racist rodent!
he will use his post-presidency to exact revenge on perceived enemies and insert himself into races in ways that are not helpful.”
i certainly hope so. from the moment he announced his candidacy he was treated like shit and relentlessly fucked with. i hope he exacts an epic level of revenge, the likes of which we have never witnessed in American politics. i hope he brings the fucking pain by the fucking TON, and goes full-on scorched-earth, destroying careers and lives on a scale we can't begin to fathom.
and then i hope he doubles down on THAT.
may streets all across the nation run red with the blood of his enemies.
Trump TV by summer
according to two sources who spoke to The Hill.
according to two cowards who work for the hill who like to make shit up out of whole cloth.
geezus, i wonder what the drive-by media is going to do with themselves without the need to make up fictitious hit pieces on the President.
shift to fawning adoration pieces on a dementia patient and his cum dumpster sidekick?
LOL.
Since the death of George Floyd the President and his allies have been attempting to discredit the Black Lives Movement by calling it a communist ploy.
It didn't work to get the lame duck President reelected
My thinking goes over the top of the racist rodent bastard's feeble mind.
btw alky, birthright citizenship has always been bullshit, at least since the beaner invasion on our southern border. crawling across the border to squirt out an anchor beaner is wrong, and i would hope that we ARE smart enough to finally address it.
figure out some other way to get the votes you need, alky. neither this nor stealing them is the right way to go.
george floyd was a junkie who overdosed alky.
and the word you're looking for is 'marxist' not communist. patrice cullors herself a BLM founder, told us straight up that BLM is marxist.
when these scumbags tell us who and what they are, i believe them.
btw, it's nice to see kyle rittenhouse out on bail. it's driving the left crazy, and that's a good thing.
...oh the mythical, magical hackers changing millions of votes...
“We’ve talked a lot about transfer of power and the election. And it’s worth remembering that this president was never given an orderly transition of power,” McEnany said. “His presidency was never accepted. In fact, before the election his election we know Crossfire Hurricane was launched by [former FBI agent] Peter Strzok to pursue baseless allegations about the president’s ties with Russia.”
“And what happened after he was elected, you had 70 lawmakers say we’re not coming to his inauguration. Democratic lawmakers, you had [Massachusetts Sen.] Elizabeth Warren, saying, we’re going to attempt to obstruct the Trump transition by urging the Government Accountability Office to investigate the incoming Trump transition,” McEnany said.
“Many sought to undermine him, discredit him, delegitimize him and deny his victory. There were no calls for unity, there were no calls for healing. So while every legal vote is counted, let us not forget the inexcusable transition, or lack thereof, that President Trump had to endure in 2016, and for years into this presidency,” the press secretary said.
https://populist.press/kayleigh-mcenerny-does-it-again/
Where were you on November 22nd 1963?
57 years ago, when history changed.
I was in the civics class at West Junior High School in Rapid City South.
Bullshit? The 14th amendment
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
No taxes without representation.
sure you were alky.
and by the way, it was a very left-wing marxist castro fanboi who ventilated kennedy's skull.
Despite being high on fentanyl, if George Floyd had not been strangled for eight minutes and 42 seconds he would be alive today
Ted Cruz father was in the conspiracy to kill JFK according to the lame duck President!
President Trump on Twitter:
“The Fake News is not talking about the fact that “Covid” is running wild all over the World, not just in the U.S. I was at the Virtual G-20 meeting early this morning and the biggest subject was Covid. We will be healing fast, especially with our vaccines!”
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The truth is that the news HAS been talking about the fact that Covid IS "running wild" all over the world alarmingly, and that includes countries which have tried to take stricter measures against its spread as well as countries that have taken fewer measures -- though the latter tend to be faring worse.
Another voice of reason.
Appearing on CNN with host Jake Tapper, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) scorched Donald Trump for trying to manipulate electors in various states to overturn the presidential election results and hand the presidency back to him, calling the president's efforts "outrageous."
Asked about the president meeting with officials from Michigan and trying to manipulate them into throw votes out, the "State of the Union" guest was livid.
Vindictive Trump Seeks to Undermine Biden
2:26 pm
Dan Balz: “Judging by his actions, Trump appears to have a motive other than overturning the election. He is determined to cripple Biden’s presidency even before it becomes official. No defeated president has ever undertaken such an audacious and anti-democratic act. There are short-term and longer-term consequences that could deeply affect Biden’s ability to govern.
“This is a mean-spirited effort on the part of the president to gum up what should be an orderly, nonpartisan process.”
Biden Will Campaign In Georgia
2:16 pm
Ron Klain, President-elect Joe Biden’s newly named chief of staff, said Sunday that Biden will likely visit Georgia to campaign for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, the two Democratic candidates in the state’s January Senate runoffs, The Hill reports.
Said Klain: “Winning those two Senate seats in Georgia is important, but we’re going to do everything we can to help those two … great candidates in Georgia, help them win.”
McMaster Rips ‘Abhorrent’ Trump Plan on Afghanistan
2:42 pm
H.R. McMaster, a retired lieutenant general and President Trump’s former national security adviser, told CBS News the Trump administration is handing the Taliban a victory by withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, calling the plan “abhorrent.”
Said McMaster: “If the Taliban establishes control of large parts of Afghanistan, gives safe haven and support base to terrorist organizations who want to commit mass murder against us on the scale of 9/11, we will be far less safe and vulnerable to these groups. And I think what happened is the prioritization of withdrawal over our interests led to us actually empowering the Taliban.”
rrb is a Democrat of civil war era.
He would have said this about Lincoln, “Thou shalt have no other God but the negro.”
“Judging by his actions, Trump appears to have a motive other than overturning the election. He is determined to cripple Biden’s presidency even before it becomes official. No defeated president has ever undertaken such an audacious and anti-democratic act. There are short-term and longer-term consequences that could deeply affect Biden’s ability to govern.
please let it be so.
only an idiot would believe that rewarding a theft on the scale of biden's should be met with anything but pure, unadulterated evil.
lol
rat says he really does believe Biden stole the election
really!
REALLY!
I doubt he really believes it, but he SAYS he does.
Really, really, really he says he does.
LOL
Knee slapping funny.
Michigan leader: Trump didn't ask for election interference
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — President Donald Trump did not ask Michigan Republican lawmakers to “break the law” or “interfere” with the election during a meeting at the White House, a legislative leader said Sunday, a day before canvassers plan to meet about whether to certify Joe Biden's 154,000-vote victory in the battleground state.
Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield was among seven Republican legislators who met with Trump for about an hour on Friday, amid his longshot efforts to block Biden's win.
“There was this outrage that the president was going to ask us to break the law, he was going to ask us to interfere, and that just simply didn't happen,” he told Fox News of the highly unusual meeting. He did not elaborate on what was discussed, except to say the delegation asked for additional federal aid to help Michigan's coronavirus response.
Michigan’s elections agency has recommended that the Nov. 3 results — including Biden's 2.8-percentage point victory — be certified by the Board of State Canvassers, which has two Democrats and two Republicans. The Republican National Committee and the state Republican Party want the board to adjourn for 14 days to investigate alleged irregularities in Wayne County, the state's largest and home to Detroit.
If the board does not confirm the results and the Michigan Supreme Court does not subsequently order it to do so, Chatfield said “now we have a constitutional crisis.” He and other Republicans, however, have indicated that they would not undermine the voters' will.
“Michigan election law clearly requires that the state’s electors must be those nominated by the party that received the most votes — not the Legislature,” says a stock email House Republicans are sending in response to people who contact their offices.
There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. In fact, election officials from both political parties have stated publicly that the election went well and international observers confirmed that there were no serious irregularities.
The issues Trump’s campaign and its allies have pointed to are typical in every election.
Republican U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan's current longest-serving member of Congress, told CNN on Sunday that “the voters spoke" and the state had no razor-thin presidential race.
“No one has come up with any evidence of fraud or abuse” he said. He called the request to delay the certification “out of bounds.”
Quote of the Day
2:44 pm
“If you had done your job, America’s governors wouldn’t have been forced to fend for themselves to find tests in the middle of a pandemic, as we successfully did in Maryland. Stop golfing and concede.”
— Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), responding to President Trump on Twitter
Every time the Republicans file suits allegations of voter fraud, have been dismissed by the judges, because they had no evidence of fraud.
You don't understand how the laws work. The evidence has to be credible. It can't be one person saying that he saw people were forging signatures is hearsay. It is not acceptable evidence to reverse the election.
Look it up on Google, not some right wing nutcase websites.
There is no evidence of theft asshole.
Trump supporters who won’t accept the election result are suffering from collective narcissism. Can they be helped?
Collective narcissism refers to the feelings of greatness or supremacy of a group of people organized by race, ethnicity, religion, or some other distinction. The members of the group are bound together by their sense of entitlement and empowerment. Collective narcissism leads to negative attitudes and retaliatory hostility against another group that is perceived as threatening. It also lends itself to conspiracy theories about the severe malevolence of the competing group.
Scott isn't quite as crazy as rrb and kputz.
But he's getting worse every day
Scott isn't quite as crazy as rrb and kputz.
Really roger????? The evidence from the past couple of days of his outright dementia is overwhelming.....the danish study for one comes to mind!!!!!!!!
Chris Wallace and Jonathan Swan Call Out Trump Team’s Evidence-Free Tale of an ‘International Criminal Communist Conspiracy’
1:58 pm
Fox News’ Chris Wallace and Axios’ Jonathan Swan tackled the BONKERS conspiracy theory being pushed by the Trump team during Fox News Sunday.
During the panel discussion, Wallace asked Swan about the delayed transition and whether there’s “any push inside the White House” to start it in any way.
Swan said there isn’t because “it’s still regarded as an act of disloyalty to President Trump.”
He went on to note the absurd conspiracy theory being thrown out by the legal team for the president of the United States:
“They are privately distancing themselves from the Rudy Giuliani–Sidney Powell–Jenna Ellis legal effort, which now assets that there’s an international criminal communist conspiracy stretching from Venezuela to Cuba involving hacking into voting machines and switching millions of votes. That’s not a widely-accepted theory inside Trump’s inner circle. Even some of his most hardcore loyalists are staying the heck away from that.”
Later on in the program, Wallace went back to this insanity and asked Swan about the Trump team’s efforts to challenge results in several states.
Swan noted the Trump campaign is still sending out fundraising emails insisting they have a path to victory, adding, “I can’t see it and frankly, when I talk to most of the president’s senior advisors whether it be the campaign or the West Wing, they can’t see it either. They are not saying that publicly, of course, but that’s what they do say privately almost universally.”
Swan noted they’re going beyond litigation to “coercion” of Republican state legislatures to, well… “I don’t even know what you would call it, but this is what I referred to earlier, this conspiracy theory that is very hard to follow, but is being pushed by President Trump and his legal team.”
Wallace then played the clip of Sidney Powell last week talking about this vast conspiracy involving “communist money” and Venezuela and Cuba and China and also maybe George Soros and the Clinton Foundation and now apparently Brian Kemp and Bernie Sanders.
Swan again highlighted on Twitter after the program how baffling this all is:
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Jonathan Swan
@jonathanvswan
The publicly-stated position of President Trump's legal team is that the reason Trump lost Georgia is because Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has been bribed by a Venezuelan front company in cahoots with the CIA to throw elections to Communists.
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Alex Salvi
@alexsalvinews
Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell:
“Georgia is probably going to be the first state I’m going to blow up ... [the filing in the state] will be Biblical”.
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Wallace asked Jason Chaffetz, “There is not, congressman, a shred of evidence that any of that is true. Do you have no concerns that this may be damaging the country?”
“I do have some concerns,” Chaffetz said. “They do need to produce evidence.”
Chaffetz did add that he thinks the Trump team does have some evidence on their side.
A baffled Wallace jumped in to ask, “You think there’s evidence of communist money pouring through Venezuela, Cuba, and China to overthrow this election?”
“No,” Chaffetz quickly said. “You’re trying to lump it into just one group. I’m just saying there are lots of fronts on which there are some bits of evidence.”
On Saturday night a judge firmly rejected the Trump team’s legal challenge in Pennsylvania [and did so very, very harshly.]
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/chris-wallace-jonathan-swan-call-out-trump-team-s-evidence-free-tale-of-an-international-criminal-communist-conspiracy/ar-BB1bfZ14
Any one have any idea what the trump presidential library will look like......the potential is most laughable...
Golf clubs....his gold toilet seat....his tennis outfit all would seem applicable....maybe the phone he uses for his tweets would be good!!!!!! Richie Rich comic book that he read to his kids would be the only printed matter!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
Harris Getting Classified Briefings While Biden Isn’t
4:39 pm
“Vice President-elect Kamala Harris took part in a classified briefing of the Senate Intelligence Committee this week and emerged in a strange position — being more informed about current threats than President-elect Joe Biden but bound by congressional rules to keep that information from him,” CNN reports.
Biden Team Pushing Quick Stimulus Deal
4:32 pm
Advisers to President-elect Joe Biden are planning for the increasing likelihood that the United States economy is headed for a “double-dip” recession early next year, the New York Times reports.
“They are pushing for Democratic leaders in Congress to reach a quick stimulus deal with Senate Republicans, even if it falls short of the larger package Democrats have been seeking.”
Trump Seeks to Invalidate Thousands of Wisconsin Votes
4:04 pm
“President Trump’s campaign is seeking to use a recount of the presidential election in Wisconsin to attempt to invalidate tens of thousands of votes in the state, making sweeping challenges to whole categories of ballots cast in the state’s two Democratic-leaning counties in his last-gasp effort to reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s win,” the Washington Post reports.
“As a recount began on Friday in Dane and Milwaukee counties — home to the cities of Madison and Milwaukee — Trump lawyers argued that officials should not merely retabulate all the votes cast in the Nov. 3 election to reconfirm they’d been counted properly.
“Instead, they argued that large batches of ballots had been improperly accepted and counted in the first place.”
Even if GA were to be taken from Biden and given to Trump (which I do not see happening), Biden would still remain the President Elect of the United
States, winning 290 to 248.
Another non masking fool Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler is quarantining after receiving inconclusive Covid-19 test results following multiple campaign appearances earlier this week, her campaign said Saturday.
I wish him well!
I wish him well!
What a fucking idiot
He's in a runoff in January.
If the Democrats win both seats President Biden will be able to save the country from the pandemic and economic downturn!
Troll squad asshole
try to figure out why you’re a dumbfuck
I know gender identification is hard for you.
While all you can do is provide the obvious Dr Kendrick!!!!! Sonny Purdue seems to have a new problem buying stocks, but intellectually deficient R's will still vote for him!!!!!
While all you can do is provide the obvious Dr Kendrick!!!!! Sonny Purdue seems to have a new problem buying stocks, but intellectually deficient R's will still vote for him!!!!!
I didn't check her gender. Kelly is used for men and women.
You also obviously didn’t read your own post, Alky
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Another non masking fool Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler is quarantining after receiving inconclusive Covid-19 test results following multiple campaign appearances earlier this week, her campaign said Saturday.
It’s fucking truly sad how quickly you are going downhill
Oh and fatty that really a pathetic attempt on your part regarding Perdue, after I’ve busted your fatass twice for it.
I mean try to bring some game fatboi
A voice of reason.
On Saturday, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and the No. 3 Republican in the House, called on Trump to “fulfill his oath… by respecting the sanctity of our electoral process” if he fails to prove his so-far-unproven fraud claims.
You used to be a rational person, but you are a cultist troll squad asshole now. Go fuck yourself
Which is why I voted Jorgensen
You’re a dementia patient, that needs someone to change his depends, in the memory care unit of your Medicaid funded home.
Look at the dumpster fire that is your life, Roger. It’s pitiful
Poor Cali has so little going for him when it comes to arguments that he has to attack Roger and me personally.
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Inside Republicans' troubled Election Day operations
Axios:
As President Trump unsuccessfully argues fraudulent voter claims, campaign operatives tell Axios the reality is the joint EDO (Election Day operations) by the Trump campaign and Republican National Committee left them feeling largely unprepared to challenge ballots in real time.
Why it matters: With several states moving toward certifying election results this week, the postmortems are beginning as political operatives try to understand what worked, what didn't and how to adjust going forward.
What we're hearing: Officials in different regions of the country describe a state-by-state patchwork — and a sense that the GOP's litigate-everything posture wasn't matched by operations robust or agile enough to mobilize properly.
"They claimed they had a great EDO on the ground, and that was the furthest thing from the truth," said one Trump election adviser who was in Pennsylvania the week of the election. "You have to stop fraud as it happens, not after the fact."
An official in the Gulf states said they repeatedly asked the campaign for more resources and were denied.
"The campaign fell apart after Election Day," another adviser said. "You can’t audit this in reverse. ... The infrastructure just failed."
In contrast, two officials in Florida told me their team had a good plan in place to combat concerns in real time and a strong EDO helped them win there.
The other side:
Trump deputy campaign manager and lawyer Justin Clark tells Axios this was "the largest, most organized Election Day operation ever mounted by any campaign in the history of the Republican Party" with more than 50,000 trained volunteers nationwide.
"We were prepared, and anyone who says otherwise either wasn't there or is trying to make themselves seem smart by anonymously running to the press."
Be smart:
Republican elections lawyer Ben Ginsberg tells Axios' Stef Kight even if the Trump campaign had better EDOs, there's no reason to assume that would have yielded any discoveries to invalidate Biden's margins.
Poor pedo incapable of formulating his own thoughts, can only copy and paste, crapno one reads
Trump Legal Team Shuns Sidney Powell
6:43 pm
“With Trump-allied insiders distancing themselves from massive and unproven election fraud allegations being made by Sidney Powell, the president’s legal team announced on Sunday that she has no direct role in their efforts,” the Washington Examiner reports.
See? ;-)
Trump Conspiracies Hurt U.S. More Than Russia
7:30 pm EST
“A longtime diplomat and Joe Biden adviser tells Axios that the United States has lost international credibility as President Trump spreads conspiracies while challenging his losing election results, Axios reports.
“Nicholas Burns, a Harvard professor who previously served presidents from both political parties as a former ambassador and undersecretary of state, says the president’s baseless challenges have undercut the U.S. as a beacon of democracy and critical voice against governmental overreach in other nations.”
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Yup. Trump is an inspiration to dictators and would-be dictators everywhere.
The National Review has become the voice of reason.
Leaders of Michigan Legislature Reject Scheme to Overturn the ElectionBY JOHN MCCORMACK
Sidney Powell, one of President Trump’s election lawyers, has called on state legislatures to overturn the results of the election because of demonstrably false claims that voting machines changed votes to hand the election to Joe Biden. “The entire election, frankly, in all the swing states should be overturned, and the legislatures should make sure that the electors are selected for Trump,” Powell said on Thursday.
The Republican leaders of Michigan’s legislature met with President Trump at the White House on Friday, but in a statement following the meeting the two Michigan Republicans threw cold water on any scheme to overturn the election results in their state:
“We have not yet been made aware of any information that would change the outcome of the election in Michigan and as legislative leaders, we will follow the law and follow the normal process regarding Michigan’s electors, Michigan’s certification process should be a deliberate process free from threats and intimidation. Allegations of fraudulent behavior should be taken seriously, thoroughly investigated, and if proven, prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And the candidates who win the most votes win elections and Michigan’s electoral votes. These are simple truths that should provide confidence in our elections.”
As Andy McCarthy writes on the homepage today, state legislatures can’t ignore the results of the election because states have “enacted laws that empower the public to vote in an election which, once certified in the manner also prescribed by law, dictates that the state’s electoral votes are cast for the winner of the state’s popular vote.”
In Michigan, Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump 50.6 percent to 47.8 percent—a margin of about 154,000 votes. According to Michigan law, state officials will certify the election results
The National Review was never a never Trump magazine.
I'm not on Medicaid .
I pay my own bills
Murkowski Calls on Trump to Begin Transition
8:15 pm
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) called on President Trump begin the transition process to a Joe Biden administration and decried what she called a “pressure campaign” mounted on state legislators by allies of the president to stop the results from being certified, The Hill reports.
Despite the fact that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died March 5, 2013, he helped the Democtats and Biden stole the election from the lame duck President according to Rudy Giuliani!
JUST IN!!!!
Biden Picks Tony Blinken as Secretary of State
8:22 pm
President-elect Joe Biden intends to name his longtime adviser Antony Blinken as Secretary of State, Bloomberg reports.
Blinken was staff director on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 2000s when Biden was the top Democrat on the panel.
HOORAY! GREAT PICK! FABULOUS!!!
In addition, Jake Sullivan is likely to be Biden’s national security adviser.
ANOTHER GREAT CHOICE!!! HOORAY!!!
Biden will surround himself with people to whom he will say, "Tell me what I need to hear, not necessarily what I want to hear."
(Bloomberg) -- President-elect Joe Biden intends to name his longtime adviser Antony Blinken as secretary of State, according to three people familiar with the matter, setting out to assemble his cabinet even before Donald Trump concedes defeat.
In addition, Jake Sullivan, formerly one of Hillary Clinton’s closest aides, is likely to be named Biden’s national security adviser, according to two people familiar with the matter. An announcement is expected Tuesday, the people said. He attended Harvard University and Yale University. Not Trump University!
Jake Sullivan is likely to be Biden’s national security adviser.
Trump Lawyers Put Out Statement Throwing Sidney Powell Under The Bus After She Pushes Insane Voter Fraud Conspiracy
President Donald Trump’s lawyers put out a statement on Sunday evening distancing themselves from fellow attorney Sidney Powell after she pushed absurd conspiracy theories claiming widespread voter fraud. For a legal team who has called themselves an “elite strike force” but whose results are most charitably described as blundering, Powell’s recent commentary apparently went a step too far, sparking a very public split.
On Saturday night, Powell went after Trump ally Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) in an appearance on Newsmax TV, claiming she has evidence of voting machine fraud in the state while arguing Kemp is complicit.
Then on Sunday evening, the campaign released a statement to distance themselves and the Trump campaign from Powell, and for the first time declaring that she was not actually part of the campaign’s official legal team.
“Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own. She is not a member of the Trump Legal Team. She is also not a lawyer for the President in a personal capacity,” Jenna Ellis, Senior Legal Adviser to the Trump campaign, and Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer, stated in the press release.
Last Thursday, Powell appeared at a press conference alongside Ellis and Giuliani were she floated numerous unsubstantiated allegations of a far-ranging plot to steal the election between conspirators like George Soros, the Clinton Foundation, the Venezuelan government (including former President Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013), and antifa.
At this time — less then a week ago! — Trump, Ellis, and Giuliani were still touting Powell as apart of their legal team.
This Ant finds the Average American Grasshopper very funny.
"As of Friday afternoon, 22 states have imposed restrictions aimed at decreasing spread of the virus - giving rise to a new round of panic buying from shoppers and purchase limits from retailers including Walmart, Target and Kroger, the nation’s largest supermarket chain.
Off topic is The Kansas City Chiefs played a great game to beat the Las Vegas Raiders!
Great game.
Just three weeks ago the lame duck President said that we are turning the corner on the pandemic!!
Over Five Million Americans are infected by the COVID-45 virus
Two vaccines and two medicinal treatments will hit the market by mid December. Distribution lines already in place, run by 4 star general who is a supply chain and logistics expert and spent his career running military supply lines.
Corner turned. Unless democrats deliberately fuck it up.
The lame duck President is trying to disrupt the transfer of power,with the intent to make them look terrible.
In doing so, that thousands will not get the vaccine in a timely manner, therefore condemning thousands to die.
He thinks about one thing.
Himself.
In doing so, that thousands will not get the vaccine in a timely manner, therefore condemning thousands to die.
yeah, that's it alky.
i have Killer Cuomo insisting that no vaccine be made available to NY'ers without independent verification by NYS DOH that it's safe, and i have Cum-Allah on the record telling America that she cannot trust the vaccine be cause bad orange man.
LOL. idiot.
Mich and Pa to certify their elections today.....what bullshit is trump and company going to put out today????? Sure think he is overplaying his hand except for non thinkers like rat and Lil Schitty who buy into the election fraud without a shred of evidence!!!!! BTW....that is how they both conduct science.....make shit up and it is a proven to the weak minds of the right!!!!
Trump supporter idiots at their best!!!!! Should be thrown in jail right next to manafort!!!!!!
Sinéad Baker
Mon, November 23, 2020, 6:46 AM EST
Trump supporter breathing 2x1
Still from a video showing Raymond Deskins forcibly breathing after two women ask him to move away. Twitter/Lindsay Watts
A man who deliberately breathed on two women outside President Donald Trump's Virginia golf course has been charged with assault, the sheriff's office said.
Loudoun County Sheriff's Office said that Raymond Deskins, 61, was "charged with simple assault" over the Saturday incident.
It said video footage of the incident "did not capture the entire interaction."
The video showed a woman asking Deskins, wearing Trump gear, to move away from her while noted that he had no mask on.
Deskins then takes a breath in and heavily breathes out, with one woman saying "That's assault."
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A man who deliberately breathed heavily on two protesters outside of President Donald Trump's golf course in Virginia has been charged with assault, the local sheriff's office said.
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. graduated from the University of Delaware with a C average: the 506th student in a class of 688. When his grades weren’t C’s, they were usually D’s.
He then struggled through a JD from Syracuse University where he was nearly expelled after being caught plagiarizing a paper, and finally graduated 76th out of a class of 85 students. His academic performance was so miserable that an insecure Biden would spend much of his political career lying about academic successes that were humiliatingly exposed as frauds.
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Biden falsely claimed that he had "graduated with three degrees from college", was "the outstanding student in the political science department", that he "went to law school on a full academic scholarship", that he was "in the top half" of his class. None of that ever happened.
Robinette was a bad law student and he did not make a good lawyer, bouncing from one firm to another, working briefly as a public defender without leaving any impression, and managing a pool. Successful young attorneys on their way up do not take jobs managing swimming pools.
Instead Biden went into politics and continued failing his way upward by crawling through the corrupt underbelly of Delaware politics. His first bid for the White House failed miserably, so did his second bid, and it seemed like he would become just another aging senator looking for an exit strategy to a lobbying firm or an industry trade group that would pay him a lot of money.
And then Obama decided to make Biden his number two, not because he liked him, but because he held the old white male politician in contempt. The final insult came when Obama picked Hillary to succeed him while offering Biden a Rose Garden press conference for his ego.
“And you know who really doesn’t have it? Joe Biden,” Obama sneered this time around.
During the primaries, Biden was forced to pretend he had asked Obama not to endorse him.
Joe Biden is a failer and he’s always been one. His career comes down to political grease and dumb luck. There has never been anyone at this position who has not accomplished a single thing except being in the right place at the right time, before invariably screwing it up.
Biden, as a young man, got into the Senate, and it didn’t take him long to become a national laughingstock, confining his career prospects to Delaware for a generation. Obama plucked him from obscurity, and Biden messed that up, getting dumped for Hillary. Now that he’s calling himself president-elect, the one thing to remember is that Biden always messes it up in the end.
Biden is a failer. He’s a C student who gets by on luck and then it all comes apart until someone takes pity on him, and he hangs on long enough to try for something bigger and messes that up.
http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2020/11/fighter-vs-failer.html
the only difference between slow joe and bernie is slow joe was never kicked out of a hippie commune for being a lazy piece of shit.
LOL.
ighter-vs-failer.html
You mean like trump and his BS getting into an Ivy league school....having others take his SAT......getting out of serving the country because of his painful bone spurs????????? BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Funny how rat keeps finding these foreign assholes with opinions as worthless as him!!!!!!!!
HEADLINES AND ARTICLES FROM Taegan Goddard's POLITICALWIRE.COM:
JP Morgan Sees Economy Contracting In First Quarter
Republicans Are Calculating, not Cowards
I disagre. I say they're both.
Trump Set to Veto Defense Bill Over Renaming Bases
The traitor president wants to honor other traitors to our country.
Senate Republicans Face Tough Map In 2022
Key Trump Supporter Says Biden Won
7:30 am
Axios: “It’s over. That’s what Blackstone chairman, CEO and co-founder Steve Schwarzman — one of President Trump’s most loyal allies — and other top Republicans are signaling to the defeated president, 16 days after Joe Biden clinched the win.”
Said Schwarzman: “I’m a fan of good process. In my comments three days after the election, I was trying to be a voice of reason and express why it’s in the national interest to have all Americans believe the election is being resolved correctly. But the outcome is very certain today, and the country should move on.”
Kasich Says Republicans Are Afraid of Trump
7:23 am
Former Gov. John Kasich told NPR that Republicans are “either in complete lockstep with Trump or they’re afraid of him.”
He added: “They’re afraid that they’ll be primaried or they’re afraid they’ll be severely criticized. And it’s a pretty remarkable situation.”
21 Republican Senators Who Know Better
7:15 am EST
Carl Bernstein reports that 21 Republican Senators — in conversations with colleagues, staff members, lobbyists and White House aides — have repeatedly expressed extreme contempt for Donald Trump and his fitness to be president.
They are: Rob Portman, Lamar Alexander, Ben Sasse, Roy Blunt, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, John Cornyn, John Thune, Mitt Romney, Mike Braun, Todd Young, Tim Scott, Rick Scott, Marco Rubio, Chuck Grassley, Richard Burr, Pat Toomey, Martha McSally, Jerry Moran, Pat Roberts and Richard Shelby.
Said Bernstein: “With few exceptions, their craven public silence has helped enable Trump’s most grievous conduct—including undermining and discrediting the US the electoral system.”
THE COWARDS GOT NAMED!
Flashback Quote of the Day
“I am the most fabulous whiner. I do whine because I want to win. And I’m not happy if I’m not winning. And I am a whiner. And I’m a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win.”
— Donald Trump, interviewed by CNN in August 2015.
Most Trump Voters Don’t Think Count Is Accurate
6:44 am
A new Seven Letter Insight poll finds 56% of voters who backed President Trump in the election don’t believe their vote was recorded accurately.
THE NUMBER IS DECLINING
Michigan Board May Deadlock on Vote Certification
6:34 am
Detroit Free Press: “For what is believed would be the first time in history, Michigan’s elections board could deadlock Monday on certifying the state’s presidential election results.”
“By law and by practice, certification by the Board of State Canvassers — comprised of two Democratic appointees and two Republican ones — is supposed to be a routine sign-off. Certification acknowledges that Michigan’s unofficial results match the tabulated vote counts. It follows a two-week period of double-checking in Michigan’s 83 counties, where some inaccuracies in the unofficial numbers, as is normal, were found and corrected.
“But these are not normal times. The climate is hyper-partisan, disinformation is rampant, and Republican President Donald Trump and his team of lawyers are spreading false claims, working to somehow overturn election results in Michigan and other key states, and upend President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College, where Biden rung up 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232.”
Netanyahu Flew to Saudi Arabia in Secret
Biden to Spotlight CDC Officials Shunned by Trump
6:28 am
GREAT MOVE!
“President-elect Joe Biden is putting scientists in charge and back on the stage to restore trust in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The plans include immediately reviving regular media briefings and giving a central role to long-sidelined career officials including Nancy Messonnier, the public health official who first warned of the ‘severe’ impact of the Covid-19 back in February.”
Newsom Pressured on Filling Kamala Harris’ Seat
Biden Picks Linda Thomas-Greenfield as UN Ambassador
10:43 pm
“Democrats close to President-elect Biden expect him to name Linda Thomas-Greenfield as ambassador to the United Nations, looking to a Black woman and respected diplomat to restore morale,” Axios reports.
GREAT PICK!
Axios the party is over.
The legal insanity: For more than 24 hours — until it became too much even for Rudy Giuliani to tolerate — the publicly-stated position of President Trump's legal team was that the reason Trump lost Georgia is because Gov. Brian Kemp (R) has been bribed by a Venezuelan front company in cahoots with the CIA to throw elections to Communists.
More than that, in the telling by now-former Trump legal adviser Sidney Powell (ditched in a statement by the campaign last night), these dastardly Communists have manipulated American voting machines to switch millions of votes from Trump to Joe Biden.
Yes, that's correct. You didn't read that wrong. We are not pranking you.
This is literally what the Trump legal team is arguing. Watch this Newsmax clip and this press conference appearance from Powell.The dangerous reality is that there is a large audience for this conspiracy theory. Far-right commentators attacked Fox' News' Tucker Carlson for daring to suggest that Powell should provide evidence to support her allegation of what would be the biggest crime in American history.
Longtime Trump ally Chris Christie said on ABC's "This Week": "[T]he conduct of the president's legal team has been a national embarrassment."
Senior people in Trumpworld agree. A source familiar with the situation said the Trump legal team had been arguing vociferously with each other on phone calls with the president.And Powell hadn’t shown anybody senior in Trumpworld the evidence to support her grand claims of an international communist conspiracy.
Notice that few key campaign and White House officials have been publicly endorsing this legal strategy.
Ask yourself: When is the last time you heard from Jared? Or Ivanka? In private, they have long known it was over.
5 time bone spurs and a fake SAT
Antony J. Blinken, a defender of global alliances and President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s closest foreign policy adviser, is expected to be nominated for secretary of state, a job in which he will try to coalesce skeptical international partners into a new competition with China
We will rengage with NATO and Putin is going to be pissed off.
We will no longer isolationist
Putin is one of the few world leaders who has not acknowledged Biden's win.
He's playing the game of his buddy Trump.
Biden’s Dull-By-Design Plan,
9:19 am
“The most remarkable part of President-elect Biden’s campaign and early picks for positions of true power is the unremarkable — and predictable — nature of his big moves,” Axios reports.
“Biden is obsessed with bringing stability and conventional sanity back to governance.”
Said one source familiar with his thinking: “He is approaching this — in part — like an experienced mechanic intent on repairing something that’s been badly broken.”
The Election Really Wasn’t That Close
9:09 am
First Read: “What’s gotten lost in all of the focus on President Trump’s lawsuits, his baseless accusations of voter fraud and his administration’s unwillingness so far to begin the transition is a simple fact. The 2020 presidential election wasn’t really that close.”
“Right now, Joe Biden’s popular-vote lead over Trump stands at 4 percentage points, 51 percent to 47 percent – and it’s only going to grow once more of New York’s votes (finally) get counted. That would give Biden the second-largest popular vote margin out of the 21st century’s six presidential elections, with only Barack Obama’s 7-point win in 2008 being greater.
“When it comes to the Electoral College, the tally stands at Biden 306, Trump 232 – which happens to be the exact same split as Trump’s 2016 win versus Hillary Clinton (but in reverse). And Trump referred to that as a ‘massive landslide victory.'”
8:26 became such a freaking clown show that Ms. Sidney Powell with her baseless fantasies has been kicked off of Trump's legal team.
Her lack of evidence got to be too much not only for Fox News' Tucker Carlson, but even for Trump and Giuliani who will swallow anything.
piece of shit -
Blinken, who served as deputy secretary of state and deputy national security advisor under President Barack Obama, has also been a New York Times opinion writer and a “global affairs analyst” for CNN. In that capacity, he supported the “Russia collusion” hoax.
As Breitbart News reported in 2017, Blinken told CNN: “The president’s ongoing collusion with Russia’s plans is really striking, intentional or not.” He said that Russia had sown doubt about American elections and institutions.
(Subsequently, an investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of any collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.)
Blinken also apologized earlier this year to left-wing anti-Israel radical Linda Sarsour, regarded by many critics (even on the left) as an antisemite, after the Biden campaign tried to distance itself from her views.
He is also married to Evan Ryan, a former aide to then-First Lady Hillary Clinton. Ryan worked for Clinton at a time when Clinton’s chief of staff, Margaret Williams, acknowledged accepting a campaign donation from entrepreneur Johnny Chien Chuen Chung.
Chung said that the donation was meant to help Clinton pay for Christmas receptions for the Democratic National Committee at the White House, in exchange for “VIP treatment for a delegation of visiting Chinese businessmen,” according to the Los Angeles Times.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/11/22/report-biden-to-name-russia-hoaxer-cnn-analyst-tony-blinken-secretary-of-state/
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5 time bone spurs and a fake SAT
says the flat-footed Vietnam draft dodger confined to a nursing home.
Trump’s Legal Farce Is Having Tragic Results
9:45 am
Rick Hasen: “The good news is that there is no real prospect that Mr. Trump can avoid a reluctant handover of power on Jan. 20. The bad news is that Mr. Trump’s wildly unsubstantiated claims of a vast voter fraud conspiracy and the litigation he has brought against voting rights have done — and will increasingly do — serious damage to our democracy.
“Our problems will deepen, in particular, because Mr. Trump’s litigation strategy has led to the emergence of a voter-hostile jurisprudence in the federal courts. New judicial doctrines will put more power in the hands of Republican legislatures to suppress the vote and take voters, state courts and federal courts out of key backstop roles.”
We must not let that happen!
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Once Sweden found cheerleaders among conservative commentators and activists in the United States for its light-touch approach to the coronavirus pandemic.
But as the numbers of deaths and infections surge, Sweden's government has been forced to introduce much tougher regulations to prevent the virus from spreading.
Beginning Tuesday, the number of people who can gather in public will be reduced from 50 to eight. Only eight diners per table will be allowed in restaurants.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven issued a stern warning on Sunday night as he explained the new rules.
"Tonight, in late November 2020, it is clear that it will be some time before we can return to normal," he told the nation in a televised address. "Many have neglected the advice during the autumn."
"All the things you would like to do, but that are not necessary: Cancel, postpone," he added.
He will have about 15 days after inauguration to extend for five years the last major arms control agreement with Russia, a step Mr. Trump initially refused to take because he insisted China be brought into the treaty as well. “Certainly we will want to engage China on arms control issues,” Mr. Blinken said recently, “but we can pursue strategic stability by extending the New START arms limitation agreement and seek to build on it” later.
Mr. Blinken has turned more hawkish on Russia as the extent of its interference in the 2016 election and throughout Europe has become clearer. In a recent interview, he suggested using Russia’s discomfort with its reliance on China, especially in technology, for leverage.
“There’s a flip side” to dealing with Moscow, Mr. Blinken said. President Vladimir V. Putin, he noted, is “looking to relieve Russia’s growing dependence on China,” which has left him in “not a very comfortable position.”
In taking the White House’s top national security job, Mr. Sullivan will be the youngest person to hold that position since the Eisenhower administration. Mr. Sullivan made his name in the Obama administration, finding admirers even among conservative Republicans in Congress while playing a key role in the negotiations leading to the Iran nuclear deal in 2015.
A Minnesota native and Yale Law School graduate, Mr. Sullivan in recent months has helped spearhead a project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace re-conceiving U.S. foreign policy around the needs of the American middle class.
In recent years, Mr. Sullivan has taught at Yale Law School and Dartmouth, and moved to New Hampshire with his wife, Margaret Goodlander. Ms. Goodlander was an aide to Senator John McCain, and then a law clerk to Judge Merrick B. Garland and Justice Stephen G. Breyer.
Mr. Blinken, described by some as a centrist with a streak of interventionism, has also sought to lessen refugee crises and migration. On the last day of the Obama administration, the State Department set a cap of 110,000 refugees who would be allowed to resettle in the United States in the 2017 fiscal year. That number has since dwindled to 15,000 in the 2021 fiscal year.
He has said he will look to further assist Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — the Northern Triangle countries of Central America — to persuade migrants that they will be safer and better off remaining home.
President-Elect Biden Chooses Antony Blinken as Secretary of State https://nyti.ms/3fsz1JJ
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YOU CERTAINLY ARE ASSHOLE!!!!!! If you only had a brain!!!!!! bWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Yes Roger....all the losers here who applauded the Swedish model have another reason why it FAILED MISERABLY!!!!!! Stat that I saw was sweden had 10x of the causalities as its 6 closet neighbors.....but rat and Lil Schitty are still pushing it is only the flu and masks don't work.....a true indictment of the GOP and the lack of a leader!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Ch ought to read 8:56 with a guilty conscience. If Ch were in power, and people had listened to his advocacy for Sweden's way of dealing with the pandemic (perhaps some people did), then Ch, LIKE TRUMP, would bear responsibility for many, many deaths.
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