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Committee to Protect Medicare @cmteetoprotect | 12:00 PM · Sep 22, 2020:
BREAKING: U.S. death toll from #COVID19 officially surpasses 200,000, per @JohnsHopkins.
Doctors across the country share their thoughts on the loss of 200,000 patients, mothers, fathers, children, friends:
"It simply didn't have to be this way."
1:27 ( https://twitter.com/cmteetoprotect/status/1308435907914145797 )
BREAKING: U.S. death toll from #COVID19 officially surpasses 200,000, per @JohnsHopkins.
Doctors across the country share their thoughts on the loss of 200,000 patients, mothers, fathers, children, friends:
"It simply didn't have to be this way."
1:27 ( https://twitter.com/cmteetoprotect/status/1308435907914145797 )
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Mike Bloomberg raises $16 million to allow former felons to vote in Florida
Michael Scherer | September 22, 2020
Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg and his team have raised more than $16 million to pay the court fines and fees of nearly 32,000 Black and Hispanic Florida voters with felony convictions, an effort aimed at boosting turnout for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
The money will go to fund a program organized by the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition to pay the fines, fees and restitution costs for former prisoners who are already registered to vote in Florida but barred by law from participating in the election because of those outstanding debts.
Bloomberg, who has committed at least $100 million to electing Biden in the state, raised the money from individuals and foundations over the past week, his advisers said. He saw the donations as a more cost-effective way of adding votes to the Democratic column than investing money to persuade voters who already have the right to vote, a Bloomberg memo said.
..The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition is a nonpartisan group that has been fundraising to return all former felons in the state to the voting rolls. Desmond Meade, the group’s president, said the group does not share Bloomberg’s goal of empowering only one political side in the upcoming election.
He said that through separate efforts, his organization has raised about $7 million from about 44,000 donors to help pay the debts of citizens with felony convictions so they can return to the voting rolls. The average debt, the group said, is about $1,000.
After organizing by Meade’s group, Florida voters passed a statewide constitutional amendment in 2018 that gave former felons, except those convicted of murder or felony sexual offenses, the opportunity to vote in upcoming elections. The Republican-controlled legislature subsequently passed, and the Republican governor signed, a law that conditioned their return to the voting rolls on the payment of all fees, fines and restitution that were part of their sentence.
Subsequent court challenges upheld the power of the legislature to condition voting rights on the payment of debts by former felons. Judge Barbara Lagoa, who is under consideration by President Trump as a possible replacement for Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, cast a concurring opinion on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the state law requiring payment of debts.
The Republican effort is expected to limit what some viewed as a political benefit to Democrats of the constitutional change, which passed by ballot initiative with 65 percent support. A study by the University of Florida found that nearly 775,000 former felons still owed money related to their convictions and would be barred from the voting booth by the law. The vast majority are too poor to pay their outstanding debts, according to evidence presented in court documents challenging the law.
Several philanthropic groups, including a nonprofit founded by the professional basketball player LeBron James, have since committed donations to pay the owed money. The Bloomberg effort, which his aides said will be pooled with about $5 million already raised by the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, is narrowly focused only on Black and Hispanic voters who are already registered to vote and whose debts are less than $1,500.
..Bloomberg aides said the former New York mayor, who is worth more than $50 billion, had raised the money for this effort from others and that the sum would not count against the $100 million or more he has personally committed to spend on behalf of Biden in the state.
The Bloomberg memo pointed out that the 31,790 targeted voters, including 25,548 who are Black, are nearly equivalent to the margin by which Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) won election in 2018, and about three times as big as the margin that elected Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) that same year.
...Meade said his group would be in charge of spending the money raised by Bloomberg and will continue fundraising to enfranchise more Floridians with felony convictions...
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/mike-bloomberg-raises-16-million-to-allow-fo...
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Chris Lu (Obama Dep Sec'y of Labor) @ChrisLu44 | 10:51 AM · Sep 22, 2020:
Bloomberg has raised $16 million to pay court fees and fines of nearly 32,000 Black and Hispanic Florida voters with convictions
That’s equivalent to the margin that DeSantis won in 2018
Please consider supporting this effort: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/florida-rights-restoration-coalition--frrc--1
Michael Scherer | September 22, 2020
Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg and his team have raised more than $16 million to pay the court fines and fees of nearly 32,000 Black and Hispanic Florida voters with felony convictions, an effort aimed at boosting turnout for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
The money will go to fund a program organized by the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition to pay the fines, fees and restitution costs for former prisoners who are already registered to vote in Florida but barred by law from participating in the election because of those outstanding debts.
Bloomberg, who has committed at least $100 million to electing Biden in the state, raised the money from individuals and foundations over the past week, his advisers said. He saw the donations as a more cost-effective way of adding votes to the Democratic column than investing money to persuade voters who already have the right to vote, a Bloomberg memo said.
..The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition is a nonpartisan group that has been fundraising to return all former felons in the state to the voting rolls. Desmond Meade, the group’s president, said the group does not share Bloomberg’s goal of empowering only one political side in the upcoming election.
He said that through separate efforts, his organization has raised about $7 million from about 44,000 donors to help pay the debts of citizens with felony convictions so they can return to the voting rolls. The average debt, the group said, is about $1,000.
After organizing by Meade’s group, Florida voters passed a statewide constitutional amendment in 2018 that gave former felons, except those convicted of murder or felony sexual offenses, the opportunity to vote in upcoming elections. The Republican-controlled legislature subsequently passed, and the Republican governor signed, a law that conditioned their return to the voting rolls on the payment of all fees, fines and restitution that were part of their sentence.
Subsequent court challenges upheld the power of the legislature to condition voting rights on the payment of debts by former felons. Judge Barbara Lagoa, who is under consideration by President Trump as a possible replacement for Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, cast a concurring opinion on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the state law requiring payment of debts.
The Republican effort is expected to limit what some viewed as a political benefit to Democrats of the constitutional change, which passed by ballot initiative with 65 percent support. A study by the University of Florida found that nearly 775,000 former felons still owed money related to their convictions and would be barred from the voting booth by the law. The vast majority are too poor to pay their outstanding debts, according to evidence presented in court documents challenging the law.
Several philanthropic groups, including a nonprofit founded by the professional basketball player LeBron James, have since committed donations to pay the owed money. The Bloomberg effort, which his aides said will be pooled with about $5 million already raised by the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, is narrowly focused only on Black and Hispanic voters who are already registered to vote and whose debts are less than $1,500.
..Bloomberg aides said the former New York mayor, who is worth more than $50 billion, had raised the money for this effort from others and that the sum would not count against the $100 million or more he has personally committed to spend on behalf of Biden in the state.
The Bloomberg memo pointed out that the 31,790 targeted voters, including 25,548 who are Black, are nearly equivalent to the margin by which Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) won election in 2018, and about three times as big as the margin that elected Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) that same year.
...Meade said his group would be in charge of spending the money raised by Bloomberg and will continue fundraising to enfranchise more Floridians with felony convictions...
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/mike-bloomberg-raises-16-million-to-allow-fo...
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Chris Lu (Obama Dep Sec'y of Labor) @ChrisLu44 | 10:51 AM · Sep 22, 2020:
Bloomberg has raised $16 million to pay court fees and fines of nearly 32,000 Black and Hispanic Florida voters with convictions
That’s equivalent to the margin that DeSantis won in 2018
Please consider supporting this effort: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/florida-rights-restoration-coalition--frrc--1
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Barack Obama @BarackObama | 9:00 AM · Sep 22, 2020:
Your vote has never mattered more than it does right now.
Today is National Voter Registration Day.
Go to http://iwillvote.com to register and make a plan to vote.
And make sure everybody you know does, too.
0:53 ( https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1308390673939410944 )
Your vote has never mattered more than it does right now.
Today is National Voter Registration Day.
Go to http://iwillvote.com to register and make a plan to vote.
And make sure everybody you know does, too.
0:53 ( https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1308390673939410944 )
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Laurence Tribe @tribelaw | 7:17 AM · Sep 23, 2020:
Watch Trump admit his plan to seize power:
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Why the rush?
So he’ll have a majority on the Court to uphold his schemes to suppress votes, toss out ballots, and claim victory.
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Robert N. Schlesinger @RobertNSchlesi1| 10:03 PM · Sep 22, 2020:
The video link below shows the unveiled threat from Trump on using a packed Supreme Court to invalidate the forthcoming Presidential election, if need be. Trump's behavior during this election process is a plethora of insanely dishonest shenanigans.
Trump accidentally reveals the DANGEROUS reason he wants to fill...
BREAKING: Trump just accidentally revealed the DANGEROUS reason he wants to fill Supreme Court seat NOW. To demand the Senate wait until the next president...
(Brian Tyler Cohen) youtube.com
5:01 ( https://twitter.com/RobertNSchlesi1/status/1308587653512609792 )
Watch Trump admit his plan to seize power:
...
Why the rush?
So he’ll have a majority on the Court to uphold his schemes to suppress votes, toss out ballots, and claim victory.
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Robert N. Schlesinger @RobertNSchlesi1| 10:03 PM · Sep 22, 2020:
The video link below shows the unveiled threat from Trump on using a packed Supreme Court to invalidate the forthcoming Presidential election, if need be. Trump's behavior during this election process is a plethora of insanely dishonest shenanigans.
Trump accidentally reveals the DANGEROUS reason he wants to fill...
BREAKING: Trump just accidentally revealed the DANGEROUS reason he wants to fill Supreme Court seat NOW. To demand the Senate wait until the next president...
(Brian Tyler Cohen) youtube.com
5:01 ( https://twitter.com/RobertNSchlesi1/status/1308587653512609792 )
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Having reviewed vaccines in development for Nature (below), Krammer plans to work on a vaccine tweetorial this weekend, which I'll post here, if, as is usual with his stuff, it's edifying.
Krammer, F. SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in development. Nature (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2798-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2798-3
This is an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication.
Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in late 2019 in China and caused a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To mitigate the public health, economic and societal impacts of the virus, a vaccine is urgently needed. The development of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines was initiated in early January 2020 when the sequence of the virus became available and moved at record speed with one Phase I trial already starting in March 2020 and currently more than 180 vaccines in various stages of development. Phase I/II trial data is already available for several vaccine candidates and many have moved into Phase III trials. The data available so far suggests that effective and safe vaccines might become available within months rather than years.
Krammer, F. SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in development. Nature (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2798-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2798-3
This is an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication.
Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in late 2019 in China and caused a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To mitigate the public health, economic and societal impacts of the virus, a vaccine is urgently needed. The development of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines was initiated in early January 2020 when the sequence of the virus became available and moved at record speed with one Phase I trial already starting in March 2020 and currently more than 180 vaccines in various stages of development. Phase I/II trial data is already available for several vaccine candidates and many have moved into Phase III trials. The data available so far suggests that effective and safe vaccines might become available within months rather than years.
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A single-shot coronavirus vaccine from Johnson & Johnson will be tested in 60,000 people
Carolyn Y. Johnson | September 23, 2020
...The experimental vaccine being developed by pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson is the fourth vaccine to enter the large, Phase 3 trials in the United States that will determine whether they are effective and safe. Paul Stoffels, chief scientific officer of J&J, predicted that there may be enough data to have results by the end of the year and said the company plans to manufacture 1 billion doses next year.
...The company is initially testing a single dose, whereas the other vaccines being tested in the United States require a return visit and second shot three to four weeks after the first one to trigger a protective immune response. The J&J vaccine can also be stored in liquid form at refrigerator temperatures for three months, whereas two of the front-runner candidates must be frozen or kept at ultracold temperatures for long-term storage.
The United States has invested...close to $1.5 billion to support the development of the J&J vaccine and an advance purchase of 100 million doses. The J&J vaccine is the second to use a viral-vector approach, taking a harmless virus and inserting into it a gene that contains the blueprint for a distinctive part of the novel coronavirus.
...In a monkey study published in Nature in July, (Dan Barouch, director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, who partnered with J&J to develop the vaccine) showed his approach successfully taught the immune system to protect against a real infection...Stoffels said that overall, the vaccine showed that it triggered a promising immune response and that side effects of the vaccine were tolerable, including some fevers that resolved within one to two days.
The trial is designed to be twice as large as the initial design of other Phase 3 trials in the United States, although the Pfizer trial has also expanded to include 44,000 participants...As the other coronavirus trials in the United States have struggled to recruit diverse populations, the size and international scope of the J&J trial could provide an advantage...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/09/23/coronavirus-vaccine-jj-single-s...
Carolyn Y. Johnson | September 23, 2020
...The experimental vaccine being developed by pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson is the fourth vaccine to enter the large, Phase 3 trials in the United States that will determine whether they are effective and safe. Paul Stoffels, chief scientific officer of J&J, predicted that there may be enough data to have results by the end of the year and said the company plans to manufacture 1 billion doses next year.
...The company is initially testing a single dose, whereas the other vaccines being tested in the United States require a return visit and second shot three to four weeks after the first one to trigger a protective immune response. The J&J vaccine can also be stored in liquid form at refrigerator temperatures for three months, whereas two of the front-runner candidates must be frozen or kept at ultracold temperatures for long-term storage.
The United States has invested...close to $1.5 billion to support the development of the J&J vaccine and an advance purchase of 100 million doses. The J&J vaccine is the second to use a viral-vector approach, taking a harmless virus and inserting into it a gene that contains the blueprint for a distinctive part of the novel coronavirus.
...In a monkey study published in Nature in July, (Dan Barouch, director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, who partnered with J&J to develop the vaccine) showed his approach successfully taught the immune system to protect against a real infection...Stoffels said that overall, the vaccine showed that it triggered a promising immune response and that side effects of the vaccine were tolerable, including some fevers that resolved within one to two days.
The trial is designed to be twice as large as the initial design of other Phase 3 trials in the United States, although the Pfizer trial has also expanded to include 44,000 participants...As the other coronavirus trials in the United States have struggled to recruit diverse populations, the size and international scope of the J&J trial could provide an advantage...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/09/23/coronavirus-vaccine-jj-single-s...
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Pandemania in Pennsylvania...
Armin Wolf @ArminWolf | 12:07 AM · Sep 23, 2020
Pandemie?
Was für eine Pandemie?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1308594096005697541/photo/1
Armin Wolf @ArminWolf | 12:07 AM · Sep 23, 2020
Pandemie?
Was für eine Pandemie?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1308594096005697541/photo/1
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"From Washington's perspective and judgment, political parties eventually and "gradually incline the minds of men to seek security… in the absolute power of an individual", leading to despotism. He acknowledges the fact that parties are sometimes beneficial in promoting liberty in monarchies, but he argues that political parties must be restrained in a popularly elected government because of their tendency to distract the government from their duties, create unfounded jealousies among groups and regions, raise false alarms among the people, promote riots and insurrection, and provide foreign nations and interests access to the government where they can impose their will upon the country. '
- George Washington's Farewell Address after two terms as president ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_Farewell_Address )
Biden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?'
Rebecca Klar - 09/23/20
...Asked about the president’s remarks during his briefing, (Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden) told reporters, “What country are we in?”
“I'm being facetious. I said, what country are we in? Look, he says the most irrational things. I don't know what to say,” Biden added, according to a pool report.
During a White House briefing, Trump refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power should he lose the November election, instead once again sowing doubt about the security of mail-in ballots.
“We’re going to have to see what happens, you know, but I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots. The ballots are a disaster,” Trump said when asked if he would commit to making sure there is a peaceful transition of power.
Pressed on the question, Trump said there would be no need for a transition of power without mail-in ballots.
“Get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a very peaceful — there won't be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation,” Trump said. “The ballots are out of control. You know it, and you know who knows it better than anyone else? The Democrats know it better than anyone else.”
The president has repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims that mail-in ballots lead to mass voter fraud, despite experts saying there is no evidence of meaningful fraud in vote by mail.
Trump’s comments were publicly questioned by at least one member of his own party Wednesday night. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) tweeted that the peaceful transition of power is “fundamental to democracy” without directly addressing Trump...
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/517934-biden-on-trumps-refusal-to-commit-t...
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Report: Trump Campaign Actively Discussing Radical Measures To Bypass Election Results
Tommy Beer | Sep 23, 2020,12:27pm EDT
Following the casting of ballots and counting individual votes in a presidential election, the United States Constitution prescribes that the 538 electors who constitute the Electoral College cast their electoral votes, determining the winner.
Customarily, electors are chosen by popular vote, but nothing in the Constitution mandates that tradition, with Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 merely asserting that each state shall appoint electors “in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.”
Since the late 1800s, every state in every presidential election has ceded the decision to its voters, but the Supreme Court affirmed in Bush v. Gore that a state “can take back the power to appoint electors.”
The Atlantic report claims that sources in the Republican Party at the local and national levels confirm that “the Trump campaign is discussing contingency plans to bypass election results and appoint loyal electors” in red battleground states.
“The push to appoint electors would be framed in terms of protecting the people’s will,” an unnamed Trump-campaign legal adviser tells The Atlantic, adding, “The state legislatures will say, ‘All right, we’ve been given this constitutional power. We don’t think the results of our own state are accurate, so here’s our slate of electors that we think properly reflect the results of our state.’”
The chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party says, on the record, that he has discussed appointing loyal electors with the Trump campaign: “It is one of the available legal options set forth in the Constitution.”...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/23/report-trump-campaign-actively...
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As posted in >4 margd:
Laurence Tribe tribelaw | 7:17 AM · Sep 23, 2020:
Watch Trump admit his plan to seize power:
...
Why the rush?
So he’ll have a majority on the Court to uphold his schemes to suppress votes, toss out ballots, and claim victory.
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Robert N. Schlesinger @RobertNSchlesi1| 10:03 PM · Sep 22, 2020:
The video link below shows the unveiled threat from Trump on using a packed Supreme Court to invalidate the forthcoming Presidential election, if need be. Trump's behavior during this election process is a plethora of insanely dishonest shenanigans.
Trump accidentally reveals the DANGEROUS reason he wants to fill...
BREAKING: Trump just accidentally revealed the DANGEROUS reason he wants to fill Supreme Court seat NOW. To demand the Senate wait until the next president...
(Brian Tyler Cohen) youtube.com
5:01 ( https://twitter.com/RobertNSchlesi1/status/1308587653512609792 )
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ETA
Daniel W. Drezner @dandrezner | 6:39 PM · Sep 23, 2020:
The context makes it worse.
0:33 ( https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/1308898742498660352 )
Trump On Peaceful Transfer Of Power
From The Recount
- George Washington's Farewell Address after two terms as president ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_Farewell_Address )
Biden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?'
Rebecca Klar - 09/23/20
...Asked about the president’s remarks during his briefing, (Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden) told reporters, “What country are we in?”
“I'm being facetious. I said, what country are we in? Look, he says the most irrational things. I don't know what to say,” Biden added, according to a pool report.
During a White House briefing, Trump refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power should he lose the November election, instead once again sowing doubt about the security of mail-in ballots.
“We’re going to have to see what happens, you know, but I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots. The ballots are a disaster,” Trump said when asked if he would commit to making sure there is a peaceful transition of power.
Pressed on the question, Trump said there would be no need for a transition of power without mail-in ballots.
“Get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a very peaceful — there won't be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation,” Trump said. “The ballots are out of control. You know it, and you know who knows it better than anyone else? The Democrats know it better than anyone else.”
The president has repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims that mail-in ballots lead to mass voter fraud, despite experts saying there is no evidence of meaningful fraud in vote by mail.
Trump’s comments were publicly questioned by at least one member of his own party Wednesday night. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) tweeted that the peaceful transition of power is “fundamental to democracy” without directly addressing Trump...
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/517934-biden-on-trumps-refusal-to-commit-t...
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Report: Trump Campaign Actively Discussing Radical Measures To Bypass Election Results
Tommy Beer | Sep 23, 2020,12:27pm EDT
Following the casting of ballots and counting individual votes in a presidential election, the United States Constitution prescribes that the 538 electors who constitute the Electoral College cast their electoral votes, determining the winner.
Customarily, electors are chosen by popular vote, but nothing in the Constitution mandates that tradition, with Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 merely asserting that each state shall appoint electors “in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.”
Since the late 1800s, every state in every presidential election has ceded the decision to its voters, but the Supreme Court affirmed in Bush v. Gore that a state “can take back the power to appoint electors.”
The Atlantic report claims that sources in the Republican Party at the local and national levels confirm that “the Trump campaign is discussing contingency plans to bypass election results and appoint loyal electors” in red battleground states.
“The push to appoint electors would be framed in terms of protecting the people’s will,” an unnamed Trump-campaign legal adviser tells The Atlantic, adding, “The state legislatures will say, ‘All right, we’ve been given this constitutional power. We don’t think the results of our own state are accurate, so here’s our slate of electors that we think properly reflect the results of our state.’”
The chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party says, on the record, that he has discussed appointing loyal electors with the Trump campaign: “It is one of the available legal options set forth in the Constitution.”...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/23/report-trump-campaign-actively...
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As posted in >4 margd:
Laurence Tribe tribelaw | 7:17 AM · Sep 23, 2020:
Watch Trump admit his plan to seize power:
...
Why the rush?
So he’ll have a majority on the Court to uphold his schemes to suppress votes, toss out ballots, and claim victory.
--------------------------------------------------
Robert N. Schlesinger @RobertNSchlesi1| 10:03 PM · Sep 22, 2020:
The video link below shows the unveiled threat from Trump on using a packed Supreme Court to invalidate the forthcoming Presidential election, if need be. Trump's behavior during this election process is a plethora of insanely dishonest shenanigans.
Trump accidentally reveals the DANGEROUS reason he wants to fill...
BREAKING: Trump just accidentally revealed the DANGEROUS reason he wants to fill Supreme Court seat NOW. To demand the Senate wait until the next president...
(Brian Tyler Cohen) youtube.com
5:01 ( https://twitter.com/RobertNSchlesi1/status/1308587653512609792 )
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ETA
Daniel W. Drezner @dandrezner | 6:39 PM · Sep 23, 2020:
The context makes it worse.
0:33 ( https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/1308898742498660352 )
Trump On Peaceful Transfer Of Power
From The Recount
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While in the Senate & House, Joe Biden passed 167 pieces of legislation, e.g.,
Legislation Sponsored or Cosponsored by Joseph R. Biden Jr.
In Congress 1973 - 2009
https://www.congress.gov/member/joseph-biden/B000444
Legislation Sponsored or Cosponsored by Joseph R. Biden Jr.
In Congress 1973 - 2009
https://www.congress.gov/member/joseph-biden/B000444
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>8 margd:, contd.
Fact check: Trump Jr. touts baseless rigged-election claims to recruit 'army' for his dad
Donie O'Sullivan and Daniel Dale | September 23, 2020
(CNN)Donald Trump Jr. is touting baseless election-rigging claims in videos posted to Facebook and Twitter* asking "able-bodied" people to join an election security "army" for his father.
Facebook and Twitter affixed labels to the video pointing to accurate information about voting, but neither company said the video violated its election integrity rules in a way that would result in it being removed.
Twitter labeled the video only after being asked about it by CNN on Wednesday. The video had been on its site since Monday.
"The radical left are laying the groundwork to steal this election from my father," Trump Jr. said in the video posted by the Trump campaign. He added, "Their plan is to add millions of fraudulent ballots that can cancel your vote and overturn the election."...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/politics/donald-trump-jr-baseless-rigged-election...
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* Donald Trump Jr. Retweeted
Team Trump (Text VOTE to 88022) @TeamTrump | 7:01 PM · Sep 21, 2020
The Radical Left is laying the groundwork to steal the 2020 Election from our president.
We need you to join ARMY FOR TRUMP’s election security operation!
VISIT: http://defendyourballot.com
DEFEND YOUR BALLOT!
Text VOTE to 88022
Learn how voting by mail is safe and secure
0:55 ( https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1308179513755435009 )
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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump | 5:20 PM · Sep 17, 2020:
Volunteer to be a Trump Election Poll Watcher. Sign up today!
#MakeAmericaGreatAgain
Election Day Team | Army for Trump
armyfortrump.com
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Fears of voter intimidation in 2020 election as Trump supporters block polling station in Virginia
Gino Spocchia | Sept 21, 2020
Donald Trump supporters sparked fears of voter intimidation after they protested outside a polling station in Virginia as early voting took place this weekend.
Demonstrators were seen outside the Fairfax County Government Center on Saturday as the second day of early voting took place in Fairfax, Virginia.
At least two dozen supporters of the US president held “Trump - Pence” placards and waved American flags, about 100 feet from the entrance to the polling location.
The group chanted “four more years”, The New York Times reported, as voters entered a polling location that, at one point, appeared to be blocked from voters.
Voters were said to have been forced to walk around outside the centre, in order to enter, after the protesters formed a line near the entrance...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/trump-supporters-u...
Fact check: Trump Jr. touts baseless rigged-election claims to recruit 'army' for his dad
Donie O'Sullivan and Daniel Dale | September 23, 2020
(CNN)Donald Trump Jr. is touting baseless election-rigging claims in videos posted to Facebook and Twitter* asking "able-bodied" people to join an election security "army" for his father.
Facebook and Twitter affixed labels to the video pointing to accurate information about voting, but neither company said the video violated its election integrity rules in a way that would result in it being removed.
Twitter labeled the video only after being asked about it by CNN on Wednesday. The video had been on its site since Monday.
"The radical left are laying the groundwork to steal this election from my father," Trump Jr. said in the video posted by the Trump campaign. He added, "Their plan is to add millions of fraudulent ballots that can cancel your vote and overturn the election."...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/politics/donald-trump-jr-baseless-rigged-election...
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* Donald Trump Jr. Retweeted
Team Trump (Text VOTE to 88022) @TeamTrump | 7:01 PM · Sep 21, 2020
The Radical Left is laying the groundwork to steal the 2020 Election from our president.
We need you to join ARMY FOR TRUMP’s election security operation!
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Fears of voter intimidation in 2020 election as Trump supporters block polling station in Virginia
Gino Spocchia | Sept 21, 2020
Donald Trump supporters sparked fears of voter intimidation after they protested outside a polling station in Virginia as early voting took place this weekend.
Demonstrators were seen outside the Fairfax County Government Center on Saturday as the second day of early voting took place in Fairfax, Virginia.
At least two dozen supporters of the US president held “Trump - Pence” placards and waved American flags, about 100 feet from the entrance to the polling location.
The group chanted “four more years”, The New York Times reported, as voters entered a polling location that, at one point, appeared to be blocked from voters.
Voters were said to have been forced to walk around outside the centre, in order to enter, after the protesters formed a line near the entrance...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/trump-supporters-u...
11margd
NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERS FOR BIDEN
We are 489 retired Generals, Admirals, Senior Noncommissioned Officers, Ambassadors and Senior Civilian National Security Officials supporting Joe Biden for President.
AN OPEN LETTER TO AMERICA
September 24, 2020
To Our Fellow Citizens:
...Joe Biden has the character, principles, wisdom, and leadership necessary to address a world on fire. That is why Joe Biden must be the next President of the United States; why we vigorously support his election; and why we urge our fellow citizens to do the same...
https://www.nationalsecurityleaders4biden.com/
We are 489 retired Generals, Admirals, Senior Noncommissioned Officers, Ambassadors and Senior Civilian National Security Officials supporting Joe Biden for President.
AN OPEN LETTER TO AMERICA
September 24, 2020
To Our Fellow Citizens:
...Joe Biden has the character, principles, wisdom, and leadership necessary to address a world on fire. That is why Joe Biden must be the next President of the United States; why we vigorously support his election; and why we urge our fellow citizens to do the same...
https://www.nationalsecurityleaders4biden.com/
12margd
Republican Voters Against Trump @RVAT2020 | 2:36 PM · Sep 18, 2020
Outtake:
@OliviaTroye on that time the President spent 45 minutes complaining about @TuckerCarlson
during an urgent task force meeting about Americans stranded on cruise ships with COVID.
1:24 ( https://twitter.com/RVAT2020/status/1307025596652965891 )
Outtake:
@OliviaTroye on that time the President spent 45 minutes complaining about @TuckerCarlson
during an urgent task force meeting about Americans stranded on cruise ships with COVID.
1:24 ( https://twitter.com/RVAT2020/status/1307025596652965891 )
14Molly3028
https://dnyuz.com/2020/09/25/at-pentagon-fears-grow-that-trump-will-pull-militar...
Lunatic cult-following voters may make a nightmare scenario a possibility!
Lunatic cult-following voters may make a nightmare scenario a possibility!
15Molly3028
https://www.mediaite.com/election-2020/you-really-believe-that-anderson-cooper-s...
“The President of the United States has told us ‘Either I win the
election or I delegitimize the election.’ Those are your choices,
folks.”
He never admitted he lost the popular vote in 2016. This vote
will hopefully be the last installment in the Trump saga with which
historians will have to deal.
“The President of the United States has told us ‘Either I win the
election or I delegitimize the election.’ Those are your choices,
folks.”
He never admitted he lost the popular vote in 2016. This vote
will hopefully be the last installment in the Trump saga with which
historians will have to deal.
16Molly3028
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/25/report-gun-sales-surge-80-percent-...
Mitch and the GOP do not understand cult dynamics. Militias are
being formed as we sit here counting the days until November 3.
And, Rush Limbaugh and his ilk on radio and TV will most likely
egg on the instigators actions to save the reign of their lunatic
cult leader.
Mitch and the GOP do not understand cult dynamics. Militias are
being formed as we sit here counting the days until November 3.
And, Rush Limbaugh and his ilk on radio and TV will most likely
egg on the instigators actions to save the reign of their lunatic
cult leader.
17LolaWalser
This is interesting:
2020 Demographic Swingometer
https://cookpolitical.com/swingometer
If that's reliable (it's calibrated on the actual numbers from 2016 adjusted for population changes), even moderately higher turnout in one of the Black or Hispanic or Asian/Other groups, or slightly higher turnout across all three, would give the election to the Democrats.
No wonder Trumpo is promising war.
2020 Demographic Swingometer
https://cookpolitical.com/swingometer
If that's reliable (it's calibrated on the actual numbers from 2016 adjusted for population changes), even moderately higher turnout in one of the Black or Hispanic or Asian/Other groups, or slightly higher turnout across all three, would give the election to the Democrats.
No wonder Trumpo is promising war.
18margd
Don Winslow @donwinslow | 10:14 PM · Sep 25, 2020:
MY NEW VIDEO:
#StopTheMadnessStopTrump
Everything in this video is documented and sourced.
2:20 ( https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1309677670620213248 )
MY NEW VIDEO:
#StopTheMadnessStopTrump
Everything in this video is documented and sourced.
2:20 ( https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1309677670620213248 )
19margd
Bill Kristol @BillKristol | 9:47 AM · Sep 26, 2020:
1. I was among those who received an e-mail this morning from the former Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, Charles T. Wells. I asked Justice Wells for permission to quote from his e-mail, and he agreed. I do so in this thread.
2. Background: Justice Wells was appointed by Democratic Governor Lawton Chiles to the Florida Supreme Court in 1994, and served until he retired in 2009. He served as Chief Justice from July 1, 2000, until June 30, 2002, and presided over the appeals in Bush v. Gore in 2000.
3. Here are excerpts from his e-mail to friends:
"I have never in the past written a letter or email to you about a preference in an election. I do so now with hesitancy because I know that you have concerns and interests which differ from mine.
4. "However, I set out my thoughts here because I am compelled to believe that our Country, and thus our children and grandchildren, face a grave threat to keeping the kind of representative democracy that we have experienced in our life.
5. "I do not believe that we have had as serious a threat during our lives.
I have worked hard at separating my thoughts about this from partisanship. As you know I had a unique experience in 2000. In that experience I had to separate my decision from partisanship.
6. "I was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court by a Democrat, but in Bush v Gore my objective analysis of the legal issues required me to write a dissenting opinion which...was cited in the majority and C.J. Rehnquist’s concurring opinion which decided the case.
7. "From my work in Bush v Gore I learned a great deal about the laws that control the election of the President. The law in respect to 'contested' elections is very confusing, outdated and fragile.
8. "I will not get into the details here. Suffice it though to say that President Trump’s threat to not accept the outcome of the election is a grave and real threat to our democracy.
9. "I have other reasons that I will not vote for Trump...But, those are not the reason I write to you. The reason I write is because the threat to this Country’s democracy is in my judgment grave and real.
10. "The only way that I can see that this threat can be eliminated is to vote for Biden. It will not be enough to just not vote for Trump. Any basis for a contested election can only really be eliminated by the election not being close.
11. "Again this year as in 2000 Florida will be a key and likely decisive state. I urge you to vote early and if by mail ensure that your vote gets to the Supervisor of Elections in your county. Thank you for allowing me to share my thoughts."
END
1. I was among those who received an e-mail this morning from the former Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, Charles T. Wells. I asked Justice Wells for permission to quote from his e-mail, and he agreed. I do so in this thread.
2. Background: Justice Wells was appointed by Democratic Governor Lawton Chiles to the Florida Supreme Court in 1994, and served until he retired in 2009. He served as Chief Justice from July 1, 2000, until June 30, 2002, and presided over the appeals in Bush v. Gore in 2000.
3. Here are excerpts from his e-mail to friends:
"I have never in the past written a letter or email to you about a preference in an election. I do so now with hesitancy because I know that you have concerns and interests which differ from mine.
4. "However, I set out my thoughts here because I am compelled to believe that our Country, and thus our children and grandchildren, face a grave threat to keeping the kind of representative democracy that we have experienced in our life.
5. "I do not believe that we have had as serious a threat during our lives.
I have worked hard at separating my thoughts about this from partisanship. As you know I had a unique experience in 2000. In that experience I had to separate my decision from partisanship.
6. "I was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court by a Democrat, but in Bush v Gore my objective analysis of the legal issues required me to write a dissenting opinion which...was cited in the majority and C.J. Rehnquist’s concurring opinion which decided the case.
7. "From my work in Bush v Gore I learned a great deal about the laws that control the election of the President. The law in respect to 'contested' elections is very confusing, outdated and fragile.
8. "I will not get into the details here. Suffice it though to say that President Trump’s threat to not accept the outcome of the election is a grave and real threat to our democracy.
9. "I have other reasons that I will not vote for Trump...But, those are not the reason I write to you. The reason I write is because the threat to this Country’s democracy is in my judgment grave and real.
10. "The only way that I can see that this threat can be eliminated is to vote for Biden. It will not be enough to just not vote for Trump. Any basis for a contested election can only really be eliminated by the election not being close.
11. "Again this year as in 2000 Florida will be a key and likely decisive state. I urge you to vote early and if by mail ensure that your vote gets to the Supervisor of Elections in your county. Thank you for allowing me to share my thoughts."
END
20proximity1
>17 LolaWalser: "This is interesting."
LOL! No, it isn't--
other than for what it indicates about you for those who aren't already familiar with your views.
There's no such statistically-valid thing as a "Swing-O-Meter" since there's no valid basis to extrapolate from a past election's set of circumstances to a new one; "new" being ineluctably different and, of course, causally independent of previous elections.
Trump isn't "promising war."
Both of these views are absurd nonsense.
21lriley
#20--I beg to differ. Trump's been waging economic war against more than 50% of his population for the length of his presidency. He promised to create jobs for instance---what he's really created is joblessness. That joblessness can't help but take a healthy chunk out of even his own supporters--meanwhile the people he really works for--the super wealthy (including Bezos) are making money like never before and getting practically all the benefit of Trump's bullshit tax bill and he's got his mind dead set on giving them another tax cut on investment revenues. Your being in England or wherever the fuck you are wouldn't have noticed that. He's also at war with the populations of state's that didn't vote for him in 2016 as if no one in those states actually voted for his sorry orange ass. So he can blithely look away and watch 25000 + New Yorkers die from the pandemic without lifting a finger to help. He's also at war with women, black, brown, red and yellow people and LGTBQ people.
As for the Swing-O-Meter the election is a little bit larger than just saving Donald's shitty behind. If you actually looked at the Senate---the Republican party will be lucky to come out of November breaking even on the Senate. Even Lindsey Graham is on TV every day begging for money and just think all those plutocrats who got nice fat tax cuts from Trump's tax bill and not all too many are as worried about Lindsey's seat as Lindsey is. The Republicans are going to lose Collins, Tillis, Gardner and McSally for sure. They will have close fights to keep Sullivan in Alaska of all places, Perdue in Georgia, Marshall in Kansas of all places, I think they're going to lose Ernst in Iowa (and if they do there goes their Senate majority), and it's a tossup in Montana--so Lindsey's not the only one who's worried. Scoff as much as you like but you really don't know as much as you think you do. Maybe you could give good ol' Lindsey some pointers on begging---he's obviously not very good at it.
As for the Swing-O-Meter the election is a little bit larger than just saving Donald's shitty behind. If you actually looked at the Senate---the Republican party will be lucky to come out of November breaking even on the Senate. Even Lindsey Graham is on TV every day begging for money and just think all those plutocrats who got nice fat tax cuts from Trump's tax bill and not all too many are as worried about Lindsey's seat as Lindsey is. The Republicans are going to lose Collins, Tillis, Gardner and McSally for sure. They will have close fights to keep Sullivan in Alaska of all places, Perdue in Georgia, Marshall in Kansas of all places, I think they're going to lose Ernst in Iowa (and if they do there goes their Senate majority), and it's a tossup in Montana--so Lindsey's not the only one who's worried. Scoff as much as you like but you really don't know as much as you think you do. Maybe you could give good ol' Lindsey some pointers on begging---he's obviously not very good at it.
22margd
Hair! Hair!
David Frum @davidfrum | 9:43 AM · Sep 27, 2020:
President Trump volunteers to take a drug test. Here's a site with useful information on how long various drugs remain in the body.
How Long Does Adderall Stay in Your System?
Learn how long Adderall can remain in your system and show up on a drug test, as well as the risks of Adderall abuse.
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/adderall/how-long-system-body
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · 2h
I will be strongly demanding a Drug Test of Sleepy Joe Biden prior to, or after, the Debate on Tuesday night.
Naturally, I will agree to take one also. His Debate performances have been record setting UNEVEN, to put it mildly.
Only drugs could have caused this discrepancy???
David Frum @davidfrum | 9:43 AM · Sep 27, 2020:
President Trump volunteers to take a drug test. Here's a site with useful information on how long various drugs remain in the body.
How Long Does Adderall Stay in Your System?
Learn how long Adderall can remain in your system and show up on a drug test, as well as the risks of Adderall abuse.
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/adderall/how-long-system-body
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · 2h
I will be strongly demanding a Drug Test of Sleepy Joe Biden prior to, or after, the Debate on Tuesday night.
Naturally, I will agree to take one also. His Debate performances have been record setting UNEVEN, to put it mildly.
Only drugs could have caused this discrepancy???
23kiparsky
>22 margd: Adderall? Nah, Trump's a man of refinement and taste. Nothing but grade-A Bolivian Marching Powder for Donny.
24lriley
Brad Parscale--Trump's National campaign manager until very recently has been taken by Fort Lauderdale police into custody. Apparently his wife called the cops because he was running around the house with a gun saying he was going to kill himself.
Reporter: Hey, what about that Parscale?
Trump: Who?
Reporter: Parscale. You know, your former campaign manager? One of your best people.
Trump: Huh! I don't know him. Lots of people take selfies with me you know.I can't keep track of everybody.
Reporter: Hey, what about that Parscale?
Trump: Who?
Reporter: Parscale. You know, your former campaign manager? One of your best people.
Trump: Huh! I don't know him. Lots of people take selfies with me you know.I can't keep track of everybody.
25margd
>24 lriley: Guy with a gun threatening self-harm. White. Cops took him alive and sent him to hospital...
26margd
Grace Panetta @grace_panetta |10:26 PM · Sep 27, 2020:
Well that was quick — the Biden team just released their first ad on the reporting released today on Trump’s taxes in the @nytimes
0:31 ( https://twitter.com/grace_panetta/status/1310405504196321285 )
From Team Joe...
Well that was quick — the Biden team just released their first ad on the reporting released today on Trump’s taxes in the @nytimes
0:31 ( https://twitter.com/grace_panetta/status/1310405504196321285 )
From Team Joe...
27margd
Tahar @laseptiemewilay |
Treasury Dept should buy Trump’s debt. Not saying this bc I like Trump, but bc we have a serious national security issue on our hands.
What guarantee do we have that Trump will not sell highly classified intel once he leaves office?
Buy his debt, put him on a monthly payment
Quote Tweet
Tahar @laseptiemewilay · 9:30 PM · Sep 27, 2020
This is a national security issue.
Americans have the right to know who are the holders of Trump’s debt. This is a gigantic debt that he personally guaranteed & it’s due soon
Who holds what of Trump’s debt is a matter of national security now
https://nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html
Image ( https://twitter.com/laseptiemewilay/status/1310387037523136512/photo/1 )
Treasury Dept should buy Trump’s debt. Not saying this bc I like Trump, but bc we have a serious national security issue on our hands.
What guarantee do we have that Trump will not sell highly classified intel once he leaves office?
Buy his debt, put him on a monthly payment
Quote Tweet
Tahar @laseptiemewilay · 9:30 PM · Sep 27, 2020
This is a national security issue.
Americans have the right to know who are the holders of Trump’s debt. This is a gigantic debt that he personally guaranteed & it’s due soon
Who holds what of Trump’s debt is a matter of national security now
https://nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html
Image ( https://twitter.com/laseptiemewilay/status/1310387037523136512/photo/1 )
30kiparsky
>27 margd: I should point out that the old tradition in the South was to put the debtor to work until they'd paid off their debt. Maybe he could be put in a dunk tank until he's paid it all off... give him minimum wage and charge $10 for three throws... he might die in the tank, but who would really care?
31lriley
Here the cops are tackling and taking Parscale down--putting the cuffs on, etc. Cops did a bit of a rope-a-dope with him:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/body-camera-footage-shows-trumps-203028515.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/body-camera-footage-shows-trumps-203028515.html
32margd
VoteVets @votevets | 6:43 AM · Sep 29, 2020:
Sully Sullenberger stepped up in a critical moment and now he asks that we do the same.
That we do what’s needed and what’s critical to save our nation from Trump's chaotic destruction.
#SullyVsTrump #VoteHimOut
https://twitter.com/votevets/status/1310892928114589697
We're proud to have co-sponsored this with @ProjectLincoln.
Sully Sullenberger stepped up in a critical moment and now he asks that we do the same.
That we do what’s needed and what’s critical to save our nation from Trump's chaotic destruction.
#SullyVsTrump #VoteHimOut
https://twitter.com/votevets/status/1310892928114589697
We're proud to have co-sponsored this with @ProjectLincoln.
33Molly3028
Fate was very kind to Kellyanne Conway. Her daughter's cries for
help via the Internet allowed KC to leave the administration in the
nick of time. She never would have left on her own accord
otherwise. It is a shame that KC let her blind faith in Trump
almost destroy her family unit, however.
Many of Trump's enablers have ended up in major legal trouble.
Some are having mental breakdowns. The major damage one
delusional, life-long con man can cause the people around him
and the country to endure is the cautionary tale of this century.
help via the Internet allowed KC to leave the administration in the
nick of time. She never would have left on her own accord
otherwise. It is a shame that KC let her blind faith in Trump
almost destroy her family unit, however.
Many of Trump's enablers have ended up in major legal trouble.
Some are having mental breakdowns. The major damage one
delusional, life-long con man can cause the people around him
and the country to endure is the cautionary tale of this century.
34margd
The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln | 6:37 PM · Sep 29, 2020:
Donald Trump emailed his entire list that he won the debate. Before the debate.
Image ( https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1311072696998883329/photo/1 )
Donald Trump emailed his entire list that he won the debate. Before the debate.
Image ( https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1311072696998883329/photo/1 )
35margd
White House Dogs (0:30)
•Sep 28, 2020
Dogs make us better people. So why isn't there one in the current White House? Vote for Joe! Learn more at dogloversforjoe.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q5IpKsOZGM&feature=youtu.be
•Sep 28, 2020
Dogs make us better people. So why isn't there one in the current White House? Vote for Joe! Learn more at dogloversforjoe.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q5IpKsOZGM&feature=youtu.be
36margd
Ben Collins @oneunderscore__ | 5:50 PM · Sep 29, 2020:
New from me: The viral earpiece conspiracy theory was pushed by coordinated Facebook accounts at the same second this morning.
Then Fox News picked it up. Then, the Trump campaign sent it to your phone.
https://nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/coordinated-push-conspiracy-theories-target-b...
Image ( https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1311060831052992514/photo/1 )
New from me: The viral earpiece conspiracy theory was pushed by coordinated Facebook accounts at the same second this morning.
Then Fox News picked it up. Then, the Trump campaign sent it to your phone.
https://nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/coordinated-push-conspiracy-theories-target-b...
Image ( https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1311060831052992514/photo/1 )
37margd
Court hands Dems victory in key battleground state
SCOTT BAUER | Sep 29th 2020
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a six-day extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin’s presidential election, handing Democrats a victory in their fight to deliver the key battleground state for Joe Biden in November.
The decision, if it stands, means that ballots postmarked on or before Nov. 3 will be counted as long as they are received by Nov. 9. That could mean the winner in Wisconsin won’t be known for days after the polls close. Republicans could appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The decision came just two days after the appeals court put the lower court’s ruling granting the extension on hold. The appeals court vacated that ruling, saying Republicans who sued did not have standing. The court gave Republicans one week to argue why the case should not be dismissed...
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/09/29/court-hands-dems-victory-in-key-batt...
SCOTT BAUER | Sep 29th 2020
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a six-day extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin’s presidential election, handing Democrats a victory in their fight to deliver the key battleground state for Joe Biden in November.
The decision, if it stands, means that ballots postmarked on or before Nov. 3 will be counted as long as they are received by Nov. 9. That could mean the winner in Wisconsin won’t be known for days after the polls close. Republicans could appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The decision came just two days after the appeals court put the lower court’s ruling granting the extension on hold. The appeals court vacated that ruling, saying Republicans who sued did not have standing. The court gave Republicans one week to argue why the case should not be dismissed...
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/09/29/court-hands-dems-victory-in-key-batt...
38margd
Early surge of Democratic mail voting sparks worry inside GOP
Amy Gardner and Josh Dawsey | September 29, 2020
Democratic voters who have requested mail ballots — and returned them — greatly outnumber Republicans so far in key battleground states, causing alarm among GOP party leaders and strategists that President Trump’s attacks on mail voting could be hurting the party’s prospects to retain the White House and the Senate this year...Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Maine and Iowa, the five battleground states where such data is publicly available...
Even more alarming to some Republicans, Democrats are also returning their ballots at higher rates than GOP voters in two of those states where that information is available: Florida and North Carolina...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-mail-ballots/2020/09/29/131a06fc-026...
Amy Gardner and Josh Dawsey | September 29, 2020
Democratic voters who have requested mail ballots — and returned them — greatly outnumber Republicans so far in key battleground states, causing alarm among GOP party leaders and strategists that President Trump’s attacks on mail voting could be hurting the party’s prospects to retain the White House and the Senate this year...Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Maine and Iowa, the five battleground states where such data is publicly available...
Even more alarming to some Republicans, Democrats are also returning their ballots at higher rates than GOP voters in two of those states where that information is available: Florida and North Carolina...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-mail-ballots/2020/09/29/131a06fc-026...
39margd
The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln | 1:24 AM · Sep 30, 2020:
That was terrible, @realDonaldTrump
— and you just collapsed in front of the whole world.
1:00 ( https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1311175155255660545 )
.
.
.
( Rick Wilson: Donald, you know you’ll watch this over and over... )
That was terrible, @realDonaldTrump
— and you just collapsed in front of the whole world.
1:00 ( https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1311175155255660545 )
.
.
.
( Rick Wilson: Donald, you know you’ll watch this over and over... )
40margd
3 debate moments that showed how unsuited Trump is for the presidency
Don’t let Trump’s debate bullying distract you from his ignorance and malevolence.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar | Sep 29, 2020
Trump was teed up a softball about racism — and wouldn’t even swing at it...
Trump won’t even pledge to not try to steal the election...
Trump’s comments on climate change were an infantile mess...
https://www.vox.com/2020/9/29/21494852/trump-biden-presidential-debate-lowlights
Don’t let Trump’s debate bullying distract you from his ignorance and malevolence.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar | Sep 29, 2020
Trump was teed up a softball about racism — and wouldn’t even swing at it...
Trump won’t even pledge to not try to steal the election...
Trump’s comments on climate change were an infantile mess...
https://www.vox.com/2020/9/29/21494852/trump-biden-presidential-debate-lowlights
41margd
Kurt Bardella @kurtbardella | 9:27 PM · Sep 29, 2020:
"will you shut-up man" -
@JoeBiden smackdown on @realDonaldTrump
#Debates2020
0:11 ( https://twitter.com/kurtbardella/status/1311115374012887040 )
"will you shut-up man" -
@JoeBiden smackdown on @realDonaldTrump
#Debates2020
0:11 ( https://twitter.com/kurtbardella/status/1311115374012887040 )
42margd
Trump Derails 1st Presidential Debate With Biden, And 5 Other Takeaways
Domenico Montanaro | September 30, 2020
1. Even for Trump, he went too far
2. Trump likely did nothing to expand beyond his base
3. Biden missed opportunities
4. Trump tried to tie Biden to the far left, but it didn't work
5. Trump's response on his handling of COVID-19 was more of the same
6. Good luck to the next moderator
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/30/918500976/trump-derails-first-presidential-debate...
Domenico Montanaro | September 30, 2020
1. Even for Trump, he went too far
2. Trump likely did nothing to expand beyond his base
3. Biden missed opportunities
4. Trump tried to tie Biden to the far left, but it didn't work
5. Trump's response on his handling of COVID-19 was more of the same
6. Good luck to the next moderator
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/30/918500976/trump-derails-first-presidential-debate...
43margd
Laurence Tribe @tribelaw | 8:00 AM · Sep 30, 2020:
Within 60 minutes the neofascist White Supremacist Proud Boys — a biker gang without the bikes —
had new shoulder patches designed with Trump’s words “Stand Back and Stand By.”
Just as Trump intended.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
https://twitter.com/MrsEmmons1231/status/1311286155514650627/photo/1
Within 60 minutes the neofascist White Supremacist Proud Boys — a biker gang without the bikes —
had new shoulder patches designed with Trump’s words “Stand Back and Stand By.”
Just as Trump intended.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
https://twitter.com/MrsEmmons1231/status/1311286155514650627/photo/1
44margd
>43 margd: contd.
Mike Baker @ByMikeBaker · 18h
The Proud Boys are ecstatic tonight about getting mentioned in the debate tonight.
"Trump basically said to go fuck them up! this makes me so happy," writes one prominent Proud Boy.
Image ( https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1311130735584051201/photo/1 )
Mike Baker @ByMikeBaker · 18h
The Proud Boys are ecstatic tonight about getting mentioned in the debate tonight.
"Trump basically said to go fuck them up! this makes me so happy," writes one prominent Proud Boy.
Image ( https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1311130735584051201/photo/1 )
45margd
“The Family Is Worried Brad Will Start Talking”: Trumpworld Panics Over Debate Fiasco as Campaign Turmoil Mounts
Gabriel Sherman | September 30, 2020
Over three days, the New York Times dropped a tax bombshell, Florida cops cuffed Brad Parscale, and the president just couldn’t help himself onstage. “Trump didn’t win over any voters,” said a prominent Republican, “and he pissed off a lot of people.”
...Parscale’s public meltdown happened while he is reportedly under investigation for stealing from the Trump campaign and the RNC. According to the source close to the campaign, the Trump family is worried that Parscale could turn on them and cooperate with law enforcement about possible campaign finance violations. “The family is worried Brad will start talking,” the source said...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/trumpworld-panics-over-debate-fiasco-as-...
Gabriel Sherman | September 30, 2020
Over three days, the New York Times dropped a tax bombshell, Florida cops cuffed Brad Parscale, and the president just couldn’t help himself onstage. “Trump didn’t win over any voters,” said a prominent Republican, “and he pissed off a lot of people.”
...Parscale’s public meltdown happened while he is reportedly under investigation for stealing from the Trump campaign and the RNC. According to the source close to the campaign, the Trump family is worried that Parscale could turn on them and cooperate with law enforcement about possible campaign finance violations. “The family is worried Brad will start talking,” the source said...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/trumpworld-panics-over-debate-fiasco-as-...
46margd
MeidasTouch.com @MeidasTouch | 9:20 PM · Sep 30, 2020:
...#EndTrumpsHate...
0:53 ( https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1311476112954781696 )
From MeidasTouch.com
...#EndTrumpsHate...
0:53 ( https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1311476112954781696 )
From MeidasTouch.com
47Molly3028
Many of Trump's 2020 voters are enthralled by Trump's
Apprentice persona. They don't see the actor/con man.
They see what they think is a successful and very rich
entrepreneur. Nothing and no one is going to change the
image of him they (and DJT!) prefer to believe actually
exists. They want the Trump "Show" to continue for another
four seasons.
Apprentice persona. They don't see the actor/con man.
They see what they think is a successful and very rich
entrepreneur. Nothing and no one is going to change the
image of him they (and DJT!) prefer to believe actually
exists. They want the Trump "Show" to continue for another
four seasons.
48margd
Travis Akers @travisakers | 7:44 AM · Oct 1, 2020:
JUST IN: General Stanley McChrystal has endorsed Joe Biden for president.
A reminder that McChrystal was fired in 2010 because of a Rolling Stone article in which he criticized Vice President Biden.
This morning the retired General endorsed Biden.
JUST IN: General Stanley McChrystal has endorsed Joe Biden for president.
A reminder that McChrystal was fired in 2010 because of a Rolling Stone article in which he criticized Vice President Biden.
This morning the retired General endorsed Biden.
49Molly3028
John Bolton just declared on CNN that Trump is running a George
Wallace 1968 campaign. This week's highlights underscores that
probability.
Wallace 1968 campaign. This week's highlights underscores that
probability.
50Limelite
Out from Under the Rocks Where They Live
Police and the district attorney’s office are investigating after Ku Klux Klan flyers were distributed in parts of Greene County, (PA).Love the implication that only white people are "pro-America and pro-Constitution."
The flyer asks people to “Kontact the experts,” the Loyal White Knights, which is a KKK-affiliated group based in Pelham, North Carolina.
“Every officer here was offended and extremely motivated to find the individual passing out this information,” (police Captain) DeForte told KDKA.
51lriley
#50--my wife went to visit her 88 year old mother today in Sunderlinville Pa which is this tiny place in Potter County. There is a history of white supremacist nutjobs in that county. For instance traveling south from there you would run into the town of Ulysses which has a Nazi house as you enter town with all these Nazi flags festooning the house and statues sitting right out in the yard and it's been passed along from one child molesting knucklehead to another about 4 or 5 times now and they're all Aryan nations idiots. Anyway going up to her mom's house all my wife saw along the way was Trump signs everywhere until she reached her mom's house which had the only Biden sign probably for miles.
Going home later on she stops at a dollar store in Westfield. There's 8 or 9 people in the place but the only one wearing a mask was the store clerk so my wife just walked right out.
Going home later on she stops at a dollar store in Westfield. There's 8 or 9 people in the place but the only one wearing a mask was the store clerk so my wife just walked right out.
52margd
Key retirement policy issues are on the ballot in U.S. election
Mark Miller*| October 2, 2020
SOCIAL SECURITY
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
MEDICARE TRUST FUND
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-column-miller-retirement/key-retirement-polic...
* Retirement columnist for @ReutersMoney, @Morningstarinc & @wealth_mgmt
Mark Miller*| October 2, 2020
SOCIAL SECURITY
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
MEDICARE TRUST FUND
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-column-miller-retirement/key-retirement-polic...
* Retirement columnist for @ReutersMoney, @Morningstarinc & @wealth_mgmt
53lriley
#52--the democratic party should not die on a hill for the ACA. If the republicans manage to kill that program--the democrats shouldn't bother to revive it--as soon as they have the majority (and it won't be long) the Democrats should go straight to Medicare for All. It's been obvious hasn't it that ever since the ACA came into being the republican party has been working tooth and nail to undermine it---they're going to continue that project forever and ever. If you revive the ACA after they kill it it will be more of the same. The thing with a medicare for all program is once it's established it becomes almost immediately off limits---conservatives all over the world don't even think of touching those programs because in fairly quick time they're too popular with their own base.
54margd
>53 lriley: The thing with a medicare for all program is once it's established it becomes almost immediately off limits---conservatives all over the world don't even think of touching those programs because in fairly quick time they're too popular with their own base.
Thinking conservatives, maybe, but: "...the Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund, which accounts for spending under Medicare Part A, needs nearly immediate action to address looming insolvency... in 2024...The HI trust fund is financed mainly by a 2.9% FICA tax split between employees and employers..." I assume this is the FICA that Trump deferred and proposes eliminating in his second term?
That said, so nice to see in our corner of Ontario, folks with sniffles are cramming into assessment centre for COVID tests. All they need is their OHIP card (Ontario Medicare program) for tests and treatment, if needed... Canadian (Progressive) Conservative Party, at urging of NDP Tommy Douglas, created the Canadian healthcare program, I believe.
Thinking conservatives, maybe, but: "...the Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund, which accounts for spending under Medicare Part A, needs nearly immediate action to address looming insolvency... in 2024...The HI trust fund is financed mainly by a 2.9% FICA tax split between employees and employers..." I assume this is the FICA that Trump deferred and proposes eliminating in his second term?
That said, so nice to see in our corner of Ontario, folks with sniffles are cramming into assessment centre for COVID tests. All they need is their OHIP card (Ontario Medicare program) for tests and treatment, if needed... Canadian (Progressive) Conservative Party, at urging of NDP Tommy Douglas, created the Canadian healthcare program, I believe.
55lriley
#54---it's like the abortion thing really---as long as Roe vs. Wade is on the books conservatives are going to try to kill it. The ACA is the same--looking down the road if they can find their way back into power sometime in the future---they will go after it again. Anyway everyone should be covered like they are in Ontario.
56margd
Steve Schmidt
7h, 15 tweets, 4 min read
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1312194508918931456.html
I wish Trump and Melania an expeditious recovery and hope very much that they will be in good health as they face electoral humiliation, repudiation and the harsh judgement of the American people on Election Day. Trump’s lying has become one of the most lethal events in our 1/
nation’s history. If US mortality rates were what they are in Germany, more than 150,000 Americans would still be alive. Trump’s cruel disregard for the American people has ravaged our economy, our kid’s educations and fundamental elements of the American way of life. 2/
There is no person in America that has done more to spread Covid than @realDonaldTrump and no one has tried harder to catch it. Trump couldn’t have been more personally reckless than if he went to Sturgess and licked the doorknobs on the porta-john’s. He politicized mask wearing
And thus sentenced tens of thousands to cruel and lonely deaths. He has let loose a national insanity that manifests itself in the lunacy of antimask protesters storming Walmart’s and supermarkets in spasms of idiocy and craziness. His political rallies are dangerously 3/
Delusional events where the advice of public health experts and MD’s is stupidly ignored. Each gathering spreads a disease that kills. It kills here more than anywhere else. This week has stripped bare the rotting and vile roots of Trumpism. It began with the revelation that 4/
The great conman and tax cheat paid $750 in Federal taxes and owes more than 400 million to undisclosed lenders, much of it personally guaranteed against no discernible income. The debate was a moment of national humiliation that disgraced the Presidency, 5/
the United States and the American people. At the end of the debate Trump incited extremist militia groups by delivering what they interpreted as a weapons ready order from the Commander in Chief. Heavily armed fascist Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and dozens of white supremacist 6/
Groups heard a lock and load order. Ask them. Believe them. Take them seriously. Trump has threatened the peaceful transition of power and intimated violence should he lose. He has made clear that his loss would be THE evidence of a stolen election. He has made up false 7/
and wild stories about corrupted ballots for the purposes of underming faith in our election’s integrity. These are unpardonable actions for an American President and they desecrate the sacrifice of every patriot from the fields at Lexington and Concord to 8/
Gettysburg, Normandy and the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Trump has lied to the country on more than 25,000 occasions, assaulted the rule of law, assailed our institutions, stoked racial animus and been spectacularly corrupt. He is singularly responsible for one of the great tragedies 9
In American history. His campaign is imploding. Parscale, Miller, Guilfoye, Melania, all of them have disgraced themselves and stained the Presidency. They are a wretched, corrupt and self interested gang of incompetents and maliced people who have done profound damage to this 10
Country in four short years. There should be no political mercy shown towards Trump and Trumpism in this moment. Mr. Vice President, your duty requires you to order your campaign to put its’ ads back on the air. @JoeBiden Trump is out of money. Spend him into the ground.
Georgia is close. @MikeEspyMS is close in Mississippi. The Kansas Senate race is close. Trumpism is an authoritarian and UNAMERICAN ideology that teens with menace and intimations of violence. It is a cult of personality led by a lethal liar who lacks intelligence, grace 12/
Empathy and competence. Trumpism is a scourge. It is a metastic cancer. We need to crush it. Should Trump be disadvantaged in this moment then we should rejoice. Pour it on. Vote him out. No let up. The pace and intensity of attacks should be increasing and should not stop
Until he is humiliated and sent home to face the judgement of history and in hopefully a good long time, his maker.
7h, 15 tweets, 4 min read
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1312194508918931456.html
I wish Trump and Melania an expeditious recovery and hope very much that they will be in good health as they face electoral humiliation, repudiation and the harsh judgement of the American people on Election Day. Trump’s lying has become one of the most lethal events in our 1/
nation’s history. If US mortality rates were what they are in Germany, more than 150,000 Americans would still be alive. Trump’s cruel disregard for the American people has ravaged our economy, our kid’s educations and fundamental elements of the American way of life. 2/
There is no person in America that has done more to spread Covid than @realDonaldTrump and no one has tried harder to catch it. Trump couldn’t have been more personally reckless than if he went to Sturgess and licked the doorknobs on the porta-john’s. He politicized mask wearing
And thus sentenced tens of thousands to cruel and lonely deaths. He has let loose a national insanity that manifests itself in the lunacy of antimask protesters storming Walmart’s and supermarkets in spasms of idiocy and craziness. His political rallies are dangerously 3/
Delusional events where the advice of public health experts and MD’s is stupidly ignored. Each gathering spreads a disease that kills. It kills here more than anywhere else. This week has stripped bare the rotting and vile roots of Trumpism. It began with the revelation that 4/
The great conman and tax cheat paid $750 in Federal taxes and owes more than 400 million to undisclosed lenders, much of it personally guaranteed against no discernible income. The debate was a moment of national humiliation that disgraced the Presidency, 5/
the United States and the American people. At the end of the debate Trump incited extremist militia groups by delivering what they interpreted as a weapons ready order from the Commander in Chief. Heavily armed fascist Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and dozens of white supremacist 6/
Groups heard a lock and load order. Ask them. Believe them. Take them seriously. Trump has threatened the peaceful transition of power and intimated violence should he lose. He has made clear that his loss would be THE evidence of a stolen election. He has made up false 7/
and wild stories about corrupted ballots for the purposes of underming faith in our election’s integrity. These are unpardonable actions for an American President and they desecrate the sacrifice of every patriot from the fields at Lexington and Concord to 8/
Gettysburg, Normandy and the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Trump has lied to the country on more than 25,000 occasions, assaulted the rule of law, assailed our institutions, stoked racial animus and been spectacularly corrupt. He is singularly responsible for one of the great tragedies 9
In American history. His campaign is imploding. Parscale, Miller, Guilfoye, Melania, all of them have disgraced themselves and stained the Presidency. They are a wretched, corrupt and self interested gang of incompetents and maliced people who have done profound damage to this 10
Country in four short years. There should be no political mercy shown towards Trump and Trumpism in this moment. Mr. Vice President, your duty requires you to order your campaign to put its’ ads back on the air. @JoeBiden Trump is out of money. Spend him into the ground.
Georgia is close. @MikeEspyMS is close in Mississippi. The Kansas Senate race is close. Trumpism is an authoritarian and UNAMERICAN ideology that teens with menace and intimations of violence. It is a cult of personality led by a lethal liar who lacks intelligence, grace 12/
Empathy and competence. Trumpism is a scourge. It is a metastic cancer. We need to crush it. Should Trump be disadvantaged in this moment then we should rejoice. Pour it on. Vote him out. No let up. The pace and intensity of attacks should be increasing and should not stop
Until he is humiliated and sent home to face the judgement of history and in hopefully a good long time, his maker.
57lriley
Bill Stepien the man who replaced Brad Parscale--(Trump's suicidal former campaign manager now resting comfortably in a psychiatric hospital) is the latest announced high profile Covid casualty. Much was made about how late in the game-(July 15) to be replacing your campaign manager but now even he might need replacement. A sick president and his sick campaign manager with one month to go. Are they expecting Pence to do everything?--run the country, lead his party and make all the organizational decisions for the campaign, and get that supreme court justice confirmed too? Speaking of whom is Coney Barrett and Bill Barr going to be next?
58lriley
Returning to Amy McGrath:
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/amy-mcgrath-pro-trump-ad-kentucky-ohio-224509948....
I know she's running against McConnell but she's not worth the effort and never has been. Last year she was telling Kentuckians that she could do a better job for Trump's legislative agenda than McConnell who she claimed was putting the brakes on it. People outside of Kentucky sending her all kinds of campaign cash but she's not going to win and it's not because the state is in love with McConnell either--it's more about if Kentuckians want to vote for a republican they'll find a real one instead of a wannabe one. With all the money she has coming in she's still running 12 points behind and here we have her screwing things up for democratic chances in Ohio with her cross border campaign ad. McGrath was an awful candidate to begin with. I don't know what Schumer and the DSCC was thinking when they got behind her.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/amy-mcgrath-pro-trump-ad-kentucky-ohio-224509948....
I know she's running against McConnell but she's not worth the effort and never has been. Last year she was telling Kentuckians that she could do a better job for Trump's legislative agenda than McConnell who she claimed was putting the brakes on it. People outside of Kentucky sending her all kinds of campaign cash but she's not going to win and it's not because the state is in love with McConnell either--it's more about if Kentuckians want to vote for a republican they'll find a real one instead of a wannabe one. With all the money she has coming in she's still running 12 points behind and here we have her screwing things up for democratic chances in Ohio with her cross border campaign ad. McGrath was an awful candidate to begin with. I don't know what Schumer and the DSCC was thinking when they got behind her.
59margd
Jaime Harrison brought his own plexiglass divider to his Senate debate with Lindsay Graham.
#SCSen
Image ( https://twitter.com/amysrosenberg/status/1312546192669265922 )
-Amy S. Rosenberg @amysrosenberg |10/32020
--------------------------------------------------------------
The debate in full:
2:29:15 ( https://www.c-span.org/video/?476429-1/south-carolina-us-senate-debate# )
#SCSen
Image ( https://twitter.com/amysrosenberg/status/1312546192669265922 )
-Amy S. Rosenberg @amysrosenberg |10/32020
--------------------------------------------------------------
The debate in full:
2:29:15 ( https://www.c-span.org/video/?476429-1/south-carolina-us-senate-debate# )
60margd
In big states, tiny counties, Trump attacking voting rules
NICHOLAS RICCARDI, JONATHAN DREW and SCOTT BAUER | October 1, 2020
...Through threatening letters, lawsuits, viral videos and presidential misinformation, the campaign and its GOP allies are going to new lengths to contest election procedures county-by-county across battleground states.
That means piling new pressure on the often low-profile election officials on the frontline of the vote count, escalating micro-disputes over voting rules and seeking out trouble in their backyards.
The local approach already is producing a blizzard of voting-related complaints. Trump and his allies have then seized on the disputes, distorted them and used them to sow broad doubts of fairness and accuracy...
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-donald-trump-local-elect...
NICHOLAS RICCARDI, JONATHAN DREW and SCOTT BAUER | October 1, 2020
...Through threatening letters, lawsuits, viral videos and presidential misinformation, the campaign and its GOP allies are going to new lengths to contest election procedures county-by-county across battleground states.
That means piling new pressure on the often low-profile election officials on the frontline of the vote count, escalating micro-disputes over voting rules and seeking out trouble in their backyards.
The local approach already is producing a blizzard of voting-related complaints. Trump and his allies have then seized on the disputes, distorted them and used them to sow broad doubts of fairness and accuracy...
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-donald-trump-local-elect...
61margd
Voter Intimidation by Private Militia. What to Do. By State:
Georgetown Law
Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection
Accessed 10/5/2020
State Fact Sheets
ICAP has created fact sheets for all 50 states explaining the laws barring unauthorized private militia groups and what to do if groups of armed individuals are near a polling place or voter registration drive. Select a state from the menu below to view the corresponding fact sheet.
Access ICAP’s fact sheet on voter intimidation laws, what kinds of conduct could constitute voter intimidation, and what to do if you experience voter intimidation HERE...
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/our-work/addressing-the-rise-of-unlawful-pri...
Georgetown Law
Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection
Accessed 10/5/2020
State Fact Sheets
ICAP has created fact sheets for all 50 states explaining the laws barring unauthorized private militia groups and what to do if groups of armed individuals are near a polling place or voter registration drive. Select a state from the menu below to view the corresponding fact sheet.
Access ICAP’s fact sheet on voter intimidation laws, what kinds of conduct could constitute voter intimidation, and what to do if you experience voter intimidation HERE...
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/our-work/addressing-the-rise-of-unlawful-pri...
62margd
Inside the Lincoln Project’s War Room
Paige Williams | October 5, 2020
Progressives are wary of the conservative group hammering the President, but its founders say they’re fighting for all Americans...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/12/inside-the-lincoln-projects-war-ag...
Paige Williams | October 5, 2020
Progressives are wary of the conservative group hammering the President, but its founders say they’re fighting for all Americans...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/12/inside-the-lincoln-projects-war-ag...
63Cubby.R.S.
>62 margd:
First, they rattle off all of the propaganda, and then they invite everyone for some cheese. Let us yook on me plates and fill them with starry patterns of gooblins for the evening's partaking. Oh, how grandiose we shall feel, if we shall name our movement for an historical figure we mean to obliterate. Oh, I love to be pomp and goo, I love to feel the movement of jello in me toes and cracks.
First, they rattle off all of the propaganda, and then they invite everyone for some cheese. Let us yook on me plates and fill them with starry patterns of gooblins for the evening's partaking. Oh, how grandiose we shall feel, if we shall name our movement for an historical figure we mean to obliterate. Oh, I love to be pomp and goo, I love to feel the movement of jello in me toes and cracks.
64kiparsky
>63 Cubby.R.S.: Nurse! He's out of bed again!
65Limelite
Whoop-ass Latest Polling News
MSNBC & Wall Street Journal report results of NBC/Wall Street Journal poll taken in very small window: immediately before the debate and immediately after the debate, in order to collect debate response data changes in public opinion.
National Election Lead: BEFORE -- Biden +8 over Trump
AFTER -- Biden +14 over Trump
National +65 Year Old Voters: BEFORE -- Biden +4 over Trump
AFTER -- Biden +27 over Trump
Democrats had not won the Senior vote over Republicans for 20 years, but Biden already gave Democrats a +4 lead. The +27 lead is attributable to Trump's barbaric conduct during the debate; his debunked lies; but mostly, his cavalier attitude to and mishandling of coronavirus that (as it turns out) is obviously the deciding election issue for the most vulnerable population.
History has shown that this demographic determines elections because it votes and outvotes any other. Without their traditional support, Republican candidates riding Trump's coattails may feel an increased outbreak of cold sweat on their bodies.
Polling Low Point for Each?: NOW -- Biden 53% over Trump 39%
Polling Low Point Oct. 2016: THEN -- Clinton 51% over Trump 41%
2016 low point for Trump immediately recorded after release of his "groping remarks tape." The Trump polling gap in '16 showed in the popular vote that was won by Clinton. in '20, that gap is much larger, and a narrow popular vote win in certain electoral college districts in this election will not be enough to overcome the current gap. Remember, Trump is LESS popular among Republicans and Independents than four years ago. Remember also that current absentee ballots indicate Democratic voters lead Republican voters by nearly twice as much, utilizing vote-by-mail. This is a reversal of 2016 statistics about this factor.
Positive vs. Negative View of Voters: NOW -- Biden 43% pos 41% neg
Trump 39% pos 55% neg
In Oct. 2016, Same Poll: THEN -- Clinton 40% pos 50% neg
Trump 29% pos 62% neg
Election 2020 shows a major change in feelings about the two candidates suffered in '16 when neither candidate was viewed positively. Biden, by contrast is above water, viewed favorably by most voters. Trump remains in negative territory, although not as deeply underwater now as he was following the release of his "grope tape."
And today Biden is campaigning is FL, a state up for grabs, while Trump languishes in Walter Reed, awaiting a limo home to continue convalescing.
MSNBC & Wall Street Journal report results of NBC/Wall Street Journal poll taken in very small window: immediately before the debate and immediately after the debate, in order to collect debate response data changes in public opinion.
National Election Lead: BEFORE -- Biden +8 over Trump
AFTER -- Biden +14 over Trump
National +65 Year Old Voters: BEFORE -- Biden +4 over Trump
AFTER -- Biden +27 over Trump
Democrats had not won the Senior vote over Republicans for 20 years, but Biden already gave Democrats a +4 lead. The +27 lead is attributable to Trump's barbaric conduct during the debate; his debunked lies; but mostly, his cavalier attitude to and mishandling of coronavirus that (as it turns out) is obviously the deciding election issue for the most vulnerable population.
History has shown that this demographic determines elections because it votes and outvotes any other. Without their traditional support, Republican candidates riding Trump's coattails may feel an increased outbreak of cold sweat on their bodies.
Polling Low Point for Each?: NOW -- Biden 53% over Trump 39%
Polling Low Point Oct. 2016: THEN -- Clinton 51% over Trump 41%
2016 low point for Trump immediately recorded after release of his "groping remarks tape." The Trump polling gap in '16 showed in the popular vote that was won by Clinton. in '20, that gap is much larger, and a narrow popular vote win in certain electoral college districts in this election will not be enough to overcome the current gap. Remember, Trump is LESS popular among Republicans and Independents than four years ago. Remember also that current absentee ballots indicate Democratic voters lead Republican voters by nearly twice as much, utilizing vote-by-mail. This is a reversal of 2016 statistics about this factor.
Positive vs. Negative View of Voters: NOW -- Biden 43% pos 41% neg
Trump 39% pos 55% neg
In Oct. 2016, Same Poll: THEN -- Clinton 40% pos 50% neg
Trump 29% pos 62% neg
Election 2020 shows a major change in feelings about the two candidates suffered in '16 when neither candidate was viewed positively. Biden, by contrast is above water, viewed favorably by most voters. Trump remains in negative territory, although not as deeply underwater now as he was following the release of his "grope tape."
And today Biden is campaigning is FL, a state up for grabs, while Trump languishes in Walter Reed, awaiting a limo home to continue convalescing.
67Limelite
>66 lriley:
That's the idea! Vote Democratic, no matter what. Hold your nose, but vote. Even if the gorge rises, swallow it and mark your ballot for every "D" candidate you can find. Otherwise we're doomed to re-elect gerrymandering fraudsters, rumor and fear mongers, health care killers, billionaire enablers, Russian puppets, inside traders, etc.
Even the local school boards have to to be purged before all the science texts are banned, all the history books erase the facts of slavery, all the government books deny tri-cameral power sharing, and every child is forced to say the Pledge every morning, regardless of their religious beliefs (Republicans think only Christian beliefs count, if they're Jesussy enough)., etc.
So, loathe Biden or not, vote to save America. It's theissue that matters, not the Democratic candidate. You know who he'll be in the WH after 8 years of being #2.
You know what 4 more years of Trump will be, too. Worse than the first 4.
That's the idea! Vote Democratic, no matter what. Hold your nose, but vote. Even if the gorge rises, swallow it and mark your ballot for every "D" candidate you can find. Otherwise we're doomed to re-elect gerrymandering fraudsters, rumor and fear mongers, health care killers, billionaire enablers, Russian puppets, inside traders, etc.
Even the local school boards have to to be purged before all the science texts are banned, all the history books erase the facts of slavery, all the government books deny tri-cameral power sharing, and every child is forced to say the Pledge every morning, regardless of their religious beliefs (Republicans think only Christian beliefs count, if they're Jesussy enough)., etc.
So, loathe Biden or not, vote to save America. It's theissue that matters, not the Democratic candidate. You know who he'll be in the WH after 8 years of being #2.
You know what 4 more years of Trump will be, too. Worse than the first 4.
68margd
U.S. Supreme Court allows South Carolina vote-by-mail restriction
Lawrence Hurley | October 5, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ensured that a restrictive Republican-backed law in South Carolina that requires voters to have a witness sign mail-in ballots will be in place for the Nov. 3 election.
The justices, granting a request by various Republican officials, put on hold a lower court ruling that had blocked the restriction. The court, in a brief order, said that ballots already sent would not have to comply with the signature requirement...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-court-south-carolina/u-s-supreme...
Lawrence Hurley | October 5, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ensured that a restrictive Republican-backed law in South Carolina that requires voters to have a witness sign mail-in ballots will be in place for the Nov. 3 election.
The justices, granting a request by various Republican officials, put on hold a lower court ruling that had blocked the restriction. The court, in a brief order, said that ballots already sent would not have to comply with the signature requirement...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-court-south-carolina/u-s-supreme...
69margd
NEW: Trump really thinks he can run on surviving COVID.
“He’s become sort of a first responder. He has lived through it and been in the hospital,” said Newt Gingrich.
“And he’s fearless. We are not the land of the timid and the home of the scaredy cats.”
MERELY A FLESH WOUND
Trump Actually Believes He Can Sell Himself to America as a COVID-Conquering Hero
The president spent his time in Walter Reed quizzing advisers about how his disease was “playing” in the press. He was also scheming.
Asawin Suebsaeng, Sam Stein, Lachlan Markay | Oct. 06, 2020
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-actually-believes-he-can-sell-himself-to-ame...
- Noah Shachtman @NoahShachtman | 9:16 PM · Oct 5, 2020
“He’s become sort of a first responder. He has lived through it and been in the hospital,” said Newt Gingrich.
“And he’s fearless. We are not the land of the timid and the home of the scaredy cats.”
MERELY A FLESH WOUND
Trump Actually Believes He Can Sell Himself to America as a COVID-Conquering Hero
The president spent his time in Walter Reed quizzing advisers about how his disease was “playing” in the press. He was also scheming.
Asawin Suebsaeng, Sam Stein, Lachlan Markay | Oct. 06, 2020
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-actually-believes-he-can-sell-himself-to-ame...
- Noah Shachtman @NoahShachtman | 9:16 PM · Oct 5, 2020
70Molly3028
https://www.drudgereport.com/
Drudge has turned out to be a true patriot. He is putting the
country's welfare above the GOP's hunger for power.
Drudge has turned out to be a true patriot. He is putting the
country's welfare above the GOP's hunger for power.
71lriley
Rasmussen who almost always lean right in their polls have Trump -9 on job approval. That's something.
72margd
Republican Voters Against Trump @RVAT2020 | 9:40 PM · Oct 6, 2020:
NEW AD: Former Director of the CIA under Bush @GenMhayden:
"If there is another term for Trump, I don't know what happens to America."
He's supporting @JoeBiden.
Watch his moving testimonial.
1:41 ( https://twitter.com/mitchellreports/status/1313655409903898630 )
NEW AD: Former Director of the CIA under Bush @GenMhayden:
"If there is another term for Trump, I don't know what happens to America."
He's supporting @JoeBiden.
Watch his moving testimonial.
1:41 ( https://twitter.com/mitchellreports/status/1313655409903898630 )
73margd
THIS:
Hospital
The Lincoln Project •Oct 6, 2020
When you die of COVID-19, you die alone.
1:00 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juSahA0muZA }
Hospital
The Lincoln Project •Oct 6, 2020
When you die of COVID-19, you die alone.
1:00 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juSahA0muZA }
74margd
Men and women saw Harris-Biden debate differently:
Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender | 12:18 AM · Oct 8, 2020
NEW @CNN snap poll of debate watchers: who won the debate?
Women
Harris - 69% (+39)
Pence - 30%
Men
Harris - 48% (+2)
Pence - 46%
(Sample is 38% Dem, 33% Ind and 29% GOP)
---------------------------------------------------------------
ETA
Charlie Sykes (Bulwark) @SykesCharlie | 10:06 PM · Oct 7, 2020:
Pence constantly ignoring female moderator and interrupting female opponent,
is a brilliant strategy for winning back women voters. Genius.
----------------------------------------------------------------
Joyce Alene (U Alabama Law) @JoyceWhiteVance · 11h
Pence: interrupts Senator Harris, goes on past time limits, won’t answer the questions he’s asked, misrepresents the facts.
Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender | 12:18 AM · Oct 8, 2020
NEW @CNN snap poll of debate watchers: who won the debate?
Women
Harris - 69% (+39)
Pence - 30%
Men
Harris - 48% (+2)
Pence - 46%
(Sample is 38% Dem, 33% Ind and 29% GOP)
---------------------------------------------------------------
ETA
Charlie Sykes (Bulwark) @SykesCharlie | 10:06 PM · Oct 7, 2020:
Pence constantly ignoring female moderator and interrupting female opponent,
is a brilliant strategy for winning back women voters. Genius.
----------------------------------------------------------------
Joyce Alene (U Alabama Law) @JoyceWhiteVance · 11h
Pence: interrupts Senator Harris, goes on past time limits, won’t answer the questions he’s asked, misrepresents the facts.
75margd
Editorial: Dying in a Leadership Vacuum
The Editors | October 8, 2020
N Engl J Med 2020; 383:1479-1480
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe2029812 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812
...The United States came into this crisis with enormous advantages. Along with tremendous manufacturing capacity, we have a biomedical research system that is the envy of the world. We have enormous expertise in public health, health policy, and basic biology and have consistently been able to turn that expertise into new therapies and preventive measures. And much of that national expertise resides in government institutions. Yet our leaders have largely chosen to ignore and even denigrate experts.
The response of our nation’s leaders has been consistently inadequate. The federal government has largely abandoned disease control to the states. Governors have varied in their responses, not so much by party as by competence. But whatever their competence, governors do not have the tools that Washington controls. Instead of using those tools, the federal government has undermined them. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which was the world’s leading disease response organization, has been eviscerated and has suffered dramatic testing and policy failures. The National Institutes of Health have played a key role in vaccine development but have been excluded from much crucial government decision making. And the Food and Drug Administration has been shamefully politicized,... appearing to respond to pressure from the administration rather than scientific evidence. Our current leaders have undercut trust in science and in government,... causing damage that will certainly outlast them. Instead of relying on expertise, the administration has turned to uninformed “opinion leaders” and charlatans who obscure the truth and facilitate the promulgation of outright lies.
Let’s be clear about the cost of not taking even simple measures. An outbreak that has disproportionately affected communities of color has exacerbated the tensions associated with inequality. Many of our children are missing school at critical times in their social and intellectual development. The hard work of health care professionals, who have put their lives on the line, has not been used wisely. Our current leadership takes pride in the economy, but while most of the world has opened up to some extent, the United States still suffers from disease rates that have prevented many businesses from reopening, with a resultant loss of hundreds of billions of dollars and millions of jobs. And more than 200,000 Americans have died. Some deaths from Covid-19 were unavoidable. But, although it is impossible to project the precise number of additional American lives lost because of weak and inappropriate government policies, it is at least in the tens of thousands in a pandemic that has already killed more Americans than any conflict since World War II.
Anyone else who recklessly squandered lives and money in this way would be suffering legal consequences. Our leaders have largely claimed immunity for their actions. But this election gives us the power to render judgment. Reasonable people will certainly disagree about the many political positions taken by candidates. But truth is neither liberal nor conservative. When it comes to the response to the largest public health crisis of our time, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent. We should not abet them and enable the deaths of thousands more Americans by allowing them to keep their jobs.
The Editors | October 8, 2020
N Engl J Med 2020; 383:1479-1480
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe2029812 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812
...The United States came into this crisis with enormous advantages. Along with tremendous manufacturing capacity, we have a biomedical research system that is the envy of the world. We have enormous expertise in public health, health policy, and basic biology and have consistently been able to turn that expertise into new therapies and preventive measures. And much of that national expertise resides in government institutions. Yet our leaders have largely chosen to ignore and even denigrate experts.
The response of our nation’s leaders has been consistently inadequate. The federal government has largely abandoned disease control to the states. Governors have varied in their responses, not so much by party as by competence. But whatever their competence, governors do not have the tools that Washington controls. Instead of using those tools, the federal government has undermined them. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which was the world’s leading disease response organization, has been eviscerated and has suffered dramatic testing and policy failures. The National Institutes of Health have played a key role in vaccine development but have been excluded from much crucial government decision making. And the Food and Drug Administration has been shamefully politicized,... appearing to respond to pressure from the administration rather than scientific evidence. Our current leaders have undercut trust in science and in government,... causing damage that will certainly outlast them. Instead of relying on expertise, the administration has turned to uninformed “opinion leaders” and charlatans who obscure the truth and facilitate the promulgation of outright lies.
Let’s be clear about the cost of not taking even simple measures. An outbreak that has disproportionately affected communities of color has exacerbated the tensions associated with inequality. Many of our children are missing school at critical times in their social and intellectual development. The hard work of health care professionals, who have put their lives on the line, has not been used wisely. Our current leadership takes pride in the economy, but while most of the world has opened up to some extent, the United States still suffers from disease rates that have prevented many businesses from reopening, with a resultant loss of hundreds of billions of dollars and millions of jobs. And more than 200,000 Americans have died. Some deaths from Covid-19 were unavoidable. But, although it is impossible to project the precise number of additional American lives lost because of weak and inappropriate government policies, it is at least in the tens of thousands in a pandemic that has already killed more Americans than any conflict since World War II.
Anyone else who recklessly squandered lives and money in this way would be suffering legal consequences. Our leaders have largely claimed immunity for their actions. But this election gives us the power to render judgment. Reasonable people will certainly disagree about the many political positions taken by candidates. But truth is neither liberal nor conservative. When it comes to the response to the largest public health crisis of our time, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent. We should not abet them and enable the deaths of thousands more Americans by allowing them to keep their jobs.
76LolaWalser
we have a biomedical research system that is the envy of the world.
Powered by an abysmally badly paid near-enslaved predominantly foreign-educated temporary workforce given near-zero (or zero, in most places) even basics, like healthcare and housing.
Please don't ever forget that all American supremacy has roots in starkest, most cynical exploitation of someone somewhere. In this case they are right there among you.
Oh, I know, it's not the point of the article--I just don't want this ignored.
And I'm sick of hearing how Trumpo got "the best medical care in the world" and how that is used to assert ad nauseam that the US has best medical care in the world.
Trumpo got the "best" care because he's the freaking POTUS. Other Americans, like the guy in Moore's Sicko, may end up doing minor surgery on themselves. The care that Trumpo got is no better than what any head of state, queen, king, billionaire can count on anywhere. Elizabeth II doesn't get less good care than the orange ape.
I worked in some of the best medical centres in the US, meaning the world, but I did not get the best medical care there, in fact I count it as hands-down the worst. There is no "care" in medical care in the US, there are just expensive technology, drugs, and operators of that technology.
American "medical care" follows the blueprint of the entire American society, which is predicated on inhumanity, on the belief that people are to be exploited, used up, and thrown away.
Powered by an abysmally badly paid near-enslaved predominantly foreign-educated temporary workforce given near-zero (or zero, in most places) even basics, like healthcare and housing.
Please don't ever forget that all American supremacy has roots in starkest, most cynical exploitation of someone somewhere. In this case they are right there among you.
Oh, I know, it's not the point of the article--I just don't want this ignored.
And I'm sick of hearing how Trumpo got "the best medical care in the world" and how that is used to assert ad nauseam that the US has best medical care in the world.
Trumpo got the "best" care because he's the freaking POTUS. Other Americans, like the guy in Moore's Sicko, may end up doing minor surgery on themselves. The care that Trumpo got is no better than what any head of state, queen, king, billionaire can count on anywhere. Elizabeth II doesn't get less good care than the orange ape.
I worked in some of the best medical centres in the US, meaning the world, but I did not get the best medical care there, in fact I count it as hands-down the worst. There is no "care" in medical care in the US, there are just expensive technology, drugs, and operators of that technology.
American "medical care" follows the blueprint of the entire American society, which is predicated on inhumanity, on the belief that people are to be exploited, used up, and thrown away.
77margd
>76 LolaWalser: I've been struck in the COVID thread at the number of authors who have non-Euro names--Chinese, Arab, Indian, Iranian, etc.
_______________________________________________
She's a woman of color and apparently a better target than Biden, who has thus far evaded Trump's attacks:
The Recount @therecount | 8:29 AM · Oct 8, 2020:
Trump on Kamala Harris: “She wants to open up the borders to allow killers and murderers and rapists to pour into our country.”
0:14 | ( https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1314181205244497921 )
_______________________________________________
She's a woman of color and apparently a better target than Biden, who has thus far evaded Trump's attacks:
The Recount @therecount | 8:29 AM · Oct 8, 2020:
Trump on Kamala Harris: “She wants to open up the borders to allow killers and murderers and rapists to pour into our country.”
0:14 | ( https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1314181205244497921 )
78proximity1
And yet, people pay their life-savings to get themselves smuggled (yes, covertly carried by clandestine and often dangerous means) into, rather than out of the U.S.
79Limelite
>78 proximity1:
Precisely because you want them out. 'Cause they're still "coming to America." Not because Trump is president, because they want what America used to promise its immigrants -- freedom of choice and a fair playing field to become whoever they could.
They pay to get here for what Biden's campaign platform is built on -- The restoration of American stature and status and an end to demonizing hate-filled rhetoric aimed at the people who made America what it was before RWNJs and Trump crawled out from uder the rocks.
So-called foreign "murderers and rapists" have enough targets in their own countries. Why pay to come here for them?
Other than they're a helluva lot smarter than Republicans who paid to get a racist fraudster and rapist into the WH.
Precisely because you want them out. 'Cause they're still "coming to America." Not because Trump is president, because they want what America used to promise its immigrants -- freedom of choice and a fair playing field to become whoever they could.
They pay to get here for what Biden's campaign platform is built on -- The restoration of American stature and status and an end to demonizing hate-filled rhetoric aimed at the people who made America what it was before RWNJs and Trump crawled out from uder the rocks.
So-called foreign "murderers and rapists" have enough targets in their own countries. Why pay to come here for them?
Other than they're a helluva lot smarter than Republicans who paid to get a racist fraudster and rapist into the WH.
80LolaWalser
>77 margd:
Yeah, and recall the disproportionate numbers of foreign-born staff that died in the UK:
https://www.bmj.com/covid-memorial
That's just the medics--the number of such nurses, techs, cleaners must be even higher.
Sorry about the digression; as you were...
Yeah, and recall the disproportionate numbers of foreign-born staff that died in the UK:
https://www.bmj.com/covid-memorial
That's just the medics--the number of such nurses, techs, cleaners must be even higher.
Sorry about the digression; as you were...
81margd
What Does a Good Election Outcome Look Like (or: Do Republican-Appointed Justices Have Any Shame)?
Neil H. Buchanan | October 08, 2020
...In a new Verdict column today,* I explain what I think people like Dorf, Tribe, and many other scholars are doing in laying out analyses of why, for example, Republican-led state legislatures cannot simply declare their states' voting outcomes to be invalid as an excuse to send Trumpists to the Electoral College. Essentially, they -- we -- are saying that this happens to be an area of law in which there is no wiggle room. Constitutional provisions, statutes, and decades of precedent simply do not support anything like what Republicans are now openly discussing in terms of anti-democratic gambits.
...So what is the best-case scenario in which Trump screams that his loss in the election was all a scam but still ends up leaving office? It took me awhile to acknowledge that the degree of Trump's defeat mattered, because I have always assumed that Trump was going to make the same crazy claims no matter what happens. But the larger are the victories in the various states, the more difficult it becomes for any particular Republican to say that it was all fake.
...Which means that there will almost certainly be moments when the Supreme Court will be called upon to rule. In most instances, it will be better for the Court to refuse the invitation, so even a decision to take some cases will be evidence that something bad is about to happen. But even then, five justices on the Supreme Court will have to bless an utterly lawless breaking of the system. I suspect that at least two of the Republican-appointed justices are all in on anything, and (even leaving out the new person who is likely to have been installed by then) there is every reason to worry about the other Republican-appointed justices.
Remember also that those justices are not going to be ruling in a vacuum. There will likely be large protests in the streets, which will have become violent at Trump's instigation. The justices will also have to worry about whether it even matters that they could be destroying their own legitimacy in the service of a man who is not even a movement conservative (or a conservative of any kind, other than the racism).
And these jurists are human beings with personal histories, friends, and professional relationships that are all tied to the Republican Party. In the biggest moment of their lives, will they be willing to say that everyone who talks to them is going to have to accept that the law is simply not on their side? Or will they instead shed the last remnants of shame and say that we have always been at war with Eastasia, that freedom is slavery, and all the rest?
What does a "good outcome" look like, in a not-at-all-good world in which Trump will do everything to destroy the system for his own benefit? Either enough state-level Republicans will stand down on the claims of mail-in voter fraud and do what is right without needing to go to court, or the Supreme Court will (passively, one hopes, but possibly actively) tell them that some legal arguments are simply too outlandish to take seriously. Am I confident? No. Am I hopeful? Always, and all the more so as the legal case is made that none of Trump's ploys passes the laugh test.
http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2020/10/what-does-good-election-outcome-look.html
________________________________________________________________
* A Somewhat Optimistic View of the Possible Constitutional Crisis of 2020
Neil H. Buchanan | 8 Oct 2020
https://verdict.justia.com/2020/10/08/a-somewhat-optimistic-view-of-the-possible...
Neil H. Buchanan | October 08, 2020
...In a new Verdict column today,* I explain what I think people like Dorf, Tribe, and many other scholars are doing in laying out analyses of why, for example, Republican-led state legislatures cannot simply declare their states' voting outcomes to be invalid as an excuse to send Trumpists to the Electoral College. Essentially, they -- we -- are saying that this happens to be an area of law in which there is no wiggle room. Constitutional provisions, statutes, and decades of precedent simply do not support anything like what Republicans are now openly discussing in terms of anti-democratic gambits.
...So what is the best-case scenario in which Trump screams that his loss in the election was all a scam but still ends up leaving office? It took me awhile to acknowledge that the degree of Trump's defeat mattered, because I have always assumed that Trump was going to make the same crazy claims no matter what happens. But the larger are the victories in the various states, the more difficult it becomes for any particular Republican to say that it was all fake.
...Which means that there will almost certainly be moments when the Supreme Court will be called upon to rule. In most instances, it will be better for the Court to refuse the invitation, so even a decision to take some cases will be evidence that something bad is about to happen. But even then, five justices on the Supreme Court will have to bless an utterly lawless breaking of the system. I suspect that at least two of the Republican-appointed justices are all in on anything, and (even leaving out the new person who is likely to have been installed by then) there is every reason to worry about the other Republican-appointed justices.
Remember also that those justices are not going to be ruling in a vacuum. There will likely be large protests in the streets, which will have become violent at Trump's instigation. The justices will also have to worry about whether it even matters that they could be destroying their own legitimacy in the service of a man who is not even a movement conservative (or a conservative of any kind, other than the racism).
And these jurists are human beings with personal histories, friends, and professional relationships that are all tied to the Republican Party. In the biggest moment of their lives, will they be willing to say that everyone who talks to them is going to have to accept that the law is simply not on their side? Or will they instead shed the last remnants of shame and say that we have always been at war with Eastasia, that freedom is slavery, and all the rest?
What does a "good outcome" look like, in a not-at-all-good world in which Trump will do everything to destroy the system for his own benefit? Either enough state-level Republicans will stand down on the claims of mail-in voter fraud and do what is right without needing to go to court, or the Supreme Court will (passively, one hopes, but possibly actively) tell them that some legal arguments are simply too outlandish to take seriously. Am I confident? No. Am I hopeful? Always, and all the more so as the legal case is made that none of Trump's ploys passes the laugh test.
http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2020/10/what-does-good-election-outcome-look.html
________________________________________________________________
* A Somewhat Optimistic View of the Possible Constitutional Crisis of 2020
Neil H. Buchanan | 8 Oct 2020
https://verdict.justia.com/2020/10/08/a-somewhat-optimistic-view-of-the-possible...
82Molly3028
Trump's 2020 voters appear to be throwbacks to the early 1900s
~ the 'good old days' in their minds ~ a time when women and
Blacks were seen but rarely heard.
~ the 'good old days' in their minds ~ a time when women and
Blacks were seen but rarely heard.
83margd
Former Special Forces sought by business group to guard polling sites in Minnesota, company says
Joshua Partlow | Oct. 9, 2020
A private security company is recruiting a “large contingent” of former U.S. military Special Operations personnel to guard polling sites in Minnesota on Election Day as part of an effort “to make sure that the Antifas don’t try to destroy the election sites,” according to the chairman of the company.
The recruiting effort is being done by Atlas Aegis, a private security company based in Tennessee that was formed last year and is run by U.S. military veterans, including people with Special Operations experience, according to its website.
The company posted a message through a defense industry jobs site this week calling for former Special Operations forces to staff “security positions in Minnesota during the November Election and beyond to protect election polls, local businesses and residences from looting and destruction.”
AD
The prospect of armed guards outside election sites alarmed election officials in the state. It is illegal in Minnesota for people other than voters and elections staff — or those people meeting the requirements to be a registered election “challenger”— to be within 100 feet of polling sites.
There are also laws against voter intimidation that could prevent armed civilians from being in the area even if outside the buffer, according to election officials in Minnesota...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/private-security-minnesota-election/2020...
Joshua Partlow | Oct. 9, 2020
A private security company is recruiting a “large contingent” of former U.S. military Special Operations personnel to guard polling sites in Minnesota on Election Day as part of an effort “to make sure that the Antifas don’t try to destroy the election sites,” according to the chairman of the company.
The recruiting effort is being done by Atlas Aegis, a private security company based in Tennessee that was formed last year and is run by U.S. military veterans, including people with Special Operations experience, according to its website.
The company posted a message through a defense industry jobs site this week calling for former Special Operations forces to staff “security positions in Minnesota during the November Election and beyond to protect election polls, local businesses and residences from looting and destruction.”
AD
The prospect of armed guards outside election sites alarmed election officials in the state. It is illegal in Minnesota for people other than voters and elections staff — or those people meeting the requirements to be a registered election “challenger”— to be within 100 feet of polling sites.
There are also laws against voter intimidation that could prevent armed civilians from being in the area even if outside the buffer, according to election officials in Minnesota...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/private-security-minnesota-election/2020...
84margd
:D
Newman!
2:23 ( https://twitter.com/christaylor_nyc/status/1314514768112357376 )
From PACRONYM
- Chris Taylor @christaylor_nyc | 6:35 AM · Oct 9, 2020
Newman!
2:23 ( https://twitter.com/christaylor_nyc/status/1314514768112357376 )
From PACRONYM
- Chris Taylor @christaylor_nyc | 6:35 AM · Oct 9, 2020
85Molly3028
https://www.newsweek.com/lindsey-graham-south-carolina-young-black-jaime-harriso...
Candidate forum ~
I wonder if the final 10 seconds of LG's answer was part of what
he rehearsed ahead of the forum or if he decided to add what he
thought was an excellent spur-of-the-moment quip? If he
rehearsed it, he is one clueless GOP jerk! He is telling everyone
that he wants the votes of modern-day Confederates. I hope
people who have moved there from other parts of the country
offset the votes of those Confederates.
Candidate forum ~
I wonder if the final 10 seconds of LG's answer was part of what
he rehearsed ahead of the forum or if he decided to add what he
thought was an excellent spur-of-the-moment quip? If he
rehearsed it, he is one clueless GOP jerk! He is telling everyone
that he wants the votes of modern-day Confederates. I hope
people who have moved there from other parts of the country
offset the votes of those Confederates.
86margd
Biden campaign up with new ad featuring CINDY MCCAIN that will be airing in Arizona.
Like John Did | Joe Biden For President 2020
1:00 ( https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1314938611805155328 )
- Josh Kraushaar @HotlineJosh | 10:39 AM · Oct 10, 2020
Like John Did | Joe Biden For President 2020
1:00 ( https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1314938611805155328 )
- Josh Kraushaar @HotlineJosh | 10:39 AM · Oct 10, 2020
87margd
The Taliban on Trump: "We hope he will win the election" and withdraw U.S. troops
Sami Yousafzai | October 10, 2020
...Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told CBS News in a phone interview, "We hope he will win the election and wind up U.S. military presence in Afghanistan." The militant group expressed some concern about Mr. Trump's bout with the coronavirus. "When we heard about Trump being COVID-19 positive, we got worried for his health, but seems he is getting better," another Taliban senior leader told CBS News.
The Trump campaign's communications director, Tim Murtaugh, said in a statement to CBS News that it rejects the Taliban's support and that the Taliban should know President Trump will always protect American interests by any means necessary.
...The Taliban noted it thinks highly of Mr. Trump's "America first" creed.
"It is the slogan of Trump from the start that they are not cops for the world and don't want a single flag and anthem for the globe, but their priority is America," Mujahid said.
Another senior member of the Taliban praised the president's honesty. "Honestly, Trump was much more honest with us than we thought, even we were stunned with his offer to meet Taliban in Camp David."
...A senior Taliban member told CBS News, "Trump might be ridiculous for the rest of the world, but he is sane and wise man for the Taliban."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taliban-on-trump-we-hope-he-will-win-the-election-w...
Sami Yousafzai | October 10, 2020
...Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told CBS News in a phone interview, "We hope he will win the election and wind up U.S. military presence in Afghanistan." The militant group expressed some concern about Mr. Trump's bout with the coronavirus. "When we heard about Trump being COVID-19 positive, we got worried for his health, but seems he is getting better," another Taliban senior leader told CBS News.
The Trump campaign's communications director, Tim Murtaugh, said in a statement to CBS News that it rejects the Taliban's support and that the Taliban should know President Trump will always protect American interests by any means necessary.
...The Taliban noted it thinks highly of Mr. Trump's "America first" creed.
"It is the slogan of Trump from the start that they are not cops for the world and don't want a single flag and anthem for the globe, but their priority is America," Mujahid said.
Another senior member of the Taliban praised the president's honesty. "Honestly, Trump was much more honest with us than we thought, even we were stunned with his offer to meet Taliban in Camp David."
...A senior Taliban member told CBS News, "Trump might be ridiculous for the rest of the world, but he is sane and wise man for the Taliban."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taliban-on-trump-we-hope-he-will-win-the-election-w...
88Molly3028
It is refreshing to know that James Murdoch left the News Corp
organization this year. He admitted the obvious ~ FOX News
is a Murdoch money-making disinformation machine. People like
Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham, Hume, Levin, and Pirro are
disgusting gold diggers and Trump loyalists. An acorn falling far
from the oak tree can, indeed, be a good thing.
organization this year. He admitted the obvious ~ FOX News
is a Murdoch money-making disinformation machine. People like
Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham, Hume, Levin, and Pirro are
disgusting gold diggers and Trump loyalists. An acorn falling far
from the oak tree can, indeed, be a good thing.
89margd
Drop boxes: Texas seeks to restrict them, but California Rs are putting out their own!
(Sounds like the R's unofficial collection boxes are place outside R candidate offices, conservative white churches, etc. Apparently illegal (below).
Unofficial ballot drop boxes popping up throughout the state worry elections officials
Promoting such boxes — which have been found in Los Angeles, Orange and Fresno counties — could be a felony.
Alicia Robinson and Brooke Staggs | October 11, 2020
...The California Secretary of State has received reports in recent days about possible unauthorized ballot drop boxes in Fresno, Los Angeles and Orange counties, agency spokesman Sam Mahood said Sunday evening. Reports place such boxes at local political party offices, candidate headquarters and churches.
Secretary of State Alex Padilla said his office is coordinating with local elections officials to look into the reports.
Only county elections officials can oversee ballot drop boxes, choosing the number, location, hours of operation and other details. County registrars are charged with making sure every box follows strict state guidelines for security, including making sure they can’t be tampered with and tracing the chain of custody of all ballots.
“Operating unofficial ballot drop boxes – especially those misrepresented as official drop boxes – is not just misleading to voters, it’s a violation of state law,” Padilla said, with a felony conviction carrying a prison sentence of two to four years.
...The California Republican Party did not respond to requests for comment about the boxes by deadline. But they’ve been defending the practice in replies on Twitter, alleging the process was made legal under a 2016 law that allows California voters to designate a person to return their ballot for them. The GOP calls the practice “ballot harvesting” and blames it for losses to the Democrats in OC and other places in 2018.
But state officials clarified that using an unauthorized vote-by-mail drop box would not meet the requirements of the 2016 law. No designated “person” would be signing for the ballots as required by state law.
...To find official drop box locations near you, use tools on the Secretary of State or your local registrar’s websites. Orange County official drop box sites are at www.ocvote.com.
https://www.ocregister.com/2020/10/11/unofficial-ballot-drop-boxes-popping-up-th...
_____________________________________________________________
ETA:
An R notice on locations of their drop boxes:
Image ( https://twitter.com/DavidOAtkins/status/1315499177900568577/photo/1 )
(Sounds like the R's unofficial collection boxes are place outside R candidate offices, conservative white churches, etc. Apparently illegal (below).
Unofficial ballot drop boxes popping up throughout the state worry elections officials
Promoting such boxes — which have been found in Los Angeles, Orange and Fresno counties — could be a felony.
Alicia Robinson and Brooke Staggs | October 11, 2020
...The California Secretary of State has received reports in recent days about possible unauthorized ballot drop boxes in Fresno, Los Angeles and Orange counties, agency spokesman Sam Mahood said Sunday evening. Reports place such boxes at local political party offices, candidate headquarters and churches.
Secretary of State Alex Padilla said his office is coordinating with local elections officials to look into the reports.
Only county elections officials can oversee ballot drop boxes, choosing the number, location, hours of operation and other details. County registrars are charged with making sure every box follows strict state guidelines for security, including making sure they can’t be tampered with and tracing the chain of custody of all ballots.
“Operating unofficial ballot drop boxes – especially those misrepresented as official drop boxes – is not just misleading to voters, it’s a violation of state law,” Padilla said, with a felony conviction carrying a prison sentence of two to four years.
...The California Republican Party did not respond to requests for comment about the boxes by deadline. But they’ve been defending the practice in replies on Twitter, alleging the process was made legal under a 2016 law that allows California voters to designate a person to return their ballot for them. The GOP calls the practice “ballot harvesting” and blames it for losses to the Democrats in OC and other places in 2018.
But state officials clarified that using an unauthorized vote-by-mail drop box would not meet the requirements of the 2016 law. No designated “person” would be signing for the ballots as required by state law.
...To find official drop box locations near you, use tools on the Secretary of State or your local registrar’s websites. Orange County official drop box sites are at www.ocvote.com.
https://www.ocregister.com/2020/10/11/unofficial-ballot-drop-boxes-popping-up-th...
_____________________________________________________________
ETA:
An R notice on locations of their drop boxes:
Image ( https://twitter.com/DavidOAtkins/status/1315499177900568577/photo/1 )
90margd
Early voting in Georgia--look at that broken glass, 'er--LINE!
Hopefully an increasingly rare sight in future elections?
The line of voters at George Pierce Park in Suwanee....
1:10 ( https://twitter.com/ByTylerEstep/status/1315662020453240833 )
- tyler, the reporter @ByTylerEstep | 10:34 AM · Oct 12, 2020
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As of 11am, voters waited 5+ hours to cast ballots @ the main Cobb Co. early polling location (736 Whitlock Ave, Marietta).
Some seemed unbothered by the line. “It doesn’t matter how long it takes…we’re voting like our life depends on it,“ said a voter...
0:23 ( https://twitter.com/AndyPierrotti/status/1315679588693966849 )
- Andy Pierrotti @AndyPierrotti ( 11:43 AM · Oct 12, 2020 )
Hopefully an increasingly rare sight in future elections?
The line of voters at George Pierce Park in Suwanee....
1:10 ( https://twitter.com/ByTylerEstep/status/1315662020453240833 )
- tyler, the reporter @ByTylerEstep | 10:34 AM · Oct 12, 2020
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As of 11am, voters waited 5+ hours to cast ballots @ the main Cobb Co. early polling location (736 Whitlock Ave, Marietta).
Some seemed unbothered by the line. “It doesn’t matter how long it takes…we’re voting like our life depends on it,“ said a voter...
0:23 ( https://twitter.com/AndyPierrotti/status/1315679588693966849 )
- Andy Pierrotti @AndyPierrotti ( 11:43 AM · Oct 12, 2020 )
92margd
>91 kiparsky: Whole lot of sign mischief--stealing, paint--in my area. Mostly, but not all, against Biden signs. (One Trumpian protected his sign against vandals with what looked like electric fence. On Biden side, one fellow swears by Tangle Foot and glitter--thieves never came back!) Hopefully, a little paint and thievery is as bad as it gets. But arson--wow!
>90 margd: contd. Macon, GA
Seth Clark @Seth_C_Clarkv | 10:10 AM · Oct 12, 2020 from Macon, GA:
Just got in line to early vote at the @MaconBibb Board of Elections.
The line is around the building once and then tails off into the parking lot.
I’ve never, ever seen anything like this on the first day of early voting.
Image ( https://twitter.com/Seth_C_Clark/status/1315655990524760065/photo/1 )
>90 margd: contd. Macon, GA
Seth Clark @Seth_C_Clarkv | 10:10 AM · Oct 12, 2020 from Macon, GA:
Just got in line to early vote at the @MaconBibb Board of Elections.
The line is around the building once and then tails off into the parking lot.
I’ve never, ever seen anything like this on the first day of early voting.
Image ( https://twitter.com/Seth_C_Clark/status/1315655990524760065/photo/1 )
94margd
Don Winslow @donwinslow | 12:50 PM · Oct 13, 2020
NEW: #AmericaNeedsPennsylvania w/ Bruce @springsteen !
!!! TURN VOLUME UP LOUD !!!
2:19 ( https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1316058801456308224 )
NEW: #AmericaNeedsPennsylvania w/ Bruce @springsteen !
!!! TURN VOLUME UP LOUD !!!
2:19 ( https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1316058801456308224 )
95margd
Joe Biden @JoeBiden | 5:39 PM · Oct 12, 2020:
Donald Trump is running TV ads taking Dr. Fauci out of context and without his permission.
So, here’s a message from the President in his own words.
0:28 ( https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1315768958742491136 )
Donald Trump is running TV ads taking Dr. Fauci out of context and without his permission.
So, here’s a message from the President in his own words.
0:28 ( https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1315768958742491136 )
96Molly3028
I want Collins and Graham, among many other GOPers, to
be nuked in November. I think Maine will dump Collins. There is
no way in hell S. Carolina voters are going to dump Graham.
That is the Deep South. He is the kind of person they want
representing them in DC. Millions of people will have to move
there from other states before it finally joins the 21st Century
world we live in.
be nuked in November. I think Maine will dump Collins. There is
no way in hell S. Carolina voters are going to dump Graham.
That is the Deep South. He is the kind of person they want
representing them in DC. Millions of people will have to move
there from other states before it finally joins the 21st Century
world we live in.
97lriley
#96--Graham does seem mightily concerned though and the polls are dead even. I get what you're saying about South Carolina but it absolutely is in play. Graham also sees the money that Harrison has raised as a major threat.
98lriley
Speaking of the beyond--hopefully this has been the last go around for Pelosi as speaker of the house. She's become as much a problem of getting a second stimulus bill through as McConnell. Her tirade against the hapless Wolf Blitzer at CNN IMO came across very poorly. Winter is coming on and things are getting pretty desperate for a lot of people. For all the dopey neo-libs and neo-cons/libertarians (and Pelosi is pretty much a neo-lib) the way out of a depression is to spend more--not spend less. Stimulus is from stimulate or to keep something working--not to take away or not stimulate and let die. All these Randian economic theorists they listen to are full of shit.
99margd
Another pro-Trump ad uses footage from Russia
This is the fourth time a Trump-affiliated group has used Russian footage in an ad.
DANIEL LIPPMAN | 10/13/2020
...A new pro-Trump super PAC ad uses stock footage from Russia and Belarus in a major ad buy that’s airing in three swing states.
It’s the fourth time in three months that an ad promoting President Donald Trump’s reelection has used footage from Russia.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/13/trump-ad-russian-footage-429263
This is the fourth time a Trump-affiliated group has used Russian footage in an ad.
DANIEL LIPPMAN | 10/13/2020
...A new pro-Trump super PAC ad uses stock footage from Russia and Belarus in a major ad buy that’s airing in three swing states.
It’s the fourth time in three months that an ad promoting President Donald Trump’s reelection has used footage from Russia.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/13/trump-ad-russian-footage-429263
100Limelite
Potemkin Much?
And Another One Bites the Dust -- Trump Cheating Scheme, That Is
And Another One Bites the Dust -- Trump Cheating Scheme, That Is
Washington Post. With that, another of Trump's hopes that he could abuse his powers to manufacture an "October surprise" to save his re-election goes up in smoke. Barr quite clearly opened the "investigation" into this non-scandal in order to pile on more confusing news reports and bolster the illusion that something bad must have happened. Barr likely understood that this phony investigation, like others, would amount to nothing substantive.Just another waste of tax-payer money over a lying Republican conspiracy theory. Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi! deja vu.
And it wasn't really meant to.
101margd
Editors. 2020. Why Nature supports Joe Biden for US president (EDITORIAL) Nature 586, 335 (14 October 2020)
doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-02852-x
We cannot stand by and let science be undermined. Joe Biden’s trust in truth, evidence, science and democracy make him the only choice in the US election.
Coronavirus catastrophe
Biden must lead
...Donald Trump has taken an axe to a system that was intended to safeguard and protect citizens when leaders go astray. He has become an icon for those who seek to sow hatred and division, not only in the United States, but in other countries, too.
Joe Biden must be given an opportunity to restore trust in truth, in evidence, in science and in other institutions of democracy, heal a divided nation, and begin the urgent task of rebuilding the United States’ reputation in the world.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-02852-x
We cannot stand by and let science be undermined. Joe Biden’s trust in truth, evidence, science and democracy make him the only choice in the US election.
Coronavirus catastrophe
Biden must lead
...Donald Trump has taken an axe to a system that was intended to safeguard and protect citizens when leaders go astray. He has become an icon for those who seek to sow hatred and division, not only in the United States, but in other countries, too.
Joe Biden must be given an opportunity to restore trust in truth, in evidence, in science and in other institutions of democracy, heal a divided nation, and begin the urgent task of rebuilding the United States’ reputation in the world.
102margd
Don Winslow @donwinslow | 7:26 PM · Oct 14, 2020
NEW VIDEO: #TrumpAttacksBlackWomen
As Donald Trump and his campaign try to recruit Black voters with a cocktail of lies and more empty promises, let's take a real hard look at how Donald Trump has treated five remarkable Black women.
Let's just let Trump speak for himself.
1:27 ( https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1316520801135333376 )
NEW VIDEO: #TrumpAttacksBlackWomen
As Donald Trump and his campaign try to recruit Black voters with a cocktail of lies and more empty promises, let's take a real hard look at how Donald Trump has treated five remarkable Black women.
Let's just let Trump speak for himself.
1:27 ( https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1316520801135333376 )
104Molly3028
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/last-exit-trump-autocracy/6...
David Frum ~
"The man the Founders dreaded entered the high office they created—and proceeded to abuse that office in just the ways they feared. Now that man is seeking a second term, which would be even more abusive and dangerous. Trump’s election strategy is to weaponize the Electoral College to re-secure the presidency of the United States over the opposition of the majority of the people who live and vote there. If he can activate the fears of enough white people in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, he could succeed—defeating the much larger number of Americans who want him gone. Every plausible scenario of Electoral College success implies a popular-vote defeat even more lopsided than the 2.9 million votes he lost by in 2016."
Yikes ~ Trump is hoping that very mentally disturbed white people in three
states hold the country's future ~ and his stay-out-of-jail card ~ in their
hands.
David Frum ~
"The man the Founders dreaded entered the high office they created—and proceeded to abuse that office in just the ways they feared. Now that man is seeking a second term, which would be even more abusive and dangerous. Trump’s election strategy is to weaponize the Electoral College to re-secure the presidency of the United States over the opposition of the majority of the people who live and vote there. If he can activate the fears of enough white people in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, he could succeed—defeating the much larger number of Americans who want him gone. Every plausible scenario of Electoral College success implies a popular-vote defeat even more lopsided than the 2.9 million votes he lost by in 2016."
Yikes ~ Trump is hoping that very mentally disturbed white people in three
states hold the country's future ~ and his stay-out-of-jail card ~ in their
hands.
105margd
Live Updates: We’re Tracking The Vote And Voting Problems
538 | Updated 6:04 PM | Oct. 14, 2020
...Nathaniel Rakich | 2:57 PM
Remember how Texas is limiting ballot drop sites (where people can drop off their absentee ballots in person rather than putting them in the mail) to just one per county? Well, the League of United Latin American Citizens is asking the Supreme Court to overturn the limit. Definitely a case to watch...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/trump-biden-votes/
538 | Updated 6:04 PM | Oct. 14, 2020
...Nathaniel Rakich | 2:57 PM
Remember how Texas is limiting ballot drop sites (where people can drop off their absentee ballots in person rather than putting them in the mail) to just one per county? Well, the League of United Latin American Citizens is asking the Supreme Court to overturn the limit. Definitely a case to watch...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/trump-biden-votes/
106margd
Joe Biden @JoeBiden | 6:58 PM · Oct 14, 2020
Vote for America.
1:00 ( https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1316513615373987840 )
Vote for America.
1:00 ( https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1316513615373987840 )
107Molly3028
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/rupert-murdoch-reportedly-predicting-biden-wil...
R. Murdoch apparently wants it both ways. In private he is predicting a
Biden win. His three bought-and-paid-for prime-time puppets ~ Tucker/
Hannity/Ingraham ~ are all hot for Trump. I imagine he is trying to keep
the lunatic FOX News viewers happy.
R. Murdoch apparently wants it both ways. In private he is predicting a
Biden win. His three bought-and-paid-for prime-time puppets ~ Tucker/
Hannity/Ingraham ~ are all hot for Trump. I imagine he is trying to keep
the lunatic FOX News viewers happy.
108margd
Holly Otterbein @hollyotterbein | 12:01 PM · Oct 15, 2020:
New: Justice Democrats, a progressive group that opposed Joe Biden in the primary,
is launching its first ad buy aimed at electing him this fall.
“Look, maybe you don't like the other guy running for president,” a woman says in the ad. But "fucking vote." https://politico.com/news/2020/10/15/justice-democrats-go-all-in-on-biden-429600
0:30 ( https://twitter.com/hollyotterbein/status/1316771214778601473 )
New: Justice Democrats, a progressive group that opposed Joe Biden in the primary,
is launching its first ad buy aimed at electing him this fall.
“Look, maybe you don't like the other guy running for president,” a woman says in the ad. But "fucking vote." https://politico.com/news/2020/10/15/justice-democrats-go-all-in-on-biden-429600
0:30 ( https://twitter.com/hollyotterbein/status/1316771214778601473 )
109margd
The Lincoln Project presents our music video for "Commander in Chief" by Demi Lovato
•Oct 14, 2020
“#CommanderInChief… Honestly… If I did the things you do, I couldn’t sleep”
Demi Lovato put it best. That’s why we’re proud to present this new music video for #CommanderInChief.
3:18 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0xSJQDRH2Q&feature=youtu.be )
•Oct 14, 2020
“#CommanderInChief… Honestly… If I did the things you do, I couldn’t sleep”
Demi Lovato put it best. That’s why we’re proud to present this new music video for #CommanderInChief.
3:18 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0xSJQDRH2Q&feature=youtu.be )
110Limelite
Early Voting Turnout 2020 General Election
University of Florida political science professor is keeping statistical data on this election. Have a look an find your state's level of participation -- it can help you determine where to volunteer to get out the vote. I'm posting some stuff of interest, a tip of the iceberg only.
Voters have cast a total of 17,709,396 ballots in the reporting states. Greatest number returned in FL, followed by CA, then TX. The big states are turning out, two of them are red-to-blue possibilities and high voter turnout is NOT good for Republicans. Second tier leaders are MI, VA, and NJ. Remember, not all states have early voting yet, so these are the "early bird specials."
ABSENTEE BALLOT DATA
Party|| Returned Ballots|| Freq. Distrib.|| Requested|| Return Rate
Democrats|| 4,390,792|| 55.9|| 23,666,059|| 18.6
Republicans|| 1,860,146|| 23.7|| 13,914,217|| 13.4
Voter turnout demographics tell you who's voting and who isn't. (I'm looking at you, under 30s!) Plus more data goodness!
University of Florida political science professor is keeping statistical data on this election. Have a look an find your state's level of participation -- it can help you determine where to volunteer to get out the vote. I'm posting some stuff of interest, a tip of the iceberg only.
Voters have cast a total of 17,709,396 ballots in the reporting states. Greatest number returned in FL, followed by CA, then TX. The big states are turning out, two of them are red-to-blue possibilities and high voter turnout is NOT good for Republicans. Second tier leaders are MI, VA, and NJ. Remember, not all states have early voting yet, so these are the "early bird specials."
ABSENTEE BALLOT DATA
Party|| Returned Ballots|| Freq. Distrib.|| Requested|| Return Rate
Democrats|| 4,390,792|| 55.9|| 23,666,059|| 18.6
Republicans|| 1,860,146|| 23.7|| 13,914,217|| 13.4
Voter turnout demographics tell you who's voting and who isn't. (I'm looking at you, under 30s!) Plus more data goodness!
111margd
Postal Service agrees to reverse service changes
IRIS SAMUELS | 10/14/2020
...The lawsuit filed against Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the U.S. Postal Service on Sept. 9 argued changes implemented in June harmed access to mail services in Montana, resulting in delayed delivery of medical prescriptions, payments, and job applications, and impeding the ability...to vote by mail.
The postal service agreed to reverse all changes, which included reduced retail hours, removal of collection boxes and mail sorting machines, closure or consolidation of mail processing facilities, restriction of late or extra trips for timely mail delivery, and banning or restricting overtime.
The agreement also requires the Postal Service to prioritize election mail.
The settlement agreement was reached a day ahead of a hearing in the U.S. District Court in Great Falls. It applies to all states.
Judge Stanley Bastian in Yakima, Washington, issued the nationwide preliminary injunction sought by 14 states that brought forward a separate suit against the Trump administration and the U.S. Postal Service. The 14 states, led by Democratic attorneys general, expressed concern that delays might result in voters not receiving ballots or registration forms in time.
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-lawsuits-montana-steve-bullock-4bdadb8...
IRIS SAMUELS | 10/14/2020
...The lawsuit filed against Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the U.S. Postal Service on Sept. 9 argued changes implemented in June harmed access to mail services in Montana, resulting in delayed delivery of medical prescriptions, payments, and job applications, and impeding the ability...to vote by mail.
The postal service agreed to reverse all changes, which included reduced retail hours, removal of collection boxes and mail sorting machines, closure or consolidation of mail processing facilities, restriction of late or extra trips for timely mail delivery, and banning or restricting overtime.
The agreement also requires the Postal Service to prioritize election mail.
The settlement agreement was reached a day ahead of a hearing in the U.S. District Court in Great Falls. It applies to all states.
Judge Stanley Bastian in Yakima, Washington, issued the nationwide preliminary injunction sought by 14 states that brought forward a separate suit against the Trump administration and the U.S. Postal Service. The 14 states, led by Democratic attorneys general, expressed concern that delays might result in voters not receiving ballots or registration forms in time.
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-lawsuits-montana-steve-bullock-4bdadb8...
112margd
The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln | 8:00 AM · Oct 16, 2020:
Vote for her.
1:30 ( https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1317072803984674817 )
Vote for her.
1:30 ( https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1317072803984674817 )
113margd
VoteVets (Text VOTEVETS to 88424) @votevets | 10:04 AM · Oct 16, 2020:
Trump actively disparages the selfless heroism of our military.
@AVindman not only felt the brunt of Trump’s disgusting attacks, but so did his family.
In a new ad, in partnership with @ProjectLincoln, the Vindmans tell their story.
1:00 ( https://twitter.com/votevets/status/1317104093698162689 )
From The Lincoln Project
Trump actively disparages the selfless heroism of our military.
@AVindman not only felt the brunt of Trump’s disgusting attacks, but so did his family.
In a new ad, in partnership with @ProjectLincoln, the Vindmans tell their story.
1:00 ( https://twitter.com/votevets/status/1317104093698162689 )
From The Lincoln Project
114margd
Bloomberg QuickTake @QuickTake | 9:32 PM · Oct 15, 2020:
Biden on the possibility of losing: "It could say that I'm a lousy candidate, that I didn't do a good job. But I think, I hope that it doesn't say that we're as racially, ethnically and religiously at odds as it appears the president wants us to be."
0:52 ( https://twitter.com/QuickTake/status/1316914896219607042 )
Movie camera: ABC News
Biden on the possibility of losing: "It could say that I'm a lousy candidate, that I didn't do a good job. But I think, I hope that it doesn't say that we're as racially, ethnically and religiously at odds as it appears the president wants us to be."
0:52 ( https://twitter.com/QuickTake/status/1316914896219607042 )
Movie camera: ABC News
116Molly3028
Thursday night's "Apprentice" return ~
Trump, the narcissist, must have thought NBC's news division was giving
him a "gift" opportunity because he made so much money for the network in
the past. The powers that be at NBC picking a savvy woman interviewer
appears to have been an intentional move, however. If you give Trump
enough rope he will hang himself every single time.
Trump, the narcissist, must have thought NBC's news division was giving
him a "gift" opportunity because he made so much money for the network in
the past. The powers that be at NBC picking a savvy woman interviewer
appears to have been an intentional move, however. If you give Trump
enough rope he will hang himself every single time.
118lriley
#117--I don't disagree with Mary---it's just that line from last night's Trump town hall amused me a lot.
120Limelite
Historical Record Setting Debate Kills Trump
Trump belly-flopped’: Researcher shocked at how badly the debate hurt the president.
When the public got to see Joe v. Don outside the Cult Bubble, they witnessed and acknowledged the real differences between the presidential qualifications and qualities between the two. Trump was found wanting -- BIGLY.
Which has almost everything to do with Biden raising over $300 in the last month, especially receiving around two thirds of that in the post-debate response of "little people" donors.
When it comes to casting actual votes, Trump supporters are distinct from Biden voters. Trump voters are hidebound by fear, especially of the USPS. Trump voters also appear to believe a conspiracy theory that votes cast on Election Day are "more equal" than mail-in ballots or early votes before that day, and will be accorded weight and meaning that will determine the winner, while non-Election Day votes that remain uncounted that day won't be counted at all, much less determine the Will of the People.
The truth is really going to hurt Trump supporters who subscribe to that bankrupt nonsense when the election is certified by the Reality Based Community.
So, what's the "when" takeaway from broadcast debates, polling, and fund-raising ability? That when The People have access to objective unfiltered transparency, the truth will always out.
Trump belly-flopped’: Researcher shocked at how badly the debate hurt the president.
Voter expectation ratings of Trump’s first presidential debate against Biden dropped by 18 percentage points – to 33 – while Biden’s remained closer to expectations at 46 percentage points.The debate literally caused pollsters to confirm that not only did Trump fail… he “belly-flopped.”
“Few presidential debates make that much difference. This one apparently did,” said Bob Shrum, director of the USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future. “In the eyes of voters, Donald Trump belly-flopped into an empty swimming pool. The first, and perhaps only, 2020 debate may in the end do more to shape the ultimate outcome of the race than any debate since the first Kennedy-Nixon face off in 1960.” And last nights "Town Hall" encore for Trump did him no good, either. Fact checkers reported multitudinous lies and conspiracy theories blurted by Trump to ZERO lies for Biden. On a perception level, only, ". . .data from the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Science’s Daybreak Poll reveals that in the days following the first debate, Trump’s voter ratings dropped in the areas of mental and physical fitness as well. Biden’s, on the other hand, went up."
When the public got to see Joe v. Don outside the Cult Bubble, they witnessed and acknowledged the real differences between the presidential qualifications and qualities between the two. Trump was found wanting -- BIGLY.
Which has almost everything to do with Biden raising over $300 in the last month, especially receiving around two thirds of that in the post-debate response of "little people" donors.
When it comes to casting actual votes, Trump supporters are distinct from Biden voters. Trump voters are hidebound by fear, especially of the USPS. Trump voters also appear to believe a conspiracy theory that votes cast on Election Day are "more equal" than mail-in ballots or early votes before that day, and will be accorded weight and meaning that will determine the winner, while non-Election Day votes that remain uncounted that day won't be counted at all, much less determine the Will of the People.
The truth is really going to hurt Trump supporters who subscribe to that bankrupt nonsense when the election is certified by the Reality Based Community.
So, what's the "when" takeaway from broadcast debates, polling, and fund-raising ability? That when The People have access to objective unfiltered transparency, the truth will always out.
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MeidasTouch.com @MeidasTouch | 12:21 PM · Oct 15, 2020:
This is everything
0:42 ( https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1316776128703414272 )
From Meena Harris
This is everything
0:42 ( https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1316776128703414272 )
From Meena Harris
122margd
From GW Bush Team:
43 Alumni for Biden @43Biden | 10:36 AM · Oct 16, 2020:
New Ad: “Team 46” #4Bid3n
0:50 ( https://twitter.com/43Biden/status/1317112192274206721 )
43 Alumni for Biden @43Biden | 10:36 AM · Oct 16, 2020:
New Ad: “Team 46” #4Bid3n
0:50 ( https://twitter.com/43Biden/status/1317112192274206721 )
123margd
In Ohio, a Printing Company Is Overwhelmed and Mail Ballots Are Delayed
The company was until recently flying a “Trump 2020’’ flag over its Cleveland headquarters...
Reid J. Epstein | Oct. 16, 2020
As the presidential election headed into the final stretch in late summer, counties in Ohio and Pennsylvania worried that a deluge of absentee ballot requests would swamp their printing capacity. So dozens of them contracted with Midwest Direct, a Cleveland mailing company.
But when it came time to print and ship Ohio ballots early last week, it was Midwest Direct that was overwhelmed. Several Ohio counties that expected absentee ballots printed by the company to land in voters’ mailboxes are now scrambling to print them themselves or find a last-minute contingency plan less than three weeks before Election Day.
In Pennsylvania, for instance, nearly 30,000 ballots sent to voters in Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, went to the wrong addresses.
...Midwest Direct is the primary outside provider of absentee ballots for 16 Ohio counties, though many also have their own in-house operations.
Midwest Direct is owned by two brothers, Richard Gebbie, the chief executive, and James Gebbie, the chairman. This summer they began flying a Trump 2020 flag above Midwest Direct’s headquarters on the west side of Cleveland. It was a curious juxtaposition — a company in the business of distributing absentee ballots through the mail showing a preference for a president who has spent months denigrating the practice of voting by mail.
...When Midwest Direct failed to deliver promised ballots to some of its Ohio clients, Frank LaRose, the Ohio secretary of state, recommended that counties begin printing ballots in-house or “develop a contingency plan,” said Jon Keeling, Mr. LaRose’s spokesman.
...Ohio ballots can be counted if they are postmarked by Nov. 2, the day before Election Day. They can also be returned in person to a county board of elections before the polls close Nov. 3.
...in Pennsylvania, 28,879 voters in Allegheny County, home to the state’s second-largest concentration of Democratic voters, were sent incorrect ballots as part of a batch of more than 32,000 ballots that were mailed beginning Sept. 28, according to the county Board of Elections.
Mr. Gebbie has in recent years made small donations to Republicans running for federal and state office. He gave to Mr. LaRose and Dave Yost, the Ohio attorney general.
Online, Mr. Gebbie has written several public Facebook posts questioning the potency of the coronavirus and he criticized Taylor Swift after she accused Mr. Trump of seeking to dismantle the Postal Service.
Local officials said Midwest Direct offered a variety of explanations for why the promised absentee ballots were slow to be delivered, from mechanical breakdowns to a higher volume of ballot requests than anticipated...
...For Ohio, the delays in shipping absentee ballots come as Mr. LaRose, the Republican secretary of state, has forbidden counties from installing more than one drop box to deposit absentee ballots. The delay in receiving requested ballots has driven more voters to early-voting sites, which are also limited to one per county....
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/us/politics/ohio-mail-ballots-trump.html
The company was until recently flying a “Trump 2020’’ flag over its Cleveland headquarters...
Reid J. Epstein | Oct. 16, 2020
As the presidential election headed into the final stretch in late summer, counties in Ohio and Pennsylvania worried that a deluge of absentee ballot requests would swamp their printing capacity. So dozens of them contracted with Midwest Direct, a Cleveland mailing company.
But when it came time to print and ship Ohio ballots early last week, it was Midwest Direct that was overwhelmed. Several Ohio counties that expected absentee ballots printed by the company to land in voters’ mailboxes are now scrambling to print them themselves or find a last-minute contingency plan less than three weeks before Election Day.
In Pennsylvania, for instance, nearly 30,000 ballots sent to voters in Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, went to the wrong addresses.
...Midwest Direct is the primary outside provider of absentee ballots for 16 Ohio counties, though many also have their own in-house operations.
Midwest Direct is owned by two brothers, Richard Gebbie, the chief executive, and James Gebbie, the chairman. This summer they began flying a Trump 2020 flag above Midwest Direct’s headquarters on the west side of Cleveland. It was a curious juxtaposition — a company in the business of distributing absentee ballots through the mail showing a preference for a president who has spent months denigrating the practice of voting by mail.
...When Midwest Direct failed to deliver promised ballots to some of its Ohio clients, Frank LaRose, the Ohio secretary of state, recommended that counties begin printing ballots in-house or “develop a contingency plan,” said Jon Keeling, Mr. LaRose’s spokesman.
...Ohio ballots can be counted if they are postmarked by Nov. 2, the day before Election Day. They can also be returned in person to a county board of elections before the polls close Nov. 3.
...in Pennsylvania, 28,879 voters in Allegheny County, home to the state’s second-largest concentration of Democratic voters, were sent incorrect ballots as part of a batch of more than 32,000 ballots that were mailed beginning Sept. 28, according to the county Board of Elections.
Mr. Gebbie has in recent years made small donations to Republicans running for federal and state office. He gave to Mr. LaRose and Dave Yost, the Ohio attorney general.
Online, Mr. Gebbie has written several public Facebook posts questioning the potency of the coronavirus and he criticized Taylor Swift after she accused Mr. Trump of seeking to dismantle the Postal Service.
Local officials said Midwest Direct offered a variety of explanations for why the promised absentee ballots were slow to be delivered, from mechanical breakdowns to a higher volume of ballot requests than anticipated...
...For Ohio, the delays in shipping absentee ballots come as Mr. LaRose, the Republican secretary of state, has forbidden counties from installing more than one drop box to deposit absentee ballots. The delay in receiving requested ballots has driven more voters to early-voting sites, which are also limited to one per county....
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/us/politics/ohio-mail-ballots-trump.html
124margd
Really American @ReallyAmerican1 | 3:55 PM · Oct 16, 2020:
NEW VIDEO: America's President's rise to the occasion and take responsibility when they make mistakes.
Until Now.
Trump blames everyone but himself for all of his failures, including his handling of the worst Covid response on earth.
#BlameTrump
We're going up on TV tomorrow in Florida with #DictatorTrump...
1:21 ( https://twitter.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1317192380920025088 )
NEW VIDEO: America's President's rise to the occasion and take responsibility when they make mistakes.
Until Now.
Trump blames everyone but himself for all of his failures, including his handling of the worst Covid response on earth.
#BlameTrump
We're going up on TV tomorrow in Florida with #DictatorTrump...
1:21 ( https://twitter.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1317192380920025088 )
125margd
The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln | 1:16 PM · Oct 16, 2020:
The candidates on masks.
0:46 ( https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1317152508540637184 )
The candidates on masks.
0:46 ( https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1317152508540637184 )
126margd
(AD: Lindsay Graham donor call)
The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln | 11:53 PM · Oct 16, 2020:
These donor calls are getting desperate.
1:06 ( https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1317312761584496640 )
From The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln | 11:53 PM · Oct 16, 2020:
These donor calls are getting desperate.
1:06 ( https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1317312761584496640 )
From The Lincoln Project
127margd
End Our National Crisis
The Case Against Donald Trump By The Editorial Board (NYT)
The Verdict
Donald Trump’s re-election campaign poses the greatest threat to American democracy since World War II...
Mr. Trump’s ruinous tenure already has gravely damaged the United States at home and around the world...
The editorial board does not lightly indict a duly elected president...
Nov. 3 can be a turning point. This is an election about the country’s future, and what path its citizens wish to choose...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/16/opinion/donald-trump-worst-presid...
The Case Against Donald Trump By The Editorial Board (NYT)
The Verdict
Donald Trump’s re-election campaign poses the greatest threat to American democracy since World War II...
Mr. Trump’s ruinous tenure already has gravely damaged the United States at home and around the world...
The editorial board does not lightly indict a duly elected president...
Nov. 3 can be a turning point. This is an election about the country’s future, and what path its citizens wish to choose...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/16/opinion/donald-trump-worst-presid...
128margd
Joe Biden @JoeBiden | 11:30 AM · Oct 17, 2020
Voting is your opportunity to be in the room where it happens.
Don't throw away your shot: http://iwillvote.com
5:11 ( https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1317488036851089410 )
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Anne Applebaum (The Atlantic) @anneapplebaum | 4:02 PM · Oct 17, 2020
seems like the cast of Hamilton really really wants you to vote
Voting is your opportunity to be in the room where it happens.
Don't throw away your shot: http://iwillvote.com
5:11 ( https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1317488036851089410 )
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Anne Applebaum (The Atlantic) @anneapplebaum | 4:02 PM · Oct 17, 2020
seems like the cast of Hamilton really really wants you to vote
129Molly3028
https://www.mediaite.com/news/the-most-flawed-person-i-have-ever-met-trumps-form...
John Kelly worked closely with the deeply flawed man that Mary Trump
described in her book. TV interviews with Trump's 2020 rally attendees
suggest that many of them are also deeply flawed.
John Kelly worked closely with the deeply flawed man that Mary Trump
described in her book. TV interviews with Trump's 2020 rally attendees
suggest that many of them are also deeply flawed.
130margd
When we needed a President who would be honest with us and tell us what we were facing, we had Donald Trump.
#HowWeGotHere by @donwinslow
2:20 ( https://twitter.com/TheDailyEdge/status/1317745940028063744 )
From Don Winslow
- The Daily Edge @TheDailyEdge | 4:34 AM · Oct 18, 2020
#HowWeGotHere by @donwinslow
2:20 ( https://twitter.com/TheDailyEdge/status/1317745940028063744 )
From Don Winslow
- The Daily Edge @TheDailyEdge | 4:34 AM · Oct 18, 2020
131margd
The Protest Films @TheProtestFilms | 1:03 PM · Oct 16, 2020
End Our National Crisis
#NoMoreTrump
2:09 ( https://twitter.com/TheProtestFilms/status/1317149198060417024 )
From The Protest Films
End Our National Crisis
#NoMoreTrump
2:09 ( https://twitter.com/TheProtestFilms/status/1317149198060417024 )
From The Protest Films
132margd
Remembering how LBJ, losing HIS war, chose to end his presidency:
...With Americans growing weary of the Vietnam War and increasingly discontent with his leadership, Johnson — in his characteristically solemn style — reiterated why the United States was fighting there and offered an olive branch to North Vietnam. He announced a halt to air and naval attacks north of the area immediately above the demilitarized zone and urged the Communist government in Hanoi to enter peace talks...
“I have concluded that I should not permit the presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that are developing in this political year,” Johnson said. “With America’s sons in the fields far away, with America’s future under challenge right here at home, with our hopes and the world’s hopes for peace in the balance every day, I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes, or to any duties other than the awesome duties of this office — the presidency of your country. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/03/31/a-pearl-harbor-in-p...
______________________________________________
DJT, losing his war with SARS-CoV-2, chooses another route:
1:20 ( https://twitter.com/kenolin1/status/1317641583370543108 )
...With Americans growing weary of the Vietnam War and increasingly discontent with his leadership, Johnson — in his characteristically solemn style — reiterated why the United States was fighting there and offered an olive branch to North Vietnam. He announced a halt to air and naval attacks north of the area immediately above the demilitarized zone and urged the Communist government in Hanoi to enter peace talks...
“I have concluded that I should not permit the presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that are developing in this political year,” Johnson said. “With America’s sons in the fields far away, with America’s future under challenge right here at home, with our hopes and the world’s hopes for peace in the balance every day, I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes, or to any duties other than the awesome duties of this office — the presidency of your country. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/03/31/a-pearl-harbor-in-p...
______________________________________________
DJT, losing his war with SARS-CoV-2, chooses another route:
1:20 ( https://twitter.com/kenolin1/status/1317641583370543108 )
133lriley
#130--it's funny with this Don Winslow character.....but anyway I read a couple of his crime thrillers a couple years ago--they're set on the Texas/Mexican border and are well done. It's drug cartel/DEA kind of stuff and informative fiction in a way as it jibes well with like the journalistic work of Charles Bowden for instance.
134margd
A 2009 Supreme Court ruling may require Barrett to recuse herself from 2020 election cases
J. Michael Luttig | Oct. 17, 2020
...Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., an inartful and mischievous 5-to-4 case decided over a decade ago by the (US Supreme Court)...would seem to apply squarely to Barrett’s recusal decision and could well require, or at least counsel, her recusal.
Caperton involved a litigant who spent $3 million to help elect a West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals justice, who then voted to reverse a $50 million damage award against his benefactor. The U.S. Supreme Court found that the judge should have recused himself. Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said that recusal may be constitutionally required even where a judge is not actually biased, if there is a “serious risk of actual bias.”
Based upon its appraisal of the “psychological tendencies and human weakness" of all of us, the majority concluded that the campaign spending had “significantly and disproportionately” influenced the judge’s election while the case was pending or imminent, resulting in a perceived serious risk that the judge was biased in favor of his contributor. “Just as no man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, similar fears of bias can arise when—without the other parties’ consent — a man chooses the judge in his own cause,” the court said...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/17/amy-coney-barrett-recuse-2020...
J. Michael Luttig | Oct. 17, 2020
...Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., an inartful and mischievous 5-to-4 case decided over a decade ago by the (US Supreme Court)...would seem to apply squarely to Barrett’s recusal decision and could well require, or at least counsel, her recusal.
Caperton involved a litigant who spent $3 million to help elect a West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals justice, who then voted to reverse a $50 million damage award against his benefactor. The U.S. Supreme Court found that the judge should have recused himself. Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said that recusal may be constitutionally required even where a judge is not actually biased, if there is a “serious risk of actual bias.”
Based upon its appraisal of the “psychological tendencies and human weakness" of all of us, the majority concluded that the campaign spending had “significantly and disproportionately” influenced the judge’s election while the case was pending or imminent, resulting in a perceived serious risk that the judge was biased in favor of his contributor. “Just as no man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, similar fears of bias can arise when—without the other parties’ consent — a man chooses the judge in his own cause,” the court said...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/17/amy-coney-barrett-recuse-2020...
135lriley
We might also point out Trump's encouragement of right wingers including the confederate minded of them but also all kinds of weekend warriors, proud boy's, klanners, boogalooer's, neo-nazis, angry policemen and teenage Kyle Rittenhouser's--anyone with an automatic weapon and a fantasy life will do. All these militia folk that are supposed to be all out in force locked and loaded at polling stations everywhere on election day. These cretins are certainly not going to be coming out for Biden's benefit. Mr. Carnophile's digging into the past for singular events where Biden is talking to a bunch of aging Southern belles who still are working out which side won the American Civil War notwithstanding Trump has his eye more on disrupting shit in present time.
136Molly3028
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/lara-trump-defends-president-going-after-gov-whitmer...
The problem, dear Lara, is many of the lunatic AK-47 owners here
are looking forward to a much different kind of fun. And, they are
waiting for go-ahead signals from their orange cult leader.
The problem, dear Lara, is many of the lunatic AK-47 owners here
are looking forward to a much different kind of fun. And, they are
waiting for go-ahead signals from their orange cult leader.
137jjwilson61
>134 margd: That same logic should apply to all the justices appointed by Trump in a case where Trump would directly benefit from the outcome.
138Molly3028
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jake-tapper-says-white-house-wouldnt-make-health-exp...
The surge of a once-in-a-century world-wide medical crises is not on the
radar screen of the Trump administration at this crucial point in our history.
But, millions of flawed Americans will vote next month to continue the
Trump reality show for four more seasons, anyway.
The surge of a once-in-a-century world-wide medical crises is not on the
radar screen of the Trump administration at this crucial point in our history.
But, millions of flawed Americans will vote next month to continue the
Trump reality show for four more seasons, anyway.
139margd
>137 jjwilson61: That same logic should apply to all the justices appointed by Trump in a case where Trump would directly benefit from the outcome.
Agreed. Sounds, though, that each Supreme Court justice must make call for his or herself? Chief Justice John Edwards, who seems to care about credibility of the high court would probably exhort them to keep court credibility in mind, i.e., "whether a reasonable person would conclude that her (his) impartiality would be inescapably overborne by the flood of influences brought to bear on her (him)."
(Elena Kagan, who prior to her appointment was Obama's solicitor general, the government's chief advocate for the Supreme Court, initially recused herself from more than 25 cases! ( https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php ))
Agreed. Sounds, though, that each Supreme Court justice must make call for his or herself? Chief Justice John Edwards, who seems to care about credibility of the high court would probably exhort them to keep court credibility in mind, i.e., "whether a reasonable person would conclude that her (his) impartiality would be inescapably overborne by the flood of influences brought to bear on her (him)."
(Elena Kagan, who prior to her appointment was Obama's solicitor general, the government's chief advocate for the Supreme Court, initially recused herself from more than 25 cases! ( https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php ))
140margd
Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing | 5:47 PM · Oct 18, 2020:
Bars and restaurants are suffering.
There is no full recovery for them until we get this #COVID19 pandemic under control.
Best campaign video to date. #BidenHarris2020 #BidenHarris
1:00 ( https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1317945338628575232 )
From Icculus The Brave
Bars and restaurants are suffering.
There is no full recovery for them until we get this #COVID19 pandemic under control.
Best campaign video to date. #BidenHarris2020 #BidenHarris
1:00 ( https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1317945338628575232 )
From Icculus The Brave
141margd
Good to know that Dems are thinking about Nov 3-Jan 20, which could be tough sledding in America in event of Biden win. Ds will probably have money left over, and as Biden's inauguration would likely be a pandemic-sized affair, will likely have savings there. What revenge will Trump exact if rejected by the voters? Rs might be the only ones who could contain him, though they have yet to do so...
Democrats hatch plans to counter Trump's attempts to cast doubt on election results
Pamela Brown, Abby Phillip and Jeremy Herb | October 19, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/19/politics/election-results-2020-democratic-plans-t...
Democrats hatch plans to counter Trump's attempts to cast doubt on election results
Pamela Brown, Abby Phillip and Jeremy Herb | October 19, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/19/politics/election-results-2020-democratic-plans-t...
142lriley
#141--I'm expecting the republicans to lose control of the senate. They should win in Alabama but Kelley has been leading McSally for months and months now, Gardner is well behind Hickenlooper, Gideon looks like she knocks off Collins--it's looking bad for Joni Ernst and Thom Tillis and there are about 5/6 other of their seats that are very competitive like in South Carolina, the two in Georgia, even Alaska and Montana of all places and if they lose the Senate it's going to be harder for Trump to cast doubt on anything and he will be driven out and IMO it's pretty much a done deal that Romney and Murkowski would cross over and impeach him and maybe a few others like Ben Sasse and his criminal liability will rise with it. Would the cold fish McConnell even lift a finger for him? He's dead Donald walking AFAIC.
143margd
>142 lriley: Trump might step aside for Pence in waning days of presidency (and even forgo any 2024 plans), if assured of pardon for at least some of his misdeeds? Rs could help convince him to step aside, for good of country, if they have shred of decency. Pence at least is sane? He would have a few weeks to make his mark in history, maybe position himself for future run, plus earn a fat lifetime pension as former president.
McConnell would propably want something for saving the country--filibuster, protection for his court-packing...
New Senate takes office in Jan 3, new President, Jan 20.
McConnell would propably want something for saving the country--filibuster, protection for his court-packing...
New Senate takes office in Jan 3, new President, Jan 20.
144margd
Professor Calls Out GOP After Fmr Trump Official Blames President for Inspiring Political Violence
Alberto Luperon | Oct 18th, 2020, 6:18 pm
...“The headline here is that not a single Republican member of Congress has declared this to be disqualifying for the office of President, nor has any Executive Branch official resigned in protest,” said Marty Lederman, who served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel during the presidency of Barack Obama. “THE ENTIRE GOP IS FINE WITH PROMOTING TERRORIST ATTACKS ON GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.”
The criticism follows after Elizabeth Neumann, a former Assistant Secretary for Threat Prevention and Security Policy in the Trump administration, blamed the president for inspiring political violence amid an alleged kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and the alleged discussion of a possible plot against Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, both Democrats...
https://lawandcrime.com/politics/professor-calls-out-gop-after-fmr-trump-officia...
Alberto Luperon | Oct 18th, 2020, 6:18 pm
...“The headline here is that not a single Republican member of Congress has declared this to be disqualifying for the office of President, nor has any Executive Branch official resigned in protest,” said Marty Lederman, who served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel during the presidency of Barack Obama. “THE ENTIRE GOP IS FINE WITH PROMOTING TERRORIST ATTACKS ON GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.”
The criticism follows after Elizabeth Neumann, a former Assistant Secretary for Threat Prevention and Security Policy in the Trump administration, blamed the president for inspiring political violence amid an alleged kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and the alleged discussion of a possible plot against Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, both Democrats...
https://lawandcrime.com/politics/professor-calls-out-gop-after-fmr-trump-officia...
145margd
Roshan Rinaldi @Roshan_Rinaldi | 7:50 PM · Oct 17, 2020:
This is real. NOT Photoshop.
A actual billboard outside of Pittsburgh.
It claims that Joe Biden has,... "dimensia".
Image ( https://twitter.com/Roshan_Rinaldi/status/1317614102513127427/photo/1 )
This is real. NOT Photoshop.
A actual billboard outside of Pittsburgh.
It claims that Joe Biden has,... "dimensia".
Image ( https://twitter.com/Roshan_Rinaldi/status/1317614102513127427/photo/1 )
146margd
The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln | 8:30 PM · Oct 18, 2020:
Susan Collins has lost her way.
It’s time to bring her home.
0:30 ( https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1317986319474241537 )
Susan Collins has lost her way.
It’s time to bring her home.
0:30 ( https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1317986319474241537 )
147jjwilson61
>143 margd: I like the impeachment scenario much better than the pardon scenario.
148margd
>147 jjwilson61: Trump has certainly earned impeachment. It's more straightforward than Rs jawboning him out of WH, though Ds appearing to go after opponent/predecessor is regrettably Trumpian. Still, if that's what it takes to protect the American "peeple", including our crazy uncles...
("American peeple"--sure have heard enough of that term his election season...)
("American peeple"--sure have heard enough of that term his election season...)
149margd
MeidasTouch.com @MeidasTouch | 10:33 AM · Oct 19, 2020:
Today is the first day of early voting in Florida. Vote for your life!...
0:30 ( https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1318198711516758016 )
From MeidasTouch.com
Today is the first day of early voting in Florida. Vote for your life!...
0:30 ( https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1318198711516758016 )
From MeidasTouch.com
150lriley
#143--If Biden wins and the Dems have both houses any deals Pence and McConnell might have made in the meantime on the courts or filibuster will be moot. It will be the Dems turn at really governing--which sometimes I'm not sure they really want to do. If Coney Barrett is approved prior to that---the filibuster protection should be killed and the Dems absolutely should pack the court. Keep in mind also that when the republicans threaten quid pro quo if and when they get power back that they've been winning power since 2000 without pluralities--by all kinds of voter suppression tactics and gerrymandering---that they absolutely depend on the electoral college (which should also be shitcanned) for the presidency, that they've been driving away black, brown, red, yellow, lbgtq people and threatening women's gender rights. What is their path back to power if they can't 'fix' things? Answer is they won't have a path. We all know white people are not going to be a majority of the population very much longer. They are a clear minority that have worked the angles for decades. Take away their angles and force them back towards the middle and some sort of reality or let them marginalize themselves further towards self destruction.
151Limelite
43 percent of Americans approve of how Trump is doing. Consider the implications for both parties and the nation.
Stanley Greenberg, a political strategist and polling advisor, writes in The Atlantic about the possible future of American politics. He examines a very real possibility of what might be termed a "cold civil war" if Biden wins in November. In that eventuality the Republican Party may become more extreme.
We have seen Independents, semi-political Democrats, and appalled Republicans, even increasing numbers of once Trump-supporting Evangelicals flocking to the Biden banner. Aside from his double-digit national lead in polling, Biden's chances look good to win when we look at how Trump's approval rating remains historically low for an incumbent with hopes for a second term. Updated today, and adjusted "for each poll's quality, recency, sample size and partisan lean," 538 shows Trump enjoys less than 43% approval (and trending down) vs. 54% disapproval (trending up). He can't and hasn't cracked the 50% approval barrier that incumbents need to crack in order to feel comfortably re-electable.
Fewer and fewer Americans are registered Republicans, the demographic of the country is swinging younger, browner, more diverse, and technically oriented, with a higher percentage of highly educated women than men. Trump has lost the suburban women vote, the older vote, the college educated vote, the younger vote, the Hispanic/LatinX vote, the African American vote, and the Independents. Those losses could be the death knell of the Republican Party that existed prior to his nomination.
What will the remainders of Republicans do should he lose? Consider that the "remainers" are mostly the extremist right element, the agricultural subsidized welfare recipient farmers, and deluded "anti-communisses."
Beyond considering the political cold "civil war" that has been waged under Trump and will probably continue with his remnant enablers, consider the threat a doomed gun-loving, easily manipulated, sub-culture represents to the Common Man.
When cults and cult leaders feel persecuted and vulnerable to defeat of their ideas in -- as Plato calls it -- the marketplace, their behavior swings to increased levels of unpredictability and violence, which usually leads to mass death among the cultists as we saw in religious cults and political same in the last century.
The distinction of Trump's cult and those of the previous 100 years is an overriding sense of vindictiveness and hatred in tat tribe for anyone who opposes their cult beliefs and dares to voice or act on that opposition by demonstrating for respect for AfAm lives or wearing masks during a pandemic, or standing up for science and truth in the face of conspiracy and lies.
Cornered animals display aggressive acting out because of overwhelming fear and confusion. For more than four years, the American population has been attacked by concerted and coordinated Russian-Republican right wing extremist propaganda and agitprop to shocking effectiveness. Their time tested tactics of redefining well defined words to mean the opposite of what they do, of group-think training to elicit a Pavlovian response to dog-whistles, to increased open admission of provocative speech intended to elicit violent acting out by the newly brain-washed, to cultivating a fictitious grievance culture among white males that their woes are due to gains made by minorities and immigrants at their expense, to popularizing fictions about conspiracies against them (they're coming to take your guns), have worked exceedingly well among 40% of -- particularly -- white, poorly educated men who have clung, unchanging, to employment skills rapidly becoming extinct because they are anachronistic to the Digital Information Age. These cultists are now feeling their territory of influence and their leadership being taken away. They are feeling cornered and the potential for aggressive acting out rises as a result.
Be warned -- what you see and hear from the far right extremists is exactly what they are. Believe them when they show you. The DOJ does and has warned Trump that our most serious security threat is domestic terrorism and it isn't coming from the left. It's coming from right wing militias, the anti-Black and anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-female toxic masculinity set who compensate for their "victimhood" by arming themselves with "arsenals of personal protection."
And they're just looking for an excuse to take out their anger on the rest of us. Trump's defeat is their easy trigger point.
Stanley Greenberg, a political strategist and polling advisor, writes in The Atlantic about the possible future of American politics. He examines a very real possibility of what might be termed a "cold civil war" if Biden wins in November. In that eventuality the Republican Party may become more extreme.
We have seen Independents, semi-political Democrats, and appalled Republicans, even increasing numbers of once Trump-supporting Evangelicals flocking to the Biden banner. Aside from his double-digit national lead in polling, Biden's chances look good to win when we look at how Trump's approval rating remains historically low for an incumbent with hopes for a second term. Updated today, and adjusted "for each poll's quality, recency, sample size and partisan lean," 538 shows Trump enjoys less than 43% approval (and trending down) vs. 54% disapproval (trending up). He can't and hasn't cracked the 50% approval barrier that incumbents need to crack in order to feel comfortably re-electable.
Fewer and fewer Americans are registered Republicans, the demographic of the country is swinging younger, browner, more diverse, and technically oriented, with a higher percentage of highly educated women than men. Trump has lost the suburban women vote, the older vote, the college educated vote, the younger vote, the Hispanic/LatinX vote, the African American vote, and the Independents. Those losses could be the death knell of the Republican Party that existed prior to his nomination.
What will the remainders of Republicans do should he lose? Consider that the "remainers" are mostly the extremist right element, the agricultural subsidized welfare recipient farmers, and deluded "anti-communisses."
Beyond considering the political cold "civil war" that has been waged under Trump and will probably continue with his remnant enablers, consider the threat a doomed gun-loving, easily manipulated, sub-culture represents to the Common Man.
When cults and cult leaders feel persecuted and vulnerable to defeat of their ideas in -- as Plato calls it -- the marketplace, their behavior swings to increased levels of unpredictability and violence, which usually leads to mass death among the cultists as we saw in religious cults and political same in the last century.
The distinction of Trump's cult and those of the previous 100 years is an overriding sense of vindictiveness and hatred in tat tribe for anyone who opposes their cult beliefs and dares to voice or act on that opposition by demonstrating for respect for AfAm lives or wearing masks during a pandemic, or standing up for science and truth in the face of conspiracy and lies.
Cornered animals display aggressive acting out because of overwhelming fear and confusion. For more than four years, the American population has been attacked by concerted and coordinated Russian-Republican right wing extremist propaganda and agitprop to shocking effectiveness. Their time tested tactics of redefining well defined words to mean the opposite of what they do, of group-think training to elicit a Pavlovian response to dog-whistles, to increased open admission of provocative speech intended to elicit violent acting out by the newly brain-washed, to cultivating a fictitious grievance culture among white males that their woes are due to gains made by minorities and immigrants at their expense, to popularizing fictions about conspiracies against them (they're coming to take your guns), have worked exceedingly well among 40% of -- particularly -- white, poorly educated men who have clung, unchanging, to employment skills rapidly becoming extinct because they are anachronistic to the Digital Information Age. These cultists are now feeling their territory of influence and their leadership being taken away. They are feeling cornered and the potential for aggressive acting out rises as a result.
Be warned -- what you see and hear from the far right extremists is exactly what they are. Believe them when they show you. The DOJ does and has warned Trump that our most serious security threat is domestic terrorism and it isn't coming from the left. It's coming from right wing militias, the anti-Black and anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-female toxic masculinity set who compensate for their "victimhood" by arming themselves with "arsenals of personal protection."
And they're just looking for an excuse to take out their anger on the rest of us. Trump's defeat is their easy trigger point.
153margd
How to Defend Against a Lame-Duck Trump
Four risks to guard against now
David Frum | October 19, 2020
...Funding the government
The resolution funding the federal government expires December 11...President Trump, nursing a wounded ego, may be in a vengeful mood...The outgoing Senate majority...may feel it has little to lose, and something to gain, by working with Trump to force its will while it can.
A self-pardon crisis
...The IRS has the power to forgive all or part of a taxpayer’s liability. Can a president direct the IRS to forgive his own debt?...
Last call at Mar-a-Lago
...There are about 11 weeks between Election Day and Inauguration Day. Trump could spend every single day of them at Mar-a-Lago, enriching himself at taxpayer expense to the end...
A final round of legal abuses
...dirty...opponents on the way out the door
...transforming the remains of the Republican Party into an ongoing Trump Defense League...empowering the QAnon fantasy to become a power bloc inside the Republican Party...QAnon...reimagine (Trump) as a martyr...or perhaps as a messiah awaiting a second coming. The more Trump can propagate wild claims during his lame-duck presidency, the tighter he can bolt the conservative messaging machine to his cause during his post-presidency...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/how-defend-us-against-lame-duc...
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Trump Will Have $900 Million Loans Coming Due In Second Term If Re-Elected
Emma Rosemurgey | 19 Oct 2020
...the president may have to arrange a number of big money transactions, which could be seen as the biggest conflict of interest a US president has ever faced, Forbes reports.
Around 50% of the debts owed between 2021 to 2024 are related to assets owned by Trump and his children, such as his Miami golf resort, his Washington hotel and Chicago’s Trump Tower.
The other 50% of the loans are owed by 1290 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan and 555 California Street in San Francisco; both of which the 74-year-old owns a 30% limited partnership interest...
...His assets have been valued at roughly $3.66 billion, which means even with these huge sums of money owed, he is still worth around $2.5 billion.
https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/trump-will-have-900-million-loans-coming-due-in-se...
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Trump facing devastating debt load? Experts say not so fast
BERNARD CONDON | September 29, 2020
...Even with a total debt load across his entire business empire estimated at more than $1 billion, they note he still has plenty of assets he could cash in, starting with a portfolio that includes office and condo towers, golf courses and branding deals that have been valued at $2.5 billion...
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-new-york-san-francisco-ar...
Four risks to guard against now
David Frum | October 19, 2020
...Funding the government
The resolution funding the federal government expires December 11...President Trump, nursing a wounded ego, may be in a vengeful mood...The outgoing Senate majority...may feel it has little to lose, and something to gain, by working with Trump to force its will while it can.
A self-pardon crisis
...The IRS has the power to forgive all or part of a taxpayer’s liability. Can a president direct the IRS to forgive his own debt?...
Last call at Mar-a-Lago
...There are about 11 weeks between Election Day and Inauguration Day. Trump could spend every single day of them at Mar-a-Lago, enriching himself at taxpayer expense to the end...
A final round of legal abuses
...dirty...opponents on the way out the door
...transforming the remains of the Republican Party into an ongoing Trump Defense League...empowering the QAnon fantasy to become a power bloc inside the Republican Party...QAnon...reimagine (Trump) as a martyr...or perhaps as a messiah awaiting a second coming. The more Trump can propagate wild claims during his lame-duck presidency, the tighter he can bolt the conservative messaging machine to his cause during his post-presidency...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/how-defend-us-against-lame-duc...
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Trump Will Have $900 Million Loans Coming Due In Second Term If Re-Elected
Emma Rosemurgey | 19 Oct 2020
...the president may have to arrange a number of big money transactions, which could be seen as the biggest conflict of interest a US president has ever faced, Forbes reports.
Around 50% of the debts owed between 2021 to 2024 are related to assets owned by Trump and his children, such as his Miami golf resort, his Washington hotel and Chicago’s Trump Tower.
The other 50% of the loans are owed by 1290 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan and 555 California Street in San Francisco; both of which the 74-year-old owns a 30% limited partnership interest...
...His assets have been valued at roughly $3.66 billion, which means even with these huge sums of money owed, he is still worth around $2.5 billion.
https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/trump-will-have-900-million-loans-coming-due-in-se...
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Trump facing devastating debt load? Experts say not so fast
BERNARD CONDON | September 29, 2020
...Even with a total debt load across his entire business empire estimated at more than $1 billion, they note he still has plenty of assets he could cash in, starting with a portfolio that includes office and condo towers, golf courses and branding deals that have been valued at $2.5 billion...
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-new-york-san-francisco-ar...
154margd
How Trump plowed through $1 billion, losing cash advantage
BRIAN SLODYSKO and ZEKE MILLER | 10/20/2020
...Trump bought a $10 million Super Bowl ad when he didn’t yet have a challenger. He tapped his political organization to cover exorbitant legal fees related to his impeachment. Aides made flashy displays of their newfound wealth — including a fleet of luxury vehicles purchased by Brad Parscale, his former campaign manager.
Meanwhile, a web of limited liability companies hid more than $310 million in spending from disclosure...
Now, just two weeks out from the election, some campaign aides privately acknowledge they are facing difficult spending decisions at a time when Democratic nominee Joe Biden has flooded the airwaves with advertising. That has put Trump in the position of needing to do more of his signature rallies as a substitute during the coronavirus pandemic while relying on an unproven theory that he can turn out supporters who are infrequent voters at historic levels.
“They spent their money on unnecessary overhead, lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-famous activity by the campaign staff and vanity ads way too early. You could literally have 10 monkeys with flamethrowers go after the money, and they wouldn’t have burned through it as stupidly,” said Mike Murphy, a veteran Republican consultant who advised John McCain and Jeb Bush and is an outspoken Trump critic...
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-joe-biden-donald-trump-i...
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The story omits to mention the hundreds of thousands of dollars of income maintenance to Trump children, spouses, girlfriends.
Campaign funds were used to bulk-buy copies of Don Jr.'s book to propel it onto bestseller lists. Why?
- David Frum @davidfrum | 7:54 AM · Oct 20, 2020
BRIAN SLODYSKO and ZEKE MILLER | 10/20/2020
...Trump bought a $10 million Super Bowl ad when he didn’t yet have a challenger. He tapped his political organization to cover exorbitant legal fees related to his impeachment. Aides made flashy displays of their newfound wealth — including a fleet of luxury vehicles purchased by Brad Parscale, his former campaign manager.
Meanwhile, a web of limited liability companies hid more than $310 million in spending from disclosure...
Now, just two weeks out from the election, some campaign aides privately acknowledge they are facing difficult spending decisions at a time when Democratic nominee Joe Biden has flooded the airwaves with advertising. That has put Trump in the position of needing to do more of his signature rallies as a substitute during the coronavirus pandemic while relying on an unproven theory that he can turn out supporters who are infrequent voters at historic levels.
“They spent their money on unnecessary overhead, lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-famous activity by the campaign staff and vanity ads way too early. You could literally have 10 monkeys with flamethrowers go after the money, and they wouldn’t have burned through it as stupidly,” said Mike Murphy, a veteran Republican consultant who advised John McCain and Jeb Bush and is an outspoken Trump critic...
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-joe-biden-donald-trump-i...
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The story omits to mention the hundreds of thousands of dollars of income maintenance to Trump children, spouses, girlfriends.
Campaign funds were used to bulk-buy copies of Don Jr.'s book to propel it onto bestseller lists. Why?
- David Frum @davidfrum | 7:54 AM · Oct 20, 2020
155Cubby.R.S.
>146 margd:
The Lincoln Project... Trustworthy, no, but typical of all Progressive sources.
President Donald J. Trump’s campaign has described the Lincoln Project as “a transparent way for political bottom feeders to make easy money.” A group of strategists claiming to be disillusioned Republicans purportedly formed the political action committee to prevent their nemesis from winning a second term, a goal shared by the many Democratic donors bankrolling their efforts. But recent campaign disclosures indicate a substantial portion of those donations have been spent on questionable operating expenditures, sparking accusations that the PAC’s leaders are “grifters” running a “scam” designed to enrich themselves....
Rob Pyers, Research Director for the nonpartisan California Target Book, examined the Lincoln Project’s financial filings from the three-month period covering July through September. The records showed it had raised more than $39 million during that quarter. However, Pyers found that nearly $23.9 million of that total had been channeled to independent expenditures, “mostly routed” to consulting firms owned by two of the PAC’s co-founders, Reed Galen and Ron Steslow.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-democratic-donors-who-helped-enrich-the-...
The Lincoln Project... Trustworthy, no, but typical of all Progressive sources.
President Donald J. Trump’s campaign has described the Lincoln Project as “a transparent way for political bottom feeders to make easy money.” A group of strategists claiming to be disillusioned Republicans purportedly formed the political action committee to prevent their nemesis from winning a second term, a goal shared by the many Democratic donors bankrolling their efforts. But recent campaign disclosures indicate a substantial portion of those donations have been spent on questionable operating expenditures, sparking accusations that the PAC’s leaders are “grifters” running a “scam” designed to enrich themselves....
Rob Pyers, Research Director for the nonpartisan California Target Book, examined the Lincoln Project’s financial filings from the three-month period covering July through September. The records showed it had raised more than $39 million during that quarter. However, Pyers found that nearly $23.9 million of that total had been channeled to independent expenditures, “mostly routed” to consulting firms owned by two of the PAC’s co-founders, Reed Galen and Ron Steslow.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-democratic-donors-who-helped-enrich-the-...
156lriley
#155--if you read #154 that's a message to you and other true believers to empty your savings and checking accounts and break open your piggy banks because your fearless leader needs all the help he can get. Are you all in? Pretty soon it will be too late. Time's a wastin'.
157margd
>155 Cubby.R.S.: You have to admit that Lincoln Project produces high quality videos on an almost daily basis. (Money well spent, methinks!) Upside to Rs frowning on the Project is that hopefully they won't be hiring them in 2022 /2024 to focus their honed skills on Ds! ;-)
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The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln | 3:10 PM · Oct 19, 2020:
There's mourning in Ohio.
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The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln | 3:10 PM · Oct 19, 2020:
There's mourning in Ohio.
1:00 ( https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1318268177059545091 )
158Cubby.R.S.
>156 lriley:
While I have donated to political campaigns for the first time in my life, I do think that the bigger dichotomy is; you think it's okay that the Democrats wasted our taxpayer dollars with an impeachment campaign that was knowingly false. Not only did the Democrats know it was false, but in their uproar of trying to cover all of their scandal and corruption, have filled the nation with rage and hate.
Take for example the behavior of those on this board that are constantly attacked. Do they present themselves in a fantastic manner? I am ashamed at times by the way I respond. Despite knowing that this board is filled with lies and stories from the left, that are not only fabricated on minute threads of truth and propped up by hate, I have no reason to express my frustration aside of discussion. But, it is very difficult knowing that something is being ignored and blocked, just because someone has been conditioned to do so. That is what Trump goes through. The Democrats and the Media are covering up some pretty dark things, and if they ram through all of their plans, you will regret ignoring the other side. But as a censorship lover, no doubt, you must not realize that the Democrats have no use for you after I am executed. Bless your heart.
While I have donated to political campaigns for the first time in my life, I do think that the bigger dichotomy is; you think it's okay that the Democrats wasted our taxpayer dollars with an impeachment campaign that was knowingly false. Not only did the Democrats know it was false, but in their uproar of trying to cover all of their scandal and corruption, have filled the nation with rage and hate.
Take for example the behavior of those on this board that are constantly attacked. Do they present themselves in a fantastic manner? I am ashamed at times by the way I respond. Despite knowing that this board is filled with lies and stories from the left, that are not only fabricated on minute threads of truth and propped up by hate, I have no reason to express my frustration aside of discussion. But, it is very difficult knowing that something is being ignored and blocked, just because someone has been conditioned to do so. That is what Trump goes through. The Democrats and the Media are covering up some pretty dark things, and if they ram through all of their plans, you will regret ignoring the other side. But as a censorship lover, no doubt, you must not realize that the Democrats have no use for you after I am executed. Bless your heart.
159margd
Trump’s case against Omarosa exposes another problem: Unpaid legal bills
ANITA KUMAR | 10/20/2020
...the campaign has thus far stiffed the arbitrator assigned to mediate the case ($52,000), according to a letter sent to the parties in the case. If Trump’s attorneys don’t pay the outstanding bill by next week, the case could be tossed out.
The dispute over (Omarosa) Manigault Newman’s book is far from the only legal thread left dangling for the Trump campaign.
...The campaign is helping fight accusations Trump harassed and sexually assaulted women. It’s helping keep documents about his business deals hidden. Other cases are proactive, such as attempts to enforce nondisclosure agreements and to punish media companies the campaign accuses of defamation. And it is responding to lawsuits from people who say they were assaulted at Trump events, including one from a Missouri man who claimed he was arrested after laughing at a MAGA rally.
Taken together, the cases reflect the legal morass the Trump campaign will face, win or lose, after Nov. 3...
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/20/trumps-case-omarosa-problem-unpaid-lega...
ANITA KUMAR | 10/20/2020
...the campaign has thus far stiffed the arbitrator assigned to mediate the case ($52,000), according to a letter sent to the parties in the case. If Trump’s attorneys don’t pay the outstanding bill by next week, the case could be tossed out.
The dispute over (Omarosa) Manigault Newman’s book is far from the only legal thread left dangling for the Trump campaign.
...The campaign is helping fight accusations Trump harassed and sexually assaulted women. It’s helping keep documents about his business deals hidden. Other cases are proactive, such as attempts to enforce nondisclosure agreements and to punish media companies the campaign accuses of defamation. And it is responding to lawsuits from people who say they were assaulted at Trump events, including one from a Missouri man who claimed he was arrested after laughing at a MAGA rally.
Taken together, the cases reflect the legal morass the Trump campaign will face, win or lose, after Nov. 3...
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/20/trumps-case-omarosa-problem-unpaid-lega...
160Molly3028
Fate can be a b*tch!
Rush Limbaugh appears to be sitting in God's waiting room at the present
time. And, he rightly reached this life-ending point during the Trump era.
RL is the guy who started the country off on the march to this dismal era
about thirty years ago.
Vote for unifiers up and down the ballot on November 3.
Rush Limbaugh appears to be sitting in God's waiting room at the present
time. And, he rightly reached this life-ending point during the Trump era.
RL is the guy who started the country off on the march to this dismal era
about thirty years ago.
Vote for unifiers up and down the ballot on November 3.
161margd
For our R friends:
0:19 ( https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1318440158132203520 )
From Don Winslow
Don Winslow @donwinslow | 2:33 AM · Oct 20, 2020
EXPLOSIVE NEWS!!
0:13 ( https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1318439513388060672 )
From Don Winslow
Don Winslow @donwinslow | 2:30 AM · Oct 20, 2020
0:19 ( https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1318440158132203520 )
From Don Winslow
Don Winslow @donwinslow | 2:33 AM · Oct 20, 2020
EXPLOSIVE NEWS!!
0:13 ( https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1318439513388060672 )
From Don Winslow
Don Winslow @donwinslow | 2:30 AM · Oct 20, 2020
162Limelite
Will Rant for Food
Don-Boy's unpaid legal bills from his litigious gut reactions are going unpaid? Why? Because the people he's sued are refusing to pay the judgments against them. Guess who taught them that! These folks who told the truth, damn the non-disclosure agreement, aren't going to fold up and dig into their pockets to pay Trump a cent. After all, Trump is the King of Debt and hasn't paid a lot more debtors than his lawyers. And the owers have learned a lot from Professor Trump, Dean of Trump University School of Shystering.
There's unpaid city governments who were stiffed for security costs; there's caterers and event planners in lines out the West Wing, presenting rubber checks have his signature on them; there's campaign workers who took pay cuts months ago to stay in harness to re-elect him that are facing food insecurity; and there are all those unpaid taxes and loans to Russian and Ukrainian thugs that loom in his future, whether in or out of the White House.
Trump has to hone a new scam in double-quick time, or he'll be in orange-wear-daily so fast his empty head will snap on his wattle.
Then there's Ivanka's corruption charges that will have to be defended. Jared will be too busy scraping the bottom of every barrel in his backyard to stave off his own iron bar holiday to foot the bill for Daddy's little girl's future fines and legal costs.
As far as the two elder male heirs, Trump has mentally already written them off. And Rudy? Well, all he can reasonably expect as repayment for his misplaced fealty is a hearty BWAHAHAHA!
When a campaign admits to needing a measly $52,000 payment from Omarosa (for the crime of writing a book) in order to stay afloat and ahead of the debt collector coming for the office furniture, that's an admission they're circling the drain. Here's to smaller and smaller Trump government and its happy voyage from bathtub to drain to sewer and onward to the swamp.
Don-Boy's unpaid legal bills from his litigious gut reactions are going unpaid? Why? Because the people he's sued are refusing to pay the judgments against them. Guess who taught them that! These folks who told the truth, damn the non-disclosure agreement, aren't going to fold up and dig into their pockets to pay Trump a cent. After all, Trump is the King of Debt and hasn't paid a lot more debtors than his lawyers. And the owers have learned a lot from Professor Trump, Dean of Trump University School of Shystering.
There's unpaid city governments who were stiffed for security costs; there's caterers and event planners in lines out the West Wing, presenting rubber checks have his signature on them; there's campaign workers who took pay cuts months ago to stay in harness to re-elect him that are facing food insecurity; and there are all those unpaid taxes and loans to Russian and Ukrainian thugs that loom in his future, whether in or out of the White House.
Trump has to hone a new scam in double-quick time, or he'll be in orange-wear-daily so fast his empty head will snap on his wattle.
Then there's Ivanka's corruption charges that will have to be defended. Jared will be too busy scraping the bottom of every barrel in his backyard to stave off his own iron bar holiday to foot the bill for Daddy's little girl's future fines and legal costs.
As far as the two elder male heirs, Trump has mentally already written them off. And Rudy? Well, all he can reasonably expect as repayment for his misplaced fealty is a hearty BWAHAHAHA!
When a campaign admits to needing a measly $52,000 payment from Omarosa (for the crime of writing a book) in order to stay afloat and ahead of the debt collector coming for the office furniture, that's an admission they're circling the drain. Here's to smaller and smaller Trump government and its happy voyage from bathtub to drain to sewer and onward to the swamp.
163lriley
#158--you obviously haven't donated enough. Trump needs more--put your house up for sale--sell your vehicle(s).
If you're feeling ashamed of your own responses---then don't respond in ways that make you feel ashamed.
If you're feeling ashamed of your own responses---then don't respond in ways that make you feel ashamed.
164Cubby.R.S.
>163 lriley:
I rent. I would sell my car to not have Biden and Harris get the opportunity to hide the Government corruption that will be exposed. I'd probably give away my car for that to happen. 10,000 dollars isn't going to help though.
An interesting topic button from this election, thought it was more interesting coming from a much more racist nation --
From a black British Parliament member in the great racist nation Great Britain:
What we are against is the teaching of contested political ideas as if they are accepted fact. We don’t do this with communism; we don’t so this with socialism; we don’t so it with capitalism. And I want to speak about a dangerous trend in race relations that has come far too close to home to my life, and it’s the promotion of critical race theory, an ideology that sees my blackness as victimhood and their whiteness as oppression.
I want to be absolutely clear: This government stands unequivocally against critical race theory. Some schools have decided to openly support the anti-capitalist Black Lives Matter group, often fully aware that they have a statutory duty to be politically impartial.
Black lives do matter; of course they do. But we know that the Black Lives Matter Movement, capital “BLM,” is political. I know this because at the height of the protest, I’ve been told of white Black Lives Matter protesters calling— and I’m afraid, I apologize for saying this word — calling a black armed police officer guarding Downing Street a “pet n*****.”
That is why we do not endorse that movement on this side of the House. It is a political movement, and what would be nice would be for members on the opposite side to condemn many of the actions that we see this political movement, instead of pretending that it is a completely wholesome anti-racist organization. There is a lot of pernicious stuff that is being pushed and we stand against that.
We do not want to see teachers teaching their white pupils about white privilege and inherited racial guilt. And let me be clear: Any school which teaches these elements of critical race theory as fact or which promotes partisan political views such as defunding the police without offering a balanced treatment of opposing views is breaking the law.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-black-british-member-of-parliament-blisters...
I rent. I would sell my car to not have Biden and Harris get the opportunity to hide the Government corruption that will be exposed. I'd probably give away my car for that to happen. 10,000 dollars isn't going to help though.
An interesting topic button from this election, thought it was more interesting coming from a much more racist nation --
From a black British Parliament member in the great racist nation Great Britain:
What we are against is the teaching of contested political ideas as if they are accepted fact. We don’t do this with communism; we don’t so this with socialism; we don’t so it with capitalism. And I want to speak about a dangerous trend in race relations that has come far too close to home to my life, and it’s the promotion of critical race theory, an ideology that sees my blackness as victimhood and their whiteness as oppression.
I want to be absolutely clear: This government stands unequivocally against critical race theory. Some schools have decided to openly support the anti-capitalist Black Lives Matter group, often fully aware that they have a statutory duty to be politically impartial.
Black lives do matter; of course they do. But we know that the Black Lives Matter Movement, capital “BLM,” is political. I know this because at the height of the protest, I’ve been told of white Black Lives Matter protesters calling— and I’m afraid, I apologize for saying this word — calling a black armed police officer guarding Downing Street a “pet n*****.”
That is why we do not endorse that movement on this side of the House. It is a political movement, and what would be nice would be for members on the opposite side to condemn many of the actions that we see this political movement, instead of pretending that it is a completely wholesome anti-racist organization. There is a lot of pernicious stuff that is being pushed and we stand against that.
We do not want to see teachers teaching their white pupils about white privilege and inherited racial guilt. And let me be clear: Any school which teaches these elements of critical race theory as fact or which promotes partisan political views such as defunding the police without offering a balanced treatment of opposing views is breaking the law.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-black-british-member-of-parliament-blisters...
This topic was continued by 2020: November election and beyond... (XIII).
