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I love this. ❤️
By: Laura Federico
Tags: Trump Administration, Trumpism, Election 2020, Trump, 2020 Presidential Race

Why wouldn't he? Because he's a massive coward with a lot to lose, because he can only punch down and the forces that will stop him are more powerful than he is, because he's a whiny little bitch who can make more money with the "stolen election" con than he has on any other scam.
Here at Christmas and the New Year, I am going to celebrate our return to sanity AND the inclusion of a population that has left out
By: Left Wisdom
Tags: Biden, Christmas, Indegenous, Hope, 2020 Presidential Race

Here at Christmas and the New Year, I am going to celebrate our return to sanity AND the inclusion of a population that has left out Left Wisdom Dec 23, 2020·3 min read

A lot of people are saying Merry Christmas right now. I am going to say it in a way that means more than just a celebration of a commercial or even religious holiday. I am going to say Merry Christmas by expressing my joy that there are signs that we may be coming out of what I continue a dark night of the soul that we have been in the middle of for the last four years.

In two days' time, we will be celebrating, as individuals of a particular religious tradition, the birth of our hope for peace and goodwill to all persons. Others have been known to celebrate this same period of time as a sign of recovery from the depth of darkness of winter. I feel it is time that we look again to the future with home after the pain and angst many of us have suffered for the last four years watching bigotry given full voice in this nation that we take such pride in.

That is why I take this opportunity to give my thoughts on the nominee that Joe Biden, our President-Elect has decided to nominate for Secretary of the Dept of the Interior. This nomination is a piece of good news for more than one reason. Ms. Deb Haaland represents a first. She is the first Indigenous American to ever be elected to Congress in 2018. She is a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe and was elected as a Democrat in New Mexico. This signals Biden’s commitment to making his cabinet look like America as a nation with representation from the rank and file, including the different ethnic demographics that actually make up this diverse tapestry of a nation.

The second reason that we need to celebrate this nomination is that it is also a sign that we are moving, at least a bit, away from the attitude that we have been cursed with for the last four years, and rape and pillaging of the land. Ms. Deb Haaland is likely as the first Indigenous American Cabinet member to bring a sensitivity about resource conservation beck to the Federal government.

What would be the best New Years' gift that I can think of is that this nomination is confirmed, and our nation moves into the future with a more inclusive and environmental attitude that we have suffered for the last few years. Bringing another minority that has long been either ignored or abused to a place at the table can only be a good thing. And Christians celebrating the Christ of hope should have comfort in the hope presented by this change in direction.

Despite the hatred that is being spewed at the current time, let’s try to look to the future that will soon be with us with at least some measure of hope.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, and let’s move into 2021 with hope and the joy that comes with hope.
In my not so humble opinion, the right in this country has lost their ever-loving minds
By: Left Wisdom
Tags: Biden, Politics, Slander, Right Wing, 2020 Presidential Race

Ok, now I have said before that I am happy as I can be that Biden has won this election. I have also said that I don’t think, for one minute, he is the man that would make the BIG changes that I want in this country. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that he will be 100 times better than the monstrous bragging con-man presently sitting in the White House. I would have preferred Bernie or Elizabeth. Now, THEY would have worked toward more serious changes in how this country operates. More especially, they would have fought to allow the common citizen to have some dignity back instead of giving billions in bail-outs to corporations and the fat cats.

But we have what we have…ie Biden. But there are right-wingers screaming that Biden is a communist. Really?? I suppose Obama was also, as far as they are concerned. Once again, if I was disappointed in Obama at all, it was around the changes that he didn’t do. He didn’t close Gitmo, and he seemed to fold some times and allow the Republicans to have their way about wars in the Middle East. He did, however, try to be the President for everybody, regardless of skin color, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, or who one loved. I expect and hope Biden will be a President in Obama’s shoes.

Biden is about as close to being a statesman as anybody that we currently have in the political arena. He has been known to work with both sides of the aisle and, like Obama, has already shown to work with both going forward. Sadly, the Republican leadership was obstinate and refused to work with Obama. Maybe, just maybe, they will follow Biden’s example and work for the country instead of their ill-conceived, and often racist ideological positions. But time will tell.

The link below will take you to my previous post, and the stupidity that anonymous served up in response. That anyone can look at the middle of the road Biden and yell “communist” is absolutely insane.

And yes, I am still, ever since the announcement was finalized over a month again, rejoicing that Biden beat the con-man. Notice my response if you read it. trump is the one that had a “love affair’ with Kim Jong-Un, and actually, in public, indicated that he believed Putin over our intelligence community.

Funny, now that he lost, he is anxious to claim rigging by foreign powers. As usual, he will say anything, even hint at violent resistance, to get his own. Not only am I glad Biden won, but I am also counting the minutes till trump horrible reign is over, and our lives are safer — in addition to not being embarrassed and horrified every day about the gibberish coming out of his mouth/Twitter fingers.

http://www.blogster.com/scenefromtheleft/hurrah-the-supreme-court-ruled-to-go-with-the-american-people-and-save-our-democratic-republichurraha
Top 10 Shit No One Believed in 2020
By: Ann Sterzinger
Tags: 2020 Presidential Race, 2020

Somebody won the election Normal exists Sure, I’ll be alive in ten years, what could go wrong? The Internet is good for you We can just walk away from the Internet, what could go wrong? We can stop the virus It was an accident It will be OK

9. Our young people can handle it

10. The people in charge care about us
Trump has enablers on both sides of aisle.
By: Marc Gordon
Tags: Trump Administration, 2020 Presidential Race, Trump, Politics

Trump has enablers on both sides of aisle. Let me be blunt, not a single elected official did anything aside from using a few choice words to basically distance themselves from him. Nobody was willing to risk their career in order to defend the constitution. Not one.

Unfortunately we now know how vulnerable we are as a nation. Once the Republicans figure out the general lessons learned, we can count on a replay.
You’re trying really hard to make a distinction that doesn’t hold up.
By: Caleb Mars
Tags: US Politics, Hillary Clinton, 2016 Election, Voter Fraud, 2020 Presidential Race

You’re trying really hard to make a distinction that doesn’t hold up. You are trying to walk back and whitewash the extent of Democrat and Mainstream Media attacks on the legitimacy of Trump’s election. You’re also somehow making the sin of false charges of Russian collusion in the election of 2016 morally equivalent to pursuing cases in court charging election fraud. There’s nothing wrong with taking cases to court. What is worse: declaring your party the Resistance or saying late ballots with smudged signatures should not have been counted?Hillary herself said the election was stolen and so did Democrat leaning media.

https://youtu.be/77i_pC3lp04

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2016/12/16/the-2016-election-was-stolen-got-a-nicer-way-to-say-that/

Her campaign supported senseless recounts. Democrats spawned the Faithless Electors campaign. You are putting a lie to history to say Democrats did not own that idea, even if some made the point it was a bad idea and unlikely to succeed. Democrats held a rally in December 2016 screaming “Not My President” and “Impeach" . Did you forget that?

https://youtu.be/UqZdpUbd0VY

It is clear Trump has failed to get the courts to accept his charges of fraud and to overturn the election results. That doesn’t prove the election was fair. It’s perhaps subtle, but the logic of statistics hypothesis testing does not support the “you can’t prove it was rigged: ergo it was fair" logic.

https://caleb-mars.medium.com/a-statistical-framework-for-evaluating-the-fair-election-hypothesis-8d9f5908f1ad

With a system as insecure as ours has become in some critical states, evidence of fraud is hard to come by even if it occurred. It’s too easy to cheat and too hard to get caught. Millions of live ballots were sent out to dead voters. Can you prove none of those ballots were cast?

I think more investigation is needed. Can’t we match death certificates with voting records and establish how many dead voters there were? That’s a start. Beyond a more thorough investigation of potential fraud, we should establish national standards and reform the system to make it more timely, secure, and transparently fair.

https://caleb-mars.medium.com/dont-ever-let-this-happen-again-we-need-national-voting-standards-before-the-next-election-ea521502072c

Meanwhile the big distinction you are trying to make just isn’t there. The Democrats were the ones who started attacking the legitimacy of a Presidential election. Why would you think some on the other side wouldn’t pick up that same thought?
What was trending in 2020?
By: Akshay Akky
Tags: 2020trend, 2020 Presidential Race, 2020

The worst year is coming to end. In 2020, we lost many essential persons. We don’t blame anyone but this year is bullshit. Many people agree with me, but before we say goodbye this year, we share some valuable information with you.

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It is mind-boggling to me that conservatives can look at all the ways they are attempting to…
By: Matthew Spira
Tags: Trump, 2020 Presidential Race, Current Events, Politics

It is mind-boggling to me that conservatives can look at all the ways they are attempting to subvert democracy and think THEY are being the patriots. They’re trying to game the system.

Oddly enough, I think Trump recognizes that with his claims he “won by a landslide.”

No, he didn’t.

But at least that’s not the same thing as I “bullied just enough States to give their Electors to me.” Because nothing would spell “democracy” like losing an election by 7m+ votes and still “winning.”
We Got Him Out. Now Let’s Keep Him Out.
By: Alisha Saxena
Tags: Politics, DNC, Donald Trump, 2020 Presidential Race, Joe Biden

President Trump has officially lost the 2020 Presidential Election- but that doesn’t mean he won’t try again. The work is not done, and our fight against apathy, privilege, inequity, and inequality must continue. Let’s break it down.

Photo by History in HD on Unsplash

Going into this election, I had little to no faith that President-Elect Biden was going to be victorious. For one, President Trump had the powerful incumbency advantage, which has allowed American presidents to keep their victory two-thirds of the time. Even more concerning was the rampant voter suppression in key states like Georgia, Biden’s reliance on white suburban female voters, the traditionally low youth voter turnout, and the discontent many Democrats, including myself, had with Biden’s platform. But I forgot that trends matter little when dealing with a president so turbulent as Donald Trump. While there was great surprise and a resounding sense of relief for Biden defeating Trump in this election, we must take precautions to ensure that President Trump will stay a one-term president and to ensure that we keep doing the work outside of elections to enact the reforms we wish to see. We voted him out- now let’s talk about how to KEEP him out.
Electoral College Voted (Biden/Harris Won)
By: William J Spirdione
Tags: Biden, Sonnet, Electoral College, Poetry, 2020 Presidential Race

A Sonnet

photo by William J Spirdione

First Monday after the second Wednesday,

In December, once in every four years,

The Electoral College forms this day.

The final presidential vote occurs.

The only thing left is counting the vote.

Apportioned to the states, the final say.

Five hundred thirty-eight electors note,

How they cast ballots, this Election Day.

Putting aside federalism, versus,

Who won the popular vote, argument.

Rules are the rules. In what universe is,

Joe Biden, not the future president?

Time for national moment of silence.

Stop these credible threats of violence.
More Than Just Fake News: Propaganda and Political Campaign Advertising
By: Cecelia Isaac
Tags: Advertising, Propaganda, Mapping, 2020 Presidential Race, Kamala Harris

Messaging is critical to getting your candidacy to stick in the minds of the voters. In the race for the highest position in America, who can begrudge the presidential hopefuls a little prevaricating?

Just like we’ve come to expect the white lie or two, we’ve also come to expect maps in our election analysis. Curious where presidential candidates were choosing to spin which yarn, I decided to map the locations Facebook ads aired.**

Screenshot of a Kamala Harris Facebook ad

In order to clearly convey the message of each ad, I classed ad language as one of seven propaganda types. Ads were assigned a secondary subtype only if they very strongly displayed more than one central message.

Propaganda Types

Transfer: Virtue by association (Used to connect to positive symbols)

Testimonial: Endorsements (Highlighting the good while often encouraging viewers not to look too closely)

Glittering Generalities: Virtue words (Use most often for policy statements: “I’m going to fight for our children’s future.”)

Just Plain Folks: Projecting an image of being down to earth. (I thought this would be the most common, but so far it has not been.)

Bandwagon: Join the crowd (I tagged requests for donations as Bandwagon, and so this has been the most common.)

Name Calling: Attaching to negative symbols (sometimes literal name calling: “The only thing Trump knows about the criminal justice system is the ‘criminal’ part.”)

Card Stacking: Half-truths (Used either to tear down the competition or build up the candidate. Kamala Harris ran a lot of ads claiming a “new poll” put her ahead of Trump. Since the ads did not specify details about the poll, I labeled them as Card Stacking, rather than Testimonial.)

Now let’s take a look at the candidates.

Andrew Yang
What we do about the fact that a third of the country genuinely believes this election was stolen?
By: Matthew Spira
Tags: Elections, 2020 Presidential Race, Current Events, Politics

A question was asked on Twitter about what we do about the fact that at least a third of the country genuinely believes this election was stolen. My answer was there is a certain percentage of the GOP who does, in fact, know better. And this does include most of the GOP establishment. So why are they going along with it? Because their political survival literally depends on it. Trump has turned the GOP into a loyalty test to himself. You cross Trump, even minimally, and he comes after you as a traitor. That can be seen this week with his attacks on the GA and AZ governors and in Friday’s chants of “Destroy the GOP!” at the Stop the Steal! Protests in Washington.

What this means is the GOP is now wholly Trump’s. They won’t dare cross Trump because they can’t. Not if they want to continue forward in Republican politics. The political calculation clearly is it is better to stick with Trump no matter what. And at this precise moment, they might not be wrong about that.

However, the thing is, the Republican Party has become the champion of those on the wrong side of every major demographic trend in America. By that I mean, they are on average whiter, older, more rural, sicker, and less educated than Democrats. By any measure of population replacement, the Democratic Party is becoming stronger, and the GOP will either have to use every voter suppression trick in the book to hang onto rough parity, or they will fundamentally have to change from being the party of Trumpian rage and (rural) white existential angst. So when we circle back to the original question — what do we do about the fact that so many of them genuinely believe the election was stolen ?— the answer is we help them towards their demographic inevitability.

We attack the GOP infrastructure. We “fix it” by contesting every election in every State from dog catcher on up. We hyper-focus on voter registration, voter turn-out, and issues engagement (especially in marginalized communities). In-the-trenches work is unglamorous but necessary if we want to reduce the political power at stake behind these deeply cynical calculations they are making.

There is any number of incredibly low turnout elections for key roles at every level of government. One of the things the GOP did years ago was to pay attention to these races consciously. And it’s reaped dividends for them. The Democratic Party, in turn, needs to focus on the same nuts and bolts of democracy. Let’s build a groundswell.

There’s much more to be said about demographic dynamics and the implications for the distribution of political power, but that’s going to have to be another post. I want to finish on this point: we are all Americans at the end of the day. As an American who has spent a hell of a lot of time outside the U.S. and who appreciates how our diversity IS our strength… that cannot distract from how the more we obsess about our differences, the less we appreciate what is truly special about being American.
As expected, SCOTUS rejected the Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate the results of Georgia…
By: Matthew Spira
Tags: Politics, Trump, SCOTUS, Current Events, 2020 Presidential Race

As expected, SCOTUS rejected the Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate the results of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and my State Wisconsin. This was obviously a foregone conclusion, but the fact that 18 States Attorney Generals and 126 House Republicans were willing to sign their names to the suit remains deeply troubling. Especially when you consider the House signatories included 17 from GA, MI, PA, and WI. Funny how none of these Representatives claiming mass fraud (which would necessarily have been on the same paper ballots as their own races) called for their own elections to be invalidated. Weird, right?

Why has the GOP followed Trump down the rabbit hole?

The NY Times editorial from Friday asks what happens if the GOP can’t bring themselves to acknowledge Biden’s victory: “If they can’t bring themselves to do that, where does a party that rejects democracy go from here?”

I’ve been reading a lot of analysis about why exactly Republican leaders, who should know better are doing this. I haven’t quite settled on what strikes me as the most comprehensive answer. It’s not — it can’t be — because they actually believe in Trump. It does speak to how thoroughly the GOP has become the party of populist resentment and existential angst. Quite simply, the political calculation for them is it is better for them to support Trump at all costs. But the truth is Trump corrupts and corrupts absolutely everything he touches.

The GOP doesn’t come back from Trump. As Lindsey Graham correctly noted, back when he had a spine, Trump is/was the destruction of the party. Even as a liberal, that’s a terrible portend for the country.
A Christmas Gift for You. Now, it’s simple! Christmas is here and…
Tags: Christmas, Christmas Gifts, Christianity, 2020 Presidential Race, 2021

Now, it’s simple! Christmas is here and one of the most reflective parts of Christmas is the theme of Christmas everywhere you go. The Christmas tree in your popular coffee shop, the Christmas decorations in your favorite restaurant, the logos of different companies wearing a Santa hat, and a whole lot more. Now despite the shortcomings, losses, or mishaps in the year, one thing you should be grateful for is that you are still here to even read this article. So why not celebrate the life that you have, because life is for living and celebration is for those alive, know this: it can only get better!

So here’s a special Christmas theme to set the mood right for Christmas.

A Christmas Gift for You

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Merry Christmas!

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The logic here is mind-bogglingly cynical: “Rather than claiming evidence of proven fraud, it…
By: Matthew Spira
Tags: America, Current Events, Politic, Texas Lawsuit, 2020 Presidential Race

The logic here is mind-bogglingly cynical: “Rather than claiming evidence of proven fraud, it instead claims that the fraud is actually “undetectable,” because election officials made it so by doing illegal things. And that’s why it wants the results overturned.”

So, because they can’t *prove* fraud means there must have been fraud.



It’s difficult to believe the serious intent here is for SCOTUS to rule in favor of the plaintiffs. To do so would be to open a Pandora’s Box of State v. State actions that SCOTUS really doesn’t want to get into the middle of. (Hello, California, suing Texas for its lax environmental regulations polluting California’s air!) So, it seems like the fundamental strategy if to give cover for State legislatures to set aside their elections. However, State legislators would have to be crazy to do so.



If such an attempt is made here in Wisconsin I will make it my mission to make sure every legislator who votes for it is recalled from office or voted out of office (even if I have to back the craziest QAnon supporter to primary them) and to form class-action lawsuits to sue them personally.
I don’t think there is a chance in hell that SCOTUS accepts Texas’s lawsuit, but if they somehow…
By: Matthew Spira
Tags: Politics, America, Current Events, Texas, 2020 Presidential Race

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Don’t Argue but Don’t Stop Thinking
By: Dr. Howard Asher
Tags: Politics, Psychology, Election 2020, Government, 2020 Presidential Race

Don't Argue but Don't Stop Thinking [Video] - Dr. Howard Asher

The fate of our republic depends on individuals - you - to come together in big enough numbers to make legitimate votes…
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Tags: Law, 2020 Presidential Race, Trump

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As a Wisconsin resident, this lawsuit by Texas AG Paxton (who is under criminal investigation…
By: Matthew Spira
Tags: Politics, America, Current Events, Texas, 2020 Presidential Race

As a Wisconsin resident, this lawsuit by Texas AG Paxton (who is under criminal investigation himself, after being turned in by his own staff) and joined by 17 other Republican Attorney Generals around the country is an ABSOLUTE INSULT. One of the seriously galling things about this bullshit lawsuit by Texas, claiming among other things “different treatment of voters in heavily Democratic areas” is in our primary in the Spring, thanks to the GOP, there were *four* voting precincts open in Milwaukee. *Four* of the usual 189. There was “different treatment,” but to the intended DETRIMENT of Democratic voters. And now some other State, with a long history of African American voter suppression, is going to turn around and sue us? I am 100% confident our election was better run with less issues than theirs.

Fuck them. And fuck all those other craven AGs joining in. Lickspittles, all of them.
Just in case you were wondering just how off-their-rockers fucking nuts these people actually are.
By: Andrew Bauer
Tags: Progressive, Trump Cult, 2020 Presidential Race, Politics

Just in case you were wondering just how off-their-rockers fucking nuts these people actually are. Cult 45 isn't gone yet, folks.

"We condemn violence in every form", this lying-ass fool says, while their official Twitter account retweets someone saying he's willing to die to overturn Trump's loss in Arizona, and then says, "He is. Are you?" But they condemn violence. Apparently, they saw condemn and condone, and thought they were the same fucking word because they both began with 'c'.

And I don't want to hear people spouting #NotAllRepublicans at me. I don't want to hear how you SAY you don't support this rhetoric, while you continually support the party full of insane asylum escapees that spout it. I want to hear you, full-throated, unambiguously, leave-no-doubt, shouting at the top of your lungs that this is FUCKING WRONG.

I want to hear you call THIS un-American, like you did a black man in the White House, or a candidate from Vermont because he had the "audacity" to offer you free health care, a living wage, and an education you could affofd.

I want to see you stand up and wave signs in opposition to this, like you do when you're protesting black people calling for an end to police violence against them.

I want you to denounce these crazy fucknuts and scream at them to go back under the dank, dark rocks they crawled out from under, like you scream at every non-white person to "go back where you came from!"

In other words, put your money where your mouth is, or shut the fuck up. Because until you put the same passion into shaming these blatantly unpatriotic, un-American, raving fucking lunatics that you do into every single WRONG thing you've raved about the last five years, I don't want to hear the bullshit lip service you're giving shit like this. EVER.

Your words mean nothing if they're not backed by actions. And I will continue to lump Trump cultist nuts together as long as they allow this unpatriotic, insane bullshit to go on in their presence, unchecked. You don’t like it? I don't care.

If you're not standing up and speaking out in complete opposition to this, and putting your precious white privilege on the line to do what's right--and you damn well KNOW this ain't right--then you're with THEM. It doesn't matter that you're not standing on a street corner spouting this like the worst ones. If you remain silent in the face of injustice and illegal acts, THEN YOU CONDONE THEM.

"Silence gives assent", folks--it's as simple as that. There is no neutrality in this fight...no middle ground...no fence to sit on. You're either on THIS side, or you're on THAT side--PERIOD. So decide which side you want to be on...or if you continue to remain silent, we'll do it for you. Your choice.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arizona-republican-party-twitter-election-results-death-overturn/
Is this the end of the line of Donald Trump election rigged story
By: Craig Robson
Tags: Donald Trump, Covid 19, 2020 Presidential Race

So many people have been amazed by just how far trump will try to stay in power. For most of us, this is not at all surprising because the signs were there all the time. Trump is power hungry and will do anything to stay in power. He is the Hitler of the 21st century. The unfortunate part is the GOP does not do much to help him out. All they seem to do ( this is from a personal point of view) is to encourage him. This down hill spiral will not at all get him far.

We have even observed him ignoring covid 19 regualtions as to ecourage his support base to do the same. Needless to say with the supreme court refusing to allow the trump lawyers any more legal leverage it seems like it is the end of the line for Donald Trump.

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The Donald Went Down to Georgia
By: Robert Mcmanus
Tags: Crime, Humor, Poetry, Voting, 2020 Presidential Race

The Donald went down to Georgia. He was lookin’ for a vote to steal.

He was way behind and running outta time. He was lookin’ to make a deal.

He bent Brian’s ear on the phone, tried get him to throw a bone.

But, no help was to be found there. “I bet you didn’t know it

But I won this election fair and square. Got tons more votes than Joe,

You know he’s old and slow, so I suspect he had some help, your voters

Know it too. My peeps tell me there were irregularities.

So, I want you to call your pols, they’re red as can be,

They’ll declare me with alacrity the true winner at the polls

The guvner said, “My name’s Brian and I’d be lyin’ if I purged

The lists of names. I can’t do that! The law says ‘No!’

So, you’d best lay low while you run yer show!

Go pack yer things, you lost this race, and there’s not a snowball’s chance for you!”
Sleepy Joe’s American Dream
By: Aamir Syed
Tags: Donald Trump, Covid 19, Joe Biden, Climate Change, 2020 Presidential Race

Is sleepy Joe’s idea of America nothing but a dream?

The 2020 presidential election was humorous to say the least. A never-ending comedy of errors, duly punctuated with a host of laughable litigations of voter fraud that left non-Americans laughing from afar whilst counting their blessings. After the live debate had taken place many were left more confused and pessimistic of the future that lay ahead. Sleepy Joe is in most people’s view a better prospect for the U.S and the free world.

Sleepy Joe is ambitious with his plans for America. The first of his obstacles in office will be to save the country from a worsening Covid-19 pandemic. With plans to increase testing, his decision making will be somewhat easier in this area as it is in the interest of the Republicans and the Democrats to see the end of the pandemic.

Mitch McConnell is a bigger obstacle for Biden. McConnell the U.S Senate leader, a Republican — will be hesitant to act on any of Biden’s plans. Obama went through a similar fiasco.

What else is in store for Mr. Biden?

Climate change, racism & the economic recovery in short. A short yet a challenging list.

Biden hasn’t been shy with international affairs and has already been poking his finger across the pond at Trumps doppelgänger Boris. Biden has long opposed Brexit and his Irish roots will keep him interested in the on-going Brexit talks with the EU.

Its a pivotal moment for the U.S, much is to be overcome and achieved. With all that is going on in the U.S at the moment - I’d rather a sleepy joe than a moody, unpredictable and self-centred Trump.
They’re all jumping on this bandwagon while they act like cowards and admit that Biden one.
By: Adam E. Badenhorst
Tags: 2020 Presidential Race, US Politics, USA, Politics

They’re all jumping on this bandwagon while they act like cowards and admit that Biden one. Ernst and Gaetz are both ones that jumped quickly on this bandwagon. I think it’s ridiculous.
Sunday Morning Thanksgiving……DACA
By: Left Wisdom
Tags: Biden, Politics, Justice, DACA, 2020 Presidential Race

Picture from the NPR article linked

Those of you that have been reading my posts are aware that just two days ago, I wrote a blog telling what I wanted from a Biden presidency. There was a list of six items that I said I expected to be done, hoped would be done as quickly as possible, under the Biden Administration. I wrote that blog on Dec 4th.

Obviously, there has yet to be a change in administration. That won’t take place until Jan 20th of next. But the good news is that one of the six things has already been solved by the courts. On or just before the day I wrote that blog, Judge Nicholas Garufis of the US District Court in Brooklyn handed down a ruling that the DACA program has to go back to exactly what it was under President Obama.

This decision means two things. First, those persons who are already in the DACA program are safe from deportation as long as they still qualify. In addition, the program has to review and accept up to 300,000 new candidates into the problem. Remember, these people are the ones that the current administration has refused to process.

This is just one of the moves in the right direction that I was hoping and praying that the Biden administration would quickly rectify, but it is an important key need. These kids were brought to this country by no decision of their own, their parents made that decision. However, each and every one of the DREAMERS has, since being here, done what all citizens do, in terms of education. Often they have opened businesses or become doctors and lawyers. They have done well. To work toward a path to citizenship is the RIGHT thing to do, and the DACA program is that first step. Congress needs to define the path and roll it out. But at least the first step is in place.

Fortunately, trump is too busy “figuring out all his legal options” to say it nicely. Heck, that is not what I really think and we all know that. What trump is really doing is trying to steal the election by bit by bit having all the people who poured out in mass to save our country from a government that was moving toward a dictatorship, and not a benign one at that, and voted. We voted to save our country from trump…..from his abuse of everything we hold dear. That “being too busy” will likely mean that his focus will be put on trying to ignore and/or fight the actual election results rather than fighting against the DACA ruling in any kind of organized way.

So, let's breathe a sigh of relief about DACA and start pushing Congress to work on the rest of the path to citizenship so that these young deserving people can be legally a part of our great (hopefully again now with trump gone) Nation. And of course, there is a lot more to work on. trump has done a LOT of damage.

The second link mentioned is to the prior blog from two days ago which is directly under this one on my timeline. No need to go to another site. (grin)
Hard lessons for Democrats from 2020
By: Michael Harris
Tags: Politics And Elections, Democratic Party, 2020 Presidential Race

2020 was essentially a max turnout election. We hit all of our numbers. But we were matched, blow for blow, by energized republican voters. There is VERY little evidence of partisan defections or cross-over. We won some, we lost some. But the data shows some dark clouds ahead. Clouds that challenge our conventional wisdom. Clouds that we ignore at our peril.

So… what do we do now?

Albert Einstein was asked what he would do if he had an hour to solve world hunger. He replied by saying “I’d spend 55 minutes defining the problem and five minutes defining the solution.” Focusing on the understanding the problem(s), really understanding them, is one of the best ways to get past our own biases and motivated reasoning. Consider what follows to be the first five minutes of the 55 we need.

One: There are more Republicans than Democrats in Arizona.

While this may seem obvious on the surface, it seems like we are prone to forgetting it. With negative partisanship so strong, people rarely defect from their chosen party these days. Rather than split their ticket, they’re more likely to just undervote in races they don’t care much about or where there isn’t a same-party candidate to vote for. Math is — well — unforgiving.

Two: Democratic policies outperformed Democratic candidates.

Ballot initiatives in Arizona and around the country did significantly better than the people we had running for office. Almost universally. Moderate, progressive, DSA, well- or poorly-funded, incumbent or newcomer — none of these factors broke out. I’m not the only one to notice. This is what is classically called “a brand problem.” We’re Facebook. In short, “it’s not you; it’s me.” If the policies we run on don’t make us at least as popular as when the policies are run without us, that’s a lousy position to be in.

Three: 2020 didn’t look all that much different than 2016 at a precinct level.

Pundits talked a lot about the suburbs, and about suburban women in particular. Despite all of our hard work and tons of progress organizing and mobilizing, the precinct-by-precinct heat map looked very similar to four years ago. Dems hit the gas, and so did the GOP. It was like a drag race of two well-matched cars. Despite the top-line numbers being much larger than 2016 or 2018, the margins at the finish line were similar, along both geographic and demographic lines. What we are doing isn’t changing the calculus.

To put it simply: we didn’t flip the partisan voter ratio, we we weren’t able to persuade or entice bipartisan support based on our policies, and we weren’t able to change the demographic or geographic chemistry of Arizona’s partisan political landscape.

Back to Mr. Einstein.

Albert also said, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.” If I may be so bold, I’ll add that doubling down on the same thing also gets you to the same result, just twice as sweaty. We really need to understand these problems, soup to nuts, before we start jumping to the same canned solutions.
Joe Biden’s swearing-in is far from guaranteed
By: Oleg Dulin
Tags: Fascism, 2020 Presidential Race, Trump, Biden 2020

We need to start taking Trump both seriously and literally.

Every day Trump loses a bunch of election-related lawsuits. A rational and moral person would accept reality and move on. Trump, however, doubles down.

Every day he piles on more and more absurd lawsuits and makes even more ridiculous claims.

This past week, his surrogates made it clear that this is far from over. Today he will be in Georgia. Indubitably, he will escalate the rhetoric. Anyone who thinks the sedition and treason will stop after Dec 8th, or Dec 14th, or even after Jan 6th, should prepare for a big surprise.

I see only two possible outcomes. Neither of which leaves me optimistic for the future of America.

Best case: divided and ungovernable country, spiraling the drain of societal decline

Trump’s lawsuits and nonsense are frivolous. As Rick Hasen points out, viewed with the grift lense, they are a loss leader:

Yet, every day the number of Republicans who think the election was illegitimate is proliferating. Those few that contradict the conspiracy are ostracized and discredited. That includes the attorney general Bill Barr. Ninety percent of House republicans won’t acknowledge Biden’s victory:

Meanwhile, characters like Mike Flynn are calling for a military coup. I doubt it will happen, but the risk of political violence and domestic terrorism by Trump supporters is genuine.

Assuming Biden is inaugurated, he will inherit a country divided beyond noticeable repair. One can only hope that the next four years give us enough time to undo the damage.

Worst case: constitutional crisis leading to the collapse of American constitutional order

I am not a constitutional lawyer. I don’t play one on TV or in court. All I can say is that given the number of Republicans who won’t acknowledge Biden’s victory, assuming that the nonsense stops after electoral college votes is naive.

When Lara Trump, Mike Pompeo, or Ron Johnson, or any of the top republicans say that we are looking at Trump’s second term in 2021, we should take them literally and seriously. These are not stupid people. They are plotting a coup.

You think I am being alarmist?
Trump’s talking 2024, but he’s behind in my presidential power rankings.
By: Eric Sentell
Tags: Politics, 2024 Elections, Trump, Republican Party, 2020 Presidential Race

Trump’s talking 2024, but he’s behind in my presidential power rankings. I knew as soon as the election was called that Trump would float running again. He’s simply too addicted to attention to not keep everyone thinking about him. For fun, I wrote a way-too-early power rankings of the presidential candidates. He’s got some ground to make up, and you might be surprised — or agree or disagree — with who’s ahead and who’s behind.
Great article Kylie!
By: Abigail Jessup
Tags: Biden 2020, 2020 Presidential Race, Politics

The Judicial Fallout of the Trump Administration

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After reading many of your writing that was a bit more radical than most people.
By: Stephen Wolper
Tags: 2016 Election, Trump Thugs, 2020 Presidential Race

After reading many of your writing that was a bit more radical than most people. But this story about Obama seems to be playing directly to the Trumpers who love to hate Obama. We don’t need any more of that. Don’t give them any talking points because you’re just extending their illusions.
Preemptive pardoning
By: Political Cartoons P. Roka
Tags: Biden, Trump Administration, Trump, Elections, 2020 Presidential Race

Contributing political cartoonist for the Dayton Daily News. Previously drew for the Oklahoma Gazette and the Edmond Sun.
2020 Presidential election: Things I learned from exit polls
Tags: Biden, Polls And Surveys, Trump, USA, 2020 Presidential Race

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Fox News Can’t Help Itself: Zombie Lies Are Part of its DNA
By: Lon Shapiro
Tags: Zombie Lies, Politics, Trump, News, 2020 Presidential Race

A headline is worth a million words, because most people don’t read the articles.

Look at this screenshot of my news search.

internet search screenshot

Look at Fox (my emphasis in bold italics): “DOJ yet to find widespread voter fraud…”

Once again, those motherfuckers are gaslighting anyone who comes in contact with their toxic news reporting. Are you going to believe you own ears or what the president wants you to believe?

“The absence of evidence does not mean the evidence is absent” ranks up there with “the ends justify the means” when it comes to destroying our democracy.

Bush-Cheney war criminal Donald Rumsfeld told us “the absence of evidence does not mean the evidence is absen.” He used this false logic to convince all the sheep to believe Iraq had WMDs, despite having zero evidence (see below).

The presumption of innocence is the basis for our legal system, but the Bush-Cheney crime family turned that foundational principle on its head to support an illegal, immoral war against Iraq.

Rumsfeld’s statement ranks up there with “the ends justify the means” when it comes to destroying our democracy.

When will Fox News lose their broadcasting license for refusing to put a bullet in the head of all their zombie lies?

FOOTNOTE RANT:

The lies about WMDs in Iraq still makes me furious because it led to more U.S. deaths than 9/11, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi casualties, and a new generation of soldiers who came home permanently maimed either physically or mentally. All this at a cost of $2.4 trillion for the war and future care of our wounded veterans.

From 1991–1998, U.N. inspectors found no evidence of WMDs in Iraq. The CIA intelligence report during those years said that the U.S. had destroyed all weapons, manufacturing capabilities, and the resources needed.

In 2004, Bush-appointed weapons inspector David Kay testified before the Senate that there were no WMDs, and that the evidence pointed to the fact that nothing had changed since the 1991 destruction of Iraq’s WMD development program.

How was it possible for an alternative reality to be constructed by Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld in the year following 9/11?

Those lies were believed by two-thirds of the American people by the time the U.S. invaded Iraq in early 2003.

And there are still millions of conservatives who hold on to those lies long after Bush admitted he was wrong and there were no WMDs in Iraq.

That is the power of the zombie lie.