Since Garland seems to have no guts, even with an open/shut case over the document theft, we should all thank the resolute Fani Willis in Georgia. And Trumpski the Putin traitor won't be able to pardon himself for that conviction.
As to the Republican "victory" in the House, it's a 3 vote margin, Quiverin' Qevin isn't going to get 218 from the reprobates in the back seat of the clown car who are busy throwing their feces out the windows at passers-by. If they have a Speaker by March it will be amazing. Remember, your IQ has to be lower than ambient room temperature to be one of these clucks.
And for two years we get to point at the monkey show and remind voters "this is why you can't have nice things." And while that's going on - as several observers have noted - the Inflation Reduction Act will be kicking in starting in January, so voters will be seeing in their bank accounts the benefits of lower prescription drug costs and such, while the president, vice president and rest of the cabinet fly around the country to ribbon-cutting ceremonies on the start of all kinds of projects bringing union-wage jobs all over the country, not to mention the factories being constructed as a result of the Chips Act.
As Al Franken noted, let them spend two years showing the country what they are.
Too bad we can't strip Murdoch of his US citizenship and send him back to Australia, maybe the airplane taking him there could go "missing" in a storm mid-Pacific. (A boy can dream)
Just a reminder that the word "corporation" does not appear anywhere in the Constitution, yet the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are individual persons entitled to Constitutional rights.
In addition to ensuring that the press not be fooled by a false narrative about polling shifts in 2024, we need to begin now identifying the vulnerable Republican Members of the next Congress and illuminating their votes and actions so they are less attractive to their constituencies. Who, among the returning Members of Congress, for instance, voted against the protection of same sex marriage and interracial marriage? Let's inform their constituents.
We have so much to celebrate in this election cycle. Congratulations also to Karen Bass, who is now Mayor of Los Angeles, after she beat fake Democrat Rick Caruso who outspent her 11 to 1. She is the first woman and second Black Angeleno elected to lead the city in its 241-year history. This is proof that those who vote have the power over tremendous sums of money that are trying to subvert our democracy.
The mid term election solidified several truism's for me. We can’t trust the polls and pollsters if Republicans can successfully flood the zone and infiltrate the polling models. Rich prominent Republican donors abandoning Trump in favor of DeSantis are just picking the same breed of horse with a different name they can control. Between a Republican majority in the House and the noise from the crazies like Majorie Taylor Greene and Jim Jordan to the ridiculous lies and comments from candidate Trump the Democratic Party has to have a strategic plan beginning in January on how to combat and defeat these attacks. I find it interesting that on the same day of Trump’s unhinged campaign announcement President Biden was calmly leading a fact based assessment of what happened in the Poland incident and without jumping to conclusions ( which the media did) found the truth and facts while working together with the NATO countries and demonstrating real leadership. This is what a President is suppose to do. The comparison is stark between these two men and voters have to see and acknowledge these differences. We all need to remind voters of these differences or they will be lost in the noise. .
The thing that we know cost us enough seats to make a difference in the house is the combination of red states that simply ignored court orders and used illegal maps (Ohio and I think FL), and the 3 states where a court order to draw an additional seat that could be won by Black voters (AL, LA and GA) was stayed by SCOTUS via the shadow docket. Robert or other lawyers, please correct any terminology I have gotten wrong here.
I have a couple of questions that perhaps someone here can answer. I donated more $ this election cycle than I ever have before. I donated all of it via Act Blue, & much of it went to Tim Ryan & Val Demings. Since the election I've heard & read that the national Democratic Party didn't support either Ryan or Demings monetarily because they thought their campaigns were not winnable.
My questions are
1) If the Democratic Party didn't think Ryan & Demings could win, why did they send me emails every
day telling me that both candidates were almost tied with Vance & Rubio & "Please send more $"?
2) Was there a better place to send my $ than Act Blue?
Speaking of non- existent mea culpas/apologies/serious introspection, its not just pollsters who blew it and are completely ignoring their actions, but of course main stream media as well. Please- we need action - write letters to the editors, unsubscribe. We need them to hear us.
I wonder about something related to the erroneous coverage of the red wave that wasn’t- how do we know it cost us House seats, maybe a Senate seat? Possibly it spurred more Democrats to vote? Is there a convincing way to know?
For sure Elon Musk cost votes with his day before election tweet to vote Republican. Down with Twitter! Can’t come fast enough.
We need to be careful with the deception that all we have to do is defeat Trumpism now that we've "defeated" Trump. No, it goes much, much deeper than that! DJT has always been just a symptom of what is wrong with America. DJT is being thrown away because he is no longer the useful idiot for the greedy and arrogant. The greed and arrogance of the over-privileged is still very much with us and has hold of the GOP and beyond. Some would say it started with Newt Gingrich in the 1990's. We must go back much further to the failure of the Reconstruction after the Civil War to treat people as full citizens with all the rights of the Constitution. We can go back to the flaws in the Constitution itself that created compromise in support of slavery in order to have the southern states join the Union. We can go back to the feudalism of the Middle Ages. We can go back to the rise of patriarchy many millenia ago. We have made a lot of progress in the past two hundred years to eliminate slavery, recognize women as full citizens as two major examples. However, we still have a long way to go. When we finally measure ourselves not by how many toys we die with but by something closer to the Native American philosophy that wealth is measured by one's generosity to others, we will begin to realize the maturity of the human race. We have a lot of work to do. We must get money out of politics. Get the money out of the free press/media. We must get the arrogance of the narcissistic theocrats off of the Supreme Court. We must educate each other on ethics and values and the fundamental tenets our country, the first country to be formed based on an ideal that all people are created equal. We must measure ourselves on the Well Being of all. Martin Luther had a dream. I have a dream. I believe Generation Z has a dream and gives me hope. Let's all make this dream a reality -- NOW. We, the People, all of us this time in a mature civilization of Well Being for all.
Brilliant. 'an assist' from the DOJ. I remember my young son playing hockey, and my dad saying to me, tell him to just go up the middle. My dad watched hockey (with me on Sat nights) since I was a kid so I knew this was good advice.
My kid did this, scored a goal, and I remember thinking, it pays to watch the game!
Robert - thank you again for highlighting anything that pulls DeSantis’ covers. He is creepier than the former president in that he can speak in complete sentences. We need to listen closely to his complete sentences and look closely at the policies he and his cronies have codified in Florida. If this is the vision he has for our country he must be exposed for who he really is.
What are your thoughts about Mike Pense? His failure to condemn the attempts to overthrow the election of Jan. 6. I think he is a coward and is hiding behind a christian defense not speaking evil of the former president. But, he has failed to speak out when called upon.
Lord, I could cry reading tonight’s post. “Belly flop of epic proportions,” makes my heart sing. And the skewering of Rupert Murdoch is so long overdue that it might seem anti-Climatic, but it’s needed like our next breath. He did indeed create the monster, which the MSM gladly portrayed as Dorian Gray. Now that his path to be the power behind the throne has changed, Will our MSM follow him blindly as they have for years in order to rake in the dough? As you warn, the purchasing of the presidency is in full swing, just as Roberts and republican evil have planned. Voters have been hamstrung, just as money has sprouted wings. So Dems, good start, but don’t sit on your laurels, get off your arses and tell people what is at stake. Describe what “losing democracy” looks like to the average Joe. Abstract flies right over many heads, it needs to tweak their emotion since logic can’t be counted on to penetrate skulls. Republicans know this
Since Garland seems to have no guts, even with an open/shut case over the document theft, we should all thank the resolute Fani Willis in Georgia. And Trumpski the Putin traitor won't be able to pardon himself for that conviction.
As to the Republican "victory" in the House, it's a 3 vote margin, Quiverin' Qevin isn't going to get 218 from the reprobates in the back seat of the clown car who are busy throwing their feces out the windows at passers-by. If they have a Speaker by March it will be amazing. Remember, your IQ has to be lower than ambient room temperature to be one of these clucks.
And for two years we get to point at the monkey show and remind voters "this is why you can't have nice things." And while that's going on - as several observers have noted - the Inflation Reduction Act will be kicking in starting in January, so voters will be seeing in their bank accounts the benefits of lower prescription drug costs and such, while the president, vice president and rest of the cabinet fly around the country to ribbon-cutting ceremonies on the start of all kinds of projects bringing union-wage jobs all over the country, not to mention the factories being constructed as a result of the Chips Act.
As Al Franken noted, let them spend two years showing the country what they are.
Too bad we can't strip Murdoch of his US citizenship and send him back to Australia, maybe the airplane taking him there could go "missing" in a storm mid-Pacific. (A boy can dream)
Just a reminder that the word "corporation" does not appear anywhere in the Constitution, yet the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are individual persons entitled to Constitutional rights.
In addition to ensuring that the press not be fooled by a false narrative about polling shifts in 2024, we need to begin now identifying the vulnerable Republican Members of the next Congress and illuminating their votes and actions so they are less attractive to their constituencies. Who, among the returning Members of Congress, for instance, voted against the protection of same sex marriage and interracial marriage? Let's inform their constituents.
We have so much to celebrate in this election cycle. Congratulations also to Karen Bass, who is now Mayor of Los Angeles, after she beat fake Democrat Rick Caruso who outspent her 11 to 1. She is the first woman and second Black Angeleno elected to lead the city in its 241-year history. This is proof that those who vote have the power over tremendous sums of money that are trying to subvert our democracy.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-16/2022-california-election-bass-wins-los-angeles-mayor-caruso
The mid term election solidified several truism's for me. We can’t trust the polls and pollsters if Republicans can successfully flood the zone and infiltrate the polling models. Rich prominent Republican donors abandoning Trump in favor of DeSantis are just picking the same breed of horse with a different name they can control. Between a Republican majority in the House and the noise from the crazies like Majorie Taylor Greene and Jim Jordan to the ridiculous lies and comments from candidate Trump the Democratic Party has to have a strategic plan beginning in January on how to combat and defeat these attacks. I find it interesting that on the same day of Trump’s unhinged campaign announcement President Biden was calmly leading a fact based assessment of what happened in the Poland incident and without jumping to conclusions ( which the media did) found the truth and facts while working together with the NATO countries and demonstrating real leadership. This is what a President is suppose to do. The comparison is stark between these two men and voters have to see and acknowledge these differences. We all need to remind voters of these differences or they will be lost in the noise. .
The thing that we know cost us enough seats to make a difference in the house is the combination of red states that simply ignored court orders and used illegal maps (Ohio and I think FL), and the 3 states where a court order to draw an additional seat that could be won by Black voters (AL, LA and GA) was stayed by SCOTUS via the shadow docket. Robert or other lawyers, please correct any terminology I have gotten wrong here.
Just speaking for myself, but I am not giving up on Garland yet. He has been criticized and doubted before but he has, so far, always come through.
I have a couple of questions that perhaps someone here can answer. I donated more $ this election cycle than I ever have before. I donated all of it via Act Blue, & much of it went to Tim Ryan & Val Demings. Since the election I've heard & read that the national Democratic Party didn't support either Ryan or Demings monetarily because they thought their campaigns were not winnable.
My questions are
1) If the Democratic Party didn't think Ryan & Demings could win, why did they send me emails every
day telling me that both candidates were almost tied with Vance & Rubio & "Please send more $"?
2) Was there a better place to send my $ than Act Blue?
The venality of the mega donors is inevitable: End Citizens United!
Speaking of non- existent mea culpas/apologies/serious introspection, its not just pollsters who blew it and are completely ignoring their actions, but of course main stream media as well. Please- we need action - write letters to the editors, unsubscribe. We need them to hear us.
I wonder about something related to the erroneous coverage of the red wave that wasn’t- how do we know it cost us House seats, maybe a Senate seat? Possibly it spurred more Democrats to vote? Is there a convincing way to know?
For sure Elon Musk cost votes with his day before election tweet to vote Republican. Down with Twitter! Can’t come fast enough.
We need to be careful with the deception that all we have to do is defeat Trumpism now that we've "defeated" Trump. No, it goes much, much deeper than that! DJT has always been just a symptom of what is wrong with America. DJT is being thrown away because he is no longer the useful idiot for the greedy and arrogant. The greed and arrogance of the over-privileged is still very much with us and has hold of the GOP and beyond. Some would say it started with Newt Gingrich in the 1990's. We must go back much further to the failure of the Reconstruction after the Civil War to treat people as full citizens with all the rights of the Constitution. We can go back to the flaws in the Constitution itself that created compromise in support of slavery in order to have the southern states join the Union. We can go back to the feudalism of the Middle Ages. We can go back to the rise of patriarchy many millenia ago. We have made a lot of progress in the past two hundred years to eliminate slavery, recognize women as full citizens as two major examples. However, we still have a long way to go. When we finally measure ourselves not by how many toys we die with but by something closer to the Native American philosophy that wealth is measured by one's generosity to others, we will begin to realize the maturity of the human race. We have a lot of work to do. We must get money out of politics. Get the money out of the free press/media. We must get the arrogance of the narcissistic theocrats off of the Supreme Court. We must educate each other on ethics and values and the fundamental tenets our country, the first country to be formed based on an ideal that all people are created equal. We must measure ourselves on the Well Being of all. Martin Luther had a dream. I have a dream. I believe Generation Z has a dream and gives me hope. Let's all make this dream a reality -- NOW. We, the People, all of us this time in a mature civilization of Well Being for all.
Brilliant. 'an assist' from the DOJ. I remember my young son playing hockey, and my dad saying to me, tell him to just go up the middle. My dad watched hockey (with me on Sat nights) since I was a kid so I knew this was good advice.
My kid did this, scored a goal, and I remember thinking, it pays to watch the game!
Robert - thank you again for highlighting anything that pulls DeSantis’ covers. He is creepier than the former president in that he can speak in complete sentences. We need to listen closely to his complete sentences and look closely at the policies he and his cronies have codified in Florida. If this is the vision he has for our country he must be exposed for who he really is.
What are your thoughts about Mike Pense? His failure to condemn the attempts to overthrow the election of Jan. 6. I think he is a coward and is hiding behind a christian defense not speaking evil of the former president. But, he has failed to speak out when called upon.
Garland it has already been TOO LONG. You have the evidence without concern to indict Trump. H is atrocities CANNOT be igno
Lord, I could cry reading tonight’s post. “Belly flop of epic proportions,” makes my heart sing. And the skewering of Rupert Murdoch is so long overdue that it might seem anti-Climatic, but it’s needed like our next breath. He did indeed create the monster, which the MSM gladly portrayed as Dorian Gray. Now that his path to be the power behind the throne has changed, Will our MSM follow him blindly as they have for years in order to rake in the dough? As you warn, the purchasing of the presidency is in full swing, just as Roberts and republican evil have planned. Voters have been hamstrung, just as money has sprouted wings. So Dems, good start, but don’t sit on your laurels, get off your arses and tell people what is at stake. Describe what “losing democracy” looks like to the average Joe. Abstract flies right over many heads, it needs to tweak their emotion since logic can’t be counted on to penetrate skulls. Republicans know this