I can’t imagine what’s “murky” about asking (then begging, then threatening) someone in a position of authority to change the results of an election without evidence that there were voting irregularities and that the count is therefore incorrect.
Having said that, I too doubt it will be prosecuted, given that there are so many more straightforward ways to go after Trump criminally.
When I came across the statement at the left, I mentioned to its author that the majority of American share liberal values.
As shown here, the majority, in many cases the vast majority, have distinctly liberal viewpoints on topics as wide-ranging as the economy, inequality, money in politics, taxes, the minimum wage, workers’ rights, healthcare, education, climate change and the environment, gun safety, criminal justice, immigration, abortion and women’s health, and same-sex marriage.
We “American communists that (sic) wish to partake in the destruction of western (sic) civilization” actually represent approximately three-quarters of the U.S. population.
Here’s a Trump supporter who actually makes an excellent point. The only reason we have Biden is because we had Trump, and 81 million people made him disappear.
Speaking strictly for myself, I wouldn’t have voted for Biden in a million years if it weren’t required to remove a sociopath from the White House.
It’s enemies’ (with an apostrophe after the s), but outside of that, this guy makes an excellent point.
Champagne corks are popping in the palaces of every authoritarian head of state on Earth, celebrating the fact that the world’s most powerful democracy is being put asunder by 120 Republican representatives backed by 74 million people who are desperate to overturn the 2020 presidential election, using nothing more than conjecture and innuendo.
The Democrats have to be favored in Georgia here, because:
• They just won the presidential election, albeit narrowly.
• These Republican candidates are truly loathsome people, though perhaps not to the level of Trump. (more…)
To my
shame, I had never really twigged on this until people started talking about it over the past few days.
All this is so asinine, so embarrassing to our nation, so clearly criminal.
Why can’t it be over?
In an hour-long phone call, Trump alternatively begged and threatened Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find him 11,780 votes,” the number needed to overturn the state’s election results, according to those who listened to a tape recording of the conversation.
Why can’t this be the end? Fixing election results is a felony, and exhorting another person to commit a felony is also a felony. What type of person, charged with the Constitutionally-imposed duty of removing a president who’s clearly criminally insane, refuses to perform according to his responsibilities?
From this:
The outgoing Trump administration’s refusal to coordinate the handover of the Pentagon with the incoming Biden team, as well as the last-minute stacking of civilian positions with fringe national-security figures, comes at a fraught time for US national security. (more…)
As Greta Thunberg celebrates her 18th birthday, let’s take a quick look at her detractors as well as her fans. Right-wing media outlets like Fox News cannot ignore her and the impact she’s made, because it’s too massive. So, they are forced to disapprove. But on what grounds?
I asked my Fox-loving mother this question the last time I saw her, and she explained: Fox looks at Greta as a spoiled and petulant little girl who has no expertise in climate science and should simply shut up and go back to high school. (more…)
At left we see why it’s hard to think of a figure in history more worthy of our admiration than Marcus Aurelius.
The things we regret in life are not misfortunes, but our own failures to live up to the standards we have set for ourselves in terms of honesty, compassion, courage, temperance, and the like.
I remember quite clearly the religious indoctrination I received as a young boy, which included the threat of eternal damnation if I did not believe in God. I also remember what I told my mom at the time, that it’s just silly to think that a loving God would punish me for using the mind He gave me, and concluding that He did not exist, based on the evidence I gathered throughout my life.
