Refusing to concede an election isn’t a crime. Attempting to overturn the results of an election is a felony, punishable by five years in prison.
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Get Out and Vote! But Do You Need To Be Told That?
Is there anyone who isn’t predicting sky-high turnouts at the midterm elections? I can only imagine how inundated with political advertising people who live in states with contentious races must be. If you’re in Pennsylvania, for instance, you’re either going …
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Tagged with: referenda on Donald Trump
Conservatives and Polling
FWIW, the phenomenon shown below is real, as I realized at a neighbor’s 4th of July party, where I was (I believe) the only progressive. A guy who was both astonished and infuriated that I had voted for Biden refused …
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Trump’s Going Down, But Not for Disseminating Conspiracy Theories
Trump does spread conspiracy theories, and Trump will pay a heavy price. But, unlike the Alex Jones case, one won’t cause the other. The heavy price that Trump will pay will be the result of other things: election tampering, seditious …
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Trump Is Not President, But …
There is no doubt that the danger that the U.S. lives with on a day-to-day basis has been reduced with Trump out of office, and, to a degree, that really is a relief. Yet his presence on the political scene, …
To Indict or Not to Indict?
On a number of occasions, we’ve discussed the dilemma in which the U.S. Justice Department finds itself over indicting Donald Trump on charges of stealing classified government documents, sedition, and election tampering. But we need to keep in mind that …
Why Trump Won’t Just GO AWAY
Great cartoon. Reports show that Trump is terrified that he’ll be indicted, tried, convicted, and imprisoned. Yet “going away” only increases the probability of precisely that. Staying in the game, he reasons, both a) keeps his base alive, poised for …
Battlefield Wisconsin
As the ultra-right political movement in the U.S. continues to move even further to the fringes, human rights are finding themselves squeezed. On the chopping block now, for the first time in the last 50 years, are women’s abortion rights. …
Tagged with: Trump Supporters
How We Elect Our Senators–This Is Where We Are, Folks
Why isn’t Hershel Walker down 25 points in the polls? It’s because Republican are showering him with endorsements and huge donations. That he’s criminally insane doesn’t matter a goddamn thing.
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Trump Stoked Violence on January 6th
From this: The Washington Post reports that it will present new evidence that former President Donald Trump blew off warnings of imminent violence from his supporters. As the Post puts it, the evidence will show that Trump “was repeatedly alerted to brewing violence …
Tagged with: Trump should be arrested and charged with sedition
