With the unpopular candidates in 2016, hearing of 45’s “win”, I thought it to be a protest vote like Brazil’s Cacareco in 1959 that would be redone with qualified candidates, emotionally/mentally fit for the presidency … not allowing a narcissistic nincompoop as president.
The comedy act — the Big Lie — however, continues as competent candidates are driven away from the job by the underhanded tactics used in our dysfunctional political system. The US has become a refuge for the ultra-wealthy who can do as they please … almost always.
This is not about 2020. It is about creating doubt and even complete mistrust in the system of electing any official. It is about the future elections. This is what fascists do. They blindside people with an absurd issue that makes them doubt the way things are, and then they present themselves as the only possible solution. It is all based on propaganda, on lies, on disinformation, and on evil. But fascists do not care about that, nor about anything but getting themselves into power and creating an oligarchy.
Spent all that time and money to find out that he lost by an even greater margin. And now he wants to do the same thing in Texas where he won the state? What a maroon.
“If the average man thinks at all, he does silly things like generalizing from a single datum. He uses one-valued logics. . . If he is hungry, hurt, or personally interested in the answer, he can’t use any sort of logic and will discard an observed fact as blithely as he will risk his life on a piece of wishful thinking. . . Far from aspiring to higher reasoning, he is not even aware that higher reasoning exists. He classes his own mental process as being of the same sort as the genius of an Einstein. Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.” Robert A. Heinlein, Gulf (1948).
Republicans are so desperate in Texas they drew a ‘terrible’ congressional map to maintain power
He said that such a “terrible” map would likely lead to litigation.
“The congressional map confirms what we knew Texas Republicans would do: decrease the number of competitive seats, ignore the growth and influence of communities of color and gerrymander for power,” said National Democratic Redistricting Committee President Kelly Ward Burton.
Maddow Blog | When Trump says the U.S. ‘will not survive,’ don’t look away
Kagan’s first sentence read, “The United States is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War, with a reasonable chance over the next three to four years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority, and the division of the country into warring red and blue enclaves.”
For those who take such warnings seriously, it’s discouraging to know there’s no shortage of experts ringing similar alarms. Rick Hasen, one of the nation’s leading election-law scholars, told Politico last week, “In Sept. 2020, I wrote a piece for Slate titled, ’I’ve never been more scared about American democracy than I am right now.’ A month ago, I was on CNN and said I was ‘scared s***less’ …. But I’m even more frightened now.”
Political scientist Daniel Ziblatt, the co-author of “How Democracies Die,” recently told The New Yorker, “Turns out, things are much worse than we expected.” He added that current conditions in the United States are “much more worrisome.” Around the same time, more than 100 scholars of democracy signed a joint statement of principles, warning that the United States’ democracy “is now at risk.”
It was against this backdrop that Donald Trump, who’s chiefly responsible for fueling fears over the nation’s future, sat down with a conservative media outlet over the weekend and poured some fuel on the fire:
“[Democrats] cheat on the elections. They don’t need votes. They cheat on the elections. I mean, you look at 43,000 votes were found last night. They cheat on elections. When you cheat on elections you don’t have to destroy the country. They are destroying our country. Our country will not survive this. Our country will not survive.”
Trump’s handler played show tunes to ‘pull him back from the brink’ and soothe his ‘terrifying’ rage
“When I began to see how his temper wasn’t just for shock value or the cameras, I began to regret my decision to go to the West Wing,” Grisham writes in her new book, “I’ll Take Your Questions Now,” according to the New York Times, which obtained a copy of the forthcoming tell-all.
“At one point, she writes, Mr. Trump’s handlers designated an unnamed White House official known as the ‘Music Man’ to play him his favorite show tunes, including ‘Memory’ from ‘Cats,’ to pull him from the brink of rage,” the Times reports.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-terrifying-rage/
Effete elite crazy Trump likes show tunes, brassy music to soothe the savage beast.
‘Dear leader’ Trump fuels ‘race to bottom’ as GOP ‘leans into fascism’
The Republican Party is “leaning into fascism” as GOP candidates across the country try to position themselves as the “purest” and “most extreme” supporters of their “dear leader” — former President Donald Trump — according to Daily Beast columnist Eleanor Clift.
Pointing to gubernatorial races in places like Idaho, Texas, Alabama and Virginia, Clift writes that the 2022 GOP primaries are “shaping up like the Hunger Games, dystopian battles among the Trumpian faithful.”
Matt Bennett, a co-founder of Third Way, a moderate Democratic group, described the primaries as “incredible races to the bottom as they one up each other to be the craziest and the Trumpiest in whatever context presents itself.”
While some may dismiss the trend as mere “politics,” Clift notes that Trump and his followers are putting in place “policies that could allow Republican legislatures to overturn elections when they don’t like the results.”
She points to a recent Washington Post essay by Robert Kagan, a neo-conservative foreign policy scholar, who argued that “we have never seen a U.S. political movement tied so passionately to one man and his lies as it is to Trump.”
“What we’re seeing on the populist right is rhetoric that leans into fascism and fuels primary challenges to see who can be the purest, the harshest, and the most extreme voice on the Trumpian right to win the Dear Leader’s endorsement,” Clift wrote.
Lies filtered through Trump’s White House ‘like they were in the air conditioning system’: former aide
Back in January, the Post reported that Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims over four years — but that figure didn’t necessarily include those detailed in Grisham’s book.
One week after details of Trump’s plan to overthrow America were revealed, the press is silent
One week ago, a memo was revealed showing a detailed scheme, prepared at the White House and discussed in the Oval Office, by which the former sitting executive proposed to overturn the results of the election and remain in office indefinitely. That plan wasn’t an argument about the needs of the nation in the midst of some emergency. It didn’t even claim that there was actual fraud in the election. It was simply the step-by-step means by which the electoral votes of multiple states would not be acknowledged.
Those in control of the United States of America made a plan to end the United States of America. To end the whole concept of a representative democracy. To destroy the republic.
Had the effort to fundamentally end the nation been limited to a memo circulating through the highest levels in government, it still would have represented the largest threat to the nation since the Civil War—easily greater than the threat posed by any foreign enemy. But it wasn’t just a memo. Attorney John Eastman’s plan was built on pieces that the GOP had already been putting into place to transform America from a democracy to authoritarian dictatorship.
The CNs saw the light. Give the truth or deal with a few years of tax and criminal investigations. Knowing that they are frauds and dirty they took Door #1.
Here are 7 jaw-dropping claims from Trump insider’s new tell-all book
“Her 352-page book — obtained by The Washington Post — alleges a litany of misdeeds by the 45th president: from ogling a young female staffer to orchestrating lies for the public, to attempting to ban the news media from the White House compound. It also gives a rare firsthand look at Melania Trump, who craved her privacy, and a blow-by-blow of how she wound up wearing that “I Really Don’t Care, Do U?” jacket."
Concretionist over 2 years ago
The sippy cup is FAR too subtle for the @realdonaldtrump. But I admit I was surprised.
The Love of Money is . . . over 2 years ago
The one and only job the Cyber Ninjas did was prove Biden WON ! Thanks.
Daeder over 2 years ago
“We need to do recounts in Button and Nipple!”
Patjade over 2 years ago
And despite that the Last Occupant said they found he won. Talk about a guy completely out of touch with reality…
superposition over 2 years ago
With the unpopular candidates in 2016, hearing of 45’s “win”, I thought it to be a protest vote like Brazil’s Cacareco in 1959 that would be redone with qualified candidates, emotionally/mentally fit for the presidency … not allowing a narcissistic nincompoop as president.
The comedy act — the Big Lie — however, continues as competent candidates are driven away from the job by the underhanded tactics used in our dysfunctional political system. The US has become a refuge for the ultra-wealthy who can do as they please … almost always.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacareco
Zebrastripes over 2 years ago
What a waste of time and money…..if only they would believe in REALITY! & TRUTH!
Display over 2 years ago
This is not about 2020. It is about creating doubt and even complete mistrust in the system of electing any official. It is about the future elections. This is what fascists do. They blindside people with an absurd issue that makes them doubt the way things are, and then they present themselves as the only possible solution. It is all based on propaganda, on lies, on disinformation, and on evil. But fascists do not care about that, nor about anything but getting themselves into power and creating an oligarchy.
Stormy Panda over 2 years ago
Stop the spin, I’s gettin’ dizzie.
Masterskrain Premium Member over 2 years ago
Will that fat fool EVER get tired OF LOSING??
Teto85 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Spent all that time and money to find out that he lost by an even greater margin. And now he wants to do the same thing in Texas where he won the state? What a maroon.
Bookworm over 2 years ago
“If the average man thinks at all, he does silly things like generalizing from a single datum. He uses one-valued logics. . . If he is hungry, hurt, or personally interested in the answer, he can’t use any sort of logic and will discard an observed fact as blithely as he will risk his life on a piece of wishful thinking. . . Far from aspiring to higher reasoning, he is not even aware that higher reasoning exists. He classes his own mental process as being of the same sort as the genius of an Einstein. Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.” Robert A. Heinlein, Gulf (1948).
Michael G. over 2 years ago
If we can’t trust the established result, why should we trust “their” result?
Ally2005 over 2 years ago
Rump can spin sh$t into more sh$t and claim beautiful gold. Con man, mentally disturbed or both? Neither is not an option.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Republicans are so desperate in Texas they drew a ‘terrible’ congressional map to maintain power
He said that such a “terrible” map would likely lead to litigation.
“The congressional map confirms what we knew Texas Republicans would do: decrease the number of competitive seats, ignore the growth and influence of communities of color and gerrymander for power,” said National Democratic Redistricting Committee President Kelly Ward Burton.
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-gerrymandering-congressional-districts-republican/
Ally2005 over 2 years ago
Rump to Cyber Nuts: You were suppose to find the oranges of the rigging, not show me losing more bigly.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Maddow Blog | When Trump says the U.S. ‘will not survive,’ don’t look away
Kagan’s first sentence read, “The United States is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War, with a reasonable chance over the next three to four years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority, and the division of the country into warring red and blue enclaves.”
For those who take such warnings seriously, it’s discouraging to know there’s no shortage of experts ringing similar alarms. Rick Hasen, one of the nation’s leading election-law scholars, told Politico last week, “In Sept. 2020, I wrote a piece for Slate titled, ’I’ve never been more scared about American democracy than I am right now.’ A month ago, I was on CNN and said I was ‘scared s***less’ …. But I’m even more frightened now.”
Political scientist Daniel Ziblatt, the co-author of “How Democracies Die,” recently told The New Yorker, “Turns out, things are much worse than we expected.” He added that current conditions in the United States are “much more worrisome.” Around the same time, more than 100 scholars of democracy signed a joint statement of principles, warning that the United States’ democracy “is now at risk.”
It was against this backdrop that Donald Trump, who’s chiefly responsible for fueling fears over the nation’s future, sat down with a conservative media outlet over the weekend and poured some fuel on the fire:
“[Democrats] cheat on the elections. They don’t need votes. They cheat on the elections. I mean, you look at 43,000 votes were found last night. They cheat on elections. When you cheat on elections you don’t have to destroy the country. They are destroying our country. Our country will not survive this. Our country will not survive.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maddow-blog-when-trump-says-the-u-s-will-not-survive-don-t-look-away/ar-AAOSLOj?ocid=msedgntp
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Trump’s handler played show tunes to ‘pull him back from the brink’ and soothe his ‘terrifying’ rage
“When I began to see how his temper wasn’t just for shock value or the cameras, I began to regret my decision to go to the West Wing,” Grisham writes in her new book, “I’ll Take Your Questions Now,” according to the New York Times, which obtained a copy of the forthcoming tell-all.
“At one point, she writes, Mr. Trump’s handlers designated an unnamed White House official known as the ‘Music Man’ to play him his favorite show tunes, including ‘Memory’ from ‘Cats,’ to pull him from the brink of rage,” the Times reports.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-terrifying-rage/
Effete elite crazy Trump likes show tunes, brassy music to soothe the savage beast.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
‘Dear leader’ Trump fuels ‘race to bottom’ as GOP ‘leans into fascism’
The Republican Party is “leaning into fascism” as GOP candidates across the country try to position themselves as the “purest” and “most extreme” supporters of their “dear leader” — former President Donald Trump — according to Daily Beast columnist Eleanor Clift.
Pointing to gubernatorial races in places like Idaho, Texas, Alabama and Virginia, Clift writes that the 2022 GOP primaries are “shaping up like the Hunger Games, dystopian battles among the Trumpian faithful.”
Matt Bennett, a co-founder of Third Way, a moderate Democratic group, described the primaries as “incredible races to the bottom as they one up each other to be the craziest and the Trumpiest in whatever context presents itself.”
While some may dismiss the trend as mere “politics,” Clift notes that Trump and his followers are putting in place “policies that could allow Republican legislatures to overturn elections when they don’t like the results.”
She points to a recent Washington Post essay by Robert Kagan, a neo-conservative foreign policy scholar, who argued that “we have never seen a U.S. political movement tied so passionately to one man and his lies as it is to Trump.”
“What we’re seeing on the populist right is rhetoric that leans into fascism and fuels primary challenges to see who can be the purest, the harshest, and the most extreme voice on the Trumpian right to win the Dear Leader’s endorsement,” Clift wrote.
https://www.rawstory.com/republican-fascism/
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Trump berated Melania in front of aides over ‘I Really Don’t Care’ jacket — and then lied about her wearing it: new book
https://www.rawstory.com/i-really-don-t-care-do-u-jacket/
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Gen. Milley: Trump issued order to withdraw from Afghanistan by Jan. 15 after he lost election
https://www.rawstory.com/general-mark-milley-afghanistan-2655187211/
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Trump has made it clear: He thinks his own supporters are discardable losers
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-s-planning-to-run-again-in-2024-will-his-supporters-ever-realize-he-hates-them/
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Lies filtered through Trump’s White House ‘like they were in the air conditioning system’: former aide
Back in January, the Post reported that Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims over four years — but that figure didn’t necessarily include those detailed in Grisham’s book.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-white-house-lies/
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Trump told Putin he was going to ‘act a little tougher’ in front of the cameras: New book
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-putin-2655186061/
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
‘Thought they were the royal family’: New book reveals how Jared and Ivanka tried to force themselves on Queen Elizabeth II
https://www.rawstory.com/jared-ivanka-queen/
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
One week after details of Trump’s plan to overthrow America were revealed, the press is silent
One week ago, a memo was revealed showing a detailed scheme, prepared at the White House and discussed in the Oval Office, by which the former sitting executive proposed to overturn the results of the election and remain in office indefinitely. That plan wasn’t an argument about the needs of the nation in the midst of some emergency. It didn’t even claim that there was actual fraud in the election. It was simply the step-by-step means by which the electoral votes of multiple states would not be acknowledged.
Those in control of the United States of America made a plan to end the United States of America. To end the whole concept of a representative democracy. To destroy the republic.
Had the effort to fundamentally end the nation been limited to a memo circulating through the highest levels in government, it still would have represented the largest threat to the nation since the Civil War—easily greater than the threat posed by any foreign enemy. But it wasn’t just a memo. Attorney John Eastman’s plan was built on pieces that the GOP had already been putting into place to transform America from a democracy to authoritarian dictatorship.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/28/2054838/-One-week-after-details-of-Trump-s-plan-to-overthrow-America-were-revealed-the-press-is-silent
Godfreydaniel over 2 years ago
Not even one comment by any of the usual Trump cultists? Perhaps, just perhaps, sanity is prevailing…..
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Trump had a colonoscopy at Walter Reed — but wouldn’t use anesthesia because it’d hand Pence control
Trump also didn’t want anyone to know about the colonoscopy because he assumed he’d be “the butt of a joke” for late-night comedians.
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-colonoscopy-pence-anesthesia/
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Trump asked to view young female aide’s butt in his cabin aboard Air Force One: new book
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-obsessed-with-female-aide/
Union Man over 2 years ago
I hope the cyber ninja’s got paid in advance.
RonnieAThompson Premium Member over 2 years ago
Thanks for posting the links.
admiree2 over 2 years ago
The CNs saw the light. Give the truth or deal with a few years of tax and criminal investigations. Knowing that they are frauds and dirty they took Door #1.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Judge says MAGA rioters ‘morphed into terrorists’ and cites threats made against Nancy Pelosi as evidence
https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-riot-nancy-pelosi/
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Here are 7 jaw-dropping claims from Trump insider’s new tell-all book
“Her 352-page book — obtained by The Washington Post — alleges a litany of misdeeds by the 45th president: from ogling a young female staffer to orchestrating lies for the public, to attempting to ban the news media from the White House compound. It also gives a rare firsthand look at Melania Trump, who craved her privacy, and a blow-by-blow of how she wound up wearing that “I Really Don’t Care, Do U?” jacket."
https://www.rawstory.com/here-are-7-jaw-dropping-claims-from-trump-insider-s-new-tell-all-book/
FrankErnesto over 2 years ago
Texastan.
ImaginaryFriend over 2 years ago
Trump is like many confederate statues. We would like to forget him but there is a great fear we might repeat that mistake.