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This is huge: https://www.businessinsider.com/mcconnell-doesnt-want-to-speak-to-trump-again-capitol-riots-2021-1 McConnell has been practically a lapdog to Trump since day one. He's jumping ship. I suspect a lot of other Senate Republicans who respect him will do the same. Maybe the votes...

1. Probably not enough time, and almost certainly not enough votes to remove him from office if he is impeached. Removal from office requires a 2/3rds majority in both the Senate and House. 2. So far Pence doesn't look like he's interested, and the votes might not be there. 3. The threat of 1 or...

And by the way, this isn't a D versus R debate. If this election had been, say, Romney or Kasich versus Biden, I could fully understand a vote for one of the former. I might even have gone that way. I can't understand a vote for a wannabe mentally unstable autocrat of either party who already...

Any comments on this? https://news.yahoo.com/six-republican-lawmakers-among-rioters-225945766.html I don't recall any Democratic lawmakers joining the people who were rioting and looting this summer.

4 people died, one by gun shot, three by medical events. Materially, the impact of what happened Wednesday was small. However, the intent wasn't, regardless of the end result. Listen to what Trump and Giuliani said before it happened. However poorly this was thought out, it was an attempted...

Because many of those same LEOs are Trump supporters. We had the same thing in NY. Trump supporters disrupted traffic with parades of big, obnoxious SUVs and pickups, many with obscured license plates, and the NYPD did squat...

And you do know a fair amount of these illegal activities were done by far right groups trying to discredit the peaceful BLM protesters? Others were done by career criminals who simply took advantage of the situation. Little or none of it was done by the same BLM protesters who were out earlier...

This is supposedly the party of law and order. Nothing the BLM protesters or Antifa did is even close to this. We're looking at sedition. Those involved should be tried, found guilty, and hanged. That includes President Trump himself.

You know what they say, right? Give someone like Trump enough rope, and they'll eventually hang themselves. For all the talk of him running again in 2024, it's going to be all he can do just to stay out of jail once he leaves office. Ditto for his three oldest kids. Maybe they'll turn one of the...

Also, given his long list of pre-existing health conditions, if he caught coronavirus his odds of pulling through were relatively low. I hope he's OK, and just not posting because he lost interest. Dave hasn't posted in a while, either. And SD left in the spring and hasn't come back. I'm glad...

Merc, Great to see you around! It's been a long time!

Trump is hiding in the basement, gorging on fast food, and raging that the election was stolen from him. At this point he's incapable of doing anything here, or offering any words worth listening to. The hallmarks of his administration have been inaction (except for things he considered...

Nice portraits! Here's one of Mitch McConnell I found:

The Supreme Court rejected the Texas suit as well: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/11/945617913/supreme-court-shuts-door-on-trump-election-prospects Now is this nonsense finally, really, over? I don't care if Trump concedes or not. He lost the election. Period. Time to get on with life.

Hopefully this fiasco really is over now: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/us/supreme-court-republican-challenge-pennsylvania-vote.html

I actually stayed up until Trump was declared the winner. On the one hand, I was worried but hoped Trump might grow into the role (obviously he didn't). On the other, I was no fan of Hillary Clinton, so it wasn't like I was so sad that she lost. I was actually singing "Ding Dong The Witch Is...

When even Fox News won't support Trump you know how far off base these allegations are.

At this point if they're going to vote for candidates like Trump it's better if they don't bother voting at all. It doesn't say much for the people who voted for him that think he's a good representative of our country. I've heard that a stable democracy depends upon an educated voting base...

Last time for me was 42½ years ago. I don't plan to move again.

My point is that it's really a stretch to make a case to prove there was enough fraud even in one state where Biden won by a relatively slim margin to flip the results, never mind to do so in enough states to change the election results. And it works both ways. If you're going to start claiming...

Let me play Devil's Advocate for a moment. Let's ignore everything time wrote, let's assume those were all "fake" ballots filled out for Biden, and let's assume there were enough of them to flip the state of Georgia. So what? Biden still wins the election, except he wins 290-248 instead of...

Given how little we knew about the virus then going for herd immunity made no sense at all. For starters, we still don't know how long a person is immune to it once they get it. If it's only a matter of months, herd immunity can never work unless everyone in the country got it within a few...

I was thinking the same. As far as I know nobody on the Supreme Court has the qualifications to evaluate covid-related restrictions with regard to their efficacy. It's just the "new" Supreme court flexing their muscles. I'm really disappointed that the GOP rushed the appointment of a religious...

Not being able to enforce them is as good as them not even existing. Also, leadership starts at the top. If the governor of a state doesn't offer good guidance, a lot of people won't comply with voluntary guidelines.

By the way it's stuff like this that I'm mostly referring to when I talk about "misguided notions of freedom and choice": https://news.yahoo.com/florida-governor-ron-desantis-accused-180518736.html The Florida governor not only won't enact a statewide mask mandate, but won't even let...

Just staying home with my mother as usual, no visitors. Same for Christmas. If we're lucky Easter might be somewhat normal. Let's just hope they get the vaccine to enough people by then.

The government has a very far reaching set of powers to deal with emergencies like this: https://www.heritage.org/the-constitution/commentary/constitutional-guide-emergency-powers It sounds like the Supreme Court ruled against treating religious gatherings differently than so-called essential...

Unfortunately, since we have none of those things the only option is to shut down-again-to slow the spread of the virus. Trump and his followers have the ideology that government is bad, or at best useless. By putting incompetents into positions of power, that has become a self-fulfilling...

This is probably as close to a concession as we'll ever get from Trump: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/527278-trump-tells-gsa-to-allow-biden-transition-to-begin

People traveling for the holidays are another big problem. If we had a sane government response we would have shut down the airlines a week ago until early next year, and restricted travel on Interstate highways to only essential workers. The government may not have to explicitly ban gatherings...

Actually my cat is claiming Trump lost the election because the Democats had fake ballots with Biden's name trucked in. The Republicats supposedly turned out in record numbers. That might be most of Trump's votes. Easy for him to please cats. Just promise them a warm bed, a place to poop, and a...

Sometimes you never know about the people (or animals) you're sharing a roof with. Turns out my cat Jeannie is an avid Trump supporter: She even snuck out to go to Trump rallies. Her last covid-19 test was positive, which she undoubtedly caught at a rally, so I tried to make her wear a mask...

It's probably that and the fact being President insulates him from his pending legal problems.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump played golf while America died of coronavirus. That's going to be his legacy.

I think they're 0 for 29 or 0 for 30 at this point. These cases are completely baseless, especially considering in most cases they want to throw out only votes in primarily Democratic counties. If you're going to have new criteria for signature matching or other stuff, it has to be applied...

What's going on is a federal government which is completely AWOL on the pandemic, combined with many state and local governments which are practically the same, or just refuse to enact measures to mitigate things because of some misguided notions about freedom and choice. Yes, it's a shit show...

SNL would be hard pressed to do better than this: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/politics/giuliani-trump-legal-team-press-briefing-fact-check/index.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-coronavirus-response-international-human-rights-law-us-cases-a9459731.html https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02277-6

I honestly think once all his legal and financial problems find him he might leave the country. He even said he might leave the US if he lost the election. My guess looking at the list in the article is Canada and Scotland wouldn't want him. China probably wouldn't, either. So it would be either...

I'm not religious but these pieces make a good case for Trump being the devil: https://psmag.com/news/one-quarter-of-americans-believe-donald-trump-is-running-with-the-devil...

What about Trump's travel ban from Muslim countries, even though it's only the Muslim extremists who cause problems, while at the same time he appointed a Christian religious extremist to the Supreme Court! I guess religious extremists are OK if they happen to be from a religion you like. Trump...

Fine, let Trump wait until all the court cases are decided or thrown out before conceding, even though none of them have the potential to flip even one state, let alone the election. Even if he refuses to concede, which is merely a formality, he should at least be aiding the transition for the...

No, I'm not saying that at all. We're basically a centrist nation, and most people are fine with views that are somewhat left or right of center. Prior to the Trump era, I would never even think of boycotting a business for their political leanings, even if I didn't agree with them, because in...

Except that's not even remotely true. The far left of the Democratic party gets a lot of press coverage but most of their ideas will never make through even a Congress controlled by their party. There was a time in the 1960s and 1970s when the Democrats were giving working people heavy tax...

If there's any fraud here, I would say it's on the part of GOP voters. I'm totally shocked Trump got as many votes as he did, and also that the GOP gained seats in the House. Maybe you had a lot of dead GOP voters voting. Or perhaps some people from the Sturgis motorcycle rally voted, shaved off...

So far no major violence, just a few isolated incidents. All we saw yesterday was hordes of people taking to the streets in major US cities peacefully celebrating Biden's victory. Still a bad idea given that they weren't social distancing, even if most wore masks. The entire scene reminded me of...

The American people threw his favorite two words right back at him:

This is the same kind of nonsense I've heard when they interview people at Trump rallies. They're in an alternate reality with climate change, with the virus, etc. The demographics are changing in the US to the point the Republicans think they may not ever win any national elections again, even...

Yeah, he wants to continue counting in states where he might catch up and flip them and stop counting in states where Biden is catching up. In his mind, mail-in ballots are all fraudulent. This is the kind of crap you normally see in banana republics, not the US.