Today, we set a record for new coronavirus cases: more than 181,000 people, with 1,389 deaths. Governors in Oregon and New Mexico have issued stay at home orders and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum (R) late today gave in and ordered a statewide mask mandate. Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak (D) has tested positive. Recently, more than 130 of the Secret Service officers around the president have either tested positive or been told to quarantine because they have had close contact with other infected people. This is impacting White House security.
A key indicator of how long Trump will continue to resist the reality of losing the election will be the size of the crowd and its "nature" in the streets of Washington DC today. If it is "enormous" in his and the media's (CNN would no longer be "fake" news if they so reported huge crowd numbers and highly beligerent intentions) reporting on it, he will continue to resist. If it flops tomorrow, is small and made up uniquely of violent "Proud Boys" etc, then his slide into depression will accelerate. He will probably at that point not concede personally as it is beyond him. He will nolonger stop the process going forward as people will "suffer the bully less kindly" and just get on with it while he wails and shakes his fist ...but does nothing but sulk.
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!" Walter Scott
Except that this is not his first, nor second, nor third! However, all that he has done for the past 4 years comprise his "first" as the leader of our country! He has lied, cheated, embezzled, and bamboozled his way through our rights, liberties, and our dignity. Basta! No more, Mr. 🍊 Demon! Your game is up! You have destroyed us and now it's time for our courts to destroy you!
Do I sound vengeful and angry? You betcha! But my heart aches for the gentle souls we have lost during this pandemic, and all we will continue to lose, because you do not care, have never cared, and will be never do so!
Thank you Heather. We all appreciate your daily summation.
Trump seems be to shedding his loyalists like a Labrador Retriever these days. It always surprises me how long they took, but being complicit to a wannabe dictator may be hard to shake...for some. I do find a certain level of delight everytime I hear a State turn Blue or another one of his frivolous lawsuit thrown out. This is a long time coming. The pressure is rising dramatically for him to concede and turn over the Transition to its rightful owner.
As a lifelong resident of New York State, his petty stand on keeping the COVID-19 vaccine from us because he has been royally showed up by Governor Cuomo is being laughed at. New Yorkers are a tough crowd.
I bow my head daily to the lives lost to the Pandemic. It appears we are our own worst enemy. Please wear a mask, socially distance and be careful.
Earlier this evening, I was watching Bill Maher's show on HBO, where the 'Trump in denial' extravaganza was nearly the singular topic of the evening. Maher's first on camera guest was a young woman who described herself as the Chief Lawyer for the Trump Reelection Campaign, who, upon being introduced, held forth with a three-to four-minute monologue about how the election results are in doubt because the Republican Party's observers at Pennsylvania County ballot-processing offices were 'prevented' from standing closer than 10 linear feet from county employees who were then engaged in the ongoing ballot processing and vote counting operations. On, and on, and on she went, arguing that these alleged infractions of the ballot counting rules required the disqualification of several hundred thousand ballots originating, as you well might have guessed, from the City of Philadelphia. I suppose that Bill Maher had to do this, at least for the sake of appearing to have made a gesture of evenhandedness to the President's party. Any sensible person would have thanked this apparently newly-minted lawyer, and pointed to the door. She also told her audience that she was an evangelical; and that might've explained the fervency of her beliefs, and her obvious lack of boundary control in the manner in which she delivered her speech. Maher, trying to get a word in edgewise, made numerous references to the fact that every judge who had heard the President's pleas had turned him down. To paraphrase the late writer Christopher Hitchens, 'That which is asserted without facts without giving reason therefore.' The problem here is, as was well-discussed on the show, that the hoopla and the sideshow antics that accompanied these lawsuits demean and diminish democracy itself. Donald Trump has amply demonstrated, if further proof be needed, that the American electorate is too polite for its own good.
On the other hand, there are Democrats sitting in sackcloth and ashes over the fact that their party did not do as well as its presidential and vice presidential candidates, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Some of the bad actors from the bad old days when Republicans control both houses of Congress will be showing up for another reprise of their obstruction area skills in the next Congress.
I've written extensively about this elsewhere on Facebook about what ails the Democrats. On a day in the recent past, I traced the moment to the inflection point when the Democratic Party began to lose interest in the cares and concerns of working people. I place the point to a speech that John F. Kennedy gave at Rice University on September 12, 1963, when he announced that the United States would place a man on the moon within the decade. Of course, this was an exercise of geopolitics, and we had been playing catch-up in the Space Race for the previous five years.
Now, Democratic administrations had relied heavily on academic support and validation since the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, even before he acceded to the presidency in 1933, Roosevelt had assembled a large corps of academics to help him pull the country out of the Depression. That reliance on academic knowledge, learning, and practical expertise had become embedded into the ethos of the Democratic Party. After World War II, and unlike any previous war, the American government underwrote the college educations of millions of former servicemen and women. But the government's generosity served a much larger purpose. World War II had been won because we had better weapons and better technology; and now our adversaries in the form of the Soviet Union were catching up in a very big way. It also meant that Congress would be funding the college educations of an enormous number of people. Obviously, the impetus was to accelerate the training of scientists and engineers, but there was no way to do that selectively, and still get the results the government wanted. The selective service system, charged with maintaining a large reservoir of men eligible for military service, provided a secondary, but no less important pressure point to incentivize young people to go to college and earn their degrees. The military requires a far greater range of talents than physicists the rocket engineers, many of whom needed to have a four-year college education in order to qualify for the jobs they would fill.
Then there was Vietnam. Some of us still remember David Halberstam's magisterial book, the best and the brightest. My copy dates from the 1970s. Here again, in 1963, the year that President Kennedy was assassinated, he gave prospective draft inductees a special bonus, if they were were college students, and they got married, they had nothing to fear from their local draft boards.
But what about those left behind. Those whose educations ended in high school; got drafted; or who lack the will or capacity to endure four years of classroom education, or who did not do well enough in college to qualify for graduate school. As long as there were jobs that paid well enough to pay for the luxuries and status symbols that their income levels could afford, things went well enough. But the world was changing, and not to their advantage. And it did not take long. By 1973 the United States was in a precarious position with the oil shocks; and by the end of the decade we had 'stagflation', with home mortgage rates approaching 18 percent. In Jimmy Carter, we had a President who is qualified, even hyper-qualified, in all the wrong ways. The Democratic Party learned the wrong lesson from the Civil Rights movement by looking for a Southerner that Northern Liberals could live with. Franklin Roosevelt brought prosperity to the South, which they wanted and badly needed. That is why the New Deal worked. His successors, in the form of Harry Truman, John Kennedy, and especially Lyndon Baines Johnson, with the American government into fostering and supporting the cause of civil rights. The civil rights movement was a logical extension of the defeat of totalitarian dictators in Germany, Italy, and Japan; but the rhetoric used to win that war echoed here decades, even generations after battlefield success had won the war.
In the South, more than anywhere else in the United States, racial division was a fact of life; and poor whites, whose material successes in life are often marginally better than those of blacks, found themselves on the outside, looking in. From their perspective, the government was now helping the very people they hated and feared. For them there was no 'why'; regardless of the fact that Southern elites had a conscious policy to pit white against black, to the denigration of both.
Globalization knocked the bottom out of 'the poor man's economy'. Beginning in the 1950s, much of America's manufacturing industries were shifted overseas to take advantage of drastically lower labor costs. Republican administrations supported the off-shoring of American industry because it weakened American labor unions; Democratic administrations did nothing to reverse the trend, because world trade represented economic betterment with foreign goods equal or superior to domestically manufactured products, and everybody seemed happy, or at least not in active opposition. Economic theories and the mathematical jargon that seem to justify them held sway; but long about the mid-1970s, the bottom began to drop out of the rural states' economies in the Midwest and South. Those who could move out, did so. Those who could not, or would not relocate, saw their cities and towns slowly drift into decline. This is why 70 million Americans voted for Trump! Since the 1930s, the Democratic Party has always proclaimed itself the protector and advocate for working families. Much of their accomplishments date back to the New Deal, or other Democratic domestic programs that fostered social betterment; but except for the Affordable Care Act, not much of it has been seen in this generation. Foreign wars and international affairs have absorbed much of the American government's attention. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990 led to a wave of triumphalism within the Republican Party that brought us only frustration and grief. Donald Trump's supporters don't know that; and even if they did they wouldn't care. All they see is that immigrants seem to do better, and they blame the Democratic Party for their loss of influence and prestige.
As for the Democrats, their elites tend not to be among the truly wealthy, who support Republicans who reward that support by protecting their wealth in exchange for power and position. No, Democratic elites tend toward refinement, art collections and charitable foundations, instead of overseas investment accounts. Hillary Rodham Clinton may have fancied herself as some form of well turned-out aristocrat who outshone everyone else in handling the affairs of state, but I would have to think that the Queen of England, herself, exhibits more self-discipline than Ms. Clinton has shown. President Barack Obama proved himself to be an absolutely exemplary Chief Executive; the problem is that Obama's undeniable excellence does little more than excite the fears and hatreds of Trump's dispossessed millions of supporters, even though Trump cheats and robs them at every turn, for them, Trump is Everyman, the one every supporter wants to emulate, and no matter what the cost.
We can only hope and pray that Joe Biden can bridge the gap.
The Senate runoff in Georgia, and thus control of the Senate, is up for grabs. Since Biden won Georgia, there is the very real possibility the Democrats could take both seats. (Gerrymandered congressional districts don't matter in a state-wide Senate election.) If the Koch brothers think Trump's hopeless quest remain in office will be a drag on Republican efforts in Georgia, they certainly have the gravitas within the Republican hierarchy to speak directly to the likes of Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, et al and tell them what they think. At this point newly re-elected McConnell and Graham have little to fear from the Trump mob, and the Koch brothers' deep pockets will be more than just helpful toward winning in Georgia.
There is a pleasing irony in thinking, hoping, that Trump may be in the process of politicly neutering himself to the point where Senate Republicans think they have to abandon him to keep control.
I admit that I don't understand the reasoning of the GOP enablers of He-Who-Refuses-to-Accept-Reality (for our current troll, I am refraining from calling him the Deranged Cheeto--whoops! I did it again!:-D) with respect to the Covid infection rates, as their own supporters are now getting sick and dying by the thousands, even the tens of thousands. It made (a kind of sociopathic) sense to me in April that the amoralists would work to prevent appropriate measures because in their minds only BIPOC and Dems were dying, because the pandemic was at its worst in congested urban areas. I know I am presenting the strategies of McConnell and Co as criminally cynical but that is what I believe was happening. Now, instead, the people dying are those who attended MAGA rallies, live in rural states and districts, and are in significant numbers supporters of the soon-to- be-former POTUS. For instance, in KC, hospitals are overwhelmed by rural patients who have been transferred to KC hospitals because of a breakdown of rural healthcare that has been promoted and fomented by the Republicans in power. As a result, urban patients could find themselves unable to get a hospital bed. And yet the idiot governor refuses to mandate mask wearing, continues to claim that the pandemic is a matter of "personal responsibility," and won't financially support KC and St. Louis, which are Dem strongholds and which are bearing the brunt of caring for the covidiots in the countryside.
It seems to me counterintuitive to welcome the morbidity and mortality of one's own followers, but I suppose the thing is that the election is over, so the jokers don't have to pretend to care about their constituents any more.
More and more with Covid everyday, and everyday the orange moron sits and does nothing. But, today he'll be out there encouraging his gathering followers to take off masks and get the virus! And, he'll hope that there will be enough secret service to "protect" him at the gold course. I'm done with this man, and hope that the country will get it figured out how much damage he has done to the American psyche. It will take generations to heal from his abuse.
"Mr. Trump should order the transition process begin immediately. It is the right and moral thing to do.” Well, we're well and truly screwed, then, because Mr. Trump wouldn't recognize the moral thing to do if it bit him in his nether regions.
At what point, if ever, will people like the lackey who refuses to go against Trump and provide Mr. Biden with the pandemic information he needs to hit the ground running - at what point will people like THAT do the right thing? It's obvious Trump never will.
So former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly suggests that allowing the transition process to proceed would be the right and moral thing to do. That's naive at best. By now, he should know that Trump does only what is good for himself and has no interest in what is right or moral. Most Republicans know that and don't give a darn, especially those who need Trump's blind and loyal base to get elected. An American tragedy.
Just curious, Heather... Alot of media talk about 51-49% political party division in our country now. What was it during WW2 when there seemed to be a united citizen effort to help the war effort? What this country may need is similar propaganda to unite and defeat COVID.
"It is the right and moral thing to do." Drumpty has never done anything in his life that could be labeled "right" or "moral." He wouldn't know those words if they bit that enormous fat ass of his.
As far as the governors of Iowa and North Dakota finally being dragged kicking and screaming to reality - tough luck. for $500, "what is "Depopulating Iowa and North Dakota?" "I know Alex! I know! A good start." Followed by huge depopulation due to the pandemic in every other red state. We have to kick start Darwinian "survival of the fittest" somehow. And fewer morons is the best possible way to Make America Great Again.
A key indicator of how long Trump will continue to resist the reality of losing the election will be the size of the crowd and its "nature" in the streets of Washington DC today. If it is "enormous" in his and the media's (CNN would no longer be "fake" news if they so reported huge crowd numbers and highly beligerent intentions) reporting on it, he will continue to resist. If it flops tomorrow, is small and made up uniquely of violent "Proud Boys" etc, then his slide into depression will accelerate. He will probably at that point not concede personally as it is beyond him. He will nolonger stop the process going forward as people will "suffer the bully less kindly" and just get on with it while he wails and shakes his fist ...but does nothing but sulk.
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!" Walter Scott
Except that this is not his first, nor second, nor third! However, all that he has done for the past 4 years comprise his "first" as the leader of our country! He has lied, cheated, embezzled, and bamboozled his way through our rights, liberties, and our dignity. Basta! No more, Mr. 🍊 Demon! Your game is up! You have destroyed us and now it's time for our courts to destroy you!
Do I sound vengeful and angry? You betcha! But my heart aches for the gentle souls we have lost during this pandemic, and all we will continue to lose, because you do not care, have never cared, and will be never do so!
"Stop the Steal" and Mr. Koch wanting to stuff the genie back in the bottle make me want to hurl.
Thank you Heather. We all appreciate your daily summation.
Trump seems be to shedding his loyalists like a Labrador Retriever these days. It always surprises me how long they took, but being complicit to a wannabe dictator may be hard to shake...for some. I do find a certain level of delight everytime I hear a State turn Blue or another one of his frivolous lawsuit thrown out. This is a long time coming. The pressure is rising dramatically for him to concede and turn over the Transition to its rightful owner.
As a lifelong resident of New York State, his petty stand on keeping the COVID-19 vaccine from us because he has been royally showed up by Governor Cuomo is being laughed at. New Yorkers are a tough crowd.
I bow my head daily to the lives lost to the Pandemic. It appears we are our own worst enemy. Please wear a mask, socially distance and be careful.
Earlier this evening, I was watching Bill Maher's show on HBO, where the 'Trump in denial' extravaganza was nearly the singular topic of the evening. Maher's first on camera guest was a young woman who described herself as the Chief Lawyer for the Trump Reelection Campaign, who, upon being introduced, held forth with a three-to four-minute monologue about how the election results are in doubt because the Republican Party's observers at Pennsylvania County ballot-processing offices were 'prevented' from standing closer than 10 linear feet from county employees who were then engaged in the ongoing ballot processing and vote counting operations. On, and on, and on she went, arguing that these alleged infractions of the ballot counting rules required the disqualification of several hundred thousand ballots originating, as you well might have guessed, from the City of Philadelphia. I suppose that Bill Maher had to do this, at least for the sake of appearing to have made a gesture of evenhandedness to the President's party. Any sensible person would have thanked this apparently newly-minted lawyer, and pointed to the door. She also told her audience that she was an evangelical; and that might've explained the fervency of her beliefs, and her obvious lack of boundary control in the manner in which she delivered her speech. Maher, trying to get a word in edgewise, made numerous references to the fact that every judge who had heard the President's pleas had turned him down. To paraphrase the late writer Christopher Hitchens, 'That which is asserted without facts without giving reason therefore.' The problem here is, as was well-discussed on the show, that the hoopla and the sideshow antics that accompanied these lawsuits demean and diminish democracy itself. Donald Trump has amply demonstrated, if further proof be needed, that the American electorate is too polite for its own good.
On the other hand, there are Democrats sitting in sackcloth and ashes over the fact that their party did not do as well as its presidential and vice presidential candidates, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Some of the bad actors from the bad old days when Republicans control both houses of Congress will be showing up for another reprise of their obstruction area skills in the next Congress.
I've written extensively about this elsewhere on Facebook about what ails the Democrats. On a day in the recent past, I traced the moment to the inflection point when the Democratic Party began to lose interest in the cares and concerns of working people. I place the point to a speech that John F. Kennedy gave at Rice University on September 12, 1963, when he announced that the United States would place a man on the moon within the decade. Of course, this was an exercise of geopolitics, and we had been playing catch-up in the Space Race for the previous five years.
Now, Democratic administrations had relied heavily on academic support and validation since the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, even before he acceded to the presidency in 1933, Roosevelt had assembled a large corps of academics to help him pull the country out of the Depression. That reliance on academic knowledge, learning, and practical expertise had become embedded into the ethos of the Democratic Party. After World War II, and unlike any previous war, the American government underwrote the college educations of millions of former servicemen and women. But the government's generosity served a much larger purpose. World War II had been won because we had better weapons and better technology; and now our adversaries in the form of the Soviet Union were catching up in a very big way. It also meant that Congress would be funding the college educations of an enormous number of people. Obviously, the impetus was to accelerate the training of scientists and engineers, but there was no way to do that selectively, and still get the results the government wanted. The selective service system, charged with maintaining a large reservoir of men eligible for military service, provided a secondary, but no less important pressure point to incentivize young people to go to college and earn their degrees. The military requires a far greater range of talents than physicists the rocket engineers, many of whom needed to have a four-year college education in order to qualify for the jobs they would fill.
Then there was Vietnam. Some of us still remember David Halberstam's magisterial book, the best and the brightest. My copy dates from the 1970s. Here again, in 1963, the year that President Kennedy was assassinated, he gave prospective draft inductees a special bonus, if they were were college students, and they got married, they had nothing to fear from their local draft boards.
But what about those left behind. Those whose educations ended in high school; got drafted; or who lack the will or capacity to endure four years of classroom education, or who did not do well enough in college to qualify for graduate school. As long as there were jobs that paid well enough to pay for the luxuries and status symbols that their income levels could afford, things went well enough. But the world was changing, and not to their advantage. And it did not take long. By 1973 the United States was in a precarious position with the oil shocks; and by the end of the decade we had 'stagflation', with home mortgage rates approaching 18 percent. In Jimmy Carter, we had a President who is qualified, even hyper-qualified, in all the wrong ways. The Democratic Party learned the wrong lesson from the Civil Rights movement by looking for a Southerner that Northern Liberals could live with. Franklin Roosevelt brought prosperity to the South, which they wanted and badly needed. That is why the New Deal worked. His successors, in the form of Harry Truman, John Kennedy, and especially Lyndon Baines Johnson, with the American government into fostering and supporting the cause of civil rights. The civil rights movement was a logical extension of the defeat of totalitarian dictators in Germany, Italy, and Japan; but the rhetoric used to win that war echoed here decades, even generations after battlefield success had won the war.
In the South, more than anywhere else in the United States, racial division was a fact of life; and poor whites, whose material successes in life are often marginally better than those of blacks, found themselves on the outside, looking in. From their perspective, the government was now helping the very people they hated and feared. For them there was no 'why'; regardless of the fact that Southern elites had a conscious policy to pit white against black, to the denigration of both.
Globalization knocked the bottom out of 'the poor man's economy'. Beginning in the 1950s, much of America's manufacturing industries were shifted overseas to take advantage of drastically lower labor costs. Republican administrations supported the off-shoring of American industry because it weakened American labor unions; Democratic administrations did nothing to reverse the trend, because world trade represented economic betterment with foreign goods equal or superior to domestically manufactured products, and everybody seemed happy, or at least not in active opposition. Economic theories and the mathematical jargon that seem to justify them held sway; but long about the mid-1970s, the bottom began to drop out of the rural states' economies in the Midwest and South. Those who could move out, did so. Those who could not, or would not relocate, saw their cities and towns slowly drift into decline. This is why 70 million Americans voted for Trump! Since the 1930s, the Democratic Party has always proclaimed itself the protector and advocate for working families. Much of their accomplishments date back to the New Deal, or other Democratic domestic programs that fostered social betterment; but except for the Affordable Care Act, not much of it has been seen in this generation. Foreign wars and international affairs have absorbed much of the American government's attention. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990 led to a wave of triumphalism within the Republican Party that brought us only frustration and grief. Donald Trump's supporters don't know that; and even if they did they wouldn't care. All they see is that immigrants seem to do better, and they blame the Democratic Party for their loss of influence and prestige.
As for the Democrats, their elites tend not to be among the truly wealthy, who support Republicans who reward that support by protecting their wealth in exchange for power and position. No, Democratic elites tend toward refinement, art collections and charitable foundations, instead of overseas investment accounts. Hillary Rodham Clinton may have fancied herself as some form of well turned-out aristocrat who outshone everyone else in handling the affairs of state, but I would have to think that the Queen of England, herself, exhibits more self-discipline than Ms. Clinton has shown. President Barack Obama proved himself to be an absolutely exemplary Chief Executive; the problem is that Obama's undeniable excellence does little more than excite the fears and hatreds of Trump's dispossessed millions of supporters, even though Trump cheats and robs them at every turn, for them, Trump is Everyman, the one every supporter wants to emulate, and no matter what the cost.
We can only hope and pray that Joe Biden can bridge the gap.
Thank you, HCR. Inauguration day cannot get here soon enough to suit me. I'll be happy when responsible adults are in charge again.
Andrew McCabe was fired because he was in the know and honorable.
The Senate runoff in Georgia, and thus control of the Senate, is up for grabs. Since Biden won Georgia, there is the very real possibility the Democrats could take both seats. (Gerrymandered congressional districts don't matter in a state-wide Senate election.) If the Koch brothers think Trump's hopeless quest remain in office will be a drag on Republican efforts in Georgia, they certainly have the gravitas within the Republican hierarchy to speak directly to the likes of Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, et al and tell them what they think. At this point newly re-elected McConnell and Graham have little to fear from the Trump mob, and the Koch brothers' deep pockets will be more than just helpful toward winning in Georgia.
There is a pleasing irony in thinking, hoping, that Trump may be in the process of politicly neutering himself to the point where Senate Republicans think they have to abandon him to keep control.
I admit that I don't understand the reasoning of the GOP enablers of He-Who-Refuses-to-Accept-Reality (for our current troll, I am refraining from calling him the Deranged Cheeto--whoops! I did it again!:-D) with respect to the Covid infection rates, as their own supporters are now getting sick and dying by the thousands, even the tens of thousands. It made (a kind of sociopathic) sense to me in April that the amoralists would work to prevent appropriate measures because in their minds only BIPOC and Dems were dying, because the pandemic was at its worst in congested urban areas. I know I am presenting the strategies of McConnell and Co as criminally cynical but that is what I believe was happening. Now, instead, the people dying are those who attended MAGA rallies, live in rural states and districts, and are in significant numbers supporters of the soon-to- be-former POTUS. For instance, in KC, hospitals are overwhelmed by rural patients who have been transferred to KC hospitals because of a breakdown of rural healthcare that has been promoted and fomented by the Republicans in power. As a result, urban patients could find themselves unable to get a hospital bed. And yet the idiot governor refuses to mandate mask wearing, continues to claim that the pandemic is a matter of "personal responsibility," and won't financially support KC and St. Louis, which are Dem strongholds and which are bearing the brunt of caring for the covidiots in the countryside.
It seems to me counterintuitive to welcome the morbidity and mortality of one's own followers, but I suppose the thing is that the election is over, so the jokers don't have to pretend to care about their constituents any more.
More and more with Covid everyday, and everyday the orange moron sits and does nothing. But, today he'll be out there encouraging his gathering followers to take off masks and get the virus! And, he'll hope that there will be enough secret service to "protect" him at the gold course. I'm done with this man, and hope that the country will get it figured out how much damage he has done to the American psyche. It will take generations to heal from his abuse.
"Mr. Trump should order the transition process begin immediately. It is the right and moral thing to do.” Well, we're well and truly screwed, then, because Mr. Trump wouldn't recognize the moral thing to do if it bit him in his nether regions.
At what point, if ever, will people like the lackey who refuses to go against Trump and provide Mr. Biden with the pandemic information he needs to hit the ground running - at what point will people like THAT do the right thing? It's obvious Trump never will.
So former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly suggests that allowing the transition process to proceed would be the right and moral thing to do. That's naive at best. By now, he should know that Trump does only what is good for himself and has no interest in what is right or moral. Most Republicans know that and don't give a darn, especially those who need Trump's blind and loyal base to get elected. An American tragedy.
Just curious, Heather... Alot of media talk about 51-49% political party division in our country now. What was it during WW2 when there seemed to be a united citizen effort to help the war effort? What this country may need is similar propaganda to unite and defeat COVID.
"It is the right and moral thing to do." Drumpty has never done anything in his life that could be labeled "right" or "moral." He wouldn't know those words if they bit that enormous fat ass of his.
As far as the governors of Iowa and North Dakota finally being dragged kicking and screaming to reality - tough luck. for $500, "what is "Depopulating Iowa and North Dakota?" "I know Alex! I know! A good start." Followed by huge depopulation due to the pandemic in every other red state. We have to kick start Darwinian "survival of the fittest" somehow. And fewer morons is the best possible way to Make America Great Again.
Heather, have you seen this update yet on Col. Alexander Vindman's latest plans? I believe this was announced just a day or two ago.https://www.pritzkermilitaryfoundation.org/press-release/pritzker-military-foundation-awards-lt-col-alexander-vindman-the-first-pritzker-military-fellowship-at-the-lawfare-institute/
"Squattertgate." Noun. Trump's refusal to concede the election.