CNN’s bombshell revelation of Trump loyalist lawyer John Eastman’s six-point memo of instructions for overturning the 2020 election—discussed in the new book by veteran journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa—seems to be sparking a reckoning with how dangerous the Trump loyalists are to the survival of American democracy.
Dr. R's continued focus on the GOP's voter suppression efforts and attempts to replace nonpartisan election officials is most appreciated. This area is where a new front has opened up in the battle to save voting rights. Just last night I received my assignment as a poll worker for the Nov. 2nd Virginia gubernatorial election. My 5th year of serving as an election officer, and I can't wait! My local elections office needs several hundred poll workers and had over 1,000 requesting to serve - that gives me hope
Indeed! They knew they were lying and lied anyway. That's called "actual malice" and as I learned in "Avoiding defamation for writers," actual malice wipes out all the other defenses to a defamation suit. The Three Stooges are staring down the barrel of a billion dollar lawsuit standing their in their legal "birthday suit." If you want to fuck up a Republican, take what they love the most - their money.
Oh, Dr. R, it is hard to believe that every morning I can be more appalled about Trump & his henchmen and their evil deeds than the morning before. Yet, it is so.
Thank you is far too tepid Professor Richardson for your extraordinarily fine-tuned and astute reporting. It's more than a wakeup call to the infamy concocted by anti-democratic individuals in the Republican party, it is a clarion call to all those who love our country and its flawed form of government. We are a continual work-in-progress but these forces sought to stent and kill it. Again, your work is so, so appreciated by this citizen.
The implications of Republican extremism, authoritarianism and mob boss rule in the manner that Trump and his cronies execute it, is also threatening to America's capitalism. Our corporations may not like regulations, but our democracy results in more predictable, reviewable and appealable regulations. Trump's impulsive edicts, friend vs enemy, fixer vs persecutor, oligarch vs business people all add up to economic chaos. His tariffs are one example. Winners and losers with subsidies to those he could not afford to hurt by tariffs. Russia is the Trump model for America.
American businesses are fool hardy to think they can do better in that environment.
Scariest quote in "Peril" is on the back cover, from Parscale: "He had an army. An army for Trump. He wants that back. I don't think he sees it as a comeback. He sees it as vengeance."
Vengeance has been his operating fuel since he was six years old and hit a teacher who had corrected him in class.
He doesn't need to be arrested, tried and convicted. He needs to die. Keep praying for the Karma of the Hamberders. A massive fatal myocardial infarction, mid-rant in front of the true believers at the next hatealong.
Every day presents more evidence of corruption, sedition, criminal activity by trump and his minions. Every day we wring our hands, voice our concern/disbelief, and collectively nod our heads that all of this is putting us into a clear and present danger and places us at the brink of losing our democracy (along with our sanity!) And, yet we do not see the words indictment, trial, conviction, or jail next to any of the names of the perps and as a result they are "free to roam the country" and hold the government hostage. IMO Mitch McConnell and his cronies are pure evil. I simply cannot get my head around the fact there has been such a lack of accountability. The justice department needs to take the gloves off and start making the cases in real and current time.
And, as if all that isn't enough . . . wartime medical triage is on its way to your neighborhood because self centered idiots who decided they didn't want to get the vaccine are consuming limited medical resources. Medical personnel at every level are overwhelmed, burned out, and leaving the profession which further compounds the problem. And, so much of this disaster could have been mitigated after vaccines became available. It's just gobsmack disgusting and frustrating as hell.
"Alaska and Idaho have activated statewide 'crisis standards of care,' in which health systems can prioritize patients for scarce resources — based largely on their likelihood of survival — and even deny treatment." CNN and other news stations
"The largest hospital system in Central Massachusetts, UMass Memorial Health, ran out of intensive care beds Wednesday as critically ill patients with deferred chronic health problems and those stricken with COVID-19 overwhelm health care providers". Boston Globe
"It is impossible to overstate just how momentous are both an attempted coup and an attempt to force the U.S. to default on its debts." - HCR LFAA 9/22/2021
This single sentence is why I cannot feel confident about our future as a democracy. When Dr. Richardson, with all her historical perspective, expresses such troubling thoughts about what has (and is) happening to our country, it should be a sign to all of us that the time for serious action is past due.
I’m so deeply grateful for these letters. It would be otherwise impossible for me to be this informed about what’s going on and able to be efficiently active. Knowledge (and truth) are power (I hope).
As evidence to support allegations of insurrection, attempted coup, tax fraud, election tampering mount, I have to wonder if McConnell will crash the economy via the debt ceiling, put the USA in chaos; rendering the prosecution of Trump moot
Thank you so much, Professor Richardson. This is enlightening stuff. Meanwhile, I wonder why nobody talks about the spending on the military-industrial complex. While Manchin and others yowl about spending, the Pentagon never passes an audit. Half of our tax dollars go to support the military. It's absurd, according to Lt. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/09/20/the-members-of-congress-who-want-to-rethink-the-pentagons-budget
There are no limits to what this criminal lunatic will do to avoid the consequences of his actions.
This, we have already seen.
In his brinkmanship on the edge of legality he has always taken care to create diversions and smokescreens, and to implicate others. Now the signs are that he has run out of tricks.
McConnell and cronies are out to save their party and preserve its purpose, namely to reverse the outcome of the Civil War and most American history since the adoption of the Constitution… They are playing for very high stakes but they are out to defend themselves, not the former President.
Fast approaching the most dangerous reefs now, when DT will try to ignite a new Civil War and many of those who used him as their human battering ram will peel away from him at the last possible moment.
Almost there!—some conspirators are coming out into the open—look at what just appeared on my computer screen:
The above link features Sen Lindsey Graham’s charge, “If Republicans don’t challenge and change the U.S. election system, there will never be another Republican president elected again,” Graham said on Fox News on the Sunday following the 2020 election. Enter, stage right, John Eastman, the Federalist Society, Claremont Institute, and the Freedom Caucus as the core of the conservative movement.
THIS attempt to subvert Democracy is at the heart and soul of the conservative movement today. The INTENTION is to subvert the rule of the federal government order to allow states’ rights to legislate dominion (control) over this country. The two most prevalent examples of the insidiousness of states’ rights is the absolute dereliction of the trump regime to intervene against Covid-19, and the total disregard for federal action regarding the climate catastrophe we face. States were floundering with unnecessary deaths because of the lack of federal action toward protective measures and the creation of masks and other items. Mainline conservatives now will NOT intervene against the corporate capitalist market in order to save the planet. A third strike against states rights is their focus on local, willy-nilly control of elections, where every state maintains its insidious threats to peoples’ right to vote.
Strikes against states rights:
1) inability to combat the global threats to health, and inability to protect citizens;
2) inability to combat global threats to the earth and catastrophic disasters, and inability to provide protection for citizens and infrastructure;
3) local control of voting, with inability to assure equal access to democracy
The Biden economy (Democracy Capitalism, in my words) intervenes at the only level possible, the federal level, in order to preserve our national and planetary ecosystem - which is directly tied to our health, economy and communities. A local example for me: a neighborhood east of me, along Rte 1, where the Frances Perkins Museum is located, Damariscotta, Maine, is meeting next week to address the grave threats posed at their waterfront, of rising tides and flooding the major commercial street of the entire village. We must have federal action - but this is antithetical to conservatives’ rabid individualism and their abject hostility to federal action.
What was “far right” has become mainstream conservatism and mainstream Republican. Therefore, I believe all elephants must be set free as the symbol of the GOP, and released of the noose around their necks -- so I move to institute the COAT HANGER as the icon of the conservative movement and the Republican Party. They can hang their WHITE SHEETS on the hanger.
Dr. R's continued focus on the GOP's voter suppression efforts and attempts to replace nonpartisan election officials is most appreciated. This area is where a new front has opened up in the battle to save voting rights. Just last night I received my assignment as a poll worker for the Nov. 2nd Virginia gubernatorial election. My 5th year of serving as an election officer, and I can't wait! My local elections office needs several hundred poll workers and had over 1,000 requesting to serve - that gives me hope
This memo will not help their case.
Indeed! They knew they were lying and lied anyway. That's called "actual malice" and as I learned in "Avoiding defamation for writers," actual malice wipes out all the other defenses to a defamation suit. The Three Stooges are staring down the barrel of a billion dollar lawsuit standing their in their legal "birthday suit." If you want to fuck up a Republican, take what they love the most - their money.
Oh, Dr. R, it is hard to believe that every morning I can be more appalled about Trump & his henchmen and their evil deeds than the morning before. Yet, it is so.
Thank you is far too tepid Professor Richardson for your extraordinarily fine-tuned and astute reporting. It's more than a wakeup call to the infamy concocted by anti-democratic individuals in the Republican party, it is a clarion call to all those who love our country and its flawed form of government. We are a continual work-in-progress but these forces sought to stent and kill it. Again, your work is so, so appreciated by this citizen.
If Trump does not pay a price for his evil America is a failed state.
Let's try this again.
The implications of Republican extremism, authoritarianism and mob boss rule in the manner that Trump and his cronies execute it, is also threatening to America's capitalism. Our corporations may not like regulations, but our democracy results in more predictable, reviewable and appealable regulations. Trump's impulsive edicts, friend vs enemy, fixer vs persecutor, oligarch vs business people all add up to economic chaos. His tariffs are one example. Winners and losers with subsidies to those he could not afford to hurt by tariffs. Russia is the Trump model for America.
American businesses are fool hardy to think they can do better in that environment.
Scariest quote in "Peril" is on the back cover, from Parscale: "He had an army. An army for Trump. He wants that back. I don't think he sees it as a comeback. He sees it as vengeance."
Vengeance has been his operating fuel since he was six years old and hit a teacher who had corrected him in class.
He doesn't need to be arrested, tried and convicted. He needs to die. Keep praying for the Karma of the Hamberders. A massive fatal myocardial infarction, mid-rant in front of the true believers at the next hatealong.
Every day presents more evidence of corruption, sedition, criminal activity by trump and his minions. Every day we wring our hands, voice our concern/disbelief, and collectively nod our heads that all of this is putting us into a clear and present danger and places us at the brink of losing our democracy (along with our sanity!) And, yet we do not see the words indictment, trial, conviction, or jail next to any of the names of the perps and as a result they are "free to roam the country" and hold the government hostage. IMO Mitch McConnell and his cronies are pure evil. I simply cannot get my head around the fact there has been such a lack of accountability. The justice department needs to take the gloves off and start making the cases in real and current time.
And, as if all that isn't enough . . . wartime medical triage is on its way to your neighborhood because self centered idiots who decided they didn't want to get the vaccine are consuming limited medical resources. Medical personnel at every level are overwhelmed, burned out, and leaving the profession which further compounds the problem. And, so much of this disaster could have been mitigated after vaccines became available. It's just gobsmack disgusting and frustrating as hell.
"Alaska and Idaho have activated statewide 'crisis standards of care,' in which health systems can prioritize patients for scarce resources — based largely on their likelihood of survival — and even deny treatment." CNN and other news stations
"The largest hospital system in Central Massachusetts, UMass Memorial Health, ran out of intensive care beds Wednesday as critically ill patients with deferred chronic health problems and those stricken with COVID-19 overwhelm health care providers". Boston Globe
Sept 22, 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln issues the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Glory Hallelujah!
Now we know why Republicans were against a full investigation into Jan. 6th. The truth is coming out, America. Listen up!
"It is impossible to overstate just how momentous are both an attempted coup and an attempt to force the U.S. to default on its debts." - HCR LFAA 9/22/2021
This single sentence is why I cannot feel confident about our future as a democracy. When Dr. Richardson, with all her historical perspective, expresses such troubling thoughts about what has (and is) happening to our country, it should be a sign to all of us that the time for serious action is past due.
I’m so deeply grateful for these letters. It would be otherwise impossible for me to be this informed about what’s going on and able to be efficiently active. Knowledge (and truth) are power (I hope).
As evidence to support allegations of insurrection, attempted coup, tax fraud, election tampering mount, I have to wonder if McConnell will crash the economy via the debt ceiling, put the USA in chaos; rendering the prosecution of Trump moot
Thank you so much, Professor Richardson. This is enlightening stuff. Meanwhile, I wonder why nobody talks about the spending on the military-industrial complex. While Manchin and others yowl about spending, the Pentagon never passes an audit. Half of our tax dollars go to support the military. It's absurd, according to Lt. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/09/20/the-members-of-congress-who-want-to-rethink-the-pentagons-budget
There are no limits to what this criminal lunatic will do to avoid the consequences of his actions.
This, we have already seen.
In his brinkmanship on the edge of legality he has always taken care to create diversions and smokescreens, and to implicate others. Now the signs are that he has run out of tricks.
McConnell and cronies are out to save their party and preserve its purpose, namely to reverse the outcome of the Civil War and most American history since the adoption of the Constitution… They are playing for very high stakes but they are out to defend themselves, not the former President.
Fast approaching the most dangerous reefs now, when DT will try to ignite a new Civil War and many of those who used him as their human battering ram will peel away from him at the last possible moment.
Almost there!—some conspirators are coming out into the open—look at what just appeared on my computer screen:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/steve-bannon-admits-he-helped-plan-6-january-trump-rally-to-kill-the-biden-presidency-in-the-crib/ar-AAOIcGH?ocid=winp1taskbar
DANGER LOOMING.
Time for extreme vigilance. NOW.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/09/lindsey-grahams-curious-conspiratorial-argument-why-trump-should-fight-election-results/
The above link features Sen Lindsey Graham’s charge, “If Republicans don’t challenge and change the U.S. election system, there will never be another Republican president elected again,” Graham said on Fox News on the Sunday following the 2020 election. Enter, stage right, John Eastman, the Federalist Society, Claremont Institute, and the Freedom Caucus as the core of the conservative movement.
THIS attempt to subvert Democracy is at the heart and soul of the conservative movement today. The INTENTION is to subvert the rule of the federal government order to allow states’ rights to legislate dominion (control) over this country. The two most prevalent examples of the insidiousness of states’ rights is the absolute dereliction of the trump regime to intervene against Covid-19, and the total disregard for federal action regarding the climate catastrophe we face. States were floundering with unnecessary deaths because of the lack of federal action toward protective measures and the creation of masks and other items. Mainline conservatives now will NOT intervene against the corporate capitalist market in order to save the planet. A third strike against states rights is their focus on local, willy-nilly control of elections, where every state maintains its insidious threats to peoples’ right to vote.
Strikes against states rights:
1) inability to combat the global threats to health, and inability to protect citizens;
2) inability to combat global threats to the earth and catastrophic disasters, and inability to provide protection for citizens and infrastructure;
3) local control of voting, with inability to assure equal access to democracy
The Biden economy (Democracy Capitalism, in my words) intervenes at the only level possible, the federal level, in order to preserve our national and planetary ecosystem - which is directly tied to our health, economy and communities. A local example for me: a neighborhood east of me, along Rte 1, where the Frances Perkins Museum is located, Damariscotta, Maine, is meeting next week to address the grave threats posed at their waterfront, of rising tides and flooding the major commercial street of the entire village. We must have federal action - but this is antithetical to conservatives’ rabid individualism and their abject hostility to federal action.
What was “far right” has become mainstream conservatism and mainstream Republican. Therefore, I believe all elephants must be set free as the symbol of the GOP, and released of the noose around their necks -- so I move to institute the COAT HANGER as the icon of the conservative movement and the Republican Party. They can hang their WHITE SHEETS on the hanger.