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After Record Turnout, Republicans Are Trying to Make It Harder to Vote The presidential election results are settled. But the battle over new voting rules, especially for mail-in ballots, has just begun.   WASHINGTON — In Georgia, Arizona and other states won by President Biden, some leading Republicans stood up in November to make what, in any other year, would be an unremarkable statement: The race is over. And we lost, fair and square.   I But that was then. Now, in statehouses nationwide, Republicans who echoed former President Donald J. Trump’s baseless claims of rampant fraud are proposing to make it harder to vote next time — ostensibly to convince the very voters who believed them that elections can be trusted again. And even some colleagues who defended the legitimacy of the November vote are joining them. According to the Brennan Center for Justice  at New York University, state legislators have filed 106 bills to tighten election rules, generally making it harder to cast a

 

      That's it Rudy, keep showing your true nature. That of a groveling pig at the feet of a seditious insurrectionist lying POS ex presnit.

  What follows was copied from the pages of Progressive Eruptions . As we see the GOP moving farther to the pro authoritarian extreme right it becomes more and more prone to lying and conspiracy theories to keep their cultists enthralled, enraged, and in line.  This nation is in a danger zone unlike anything we've witnessed in the last 160 years. What reality is showing us is, simply, that this nation is coming apart at the seams and it is being spurred on by unscrupulous and un American charlatans of division, chaos, and disater. "Marjorie Taylor Green, the newly elected congresswoman, has supported QAnon, and the disgusting view that the Sandy Hook, Parkland and Las Vegas mass shootings were false flag operations. She has called for Pelosi's assassination.  The more you look at her, the more despicable she appears. She remains seated in Congress, remains likely to be seated on a committee, and remains undenounced by the vast majority of her colleagues. She is one of the

  Statement Following Meeting With President Trump Palm Beach, FL.  – Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA-23) issued the following statement today: “House Republicans and the Trump administration achieved historic results for all Americans. We were able to do this because we listened to and understood the concerns of our fellow citizens that had long been ignored. As a result, House Republicans defied the experts and the media by expanding our growing coalition across the country. “Today, President Trump committed to helping elect Republicans in the House and Senate in 2022. A Republican majority will listen to our fellow Americans and solve the challenges facing our nation. Democrats, on the other hand, have only put forward an agenda that divides us — such as impeaching a President who is now a private citizen and destroying blue-collar energy jobs. For the sake of our country, the radical Democrat agenda must be stopped. “A united conservative movement will strengthen the bonds of

  Not since the Civil War has this nation been so divided. As I look around today it seems as if the divisions of one hundred and sixty years ago remain today. Yes, racism and social injustice does reman intertwined in our national fabric. Whether one wishes to acknowledge it or not. Donald J. Trump, as bad and incompetent as a leader as he was, did not cause the divisions that divide us. They have been festering below the surface since our nation's bloody Civil War ended.  But he did recognize the depths of the divisions and he saw great political opportunity in exploiting them to achieve his political aspirations. His ability to recognize the divisions and then exploit them through the continual repetition ( see inculcate ) of  lies and baseless conspiracy theories was the fuel he threw on the fire that started the blaze that culminated in the insurrection and attempt to overthrow the government on January 6, 2021. DJT is out of office. Fired by the American people in a landslide

 

 

 

 

      This jacka^s must go! As must ALL the lying anti-American seditionists!

  GOP Rep. Andy Harris Tries To Bring Gun Into House Chamber Be sure to click on the link above to witness the insanity of the republican MAGA Morons in the senate. WASHINGTON ― New security measures outside the U.S. House chamber prevented a Republican lawmaker from bringing a gun onto the House floor Thursday. Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), who has repeatedly flouted the magnetometers that were installed near the House chamber after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, set off the metal detectors while trying to enter. When an officer with a metal detector wand scanned him, a firearm was detected on Harris’s side, concealed by his suit coat. Police refused to let Harris in, and the officer signaled a security agent that Harris had a gun on him by motioning toward his own firearm.

 

The following article in and of itself is the best argument I've read yet for the total and complete dismantling of the republican party. Not just getting rid of just one disingenuous power hungry authoritarian and backer and enabler of the corrupt racist and immediate previous president. To right our politics WILL require that either the present republican party completely reforms itself under a principled and honest party platform that actually acknowledges that the people, each and every one of us (not just the multi millionaires and billionaires) matter. Failing  this the republican party needs to be dismantled and tossed on the dust bin of history.   Mitch McConnell Needs To Go                 The Senate Minority Leader no longer represents   conservative  voters. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has done very good service for the American people. His Merrick Garland gambit was one of the riskiest and best political plays in congressional history. He has seated an enorm

 Meet Your Local Republican Insurrectionist A new HuffPost tally finds over 20 GOP state and local lawmakers or officials were at the D.C. rally that turned into a violent insurrection. Here are their names.   At least 21 state and local Republican officials attended the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C., that turned into a violent riot , according to a new HuffPost tally, many of whom are now under pressure to resign.  They traveled from 16 different states, arriving for the “Stop the Steal” demonstration on the White House Ellipse, where they watched President Donald Trump tell incendiary lies about having been robbed of reelection. He then told the crowd of thousands to march on the Capitol.  In the crowd that day were 13 members of state Houses or Assemblies; three state senators; a county commissioner; a city council member; a GOP congressional district chair; a district director; and a co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party .  The group also includes a QAnon conspiracy theoris

  America has new administration in town. With new ideas to combat the multiple problems and challenges that were largely created by the administration of the previous corrupt and inept republican  president. a time of great celebration and yet a time to get down to the serious work of the peoples business. Yet almost before the new President and Vice President have even begun we see the following from a far rightwing weblog  that was (and remains) supportive of the previous president. You know the one. That orange colored dude that engaged in overt sedition and incited an insurrecting in the Capitol in which people died. That's the kind of scum that republicans' and delusional conservatives chose to support. MANY continue to support him even after his traitorous acts.  The anti-American weblog to which I refer posted the following two days following President Biden's inauguration. One can readily see by comparing the above with the poster posted at the rightwing cult  web

 

  ( CNN ) -  The Republican Party will begin its time as the minority party in Washington unpopular with a public ready to move on from President Donald Trump, according to   a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS . The poll also finds that the most high-profile elected Republican who will remain in office after Trump leaves, Sen. Mitch McConnell, is viewed more negatively than ever before.  The public overwhelmingly  wants to see the Republican Party move on  from Trump once he's left office. Overall, just 19% say the party ought to continue to treat Trump as its leader, while 77% say it should move on. Among Republicans, views are split, with 48% saying the party should move on and 47% saying the party should continue to treat Trump as the leader of the party Please, Please, Please continue supporting the previous pretend   president. Support the bast^rd until it DESTROYS your hypocritical lying anti American party. Then we can start a new inclusive, rational, and truly fiscally conser

 

 

 America was badly tarnished and damaged by the previous pretend president who used the office as his personal highway to personal benefit. IOW, the previous pretend president did not and never did give so much as a thought about anybody's welfare but his own. The previous pretend president is gone. Halleluiah! Trial in the Senate and hopefully ultimate conviction awaits the previous pretend insurrectionist president. But America's BIGGEST problem is not the previous pretend president. It is Mitch McConnell and the un American senators (and here I use the term very loosely) who continue to support the previous pretend insurrectionist president. President Biden and Vice President Harris can't do it alone. They need every patriotic American who loves their country to stand up and call, or write your Senators demanding they proceed to trial immediately and when the evidence shows the previous pretend president was engaged in insurrection (and it absolutely will) demand that th

Today was a great day. A new beginning and a fresh chance to actually restore America to the greatness squandered by donald j. trump.  As we move forward all should take a moment to properly reflect and give the Great Orange Sh^tstain a proper send off. The send off he so richly deserves  . As of tomorrow this sh^stain will never be mentioned on this weblog again, He is now effectively of no consequence. America and the entire world should simply turn away and totally ignore the psychologically damaged and dangerous individual.     Bye Bye and good riddance Dotard donnie!

 

 

via GIPHY In 40 more hours  the seditionist (fake) president donald j. trump, the bastard  who engaged in sedition and incited insurrection on 01/06/2021 will be gone from our White House.  But make no mistake, the stench of his divisive rhetoric, policies, and UN-AMERICAN Trumpism   will remain for years. A POS tRump leaves a stench and legacy that Satan would be proud of.   Stand now and forever against the undemocratic, authoritarian evil that tRump has ALWAYS stood for. And deny the GD complicit republican cult of trump the ability to EVER again gain control of the congress or senate again.  FUCK tRump and his cultists. Now and FOREVER!

 

 

 

 

The following article by  Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee  explains why trumpers are attracted to trump and why trump gravitates towards the violence and destruction we witnessed last Wednesday 1/6/2021 when his supporters, in an act of insurrection and sedition stormed the Capitol in an attempt to intimidate Congress and overturn the presidential election. A big Hat Tip goes out to Progressive Eruptions . What attracts people to Trump? What is their animus or driving force? The reasons are multiple and varied, but in my recent public-service book,  Profile of a Nation , I have outlined two major emotional drives: narcissistic symbiosis and shared psychosis. Narcissistic symbiosis refers to the developmental wounds that make the leader-follower relationship magnetically attractive. The leader, hungry for adulation to compensate for an inner lack of self-worth, projects grandiose omnipotence—while the followers, rendered needy by societal stress or developmental injury, yearn for a p

 

 

  Damn Straight!

  We need a lot more people listening to Timothy Synder and a hell of a lot less listening to trump!

  The following is real understanding and patriotism. It is also the truth. Truth that the trump cultists around the nation lack the desire, capacity or ability to understand. Nor do they care to. Their belief in their fake president blinds any ability they might once have possessed to understand. Hopefully what follows is powerful enough to change the minds of those cultists not completely brainwashed by trump's continual barrage of fallacious rhetoric.  You know how it goes, con me once shame on you, con me twice shame on me . Well, the trump cultists have a good deal to feel shame over. Article BELOIW the FOLD .

      This bast^ard needs to go. NOW!   tRump is a seriously and dangerously damaged piece of work. In other words he is a POS that has embarrassed our nation in front of the entire globe, lied to our people, incited insurrection, his actions resulted in the death of 5 people on 1/6/2021, and due to his ineptness, lack of empathy or compassion, and lack of leadership over 350,000 souls have been lost to a pandemic the incompetent and inept Orange Turd chose to minimize and ultimately ignore. Accountability. Something tRump has never faced. EVER. It is past time that he does. NOW! The 25th or impeachment for the second time. This time remove the bast^ard and bar him from EVER holding public office again.

  donald j. trump proved once again that he is unfit for the office he holds and therefore needs to be removed from the office immediately. His incitement of Wednesday's armed insurrection at the Capitol fully and completely exposed him for the  traitor to democracy and our republic that he really is. The representatives and senators who continued to object to the EC votes following the attempt by trump and his cultists to intimidate the congress to install trump in the office for a second term, against the will of the people, need to go as well. They do not deserve to continue in their elected positions. They an never be trusted to do the right thing. They made that perfectly clear Wednesday, January 6, 2021. , 

      trump occasionally gets something right.   Pains me to say almost ANYTHING positive about trump. Why? Because he RARELY does anything right. But, even a dumba^s like trump occasionally gets it right. So, what does that say about the GOP? The group that literally supported every one of his bass-ackward moments. Which was most of his presidency. Frankly, not one single person should have been suprized by trump's inspired insurrection yesterday at the United States Capitol. What was witnessed yesterday is EXACTLY who trump  has ALWAYS been.

Yesterday trump laid out the final chapter in his efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election. In so doing he solidified his legacy. trump will leave office as an impeached president and one who actively, over time, sowed the seeds of discontent, division, and then encourged his followers to engage in sedition and insurrection. Yesterday's events at the Capitol is who donald j. trump is. A "man", so narcissistic and self serving  that he is willing to attempt destruction of our democracy and the republic.  His sedition and treason will live in infamy forever. ‘He screwed the country’: Trump loyalty disintegrates Wednesday’s Capitol Hill riot will reverberate for years, shaping Trump’s legacy and pushing Republicans to confront the GOP’s future. POLITICO -  It was, for many of President Donald Trump’s own allies, the final straw. What began as a rally intended to support Trump became a permanent and irreversible stain on his presidency Wednesday afternoon