A Vote for Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue is a Vote...

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The people in Georgia have the immediate fate and soul of the country in their hands when they complete the 2020 elections tomorrow (January 5, 2021) with the two Senate runoff elections pitting Kelly Loeffler against Raphael Warnock and David Perdue against Jon Ossoff.

Both Republicans (Loeffler and Perdue) have clung to the heels of Trumpism throughout this election cycle.

With the United States Congress about to meet on January 6 to confirm the Biden/Harris victory in the Electoral College, both Trump sycophants have signaled support for the seditious coup attempt to object to the Biden/Harris victory.

A victory Republican members of their state government have repeatedly confirmed again, again, and again.

In essence, with their positions on the issues and willingness to support Trumpism no matter what, voters in Georgia need to remember that a vote for Loeffler and Perdue is a vote against:

• The Country.
• Democracy.
• The American Republic.
• Power of the People.
• The American Federal System.
• The rule of law.
• Election fairness.
• Reality.
• Moving the country forward.

Voting for Loeffler and Perdue would be a vote for:

• Trump over Country.
• Tyranny.
• Autocracy.
• Oligarchy.
• Fascism.
• Dictatorship.
• Lawlessness.
• Corrupting the election system.
• Destroying the American Ideal.
• The Big Lie.
• Moving the country backward.
• Moscow Mitch McConnell obstructionism.

To the people of Georgia:

The immediate direction and soul of the country is in your hands.

Do the right thing and deny the seditious coup plotters, Loeffler and Perdue, a chance to wreak havoc on our country.

Vote for Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.

If elected, they will work for the people, the nation, and the American Ideal and Dream.

Can you really say the same about Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue?

I think not.

Jim Jordan and Devin Dunes will Receive the Medal of Autocracy from the Chief Executive Demagogue

 The Chief Executive Demagogue-Aspiring Duce has decided to bestow the Medal Freedom on two Blackshirt Trump Zone Congressional Enablers from the House of Representatives: Jim Jordan and Devin Dunes.

Before Donald Trump, the Medal of Freedom went to deserving national and world figures like Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Helen Keller, Jackie Robinson, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II.

Now Trumpists like Rush Limbaugh and these two purveyors of real fake news and conspiracy theories have received this award that is meant for people that:

"have made exceptional contributions to the security or national interests of America, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors."

Under Donald Trump, the Medal of Freedom has become the Medal of Autocracy.

One should wonder what award he will confer on the 12 apostates in the United States Senate (former Senator Claire McCaskill calls these people the Dirty Dozen) that plan on objecting to the Biden/Harris Popular Vote and Electoral College Victory.

Or what gifts he would give to the 140 Blackshirts in the House of Representatives that are warring on the Republic and American Democracy.

Thank God the country will have a new President on January 20, 2021, who knows the true meaning of the Medal of Freedom and will award this highest honor to those who have enhanced society and truly deserve it, not sycophants who swear loyalty to Donald Trump and not the country.

Biden Should Not Repeat Obama's Mistake

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In modern United States History, new Presidents, in their inaugural address, generally say one line or two acknowledging the service of their immediate predecessor.

In Joe Biden's case, that may change. Instead of lying and praising Donald Trump's service to the country, Biden may be better off saying "book him Danno."

In taking office, the incoming Biden/Harris Administration should not take the forgiving attitude towards its immediate predecessors that the Obama/Biden Administration did.

As a July 2020 article in Vanity Fair reminded the American People, the incoming Obama/Biden Administration in 2009 wanted to unite and heal the country after the disastrous economic and foreign policy miscalculations and criminal acts of members and allies of the Bush/Cheney Administration.

They decided not to encourage investigations and prosecutions of those people that put the country through hell.

History shows that decision was unwise and frankly naive.

The bad guy, if warranted, always needs to be held accountable and made to pay for any criminal acts he or she is found to have been committed.

Even if the bad guy was the President of the United States.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris should not repeat the mistakes of the Obama/Biden Administration.

In addition to the probable investigations Mr. Trump faces in New York and now Georgia, they should sanction the creation of a special counsel or independent commission to investigate all allegations against Donald Trump and his Administration.

If Donald Trump and his cronies (probable accomplices) refuse to cooperate, they should be cited for contempt and thrown in jail.

The actions of Donald Trump and his Black Shirts can not be swept under the rug.

The guilty need to be punished for the harm they caused to the American Democratic Republic.

Their bad acts need to be exposed for, if anything, to maybe convince some of those in the Trump Zone to stop drinking the Kool-Aid.

This investigation and its results would pave the road to restoring confidence in our Democracy and healing the Nation better than taking the forgiving and forget naivete of the Obama/Biden Administration.

Hopefully, President-Elect Joe Biden will remember that lesson from history and act differently this time.

Hopefully.

 

  

The Biden/Harris Team Reacts to Trump's Attempted Shakedown of the Georgia Secretary of State

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Bob Bauer, a senior legal advisor to the Biden/Harris team has issued a statement reacting to the release of an audiotape of Donald Trump attempting to shake down the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to find 11,780 more votes for the 2016 and 2020 Popular Vote Loser that would allow Individual One to prevail in that state.

"We now have irrefutable proof of a president pressuring and threatening an official of his own party to get him to rescind a state's lawful, certified vote count and fabricate another in its place. It captures the whole, disgraceful story about Donald Trump's assault on American democracy."

Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, at a rally for the two Democratic Senate Candidates in Georgia, said Trump's phone call was:

“The voice of desperation — most certainly that...And it was a bald, baldfaced, bold abuse of power by the President of the United States."

Vice President-Elect Harris and Mr. Bauer are right. What the Chief Executive Demagogue-Aspiring Duce is doing and his Trump Zone enablers are doing is an abuse of power and is an assault on Democracy.

It is definitely impeachable (he obviously did not learn the lessons from the Ukraine Call) and is probably criminal. Self-serving Republican leadership in Congress should finally grow spines and attempt to make Trump resign before he does more damage to the country.

People should wonder how many other Republicans in other swing states Trump is calling with this pitch?

Please click here to read the transcript and/or listen to the phone call.

Among the other reactions that have been published to this shakedown call.

Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer:

https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1345810744412139521

Democratic Senator Dick Durbin:

https://twitter.com/SenatorDurbin/status/1345844110339559430

 

Former Arizona Senator Jeff Flake:

https://twitter.com/JeffFlake/status/1345880719617232896

Democratic House Representative Adam Schiff:

https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1345807237256626176

Republican House Representative Adam Kinzinger:

https://twitter.com/RepKinzinger/status/1345828522254880770

No statements from major Republican leaders Kevin McCarthy or Mitch McConnell.

It is time for the love of country to find its way back to the hearts of those Republicans that have enabled or been seduced by Trumpism.

It is time to shun the Trumpist Black Shirts (the true believers and opportunists) and defeat them in Georgia on Tuesday and in future elections.

Consign them to the dustbin of history where they belong but never forget them or what they did to destroy this country and tear the people apart.

Remember them as a warning lesson for when the next Trump wannabe surfaces. 

Editorial Cartoons of the Week

 

Brooks and Marcus from January 1, 2021

 

Maybe Close to 150 Know Nothing Trump Zone "Republicans" Plan to Object to the Biden/Harris November 3 2020 Win

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 Happy New Year Everyone.

Although as my mother suggested in a social media post, the new year really does not start in this country until Joe Biden and Kamala Harris get sworn in on January 20, 2021.

Despite that reality, apparently close to 150 Know-Nothing Trump Zone "Republicans" plan to object to the Biden/Harris November 3, 2020 win when Congress considers the Electoral College count on January 6, 2021.

Apparently, there are about 140 House "Republicans" and close to a dozen "Republican" Senators who will consider voting against counting the Electoral College votes.

This decision by close to 150 seditious mice following the Pied Pieper of Trumpism is insane.

There is no valid reason to contest Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's November 3, 2020 win.

The Biden/Harris Ticket won the Popular Vote by more than seven million votes.

They won the Electoral College by the same margin as the Trump/Pence ticket in 2016.

Donald Trump and Mike Pence have never won the popular vote.

Despite over 60 court hearings (where the Trumpists have won only once) and numerous baseless charges of election rigging, no wide-scale voter fraud has been found in any state at levels that would affect the Electoral College outcome. Some of these court decisions were given by Trump appointees including the three on the United States Supreme Court.

2000 and 2016 Popular Vote Winners Al Gore and Hillary Clinton, because of questions in Florida (Gore) and Russian interference (Clinton) had better claims to pursue challenging the Electoral College in Congress.

They did not.

There are several reasons these 150 "Republican public servants" are acting this way. Some like Senator Josh Hawley, as Senator Ben Sasse has pointed out, are planning to object because they (chuckle, chuckle)  want to be the Republican Presidential Nominee in 2024. Others like Louie Gohmert and Mo Brooks are doing this because they are Know-Nothing Trump Zone-Fox Island-Disinfowar Residents who actually believe all the baseless charges of voter fraud. Others in the former Party of Lincoln are going along with this travesty because they fear being primaried in 2022 by a candidate favored by Donald Trump.

Not one of the reasons explained above justifies this unprecedented reckless attempt to sow doubt in the legitimate election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

These objections will not change the election outcome.

Joe Biden will become President on January 20, 2021.

Kamala Harris will become Vice President on that date as well.

The country needs to heal from the four years of Donald Trump and, if Democrats prevail in both Senate runoff elections in Georgia on January 5, 2021, the obstruction of Republican oligarchs and plutocrats.

These 150 Know-Nothing and seditious members of the "Republican Party" are not putting the country ahead of self-interest.

They are stoking division and potentially further propelling the growth of fringe reactionary and domestic terrorist groups that will tear at the Nation's fabric.

All to keep power and make nice with the Chief Executive Demagogue-Liar in Chief-Twice KKK endorsed candidate-Twice Popular Vote Loser-Aspiring Duce-Individual One.

Shame on them.

Remember who votes against the Electoral College count on January 6, 2020, and fight to vote them out of office across the country in 2022.