Donald Trump lost an election. Anybody can lose an election, especially someone with zero character. But because he is such a bad loser he couldn’t take the loss so now he is losing over and over; losing again and again every day as he lies, cheats and does everything that no functional person would do to try to overthrow his loss.
Donald Trump lost the election because he has no abilities, no character and no balls and the nation finally recognized that. Now he is in the process of making himself the biggest loser in history.
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A silly question was asked on Meet the Press; will Joe Biden hold socially distanced campaign events? The question was asked on Meet the Press. It’s silly because he won’t be holding any campaign events as he will be too busy leading the country instead of worrying, as Trump has about what he’s going to do when he isn’t failing at being president.
Biden will not have to do any campaigning until October of 2024 because he understands what Trump does not. If you do the right thing while you are in office you will not have to worry about getting re-elected. Trump is such a monumental screw-up he wasn’t able to run on his track record, hence the rallies, hence the spread of the pandemic.
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Re: Information technology. Why don’t people believe what they read in the papers? Why do so many believe what they read on Twitter and other Internet platforms when it is obviously opinion and not reportage? When someone tells me that they get all or most of their information from Facebook and Twitter I know I am speaking to an uninformed person. The Internet is not required to have any kind of fact checking and that has allowed every nut case who can turn his or her computer on to tell the American public whatever comes into his or her addled mind at any given moment. Facebook, Twitter and the like haven’t, as yet, really understood their responsibility so they are just starting to cut off the most egregious liars like Trump.
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The Progressives in the Democratic Party are about to achieve just what they want but they must have a bit of patience. They can’t go around whining about the fact that Biden hasn’t given them everything they demanded before he even gets in office. Briahna Joy Gray was heard complaining about Neera Tanden’s appointment even as the GOP was doing the same thing. Now they both can’t be right, which makes me think that both are probably wrong. The Progressives and the GOP are always, by their natures, diametrically opposed on every issue, so if they both hate Tanden she must be perfect for the job. It’s obviously a genius move by Biden.
But Tanden isn’t the end of the line. The Progressives have to stop this “Defund The Police,” nonsense. In the first place nobody with any intelligence wants to defund the police, and in the second place while it may have been a catchy little ditty to organize a crowd, it is the most brain dead idea ever injected into a Presidential campaign. It almost cost Biden the election even though he is against it.
What Bernie, AOC and the rest of the Progressives should be concentrating on now is Healthcare. They took a big beating on it during the debates when polls showed that shortsighted voters wanted to protect their employer or union Healthcare Plans. Those voters did not understand the subtleties’ of a plan that depended on the employer’s or union’s fiscal health. What they saw looked like free health care coverage. Many were too dumb to understand that there is no such thing as a free lunch. They didn’t see that all that coverage was the result of smaller wage hikes. They also didn’t get that the insurance companies profits had to come from somewhere.
It seems that the pandemic’s ravages have brought a number of those people back to earth. The economic crash caused by Trump’s stupidity and incompetent handling of the pandemic have caused companies to go out of business and unions to fail, killing those juicy healthcare plans and leaving the subscribers high and dry. The SAG/AFTRA plan just cut the throats of 160,000 members, mostly among the older membership, who need it most.
There is one aspect of single payer that is not trumpeted enough; the bargaining power of that single payer to force costs down in all aspects of the healthcare industry, especially drugs. The insurance companies don’t care about the costs; they just pass them on to the customer in the form of higher rates or co-pays. A single payer would be more able to dictate rates all over the industry.
This was the Progressive’s number one cause and they got their heads handed to them, but now they have a real point and the examples to back it up. Single Payer is the only way to go and they should spend all their time and energy pushing for it. If they get the Senate in Georgia they will be in a position to push through the most significant piece of legislation since Obama forced the ACA down the throats of a dumb, reluctant America. But this time it will be popular from the start as over 70% of Americans currently want a secure Healthcare System. It will make the Progressives heroes and give them a leg up in their next push without making the rest of the political world hate them.
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Moscow Mitch McConnell finally admitted the obvious when he came out yesterday with a statement regarding consideration of a new bill to help those affected by the pandemic. He actually said, albeit in a very veiled manner, that there would be a new administration in January, which would be considering such a bill. The important thing is it was the first time he had admitted the reality of the Biden administration.
Then, of course, Bill Barr got his fat lips unstuck from Trump’s wrinkled ass long enough to admit that there was no evidence for any of Trump’s rigged election claims. That and the 55 odd law suits that Trump has instituted, all of which have been thrown out of court by mainly Republican judges, should lead even the most brain dead follower to understand that Trump is nothing but an addled crook, lying his ass of so as not to face the fact that he got said ass handed to him in the election.
But the subtlety of McConnell’s statement shouldn’t be ignored. For years Moscow Mitch has painted his self-portrait on the wall of GOP orthodoxy, but is that really where he’s coming from? Maybe not! Maybe it’s all been a great facade to cover up what Mitch has always been after and to a great extent succeeded in getting, power! Maybe that’s why he has followed Trump into the sewer of madness and indecency. McConnell saw that Trump was where the power lay and where even more of it could be conjured. Trump was the President and nothing but a huge Trump blunder would change that. Packing the Supreme Court made Trump ecstatic. Sitting by for three weeks and watching quietly as Trump violated every principal on which democracy is based allowed him to stay safe and fondle his power but as soon as Trump made it clear that he was certifiably insane, Moscow Mitch dropped the first hint. He needs those voters in Georgia to vote GOP and even though hordes of them still believe in the madman in the White House the smart money is shifting to the “Trump is nuts, stay away from him,” thought process.
Now McConnell didn’t come out and say that Trump is a lying piece of shit. He’s too smart for that. He just let those he wanted to reach know that he was the cool guy, and he did it in such a way that if things went south he could crawl out from under it. Mitch is very smart, completely immoral and ultimately dedicated to having all the power. If Georgia goes south on him he will need a way out and it might still be Trump. He is willing to go along with this but he isn’t as stupid as Lindsey Graham who has put all his eggs into the Trump basket and broadcast it to the world. Now when Trump goes down, Lindsey will be the cardboard on which he skids down the mountain and through the gates of hell.
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We all know that Donald Trump is a crook, a con man, a degenerate liar and an egomaniacal sociopath. I could spend the next ten pages listing all the dishonest, stupid, incompetent, offensive and unconstitutional things he has done just since he took office. But the story that broke yesterday will put him in a category all by himself when the powers-that-be total up the greatest monsters in the history of mankind.
We all know about Trump’s horrendous treatment of southern border immigrants and the crime against humanity he perpetrated by ripping children from their parent’s arms as a means to discourage them from crossing our border. That was bad enough, but then to discover that his minions in the Border Patrol and ICE hadn’t kept adequate records that would enable them to reunite the families was even worse.
Now we find that the supposed lack of record keeping was a lie. All the time these parents and children have been cruelly separated, the records of addresses and even phone numbers that would create reunions existed but were being withheld by Trump and his storm troopers. These families could have been reunited months ago but the monster Trump wanted to continue the terror and with the help of his Border Gestapo he has kept these families apart all this time. From where I’m sitting this is a crime against humanity as evil, if not as all encompassing, as the Holocaust.
We should all be aware of the concept of tempering justice with mercy but this is such a cruel and useless thing to have done to parents and children seeking nothing more than a better life that I cannot find it in my heart to suggest any punishment more merciful for Trump and his degenerate minions than crucifixion on The Wall that is the symbol of his inhumanity to his fellow man. This crime is as awful as anything ever perpetrated by man and the penalty, in this case, should match the crime. The level of pain and anguish and the manner in which lives were destroyed is so deliberately monstrous that it makes this crime an icon in the journals of human cruelty and terror.