It's not just him though. It's both the National Archives and FBI playing nice for almost a year before bringing charges under the Espionage Act. When they asked for the documents back and he said "I don't have any", they should have right then and there referred the issue to the FBI for investigation. And, after he turned over a few via his lawyers, a search warrant should have been issued and he should have been arrested.
But, at the end, who's really to blame are all the people who just couldn't vote for a Black woman who had their best interests at heart, and THEY helped elect the most vile human to ever hold public office.
It wasn't complicity. He didn't want to do anything that might suggest that the Justice Department had any bias in the matter, although having just learned that Garland is a member of the Federalist Society, to which all the Trump Justices belong, I suspect he did have his own bias in the matter. Consequently, he did nothing. Biden's worst mistake was appointing him.
Garland was always a Republican. He is a member of the Federalist Society. Why Biden thought it was a good idea to appoint him AG to go after tRump and the other criminals was always beyond me, but here we are.
I can't tell for absolute certain if he's a member of the Federalist Society, but when I google "Is Merrick Garland a member of the Federalist Society," the first link was a favorable link about Garland from the Federalist Society, so obviously google thinks he is, and it's clear Biden should never have picked him for AG.
Biden is not a true Democrat. I didn't vote for him for that reason. And he chose Kamala Harris for his VP to get the black vote. He has a reputation of being a racist back when he was first elected to Congress about 40 years ago.
I doubt it's complicity. There's a very wise rule: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
I think he was simply an overly-cautious person. That's a great quality in a federal judge, but not so much in an Attorney General. He should have been confirmed for the Supreme Court.
Exactly! Obama wanted him to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court and the stinking Republican Mitch McConnell is the sob that blocked it. McConnell belongs in jail for violating the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law.
Had he filed charges in February 2020, the ensuing trial would have been over and, as per the constitution, he wouldn’t have been allowed to run again. I’m not sure even his pet scotus could have gotten around that. Ffs, the evidence had been assembled for him by the impeachment hearings.
Think back to the second impeachment for the moment when mitch mcconnell said the courts would handle it. That is where the real blame lies. Those repubs that voted against impeachment are at fault first and foremost. Yes, Merrick Garland did not hire Jack Smith soon enough. But history shows this began (and ended) with what was formerly known as the republican party (uncapitalized words for emphasis).
I think they're both equally to blame. Either could have changed the outcome, so that Trump would not be returning to the White House. Neither did, Garland by his foot dragging.
How did he "blow it" How could he fix it. He acted correctly, deliberately, perhaps too slowly, but ahd he acted faster he would have been attacked even more by the Goddamned fascists who to our shame have taken hold of this country
He left an insurrectionist and a traitor alone for 2 years. There was a narrow window to splinter his relationship with his capos. This was not business as usual. Garland showed his utter incompetence and behaved like this was not a coup. It was. Trump should have been put in jail within weeks of Jan 6. Was there evidence? Fuck yes WE ALL SAW IT ON TV. Was there a conspiracy? For fuck’s sake the signs are all there for everyone to see plain as day.
Trump should have been arrested when he locked President Biden and his wife out of the White House. He had them standing outside in the cold air. And Trump refused to answer his phone and put a stop to the riot. He called all those Q'Anon and Patriot Boys and other A-holes three days prior to do that rioting for him. He should have been arrested as soon as he reached the Capital building!
"but ahd he acted faster he would have been attacked even more by the Goddamned fascists"
SO WHAT? He's guilty! Get it over with as quickly as possible. Garland didn't and now Trump will never be convicted and pay the price for what was obvious.
When his cases started going to trial, I thought that maybe Trump's contract with Satan was coming to an end, but apparently he re-upped. One day, Trump will ride that golden escalator down to the nether regions of hell to his eternal reward. The only question is, how much damage will he wreak in the meantime.
November 26, 2024 is Trump's sentencing day over those 34 felony charges in New York. I believe the judge will sentence him. Trump is only the President Elect. He is not President yet! So everyone pray the judge locks him up. He can serve as President from his prison cell.
Istvan, are you suggesting that the main law enforcement institution in the country needs to kowtow to the objection of those who are sympathetic to the criminal?! No, that is NOT how law enforcement is supposed to work. The rule of law REQUIRES you to go after the criminal, you do NOT ask the public to first vote if they want you to go after the criminal.
Perhaps it’s possible he could have moved faster but he faced a slew of obstacles. He is a very honest, credible and knowledgeable man and I believe he would not move forward unless he was totally prepared, was as positive as he could be and fully believed he would get a conviction. I’m not sure that even if he filed charges in February of 2020 that it would have made a difference. We have all witnessed how Trump plays with the Courts as a defendant and that he files frivolous claims in response to charges for the sole purpose of prolonging the hearings. Trump’s maneuvers have shown us his total disregard and his outright disrespect for our Legal system. Any other person would have been jailed immediately for any number of the charges filed against him. No one but Trump is at fault for any of this.
No. As a Federalist Society member, he's very biased. All of the Trump and George W. Bush Justices on the Supreme Court are also Federalist Society members. Justices Sotomayor, Jackson, and Kagan are not.
An effective AG can not be intimidated by the potential political backlash for his actions. He must act in accordance with the law without fear or favoritism.
Don't fret people. Iran has put a contract on Trump's head to have him assassinated. Its retribution because Trump had Iran's top general second in command Sole somebody killed by a drone in Iraq. In politics that is a major No! No! You never assassinate any nations world leader or their replacements. Otherwise, your nation is going to get it right back. It will come home to roost.
He's not a member of the Heritage Foundation, but he IS a member of the Federalist Society. That was why Obama figured he'd be acceptable to Repubs enough to confirm him to the Supreme Court.
I don't care what he is a member of. He has a duty to uphold the Laws of the United States as Attorney General and to see to it that those laws are executed when they are broken. Garland should be dis-barred.
I have great respect for Jack Smith. He tried but the judge was not going to let him go forward with the charges. Mr. Smith was a pit bull and never once retreated even when Trump’s appointed judge continued to obstruct his path.
Truth be told, no one other than Donald Trump, his supporters in Congress and his corrupt Supreme Court appointees are responsible for the damage he continues to inflict upon our nation. It’s still hard to believe what we have witnessed since prior to 2016 when Donald Trump first got involved with politics.
It makes you wonder what he has over all of these people that they are handling him with kid gloves now despite all of the damning information against him and him having publicly trashed them previously.
For example, Mitch McConnell saying recently how awful (not exact quote) the subhuman is, then in the same sentence, says he will vote for him. Crazy making at its finest. How can anyone have anything on McConnell?! These people have no shame and commit their crimes out in the open…. I mean how can they be ashamed/scared of anything coming out since they are truly incapable of feeling shame?
I also want to know why our intelligence agencies didn't seem to realize we were missing all those top secret documents. How is it possible that my local library is better able to account for all of its books than the US intelligence community is able to keep track of our national secrets?
They did. That's how the National Archives knew he hadn't returned the documents he took with him. Every classified doc that goes to the White House is tracked.
Whether it's an original or a copy, it's all tracked. How do you think they knew he had them in the first place?
The agencies send the list of non-returned documents to the WH staff first, then they send an identical list that also includes all documents sent to the White House and to the Office of the VP.
The archives usually is pretty good at retrieving those, and in some cases, as evidenced by both Pence and Biden having docs in their possession, a few random docs do not get returned. The reason they're usually taken is they're either low classified or potentially has some classified info in them that is now declassified, and/or the doc was taken with the understanding it had been declassified, when in fact it hadn't be fully through the declass process.
You are right in part. Every Classified document is logged in and signed for at every location and by the person who receives it. There is an ongoing process in which it is handles and filed. When it is returned its logged in and filed. If not returned that is noticed as well. Such as is the case of all the stolen documents. And even if they were declassified which none of the stolen documents had been declassified, they are still filed. And filed as declassified if in fact they are. All of those documents remain serious!
a huge amount of the problem was the disinformation that was coming from right wing sources. Ordinary people on the right don't tune into sources that were touting the good that Harris would have done for them. They are flooded with right wing news sources, and are not even aware of other sources.
Well, I'll bet they finally notice when they actually live the real tRump & Co nightmare though. Those people never seem to notice anything or care about anything unless it affects them personally. Well, there's going to be a very large number of MAGAs who are getting ready to have a really rude awakening.
He was a huge part of it but you cannot lay the whole of this mess at his feet. There are far too many other moving pieces in this mess. But I do agree that his dragging his feet so that he would not look like his motives were "political" have subjected us all to an incoming administration that will be dangerous for so very many, many people.
If Mitch McConnell had found the courage to pull together the three votes needed to secure impeachment, we never would have needed to pin our hopes on Merrick Garland's involvement in the first place.
Screw Glitch McConnell. That dead-eyed chin pouch with a cruelty fetish initially CONDEMNED the orange fucker. Then he worshiped him. Then he condemned him again. Then on and, back and forth, and last I heard, he despises mango mussolini but voted for it ANYWAY.
They're being paid off, ordered to comply... All I can assume otherwise is that this country has been infested with a movement led by low-IQ, high greed and corruption for decades, intending to bring us to this point all along.
Nixon started it. gingrich and limbaugh exacerbated it. the vile slime will destroy everyone with it.
On the Take. I have said if ove and over and over again. This overthrowing of our free and fair Democracy took a lot of time, money and looking the other way. Nixon was the incubator, then came The Tea Party, etc. Many people looked the other way. I was living in DC during the last Obama Administration and was actually at the CPAC Convention. I was working as a contractor for the hotel events. I went into the bar as they got drunker and more boistrous and openly talked about where all this was headed it was clear to me than America was in trouble.
They are a bunch of Rothchild, Bildeberger, One World Order Assholes! Their stinking puppets. They are the punks that wanted that pussy-grabbing Trump whore!
Mitch McConnell cannot be mentioned in the same sentence as courage. That weak, chinless parasite is nothing more than an empty suit polluting our airspace.
And the idiots in Kentucky kept re electing him. They are virtually DEAD LAST in everything. Mitch McConnell got rich off the backs of his constituents.
How many R Senators grabbed for power instead of upholding their oath of office? We have seen that it was impossible to hold anyone accountable for that, even with our votes. We all saw what happened, and we all got the masters class on how money and power corrupt. Isn’t part of the blame on an electorate who chose not to do its homework? I know many were sucked into the rhetoric/propaganda. But who is responsible for the loss of the ability to consider both sides, and the willingness to demonize friends and family? It seems to me that everyone bears some responsibility. The question is, is it possible to fix this?
Its possible only if the electorates got together and went back and voted against Donald Trump in spite of their constitutes and districts where they were appointed to vote. Those are the people responsible for this idiot getting into the White House in the first place.
James Comey followed the law. Go read Comey's and McCabe's books. James Comey could not prosecute Hillary Clinton because according to the law you have to prove that not only did she commit the crime but you have to be able to prove "Intent" She knowingly knew that what she did was a crime. I studied law. To many Americans don't get it. James Comey is a lawyer.
Hey Bonnie Rudolph, looks like you drank the Kool aid......oh, you studied the law?? 🤣
Well, I did too, in fact I AM an attorney. I'm also a former Fed. I KNOW how the system works. How would YOU know if Comey (or ANYONE) told the truth?? You wouldn't! You have NO idea about the Federalist society, and clearly, not much else.
James Comey told the truth and did his job. And so did Andrew McCabe. Trump hated both men because they turned evidence on him that was authentic. Is Mueller also a member of the Federalist Society? If so this Federalist Society is filled with a bunch of corrupt boots licking One World Order Puppets!
Yes, Merrick Garland was delinquent; a gentleman but delinquent. And a Jew! All blame there. And of course, he was the only lawyer in the nation; so all blame on him.
Kind of like Donald John Drumph's grandfather's changing his name from Frederic Drumph to Fred Trump because it sounded less German. Unfortunately, Drumph's Nazi blood came right through the generations, poisoning all the male line to Donald John and now to his older sons, Junior and Eric. Both look like vampires, and then we have the pale, skinny Barron.👹
Actually, I believe the name was Drumpf. The orange sadist's father, and then the o.s. himself, always claimed that their name was Scandinavian, until the truth finally leaked out. Yes, their "Nazi blood" was surely passed down, and has been/is/will be poisoning the blood of our people.
There is one resort but it would take all of the American people to do it. Write letters to the UN and claim that our government no longer works for the people or for the rule of Democracy. The UN has a duty to send in their troops and remove everyone from office and reset the button for our people. They damn near did it in Holland!
💯 % again! You are on roll. 😊. I couldn’t remember the Russian collusion guy’s name. But maybe we should add Comey to the list. Those are the 3 coward men that caused this mess.
I think we can lay much more blame on Mitch McConnell. After all, he had multiple chances to stop Trump and didn't. He also packed the Supreme court with far right "Justices". I think he is the most evil person this country has ever seen. He knew exactly what he was doing, and did it anyway. This is why I keep as far away from the Senate office buildings as I can. If I were to see him in person, it would end badly for both of us.
You do know that Garland is the man that Obama put up for the Supreme Court back in 2016 that McConnell refused to put up for a vote for over 6 months.
Biden for wanting to appear "fair" while they're accusing him of everything Dear Leader actually does. Playing nice with those calling you and your family the most horrible names, year after year. "Biden crime family." "But Hunter."
Who, outside of his family, cares about Hunter but crazy Republican magoids? Biden should do anything lawful - anything that he's been pussyfooting around about. Loosen Ukraine's leash for the couple of months they have left.
Pack the courts. Create at least one Democratic circuit like the Republicans have Kasmaryck in the Texas 5th so there's a place to file that will guarantee a Democratic outcome.
Interesting how the Republicans are warning Democrats not to do all the dirty but legal things they did after the election in 2020. It's time to play their game and stake out at least a little power for the next four years.
The persons to blame: Donald J. Trump and all Americans who voted for a convicted criminal, a thief, a liar, an unpatriotic buffoon, a malignant narcissist
Of course they do! You have to blame the black woman! You can’t blame the media for not covering all of the accomplishments of Joe Biden, and for both sides and everything, for normalizing the racism and misogyny that came rolling out of Trump’s mouth like Hitler himself. Yes the answer is blame the black woman.
Trump’s win isn’t political vindication. It results from saturating the system with disinformation, feeding grievances, and twisting reality until voters saw a false picture. Winning this way doesn’t erase his record of fraud and lies; he remains a criminal felon, for life.
What the country needed right after Joe Biden was elected were tribunals that punished ALL of the MAGA coup actors with either prison, fines and expulsion from politics. That would have set the necessary precedent about what political behavior was acceptable and what wasn’t. But that’s not Joe. He believed in the goodness of Americans. He bet on the love of goodness and fairness to beat MAGA at the ballot box. But the plan did not work and now we are facing the consequences!
Time to dig out all my “RESIST!” stickers and clothing from 2017.
How about wearing these kinds of shirts in front of your MAGA neighbors? 👇 🤔
Elite criminal impunity! This train started with Nixon, and it will keep rolling to authoritarianism. we have made a clear that we will not prosecute criminals for their criminality. This is why the elite criminals continue to crime! They know they will get away with it.
Think about how many people did nothing because the were threatned. So many people behind the curtain were told to shut-up or else. This lack of punishement, charges etc were never going to happen. In any other country an attempted coup would have resulted in Trump going to jail and certainly never allowing him near The White House. Oh America you will pay dearly for all the despots who sold you out.
You are exactly right! I was screaming about that to everyone I knew for the first 3 years and they all pooh poohed me. "Oh, there's nothing he can do without it looking bad", "That's just not him", "He doesn't want to give Trump any importance". Uh huh. And here we are. Between the media, Biden, and the misogyny it was an impossible dream
I took was screaming but I don't have an important name it's like our voices do not need to be heard. So us ordinary citizens see it clearly but they can't see us for the fog of the hill. You can't get to s congressman or a Senator only those with gobs of money get an ear and we elected these SOBs. What do we do? It's not time to quit but again who is listening to us?
Yes, especially if he can somehow make good on his suggestion that we won't need to have elections anymore if he gets in, as if that's a good thing. (Holy cow!!)
Sadly, his supporters, who are so concerned about their rights being taken away under Biden and the Democrats, are willing to give up their Fifteenth Amendment right to vote and have their vote counted all because they have been groomed to hate the Democrats.
They lost all critical thinking and judgement to evaluate the consequences of his domestic and international policy decisions. They don't even question his judgement in giving credence to conspiracy theorists, like Margorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, and that "Infowars" jerk, Alex Jones, and trusting morons, like Guiliani and Bannon.
This entire country needs an "intervention". Geesh!!!
It seems as though since they're really not doing anything that they're in it only for the salary continuances and other perks they get. There are a few congressmen/women who do, do the work they say they will do, but they are often ostracized, harassed, and voted out of office.
We have such horrible division in this country now that people are willing to believe the inane to justify their hatred of their opposing party-voting neighbors and family members. Ya have to question a President who would rather sow division and hate, and not try to harmoniously unify his country, especially in the midst a brewing volatile international situation.
Trump won becuase 10 million 2020 Biden voters failed to vote. Trump only received 600,000 more votes than he did in 2020. Harris received 10 million fewer votes than Biden. Exit polls will not tell us why since these noshows did not exit. Post election polls will eventually tell us why so many people thought not voting was the right thing. My hunch (without data) is these voters were turned off by the Gaza war daily imagery of women and children dying and thought neither Trump nor Harris were committed to stopping this “genocide”, as a it was portrayed. We need to understand this and stop the distractions of woke vs non-woke and other blame games. It is the noshows who decided this election, by default.
Trump won becuase 10 million 2020 Biden voters failed to vote. Trump only received 600,000 more votes than he did in 2020. Harris received 10 million fewer votes than Biden. Exit polls will not tell us why since these noshows did not exit. Post election polls will eventually tell us why so many people thought not voting was the right thing. My hunch (without data) is these voters were turned off by the Gaza war daily imagery of women and children dying and thought neither Trump nor Harris were committed to stopping this “genocide”, as a it was portrayed. We need to understand this and stop the distractions of woke vs non-woke and other blame games. It is the noshows who decided this election, by default.
For that piece of shit rapist racist sexist conman traitor felon Trump. And this isn’t just Gen-X White women, it’s Millennials & Gen-Z that had disturbing % support.
Listen we came out we did our job we all did. There was a thing Trump calls Election Interference. You can't tell me the whole country turned red except a tiny few. That's fishy in itself.
Meh, it was the racism sexism BUT ALSO if I were to put my tinfoil hat on, I have questions about the low voter turnout and some shady precursors to 11/5/24...
Trump called "Election Fraud! Rigged Rigged! In PA! In MI!" two hours into votes being counted.
This was while over 62 polling centers (most in blue counties & colleges) across 7 Swing States had Putin Russia created bomb threats to affect day of voting.
Now include the MASSIVE voter purging rolls that have been going on in GA, NC, NV, AZ - Journalist Greg Palast made a 2021 Documentary "Vigilante's Inc." on voter suppression tactics by the GOP, especially in 2020 thru 2024. This isn't just typical voter redistricting & gerrymandering.
Now, Shady Elon Musk who has perverted twitter into a Social Media Disinfo Weapon known as Xhitter, which has 100% MAGA brainwashed 1/3 of the country since 2016, who was already illegally bribing voters via 1mill raffles for Trump in Swing States, who had SEVERAL DOJ lawsuits on tap, and also was in contact with Putin just like Trump since 2022.
Then we have several Blue Wins for House/Senate seats and other Dem. Measures like Abortion/Wage Increase, plus several ballots in all 7 swing states only had votes marked for President, and nothing downballot?! Only the top ticket was showing these Trump heavy numbers?! Where places like North Carolina Dems swept all the other seats? Judges?
*Not to mention Starlink which Musk owns may have had some kind of server link to electronic voting machines.
Bottom line is both Trump and Musk have MAJOR REASONS to rig an election because of their many DOJ & Fed & State Investigation.
Look how Trump was literally Crashing his own Campaign because he didn't care, he kept saying "I got all the votes I'll need." or "Me and Mike Johnson have a secret." and finally "When this election is over you will never have to vote again, we'll fix it."
I think it doesn't hurt to demand a provisional & mail & day of recount ballot AND to investigate voting machines (the same ones MAGA did with thier 2020 claims) to see if the turnout matches the totals.
*also Joe Rogan said that Dana White told him Elon left their election night party 4 hours early because he knew Trump was going to win via some algorithm app he specifically created for this 2024 Election?!
I hope due diligence is being done behind the scenes as votes are still being counted.
Because these dudes are scary, PJ 2025 is scary, Putin, Netanyahu have been collaborating with both Musk & Rump, and they are DESPERATE. They would absolutely try to rig an election, to stay out of jail. Trump is a criminal. Always has been.
I'm not a con-theory person but I can see MOTIVE TO CHEAT 100% by both Musk & Trump.
Thank you for summarizing the obvious shenanigans of these traitorous politicians. Since the Dems fear being the kettle that calls the Republicans the pot they shy away from acknowledging how all these tricks and tools impacted this election. Talk about rigging and cheating!
AOC's own Election Survey on her constituents was eye opening too. She wanted to ask why many of her voters split ticket voted for AOC and Trump instead of for Kamala last week.
I do think there is 100% motive for both ‘Rump & Elon to try and cheat this election to avoid indictments/jail.
But yeah, again I'm not into con-theory stuff, but I am aware of why it's appealing, so many great docs available during the last 9 years of the 'Rump Era on QAnon, Anonymous, NVIXM...plus the older cult and domestic terror events: Waco, Ruby Ridge, Oklahoma bombing.
If our FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, Election Security staff have not seen any evidence so far, citizens should go to their state election offices and check their votes. Then if there is enough voters seeing non-counted ballots or top ticket of POTUS switching.
What's worse than the crime is no one has the balls to at least investigate or recheck ...when something smells and looks fishy ..guess what it probley is
That's not correct. Those figures can't be right and a whole nation can't turn red overnight. You know what it looks like to me? It looks like Putins election. He allows a few thousand or a million vote for the other guy but all, or majority goes to him. This election looked like his just to say she got some votes, all of the country red that's real fishy and election interference.
I'm with you, Dian! I've had something gnawing at me all week. I mean, how could that ass-hat..
1. win Popular and Electoral vote results??
2. Win with lots of women (re: What about those women's bodies belonging to the government?
3. I can't believe Latinos would vote for the ass-hat, knowing one or more of their family members will be put in detention camps, and you may not hear from them ever again?!
4. Finding out that ass-hat has been speaking to Putin on the regular, and, perhaps, planning how the votes will line up giving him the win?!
There's more, but it's late and my brain has stopped working. I'll give it a try at some other time...
I totally get you. I have rented and saved about how it's not logical and looks like one of Putins elections. Give the opposition a few but the most will come to me. It sounds and looks like Putins race. Ukraine I feel so sorry for but he will not give up. Biden promised him things I wish he would give the F-14, 15. I really wish we would enter and once we are in we are in, say to protect Poland. My brain is so tired. So I do get you. Some fool called me a bit and there is two scammers on her. Jude Law and Keanue don't fall for them they are scammers. I don't know how to get notices out to everyone. Another Democrat social media that has everything art, and it goes from there it's TRIBEL. Look at it and see if you might like. I do and only participate in my choice and not penalized because I see something I want to get involved in.
I totally got your sarcasm without any assistance or clarification. And, as one of America's northern neighbours, I concur. Between Mueller not speaking for himself & allowing Barr to lie, McConnell & clowns shi**ing the bed & not convicting when it was clear & easy, Garland having ZERO courage or foresight, SCOTUS going full rogue to the point of treason & almost ALL corporate media going blind &/or crawling in bed with the magat beasts & their disinformation, America has, of its own volition, become an undemocratic puppet of oligarchy, fascism and corruption. I'm trying desperately to not be angry or resigned but rather, 'forgive them for they know not what they do' but it's getting harder with every moronic 'journalist' opening their increasingly capitulating and co-dependent mouths.
I voted for Kamala fully aware she was a woman and black. I believe she would have surrounded herself with a competent cabinet and grown into the job. Alas, we will have to wait another four years unless Trump does something egregiously impeachable, which is entirely possible.
Oh, he will certainly do something that is entirely impeachable, we know that. The thing is that the Republicans control the Senate, and the Supreme Court has declared that nothing he does. Quechan of his office is illegal, so we’re stuck with him until he dies. I think he will die in the next couple of years, and JD Evans will emerge as the man to take us back to the 1700s.
I cancelled my Washington Post and NY Times subscriptions a month ago. I feel bad for the good journalists but in my book, the writers who get the most attention are not journalists. I also cancelled my local paper because their endorsement of Trump (they called Harris “vapid”).
Oh I DO HOPE SO! ...but will she still have a job after the The Gestapo pays her a visit??? Would be concerned for that brave principled lady's safety .Don't forget....there's a new sheriff in town!
Not as long as the same SCOTUS are in. Time to clean house up in there, new rules and time limits and elections not appointments. It's only fair since they have so much power. Lower judicial has to be elected.
Sadly agree, Lois...endless money for.appeals...until cases get.to the smoking El SubPremos...for their rubber stamp! Hold on, folks! We're in for a tough bumpy ride!
IT’S NOT KAMALA OR MERRICK IT IS THE DAMN CORPORATE MEDIA WHO FECKED IT UP & THEY SHOULD (as the saying goes) BE HUNG, DRAWN & QUARTERED! They SANE WASHED ALL of 45’s word salads!
No, it was definitely Garland. He let Trump get away with everything. If he had acted when he should have Trump would be in jail - maybe. Maybe not but I don't think he would have been President. Kamala ran an amazing campaign - even more amazing considering the time constraints and everything else. It was the mainstream media treating trump like an ordinary candidate and bowing down to to their corporate overlords to a point, but the misogyny of voters wanting to vote for a white man - convicted felon, rapist and multi bankrupt that his is instead of an amazingly accomplished and experienced woman can't be overstated. This country is really sick.
I also thought she ran a good campaign. She had precious little time to develop a strategy that was effective for the long term. I would vote for her again.
Garland has been a leading candidate for the Supreme Court, & Biden seemed forgiving. Trump offends many with his falsehoods & partisanship, but he was born rich & raised to be arrogant. He will continue this way until the end, I expect.
Fox and NewsMax feed them a steady diet of polarizing rhetoric and they're addicted to it. Those networks need to be investigated for their connections to politicians. The MSM were formed to be government watchdogs, so they're doing their jobs. The others are simply trying to steal their sponsors.
Im still trying to inderstand how this could happen. But I know one thing -it had nothing to do with Kamala, and everything to do with mainstream media and the dumbing down of of america!
Sonja, it was firmly based in misogynistic racism, in addition to what you said. Sadly, this country is racist to its core and hates women, especially women with power. The patriarchy doesn't want an equal society, they want total control forever. 😞
You really are correct. I was just so very impressed by kamalas’ campaign. Misogynistic behavior /beliefs and racist tendencies! I can’t believe we are in the year 2024 and these are still mainstream problems!
Sonja, I know right? It's very disheartening to know this. I'm truly disgusted with ALL of the red voters. They're clueless ignoramuses. Kamala did have a flawless campaign. She covered ALL the issues despite it never being enough for the corporate media jackasses. They were all bailing out the orange Mussolini, sanewashing his obvious dementia. They're all traitors to this country. I'll never get over this 😞
Mary, thank you again, and many of us join you in wondering how we will survive another lengthy period of ptsd. I point out that the media are owned by wealthy patriarchal men and that Bernie Sanders is a damaging Patriarch of the left who always missed the point or chose to ignore the fact that the overwhelming number of "workers" who are minimum wage workers arecwomen, many of the single mothers who didn't become so by immaculate conception. The comments here show that there us enough blame to go around, including Biden, Garland ( a poor choice for this particular job and it seens
seems not assertive enough for a highly politicized Supreme Court, either), the male owners of media, and others. And at least one man here who wants to blame white women above all, which js ridiculous. You don't blame enslaved people for not uprising enough, you blame the patriarchy that gave rise to slavery, including the mostly male black African men who profited from selling people from tribes other that their own. You don't blame mentally colonized for a patriarchal onslaught when the constitution never even acknowledged their existence in the founding document, and when REPUBLICAN PATRIARCHS ENCUMBERED THE ERA PASSED IN 1972 with an unusually burdensome deadline, engineered opposition to ratification which finally took place in January 2020, and when after the House under the leadership of the great Nancy Pelosi passed a bill to finally publish the ERA as law and Mitch Misogynist McConnell refused to bring that to the Senate floor because he " didn't believe in it," and when Biden ( who also refused to let other women corroborate Anita Hill's charges of sexual harassment in Clarence Thomas's Confirmation hearing) didn't do a thing to push publication of this amendment nor did Chuck Schumer push it. All of these men failed us, as they have always done in theif pathetic inability to represent their sisters, mothers, wives, nieces, aunts abd cousins. White women weren't used so obviously horrendously as black women have been but they have been mentally and emotionally colonized, so that matter is much more complex than any man can fathom. A massive deprogramming would be needed to change that. But we have been raped, invested, blamed and otherwise abused and had Roe removed so that even little boys are taunting little girls with " your body, my choice." No, Patriarchy is THE PROBLEM! It always has been, and it's so entrenched in every social, political, religious, and legal institution that any remaining vestige will spread like a cancer when women make any gains. Because apparently men don't think they can compete successfully on an equal basis with the majority of the population, the real demographic that subsidizes this nation's economy with free and underpaid labor. And now that it's all out in the open, instead of looking at patriarchy, pundits are blaming the black woman who had to stand by for 4 years and who shone brightly and inspired us all with her flawless campaign, white women voters, and the party whose foundational demographic is female. Thanks lot, fools.
And look at who is slinging the mud. The so called ‘media’ needs to hide their faces and cover their front pages in shame. They have helped to bring about the shame of America. They never had an issue with a convicted felon, guilty sexual assault perpetrator, cheating business man, racist, sexist, etc., running for office. They now want to blame others.
Not everyone is blinded to what you did neither will we forget as the country dies in darkness because you were cowards! 😡
Yes the media didn’t require anything of DJT and still treated him as a serious candidate even throughout his incoherent racist, misogynist rants and didn’t focus on how his policies would affect Americans compared to Kamala’s policies. Hers would have helped so many people and his will destroy people by design. I was so excited to see a woman in the White House. I feel fatigued thinking of how we will have to watch what he’s doing every single moment…
No longer working, it worked. AmeriKKKans are too ignorant and racist to understand what they did in this election. And since most of them are in cult they will never understand it. I guess we all deserve whatever we have coming for us. Even those of us who fought against it.
It’s not wrong because we all have to live with the consequences not just the cult. Ok we have the peace of mind of I didn’t do this to myself unlike the MAGA voters. Unfortunately we are all on this sinking ship looking for a life line.
I disagree, sort of. You're right, the magas will never accept it. But not all the people who voted for Trump were maga. THEY will understand very shortly that they betrayed themselves and their families for absolutely nothing. They will get exactly what they got last time - nothing, except screwing up their lives.
No one cares there’s no civics classes anymore in public schools. We are expected to teach it at home and we see where that’s getting us. Most are learning it through social media and we know how much false information is spread. I am really trying to accept where this country is headed but it is hard. Because we can’t stop it. I feel I’ve watched the Dem Party just kick the can down the road. Too bad I can’t say the same about the Rethuglican Party. They are destroying our great country at every turn. They literally deny science! If we can’t agree on that what can we agree on? Climate change, vaccines and viruses, reproductive health shouldn’t be up for debate besides how to make it safely administered. If there’s a God please help us.
I can’t go to sleep because I find myself praying in bed and at the same time doubting with that expression. “If there’s a God” and I know I m going to hell for that. I’m Catholic but not a (every Sunday) churchgoer and I’m so desperate… I can’t even go back to watching the news ! But our smartphones make us read! Yes media is everywhere, headlines, names of the most deplorable people, comics, liars thrown out as nominees for the most prestigious jobs - I just CANNOT believe this nightmare! It’s like WAKE ME UP please!!
It’s been feeling like the Twilight Zone for over 8 years now. This is not the America I thought I knew. It’s AmeriKKKa with a waving Nazi flag. Being of the melanin rich side this mess is terrifying. We not going back without a fight. My family has decided we will die fighting. It’s been obvious for sometime that blacks overstayed our welcome. Even though we never asked to leave our homeland.
Carlette Harris, I totally agree with you..... I always felt that I had LOST 4 years of my life because of that orange bastard and his minions. Now I have to lose 4 more years of my life going forward. That's 8 years, nearly a decade of unabating stress and trauma.😞
I don't know how I'm going to survive emotionally, much less financially if the country goes into a full blown depression.
I am white and I'm disgusted with and repulsed by the white women who supported and voted for that putrid, cretinous, convicted felon orange Mussolini. I stand with my sisters of color and always will. Peace and love 🙏🕊️💙
Thanks Diane for your kind words and truthfulness. I am really worried that there’s not enough ally people like you. It sounds to me like you speak truth to power. I know that not all wyte people supported slavery but somehow that didn’t matter or make much difference. I have question for you and it’s personal. If you are offended I do apologize ahead of time. Are you a god fearing woman, a Christian? Please explain to me your beliefs about religion. I am trying to understand this Whyte Christianity thing. Because it feels familiar what is happening here. 💙🩷💙😊
Before the other imbecile took over twitter, I had an account, and I remember this white guy who was “a converted democrat” and one day he goes “When I was a republican, I was a happy man, never worried about any of this (this being all the horror we see and discuss once the orange man became president) and now I am depressed and sad and worried all the time“ Do decent people deserve to live this way? We don’t!
*not comics, I meant cynical but at this point, after the GOP was capable of using this conman to return to power in 2016 and they were so greedily blind not to see him turn out to be the snake that he talked so much about, as he ended up biting them all in the GOP, it does make me sick to see he is back with all his sycophants. It’s like seeing Scar and his hyenas taking over the kingdom in The Lion King, only for I was hoping that all the hyenas would turn back to him and throw him out but the nightmare continues. The media coverage of this man is impossible to understand and cannot be explained in one post. Thanks, Mary.
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The media destroyed their credibility. I haven’t watched any news since what they did to President Biden. After the election, I wouldn’t even watch YouTube. Zero.
My husband said that the Harris campaign was setting aside money to investigate possible election problems. I hope they do investigate and find the truth. The latest thing someone told me is that the national exit polls showed Harris winning the popular vote by 4 points.
I ask that same question. Why aren't more of us looking into this. No doubt in my mind that the election was rigged by trump (Musk, Putin etal) big time. Why did he say at his rallies: "I don't need you to vote... I have plenty of votes," And Musk announced 4 hours before the election was over that he had won. How did he already know that? The numbers are ridiculous. This should be investigated...now!
I'm a Canadian. And I'll tell you when I figured out the con...
I live in the "reddest state" in Canada and our RWNJ government just banned voting tabulators. That's how I know that tabulators can be used to fraudulently change vote totals.
Here's some threads from an election fraud expert:
Twla thanks for the links. I just am convinced that the votes were manipulated. The totals just don't make sense. I'm just shocked that no one is checking on this. Everyone knows that trump is a convicted felon and lifelong con man...yet no one is doing recounts by hand. It's infuriating.
He will get away with it because everyone will blame the Dems, the media (they are culpable) and turn on each other rather than blaming the one-man crime wave for it.
Please call your local election officials and secretaries of state! Demand hand recount audits at the local level. I’m Canadian so I can’t help but I’m yelling as much as I can for you all.
That’s why voters need to be their own advocates. Call your local election officials. In particular, for the people whose mailed ballots seem to have evaporated, no one else is going to hold the officials to account.
This is why he’s so unhinged, his chaos triggers everyone to just give up. He’s counting on it.
I'm a Democratic member of my local board of elections in north central Georgia. No mail in ballots evaporated here! We are doing more than one audit and the first one confirms the final vote. We are doing a hand count audit Friday. (When that was done in 2020, the numbers were basically the same--some mail-in ballots that arrived late were then included in the final numbers.) We had two election lawyers observing our counting and the first audit for the 2024 election.
Thank you for replying to me. I appreciate your response.
I’m very sceptical of the voting tabulators for 2 reasons. One is that an election fraud investigator has suggested that the tabulation level is shows evidence of irregularity on these 2 threads
The 2nd is that I’m Canadian, and my very rightwing provincial government just banned voting tabulators in our elections. That tells me that they know something or have strong reasons to suspect something is suspicious about that part of elections (we vote on paper ballots, fyi) because it means that elections take longer and therefore cost more. This isn’t a government that wants to pay people to manually count votes for no reason.
It's beyond disgusting and aggravating that the right wing of the US political system and the one in your province want to destroy that which has done rather well in both countries: free and fair elections!
I didn't hear any "Woke Politics" from Harris or Walz. All of the Identity Politics I heard came from the Trump side. Unfortunately, because he is a dancing clown that had his deflection/distraction campaign in full force, the Harris/Walz campaign were fighting against a hurricane of messaging that put words in their mouths or took their words out of context. They fought a valiant battle, and I still appreciate them for the effort.
There is one person to blame and it’s Merrick Garland
It's not just him though. It's both the National Archives and FBI playing nice for almost a year before bringing charges under the Espionage Act. When they asked for the documents back and he said "I don't have any", they should have right then and there referred the issue to the FBI for investigation. And, after he turned over a few via his lawyers, a search warrant should have been issued and he should have been arrested.
But, at the end, who's really to blame are all the people who just couldn't vote for a Black woman who had their best interests at heart, and THEY helped elect the most vile human to ever hold public office.
As the AG he had the power to fix it. He blew it.
Did he blow it due to WEAKNESS or COMPLICITY. We will never know.
It wasn't complicity. He didn't want to do anything that might suggest that the Justice Department had any bias in the matter, although having just learned that Garland is a member of the Federalist Society, to which all the Trump Justices belong, I suspect he did have his own bias in the matter. Consequently, he did nothing. Biden's worst mistake was appointing him.
Complicity, they got to him.
Garland was always a Republican. He is a member of the Federalist Society. Why Biden thought it was a good idea to appoint him AG to go after tRump and the other criminals was always beyond me, but here we are.
I can't tell for absolute certain if he's a member of the Federalist Society, but when I google "Is Merrick Garland a member of the Federalist Society," the first link was a favorable link about Garland from the Federalist Society, so obviously google thinks he is, and it's clear Biden should never have picked him for AG.
Trump is not leaving any Democrats in the government..not one
Biden is not a true Democrat. I didn't vote for him for that reason. And he chose Kamala Harris for his VP to get the black vote. He has a reputation of being a racist back when he was first elected to Congress about 40 years ago.
Put together a plan for a small garden. And will get a couple of chickens for eggs. And whatever I think of.
Both
I doubt it's complicity. There's a very wise rule: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
I think he was simply an overly-cautious person. That's a great quality in a federal judge, but not so much in an Attorney General. He should have been confirmed for the Supreme Court.
Exactly! Obama wanted him to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court and the stinking Republican Mitch McConnell is the sob that blocked it. McConnell belongs in jail for violating the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law.
Obama shouldn't have been trying to get a member of the Federalist Society on the Court. Any more than Biden should have appointed him as AG.
Had he filed charges in February 2020, the ensuing trial would have been over and, as per the constitution, he wouldn’t have been allowed to run again. I’m not sure even his pet scotus could have gotten around that. Ffs, the evidence had been assembled for him by the impeachment hearings.
I think you meant February of 2021. In February 2020 Barr was still AG I think.
Think back to the second impeachment for the moment when mitch mcconnell said the courts would handle it. That is where the real blame lies. Those repubs that voted against impeachment are at fault first and foremost. Yes, Merrick Garland did not hire Jack Smith soon enough. But history shows this began (and ended) with what was formerly known as the republican party (uncapitalized words for emphasis).
I think they're both equally to blame. Either could have changed the outcome, so that Trump would not be returning to the White House. Neither did, Garland by his foot dragging.
How did he "blow it" How could he fix it. He acted correctly, deliberately, perhaps too slowly, but ahd he acted faster he would have been attacked even more by the Goddamned fascists who to our shame have taken hold of this country
He left an insurrectionist and a traitor alone for 2 years. There was a narrow window to splinter his relationship with his capos. This was not business as usual. Garland showed his utter incompetence and behaved like this was not a coup. It was. Trump should have been put in jail within weeks of Jan 6. Was there evidence? Fuck yes WE ALL SAW IT ON TV. Was there a conspiracy? For fuck’s sake the signs are all there for everyone to see plain as day.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
I don’t disagree but voters knew Trump was a convicted felon and was judged a sexual assaulter/rapist in a court of law and they didn’t care.
Trump should have been arrested when he locked President Biden and his wife out of the White House. He had them standing outside in the cold air. And Trump refused to answer his phone and put a stop to the riot. He called all those Q'Anon and Patriot Boys and other A-holes three days prior to do that rioting for him. He should have been arrested as soon as he reached the Capital building!
"but ahd he acted faster he would have been attacked even more by the Goddamned fascists"
SO WHAT? He's guilty! Get it over with as quickly as possible. Garland didn't and now Trump will never be convicted and pay the price for what was obvious.
Teflon Don wiggles free again.
When his cases started going to trial, I thought that maybe Trump's contract with Satan was coming to an end, but apparently he re-upped. One day, Trump will ride that golden escalator down to the nether regions of hell to his eternal reward. The only question is, how much damage will he wreak in the meantime.
November 26, 2024 is Trump's sentencing day over those 34 felony charges in New York. I believe the judge will sentence him. Trump is only the President Elect. He is not President yet! So everyone pray the judge locks him up. He can serve as President from his prison cell.
He has been awful.He helped Trump and team a lot with his inaction.
Istvan, are you suggesting that the main law enforcement institution in the country needs to kowtow to the objection of those who are sympathetic to the criminal?! No, that is NOT how law enforcement is supposed to work. The rule of law REQUIRES you to go after the criminal, you do NOT ask the public to first vote if they want you to go after the criminal.
Perhaps it’s possible he could have moved faster but he faced a slew of obstacles. He is a very honest, credible and knowledgeable man and I believe he would not move forward unless he was totally prepared, was as positive as he could be and fully believed he would get a conviction. I’m not sure that even if he filed charges in February of 2020 that it would have made a difference. We have all witnessed how Trump plays with the Courts as a defendant and that he files frivolous claims in response to charges for the sole purpose of prolonging the hearings. Trump’s maneuvers have shown us his total disregard and his outright disrespect for our Legal system. Any other person would have been jailed immediately for any number of the charges filed against him. No one but Trump is at fault for any of this.
He'd have been better as a judge, with his head in the footnotes of footnotes.
No. As a Federalist Society member, he's very biased. All of the Trump and George W. Bush Justices on the Supreme Court are also Federalist Society members. Justices Sotomayor, Jackson, and Kagan are not.
An effective AG can not be intimidated by the potential political backlash for his actions. He must act in accordance with the law without fear or favoritism.
Don't fret people. Iran has put a contract on Trump's head to have him assassinated. Its retribution because Trump had Iran's top general second in command Sole somebody killed by a drone in Iraq. In politics that is a major No! No! You never assassinate any nations world leader or their replacements. Otherwise, your nation is going to get it right back. It will come home to roost.
He’s a member of the Heritage Foundation.
FALSE. I am furious by Garland's inexcusable passivity, but let's don't start spreading lies because we are furious with him.
He's not a member of the Heritage Foundation, but he IS a member of the Federalist Society. That was why Obama figured he'd be acceptable to Repubs enough to confirm him to the Supreme Court.
I don't care what he is a member of. He has a duty to uphold the Laws of the United States as Attorney General and to see to it that those laws are executed when they are broken. Garland should be dis-barred.
"Have doubts? Verify." As you, yourself, wrote.
HE. IS. NOT. A. MEMBER. OF. THE. HERITAGE. FOUNDATION. Period.
NO link to Merrick Garland and republicans heritage foundation.
He was not a member of the Heritage Foundation. It was not known before because he was never a member of the Heritage Foundation. Only you got played.
😂😂✋🏼 It’s possible it’s all under the control of the Pizza Pedophiles. We were all schnookered
And you believe that just because someone said it? You sound like a Trojan Horse MAGA.
If Garland is connected to The Federalist Society it will explain why he sat on his hands all these months. I would like verification.
They had so many tools at their disposal and did not use them. Oh! They made an effort when it was too late for Jack Smith to do all he needed to.
I have great respect for Jack Smith. He tried but the judge was not going to let him go forward with the charges. Mr. Smith was a pit bull and never once retreated even when Trump’s appointed judge continued to obstruct his path.
Truth be told, no one other than Donald Trump, his supporters in Congress and his corrupt Supreme Court appointees are responsible for the damage he continues to inflict upon our nation. It’s still hard to believe what we have witnessed since prior to 2016 when Donald Trump first got involved with politics.
Jack Smith did everything in his power to save our nation.
The voters are responsible. The fact that they were duped is on them.
How much money was wasted on this fool’s errand?
It makes you wonder what he has over all of these people that they are handling him with kid gloves now despite all of the damning information against him and him having publicly trashed them previously.
For example, Mitch McConnell saying recently how awful (not exact quote) the subhuman is, then in the same sentence, says he will vote for him. Crazy making at its finest. How can anyone have anything on McConnell?! These people have no shame and commit their crimes out in the open…. I mean how can they be ashamed/scared of anything coming out since they are truly incapable of feeling shame?
True. Makes you wonder....
Yes.
I also want to know why our intelligence agencies didn't seem to realize we were missing all those top secret documents. How is it possible that my local library is better able to account for all of its books than the US intelligence community is able to keep track of our national secrets?
They did. That's how the National Archives knew he hadn't returned the documents he took with him. Every classified doc that goes to the White House is tracked.
Whether it's an original or a copy, it's all tracked. How do you think they knew he had them in the first place?
The agencies send the list of non-returned documents to the WH staff first, then they send an identical list that also includes all documents sent to the White House and to the Office of the VP.
The archives usually is pretty good at retrieving those, and in some cases, as evidenced by both Pence and Biden having docs in their possession, a few random docs do not get returned. The reason they're usually taken is they're either low classified or potentially has some classified info in them that is now declassified, and/or the doc was taken with the understanding it had been declassified, when in fact it hadn't be fully through the declass process.
You are right in part. Every Classified document is logged in and signed for at every location and by the person who receives it. There is an ongoing process in which it is handles and filed. When it is returned its logged in and filed. If not returned that is noticed as well. Such as is the case of all the stolen documents. And even if they were declassified which none of the stolen documents had been declassified, they are still filed. And filed as declassified if in fact they are. All of those documents remain serious!
I know I'm right, I spent 16 years in the Intelligence field. I've even couriered docs to the WH and back.
Amen to that
a huge amount of the problem was the disinformation that was coming from right wing sources. Ordinary people on the right don't tune into sources that were touting the good that Harris would have done for them. They are flooded with right wing news sources, and are not even aware of other sources.
Well, I'll bet they finally notice when they actually live the real tRump & Co nightmare though. Those people never seem to notice anything or care about anything unless it affects them personally. Well, there's going to be a very large number of MAGAs who are getting ready to have a really rude awakening.
They don't want to read or listen to other sources. Everyone is a liar except for their brain washed right wings media sources.
He was a huge part of it but you cannot lay the whole of this mess at his feet. There are far too many other moving pieces in this mess. But I do agree that his dragging his feet so that he would not look like his motives were "political" have subjected us all to an incoming administration that will be dangerous for so very many, many people.
If Mitch McConnell had found the courage to pull together the three votes needed to secure impeachment, we never would have needed to pin our hopes on Merrick Garland's involvement in the first place.
Exactly. We would not be here if Mitch McConnell had a fucking spine.
Screw Glitch McConnell. That dead-eyed chin pouch with a cruelty fetish initially CONDEMNED the orange fucker. Then he worshiped him. Then he condemned him again. Then on and, back and forth, and last I heard, he despises mango mussolini but voted for it ANYWAY.
They're being paid off, ordered to comply... All I can assume otherwise is that this country has been infested with a movement led by low-IQ, high greed and corruption for decades, intending to bring us to this point all along.
Nixon started it. gingrich and limbaugh exacerbated it. the vile slime will destroy everyone with it.
On the Take. I have said if ove and over and over again. This overthrowing of our free and fair Democracy took a lot of time, money and looking the other way. Nixon was the incubator, then came The Tea Party, etc. Many people looked the other way. I was living in DC during the last Obama Administration and was actually at the CPAC Convention. I was working as a contractor for the hotel events. I went into the bar as they got drunker and more boistrous and openly talked about where all this was headed it was clear to me than America was in trouble.
They are a bunch of Rothchild, Bildeberger, One World Order Assholes! Their stinking puppets. They are the punks that wanted that pussy-grabbing Trump whore!
Mitch McConnell cannot be mentioned in the same sentence as courage. That weak, chinless parasite is nothing more than an empty suit polluting our airspace.
And the idiots in Kentucky kept re electing him. They are virtually DEAD LAST in everything. Mitch McConnell got rich off the backs of his constituents.
How many R Senators grabbed for power instead of upholding their oath of office? We have seen that it was impossible to hold anyone accountable for that, even with our votes. We all saw what happened, and we all got the masters class on how money and power corrupt. Isn’t part of the blame on an electorate who chose not to do its homework? I know many were sucked into the rhetoric/propaganda. But who is responsible for the loss of the ability to consider both sides, and the willingness to demonize friends and family? It seems to me that everyone bears some responsibility. The question is, is it possible to fix this?
Its possible only if the electorates got together and went back and voted against Donald Trump in spite of their constitutes and districts where they were appointed to vote. Those are the people responsible for this idiot getting into the White House in the first place.
I call Mitch McConnell that Frog Face SOB!
There are many moving pieces for sure, but the AG’s inaction made it all possible. He fucked us all.
And before that there was James Comey, and all the lies of Mitch McConnell. It's all recorded for history to see.
Especially good OLD Mitch !
That fucking Comey 🤬. Self righteous mofo.
*🤬string of obscenities 🤬*
James Comey followed the law. Go read Comey's and McCabe's books. James Comey could not prosecute Hillary Clinton because according to the law you have to prove that not only did she commit the crime but you have to be able to prove "Intent" She knowingly knew that what she did was a crime. I studied law. To many Americans don't get it. James Comey is a lawyer.
Hey Bonnie Rudolph, looks like you drank the Kool aid......oh, you studied the law?? 🤣
Well, I did too, in fact I AM an attorney. I'm also a former Fed. I KNOW how the system works. How would YOU know if Comey (or ANYONE) told the truth?? You wouldn't! You have NO idea about the Federalist society, and clearly, not much else.
James Comey told the truth and did his job. And so did Andrew McCabe. Trump hated both men because they turned evidence on him that was authentic. Is Mueller also a member of the Federalist Society? If so this Federalist Society is filled with a bunch of corrupt boots licking One World Order Puppets!
So so true. But Biden knew and he didn’t let him go.
Yes, Merrick Garland was delinquent; a gentleman but delinquent. And a Jew! All blame there. And of course, he was the only lawyer in the nation; so all blame on him.
(I didn't know about his Jewish roots. Apparently the family name was Garfinkel several generations back.)
Kind of like Donald John Drumph's grandfather's changing his name from Frederic Drumph to Fred Trump because it sounded less German. Unfortunately, Drumph's Nazi blood came right through the generations, poisoning all the male line to Donald John and now to his older sons, Junior and Eric. Both look like vampires, and then we have the pale, skinny Barron.👹
Actually, I believe the name was Drumpf. The orange sadist's father, and then the o.s. himself, always claimed that their name was Scandinavian, until the truth finally leaked out. Yes, their "Nazi blood" was surely passed down, and has been/is/will be poisoning the blood of our people.
There is one resort but it would take all of the American people to do it. Write letters to the UN and claim that our government no longer works for the people or for the rule of Democracy. The UN has a duty to send in their troops and remove everyone from office and reset the button for our people. They damn near did it in Holland!
Rock band known as Mueller & Garland…. Singing “Highway to Hell.”
💯 % again! You are on roll. 😊. I couldn’t remember the Russian collusion guy’s name. But maybe we should add Comey to the list. Those are the 3 coward men that caused this mess.
Sure will and that judge cannon will be a tyrant in Florida
That sad toy will probably end up on the Supreme Court. Trump loves woman on their knees.
Yep I wouldn’t be at all surprised
Cannon is vying for AG or the unSuprene Court.
Dragging his feet seems as though he was too "woke".
He should have appointed special council immediately after the attempted coup. Anyone else would've gone to prison.
Attempted my ass! Who’s gonna be president in January?
I wholeheartedly agree.
Thank you, Mary 💙.
Thank you Caroline ❤️
He will go down in history as one of the worst attorney generals of all time, right after whatever insane nutjob Trump replaces him with .
What about Bill Barr? He’s right up there at the top of the list, isn’t he?
Bill Barr was quite effective, at doing evil things. More competent, seemingly.
The correct plural form is "attorneys general". "General" is an adjective modifying the noun "attorney". English major here.
Thank you. Language is important.
I think we can lay much more blame on Mitch McConnell. After all, he had multiple chances to stop Trump and didn't. He also packed the Supreme court with far right "Justices". I think he is the most evil person this country has ever seen. He knew exactly what he was doing, and did it anyway. This is why I keep as far away from the Senate office buildings as I can. If I were to see him in person, it would end badly for both of us.
EVIL!!!!!!!!!
The Old Fuck is finally stepping down after collecting his cash for crashing democracy. I wish we had firing squads, what a line up it would be.
How? Merrick Garland would've been on SCt but for a vengeful Mitch McConnell, and he'd have been perfect there. But he's inadequate as AG.
MITCH MCCONNELL!!!!
All three branches of government can claim that prize represented by Merrick Garland, Mitch McConnell and John Roberts. Well done, gentlemen
He certainly played a big role by slow walking any accountability, until it was too late, for djt.
He planned it this way…and now he gets his reward…a black robe.
You do know that Garland is the man that Obama put up for the Supreme Court back in 2016 that McConnell refused to put up for a vote for over 6 months.
Hilarious. He came into the AG after 20 years as a federal judge. Chief Judge for DC Circuit Court for 7 or 8 years.
It is a effing shame that he never grew a set of balls and went after trump!
That is at least partially true. Garland was and is a disaster.
He sure didn't help 😐
That was the first mistake.
Among MANY ! !
Yes but Biden too with regard to Trump don't you think?
Biden for wanting to appear "fair" while they're accusing him of everything Dear Leader actually does. Playing nice with those calling you and your family the most horrible names, year after year. "Biden crime family." "But Hunter."
I'm really curious if Biden will pardon his son at the risk of being called out as unfair. I sure hope not.
Who, outside of his family, cares about Hunter but crazy Republican magoids? Biden should do anything lawful - anything that he's been pussyfooting around about. Loosen Ukraine's leash for the couple of months they have left.
Pack the courts. Create at least one Democratic circuit like the Republicans have Kasmaryck in the Texas 5th so there's a place to file that will guarantee a Democratic outcome.
Interesting how the Republicans are warning Democrats not to do all the dirty but legal things they did after the election in 2020. It's time to play their game and stake out at least a little power for the next four years.
I sure hope he pardons his son. He would normally have just received probation if it wasn't for the Republicans.
The persons to blame: Donald J. Trump and all Americans who voted for a convicted criminal, a thief, a liar, an unpatriotic buffoon, a malignant narcissist
Of course they do! You have to blame the black woman! You can’t blame the media for not covering all of the accomplishments of Joe Biden, and for both sides and everything, for normalizing the racism and misogyny that came rolling out of Trump’s mouth like Hitler himself. Yes the answer is blame the black woman.
True!
Trump’s win isn’t political vindication. It results from saturating the system with disinformation, feeding grievances, and twisting reality until voters saw a false picture. Winning this way doesn’t erase his record of fraud and lies; he remains a criminal felon, for life.
What the country needed right after Joe Biden was elected were tribunals that punished ALL of the MAGA coup actors with either prison, fines and expulsion from politics. That would have set the necessary precedent about what political behavior was acceptable and what wasn’t. But that’s not Joe. He believed in the goodness of Americans. He bet on the love of goodness and fairness to beat MAGA at the ballot box. But the plan did not work and now we are facing the consequences!
Time to dig out all my “RESIST!” stickers and clothing from 2017.
How about wearing these kinds of shirts in front of your MAGA neighbors? 👇 🤔
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Elite criminal impunity! This train started with Nixon, and it will keep rolling to authoritarianism. we have made a clear that we will not prosecute criminals for their criminality. This is why the elite criminals continue to crime! They know they will get away with it.
What a circus ! !
Think about how many people did nothing because the were threatned. So many people behind the curtain were told to shut-up or else. This lack of punishement, charges etc were never going to happen. In any other country an attempted coup would have resulted in Trump going to jail and certainly never allowing him near The White House. Oh America you will pay dearly for all the despots who sold you out.
What we are all thinking makes me wonder why Kinzinger and Cheney allowed themselves to be used as they assuredly knew the game plan.
You are so clueless
You are exactly right! I was screaming about that to everyone I knew for the first 3 years and they all pooh poohed me. "Oh, there's nothing he can do without it looking bad", "That's just not him", "He doesn't want to give Trump any importance". Uh huh. And here we are. Between the media, Biden, and the misogyny it was an impossible dream
What about those that chose to stay home?None of them get to complain. If you don’t l
I think he should use this S.C. Immunity clause to send the rump to prison. I mean, he is a felon. Biden has always been too nice.
Yes!!
I took was screaming but I don't have an important name it's like our voices do not need to be heard. So us ordinary citizens see it clearly but they can't see us for the fog of the hill. You can't get to s congressman or a Senator only those with gobs of money get an ear and we elected these SOBs. What do we do? It's not time to quit but again who is listening to us?
The whole system is broken, full of lies and corruption.
And it's going to get worse...beyond anything we can imagine. We're in big, big trouble!!
Yes, especially if he can somehow make good on his suggestion that we won't need to have elections anymore if he gets in, as if that's a good thing. (Holy cow!!)
Sadly, his supporters, who are so concerned about their rights being taken away under Biden and the Democrats, are willing to give up their Fifteenth Amendment right to vote and have their vote counted all because they have been groomed to hate the Democrats.
They lost all critical thinking and judgement to evaluate the consequences of his domestic and international policy decisions. They don't even question his judgement in giving credence to conspiracy theorists, like Margorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, and that "Infowars" jerk, Alex Jones, and trusting morons, like Guiliani and Bannon.
This entire country needs an "intervention". Geesh!!!
It seems as though since they're really not doing anything that they're in it only for the salary continuances and other perks they get. There are a few congressmen/women who do, do the work they say they will do, but they are often ostracized, harassed, and voted out of office.
We have such horrible division in this country now that people are willing to believe the inane to justify their hatred of their opposing party-voting neighbors and family members. Ya have to question a President who would rather sow division and hate, and not try to harmoniously unify his country, especially in the midst a brewing volatile international situation.
Good guys do not always win. Proof.
HeatherB. you're a shill placed here to sell shit. Go away.
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Trump won becuase 10 million 2020 Biden voters failed to vote. Trump only received 600,000 more votes than he did in 2020. Harris received 10 million fewer votes than Biden. Exit polls will not tell us why since these noshows did not exit. Post election polls will eventually tell us why so many people thought not voting was the right thing. My hunch (without data) is these voters were turned off by the Gaza war daily imagery of women and children dying and thought neither Trump nor Harris were committed to stopping this “genocide”, as a it was portrayed. We need to understand this and stop the distractions of woke vs non-woke and other blame games. It is the noshows who decided this election, by default.
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Trump won becuase 10 million 2020 Biden voters failed to vote. Trump only received 600,000 more votes than he did in 2020. Harris received 10 million fewer votes than Biden. Exit polls will not tell us why since these noshows did not exit. Post election polls will eventually tell us why so many people thought not voting was the right thing. My hunch (without data) is these voters were turned off by the Gaza war daily imagery of women and children dying and thought neither Trump nor Harris were committed to stopping this “genocide”, as a it was portrayed. We need to understand this and stop the distractions of woke vs non-woke and other blame games. It is the noshows who decided this election, by default.
Stop grifting.
/S tag?! Or are your serious or a MAGA troll!?
Well, I ain’t counting on White Women ever again…
2016 47%
2020 52%
2022 MAGA SCOTUS OVERTURNS ROE
2024 54%
For that piece of shit rapist racist sexist conman traitor felon Trump. And this isn’t just Gen-X White women, it’s Millennials & Gen-Z that had disturbing % support.
Yikes.
Listen we came out we did our job we all did. There was a thing Trump calls Election Interference. You can't tell me the whole country turned red except a tiny few. That's fishy in itself.
Meh, it was the racism sexism BUT ALSO if I were to put my tinfoil hat on, I have questions about the low voter turnout and some shady precursors to 11/5/24...
Trump called "Election Fraud! Rigged Rigged! In PA! In MI!" two hours into votes being counted.
This was while over 62 polling centers (most in blue counties & colleges) across 7 Swing States had Putin Russia created bomb threats to affect day of voting.
Now include the MASSIVE voter purging rolls that have been going on in GA, NC, NV, AZ - Journalist Greg Palast made a 2021 Documentary "Vigilante's Inc." on voter suppression tactics by the GOP, especially in 2020 thru 2024. This isn't just typical voter redistricting & gerrymandering.
Now, Shady Elon Musk who has perverted twitter into a Social Media Disinfo Weapon known as Xhitter, which has 100% MAGA brainwashed 1/3 of the country since 2016, who was already illegally bribing voters via 1mill raffles for Trump in Swing States, who had SEVERAL DOJ lawsuits on tap, and also was in contact with Putin just like Trump since 2022.
Then we have several Blue Wins for House/Senate seats and other Dem. Measures like Abortion/Wage Increase, plus several ballots in all 7 swing states only had votes marked for President, and nothing downballot?! Only the top ticket was showing these Trump heavy numbers?! Where places like North Carolina Dems swept all the other seats? Judges?
*Not to mention Starlink which Musk owns may have had some kind of server link to electronic voting machines.
Bottom line is both Trump and Musk have MAJOR REASONS to rig an election because of their many DOJ & Fed & State Investigation.
Look how Trump was literally Crashing his own Campaign because he didn't care, he kept saying "I got all the votes I'll need." or "Me and Mike Johnson have a secret." and finally "When this election is over you will never have to vote again, we'll fix it."
I think it doesn't hurt to demand a provisional & mail & day of recount ballot AND to investigate voting machines (the same ones MAGA did with thier 2020 claims) to see if the turnout matches the totals.
*also Joe Rogan said that Dana White told him Elon left their election night party 4 hours early because he knew Trump was going to win via some algorithm app he specifically created for this 2024 Election?!
I hope due diligence is being done behind the scenes as votes are still being counted.
Because these dudes are scary, PJ 2025 is scary, Putin, Netanyahu have been collaborating with both Musk & Rump, and they are DESPERATE. They would absolutely try to rig an election, to stay out of jail. Trump is a criminal. Always has been.
I'm not a con-theory person but I can see MOTIVE TO CHEAT 100% by both Musk & Trump.
Thank you for summarizing the obvious shenanigans of these traitorous politicians. Since the Dems fear being the kettle that calls the Republicans the pot they shy away from acknowledging how all these tricks and tools impacted this election. Talk about rigging and cheating!
AOC's own Election Survey on her constituents was eye opening too. She wanted to ask why many of her voters split ticket voted for AOC and Trump instead of for Kamala last week.
I do think there is 100% motive for both ‘Rump & Elon to try and cheat this election to avoid indictments/jail.
But yeah, again I'm not into con-theory stuff, but I am aware of why it's appealing, so many great docs available during the last 9 years of the 'Rump Era on QAnon, Anonymous, NVIXM...plus the older cult and domestic terror events: Waco, Ruby Ridge, Oklahoma bombing.
If our FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, Election Security staff have not seen any evidence so far, citizens should go to their state election offices and check their votes. Then if there is enough voters seeing non-counted ballots or top ticket of POTUS switching.
What's worse than the crime is no one has the balls to at least investigate or recheck ...when something smells and looks fishy ..guess what it probley is
Sarcasm
Wait. Huh? Are you being serious??? Blame the black woman?? Me thinks yer in the wrong place.
I know right?! I think maybe Catherine means because Kamala was black, that was why 4% voted 'Rump and 93million stayed home/didn't vote.
That's not correct. Those figures can't be right and a whole nation can't turn red overnight. You know what it looks like to me? It looks like Putins election. He allows a few thousand or a million vote for the other guy but all, or majority goes to him. This election looked like his just to say she got some votes, all of the country red that's real fishy and election interference.
I'm with you, Dian! I've had something gnawing at me all week. I mean, how could that ass-hat..
1. win Popular and Electoral vote results??
2. Win with lots of women (re: What about those women's bodies belonging to the government?
3. I can't believe Latinos would vote for the ass-hat, knowing one or more of their family members will be put in detention camps, and you may not hear from them ever again?!
4. Finding out that ass-hat has been speaking to Putin on the regular, and, perhaps, planning how the votes will line up giving him the win?!
There's more, but it's late and my brain has stopped working. I'll give it a try at some other time...
I totally get you. I have rented and saved about how it's not logical and looks like one of Putins elections. Give the opposition a few but the most will come to me. It sounds and looks like Putins race. Ukraine I feel so sorry for but he will not give up. Biden promised him things I wish he would give the F-14, 15. I really wish we would enter and once we are in we are in, say to protect Poland. My brain is so tired. So I do get you. Some fool called me a bit and there is two scammers on her. Jude Law and Keanue don't fall for them they are scammers. I don't know how to get notices out to everyone. Another Democrat social media that has everything art, and it goes from there it's TRIBEL. Look at it and see if you might like. I do and only participate in my choice and not penalized because I see something I want to get involved in.
Sarcasm is so hard to detect in the printed word.
Sarcasm.
I knew that.
Not everyone did
It was sarcasm
😭😭😭😠😠😠😢😢😢🤬🤬🤬😞😞😞
I totally got your sarcasm without any assistance or clarification. And, as one of America's northern neighbours, I concur. Between Mueller not speaking for himself & allowing Barr to lie, McConnell & clowns shi**ing the bed & not convicting when it was clear & easy, Garland having ZERO courage or foresight, SCOTUS going full rogue to the point of treason & almost ALL corporate media going blind &/or crawling in bed with the magat beasts & their disinformation, America has, of its own volition, become an undemocratic puppet of oligarchy, fascism and corruption. I'm trying desperately to not be angry or resigned but rather, 'forgive them for they know not what they do' but it's getting harder with every moronic 'journalist' opening their increasingly capitulating and co-dependent mouths.
I voted for Kamala fully aware she was a woman and black. I believe she would have surrounded herself with a competent cabinet and grown into the job. Alas, we will have to wait another four years unless Trump does something egregiously impeachable, which is entirely possible.
Oh, he will certainly do something that is entirely impeachable, we know that. The thing is that the Republicans control the Senate, and the Supreme Court has declared that nothing he does. Quechan of his office is illegal, so we’re stuck with him until he dies. I think he will die in the next couple of years, and JD Evans will emerge as the man to take us back to the 1700s.
All that should happen in the days and weeks that Biden remains the president. He should invoke the 14th amendment on Trump for treason.
It won’t happen.
I can’t like your comments, but I’m afraid they are spot on.
I cancelled my Washington Post and NY Times subscriptions a month ago. I feel bad for the good journalists but in my book, the writers who get the most attention are not journalists. I also cancelled my local paper because their endorsement of Trump (they called Harris “vapid”).
Divert that $$$$ to a substack for Meidastouch.........legal AF.......amazing info......hundreds of lawsuits against Trump upcoming.
More lawsuits. Yeah sure, the last ones were so successful. I doubt now E. Jean will get a nickel.
Leiticia James will never back down.......and will forever be taking up space in that micro-orange brain
Oh I DO HOPE SO! ...but will she still have a job after the The Gestapo pays her a visit??? Would be concerned for that brave principled lady's safety .Don't forget....there's a new sheriff in town!
Legal AF...MT......points out there are many, many lawsuts being planned.....yes..it is going to be nasty.........
Not as long as the same SCOTUS are in. Time to clean house up in there, new rules and time limits and elections not appointments. It's only fair since they have so much power. Lower judicial has to be elected.
Sadly agree, Lois...endless money for.appeals...until cases get.to the smoking El SubPremos...for their rubber stamp! Hold on, folks! We're in for a tough bumpy ride!
And add Steve Schmidt while you are at it.
Do they even know what vapid means?
Doubt it.
The only new word they just learned about is tariffs.........the clownshow
just hit the stage.
Hope you’re doing okay, Mary. This has been hell for so many of us. Look forward to your posts every day
IT’S NOT KAMALA OR MERRICK IT IS THE DAMN CORPORATE MEDIA WHO FECKED IT UP & THEY SHOULD (as the saying goes) BE HUNG, DRAWN & QUARTERED! They SANE WASHED ALL of 45’s word salads!
No, it was definitely Garland. He let Trump get away with everything. If he had acted when he should have Trump would be in jail - maybe. Maybe not but I don't think he would have been President. Kamala ran an amazing campaign - even more amazing considering the time constraints and everything else. It was the mainstream media treating trump like an ordinary candidate and bowing down to to their corporate overlords to a point, but the misogyny of voters wanting to vote for a white man - convicted felon, rapist and multi bankrupt that his is instead of an amazingly accomplished and experienced woman can't be overstated. This country is really sick.
Not just the MSM. Also right wing media. Read Michael tomasky’s article in The New Republic. We ignore this at our peril.
Yes. I read Michael Tomasky’s article and I agree. A must read. Put the blame where it belongs. It’s the media. Especially the right wing media. RWM
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18gzvu7uci/?mibextid=WC7FNe
this is an excellent analysis of media complicity
I also thought she ran a good campaign. She had precious little time to develop a strategy that was effective for the long term. I would vote for her again.
I hope Ms. Harris will run for president AGAIN, assuming we even exist in 2028.
Garland has been a leading candidate for the Supreme Court, & Biden seemed forgiving. Trump offends many with his falsehoods & partisanship, but he was born rich & raised to be arrogant. He will continue this way until the end, I expect.
Fox and NewsMax feed them a steady diet of polarizing rhetoric and they're addicted to it. Those networks need to be investigated for their connections to politicians. The MSM were formed to be government watchdogs, so they're doing their jobs. The others are simply trying to steal their sponsors.
Absolutely 💯
Im still trying to inderstand how this could happen. But I know one thing -it had nothing to do with Kamala, and everything to do with mainstream media and the dumbing down of of america!
Sonja, it was firmly based in misogynistic racism, in addition to what you said. Sadly, this country is racist to its core and hates women, especially women with power. The patriarchy doesn't want an equal society, they want total control forever. 😞
You really are correct. I was just so very impressed by kamalas’ campaign. Misogynistic behavior /beliefs and racist tendencies! I can’t believe we are in the year 2024 and these are still mainstream problems!
Sonja, I know right? It's very disheartening to know this. I'm truly disgusted with ALL of the red voters. They're clueless ignoramuses. Kamala did have a flawless campaign. She covered ALL the issues despite it never being enough for the corporate media jackasses. They were all bailing out the orange Mussolini, sanewashing his obvious dementia. They're all traitors to this country. I'll never get over this 😞
Yes, because instead of going forward, we're going backwards!
Yes, misogynism and racism were written into our constitution. Our most famous founding fathers were slaveholders.
Mary, thank you again, and many of us join you in wondering how we will survive another lengthy period of ptsd. I point out that the media are owned by wealthy patriarchal men and that Bernie Sanders is a damaging Patriarch of the left who always missed the point or chose to ignore the fact that the overwhelming number of "workers" who are minimum wage workers arecwomen, many of the single mothers who didn't become so by immaculate conception. The comments here show that there us enough blame to go around, including Biden, Garland ( a poor choice for this particular job and it seens
seems not assertive enough for a highly politicized Supreme Court, either), the male owners of media, and others. And at least one man here who wants to blame white women above all, which js ridiculous. You don't blame enslaved people for not uprising enough, you blame the patriarchy that gave rise to slavery, including the mostly male black African men who profited from selling people from tribes other that their own. You don't blame mentally colonized for a patriarchal onslaught when the constitution never even acknowledged their existence in the founding document, and when REPUBLICAN PATRIARCHS ENCUMBERED THE ERA PASSED IN 1972 with an unusually burdensome deadline, engineered opposition to ratification which finally took place in January 2020, and when after the House under the leadership of the great Nancy Pelosi passed a bill to finally publish the ERA as law and Mitch Misogynist McConnell refused to bring that to the Senate floor because he " didn't believe in it," and when Biden ( who also refused to let other women corroborate Anita Hill's charges of sexual harassment in Clarence Thomas's Confirmation hearing) didn't do a thing to push publication of this amendment nor did Chuck Schumer push it. All of these men failed us, as they have always done in theif pathetic inability to represent their sisters, mothers, wives, nieces, aunts abd cousins. White women weren't used so obviously horrendously as black women have been but they have been mentally and emotionally colonized, so that matter is much more complex than any man can fathom. A massive deprogramming would be needed to change that. But we have been raped, invested, blamed and otherwise abused and had Roe removed so that even little boys are taunting little girls with " your body, my choice." No, Patriarchy is THE PROBLEM! It always has been, and it's so entrenched in every social, political, religious, and legal institution that any remaining vestige will spread like a cancer when women make any gains. Because apparently men don't think they can compete successfully on an equal basis with the majority of the population, the real demographic that subsidizes this nation's economy with free and underpaid labor. And now that it's all out in the open, instead of looking at patriarchy, pundits are blaming the black woman who had to stand by for 4 years and who shone brightly and inspired us all with her flawless campaign, white women voters, and the party whose foundational demographic is female. Thanks lot, fools.
And misogynist Masons
I fear it’s written into our genes, though we do manage to control most of it with our conscious thought.
I can’t agree less
Let's not forget all the women who didn't support her. Talk about voting against your own interests - they must be insane.
Thats the truth…i still get butterflies just thinking about the insane amount of gaslighting and misinformation we’ve been exposed to!
Don’t forget right wing media! Hugely important.
And look at who is slinging the mud. The so called ‘media’ needs to hide their faces and cover their front pages in shame. They have helped to bring about the shame of America. They never had an issue with a convicted felon, guilty sexual assault perpetrator, cheating business man, racist, sexist, etc., running for office. They now want to blame others.
Not everyone is blinded to what you did neither will we forget as the country dies in darkness because you were cowards! 😡
Media are mostly in businesss for the money. Truth is seldom that important, excect for some journalists.
My apologies earlier, Catherine.
Yes the media didn’t require anything of DJT and still treated him as a serious candidate even throughout his incoherent racist, misogynist rants and didn’t focus on how his policies would affect Americans compared to Kamala’s policies. Hers would have helped so many people and his will destroy people by design. I was so excited to see a woman in the White House. I feel fatigued thinking of how we will have to watch what he’s doing every single moment…
Russia installed Trump again. With help from the billionaires and media. They were hungry for more money.
Kamala was our best candidate and she had our interests at the top of her list.
Donald will have the peasants rioting by midterms. Many republicans will be voted out.
I’d like to be that optimistic.
That's a good thing. They should have been voted out this time.
The dumbing down is working
No longer working, it worked. AmeriKKKans are too ignorant and racist to understand what they did in this election. And since most of them are in cult they will never understand it. I guess we all deserve whatever we have coming for us. Even those of us who fought against it.
Wrong. We deserve nothing associated with this bunch.
It’s not wrong because we all have to live with the consequences not just the cult. Ok we have the peace of mind of I didn’t do this to myself unlike the MAGA voters. Unfortunately we are all on this sinking ship looking for a life line.
We are all collateral damage.
Exactly 💯. Doesn’t feel any better but I should not have said “deserve” it.
I am focusing on you saying we deserved. I'll share my lifeline with you.
Thank you 😊.
I object to your assertion that we "deserve" it.
AMEN!!
I disagree, sort of. You're right, the magas will never accept it. But not all the people who voted for Trump were maga. THEY will understand very shortly that they betrayed themselves and their families for absolutely nothing. They will get exactly what they got last time - nothing, except screwing up their lives.
MAGA=Republican Party
One and the same ! !
I don’t quite understand your last sentence…that those of us who voted against this deserve this.
Patti I used the wrong term. 😊
The two most recent generations are DAF.
No one cares there’s no civics classes anymore in public schools. We are expected to teach it at home and we see where that’s getting us. Most are learning it through social media and we know how much false information is spread. I am really trying to accept where this country is headed but it is hard. Because we can’t stop it. I feel I’ve watched the Dem Party just kick the can down the road. Too bad I can’t say the same about the Rethuglican Party. They are destroying our great country at every turn. They literally deny science! If we can’t agree on that what can we agree on? Climate change, vaccines and viruses, reproductive health shouldn’t be up for debate besides how to make it safely administered. If there’s a God please help us.
I can’t go to sleep because I find myself praying in bed and at the same time doubting with that expression. “If there’s a God” and I know I m going to hell for that. I’m Catholic but not a (every Sunday) churchgoer and I’m so desperate… I can’t even go back to watching the news ! But our smartphones make us read! Yes media is everywhere, headlines, names of the most deplorable people, comics, liars thrown out as nominees for the most prestigious jobs - I just CANNOT believe this nightmare! It’s like WAKE ME UP please!!
It’s been feeling like the Twilight Zone for over 8 years now. This is not the America I thought I knew. It’s AmeriKKKa with a waving Nazi flag. Being of the melanin rich side this mess is terrifying. We not going back without a fight. My family has decided we will die fighting. It’s been obvious for sometime that blacks overstayed our welcome. Even though we never asked to leave our homeland.
Carlette Harris, I totally agree with you..... I always felt that I had LOST 4 years of my life because of that orange bastard and his minions. Now I have to lose 4 more years of my life going forward. That's 8 years, nearly a decade of unabating stress and trauma.😞
I don't know how I'm going to survive emotionally, much less financially if the country goes into a full blown depression.
I am white and I'm disgusted with and repulsed by the white women who supported and voted for that putrid, cretinous, convicted felon orange Mussolini. I stand with my sisters of color and always will. Peace and love 🙏🕊️💙
Thanks Diane for your kind words and truthfulness. I am really worried that there’s not enough ally people like you. It sounds to me like you speak truth to power. I know that not all wyte people supported slavery but somehow that didn’t matter or make much difference. I have question for you and it’s personal. If you are offended I do apologize ahead of time. Are you a god fearing woman, a Christian? Please explain to me your beliefs about religion. I am trying to understand this Whyte Christianity thing. Because it feels familiar what is happening here. 💙🩷💙😊
Before the other imbecile took over twitter, I had an account, and I remember this white guy who was “a converted democrat” and one day he goes “When I was a republican, I was a happy man, never worried about any of this (this being all the horror we see and discuss once the orange man became president) and now I am depressed and sad and worried all the time“ Do decent people deserve to live this way? We don’t!
*not comics, I meant cynical but at this point, after the GOP was capable of using this conman to return to power in 2016 and they were so greedily blind not to see him turn out to be the snake that he talked so much about, as he ended up biting them all in the GOP, it does make me sick to see he is back with all his sycophants. It’s like seeing Scar and his hyenas taking over the kingdom in The Lion King, only for I was hoping that all the hyenas would turn back to him and throw him out but the nightmare continues. The media coverage of this man is impossible to understand and cannot be explained in one post. Thanks, Mary.
Viv, listen, you're NOT going to hell. It doesn't work that way. Give yourself a break.
If anyone is going to hell it's Trump and his minions.
You give yourself a break too, promise? ❤️
Viv, Promise 🤞💕
God will nor save us, thats what we have a brain for.
Fuck the media!! We have no MSM in this country; we have MAGAt mouthpieces, and nothing more!
It was allreplaced by Pvtin style propaganda. Th goal when all outlets were bought by the far right.
Stephanie Miller every morning!!!! FreeSpeechTV!!!
First I've heard of this!?! Where do I find it?
Stephanie Miller show?? FreeSpeechTV is online.......she is also on WCPT 820..online Progressive radio from Chicago...........she has a web site as well...check it out
9-12 AM eastern........#1 Progressive Female Radio Host
I sure will. Thank you!!
By the wayHeather Cox Richardson was on all morning Monday. It was amazing.....tell your friends who are upset to tune in....she is also a comedian..etc.......Her father was a prosecuter at the Nuremburg Nazi War crimes trials
Thank you Mary Trump.
The media destroyed their credibility. I haven’t watched any news since what they did to President Biden. After the election, I wouldn’t even watch YouTube. Zero.
Meidas Touch
Thank You Mary! Please hang in there with the rest of Us, we need you, your support and forethought.
Or he cheated
I am believing more and more that he did cheat.
Of course he did. Thru his never ending projection he is doing what he accuses others of. A text book example of projection.
My husband said that the Harris campaign was setting aside money to investigate possible election problems. I hope they do investigate and find the truth. The latest thing someone told me is that the national exit polls showed Harris winning the popular vote by 4 points.
The lifelong con wasn’t about to play the most consequential election of his life straight!
Why aren’t Dems yelling from the rooftops about the clear manipulation of the vote totals?!
Who gives a shit if MAGA calls us deniers? You got fucking robbed by a fraudulent criminal!
I ask that same question. Why aren't more of us looking into this. No doubt in my mind that the election was rigged by trump (Musk, Putin etal) big time. Why did he say at his rallies: "I don't need you to vote... I have plenty of votes," And Musk announced 4 hours before the election was over that he had won. How did he already know that? The numbers are ridiculous. This should be investigated...now!
I'm a Canadian. And I'll tell you when I figured out the con...
I live in the "reddest state" in Canada and our RWNJ government just banned voting tabulators. That's how I know that tabulators can be used to fraudulently change vote totals.
Here's some threads from an election fraud expert:
https://spoutible.com/thread/37794003
https://spoutible.com/thread/37937176
NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1112436
Twla thanks for the links. I just am convinced that the votes were manipulated. The totals just don't make sense. I'm just shocked that no one is checking on this. Everyone knows that trump is a convicted felon and lifelong con man...yet no one is doing recounts by hand. It's infuriating.
Call your local election officials and demand hand recount audits.
Particularly in the swing states. And do it NOW!
He cheated death when he was born.
Agree
Not to mention that the numbers don’t add up right.
It is impossible for me to believe that that many democrats didn’t show up to vote. Not with the incredible increase in the young people.
Exactly!
The bomb threats and possible manipulation.
Exactly
Exactly!
He will get away with it because everyone will blame the Dems, the media (they are culpable) and turn on each other rather than blaming the one-man crime wave for it.
Please call your local election officials and secretaries of state! Demand hand recount audits at the local level. I’m Canadian so I can’t help but I’m yelling as much as I can for you all.
For whatever reason the Dems refuse to fight. I don’t understand it.
That’s why voters need to be their own advocates. Call your local election officials. In particular, for the people whose mailed ballots seem to have evaporated, no one else is going to hold the officials to account.
This is why he’s so unhinged, his chaos triggers everyone to just give up. He’s counting on it.
I’m in California we handed Harris/Walz the win very soon after polls closed. But yes demanding recounts can’t hurt anything.
I'm a Democratic member of my local board of elections in north central Georgia. No mail in ballots evaporated here! We are doing more than one audit and the first one confirms the final vote. We are doing a hand count audit Friday. (When that was done in 2020, the numbers were basically the same--some mail-in ballots that arrived late were then included in the final numbers.) We had two election lawyers observing our counting and the first audit for the 2024 election.
Thank you for replying to me. I appreciate your response.
I’m very sceptical of the voting tabulators for 2 reasons. One is that an election fraud investigator has suggested that the tabulation level is shows evidence of irregularity on these 2 threads
https://spoutible.com/thread/37794003
https://spoutible.com/thread/37937176
The 2nd is that I’m Canadian, and my very rightwing provincial government just banned voting tabulators in our elections. That tells me that they know something or have strong reasons to suspect something is suspicious about that part of elections (we vote on paper ballots, fyi) because it means that elections take longer and therefore cost more. This isn’t a government that wants to pay people to manually count votes for no reason.
It's beyond disgusting and aggravating that the right wing of the US political system and the one in your province want to destroy that which has done rather well in both countries: free and fair elections!
I didn't hear any "Woke Politics" from Harris or Walz. All of the Identity Politics I heard came from the Trump side. Unfortunately, because he is a dancing clown that had his deflection/distraction campaign in full force, the Harris/Walz campaign were fighting against a hurricane of messaging that put words in their mouths or took their words out of context. They fought a valiant battle, and I still appreciate them for the effort.