Cops in this country are about to find out the guys they’ve been giving water bottles to and thanking for their support are not, in fact, the allies of police.
And I really don’t see any solution to the right wing armed thugs (they are not a militia) that does not include spilled blood.
“DC cops brace for armed Trump supporters at January 6 rally: ‘That just will not be tolerated'”
After Safe Harbor day, we were told we can relax. The states’ electors have voted. Biden won.
But still the Trump ninnies keep yelling about overturning the election. Now Pence is their Hail Mary. Somehow, they believe, he can simply overturn the will of the people when he presides over the Congressional vote to accept the state electors.
Neal Katyal and John Monsky wrote a New York Times column explaining however, that Pence’s authority in that process is fairly limited.
They argue that the Electoral Count Act, passed in 1887, hems him into a simple “ministerial” role.
The act states “the vice president must open ‘all certificates and papers purporting to be’ electoral votes,” they write.
Well, I’ve read several stories stating Trump supporters have created slates of ‘alternate electors,’ who would vote him in.
So, we may well have several ‘certificates and papers purporting to be’ electoral votes, from a single state.
Maybe the Trumpets aren’t as stupid as they sound.
Tresa BaldasDetroit Free Press
Not the most well written article, but it backs up my assertions that Republicans are disingenuous in their beliefs, in what I have before referred to as “plausible deniability racism.” This also explains why it’s useless to argue with them, because their “beliefs” are just a cover for that which dare not be said.
DARVO is an acronym used to describe a common strategy of abusers. The abuser will Deny the abuse ever took place, then Attack the victim for attempting to hold the abuser accountable; then they will lie and claim that they, the abuser, are the real victim in the situation, thus Reversing the Victim and Offender.
~ Wikipedia
Update 10/13/20: California GOP admits it’s placing ballot collection boxes that the state’s attorney general says are illegal, and when told to stop, in typical four-year-old style, say, “make me.”
As shown most recently by the postmaster general’s actions to deliberately slow down the U.S.. mail just before an election that may hinge on mailed-in ballots, and then his refusal to reverse those steps even though he promised to stop them, Republicans live by the old adage, “It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.”
Original Post 10/12/20:
“California Republicans are allegedly creating fake drop boxes and tricking voters into depositing their ballots in them. Apparently they’re trying to prove voter fraud is real by committing actual election fraud.”
—Mark Joseph Stern, Slate
As I’ve said more times than I can count, “projection is the pigment with which Republicans color their world.”
To determine what illegalities the Republicans are committing, simply look at the crimes of which they accuse Democrats.
It’s simple behavioral psychology that holds true from the lowliest street criminal to the highest corporate CEO: to rationalize your own behavior, you assume your opponents are doing the same. That way, rather than being a criminal, you are just leveling the playing field.
A young Hong Kong filmmaker has put together a ground-level view of the 2019 protests that I believe is an important documentation from protesters’ point of view. Check it out:
Just 20 days before the election, Trump, the only person in the world with the power to do something about this, screams “Someone should do something about this!”
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-calls-ag-barr-indict-joe-biden-26-days-until-election-1537518
I like to point out to Trump supporters that four years after a presidential campaign based on chants to “lock her up,” four years during which Trump had all the power of the Department of Justice at his disposal, Hillary Clinton still walks free.
There are two possible reasons for this:
Two choices: pick one.
Read the replies:
The Daily Caller has led the fight to shine a light on the riots in America. @RichieMcGinniss and @ShelbyTalcott saw somebody shot right in front of them in WI.
— David Hookstead (@dhookstead) September 24, 2020
Now, Louisville police (@LMPD) is holding Shelby @VenturaReport on bullshit charges.
This isn't China. Let them go.
A school district in Colorado called the police on a Black boy for bringing a toy gun to school. Except he never left his home. He was sitting on his couch.
This is the “School to Prison Pipeline” that Black children face: “data shows that the criminalization of Black youth in schools is real. Apart from the strains imposed by remote learning, Black students are disciplined and arrested at school at disproportionately high levels, an analysis of federal data from 2017 by the Education Week Research Center finds. ‘In 28 states, the share of arrested students who are Black is at least 10% higher than their share of enrollment in schools with at least one arrest,’ the report found. ‘In 10 of those states, that gap is at least 20%.’”