The Donald Trump Score Card

For Republicans, fealty to Trump’s election falsehood becomes defining loyalty test
By Ashley Parker and Marianna Sotomayor
May 2, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EDT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...d380a0-a921-11eb-8c1a-56f0cb4ff3b5_story.html

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"Debra Ell, a Republican organizer in Michigan and fervent supporter of former president Donald Trump, said she has good reason to believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

“I think I speak for many people in that Trump has never actually been wrong, and so we’ve learned to trust when he says something, that he’s not just going to spew something out there that’s wrong and not verified,” she said, referring to Trump’s baseless claims that widespread electoral fraud caused his loss to President Biden in November."

 

Hahahahahaha....


"many people are saying this, must be true" ~ Donald J. Trump

 

Holy shit, this thread has reached 2,000 pages!

 

Romney said 'there aren't many of us left', referring to the lack of principles in many members of the GOP.

Romney's remarks after Trump's siege on the Capitol:


Sen. Mitt Romney: "What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President"

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"Republican Sen. Mitt Romney, who has condemned GOP attempts to subvert the will of the voters in the presidential election, released a statement Wednesday night containing remarks he would have said in the US Senate before the insurrection in the US Capitol.

“We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy. They will be remembered for their role in this shameful episode in American history. That will be their legacy,” Romney said.

Romney went on to say, “I urge my colleagues to move forward with completing the electoral count, to refrain from further objections, and to unanimously affirm the legitimacy of the presidential election.”

 

Why The Republican Party Isn’t Rebranding After 2020

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"Despite Republicans losing the White House and Senate in 2020, and thus being totally swept out of power in Washington, there’s been no official “autopsy” or widespread consideration of appointing new leaders or anything else. In the period after the 1988 presidential election, the Republican Party has lost the popular vote in all but one presidential race (2004). It has lost three of the last four presidential elections and allowed itself to be dominated by former President Donald Trump, who was twice impeached for breaking with democratic values. But it is moving forward like none of that really happened.

Some examples:

• Republicans on Capitol Hill and at the state level are returning to their Obama-era strategy of opposing everything the incumbent Democratic president does;
• Republicans at the state level are adopting laws that make it harder for left-leaning people to vote, just like they did before and during the Trump presidency;
• Republicans in Washington and at the state level are sticking with the party’s positions on issues of identity and race, which are a big part of the reason that the GOP is struggling among the growing parts of America’s electorate, namely people of color and white college graduates (this marks a change from the post-election periods in 2008 and 2012, when Republicans talked about how to better appeal to nonwhite voters);
• State-level Republican officials, in particular, are taking other extreme actions, from casting Democratic women as “witches” to trying to bar Democratic-controlled cities from requiring residents to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19;
• And, perhaps most surprisingly, Republican Party officials are largely continuing to align themselves with Trump, even though the former president was both an electoral drag on the party and also a moral stain, with a string of racist comments and undemocratic actions that culminated in him encouraging his supporters to storm the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the election results."

 

Lindsey Graham is exemplary of that fact with his recent remarks that downplayed Trump's insurrection at the Capitol that killed eight people (three police officers) and injured hundreds.

Graham said that Trump has some issues with himself to work on to achieve his full potential.

Graham is the type of person who would say that Charles Manson was a good person once you got to know him and who had great potential (if he could just stop that killing problem).

 

She needs to put the bong down.

 

Proud Boys Canada dissolves.


Proud Boys Canada dissolves itself, months after designation as terrorist entity

 

Jim (from Michigan) was the only one with any common sense out of the twelve participants. The other people were a bunch a babbling idiots. Very annoying to listen to.

 

DeSantis cancels local rules by signing an executive order that bans the use of vaccine passports and invalidates all remaining local emergency coronavirus orders.

He recently signed a bill that allows punishment of media companies for deplatforming a member (which protects people like Trump who have violated the terms in the agreement).


Florida governor signs executive order banning vaccine passport use at businesses

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"Sticking to his promise, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order Friday effectively banning the use of vaccine passports in Florida.

The executive order prevents any Florida government entity from issuing a vaccine passport to prove that a person has been vaccinated for COVID-19. The order also bans businesses in Florida from requiring customers to provide COVID-19 vaccine documentation to gain access or services.

The order says “requiring so-called COVID-19 vaccine passports for taking part in everyday life — such as attending a sporting event, patronizing a restaurant, or going to a movie theater — would create two classes of citizens based on vaccination.”"

 

This is why I work so hard to develop Three Stooges linguistic analysis. The idiots lie to themselves so much and demand everyone else lie to them, that they can be encouraged to eat each other alive faster.

 

The GOP should consider examining historical facts about absentee voting before bowing to the fantasies of Trump to score points from him in the short term.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...133920-a9bf-11eb-8c1a-56f0cb4ff3b5_story.html

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"Republican operatives worth their salt remember well the Sunshine State’s 1988 U.S. Senate race.

Floridians went to sleep that Nov. 8 believing that Democrat Buddy MacKay had prevailed with a slim lead of less than one percentage point. The television networks had called the race for him. The St. Petersburg Times published a story the next day declaring that Republican Connie Mack had “failed to win big” in crucial conservative strongholds Lee and Pinellas counties.

Then the last of the absentee ballots came in. They went 3 to 1 for Mack, delivering him a 34,518-vote victory.

“It was legendary,” said David Johnson, a longtime GOP consultant in the state. “The Republicans had done such a good job with absentee ballots that they eked out a narrow win.”

So began a long and fruitful relationship between the GOP and absentee voting. Republican campaigns invested millions of dollars encouraging their supporters to cast ballots by mail. State legislators passed laws making it easier. Over the ensuing decades, GOP voters in Florida became so comfortable with casting ballots by mail that in 2020, nearly 35 percent of those who turned out did so, according to state data compiled by University of Florida political science professor Daniel A. Smith.

Virtually every narrow Republican victor of the past generation — and there have been many, including two of the state’s current top officeholders, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Rick Scott — owes their victory, at least in part, to mail voting."

 

After losing to Democratic candidates in various governor elections during the 2018 midterm, the GOP legislatures stripped powers of the governor after the election.

It's been a tactic the GOP has used at the state and national level. McConnell has been a glaring example at the national level.

Article from 2018.


Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signs into law sweeping bills stripping powers from the Democrats

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"Republicans, about to lose their grip on power in a number of states, are souring Democrats’ election wins — and Wisconsin is taking charge.

Republican Gov. Scott Walker signed a slate of bills — passed by Wisconsin’s GOP-controlled legislature — that will curb incoming Democrat governor-elect Tony Evers’s power in office, and potentially make it harder for Democrats to get elected in the future.

The laws will limit Evers’s power to change policies around welfare, health care, and economic development; put limits on the incoming Democratic attorney general; and cut down early voting.

A similar tale is playing out in Michigan, where Democrats Gretchen Whitmer, Dana Nessel, and Jocelyn Benson handily won the governor, attorney general, and secretary of state races, respectively. Michigan Republicans are trying to guarantee the GOP-controlled legislature the right to intervene in any legal battles involving state laws that the attorney general may be reluctant to defend, as well as remove campaign finance oversight from the Secretary of State’s office.

There are not many ways to spin it; it’s a power grab that would seriously undermine the platform on which these Democrats campaigned on, and won. Even Wisconsin’s Republican state House Speaker Robin Vos admitted that Republicans were seeking the changes because “we are going to have a very liberal governor who is going to enact policies that are in direct contrast to what many of us believe in.”"

 

The GOP organizes like a flock of chickens, and no longer exists. The mindless mob is running the show now, with Donald Duck showing them the miracle of how Professional Wrestling can put the slam on even Fox News. Like the democrats, republicans are now counting on the fact that we only have a two party system, and they can always vote for whichever fool promises to destroy the government. Half of all conservatives claim the republican party is too lame.

 

‘Two justice systems’: Anger as white Trump supporter who used dead mother’s vote walks free while Black woman faces jail for voting error
Graig Graziosi
Mon, May 3, 2021, 3:56 PM

‘Two justice systems’: Anger as white Trump supporter who used dead mother’s vote walks free while Black woman faces jail for voting error

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"A white man who pretended to be his dead mother in order to cast an extra vote for Donald Trump was sentenced to five years of probation after being found guilty.

A Black woman, who voted while on probation but who claims she was unaware she was ineligible to do so, has been sentenced to five years in prison."

 

Another one bites the dust

 

Michael Flynn doesn't know the pledge of allegiance ..........lol....

 

Michael Flynn told the people he wanted them to hear every single word of the Pledge of Allegiance as he recited it, and he couldn't remember the words.

 

John Douglas Wright lied to federal agents. That's one more charge against him.


https://www.news5cleveland.com/news...in-connection-with-jan-6-capitol-insurrection

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"A cooperating witness told the FBI that Wright had admitted to being detained in the Capitol Building Rotunda during the riot and that he was sprayed with a chemical agent and forced to the ground, while other witnesses told the FBI they had seen his videos and recognized his voice in them.

While looking through Wright's social media channels, the FBI found statements such as "TODAY WE TAKE GEORGIA TOMORROW WE TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK (SOUND FAMILIAR)" posted on Jan. 5 and "YESTERDAY WAS A PRACTICE RUN" posted on Jan. 7.

On Jan. 11, an agent interviewed Wright at his residence where he denied being at the Capitol building."

 

Dinesh, D'Souza, a convicted felon pardoned by Trump, tries to whitewash Trump's riot at the Capitol.


Right-Wing Pundit's Attempt To Whitewash The Capitol Insurrection Backfires

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"Conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza had critics shaking their heads Monday after he attempted to whitewash the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol using one image.

D’Souza, a convicted felon who was pardoned by former President Donald Trump in 2018, tweeted a widely shared image from the riot showing a man carrying the House speaker’s lectern.

“Does this LOOK like an insurrection? A riot? A coup attempt?” he asked. “If it doesn’t walk like a duck or talk like a duck then it probably isn’t a duck.”

That man, Adam Christian Johnson, was arrested in January and charged with entering a restricted a building or grounds without lawful authority, theft of government property, and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. He was one of hundreds to be charged in relation to the violent assault on the Capitol, led by a pro-Trump mob, that led to five deaths.

D’Souza made no mention of the massive stock of images showing those rioters storming the building, smashing property, assaulting police and threatening to harm elected officials."