The Donald Trump Score Card

Cyber Ninjas stated in its report that it deemed tens of thousands of votes in Maricopa County AZ suspicious, a claim that stems from its confusion over issues such as authentic voters with multiple addresses and ones who have the same name.

During his NPR interview in January 2022, Trump jumped on the claim made by Cyber Ninjas (though not mentioning it by name) and said the evidence was devastating, right before he abruptly hung up the phone midway through the planned 15-minute interview and ran away.

 

The Cyber Ninjas audit was biased by selecting regions where Biden won by the largest margin. Even if fraudulent votes had been found, an audit would have been required across the entire state to be impartial.

Biden won Maricopa County by about 2% of its 2 million votes.

A hand recount by Cyber Ninjas showed Trump received 45,469 less votes than Biden in Maricopa County, within about 1,000 of the count by Maricopa County officials.

Trump lost AZ by 10,457 votes to Biden.

 

The GOP legislators in AZ and other states should be able to learn a lesson after what the AZ GOP state senate did by hiring the outside firm Cyber Ninjas. It opened up a can of legal worms for the state legislators who now face contempt if they don't comply with a court order to produce documents that the now-dissolved Cyber Ninjas has refused to release.

The problems the legislators face stem in part from the general public making requests to have public documents released by Cyber Ninjas to reveal who was funding the audit. The GOP legislators should have had at least some sense in themselves to anticipate such problems but seem to have let their stupor of loyalty to Trump override whatever practical reason they may have had left in them.

 

Legal fees ahead

 

Poll: As Ukraine tensions escalate, 62% of Republicans say Putin is a 'stronger leader' than Biden

 

Trump is a more submissive poodle to Putin than just about anyone else could ever be.

 

US seen as bigger threat to democracy than Russia or China, global poll finds

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"The US faces an uphill task presenting itself as the chief guardian of global democracy, according to a new poll that shows the US is seen around the world as more of a threat to democracy than even Russia and China.

The poll finds support for democracy remains high even though citizens in democratic countries rate their governments’ handling of the Covid crisis less well than people in less democratic countries.

Inequality is seen as the biggest threat to global democracy, but in the US the power of big tech companies is also seen as a challenge.

The findings come in a poll commissioned by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation among 50,000 respondents in 53 countries.

The results will make stark reading for the G7 foreign ministers as they hold a final day of talks in London in which they have collectively assumed the role as bulwarks of democratic values determined to confront autocracy.

The survey was carried out by the Latana polling company between February and April, so a hangover effect of Donald Trump’s “America first” foreign policy may linger in the findings. Overall the results show perceptions of the US starting to improve from last year."

 

A poll by Pew in 2020 showed that most of the democratically run countries around the world had higher confidence in Putin or Xi or both than they did in Trump.


Making America Great? Global Perceptions of China, Russia, and the United States: The International Scorecard


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Finally what took so long

Deputy AG: DOJ investigating fake Trump electors

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in an interview with CNN on Tuesday that the Department of Justice is investigating fake electors supporting former President Trump during the 2020 presidential election.

Fake documents were sent to the National Archives in December alleging electors for the Electoral College supported Trump in seven states President Biden had won.

"We've received those referrals. Our prosecutors are looking at those and I can't say anything more on ongoing investigations," Monaco told the outlet.

The fake elector certificates were sent from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Nevada, Michigan and New Mexico.

 

COVID has become a platform for displaying one's identity politics in an era of culture wars that Trump helped form.


Two Covid Americas
The unvaccinated are less worried than the boosted, according to a poll.
By David Leonhardt
Jan. 25, 2022

Two Covid Americas

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"But the poll results suggest that Americans have adopted at least some irrational beliefs about Covid. In our highly polarized country, many people seem to be allowing partisanship to influence their beliefs and sometimes to overwhelm scientific evidence.

Millions of Republican voters have decided that downplaying Covid is core to their identity as conservatives, even as their skepticism of vaccines means that the virus is killing many more Republicans than Democrats.

Millions of Democrats have decided that organizing their lives around Covid is core to their identity as progressives, even as pandemic isolation and disruption are fueling mental-health problems, drug overdoses, violent crime, rising blood pressure and growing educational inequality. As David Hogg, a gun-control activist, tweeted last year, “The inconvenience of having to wear a mask is more than worth it to have people not think I’m a conservative.”"

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Even Trump has admitted that the vaccines are a simple and effective modality for greatly reducing morbidity and death.

Unfortunately, he nurtured culture wars and identity politics incessantly into so many facets of everyday life that his following is still rejecting vaccinations, even with him encouraging it in the most unobtrusive, polite way.


U.S. Covid Deaths Get Even Redder
The partisan gap in Covid’s death toll has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point.
By David Leonhardt
Published Nov. 8, 2021
Updated Nov. 24, 2021

U.S. Covid Deaths Get Even Redder

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"But it turned out that these differences largely offset each other in 2020 — or maybe they didn’t matter as much as some people assumed. Either way, the per capita death toll in blue America and red America was similar by the final weeks of 2020.

It was only a few percentage points higher in counties where Donald Trump had won at least 60 percent of the vote than in counties where Joe Biden crossed that threshold. In counties where neither candidate won 60 percent, the death toll was higher than in either Trump or Biden counties. There simply was not a strong partisan pattern to Covid during the first year that it was circulating in the U.S.

Then the vaccines arrived.

They proved so powerful, and the partisan attitudes toward them so different, that a gap in Covid’s death toll quickly emerged. I have covered that gap in two newsletters — one this summer, one last month — and today’s newsletter offers an update.

The brief version: The gap in Covid’s death toll between red and blue America has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point.

In October, 25 out of every 100,000 residents of heavily Trump counties died from Covid, more than three times higher than the rate in heavily Biden counties (7.8 per 100,000). October was the fifth consecutive month that the percentage gap between the death rates in Trump counties and Biden counties widened.""

 

Yes, he was stronger than Trump ... for damn sure.

 

What these Republicans don't understand is that authoritarian laws apply to everyone. Just not libtards.

 

Oh well.

 

EXACTLY. And T**** openly showered his praises on Putin and Xi for having "strong leadership styles." ------------- and THE REPUBLICAN CROWD FOLLOWED LIKE THE BLIND LEMMINGS THEY ARE TODAY. It wasn't always a pro-dictatorial, fascist party .......... but it is NOW. Their actions reveal their true intent.

 

Wisconsin GOP rejects resolution to 'pull back' 2020 electoral votes

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"Rep. Timothy Ramthun, a Republican from Campbellsport, introduced a resolution during a floor session Tuesday to take the impossible step of retracting the state's 10 electoral votes cast for President Joe Biden in 2021.

Assembly leaders referred the resolution to a committee used to schedule floor votes for bills, a required action for such proposals under Assembly rules, and the committee chairman quickly said Ramthun's resolution won't be taken up.

"Rep Ramthun just attempted to pass an Assembly resolution to recall WI’s presidential electors. Not only is it illegal, it’s just plain unconstitutional," Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke, who leads the committee, said in a tweet. "As chair of the Rules Committee, there is ZERO chance I will advance this illegal resolution. #EndofStory""

 

Trump got to appoint 3 Supreme Court Judges. Now Biden gets his first chance. Bryer just said he's retiring. So we'll get to see how the Republicans and McConnell will vote on this nomination, and how Manchin and Sinema will hold to the Democrat side. Manchin voted to confirm Trump's appointments.

 

So there might be hope for us after all!

 

Wisconsin GOP rejects resolution to 'pull back' 2020 electoral votes

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"But popular conservative website Gateway Pundit falsely reported the move had been successful. Kari Lake, a Republican candidate for governor in Arizona, then tweeted to her 107,315 followers "**HUGE BREAKING NEWS** -- Wisconsin Assembly Votes to Withdraw Its 10 Electors for Joe Biden in 2020 Election."

As of Tuesday morning, the tweet reporting inaccurate information was still up despite Gateway Pundit recasting the story. The tweet had been liked more than 11,000 times and shared by more than 5,000 people."