Politics 2021

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New Year, New President Soon, New Thread...

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[Sleezebag] dealt 2 blows today by the Senate, first by not taking up his call for more money for people and then the huge override vote (81 to 13) to overturn his Defense Bill Veto.
[Sleezebag] pouts on twitter....

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There is talk about 12 Senators wanting a protest vote during the Wend Certification Vote in the Joint Congress session.  I'm guessing that they all will be up for reelection in 2018 and want to brown nose the [Sleezebag] Voter Base. 

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[Sleezebag] makes hour long call this last weekend to attempt to pressure GA Sec of State to

[Sleezebag] said: “So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.”

If [Sleezebag] wasn't inline to be removed on Jan 20, this would be akin to the Ukraine Call and thus up for Impeachment.

-raffensperger-call-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/d45acb92-4dc4-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/[Sleezebag]-raffensperger-call-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/d45acb92-4dc4-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html


-raffensperger-call-transcript-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/2768e0cc-4ddd-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/[Sleezebag]-raffensperger-call-transcript-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/2768e0cc-4ddd-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html

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This part is the most telling and dangerous part of the whole hour long rant

Raffensperger: Mr. President, the problem you have with social media, they — people can say anything.[Sleezebag]: Oh this isn’t social media. This is [Sleezebag] media. It’s not social media. It’s really not; it’s not social media. I don’t care about social media. I couldn’t care less. Social media is Big Tech. Big Tech is on your side, you know. I don’t even know why you have a side because you should want to have an accurate election. And you’re a Republican. Raffensperger: We believe that we do have an accurate election.[Sleezebag]: No, no you don’t. No, no you don’t.  You don’t have.

[Geo]

 
He contradicts himself 3 times in this single sentence.

[Buster's Uncle]

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Say what you will about certain Republicans, but Dick Cheney was the driving force behind this Recent Washington Post Op-Ed piece

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All 10 living former defense secretaries: Involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory[/bold]


Opinion by Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, William Perry and Donald Rumsfeld
Jan. 3, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. EST


Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, William Perry and Donald Rumsfeld are the 10 living former U.S. secretaries of defense.

As former secretaries of defense, we hold a common view of the solemn obligations of the U.S. armed forces and the Defense Department. Each of us swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. We did not swear it to an individual or a party.

American elections and the peaceful transfers of power that result are hallmarks of our democracy. With one singular and tragic exception that cost the lives of more Americans than all of our other wars combined, the United States has had an unbroken record of such transitions since 1789, including in times of partisan strife, war, epidemics and economic depression. This year should be no exception.

Our elections have occurred. Recounts and audits have been conducted. Appropriate challenges have been addressed by the courts. Governors have certified the results. And the electoral college has voted. The time for questioning the results has passed; the time for the formal counting of the electoral college votes, as prescribed in the Constitution and statute, has arrived.

As senior Defense Department leaders have noted, “there’s no role for the U.S. military in determining the outcome of a U.S. election.” Efforts to involve the U.S. armed forces in resolving election disputes would take us into dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory. Civilian and military officials who direct or carry out such measures would be accountable, including potentially facing criminal penalties, for the grave consequences of their actions on our republic.

Transitions, which all of us have experienced, are a crucial part of the successful transfer of power. They often occur at times of international uncertainty about U.S. national security policy and posture. They can be a moment when the nation is vulnerable to actions by adversaries seeking to take advantage of the situation.

Given these factors, particularly at a time when U.S. forces are engaged in active operations around the world, it is all the more imperative that the transition at the Defense Department be carried out fully, cooperatively and transparently. Acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller and his subordinates — political appointees, officers and civil servants — are each bound by oath, law and precedent to facilitate the entry into office of the incoming administration, and to do so wholeheartedly. They must also refrain from any political actions that undermine the results of the election or hinder the success of the new team.

We call upon them, in the strongest terms, to do as so many generations of Americans have done before them. This final action is in keeping with the highest traditions and professionalism of the U.S. armed forces, and the history of democratic transition in our great country.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/10-former-defense-secretaries-military-peaceful-transfer-of-power/2021/01/03/2a23d52e-4c4d-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html

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SPEAKing of too. Nazi. for. Dick. Cheney., a couple insider trading felons seem to have had a bad night in Georgia.

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Now if we can make it through the next 24 hours w/o the treason amounting to anything other than -clown- theater, and no political murders/martial law, I'll be able to relax a little---

-In 15 days - maybe.

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Did you know that Mitch McConnell's House was vandalized recently?  Likely by a [Sleezebag] Supporter due to his admitting that Biden won. 

Unfortunately, even though Biden will get settled into the White House, we will still have a few more years of BS from the Authoritarian [Sleezebag] Supporters.  "Accidents" will happen, Alleged "Crimes" committed by or to people whom opposed [Sleezebag].  Hopefully, the Republican Party will split and the Fascist Trumpaldykes will be in one and the Moderate Republicans will be in the other.  As there is no hope of Real Republican Moderates taking back their party, they can only hope to split and reform away from them.  THEN, might the Morons whom are following [Sleezebag] will fade away, but not really likely.

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Former 6 term Congressional Representative and 1 term Senator from Arizona, Jeff Flake (R), whom left Public office due to the direction that [Sleezebag] was leading the Republican Party and Lawmakers, wrote an Opinion piece for the New York Times about the up coming Congressional Vote Certification.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/jeff-flake-[Sleezebag]-republicans.html
He wrote

I once had a career in public life.....   and then the rise of a dangerous demagogue, and my party’s embrace of him, ended that career. Or rather, I chose not to go along with my party’s rejection of its core conservative principles in favor of that demagogue. In a speech on the Senate floor on Oct. 24, 2017, I announced that because of the turn my party had taken, I would not run for re-election: the career of a politician that is complicit in undermining his own values doesn’t mean much.

as well as this powerful part

It is hard to comprehend how so many of my fellow Republicans were able — and are still able — to engage in the fantasy that they had not abruptly abandoned the principles they claimed to believe in. It is also difficult to understand how this betrayal could be driven by deference to the unprincipled, incoherent and blatantly self-interested politics of Donald [Sleezebag], defined as it is by its chaos and boundless dishonesty. The conclusion that I have come to is that they did it for the basest of reasons — sheer survival and rank opportunism.
But survival divorced from principle makes a politician unable to defend the institutions of American liberty when they come under threat by enemies foreign and domestic. And keeping your head down in capitulation to a rogue president makes you little more than furniture. One wonders if that is what my fellow Republicans had in mind when they first sought public office.

After he was first sworn into office, he was witness to Al Gore's presiding the Joint Congress for the Certification of the Vote that he had lost.  And also witness to the Peaceful Transfer of power, which was both "profound and ordinary."

Mr. Gore said this: “May God bless our new president and new vice president, and may God bless the United States of America.”Mr. Gore’s was an act of grace that the American people had every right to expect of someone in his position, a testament to the robustness and durability of American constitutional democracy. That he was merely doing his job and discharging his responsibility to the Constitution is what made the moment both profound and ordinary.
Vice President Mike Pence must do the same today. As we are now learning, a healthy democracy is wholly dependent on the good will and good faith of those who offer to serve it.
Today, the American people deserve to witness the majesty of a peaceful transfer of power, just as I saw, awe-struck, two decades ago. Instead, we find ourselves in this bizarre condition of our own making, two weeks from the inauguration of a new president, with madness unspooling from the White House, grievous damage to our body politic compounding daily.
My fellow Republicans, as Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger of Georgia has shown us this week, there is power in standing up to the rank corruptions of a demagogue. Mr. [Sleezebag] can’t hurt you. But he is destroying us.

Again, not all Republicans are evil or just plain bad.  Did he do enough after leaving office, possibly not, but as I don't have any clue as to what he has or hasn't done off of the public stage, but he is trying.  Should he have tried to stay in and be a voice on the inside , maybe, but he would have also been shouting in the wilderness over the last two years. 

But it IS a start, just hope it's not too late, but I'm almost certain that it is...

[Buster's Uncle]

No sale.  It's still, since Reagan, the party of bad-mouthing and blaming the other guy - minority vote electoral college presidents and not deeply ashamed of that - only 2/3rds intellectual lightweights if you go all the way back to include Nixon.

I can respect a thoughtful conservative, but that doesn't describe the party leadership going back forty years.  This crap right now is the fruits of reaganism - NO. SALE.

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No, but with spine and balls...

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AZ Ballots under Objection, both houses break to debate. 

will they object for every state that voted Biden or just the 5 that they wanted?