America has turned a pretty serious corner. Even when Trump leaves, the standard has been set. Anyone can just scream “fraud” with no evidence, even in the face of a landslide, and disrupt a transition. Terrorists will plan their attacks for early February, since they will.../1
...know the new administration has not been able to hit the ground running. In 2000, we had a messed up transition cause of Bush v Gore, and the 9/11 report cited that as an issue that contributed to the failure to stop the attack. There were recommendations from the 9/11.../2
..Commision on how to handle a transition, to make sure this never happens again. They never envisioned a situation like this, where one party would just lie and lie and lie, pretending that 1million votes were fraudulent. We are now doing *everything* the opposite of what.../3
....9/11-Commission said we should do to protect national security. But the @gop doesn’t care because they’re afraid of a toddler’s tweet People could well die. Unfortunately, it will be innocents who will suffer. And then the GOP will blame Biden. Because they’re scum.
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To everyone freaking out about what Trump's doing with Pentagon: Don't. No military officer would follow an unlawful order to do anything to keep him in office. Generals might remove him if he goes too far, though.
HOWEVER, from a national security perspective, bad things.../1
...are going to happen, and we are seeing them coming fast. He has a LOT of Putin appeasing to do. Remember, this asshole is $1 billion in debt, no bank will touch him, and he needs cash. So...yah.
So we will pull out of Middle East, send lots of weapons to countries who he.../2
...bribed with promises of weapons to get them to do the Israeli deals. He's rushing an arms "agreement" with Putin, that Im sure Putin has dictated to him. However, this will put us in a very dangerous place in the Middle East. #DimwitDon is too stupid - or probably doesnt.../3
.@JonathanTurley is an liar willing to assault democracy. He went on national TV saying Philly was “compelled” by the Suprme Court to ballots that arrived after election and it “required” the intervention of Alito. Philly was doing it already, as they reported in court filing...1
...and the reason the request was put in place by alito is that there was a motion by some GOP group that sent an email saying “are you separating like you’re supposed to?” and when they didn’t get a response in less than 24 hours (because Philly had other things to do) ran to...
...the court screaming “they’re not doing it, they’re not doing it! They didn’t respond to our email immediately!” So Alito just issued an order saying “yah, keep things as they are, follow the rules.” This was what ANY responsible jurist would do. It simply stated the obvious...
Im going to repeat the message I often give to frustrated progressives, but this time for all democrats:
Change doesnt come quickly. It is a process, not an event. This election has hopefully advanced us a step. We stick with massive voting, every time, change continues. Then...
...at some point, like digging slowly through the wall, you hit a tipping point and change occurs rapidly.
Trumpism took over this country because there were things that preexisted in this country that allowed it to fester: Racism, white grievance, disinformation, loss.../2
...of agreed concepts of reality, which has allowed for the reality of who democrats are to be completely fictionalized. (Talk to @davidmweissman - a former Trump voter now democrat - about how the conservative bubble creates a fantasy view of what democrats are.) We are..../3
I cant understand how people are shocked that the polls were
"wrong" and then in the next sentence mention voter suppression. GOP targets democratic voting blocs for suppression. Those blocs get polled, and give responses. And then are blocked from voting. Then, you have...
...relentless weaponization of COVID, with GOP successfully pushing these things: Voting must be inside (where infection higher risk) people dont have to wear masks, people can bring guns. Because the GOP is in fantasy land about Covid, this would have little impact on them...
...but would deter those who live in the real world of Covid and didnt want to risk dying. THEN, you have what is the obvious intentional slowing of the mail in critical democratic voting areas (I have now heard from 4 post offices that they were ordered to slow down. This...
Why I was constantly urging caution about being too confident:
* People underestimate how much Fox-induced hate of democrats drives decisions now. (Look at @RichLowry who argued - even with NATO near collapse and Covid exploding - to vote Trump to give dems "the finger")...
...literally, to so much of this country, including people who are supposed to be smarter than this like @RichLowry, politics is a game of self-affirmation, having to do with imprinting fantasies of democrats without a care about the real world. This "team" mentality is what...
...is destroying us. It is why, no matter how terrible everything Trump did was, his numbers never budged. The more upset those who opposed Trump became because of his abject incompetence and stupidity, some on the right saw the dem upset at objective reality of chaos as an...