Steve Schmidt rains hell on republican cowards again.

[catbyte]

Steve Schmidt

Let’s be clear. Joe Biden is the President-Elect of the United States. The refusal of Republicans to acknowledge this are poisoning American democracy. They are breaking faith with our history, ideals and ideas. It is unforgivable and dangerous. It is UNAMERICAN and disloyal.

It is outrageous that Mitch McConnell has not congratulated the President-Elect and Kevin McCarthy’s comments intimating that Trump may yet win are even worse. Trump’s delusional temper tantrum is proof of his manifest unfitness and insanity.

The corruption of this process, the peaceful transition of power, by the cowardly, sniveling GOP Congress is the gravest vandalism of our system yet. We will live with the consequences of their cynicism and illiberalism for a long time. For the first time in our history the

Losing side of a Presidential election is refusing, en masse, to recognize the clear winner of a legitimate, free and fair Presidential election. Instead they are weaving conspiracy theories about fraud that doesn’t exist and drop by drop they are strangling faith and belief

In American democracy for tens of millions of people. Shame on them for the damage they have all done and continue to do to this country. Eventually this will trigger violence and when it does Trump, his family, his staff and his GOP enablers will own it. They have incited it.

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[soothsayer]

1. He's right

[SergeStorms]

2. The Trumpanzees don't care.

They seem just fine with authoritarian dictatorships. Hopefully this cult will fall apart when their dictator is no longer in power.

[NCDem47]

5. Mitch smiled at the camera when he said he was not taking up Merrick Garland.

Fits the Trump/Republican mode when they hold the power: "what are you going to do about it?"

[bdamomma]

22. Mitch

you are going down...he's a smug bastard.

[SergeStorms]

23. Not for at least 6 more years.

Unless some divine (or non-divine) intervention arises. I can't believe the people of Kentucky re-elected that piece of crap.

[bdamomma]

24. He's

not in good health. I want him to be in the "Minority".

We got to focus in on Georgia.

[SunSeeker]

3. K & R & Retweeted!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. Every Republican is now a Russiapublican.

[sarchasm]

30. Good one.

[Martin Eden]

6. Inciting violence this way is stochastic terrorism

They have shown by their words and deeds they put Trumpism above country and above any consideration for the safety of the American people.

[BobTheSubgenius]

7. Nicely written.

But not quite a "come to Jesus" moment. Most people feel this way already, even if they haven't, or couldn't, elucidate it.

[Lonestarblue]

8. Warnock and Ossoff need to be hanging this kind of behavior around their opponents' necks.

Just as Republicans would do, and just as they did when they hung defunding the police on ALL Democrats. Do Georgians want Republicans who refuse to recognize reality to the detriment of the country or Democrats who will work to make things better for Georgians.

[Hekate]

9. KnR

[groundloop]

10. Actually, their actions make perfect sense

First, GOPers need to keep the rabid right stirred up so they'll show up to vote for the Senate runoff elections in Georgia.

And secondly, by claiming that 'the election is being stolen blah blah blah' they're hoping to get donations to the fake 'tRump election legal defense fund'. As most here already know, 60% of donations go to a tRump slush fund and 40% go to the RNC. There's no doubt that tRump set it up this way to buy GOPer complicity in the scheme.

[Sherman A1]

13. Yup

[NurseJackie]

11. Schmidt is a patriot.

[sandensea]

12. He pretty much described today's GOP

Every word after 'United States' is them to a tee.

[JudyM]

31. And Schmidt is just starting to notice since trump.

He’d do well to look back the last couple of decades when he was supporting their villainy.

[sandensea]

35. True. But people do change.

I just hope he remembers that, come 2024, it'll still be the same, pseudo-fascist GOPee - just with a different flavor of the year.

My money's on Josh Hawley. He's got that toxic combination of shameless con-man, Leave-It-To-Beaver mien, and flag-draped fascist that most Repug voters love.

Hawley: "Look at my telegenic family. They got the (expensive) health care I'm trying my darndest to take away from you - but they're blonde!"

GOPee voters: "I think I'm in love!"

[Sherman A1]

14. That and

two bucks will buy you a cup of coffee.

[dchill]

15. True!

[ffr]

16. Some would say even treasonous.

The Kool Aid high they're on with tRump as their grand master of all their world views hold, is a lock.

They cannot face reality that everything, every political ideal they were taught to worship growing up has all been a lie. It's too crushing to admit to, which is why they are willing to go down with the tRump Titanic.

[Cha]

19. & Sedition.

[Dem4Life1102]

17. Reminds me of the scene in Game Change

when Woody Harrelson tells off Sarah Palin.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

18. Wasn't that "Game Change" or something like that? nt

[Dem4Life1102]

20. You're right nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

21. Who can keep track? And now there's 537 Votes. But that's a documentary. nt

[zentrum]

26. Except Schmidt is the guy

……who brought us Sarah Palin.

Has be apologized for that yet? She could have been a heartbeat away.

[Generic Brad]

28. Yes. He has apologized

I heard him expressing regret over Palin and acknowledging his role in the current state of affairs on a recent Al Franken podcast.

[zentrum]

25. Is The Lincoln Project

…..seriously supporting our two Senate candidates on Georgia?

The only way out of this hell runs through McConnelll.

[notinkansas]

27. I prefer to think of it as

running *over* mitch. Figuratively of course.

[OnDoutside]

34. Yes they are.

[zentrum]

36. Thank you.

Relieved to know that.

[spanone]

29. K&R

[PatrickforO]

32. Steve's gotta stop being so wishy-washy. We need to be certain how he feels

about Trumpy and the Republicans.

[oasis]

33. Excellent!