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January 3, 2021

The tell.

All he wants is 11,780 votes.

In other words, if he wins by only one vote, he is willing to claim victory.

But, 11,779 votes by Biden is not enough?

But one vote is enough for Donnie Two Scoops?

If the Republicans were smart, which they are not, they would impeach him and convict him and prevent him from ever running for office again.

His call was so similar to the call to the Ukraine President. He wanted him to help defeat Biden also. And he was willing to bribe him to get it done.

It is a pattern with this criminal.

January 3, 2021

Americans need to understand, this is not about Democrats or Republicans.

This is about America. This is about your country. This is about your democracy.

Americans need to understand that an election was held and the votes were fairly and honestly counted.

Simply saying that an election was stolen or "rigged" does not make it so. It is highly irresponsible, to say the least, to promote such ideas.

The election was challenged with the Governors and Secretarys of State in several states. There were recounts and recounts and another recount. Each time the votes were certified.

The state electors certified the elections in their states. Trump and his regime took it to the courts. They went before 60 judges and they all ruled against Trump and his regime. They rallied 17 State Attorney Generals to take the case before the Supreme Court of this land. And the Supreme Court ruled against them.

What more can the American people expect to see??

This is about your country, not your Party, and certainly not the wannabe dictator that is warping your minds.

January 3, 2021

How much of a threat is Donald Trump to our National Security?

Not only Donald Trump, but the entire Trump regime, including those that received Top Secret security clearances against the advice of the intelligence professionals?

I am sure Biden's national security apparatus is discussing this every day. How do they handle it? What can they do to control it? Can it be neutralized?

How can they prevent Trump and Family from exposing all of America's secrets? Should they simply beat him to the punch and declassify it all? There are a lot of questions with very few answers.

If Edward Snowden was bad for our intelligence, then the Trumps are a thousand times worse. It is a dilemma for our National Security Council, I am sure.

Do they monitor their movements, their phone calls, their meetings, their business associates, and everything they do? Would that even be possible?

This is a problem for our country.

January 3, 2021

Reality Check: This is a very serious "coup attempt"

Trump and his confederates are doing everything in their power to overthrow this election. There is nothing they will not try, if they believe it has the slightest chance of succeeding.

But it is more than just attempting to "overthrow" an election. It is an attempt to overthrow our government. Call it whatever you wish.

It could be argued that Trump has successfully overthrown the Republican Party already. At least, the Republican Party as we have known it.

The Republicans made a deal with the devil and they could be prepared to get their just desserts? They have lost the Presidency, the House, and maybe the Senate? We should know by Wednesday morning.

If not the end of the Republican Party, it will be a Party that is terribly splintered and divided. But, that is the least of America's problem at the moment.

There is plenty of blame to go around, including right down to each individual voter. We had a chance to get rid of the disease now occupying the White House, but we did not put enough pressure on the elected officials to get the job done, and we are now where we are. I have little doubt but that it will be debated thoroughly in the future.

However, we are presently in the middle of an attempted coup. Too many Republicans have joined with the conspirators to overthrow a fair and honest election. They wish to install something other than a democracy. It is a present threat to us all.

It is incumbent upon us all to recognize the situation we face, in the most realistic and honest way possible.

January 3, 2021

Do you truly believe that Trump received 74 million votes?

Consider that his modus operandi is to project onto others what he himself is guilty of doing.

Also, when he says the election was "rigged", perhaps he rigged it?

There were some questionable numbers coming out of the states that used the ES&S voting machines.

Is it possible that he rigged those machines to get himself a few million extra votes and guarantee his re-election? Or does anyone think that he would never attempt something like that?

He was always questioning the mail-in ballots, with a paper trail, but never the voting machines that are capable of being manipulated?

I'm not so sure that he got 74 million votes. I think he may have cheated?

January 2, 2021

The Georgia election will tell us a lot.

We know where Trump and the elected Republicans in Washington stand. But, we don't know for sure exactly how many Republican voters agree with what they are presently doing?

It is possible to glean valuable information on election day. How many Republicans stay home out of disgust and disappointment in their Party? Probably very few? But we don't know for sure?

However, if they swarm to the polls on January 5th, we can write it all down. They are all the same. They have no principles and care very little about their country. They are in it for their Party and their Cult. That is what we will be able to take away from the Georgia election.

The voters and their elected Senators are in the same boat and we should make our decisions from that information. We should disavow any compromise with these types of people. We will know their true colors after the election in Georgia and we will know how many disagree with their Leaders?

January 2, 2021

What must "moderate" Republicans be thinking?

I dare not to generalize and believe that they are all anti-democracy and anti-America?

Some of them must be questioning how far their Party has sunk?

Some must be embarrassed?

What would need to happen for them to leave that cesspool?

It is a disgrace.

January 2, 2021

Have more Americans died in the first year of this pandemic than in the 1918 Flu Pandemic?

In total, more died in the 1918 pandemic, but it lasted until 1921-22.

Before this pandemic is over, more Americans may die than in the 1918 Pandemic?

It is heartbreaking that so many people are not taking it seriously.

January 2, 2021

How long after Trump leaves the White House until he meets with Putin??

I would say within a week or two, or sooner?

He has deals he needs to complete, in my opinion.

He still wants the Trump Tower in Moscow. Also, he still wants his cut from a nuclear deal with the Saudis.

He has not slowed down his dealing since he has been in the White House, he has only kept it more secretive.

Hopefully, the new regulation on money laundering - in the Defense Bill - will slow them down a bit? But, they will not stop their business model, in my opinion.

January 2, 2021

Do McConnell and Schumer hate each other?

I mean, do they despise each other to the point where one cannot talk with the other?

To me, that seems to be the case. Both want to be Majority Leader, that is a given.

But, how harmful is that when we are in a crisis such as we are in at present?

If true, is that really a good leadership argument for either of them?

I expect that many will jump to Schumer's defense?

In my opinion, we need new leadership throughout the entire Congress and Senate. They have failed us miserably during this crisis, with Trump and the pandemic.

Of course, we should never mention anything like this, otherwise stand accused of stirring up shit.

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