Don't Pass Me By

Careless Love

If it wasn't "voting machines", it would be something else.

Trump and Guiliani are not looking for "fraud". They are looking to sow doubt. Just like they have done since the day they came into power after the election of 2016.

They are grasping at straws because they are about to lose their grasp on power.

The fraudulent voting machines is only their latest conspiracy theory.

They are like vampires that refuse to die. They are sucking the blood out of America, and our elected officials, primarily Republican sheep following Mitch McConnell, refuse to stab the wooden stakes into their traitorous hearts.

Enough already!

What type of people would follow a weasly, delusional, incompetent leader like Mitch McConnell? The entire Republican Party has failed to speak up to his failed leadership.

The people do not give a big rat's ass whether or not Mitch McConnell remains the Majority Leader. God knows he doesn't deserve it.

For the want of a nail, the war was lost.

I guess the Supreme Court is not good enough for them?

They are intent on over-riding this election, if the comments from Peter Navarro are any indication. And I think they are. They want to continue to sow doubt in one form or another. Now, it is the voting machines. (Perhaps the ones without a paper trail?)

I monitored talk radio a bit this morning and they are singing from the same songbook. They were saying that 30% of Democrats believed the election was a fraud, according to two or three of their favorite pollsters.

Trump is not conceding and neither are his supporters. The coup is still in full swing. The facts be damned!

They are going to keep shoveling that horseshit until they find that pony. They know it is in there somewhere.

The Needle and the Damage Done

In the face of a propaganda assault upon America, the press and the media have failed.

"Fair and balanced" really had no place when the assault began. They had a duty to tell the truth to the American people and to throw cold water on the attack upon the truth. They failed to take it serious enough. They failed to see the danger in it. There really was no "two sides to the story". By giving air time to the tweets and the lies, they were complicit with the propagandists.

We have finally arrived at our destination. There is talk of "martial law" and "rigged elections". The new President is not legitimate. They cheated. And so forth...

The media never gave the Republicans the responsibility and the blame they deserved. It was always, "the other side says" type of reporting. There is no other side when all they have is "alternative facts" and lies.

Our free press has failed us.

If We Make It Thru December

An introspective look at 100,000 posts:

It was tough times in 2001, after the election was stolen by the Supreme Court.

We were aware of DU from their banner they were holding up at Dubya's Inauguration. They were looking for people to write, so I wrote a few articles under my real name, until I changed to "kentuck" in about March or April of 2001. It was a good place to rant.

Unlike today, General Discussion might take 2 or 3 days for the posts to rotate off the page. Now, they can all rotate in a matter of minutes on a busy day.

We never imagined there would ever be a worse president than George W Bush. We were put into "free speech zones" when we protested. The invasion and the torture were more than the conscience could bear. Or so we thought.

We have seen a lot of great people come and go. There are too many names to mention. Many have passed on in the last 20 years.

As we fast forward to today, we see an illegitimate president sitting in the White House, moping and whining because he lost the last election, and is threatening "martial law" and whatever extraneous means he can imagine to destroy our democracy, as the criminal Senate stands by and does nothing. We see a president ignore people dying from a terrible pandemic and the economy collapsing around us and all he can think of is how can he stay in power?

I really don't know how much longer the "old blood" can hang on here at DU?

"No one is above the law."

That's a bunch of baloney, isn't it?

There are people that are above the law. That means there is no law. Justice does not exist.

It's a sinking feeling but I fear it is true.

We used to respect the power of the FBI. They would find and prosecute the worst offenders in society. No more.

There is no justice.

How should Trump be held accountable?

Should we rely totally on the NY AG and the SDNY?

Or should the new Attorney General appoint a Special Counsel to find out if he is indeed the traitor he appears to be?

Should the FBI continue their investigations? Should they go much deeper into his finances than Mueller went?

Should he be prosecuted to the full extent of the law?

Would it hurt the Democratic Party if he is not investigated?