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Tommymac
Tommymac's Journal
Tommymac's Journal
January 6, 2021
Jon Ossoff is 33 years old. Joe Biden won his first Senate race when he was 30.
That is poetry.
January 6, 2021
I don't believe Kamala will be casting any tie breaking votes in the Senate.
Nothing other then a feeling but the lure of a Committee Chair will be strong for one or two of the current 'sane conservative' Rethugs.
Murkowski, Collins, Romney or Toomey may declare themselves Independents, leave the GOP and caucus with the Democrats.
January 5, 2021
Stacey Abrams on MSNBC NOW! (650PM EST)
Brian will be interviewing her around 6:50 PM EST.
January 5, 2021
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1346555744372535298
OMG. This is unreal. Brewster won by 69 votes. His Seditious wackjob opponent claims that ballots challenged by Rudy et. al., which had signature issues but which were validated by the Courts after the election (one of Trump's 59 loses) should be decertified and thrown out.
I am really getting tired of Those People.
PA GOP senators refused to seat a Democrat and removed Lt. Gov. Fetterman from presiding
Pa. GOP senators refused to seat a Democrat and removed Lt. Gov. Fetterman from presiding
by Angela Couloumbis of Spotlight PA and Cynthia Fernandez, Updated: January 5, 2021- 3:25 PM
Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media
HARRISBURG — The new session of the Pennsylvania Senate got off to a chaotic start Tuesday, with Republicans refusing to seat a Democratic senator whose election victory has been certified by state officials.
Amid high emotions and partisan fingerpointing, Republicans also took the rare step of removing the Democratic lieutenant governor, John Fetterman, from presiding over the session. They apparently did so because they did not believe Fetterman was following the rules and recognizing their legislative motions.
Democrats, in turn, responded by refusing to back Sen. Jake Corman (R., Centre) from assuming the chamber’s top leadership position — an unusual maneuver on what is most often a largely ceremonial and bipartisan vote.
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For now, at least, Democratic state Sen. Jim Brewster, of Allegheny County, will not be allowed to take the oath of office, as Republicans believe litigation over the outcome in his race must first play out in the courts.
The state’s top Democrat, Gov. Tom Wolf, called the Senate’s refusal to seat Brewster, whose reelection was certified by the state, “simply unethical and undemocratic.”
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/spl/john-fetterman-pennsylvania-senate-removed-republicans-jim-brewster-20210105.html
by Angela Couloumbis of Spotlight PA and Cynthia Fernandez, Updated: January 5, 2021- 3:25 PM
Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media
HARRISBURG — The new session of the Pennsylvania Senate got off to a chaotic start Tuesday, with Republicans refusing to seat a Democratic senator whose election victory has been certified by state officials.
Amid high emotions and partisan fingerpointing, Republicans also took the rare step of removing the Democratic lieutenant governor, John Fetterman, from presiding over the session. They apparently did so because they did not believe Fetterman was following the rules and recognizing their legislative motions.
Democrats, in turn, responded by refusing to back Sen. Jake Corman (R., Centre) from assuming the chamber’s top leadership position — an unusual maneuver on what is most often a largely ceremonial and bipartisan vote.
snip
For now, at least, Democratic state Sen. Jim Brewster, of Allegheny County, will not be allowed to take the oath of office, as Republicans believe litigation over the outcome in his race must first play out in the courts.
The state’s top Democrat, Gov. Tom Wolf, called the Senate’s refusal to seat Brewster, whose reelection was certified by the state, “simply unethical and undemocratic.”
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/spl/john-fetterman-pennsylvania-senate-removed-republicans-jim-brewster-20210105.html
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1346555744372535298
OMG. This is unreal. Brewster won by 69 votes. His Seditious wackjob opponent claims that ballots challenged by Rudy et. al., which had signature issues but which were validated by the Courts after the election (one of Trump's 59 loses) should be decertified and thrown out.
I am really getting tired of Those People.
January 5, 2021
Tweet of the Day Drop. The. Mike.
https://twitter.com/DoYouEvenLif/status/1346501035171459072
January 5, 2021
"Devil, it would be a sin to get my vote"
The Reverand and Jon(ny) will win this if they get this kind of help.
https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1346458109259214849
January 5, 2021
That Scottish Flight may not be for Trump.
Maybe it's just a connecting flight for Melanoma on her way home...alone.
Should check to see if any of Putin's planes are in the area at that time.
January 5, 2021
Attention Media pukes. Write this 10000 times: 'Antifa does not exist. It is Anti-Fascist'.
All sane Americans who believe in the Constitution are Anti-Fascist.
84 million of us.
The media is so culpable in this mess. Both-siderism, antifa, highlighting the Orange Traitor 24/7/365.
Grow a set MSM. Please.
January 3, 2021
Tweet Unrolled:
Trumpism is an American autocratic movement with fascistic markers. There are seven specific parts that comprise its core.
1. THE LEADER: Donald Trump is the unquestioned leader of this movement. It is a cult of personality, and there are no serious challengers against his leadership.
2. THUGS: The Proud Boys are but one example in a toxic stew of heavily-armed militias, white nationalists and other right-wing extremists. As is always the case, their ranks are filled with people on the fringes of society; the lonely, dispossessed, aggrieved and resentful.
Not so long ago, there would have been a near-societal consensus around describing these people as losers. These people bring the menace of violence to politics and are akin to the same thuggish rabble that were wearing brown and black shirts 100 years ago.
3. ELITES: All autocratic movements fuse an unholy alliance between society’s elites and losers. It is a coalition of convenience between two groups who despise each other, yet need each other. The boundless cynicism of the elites and the endless grievances of the losers becomes an unbreakable cement.
Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz are perfect examples. Hawley graduated from Stanford and Yale Law School. He taught at Oxford and clerked for the Chief Justice of the United States. Ted Cruz graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law School. They have become completely faithless to their oaths and American democracy in the name of their ambition. They have no convictions, only self-interest.
4. PROPAGANDISTS: Autocratic movements are built on and sustained by lies. Political lying and conspiracy theories have become billion-dollar businesses. Fox News, Newsmax, One America News Network, social media, talk-radio dividers, Infowars, and others have poisoned the American polity and created the conditions for Trump to create an alternate reality that is now a lethal threat to American liberty.
5. FINANCIERS: This autocratic movement is financed by donations from some of America’s largest and best-known companies and brands in the form of millions of dollars of donations to the entities that fund the political careers of the men and women who will soon be rising on the floor of the United States Congress to betray American democracy.
AT&T and Charles Schwab are two such companies. The list includes some of America’s wealthiest and most powerful individuals. Mostly, they are disconnected from any interest or idea of the public good other than the selfishness of self-interest.
6. RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS: Trump has surrounded himself with a group of loony, corrupt, hateful, sacrilegious charlatans that make a mockery of decency and goodness with every public utterance.
7. SHEEP: None of what is happening could happen without the silent complicity of a legion of men and women who lack the conviction, guts and integrity to stand up against Trump's mean tweets and thousands of indecent, corrupt, cruel and incompetent acts.
These men and women are no different than all of their predecessors who found collaboration with what they knew to be immoral or evil as more convenient than resisting it. They are the weaklings and appeasers. They are the fools and the naïve. They are the blind for whom what is obvious and true is far less preferable to delusion and pretend.
In order to win the fight, we must understand: 1. Why are we fighting? 2. Who are we fighting? We must be clear-eyed about this.
The stakes are too high.
Source for unroll: https://www.maxnewstoday.com/post/the-seven-aspects-of-trumpism
'The Seven Aspects of Trumpism' - Steve Schmidt Rocks!
https://twitter.com/natemax/status/1345573633368866817Tweet Unrolled:
Trumpism is an American autocratic movement with fascistic markers. There are seven specific parts that comprise its core.
1. THE LEADER: Donald Trump is the unquestioned leader of this movement. It is a cult of personality, and there are no serious challengers against his leadership.
2. THUGS: The Proud Boys are but one example in a toxic stew of heavily-armed militias, white nationalists and other right-wing extremists. As is always the case, their ranks are filled with people on the fringes of society; the lonely, dispossessed, aggrieved and resentful.
Not so long ago, there would have been a near-societal consensus around describing these people as losers. These people bring the menace of violence to politics and are akin to the same thuggish rabble that were wearing brown and black shirts 100 years ago.
3. ELITES: All autocratic movements fuse an unholy alliance between society’s elites and losers. It is a coalition of convenience between two groups who despise each other, yet need each other. The boundless cynicism of the elites and the endless grievances of the losers becomes an unbreakable cement.
Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz are perfect examples. Hawley graduated from Stanford and Yale Law School. He taught at Oxford and clerked for the Chief Justice of the United States. Ted Cruz graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law School. They have become completely faithless to their oaths and American democracy in the name of their ambition. They have no convictions, only self-interest.
4. PROPAGANDISTS: Autocratic movements are built on and sustained by lies. Political lying and conspiracy theories have become billion-dollar businesses. Fox News, Newsmax, One America News Network, social media, talk-radio dividers, Infowars, and others have poisoned the American polity and created the conditions for Trump to create an alternate reality that is now a lethal threat to American liberty.
5. FINANCIERS: This autocratic movement is financed by donations from some of America’s largest and best-known companies and brands in the form of millions of dollars of donations to the entities that fund the political careers of the men and women who will soon be rising on the floor of the United States Congress to betray American democracy.
AT&T and Charles Schwab are two such companies. The list includes some of America’s wealthiest and most powerful individuals. Mostly, they are disconnected from any interest or idea of the public good other than the selfishness of self-interest.
6. RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS: Trump has surrounded himself with a group of loony, corrupt, hateful, sacrilegious charlatans that make a mockery of decency and goodness with every public utterance.
7. SHEEP: None of what is happening could happen without the silent complicity of a legion of men and women who lack the conviction, guts and integrity to stand up against Trump's mean tweets and thousands of indecent, corrupt, cruel and incompetent acts.
These men and women are no different than all of their predecessors who found collaboration with what they knew to be immoral or evil as more convenient than resisting it. They are the weaklings and appeasers. They are the fools and the naïve. They are the blind for whom what is obvious and true is far less preferable to delusion and pretend.
In order to win the fight, we must understand: 1. Why are we fighting? 2. Who are we fighting? We must be clear-eyed about this.
The stakes are too high.
Source for unroll: https://www.maxnewstoday.com/post/the-seven-aspects-of-trumpism
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