DSandra
DSandra's JournalEven IF Trump didn't intentionally direct an insurrection, he still would be impeachable...
Trump has at the very least shown that he is too unstable and unfit to be president. A young child would not be permitted to play with a firearm even if a child has shown no reason or intent to harm anyone. A drunk person is not permitted to drive even though a drunk driver usually wouldn't have an intent to crash into another car. Reckless endangerment itself is a crime, as is yelling fire in a crowded theater.
They chanted "Hang Mike Pence", they had police zipties, they setup a gallows...
as well as looking for Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
Anyone not think that they were out to find and execute Mike Pence, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer?
https://www.businessinsider.com/reuters-photographer-says-pro-trump-rioters-wanted-to-hang-pence-2021-1
What is white people's problem with punishing other white people?
This is destroying this nation, that white people like Trump are treated with kid gloves and get away with whatever they want or not until they have caused immense destruction. This also applies to much of the Republican Party, and so many other white people that get away with doing bad things and get little more than a slap on the wrist. You spoil a child, you ruin them. You are literally creating a society full of people who think the rules don't apply to them and they can do whatever bad they want and get away with it, and people wonder why America is destroying itself. White people need to give up their lack of punishment privileges if they want to save society.
The entire right wing media should be arrested for sedition
These fuckers don't have the right to destroy our republic.
I believe there was a Blue Wave, it just crashed into and through a Red Seawall...
A seawall of voter suppression and nasty tactics.
Greg Palast, who first documented the purging of 97,000 people off the voting rolls in Florida back in 2000 by Katherine Harris, released a book a few months ago called "How Trump stole 2020." In it, he documents several cases of Republicans doing the same thing before this election. The first example is Georgia:
of political hitmen, Secretaries of State, are allowed to
wipe out the voting rights of Americans by purging them
from the voter rolls.
As the Purgen General of Georgia, Kemp used his power
like a chainsaw. In the lead-up to his run for Governor,
Kemp purged 665,677, two-thirds of a million registrations.
The Purge erased the voting rights of one in eight Georgians.
Including Ms. Jordan, Mr. Shabazz, Ms. Jones and Ms.
Bakhtiari."
Note that Kemp was secretary of state of Georgia from 2010 to 2018.
And In chapter 5, the Unseen Tsunami, he writes:
electionOhio, North Carolina, Wisconsinhad done a Kemp
job on their voter rolls.
Purge-mania was moving through GOP states like poop
through a goose. By mid-2020, leading into the Presidential
race, the urge to purge took over:
Ohio432,000
North Carolina576,534
Arizona258,000
Wisconsin99,000 (+232,000 listed for purge)
... and so on."
Republicans rigged this election and if it weren't for the HUGE effort that Democrats did (along with disaffected Republicans), we wouldn't have been able to breach the seawall that the Republicans had in place.
(On Edit: Changed title after a suggestion by a poster)
As a member of the LGBT community, this is what I fear in the near future...
This part of "V for Vendetta" has haunted me for the past few years...
Is there something we can do to help each other to vote in person during a pandemic?
Every Biden voter should do whatever possible to help other Biden voters to vote in person during this election. We need to brave the ballot box and mitigate the threat of the virus to collectively minimize as much as possible Trump's attempts to cancel our vote.
Some of my recommendations:
KN95 Masks
https://thenewdealshop.com/collections/best-selling/products/kn95-respirator-masks-fda-authorized-npptl-tested-anti-fraud-technology
Goggles
https://www.acehardware.com/departments/tools/workwear-and-safety-gear/safety-glasses/2366920?store=01316
Rain Poncho to cover the rest of your body:
https://www.mcrmedical.com/product/Emergency-Rain-Ponchos.html
A brief history of election "rigging" in the United States
This article is a good read about the history of election manipulation in the U.S. Some excerpts...
"There was a rosy quality to this narrative. It imagined an American past in which voters went to the polls to peacefully cast their votes, gamely accepting the result even if it went against them. It was a narrative based on truth, but it was not the whole truth. The reality is that Trumps conspiratorial way of thinking his refusal to accept that the electoral system works in the way it claims to is just as old as the alternative, rosy picture. The United States, by most measures, is the oldest mass democracy in the world white men could vote almost without any property restrictions in most states as early as the 1810s, fully a century before the same was true in the UK (with the Representation of the People Act 1918). But its politics have always been rude and rumbustious and, on occasion, rigged "
"Election results in the 19th century were frequently contested, sometimes in the courts, but more often by appeals to the relevant legislature (at the state or federal level) who set up committees to investigate disputes among rival candidates. The hearings those committees held revealed amazing stories of the lengths that campaigns would go. For example, the practice of cooping, notoriously adopted by the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City, meant luring willing or unwilling men into a basement a day or two before the election, plying them with alcohol and food and then dragging them semi-conscious to the polling place on election morning."
"In Adams County, Ohio, in 1910, a judge brought to trial and convicted 1,690 voters 26 percent of the whole electorate for selling their votes. Especially in urban areas, political gangs openly used violence to carry elections. Isaiah Rynders was a notorious political boss and leader of the Empire Club in New York in the 1840s and 50s who led a heavily armed team of bruisers, smashing up opposition political meetings and patrolling the polling places to deter anyone who did not support their candidates. But he was far from alone. Also in New York, in 1853, a Democratic candidate for Congress, Honest John Kelly (the nickname was ironic), took an army of dock workers and volunteer firemen into a polling station on election day, smashed up the tables and tore up opposition ballots."
https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/a-brief-history-of-election-rigging-in-the-united-states/
Killing 200,000 people is ok if a Republican does it...
If It's a Democrat, LOCK HER/HIM UP!!!
Apparently morals, ethics, rules, and laws only apply to Democrats and minorities in this country...
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