He won because the Election was Rigged. NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation & bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas (which I won by a lot!), the Fake & Silent Media, & more! https://t.co/Exb3C1mAPg
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020
CNN: “If the celebrations that spilled into the streets of New York City in the wake of Joe Biden’s victory made one thing clear, it’s that the Trumps aren’t welcome here. For the President, who changed his primary residency last year to Florida, that’s perhaps no major loss, but for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, the block parties celebrating the demise of the Trump administration may provide a glimpse of what awaits them once they exit the White House. Now that their political lives in Washington are over — the question for this once-golden power couple is what their time in the political spotlight has meant for their brand, particularly in their old Manhattan stomping grounds. ‘[The President] was so awful and divisive about New York, saying it’s a nightmare or that it’s empty, or a has-been,’ said Jill Kargman, a writer, Upper East Side resident and daughter of the former chairman of Chanel who has socialized at events with the couple in the past. ‘No one here is going to forget that. To even come back here after everything he’s said, it’s not going to work.'”
David Frum: “Since the election, some of Trump’s supporters have begun to ponder pursuing a ‘Trumpism without Trump,’ crafting a Trumpist ideology severed from Trump’s self-harming personality and grudges. There are at least two big problems with this concept.”
“First, it’s not at all clear that such a thing as Trumpism exists, apart from Donald Trump’s own personality and grudges. Subtract Trump’s resentments and the myth of Trump the business genius and what’s left? Are immigration restriction, trade war with China, and blowing up NATO really such compelling concerns? Are those goals what energized 71 million Americans? Would they energize voters to support Tom Cotton, Dan Crenshaw, Josh Hawley, or Marco Rubio? That seems unlikely. And while there are potential contenders for the resentment vote—the cable host Tucker Carlson, Trump’s son Don Jr.—they cannot offer the myth of business success. Worse, they overdo the resentment. That’s fine for carving out a cable-TV or Facebook-based business. But if resentment didn’t work politically for George Wallace in 1968, it’s not going to work for George Wallace knockoffs in 2024.”
ANTIFA SCUM ran for the hills today when they tried attacking the people at the Trump Rally, because those people aggressively fought back. Antifa waited until tonight, when 99% were gone, to attack innocent #MAGA People. DC Police, get going — do your job and don’t hold back!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020
Commenting on how President Barack Obama’s book mentioned her negative influence on the Republican Party and conservative politics, former half-term governor and vice-president wannabe Sarah Palin said of Obama, “He’s so still 2008,” according to a story in Newsweek.
In his book, A Promised Land, Obama noted that Palin personifies the current view of many republicans to see conspiracy and bigotry in everything from government to science to intelligence.
“Through Palin, it seemed as if the dark spirits that had long been lurking on the edges of the modern Republican Party—xenophobia, anti intellectualism, paranoid conspiracy theories, an antipathy toward Black and brown folks—were finding their way to center stage. She had no idea what the hell she was talking about,” Obama wrote.
In the middle of a major coronavirus spike, North Dakota’s Republican Governor Doug Burgum has mandated wearing facemasks in public to curb the spread of the virus, Reuters reports.
North Dakota, whose residents are famously against government regulations, has seen the seven-day moving average of new cases triple in the last four weeks.
The new mandates require masks at all indoor public places as well as at outdoor events and businesses where it is not feasible to maintain social distancing.
Capacity limits at restaurants and bars has been temporarily cut to 50%, and closing times set at 10 p.m.
“Our situation has changed, and we must change with it,” Burgum said in a statement late on Friday.
The daily number of new confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States topped 162,000 cases, a slight decrease from the previous day’s all-time high, although the number of hospitalization due to COVID increased to record levels, according to COVID Tracking Project data.
More than 1,300 Americans died of the coronavirus Saturday, with another 69,000 being hospitalized with the virus. Worldometers, another aggregator, listed 156,000 new cases and 1,250 fatalities.
Worldometers shows that Illinois led the nation in both new cases and fatalities, the first time the state has topped the nation in both categories.
A federal judge in New York City ruled that President Trump unlawfully appointed Chad Wolf to be acting Secretary of Homeland Security, and therefore Wolf illegally suspended protections afforded some migrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, NBC News reports.
In June, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration illegally shut down the DACA program. Nonetheless, Wolf acted to suspend the program July 28th.
Judge Nicholas Garaufis, a Clinton-appointed Senior Judge in the Eastern District of New York ruled, “Wolf was not lawfully serving as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security under the HSA [Homeland Security Act] when he issued the Wolf Memorandum.” The Wolf Memorandum in question suspended the DACA program.
Two years ago, Gregory Lloyd Edwards, a decorated Black former US Army medic who served in Kosovo and Iraq, died while being held in the custody of the Brevard County (Florida) deputies. His family just found out the conditions of his death.
Edwards, who suffered from PTSD due to his service overseas, had been arrested after allegedly assaulting a charity worker outside a Walmart during the holiday season, according to an account in the Washington Post.
Put into a cell, Edwards seems calm during the first hours after his arrest. He became increasingly agitated as time wore on, banging on the window of the cell, and by the time deputies came to book him and take his mugshot, Edwards lashed out, fighting them.
We will WIN! https://t.co/MwfvhQJ5wy
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 14, 2020
An MSNBC reporter was harassed during a live shot during the so-called “Million MAGA March” and Fox News broadcast a sign declaring the groups was “Coming for Blacks & Indians,” demonstrating the hate and bigotry of Trump supporters.
As MSNBC reporter Ellison Barber was reporting from the protest, a group of MAGA supporters started chanting “Fake News!” and began swarming around her and her camera crew.
The three children of Jared and Ivanka Trump Kushner were forced to transfer out of the private Jewish school they attended because parents and administrators were concerned about the Kushners’ disregard for coronavirus protocols required at the school, CNN reports.
The children, aged 9, 7 and 4, had attended the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School, a private school near Rock Creek Park in Washington, DC, with an annual tuition of $28,000. They are currently enrolled in Rockville’s Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy, a Modern-Orthodox Jewish school with a $20,000 annual tuition.
Trump’s motorcade drove by his sparsely-attended anti-election rally on his way to play a round of golf at his Virginia golf club.
“A Willistown man’s clumsy attempt at trying to cast a false ballot in the 2020 presidential election has led to one of the only verified instances in Chester County of alleged voter fraud. Police on Monday filed criminal charges against Ralph Holloway Thurman for allegedly attempting to vote as another person — his own son — before being discovered by an alert poll worker who recognized him as having voted a short time earlier. According to the complaint, Viebahn was called at about 10:45 a.m. on Election Day and told that there had been a subject identified as Thurman making false statements and attempting to vote twice. Viebahn said that Thurman came to the polling place at the Sugartown Elementary School earlier that day and asked whether he had to produce an identification card to vote. Thurman then allegedly asked whether he could vote for his son, Kyle Thurman, but was told by poll worker Eric Frank that doing so would be illegal. Thurman signed the register, was given a ballot, voted, and left the polling place, according to the complaint.”
“Both Thurmans are registered voters in the township. Ralph Thurman is a registered Republican, while Kyle Thurman is a registered Democrat. Kyle Thurman is not accused of any wrongdoing in the incident. There is no way of knowing for which candidate either the first or the second was cast. According to the county’s unofficial returns, Biden led Trump in the precinct where the incident occurred, 315 votes to 275 votes. The former vice president captured Willistown, a traditional Republican stronghold, 4,571 votes to 3,386 votes” – DailyLocal.com
….What are they trying to hide. They know, and so does everyone else. EXPOSE THE CRIME!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 14, 2020
Washington Post: “For generations, Americans have hated sore losers, whether in playground disputes, affairs of the heart, sports or politics. But Trump’s refusal to concede to President-elect Joe Biden and his insistence, without evidence, that the election was rigged against him has focused a spotlight on a rapidly shifting culture’s growing acceptance of losers who push back against the truth. The refusal to acknowledge clear results — Biden won a higher percentage of the popular vote, 50.9 percent, than any challenger to a sitting president since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 — is not unique to Trump. Republican candidates have not admitted defeat in Arizona, where Democratic challenger Mark Kelly beat Sen. Martha McSally (R); in Michigan, where Sen. Gary Peters (D) fought off a challenge from Republican John James; and in Maryland, where Republican House candidate Kimberly Klacik announced plans to ‘investigate’ the Baltimore-area election that Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D) won with 72 percent of the vote.”
“A majority of Republican voters — 70 percent — say the election was unfair, according to a Politico/Morning Consult poll conducted last weekend; 90 percent of Democrats, meanwhile, said they believe the vote was free and fair. There always have been people who refuse to admit defeat. But in a society that puts a growing premium on self-regard and empathy for long-excluded groups, sore losers can be redefined as unfairly maligned victims, according to psychologists and political scientists who study changing attitudes toward losing.”
New York Times: “If particulars of the future of the MAGA hat are in doubt, that it has a future is all but assured. With the president’s refusal to acknowledge losing the election, expressions of support are now bound up with his denial, defiance and insistence that he has been wronged. In 2015, the MAGA slogan was defended as a broad expression of yearning for a nonspecific past; after 2016, the particulars of that yearning became much harder to deny. In 2021, a MAGA hat, true to its slogan, might still refer to a desire for restoration, only not of the vague ‘good old days’ generations in the past, but of the four years immediately behind it. There are hints of the MAGA hat’s future abroad, already, as loosely connected right wing movements around the world have adopted it, or versions of it, understanding, correctly, that its slogan was never merely literal.
“The MAGA hat of the future would be a symbol of a lost cause; a hope, or a threat, that a movement might rise again; and, finally, an expression of an ideology that sees any government but one run by its own as illegitimate but that would be defended, however implausibly, as a mere expression of support for fairness and security in elections. Had there never been a MAGA hat, it would be hard to come up with an item better suited to the needs of the president and his most ardent supporters, tomorrow and in the years after, slogan and all. It’s merchandise turned symbol of state now ready to fulfill its ultimate destiny as a commercial product. A president who never concedes, even if he steps aside, is telling a story that leaves open a comforting option for the millions of people with MAGA hats at home: to keep wearing them.”
Our first session of New Member Orientation covered COVID in Congress.
Masks, masks, masks….
I proudly told my freshman class that masks are oppressive.
In GA, we work out, shop, go to restaurants, go to work, and school without masks.
My body, my choice.#FreeYourFace
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) November 13, 2020
And yes, she is anti-choice.
700,000 ballots were not allowed to be viewed in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh which means, based on our great Constitution, we win the State of Pennsylvania!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 14, 2020
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