I had a number of arguments with people before the election who were so sure that Trump was going to steal it all that they could barely think of anything else.
He had genius plans and was going to take it all. they read an article about it in the Atlantic. They were terrified and very confident.
Well, trump sure has tried. They were right about that. But, as with everything else in his pathetic life, he failed. We were right about *that*.
One of the biggest problems we have had in the resistance to Trump is that we tend to inflate Trump’s importance almost as much as he inflates it himself.
Let’s stop.
donald trump is a failed game show host (after being a failed developer, failed steak maker, failed wine maker, failed husband… etc) who got super lucky and won an office he did not deserve. He managed to maintain a grip on a portion of the electorate by fear, a portion by giving them the judges they want, a portion by feeding them lies, and a portion by shear luck.
“Don’t underestimate trump” we have been told time and time again.
The truth to that is that we *can’t* underestimate him. There is no under. You can’t go lower than him.
Once he is out of office (and that will happen soon) he will lose his power. His tweets will just be the tweets of a crazy uncle. His lies will hold no weight.
Will he still influence some of the republican base? Probably. Although less of it than I bet you think. They like the powerful and he will quickly be just pathetic. And he will be the republicans’ problem, not ours. They will have to figure out how to get his voters to keep voting for them. They will have to balance his demands for fealty with his diminished power. We will be able to just ignore him; which will be heavenly.
Starting in late January, Joe Biden will be president. And the people leading this country will all be experts in their areas who genuinely care about the wellbeing of our nation and the people who live here.
Will everything be perfect? Nope. But it will be amazing. It will be heavenly to not wake up every day worrying about what the WH is doing. It will be divine to just ignore trump.
And if you want things a lot closer to perfect, you can work to get us the Senate.
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and in the meantime….
Tick Tock Donnie
Trump and his loser lawyers are 1-38 in court
Wait! Make that 1-39
As soon as he becomes a private citizen, Trump will be stripped of the legal armor that has protected him from pending cases both civil and criminal.
On Jan. 20, 2021, around noon, Joe Biden will take the oath of office as president and Donald Trump will lose both his job and one of its most important perks.
Trump has faced investigations involving his campaign, his business and his personal behavior since he took the oath of office himself four years ago. As soon as he becomes a private citizen, however, he will be stripped of the legal armor that has protected him from a host of pending court cases both civil and criminal.
He will no longer be able to argue in court that his position as the nation's chief executive makes him immune to prosecution or protects him from turning over documents and other evidence. He will also lose the help of the Justice Department in making those arguments.
and there is no more battle for him to stay in power. It is REALLY all just theater now.
This guy’s gonna have the GOP wrapped around his finger for four years? Please. The show is on its last leg.
I hereby give thanks that from Jan. 20, 2021 on, the only stories I will be reading with the name Trump in the headline will be the cheesy ones about his bankruptcy or divorce filings, his depositions and tax returns (when that audit’s finally over, which I’m guessing will be soon), and any tabloid speculating on whether Ivanka is going to the Met Gala or jail, or into exile in the Xanadu she and Jared are building at the Trump golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey with four new pickleball courts, a relocated heliport, a spa and yoga complex, and an expanded “cottage” comparable to the gilded mansion they will be leaving behind in Washington.
I won’t be tempted by stories about any Trump offspring running for office because there won’t be any.
To those worried we will never rid ourselves of Trump, watch as he shrinks before our very eyes in a Washington minute from leader of the free world to a broken-down real estate developer up to his ears in debt. On Monday, Trump was just another dumpy 74-year-old man wheeling around the golf course in a motorized cart wondering how long it would be until his next cheeseburger.
and this is his life now:
Georgia!
It got harder this week for them to cheat in Georgia:
Republicans tried to cheat — it failed
A third rule dealing with residency concerns for new voter registrations was scrapped from the discussion, with the secretary of state's office instead opting to issue that information to counties as an official election bulletin.
this third proposed rule would have allowed more and more absentee ballots to be marked as “challenged” by forcing registrars to become detectives and chase around people who may have not had a driver’s license, or if they did have a driver’s license, not have proof of vehicle registered in the state. And if they did have that driver’s license and that vehicle registration, they may not have proof that they paid a required tax on the vehicle. The excuse for this rule is the evidence-devoid conspiracy theory that thousands of people are temporarily moving into Georgia just to vote.
Georgia Dems will knock on doors with Senate at stake
With the Senate majority hanging in the balance and coronavirus cases spiking, Georgia Democrats have resurrected a hallmark of their pre-pandemic campaigning: knocking on voters' doors.
Democrats largely halted the practice earlier this year, but the party's candidates this week returned to in-person canvassing in the Peach State as they seek to juice turnout in two critical runoff elections on Jan. 5. The new efforts are being coordinated between the two Democratic campaigns and follow strict health guidelines created in consultation with an epidemiologist.
I totally get why we didn’t do this for the November election, but I do wonder if it costs us votes. I am glad they are finding safe ways to do it for this election.
And, I am not going to count on his base not showing up, but even if only a few stay home, it will be delicious:
Trump’s conspiracies have MAGA world talking Georgia boycott
Driven by Trump’s insistence that Georgia’s elections are indelibly rife with fraud, conspiratorial MAGA figures are calling for a boycott of the two Senate runoff races, slated for Jan. 5, that will determine which party controls the upper chamber.
Their reason: The two GOP candidates, Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, are not only insufficiently pro-Trump, they may be complicit in Georgia’s electoral fraud.
It doesn’t matter that both candidates are essentially lock-step with Trump, or that there is no evidence of links to electoral malfeasance. On Twitter and its less-restrictive alternative Parler, Trump’s more hardline followers have linked the duo to the president’s favorite — and untrue — voter-fraud theories. Hashtags like #CrookedPerdue and #CrookedKelly are flying around. The two lawmakers’ Parler accounts are brimming with posts accusing them of being secret “liberal DemoRats.”
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Release the Biden!
The Biden Era Is Really Here, and It Feels Like a Miracle
And suddenly, things felt different Tuesday. It was that cowardly GSA woman finally throwing in the towel. It was Laura Ingraham admitting it was over the night before. It was Donald Trump pardoning the turkeys, a self-abasing ritual for a president in the best of circumstances, but these were the worst of circumstances, and it was actually the first time in his presidency that I felt any empathy for him as I sat there imagining for, oh, at least 1.3 seconds what it must have taken for him to haul his lazy septuagenarian girth out there to do that.
But more than any of those images, it was the sight of Joe Biden and his new national security team standing up there and introducing themselves to America. Serious people. Public servants, who are in this for the right reasons. Not a grifter or gonef in the bunch. People who are qualified for the jobs to which they’re nominated, and people who will be given rein to do those jobs without having to worry that the president is going to tweet at 5:37 a.m. that he’s been rethinking things and maybe it’s time to sell Alaska after all.
I loved that moment last week at that presser when someone asked him about the consequences of the Trump people not sharing virus info with him and his people. He didn’t talk about himself. He didn’t say how it affected him. He said he was concerned that more people would die.
That’s a president. It should be unremarkable, but after four years of this infantile and solipsistic behavior, it feels like a miracle.
LOL. Love him.
Other good news
After senate run, Harrison launching PAC to boost Democrats
On the heels of his record-breaking but unsuccessful bid to oust U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina’s Jaime Harrison on Tuesday launched a political action committee, utilizing his newly minted status as a fundraising powerhouse to try to provide a sustained boost to other Democrats that he hopes can help flip more areas from red to blue.
Dirt Road PAC will focus on long term investments in state-level Democratic candidates and parties like intensive voter registration efforts in areas that have been seen by Democrats as harder to win, Harrison told The Associated Press ahead of the official launch.
On the lighter side
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