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Roisin Ni Fiachra's JournalArizona Supreme Court delivers major blow to GOP chair Kelli Ward
The Court concludes, unanimously, that the trial judge did not abuse his discretion in denying the request to continue the hearing and permit additional inspection of the ballots, the ruling read. The November 9, 2020 hand count audit revealed no discrepancies in the tabulation of votes and the statistically negligible error presented in this case falls far short of warranting relief under A.R.S. 16-672.
It continued, Because the challenge fails to present any evidence of misconduct, Illegal votes or that the Biden Electors did not in fact receive the highest number of votes for office, let alone establish any evidence of fraud or a sufficient error rate that would undermine the certainty of the election results
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The court also unanimously ruled that there were no discrepancies in vote tabulations, negligible error, and no evidence of fraud or a sufficient error rate that would undermine the certainty of the election result. Despite the Trump campaigns claims, the court confirmed there is certainty in the result, according to the publication.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/12/arizona-supreme-court-delivers-major-blow-to-gop-chair-kelli-ward/
Scary, dangerous fascist crazy lady archetype from Arizona.
Supreme Court rejects GOP bid to nullify Biden win in Pennsylvania
Source: The Hill
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a bid by Pennsylvania Republicans to nullify President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the Keystone State, dealing another blow to the long-shot legal effort by President Trump and his allies to overturn the election in the courts.
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Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/529334-supreme-court-rejects-gop-bid-to-nullify-biden-win-in-pennsylvania
Stick a fork in "IT"
Trump's core supporters have been 'radicalized' against democracy -- and
winning them back is a lost cause: documentary filmmaker
But Trump and his followers do not care for such quaint notions of democracy. The only votes that count, according to Trumps neofascist movement, are his supporters votes for him. Democracy especially multiracial democracy is deemed illegitimate if Trump or other white Republicans and right-wing extremists are not in power.
In response to Bidens victory, Donald Trump has launched a coup attempt, effectively a range of attacks against the rule of law and the countrys other democratic norms. This ongoing plot involves far-fetched lawsuits (all of which have failed), burrowing in loyalists into key national security and other government positions to sabotage the Biden administration, causing more harm to the economy, worsening the coronavirus pandemic and destabilizing strategic areas of the world.
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I realized, OK, I had good faith and I dont knock myself for it.But Im now going to invest that in helping the majority become stronger, to add more numbers to our ranks, which I think Democrats can do. To help craft policies that will help all Americans, despite all their cruelty and their conspiracy theories and their racism. To this day, do you know what I want for Trump voters? Affordable health care, a living wage, a good paying job, Social Security, good infrastructure, high-speed internet and success for their families. And what do they need from me? To suffer. That is the difference between us. I will move forward to a better future for all Americans, and if they want to catch up to the rest of us then we are here waiting for them. I cannot help someone who refuses to help themselves.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/12/trumps-core-supporters-have-been-radicalized-against-democracy-and-winning-them-back-is-a-lost-cause-documentary-filmmaker/
It's kind of like that prayer Alcoholic's Anonymous folks say, the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
A widespread super majority united against fascism. There's way more of us than there are of them. The fascists need to be permanently quarantined from power.
Joe is ahead in the Georgia recount by 27,411 votes.
2 Trump counties, Coffee and Ebert, are partially reported.
1 Trump county, Floyd, has not reported.
The rest of the Georgia counties are either completely reported, or already certified.
https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/GA/107231/web.264614/#/summary
edited for math mistake
Donald Trump is acting like a spoiled toddler -- America must give him a permanent timeout
Let us be clear: Joe Biden won the election fair and square in what has arguably been the most scrutinized election in recent U.S. history. Trump has filed baseless and frivolous lawsuits and not a shred of evidence of massive voter fraud has been offered. In fact, his attorneys, with their bar licenses on the line, have repeatedly stated on the record, This is not a fraud case. Yet Trump persists with his attention-seeking rants and raves.
Trump has lost. His psyche cannot handle the reality of the moment that he has been repudiated by the American people. He is embarrassed, humiliated and scared, quite likely because he knows he is facing federal and state criminal charges once he leaves office. Trump is desperately trying to hold onto power to save his own hide. This is about his self-preservation. This is about him hiding out in the Oval Office so that he can avoid incarceration. To be sure, Trumps desperation is a confession-of-sorts of his wrongdoing.
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Just like a screaming and defiant young child, Trump needs to be put in timeout indefinitely. He should be silenced. He should be sequestered. We must not allow him to have the attention he thrives on and any attention is positive reinforcement to him. The media must not allow his virulent voice to be heard.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/12/donald-trump-is-acting-like-a-spoiled-toddler-america-must-give-him-a-permanent-timeout-mental-health-experts/
I literally can't stand to look at this evil being's face, or hear its voice. I don't watch television, have not watched it for 40+ years, and never see Trump, or listen to it speak, on the internet. I have never watched Fox News except for one time, in passing, at a friend's house, decades ago. Bill O'Reilly was on. After a few minutes of that, I left. That shit emanates evil, and I literally can't tolerate any exposure to it.
Please consider never watching Fox, and exposing yourself to something that is dedicated to deliberately harming you, and everyone who watches it. Look at what watching Fox News has done to members of your once normal family, friends, neighbors, and your fellow citizens, who have fallen under its spell, and who now worship Trump.
It has literally driven them insane. Psychotic. Experiencing debilitating delusions, believing in fantasies. They have lost touch with reality.
Janis Ian - Society's Child
GOP silence on Trump's false election claims recalls McCarthy era
In McCarthy's era, most of the GOP's leaders found excuses to avoid challenging conspiracy theories that they knew to be implausible, even as evidence of their costs to the nation steadily mounted. For years, despite their private doubts about his charges and methods alike, the top GOP leadership -- particularly Senate Republican leader Robert A. Taft, the Mitch McConnell of his day -- either passively abetted or actively supported McCarthy's scattershot claims of treason and Communist infiltration. A significant faction of Senate Republicans didn't join with Democrats to curb McCarthy's power until the senator immolated himself with his accusations, in highly publicized 1953 and 1954 hearings, that the Army was riddled with Communists during the presidency of fellow Republican Dwight Eisenhower.
In many respects, the congressional GOP response to Trump has paralleled the party's response to McCarthy. Whatever their private concerns about Trump's behavior or values, the vast majority of congressional Republicans have supported Trump since his 2017 inauguration at almost every turn, brushing aside concerns about everything from openly racist language to his efforts to extort the government of Ukraine to manufacture dirt on the eventual Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden.
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Just like congressional Republicans now with Trump, GOP legislators then found themselves following McCarthy into deeper and deeper waters of conspiracy theories. An early indication of how far McCarthy might go came in June 1951, when he delivered a 60,000-word attack on George Marshall, the brilliant Army chief of staff in World War II and later secretary of state for Truman. It was in that speech that McCarthy famously (or infamously) declared that he was unraveling "a conspiracy ... so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/01/politics/gop-silence-trump-false-election-claims-mccarthy/index.html
The silence of the Congressional Republicans regarding Trumps's sedition has drawn a canyon sized line in the sand. Clearly, they favor a one party authoritarian fascist dictatorship over a free and healthy democracy.
All the decent people in the United States must unite, and quarantine Republicans from power, by voting them out of power, everywhere we possibly can.
Beginning with the Georgia Senate runoff on January 5th, 2021, and the forced lawful eviction of Donald Trump, the aspiring fascist dictator, from his bunker in the People's White House, on January 20th, 2021.
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