The Big Lie

In the least surprising moment of the day Trump fires Berman - and then doesn't?

I wonder how this will play in the courts because that is where this is going. I hope that this plays out in the courts, and I really hope that they have squirrelled away the evidence. This is the most corrupt administration that any modern democracy has ever had to contend with. Yet again another move to destroy justice. You know what though, no justice no peace and that refrain is going to expand wider and wider they more they chose an in your face fascist play book.

😘Spring Photo Contest is now open for voting in GD😍

I have just spent the last couple of hours checking sizes etc and marvelling at the Spring Beauty on display. Thank you to everyone for participating and we have had 30 original entries which is Yay! and the contest closed 2 days before due date because we were full up.

Here are the threads:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213622526

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213622535

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213622540


Now you know what I am going to say get out there and vote for your favourites and keep the threads kicked please!!!

😃Spring Photography Contest Preliminary Vote Thread Three😃

Hey everyone

We have had a really fantastic Spring Photography Competition so far with 30 original and marvellous images submitted by a very talented bunch. The theme was of course Spring and the diversity of how people experience Spring, from urban to rural is really interesting. I hope you get as much fun out of voting as I have out of hosting!

Voting will be open for 3 days and please feel free to comment and show your appreciation of some awe inspiring images.

Please ensure that you pop to the other two voting threads that can be found here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213622526

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213622535


Spring Disappointment: April in Minnesota


Juncos on my porch


New Life - June 2020


Foster Kittens


The Spring of so much change


Spring Spring in 2020


Slowly blooming


Green Velvet on Hogsback


Howdy


Pink overtakes Blue



Pictures posted in chronological order. I honestly don't now how one is supposed to choose...

A huge thank you to everyone who has participated to make this a great contest, either as a participant or a voter!!! .

Posted in GD as per Skinners permission.

😃Spring Photography Contest Preliminary Vote Thread Two😃

Hey everyone

We have had a really fantastic Spring Photography Competition so far with 30 original and marvellous images submitted by a very talented bunch. The theme was of course Spring and the diversity of how people experience Spring, from urban to rural is really interesting. I hope you get as much fun out of voting as I have out of hosting!

Voting will be open for 3 days and please feel free to comment and show your appreciation of some awe inspiring images.

Please ensure that you pop to the other two voting threads that can be found here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213622526

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213622540


The Red Admiral


Spring Snowball


Fresh Start


Juvenile Gambel's quail, 21 May 2019


Paddling the backwaters


Distancing Dragonflies


Cabin in the woods


Spring Frog


Late Spring 3rd Street Stuff


Spring runoff


Pictures posted in chronological order. I honestly don't now how one is supposed to choose...

A huge thank you to everyone who has participated to make this a great contest, either as a participant or a voter!!! .

Posted in GD as per Skinners permission.

😃Spring Photography Contest Preliminary Vote Thread One😃

Hey everyone

We have had a really fantastic Spring Photography Competition so far with 30 original and marvellous images submitted by a very talented bunch. The theme was of course Spring and the diversity of how people experience Spring, from urban to rural is really interesting. I hope you get as much fun out of voting as I have out of hosting!

Voting will be open for 3 days and please feel free to comment and show your appreciation of some awe inspiring images.

Please ensure that you pop to the other two voting threads that can be found here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213622535

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213622540


Spring Canvas


Othello's wonder


Released by Aeolus, behold a Storm God


A Springtime "Moment of Zen"


Do Bee Dobee Dooo . . .


Kangaroo Paws, Blooming


Feed me, feed me!


Oak Bottom Wildlife Refuge May 27th 2020


Surprise


Shade Tree in Mrida



Pictures posted in chronological order. I honestly don't now how one is supposed to choose...

A huge thank you to everyone who has participated to make this a great contest, either as a participant or a voter!!! .

Posted in GD as per Skinners permission.

We have hit 30 entries for the Spring Competition

Just wanted to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who has submitted a picture and spent time kicking this competition over the last 5 days. It is the first time when I have run a competition that I have had 30 original entries and I am so chuffed.



So thank you everyone for making my day. I will be sorting and posting the voting threads a bit later on.

Hold on tight it is about to get very bumpy indeed.

They are really pushing ahead with this blatant – in your face fascism. I think it is a sign of desperation as they know that November success is a reach too far at this point and they are trying to shore up their base in every way possible, while also trying to protect their fascist criminal arses in a post Trump Administration world. Two incidents this week in particular have struck me as ridiculously transparent in their fascistic strategy.

Firstly, they have bounced in a far right bugaloo into the Voice of America, dumped all current heads of the various nationalised stations and dismantled all independent boards and replacing them far right anti-trans and anti-gay activists. So, a far right mentoree of Steve Fascist Bannon has been given control of the airwaves, and hundreds of millions in budget to pump out Trump propaganda, not just in America but all over the world. What could possibly go wrong? Oh wait…as Goebbels said “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” and now they have a vehicle to do just that, funded by courtesy of the American tax payer. (If you have not seen it and if you get the chance RMS covered this in detail last night.)

Then in a Friday night news dump Barr announced that Berman is stepping down as District Attorney for SDNY. Berman comes straight back with a statement refuting that: “I have not resigned, and have no intention of resigning, my position, to which I was appointed by the Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York I will step down when a presidentially appointed nominee is confirmed by the Senate. Until then, our investigations will move forward without delay or interruption. I cherish every day that I work with the men and women of this Office to pursue justice without fear or favor — and intend to ensure that this Office’s important cases continue unimpeded.”

Barr has tried to bump Berman out of his job because he KNOWS that after Trump gets dumped hard in November SDNY will be coming after them for their foulness and corruption. Barr is actively undermining the fundamentals of the American Justice system as they try to intimidate Berman into quitting his job, so they can to replace him with a stooge of the Trump administration for 6 months – right up to election day - to ensure that all current evidence of high crimes and misdemeanours, and current investigations pertaining to the Trump Crime Family, is dismissed and destroyed, and I am very sure Berman knows where many of the skeletons are buried. As Adolf himself once said “Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken” and at this point Trump and his fascist team are not only trying to break constitutional norms, they are in your face smashing them. All so very Nazi.

And the cherry on this rolling far-right coup attempt is Trumps very own Nuremberg Rally in Tulsa tonight, with fascist MAGA thickets playing the role of the brown shirts. Partying like its 1934. As an aside – do you think even Hitler would have held a huge indoor rally at the height of a Pandemic? Heh.

Hold on everyone. Their increasing desperation is very real. The more they panic, the bumpier it is going to get.

We need another FOUR pictures to have 30 original picci's for the Spring competition

I am mindful at this point not to open up for a second pic so if we can find another original 4 DUers to submit that would be marvellous!!!

I have posted a new OP in the Lounge to try and hunt down some more talent! So, if I can nag once more...the OP can be found here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181372640

Hey DU lounge. Gonna start begging!

The Spring Photography contest now has 26 out of 30 original entries. I would love to see 30 original photographs and I know that there is a well of untapped talent in this group. If you have not submitted an entry to the competition could you please pop along, Have a look and I am sure you will be inspired to submit a picture.

The OP to submit a picture is here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/103676314

If you have any questions about any of it you can ask it here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/103676313

Dig into your phones and your camera archives and find a marvellous descriptor of SPRING!!!

Soph x