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December 10, 2020

Breaking: Another day, another court, another butt whuppin

I wonder when these people will get tired of all the winning ...
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1336823401030225921

Not only have Plaintiffs failed to provide the Court with factual support for their extraordinary claims, but they have wholly failed to establish that they have standing for the Court to consider them. Allegations that find favor in the public sphere of gossip and innuendo cannot be a substitute for earnest pleadings and procedure in federal court. They most certainly cannot be the basis for upending Arizona's 2020 General Election. The Court is left with no alternative but to dismiss this matter in its entirety.
December 8, 2020

To those pushing Sally Yates as AG because you think she'd go after Trump hammer and tong

Consider this:

As a person of high integrity and ethics, she would probably recuse herself from involvement in any investigation related to the person who fired her or matters related to her firing.

In other words, Yates would not be the champion y'all think she'd be.

December 5, 2020

Wisconsin Supreme Court slaps Trump allies upside the head ...

Again.

The Court denied plaintiffs' petition to launch an original action to throw out the results of the Wisconsin presidential election.

While the majority was terse, but firm, one of the other justices wasn't having it. At all:

BRIAN HAGEDORN, J., (concurring). The Wisconsin Voters Alliance and a group of Wisconsin voters bring a petition for an original action raising a variety of questions about the operation of the November 3, 2020 presidential election. Some of these legal issues may, under other circumstances, be subject to further judicial consideration.

But the real stunner here is the sought-after remedy. We are invited to invalidate the entire presidential election in Wisconsin by declaring it “null”—yes, the whole thing.

And there’s more. We should, we are told, enjoin the Wisconsin Elections Commission from certifying the election so that Wisconsin’s presidential electors can be chosen by the legislature instead, and then compel the Governor to certify those electors. At least no one can accuse the petitioners of timidity.
https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/11/2020AP1930-OAfinal-12-4-20.pdf
December 1, 2020

Why are Democrats constantly lectured to do a better job "messaging" to white rural voters

and no matter how hard Democrats try to talk to them, cater to them, and do for them, when those voters continue to vote Republican, Democrats are blamed for not having the right message

BUT

when black people make simple demands - like, "please treat us like everyone else and stop killing us in the street," - we're told that WE have the wrong message and we need to change it if we want anyone to listen to us?

Can someone explain why white rural voters aren't held responsible for explaining their needs more clearly and Republicans aren't ever lectured about shaping a better message for Black Americans?

November 30, 2020

President-Elect Biden has a hairline fracture in his foot - Two takeaways

1. These kinds of injuries happen to active people;

2. The American public was given prompt and complete information about the Predident-Elect's condition.


https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/29/politics/biden-twisted-ankle/index.html

November 29, 2020

Thank you, Eugene Robinson, for talking about the other "real Americans"

Want to understand Biden voters? Here’s your reading list.

Who are they and what drove them to vote in such huge numbers, even during a pandemic? What makes them tick? Is it culture? Tribalism? Race? How did they come to their worldview, and why do they cling to it so passionately? What do they mean for the future of American democracy?

I’m talking about the opaque and inscrutable Joe Biden voter, of course.

After Donald Trump won in 2016, the media and academia embarked on a numbingly comprehensive sociological and anthropological examination of “the Trump voter.” Reporters and researchers swarmed what seemed like every bereft factory town in the industrial Midwest, every hill and hollow of Appalachia, every windswept farming community throughout the Great Plains. I’m pretty sure television crews did, in fact, bring us reports from every single diner in the contiguous United States — at least, those where at least one regular patron wears overalls.

Never mind that nearly 3 million more of us voted against Trump four years ago; no one seemed terribly interested in our inner lives, our hopes and dreams. This time, however, the gap is too big to ignore — Biden, the president-elect, beat Trump by more than 6 million votes and counting. He won back the heartland of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. He won Georgia, for heaven’s sake.

Logically, then, we should put aside those dog-eared copies of J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” and subject “the Biden voter” to the same kind of microscopic scrutiny. Venture out of your bubble, Trump supporters, and try to understand how most of America thinks.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/want-to-understand-biden-voters-heres-your-reading-list/2020/11/23/1b5f07a0-2dbe-11eb-bae0-50bb17126614_story.html

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