March 30, 2025

The teacher and the farmer: Governor Tim Walz for president and former MT Senator Jon Tester for vice president.

I think this would be a powerful, extremely energizing, and vote-getting team for the 2028 presidential ticket.

Governor Walz has already won the hearts of many Americans, and Jon Tester has already proven he has the courage to stand up to Rump, as witnessed by Tester's successful opposition to Rump's nomination of Ronny "The Candyman" Jackson for surgeon general. And I don't know if you've seen Jon Tester, but he is a BIG guy. There would be no demeaning "Little Jon Tester" jokes as Rump would be physically intimidated by Jon. Weird to have to take that into account, but when you're dealing with a bully with the maturity of a third grader . . .

I have no idea if either of these gentlemen are willing to be the candidates, but I think it'd be awesome if they did step up to be the leaders of the Democratic Party.

March 27, 2025

I have recently started getting a window asking me to consent to selling my information here on DU? But it disappears

so fast I can't turn off consent!

Normal?

March 26, 2025

How long will it take for Shitler et al. to arrest the Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg for publishing classified information?

Oh, wait, they said the texts were NOT classified when THEY texted them on the Signal app!

But, hold on, yes, now, NOW, they ARE classified now that Goldberg has published the texts.

Putin must have peed his pants from laughing at these imbeciles first committing such an egregiously stupid breach of national security and then twisting themselves into pretzels with their explanations.

The explanation that takes the cake, the absolute coup de grace is how now they're saying the texts were a very GOOD thing for the public to see because they demonstrate what an exceptionally fine-tuned military operation they carried out.

March 7, 2025

I think all the crazy shit Rump is doing is largely to provoke a violent uprising so that he can declare martial law.

Or a large-scale peaceful protest that he can order the J6 thugs to infiltrate and make violent.

From Military.com:

What Is Martial Law?
While not specifically defined in the U.S. Constitution, many legal experts consider martial law to be the use of military personnel to dramatically assist or completely replace a nation's normal legal system in times of emergency. Whether any given use of the military rises to the level of martial law is tied to exactly how much military support or action is used.

Under total martial law, the normal American law enforcement and legal system is replaced by a stricter set of laws and punishments that is completely controlled by the military or executive branch of the government. The normal checks and balances system built into the Constitution is suspended.

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If this comes to pass and Rump suspends all laws, what then???

February 28, 2025

Think about how many of us went door-knocking for Kamala and other Dems this last election. How about organizing

door-knocking campaigns again to reach people who aren't paying attention to the fact that our country is being burned to the ground around us?

This latest outrage about a 50 percent reduction of Social Security staff would be a good issue to start with. Just print flyers about it and go knock on doors, talk to people if they answer the door, leave a flyer if they don't. Include on the flyers your Congress members' phone numbers.

This would be even more effective if the door-knocking occurred before a protest event so that the flyer could be an invitation to join the protest.

February 27, 2025

I just realized why Rump and Musk don't give a rat's ass that the Great Purge is hurting MAGA voters: They are confident

that they will be able to rig every presidential election from here on out. As Rump bragged in the final days before the election, they don't need the MAGAs' votes, they have all the votes they need because Elon "knows those vote counting machines."

And if messing with the election machines in the swing states doesn't work, then they can pull off their fake electors trick again, this time making it stick, since they are installing Rump loyalists at the National Archives and the National Archives play a role in the Electoral College proceedings on Election Day.

Here is a recent AP article (Feb. 26, 2025) about Rump and Musk replacing the head of the National Archives. It mainly talks about the threat to our archived documents, but it is true that the National Archives does play a key role in the Electoral College process during presidential elections, which is scary AF now.

The whole article is worth a read, but here is an excerpt:

https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-archives-firings-layoffs-historical-recordkeeping-559027fdd2f634263bea7774a78d66fe

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump moves to overhaul the federal government with astonishing speed, he has wreaked havoc on one agency long known for its nonpartisanship and revered for its mission: the National Archives and Records Administration.
[...]
Earlier this month, the Republican president abruptly fired the head archivist. Since then, several senior staffers at the Archives have quit or retired. An unknown number of staffers at the agency also have accepted government-offered deferred resignations, often known as buyouts, or been fired because of their probationary status.
[...]
What influence could a new archivist have?
The person leading the National Archives has discretion over which records to preserve and how. The risk is that an archivist whose primary loyalty is to Trump could be biased in those decisions, leaving behind a skewed picture of history for future generations, according to several past employees of the Archives who talked to the AP.
[...]
The Office of the Federal Register reviews the electoral certificates sent in from the states. The archivist wouldn’t have the authority to force the office to reject a slate of electors but could disrupt the process, said Daniel Weiner, director of the Brennan Center’s elections and government program.

February 24, 2025

Musk has seized power over the National Archives. The National Archives administers the electoral college. This is a BFD

In 2020, Rump and his insurrectionists both in and out of Congress tried to overturn the 2020 election using a fake slate of electors to try to throw the election of the presidency to the House of Representatives. "Is there a fly on my head?" Mike Pence was the only sticking point in their devious scheme. In 2028, with Musk in charge of the National Archives and JD Vance as vice president, even if our next Democratic candidate wins the electoral college, Rump, Musk, and the insurrectionist Trump-humping Republican Congress members will be in the position to once again challenge the electoral votes and get the election thrown to the House.

From the National Archives website. Boldface is mine:

There are a lot of misconceptions about the electoral college. One thing, however, is clear: The electoral college is administered by the National Archives and Records Administration.

NARA's Office of the Federal Register operates as an intermediary between the governors and secretaries of state of the various states and the Congress. It also acts as a kind of agent of the Congress in the sense that it is responsible for reviewing the legal sufficiency of the certificates before the House and Senate accept them as evidence of official state action.

One of the striking things about the electoral college process is that so little of it is codified in Federal law. You would expect that the process for electing the leader of the most powerful nation on earth would be set out in great detail in Federal laws and regulations. Article II, section 1, of the Constitution simply directs each state to appoint electors. A few provisions in the U.S. Code set out specific duties for the Archivist and the states to perform, but most of the procedures are a matter of state law or custom. A great deal of the Federal Register's role as an intermediary between the states and the Congress has simply evolved out of necessity.

Federal law requires the states to send the Archivist the electors' credentials ("Certificates of Ascertainment" and two sets of electoral votes ("Certificates of Vote" . "It seems very perfunctory and routine," says Michael White, the Federal Register's legal director. "But in reality, the Federal Register has to be a lot more proactive and vigilant to ensure that the whole thing functions properly. I would guess that at least once during their tenure, every Federal Register Director wakes up in the middle of the night thinking about what could go wrong with the Electoral College."

https://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/nara-and-electoral-college.html#:~:text=One%20thing%2C%20however%2C%20is%20clear,various%20states%20and%20the%20Congress.

And here is an excellent timeline detailing the 2020 fake electors scheme:

https://www.lawforward.org/fake-elector-plot-started-in-wisconsin/?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI77S0yYPbiwMVKx6tBh3qiRtYEAAYASAAEgJJmPD_BwE

February 23, 2025

We need to make the lives of the Republicans in Congress MISERABLE until they see that they MUST impeach Rump.

We've already seen the protests at town halls across the country. Let's keep it up and go further. Go to their offices. Go to the state legislatures. Send emails.

Get creative. I saw online that you can buy little plastic spines on keychains. Meant for chiropractors who want to promote their practices, we could send these little plastic spines to Congress members as a message to grow a spine.

How about sending Congress members a can of peaches with "IMPEACH TRUMP NOW" sharpied on the top of the can?

Or what if we each sent Rump a box of Depends with the message "Heil, Shitler!" sharpied on the box? Just imagine thousands of boxes of Depends being delivered to Merde-a-Lardo!

GO, DEMS, GO! And Republican voters who are finally seeing the light, welcome to the Resistance.

February 21, 2025

I feel like we're living out the movie "Red Dawn." All of us remaining sane, unbrainwashed people are the Wolverines.

Maybe the Lincoln Project or somebody, should start playing this clip in their ads to wake up the smug, complacent MAGA cult who thinks Putin is a swell guy. Yes, I know this is a cheesy-ish movie, but this scene was pretty compelling.

February 20, 2025

Did Putin and Rump meet in Saudi Arabia without Zelenskyy so that they could plot how they could "Khashoggi" him?

I am just sick about what those three evil entities are capable of. Rump especially would relish being in on plotting an assassination.

I pray to God that President Zelenskyy stays safe.