Donald Trump’s stated desire to use recess appointments is about more than putting his cabinet secretaries and other appointees in place without a fight.
Professor, with all due respect, you are flogging a horse that is not only dead, but has been butchered, grilled and served. The GOP Senators will not lift a finger to disturb der Fuhrer. It is 1933 in America, and Trump is going to do whatever he wants without opposition. I pray it does not end as did the Third Reich, with War and Holocaust, but if you really believe that the MAGAts and few remaining GOP Senators are going to stand in the way of their beloved leader, I fear you are calamitously wrong. I recommend historian Peter Fritzsche’s HITLERS FIRST HUNDRED DAYS for a view of what an unbridled and unopposed fascist megalomaniac can do. One could lift whole paragraphs out of the book, blank out the names, and ask reasonably if he were describing Hitler or Trump………………
Susan, I spent four years of the first Trump presidency contacting my senators and representative. They are Ted Cruz, John Cornyn and John Carter - all Maga Republicans who specialize in performative outrage. In the last eight years I have called various senators and representatives to voice concerns and urge actions. I have sent so many contact emails to President Biden, I may be on a watch list. When Nancy Pelosi was House Speaker her office said I should contact my representative, not her. Retired Generals, former staff, economists, veterans, former Republicans and more spoke out against Trump and said what a danger he was. I donated, I spoke to people and I voted. And despite all of these efforts Trump won. And he won because in 2024 Kamala got 8 million less votes than Biden did in 2020. Eight million voters, mostly Democrats, sat home. That is a fact and my anger is toward these people. Call away, but it is not going to change anything. The Dems may protest, but they're in the minority. Republicans will do whatever Trump wants them to do.
I hate conspiracy theories. But this letter, unfortunately, confirms a lot of what I was thinking. It just didn't make sense. Not with the size of the rallies, not with the over all enthusiasm, it just didn't make sense.
Still waiting to hear about validity of the Greg Palast claim that 2.7 million votes were ditched. According to the Philly papers, where a hand recount is taking place, we lost Pa in Biden's home area, former Biden supporters. Not Gen Z. Not Blacks. Lost 2 Pa Dem house seats.
Also curious about the supposed massive decline in Dem voters. In MI late afternoon the turnout was noted to be massively high per SOS J Benson. Yet somehow the final counts were much lower than in 16 or 20???
Also worth reading is the Nov 13th public letter by Duncan Buell and others stating they believe there is a possibility of hacking and calling for hand-recounts.
These are serious people. Their opening statement asks for Harris to call for "targeted recounts" in selected states.
Without a credible, independent investigation, doubts about the 2024 will linger for years.
"We write to alert you to serious election security breaches that have
threatened the security and integrity of the 2024 elections, and to identify ways to ensure that the will of the voters is reflected and that voters should have confidence in the result. The most effective manner of doing so is through targeted recounts requested by the candidate. In the light of the breaches we ask that you formally request hand recounts in at least the states of Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. We have no evidence that the outcomes of the elections in those states were actually compromised as a result of the security breaches, and we are not suggesting that they were. But binding risk-limiting audits (RLAs) or hand recounts should be routine for all elections, especially when the stakes are high and the results are close. We believe that, under the current circumstances when massive software breaches are known and documented, recounts are necessary and appropriate to remove all potential doubt and to set an example for security best practices in all elections."
Bob, I think you are right on this one. It seems really kind of weird that Trump and Kump suddenly had no complaints about this election when they fell over backwards to whine and complain about the last two, even the one Trump won by electoral college. Something is going on and it is a good idea to find out what that something is. Maybe I and others are blaming the wrong people for the Harris loss along with so many senators and house members. In PA, there is a recount for senate, but I think they should be checking all the other elections too. It may take some time, but we would know. Counting by hand and machine in the recount is critical to see if there are differences. Then, if there are, we need to decide what to do about it. If there are none, then we are stuck with the a-hole we now have as president-elect with all his fascist friends.
It isn’t a conspiracy theory to ask for hand recounts of paper ballots. Some states automatically do recounts if the election is very close. If there are anomalies and discrepancies, they can be understood by doing recounts of paper ballots. If it was done in 2020, it can be done now.
To be quite certain of the recount, it's best if most ballots are marked *by hand.*
We need BMDs (ballot marking devices) in each polling place for voters who cannot mark their paper ballots by hand. Per HAVA (the Help America Vote Act).
If Spoonamore’s statistics about 2024 in swing states are correct, “bullet votes” or “ghost votes” are a very big deal. I haven’t seen much about this so far.
In previous elections, some few people voted for President/VP and nothing else on the ballot. Since 1980 this is typically no more than 1%. This was true in 2016 and 2020, with Trump on the ballot.
In 2024 in the 43 Non-Swing states, bullet ballots are the usual about 1%. In the seven Swing states the numbers are so high as to be unbelievable, unprecedented and demanding of further investigation. Here is analysis from totals as of late Nov. 12th
AZ - 123K+ 7.2%+ of Trump’s total vote. Enough to reverse the outcome.
NV - 43K+ 5.5%+ of Trump’s total vote. Enough to exceed recount threshold.
It is (Spoonamore’s) belief these two states have illegally added votes.
For comparison, examine Trump’s 2024 results in three states which border AZ and NV. They have equally passionate Trump supporters, but have the normal levels of drop off or bullet ballots.
ID <2K 0.03% of Trump’s total.
OR <4K 0.05% of Trump’s total
UT <1K 0.01% of Trump’s total.
In the case of Idaho and Utah, Mr. Trump was a run-away winner and had no need to add votes. In the case of Oregon, Ms. Harris was a run-away winner and adding votes to Trump’s total would add risk without adding value.
The same pattern of large numbers of drop-off votes or bullet ballots exists in the totals of MI, NC, PA, WI.
North Carolina is the most extreme. The public results indicate over 350K voters cast a ballot for Trump and no other race making up over 11% of Trump’s voters in NC drop off votes or bullet ballots.
Eleven percent? And North Carolina just elected a Democratic governor, Josh Stein.
Further in Spoonamore’s letter he points out that complicated, sneaky things can be done electronically. (For instance, the simultaneously exploding pagers incident in Lebanon a few weeks ago, set up in advance to function normally until activated.) He gives possible ways to add Trump votes.
I think the FBI, etc., should investigate because of large numbers of bullet votes and where they occurred and who was advantaged by them. A hand recount should answer lots of questions. Do it before certification deadlines! We Democrats love to show we don’t deal in conspiracy theories, like dumb Trump voters. Trump’s advisors count on this.
Stan, I read the whole thing. I wish we all understood how votes are recorded and tabulated, etc.
I think we all need to know if there was any tampering, whether or not it tips the election to Harris. I wrote to her to let her know there are those of us who are following this issue and want her to press for a manual recount.
Hah...guess who I have been stuck with....Elise Stefanik!! What do her aides DO when people call to express a negative opinion about something she has done? What do ANY aides do with such calls? Are we all just...dumped? Elise...as UN Ambassador....Trump's words to the world. WHAT could go wrong with THAT??? Could we possibly get a worse representative in Congress now that she is departing??? Of course.....
I was told by a long distance friend who worked on the Hill as a young man, that young staffers either listen to the messages or answer the phone. It's a thankless job. Unless there are mass calls, I doubt they do much.
I called Mitt Romney encouraging him to impeach Trump. I pointed out that history would make him a hero. ( I told him my sister also went to his sister affiliated private school). He voted for impeachment.
Rita, I think you are right in this. I, too, have contacted lots of people at various levels, but not only did Trump win, but in my state, a carpetbagger from Connecticut with no experience in government, beat a great senator who has done so much for the people of our state. Republicans care only for power and how they can wield it and who they can hurt while doing it. Right now, it is immigrants and trans people, but it will expand since the whole bunch is racist, misogynistic, xenophobic and more just like their fearful, toddler-man leader. It's a whole bunch of men and a few women who never had to grow up and so still act as 3-year-olds in a dysfunctional family who rule the house with no concern for anyone else because that's what many 3-year-olds are like. All of the current crop of Trumpers and Trumpettes are born to wealth and got into the "best" schools and have been promoted through society as though that means anything. Some were briefly in the military, but clearly learned nothing positive from their experience there. They did learn that if you're white you can get a lot of privileges soldiers, sailors, and marines of color and women don't get, ala Vance. I don't know how we can manage this if we can at all. I don't want to stop fighting because there are a lot of good people who will be hurt or killed due to Trump and Kump's appalling actions. It's amazing to me that Democrats just couldn't get off their asses and vote, even if Harris wasn't for them the perfect candidate. Trump is surely not the perfect candidate in ways we will be learning as time passes. I never thought I would live to see the downfall of this nation, but here it is and Democrats let it happen. Republicans caused it through their ignorance and unwillingness to know who Trump really is, but Dems wanted perfection and thought they would teach everyone what they could do to this nation if they didn't get what they wanted. Yep, toddler-adults, just like Trumpers. Ugh!!!
Perfectly said, Ruth. I feel the same way. I genuinely believed that this time Ted Cruz would lose. He is a despicable man who does nothing but woke wars and Magaspeak. Colin Allred was a great candidate. All the major Texas papers endorsed him. Mothers Against Greg Abbott was encouraged. Nope Cruz trounced Allred by 800,000 votes. What has been profoundly galling is watching Democratic leaders from Hakeem Jeffries to Chris Coons to Pramila Jayapal try to spin "wins". She actually touted the "Youngest new member from New Jersey!" The woman is 38. Then Biden is wandering around in the freaking rain forest. They are all weak. Every damn one of them. No one is calling for a recount. No one is breathing fire for democracy. The people elected aren't going to do anything, and we've been hung out to dry.
SMH. I have also done everything you list here. Mine are Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville. Good luck with that! 18 votes on my ballot. 11 of them were Rs running unopposed. They aren't just afraid of trump, they're afraid of their constituents. For good reason.
It is truly incredible that a body such as the US Senate is in fear and would give up the power they have for this shitty twerp. Although very depressing Joyce, your missive forces us to prepare for the worse. I guess the good news is that sometimes change occurs after things reach rock bottom....
I did and am doing, the same thing; but I cannot give up... Trump got only 30% of eligible voters and did not get the majority of actual voters. More people voted against him, than for him. We must keep fighting....
I wrote and called my Reps and nothing happened. They act like they were elected to represent themselves and later for constituent views and concerns. For the last 3 years we have visited their offices. Same results: they vote against our best interest and theirs.
When Trump’s policies prove their stupidity by bringing higher food prices, etc., or taking away funds which brought lots of jobs to Red states, more Republican politicians will need to show some independence from Trump. A very small number of them already do.
Regrettably I agree and as the late and great Football Player and Sports Commentator Jim Meredith was fond of singing whenever the opposing Team was being Beaten soundly, "Turn Off the Lights the Party is Over!"
I am trying not to give up, but my hopes have been dashed so many times I feel numb and helpless. What can I, in the SF Bay Area, do to help beyond what I already have been doing for years: donating to out-of-state Democrats, writing postcards, preaching to my local choir, supporting all California down-ballot Democrats, and trying to believe in the goodness of my fellow man. I am in my mid-seventies and feel betrayed by the Republican men and women whose equality and civil rights I have fought for since my teens. Trump and COVID have robbed me of so many of the grains of sand left in the hourglass of my life, and I resent the years of isolation from my young grandchild and fear what lies ahead for him and his family. What practical things can be done to stop this insanity?
Yes what actual ACTS of civil disobedience in large coordinated numbers. Need to be doing mass acts every week if not every day started Jan 20. General strike and tax revolt are my 2 leading options.
Active underground civil disobediance acts should be on the books now.
Shutting down the Heritage HQ.......surrounding the Federalists.......organizing and planning resistance (ie WW2 underground) is what Maggots dream of going against with their hyperbolic civil war.
Feeling numb and helpless is what they are counting on. "They" do all sorts of outrageous, horrible and illegal things and then count on us not to do the same because we don't want to be like them.
I'm 76, Nancy. YES, the hourglass of our life. Beautifully said. I am so exhausted and encouraged at least request a recount. But, no, Democrats are trying so hard to go "See, we're accepting results. We know how to lose gracefully". Idiots who don't know how to fight.
Hang in n there! There are many of us. There are many of us with our memories in tact of better times and pride in the way this country works and has by and large worked successful.I I am also past the point where I can actively do much other than keep in touch with these discussions and opinions and offer thoughts and encouragement to those who have to really engage in this fight. There are a lot of good people in this fight we can support and gain optimism from.
Apologies for not being able to correct typos on this cellphone. I want to add that when we read anxiety producing projections of what may or is likely to happen we should remember, while taking what action we can, that this has not happened yet AND that actions especially what is being feared also have reactions. So we will see if we as a country are up to the fight for what many of us believe in our hearts we are about. I have no hesitation saying we are up against formidable threats however. Many just don’t have the constitution for the fight but admirably many do. They need support.
Nancy, Live your life. In the notorious words of George W Bush, take the family to Disneyworld. It’s heartbreaking, yes, but you’ve done all you can do and your remaining time on this Earth should be yours to enjoy. Thank you. Find peace.
Nancy, your concerns are mine except that I have nieces and nephews and not children and grands. We have been fighting for the rights of all people for a few generations now and we seem to be moving backward to some nebulous time when only rich white men had any power and women and people of color were just extras in their movie of life, around to be used and abused at will. How any of us survived under such disgusting rich white male rule is remarkable which means we must all be pretty tough and rich men are just the whiny toddlers we kept supporting because they were so pathetic. Maybe we all need to stop supporting them and stand against them en masse rather than fighting sister against sister, race against race, straight against LGBTQ+. Those rich white men love it when we act as though they are smarter and better than any of us when the reality is, they're not. Let's stop propping them up all the time, voting for them when the woman running against them is far superior in every way. They are not great businessmen, but use others to make themselves rich, destroy our environment, then use the money they accumulate to keep the rest of us down as far as they can push us, and somehow, we choose to go. I don't get why, but it is time we stop, think, and make better decisions for ourselves and our children, nieces, nephews, and the children of the world. Let's pool our talents, gifts, resources, caring, love, and more to stop the insanity and work to make the world a better place where rich white toddler-men are just some among the many, not in charge of anything by themselves. We could do this if we have the will and the determination. Heck, we survived millennia of intense bullying and now it is time to say "enough! We're sick of your white male bullying." Then we have to step up to do what we can to make things better.
I live in FL. Our recently re-elected senator is Rick Scott. Half of FL will be in trump’s cabinet. And before too long, Putin will be joining trump and elon at mar-a-lago for an overdone steak served with state secrets. It is painful.
How do we make an impression on all those Senators Joyce? Seems the only way at this point or fork in the road I should say. What can we do? Can Joe Biden do anything? We need an answer 🇺🇸🗽🥁🕯️🕊️❤️🌻
A data scientist, Stephen Spoonamore, strongly suspects a hack took place during the 2024 election.
He speaks of tremendous numbers of “bullet votes” for Trump, occurring in just the swing states. A bullet vote is where there is only one selection made out of the entire ballot.
For example in Arizona and Nevada, 5% and 7% of the ballots were people who only voted for Trump.
He explains how easily it could occur particularly with the ability of Starlink, headed by Elon Musk. He also explains that a hand recount would clear this up.
Mr. Spoonamore is imploring Kamila Harris to request a HAND RECOUNT as only she can do. He states that a hand recount of the swing states will determine the correct number of votes for the 2024 presidential election.
People interested in pushing for Harris to have a hand recount should contact her at the White House
Watch the YouTube video below regarding his conversation with Thom Hartmann.
Agreed. Unfortunately, I think my “blue” state (and I supported it too) fell into the trap of thinking Kamala Harris would be elected and “we” voted to continue with two democratic senators when had we “hedged our bets” and put Larry Hogan in the senate instead, we may (just may, mind you) have had a Republican senator who wouldn’t immediate cave to Trump’s demands. I’m happy to contact my senators, but I don’t know how much that will help. I’m also willing to contact my representative, and I know that’s useless, he’s “the wrong Harris” and a Trump sycophant who tried to take a gun to the capitol! I don’t believe in perpetuating a defeatist attitude, I also don’t believe in wasting energy. I think this education needs to be taken to the voters who put the Senate AND House squarely in Trump’s control. How do we do that?
The man without a conscience against a party of 'No can do!'. A country doing his dance of death and the DOJ - Boo-hoo, boo-hoo!
'For much of the past decade, Mr. Trump has repeatedly swamped the system with provocations. Mr. Bannon memorably stated that their strategy for dealing with the news media was to “flood the zone” with manure.'
'The strategy has ensured that little focus stays on any single scandal. The caravan moves quickly on to the next, and the next, creating an overall blurring and flattening effect. He has survived them all, including 34 felony convictions and being held liable for sexual abuse.' (NYTimes)
The millions that voted for Democracy.....time to rapidly create a multi-million person counter strike force to oppose this catastrophic attack on humanity. It is now or never.
No Jim, Forbes is pretty accurate. And applaudable that Joyce is expressing the constitution to stand beside but all nations have constitutions and look how far it’s gotten them. No, the end of days is at hand. I call for a military coup as the only salvation before the good generals are gone and the bad ones remain. Then our gooses will really be cooked. Do you want fries that? lol.
Perhaps you believe it sounds “defeatist” but just who the hell do the people turn to ensure we don’t end up in 1933? The corrupt extreme court? The MAGA house? The MAGA senate? Most of them have already bent the knee and kissed the ring. Just who do we turn to????
Like so many of us, I have yet to recognise what we should be doing. Don't know where to find it, don't know who to ask...looks like a solid obstacle in front of us.
Any time someone leads with "with all due respect," I automatically assume no respect will be given. She is not talking about a syllabus, she is not pointing out what will be covered in a lecture, she is giving us fair warning. Recommending reading material to a woman who knows this field, backwards and forwards, who is an authority on the workings of the legal system is the very essence of "with all due respect."
I prefer to think of this as another warning, yes, we know all about the "enemy" and what is coming; unlike Paul Revere who did not complete his mission, she is like Sybil Ludington and she is making sure that she completes hers.
From reading other sources, there will be enough legal moves made by a cadre of attorneys and going through “friendly” circuits(much like has been done by the other side)to jam up some of the worse moves by the trump regime. This is how the Muslim ban got zapped in 2017 by using the law and the court system to literally flood the zone only this time for the good guys. This is why it’s so important for the Democratically controlled Senate to push through the remaining federal vacancies while they can. Marc Elias has been talking about this very thing as has Meidas Touch and Legal AF. Well just have to wait and see where the manure ends up once it hits the fan.
I've been watching a series on Amazon prime called Hitler and it's chilling to me the parallels between how the Nazis roast to power and what's going on now. Replace Jews with immigrants…
Yes. I totally agree. They do not understand that by helping to destroy the US they destroy their own power too. I went to school with Peter Fritzsche by the way. He was one of 4 kids, and they lived 2 blocks down from us. He is at Urbana as far as I know.
Goebbels would be the one to tell the German people they had to tighten their belts for the good of their country, and claim that they were winning the war. This was supposed to make their sacrifices worthwhile. This is what Putin is telling his people too. All of these leaders amass untold wealth in the meantime. Here Musk and Ramaswamy are telling us that it will hurt first, trying to buy time so that people accept the awfulness until it is too late and they realize this is just how it is going to be.
Same with the DOD. Waiting to see what they will do. They have become the most important equation in this. The criminals and terrorists of the world are waiting too, and planning, because they see opportunity right now. They can attack our bases, our embassies, and perhaps continue planning terror acts in the US because no one is minding the shop. Other intelligence agencies are not going to be sharing info with us, and may never do so again, because the way we set up our society, we have too many gullible people. Still, I take heart in the fact that as the vote continues to be counted, Trump has already gotten less than 50% of the eligible voters, and another 93 million did not vote, so 1/3 or less of the eligible votes is not a mandate. https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/dont-fall-for-the-red-mirage
Given this reality we should also understand that many people were duped. I read AOC say that her voters said, "he isn't really going to deport us?" She asked where they get their info and they said from her. So she know that means they listened to Donald Trump too. That is what I am saying after hearing my 23-year-old nephew tell me DTs talking points, like he said he was not for national abortion. Well, AOC says her people thought he was only going to deport the criminals, and now they wish they had not voted for him. Hind sight is 20-20 though.
I see the MAGAs who are Christian Nationalists for the most part think that they will destroy the US, please God, and HE will come and take them to heaven. That is the old school CNs, the new Charismatic Christians who are New Apostolic Reformation believers, they need to push the misery of God's Will on everyone to have HIM come and take them to heaven, so they will be happy about the implosion, especially since all of the CNs believe the suffering of others is good for them. So take away the food, shelter, medicine from the poor and low income and make everyone pay through the teeth for those things and consider themselves lucky. Businesses are in a wait and see mode, but it doesn't look good. They say companies may leave because no one likes an unstable business climate, except Musk, and Ramaswamy and Trump, and their MAGA followers.
However, when Trump makes Russia and China the Superpowers by destroying our military, economy, Intelligence community, and people, what will the USA be? Musk can go to another country and destroy them, and just move around the world doing that. He has even said he is going to go mess with other elections. Read Prof. Timothy Synder's piece on The Phantom Campaign. https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-phantom-campaign
So the MAGAs, by following DT who will possibly be replaced by JDV, will destroy themselves and lose their power.
Somehow I didn't know about the "phantom" campaign ads that Snyder wrote about - ads that appeared to be Harris campaign ads, targeted at Democrats, touting policies that are popular with Democrats - except for a (false) policy statement at the end of the list that is designed to give the voters pause and ultimately prompt them to stay home. Of course I knew the MAGAts and Putin's trolls were lying about her, but I didn't realize they were doing it in ads that looked like her own ads.
Yes. It is awful. Musk and Putin have been in regular talks throughout the election campaign. Putin is a master of spycraft and espionage. I have been worried the whole election because during covid I attended a conference on disinformation destroying democracy, and there were democratic politicians there, who never seemed to take the understandings and make them into practice.
Remember the Russian sleeper agents living in the US and all over the world for that matter. He has been part of playing the long game, and Trump is about to hand him a destroyed US on a platter, just like Hitler destroyed Germany, although he did not do that for Stalin. Trump is doing it for his own revenge, the fact that his children and grandchildren live here does not seem to matter and they don't seem to recognize that their dad is destroying their country. The Fall of the US Empire is what I call this. While you can say the US should not be an empire, that is still not going to help the people who suffer under his policies.
I saw Russian disinformation which the NYT and WaPo helped to amplify, and I can imagine that Trump could have gotten the Biden is too old talking point from Putin. The media amplified it, and I watched everyone around me get brainwashed about it. Can you imagine if they had said, Warren Buffett is too old, since he is more than 10 years older than Biden, but they did not. So, everyone still listens to every word he speaks and every action he does as he is in his mid 90s.
There were so many things I saw as possible Russian disinformation and I can say the same here in Germany where I am currently living. Musk has threatened to do to other elections what he did to the US. So, we shall see.
Linda, the fascist dark ages. I’m in the midst of reading about Bonhoeffer not realizing that there have been movies and another on the way. I’ve read alot on the Nazi Holocaust; now I’ve happened to meet a Jewish woman visiting here from Vienna, who says that anti semitism in Austria has risen ‘800 %!’. Her parents were both survivors, her mother Auschwitz, her father’s labor camp. She grew up w of course traumatized parents. If only we had allowed the Jewish people into the US so many lives could have been saved, but the USA turned them away.
So did Churchill. No one accepted them. You know what came next: extermination. I feel We owe them!!
I feel similarly about many immigrants particularly those recently from Brazil who are here, and super wonders.
WE ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS except the native Americans whom we mistreated.
Yes only your first sentence. The rest gives anxiety. We need to keep folks from having to tune out because they are so scared. That said we should neither be in denial about the possibilities.
I understand that some people freeze or avoid when they are scared. I guess we all have our ways of coping. Mine is often to read, read, read and understand the situation and then make a plan for action. Getting into community is recommended. That is in person community. Ones with people where you feel you can work on problems together. I am seeing this time for us as Ukraine was 2 months before Putin marched in. What would the people there like to have prepared if they had known.
On German news I was watching that on the 1000th day of this war on Ukraine by Russia, almost 1 million people have died with 600,000 of them being Russian and about 300,000 being Ukrainian. Most are military and some civilians. Many are wounded as well. About 6 million Ukrainians have left Ukraine, and something like 3 million are displaced internally. That is in a country that used to have around 45 million people. Their energy infrastructure is 1/3 of what it was before the war thanks to Trump's buddy Putin. Each day it will costs billions more to repair the country's infrastructure, but you cannot repair the people.
Covid has taken its toll on us as a nation. I feel that it led to people retreating ever more into technology. There is endless material and a lot of it is bad. We need to figure our way out of this, and come together around whatever Trump is going to do. Americans have reasons to be scared in the US, and people in other countries have reasons to be scared as well. Scandinavian countries are getting their populations ready for war. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr4zwj2lgdo
I recommend looking at the brochure for Sweden because it is in English. This is the sort of thing people are doing to be prepared in countries where they feel that the dangers will come from outside forces not their own people. In the USA, that is not the case. The enemy will be within and in the White House. Prepare for that.
A data scientist, Stephen Spoonamore, strongly suspects a HACK took place during the 2024 election.
He speaks of tremendous numbers of “bullet votes” for Trump, occurring in just the swing states. A bullet vote is where there is only one selection made out of the entire ballot.
For example in Arizona and Nevada, 5% and 7% of the ballots were people who only voted for Trump.
He explains how easily it could occur particularly with the ability of Starlink, headed by Elon Musk. He also explains that a hand recount would clear this up.
Mr. Spoonamore is imploring Kamila Harris to request a HAND RECOUNT as only she can do. He states that a hand recount of the swing states will determine the correct number of votes for the 2024 presidential election.
People interested in pushing for Harris to have a hand recount should contact her at the White House
Watch the YouTube video below regarding his conversation with Thom Hartmann.
My friend had been saying the same thing. She is among other things, a mathematician and the math was not working for her. She has been very angry that the Democrats are not paying for a recount and would be glad to contribute money to it.
Anti-social barometer -- shades of Gladiator Daze when the aged Mike Tyson steps into the Ring & cannot even through a punch. Elder Abuse.
We are still counting Votes in California driving Trump's national margin of winning below📉50%. 5 U.S. California Congressional seats are still on Tuesday 11/19. ---"Toss Ups".
'idolatry, in Judaism and Christianity, the worship of someone or something other than God as though it were God. The first of the biblical Ten Commandments prohibits idolatry:' “You shall have no other gods before me.” (Britannica)
It is too late. The county knew what he was. He told us what he would do. Now he is doing it. He controls all 4 branches of government. There nothing we can do but watch it happen now.
A political cult has taken over America. They will not only obey, they will salute their Fuhrer. Thy will cheer him, yes, exactly as Germans cheered their cult leader. Blood will be flowing in the streets, and they will be convinced it’s necessary. Sad. But true.
Given the somber moment, it is really terrible that MSNBC Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski set a tone of normalizing Trump by going to Mar-a-Lago to kiss his ring or whatever. It's intimidation right before our eyes.
Mika and Joe helped T💩p get in office the first time by giving him unrestricted access almost every morning they were broadcasting. Turd-fondlers, the two of them.
I stopped watching them a couple years ago, way too full of self importance, I miss some of their guests who must be early morning people, because I never see them in the evening.
Yeah, right. Just ask those obsequious former German leaders, how did that work out for them? Of course we can't, but it didn't work then and it won't work now. That kind of craven obeisance is what those two also did the last time around . Only to be deeply humiliated. Some people just never learn. Chamberlain never learned that lesson either.
Rachel Maddow brought this up on her show tonight. She said that all these appointments are designed to strip power from Congress, another important step in the grab for absolute power. He will bypass the Senate if allowed and use Musk and Rameswami to take away the House’s power of the purse. The Congress has to resist now and we all need to be contacting our Representatives and Senators to hold them accountable now before it’s too late!
I honestly think we should all be organizing now for a general strike when Trump inevitably causes a constitutional crisis. I personally think recess appointments would be enough to warrant one, but I fear we have neither the time nor the support to organize it in response to that specific issue yet.
I'm spending time organizing trying to make sure we are, but I'm not a professional labor organizer or anything, just a grad student studying to be a librarian. I mean, I'm a proud and active union member, but I think it'll take a bit more work in order to have enough people to do an effective general strike, and I'm scared we don't have enough time to get it done before he causes a true constitutional crisis. I wish somebody more knowledgeable and influential than me were loudly and publicly taking point on it though.
Why haven’t the attorneys in our country organized to stop this since they, like Joyce, are the core of our knowledge about Constitutional threats? It can’t be left to Joyce, Laurence Tribe, and Judge Luttig to be raising the alarm to 330 million people.
I don't by any means want to suggest that this would be the only way to push back against authoritarianism, nor should it be. But one way to focus attention, and do so peacefully. (The Women in Black movements that have taken place in around the world come to my mind. As well as Greta. But this would not be only women, I'd hope.)
Remember that Trompe and his MAGA cult are also anti-unions. He's already got his minions trying to pass legislation that will give him the power to declare not-for-profits like the ACLU "terrorist organizations". Don't be shocked or surprised when he goes after labor unions (he'll probably label them as Socialist or Communist).
I don't believe that he will live for the next four years. He is obese, eats fat-filled foods, basically doesn't get any meaningful exercise, hardly sleeps- what else? His dementia is increasing, the level of stress he will be under has aged younger men.
As one of my doctors said, from deep experience, about those who live long against all odds and/or for no apparent good reason: "Never underestimate the power of sheer stubbornness."
Doesn’t matter, they’re going to get rid of him as soon as they can, and then JD, not even his real name, Vance will become president and serve for as long as he wants. Plus, they’re going to elect at least two SCOTUS sooner than later. I’m not resigned, I’m realistic.
I don't think magas would follow say s. miller or musk the same way........a lrg part of trump's appeal is that he is a tough guy business man thanks to the apprentice. The others don't have that.
Since Trump scarcely does much of anything stressful--even, famously, as President--he will likely regard it as a nice vacation with the extra benefit of revenge and robbing people and the country of yet more money.
I think the Project 2025 oligarchs will let him stay for maybe a year. Then they'll invoke the 25th Amendment to get rid of him and elevate JDV to the presidency for the remainder of Trompe's term. JDV then will run as an incumbent (and, if my understanding of the Constitution is accurate, he can have 2 terms as president if, God forbid, he gets elected).
What’s this elected stuff you speak of? They’re about to appoint two to three more SCOTUS. People are delusional right now. I have two nieces, 9.5 & 4 and this is our country done for their lifetimes as well.
Sorry, that is wishful thinking. There was also a lot of talk after Ukraine was invaded about Putin having cancer and "not looking well" and so forth. Don't fall for it.
Reminds me of 1930s Germany—Hitler sent the legislature on a 4 year vacation so he could consolidate his power and we all know where that ended. As Trump,said, “He wants to be a dictator on Day One”. Believe him!
Last August 2024, the ACLU (SoCal) filed a Freedom of Information Request Seeking information on how ICE is going contract chartered flights or use the U.S. military to expedite "mass deportation". ACLU vs. ICE. Propaganda will spewed out by Trump's Anti-social platform & 'Day 1' federal media assets seeking to scare targets.
The Guardian U.S. is covering the multiple deportation issues including family separation and/or the targeting of families headed by naturalized U.S. Citizens.
The Guardian offers a FREE newsletter: "Headline U.S.". The Reader can control the number of emails per week. I chose seven (7) -- 1 a day.
In it there is also a link to another letter sent my several other computer scientists telling her the insecurities created by the Georgia election office breach necessitate a hand recount to make sure results are valid.
It refers to voters who only filled in the one line and didn’t bother with anything below that. But the peculiarity is that there was up to 10 times more of those in the swing states than the others (5% compared to 0.5%). Spoonamore has experience with IT that tells him how easily that can be done. Not by the people at the voting sites, but in the software.
So why is this not front page news, being discussed on every PodCast, and all over “social media”? Why isn’t the Democratic Party filing tons of law suits, like the R’s did in 2020 to contest the votes? I’m totally lost here, what action do we collectively take besides “wringing our hands and giving each other ulcers” ?
When Republicans have no evidence of voter fraud, they make the biggest stink in the world. When Dems have a legitimate red flag that would reasonably call for a recount, crickets. We gotta try to change that ourselves by trying to create a wildfire spreading this info till it reaches Harris and Walz who can actually DO something about it. Gonna try to get it to Mehdi Hasan now.
Good Luck, Harris and Walz are MIA and Biden is busy Globetrotting! When the Candidate's and the Current POTUS appear to be unconcerned, A Grassroots Challenge is a Waste of Time and Effort!
This infuriates me. Over 1 billion in donations for the Harris-Walz campaign didn’t stop Trump from being elected, probably with the use of some voting fraud that will never come to light. And all I see now in my texts and emails is the request for more money. Not another penny until I see a clear and compelling alternative to convince Americans to fire Trump asap, which I concede may not be until 2028. Ugh
“It’s almost as though Trump doesn't want a government made up of people with good character. Bad character is acceptable, maybe even preferable.” I think the last sentence should say, “Bad character is actually preferable to Trump.” Trump doesn’t want people with good character around. It makes him look bad, which of course he is.
He needs people he can easily bully and manipulate. He’s a pro at finding people who will do anything for power. He had that with Pence, but when it came down to it, Pence had a line he would not cross.
I’m just going to keep saying this: Trump will never let any of his appointees go through confirmation hearings. If he doesn’t get them to adjourn so he can make recess appointments, he’ll just make them “acting” Secretaries and claim they don’t have to be confirmed.
All of you wringing your hands over hearings and confirmation votes are wasting your time.
Per the Senate Historical Office only 3 CABINET secretaries have been appointed DURING a recess since 1990. The last was Senator Tower who paid too much special attention to female secretaries rather than defense. The Pig exception.
I believe there are some positions where “acting” isn’t possible, or the role is filled by the deputy. Now, maybe the deputy can be acting. I don’t know that either. It will be a Pure D shit show, for certain.
Correct Linda. Per the GAO, " the Nominee to a covered position may NOT serve as the acting office under the Vacancies Act 5 U.S.C. section 3345(b)(1).
Trump doesn’t believe any of this applies to him. During his last administration, after he fired most of his original confirmed cabinet members he started appointing “acting” secretaries. The problem is everyone keeps thinking that the long standing rules and traditions will continue to apply. They won’t.
Professor, with all due respect, you are flogging a horse that is not only dead, but has been butchered, grilled and served. The GOP Senators will not lift a finger to disturb der Fuhrer. It is 1933 in America, and Trump is going to do whatever he wants without opposition. I pray it does not end as did the Third Reich, with War and Holocaust, but if you really believe that the MAGAts and few remaining GOP Senators are going to stand in the way of their beloved leader, I fear you are calamitously wrong. I recommend historian Peter Fritzsche’s HITLERS FIRST HUNDRED DAYS for a view of what an unbridled and unopposed fascist megalomaniac can do. One could lift whole paragraphs out of the book, blank out the names, and ask reasonably if he were describing Hitler or Trump………………
With all due respect…This strikes me as a defeatist approach. We must fight back like hell.
We all need to contact our senators!!! Now!
Susan, I spent four years of the first Trump presidency contacting my senators and representative. They are Ted Cruz, John Cornyn and John Carter - all Maga Republicans who specialize in performative outrage. In the last eight years I have called various senators and representatives to voice concerns and urge actions. I have sent so many contact emails to President Biden, I may be on a watch list. When Nancy Pelosi was House Speaker her office said I should contact my representative, not her. Retired Generals, former staff, economists, veterans, former Republicans and more spoke out against Trump and said what a danger he was. I donated, I spoke to people and I voted. And despite all of these efforts Trump won. And he won because in 2024 Kamala got 8 million less votes than Biden did in 2020. Eight million voters, mostly Democrats, sat home. That is a fact and my anger is toward these people. Call away, but it is not going to change anything. The Dems may protest, but they're in the minority. Republicans will do whatever Trump wants them to do.
I hate what you are saying, but grudgingly have to agree. 😢
Then, please contact other people's senators, if you have any energy left after all of this. Contact mine - they're good people (both are former governors) and are there to defend the USA as a whole. Tell them one of their constituents advised you to do so (me!): https://www.shaheen.senate.gov/contact/contact-jeanne - https://www.hassan.senate.gov/contact
They don't listen to their constituents (unless they have a lot of money). What makes you think they'll listen to someone from another state?
Credible question about the vote counts in the swing states, being anomalous. See Spoonamore’s Duty To Warn letter here on Substack.
https://open.substack.com/pub/spoonamore/p/duty-to-warn-letter-to-vp-harris?r=1nic41&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I hate conspiracy theories. But this letter, unfortunately, confirms a lot of what I was thinking. It just didn't make sense. Not with the size of the rallies, not with the over all enthusiasm, it just didn't make sense.
Still waiting to hear about validity of the Greg Palast claim that 2.7 million votes were ditched. According to the Philly papers, where a hand recount is taking place, we lost Pa in Biden's home area, former Biden supporters. Not Gen Z. Not Blacks. Lost 2 Pa Dem house seats.
If Marc Elias and Joyce says this is true, then I will believe it.,
Count the damned ballots al;ready!! How many times were the 2020 ballots counted?
Absolutely, RECOUNT!!
Putins KBG made sure Trumph won.
100 million.dems didn't VOTE !
You believe that !
Then Trumph really was.elected. ! .
Call Harris and demand she request a recount in at least MI, AZ, NC & WI (if not all 7 )
Also curious about the supposed massive decline in Dem voters. In MI late afternoon the turnout was noted to be massively high per SOS J Benson. Yet somehow the final counts were much lower than in 16 or 20???
KBG/ Putin!
You betcha.
Yes, that decline is disturbing.
Thanks for mentioning this, Stan.
Also worth reading is the Nov 13th public letter by Duncan Buell and others stating they believe there is a possibility of hacking and calling for hand-recounts.
https://freespeechforpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/letter-to-vp-harris-111324.pdf
These are serious people. Their opening statement asks for Harris to call for "targeted recounts" in selected states.
Without a credible, independent investigation, doubts about the 2024 will linger for years.
"We write to alert you to serious election security breaches that have
threatened the security and integrity of the 2024 elections, and to identify ways to ensure that the will of the voters is reflected and that voters should have confidence in the result. The most effective manner of doing so is through targeted recounts requested by the candidate. In the light of the breaches we ask that you formally request hand recounts in at least the states of Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. We have no evidence that the outcomes of the elections in those states were actually compromised as a result of the security breaches, and we are not suggesting that they were. But binding risk-limiting audits (RLAs) or hand recounts should be routine for all elections, especially when the stakes are high and the results are close. We believe that, under the current circumstances when massive software breaches are known and documented, recounts are necessary and appropriate to remove all potential doubt and to set an example for security best practices in all elections."
Bob, I think you are right on this one. It seems really kind of weird that Trump and Kump suddenly had no complaints about this election when they fell over backwards to whine and complain about the last two, even the one Trump won by electoral college. Something is going on and it is a good idea to find out what that something is. Maybe I and others are blaming the wrong people for the Harris loss along with so many senators and house members. In PA, there is a recount for senate, but I think they should be checking all the other elections too. It may take some time, but we would know. Counting by hand and machine in the recount is critical to see if there are differences. Then, if there are, we need to decide what to do about it. If there are none, then we are stuck with the a-hole we now have as president-elect with all his fascist friends.
You betcha.
KBG Putin controlled the election.
You betcha. .
this article certainly answers questions that I have had. Is this information being widely shared, especially with people like Mark Elias?
It isn’t a conspiracy theory to ask for hand recounts of paper ballots. Some states automatically do recounts if the election is very close. If there are anomalies and discrepancies, they can be understood by doing recounts of paper ballots. If it was done in 2020, it can be done now.
To be quite certain of the recount, it's best if most ballots are marked *by hand.*
We need BMDs (ballot marking devices) in each polling place for voters who cannot mark their paper ballots by hand. Per HAVA (the Help America Vote Act).
There were 600,000 bullet ballots in only the swing states. The other states had far fewer; a dramatic discrepancy.
Thanks, Stan!
If Spoonamore’s statistics about 2024 in swing states are correct, “bullet votes” or “ghost votes” are a very big deal. I haven’t seen much about this so far.
In previous elections, some few people voted for President/VP and nothing else on the ballot. Since 1980 this is typically no more than 1%. This was true in 2016 and 2020, with Trump on the ballot.
In 2024 in the 43 Non-Swing states, bullet ballots are the usual about 1%. In the seven Swing states the numbers are so high as to be unbelievable, unprecedented and demanding of further investigation. Here is analysis from totals as of late Nov. 12th
AZ - 123K+ 7.2%+ of Trump’s total vote. Enough to reverse the outcome.
NV - 43K+ 5.5%+ of Trump’s total vote. Enough to exceed recount threshold.
It is (Spoonamore’s) belief these two states have illegally added votes.
For comparison, examine Trump’s 2024 results in three states which border AZ and NV. They have equally passionate Trump supporters, but have the normal levels of drop off or bullet ballots.
ID <2K 0.03% of Trump’s total.
OR <4K 0.05% of Trump’s total
UT <1K 0.01% of Trump’s total.
In the case of Idaho and Utah, Mr. Trump was a run-away winner and had no need to add votes. In the case of Oregon, Ms. Harris was a run-away winner and adding votes to Trump’s total would add risk without adding value.
The same pattern of large numbers of drop-off votes or bullet ballots exists in the totals of MI, NC, PA, WI.
North Carolina is the most extreme. The public results indicate over 350K voters cast a ballot for Trump and no other race making up over 11% of Trump’s voters in NC drop off votes or bullet ballots.
Eleven percent? And North Carolina just elected a Democratic governor, Josh Stein.
Further in Spoonamore’s letter he points out that complicated, sneaky things can be done electronically. (For instance, the simultaneously exploding pagers incident in Lebanon a few weeks ago, set up in advance to function normally until activated.) He gives possible ways to add Trump votes.
I think the FBI, etc., should investigate because of large numbers of bullet votes and where they occurred and who was advantaged by them. A hand recount should answer lots of questions. Do it before certification deadlines! We Democrats love to show we don’t deal in conspiracy theories, like dumb Trump voters. Trump’s advisors count on this.
Stan, I read the whole thing. I wish we all understood how votes are recorded and tabulated, etc.
I think we all need to know if there was any tampering, whether or not it tips the election to Harris. I wrote to her to let her know there are those of us who are following this issue and want her to press for a manual recount.
https://youtu.be/cV58O0USCaY?si=oW8xgsaCnWvc-Bm6
Musk says it here: “I don’t trust a computer. They are too easy to hack. That’s why I want to go to all paper ballots.”
Hah...guess who I have been stuck with....Elise Stefanik!! What do her aides DO when people call to express a negative opinion about something she has done? What do ANY aides do with such calls? Are we all just...dumped? Elise...as UN Ambassador....Trump's words to the world. WHAT could go wrong with THAT??? Could we possibly get a worse representative in Congress now that she is departing??? Of course.....
I was told by a long distance friend who worked on the Hill as a young man, that young staffers either listen to the messages or answer the phone. It's a thankless job. Unless there are mass calls, I doubt they do much.
I called Mitt Romney encouraging him to impeach Trump. I pointed out that history would make him a hero. ( I told him my sister also went to his sister affiliated private school). He voted for impeachment.
Rita, I think you are right in this. I, too, have contacted lots of people at various levels, but not only did Trump win, but in my state, a carpetbagger from Connecticut with no experience in government, beat a great senator who has done so much for the people of our state. Republicans care only for power and how they can wield it and who they can hurt while doing it. Right now, it is immigrants and trans people, but it will expand since the whole bunch is racist, misogynistic, xenophobic and more just like their fearful, toddler-man leader. It's a whole bunch of men and a few women who never had to grow up and so still act as 3-year-olds in a dysfunctional family who rule the house with no concern for anyone else because that's what many 3-year-olds are like. All of the current crop of Trumpers and Trumpettes are born to wealth and got into the "best" schools and have been promoted through society as though that means anything. Some were briefly in the military, but clearly learned nothing positive from their experience there. They did learn that if you're white you can get a lot of privileges soldiers, sailors, and marines of color and women don't get, ala Vance. I don't know how we can manage this if we can at all. I don't want to stop fighting because there are a lot of good people who will be hurt or killed due to Trump and Kump's appalling actions. It's amazing to me that Democrats just couldn't get off their asses and vote, even if Harris wasn't for them the perfect candidate. Trump is surely not the perfect candidate in ways we will be learning as time passes. I never thought I would live to see the downfall of this nation, but here it is and Democrats let it happen. Republicans caused it through their ignorance and unwillingness to know who Trump really is, but Dems wanted perfection and thought they would teach everyone what they could do to this nation if they didn't get what they wanted. Yep, toddler-adults, just like Trumpers. Ugh!!!
Perfectly said, Ruth. I feel the same way. I genuinely believed that this time Ted Cruz would lose. He is a despicable man who does nothing but woke wars and Magaspeak. Colin Allred was a great candidate. All the major Texas papers endorsed him. Mothers Against Greg Abbott was encouraged. Nope Cruz trounced Allred by 800,000 votes. What has been profoundly galling is watching Democratic leaders from Hakeem Jeffries to Chris Coons to Pramila Jayapal try to spin "wins". She actually touted the "Youngest new member from New Jersey!" The woman is 38. Then Biden is wandering around in the freaking rain forest. They are all weak. Every damn one of them. No one is calling for a recount. No one is breathing fire for democracy. The people elected aren't going to do anything, and we've been hung out to dry.
SMH. I have also done everything you list here. Mine are Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville. Good luck with that! 18 votes on my ballot. 11 of them were Rs running unopposed. They aren't just afraid of trump, they're afraid of their constituents. For good reason.
It is truly incredible that a body such as the US Senate is in fear and would give up the power they have for this shitty twerp. Although very depressing Joyce, your missive forces us to prepare for the worse. I guess the good news is that sometimes change occurs after things reach rock bottom....
I did and am doing, the same thing; but I cannot give up... Trump got only 30% of eligible voters and did not get the majority of actual voters. More people voted against him, than for him. We must keep fighting....
I wrote and called my Reps and nothing happened. They act like they were elected to represent themselves and later for constituent views and concerns. For the last 3 years we have visited their offices. Same results: they vote against our best interest and theirs.
Exactly
Unless we the people take to
the streets in nationwide protests and shut down the country! Like with Nixon and Johnson!!
All the rest is bullshit.
When Trump’s policies prove their stupidity by bringing higher food prices, etc., or taking away funds which brought lots of jobs to Red states, more Republican politicians will need to show some independence from Trump. A very small number of them already do.
I used to live in Texas (Austin) but my wife and I left for “bluer pastures“ in California almost a year ago. We just couldn’t take it any longer.
Regrettably I agree and as the late and great Football Player and Sports Commentator Jim Meredith was fond of singing whenever the opposing Team was being Beaten soundly, "Turn Off the Lights the Party is Over!"
First of all; voters evaporated!
Second Nancy P is the most overrated politician in congress.
Third only nationwide mass anti Trumph protests will stop comrade Trumphs dictatorship!
Fourth, Trumph is implementing the Putin/ KBG communist model.
Fifth, nation of sheep 🐑 and indifference rules!
I am trying not to give up, but my hopes have been dashed so many times I feel numb and helpless. What can I, in the SF Bay Area, do to help beyond what I already have been doing for years: donating to out-of-state Democrats, writing postcards, preaching to my local choir, supporting all California down-ballot Democrats, and trying to believe in the goodness of my fellow man. I am in my mid-seventies and feel betrayed by the Republican men and women whose equality and civil rights I have fought for since my teens. Trump and COVID have robbed me of so many of the grains of sand left in the hourglass of my life, and I resent the years of isolation from my young grandchild and fear what lies ahead for him and his family. What practical things can be done to stop this insanity?
Yes what actual ACTS of civil disobedience in large coordinated numbers. Need to be doing mass acts every week if not every day started Jan 20. General strike and tax revolt are my 2 leading options.
Active underground civil disobediance acts should be on the books now.
Shutting down the Heritage HQ.......surrounding the Federalists.......organizing and planning resistance (ie WW2 underground) is what Maggots dream of going against with their hyperbolic civil war.
Better get started, then.
Feeling numb and helpless is what they are counting on. "They" do all sorts of outrageous, horrible and illegal things and then count on us not to do the same because we don't want to be like them.
I'm 76, Nancy. YES, the hourglass of our life. Beautifully said. I am so exhausted and encouraged at least request a recount. But, no, Democrats are trying so hard to go "See, we're accepting results. We know how to lose gracefully". Idiots who don't know how to fight.
Hang in n there! There are many of us. There are many of us with our memories in tact of better times and pride in the way this country works and has by and large worked successful.I I am also past the point where I can actively do much other than keep in touch with these discussions and opinions and offer thoughts and encouragement to those who have to really engage in this fight. There are a lot of good people in this fight we can support and gain optimism from.
Apologies for not being able to correct typos on this cellphone. I want to add that when we read anxiety producing projections of what may or is likely to happen we should remember, while taking what action we can, that this has not happened yet AND that actions especially what is being feared also have reactions. So we will see if we as a country are up to the fight for what many of us believe in our hearts we are about. I have no hesitation saying we are up against formidable threats however. Many just don’t have the constitution for the fight but admirably many do. They need support.
Nancy, Live your life. In the notorious words of George W Bush, take the family to Disneyworld. It’s heartbreaking, yes, but you’ve done all you can do and your remaining time on this Earth should be yours to enjoy. Thank you. Find peace.
Nancy, your concerns are mine except that I have nieces and nephews and not children and grands. We have been fighting for the rights of all people for a few generations now and we seem to be moving backward to some nebulous time when only rich white men had any power and women and people of color were just extras in their movie of life, around to be used and abused at will. How any of us survived under such disgusting rich white male rule is remarkable which means we must all be pretty tough and rich men are just the whiny toddlers we kept supporting because they were so pathetic. Maybe we all need to stop supporting them and stand against them en masse rather than fighting sister against sister, race against race, straight against LGBTQ+. Those rich white men love it when we act as though they are smarter and better than any of us when the reality is, they're not. Let's stop propping them up all the time, voting for them when the woman running against them is far superior in every way. They are not great businessmen, but use others to make themselves rich, destroy our environment, then use the money they accumulate to keep the rest of us down as far as they can push us, and somehow, we choose to go. I don't get why, but it is time we stop, think, and make better decisions for ourselves and our children, nieces, nephews, and the children of the world. Let's pool our talents, gifts, resources, caring, love, and more to stop the insanity and work to make the world a better place where rich white toddler-men are just some among the many, not in charge of anything by themselves. We could do this if we have the will and the determination. Heck, we survived millennia of intense bullying and now it is time to say "enough! We're sick of your white male bullying." Then we have to step up to do what we can to make things better.
I live in FL. Our recently re-elected senator is Rick Scott. Half of FL will be in trump’s cabinet. And before too long, Putin will be joining trump and elon at mar-a-lago for an overdone steak served with state secrets. It is painful.
How do we make an impression on all those Senators Joyce? Seems the only way at this point or fork in the road I should say. What can we do? Can Joe Biden do anything? We need an answer 🇺🇸🗽🥁🕯️🕊️❤️🌻
We CAN first fight by demanding a HAND RECOUNT!
A data scientist, Stephen Spoonamore, strongly suspects a hack took place during the 2024 election.
He speaks of tremendous numbers of “bullet votes” for Trump, occurring in just the swing states. A bullet vote is where there is only one selection made out of the entire ballot.
For example in Arizona and Nevada, 5% and 7% of the ballots were people who only voted for Trump.
He explains how easily it could occur particularly with the ability of Starlink, headed by Elon Musk. He also explains that a hand recount would clear this up.
Mr. Spoonamore is imploring Kamila Harris to request a HAND RECOUNT as only she can do. He states that a hand recount of the swing states will determine the correct number of votes for the 2024 presidential election.
People interested in pushing for Harris to have a hand recount should contact her at the White House
Watch the YouTube video below regarding his conversation with Thom Hartmann.
https://youtu.be/RJR5uQpweko?si=TkumDVYkuikthlKn
Stephen Spoonamoresubstack.com/@spoonamore
Stephen Spoonamore Twitter/Threads/BlueSky: @spoonamore
thanks for this.
Agreed. Unfortunately, I think my “blue” state (and I supported it too) fell into the trap of thinking Kamala Harris would be elected and “we” voted to continue with two democratic senators when had we “hedged our bets” and put Larry Hogan in the senate instead, we may (just may, mind you) have had a Republican senator who wouldn’t immediate cave to Trump’s demands. I’m happy to contact my senators, but I don’t know how much that will help. I’m also willing to contact my representative, and I know that’s useless, he’s “the wrong Harris” and a Trump sycophant who tried to take a gun to the capitol! I don’t believe in perpetuating a defeatist attitude, I also don’t believe in wasting energy. I think this education needs to be taken to the voters who put the Senate AND House squarely in Trump’s control. How do we do that?
Good question. Mine too. First by taking the time to recover from disappointment and disgust
Contacted Graham, form letter that he would only vote for the most qualified blah blah. Nothing from Scott.
Ah. . . Lindsay, “will only vote for the most qualified” but daily kisses the ring of the least qualified president in the history of our country.
And he made it clear that he considers the matter closed.
Wrong.
Only taking to the streets in nationwide protests will stop trumph !
Done-Hagerty and Blackburn in TN.🤬
Will do!!!!!
All we can do is literally pound all our senators and representatives with emails, calls AND social media posts, constantly.
The man without a conscience against a party of 'No can do!'. A country doing his dance of death and the DOJ - Boo-hoo, boo-hoo!
'For much of the past decade, Mr. Trump has repeatedly swamped the system with provocations. Mr. Bannon memorably stated that their strategy for dealing with the news media was to “flood the zone” with manure.'
'The strategy has ensured that little focus stays on any single scandal. The caravan moves quickly on to the next, and the next, creating an overall blurring and flattening effect. He has survived them all, including 34 felony convictions and being held liable for sexual abuse.' (NYTimes)
The millions that voted for Democracy.....time to rapidly create a multi-million person counter strike force to oppose this catastrophic attack on humanity. It is now or never.
How do you do that?
No Jim, Forbes is pretty accurate. And applaudable that Joyce is expressing the constitution to stand beside but all nations have constitutions and look how far it’s gotten them. No, the end of days is at hand. I call for a military coup as the only salvation before the good generals are gone and the bad ones remain. Then our gooses will really be cooked. Do you want fries that? lol.
Ask Biden to STOP the court marshals now. He is more concerned about his legacy.
Perhaps you believe it sounds “defeatist” but just who the hell do the people turn to ensure we don’t end up in 1933? The corrupt extreme court? The MAGA house? The MAGA senate? Most of them have already bent the knee and kissed the ring. Just who do we turn to????
Ok. How do you, personally, intend to do that?
Quit whining and get busy!
Like so many of us, I have yet to recognise what we should be doing. Don't know where to find it, don't know who to ask...looks like a solid obstacle in front of us.
Busy how?
How give us some clues?
I fear fighting trumpism is like trying to clear fog on a misty morning with a Japanese hand fan.
I would say a “realist.”
Any time someone leads with "with all due respect," I automatically assume no respect will be given. She is not talking about a syllabus, she is not pointing out what will be covered in a lecture, she is giving us fair warning. Recommending reading material to a woman who knows this field, backwards and forwards, who is an authority on the workings of the legal system is the very essence of "with all due respect."
I prefer to think of this as another warning, yes, we know all about the "enemy" and what is coming; unlike Paul Revere who did not complete his mission, she is like Sybil Ludington and she is making sure that she completes hers.
Thank you Carol-Ann! I couldn’t have said it better.
"With all due respect" is a put-down in Court -- state or federal.
Hear, Hear, Carol-Ann; and thanks for the nod to Sybil Ludington!
From reading other sources, there will be enough legal moves made by a cadre of attorneys and going through “friendly” circuits(much like has been done by the other side)to jam up some of the worse moves by the trump regime. This is how the Muslim ban got zapped in 2017 by using the law and the court system to literally flood the zone only this time for the good guys. This is why it’s so important for the Democratically controlled Senate to push through the remaining federal vacancies while they can. Marc Elias has been talking about this very thing as has Meidas Touch and Legal AF. Well just have to wait and see where the manure ends up once it hits the fan.
The Trumph Putin KBG mission is in full effect and force now as voted for by the new Amerikka people who want a dictator!
Its done and his court cases and indictments are nothing more than empty rhetoric!
We are Trumphs Amerikka!
Shhhh. No way did a hundred million democrats not vote! Shhh. Putin.KBG stashed at least ten million! Shhhh.
I've been watching a series on Amazon prime called Hitler and it's chilling to me the parallels between how the Nazis roast to power and what's going on now. Replace Jews with immigrants…
And purge or court martial the Generals who are not considered loual to the Fuhrer ! Or Putins KBG
Trumphs puppet govr is almost in place. . .
Loyal
Yes. I totally agree. They do not understand that by helping to destroy the US they destroy their own power too. I went to school with Peter Fritzsche by the way. He was one of 4 kids, and they lived 2 blocks down from us. He is at Urbana as far as I know.
Goebbels would be the one to tell the German people they had to tighten their belts for the good of their country, and claim that they were winning the war. This was supposed to make their sacrifices worthwhile. This is what Putin is telling his people too. All of these leaders amass untold wealth in the meantime. Here Musk and Ramaswamy are telling us that it will hurt first, trying to buy time so that people accept the awfulness until it is too late and they realize this is just how it is going to be.
Given that the Intelligence Community leadership just resigned, and rightfully so, because Project 2025 tells us how badly the people who replace them as loyalists will be treated with constant switching to different departments, and locations. That is a way to destroy an agency lickety split. https://open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/p/breaking-top-intelligence-igs-resign?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&comments=true
Same with the DOD. Waiting to see what they will do. They have become the most important equation in this. The criminals and terrorists of the world are waiting too, and planning, because they see opportunity right now. They can attack our bases, our embassies, and perhaps continue planning terror acts in the US because no one is minding the shop. Other intelligence agencies are not going to be sharing info with us, and may never do so again, because the way we set up our society, we have too many gullible people. Still, I take heart in the fact that as the vote continues to be counted, Trump has already gotten less than 50% of the eligible voters, and another 93 million did not vote, so 1/3 or less of the eligible votes is not a mandate. https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/dont-fall-for-the-red-mirage
Given this reality we should also understand that many people were duped. I read AOC say that her voters said, "he isn't really going to deport us?" She asked where they get their info and they said from her. So she know that means they listened to Donald Trump too. That is what I am saying after hearing my 23-year-old nephew tell me DTs talking points, like he said he was not for national abortion. Well, AOC says her people thought he was only going to deport the criminals, and now they wish they had not voted for him. Hind sight is 20-20 though.
I see the MAGAs who are Christian Nationalists for the most part think that they will destroy the US, please God, and HE will come and take them to heaven. That is the old school CNs, the new Charismatic Christians who are New Apostolic Reformation believers, they need to push the misery of God's Will on everyone to have HIM come and take them to heaven, so they will be happy about the implosion, especially since all of the CNs believe the suffering of others is good for them. So take away the food, shelter, medicine from the poor and low income and make everyone pay through the teeth for those things and consider themselves lucky. Businesses are in a wait and see mode, but it doesn't look good. They say companies may leave because no one likes an unstable business climate, except Musk, and Ramaswamy and Trump, and their MAGA followers.
Here Andrea Pitzer, expert on concentration camps here and abroad is telling us what to expect and what one can do. https://substack.com/home/post/p-151702504
However, when Trump makes Russia and China the Superpowers by destroying our military, economy, Intelligence community, and people, what will the USA be? Musk can go to another country and destroy them, and just move around the world doing that. He has even said he is going to go mess with other elections. Read Prof. Timothy Synder's piece on The Phantom Campaign. https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-phantom-campaign
So the MAGAs, by following DT who will possibly be replaced by JDV, will destroy themselves and lose their power.
Somehow I didn't know about the "phantom" campaign ads that Snyder wrote about - ads that appeared to be Harris campaign ads, targeted at Democrats, touting policies that are popular with Democrats - except for a (false) policy statement at the end of the list that is designed to give the voters pause and ultimately prompt them to stay home. Of course I knew the MAGAts and Putin's trolls were lying about her, but I didn't realize they were doing it in ads that looked like her own ads.
Yes. It is awful. Musk and Putin have been in regular talks throughout the election campaign. Putin is a master of spycraft and espionage. I have been worried the whole election because during covid I attended a conference on disinformation destroying democracy, and there were democratic politicians there, who never seemed to take the understandings and make them into practice.
Remember the Russian sleeper agents living in the US and all over the world for that matter. He has been part of playing the long game, and Trump is about to hand him a destroyed US on a platter, just like Hitler destroyed Germany, although he did not do that for Stalin. Trump is doing it for his own revenge, the fact that his children and grandchildren live here does not seem to matter and they don't seem to recognize that their dad is destroying their country. The Fall of the US Empire is what I call this. While you can say the US should not be an empire, that is still not going to help the people who suffer under his policies.
I saw Russian disinformation which the NYT and WaPo helped to amplify, and I can imagine that Trump could have gotten the Biden is too old talking point from Putin. The media amplified it, and I watched everyone around me get brainwashed about it. Can you imagine if they had said, Warren Buffett is too old, since he is more than 10 years older than Biden, but they did not. So, everyone still listens to every word he speaks and every action he does as he is in his mid 90s.
There were so many things I saw as possible Russian disinformation and I can say the same here in Germany where I am currently living. Musk has threatened to do to other elections what he did to the US. So, we shall see.
Linda, the fascist dark ages. I’m in the midst of reading about Bonhoeffer not realizing that there have been movies and another on the way. I’ve read alot on the Nazi Holocaust; now I’ve happened to meet a Jewish woman visiting here from Vienna, who says that anti semitism in Austria has risen ‘800 %!’. Her parents were both survivors, her mother Auschwitz, her father’s labor camp. She grew up w of course traumatized parents. If only we had allowed the Jewish people into the US so many lives could have been saved, but the USA turned them away.
So did Churchill. No one accepted them. You know what came next: extermination. I feel We owe them!!
I feel similarly about many immigrants particularly those recently from Brazil who are here, and super wonders.
WE ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS except the native Americans whom we mistreated.
Yes only your first sentence. The rest gives anxiety. We need to keep folks from having to tune out because they are so scared. That said we should neither be in denial about the possibilities.
I understand that some people freeze or avoid when they are scared. I guess we all have our ways of coping. Mine is often to read, read, read and understand the situation and then make a plan for action. Getting into community is recommended. That is in person community. Ones with people where you feel you can work on problems together. I am seeing this time for us as Ukraine was 2 months before Putin marched in. What would the people there like to have prepared if they had known.
On German news I was watching that on the 1000th day of this war on Ukraine by Russia, almost 1 million people have died with 600,000 of them being Russian and about 300,000 being Ukrainian. Most are military and some civilians. Many are wounded as well. About 6 million Ukrainians have left Ukraine, and something like 3 million are displaced internally. That is in a country that used to have around 45 million people. Their energy infrastructure is 1/3 of what it was before the war thanks to Trump's buddy Putin. Each day it will costs billions more to repair the country's infrastructure, but you cannot repair the people.
Covid has taken its toll on us as a nation. I feel that it led to people retreating ever more into technology. There is endless material and a lot of it is bad. We need to figure our way out of this, and come together around whatever Trump is going to do. Americans have reasons to be scared in the US, and people in other countries have reasons to be scared as well. Scandinavian countries are getting their populations ready for war. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr4zwj2lgdo
I recommend looking at the brochure for Sweden because it is in English. This is the sort of thing people are doing to be prepared in countries where they feel that the dangers will come from outside forces not their own people. In the USA, that is not the case. The enemy will be within and in the White House. Prepare for that.
A data scientist, Stephen Spoonamore, strongly suspects a HACK took place during the 2024 election.
He speaks of tremendous numbers of “bullet votes” for Trump, occurring in just the swing states. A bullet vote is where there is only one selection made out of the entire ballot.
For example in Arizona and Nevada, 5% and 7% of the ballots were people who only voted for Trump.
He explains how easily it could occur particularly with the ability of Starlink, headed by Elon Musk. He also explains that a hand recount would clear this up.
Mr. Spoonamore is imploring Kamila Harris to request a HAND RECOUNT as only she can do. He states that a hand recount of the swing states will determine the correct number of votes for the 2024 presidential election.
People interested in pushing for Harris to have a hand recount should contact her at the White House
Watch the YouTube video below regarding his conversation with Thom Hartmann.
https://youtu.be/RJR5uQpweko?si=TkumDVYkuikthlKn
Stephen Spoonamoresubstack.com/@spoonamore
Stephen Spoonamore Twitter/Threads/BlueSky: @spoonamore
Actually, I shared this with friends, and we looked at Spoonamore's letter.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-151721941
My friend had been saying the same thing. She is among other things, a mathematician and the math was not working for her. She has been very angry that the Democrats are not paying for a recount and would be glad to contribute money to it.
'The NFL renews its dance with Trump, this time to a different beat'
'Football fun or social barometer? NFL players’ on-field celebrations draw notice.' (WAPO) Gifted link to article is below.
https://wapo.st/4fpeR1v
Anti-social barometer -- shades of Gladiator Daze when the aged Mike Tyson steps into the Ring & cannot even through a punch. Elder Abuse.
We are still counting Votes in California driving Trump's national margin of winning below📉50%. 5 U.S. California Congressional seats are still on Tuesday 11/19. ---"Toss Ups".
Bryan Sean McKown, just a couple of minutes ago another friend emailed the following:
'This was a song Barbara Streisand wrote when trump became president the first time. Hoping for the best even in the worst.'
https://youtu.be/kNrj87Q-4Yk
She hit the target.
...or Gladiatorial sacrifice to 'golden calf'.
'idolatry, in Judaism and Christianity, the worship of someone or something other than God as though it were God. The first of the biblical Ten Commandments prohibits idolatry:' “You shall have no other gods before me.” (Britannica)
Mr. Fordes - I agree TOTALLY with your post. Thank You !
Mr. White "with all due respect" isn't the printed word "totally" in caps redundant?
But, thank you for not BOLDING the word.
WNF.
You nailed it !
However, one difference ;
Trumph is implementing the Putin KBG/ Hitlarian model;
A. Scapegoat!
B. Roundup kick out non white immigrants
C.conduct court martials on Generals and officers who ate perceived as non blindly loyal.
D. Select all weak 100% loyal administrators so as to
E. Concentrate all power in the Dictator!
F. Threaten the media who doesnt fall in line with the propaganda!
All the above in PROGRESS ‼️
It is too late. The county knew what he was. He told us what he would do. Now he is doing it. He controls all 4 branches of government. There nothing we can do but watch it happen now.
sorry to see you "obeying in advance." Use your energy to oppose, in every creative and unusual way possible.
A political cult has taken over America. They will not only obey, they will salute their Fuhrer. Thy will cheer him, yes, exactly as Germans cheered their cult leader. Blood will be flowing in the streets, and they will be convinced it’s necessary. Sad. But true.
Until the new congress starts isn’t there time for, at the minimum as Senator Warren suggests, starting the investigative wheels of the Senate?
Not sure he's their beloved leader - they're just scareed shi*tless of him.
It’s super important to do something: call your senators and representatives - yes, especially your Republican people - and demand they not recess.
Given the somber moment, it is really terrible that MSNBC Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski set a tone of normalizing Trump by going to Mar-a-Lago to kiss his ring or whatever. It's intimidation right before our eyes.
They should be fired. I’m to the where the only one I watch is Rachel Maddow.
Don’t forget about Lawrence O’Donnell.
And nicole wallace and joy reid
Mika and Joe helped T💩p get in office the first time by giving him unrestricted access almost every morning they were broadcasting. Turd-fondlers, the two of them.
Turd fondler. New favorite
Read that term first in a Carl Hiaasen novel.
I stopped watching them a couple years ago, way too full of self importance, I miss some of their guests who must be early morning people, because I never see them in the evening.
Bob, I don’t think you need to be concerned about Mika or Joe abandoning their love of democracy. Open doors of communication are always important.
Yeah, right. Just ask those obsequious former German leaders, how did that work out for them? Of course we can't, but it didn't work then and it won't work now. That kind of craven obeisance is what those two also did the last time around . Only to be deeply humiliated. Some people just never learn. Chamberlain never learned that lesson either.
Well, we’ll see.
Rachel Maddow brought this up on her show tonight. She said that all these appointments are designed to strip power from Congress, another important step in the grab for absolute power. He will bypass the Senate if allowed and use Musk and Rameswami to take away the House’s power of the purse. The Congress has to resist now and we all need to be contacting our Representatives and Senators to hold them accountable now before it’s too late!
I honestly think we should all be organizing now for a general strike when Trump inevitably causes a constitutional crisis. I personally think recess appointments would be enough to warrant one, but I fear we have neither the time nor the support to organize it in response to that specific issue yet.
I recall an almost immediate response against the Muslim ban at airports. Lawyers volunteering their time. I feel like millions of us are ready.
I'm spending time organizing trying to make sure we are, but I'm not a professional labor organizer or anything, just a grad student studying to be a librarian. I mean, I'm a proud and active union member, but I think it'll take a bit more work in order to have enough people to do an effective general strike, and I'm scared we don't have enough time to get it done before he causes a true constitutional crisis. I wish somebody more knowledgeable and influential than me were loudly and publicly taking point on it though.
Indivisible.org
ACLU engaged with many others.
Why haven’t the attorneys in our country organized to stop this since they, like Joyce, are the core of our knowledge about Constitutional threats? It can’t be left to Joyce, Laurence Tribe, and Judge Luttig to be raising the alarm to 330 million people.
Let us have VIGILS everywhere wherever people are able. They can be groups of ten, or a hundreds or thousands. Or like Greta, one consistent presence.
Vigils. Please tell me how you think this will be effective against 70some million people voting three times for a fascist.
I don't by any means want to suggest that this would be the only way to push back against authoritarianism, nor should it be. But one way to focus attention, and do so peacefully. (The Women in Black movements that have taken place in around the world come to my mind. As well as Greta. But this would not be only women, I'd hope.)
@indivisible.org will organize resistance. I just joined and to group locally in my city also.
Thank you! I'm currently in a deep-red state, but active in my union, and planning to get more involved with DSA, but I'll check them out as well!
Also, just as a reminder for anybody who sees this, libraries are excellent resources, community hubs, and arsenals of democracy.
Remember that Trompe and his MAGA cult are also anti-unions. He's already got his minions trying to pass legislation that will give him the power to declare not-for-profits like the ACLU "terrorist organizations". Don't be shocked or surprised when he goes after labor unions (he'll probably label them as Socialist or Communist).
I don't believe that he will live for the next four years. He is obese, eats fat-filled foods, basically doesn't get any meaningful exercise, hardly sleeps- what else? His dementia is increasing, the level of stress he will be under has aged younger men.
I truly feel he is dead man walking 🧟♂️.
He reminds me of the old observation, “Too mean to die.”
As one of my doctors said, from deep experience, about those who live long against all odds and/or for no apparent good reason: "Never underestimate the power of sheer stubbornness."
Doesn’t matter, they’re going to get rid of him as soon as they can, and then JD, not even his real name, Vance will become president and serve for as long as he wants. Plus, they’re going to elect at least two SCOTUS sooner than later. I’m not resigned, I’m realistic.
Maybe he will take Hydroxychloroquine from RFKJr, or will OD on Viagra.
Ivermectin, too!!
there's always that bleach thing....
I worry Vance would be even worse.
And that puts that twerp Vance in command. He's someone's puppet already.
he's backed by the billionaire Peter Theil
But everyone around him won’t be dead. They will continue the dictatorship Trump is attempting to put in place if we, the people, let him.
I don't think magas would follow say s. miller or musk the same way........a lrg part of trump's appeal is that he is a tough guy business man thanks to the apprentice. The others don't have that.
Since Trump scarcely does much of anything stressful--even, famously, as President--he will likely regard it as a nice vacation with the extra benefit of revenge and robbing people and the country of yet more money.
He'll be sure to anoint his successor before he dies and eliminate elections.
He already did. It’ll be Pres Vance.
I think the Project 2025 oligarchs will let him stay for maybe a year. Then they'll invoke the 25th Amendment to get rid of him and elevate JDV to the presidency for the remainder of Trompe's term. JDV then will run as an incumbent (and, if my understanding of the Constitution is accurate, he can have 2 terms as president if, God forbid, he gets elected).
What’s this elected stuff you speak of? They’re about to appoint two to three more SCOTUS. People are delusional right now. I have two nieces, 9.5 & 4 and this is our country done for their lifetimes as well.
Sorry, that is wishful thinking. There was also a lot of talk after Ukraine was invaded about Putin having cancer and "not looking well" and so forth. Don't fall for it.
Reminds me of 1930s Germany—Hitler sent the legislature on a 4 year vacation so he could consolidate his power and we all know where that ended. As Trump,said, “He wants to be a dictator on Day One”. Believe him!
Last August 2024, the ACLU (SoCal) filed a Freedom of Information Request Seeking information on how ICE is going contract chartered flights or use the U.S. military to expedite "mass deportation". ACLU vs. ICE. Propaganda will spewed out by Trump's Anti-social platform & 'Day 1' federal media assets seeking to scare targets.
The Guardian U.S. is covering the multiple deportation issues including family separation and/or the targeting of families headed by naturalized U.S. Citizens.
The Guardian offers a FREE newsletter: "Headline U.S.". The Reader can control the number of emails per week. I chose seven (7) -- 1 a day.
Stay safe All.
Joyce, have you seen this letter that cybersecurity expert Stephen Spoonamore sent to Kamala Harris?
https://substack.com/home/post/p-151721941
In it there is also a link to another letter sent my several other computer scientists telling her the insecurities created by the Georgia election office breach necessitate a hand recount to make sure results are valid.
Is this legit ? How can you have ballots with nothing down ballot ?
It refers to voters who only filled in the one line and didn’t bother with anything below that. But the peculiarity is that there was up to 10 times more of those in the swing states than the others (5% compared to 0.5%). Spoonamore has experience with IT that tells him how easily that can be done. Not by the people at the voting sites, but in the software.
So why is this not front page news, being discussed on every PodCast, and all over “social media”? Why isn’t the Democratic Party filing tons of law suits, like the R’s did in 2020 to contest the votes? I’m totally lost here, what action do we collectively take besides “wringing our hands and giving each other ulcers” ?
When Republicans have no evidence of voter fraud, they make the biggest stink in the world. When Dems have a legitimate red flag that would reasonably call for a recount, crickets. We gotta try to change that ourselves by trying to create a wildfire spreading this info till it reaches Harris and Walz who can actually DO something about it. Gonna try to get it to Mehdi Hasan now.
Good Luck, Harris and Walz are MIA and Biden is busy Globetrotting! When the Candidate's and the Current POTUS appear to be unconcerned, A Grassroots Challenge is a Waste of Time and Effort!
Instead of demanding a recount and investigating Election Irregularities the Democratic Party is actively engaged in Soliciting Donations!
This infuriates me. Over 1 billion in donations for the Harris-Walz campaign didn’t stop Trump from being elected, probably with the use of some voting fraud that will never come to light. And all I see now in my texts and emails is the request for more money. Not another penny until I see a clear and compelling alternative to convince Americans to fire Trump asap, which I concede may not be until 2028. Ugh
I hope someone is looking at this closely. Seems awfully suspicious and easy for someone with criminal intent to pull off.
This is what's hinky.
Why indeed. This is blatant voter fraud. If you’re going to call your congressman this is what you need to ask about.
SNOPES has the info on him, a real person, but doesn't have the right info. He's not a cybersecurity expert. Here's the Snopes link on him.https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/11/21/stephen-spoonamore-letter-harris/
“It’s almost as though Trump doesn't want a government made up of people with good character. Bad character is acceptable, maybe even preferable.” I think the last sentence should say, “Bad character is actually preferable to Trump.” Trump doesn’t want people with good character around. It makes him look bad, which of course he is.
He needs people he can easily bully and manipulate. He’s a pro at finding people who will do anything for power. He had that with Pence, but when it came down to it, Pence had a line he would not cross.
Once Congress leaves to allow his recess appointments, there is no need for a Congress. America would be gone.
I’m just going to keep saying this: Trump will never let any of his appointees go through confirmation hearings. If he doesn’t get them to adjourn so he can make recess appointments, he’ll just make them “acting” Secretaries and claim they don’t have to be confirmed.
All of you wringing your hands over hearings and confirmation votes are wasting your time.
I also believe SCOTUS slapped down Obama when he tried to do too many recess appointments, but with this SCOTUS, who knows?
Per the Senate Historical Office only 3 CABINET secretaries have been appointed DURING a recess since 1990. The last was Senator Tower who paid too much special attention to female secretaries rather than defense. The Pig exception.
I believe there are some positions where “acting” isn’t possible, or the role is filled by the deputy. Now, maybe the deputy can be acting. I don’t know that either. It will be a Pure D shit show, for certain.
Correct Linda. Per the GAO, " the Nominee to a covered position may NOT serve as the acting office under the Vacancies Act 5 U.S.C. section 3345(b)(1).
Trump doesn’t believe any of this applies to him. During his last administration, after he fired most of his original confirmed cabinet members he started appointing “acting” secretaries. The problem is everyone keeps thinking that the long standing rules and traditions will continue to apply. They won’t.
Oy, Its such a head shake and a deep shiver
To clarify, he can't do recess appointments UNTIL he is actually president, right?
Right. But the Dems so far seem determined to let them roll over us.
What a night mare
Day 1 dictator plans?--looks like he's jumping the gun.