May 20, 2024
280 days ago, on August 14, 2023, Donald Trump was indicted in Georgia for election interference.
169 days until 2024 election. #Trump, #Insurrection#Fascism#2024Election
Known liar Mike Johnson, Byron Donalds, Cory Mills, Doug Burgum & Vivek Ramaswamy hang around lower Manhattan to be trumps gag order gangsters.
Gag order prohibits trump from making comments about jurors / witnesses and also from causing others to make comments about the case, jury or court staff.
Republican politicians who’ve appeared at the felony Trump criminal trial: “I see politicians running toward the sound of the sleaze because that's what their master is demanding them."
"You have to embrace the election denial, the lies, you have Mike Johnson using his position (House Speaker) to violate the gag order, to say things the Judge says, 'do not say.' You have to embrace the lies, you have to embrace the insurrection, you have to embrace the hush money to a porn star, the multiple affairs. You have to embrace the obstruction of Justice. You have to make yourself part of the obstruction of justice." "We need to remind everybody that this is not normal. This was unthinkable."
"Every Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term
The former president has pushed a slew of terrifying proposals, both publicly and privately, that he plans to unleash on America should he take down Biden"
May 05, 2024
503 days ago, on December 19, 2022, the January 6th committee made criminal referrals to the DoJ.
184 days until 2024 election. #Trump, #Insurrection#Fascism#2024Election
Glenn Kirschner puts it succinctly and bluntly, regarding #Trump amd his recent #TimeMagazine interview - "Sometimes it feels like we're sleepwalking ... to the end of our Republic ... Do we respond with a collective shrug? What the hell are we doing?"
Article in the #Guardian well worth a thorough read - "‘A lot would have to go wrong for #Biden to lose’: can Allan Lichtman predict the #2024election? - The professor on his famous 13 ‘keys’ to the White House, a method for predicting election results that’s been right nine times out of 10
He has been called the Nostradamus of #US presidential elections. Allan Lichtman has correctly predicted the result of nine of the past 10 (and even the one that got away, in 2000, he insists was stolen from Al Gore). But now he is gearing up for perhaps his greatest challenge: #JoeBiden v Donald #Trump II."
shame on you, #Guardian! I can't believe your headline on this story - "Biden and Trump clinch #Pennsylvania primaries shortly after polls close" - the headline should be that Nikki Haley took over 20% of the votes from #Trump, even though the #PA#Republican#primary was only open to registered Republicans. And worse, the article goes on to quote, at length, from Trump supporters, bashing #Biden all the way. Terrible journalism.
The Guardian has never been the same since Alan #Rusbridger retired.
Video proof: An adviser to US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admits the goal is not to get RFK elected. Instead, the goal is to bleed votes from Joe Biden and get Trump elected.
Wow. What money can buy in America — it really has no limits.
I kid you not — this is an actual post from an actual member of the US Congress telling her 1 million followers that solar eclipses are a sign from God.
I repeat: The solar eclipses which astronomers can calculate right down to the minute, years in advance, are not naturally occurring phenomena… but a sign from God.
Astronomers' predictions of eclipses began in China as early as the 4th century BCE, but in 2024 Marjorie Taylor Greene still thinks someone stole the moon to make us repent.
#SouthCarolina to use #CongressionalMap deemed #unconstitutional #SCOTUS heard arguments on the redistricting case in Oct but has yet to rule🤬, essentially running out the clock for the #2024election. A #federal#court ruled Thurs that time had run out to draw a new congressional district in #SC & said the state could use its existing map even though it had earlier determined that map was unconstitutional.
W/ no decision & the June 11 primary on the horizon, #SouthCarolina sought to use the map this yr even tho it had been deemed #unconstitutional. The panel unanimously agreed Thurs to keep the map in place for the #2024election.
It noted courts typically don’t allow maps to be used once found to be invalid. “But w/the primary election procedures rapidly approaching, the appeal before #SCOTUS still pending, & no remedial plan in place, the ideal must bend to the practical,” the judges wrote. #law
During arguments, a majority of the #SupremeCourt appeared inclined to reinstate the lines the state had wanted. 5 months later, the justices have yet to rule. Both sides had asked the justices to rule by Jan.
By hanging onto the case, #SCOTUS effectively allowed the clock to run out for the #2024election.
"‘Democracy is teetering’: at ground zero for Trump’s big lie in Arizona
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"Kris Mayes, the state attorney general who is being sued – again – by Hamadeh two years after she beat him, is stark about the enduring strength of election denial. She was a #Republican until 2019 when, dismayed by the direction in which #Trump was dragging the party, she defected to the #Democrats.
“The Republican party in #Arizona has been taken over by a faction that wants to undermine our #democracy by sowing seeds of doubt about our #election system,” she said. “As a former Republican, I find that horrendous, and nothing short of heartbreaking.”
@peteriskrisjanis@GottaLaff respectfully, we who live in the United States have a solid grasp of what a future Trump term would bring. The lead up to the 2016 election was full of people downplaying how bad a Trump presidency would be, and it’s happening again for this #2024election
…#Trump’s affinity for authoritarians represents a defining issue for the #UnitedStates as the #2024election approaches. Several of his own fmr advisers believe, in a 2nd term, he would bring a fundamental shift in the US’ vision of itself & its role in the #world, including potentially pulling the US out of #NATO & reducing the US’ commitment to other defense #alliances.
“NATO would be in real jeopardy,” Bolton told me. “I think he would try to get out.”
Aaron Blake: Biden’s State of the Union made Republicans squirm on Ukraine, immigration
"When #Biden called for providing #Ukraine weaponry, Johnson again nodded, ultimately offering some applause.
Biden added: 'My message to President Putin, who I’ve known for a long time, is simple: We will not walk away.'
Johnson again nodded and clapped gently.
What some might not have realized in that moment is that each of Biden’s statements closely echoed how Johnson has, at times, talked about Ukraine. But Johnson is the man standing in the way of a bipartisan Senate bill that got 70 votes and would send another $60 billion to Ukraine."
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