Day 673

Day 673 Saturday November 10, 2018       918 Days to Go

The old Chinese curse is “May you live in interesting times.” Boy, do we.

Today’s screed could be called: “Which state has the most corrupt recount?”

And the entrants are:

Florida,

Arizona,

Georgia.

There are more but these stand out to me.

First Florida: It has two entrants. Both the Governor’s race and the Senate race. Fascinatingly, the Republicans are whining about counting all the votes. Mark Rubio has made such a statement. The Miami Herald found post office trundle carts full of bound absentee ballots sitting in a post office. The Republican officials are like, “Gosh, do we have to count those too?” WTF? Yes.

Then there’s either Florida or Georgia where a bunch of absentee ballots were messed up by Hurricane Michael. “Do we have to count those?” Uh, yeah.

Then there’s Arizona and its senate race. On election night the Republican nominee claimed victory by some 9,000 votes. Minor problem, they forgot to include 432,000 votes from a mostly Democratic area. Do you think that might change the outcome? Uh, yeah. Now the Democratic nominee is up and the Republicans are crying unfair. “Why would you count all the votes? We already won!” Oh boy. And the 432 doesn’t include another Democratic stronghold in the state that hasn’t been counted.

I don’t know what happened with the two counties in Montana that were mostly Democratic and native American that the Republicans tried to eliminate the voters by demanding physical addresses on voter ID cards and then moved the voting place miles out of town. I know the Dem lost. Shows that suppression can still work.

But for most corrupt I gotta go with Georgia. I mean, come on, kicks over 700,000 off the voting rolls, closes hundreds of voting places in Democratic strongholds, puts up ridiculous voter ID laws, then oversee his own election? That is corruption – plain and simple. 

But the times I pray are changing.

Amazingly, candidates that won went through their districts asking for people to vote for them and listening to the people in their district. Wow. What a strategy. As Tip O’Neill used to say, “Everyone likes to be asked.” Maybe, that’s why Dave Brat lost? Besides, being a dick he wouldn’t even meet with his constituents, wouldn’t tell them where he would be, held phony town halls where you couldn’t ask him direct questions, mansplained economics to reporters and his constituents (and got it wrong), and claimed all the people at his phony town halls were paid protestors. 

Then there was the nurse from Illinois who ran and won. She’s black, a Democrat, in an 85% white, very Republican district. Her strategy? “Be everywhere, all the time.” She went into places in her district that hadn’t seen a Dem in decades. She won going away!

Yeah, things appear to be changing. I hope. I pray.

In other news, Trump is pulling back from his nominee for acting Attorney General. Maybe, he feels something is in the air, like he can’t get away with this one. I dunno.

Was it the over 1,000 protests yesterday?

Was it the unconstitutionality of him trying to appoint a person to a principal position that hasn’t been confirmed by the Senate for a job?

Was it that this guy’s last job was working for a company that bilked millions from unsuspecting people?

Was it that his last gig was as a commentator on right wing media outlet and had an organization name below him that was set up by dark money with he as the only employee and seemed the only purpose was to give him a credential below his name?

Was it his views on the judiciary as being an inferior branch of government?

Or perhaps his stating that the Supreme Court really can’t determine what the law is?
(As laid out in the 1803 case of Marbury vs Madison.)

Or was it his saying the Hillary should be indicted?

Or that Mueller is overstepping his bounds and that investigation has found nothing, that there is nothing to find, and therefore should be shutdown?

I’m going with the last one mentioned. Just a hunch, why else would Trump have plucked this idiot out of Iowa and forced him to be Jeff Sessions chief of staff?

We are now going through the standard distancing routine for Trump:

“I hardly know the guy, but people say good things about him, a lot of people.”

Next will be:

“He only worked for me in a minor capacity, very minor.”

then full demotion to coffee boy and bye-bye.

In other news Trump is having another secret meeting with his boss. Yes, the president of the United States will be going on a boot licking mission to Europe. He will meet with the G7, insult our friends and allies, make some outrageous statements and then will secretly meet one on one with Putin where he will get down on all fours – kiss the ring, lick the boots and do whatever else Vlad tells him to do.

How do we know this?

Oh, did you think the White House released that meeting in their schedule of what the president is doing? No.

Come on. The only source of Trump and Russia is the Russian News Agencies and, of course, Vladimir himself.

MAGA! Mueller Ain’t Going Away

918 Days to Go

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