Actually?
It don’t matter if Donald J. Trump concedes…
He lost….
He’ll leave ….
We can’t change his problem in accepting the reality of the will of the historic majority of the those who voted more than 3 weeks ago…
That’s HIS problem…
Life moves on….
Amen….
In the Sunday interview, Trump said he is “going to use 125 percent of my energy” to continue to contest the results through the courts and signaled that he would be open to having a special counsel investigate the election. Any such appointment would be made by Attorney General William P. Barr.
Trump also voiced disbelief that Biden won more than 80 million votes, by far the most received by a presidential nominee. Barack Obama won in 2008 with nearly 70 million votes, a record that he didn’t beat in 2012, when he garnered just under 66 million votes. Four years later, Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton also didn’t surpass Obama’s 2008 total, winning 63 million and 66 million votes, respectively….
The guy REALLY can’t get over that he couldn’t con everyone….
The president also questioned the court system, which has thus far rejected his legal team’s attempts to overturn the election, citing a lack of evidence, and he blasted the FBI for failing to more aggressively look into his unfounded claims.
Trump showed no indication he was prepared to concede, signaling he was hopeful his case would go to the Supreme Court days after a judge in Pennsylvania dismissed one challenge for lack of standing.
“I’m going to use 125 percent of my energy to do it,” Trump said when asked how he planned to prove his claims. “You need a judge that’s willing to hear a case. You need a Supreme Court that’s willing to make a real big decision.”
Trump also expressed disbelief that the courts had rejected the claims of a sitting president.
“What kind of a court system is this?” Trump asked at one point, explaining that he would like to file “one nice, big, beautiful lawsuit talking about this and many other things with tremendous proof.”…
image…deccanhoustan.com
jamesb says
New Open Thread is HERE…..
jamesb says
This keep’s happening ….
Wisconsin finished its recount of votes cast in this month’s presidential election on Sunday, with only miniscule changes in the results that saw Democrat Joe Biden defeat Republican Donald Trump in the battleground state….
More…
jamesb says
Trump didn’t get the best of Joe Biden by his dog did….
President-elect Joe Biden sprained his right foot while playing with his dog, Biden’s transition team said Sunday.
Biden slipped and twisted his ankle on Saturday while he was playing with Major, one of his two German shepherds, and he was seen by a doctor on Sunday….
More…
jamesb says
In 14 days the Electoral college meets register’s it’s results for Congress to count….
jamesb says
Morning….
jamesb says
Matthew Klein
It is unacceptable that tomorrow we will enter December and Manhattan has still only reported 60% of its votes.
jamesb says
Biden could gain another almost million votes?
jamesb says
More states certifying their EC numbers..
I’ll update the sidebar a little later
jamesb says
As of tomorrow?
Donald Trump has 50 more days in his current job…
jamesb says
Morning People….
jamesb says
A Breaking Story….
The US Justice Dept has been investigating a possible scheme to pay for Presidential pardon’s since AUGUST….
CNN BREAKING NEWS
The Justice Department is investigating a potential bribery scheme related to funneling money to the White House or related political committee in exchange for a presidential pardon, court records reveal
More coming later….
jamesb says
Gheez?
Is this just the start of a REALLY BAD Trump exit?
CG says
Clinton seemed to go out the same way in regards to pardons and donors.
Back in the 70s, Lamar Alexander got sworn in as Governor early because the outgoing Governor was selling pardons. I guess in theory, there is not anything that can stop a President from pardoning whomever in real time.
jamesb says
Actually CG?
U ARE Correct….
i don’t know himself…
But yes a President CAN pardon anyone for any Federal crime after or even before…
One catch?
If u are convicted ?
THAT stays on ur record
The pardon also coveys that u are Guilty of the crime….
jamesb says
And yes Bill Clinton got grief for some of his…..
Zreebs says
CG is correct that Clinton appears to have been corrupt with regard to his pardons.
Unfortunately, presidential pardons are protected by the Constitution.
CG says
Lots of speculation is now appearing that this is about Rod Blagojevich trying to get a pardon
CG says
but apparently, the redacted name is too short to be Blagojevich’s…
Democratic Socialist Dave says
Wasn’t Blago himself far from adverse to granting pardons for a consideration?
And it wouldn’t be laundered through a Blagojevich Foundation to Save Humanity.
Zreebs says
Blago was already pardoned by Trump a long time ago
CG says
His sentence was commuted but he was not pardoned.
Zreebs says
A recent Politico poll shows that Trump is the 2024 favorite for Republican, preferred by 53%. While this might sound promising to people on this site who want to believe that Trumpism might be dying, it is Important to note that the people who came in #2 was Pence – arguably Trump’s biggest lap dog, and #3 was Donald Trump Jr. No one else even got 5% of the vote.
Among Republicans, Trump just might be the most popular President ever.
Scott P says
No Larry Hogan? Shocking.
Democratic Socialist Dave says
My memory for these kinds of (inherently-transitive) things is rather hazy, but on what I remember from past decades, I think that some of the support will wear off the only current (and thus conceivable) GOP leadership and towards others, of whom there’s no shortage of ambitious, frustrated figures.
When your party’s candidate loses, especially when you think he should have won, he or she at that time is the only conceivable contender next time around.
In fact, as we have repeated countless times before, a repeat nomination hasn’t happened (for incumbents or non-incumbents) in several decades, although a few losers have made credible second tries at their party’s nomination.
The most notable exceptions in still-living memory are over half-a-century old: Nixon 1968 (but no try in 1964), Stevenson 1956 and Dewey 1948.
Here are the last two-dozen losers. Very few of them after 1972 made even a marginally-credible try for another nomination.
Hillary Clinton
Mitt Romney
John McCain
John Kerry
Al Gore
Bob Dole
Geo. H.W. Bush (inc.)
Michael Dukakis
Walter Mondale
Jimmy Carter (inc.)
Gerald Ford (inc.)
Hubert Humphrey (did try again in 1972)
Barry Goldwater
Richard Nixon (won in 1968-1972)
Adlai Stevenson (had lost in 1952)
Adlai Stevenson (ran & lost in 1956)
Thomas Dewey (had lost in 1944)
Thomas Dewey (ran & lost in 1948)
Wendell Willkie
Alf Landon
Herbert Hoover (inc.)
Al Smith (did seek the D nomination in 1932)
My Name Is Jack says
Little relevance here though.
Trump says he won.
Zreebs says
Dave, I don’t recall any of those people being considered the favorite immediately after their loss. In fact, in most cases, the response to whether they should be the nominee again was not just “no”. It was “Hell NO”.
Scott P says
Al Gore was spoken as a front runner for 2004 right after the 2000 election was decided. He was probably considered the “favorite” at that time. However the 2000 election was so unusual it’s easy to see why the “loser” of what was basically a tied election would have a leg up in a rematch.
Zreebs says
I think you might be right about Gore
jamesb says
My point over and OVER DSD….
Gonna have to wait till ‘The Donald ‘ exits the stage….
CG says
There’s a simple two word answer regarding this Trump 2024 polling stuff that all political junkies should know:
“Name Recognition”
Nothing for either party in 2024 is really relevant until the midterms take place. We all know that too.
Too busy to join in otherwise today. Have fun
Zreebs says
Why then did Mitt Romney perform poorly in the 2024 polling (behind DJT, Pence and Don Jr). Did people forgot who he is?
CG says
Yes, “normal people” have forgotten him.
Democratic Socialist Dave says
It took some digging around, but Gallup does have a page about this very question (about defeated incumbents’ immediate post-election favorability ratings):
https://news.gallup.com/poll/325289/mixed-patterns-job-approval-defeated-incumbents.aspx
Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush gained in favorability among voters of all parties in the month or so after losing.
Jimmy Carter lost favorability within his own party while increasing it among independents and Republicans. It would be hard to draw any conclusions from this example, however — Carter did draw genuine enthusiasm in 1976, but by 1980 the malaise and indifference had settled in among his supporters (although in my case, despite my lack of zeal either time, I worked several late evenings (after my P.M. job at Field Research’s polls) for Carter-Mondale´80, compared to an Election Day 1976 last-minute decision to do some GOTV for Carter; I had a soft spot for Ford, but having lived through eight years of Reagan’s campaigns and governorship, Sept. 1966 – 31 Dec. 1974, I knew I certainly didn’t want him).
Here’s part of Gallup’s commentary:
In three instances in which an incumbent has been defeated for reelection, the president’s approval rating rose when his fellow partisans showed a substantial increase in support for him compared with what it was before the election. Trump’s prospects for receiving a significant boost in approval in this manner are limited because he already enjoyed nearly universal support among Republicans — 95% approved of the job he was doing in the last poll taken before the election. It is possible, if Trump loses as projected, that his loss will result in a pattern similar to the one for Carter, where many in the president’s base deserted him after he lost.
Both Ford and Bush also saw improved ratings from independents and Democrats, in addition to Republicans. There is ample mathematical room for postelection improvement for Trump among both groups, given their preelection approval ratings (41% for independents and 3% for Democrats).
Any change in Trump’s rating over the next two months will result from how Americans respond — either negatively or positively — to his challenge to the election outcome, his handling of the presidential transition, the ongoing health crisis stemming from COVID-19, the possible rollout of vaccines and any other issues prompted by events or Trump administration policy changes.
Given the politically polarized environment, it seems more likely that changes in Trump’s approval rating would result from an increase or a decrease among independents, or a drop among Republicans. Trump is poised to leave office as the only president in Gallup polling history to fail to register a 50% job approval rating at any point during his tenure, unless his postelection approval ratings show meaningful improvement.
jamesb says
I might add DSD…..
His dealing with NYS AG James and Manhattan DA Vance…..
Also?
The IRS and the many women who are currently suing him for sexual misdeeds…
Finally?
He’s gonna dealing with the NUMEROUS leaks on his behaviour and stupidity while in office….
Should be interesting….
jamesb says
Biden KEEPS GAINING in his margin against Trump….
Larry Sabato
@LarrySabato
Don’t tell @realDonaldTrump but @JoeBiden is now almost up to 81 million votes (51.3%) to Trump’s 74 million (46.9%). Most added votes are from NY. Biden’s winning popular-vote margin now nearing 7 million votes (4.4%).
jamesb says
Morning people….
jamesb says
NYC is reporting absentee ballots numbers…
Biden has added 1/4 million votes….
He lead in theses ballots even in Staten Island
Democratic Socialist Dave says
I wonder how many Staten Islanders voted simultaneously for Pres.-elect Biden (D-Working Families) and Cong.-elect Nicole Malliotakis (R-Conservative) ?
Scott P says
Trump easily won Staten Island. In fact he probably pulled enough votes to defeat Rose, who was elected in 2018 when Trump wasn’t on the ballot.
jamesb says
I was talking about the mail-in ballots Scott….
Trump 57%
Biden 42%
For Staten Island in whole…
Biden won Nassau , Rockland and Westchester….
Trump won Suffolk and most of rural NYS
Biden won NYS 60 to 38….
As in other places Biden took the cities, metro area’s and the suburbs
Trump picked up the left over scraps…
jamesb says
Jim Sciutto
@jimsciutto
Biden’s popular vote lead is nearing 7 million
Biden: 80,925,383 (51.3%)
Trump: 74,071,770 (46.9%)
99% reporting
CG says
The bottom line is that twice, DJT received a lower percent of the popular vote than Mitt Romney did in 2012.
It’s too bad Mitt had to run against Obama as an incumbent, instead of getting to face Hillary or Biden.
Scott P says
Woulda Coulda Shoulda
Speculation Land is fun!
jamesb says
Obama on defund the police…..
Former President Barack Obama suggested in a new interview that “defund the police” was little more than a “snappy slogan” that polarized many Americans and was ineffectual at producing broader reforms to the criminal justice system in the United States.
More…
CG says
Sunny Hostin on “The View” is very upset at Obama for saying this and stood by the narrative that “Defund the Police” is a good thing that people just do not understand but that it still needs to be said.
The other three liberal women on the panel disagreed.
Democratic Socialist Dave says
If you need to explain a short, catchy, pity slogan like “Defund the Police”, then you’ve already lost your point.
Some folks actually want to decrease (or even eliminate) police budgets and police departments.
Some just want to freeze any such increase and spend it instead on allied services that better address that land (unwillingly) in laps of working officers, e.g. housing, addiction, mental health, domestic mediation, jobs, food….
In Providence, I’d like to see a modest increase in police academies (diverse, of course), police strength and funds in order because folks in both rich, middling and dirt-poor neighborhoods would feel safer seeing more cops. But I also want to see a greater, or at least equal, rise in all those services too.
In fact, that’s what many of the Providence Police (converted to a community policing model and outlook years ago) want themselves, so that they can concentrate on the specialized work that only the police can do.
Scott P says
I agree with Obama. I hate the term “defund the police”
Demilotarize and Deescalate the Police is really what several police departments like Camden NJ have done. Trump Republicans hate any reform of policing that doesn’t include more violence from police officers but demilitarize and Deescalate would have allowed Democrats to win the suburbs by even greater margins.
My Name Is Jack says
According to yougov,85% of Trump voters,ie, Republicans don’t think Biden was legitimately elected.
Yep they’re moving away from Trump rapidly!
Haha!
Scott P says
No Jack, it’s us Democrats “wishing” wish Trump to stay in the hearts and minds of Republicans.
Whatever the hell that means.
CG says
The HHR comment section is back online and the remaining inhabitants of the island are composing a list of Republicans who need to be “tarred and feathered.”
jamesb says
So the HHR people have come to accept their guy lost…..
Now the knocks on the infidels to keep their minds off the reality of the election ?
Scott P says
A friend of mine who does not actually plan to attend Biden’s inauguration due to COVID nevertheless wrote Sen Josh Hawley for free tickets as that is custom..
The reply was typical MAGA claptrap about the election not being decided yet and a broadside against the hated media.
I await CG to counter about some blogger who said Bush shouldn’t have been inaugurated un 2001 or 2005
CG says
I am sure Senator Susan Collins has some tickets.
Scott P says
Two things I can do that I bet you can’t.
1. Admit I was wrong about a prediction
2. State I will never vote for Josh Hawley in a primary or general election.
CG says
1. I have been wrong about a lot of politicians and have stated that many times.
2. I probably will never set foot in Missouri so I think it’s a good bet I will not ever be voting for him
CG says
Oh, you said predictions?
I literally have blog posts detailing my incorrect predictions each time. (Collins will be one of them for me this cycle too), I mention incorrect predictions all the time.
I spell out every prediction win and loss. All in all, my record has always been very good on electoral predictions though.
Scott P says
And if Hawley is the GOP Presidential or VP nominee?
CG says
What year would this be? I probably won’t be around.
I am certain I would not vote for Hawley in a 2024 Presidential primary and I would not vote for a ticket that believes fighting terrorists in Afghanistan was a bad idea.
CG says
You will vote for Cori Bush though, right?
Hawley is saying things these days indicating he dislikes corporations and the United States defending itself militarily. He does not sound much like a Republican.
My Name Is Jack says
Marco Rubio said recently that the Republican future was representing working people and quit worrying so much about business.
He also said the Republicans should maintain Trumps trade policies .
The party you are returning to seems to be undergoing some internal upheaval.
Maybe to Hawley and Rubio ,a pre Trumpian Romney/Bush type like yourself,“doesn’t sound like much of a Republican.”
CG says
People who work for businesses or start them are “working people.” So dumb of these supposed conservatives to want to sound like liberals.
My Name Is Jack says
Reading his comments, Rubio was talking about Big Businesses and Big corporations.
CG says
Anybody who works is a “working person.”
My Name Is Jack says
Oh go tell Marco.
But I’m with you.
If Biden wants to get anywhere with Republicans,he needs to call Mitch in and offer to support a huge corporate tax cut and one for those with income over a half million a year.
Nothing gets the Republican juices flows like helping those “working people.”
Doubt if Marcos new found crush on the laboring class could resist that!
CG says
There a lot of reasons why true believing left-wingers should want Trumpism to continue to dominate the Republican Party.
In the last election, the two candidates argued with each other over who would the least tough on crime,… as a good thing.
My Name Is Jack says
Sure!Why not?
Just like “true believing Right Wingers”want AOC to be the face of the Democratic Party.
CG says
She has a nicer face than some.
My Name Is Jack says
Well see we can agree on something!
CG says
but she’s no Maria Elvira Salazar
jamesb says
it appears Sen Inhofe has sat Trump down and told him the Defense Bill isn’t subjected to his bull shit …..
It will contain changes for the names of military bases and will NOT do away with i social media liability coverage….
Right now Trump seems on board and will not veto the spending bill for the nations military….
Scott P says
To them you and Romney are the liberals.
CG says
Which is pretty dumb of them obviously.
My Name Is Jack says
Yes to most Republicans nowadays CG is a much bigger villain than me and you.
We’re just “damn libruls.”
What really gets their juices flowing are RINOS !
CG says
At least Keith will still call me a Nazi sympathizer for voting for Romney.
Keith says
Now now Corey Ray, you know I never called you a Nazi. I made the analogy that Republicans who supported a “dog whistle” Republican message of racism with their votes and money were no different than educated Germans who supported Hitler with the full knowledge that his message was anti-Semitic. Now Romney, of course, was a rank amateur compared to Trump in delivering his dog whistles message. But, as James would say, “I stand by my statement,” the Republican Party created Donald Trump.
CG says
So yes, you repeatedly referred to me as a Nazi sympathizer.
As for the Dog Whistles and who created Trump, you personally have far more to do with that than about 99 percent of people alive today. They literally borrowed from your old mid ’80s playbook. Stephen Miller might be a fan of your work.
It is also true that the left crying wolf and slandering Republicans like Romney, McCain and the Bushes as “evil” or “Hitler” helped cause an environment that made Trump possible.
Keith says
Poor Corey, when you get challenged on your Party’s use of racism for the last 50 to 60 years your revert to making shit up. Fine.
It’s a silly argument and you should give it a rest. But, Romney did try those dog whistles, his heart, like with most things that don’t involve money, just wasn’t in it.
That’s why it’s Trump’s Party now.
CG says
There wasn’t anything at all racist about the campaigns run by Romney or McCain for that matter, just to go to back to all the claims H. Keith has made over the years.
But he really should apologize for his very well documented past. It might give him a sense of cleansing. He practically invented Trump’s “they are coming for the suburbs” line (minus the neighborhoods of Chicago technically being suburbs)
jamesb says
There ARE some that feel that Trump IS a reaction to Obama being the first black/mixed race President….
The feeling is based on race..
Obama is now talking about the racism he would not talk about while in office…
CG says
Racists and those frightful of a changing country found a voice in Trump.
It is also true that all the claims by some that any criticism or disagreement with Obama had to be based on race and race alone did so much poison the discourse and cause people to overlook legitimate examples of racism.
Scott P says
Hawley sounds like a Trump Republican to me.
CG says
Yes, and also a Howard Dean Democrat.
Scott P says
Yeah I’m sure Hawley has similar views on taxing the wealthy as Dean!
My Name Is Jack says
Hawley might be auditioning for the role of “Trumpism without Trump.”
There will likely be others aspiring to that role.
CG says
Very few bands that have had a famous lead singer replaced ever came close to the same amount of “success.”
My Name Is Jack says
Well yeah but when they inducted Van Halen into the R&R HOF ?
There was Sammy Hagar to accept the award.David Lee Roth?Nowhere to be found!
CG says
I knew someone would bring up Van Halen.
Nobody remembers Gary Cherone.
And the Van Hagar version was not as good or successful.
My Name Is Jack says
Doesn’t matter it’s the prize that counts.
The prize for Hawley would be the White House.No one would care how he got there.
Of course there might be some old veterans of the MAGA rallies crying in their beer at the local bar and grill,”This stuff used to be fun!”
Scott P says
I think Cori Bush’s opponent was a QAnoner this year.
Of course he got the typical 20% a Republican gets in the Missouri 1st District
CG says
You did not need to vote for either then, just like I did not vote for either candidate for U.S. Senate in my state.
But Cori Bush, an avowed Marxist, will be your Member of Congress for a long time and I guess you will be voting for her.
Keith says
Yes, Scott, “Sore Loserman” and the salad days of the Republican Party.
The type of challenge here requires a Senator to make the challenge, the House Members can yell all they like but they don’t have standing.
Please name the Democratic Senator in 2001, 2005, or 2017 who challenged the electoral process in the Well of the House (or as James calls it the Rice Well) to challenge the election of a Bush or Trump (both candidates who didn’t win the popular vote).
Now tell me that a piece of shit like a Cruz, a Rubio, or a Cotton wouldn’t (to curry favor with the Trump Republican Party) come to challenge Joe Biden’s electoral victory when 77% of the Republicans think that Biden cheated.
Those salad days for the Republican Party are over, the nuts are in charge, the establishment has lost control, and they will now try to out nut each other (with a lot of death threats thrown in).
CG says
Barbara Boxer signed on to a challenge in 2005 (after President Bush won 51%) of the vote, but then backed down when the day came on the floor.
CG says
I do not believe a Republican Senator will “sign on.” We will see.
jamesb says
January 5 should be GOPer freedom day?
Democratic Socialist Dave says
Well the current soon-not-to-be President thinks he’s done more for Afro-Americans than any president with the possible exception of the Great Emancipator.
¿ So on January 5th, will he become the Great Emancipator of Republicans [I almost goofed by writing “fellow” Republicans, silly me] ?
Keith says
So we have a tacit admission that no Democratic Senator ever went to the “Well of the House” to challenge the official recording of the Electoral College vote for President. Even though in two of the last six elections the candidate with the majority of the votes. Now, will we be able to say the same for the Republican Senators in this election, even though the winner is now ahead by almost seven million votes? Paging Josh, Marco, and Ted. Remains to be seen. But, no amount of “whataboutism” will change the fact that those “sore loser” Democrats followed the rules, even when the rules we constructed to protect slavery.
CG says
I do not think a Republican Senator will go to the “well of the House.”
it is true though that Barbara Boxer said she intended to do just that after GWB’s reelection. The Daily Kos folks immediately started pushing her for President. Luckily for her, she came to her senses.
Keith says
So you admit that no Democratic Senator objected to the Electoral College designation of the Presidential winner in 2001, 2005, or 2017 then.
Thank you.
Now it remains to be seen if the Republicans have a common sense to protect our Democracy next month. Get your “whataboutisms” ready. You may have to look long and hard on this one Corey. But, it appears you have the time to do so.
CG says
No Republican, House or Senate, has ever objected to any of the times the Democrat winner had their electoral votes read, which is the key difference so far.
I assume, as I said yesterday, some House yahoo will try something in January and it will go nowhere.
CG says
Keith, do you still believe that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney should go before The Hague and be executed?
jamesb says
DSD….
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo (D) is now a top contender to be President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for health secretary, with New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) no longer favored for the role, Politico rep
Politicalwire
Democratic Socialist Dave says
Should Gina Raimondo go to Washington, she would be succeeded as governor by Lt-Gov. Dan McKee, formerly Mayor of Cumberland (in the NE corner of RI, next to Woonsocket & Pawtucket).
McKee is significantly more conservative than Raimondo (herself a Bloomberg Democrat), and while barely visible, has been working apart from rather than with the Governor’s coroanavirus teams.
It’s not clear to me if Raimondo is freezing him out, or if he has chosen himself to ride cavalier seul.
What McKee has been doing is champion the many small businesses which are the backbone, and by far the largest for-profit employers, of Rhode Island. McKee has been agitating by implication to keep business going more than it’s so far been able to do since the first shutdowns in March.
Because Rhode Island is a one-party state, many moderately-conservative figures who might be independent or Republican in other states instead operate as the right-wing [and anti-progressive wing] of the RI Democratic party (e.g. outgoing, and recently-defeated, House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello).
Democratic Socialist Dave says
FLASH! At Gov. Raimondo’s weekly 1 p.m. press briefing, she announced that she will NOT be going to Washington, and is NOT being considered for a position in the incoming administration. She stated a firm intention to stay as Governor (term-limited by 2022) and continue addressing what she said was vitally important: keeping Rhode Islanders safe.
She said that was the limit of any comments or remarks she would make on the subject.
jamesb says
Thanks DSD…
From what u have reported her leaving would have created a bad scene in her wake…
CG says
My secret it out.
https://www.mlb.com/news/corey-ray-ready-to-help-brewers
Go Brew Crew!
Scott P says
The idea that Keith had more to do with creating Trump than the millions of Republicans who cheered on the racist Rush Limbaugb for years is laughable.
CG says
You probably do not even know who he is. I have been gracious enough to withhold links on here detailing how infamous he was in Chicago at one time as a racial hitman for the Cook County Democrat Machine because they would contain his last name.
I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh. I certainly soured on him in recent years. I did not think he was a racist. Can you point to something specific that should have lead me to believe so?
CG says
I was sorry to hear that Dr. Walter Williams passed away yesterday. He was a prominent African-American economist and professor that used to frequently guest host for Rush Limbaugh, which is how I came to know of him and admire him.
Recently, he had a syndicated column published. I do not recall him having much to say about Trump, which is probably for the best.
Keith says
Yes Scott. This is sort of like blaming Harry Reid because Romney lost over an unproven accusation of a Romney offshore account, or the fact that Ted Kennedy broke the morals of Washington because he has consensual sex on the floor of a restaurant with a waitress.
We can start calling all of this “Corey’s World” and put all of his musings into one huge volume of “what about” excuses for the reason the Republican Party is now controlled by sociopaths who hate people of color and immigrants.
CG says
Harry Reid said that he had heard from a “source” that Romney had not paid taxes in many years. Exactly the same thing Trump does.. “many people say.”
A few years later, Reid admitted he made it up and lied about it but had no regrets.
Pretty sad statement on his character.
As mentioned, Kennedy may have had drunken consensual sex on many floors in the 70s and 80s, but there was one well documented incident in which he assaulted a woman in a way that was definitely not consensual.
Does Keith think that someone is entitled to one free rape?
CG says
I guess when you are a “star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”
jamesb says
Larry Sabato
President Trump isn’t exactly doing himself any favors with his antics, such as refusal to concede to President-elect Biden. The new Reuters/Ipsos poll has 64% of the public disapproving of Trump’s “handling of the transition”, only 28% approving.
jamesb says
Morning……
Is Trump’s head going to explode before he leaves?
the virus is gonna go out strong before the vaccine gets on its case….
Bill Barr is not Donald Trump’s friend anymore….
Republicans want to submit a list of cabinet names for Biden to choose from?
A month a half to go…..
Georgia on my mind…..
CG says
Major Biden has released a statement:
https://twitter.com/canadianprguy/status/1333531979585904642/photo/1
jamesb says
Nate Silver
Kansas (Trump +14.7) now less red than Missouri (Trump +15.4)
Democratic Socialist Dave says
This open thread now has 115 comments and no longer shows up on the menu.
jamesb says
Sorry DSD…
I know…
I’m working on it….
Thanks….