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bloggerblog said:

quakerotis said:

I am tired of the capitulation to T**** (the loser). He’s a criminal. That half of America voted for a criminal makes no difference3 in his criminal state.

When a corporation bows to a politician, it is called fascism, or state-capitalism.
when a political leader determines the winner of an economic sector, it’s fascism.

He was voted in because dems had useless candidates, again. He won by default.

radarthekat said:

bloggerblog said:

quakerotis said:

I am tired of the capitulation to T**** (the loser). He’s a criminal. That half of America voted for a criminal makes no difference3 in his criminal state.

When a corporation bows to a politician, it is called fascism, or state-capitalism.
when a political leader determines the winner of an economic sector, it’s fascism.

He was voted in because dems had useless candidates, again. He won by default.

Harris had four months to mount a campaign, raise money and introduce herself and her excellent running mate to the American people.  She had a huge uphill battle against a sea of lies told so often that people believed them and the media became exhausted debunking them.  

This. It wasn't a sea of lies, it was a tsunami of lies. He won because too many Dems stayed home. Too many Undecideds were selfish.

Main stream media, the news those not addicted to the FAUX News entertainment show watch, was silent on Trump's constant bald face lies. Fact checking was left to online sources that most older people never see. All they wanted to talk about was Biden's performance at the debate. But not one word about Trump's increasingly bizarre performance and memory lapses. 

And too many stupid people blindly believed his and RNC's lies targeting their hate and discontent without any basis in truth. They weren't open-minded enough to see his actual character or lack of it. They actually believe life will be better under his rule. His cabinet recommendations don't bother them at all. "Soybeans? That was a one off. Couldn't possibly happen again." Sure.

A huge cloud is headed our way. We had a chance to prepare and ignored it. There is no silver lining for anyone but the 1%, and xenophobes who don't care what it costs, as long has he gets "them" the cause of all their troubles.

Democracy is being stabbed to death and as with Kitty Genovese too many are just ignoring it. And other "patriots" are cheering it on. Trump is escaping justice at every turn and he just gets bolder. His cult members apparently love a good grift.

jimh2 said:

DAalseth said:

libertyandfree said:

DAalseth said:

Don’t bother trying to put lipstick on a pig. The next few years will be bad for everyone. Cook’s relationship with the man known for stabbing his friends in the back will not make any difference.

Well history of the first four years of the Trump Administration proved you wrong and most Americans, via the recent election, disagree with you.  

Trump’s first term was a disaster for the country. The economy still has not recovered. He left us distrusted by our allies, our enemies strengthened and emboldened, and a million dead from covid. There is nothing that Trump touched his first term that he did not screw up beyond all recognition. The term in incompetent at any speed comes to mind. Then he finished with January 6 which was nothing but pure treason. No, history has shown that Trump was a disaster for the country. 

You can blame lots of things on him but the economy crapping out was due to COVID which he did not cause or control. He tried to close the borders to entry, but of course it was challenged in course. He also opened all doors to getting a vaccine developed as fast as possible and this in itself was incredible effort. Crap on the rest of his actions but not these two.

What a load of crap. One of the first things Trump did in 2017 was gut Obama's NSC Pandemic Preparedness Systems doing things like appointing a  Trump Yes Man to head the CDC and provide misleading and false information about COVID deaths.

He claimed it was just like the flu and would be over in a few weeks. He thought injecting bleach and shining UV light in bodies would cure COVID. He did nothing when the pandemic started even though he'd been warned. Then he claimed the pandemic "snuck up on us" which was another of many likes he'd tell. 

He appointed Pence to lead a COVID task force and ignored many of their recommendations. In short he DID control a great deal of what happened with the spread of the pandemic through actions, inaction, lies, and misleading statements. What little substantive actions he did take were only because handlers made him realize that all the people dying on his watch were bad optics. He his ilk were responsible for creating and spreading distrust in vaccines. I don't know that he bought shares in Ivermectin but he could and should have reassured the public that there were no nanochips in the vaccines and they didn't magnetize people.

Everything positive he did was too little too late and done only because it was self-serving. So yes we can absolutely blame the disastorus spread of COVID on him and the distrust he fueled. Don't for get when he tried to encourage vaccination at a rally his own cult members booed him.

All this and then there's the lies about widespread voter fraud. Cyber Ninjas found NOTHING. What a surprise.

Those who voted for him and those who didn't vote for Harris will come to realize that what damage will have been done to democracy in the next four years will not be undone in the following four years. Even if complete reason is restored to our three branches of Government. We've got a rough decade ahead of us. How much of it will be under authoritarian rule depends on the new awareness of voters in 2028.

Democrats did a poor job of fighting outright lies and main stream media bears much responsibility for not helping at all. Trump supporters can comeback in four years and tell me how wrong I am. As if.

I was sure Prop 36 would pass but didn't expect it to pass with the huge margin it did. The number of CA DAs who said they wouldn't prosecute shoplifters or burglars who stole less than $950 was just too much.

From the invading hordes of smash and grab thieves. Shoppers in grocery stores walking out with full carts of "free food". Gang bangers killing a couple of young children, being charged with the bare minimum crime. CA residents are fed up and made it known. In the last year DAs of major two major counties have been recalled for being soft on crime. One DA of another major county lost his bid for reelection after expressing desire for a retrial of two convicted brutal murders. Prop 36 isn't a cure-all, not even close. But it should stem a rising tide. 

I don't like that Apple crammed so many functions in the group in the upper left. If they'd left it unmolested I'd be a happy man. I had to add a cellular button on the bottom because the button in the group is tiny and I don't have "it takes two hands to hold a soft drink" fingers.

I can't stand the affectation she employs as a singing style. That she was chosen to mumble the title song for No Time to Die was beyond disappointing. It's fortunate that it's easy to avoid her music.