How Will Trump* Try to Cling to Power?

Posted by TomCat at 11:05 am Politics

Aug 112020

The more time that goes on, the more obvious it becomes that Resident Donald Trump*, traitor, criminal, and Fuhrer of the Republican Fifth Reich, cannot win the November 2020 election. That leaves him two ways to try to cling to power. Will he try to steal the election? Failing that, will he ignore it?

CNN reporter April Ryan believes if President Trump loses the 2020 presidential election, he will have to be removed from the oval office by force.

Many have wondered whether Trump will leave willingly if he loses the election and what would happen if he refuses to concede to Joe Biden. Trump didn’t calm fears when he refused to give a straight answer about accepting a Democratic win on November 3.

During a Sunday appearance on CNN Newsroom with host Ana Cabrera, Cabrera asked Ryan and guest Bill Kristol about the president downplaying mail-in ballots and attempting to delay mid-term elections. Ryan responded calling Trump a hypocrite for using mail-in ballots himself and said he’s trying to suppress votes… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <Black Enterprise>

Trump Wielding Presidency Like An Autocrat: To Preserve His Power

Trump* is the symptom, not the disease. Long before Trump* became Fuhrer of the Republican Reich, I have warned you over and over again. Republicans will do whatever they can to establish a permanent, National Socialist, plutocratic Republican Reich. They want elections to exist for show only, as they decide who gets to vote, and they count the votes. Right now they have never been closer to achieving that goal. We must stop them at all costs!

RESIST!!

Russia Intervenes for Trump*!

Posted by TomCat at 10:37 am Politics

Aug 082020

It’s official. Criminal Fuhrer Trump* and Vladimir Putin [R-RU] are teaming-up in an attempt to steal the 2020 election the way they did in 2016. Republican Senators have joined the effort.

Russia is using a range of techniques to denigrate Joseph R. Biden Jr., American intelligence officials said Friday in their first public assessment that Moscow continues to try to interfere in the 2020 campaign to help President Trump.

At the same time, the officials said China preferred that Mr. Trump be defeated in November and was weighing whether to take more aggressive action in the election.

But officials briefed on the intelligence said that Russia was the far graver, and more immediate, threat. While China seeks to gain influence in American politics, its leaders have not yet decided to wade directly into the presidential contest, however much they may dislike Mr. Trump, the officials said.

The assessment, included in a statement released by William R. Evanina, the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, suggested the intelligence community was treading carefully, reflecting the political heat generated by previous findings…. [emphasis added]

Inserted from <NY Times>

Rep. Schiff on MSNBC: Trump Puts Friendship with Putin Over National Security

As long as criminal Fuhrer Trump*, aka Putin’s Piddle Pervert, fears the release of the pee-pee tapes, Daddy Vladdy [R-RU] will do all he can to keep his bitch* (apologies to female dawgs) in power.

Here’s coverage of the Senators, who are betraying America!

…Meanwhile, Senate Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee are holding hearings in an attempt to substantiate this charge — or, more realistically, to insinuate it. They have produced no evidence to advance their charge. The Russians have given Republicans stolen tapes of secret conversations Biden held with Ukrainians during his tenure as vice-president, and pro-Trump media outlets have hyped up the material, but nothing they have is inconsistent with the narrative that mainstream news organizations found. Biden was working to clean up Ukraine.

Senate Republicans tried to be cagey about their activities. After pro-Russian Ukrainians said they’d passed materials on to Republican officials, a Johnson staffer told NBC News in July that it was “‘false’ the committee has received any ‘oppo,’ or opposition research, without responding directly to whether that covers any materials from foreign sources.”

The Washington Post reported that Homeland Security Committee chairman Ron Johnson received secret documents from Ukrainians. And former Giuliani associate Lev Parnas has confessed to putting Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee and perhaps Trump’s most energetic defender on all things Russia, in touch with one of the Ukrainians releasing documents in the United States.

There is hardly any secret to what they’re up to. Johnson says he plans to release his report on Biden in September. It hardly matters if the information Russia gives him actually substantiates his allegations, or even whether it is authentic. The obvious plan is to splash some headlines into news screens in the heat of the campaign that seem to connect Biden to some kind of wrongdoing.

In reality, it is not a scandal about Biden at all. It’s a scandal about Republican cooperation with a Russian propaganda campaign…. [emphasis added]

Inserted from <NY Mag Intelligencer>

Russian Election Interference Finds Ready Conduit In GOP Senators

Russia Ron and Snake in the Grassley would not be doing this without the full knowledge and support of Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch.

RESIST!!

Open Thread – 8/5/2020

Posted by TomCat at 10:57 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Aug 052020

It’s a routine day here in the CatBox. I’m running a bit late, because I had to eat breakfast slowly, and I took a cat nap to rest my back. Happy Hump Day!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:59 (average 5:06). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0805TrumpVirusMap

US Cases: 4,920,917
US Deaths: 160,372

Short Takes:

From AlterNet: The Daily Caller has taken tens of thousands of dollars to help Republican campaigns raise money while performing political fact-check services for Facebook.

Federal election filings from the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee show that the two organizations rented email lists from the publication this year, paying $40,213.75 and $18,171.40, respectively.

The Caller, a right-wing publication co-founded by Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, has also since 2016 sent dozens of emails “paid for by Trump Make America Great Again Committee,” a joint fundraising vehicle shared by the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee, according to Media Matters.

Media Matters also revealed that The Daily Caller has sent sponsored emails on behalf of a number of Republican candidates this year. Media Matters posted screenshots of the emails, from Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C; Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio; the Senate Conservatives Fund; and the Bikers for the President PAC.

Their association with The Daily Caller, which is published excrement, hideously co-founded by Fucker Carlson, make this clear. With Fakebook, the only way to win is not to play! UNPLUG!! RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Ending The Census Early Could Have Huge Political Consequences

The poorer people are, the more difficult they are to count and the more likely they are to vote blue. This is nothing more than a criminal attempt by the Republican Reich to skew representation in favor of the Nazi Republican Party for the next ten tears. We must defeat this scam! RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of protest): Bruce Springsteen – The Rising (official video)

Kudos to the left-wing demonstrators! RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

Open Thread – 7/31/2020

Posted by TomCat at 11:43 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jul 312020

It’s another sweaty, stinky day here in the CatBox. I had a rough night last night, because I ate supper too fast and plugged my esophageal tumor. I spent most of the night imitating criminal Fuhrer Trump’s* AG. The blockage didn’t clear until this morning. Tomorrow please expect no more than an Open Thread or a Personal Update. It’s a WWWendy day and the TomCat could not be more stinky. I’ll try to swap the Politics Plus Poll, if I can, but it will probably have to wait until Sunday. TGIF!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:43 (average 4:51). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0731TrumpVirusMap

US Cases: 4,638,288
US Deaths: 155,371
World Cases: 17,553,155
World Deaths: 678,097
Trump’s* Share of World Deaths: 22.9%
US Share of World Population: 4.3%

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Morgan Freeman Reads Rep. John Lewis’ Last Words

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His own epitaph was a fitting memorial to a hero that will still be remembered as a hero one hundred years from now, if we can prevent the Republican attempt to convert the US from democratic republic to Nazi Reich. RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Group prepares for chance Trump refuses to concede election

For more information about the war game they took part in click here. If this doesn’t scare the shit out of you, WAKE UP! RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of protest): The Chicks – Not Ready To Make Nice (Official Video)

Many, myself included, think that this song was partially directed at the Fuhrer of the 4th Reich, GW ChickenHawk, aka Crawford Caligula. He demanded that they back down on their true statement that his war for oil and conquest was fraudulent. How much worse is the Fuhrer of the 5th Reich? Support left wing protestors! RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

The Trump* Election Evasion Plan

Posted by TomCat at 11:44 am Politics

Jul 302020

When criminal Fuhrer Trump* looks ahead to November, his prospects could not look more bleak. His Republican plague is sweeping the nation and even traditional Republicans are not buying his lies that it’s Obama’s, the Democrat’s, China’s, anyone but his fault. The economy, his so-called “pride and joy”, is worse than it was in the great depression. The polls are so bad that even Putin [R-RU] can’t steal this one for him. But he and the Republican Party still seek to establish a permanent, totalitarian, plutocratic 5th Reich, in which elections exist for show only.

When Joe Biden mentioned the possibility that Donald Trump would try to “kick back the election somehow” back in April, Washington Post pundit Henry Olsen was aghast. He called Biden’s statement an “unfounded accusation” and said this was “not only clearly over the line but also unmasks how low the supposedly moderate Biden will go to win.”

Olsen better be prepping that apology, because on Thursday morning Trump extended his rant about mail-in voting to the place where it was obviously going all along. After repeating his previous lies about mail-in voting being “inaccurate and fraudulent,” Trump delivered the punch line. Rather than allow mail-in voting, why not, Trump suggested: “Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote.” That safety would, presumably, be entirely up to Trump. Meaning that Election Day would be the second Tuesday after never.

As The Washington Post points out, Trump cannot actually change the date of the federal elections. Though Trump may believe that Article II provides godlike powers, picking the date for federal elections is actually the role of Congress. And that date is already set. Congress doesn’t have to vote to have the election on Nov. 3; it would have to vote to change it to any other date.

Still, this isn’t as comforting as it should be. Now that Trump has made an official salvo down the delay path, it’s certain not to be the last. And it’s easy to believe that Sen. Mitch McConnell and the other Senate Republicans who voted to give Trump a free pass on bribing foreign countries into lying about his opponent would happily go along with this scheme. After all, for McConnell, every day the election is delayed is another day in which a Supreme Court opening might occur.

Naturally, the Democratically-led House wouldn’t go along with this, but that’s still no guarantee. Trump doesn’t have to actually delay the election so much as delegitimize it. That’s the purpose of all his rants against mail-in voting in the first place: To raise doubts about the outcome of the election and position Trump to deny the results, no matter how clear. It’s quite easy to imagine Donald Trump pounding the podium in November, claiming that only those votes cast in a voting booth on that date really count. Or even that the whole date is “not legitimate.” Because he says so. And it’s extremely easy to imagine Ted Cruz, and Lindsey Graham, and McConnell backing that play… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <Daily Kos>

Trump Tweet Suggests Delaying Election Over Mail-In Voting Fraud Claims

This is the strongest indication yet that, unable to stay in power any other way, Trump* and the Republican Reich plan a coup, and that the Republican Nazi storm troopers terrorizing the people of Portland are practicing for that coup.

RESIST!!

Open Thread–7/21/2020

Posted by TomCat at 9:56 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jul 212020

It’s another hectic day here in the CatBox. I’m having a telephone visit with my nutritionist this morning, so that will kill my morning nap, and exacerbate my back pain. I guess they’re going to increase my Oxycodone instead of my Fentanyl patch strength. I disagree and will argue it at my next appointment. A patch gives constant pain relief, so increasing the strength lowers my overall pain level. Oxycodone gives yo-yo pain relief, as it is taken only when the pain level has risen, so I suffer needless pain. Please check your outhouse for Republicans. If one is hiding down there, go.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:34 (average 5:18). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Clinton had Lewinski. Putin [R-RU] had Trump*.

Trump* Virus Update:

0721TrumpVirusMap

Click through for interactive map.

US Cases: 3,963,376
US Deaths: 143,889

Short Takes:

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Veteran discusses getting hit by unmarked police in Portland

Our veterans deserve honor, praise, and gratitude from our people and government, but from the Republican Reich and their Nazi Gestapo, our veterans get hate, neglect and violence! RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): GOP Tested As Democrats Call Out Foreign Interference In Election

This is what a President sounds like and acts like. May God grant that we have a President in January, instead of the criminal Fuhrer we have now. May God also grant that the Republican Reich go the way of the Whig Party. But God can’t do it alone. She needs help from YOU! RESIST!!

From YouTube ( a blast from the past and labor): Arlo Guthrie/Alice’s Restaurant

Ah… the memories! Except for unmuzzled Republican Nazi Police Unions, support Labor! RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

Open Thread–5/28/2020

Posted by TomCat at 8:47 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

May 282020

It’s a hot busy day, here in the CatBox, with 89° forecast. WWWendy is coming, and we have lots to do to get me ready for her five day trip. Have a great day!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:00 (average 5:10): To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

Cases: 1,747,781
Deaths: 102,197
Recovered: 490,256

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: In an escalation of his spat with Roy Cooper, the Democratic governor of North Carolina, Donald Trump is demanding that the 2020 Republican National Convention relocate from Charlotte to Moscow.

“North Carolina has been difficult every step of the way, and meanwhile Moscow has always been very helpful to me,” Trump wrote, in one of a series of early-morning tweets.

Additionally, Trump argued, moving the R.N.C. to Moscow would save the Republicans millions in airfare. “The most important people working on our 2020 campaign will already be there,” he tweeted.

Well, Andy, I see you’re doing straight news again. Is Bought Bitch Midnight Moscow Mitch dancing for glee? RESIST!!

From Alternet: Trump and Republicans don’t want mail-in voting this November because it blows up a couple of their most effective voter suppression schemes.

In presidential elections dating back to 2000, there’s been noticeable media coverage of long lines in majority-black precincts; commentators sometimes wonder out loud why people would have to wait in line 8 hours to vote in, for example, inner city Ohio in 2004 or Milwaukee in the 2020 primaries.

Leading up to Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s contest with Stacey Abrams in 2018, the Atlanta Constitution-Journal documented how 8 percent of the state’s polling places had been recently closed, hitting rural black areas particularly hard. The Washington Post chronicled how broken voting machines—and the long lines they create—were largely confined to downtown Atlanta and black suburbs and rural areas.

The effect, of course, is to discourage voters from showing up or staying in line, particularly those people who are paid by the hour and have to take time off work to vote.

“The strongest tool Americans have to prevent Republican attempts at voter suppression is mail-in voting.”

In a Republican Reich, voting while Black or Latino is a felony. RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): People Are Strange – The Doors [The Very Best Of The Doors]

Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

The Russians Are Coming!

Posted by TomCat at 9:54 am Politics

Feb 212020

When I was a child, I often hid under my desk, when told to duck and cover. Adults knew they could frighten us into behaving ourselves with the following threat: “The Russians are coming!” After awhile, it no longer worked, because we stopped believing the threat. Why? The Russians never came… until now.

Intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get President Trump re-elected, five people familiar with the matter said, a disclosure to Congress that angered Mr. Trump, who complained that Democrats would use it against him.

The day after the Feb. 13 briefing to lawmakers, the president berated Joseph Maguire, the outgoing acting director of national intelligence, for allowing it to take place, people familiar with the exchange said. Mr. Trump was particularly irritated that Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California and the leader of the impeachment proceedings, was at the briefing.

During the briefing to the House Intelligence Committee, Mr. Trump’s allies challenged the conclusions, arguing that he had been tough on Russia and that he had strengthened European security… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <NY Times>

Criminal Fuhrer Trump* does not want you that his boss is at it again!

Russia is looking to help Trump win in 2020, election security official told lawmakers

I understand that horrid little twerp, Devin Nunes, slithered to his Fuhrer to tattle, and probably, to give him a BJ. Fuhrer Trump* reacted exactly as I would expect from the Republican Reich. Trump* will be looking for a new DNI who will be to Intelligence what AG Barrf is to Justice.

Warren On Reports That Russia Is Interfering To Help Trump In 2020 Race

Liz is right. What we do now is keep Trump*, Bought Bitch Midnight Moscow Mitch, and all their co-criminals on Front Street, dump the entire Republican Reich in November, and clean up the mess afterwards to ensure free , fair elections in which corporations are NOT people and money is NOT speech.

The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!! The Russians are coming!!! Are you scared? You should be! Are you going to behave? Then get off your ass and do your part to pull the plug on Putin and send the Republican Reich out of existence. Every Republican in office is one Republican too many!

RESIST!!

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