Politics Plus

This has been a busy week for me what with a bit of medical mayhem (nothing serious), correcting the grammar, spelling and presentation of a midterm exam for a friend, finishing up my Indigenous studies course through the U of Alberta (online) with about 90%, getting the post about Remembrance Day/Veterans’ Day out and of course following some of the snivelling of the Republicans and der Führer of the 5th Reich.  Talk about unadulterated bull shit!  I thought that we all need a little lighter fare at this time.

If anybody ever needed proof that the Trump elevator was not capable of going to the top, Eric Trump provided it in abundance!  This from The Hill — ABC News reported last week that the hotline, which also directed callers to a voicemail box, was flooded with messages mocking the campaign in the wake of President-elect Joe Biden winning the race for the White House.

The president’s son, Eric Trump, last week claimed that the Democratic National Committee was “spamming our voter fraud hotline,” although he did not provide evidence for the allegation.

The @DNC is spamming our voter fraud hotline to bog down the thousands of complaints we are receiving! Wonder what they have to hide.

Or how about this tweet from Eric Trump which appeared last Tuesday — notice the date!

And here I thought that Trump was both trying to stop the count and suing states for accepting ballots after election day.  This seems like a twofer, but not the kind you want!  As I said, the elevator does not go to the top!  My 3 cats are smarter than Eric!

 

Then there is this from the New York Times — In his first big interview as a senator-elect, Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama, misidentified the three branches of the federal government, claimed erroneously that World War II was a battle against socialism and wrongly asserted that former Vice President Al Gore was president-elect for 30 days. … 

 

“Our government wasn’t set up for one group to have all three branches of government — wasn’t set up that way,” Mr. Tuberville said. “You know, the House, the Senate, and the executive.” …

 

“That’s concerning to me, that we’re to the point now where we’ve got almost half the country voting for something that this country wasn’t built on,” Mr. Tuberville said. “I tell people, my dad fought 76 years ago in Europe to free Europe of socialism.”

 

World War II was a global battle against fascism. …

 

And in another exchange, he erroneously said that Mr. Gore, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2000, was president-elect for 30 days during an intense, protracted recount and legal battle. Neither Mr. Gore nor George W. Bush were considered the president-elect during that process.

 

Is this the best that Trump and Republicans can do?  I think Tuberville took one too many hits to his cranium!  What is worse, what does this say about the Alabama voters who sent him to Washington?