On December 16^th, 2020, I wrote and pub­lished the fol­low­ing arti­cle in which I sug­gest­ed that it was now time for a new polit­i­cal par­ty in the United States. I argued it was the right time because the Republican Party has become a full-blown Fascist Party that can no longer be trust­ed to look after the Democratic Republic.
In light of the Lincoln Project’s posi­tions, a group of for­mer Republicans who saw the par­ty they love leave them behind, I went as far as to sug­gest that maybe the Lincoln Project should orga­nize and become an alter­na­tive polit­i­cal par­ty to what the Republican par­ty has devolved into.
The true nature of the dan­ger the present Republican Party pos­es to the United States’ well­be­ing can­not be over­stat­ed. Despite those dan­gers, the main­stream media has not prop­er­ly artic­u­lat­ed what’s at stake in a way that the American peo­ple can ful­ly appreciate.
Neither has the weak and feck­less Democratic Party.

HERE IS THE ARTICLE

Now that the Republican Party has demonstrated that it can no longer be trusted to see to the wellbeing of American Democracy; and now that it has become a full-blown autocratic party; now that far-right fringe groups like Qanon and other white supremacist groups like the proud boys and others have taken up residence in the party; and now that the party has all but decided that democracy is antithetical to its goals, there must be a change.

Donald Trump did not cre­ate the nas­ti­ness that now defines the Republican Party; as a dem­a­gogue, he took full advan­tage of it. Ever since Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil and Voting Rights into law and whites ran away from the Democratic Party and took up res­i­dence in the Republican Party, the par­ty has exem­pli­fied itself as the polit­i­cal par­ty for white resent­ment and white grievance.
Despite the hoopla about their good­ness, most white Americans have nev­er been com­fort­able with black Americans enjoy­ing the same rights and priv­i­leges they so sum­mar­i­ly enjoy.
Doctor King spoke about their shock when they saw peo­ple being beat­en on the so-called bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus bridge. Still, when it came time to take action against the insti­tu­tion­al­ized racism that made what the police did pos­si­ble, they backed away.
Dr. King; “Like the nation, Negro and white, trem­bled with out­rage at police bru­tal­i­ty in the South, police mis­con­duct in the North was ratio­nal­ized, tol­er­at­ed, and usu­al­ly denied,” he wrote. Leaders in Northern and Western states “wel­comed me to their cities, and show­ered praise on the hero­ism of Southern Negroes. Yet when the issues were joined con­cern­ing local con­di­tions, only the lan­guage was polite; the rejec­tion was firm and unequiv­o­cal.”

FORMER REPUBLICAN SENATOR AND DEFENSE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN CALL FOR NEW POLITICAL PARTY

A for­mer Republican sen­a­tor and defense sec­re­tary has sug­gest­ed it may be time for mod­er­ate con­ser­v­a­tives to form a new polit­i­cal par­ty as he launched a with­er­ing attack on the law­mak­ers sup­port­ing Donald Trump’s bid to over­turn the elec­tion result.

William Cohen, who rep­re­sent­ed Maine before tak­ing up the defense role in the Clinton admin­is­tra­tion in 1997, said there is now “a real divi­sion” with­in the GOP and com­pared Mr Trump’s back­ers in Congress to cir­cus ele­phants try­ing to please their “ring­mas­ter”.

His com­ments came after Missouri sen­a­tor Josh Hawley announced that he will chal­lenge Congress’s cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of pres­i­dent-elect Joe Biden’s elec­tion vic­to­ry on 6^th January.

Despite los­ing both the elec­toral col­lege and pop­u­lar vote, Mr Trump and his legal team con­tin­ue to insist that the elec­tion was “rigged”. But the Trump team is yet to present any cred­i­ble evi­dence that mass vot­er fraud took place on elec­tion day.

A num­ber of Republicans in the House of Representatives have declared that they would chal­lenge Mr Biden’s vic­to­ry when Congress meets to cer­ti­fy the result next week.

Senator Hawley’s announce­ment made him the first GOP law­mak­er in the sec­ond cham­ber to voice sup­port for the defeat­ed pres­i­den­t’s efforts to sub­vert democracy.

Announcing his deci­sion, Mr Hawley claimed that Pennsylvania did not fol­low state elec­tion laws and said the “unprece­dent­ed effort of mega cor­po­ra­tions” like Facebook and Twitter inter­fered with the elec­tion to sup­port pres­i­dent-elect Biden. He also urged Congress to inves­ti­gate alle­ga­tions of vot­er fraud.

Crucially, Mr Hawley’s back­ing means that both the House and the Senate will now be forced to debate the results of at least one state and vote on whether to accept Mr Biden’s win.

It will not change the out­come of the elec­tion, but it sets up a sce­nario that Senate major­i­ty leader Mitchell McConnell want­ed to avoid, say­ing it would be high­ly dam­ag­ing for the party.

Speaking to CNN on Thursday, Mr Cohen, 80, sug­gest­ed that “maybe it’s time for a new par­ty”, when asked about the state of the GOP and the pow­er Mr Trump con­tin­ues to exert over it.

“[A par­ty] that abides by the rule of law, abides by bal­anced bud­get oppor­tu­ni­ties, fis­cal respon­si­bil­i­ty. A par­ty that is faith­ful to the peo­ple of this coun­try who vote to elect them,” a vis­i­bly annoyed Mr Cohen added.

Mr Cohen also lashed out at those Congressional Republicans embold­en­ing Mr Trump’s bid to frus­trate the will of the American peo­ple, sug­gest­ing they will be for­ev­er indebt­ed to a pres­i­dent who “can­not be satisfied”.

“The cur­rent occu­pant of the White House is a ring­mas­ter, and what he expects to do is to snap his whip and all the ele­phants jump on the chairs,” he said.

“What they have to under­stand, those who are so eager to sup­port this effort to over­turn the vote…what they have to under­stand is that he is going to con­tin­ue to snap the whip whether he is in office or out of office.”

He added: “And every time they are going to have to sit on that stool in order to sat­is­fy him and his supporters”.

Mr Cohen also called on a num­ber of more mod­er­ate Republicans includ­ing Mitt Romney (Utah), Susan Collins (Maine) and Ben Sasse (Nebraska) to do every­thing in their pow­er to oppose the sen­a­tors back­ing Mr Trump.

Mr Sasse was one of those Republicans who called out Mr Hawley’s move to delay cer­ti­fy­ing the Congress vote as he urged his col­leagues not to fol­low suit.

Writing on Facebook, he said: “The pres­i­dent and his allies are play­ing with fire. They have been ask­ing — first the courts, then state leg­is­la­tures, now the Congress — to over­turn the results of a pres­i­den­tial election.

“They have unsuc­cess­ful­ly called on judges and are now call­ing on fed­er­al office­hold­ers to inval­i­date mil­lions and mil­lions of votes. If you make big claims, you had bet­ter have the evi­dence. But the pres­i­dent does­n’t and nei­ther do the insti­tu­tion­al arson­ist mem­bers of Congress who will object to the elec­toral col­lege vote.”

Mr Trump wel­comed Mr Hawley’s sup­port. “America is proud of Josh and the many oth­ers who are join­ing him,” he tweet­ed yes­ter­day. “The USA can­not have fraud­u­lent elec­tions!”( Story orig­i­nat­ed at Yahoo news)

There are a mil­lion and one rea­sons why Senate major­i­ty leader Mitch McConnell ought to have been removed by the vot­ers in Kentucky last November.
Alas, the major­i­ty of the vot­ers in that state, as in many oth­er states across the coun­try, con­tin­ue to elect Republicans, who in turn enact poli­cies that ben­e­fit the very rich at the expense of the very peo­ple who vot­ed for them.
It is an age-old prob­lem; the down-bal­lot suc­cess­es of the Republican Party in the last elec­tions were just the lat­est iter­a­tion of Republican par­ty vot­ers’ cog­ni­tive dissonance.
I will [not] attempt to out­line Mitch McConnell’s sins here suf­fic­ing to say that if you have been fol­low­ing pol­i­tics and are fair-mind­ed, you can relate to exact­ly what the Senior US Senator from the Bluegrass State stands for.
On November 3^rd, 2008, Barack Obama, a young first-term sen­a­tor from the great state of Illinois, was declared President-elect of the United States.
Immideateltly there­after, Mitch McConnell declared that his sole pur­pose as Majority leader of the United States Senate was to make the new pres­i­dent-elect a one-term president.
Mitch McConnell did exact­ly that, obstruct that is. Despite his and the Republican’s best efforts, how­ev­er, Barack Obama was a suc­cess­ful two-term pres­i­dent.. One of his most igno­ble and dis­hon­or­able acts as major­i­ty leader of the sen­ate under President Obama was, of course, his refusal to give Obama’s supreme court pick of Judge Merrick Garland a meet­ing, much less a hear­ing that would have placed him on the Supreme Court, in the seat vacat­ed by the deceased Antonin Scalia.

Mitch McConnell has nev­er seen a tax cut that would ben­e­fit his wealthy back­ers that he was not glee­ful to bring to the sen­ate’s floor. He had no prob­lem bring­ing to the Senate floor and pass­ing Trump’s tax cut that fur­ther enriched the very rich.
However, the coun­try is now in the deep throes of a pandemic.
Over 341 thou­sand Americans have so far died. Literally, every per­son in America now knows some­one who has either been infect­ed or died from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Additionally, the nation faces a seri­ous eco­nom­ic down­turn, one like no one alive has ever seen before.
Donald Trump, who nev­er cared about the poor, has sud­den­ly decid­ed that he wants hun­gry, near home­less Americans to have a $2’000 check from the gov­ern­ment. No one in their right mind believes that Trump actu­al­ly cares enough about any­one not named Trump, to want them to have $2’000.

In fact, there is ample evi­dence that Donald Trump only wants the larg­er $2’000 amount than the $600 num­ber his trea­sur­er sec­re­tary nego­ti­at­ed with both Republicans and Democrats because he knows it won’t pass.
If Trump real­ly want­ed Americans to have a $2’000 check, he would have had Steven Mnuchin nego­ti­ate to have that amount sent to the American people.
Donald Trump con­ve­nient­ly wait­ed until after the $600 amount was decid­ed on, then there­after decid­ed he would not sign the bill into law — –Of course, he then signed the bill he said he would not sign.
He then went ahead and demand­ed a $2’000 check he knew Moscow Mitch would not bring to the Senate floor as a stand-alone bill to be vot­ed on.
Trump has no inter­est in gov­ern­ing out­side of enrich­ing him­self, so it does not mat­ter how many Americans are dying from COVID-19, or are on the brink of star­va­tion; his sup­port for a $2’000 pay­out to the peo­ple is sole­ly designed to cur­ry favor with the pop­u­la­tion he wants on his side in his bid to pull off a coup in America.
Mitch McConnell does­n’t care either, so he attach­es the mea­sure to two oth­er mea­sures he knows Democrats can­not sup­port, and so the bill is all but dead.

The trag­ic irony is that the peo­ple who will suf­fer the most are the ones who came out in droves and re-elect­ed Mitch McConnell last November. They also elect­ed and reelect­ed Republicans down-bal­lot across the length and breadth of the country.
Amidst the noise and hog­wash fed you by the main­stream media are the facts that they won’t both­er to divulge.
White Americans will vote against their own moth­er if the abil­i­ty to coa­lesce around racial griev­ance and white suprema­cy is on the ballot.
They rose against President Barack Obama’s push to have the wealth­i­est Americans pay a lit­tle more in tax­es, dur­ing his pres­i­den­cy. They came out with pitch­forks, tiki-torch­es, and the most despi­ca­ble posters depict­ing the pres­i­dent as every­thing but human.
Obama want­ed those earn­ing more than half a mil­lion each year to pay a lit­tle more in tax­es. Those in the mid­west who came out against the idea, and across the south were earn­ing some­where between $38’000 & $48’000.
They came out to fight a war that was not theirs to fight.
At the time, those actu­al­ly earn­ing half a mil­lion and more annu­al­ly, told the President that they would be hap­py to pay a lit­tle more in taxes.

The same was true of the afford­able care act (ACA) intend­ed to help [them], the most vul­ner­a­ble, the poor­est, and those in par­tic­u­lar, with what is char­ac­ter­ized as pre­ex­ist­ing health conditions.
Republicans know­ing just how stu­pid and racist their vot­ers are, attached Obama’s name to the leg­is­la­tion; this auto­mat­i­cal­ly became poi­son to their voters.
Republican elect­ed offi­cials knew just how easy it was to turn their vot­ers on a dime. All they had to do is appeal to their racist hatred, and they will mil­i­tate against drink­ing water, which is crit­i­cal to their abil­i­ty to survive.
Republicans and Mitch McConnell do not care whether they live or die as long as they can give tax cuts to their rich puppetmasters.
Republican recip­i­ents of the ACA, told Journalists that they did not want Obama Care, they were hap­py with their Affordable Care health care.[sic]
Those who were pay­ing atten­tion knew that those upris­ings were not organ­ic grass­roots move­ments by peo­ple who felt their way of life threat­ened; it was a well-orches­trat­ed cam­paign fund­ed by über-wealthy bil­lion­aire broth­ers Charles and David Koch.
David Koch is now dead, but his old­er sib­ling Charles now wants for­give­ness for what they did with their wealth.
The hatred poor whites have for oth­er races is work­ing to keep them impov­er­ished. Today they no longer work as over­seers on the plan­ta­tion in the tra­di­tion­al sense; they are no longer oper­at­ing under the moniker [slave catch­ers]; they are now called police officers.
Unfortunately, their men­tal­i­ty is the same as it was four-plus hun­dred years ago.

Which brings us to the ques­tion of why these peo­ple con­tin­ue to mil­i­tate against their own self-interest?
From time to time, I write about the his­to­ry of whites who came to America as (inden­tured ser­vants), anoth­er name for slaves.
The dif­fer­ence between the white European inden­tured ser­vants, and the African peo­ple brought into bond­ed servi­tude, is that they had com­mit­ted no crimes.
The act of kid­nap­ping and enslav­ing them was a crime against human­i­ty and remains so today, with­out ade­quate mea cul­pa, resti­tu­tion, and commupence.
The white inden­tured ser­vants were, in fact, the worst crim­i­nal offend­ers in Europe, Murderers, Rapists, Child-moles­ters, who were giv­en the option of being ban­ished to the colonies or be executed.
Naturally, they chose the Colonies.
The prac­tice of dump­ing them in America, con­tin­ued up until the end of the civ­il war. Other nations were pop­u­lat­ed by them as well, Australia and New Zealand. Wherever they went, the death and destruc­tion they brought with them is a mat­ter of his­tor­i­cal record.
Their venge­ful actions against the enslaved African peo­ple are no mys­tery; they were depraved crim­i­nals, end of the story.
Convinced by the plan­ta­tion own­ers that they were supe­ri­or because of their white skin, they exact­ed untold geno­cide on the black enslaved peo­ple in their capac­i­ty as over­seers and slave catchers.
The Planters fear­ing that the two groups of slaves would be too much for them to han­dle, came up with the bril­liant idea to divide them up based on race.
They con­vinced them that they would some­day be free and own plan­ta­tions and be rich as well. That idea is now a part of their DNA; they con­tin­ue to believe in the fal­la­cy that if the rich man is giv­en enough, some will fall from his table, and they will ben­e­fit. That con­cept has all but ensured that the rich have got­ten rich­er and the poor poorer.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog mike​beck​les​.com. 
He’s con­tributed to sev­er­al websites.
You may sub­scribe to his blogs, or sub­scribe to his Youtube chan­nel @chatt-a-box, for the lat­est videos.

Listen to this lying, fraud­u­lent char­la­tan lit­tle Marco Rubio who has his face so far up Trump’s ass that he prob­a­bly can­not smell any­thing else. No won­der this fraud who thinks he is white attacked every­thing President Barack Obama did. Including say­ing that the President quote ‘had no class”, what could have elicit­ed a strong com­ment from the lit­tle inbred Cuban? President Obama had the nerve to invite Rapper Common and oth­ers to the White House that their fore-par­ents built.

Marco Rubio
@marcorubio
I know I looked away from the needle
And yes, I know I need a tan
But I am so con­fi­dent that the #Covid19 vac­cine is safe & effec­tive that I decid­ed to take it myself

This is the fraud­u­lent lit­tle Cuban being inoc­u­lat­ed against COVID-19, hav­ing jumped the line and placed him­self in front of Doctors, Nurses, and oth­er front-line work­ers who are work­ing tire­less­ly to save and pro­tect the lives of oth­ers at the per­il of their own lives.
But I hard­ly believe that any­one is sur­prised at this lit­tle creep wannabe white, that he would jump the line to try and save his own sor­ry ass, and after he went mask­less to Donald Trump’s White House super­spread­er par­ty, and fol­lowed DonaldTrump’s igno­rant cru­sade against mask-wear­ing because he want­ed to cre­ate a false sense that every­thing was okay while peo­ple were dying like flies from the virus.
And oh, before I for­get, you guys some­times read stuff that I say about these peo­ple, how they would sell out their own moth­ers to cur­ry favor with oth­ers or worse, to try to con­vince white peo­ple that they are white.
Well, look at Macro Rubi. Did any­one care about his dis­gust­ing skin col­or? Why did he think it was nec­es­sary to tell us that he is off-color.
The lit­tle fool is in a back door kind of way try­ing to draw atten­tion to his dis­gust­ing flab­by biceps that are devoid of melanin.
Notice that he is wear­ing a mask; if he tru­ly believed in mask-wear­ing effi­ca­cy, why did he not wear one to Trump’s par­ty, or bet­ter yet, why did this lit­tle fol­low­er not stand on prin­ci­ple and refuse to go?
Nah.…. that would actu­al­ly require some char­ac­ter, for­ti­tude, dig­ni­ty, and balls, nei­ther of which Marco Rubio possesses.

But the lit­tle Cuban is not the only fraud Republican that has denied the seri­ous­ness of the Virus as peo­ple died, to push Donald trump’s self­ish agen­da. Look at this oth­er Trump min­ion Lindsay Graham from South Carolina.

Thank God for nurs­es who help peo­ple in need and know how to use a nee­dle. Thank God for those who pro­duced these vac­cines. If enough of us take it, we will get back to nor­mal lives. Help is on the way. (Lindsay Graham)He too jumped the line to receive the vac­cine, even though they denied it was dan­ger­ous all year and refused to wear a mask, poten­tial­ly plac­ing his dumb sup­port­ers at risk, to please Trump.
In effect, what they are doing is mock­ing the peo­ple who have lost their loved ones to this virus. Their lives are worth way more than the American peo­ple they so spite­ful­ly and will­ful­ly deceived.
Among the Republicans to jump the line based on the incred­i­ble val­ue of their lives over oth­ers are Mike Pence ad his wife.

Mike Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence, and Surgeon General Jerome Adams just took the coro­n­avirus vaccine.

Moscow Mitch McConnell
I just received the safe, effec­tive COVID vac­cine fol­low­ing con­ti­nu­ity-of-gov­ern­ment pro­to­cols. Vaccines are how we beat this virus. Now back to con­tin­ue fight­ing for a res­cue pack­age, includ­ing a lot more mon­ey for dis­tri­b­u­tion so more Americans can receive it as fast as possible.

In response to McConnell receiv­ing the vac­cine, one woman tweet­ed this guy is cur­rent­ly block­ing relief because he wants immu­ni­ty for cor­po­ra­tions that treat their work­ers unsafe­ly. Reminder 2: his vac­cine was paid by tax­pay­ers to whom he is block­ing relief.
I real­ly could have fall­en for the garbage that wear­ing a mask since last March was a sis­sy thing to do. We were made to believe that wear­ing a mask was polit­i­cal. I was almost con­vinced that I was not a true red-blood­ed Black man.
These are the same frauds who pre­tend­ed that the virus was no big deal, now look at them and their sense of entitlement.
The tragedy is that there are peo­ple stu­pid and dumb enough to go into vot­ing booths and cast bal­lots for these lying frauds.

One of a pagan soci­ety’s prob­lems is that it must con­tin­ue cre­at­ing new Gods, new sym­bols to look up to, and worship.
Superman, Batman, GI Jane, Ken & Barbie, Generals, the Military, Police, Rudolph Guiliani, (“you know America’s Mayor.”
“Yah”…
The same guy decid­ed to put New York City’s com­mand and con­trol cen­ter in the World Trade Center. And after the Facility was attacked in 1993.
It was brava­do and arro­gance, yet nobody in the media talks about Rudolph Guliani’s brava­do and arro­gance that placed those first respon­ders’ lives in grave danger.
Neither do they talk about the fact that it was under Guiliani’s lead­er­ship that the com­mu­ni­ca­tion equip­ment that the fire and police were using failed?

They went ahead and des­ig­nat­ed this clown America’s may­or. As the city’s chief exec­u­tive, he walked with Pataki and oth­ers after the attack with a mask slung under his chin.
Nobody both­ered to recall who this guy was before hail­ing him as the sec­ond com­ing of the Messiah. That it was the same Rudolph Guliani who led a gang of NYPD thugs in uni­form and out of uni­form to the steps of City Hall to denounce the now deceased David Dinkins, the City’s first Black Mayor, label­ing him a Nigger and a wash­room atten­dant.
The Media went along with Guliani’s unde­mo­c­ra­t­ic demand that he be giv­en addi­tion­al time to car­ry out his pro­grams even after his term was up. Michael Bloomberg, anoth­er wannabe dic­ta­tor, had won and was sched­uled to take office.
Many in the bel­ly of Gotham’s cor­rup­tion went along with it; at the time, Guiliani and his cohorts lob­bied the State Legislature and the City Council, to post­pone the elec­tion pri­maries after the September 11^th attack, there­by allow­ing the mini-wannabe dic­ta­tor to serve an addi­tion­al six months in office, some of his cohorts even demand­ed that he be allowed to serve anoth­er four-year term.

As Guiliani and his min­ions pushed and prod­ded any­one who would lis­ten, lob­by­ing them to help him to dis­card the laws and allow him to serve a third con­sec­u­tive term in office, respect­ed politi­cians like John McCain cau­tioned him to back down.
Even the Republican Governor George Pataki was against the move. Pataki argued, “Regardless of Rudy’s moti­va­tion, regard­less of his raw emo­tions in the sit­u­a­tion, he aban­doned some of the most basic con­ser­v­a­tive prin­ci­ples — to fol­low the law and relin­quish pow­er when your term is over, even in times of crisis.”
In February 2007, the International Association of Fire Fighters issued a let­ter assert­ing that Giuliani rushed to con­clude the recov­ery effort once gold and sil­ver had been recov­ered from World Trade Center vaults and there­by pre­vent­ed the remains of many vic­tims from being recov­ered: “Mayor Giuliani’s actions meant that fire­fight­ers and cit­i­zens who per­ished would either remain buried at Ground Zero for­ev­er, with no clo­sure for fam­i­lies, or be removed like garbage and deposit­ed at the Fresh Kills Landfill,” it said, adding: “Hundreds remained entombed in Ground Zero when Giuliani gave up on them.”^[159] Lawyers for the International Association of Fire Fighters seek to inter­view Giuliani under oath as part of a fed­er­al legal action alleg­ing that New York City neg­li­gent­ly dumped body parts and oth­er human remains in the Fresh Kills Landfill.[wikipedia]

All this time, Donald Trump was watch­ing and learn­ing how to dis­tort, desta­bi­lize, and ulti­mate­ly destroy Democracy. A more learned man had tried it before, and almost got away with sway­ing pub­lic offi­cials and civ­il soci­ety into giv­ing in to his dic­ta­to­r­i­al aspirations.
Had the pow­ers bowed to Guiliani’s wish­es, he would have been val­i­dat­ed in his beliefs that he alone could fix it, speak­ing of New York City after the ter­ror­ist attack of ⁹⁄₁₁.
Where else did we hear that sen­ti­ment expressed?
Is it any won­der that those two clowns from Gotham would find com­mon cause in try­ing to destroy two hun­dred and forty plus years of precedent?
Who is real­ly sur­prised that at the heart of Donald Trump’s coup attempt, would be Rudolph Guiliani, the man who attempt­ed the same stunt as Mayor of New York City?
This writer has con­sis­tent­ly point­ed not just to Guiliani’s racism, but his Fascistic unde­mo­c­ra­t­ic beliefs and use of pow­er, includ­ing his use of NYPD cops against the City’s Black and Brown population.
Thankfully Republican pri­ma­ry vot­ers then, saw through El Duce’s fas­cism and denied him a sin­gle pri­ma­ry win. Unfortunately, only a few years lat­er, they missed the oth­er despot to come along, and look at the dam­age he did in just four short years, even after being impeached.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog mike​beck​les​.com. 
He’s con­tributed to sev­er­al websites.
You may sub­scribe to his blogs, or sub­scribe to his Youtube chan­nel @chatt-a-box, for the lat­est videos.

Now that the Republican Party has demonstrated that it can no longer be trusted to see to the wellbeing of American Democracy; and now that it has become a full-blown autocratic party; now that far-right fringe groups like Qanon and other white supremacist groups like the proud boys and others have taken up residence in the party; and now that the party has all but decided that democracy is antithetical to its goals, there must be a change.

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When the Barr is set low, any­one can walk over it, which hap­pened in this case. The rapa­cious pur­suit of pow­er results in debase­ment and low­er­ing of stature, embar­rass­ment, and ridicule even.
William Barr will for­ev­er be the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of all of that.
Trump fired William Barr.

So, is America going to pre­tend that a host of Republican Attorney’s Generals and mem­bers of Congress did not com­mit Sedition against the United States?
(Sedition is overt con­duct, such as speech and orga­ni­za­tion, tends toward rebel­lion against the estab­lished order. Sedition often includes sub­ver­sion of a con­sti­tu­tion and incite­ment of dis­con­tent toward, or rebel­lion against, estab­lished author­i­ty)[W].

It makes per­fect sense that a Texas Attorney General that is a sub­ject of crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tions and numer­ous oth­er claims of uneth­i­cal and ques­tion­able prac­tices would file a case to over­turn the will of the peo­ple in states he knew as an attor­ney he had no stand­ing to file.
It also makes sense that Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxon would pull that stunt know­ing that it would go nowhere, even in a Supreme Court with as much cred­i­bil­i­ty as a Catholic Priest.
To those pay­ing atten­tion, includ­ing the elites in the Media, the con­ver­sa­tion about Paxon’s act of arguable sedi­tion is gross­ly misunderstood.
Paxon knew that his fil­ing would end the way it did, come on, the guy is a lawyer; for cry­ing out loud, it is dif­fi­cult to believe that Baylor University gave him an under­grad­u­ate degree he did not earn or that the University of Virginia school of law col­lud­ed and gave him a law degree he did not earn.
I mean, there are sto­ries of peo­ple in high places who have paid oth­ers to do their SATs and that the degree they got from a so-called pres­ti­gious school of finance was bought and paid for.
Gives a whole new mean­ing to the term [pres­ti­gious]. On that note, we must give Ken Paxon the ben­e­fit of the doubt that he did earn his degrees and that he is actu­al­ly a lot smarter than his court fil­ing sug­gests. In fact, the guy may be as wily as a Fox.

WHAT ARE THEY IN IT FOR?
Why would they decide to com­mit a sedi­tious Act against the United States by throw­ing out the legal and law­ful results of a fair elec­tion to install an ego­ma­ni­a­cal, nar­cis­sis­tic wannabe- dictator?

Ken Paxon was not per­form­ing for the Supreme Court; he was per­form­ing for an audi­ence of one, as they say. Paxon want­ed to do some­thing abun­dant­ly clear to the White House occu­pant that he would do any­thing for him, includ­ing com­mit­ting Sedition. That would get the Pardoner-in-chief’s atten­tion. And get his atten­tion it did.. Paxon knows it was a stunt, but the White House’s over­ly ele­vat­ed occu­pant did not know it. He sees all of these actions as acts of feal­ty, sub­mis­sion to his Monarchistic desires, and his strong­man aspi­ra­tions. And so Ken Paxon decid­ed to go for a par­don, under the belief that the Feds are mak­ing out an action­able case against him, and why not?
It has worked for Michael Flynn, Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D’Souza, Bernard Kerik, Rod Blagojevich, Scooter J Libby, Roger Stone, and a long list crim­i­nals, includ­ing Arsonists Dwight Lincoln Hammond and Stephen Dwight Hammond, right-wing nuts who set fire to Government buildings.
Donald Trump is on his way out the door, and as his exit draws clos­er by the day, there is much spec­u­la­tion that there will be a wave of pres­i­den­tial par­dons to include a poten­tial­ly unprece­dent­ed self-par­don by Trump.
It is rea­son­able to expect that an Attorney General who has the stench of cor­rup­tion as a Dog just sprayed by a Skunk, would seek to get his face before the par­don­er-in-chief, but what is behind the oth­ers above who decid­ed to know­ing­ly join a suite that they know is a direct affront to the Constitution they swore to uphold.
What actions are there under the Constitution to hold these trea­so­nous actors account­able for the acts of treach­ery against the United States?

If the Nation decides not to take action against these ene­mies of Democracy, the next chief exec­u­tive that comes with the temer­i­ty and arro­gance of Donald Trump will eas­i­ly upend 240-plus years of the American exper­i­ment. Democracy as we know it may only be read about as a past way of life if our chil­dren and grand­chil­dren are even allowed to read about the truth.
In Texas, the local News10​.com tele­vi­sion opined quote: The last-gasp bid to sub­vert the Nov. 3 elec­tion results is demon­strat­ing Donald Trump’s endur­ing polit­i­cal pow­er even as his term is set to end. And even though most sig­na­to­ries are far-right con­ser­v­a­tives who come from deep-red dis­tricts, the fil­ing meant that rough­ly one-quar­ter of the U.S. House believes the Supreme Court should set aside elec­tion results.
“The Supreme Court is not going to over­turn the elec­tion in the Texas case, as the President has told them to do,” tweet­ed Rick Hasen, a law pro­fes­sor at the University of California, Irvine. “But we are in bad shape as a coun­try that 17 states could sup­port this shame­ful, anti-American fil­ing” by Texas and its attor­ney gen­er­al, Ken Paxton.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has called Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to over­turn elec­tion results in Shapiro’s state and three oth­ers (“a sedi­tious abuse of the judi­cial process”).

More than 120 Republican mem­bers of Congress have asked the supreme court to bar four states from cast­ing elec­toral votes for for­mer Vice President Joe Biden, even though every last one of them knew unequiv­o­cal­ly that the Biden/​Harris tick­et won the elec­tions fair and square and by the same mar­gin that Donald Trump claimed a land­slide a mere four years ago. Yet they asked the Supreme Court to over­turn the elec­tions and chose a dement­ed auto­crat instead, there­by destroy­ing over two hun­dred and forty years of Democratic rule in America.
This is the kind of activ­i­ty that gets politi­cians round­ed up and impris­oned in oth­er nations as they should be. It is incon­ceiv­able that any per­son who took an oath to uphold the Constitution would act against the same Constitution with such bla­tant treach­ery, and be allowed to retain their priv­i­leged posi­tions of pub­lic service.
Given enough lever­age, the Republican Party in its present state, will col­lec­tive­ly betray the Constitution with­out bat­ting an eye.
Every mem­ber of this trea­so­nous bunch must for­ev­er be held up to pub­lic ridicule, and be sub­ject­ed to what­ev­er oth­er reme­dies exist in law, for the sedi­tious acts against the American democracy.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog mike​beck​les​.com. 
He’s con­tributed to sev­er­al websites.
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The last four years have been a stress-test on the foun­da­tion of American Democracy.
The Trump Administration has arguably pushed the enve­lope on every square inch­ing of the process, to see what rule he could breach, what law he could break to enrich and fur­ther empow­er him­self and his children.
It is aston­ish­ing how he planned the whole thing and exe­cut­ed it to a “T.” When it became clear that there was one both­er­some lit­tle detail he had not thought through, (the pow­er of the vot­ers), he out­right pushed every square inch of the process to throw out two hun­dred and fifty years of process and make him­self a King.
It was a mas­ter­piece of a plan that seemed designed to upend the American process that has been in exis­tence for well over two hun­dred years, counter it with a Monarchistic sys­tem that the first set­tlers here, and the first pres­i­dent eschewed as anti­thet­i­cal to their ideals.

Donald Trump may not be bright, but if he devised the plan he exe­cut­ed over the last four years, I would rethink my assess­ment of his intel­lec­tu­al capabilities.
♦Leveling racist invec­tives at peo­ple of col­or, unearthing and incit­ing old racist attitudes.
♦Galvanizing a cult fol­low­ing that allowed him to do any­thing he want­ed by doing the first.
♦Weaponizing the cult-fol­low­ing against any­one who dared to oppose him.
♦Chasing dis­senters from the Republican par­ty, neu­ter­ing those who chose to stay.
♦Packing the courts with polit­i­cal lack­eys, many of who have been deemed gross­ly unqual­i­fied by the ABA.
♦Politicizing Government Agencies that ought to oper­ate out­side polit­i­cal inter­fer­ence, à la the Justice Department.
♦Refusing to have Senate appoint­ed cab­i­net, and oth­er picks, opt­ing for act­ing heads instead, more eas­i­ly manipulated.
♦Supporting and encour­ag­ing vio­lent white Nationalist Militias.
♦Continuing to sow dis­cord and divi­sion across racial groups.
♦Encouraging the Police, who are already hat­ed for their bru­tal­i­ty, to bru­tal­ize fur­ther and kill peo­ple of color.
♦Preaching America first, play­ing into American’s arro­gance about their exceptionalism.
♦Isolating America from tra­di­tion­al allies that believe in the rule of law and justice.
♦Cozying up to strong­men and dictators.
♦Etc.….…

If you believe that Donald Trump devised these strate­gies inde­pen­dent­ly, you may need to rethink your assess­ment of him.
Whether these strate­gies were giv­en to him after he was ele­vat­ed to the Presidency or whether they were giv­en to him after­ward is cer­tain­ly not a ques­tion that may be answered at my pay grade.
What is clear, is that these strate­gies have been designed cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly to tear down the estab­lished order and replace it with some­thing else.
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2017, White House chief strate­gist Steve Bannon said that Trump’s cab­i­net picks were intend­ed to “decon­struct the admin­is­tra­tive state,” mean­ing weak­en­ing reg­u­la­to­ry agen­cies and oth­er bureau­crat­ic entities.
When peo­ple speak, we need to pay atten­tion and take them seri­ous­ly. If Government Agencies are weak­ened, it makes it eas­i­er for a total takeover by a chief exec­u­tive that does not believe in the rule of law, and that is exact­ly what Donald Trump did.
Battered, bruised, and bleed­ing, the coun­try’s checks and bal­ances seem to be hold­ing against the onslaught, but just barely.
In Pennsylvania, cer­ti­fy­ing offi­cers loy­al to the Republican par­ty were on the brink of vio­lat­ing their oaths to the con­sti­tu­tion by refus­ing to cer­ti­fy the vote, to cur­ry favor with a dan­ger­ous would-be wannabe dictator.
Members of the Republican Party in the US House and Senate have tak­en steps to help Donald Trump per­pet­u­ate the lie that the elec­tion was rigged even though all of them knew damn well that the elec­tions were prob­a­bly the fairest one in the his­to­ry of the nation. Even though over a month has passed since the National elec­tions were held, many of those Republicans have stead­fast­ly refused to refer to Joe Biden as President-elect.

Others have made them­selves par­ty to friv­o­lous law­suits that have been filed on Trump’s behalf with the sole intent of over­turn­ing the will of the peo­ple and installing in pow­er; instead, a dement­ed, nar­cis­sis­tic sociopath.
His sup­port­ers have called for the exe­cu­tion of the duly elect­ed Democratic Governor of Michigan. They have called for the quar­ter­ing and mur­der of the cyber­se­cu­ri­ty Tzar who over­saw elec­tion secu­ri­ty; his only crime has been to do his job well.
Other elec­tion offi­cials, includ­ing Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State, have been threat­ened with death for not throw­ing out votes and giv­ing Trump the election.
There have been more than enough Republicans who are more than will­ing to destroy the coun­try’s very foun­da­tions to gain and hold polit­i­cal pow­er by and large.
And so we must ask our­selves, why has it been so easy for Trump to har­ness the pow­er of that griev­ance class?
What is the gal­va­niz­ing pow­er that made Donald Trump, Racist, fake bil­lion­aire, con-artiste, wom­an­iz­ing phi­lan­der, a misog­y­nis­tic xeno­phobe, so effec­tive in con­trol­ling almost a hun­dred mil­lion peo­ple who are will­ing to allow him to steal what­ev­er he wants, destroy what­ev­er he wants, and even kill whomev­er he wants, and remain in power?
The next Dictator that the Republican par­ty throws at the coun­try will not fail. Already they are busy decon­struct­ing the most fun­da­men­tal ele­ment of Democracy, the right of cit­i­zens to vote freely and with­out intimidation.
They have sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly put judges on the high­est courts who do not believe that all peo­ple should have the right to vote.
Republican Governors have set about clos­ing down ear­ly vot­ing sites across their states, and lim­it­ing vot­ing to only a few sites in places that have large black and brown populations.
Additionally, they engage in out­ra­geous­ly grotesque ger­ry­man­dered con­gres­sion­al dis­tricts, some­thing they will be back at, hav­ing won a major­i­ty of state­hous­es across the country.
At the high­est court, the Republican major­i­ty in Shelby County VS Holder, all but evis­cer­at­ed the 1965 vot­ing rights Act, on the premise that it has out­lived its usefulness.
The assault against the demo­c­ra­t­ic process has been unprece­dent­ed in my life­time. It is shock­ing to see the lev­el of assault being lev­eled at the process.
The next Republican that comes along and decides to become king will be successful.

In the next arti­cle, we will exam­ine how racial set-asides have char­ac­ter­ized every aspect of American life and has now result­ed in the illog­i­cal griev­ances in some whites that gave rise to the likes of Sarah Palin and Donald Trump. The two intel­lec­tu­al­ly-chal­lenged pop­ulists have man­aged to ignite and har­ness white griev­ance in a way that scares even Republicans.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog mike​beck​les​.com. 
He’s con­tributed to sev­er­al websites.
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Still, we can glimpse a ray of hope in Trump’s swift meta­mor­pho­sis from a direct threat to democ­ra­cy to the butt of jokes about “mas­sive dumps.” There’s an impor­tant les­son here. Authoritarians can­not be shamed or rea­soned with, the way believ­ers in demo­c­ra­t­ic norms typ­i­cal­ly can be. There is no argu­ing author­i­tar­i­ans down, bar­gain­ing with them, or laugh­ing them away. But author­i­tar­i­ans do respond to pow­er. Power is how Trump was final­ly stopped and beat­en, and revealed as the small, strange man he always was. And pow­er is what it will take to stop the rise of American fascism.
Read Amanda Marcotte’s riv­et­ing Dec, 3^rd Article here: https://​www​.salon​.com/​2​0​2​0​/​1​2​/​0​3​/​t​r​u​m​p​s​-​o​u​t​r​a​g​e​o​u​s​-​l​i​e​s​-​u​s​e​d​-​t​o​-​b​e​-​t​e​r​r​i​f​y​ing – now-theyre-just-pathetic/

According to elec­tions offi­cials, over 80 mil­lion Americans vot­ed for Democratic pres­i­den­tial can­di­date, for­mer Vice President Joe Biden, and Vice ‑Presidential can­di­date Senator Kamala Harris.
They also report­ed that 73 mil­lion turned out for the Trump/​Pence ticket.
Both Biden and Trump man­aged to turn out more votes, if not vot­ers, than any oth­er can­di­dates in pres­i­den­tial elec­tion his­to­ry. The secret sauce in this, could be the loathing some har­bor for Trump on the one hand, and on the oth­er, the love oth­ers have for him, and his hate-filled crusade.
Another pos­si­bil­i­ty, or in addi­tion to that, maybe peo­ple will vote if you make it easy for them to do so. Trump and his Republican cohorts have been fight­ing tooth and nail across the coun­try to make it dif­fi­cult for all qual­i­fied Americans to vote.

Republican Legislatures in Pennsylvania, down through the Carolinas to Texas and places far beyond, have enact­ed laws that not only make it dif­fi­cult for peo­ple to vote, but have demon­stra­bly sought to lim­it the vot­ing rights of tens of mil­lions of Americans of color.
Those actions include but are not con­fined to clos­ing down polling places in com­mu­ni­ties of col­or i.e. in African-American com­mu­ni­ties and close to Native-American reservations.
In Texas, the Republican Governor Gregg Abbot unashamed­ly removed all drop box­es except one in Houston, a city heav­i­ly pop­u­lat­ed with Black peo­ple. Removing the drop box­es was designed to make it expo­nen­tial­ly more dif­fi­cult for the state’s res­i­dents to drop off their ballots.
In what was a clear sign of how pol­i­tics has made the American court sys­tem hard­ly dis­tin­guish­able from raw racial, polit­i­cal mud­wrestling, the Texas Republican Appeals court upheld Abbot’s dis­gust­ing and nau­se­at­ing move to dis­en­fran­chise mil­lions of voters.

As we seek to under­stand the mes­sage of the last elec­tions, there is much to pon­der. If 80 mil­lion peo­ple vot­ed for Biden-Harris and the Democratic par­ty, why on God’s green Earth would they not vote to remove the dis­gust­ing old cur­mud­geon Mitch McConnel as Senate Majority leader.
Everyone saw how McConnel obstruct­ed President Obama’s agen­da and, in the final analy­sis, how he cre­at­ed his own rule to block Judge Merrick Garland from receiv­ing a hear­ing for place­ment on the high­est court almost eleven months before the 2016 elections.
He then changed his own rules to place a right-wing reac­tionary in Amey Coney Barrett on the court in the month of the elec­tions as Americans were already voting.
I don’t believe any facts about McConnel would have pre­vent­ed his back­woods sup­port­ers in Kentucky from re-elect­ing him as their senator.
It is their right to elect whomev­er they wish to rep­re­sent them. We expect­ed that more enlight­ened and edu­cat­ed peo­ple across the coun­try would vote to remove him from sen­ate leadership.
How could Democrats and Independents who saw the last four years of Donald Trump and Mitch McConnel’s treach­ery vote to remove Donald Trump but keep Mitch McConnel while reduc­ing the pow­er of Nancy Pelosi?
It makes absolute­ly no sense!

Sure, there is a tiny sliv­er of a chance that some­how, vot­ers in Georgia could hand the sen­ate lead­er­ship to Charles Schumer, but that is a long-shot, in a state that is still a Republican stronghold.
Even if all the forces of runoff elec­tions were to smile on the Democrats come January, it still does not negate the fact that the November vote made no sense.
Why would Democratic and Independent vot­ers not show the same loathing they felt for Trump and his faux Christian side­kick Mike Pence, to House and Senate Republican lead­ers who have enabled him over the last four years.
Why would they vote to empow­er state Republicans in State after state?
The sad real­i­ty is that the Democratic vot­er base may not be as edu­cat­ed as we would like to believe. The num­bers that vot­ed tells one story.
Many peo­ple vot­ed, but did they vote in an edu­cat­ed and informed way out­side of their dis­dain for Donald Trump?
Making it eas­i­er for peo­ple to vote is one thing; get­ting peo­ple to make real­ly informed deci­sions out­side of raw pas­sion is quite another.
The les­son I have gleaned from the elec­tions are stark; they are not what I was hop­ing for, but fail­ing new and sci­en­tif­ic exit polling results emerg­ing, I believe the Republicans focused on not just keep­ing Donald Trump in office; they want­ed to ensure that Trump’s racist and divi­sive poli­cies were solid­i­fied from coun­ty boards all the way through the state­hous­es and all branch­es of the Federal Government.
Seventy-three mil­lion of them want­ed the racism that has char­ac­ter­ized Donald Trump’s divi­sive­ness and racism, to become the new nor­mal in America. They turned out in unprece­dent­ed num­bers to solid­i­fy those beliefs.

There are more Democrats and oth­er vot­ers in America, than those who cast votes for the worst per­son to occu­py the pres­i­den­cy in my life­time. The 2020 elec­tion results bore that out. They vot­ed straight red down the ballot.
Democrats, on the oth­er hand, turned out, and vot­ed by mail, in unprece­dent­ed num­bers; what they lacked, how­ev­er, was the same fer­vor and focus of the racist Trump voters.
They ensured that they boot­ed Donald Trump, but they ignored the oth­er races. They paid no atten­tion to the Senate, nor House, not their own local races.
That fail­ure must be laid sole­ly at the feet of Tom Perez and the Democratic National Committee.
Republicans cleaned up, by being more focused on what was impor­tant to them. It has always been that way; Democrats ignore races in their own com­mu­ni­ties; Republicans do not.
Republicans are Zealots, there are no Democratic leg­is­la­tures or Governors in deep blue states.
That’s why Republicans con­trol state­hous­es, gov­er­nor­ships, and oth­er elect­ed posi­tions even in deep blue states.
Democrats, and to what­ev­er extent there are inde­pen­dent vot­ers, bet­ter wise up real fast; the peo­ple who vote Republican have zero paus­es about turn­ing this 250-year-old exper­i­ment into a total­i­tar­i­an dystopia for every­one except themselves.
Did you hear the elect­ed offi­cials in that par­ty open their mouths to denounce the Russian-style pro­pa­gan­da that was unleashed on the American Democratic process over the last four years?
No?
Then let that be a les­son to you; the pull of priv­i­lege and racial supe­ri­or­i­ty is greater to them than a free and fair soci­ety in which all have an equal shot.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog mike​beck​les​.com. 
He’s con­tributed to sev­er­al websites.
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By Michael Harriot
Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s (R‑Ga.) inces­sant attacks on her Senate oppo­nent, Rev. Raphael Warnock, can all be con­densed to Republican red-meat talk­ing points: Radical ide­ol­o­gy is dan­ger­ous. People who twist the word of God to fur­ther an extrem­ist agen­da should be con­demned. Government hand­outs are ter­ri­ble because America is not a social­ist coun­try; it is a democ­ra­cy. Conservative prin­ci­ples, fam­i­ly val­ues and hard work are what made this coun­try great. Faith is good. Crime, bad. Freedom. Troops. Jesus.

I can’t believe I’m say­ing this, but I agree with Kelly Loeffler.

She’s absolute­ly right. A true Christian would nev­er vote for a reli­gious fanat­ic who preached an anti-American agen­da. A real American would always hon­or the brave men and women who fight for our free­doms. The American dream should only come through hard work, so we should do away with this “vic­tim men­tal­i­ty.” Instead of cel­e­brat­ing thugs, celebri­ties and peo­ple who use iden­ti­ty pol­i­tics, we should be fos­ter­ing a cul­ture that hon­ors cit­i­zens who achieved suc­cess by merit.

This is what the America-lov­ing patri­ots in the GOP stand for. If the peo­ple in Georgia were actu­al­ly con­ser­v­a­tive Christians, they would love any­one who embod­ied these val­ues and hate any­one who didn’t.

A true patri­ot would love Raphael Warnock.

A real Republican would hate Kelly Loeffler.

Warnock ver­sus the Welfare Queen

One of Georgia’s sen­ate can­di­dates was raised in the Christian tra­di­tion by a vet­er­an who start­ed his own busi­ness after serv­ing our coun­try. This American patri­ot found a way to escape pover­ty through edu­ca­tion and faith in Jesus Christ. One can­di­date has an unim­peach­able record of com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice. One can­di­date has fought for reli­gious free­dom and lived a faith-filled, scan­dal-free life.

Read more here:https://​www​.the​root​.com/​k​e​l​l​y​-​l​o​e​f​f​l​e​r​-​a​n​d​-​t​h​e​-​g​o​p​-​s​h​o​u​l​d​-​d​e​n​o​u​n​c​e​-​g​e​o​r​g​i​a​s​-​r​a​d​-​1​8​4​5​7​8​1​826

Now that Donald Trump is on his way out the door and a real president is slated to take office, look for the lying hypocrites in the Republican party to start yapping like rabid dogs, picking away at everything that the new administration attempts do.
Not a single one of them had the balls or character to open their pie holes as Donald Trump hammered away at the columns of the Republic, but they will be out second-guessing and blocking at every turn.

Already the mon­grel behav­ior is under­way, enter the pres­i­dent-elec­t’s announced choic­es for his cab­i­net, a cab­i­net that does not yet exist, because he will not be pres­i­dent for rough­ly anoth­er two months. However, that did not stop the anti-democ­ra­cy zom­bies from rais­ing their heads; Marco Rubio, the lit­tle dimwit from Florida, tweet­ed out that Biden’s picks were; quote“polite and order­ly care­tak­ers of American decline.”
You know this fool had noth­ing to say when this was the best he could come up with; what does that even mean? What does that even mean when the last four years are considered/​Where was this squir­rel­ly lit­tle fool over the last four years?
I mean, can you believe this? Rubio was too chick­en shit pet­ri­fied of Donald Trump to speak, but now the lit­tle Cuban has got­ten his voice?
Rubio, who hates him­self for being Hispanic, and his cohort in Texas Raphael, who goes around using the name [Ted], to try to fool peo­ple into believ­ing he is white, is just as repul­sive as Rubio in the feal­ty to the con artiste occu­pant of the white house. What pathet­ic lit­tle b*****s?

Then there is Tom Cotton from Arkansas, anoth­er one who sees him­self as pres­i­den­tial tim­ber. He respond­ed to Biden’s picks as “pan­da hug­gers who will only rein­force Biden’s instincts to go soft on China.”
Where was this racist fool when Trump was going soft on Russia and North Korea and Saudia Arabia’s Prince Ben Salman for hav­ing Jamal Khashoggi cut into lit­tle pieces?
This is the same racist fool who said US founders viewed slav­ery as a “nec­es­sary evil upon which the union was built.” That clum­sy blun­der revealed Cotton’s pathet­ic soul, who he real­ly is, if any­one did not already know.
This is the same Tom Cotton who told a local Arkansas news­pa­per that he rejects the idea that America was a sys­tem­i­cal­ly racist coun­try to its core.
I guess the KKK chap­ters, and the white mili­tias oper­at­ing in the back­woods of his state and all across America are boys scouts chap­ters. Cotton then lied that he was­n’t defend­ing slavery.

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Cotton intro­duced the Saving American History Act, aimed at stop­ping fund­ing for 1619, an ini­tia­tive which bases US his­to­ry teach­ing around the first arrivals of slave ships in the US in August of that year.
In a new York Oped, Tom Cotton exco­ri­at­ed peace­ful demon­stra­tions that sprung up after George Floyd was mur­dered, char­ac­ter­iz­ing them as an orgy of vio­lence and backed Donald Trump’s threat to use Federal Troops to quell peace­ful demonstrations.
Cotton’s arti­cle was wide­ly crit­i­cized, and more than 800 Times employ­ees signed a let­ter denounc­ing its pub­li­ca­tion, say­ing it con­tained misinformation.
The news­pa­per lat­er apol­o­gized, say­ing the piece fell below its edi­to­r­i­al stan­dards. Opinion edi­tor James Bennet resigned as a result. These are the peo­ple jock­ey­ing to be the next Donald Trump.

There is no longer a Republican par­ty; what exists in its place is a racist, fas­cist par­ty, that does not believe in Democracy. A par­ty that should no longer be trust­ed with the reins of governance.
Look for the Republicans to sud­den­ly find their voic­es and start crit­i­ciz­ing every­thing that the new admin­is­tra­tion does, nev­er mind that they have all been silent over the last four years.
Donald Trump set out to sin­gle-hand­ed­ly destroy two and a half cen­turies of a Democratic exper­i­ment; not a damn one of them had the char­ac­ter to stand up and defend America.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer police Detective cor­po­ral, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer,
he is a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog chatt​-​a​-box​.com. 
He’s also a con­trib­u­tor to sev­er­al websites.
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This could not come too soon. Clearly, some of the Democrats in lead­er­ship posi­tions are a lit­tle bet­ter than cor­po­rate Republicans. They get elect­ed in blue states where large amounts of minori­ties vote over­whelm­ing­ly for them.
Despite that loy­al­ty shown to them and the Democratic par­ty, these elect­ed offi­cials have pre­cious lit­tle in com­mon with their constituents.
On the one hand, they are incred­i­bly weak, feck­less, and afraid to stand up to the Republicans who hate the migrant com­mu­ni­ty. On the oth­er, they are chum­my with the Republicans even when they act in ways that are incon­tro­vert­ibly in oppo­si­tion to Democratic principles.
Dianne Feinstein is one such Democrat whose time has come and gone. Not only should she step away from the Judiciary Committee, but she should also make way for a younger Senator from the great state of California who is more in tune with the younger gen­er­a­tion and their needs.

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Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein (CA) announced Monday that she would not seek a Senate Judiciary Committee posi­tion in the new Congress.

Feinstein’s tenure as the rank­ing mem­ber has been fraught with com­plaints by Democrats for refus­ing to chal­lenge Republicans in the com­mit­tee about President Donald Trump’s recent Supreme Court appointee. Once the hear­ing had fin­ished, Feinstein thanked com­mit­tee chair Sen. Lindsey Graham (R‑SC), say­ing, “This has been one of the best Senate hear­ings I have par­tic­i­pat­ed in.”

Progressives felt it legit­imized a process that flew in the face of the GOP-imposed rule that no pres­i­dent could appoint a Supreme Court Justice in the final year of his or her pres­i­den­cy. It was a rule Republicans invent­ed after for­mer Justice Antonin Scalia died sud­den­ly. But even after invent­ing the rule, Republicans refused to play by it, appoint­ing Amy Coney Barrett after the death of leg­endary Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D‑IL) is next in line for the chairmanship.

The 87-year-old California Democrat is one of few on the com­mit­tee who nev­er attend­ed law school.

(Originated from Rawstory)

Donald Trump is not the bright­est bulb in the shed, far from it.…. but he is not that dumb to believe that he won the elec­tion that he lost hand­i­ly. Donald Trump holds the belief that some­how he was wronged in 2016 when the Democrats ques­tioned his win. In fact, Donald Trump believes that the past four years has been one con­tin­u­ous ques­tion mark against his presidency.
In brief, that is exact­ly why he decid­ed to cast doubt on the Biden win, and he will con­tin­ue to smear the pres­i­den­cy of Joe Biden with every bit of ener­gy in his body.
Donald Trump is a small man in a big man’s body; in his small mind, he believes his actions after the elec­tions was his way of get­ting back at the Democrats.
The jury s still out, and will still be out, on what harm Trump’s actions will have on the nation going forward.

But how were the Democrats sup­posed to act when thir­teen Intelligence Agencies said that the Russians inter­fered in the elec­tions on Trump’s behalf, and Donald Trump said he did­n’t believe them.
How were peo­ple sup­posed to feel after the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak was in the oval office with Trump, and only Russian media right after he took office and fired Jim Comey, the FBI Director?
Not only was Trump ham­ming it up with the Russians, but he also berat­ed the for­mer FBI Director to them. It was a shock­ing dis­play of unpa­tri­o­tism to the aver­age observ­er; here was an American pres­i­dent berat­ing his own coun­try­man, a pre­vi­ous­ly high­ly placed pub­lic ser­vant to foreigners.
I shed no tears for Jim Comey; for all, we know Comey may have helped to give us Donald Trump when he decid­ed to reopen inves­ti­ga­tions in October of 2016 in Hillary Clinton’s e‑mails.
James Comey reopened an inves­ti­ga­tion and made dam­ag­ing pub­lic state­ments after he con­clud­ed that there was no evi­dence of crim­i­nal wrong­do­ing by the for­mer Secretary, in the fraud­u­lent e‑mail scan­dal dredged up by Jim Jordon of Ohio and Trey Goudy of South Carolina.
James Comey should have made no state­ments against Hillary Clinton. If he had no evi­dence to pros­e­cute her on, he had no right to make com­ments against her. His actions were prej­u­di­cial and extreme­ly harm­ful to Secretary Clinton and her campaign.
James Comey vast­ly over­stepped his bound, and he should nev­er be entrust­ed with any gov­ern­ment posi­tion ever again.

Since he took office, Donald Trump’s actions have been noth­ing, if not def­er­en­tial and almost servile to the inter­est of Russia and Vladimir Putin, Russia’s despot­ic total­i­tar­i­an leader. He left the Paris cli­mate accord, dis­re­spect­ed Nato lead­ers, but praised Putin, Duterte, Erdogan, Kim Jung Un, and oth­er despots.
Most shock­ing­ly, Donald Trump says he sees no rea­son why Russia would inter­fere in the 2016 elec­tion. His com­ments came dur­ing a joint press con­fer­ence with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.
Donald Trump’s deci­sion to seek to dig up dirt on then the still unde­clared pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Joe Biden in Ukraine got him impeached; the irony in that is that not only did it get him impeached, but it also drew Biden into the fray, and Biden beat his ass by a wide mar­gin on November 3^rd.
More than the dam­age Trump’s actions have had on him; per­son­al­ly, his actions jeop­ar­dized America’s strate­gic long-term inter­est in Ukraine when he decid­ed to with­hold des­per­ate­ly need­ed mil­i­tary aid that was need­ed to keep an aggres­sive Russian leader and his mil­i­tary at bay.
The aver­age American may nev­er know the full extent of Donald Trump’s treach­ery against the United States, but I believe that the intel­li­gence ser­vices are well aware of his actions.

For those rea­sons, Trump’s vin­dic­tive [lit­tle stunt] in hold­ing up the Biden tran­si­tion and seek­ing to cast doubt on the elec­tions’ valid­i­ty is to be condemned.
Donald Trump nev­er cared about the coun­try; to him, the coun­try was only as good as long as he could milk it for what­ev­er he could. The jury is still out on whether he real­ly want­ed to be pres­i­dent, but once he won, and tast­ed real pow­er, he was smit­ten. He did not care enough about America if it meant that he would not be allowed to dis­re­gard the demo­c­ra­t­ic norms that have exist­ed for over two and a half cen­turies by remain­ing in office.
If he can­not stay in office, he will burn the whole damn thing down.
The sad real­i­ty is that 73 mil­lion peo­ple were will­ing to sus­pend real­i­ty and pre­tend that the naked king was ful­ly clothed in imag­i­nary finery.
Despite all his lies and extreme cru­el­ty they ignored them and pre­tend­ed not to care. White so-called evan­gel­i­cals see this grifter as the sec­ond com­ing of Jesus Christ; some even said their God sent him.
A lying grifter who cheat­ed on his wife with a pros­ti­tute, while his wife was at home hav­ing just giv­en birth, a man who bragged about vio­lat­ing the pri­va­cy rights of young and vul­ner­a­ble women in his pageants.
A degen­er­ate who bragged about grab­bing women by their gen­i­talia, locked chil­dren in jails, cel­e­brates white suprema­cists, is will­ing to veto a defense spend­ing bill, because it has in it, lan­guage that would remove con­fed­er­ate gen­er­al’s names from US mil­i­tary bases, cas­ti­gates black women as low IQ, and labels black men sons of bitches.

Donald Trump is the pain from the dis­ease that eats away at the under­bel­ly of America. He was at least smart enough to real­ize that there was a vein of hatred, resent­ment, and griev­ance on which to run. He knew that if he lied about his wealth, there were enough racist whites who would believe him; why not? They believed they were supe­ri­or to the enslaved black peo­ple dur­ing slav­ery, even though they them­selves were enslaved, albeit under a dif­fer­ent des­ig­na­tion (bonds­men).
He knew if he said he was against abor­tions, he would get the sanc­ti­mo­nious hyp­ocrites who call them­selves evan­gel­i­cals. Their only con­cern in life is to stop babies from being abort­ed, but God for­bid that the moth­er asks for some food to feed the rapist’s baby she is forced to bring to term, and all of a sud­den, that’s a bridge too far.
Trump knew enough about their hatred for Blacks, so all he had to do was play up his white suprema­cist bona fides and he would have a cult fol­low­ing. Sure, Trump is a despi­ca­ble racist, but his brazen play at white suprema­cy is designed to solid­i­fy and hold the igno­rant racist evan­gel­i­cal right-wing nut­ters that grav­i­tate to him.
Despite every­thing, he did over the last four years, rather than step back from his lies, cru­el­ty, and deceit, they turned out in even larg­er num­bers and tried to re-elect the buf­foon of a naked emperor.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog mike​beck​les​.com. 
He’s con­tributed to sev­er­al websites.
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The media fails the American peo­ple; even as tele­vi­sion net­works and cable chan­nels do 24-hour about the COVID-19 virus, it is not appro­pri­ate­ly inform­ing the coun­try that Donald Trump’s reck­less and self­ish Presidential ral­lies were, in fact, super-spread­ing events.

HERE IS A LIST OF SOME OF THE NOTABLES WHO HAVE BEEN INFECTED WITH THE COVID-19 VIRUS.

• Hope Hicks, a coun­selor to Donald Trump, test­ed pos­i­tive for the coro­n­avirus. Stephen Miller. Jalen Drummond. Admiral Charles Ray. Jayna McCarran. An unnamed White House Valet. Chad Gilmartin. Kayleigh Mcenany. Utah Senator Mike Lee. Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson. RNC chair Ronna McDaniel. Caroline Leavitt. Bill Stepien. North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis. Trump coun­selor Kellyanne Conway. Chris Christie. John Jenkins. Nicholas Luna.

Donald Trump know­ing­ly car­ried out a cam­paign as if there was no pan­dem­ic, he was warned about the dan­gers long before the nation knew how dan­ger­ous the virus would be.
As now President-elect Joe Biden cam­paigned vir­tu­al­ly, Trump mocked him for cam­paign­ing from his base­ment. His band of syco­phants ignored the warn­ings, decid­ed against wear­ing face masks, and went about life as their moron­ic leader said they should.
Each and every per­son who attend­ed those events made them­selves poten­tial vic­tims as well as spread­ers of the virus.
Trump’s incred­i­bly reck­less and self­ish dis­dain for sci­ence will res­onate long after he is removed from office.
More and more peo­ple will die.….even as he has lost but still self­ish­ly works to sub­vert the process, lead­ing to more and more deaths.….And the Republican nation is death­ly silent, death­ly acqui­es­cent as he wrecks the Republic and tens of thou­sands die.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog mike​beck​les​.com. 
He’s con­tributed to sev­er­al websites.
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This arti­cle orig­i­nal­ly appeared on Raw Story

Ethics experts asked the Senate Ethics Committee on Wednesday to look into Sen. Lindsey Graham’s phone call last week with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, CNN reported.
The three experts — Walter Shaub, a for­mer top ethics watch­dog for the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment, Richard Painter, the chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush’s admin­is­tra­tion, and Claire Finkelstein, the direc­tor of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law — are ask­ing the Senate to look into whether or not Graham made a sug­ges­tion that Raffensperger “dis­en­fran­chise Georgia vot­ers by not count­ing votes law­ful­ly cast for the office of president.”

The let­ter reflect­ed, in part: “If these alle­ga­tions are true, Senator Graham’s con­duct con­sti­tutes an abuse of office and con­duct unbe­com­ing of a sen­a­tor. For the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee to sug­gest to a state Secretary of State that he refrain from count­ing law­ful votes threat­ens the elec­toral process and dam­ages rep­re­sen­ta­tive democ­ra­cy. The Senate Select Committee should inves­ti­gate this mat­ter and, if it finds Chairman Graham com­mit­ted the alleged mis­con­duct, seek an appro­pri­ate sanc­tion or any oth­er appro­pri­ate remedy.”

The let­ter con­tin­ued, “Secretary Raffensperger’s alle­ga­tion describes extreme mis­con­duct and abuse of sen­a­to­r­i­al author­i­ty. This alleged attempt by Senator Graham to throw the elec­tion for President Trump after the fact by encour­ag­ing the very fraud he pur­ports to be inves­ti­gat­ing threat­ens the fab­ric of our nation by under­min­ing the very thing that makes it a repub­lic, our elec­tions. Even if the com­mit­tee believes only Senator Graham’s account, his call to the state elec­tion offi­cial dur­ing an ongo­ing vote count amounts to mis­con­duct. These alleged acts com­mit­ted by Senator Graham bring dis­cred­it and dis­hon­or upon the Senate and con­sti­tute con­duct unbe­com­ing of a United States Senator. Therefore, we urge the com­mit­tee to open an inves­ti­ga­tion of Senator Graham at once and, if it finds the con­duct occurred as alleged, take the strongest action with­in its author­i­ty to address mis­con­duct by a mem­ber of the Senate.”
Read the let­ter here: https://​assets​.doc​u​ment​cloud​.org/​d​o​c​u​m​e​n​t​s​/​2​0​4​1​2​4​7​2​/​e​t​h​i​c​s​-​c​o​m​p​l​a​i​n​t​-​s​e​n​a​t​o​r​-​l​i​n​d​s​e​y​-​o​-​g​r​a​h​a​m​2​.​pdf

President-elect Joe Biden leads by near­ly 148,000 votes in Michigan; nev­er­the­less, two Republican Yahoos who drank from the bit­ter cup of Donald Trump’s deceit, decid­ed to hold the largest coun­ty in the state, [which includes Detroit], the heav­i­ly African-American strong­hold hostage.

Monica Palmer & William Hartmann.

Monica Palmer and William Hartmann are the two Trump syco­phants who make up the four-mem­ber pan­el of can­vassers and two Democrats. The four had the respon­si­bil­i­ty to cer­ti­fy the vote in Wayne County, includ­ing the heav­i­ly African-American city of Detroit.
The two Democrats vot­ed to cer­ti­fy the vote but not Palmer and Hartmann, who claimed that impro­pri­ety alle­ga­tions made it impos­si­ble to cer­ti­fy the vote.
According to The Detroit News, the ini­tial dead­lock came after “absen­tee bal­lot poll books at 70% of Detroit’s 134 absen­tee count­ing boards were found to be out of bal­ance with­out expla­na­tion. The mis­match­es var­ied any­where from one to more than four votes.” But the Secretary of State said that wasn’t an indi­ca­tion of fraud.

After a zoom con­fer­ence dur­ing which pub­lic offi­cials and cit­i­zens made it clear that not cer­ti­fy­ing the vote would not be tol­er­at­ed, Hartman and Palmer went back and vot­ed to cer­ti­fy the vote.
It is remark­able the lengths that Republican bureau­crats are will­ing to go to demon­strate their loy­al­ty to a lying, dem­a­gogue, instead of demon­strat­ing fideli­ty to the United States Constitution.
However, no one should be sur­prised by this; over 71 mil­lion of them turned out to reelect the very same immoral and amoral creature.
If there is any good that can be sal­vaged after that real­i­ty check, it is the fact that almost 79 mil­lion stood up and said, “not on our watch.”

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog mike​beck​les​.com. 
He’s con­tributed to sev­er­al websites.
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