Raises questions? It should be raising special prosecutors.
The Electoral College is at fault.
They must be ended.
The wÅrd:
klepto-kakistocracy
We have lost the moral high ground in matters of world opinion and we will never get it back. There are those in foreign capitals who rejoice in this. As our moral influence fades we will, of necessity, have to rely more on our weapons. Odd sort of turn of events, but not entirely unexpected.
I came across kakistocracy just the other day, and itās the only one to describe whatās unfolding. āGovernment by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.ā Or āgovernment by the worst people.ā Which is a far cry from the ābest peopleā we were promised. When we inevitably hear rump say if a president does it it means itās not illegal, then weāll know weāre in a world of hurt.
I donāt know if itās worse, but I think itās at least equally bad that this confirms us as a society that perennially chooses naive, ideological or stupid leaders, and is now wedded to a mentally ill would-be strongman ignoramus bunko artist. We gained some good will back with Obama, but now weāve lurched further into stupidity and recklessness than ever. I just donāt see how leaders around the world would want to trust us or enter into long-term alliances and other relationships. If we repented of this and somehow cleared it up before the inauguration I think it would still hurt us for decades.
Kelcy Warren, CEO of Dallas-based Energy Transfer, expects Trump to make it easier for his company and others to complete infrastructure projects yet he also claims if youāre in the infrastructure business you need consistency. Somebody should remind him about the eight year long GOP opposition to any and all infrastructure spending and then ask him to reconcile his two statements.
LOL///TRUMP using the office for personal gainā¦is a āconcernāā¦btwā¦also reported hereā¦(as i predicted),whichā¦actually wasnt hard to doā¦trump has no intention of EVER reading anything put in front of himā¦be it national intelligence briefings or the latest KKK magazineā¦thats why he relies on his vindictive son in law and the house white supremacistā¦but
my point is look at how joshā¦is attacking the effort to actually count the votes in states won under very questionableā¦meansā¦funny how josh can find NO evidence of itā¦when i spent hours reading ALL about itā¦
but why attackā¦that and give a free ride to trump?
trump has conflict of interests everywhere. I cannot see how he makes it 4 years.
Heās a republican so he has the memory of a gnat.
Oh, kwticherbellyachin! Didnāt you know that Trump cared all about his business and money before he was elected? You expect him to change? /s
I think the recount should be done regardless of whether the advance analysis shows hard evidence. There is enough aberration and suspicion in this whole campaign and election to warrant a closer look. It would help with acceptance either way it comes out. And provide a forum to discuss what a āmandateā means or doesnāt in the circumstances.
And we need to face up to how easily the populace overall was duped by fake news and lazy journalism.
Justifies a return to teaching Civics and critical thinking, or at least Iād like to think so, dreamer that I am.
Sometimes I wonder if even just teaching that governments have a useful role to play in human affairs is an achievable goal. I do agree, seriously, part of the solution could be found in better education, assuming there were some national way to do that LIKE SAY COMMON CORE oh who am I kidding.
This is a little off topic, but I thought that I would share it, because I didnāt see any mention of it yet on TPM:
Trumpās grandfather ākicked out of Germany for avoiding military serviceā
It appears that Chiselinā Trumpās draft-dodging ways run in his family.
Oh for the love of god, get serious. Huge numbers of Americans have this in the family tree. I sure do.
Yeah but did any of your ancestors also run a whore house in AK during the Gold Rush, and still couldnāt make it work?
OK, weāll revisit that when you run for president.
The conflicts of interest just go on an on. Was any of this a secret before Nov 8?
Wait until he pisses off Putin and he gets the Hillary propaganda fake news treatment.
Republican establishment will impeach Trump in year 1 and their guy takes the White House. The Dems are less a threat to Drumpf than Putin and the Republicans.
Donnie has a lot of enemies.
No President in history has so much cowardice, KKK members, or rapes than the Trumpās. If America was smart weād expel crooked Donnie and send him back to Germany!