True. But at least somebody has realized there is a Libertarian candidate and he's going to be in a debate with Warnock. Walker has not agreed to participate, so there may be an empty podium. Remember that in 2020 the 38,000 votes collected by Jo jorgensen were way more than Trump was looking for and it was the Libertarians that prompted the run-off elections that chose Ossoff and Warnock on January 3, 2021. In addition to independent candidates, there are rules in place to accommodate minor parties. That they get no publicity is not the fault of the bureaucracy. Mostly the press and campaign financiers are to blame. For a person to get elected in Georgia, more than 50% of the vote has to be collected. As it turns out, Raffensperger got elected in a run-off because Democrats were not paying attention.
From the article: "Our duty today is to our country and our children and our Constitution,” said Cheney. She said this by way of introducing a resolution to subpoena Trump to testify. The committee approved it on a dramatic and unanimous role-call vote.
Trump will likely refuse to appear, though one hopes against hope he does. This moment cries out for accountability. That loser’s weakness has brought America to a crisis as critical in its way to our continued viability as the one another generation faced eight decades ago. They had to find the courage to send their sons across the seas, to scrimp and save and bear unimaginable loss. We are asked only to find the courage to accept the truth."
Rachel Maddow has a podcast entitled "Ultra" about a fascist movement in 1940 that sort of got swamped by the attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entry into the war. Events getting swamped by subsequent events is an interescting concept. it is what happened to the civil rights advances of the 1960s and early 1970s which got sort of erased from the national memory bank by Watergate.
I remember the civil rights movement quite clearly. One example: While I was away at college I continued to get my hometown newspaper, which covered the Newberry's lunch counter sit-in. Forty-eight hours after the sit-in began, the lunch counter was integrated. Twenty-four hours later every restaurant in town was integrated. Civil rights movement. I never thought Watergate was a big a deal as people were making out. Watergate happened and Nixon was reelected. As far as I could see, the only things that came out later were that he actually hadn't known about it in advance and he cussed in the privacy of his own office.
So, the reply function is really sluggish, but to Susan's point about Trump's collections, I do not thing "raising" is a good term. Besides that, I do not credit anything Trump reports. That said, it seems obvious that some people get a kick out of being addressed by a famous person and, given that people spend $95 BILLION a year on lottery tickets, what they are sending to Trump is peanuts. Moreover, if he is spending as fast as it comes in, that is a good thing. It is called currency because it is designed to circulate.
Some notes on the last thread.
ReplyDeleteVanity Fair: Inside the S--tshow That Was the Trump-Biden Transition [Click] Wow.
ReplyDeleteThe Perfect Candidate for a Fallen Party [Click] “Herschel Walker perfectly illustrates where Trump has taken the GOP”
ReplyDeleteTrue. But at least somebody has realized there is a Libertarian candidate and he's going to be in a debate with Warnock. Walker has not agreed to participate, so there may be an empty podium.
DeleteRemember that in 2020 the 38,000 votes collected by Jo jorgensen were way more than Trump was looking for and it was the Libertarians that prompted the run-off elections that chose Ossoff and Warnock on January 3, 2021.
In addition to independent candidates, there are rules in place to accommodate minor parties. That they get no publicity is not the fault of the bureaucracy. Mostly the press and campaign financiers are to blame.
For a person to get elected in Georgia, more than 50% of the vote has to be collected.
As it turns out, Raffensperger got elected in a run-off because Democrats were not paying attention.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-spent-91-cents-raise-010746136.html
ReplyDeletehttps://www.yahoo.com/news/no-longer-america-brave-until-190149516.html
ReplyDeleteFrom the article: "Our duty today is to our country and our children and our Constitution,” said Cheney. She said this by way of introducing a resolution to subpoena Trump to testify. The committee approved it on a dramatic and unanimous role-call vote.
Trump will likely refuse to appear, though one hopes against hope he does. This moment cries out for accountability. That loser’s weakness has brought America to a crisis as critical in its way to our continued viability as the one another generation faced eight decades ago. They had to find the courage to send their sons across the seas, to scrimp and save and bear unimaginable loss. We are asked only to find the courage to accept the truth."
Rachel Maddow has a podcast entitled "Ultra" about a fascist movement in 1940 that sort of got swamped by the attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entry into the war.
DeleteEvents getting swamped by subsequent events is an interescting concept. it is what happened to the civil rights advances of the 1960s and early 1970s which got sort of erased from the national memory bank by Watergate.
I remember the civil rights movement quite clearly. One example: While I was away at college I continued to get my hometown newspaper, which covered the Newberry's lunch counter sit-in. Forty-eight hours after the sit-in began, the lunch counter was integrated. Twenty-four hours later every restaurant in town was integrated. Civil rights movement.
DeleteI never thought Watergate was a big a deal as people were making out. Watergate happened and Nixon was reelected. As far as I could see, the only things that came out later were that he actually hadn't known about it in advance and he cussed in the privacy of his own office.
That's well said, Susan!
DeleteSo, the reply function is really sluggish, but to Susan's point about Trump's collections, I do not thing "raising" is a good term. Besides that, I do not credit anything Trump reports.
ReplyDeleteThat said, it seems obvious that some people get a kick out of being addressed by a famous person and, given that people spend $95 BILLION a year on lottery tickets, what they are sending to Trump is peanuts. Moreover, if he is spending as fast as it comes in, that is a good thing. It is called currency because it is designed to circulate.