Yeah. He doesn’t care about the popular vote because his people are focusing on the electoral votes. Nowhere near enough news happening on this front. The polls aren’t the news. The electoral college is the news.
He's never won the popular vote. In 2016 he won the Electoral College through just a few thousand key votes in key states. In 2020 he tried to move a few more key votes even though he had zero chance of a popular majority: a few votes in key states could win the Electoral College.
And this time around, he's ignoring the American people. He's targeting those who can help him cheat his way into the Oval Office.
The Rspublicans have been working on this for a long time, along with jerrmandering. Yes, both parties have, but the Reps. seem to have put more effort into it. And Donald is pushing even harder to manipilate the voting... but we know, manipilation is his specialty.
... it's how he has appeared 'successful'. If he wasn't so good at manipulating the legal system, he would not be where he is now.
Of all the horrendous things this pathologic weasel of a human being Donald Trump has done, perhaps the worst is his destruction of confidence in elections for years and decades to come. It undermines democracy and who we are as a country.
A sense of a common shared decency prevailed until the contract on America, since then it been hyperbolic outrage and demonization of democrats, that has morphed into an outrage against democracy itself since even though there is systemic attacks on voting rights and computerized systematic gerrymandering in red states at a level of efficiency previously technologically unobtainable. If it wasn’t for the electoral college the last majority win for “republicans” was in 2004. Gerrymandering has created the conditions where there is no need for compromise, only ideological extremism, which only engenders more extremism. Sad.
It has gotten so much worse since Trump came on the scene. I suspect this is partially because news has become entertainment and dominated by cable channels just in it to make a buck, but I also think there are a lot of people who’s primary interaction with the world is though a screen (TV,PC or Cell phone) all of these have been shown to be like narcotics as far as shutting down people’s critical thought. We need to foster community, get to know our neighbors, and quit being so dang angry.
Right now I’m holding onto a slim thread of hope that the Robinson spectacle might throw NC into the ring for a swing state. Speaking with friends there they are also hopeful. Putting NC in play might honestly help.
Mary, I think the scariest part of the scheme is that he could win by a landslide or lose by one and it won't matter if they refuse to certify on whatever whim they come up with. He knows the whole game relies on the inability to certify swing states. Votes truly don't matter if they refuse to allow them to be counted.
Stop certifications and the election is his.
No wonder he's playing golf instead of campaigning. He really doesn't need votes.
I’m terrified by this. My hope is that Democrats have legal plans, but aren’t releasing them. 🤞. His f—-ing Supreme Court will back him, even if he loses.
Dems have a ton of lawyers working on this already. One important difference, this time he is NOT in the White House.
In fact it’s even better since Biden withdrew, if he was still the candidate Trump would accuse him of playing politics, but it is harder to make that case.
DJT will lose by at least 8-11 million votes, so why does the Electoral College have so much say? Congress needed to change that long ago. If DJT gets in, that means a terrorist, felon, and traitor would be president. How un-American & un-Constitutional. -- p.s.- Yell 'fire' in a crowded theatre and get arrested; but DJT lies, and causes threats, death and destruction with his words, and 'nothing' happens to him. WHY? He should plainly be in jail- period!
Republican Party? More like Regressive Party. Remember when they used to be the “Law and Order" Party? Now they’re the party that tries to overthrow elections, shreds the Constitution, and nominates a convicted felon for President of the United States. They are a party full of enablers and cultists, led by an orange cancer. Hopefully, Kamala Harris can put a stop to this once and for all.
She could be the surgeon that excises the tumor and the chemotherapy that prevents its return. Heard that Cheetolini said he won’t run in 2028 if he loses, find that hard to believe, politics has been his most successful grift, and his whole family is in on it. Pathetic.
Totally agree, Quizzically Bemused. What’s the grifters motto? My guess is: “Follow the money. And grab all you can.” I would assume that’s what is says on the degenerate liar's monogramed towels in his shitty hotels.
Agreed. And he’s also firing up his militia and aiming them at the Jews if he loses. Jews, Haitians, etc.
I was thinking today that his goal is create enough chaos to stall the declared results of the election until after his court date for sentencing (Nov. 18 ?) because he wants to dismiss all charges.
Please stop referring to the right wing fascists as Conservatives! They are not Conservatives they are Nazis. I expect that kind of weak kneed writing from the MSM but not from you. Call it like it is!
I noticed this with sociopaths, and oddly you see it in the James Bond films and the original Batman TV series. The criminals always confess their crime step by step before they commit it. Weird, huh?
Your uncle has nothing to hide from voters, because he always WANTS them to know exactly how they get screwed, to make sure they realize what happened, when he finally does it to them.
A lot of money going into the GOP has disappeared, and we assumed it has gone to Ol' PumpkinHead's personal use.
But, what if it's being held to pay lawyers for them to challenge the results in court? What if they printed up fake ballots? I know that's probably stupid as ballots are serial numbered like cheques.
But, you are right, he is gloating about something he cannot contain within himself - and it hasn't happened yet.
DJT will lose by at least 8-11 million votes, so why does the Electoral College have so much say? Congress needed to change that long ago. If DJT gets in, that means a terrorist, felon, and traitor would be president. How un-American & un-Constitutional. -- p.s.- Yell 'fire' in a crowded theatre and get arrested; but DJT lies, and causes threats, death and destruction with his words, and 'nothing' happens to him. WHY? He should plainly be in jail- period!
DT wants people to know what he’s going to do to them before he does it, one reason in my mind, because he’s bragging and bloviating in advance. He just can’t wait to show his imaginary non-skill, skills. He’s self worshipping, which is the same as breathing to him. I also think that somewhere in his incredibly broken mind, he thinks everyone is either a little, or a lot, stupid, so he has to give us hints about his upcoming brilliant fancy footwork, to make sure we don’t miss it. I have a mental image of the orange menace trying to do something like a Mohammad Ali boxing shuffle, in a very bad way. Like a not naturally coordinated or rhythmic person trying to do the moonwalk or the floss dance move. You can’t see me raising my hand here, can you? Remember how he drank from a water bottle at a rally, as if he’d never learned how to drink from a bottle, or walked down a ramp like he was walking on slippery squishy sponges?
My late father was a lifelong conservative Republican. An Eisenhower Republican, he served in the Navy during World War II, where he met my WAC mom. Dad supported the party his whole life, backing every single Republican candidate except for allowing my sister to convince him to vote for Nader in 2000. (how she pulled that one off is beyond me) But come 2004, he was back in the fold, voting for Junior Bush, McCain, and Romney.
Then came Donald Trump. Trump was a bridge too far for Dad, who despite his atrocious politics was a thoroughly decent man. Back in the ‘90s, while Bill Clinton was busy selling out LGBTQ folks on marriage equality, Dad put his church leadership position on the line by solemnizing the union of my sister and her partner. Told them if they wanted his job, they could have it, but he was standing by his daughter. A genuinely good guy despite his faults.
Like me, Dad could see clearly what kind of person Trump was, partly because neither of us watched the phony TV shows that portrayed him as some kind of genius businessman. Dad voted for Gary Richardson in 2016 - he couldn’t quite bring himself to vote for Hillary. He voted for Biden in 2020.
Dad watched the events of January 6th with tears streaming down his cheeks over what had become of his beloved party. By then he was living with my sister, no longer able to live alone in his little house in the woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. He passed away less than six months later.
I will never forgive your uncle for driving my father from his lifelong political home in his final years. He deserved better, and so do we. You can add this to the list of Donald’s sins.
My dad’s been dead for several years, but Trump is still a piece of shit. He’s better than any of the scum who support him, but that’s not saying much.
Oh my goodness,. Mary!!! The tasks of simply unpacking and tabulating the ballots for preparation for the Machines is tedious enough!! But to go through each ballot,By Hand, it's almost impossible not to have Human Errors! Georgia county election board members are literally, Legally stealing the Votes of hundreds of thousands of registered Voters. Your uncle has no reason to Rally for New Supporters,his cohorts are stealing the election for him. Thank You so very much for the wonderful Works your doing for the American people and Me 💯👍💙🇺🇸🌊🌊🌊
Georgia Republicans insisted on spending millions to purchase voting machines because counting by hand was not accurate. So now, they want counting by hand supposedly to verify the machine counts. Their M.O. is clearly to spread chaos and delay, following their dear leader's handbook. Hopefully, the Harris campaigns attorneys are already on top of cutting through their sedition. Let's call all of this last minute rule changing what it is: Sedition. The GOP is trying to keep my vote, as a Democrat in Georgia, from being counted in a free & fair election.
It seems incomprehensible at this stage in our nations history that we have to be concerned about a presidential race where we are worrying about just how one of the two candidates is going rig, manipulate, cheat and steal the election. And this twice impeached, convicted felon, rapist and fraudster, while still facing one State and two Federal indictments, is the candidate that is running! It begs the question, what in the hell is going on with our countries legal system that has even allowed this political and legal snake to get the nomination to run? Hopefully the popular vote for the Harris / Walz ticket will be so overwhelming that Trump can do absolutely nothing but concede defeat. Then our long 9 year nightmare can end with Trump being prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to a Federal prison where he belongs! If you want to save our democracy, VOTE on or before Nov. 5th!
The frightening thing is he could get zero votes. Literally zero.
If the corrupt MAGA election denying officials currently in place in Georgia and other swing states find a pretense to refuse to certify ( they will try), the state cannot certify the election and it gets tossed to the House with a GOP majority. If the GOP loses the majority, they will find reasons not to swear in the new members until after January 6.
Trump will win.
This is the nightmare scenario they have planned. No wonder Trump's not so worried about winning more votes. He won't need them.
I am sure Trump's fascist Nazi's are working 24/7 on a variety of schemes to take control of the election results to cause chaos, confusion and conflict that will delay and deny a clear and final victory for Kamala Harris. Then the situation will probably get really nasty!
I noticed his words about not needing any more votes every time he's said that and my exact thought each time was that there's cheating in the pipeline for him to "win". He's put it right out in plain sight for everyone to hear. It's obvious what's going on and someone needs to put the kabosh on it right now!!
Yeah. He doesn’t care about the popular vote because his people are focusing on the electoral votes. Nowhere near enough news happening on this front. The polls aren’t the news. The electoral college is the news.
He's never won the popular vote. In 2016 he won the Electoral College through just a few thousand key votes in key states. In 2020 he tried to move a few more key votes even though he had zero chance of a popular majority: a few votes in key states could win the Electoral College.
And this time around, he's ignoring the American people. He's targeting those who can help him cheat his way into the Oval Office.
Is that what America wants or needs?
The Rspublicans have been working on this for a long time, along with jerrmandering. Yes, both parties have, but the Reps. seem to have put more effort into it. And Donald is pushing even harder to manipilate the voting... but we know, manipilation is his specialty.
... it's how he has appeared 'successful'. If he wasn't so good at manipulating the legal system, he would not be where he is now.
Please buy a dictionary.
Not necessary nor kind.
Of all the horrendous things this pathologic weasel of a human being Donald Trump has done, perhaps the worst is his destruction of confidence in elections for years and decades to come. It undermines democracy and who we are as a country.
Yep. We’ve become like countries we read about, with elections in chaos.
A sense of a common shared decency prevailed until the contract on America, since then it been hyperbolic outrage and demonization of democrats, that has morphed into an outrage against democracy itself since even though there is systemic attacks on voting rights and computerized systematic gerrymandering in red states at a level of efficiency previously technologically unobtainable. If it wasn’t for the electoral college the last majority win for “republicans” was in 2004. Gerrymandering has created the conditions where there is no need for compromise, only ideological extremism, which only engenders more extremism. Sad.
It has gotten so much worse since Trump came on the scene. I suspect this is partially because news has become entertainment and dominated by cable channels just in it to make a buck, but I also think there are a lot of people who’s primary interaction with the world is though a screen (TV,PC or Cell phone) all of these have been shown to be like narcotics as far as shutting down people’s critical thought. We need to foster community, get to know our neighbors, and quit being so dang angry.
https://youtu.be/wTjMqda19wk
Papa P u t i n must be so proud of how his boy is behaving, opening up the system and pouring sugar in the tank.
Right now I’m holding onto a slim thread of hope that the Robinson spectacle might throw NC into the ring for a swing state. Speaking with friends there they are also hopeful. Putting NC in play might honestly help.
It helps a ton. Donald is already being forced to spend campaign money there, leaving less for Wisconsin, Michigan etc.
That is the good news I like to hear!
Let's do away with the Electoral College once and for always ithas out lived its usefulness. One person one vote 🗳.
Mayor Pete is working on it let's all help him get it done.
Didn’t know he was working on that. Thank goodness. I’m not surprised though, as he’s a force to be reckoned with. Go Pete!
Mary, I think the scariest part of the scheme is that he could win by a landslide or lose by one and it won't matter if they refuse to certify on whatever whim they come up with. He knows the whole game relies on the inability to certify swing states. Votes truly don't matter if they refuse to allow them to be counted.
Stop certifications and the election is his.
No wonder he's playing golf instead of campaigning. He really doesn't need votes.
I’m terrified by this. My hope is that Democrats have legal plans, but aren’t releasing them. 🤞. His f—-ing Supreme Court will back him, even if he loses.
Dems have a ton of lawyers working on this already. One important difference, this time he is NOT in the White House.
In fact it’s even better since Biden withdrew, if he was still the candidate Trump would accuse him of playing politics, but it is harder to make that case.
Time for " WE THE SANE PEOPLE " TO HAVE A REVOLUTION THAT WON'T BE TELEVISED...PREHAPS!
Sad and very, very scary.
DJT will lose by at least 8-11 million votes, so why does the Electoral College have so much say? Congress needed to change that long ago. If DJT gets in, that means a terrorist, felon, and traitor would be president. How un-American & un-Constitutional. -- p.s.- Yell 'fire' in a crowded theatre and get arrested; but DJT lies, and causes threats, death and destruction with his words, and 'nothing' happens to him. WHY? He should plainly be in jail- period!
Republican Party? More like Regressive Party. Remember when they used to be the “Law and Order" Party? Now they’re the party that tries to overthrow elections, shreds the Constitution, and nominates a convicted felon for President of the United States. They are a party full of enablers and cultists, led by an orange cancer. Hopefully, Kamala Harris can put a stop to this once and for all.
She could be the surgeon that excises the tumor and the chemotherapy that prevents its return. Heard that Cheetolini said he won’t run in 2028 if he loses, find that hard to believe, politics has been his most successful grift, and his whole family is in on it. Pathetic.
I actually doubt that he’ll be alive in 2028. He’s not looking very healthy. But a JD presidency, by any means, would be terrifying.
I am terrified. I want to live in the imperfect USA, NOT Gilead
Totally agree, Quizzically Bemused. What’s the grifters motto? My guess is: “Follow the money. And grab all you can.” I would assume that’s what is says on the degenerate liar's monogramed towels in his shitty hotels.
Agreed. And he’s also firing up his militia and aiming them at the Jews if he loses. Jews, Haitians, etc.
I was thinking today that his goal is create enough chaos to stall the declared results of the election until after his court date for sentencing (Nov. 18 ?) because he wants to dismiss all charges.
I think it's November 26th--just before Thanksgiving.
I’m hoping to have a VERY happy Thanksgiving, one that I won’t have any trouble coming up with what I’m grateful for!
FYLTGE
Or to give him time to get out of the country.
President Biden has all sorts of immunity to do creative shit if needed. Remember, he is still President of the United States of America!
Please stop referring to the right wing fascists as Conservatives! They are not Conservatives they are Nazis. I expect that kind of weak kneed writing from the MSM but not from you. Call it like it is!
I noticed this with sociopaths, and oddly you see it in the James Bond films and the original Batman TV series. The criminals always confess their crime step by step before they commit it. Weird, huh?
Your uncle has nothing to hide from voters, because he always WANTS them to know exactly how they get screwed, to make sure they realize what happened, when he finally does it to them.
A lot of money going into the GOP has disappeared, and we assumed it has gone to Ol' PumpkinHead's personal use.
But, what if it's being held to pay lawyers for them to challenge the results in court? What if they printed up fake ballots? I know that's probably stupid as ballots are serial numbered like cheques.
But, you are right, he is gloating about something he cannot contain within himself - and it hasn't happened yet.
DJT will lose by at least 8-11 million votes, so why does the Electoral College have so much say? Congress needed to change that long ago. If DJT gets in, that means a terrorist, felon, and traitor would be president. How un-American & un-Constitutional. -- p.s.- Yell 'fire' in a crowded theatre and get arrested; but DJT lies, and causes threats, death and destruction with his words, and 'nothing' happens to him. WHY? He should plainly be in jail- period!
DT wants people to know what he’s going to do to them before he does it, one reason in my mind, because he’s bragging and bloviating in advance. He just can’t wait to show his imaginary non-skill, skills. He’s self worshipping, which is the same as breathing to him. I also think that somewhere in his incredibly broken mind, he thinks everyone is either a little, or a lot, stupid, so he has to give us hints about his upcoming brilliant fancy footwork, to make sure we don’t miss it. I have a mental image of the orange menace trying to do something like a Mohammad Ali boxing shuffle, in a very bad way. Like a not naturally coordinated or rhythmic person trying to do the moonwalk or the floss dance move. You can’t see me raising my hand here, can you? Remember how he drank from a water bottle at a rally, as if he’d never learned how to drink from a bottle, or walked down a ramp like he was walking on slippery squishy sponges?
Yeah, probably fool's gold. Only other thing I can think of is maybe Putin expands his war at the same time on election day into Europe.
hmmmm...Canada is sending its largest armed forces contingent ever to Poland and Latvia in something called Operation REASURANCE last week
https://natoassociation.ca/tag/operation-reassurance/
3 dollar bills. 2 dollar bills exist
Thomas Jefferson. statesman and slaveholder. $2
It’s not real currency
He's not a real president
That’s why it’s not real currency
or human
My late father was a lifelong conservative Republican. An Eisenhower Republican, he served in the Navy during World War II, where he met my WAC mom. Dad supported the party his whole life, backing every single Republican candidate except for allowing my sister to convince him to vote for Nader in 2000. (how she pulled that one off is beyond me) But come 2004, he was back in the fold, voting for Junior Bush, McCain, and Romney.
Then came Donald Trump. Trump was a bridge too far for Dad, who despite his atrocious politics was a thoroughly decent man. Back in the ‘90s, while Bill Clinton was busy selling out LGBTQ folks on marriage equality, Dad put his church leadership position on the line by solemnizing the union of my sister and her partner. Told them if they wanted his job, they could have it, but he was standing by his daughter. A genuinely good guy despite his faults.
Like me, Dad could see clearly what kind of person Trump was, partly because neither of us watched the phony TV shows that portrayed him as some kind of genius businessman. Dad voted for Gary Richardson in 2016 - he couldn’t quite bring himself to vote for Hillary. He voted for Biden in 2020.
Dad watched the events of January 6th with tears streaming down his cheeks over what had become of his beloved party. By then he was living with my sister, no longer able to live alone in his little house in the woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. He passed away less than six months later.
I will never forgive your uncle for driving my father from his lifelong political home in his final years. He deserved better, and so do we. You can add this to the list of Donald’s sins.
When were you planning to start returning fire?
If Trump got cancer, I'd root for cancer. Eat shit, asshole.
What part of “Eat shit, asshole” is too difficult for you to grasp?
Is it the “eat shit” part or the “asshole” part that’s causing your lack of understanding?
My dad’s been dead for several years, but Trump is still a piece of shit. He’s better than any of the scum who support him, but that’s not saying much.
Eat shit, asshole.
Oh my goodness,. Mary!!! The tasks of simply unpacking and tabulating the ballots for preparation for the Machines is tedious enough!! But to go through each ballot,By Hand, it's almost impossible not to have Human Errors! Georgia county election board members are literally, Legally stealing the Votes of hundreds of thousands of registered Voters. Your uncle has no reason to Rally for New Supporters,his cohorts are stealing the election for him. Thank You so very much for the wonderful Works your doing for the American people and Me 💯👍💙🇺🇸🌊🌊🌊
Georgia Republicans insisted on spending millions to purchase voting machines because counting by hand was not accurate. So now, they want counting by hand supposedly to verify the machine counts. Their M.O. is clearly to spread chaos and delay, following their dear leader's handbook. Hopefully, the Harris campaigns attorneys are already on top of cutting through their sedition. Let's call all of this last minute rule changing what it is: Sedition. The GOP is trying to keep my vote, as a Democrat in Georgia, from being counted in a free & fair election.
It seems incomprehensible at this stage in our nations history that we have to be concerned about a presidential race where we are worrying about just how one of the two candidates is going rig, manipulate, cheat and steal the election. And this twice impeached, convicted felon, rapist and fraudster, while still facing one State and two Federal indictments, is the candidate that is running! It begs the question, what in the hell is going on with our countries legal system that has even allowed this political and legal snake to get the nomination to run? Hopefully the popular vote for the Harris / Walz ticket will be so overwhelming that Trump can do absolutely nothing but concede defeat. Then our long 9 year nightmare can end with Trump being prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to a Federal prison where he belongs! If you want to save our democracy, VOTE on or before Nov. 5th!
The frightening thing is he could get zero votes. Literally zero.
If the corrupt MAGA election denying officials currently in place in Georgia and other swing states find a pretense to refuse to certify ( they will try), the state cannot certify the election and it gets tossed to the House with a GOP majority. If the GOP loses the majority, they will find reasons not to swear in the new members until after January 6.
Trump will win.
This is the nightmare scenario they have planned. No wonder Trump's not so worried about winning more votes. He won't need them.
I am sure Trump's fascist Nazi's are working 24/7 on a variety of schemes to take control of the election results to cause chaos, confusion and conflict that will delay and deny a clear and final victory for Kamala Harris. Then the situation will probably get really nasty!
I noticed his words about not needing any more votes every time he's said that and my exact thought each time was that there's cheating in the pipeline for him to "win". He's put it right out in plain sight for everyone to hear. It's obvious what's going on and someone needs to put the kabosh on it right now!!
Thank you, Mary, for your column tonight. 💙
The 70 election deniers in pivotal positions in several swing states and what is going on in Georgia keeps me up at night.
Me too.
How dark can things get, you know? Oh wait, darker. This is just the beginning.
My inner Eeyore agrees