An indelible stain

[eddiew37]

‘An Indelible Stain’: How the G.O.P. Tried to Topple a Pillar of Democracy
The Supreme Court repudiation of President Trump’s desperate bid for a second term not only shredded his effort to overturn the will of voters: It also was a blunt rebuke to Republican leaders in Congress and the states who were willing to damage American democracy by embracing a partisan power grab over a free and fair election.
The court’s decision on Friday night, an inflection point after weeks of legal flailing by Mr. Trump and ahead of the Electoral College vote for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Monday, leaves the president’s party in an extraordinary position. Through their explicit endorsements or complicity of silence, much of the G.O.P. leadership now shares responsibility for the quixotic attempt to ignore the nation’s founding principles and engineer a different verdict from the one voters cast in November.
Many regular Republicans supported this effort, too — a sign that Mr. Trump has not just bent the party to his will, but pressed a mainstay of American politics for nearly two centuries into the service of overturning an election outcome and assaulting public faith in the electoral system. The G.O.P. sought to undo the vote by such spurious means that the Supreme Court quickly rejected the argument.
Even some Republican leaders delivered a withering assessment of the 126 G.O.P. House members and 18 attorneys general who chose to side with Mr. Trump over the democratic process, by backing a lawsuit that asked the Supreme Court to throw out some 20 million votes in four key states that cemented the president’s loss.
“The act itself by the 126 members of the United States House of Representatives, is an affront to the country,” said Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee. “It’s an offense to the Constitution and it leaves an indelible stain that will be hard for these 126 members to wipe off their political skin for a long time to come.”
Speaking on CNN on Friday, Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, a Republican, said, “What happened with the Supreme Court, that’s kind of it, where they’ve kind of exhausted all the legal challenges; we’ve got to move on.” It was time, he said, for Congress to “actually do something for the American people, surrounding the vaccines, surrounding Covid.”
With direct buy-in from senior officials like Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and the Republican leader in the House, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the president’s effort required the party to promote false theory upon unsubstantiated claim upon outright lie about unproved, widespread fraud — in an election that Republican and Democratic election officials agreed was notably smooth given the challenges of the pandemic.
And it meant that Republican leaders now stand for a new notion: that the final decisions of voters can be challenged without a basis in fact if the results are not to the liking of the losing side, running counter to decades of work by the United States to convince developing nations that peaceful transfers of power are key to any freely elected government’s credibilit

The US government has long been an terrible stain. Don just made it a little worse is all.

INDELIBLE is not just a little worse Gip

 

[miketx]

When we have a free and fair election, I'll agree with you. The stain is the stain of progressivism and their willingness to destroy our manner of electing leaders all for power and hatred of others.

Progressivism ran its course a hundred years ago, Rip van Winkle.

So did your credibility. That is unless you can find any shred of actual evidence whatsoever to flesh out these madcap hallucinations.

You traitors don't accept evidence.

NO ??? YOUR OWN FN Supreme Court told you you were fos 50 tries with the courts told you you were FOS AND NOW I'm here to tell you YOU'RE FOS

You have never accepted any evidence unless it agreed with the shit you are spewing. Now you just keep on spewing punk, it's all you vermin can do. Wait for tomorrow.

 

[eddiew37]

Cowards traitors ,,,racists ,,, Invite the proud boys to the WH? An insult hurled by the trump pos in the face of America

And you believe the moral choice was to vote for a pedophile who sold America out to Communists.

Dave you're bonkers No such things ever happened as you posted Trump is the pos who'd sell his mother out for the right price

Trump hasn't sold anyone out. The charges against Biden are clear. Your acknowledgement is not required and certainly not expected.

So clear that he was never brought to court ? So clear that before he ran for president they weren't so clear? Trump is the scum getting pay offs Wonder he's isn't charging for a better time in getting the vaccine

 

[Darkwind]

When we have a free and fair election, I'll agree with you. The stain is the stain of progressivism and their willingness to destroy our manner of electing leaders all for power and hatred of others.

Progressivism ran its course a hundred years ago, Rip van Winkle.

So did your credibility. That is unless you can find any shred of actual evidence whatsoever to flesh out these madcap hallucinations.

Plenty of evidence. I am reminded of the old adage about leading a horse to water. In this case, you have been given the evidence and refuse to even acknowledge it. Not because it isn't true, but because you hate. You hate more unreasoningly than a crazy person who can't help themselves.

Progressivism is alive and well in the Democrat party, right along with the racism and hatred they bring to the table.

So, go find any credibility for yourself, as you have none in My eyes.

 

[Pogo]

When we have a free and fair election, I'll agree with you. The stain is the stain of progressivism and their willingness to destroy our manner of electing leaders all for power and hatred of others.

Progressivism ran its course a hundred years ago, Rip van Winkle.

So did your credibility. That is unless you can find any shred of actual evidence whatsoever to flesh out these madcap hallucinations.

Hey, might try this channel

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Do you get frustrated when people don't unquestioningly accept your bullshit definitions?

Tough shit.

Do you haz da sads because everything you post looks like Fingerboy just got an enema?

Prolly even tougher shit.

 

[gipper]

‘An Indelible Stain’: How the G.O.P. Tried to Topple a Pillar of Democracy
The Supreme Court repudiation of President Trump’s desperate bid for a second term not only shredded his effort to overturn the will of voters: It also was a blunt rebuke to Republican leaders in Congress and the states who were willing to damage American democracy by embracing a partisan power grab over a free and fair election.
The court’s decision on Friday night, an inflection point after weeks of legal flailing by Mr. Trump and ahead of the Electoral College vote for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Monday, leaves the president’s party in an extraordinary position. Through their explicit endorsements or complicity of silence, much of the G.O.P. leadership now shares responsibility for the quixotic attempt to ignore the nation’s founding principles and engineer a different verdict from the one voters cast in November.
Many regular Republicans supported this effort, too — a sign that Mr. Trump has not just bent the party to his will, but pressed a mainstay of American politics for nearly two centuries into the service of overturning an election outcome and assaulting public faith in the electoral system. The G.O.P. sought to undo the vote by such spurious means that the Supreme Court quickly rejected the argument.
Even some Republican leaders delivered a withering assessment of the 126 G.O.P. House members and 18 attorneys general who chose to side with Mr. Trump over the democratic process, by backing a lawsuit that asked the Supreme Court to throw out some 20 million votes in four key states that cemented the president’s loss.
“The act itself by the 126 members of the United States House of Representatives, is an affront to the country,” said Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee. “It’s an offense to the Constitution and it leaves an indelible stain that will be hard for these 126 members to wipe off their political skin for a long time to come.”
Speaking on CNN on Friday, Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, a Republican, said, “What happened with the Supreme Court, that’s kind of it, where they’ve kind of exhausted all the legal challenges; we’ve got to move on.” It was time, he said, for Congress to “actually do something for the American people, surrounding the vaccines, surrounding Covid.”
With direct buy-in from senior officials like Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and the Republican leader in the House, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the president’s effort required the party to promote false theory upon unsubstantiated claim upon outright lie about unproved, widespread fraud — in an election that Republican and Democratic election officials agreed was notably smooth given the challenges of the pandemic.
And it meant that Republican leaders now stand for a new notion: that the final decisions of voters can be challenged without a basis in fact if the results are not to the liking of the losing side, running counter to decades of work by the United States to convince developing nations that peaceful transfers of power are key to any freely elected government’s credibilit

The US government has long been an terrible stain. Don just made it a little worse is all.

INDELIBLE is not just a little worse Gip

I don’t agree with the use of that term. Our government has long been a criminal enterprise.

We all knew what Don was before he was elected. It merely shows how desperate the American people are for a leader that will do something for the people, rather than just the ultra wealthy as Don’s predecessors did.

 

[Pogo]

When we have a free and fair election, I'll agree with you. The stain is the stain of progressivism and their willingness to destroy our manner of electing leaders all for power and hatred of others.

Progressivism ran its course a hundred years ago, Rip van Winkle.

So did your credibility. That is unless you can find any shred of actual evidence whatsoever to flesh out these madcap hallucinations.

Plenty of evidence. I am reminded of the old adage about leading a horse to water. In this case, you have been given the evidence and refuse to even acknowledge it. Not because it isn't true, but because you hate. You hate more unreasoningly than a crazy person who can't help themselves.

Progressivism is alive and well in the Democrat party, right along with the racism and hatred they bring to the table.

So, go find any credibility for yourself, as you have none in My eyes.

Hey Twinkles, I'm not the one who just tried to plop a conspiracy turd on the floor of Reality. That gives you the onus, Amos.

 

[Pogo]

‘An Indelible Stain’: How the G.O.P. Tried to Topple a Pillar of Democracy
The Supreme Court repudiation of President Trump’s desperate bid for a second term not only shredded his effort to overturn the will of voters: It also was a blunt rebuke to Republican leaders in Congress and the states who were willing to damage American democracy by embracing a partisan power grab over a free and fair election.
The court’s decision on Friday night, an inflection point after weeks of legal flailing by Mr. Trump and ahead of the Electoral College vote for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Monday, leaves the president’s party in an extraordinary position. Through their explicit endorsements or complicity of silence, much of the G.O.P. leadership now shares responsibility for the quixotic attempt to ignore the nation’s founding principles and engineer a different verdict from the one voters cast in November.
Many regular Republicans supported this effort, too — a sign that Mr. Trump has not just bent the party to his will, but pressed a mainstay of American politics for nearly two centuries into the service of overturning an election outcome and assaulting public faith in the electoral system. The G.O.P. sought to undo the vote by such spurious means that the Supreme Court quickly rejected the argument.
Even some Republican leaders delivered a withering assessment of the 126 G.O.P. House members and 18 attorneys general who chose to side with Mr. Trump over the democratic process, by backing a lawsuit that asked the Supreme Court to throw out some 20 million votes in four key states that cemented the president’s loss.
“The act itself by the 126 members of the United States House of Representatives, is an affront to the country,” said Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee. “It’s an offense to the Constitution and it leaves an indelible stain that will be hard for these 126 members to wipe off their political skin for a long time to come.”
Speaking on CNN on Friday, Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, a Republican, said, “What happened with the Supreme Court, that’s kind of it, where they’ve kind of exhausted all the legal challenges; we’ve got to move on.” It was time, he said, for Congress to “actually do something for the American people, surrounding the vaccines, surrounding Covid.”
With direct buy-in from senior officials like Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and the Republican leader in the House, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the president’s effort required the party to promote false theory upon unsubstantiated claim upon outright lie about unproved, widespread fraud — in an election that Republican and Democratic election officials agreed was notably smooth given the challenges of the pandemic.
And it meant that Republican leaders now stand for a new notion: that the final decisions of voters can be challenged without a basis in fact if the results are not to the liking of the losing side, running counter to decades of work by the United States to convince developing nations that peaceful transfers of power are key to any freely elected government’s credibilit

The US government has long been an terrible stain. Don just made it a little worse is all.

INDELIBLE is not just a little worse Gip

I don’t agree with the use of that term. Our government has long been a criminal enterprise.

We all knew what Don was before he was elected. It merely shows how desperate the American people are for a leader that will do something for the people, rather than just the ultra wealthy as Don’s predecessors did.

That's a complete non sequitur. Yes we all knew what Rump was -- a narcissist who's never done anything in his life that wasn't for Numero Uno. So no, nobody with a brain cell would have voted for that reason.

 

[eddiew37]

It's dumbfounding to me how the left will defend high taxes, illegal immigration, sanctuary cities, and policies that cripple the economy and limit freedom. All the while, attacking a President who gave us record unemployment, a booming economy, and fought for the American people. SMH

That's a left in only your imagination and your liars in congress

 

[daveman]

Cowards traitors ,,,racists ,,, Invite the proud boys to the WH? An insult hurled by the trump pos in the face of America

And you believe the moral choice was to vote for a pedophile who sold America out to Communists.

Dave you're bonkers No such things ever happened as you posted Trump is the pos who'd sell his mother out for the right price

Trump hasn't sold anyone out. The charges against Biden are clear. Your acknowledgement is not required and certainly not expected.

So clear that he was never brought to court ? So clear that before he ran for president they weren't so clear? Trump is the scum getting pay offs Wonder he's isn't charging for a better time in getting the vaccine

You're an angry little man. Is it because the truth about Biden was hidden from you and you know you were duped?

 

[Pogo]

It's dumbfounding to me how the left will defend high taxes, illegal immigration, sanctuary cities, and policies that cripple the economy and limit freedom. All the while, attacking a President who gave us record unemployment, a booming economy, and fought for the American people. SMH

"The left"?

Where the fuck do you see a "left" or "right" in any of this?

Oh wait, wait I get it. You're a parrot-bot. That's so cute.

 

[Mac1958]

‘An Indelible Stain’: How the G.O.P. Tried to Topple a Pillar of Democracy
The Supreme Court repudiation of President Trump’s desperate bid for a second term not only shredded his effort to overturn the will of voters: It also was a blunt rebuke to Republican leaders in Congress and the states who were willing to damage American democracy by embracing a partisan power grab over a free and fair election.
The court’s decision on Friday night, an inflection point after weeks of legal flailing by Mr. Trump and ahead of the Electoral College vote for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Monday, leaves the president’s party in an extraordinary position. Through their explicit endorsements or complicity of silence, much of the G.O.P. leadership now shares responsibility for the quixotic attempt to ignore the nation’s founding principles and engineer a different verdict from the one voters cast in November.
Many regular Republicans supported this effort, too — a sign that Mr. Trump has not just bent the party to his will, but pressed a mainstay of American politics for nearly two centuries into the service of overturning an election outcome and assaulting public faith in the electoral system. The G.O.P. sought to undo the vote by such spurious means that the Supreme Court quickly rejected the argument.
Even some Republican leaders delivered a withering assessment of the 126 G.O.P. House members and 18 attorneys general who chose to side with Mr. Trump over the democratic process, by backing a lawsuit that asked the Supreme Court to throw out some 20 million votes in four key states that cemented the president’s loss.
“The act itself by the 126 members of the United States House of Representatives, is an affront to the country,” said Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee. “It’s an offense to the Constitution and it leaves an indelible stain that will be hard for these 126 members to wipe off their political skin for a long time to come.”
Speaking on CNN on Friday, Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, a Republican, said, “What happened with the Supreme Court, that’s kind of it, where they’ve kind of exhausted all the legal challenges; we’ve got to move on.” It was time, he said, for Congress to “actually do something for the American people, surrounding the vaccines, surrounding Covid.”
With direct buy-in from senior officials like Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and the Republican leader in the House, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the president’s effort required the party to promote false theory upon unsubstantiated claim upon outright lie about unproved, widespread fraud — in an election that Republican and Democratic election officials agreed was notably smooth given the challenges of the pandemic.
And it meant that Republican leaders now stand for a new notion: that the final decisions of voters can be challenged without a basis in fact if the results are not to the liking of the losing side, running counter to decades of work by the United States to convince developing nations that peaceful transfers of power are key to any freely elected government’s credibilit

All countries have stains. The key now is that we have learned from these four ugly years, and that we have hit rock bottom.

Once the orange buffoon is out of the White House and it has been properly fumigated, we can get to work on doing some cleaning.