The Georgia Election today will determine control the US Senate, and comes right after audio of Trump's shocking phone call is released, but just before GOP Senators plan to go rogue to defend Trump.
My second son and I listened to the entire Trump-Raffensperger call yesterday evening (what can I say; we are both political junkies.). He asked how Trump could possibly get away with what he said during the call. I had to respond that I don't think that anything will happen to Trump. He mocked the disabled. That didn't matter. He said "Grab them by the p-ssy". That didn't matter. He tried to blackmail a foreign government for dirt on a political opponent. That didn't matter. He admitted that he lied about Covid, which has killed hundreds of thousands in this country. That didn't matter. He had unarmed social justice protesters gassed so that he could take a photo op with a bible in front of a church he has never attended. That didn't matter. This won't matter to those who support him, either.
As far as Georgia is concerned, I'm hoping for the best (Warnock and Ossoff to win), but realistically expect a split or even Perdue and Loeffler to narrowly keep their seats. Yes, I know that Biden won Georgia, but this is still a deeply red state for the most part, especially outside the Atlanta area. The video from that Trump rally last night in Dalton was downright frightening (very few masks, a lot more lies from the Mango Menace which were heartily cheered on by the crowd, etc.).
I know Stacey Abrams put in a lot of work and deserves credit for Biden's win and hopefully will help put Ossoff and Warnock over the finish line. That would in a way make Kamala Harris the most powerful person in the country.
As for the phone call, nobody should be shocked Even if he were ever prosecuted over it, his lawyers could subtly argue he was too stupid to know he didn't win the election. Susan Collins is a fool. "I hope the President learned a lesson."
GOP can no longer call itself a conservative party, with the majority of its House members, and a good number of Senators formally trying to throw out the collective will of six or so states and millions of voters, after having already decided POTUS couldn't be impeached if he though his criminal conduct was in the national interest.
Maybe today's theater and (useless) drama, what with protest marches and all, will be enough to drive Trump's phone call from the headlines. Not that he'd suffer any consequences anyway but....
Regardless of the outcome of the two contests in Georgia, I have no doubt that the real problem facing Biden is Trump: he is never going away and he is never going to diminish in power over almost half the voting public. The media - left, right, center, and whatever else is out there - cannot resist covering him and will continue to do so unless that coverage ceases to produce advertising dollars to justify. I am convinced of this.
Tomorrow, I would not be surprised if Trump shows up at or in the Capitol, trailed by sycophants, lawyers, trolls, and perhaps even armed militia members, making an incredible scene to claim he won and that he will not leave the White House for the next four years and encourage the fools with him to storm the House and Senate. It would make the rager in the Andrew Jackson White House look like a pre-teen party.
We're saddled with the shredded flag of government because we let this happen, Democrats let this happen, voters let this happen - people stopped paying attention to and participating in politics because 35+ years of right-wing media and talking heads lied and lied and lied some more about how government was ineffective, too big, filled with corrupt people, and not concerned with "real Americans" - even though many of those real (white) Americans needed and regularly benefitted from government programs.
My second son and I listened to the entire Trump-Raffensperger call yesterday evening (what can I say; we are both political junkies.). He asked how Trump could possibly get away with what he said during the call. I had to respond that I don't think that anything will happen to Trump. He mocked the disabled. That didn't matter. He said "Grab them by the p-ssy". That didn't matter. He tried to blackmail a foreign government for dirt on a political opponent. That didn't matter. He admitted that he lied about Covid, which has killed hundreds of thousands in this country. That didn't matter. He had unarmed social justice protesters gassed so that he could take a photo op with a bible in front of a church he has never attended. That didn't matter. This won't matter to those who support him, either.
As far as Georgia is concerned, I'm hoping for the best (Warnock and Ossoff to win), but realistically expect a split or even Perdue and Loeffler to narrowly keep their seats. Yes, I know that Biden won Georgia, but this is still a deeply red state for the most part, especially outside the Atlanta area. The video from that Trump rally last night in Dalton was downright frightening (very few masks, a lot more lies from the Mango Menace which were heartily cheered on by the crowd, etc.).
I know Stacey Abrams put in a lot of work and deserves credit for Biden's win and hopefully will help put Ossoff and Warnock over the finish line. That would in a way make Kamala Harris the most powerful person in the country.
As for the phone call, nobody should be shocked Even if he were ever prosecuted over it, his lawyers could subtly argue he was too stupid to know he didn't win the election. Susan Collins is a fool. "I hope the President learned a lesson."
GOP can no longer call itself a conservative party, with the majority of its House members, and a good number of Senators formally trying to throw out the collective will of six or so states and millions of voters, after having already decided POTUS couldn't be impeached if he though his criminal conduct was in the national interest.
Maybe today's theater and (useless) drama, what with protest marches and all, will be enough to drive Trump's phone call from the headlines. Not that he'd suffer any consequences anyway but....
Regardless of the outcome of the two contests in Georgia, I have no doubt that the real problem facing Biden is Trump: he is never going away and he is never going to diminish in power over almost half the voting public. The media - left, right, center, and whatever else is out there - cannot resist covering him and will continue to do so unless that coverage ceases to produce advertising dollars to justify. I am convinced of this.
Tomorrow, I would not be surprised if Trump shows up at or in the Capitol, trailed by sycophants, lawyers, trolls, and perhaps even armed militia members, making an incredible scene to claim he won and that he will not leave the White House for the next four years and encourage the fools with him to storm the House and Senate. It would make the rager in the Andrew Jackson White House look like a pre-teen party.
We're saddled with the shredded flag of government because we let this happen, Democrats let this happen, voters let this happen - people stopped paying attention to and participating in politics because 35+ years of right-wing media and talking heads lied and lied and lied some more about how government was ineffective, too big, filled with corrupt people, and not concerned with "real Americans" - even though many of those real (white) Americans needed and regularly benefitted from government programs.
I'm not sanguine about the future of the country.