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A.Gnosticthefirst's avatar

John Roberts is the twenty-first-century version of Roger B Taney, who wrote the rights-killing Dred Scott vs Sandford decision in 1857. It hastened the onset of the Civil War, the most devastating in American history.

menehune's avatar

ALOHA. From the COCONUT WIRELESS. ..... BOOOOM. .....They want more money??? SWAT SWAT .. NO NO NO...

..VOTING RIGHTS gutted and died at the age of 60....Sad bad day....to come...Economy is in turmoil around the world... Airlines do not have fuels to fly? Truck, no load. All this cause of ALL of GOP (guardians of pedos) PEDO F**K PIGs. The thin skin nipo sucking cry baby taco fascist bankrupter, pig king ......

TRUMP will go after our voting rights since he is losing on all fronts... Protect your self and "DONTGETPURGED.COM". .. Look for the Green check mark... If you get a red check mark, you are purged from voting so, you need to get it fixed.

If you want to help at the polls, Poll watcher/poll watcher...."EAC.GOV/HELP-AMERICA-VOTE". D.D.ORG. If you want to help at the polls, Poll watcher/pol PowerThePolls.orgl They will need you to stop the ICE with GUNS coming to the polls to intimidate. More people to volunteer at the polls will surely help keep it faire, tight and right.

Keep Our Republic — a pro-democracy nonprofit — to urgently make the public and elected leaders aware of Trump’s “doomsday” powers and prepare to counter their misuse. The secret tools Trump might exploit, known as the “PEADs,” or Presidential Emergency Action Documents. A possible future where Trump attempts to invoke and abuse his emergency powers to stay in control. It's urgently necessary: brief and prepare leaders at the local, state, and federal level as soon as possible, so that when Trump pulls the trigger, officials across the country know exactly how to lawfully refuse, resist, and hold the line.

Contact your reps — Tell your representatives to request a Doomsday Briefing from Keep Our Republic. They need to know what’s coming. Make sure they hear it from you first. ASK them what is in the papers." PEAD". They may not be aware of it like you.

Educate yourself on PEADs — The Brennan Center has done essential work documenting the threat of Presidential Emergency Action Documents. Take some time to check out their resources here

There will be a sign up to "Block election doomsday" petition

G.O.P. guardians of pedophiliacs'...“Silence and fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought. Instead of silence and fear, let this moment fuel the fire that already burns at the heart of this place. A fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power.

AMERICA is not TRUMP and Trump is not for AMERICA.!!!!!!

Take care everyone out there.be safe.

As always, DEFIANCE with straight, proudly and loudly with ALOHA.

Leslie Davis's avatar

This has nearly taken us into the bottom of crash and burn authoritarianism. They will work to cancel the upcoming election if they see that they have no path forward to maintain control of Congress. To the very few Democratic leaders that believe in preparing and planning with a strategy, pay very close attention here and GET READY!!! And you best pull out all the stops.

Laura Smith's avatar

Excellent post. We’ve got to fight! Match the repubs every step of the way!

Johanna's avatar

Would someone explain to me, how states like Louisiana, can redraw districts 2 weeks before primaries are about to start? Aren’t candidates, both R and D, already set, already campaigning? How do states like Texas and Florida get away with redrawing maps, while other states, California and Virginia, actually put it to a vote from the people and yet are stopped repeatedly in court.

rgl63's avatar

And to think… without the Electoral College (which doesn’t exist in a similar form at any electoral level), Hillary beats Trump by almost 3 million votes and he never rigs SCOTUS.

Laura Havranek's avatar

Great read Rick. Let the voter registration begin with a vengeance. Mount up and get out the votes for democracy

David Maceira's avatar

They millionaires/billionaires realized decades ago that their policies were just as repugnant as the candidates they fielded. The Heritage Foundation tried to focus on capturing state houses in order to hold a Constitutional Convention. Which would have allowed them to alter the Constitution. But that was taking too long. So they focused on capturing the courts.

Craig h's avatar

Dems need to run on passing national ban on partisan gerrymandering. This is ridiculous and everyone knows it.

Geoff Anderson's avatar

Without nominal Republican support it will never be the law of the land.

And, given this SCOTUS composition, I can see them nullifying it.

What is needed (and what will never happen) are constitutional amendments. Fat chance.

Susan Sanders's avatar

I believe in fairness as much as most, but when the other side plays dirty, we have no choice but to get in the mud with them. I find that I am enjoying it. Proud of my governor (Spanberger).

kathryn christman's avatar

Well, Rick, you nailed it hard in this post! Such a dark time! You’re so correct that survival of the blue must prevail when the rules have changed completely. );

Christine's avatar

I live in a totally blue state. I intend to stay here. I will not live in a Red State. I'm really, really mad at every single Republican and a few Democrats. I WANT TO GET EVEN.

Sometimes I can't believe the things I think that I would do to the REpublicans and to the Trump

administration. It's straight out of too many thrillers and disaster movies. I sometimes wish that the plot of "London Has Fallen" would happen to Washington DC.

Sometimes I think that death and destruction is the only way out of this.

Leslie's avatar

I'm a Canadian and I can't believe how diabolical the politics is in the USA. There is no party in Canada trying to suppress people voting. Gawd. I realize the bad guys have been working on this for decades, but holy shit. Having said that, and after doing research to make sure I knew what the hell I was talking about, I did find this scandal from 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Canadian_federal_election_voter_suppression_scandal

But that's all I could find.

William's avatar

All true and horrifying, sucks that we Dems always play by the rules and believed Roberts when he said he was just an umpire calling balls and strikes.

Blue Moon Pie's avatar

We must force weak Dems out. They’re part of the problem.

I agreed with every word you said.