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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[barton]

Analyzes election stats to explain the "red mirage."  May be a few days in GA...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-georgia-counting-explain/explainer-why-the-winners-in-georgia-runoffs-might-not-be-known-for-days-idUSKBN2992I2

[kidcarter8]

Thanks for the link.

Day(s) after accounting expected to swing blue, of course.

I almost prefer a Dem blowout - a Dem lead after tonight rather than see the lead dissipate then dissapear.   AGAIN.

[facilitatorn]

http://www.salon.com/2021/01/05/georgia-runoffs-reveal-the-total-putrefaction-of-the-gop-republicans-are-now-openly-anti-democratic/

[josh]

Thanks for the link.

Day(s) after accounting expected to swing blue, of course.

I almost prefer a Dem blowout - a Dem lead after tonight rather than see the lead dissipate then dissapear.   AGAIN.

If they'd permit the counting to start before 7am today, you wouldn't see the same thing, but with a roughly 3 or 4 to 1 ratio of pre-election day votes to election day, and record turnout, then you get the delay in Democratic votes.

[facilitatorn]

Josh Hawley watched American Psycho in his undies, tugging his bong, in an Ivy League dorm room some years ago and said, “that’s the guy I want to be”, and now he is.

[facilitatorn]

The insurrectionist coup will get through one, maybe two (out of sheer stubborn stupidity) objections to state counts before giving up & possibly walking out of the proceedings.

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/5/2006048/-What-should-happen-in-Congress-on-Jan-6-and-what-Republicans-might-do-are-two-different-things

[josh]

Another court case in Georgia, this morning.

Another Trump request turned down by another judge.

http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2021/images/01/05/trump_v_kemp_et_al__gandce-20-05310__0016.0.pdf

No preliminary injunction for Trump.

[facilitatorn]

http://thebulwark.com/the-devil-goes-back-to-georgia/

Short and sweet.

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/01/05/election-results-republican-clay-higgins-sciutto-vpx.cnn

[Hamilton Samuels]

No golf for you, Trump!
Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says President Trump wouldn't be allowed to visit Scotland to golf during its pandemic lockdown, responding to speculation that Trump might travel to a Scottish golf resort rather than attend President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.

"We are not allowing people to come in to Scotland without an essential purpose right now and that would apply to him, just as it applies to anybody else," Sturgeon said after being asked about Trump on Tuesday. "Coming to play golf is not what I would consider to be an essential purpose."

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/05/953627011/scotland-s-leader-says-trump-wouldn-t-be-allowed-to-visit-under-pandemic-rule

[Hamilton Samuels]

Chicken Little is running amok:

https://theweek.com/articles/958509/are-witnessing-fall-united-states

[Hamilton Samuels]

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/pa-senate-republicans-jim-brewster-john-fetterman-brian-fitzpatrick-election-20210105.html

The erosion of democracy can be a slow and insidious process — but on Tuesday, the Pennsylvania State Senate Republicans demonstrated how fast it catches up on you.

In the first senate meeting after the 2020 election, Republican majority leader Jake Corman refused to swear in Jim Brewster of Allegheny County. Brewster, who has served in the senate for over a decade, defeated Republican challenger Nicole Ziccarelli by 69 votes. Ziccarelli disputes the results on technical issues and filed one suit, which the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected, and another in federal court, which is pending.

Despite the fact the election results in the 45th Senatorial District have been certified by the Secretary of State, Senate Republicans took matters into their own hands and citing a technical rule they announced Monday that they wouldn’t seat Brewster.

When Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who presided over the session, wouldn’t entertain the motion to ignore the results from Brewster districts, the Republican majority simply took the gavel from him in a motion to let Corman preside.


Eventually all senators but Brewster were sworn in. The voters of the 45th district don’t have a state senator, despite a certified election winner.

What happened in the Pennsylvania state senate on Tuesday is the shameful preface for what Republicans are planning for Wednesday in Washington.

Eight of the nine Republican members of Pennsylvania’s delegation to the House of Representatives are poised to object to the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral college victory on Jan. 6. Late last year, seven of those joined a Texas lawsuit asking for all the votes in Pennsylvania to be tossed out — the very votes that got them elected. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the frivolous legal effort.

Disappointingly, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, the only Republican who is not going to oppose the certification of Biden’s victory, joined the fray — though in a more insidious way. He introduced the Restoring Faith In Elections Act: a bill that calls for uniform standards for mail voting and for curing ballots, but also imposes a national voter ID requirement. He called the bill “not political and should not be controversial.” Considering Pennsylvania’s history with voter ID laws, Fitzpatrick is either ignorant or playing dumb.

In 2012, Republican Governor Tom Corbett signed one of the strictest voter ID laws in the nation. At the time, state data showed that nearly 1 in 10 voters did not have a valid ID. A Commonwealth Court judge struck down the law saying: “Voting laws are designed to assure a free and fair election; the voter ID law does not further this goal.” The same can be said today.

This board asked Fitzpatrick if he can share instances of voting irregularities that his bill would have prevented. He did not provide any. Fitzpatrick intends to “restore people’s full faith and confidence in the voting process and the results of our elections.”

The problem is, it is the actions of Republicans — from the White House, Congress, and the Pennsylvania General Assembly — that have undermined people’s faith in the voting process and served to question the results of the elections because they don’t like the outcome. The system is working. Democracy? Not so much.

 April – Presidential election. Hitler came second to Hindenburg, who won 53 per cent of the vote to Hitler’s 36.8 per cent.

May – Brüning resigned as Chancellor. Hindenburg appointed Franz Von Papen, a conservative, as his replacement.

July – Reichstag elections. The Nazis became the largest party with 230 seats. Hitler demanded to be made Chancellor but Papen remained.

November – Reichstag elections called by Von Papen to try to win a majority in parliament. Nazis lost 34 seats but remained the largest party with 196 seats.

December – Von Papen resigned. Hindenburg appointed Kurt Von Schleicher, an army general, as Chancellor. Von Schleicher tried to split the Nazis by asking a leading Nazi called Gregor Strasser to be his Vice Chancellor. Hitler forced Strasser to decline.

1933

January – Von Papen and Hindenburg turned to Hitler, appointing him as Chancellor with Von Papen as Vice Chancellor. They believed they could control Hitler and get him to do what they wanted.

Under Hitler’s leadership the Nazi party quickly developed a 25-Point Programme, a list of the policies it would introduce if it came to power.

A strong Germany - the Treaty of Versailles should be abolished and all German-speaking people united in one country.
Führer - the idea that there should be a single leader with complete power rather than a democracy.
Social Darwinism - the idea that the Aryan race was superior and Jews were 'subhuman'.
Autarky - the idea that Germany should be economically self-sufficient.
That Germany was in danger - from communists and Jews, who had to be destroyed.
Lebensraum - the need for 'living space' for the German nation to expand.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z3bp82p/revision/7

And so on. 

Welcome to the new Germany; just cross the Delaware River and you're there.

[bambu.]

Did Trump win the popular vote?

[kidcarter8]

Some day in the (maybe near) future TED CRUZ will run on the "I would have won the SC case for Trump".

And it very well may work.

Enjoyed watching the members of our party carefully, genuinely and wisely recount what has occurred in this election.  Even Peter Navarro, who I am no great fan of, did great work at his navarroreport.com

[kidcarter8]

No golf for you, Trump!
Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says President Trump wouldn't be allowed to visit Scotland to golf during its pandemic lockdown, responding to speculation that Trump might travel to a Scottish golf resort rather than attend President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.

"We are not allowing people to come in to Scotland without an essential purpose right now and that would apply to him, just as it applies to anybody else," Sturgeon said after being asked about Trump on Tuesday. "Coming to play golf is not what I would consider to be an essential purpose."

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/05/953627011/scotland-s-leader-says-trump-wouldn-t-be-allowed-to-visit-under-pandemic-rule

Nice.