GOP AZ state senators are now publicly voicing their criticism of the partisan audit. 'Botched': Arizona GOP's ballot count ends, troubles persist excerpt: "Boyer’s opposition became less lonely last weekend when another Republican, Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, one of the Legislature’s strongest advocates for stricter voting laws, agreed that “the Trump audit” was “botched.” Along with all 14 Democrats, a majority of the Senate, which commissioned the audit, is now against it. “I wanted to review our election processes and see what, if anything, could be improved,” Ugenti-Rita wrote on Twitter. “Sadly, it’s now become clear that the audit has been botched.” The review includes a hand count of ballots, the analysis of voter data and a review of ballot-counting machines. It’s being led by Cyber Ninjas, a software security consultant with no election experience before Trump began trying to overturn the 2020 results. Its owner, Doug Logan, has supported the movement to spread false conspiracies about the vote count in battleground states. On Wednesday night, Logan ended months of silence about who was paying him when he said a whopping $5.7 million had been contributed by political groups run by prominent Trump supporters including Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell, Patrick Byrne and correspondents from One America News Network. The figure dwarfs the $150,000 to be paid by the Senate."
'Botched': Arizona GOP's ballot count ends, troubles persist excerpt: "The operation got off to a rocky start on day one. A journalist pointed out that workers were using blue pens in violation of a fundamental rule of election administration. Blue and black pens are strictly prohibited near ballots because those are the colors voters are told to use, creating the potential for workers to manipulate the count. Days later, a former Republican state lawmaker who lost his reelection bid — and who would have been a Trump elector to the Electoral College had Trump won — was among the workers counting ballots. The auditors chased conspiracy theories, for a time shining ultraviolet lights to look for watermarks on ballots and taking high-resolution photographs to look for evidence, such as bamboo fibers in the paper, that fraudulent ballots from Asia were slipped into the stack. “The audit process and its eventual results may be utilized to undermine popular confidence in our electoral system nationwide, thereby enabling the disenfranchisement of millions of Americans,” said Ralph Neas, a civil rights attorney and advocate who wrote a report on the audit’s flaws for The Century Foundation. “These are existential threats to our democracy and they have to be stopped in their tracks.”"
Florida is currently in the midst of the worst surge in coronavirus cases since summer 2020. DeSantis overrides mask mandates. Florida Gov. DeSantis signs executive order making masks in schools optional excerpt: "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he will sign an executive order to issue emergency rules for "protecting the rights of parents," making face masks optional across the state in schools and leaving it up to parents. The governor made the announcement Friday in Cape Coral at an Italian restaurant, where he also presented parents who oppose masks. The order, released later Friday afternoon and made "effective immediately," directs the Florida Department of Education and the Florida Department of Health to issue emergency rules to allow parents to make the decision for their children to wear masks in schools."
It is the same as what happened in Germany, all Trump did was change one word of Hitler's slogan: "Make Germany Great Again." Fortunately Trump is nowhere are smart as Hitler was; unfortunately, his followers are just as dumb is he is. Lenny Kravitz hit the nail on the head:
Former Trump homeland security advisor says Florida is in uncharted territory with coronavirus surge. Florida must plan for 'hospital surge' amid new COVID-19 wave, former Trump official says Tim O'Donnell, Contributing Writer Sat, July 31, 2021, 4:03 PM·1 min read Florida must plan for 'hospital surge' amid new COVID-19 wave, former Trump official says excerpt: ""It's too late" for Florida to mitigate its latest COVID-19 surge "meaningfully," Thomas Bossert, who served as former President Donald Trump's homeland security adviser until 2018, tweeted Saturday. The state is in "unchartered territory," he explained, noting that it just recorded the highest number of cases in a 24-hour period since the pandemic began. More significantly, though, more than 10,000 people are currently hospitalized with an infection, which accounts for 83 percent of Florida's all-time pandemic high. New York Times' data shows hospitalizations are up 123 percent in the last 14 days, the fourth highest rate in the country. Bossert warns that there's not much Florida can do to stop the spread at this point — although the data he presents doesn't provide a locality breakdown, so the analysis may not apply to every part of the state — and instead must "change gears" and plan for a "hospital surge," particularly when it comes to pediatric capacity."
So by this same thinking - If I don't like what someone is doing, I can go up to them, beat them with a club (or a flagpole), crush them using a mob I've assembled, spray them with bear mace, tie some hangman's nooses to hang those who piss me off, etc. ???? If the insurrectionist rioters were "just standing up for their rights" - then I (and all of us) have those same "rights" .............. correct??? Where / HOW do "rights" of politicized, empty-headed dolt-puppets supersede the nation's LAWS???
I can see it. It's as plain as day. Look ............ it's right there. Hell ......... anyone can see it. (many people are saying this.) Reminds me of a close-up of the fabric in my pants back in the 70's. G-R-O-O-V-Y man.
Donald Duck started his own university, and teaches weatherman and physicians how to count, money that is.
A result of the mentality of Trump (and his clone DeSantis). Florida sets a record with 21,683 new COVID-19 cases reported Saturday, the CDC says By David J. Neal July 31, 2021 03:33 PM https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article253168148.html#storylink=cpy excerpt: "Saturday, the state of Florida reported more new COVID-19 cases to the Centers for Disease Control than any previous day in the coronavirus pandemic: 21,683. That’s a 12.1% jump over the previous record, Jan. 7’s 19,334 cases during the worst month of the pandemic. Daily case counts routinely surpassed 10,000 as the pandemic peaked a second time. In the succeeding months, daily case counts returned to 2,000 and 8,000. The last half of July looks like the start of Florida’s third COVID-19 peak, as the case numbers reported Thursday (17,093), Friday (17,589) and Saturday mix in with Jan. 6-8 to comprise the top six individual case count days. The average over the last seven days is 15,817 cases. By comparison, on July 12, 2020, the state reported a then-national record of 15,300 cases."
The general public helped turn in another one of Trump's rioters. Jack Jesse Griffith, of Tennessee, pleads guilty in U.S. Capitol Riot excerpt: "Griffith was identified by an informant from pictures and social media posts related to the riot under the Bibiano name, according to the Department of Justice's statement of facts. One post included a message from Bibiano: “I even helped stormed [sic] the capitol today, but it only made things worse.” Law enforcement was also able to see a permalink connected to Griffith's accounts in a Google search stating, "All going to D.C. The cavalry is coming," according to the statement of facts."
Trump tries to defend ‘just say the election was corrupt’ demand excerpt: "Donald Trump insisted on Saturday that when he told senior justice department officials to “Just say that the election was corrupt [and] leave the rest to me”, he was not attempting to subvert US democracy, but to “uphold the integrity and honesty of elections and the sanctity of our vote”. The former president’s restatement of his lie that his defeat by Joe Biden was the result of electoral fraud came a day after Washington was rocked by news of his December call with acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen and Richard Donoghue, a senior DoJ official. Trump’s pressure on federal and state officials to overturn his national defeat and state losses to Biden has been well documented. Cases mounted by his campaign claiming electoral fraud were repeatedly thrown out of court."
In Trumpworld, the big bad wolf is the innocent victim and the three little pigs are the villains trying to trick him so that they can harvest his tail. image: