Opinion | Xi, Putin and Trump: The Strongmen Follies excerpt: "Trump failed for one very simple reason: American institutions, laws and norms forced him to cede power at the end of his four years — barely — despite both his efforts to discredit the electoral results and his unleashing of supporters to intimidate lawmakers into overturning his loss at the polls. Putin and Xi fared better — so far. Unencumbered by institutions and democratic norms, they installed new laws to make themselves, effectively, presidents for life. Pity their nations. Lord knows democracies have their problems today, but they still have some things autocracies lack — the ability to change course, often by changing leaders, and the ability to publicly examine and debate alternative ideas before embarking on a course of action. Those attributes are particularly valuable in an age of accelerating technological and climate change, when the odds are low that one person in his late 60s — as both Putin and Xi are — will make better and better decisions, more and more alone, as he gets older and older. Yet Putin arm-twisted his Duma in 2020 to essentially eliminate his term limits, allowing him to run for president again in 2024 and the chance to remain in office until 2036. And in 2018, Xi induced his lawmakers to change China’s constitution and abolish presidential term limits altogether, so he can officially remain in office forever — assuming that he is re-elected president at the National People’s Congress session in 2023. And you can assume that he will be."
There are a bunch of Black men wondering around and looking for work at the New England Produce Center near Boston. You should send Ted there so he gets a chance to explain his thinking about race to them.
Analysis | Debra Meadows appears to have filed three false voter forms By Glenn Kessler, Staff writer March 23, 2022 at 3:00 a.m. EDT https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...s-appears-have-filed-three-false-voter-forms/ excerpt: “What we do know is a number of times as we have mail-in ballots, if there is not a chain of custody that goes from the voter to the ballot box, mischief can happen.” — Then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, in an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” July 26, 2020 Three months after this interview, on Oct. 26, Mark Meadows’s wife, Debra, appeared at the Macon County community building in Franklin, N.C., and filled out a one-stop voter application to cast an early ballot in the 2020 presidential election. She also dropped off an absentee ballot that she had requested for her husband, then the White House chief of staff, an election board official said. On her one-stop application, provided this week by the North Carolina Board of Elections to The Fact Checker, Debra Meadows certified that she had resided at a 14-by-62-foot mountaintop mobile home for at least 30 days — even though she did not live there. At the top of the form is a notice that “fraudulently or falsely completing this form” is a Class 1 felony. This form is the latest in a string of revelations concerning the former chief of staff — who echoed President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud in 2020 — and his wife. The New Yorker first reported that Mark and Debra Meadows submitted voter registration forms that listed as their home a mobile home with a rusted metal roof that sold for $105,000 in 2021, even though they had never lived there. North Carolina officials announced last week that Mark Meadows is under investigation for potential voter fraud.
Mark Meadows seems to have gone quiet about the issue. Why Did Mark Meadows Register to Vote at an Address Where He Did Not Reside? excerpt: "Why would Meadows risk committing voter fraud by listing as his domicile the address of a mobile home where he seems never to have slept? At the time, there was speculation that he might run for the Senate seat that the North Carolina Republican Richard Burr will vacate later this year; it may have struck him as important, politically, to keep voting in the state. Meadows owns two undeveloped parcels of land in Transylvania County, through an L.L.C., but neither could be described as a legal residence. Perhaps the Scaly Mountain mobile home, which was owned by someone who lived in another state and which sat just down the road from friends of the Meadows family, offered a last-minute fix. (Meadows ultimately decided not to run for Burr’s seat.) Cohen pointed out to me another problem with the registration, also connected to the address: you can’t claim to live somewhere that you haven’t moved to yet, and Meadows listed his move-in date as the day after he signed and dated the form. In theory, this could invalidate the registration, Cohen said, but it happens fairly often, he added—many voters mix up their dates on registration forms or predate a planned relocation—and local officials usually look past it. Some mistakes seem to be taken more seriously than others: a Black woman in Wake County who voted while on probation in 2016 was arrested three years later and faced possible prison time if convicted. This would not be the first time that Meadows seemed to mislead the public on the matters of his credentials or his real-estate holdings. For a long time, news outlets, apparently relying on his official House biography, reported that Meadows had earned a B.A. from the University of South Florida, though he actually received an associate’s degree. And Meadows appears to have violated congressional ethics guidelines by not disclosing his ownership of a hundred and thirty-four acres in Dinosaur, Colorado, which he ultimately sold to a nonprofit that aimed to use dinosaur bones in an effort to prove the literal truth of the creation story in the Book of Genesis."
That's about as likely as proving the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. Call in Mike Lindell for that one too.
Lindell said that the Supreme Court would overturn the election for Trump in August 2021. He later delayed it until December. After that, he said it was in the hands of the Divine. He said months ago that attorneys general around the country would be collectively submitting a lawsuit that would overturn the election. He blamed the lack of the suit on attorneys general being busy revising it for him.
It's not "voter fraud" when Republicans do it... But, it is VOTER FRAUD!!! when Democrats try to just vote at all.
Trump pulls his endorsement of Mo Brooks. That's all there is. There ain't no Mo. Trump Rescinds Endorsement of Mo Brooks for Senate in Alabama excerpt: "Former President Donald J. Trump retracted his endorsement of Representative Mo Brooks’s bid for Senate in Alabama on Wednesday, abandoning one of his staunchest allies after months of simmering frustration and as polls showed Mr. Brooks falling behind in the state’s Republican primary. In a sign of Mr. Trump’s continued focus on the 2020 election, he cited Mr. Brooks’s remarks at a rally last summer urging voters to move on from Mr. Trump’s defeat. “When I heard his statement, I said, ‘Mo, you just blew the election, and there’s nothing you can do about it,’” Mr. Trump said in a statement on Wednesday. “Very sad but, since he decided to go in another direction, so have I.”"
Voter fraud! Biden's dirty showers!! Hunter's Best Buy fixed laptop!!! Hillary's emails !!!! Biden wore brown shoes with a blue suit !!!!!! Squirrels everywhere !!!!! Gahhhhhhh!!