Monday, December 28, 2020

GO SELL CRAZY SOMEPLACE ELSE, THIS IS A DEMOCRACY

None but a handful of congressional Republicans has had the guts to speak up and tell the would-be emperor he’s through. And the ones who have timidly, almost apologetically, faced the fact publicly that Joe Biden will be president in less than a month from now have had to confront a maelstrom of Trumpian and Trump-surrogate attacks. It is a shocking affront to democracy that called for someone at the top of the GOP food-chain to speak out unequivocally.

And someone did: GOP propagandist and media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who enthusiastically endorsed the forty-fifth president with every major medium in his holdings, including Fox News, has called out would-be autocrat Trump in no uncertain terms through one of his most high-profile tabloids, the New York Post.  From then to now, 2016-2020, Murdoch's almost obscenely Trumpian GOP-partisan paper is telling the president, enough with the bat-shit crazy antics.  

Quoth the NY Post:

Mr. President, it’s time to end this dark charade.

We’re one week away from an enormously important moment for the next four years of our country.

On Jan. 5, two runoff races in Georgia will determine which party will control the Senate — whether Joe Biden will have a rubber stamp or a much-needed check on his agenda.

Unfortunately, you’re obsessed with the next day, Jan. 6, when Congress will, in a pro forma action, certify the Electoral College vote. You have tweeted that, as long as Republicans have “courage”, they can overturn the results and give you four more years in office.

In other words, you’re cheering for an undemocratic coup.

You had every right to investigate the election. But let’s be clear: Those efforts have found nothing. To take just two examples: Your campaign paid $3 million for a recount in two Wisconsin counties, and you lost by 87 more votes. Georgia did two recounts of the state, each time affirming Biden’s win. These ballots were counted by hand, which alone debunks the claims of a Venezuelan vote-manipulating Kraken conspiracy.

Sidney Powell is a crazy person. Michael Flynn suggesting martial law is tantamount to treason. It is shameful...

Isn't it about time Trump and his foaming-at-the-mouth followers listened? And isn’t it about time the GOP grew a backbone and took back the party from Trumper conspiracy theorists and far-right mad dogs?

Time to choose: Embrace democracy or share Trump’s shameful “legacy” of attempting to deny the will of the people and instate an authoritarian regime. You are either with him in this final display of sociopathic narcissism and megalomania, or you are against him and support democracy and the Constitution of the United States.

You can’t have it both ways.

 

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