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This is the first time in its history that the Supreme Court has removed a fundamental right, the right of a woman to make her own decisions regarding her health and well-being.

The Court is imposing its religious view on the American people.

The Court determined that the government is in control of a woman's health when it involves a pregnancy. The woman and her doctor do not decide her fate. The state does.
CNN reports, "Abortion-rights protesters continued to voice their fury and anguish nationwide Saturday following the seismic ruling by the US Supreme Court to eliminate the federal constitutional right to an abortion.

"On Friday, the Court overturned the 1973 ruling known as Roe v. Wade, sparking protests that are expected to extend throughout the weekend.

"Smaller gatherings of people celebrating the ruling are also taking place.

"As states started enacting abortion bans and some clinics stopped offering the procedure, abortion-rights advocates took to the streets in major cities.

"More demonstrations are expected today and Sunday in cities big and small, including in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Illinois, Texas, New Mexico, California, and many others."

Coming on the heels of the Court's decision to expand gun rights in New York after the shooting massacres in Buffalo and New York, the extreme unpopularity of the Supreme Court's religious decision regarding a woman's right to determine her health and well-being destiny has created chaos across our country, and there is no end in sight.

All that makes Justice Samuel Alito's remarks extraordinarily ironic. He said, "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak [from a religious point of view], and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have inflamed debate and deepened division.

Incredible! Obviously, Alito is not very cognizant of the world around him. He has lived in the crystal palace far too long.

It was the Supreme Court's decision that fostered "damaging consequences" and "inflamed debate and deepened division!"

At the same time, a former Republican President and the current leader of the Republican Party is being investigated by a Congressional hearing for the alleged crime of leading a coup attempt to overthrow the elected government.

Fostering damaging consequences, inflaming debate, and deepening division are what far-right conservatives do. The proof is in their actions.

These same far-right conservatives expect to win control of Congress in November. As can be seen, if that happens, our country will be in serious trouble.
 
It was the Supreme Court's decision that fostered "damaging consequences" and "inflamed debate and deepened division!"

At the same time, a former Republican President and the current leader of the Republican Party is being investigated by a Congressional hearing for the alleged crime of leading a coup attempt to overthrow the elected government.

Fostering damaging consequences, inflaming debate, and deepening division are what far-right conservatives do. The proof is in their actions.
Incredible, the forum's Republicans are totally silent on the issues.

This confirms the point of view that the Republican Party has captured the minds of those who live in the rural counties of America. Those voters are mostly farmers and rural shopkeepers. They lack education and they are not well-informed. Most of what they know about politics is by word of mouth.

Grassroots Republicans have no idea what is going on. They avoid respected news sources and threads like this one. Republicans are not fans of reality.

The proof is their complete silence on the issues, although they are well-versed in personal attacks.
 
ABC reports, "NATO allies will decide at a summit this week to increase the strength of their rapid reaction force nearly eightfold to 300,000 troops as part of their response to an “era of strategic competition," the military alliance's secretary-general said Monday.

"The NATO response force (NRF) currently numbers around 40,000 soldiers which can deploy quickly when needed.

"In response to the Kremlin’s decision to start the war, U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts agreed in February to send thousands of troops, backed by air and naval support, to protect allies near Russia and Ukraine. The 30-nation organization decided at the time to send parts of the NRF and elements of a quickly deployable spearhead unit to the alliance’s eastern flank, marking the first time the force had been used in a defense role."

CNN reports, "President Joe Biden, who is currently meeting with G7 leaders in Germany for a summit primarily focused on Ukraine, announced recently that the US would provide Ukraine with “more advanced rocket systems and munitions” as its war with Russia grinds on. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is slated to virtually address Biden and other G7 leaders on Monday."

It is true. I rarely discuss our President, who is the subject of this thread. As our economy flourishes with excellent spending and full employment despite inflation, our President quietly does his job without fanfare and without controversy. Our kind of President.

To be brutally honest, there is a scarcity of material on President Biden because he is efficient and somber.

Even his detractors can't find anything to discuss beyond accusations of senility and, occasionally, an article about his son, Hunter.

The President's detractors complain about inflation and high prices at the pump, but that's all they can do. Even Republicans know Biden didn't cause those problems. If anyone disagrees with that analysis, please explain your reasons.
 
Politico reports, "John Eastman, the attorney who developed Donald Trump’s last-ditch strategy to seize a second term, said in court Monday that he had his phone seized by federal agents last week."

“The federal agents identified themselves as FBI agents, but they appeared to be executing a warrant issued at the behest of the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,” Eastman’s lawyer, Charles Burnham, wrote.

Politico continued, "A legal adviser to Trump’s campaign, Eastman has been a central figure in the Capitol riot committee’s case that the former president attempted to block the peaceful transfer of power on Jan. 6, 2021. A federal judge in California has previously ruled that Eastman and Trump “likely” entered a criminal conspiracy to obstruct the counting of electoral votes on Jan. 6.

"Last week, subpoenas were served on a slew of those false electors, including at least three state Republican Party chairs. Investigators also searched the Lorton, Va., home of former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, another critical player in Trump’s efforts."

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol on Monday abruptly scheduled a hearing for Tuesday afternoon to hear what the panel called “recently obtained evidence” and take witness testimony, a surprise move that touched off a wave of speculation about a potentially explosive revelation," every major news outlet in the country.

It is beginning to look like the DOJ is closing in on Trump, the leader of the Republican Party, and the leader of the attempt to overthrow our elected government.

No response is expected from Trump Republicans. They seemed to have crawled under a rock.
 
S.E. Cupp writes, "I’m deeply worried for our country."

I am. too. Trump and the Republican Party have created a Supreme Court that is being guided by its religious views. It is imposing those religious views on the American people to the extent of a Court approved dictate that the government controls pregnancies.

The Court created by the Republican Party is dissolving the Separation of Church and State principle, and the government's power will only grow under this conservative Court.

Sorry, I digress. Back to solemn thoughts of S.E. Cupp.

No matter where you stand on the issue – I’m pro-life but do not support a ban on abortions – this ruling represents a seismic shift in American life as most of us knew it.

I’m 43, and Roe is older than I am. There are more people alive today who have never known an America without Roe than there are people who lived without it.

Stripping away what many women have only known as a right for nearly 50 years, without putting anything in its place is dangerous. Criminalizing a medical procedure and unleashing a hoard of police and prosecutors to round up women and doctors and Uber drivers is draconian. Forcing a woman to choose between jail and carrying her rapist’s baby is uncivilized and medieval.

Politics – and if I’m being honest, cable news at times – has incorrectly framed the abortion debate for decades. You’d likely believe the country is made up of people who want abortion banned and criminalized and people who want abortion with no restrictions. That’s simply false. The majority of Americans are in the middle – we support abortion in some but not all circumstances.

The overturning of Roe serves a narrow minority of Americans at the expense of the majority. It’s regressive, impractical and puritanical. And let’s not forget, entirely political.

You don’t have to be an abortion advocate to think this is a lamentable ruling, a sad day for women – and a worrisome time for our country.


It is anticipated that Republicans will continue their silence.
 
The Post reports, "Cassidy Hutchinson, who was an aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, delivered explosive testimony Tuesday to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, offering startling details on the activities of President Donald Trump and those around him before the attack on the U.S. Capitol and on the deadly day itself."

Here are some of the biggest revelations:
  • Meadows and Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s attorney, sought pardons related to their roles in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, Hutchinson testified. She said Trump also expressed interest in pardoning the Capitol rioters.
  • Hutchinson testified that Trump was informed that attendees at a Jan. 6 rally near the White House were armed but that he still wanted security removed from the area and the crowd to march to the Capitol. Trump waved off concerns that the rallygoers had been reported to be armed. “You know, I don’t even care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me,” Hutchinson testified Trump said.
  • Hutchinson said that as violence increased at the Capitol, she witnessed White House counsel Pat Cipollone telling Meadows: “Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die. The blood is going to be on your f---ing hands.”
  • Hutchinson recalled that Meadows told her days before insurrection that “things might get real, real bad” at the Capitol on that day.
If Trump knew his supporters had weapons, if this can be proven, and he encouraged them to march on the Capitol, he is guilty of sedition. We know he tried to join the extremist mob, too. He said so.

We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”

"Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you. We are going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.”


Did the former President lead a coup attempt to overthrow the elected government? Did he commit crimes?

Stay tuned.
 
26-year-old Cassidy Hutchinson is a very brave woman.

What does that make White House Counsel Pat Cipollone?
 
If Trump knew his supporters had weapons, if this can be proven, and he encouraged them to march on the Capitol, he is guilty of sedition. We know he tried to join the extremist mob, too. He said so.
An internet search resulted in an interesting fact. The only Republican coming to the defense of Trump is Trump.

This is also true. No forum Republican came to the defense of Trump. The damaging testimony stands without rebuttal.

However, the evidence presented in the Jan. 6 committee hearings may all be for naught where grassroots Republicans are concerned for one very simple reason.

They know nothing about it.

The rural Republican followers are uninformed, and they prefer to stay that way. They are completely unaware of the damage they are causing.

They prefer it that way!
 
It is not at all surprising that Trump's allies in the coup attempt to overthrow the elected government either lie or plead the Fifth.

“General Flynn, do you believe in the peaceful transition of power in the United States of America?” Rep Liz Cheney asked General Michael Flynn.

“The Fifth,” the general responded.

CNBC reports, "The chairman of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot on Thursday said that the panel will invite Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to testify about her involvement in efforts to reverse Donald Trump’s presidential election loss.

"Ginni Thomas told The Daily Caller [on the 16th] that she was willing to testify."

“I can’t wait to clear up misconceptions. I look forward to talking to them,” Thomas told the Daily Caller.

Today, her lawyer agreed. then took the agreement away in typical lawyer strategy, agree, but disagree.

NBC followed up. "An attorney representing Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is pushing back against a request from the House Jan. 6 committee for her testimony.

"In an eight-page letter to the committee, obtained Wednesday by NBC News, Ginni Thomas' lawyer, Mark R. Paoletta, argued that he has not seen any reason for her to testify and asked the panel to provide a “better justification” for his client’s testimony.

"Mrs. Thomas is eager to clear her name and is willing to appear before the Committee to do so," he wrote in the letter, dated Tuesday. "However, based on my understanding of the communications that spurred the Committee’s request, I do not understand the need to speak with Mrs. Thomas."

Classic lawyer-speak.

NBC added, "Paoletta said emails between Thomas and John Eastman, the former Trump lawyer who wrote memos arguing then-Vice President Mike Pence could overturn the 2020 election, which Eastman shared with the committee, provide “no basis” to interview Thomas."

Ginni lied. Flynn pleads the Fifth when asked about a fundamental basis of American Democracy.

Do Republicans care?

Hell, no! Trump is the elected President.
 
It is true. I rarely discuss our President, who is the subject of this thread. As our economy flourishes with excellent spending and full employment despite inflation, our President quietly does his job without fanfare and without controversy. Our kind of President.
Reuters reports, "NATO on Wednesday branded Russia the biggest "direct threat" to Western security after its invasion of Ukraine and agreed plans to modernise Kyiv's beleaguered armed forces, saying it stood fully behind Ukrainians' "heroic defence of their country".

"At a summit dominated by the invasion and the geopolitical upheaval it has caused, NATO also invited Sweden and Finland to join and pledged a seven-fold increase from 2023 in combat forces on high alert along its eastern flank against any future Russian attack.

"U.S. President Joe Biden announced more land, sea, and air force deployments across Europe from Spain in the west to Romania and Poland bordering Ukraine.

"These included a permanent army headquarters with accompanying battalion in Poland - the first full-time U.S. deployment on NATO's eastern fringes."

Helped along by Putin's invasion of Ukraine, it would appear that our President has repaired the damage in NATO relations caused by the previous administration.
 
As our economy flourishes with excellent spending and full employment despite inflation, our President quietly does his job without fanfare and without controversy. Our kind of President.
Without fanfare and without controversy?

CNN reports, "President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he would support making an exception to the filibuster – the 60-vote threshold in the Senate needed to pass most legislation – in order to codify abortion rights and the right to privacy through legislation passed by Congress.

"However, despite Biden’s newly announced support for the filibuster carveout, his best bet in doing so would be next year – and only if Democrats gain at least two Senate seats and hold the House of Representatives, an extremely tall task.

"The Senate doesn’t have the 60 votes needed to codify Roe v. Wade under current rules."

That is because Republicans won't allow the passage of such a bill. They want the government to be in control of pregnancies.
 
I have been following politics for over 50 years. I have a special love for the frustration caused by politicians who can speak for hours and not say a thing.

In all those years, I have never experienced the silence from a major party that we are experiencing now.

The leader of the Republican Party may be in trouble with the law. Trump surely is in trouble with the voters. Yet not one Republican in Washington is coming to the defense of Trump in the media. Republicans are totally silent on the issues involving their leader.

Not one Republican wants to be sworn in to testify for the defense of Trump in Jan. 6 committee hearings. The very opposite is happening. Republicans are avoiding the hearings for fear they may be indicted. Several Trump allies in his weird stolen election scheme have pleaded the Fifth.

Trump shoots his mouth off to a conservative news site, but will not come to his defense under oath, which makes his remarks to conservative media meaningless.

Republicans worked for 50 years to get Roe vs. Wade overturned. Their Supreme Court finally gave them their victory. According to the Court, the government will control pregnancies. The woman and her doctor have no say in the matter. The Court allowed the government to declare abortion a felony, punishable by prison time if the woman and/or her doctor are convicted.

Are Republicans in Washington rejoicing? No, once again there is complete silence. They don't want the voters to know about the severe consequences of their victory in the 50-year struggle.

Of course, the people who should learn about all this are avoiding both matters. Beyond Trump being their savior, grassroots Republicans are uninformed and they want to stay that way.

Want proof of that statement? Thumb through the last few pages of this thread where these issues are being discussed.

Not one Republican has dealt with the issues!

Believe it or not, Republicans are expected to win control of Congress in the November mid-terms.
 
CNN reports, "In a setback for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican lawmakers, a Florida judge has ruled that a new state law banning abortions at 15 weeks is unconstitutional and he intends to block it from taking effect on Friday.

"In a verbal ruling on Thursday, Second Judicial Circuit Court Judge John Cooper said he would be issuing a temporary statewide injunction that will go into effect once he signs the written order in the challenge brought by some Florida abortion providers."

There are several cases where lower courts are challenging the Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade.

That has never happened before!

There is confusion in Arizona. See https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireS...l-pre-state-abortion-ban-enforceable-85967613

The Republican Supreme Court has created mass confusion to go along with their enormous unpopularity.

CNN continued, "The Supreme Court on Thursday sent three abortion-related cases back down to lower courts to be reconsidered now that the court has overturned Roe v. Wade, ending constitutional protections to obtain an abortion."

And allowing the government to control a woman's health where pregnancy is involved.

"The Supreme Court, having decided the term’s big Second Amendment case invalidating a New York law that restricted where people could carry a concealed weapon in public, also sent several cases they had been sitting on back to the lower courts for further deliberations," CNN.

In the wake of Buffalo and Uvalde, the Court expanded gun rights. The Court ruled that New York could not ask why a person would want to walk down Fifth Avenue with a loaded nine-millimeter automatic on the hip.

The Court's decision was heralded in the offices of the NRA, a sponsor of the Republican Party.

Throwing gasoline on the fire, the Republican Court dealt a major blow to the fight against global warming. For the Republican Party, still another goal was achieved.

CNN reports that the Supreme Court curbed the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to broadly regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants, a major defeat in the fight to slash emissions at the very moment when scientists are sounding alarms about the accelerating pace of global warming.

I have run out of words.
 
We have never experienced the silence from a major party that we are experiencing now.
The leader of the Republican Party may be in trouble with the law. Trump surely is in trouble with the voters. Yet not one Republican in Washington is coming to the defense of Trump in the media. Republicans are totally silent on the issues involving their leader.
Not one Republican wants to be sworn in to testify for the defense of Trump in Jan. 6 committee hearings. The very opposite is happening. Republicans are avoiding the hearings for fear they may be indicted. Several Trump allies in his weird stolen election scheme have pleaded the Fifth.
ABC reports "On June 24, the Supreme Court's smallest-possible majority struck down the long-standing Roe v. Wade ruling, which had for five decades guaranteed a right to access abortion. It was a rare instance of the court restricting rights it had previously extended via the Constitution.

"Roe's reversal was partly possible because of the votes of the court's three most recent justices, all of whom were appointed for life by President Donald Trump -- himself elected by a minority of the population. He lost the popular vote and was confirmed by Senate Republicans representing roughly 43 percent of the country."

The problem is, our Constitution gave too much power to the smaller states, meaning states with small populations. Americans who live in states with large populations have less power and less representation than those Americans who live in states with smaller populations.

What does this mean exactly? It means the farmer in Montana has more political power, more government influence than the doctor in California. The problem becomes more acute with the realization that, generally speaking, the doctor in California is going to have more education and be more informed than the farmer in Montana.

Republican leaders are not dumb, and they are taking full advantage of their less educated, less informed, voters. Because they are largely uninformed and not fully cognizant of events around them, grassroots Republicans are largely unaware of what is being done in their name. All they know is, they are loyal followers of Donald Trump. Most of them know very little about Trump's attempt to overthrow the elected government.

Here is one example of the problem. There are many others.

Technically speaking, our President is not chosen by the American people. He is voted into office by the electors in the Electoral College in accordance with our Constitution. The number of electors each state has is the total of its Senators and representatives.

California has a total population of a little more than 39 million. California has 55 electors. Montana has a population of little more than a million. Montana has three electors.

When you divide the population by the number of electors, each elector in Montana represents 333,333 Americans. Each elector in California represents 709,090 Americans. The farmer in Montana has over twice the representation than the doctor in California. That is how Trump became our President in 2016 even though he lost the popular vote cast by the American people.

This becomes all the more serious when one realizes that the doctor has a college education and, generally speaking, is more informed than the farmer in Montana who has no use for a college education and political awareness unless the latter has something to do with farming.
 
The Republican Senate Intelligence Committee reaffirmed its support for the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the goal of putting Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
Senate Intel report confirms Russia aimed to help Trump in 2016

The Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, wanted Donald Trump to become our President in 2016 and wanted the Republican Party to be in power. Trump appointed three judges to the Supreme Court to continue his legacy.

Putin is being rewarded handsomely. America is in turmoil. The very basis of our democracy, free elections, is under attack. Trump and the Republican Party are, of course, responsible, aided by a very conservative Supreme Court that has become so unpopular it has walled itself off from the American people.

Republicans remain silent.

We have never experienced the silence from a major party that we are experiencing now.

The Times writes, "Pressed by Supreme Court decisions diminishing rights that Americans hold dear and expanding those cherished by the right, the United States appears to be drifting apart into separate nations, with diametrically opposed social, environmental and health policies.

"Call these the Disunited States."

Thank you, Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Neil M. Gorsuch, and Brett M. Kavanaugh. Vladimir Putin is extremely proud of you. Thanks to the President I wanted, you have accomplished in a few months what communist Russia could not accomplish in over a hundred years.

America has become a divided nation!

The responsibility lies with the Republican Party, which accounts for their total silence.

For reasons that confuse many, it is expected that the Republican Party will be rewarded for what they have done. As their leader, Trump, is being investigated for possible sedition, the Republican Party may win control of Congress in November.

How could this happen? The rural voters that dominate the Republican Party are clueless. As this thread shows, they avoid reality. They don't know, and they don't want to know.
 
Putin is being rewarded handsomely. America is in turmoil. The very basis of our democracy, free elections, is under attack. Trump and the Republican Party are, of course, responsible, aided by a very conservative Supreme Court that has become so unpopular it has walled itself off from the American people.
CNN reports, "The marshal of the Supreme Court has asked Maryland and Virginia officials to direct law enforcement to enforce state and county laws prohibiting picketing outside the homes of Supreme Court justices, according to letters obtained by CNN.

"Col. Gail A Curley sent letters to Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Democrat Marc Elrich, the county executive of Montgomery County, and Democrat Jeffrey McKay, Fairfax County board of supervisors’ chairman.

"The letters, released by a court spokesperson on Saturday to reporters and sent as the court ended a blockbuster term which saw historic decisions on guns, abortion and climate, refer to protests that have taken place “for weeks on end.”
 
USA Today reports, "Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee, said Sunday, that it's possible that there could be multiple criminal referrals against former President Donald Trump in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

"She told ABC News' "This Week" that while the Jan. 6 committee will decide whether Trump should face charges, the Justice Department could make a criminal referral without waiting for the committee, adding that there "could be more than one criminal referral."

"Cheney said she was more worried about not holding people accountable than about what it means for a country for a former president to be prosecuted."

"I think it’s a much graver constitutional threat if a president can engage in these kinds of activities and the majority of the President's party looks away or we as a country decide, you know, we're not actually going to take our constitutional obligations seriously. I think that’s a much – a much more serious threat," she said.

The majority of the President's party looks away!

There is that silence again from Congressional Republicans. They just want this to all go away so they can talk about inflation and high gas prices.
 
NBC reports, "On Monday, a gunman opened fire from a rooftop on the community's July Fourth parade, killing at least six and injuring 38 others. No one has been arrested, though police have named a person of interest.

The Republican Senate Intelligence Committee reaffirmed its support for the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the goal of putting Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
Senate Intel report confirms Russia aimed to help Trump in 2016

Is Vladimir Putin achieving his goal? Has America become divided thanks to Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and the Trump oriented extremist Supreme Court?

Stephen Collinson opines, "Rarely have Americans been so divided on what their country stands for as on the 246th anniversary of independence.

"If, as Abraham Lincoln said, a house divided against itself cannot stand, the years to come beckon even more national discord. The unity for which President Joe Biden pleaded in his inaugural address seems more elusive than ever.

"US democracy is still fighting for its survival, as the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol reveals ever more frightening details of Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election. The ex-President is, meanwhile, impatient to launch a 2024 campaign rooted in his election fraud lies that would highlight his increasingly autocratic tendencies."

It is telling that Trump refuses to be sworn in and testify in his own defense. His allies have the same attitude. Strangely enough, Republicans are complaining the hearings are one-sided, proving once again they are clueless.

I digress, Collinson continues, "In another example of startling political disruption, an activist Supreme Court, protected behind high metal fences in its marbled Washington chambers, just stripped away the constitutional right of millions of women to have an abortion. The decision validates a half-century campaign by conservative activists, many of whom have sincere religious objections against abortion, which they equate with the murder of an unborn child.

"But the Supreme Court’s decision and the emerging patchwork system of abortion restrictions across the US have been met with outrage in other parts of America.

"Given the political discord boiling way beneath the surface of Monday’s national celebrations, it’s hardly surprising that a staggering 85% of US adults in an Associated Press-NORC poll released last week said things in the country are headed in the wrong direction."

The Republican Party is taking full advantage of the less informed rural voter.

"Almost every day, there’s a controversy or political fight that underscores the antagonism between more moderate, diverse, and socially tolerant American cities and suburbs and the conservatism of rural America," Collinson adds.
 
“So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state,” President Trump to the Georgian secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, on Jan. 3, 2021.

CNN reports, "An Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia has subpoenaed a handful of key Trump allies, including his former attorney Rudy Giuliani and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings.

"The subpoenas also cover a handful of the Trump campaign’s other former legal advisers, including John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Cleta Mitchell and Kenneth Chesebro.

"Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been leading the investigation digging into Trump’s actions in Georgia. Several state officials have already been subpoenaed and have appeared before the special grand jury.

"Willis has been investigating potential crimes including solicitation of election fraud, making false statements, conspiracy, racketeering, and threats related to election administration.

"The latest raft of subpoenas marks a new phase, as the grand jury seeks testimony from witnesses who were members of Trump’s inner circle.

"The special grand jury wants to hear from Graham because the Republican senator allegedly made two calls to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his staff in the wake of the 2020 election. According to court filings, Graham “questioned Secretary Raffensperger and his staff about reexamining certain absentee ballots cast in Georgia in order to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump.”

No doubt Republicans will continue their silence through all of this, and the Republican Party is turning a blind eye to Trump's alleged crimes, not even coming to his defense.

Trump is the leading Republican candidate for the Presidency in 2024.
 
CNN reports, "The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection has scheduled its seventh hearing for July 12, the panel announced Tuesday.

"The hearing is set to start at 10 a.m. ET. The committee has not yet announced any witnesses.

"Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California, a member of the committee, had previously told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the next hearing will focus on “efforts to assemble that mob on the mall” and connections between the Trump White House and various extremist groups at the rally that preceded the attack on the US Capitol, including the Proud Boys, Three Percenters, and others.

"Sarah Matthews, who served as deputy press secretary in the Trump White House until resigning shortly after the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, has been subpoenaed by the House select committee investigating the insurrection and has agreed to testify at an upcoming hearing.

"Matthews has been subpoenaed to testify at a public hearing as early as next week, sources tell CNN.

"Matthews resigned the night of January 6, 2021, saying in a statement that she was honored to serve in then-President Donald Trump’s administration but “was deeply disturbed by what I saw.” She added: “Our nation needs a peaceful transfer of power.”

Little wonder as to why Congressional Republicans are staying away. Still, they are looking the other way at a failed attempt by their party to overthrow the elected government.

For Trump supporters, this is rapidly becoming a train wreck.
 
President Joe R. Biden, how refreshing that sounds. What a refreshing day. Our divisive, erratic, foolish, conspiratorial, narcissistic President is gone, replaced by a President who deeply wants to unite us. Barring ill-advised preconceived notions about President Biden, his task should be easy. We are all Americans.

That said, although I voted for Biden for obvious reasons, not unlike 81 million Americans who did the same, I am a conservative Independent. That's official. In CA, we have to declare our political posture. Until I was driven out by Trump, for over a quarter of a century I was a declared Republican. I voted for Biden, but I have some reservations concerning him, mostly having to do with taxation and spending.

I said all that because I want to be honest with readers. I want them to know where I am coming from.

Whether or not Biden will be a good President is obviously an open question, but I think he is a good man. He will do his best to unite us and adopt policies that benefit all Americans, while removing those policies that do us harm. He wants the United States to rejoin the community of nations, and the days of isolation and making unitary decisions that involve other nations, in particular our traditional allies, are over.

The European Union's top politician, Ursula von der Leyen, said it best. "After four long years, Europe has a friend in the White House."

For the first time in four years, there is optimism in America created by a popular President. 59% of Americans approve of Biden.

On day one, Trump's approval rating was 40%, and, although it went lower than that, it never got much higher. Thus the reason for American optimism.

BidenTrumpReportCard.jpg

By the way, Biden was not going to run in 2020 but Trump forced his hand. Trump had to be stopped. Biden has not lust for Power. Trump does.
 
For Trump supporters, this is rapidly becoming a train wreck.
The Times reports, "Pat A. Cipollone, the White House counsel to President Donald J. Trump who repeatedly fought Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, has reached a deal to be interviewed by Friday before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, according to people familiar with the inquiry.

"The agreement was a breakthrough for the panel, which has pressed for weeks for Mr. Cipollone to cooperate — and issued a subpoena to him last week — believing he could provide crucial testimony.

"Mr. Cipollone was a witness to pivotal moments in Mr. Trump’s push to invalidate the election results, including discussions about seizing voting machines and sending false letters to state officials about election fraud. He was also in the West Wing on Jan. 6, 2021, as Mr. Trump reacted to the violence at the Capitol, when his supporters attacked the building in his name."

In one form or another, perhaps even a video, Cipollone's testimony will be provided to the public.
 
Although I voted for our current President because the alternative was unthinkable, I am not a Democrat. Indeed, until Trump drove me out with his ludicrous, later seditious, behavior, I was a Republican for a quarter of a century. Today, I am officially a conservative Independent.

I am not fond of Democrats primarily because they can be quite stupid. For example, in 2016, young Democrats who were offended that Bernie didn't get the Democratic nomination, voted for Trump in large enough numbers in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania to give Trump the Presidency. Can anyone think of anything more stupid?

Now a number of Democrats are blaming the wrong party for inaction -- theirs!

ABC reports, "As Sen. Michael Bennet sought to encourage a small crowd of fellow Democrats not to give up the fight for abortion rights, Maryah Lauer stepped forward, bullhorn in hand, to exhort him to do more.

“Do you support ending the filibuster and expanding the court?” the 28-year-old called out from a quartet of fellow activists. “The Democrats are not doing enough.”

"The confrontation was a sign of the frustration among many Democrats after the Supreme Court's decision last month to strip women of the constitutional right to abortion. The question heading into this year's midterm elections is whether the outrage will energize Democrats to vote or leave them disillusioned and staying home."

Notwithstanding Democratic extremism such as ending the filibuster which can come back to haunt the party, packing the court, and putting abortion clinics on federal land, there is very little the Democratic Party can do in the face of the Supreme Court decision.

The crazy Democrats should be blaming the Republican Party which is responsible for the unwise decision in the first place along with a few other extremist far-right decisions with more coming. A Republican President was able to name three conservative judges which made all this possible.

But Democrats are blaming Democrats instead.

In addition, Senate Republicans along with two Democrats who think like Republicans are blocking everything our President is trying to do!

Senate Republicans will not allow meaningful gun control laws to be passed. Instead, we got a weak gun law that will do nothing to stop killers like Robert Crimo, Salvador Ramos, or Payton S. Gendron.

Senate Republicans will not allow a ban on assault rifles to be passed, the kind of weapon used in the massacres at Buffalo, Uvalde, and now Highland Park. The NRA, the proud sponsor of the Republican Party, would not be pleased with a restriction on a rifle that was designed for the military for the expressed purpose of killing people, which it does very efficiently as we all know.

Senate Republicans will not allow Roe vs. Wade to be codified into law. The religious right would be very displeased should that happen.

President Biden wants all of these things accomplished, but it is not going to happen in the near term.

So, Democrats are blaming our President. Combined with Republicans, President Biden's poll numbers are in the toilet. Because Democrats are casting blame on a Democratic President for the gridlock, these same Democrats are like to lose control of the House and Senate in November.

I guess Democrats think Republicans can do a better job.

I did say Democrats were quite stupid at times.
 
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