Courage to Overturn
In case Twitter deletes that here is the exact quote.
“Our Supreme Court and our courts didn’t have the courage to overturn elections that should have been overturned. because you are talking about decisive amounts , hundreds of thousands and even millions of votes.”
On Covid
“I was the one, and this administration was the one, that came up with the vaccine that is going to save the world.”
That is a bit of a stretch although Operation Warp Speed played a role according to PolitiFact on November 19.
Drugmakers Pfizer and Moderna announced that preliminary data for their vaccines show they are 95% and 94.5% effective, respectively, against COVID-19. The companies plan to request emergency-use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
“Another Vaccine just announced. This time by Moderna, 95% effective. For those great ‘historians’, please remember that these great discoveries, which will end the China Plague, all took place on my watch!” Trump tweeted Nov. 16.
In their own recent announcements, Moderna gave Operation Warp Speed a nod, while Pfizer didn’t mention it. That can be explained by the different partnerships the Trump administration struck with the two companies.
The agreements with private companies vary in scope. In some cases, the U.S. government has agreed to purchase vaccines that achieve emergency-use authorization or licensure from the FDA. In other cases, the U.S. government is paying to manufacture vaccine doses while clinical trials are underway.
The U.S. government did not fund the companies’ research and development.
Pfizer chose to risk its own money on vaccine research and not take federal funding in order to avoid bureaucracy and politics, Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla said. He said its investment so far was at least $1.5 billion.
“I wanted to liberate our scientists from any bureaucracy,” Bourla told CBS in September. “When you get money from someone that always comes with strings.
Not only strings, bragging rights it seems, even if you don’t take Warp Speed funding.
Dangerous Demagogue
Trump is a dangerous demagogue of the first order. The only person attempting to steal the election was Trump.
He is guilty of dereliction of duty for waiting an hour to call in the national guard in the riots.
Courage to Convict
Trump should have been convicted in the impeachment trial. Sadly, 43 Republican Senators lacked the courage to do the right thing.
Trump awaits trial in civil and criminal prosecutions for election tampering in Georgia and tax fraud in New York.
He belongs in prison for dereliction of duty and election tampering, not the White House.
Mish
Reading the comments section Mich has a echo chamber of trump derangement syndrome going on here
America no longer has our legal system we have a corrupt two-tiered system that is designed to attack the people and provide cover for the globalist new world order as it destroys America
Mish youre sadly pushing fake news again the Georgia fraud was exposed as more fake news that the Washington Post invented you’re a disgusting hack Mich
I see Trump derangement syndrome is still strong in the lot of people
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It would make me as happy as a clam if The Donald would just step on a rainbow and go home to Jesus.
He got hammered pretty hard by Covid, he may not be with us long
*yawn* Extremely controversial take there Mish. Here’s your click.
Trump will run again if the republicans win the house and or the senate.
Trump is a total jerk, but he has some points. The media treated him unfairly. I’ve never seen a president come close to the one sided coverage Trump received. The latest example is under Trump they were ‘Children separated from their parents’. Now they’re ‘Unaccompanied minors’. The same kids. Just because I don’t like Trump doesn’t mean I’m blind to the obvious.
Neither Trump nor Biden deserves credit for the vaccine. Biden and Trump would have done the same thing in the same position. Biden would have said we should all wear masks and shut down. Trump said we should re-open. That’s the only difference. And it would have made no difference. The vaccine would be ready at the same time in the same amounts.
If trump stayed off twitter and such. Maybe not been so divisive the media might not have had as much to say. .
They aren’t the same kids. These are teenagers looking for a better life because they believe the new administration will have compassion and be lenient. The kids under Trump were 5 year olds that arrived with their parents and were forcibly separated by US law enforcement.
Ummm, do you have the age breakdown in the juvenile populations in these two groups??
If not for two big factors you’d be right. He lost me when he veered away from mask use and the poor leadership role RE Covid. Biden cranked up the genotyping of Covid variants that was ignored by the Trump admin. A homegrown Cali variant killed a lot of us here in SoCal Dec-Jan and mortuaries are still processing the dead, we did not even know it existed. Gotta give Biden some credit for providing a better leadership role RE Covid. Other stuff, we’ll see but not to excited about what I see so far. And yeah the media is horrible, just about blew up today when I heard Trump getting castigated for calling it the Wuhan flu. God the chinese know how to manipulate our “left”.
Well maybe if Trump hadn’t ignored his daily briefings we’d have been better prepared. As per the Woodward story Trump very obviously lied and did so for his own gain. The Obama admin even left him a playbook and he STILL f’d it up. Gross incompetence cost time, lives, and money as we locked down longer than should have been necessary if he were on the ball. Could even have been the hero but chose selfishness over America. But he made that decision decades ago…
Regarding the vaccines- everybody fails to mention that the Pfizer vaccine was developed in GERMANY by a German/Turkish couple and funded largely by the GERMAN government. I have never heard before that Pfizer had anything to do with the development. The money they spent was probably to buy the rights from Biontec to produce the vaccine. Germany made a huge mistake allowing Pfizer to take over- that left them very short of vaccine Another massive error by Merkel’s government.
I don t think Biontec was in a position to produce millions, let alone billions of ‘their’ product….Btw, Pfizer’s main production facility for Europe is located in Belgium, Puurs…..
Yeah they are working on mRNA cures for cancer and they realized with a little tweaking….and the rest is history
Georgia is not just an election interference case. The prosecutors are investigating racketeering, much higher penalties.
“A conviction under Georgia’s RICO statute will result in a 5- to 20-year sentence, a fine, or both.”
Trump is MOANING….Maybe so… Yesterday, on CNN, I heard a lot of ridiculous and mostly ungrounded moaning too, about russian interference again in the 2020 elections. Which makes me wonder, can t you just move on with your lives under your socialist president and quit digging up trite and boring stories ? I also heard, not on CNN of course, that the US is putting pressure on countries not to use the first and probably the best vaccine in the world, the russian Sputnik V. What a utterly PATHETIC nation you have become !
Foreign nation meddling in our election is a trite issue? Does that make the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol a friendly sightseeing tour?
….the US of A has been outrageously meddling all over the world since WWII ! You are merely getting a tiny little taste of your own fckn medicine…..
Where did you hear about the vaccine politics with sputnik? I’ve read about pFizer’s bad behaviour with 3rd world countries.
just Google : US pressured Brazil to ditch Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine.
Yea, have you heard anything about genetic engineering??? Have you heard about Chernobyl? Have you heard about the Kursk? Did you note that Putin’s daughter got one of the first vaccines but as of Feb 12 (the latest I could find) he still hasn’t taken it himself? Maybe he has since? He certainly is pushing it on others. You almost sound like a Russian Troll? Authoritarianism, not a big fan…
…of course I ve heard about genetic engineering, you Americans are great at it ! The incidents you refer too, happened in the USSR, that s quite a while ago in case you didn t know. Who cares whether Putin or his daughter took the jab or not ? A russian troll ? I DO think Putin is a admirable leader, phlegmatic, showing restraint …..your worthless, deepstate, neocon old fart called Putin ‘a killer’ couple of days ago…a text book example of diplomacy that is ! ‘Authoritarianism’, a woke, politically correct version of it, THAT is exactly what we are going to enjoy from now in Western countries, Democracy is a goner….
Rioting White House coup that failed to overthrow the government.
I think that it is ridiculous to believe that in 21th century it is possible to overthrow a government by occupying a single building. Maybe this was the case 100 years ago in some south american countries.
it was an attempted putsch to stop an election and put keep Trump in power. If the Senate had been scared into acting illegally and throw out the results with Trump the President what else would it be?
I think that the true reason of such an emotion about such a rather benign act is that people (especially politicians, journalists) are afraid that this could be just a beginning, and that they could be personally targets in the future.
A similar act, but less impressive, happened in France during the “gilets jaunes” demonstrations 2 years ago. Some demonstrators did break the door of a minister (but did not enter). The reactions were very important in the press and the politicians, but the real damage was very low (a door to repair).
SenatorRon Johson seems to have on such fear of calling out ANTIFA and BLM protesters despite the fact that both group were not involved with January 6th or that both groups have engaged in predominantly peaceful protests despite intelligence to the contary(93% of BLM protests have been peaceful)
The hope was that if an uprising started, the police and national guard would join them, since both contain many Trump supporters.
.They could and maybe should ve burnt it down, your sacred Temple of Corruption…. I think though that apart from being unarmed, they even didn t bring matches with them…LOL, One hell of a frightening coup that was !
Thanks to all the replies. I acctually created the Insurection video in the fall 2019
as the political brawling was off the charts. I was stunned when it really happened, so I pulled out the old video & just replaced old images with the Jan 6 real images.
I believe Biden got more votes than Trump. And I believe Trump is a dangerous demagogue. I also believe that our media affected public perceptions enough times to change the outcome. From “making fun of a disabled reporter” to “very fine people” to “kids in cages”, “Flynn spoke to Russians before the election”, “PO removing mailboxes” and “bounties for American soldiers killed”, our media have run with every weakly substantiated anti-Republican story imaginable. Yet, somehow, reporting on Hunter’s laptop gets you thrown off Twitter, criticized as irrelevant at NPR, and ignored by the rest of the lapdogs. I say that’s worth 5-10% of public opinion sway.
Did you expect the Democrats to not attempt to counter Russian interference in this election? The density of obvious Russian trolls on message boards declined by about 50% after election day and another 50-90% within a week after that. Face it, politics is a dirty rock fight forevermore. We are not capable of better.
If you’re arguing that Russian disinformation justifies major media pumping out unsubstantiated fake news, then you lost me. “They lie so we can lie too” is not a convincing argument.
Moderna had a vaccine solution within 4 days of receiving the SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence! Another company I forget had a solution within that time as well. DT didn’t do s&*t.
by not accepting the fraudulent election case, the supreme court proved they are craven and cowardly. If that wasn’t important enough, what is? They are comfy with their lifetime appointment and that is all that counts.
the craven and cowardly are the ones who knelt before “zod” (please don’t make me elucidate who “zod” is)
The problem with a Conservative court that believes in things like States’ Rights, and Strict Construction is that the hold the Law in high regard. None of Trump’s cases had any legal merit, and none deserved to be heard, so the Court bravely did exactly what they should have done, just as all of the Trump appointees did at lower levels.
Please, there were no cases to hear. They were thrown out by judges Trump himself selected because they had no merit. The judges proved themselves by operating by the rule of law.
Senate Intelligence report states ties between Russia and Trump officials in 2020 directed by Putin.
No surprise. We knew all along that it happened in 2016 too. There were numerous incidents of cooperation between the Russians and trump campaign staff and operatives. Trump is like a mob boss – he’s not going to get caught directly coordinating with the Russians over the phone. He sent his minions to do the dirty work, including his son. And did they ever.
Manafort lied nonstop to Mueller and others in the FBI about his contacts with Russia and role in the collusion. He knew that would get him a pardon, and it did.
It was just a matter of time before they uncovered and released this info that the trumpers obviously hid in the FBI and DOJ. No doubt, there will be much more to come as Garland begins to run the DOJ properly. Barr was as big a crook, liar, and cover up artist as trump.
On top of that, now they’re looking into the phony investigation the FBI undertook with Kavanaugh. Intentionally shortened the review and much evidence was not looked at or key people not interviewed and avoided under the orders of the dotard. It was all known at the time, but when you let an authoritarian with no scruples run the FBI and DOJ, they get intimidated into not doing their jobs properly under threat of being fired.
Another 4 years of trump would have KILLED this democracy. Much more of his dirty dealings and mob behavior is yet to be revealed. Stay tuned, buy popcorn. Without accountability, the sedition party will continue its behavior. If the trials display the criminality, certain politicians need to go to jail.
Please, Mike, move along. There are plenty of bashers. You add nothing.
Who cares? Even if I did care to hear about the idiot, I’d tune into The View for some real good Trump bashing.
Trumps vaccine achievement is so great that he won’t encourage people to take it, because politics.
The most anti-science president in history wants credit for the work of scientists. smh.
The failure to do the right thing too many times will soon destroy our country (and I am not only referring to Trump). Some credit needs to be given to the Trump Administration for vaccine development (after all they could have done nothing) but their plan was weak and their methods were poor. They should have secured more doses (after all any excess doses can be given/sold to the rest of the world).
Trump gambled on Hydroxychloroquine and lost 500,000 lives. If he wants credit he needs to first accept responsibility.
How childish that Trump is even trying to take credit given his general failure at tackling Covid.
Trump may have learned a lesson. Give someone a lifetime job and they’re not likely to be all that loyal once you can’t do anything for them anymore.
Hey, Trump appointed them; they therefore had a moral duty to repay the favor by erasing the election and making him Dictator.
Lifetime appointment were a wise choice by the founding fathers, assuming that you want a Judiciary that is independent, and which can rise above partisan politics. We can undo that with ease, however, and don’t even need a Constitutional Amendment; all we need it to open the gates to Court packing, and the Supreme Court can be just as partisan as the other branches of government.
I hope you all like what the Democrats are doing for you. You will be stuck with them for a very long time. I even heard it mentioned, without any real investigation into the voter fraud {especially with the machines} the fix is in! It may be NEVER that the Republicans lead again and the nation will be governed by a one party socialist/ communist/ dictatorship democratic party. Congratulations! You will finally have what you voted for- no more nasty rights and Constitution. Just plenty of regulations, higher and higher taxes, chaos, poverty, unemployment, crime, equity in misery and equal company. Enjoy.
I don’t like the new trend, but I accept that it was inevitable. Trump continually pandered to his most extreme supporters, and worked hard to drive moderates out of the party. As a result, for the first time ever, the Democrats felt no need to run to the center, and still won handily. In the process, the extreme wing of the party is elated, and empowered. They learned that if they turn out and vote, they can win, and yes, the extreme liberals most likely will continue to win if Trump stays active in the Republican Party. Trump is the greatest fund-raising weapon that Democrats have ever had, and the greatest voter turnout inspiration they have ever had.
As for the election fraud issues, they were examined four separate times, first at the state level, but also by the Department of Homeland Security, and by the Justice Department, and then they were also presented to the court. None of them found significant fraud. Think about that for a minute. You had Republican control of some of the states, and they found no fraud. You had Republican control of the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department, and neither found fraud. And, finally, most of the court cases were decided by Republican judges, including some that Trump appointed.
As for the machines, you are not done hearing about those. Expect to see those litigated in court. All the people who claimed that the machines switched votes are going to have to prove it in court, or they will face billion dollar judgements for libel and slander, because they did considerable damage to voting machine makers. The “My Pillow” guy better be able to prove his allegations, or it will be expensive.
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What a maroon!
I follow Rupar. Saw him tweeting about the interview. Accused him of pulling a Maggie Haberman. Honestly Trump’s not that relevant these days. Have zero desire to pull up the interview. Interest in Trump as measured by google has been trending down too. There was a surge in September , November and in January but lately he’s been flat lining. His CPAC performance fell flat as well. Without the power of the office Trump’s just not that interesting or intimidating. Before there was fear of what he might do. Now he’s crazy Uncle Donald and without a twitter feed.