RIV, if I have angered you I apologize from the bottom of my heart. I have always looked forward to reading your posts and respect your reasoning. I don’t agree with you on this but I understand why you feel as you do. Again, apologies if I have offended.
I am offended
@Mesaclone but not by anything you've said. I apologize if I've not been clear about this. I think we're closer to agreeing than you think. If I understand you correctly, you see more obstacles to a new party than do I. I think the time is so ripe the fruit is dripping on the vine. There is a natural leader and a ready made in the USA base of 75,000,000 Americans. I also think the Republican brand -- across the board -- has so damaged itself it is beyond repair.
Put aside, for the moment, the media facilitating the Democrat fraud machine with early calls and accepting, without any investigation, the coordinated stopping of vote counting in five states — to allow those states to count phantom votes in darkness and inject them into the totals. And put aside for another moment Big Tech for coordinating lies with the media and the Democrats; and the
Republicans in the Senate refusing to include ending Section 230 in the defense bill as the President requested -— in spite of all their foot stomping about Big Tech’s censorship and influence.
Here's what has me spitting mad right now, Mesaclone -- and why this political party can't be thrown in the dustbin of history fast enough:
John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Barrett. With one short, absurd press release they have potentially blocked all legal avenues open to the President. Kudos to the administration for taking another direct shot at these four "constitutional judges". We'll know this week just how corrupt our Supreme Court is. If they prove -- again -- "constitutional" is a fluid legal concept, what the hell difference does it make if there are 7 or 27 bad apples sitting on the bench?
The Senate Committee Hearing on “Irregularities†in Voting where each Republican acknowledged serious, coordinated voter fraud -— and gave us their word they would, by God!, fix it so it doesn’t affect them-—next time. And to date, only one Republican senator has even hinted he will rise in opposition to electors for Biden from swing states with corrupted elections. ONE. Democrats would have had them lining up around the block if circumstances were reversed.
Every Republican statehouse in the swing states and Georgia refuses -- just refuses -- to even debate exercising its Constitutional right to choose electors. Republican statehouses.
Republican Governor Kemp is a flat out enemy of the Georgians who voted for him. And the cherry on this parfait is he would not be in office today had the President not pulled his sorry ass across the finish line. And don't start me on the Republican SOS.
And Republican Mitch McConnell, swamp creature extraordinaire, surrendered before dawn on Nov 4. In his climactic speech last week from the well of the Senate he congratulated the President-elect for his victory capping his many years of "public service" and reminded his "Senate team" not to even think about supporting the President or his voters -- especially on Jan 6 -- or lose committee assignments. In case this isn't clear, McConnell is the REPUBLICAN Senate Leader.
There was massive, coordinated fraud by the Democrat-Socialists. Everyone with two working brain cells knows this. The democrats counted on Republicans sacrificing the legal votes of their own political base for the illegal and often phantom votes of the noisy, scary Democrat base. And they were right.
Now Republican Georgians are being told to crawl across broken glass and vote in the same fraudulent system to save McConnell’s position. Just. Do. It.
And me? I look at this and see just how disposable their voters are to state AND federal Republicans. So I say give the Republicans in the US Senate the same courtesy and support they have provided the President of the United States, (the head of their political party) and to the Americans who know their votes were more than sufficient to keep Donald Trump in the Oval Office for a second term. This is my version of "vote your conscience" with the added tagline: Join another political party.