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Nothing less than a massive repudiation of Trump and the GOP will serve to save the US and the Republican party. A close win for the Democrats will only strengthen the right-wing/white supremacists belief that they are the natural ruling party of America and all the crap they have pulled is now acceptable politics. We can only hope that Biden, upon winning, will immediately appoint a special prosecutor or prosecutors to bring all of this rotten administration into court. I fear that Trump will demand an unconditional pardon for himself and maybe his immediate family or he will loose his rabid followers onto American streets. We already know that the majority of police will turn a blind eye onto right-wing violence, and most of the rest will remain silent behind the blue wall.

The naked truth is that Trump and the GOP will resort to any means at their disposal to retain power. Violence, intimidation, semi-legal obstruction, and voter suppression are all fair game so far they are concerned. They have enlisted/bought enough African-Americans to provide the thinnest of veneers of respectibility, much as Hitler enlisted Jewish lawyers in pre-war Germany to calm Jewish fears.

Cops Pepper-Spray Voters as They March to Polls in NC https://www.thedailybeast.com/cops-pepper-spray-voters-as-they-march-to-polls-in-graham-north-carolina?ref=home “I saw a little girl, probably five, being carried off sobbing and coughing. She was dressed as a fairy or a princess,” one attendee said. GRAHAM, North Carolina—On the final day of early voting in North Carolina, police in Alamance County pepper-sprayed a group of voters who were marching to the polls, leaving demonstrators injured and vomiting in the streets. At least one journalist was arrested in the chaotic showdown on Saturday in Alamance County, a red county but one that may decide which party controls the state legislature next year. About 250 people—most of them Black—were taking part in an event called I Am Change Legacy March to the Polls and on their penultimate stop before visiting a polling place in downtown Graham when cops intervened.

Unfortunately, it does not appear to be headed in that direction. The right-wingers are being urged on by not only Trump but many in the GOP as well. The sales of firearms and ammunition is spiralling upward, the rhetoric is escalating and the incidents of right-wing and police attacks on non-violent protestors are not being challenged by Department of Justice for civil rights violations. Sooner or later some on the left will respond in kind, and if Trump is in still in power, he will inflame the situation by praising the racists. The next civil war that is pending will not be an all-out conflict as in the most recent one, but armed skirmishes within the inner cities while the police essentially stand by and even offer tacit support to the white supremacists. When the Nazis started ascending to power in Germany, the police and military supported them and did not act out of conscience at all, so we can expect much the same in the US. The only hope is that Trump has insulted the US military so much and so often that they may well decide to support his ouster.

One of the Biden vehicles was hit by a Trump vehicle, whether by accident or design but the police were present and did.....nothing. Should it come to violence, it is pretty obvious whose side the police would be on.

Appparently, this week past, Trump was determined to order Barr to charge Joe and Hunter Biden with some form of criminal offence and was barely restrained from doing so.

Retail giant Walmart has removed guns and ammunition from its U.S. sales floors out of concern for theft amid “civil unrest” over the killings of Black people by police. Guns will remain available for purchase upon request, said the company, which sells firearms in about half of its 4,750 U.S. stores. Walmart has pulled guns off its shelves in the past ― most recently in June, amid the summer’s protests over police killings. The shooting death of Walter Wallace Jr. by Philadelphia police on Monday has touched off another wave of demonstrations as a contentious election season comes to a head. “We have seen some isolated civil unrest and as we have done on several occasions over the last few years, we have moved our firearms and ammunition off the sales floor as a precaution for the safety of our associates and customers,” Walmart said in a statement first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Yhis is past the point where it can be ignored in any way. Australia, with 25 million people is in a far better position - 583 nation-wide deaths. 550 were in long-term care facilities. The reasons are very simple and doable but right-wingers will foam at the mouth. 1. There are national standards for care facilities as to staffing, housing and care models, whether the facility is public (almost all are), for-profit or non-for-profit. 2. There must be inly one resident per room. 3. All care facilities were locked down for two weeks at the start of the pandemic- no visitors and no staff moving from one facility to another. 4. All visitors to these are checked at the door before entry, and are required to advise if they become ill after visiting. 5. there was a severe lockdown overall in the country for two weeks with no non-essential travels leaving or coming in, and even after the initial lockdown, all incoming travelers had to checked upon entry and isolate following entry.

This is the beginning of the scorched-earth policy that the GOP and Trump are instituting to punish America for voting them out and it is only going to get worse from here on. They will scramble to enrich themselves and try to shield themselves from criminal charges. It will escalate after the election and then the violence and threats will reach heights not seen in America since their last civil war. Canada will probably have to restrict Americans from flooding over the border even further.

An open question, but I think so.

There is some reason for optimism regrading the SCOTUS. Firstly, it has emerged that Justice Clarence Thomas has comitted perjury several times and can be impeached, leaving the door open for a progressive, and the Democrats are actively considering an 18 year term limit for justices, which would remove another judge or two.

The "accordion motion" is Trumps "tell"- he ises it when he is lying and wants to really sell his crap.

Here are the purported facts to the laptop story: apparently Hunter Biden, who lives in Los Angeles, has a problem with his expensive Apple laptop, so he flies to New Jersey and gives his laptop which has all kinds of damaging stuff on it to a small computer shop, which has little experiences with Apple computers and is run by a blind technician to be repaired. No, wait. there are two, no three laptops. Why would anyone disbelieve this story?

FBI statistic: killings attributed to right-wingers in past 10 years- 519, killings attributed to left-wingers: ONE

"******* Cold-Blooded’ GOP Operatives Accused of Running Ohio’s Largest Ever Bribery Scheme A cross-reference of details in Ohio’s bombshell criminal complaint involving top state Republicans reveals a scandal that stretches from Columbus to Arizona to Washington. In September 2019, Matt Borges, an Ohio lobbyist and former chairman of the state Republican Party, reached out to a canvasser working to collect petition signatures to roll back a massive bailout of Ohio’s nuclear energy industry. According to federal prosecutors, he offered the canvasser $15,000 to be a double agent and provide the opposition with inside information. The canvasser initially recoiled at the prospect, and immediately after the meeting contacted the FBI. The FBI wired him up and told him to circle back with Borges and accept the offer. According to criminal complaints handed down this week, the canvasser—referred to as Confidential Human Source 1—reconnected with Borges, got that $15,000 payment, and proceeded to provide extensive, damning details to investigators about what the U.S. attorney in Ohio’s Southern District called “likely the largest bribery [and] money-laundering scheme ever perpetrated against the people of the state of Ohio.” Borges was one of five people arrested Tuesday; another was Larry Householder, the Republican speaker of Ohio’s state house of representatives. Prosecutors accuse them of orchestrating a massive bribery and racketeering scheme to funnel money from Ohio utility FirstEnergy into the pockets of Householder, his allies, and a sprawling network of interest groups, political action committees, and consulting firms. In exchange, the feds say, Householder, Borges, and their co-conspirators spearheaded successful legislative efforts to bail out FirstEnergy’s struggling nuclear-power business to the tune of $1.5 billion. https://www.thedailybeast.com/*******-cold-blooded-gop-operatives-accused-of-running-ohios-largest-ever-bribery-scheme?ref=home

If he is not clearly better than Medlock, he might develop a painful hangnail or such that would sideline him for the season.

https://samsandmore.ca/index.php

This just might be the year Medlock is challenged by that guy from Quebec.

It might be due to a phallus measuring contest.

Not sure if anyone actually lives in the Yukon, or just tries to survive there.

FYI: Did you know that of the 10 worst weather events in Canadian recorded history, five of them happened in the Calgary area? Weird. Maybe karma?

If Ambrosie is able to squeeze the 45 million out of the feds, the other pieces ought to fall into place. I am cautiously optimistic that it will happen. God knows, we need some good news to distract us.

Trump’s Now Claiming He Got ‘Extra Points’ on Cognitive Test. ‘I'M COGNITIVELY THERE’ Haltingly repeating the phrase “person, woman, man, camera, TV” to show off his memory, the president claimed he left doctors in awe and received “extra points” on the test. Amid renewed criticism of his COVID-19 response and new controversy over his decision to sic federal forces on Democratic-led cities, President Trump on Wednesday night resurrected his story about a 2018 cognitive test he insists he got a “perfect mark” on, now claiming he also got “extra points” for a particularly impressive feat. The feat? Repeating the words “person, woman, man, camera, TV” in the right order. In recent weeks, the president has repeatedly called on former Vice President Joe Biden to take the Montreal Cognitive Assessment while bragging that he left doctors “very surprised” that he scored perfectly on the exam. Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, however, pointed out to Trump that the exam isn’t actually hard, as it is meant to test cognitive impairment. “They have a picture and it says ‘what’s that’ and it’s an elephant,” Wallace said to Trump on Sunday. Trump insisted at the time that other questions were much harder and Wallace “couldn’t answer many of the questions” while claiming he personally “answered all 35 questions correctly.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-now-claiming-he-got-extra-points-on-cognitive-test?ref=home