Kevin Russell Cook
Kevin Russell Cook
@citizencook.bsky.social
Politics, world events, culture, and, every once in a while, something gratuitously silly. Good discussion accepted & appreciated. Not looking for online pals. Lastly, I Will NOT chat (DM / PM), unless I otherwise know you.
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Replying to @billkittle.bsky.social
First, we get through November 3. Then we deal with what comes after. Many people, including Secretaries of State, have gamed out various scenarios. Right now, I think we need to focus on getting out the vote (especially the early vote) & on protecting people’s right to vote without interference.
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“The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president.” -- Obama on felon Trump seeking to deport Rep. Ilhan Omar.
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"(which) federal law has long prohibited."
🚨BREAKING: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Tuesday that ICE agents could enter polling places to make arrests this November, raising fresh concerns about the Trump administration contemplating actions that federal law has long prohibited. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
"...others will try to adjust their own reality to make the lie true; while others will become inured to the new normal – that we just all lie now." www.theguardian.com/.../how-to-s....
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Of course too, there will be the wholesale challenges to tranches of ballots from chosen locals, efforts to 'dirty' them, and toss out entire elective districts. Damned right, Phil, there will be a multi-layered effort to deny and overturn election results all over the USA.
There’s no way that there will be a smooth transition of power. Quite what they plan we don’t know yet, but probably it’s a series of things to challenge election results, allege fraud and refuse to seat “fraudulently elected” Democrats. It will be a layered response.
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Replying to @smackeycracks.bsky.social
It's perfectly obvious he's a mental case. What is truly astonishing is how the SCOTUS and our Congress so easily turn a blind eye to it. The majority in both Congress and the SCOTUS are unfit to serve. They are, along with the president, destroyers of our nation.
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The US Treasury elected not to print bills in denominations over $100 in order to inhibit illicit dealing. But, not to worry! We now have CRYPTO. Which itself should have been made illegal since almost day 1.
“All Pay the Chief.” Editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich’s take on what was once unthinkable and is now common practice.
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Agrees? This is ESSENTIAL if there is to be any realistic hope of saving our nation, of making it something better, OR even of restoring it to its former and imperfect state. ** RESTRUCTURE the Supreme Court. **
We MUST fix the SCOTUS by increasing the number of justices, and adding on term limits… WHO ELSE AGREES?! 🤚
The limits of his power may be at their weakest. Yet, he does not act like a weak president. This is because he is frequently acting at the limits of what he can get away with. Other presidents usually acted below that limit, observing instead the rules of precedent and the constitutional order.
America's weakest in 50 years —with two more years of Trump to go: analysis
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I know a lot of you get it. I see it all the time on post responses. I recieved a thousand replies telling me exactly what's going on out there. For the 1st time 2nite, I discovered @jamestalarico.bsky.social is ready to fight the real fight. Millions are starving for this. youtu.be/7AyG1PBzQrU?...
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Replying to @andyghk.leftis.best
The people who are almost always BLAMELESS are THE VOTERS. We are poor little lambs who cannot distinguish when we are being fed lies. The politicians are to blame when they take office, and the ones that lose are also to blame, because they ran campaigns that were "too weak" to have won.
The sad truth is there is no democratic system that can successfully be run without the good will of the participants and a willingness to abide in the rules. And, we've gotten to the place where we have neither. One party alone, however enlightened, cannot make it work.
Did that ever stop McConnell himself and his Republican buddies?!
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