How long can Trump keep disputing the election results?
Actual deadlines are fast approaching.
https://www.vox.com/21569656/trump-dispu...fedc32c19ef33b4

Joe Biden won, Michigan elector coup ‘not going to happen,’ GOP leader says
Democrat Joe Biden is the president-elect, and while Michigan’s Republican-led Legislature is investigating the election, it will not award the state’s 16 electors to GOP President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey told Bridge on Tuesday.
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-govern...gop-leader-says

Trump's controversial Fed nominee stalled after Senate setback
Judy Shelton’s Federal Reserve Board nomination failed to advance on Tuesday after coronavirus-related quarantines sidelined some Republican senators and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris returned to the upper chamber to provide a crucial “no” vote.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5263...-senate-setback

US-Medien

Trump soll Angriff auf Atomanlage in Iran erwogen haben

Noch bis Ende Januar ist Donald Trump im Amt – nun soll sich der US-Präsident über einen möglichen Angriff auf Iran beraten lassen haben. Das Urteil seiner Militärexperten fiel laut US-Medien eindeutig aus.

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/u...cb61b0a#ref=rss

Trump soll auf der Suche nach einem anderen Ziel als der Anlage in Na_tanz sein.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j25pW4kb_yY
"Keep the company of those who seek the truth, run from those who already know it." Senator Kennedy (I like that guy.)

Nun, wir kennen ja auch alle Leute, die im Besitz der Wahrheit sind. :-)

Raving Rudy Giuliani’s ‘Voter Fraud’ Courtroom Appearance Offers GOP a Stark Choice: Reality or Madness
His performance in Philly on Tuesday laid bare enough what a charade this all is that even Republicans will now have to notice.

Rudy Giuliani has given our country a great gift. Laid bare for all to see, he has become the naked embodiment of Trumpian madness, the emperor with no clothes shouting at the top of his lungs.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/raving-rud...lity-or-madness

Netanyahu Dumps Trump And Is Now Speaking To Joe Biden
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/11/17/...-joe-biden.html

To 'Save Countless Lives,' US Medical Groups Demand Trump Share Covid-19 Data With Biden Team
"More people may die if we don't coordinate," President-elect Joe Biden said this week.

Three major medical associations warned President Donald Trump Tuesday that his continued refusal to concede the 2020 election and begin the process of aiding the transition to the incoming Biden-Harris administration could cost thousands of American lives as the coronavirus pandemic runs rampant across the country.

In their letter to Trump, the American Medical Association (AMA), American Hospital Association (AHA), and American Nurses Association (ANA) called on administration officials to share all real-time data about the availability of supplies to combat the crisis, so President-elect Joe Biden and incoming White House officials will not be forced to catch up on weeks of crucial public health information after Inauguration Day in January. ...
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/1...data-biden-team

Trump remains bunkered in the White House as the world spins on
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/17/politics/...re-white-house/

Fears of foreign policy chaos in Trump's final days fueled by Iran bombing report
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/fea...ort/ar-BB1b6qaK

Iran warns of 'crushing' response after report Trump mulled military strike
https://thehill.com/news-by-subject/fore...e-if-us-attacks

Israel says IDF targeted sites related to Iran's Quds Force, Syrian army
https://news.trust.org/item/20201118014143-ilk23

Iran fires up advanced uranium centrifuges installed at Natanz site - a day after it emerged Trump had asked for options on attacking the facility
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...atanz-site.html

Security officials worry Israel and Saudi Arabia may see the end of Trump as their last chance to go to war with Iran
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sec...ran/ar-BB1b68rX

Not transitioning to Biden's Covid team and withholding the presidential security briefings
is Trump's way of punishing a nation that doesn't want him anymore.

The same nation he proclaims to love.
-LivingBlue-


https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...119&oe=5FDAFC36

Coronavirus Task Force warns Pence to change course or risk 2,000 deaths a day by Christmas
Doctors on the COVID-19 task force are reportedly warning officials of dire consequences without public health measures.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/wel...pence-to-change

https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...bcb&oe=5FD90750

https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...b4e&oe=5FD91AA3

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=2842...649842658619665

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=...35717734&type=3

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=...78504844&type=3

GOP congressman says colleagues are 'waiting' on Trump to accept election results before recognizing Biden
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/politics/...-results-cnntv/

While Trump pouts, Biden meets with former national security officials
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1996707

Trump wants to quietly rehire white supremacist to preserve ‘America’s heritage’
On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced their intention to nominate and appoint a slew of new “key administration posts.” One of those new posts to be filled would be by “Dr. Darren Jeffrey Beattie, of Colorado, to be a Member of the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad.” Now, we all know that this administration, beset with white supremacist theologians and hooligans, might make one wonder about any “commission” that would be focused on “Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad.” But don’t worry: Dr. Darren Jeffrey Beattie is [looking at notes] a suspected white supremacist and noted bigot!
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1996637

Jewish Group Denounces White House Pick for Preservation Commission
Darren Beattie was fired as a speechwriter in 2018 for attending a conference with white nationalists. This week, he was appointed to a commission that helps preserve sites related to the Holocaust.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/us/po...-holocaust.html

Republicans seek to stymie Biden with final Trump nominees
The Senate GOP is working to stock the government with conservative appointments in the lame duck.

Two months before Joe Biden assumes the presidency, Senate Republicans are racing to install a series of conservative nominees that will outlast Donald Trump.
While Trump still refuses to concede the election, the Senate GOP is moving quickly to ensure that the president’s stamp sticks to the Federal Elections Commission, Federal Reserve Board, the federal judiciary and beyond. ...

... While Republicans may view the lame duck session as a final opportunity to implement their conservative agenda before Biden is inaugurated, Democrats see a Trump-led effort to impede the president-elect wherever possible.
“Whether it’s new sanctions against Iran or a pull-out from Afghanistan or FEC and Fed nominees, Trump’s goal right now is to sort of sabotage and make complicated a Biden administration to the maximum extent possible,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), adding that Senate Republicans “are along for the ride on all of it.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/19...es-biden-437959

Remember when Ted Cruz swore we’d learn COVID-19 was a Democratic hoax after Biden won?
... Cruz, because he’s a big bowl of bad ideas and statements, made some pretty bold predictions in July to reporters. While standing mask-free in our nation’s capitol, Cruz told the world that not only were Democratic leaders’ public health measures—closing down schools and businesses to flatten the curve—wrong-headed, they were all a part of a political ploy to win the election. In fact, if (and once) Joe Biden won the election, the ruse would be up. Democratic leaders would reveal the COVID-19 pandemic to be a hoax and would reopen everything. There’s video below the fold of him making this very prediction.

SEN. TED CRUZ: If it ends up that Biden wins in November—I hope he doesn't, I don't think he will—but if he does, I guarantee you the week after the election, suddenly all those Democratic governors, all of those Democratic mayors will say, “Everything is magically better, go back to work, go back to school.” Suddenly the problems are solved. You won’t to have to wait for Biden to be sworn in.

A person like this cannot be shamed. The depth of their moral deceit knows no bounds.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11...ign=recommended

"... I guarantee you ...":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuPD_v_b...hannel=DailyKos

Lesson: "Der Wahrheit ist es egal, was behauptet wird. Wahrheit ist."

Biden's top unification task: Expose Trump team wrongdoing, restore trust in government
Biden needs a government-wide audit to find every ounce of Trump administration mismanagement and corruption. Unity hinges on transparency and trust.

For four years, the institutions meant to safeguard our democracy have come under a relentless assault from within, leaving our government vulnerable to corruption. We have seen a systemic and successful effort by President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans to strip away these safeguards. Of the many challenges the incoming Biden administration must confront, the restoration of checks and balances is the most vital if we are to continue on as a united and functioning republic.

It’s easy in the midst of a pandemic to lose sight of things like whistleblowers, inspectors general, U.S. attorneys, and congressional oversight and independence. But they are all linchpins of a healthy democracy. It’s no surprise or accident that under the Trump presidency, these guardians of government have been eviscerated. ...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2...umn/6328965002/

Julia Ioffe@juliaioffe
I know we Americans like to think of our system as exceptional—institutions and all that
—but, historically, when people who want to seize and maintain power by any means necessary go up against people who take pride in playing by the rules,
the latter doesn’t do very well. ...

... And I don’t mean that this will necessarily happen today or tomorrow or even next year.
This is a long game, which is why McConnell is packing the court with young judges.
4:19 PM · Nov 18, 2020

Und deswegen wird sich die USA frueher oder spaeter auch gegen die Wand fahren. Auch mit Biden und den Demokraten. Denn die koennen alleine den Verfall nicht aufhalten.

Lame Duck Senate Confirms Trump's Youngest Judge Yet
Mizelle, 33 at the time of her nomination, is the latest of Trump's judicial nominees to receive a "not qualified" rating from the American Bar Association and be confirmed to a federal judgeship.

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Kathryn “Kat” Mizelle to a seat on the U.S. Court for the Middle District of Florida, making her the youngest judge tapped by President Donald Trump to a lifetime appointment despite questions about her limited trial experience. ...

... Mizelle is married to Chad Mizelle, the acting general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security. In that role, he would have been involved in the legal rationale for the deployment of federal law enforcement at protests this summer over police violence against Black Americans in cities like Portland.

In a letter to the committee, Kathryn Mizelle said she had been asked about any potential conflicts that could stem from her husband’s roles in the Trump administration. She said that she would “recuse in accordance” with the federal law on recusals and the judicial code of conduct, and “would consult any judicial decisions applying those particular rules to similar cases or circumstances for matters related to my husband’s position.”
https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2...=20201019111528

33 Jahre alt und schon appointed to a lifetime judge position. Lifetime!
Obwohl von der Bar Association fuer nicht qualifiziert befunden -aufgrund ihrer begrenzten Erfahrung- dennoch von den Repugnians durchgepeitscht. Denn sie hat "gute religioes-fanatische = conservative" Credentials.
Und Mitch is packing the courts like crazy -until the very last day. Shaping federal courts for many years to come.

Auch dies ein Meilenstein des Niedergangs der USA -das versiffen in einer US style Taliban Scharia-Oligarchie. Ready to be plucked and dismantled by the money vultures.

https://www.google.com/search?q=afghanis...=Vpcks2Vake-HkM

https://www.google.com/search?q=afghanis...=fqQjujm0co4XJM

https://www.google.com/search?q=afghanis...=aIQeK9J-WX38rM

https://www.google.com/search?q=afghanis...=y4nW9KB85KdYpM

https://www.google.com/search?q=afghanis...=NUQQso8s6dpCAM

Nur mal so, weil einigen offensichtlich die Maßstäbe abhanden kommen.

Anders als Omar und Tlaib, die wahrscheinlich wie Chebli nur das schöne Leben wollen und die Opferkarte spielen, denke ich, dass AOC politische Positionen vertritt. (Und vielleicht war ich ungerecht in meiner Beurteilung ihr gegenüber.) Wir werden sehen, wie progressiv sie wirklich ist, wenn Biden die alte, konzernfreundliche Politik Clintons und Obamas betreibt und wenn er Soldaten wieder in shithole countries (s. o.) schicken will.

Kristi Noem rigidly follows Trump strategy of denial as Covid ravages South Dakota
Republican governor clings to the president despite his defeat and claims ‘we’re doing really good’ with state’s positivity rate at 60%
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...es-south-dakota