Answering Maria Elvira Salazar e-mail.

Oddly enough, I have again received a second e-mail from another RUSS-PUBLICAN POLITICIAN.

As with the Sarah Huckabee Sanders first e-mail, I thought it was a mistake.

Alas, no.

Here is the opening:

I’m Maria Elvira Salazar, the newly elected Congresswoman for Florida’s 27th District. (You know Florida, home of the BOGUS ELECTION RESULTS THAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THE STATE CONSTANTLY IGNORES)

I've omitted the middle of the e-mail, which will possibly upset her allies in the RUSSIAN GRU.

Here is the end.

Your donations, your time, and your commitment to my success are CRUCIAL in my mission, and I hope you’ll join me in this fight.

Here is my answer:

I ALSO SEE THE DANGER:

- RIGGED ELECTIONS

- BANKROLLED BY HOSTILE FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS.

- RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY BEING ENACTED INTO LAW.

- ATTEMPTING TO SEIZE POWER WHEN DEMOCRACY

  EXPOSES TREASON AND CORRUPTION.

- XENOPHOBIA, HOMOPHOBIA, RACISM AS PART OF THE POLITICAL AGENDA.

- SCIENTIFIC ILLITERACY REPLACING THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD.

OH WAIT, THAT IS THE GAMEPLAN OF THE RUSS-PUBLICAN PARTY, WITH YOU

AND YOUR FASCIST ALLIES OBEYING YOUR OVERLORDS IN MOSCOW.

WHAT IS WRONG? IS DER FUHRER DONALD NOT BRINGING IN ENOUGH WHITE HOODED, RED BANNER FOLLOWING, GOOSE STEPPERS TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS?

YOU NEED TO MAKE A CHOICE- IS IT THE HAMMER AND SICKLE OR THE SWASTIKA THAT YOU WANT HANGING OVER THE WHITE HOUSE?

Das Vedanya Tovarisch.

ANSWERING SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS E-MAIL.

I JUST RECEIVED A SECOND E-MAIL LETTER FROM SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, ASKING ME TO BECOME A FOUNDING MEMBER OF HER CAMPAIGN TO BECOME GOVERNOR OF ARKANSAS. HERE IS THE OPENING:

Friend, America is great because we are free.

But today our freedom and the rule of law are under attack. To remain free, we must have law and order and resolve our differences peacefully...

I'M OMITTING THE BODY OF THE E-MAIL, BECAUSE JUST READING IT ONCE ALMOST

MADE ME LOSE MY LUNCH.

THE END OF THE E-MAIL WAS THIS:

So today, I announce my candidacy for governor of Arkansas, and ask for your prayers and support...

AS I SAID, THIS WAS THE SECOND E-MAIL, AND CONSIDERING THE ENORMOUS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OUR TWO "VIEWPOINTS" ON JUST ABOUT EVERY SUBJECT, I THOUGHT THE FIRST WAS A MISTAKE.

WELL, AFTER A SECOND E-MAIL, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE INCONSIDERATE NOT TO ANSWER, HERE IS MY RESPONSE:

AS GOVERNOR, WOULD THE RUSS-PUBLICANS REFER TO YOU AS 

POLITICAL KOMISSAR OR REICHSFUHRER, BEFITTING THEIR

DESIRE TO TURN THE U.S. INTO A FASCIST DICTATORSHIP. 

ALSO, WOULD YOU ESTABLISH A CHILDRENS ORG. CALLED "TRUMP" YOUTH 

MODELED AFTER "HITLER" YOUTH?

JUST ASKING,

DAVID.

REMEMBERING TRUMP. PAST POSTS THAT REMIND US OF THE "REAL DONALD TRUMP.": IF YOU WON'T CHEAT FOR ME, THEN YOUR STATE VOTE TOTALS DON'T COUNT.

 

YAHOO NEWS.

''I just want to find 11,780 votes': Trump attacks Georgia officials as crucial runoffs approach. 

In other words, "the people of Georgia cannot be counted on to vote 

for me, so we need to take the choice away."

ATLANTA — Just two days before the Georgia runoffs that will determine the leadership

 of the Senate and one day before a rally on behalf of the Republican candidates, President 

Trump has continued to unload on the GOP officials leading the state.

In an extraordinary development, Trump attempted to cajole Republican Georgia Secretary 

of State Brad Raffensperger, according to the Washington Post, which published audio 

of their call on Sunday.

“So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,” Trump told Raffensperger, laying bare his overriding goal of overturning the November election.

President-elect Joe Biden won Georgia on Nov. 3, the first time the state had gone for a Democratic candidate since 1992. Despite three vote recounts, Trump has continued to insist that the voting was tainted, casting a wide range of allegations without any credible evidence to back up his assertions.

Trump continued to attack Raffensperger while addressing their call hours before the Post published the audio.“I spoke to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger yesterday about Fulton County and voter fraud in Georgia,” Trump tweeted. “He was unwilling, or unable, to answer questions such as the ‘ballots under table’ scam, ballot destruction, out of state ‘voters,’ dead voters, and more. He has no clue!”

“Respectfully, President Trump,” Raffensperger replied on 

Twitter, “What you're saying is not true. The truth will come out.”

RESPECT TRUMP? THAT'S AN OXYMORON.

RUSS-PUBLICANS HAVE LACKEYS TO COMMIT TREASONOUS ACTS. THEY LIGHT THE FUSE, THEN RUN AWAY.

 AOC to Ted Cruz: 'You almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago'

AOC to Ted Cruz: 'You almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago'

Cruz was concurring with the congresswoman's take on the Robinhood app when she criticized him for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

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APA Member Webinar on Anti-Racist Pedagogy replay now available.

 

Dear DAVID,   On Tuesday, the APA held a webinar for APA members, Anti-Racist Pedagogy in Philosophy. The replay of the webinar is now available online.   The webinar includes brief presentations from philosophers about the webinar theme, followed by Q&A with attendees. The panelists for the webinar were the following: Johnathan Flowers, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Worcester State University — presenter Kritika Kanchana Yegnashankaran, Associate Director of Faculty and Lecturer Programs, Stanford University — presenter Jeannine Weekes Schroer, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota Duluth — presenter Lori Watson, Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis; Chair of the APA Committee on Inclusiveness in the Profession — facilitator For a list of resources intended to provide philosophy teachers with a starting point for incorporating anti-racist approaches and topics related to race and racism into their philosophy courses, visit our Anti-Racist Teaching Resources page.   If you have a suggestion for a topic for a future webinar, please submit this form.   All the best,   Amy Ferrer Executive Director

The American Philosophical Association University of Delaware 31 Amstel Avenue, Newark, DE 19716

ADD YOUR NAME: Condemn Ken Paxton's unfair and unjust immigration policy. Boot Texas Republicans.

                                                                     

David,

For four years, Donald Trump used America’s immigration system to ruthlessly attack families seeking asylum at the US border, and break up immigrant families with deportations.

Last week, President Joe Biden called for a 100-day halt to deportations to begin to undo the damage.

But Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is fighting tooth and nail to continue Trump’s unpopular, ineffective, and violent immigration policies. He just won an injunction that will require the US to continue deportations.

Texas needs an AG who will fight for justice - not to deport families back into harm’s way. We need to show Paxton Texans condemn his attacks on human rights. Can you add your name to our letter condemning Ken Paxton’s attack on unfair and unjust immigration policy?

ADD MY NAME »

Donald Trump’s mass deportation machine broke up families, condemned thousands to return to places they left to flee violence, and violated human rights. Paxton is going all-out to continue these deportations.

Ken Paxton is under indictment for serious crimes. He is using taxpayer money to defend himself from whistleblower cases brought by seven of his deputies. He is a disgrace.

We need to show him that Texans won’t stand for immigration policies that break up families and violate human rights. Help us condemn Paxton now.

Boot Texas Republicans

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JUST "ONE" EXAMPLE OF DONALD TRUMPS DETERMINATION TO STAY IN POWER, NO MATTER WHAT.

The following exchange occurred during a White House Press conference on Wednesday, Sept 24, 2020.

 “Win, lose, or draw in this election, will you commit here today for a peaceful transferal of power after the election?” reporter Brian Karem asked Donald Trump, who didn’t even attempt to give the impression he cares whatsoever about preserving democracy. “Well, we’re going to have to see what happens,” Trump said. “You know that. I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and the ballots are a disaster.” Pressed again to “commit to making sure that there’s a peaceful transferal of power,” Trump responded, “Get rid of the ballots and...we’ll have a very peaceful—there won’t be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation. The ballots are out of control. You know it. You know who knows it better than anybody else? The Democrats know better than anybody else.”

''...Pressed again to “commit to making sure that there’s a peaceful transferal of power,” Trump responded, “Get rid of the ballots and...we’ll have a very peaceful—there won’t be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation."

IN OTHER WORDS, DO WHAT I TELL YOU AND WE WON'T NEED A TRANSFER OF POWER, JUST A PEACEFUL CONTINUATION.

THERE IS NO EVIDENCE, OR EVEN MINIMAL JUSTIFICATION FOR THE PHRASE:

"The ballots are out of control. You know it. You know who knows it better than anybody else? The Democrats know better than anybody else.” 

PERHAPS YOU REMEMBER THE FOLLOWING FROM AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED ON THIS WEBSITE:

"EMPTY" ASSERTION-  ANY STATEMENT, (WRITTEN OR ORAL), THAT CLAIMS TO BE FACTUAL, BUT HAS LITTLE SUPPORTING EVIDENCE OR DATA THAT CAN WITHSTAND PROPER SCRUTINY.  In many cases, the act of criticizing the Assertion is discouraged, AND IT MUST BE ACCEPTED WITHOUT QUALIFICATION.

DO YOU THINK THAT APPLIES HERE?

We must defeat Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and the Sedition Caucus. U.S. REP. SETH MOULTON.

 

David,

Serve America is devoted to supporting a new generation of service-oriented leaders who will put people over politics. In general, we raise for our candidates, rather than against their opponents.

But today, I’m doing something a little different—I’m launching an effort to defeat the so-called “Sedition Caucus,” those Members who voted against certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election based on lies and conspiracy theories. I hope you’ll join me in this effort to hold these Members accountable at the ballot box. I also hope you’ll take a few minutes to read my thoughts on the importance of this accountability, below.

Add your name today to join us in making a commitment to working together to defend democracy and hold the Sedition Caucus accountable at the ballot box.

Why we must defeat the Sedition Caucus

There is little that matters more to our democracy than the core tenets of free and fair elections and the peaceful transition of power.

We witnessed the resiliency of our democracy last week. Despite the lies, conspiracy theories, and threats of another attack on the U.S. Capitol, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took their oaths of office. Now, in the first week of their administration, we must hold accountable the Republicans in Congress who sought to undermine our free and fair elections.

In their desperation to ride the coattails of Donald Trump—a political phenomenon that has turned our politics upside down in recent years—almost 150 Members of Congress voted against certifying the results of the 2020 presidential elections. Their vote was not based on any evidence of wrongdoing or fraud; it was simply a refusal to acknowledge that their preferred candidate lost, fair and square.

The United States has some of the safest and most secure elections in the world. Trump’s own administration said that the 2020 election was “the most secure in history.” We have an extraordinary design of checks and balances that, although not without flaws, has allowed for the longest run of a democracy in human history.

Our Constitution enables us to fight for change without the need for violence. It allows us to come together, as Americans, when we identify problems with our government and our society and to correct our nation’s course.

That’s why our free and fair elections and the peaceful transition of power are so important. That’s why the siege on the U.S. Capitol earlier this month was an attack on American democracy itself. And that’s why we’re launching a fund today to defeat those Members who perpetrated lies about election fraud and voted to ignore the will of the American voters—this “Sedition Caucus”—at the ballot box. We must hold them accountable in the way that democracies do.

“How could this happen?” so many people have asked me. The attack that left five dead and forced myself, my staff, and my colleagues to shelter in a secure room shocked the nation and the world.

But this didn’t happen overnight. For two months, many of my Republican colleagues in the House and Senate have been lying to the American people. They failed to find the courage to stand up to Trump’s outrageous claim that the election was stolen from him, and they fed this lie to their supporters day in and day out.

Drunk on lies and conspiracy theories, and whipped up by the President himself at a rally that day on the National Mall, they marched on the Capitol and wreaked havoc on a pillar of our government.

Our democracy is bent but not broken. Our democracy is fickle but not fragile. It will endure—and America will endure. But only if we fight for it.

We are going to show the Sedition Caucus that there is an electoral price to pay for refusing their sacred duty as leaders and legislators. We are going to hold them accountable for abusing the public’s trust. Please, commit today to joining us.

In service,

Seth

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TRUMPS IMPEACHMENT TRIAL: I HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN THE SENATE LEADERSHIP OF...

...BOTH PARTIES TO ACTUALLY CONDUCT A TRIAL THAT WILL MAKE AN HONEST ATTEMPT TO UNCOVER THE TRUTH REGARDING DONALD TRUMPS ATTEMPT TO CREATE A FASCIST STATE TO REPLACE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. HIS CALL FOR A VIOLENT OVERTHROW OF OUR REPUBLIC WAS JUST THE LAST ACT IN A PRESIDENCY FILLED WITH ATTEMPTS TO UNDERMINE OUR DEMOCRACY, WHICH INCLUDED THE ACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AND THE DO-NOTHING ATTITUDE OF THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP IN THE U.S. SENATE.*

WITH THAT IN MIND, WE SHOULD LOOK FOR WAYS TO "AID" THE SENATE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH.

HERE IS ONE STRAIGHT FROM THE HEADLINES:

EXCERPT FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICLE:

Trump Pressed Justice Department to Go Directly to Supreme Court to Overturn Election Results

WASHINGTON—In his last weeks in office, former President Donald Trump considered moving to replace the acting attorney general with another official ready to pursue unsubstantiated claims of election fraud, and he pushed the Justice Department to ask the Supreme Court to invalidate President Biden’s victory, people familiar with the matter said.

Those efforts failed due to pushback from his own appointees in the Justice Department, who refused to file what they viewed as a legally baseless lawsuit in the Supreme Court. Later, other senior department officials threatened to resign en masse should Mr. Trump fire then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, according to several people familiar with the discussions.

NOW THIS MAY SEEM TO BE JUST A CASE OF TRUMPS MEGLOMANIA REFUSING TO ACCEPT THE TRUTH ABOUT HIS FAILED ATTEMPT AT REELECTION, EXCEPT FOR THE FOLLOWING:

THIS IS FROM SEPT, 25TH, 2020. 

REP. U.S. SENATOR LINDSAY GRAHAM WAS QUOTED IN THE MEDIA, SAYING THE FOLLOWING:

"People wonder about the peaceful transfer of power. I can assure you, it will be peaceful.... I promise you as a Republican, if the Supreme Court decides that Joe Biden wins, I will accept the result. The court will decide, and if Republicans lose, we'll accept the result."

LOOK CAREFULLY AT WHAT GRAHAM SAYS. HE DOES NOT SAY..."IF THE COURTS"...OR..."IF OUR COURT SYSTEM.." ...OR..." STATE, DISTRICT, OR APPELLATE COURTS." HE ONLY REFERENCES THE SUPREME COURT. IN OTHER WORDS, HE AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL ONLY ACCEPT THE DECISION MADE BY THE SUPREME COURT, LEAVING ALL OTHER JUDICIAL DECISIONS AS UNACCEPTABLE, AND NOT BINDING ON THEM.

SINCE NONE OF TRUMPS ATTEMPTS TO OVERTURN THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS EVER CAME CLOSE TO BEING REALIZED IN ANY COURT OF LAW, WITH SITTING JUDGES OFTEN USING SCORN AND DERISION TO DESCRIBE THESE BASELESS LAWSUITS, HOW COULD THIS POSSIBLY REACH THE SUPREME COURT, BYPASSING ALL LOWER COURTS, AND EVEN IF IT DID, WHY WOULD THE HIGHEST COURT IN THE LAND IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS RULINGS, AND UPHOLD A LAWSUIT THAT HAS NO BASIS IN FACT? 

COULD IT BE THAT BY REMOVING AN ATTORNEY GENERAL WHO WOULD NOT BLINDLY OBEY HIS EVERY WHIM, WITH A FASCIST FLUNKIE WHO CARED NOTHING FOR FOLLOWING CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, TRUMP WOULD BE ABLE TO SEIZE POWER WITHOUT ANY FEAR OF PUNISHMENT FROM THE LEGAL SYSTEM.

AS FOR THE HIGH COURT, 3 OF 9 JUSTICES ARE TRUMP APPOINTEES, CHOSEN FOR THEIR ABILITY TO FOLLOW FASCIST DOGMA. TOGETHER WITH FAR-RIGHT STOOGE CLARENCE THOMAS, THEY WERE 1 VOTE AWAY FROM GRANTING DONALD TRUMP DICTATORIAL POWERS, WITH MOSCOW PULLING THE STRINGS. 

*WHICH ACTUALLY STARTED WITH THE FAILURE TO CONTEST MITCH MCCONNELLS UNCONSTITUTIONAL REFUSAL TO GIVE JUDGE MERRICK GARLAND A SENATE HEARING AND PUBLIC VOTE AFTER HE WAS NOMINATED BY THEN PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA FOR A SEAT ON THE U.S. SUPREME COURT.

BLAST FROM THE PAST, 1/15/2017: WORKING WITH TRUMP, AND THE REPUBLICANS: DEMOCRATS, WILL THEY EVER LEARN? (UPDATE).

(THIS UPDATE ON 1/15/2017.)

TO THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP:

THIS IS HILARIOUS; YOU HAND DONALD TRUMP THE ELECTION, EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE OBVIOUS PROBLEMS WITH THE VOTER COUNTS IN CERTAIN KEY STATES, (SEE MY SERIES OF POSTS ON THIS ISSUE), AND YOUR "SHOCKED" BY HIS BEHAVIOR. YOU HAD A CHANCE TO STAND UP, AND DEMAND, AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE NONSENSICAL RETURNS WHICH GAVE HIM THE WHITE HOUSE. AS FAR AS I KNOW, NOT ONE OF YOU DID. YOUR COMPLAINTS MEAN NOTHING TO THOSE WHO WILL SUFFER WHEN THIS DEMAGOGUE TAKES OFFICE.

- DAVID.

Trying to understand the Democratic Parties response to the Donald Trump win in the Presidential Election has been difficult.  It is almost surreal, for it is like they have never met THIS REPUBLICAN PARTY.

Think I am being Unfair. Consider This:

Your a Republican, planning future strategy. You have seen your party go through Eight Years

of an Obama Presidency, and no matter how often your Party Thwarted Attempts by the President and other Progressive Democrats to help the American People, your Diatribe, Half- Truths, and Race Baiting etc., have managed to fool enough of the Electorate so that you lost nothing at the polls.

What is even better, YOU NEVER HAD TO SEEK OUT COMPROMISE. NO MATTER WHAT YOU DID, OR WHAT YOU SAID, ENOUGH PEOPLE TOOK IT AS TRUTH, AND BLAMED MOST OF THE COUNTRIES PROBLEMS ON THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT.

USING RELIGIOUS ZEALOTRY, WHAT YOU COULDN'T BLAME ON THE PRESIDENT, YOU PUT ON THOSE WHO DIDN'T BLINDLY AGREE WITH YOUR BRAND OF CHRISTIANITY, WHICH IS NOT A DOCTRINE OF PEACE, BUT ONE OF HATE AND PREJUDICE.

However, it gets even better. After eight years of Economic and Social Progress, with the country much better off than it was before President Obama took office, you were able to elect an Unscrupulous Demagogue to the highest office in the land. Running on a Platform of almost Pure Hate, appealing to the Basest of Human Emotions, it was a campaign Histories Dictators would be proud of. Yet, even with all this..

...the Democrat Party is accepting the President Elects offer to heal the Division in this Country.

(A Division caused almost exclusively by your parties words and actions).

What does this tell you?

-  THAT NO MATTER HOW REPREHENSIBLE THE REPUBLICAN PARTIES BEHAVIOR IS, IT DOESN'T MATTER.

-  REACH OUT TO ALL THE BIGOTS, RACISTS, HOMOPHOBES, AND OTHER HATERS THAT YOU CAN, IT DOESN'T MATTER.

-  PROMOTE ANGER, VIOLENCE, AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL BEHAVIOR. IT DOESN'T

MATTER.

IN THE END, IT IS THE DEMOCRATS WHO WILL COME CALLING, HOPING, THAT THIS

TIME, YOU WILL BE REASONABLE.

THE FOOLS...

Rep. Madison Cawthorn, Totally Shredded On CNN, Admits He Has Nothing On Vote 'Fraud'

WHEN A RUSS-PUBLICAN IS CHALLENGED WITH LOGIC AND CRITICAL THINKING, THEIR LACK OF INTELLECT AND ADHERENCE TO A FASCIST SYSTEM OF MORALITY COMES OUT.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn, Totally Shredded On CNN, Admits He Has Nothing On Vote 'Fraud'

“I think I would say the election was not fraudulent," he finally confessed after getting schooled by Pamela Brown.

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