Showing posts with label campaigns and elections 2020. Show all posts
Showing posts with label campaigns and elections 2020. Show all posts

Dec 17, 2020

The Progressive: Fucking Garbage, Piece of Shit Pig, Socialist, Tyrant, Woman, Say Callers to Wisc Supreme Court Judge Who Noted Racism in Trump Election Case

Madison, Wisconsin — Invective and hysteria describe several phone messages left to a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice following her characterization of a Trump campaign lawsuit as "racist," "shameful" and "un-American" in Dec 12 oral arguments.

The case, decided on Dec 14 against Trump's attempt to overturn the Wisconsin election, is: 2020AP2038 Donald J. Trump, Michael R. Pence and Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.,Plaintiffs-Appellants,v. Joseph R. Biden, Kamala D. Harris, Milwaukee County Clerk c/o George L. Christenson, Milwaukee County Board of Canvassers c/o Tim Posnanski, Wisconsin Elections Commission, Ann S. Jacobs, Dane County Clerk c/o Scott McDonell and Dane County Board of Canvassers c/o Alan Arnsten,

In recordings obtained by Bill Lueders, editor of the The Progressive Magazine, through an open records request, voicemails message left for Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Jill Karofsky are sometimes hysterical and hostile, accusing the "socialist tyrant bitch" judge of protecting voter fraud, among other imagined crimes.

The Republican Party has become openly racist for the last several decades, and now works against the rights of minorities in policy, the judiciary and political rhetoric.

Writes Lueders:

In the days following her astringent questioning and subsequent vote against an effort by President Donald Trump to subvert the will of the electorate by tossing out hundreds of thousands of Wisconsin votes, state Supreme Court Justice Jill Karofsky has received a flurry of angry voicemail messages on her official court phone line.

'You got a lot of guts,' one caller stated, as recorded in an MP3 file released Wednesday [Dec 16] to The Progressive in response to an open records request. 'You refer to Trump as a king? Yet you are the tyrant bitch. You are the tyrant bitch who allows cheating and fraud to put a socialist puppet of China in the White House. Trump is not a king. Trump is a President legally elected by the people, not the fraud you allow, you fucking bitch. You’re the socialist tyrant bitch. Trump is an American patriot. And you’re fucking garbage, you fucking piece of shit pig.'
The racist Trump campaign has been virtually shut out in the judiciary, and President Biden-elect Biden will assume office on Jan 20, 2021.

Sep 20, 2020

Democrats Have Handed Us a Republican Supreme Court in the Name of Identity Politics

Update: Sen Cory Booker (D) refuses to commit to add seats to Supreme Court on Face the Nation. Democrats are already retreating.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg should have resigned in 2013.

But the identity-politics crowd convinced her she was a historical figure, a rock star difficult to replace, and who are we, mere mortals, to speak on culture-war royalty? 

As Shant Mesrobian writes this weekend: "Liberals scolding people for years about pressure on RBG to retire and casting her obstinacy as a sign of female empowerment is exactly what I mean when I say liberal elites prioritize the proliferation of culture war narratives over achieving political outcomes."

That was one hell of a gamble by the identity-polities warriors. We the people lost.

An even worse losing gamble was rigging the 2016 Democratic Primary for Hillary Clinton for the glory of the first woman president.

Clinton was and remains a historically unpopular figure who clearly was a weak candidate in 2016.

But who are we to question the Democratic National Committee and the identify-politics crowd?

Thank you for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton.

Illustrations of identity-politics failures abound.

Now, we likely will have six hyper-activist rightwingers on the United States Supreme Court.

Will Senate Democrats fight?

I have my doubts. The Democratic Party remains the Clinton-Obama party.

The only choice the Democrats have is to shut down the U.S. Senate throwing the country into a deeper depression than we were heading; and Trump will posture that he wants an expanded stimulus greater than the lame Nancy Pelosi stimulus bill passed in the House.

Holding the country for hostage is the future: Give us another justice, or we kill the economy. 

This is the position we are in because the Democratic Party has hollowed out working families, and refuse to consider fighting because Clinton, Pelosi and Schumer say it's too expansive.

In 2021, Democrats will not fight for an expanded Court to off-set Republican usurpation. Fighting for the right thing, for us, is not what Democrats do. Joe Biden has never fought for us, and he sure will not start now.

The next several months are going to be witness to the most extreme examples of political and policy incompetence eclipsing anything in modern American history.