Wednesday Reads: Coup… Excuse Me.
Posted: November 11, 2020 | Author: JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx | Filed under: 2020 Elections, Biden Harris 2020, COVID19, Donald Trump, morning reads, Republican politics, Republican presidential politics, the GOP |11 CommentsThe front page of the New York Times for Wednesday…
Election officials in dozens of states from both parties told The New York Times that there was no evidence of voting fraud, amounting to a forceful rebuke of President Trump’s false narrative.https://t.co/p2QXKXRlDe
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 11, 2020
The New York Times contacted the offices of the top election officials in every state on Monday and Tuesday to ask whether they suspected or had evidence of illegal voting. Officials in 45 states responded directly to The Times. For four of the remaining states, The Times spoke to other statewide officials or found public comments from secretaries of state; none reported any major voting issues.
Statewide officials in Texas did not respond to repeated inquiries. But a spokeswoman for the top elections official in Harris County, the largest county in Texas with a population greater than many states, said that there were only a few minor issues and that “we had a very seamless election.” On Tuesday, the Republican lieutenant governor in Texas, Dan Patrick, announced a $1 million fund to reward reports of voter fraud.
https://twitter.com/nick_anderson_/status/1326392659594911744?s=21
Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s lead in Georgia continues to widen as more votes are reported in Fulton County.
He’s now up 14,149 votes. https://t.co/HJMi7lR814 pic.twitter.com/IoOWbc4IKZ
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) November 11, 2020
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I still have anxiety:
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"People who lived in countries that endured war or occupation said that the US celebrations last weekend over Trump's loss reminded them of what they witnessed when their own dictator or occupier was finally defeated." — @gaslitnation https://t.co/zYJZb3P8pG
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) November 11, 2020
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Happy Birthday Sesame Street…
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Today is Veterans Day…
As we reflect on those who gave their lives fighting for our rights of democracy, let us think on the current occupant of the White House. tRump and his fellow Republicans, who are attempting to coup the very foundation of government these Veterans have for, are threatening the heart of a democratic government. The people’s voice, their vote.
“Say my glory was I had such friends”(Yeats). On this day, special thanks to our nation’s Veterans. Each of them, in their time, and to the best of their ability, did their duty. It was an honor to walk briefly among them. #VeteransDay2020
— GEN(R) Martin E. Dempsey (@Martin_Dempsey) November 11, 2020
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The latest on Covid:
The U.S. reported a record 201,961 new cases of #COVID19 on Tuesday.
▪️ 7 consecutive days of record new cases
▪️ Hospitalizations at a record 60,000+
▪️ Cases up in all 50 states
▪️ The UW projects up to 87,000 new deaths by end 2020 pic.twitter.com/UKnIku6k77— AJ+ (@ajplus) November 11, 2020
Pity these ND nurses and their families. Facing #covid19 surge a month ago, some North Dakotans were urging @DougBurgum for stronger mask measures than his voluntary "light touch" pleas: https://t.co/8VfQqQ3htk https://t.co/K2MjuSmqFV pic.twitter.com/DPubQ4MPBz
— Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ (@Revkin) November 11, 2020
NEW—Survivors of #COVID19 appear to be at increased risk of psychiatric sequelae, & a psychiatric diagnosis might be an independent risk factor for COVID-19: finding from a retrospective cohort studies of 62,354 COVID-19 cases in the USA @TheLancetPsych https://t.co/qOh32R2Frt pic.twitter.com/L7Eejlhy62
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) November 11, 2020
And…let’s not end on a depressing thought:
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Congratulations Chris, fanfuckingtastic!
What’s going on in your part of the world?
There is no depth to Donald Trump just as there is no limit of how low he can go in trying to get his way.
While the nation suffers under a raging pandemic this idiot is holed uo in the Oval Office nursing his wounds, refusing to concede, planning his revenge.
We’ve never seen anything this infantile as this man and his monumental ego. The question is how much longer this can go on and what damage he will do to us on his way out?
No telling.
This keeps getting scarier. He’s going to sell us out.
He’s continuing to trash the Earth before he goes out of office.
Well, if you still want a little celebration, these kids are good.
In Flanders Fields
John McCrae – 1872-1918
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Thank you for posting this, Luna.
My Quaker grandfather was in medical school when the US entered WWI. He volunteered to be an ambulance driver in France. He met my grandmother, who was a nurse, during that time.
Both of her brothers were in the infantry in France. None of them ever talked about their war experiences. I wish they had.
When I see our British friends wearing their poppies I get a pang of grief over how patriotism and national unity has been perverted in America.
This is what happens when you celebrate 11/11 as veteran’s day rather than remembrance day or armistice day. When you celebrate the military rather than remember the cost of war and celebrate its ending.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced a hand-counted audit of the presidential vote in his state, where President-elect Joe Biden leads by more than 14,000 votes. The goal is to have the audit completed by Nov. 20, the state deadline for certification.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/11/11/joe-biden-trump-election-live-updates/