Prose and Thorn

08/09/2021

Crazy is as crazy does, sir.

07/25/2021

Republicans don't like it when we cut into their profits...especially the ones they've sold their souls for.

07/12/2021

Of course, outnumbering Republicans only matters if you out-vote Republicans, too. https://t.co/HVexMBdc8n

More Americans identify as Democrats than Republicans by a margin that hasn't been seen in a decade, according to a report released by Gallup.

06/21/2021

Why is it that the only people calling racist are racists?

05/28/2021

A federal judge calling out Republican "party leaders" for continiung to foment unrest by promoting is a Big Fu***ng Deal.

05/18/2021

“'If you don’t continue to keep having the conversation and keep pushing for that equity and recognition, nothing changes,' she said...'All our forefathers, if they were to have stopped fighting, we wouldn’t have anything.'"
A ‘Community for All’? Not So Fast, This Wisconsin County Says https://nyti.ms/3eUqiBj

02/23/2021

Strangely asserting that, 'the more Georgians vote, the better Republicans do,' (the opposite is true) Perdue urges the Georgia Legislature to ensure that fewer Georgians can vote legally.
https://t.co/rdP6bEQAPU

( Sent from AJC )

Former U.S. Sen. David Perdue will not launch a comeback bid next year, clearing the way for other Republicans to enter what could be a crowded 2022 race against Democrat Raphael Warnock.

02/09/2021

Apparently the law doesn't matter to the Senate GOP. They're a bunch of Day Trippers. They've got a very selfish reason for taking the easy way out.

At least there are six of them who didn't take so long to find out.

01/19/2021

Our tax dollars paid for a report (commissioned by Trump) on American history published without input from actual historians that contains nothing but conservative propaganda recontextualizing slavery and slamming liberal "indoctrination" in our schools. https://t.co/vZzJ8gYjP0

The report charges that Americans are being indoctrinated with a false narrative of the nation’s founding and identity, including the role of slavery in its history.

01/19/2021

2022 is setting up to be a wild election year in Georgia. All statewide offices are on the ballot, plus Warnock's newly won Senate seat, this time for a full term.

Currently no Dems in statewide office in Georgia. Expect to challenge Kemp again & primary challenges from those Republicans on the right who cling to Trump and his for all state executive offices (e.g., Gov/Lt Gov/AG/SoS).
https://t.co/y2FynmTRzR

WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump exits the White House this week, he will leave behind a Republican Party beset by internal conflict, with some Georgia factions hungry to punish state officials who have defied his calls to sabotage the state’s election while others pursue ways to disenta...

01/17/2021

While "sensible" Republicans wring their hands over after years of indulging right wing extremists, isn't rejecting the racists in the base the place to begin undoing Trump's damage to our country? Stop feeding the monsters. Abandon the idiocy and move on.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/534599-sasse-in-fiery-op-ed-says-qanon-is-destroying-gop

In a fiery op-ed for The Atlantic published Saturday, Sen.

01/15/2021

From Jay Bookman, an old, frivolous joke to remind us why the Georgia GOP has to put up with its latest, serious joke, Marjorie Taylor Greene:

01/13/2021

McConnell is said to be satisfied that impeachment will make it easier to purge Trump from the . Maybe, but for at least a generation, the Republicans will be the party that enabled Trump and Sedition.

01/12/2021

At 12:01pm, tomorrow, we will finally be able to say, "By this time *next week* Donald J. Trump will no longer be president."

01/08/2021

Trump's eleventh-hour "concession" starts with two provable lies but the biggest lie is his obvious insincerity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/politics/in-a-new-video-trump-addresses-violence-at-the-capitol-and-says-a-new-administration-will-be-sworn-in.html

01/06/2021

The objections to the will of the American voters which the Seditious members of the GOP are choosing to echo in the Senate chamber are not those of the gaslit rank & file Republican voters. They are histrionics and lies created by Donald J. Trump and his toady Rudy Giuliani.

01/05/2021

It's actually appropriate that Trump's last visit to Georgia is in Dalton. It's the carpet capital of the world and Trump lies like a rug.

01/04/2021

He would know.

12/30/2020

While Loeffler and Perdue embrace Trump's call for $2,000 COVID relief to get Georgia voters to support a Senate GOP majority, Mitch McConnell stubbornly demonstrates to Georgians that he is the reason they should NOT support a GOP majority.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/29/politics/mcconnell-poison-pill-attached-to-bill/index.html

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced legislation Tuesday to combine two additional demands from President Donald Trump to an expansion of direct stimulus payments as part of the Covid-19 relief package, raising Democratic concern the pathway for expanded stimulus payments would soon be....

12/29/2020

Trump is so sure that an envelope signature audit will reveal voter fraud in Georgia, but after checking more than 15,000 random envelopes in Cobb County, they only found 2 with a problem, and they were mistakes, not fraud.
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/cobb-county/gbi-finishes-signature-audit-cobb-county-finds-only-two-mismatches/ON42CSQBORHYJDBGZKKMPC3YAQ/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot

We break down the audit’s findings, LIVE on Channel 2 Action News at 6 p.m.

12/23/2020

Trump is like the clown sweeping up the confetti at the end of the parade who, as the back of the last float disappears over the hill, decides to raise the broom handle and call on the parade to follow him in the opposite direction.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/22/trump-covid-stimulus-bill-450204

Congressional Democrats jump on board after his call to send larger stimulus payments.

12/22/2020

Louis Gohmert, Jim Jordan, Mo Brooks,
Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, all meeting with Trump in the White House, figuring out how to subvert the election results.

Trump is cuckoo for coup kooks.

https://t.co/C17q0NfSKY

President Donald Trump has turned to a fringe group of advisers peddling increasingly dubious tactics to overturn the results of the election, creating a dire situation that multiple senior officials and people close to the President say has led to new levels of uncertainty at how Trump will resist....

12/11/2020

"Every once in a long while, the court needs to invest some of its accumulated capital in issuing judgments that...respond to imminent, tangible threats to the nation." Tom Goldstein
https://t.co/WYu6VIXsG6

Texas’ attempt to bring an original action challenging the election results in four states is not a serious legal claim in a legitimate procedural posture, for reasons that many people have already given and that I will not repeat here. The easy thing for the Supreme Court to do is simply deny Tex...

12/11/2020

Here's the thing. Even in the White House they know this effort is beyond quixotic. Those chickensh*t 126 GOP House members who signed onto the Texas lawsuit don't expect it to work, either, so for them there's very little risk to heeding Trump and getting their lapdog's reward.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/11/republicans-lawsuit-overturn-election-444601

The Texas lawsuit backing Trump's effort to stay in power showcases the different incentives facing GOP lawmakers.

12/10/2020

So Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue want to overturn an election and Warnock is the radical?
"Minutes after Trump and [Georgia AG] Carr hung up, the two senators issued a joint statement proclaiming their support for the Paxton lawsuit."
https://t.co/Pc0qxv8kLp

President Donald Trump warned Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr not to rally other Republican officials against a long-shot Texas lawsuit seeking to toss out the state’s election results, according to several people with direct knowledge of the conversation.

11/27/2020

It would be easy to assume this means Republicans are being undermined by their own conspiracies, especially when Trump is the one handing out the dynamite. But don't be lulled into thinking GA Republicans will sit out the . Democrats must Jan. 5!
https://t.co/YkY8818Ej5

It's hard to tell if the online chatter reflects wider voter sentiment, but some Republicans have expressed concern.

11/24/2020

Isn't this Donald Trump bragging about the Dow crossing 30K the same one who warned that stocks would tank if Joe Biden won?
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/24/business/us-economy-coronavirus/stocks-head-for-a-record-as-the-transition-to-a-biden-administration-begins

LiveUpdated Nov. 24, 2020, 12:16 p.m. ETNov. 24, 2020, 12:16 p.m. ETWhite House May Try to Curb Economic Ties With China: Live Business UpdatesRIGHT NOWStocks head for a record as the transition to a Biden administration begins. S&P 500 U.S. % Dow U.S. % Oil W.T.I. % Nikkei Japan % Dax Germany % FTS...

11/18/2020

Given how poorly Democrats did down-ballot and the fact that Joe Biden beat Trump by 6M votes, I can only draw one conclusion: it's not Republicans with whom Americans have a problem; it's Trump who they (rightly) disdain. Yet the continues to fear him. Why?

11/13/2020

When will Republicans learn that enabling Trump disables democracy?

11/10/2020

President-Elect Biden said, Tuesday, “The fact that they're not willing to acknowledge we won at this point is not of much consequence..."
I find this naive.

The longer we let Trump get away with this, the deeper his thorn digs in not only Biden's side, as Michael Cohen said tonight on , but it's a gaping, gnawing wound in the body of our entire country and the integrity of our democracy.

11/09/2020

Let the Republican finger pointing begin. Sens. Perdue & Loeffler decide it's the Georgia Secretary of State's fault they didn't win and that the GOP lost Georgia. Taking no responsibility is so Trumpy.

https://t.co/YalMJjLdek

Georgia's two senators called on Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to resign Monday because of unspecified problems with the presidential election.

11/08/2020

The call is coming from inside the house.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/08/politics/jared-kushner-donald-trump-concession/index.html

Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, has approached the President about conceding the election, two sources told CNN Saturday.

11/02/2020

One major flaw in Trump's plan, here. The network of his people will not risk the real news division's legitimacy in elections to come. Fox News election decision desk director Arnon Mishkin will not back up Trump's claims. "Arithmetic is more important than politics," Mishkin told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday.

This is the first account of Trump explicitly discussing his own intentions.

11/01/2020

You have to wonder what kind of democracy this is when one side has to go out of its way to find ways to nullify as many votes as it can in order to win.

10/27/2020

AJC's Jim Galloway dives into why Joe Biden chose Warm Springs, Georgia, and why now, to lay out his closing argument for the campaign. He points to local political factors as well as the obvious chance of electoral victory.
https://t.co/aXaFASYkkC

On the south side of metro Atlanta there's a stretch of U.S. 29, from Palmetto to College Park, called Roosevelt Highway, in honor of the president whose casket traveled along a parallel train track in April 1945 – on its way to Washington D.C. FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was something close t...

10/23/2020

Trump's COVID19 plan is let people die until we have a vaccine.That's it.

10/22/2020

Just to be clear, they'll only be able to mute Trump's microphone, tonight - not, sadly, his piehole.

10/12/2020

Photos from crowds who which started today in Georgia.
https://t.co/RKuUXj8JIr

Voters began casting in-person ballots Monday as three weeks of early voting began at polling places across Georgia. Early voting sites are available in every county, including Georgia's largest at State Farm Arena.

10/09/2020

THIS IS NOT SAID ENOUGH

10/06/2020

Joe Biden's response at the NBC Town Hall to a question about White Supremacists literally made me tear up.
"You can't defeat hate. Hate only hides. It hides under the rocks, and when you give it oxygen, when you breathe into it, you bring out the worst in people and you legitimize them."