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Andy Biggs (R-AZ) – Is There Blood on Your Hands?

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The shame he brought upon Arizona and the vote you cast.

As former House Speaker Paul Ryan put it over the weekend: “It is difficult to conceive of a more anti-democratic and anti-conservative act than a federal intervention to overturn the results of state-certified elections.” – Laurie Roberts [Footnote below]

References:

  • Arizona Republic, Robert Robb, January 8, 2021 – Rep. Andy Biggs and others betrayed Arizona voters. Don’t forget that. – U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs and his Arizona GOP colleagues voted to cancel your votes. Columnist Robert Robb explains why Biggs’ argument is so egregious.
  • Arizona Republic, Laurie Roberts, January 6, 2021 – Shame on Reps. Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs for trying to discard democracy by objecting to Arizona’s vote. – Opinion: Reps. Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar are among the congressional members who want to challenge the electoral college vote, substituting their own vote for ours. Who do they think they are?

The Shame of Josh Hawley – “…blood on his hands…”

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The “Sin”ator from Missouri

“The names of Cruz and Hawley should go down in history next to people like Benedict Arnold and Donald Trump,” Gallego said during an interview with MSNBC on January 6, 2020. “They are just traitors to the country and traitors to the Constitution.”

References:

New York Times, Elizabeth A. Harris, Alexandra Alter, January 7, 2021 – Simon & Schuster Cancels Plans for Senator Hawley’s Book – The publisher faced calls to drop the Missouri Republican’s upcoming book, “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” following criticism of his efforts to overturn the presidential election.

Kansas City Star, Editorial Board, January 6, 2021 – Assault on democracy: Sen. Josh Hawley has blood on his hands in Capitol coup attempt

Trump’s Veterans Day

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Trump was 20 minutes LATE – Leaving hundreds of older veterans and their spouses waiting in the rain.

Trump spent 8 minutes (7 minutes and 48 seconds) at the Arlington memorial, then left.

Now 73, he was of age to be drafted for a war in which fighting reached a ferocious peak in the late 1960s and 58,000 Americans were killed. He did not serve in any capacity.

Trump received five deferments from service, four academic and one on dubious medical grounds.

Losers! Suckers! - Trump
Losers! Suckers! – Trump
Trump - Losers and Suckers
Trump Real Veteran’s Day – Losers and Suckers
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John McCain, Real Hero – Then there was Trump
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Trump’s Real Loser

OMG – Trump’s Destruction of America

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Donald Trump will not set out to build an authoritarian state. His
immediate priority seems likely to be to use the presidency to enrich
himself. But as he does so, he will need to protect himself from legal
risk. Being Trump, he will also inevitably wish to inflict payback on
his critics. Construction of an apparatus of impunity and revenge will
begin haphazardly and opportunistically. But it will accelerate. It will
have to.

Excerpt from the book The American Crisis, What Went Wrong. How We Recover. by the writers of The The Atlantic

The American Crisis
The American Crisis, What Went Wrong. How We Recover. by the writers of The The Atlantic – Available from Amazon.com

Some of America’s best reporters and thinkers offer an urgent look at a country in chaos in this collection of timely, often prophetic articles from The Atlantic.

The past four years in the United States have been among the most turbulent in our history—and would have been so even without a global pandemic and waves of protest nationwide against police violence. Drawn from the recent work of The Atlantic staff writers and contributors, The American Crisis explores the factors that led us to the present moment: racial division, economic inequality, political dysfunction, the hollowing out of government, the devaluation of truth, and the unique threat posed by Donald Trump. Today’s emergencies expose pathologies years in the making.

Featuring leading voices from The Atlantic, one of the country’s most widely read and influential magazines, The American Crisis is a broad and essential look at the condition of America today—and at the qualities of national character that may yet offer hope.

With contributions by: Danielle Allen, Anne Applebaum, Yoni Appelbaum, Molly Ball, David W. Blight, Mark Bowden, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lizabeth Cohen, McKay Coppins, James Fallows, Drew Gilpin Faust, Caitlin Flanagan, Franklin Foer, David Frum, Megan Garber, Michael Gerson, Elizabeth Goitein, David A. Graham, Emma Green, Yuval Noah Harari, Ibram X. Kendi, Olga Khazan, Adrienne LaFrance, Annie Lowrey, James Mattis, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Angela Nagle, Vann R. Newkirk II, George Packer, Elaina Plott, Jeremy Raff, Jonathan Rauch, Adam Serwer, Clint Smith, Matthew Stewart, Alex Wagner, Tara Westover, and Ed Yong.

How Trump Scammed the United States of America

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The Make of Donald Trump
Available from Amazon.com

The Making of Donald Trump by David Cay Johnston

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, who had spent thirty years chronicling Donald Trump for the New York Times and other leading newspapers, takes readers from the origins of the Trump family fortune—his grandfather’s Yukon bordellos during the Gold Rush—to his tumultuous gambling and real estate dealings in New York and Atlantic City, all the way to his election as president of the United States, giving us a deeply researched and shockingly full picture of one of the most controversial figures of our time.

Pause ASU Study… Since it Doesn’t Match What Gov. Ducey Wants To Do

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Virus Mask

The Arizona Department of Health Services told a team of university experts working on COVID-19 modeling to “pause” its work, an email from a department leader shows. 1

How stupid can Governor Ducey be? If you don’t like the results of a study, shut it down! Take a lot of brains to make a decision like this this. Did sucking up to 45’s visit to Phoenix help make this decision.

The “no mask” entourage visiting a Honeywell factory making mask is obviously another stupid optics.

What in the hell is going on with the Republicans? As a life long Republican, I’m so embarrassed in our President and Governor. The blood will be on their hands.

How about using science instead of politics?

“As the coronavirus pandemic has swept across the U.S., in addition to tracking the number of COVID-19 daily cases, there is a worldwide scientific community engaged in tracking the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself.

Efrem Lim leads a team at Arizona State University that looks at how the virus may be spreading, mutating and adapting over time.” 2