11/25/20: In a strange twist of political fate, Republicans in Georgia are suddenly calling on voters to cast supposedly fraud-prone mail-in ballots in the U.S. Senate runoff elections in January.
Republicans are going to try to turn out the graveyard vote, since the president has been complaining that Biden won the state on the ghostly votes of untold numbers of deceased Georgians.
(Maybe Confederate Gen. John B.
Gordon, namesake of one of those military bases whose names Trump doesn’t want
to change, will vote this time around.)
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Gordon was wounded eight times, fighting against the U.S. government. He was also a Grand Cyclops, or Grand Doodad in the K.K.K. |
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IN WHITE HOUSE NEWS, we learn that
President Trump is bogged down in the initial stages of grief, following his
defeat. Those stages are:
Denial
Tweeting
Anger
Golfing
Bargaining
Lying
Depression
More Lying
Acceptance
For now, tweeting bolsters “denial.” Since the election, The New York Times notes, Loser Don has rarely appeared in public and has not taken a single question from any member of the free press. He has, however, fired off 550 tweets, including more than 400 which attack the legitimacy of the election. Trump was up late last night, railing against the Fates, on into Wednesday morning, insisting that he was the rightful winner.
Not only was the president in denial
he was thrilled to announce that most of his supporters were too. (See: 12/15/20,
12/16/20 and 1/22/21.)
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SPEAKING OF DENIAL, we know the president came out of hiding long enough yesterday to brag about how great the stock market was doing. No doubt his aides made sure not to tell him – and his supporters would be astonished to find out if they ever followed the news – the harsh truth.
At this point in his first term, President Barack Obama had seen the Dow Jones rise by 62.8%.
The Dow is up – even after a healthy post-election bump – under Trump by only 51.4%.
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STILL, one American had a great day before Thanksgiving. A few hundred others didn’t live to see the sun rise again. Lame Duck Don, in one of the least surprising moves of his presidency, pardoned Gen. Michael T. Flynn.
The day before, CDC reported, we had another 165,282 cases of COVID-19 and 1,989 Americans died.
That brings the toll, so far, to
POSTSCRIPT: If the Dow Jones hit the “sacred number” of 30,000 yesterday, it didn’t remain at that “sacred” level for long. Wednesday, weak economic numbers caused the Dow to retreat to 29,872.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its report early, since tomorrow is Thanksgiving. What the weekly numbers show: Seasonally adjusted, 778,000 Americans filed for unemployment in the last seven-day period. That was up for the second week, and up from levels that remain startlingly high.
Including Americans receiving benefits under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, and other federal and state programs, 20,452,223 men and women will carve the turkey and pass the cranberry sauce tomorrow, knowing they have no job to go to on Monday. That marks an increase of 135,297 Americans out of work, compared to the last weekly reporting period.
And don’t expect President Trump to notice. He’s busy tweeting, golfing, and pardoning felons.
FUN FACT: The premier gun rights organization, N.R.A., admits in a tax filing that it “became aware during 2019 of a significant diversion of its assets.”
Chief Executive Wayne LaPierre and five others are alleged to have raided the coffers of the allegedly non-profit organization to pay for personal perks. LaPierre has reportedly paid back $300,000 he charged for travel expenses. In a five-year period (2015-2019)! In other words: guy loves to travel.
And
if you’re going to travel, you want to look your best. LaPierre is also alleged
to have charged $540,000 in clothing expenditures to the N.R.A. Sadly, he still
looks like a ghoul in a suit:
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Dapper dressing Wayne. |
FIND PICTURE OF
LAPIERRE.
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