Johnny Dinar

this never ends.....

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It might be better to have everyone vote in-person over a one week period. Why do we only vote in-person on one day for 12 hours?

Donald Trump Files With SCOTUS To Stop PA Vote Count; Joe Biden Wins Wisconsin & Moves Towards Electoral College Magic Number — Update View photos 11TH UPDATE, 12:51 PM: The election of 2020 is starting to look a lot like the election of 2000. Keeping the promise that the incumbent made in his speech early this morning, Donald Trump’s campaign has just filed with the Supreme Court to put the brakes on the ongoing vote count in Pennsylvania. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/donald-trump-vs-joe-biden-000251785.html

Seeing Trump and his supporters not trusting our democracy plays right into the hands of the dictators.. Our president should wait until the end and then release his lawyers. His saying our election is fixed is giving dictators around the world fodder for them to tell their people they are right and we are wrong... The Ayatollah is saying our president doesn't trust the system. I'm sure Putin, China and North Korea are loving how the president and his supporters are tearing down the system. So if you must, go on and tell the world you don't trust democracy, some of them are very happy to hear your cries. JMHO

Some Republicans break with Trump, say take time to count all the votes WASHINGTON — Some Republicans are not falling in line behind President Donald Trump's attempts to falsely declare victory and seek to halt some vote-counting in the presidential race, with several GOP leaders expressing rare public rebukes of the president. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., a Trump ally who usually avoids criticizing the president in public, told reporters Wednesday that "claiming you've won the election is different from finishing the counting." With millions of votes still uncounted, Trump in a 2:35 a.m. Wednesday speech at the White House baselessly claimed he had defeated Democrat Joe Biden and alleged "major fraud on our nation" as election officials work through a massive surge in mail-in ballots, which they had long warned would take extra time to count. The president called for a halt in "all voting." LATEST RESULTS: See the latest results in the presidential race "There's just no basis to make that argument tonight," former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said on ABC News. "There just isn't. All these votes have to be counted that are in now." Christie is a Trump ally who spent seven days in the intensive care unit after catching the coronavirus, potentially from the president, while helping him prepare for the first debate with Biden. "You have to let the process play itself out before you judge it to be flawed. And by prematurely doing this, if there is a flaw later, he has undercut his own credibility," Christie continued. "So I think it's a bad strategic decision, it's a bad political decision, and it's not the kind of decision you would expect someone to make tonight who holds the position he holds." Trump's campaign amplified their boss's erroneous claims in public statements and threats of lawsuits, which Biden's team dismissed as meritless, insisting even the conservative-leaning Supreme Court would not give them any consideration. But the more surprising rebukes came from members of Trump's own party. "Stop. Full stop. The votes will be counted and you will either win or lose," Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger replied to Trump on Twitter. "When the results are confirmed, we must accept the outcomes with respect for our democracy." Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who spoke at a recent Trump campaign rally, said in a tweet that "taking days to count legally cast votes is NOT fraud." LIVE BLOG: Latest news and analysis as election hangs in balance Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a moderate Republican, called Trump's declaration "outrageous and uncalled for and a terrible mistake." "Regardless of where you stand on this race and what party you are and who you voted for, most Americans really want a free and fair election process, and they want us to count the votes,” Hogan said at a Washington Post event. Trump can typically count on the conservative media echo chamber and Republican allies to validate his claims of conspiracies out to get him, no matter how thinly sourced. But his attacks on the integrity of the election appear to be a bridge too far for some Republicans, including some who won re-election themselves in Tuesday's vote, such as McConnell. In a statement, Republican Sen. Mike Lee, who represents Utah — a staunchly conservative state that automatically sends every registered voter a mail-ballot — urged calm. "It's best for everyone to step back from the spin and allow the vote counters to do their job," Lee said. Utah's Republican Gov.-elect Spencer Cox called the Trump campaign's claims "garbage" and said "there is nothing nefarious about it taking a few days to count all legitimate votes. "Under our Constitution, state legislatures set the rules and states administer our elections. We should respect that process and ensure that all ballots cast in accordance with state laws are counted. It's that simple," Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, a Trump critic, said in a statement. Scott Walker, the former GOP governor of Wisconsin and a sharp partisan tactician, threw cold water on the Trump campaign's pledge to request a recount in the battleground state, where Biden is the apparent winner and leads Trump by about 20,000 votes, according to NBC News. Walker said there was a swing of only 300 votes in a 2011 Wisconsin Supreme Court recount and a change of just 131 in a recount of the 2016 presidential race. "As I said, 20,000 is a high hurdle," Walker said on Twitter. Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton, a longtime GOP foreign policy hand who has become a Trump critic since leaving the White House, said on Sky News that the president's claims were "some of the most irresponsible comments that a president of the United States has ever made.” And former GOP Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said he was "very distressed by what I just heard the president say." "The idea of using the word 'fraud' being committed by people counting votes is wrong," Santorum said on CNN. "They're counting the absentee and mail-in ballots right now. And some counties have stopped counting. Why have they stopped counting? Because it's 2:48 in the morning!" See the latest results in Pennsylvania Republican Gov. Doug Doucey of Arizona, where Biden leads in a too-close-to-call race, according to NBC News, urged patience. "Arizonans turned out in historic numbers for this election, and we owe it to them to count their votes," Doucey said in a statement. And former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said counting votes, no matter how long it takes, is fundamental in a democracy. "If the president loses on that front, then he loses," Huckabee said on "Fox & Friends" Wednesday morning. "We win by ballots, not by bullets ... and we've got to keep reminding ourselves of that." https://news.yahoo.com/republicans-break-trump-time-count-195039516.html

Ahh.... There is no stopping the count... This isn't Venezuela... Just wait until they finish then demand a recount. Wisconsin is within 1 point so those will be recounted.

Keep counting in Arizona and Nevada. Stop counting in Penn... Mixed messaging there. JMHO

Thank you sir... I didn't think about their flag... I guess I was thinking about cashing out!!! LOL

I agree... Everyone should always vote, regardless of who wins the race, we all win when we see democracy in action. JMHO

Why be upset? We just witnessed an historic moment with record setting Americans voting. Every election, I think to myself how sad it is to see a low voter turn out. This election has smashed records. Just enjoy the moment and let our process work. No election has every ballot counted on election day, what we usually see are projections... Remember Truman? Dewey didn't win... Not until every American has their vote counted... That is why we lead the world. JMHO

Hmmm... I'm guessing because first it went down and then it goes up... At least that's my hope!!!!

That was an amazing show! It's sad to see so many from our youth passing on...

Another day another auction... Ugh...

Divide and conquer. America has never been so divided, but last night sure was fun... More drama than watching Real Housewives of New Jersey... Today and tomorrow are going to be rockin' on the conspiracy front. JMHO

Election 2020: These 4 states ‘come in early’ and ‘Trump must win' them all: Republican pollster Frank Luntz With Joe Biden’s commanding lead in the polls, President Donald Trump will have to win pretty much every toss-up state tonight and in the coming days to secure re-election. It’s not unprecedented. That’s essentially what he did in 2016. If we’re in for another Trump wave, Republican pollster Frank Luntz lists the 4 states to watch for the first signs of it. These states “all come in early” on Election Day and “Donald Trump has to win all four” in order to get re-elected, Luntz told Yahoo Finance. Those 4 states are Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Ohio. Georgia’s polls close first at 7:00 PM eastern time followed by North Carolina and Ohio at 7:30 and Florida at 8:00. If Trump can perform a clean sweep there, Luntz said, he’ll live to fight another day in places like Pennsylvania. But “if Joe Biden wins any of those 4 states, then Biden will win the electoral college.” People stand in line to vote in Palm Beach, Florida. After a record-breaking early voting turnout, Americans head to the polls on the last da (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) The states are among the first closing on Tuesday but, more importantly, they have already been counting the wave of absentee ballots that have come in as Americans adjust to voting during a pandemic. Georgia began processing absentee ballots on Oct. 19, and Florida has also been processing ballots for weeks. Ohio and North Carolina are also counting absentee ballots early but with one catch: they accept ballots that arrive by mail after Election day. So if the result is lopsided, a winner could be declared quickly, but a close election could mean days of waiting for the final votes to arrive and be counted. Luntz also said the 4 states have “relatively clean election histories.” Some Democrats have talked about a “red mirage” where Trump’s supporters largely vote on Election Day and have their ballots counted first. The effect would be initial results that seem to show a Trump victory that fades over time. In his 4 states, Luntz seems concerned about the opposite possibility where mail-in-ballots are reported first, leading to early advantages for Biden that then fade. President Trump has spent considerable time in states Florida in the final days of the election (Eva Marie Uzcategui Trinkl/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Trump won all 4 states in 2016 by sizable margins but the races are much closer this time around. Based on the final wave of polling, Florida may be Biden’s best chance to seal the election early. Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has poured millions of dollars into the state to support the Biden campaign, and a final polling average has Biden at 47.9% in the state compared to 47% for Trump. ‘Pennsylvania is a mess’ One state Luntz and other observers will definitely not be putting much stock in on election night is Pennsylvania. “Pennsylvania is a mess,” he said, pointing to the state law that doesn’t allow workers there to begin processing absentee ballots until Election Day. Pennsylvania’s top election official has promised the “overwhelming majority” of results by Friday. Biden’s polling in Pennsylvania – while tightening lately – has remained favorable to Democrats. “It’s going to look like tonight that Donald Trump has won Pennsylvania because the people who are voting on the day, those votes are counted first,” said Luntz. Earlier on Yahoo Finance, former Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci predicted that Trump would lose Florida: “I think this is over by 11 pm eastern time,” making Pennsylvania’s drawn-out process moot. Luntz expects it might take a bit longer. “Take it easy, take a pill, have a drink,” he said, before quickly adding, “not at the same time.” https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/these-4-states-come-in-early-and-trump-must-win-them-all-republican-pollster-frank-luntz-180223393.html

I don't see why anyone would riot tonight... The results are going to take a couple of days... Maybe a pre-riot party!!!

I'm ready to exchange... How about you???

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No I bring news from major news sources, not youtube or twitter..

You brought up the negativity right from my fist post of results... It seems you are afraid of what's coming. The results will speak for themselves. I think the large number of voters has scared the right, why else would they be trying to take away votes? Why would they try to stop Americans from voting? That is not a winning plan, that is desperation....

At rallies across the Midwest and Sun Belt swing states, President Donald Trump has been openly discussing murky schemes to prevent legitimate ballots from being counted, escalating threats to disenfranchise millions of American as the weeks-long voting season ends tonight and his pathway to reelection becomes increasingly narrow. “The Election should end on Nov. 3, not weeks later!” the president said on Friday. He repeated the claim at an event in Dubuque, Iowa on Sunday, adding falsely, “That’s the way it's been, and that’s the way it should be.” Democrats have been clear in their condemnations of the president’s comments, which they consider the most worrisome of Trump’s four years in office, which were often marked by anti-democratic rhetoric. “When Donald Trump says, ‘I think I deserve a third term, or I think the election should end on election night, that’s the way it’s always been,’ I don’t think he’s joking. I think we should take him deadly seriously,” said Democratic senator and top Joe Biden surrogate Chris Coons. He compared Trump’s statements to aspiring autocrats in young democracies that he dealt with when he was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Subcommittee on African Affairs. “We would rally the international community and say, ‘No, you should not do that. It’s not a good idea. That violates the norms of democracy.’” - ADVERTISEMENT - But most Republicans, from critics to allies of Trump, have remained publicly silent. It’s not new for Trump’s party brethren to duck and cover when he says something troubling. But after five years of perfecting the art of explaining how they “didn’t see the tweet” — the much parodied talking point to which Republicans on Capitol Hill often resort — it is shocking but not surprising that they aren’t speaking up now, even when the integrity of America’s electoral system is under attack by their party’s leader. Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii called Trump’s weeks-long campaign to discredit election results an “incompetent attempt at autocracy.” “There are lots of reasons to believe that what Trump is talking about or contemplating cannot be accomplished,” said Schatz, who is outraged by the dearth of Republicans who have criticized the president’s false statement about when ballots are counted. “But if your plan includes congressional Republicans standing up to Trump, you need a new plan.” Efforts to solicit on the record comment from a broad range of party leaders Monday were met with indifference. Sen. Ben Sasse didn’t respond to a DM. Chris Christie didn’t return a text. A message to the spokesman for Sen. Josh Hawley, an up-and-comer in the party, went unanswered. Sen. Lindsey Graham didn’t return a call after POLITICO left a voicemail for him. (Graham’s outgoing message offered the option of sending a fax but a reporter did not avail himself of that method of communication.) White House spokeswoman Alyssa Farah promised to call back but never did. Rudy Giuliani went silent, even though a reporter sweetened the deal by agreeing to hear him out on the Hunter Biden intrigue, a current Giuliani obsession. Karl Rove was kind enough to respond, but he was too busy to discuss the president’s comments sowing doubt and mistrust about the sanctity of the election process, because, he said, his “flight is getting ready to shut the door and pull away from the gate.” Hogan Gidley, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, did respond. When asked about the president’s comments suggesting that votes shouldn’t be counted after Election Day, Gidley replied, “What’s the quote?” Told by a reporter, “Have you been following the news? There are dozens of them!” Gidley did not reply on the record. As usual, Never Trump Republicans, who generally now back Biden, were willing to speak their minds. “For months now the president has questioned the integrity of the election, and now at the 11th hour, he’s signaling prematurely that he’ll declare victory before the result is certain, setting the stage for further discord,” said Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security who recently unmasked himself as Anonymous, the internal Trump critic who published a scathing op-ed in The New York Times. “I think it’s destructive to the democratic process. I think it could potentially lead to civil unrest and even violence in the country, and it’s wildly irresponsible for a president to do.” He is “disappointed” that his fellow Republicans are remaining quiet. “Right now Republican elected officials need to be saying that the president’s words are unacceptable and we need to patiently await the outcome of the vote,” Taylor said. Michael Steele, the chairman of the Republican National Committee at the beginning of the Obama era, expressed similar concerns. “The president knows full well that not in the history of elections in this country have we ever certified the outcome of the election on election night because votes are allowed to continue to be processed after Election Day,” Steele said. “Election Day is just that, the day to vote. It is not the day that a winner is certified.” Steele added that Trump “is fearful of the outcome because he has not made the case for his reelection to the American people so he’s trying to game the system against itself to his benefit. He’s poisoned people with this notion that the only way he loses is if the system is rigged. Well that’s just bullshit.” Many Republicans insist they are disgusted by Trump’s threats, they just aren’t willing to say so publicly. Dozens of quietly anti-Trump members on Capitol Hill, or who left the Trump administration, usually in disgust, are willing to torch the president — but only under the cloak of anonymity. “It’s despicable and un-American but not surprising,” said one senior Senate GOP aide. “They have never had any respect for the institutions of democracy that don’t benefit them. The beauty of federalism is that we leave it to the states to make their own rules and the idea that a president would overturn a state official’s decision to benefit them in an election is just kind of the antithesis of what Republicans used to believe in.” He added, “It’s just one final F.U. to what Republicans used to believe in.” Trump has been abetted not just by the silence of Republicans — his threats have been spread by top surrogates, including his sons, Eric and Don, and his daughter-in-law, Lara. She recently told voters in Scottsdale, Arizona, that mail-in balloting, which has been expanded in many places because of the coronavirus pandemic, and will likely create delays in ballot counting, was a Democratic plot to “rig the system.” Other top campaign aides have joined the misinformation campaign. On Sunday, Jason Miller, a senior adviser, suggested that partial vote counts on Tuesday night should somehow determine the winner. “President Trump will be ahead on election night, probably getting 280 electoral [votes] — somewhere in that range, and then they’re going to try to steal it back after the election,” Miller said, suggesting that fully counting ballots is a Democratic plot. This rhetoric has also seeped down into the Trump grassroots across the country. At recent Trump rallies in Pennsylvania, Nevada, and North Carolina, voters often took it as an article of faith that mail-in ballots tabulated after Tuesday were somehow fraudulent. Leaving a Trump rally Sunday night in Hickory, North Carolina, a group of supporters talked about how polls were rigged because they were commissioned by the media, and that vote-counting after Election Day would give Democrats a chance to pad their totals with thousands of fake votes. As always with Trump, there is a debate among Republicans as to whether he should be taken seriously. “I just can’t believe that he would say anything like that. It’s crazy,” said a former senior administration official. “I don’t know if it was an off the cuff remark that he often says that he hasn’t thought through or if it was a real strategic decision. … A lot of people ask me, ‘If he loses the election, will he try to stay in power?’ I don’t see any way that’s going to be possible. I think once an election is declared valid, he’s not going to have any option.” Others insist that his rhetoric is not as troubling as it sounds. “There have been so many times where people have said, ‘Oh he said this, he’s going to strip away our freedoms!’ and it doesn’t happen that way,” said a former White House official. “It never happens that way, so this is just another one of those things.” A current White House official also tried to downplay Trump’s steal-the-election rhetoric. “I don’t think it’s something that’s being seriously considered,” he insisted, perhaps not realizing how much work the word ‘seriously’ was doing in his statement. Another White House official insisted it was typical Trumpian hyperbole. “POTUS will play by the rules,” he said. “He will play by the rules.” But what if he doesn’t? Schatz argued that there was no reason to believe Republican leaders would organize themselves to force Trump to stand down if he pushed things in a truly anti-democratic direction that went beyond legitimate legal challenges or election night hyperbole. “In the ‘West Wing’ version of this it would be Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell, and a couple of former presidents,” he said. “In reality there’s no one.” When asked if there was a “West-Wing” like contingency plan for Republican leaders if Trump did something radical in the coming days, the senior Senate GOP aide was coy. “I can’t really talk about that,” he said. “It’s not something I can really get into.” But when pressed, he offered the following: “It’s all hypothetical, but if they do what Jason Miller was talking about you’ll see a lot of people” — he paused for a moment — “not agreeing.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-publicly-silent-privately-disgusted-093052862.html As I have stated... Most republicans know their party is in trouble... They are hoping for change before they lose it all...

Uh, I've brought in news and facts. Only to be attacked in the true Trump fashion. Here's my prediction. I think the majority of Americans still have a heart and care about humanity. I think the few who call for civil war are going to see their day in the sun end today... JMHO

I don't recall people armed and killing citizens like we've seen from the other side... Didn't you just ask me if I had my riot gear ready? Are you preparing to shoot your neighbors when they go out to celebrate the end of the current administrations madness?